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.
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.
I would love to know a trans masc called Steve. I do know multiple Haydn and Rylan though! Most of the trans femmes I know either pick a perfectly fine normal name or they are a flower. So many Rose.
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.
Mildred is a fucking great name. Airyn is a bit rougher, but in general I feel that us trans femmes have absolutely nothing on trans mascs who really do go wild with their names or end up as one of the 75% of trans guys called Ryland, or a variation thereof.
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.
Fun so far! More than the usual 8 badges and with some replacement fakemons and S/V pokemon too. This hasn't been integrated brilliantly so there are odd cries and Pokedex entries that are messy (might also be the patcher I used?) but it's fun enough and I like the focus on just having a big world to explore instead of difficulty modes and such.
I enjoyed Pokémon Unbound and I'm working through Golden Glazed at the moment which isn't as polished and has some odd issues but is good fun.
Christ, what an asshole
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.
Yip, absolutely. Which is why I'm moving away from big tech products (one of the reasons I'm on Lemmy!).
Saudi Arabia is considerably worse though for LGBT rights so I don't think there is any benefit in pushing whataboutism in this case. Both are awful, one is definitively more so.