Do we want to live under a government capable of knowing where we are, even when we leave our technology at home?

Can they track our phones already? What about when the person who will soon own satellites that can reach every inch of the globe has access to realize his world conquest aspirations?

This technology could be used to target and track anyone who dissents or even specific demographic groups— which is not ideal when we have an incumbent President with authoritarian aspirations.

This all demonstrates that we are living in a surveillance state with cameras everywhere that the government can access and technology that will automatically identify people. What’s to stop them from using those to monitor anyone at any time?

Also, does anyone else feel deeply unsettled by the fact that law enforcement are celebrating that with a grainy partial face photo, facial recognition software, and a network of cameras all over the country, will alert law enforcement when a facial match is electronically identified?

How is that different from private insurance refusing to approve treatment for someone whose doctor deems that treatment medically necessary? Especially when those people are paying them?

What if a school crossing guard didn’t halt oncoming traffic while children were crossing? What if his justification was that the flashing children’s crossing signs should have been enough to prevent the children from being hit by cars?

Would firefighters be penalized for pulling up to a house that’s burning with people inside without even turning on the hose? What if the firefighters said they didn’t feel the family had followed the necessary precautions or hadn’t tried hard enough to extinguish the fire themselves?

Would a lifeguard at a country club’s private pool be charged with murder if they refused to throw a drowning member a life ring or a rope? What if the justification for refusing was that the lifeguard didn’t feel like getting out of their chair?

You can watch the videos on YouTube of the space x launch

I took a screenshot of a news report. It’s not AI

RFK talked about creating “healing farms” for people with addiction to avoid prison by farming organic food with no access to technology— in other words, being entirely isolated so they could be “reparented.”

Sounds like big daddy coal and convict leasing revisited.

At the big pre-election Turning Point rally, Tucker Carlson used a Daddy punishing a “hormone addled” teen girl analogy. She had to get a “vigorous spanking” because “Daddy comes home, and he’s pissed.”

“Crimes” were for things like vagrancy, loitering, trespassing, and congregating in groups of three or more.

We will see all of this come back around soon, and it’s already started.

They owned the privatized police.

Convict leasing was advertised as a way to help aimless, bored people with no motivation to stay out of crime learn a skill for a trade. In reality, it was a perpetuation of slavery that for many years was the main revenue for Southern states.

They controlled the entertainment, the sports leagues, and even the currency— which could only be spent at company-owned locations.

They set the prices of everything and the pay to keep workers unable to stop struggling. They owned the homes, and getting injured meant instant eviction.

They used churches led by hired propagandists who used the pulpit to spread nationalism, influence against labor organizing, and sow division.

They hired the klan and other groups to sow division and intimidate people into staying docile and loyal to the company.

Leading up to the election, I made a lot of posts about how authoritarianism looks in America. It’s already been done in coal camps.

They used “day schools,” the predecessor to residential schools, to prepare children to work the mines, fields, and railroads.

In the coal camps, mine operators had total control of everything— housing, the currency (they did not pay workers with the US dollar), the entertainment, the mandatory churches, the media, the brutal day schools… everything. This is called corporate paternalism.

Like moonshining.

Sharecropping was the main way convict leasing was used in the Deep South, but up in the Appalachian South and Central Appalachia, it was coal mining.