Why are US fascists fixated on Greenland?
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@Lazarou @futurebird @alexwild They’ll take some sycophants with them. It’ll be like Total Recall, though. Eventually the minions will revolt.
@CStamp @futurebird @alexwild I like those sorts of narratives, I want to see more of them! REBELLION!
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Reminds me of an article I read ages ago (5-6 years maybe?). It was by some guy who did climate catastrophe-related stuff (I think).
They were given a generous amount of money to give some advice to a group of wealthy individuals.
They wrote that the questions started rather generic, but quickly boiled down to some rather disturbing details. Like "how can I ensure that my guards don't revolt". Or "is automating everything the better choice". Or "is something like a shock collar feasible".
Remote controlled service robots are awesome because you can simply turn them off when you want to be alone.
You can pretend that it is just a machine while there is a human intelligence on the other end.Like slavery but a robot doesn't need food or a bed, just a charger.
And we are modern 21st century people, of course. We don't do slave-in-the-house slavery. That likely sits weird even with far-right people.
Only cheap clothes from poor countries slavery. Person brings me food to the door slavery. Maybe soon remote contolled sexbot slavery. Worst case: Human in a robot costume behaving like a robot and only getting paid if you don't notice.
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Remote controlled service robots are awesome because you can simply turn them off when you want to be alone.
You can pretend that it is just a machine while there is a human intelligence on the other end.Like slavery but a robot doesn't need food or a bed, just a charger.
And we are modern 21st century people, of course. We don't do slave-in-the-house slavery. That likely sits weird even with far-right people.
Only cheap clothes from poor countries slavery. Person brings me food to the door slavery. Maybe soon remote contolled sexbot slavery. Worst case: Human in a robot costume behaving like a robot and only getting paid if you don't notice.
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@futurebird @alexwild it's why I laugh when people say these parasites will flee into Space, they would be useless in Space, even worse than passengers....like some belligerent livestock perhaps?
@Lazarou @futurebird @alexwild The crew might toss them out of an airlock just to get a little peace and quiet. Imagine months spent stuck in a small room with a billionaire with a Hitler fetish.
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@Lazarou @futurebird @alexwild The crew might toss them out of an airlock just to get a little peace and quiet. Imagine months spent stuck in a small room with a billionaire with a Hitler fetish.
@steter @futurebird @alexwild Elon Musk has never set foot in Space and never will because of things like this. He's a coward and he's never going to Mars, a Fraudster too!
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@steter @futurebird @alexwild Elon Musk has never set foot in Space and never will because of things like this. He's a coward and he's never going to Mars, a Fraudster too!
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Totally unrealistic, because that would mean that you have a millionaire and 3-4 staff.
Makes people think "how likely is it that I am millionaire and not staff"?
With robots, you can make it "obvious" that nobody in this room will be staff. Because nobody here is a robot.
(Same way nobody in the room was a woman. Or a foreigner. Or a slave...)
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@futurebird @alexwild it's why I laugh when people say these parasites will flee into Space, they would be useless in Space, even worse than passengers....like some belligerent livestock perhaps?
@Lazarou @futurebird @alexwild Watched a BBC drama a month or two ago called “To The Ends Of The Earth”, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. It’s about a ship sailing to Australia with a few “privileged” passengers aboard. I envision our tech parasites on a trip to Mars (or wherever) being like those passengers.
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Reminds me of an article I read ages ago (5-6 years maybe?). It was by some guy who did climate catastrophe-related stuff (I think).
They were given a generous amount of money to give some advice to a group of wealthy individuals.
They wrote that the questions started rather generic, but quickly boiled down to some rather disturbing details. Like "how can I ensure that my guards don't revolt". Or "is automating everything the better choice". Or "is something like a shock collar feasible".
@wakame @futurebird @alexwild Douglas Rushkoff tells a story like this in "Survival of the Richest," which i haven't read, but have read reviews of:
Why Billionaires Are Obsessed With the Apocalypse
The Nation Magazine
The Nation (www.thenation.com)
That review is from 2024, but like you, I thought I'd heard the basic anecdote longer ago.
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@alexwild because melting ice is opening it up as a trade route so they can Nike the Middle East
@ChuffMeister @alexwild off topic but "Nike" is an amazing corn/unalive/etc. of "nuke" -
It's also why you find so many rich people in places like NYC, Tokyo, London etc.
They want the good services! The best ones.
How is that going to work in a bunker? Are you going to have five chefs in there? What do you do when they decide to kill you and keep your bunker?
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@futurebird @alexwild The corollary being: no, they are *not* going to leave and their their money with them if you raise their taxes by a few percent.
The claim they're going to leave must be read as *threats*, and empty ones at that.
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Reminds me of an article I read ages ago (5-6 years maybe?). It was by some guy who did climate catastrophe-related stuff (I think).
They were given a generous amount of money to give some advice to a group of wealthy individuals.
They wrote that the questions started rather generic, but quickly boiled down to some rather disturbing details. Like "how can I ensure that my guards don't revolt". Or "is automating everything the better choice". Or "is something like a shock collar feasible".
@wakame @futurebird @alexwild It’s probably this
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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@Lazarou @futurebird @alexwild Watched a BBC drama a month or two ago called “To The Ends Of The Earth”, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. It’s about a ship sailing to Australia with a few “privileged” passengers aboard. I envision our tech parasites on a trip to Mars (or wherever) being like those passengers.
@thegaffer @futurebird @alexwild ooo, Jared Harris!
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@futurebird @alexwild The corollary being: no, they are *not* going to leave and their their money with them if you raise their taxes by a few percent.
The claim they're going to leave must be read as *threats*, and empty ones at that.
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@wakame @futurebird @alexwild It’s probably this
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
@drahardja @futurebird @alexwild
Wow. Yes. Thanks.
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@drahardja Exactly. The greatest lesson of that post is: Let them go. Fuck 'em. They're not *valuable*. The idea that we need them at all is part of their bullshit.
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@drahardja Exactly. The greatest lesson of that post is: Let them go. Fuck 'em. They're not *valuable*. The idea that we need them at all is part of their bullshit.
@OrionKidder Exactly
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@OrionKidder Exactly
@drahardja Also: pass laws against capital flight. No, Mr. Billionaire, *you* did not make that money all by yourself. You *might* have done a job that was somewhat influential on it, but the workers did it and the infrastructure enabled it.
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@ai6yr @Lazarou @futurebird @alexwild Can we please send them into space nowwwww?!!!
@ColesStreetPothole @ai6yr @Lazarou@mastodon.social @futurebird @alexwild
I was so sad when their idea of floating city states didn't pan out.
