Jimmy Carter pardoned Nixon because Carter was the bigger person and he believed that forgiveness is the most powerful act one can perform against their attacker.

What Carter forgot was, he’s supposed to represent the people who voted for him, and the voters weren’t, and didn’t care to be, the bigger person; they wanted accountability and didn’t place such abstract values on the act of forgiveness.

It was a good personal decision to make, but as a presidential decision, I find it lacking.

Lol. Lmao.

The techno feudalists and their demented puppet are sabotaging the country quite effectively

Don’t threaten me with a good time

probably already fucked up by talking about it.

I don’t think so. If we get to the point they have time and resources to tack down stuff like that, we’re badly losing the fight.

Organizing is as easy as meeting your neighbors and starting a group chat to keep an eye on each other and maybe exchange information and resources. Rome wasn’t built in a day and all that. Focus on making connections to those closest to you and your network will grow organically from there.

Organizing is effective too. It’s a lot harder for them to take someone when it’s John, the electrician who gave you a hand fixing your kitchen light and not just “the guy in the blue house.”

This is a worthy goal. However, what you’re suggesting is very much like choosing to shoot a bank robber; you need to very carefully consider how you’re going to achieve your goal without looking like one of them.

This is true, but having a handler requires one to know someone they can trust absolutely. Sadly, not everyone knows someone like that.

Yes. Unless you can prove a lack of workplace safety or demonstrate that they significantly altered the nature of your position. You can’t make an accountant scrub toilets, for example.

Exactly, this is their career. And in the most critical moment of their career, they showed us what they’re willing to do, how far they’re willing to go on our behalf, to preserve our of life that places political power in the hands of democratically-elected officials, and not government-appointed loyalists.

At the end of the regime, sure. In these early phases, it’s acceptable to remain in power in order to loudly and publicly resist. Otherwise, their revolution will succeed simply because no resistance was offered.

If we keep worrying about keeping political donors happy, we’ll never reform anything; that’s the exact opposite of what they want and will do everything to stop it.

Once he gets in office it’ll be, “we need something to campaign on next election” every time reform comes up. On his final term, he’ll say, “if the party is going to earn votes for my successor, I need to play ball this term,” then the cycle will repeat itself.

The controlled opposition party won’t meaningfully reform the corporatism that got us in this mess? No fucking shit.

No joke, the day after it happened, they said they were gonna wait a week to even vote on whether or not he was allowed to do it.

Slammed

It’s so strange seeing that word outside of a headline.

On paper, there is a right to privacy in the US in places where a reasonable person would have an expectation to privacy, which is codified into law.

The only place where everyone has an expectation to privacy (barring exigent circumstances) is bathrooms (porta-potties included), changing rooms, locker rooms, or anywhere else where people are expected to use the bathroom or change clothes.

There is an expectation to privacy for individuals on their own private property. I can spy on you in my house, but you can’t spy on me in my house (peeping through someone’s windows is a crime but me having a hidden camera in my living room is not).

However, when it comes to public officials conducting duties of their office, there is no expectation of privacy, even on their private property (though, due to the conflict of interest, this is unlikely to happen).

The only place where no one has any expectation to privacy is public property (like a park, post office, library, city bus, etc.) and private property which is open to the public (most businesses, malls, etc.).

In practice, you can’t fart or jerk off without a corporation knowing about it.

It is public. To get around that, they pay Flock (or some similar company) to spy on us instead, then use our tax dollars to buy our data from those companies, then deny FOIA requests for our own data under the reasoning that it’s their property since they bought it, and you can only FOIA records they collect, not property they purchase.

“Top DOJ officials caved to the slightest pressure, derelicted their duties and handed over their power to the fascist regime. America’s dictator will soon appoint more loyalists to their positions.”

Edited. Thanks. If we’re going to be critical, we must also be accurate.

Fine, SHE still won’t DO anything.

Representatives listen to donors only, thats the issue.

Yes, I could do better. Here’s a list of things I would try that no Democrat will:

Draft legislation to limit ICE’s power, draft legislation to prevent local police from cooperating with ICE, order the state police to prosecute ICE agents who muder citizens on camera, deploy the state national guard to protect citizens from the scourge of masked kidnappers roaming our streets, demand each and every rep, senator, and politician in my chain of command declare publicly whether they’re with or against this regime, and use whatever power i have to force out anyone who says they’re with it.

And if I don’t have the power to do it, then I’ll publicly demand the people with the power either exercise that power, or publicly declare their loyalty to the regime.

If I were running for office, would you vote for me?

The danger of doing something “ironically” or “to gain access from the inside” is, you MUST have a hard cutoff point, both in terms of time spent and things accomplished, and you MUST exit as soon as either one happens, regardless of the status of the other.

Anything less, and you run the very real and serious risk of doing it for so long, you end up actually just doing it for real.