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Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 2h

I've read quite a bit about these problems with AI, but this is a great explainer.

POV: What You Would See During an AI Takeover

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Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 8h

Listen to this guy before arguing over fascism.

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Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 12h

A lot of people showed up on Jan 6th, the Oath Keepers were clearly the ones with a plan of attack and following through with it paramilitary style. I'm not saying the PBs are a joke but they are mostly famous b/c Trump mentioned them.

Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, the PB would be on any list of dangerous domestic terrorist organizations and are from many NGO but they don't pose much actual threat to citizens and have hardly done much at all other than Jan 6th.

They tried to move into Maine twice and we chased them away with ridicule alone.

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Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 12h

We've explored ways to ban them from taking corporate positions for five years from companies whose votes helped them while in Congress. Some are legit, some criminals.

Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 12h

Now, Trump is threatening to invade Nigeria, but luckily for them, Trump and Hegseth together couldn't point to Nigeria on a map of Nigeria, so they might be safe!

Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 12h

One of the things USAID did very well is spread democracy so of course, it was one of the first things tossed in the trash heap when Trump arrived. "Democracy? That's too big of a word for me to understand" Trump said.

He couldn't find Nigeria on a map of Nigeria so they may be safe. lol

Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 12h

Mamdani is the face of a new Democratic party, maybe we can even pull it back over to left of center. This isn't progressive, it's what the vast majority of Dem voters want.

Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 12h

We're watching the Dem party implode in real time. Any party that pretends to be on the left but opposes universal healthcare is stupid, a joke, and is openly calling their voters idiots. We have two major conservative parties. Dems are not left of center, they are only left of Republicans.

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Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 12h

CBS, ABC, and Fox are all on Trump's side. He can't figure out how to get Fallon and Myers fired since NBC doesn't have the same kind of corporate structure or single owner but he does have some control over their broadcast licenses. I'm not sure how much damage he could do but neither does NBC.

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Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 12h

I think for the most part, Americans won't shoot until they are shooting back at someone shooting at them but if Trump starts shooting, there are 100m armed citizens with 500m guns. It's more guns than every military in the world combined and still not a close number.

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Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 12h

While agents are tussling with you and their mask is pulled down, that's not going to work in court as assault, even though Pam Bondi will charge it, but when it happens, you can see the sheer fear on those agents faces and they have to be reassigned b/c now they are in danger in that community.

Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 12h

Yes. That's assault, battery, and they'll throw on obstruction charges if not more. It's also illegal for you to follow an ICE agent home to read their name off the mailbox in case anyone was wondering.

Unmasking them requires judges or people willing to go to prison for it.

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Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 13h

Well, because of 2A and the Founders worrying about this exact thing, we have 100m armed citizens with 500m guns. That leads to civil war, except, Trump has been uniting us over things like SNAP and his threats to cut Medicare/caid and SS/SSDI would really seal the deal, that would harm about 220m.

Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 13h

There's also the hope that if the military won't stand with Trump, maybe they will stand against him. 🤷‍♂️

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Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 13h

They will always be a tiny drop in the bucket compared to 100m armed citizens. He wants to create a personal army b/c he doesn't have the loyalty of the military but his army of around 100k won't have jets, tanks, bombs, etc. Just guns, drones, and gas.

Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 13h

True but this is loosely talking about 100k-ish half-trained fed agents that will follow him vs 100m armed citizens with 500m guns. Trump is creating this fed army b/c he doesn't have confidence in the loyalty of his military leaders but his fed agents won't have jets, bombs, tanks, howitzers, etc.

Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 13h

"That's no excuse not to do it."

The longer the list, the less useful it is. That's why we don't have a "list" but a list of who are posing threats at this moment. We all still think they are terrorists and we chased them the Hell right out of Maine!

Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 13h

It's not like we aren't attempting to do anything about the threats to Americans. It's hard to just erase this kind of behavior and thinking. We have many hate groups but few with as many members as say the city motorcycle gang.

Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 13h

I get your point and I agree with you but there isn't even a list to put their name on. It appears on a variety of documentation but we monitor threats and the PB don't pose much of a threat to Americans in relation to criminal organizations with hundreds of thousands of members. PBs are about 20k.

Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 13h

If they don't want you to see a joke or a news story about Trump, you won't see it on Tik Tok once they take control of this new US Tik Tok.

Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 13h

It's CBS as a whole. It's not owned by the Ellison family who are buds with Trump and are building a conservative media empire that will dwarf Fox News' influence.

Trump gave this family control of US Tik Tok as well so they'll be in charge of what news or content is or isn't allowed in the US.

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Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 13h

I live and was raised in Maine so life is a little different for me than most I imagine as we are largely sheltered by most of what is bad about America and we're a poor state, just isolated enough from most of it.

Sometimes I'm looking through rose colored glasses out of my own personal ignorance.

Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 13h

You would lose. DJT would have lost the original lawsuit since it's a 1st Amend case but that was a bribe, not a real lawsuit. CBS is now owned by the Ellison's who are some of the richest people on Earth and buds with Trump. They've been given control of US Tik Tok soon so stop using that too.

Gobsmacked American from Maine | Did you vote? @jhaven1974.bsky.social · 13h

More like on purpose but also happily and willingly because a lot of money was made for a few billionaires and now I won't watch CBS anymore. 🤷‍♂️