The abyss in the enforcement of international law, and the absence of any conscience, gives rise to the “just one more chip” approach to land seizure. The settlers also largely have an insane sense of entitlement to the land based on their religious mindset.

No, I’m talking about the electorate. As for the issues where the politicians have a bipartisan consensus, usually that’s when the electorate starts making doublethink-style excuses to find a difference where there isn’t one.

Probably takes a whopping 5-10 developers to set up the systems in question from scratch with FOSS. “From scratch” as in, not accounting for whatever insane backwards compatibility requirements exist, though that’s not some impassable obstacle either.

I’d say, of the ruling class. Said fascist movement being basically a stage production of their creation. Said neutered opposition (Democrats) likewise being a stage production of their creation.

People often disagree with this framing, but honestly, spend a few years comparing viewing events through this lens vs through the D vs R lens. Things will make a lot more sense.

Americans are ruled by a politics of opposition. Anything Trump does, the opposite must be good. Anything Biden does, the opposite must be good. Nobody thinks about anything from scratch.

This is single-handedly the biggest contributor to the longest period of peace in our history.

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How’s enabling genocide working out for you? The world is collapsing.

This hideous reality was here before I was born. God knows what will happen to it in my lifetime, but if it goes away, it will be because of the solidarity of the people, not because of cowards continuing to rubber-stamp every crime against humanity the system wants to commit.

Me? Own WHAT? A lifetime of never supporting mass murderers? I’m not the cog in the genocidal system, fuckwad. Own the fucking mass murdering politicians you keep voting for out of your own self-instilled sense of helplessness. A world of people like me actually WORKS. A world of people like you dies in a rapidly approaching nuclear holocaust. And the most insufferable part of all is you actually presuming to speak down on US. That’s a firm “fuck you”, to you, from me.

First, our entire system is made up. The fact that we’ve spent centuries entrenching traditions and imaginary institutions around it has no bearing on the fact we could collectively throw it out tomorrow. Second, there were options besides D and R in the election, regardless of whether or not the population collectively chopped its own dick off and decided not to vote for any of them out of paralyzing fear of the other party winning.

Think the main point was, “let’s not, as a population, vote for ANYONE who commits genocide.” But noooooo. That was too much to ask.