They write the rules and we use it as an excuse to not escalate.
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zbyte64@awful.systemsto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why don;t more presidents put stuff to a national referendum like Clinton did a couple times? A person would get time off work to vote, show what americans actually want and so on.
1·9 days agoClinton was notorious for polling people and changing positions, but that was not by referendum. Sometimes our pundits play loose with words and pretend polling is a referendum because we don’t actually have referendums. See also “democratizing” when it just means “commodotizing”
zbyte64@awful.systemsto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How would an anarchist society work?
3·9 days agoIndeed. Democracy does not exclude anarchy and in the case of the UN it’s a voluntary union, each member is free to not participate and ignore the decisions made by rest of the union. People often criticize the UN as having little authority - that’s because it’s anarchistic in nature.
If there is a point to my example it is that society is a patchwork of ideologies, there is no “pure capitalist” society just as there is no “pure anarchistic” society. So to say one ideology does not work as totalitarian society is different then saying it does not work at all.
zbyte64@awful.systemsto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How would an anarchist society work?
6·10 days agoI mean we have the UN which doesn’t have any one nation in charge. Geopolitics tends to be anarchistic.
Decorum is what they say publicly but let’s be real, the results the Dems care about is campaign funding. They don’t stand up to AIPAC or their extralegal operations because they’re afraid of their money.
He only had two kids? Must hate America. I jest…
It’s dangerous to reason with those who are not liberated - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Watching Ivanka Trump disassociate when she introduced her child hood room makes me think the rich kids don’t exactly escape unscathed. But yeah, they target kids with the promise of changing their circumstances. They exploit the very weaknesses they breed in society.
One hand washes the other. They are different hands but they work together to sanewash each other. Biden sat on terrabytes of evidence but didn’t go after the pedos because it implicates Israel. Boths sides are bad, but in appreciaticely different ways
Instructions unclear, formed a new political party whose platform is inclusive of pedos.
And they wonder why their kids never visit anymore 🙄
Even if you give regular folks more guns, it makes everyone less safe. The criminals don’t care what the law is and will always have guns, those European counties are no exception.
Yaoi News Network for peak political commentary https://youtu.be/qjpkJO0Y2lc
zbyte64@awful.systemsto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?
2·20 days agoFree speech is when AIPAC channels unlimited dark money to influencers to disparage anti-zionist candidates like they did in Kat Abu’s race. Free is quickly becoming worthless.
zbyte64@awful.systemsto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?
3·20 days agoYeah, we are about to get served a big slice of humble pie so bring your appetite. The pain we are all experiencing is there to tell us we cannot continue the way we were. We had the option to change in the past but didn’t because it was too hard, now there is no avoiding change.
I wonder if you could prompt inject with QR codes…
I hear they don’t let trans people in. Could try that
zbyte64@awful.systemsto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Whats your advice to the younger folks of Lemmy?
2·1 month agoOpiate addict I talked to said your body was never meant to feel that good. That stuff wrecked my brother (a different addict).


It’s what Kirk would have wanted RIP