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authoritarianism is another word that can mean different things to different people. It can be used to mean the government enforcing any rule that isn't liked. civil rights protection? authoritarianism. job protections? authoritarianism. minimum wage? authoritarianism. etc...

Also related is "small government". I think people who use it mean (at least when not in control) "small federal government", the state however should control everything about peoples lives.

I almost think its the laws they support are black and white and unchanging. If something is wrong with a law, it doesn't matter, that's the law. The solution to an issue isn't to change the law, its to enforce it harder, or make it more restrictive. The "rule of law" also applies to individuals and actions. Money crimes, fraud, "the state" are not subject to the same "rule of law" because those laws "don't make sense" and if we look above are a result of "authoritarianism".

Is there a solution to get people to use language that can be agreed upon? who knows, but it would certainly help clear things up. I hate trying to guess what someone thinks a word means to attempt to refute their points.

I don't know I've though about "rule of law" quite that way before. I'll have to add it to my list for when it comes up. There are several other terms that mean different things to different people (I wish I remembered a specific one to demonstrate). Its one of the reasons its hard to have political discussion online. You have to determine what the words your using mean, before you can start arguing the points.

Assuming he believes his words (as opposed to using rhetoric to get what he or someone around him wants, in either case unfortunately, I think he's serious). I think he sees anything purchased from another country as "subsidizing" that country. To him, its money the US had that Canada now has. I sometimes think he somehow thinks the US should be given things, because...??? Every transaction has to have a "winner" and a "looser" and whoever has a + on the balance sheet is the winner, it doesn't matter what that + really means. (I can only bend my logic so far to try to figure these things out)

Ads and scammers are going to be where people are, so any sufficiently big competitor will get them too.

I need to meet those people.

Well, like in any population, there are musk supporters in any cross section. (my local group has way too many for my liking). I also don't know how bad it is in other parts of the world, I think the artist is Russian, but I'm not certain about that. There are also people that stick around because of network effects. I've gone from sometimes using the few nitter istances that still work, to trying to never go there. If its only on twitter, it doesn't exist.

You forgot the important second bit, it has to annoy someone else enough that they tie you up and forcefully remove the shoes.

two things, 1) I wish that artist still posted outside of twitter. 2) me next please.

I'll have to give it a shot to give a second opinion, I don't know if a tail can be trusted.

Working for me again too. It seemed to always work for a few people, but the DNS for me was a parking page, so I assume they had a short lapse on their registration. (Whois has the last action date as today)

I don't know when you tried, but for a little it was definitely not working. Someone else also had mixed results, I wonder if there was a cached DNS record somewhere. Those kind of domains are usually for parking pages for unused domains, as the last action date on the whois is today, I think they had a short lapse. Its working for me again. Looks like it was probably down for just a few hours.

google, cloudflare, a cdn somewhere. could be cached dns too and it really is working in that browser. Its a recent enough change and lots of things need to update.

This is the entire page, plus nothing on pawb from blahaj users is loading. You might be pulling from a cache.

Disclaimer, I don't like what is being done, I think its wrong, damaging, and questionably legal, at least the process that is currently in progress.

To add more nuance and explanation, There are only 3 branches of government, and when congress says we want a thing done, the executive is the one to execute, because where else could you even put it? For truly independent agencies, I think you need to amend the constitution for that. The current administration is taking that to heart and taking more of an active role, often beyond bounds set, in what is still lower level of the executive. If you were to go to an org chart of the people being fired, and departments being closed, if you went up a few levels you would get to the president. As much as NIH, or CDC, or USAID, or any others are independent, at the end of the day, they are part of the executive.

Most of what is being done has been done or tried to be done before, not necessarily at the same time.

As for your list, I'd be careful about throwing the baby out with the bath water, the NSA is involved with evaluating encryption, although there is some checkered history (DES) in this role.

The FBI helps coordinate multi state investigations

Intelligence from the CIA would be useful, but their history of foreign meddling that has come back to bite is a bit hard to overlook.