See that's the fucked up thing. I'm an American. I can actually speak whatever I want and whenever I want (in theory and for now). However, I'm certainly not going to be cowed by "Nadir" on /. because he says so. Fuck your mother, bro. Fuck Ukraine && Russia and all you EU faggots in France, too.

More proof the government is just a bunch of lawless gangsters. The highest law in the land (the Constitution) doesn't apply and that's fucked up. Courts go out of their way not to have to rule on Constitutional issues so they can avoid having to actually enforce the law. Presidents never get congress to declare war, despite being legally bound to do so. No law supercedes the Constitution, but that's exactly how the courts work in reality. Same with apportionment and other critical issues. They just ignore the law: completely.

That tells me the form of government we have. We elect folks based off who ran the most TV commercials to scare the plebs with bullshit that doesn't matter. Then those officials ignore everything they promised and do the opposite. Then we get fleeced to fight foreign wars that are completely irrelevant to our interests and ruinously expensive. The corporations who own/run the government get fabulously rich, everyone else gets fucked, but those same morons are screaming "Give me more government!"

It's so fucked up, but them's the breaks.

Lol, you trust the media? Goddamn, that's like admitting you eat boogers and sniff your own farts like a fine wine. Are you some kind of administration official? What's wrong with you?

Pathetic and ridiculous. If anyone needs to learn the lessons of 1984, it's you. You're like one of the top-3 foremost clueless idiots on the site. You're constantly fighting for bigger government, more authoritarianism, greater room for censorship, and other heinous anti-freedom shit-causes. You're not even self-aware enough to realize that 1A protects batshit-stupid left wing communists such as yourself most of all. If you actually got what you're always fighting for, you wouldn't even be posting on Slashdot. You'd be standing in a bread line hoping they don't find any of your old posts and identify you as a political activist. You see, once The Terror starts, the guillotine (or whatever they use next time) doesn't discriminate much. They start chopping off heads of anyone who is willing to speak up on anything. You and Robespierre would have been best buds... until he killed you.

I don't care one bit. I'd like Uncle Sam to stop spending my goddamn US tax dollars on pointless foreign wars. PERIOD. Yeah, I know "you're a russian trollbot!" *DOUBLE YAWN*. You guys always have the same tired and always-suspect response "Everyone I don't like is a russian agent." I mean you sound less realistic than Joseph McCarthy or like some preacher in Salem. "Witches everywhere!" It's really pathetic.

I'm an American from Colorado and don't speak a word of Russian or give one goddamn about Putin, Zelensky, or any of your fucking "problems". I don't give a single fuck about Ukraine. All either Russia or Ukraine exports is strippers and scammers. Fuck them. Fuck Russia and all the virtue signaling idiots in the EU, too. You're fucking countries are burning down around you as leftists "demonstrate" (riot) in the streets over their entitlements and protection of foreign rapists and Muslims.... and you're worried about Ukraine. Bwahahahaha!

My hope is that Russia, Ukraine, and all their pals in the EU get burned/bombed into the fucking ground and shut the fuck up at last. That'd result in fewer assholes calling the US and running scams on people's grandma. They are both slavers who's murder machine (government) conscripts people to die on the front lines for basically nothing. The EU sounds ready to send it's own into that pointless meat grinder. Fuck Trump for not "ending it in 24 hours" as he ridiculously promised (moron). I'd rather see his thieving corrupt family (or Biden's ... doesn't matter) get the money over Ukraine. At least maybe they'd spend most of the ill-gotten gains in the US. Giving money to Ukraine is worse than useless. Those people SUCK. Let them solve their own problems and if they cannot, let them kill each other without my tax money.

They do not have a First Amendment and probably won't respond at all. That'd be awfully cringy and uncomfortable akin to explaining to your wife who just came home early from a trip why there are panties on the floor next to the bed that aren't hers. "We uhh, don't like people saying things we don't like. Wait! I mean, I mean, I mean, WE HATE THE TERRORISTS and YOU ARE A TERRORIST."

I hate everything about the Apple Watch. It's not even the privacy violations and link-to-big-brother shit that's the worst. Even the basics of the device are sub-everything. It has shit battery life (barely over two days in the best case). The case is way too thick and looks like shit as it overpowers your wrist. The case shape is abhorrent and looks like a lump of shit on the end of your arm you cannot shake off. The crown is huge and fugly and most of the bands they come with look like TPU plastic dog collars. You can gold plate them, put luxury brand logos on them, try organic materials for the bands, etc... It's still a hideously ugly little device.

Are the shoes you tapdance in red or blue? Do they have those little metal tips to make them louder? Inquiring minds want to know!

I love how folks always say "drugs and alcohol" like Alcohol isn't a drug like any other. I think people tell themselves that, though. "At least I'm not on drugs!"

You're that guy who brings up politics and religion everywhere you go, no matter how unrelated to the topic at hand, and ruins family holidays, work events, friend groups, etc.. I doubt drinking is going to be a problem for you unless it's drinking at home alone, wondering why you have no friends.

No, it was an ignorant assumption. Everyone assumed I was wanting more money for my relatives. What I'm complaining about is the pathetic attempt just sucking air out of the room. "Nobody needs to help those people. The government does it." The point is the government doesn't really. They do a piss poor job.

That might be true, but it looks an awful lot like "The government is a bunch of gangsters fleecing folks and delivering shit value and putting on a partisan drama for the plebs to argue over" The government delivers worse results even in areas that socialists say work well: roads, healthcare, schools. All of those are better and higher quality when delivered by private entities.

Lol, you're an idiot and you're making an bad assumption. I brought up what they are getting from the gubmint because I'm upset they try to help at all and suck all the air outta the room. There was a lot more effective charity before Big Brother got involved.

Thanks for illustrating my point. Besides being ignorant fools, partisans would rather lie than be correct.

I doubt you login and get a giant Orange Man banner. However, this is typical of Leftists and other Partisans. They don't want to attack ideas, because they know their own ideas are weak and won't stand up to debate. They refuse to debate them and instead just use a smarmy attitude, when challenged. Whenever they get upset about someone's politics they try to smear them with some kind of personal attacks, get them fired, get them "canceled" or otherwise use more non-debate tactics. It's also why they love censorship just as much as the Right wing fascists. This is just simple ad-hominem.

Conservatives aren't any better since they want to control your bedroom and spy on you constantly "To stop the terrorists" or "protect the children" nor is the Left any more attractive, since they have have to protect their bad ideas from anyone uttering "Cultural Revolution", "Soviets", or "Pol Pot" then having to explain why their great ideas went straight into a murderous ditch whenever they were challenged. The Left is also now just as bad about warmongering (Ukraine) and war cheerleading. You know who didn't kill millions in a murderous rise to power? Yep. Libertarians and Anarchists. There are many instances where Socialists, Communists, and Fascists found it expedient to kill dissidents and censor debate. So all you partisans get to wear that. You're censors. You're warmongers. You're useful idiots. However, I bet you all think voting matters (hahaha!) and that your team matters, too, and makes a difference if you "win" an "election". When, in fact, there's barely any difference at all once you examine what they do rather than what they say (which is the part most Slashdotters seem to be stuck arguing about).