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[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly whatever, factory reset.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If only! We won't be that lucky. They will just revert to feudalism, with absolute AI surveillance and thought control. Orwell was right, he knew. I mean we all knew. We just sat like frogs in the water slowly getting boiled.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, slowly. This has been in the works for decades, and people like myself have been screaming about it and promptly ignored

[–] TerdFerguson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it is really exhausting and not worth the effort.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fuck going quietly into that bad night. We can't do much, but what little we can, we must.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, since at least Reagan.

[–] youngGoku@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Orwell was either clairvoyant and had Divine visions of the future or he was a time traveler. I'm convinced.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He was intimately familiar with the Soviet modus operandi. What he talked about was a reality in Eastern Europe for many decades. My own family way back when told me that every apartment had a speaker installed in the living room which would spout propaganda- you could turn the volume off but you could never turn the radio off.

I've said for a long time that the USA has been going more and more towards a Stalinist society, and I stand by that claim.