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Vaccine Passport Infrastructure and the Illusion of Revolution

from #264 - Time Is A Fat Circle | The Tim Dillon Show · #264

5 min

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They discuss how surveillance and payment-processor deplatforming infrastructure is already built, then mock January 6th and modern protest movements as clownish compared to real historical revolutionary activity, comparing it to Trotsky photocopying his ass.

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  • Tim's concern about vaccine passport architecture already being technologically feasible through phones, payment processors, and the ability to kick people off the internet.
  • The window for meaningful action on issues like this probably closed about twenty years ago, similar to climate change.
  • A revolution in this country would look like a guy in a Viking helmet taking selfies in Congress for his Facebook profile picture.
  • January 6th represents the most revolutionary activity Americans are likely to see—adults in costumes taking photos of themselves.
  • Misinformation and the real yahoos attracted by false claims like Stop the Steal poison the possibility of any credible uprising.
  • The last actual terrorist attacks—Boston Marathon, 9/11, Oklahoma City—all involved the FBI having extensive surveillance and infiltration of the perpetrators.
  • Even militant groups and white supremacists seem more clownish now than they used to, despite the increasingly weird and bad discourse.
  • Everything feels more clownish because it's dawning on people that things don't get better anymore.
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