Have you been living under a rock for the last 33 years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis

In September and October 1993, following the increasingly visible tensions after December 1992, a constitutional crisis arose in the Russian Federation from a conflict between the then Russian president Boris Yeltsin and the country’s parliament. Yeltsin performed a self-coup, dissolving parliament and instituting a presidential rule by decree system. The crisis ended with Yeltsin using military force to attack Moscow’s House of Soviets and arrest the lawmakers.

In the wake of the events, Yeltsin consolidated his position, further expanded the powers of the executive, and pushed through the adoption of the 1993 constitution of the Russian Federation.

🤷 I was just a kid; I wasn’t on the call. Also it was when the coup attempt was still in progress, with the Palacio de las Cortes under occupation. No one knew how it might play out yet.

Incidentally, their parents were on the losing side of the civil war. My path to communism was almost entirely unrelated to that coincidence, though.

I still remember a harrowing phone call to my Spanish grandparents 45 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Spanish_coup_attempt

All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.

TBF secret bunkers aren’t uncommon, and the French haven’t forgotten Versailles.

But if you don’t win the Primary, you can still appear on the Ballot

Yes, only one party member can proceed from the primary to the general. But that’s just the nature of the process. It doesn’t bestow the party any choice of candidates.

Fun fact: in the US, political parties can’t expel anyone from their party. Anyone can choose to join any party at any time.

It’s the most featureful mail/calendar/contacts/file service I know of, and it exposes APIs, should you want to extend it further.

I think I’ve only encountered one in the last decade, and yes, it’s easy to circumvent.

Same. I’m surprised this hasn’t caught on more. Fastmail makes it very easy and for no additional cost: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277942-Catch-all-wildcard-aliases

I use theirdomain.tld@mydomain.tld for literally everything. They all go to the same mailbox, and I use filters.

The text that an LLM is trained on.

They don’t even have to try very hard because, thanks to decades of imperialist propaganda, the English language corpus is already pumped full of Five Eyes slop.

Woah, rare Putin reference.

I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but politics stay the same at all times. Do you know why? Because of the powerful bureaucracy. When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, wearing dark suits, just like mine, except for the red tie, since they wear black or dark blue ones. These people start explaining how things are done. And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration.

Oh, thanks, duly noted.

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Obviously it wasn’t, or I would have made an argument.