Bilb!

Yes we are! >:(

People like saying lately “the purpose of a system is what is does” or something like that, so if we’re being realistic here you’re on to something.

Right, put a bit more simply— the people whom the government really serves are nervous about the subjects being angry at them, so this measures of surveillance and control will be pursued and implemented with relative ease.

I thought it would be obvious that I was joking, but evidently not. Oh, well. That’s one of the interesting things about Lemmy, I suppose. If I had posted that in a different comm on a different instance, it probably would have been obvious. If I had taken notice that this was Lemmy.world politics, I might have guessed the culture would be more like reddit’s R/politics and thrown a /s in there.

The coolest FBI Director by FAR! 😎 People hate seeing a king with a beautiful first girlfriend living it up!

Does Bill have the flaming frenzy within?

It damages their credibility

Time to bring back the webring and every site having a “links” section.