CIA is the new CDC.

They did parade around with Liz Cheney, after all.

B-b-but, bipartisanship!

Fucking losers.

Profit = income - expenditures

Record profits = (highly productive workers) - (low wages)

It is a fundamental and indisputable fact. Record profits can only be achieved when the workers are paid unfairly for their contributions.

Workers deserve better.

Severe restrictions? Seriously?

Perhaps if you are a big tech corporation, considering that the EFF is an advocate group for digital rights and consumer protection policies.

How about not restricting the internet at all?

No. Every internet user should agree that some types of content should absolutely be prevented from appearing in public pages.

Or instead, form a union and demand better pay and retention incentives.

Por que no los dos?

They will be fined and nothing will change. Bonus points if the final fine paid is lower than their $2.5 billion settlement offer.

I’m sorry, but there is no situation where it is permissible to stand idle as someone suffers an untimely and preventable death.

Even soldiers at war, captured in foreign territory without visas, are entitled to lifesaving care.

OK. So by that logic, let’s say you are touring Europe and have a heart attack. The paramedics are in the area and available, but refuse to take you to the hospital. You are left to die on the street.

You think you deserve such foul treatment?

When a government is informed that people are dying within its waters, and the gov has the capability to respond but deliberately chooses not to because the victims are “african”, you think that the government bears no responsibity for their deaths?

Is it really so different though? The outcome of both situations is the same. Migrants are dying, through direct action and deliberate inaction.

Mediterranean nations have the opportunity to protect lives, but instead they choose kill / let migrants die.

You are defending willful negligence that leads to the deaths of migrants.

Up to 1 in 13 migrants die in the Mediterranean. Italy as well as Greece have been allowing migrants to die as a part of deterrence-based migration policy. Rescuing the passengers of capsized migrant vessels has been criminalized. There are plenty of articles that confirm these facts. Here is one example.

Yeah, a more accurate title would be:

Big Business Profits & Pricing Soar; Price Fixing, Abusive Practices Unchecked Under Biden

Why are there foreign judges serving in Hong Kong?

It is a holdover from Hong Kong’s past as a British colony. After the UK handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997, the agreement between the countries stipulated that the special territory would continue to operate with its freedoms and systems for 50 years- including its common law legal system which operates in several other jurisdictions worldwide. Currently there seven foreign judges remaining on the court– three British and four from Australia.

So, foreign judges who are meddling in HK affairs are upset that China (the inheritor of HK) is meddling in HK affairs?

If the West actually cared about HK independence, why do they wish to maintain colonial judges in HK courts? If they cared, shouldn’t HK judges be in HK courts?

While China has been heavy handed in its effort to speed up the timeline of the power transfer, in the end, the West has concluded that HK is to be Chinese territory. By the West’s own policy, these are foreign judges getting kicked out by the “rightful” new rulers, just a bit early.

OK, so replace his photo with any congressperson if you insist on being so pedantic.

The point is the absurdity of american government, which Biden as the president, is a symbol of.

When advantageous, most republicans would also claim that the US respects international law, then turn around and pass a vote like this.

EDIT: about a third of house dems supported the bill

Except, you have to build the laser… And the assembly line…

Don’t worry, It’s OK when the US does it.

Does anyone even use FB anymore besides boomers?

Ok, so boomers are not actually people, facebook’s 3 billion active users don’t exist, and 250 million of those fake people are certainly not from the fake US.

But TikTok…

Amazing how we are talking of Chinese surveillance while the US just renewed another one of its surveillance bills.

So much “I am immune to, and can spot all propaganda” in this thread.

Bro, Facebook facilitated a genocide, and this is who we want to buy TikTok? What action was taken against fb?

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/

“US coRpOrAtiOn goOd!”