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I'm only pointing out that nukes are fundamentally a threat to the rule of law. We can't invent a world without them just yet, but we should at least think of them as a systemic threat to the world we're trying to create

There's no paradox. Candace's espoused ideology is an open attack on the social contract, and should therefore not be protected by it.

Divest. Protest. Raise hell. If allowing them a platform isn't your hard line, you don't stand a chance.

Back in colonial times it was very feasible to keep the executive in check. Nowadays it is a technological fact that the executive needs nuclear authority just to be in a position to make a timely counterstrike effort.

At least, this was the dogma last I checked, maybe there is enough interdiction capability now to change this dynamic. I would be delighted to learn otherwise, but given the necessity of secrecy in these things any evidence must be compelling.

That said - Until the logic of MAD ceases to prevail, there is an insane sort of game theory rationale for an executive with extensive powers, regrettably. It's hard to see how to get past the eventual nuclear war scenario without a one world government. With nukes we are walking a tightrope, but we cannot reasonably expect to do so indefinitely.

Y'all are never getting rid of me je voudrais manger all this merde up in here

It's just a matter of what you feed the chickens dude

It's a fine idea and despite being a longshot it's probably the only way anything good ever happens in America again, but a word to the wise:

You go into a revolution with the people you've got, not just the people who have their head on straight. The ideological mix of America currently isn't the group I'd pick for outlining the underpinnings of a new republic.

Not saying a revolt is a bad idea even, just making the point that we live in an imperfect world, and politics make for strange bedfellows. The sheer geophysical fact of North America means the rift between urban and rural can never be truly reconciled.

DeJoy, the aptly named first term Trump appointee who was ordering the destruction of mail sorting machines in a naked scheme to disenfranchise mail-in voters and somehow (as if to prove the collaborator role of Democrats) survived Biden's term, is now a DOGE apparatchik. So it goes.

He's just a gross old fuckboy

If each US city had an occupying paramilitary junta that worked hand in glove with moneyed interests and bullied local elected leaders, what would change?

Fucking zilch.

Hard not to feel like the real motive is to normalize territorial aggression. Sure it's land, and when the ice melts it'll be useful, but nobody behind these policies will live to benefit from that.

Ownership is in bad shape, and it's gonna get worse if we let them do away with things like cash and physical media.