HarkMahlberg

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[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 21 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It is worth pointing out that other governments have prosecuted and removed their presidents, prime ministers, and other heads of state, and their government still function.

This article covers a good assortment of those cases, from Sarkozy to Netanyahu.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/heres-when-other-countries-have-prosecuted-former-leaders

Unfortunately it predates South Korea's most recent crisis, and Netanyahu's use of the war in Gaza to stay in office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_of_Yoon_Suk_Yeol

Last I checked, Isreal, South Korea, and France have not collapsed or lost any functionality by those events.

The argument US conservatives love to put forth is "contacting Georgia's governor and asking that he conjure up enough votes to help Trump win, that's an official presidential request, it was totally kosher" is wrong, and no other words other than "wrong" need to be used to describe it. Asking a governor to rig an election is not "the exercise of a constitutional power [that cannot] be infringed on [by] holding the individual personally liable" because it is not a constitutional power being exercised. It is just corruption and authoritarianism.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You gotta actively try to reach that kinda score, it's almost impressive. You have to go out of your way to be a jackass.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 16 points 3 days ago

Yesss, go bankrupt to own the libs!

Sickos in the window meme. "Yes... Ha ha ha... Yes!”

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 2 points 3 days ago

I missed an opportunity to say the bunkiest of funches, and I'll never forgive myself.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

hear ye hear ye, behold the funkiest of bunches

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 21 points 4 days ago

I'm with you. I used to build maps, models, and textures for Battlefront 2 and share the files for free on Filefront. I got into programming for the joy of creating things that make people happy, or solve some little problems they have. I still make mods, the communities are out there and I'm glad I found them.

But tech evangelists and bro culture ruined the idea of programming as a career for me. The greed of late stage capitalism infected our industry the moment Facebook hit the scene, crypto accelerated it, and AI may as well be the final nail in the coffin. It's no longer a worthy or noble profession.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 8 points 4 days ago

Yeah that about sums up how I view the rest of my life playing out.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fuck, I got lost in the UI. 😂 Mbin is great but there's just a little too much visual noise.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Ah I see my mistake, thanks for clearing that up. Makes me wish "meanwhileongrad" was still around.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 3 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Am I misreading the modlog? This was .world's moderator removing SereneSadie's comment. The .ml user was just the OP.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 12 points 4 days ago

If it helps you sleep at night...

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