Sapient liberation now.
In the US, at least, people have been trained to see democracy and capitalism as inseparable. People see the system failing because of corruption and greed, and blame democracy instead of capitalism. It’s a great system for capitalists. Everyone else, not so much.
The Senate not being population-based is part of the problem too. As are gerrymandering and not having universal adult suffrage or federal holidays for voting days. But a Constitutional Convention would be state-based, too, so we’d end up with something even worse than we have now.
Both 9/11s were pretty freaking real, but you’re right on the US orchestrating the 1973 one.
Might have something to do with the slavery, imperialism, and genocide. Or the fact that French Canadians are primarily of French descent. It’s simply not comparable. Also, while people say French Canadian to describe an ethnicity and culture (again, one primarily made up of French immigrants), I’ve never heard someone call Quebec French Canada in seriousness.
That’s valid.
It may be Francophone, but it’s as fucked up to call this “French Africa” as it would be to call India/Pakistan/Bangladesh “British India.”
If they really want less of a rush to NATO, maybe they should stop invading their neighbors?
If you hear of a reasonable source with actual info on North Korean news, leave a link here. Otherwise, your concern is noted. Believe me, in the face of radio silence, most people are imagining much worse things of the regime than a shorts ban.
Auth-left calls it decadence, auth-right calls it degeneracy. Authoritarians hate any deviance from their norms.
Yeah. Not being legally required to abandon principles in favor of short-term profits for shareholders is tight.
“Data” is a mighty broad category to be “driving” anything.
I see. I suppose I just can’t concieve of using the term “morally lazy” that way about someone other than myself, because I don’t know their morals or their barriers? So my thought in terms of the statement was solely “Is it morally lazy of me?0
A better way to put it might be “If you value FOSS and have the technical know-how to use an alternative, it’s morally lazy?”
No. People don’t even recognize what’s happening, let alone how to respond.