It's a modernization of fascism.

It's still fascism.

But it's also so much worse.

Instead of papers please, it's drones and facial recognition (palantir/thiel). It's killbots and robotic cryptids (optimus/mech dogs). It's ai, algorithms that know you better than you know yourself, disinfo and thought police (Facebook, amazon). It's tracking and controlling what you can buy and where (crypto [crypto is NOT anonymous]). It's a return to slavery and/or elimination of human labor in favor of humanoid machines.

It's absolute control and obedience (all of the above).

I do feel shame. It won't do much good.

Of course, once they decide we're enemies of state, there is no reason not to revolt.

We just need the public to recognize their faces are on the menu next.

In the meantime if we could get some scholars to clean out the inequity in our constitution, maybe even try some non-FPTP electoral system, it might give the rebels something to fight for that isn't Same as the old boss.

Your disappointment is because you had unrealistic expectations of capitalism in America. This is par the fucking course.

What do you mean with now? It's been like this since Nixon and made far worse by Reagan Bush and Clinton. That's why the dems we're freaking out about trump! They *couldn't care less about racism or abortion, their main concern is the fact that the cheeto says the quiet part loud all the time and may shatter the illusion of the american dream. America has been a kleptocracy for decades now.

Deny, defend, depose?

That they'll be together in the same area at the same time. Do with that what you will.

Someone could make something out of that...

There was a time when tech was mostly nerds who liked computers. Then it got full of the same types who become lawyers or doctors for the pay rather than the gig.