Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s advisers ordered the release of a dataset that includes the private health information of people living in California, Illinois, Washington state, and Washington, D.C., to the Department of Homeland Security

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    In today’s episode of “The rich and powerful do whatever the fuck they want with no consequences”…

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        89 days ago

        While I largely agree, this admin is crossing many lines that have never been crossed for the benefit of the upper class. Like this gross violation of privacy exhibited here.

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          Yes indeed! In my mind civilization and hierarchy overlap perfectly, am I mistaken? Care to hand me some examples where that is not the case?

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            There are non hierarchical societies littered throughout history, even today the zapatistas and peoples in rojava are non-hierarchical. Being in an organized social group, even numbering into the millions, does not necessitate hierarchy

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          i think it more means “the problem isn’t this iteration, it’s the core original sin of what civilization actually is compared to what we’re taught it is in elementary school”

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          It wasn’t meant to come over as cynical. I just wanted to indicate how this is not exclusive to these times. Before the modern age, there were already a lot of powerful people doing a lot of heinous things. I just wonder when the finger will start pointing, not at those in power, but at power itself.

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      49 days ago

      If he doesnt rig the upcoming elections, I am optimistic that there would be consequences not just to Trump but also to Republican party

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        didn’t florida just cancel their local elections this year to “bring local elections in line with federal”? yeah, definitely next year there will be elections

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          69 days ago

          Elections are a cornerstone of autocracies. All of the most brutal dictators have elections, and they get 90% of the vote.

          Free and fair elections, OTOH, are nowhere to be seen. And that’s a critical difference - they won’t be cancelled, so there won’t be the obvious line in the sand. Voter suppression and disenfranchisement, which is already happening, will continue and accelerate. But most of it will have a heavy coat of marketing, to convince people that those groups don’t really deserve to vote.

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    Oh, he did that thing that he said he was going to do months ago? If only there were preventative measures taken, not that this administration cares about the justice system.