It’s because legally, having a criminal record doesn’t disqualify you from running. There isnt anything preventing this. Most likely its to help prevent a minor mishap from long ago condemning your future abilities (otherwise, you’d have all sorts of small charges against every politician to destroy their career. It would make the worst blackmail material).

Now, morally why did enough people vote for him anyway is a whole different issue that I don’t have an answer for.

No, you tried making the false equivalence of claiming that if it cant be fixed for cheap, then it somehow isnt fixable at all.

So it’s i can’t get a car fixed for less than $100, I guess that means cars aren’t fixable?

Upgrading isn’t repairing, and I said you can repair these devices. My question is what CAN’T you repair, not what can be repaired (which is what I did answer).

What part can’t be repaired? Some parts may be soldered to the board, but the board can be fixed without Googles blessing.

And upgrades were never a part of the original comment, so what does that have to do with my comment?

We are talking about Android, not Apple.

Android phones can be user repaired and repaired by third parties without Googles permission.

Buy a used one then. Google won’t see your money then.

Or wait a little longer. https://piunikaweb.com/2025/11/19/grapheneos-to-release-non-pixel-flagship-phone-in-q4-2026-or-in-2027/

In a revealing discussion with David Bombal, the GrapheneOS team confirmed they are actively working with a “top-tier Android OEM” to bring their hardened operating system to non-Google flagship devices.

The other down side, 7 years of OS support before its EOL. Windows 10 gave at least 10, and then there is Linux.

Apple has the worst product life support/quickest forced obsolescence in the industry.

Your link doesn’t mention anything about mail in voting. But I did look further into it, and it seems that they don’t allow mail in ballots. My mistake.

What if we could give each citizen a crypto-signed coin at citizenship registry through citizenship tests or birth, it was required to be destroyed at death, and kept in line with an accurate population census?

Let me see if I understand this, it sounds like you want to make the crypto version of a Social Security number, but also in physical form (a coin).

The issues here is what happens when it’s lost? They would have to invalid the lost one (or be stuck with the Social Security angle that can’t be changed, but with a “trusted token” in the wild as well), but that means changing numbers and that would go against the whole crypto angle. And then it would be used as a form of ID (Social Security wasn’t ever meant to be used as ID, but like your suggestion, it is “unique” and issued at birth/citizenship). We already have enough problems with Social Security numbers being used for fraud, this would only make the matter worse I feel. (Again, as a “more trustworthy item due to crypto” public belief.)

As for population census, this wouldn’t help much because if people leave the country, then they aren’t part of the census count. But people don’t revoke their citizenship when they leave or even make a form letter to their government that they are going to be living more than 6 months out of the year in another country (the usual standard to be considered if you live in the country or not).

You know where mail in voting is allowed? Russia.

This could help give some explanation of the election of Trump/MAGA, but 8 months into that election everyone outside can see that they just made all the problems worse. And when this rise was noted last year, I wouldn’t have asked that question because the people don’t have something to give an an honest response of what would really happen if such groups were elected to power (which these exact same problems happened the last time Trump was elected, but it’s happened now twice in a row with a safety bumper between these elections which would help dismiss any claim of it was a fluke/bad timing). Which comes back to my question, how can you look at Trump/MAGA and say “I want THAT for my country?”

We aren’t dealing with hypotheticals anymore, we are already seeing cause and effects.

I wonder, how can people look at what Trump/MAGA has done to the US and think to themselves “I want THAT for my country”.

It’s the difference between Windows 11, Windows 11 Pro, Windows 11 for Enterprise, and Windows Server 2025.

There are differences, but not dramatic differences. Some are just better tuned to certain users than others.

It was ruled in court to be illegal in 1919 in the Dodge vs Ford lawsuit.

At the time, Ford himself wanted to: “My ambition is to employ still more men, to spread the benefits of this industrial system to the greatest possible number, to help them build up their lives and their homes. To do this we are putting the greatest share of our profits back in the business.”

But shareholders (both Dodge brothers of the Dodge car company) sued against this and in the end the judge declared that: “A business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders. The powers of the directors are to be employed for that end. The discretion of directors is to be exercised in the choice of means to attain that end and does not extend to a change in the end itself, to the reduction of profits or to the nondistribution of profits among stockholders in order to devote them to other purposes.”

Basically, if you attempted trickle down economics, you’d be “stealing” from the shareholders. Extra money is to be given to shareholders as dividends, not for boosting the pay of your employees if it doesn’t involve adding more profits to the bottom line.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

Apple’s Tim Cook donated $1 million personally to Trump. Not Apple Inc, Tim Cook. And now he’s donating this as well. These are not the same.

https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/apple-ceo-tim-cook-donates-1-million-trump-inauguration-1236265079/

They already get that from the PRISM act.

And we’ve only just reached the 8th month of this 4 year term.

They already have. https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/16340779?hl=en#zippy=%2Chow-do-i-claim-my-support-option

So, what your saying here is that the A in AI actually stands for artificial, and it’s not really intelligent and reasoning.

Huh.

Next you’ll tell me that cat’s aren’t white meat either…