The answer is: We’re fucked.

People were warned of mass surveillance, and here we are, cameras everywhere, over the entire world. Everything is tracked. Same thing will happen to paper money and coins.

beggers,homeless ppl, panhandlers… are all doomed

In China, they have Wechat Wallet that people can give money to homeless people. Even homeless people have phones.

cashless societies are nothing but a nasty techbro dream.

It is nasty and dystopian, I agree. But its not really a fantasy anymore, its real, the dystopian future is on the horizon. Soon, it’d be too late to stop the dystopia.

At first, mass surveillance cameras is only in China, but then even supposed “democracies” like the UK have millions of cameras. Then China became mostly cashless, that will also eventually happen to western countries.

The dystopia is coming. You can’t stop it.

I assume it would be both jus soli and jus sanguinis

If you a born there, you were a Californian Citizen.

If you were there when they declare independendence, you were a Citizen (similar to the US Constitution, where everyone became citizen of the US if they were in tge 13 colonies at the moment it came into force, even if they just arrived from England).

If weren’t there when they ratify the New Californian Republic Constitution, and you weren’t born there, and you don’t have parent’s born there, then you’d probabaly not be a citizen.

They’ll probably also look at CA state tax record and might give citizenship if you’ve lived there for X amount of years preceeding the ratification of the Californian Constitution.

I think its also possible California doesn’t become an independent country, but form a different “United States” with other Blue states.

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Okay so. Say. There is 2 weeks without power, sudden and unannounced, unpredicted power outage. How will you get food and stuff?

So if people can’t get essential stuff, there would be fear, and with fear, riots are likely to happen. Doesn’t matter how “civilized” or “developed” a country is, everyone has their breaking point.

There’s too much lies in the world, I kinda developed a sort of “solipcistic” view of the world.

If I never witnessed it, I categorize it as “potentially false”.

Of course, the entire news could be just fabricated. Nobody can tell for sure.

Anything beyond my immediate sorroundings could just be a stage. I could be in a truman show with everything I see being a deception, or in other terms “propaganda”.

I’m not saying that everything isn’t real, I just feel like that possibility should be entertained, to keep in mind as a potential possible explanation of what appears to be reality. Just as how a nation can lie to its people about reality, even the people closest to you, your parents, could also just be liars as well.

People never question if they are, in fact, the biological children of their parents, and just assume they are. That is another form of “propaganda”. People just accept their parent’s words as truth.

Propaganda is certainly everywhere. You cannot be sure what is real, other than the fact that “you” exist, in some form.

I mean, go ahead, arrest all democratic governors. More supporting evidence for asylum claims.

Maybe California would finally become a republic, and perhaps become the new “beacon of freedom” (well it was better than the last “beacon of freedom” anyways)

Invade? More like form a union. The Germany-Italy type.

Probably nothing revolutionary.

But if you don’t believe the propaganda, you’d probably enjoy life more.

For example: there literally a list of steam games that some far-right nutjob compiled that declares a lot of games to be “Woke” or “DEI”. Imagine how much fun they miss out on because they are so far up the kool aid cult and actually refuses to play those games.

And other times, it can save you from a lot of misery and perhaps save your life. See: Anti-Vax and Anti-Science propaganda. If you are able to see through that bullshit, you wouldn’t die from a stupid horse dewormer or other psudoscience crap.

“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” -Mahatma Gandhi

The fight might not be right here, right this moment, but you can pass along the torch, the spirit.

Teach your children to be skeptical of the authorities, and be vigilent of propaganda. If they are getting involved in a “Hitler Youth” equivalvent, you’d intervene and stop them.

Treach kindness and empathy, but also decisiveness when the time comes to stand against injustice.

And also, pick your fights carefully, do not do this alone. Do not become a foolish dead hero, become a successful revolutionary. (Underground Movements)

Don’t let them imprison your mind.

TLDR: The best you can do is just refuse to regurgitate the same propaganda. This is a passive thing that is, while subtle, an important part of the resistance.

Looking at the 2024 election results. I guess not. 😞

But 1/3 of eligible voters didn’t even vote, so is that really about critical thinking? Or is it just laziness?

United Provinces of Canada?

I mean, honestly, I’m questioning if anything my parents told me is even real, or is it just exaggerated to make themselves seem like great parents in order to diminish my view on their toxicity.

It’s hard to distinguish between what’s a genuine doubt from a conspiracy theory.

That’s the thing with people.

Some have zero skepticism, and believe everything they see.

Others are overly skeptical and distrusts everything, including science.

It’s hard to find the right balance.

Laptop manufacturers are also looking to move away from windows to a linux bases operating system.

Redstar OS it is 😉

I’m worried about Chinese mobile OSes intentionally designed to make it difficult for VPN apps to work, and companies would just give up trying to design a separate app for the Chinese market, which reinforces a tighter grip on censorship.

Not to mention, all the other FOSS tools that would no longer work if they make android .apks incompatible, including a lot of encryption apps.

Murphy’s Law: the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer

A modern spin on it would be like:

The son is accused of drug trafficking

The father: “I can’t access the cloud drive account on [Site Name]”

The son: “If you ever remember the password and get in, delete the account. That’s where my (drug trade) ledger is”

Overnight, the FBI filed subpoena to the cloud company requesting a copy of any files on any of [the father]'s accounts. Within days, the company compiled and send the info to the FBI.

[The son]'s defence attorney got a copy of the files due to the discovery process, and passed it on to the father.

The father: “Son, I don’t know how, but your lawyer just sent me an email this afternoon with all the family photos”

Oh I really want to see them go busting into a home of a 2A gun nut hillbilly. I don’t say this often, but I’d root for the hillbilly.

LMAO why do people always say this.

If it were that easy, the entire population of every authoritarian country would have already moved out.

Mods don’t like Super Mario Bros? 🤔

I mean, literally tho. I’m on the list of registered voters and formerly registered as a Democrat. 👀

(I changed it to independent after the 2024 primaries to avoid shenanigans, but its too late, they already have the records)