What's sad is, they already essentially do this with us.

No, not exterminate, just control with even further violence. The rich are stupid and useless, but they do know that they need bodies to do their work for them, even if they’ll never admit it.

This is, honestly, much worse because complacent people won’t fight back nearly as hard.

They don't care about extermination. Lol. How do you exploit the dead?

They want you alive. And supple to their desires.

They are very small, and we have a LOT of raw sewage, and some very powerful pumps.

Won't take long.

That’s why they’ll fit their guards with death collars to prevent them from getting ideas.

I was thinking it'd be a real shame if someone waited for them to go inside and then welded the gates closed.

Walls work both ways. Sieges are back on the menu boys!

We played this game back in the 70s, during White Flight. I lived through it.

White professionals got very paranoid about living in THE CITY. Built giant gated communities just at the edge of town. Stuffed their neighborhoods with cops and private guards and security cameras and retractable road spikes and giant fuck-off electric gates and stone walls. Then nothing happened for a few years, and people inside realized this shit was boring af and obnoxiously expensive.

So they brought in a bunch of developers to add parks and malls and theaters and clubs. And then these places needed labor, so they built a bunch of low-rent housing just outside the spots just outside THE CITY. And these places filed up with the same working class folks who lived in THE CITY. But now the white professionals weren't living in the exurbs anymore, they were living in THE CITY again. So they all panicked and sold out and fled to the new edge of town.

And we've been repeating this pattern for 50 years, such that now it's a two fucking hour drive to get from Katy or Clear Lake or The Woodlands into downtown Houston where all the fucking professional jobs are. But, of course, this is Texas so nobody is allowed to build commuter rail. Instead we have several hundred miles of twelve lane highways gobbling up a bunch of historically prime real estate. And we spend $1.1B/year on cops who mostly do dick-all jerking themselves off in their squad cars earning 2.5x overtime pay on six figure salaries.

Everyone under 30 wants to GTFO of these horrible boring overpriced suburbs. While everyone over 60 is still too terrified to walk out their front doors when they live 30 miles outside of town, because the news said someone in a suburb on the opposite side of the city was center stage on the nightly news for getting their purse snatched.

But hey, don't worry, because Palantir Presents THE PANOPTICON is coming soon. And they'll definitely finally permanently for real this time solve the problem of crime forever. Just give them access to your retirement account so you can pay for it.

"We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep."

Well, contrary to their self-perception, they're not always the sharpest spoons in the forest.

You don't have to be when you can afford to pay more competent people to take care of literally everything for you 🤷

I think drones are the new siege weapons.

I saw some really neat YouTube videos about trebuchet. They don't seem that complex.