I can’t respond to every comment. Again with the assymetry games.
I have lived in former communist countries, spent a great deal of time in Serbia, Hungary, and Poland. I have spent time in China. I experienced life in those countries personally.
I’ll take life in a liberal democracy any day over an authoritarian regime. Democracy is not perfect, but authoritarianism is perfectly horrible and soul crushing.
That’s not an argument.
Judicial systems in the west are ostensibly independent of centralized state power. They are decentralized. That doesn’t mean outcomes are perfect, or even unbiased, merely that the system is designed to not be wielded by the central government for political purposes.
You want to talk about judicial systems acting at the behest of elites, you step foot in China or Russia. That’s all they do there. Illiberalism is no solution to that problem.
Please read Lessig’s Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace. There is no system code that doesn’t implement rules, and no rules that aren’t impacted by its creators’ biases. What matters is intent. It’s clear, the devs of PieFed by implementing anti-Nazi mod tools do not intend to ban people who were born in 1988 or otherwise. You use an edge case to argue a rare injustice trumps the obvious good of tossing neonazis off their platform.
Mod tools on PieFed are vastly better than on Lemmy. And that’s not a political statement.
But it’s not always the case. Furthermore, Epstein is not a signifier that all liberalist judicial systems are corrupt or all trials are show trials. It is a symptom of top down authoritarianism interfering with an otherwise mostly just judicial system.
The solution to corruption is not to accept corruption as the norm. It is to fight that corruption. Your position is nihilist. It gives up on the ideal of justice by imposing a false dichotomy of either total perfection for rules based systems that strive to protect individual rights versus acceptance of no individual liberty at the behest of total state power.
I actually owned one of those!
It’s a cable-tv descrambler.
Until you’re the target.
Yes. The Chinese, Russian, North Korean, and other authoritarian systems are openly corrupt. They do not even attempt to prove actual crimes and impose judgments based not on fact but political opportunism by the state. We see Trump attempting this in the United States as well.
The EU, and prior to Trump, the USA, had an imperfect judicial system. It makes errors but strives for findings of fact and just outcomes. It often fails. But the failures are usually rooted in poor bureaucratic procedure or error. They are not manifestly unjust outcomes run top down as show trials.
A big difference is proscribed outcomes by top down authority versus the unpredictability of diffuse power. Separation of power and rules based systems are more just than dictatorial outcomes.
Striving for equality before the law in an imperfect system is still a better ideal than the alternative of accepting formal inequality in a corrupt system.
Ukraine might have a different opinion on that.
It’s an ‘all guns and no butter’ budget.
That’s 4Chan.
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There was also legislation in 2023 to prevent a potential future Trump Administration from exiting out of NATO without 2/3 Senate approval or an act of congress. Ironically, it was sponsored by then Senator Marco Rubio.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/politics/can-donald-trump-withdraw-the-us-from-nato
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Please be more concise and on point.