Zechariah 12

[Athanasius]

I think your government is embarking on an entirely different set of problems, unrelated to the Donald. The opposite in many ways. But yes, authoritarian.

I have to run a VPN 24/7 now because of the so-called "Online Safety Act". On the one hand, we have GDPR and cookie notices, and on the other, the expectation that we'll upload PII to anyone who asks to prove we are who we say we are (i.e. really, to eliminate anonymity, control information, track the population, etc.). I know Carlin used to get shit on for his whole "fascism won the Second World War" stuff, but I'm really starting to wonder.

And if you don't run a VPN, you just won't know that you aren't seeing A, B, C information. It's just not there. Advert for another political party? Can't see it. Al Jazeera? Can't see it. Reports on Israel, Iran, Gaza? Can't see them. Reports on migrants? Can't see them. We basically have a Ministry of Truth now, and Thought Crime is quickly becoming a thing. Oh, you want to view that piece about the political classes' VPN use? Citizenship, to keep the children safe, take a selfie with your ID and address, to keep the children safe.

I'm going to have to start peeling onions soon.

[Fenris]

I have to run a VPN 24/7 now because of the so-called "Online Safety Act". On the one hand, we have GDPR and cookie notices, and on the other, the expectation that we'll upload PII to anyone who asks to prove we are who we say we are (i.e. really, to eliminate anonymity, control information, track the population, etc.). I know Carlin used to get shit on for his whole "fascism won the Second World War" stuff, but I'm really starting to wonder.

And if you don't run a VPN, you just won't know that you aren't seeing A, B, C information. It's just not there. Advert for another political party? Can't see it. Al Jazeera? Can't see it. Reports on Israel, Iran, Gaza? Can't see them. Reports on migrants? Can't see them. We basically have a Ministry of Truth now, and Thought Crime is quickly becoming a thing. Oh, you want to view that piece about the political classes' VPN use? Citizenship, to keep the children safe, take a selfie with your ID and address, to keep the children safe.

I'm going to have to start peeling onions soon.

That is just... crazy. As you say, straight out of "1984".

[RabbiKnife]

MiniTru

Room 101, Winston

[teddyv]

I have to run a VPN 24/7 now because of the so-called "Online Safety Act". On the one hand, we have GDPR and cookie notices, and on the other, the expectation that we'll upload PII to anyone who asks to prove we are who we say we are (i.e. really, to eliminate anonymity, control information, track the population, etc.). I know Carlin used to get shit on for his whole "fascism won the Second World War" stuff, but I'm really starting to wonder.

And if you don't run a VPN, you just won't know that you aren't seeing A, B, C information. It's just not there. Advert for another political party? Can't see it. Al Jazeera? Can't see it. Reports on Israel, Iran, Gaza? Can't see them. Reports on migrants? Can't see them. We basically have a Ministry of Truth now, and Thought Crime is quickly becoming a thing. Oh, you want to view that piece about the political classes' VPN use? Citizenship, to keep the children safe, take a selfie with your ID and address, to keep the children safe.

I'm going to have to start peeling onions soon.

That is just... crazy. As you say, straight out of "1984".

Multiple US states are going down this same road.

[Fenris]

Belgium is placing sanctions on Israel "for committing war crimes".

[RabbiKnife]

The mouse that roared.

All of the EuroTrash is simply demonstrating their collective antisemitism for absolutely no purpose.  Evil just can't help itself.

[Fenris]

Yeah I find myself particularly upset that Jews were treated poorly in Europe for 20 centuries. Crusades, the Inquisition, pogroms, locked in ghettos, excluded from public life and universities, and many instances of mass murder culminating in the 20th century with a very successful go at complete eradication. And now that Jews have left Europe to build a country of their own, the Europeans still won't stop their bullying.

Israeli author Amos Oz observed that as a child, he saw graffiti in Europe proclaiming "Jews to Palestine". As an adult he saw graffiti in Europe demanding "Jews out of Palestine". His conclusion: "Don't be here and don't be there. Don't be."

[RabbiKnife]

And while the  fools in Europe sit around and wring their hands and send Greta the Climate Control Gnome on yet another "rescue mission" for the poor Gazans and Hamas and Hezbollah, they ignore a Muslim invasion already so prolific and widespread that it makes Al-Andalus look like 2 Muslim guys in a soccer stadium by comparison.

[Fenris]

No question, Europe has bigger issues than what's going on in the middle east. Putin, for one. An actual Arab invasion, facilitated by the European governments, for another. But I guess it's great that everyone can rally around that one unifying issue, the bullying of Jews.

[Fenris]

Spain is placing Israel under an arms embargo, and may cut relations and economic ties entirely.

[RabbiKnife]

Why am I no surprised?

[Fenris]

Spain: "We are on the right side of history".

Also Spain:

Expelled all Jews in 1492

Inquisition: 1478 to 1834

Was sympathetic to and supportive of the Nazis

Only became a democracy in 1978.

[Fenris]

Spanish PM said that Spain can't stop Israel because 'Spain does not have nuclear weapons.'

Spain would nuke Israel to protect Hamas?

[RabbiKnife]

Spain has always been jealous that they are not France

[Fenris]

NYC Democrat candidate for mayor, Mamdani, says that he will have the Israeli prime minister Benjaman Netanyahu arrested if he comes to NYC.

This ignores the fact that municipal police departments do not have the authority to carry out international arrest warrants, and the fact that neither Israel nor the United States are signatories to the ICC.