It was designed to handle one party: rich, white landowners. That’s very plain in our founding documents, and why the power of the people is so tightly constrained. And it wasn’t long after that found that Washington himself set our military on our own discontented farmers.

If you honestly think that, you need to maybe read a bit more or work on your short-term memory, because you have no idea what you’re talking about. Hell, the last assassination attempt was just a few weeks ago.

Oh it garnered remarks, all right.

Sadly, that’s all it garnered. The US has a three-branch government symbolically only, and our only real power as a people is local.

Depends on whether she’s opining privately or publicly.

Privately she’s said some pretty awful things about him that are absolutely deserved. But in public, she recanted and lined up behind him, which is really disappointing. She could have been helpful to stopping his appointment but now she’s party not only to murders happening globally, but the deaths of American reservists who shouldn’t be at war in the first place.

I just assume they’re under contract to surveill everyone.

Bummer that the voters never held anyone accountable for the ‘Patriot’ Act.

Yeah, really hate the cruelty of my country.

For half the cost we could be dropping food, clothing, water, and medicine on the people we’re bombing and it would do much more to further the cause of peace.

On a related note, hardly a day goes by without me being pleased and relieved that I decided long ago that I didn’t want children. I can’t imagine being responsible for bringing a child into this shithole country.

Same, also, parenting is now cost-prohibitive.

Kinda just nice to look at international publications and see that, yes, you’re not crazy despite the gaslighting and we really did put an inept, stupid, and drunken TV show host in charge of actual wars.

Indeed.

I think what frustrates me most is that, even in the knowledge that Congress would authorize this war (and they absolutely would), they’re still too lazy to even have a token vote on it.

That we’re getting fucking reservists killed for this, and they won’t even vote on it, just feels insulting to the people who expected to be training on weekends instead of getting bombed in a desert.

The best way to get your position recorded is to call your representative or senator’s local office, and be polite. All you need to say is “I’d like to have my position recorded on X issue or X bill.” They’ll ask you (probably) for your name, phone number, and zip code to establish that you’re actually a constituent.

Hola Kitty.

Normally I wouldn’t pimp out my YT channel on Lemmy, but I made a video on this topic a few weeks ago: https://youtu.be/kklfzIxWJ7I

I hope some of these are new to you.

Not me, but it’s important to remember that Lemmy doesn’t just feed you an algo. You have to actually post things.

Reminds me of the time when Clinton rebranded wars as ‘peacekeeping operations’, or when Obama rebranded soldiers as ‘advisors’, or the big ones Dubya’s ‘extraordinary renditions’ and ‘enhanced interrogations’.

As long as they call it something euphemistic, no one’s feathers get too ruffled.

Mango, you perfect little furry god. <3

Yeah, when you’re on the global feed, posts fly by at a dizzying rate. Turning on slow mode makes it so that they stop auto-scrolling and only scroll when you click that you want to see more posts.

Tango el gato los pantalones

No doubt there are bad actors polluting communities on the Fediverse

Yeah, but there’s a huge difference: human moderation coupled with better curation tools. You can block a user or a whole instance, which quiets the Nazis pretty fast.

And the people doing the moderation are volunteers who actually give a shit.

Yup.

Though I thought of it as the Internet from 2010. No ads. No algo. All chronological. Once you figure out where the slow mode setting is and turn it off, Mastodon is the fucking best. I even pay a voluntary sub every month to help my instance host itself.

And it requires just enough setup (5-10 minutes tops) that the vast majority of the Internet is too lazy to use it, which keeps the quality high.

I don’t think it will work out that way, but I think we’ll find out, unfortunately.

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