[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 50 points 5 months ago

Says people should learn to speak English in America, cuts funding for English learning.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 47 points 6 months ago

There are about ~3000 billionaires. Or a billionaire every minute.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 51 points 7 months ago

"Dangerous by default" is one hell of a thing to internalize 😞

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 48 points 7 months ago

And the Democrats won't do that unless the people make politicians fear the consequences of attempting a dictatorship.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 50 points 8 months ago

Kind of feels like all three branches have done that. Congress isn't holding the executive or the courts to account, the court is splitting the power transfer with the executive branch to avoid being made outright irrelevant, and the executive branch is acting like a monarchy.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 50 points 8 months ago

Gov. Gavin Newsom recently sent burner phones to major California business leaders with his number preprogrammed — paid for by his nonprofit, allowing him to communicate with executives without having to disclose the content publicly

That reeks of corruption, and is something we're accusing the federal government of doing with signal....

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 50 points 8 months ago

Dark patterns has entered the chat

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 50 points 8 months ago

The move really synergizes with privatizing the USPS....

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 49 points 10 months ago

At this point some Democrats need to splinter off with the simple litmus test of opposing the oligarchs.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 50 points 1 year ago

Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army. You know what I mean?

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 49 points 1 year ago

She's not that young, she's been doing music for a decade and working service jobs till now. And you can understand something and still feel it is unacceptable.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 49 points 1 year ago

I don't think they're talking about buying something normal and turning it into a weapon. But buying something normal and getting a weapon instead.

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