Germany had an extraordinary welfare state from the 1970s through the mid-1990s, especially for political refugees. If you needed support, there was no arbitrary time limit on unemployment benefits. Families received Kleidergeld (a clothing allowance every six months), Kindergeld (monthly payments for each child until adulthood), assistance for school supplies, funding for official school trips, and utilities were often paid directly to the providers.
There was even something called Urlaubsgeld which was vacation assistance. It wasn't a luxury holiday abroad; the idea was that rest and mental well-being mattered. Families could take an affordable trip within Germany by train or car and stay somewhere simple, like a bed-and-breakfast or a farm. That's how many families, despite having very little, were able to spend time on a farm or visit the Baltic Sea one summer. Those experiences would have been impossible otherwise.
Then, after the fall of the Soviet Union, and therefore the end of the last remaining opposition and challenge to the predatory capitalist system, America's neoliberalism began infesting the nation. By the end of the 90s, things took a turn, first with the privatization of the Deutsche Post and it's been downhill ever since. Many of those programs were slashed or replaced with vouchers adopting one of America's worst habits of meager crumbs that do not give people a life of dignity.
Germany never had a housing voucher system like America's Section 8. If you qualified for assistance, you could live wherever you wanted (within reasonable limits), and the state paid the rent. That has become increasingly restrictive as well.
Now Germany has a former BlackRock executive as chancellor and is dismantling what's left of its social safety net while funneling more money toward corporations and the military-industrial complex through NATO. It is very sad to see what future generations and children looking to have a life of dignity will never have and are deprived of. Germany's safety net allowed me to have a safe childhood where I could focus on school and studies.
The virus of capitalism and militarism is taking the world down. The policies that once made life secure and dignified are being dismantled to feed NATO and trillionaires and the war machine and the sad thing is, this is only the beginning.
Carolyn,We did make the connection. The colonised global south wouldn't have come out of colonialism, if not for the backing of the Soviet Union. The relentless onslaught against the Soviet Union meant tragedy for all of them - with good leaders assassinated, and now rapidly becoming recolonised.
The way the US/west is bent on destroying Russia, it is not just ideology that they are worried about but people getting in the way of their greed and oligarchical plunder.
Considering how many pedophiles and rapists and murderers are in positions of power, with legal protections and lack of punishment for those blatant crimes against humanity, I don't fault any kid for avoiding interactions with adults.
i miss those days of genuine care for other people and social politeness as well Ms. Oak. Sadly the world nowadays seems far removed from that, and phones and technology and the online world consume much of people's time
I think lots of people do see this ever creeping dystopia approaching, especially older generation of which I’m one. Most younger peoples energy is taken up in just surviving neoliberalism - working in evermore insecure jobs to put a roof over their/their families heads which in itself is increasingly difficult here in Oz …..
I hadn’t heard that actual term and live a somewhat socially and geographically isolated life (Perth) and I didn’t grow up in Oz (if I’ve ‘grown up’ at all). But have become increasingly aware of Zio influence in our politics and ASIO and I hope I don’t get a ‘knock on the door’ for saying it!
While those who do ‘see’ this dystopia, but don’t realise it’s deliberate deflection and fear mongering, suffer cognitive dissonance over their own continued and lucrative support for our controllers, ie US based fossil fuels, animal ag, pharma, media, entertainment, tech and arms.
You are so right, dear Caitlin. Cop City in Atlanta here in the USA is designed to train police in urban warfare. Who do you think are the targets? Us.
They don't presecute the Epstein class, they watch the genocide of children in Gaza, they allow children to starve, they are polluting our waters, skies and soil, they allow children mining uranium, they allow mllions of children to live below the poverty line but are happy to use the excuse of protecting them to mass survey all of us, to take away internet freedom, to watch and monitor everything we say and arrest us for thought crimes before we do anything. They arrest us as terrorists when we protest. We need to organise, educate and resist!
YES- ALL those horrific things being done to children, the Rothschilds-Epstein Class makes laws & lords over the Peasants of....while THEY trade children like Pokémon Sex Toys.
Do the Peasants get it yet? Let me spell it out... the Z10 Billionaires are PEDOES & WORSE... Mostly MEN who want for nothing, so torturing, terrorizing and raping children 4 Funzies is THEIR RIGHT, it is the Ultimate Taboo- Destruction of the Innocent.
Now that We know that EVERY Politician either participates in the abuse/rape of children, or KNOWS about it, and does Nothing... what will the Peasants do? What will you and I do?
I know that NO politician will save us... every one can be or has been corrupted or threatened by their Rothschilds-Epstein Class Owners.
Can a Worldwide Movement of RESISTENCE start, when there's a coming Global Depression being brought on by Trump's Iran War for the Greater Israel Project?
Is there a way to turn AI or Technology onto OUR side- working against Them and for the People? Now would be a good time for the whiz kids to figure it out.
These mass surveillance laws are always framed as “protecting the children” but these same politicians don’t seem to have the same enthusiasm for protecting children from hunger (I mean “food insecurity”), polluted drinking water, junk food commercials aimed at kids and violence on TV. Our governor, Greg Abbot, announced there would be no free food for poor kids over the summer. Christianity in action.
The robotic attack dog-looking things will be replaced with humanoid-looking things as soon as Elon has mastered it. They’ll be able to spray crowds with teargas as well as bullets so multipurpose killing machines! I can’t figure out what kind of a world they think they’re creating.
SW, "Protecting the children" is their lates propaganda narrative. Do they ever talk about protecting the children of Gaza? What hubris! What hypocrisy!
"The longer we wait for revolution, the more weapons they’ll have in place to stop us."
We can't wait any longer--the time has come. We don't want to be overwhelmed with robot dogs armed to the "teeth." Get your paintball guns out now--aim at their sensors! Take out your local the Flock cameras with a green laser... We can fight back and we are fighting back and we WILL win!
Wrong. Voting under capitalism with only capitalist candidates is futile. Revolution is called for. Unless you support a true workers' party like the Socialist Equality Party, you are wasting your dime and living in a dream world.
If you just vote in a candidate that is pro-war/pro-Israel and takes money form AIPAC and the MIC, they will pretty much do the same things like the ones currently in office. If you vote, then do NOT vote the same MAGA Red or MAGA Blue candidates in--vote third party or independent candidates only. That's the only way anything will change via voting--if we stop putting the duopolists in office.
You have two options in life: Are you going to give up and whine about it, or are you going to keep fighting back and keep supporting those who don't represent the status quo? The ball is in your court.
Vote if it makes you feel better, but don't wait to join the revolution by thinking the "midterms" will make anything different. Two factions of the same uniparty that takes money form AIPAC will pretty much do the same things like they have all along.
Earlier in another comment section, I was bemoaning the fact that I ever went online when I did, caught now in the web they set up for our surveillance and control. I could get off, but it would take great effort. But maybe if this keeps up.....
And as with much of their tactics, we see the usual justification that "it's for the children". Yeah, sure. Liars!
Today in dystopia we are reading scores of articles that tell us how imprisoned we are and feeling outraged while basically doing nothing about it, as we are programmed to do.
Yes, they want us outraged at being imprisoned instead of outraged that we're sleep walking into proxy with Russia and China.
US interests in oil, animal ag, pharma, tech, entertainment and arms have got us so distracted with both dystopia and dreams of revolution that we're increasing military spending at a time when we need to be redesigning our entire infrastructure to cope with the effects of climate change and will be in the meat grinder before we know it.
To avert this we could disempower the R-E class by ceasing to buy so much of their products; fossil fuels, animal ag (and therefore pharma), news, entertainment, porn, media, finance and arms. They’d have far less power to control Trump and us.
Stop using "we". "We", the working class are not doing any of these things. We, the working class, are opposed to all of these things. The fact is that the government doesn't give a fuck what the actual we, the actual workers of the world, want. Unless you consider yourself one of the fascists, stop saying "we", when you mean "them".
That's because we do need leadership--and at some point that leadership will appear. Likely soon. Which is why they're in such a fever to get those data centers built, so they can use AI to comb through all the data from Flock cameras and our cellphones and everything we like or comment on on social media, together with what DOGE scraped from the IRS and Social Security and other sites, to identify potential leaders before the uprising starts. Then when it does, they can deploy the killer robots, although I think they'll use the more anonymous drones.
Whomever these possible leaders might be, they'll get the Platner treatment by the DNC and all loyal Democrats. You're probably right about the likely pernicious uses of AI, a panopticon surveillance tool that will render us all totally powerless. How can the young leaders overcome its horrors? Nobody knows. Killer robots on all our doorsteps and streets.
Some people are taking out Flock cameras, which seems like a good step. Another is to stop relying on a cellphone and go back to face to face organizing, distributing printed information--They can still trace us but relying on electronic communications makes it so easy for Them.
Call me a conspiracy theorist but, I believe that all of these electricity- and water-hogging "data centers" that "they" keep telling us are needed to run A.I. are actually going to be used to keep track of the surveillance data provided by flock cameras.
A.I. is being promoted by computer manufacturers to employers as a way to replace workers and cut payroll expenses. I'm suspicious of just how many workers can actually be replaced by A.I. and suspect that employers are being duped about what A.I. can do.
Yes, this is exactly the kind of conspiracy theory they want us focused on.
Climate change is making the heatwave in Europe hotter and we need to equip our houses and infrastructure and lives to cope with it's increasing effects.
Growing enough food is going to be the main problem.
Or maybe proxy war with Russia (or China for Australia) will actually be more so- we'll be in the meat grinder like Ukrainians before we know it.
We've allowed the most intellectually, psychologically, emotionally & socially defective people in the world to get extreme power, people like Thiel, Musk & their handlers, eg. BlackRock). They've learned, through propagandists like Goebbels, how easy it is to manipulate & brainwash people. It's how the USA has empowered MAGA's sadistic, depraved, Epstein-styled psychopaths; & MAGA's masochistic, ignorant, infantile simpletons (who are easily brainwashed by the psychopaths to sacrifice their own interests, for the benefit of society's wealthiest 1%, IOW, the USA's gutter trash with money). Everything is being designed to satisfy the 1%'s insatiable greed for all the world's wealth & insatiable lust for power. The masochistic, ignorant simpletons are more dangerous than the psychopaths. Without the support of these simpletons, the 1% would have to behave like evolved, civilized human beings. Religions & laws would do what they are supposed to do, encourage the better qualities in people & discourage the worst qualities; so that we can live in civilized societies.
Clearly, people like Thiel, Musk, Miller, Trump, Hegseth, the USA's traitorous AIPAC Democrats & even more traitorous AIPAC Republicans, other Western politicians who are following the USA's traitorous politicians lead, are psychologically disturbed &/or born with personality disorders. They are the last people who should be given power. Their involvement in the creation of, & more importantly subjective interference in the development of, AI guarantees that we will not get the Star Trek styled AI we expected, but a failed AI; since these people lack the evolved intelligence required for the 'I' in Artificial Intelligence. We are getting Artificial Depravity & Artificial Stupidity, that is representative of their defective, unevolved, uncivilized, inhumane, immature, irresponsible, intellectually defective personalities. Intelligence requires an evolved character, maturity, responsibility, sanity, impartiality, civilized (& therefore being humane) character traits.
Giving power to these lesser beings will never work out well. These people are too unevolved, uncivilized, inhumane, immature, irresponsible, insane (often with pickled brains &/or fried brains, in addition to their natural personality disorders) & their subjectivity makes them intellectually inferior. Under normal circumstances, many of these people are considered extraordinarily dangerous & certifiable.
The world's majority, in every country (whether Russia, Ukraine, other European countries, Middle Eastern countries, China, other Asian countries, Australia, Canada, Latin American countries, African nations & elsewhere) are civilized, sane & humane. We just want to live comfortable peaceful lives surrounded by decent civilized people. We react to the sadistic depravity & other negative characteristics of those currently in power, as sane, civilized & humane people should. Unfortunately, the world's most intellectually, psychologically, emotionally & socially defective people are the opposite of the world's majority & have been given/stolen the world's wealth & power. They are the greatest threat to civilization, humanity & world peace.
The worst of us simply want power for their own benefit. They have no interest in their constituents & their welfare. These people will do anything to get into power, including destroy anyone in their way. That's why they end up in power.
The best of us who enter politics with good intentions, to represent the interests of their constituents & their country won't fight as dirty as those with an insatiable lust for power. These better politicians will be destroyed by the unsuitable, self-absorbed, power hungry savage politicians.
That's why we always end up with such useless, lousy politicians.
Agree but one real problem IMO is in a corrupt political SYSTEM that encourages and supports demagogues and assholes and disadvantages honest decent people with integrity. Plus, voting public (constituency) is largely immature and dishonest. They expect impossible 100% perfection from a good candidate while they will happily accept asshole candidate with zero achievements and nothing but empty promises. For me humans are truly sad and unintelligent biological life form. That is why representative democracy rarely functions in the west. Additionally, assholes have taken the power now and no amount of voting will change that.
Sadly you are right. We always knew there were stupid (& evil) people, but until Trump's first term, we didn't realize how many there were around us. He gave them confidence to come out of the woodwork [& proudly show us how dumb (& nasty) & easily manipulated they are].
Goebbels discovered how to easily manipulate these weak-minded people who have no critical thinking ability/make no effort to think. Zionism's fake Jewish cult (of the atheist Herzl/atheist Rothschilds bankers 1897 cult) have taken Goebbels propaganda style to new depths of evil & depravity.
The USA's traitorous AIPAC Republicans & traitorous AIPAC Democrats have submitted to the Christ-hating ZIONIST fake Jewish cultists & taken on their expanded Goebbels-styled propaganda & compulsive lying. Other Western politicians have followed suit. In fact, our traitorous Western politicians have accepted ZIONIST Israel's free "holidays" where the Zionists use these tactics to brainwashed/'indoctrinate them into the Christ-hating Zionist fake Jewish cult.
I mention the 'Christ-hating' because of their strong aversion to Christian values (or Godly values) not because all people must be Christians.
I refer to Zionism as a fake Jewish cult because it's creator & original promoters, Herzl & the Rothschilds were atheists; were rich, powerful & extraordinarily evil people which included a history as war mongers & war profiteers. Zionism reflects their depravity & exists only to further increase the wealth & power of Zionism's fake Jews. It does not reflect or promote Judaism; & in fact, has always persecuted the REAL Jews. Unfortunately, most so-called Jews are really Zionism's fake Jews, because of the unwarranted privileges of being in the manipulative Zionist cult).
I didn't see anything that wasn't accurate, except that people on every country want peace, a better life etc. Polls in Israel show the people were all in favor of the Gaza genocide by large majorities.
I don't view all other countries as pristine and beyond circumspect. It is only because Israel & US and even Europe are behaving so atrociously right now, that other countries like Russia and China seem to be saintly. I don't really buy into it completely. OTW, yes the comment was quite accurate overall.
I was referring to the general public. Not to those in power or the standard of living in a country. The general public want to live civilized, peaceful lives, not to be at war.
Of course. The world's majority, the civilized, sane & humane people of the world, need to work together; to unite & stand up against these demonic beasts. We are horrified, devastated, heartbroken & morally injured every day by the unconscionable depths of the sadistic depravity of Zionism's demonic psychopaths.
But what about Ayn Rand and getting rid of all regulations and governmental oversight? Isn't Libertarianism suppose to set us all free when the corporations own everything?
Ayn Rand was a sociopath. I've read her work. Her Russian father, who was well to do, lost his business after the Revolution and she never got over it. Her views of humanity were fascist in the extreme. Her contempt for the working class and her elevation of her favorite characters in her novels are quite sick. She would have been a supporter of Adolf Hitler if she lived in Germany, no question.
Yup... Ayn_Randians have often struck me as people who were only ever in search of a "known" perspective/ideology that would make them feel better about the way that they already intended to be, and how they already intended to feel about, view, the world around them (irrespective of any forthcoming new data/analysis), and when they finally found one, they latched onto it wholeheartedly, probably for that reason only... to feel "better" (and I use the word ideology, instead of philosophy, because it's always at least seemed to me that in order to qualify as a "philosophy", it would need to at least have the possibility of being embraced by all humans, some type of universality, whereas her thinking seems more exclusionary... though I haven't read much by her, and don't intend to btw, just not interesting to me, but have had some UNimpressive encounters with a few people who have... probably one of the more impressive things I've read on that topic was a really interesting 1961 op_ed/review by Gore Vidal, which can (sort of, by ignoring formatting-display issues) be read here, for anyone interested: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4595/comment-0761/ ).
So you stop the technology that could run on renewables and help them by integrated into the grid (and that also uses a lot less water than animal agriculture).
You take control of the world’s energy resources, infrastructure and means of production but still need to provide energy, food and water to 8 billion plus people at a time when it’s too late to stop 2 degrees of warming with all its floods, fires, droughts and agricultural failures.
The economic petrodollar bubble bursts, unless you carry on with unsustainable growth and burning fossil fuels further heating the planet, so the world is also plunged into chaos and recession. Millions of vulnerable and disabled people provided for by the tax payer no longer receive any support.
To control the scramble for food and water; would you have an army?
I believe the main lesson our oligarchic overlords learned from the pandemic was: Don't dish out a full turd pie. Dish out lots of turd amuses-bouches.
They are now doing this in the open with no apologies. Edward Snowden and Julian Assange and others told us. There is no law to follow. They do as they want without fear of reprisal. Shameless. Who controls society now? Open your eyes and look. They don't hide anymore. They lie and re-write the record. Watch the documentary "Where's My Roy Cohn?". See how Donald Trump was raised. He follows that script declaring victory after every loss.
Roy Cohn, another completely defective, antisocial & psychopathic habitual criminal, also taught Trump to never pay his bills.
More importantly, he taught Trump to ignore the Courts & the Judges, until they eventually go away. He didn't believe the law applied to him, neither does Trump.
I don't understand why Cohn was allowed to continue as a lawyer for so long. He was disbarred much too late. The Courts & Judges were incompetent to allow his behaviour for so long.
As long as Cohn supported the agenda of the courts and judges, they were glad to accommodate him. He was also a closeted homosexual who persecuted other homosexuals. A complete hypocrite in everything.
The robodogs are going to prove to be as useful in suppressing resistance as THAAD missiles were in preventing American military bases in the Persian Gulf from getting the shit kicked out of them. Expensive, multi-million dollar technology that will be taken out with firearms that are already readily available or improvised devices. They're high-tech dead weight. These robots could serve a purpose that protects the investment poured into their development, such as operating in dangerous, radioactive environments or on Mars instead of on sidewalks. Also, do we really think these things aren't hackable? Just throw a balloon full of paint on its sensors and watch it try to lick its own nuts.
I've been thinking the same thing. How easily robotic dogs can be sabotaged and destroyed by the public. You're already hearing multiple stories of these hi-tech cameras being easily taken out.
The real danger will not come from robotics - at least operating on their own - but billion dollar human police organizations like ICE, already building concentration camps all over the US.
Sounds sensible. These robodogs should go with Musk (& his fellow 1%ers) to their Mars settlements. Can we suggest that they make their settlements in the warmer climate of the Sun.
The civilised world trusts all idf cowards and scum along with their Nazi fascist masters in isrehell will one day be brought to justice and sent to burning Zionist hell for all time
Society in general can't see this dystopian onslaught, either suffering from willful blindness or self-induced dystopia myopia.
Germany had an extraordinary welfare state from the 1970s through the mid-1990s, especially for political refugees. If you needed support, there was no arbitrary time limit on unemployment benefits. Families received Kleidergeld (a clothing allowance every six months), Kindergeld (monthly payments for each child until adulthood), assistance for school supplies, funding for official school trips, and utilities were often paid directly to the providers.
There was even something called Urlaubsgeld which was vacation assistance. It wasn't a luxury holiday abroad; the idea was that rest and mental well-being mattered. Families could take an affordable trip within Germany by train or car and stay somewhere simple, like a bed-and-breakfast or a farm. That's how many families, despite having very little, were able to spend time on a farm or visit the Baltic Sea one summer. Those experiences would have been impossible otherwise.
Then, after the fall of the Soviet Union, and therefore the end of the last remaining opposition and challenge to the predatory capitalist system, America's neoliberalism began infesting the nation. By the end of the 90s, things took a turn, first with the privatization of the Deutsche Post and it's been downhill ever since. Many of those programs were slashed or replaced with vouchers adopting one of America's worst habits of meager crumbs that do not give people a life of dignity.
Germany never had a housing voucher system like America's Section 8. If you qualified for assistance, you could live wherever you wanted (within reasonable limits), and the state paid the rent. That has become increasingly restrictive as well.
Now Germany has a former BlackRock executive as chancellor and is dismantling what's left of its social safety net while funneling more money toward corporations and the military-industrial complex through NATO. It is very sad to see what future generations and children looking to have a life of dignity will never have and are deprived of. Germany's safety net allowed me to have a safe childhood where I could focus on school and studies.
The virus of capitalism and militarism is taking the world down. The policies that once made life secure and dignified are being dismantled to feed NATO and trillionaires and the war machine and the sad thing is, this is only the beginning.
The european welfare states were generous because the ruling class feared communism.
Now that the Soviet Union is gone, there is no longer any need to offer a better deal, so the rulers are renegoiating.
I do not get paid to say "I support Palestine Action". I support the Black Panthers. I like cats.
You are correct. We were all better off while the Soviet Union existed, even if we didn't make the connection.
Carolyn,We did make the connection. The colonised global south wouldn't have come out of colonialism, if not for the backing of the Soviet Union. The relentless onslaught against the Soviet Union meant tragedy for all of them - with good leaders assassinated, and now rapidly becoming recolonised.
The way the US/west is bent on destroying Russia, it is not just ideology that they are worried about but people getting in the way of their greed and oligarchical plunder.
Like Caitlin says today in dystopia....
I remember when people used to smile and acknowledge you.
They weren't glued to their phones at every given moment.
Children were curious and eager to say hi.
Now they avoid all eye contact and never engage with anyone outside of their bubble.
These technological advancements are crushing all that was good and innocent in many humans.
Considering how many pedophiles and rapists and murderers are in positions of power, with legal protections and lack of punishment for those blatant crimes against humanity, I don't fault any kid for avoiding interactions with adults.
i miss those days of genuine care for other people and social politeness as well Ms. Oak. Sadly the world nowadays seems far removed from that, and phones and technology and the online world consume much of people's time
Germany can pride itself on being the biggest sell-out to American neoliberalism and Zionist genocide on the planet!
well said ms. engelhardt, though that's not something to take pride in, in my view
i was being sarcastic.
I think lots of people do see this ever creeping dystopia approaching, especially older generation of which I’m one. Most younger peoples energy is taken up in just surviving neoliberalism - working in evermore insecure jobs to put a roof over their/their families heads which in itself is increasingly difficult here in Oz …..
Maybe you know this but "In Oz = Zion." And, btw, I'm 71 and I don't know how anyone can't see it.
I hadn’t heard that actual term and live a somewhat socially and geographically isolated life (Perth) and I didn’t grow up in Oz (if I’ve ‘grown up’ at all). But have become increasingly aware of Zio influence in our politics and ASIO and I hope I don’t get a ‘knock on the door’ for saying it!
Sadly, you are so right.😭
While those who do ‘see’ this dystopia, but don’t realise it’s deliberate deflection and fear mongering, suffer cognitive dissonance over their own continued and lucrative support for our controllers, ie US based fossil fuels, animal ag, pharma, media, entertainment, tech and arms.
You are so right, dear Caitlin. Cop City in Atlanta here in the USA is designed to train police in urban warfare. Who do you think are the targets? Us.
What do you think thr data centers are for?
They don't presecute the Epstein class, they watch the genocide of children in Gaza, they allow children to starve, they are polluting our waters, skies and soil, they allow children mining uranium, they allow mllions of children to live below the poverty line but are happy to use the excuse of protecting them to mass survey all of us, to take away internet freedom, to watch and monitor everything we say and arrest us for thought crimes before we do anything. They arrest us as terrorists when we protest. We need to organise, educate and resist!
YES- ALL those horrific things being done to children, the Rothschilds-Epstein Class makes laws & lords over the Peasants of....while THEY trade children like Pokémon Sex Toys.
Do the Peasants get it yet? Let me spell it out... the Z10 Billionaires are PEDOES & WORSE... Mostly MEN who want for nothing, so torturing, terrorizing and raping children 4 Funzies is THEIR RIGHT, it is the Ultimate Taboo- Destruction of the Innocent.
Now that We know that EVERY Politician either participates in the abuse/rape of children, or KNOWS about it, and does Nothing... what will the Peasants do? What will you and I do?
I know that NO politician will save us... every one can be or has been corrupted or threatened by their Rothschilds-Epstein Class Owners.
Can a Worldwide Movement of RESISTENCE start, when there's a coming Global Depression being brought on by Trump's Iran War for the Greater Israel Project?
Is there a way to turn AI or Technology onto OUR side- working against Them and for the People? Now would be a good time for the whiz kids to figure it out.
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Wow, well stated!
These mass surveillance laws are always framed as “protecting the children” but these same politicians don’t seem to have the same enthusiasm for protecting children from hunger (I mean “food insecurity”), polluted drinking water, junk food commercials aimed at kids and violence on TV. Our governor, Greg Abbot, announced there would be no free food for poor kids over the summer. Christianity in action.
The robotic attack dog-looking things will be replaced with humanoid-looking things as soon as Elon has mastered it. They’ll be able to spray crowds with teargas as well as bullets so multipurpose killing machines! I can’t figure out what kind of a world they think they’re creating.
A world where human life is cheap and expendable, except for a random few, absurdly rich people.
I don't think they are random. That is why they are called chosenites.
SW, "Protecting the children" is their lates propaganda narrative. Do they ever talk about protecting the children of Gaza? What hubris! What hypocrisy!
Watch the early Terminator movies.
"The longer we wait for revolution, the more weapons they’ll have in place to stop us."
We can't wait any longer--the time has come. We don't want to be overwhelmed with robot dogs armed to the "teeth." Get your paintball guns out now--aim at their sensors! Take out your local the Flock cameras with a green laser... We can fight back and we are fighting back and we WILL win!
Cameras love a Pam Cooking spray.
Yeah, and at least vote! There's a chance this coming election can be representative.
Wrong. Voting under capitalism with only capitalist candidates is futile. Revolution is called for. Unless you support a true workers' party like the Socialist Equality Party, you are wasting your dime and living in a dream world.
But we manage to vote some people out though
If you just vote in a candidate that is pro-war/pro-Israel and takes money form AIPAC and the MIC, they will pretty much do the same things like the ones currently in office. If you vote, then do NOT vote the same MAGA Red or MAGA Blue candidates in--vote third party or independent candidates only. That's the only way anything will change via voting--if we stop putting the duopolists in office.
You think we didn't try that? A lot of people actually did vote green and yet somehow Trump still got into office
You have two options in life: Are you going to give up and whine about it, or are you going to keep fighting back and keep supporting those who don't represent the status quo? The ball is in your court.
Vote if it makes you feel better, but don't wait to join the revolution by thinking the "midterms" will make anything different. Two factions of the same uniparty that takes money form AIPAC will pretty much do the same things like they have all along.
Earlier in another comment section, I was bemoaning the fact that I ever went online when I did, caught now in the web they set up for our surveillance and control. I could get off, but it would take great effort. But maybe if this keeps up.....
And as with much of their tactics, we see the usual justification that "it's for the children". Yeah, sure. Liars!
Thank you💐
Dog-cannons are the worst. I picture a small child walking up to one thinking, happily, "Robot puppy!" And then: BLAM.
Today in dystopia we are reading scores of articles that tell us how imprisoned we are and feeling outraged while basically doing nothing about it, as we are programmed to do.
Yes, they want us outraged at being imprisoned instead of outraged that we're sleep walking into proxy with Russia and China.
US interests in oil, animal ag, pharma, tech, entertainment and arms have got us so distracted with both dystopia and dreams of revolution that we're increasing military spending at a time when we need to be redesigning our entire infrastructure to cope with the effects of climate change and will be in the meat grinder before we know it.
Trump's War with Iran and the closing of the Stait of Hormuz for the Greater Israel Plan, will cause a GLOBAL Depression.
There will be no jobs, BUT going to war and being cannon-fodder for the Rothschilds-Epstein Class.
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To avert this we could disempower the R-E class by ceasing to buy so much of their products; fossil fuels, animal ag (and therefore pharma), news, entertainment, porn, media, finance and arms. They’d have far less power to control Trump and us.
We're already stopping buying things because we're broke.
There are no jobs NOW. I've been looking for work for months. Big tech is laying off people by the tens of thousands. Look around you!
We're already in a proxy war. A hot war is coming soon.
Stop using "we". "We", the working class are not doing any of these things. We, the working class, are opposed to all of these things. The fact is that the government doesn't give a fuck what the actual we, the actual workers of the world, want. Unless you consider yourself one of the fascists, stop saying "we", when you mean "them".
That's because we do need leadership--and at some point that leadership will appear. Likely soon. Which is why they're in such a fever to get those data centers built, so they can use AI to comb through all the data from Flock cameras and our cellphones and everything we like or comment on on social media, together with what DOGE scraped from the IRS and Social Security and other sites, to identify potential leaders before the uprising starts. Then when it does, they can deploy the killer robots, although I think they'll use the more anonymous drones.
Whomever these possible leaders might be, they'll get the Platner treatment by the DNC and all loyal Democrats. You're probably right about the likely pernicious uses of AI, a panopticon surveillance tool that will render us all totally powerless. How can the young leaders overcome its horrors? Nobody knows. Killer robots on all our doorsteps and streets.
Some people are taking out Flock cameras, which seems like a good step. Another is to stop relying on a cellphone and go back to face to face organizing, distributing printed information--They can still trace us but relying on electronic communications makes it so easy for Them.
Humans are herd animals to rival any sheep or dog.
Well then get out and do something about it! Don't just sit here complaining.
Call me a conspiracy theorist but, I believe that all of these electricity- and water-hogging "data centers" that "they" keep telling us are needed to run A.I. are actually going to be used to keep track of the surveillance data provided by flock cameras.
A.I. is being promoted by computer manufacturers to employers as a way to replace workers and cut payroll expenses. I'm suspicious of just how many workers can actually be replaced by A.I. and suspect that employers are being duped about what A.I. can do.
Yes, this is exactly the kind of conspiracy theory they want us focused on.
Climate change is making the heatwave in Europe hotter and we need to equip our houses and infrastructure and lives to cope with it's increasing effects.
Growing enough food is going to be the main problem.
Or maybe proxy war with Russia (or China for Australia) will actually be more so- we'll be in the meat grinder like Ukrainians before we know it.
Fuck Ukraine. Nazis control its government.
We all know this already. You are not alone in realizing this by any means.
Humans are such sad creatures.
We've allowed the most intellectually, psychologically, emotionally & socially defective people in the world to get extreme power, people like Thiel, Musk & their handlers, eg. BlackRock). They've learned, through propagandists like Goebbels, how easy it is to manipulate & brainwash people. It's how the USA has empowered MAGA's sadistic, depraved, Epstein-styled psychopaths; & MAGA's masochistic, ignorant, infantile simpletons (who are easily brainwashed by the psychopaths to sacrifice their own interests, for the benefit of society's wealthiest 1%, IOW, the USA's gutter trash with money). Everything is being designed to satisfy the 1%'s insatiable greed for all the world's wealth & insatiable lust for power. The masochistic, ignorant simpletons are more dangerous than the psychopaths. Without the support of these simpletons, the 1% would have to behave like evolved, civilized human beings. Religions & laws would do what they are supposed to do, encourage the better qualities in people & discourage the worst qualities; so that we can live in civilized societies.
Clearly, people like Thiel, Musk, Miller, Trump, Hegseth, the USA's traitorous AIPAC Democrats & even more traitorous AIPAC Republicans, other Western politicians who are following the USA's traitorous politicians lead, are psychologically disturbed &/or born with personality disorders. They are the last people who should be given power. Their involvement in the creation of, & more importantly subjective interference in the development of, AI guarantees that we will not get the Star Trek styled AI we expected, but a failed AI; since these people lack the evolved intelligence required for the 'I' in Artificial Intelligence. We are getting Artificial Depravity & Artificial Stupidity, that is representative of their defective, unevolved, uncivilized, inhumane, immature, irresponsible, intellectually defective personalities. Intelligence requires an evolved character, maturity, responsibility, sanity, impartiality, civilized (& therefore being humane) character traits.
Giving power to these lesser beings will never work out well. These people are too unevolved, uncivilized, inhumane, immature, irresponsible, insane (often with pickled brains &/or fried brains, in addition to their natural personality disorders) & their subjectivity makes them intellectually inferior. Under normal circumstances, many of these people are considered extraordinarily dangerous & certifiable.
The world's majority, in every country (whether Russia, Ukraine, other European countries, Middle Eastern countries, China, other Asian countries, Australia, Canada, Latin American countries, African nations & elsewhere) are civilized, sane & humane. We just want to live comfortable peaceful lives surrounded by decent civilized people. We react to the sadistic depravity & other negative characteristics of those currently in power, as sane, civilized & humane people should. Unfortunately, the world's most intellectually, psychologically, emotionally & socially defective people are the opposite of the world's majority & have been given/stolen the world's wealth & power. They are the greatest threat to civilization, humanity & world peace.
Power selects strongly for those who will do anything to get it. Normies won't, so they are inevitably left behind.
The worst of us simply want power for their own benefit. They have no interest in their constituents & their welfare. These people will do anything to get into power, including destroy anyone in their way. That's why they end up in power.
The best of us who enter politics with good intentions, to represent the interests of their constituents & their country won't fight as dirty as those with an insatiable lust for power. These better politicians will be destroyed by the unsuitable, self-absorbed, power hungry savage politicians.
That's why we always end up with such useless, lousy politicians.
Agree but one real problem IMO is in a corrupt political SYSTEM that encourages and supports demagogues and assholes and disadvantages honest decent people with integrity. Plus, voting public (constituency) is largely immature and dishonest. They expect impossible 100% perfection from a good candidate while they will happily accept asshole candidate with zero achievements and nothing but empty promises. For me humans are truly sad and unintelligent biological life form. That is why representative democracy rarely functions in the west. Additionally, assholes have taken the power now and no amount of voting will change that.
Sadly you are right. We always knew there were stupid (& evil) people, but until Trump's first term, we didn't realize how many there were around us. He gave them confidence to come out of the woodwork [& proudly show us how dumb (& nasty) & easily manipulated they are].
Goebbels discovered how to easily manipulate these weak-minded people who have no critical thinking ability/make no effort to think. Zionism's fake Jewish cult (of the atheist Herzl/atheist Rothschilds bankers 1897 cult) have taken Goebbels propaganda style to new depths of evil & depravity.
The USA's traitorous AIPAC Republicans & traitorous AIPAC Democrats have submitted to the Christ-hating ZIONIST fake Jewish cultists & taken on their expanded Goebbels-styled propaganda & compulsive lying. Other Western politicians have followed suit. In fact, our traitorous Western politicians have accepted ZIONIST Israel's free "holidays" where the Zionists use these tactics to brainwashed/'indoctrinate them into the Christ-hating Zionist fake Jewish cult.
I mention the 'Christ-hating' because of their strong aversion to Christian values (or Godly values) not because all people must be Christians.
I refer to Zionism as a fake Jewish cult because it's creator & original promoters, Herzl & the Rothschilds were atheists; were rich, powerful & extraordinarily evil people which included a history as war mongers & war profiteers. Zionism reflects their depravity & exists only to further increase the wealth & power of Zionism's fake Jews. It does not reflect or promote Judaism; & in fact, has always persecuted the REAL Jews. Unfortunately, most so-called Jews are really Zionism's fake Jews, because of the unwarranted privileges of being in the manipulative Zionist cult).
Completely agree
Yup. You basically described sociopaths.
A long and verbose comment, but mostly accurate.
I didn't see anything that wasn't accurate, except that people on every country want peace, a better life etc. Polls in Israel show the people were all in favor of the Gaza genocide by large majorities.
I don't view all other countries as pristine and beyond circumspect. It is only because Israel & US and even Europe are behaving so atrociously right now, that other countries like Russia and China seem to be saintly. I don't really buy into it completely. OTW, yes the comment was quite accurate overall.
I was referring to the general public. Not to those in power or the standard of living in a country. The general public want to live civilized, peaceful lives, not to be at war.
Got it.
Sorry. I don't always edit. My fault.
Too long.
I would like to share your comment.
May I?
Of course. The world's majority, the civilized, sane & humane people of the world, need to work together; to unite & stand up against these demonic beasts. We are horrified, devastated, heartbroken & morally injured every day by the unconscionable depths of the sadistic depravity of Zionism's demonic psychopaths.
... and beautiful. But maybe the experiment is coming to an end. :(
Speak for yourself.
The future is clear, the new tech isn’t there to benefit humanity, it belongs to billionaires.
Basically, the corporations own the future… unless we citizens get a grip on this now!!
But what about Ayn Rand and getting rid of all regulations and governmental oversight? Isn't Libertarianism suppose to set us all free when the corporations own everything?
Ayn Rand was a sociopath. I've read her work. Her Russian father, who was well to do, lost his business after the Revolution and she never got over it. Her views of humanity were fascist in the extreme. Her contempt for the working class and her elevation of her favorite characters in her novels are quite sick. She would have been a supporter of Adolf Hitler if she lived in Germany, no question.
Yup... Ayn_Randians have often struck me as people who were only ever in search of a "known" perspective/ideology that would make them feel better about the way that they already intended to be, and how they already intended to feel about, view, the world around them (irrespective of any forthcoming new data/analysis), and when they finally found one, they latched onto it wholeheartedly, probably for that reason only... to feel "better" (and I use the word ideology, instead of philosophy, because it's always at least seemed to me that in order to qualify as a "philosophy", it would need to at least have the possibility of being embraced by all humans, some type of universality, whereas her thinking seems more exclusionary... though I haven't read much by her, and don't intend to btw, just not interesting to me, but have had some UNimpressive encounters with a few people who have... probably one of the more impressive things I've read on that topic was a really interesting 1961 op_ed/review by Gore Vidal, which can (sort of, by ignoring formatting-display issues) be read here, for anyone interested: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4595/comment-0761/ ).
Marx told us all about this in the 1840s. He was right.
I want Caitlin to be queen, president, and pope.
Tim can be King consort, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Archbishop of Melbourne. (Oops!)
What's she going to do about climate change?
Well, the anti-AI stance is a good start.
She'd shut down data centers (surveillance data collection hubs) and stop funding genocide.
Seems like we're already on the right track.
So you stop the technology that could run on renewables and help them by integrated into the grid (and that also uses a lot less water than animal agriculture).
You take control of the world’s energy resources, infrastructure and means of production but still need to provide energy, food and water to 8 billion plus people at a time when it’s too late to stop 2 degrees of warming with all its floods, fires, droughts and agricultural failures.
The economic petrodollar bubble bursts, unless you carry on with unsustainable growth and burning fossil fuels further heating the planet, so the world is also plunged into chaos and recession. Millions of vulnerable and disabled people provided for by the tax payer no longer receive any support.
To control the scramble for food and water; would you have an army?
Why are you asking me?
Yes, the world's on track to extreme weather and heat, energy and agricultural disruptions (or collapse in some areas), and climate refugees.
Nobody is disputing that unless they have a personal selfish interest in maintaining the status quo.
The point of our joke here is that leaving the current capitalist-zionist system in place basically guarantees the extinction of humanity.
My point is unless we have something to replace it with we’re equally, if not more quickly, screwed.
We DO have something to replace it with. It is called socialism. What's the matter with you? Read the World Socialist Web Site and learn something.
Good heavens, the poor woman! She's already busy! And we have a pretty good pope and there should be no royalty. So prime minster.
I believe the main lesson our oligarchic overlords learned from the pandemic was: Don't dish out a full turd pie. Dish out lots of turd amuses-bouches.
They are now doing this in the open with no apologies. Edward Snowden and Julian Assange and others told us. There is no law to follow. They do as they want without fear of reprisal. Shameless. Who controls society now? Open your eyes and look. They don't hide anymore. They lie and re-write the record. Watch the documentary "Where's My Roy Cohn?". See how Donald Trump was raised. He follows that script declaring victory after every loss.
Roy Cohn, another completely defective, antisocial & psychopathic habitual criminal, also taught Trump to never pay his bills.
More importantly, he taught Trump to ignore the Courts & the Judges, until they eventually go away. He didn't believe the law applied to him, neither does Trump.
I don't understand why Cohn was allowed to continue as a lawyer for so long. He was disbarred much too late. The Courts & Judges were incompetent to allow his behaviour for so long.
As long as Cohn supported the agenda of the courts and judges, they were glad to accommodate him. He was also a closeted homosexual who persecuted other homosexuals. A complete hypocrite in everything.
The time of ASSHOLES has arrived. Forget goblins, orcs, elves, humans, and hobbits.
The robodogs are going to prove to be as useful in suppressing resistance as THAAD missiles were in preventing American military bases in the Persian Gulf from getting the shit kicked out of them. Expensive, multi-million dollar technology that will be taken out with firearms that are already readily available or improvised devices. They're high-tech dead weight. These robots could serve a purpose that protects the investment poured into their development, such as operating in dangerous, radioactive environments or on Mars instead of on sidewalks. Also, do we really think these things aren't hackable? Just throw a balloon full of paint on its sensors and watch it try to lick its own nuts.
I've been thinking the same thing. How easily robotic dogs can be sabotaged and destroyed by the public. You're already hearing multiple stories of these hi-tech cameras being easily taken out.
The real danger will not come from robotics - at least operating on their own - but billion dollar human police organizations like ICE, already building concentration camps all over the US.
Sounds sensible. These robodogs should go with Musk (& his fellow 1%ers) to their Mars settlements. Can we suggest that they make their settlements in the warmer climate of the Sun.
The civilised world trusts all idf cowards and scum along with their Nazi fascist masters in isrehell will one day be brought to justice and sent to burning Zionist hell for all time