If you ever feel like what you are doing is meaningless, remember that there is someone in a BMW factory installing indicators.
this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2025
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If you ever feel like what you are doing is meaningless, remember that there is someone in a BMW factory installing indicators.
They will be indispensable for documenting, for historians, what it was like when the United States still had law.
oh honey, you, um... that...
who wants to tell them? I can't.
We don’t need historians. We need people who are willing to risk their career to put up a fight. Documenting is just a word for being a bystander and let it happen.
The Palantir threat model specifically says only a fringe will put up a fight right now.
There's a projected line in the sand where people stand up, but so long as you stay on one side, you're safe, and the scary thing is, you can push that line and it will move.
The plan is to be super aggressive now to move the line, then 12 months from now to act all domestic abuser who regrets it and love bombing to cancel out most of the anger before the midterms.
In their defense, this is exactly how Reagan did it and it worked.
I think as you get younger, people are much more aware of abuse dynamics than they were in the past. I think their models may be off.
This is the interesting part!
We Americans believe we are all blessed by the holy aura of freedom and democracy.
These models were trained on 3rd world countries.
Let's see how far they work, maybe we really are just as weak and corrupt as those we hold in contempt.
not an american thing. product of global culture, generally. the kids (and to a lesser extent, the middle aged) are a lot more aware of abuse dynamics specifically. I don't think it's just america.
americans are ABSOLUTELY as weak as those they hold in contempt. corrupt... depends on their politics; the left holds some pretty intensely corrupt bastards in contempt.
You need both.
You need people to fight now, and people to document the shit out of this to cut through as much propaganda as possible for the future.
The current regime has already started to rewrite history, documenting the truth is putting up a fight!
If they also aren't "discarded."
I look forward all of this scholars writing "Rule-of-Law" fanfiction where the protagonists and antagonists live and interact in a society with a system of mostly reasonable laws and law enforcement. Definitely now categorized as Speculative Fiction.
Lol I see all those "honor codes" in movies and TV and I'm like... why doesn't the villian just ignore it? Like... just sneak attack against the protagonist, fuck the rules lol. If they are dead, there's no one to report you for breaking the rules anyways.
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That's seems pretty meaningful
Although I here constitutional rights have fallen out of favor for the last few decades.
Ive been wondering what the difference is between an executive that ignores court orders and acts counter to congressional laws and martial law.
Martial law would probably allow stricter control of the internet... so Americans like me probably wouldn't be able to use Lemmy.
(And I'd probably also end up getting summarily executed by the American Gestapo/SS, since... I'm not white... 😖)
Martial law generally has legal mechanisms in place to provide some limitations to duration etc.
In other words, it would be an improvement over what is currently happening.
Amount of police/national guard troops, maybe?
Something serious is being implied here.... Not sure what to make of it tho🤔
That the concept of three branches of government keeping each other in check fails miserably when one branch has no way to constrain the other, or willingly abdicates their responsibility.
Those among them lacking in morals would make bank (or influence, whatever is afforded to them) justifying that government's actions according to US constitutional law.
And most of them will be millionaires by 2029
I worry they’ll be trillionaires and everyone else will be the millionaires, carting our wheelbarrows full of useless dollars around