if they control more than 2/3 of the government [you’rre] screwed

That’s why I think confirming after 5, 10 years might be a good idea. A supermajority is rare. Unless the supermajority screws with the laws to guarantee they stay in power, the next congress might have enough votes to undo any meddling they did. If they do cement their power, then you’re screwed either way.

Rewriting the 2nd seems like a very smart idea to me.

So, they’re compiling and publicly releasing the personally identifying information of someone in order to facilitate stalking, intimidation or extortion? That’s not what I’d heard the app was used for.

It’s notoriously hard in the country he grew up in, and the people are notoriously racist. He doesn’t look like them.

Focusing just on the constitutional changes: it’s a bad sign when your constitution can be changed by a single political party.

In El Salvador’s case they have a unicameral legislature and Bukele’s party has 54 of the 60 seats. So, there’s no way to prevent this by requiring a bigger supermajority.

But, it seems like since a constitution is meant to last as long as the country exists, amendments to it should have to be reaffirmed or they get automatically repealed. So, there’s an automatic re-vote after 5, 10 and 20 years or something.

If they had done that with prohibition in the US they wouldn’t have needed the 21st amendment to repeal prohibition, they could just have decided not to continue the 18th which established prohibition.

With a dictator as president, and absolute control over the legislature, I would bet that those guys are also going to make it impossible for any other person to win a presidential election, or any other party to win the legislature. And then, the only way to restore democracy will be a coup or an uprising.

You know who else did that? Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, etc

Roosevelt

Russia’s war on Ukraine shows you can’t stop a war in another country even with massive sanctions.

And, various empires’ adventures in Afghanistan show that even sending in troops to stop the “bad guys” will probably not work.

Sometimes people can make a change. The Apartheid governments of South Africa collapsed largely due to boycotts and people pressure. But, that only really works when the targeted country wants to be part of the community of nations, and its people don’t want to be seen as criminals by the rest of the world. IMO, that situation is rare. Most of the time the rest of the world can’t do much of anything when it comes to civil wars and border conflicts.

How are you defining “doxing” here?

The trashing of the Apple machines is undeserved, but the Windows one is relatively accurate.

Windows is the thing that everybody uses, like a car. But, it should be a modern car where the car manufacturer requires you to pay a yearly subscription to unlock basic features that shipped with the car. It’s a car that you can’t fix yourself, and have to take to an authorized service station where they pay a fee to get access to the tools that allow them to diagnose the car.

I don’t know what the Mac one should be. A modern Mac is really powerful. It’s a Unix machine with a clean and polished UI. But, it’s true that it shields the average user from the complexity if they don’t want to dig deeper. Maybe it’s a modern Bugatti. A luxurious vehicle that has obscene power under the hood.

“we europeans do just fine”

Do you?

I knew a guy who was born in a European country. He’d never lived anywhere else. But, because his parents had citizenship to a different country, he was a citizen of that country, one he had only occasionally visited. To me, that doesn’t sound like a system that’s working just fine. It’s one that has some major problems.

Then end it going forward.

You mean, “then arrange for a constitutional convention at which you can propose the repeal of the 14th amendment, and then have people vote on it”.

The president has no ability to end either form of birthright citizenship, it can only be done by modifying the constitution.

Don’t forget the ultra rich, as much as the ultra rich would like you to forget them.

The only thing that was suspicious was the timing.

I fully believe that it was a massive money loser. Colbert’s wages alone were high. He apparently started at $6m per year and then got a new contract at $15m per year.

That might seem high, but at his peak Johnny Carson was making $25m per year. That was in 1991. So, $25m per year would be worth $55m today. But, that was in a 3-channel world where there weren’t many options.

“Carson at his peak averaged 9 million viewers nightly; Stephen Colbert now leads a crowded field with about 3 million.”

And these late night shows cost about $1.7 million per week to make, or about $75m per year.

So, it makes a lot of sense that it would be losing a lot of money. It also makes sense that they would be thinking about cancelling it.

But, it was also the #1 late night talk show. And that has been a really prestigious thing for the networks for decades. I think even if it was a money loser, I think CBS would likely have wanted to hold on to the #1 late night show for a long time, just for bragging rights. Being #1 in late night is also useful for cross-promotion. Colbert always interviews the stars of major CBS shows: Tracker, Ghosts, Matlock, NCIS, etc. And being the #1 show means it’s the first place that Hollywood stars stop to promote their movies, etc.

I think it’s more likely they would have tried some cost cutting, and they would have tried to outlast the other late night shows rather than being the first network to give up on late night talk shows.

The cancellation of Late Night isn’t suspicious. But the timing of the cancellation of Late Night is very suspicious.

I mean, Dad, being a dad, did supply a lot of things to junior: food, shelter, security, etc. And, even though I think the libertarian idea that “taxation is theft” is really stupid, there is a slight point that it’s not a contract you sign or an arrangement you agree to, it’s an requirement forced on you based on where you’re born. If you don’t like those rules, you have to leave the country – and even leaving the country isn’t always something people are allowed to do.

In that, there’s a bit of a similar relationship with your parents. They impose rules on you that you can’t negotiate and can’t refuse. You’re stuck with them until you’re old enough to move out and live on your own.

Anyhow, the whole thing is kinda dumb. At least, that’s what my dog says. Oh, and she’d like for you to describe the smell of your dog’s butt for her, if you wouldn’t mind.

Except if you’re black, gay, trans, non-male, or live in a developing country.

I asked my dog about this, and she had some good points:

First of all, that’s Duplo not Lego.

Second of all, “the means to my Lego”?

Third of all, theft is theft under both capitalism and socialism. If he didn’t have an agreement with his dad that his dad could take half the tower, the dad is simply a thief. And theft is theft under both systems. And if his dad is supposed to represent “the government” or something, and taking half his stuff is supposed to be taxation, taxation happens under both capitalism and socialism.

So many levels deep to get there.

• It’s a post in Political Memes
• Posted by u/Not_IO
• That was an image of a post by George Takei
• Who reposted something by “shirts that go hard”

I guess congratulations on your observational skills, I completely missed that.

Add to that section 1201.

Facebook grew because it was able to make migrating away from Myspace easy. Facebook supplied a tool called SpaceLift that logged into MySpace on your behalf and moved messages back and forth for you. It meant that you didn’t have to leave Myspace behind when you started using Facebook.

If you tried that today, Facebook would send their legion of lawyers to crush you using section 1201.

Were you expecting it to be a shirt?

Hertz went bankrupt during the pandemic and came out of it 4 years ago.

There just isn’t enough real competition in car rentals. There are lots of brands, like Alamo, Enterprise, National Car Rental, Hertz, Dollar, Thrifty, Firefly, Budget, Avis, etc. But, that’s just 3 companies. Avis Budget Group ($CAR), Hertz Global ($HTZ) and Enterprise (private).