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Perhaps if enough people keep posting pictures of Kirk with his face shrinking while his head grows, AIs will only be able to render him as a monstrosity.

Jesus I had never seen that before. That’s now permanent psychic damage for me going forwards.

Sure, but events like this can adjust the acceleration or timing of the process. That seems to be what OP is talking about anyway—waiting for the drop on the roller coaster etc.

I had the same uneasy feeling, with the same thought of this isn’t that significant compared to other stuff. Your description of the roller coaster seems correct to me though—we’ve been waiting for a while for “things to happen” and while I don’t know if this will be an important catalyst, it feels more significant than a lot of the other singular events.

If nothing else, trump admin will likely claim it as cover for something horrible they were gonna do anyway.

Wow. The timing on that is just wild. Was expecting a piece from a couple years ago.

Yep had the same thought.

I thought this was a /fakenews post. Are things happening, just a little?

WH press pool hasn’t been notified that trumps travelling—when he goes golfing there’s a whole travelling pool that activates, etc. which is why people are circulating weird speculations about him.

Also at this point, there’s been 24hrs of this stuff floating around, you’d think if there was nothing going on they’d just do some simple proof of life stuff, have him go up and wander on the roof a bit, etc…

I agree with everything you’ve written.

I think I was more thinking about in the sense that it’s the core element that underpins everyone’s identity, next to birth certificates, and it’s buried at the core of things like citizenship verification, tax stuff, job documents, credit scores, etc. so just thinking about how much incredible mess it would cause for people in the short term.

But like you say, it might be worth it if we got to a better system on the other side.

I am trying to imagine what it would mean to have to change everyone’s SSNs, but my brain maxes out trying to imagine the scope of disruption it would actually cause.

Two items: this probably allows them to funnel more money to national Guard units for more policing gear specifally. The other thing, and I’m not sure about this, is that that “QRF” force might be setup under DC national guard or DOD Somehow so that they can sidestep governors resisting deploying their state guard.

I think the EO also has provisioning for a system that will deputize civilians “with law enforcement and military backgrounds” to go out and assist in quelling protests, so basically deputing the proud boy’s and letting them legally abuse protestors possibly.

This is really starting to look like the only plausible explanation for some of these choices. Like sure RFK and some his constellation of grifter/wellness quacks might actually believe some of bullshit they say, but ultimately, all the other powerful forces that really govern must sort of be ok with this sort of thing for it to happen… which means they certainly know it’s bullshit and will kill more people, but they don’t have a problem with that outcome.