OT Digital Dystopian Dictatorship

[bodyman5000 and 1]

This may be a topic for another thread, but if any of you are interested in what China has been doing diplomatically, there’s tons of articles about it going back years, but most people (both in your country and in mine) seem to be too distracted by domestic politics to be paying attention (a problem the Chinese do not have).

Search for the terms “China belt road” and “China debt-trap diplomacy ”.

 

[MarAzul]

Attack the post, not the poster.

If you don't like what someone has posted then say that.

Like asinine post?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Like asinine post?

Ok.

 

[Lanny]

I apologize. I didn't see your thread, after doing a search here. @SlyPokerDog , @PtldPlatypus , @Darkwebs ,@Chris Craig ,@BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94 ; could one of you please merge these threads. I think they both are relevant to each other....



I REALLY appreciate the things you post about going to the games and past history of the Blazers. You have my respect as an elder to me, to begin with. (That is not an insult. That is how I was raised.)

HOWEVER, in my OP, I said this.....



Please take your Anti-Trump hate elsewhere. I see this as more of a science, and "Black Budget" issue, than something the president has control over. Whoever the President, happens to be. Thank you.

Hey, this is the place for politics. Trying to outlaw that is like telling people not to walk on the sidewalks.

 

[Dougnsalem]

Hey, this is the place for politics. Trying to outlaw that is like telling people not to walk on the sidewalks.

You want to talk politics? Go start your own thread, so you can cram YOUR politics down everyones throat. In my very first post, I came out and said I didn't want it to be a political discussion.

You know, there are some of us that are tired of hearing it over, and over, and over, and over, and over............

Once more, I will respectfully ask that you take your Presidential hate off my grass, and on to another thread. Thank you.

 

[Dougnsalem]

Is this the future for us all?

Police forces are constantly pushing for more, and more surveillance, and unchecked powers. Both sides of politics are too scared of being labelled "soft on crime" to say no. We are all so scared of terrorists, that we are willingly giving up our liberties at a rapid pace. People's public actions are already being judged by the masses on social media.

Are we all going to live in a future where every single tiny detail of our lives is monitored, judged by artificial intelligence, and used to adjust our "social score"? Where this "social score" dictates what we will, and won't be allowed to do? Will this very post itself be used in the future to judge me?

Seeing that was close to half a hour long, I almost just breezed through it. Glad I didn't! GREAT video.

 

[MarAzul]

You want to talk politics? Go start your own thread, so you can cram YOUR politics down everyones throat. In my very first post, I came out and said I didn't want it to be a political discussion.

You know, there are some of us that are tired of hearing it over, and over, and over, and over, and over............

Once more, I will respectfully ask that you take your Presidential hate off my grass, and on to another thread. Thank you.