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they don't disappear. the media doesn't cover them.

they're not torturing their cows

wilson was a fascist and set us on this course. you can't expect a fascist government to keep fascists out of power.

but the problem is in the creation of these executive agencies. someone coming along to abuse them was in the cards the whole time.

the executive is the one to execute, because where else could you even put it?

the congress. the congress could make a law. it's that simple. the fugitive slave act didn't need a fucking Agency of Slave Recovery.

For truly independent agencies, I think you need to amend the constitution for that.

i don't think we need most of these agencies at all, but those that are needed could still be created directly under the supervision of congress. would it make their lives harder? yes. but it would also stop any autocratically-minded executive from doing what's being done.

The FBI helps coordinate multi state investigations

the marshals already existed before the fbi.

I feel there is nuance.

I have a joke that the Congress would create a department of impeachment and place it under the president. I know it's not really a knee slapper.

congress has been abdicating since the Wilson administration (at least) and we are now seeing the consequences of those actions.

if you had elected me to be president, i'd have scuttled an aircraft carrier and a nuclear sub during my inauguration speech, and I'd be dismantling the bureau of Indian affairs, the bureau of prisons, the federal bureau of investigation, the central intelligence agency, and the NSA ( whose full name i can't summon at the moment) just as we see trump dismantling agencies I think are mostly benign.

the problem is that Congress has had no courage for a century.

I want user tagging. also text and user search, not just community. it would also be nice to be able to view comments in a community raw, instead of only posts.

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by cory doctorow

At the individual level, it's going to make a very modest difference, but that's how mass changes start.

there's no reason to believe it makes any difference at all.

those are all problems of production. production doesn't decrease because anybody goes vegan. veganism has been around since the '40s, meat production has only increased since then with a few exceptions that have nothing to do with people being vegan.

using an LLM doesn't take money from artists