Comment by Muromec
16 hours ago
Nobody stops the government from sending goons to your door right now for a snarky comment. Some govts in fact do it today. It is also cheaper than ai rocket and more precise too
16 hours ago
Nobody stops the government from sending goons to your door right now for a snarky comment. Some govts in fact do it today. It is also cheaper than ai rocket and more precise too
Goons don't scale well. Wide-scale intimidation does.
In a sense, surveillance is a multiplier on your goons, creating virtual goons. If you have 5 goons but you can send them directly to the house of people who disagree with the government with 99% accuracy, it's like you had 500 goons waiting outside 500 houses then only entering the ones where people disagree with the government.
Goons work MUCH better than rockets for intimidation, and actually scale much better.
Rocket is obvious and spectacular. Those are for amateurs.
A journalist got beaten up to the brink of death and will never walk again by 'unknown perpetrators'? Well, it's a dangerous country, and he had it coming, maybe some concerned citizens went a bit too far, but our dear leader cannot watch over everybody.
Scaling: do you think other journalists will not take notice?
And he will still be alive to reminder them how they may end up.
If you want to see how far imagination can go here, look up Artyom Kamardin and think how would you behave after hearing his story .
Goons are bad publicity. Doing your dirty stuff as hidden from view as possible is best option
Its called police. And they scale extraordinarily well.
And turns out power-tripping men offered raw power over other humans on threat of violence is something they like.
And ICE? Remember J6 and Three Percenter's and all those right wing militias? They ended up in ICE. Same reasons.
A very bold claim I have heard repeatedly, backed up with zero evidence. Care to share any proof you have found?
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Cost kind of stops the government from sending goons right now, sure some governments do it but, it's costly at scale.
Missiles are a lot more expensive and much less reusable than goons though. If the nation state can’t afford the goons, it can’t afford to missile you either
With the digital panopticon neither goons nor missles are really necessary. Opressive forces can just disable your spending and travel credits. If they need you dead or in custody they can just grab you the next time you pop up on camera near one of their agents.
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Drones aren't though. Plenty of ways to use the data above for evil deeds.
Reaper drones will be the more cost effective way to eradicate amalek.
There are cheap drones with guns now thought
The UK gov has shown to be incredibly efficient at arresting and imprisoning citizens for social media comments.
Please share evidence.
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This is widely promoted but not true.
The cost effectiveness is the intimidation and chilling effects on a wider population, when that can be achieved with a small number of actual goons.
The OP's point can be understood as an automization and mechanization of such targeting. Which will be necessary if the scope of thoughtcrime prosecution is to expand
> It is also cheaper than ai rocket and more precise too
Never stopped people overengineering :P
Wasn’t ICE pretty much doing exactly that with no oversight or accountability?
Who needs rockets when you have autonomous mini drones
But you don't have autonomous mini drones, only the leader of the free world does.
Stop justifying more horrible stuff with "there is already some horrible stuff"
The government already does that. The only challenge is scale.
You're being silly, the missile thing was hyperbole. Your computer will direct the thugs to your door.
> Nobody stops the government from sending goons to your door right now for a snarky comment.
This is just dumb. They literally don't know who wrote it, and have to assign somebody to track you down. The fact that they're putting infrastructure on your computer and on the network to make this one click away for them matters.
The goons are. Almost no government can create goons that are submissive enough to comply with any kind of crazy order.
Are you living under a rock?
I dunno? Are you referring to the USA? Did your military take over the Democrat-run states when Trump sent them there last year?