The Internet of Bodies and the Plot to Enslave Mankind

True; but it doesn't need to be one that can think on the level of a human being.
As things progress, they are finding that they don’t actually need strong AI to do the things once thought to be limited to the realm of human intelligence tasks. All they need are a hodgepodge of specialized AIs capable of performing specific tasks. And then, in the end, these AIs can be combined into a “Gestalt”. For instance, multimodal LLMs can feed commands to image generators, and then interpret the result.

We have not solved the hard problem of consciousness. We don’t know if consciousness can even be simulated in a computer or if it requires as-yet unknown physics. Without an understanding of the fundamental physics of consciousness, engineering a self-aware AI is out of the question. GPT-4 is not a person, but it is capable of an astonishing mimicry of intelligence through statistical modeling, to the point where it appears capable of planning and insight.
 
RAND have a new report out as a 42-page PDF. "Plagues, Cyborgs, and Supersoldiers".


Some of their vignettes in the report include things like a hypothetical spy going in for cataract surgery and having a tiny camera installed in their eye to steal classified documents, and aging congressmen having BCIs implanted to supplement or replace their declining mental faculties only to become mentally unstable as a consequence. IoB is discussed extensively, as well as the emergence of the human body itself as a "new domain of warfare". 🤮 🤮 🤮
 
RAND have a new report out as a 42-page PDF. "Plagues, Cyborgs, and Supersoldiers".


Some of their vignettes in the report include things like a hypothetical spy going in for cataract surgery and having a tiny camera installed in their eye to steal classified documents, and aging congressmen having BCIs implanted to supplement or replace their declining mental faculties only to become mentally unstable as a consequence. IoB is discussed extensively, as well as the emergence of the human body itself as a "new domain of warfare". 🤮 🤮 🤮

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

-Howard Philips Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu.
 
A friend shared this paper with me, recently. Wow. Just wow.


The potential role of bottom-up Synthetic Cells (SCs) in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) is discussed. In particular, this perspective paper focuses on the growing interest in networks of biological and/or artificial objects at the micro- and nanoscale (cells and subcellular parts, microelectrodes, microvessels, etc.), whereby communication takes place in an unconventional manner, i.e., via chemical signaling. The resulting "molecular communication" (MC) scenario paves the way to the development of innovative technologies that have the potential to impact biotechnology, nanomedicine, and related fields. The scenario that relies on the interconnection of natural and artificial entities is briefly introduced, highlighting how Synthetic Biology (SB) plays a central role. SB allows the construction of various types of SCs that can be designed, tailored, and programmed according to specific predefined requirements. In particular, "bottom-up" SCs are briefly described by commenting on the principles of their design and fabrication and their features (in particular, the capacity to exchange chemicals with other SCs or with natural biological cells). Although bottom-up SCs still have low complexity and thus basic functionalities, here, we introduce their potential role in the IoBNT. This perspective paper aims to stimulate interest in and discussion on the presented topics. The article also includes commentaries on MC, semantic information, minimal cognition, wetware neuromorphic engineering, and chemical social robotics, with the specific potential they can bring to the IoBNT.
 
Wanna see some really disturbing stuff? Leaked presentation slides. The tech I've been describing in this thread is absolutely real and in production.



These are 300 micron devices with rectennas capable of converting wireless energy into a current. They're very primitive, basically like teeny tiny RFID tags. Little more than identifiers. They are experimenting with ones that are much, much smaller, for the Terahertz band. They plan on 6G having Terahertz communication, specifically to function with implanted nano-devices.

Don't people see where this is leading? Injectable bionics powered by beamforming from cell towers at long distances and from ubiquitous metasurface antennas at short distances. That is the goal.
 
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When I was a kid, I was dimly aware of the Internet of Things. Telecom researchers were always going on about it back in the mid-2000s, and it started being adopted as an actual principle around the time smartphones showed up.

People were talking about cramming sensors and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips in everything, from picture frames to flower pots. I always felt that this was wasteful, pointless, and excessive. Just a bunch of new things in the house where you have to change out AAAs or button cells every few months to keep it working. Who the hell was buying those stupid refrigerators with screens in 'em and using them to watch football while they microwaved a hot pocket? Basically, IoT is pure bullshit. I always thought of it as a solution in search of a problem. It seemed so gimmicky, like a ham-fisted attempt to carve out a niche for something that simply didn't need to exist.

In retrospect, I am starting to believe that IoT was a trojan horse for something else entirely: the Internet of Bodies. That is, IoT where you are the thing.

They call it by many names. Internet of Bodies (IoB), Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT), Intra-Body Nano-Networks, In-Body Communication, Bionanotechnology, Biodigital Convergence, and so on and so forth. This is because the concept is so new that they haven't decided on harmonized jargon for it. A bunch of different scientists working on different branches of IoB came up with their own terminology, so we have like half a dozen different acronyms for the same thing. For simplicity's sake, I'll refer to implanted nanotech and cloud-enabled wearable medical devices primarily as IoB, the over-arching category that includes the other implementations of the same idea, with Bionanotechnology as the method.

There was a book published in 1946 by Oliver L. Reiser entitled The World Sensorium. To quote from the chapter, Birthing of the World Brain:



In this book, in the same chapter, there is also a quote from Julian Huxley, the brother of Aldous Huxley (the author of Brave New World, naturally), which reads:



Likewise, H.G. Wells held numerous talks and wrote essays on the thirties on the need for a "World Brain".




To a certain extent, the internet has fulfilled that promise. Nearly 60% of the world's population has internet access in some form or another, allowing for instantaneous global collaboration, the sharing of knowledge and news, et cetera. It has brought us closer together in a way that no other technology has.

It has also sown seeds of division. As people started debating each other more often about their most strongly held personal beliefs that form the basis of their worldviews, many have retreated into echo chambers forming islands of serenity where all argument about anything beyond the most trivial of matters is avoided entirely.

These days, it's difficult to find someone willing to wade into a forum where most of the members hold an opposing viewpoint. Why bother, when one can always get a dopamine hit of approval from preaching to the choir? Even the moderators join in on enforcing echo chambers, deleting or suppressing posts that lie too far outside a forum's Overton Window. Try going on Sufficient Velocity and saying that the gas attacks in Syria were faked. I did that, once. I had a mod tell me, straight-up, "You can't say that the gas attacks in Syria were faked". It wasn't even up for debate. They just flatly denied it was possible, in spite of the leaked conflicting report that showed that the cylinders they found were likely hand-placed, and that the chlorine concentrations in the air were in the range of a couple parts per billion; no more than what you'd get from people doing their laundry.

So, we have a World Brain, but it's a partial one. It's not complete. It's not the damn-near-hive-mind that Julian Huxley and H.G. Wells envisioned nearly a century ago. Far from it. It's an engine of social tension, with disparate levels of access and incomplete coverage. It's like the unfinished Akulakhan under Red Mountain in Morrowind. The internet is an incomplete god.

There was always one final step to completing it, and that final step was connecting everyone's minds and bodies directly to the internet.

Every time I bring this up, people think I'm joking. There's no way. This is just some Black Mirror nonsense. They can't actually be doing this, right?

Wrong. Not only are they doing this, they're doing it right under everyone's noses. Everything about it is published out in the open, in plain view. Two of the leading figures in this field are Ian F. Akyildiz and Josep M. Jornet:














A few key things to keep in mind:


How did I find out about these two researchers and their work? Simple. I asked ChatGPT using the GPT-4 model, and without hesitation, it told me. Everything.

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A few years ago, Charles Lieber was indicted by the DOJ for double-dipping and taking money from China's Thousand Talents Plan against the terms of his DOD grants. He was collaborating with the Wuhan University of Technology and taking great big sacks of cash from China, and he was also engaging in tax evasion.




Supposedly, he was working on silicon nanowire batteries for the WUT.




There's just one problem. None of his papers involve batteries in any way, shape or form. All of his research involves bionanotechnology.


For instance, here's an incredibly creepy paper about having neurons internalize silicon nanowires by coating them with HIV TAT peptides, potentially using them as teeny tiny biosensors residing in the cytosol alongside all the little organelles inside those cells:




Yes, I'm sure this sort of research is very useful for building batteries. That's why he had gobs of DARPA, AFOSR, and ONR funding. Batteries. Right. :rolleyes:

The conspiracy is gonna conspiracy you know folks!
 
To do what though?
The Internet of Everything and Biodigital Convergence.



I don't think people understand fully what's happening here, so let me lay it all out.
  • Mind Monitoring/Control
    • Wireless BCI tech is being developed that is capable of read-out and write-in on human cortical neurons. This is pretty much indisputable at this point. Look up DARPA's N3 program, nanotransducers, magnetogenetics, chemogenetics, et cetera. Basically, engineered proteins or semiconductor nanoparticles are introduced into brain tissue to manipulate the membrane potential of brain cells and monitor their states. This is not theoretical. The tech has been tested and wireless stimulation of fruit fly neurons achieved by scientists at Rice University.
    • In the context of IoB/IoE, this tech would be used for suppressing dissent, manipulating satiety (i.e. making people comfortable with poor living standards by altering the function of reward networks in the brain), predictive policing, algorithmic governance, et cetera.
    • It would also be used for intelligence-gathering on a large scale, reconstructing people's private thoughts into profiles of their brains and their psychology. This has echoes in the old "Total Information Awareness" program that was shelved years ago because the tech wasn't good enough.
    • Such BCIs would also be used for VR, access to the Metaverse, et cetera, by entering controlled lucid dream-like states. BCI entertainment would be the main draw for a lot of people, because their living conditions will be so poor that they'll seek escapism instead of engaging with real life. Think Ready Player One.
  • Tracking, Tracing, Activity Monitoring
    • IoB networks will be used not only to track people's locations and activities in the manner of a GPS, but also, things like the endpoints of their limbs, what their hands and fingers are doing, et cetera. This is already doable. Neuralink experiments on pigs show that if you have a BCI implanted in an animal's motor cortex, you can produce a digital twin of their skeleton that reconstructs all of their real-world intentions to move their limbs. This would produce tremendous amounts of data, which would be fed into machine learning algorithms and huge data centers. Eventually, this will become precise enough for an AI to instantly determine if your hands are doing something illegal, like building a pipe bomb, and notify the authorities. Everyone would have an implanted snitch inside them.
  • Digital ID and Tokenization of Human Brain and Body Data
    • The tech would be used to store a cryptographically secure digital identity on everyone's person that would be mandatory for access to Central Bank Digital Currencies, for the ability to purchase anything at all, et cetera. Physical wallets and cards and cash would go away entirely. Every new endorsement you had, every piece of ID, would just be kept on a server somewhere and linked to your body's cryptographic signature. Get a bank account and a debit or credit card? That goes in your body ID. Get a driver's license or motorcycle endorsement? That goes in your body ID. Get a TWIC card, or military USID, or a passport? That goes in your body ID. The physical documents and cards would just no longer exist at all.
    • Mass surveillance of human brains and bodies would also have financial implications, as the data is fed into "Human Behavioral Futures" markets, and speculators gain windfalls from turning ordinary human activity into a subject of financial betting. The Internet of Everything and One Health would be used as an excuse to inventory and control literally every last human, plant, and animal resource, tokenize it, and financialize it.
  • Human Re-Engineering
    • Many of the biosensors being developed for IoB/IoE systems are designed specifically to observe and manipulate genetic expression, and so on, turning living humans and animals into walking gene laboratories, examining how genes give rise to phenotypes and affect behavior, and so on. This information is then being fed back into machine learning algorithms that will be used to create bespoke, designer organisms, up to and including re-engineered humans with germline modifications, et cetera. With algorithms like AlphaFold, protein structure prediction by AI, and so on, we are entering an era of de novo gene and protein engineering, which will lead inexorably to genetic-level man-machine biohybridization.
    • Current cyborg tech is at the level of relatively crude engineered semiconductor based molecular nanotechnology (see the papers by Ian Akyildiz, Josep Jornet, Ozgur Akan, Charles Lieber, and so on). The next step is in-vivo biomanufacturing. People have no idea how far this stuff has come, or how far it will go. Look up the paper "A Morphospace for Synthetic Organs and Organoids". All organs and tissues that evolved in nature are but a tiny subset of the much larger set, "all possible organs that can exist". Once you get to the level of organ and tissue engineering, as well as protein and pathway engineering, especially in conjunction with AI, really weird and unbelievably biopunk things start to happen. Think ground-up, in-vivo biomanufacturing of computer components inside living bodies, out of amino acids and metal ions. Think biolasers running optronic computers inside a body. Think using proteins as quantum photonic waveguides and sweat glands as spiral antennas. Biological structures could be turned into receivers and translators of digital data. They could do things that nature never accounted for. Think of how Space Marines in WH40K have a shitload of engineered organs. Think of a scientist going, "Oh, don't mind me, I'm just going to implant some electric eel cells into a human to run some antennas and stuff". That's where this is headed, quite literally. Oh, and once it's part of the germline, you can never get rid of it. You're just born with all of this shit growing in you already.
Why would they do all of this? Simple! Humans are, from the perspective of the Elites:
  • Resource-hungry hoarders
  • Violent, aggressive, fractious, and criminal
  • Dogmatic
  • Bigoted
  • Paranoid
  • Stupid
  • Difficult to manage
  • Reproductively incontinent
In the future, there will be no incel terrorist problem, because the Elites, their IoB tech, and their AI algos will simply reach into the parts of the human brain's reward networks that govern things like sexual desire, tweak a few knobs here and there, and make it so that the average person has practically no libido and is a good, obedient worker drone perfectly fine with eating cricket powder and living in a pod hotel. If this leads to underpopulation, they'll just raise it back up a little bit, automatically. In other words, it's like an industrial feedback control mechanism but for people.

Have you ever fucked around with Programmable Logic Controllers? This is a PLC for humanity.

 
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BTW, these four articles are essential reading on the topic:




 
The Internet of Everything and Biodigital Convergence.



I don't think people understand fully what's happening here, so let me lay it all out.
  • Mind Monitoring/Control
    • Wireless BCI tech is being developed that is capable of read-out and write-in on human cortical neurons. This is pretty much indisputable at this point. Look up DARPA's N3 program, nanotransducers, magnetogenetics, chemogenetics, et cetera. Basically, engineered proteins or semiconductor nanoparticles are introduced into brain tissue to manipulate the membrane potential of brain cells and monitor their states. This is not theoretical. The tech has been tested and wireless stimulation of fruit fly neurons achieved by scientists at Rice University.
    • In the context of IoB/IoE, this tech would be used for suppressing dissent, manipulating satiety (i.e. making people comfortable with poor living standards by altering the function of reward networks in the brain), predictive policing, algorithmic governance, et cetera.
    • It would also be used for intelligence-gathering on a large scale, reconstructing people's private thoughts into profiles of their brains and their psychology. This has echoes in the old "Total Information Awareness" program that was shelved years ago because the tech wasn't good enough.
    • Such BCIs would also be used for VR, access to the Metaverse, et cetera, by entering controlled lucid dream-like states. BCI entertainment would be the main draw for a lot of people, because their living conditions will be so poor that they'll seek escapism instead of engaging with real life. Think Ready Player One.
  • Tracking, Tracing, Activity Monitoring
    • IoB networks will be used not only to track people's locations and activities in the manner of a GPS, but also, things like the endpoints of their limbs, what their hands and fingers are doing, et cetera. This is already doable. Neuralink experiments on pigs show that if you have a BCI implanted in an animal's motor cortex, you can produce a digital twin of their skeleton that reconstructs all of their real-world intentions to move their limbs. This would produce tremendous amounts of data, which would be fed into machine learning algorithms and huge data centers. Eventually, this will become precise enough for an AI to instantly determine if your hands are doing something illegal, like building a pipe bomb, and notify the authorities. Everyone would have an implanted snitch inside them.
  • Digital ID and Tokenization of Human Brain and Body Data
    • The tech would be used to store a cryptographically secure digital identity on everyone's person that would be mandatory for access to Central Bank Digital Currencies, for the ability to purchase anything at all, et cetera. Physical wallets and cards and cash would go away entirely. Every new endorsement you had, every piece of ID, would just be kept on a server somewhere and linked to your body's cryptographic signature. Get a bank account and a debit or credit card? That goes in your body ID. Get a driver's license or motorcycle endorsement? That goes in your body ID. Get a TWIC card, or military USID, or a passport? That goes in your body ID. The physical documents and cards would just no longer exist at all.
    • Mass surveillance of human brains and bodies would also have financial implications, as the data is fed into "Human Behavioral Futures" markets, and speculators gain windfalls from turning ordinary human activity into a subject of financial betting. The Internet of Everything and One Health would be used as an excuse to inventory and control literally every last human, plant, and animal resource, tokenize it, and financialize it.
  • Human Re-Engineering
    • Many of the biosensors being developed for IoB/IoE systems are designed specifically to observe and manipulate genetic expression, and so on, turning living humans and animals into walking gene laboratories, examining how genes give rise to phenotypes and affect behavior, and so on. This information is then being fed back into machine learning algorithms that will be used to create bespoke, designer organisms, up to and including re-engineered humans with germline modifications, et cetera. With algorithms like AlphaFold, protein structure prediction by AI, and so on, we are entering an era of de novo gene and protein engineering, which will lead inexorably to genetic-level man-machine biohybridization.
    • Current cyborg tech is at the level of relatively crude engineered semiconductor based molecular nanotechnology (see the papers by Ian Akyildiz, Josep Jornet, Ozgur Akan, Charles Lieber, and so on). The next step is in-vivo biomanufacturing. People have no idea how far this stuff has come, or how far it will go. Look up the paper "A Morphospace for Synthetic Organs and Organoids". All organs and tissues that evolved in nature are but a tiny subset of the much larger set, "all possible organs that can exist". Once you get to the level of organ and tissue engineering, as well as protein and pathway engineering, especially in conjunction with AI, really weird and unbelievably biopunk things start to happen. Think ground-up, in-vivo biomanufacturing of computer components inside living bodies, out of amino acids and metal ions. Think biolasers running optronic computers inside a body. Think using proteins as quantum photonic waveguides and sweat glands as spiral antennas. Biological structures could be turned into receivers and translators of digital data. They could do things that nature never accounted for. Think of how Space Marines in WH40K have a shitload of engineered organs. Think of a scientist going, "Oh, don't mind me, I'm just going to implant some electric eel cells into a human to run some antennas and stuff". That's where this is headed, quite literally. Oh, and once it's part of the germline, you can never get rid of it. You're just born with all of this shit growing in you already.
Why would they do all of this? Simple! Humans are, from the perspective of the Elites:
  • Resource-hungry hoarders
  • Violent, aggressive, fractious, and criminal
  • Dogmatic
  • Bigoted
  • Paranoid
  • Stupid
  • Difficult to manage
  • Reproductively incontinent
In the future, there will be no incel terrorist problem, because the Elites, their IoB tech, and their AI algos will simply reach into the parts of the human brain's reward networks that govern things like sexual desire, tweak a few knobs here and there, and make it so that the average person has practically no libido and is a good, obedient worker drone perfectly fine with eating cricket powder and living in a pod hotel. If this leads to underpopulation, they'll just raise it back up a little bit, automatically. In other words, it's like an industrial feedback control mechanism but for people.

Have you ever fucked around with Programmable Logic Controllers? This is a PLC for humanity.


I do agree with the elites that most humans are pretty fucking stupid actually, lol
 
Ooh what is this? Are there any video games or movies or similar media set in this universe?
It's an online collaborative writing project that's been around for a very long time. There is some visual media for it, in the sense that some of the pages have old-school, cheesy 3D renders and stuff for flavor pics, and it has quite the unique aesthetic. The setting is a very freaky post-singularity world like the Cultureverse or Eclipse Phase on LSD, where the ruling AIs have achieved practical godhood and are terrifying, indifferent, Lovecraftian things who can build or erase entire societies on a whim. I think they're working on a game and TTRPG for it. It's pretty neat.
 
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Think of the Flow from Orion's Arm. That's what they're after. A totally self-managing society.
I think James J. O'Meara explained it best, the problem isn't just that they're megalomaniac and authoritarian but also that they're lazy, to the point where their unwillingness to do the bare minimum to build and maintain infrastructure threatens both us and their own power.
From a purely pragmatic viewpoint, they've crippled their own empire in the name of cost-cutting.

Offshored all actual meaningful industries to save a buck on unionized American labor meaning that they can't build war machines without parts from the guys they want us to fight and our population is justifiably demoralized by having been declared redundant and will refuse to be their cannon fodder.

Hence the singularitarianism. They accurately recognize that without a miracle or reforms they're unwilling to make, they're screwed, and figure prayer to the Omnissiah is cheaper than reindustrialization and less likely to create middle class wealth contrary to their larger agenda to reduce everyone else to company town feudalism.
 
I think James J. O'Meara explained it best, the problem isn't just that they're megalomaniac and authoritarian but also that they're lazy, to the point where their unwillingness to do the bare minimum to build and maintain infrastructure threatens both us and their own power.
From a purely pragmatic viewpoint, they've crippled their own empire in the name of cost-cutting.

Offshored all actual meaningful industries to save a buck on unionized American labor meaning that they can't build war machines without parts from the guys they want us to fight and our population is justifiably demoralized by having been declared redundant and will refuse to be their cannon fodder.

Hence the singularitarianism. They accurately recognize that without a miracle or reforms they're unwilling to make, they're screwed, and figure prayer to the Omnissiah is cheaper than reindustrialization and less likely to create middle class wealth contrary to their larger agenda to reduce everyone else to company town feudalism.

The only reason why they'd be "serious about another Cold War" on paper, but not doing anything to fix America's crippled infrastructure or dissolved manufacturing base, is if they plan on putting the US through a controlled demolition and moving all their capital and operations to BRICS countries. That's what dedollarization and a "multipolar world" means. When they say they want a "multipolar world" and an "end to USD hegemony", what do people think that means? Seriously? It means they want to decouple finance capital from the US and leave us to rot as one giant fentanyl ghetto. The Neo-Cold-War propaganda narrative they push on people makes this seem impossible. "Xi Jinping would never be taken advantage of by Western elites! He's his own man, and that makes him dangerous!" But is he really his own man, or just another head of the hydra?

Why would they do this? Simple. America has too many angry nativists who are sick and tired of table scraps, and the elites don't want to pay what American labor is worth or subsidize good, first-world living standards. They want austerity for everyone but them, even if it means toppling first-world prosperity. Even if it means sawing off the tree limb they're sitting on. The COVID-19 vaccines were about crippling Americans and American servicemen to give China an advantage in the war for Taiwan. Can't fly F-35s over the strait if you're grounded because of a heart condition. Our traitorous elites did all of this as a gift to China, their new parasite host.

They don't want the middle class to exist. They don't want upward mobility. They don't want to be replaced by a new elite. What they want is for everyone to live in Ready Player One favelas, eating cricket powder and using VR goggles to simulate wealth they will never have. And, of course, they want this crude neofeudalism of theirs to be automated by AI so they don't have to do any administrative work, just recline on a couch while robotic servants lower grapes into their mouths like the portrait of a classical hedonist.
 
The only reason why they'd be "serious about another Cold War" on paper, but not doing anything to fix America's crippled infrastructure or dissolved manufacturing base, is if they plan on putting the US through a controlled demolition and moving all their capital and operations to BRICS countries. That's what dedollarization and a "multipolar world" means. When they say they want a "multipolar world" and an "end to USD hegemony", what do people think that means? Seriously? It means they want to decouple finance capital from the US and leave us to rot as one giant fentanyl ghetto. The Neo-Cold-War propaganda narrative they push on people makes this seem impossible. "Xi Jinping would never be taken advantage of by Western elites! He's his own man, and that makes him dangerous!" But is he really his own man, or just another head of the hydra?

Why would they do this? Simple. America has too many angry nativists who are sick and tired of table scraps, and the elites don't want to pay what American labor is worth or subsidize good, first-world living standards. They want austerity for everyone but them, even if it means toppling first-world prosperity. Even if it means sawing off the tree limb they're sitting on. The COVID-19 vaccines were about crippling Americans and American servicemen to give China an advantage in the war for Taiwan. Can't fly F-35s over the strait if you're grounded because of a heart condition. Our traitorous elites did all of this as a gift to China, their new parasite host.
My point is, that probably was the plan but it isn't working because oops, making China rich and powerful did nothing to make China loyal to them and now they're panicking at the realization that the next superpower knows them for the backstabbing worthless leaches they are and their current hosts are simultaneously too weak to stop China and would meet conscription and wartime emergency with violent revolt.
If that's their plan, they are doing a grand scale equivalent of a post-apocalyptic merchant selling all his weapons to a warlord.
The warlord smiles, pays, hands out the guns to his henchmen, and tells the merchant to give back all his payment, and then everything else he owns, because he is a fucking idiot.
They don't want the middle class to exist. They don't want upward mobility. They don't want to be replaced by a new elite. What they want is for everyone to live in Ready Player One favelas, eating cricket powder and using VR goggles to simulate wealth they will never have. And, of course, they want this crude neofeudalism of theirs to be automated by AI so they don't have to do any administrative work, just recline on a couch while robotic servants lower grapes into their mouths like the portrait of a classical hedonist.
This is the new plan. Reshoring with robots means no more dependency on enemies for logistics and doesn't recreate a domestic middle class.
 

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