Oligarchs love the highly leveraged and poorly educated

People warned the Obama administration the records they forced people to submit to participate in DACA made them vulnerable to law enforcement abuse when they were coming up with the program

“But this was on TikTok and we’ve been told to hate that, so…”

They think determining guilt and innocence and punishing the guilty is their job and all the lawyers and judges are just egghead formalities, so they think that administering the punishment of public humiliation to suspects is doing their job

What the fuck is this telling companies to appease a peodpfiliic rapist who has ambitions to be a dictator?

Late stage unregulated capitalism.

Might as well tell CEOs to offer him their 14 year old daughters too.

If there was a profit in it, they would, or they would be replaced by someone who would.

I would only consider supporting this if we first dissolved the governments of Texas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, etc. and put them under direct control of the federal government. Fascist state lawmakers are just as big of a problem if not an even bigger one than federal ones.

I believe that saying you are explicitly providing a way to get around a paywall is technically against the rules of this community or instance because the mods/admins don’t want to be taken down for copyright stuff

However, if the above article doesn’t seem to be loading correctly for you for some mysterious reason (e.g. who knows, perhaps there’s some networking problem or a server outage somewhere), then it’s perfectly fine for me to offer you an archive mirror to help you workaround this purely technical issue - https://archive.is/s0EUX

Evil wizard: “Oh, but the cost to purchase the fate of your choosing is dire indeed. One human sou-”

Peter Theil: “Sure, Hulk Hogan close enough?”

Wizard: “What? Um, ok, let me see - yeah, that’s a fixer upper, but she’ll do I guess - but, uh, ahem, this terrible choice will haunt you when you leas-”

Theil: “I’ve got a lunch.” leaves

I think lots of wealthy Republicans knew but didn’t care so long as Trump gave them the supreme court and their tax cuts, and now even if Trump finally goes down that scum is just going to use Vance like a sock puppet and keep getting everything they want

en masse

That sounds wonderful to me, I just want that mass of righteous people to write down all of their ideas so future generations can continue their work even after the fervor has died down. I call those ideas laws and regulations and the ongoing spirit of that mass of righteous people a government, but I’m not too attached to semantics.

Until they monopolize their industry, which is something they’re always going to be trying to do by their very nature as for profits and which has already essentially happened here

A government can be influenced if it is transparent and democratic, which can be ensured if they’ve got good bylaws that are being scrupulously enforced. Like, if you have decisionmakers a) accountable to free and fair elections (whether they’re elected directly or appointed by elected people) holding b) regular and public meetings where c) outside organizations can raise disputes and get them decided under d) neutral procedures that are published in advance and that every party has equal opportunity to understand and take advantage of, and e) if those decisions and the reasoning behind them are also published and cited as precedent to be reinforced or overturned in subsequent decisions, then I really think the rest takes care of itself.

And I think we had a lot of this figured out when we got done fighting totalitarian regimes in the 1940s and turned around and passed the Administrative Procedure Act, but conservatives keep adding loopholes and trying to drag all of us back to feudalism and monarchies.

I’ll never understand what is so fucking difficult about dealing with people like trump,

Dealing with people like Trump is easy, until you have people like Slotkin and Fetterman in your ranks and people like Zuckerberg and Bezos hanging around and you have to worry about all of them stabbing you in the back to try to curry favor with Trump.

Our problem really isn’t Trump, our problem is all the other opportunistic scumbags who think they can take advantage of the shit storms Trump causes. Solidarity kills fascism easily, but it is in tragically short supply these days because capitalism kills solidarity.

I think it is possible to have a government that functions in this way on a long term basis. I don’t think the same can be said of for profit companies.

Yeah, payment processing is among the many many many industries that ought to be nationalized so they can be administered in a transparent and democratic manner (see also, healthcare education housing electricity internet etc.)

There’s just too much opportunity to use it to manipulate markets and oppress minority viewpoints for it to remain in private hands imo

Which means relentless exposure to mosquito-borne illnesses in an environment where they’re getting sub-par (if any) healthcare

Should have, but lots of countries didn’t because there was just too much money to be made by going along with US bullshit. If Cletus with a GED in bumfuck Mississippi is morally culpable for this (and he is) then Klaus with the PhD in the Bundestag ought to explain himself too.

Unlike you facebooks twitters telegrams and what have yous, Lemmy World bans users before they commit their terrorist acts

The poor FBI agents assigned to us have to be so bored