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And now Germany suffers because it can’t access Russian energy. Win/Win for the US.

I think that’s a short-term victory, though. In the long run this will drive the EU away from the US.

I had a thought: in previous decades it was advantageous for the US to invite academics from China because we could impress them with our highly developed standards of living. We could work them over with intelligence and maybe even turn them as US assets and informants. As life in China gets better and life in the US gets worse, though, this has become a hindrance as those same academics now see the squalor of US cities and decline of US prestige. Now we need to keep them out or the whole charade of US supremacy will collapse. Now they can only be allowed to view the US from movies and television.

Do they have investments and own property? Then they’re bourgeoisified, they materially benefit when the stock market rises and property values go up. In this way their class position is muddled and they benefit from capitalism even as they are exploited by it.

In shocking twist, “think of the children!” used once again as an excuse.

I’m not going to touch your belief that the attacks on US collaborators are unprovoked. That doesn’t matter. What matters is that Iran has the ability to make demands because the GCC can’t do shit about it. Iran has a position of strength over the GCC too.

Because Iran is negotiating from a position of strength and has the ability to make demands.

When the economy collapses again and, instead of working two or more jobs, people have zero jobs.

Remember when NATO “”“defensively”“” destroyed Libya? I remember.

“Corporations want a way to verify the humanity of users” is a simple answer.

“Governments want a way to easily prosecute users” is also a simple answer.

I don’t see why it can’t be all of these things. There is actually a more complicated answer that I didn’t bring up, which is that smaller websites will have a hard time complying with ID laws, which gives preferential treatment to large websites. That locks out potential competition, hinders smaller projects like lemmy or mastodon, and helps secure the current social media monopolies.

That one might just be a useful side effect, rather than the intentional outcome.

They also want a reliable way to differentiate between chatbots and real users, because advertising isn’t very effective on chatbots.

But also, one benefit of ID laws for the government is that it makes court proceedings much faster and cheaper. Sure, they’re tracking everyone online, but a lot of that information is locked behind procedure. By just requiring ID to log in they can sidestep the procedures, because they can just ask corporations nicely for ID information and they’ll eagerly comply.

It’s absolutely worth mentioning that they are coordinated enough to all meet up to discuss their plans for us. If this was a fringe idea it wouldn’t go anywhere, everyone is ready to consider the idea even if they still need to be convinced to implement it.

Do you think it doesn’t require coordination to have a meeting? Without coordination, no one shows up.

The coordination is already happening and after this it will likely increase.

The headline literally says that Macron is pushing for a coordinated approach with the rest of the EU. From the article; “The main goal is to ​act in ​a ⁠coordinated manner and push the European Commission, ​in the positive sense ​of ⁠the term, to move ahead at the same pace ⁠as ​member states.” I’m not particularly sure why you’re dismissing this as conspiratorial. It’s just out in the open.

And they’ll just roll over and accept it.

The concept of a “woman chauvinist” is irrelevant. It literally does not matter. What’s going to happen, are women going to take over society and force men into servitude? Stop them from leaving the house without an escort? Make them give up their careers? 🙄

In a society that was built by men, for men, men’s chauvinism is a problem and an unconscious bias they all carry with them from a very young age. There’s a lifetime of unlearning that men need to do to not be chauvinists. Any man who has gone through this process to rid themselves of their chauvinism has no problem with statements like “men are chauvinists” because they know it’s true.

So you’re the reason they haven’t gone out of business.

Iran has played the US into becoming the sin-eater for the consequences of blocking the Strait.

Sorry, I mean it’s being pushed that way by its fans. There are people who like Omarchy specifically because of who its behind it.

That’s why, if you wore their merch, you’d be making a political statement - similar to wearing Tesla merch.

Men are chauvinists. This is not somehow unique to Mexico.

It’s more profitable to not have a nuclear exchange.