There’s no such thing as pure democracy in anything larger than an ancient Greek city-state, possibly today’s HOAs - and you see how well they work.

What passes for democracy in todays’ nations of millions (and even the HOA we chose to leave 12 years ago) is elected representative government where the voters trust their elected representatives to represent their interests - to varying degrees of success and failure.

What’s lacking in, for instance, the US government for some time now is actual representation of the majority of the peoples’ interests - unless the majority of the people actually enjoy being on the poor end of a growing wealth gap. Those voters who continue to elect representatives who perpetuate these policies are: getting the government they deserve.

In a democracy, the people get the government that they deserve, at least the near-majority of them do.

know that the US/UK were/are supporters

The US and UK are populist democracies, as such both had sizeable minority support for Fascism in the years before WWII - I believe it was Churchill who was leaning heavily towards it as a “great form of government to consolidate popular support.” But, those movements ultimately did not gain full control and once war was declared on the Fascists, it had a strong damper effect on support for it in the US/UK.

Nobody is harmless, and no nation is made up of people who agree 100% on all questions. Fascism attempts to manufacture the appearance that lie is true, which is one of it’s many drawbacks: allergies to reality.

Nobody is harmless - regardless of philosophy or origins - particularly when they work for the military.

look at the links and explain why they evacuated an entire SS-Galizien Division from ukraine?

Seems that your mind is made up, why don’t you elaborate.

they’re not precise at all unless you consider also killing their families and potentially an entire building full of people to be acceptable “precision.”

No matter where you are on the scale, you could always get better (just killing the intended target) and worse (low yield nuke somewhere near the building.)

The saddest part is when they calculate that the collateral damage is “beneficial” to their cause. That’s the kind of calculation that tends to become more and more inaccurate over the long term.

Saying it’s bad is a step better than saying nothing, which is a step better than parroting the speeches provided by Great Leader’s party promoters.

It’s not about Nazi or any such thing, it’s about abilities. They didn’t draft the whole German army, just the ones they thought would make them stronger.

On the Internet nobody knows if you’re a Frog, or not.

Sounds like those guys were good at their jobs - jobs which demand following orders.

When you’re putting together a military force, do you want to train every level of it to think for themselves and only follow the “good” orders?

I’m surprised they’re publicly announcing this one.

I have mixed feelings - Gaza clearly shows a “worse way” to do warfare, but that doesn’t move the needle on how bad it is to say: “Welp, there’s a 90% chance that somewhere in this building is somebody associated with a group that we don’t like, so take it down tonight while everyone is home sleeping.”

I’m assuming the light/dark filter gets applied before they’re ever incarcerated, but yeah, plenty of pre-judgement goes on at all stages of police decision making.

Mixed results. Implying: blue leadership could be doing better in that area.

Typical isn’t relevant in a corporate controlled image which they push automatic updates to. Whatever “typical” was can be changed with the next update push.

They’re unpredictable. Every employee is a potential future lawsuit, they can get injured, sexually harassed, all kinds of things - AI doesn’t press lawsuits against the company, yet.

people that are in charge of them are usually the dumbest people ever.

I think that’s actively encouraged by management in some areas: put the dumbest people in charge to make the most irritating frustrating system possible. It’s a feature of the system.

Some of the most irritating systems I have interacted with (government disability benefits administration) actually require “press 1 for X, press 2 for y” and if you have your phone on speaker, the system won’t recognize the touch tones, you have to do them without speakerphone.

When they’ve got a cell full of detainees and they’re deciding who ICE is going to ship to “advanced processing” who do you think goes to the front of that line? I’m guessing it’s the “undocumented,” regardless of whatever laws you’re focused on.

There’s legal requirements, then there’s practical dealings with officers in the field. Seems to me that these days if you’re “undocumented” you’re asking to be sent to processing which can be a quick trip to a center somewhere across the country, if that’s the mood they’re in. After you get out you can try to sue them, maybe even win, but how long before you collect your damages?

And get a burner.

maybe one to strap on your forehead

They make much more practical chest straps for things like GoPros - you can sort of forget it’s there and just let it capture everything. I did that while white-water rafting and it worked very well.