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But the whole point of the doomsday machine is lost… if you keep it a secret! Why didn’t you tell the world, eh?

Your comment perfectly represents the moral bankruptcy of the Democratic party. The obsession with elections and compromising, even when the midterms are almost two years away.

A proper opposition party would hammer the substance and put the institutional failures on full display. If you don’t have principles, there’s no point to winning power anyway.

And yet their infrastructure is hosted on AWS

What will the cops do, shoot them all?

His security detail might. Shooting civilians is their specialty.

So what is the reason for doing it that way?

The point is that fascism is not unique to the US, i.e. not everyone from the US is fascist and the EU also has fascists. To imply that universally EU=good and US=bad is nationalistic. Just be aware thay this sentiment may also attract people who join out of a sense of national pride rather than anti-fascism.

Yes, the top part was clearly not written by a bottom.

So it’s okay as long as you buy me dinner afterwards.

This 100%.

The US bullied the rest of the world into passing these anti-circumvention laws that make it illegal to modify the appliances you buy. Stick it to them and let us run our own firmware free of US cloud services.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/15/radical-extremists/

Last I checked Ukraine is ceding a lot of ground in Kursk. Are you saying that’s all a lie?

Fun fact: some of these are made specifically for US prisons because you can’t hide contraband in them.

Because it was never about the deficit, you dummies. It’s a convenient lie to settle personal grievances and dismantle the regulators that are going after Trump and his crime partners. https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/27/beltway-bandits/#henhouse-foxes

That fact that you think “idealistic version of early US” is a compliment is very telling.

Your proposal is just an idealistic version of early US. You claim that corruption is fundamentally impossible, but assume that magically “the monarchs aren’t allowed to own property” without regard to enforcement. You claim to have an alternative to democracy but still propose majority voting on replacing rulers and constitutions. You simply assume that monarchs will keep each other in check and not devolve into the conspiring, warmongering tyrants that history is full of.

Power can always be abused to get more power and go against all your original ideals. The only way to definitely prevent corruption is to ensure power is never concentrated in the hands of few.

Both, but the US in particular.

Did you know you can criticize people without making weird conjectures about their sex life?

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