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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I think America is already passed the point of no return. I don't think people understand yet because they aren't really living free and they are just consuming land living for a narrowed simplified version of life that is like a home for caged free range chickens. The cage is large enough to not be noticed and be aware of at all times, giving the illusion of freedom, and every now and then it's moved to make things seem better or different. But that cage and it's occupance is completely owned and manipulated for something other than an honest human dream.

The people in the cage are not advancing or really even living a truly human life, while the owners of the cage are growing power, and technology exponentially to the point they basically are "God". We are already living in a free range concentration camp and while many won't like that comparison, I don't think people understand how dark this world really is and what people get away with. Citizens are being worked over the same way we manipulate nations, leaders, and businesses. To the view of the common folk still stuck in facade indoctrination the civilian terror looks like accidents, but it's slow motion genocide, not even class based, but ideological. Anything that threatens that way of life and does not maintain the indoctrined naiveness gets left for dead, slowly driven to suicide, or killed by "accident" by other people being manipulated by the hand that has power over them. Victims killing victims while they live in fear of the people truly owning this world. Not to mention the things the average naive person will do to someone for money, that look innocent, as in 'what's the harm of getting paid to do this', but when pooled with the larger picture, that they will not be told or see, can be one step in making a person kill themself.

Is there still genuine humanity out there? Or is it all games?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But musk paid for this when he supported trump's election funds. Now he has to get his govt handouts.. the system works /s

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[–] untakenusername 7 points 3 days ago

I don't think starlink has that kind of bandwidth