Rights violations in Iran was one of their many post-excuses for invading, while doing the literal same things domestically.
Hypocrisy is a requirement in the Republican party. They are not ashamed of it.
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Hypocrisy is a requirement in the US.
There. I fixed it for you.
The US and Israel were trying to push the women's rights angle with their manufactured protests, then bombed a girls school killing ~150 mostly schoolchildren.
They are bound to the hypocritic oath.
The Hippocritic Oath
I swear by LinkedIn, "disruption," and the invisible hand of the market that I will fulfill this oath to the best of my metric-driven ability.
I will critique my teachers for their lack of personal branding.
I will inform every patient that their illness is, ultimately, a failure of hustle culture, poor risk management, and not having a diverse investment portfolio.
I will refuse deadly drugs but will absolutely shame you for buying avocado toast instead of a high-deductible health plan.
Whatever house I enter, I will come for the sick — and leave a QR code to my Substack explaining how bootstraps could have prevented all of this.
I will not repeat what I see or hear in private — but I will monetize the general vibe as a case study in "choice architecture."
If I keep this oath, may I achieve synergistic growth. If not… well, the market will correct you, not me.
Isn't it ironic how ICE agents wear masks, while scanning everyone else's faces? Also props to Second Thought for not pushing defeatist mind-poison, because that's exactly what they want: for us to feel powerless, and making it seem "resistance is futile".
It doesn’t have to succeed for me. If my actions to lead to the success of another’s resistance that will still satisfy.
I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say. It to me reads like you would contribute to someone's resistance, but not for yourself, but for someone else instead? Which in itself is absolutely fine, but I hope you're not under the impression, such technology only affects persons targeted by ICE. That these systems are used for that is simply insult to injury, that is the overall privacy-implications of mass-surveillance.
You can chip away at power structures and resist them. You still lose but leave them weakened and more vulnerable to the next to challenge them. Eventually they fall.
If you comply instead, you strengthen the power structures that do harm anyway.
The only rational move is to resist.
We need to empower each, inform each other, work together, be in all kinds of problem-solving communities in person and online focused on getting things done day in and day out, and be well protected ourselves and for others. To get people onto good OS'es, apps, software, hardware, social media platforms, independent media, etc
There are many things we can do and a decent amount of us already are but the more the better! Everyone keep doing and getting more people active! It makes it easier, and better for us all!! Build united local power up to internationally with real allies!
We got this! Have hope and help others develop their own hope. It makes people more resilient, and proactive based on studies. Hope and action united!
We the people have the power to make this life wonderful and free!!
Also calling for regime change the U.S.
Could we get a non YouTube link, since YouTube is owned by google and is causing the problem discussed by this video?
Upload it to something else and link it here.
Be the change you want to see.
How about this: it's awful in both places. Just because another country started doing it as well doesn't excuse anything, it means they're now both doing something unacceptable.
I was specifically calling out the hypocrisy of the USA's excuses to do imperialism. With that said though, it is now clear as day that while China has the ability to do what the USA is doing technologically, they are using that surveillance more sparingly and for better reasons than the USA. It's not in China that masked thugs are scanning you with their phones hoping to lock you up in some undocumented place and then either keep you there or send you to a random country away from your family.
I'm not a fan of mass surveillance in any case, but it's just so hilariously ironic that the same people who fearmongered 24/7 in their media about China being this panopticon dystopia, are the same ones now exceeding this in every way imaginable, far surpassing the imagination of fiction like 1984 or Black Mirror.
Kind of like how a lot of the same people who were screaming and going crazy about the Patriot Act 20 years ago are the same ones who want to defend Flock cameras.
Yeah, China does it without masking themselves.
Source?
I lived and worked in both the US and China. My life was infinitely better in China. You don't even notice the cameras but what you do notice is that I can go to my café, leave my electric scooter unlocked with helmet on, get a table outside, put my laptop on it and then go inside to order coffee without any fear anything will get stolen. In the parks there are public coat racks and people put their jackets, backpacks and other stuff on without any hesitation. You feel safe at night walking down the street by yourself. This feeling I rarely have anywhere else. Delivery packages are left outside and gathered sometimes outside of the compound on the public walkway without being stolen.
Now whenever I travel to Europe, I have to totally reverse this behavior otherwise all my shit will be gone. That to me is awful.
Those are rookie numbers. I'm seeing $5.99 for regular around SF.