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elocs

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29. Within 10 years this country will be a shadow and shell of what it once was.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 12:21 PM
Mar 28

A second world nation with nukes.
Give Republicans, or what they became, credit because they played the long game and never gave up such as with Roe where they fought the battle against it for nearly 50 years.
Sadly, the Left was not vigilant and as the quote goes, "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance". We became complacent and failed in that regard as well as being over confident.
But we were a pretty good nation and beacon to the world while it lasted.
Will the last one out please turn out the lights.



Oops! I'm still here. I think it would take an act of God to turn this mess around and if that were to happen it might cause me to change my status as an atheist and ex-believer. But if there is a god, I wonder why this would be allowed to happen (really nothing compared to the Holocaust, but it's early yet). Perhaps the U.S. is guilty of the sin of national pride in believing we were too good for this to ever happen here--it only happens to other lesser nations.

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Teachers no_hypocrisy Mar 28 #1
It goes further than that... Raastan Mar 28 #31
AI is supergood at what i always (apparently rightly) called simple sciences JCMach1 Mar 28 #38
... and the quality of health care and education services will decline as a direct result. WestMichRad Mar 28 #2
Destroying the health and science agencies to reduce the population. Irish_Dem Mar 28 #7
What is Gates smoking? I expect better from him than most humans will become... brush Mar 28 #32
And trump and his gang will see Turbineguy Mar 28 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Skittles Mar 28 #4
anyone else thinking of this song? Skittles Mar 28 #5
Yes. The tech lords are planning a very grim future for humanity. highplainsdem Mar 28 #24
If humans will be useless eaters they don't need teachers and doctors. Irish_Dem Mar 28 #6
And making death a policy goal. applegrove Mar 28 #21
Yes the billionaires are making a financial decision. People cost too much. Irish_Dem Mar 28 #22
Extermination of the species. Irish_Dem Mar 28 #23
There is a sci fi movie called Forbidden Planet.............. Lovie777 Mar 28 #8
enshittification harumph Mar 28 #9
Billionaires are worse than useless right now - why wait to deprecate? harumph Mar 28 #10
Then Delphinus Mar 28 #11
RFK Jr is working on it. WestMichRad Mar 28 #33
That will doom us all. Passages Mar 28 #12
Fuck AI alarimer Mar 28 #13
AI is the most oversold shit since pet rocks Johonny Mar 28 #14
Wish I could rec this Mossfern Mar 28 #16
The 12 Greatest Dangers Of AI Celerity Mar 28 #18
Trashing Prairie Gates Mar 28 #15
Bill Gates could be replaced by usonian Mar 28 #17
Don't agree. Humans need each other -- it's in our DNA. It's like in Fahrenheit 451, when books allegorical oracle Mar 28 #19
Creativity dirty_abuelita Mar 28 #20
"We'll just be content with repackaging the stuff that's most popular on the WWW" struggle4progress Mar 28 #25
the on way to break AI DonCoquixote Mar 28 #26
THIS! I think this song is only off because of it's date (2525 should be 2025) bluestarone Mar 28 #27
Not while Medicare won't even pay Ms. Toad Mar 28 #28
Within 10 years this country will be a shadow and shell of what it once was. elocs Mar 28 #29
Another oligarch with an opinion that is not based on real life. What a surprise. nt in2herbs Mar 28 #30
Gates may have just said aloud what the whole techbro plan is. hedda_foil Mar 28 #34
Well, we already don't need billionaires. We could start with them. Aristus Mar 28 #35
Fabulous! NCDem47 Mar 28 #36
Without humans, who will the billionaries bilk money from Beringia Mar 28 #37
Discussion about this in 1985. Blue Full Moon Mar 28 #39
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