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Meanwhile, over here, national guard are being armed and gradually taking over one Democrat led capital after another. 4 are now on the list to be occupied.

Something is happening and this is not about immigrants or crime.

Also, warships, submarines and planes are hanging out off the coast of Venezuela. Supposedly this too is about drugs and criminals. But we all know how oil rich Venezuela is.

All solar and wind power has been shut down here and natural gas and electricity prices are starting to soar and will continue to climb as more and more AI data centers are built and begin to drain the grid.

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Wait, you mean they’re shutting them down when they’re already built? How does that even work? I mean, there’s companies operating those, you’d need some legal basis to just shut down their income…

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I don’t know about the ones already on the grid, but he shut down all future building for sure including a huge wind farm that is almost completed

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Trump seems like the kind of guy who would mispronounce the Gestapo like the Gazpacho so I think that is what we should call this specialized armed national guard unit. The Gazpacho.

Jokes aside how is anyone who voted MAGA comfortable with this amount of government overreach? I thought that was the whole thing that got them voting in the first place, “the gunnant dun gun ruined muh country”? Where are those people now? Oh right it was never about fixing the countrys actual problems and all about “gettin rid dem undesirables”.

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When the military takes over the duty of civilian police, it is called Martial Law

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And when little green men take over the duties, it’s known as Martian Law.

Sorry, my make bad pun switch is stuck in the on position.

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Trump is ceasing funding for wind farms that are nearly done but not operational. A really nutzoid knee-jerk reaction. All the equipment and personnel costs wasted. :frowning: … and associated workers getting laid off – another bad impact.

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A surprising percentage of Magats are now saying they don’t like what he’s doing, but they like his general beliefs. They continue to support him. In Congress, fear controls the party.

[Actually, I am starting to avoid these type discussions. They are public, searchable, and could result in negative government actions that the average citizen could not afford to fight. Fear again.]

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I shouldn’t worry too much. “Clemm” could be anyone, anywhere. For Trump to find out who you really are, Sean Murray would have to tell him.

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It can sometimes be easier to find the real person behind a screen name than one might suspect, especially if somebody is active on social media there can be a lot of cross-references that often go a lot further than users are aware of. I know there’s easily enough cross-references to figure out my real name and several adjacent usernames from other places on the internet just by applying a bit of effort to googling, no hacking or personal data collection required. And I’m on none of the major social media platforms, just some random forums. Oh wait, I think there’s a 10 year old facebook account still lying around somewhere on which I did like 2 or 3 posts…

And then of course there’s google and social media companies in general, which won’t have much of a problem identifying you if they want to. In fact, I think Sean Murray would have a much harder time doing so, unless Clemm left his name and address in his user profile on the forum.

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Yes. The more profiles you have online, the easier it is.

I would think the first thing their AI police search bots would do is round up all your online activity and look at what you post. Is there a threat? Are you spreading unrest? That sort of thing. If the answer is yes, then they would dig deeper to find out who you are.

My bigger concern would be an individual who gets ticked off who then goes looking for you.

That scares me way more than the government, who would really just be doing their job. The CIA and FBI have scanned online chat rooms from the start, looking for key words used by terrorists.
We are just concerned citizens. Trying to keep up with monumental change and what it means for the future.

Of course, who knows who they see as a threat these days…

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Mass deportation of all Clemms seems like the kind of method he’d resort to in this instance.

I mean just look what happened because he drove by some homeless people in washington… Or saw some wind farms once. :grimacing:

John D’Addario from Jedonia is my best guess. I think I just found your onlyfans, was not expecting a full body tattoo, I like the overall theme you’re going with there. Doxxing is easy if you just assume the first result is your target and double down on it ; :winking_face_with_tongue:

This is certainly way more likely and easier to have happen than you’d think. Screwinf someone over in an MMO seems to be a surefire way to invite death onto your family, or used to be one of the only ways, until social media became the true MMO of the internet.

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Yes, I’m in the same position - but that’s because I don’t really bother to hide my identity from any but the most casual observer.

Even so, whilst you could easily find the name behind this account, you’d have a very hard time proving it. “That wasn’t me - it was someone pretending to be me / using the same screen name”.

It’s getting increasingly hard to find a screen name that is in some way meaningful to yourself and others - all the good ones are already taken. I am Polyphemus here, and on Steam - but on Nvidia forums I had to be something else - Polyphemus was already taken.

It’s likely that somewhere or other, lots of people are using the same screen name as you.

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True, but I feel that if the government starts taking action against people posting stuff they don’t like, we’re probably also past the legal process of having to prove anything…

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While I do own a guitar and do in fact use D’addario strings, that’s definitely not my strong suit… :grimacing:

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You got the relation the wrong way around. Social Media aren’t MMO’s. Rather, MMOs were the first significant form of social media.

Explains why I could never warm up to them, I guess…

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This is true.

There were chat rooms but you were basically a name and words.

With MMO you became a visible character. Something that resembled you or what you wanted others to think you looked like.

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It’s also true that in the early days of chat rooms, it was something of a specialist activity. Participants were generally computer enthusiasts first, and social conversationalists second. It was an expensive pastime, and required considerable technical knowledge.

Nowadays, social media is available to any random psychopath with a phone. In fact, sometimes it seems they’re the target audience.

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My first experience with an MMO netted me 2 guys about 10 years younger than me with a mother fixation. It was quite unnerving. One of them became violently angry over something I said and the other followed me across other games because he had my PS name.

He followed me onto SOCOM a number of times where I played with a group of guys I personally knew. They saw to it he got put on the opposing team and I was able to blow him up, shoot him down, whatever it took, to finally get my point across :sweat_smile:

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