Playing risk with the strategy of an eight year old, just keep pushing until you run out of moves and leave yourself no defense. Venezuela, Iran, Mexico, Greenland, wherever. Just spread it as thin as you can, it makes the map look big!

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Makes sense to leave a burning wreck if you're ripping the copper out of the walls anyway.

[–] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ripping copper out of the walls to give to the tech companies so they can build AI data centers to keep the economy from collapsing by propping up the AI bubble... And what happens when the bubble collapses?

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Tbh, I'm not expecting the bubble to really "collapse" it's just gonna pivot deeper into panopticon

Imo, the real political battle being fought out in the US is between the neoliberals who believe in capitalism with a human face, aka dominance through psychopolitics, and the outright Fascists who would prefer we go back to chattel slavery. And it's the latter who are winning. They both want the panopticon, it's just gonna be a matter of how visible the chains are gonna be.

[–] commieradcat@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately they started the game with a few cannon cards up their sleeve.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

theyre likely doing this all to make china not want to invest. just destabilize everything a bit with intermittent strikes. now china only wants to invest in the stable core

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago

xi-plz give mexico a nuke

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago

So I guess we all were just living through the prologue of the War on Drugs?