So.. is how this works.. that civil-rights inherently mean protection for minorities, which means protection for gay people, so any push for civil-rights can be reframed by oppressive regimes as "promoting homosexuality" and then they can push-back against those civil-rights and people will support it?

Yeah, they probably should.

The russian bots & astroturfing here has become brutally obvious, the quality really bad.

They basically need something like ChatGPT at this point to stay in the game.

It's the Standard Issue Dictator Plan

Use the country's resources to keep in power instead of helping the people.

Took me forever to find out why people would even care to snoop on women for this.

.. but then made the connection between it and abortion, and .. wow.

Yeah it's probably best we prevent police from getting that data.

This would make the minimum age 16, which obviously the Republican pedophiles opposing this dislike.

Jonestown shouldn't be forgotten.

When I watch my neighbors lose their job, I feel bad for them.

When I watch billionaires become millionaires, it's just watching a tv show.

Hey that's not bad! I agree.

Religion is as much a virus as a tool, a parasitic force that infects then uses the hosts to infect others. In that context, I can absolutely blame the virus.

This is Russia, so do they mean Bounty paper towels?

I could see Russia offering their soldiers paper towels as a huge bonus.

I mean, in limited amounts, they wouldn't want them getting used to that kind of thing.

At this point, whatever way Turkey goes - they look like wishy washy flipfloppers here.

I get that they are trying for concessions but they've appear flaky and confused.

i.e. This is all making it look like Turkey just doesn't have their shit together.

r/raisedbynarcissists and r/raisedbyborderlines are good support reddits for much of this.

I didn't really care about the documentary before.

.. but now seeing how desperately they're trying to bury it, I'll have to watch it.

Nobody fights that hard against something that has no weight to it.

I'm not even really a Taylor Swift fan and I'm in support of them.

Ticketmaster should have been fixed years ago but wasn't because they bought the right politicians. It's shameful that we have to rely on activist fans because our government is failing to do their job.

What I thought it was: Hacker breaks into and modifies no-fly list!!!

What it actually was: Hacker reads largely public information.

I wonder which is more expensive now.

Improved explosive device.. or an egg.

I can't tell the difference between Russia, Russia's 'useful idiots', nazis, and neo-nazis.

Maybe there isn't a difference, anymore.

Yeah, I'm increasingly of the opinion that the venn diagram of abusers and 'parents who hate therapy' is just a circle.

The abusers hate therapy because it makes them look at themselves, and the people who hate therapy often tend to become abuser because they didn't deal with their own trauma and so just perpetuate the generational abuse.

If you study the nature of abusive parents, it's extremely clear to see the why.

It basically comes down to power and control, usually because the parent themselves is still emotionally immature, likely from the trauma and abuse they suffered.. that they are now passing down generationally.

It's the thing you use to print plastic versions of the floppy disk icon.

Been in tech dev for about 30 years. I don't do facebook, twitter. I didn't do myspace. I avoid things like Alexa in my home, 'internet enabled light bulbs', vacuum cleaners with cameras in them.. and I put black electrical tape over any camera in laptops/devices.

People are often surprised by that, they think I'd do the opposite 'because I work in tech'

No. It's because I work in tech that I avoid those things.

It is literally the same.. the claims of racism by checking travelers from China, the lack of transparency, the obvious lies like only one person died of covid in china the entire month?

I guess when the lie has a certain intent and purpose, it will keep being used for the same reasons and so we get the same lies again and again.

Just more reasons I despise Zuckerburg.

At least most people are aware now that Meta and their Metaverse are a trap.

I've heard it phrased as "Positions of power don't create abusers, but they are magnets drawing them in."

Abuse tends to be a cycle down the generations.