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Comment Re:It's their right to be stupid (Score 1) 216

And without America, France wouldn't exist anymore either, unless you somehow think the Brits could have saved you from Nazi Germany by their little lonesome. But hey, here you are, the open-air museum you call a country intact, jerking off online about your castles and highspeed rail and your smug European sense of superiority. You're welcome!

Comment Re:How about fixing the ban appeal, Reddit ? (Score 1, Informative) 45

I don't have the receipts, but it's been known to happen. The mod cabals are definitely real. Just go to any of the big subs and start looking at the mod teams. You'll find pretty quick there are the same mods across dozens of subs, kind of like how the same elites serve on eachothers corporate boards. As for the admins listening to them, /r/AgainstHateSubreddits/ has a long history of getting entire subs banned, it's not a big stretch to assume they get individuals banned as well.

Comment Re:Who is the worst, again? (Score 1) 161

Don't get hung up on the 18th century idea of democracy as the meaning has evolved.

It doesn't matter what liberal weenies at Miriam-Webster claim democracy means this month. Whatever you call it, there's still a set of constitutionally defined structures and limits on Federal power that don't change just because dictionary does.

If American's really wanted to see changes in the structure of the country in the manner you suggest, well they'd better get to calling a Constitutional Convention to shake things up. At the very least prevail (as if it makes any difference) on their Congressional representatives to pass new laws.

The Parliamentary system may well be a type of republican government, but the similarities end there in the same way that an apple and and orange are both fruit.

Comment Re:Who is the worst, again? (Score 1) 161

The federal government doesn't actually have the power to shut down local establishments, mandate masks or other PPE, etc, that power is reserved to the states themselves.

For whatever reason Europeans will never understand this detail about government in the US, even though it's basically the same as the EU. The USA barely even qualifies as a proper nation state, really, at least in the way most people (and especially non-Americans) are used to thinking about them.

Oh well, let's finish this thread about America Bad. Ho hum.

Comment Re: Just to be clear (Score 1) 218

Going back 2000 years...

This is a ridiculous strawman.

As if someone who, for instance, doesn't support gay marriage wants the entirety of society to go back to exactly the way it was in the 60's, and not, you know, turn back that one thing.

Or would you hold that something such as gay marriage is somehow a lynch pin for society as we know it today? Perhaps if it were made illegal again tomorrow all social and technological development would disappear into a poof of homophobic smoke?

Puh-lease.

Comment Re:Seems logical (Score 1) 481

The primary problem is that it's almost certainly not legal for the Feds to mandate mask wearing.

If you're so hot to force people to wear masks, lobby your Governor. You'll probably have an easier time getting through to them than the shit weasels in DC. Hell, making sure the people in your own state wear masks is more important than making sure everyone in some other state do so.

The structure of the USA is complicated and inefficient, but we're stuck with it. Only way it's gonna change is a coup, or collapse.

Comment Re:Data does not support "Police Brutality & R (Score 1) 140

The militias form after your "Roof Korean" phase (which, if you notice, aren't lone wolves but groups of relatives/neighbors, i.e., proto-millita). Assuming continued defensive action is necessary it soon becomes obvious that banding together into militia-like groups is more efficient than every-man-for-himself.

I get that people seem to have this notion of militias as a bunch of right wing kooks stockpiling ordinance and running around in the woods but none of that is intrinsic to the concept of militias.

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