• atlas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    “citizens on their best behavior” “big brother is always watching”

    Don’t sound very different to me

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    “People behave themselves in a panopticon”-rich people

    Firstly no, people don’t. Second, they go crazy in one. And third, this basically breaks down the threads of both community and individualism to create a miserable nightmare

  • pigup@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I say a single bullet at the right place and time can ensure ‘this stupid motherfucker never has anything else to say ever’ | Business Insider India

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    14 hours ago

    billionaires and their super important opinions eh? having money is a personality trait apparently

  • pyre@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    billionaires who talk like this should immediately be committed. he’s clearly far gone, just fucking take him away.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    “We’re going to have supervision,” Ellison said. “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”

    And if we entertained the idea that this was true and the core focus of this idea (it’s not) what do we think the chances are that the “appropriate person” will be one of two things:

    1. Another cop

    2. A subscription service digital surveillance company with that cop as a client that they report back to for “internal investigation”, as long as the bill is paid.

    • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml
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      1 day ago

      Even if his vision for the future worked perfectly (which it won’t) and wasn’t abused (which it will be, rampantly and immediately), it’s still a complete dystopian nightmare lol

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Emboldened oligarch in a plutocracy.

    But also kleptocracy and really a kakistocracy disguised outwardly as an aristocracy or neo-monarchy as Raskin said.

    Outside of just saying “America” or “Capitalism” How do we combine all of this into one satisfying, effective term?

  • sweetpotato@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Only the fact that he is able to say shit like that out loud is a sign of a rotting society. People are ok with being their slaves