People villainize government workers, but lets be honest, people act in their own self interest everywhere when it comes to interactions with people outside your familiar groups. That is why small decentralized government is better. It acknowledges mans tendency to work in self interesting ways and poaitions itselffor that model

Look at how much better the service is at a small va office than at their large hospitals

Or at your local bank vs calling into a national banks hotline

people acting in their self interest and people doing things they know are wrong are not the same thing

thats a mental trap

when you go down that line you find yourself excusing anything and everything because its easier to just say, "it was natural for them to do it because it helped them"

that's the sort of reasoning that leads to people dropping all moral pretense at all

"You held up a liquor store? Well, you needed the money. Anyone else would have done the same"

you can act within your own self interest within the rules. take for instance a local bank, customer service matters because it directly impacts sells which lead to compensation. In contrast a national banks hotline rates support on duration of calls. The quality of service towards one customer is to small to measure. So the worker is acting in self interest by trying to get off the phone asap because the relative value of the customer is low.

The same happens in government, the needs of the individual get ignored in favor of the needs of the masses.

You ain't gonna believe this shit;
3Ø because a bunch of vegans bought turkeys, "to give them a proper burial."
All I said was:
"They died for nothing.
My ancestors weep.
Stupid white people."
Before you say it; I see "whitepple" every damned day in that group. Never has fascistbook deleted a single such comment.

@O'Possum https://discord.gg/NRE7C8k

That's Sargon's discord

@Beebs Magoo ^^

Ya, but it's completely locked, so ¿why would we join it? 🤨

what do you mean, completely locked?

You can't comment at all...

in #xenoi you can

and #the long walls

Oh.

bro youre gonna get roasted hard in there lol @Mandatory Carry

Anybody else here a commercial driver per chance?

@Shire!

Just went through a Costa vida order. They asked if I wanted black or pinto beans. I asked for beans of colour and am offended.

Has anyone taken the comptia Security+ 501 test revently?

any of you guys in dallas going to the sabaton concert? i has no frens to go with.

i dont think thats the thing that makes me a nazi. pretty sure its the uniform.

Thanks, @Agent Smith! 👌

@Leman Russ, @Shire!
Didn't mean to bail on vc, network went out (again) so I'm on data. 😒😔

No biggy man! Good talkin!

Related to Ion Fury:
<https://twitter.com/Nifflas/status/1166024631784005632>
```Censorship is something forcefully imposed against one's will by someone in a more powerful position.```
Oh no, are we doing the racism thing with censorship too?

ah crap seriously?

although, it does require having authority to enforce any censorship

Censorship does not require force. You can use social influence to invoke self censorship. Its still censorship, i think the term censorship has to reflect the motivation to do it. If nifflas changes something to comply with personal belief then it is not censorship. If your doing it as a response to outside pressures, it is censorship

The fact things are created and then removed would indicate it is a done based on outside forces (if it was principaled you never would habe thought/considered it to start with)

censorship absolutely requires force. self censorship is simply capitulation to those that wield that force

The word force is problematic, i think you confuse force and influence

well i originally used the word authority

and i still think thats a better word

in this instance the publisher is the one that has authority over the game devs

Censorship does not require authority or force

how could it not?