alt Hacker News> And this is the best country in the world, with the best system of government, because private citizens can voice their disagreement with such actions, including by refusal to participate.
On the off chance other Americans were unaware of this: Other countries are democracies too (and many are better functioning)
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how cooked do you have to be to synthesize that sentence without universal healthcare and an enormous chunk of the population living paycheck to paycheck
This kind of patriotism is embarrassing, I don’t think I have ever seen it displayed by others than US citizens.
Yeah that's a terrible note to start on -- this is just someone hoping for a pat on the head from the fascists. Not even they would truly believe something so absurd!
That whole intro is whack, really;
There are many things that I or Anthropic or most of you would look at as mass domestic surveillance, that are legal, and it is DoW’s position that it’s their job and duty to do everything legal to protect our country, including those things.
That quote was indeed off-putting to read.
> because private citizens can voice their disagreement
I'm not sure that's true anymore in the US. At least not without fearing repercussions.