Think of it like a video game HUD where there’s just text floating above a person’s head where you see all their political beliefs, including the degree of bigotry (if any), or whether or not the person believes in the use of violence to acheive polical goals, basically every little detail that would accurately depict people’s political beliefs. Your beliefs are also visible to others. This effect has 1KM radius, including people above and below you.

So, how fucked are you?

(Think of all the authorities in your area that can see your beliefs, including the beliefs regarding the recent incident…)

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    I think if everyone was generally more aware of the details of everyone else’s political beliefs, we’d collectively be much less fucked than we are today.

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    If you’re engaging online at all, or donating to any politicians, the authorities are already aware of your politics.

    Depends on the implementation for me. I’m in the southern US. If it just says ‘socialist,’ I’m probably fucked. But if it actually shows policies I support, like ‘everyone is entitled to own the output of their own labor,’ then most people would probably agree with me. People are propagandized against the socialist/communist label, but most of them agree with the policies.

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      Depends on the specific “socialism” you believe in.

      For example, I still belive in a democratic system, I just want less of capitalism. So its would probably show me as either “Social Democrat” or “Democratic Socialist”. But it would also show my opposition to those “Marxist Leninist” variants of “Socialism”. Like “Opposed to the ‘communists’ in USSR and China” would probably be one of the labels that it shows.

      Well, lucky I live in a blue city, so hopefully nobody would attack me for it.

      If you explain your specfic beliefs before you get shot, maybe you could survive? Maybe…

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        Why be satisfied with just a little justice? Why be satisfied with a little more crumbs, and not going for the full lot?

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          Social democracy has proven to have some degree of sucess.

          Those Vanguardism types such as USSR and China only devolves into totalitarian regimes just with a different group of capitalists in power. China has nothing that resembles what real socialism should be, its just capitalism under a different banner.

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            China has lifted more people out of poverty than any country or economic system in history. You can’t do that under capitalism, because the gains are too concentrated. You’ve just been propagandized against China.

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    I’m white, I’m male, I’m straight, cis-gendered, and middle-class. My neighbours aren’t going to bother me. And if they also become aware of what “anarcho-communism” means in the process, they wouldn’t even blink.

    Thr police might not appreciate my thoughts on them, but I think they’d suddenly have way less public support in this scenario, so meh.

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    Oh, everybody can already see that. I’m a man in my 30s and I still wear my punk vest everywhere. My feelings on cops, Nazis, and fascists are made pretty clear on it, while anyone who recognizes basic anarchist emblems will see those too. It doesn’t do a perfect 1:1 job of communicating my beliefs, but I’m more open and specific with what I believe than any coward in a red hat

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    Does it apply to people online?

    Does it apply to people on a television screen?

    Does it apply to videos of people in the past, who have since changed their beliefs?

    What do I see if someone has convinced they are somebody else? Whose beliefs do I see?

    I kind of understand the premise (“what happens if we can’t hide our beliefs anymore”) but the details are too important to gloss over

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      Only applies to people physically within 1KM, including people above you on a plane (although IDK who flies that low), and also people below you in caves or tunnels. 1KM is any direction above below or diagonal. People who suffer from amnesia or schizophenia or any condition where they don’t know who they are anymore, would probably have their info glitching out on the HUD display. And holographic projections like in star wars are still not considered physical presence

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    Well considering politics isn’t something I’ve spent a lot of my time thinking about, and I suspect my ideas are somewhat under developed. Because of which I’d love to take a look at that scoreboard and see what it says about me. Because I have no clue what I truly believe anymore.

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    People have signs on their front lawn showing who they support. In a way, your hypothetical has been happening for decades. A lot of people don’t hide who they vote for.

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      I think you’ll find many people who are largely outnumbered in their area tend to opt out of signs.

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    Why does everybody think that so many people will just straight up murder everybody who doesn’t share their politics?

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      This is quietly a major issue in America. Fear of discourse and self-censorship. Leads to more and more echo chambers and anti-democratic behavior. :(

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      Also why would they come for you if you are progessive and leftist? I think, here in Greece at least, it’s far more likely people to be against you if you are a fascist. And I dont think Greece is much of a progressive country.🤷

      And besides all that, I think it’s kinda easy to get a rough idea of people’s beliefs anyways.

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      Because most people on Lemmy secretly (or not secretly) wish they could murder everyone who doesn’t share their politics and are projecting this on other people.

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      Because some of us have lived in places in the US where that’s pretty much been said and demonstrated before.

      If you don’t feel that way, consider yourself lucky to have never lived in extremely intolerant areas of the states that use violence against people who think, look, or behave differently.

      Edit: Amazing. The people down voting this and other sentiments choose to live in their own little bubble and have never been to parts of the US where this is true. Keep believing what you want to believe then.

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      Because a lot of people live in countries where “so many people will just straight up murder everybody who doesn’t share their politics”.

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        Lol no. Most people don’t give a shit about politics, nor take it as a “life or death” thing like in Lemmy.

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    I’m homeless and unemployed by the end of the day and have to flee the state. Both my landlord and general manager are hardcore MAGAts, and I live in a small, remote town in a very red state. It would genuinely not be safe for my politics to be known.

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    Not fucked at all. I agree with my beliefs, and I’m tired of being misunderstood. Having them be visible would be vindicating. I just want to be friends with everyone at the end of the day.

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    I’m fine. I live in Canada, and I’m not a fascist, Nazi, (colour) supremacist, or anything.

    I just lean to the left and appreciate public/social services; which is slightly “communist” but not “authoritarian Nazi” Communist. No no, you should be free to live how you want, work in whatever field you want, eat the food you like, love who you wanna love, and live how and where you want to live. I’m just in favor of things like, not bankrupting someone because they got pneumonia and had to go to the hospital for a day; also fire departments, schools, employment insurance (social/government), streets and roads, parks, sidewalks, community centers… You know, stuff that everyone owns, but nobody “owns”? Stuff we all can use without having to pay for it.

    I’m also in favor of UBI, but I realize that UBI may not happen anytime soon, maybe not in my lifetime. I hope it happens eventually (or at do away with fiat currency), for the good of the people, but I recognize the fight is difficult to win.

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    I’m pretty fucked. First of all it’s going to be several paragraphs because I don’t neatly fit an ideology and then there’s something to piss off every group.

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    I’m deep in Trump country. I wouldn’t even feel safe putting a Republicans Against Trump sign outside my house.