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[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

So just figure out who’s on the security team. They can have their minds changed.

[–] ushmel@piefed.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I'm glad I played cyberpunk 2077 bc this is playing out exactly like a cyberpunk dystopia

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Here's hoping they keep living in fear.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Good, now let's home that one of their personal securty goons turns against them.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Glad to see someone that thinks similarly to me. The more goons, the more potential holes!

[–] vane@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder what companies provide such services. Is it more private army like Blackwater or some regular VIP security company.

[–] ushmel@piefed.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Firms like Blackwater usually start as private VIP security. Gotta build that rep.

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago

All those tech tools and they still have to hire humans to make them safe. Hope the help don’t turn on the greedy tech bosses /s.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 hours ago

Think how truly life changing it would be, if $1m just popped into your bank account one day - you could pay off your mortgage, buy a new car, start a business, or take your family on a vacation to remember.

Mark Zuckerberg could do that each and every single day of the year

36 times over…

just from a 5% return on his current net worth!

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 2 points 10 hours ago

"I could create a better, safer world for myself and everyone else, building genuine goodwill from my fellow human beings... nah. I'll just triple-down on the alienation and paranoia."

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The number of private security firms the FT has been able to interview tells its own story, and their backgrounds too: experienceD, skilled staff leaving the FBI to set up business as entourage for our new feudal overlords. 

People are losing faith in society as having anything approaching meritocracy. Rising to the top is no longer credible. And it’s not just security spending, it’s all that work on their mythos and origin stories promoting the idea that they are ubermensch.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It fails because there is a top. Democracies, where being a high profile politician is just another job, are mostly healthy.