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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 minutes ago

Reddit is shadow banning people like crazy as well. This is scary

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

Quit Meta... problem solved

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Wait, corporate government, like in cyberpunk?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago

Nah. Like in Snowcrash.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Basically. I mean there's a bit more to it than that but it's the core idea. It's also the goal of several tech oligarchs which is why he doesn't want the peons to be able to talk about it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Shut down and delete your data on your US tech accounts. Their business's are worthless without our accounts.

It's a process, start today! With the easy ones and work towards the hard ones.

[–] Daelsky 1 points 46 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

That makes sense. I bet lobbyist play a big roll into that. Is it the lobbyists jobs that are bad or the way and the people who take the jobs are bad?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Everyone needs to GTFO facebook. We can hardly do it because every other HOA and School PTA is there, but we get stop using messenger and stop having personal discussions over there.

[–] Pax 2 points 1 hour ago

Contact those places and ask for an alternative -the less people participate the quieter the discussions the more likely they are to at least try to switch over if they start feeling some pressure.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago

Don't accept it when organizations require you to sign up and hand over personal information to private and commercial third parties. Requiring Facebook is an active attempt at curbing participation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, I dumped facebook right after the election but unfortunately most of my friends and family are only on WhatsApp.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

I've been reading a little about this concept and can't see how it would work in reality. Sure, the Feds could "set aside" some land for one of these assholes to set up a new city. But that area would still be under the concurrent jurisdiction of a state and county. And not even the Feds can exempt a city from a state's regulatory environment. In fact most of the things these billionaires are trying to get away from (labor laws, building codes, etc) are state regulations in the first place.

Frankly no billionaire is going to want to live in the middle of South Dakota, no matter how "free" it supposedly is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 54 minutes ago

It won't be the Billionaires who have to live in places like South Dakota, it will be their workers/slaves who will.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Everyone seems to forget a bunch of tech bros bought almost $1B worth of land in Solano County CA with the stated goal of building a new city. It made national headlines for a bit as the buyer was initially a mystery and it’s near Travis Air Force base so there was concern it was foreign actors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 33 minutes ago

Rich people trying to buy land for their own slice of paradise goes way back. Solano County is recent history, young squire. I go back to the Free State project from 2001, same song and dance. Or the non-government wet dream of Sealand off the coast of England in 1987, ditto. And if one wants to go even more old school than that, look at the rich Confederate plantation owners that went to Brazil after the CSA fell in 1865. You can even go down to the town of Americana every year and celebrate the Confederacy! These fuckers wanted to deny that they lost so badly that they created a false reality in Brazil.

[–] PhAzE 1 points 1 hour ago

Link to the video

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I believe the idea is that Trump is likely to sell our national parks to them.

That's the current conspiracy gossip I believe.

[–] Mongostein 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, this is the 15-minute cities they’re scared of.

Fucking insane how these people twist a good idea in to something evil, then support the evil version of that idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I think they do that on purpose. These powerful players not the idiots voting for them.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

WATCH THIS IF YOURE NOT SURE WHAT HES BANNING THE DISCUSSION OF

It's terrifying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Very important video indeed

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 hours ago

Delay, Deny, [redacted]

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