It is literally true. Every word of it.

Jordan (formerly Transjordan) is the Arab state carved out of the British Mandate of Palestine after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

The rest was designated as a Jewish homeland, but the Arabs violently objected.

Of course, every other party of the Ottoman Empire except Turkey itself is also now an Arab state.

In the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, one day after the modern state of Israel was created, it was invaded by the combined armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.

Israel won, but Jordan annexed the West Bank and Egypt annexed the Gaza Strip.

"Bookbans."

Sure. Tell us all about these "banned" books.

No. They were simply ruling on what the existing law says.

They called on the Alabama state legislature to clarify the law, but the law says what it says.

Those people don't know what either unregulated capitalism or communism look like.

Watch any of the vtubers who have picked up this game. Hololive and Phase Connect have set up dedicated servers and have people streaming the game pretty much 24/7.

And they love it.

And those vtubers collectively have tens of millions of subscribers.

It's a genuinely good game, and its popularity is deserved.

Why have languages had to devolve from the simplicity and beauty of common lisp?

Because syntax matters.

They already do. Almost all Canadian journalism is government-subsidised.

Everything Trudeau has ever done has been like this. Create a problem, blame other people, steal credit if it ever gets resolved.

Yeah.

The Special Prosecutor is David Weiss, the same person who tried to slip that immunity deal past the judge.

If it was a public dispute? No.

If the Trump White House was calling and threatening the Times editorial board? Yes.

There's a big difference in the fact that DeSantis is making a bunch of blatantly unconstitutional attempts to control speech (the very explicit retaliation against Disney being the most obvious).

DeSantis hasn't done anything at all to Disney. He has reorganized Reedy Creek Improvement District, but Disney has been telling us for decades that RCID is an entirely separate entity.

Because if it weren't an entirely separate entity, Disney would have been breaking all sorts of laws...

From the court filings:

Things apparently became tense between the White House and Facebook after that, culminating in Flaherty’s July 15, 2021 email to Facebook, in which Flaherty stated: “Are you guys fucking serious? I want an answer on what happened here and I want it today.”

If you can prove that the disinformation led to loss of life in court, then by all means go for it.

Sure, but that would be a civil action. What we are seeing instead is prior restraint by the government, which is blatantly unconstitutional.

Yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater is protected speech, as the Supreme Court made very clear in Brandenburg v. Ohio, more than fifty years ago.

Almost everything the government has been seeking to censor is likewise protected speech.

Which is how we get to where we are today, where insufficient subservience to the arbitrary diktats of the day is treated as genocide.