Pluto’s not a planet because we’ve discovered dozens of other dwarf planets in the solar system, and at some point it makes sense to make a cutoff of how big an object has to be to be considered a full sized planet lest we have 100 of the things floating around and making third-grade science courses look like learning Mandarin tones.
The modern conception definitely spawned as part of the larger “authoritarianism” propaganda at the start of the Cold War. I’d say the idea that one person rules with an iron fist is the simplistic view of politics stretching back throughout civilization though, so it’s not exactly an original idea.
This is your brain on idealism.
Autocracy does not exist. There is no example in history of a single person holding unilateral control over an entire nation, its people, and its industry. There are plenty of examples of things that look like autocracy on the surface, but power is fundamentally built in collaboration and hierarchy, and each of those cases was simply the captain or figurehead of a larger power structure that pulled all the strings. This is important because a belief in dictatorship of an individual leads to an obsession with the individual rather than the power structure behind them that is ultimately responsible.
If you went back in time and put a bullet between Hitler’s eyes in 1920 the Nazis would still rise to power in Germany in the 30s, because the Nazis were simply the face of German nationalists and capitalists who saw the crises of their time and decided to let the monsters off the leash in exchange for a steady supply of slave labor and a complete decimation of labor unionists and socialists. In a similar vein, Trump is merely the chief idiot and Judas goat for American capital scrambling to adapt to a world where their hegemony is rapidly deteriorating and the crises of capitalism are no longer able to simply be outsourced through wanton imperialism. He is simply Foucault’s boomerang come home at long last. Concentrating purely on him and the handful of other chief idiots around him does no good, because if you get rid of him he will simply be replaced by the machine that gave rise to him to begin with.
And this leads to my ultimate point here: the American system yearns for a Trump. The US was built from the ground up to serve the interests of capital, to prioritize those who have an iron grip on the engines of economic might, whether those be cotton plantations, steel mills, or data centers. This is not the first time the US has thrown minorities into camps, or stamped its boot on the face of other countries and peoples, or torn off the mask of the rule of law in favor of the rule of force, and so long as the system remains as is it will not be the last time either. If you fixate on Trump, then you will go back to sleep in four years and ignore the countless crimes of his successors, and the outcome will be the same.
Most people in any society are fundamentally apolitical and don’t really give a shit about the holders or application of power so long as they’re relatively comfortable. Seizing power is and has always been a process of building a core group of ideologically committed revolutionaries, overthrowing the existing power structures, beating out competitors to filling that power vacuum, and then providing well enough for everyone else that nobody turns around and does the same to you.
If US comrades manage to build the infrastructure and framework of revolution and connect with enough of the average populace, they will win. This is as true in the US now as it was in Russia in 1917 or vast swaths of southeast Asia in the 40s/50s.
There was a greentext a while back from some 4chan shithead that was convinced that they knew how to win WW2 as Germany, and that was one of their brilliant armchair observations: “Don’t spend a bunch of time and resources getting bogged down sieging a major city, simply take it without a siege” 
I’m assuming in this case they meant that a bunch of freshly radicalized burgerreichers will simply point at their foreheads and go “seize the means of production, simple!” and get gunned down by feds because it didn’t occur to them that there might be some pushback to such an event.
Assuming he’s owned his current house for more than 5 years, it’s likely the cheapest housing option available to him. Housing prices have exploded in the past ten years and rent has gone up correspondingly. If he sold his house, he might well be trading $1500/month for $2500/month.
I understand that a lot of people look at those numbers and think that’s an obscene chunk of money, but $28k/yr as a retiree (especially one who doesn’t have fully paid off housing) is not liveable. This person still has property taxes to pay, utilities, groceries, and above all else massively inflated medical expenses (which may very well wreck their body to the point where working is a literal impossibility).
Also, for retirement money you’re not taking the interest but instead slowly doling out what money you have saved up year over year, so the amount you could sustainably take out will shrink over time… which means if you live longer than you expected, now you’re in a position where you have no money at all at the point in your life where your support network has quite literally died off and you have no ability to work anymore.
Then hopefully it’s the former case. Good luck!
Charitably I’d say that any answer to this question that was well reasoned would be acceptable. Less charitably, this sounds like some crusty old fucker out of industry for 20 years who still hasn’t let go of his obsession with OOP despite it not really mattering all that much who decided to start teaching, and who would definitely mark an answer that procedural is fine wrong.
I’m speaking from personal experience here. Academia programmers are a different breed of petty tribalists.
When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor. If all the average person can imagine is possibly being fantastically wealthy one day, then all they will fantasize about is being the rich failson drinking away the family fortune.
Maybe he was the 24th century equivalent of a Paradox gamer and had only be exposed to the ideology through the lens of needing to be competent enough to not immediately collapse and make playing half the available countries boring as hell.
Having to supply a token to auth that you should have access to a URL is a pretty common thing in streaming/file hosting, especially for CDNs that sites will use to offload file hosting. My guess is it’s probably a Patreon change because a lot of creators will expect that kind of feature and get mad if people can easily pirate their content.
This is why you get the keyboards that use USB-C cables can be unplugged at the keyboard itself.
That’s the beauty of the courts: prosecutors get to screen out any potential jurors who have such inconvenient attributes as “a functioning brain” or “basic human empathy” or “have read the news in the past year,” so all the people who are left over are a cross between the focus groups that Hollywood blockbusters target and the literal personifications of the NPC meme who will unironically nod their heads along when a judge tells them that the testimony of a police officer is sacrosanct and must be trusted as 100% literal truth even when anyone with two braincells to rub together could point out the massive conflict of interest.
The kind of shit they show you when you get selected for jury duty makes copaganda TV look positively tame.
The dangerous thing about shooting a nuke is all the heavily armed people guarding it shooting back. The odds that you manage to pierce a warhead with conventional small arms and leak some plutonium are pretty low, and as said elsewhere the only thing making a nuke go off is the world’s most precise set of conventional explosives.
Fascists don’t care about precedence, they’ll just line you up against the wall while you wring your hands about procedure. That said, Trump is more likely to become President of the Moon than ever face consequences for his actions.