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If someone shoplifts in front of me, I can't say that person "broke the law"? The law is crystal clear, and he didn't follow it intentionally.
> If someone shoplifts in front of me, I can't say that person "broke the law"? You can say they did, but it doesn’t mean anything until it’s determined . People make accusations all of the time. Many are wrong.
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Or election were hacked, but not the way you think. Social media was weaponized and turned into a tool that manipulates people's view of the reality. Each person gets a personalized feed that presses their buttons to think certain way. For example with war in gaza. If for example you were pro Israeli, you will see content that Harris was siding with Hamas, and trump actually was the most Israel friendly candidate. If…
> Social media was weaponized and turned into a tool that manipulates people's view of the reality I really dislike this argument. It shifts responsibility from the voters to evil nebulous puppet-masters. I reject that. At some point, you have to accept that people can think and make decisions for themselves.
Perhaps you are lucky and don't have anyone in your family affected by disinformation.
I have family members that no longer watch TV, listen radio, read news papers. All "news" they are getting is from sources that also tell them that all other sources lie.
They live in complete different reality that it is a distorted mirror of actual reality.
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This is my big struggle with all of this. His first term I felt America was duped by a con man so protested and made a fuss on social media. Americans saw the first four years and astonishingly decided they wanted more of it, by a decent margin. So while I absolutely hate what is going on right now this seems to be what the people wanted. I question each day whether that needs to be respected or we should resist. I a…
Don't live in the US, but I got the impression that a lot of people actually saw positive change in their lives in the first round, which is a pretty good reason to want more. Do you honestly believe your news is being spun any less?
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Or election were hacked, but not the way you think. Social media was weaponized and turned into a tool that manipulates people's view of the reality. Each person gets a personalized feed that presses their buttons to think certain way. For example with war in gaza. If for example you were pro Israeli, you will see content that Harris was siding with Hamas, and trump actually was the most Israel friendly candidate. If…
> Social media was weaponized and turned into a tool that manipulates people's view of the reality I really dislike this argument. It shifts responsibility from the voters to evil nebulous puppet-masters. I reject that. At some point, you have to accept that people can think and make decisions for themselves.
And then we have to accept that this world is what we want and deserve, and this dicussion goes in cycles.
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>because you think that 22 years experience in a position is disqualifying? Yes. An Inspector-General is in charge of inspecting and auditing, as the name would suggest. That requires being impartial in absolute terms, because you must be able to call out problems no matter how inconvenient they are. Being in a position of power means an inevitable accrual of reputation and influence, and 22 straight years of accrual…
Thank for you for a thoughtful answer. In a nutshell, you're advocating for a term-limit on roles like this, which is an entirely valid argument.
I wonder about the purpose of many of these actions. Since they’re done via EOs they can easily be reversed.
If this continues, it won’t be easy to track and revert 4 years of EOs. And it will be impossible to undo all the consequences
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The people spoke very clearly in November: they wanted this.
This is my big struggle with all of this. His first term I felt America was duped by a con man so protested and made a fuss on social media. Americans saw the first four years and astonishingly decided they wanted more of it, by a decent margin. So while I absolutely hate what is going on right now this seems to be what the people wanted. I question each day whether that needs to be respected or we should resist. I a…
We have a constitution and separation of powers which many seem to have forgotten about this week
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The people spoke very clearly in November: they wanted this.
This is my big struggle with all of this. His first term I felt America was duped by a con man so protested and made a fuss on social media. Americans saw the first four years and astonishingly decided they wanted more of it, by a decent margin. So while I absolutely hate what is going on right now this seems to be what the people wanted. I question each day whether that needs to be respected or we should resist. I a…
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The ACA is just more of the same? Are you kidding me? Do you know how many lives that changed? No more pre-existing conditions? Literally before that if you lost your insurance you just died.
For the majority of people, the ACA just meant "insurance has an excuse to raise premiums without end (far more than the number of new people covered)". There was some corporate trickery involved, but that doesn't matter to the individual who's paying more.
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You see an electorate that wanted to cause harm. I see an electorate that thought anything is better than a black woman in charge. :-\
It rings a bit hollow when the single most popular president in recent history was Obama. If the US can cope with him what is the problem with women supposed to be? Harris was an unusually weak candidate; the primary system is supposed to shake people like that out and the Democrats were left in a disadvantageous place after bypassing it. One of the reasons Trump is getting all these historic wins is because the US D…
And then they voted for Trump. Ta-Nehisi comment with name "trum is first white president" makes the point better then I would do.