A bullet to the head of billionaires will also ensure that they will be on their best behavior.
People will post this on Reddit and unironically mention China
At least in China the rules are accessible and determined by municipal governments.
I bet if you asked this fucking guy he would say something along those lines
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Huh? Credit score conspiracy theory in my Hexbear? Right in front of my salad?
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Exactly. The problem isn’t one of theory, but of execution. This is the fundamental problem of books like 1984, with the creation the meme of “Freedom is Slavery”, or people who misquote Benjamin Franklin.
We in the U S. already give up essential freedoms as part of the state apparatus, if the state cannot provide us with reliable security in exchange for those freedoms, then we do not owe anything to that state. The saddest part is that, in the past, these were essentials of the most basic theories of liberal government. It is unsurprising though, given the conservative state liberalism has retreated to. Now, there is only one protected class whose freedom or security matters, and the rest of us can essentially go fuck ourselves, with neither freedom nor security. Basically feudalism without God.
how so?
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hmm…i guess i’d have to take your word for it because i don’t know how things operate in China, but i do agree that the system here will never be to the benefit of society as a whole
Lemmy users say a vast citizen-powered guillotine system can ensure ‘billionaires will be on their best behavior’
Federated posters have really caught on in the past few weeks, I’ve noticed; nice post
Do we have any FOSS designs for a guillotine?
Another banger from a federated account! (See my post below)
Sadly there currently only appears to be purchasable closed source blueprints, or fairly vague historical instructions.
That would be a valuable contribution in 2025. Would probably also get headlines and I’m sure many would be built as a result. Which is exactly what we need right now.
Hmmmmmm it could be possible to set up a vast surveillance network targeting billionaires too right?
So much for “land of the free”.
This will probably be embraced by the same people who disobeyed covid lockdowns because “muh freedumz!”
Minority Report: “This bad actually and leads to problems.”
Larry watching Minority Report: “What the fuck this is awesome”
I sincerely want this guy to be at the bottom of the ocean
The guy who helped a government develop a database system is in favour of the government developing data gathering systems? Well, I never…
A shit-ass database system that treats empty strings as null values, and doesn’t do automatic casting between ISO date-formatted strings and date/datetime types, yet costs a fuckton to license. Even if he weren’t a multibillionaire piece of shit, that fucking prick still deserves the guillotine just for OracleDB’s unholy existence; that software wasn’t released: it escaped.
:Ahem: 📣LEARN TO HACK. LEARN TO QUADCOPTER/DRONE.📣
The Deserter: The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone — everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed. And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death… the sweetest, most courageous people in the world… (he’s silent for a second) You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you know.
You: What?
The Deserter: That you should not make the mistake of mistake of anthropomorphizing the bourgeoisie
Surveillance that billionaires themselves will not be subject to, I’m sure.
naturally… this is just for the mere ‘citizens’ not the overlords
Oh wow! Wouldn’t you know all the systems stopped working specifically in the general area at coincidentally the exact same time this rich boi was doing something naughty. Geee I guess itxs all hearsay and inadmissible now. Shucks. That’s too bad. Case closed.
I was watching 90 day fiance the other way and one of the persons wife is in China. When they were driving around he would see a “flashing light” and freak out. It got to the point where they had a fight over it, she was like “I donno maybe the apartment camera or something” and he’d make her drive around to catch it again. On stormfront, people were saying it’s probably China watching them and other propaganda bs.
Now I know in the US, there’s hella cameras in public places plus we’re encouraged to surveil on our own with ring cameras and the like. So what’s so scary about a camera flash? It’s scary when it’s tied to the evil seeseepee but we’ll gladly sign our own privacy away for any private company that contracts with the state anyway
Amazing, willingly participating in a reality show where you are constantly being filmed, and freaking out about some random light because ebil communism!
In capitalist America their oligarchs use AI cameras to micromanage all their citizens and punish them publicly in real time.Cyberpunk styles are going to involve makeup that puts extra eyes and facial features to confuse AI face trackers or even just going outside with billionaire face masks on
https://adam.harvey.studio/cvdazzle/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision_dazzle
It has been a thing for about 15 years now.
I heard Juggalo face paint can accomplish that.
Let’s put it in Larry’s house first for beta testing
