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  • i think the last decade of developments in US politics have provided everyone with an example of where that goes, though. not passing the “sword” policy because you fear your opponents using it doesn’t actually matter; your opponents, when they come into power, may just immediately enact it themselves. and if they can’t, there’s a good chance they’ll first enact a policy that broadswords aren’t swords, technically, probably, maybe, totally, according to this one precedent from the year 1835, and then enact a broadsword policy.

    bad-faith actors, authoritarians, fascists, etc., are more than happy to watch everyone else pull their punches based on some assumption they’ll do the same. they won’t.

    that being said, i can’t imagine the veto rule ever accomplishing anything good on anyone’s side, really. it favors obstructionism by its very nature, which is inherently anti-democratic.







  • “hey guys, I’m having a problem with my Linux install that doesn’t seem very common–”

    “YOU’RE STUPID AND I HATE YOU”

    this is EXACTLY why Linux gurus have a bad rep. remember the human, for goodness’ sake. don’t act like you’ve never run into a strange problem in your entire computing life that required digging deep into some 2003 forum post to solve.