AOC/Luigi 2028?

“I did what Trump does not have the balls for. I shot an executive on the street.”

Two places:

1: We are supposed to be nice people. 2: The wealthy are evil, and want people to be too gentle to resist.

The rich amplify the ‘kind’ part of protests (MLK), while trying to stifle the ‘harsh’ (Malcom X, Panthers), to ensure that resistance is toothless. IMO, the answer isn’t to ditch ‘kindness’, but rather to understand protest movements as two pieces that work together…

Hammer, and Anvil. One is a promise of unyielding violence if things don’t change, while the other is a solid foundation that offers an alternative. Protestors shouldn’t seek peace at all costs, that isn’t how an effective negotiation works. Power only respects power.

Seems like an opportunity for Musk to create plausible deniability for taking the throne.

Yup.

Xitler Youth, and the inevitable Xitlergruupen when they are militarized. I would call the fascist nation, “Dogey America”. Like ‘Vichy’, but made suitably stupid enough to accurately represent the Trump Regime.

I think “seize the means of production” is an supplement to Luigi. If protesters take over the Xitter servers, for example, they can change the algorithm. Ditto for Faux News. This would catch a great deal of attention. Same with federal workers seizing the US Treasury, DOGE offices, and so on. Make our own t-shirts, manage the diners, run the farms, hospitals minus unreasonable costs, and so forth.

The big problem is getting enough people for it, and coordinating their supply chains to replace corporate-controlled shackles on cooperative commerce. The way Dogey America is going, however, has freed up many civil servants who are familiar with what it means to keep things running smoothly.

There is a chance that we will be able to have a reset of America, depending on how capitalists and cooperatives play their respective hands.

I would like them to be imprisoned on a island. It would be a Battle Royal that I can get behind.

I really don’t understand the billionaires. From a purely pragmatic standpoint, having an intact government is useful. People not going hungry or stressing the medical system, gives a regime credibility. Without that shield of satisfaction, the rulers of a government are doomed to die at the hands of their subjects.

What is there to gain from all of this?

Looking up the Vilvaladirt, I am guessing it is a group of Let’s Players who do a Mystery Science Theater 3,000 take on their gameplay? If so, that would be neat.

It is good to hear what a full DeepSeek can do. I am really looking forward to having a better, localized version in 2030. Thank you for relating your experience, it is helpful. :)

Can the full-size DeepSeek handle dice and numbers? I have been using the distilled 70b of DeepSeek, and it definitely doesn’t understand how dice work, nor the ranges I set out in my ruleset. For example, a 1d100 being used to determine character class, with the classes falling into certain parts of the distribution. I did it this way, since some classes are intended to be rarer than others.

May a cleated boot find it. Repeatedly.

Back before the clock was invented, agricultural workers had about 160 days of the year to themselves. (Admittedly, to do intensive chores.) Also, employers gave free breakfast and lunch, with a bit of beer. Workers might also do as low as 4 hours of work IIRC, depending on the day and season. Below is a video on the subject. Civilis also covers topics, such as the fall of the Roman republic…which feels awfully relevant, nowadays.

Historia Civilis - Work.

Aside from political leanings of services like Protonmail and Kagi, I look at one key thing: where they are headquartered. Kagi is in California, while Protonmail is in Switzerland. IMO, this means that if a civil war breaks out, they are less likely to poison or remove their service.

It is all about whether the workers and leadership are within reach of the law, be it official or the jungle.

You can also use Kagi’s video search AI to vet the political alignment of a video before watching. I don’t want to waste my time on facist-leaning content, be it political or economic.

I am hoping that Google bites the dust from this. Having stuff like Peertube becoming common, would go a long way towards mitigating media moguls from controlling narratives. As we have seen, the media organs of the right are staying silent or downlplaying what has been happening.

Also, it would be nice if the folk didn’t have to deal with baseless copyright takedowns. A lot of culture has been lost to feckless corpotacracy.

Most of the key people behind the Civil War and 1st Business Plot also were excused from justice, for the sake of soothing political tension. IMO, executing them would have been better for curtailing the corrosion of our society.

I used Thunderbird to simultaneously access and download my gmail and protonmail, gradually migrating my ecosystem to the latter. The way I figure, Protonmail would be good, on account of being based in Switzerland. That means assorted EU protections - and now with Vichy America likely to become a thing, having the servers in a safe spot seems really helpful.

The odds of us having military action in our neighborhoods has shot up by a disturbing degree.

I think a fair chunk of the military would ally with the Blue States. After all, Trump disbanded the cultural clubs of minorities, and is likely to steal their benefits or attempt genocide on them. The Blue Coalition would recruit the qualified people that Trump has exiled from Vichy America, and be far stronger for it.

The hatred of the Christofacist is not only bereft of morality, but also blind to the potential all people can have.

I would like it if Blue States mobilized their portion of the national guard to deter ICE and friends. That just seems prudent, especially if the GOP decides to launch a blitzkrieg with the goal of capturing the governors and other officials in Blue States.