Speaking on MSNBC, Miles Taylor, who worked in Trump's administration, outlined the potential threats of a second Trump term.
  • TheLurker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    521·
    11 months ago

    This is literally impossible to do without total economic and social collapse. It’s like saying you are going to shut off the electrical grid.

    Moronic statements made by moronic people who don’t understand what the internet is and think internet = websites.

    • ashok36@lemmy.world
      10·
      11 months ago

      Right? No internet means no economy. Even the simplest daily things like getting gas require an internet connection.

      • TheLurker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Literally every part of critical infrastructure has been connected to the internet.

        No internet means no water, electricity, emergency services, financial services, waste management…

        It’s the digital rod for our modern back.

        • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          11 months ago

          Most of those emergency services have fall-backs for loss of connectivity. A lot of cases you need people manning consoles that are usually remote.

          Financial services are probably hardest hit. They still have a lot of private networks to keep themselves up say if they just iced DNS.

          But yeah, if they just proclaim no network anywhere financial would be doa.

    • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world
      31·
      11 months ago

      If there’s a civil war in the U.S., they’ll absolutely tank the economy to stop the people from rising up. They’re tyrants. They don’t care about the well-being of the country but about maintaining their power over others.

      • TheLurker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Brownouts are not the same as shutting down the grid mate.

        SA has rolling brownouts because the grid cannot handle the demand. My example is that the whole grid shuts down. No country has ever done this.

      • MadMaurice@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        11 months ago

        I think you missed the point the other person was trying to make. They mean shut off all electrical grids. I don’t think South Africa has that power.