jmcs

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Revolutions need organization. Organization needs third spaces were people can meet, discuss, and organize. Most of the US has basically no third spaces outside of churches, and this is very much by design.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The thing is that when he says Soros he doesn't mean Soros, he means something that would make him sound even more like a Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Human experience is never absolute. You can't really compare what you feel with what another person feels by looking just at your immediate situation. Experiences depend on personal history and expectations, even if you try to rationalize that other people are objectively in worse situations than you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

You misunderstand how most dictatorships work. You either crown someone absolute king - and there's less than a handful of them - or you pretend to work within a constitutional framework which is the most popular form of dictatorship by far and the only realistic option in the US, at least for now. The latter introduces limits to what a dictator can do without breaking the illusion that everything is working as it should.

I can't overstate how much effort the garden variety dictatorship puts into making everything seem "business as usual".

If Trump goes there he might as well try to formally replace the entire constitution.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I know this one! What's the last sentence of 12th amendment?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

... while being Meloni's foreign minister.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

They published some interesting mobile ones. And then figure out the crappy slop based on their TV shows actually does better, so they are going all-in on that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Of course there will be elections. Very few dictatorship skip elections outright nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

That's just a parallel universe created when Wesley Crusher forgot a sandwich in the Delta Quadrant 5 million years ago.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

that's actually canon...in the Orville.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Vim and VS Code are both text editors that can become IDEs with plugins. You can use vim with language servers if you want, as there are plugins for it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

To different scales it is. The US has been using the armed forces as an employer of last resort, and defense factories are the only thing keeping some regions afloat. Of course the US economy is significantly more developed outside of the military, but if the US were to scale back its military there would be transversal cracks all over the economy and society.

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