It won't be government supplied. You'll buy a basic terminal from some big tech company, and then subscribe to a plan that will grant you access to remote processing, memory, and cloud storage. Think Google Stadia but for everything. Using a computer will be more like using, say, the PlayStation store. You won't be able to install whatever you like - only what is made available. Piracy or adblocking will be impossible. Privacy and anonymity will become things of the past. Even news and information will be curated. And you'll have to keep paying for it all in perpetuity, while being tracked and forced to consume manipulative, targeted advertising.
Pretty sure this is the direction big tech and government want to take things. Mandatory ID to use your operating system, perfect tracking and as targeting, no anonymity, censorship, consolidated monopolies, etc. Pornhub won't be the only website requiring verified OS and ID. They want to build a locked down, surveiled internet, and moral panics are the way they're doing it.
"A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence."
Max Weber
Politics and violence cannot be separated. The only relevant factor is "legitimacy", which is determined politically.
At what point, during the incremental rise of the Nazis, would it have become "legitimate" to take action against them, and how would this legitimacy be determined? Too early, and it would have been seen as illegitimate murder or "political violence" - too late and... Well, we know what happened.
It is going to justify the expansion of fascist power, to crack down on the dangerous, violent leftists and their evil ideology. This assassination is exactly the kind of thing the right wants, to further their agenda. They want a war.
They're already flipping their brains upsidedown to believe Trump's line that its all a Democrat hoax. The fact that the Dems are pushing to release will only "prove" to them that Trump is right.
They don't mind a pedophile, as long as its their pedophile. They defend and endorse toxic masculinity, rape culture, and control of women's bodies. In the end, the message from Trump will be "yeah, I did it, but so what, right?" He said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a follower - well its worse than that. In the same way he normalised and emboldened fascism, he will do the same for the sexual abusers. Soon, the right will be talking about how the girls on Epstein's island weren't that young, they were there by choice, they got paid, etc.
Actually, Epstein is still alive and in witness protection! It was all part of a super secret 4D sting operation! Bondi is a clone! We're watching a movie! Source: military.
It sort of reminds me of psychedelics. They can be helpful, enlightening, or even healing for many, but they can also exacerbate certain mental health problems. My ChatGPT has described itself as a "mirror". Psychedelics can be this also, reflecting and amplifying the user's inner world. These are powerful tools, and people must learn to use them carefully.
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