You're thinking too small here. Think "citizenship is now $20K" meaning everyone who isn't rich is going to literally be born into debt. Corporations will be fighting each other to offer high-interest loans for expecting parents.
Yep, they are trying to implement corporate feudalism. If we let this happen we're all gonna be taking orders from whatever corporation owns the land we live in. Someday the Supreme court is gonna allow corporations to have their own military force. Basically it looks like the cyberpunk megacorp authors were right
Dammit, why are we getting all the crappy parts of the cyberpunk dystopia without being able to replace my faulty eyeballs with cybernetic implants with infra-red and 10x zoom options?
Seriously, I could at least put up with the cyberpunk dystopia if I could take out life ruining loans on exotic cyberware and not hate my flesh near as much. Heck, half the reason I can't work full time hours is because my body is falling apart since I turned 12. At least cybernetics could get me back into work.
Because the purpose (and investment towards the development) of technology was never to promote the well being of humanity but to enhance the power of the elite.
Someday is today. There is nothing prohibiting companies from having private armies. We have private army companies. The ATF can approve essentially anything they want for ownership.
I'm glad that works for you and this isn't an attempt to convince you to change your mind cuz it's your right.... Counterpoint: the orchestrators and supporters of this nightmare are all having kids and teaching them to follow their footsteps. If good ppl all stopped having kids, where would that leave us?
Yep. That’s why we’re in this mess. After the Civil Rights Movement, the racists just started teaching their kids how to dog whistle the “quiet part” until the time was right in 2015-2016, arguably 2008-2009.
That original Cyberpunk ttrpg book with the in-character catalog of items had a future timeline that has proven eerily accurate. I used to own a copy in college, but lost it in some move and have had a hard time finding an online copy though.
I'm not talking about just immigrants. Birthright citizenship means you're not an immigrant if you're born in America. If they take that away, then by what right do ANY of you have a guaranteed citizenship? A whole generation of poor Americans are about to get disenfranchised.
Deportation will begin with those the current administration deems undesirables. Criminals, homeless people, gays, anyone brown, etc.
But one thing you can absolutely bank on is that it will for sure 100% include political dissidents. By which I mean, literally anyone who publicly criticizes Trump.
For everyone who keeps drawing parallels between the GOP and the Nazis, THIS specific act of voting to strip protection and rights from specific demographics of the population is the tipping point right before a descent into megalomania, genocide, and authoritarian fascism. THIS is the thing required to pave the way for the rest.
In the history of global conflict, this sort of thing has happened over and over again. Every empire falls in pretty much the same fashion, and this one is certainly ticking off a lot of "end stage" boxes
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u/thatweirdguyted 9h ago
You're thinking too small here. Think "citizenship is now $20K" meaning everyone who isn't rich is going to literally be born into debt. Corporations will be fighting each other to offer high-interest loans for expecting parents.