I suppose the real question is whether most users will balk at this and move to a new platform, or just accept it.

My bet is that they’ll just accept it.

The EU could make the wise decision to make the same demands to those companies that the US made towards TikTok. For our own safety.

I mean, they absolutely should.

Don’t worry, I was told that a second Trump administration would rejuvenate the enthusiasm of the American left-wing to oppose government tyranny

/s

Google has told the EU that it will not comply with a forthcoming fact-checking law.

Perfect time to implement sky-high fines for non-compliance.

non-maga right wing

How many of those are left? Two, three?

I remember before 2016, I had respect for some right-wing folk online who, while far from agreement with me, I regarded as simply legitimately misguided (in a “Free markets because gubmint bad”) kind of way.

It was… eye-opening to see how many of them went mask-off in the Trump years, and how fast and fiercely they did it.

It’s an addiction. ROME’S HONOR MUST BE DEFENDED

1. It was not what he did before declaring himself ‘Emperor for life’, because Caesar never declared himself Emperor.

2. The initiation of the civil war was not because Caesar decided to deploy troops as a matter of suppressing popular dissent, but because the Senate, at the behest of the ultraconservative Cato the Younger, was hell-bent on having the reformer Caesar executed for behavior of his that the Senate had already sanctioned, and preventing the democratic popular assemblies from saving him.

3. Caesar, quite famously, did not repress his political enemies, even during the civil war; those political enemies who remained in territory he controlled were left unharmed and unimpeded; those who fought against him were unconditionally pardoned. Many of them went on to stab him several years later, so it’s not like he was pardoning just the harmless ones.

4. Caesar’s appointment as dictator in perpetuity was not preceded by military crackdowns.

Other way around, I believe. Pertinax is commonly pointed to as one of the best potential Emperors, and I think Kyrgizion is saying that Pertinax is one of the few good ones that they killed, not one of the many terrible ones.

STTL, Emperor Pertinax!

No.

That’s it, I support the Quebecois now! They’ll understand the value of a good guillotine, at least

I refuse to have anything to do with having a m*narch on my money 😤

I’m fine with being a province, but it’s republic or bust

Here’s a nice compromise position - Canada becomes a republic; in exchange, the West Coast and the East Coast down to Maryland (or Virginia) join as unincorporated territories or whatever the Canuck equivalent is.

please save us from Y’All Qaeda

“I am loyal to the United States of America.”

“Disqualified. Next!”

This is the state of the American electorate. Just a total lack of critical thinking.

Buying an indulgence

Tap in many places has a distinctive ‘taste’ to it. A cheap filter is WAY more useful (and way cheaper) than bottled water though.

Funny (/s) that it jumped sharply shortly after troops started coming home from the war with dogshit mental support for what they’d been put through. Almost like traumatizing people and then throwing them away creates bad outcomes.

I’ve heard Europeans call Turks ‘filthy’ and ‘roaches’ and Africans ‘monkeys’. And don’t get me started on the things said about the Romani.

I don’t think there’s a difference in how tribalistic or vicious it is.

The things I’ve heard far too many Europeans of various nationalities say about MENA, Desi, Turkish, and Romani folk just… makes my skin crawl.

America has a deep racism problem, and it is both right and necessary to acknowledge it. But those who pretend that Europe doesn’t have a deep racism problem are either not paying attention or in denial - especially considering recent political developments.

The continuous US states are 8,080,460 square kilometres.

Europe is 10,186,000 square kilometres.

In what world is that “not far off”?