Yeah. There are different kinds of corruption. Tammany Hall corruption, where individual voters did get paid, was definitely bad.
However, it was superior to the current model in at least one respect: the voter got something concrete for their support. These days, both sides ask you to vote for them and get nothing in return.
I love that. So for you, it was just two jesters fighting to the death for no reason?
So your comment is that this picture does not contain every anarchist in Syria?
That’s a silly thing to say.
Peasants have land.
So the stone itself should be the king! Yaaay!
Cross-posted it, link is up there.
Lemmy.world censored this.
Arrr, me fellow hearties!
As in “Jesus, it’s costing how much??!!?”
Well, it’s a good thing China doesn’t make cheap LLMs that you can run on local hardware…
It can get worse.
You could watch them post the text into a notepad doc that they keep open, which has all the stuff they copied and pasted before, then copy the WRONG TEXT back into the target document.
That’s where the fuckable ones are.
He’s the bloody Chancellor, he can get his own justice!
Well, ok, what works better than targets? Gotta measure how you’re going somehow.
Edit: btw, all those factors I mentioned are indeed political reasons.
It’s a shame nobody will ever know. 😄
It’s not that it’s arbitrary, although it is. It’s more an admission that we could do far more, but choose not to spend the resources necessary, or the political capital to tackle the police and community culture (both interact to produce this situation even when the cops have the power).
He probably chose it for motivational reasons. It’s a nice round number and it sells well in print or on TV, and you can shorthand it easily for stakeholders who will largely be either hostile to the basic idea or suspicious of your motives.
The Delaware of Europe.
Does this guy think they don’t have hot women in China?
Oscar erasure, or Oscar tribute?
Gandalf talking like Billy Butcher is something I did not know I needed. Thankyou.