Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…

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Cake day: December 31st, 2025
  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzBanned from communitytoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•ICE = modern day BrownshirtsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The thing is, they view it as a fair trade to support that in exchange for the opportunity to be a part of that system. They might not be the galactic emperor, but they don’t seem to mind being a stormtrooper. Everyone else is just peasants and rebel scum in their eyes.

    To them, they’re high enough on the social hierarchy to have plenty of people to look down on, and that’s all they need to feel better about themselves.

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzBanned from communitytoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•ICE = modern day BrownshirtsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    That’s a blatant misunderstanding of what a Hobbesian sovereign is. According to Hobbes, a sovereign is a form of body politic derived from the consent of the governed. People form civilizations, understanding that by abiding by common agreements they can mutually improve the conditions and circumstances of their lives. Everyone is safer when we agree not to kill each other, and anyone who violates that norm loses the protection of the social contract. Hence, capital punishment as a penalty for murder.

    What ICE is doing is violating the social contract and acting without the consent of the governed (bypassing congressional approval/oversight, ignoring established laws and constitutional rights, etc.). In effect, they’re regressing us back to the conditions of the state of nature in which “might makes right” and “survival of the fittest,” conditions which the social contract originated in order to overcome.

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyztoscience@lemmy.world•Sudden drop in fentanyl overdose deaths linked to Biden-era global supply shockEnglish
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    3 days ago

    No, the DNC was too intent on taking the high ground and proving that they’re not like maga. They fell into the trap that had been laid. Maga spouts nonsensical accusations, most of which are projection, so that once it comes to light that they’re doing the thing, nobody is willing to accuse them because they already made it sound insane.

    They’ve done this about many things, and it’s unnerving how effective it has been. “Weaponization of government,” “targeted political prosecutions,” etc.

    Now when you call it out they say “You didn’t mind when your side did it.” That’s because the other side wasn’t even doing it to begin with!

    They effectively created the “both sides” -ism, because it obfuscates all the ways in which they’re demonstrably worse.

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyztoscience@lemmy.world•Sudden drop in fentanyl overdose deaths linked to Biden-era global supply shockEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Except this time there’s actually some evidence of tampering worth looking into, and there’s been no investigation. Whereas investigations were conducted last time and there was no evidence.

    Election data was uploaded over starlink, and Elon Musk bragged about winning the election for trump. He also openly paid people to vote republican.

    And there were some weird requirements in some districts for wifi-enabled surge protectors, whatever that was about.

    And Dominion voting machines were bought by a trump sycophant.

    And there were multiple districts in swing states that voted blue down the ballot except for the presidential election.

    All in all, these are anomalies at least worth investigating, especially since some bs claims of fraud warranted investigations in 2020. But no, there was no investigation in 2024.

    So you’re saying “there’s no proof,” but how would there be “proof” if an investigation was never conducted?