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Wasn’t this some aspect of the qanon stuff? I swear I’ve heard this shit in those fringes
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Right? No internet means no economy. Even the simplest daily things like getting gas require an internet connection.
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Stores and banks aren’t stocked or staffed for turning off e-commerce. Banks hate when customers walk in the door instead of doing everything online. And the stores woods have to find a drastically different equilibrium without internet advertising or orders. It would be absolute chaos.
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He shuts down major backbones, effectively turning off the U.S. Internet. At the same time, he releases a story to the media and telcos about a major attack on the backbones - a virus, whatever. There’s panic and chaos, as the country grinds to a halt.
He uses that to declare martial law.
After a sufficient time (a small number of days, or even hours), he turns the backbones back on, claiming experts have fixed the problem. Citing martial law, he puts restrictions in place on the U.S, Internet, as dictators do.
We now have severely limited access to real news and information, martial law, and a dictator in place. American Democracy is dead.
Vote Democrat. No matter how much you think they’re the same, they aren’t.
Well, he’d pretty much turn off the government if he turned off the internet anyway
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You say that as if Republicans don’t want exactly that.
Republicans don’t want government, but they do want their corporate masters to make money. Which whey won’t do if there is no internet.
Are you suggesting that the Republicans might lack a sense of foresight and awareness of the consequences of their actions? Well I never.
No internet, no imaginary numbers go up.
Lol every country on the brink that has tried this has incited their own revolution. When people loose their distraction machines they tend to aim anger in the right direction. I say turn it off.
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sounds like what he wants to do is block certain countries by ASN or something but doesn’t know how to say it properly
Trump breaks things because those things cost tax money. Given his other choices and reasons for those choices, it’s likely that some people on the internet has attacked him, and he wants to retaliate. Having control of the internet would be immense power. That would definitely appeal to him, too.
Trump was thinking about how he’s going to edit the nation’s .htaccess file in vim. He’s got a few new rules to add in
Hmm, covfefe was just him trying to remember how to quit out of VIM. it tracks.
To be clear this is unlikely to be a long term nation wide internet blackout. Rather, e.g., turn off the Internet in a section of a city and send in troops to deal with a protest.
Phew for a minute I was worried
I would have accepted this take in 2016 but not anymore. He’s running again to avoid the consequences of his shitty stupid choices. If he wins he’s gonna feel completely unshackled.
Oh and his allies have already been stacking the bureaucracy with loyalists. There won’t be any voices of reason in second administration because they already chased those people off.
Oh, that’s okay then!
I think he is too much of a narcissist to do something that would reduce the amount of attention he could receive.
Also:
It’s possible that he saw the episode and thought it was real.
It’s not a big truck
It’s not something you can just dump something off of
It’s a series of tubes
I know that qoute is a meme and all, but honestly I think the old dude had an idea of how the internet works and comparing it to a series of tubes aint completely wrong. I think he was just kinda bad at explaining it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZC67wXUTs
Genuinely a cool song!
My balls might turn off the internet
I’m seeing a lot of Newsweek posted here and that is disheartening, to say the least. Newsweek is half a step from the dailymail’s level of bombastic misrepresentation. Continued use of Newsweek as a source is not ideal as a result.
I’m surprised how many users upvotes click bait headlines.
Is this enough dictator behavior to call him an aspiring dictator for you yet?
It’s dick tater
“Just on day one”
Only if he actually does it.
he learned that idea when he visited his buddy Kim in North Korea
Classic coup move
Hands you a hollowed out hard copy of 1984 with a Sig 320 inside
We are going to need a lot more people trained in Gun Kata soon, Cleric.
But for now, its dangerous to go alone, take this!
I don’t know where Equilibrium came from but i approve.
I was replying to a user named Grammaton Cleric.
Oooooh, I missed that too. I love that film.
He’s going to call Bill Gates to do it.
You kid but he literally names Bill Gates in the article.
What about Bill Microsoft or Bill Windows?
I am half convinced if Gates hadn’t transferred in people’s minds from the head of Microsoft to that billionaire philanthropist, he might have gotten Bill Microsoft.”
He can sit alongside Tim Apple and Commander Cisco.
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