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I’d pretend to be driving an invisible car.

Are there social media hazmat suits to distribute among current allies?

hah, the governor of the US oblast is such a funny guy

I understand, but you have to be extremely specific about how you frame foreign/domestic distinction, because these guys are prying from every angle to turn an open society’s vulnerabilities and contradictions against itself. We need a broad-spectrum solution to this (one is cognitive vaccination through education, but it is too late for adults) and until we do, democracies are going to be on their back foot against the global oligarchy, because offense is much more effective than defense against this.

The specific case you seem to be making is if state actors deliberately aim a campaign at your voters. But what if it is only their multinationals, oligarchs, corruption and dirty money, what if it is interest groups, or what if it is “NGOs”, or “the markets” and hedge funds, or cultural products, or what if it is simply large groups of netizens of a friendly state who talk up a specific candidate?

Maybe it is clear when russia does it, but they fumbled it this time with Romania, because they were so effective that it became obvious. In most cases it will not be this obvious and they will use multiple of the methods described above. All I am saying is that once they get inside voters’ heads, it’s hard to go and say that it is illegitimate because the people were influenced by effective propaganda.

PS: I still am not sure what happened here, there seem to also have been cyberattacks and leaking of credentials to make the election insecure, but the messaging is mixed because in the middle of this there are references to tiktok. I assume it is something similar to voter register data being leaked, which helps laser-target disinformation. I just hope this doesn’t turn against us when we want to vote out someone and can’t because foreign interference made the voters do it.

I haven’t read enough about this, but if this was 1000 accounts convincing a million people to vote for a guy, how is that different from anyone else campaigning? Except if it violates public campaign financing law and you had an unfair advantage from a foreign adversary in what should otherwise be a transparent level playing field…and even then things are never completely level and transparent.

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The film nights are pretty good too.

Gender roles are pretty dumb even for people happy living in their birth-assigned gender. But I guess you see it twice as bad²,cause you’ve experienced them from both sides now. Fixing yourself doesn’t fix the world, I guess.

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Yes, except that Watergate happened and Nixon was shunned despite getting 60% of the vote and carrying 49 states, there was a time when even republicans didn’t want a king.

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That’s even better. Two blood vessels that fuse and twist.

Moooooom, NCD is leaking again!

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/presidential-pardons-explained

Tried to educate myself on what the pardon consists of (why?)…and found that there is no real separation between the executive branch and the judicial branch, because prosecution is up to the executive branch and the president can pardon whomever e.g.

For instance, George Washington pardoned participants in the Whisky Rebellion, in part because they enjoyed considerable popular support.

Meaning, you are above the law if you are popular enough: i.e. president, their friend, their agent or even just his rioter. Good thing the opposition to trump is popular too, right?

Well, this community is for New York Times articles…but if you come across other free NYT articles to share, you can too!

Yea, between the US and NK

“Oupsie”

Brazil has been under a military dictatorship and they remember (until 50 years ago), same for many EU countries. The USian in contrast has no concept of what is at stake until it will be too late.

And 20-40yo people in this generation can’t/won’t buy cars.