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  • Voter turnout was roughly 64.1% and out of those, 49.8% voted for Trump, bringing the total to about 32% of eligible voters. While one can absolutely make the argument that abstaining from voting implicitly supported Trump as Republicans typically fare better in low-turnout elections, it's not exactly factual to say that the majority of citizens voted for him

  • Sweden, long known for being neutral (up until joining NATO last year) and peaceful, can by law compel every single swedish citizen between the ages of 16 and 70 to serve during wartime.

    Exactly as you state, almost every sovereign country on the planet likely has some version of this.

  • Starts with green card holders, then it progresses to those who weren't born in the US via denaturalization (as the administration has already started with), and finally it gets to all citizens. The people cheering for this are the ones who don't realize that the leopards will eat their faces sooner or later as well.

    I don't know if it's related to the culture of American exceptionalism, that people are so used to the idea that they're special and that they won't be affected, that they never even stop to consider the possibility.

  • The people who will suffer from this are Ukrainians and Palestinians, the rich Americans who have spent decades benefiting from the US' hegemony will continue being rich without feeling the repercussions of the current administration's actions. The only Americans who will noticeably suffer from this are the ones who have already been suffering for a long time: Minorities, women, the poor, etc.

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  • I once read a quote by someone that went roughly like "Voting with your wallet means the ones with the biggest wallets get the most votes" and it has stuck with me ever since.

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  • What would it look like to start from scratch with a massively simplified standard for specifying UIs, based on all we've learned since html/css was invented?

    Probably a lot better. The difficult, and expensive, part is getting everyone to migrate over to this new standard, not because it'd be unfeasible but because companies don't want to spend any time or money on things that they don't think will make them profit.

    What we'd need is, for example, the EU realizing that Google's attempted monopoly on the internet is dangerous and requiring a certain standard for private consumer-facing websites to get the ball rolling.

  • The point is to cause obstruction and attention. Force them to show that they don't respect the rule of law so everyone can see it, people like the idea of "mavericks who don't bend a knee to bureaucracy" but when it's obvious that they can (and will) take your livelihood without leaving you with any legal recourse, a lot of people are less enthusiastic. And if the courts actually put a stop to their efforts every now and then, it undermines their position of authority and shows that the power they claim to wield isn't as far-reaching as they'd like to pretend.

    They want people to give in without a fight, they want people to silently just accept their authority. Don't give it to them for free.