election interference?

[TheGoldStandard]

Robert Esptein has been anti-google foe yeara after they shut him down for having malware on his website. His hate for Google goes wells beyond this. Not to say that he does not make good points, clearly Google does a lot to effect elections and it is all currently legal.

The solution proposed is scary too. Big brother types monitoring web traffic basically.

The only solution is to shut down the internet.

 

[Sardines]

I remember back in the day when major newspapers would full on endorse specific candidates...

 

[Mongoose]

I remember back in the day when major newspapers would full on endorse specific candidates...

Ya it certainly evolved to radio, news media outlets, and now search engines. Googles reach is unprecedented.

 

[Mongoose]

Robert Esptein has been anti-google foe yeara after they shut him down for having malware on his website. His hate for Google goes wells beyond this. Not to say that he does not make good points, clearly Google does a lot to effect elections and it is all currently legal.

The solution proposed is scary too. Big brother types monitoring web traffic basically.

The only solution is to shut down the internet.

I like the quote that there are no solutions only trade offs. I think we should be frantically looking for other potential options.

 

[Al-O-Meter]

The US is a republic and a democracy.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgn6ml1OeCk

As I have been saying going all the way back to the very first post in the thread I made about the subject, the United States is a democratic republic. At the 8:31 mark in your linked video the lawyer says "Democratic Republics: Most modern nations, including the United States, are democratic republics." Those insisting the United States is a democracy should all get the word 'SHEEP' tattooed across their forehead. It is technically wrong and an insidious piece of propaganda designed replace individual thought with group think. It equates the Overton window to morality and nonconformity to sin.

We are, at least for now, a democratic republic. You do you and no step on snek.

 

[Sardines]

As I have been saying going all the way back to the very first post in the thread I made about the subject, the United States is a democratic republic. At the 8:31 mark in your linked video the lawyer says "Democratic Republics: Most modern nations, including the United States, are democratic republics." Those insisting the United States is a democracy should all get the word 'SHEEP' tattooed across their forehead. It is technically wrong and an insidious piece of propaganda designed replace individual thought with group think. It equates the Overton window to morality and nonconformity to sin.

We are, at least for now, a democratic republic. You do you and no step on snek.

So we're NOT a Constitutional Republic?

 

[Al-O-Meter]

So we're NOT a Constitutional Republic?

We are a federal democratic constitutional republic. You could call us a federal republic, or a constitutional republic, or democratic republic and not be wrong. Our legislative branch is a representative democracy but that branch is only a piece of the government and so it would be technically incorrect to call the United States a representative democracy because the judicial branch definitely is not and the executive branch is currently a weird hybrid. Those arguing the United States is a representative democracy nearly always falsely point to the legislative branch as if it were the whole government.

 

[One Brow]

As I have been saying going all the way back to the very first post in the thread I made about the subject, the United States is a democratic republic. At the 8:31 mark in your linked video the lawyer says "Democratic Republics: Most modern nations, including the United States, are democratic republics." Those insisting the United States is a democracy should all get the word 'SHEEP' tattooed across their forehead. It is technically wrong and an insidious piece of propaganda designed replace individual thought with group think. It equates the Overton window to morality and nonconformity to sin.

We are, at least for now, a democratic republic. You do you and no step on snek.

As "democracy" is used in modern political parlance, we are a democracy.

 

[TheGoldStandard]

So we're NOT a Constitutional Republic?

I told you, we’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as sort of executive officer for the week…