Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
by smsm42 on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @04:52AM
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Nobody gives anybody ability to destroy humanity, no need for histrionics. We don't have elections for God or Emperor, just President, whose powers are large but limited. This is what the whole idea of limited government with independent branches is about. The same idea the current President is working so hard to destroy.
Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
by alistproducer2 on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @10:56AM
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While there is a chain of command that could potentially stop a rogue president from unilaterally ordering a nuclear strike, at the end of the day the POTUS has an immense power in his ability to order a nuclear strike.
Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
by smsm42 on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:05PM
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This whole nuclear strike thing is a canard, nobody is going to nuclear strike anybody. Yes, there's a chain of command, and also Trump is not some Hollywood supervillain. He is a real estate developer, a conman and a blowhard, not a Doctor Evil. So we need to stop discussing Hollywood scenarios and start discussing real issues the country is facing.
It's not irrational paranoia to believe your government operates as a separate entity, one that is not subject to the rule of law. From the Iraq war, to torture, to retroactively legal bulk collection, to immunity granted to telecoms for doing illegal surveillance, to no one going to jail in response to 2008, the list goes on and on.
We have a government all too happy to throw millions of us in jail for the most minor of offenses, yet the same rules don't appear to apply to the people constantly on our TV screens or ones that aren't with enough connections.
HRC is not the devil, but she represents something deeply unsavory to a lot of Americans on both sides of the political spectrum.
Trump is an obvious mad man. The fact that so many people are willing to give such a man the ability to unilaterally destroy humanity speaks volumes about where western civilization is at right now.