Sad but true

This is a bad comparison. Language absolutely works as described in the previous comment. While certain trends such as using "literally" to mean "figuratively", are personally super annoying, that doesn't change the fact it's 100% correct when enough people do it.

For real, I've heard some recordings, and the only similar thing I heard was "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free".

I think it's important to note as well, nearly ALL chants in most protests rhyme, so "... sea, Palestine will be Arab" just doesn't sound like something anyone would be saying.

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That's been the American legacy for a very long time.

Supporting Israel's genocide is nothing I would have voted for given the choice.

From what I understand of Ukraine's situation, I'm happy to support them.

The Chinese government already has our data thanks to Facebook, Google, and reddit (and just about every other free service). This ban ("forced sale" that will never happen because the US is only 10% of their revenue) is to limit our communication, not to save our data. They could pass legislation to protect our data across the board, but they (the house) have too much invested in meta and them to do anything to harm their bottom line.

This ban only became the biggest most important thing for the government to do after we all started learning what Israel was doing in Gaza. Our house of reps is primarily owned by Israel and private corporations, and Tiktok is a driving force for change. It's getting more young people to vote than anything before. And all they want is representation that actually represents, rather than cater to bribery. This idea is terrifying to those currently in power, because they've enjoyed doing almost nothing good for the American people for 4 decades while getting stupid rich at the same time.

I understand a lot of people knew what was happening to the Palestinians for years, but that was information the US was happy to keep to itself. Tiktok made it super clear to the rest of us what was actually going on.

I'm not trying to say data privacy isn't important. It is, but the ship has sailed on that problem. We can do things to limit the damage to future users, but everyone that's already been on the Internet... 🤷. This is an issue they have with US citizens learning about all the shady underhanded shit they've been doing for decades. If they were truly worried about our data privacy, meta and Google would be their first and primary targets, rather than the primary beneficiaries from a sale (because a sale would immediately ruin it) or ban.

And finally (sorry, I know this is long), I've seen more anti Chinese information on Tiktok than anywhere else. If they were in control of what's being shown (the government's other big excuse here), you'd think they'd censor their past and current atrocities from being known. Everything I see on Tiktok doesn't serve China at all. In fact if we're finally able to vote out the dinosaurs and money whores that currently run things, then it may actually hurt China in the long run.

Thanks for reading my ranting Ted talk. Sorry about that!

I thought that picture was a screenshot of the movie District 9. Now making a parallel, even those alien guys were treated better than Palestinians.

That is, in fact, all they seem to think it takes.

Second result for me was a document about Russian hackers and their demands that we enstate trump as president after he lost.

I 100% believe that. But might it have done some good anyway? Just because "they'll just do it anyway" is a terrible excuse not to try to better the situation.

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For real, had they not vetoed the ceasefire in the first place, how many innocent lives might have been saved?

Does it work okay with iOS?

Yeah it's rough. My brother is going to send me one of his. Was going to try and swap out the haptic motor from the OG pebble, but it's totally different.

Depending on the quality and state, I've seen them on eBay for up to about $100. For a used one you're probably sitting around $30-40.

Sounds nuts, but I can attest. I am also an apostate.

Just applied, excited to see if I can help out. Good luck either way!

Unless they're a family vlogger. Screw those people.

Ultimately, the adoptee might still be in a "better position" in terms of food and shelter, but they lose privacy and anonymity, and are often treated like shit off camera (sometimes on)

Yeah, but these are taken as sample. I've never once been asked, but I'm certain my existence in a particular geographic area has been counted one way or the other. Was the sample statistically significant? Who knows.

Yeah, I'll give you the strawman, sorry about that. Made sense before I said it.

The Nazi belief was absolutely a religion. Not one of deity, but of superiority. A group of people held the same belief and tried to beat that belief into the whole world. TBH, sounds just like the crusades, just less successful. Thank goodness.