I'm an American.
A veteran, leader, investor & Democrat.
A humanist, optimist, futurist, feminist & environmentalist.
Let's build that shining city on a hill.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
My thoughts on how AR and see-through HUDs / smart glasses have already come to dominate in military applications & how lower prices will continue to bring precision, networking and awareness to every level.
I have some experience, not expert.
@RachelBitecofer focusing the next 2-4 years on education for the electorate would probably be a good move for some of the political contributors out there.
How do we think about civics, history of government, past national trauma, other nation's mistakes. . .
@BlackKnight10k "The Rise And Fall of the Third Reich" Should be required reading in the next month. It's huge but very good and frighteningly parallel (Good audiobook too)
@RachelBitecofer Ah, since you've been studying them, let me give you some nightmare-fuel.
-US law enforcement has access to a vast surveillance network of cameras, AI and facial recognition have long been used to ID/track individuals.
Given that, what would Nazis do with drones & Quadcopters?
@johnastoehr The modern internet information system makes it possible for doing things to not matter.
Its the information system. And the citizens unwittingly siloed & addicted to it
@JesseJenkins I think that THE key missing stat here is: are those people located near prosperous developing areas, or are they in the hinterlands?
-this year I drove through a lot of very back-road areas in the PA area and once you're away from the highway, things are pretty bad out there
@tommysantos14 they wont be the targets though
the vermin will be, they'll just laugh while everyone who doesn't fit the bill or kiss the ring gets railroaded.
@dlowther715@stengel POTUS swap or not (I do like the idea) the USAG and prompt, aggressive legal action is possibly the only way.
Declassification and release (could come from congress too) of information related would help too, goodness knows they won't release any of it after January
@naretevduorp This place is enemy territory anyway, I was going to leave following the election, this is just not a good place to be or to organize any longer
@Steinernomics Yep, you're right. And with the power of the state and of new technology, there is no functional way to impede it.
Submit, or they'll send the robots with TASERs in to subdue you.
The slavecatchers are itching to start playing.
And yeah, Americans voted for it.
@Steinernomics It would happen behind closed doors and they would classify everything at least as FOUO and good luck with a FOIA!
The first we'd hear about it would be an uptick in raids and earnings growth from prison contractor quarterly reports (unless they're private co's)
@Claudia_Sahm I dunno, there's the group of non-economists who think a collapse would be a good thing & then there's the oligarchs who want to take everything private at firesale prices (due to a collapse) They wouldn't really be trying to fight inflation, it's just an excuse for the project.
@Steinernomics Seriously.
The primary gate will be how we as a society respond to their actions to ramp deportations.
Once you have large populations cycling between camps, getting separated and concentrated. . . except we're doing that now at a smaller scale and not a peep.
The apparent election victory of Donald Trump, has consequences for the world, that I'm sure, very few people, have ever thought of.
The world has just been sent, in an incredibly dangerous direction.
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