@BitPaine@DouglasKMurray@ComicDaveSmith The reason we know there’s been severe institutional decline this century is that the retards have been correct way too many times.
But they’re still retards.
We are in the midst of a perilous moment for our democracy. The risk of any of the candidates being harmed can have catastrophic consequences for confidence in our system and democracy.
The below post suggests that Trump’s team’s requests for more secret service protection have been denied. RFK has long been asking for basic security. These requests for protection can no longer be denied.
@realDonaldTrump and @RobertKennedyJr both need to have @POTUS Biden-level security for the sake of our democracy now.
@cjsnowdon Feels like a bit of a motte-and-bailey argument when taken wholly. The are a vanishingly small (but loud) number of people who take every position shared in his thread. But many who quite reasonably take _some_ of the positions.
@cjsnowdon Or they might just exit the jurisdiction altogether. Or not start that start-up in the first place, leaving the incumbents to take the spoils.
Or maybe they’ll launch an uncensorable distributed network that is home to *everything imaginable*
@loffredojeremy It’s like Eurovision, except instead of ridiculous, camp and charming nonsense music, you have the most conceited, power hungry individuals on the planet each trying to outdo each other in the “what to deprive the non-elites of” game.
@Molson_Hart In one, entropy often makes the results interesting/entertaining, and in the other..not so good. I’d also bet GPT for precise info will hit similar limits to self-driving.
@washingtonpost Thank you for providing clarity to these complicated, nuanced and very different situations, without which I’d probably assume there were roughly equal amounts of incompetence and partisanship on both sides.
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The Central Bank of Nigeria has restricted citizens to $100/day in withdrawals AND they are invalidating all physical Naira bills by ~Jan 25 2023.
@herrytheeagle says Nigerians have to turn in all cash as it will cease to be legal tender.
#Bitcoin is saving many.
@delric99 @daringfireball Read the article, listen to the interview, and consider which more accurately reflects what was happening in congress a few days ago. No need to report back.
@smeegboy@daringfireball Consider digging deeper and understanding why he has taken various positions. Of course some are the dirty business of politics + the two party system. But he’s the type of republican you want in there. And 10x more worth listening to on the original topic here than the article.