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Trump said he wanted to “see a tremendous victory” in the November election, “’cause it verifies all the things we did. And again, remember, with the war it’s just artificial, it’s a little bit high.”

“It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe,” he continued. “They can take out a city, let ’em take out Los Angeles, let ’em take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay.”

The crowd cheered.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm worried that this is theater to distract from some looming disaster such as the climate being so fucked that it's beyond saving and human kind only has a few more years before we all die.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My take is that it's about building datacenter infrastructure for surveillance and ai profiling... Basically moderning the foundation of society and turning the base foundation digital vs the current foundation that is analog. Also for war.

Ai is kind of like a nuclear arms race globally. And citizens don't really want it, but for the nation it's a huge deal in terms national control and global war and digital security and progress. To me it makes sense they would make it an objective, and understand sacrifices will be made in order to reach the objective. I think once the objective is reached, they will give us some politician to save the day and make it look like the whole thing was a natural occurence.

I think that ice is being built up in corallation with the data centers and ai, because ice will be used to combat any social disruption. Why? Because if they use cops and military to combat a possible social outrage bigger than 2020 riots, than the police and military might start to fracture into a real civil war and true collapse. So it's like ice is the fall guy on the brute force side of things and then we have political falls guys like Trump and other politicians and people that are getting played out and manipulated like chess pawns.

Marketing and psychology owns humanity. Left right or center. It's almost to be on the path of truth and nature's true humanity. You are only allowed to live on the life path of what's dictated and indoctrinated by "man".

Edit... Also could be what you said that is a cause... They know we are going to die, so they have a plan to purge and reduce population or control it more to give the nation and wealthy a higher survival rate.