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[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

America has been effectively treated like a third world country with better technology for at least a decade now. Our resources have been siphoned off by our oligarchs while we just wait for the inevitable

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 35 points 1 day ago

Wait u til you find out that AI was just an excuse to move computing into the cloud so they can control what we can and can’t do and say on it

[–] Neverbeaten@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The irony of posting that on threads...

[–] hancock@retrolemmy.com 1 points 18 hours ago

Unfortunately most of the people, almost all who need to hear it are probably there.

[–] jdr@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

Columbus should never have partnered with Palantir

[–] winkly@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Their faces when money loses all value

[–] eurodyne@piefed.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Well— it’s more like: they did that 250 years ago, and they’ve been trying to ‘manage’ the grumbling serfdom since by attempting to mitigate various popular uprisings with varying degrees of success.

They (us, the United States) decided to speedrun Rome in 1/10th the time, and now find themselves shocked that they’re at the end of it, like those final Roman emperors, feeling very much entitled to more and not understanding: How dare those Visigoths come storming over the Seventh Hill as our citizens and slaves revolt yet again…?

“BY ALL THAT IS DIVINE: FEED MY UNQUENCHABLE THIRST FOR WEALTH AND POWER FOREVER, FOR IT IS MY RIGHT!!!”

— the famous last words of Emperor Honorius of Rome, I’m sure, had the Visigoths given enough of a shit to make record of it before they slit his throat

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's some argument that most empires last 250 year. It's how long it takes for sentiments to shift over the generations from "all in this together" to "f u I got mine" and the thing to fall apart.

[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

That long, huh? I think we can do it way faster in the next one.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And instead of replacing native labor with African slaves, we'll replaced by AI powered robotics.

[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Don't forget their plans to make homelessness illegal, and then once you're in jail you become a slave

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Type this yourself instead of reposting a facebook post

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

*includes south america