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I think something along the lines of an augmented powered exoskeleton, or passive ones…

https://www.fieldtexcases.com/blog/medical-military-applications-exoskeleton-suits/

… could plausibly upscale into basically Power Armor… and you could maybe also upscale them into basically forklift with legs that you wear, from the loading bay in Alien…

I think those kinds of things are certainly within the realm of plausibility… presuming the power source can be made actually usefully weight efficient.

You can be a kind of up armored and up armed soldier, you can lift heavy shit, carry it a really long way, across broken terrain (that can support the weight).

Pair these with an active defense system, and they might actually be reasonable useful in certain military scenarios.

Its kinda like how just saying ‘drones’ is reductive… different sizes, scales, carrying capacities / payloads, ranges, speeds, methods of communication, propulsion systems, power sources … create a huge spectrum of different types and niches.

We have humanoid robots that can do bipedal locomotion pretty fucking well, without a pilot.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vW3QoaPnDGA

Pair a similar kind of software with something closer to a suit, strapped around a human, all it has to do is translate human motions to the scale of the suit, do intelligent stabilizing, kinda like how modern aircraft controls are fly by wire, not pure analog.

Now… would these kinds of things be practical, in terms of production costs vs actual utility?

No fucking clue lol.

How many voted-in politicians regularly commit war crimes?

Not many, but they have been known to tell other people to, on their behalf.

Partially agree to it, the ICC, not full ICJ jurisdiction for every member of the US government.

Everybody in DoD is subject to it, and then define a mechanism where if a DoD official is asked or ordered to do something that could make them liable to be sent to the Hague, theres a mechanism for instantaneous security declassification and emergency presentation to Congress, that also permits the order to be stayed untill voted on by both chambers as a legitimate or illegitimate order, also simultaneously voting on impeaching and removing the offending politician(s).

Thus, it ain’t a politician directly voting to potentially fuck themselves, and it isn’t a total … relinquishing of US sovereign authority.

Something like that.

Some kind of mechanism like this would also augment what the War Powers Act tries to do but does not actually do well at all. Starting a war of aggression is a war crime.

Its true that its tenuous, reversible.

But if it could be activated and used even once, thats one Presidential term more in line with the people, than with anything else.

Its far from perfect, but it is a useful tool, a potential step toward a new kind of politics, where the backward empty states stop having their bonus pity handicap points, and thus an outsized ability to force their ignorance on the masses.

Franklin did dare us all to try and “keep it”, and I’d say we’d be fools not to make use of every legitimate method to do so.

Its a kind of hack, a way to do essentially a Constitutional Ammendment without actually doing one, but that can also be ‘repealed’ more easily than an Ammendment.

If you can use it, and well exploit the advantage… eventually, you can reshape the system.

No guarantees, but… its an opening, an opportunity.

Exactly.

Its not the whole solution, but a step toward it.

This.

This had crossed my mind last night.

… it might actually be possible to unfuck this clusterfuck of a country.

God damnit, you cold war political thriller blue balled me!

Not with that attitude it won’t.

Fatalism is nice and all, and I fall into myself a good deal …

… but if ever there was a moment to believe that it at least might be possible to wrest control of the ship of state from these goddamned corrupt pedophile war mongers, it’d be now.

Then change the goddamned policy.

Sam Seder had the correct response to this.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUkdWKsfUQ

I am ignorant, and curious.

Can you expound?

Send this goddamned traitor to the Hague, in the same shackled, blindfolded and gagged getup as all the Guantanamo Bay prisoners he oversaw.

How dare you minimize the role that deranged, brain damaged, racist genocide supporters play in American politics!

I see you have not yet recieved your welcome gift!

You may redeem this beans at the hugbox/echochamber of your choice for beans of equal or greater value.

You’re gonna need this.

… when the time comes, you’ll know what to do.

I mean, the scenario is you are in the backseat of a taxi.

So… yes, the driver was driving when they… pulled over to pick you up.

… but you are in that car!

Maybe at least get out of the car, before making an enemy of its driver?

Are supermarket owners in Europe typically… capitalist?

I am pointing out that the system that creates and maintains ‘supermarket owners’ does so in a way that also selects for and emphasizes certain traits in supermarket owners.

You’re asking capitalists to slightly not maximize short term profit… good luck.

Perhaps worse, you’re asking people who are full of themselves to question whether they might have been wrong/uniformed about something.

Again, good luck.

No!

They’re driving the car you are in!

They’re on your side!

It is true that non insane Christians exist, and genuienly try to be good and do good, though others may criticize the exact specifics of that ‘good’.

I’ve met a good deal of them, who genuienly are not animated by hate, but instead by love, who truly try to be beacons of stability and assistance for either their community or those in their personal lives.

… but there are so, so many who are driven by hate… the US political system is rigged to overrepresent them, and the results are sickening.

But yeah, I’m from ‘AM Talk Radio’ country, if that makes sense. Filled with ignorant manipulative and jealous people that love to justify their insecurity driven cruelty with god.

Its disgusting.

I am I guess lucky that I was curious and clever enough to start down the path of deprogramming myself, but the whole process took over a decade, and very nearly killed me.

Do not let these kinds of theofascist scumbags ever bully or gaslight you, as a person, or as a society.