This user feels like a bot or troll farm. A few innocuous memes, then another weird China Ukraine etc one, kinda like clockwork.

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If you can’t read a paragraph without calling it word salad, that says a lot about you.

Though, I do enjoy how you’ve just randomly added in some random “ists.”

Edit: If you are having difficulty or aren’t understanding a word or something, I can walk you through I guess?

“the adults in the room” angle doesn’t even encompass you considering your defense for western “democracies”, fucking ageist.

It’s more that the take being espoused, that there’s no difference between a state that disappears journalists and citizens compared to a Western democracy is a childish take, and to argue it makes you seem a child.

It’s like when my friend’s adorable toddler asked why she can’t have ice cream “an a broccli” every meal (as she understands vegetables are important.) It’s a reasonable question for a child as we don’t expect her to understand all the nutrition etc that makes that a terrible plan. If she asks it, no worries. If a teenager or older asks, I immediately assume they’re kind of a child.

Arguing a place that locks up journalists and ‘suspected’ citizens is in the same realm as a western democracy with some laws you don’t like, is a childish position, that you expect from someone with little to no understanding of the role/importance of a judiciary, checks and balances between branches of government or the fourth branch. They likely know and understand little about the many regimes where this has happened and the horrific tragedies that ensue. And fair, not everyone has time to read or the fortune of knowing people who have come from those places. But it is still childishly ignorant.

Let me guess, GenZ/Y drawing a hard red line on and being vocal about genocide and western interventionism is attributed to their “youthful fervor” that will wane away in time too?

Huh, where are you getting this from?

Is your position that you are not categorically different than a child rapist? That difference in the harms you both cause to children is of degree, not kind? And thus should be treated or considered the same?

By that logic, you are in all likelihood no better than any of the child rapists at Epstein’s island. Why? Well, children mined the cobalt in your phone and you’re probably wearing some sweatshop clothes.

Both the child rapists and you are harming children. Whether one is raping children or just buying stuff that comes with child harns is irrelevant, both are hurting kids.

Do you see how goddamn silly an argument you are making? Yes, neither is a utopia but there is a fundamental difference between a government acting in accordance due process enacting laws and the government disappearing people.

No.

I am saying that a country with a functional judiciary is categorically different than one without.

Saying democratic countries with laws you dislike are the same as a country where the state is unrestrained by law is utter nonsense.

Edit: To put it very simply, in both places you could be arrested for social media posts. In El Salvador, that could be the last anyone hears of you. In the other, you have a lawyer, a fair trial and if you lose, you still have some human rights.

I know which I’d prefer.

Ha, my bad! Sorry, too many children on this thread posting just absolute nonsense.

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A flawed democracy that disappears citizens.

Seriously, it’s not complicated.

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Oh wow, you missed the hundreds of think pieces freaking out about that threat?

https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+third+term+threat

Arguing there’s no difference between a regime that disappears citizens and a flawed western democracy is mind bendingly dumb.

No.

I am saying that a country with a functional judiciary is categorically different than one without.

Saying democratic countries with laws you dislike are the same as a country where the state is unrestrained by law is utter nonsense.

Edit: To put it very simply, in both places you could be arrested for social media posts. In El Salvador, that could be the last anyone hears of you. In the other, you have a lawyer, a fair trial and if you lose, you still have some human rights.

I know which I’d prefer.

You can literally get arrested for social media posts in Europe.

And then, as has happened for those cases, you get a trial.

The people arrested in El Salvador do not get trials. To conflate the two situations is either ignorant or simply childish.

“90% of developed countries allow the indefinite reelection of their head of government, and no one bats an eye. But when a small, poor country like El Salvador tries to do the same, suddenly it’s the end of democracy.”

The difference is those governments usually have civil liberties etc that constrain the government. (The erosion of which is partly why trump is so concerning.)

Bukele has been arresting journalists and politicians he doesn’t like. If you are arrested you effectively have no recourse.

That’s actually probably impressive.

In 2013, instagram hit 100 million monthly users (and now has 20x that, unsure about geographic distribution but…). I personally assume cyber stalking and mass online social media adoption are reasonably correlated.

Rough thesis? Back in the day, higher proportion of people were cyber stalked. Many more people went publicly online, more people stalked but as a percentage of those online, probably less than the apparently brave trail blazers.

I think one of the most impressive pieces of comedy was in a random Jackass sketch.

Mall boxing, Knoxville squares off against a one time super heavyweight champion, Butterbean. Butterbean laughs, lets Knoxville take a free shot then proceeds to one punch Knoxville unconscious. Paramedics come and as they’re attending to Knoxville he comes to, looks around and immediately asks “Is Butterbean okay?”

I die every time. The wherewithal to come out from an almost certain concussion with such a ludicrous assertion/question, just goddamnit, it’s perfect.

You’d think the shell would be enough but nope, armadillos had to go for biological warfare too. Jerks!

I’ll put an /s there next time. I kinda assumed people would figure I didn’t actually think RFK was out there releasing plague but ¯_(ツ)_/¯