@cjd @fu @mr_penguin Would you be okay with open borders, but have Hoppean-style covenant communities for people who only want to associate with certain groups?
@Forestofenchantment Not surprising, given that Google is literally a CIA creation.
The more I look into the SovCit movement, the more apparent it becomes that it's just some fed created psyop made to get libertarians, anarchists, secessionists, and any other critics of government overreach to commit felonies out in the open and in the dumbest of ways.
Don't like license plate laws? Just use this exemption plate that has been shown multiple times not to work. Don't like paying taxes even though your boss pays you in government-traceable bank deposits, just use this legalese that even if true, won't work because of the rigged judicial system.
It's literally just the exact opposite of QAnon. Where QAnon got people to do nothing, SovCit gets people arrested. Granted, some SovCits actually won court cases, but those were because of technicalities and those are extremely rare cases. Like I said, even if they are right about US history and law, they will never get their way due to the rigged judicial system (they never select intelligent juries), which is why I think the feds created the movement to bait political dissidents into the slammer.
The results were more or less what I was expecting. It looks like people are a lot more optimistic about it than a few years ago, judging from the people who voted option 2, 3, and 5.
I don't know. Sometimes, it does feel like it's less likely to happen, that it would be half-assed, or that it will happen but collapse. However, it also feels like they are just going to rebrand it to make it appeal more to conservatives and some libertarians.
There are also some things that I can't see happening in five years. I get that home ownership is declining, but I can't see people not even owning the clothes they wear by 2030, and there is no way you are going to condition people to accept a new social contract that says something like that within five years. Everyone has cherished possessions that they even value over their own friends. You have a better chance at getting Americans to give up their guns.
@beardalaxy It's free advertising.
@gabriel I never heard of anyone who went vegan to lose weight. Maybe vegetarian, but veganism is not just a diet, it's a lifestyle. You have to give up any animal-based products (not just food) in order to become vegan. Some even refused to use lethal pest control.
Veganism failed because COVID was a wake up call for many people when it comes to mainstream science. COVID skepticism also lead to a rise of climate skepticism which probably took veganism with it, and it became clear that many people who were pushing it wanted a two-tier society.
This is definitely a KILLER use case. I very much hope it gets built!
https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/social-web-foundation-is-betting-big-on-client-to-server-api/
@beardalaxy I thought of nominating the Phantasy Star characters from the original tetraology, but I think they're way too obscure.
@beardalaxy I'm surprised you didn't nominate any of your God's Disdain characters.