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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
>That is NOT the point of our democracy. The people have power every two years where congress and 1/3 of the states are concerned; and distant power every four years as they vote for electors to the electoral college. You don't
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
>Naked self-interested democracy is mob rule Is naked self-interest not exactly what's going on here? Do you think these people relishing the thought of some deus ex machina overturning of the 2016 election by the "deep state&q
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
I don't see how that refutes my point. Most people will agree that we have a democratic process for a reason. The existence of institutions outside of the democratic process that have power over our democratically elected institutions
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
I don't believe any form of resistance is acceptable. If the president is medically unfit to carry out his duties, there is a constitutional and democratic process by which he can be relieved of them. If he is fit to carry them out, th
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
Is there a reason you dislike us?
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
No, this is not the key question. The entire point of democracy is to let the people choose their leaders and who they believe should have power. To accept unelected, unaccountable, and unofficial leaders as having power over that of the de
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
There is no advantage. Like it or not, he won the election fair and square. The people in the civil service did not, by definition they have no authority or legitimacy to undermine him. If the civil service can just stop obeying him for no
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
>The side effects it has had on society are catastrophic. >It out to be nationalized entirely. You don't think those two things are at odds with each other? Why do you think the federal government will be any more trustyworthy th
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
Does this release bring us any closer to a formal specification of Rust?
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
Why is it an "eviction" epidemic? Isn't that just a symptom of them being unable to pay their rent? It seems like a more accurate term would be "insolvency epidemic". It seems disingenuous also to cast people who ca
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
I need a house and a car and food, can I rely on NTP developers for those? Just because someone needs an NTP implementation doesn't mean that the NTP developers need to provide it, especially if providing it is to the detriment of ever
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
You don't think removing dead code and needless complexity is a good thing? It seems to me like he's doing a very good and important job, there's no need whatsoever to retain support for systems many decades old at this point
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
>Why write about this rather than basically anything else? Why not? If it's true, and you offered absolutely no refutation to his claim whatsoever, why shouldn't we discuss facts? Do they stop being true if we stop talking abou