No one tells me to put clothes on.

None of this relates to what I was saying. The UK already had its own sovereign government, otherwise it wouldn’t have been able to leave so easily.

I’m just saying the feds didn’t have so much power people wouldn’t pay so much attention to them and would pay more attention to their local stuff. Which would be good for democracy.

I’d like to see government focused on the neighborhood level whenever possible. Only move up to the next one if there is an unsolvable issue.

This is not the only change that’s needed so it won’t fix everything on its own but it would allow people to make much more effective decisions about their own lives instead of people in Kansas deciding things about local DC law enforcement like we do now. That’s bonkers.

If the feds didn’t have the power to control everything in society this problem would solve itself. Also there shouldn’t be a president either.

Has he clarified? Death is specifically a thing that happens to individuals, not organizations, so it does not read this way to me.

They’re not a monolith. Some are friends, some enemies. But eventually they will get crushed too is my point.

Several million? That still makes you a peasant to these guys. You need like 100 million minimum. The millionaires need to join with us whether they realize it or not.

Neither am I dipshit. That’s what I’m trying to explain to you. Unlike you, I’m responding to your behavior and not some imagined category.

Note I didn’t say Europeans are xenophobic. Just many of of them. And you.

That’s what the regional defense compact is for. It’s worked well enough in the past and to this day.

Regardless of the source of those differences they are real and the left has no plan to convert people. It’s time to let go and let the red states become slag heaps of that’s what they want to be.

Nope. You don’t know shit about me. Fuck off.

Is this how you treat everyone from other countries? I’ve heard tell that many Europeans are xenophobic but I didn’t realize it was this bad.

Unironically yes. We should still have a regional compact or something but clearly things are not working. People have wildly different visions of how the country should be run and this stupid power struggle isn’t helping anyone.

I was literally asking for people’s input because I don’t have experience with their legal system. But I guess you’re so intent on making everyone your enemy that you had to interpret it in the most negative light.

Questioning things in a polite, inquisitive way is good. Going off on people for questioning things is deranged behavior.

Also, I wonder if you are aware that people from other countries are individual humans with different opinions and behaviors on things? It seems not. What a very sad and myopic outlook.

Lemmy seems to have interpreted my comment as some kind of pro-US nationalist position. Which is ridiculous but whatever I don’t even try to figure out or worry about what will anger people here anymore.

lol people are so hostile. The US definitely doesn’t do things well most of the time but juries do work pretty well in my experience.

Not because of juries lol. The issue is the corrupt political actors. If citizens had that power instead I believe it would have been different.

Interesting, thanks for the information. I’m a big fan of jury trial personally but I hope that system works well for you.

Some are elected, yes. But at a certain level of power everyone becomes a politician.

I trust them more than corrupt politicians.

Like I said I’m just curious. Although there is no war so I think mass murder is maybe a more appropriate term?

The Supreme Court doesn’t usually decide people’s sentences though. They might rule on a technical issue arising in a trial but not decide the verdict or sentence. At least, that’s how it works in the US.

I mean obviously Trump and his goons are full of shit but so is Maduro. Is the any actual information about who these murder victims were and what they were doing? Just curious…