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That’s a fair conclusion to draw, but that very well might mean you have to physically fight for the outcome you want.

America is a polarized country, and the two general world views would probably strongly disagree on what constitutes “hate speech”. And you cannot just handwave the issue because there is no clear dominant group. Elections are won and lost on relatively razor thin margins, splitting political power between two very disparate groups. Unless you’re willing to literally fight a war over it, you might find yourself on the wrong side of the definition and thus subject to state application of force.

Agreed. I think we only need to really worry when they make their way up the pile and the dust is brushed off. Are we there yet? I dunno. Maybe? The existence of the plan isn’t the issue, though.

White light is just white cause our sun blasts out a big rainbow mix that our eyes evolved to handle. But like, imagine we grew up orbiting a chill red dwarf star instead… our eyes would be all tuned differently, vibing mostly with reds, making red our new “white.” Even our language and color wheels would shift, calling reddish hues “neutral.” Wild thought: even crazier when we’re still perceiving this existence through our own lens.

We were the ones that allowed it to happen. We’re all part of society, after all.

I’ve got bad news for you about what that says about the rest of us lol.

Nonsense. He would say nonsense. Because they don’t care. They care as much about sounding serious as they do about other people.

Fair. It is easy to lose the humor when things are getting worse and worse.

“Photoshopped? You can’t do that, Terry.”

LOL

Unirionically our funniest president. Shame he might be our last.

good point and not something to be trivialized. it would be devastating and the toll to life and limb would be high. but i take solice in the fact that even then, they’d be greatly outnumbered by non-establishment citizenry. im just saying it wouldnt be a landslide victory and theyd face a (probably) reasonably well equipped guerilla resistance force that wouldnt just fade away.

side note, i also find the drone arguments to be kind of irritating. technically yes they could carpet bomb the US and drone strike every apartment building where some resistance leader is living, but then they’d just be the king of a wasteland.

you might be surprised. there are those who are very open about owning weapons, but there are just as many who do not flaunt what they’re equipped with. there are still lots of reasons left-leaning people might own guns, like hunting, self defense, pure hobby shooting, etc. i think progressive people have been stereotyped as anti-gun because they tend to be anti-kids-getting-shot-in-school, but they’re not quite the same thing.

it’s possible progressive might be out-gunned, but it’s by no means a guarantee.

That is certainly one way to view it. One might say the same about human brains, though.

That’s a matter of philosophy and what a person even understands “consciousness” to be. You shouldn’t be surprised that others come to different conclusions about the nature of being and what it means to be conscious.

I’m just a layperson, but my guess would be that they could start from the bottom and work their way up. They can’t touch Trump, but they can start sending US Marshalls to round up the underlings that refuse to obey the orders or the court.

Now would the Marshalls do that? Who the hell knows. And maybe there’s a problem with that plan I don’t know. I like it better than just assuming the executive branch is defacto untouchable.

hell yeah i love learning new words

Always, if they can deal with the consequences. But if the consequence is being blocked by a country they could make money from, chances are slim.

My understanding is that it is technically a “federated” standard, but I think there is a lot of technical hurdles to implementing and hosting a compatible server. So no one actually does it, and I’m not sure they’d federate even if someone went through the trouble of getting it up and running.

That’s what we want, though. People and organizations with the most means to do so are the most morally obligated to resist.

WE HAVE BEEN. But we need the people in power to push this, not just us plebs on the internet!

I suspect everyone is just going to be a manager from now on, managing AIs instead of people.