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[Swatopluk]

The two things they are lacking are coherence (not well organized enough to all pull into one direction) and in the leadership (for the most part) the stomach to personally shed blood and to use bodily brute force. The successful fascists came from the trenches of WW1. The originals would mop the floor with their cheap imitations.
Still they can cause massive and long-lasting harm if not obstructed.

Last _{at the Wormtongue stage. Saruman, Sauron and Morgoth still out of sight} Post

[Aggie]

It's the massive and highly personalized information control systems that really scare me. Mass media in the past has always been subject to oligarchic control, but it's not just controlling the message now, it's having control of the entire network of individual messages, movements, buying habits, (and depending on your app choices) menstrual cycles, sexual encounters, sleep cycles, biometric data, heart rate, emotional state etc. etc. etc.

In the old times, ferreting out dissenters required networks of informants. Now, AI can sieve through the entire population and fairly reliably parse out anyone who does not fully endorse a regime. It's not 1984 Big Brother tactics, because governments don't need to run the surveillance systems. We pay thousands of dollars per year to stay under the constant watch of the latest surveillance devices. Governments, or anyone else, can simply pay the brokers for the data. Then the only real question is Where's Daddy?

Of course, having the majority of tech leaders in your pocket makes it all a little easier....

Last _{sticking to my flip phone} Post

[Swatopluk]

Sticking to landline for my part.

Sooner or later the 'social credit' system the Chinese have pioneered will make its way West (or East since the US are closer that way).

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[Aggie]

It's entirely possible.

America may prove a tough nut to crack down on completely, as the population is rather well-armed. Unfortunately, the best armed are mostly rooting for the dicks in power at the moment, but they're also rather allergic to government overreach and may change their tune.

Last _{personally planning to spend 3% of GDP on defense this year} Post

[Swatopluk]

His Orangeness would, if he could, spend that much on his personal legal defense.
Provided it was not his own money

Last _{but he got all the courts (OK, actually only 3 or 4 but they were the important ones) at bargain basement prices instead} Post

[Aggie]

All his tech buddies with soon be giving a certain amount of their defense budget to Palmer Luckey and his ilk soon, I think. This warning video seems to have been used as a business model by these jerks:

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[Swatopluk]

Another old idea reaching the stage of feasibility. And of course in dystopian form.

Stanislaw Lem touched the topic several times from different POV.

For example:
In "The Invincible" it's the result of machine evolution creating a "nekrosphere" (no connection to Warhammer 40K).
In Lokaltermin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observation_on_the_Spot) something like this (but using nanobots) is developed as a weapon, destroys a civilization and is then turned into an "ethicsphere" that makes violence physically impossible (there are undesired side effects naturally).

Last _{the dystopians will win - alas} Post

[Griffin]

While in the UK the SS Labour Government are going to kill off most of the disabled (except for total vegetables) by 2026. This is not said flippantly, there will be deaths directly linked to their current proposed welfare cuts and they have a high enough majority to get it through Parliament. They have money for defence but not much left to defend. My quality of life, at least, is going to take a huge hit, and it's pretty poor already.

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[Swatopluk]

Would death by Tory be slower or quicker?

Last _{and would the 'slower' be actually a desired feature by those implementing it because the suffering is the point?} Post

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

there will be deaths directly linked to their current proposed welfare cuts

Back-knifing is more successfully done by your own side.

Last _{why tax the bankers when you can fuck the pensioners?} Post

[Swatopluk]

Reform the Hell's Grannies and get them into action.
And if that is not enough also relaunch the Crimson Permanent Assurance.

Last _{Let all the old female pensioners organize a naufragette movement and let them go after the wreckers!} Post

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Singapore, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, NY....

Last _{The Crimson Permanent Assurance will always be triumphant!} Post

[Swatopluk]

A nice detour through Mar-a-Lago would be nice too.

Last _{filing cabinets blazing} Post

[Griffin]

Would death by Tory be slower or quicker?

Last _{and would the 'slower' be actually a desired feature by those implementing it because the suffering is the point?} Post

This is not the worst of it. They now propose to get us to kill ourselves with virtually no safeguards in the legislation.

Last _{I support Assisted Dying but the proposed Bill is lethal. Trying to work out why.} Post

[Swatopluk]

Death by a thousand cuts, you're obliged to bring your own knife?

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