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Probably at some point some Latino person denied ass murder to Laura Loomer.

A weird statement, I think the percentage of hypocrites around is the same for all nations. The Jewish ones are easier to notice due to the events highlighted in media. But I don't think there's been a recent event showing any other group as less hypocritical.

It's also, in pure abstract moral terms (which is also why, despite lots of idiots around scolding it, you'll take ancap only from my cold dead hands), that USA is not an ethnic state of some USian people. It even claims to be an international, open entity in its bloody constitution.

So I'm not sure that, speaking purely ethically and abstractly, USA even gets to limit immigration in any way (other than quotas to prevent crowds of third world peasants stomping it out ; but not too small ; maybe also other than keeping out those who can't explain how they are going to make their living there). Probably a homeless immigrant that doesn't have a job and doesn't speak English shouldn't be able to naturalize and get citizenship, but those who pass these three conditions - should and easily.

That or descendants of immigrants (which is almost all of the USA) going back to their countries of origin and freeing the territory for descendants of the native peoples.

That's, again, using ancap-like rigid morality.

But then in this particular case ancap rigid morality aligns with traditional marxist rigid morality perfectly. So basically in any consistent system of morality underpinning laws it seems that limiting immigration to such a nation is not the same as limiting guest access to your apartment.

Just in case - I live in Russia and I would with no doubt make the same rules for Russia, if it were up to me.

Y-yeah.

I'm sometimes having conspiracy theories that some of such people are not just scammers, and were purposefully planted. Lots of people had unpleasant (for corps and states) ideas about crowdfunding, self-organization, libertarianism, or maybe anarchism, whatever. Cryptocurrencies too are not all bad, they have their uses. Living in the USA you might not see those clearly. Crowdfunding is a good model (when you can sue the living hell out of scammers).

It is an existing strategy, highlight your own mule as a leader, let them siphon the sympathizers of an idea to them, then let them loudly fail. You discover those people and their potential mechanisms which could have stayed hidden, and you undermine trust. Repeat until the field is clean. And by weeding out supporters of unfavorable ideas this way in portions, you gradually reduce those possible to act from people opposed to you. So it's a working strategy for building a totalitarian state (that's what they did in Russia), for creating a monopoly (that's what we had in the last 20 years in the web ; even FB, Google etc would initially play as supporters of some free and interoperable Internet, if you remember, they'd support XMPP and RSS here and there and put on nice faces ; then after siphoning the energy that could have went into building a working decentralized IM infrastructure or working decentralized social infrastructure, they'd stop being nice), for basically everything.

I thought at some point that Russia's regime is some scourge Russia alone was subjected to, until I saw that it was actually one of the first to show signs of a global change. Probably because it had less inertia due to being weakened after USSR's breakup.

Dunno if you've noticed - in today's world politicians and businessmen want the server side to be precious magic.

Having anything dedicated is opposed to that.

Well, US laws are all bullshit anyway, so makes sense

I think some people do, but not in such a situation and not posting it like this.

Most likely yes, it's a troll to confirm a certain point of view, and not that of Trump supporters.

It's an instrument, not a solution. In general I'd advise everyone to think of security thus:

If someone wants to find your ass, they'll find your ass.

But if you follow all the best practices, they won't find your ass accidentally or just for fun. They'll have to work.

Started reading this as "stacking up animation" and thought you are going for inner escapism with your anime collection when there'll be problems with interwebs, interpipes and intergunshots on the streets.

Yeah, see, you are already dreaming of that other American thing.

Trump is literally America’s spirit animal, he represents everything that America stands for: greed, ignorance, hate, racism, bigotry, misogyny, corruption, and deceit. Trump is not an outlier, he is America’s mirror.

Probably because that demented walking corpse was picked intentionally as an avatar. He represents a group of people in power. Without Trump they'd probably find some other one. But he's too convenient.

I've recently had a thought that direct democracy is possible.

I'll elaborate:

Sometimes we (humans or even societies) don't update our ideas for the new information.

Say, when I was in kindergarten, I was once sitting behind a table waiting for my mom to get me. A kindergarten teacher put a box with a puzzle in front of me. When I was leaving, I took it. It was apparently intended for another kid who had a birthday.

(I'm autistic, so I have rather early memories.)

So - I was ashamed of this for many years until I realized this was bog standard entrapment and the only thing that teacher wanted, probably, was to feel how forgiving they are and probably better than my parents.

That realization was when I revised the old idea for additional information I had as an adult.

The elaboration itself:

This can be applied to direct democracy.

It's considered impractical to have a national vote on every issue, because big countries have more stuff to deal with using laws, and because it's technically challenging, and because the crowd is unwise.

But! The general populace's ideas of what is practical and what isn't for democracies are from the times when living people would switch telephone calls.

We live in a world where you can have a national vote every day and all the facilities have been created many times, with cryptographic signatures, with highly loaded systems like those of Facebook and other social media. We can have direct non-anonymous democracy, it's not impractical.

And also the so-called Soviet democracy (not the USSR, or rather it existed purely on paper in the USSR, except its first few years and last few years) is often considered impractical, because it can be disrupted by recalling higher council members from the lower ones, putting pressure on the lower layer councils' electors, but I beg your pardon, in today's world that wouldn't be a disruption.

One could make an argument in favor of not relying upon the Internet and computers for such important institutes, but unfortunately the inverted way of using these opportunities is already embraced to effectively kill democracies.

So it's better to think of some thoroughly resilient global system of discussion and voting over the Internet, other than discard the idea.