I disagree; I don’t think there’s any clear cut line at which you go from “normal” to “dystopia”; societies are dystopian by the extent to which they fail to be utopian. Fictional larger than life examples of “dystopia” grab our attention by presenting decades or centuries of changes in the blink of an eye. Often such societies aren’t even more repressive than our current ones; they just are more striking in presentation. And when they ARE more repressive it’s not because someone pushed the dystopia button; it’s from very long recurring events that push the slider to worse and worse positions.

AGI isn’t real and AI is a money pit of garbage.

What a pointless argument. At what point of societal ill do you go from “normal” or whatever to “dystopia”? You don’t. Dystopia is a relative term; in a sense everything is dystopian so long as you can imagine a better world; it’s the negation of utopia. Arguing “how close we are to dystopia” is missing the point; we should be arguing about what makes our society better versus worse, not getting hung up on classification labels.

austerity never begets prosperity. all it really does is temporarily paper over the losses of a waning empire. then you run out of labor to extract and shit hits the fan.

I’m not covering for Trump or downplaying his border fascism but the document indicates this is in response to a requirement for the US Waiver Program that was drawn up in 2022… when Biden was president.

In 2022, the United States of America (US) introduced a new requirement for all countries that have been admitted to or aspire to join the U.S. Visa Waiver Program (VWP). This program enables citizens of participating countries to travel to the US visa-free for a maximum of 90 days for the purposes of tourism or business. The new requirement entails the conclusion of an “Enhanced Border Security Partnership” (EBSP) with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a condition for admission to, and further participation in, the VWP, as a component of the already existing traveller information exchange requirement.

So the Biden admin got the ball rolling on this? I’m not surprised but I am perpetually disgusted that Democrats have gotten more fashy about the border than the fucking Bush administration was.

I am not an expert of EU law, what does a “proposal” actually mean? What is the journey from this document to it actually happening and what recourse do citizens have, if any? And why am I the first fucking person asking this question?