I believe there is a constitutional amendment requiring all US Bills to either have a cutesy title or be named after a victim to a crime that was already covered by other legislation.
Ah yes, I clearly recall the sub-clause of the first amendment that states that if you let others use your property to host their speech it strips you of your first amendment rights, how ever could anyone forget?
To the majority of that reply: no.
But for a ver specific reason.
Only social media puts the communication at the direct control of someone other than the communicator.
The right wing of American politics is entwined with the Religious Right so tightly that they’re basically one and the same. As a result, conservative/Republican politicians tend to lean towards policies, platforms, and leaders that mean to enact authoritarian Christian nationalism. They don’t want to govern a country. They want a strongman leader to rule a Christian empire and put them near the top of the ladder.
That is a big reason they’re all fawning over Putin right now: They see him as the antidote to modern American “weakness”—or “wokeness”, if you prefer—and think anyone who even remotely acts like him is worth propping up. His history of suppressing his opposition with violence, his enshrining anti-queer attitudes into law, his invading a sovereign nation because he wants the USSR back—if anything, these are things conservatives would sooner celebrate than condemn.
And if you think I’m bullshitting on that last point…well, someone said the quiet part out loud on live TV, so it’s hard to argue with that kind of evidence.
Caryn Mandabach Productions is thought to be mentioned on the proposed Bushmills label, which also allegedly says the whiskey is licensed by series distributor Banijay Group. The application follows on from a five-year scuffle between Caryn Mandabach Productions and Sadler’s Brewhouse, over the use of the Peaky Blinders name on their range of themed beers, gin, rum and whisky.
Copyright law is already messed up enough as it is, it really shouldn't be treated as a way to bypass the ability to comment anonymously via nothing more than an accusation of infringement, with all the burden on the accused.
Other news sources are available. While it's something of a side note given that he does (currently) have any remaining direct power, it is notable when you see a former US President gushing about how much of a genius the Russian president is for invading a sovereign nation while trying desperately to tie it in with his own election failure.
Not surprising to anyone who was paying attention to the actual evidence of wrongdoing related to Russia during his tenure, but it's a rather notable set of comments in the wider geopolitical sphere that would have been unheard of back when the US elected statesmen instead of reality show con artists.
That this bill is well-crafted which is not something I (or Mike, for that matter (yes, I know the author is Karl and not Mike)) can say about US Federal legislation vis-à-vis Tech…
Ukraine hasn't been part of "Russia" for a long time now. It may have been part of the USSR but that has been dead 30 years, and invading them under false pretences is not the way to get the territory back. Europe really doesn't want to go back to those days - we don't need another Sudetenland.
Then there is the little matter of Russia taking a dump on its international treaties, specifically the one where it guaranteed Ukraine's independent existence and borders. It made the effort to fake democracy when it stole the Crimea, but this is just a naked power grab because he's made sure that the West is too paralysed with in-fighting to be able to provide a serious threat to him. All those roubles spent on wrecking elections, financing Trump and Brexit and encouraging anti-Covid stances are paying off a hundredfold.
Whilst you have some reasonable stances, as a centrist European I'd have to call BS on that. Especially the Trump worship and hatred of free and fair elections. Your may be to the left of the US Right, but you take a Right-wing stance to even Mr Right-of-Left Biden.
"Continuing to prove that the right wing's issue with moderation isn't that it exists, it's that they've lost the ability to do it, both culturally and online."
It's not that they can't do it, it's just that they've lost the need to try and sugar coat it. When people are "censored" elsewhere for things like homophobia, transphobia, racism and spreading false information, those things seem to have become so central to their identities that they take it as a personal attack. Meanwhile, they see no problem with doing the same for speech they disagree with, because they seem to consider anyone who thinks differently to them as an enemy rather than equals with differing opinions.
I suspect that Pravda - sorry, Truth - will follow the same trend as all them do - a brief spurt of interest, followed by diminishing audiences as the hate is allowed to thrive and dissenting voices tuned out. Until they're back into an echo chamber that nobody else would ever consider looking at, the audience as tired of hanging around with people like them as the rest of us are, and the people funding the grift take their money and run once it's clear they've emptied the well.
The only ones talking about "genocide" is Russian media, which happens to be wholly controlled by Putin and his minions. They have for years churned out propaganda about Ukraine to manufacture "causes belli".
You are free to cite your "evidence" of ethnic genocides...
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I believe there is a constitutional amendment requiring all US Bills to either have a cutesy title or be named after a victim to a crime that was already covered by other legislation.
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Ah yes, I clearly recall the sub-clause of the first amendment that states that if you let others use your property to host their speech it strips you of your first amendment rights, how ever could anyone forget?
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To the majority of that reply: no.
But for a ver specific reason.
Only social media puts the communication at the direct control of someone other than the communicator.
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Ohkay: I follow now.
Don’t agree it’s a bad thing, but now understand.
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I can't comment on the content of the bill, but the cutesy recursive acronym for the title doesn't fill me with hope.
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The right wing of American politics is entwined with the Religious Right so tightly that they’re basically one and the same. As a result, conservative/Republican politicians tend to lean towards policies, platforms, and leaders that mean to enact authoritarian Christian nationalism. They don’t want to govern a country. They want a strongman leader to rule a Christian empire and put them near the top of the ladder.
That is a big reason they’re all fawning over Putin right now: They see him as the antidote to modern American “weakness”—or “wokeness”, if you prefer—and think anyone who even remotely acts like him is worth propping up. His history of suppressing his opposition with violence, his enshrining anti-queer attitudes into law, his invading a sovereign nation because he wants the USSR back—if anything, these are things conservatives would sooner celebrate than condemn.
And if you think I’m bullshitting on that last point…well, someone said the quiet part out loud on live TV, so it’s hard to argue with that kind of evidence.
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Distilleries trademark battle
Caryn Mandabach Productions is thought to be mentioned on the proposed Bushmills label, which also allegedly says the whiskey is licensed by series distributor Banijay Group. The application follows on from a five-year scuffle between Caryn Mandabach Productions and Sadler’s Brewhouse, over the use of the Peaky Blinders name on their range of themed beers, gin, rum and whisky.
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"Border policy yes."
Unless the border is with Ukraine, in which case they're optional, apparently....
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Let's not make a bad law even worse shall we?
Copyright law is already messed up enough as it is, it really shouldn't be treated as a way to bypass the ability to comment anonymously via nothing more than an accusation of infringement, with all the burden on the accused.
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Other news sources are available. While it's something of a side note given that he does (currently) have any remaining direct power, it is notable when you see a former US President gushing about how much of a genius the Russian president is for invading a sovereign nation while trying desperately to tie it in with his own election failure.
Not surprising to anyone who was paying attention to the actual evidence of wrongdoing related to Russia during his tenure, but it's a rather notable set of comments in the wider geopolitical sphere that would have been unheard of back when the US elected statesmen instead of reality show con artists.
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I just hope…
That this bill is well-crafted which is not something I (or Mike, for that matter (yes, I know the author is Karl and not Mike)) can say about US Federal legislation vis-à-vis Tech…
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lol thank you
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all of it
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Sir, this is an Arby's.
Seriously though, you should be doing this on Reddit, not a tech blog.
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Just because you are parroting RT doesn't make it anything but utter bollox.
There's more evidence of genocide in the Middle East, and the US always props those people up.
But the closest to an old Soviet ruler? "Oh, he's a genius, he's harmless, he's doing good!"
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Ukraine hasn't been part of "Russia" for a long time now. It may have been part of the USSR but that has been dead 30 years, and invading them under false pretences is not the way to get the territory back. Europe really doesn't want to go back to those days - we don't need another Sudetenland.
Then there is the little matter of Russia taking a dump on its international treaties, specifically the one where it guaranteed Ukraine's independent existence and borders. It made the effort to fake democracy when it stole the Crimea, but this is just a naked power grab because he's made sure that the West is too paralysed with in-fighting to be able to provide a serious threat to him. All those roubles spent on wrecking elections, financing Trump and Brexit and encouraging anti-Covid stances are paying off a hundredfold.
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Whilst you have some reasonable stances, as a centrist European I'd have to call BS on that. Especially the Trump worship and hatred of free and fair elections. Your may be to the left of the US Right, but you take a Right-wing stance to even Mr Right-of-Left Biden.
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Not if it's illegal. And it says a lot about his general "morals".
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"Continuing to prove that the right wing's issue with moderation isn't that it exists, it's that they've lost the ability to do it, both culturally and online."
It's not that they can't do it, it's just that they've lost the need to try and sugar coat it. When people are "censored" elsewhere for things like homophobia, transphobia, racism and spreading false information, those things seem to have become so central to their identities that they take it as a personal attack. Meanwhile, they see no problem with doing the same for speech they disagree with, because they seem to consider anyone who thinks differently to them as an enemy rather than equals with differing opinions.
I suspect that Pravda - sorry, Truth - will follow the same trend as all them do - a brief spurt of interest, followed by diminishing audiences as the hate is allowed to thrive and dissenting voices tuned out. Until they're back into an echo chamber that nobody else would ever consider looking at, the audience as tired of hanging around with people like them as the rest of us are, and the people funding the grift take their money and run once it's clear they've emptied the well.
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The only ones talking about "genocide" is Russian media, which happens to be wholly controlled by Putin and his minions. They have for years churned out propaganda about Ukraine to manufacture "causes belli".
You are free to cite your "evidence" of ethnic genocides...
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