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Tweeted this article to get it out there so people see it.

https://twitter.com/NameIsSpartacus/status/1566979440881827840

When you propose stuff like banning gene and germline editing, as well as mind control BCIs, you have to understand, first and foremost, that you are up against an establishment that has been actively seeking these things as a means of social control, behind the scenes, for at least 50 years. Counteracting that agenda is no small feat.

Also, they will be trying, every step of the way, to emotionally blackmail people, claiming - perhaps truthfully - that these very same technologies could be used to treat congenital illnesses, mental illnesses, paralysis, blindness, and so on, while secretly plotting to use them for social control and cognitive warfare.

This goes all the way back to Zbigniew Brzezinski and Jose Delgado and the like. Way back to the 1970s. They've been waiting for the tech to become practical for a very long time.

Genetic engineering is also mind control. A lot of people don't get that, at first glance. A gene is just a template for a protein. If you can make someone's neurons express proteins that are receptive to designer drugs, and then slip something into the water, that's mind control. It's called DREADDs/chemogenetics.

It's also entirely possible to engineer microorganisms that behave less like microbes and more like tiny nanomachines, expressing proteins not found in nature, with functions not found in nature.

Regulating BCIs and making laws against the genetic engineering of human beings just scratches the surface. Bionanotechnology is literally opening Pandora's Box.

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This, unfortunately, won't work. No petition, even a global one, will ever change anything if The Party doesn't allow it. They will have multiple ways to circumvent any attempts, at all stages, of such a petition taking place and being successful. They control the media. This means you will never get enough traction to have any meaningful number of votes or recognition globally. They only need to bring up one thing: "conspiracy theory" to discredit the entire thing and be taken seriously. Even if you can somehow move past that stage, they can fiddle with the counting/voting system via many different routes and ultimately cheat their way out of it by changing results. Yes, they have the power to do that. Now, I can give the author the benefit of the doubt. Let's assume all the stages are successful somehow, and people vote to ban the genetic modification of humans. The Party will simply bury the global treaty and ratification process in an endless bureaucratic mess. They will simply delay the entire thing claiming it will take 5-10 years to do this, where it will simply be too late then. Also, let's be real. When crises are announced, locally or globally, this is where rights, principles, treaties, laws, or ideas like the social contract are always put aside, forgotten, or broken. People need to understand that in times like this, voting, petitions, and protests are meaningless and simply can never enact any change the populous wants. Once people understand and accept that, they can start searching for solutions that can actually be successful in achieving goals set by the oppressed.

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