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Nobody speaks for me but me, not even "my representative." It's not just silence, it's withdrawal. I will not be browbeaten and scaremongered into participating in my own abuse. Enjoy your token voice, I'll be busy out here living my way.

That's what you said, yeah. Doesn't make it true.

The system we live under doesn't exist in a vacuum, it doesn't have power on its own, it's not a temple we worship in. It's one we maintain. Without us it doesn't exist.

Who said I'm a trump supporter? Why is it always you're either us or them to you people?

You people are all full of shit and everyone can see it.

This is a prisoners dilemma, yes I understand it. But there's a factor you're not considering: when all the people who don't legitimize it withdraw, it loses it's power over everyone by a little bit. If we all withdrew our support the system we live under might very well change to get our support back.

Alright what's your clear headed, correct take?

I get the argument, and it would be disconnected from reality to disagree. "Yeah, the democrats are taking our options away, but what choice do we have?" In the US, it always comes down to 2 people and you pick one even if you don't like them.

I'm not going to vote. I vote on principle, I believe that voting is giving legitimacy to a democratic system. And this system does not have legitimacy anymore, and probably hasn't in quite some time. Democracy is dead in america and it's just a veneer, a show, and I don't want to grant legitimacy in my mind and heart to a Potemkin democracy. I will not put one ounce of effort legitimizing the lie that I have any representation in this country.

The senile man controlled like a puppet by a shadowy cabal is the best chance for democracy. The party with the word democracy in their name is hellbent on appointing them instead of allowing their constituents to choose someone better. They want to force a man who represents a significant chunk of the electorate to be removed from ballots. This is the future of democracy.

You don't know what "let's go Brandon" is. It's not funny because some reporter wanted to avoid cursing on TV. It's funny because some reporter was trying to hide the utter disdain america has for Joe biden and thought she could think fast and hide it and thought that the audience was too stupid to get it. It's facetious and has layers. It's alluding to the idea you can't candidly speak truth in the US. Its laughing at the media's attempt to whitewash our politics. And lastly, it means "fuck Joe biden" which at this point almost everyone in the US agrees.

The right doesn't like him, the left doesn't like him, the neolibs don't like him, nobody likes him, but people will vote for him because the elites that rule over us take our options away. "Best chance for democracy" lol Joe biden is proof that democracy is dead in america, he is emblematic of that fact.

Yeah, it's an interesting hypothetical. But it's important to remember, this isn't Trumps argument, it is longstanding precedent. The president up until now has not been subject to criminal proceedings for conduct in office outside of impeachment. It was long held by everyone in government, not just some party, that the government can be held civilly liable for executive actions but that the president cannot be held personally or criminally liable except to congress. Whether you think he deserves to face criminal charges or not, fact is this breaks from that and will seriously change the way the government functions, it will have far reaching consequences. You may think this is a good thing, Trump argues that it isn't as has every president before him, but it will absolutely fundamentally change the way the government works if he isn't ruled to be immune by the court.

I might have to check it out. Thanks.

It might not work for you but thems the rules.

Look, there are some unwritten rules in the system of government that exist de facto due to it's structure. One of them is that there is a balance of real power, not "balance of power" due to some document saying so, but that these groups, factions, institutions in government have power distributed in such a way that it ensures the continuity of the state among other things. For example, the court can basically rule anything unconstitutional, and the president appoints the court. If the court rules something like free speech isn't protected, this deligitimizes the court and the government loses real power. If the president packs the court, this delegitimizes the government and so on. They don't not pack the court because they have integrity, they don't pack the court because it would reduce their legitimacy and mandate. Politics in it's truest sense is taken into account in the encoding of the machine.

The more we turn it into a team game the more likely what you're talking about becomes true. When the parties have to feign a loyalty to a higher virtue, the president can't just commit atrocities because his party controls the congress. His own party members have to impeach him to maintain their power. But when it is reduced to a team game they're more likely to be able to maintain political viability by doing just that.

Our government has the integrity that we have, and IMO it doesn't have much integrity left, because the power center, not on paper but real power, moved due to architectural changes behind the scenes that were made during world war 2, what we are living with today is the inevitable outcome of decisions made then.

That sucks? Doesn't change the rules, although I think if a president did something that destructive to the government of the US then the rules no longer apply and we are in military coup treason tribunal territory.

I'm trying to comprehend what I just saw.

Is this a pro antinatalist video? The guy does the spiel about how having kids is bad for humanity, and then offers to cut his throat. Is the goal here to demonstrate that antinatalists hate children, or to offer the argument that you shouldn't have children?

He's not the one being charged though, he's been subpoenaed as a witness. The president is the person that's being investigated.

Presidential immunity does have limits. Congress is the court that can prosecute him for crimes committed while in office. That's what impeachment is.

Cloud storage is just someone else's computer. That someone else is who the target market for something like this is. Server farms need a lot of storage, and that takes up space. Optical storage of that capacity is great for data you need to read often, which is the vast majority of data on servers.

I am he.

Give people a tangible sense of what will happen to them if they murder others.

I just don't think taxes should be used to pay for a (likely overpriced) dad joke website man. There's a perfectly good Lemmy community full of them that I get for free. This dad joke website is emblematic of a larger systemic problem, that most of the money we pay in taxes doesn't actually benefit us in any tangible or measurable way.

I also don't want to contribute to bombing innocent people.

"I don't want to pay taxes if they're going to be used on stupid shit and bombing people" is not successfully countered with "roads". Roads are obviously not stupid shit, if my taxes were only paying for stuff like roads I wouldn't complain. Justify taking my money from me at gunpoint to pay for a dad joke website.