If you build a machine to oppress people, the People Oppression Machine will constantly search for new targets. There is no off switch. This has always been true. - ThreadSky

jeangiardina.bsky.social • 2 days ago

If you build a machine to oppress people, the People Oppression Machine will constantly search for new targets. There is no off switch.

This has always been true.

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xwisdomx.bsky.social•1 day ago

@quotemaker.bsky.social

quotemaker.bsky.social•1 day ago

jeenyusb.bsky.social•2 days ago

And then people mistake oppression for culture, education, ideology, whatever, because the operations themselves create sense of belonging and safety in the people.

frejkya.bsky.social•2 days ago

"Walking in the Snow," by RTJ

jeangiardina.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thank you!

oleftra.bsky.social•2 days ago

Jesus! I hope you’re wrong 😳

hughromine.bsky.social•2 days ago

Where's The Monkey Wrench Gang when you need them?

sshsr.bsky.social•2 days ago

For example, a move like this by the Fourth Reich, if they do this to immigrants, how long before political enemies are targeted, and then ordinary American citizens...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/social-security-lists-thousands-of-living-immigrants-as-dead-to-prompt-them-to-leave-ap-sources-say/ar-AA1CHK9x?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=d7b2c520c5b040b2b88d280a5553d2b9&ei=101

jeangiardina.bsky.social•2 days ago

🎯

tuchler.bsky.social•1 day ago

I remember saying that back when Bush was kidnapping people and having them shipped to black sites for torture...
"sure Bush is a good guy, but one day you might have an idiot for a president. Like a bigger idiot than Bush even"

jeangiardina.bsky.social•2 days ago

For example:

https://bsky.app/profile/brendannyhan.bsky.social/post/3lmk2aihu5k2w

jeangiardina.bsky.social•1 day ago

Another example:

The People Oppression Machine was built long ago but is still in operation.

https://bsky.app/profile/jamellebouie.net/post/3lmmotsilfs2k

jscram3254.bsky.social•2 days ago

Much like bigotry. A person willing see one kind of person as lesser will always see other persons as lesser.

jeangiardina.bsky.social•2 days ago

So true.

stillraptor.bsky.social•2 days ago

blackironfitter669.bsky.social•2 days ago

There must always be an enemy. One of the main tenets of fascism.

montemerrick.bsky.social•2 days ago

We’ve always been at war with Oceania

gcurwen.bsky.social•2 days ago

Only if we let them. The power is with the people. Rise up America 🇺🇸

tuchler.bsky.social•1 day ago

So Bush and Obama are really to blame since they built the people kidnapping machine?

johnlawrence2.bsky.social•2 days ago

existentialistist.bsky.social•2 days ago

basically, anyone who thinks this is just about “illegal immigration” and they’ll stop after the “illegals” are gone has never read a history book.

now that the fascists have a taste for it, they’ll get addicted and move on to citizens, democrats, anyone anti trump.

i.e. “first they came for the—“

ginsterplantagenet.bsky.social•2 days ago

Even more effective with AI

sterix.bsky.social•2 days ago

sadly it would be a boring social media thing that silicon valley did a decade ago

montemerrick.bsky.social•2 days ago

Manifest Destiny as a case in point

slowlandscapes.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because, to retain power, such an administration needs a threat, but they simultaneously need to appear to deal effectively with threats, which means... There must always be a threat of some kind.

guttersnipe1071.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thinking of all the movies & books about folks finding or making A Thing to go after people they don’t like, then being shocked, Shocked I Tell You, when The Thing runs out of the intended target & switches to the folks that made it.

jeangiardina.bsky.social•2 days ago

So true for many things. Maybe humans should learn but nah.

0self.bsky.social•2 days ago

If our society is cancerous, it will eventually consume us.

9shines.bsky.social•2 days ago

Exactly. Systems built to control don’t stop when the problem ends they just find new problems to justify their existence.

antifa-operator.bsky.social•2 days ago

I have no mouth and I must scream. It's like these people never read.

nonnaknows.bsky.social•1 day ago

All of history confirms this.

kenofseattle.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes.

discoveringjoan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Stop the war machine

esscuk.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Second Amendment is still in force. But make no mistake they will start to prune that before it’s over.

berfield.com•2 days ago

There's an off switch, but it's usually really messy

jeangiardina.bsky.social•2 days ago

So so messy

lexultimaveritas.bsky.social•2 days ago

zygote4040.bsky.social•1 day ago

The current POM has been active since 1945. The Western populations didn't mind because it was focused on poor people overseas.

I have been aware of it since I read a book about My Lai, Vietnam when I was 10.

mrsbuttonsknits.bsky.social•1 day ago

Chilling 😳😱😨

derek-harper.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes, because they need to justify the existence of the machine. They can't stop when it's oppressed just the brown people and let it sit idle.

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