America was already largely prosperous, but it wasn’t the sole superpower. I am not sure if that was a worth it exchange(if it was an exchange)

Also my understanding is that as of now it may not be arson

That’s not what they did, they rejected people acting as if the cause is certain

Neither is particularly likely, but it being a random accident is about as likely as you actually being the person who did it.

No? This is an insane argument.

I found a random statistic online that a home has a 1 in 413 chance of a fire in a given year, lets round up to 1 in 1000. It may be not exactly right, but within an order of magnitude. Trump criticized this judge, any time within about a month would get people saying this- so lets say the stats are there is a 1 in 12,000 chance of any particular person’s house burning down within a month of when Trump criticizes them. But Trump doesn’t criticize just 1 person a year, lets lowball estimate he criticizes 100 people a year. So that’s a 100 in 12,000 or 1 in 120 chance that in any particular year someone Trump criticizes house will burn down within a “suspicious” amount of time. That is nowhere near impossibly low, and now if you add in all the other unlikely but bad things that could happen to them- it happening sometimes is increasingly likely.

Now compare that with the one person writing this comment of the lowball estimate of 100 million people in America who could commit arson(again assuming it was arson).

No its not? Fires happen all the time, Trump criticizes a lot of people. When you have a lot of opportunities for a relatively unlikely event it increases a lot in probability. Nobody is saying it wasn’t arson, just saying we don’t know.

I agree, but that also seems to be agreein with their claim

Saying you don’t know is not dismissing.

No?

Regardless of how people feel about the federal government, they seem to still see legitimacy in their local governments, and are increasingly using those local governments as vehicles for negotiation.

Yes this is a massive boon. Finally the first faltering of the trend started in the 40s towards massive federalization.

Yeah, the 60s had more violence and tensions than now. A civil war requires actually distinct combatants engaged in combat. That doesn’t exist as of now.

I mean largely for most of us I hope. But I feel like the tech sector was oversatured because of all the hype of it being an easy get rich quick job. Which for some people it was.

Tbf, the US government has a long history of accusing peaceful citizens of being terrorists. Both parties love to do that.

High income in New York is definitely above 1% globally, and likely even nearing 1% nationally

Well the rich it seems did vote for Mamdani

You lost. That flag don’t fly.

This is a really bad argument that people use. Plenty good causes have lost.

The issue with the Confederacy is that it was a really bad cause, fighting for the enslavement of millions for generations.

Have you been to America? Plenty of leftists around the country fly American flags.

Usually when people have flags it’s for fairly innocuous stuff. Poland has a kind of ridiculous law criminalizing the desecration of a flag of any country.

This is pointless

I’ve never used any, but Molly seems well liked

You can use Signal with a different client. Signal being operated within the US has no effect. As of now the jurisdictions that I know of to be worried about are:

The UK, where Apple was recently ordered to remove end-to-end encryption features, and have been gagged from talking about it

Sweden, where a law is proposed to add an encryption backdoor

The EU, where leadership is pushing for an encryption backdoor

My understanding is that the Indian government under the BJP and Congress has been pretty consistently anti-encryption, and violated privacy rights

France arrested the founder of Telegram for using end to end encryption in Telegram

Australia in 2018 passed a law that enabled the government to require communications platforms add a backdoor for government decryption. The Director of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) said that “privacy is important but not absolute”. Which has the same vibes as “this is not about human rights, this is about human life.”

WhatsApp was previously suspended in Brazil for refusing to hand over decrypted messages.

Austria is in the process of passing legislation allowing police to backdoor encryption in messaging apps

China and Russia are very obvious problems. Here’s an easy one of many examples

The White House both in Trump’s first term and in Biden’s presidency were pro-encryption. Signal and Tor were US government funded projects. That’s not to say the US is great on encryption, and there have been laws in the past that did/were proposed to limit it. But, as of now, it seems that the US is (edit: one of) the most hospitable jurisdictions for encrypted messaging non-profits.

BTW, I’m not saying using Tox is bad, or that Signal is good, I’m just talking about the US jurisdiction part.