It’s mutual. Remember how conservatives screech and froth about a shadowy nefarious “new world order” doing world domination? Yeah, turns out that was projection too, and CPAC is where they get together to work on it.

The way such tests have always worked historically is that the people in charge of administering them make sure that only people like her can pass it.

Like everything else, “Trump derangement syndrome” is projection.

It still reads more like a response to the article, not to OP.

Actively prosecuted, you mean. It’s only “persecuted” if it’s unjust.

If you don’t think mudding and taping drywall is more difficult than it seems, I’m impressed (and a little disbelieving).

This was posted in another thread a few months back, and I found it particularly persuasive: https://thompson2026.com/blog/deviancy-signal/

There’s a special kind of contempt I reserve for the person who says, “I have nothing to hide.” It’s not the gentle pity you’d have for the naive. It’s the cold, hard anger you hold for a collaborator. Because these people aren’t just surrendering their own liberty. They’re instead actively forging the chains for the rest of us. They are a threat, and I think it’s time they were told so.

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On a societal scale, this inaction becomes a collective betrayal. The power of the Deviancy Signal is directly proportional to the number of people who live transparently. Every person who refuses to practice privacy adds another gallon of clean, clear water to the state’s pool, making any ripple of dissent … any deviation … starkly visible. This is not a passive choice. By refusing to help create a chaotic, noisy baseline of universal privacy, you are actively making the system more effective. You are failing to do your part to make the baseline all deviant, and in doing so, you make us all more vulnerable.

as well as the ability to use our minds to travel.

This comment has big “teleport to Waffle House” energy.

Yes, that image is real. Including the text on the banner at the top.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysterical_strength

In the '80s and '90s, the US and Europe were actively arming and supporting their settler-colonial project named “Israel.” Ditto for the 2000s through today, as well as going from the '70s all the way back to 1948. Even further back, from 1920 to 1948, the British were administering that colony more directly, under the name “Mandatory Palestine.” Immediately before that, Europe was fighting, defeating, and partitioning the Ottoman Empire.

Oh and by the way, Britain was also controlling Egypt at that time, having occupied it during the Anglo-Egyption War starting in 1882 and not giving it up until 1956. And let’s not forget about India, either, including the part that would later become Pakistan. Britain’s colonial interests there led them to become adversaries with Russia over their spheres of influence in central Asia, including fighting various wars in Persia and Afghanistan in the 1800s.

So yeah, by my reckoning, “Europe and the USA” (but mostly Britain until after WWII) have been fucking with the Middle East CONTINUOUSLY AND WITHOUT EVEN A SINGLE DAY OF PAUSE for 200+ years. And that figure is only because that’s as far back as I care to list, not as far back as the colonialism goes!

even in times when Europe and the USA have taken minimal actions

LOL, when was that? Be specific, now.

Either we cut off funding and have no reliable ally in the middle eastern proxy war between the west and the east,

This presupposes that such a “war” needs to be fought at all.

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Copyright infringement is committed by the provider, not the receiver. If you’re just an end-user of the content, they can’t really go after you unless you acquired it via a peer-to-peer network and also seeded it to others. (And they have, in fact, infamously gone after people for that.)

I feel like this attitude is bigoted in more than one way:

• it’s anti-POC for obvious reasons
• it’s anti-Welsh because it implicitly assumes nobody who isn’t ethnically Welsh would have a reason to learn the language (because it’s dying or whatever).

TIL my jeans are coming back into fashion.

Not satire.

And I suppose no one sober would choose to start drinking on the side of the road in a car.

And guess what: having an open container of alcohol in a car is its own separate crime, just to make sure all those bases are covered.

Also the West Bank.