Contravariant

That's one way to convert people to capitalism.

Best I've been able to explain it is that it's a country build on hope and dreams, which are not compatible with reality and truth.

Democracy isn't really meant to prevent something the majority wants.

If the majority wants a criminal to lead the country they'll elect them, or someone with the same policies, or someone who promises to put the criminal in power. The end result isn't all that different, and the latter two could be worse in some ways.

In a democracy the majority rules, and should they decide to put a lunatic in charge, well, that would be the least of your problems.

All reasonable arguments not to vote for Harris. But no arguments whatsoever to vote for Trump.

And unless the archaic and infuriatingly flawed election system is fixed, you've got a civic duty to pick the lesser of two evils.

If you want a system that cannot be abused then don't remove the safeguards designed to fix mistakes.

Allowed innocents to be released from prison, and allow the disenfranchised to regain their voting rights.

This is why there is always a higher power to overrule previous decisions, and when it comes to elections there is no higher power than a majority.

It's one of those safe-guards that democracy implements that's currently having rather unintended consequences.

The reasoning is that taking away voting rights is far too easy to abuse, and if a majority of people agree with whomever you wanted to prevent from voting/getting elected then you're fucked anyway.

Which, incidentally, is looking like a very real possibility right now.

Lenovo definitely deserves to be banned after that shit they pulled with the malicious root certificates.

So none of the attackers managed to leave the scene after the police arrived?

That same description applies to downloading a zipped file.

For a revolution to succeed you need the power to remove any people in power that oppose you, doesn't get more authoritarian than that.

And at this point it's also code for 'machine learning'.

Which really is just fancy statistics. Sometimes it's barely more advanced than plain regression.