In regards to UBI, I was right - if I don't know what it is, I don't want it. When I didn't know what it was, I didn't want it, and now that I do know what it is, I still don't want it. Kinda like a broken arm - I know what they are, but I still don't want one. Besides that, I don't even want the government to promise me one. I'm getting sort of tired of having the government lie to me by promising one thing and then never delivering on that promise. For example, I'm STILL waiting on the promised "stimulus" payments. All of them. I've never gotten a single one, going all the way back to the one promised in 2008. None of them. Not a dime of any of them. At this point, I consider a government "promise" in the same way I'd consider them pissing down my back while telling me it's raining - except in that case, they'd probably at least be pissing down my back, just trying to gaslight me as to what they were actually doing. In the case of the government promising me any money, it's gaslighting with NO action, not even trying to cover something up. Just lying in order to lie, no purpose in it.
I'm with you on not seeing any possibility for the success of their technofeudalism in modern America. That's a pipe dream of folks that live in cities, because it would only work in cities and they can't fathom how life is outside their urban enclaves.
Now, I think it's fact that most Americans live in a city, and I know it's fact that half of all Americans live within 100 miles of a coastline. That means that half or a little more of all Americans COULD be locked down, but out here in the hinterlands they'd have no prayer of getting it done. Too much territory to control, and not enough troops on Earth to control it, even if they pulled in all the armies of the world to try to do it.
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I'm with you on not seeing any possibility for the success of their technofeudalism in modern America. That's a pipe dream of folks that live in cities, because it would only work in cities and they can't fathom how life is outside their urban enclaves.
Now, I think it's fact that most Americans live in a city, and I know it's fact that half of all Americans live within 100 miles of a coastline. That means that half or a little more of all Americans COULD be locked down, but out here in the hinterlands they'd have no prayer of getting it done. Too much territory to control, and not enough troops on Earth to control it, even if they pulled in all the armies of the world to try to do it.
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