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Why do politicians ask for money? Because money influences votes. How does money influence votes? Money pays for private intelligence companies, PR firms, think tanks, and social media influence. What does this mean? It means that politicia
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Project 2025 architect and current head of the office of management and budget said, on video: We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are
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The conservative thesis is that DOGE is going through and eliminating wasteful spending, which is simple and, if you trust them, a good goal. The liberal thesis is that DOGE is like an army going through government institutions, replacing t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States >Overall, just over half of U.S. adults, 54% or 130 million people, are deficient in basic literacy. Over 40% of Americans don't read at a 6th grade l
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Europe is a still far better, but the root cause in America is a low tax rate on the rich and privatized intelligence/social media companies fueling the society splitting narratives that oligarchs prefer. The end state being societie
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It was not, but anyone can judge for themselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VfYjPzj1Xw&t=18s
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dang wants hacker news to be a curious place and politics is generally not a very curious topic. The first 70% of posts on this thread were anti-intellectual trump supporters. He's worried HN will become a battlefield, and it will be,
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> If a global set of "Don't be an asshole" values could be defined, The history of "rights" is what you're looking for, and this would come in the form of a list of rights. You would probably get a lot out o
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If you like that, you will also like Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy: https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
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> Trump Derangement Syndrome This is much much more dangerous than you realize. When Russia invaded Ukraine, killing people's families and torturing those who resist in Bucha, "russophobia" was the word Putin used. When Ch
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There's been about 4 different CPAC/prominent conservative figures who have sieg heiled on stages in front of Trump supporters. The most prominent after Elon was likely Steve Bannon, who didn't even put his hand on his heart.
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I went to a Town Hall and many of the people had family members being kept alive by Medicaid. Imagine a mother of toddlers in her 30's is dying of some cancer imagining paying for her cancer meds while her children likely won't ge
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Timothy Snyder wrote a book on resisting authoritarian regimes: On Tyranny. He also did a reading of each chapter on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhZxrogyToZsllfRqQlly...
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The educated are typically left leaning and that was the most decisive demographic for whether someone voted for trump or not in 2016.
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There is the theoretical understanding, and then there is how it meshes with reality. The theoretical understanding is that we are in an ideological war. If you strip away all the nuance and ask for a high level understanding of what is h
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CGP Grey did a video on this that is very much worth watching for anyone interested in politics: https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/rules-for-rulers On youtube there is also another video where he talks about making this vid
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Yes. Liberalism is fundamentally about the social contract, so those limits on speech are compatible with liberal ideals. It is very consistent with liberalism that objective lies are a punishable offense because they are violations of the
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Only between people acting in good faith.
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Why do you think that is? What do you think the end goal and justification is for using coercive force against someone resisting vaccines or coercive force against polluting companies?
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I think it's more fair to say that liberals believe that the 1A protects speaking truth to power, while the conservative idea is more the 1A protects saying things people don't like. America's founding fathers were absolutely
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How does one commit themselves to democracy?
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I agree with your overall point. I think software security in particular is a skillset that is very well suited to deconstructing establishment dogma. The entire exercise of (novel) software security (specifically research) is ignoring wh
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I think I disagree, specifically because geohot does security. Security is fundamentally about finding the difference between what people wish or think is true, and what is actually true on a mechanical physical real and actionable level. T
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Freedom is a function of solidarity -- each man's willingness to sacrifice for his fellow man. If some are willing to make the sacrifice you can be free. If none are willing to make the sacrifice then all will die a slave. Unfortunatel
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There is no “reason” or justification. The decision to invade has already been made, all these explanations exist for the sole purpose of making it easier to do nothing about it when the invasion happens. Chinese people feel they way they a
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> Communist Thew way you are using this word is wrong. It might be cosmetic communism, but it's clearly a totalitarian state. You called the population slaves, which is very much not workers owning the means of production. Communism
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With recent events I’ve been thinking about Dune lately. Once you start to compare what happens in dune to what is happening now, it's rather unpleasant. Prescience allows for the complete domination of humanity, but to some degree we
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_(politics)
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We are deeply undemocratic right now. I can consent to differences of opinion on tax policy or government subsidies, but I can't consent to open betrayal of allies. I can't consent to the deliberate traumatiztion of the people who
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Snyder has a great talk at a conference where he talks about how the liberalization of Russia was a move towards the west, but they did it without a fundamental ingredient -- Rule of Law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F

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