halfempty

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[–] halfempty@kbin.social 71 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Massive surveillance programs won't stop crime. Instead it will be used to persecute target demographic groups.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago

Cops running a protection racket. Typical.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago

Crow obviously wants to promote Cornell West as a spoiler candidate against the Democrats.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 46 points 2 years ago

NYT should simply walk away from Xwitter. NPR did so with no apparent loss of viewership.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago

After hearing earlier in the week that Israel was demanding the evacuation of all hospitals in Northern Gaza, it was clear that this hospital was bombed as promised. Claims that Hamas did it are clearly diversionary propaganda.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The article has an embedded side-note indicating that the measure is unlikely to pass.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 56 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Meanwhile bodies are piling up on the streets in Gaza with nobody to count them.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

I suspect the whole thing is not about the points your raised, but about how you said it, and treated others in the group during the dialog.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

Acts of authoritarian control always claim to be done "for the children". They don't care about children, they want control.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Also seeing this on Firefox with latest Ublock and newest ruleset. So far, I just accept then reload without actually changing anything and it works... For now.

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

When an organization caves in to a small vocal group of bigots...

[–] halfempty@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

It certainly puts a chilling effect on the right to protest when police interrogate individuals on site, demanding papers. It is certainly plausible that these names collected would be used for future persecution by the authorities.

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