Stimulus
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Russia restricted Telegram (which was founded by Russian citizens) at the same time, so Russia blocking WhatsApp is obviously not to "protect citizens from the CIA" which is a ridiculous theory. This is an authoritarian crackdown on private communications, plain and simple. What do WhatsApp and Telegram have in common? They can both send end-to-end encrypted messages that the Russian government (or any other government) won't be able to see, even if WhatsApp or Telegram were ordered by a government to reveal these messages. Russia banning WhatsApp and restricting Telegram would be like the US banning/restricting Signal, another end-to-end encrypted messaging app that's being used to track ICE in Minneapolis. People use end-to-end encrypted messaging apps to prevent their messages from being intercepted by their own government. Seeing one of these apps being banned in any country is not something to celebrate.
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Meta also owns WhatsApp so it's not a great alternative for avoiding this situation. If you're looking for something else, try Signal, which has similar features and is used by Edward Snowden for its state-of-the-art encryption. Signal is owned by a non-profit.
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President Yoon Suk Yeol escapes impeachment The Korea Times / Kwak Yeon-soo / 2024-12-07 Impeachment motion scrapped without ballot counting as ruling party boycotts vote Source Related 2024 South Korean martial law on Wikipedia Yoon Suk Yeol on Wikipedia National Assembly (South Korea) on Wikipedia Best part of the protest against Yoon on Bluesky
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Drake in 2015: "We might just get hit with the R.I.C.O." Drake in 2024: "Petitioner has a viable cause of action for civil RICO, with predicate acts of wire fraud, mail fraud, and/or bribery for UMG's payments to unknown third parties in the form of reduced licensing fees to Spotify." It's over for him.
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Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump's Election Wired / Vittoria Elliott / Nov 8, 2024 Swifties say they're leaving X over Elon Musk's support of Donald Trump—and the rhetoric that has erupted on the platform following Trump's win. Source Related Bluesky home page Bluesky mobile apps: Android, iOS How to get started on Bluesky
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No, as long as the 22nd Amendment is enforced.
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fre:ac It's free, has no ads, works on all computers, and is still (kind of) being updated.
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Biden's Middle East Policy Is Horrific. Trump's Would Be Even Worse Common Dreams (opinion) / Bob Dreyfuss / Jun 17, 2024 When it comes to the Middle East, the choice in November 2024 is clear enough. We may wish we had a different choice, but we do not. continued...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right_pipeline
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Was going to ask why she'd want a used vibrator but then I looked it up and learned something new today OT: No.
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Thailand deserves a tourism boom. Let me see if I can do my part.
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Don't be silly. No one would praise Charmin-core even if it wasn't produced by Dr. Luke.
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Kesha never signed up for or consented to a "casting couch" and no sexual assault victim should be blamed for being assaulted. It doesn't matter how you think Dr. Luke sexually assaulting Kesha compares to other sexual assault cases in the industry, the perpetrator (Dr. Luke in this case) is always the one who is 100% at fault.
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Purchasing 5 copies would make a bigger impact on the Hot 100 unless you're constantly streaming the song.
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Jailing protesters and bystanders on public land is not libertarian, not even right-wing libertarian. The venn diagram of Trump supporters and Milei supporters is like a circle.
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Let me focus on just the phrase for this post. I call the phrase "LGBT ideology" right-wing propaganda because of where it came from and how it's been used. The first use of the term "LGBT ideology" that I can find online is this anti-LGBT article titled "Sex, Lies, and ObamaCare" by the "ex-gay bisexual" and "former homosexual" (his own words) writer Robert Oscar Lopez that was published on the right-wing blog American Thinker in 2013. Here, he wrote that "LGBT ideology was based on the whims of a tiny number of people" who he nicknamed "ligbitists" and accused of being "purveyors of sexual radicalism". He claimed that LGBT people only wanted equal rights "Because this small population could not have sex without some inconveniences (a police raid on a gay bar, ostracism, a guilt trip in church on Sunday, etc.)". And here's the worst part: "As it turns out, gay people who have been promised children will engage in human trafficking and bring back chattel slavery in the form of artificial procreation to get what they want, and no, they don't have a magical ethical trigger to stop them from going too far." Yikes! If that's not enough to consider this right-wing propaganda, him blaming the world's problems on "The Sexual Revolution, no-fault divorce, artificial reproductive technology, commercialized adoption, aggressive abortion funding, egg harvesting, sexual education in schools, transgender locker room access, *****graphy, and over-reliance on condoms" should seal the deal. The most well-known use of the term "LGBT ideology" happened in Poland starting in 2019. The right-wing populist Law and Justice party campaigned on opposing "LGBT ideology". They won their 2019 election and then turned one-third of Poland into "LGBT ideology free zones" that banned events such as LGBT equality marches within just one year. These zones slowly disappeared after the EU threatened to withhold funding and the Polish supreme court finally repealed the last zone this February. That's over 4 years of repression caused by a right-wing party using the term "LGBT ideology" as a weapon against LGBT people. For anyone who doesn't know about the history of the phrase "LGBT ideology", the term "gay agenda" might be more familiar. Being openly LGBT isn't an "agenda" or "ideology", it's just a part of everyone's right to express themselves. Because the phrase "LGBT ideology" came from the right-wing and is mostly used by the right-wing to disparage LGBT people, I'm confident in my decision to call it what it is: right-wing propaganda.
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Pointing out that social conservatives are targeting trans or non-binary people isn't victim blaming. I'm pointing this out too, since it's very obvious this is happening. On the other hand, accusing trans or non-binary people of being at fault for anti-LGBT sentiment is victim blaming, when these members of the LGBT community just want to freely express their gender identity the same way all queer people deserve to be able to freely express their sexual orientation. I'm only taking issue with people who blame trans and non-binary people for discrimination targeted at them and at other LGBT people. What exactly is the "weakness" in saying that LGBT people should not capitulate to the demands of anti-LGBT bigots? LGBT acceptance has generally increased worldwide for the past few decades because the LGBT community stood strong and held their ground when social conservatives tried to suppress their rights. If the LGBT community threw a part of the community under the bus every time social conservatives complained, LGBT acceptance would not be as widespread as it is today. When someone repeats right-wing propaganda slogans such as "LGBT ideology", there are two explanations for what can be happening. The first explanation is that the person may be misled by social conservatives into thinking that supporting LGBT rights is an abnormal ideology, rather than a normal expression of support for human rights. The second explanation is that the person may be intentionally repeating right-wing propaganda while understanding that the term "LGBT ideology" is expressly anti-LGBT. I say "tricked" because there is a chance that the person is in the first group.
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The phrase "LGBT ideology" was created by social conservatives in the 2010s as a slogan to attack the LGBT community by falsely portraying LGBT people as political extremists. Right-wing authoritarian politicians constantly try to discredit the LGBT community by making baseless accusations like claiming that LGBT people "don't just want equality" or that they "hate white people". There is nothing wrong with "disdain for societal norms" when there is plenty of room for improvement on LGBT acceptance and when LGBT people are still routinely subject to violent hate crimes, including murders motivated by transphobia. Supporting LGBT rights is not a far-left political position, even though many right-wing politicians would like you to believe it is to red-scare you into voting for them. What's really obnoxious is the fact that some people in the LGBT community are being tricked by these social conservatives into attacking other LGBT people in hopes of gaining the "respect" of bigots, instead of recognizing anti-LGBT bigotry as the real problem.
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I can't stand the victim blaming rhetoric. It's not trans and non-binary people's fault that they're being selectively targeted by social conservatives for a regressive political agenda that relies on fear-mongering about bathrooms to scare voters into opposing LGBT rights. Do you really think these social conservatives will stop targeting the queer community if you abandon the trans and non-binary members of the community? No, they'll just move on to attack some other part of the community for their next political agenda, and you might be next.
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Charli deserves this #1 with her best work yet. I hope she can overcome this obstacle.
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That was funny. But unfortunately, they're trying again next year. Chick-fil-A to try again in UK four years after LGBT backlash BBC / Lucy Hooker / 14 September 2023 Never understood what people liked about them. Almost every fast food chain has a fried chicken sandwich now and most of them taste at least as good as Chick-Fil-A's, without the anti-LGBT sentiment.
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Charli XCX = Libertarian Left
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Checking Fantano's profile on AOTY, the last album he gave a 10/10 was Sinner Get Ready by Lingua Ignota in 2021.
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Brat, by a huge margin. Charli continues to push the boundaries of pop. It's the less accessible album today, but Charli's always been ahead of the curve. Just wait a few years and see.
