Right-o, then: Protesty protest. Whoops, I got bagged by facial recognition and sent to El Salvador by gustapo. At least the media completely ignored the protest and no one even knows it happened.
A guy just got kicked out of Madison Square Garden. He was banned for life for a shirt he sold online that called for the removal of the MSG Ceo. He didn’t buy the tickets he was using, and hasn’t been to an MSG property in 20 years. They picked him out of the crowd using facial recognition, which was linked to his social media, which was matched to a list of banned people. This is just the actions of a private entity, how deep do you think the governments abilities reach?
Protesting these days is a lot bigger ask than it was even 20 years ago. Proper resistance even harder still. I agree we need action, drastic action, and soon. But I don’t fault ordinary people for being afraid to lose everything for what they believe.
True. But we have other leverage. Some 70% of the economy is consumer spending. Stop buying things and the complicit corporations that are dependent on quarterly growth will change their tune quickly. Even if they don’t get to have another tax cut.
Right-o, then: Protesty protest. Whoops, I got bagged by facial recognition and sent to El Salvador by gustapo. At least the media completely ignored the protest and no one even knows it happened.
A guy just got kicked out of Madison Square Garden. He was banned for life for a shirt he sold online that called for the removal of the MSG Ceo. He didn’t buy the tickets he was using, and hasn’t been to an MSG property in 20 years. They picked him out of the crowd using facial recognition, which was linked to his social media, which was matched to a list of banned people. This is just the actions of a private entity, how deep do you think the governments abilities reach?
Protesting these days is a lot bigger ask than it was even 20 years ago. Proper resistance even harder still. I agree we need action, drastic action, and soon. But I don’t fault ordinary people for being afraid to lose everything for what they believe.
having not heard about any of this, to everyone OOTL as me, have an article.
Two things stood out:
Ho.Lee.Fuck
Important distinction: to lose everything for someone else for ever diminishing returns
If I didn’t have to support anyone I’d already be organizing marches
True. But we have other leverage. Some 70% of the economy is consumer spending. Stop buying things and the complicit corporations that are dependent on quarterly growth will change their tune quickly. Even if they don’t get to have another tax cut.