But, if you feel the need to make up little conspiracies about everyone being hasbara, I'll wish you well and move on with my day.
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Just stating how it is. There is so much, rightful, support for Palestine here and it isn't being suppressed.
Does the UK and Europe suppress protests? Absolutely. Look at what has happened with climate focused organisations. Look at what has happened with trans rights.
But, thankfully, that isn't happening for Palestinian causes and even the explicitly anti-Israel protests against council use of Neptune Intelligence Computer Engineering go ahead without issue.
Not sure how talking about local and country-wide support for Palestine, and against the zionist genocide enacted by Israel, makes me supportive of Israel but everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Yeah, Israel is shit, but unless you have a video for each of these protests being shut down in this way, that just isn't the norm. Plenty of pro-Palestine protests and meetings here; outside Barclays, protesting specific businesses, sharing information in our most popular streets for tourism and shopping, musical protests at art galleries. Plenty going on, never even seen a police presence at these.
Not to say it isn't happening, but trying to paint Europe as some pro-Zionist totality is weird.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
"No, you have free speech as well, but it is also has its limits."
Which is true. A lot of Europe learnt from World War II that certain types of speech should not be tolerated. In the rest of the article there are examples given - neo-Nazis for one. I am not particularly keen on tolerating the freedom of speech of Nazis or others that call for genocide and killing.
Still not happened to me yet, and that is in the UK which has the far more authoritarian Policing Bill looming over us. That doesn't make as interesting a soundbite though.
Christ, this is such a stupid take. You'd think that someone who was around on the fediverse would have an inkling about just how many instances are based in the EU and Germany in particular.
Just because a country or userbase wants a degree of moderation and accountability, and doesn't tolerate hate speech, doesn't mean that views are censored. Basic Popperism stuff right there.
I have been using Tuta since the start of the year when I decided it was time to remove myself from Big Tech as much as I can. Really highly recommend them!
Why would an American be mentioning GDPR?
Yes, I was aware though under the impression of improving geospatial and mapping models. There are many ways in which we are now entwined into these systems and so it's a matter of deciding, on a personal level, what you are comfortable with.
I am certainly not comfortable with the data going to Saudi Arabia where access to such is used for active suppression and harm.
Maybe it was a naive viewpoint at the time, but the climate of 2016 was very different to what it is now.
Yeah, estrogen does make you lose considerable muscle mass. That really, really shouldn't be surprising. I used to be able to do overhead shoulder presses at around 40 kg without deliberately maintaining muscle mass. After 10 years of estrogen and antiandrogens, I can't do 18 kg and that is with active training including a much more careful protein-based diet.
All your example suggests is that the 6'3" trans woman can do is... Something a 6'3" woman can do. Cisgender people aren't discriminated against because of their natural height, their frame or their reach either, but applying that to a trans woman for something as non-competitive as yoga is all kinds of weird.
While frame doesn't change much, it becomes much, much harder to use that frame, which becomes a considerable disadvantage. Muscle mass of trans women is less than cis women, our T levels (if properly suppressed) are drastically lower than that of cis women.
Or, to be as pithy as your final comment. Bones and the muscoskeletal system have mass, WTF?