anarchiddy

The one that they keep spending billions of dollars every year to influence

Which is why voting cannot overcome capital. I'm not saying voting is pointless, only that voting has been made to be incapable of undoing the power that has accumulated under capital.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

I'm suggesting we abolish the capital class.

There is no electoral system that can overcome a sufficiently organized and motivated capital class.

We cannot vote our way out of this

Idk how many times the democrats need to prove this, but the DNC exists to protect capital interests against socialist policies and candidates.

This isn't a problem with FPTP systems, its a problem of class conflict, and our whole fucking system was built with it in mind. Democrats will sooner partner with fascists to arrest progressive opposition than allow them to pull the country to the left of them.

Like I said, its not about having evidence or not. It's a disingenuous way of harassing someone for having an opinion you disagree with.

If the opinion is a rule-breaking one, then report it. If it isn't, find a more constructive way to deal with your disagreement.

Accusing a user of being a paid troll account is against the rules in most instances, even if you somehow have strong evidence for it.

It's an unfalsifiable claim and is frequently used as a way to harass another user over a disagreement.

YDI.

I hate that we keep rolling the dice on platforming these out-and-about fascists.

I understand that there are some that will be so disgusted with seeing this spoken out-loud that they'll solidify their resistance to fascism, but there's always this small chance that there will be more people attracted to fascist political movements than repelled from them.

I don't feel like I have a good handle on the overall sentiment in reactionary-coded spaces to say for sure, but jesus christ does it make me nervous whenever I see these clips go viral.

A simple toggle, secured with a password would do it.

Yea, that's the thing - I don't think it would 'do' it for legislators. Like you mentioned - it's not really about protecting children, but also the only way to enforce a law like this would be to log or register devices to specific people or children. This would essentially just shift the point of verification from the individual website to the point of sale of the phone or tablet. Verifying the age is the part that necessitates identification - the only thing a hardware-locked strategy does is centralizes that verification to a governing body instead of individual websites, but it still associates individuals with specific devices.

I get why this might seem preferable, but the problem of online privacy still persists.

I don't think this is a good idea...

This is even more invasive - it would mean all the traffic and activity in every device would be traceable to a registration. Whereas now they might have a pretty good lock on individual device ids, they'd then have an actual registry of devices and owners to verify it against

voting heavily

That's not how that works.

Lesser, greater, middling.

Force ranked choice voting by..... loudly supporting them no matter what they do?

Force is a relative concept, it seems