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It’s more in his own self-interest to vibe-code a rudimentary solution than to just support a good existing project, sadly.

This is 100% not true. On multiple measures of freedom the US scores around the 75th percentile if I remember correctly; I believe the category is something like “flawed democracy” on the economist’s democracy index, and that’s not even an publication that I particularly like. It’s not even in the top 30.

First worldwide? Are you on crack? Are you familiar with the country called North Korea? Or Saudi Arabia?

As a note, I think you meant authoritarian; authoritative means “preeminent/most trustworthy”

You’ve got mountains of proof at this point. Recent Supreme Court rulings on presidential immunity should be enough.

What terrorist is rooting for a government to eliminate private communication? For one, it makes their activities harder to carry out.

I love how you lumped “I’d like my literal children not to be killed because they might grow up to be ‘terrorists’” in with “death to secular society”

FR lol, people in the US love to talk a big game but most of us take the freedoms for granted and will fold at the drop of a hat when real consequences are on the line

> Neither the Jews nor the Parsis nor the Christians ever made such an argument.

The argument that Jews need their own state specifically in the area between Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria is integral to Israel’s politics and history.

>people in the West don't understand how awful radical Islam is

Do you remember that time two dozen or so years ago when a couple buildings collapsed in NYC? After some planes rammed into them?

If you’re flying private customs is a joke. And/or your fixer just calls the local governor/embassy/etc.

Such as?

Except your analogy is asinine, and in this case it would be more like paying rent for 30 years in an apartment but not being on the lease so they unceremoniously kick you out.

If you think that the 1:30 ratio of guns to people in the US is going to stop the government from doing whatever the fuck they want, you are suffering from a potentially terminal case of optimism. I am an ardent believer in “Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”(even though the context was the Penn family bribing the governor to avoid taxation, I still align with both the original and modern meanings), but a “well-armed militia” isn’t doing jack against an FBI task force or god forbid the military, which has recently been deployed in ever more dubiously-justifiable ways domestically.

I think it’s moreso “if we spend more than one nanosecond on alignment and security instead of frontier intelligence our competitors will beat us to the singularity”. Hence the lack of a pause on development

I’m gonna be totally blindsided if/when the singularity happens cause my BS detector is BROKEN