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> This is an undeniable truth. Well, I disagree. What evidence do you have to demonstrate that a) this is true and b) it's so unassailable that one could not deny it? Because it su…

Good thing I'm not a communist or I might be upset. You keep moving the goal posts all over the place. I was just saying I'm not a tankie, lol, and you've pivoted to philosophers. …

Yes. Of course it failed. It also succeeded several times. I'm not a communist, though. (I do have communist friends, however.) Most of my communist friends are not authoritarian c…

I'm old (50s), I don't want a strong any of those. I especially, however, don't want a strong executive because I don't think decision making should be strongly centralized. I'm a …

I'm not a tankie, and if you think all leftists are tankies you definitely need to refresh some definitions. Unless you are saying, "I have nothing in common with the narrow subset…

You have to stop thinking it's us or them. You have to stop imagining that somehow any of this is ok because my team or your team did or didn't do something. I certainly hope I've …

It's absolutely not the case. The US is an empire with increasingly dictatorial power centralized in the executive. Clinton increased prison populations and increased police power.…

Yes. The Supreme Court affirmed this in Texas v Johnson. It is an act that expresses a political view through a symbolic act. It might be offensive to you, but "I find it offensive…

Newsom is a fucking nightmare. Willing to burn every minority community alive if it gets him 5% at the ballot box.

Obama also engaged in dictatorial policy... Just because two people have done it does not make it "not dictatorial". Or, using logical constructs - "A therefore B" is not made inva…

It's an executive order that contravenes existing legislative and judicial precedent, sets penalties, and is expected to be unchallenged. It limits free speech by fiat because a si…

Roughly one in three Americans water sources are chemically polluted, predominantly in minority areas: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP14721?mc_cid=180f74...

Most of the comments here suggesting the UK it's evil have been downvoted. It's clearly still uncomfortable for a lot of people.

You realize that being gay or being non binary are considered pornography to some legislators? Until we can decouple those things, banning porn has the effect of criminalizing LGBT…

Yeah, definitely don't blame the country actually committing genocide. You sound like someone who is excusing domestic violence by saying, "if she didn't want to get hit, she shoul…

> It's why you don't have to fear getting put on a show trial if you piss off the wrong people or they just want your stuff Civil asset forfeiture suggests that's very much a thing…

I don't think that's what the parent was saying. They are saying the Nazis are truly evil, but the Brits are also truly evil. A different truly evil, of course, I'm not going to we…

The sooner Americans realize the democrats and the republicans aren't actually in opposition, the sooner we maybe get some parties who are.

Simple. The UK is not a pro democracy, pro human rights state. It might be uncomfortable to admit this, but if your government is a police state that's pretty much mutually exclusi…

Unlikely. I suspect this will be a rubber stamp mill just like FISA in the United States.

An executable is a random binary file...

A ROM does not. A ROMhack, however, might. A ROMhack injects code into a ROM, the same way a virus or Trojan might inject code into an executable.

MRIs produce shadows that are indistinguishable from cysts or tumors all the time. They are benign, but no amount of data will reduce them. And telling someone "you have a shadow h…

Vile. You know why we don't give everyone a full body MRI every year? Too many false positives, too many benign findings that result in unnecessary action, too expensive. This is t…