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Q&A with Carlos Dada, founder and EIC of the Salvadoran newspaper El Faro, on outlet's impact, covering his country from afar while living in exile, and more (Eduardo Sušrez/Reuters Institute)
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The Heritage Foundation is willing to justify anything & anyone Trump's administration supports - including murderers & child predators - to advance their agenda for a Christian military & dictatorship... in case you didn't get the memo.
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I explained something for a friend in a simple way, and I think it's worth paraphrasing again here.
You cannot create a system that constrains itself. Any constraint on a system must be external to the system, or that constraint can be ignored or removed. That's just how systems work. Every constitution for every country claims to do this impossible thing, a thing proven is impossible almost 100 years ago now. Gödel's loophole has been known to exist since 1947.
Every constitution in the world, every "separation of powers" and set of "checks and balances," attempts to do something which is categorically impossible. Every government is always, at best, a few steps away from authoritarianism. From this, we would then expect that governments trand towards authoritarianism. Which, of course, is what we see historically.
Constraints on power are a formality, because no real controls can possibly exist. So then democratic processes become sort of collective classifiers that try to select only people who won't plunge the country into a dictatorship. Again, because this claim of restrictions on powers is a lie (willful or ignorant, a lie reguardless) that classifier has to be correct 100% of the time (even assuming a best case scenario). That's statistically unlikely.
So as long as you have a system of concentrated power, you will have the worst people attracted to it, and you will inevitably have that power fall into the hands of one of the worst possible person.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. The alternative is to not centralize power. In the security world we try to design systems that assume compromise and minimize impact, rather than just assuming that we will be right 100% of the time. If you build systems that maximially distribute power, then you minimize the impact of one horrible person.
Now, I didn't mention this because we're both already under enough stress, but...
Almost 90% of the nuclear weapons deployed around the world are in the hands of ghoulish dictators. Only two of the countries with nuclear weapons not straight up authoritarian, but they're not far off. We're one crashout away from steralizing the surface of the Earth with nuclear hellfire. Maybe countries shouldn't exist, and *definitely* multiple thousands of nuclear weapons shouldn't exist and shouldn't all be wired together to launch as soon as one of these assholes goes a bit too far sideways.

The Heritage Foundation is willing to justify anything & anyone Trump's administration supports - including murderers & child predators...
...to advance their immoral agenda for a Christian military & dictatorship... in case you didn't get the memo.
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ABYSS FOR DICTATORSHIP! 📉 Venezuela free: why Maduro's fall became Putin's personal catastrophe?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/abyss-for-dictatorship-venezuela-free.html

I realize I have no words to describe those who are not outraged by this #abuse of #PolicePower. This is among the horrors of dictatorship that were cited to me as one example of how evil the #totalitarians

No sign ICE is improving conditions at S.F. immigrant holding cells, attorneys say
Attorneys claim that ICE has not improved the conditions of holding cells at 630 Sansome St. More so, ICE has blocked repeated attempts to monitor the situation.

I realize I have no words to describe those who are not outraged by this #abuse of #PolicePower. This is among the horrors of dictatorship that were cited to me as one example of how evil the #totalitarians

No sign ICE is improving conditions at S.F. immigrant holding cells, attorneys say
Attorneys claim that ICE has not improved the conditions of holding cells at 630 Sansome St. More so, ICE has blocked repeated attempts to monitor the situation.

Tech journalist Gil Duran outlines a disturbing theory
that a growing number of Silicon Valley elites are pursuing a vision of power
not rooted in the common good,
but in profit, feudal hierarchy, and total control of the platforms that define daily life for hundreds of millions of people.
Duran dubs this emerging ideology the “Nerd Reich”
— a slurry of right-wing ideas championed by ruthless tech overlords like
Palantir founder Peter Thiel,
Tesla an…

Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’
Guest host Jon Fortt and The Nerd Reich author Gil Duran discuss why Silicon Valley wants a king so badly.

Opposite to us Europeans, the United States of America – Land of the Free – in its entire (and short) history so far neither had a monarchy nor a dictatorship. #justthinkin

Frederik André Henrik Christian's ruthless dictatorship over Greenland must end today! His drug smuggling into the United States of America is illegitimate, so they must invade and abduct him as soon as possible, to destroy Greenland's illegal nuclear program for the creation of weapon's of mass destruction. ACT NOW, PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!