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[Findecanor]

Musk and Hegseth presented their new initiative to use AI in the military, and proclaimed that now the military would be more like Star Trek.
They had unwittingly given it the same name as an episode of Star Trek TNG where a rogue AI - based weapons system had wiped out the population of a whole planet.

Such competence. Wow.

[fohat.digs]

the military would be more like Star Trek.

Wasn't that more like Terminator?

[noisyturtle]

The move to outlaw protesting has begun. Only a matter of time before we see a massacre.
No one hates America more than Donald Trump

[fohat.digs]

No one hates America more than Donald Trump

He has never really understood what America is about. None of his grandparents were born here, and only one of his parents.

He was raised as a spoiled rich brat in New York City, shielded from the public, and has never associated with ordinary Americans.

 

[noisyturtle]

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable."
-John F. Kennedy

[fohat.digs]

Criminals and their lawyers can still use the legal system.

[noisyturtle]

Chilling video of 7 ICE pushing a man to the ground and executing him in broad daylight in front of a crowd.

It is now or never, America. What happened to our spirit of freedom?

[Findecanor]

I feel as if the Trump administration is working towards dismantling democracy altogether.

ICE, deploying the National Guard, speak of military against insurrections, use of AI-generated videos and deepfakes to spread fake news and propaganda from the White House, etc. etc. The provokations could be intended to cause escalation in hostilities until they provide the excuse that the Trump administration is waiting for.

"Big Tech" is complicit. Microsoft's dark patterns to make people store their data on OneDrive instead of locally, and having peoples' harddrive encryption keys on Microsoft servers, thus making peoples' private data and communications available to US authorities. The circular investments between Microsoft, OpenAI and other AI companies show that they are all intertwined.
This is yet another reason to abandon Windows for Linux.

[fohat.digs]

the Trump administration is working towards dismantling democracy altogether.

This is true.

The South Afrikans who came here to plunder our American Experiment are succeeding beyond their wildest expectations.

In a 2009 essay titled  "The Education of a Libertarian", Peter Thiel wrote, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”