Liberty is when the government fears the people.

I think that’s Leninism

Liberty protects but does not bind

Tyranny binds but does not protect

So is Venezuela’s. Hasn’t slowed them down.

You don’t think they are already using the surveillance state/surveillance capitalism in this process?

A lot of people are being picked up at their immigration hearings, at traffic stops, and at their jobs. This is all information already in the public record. You don’t need surveillance to be marked as a legal immigrant.

Two men holding hands? A line of people marching in a pride parade? Anyone with Grindr installed on their phones?

Take your pick.

Feared? Maybe Yaroslav Hunka was startled a bit by the sound of applause. But Canada’s got something of a mixed reputation on fascism, historically speaking.

In fairness, you guys do have a lot of oil

It’s literally just guys in vans cruising around town snatching people. You don’t need anything particularly high tech for that

I mean, the materials still have to come from somewhere. They could be less ruinous, but when you’re talking about something with the footprint of Manhattan Island, that’s going to leave an ecological mark no matter how you slice it.

When plutocrats don’t get what they want, they have a simple and effective way of torturing the public into compliance.

The next recession will be used to force people onto Crypto and into AI the same way prior recessions were used to force people into mortgages and credit cards and health insurance and automobiles and Internet connections. If you don’t get on board, you’re cut out of the economy.

This isn’t the end. It’s just the beginning.

In another 20 years we’ll be talking about “reforming AI” and “guaranting equal access to Bitcoin” like it’s some kind of privilege.

People aren’t being “disappeared” for nebulous and secret reasons. They’re being disappeared because they’re brown, they speak a non-English language, or they have some minor criminal citation in the public record.

We’re making up hypotheticals to be afraid of surveillance when the modern state is already snatching people up for very superficial and arbitrary reasons

This is in India, but coming soon to a country near you

It came here first

What starts in Gaza demolishes the world

We absolutely care. I know we care because my car insurance rates are going up again

All Hail The Hand!

We appease The Hand with our thoughts and prayers, that we might live within it’s palm and be lifted up to the heavens!

Live Handedly And Thou Salt Receive The Eternal Thumbs Up!

I’ve been a bad, bad little boy. I haven’t achieved any of the goals on my five-year plan. My gym membership has lapsed and I don’t think I’ve done any laundry in over three weeks.

What are you going to do about it? French maid’s outfit? Very kinky. And… degreaser? A sponge? Okay, what are we planning here? These are not the sexiest rubber gloves. Why are you pointing me towards the oven like that?

Drink more water

I swear to fucking god, I can be in the middle of chugging a gallon jug and people will say this.

“I hit the bones with my sword”

“They fall over, defeated”

“This was a fairly trivial encounter”

“The wizard casts a spell. Save verses Newt.”

Get con train going 250 km/h

Killed instantly

I think the more pressing issue is the “we’ve got film footage of an object that defies basic physical laws in a variety of unexplainable ways” and the conclusion is “this must be an alien aircraft with borderline supernatural powers” rather than “this film footage is distorted or entirely fake”.

Stupid primitive monkey people have been making shadows on the cave wall for even longer than we’ve been making drones and VR devices. But apparently we should absorb the footage incredulously while attributing increasingly far-fetched technologies to a blurry dot presented by an organization full of serial liars.