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Except there were open, archival solutions for IRC for projects to take advantage of. Are there any for Discord?
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Discord
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The US in particular doesn't have a national identity system in the first place because the Republican party has opposed the concept for a long timr for various reasons both ideological ("mark of the beast" claims are less of a thing these days but have been made in the past) and political (having a patchwork of systems makes voter suppression and stochastic disenfranchisement of undesireables easier). Without that,…
Would Passports not be considered a "national identity system"?
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"The king of a country is not connected to that country's government" is a kind of hair-splitting I really, truly cannot abide.
That's the whole point of a constitutional monarchy! The king's literal job is to not be the government. He gets to be the emotional symbol of the country and be treated with respect in exchange for promising to never actually do anything. Most of them pretend the monarch is allowed to do things (as long as the government tells them what to do first), but in Japan and Sweden they don't even have that power. The emper…