"And in other news, the US threatens to invade the Vancouver Island to replenish its egg stock"
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because they're rich and don't want to alienate any portion of people that make them more rich? Also they aren't even slightly inconvenienced by the changes in policy.
Artists reciprocating the feelings of the people is a thing of the past.
No one wants to join your stupid discord chat, Trumpet.
Didn't this use to be an opt-in setting?
No. It's the life blood of Google's tracking ethos so it was always opt out on google's phones. It's so important to google that they'll reset these permissions to "enabled" for all apps on system updates, so you won't notice it until way later.
host your own instance and be your own authority.
Why the fuck did Australia lease a port?
Corruption.
Politicians favorite passtime.
If they can bribe politicians in Australia, imagine smaller countries that are under China's influence.
Anyone think this will stop?
When you look back into history of the countries that boast "western values" and "human rights", and see they're just war machines that benefitted of the wars in the past to reach to a point of "moral superiority" after ravaging and looting others to be self sufficient, you begin to understand no one capable of stopping it cares.
completely in line with "western values". As long as you're likeable to the "white" audience, you're golden.
At the very least there's less "you should be supporting my sides' genocide and it's your fault my country is 'openly' evil now. we were hiding it and profiting off of it so well" on lemmy.
"Genocide as a Service"
"No way to prevent this, say the Democrats who are actively collaborating with the fascists"
"western values" or something, idk