"if only we could get the scoundrels out and get the right, good people into government, the world will be better off" is the equivalent of "if we only hire smart people, don't use strcpy, and are really careful then we will be able to write programs in c without memory corruption bugs and exploits!"
nice dream but how many times over how many decades must you bloody your head on that wall before you learn?
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as usual in the US, the people committing mass murder aren't going to jail, but the guy who exposed the mass murder system is:
https://twitter.com/medeabenjamin/status/1377643945296023552
the thing that bothers me about executive fiat lawmaking is not so much the rules being dictated (such as the president making my wrist braces suddenly illegal, despite congress passing no law related to it, and wouldn't). it's the fact that to make law like that, you have to fundamentally disrespect the concept of the rule of law. you have to become a dictator.
https://numair.medium.com/15-years-is-enough-time-silicon-valleys-rape-problem-ee1a022a079f
flagged off of HN almost as soon as it was posted.
who is this person accusing?
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