Should we have secret elements in our government that are beyond the audit, and therefore beyond the control, of "the democracy" - the hierarchy of power, whereby the government serves the people and not the other way around?

Blindly trusting a secret court overseen by a small handful of representatives from only a few states not to fuck us in the ass isn't the type of control I'm referring to. Separation of concerns and abstraction of implementation might work well in computer programming, but when you start applying that "black box" rationale to foreign policy, the treatment of other humans, and the inevetable shaping of the global future, we end up with some seriously sticky issues.

A lot of things tend to make sense in the context of "how things are now" / "how they've been", but seem absolutely batshit crazy when framed from the perspective of "how things could be".

Prostitution (aka porn) is the most literal form of raw capitalism. You aren't just figuratively "whoring yourself out" to the bourgeoisie for a quick buck. You're literally whoring yourself out. Bezos is beating his dick to your gaping dripping anus right now. Pretty soon we'll all be doing the "side-hustle", if you catch my drift.

I'm tired of watching life go in slow motion. Where's my fucking 30 hour work week?

Please somebody somewhere, please tell me what Microsoft did in the 90's that Apple isn't guilty of today with iOS and App Store. Boo-hoo Internet Explorer had unfair advantage over Netscape. At least you *could* install 3rd party browsers in Windows. On iOS the only way to gain administrative access to your device is via the borderline illegal method called "jailbreaking", installing a browser is basically installing a skin over the built-in safari browser, and the company decides which developers have gained enough favor to get to play in their garden. That isn't just your opinion, it's fact. They're guilty. It's just nobody enforces the law on white collar crime anymore.

Perhaps it has less to do with how much someone makes, and has more to do with how someone was raised. If you were raised with a good sense of right and wrong, or to identify suffering and respond with compassion, then got rich later in life, chances are you will still think that way. If you were bred to be upper class and never had those values taught, chances are you'll never experience empathy to the same extent.

Isn't this more of a problem with Slashdot needing to improve their website? I've used FF on Android without any issues for like almost a decade now and my history and bookmarks are synced with my desktop. Yes, I had to set up an account for it, but I don't like tying my Google account to other services anyway, it makes me too vulnerable to getting hacked or spied on. Only reason I've needed to install Chrome in recent years was for the angular dev tool, which by now I'm sure there's a FF version of.

Fuck did I really just read this right? A quarter of the world's slaves, under the care of China have been neglected and mistreated to the point where an infectious disease has completely eradicated them, with the only silver lining being that those poor souls can now rest in eternal peace, and all anyone can shout about is not getting some fucking slave flesh between their noodles and losing money from their slave trade. And I'm supposed to feel something for these people?

>driving more Republicans towards Trump lol only in your wettest dreams

Oh come now, surely it must have veered off into a subthread about Nazis by now!

He's trolling you, that's all. It's easier to knock down a building than it is to build one, and that's possibly why democratic representation may be obsolete in this post-internet-era. Trolls like this now have the social equivelent of the atom bomb. We may have innovated ourselves back into fuedalism. The next 15 years should tell. I was actually hopeful they'd nail Biden with something and take him out of the race because he's the biggest threat to the Dems. If the Dems screw Bernie again, those incredibly vital voters in sketchy electoral regions either won't vote, will vote for 3rd, or will vote Trump, and again you'll be relying on the Hillary crowd who will never win the electoral college on their own.

The only single factor that will determine a win or lose on either side is if Bernie gets the nomination. Please for the love of Pete, find all the dirt on Biden you can and lock him up, because if he gets the nomination, it splits the Dem voters and Trumpstick wins. This really has nothing to do with how loud and annoying Trumptards get, everyone knows they're loud and annoying already.

Came for the swastikas, wasn't disappointed. Now I'm out before this sumbitch implodes.

My OnePlus is the best mobile device I've ever owned. Super easy to install ROMs, but I haven't even felt the need to root, there's no bloatware, dark theme by default. If Google ever gets too greedy/shady I can easily side load apps or use F-Droid. Why would anyone use a device that can be turned into a brick at the whim of the manufacturer? Keep sheepin apple stooges.

What, has everyone gone mature on me?

Done, /thread