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Fuck that, that’s letting them off the hook.

Our constitution has a very specific amendment for this very reason.

Representative democracy is worthless anyways. It favors short term, short-sighted solutions to problems that require long term, sometimes painful corrections. But the party that implements such policies will be heavily punished as soon as the public feels that pain. So instead the public continues to vote in short-sighted but temporary joy seeking politicians.

An epistocracy combined with a civic service model would be far better. To be able to vote you must demonstrate a baseline capability of intelligence and rational thought along with having performed civic service in some way. Otherwise you cannot vote and simply live life normally.

True leftism doesn’t threaten a damn thing because they can’t stop killing each other long enough to agree to start killing the right.

I was walking across the bridge when I saw someone standing on the ledge, looking ready to jump.

I rushed over and shouted, “Don’t do it! Think of the collective struggle! There is so much worth organizing for!”

They looked up, wiping away tears, and asked, “Like what?”

I said, “Well… are you a reactionary, or do you fight for systemic progress?”

They sniffed. “I fight for systemic progress.”

“Great!” I said. “Are you a liberal reformist, or an anti-capitalist leftist?”

“An anti-capitalist leftist,” they replied.

“Fantastic! Are you an anarchist or a Marxist?”

“Marxist.”

“Incredible! Marxist-Leninist, Trotskyist, or Maoist?”

“Trotskyist.”

“Amazing, comrades in the vanguard! Fourth International, or the International Socialist Tendency?”

“Fourth International!”

“Unbelievable! Posadist revolutionary permanent struggle, or orthodox United Secretariat?”

“Orthodox United Secretariat!”

“We are practically reading the exact same pamphlets! Now, tell me: when analyzing the Degenerated Workers’ State hypothesis regarding post-1928 Soviet bureaucratic collectivism, was the bureaucracy an emergent ruling class with unique exploitative relations to production, or merely a parasitic caste misallocating surplus value while preserving the proletarian property base?”

They frowned. “Clearly, state ownership meant it remained a distorted workers’ state, so the bureaucracy was merely a counter-revolutionary caste, not a true class.”

I took a step back, clenched my fist, and yelled:

“Die, class-collaborationist counter-revolutionary revisionist scab!”

…and shoved them off the ledge.

I’m sure he’s crying into his millions of dollars while being consoled by his highschool sweetheart wife that a youtuber said mean things about him.

“Both Republicans and Democrats shit in my soup, I want a politician that doesn’t shit in my soup, lets vote candidates that are anti-soup shitting”

“OH MY GOD ENLIGHTENED CENTRIST, YOU’RE BASICALLY HITLER ADJACENT, I AM VERY SMART LOLOLOLOL”

The title is beyond stupid. Corruption has existed since humanity walked upright. There is absolutely nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before, the only thing that changes is technology.

I mean, the amount of cheering and celebrating at Charlie Kirks death pretty much shows that both sides are only leaving the other alive because jail is a powerful de-motivator.

But it’s only good enough to keep a person civil if they think they have something to lose. Make society bad enough and people start seeing violence not as a last resort but as a first option.

All of it is bullshit to try and get a bailout from the government and a monopoly.

Using it gives it legitimacy.

Not everyone participates in reading the deeper meaning of media.

Some people just turn off their brains and watch the magic smiles box and come away liking the characters and movie without thinking any further than what was portrayed on screen.

Half the characters on this list are just really awesome visual/character portrayals.

They didn’t misunderstand the message, you misunderstood their intent going into the media.

You watch movies to dissect their meanings, others watch movies to escape reality for a bit.

I’m going to retire at 40, I think I’ll keep going instead of listening to you.

The problem with that is it assumes every idea or opinion is of equal value and that every idea or opinion deserves equal time.

They just don’t. I don’t need give you a platform, weigh the pros and cons, and listen to you extol the virtues of you shitting in my soup. It is not on equal footing to the idea of not shitting in my soup.

Likewise, I don’t need to listen to the pros and cons of a flavor of linux backed by technocrats in bed with a body politic that would cause any founding father to eat his own beard in rage.

I love my job, even when I have to deal with nonsense like that and I’m compensated very well to be on call 24/7.

It can but I’m not looking to make things even more complicated. We have enough unexplained non-sense in the project as is, having to link it correctly is just endless pain that I don’t want to deal with.

I’ve completely banned any code that can’t be explained. I’ve had my CTO send me code at 3 AM to implement and when I ask him what I’m looking at he just says it doesn’t need review, just push it.

Uhh, no sir, I’m not doing shit because you’ve handed me GCC and we’re MSVC.

After I bitched endlessly to the CEO about that he said I have final say on what goes into the project.

Me whenever I see pizzacake posted.

Tech companies cozying up with the government?

Oh boy it must be a day ending in y.

Seriously, this has been happening forever. Hell, when Snowden leaked Bush/Obama’s prism program, the response was a collective yawn.

Yea I really hate it when my shapeshifting demi-god narrative gets interrupted by anatomical errors of deities.

“The only way it ever ends is when it finally eats itself.”

Ah yes, the American special, do literally nothing, hope and pray someone else does something instead. Nothing ever happens and more kids get raped.

You yanks are utterly brainwashed useless dogs and are a threat to the entire planet because of your inaction.