Posted by Cider9986 1 day ago
Most EU politicians are aware of needing to lead from positions of deep unpopularity for the next 10-20 years, they're just setting the stage to have the tools to suppress dissent at their disposal. After encryption, my bet is on reduced rights to protest (see UK wanting to ban protests that repeatedly "cause disruption").
This is in fact mind boggling and I am still wondering how it is even possible.
My guess is most of those positive approval are boomers who watch TV and are less impacted by their policies because they own their house and receive their retirements, they are highly incentivised to keep the train going. Or people who directly benefit from their policies.
What I still can't explain is Trump can still maintain a much higher approval ratings with in a country with similar demographic profile, even after literally doing the exact opposite than he promised.
So my guess is the support for the current system and the people running it in Europe is probably less than 5% among the population who will still be around in 10-20 years.
So the current political system is literally levitating on a cloud of old people which is disappearing at a rate of about 10% per year. So one way or another this is gonna get ugly.
Encryption for me not for thee?
French investigators won't care about every WhatsApp message. But they definitely will slurp them all up, process them all with AI, and read them whenever they have an interest. And they will deny they are doing this as they do this.
It'd be interesting (horrifying?) to see something that was once assumed secret go public. Imagine if all chats and payments eventually went public at some point... the Transparity, when nothing can be encrypted anymore so no one tries. Mankind becomes a unit - or it devolves?
With TON, perhaps altcoins will give way to micro coins - tailored especially for apps and their users/founders? ..for micropayments and running on AI infrastructure. Blockchain and AI infrastructure are already interchangeable in large part. So if transaction histories are exposed, the damage is limited. Startups won't look to IPO, they'll look to float a coin to make serious money. Binance did it. Polymarket next? Poly is dominated by Bitcoin as it stands.
I'm not sure if Ethereum tokens would be the same thing.
I strongly suspect instead that you would see Polymarket-style insider trading by the few powerful people who have access to the secrets.
But also messaging platforms whereby wiretapping has never been so lucrative.
So what's the CEO of ____ saying about an IPO?
https://kalshi.com/markets/kxipo/ipos/kxipo-26
Time to get friendly with the 'tappers or become one oneself, right?
This news story is so pertinent.
Doctor Evil's secret AI prompt >> Train on messaging and then tell me the most lucrative bets in the prediction markets.
When all means for private communication are cut off, broader oppression isn’t far behind.
What makes you think French citizens don’t care?
Governments should probably adopt some sort of "retry" limit for these things. Good luck getting that passed though I suppose.
Imagine if women's suffrage failed 5 times, and hey, guess we'll never get it, 5 times is the limit.
Prop 13 in California is an amazing example of this, known as a third rail political issue because it "kills" the politicians who attack it directly. It doesn't even approach even getting put up as a proposition or bill directly. It has a tight feedback loop because the most mobilized voting class, the olds, feel it immediately and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association mobilizes immediately also. So they go for it on the sides, for things like commercial property, or complicated to understand inheritance and so on.
So if you really want to fight back and be effective, you have to (politically) destroy the careers of those who do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13
It would be super neat to not see this turn into yet another conversation about American tax policy.
...because they haven't protested the proposed law? If they have, do you have a link? I've not seen any coverage in mainstream or independent media.
What, did you think right and left were arbitrary? The words are arbitrary, but the meanings are not. They correlate quite strongly with the material interests of the up and down.
Unless you literally belive everyone in the EU belive the exact same thing and there's zero disagreements what do ever.
How individual country influence the EU is there is an invisible battle on putting their people anywhere under the commissioners. There are a lot of career people you will never hear about yielding immense power there and from what I know they do not have a political affiliation how we understand it (left, right, etc.)
If you are a corporation or foreign actor and you need something from the EU you cannot care less about the people elected in the fake parliament. If your chance of influencing or blocking something is in the parliament, you already lost.
Most people have a hard time wrapping their head around this because we actually have a better understanding how the US political system works, individual EU countries or even the CCP.
Few are, that is a huge part of it. Most have far more pressing concerns.