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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Because it was never about the deficit, you dummies. It's a convenient lie to settle personal grievances and dismantle the regulators that are going after Trump and his crime partners. https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/27/beltway-bandits/#henhouse-foxes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

As someone who knows nothing about entomology, it reminded me of this one beetle with a comically large pointy bit. I think it's called a hercules beetle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That fact that you think "idealistic version of early US" is a compliment is very telling.

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

Your proposal is just an idealistic version of early US. You claim that corruption is fundamentally impossible, but assume that magically "the monarchs aren't allowed to own property" without regard to enforcement. You claim to have an alternative to democracy but still propose majority voting on replacing rulers and constitutions. You simply assume that monarchs will keep each other in check and not devolve into the conspiring, warmongering tyrants that history is full of.

Power can always be abused to get more power and go against all your original ideals. The only way to definitely prevent corruption is to ensure power is never concentrated in the hands of few.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Both, but the US in particular.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did you know you can criticize people without making weird conjectures about their sex life?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

This was a resolution by the general assembly. The article erroneously shows a picture of the security council.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I think they mean uPnP

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

The military industrial complex

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

Be that as it may, the real motivation for this change likely has nothing to with "less clutter" and more with pandering to the MAGA crowd.

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