My day is made immeasurably better by Jim Jordan's failure. This entertainment is surely the best thing he's ever done for the country.
At least one member said they were switching from McCarthy to Jordan on the second vote, so sadly we're probably not going to get a revolt.
I call dibs on getting rescued by Dennis Quaid.
I think a lot of these points have been made better elsewhere.
The extended discussion of hypothetical US interference just because of a tenuous chain of connection to the CIA is just typical US-badism. The US frequently funds tools which they think further geopolitical goals and this doesn't inherently mean its untrustworthy, just that their methodology of control is more resilient to uncensored speech; the best example of this is TOR, decentralized, anonymous, and created by Naval Research and DARPA. The author can't concede this point as it'd bring up they're unsubtly simping for a different colonial power, one who does require such censorship.
Signal's centralized nature has always been a major criticism (and it's reasonable), however as a trade off it's easy to on-board the tech illiterate. It's nontrivial to set up a Matrix server and I've seen the difficulty of migrating activist groups there. It's good as a long term goal, but one also has to recognize that a person struggling with housing has different concerns and will prefer to use whatever their friends and family do.
I just really want to point out that there's some very dark humor in the UAE's unsubtle attempts to use COP28 as a PR campaign. Not that almost every other COP wasn't a complete waste of time, but the ridiculousness truly elevates this to the level of comedy.
I don't even know if they're being sarcastic or if they're just that craven.
They're campists; they can't understand any level of moral complexity.
Anyone who opposes the US is inherently good, because surely the west is the only one that can be imperialistic.