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I have seen the face of god!

Good. Best of both worlds. America gets to look like it’s not backing down and UK has a legitimate sounding reason not to extradite him.

Saving Face and achieving nothing. Diplomacy in action

Get it out and over with…

Keep it secret it’s twice the size when it gets loose. (Pardon my phrasing)

If it’s useless that could be in the future. Evolution works to it’s own timescales

Not really achieving a degoogle that way though, they’re still getting all their tracking data

This isn’t just a race issue, how many historical figures in general can people name?

I’d gamble that 7% of British people think Winston Churchill signed the Magna Carta at the end of the first world war, and I include former prime ministers in that.

It’s the international version of their stand your ground laws!

Sync on android has this function. I blocked YouTube and it’s associated domains.

Also going to block this one, this story is such bad journalism.

I saw this film. They all get eaten by giant worms.

It was a hypothetical example for purposes of illustration, not a suggestion for the weekend

It has some unintended and bizarre implications.

Take the scenario of some guy who goes out dancing, having a great time with their preferred sexual partner on the dance floor. On the way home stops in the park for a wank because they’re single, young, drunk, horny and stupid.

They get caught, they’re on the sex offenders register and they’re banned from working with children or vulnerable people. And yet they’re not more of a threat than the average person, certainly not a paedophile.

(If that looks suspiciously specific, it’s not my story 😁)

It doesn’t hurt his popularity with his supporters that so many hate him, it fits with the overall narrative of that constituency that people want them silenced.

You can see this is in how many conservatives complain about cancel culture silencing them, they use phrases like “you can’t say anything anymore” enmass on social media and run dozens of media publications and TV about how their voices are being silenced.

The irony of all this is ignored in the fury.

To really understand trump’s popularity you need to see him as a symptom not a cause. People who grew up without exposure to difference, in environments where difference was not tolerated, are feeling upset that the differences are being accepted.

They always believed the narrative that those differences just didn’t exist in the past and so the can see a rapid change in the world which they see as the destruction of the world they know.

Had they known that differences were their all along, only being kept out of sight, they’d know this isn’t a slide towards anything, it’s just a recognition of everything that was always already there.