[godelski]

  > If I spoke freely about how I feel about the US right now

If you read my comment as defending the US then you've misread. Also, you're probably just as pissed as 60% of Americans

  > It is inconsequential if the US or China have my data

Sure it does. The way each distributes data between government and industry has some differences. So too does the different disinformation campaigns each country is running against Australia.

But the main point is really that 2 > 1. 1 country scraping your data is bad. 2 is worse.

[Cub3]

> you're probably just as pissed as 60% of Americans

Yet you voted for it

[apatheticonion]

To be fair, most of their votes don't actually count.

And even with our westminster system, One nation has swept the right wing. Considering how many seats they will likely get in the next election, my high horse has shrunk a fair bit.

[godelski]

Me? I didn't vote for the orange Nazi

[LtWorf]

Because you think by voting for the other person AI companies and USA government wouldn't misuse all the data they hoard?

[godelski]

Why do you think I like them or support those actions?

Do you support everything the Klingon Empire does? That doesn't seem like the Worf I know. The Worf I know can distinguish the people of a civilization from the leaders of their societies. To conflate them just creates the problems you are criticizing

[LtWorf]

The klingon empire isn't a democracy, we don't delude ourselves that simply swapping one single person would have made a difference.

[godelski]

The same fact is true in a democracy. A democracy specifically is set up so just a single person doesn't rule. That's called a dictatorship.

But you turn a democracy into a dictatorship through tribalism. So forgive me if I get mad at you trying to place me into a nice well defined box. You're helping erode the democracy I (and so many others) desperately want to maintain (and improve).

What would Worf do?

I'm certain he wouldn't have done what you did