MountainVeil

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I love how you're essentially "just asking questions" the concept of helping other people. This is where we're at in the year of our lord 2025.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Don't forget they are fascists. They will try to crush any resistance and use any lies they can come up with.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

In the second term, we're already getting such gems as "were your captors as kind as the nazis?"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The attacks come from an emotional, not logical place. Maybe someone can help me understand why there is such a strong reaction to even mentioning the word "vegan" among some folk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Downvotes are probably the worst feature of reddit-like platforms. I hope you at least consider what I've said, I think you're misconstruing my point. I don't want a witch hunt. I agree that bureaucracy can be hellish. But I would like to hear less cliché criticism of bureaucrats at large and more specific criticisms that are fair, have logical actions to take, and aren't slandering an entire profession. Is that broad painting of a whole profession not similar in spirit to a witch hunt? Anyway, have a good day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Well, he is speaking the same language. Paraphrasing, he says "they are bureaucrats who don't understand business," as if removing the bureaucrats will solve his problem. Throw in business owners instead of bureaucrats and you will have the same laws being proposed as soon as their profits are threatened. If he would have stopped speaking before that point, I would mostly agree with him. Switzerland has an advantage in privacy laws, and they are throwing it away. It's also worth noting that he is phrasing all of this in terms of revenue and expenses, as if he doesn't believe the fundamental right to privacy will make a strong argument to his audience. That is the real problem here, thinking we can just treat everything like a business.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The fundamental problem is that people will vote for fascism when they feel insecure. Losing a lot of hope for Germany at this point, it's a shame.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Trump has been going after the deep state and saying drain the swamp since 2015 or so. Really this just means eliminate the bureaucracy and replace it with loyalists and corporatists. Step 1 to that process is sowing doubt on the bureaucracy. I'm not saying that it should be illegal to criticize bureaucrats.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Voting trump into power so he can gut your administration is also a fundamental right of democracy, I'm just saying he careful with that type of rhetoric

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

I'm just saying, people have been claiming our warnings are "stretches" for the past 10 years here in the US, and look where we are now

Edit: if you want to criticize bureaucracy, be specific. Don't just slander bureaucracy as a whole because they're lazy or something. It breeds anti-intellectualism

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe we'll see it as a response to crop loss caused by climate change? Could be more dependable in areas with plentiful water.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's the goal of project 2025 that he is able to.

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