Again, what good would this do if you are in a war torn country that cannot secure its elections?
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So they amend their constitution. During a war. To force people into the streets to vote.
How does the government make sure the election is fair? Some people won't be able to vote due to danger. Some will be attacked. Some areas are occupied, and the occupation lines may change during the election.
If they tried to run an election now, Russia would publish their own results showing that the occupied areas voted for Putin. Trying to run elections is hard enough in normal times, doing so with Russia literally holding a large swath of your country is impossible.
This. Pretty much every company that does business with the US or a US state has clauses in their contract about "boycotting" Israel, poorly defined on purpose.
100%. Most business is just advanced sophistry at this point. Marketing and advertising serves a useful purpose for new products, when the market isn't aware that it exists.
But by quantity and cost, most advertising is just social manipulation and is effectively an extra drain on the economy.
Propaganda, nationalism, and fear of what regressive shitheads will do if you vocalize any opposition
Jail or the front lines.
I saw one program that Rick rolled Bluetooth device lists.
Almost across the board, new technology is used to spread two things: religious dogma and porn.
And the farmer's almanac, but mostly the Bible and porn.
Not just their business practices, but also just the oculus purchase.
I already had an oculus. I was told (via press release) that I wouldn't have any issues with not having a Facebook account...only for them to turn around a little while later and require a Facebook login.
This describes what I want - being able to have relatively blank walls/spaces that light up and fill up with content when you're wearing the headset.
This seems to mean they blame the government for lack of "security" before the attack, which could mean they just want more apartheid.
And "must resign after the war" is way different than "must resign." Any leader, but especially an authoritarian, would read this and say "Guess I should never end the war, then."
It's literally what's happening.
Texas used the same concept to empower private people to sue abortion providers and receivers under civil law since they couldn't do it criminally.
The country as a whole has done it for a long time with cellphone data, the five eyes alliance, etc.
They have access to information they're barred from getting directly themselves, and they get it from private companies. Spying by proxy.