Some people when faced with an overly simple explanation doubt their own understanding and try to see why experts and academics say otherwise.
Others assume they know better than the experts and everyone is an idiot but them.
Maybe you know a lot about a topic, and see others choose one of those paths when questioning your area of expertise.
Which kind of person do you want to be?
Having the military defend the Constitution against tyrants is an idea baked into a lot of cultures, and is true of Turkey. It was a core idea of the Turkish Republic
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Democrats and Republicans are aligned on trans erasure now.
Fucking idiot Dems think it’ll stop there I guess.
I don’t understand why Americans aren’t marching to war against this shit, it’s taking root.
One thing we overlook in ideological debates is that most forms of socialism and communism would have no use for advertising and marketing. Imagine all this effort going to productive endeavors and having an IRL adblock.
May my last online purchase be a beret.
While this is true, it’s not difficult to verify. You can inspect the network traffic through your router from that device and see whether it’s communicating more often or with larger data packets while you’re talking near but not to it.
That could be obfuscated with a powerful enough device that’s able to maintain the user profile locally and by sending the full profile each time, or by trickling the information out bit by bit as part of a regular heartbeat traffic, but that would require more expensive hardware and would eat up a lot more bandwidth.
Not impossible, but not undetectable either. I’m willing to bet that studies have been done.
Skepticism is good but without thinking through it, experimenting, or doing research to back it up it’s just paranoia. Conversely you could say my trust that others would have looked into it is naive.
It’s not about the elections it’s about who gets the support and opportunity and resources to win elections.
A footrace can be executed completely fairly and transparently but if you need to buy special expensive shoes to participate and you receive them at someone else’s discretion and you need to join one of two private clubs to get an invitation and the leaders and members of those clubs also apply discretion then a lot of unfair choices and decisions are being made before the starter pistol goes off.
No offense intended then :)
I guess it both still applies and also doesn’t, wishing you the best through what might be challenging times ahead and likewise for myself here in Canada. Our right wing turn has taken a sharp turn back recently but we’re not out of the woods yet.
Even before October 7 Israel routinely killed Palestinians nearly every day across the West Bank and Gaza, that’s not an exaggeration. Single digit killings is as close to peace as Palestinians get.
stop externalizing the problem, if you Americans don’t learn that there are systemic problems with your country after this and just consider yourself saved when Trump is gone, you’re never going to break this cycle
Yeah they don’t realize they’re getting into an Afghanistan or Vietnam but where their homeland is wide open to cross border attacks.
your braindead take is exactly how you got into this mess
Sorry I’ve been imprecise again, I meant the root comment that’s from Lung.
Fair enough, I’m not going to do a background check on every poster but I see that I was lumping your response in with the originator of the thread and could have given yours a more charitable interpretation.
It’s not for “asking a question”
We’re all used to these “centrist” / “just asking questions” types and how they only crawl out of their holes to play devil’s advocate for fascists, it’s tired.
not exactly, it’s not theoretical this is how stuff has worked before. someone can be banished from a society and become a persona non grata that can’t get support from anyone.
you’re acting as if something that’s actually in our history is unimaginable
That’s not necessarily true, those people can be banished from a community or even violently resisted depending on your flavor.
And even if you take your statement as fact, isn’t that a much easier problem to solve than what we’re dealing with now? Maybe some limited prisons for the worst offenders might be our only compromise
by its nature there’s a lot of free content online.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works isn’t a bad start.
The works of Kropotkin are on there as well. Conquest of Bread is a banger.
Anarchism is the better version of libertarianism. Left-anarchism gives all of the liberties but without capitalism. If only capitalist realists could get past that hurdle.
I’ll acknowledge my comment was rude, you are expressing humility now that wasn’t present in your original assertive message. You hopefully have a better understanding now.
This misinformation about national debt that you unintentionally spread is used by conservatives around the world to deny people services