I don’t believe this crap for a second - they can afford all the security they need to protect themselves. I think this is an attempt at manipulation to keep us at bay for a while until we cool off & resume living like before this happened, so they can continue doing what they’ve been doing all the while knowing that they shouldn’t push much further for now.

Let’s face it - human attention spans are short, and in three months or so this will be pushed back in most people’s minds as they continue dealing with their day-to-day struggles. This messaging is designed to make us feel “heard” so we wait to see what happens rather than risk our lives on taking further action, but after a while nothing will change & it’ll all be the same as before.

I bet there’s still some FORTRAN in use at NASA/JPL.

Alternatively, I’m pretty sure key parts of Excel were written in x86 assembly. Dunno if that’s still true.

Does this really surprise anyone? When it comes to respecting the lives of others, what went around was bound to come back around eventually.

They don’t hand out guns like candy in the UK, unlike the US.

Can’t wait to hear the explanation for the “unconstitutional” claim.

Kinda hard to read this seeming stream of consciousness response, but I’m probably not qualified to do so anyway since I’m not much of a history buff (although I will point out that Philadelphia was under a black mayor during the MOVE incident you referenced - not that this fact means much, all things considered).

It seems to me that people seeking positions of power are rarely the type of people who actually should have that power, and the examples you cite are just some of the many experienced by the world at large. Humanity sucks. We may be more “intelligent” than the rest of the animal kingdom we evolved from, but we’re still animals at heart - with all the “survival of the fittest” mentality baggage that fact comes with. Unless and until we somehow outgrow that background, we will always be short-sighted, instinctively selfish, and therefore ultimately self-destructive beings as a whole. This is why so many of us have little hope for the future as we watch the inevitable self-destruction happen yet again - only this time with a level of destructive power we’ve never had before and which we’re unlikely to survive as a species.

Perhaps I’m self-deluded in having believed that - despite our not insignificant faults - America was at least as a whole trying to set a better example for how a human society can operate. If that ever was true, I have precious little hope of ever getting fully back on that path - at least not in what remains of my - or even my children’s - lifetime.

No, because America is not really a democracy.

EDIT: Here’s a comment chain I read last night that says it better than I can.