Politicians come from the voters. We have ilk like Trump running this country because this country is filled with ilk.
CalipherJones
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As far as I'm aware the Chinese social credit score is almost entirely propaganda.
People absolutely take this stuff seriously. The problem is the most bone headed guys are the ones likely to fall for this stuff. Once they're sucked in it's hard to convince them otherwise.
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Fox news liberal... lmfao
Yeah I deleted my Bluesky. All public companies eventually turn to shit because of the shareholders unending greed.
schadenfreude will get me through the foreseeable future.
Corruption is a matter of individuals rather than the form of government. Any human system is bound to be corruptible since it involves humans.
I think a strong anti corruption culture is the best defense against it.
Sad to say, but humans are the root of evil. Atrocities have been done in the name of all sorts of things, but it's always humans carrying it out.
"After Salt Typhoon's hacking campaign targeting US telecom networks came to light last fall, then FBI director Christopher Wray described the phone company breaches as China's “most significant cyber-espionage campaign in history.” The intrusions, which in some cases exploited the wiretap mechanisms built into telecoms for law enforcement use, prompted CISA and FBI officials to go so far as to recommend that Americans use end-to-end encrypted communication apps like Signal and WhatsApp to avoid leaving their texts and calls vulnerable to China's real-time spying."
As if working at Google is remotely close to directly participating in the fucking Holocaust.
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But that'd hurt billionaires.