this has some truth to it, but electoralism is not democracy. don’t let this discourage yourself from voting or from preferring democracy over a dictatorship or so.

democracy is not for comoensating voters being stupid. they can be, but their intelligence is completely disregarded for the systems existence. it’s about being able to swap out the person in charge without a murderous power struggle.

there’s a lot of competition for being in charge and traditionally this meant whoever was able to violently subdue their enemies first got to be in charge and had to constantly, violently suppress opposition.

this was obviously horrible and only happens in democracies when someone tries to change them back into a more athoritarian regime and it’s time for the people to rise and fight to protect their freedom.

It seems to me, it’s just unhygienic.

it could be that’s what the pig thinks, but the politicians in charge aren’t actually annoyed by it, because it offers them the opportunity to illegally prosecute their protestor enemies and collect data about them (facial recognition, cell tower logs, etc).

when you’re like 10% thru, the rest will have fled 😄

I think that’s because MS is trying to rebrand the shiity “Mail” app to “Outlook” in order to trick ppl into using it. There was a memo from our IT about it a few weeks ago. The Mail app lacks some features and stability yet. It can’t fully replace Outlook, but you know MS. They like to mess with users.

I managed to get some things only released in other countries thru eBay. (Phone from India, for example.)

now that you have the toy you totally not wanted, it would be wasteful not to use it!

Unfortunately I kilked 3 ferns trying to grow them indoors. The winter air is just too dry.

yeah, just stay safe and don’t get caught up in just annoying them until it’s actually showtime.

they have enough money to sit this out tho.

and it won’t be lasting fix, because the old and rotten power structures will still be in place. (like trump reverted things his predecessors did. as soon as he was back in power, for example.)

cops actually want you to fight them. it’s likely this post even has been made by a cop. it gives them a target and extra legitimizatiin to cripple the attacker and send them to jail.

they know brick throwers usually miss and cops are never alone. they look forward to maiming you.

if you want to change that, you have to attack on a whole different level.

I believe that fighting cops, which are just the low foot soldiers, is designed to wear you out and waste your time, so your best fighters can’t engage with the persons who keep the system shitty.

no, sometimes it’s a joke and the community/subreddit doesn’t exist.

I’ve never heard of a government being overthrown by a strike. I’m not sure, but most successful attempts stormed government buildings, arrested and executed the leaders or forced them to flee into exile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_and_coup_attempts_by_country I only found 1964 The October Revolution in Sudan and one that stopped a coup in Berlin.

If you hate against Dems, even if it’s the same amount as GOP, and you dont topple the regime and fix the democracy first, you will just help the GOP.

Let’s be real: US Americans won’t actually burn those parties, while the fascists will vote GOP, no matter what you say. So you just make the GOP stronger, talking like that, in the current situation. This talk only works in proper democracies, where third parties can rise and form a coalition with yet bigger parties, before the government becomes full fascist. I don’t see this potential in the US.

It’s because the average got bumped up so much when your mom started programming in Python.

I have a feeling, he’ll only leave office in a casket. I’m from EU tho. Maybe, from here, it looks more dire than it is, but he’s meddling with voting rights, press etc and started a war. That’s a way dictators install themselves.

there’s also the option to prosecute them locally. this can be better. most nations have laws about when to do what. if you manage to rehabilitate them, and many nations have good rates, you get extra citizens and taxpayers. in the US with their weird for profit prisons, it would probably be abused tho.

civil unrest is perfect. they can just arrest the protesting civillians and put them to work in the for profit prisons, leaving only compliant civilians. win-win.

only if it hits two components wired to an important circuit. otherwise it would just short circuit the taser, interfere with a dispensable component or do nothing, if it hits insulating parts.