AutistoMephisto

This. I've been learning about how to think like a dissident, and in this movement, there can be no purity testing. You're either against Trump and his agenda, or you're not. The purity testing can come after the clear and present danger that is Trump and his agenda has been dealt with, and not a second before. Until then, we are all in this together.

I mean, these guys are getting all their ideas from Curtis Yarvin. The oligarchs are going to build large city-states that use shitcoins for money and have omnipresent surveillance apparatus, with full control over resources and utilities. They'll have private security as well as the entire US military on speed dial in the case of an uprising(See: Battle of Blair Mountain). Hundreds if not thousands of petty fiefdoms where a monarch-like CEO is in charge and everyone else is an employee of the company/government. The only job likely to available is running on giant hamster wheels to power a giant shitcoin mining rig.

Fuck rock salt. Load them shells full of Benadryl and send em to the Hat Man.

How did we fail so hard? Where did we go wrong?

This was literally in the instructional videos that Heritage made for new Trump staffers under Project2025. To do as little as possible that complies with the Federal Records Act. This is that video.

Problem with a lot of those companies is how long they can remain privately funded and stay in business. The modern capitalistic markets inherently select for short term thinking. Think about this. Does it make any sense to destroy 90% of your profitability in 5 years to get a 20% boost in profits next quarter? In modern capitalistic markets it does, because that's 20% more profit with which to capture more market share. That's where the competition is.

This. Build an army, 10 million strong! Waves upon waves! Let them try to contend with that!

Exactly. As horrific as the Kent State Massacre was, it changed people's perceptions of the anti-war protestors. Suddenly these weren't just a bunch of whiny kids who didn't want to get drafted, these were people who didn't want to die senseless deaths. Imagine if the Kent State Massacre never happened and the protest carried on without incident. Nothing would have changed.

True. But in America we absolutely have, to the point where Millennial adults end up buying RVs and campers to be able to live in their parent's backyards with some modicum of privacy. Honestly I could see a bunch of these types of people pooling money together to buy campers, RVs, or even trucks with cargo containers converted into the kinds of facilities a society needs to function, camping where the work is and moving on when the work runs out. And it's not even a new idea. Traveling shows and carnivals were a thing way back in the day, and for the religious, traveling preachers are still a thing.

I mean the article calls them the "mobile homeless" because the only place the have left to live is their cars. What is that if not a nomad?

True. Society is too atomized and hyperindividualized for the "mobile homeless" as this article calls them, to come together and form the roving bands that we see in Pondsmith's vision of Cyberpunk.

I was looking for this, I knew it would arrive.