A huge chunk of their money comes from selling some of the worst crap to cops. There's a thing called cop City in I think Georgia where Motorola and one of the company paid for 2/3 of the building. It's a massive complex for training police. Motorola gets the money back when the cops buy tech and weapons from them.

This kind of blending of government and Private industry is a huge component of fascism. It's also all kinds of fucked up do you have a private company giving the cops tens of millions of dollars for a training facility.

This kind of crap here in the school is an extension of that. And you can't say no because they are going to give a lot of money to local politicians and you're going to learn the names of those local politicians and most people when it comes to local races vote based on which name they recognize.

Even if you're somehow smart enough to figure this all out on your own and you do them scroll enough that you're aware of it your neighbors aren't.

True but the problem is that it's bleeding over to mainline gaming.

AI he's worse because it's very tempting to slopify because of the huge cost savings. Where before they would at least do the pre-production work by hand now they want to do it with AI slop.

That didn't pull their own weight? Sure you did. It's a pretty universal experience.

You resented it didn't you? Again pretty universal experience.

That feeling of resentment is easily exploitable to prevent any effort to organize. It is really easy to get people angry at somebody who maybe isn't working as hard as they do or in a job is miserable as theirs. Misery loves company and people want other people to be miserable like them.

Mix in a bit of generals stupidity and the inability to process information and a ton of propaganda and it's basically a done deal. People become incapable of organizing.

If you look at the 1900s when socialism was popular we still need it everybody to be firing on all cylinders and working so it was really easy to turn regular working people against the billionaires because it was really obvious that everybody was working except them.

Now we are looking at about 15 to 25% of the population becoming basically useless. They're just isn't going to be any work for them to do it's worth doing and that they are capable of doing.

The idea of letting those people sit at home and play Xbox and drink beer is infuriating on a primal level to anyone that still has to go to work. What's worse is the more useful you are and the smarter you are the more likely you are to be stuck working in that world.

I don't know how to deal with resentment but you can't sit people down and explain to them that they shouldn't feel something. Explanations don't make feelings go away. It's why Ronald Reagan famously said if you're explaining you're losing.

Of the kind used to stop mass shootings overseas, specifically where you seize everything except a handful of hunting rifles and farmer shotguns.

That's because down south you will find plenty of Black folk who need those guns to protect themselves from the white folk. And I'm not going to pretend that's not happening.

A while back there was a story of a bunch of Red hats who drove down to a mosque with their rifles intending to cause trouble. I don't think they were going to shoot the place up just intimidate people but it wouldn't have taken very much for it to turn into shooting...

So when they got to the mosque they found it was a Nation of Islam mosque and when they saw the brothers out front with their rifles they turned around and went home.

What I'm saying is mutually assured destruction works on both sides.

The argument could be made that we could take away the Red hats guns too except I know damn well we selectively enforce laws in this country and again I'm not going to pretend what's happening in the real world isn't happening.

This is not to say we shouldn't have some gun control laws. Irresponsible morons who leave tons of guns easily accessible by mentally unstable teenagers need to stop that shit.

But what I'm getting at is I don't have any illusions about overthrowing the government with civilian firearms, logistics and tactics but there is a place for preventing oppression with firearms.

But more importantly it makes everything into shit.

Specifically AI copies and regurgitates and when companies start using it what's going to happen is everything ends up turning into slop like all those shitty mobile games that all look the same.

Apart from AI devouring all the RAM and drives and electricity and jobs the reality is if you use it to make games your games are going to look like crap because the AI is going to spit out a rough approximation of everything that was used as an input resulting in the lowest common denominator.

It's like how you've got those modern military shooters and you can take five of them and take a screenshot and they're indistinguishable because they're all being made from the same crap template. YouTuber Yahtzee called it spunk gargle wee-wee.

The reason it's called AI slop is because it all blends together into a slop and becomes an indistinguishable and gross mess and there's no getting away from that just because of the nature of AI and the fundamental underpinnings of the technology.

Your guilt will be determined solely by the company. You are guilty until proven innocent, *IF* they feel like looking at your evidence at all. If you ARE proven innocent they will either graciously allow you to use what you already paid for again or they will alter the deal until you are no longer innocent, depending on mood and if the representative's corn flakes got soggy that morning.

Wanna complain about it? The hold time is approximately 45 minutes. The person who answers MIGHT sound sympathetic or not but in any case has no power to do anything but read the script. They might or might not "accidentally" hang up on you.

You can kill as many Musks and Putins as you want there's a million people lined up behind them to take their place.

This ignores the fact that you can't really get to those people anymore because modern security tactics work. But even if one of them slips up and gets sloppy they are easily replaceable.

Now if you know your history when the King dies there's a lot of misery and chaos during the succession but that doesn't help you in the peasantry.

This isn't a problem you can solve with violence or violent revolution. Honestly I don't know what the solution is. I really do think that we're going to give Trump a third term and he's going to put a bunch of religious lunatics in charge and is our economy collapses we're going to start doing colonialism and eventually start world War III.

Than those religious lunatics are going to launch nukes expecting God to protect them and its game over for the human race. If we are really lucky something like raccoons or beavers will evolve to take over from us in a few hundred million years.

Free software hasn't altered the deal. Perhaps it's time for more people to hop off the treadmill and vote by withholding their wallet.

And they are absolutely done with capitalism. They don't like having to compete and they don't like having to be dependent on consumers to pay for their yachts and rockets.

So we are gradually moving towards a feudal system with modern militaries used to enforce everything.

And if you think your AR-15 is going to make any difference then you don't know how tanks work. Let alone drones.

I don't know a solution because the feeling of resentment means that socialism doesn't fly.

Ubi is like trying to patch Windows 11. It doesn't fix a fundamentally broken system. The billionaires will just use their monopolies to suck the money back out and then blame you for spending your Ubi money. And that's assuming you could even get that much socialism past them...

Do large scale illegal layoffs and then hire sycophants.

One of the reasons Trump's coup attempt in 2020 failed was because so many government employees weren't on his side. So he's looking to replace them.

They also had one of the billionaire types by up the company that makes all of our voting machines. Also one company makes all of our voting machines so that's a thing...

The Republicans are currently doing Republican policies and they have a 30% approval rating. They aren't planning on losing 70% of the elections though. Last year about 7 million people were denied the right to vote using common voter suppression tricks. Illegal challenges to signatures and voter registrations with the understanding that you have to drive down on a weekday to fight that at the courthouse. Also multi hour wait times to vote in blue districts. It was also some really crazy shit like several swing state districts where the Democrats sweeped the down ballot races but Kamala didn't get a single vote.

In 2028 we can expect them to pull out all the stops. Trump said it himself you will never need to vote again.

And the company who got the contract gets a kickback every time they deny coverage.

If you're somebody dependent on Medicare, and I mean Medicare and not medicaid, or somebody who is planning on being dependent on it then you need to start making a backup plan. There's a good chance that Trump will win again in 2028. It's also possible Vance will win if Trump's Alzheimer's is too advanced for him to run.

They're not going to just shut down Medicare they're going to use tricks like ai and whatnot to gradually chip away at it until it's completely useless and all the money is just being funneled into their pockets. Remember that one of the senators from Florida is literally a convicted felon whose crime was robbing Medicare.

Basically if you're retired you're going to experience the same healthcare system everybody else does.

And they stopped months ago. We've been in a recession for months. With The current trajectory we'll be in a depression by the end of Trump's term.

And through it all voters will somehow convince themselves that Republicans are better for the economy. Just like how Trump is getting ready to get us into three separate wars (Venezuela Iran and Syria) but somehow the Republicans are American first and less likely to do a draft.

It's about lowering the skill ceiling so that they can pay substantially less. If there are productivity gains that's just a bonus.

The goal here for AI is to eliminate wages. There is more than one way to skin a cat.

Remember good enough is always good enough especially when monopolies exist and we refuse to vote for politicians that will enforce antitrust law because we're busy freaking out about whatever Petty moral panic or culture War bullshit the boob tube tells us to today

And Donald Trump keeps fucking kids but hey what are you going to do right?

What did you think I was actually going to treat a comment is stupid as yours with the slightest bit of respect?

If you are too soul searingly stupid to use Google long enough to find the damage billionaires are doing to your life then frankly I do not know how it is that you've gotten this far without being eaten alive by puppies.

The words you are typing? You literally wrote go on amazon. Read that again. Slowly. Go. On. Amazon.

Just the fact that I need to explain to you that Amazon has a practical Monopoly on online shopping and online marketplaces...

And they didn't get there by accident. They went around buying up potential competitors.

Just because somebody in China can dump their goods on Amazon after giving Amazon a large cut of their profits doesn't mean you have competition and I cannot believe I have to explain this.

Christ it's no wonder we elected a pedophile rapist felon to be president. Twice..