Althouse: Sunrise

November 28, 2024

Sunrise — 6:51.

11 comments:

Drago said...: Highlights from the stunning Marc Andreesen interview which exposed much of what our fascist New Soviet Democraticals have been up to and which explains why so many historically dem Silicon Valley/tech/crypto types kept their mouths shut until some leading edge tech leaders jumped on the Trump bandwagon in a massive way (link to the Hosun Chung X post at the bottom: read all of Hosun's comments and watch the entire Andreesen interview)

"Marc Andreessen just shocked the world on JRE.

He revealed the government is:

• Kicking people off banking networks
• Using NGOs to do their dirty work
• Secretly trying to control AI

I took a day to digest it all...

And these are the 11 things I can't stop thinking about:

1. The AI Takeover Plan

The Biden administration has been secretly meeting with AI companies.

Their message was chilling:

"Don't even bother starting AI companies. There will only be 2-3 approved companies, and we'll control them completely."

This isn't speculation. These were actual closed-door conversations.

2. The Control Mechanism

They're using something called "regulatory capture."

The government blesses 2-3 large companies with a monopoly. In exchange, these companies do whatever the government wants.

It's how they controlled social media. Now they want to do it with AI.

But it gets darker:

3. The Real Threat

AI won't just control what you see online.

It will be the control layer for EVERYTHING:

• Who gets loans
• What your kids learn in school
• If your front door opens
• What you're allowed to buy

Imagine China's social credit system, but 100x more sophisticated.

4. The Banking Weapon

The government has been secretly debanking people for having the wrong politics.

An employee at Andreessen's firm got kicked out of their bank just for having "crypto" in their job title.

No warning. No appeal process. Just frozen out of the financial system.

5. The Secret Classification

There's a government category called "politically exposed persons" (PEPs).

If you're labeled a PEP, banks are REQUIRED to kick you out.

Not a single person on the left has been debanked. Only those with the "wrong" views.

The pattern is clear:

6. No Due Process

There's no court. No appeal. No written rules.

Your life can be destroyed with a phone call from a bureaucrat to a bank CEO.

And it's already happened to hundreds of people.

But here's where it gets truly Orwellian:

7. The NGO Loophole

The government doesn't do this directly.

They fund "non-governmental organizations" (NGOs) to do their dirty work.

Why? Because the First Amendment prevents the government from censoring directly.

These are their attack dogs:

8. The Pressure Campaign

These NGOs then pressure companies to:

• Censor speech
• Close bank accounts
• Deny services

All while maintaining "plausible deniability" for the government.

It's like hiring a hitman - technically your hands are clean.

9. The Social Credit Future

The endgame?

A social credit system where your ability to participate in society depends on your political compliance.

But unlike China's system, which is obvious, this one is hidden behind layers of private companies and NGOs.

10. The Critical Moment

Marc believes we're at a crossroads:

If Trump wins, there's a chance to dismantle this system.

If not, we're looking at a future where every aspect of life is controlled by AI systems programmed with government-approved ideology."

https://x.com/hosun_chung/status/1862211468588110220?t=QXvCCBgPwBZBjd4EceVRKA&s=19; 11/28/24, 7:13 PM
Drago said...: Btw, this is the very definition of fascism.; 11/28/24, 7:15 PM
Narr said...: "FAIscism."; 11/28/24, 7:17 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Norm's Thanksgiving via Reddit: "I'm thankful for the fine ladies who live across this country and leave pies on their windowsill so that an old chunk of coal like me could have a meal from time to time."; 11/28/24, 7:57 PM
paminwi said...: Some of this “debanking” is hidden. Some is blatantly in the open. Andrew Ross Sorkin of the NYT and CNBC was leading the charge to have all credit card companies, VISA, MC, AmEx, Discover stop allowing people to buy guns with a credit card. And also, to have the card companies take away gun stores ability to process credit card transactions for anything in their stores.; 11/28/24, 8:01 PM
n.n said...: On this historic occasion, we offer Thanksgiving to the first and second Person of Orange (PoO) who is the male sex and identities as the masculine gender, married, with children, to be President of the United States of America. Gobble! Gobble! May the Spring be short, and the summer be Great! Gobble!; 11/28/24, 8:22 PM
Jaq said...: Glenn Diesen@Glenn_Diesen 13h

Interview with Arestovych (advisor to Zelensky) in 2019 about the coming war with Russia:
- The threat of NATO expansion will provoke a Russian invasion
- NATO will assist Ukraine in defeating Russia with weapons, sanctions & possible direct involvement"

https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/1862114862358229013; 11/28/24, 8:25 PM
planetgeo said...: This all sounds very conspiracy-theory-ish...until you read what is actually already happening in the UK, Canada, and Australia. What the hell has happened to those countries? Why are people just accepting such totalitarianism?

Oh yeah, no 1st or 2nd Amendment. And no Trump. Also, no balls.; 11/28/24, 8:27 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Police responded to a "credible pipe bomb threat*/a>" at Pete Hegseth's home yesterday.; 11/28/24, 8:58 PM
MadTownGuy said...: ... just in case the link didn't close .; 11/28/24, 8:59 PM
Gospace said...: And if you believed any of that a week ago you were labelled a crazed conspiracy theorist. And it's all true, and verifiably so.; 11/28/24, 9:06 PM