[-] mintyfrog@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most of what you've described would inevitably lead to the establishment of a single party totalitarian state.

Competency tests before you can appear on a ballot, with a commission that reviews the requirements to prevent the exclusion of minorities.

Don't like the opposing party? Just make it part of the test. Today, one party could exclude the other by including questions that agree or disagree with critical race theory, voter fraud, etc.

No elected judges, with stringent training and yearly bias testing. Like a postdoc in judicial impartiality.

Same issue. Who determines impartiality? The party in power? Single party state.

Any person who is a position of trust and power who then acts contrary to the ethics of their role can never be elected. Or have power over anyone again.

Who determines "ethics"? Single party state.

Children must be free of religion until they are 25.

What is religion? You're definitely banning several books, and possibly banning a lot more. Many books can be turned into a religion or contain religious aspects. The party in power decides what's a religion and what gets banned.

USA focused: each state gets one senator, plus one per 2 million residents.

At that point, why have a separate Senate and House? The point of a two-chambered Congress is to balance state and federal power.

[-] mintyfrog@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

If you're paying for video or audio calls, you're doing it because you want features or privacy. I doubt Twitter offers more features, and I know they won't offer more privacy.

[-] mintyfrog@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Labeling the opposition as a deranged cult that must be censored doesn't exactly sound anti-fascist to me. Again, not talking about hate groups here or anyone that advocates for violence.

[-] mintyfrog@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Name a major media outlet that hasn't been suspected to be influenced by Russia.

[-] mintyfrog@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Google Pixel has the most support for security, which relates to privacy. It does "phone home," but likely only to Google. Removing all the Google software and installing GrapheneOS further hardens the security and vastly improves the privacy by stopping the "phoning home."

https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

[-] mintyfrog@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

It's refutable, and also you can use Google's results through a different search engine, like SearXNG

[-] mintyfrog@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Why not use income and where you live rather than race, then?

[-] mintyfrog@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Pump up the site visits and hope that some visitors will even come back again once they see the other content.

[-] mintyfrog@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I didn't know "children" included 18 and 19 year olds but not infants.

Regardless, I hope that you and your family were able to enjoy the holiday and feel safe wherever you were. Freedom includes doing what you feel is best, and nobody should fault you for wanting to keep your kids safe.

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