You may well be correct. However, I do think there will be an appetite for justice after all this is over, and I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion that a future administration would go back and look at people from the current administration.
It’ll all come down to who’s making the decisions at that time, and whether the political calculus works out one way or another. I think it’s too early to speculate as to what an administration that is 3+ years in the future would do.
It’s definitely possible that this will continue across multiple generations. However, far more tyrannical governments have completely fallen apart after a couple of years, and it rarely goes well for those who had power in that time.
Regarding North Korea, yes they’ve had over 75 years of tyrannical autocracy, but that wasn’t in a vacuum. They have been largely dependent on first the Soviet Union, and now China; without those countries backing them up, they would have collapsed long ago. And Kim Il Sung specifically worked to create deification for his bloodline to consolidate power within his family; Trump so far has not been successful in doing the same, and so far nobody else has been able to match his cult of personality. As with many dictatorships throughout history, when the figurehead is gone, the regime starts to crumble.
I do take issue with your implication that hoping the regime will end is delusional. If we accept that we’ve already lost, what’s the point of fighting back? I do genuinely believe that this will end sooner rather than later, not out of delusion, but because so many people are fighting back against the administration and its goals without giving up. Even where I live, in one of the most conservative states in the country, there are tens of thousands of people who have turned out for protests and rallies. There have been ongoing daily protests, and even the conservatives I work with are upset about what’s happening.
We’ve been in such incredibly dark places before as a country, and we’ve made it out because people refused to give up. I refuse to assume this is inevitable, and I refuse to give up on working towards something better.
You’re probably right, but that should give everyone around Trump who wants or needs a pardon pause. Because if Trump can overturn Biden’s pardons, a future President can overturn Trump’s.
And it’s not wise for them to assume that a friendly President will be in power for the entire lifetime of everyone in the current administration. Even if they solidify power for a while, we’ve seen time and time again across history that it will eventually end.
Normally I would agree with you, but given how much they care about privacy (as indicated by what they write about and talk about on their podcast), I don’t think tracking is what they’re after in this specific case.
And they know that the signup won’t completely block AI, but it does help.