Oh, yes, I’m sure they’ll follow through on their pinky promise to be civil like they have every other time in history when they get the chance to dig in. And I’m also sure that Trump will happily not veto a democratic bill to make an example or anything.

I’ll name them, though I don’t condone violence since that almost always martyrs them and makes things worse. Just will be happy when they die of old age or McDonald’s.

USA edition:

• Trump
• Stephen Miller
• Russell Vought

Int’l edition:

• Trump
• Putin
• Xi

I think it’s the deepweb that is unindexed and privately-accessible communications. Mentally I reserve the darkweb for complete obfuscation of identity, e.g. Tor.

I like him for it

God damn, now I know why he had LOTR on his mind when he named Palantir, fucking degenerate looks strikingly like Gollum.

honestly, good luck to you but BLOCKED

Oo, oo, pick me next, I also don’t care for your insufferable attitude! 🙋‍♀️

I get your worries, but “we go high” is how we ended up with fascism, and doing it again is how we kill democracy.

I’m sure she is will play fairly in the campaign.

From your lips to God’s ears.

Wish I had your optimism. It takes work to pull the fucking grubby mitts of authoritarians out of the machine, it doesn’t always happen automatically.

Thank you, it can be hard to get across the nuance of the various social systems with some people who are fully against capitalism, even if I by and large agree with their criticisms. There are so many advances that may never have come to fruition in a market-less or feudalistic society, like the abolishment of slavery, LGBTQ rights, marijuana legalization, and the relative calm/peace of our time, not that these are perfect or fully/permanently actualized yet either. By opening up independent paths to sustenance and self-actualization you can empower people who otherwise would’ve been trapped under the thumb of lords or councilors.

The problem is that despite presenting potential opportunities, it can also be corruptible and bring its own injustices to society. I see the administration of capitalism like how the American founders remarked about democracy – it requires the occasional watering with the blood of tyrants (oligarchs) and patriots to thrive. No system is fully uncorruptible, capitalism included, but the systems suggested by staunch anti-capitalists (state markets, anarcho-communism) tend to veer toward authoritarian cruelty and societal regression way faster than countries with free markets.

My personal take is that a heavily socialized society is needed to prop up a more stable and just market system. We need permanent, effective social safety nets, strong union support and deference, free voting and more fair/equal representation, regular monopoly-busting and wealth/inheritance taxes, and depending on the output of our markets, a universal basic income (NOT as a replacement of safety nets).

Yup, and there’s some other conditions that would benefit from an immediate recall, too. It’s insane that the consequence for failing to pass a budget or raise the debt ceiling is that our financial system is damaged or collapses. Failure to get it done in a timely manner should result in an automatic extension or raise paired with snap elections on all members involved.

Or hell, even just allow recall petitions at the federal level. Better to have a revolving door than a legislature that’s tempted to see what touching the third rail is like.

I’m honestly more surprised there’s more blood to squeeze from that stone, Texas is already comically disconnected electorally from the people that live there

Bro. AWS can do jack shit, that’s not how it works. You might as well call Toyota next time you see a Camry speeding. All you’re going to do is annoy people who in no way can help you with a problem that is your responsibility. I can guarantee they’ll tell you you should use private VPCs and entrypoints with security groups, which is what every AWS tutorial starts out by telling you to use.

Agreed. There’s lots of shit in this bill that is awful and will take decades of work to undo, but this is one of those terrible things that can’t be undone. Once the genie is out of the bottle, that’s it, goodbye public lands.

*UPS

Super fun, watching our president reject every possible off-ramp with hostility only to later freak out and panic when there are no more off-ramps left. Fucking moron

This only gets better if the guilty members of the government get locked up for contempt for ignoring the court’s original order. Only then, especially if it gets Signalgate attention, may they start to cave. I realize it’s unlikely, but it’s not a 0% chance yet.