Every-time the owners try to pass off their revenue streams as a human right we need to remind them that “public squares” are publicly owned.

Nationalize Facebook!

It’s time we stopped pretending that Israel was a little pocket of Europe and recognize that it’s a brutal theocratic regime. The biggest difference between Israel and States like Saudi Arabia and Iran is the branding.

I guess if you believe that the American war for Independence was a “people’s revolution”, then anything makes sense.

Iran’s government is historically weak. It’s allies and proxies have been routed in the region while American and Israeli jets bomb their country with impunity. The place is vulnerable to revolution and it would be nice to see feminists overthrow the Ayatollah.

However, it’s hard to get optimistic about revolution in the Middle East. After all, it was a revolution that created the Iranian theocracy to begin with. I’m also worried that a fallen Iran would mean an Israeli regional hegimon.

They’re a protected class because they’re singled out for violence because of their class. And it’s a real world problem not a logic quiz. Misogyny and misandry are not equivalent in reality the way they are in the dictionary.

How exactly would it boost moderates except in that once the extremes are eliminated, your vote goes to the moderate that you want rather than it failing to oppose the people you don’t want.

I think you’ve pretty much got it. Extreme candidates tend to get eliminated because they tend to be the least popular with other parties voters. RCV punishes this unpopularity. Also candidates with similar goals can work together, this advantage is obviously is going to be unavailable for people running from the fringe.

Just imagine a New York primary where two weak moderates were running against a progressive. The two moderates are almost working together because it’s likely that whoever looses will gift their votes to the other. Ranked choice candidates have often “teamed up”, with ads asking their supporters to rank the other candidate 2nd.

I think lots of Democrats have been thinking about how the primary in New York could have been different and this is the answer to that question.

Ranked choice voting tends to boost moderate candidates. While this is valuable in a general election, during a party primary it protects the status quo.

It’s hard for me to look at this as anything other than Schumer and Jefferies putting obstacles in the way of Progressives.

Democrats will always do the right thing, after having exhausted every other option.

The ironic part is that they’re working with a government in bed with narco-cartels, something they ostensibly hate. And they can’t say they didn’t know, because it was central to the deal.

This would be the most ambitious engineering feat in human history. A project to rival colonization of Mars in expense and danger. All to connect one wilderness to another. Brilliant.

Ever notice how in court that pigs are always described as giant cowards? They’re constantly terrified of how a woman flails as she’s thrown to the ground or get PTSD when protesters shine bright flashlights at them.

I’m convinced that final exams at the police academy is a mock courtroom where the recruit has to testify “your honor, I was scared for my life”. Bonus points if you cry.

If you look closely, there appears to be a “Bren” type LMG on the floor and something that kinda resembles a “sten” smg propped up against the dresser. I suppose these are replicas or they’d been the in the headline.

Just want to remind everyone that murdering people abroad is the most normal President thing Trump has done. Doing dirt in South America has a through-line all the way back to Madison Monroe.

One thing our author forgets about the Philippines and Ferdinand Marcos is that his authoritarianism was going on for years before the uprising. And that his son is the current president of the Philippines.

So I’m not sure it’s the great example of democracy over authoritarian cult of personality.

It’s really sad when non-believers don’t value other’s freedom to believe what they want. It seems hypocritical. Citing Muslims as an example of Chinese religious freedom is either dishonest or ignorant.

I’m suspicious of an article about advanced robotics without any description or depiction of said robots. Humanoid robots are for advertising brochures. They’re impractical for almost everything.

This is some anecdote from executives jotted down by journalists who never got near these factories.

Not saying its fake, just lazy and incurious journalism.

The criticism “woke”, “politically correct”, and “bleeding heart” all mean essentially the same thing. That liberals only pretend to care about movements of emancipation to cynically gain political support. And the reason that criticism has lasted so long is because it’s apt.

The betrayal isn’t the base, it’s the race.

His company DevDroid makes remotely controlled machine guns, that use AI to automatically detect people and track them. Because of concerns over friendly fire, he says they don’t have an automatic shooting option.

“We can enable it, but we need to get more experience and more feedback from the ground forces in order to understand when it is safe to use this feature.”

That’s some real Dr. Strangelove logic in the wild. Can’t let robots kill people until it’s safe.

Party members worry Leroy Jenkins is undercutting their raid strategy.