Tech Execs Are Pushing Trump to Build 'Freedom Cities' Run by Corporations
gizmodo.com
A pro-corporate libertarian movement is attempting to take over the U.S., with Trump's help.
  • Grool The Demon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 day ago

    I can’t wait to live in DowIndustrialRunoffVille, 3Mcancertowne, and Exxondumpsiteburgh… Oh wait we already do. Can you imagine how bad it would be if they had pure control and zero oversight or restrictions? The US is really sprinting headlong into the worst kind of dystopic hellscape.

    • Cgers@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      10 hours ago

      I just started that book like a week ago, Even just the first couple pages and it was like “oh… oh no”, even got the meta verse in there

      • Fluke@lemm.ee
        2·
        6 hours ago

        Hilarious, isn’t it?

        The writers of this timeline couldn’t even come up with new material.

        This timeline is itself AI slop. Prove me wrong.

  • credo@lemmy.world
    15·
    1 day ago

    Good morning! Today is brought to you by our friends at ocular implant world. With their help you can see everyday through rose tinted digital filters! Just a reminder, you are now in debt to the corporation for $42,547,880.46. Would you like to listen to another targeted advertisement for $0.35?

  • Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world
    29·
    15 hours ago

    I just wish they would be honest with their naming schemes. Stop with the “freedom this” and “freedom that” nonsense. They don’t give a good goddam about freedom and we all know it. They are just trying to build “company towns” with touchscreens. We’ve already been down this road. You can slap all the lipstick you want on it, but it’s still a fucking pig.

  • kreskin@lemmy.world
    20·
    15 hours ago

    government officials ending every phrase with, “brought to you by carls jr” is getting more real of a likelihood all the time.

  • pachrist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    6 hours ago

    Friendly reminder that company towns and company scrips are the industrial revolution’s take on micro transactions.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    17·
    1 day ago

    Christ, why did we have to get the Shitty Dystopia versions from Snow Crash, Jennifer Government, and every Gibson novel, but none of the cool and fun shit like flying cars, off-planet living, and advanced medical/cybernetic tech.

    Gonna have the corpo company town again. Instead of an online walled garden it’ll be a walled city with it’s own currency that gets traded at a steep loss if you try to go anyplace nicer. Keep you in your place.

      • Flic@mstdn.social
        1·
        7 hours ago

        @tree_frog @RememberTheApollo_ high on their own supply, though. A lot of government regulation is there to make sure the plebs feel just happy *enough* that they don’t rise up. I’m not advocating anything, just to be clear, but if people have nothing to lose then they start… trying stuff. Wasn’t the final straw that started the French Revolution the price of bread?

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    It’s weird how the hardcore wingnuts were constantly jabbering about “Big Tech” and making noises about “Hunter’s hard-drive laptop” just a few short years ago. They could never define this “Big Tech” other than to make hooting noises about how they were “censoring” the crazy right wing. They didn’t really know what they were going on about, but boy, they were mad about it. Because laptop.

    Now they seem to be all-in with whatever the fuck “Big Tech” wants for them, because, what? They think it will own the libs? Just what the fuck do they think billionaires are going to do for the average redcap but put them out of work and yank any and all government services that will help them or their families?