Uh, are you kidding? The quake community was ruthless. The trashtalk was rampant, but it did keep the whiners to a minimum. For those of us with skin and spines, it was part of the fun. Today, instead, we have whole communities of easily offended whiners demanding easy buttons.

No thanks. We've seen the marxist empty promises destroy enough lives.

Your income tax should do that. Property taxes are egregious because they take away your right to own. If you don't pay, the property is confiscated to pay the imagined 'debt' of the unpaid tax.

The huge feminist logo does not inspire confidence in objectivity. Just like I wouldn't buy into a climate change debunk from the heritage foundation, I would not take any claims seriously from feminists. Both parties are interested in finding facts that fit their narratives rather than finding the truth.

That's not what he was saying and you know it.

Totalitarians aren't perfect.

Those three governments qualify.

So you're still paying rent basically. What happens if you stop paying those taxes? That's the problem with people just starting out now.. There is no job stability and taxes only go up.

Except that a government gains more power, the less it has to listen to individuals. It gets to the point where the individual basically has no voice. He's surrounded by groupthink and kneejerk propaganda designed to polarize that groupthink into alignment with whatever the officials want. The government becomes the enforcer for the 1%. I'd rather the 1% use their own money to try to enslave us rather than our own.

Not when it's associated with important situations. The visual reenforces the situation. "Hey, these assholes did this." I'd like to see a lot more uncensored reporting. Western culture is way too soft now and is rapidly becoming unable to deal with harsh reality. Your desire for testing people before they watch a video is an example. It's just a video! Hell, large tracts of the population can't even handle lowbrow insults any more without claiming 'hate speech.' This is not good long term.

Fuck testing people to make sure they agree with you first before being able to see/do something. I don't get this attitude either. All that fear over the 'negative' is one of the things that's driving this control freakery. Societies must be able and willing to cope with the bad as well as the good to survive. This is not done by letting the insecure build walls to keep the 'bad' out.

Yeah, I understand that. It's just unfortunate. I'd like to see more standards enforce proper crypto.

A state of emergency for this? really? If there aren't more important things for these politicians to do then maybe we should close down their offices.

I don't see that as an improvement.

Why not just distribute native binaries from an ftp site and be done with it? Then we don't need the browser, slow interpreted languages like php and javascript, and 40-100MB of ram just to display a page of text and some gfx. The binary connects to your database over TCP.

Considering how predatory everything is now, I would never want any of this.