I’m betting they never announce it. No one rioted after the last AI “proof of life” image or in the time since then knowing the deadline they were lying to everyone to make it through was coming up.
There will be another AI “photo” of Mitch with the news that he’s been in rehab so long because it’s just not going well and he’s not going to be able to continue in his position, and resigning immediately. Since the deadline is now dead.
We’ll all know it’s complete lies, but do nothing because we’ve been trained our entire lives to consider the rich and powerful “innocent until proven guilty.” We won’t be able to concretely prove the clear lies are lies, so we will do nothing but bitch about it.
Maybe we’ll get another AI photo or two over the next few months. Mitch will “slip from the limelight” and stop being a news article and big topic. Then one day far from this deadline we’ll hear it’s been announced he has passed. People will snap photos showing his widow flying back from China for the funeral and gossip about it being odd she was there this entire time. Maybe she won’t show up at all and we’ll gossip about that. None of us will do anything.
We can’t do anything about the folk in charge unless we have concrete proof they’re guilty. That’s what we’re taught is moral and right and how this all works. Sure, they can throw us in jail for looking at a reflecting pool, but us common people like Olympic gold medalists aren’t important or special like our dear leaders, so that’s different.
I’m betting they never announce it. No one rioted after the last AI “proof of life” image or in the time since then knowing the deadline they were lying to everyone to make it through was coming up.
There will be another AI “photo” of Mitch with the news that he’s been in rehab so long because it’s just not going well and he’s not going to be able to continue in his position, and resigning immediately. Since the deadline is now dead.
We’ll all know it’s complete lies, but do nothing because we’ve been trained our entire lives to consider the rich and powerful “innocent until proven guilty.” We won’t be able to concretely prove the clear lies are lies, so we will do nothing but bitch about it.
Maybe we’ll get another AI photo or two over the next few months. Mitch will “slip from the limelight” and stop being a news article and big topic. Then one day far from this deadline we’ll hear it’s been announced he has passed. People will snap photos showing his widow flying back from China for the funeral and gossip about it being odd she was there this entire time. Maybe she won’t show up at all and we’ll gossip about that. None of us will do anything.
We can’t do anything about the folk in charge unless we have concrete proof they’re guilty. That’s what we’re taught is moral and right and how this all works. Sure, they can throw us in jail for looking at a reflecting pool, but us common people like Olympic gold medalists aren’t important or special like our dear leaders, so that’s different.