The more probable answer is that the NSA asked for the backdoor to be left in. They do all the time, it’s public knowledge at this point. AMD and Intel chips have the requisite backdoors by design, and so does Apple. The Chinese and Russian designed chips using the same architecture models, do not. Hmmmm… They have other backdoors of course.
It’s all about security theatre for the public but decrypted data for large organizational consumption.
Great marketing and propaganda line. But when you really think about it… Is it?
The answer is very clearly no for most of the world. And having lived with many forms of government, the absolute worst is American democracy which is really just an oligarchy with extra steps.
Tell me you know nothing about it without saying it… Go spend a half hour and read it. Or spend 10 minutes and watch the literal recordings of the explanations for why this measure was vetoed.
It was put forth only for headlines like this. And it only works on an electorate too stupid to know otherwise.
Smart enough to not be a bootlicker.
ACAB. Americans are the stupidest pieces of shit in the world.
That’s the opposite argument every weapon carrying redneck in America uses. You serve justice at the door, not the court.
Serving a no knock at dawn by a paramilitary force is not something that happens in a free democracy.
Fuck these and all police.
Rednecks fought for the right to shoot an intruder in your house. It doesn’t matter if he was stupid or guilty. He shot someone breaking into his house with his legally acquired weapons while a completely innocent man.
If that’s no longer allowed then let’s make it law. Because now, it’s just hypocrisy
We should be so optimistic! A traitor and failed insurrectionist pushing for 1800s style laws is only barely being beaten by our own octagenarian! Woohoo!
Yeah that’s not even remotely true. You can read or even watch the actual statements by China and Russia. The US has been the one vetoingball ceasefire action since the beginning. They put forth this resolution which called for a ceasefire to be examined except it would also allow for various continued operations that don’t count and added extra crap that doesn’t belong in a ceasefire. It also did absolutely nothing to address the concerns the US has had all these months, completely ignoring its own dire warnings.
Smoke marijuana? 25 years in prison. Try to overthrow the government and murder the vice president? Best we can do is 5 years, and since time served is 3 years, actual length will be 0 (half of term minimum before release usually).
I’m so glad the US devoting so much time and energy to important matters like this. Not like anything else important is going on…
Exactly. You want people to vote for you?! This is how you get people to vote for you.
Biden is a super tough pig supporter. Kamala even more so putting tons of people behind bars for barely any reason. They try to talk a good game but in the end support police and crime units more so than the republicans.
So if you’re going to defund the FBI, CIA, NSA, and various police departments… I’m all for it.
ACAB
You know how in the USA you’re supposedly innocent until PROVEN guilty? Yeah well being shot to death in your own house while being innocent in accordance of the law says you have no rights at all.
He could have been guilty. We don’t know. He was never tried. He was executed in cold blood as an innocent man.
The only argument anyone has made that has any semblance of reason is the succession question. When the leader dies, the values and trajectory may change. I agree.
However be honest. Look at a democracy. The succession question must be asked every election cycle. That’s every 4 years in the USA.
Most authoritarian regimes have checks and balances. The thought that the USA is the only one with it, is just false. And considering how well these checks have worked the past few years, I’d say they don’t work at all in the USA.
Many modern authoritarian governments have councils. And in today’s global world, money is an excellent check for balance of power. It would be very easy to argue that is truly the only check and balance in the USA at this point too. Those with the gold make the rules in the USA and they also skirt justice. In an authoritarian regime with investment, if they decide to go crazy, they lose their own power.
Didn’t miss it at all. Your talking point ignores the reality.
If the issue is succession and we pick the US, you have this potential issue every 4 years on the presidential level. You have the same issue on the house and senate level. You have a worse issue on the supreme Court.
If the leaders change in 4 years, you’re equally screwed as if your dictator changed in 4 years. However a dictator generally is in power for decades or many decades. So really, you’ve shown the opposite. It is better to be in a stable dictatorship because the succession unknown is less often.
All over. Lots of American political questions where when the US does somethings it’s super awesome F-yeah. And then when an “enemy” of the US does the exact same thing, it’s the all about bombing them to oblivion for having dared go against Uncle Sam.
As someone who is very global and been a victim of the US systems before, it’s pretty annoying. But completely expected. Oh well.
Pretty much anything anti-American or pointing out hypocrisy of the West. And just like Reddit, it gets removed and silenced often. Or just downvoted to oblivion and then name calling.
Lemmy is very much like Reddit in the sense that it is “one of us… One of us… One of us”
It does bother me the US blocks polar bear arms (and the rest of the bear) from coming across the border since the late 2000’s. Needed a special permit before but now they just sieze and destroy.
The policies are independent of the question. Insert your own policies to answer the question truthfully.
Current US democracy allowed for a (failed) armed insurrection of the government. And current US democracy is allowing that failed coup leader to run again just like Germany 100 years ago. It’s pretty obvious that democracy does not offer such protections. It requires the populous to not be idiots assuming everything else works properly.
I understand what you’re saying, I just don’t think it’s honest. I know you have to say that because you have to believe in all people having valid opinions and equality and so on. But deep down, I’m not sure you even believe it based on what you said.
If Obama had authoritarian abilities or was able to be a dictator for just one day like Trump wants to be, and he rammed healthcare out the system, I think you’d view that as a net positive.
In a world where 30% of your fellow countryman hate you (doesn’t matter which side, it’s about that) and another 10% strongly believe things polar opposite to what you believe, I fail to see how anyone that is honest with themselves would say they prefer a democracy (Republic or parliamentary or even absolute) unless they were absolutely sure that they would win the vote and could get their policies passed. And all that is, is authoritarianism with extra steps.
I ask the question because I’m curious what people think nowadays. The gut response is always democracy is sacred. That’s what you’re taught to believe.
But that has a basis in authoritarianism. You want a social safety net. Small government people, that make up half the US, do not. You want a cap on political spending, and maybe even censorship (disallowing misinformation media), and many do not.
You want a country made up of people almost all like you with small differences in day to day governance but no differences in the big ticket items. Is that achievable in a democratic Republic or parliamentary system in a modern global age? I don’t think it is.
It doesn’t matter if you’re pro Murica or pro Russia. It’s a bit disingenuous to say Russia is arming the border! When the border has literally moved thanks to the Nordic countries getting into NATO and no longer being neutral.
For example if Russia and Mexico formed an alliance, then the US lined the Mexican border with guards, tanks, anti aircraft, etc… That would make defensive sense. It also would not be fair to be portrayed as “USA returning to Mexican American War of 1848 posture, tripling troop counts on the border”. No it’s a very predictable and publicly shared outcome of a very predictable and publicly occurring series of events.