@Chozo @gAlienLifeform @spudwart
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/...

Sorry for the daily mail link, but:

New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance (pictured above) has been an outspoken critic of Apple's end-to-end encryption policy, saying 'they have taken away one of our best sources of information. Just because they say so.'

@MicroWave yeah but the supreme court can easily threaten the constitution. That's what 2/3rds of them were appointed to do in the first place.🤷‍♂️

@AllonzeeLV I think the basic logic is that if they're as bad as us, they don't make it past their own global environmental catastrophes.

@FlyingSquid future tense? you underestimate how savage this country is.

@DarkGamer There is a difference between promoting something and being the sole source of it. They used appropriate and clear language and you purposefully misunderstood them to make an asinine point.

@jordanlund I mean it seems like the surprising part is that there's no evidence the Chinese government suggested this course of action, directly or through Chinese intermediaries.

The primarily western leadership team seemingly decided to do it on their own? It could be that there's still further buried evidence that bridges the final gap, but that's a bit different than what we thought happened.

@MagicShel We're making it much much much much worse, providing direct financial and military aid to a country actively slaughtering tens of thousands and displacing millions to facilitate ethnic cleansing.

It's not that trump wouldn't be worse, just they supporting Biden is totally and completely unconscionable. And to do so sacrifices a piece of your soul.

@MagicShel that's the difference in our understanding there.

You are what you do. And what he has done is send billions of dollars and two carrier groups to back up, by far, the biggest crime against humanity in the 21st century, already beating Iraq and blowing anything else out of the water.

There's no excuse I'll accept for that

@Sethayy the existence of people not offended by something prejudiced always seems to be dragged out as a justification for that prejudice.

If some people being offended isn't reason enough not to say something, then it stands to reason that some people not being offended isn't a reason why it's okay.

If it is, then there are definitely people who are offended.

@Telorand I think he lost the "not fascism" vote by providing direct military support to an ongoing genocide

@SatanicNotMessianic can't say any of that is wrong or unreasonable, but I still do find the expressed intent of the post more misogynistic than the use of the word female in context.

@kool_newt so you agree, a vote is an active choice that reflects on you as a human being?

@givesomefucks and, in fact, it is that willingness to betray that is why the right wing controls the democratic party.

@Linkerbaan @gardylou The US is perfectly capable of multi-tasking doing unconscionable things.

@Telorand it's one hundred percent black and white for me and your ambivalence on the matter disgusts me.

@protist @K1nsey6 I agree. Biden is not engaging in the behavioral pattern called projecting.

Biden is hypocritical as hell, though, because he hasn't taken a goddamn stand for anything, save for starting new wars to defend an ongoing genocide.

@jhymesba And here's where you show you're not just okay with genocide in some vague "Stop trump" capacity, but a full-on pro-genocide monster yourself.

Slaughtering 10 thousand children, after Hamas killed a bunch of concentration camp guards isn't "self defense".

You're just evil.

@prole @Teon

Unfortunately, one of the conservatives' strategies at play here is they only give "right of conscience" to people with political power over other people.

They aren't giving normal citizens the right to object to anything, they're giving unelected officers the right to torment those beneath them.

And unless you're willing to be as evil to innocent people as they are, you can't fight that war.

In the end what they're destroying here is the rule of law itself.

@Telorand I'll moralize any genocide denying evil fuck I want

@agent_flounder I'm not going to choose between two different far right genocidal monsters.

There's no rhetorical game here. What you're asking me to do is an evil my conscience won't bear, and yours will because of your moral cowardice.