It absolutely is, it’s naive to think these puritans will just decide to stop here

Oh 100%, I’m a republican (lowercase R, in the British sense). I just find it ironic that the US portrays itself as having removed monarchy, when it was just replaced with dictator that has a term limit

Ironically, our king has incredibly limited power that is enforced by a strong belief that religion should be separate from politics and an independent judiciary. Your king doesn’t seem to have the same hurdles

Whilst WhatsApp is still owned by meta and I’m sure the US military would have a lot use for the metadata they collect, let’s be honest, I’m sure Putin would prefer if Russians switched to a platform they can spy on themselves

A shadow contract is one of few mechanisms to enter large-scale consensus (it isn’t THAT large when compared to a solar or galactic scale, but large enough for planetary control, and with some clever management, can scale larger).

You don’t know that, I’ve seen shadow contracts that apply to intergalactic scales. I would wager they can be used for interdimensional organisations

That makes no sense to me, it just reinforces the fact that the US president is essentially just an king that gets elected and has a term limit

It’s absolutely wild that the US president is able to pardon convicts. Like you have a supposedly independent legislature and judiciary, and the the president can just go “nuh-uh” to anything he doesn’t like

Yes it is, it’s essentially giving people with children extra votes to use.

Sure, but I want mature enough at 18 either. A lot of people aren’t mature enough at 40 to fully comprehend what they’re voting for. We don’t enfranchise people with votes based on their level of knowledge though, we do it if they’re considered active members of society - and 16 year olds are considered adults in a large amount of their day-to-day life

User choice, they shouldn’t be required to use Apple products

Who do you think makes all the gifts for Santa?

This is actually an iOS issue, their permissions aren’t fine-grained enough so every photo app would need access to the whole photo library. The reason people don’t notice this is because Apple Photos has access by default