"Welfare queen"? Bad news, my friend, Ronald Reagan's dead, and his bs is rapidly dying too.

Most Lebanese hate Hezbollah. Hezbollah has been imposed on them--no one voted for them, and they rule by force.

Hamas has admitted that around 11,000 of these reported deaths can't be verified. In other words, they made them up. Also the "Gaza health officials" (aka Hamas) that the media always cite uncritically don't report how many deaths were actual civilians, how many were Hamas terrorists, and how many were the victims of Hamas using them as human shields.

Even more, if any of those three-letter agencies want your info they're going to get it no matter what technical fix you've got in place. There's a tendency to forget that those agencies have guns.

Actually, they did learn quite a lot. Colin Powell was quite clear about this--the need to have broad and deep domestic political support for a war. The "Vietnam Syndrome" is carefully studied in the military academies and colleges.

No. Violation only if used for commercial purposes. Perfectly legal to draw anything you want if you're not selling it.

The biggest problem for the French isn't data security, or "consideration," or any of that crap. It's that these are American products from American companies.

"It's better..." for who? If it's better for the employers, why don't they do it? Are they stupid? Are they short-sighted? I don't think so, I think they know exactly what's best for their class interests, and paying workers more, either in wages or working conditions, is not. That's why there's such a staggering imbalance in pay and living conditions between the employing class and their technoservants on the one hand and the working class on the other.

But the local cops where the VPN is located can, and they're best friends with the FBI, or can made to act like best friends. The fact is that if the FBI/CIA/NSA /whoever wants to go after you, nothing will stop them. This is not a good thing.

It was a commentary on Stalinism and capitalism. Orwell was a socialist.

Facebook isn't broken, it doesn't need to be fixed. It's working exactly as it's supposed to. It's not a bug,it's a feature.

It's completely false, as a universal proposition, that a dollar distributed to shareholders is spent more productively than a dollar distributed as taxes. Tax dollars may go to such things as fixing roads or subsidies to people to buy food. The shareholders, who BTW are overwhelmingly extremely rich, may or may not spend that dollar on anything useful. For example, who benefits from the purchase of a $30 million condo?

The Paraguayans who were killed in the Miami building collapse were in Miami to get vaccinated.

Anyone who persecuted, or persecutes, Jews, is not a follower of Marx, but an enemy of Marxism, the goal of which is to unite the working class and all oppressed in order to overthrow capitalism, which *does* persecute Jews. And Palestinians, and Kurds, and on and on. https://www.theatlantic.com/in...

This traditionally was pretty common in the US--the "no-show" government job. A favor from a politico, in return for electoral support or something else. The supervisors would know about it and so would everyone else, and it was understood that it was something you didn't talk about--if you wanted to keep your job. There was a guy in my office who showed up once every two weeks, for an hour, to collect his paycheck. Nowadays with direct deposit you don't even have to put in that much effort.