“GET A ROOM, YOU ANIMALS”

Take us as a warning, please.

Election spending, in terms of polling places and such, is funded by the states. When US folk say ‘election spending’, they explicitly mean ‘buying ads, air time, etc’, we just don’t say ‘propaganda’ because… it feels bad, I guess.

It’s almost like theories of governance have advanced in the ~250 years since the Constitution was written.

Good thing we’ve ignored them and largely kept the document as-is!

If only conservative Supreme Court Justices were that consistent.

"Freedom of speech applies to people, corporations have corporate personhood; therefore, freedom of speech applies to corporations.

Speech can be purchased, as with advertisements, thus, restricting expenditure on political expression is a violation of freedom of speech.

Therefore, corporations can spend as much money as they want on campaigning for political candidates."

It was a disastrous (and narrow 5-4) Supreme Court decision, and rightly condemned by many at the time, including many liberal politicians - and celebrated by conservative politicians.

At last, Valjean, we see each other plain…

I mean, the OOP is describing cowboy clothing style in particular though as the reason.

Best lil guys, they recharge my shields

Mainland China is also ruled entirely by an authoritarian regime whose presence is extremely notable to those tourists who aren’t interested in putting blinders on. For some people, that’s crap.

Hank the War Criminal

Explanation: In the Siege of Alesia during the Gallic Wars of Julius Caesar (of conqueror and dictator fame), Caesar, with a force of about 50,000 Roman and allied troops encircled a slightly largely force under Vercingetorix in the fortified city of Alesia. Caesar, in order to ensure none of the Gauls could escape to regroup, built a wall around the fortified town. Vercingetorix was a charismatic and skilled Gallic warlord who sought to expel the Roman intruders from Gaul, after several years of the Romans increasingly intervening in inter-tribal wars and making themselves increasingly ‘at home’ as overlords of Gallic polities.

Vercingetorix, however, had planned to be surrounded - he had sent out the call for a much larger force to gather and surround Caesar while he was surrounding Vercingetorix!

Caesar played the Uno Reverse card, and built a wall around the wall he was using to surround the walled city of Alesia. That’s three (3) walls in total, for those counting, two by Caesar, one by the Gauls. So when the massive Gallic relief force arrived, they found out that there was no fair fight to be had - they had to siege out Caesar’s own besieging force to rescue Vercingetorix! To make matters worse for them, Caesar had his men ransack the countryside for all available food, burning what they couldn’t take - meaning the relief force couldn’t linger for long without starving.

By Caesar’s counting, he faced nearly ~350,000 Gallic warriors in total. It was likely significantly less than this, with the number exaggerated for both practical (hard to count an enemy hemming you in while you hem them in) and propaganda (big numbers = big victory) reasons. Modern figures range from ~80,000-200,000 enemy troops against Caesar.

Forced into several costly assaults on the Roman walls by their circumstances, the Gauls, even coordinating between the besieging and besieged forces to time their attacks, were driven back, and Vercingetorix eventually surrendered for lack of supplies (and lack of ability to break out of Caesar’s siege), ending the Gallic Wars with one of Caesar’s greatest victories.

Can I thirst for governance by people who know how to take care of something, even if that something is their own body instead of an org with millions of people?

Like, I feel like we’re getting the bottom of the barrel, and gym girls know how to do something right, so that’s a definite step up.

I mean, on one hand, yes.

On the other hand, that seems like a lot of work tbqh. I feel like exercise is something you have to already have a passion for to keep it up. Is filtering out morons a little faster really worth it?

Get fucked. When someone asks you to disengage, disengage. You’re being an asshole.

I’m sorry I don’t follow the rules of the Fae, or whichever arcane code you’re following?

If you want to disengage, feel free to disengage. No one is forcing you to respond to me. If you want to get the last word in and then say “Disengage” thinking it’s a “Now my points can’t be responded to :3” card, feel free to go fuck yourself.

The people have armed themselves to protect themselves from people like you.

The People’s Stick, I see.

They are more free than you can possibly imagine, and that idea terrifies you.

Maybe the post-1950s PR campaign was unnecessary all along.

They’ve literally hosted international conferences this year.

tightly restricted entry to and interaction with their territory from outsiders, with journalists only allowed to ask questions when accompanied by EZLN guards?

You wanna point out to me where that contradicts “holding a conference”?

I literally cannot with you people.

Yeah, sorry that you haven’t been following anything except the endless glazing of Subcommandante Marcos. I understand that PR of the internet age is much more compelling to our generation than the staid 1950s-level PR of former ML states, but I would suggest that you learn to think for yourself nonetheless.

Please disengage, I’m sick of the bad faith bullshit.

“Bad faith is when I’m contradicted”

Okay.

The psyop worked 😭

It must be from the Shadowy Cabal of Muscular Women, who are using this to rule the world from the shadows

I vote we let them. Not because I’ve been brainwashed yet, just because I think they’d do a better job than the current twits, honestly

Do you have any actual objections to life under the Zapatistas, or are you just going to continue vagueposting about how it must be bad because you decided it must be?

You do realize that the Zapatistas, before this recent trouble with “Blaming the government (that they don’t need) for not controlling the cartels” tightly restricted entry to and interaction with their territory from outsiders, with journalists only allowed to ask questions when accompanied by EZLN guards?

There’s a long laundry-list of problems with how the Zapatistas have ‘settled in’ to their role since the turn of the century.

Insanity is so relaxing