I’d vote for a candidate who campaigned to repeal the Second Amendment.
Woah! What are you? Some kind of Communist? The founding fathers were perfect in every way. Ain’t no one more qualified on God’s green flat Earth!
Pfft get a load of this guy who thinks the Earth is green.
Gestures broadly at the sky and oceans
The earth is flat!!! ARRRRR!!1!1 screams at sky
I have always felt that freedom of press was one of the most fundamental aspects of a working democracy. Without a free press, you cannot have proper checks and balances. Unfortunately, while press is still ‘free’, actual unbiased news gets only a small fraction of the viewership. Mainstream ‘news’ is nearly completely opinion driven, and profit is the incentive rather than the dissemination of information. The free press no longer serves its necessary function, there is no accountability, and democracy is at risk.
We no longer have free press, not to any meaningful degree:
European version:
Given that the freedom of press is a requirement for a healthy democracy, and corporations owning all of these subsidiaries prevents that, I think it is well past time that we ban corporations from owning subsidiary companies.
Disney ate 21st Century Fox, so it’s even worse now.
Yes, a functional democracy requires that users have real political agency to engage with political topics, and that requires a high bar for individual liberty including press and academic freedom. A ton of people here will try to argue an absurd absolutist case that freedoms don’t matter because all governments engage in some curtailment of freedom, and that this all therefore reduces to preference.
The reality is that neither governments or institutions outside of government are perfect. Perfection is a vision which guides institutions, not a real endpoint. That’s why you should always be very critical of anyone who is quick to engage in criticism of your institutions, but is unwilling to engage in criticism of their own. This is the surest sign that someone is not acting in good faith, be it in real life, or on a notoriously sensitive meme community.
What about public radio, NPR? Of all the crap news out there, the reports I get off NPR are usually well balanced
So yea, I hear you. I pretty much exclusively listen to NPR for news, and they are pretty balanced if not potentially a little left leaning from time to time, which I actually find refreshing.
But when a measurable percentage of the country thinks fox is fair and balanced, or that FB is a news source, the ability for our free press to safeguard democracy is severely threatened.
What good is free press when there are no longer facts and everything is opinion based?
Paraphrasing Asimov, ‘There is a cult of ignorance which operates under the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is as good as your knowledge.’
When trump took a play straight out of the dictators handbook and started shouting fake news, I began to fear that this was the beginning of the end. The real beginning however was probably a few decades back when news went from dry and factual to sensationalist infotainment.
It’s when CNN went to a 24hour news cycle and they had to fill that time with a bunch of talking heads spouting opinions.
At least we got rid of that pesky national religion that controls what’s legal and what’s not.
Right?
Also, America was formed because a bunch of rich, old, white guys didn’t want to pay their taxes.
More like a bunch of folk who were turfed out of Europe for being a bit too religiously weird
That takes some doing in the 16th century 😂
I mean, that was why the pilgrims left. There were a lot of other people that came for a lot of other reasons after.
Yeah but maybe look at a modern written constitution. At least the guys wrote the American one had some ideals. The Canadian Charter of Rights was written by a career politician in the late 70s to specifically guarantee governmental rights, not citizens.
I don’t think the problem is that the government “wasn’t the best ever,” I think it’s that it hasn’t changed. And the US hasn’t done a lot to enforce some of the groundwork beliefs of the framers.
I still think the idea and balance of power of the US government is one of the best—but it was created to change with the times and address practical flaws (amendments) and hasn’t.
The problem is that they’re still largely perceived as being the best ever. The American founding fathers are pretty much deified, and it’s still expected that important policy decisions will be made based on what these centuries-dead aristocrats thought rather than based on what’s needed in the here and now. Other countries don’t do this. I’ve never in my life heard a politician try to attack or defend a position based on what John A. Macdonald would have thought of it, but in the USA that sort of thing happens all the time.
What a random image to use!
Thanks! I knew I recognized it but not from where.
A rare example of a Japanese game being made better by localization. While the original is just a generic story about a guy rescuing a kidnapped girl, in the US version they made them Californian teenagers who speak in ridiculous surfer slang. “Jake, they’re like stealing me or something. Help!”
It also had a great soundtrack!
Totally Rad!
It was “we have MegaMan at home.”
Being mid was kinda Jaleco’s thing.
the meat of it is concerned with property and ownership, which has little to do with the general welfare of sentient beings, so i think it was alright for the time, and totally outdated now.
and the government has never changed in any since.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the genocide of indigenous peoples and the suppression of slave revolts, the right of the settler crakkkers to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Who is P guy?
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Then you’d be wasting your Vote on a candidate with zero chance at election.
Hate to be that guy but the second amendment was drafted hundreds of years ago. The invention of the nuclear bomb was such a jaw dropping discovery, try explaining to the people who drafted it that the government will have weapons of war that make the arms they had in mind literally useless.
Having guns, for the purpose of keeping a tyrannical government in check, is as effective as bringing ice to the North pole to keep it from melting.
Tell me again how we won in Vietnam/Afghanistan/Iraq… o yea we didn’t, and if you think that nuking your own populous is logical…wtf. because that neighborhood you live in, isn’t just a bunch of people who think just like you. So when they bomb your neighbors house, your shit is getting fucked as well.
Yeah, fuck me, it’s almost like trying to quell an insurgency on foreign land where every time you murder a terrorist you make more because those terrorists had families and lived in communities. It’s almost like that’s unconventional warfare where the only way to win is by committing a genocide (which we can absolutely do but choose not to, you little fuckin goober).
We didn’t ‘lose’ Vietnam, Afghanistan, nor Iraq. The government decided it wasn’t worth occupying the land any further and had become too costly. You really fuckin think the government is going to just throw their hands up and go “Awe shucks, guess we gotta give up our own land to the hicks with assault rifles.” No you fuckin cabbage, they’ll roll out tanks and APCs from the military bases 15 miles in any direction with full kit and put your dumb ass in your own bed and tuck you in.
You are giga fucked in the head if you think for even a solitary second domestic martial law with the combined force of all military branches is anywhere near as difficult as shipping that same hardware halfway around the world to places that don’t want you there. All shit the founding fathers couldn’t comprehend because going from one landmass to another was still a multi-month journey and not everyone would survive it.
The government only loses when it kills so many of us we can’t make it enough money to put gas in the F-35 raptors.
Yeah, fuck me, it’s almost like trying to quell an insurgency on foreign land where every time you murder a terrorist you make more because those terrorists had families and lived in communities. It’s almost like that’s unconventional warfare where the only way to win is by committing a genocide (which we can absolutely do but choose not to, you little fuckin goober).
Eww so close to understanding… because yes that totally wouldn’t happen here at all lol
We didn’t ‘lose’ Vietnam, Afghanistan, nor Iraq. The government decided it wasn’t worth occupying the land any further and had become too costly. You really fuckin think the government is going to just throw their hands up and go “Awe shucks, guess we gotta give up our own land to the hicks with assault rifles.” No you fuckin cabbage, they’ll roll out tanks and APCs from the military bases 15 miles in any direction with full kit and put your dumb ass in your own bed and tuck you in.
Lol you are braindead if you think the military is going to side one way or another. We did lose all 3 of those wars and those people we were killing didn’t look or speak like us. Also those hicks are the majority of the military…lol
You are giga fucked in the head if you think for even a solitary second domestic martial law with the combined force of all military branches is anywhere near as difficult as shipping that same hardware halfway around the world to places that don’t want you there. All shit the founding fathers couldn’t comprehend because going from one landmass to another was still a multi-month journey and not everyone would survive it.
Lol ok buddy you keep thinking that. Remember your home is free game when they start bombing your neighborhood to kill a few of those hicks.
The government only loses when it kills so many of us we can’t make it enough money to put gas in the F-35 raptors.
The second a f-35 starts killing us citizens is when it can’t be refueled. You clearly do not understand how bad a civil war would be…
“You’re braindead if you think the military would pick one way or the other.”
“[…] to protect against all enemies foreign and domestic.” They’re not American citizens, they’re terrorists. Insurgents. You clearly have no fucking idea how the game is played, dipshit. The military sides with the military.
Your entire fucking reason for why the government can’t erase your dumb ass is that" they’re American citizens!!" like that has ever stopped them in any situation, ever. Actual fucking retard.
Lol you must be like 15 or something because you clearly do not understand how our military works, nor do you understand who runs it. Hint… it’s not the people like you who hate guns and want to get rid of the 2nd amendment. The military is siding with those so called hicks.
Lol there’s this cute thing called boot camp every branch goes through. It knocks out 80% of your identity and if you were ever in the military you’d know you’re not allowed to have political opinions and damn sure not allowed to voice them. You are a tool. An instrument of the government. The military is not siding with you dumb fucking rednecks cosplaying as militia. You will get steamrolled like the domestic terrorists you are.
PLEASE go test out how effective that second amendment is. Go into any US fort, armed, and see how far you get. I’m begging.
Sorry bud, you’re in the wrong community if you’re looking for allies when you bring logic based on reality into the conversation.
You mean a meme community doesn’t like humorlessness in the comments? Color me surprised.
memes can prompt a variety of reactions. acting like this is your safe space for only happy thoughts is pretty infantile.
