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  • BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.worldTrump wins.
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    1 day ago

    And the White House sat on Trump’s insurrection for four fucking years.

    The system as a whole failed us when it didn’t convict Trump on either impeachment.

    You cannot convince me that Republicans wouldn’t have been rabidly screaming from rooftops that a Democratic President should be impeached if one did the same things Trump did while in office. And the sad thing is Democrats would have agreed and impeached him.

    Republicans only care about holding on to power. Nothing else anymore.

    And we as a nation just handed it to a candidate who wants to be ‘Dictator for a day’ as if any dictator has ever willingly relinquished power.

    As someone in a non-traditional relationship, and who has two female children, I am fucking terrified.





  • Even if law enforcement can get a warrant, unless there’s a backdoor in the encryption then the data stays private. That’s the whole point of encryption.

    The fundamental problem is law enforcement feeling entitled to snoop on private communications with a warrant vs the inherent security flaw with making a backdoor in encrypted communications. The backdoor will eventually get exploited, either by reverse engineering/tinkering or someone leaking keys, and then encryption becomes useless. The only way encryption works is if the data can only be decrypted by one key.

    Anyone else remember when TSA published a picture of the master key set for TSA approved luggage locks and people had modeled and printed replicas within hours?




  • The founding Fathers likely couldn’t imagine a Congress that wouldn’t impeach a Supreme Court Justice for such flagrant self-enrichment. But they were thinking about Congress as a more ideological body rather than a political entity. They couldn’t imagine Justices being aligned with political bodies; that was part of the idea of a lifetime appointment. Put someone in a job for life and they should be immune from partisan political bullshit from the outside.

    They couldn’t envision justices who would trade everything for a lifetime appointment to support their preferred political flavor.

    IMO, the solution is to let every President nominate a new SC justice, and retire the oldest one every election.