Eichmann and the pyramids are not really valid comparisons.
Both those cases ARE extension of the will of the god-ruler AND the cognitive dissonance accepted by the people.
Be it that their god-king really needs that huge thing for afterlife or that the Jews must be eliminated at all cost.
Not a punishment.

At the same time, Hunger Games tries really hard to make a point of it that the districts are actually needed for the goods they produce.
I.e. That it is some kind of an economic necessity to keep the districts poor and hungry in order to keep the capitol rich and fat.

On top of it all, the premise of the games is... ridiculous.
Primarily as some kind of a deterrent and punishment - when the spectacle around it makes it into entertainment.
Seriously, even if it was a show only for the families of the contestants in order to torture them for some made up reason - THEY WOULD NOT CARE for most of the contestants.

There is no reason for anyone other than their immediate family AND MOST CERTAINLY anyone outside their district to care about anyone other than THEIR "tributes".
And if they would care - it would be only in a way that EVERYONE would still love the winner in the end.

Providing people with celebrities is NOT punishment.

Hunger Games are a shallow, not well thought through copy of Stephen King's lesser works supposedly crossed with the Minotaur myth only mostly not.

Same thing - in reverse.

Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs books.
It is constantly repeated that there is an oligarchy which "exploits" the "masses" in an economic, political or some other sense.

Trouble is... Everyone is practically immortal.
Sure... for SOME REASON it supposedly costs A LOT of money to get a new body... but... they have virtual worlds.
AND you get to improve your education and earn degrees in virtual.
AND they have colonies across the galaxy and extremely well paying jobs for the taking... yet there is squalor.
AND nearly anyone actually CAN afford to get a new body, but not on a daily basis like the rich.
There are wars... which again don't make sense as everyone is quite happy to nuke people but somehow they still fight using infantry.

Only ACTUAL oppression of the "masses" taking place comes from within the people themselves - through religious rules which prevent people from getting a new body after death.
Which, again, is a self-limiting process - but instead of religions dying out in couple of centuries, their proponents are allowed to become more extreme and push their own dogma onto everyone else AND they increase in number.

And then there are other things that crop up which keep making it all rather implausible even with all the magical technology they have at hand, left by the Martian dei ex machinae.
Like how anything ever gets done with all that fucking AND virtual worlds AND holoporn.

...and it's on drugs. And it has a fake Hungarian passport to its name.

...the choice of target.
There are certain people out there willing to kill certain people out there for no money at all.

For bonus points, have the bot convince random people that it is a teenage girl, THEN get them to "off someone" in exchange for sexual favors.
Oldest "girl" with most kills wins.

It's OK. Turing would approve.
I know that from watching that Cabbagepatch movie.

I'm pretty sure that for any spreading of civilization a LOT of fucking will be of vital importance.

Machines don't constitute civilizations and clones are more like really elaborate fan clubs.
Sure, artificial insemination IS possible but that's the same result but without all the fun.
And the civilization that rejects fun is a dull and eventually dead civilization.

So... Fucking.
A LOT of it.

I like the bit where running a space transport company with long term cargo, people and fuel transporting plans and goals, including but not limited to resupplying the ISS is equated with "shoot[ing] endangered animals on [a] safari".

Why not just call Musk an apartheid-lovin fascist nazi-commie from South-WeHateBlackPeople-Africa?

It's not SUCH drivel. It's drivel of another kind.

He "figured out" that if you can afford to live anywhere in the world - you kinda stop caring about things like borders and flags.
I.e. He figured out that it is good to be rich. Whether through personal wealth or by being born in a wealthy society which can afford to be technologically advanced.

Trouble with his "realization" lies around the fact that people have a tendency and even need towards living in and being a part of a group of some kind.
So even should most people reject nationalities as defining criteria, they will still flock to something which will provide them with positive identity image cheaply and readily.

And while being an Apple, Ford or Pepsi man MIGHT be relatively cheap and is an identity that gets advertised readily - none of those can hold a candle to a little flag waving at a sports event or at some other government sponsored achievement. Like landing a man or a piece of machinery on the Moon.
Not to mention all those instances of flag waving during other positive events through the history.

It's not the money or the technology or the lack of that creates the borders.
People will flock to a rag on a pole and march to a ditty because it is a lot EASIER than acquiring a personal identity of their own.
Going with the flow is easy and relaxing.

People start reading that tweet and their associations light up before they are through (cold, snow, shopping - Jesus) and they expect to read it's about Jesus but then suddenly - SNAP!
It ain't.
Then they realize at about the same time that what they are reading IS true and that their prejudice caused them to be wrong about such a trivial thing.

That's when the E (as in ego) comes in, and the following train of emotionally loaded thoughts rushes through their minds:
       

They are not actually thinking all that.
It's purely an unconscious thing, with only the final result floating up to their conscious mind.
Their minds are offering them a way out of feeling embarrassed about their own fault, by being angry about someone else's perceived fault.
It's a defense mechanism.

It's the same thing as being angry at spilled milk (or the container it came in) instead of crying over being clumsy.
It hurts less when your problem is someone else's fault.

I find your joke unpalletable.

His statements in TFA are a collection of fallacies and nonsense.
Navel gazing until you start seeing the world through your own ass is not art. Ask any proctologist.

And the author of the article seems to be in the same category of faux-thinkers.

Last time someone made fun of North Korea and its leaders exactly nothing happened.
Same with demonizing them as "invadorz" instead of Chinese.
Or that time James Bond fought a North Korean villain who made himself into a rich and powerful white man.

In fact... Last time anyone actually went out and committed a terrorist attack killing a bunch of people in a a theater - it was a crazy, white, male, American. With store and online bought guns.
And the movie was kept in theaters despite the bodycount.
Why?

Cause it was a final sequel of a very successful franchise whose last movie made over a billion dollars.

In other words...
Corporations have brass balls when gold is on the line.

And again... If they can't really cover a mere 18000 targets...
What good are they? Along with all the other "terrorist fighting" measures?
Trillions of dollars and unquantifiable liberties went up in smoke - and 18000 theaters turns out to be "too much"?

Maybe they should think outside the box on this one? Or more like inside a different kind of a box.
Maybe what's needed is a better kind of a theater? A safe and secure kind, where nothing bad can happen.
We can call it Security Theater.

They modeled the thing for ALL of the open sea being turned into bubbles.
It's not happening.

Geo-engineering is not the magic bullet.
Nor do we have it, the gun to fire it from, the target to shoot it at and on top of it all we don't know how to shoot the said gun nor on which side of the gun do bullets go in and on which side of it do they come out.

http://iagp.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Nothing to see here. Move along.
Dropping a giant ice cube into the ocean is still more feasible.

You know... Police, Army, Navy, Air Force, NSA, CIA, FBI, NRA, bronies...
If they can't secure a fuckin mall for an afternoon... What are you paying them for?

Also, WHAT "rational cautions and plausible evidence"?
All the public got so far was some overdue candid insight into scheming of a mega-corporation and what it REALLY thinks about people it uses, hires and its customers.

If that's terrorism, seems to me there's a great demand for more of it.