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Being Assassinated in Your Home by a Killer Robot Sent by a Fascist State Is No Longer Science Fiction
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The fact that they end it with a "If you aren’t yet registered to vote in 2026, do that today." makes me want to scream.
Among other useless shit like:
Like what. The. Actual. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. This. Country. Guy spends a long article talking about automated killing machines and the state already being violent against its own citizens with no real pushback and his answer is vote and telephone representatives??? It's no wonder the "left" in the US is so hamstrung with jokers like this trying to "rally" people. It's no wonder people get pipelined to the right for solutions when this feckless shit ends up as the public face of the "left".
I get that it could get him in trouble to encourage insurrection or something, but my god, at least be capable of directing people to a Marxist text or something. How is anyone supposed to take threats seriously in an atmosphere where clown publications like this redirect it into nothing more than partisan get out the vote campaigning.
I always think of the amount of times revolutionaries were exiled to Siberia or otherwise imprisoned for revolutionary agitation. These people ain't about any of that. I guess calling my bourgeois senator will do the trick, though. That sure worked wonders the last time they directed everybody to do that!
Yeah, I never really got that logic behind calling bourgeois representatives to follow the will of the proletariat (cannot they just ignore us? They have essentially been doing that for a couple centuries at this point).
Edit: There are definitely some situations in which calling your representatives is not a bad idea, but generally speaking, they have no reason (from a class perspective) to follow the will of the proletariat, so it is not as effective as liberals often portray it as.
Yeah I mean, your mileage may vary, depending on who your reps are and what capitalist country you're in. But if you're at the point where the state is accustomed to wantonly murdering people without consequence and is looking into ways they can automate assassination of opposition, some bougie reps aren't going to put their lives and careers on the line to oppose it. They benefit far too much from it to see that as worth the time and energy, not to mention the risk. As it is, what do we see with, like, democrat leaders in the US and ICE? "Oh, they need to be better regulated" kind of language. It's absurd. In essence, liberals want a well-regulated doomsday machine. They aren't so much afraid of barbaric policy as they are afraid of barbaric policy targeting them too.
Yeah, they want to regulate the Amstapo when they are on their way to becoming the Gestapo, which is obviously an absurdity. Why would we want to keep a fascist rat nest around when we could just not have one? It is because they benefit from the rat nest, but they would rather have it under their control and for their interests.
Ever heard of William Timmons? Yeah, nobody has. He is the "representative" of South Carolina District 04. The guy has the IQ of a turnip. His rich daddy bought him the seat to keep him busy and away from the family business.