• gravitas_deficiency
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    4 months ago

    Yeah so this is the sort of thing that could actually lead to a second civil war.

    I am not joking.

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      4 months ago

      A second civil war?

      Involving who? The Overton ratchet has been clicking for so long, Liberals and the Democratic establishment have more in common with Trump than leftists.

      And there aren’t enough leftists in the US to even incite terrorism let alone occupy a city.

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        4 months ago

        Where is most of big tech run out of? CA.

        Have you ever well and truly pissed off IT, such that they make it their mission in life to fuck you over?

        Now, think about the vast majority of engineers in the state of CA (and probably MA and WA too) being absolutely ripshit livid at fascist theocrats trying to take over.

        Do not underestimate the effect that several hundred thousand skilled and highly intelligent engineers can have when properly motivated.

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      4 months ago

      Sadly, in that circumstance I don’t see California faring well. We need to do everything we can to prevent it from coming to that.

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        The rest of the country won’t like it when they can’t buy any iPhones or go on Facebook or have internet or cell service or basically any modern convenience enabled by connectivity.

        And just try to force a legion of disgruntled software engineers to do something they don’t want to do. We are weaponized savants at malicious compliance if you really piss us off, motherfuckers.

        Try it. See what happens. We’ll bring the internet across the country - and if necessary, the world - to its knees. You do not want to fight IT. We will burn this Tower of Babel to ashes before we submit to a fascist theocracy.