Re: <nettime> Facebook’s “toxic” global lobbying

[Lorenzo Tripodi <loreso@oginoknauss.org>]

Patrice, 
this is an interesting perspective, but how do you expect NRA supported armed trumpians, trained fascists and various paramiltary goons training full day at shoot-all  video games, backed likely by the above quoted corporate rulers and with the enthusiastic external support of Russian hackers not to win a civil war? 

lorenzo

> On 3. Mar 2019, at 12:18, Patrice Riemens <patrice@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> On 2019-03-03 12:10, Keith Hart wrote:
>> The corporations already are the lawmaker of the world.
> (...)
> 
> With other words the cyberpunk writers of the late 80s/90s were right from the start. The not evenly distributed future has arrived for real, and maybe a little sooner than anticipated. So we can fear that its 'resolution', Keith's world war, will hit a town next to yours ahead of schedule also. I don't bet on a 'world' war, but I was looking at ...
> 
> ... Michael Cohen's final declaration before Congress to the effect that civil war would be the likely outcome of the #realdonaldtrump loosing re-election in 2020. It made me wonder if that was such a bad thing (cynically speaking). After all, the USA had one civil war before, and it 'resolved' a rather big issue: slavery. (it did not solution racism, but that's another story). Probably a civil war would be the only way to address the _real_ problem of the 99%, especially the third that forms Trump's presently unshackable base, and which is to completely overhaul the economy  at a much lower level of production and consumption. Since thanks to the second amendment, a civil war in the US  will be fought with low intensity weapons, the material damage will be extensive, but the environmental damage limited - its impact even positive.
> 
> Sorry for being so cynical, but I believe this is the only realistic scenario to achieve a much sanner post-capitalist world, with the added bonus of getting rid of the American Empire, the biggest threat to the planet, but fortunately heading the Roman one way ...
> 
> Cheers to all, all the same,
> p+7D!
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