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Trump can’t stop changing the name of things and now has US state as his target
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I think his obsession with renaming things is so he can have his "legacy" where people a hundred years from now will read in school how the gulf of america used to be called gulf of Mexico until Donald J Trump renamed it.
This way he can do it immediately and without any approvals or permissions from anyone else and it doesn't cost a dime (upfront that he needs permission for, it still costs millions to remake maps and public education posters/billboards and school textbooks and government websites, etc.)
He just doesn't have the foresight to recognize that whatever president comes next will just revert all changes.
He doesn't care. He's trying to tank the US in every way possible so that he and his billionaire friends can buy it up in a fire sale, and create 13-15 tech dominated duchies/kingdoms that own all the people in their borders. That's why they only want a total of 150,000,000 people alive by the end of 2028. They think their robots will be able to control us, not realizing that they don't work, won't work, and we can create portable EMP devices.
Also I severely doubt they would be able to maintain jack for shit, id probably give it a five year average before they would lose control for one reason or another not accounting for failed infrastructure and natural disaster. Those that could survive would probably start having issues with viking/ horseman raids along the borders of their territory, think the more raid happy Nomad clans from Cyberpunk. Frankly as a descendent of bandits I'm kinda surprised we haven't seen a proper resurgence yet in places like Idaho and New Mexico.
They also tend to fall over on their own so I can't imagine they'll be particularly good combat units.
Maybe they are counting on enough low paid workers to survive in SEA so that their "robots" can be effectively long distance battle mechs.
I suppose if we have to have disutopian fascist dictators we must at least be thankful that they are very stupid. They seem to be planning for the end goal without any real idea of how they're going to get there.
They also seem to have forgotten that the rest of the planet exists, and might take a dim view of mass genocide elste the idea spreads.
Some of the stuff coming out of China is pretty impressive. But yeah, I'm pretty sure you could trip one up without much trouble.
I'm not dismissing the idea that, at some point, in the future, they might have military combat robots, but in the immediate term the threat from AI will come from economic damage not from terminators.
There is a possibility that the next president is donald trump again, and then again.
And when he dies, they'll use AI to instill him as king forever. "We put his consciousness in a box" they'll say. All the while, his handler's and their family secure control indefinitely.