BraveSirZaphod

That is sickening, but I’d point you to what’s right below that headline.

The army has removed the commanding officer of the unit and opened an investigation

So some asshole commander committed atrocities and is facing consequences for it, because this is not an accepted practice in the IDF, which was the claim I’m asking for evidence of. Do you think Hamas officials punished anyone involved in the October 7th attacks who committed sexual assault or attacked civilians?

In case you were unaware, you come off as a literal child. Cheers.

Sure, but at that point, it’s a legitimate question of what goal you’re trying to satisfy with E2EE. This doesn’t prevent metadata analysis being used for marketing purposes - and if that’s something you’re strongly against, that’s perfectly fair - but it does make it completely impossible for message content to be provided to law enforcement, even in the face of a warrant. That is hugely powerful, because we’ve already seen cases of FB Messenger texts being used to go after women who get abortions, just for one example. In countries with truly oppressive governments, that benefit can’t be overstated.

Sure, Facebook will try to sell you some shit, but they’re not going to send the police to arrest you. Having E2EE is a strict improvement over the status quo, and if you do care deeply about privacy on the more commercial side, there’s always Signal or other privacy-first services.

Most people don’t so openly state that they don’t care about facts or evidence and form their beliefs primarily from vibes, so thanks for at least being upfront about it.

So, no evidence. Gotcha.

For WhatsApp, given how much noise the UK law enforcement has been making about trying to ban encryption, I’m inclined to believe it actually is working. I’m sure Facebook does some metadata analysis and that does feed back into their advertising profiles, but that’s a different thing from being able to turn over actual message content that’s supposedly been encrypted over to law enforcement.

But hey, if you do find actual evidence, I’m all ears.

It really needs to be stressed that the founding fathers were not in any way a single group with cohesive ideas. There’s a reason that 90% of early American history is these guys arguing about essentially everything.

Some were genuine true believers in Enlightenment philosophy. Some agreed with it in principle but were willing to make sacrifices for the sake of pragmatism. Some didn’t give a shit but saw which way the wind was blowing and realized it would be more profitable to go along. And some were simply virulent pieces of shit.

Did capitalism not exist in the 60s?

It’s not like your phone or wallet are exactly clean either. Or the restaurant door, for that matter. Or the human cashier you’d be passing money to.

If something like this is a concern, just wash your hands or use some sanitizer before you eat. I struggle to imagine that kiosks caused a demonstrable increase in disease, but hey, maybe there’s some data out there.

Food is a much harder industry for new tech to disrupt, because no new startup can ever compete with the beef supply chains that McDonalds etc. have established.

It’s easy to launch a website to a some online thing. It’s much harder to an absurd amount of agricultural products all over the country for cheap.

Okay, but you’ll find that some laws are a bit more controversial than murder being bad.

Exhibit A: points vigorously all around

Those kind of obsolete laws tend to not be enforced either, and thrown out if they ever are, so it’s not really a significant problem. It’s important for economic and social stability that the law have some amount of stability and that we’re not constantly revamping everything every decade or so.

They’re more based in Qatar. The UAE are very close to Saudi Arabia and generally despise Iran. Hamas is backed by Iran, not the Saudis.

If the Saudis could snap their fingers and make an independent Palestine arise, they’d do it, but they’d much rather make money than get caught up in ideological conflicts.

You could give each American a grand sum of $133. Truly life changing stuff.

On the contrary, it’s incredibly believable, because people generally care much more about their own personal emotional validation than anything annoying that might get in the way of that, like facts.

All while simultaneously circlejerking over how rational and logical we all are, as opposed to those idiot conservatives!

Snark aside, I’ve started to believed that, any time people get emotionally or socially attached to some issue - which includes their own identity as a “good person” - their brains simply shut off, and it takes a level of active work and elevation of truth over validation to overcome that on any platform like this.

Congrats, you’ve just passed every conservative’s wet dream, by not only making it harder to pass any new laws because you’re constantly going to be busy renewing the old ones, but also making it so that all you have to do in order to kill a policy you don’t like is to wait and do nothing.

Imagine if Republicans could kill Social Security by simply waiting and fillibustering in the Senate, and go on to blame Democrats because they technically have a majority.

This has nothing to do with Israel. Republicans would nuke Gaza if they could.

This is them holding up broadly popular legislation in order to make some stupid demands on “border security” so they can tell their constituents that they basically built a wall.

Tell that to the Bastille.

Er, they absolutely did destroy the Bastille. The revolutionary leader Mirabeau started it himself.

I mean we can disagree on the morality of things, but let’s at least keep the facts correct. You’ll find that you cannot visit the Bastille today. Because the Revolutionaries demolished it as a symbol of the monarchy.

This was actually the original plan in the first UN Partition Plan, that Jerusalem would become an international city administered by the UN. The Jews that would go on to form Israel accepted, while Palestinians rejected it, war broke out, and here we are.

Eh, some of it. I won’t pretend to be an expert, but I’m pretty sure most American land was acquired by settlers simply marching in with guns and saying “We’re here now”. That’s to say nothing of the countless treaties that were signed and broken.

I don’t exactly think the Osage were contacted about the Louisiana Purchase.

Even Gazans are sick of their shit

Do you have evidence of that? Because some polling has been done over the last few months, and it’s been showing consistently high support for Hamas and the October 7th attacks in general. The reason why the Palestinian Authority hasn’t held elections in the West Bank in ages is because Hamas would probably win them.

I shouldn’t have to say this, but that of course does not mean that civilians deserve to be bombed.