Given the outcome of the shitshow in DC today, do we have a Plan C for where to go after this? I have a feeling the .win family is going to be targeted soon and wanted to know where the current backups are.
Edit: Well shit, that escalated quick... see TDW for details in this thread: https://thedonald.win/p/11RhAqC6sa/mods-are-compromised/
Mercy.
They are effectively in a power-bubble for a litany of reasons. It's not really different then their attempts at printing money. They promise more money, print out tons of it, expand the money supply in utterly irrational efforts, and de-legitimize it with every step until the whole thing collapses in on itself. People who are outside of their system are "hording" money and need to 'get on board with the system'. That's why they start confiscating. A parallel system is intolerable. The more they seize, the more they promise, and the more they have to seize to keep the system running. Every step it gets more and more frantic.
They do the same thing with power. The more they promise, the more the bureaucracy grows, the more power is devalued because it is worthless and effects no change on the bloated institution. They expand more and more aggressively to sustain more promises for power to keep the support they have. When people refuse and form parallel systems of power, it threatens the stability of their system because theirs requires a monopoly. Everything must be seized. Everyone who isn't part of the system must either be purged or forced in. They will tolerate dissent less and less, and become more hysterical with each passing day, and every passing slight until...
pop
We dig in. We bury ourselves deep. The forest fire pass over us. Like the fire, it will not show mercy, but we will not need it's mercy. It will burn, it will flame, it will scorch, it will hiss, it will roar, it will howl, and then it will die quietly in a crackle, a sizzle, and a whimper. Then, we shall grow in the ash like the mighty pine.
Be The Pinecone
Considering I do not think their earlier behaviour was merciful... (more like disinterest which probably is their view of mercy.) that bodes well, so the question then is how far their lack of mercy will drive them, aka how many steps separated do you have to be. Oh well, atleast it will be interesting times. So the step is to endure until the maintenance of the system cannot be performed anymore, that could be a while depending on a lot of variables, would you say it is a postive then that they will try to make it so their rule is dependent on tech? I would argue that it is due to it having a higher maintenance (and logistics) then older systems aswell as requiring to some extent more trained custodians, which I see as potential for more dissidents being created by their own training.
It's to endure the storm not just the maintenance. The storm exists because the maintenance is too high.
I also don't think it will be too long either, we're already locked into the direction of travel, and no one can back out now, even if they wanted to.
As a guy familiar with computers, I don't trust them. Boomers mistakenly do. So yeah, I would absolutely say that their rule being dependent on tech is a significant weak point. New weak spots emerge faster than you can defend them.