SpaceCowboy

Well you're in a politics community on lemmy, so you're going to hear about all of the leftist populists constantly. But I don't think lemmy is an extremely popular web forum.

In a monarchy you can criticize the Prime Minister or any other minister in government, but it's treason to speak out against the King. If the King does something bad it's because he got bad advice from the PM. Even the opposition party is called the Loyal Opposition, as you're meant to maintain loyalty to the King even while expressing opposition to the government.

Nowadays most monarchies are constitutional and the King's speeches are written by the Prime Minister so it's actually correct to criticize the PM for the things the King says.

It's interesting how the MAGAs are behaving in exactly the same way people behave in a monarchy. Unfortunately the President isn't constitutionally limited so King Trump can do whatever he wants.

I really do think that a constitutional monarchy is better than a republic now. We have people in Canada that also believe that you prove your patriotism by being loyal to a guy that surrounds himself with gold. But they can bow to King Charles and it doesn't matter because he has no political power. Gotta have a King so the subservient part of the population can feel happy without fucking things up by creating a King that has power.

What if the government tells a social media site they have to ban people from criticizing them or they'll lose funding?

Open source sure, that's fine. But someone's gotta pay for running the servers and if the government can cut that funding they have influence over it. That's a level of government control over the media that's a little concerning.

Better to have the the government make regulations requiring companies to make it easy to switch to another company. Like changing to another phone company, you can keep the same number (because of regulations) so people can still call you without even knowing you changed companies even if they have a phone from a different manufacturer using a different phone company.

You can do the same with things like social media, just need to have regulations requiring protocols to allow people to change services easily and connect with other services so there's not a network effect making people stay on shit services because it's what all their friends use. People should own their data, own their contacts and companies should compete by providing better services rather than by making it difficult to leave the services they're currently on.

Handing over your date to the government isn't a better solution than handing it over to a private company. The real solution is to ensure people own their data.

Could we perhaps consider ways of making software that doesn't involve killing hookers?

Do you hope Trump stops taking them seriously, or do you hope people stop taking the freedom of speech of comedians seriously?

Turns out he's an undocumented immigrant with a weird foreign sounding name (Kal El) and he was going around acting like he was an American by the name of Clark Kent. We can't have that!

According to the graph there were fewer US troops deployed in Iraq during the last years of Obama's presidency than there are now.

So Bush started the war in Iraq and Obama ended the war in Iraq?

Sorry, but this graph just doesn't fit with the both sides forever war narrative.

Was I supposed to be taking comedians seriously?

Apparently Trump takes them seriously and sees them as a threat. Or maybe they just hurt his feelings.

Just had a moth inside, kinda annoying. Got a box to try to catch him but just so happened the next time I heard him fluttering about he was right by the door. So only had to open the door to and swish him out.

Moth friend is free!

I don't kill things unless they deserve it... or if they taste good.

Their base? It's at least equally cool to the leftist base to hate Jews now.

Nationalists and socialists coming together in their shared hatred of Jews... how original.

Yeah there have been many times already where it's been "they have to get that he's scamming them now, right?"

But they always go back and say "please sir, can we have some more?"

They're already trying to work out that it's all Pam Bondi's fault. Trump is just getting bad advice, etc.

The poll says 46% of Republicans and 42% of Democrats outside of New York don't have an opinion on a guy running to be Mayor of New York.

Clickbaitey article headline implies not having an opinion on a politician running for mayor in another city means the same as being unfavorable towards that politician. Yes he has a low favorable number but a massive "no opinion" number because should people give a shit about a politician in another city?

New Yorkers may like to to think they're the center of the world, but shockingly over 40% of people outside of New York probably don't know who this guy is because why should they?