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   7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 23:37:55 JST 7666
   i think recent events have solidified my long standing view that while government is supposed to be the ideal body to set standards and drive global change and initiatives, realistically it will be perverted by those who want nothing to do with governing because elected leaders currently acquire their "legitimate" power from a subjugated and incompetent voter base
   
   This means most likely those they vote for are also subjugated and incompetent and the actually intelligent experts and engineers and admin workers in the trenches who got their job through merit instead of a paid marketing campaign never get the final say or authority to drive meaningful change, which we're seeing the results of now - the complete erosion of trust in these institutions to be immune to hostile outside influence or dramatic policy changes that undo years of hard work.
   
   when you look at a country like China, where authoritarian policies and principles ensure national unity and a single cohesive vision, all these issues magically vanish and progress (whatever that may end up being) is ensured. china's principles and doctrine have remained consistent for years and years, so even if they're a thorny geopolitical partner at least they don't whipsaw every election cycle. if I was some tiny burgeoning nation looking for foreign aid to support growth and raising living standards I'd be going to them for support. if only we could have that same concept without the whole paranoid party politics and internal subterfuge nonsense where nobody wants to speak out without risk of being disappeared (and lmao social credit score). I don't want commie garbage but is this current situation really any better?
   
   i want the government dismantled for completely different reasons than the average smoothbrain it seems - i just don't think elected leadership oversight of government departments works at all anymore. when you get sycophants and incompetents elected to the top positions by a captive government, the shit just rolls downhill and nobody below them has a realistic chance of changing their mind. and before you go "elon wasn't elected!!!" yeah but he got his authority delegated by someone elected and look at where that's getting us now.
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     受不了包 (shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 23:37:53 JST 受不了包

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     @7666@comp.lain.la ok then go live in china if its that great

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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:02:34 JST dilbert 1

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     @7666 China will win, unironically
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     受不了包 (shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:06:12 JST 受不了包

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     @7666@comp.lain.la democracy is probably one of the most messiest governments, there's so many other governments with varying levels of that "calmness" through authoritarianism and some of them are even sort of democracies, you could move to switzerland or norway or south korea or the philippines but out of all the countries you're still in the us

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     7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:06:13 JST 7666

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     @shibao deliberately misreading what i posted further reinforces my findings
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:06:29 JST dilbert 1

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     @7666 @twinebad they have blind disloyalty so they have to go
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     7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:06:30 JST 7666

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     @twinebad i wonder why. maybe blind loyalty isn't a component of a good decision maker? hmm...
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     twinebad (twinebad@comp.lain.la)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:06:31 JST twinebad

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     @7666 unfortunately educated and competent civil servants of merit tend to be anti-Trump so they must go. simply how it is.
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:10:35 JST lainy

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     @shibao @7666 that's because the US is the BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🦅🦅🦅
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     受不了包 (shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:12:04 JST 受不了包

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     @adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love @7666@comp.lain.la >lives in chinais posting on the internet through the great firewall without getting approval from 共產黨領導人習近平的大寵物象wow what a devious and hazardous foreigner you are, eroding china's pure communist party beautiful societal harmony with your "free discourse" and "democracy", time for mandatory communist manifesto posting on your state assigned weibo account

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     👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:12:05 JST 👺防空識別區👹

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     @mischievoustomato Cost of living is much cheaper than the USA. Wealth disparity is far less than USA. Convenience and economic diversity is immensely better than USA. Altogether it's much easier and nicer.

     Getting in can be really difficult depending on what country you're from, what you're trying to do, education or occupational background, etc.. I won't divulge my immigration or entry/exit situation. It used to be a lot easier, though. China has gotten much more picky with foreigners. @7666 @shibao

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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:12:06 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @adiz @7666 @shibao all of that. I'm a latrino, but I wanna consider many options for the future.
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     👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:12:08 JST 👺防空識別區👹

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     @mischievoustomato In what way? Living here, like cost of living and convenience and stuff? Or, like getting in, e.g. visas et al.? @7666 @shibao

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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:12:09 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @adiz @7666 @shibao how easy is to be there?
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:12:10 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @shibao @7666 @adiz says china is great and has hot women, so it definitely has stuff going for it
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     👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:12:10 JST 👺防空識別區👹

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     @mischievoustomato Can confirm: China is great. Love being here. @7666 @shibao

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     受不了包 (shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:14:27 JST 受不了包

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     @lain@lain.com @7666@comp.lain.la it's like complaining that the ford f250 takes so much gas and creates more pollution, if you want a regular commuter car then go get a prius, they exist!! you don't have to go to go only to the train (although i will make fun of them regardless)
     (also your train ride turns into a helicopter ride eventually hehe)

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     twinebad (twinebad@comp.lain.la)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:16:49 JST twinebad

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     @7666 let's play devil's advocate and ask; what should be done if the bureaucracy actually is engaged in some conspiracy (as alleged) to push some ideological thing?
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     zonk (zonk@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:48:44 JST zonk

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     @7666 id rather take the uncertainty of a failing democracy than the stability of an oppressive dictatorship hell-bent on sending me to my death on the front or to prison
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     Kimochi Whyui (Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?) (why@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 00:48:44 JST Kimochi Whyui (Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?)

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     @zonk @7666 but enough about my wife!
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     zonk (zonk@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 01:14:54 JST zonk

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     @why @7666 stepped on in the sheets, stepped on in the streets 😔
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 01:40:35 JST dilbert 1

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     @7666 @twinebad basically even if their boss is an incompetent dick he's their boss is my position, there's no scenario where they have the freedom to be insubordinate except to quit
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     7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 01:40:38 JST 7666

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     @sun @twinebad i wouldn't exactly call it blind. there's not exactly a whole lot of "merit" to go around right now
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     ames (amelia@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 02:01:00 JST ames

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     @shibao @lain@lain.com @7666@comp.lain.la anyone who cares about money being made should rage against the inefficiencies (lost dollars) caused by lack of train infrastructure in the US
     
     except automakers and fuel companies lol

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