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The news has to be extremely careful with accuracy, or they can be held liable.
Oh wait. That’s just for Nazi salutes and rape. If Trump “fires” President Macron tomorrow, the news can just print “Trump fires President of France”.
The news has to be extremely careful with accuracy, or they can be held liable.
Oh wait. That’s just for Nazi salutes and rape. If Trump “fires” President Macron tomorrow, the news can just print “Trump fires President of France”.
The thing the idiot billionaires didn’t realize is that they already had maximum money and minimum accountability.
Money. Which would you rather have, a million dollars or a million rubles? By grinding the US economy to a standstill, they may have more dollars, but they’ll be worth less.
When they complete turning us into a fascist oligarchy, they’ll have more accountability, not less. Nearly every single one of them will have to spend more time worrying about getting thrown out of a window by a “superior” or shot in front of a hotel on their way to a conference.
They’ll have to fear everyone above and below them. They discarded a set of rules that originated from general agreements to help us all get along, and have chosen power and blood as the deciding factor over laws. Well, that goes both ways. Democracy requires some good faith, and we’ve taken that for granted.
The founders understood this. It’s why they invented our system of democracy. It wasn’t just out of the goodness of their hearts. That all happened around 1776, as you know.
Between June 14 and July 27, 1794, hundreds of nobles, shopkeepers, clergy, corset makers, vintners, and other “suspicious” citizens were executed by guillotine at Place de la Nation in Paris.
That sentiment didn’t arise out of the blue. It was around for decades before it got to that point. The founding fathers were very aware of what was happening there. The English civil war happened in the mid 1600s and the king was executed.
It turns out constant power struggles were often not great for those in power.
But we’ve forgotten that. So now, instead of learning from history, we’ll repeat it.
You just can’t say “no maintenance has been done.” It has, with more planned.
Had we elected Kamala, this was one of the things that would continue to get fixed. Just seems you don’t want to give credit where credit is due. Not sure if you’re going for a “both sides” angle or what. But if you are, you don’t get to conflate that with the current bullshit.
Didn’t Biden pass an infrastructure act to fix these bridges? Granted, I expect it’ll take more than a year or two.
Because it’s the root of the problem and is important to be repeated constantly.
Congress took an oath to defend the Constitution. Let’s see who cares.