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- Comment on I find it funny that American republicans seem to want a king, when the definition of republicanism is a government without a king. 2 days ago:
wilson was a fascist and set us on this course. you can’t expect a fascist government to keep fascists out of power.
but the problem is in the creation of these executive agencies. someone coming along to abuse them was in the cards the whole time.
- Comment on I find it funny that American republicans seem to want a king, when the definition of republicanism is a government without a king. 2 days ago:
the executive is the one to execute, because where else could you even put it?
the congress. the congress could make a law. it’s that simple. the fugitive slave act didn’t need a fucking Agency of Slave Recovery.
- Comment on I find it funny that American republicans seem to want a king, when the definition of republicanism is a government without a king. 2 days ago:
For truly independent agencies, I think you need to amend the constitution for that.
i don’t think we need most of these agencies at all, but those that are needed could still be created directly under the supervision of congress. would it make their lives harder? yes. but it would also stop any autocratically-minded executive from doing what’s being done.
- Comment on I find it funny that American republicans seem to want a king, when the definition of republicanism is a government without a king. 2 days ago:
The FBI helps coordinate multi state investigations
the marshals already existed before the fbi.
- Comment on I find it funny that American republicans seem to want a king, when the definition of republicanism is a government without a king. 2 days ago:
I feel there is nuance.
I have a joke that the Congress would create a department of impeachment and place it under the president. I know it’s not really a knee slapper.
congress has been abdicating since the Wilson administration (at least) and we are now seeing the consequences of those actions.
if you had elected me to be president, is have scuttled an aircraft carrier and a nuclear sub during my inauguration speech, and if me dismantling the bureau of Indian affairs, the bureau of prisons, the federal bureau of investigation, the central intelligence agency, and the NSA ( whose full name i can’t summon at the moment) just as we see trump dismantling agencies I think are mostly benign.
the problem is that Congress has had no courage for a century.
- Comment on Can I ethically use LLMs? 3 days ago:
copyright is immoral
- Comment on Tumblr to join fediverse 1 week ago:
thebadspace has no real rhyme or reason either and lists a lot of folks I think are fine, and also gives (almost) no reason or receipts.
- Comment on Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US 1 week ago:
Whether you support IP or not, the AI company is clearly in the wrong here.
they’re both wrong to restrict access. if legal analysis is necessary to understand the law, then restricting access to that analysis, or it’s free dissemination, is also wrong.
- Comment on Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US 1 week ago:
I don’t trust that judge’s ability to determine whether they were copied if it wasn’t verbatim. which is what copyright is. to control an idea, you need a patent.
- Comment on Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US 1 week ago:
tragic. no one should need to pay to read the law
- Comment on PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well. 1 week ago:
right. I just thought they’d made the news today or something.
- Comment on PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well. 1 week ago:
what did PayPal do?
- Comment on Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the current administration. 1 week ago:
literally anyone asks me to set up my grill at the protest. I’m down.
- Comment on New bird flu variant found in Nevada dairy cows has experts sounding alarms: ‘We have never been closer to a pandemic from this virus’ 1 week ago:
a dary cow is usually productive for, at most, 5 years. what do you think happens to them after that?
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 1 week ago:
but we shouldn’t want anyone prosecuted at all
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 weeks ago:
the hypothesis was decay, not invasion.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 weeks ago:
they could kill everyone in any society they decide to invade. this isn’t an indictment of anarchism.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 weeks ago:
there simply isn’t evidence of some casual mechanism by anarchist societies must decay. their hypothesis can’t be proven. I didn’t even know how it could be tested.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 weeks ago:
humanity was completely unstructured at the beginning
can you cite this?
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 weeks ago:
exarcheia and anabaptist sects come directly to mind, but you’ve just excluded them for some reason. it seems like no-true Scotsman to me.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 weeks ago:
there are a lot of competing theories. personally, I have begun to favor non-prefigurative models of revolution, so you should probably consult others on what they think they will build after the revolution.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 weeks ago:
there is no such thing as a power vacuum. it’s just a story telling device.
- Comment on Is lemmy slow for anyone else? 2 weeks ago:
or pay your admins bills
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 weeks ago:
anarchist society comparable to state
a what?!
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 weeks ago:
another story
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 weeks ago:
they are a story that people tell to explain the world. but they are not a phenomenon that can be empirically tested.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 weeks ago:
You are not making any sense whatsoever
because youre not qualified to be in this discussion
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 weeks ago:
currently not a single anarchist society exists.
that’s a lie
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 weeks ago:
power vacuums are a myth
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 weeks ago:
communism is stateless. whatever you’re talking about isn’t communist. anarchy works through mutual aid.