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by cmurf 2y ago
It's going to get worse. https://bsky.app/profile/questauthority.bsky.social/post/3lk...
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In the 1965 book Night of Camp David the president's cabinet realized he was insane because of his fixation on annexing Canada. In 2025 Americans are so anesthetized even the "opposition party" can't say the obvious ou
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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me ...(bsky.app)
17 points by cmurf 2y ago|0 comments
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People aren't blind to the abuse. They want plausible deniability, permitting them to opt out of the duty and responsibility attached to citizenship. Therefore the metaphor is flawed: blind suggests an inability. People are capable of
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Why hire these guys? They give up way too easy.
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Why does it need to be a foreign enemy? Could be domestic enemies. Replace it by necessity with a CEO-dictator. Isn't that the Yarvin, Thiel, Musk playbook? "Americans ... have to get over their dictatorphobia"
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World in which I've paired my two devices? Doesn't the boundary get broken asking messages be read to me into a BT audio device?
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https://bsky.app/profile/waldo.net/post/3lkmo3w3pvk2n Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely
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Yeah what is this nonsense? Ketamine nor stupidity explains this. Does he think everyone else is a moron? I guess he must. 3.6B / 100K = 36000 years. It's more like 240M/year to get to 3.6B. The number of human workers isn&#x
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Unrestricted immigration was the norm for a very long time and due process remained intact. The Constitution says persons are owed due process, in two amendments. Due process isn't limited to only citizens. I will point out it's a
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Plenty of text but also many cool animations. I'm a sucker for visual aids. It's a good balance.
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Doesn't matter if he's committed crimes or violated conditions of his green card. He is still entitled to due process. Just because a person commits crimes does not mean the government gets to commit crimes. Just because this guy
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Resurrecting LORAN, see also eLORAN. This seems a dead end because of cost, and who will voluntarily buy and install the receivers? Even if it were compatible with LORAN-C receivers, all of them have been removed from airplanes. They’re not
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Impeachment, removal from office, being barred from ever holding office again. Those are separate but need to happen in order. That’s the limit of it, by design I think. The lack of criminality or even civil offense means the job is predica
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One of which is his order to shoot protesters, per Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper. The current SecDef would carry out those orders. Some members of the armed forces would refuse such orders, others would follow them. In terms of patrim
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Patrimonialism. https://archive.is/8RJoN The exact form of government is whatever achieves the goal, and is largely academic. It only vaguely will help understand what’s happening, or what is yet to come. e.g. in some sense
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Author is keeping content on YT but also now on Floatplane. Discusses Floatplane. RAID1 is just a metaphor.
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Real capital, as in capital markets? And fake capital, as in shitcoin addiction?
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The president has a fiduciary obligation to the country. https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-132/faithful-executio...
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John Adams said a republic is an empire of laws, not men. These folks not only want an empire of men, and they're those men, they will eventually use violence to try to get it. And that's because what they have done is unforgivabl
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If someone shouts, "2+2 is not four! It's something else!" Is it polite to stay silent? Calling it polite is specious, isn't it? Is it considerate to withhold criticism in the face of lies and untrustworthiness? I think
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It's not an idea. It's the law. Everyone agreed to it. Aggressive war is proscribed in the UN Charter. Starting a war to expand borders or subjugate people is untenable. The right to conquest is obsolete. Returning to that time is
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They are also weak. And they've learned that aggression compensates for weakness, but in reality weakness is what leads to the aggression. His supporters believe in many lies because they've been brainwashed. Things will continue
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Senators do not have a veto. They have a vote.
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He advocating impeachment for judges who rule contrary to Trump. https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1894747735930163542#m https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1894529307524923512#m http
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Most definitely. But we all are in some sense complicit, right? However unwittingly we accepted the entirety of the FAANG ideology: cornered markets, monopolistic practice, regulatory capture, anti-competitive business and now government
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They swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic, 5 USC 3331. The oath is not to a president. If staffers think the administration is ordering them to conduct in illegalities, they're obligate
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An Obituary for the FBI(doomsdayscenario.co)
5 points by cmurf 2y ago|1 comments
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The federalist papers are the source material that answer your questions. Lincoln's 1838 Lyceum speech, and 1st inaugural address are also relevant, covering mob rule, disputes between minority and majority, and what happens if one doe
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The silent ideological and political battle of flagging uncomfortable truths is trampling curiosity. Interesting how they get a way with violating the guidelines, and yet people who want to have a conversation are accused of and sanctioned

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