One small step for Congress, one giant leap for fascism.

Get used to it. Large groups of users will probably start transitioning from MS given the current state of digital security vulnerabilities and geopolitical vulnerabilities MS is.

Yeah, what I’ve been saying since the early days of data collection. This is the most extreme version, so far. With neurolink, that’s going to be even more detailed version of knowing our minds. With that one, they don’t need to know each of us as individuals to learn what is common to all of us just from studying the brain data they get from a small group of people.

We are things to them. Not people. Just things. Just a resource. Like trees or fish or cobalt. Treated no different. This stuff grants more control and deeper value extraction than they already have. These ppl are psychopaths and it’s infuriating watching people empower them further without zero concerns.

Democracy is not equipped to handle modern day technology and we’ve done nothing to equip it.

Talk to a robot to beg for a job so you don’t die of hunger on the street. What a wonderful world they’ve built for humanity…

Ideally it would be a personal assistant. In reality, it’s a corporate snitch, reporting everything back to the company who will know everything about how to manipulate you into giving up all the power and value of your life.

And we may need neither in the coming years.

Agreed, I like it.

They don’t need consent, none do us can afford to sue them.

Because it’s only good to say things once…

Pardon’s must be nullified. You cannot pardon betraying the constitution or you invite future attempts.

Why did it get this far? Because adequate opposition to the fascist takeover does not exist yet, if it ever forms. Fascism will keep moving through undesired and opposition groups until someone forms effective opposition. It isn’t a lack of will or concern, it’s a lack of power.

Progressives have no power in government right now, the courts are complicit with the takeover, the executive, legislative and judicial are all complicit, numerous billionaires are in on it, even foreign geopolitical heavyweights like Vladimir Putin has his hands in how the US government runs and what it does.

What’s happening now may require people to upend their lives and discard their life plans to stop it. They are not ready to do that, or they would have. They may not be capable of doing what is necessary, they may never be. American is in a horrific state across the board.

He doesn’t care about politics, he’s just doing whatever he wants and people are actioning on it. It’s as simple as it can be.

But at a pace, over time, in steps. Failing to stop the first step doesn’t mean failing to stop all of them. This is a battle, not a polite discourse. They are rounding up immigrants and putting them in camps, revoking their rights. The first step wasn’t even trans and all rights are not gone because of it.

I disagree with that stance. Some rights are more safe than others and some are more costly to maintain. The only thing one can say is a ruler who doesn’t respect some rights, may not respect others. Tons of rights have been abandoned, those of the poor vs the rich for instance, and it didn’t erase all rights.

Makes me sick. We no longer have any right to privacy and they have no respect for ours. The entire digital landscape is becoming a liability.

Every national guard member and solider has a choice to obey these illegal orders.

Because the wealthy have become more powerful than the levers. Someone 99% tax is looking real good.

Well said.

Yes, there is no good option. Everything is a risk. But everything is also at risk. We can’t trust people will help after? Can one endure a disproportionate amount of sacrifice to fight for the entire progressive movement? This entire situation is not about any specific issue, its about the entire framework of law and governance. All rights. All of it.

If someone can’t see anything beyond their own grievances, were they ever a progressive? Or were progressives the only option for trans? Are trans rights somehow more important than brown rights? Or immigrant rights? Women’s? Everybody’s rights?

This is not business as usual. This is potentially the end of democracy in America and if someone won’t help because they’re not getting enough attention, they an asshole. That is a level of selfishness that is cruelty, to anyone that was once called an ally. The safest spaces in American for trans are still the progressive side. So not supporting the best available option is wise?

There are no good options, so refuse to pick the best one? Insane to me. Massive strategic error. It ends wherever the left is capable of ending it and right now, nobody knows where that is but it isn’t where it is now. You don’t think the left is trying just because they haven’t succeeded? Maybe more participation is what halts the Nazis marching as soon a possible. But disengage instead…that will help you…