America's descent into authoritarian fascism is made all the more alarming and demoralizing by the Democrats' total failure to rise to the moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KADW3ZRZLVI

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@pluralistic It's astonishing how most of them are missing in action. It makes very little sense...
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@Npars01 If I were a pilot, US or otherwise, and my jet had a “kill switch" in it.. I'd be VERY VERY concerned. In order for that to work, it would have to be remotely accessible, which means it's entirely within reason that an attacker could also access it.

Who's genius idea was it to put something like that in a military weapon?

@Npars01 @XenoPhage subjugation of the vassal states. The EU learned the hard way that being the junior partner of the american empire was a bad idea and are now in a slow break up with the USA