Humans, I tell you

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Look at the post-Watergate era. Even people who truly hated Nixon, like Hunter Thompson, were content to let him rot after he resigned.

  Meanwhile, Ronald Reagan, Roger Ailes, and the Right looked at all of Nixon’s mistakes and determined to avoid them in the future.

  The free press was Nixon’s biggest enemy and Reagan started killing it as soon as he got in.

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  • kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s almost like you can’t endlessly keep updating your DemocracyOS. The more ‘vulnerability patches’ you install, the more sluggish it gets until eventually you realise you got to throw the whole thing out and buy new hardware and switch to Linux.

    It’s the very annoying human (animal?) trait of: we rest during peace time, which includes our vigilance sadly. And that is very thing that leads us back to wartime.

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    • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’d argue the exact opposite.

      The civil war kicked off after the second longest pause to constitutional amendments in history, only topped by the current one.

      Just like any other system, you need to keep security patches coming or else malicious actors will step in an wreck everything.

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• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If Americans don’t primary some good Democratic candidates in the midterms, the only ways this is going to be “over” is an armed revolution or WW3

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s not over ‘till it’s over. But when it’s over, it’s over.

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• grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “One day everyone will always have been against this”

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I for one welcome our highly radioactive ballistic overlords.

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