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so if i understand exactly correctly

it would not be treason for drone armies of automated bots deployed in the field because they aren’t human?

if there were the same number of people standing on street corners collecting the same data as ring doorbells and waymos in san francisco, to sell for political and military applications, where does the treason begin?

how many humans need to conspire to erode democracy for it to count to your standards?



No. Because we are not at war, and have not been since WWII.

Treason requires a war.


hang on, the US has not been at war since WWII?


Yep. Messed me up too when I learned that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_Un...

Matches the last treason charges too. WWII was the last time anyone was charged (and convicted) of treason.


ah yeah, that helps a lot— this conversation has really driven home the meaning of “the post-war era”

likely, we’ll never be at war again based on how we now do conflicts, waging language semantics and syntax

no war, no treason, no problem

we are evolved, there is no war in Ba Sing Se


Let's hope. Our "wars" post WWII, as bad as they were, were nowhere near the nightmares of the first two world wars.


100% agreed.


hey yo, sorry to bother you, but just circling back after the news today

the constitution being edited was “a coding error”

if it wasn’t though, no assemblage of men, still no treason.




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