In at least Illinois, this is still in the proposal phase. The bad news is that there are also more draconian proposals that require government issue IDs.
We usually only find out years after the fact when the information is declassified. Also, secrecy is only necessary to the extent that it helps reach objectives. Knowing the CIA infiltrates leftist movements undercuts hope and increases distrust between leftists.
I dunno about that. The CIA has at least been competent at undermining leftist movements.
But… I thought the Fascists were on the side of Ukraine, not Russia??? This makes no sense unless… it’s not possible that hexbear is full of shit… Is it?
You aren’t considering inflation which is about to go insane, and especially healthcare costs that become a much bigger deal in the years when you would come to rely on that million. A million is pretty much a bare bones retirement egg today.
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Hey, they’re just asking questions!
Science is a subdiscipline of philosophy.
That’s the only reason I’ve ever done much of anything in shell script. As a network administrator I’ve worked many network appliances running on some flavor of Unix and the one language I can count on to be always available is bash. It has been well worth knowing for just that reason.
How did you get from a vote on a particular wording of a particular resolution to “not supporting Israel”? Where did I say that anyone said the revolution would “fix everything”?
When someone says that an abstention from a vote is “kissing Netanyaho’s ass”, it seems pretty apparent that the consider a lack of a yes vote as a moral failing.
Maybe it’s a reaction to the ignorant self righteous ignorant fury that’s been flooding every discussion on Palestine for months. That kind of mass delusion doesn’t respond to carefully parsed polite responses. In any case, I’ve gotten tired of pretending it’s not idiotic.
You might be absolutely right. All I’m talking about is maximizing the leverage the US has. That’s no guarantee that it’s enough leverage to control Netanyaho.
Yet Ukraine has been successfully armed by the west, so it’s clearly manageable. The scale between Ukraine and Israel/Gaza is also a huge difference.
The one thing that Russia couldn’t replace would be the iron dome. I’ll agree that’s no small thing.
The amount of weapons Israel actually needs is miniscule compared to something like the war in Ukraine. Russia is currently producing around 250k artillery shells per month. Munitions used in Gaza are measured in the hundreds over the entire conflict.
I doubt there would be much. Iran is almost as dependent on Russia as Israel has been on the US. There would be some token diplomatic protests, but I doubt it would be anything more than signaling. Countries don’t have friends, they have interests. Iran’s interests are far better served by Russia than by supporting Palestine.
Hamas’s entire strategy in launching their attack was to provoke Israel to overreact, which would then prompt Palestinian allies like Lebanon and Iran to get involved. The first part worked beyond their expectations, but Iran and Lebanon haven’t taken the bait.
We’re I at my PC I might dump a boatload of links to lemmy comments but, since I’m not, I’ll just tell you to do your own search. It’s incredibly prevalent in the more “tankie” subs, but they show up pretty much everywhere the subject is discussed.
The frustrating thing is that there are two groups doing it. There are right wing trolls pretending they care but actually just taking advantage to damage Democrats, but there are also good people arguing for the best of causes, but not understanding the dynamics at play.
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I don’t doubt it.
Definitely not Iran, but Russia and China are definitely possibilities. The only reason it seems impossible is that Israel has been a US satellite since it’s founding. If that tie is severed, what’s possible changes.
There are three real powers in the Middle East, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. Two are in the US sphere, and one is in Russia’s. Russia would live to pull ahead, and China desperately wants a solid foothold in the region.
Russia specifically would see a lot of tangible benefits. Israel has a top-notch defense industry with many technologies that Russia is missing. Protecting “the Jews” would also play into Russia’s narratives about fighting Nazis in Ukraine and elsewhere.
If you have root access to the system, then you can enter any date you wish. That’s not exactly a per-app or per-request prompt, but there is nothing preventing you from using whatever date you want. The only situation where this is going to matter is when an adult manages a computer for a minor and wants them to be age restricted.
I get the “boiling a frog” arguments against this. It does feel like a first step towards gating the Internet behind government ID. However, if this were to forever be the way things work, I don’t see a problem.
I’m also not sure how resistance from the Linux community on this law will do anything to prevent future authoritarian overreach. It could do more to keep us marginalized, which will make us even less capable of standing up to the next phase.