Iran is a low bar to set, I think we can agree there.
My critique was really against tossing modesty in the trash as if it’s completely without value. A man being protective of his womenfolk is also seen as something bad, which is so irrational.
I gave you the other end of the extreme, where there is no attention paid to the woman’s dignity.
The reason I brought this up was because it is something that I have seen be applauded. No one said, “hum, maybe we shouldn’t let women be in a vulnerable position in front of tyrannical cops”.
If you don’t see an issue here, then you can’t really claim to care about the dignity of women, and that says something about you.
People think differently. Just because you don’t see yourself being content with wearing a full veil on a sunny beach does not mean that another woman can’t be.
We many times lament when the government overreaches. This is the kind of Trojan horse that enables the government to overreach.
One might think, this seems innocuous and beneficial, so go ahead, right? You have to ask yourself, how is it moral for the government to, with the threat of violence, force every home to be built with solar panels? Because that’s the implication.
If I’m a small business, and I build a house without solar panels, is it right that I be bankrupted or/and be put in jail?
Although that would be a win, European alternatives are not much better in terms of privacy. If that’s something you’re looking forward to.
Pretty much all methods of online payment require you to give away your identity in the name of fighting “money laundering” and terrorism (Israel doesn’t count). You have a system where the government is constantly trying to reach its tentacles into everything that has to do with finance. The current European payment services are an important part in facilitating that control. A new European debit/credit card is not going to change that.
Just look at Barrack “Black Drone Operator” Obama, and Joe “Sniff Sniff” Biden who is a blatant Zionist who acted chocked and insulted when he was called a Palestinian (I believe by Trump). Both supporting the violent occupation of Palestine, of course.
Fyi, China is not in that crowd. China is at least as bad as the US. It just knows it can’t afford to pull the same stunts. They are still an imperialistic shithole.
Don’t lie. When 70% of your search results are Quora, you are going to click, you are going to encounter the login banner, you are going to rage, and you are going to click away.
Reddit has been shit since 2014, some would argue since its inception. It never properly replaced serious forums that specialized on their own niche, like PC hardware, gossip, cars, or whatever. The subreddit replacements always felt like lower quality EVEN THOUGH Reddit mods are (in general) more trigger happy than those running proper forums. The astroturfing, the deception, the lack of respect for its users, the UX dark patterns, it has all been getting worse and worse. Some haven’t gotten the memo yet, that Reddit serves no one but itself, it’s a cancer.
dictionary
astroturfing = “Public relations tactic using fake grassroots movements” (used by, among others, corporations, politicians (remember the Trump 2016 campaign on Reddit?), and governments)
UX dark pattern = user experience dark pattern = “A dark pattern is a design feature that subtly encourages users to perform a specific action.” (like Reddit’s “Howdy paddner” error if you use a VPN so that they can de-anonymize you)
Iran is a low bar to set, I think we can agree there.
My critique was really against tossing modesty in the trash as if it’s completely without value. A man being protective of his womenfolk is also seen as something bad, which is so irrational.