I did the normal chuckle at this thought, but then I considered it.
It’s probably true. That’s what statecraft is to most of these idiots (and especially Elon): a game. They don’t understand the full breadth of consequences for what they want to do.
They played SimCity, so they think they know how to build “freedom cities”. They played the Civ series, so taking over a city and owning the whole map is how to “win” the game.
They’ve never lived in a world where the consequences are visible and staggering.
The impending class revolution is going to be organized on TikTok and it’s the only reason I went back to it. I was perfectly happy on Xiaohongshi and I’m still there.
I made a similar joke earlier about Greenland, but here we go again: At the end of WarGames, when the computer goes nuts running simulations of WWIII, I doubt 'U.S. texts accidently texts war plans' was one of them.
I mean, I've been kicking around a sci-fi idea where wars are fought solely with automata, and the victor is the side whose manufacturing capabilities hold out longest.
"Soldier, are you prepared to have your remote-piloted drone shot down for your country?"
Guys they’re just kidding around that’s all, they knew the former iof journalist was reading all their top secret texts, it’s just jokes come on guys…guys?
Well, all our allies now know that Trump's administration hates them. This is the most corrupt, unfit, unprincipled, Oligarchy focused, disrespectful administration in my lifetime! They're gonna kill us all, one way or another.
War Thunder players argued for months about tank armor. The Defense Department and Russia got tired of it, rolled out the actual tanks, and started a war to prove a point. Several cities exploded. The forum thread got locked for off-topic discussion.
While Tweeting on the toilet, POTUS died of a massive coronary late into the night on Monday, March 24. American cities broke out into a jubilant bacchanalia of celebrations. The MAGA movement and Republican Party tore itself limb from limb as chuds jockeyed to be the successor.
Only one crying manbaby remained in the end, rocking back and forth while bawling "I'M THE IMPORTANT ONE!" We put him in a cozy home that looks like the oval office. He likes to be called "King President." Every morning we show him a line going up and tell him it's his memecoin value. He loves it. 😊
As a dog, Snow Crash still has a special place in my heart because the idea of being a cybernetically enhanced superdog is pretty tempting. I wouldn't settle for mice or rabbits anymore; I'd eat a whole herd of caribou!
Sadly we only have gotten the bad parts of cyberpunk so far
There's a not insane argument that WWIII has already started. The major battlefields are online, and the major antagonists are China, Russia, and possibly Ukraine. There's so many reasons that Russia has invaded Ukraine, but an often ignored one is that a lot of Soviet hacking capabilities lived>
> in Ukraine. Warm ports, huge farmland, cultural centre of the Rus? Of course. Losing valuable hackers to the rest of Europe? Just another reason to invade.
Probably. But that implies these morons understand what Discord is and how to use it. These dumbasses are texting war plans thru signal. #onlythesmartestandbestpeople
This is straight from "Simple Sabotage Field Manual".
(Still available on the CIA webite and the Gutenberg Project.) Which recommends you use what you have, and then play dumb.
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It’s probably true. That’s what statecraft is to most of these idiots (and especially Elon): a game. They don’t understand the full breadth of consequences for what they want to do.
They’ve never lived in a world where the consequences are visible and staggering.
(Being cheeky 😁)
Serious inquiry Chris, lets chat.
"Soldier, are you prepared to have your remote-piloted drone shot down for your country?"
...wait.
(*fingers crossed* please remain a joke please remain a joke please remain a joke...)
On second thoughts, maybe Second Life.
They could've stopped at Disco but kept going
Manifesting that.
Sadly we only have gotten the bad parts of cyberpunk so far
This is straight from "Simple Sabotage Field Manual".
(Still available on the CIA webite and the Gutenberg Project.) Which recommends you use what you have, and then play dumb.
There are at least five people now on Bluesky that when I see one of them yell inexplicably, I just wait five minutes to see What Now. :(