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[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

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[–]useless_aether 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

once an ai froze my bank account, 'thinking' i am money laundering. no human was involved in the decision making process. it took many months to get the money back.. and that was five years ago.

today it is not a question if they have these systems in place, but how integrated, interwoven, omniscient they are becoming. the panopticon.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Money laundering is such a joke compared to the epic laundering by the corporatocracy and deep state.

It's like charging you for assault because an asshole swore at your girlfriend and you decked him, meanwhile the MIC is drone bombing the fuck out of 7-9 nations leaving countless MILLIONS injured, maimed, and death.

True enough about the panopticon. Another question is - how much is real and how much is bravado bullshit?

Do they have the power they claim they have? Sometimes you need to pretend to be omnipotent/dominant.

Saddam Hussein had to bow down to the USA, but he couldn't bow down all the way or he'd look weak to his people and his neighbours who'd be happy to take his place, leading to a tiny part of the slowness to open Iraq up for inspections - though I suspect he also knew that no amount of grovelling would ever possibly appease the West.