And I've thought our wana-be-authorian politicians are greates idiots of all, but there seems to be running some kind of global world competion to find them and let them ruin their countries.
What happened? I missed that (I'm not ironic, I would really like to know what else they did).
Growing up at the end of the Cold War with basically every major political figure decrying the USSR’s political apparatchiks monitoring everything, I never expected that to happen here but having watched the right’s embrace of Orban it wasn’t a surprise by the time it happened. The guys who brought us “freedom fries” crowded everyone else out of the party.
The idiots are the people whose support they politicians are courting.
Matter of fact pretending to be an idiot and doing idiotic things might be worse cause you know better, an idiot’s excuse would be that that’s all they know to do.
But of course the survival of crazy policies hinges on people willing to elect politicians who will implement them. And that in turn hinges on how well you disinform them.
I don’t see how it could be believable that Vance is actually religious and isn’t just using it as a way to get votes.
People are really, really good at believing things that benefit themselves.
Yes the cynicism is there, but the "praying" is the means by which the subject performing the acts is able to feel authentic while performing them.
Also they're all performing for each other, too.
Then we also have the Signal chat, and even biographies and books by some of the others that makes it clear done of these people are genuinely dumb as fuck.
Which is ironic considering all we heard from MAGA/Fox for the last 4 years is that Biden was incoherent and senile.
These guys are, sadly competent at... Well, a few things, but none of them include 'good governance'.
Does the UK have an issue with over-policing of twitter? Absolutely it does.
Are the tightening of protest laws concerning? Yes, very much so.
But it's nothing like the rhetoric and destruction of due process happening in the USA.
People are getting arrested and deported with no due process for expressing opinions? The UK government is rewriting history to remove women and gays?
No, you're just confusing the existence of hate crimes in UK law, and maybe the dumb migrant detention in Rwanda scheme (which has since been cancelled), both of which have due process, are public, and ridiculous to compare.
Additionally, yeah there have been "social media offenses" in the recent years. Individuals have been arrested for comments made on social media platforms. Try it out. Communications Act 2003 come to mind.
Are people not entitled to lawyers in the US?
In any case, there is authority overreach in both countries (and more).
Maybe as India gets richer and the UK economy flatlines they'll stop doing that.