You’re being needlessly argumentative mate. The previous posted basically said “She’s trash, but she can help tear things down”… You then reply, saying “no”, but also saying “She can be a useful idiot” who can help “try and wreck trump”. SO YOU AGREED AND ADDED NOTHING.
Just upvote the other guy. Yeesh.
To be fair, the dems also want, and use, authoritarian levers these days. Also, historically, they’ve been very ineffectual when it comes to pushing through progressive items – see the USA as the only advanced economy without public healthcare as an easy example, or them being the only country without basic gun laws.
Heck, one of the very few legit points Trump made in the one weaksauce debate he had with Biden, was along the lines of “If tariffs are so bad, why’d you guys leave all the tariffs in place from my first term?”. If there’s an election, and if they win, I doubt the dems will really do all that much.
Idk. To me it’s starting to look increasingly like there are irreconcilable differences between what the majority seem to want, and what a small rich minority wants. There are maga dads shooting their daughters, in maga states, over political shit, and they get let off by their maga jury. You’ve got red state ICE troops deploying to blue state cities explicitly to terrorize the population – those same troops are shooting people in the streets with zero accountability, protected by a group of people who are increasingly looking like ultra rich pedophiles of a very depraved sort. A group of individuals who are basically Americas ruling class, with likely ties between their pedophile island crimes, to Israel and Russia, and the USA’s unquestioning support of the atrocities being committed on the other side of the world.
It’s really difficult to picture what you’d need to do as a politician, to ‘make this right’ for the people in blue states/cities. If the people demand accountability for all the shit that’s gone on, it’ll enrage the right further. If you don’t hold them accountable, well everyone’s seen the result of not holding Trump accountable for the Jan 6 insurrection – it just gets worse and worse. They’re already at a point where they’re shooting dem civilians in the streets with impunity, and with ‘righteous fury’ automatically labelling these people terrorists/enemies of the states. Even using AI to alter photos of protesters to feed the propaganda machine.
Really feels like there’s increasingly a chance for a civil war in the usa.
Yeah, though, they tried half measures before, after the attempted coup. The result was that the republicans came back worse than before. So realistically, I can’t imagine half measures being enough for anyone that isn’t “all in” on the fascism thing. Cause you’ve literally got people doin nazi salutes in the administration’s orbit, and the more you compromise, the more you inch towards their goals – and the dems have done that so consistently over the years that it’s lead them to this point. The frustration with the dems habit of compromising, is likely also why there are more younger sorts challenging older dems: people are pissed off with the lack of action / accountability currently on offer from the democrat elite.
And implementing laws, isn’t likely to be viewed as an effective control / result, considering the current administration just ignores the laws / courts / constitution. If the military is completely under the command of the commander in chief, and its so massively lopsided in funding compared to anything else in America, and the commander in chief decides to turn it on the people, there’s nothing stopping the next iteration of American Fascism really. If you only have two parties, and they’re able to collude/scheme between all levels / branches of government, it invalidates the concept of checks and balances. Those sorts of issues are core to the current failure we’re seeing in American politics, but they’re also core to how American politics has “functioned” for decades. Changing those sorts of institutions, again, feels like it’d require that descent into civil war.
Like let’s say analysts come together and figure out one of the major contributors to the current mess was the electoral college setup – a legacy configuration left over from the times of slavery to redistribute votes for racist reasons etc. And the consensus amongst all those analyst sorts, let’s say, is that the fix is to get rid of it: doing so would help to move towards elections being based on a majority of the popular vote. But it’d also give the dems a huge boost, likely angering most “red” states. It’s the sort of change that likely couldn’t get made without the red states agreeing, and it’s the sort of thing they’d refuse to do, even after having followed a pant-shitting felon and alleged pedophile down a path of self-destruction for the country. These same red states are the ones that have been providing ICE troops for deployment to places like Minnesota, shooting civilians in the streets without a care. They’ll absolve themselves of any wrong doing, and demand concessions for any initiative pushed forward by democrats, concessions that will basically infuriate the terrorized victims in the blue states. idk.
Like imagining myself in the shoes of a Minnesotan, seeing that Texans (iirc?) apparently feel totally fine rolling in and shooting people in your streets as part of a gestapo force – and seeing all the red states cheer this shit while FOX and the administration accuse your dead neighbours of having been terrorists?? I really don’t think a couple extra laws is gonna be enough to make me ok with that. I’d be demanding all those agents be held accountable for their reign of terror at my door. Hell, I’d be in favour of having state-level military/measures, specifically for the purpose of opposing such future federal terror campaigns / over-reach.
I’m starting to get more and more curious as to what could potentially happen if the USA manages to have another election (doubtful at this point), and the dems actually manage to get back in.
The rightwing/trump has now ‘normalised’ sending in gestapo to blue states to terrorize them into obedience. They openly encourage war crimes internationally. They accept bribes with a shrug. They destroy any form of paper agreement the second the whim strikes. They have no reservations about witholding funding for things like disaster relief, based on tertiary political projects / initiatives.
Like realistically, internationally, one of the few ways I can see the USA trying to salvage what’s left of their tattered reputation, would be to do the unthinkable: offer up their people for the international criminal court and allow people like Hegseth to be tried for war crimes. Internally, the steps they’d need to take to prevent a repeat “next time around with the republicans”, would likely need to be equally harsh – like impeaching/removing most of the supreme court, firing all of Trumps “loyalty” appointees and trying them, quickly, for treason. Holding ICE accountable as a terrorist organisation, leveraging terror tactics against American citizens - abolishing it entirely in the process. They’d need to hold all the epstein pedos accountable, and burn many of the rich oligarchs empires to the ground.
Those steps would almost certainly cause the 30-40% of americans who still support the republicans, to take up arms / protest more violently. When they lost an election, they tried an insurrection – imagine what they’d do if you threw their fascist leaders in prison? But taking half-measures / apologising / forgiving the actions of the republicans during this term, would likely not be enough for the majority of non-republicans-- cause, as noted, it’ll just repeat, and continue devolving.
Honestly not too sure where they go from here. It feels like it’s going to be a steady, albeit somewhat drawn out, descent into civil war.
America isn’t a country of laws anymore. The supreme court rubber stamps anything the administration wants to do, and the administration “declines requests from the judiciary”. You’ve got administration officials that don’t know what Habeas Corpus means, suspending Habeas Corpus. You’ve got a military openly/brazenly committing war crimes on the international scene (blowing up unverified “narco boats”/civilians). You’ve got a paramilitary gestapo-like force quite literally shooting citizens in the streets, your own government aiming to terrorize its people – which’s the whole point of the violent Ice operations targeting blue states.
But yeah, sure, Google and the big tech bros who have been supporting Trump’s actions throughout all of this will totally draw the line at disclosing data.
Meh, good luck to Bernie and similar minded Americans.
But as a Canadian, I ain’t going to America again, and I’m doing everything I can to get off of American products.
Like the news in America is currently going on about Trump’s comments about nationalizing elections, and how people are afraid he may try to meddle in their elections. As though he hadn’t tried to lead a violent insurrection when he lost last time around. Most of them seem to want to watch it all burn, and are willing to follow a convicted felon, alleged child rapist, and “prolific” pant shitter to see it happen. They’re willing to shrug off Musk’s Nazi salutes, and the epstein stuff is just a side-show without any real accountability for anyone involved. They’re openly attacking other western democracies and attempting to undermine THEIR OWN ALLIES national security, while making absolutely bullshit claims about their neighbours causing “national security emergencies” by having trade deficits. It’s utterly fucking absurd.
It should be really simple. You don’t attack your allies. But Americans are too stupid to even figure that one out it seems. So idk, I think Bernie may be dreaming of an America that doesn’t exist anymore. But best of luck to em.
Silly question perhaps, but I haven’t tripped across it on the site for Revolt – is there a relatively straight forward server version for self-hosting, or is it just that the source is on github and you can compile it in theory if you feel like goin through that process… ?
Well, both China and the US tech billionaires are feverishly working towards having a personal army of unthinking killing machines that they can deploy unilaterally to a region to massacre a population without any of that annoying “soldiers refusing to kill children”, or “people back home objecting to risking soldier’s lives” shit.
And while what was demonstrated likely didnt include much sensory perception/reaction, it still demonstrated a marked improvement over last years models – similar story when you see their more human-looking things with those weird flesh/muscle wraps that’re like straight outta terminator. I’m also not totally sure about the perception stuff myself, as a few times in the performance it looked to me like the robots responded / adjusted to variances in their partners moves – like a kid who did a flip a bit too low over a sword, and the robot adjusts a bit lower at the last second to avoid a collision.
I don’t think I’ve seen any similar such videos from American companies – like I recall one video from boston dynamics where they had a robot doing a simple obstacle course, and some pre-defined basic acrobatics/dance moves. I haven’t seen anything like what China seems to have available in the (admittedly very high end) consumer market space coming out of western countries lately, though I suppose that could be a marketing bubble/blitz issue.
In the end it prolly doesn’t matter – whether it’s china or the US tech bros, the tech will be massively abused one way or another. Like based on the speed of advancement, you could imagine them having their automaton armies in production by 2030 easy. Then it’s just ‘whoever has more manufacturing power for killer humanoid robots wins’ (paired with ‘who has control of the production stack for those killer robots’, hence the push to grab more land by many major powers). I wouldn’t even be surprised if the ‘elites’ were explicitly aiming for this to occur, to suddenly and drastically reduce the population of the world thinking itll help buy time related to climate damage. Wipe out people in third world countries (see israel, cuba, looks like iran soon), wipe out the poor, thinking itll lower things like gas emissions etc – cutting programs like USAID also fits with this general goal, as it clearly has a negative impact on life expectancy rates “in target countries”, while also freeing up resources for a global superpower to execute things like land grabs while also cracking down on their own citizens aggressively. The tariffs too, trying to re-shore manufacturing and advanced chip fabs, would almost be a pre-requisite, as deploying a killer robots army somewhere would ‘likely’ cause a backlash and supplier cutoffs, if they’re still originating from more democratic states (or ones without killer robot armies of their own). Starlink’s basically a global network allowing control of robot armies dropped anywhere in the world – if countries can’t block it, they can’t easily interrupt robot control functions.
Ok a chunk of that ‘may’ be paranoia, but it’s not implausible in my view. So… yeah, yes I think we should all be a bit worried / concerned. Not that I think there’s much we can do about it.