That’s not what they ruled at all. They said there was immunity for official acts, specifically citing constitutional powers like appointing judges, commanding the military and recognizing foreign states. That was honestly never in question. A lot of people are reading this wrong. This was a massive punt, which basically opens up the door for a jury to decide what constitutes an official act.
You’ve described liberal democracy. The combination of individual freedom plus democracy is supposed to provide a framework for curating precisely the kind of political agency you describe.
I mean that’s the rub right? Enlightenment liberalism clawed its way out of the corpse of feudalism. Marx assumed communism would do the same thing to the corpse of capitalism. So far he’s just been wrong, at least in terms of the revolutionary/vanguardism model. That’s why there’s been an entire century of revision to that model to incorporate more democratic forward values. It’s just you average internet leftist refuses to acknowledge this, because the fan service isn’t as good.
With a VPN, the only real attack vector here is to block the VPN traffic and hope the user disables it or doesn’t notice it didn’t connect. No modern VPN will handshake with a spoofed server so it will just never connect. In some cases, the connection might fail silently enough to fool someone like this, but basically every mainstream app these days is pretty vocal about that for exactly this reason. As of Android 13, the default behavior is never to pass traffic outside the VPN unless the user explicitly turns it off. On other platforms this is dependent on the specific app.
Oh boy does this mean my ability to get free flight wifi by MAC spoofing is about to go away?
Don’t get me wrong, I generally agree with the sentiment that it’s got plenty of artistic merit lurking around in there, but about 90% of that is going to be anachronistic to a modern reader who isn’t using a heavily annotated version, at which point a lot of the genuine wit gets beaten down by footnotes. Art has a way of losing its impact when you need it explained.
That’s why I say most people shouldn’t bother. It is legitimately almost impossible for a modern reader to experience the book the way it was written to be experienced unless you spend a graduate degree working up to it. Instead what you will get is akin to a painting which has been blurred over by a foggy window, with someone standing on the other side trying to describe it to you. There are just many better ways to spend a dozen or so hours.
The Great Gatsby is actually a good one. Catcher in the Rye. As I Lay Dying. The Waves.
None of this is vocalized. It’s all inner monologue.
James Joyce was widely regarded as a pretentious ass even back then. Tons of people have done stream of consciousness much better. The only people who should bother with Finnegan are academics. There is literally no substance or point to the story - it is entirely narrative fart sniffing.
I’m sorry but this attitude is exactly how every left leaning space on the internet inevitably gets infiltrated by trolls. If you can’t manage to qualify opinions which are aligned with fascist opposition, and you even ban people for such qualification, then you are not an ally. Full stop.
Bruh why the fuck are they doing this in the suburbs
Ok but that is essentially what’s happening.
What do you want, a secret post saying “haha here is my evil plan to subvert democracy by dividing the left!”
It’s honestly extremely sad that the primary requirement to be a leader is “ability to speak perfectly on stage for 2 hours.”
Sure, if you are comfortable with the moral liability of fascism them we probably don’t get along.
Maybe we don’t associate Biden with fascism frog
That’s my thesis though. These are actual bigots and trolls painting themselves pink.
So pardon me, but it seems like you are saying I could spread actual Nazi ideology as long as I claimed to be trans?
Counterpoint - this is absolutely a community of outside agitators and it was very obvious from day 1.
You don’t actually have to. Trust me I’ve been through this.