TechNerdWizard42 @ TechNerdWizard42 @lemmy.world

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I'm so glad the US devoting so much time and energy to important matters like this. Not like anything else important is going on...

Exactly. You want people to vote for you?! This is how you get people to vote for you.

Biden is a super tough pig supporter. Kamala even more so putting tons of people behind bars for barely any reason. They try to talk a good game but in the end support police and crime units more so than the republicans.

So if you're going to defund the FBI, CIA, NSA, and various police departments... I'm all for it.

ACAB

You know how in the USA you're supposedly innocent until PROVEN guilty? Yeah well being shot to death in your own house while being innocent in accordance of the law says you have no rights at all.

He could have been guilty. We don't know. He was never tried. He was executed in cold blood as an innocent man.

The only argument anyone has made that has any semblance of reason is the succession question. When the leader dies, the values and trajectory may change. I agree.

However be honest. Look at a democracy. The succession question must be asked every election cycle. That's every 4 years in the USA.

Most authoritarian regimes have checks and balances. The thought that the USA is the only one with it, is just false. And considering how well these checks have worked the past few years, I'd say they don't work at all in the USA.

Many modern authoritarian governments have councils. And in today's global world, money is an excellent check for balance of power. It would be very easy to argue that is truly the only check and balance in the USA at this point too. Those with the gold make the rules in the USA and they also skirt justice. In an authoritarian regime with investment, if they decide to go crazy, they lose their own power.

Funny how that's not needed when you don't break your phone and the thing works out of the box. No random reboots and resets like every US carrier branded phone where a custom ROM is a necessity.

Also if I need replacement parts all the mobile repair shops stock them in places I routinely visit.

Youre just too taken in by propaganda to admit the shit the US shoves down your throat isn't that great.

Didn't miss it at all. Your talking point ignores the reality.

If the issue is succession and we pick the US, you have this potential issue every 4 years on the presidential level. You have the same issue on the house and senate level. You have a worse issue on the supreme Court.

If the leaders change in 4 years, you're equally screwed as if your dictator changed in 4 years. However a dictator generally is in power for decades or many decades. So really, you've shown the opposite. It is better to be in a stable dictatorship because the succession unknown is less often.

All over. Lots of American political questions where when the US does somethings it's super awesome F-yeah. And then when an "enemy" of the US does the exact same thing, it's the all about bombing them to oblivion for having dared go against Uncle Sam.

As someone who is very global and been a victim of the US systems before, it's pretty annoying. But completely expected. Oh well.

Pretty much anything anti-American or pointing out hypocrisy of the West. And just like Reddit, it gets removed and silenced often. Or just downvoted to oblivion and then name calling.

Lemmy is very much like Reddit in the sense that it is "one of us... One of us.... One of us"

It does bother me the US blocks polar bear arms (and the rest of the bear) from coming across the border since the late 2000's. Needed a special permit before but now they just sieze and destroy.

The policies are independent of the question. Insert your own policies to answer the question truthfully.

Current US democracy allowed for a (failed) armed insurrection of the government. And current US democracy is allowing that failed coup leader to run again just like Germany 100 years ago. It's pretty obvious that democracy does not offer such protections. It requires the populous to not be idiots assuming everything else works properly.

I understand what you're saying, I just don't think it's honest. I know you have to say that because you have to believe in all people having valid opinions and equality and so on. But deep down, I'm not sure you even believe it based on what you said.

If Obama had authoritarian abilities or was able to be a dictator for just one day like Trump wants to be, and he rammed healthcare out the system, I think you'd view that as a net positive.

In a world where 30% of your fellow countryman hate you (doesn't matter which side, it's about that) and another 10% strongly believe things polar opposite to what you believe, I fail to see how anyone that is honest with themselves would say they prefer a democracy (Republic or parliamentary or even absolute) unless they were absolutely sure that they would win the vote and could get their policies passed. And all that is, is authoritarianism with extra steps.

I ask the question because I'm curious what people think nowadays. The gut response is always democracy is sacred. That's what you're taught to believe.

Cameras are better than Samsung flagship and on par with iPhone. The newest 14 beats the iPhone 15 in side by side tests according to many media outlets.

The display is Samsung OLED. The exact same display technology.

Educate yourself to the world outside of the USA and you'll find far superior technology.

But that has a basis in authoritarianism. You want a social safety net. Small government people, that make up half the US, do not. You want a cap on political spending, and maybe even censorship (disallowing misinformation media), and many do not.

You want a country made up of people almost all like you with small differences in day to day governance but no differences in the big ticket items. Is that achievable in a democratic Republic or parliamentary system in a modern global age? I don't think it is.

So you feel that the US has a way of stopping dystopic ideas now? Like abortion rights? The US did not maintain those rights and the US populace has no way to stop it. It's decided by a few old people that are there until they die. And the old people can decide whether or not to even listen to a case where they decide to do what they already did or do something else.

The majority of Americans want gun reform. There is no way to implement it in the current US system. The majority want universal healthcare and affordable universities. Also no chance of happening.

Policies enacted by one administration in the US are routinely overruled by the next 4 or 8 years later. Can't maintain.

Nah. This is not being truthful with yourself.

You honestly believe that a democracy of peers will have an overwhelming honest populous that won't be beholden to external interests or hate against each other? There has always been a boogie man. The GOP is the idiots of today but there were others before and more after.

You said a democracy functions on honesty. If you're populous isn't honest or intelligent enough to be correct, then it can't function.

What do you mean "one version of thing"? The UK monarchy has been one thing many ways. It is rarely a dictatorship with just 1 person. It's usually authoritarian run by a collective. You could argue that the collective is essentially a republic. Except instead of being a democratic Republic, it's monarch Republic. The Royal families of various gulf countries have presided for a while now, and views have changed over the years and there's been succession.

So you'd rather guarantee that you don't get what you want and live in constant tribal infighting versus gambling on getting what you want now, and maybe not in the future?

Also while all empires eventually fail, if it's a well run autocracy hopefully Bernie II and Bernie Jr. Would have been brought up with the ideals of the kingdom, and carry them forwards.

Not hate, just genuinely curious.

It always amazes me how many people hop in a completely foreign car and just start driving. They'd rather try to learn where the windshield wiper control is while barelling down the highway at 80mph instead of while parked in the garage.

I've got pretty strong rental preferences so I'm sure they hate me when I ask for specific vehicles.

Just calling out Bernie as a random example of someone with known policies. Trump by that same metric is also near death, probably more so than Bernie.

Not talking about what comes next. But what comes now. Of course human nature is to be greedy and start off nice and turn evil. But that's not always true of dictatorships because generally a family has some checks and balances of their own, or there's a coup and it swaps. But the question is really just do you want to live under authoritarianism of what you believe in, or democracy where half the people want the opposite of what you want.

Well no, obviously there's a maximum speed. Just like parking sensors have different distance warnings when driving versus parking.

And on a Tesla with so much vision, it should really know the topography.

Honest question for everyone. And try to think about it honestly and not just regurgitate what society tells you to think:

Would you prefer to live in an authoritarian regime if your ideology was 100% the rules in force?

For example if Bernie became dictator. Universal healthcare. Taxes fairly. Free or severely reduced pricing education. Abortion and lgtbq protections enshrined forever. Affordable housing and rent. Higher wages. Infrastructure. Public transit. A yearly knit mitten stipend per household. Etc.

If you like that, and the candidate got it and then could just make it happen. Immediately and without decades of "negotiations" and lobbying and pork projects etc. Just decree that there is universal healthcare in 6 months time, no way to oppose it. Would you the democratic voter be against that?

Personally, I believe most people would enjoy living in an autocracy of their beliefs. In order to not sound like a sociopath you have to pretend to want to let the Bobert and MTG Trump voters have their fair say. But their fair say is the opposite of everything you want.

Now if you got 90% of what you want and 10% bullshit you disagree with, still a good deal? 75%. 55%?

Under the current system do you think you're getting the same percentage of what you want?

She did everything wrong that she could have done. I'm going to assume even sober she never read the manual and learned where the manual door releases are.

I am kind of surprised that in 2024 vehicles don't have drop detect sensors but our Roombas do. For 99% of driving of you detect a dropoff, some sort of active brake should be applied...