Every single piece of drone research I see makes me want to scream in someone’s face. I don’t believe there is a single drop of research that won’t be turned into a tool for oppression within my lifetime.
No need to be fair. The more sophisticated the technology, the more it’s likely to be used by the man instead of plucky upstarts, rebels, or terrorists.
The “trick” has been known from the start:
Remove the seeds and fertile ground fascism grows in, i.e. capitalism.
To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that this is human nature,
is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough.
The reason for fascism’s existence in every sense of the word is to keep capitalism going with a fool’s revolution when people are desperate enough for an actual one to happen.
Here’s the old guard fantasising about fascism in their DMs while Hitler was a teenager:
In 1905 Milner, one of the more far-seeing leaders of the older British imperialism, described in a private letter the only hope that he could see for the salvation of bourgeois rule:
“Perhaps a great Charlatan-political scallywag, buffoon, liar, stump orator, and in other respects popular favourite-may some day arise who is nevertheless a statesman-the combination is not impossible- and who, having attained power by popular acts may use it for national ends. It is an off-chance, but I do not see any other.” (Milner, letter to Lady Edward Cecil, The Milner Papers, Vol. II, 1899-1905.)
Here we see the bourgeoisie consciously groping for the forms of Fascism long before Fascism existed.
The fact that so lifelike a description of Hitler or Mussolini could have been penned a decade before these began to play their role is a striking confirmation of how little it is personality that creates history, and how much rather history calls forth the personality that it requires at a given stage.
Drones are a result of DARPA partnerships. Almost every new or exotic technology is a result of DARPA’s selection of drones as a focus. LiPo, carbon fiber, even hydrogen combustion, and neural nets. They are all intentional precursor technologies for better drones.
Not at the moment, but a few weeks (months?) ago there was an announcement of a collaboration with the Germans and they showed a factory (subterranean) where they manufacture the things. Look for fp1, fp2 and fp5, something should pop up.
EDIT: Ukraine was one of the biggest military manufacturers in the Soviet union, Russia was unable to keep their carriers on their own (made in Ukraine) for instance.
That’s open warfare, so they’re being supplied as weapons of war specifically because Ukraine has international support (the hottest drone testing and advertising ground right now). Imagine if Russia, or any other country, wanted to use drones on their own people. It would be very hard to stop them.
Every single piece of drone research I see makes me want to scream in someone’s face. I don’t believe there is a single drop of research that won’t be turned into a tool for oppression within my lifetime.
In fairness, literally anything can be turned into a tool for oppression.
Especially tools developed specifically for oppression!
No need to be fair. The more sophisticated the technology, the more it’s likely to be used by the man instead of plucky upstarts, rebels, or terrorists.
It’s like one of those technologies that you can’t ethically develop until the threat of fascism is rooted out.
The threat of fascism can’t be rooted out. It can just be made more and more unlikely/unattractive
Yah it’s part of human nature I’m realising. But maybe some trick like how socialised dentistry makes cavities a non-issue so candy isn’t that harmful
The “trick” has been known from the start: Remove the seeds and fertile ground fascism grows in, i.e. capitalism.
To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that this is human nature, is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough.
The reason for fascism’s existence in every sense of the word is to keep capitalism going with a fool’s revolution when people are desperate enough for an actual one to happen.
Here’s the old guard fantasising about fascism in their DMs while Hitler was a teenager:
I have socialized healthcare and really bad teeth and let me tell you it’s still a huge issue 😩
Drones are a result of DARPA partnerships. Almost every new or exotic technology is a result of DARPA’s selection of drones as a focus. LiPo, carbon fiber, even hydrogen combustion, and neural nets. They are all intentional precursor technologies for better drones.
What about a tool for resistance?
Oh you think oppressed people are going to have drone and chip factories available?
Look at Ukraine
They are at the mercy of everyone and lucky that China sells to them
You underestimate how much they produce themselves.
I hope so! Got any insights? Articles or somethjng? I’m highly interested
Not at the moment, but a few weeks (months?) ago there was an announcement of a collaboration with the Germans and they showed a factory (subterranean) where they manufacture the things. Look for fp1, fp2 and fp5, something should pop up.
EDIT: Ukraine was one of the biggest military manufacturers in the Soviet union, Russia was unable to keep their carriers on their own (made in Ukraine) for instance.
That’s open warfare, so they’re being supplied as weapons of war specifically because Ukraine has international support (the hottest drone testing and advertising ground right now). Imagine if Russia, or any other country, wanted to use drones on their own people. It would be very hard to stop them.
They started with dji drones (and still use them for things like scouting).
I already decided to off myself if things get too hopeless so eh, they can have their hellscape.
I already see the 7-4 thing as bullshit.
Same, we got about 5 years tops.
It’s vital that we all keep this option on the table in these troubling times
Maybe go bother a drone factory on your way out, in Minecraft