• bombshell [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Just wait until self-driving cars become available. Shortly thereafter they will become mandatory and human drivers will be banned. Then, you'll have to tell the car where you want to go, and the car will have to check with the privately owned central computer (the private company is obviously working hand in glove with the government to get around that pesky Constitution) and see if your destination is approved.

    It'll start off with easy stuff. Convicted pedophile? Your destination will be declined if it's within 1000 feet of a school. Convicted drug dealer? Can't go to known drug houses. Have a record of mental health problems like alcoholism? Can't go to a liquor store or bar. Once this is normalized, they'll expand it. Do you have a record of being in close contact with political dissidents? Your destination will be declined if it would put you in contact with them. Crazy shit will happen like the return of horseback travel for people who can't get a car to start.

    Don't think it won't happen. The war will be on those who oppose the powerful rather than on the right wing exactly, although they do make a large, attractive target. If you took the organizing ability of the left and the muscle and firepower of the right and united them, that would be a pussiant force indeed to make the powerful quake in their boots. But that's crazy talk, nobody wants to be on the same side with the chuds.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      nobody wants to be on the same side with the chuds.

      yeah, i'm generaly not that keen on working with people who want to murder me.

      • bombshell [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        The Soviets allied with Britain for fuck's sake. When there really is a great evil to fight, do what it takes.

        • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          You're not saying "ally with the British Empire", you're saying "ally with the NSDAP, i have a hunch they may be anti capitalist, they said they don't like bankers!" That's what you're advocating for.

        • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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          3 years ago

          There's allying with Britain against the nazis and then there's trying to ally with the nazis against the nazis

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Convicted pedophile? Your destination will be declined if it’s within 1000 feet of a school. Convicted drug dealer? Can’t go to known drug houses. Have a record of mental health problems like alcoholism? Can’t go to a liquor store or bar.

      False. None of these will apply if the person in question is rich and connected. :very-intelligent: