Those choices don't occur in a vacuum.
What do you think happens to the nonprofit foundation built entirely around a fanatical devotion to privacy, if they partnered with Facebook. Not just partnered with, but in doing so, weakened the overall privacy of their platform.
Putting aside adoption rates, how does that impact their organizational sustainment and viability e.g. their ability to draw in donations, retain talent, or stay independent?
.... agreeing to be directly compatible with Whatsapp would mean they agree to surrender the privacy for every single instance of Signal-WhatsApp communication.
If the whole reason for your foundations existence is privacy, it seems that it would be an existential danger to create a partnership with the implicit understanding that it will destroy privacy.
Nah bro, if we had just stuck it out a little longer...
Putting aside the human misery and epic failure of Operation Rolling Thunder, someone should probably send him a basic Game Theory video to help him understand the difference between finite and infinite games, and then see if he can connect the dots.
What's crazy is that your comment isn't even endorsing any position, just stating a fact:
Michigan has a large and diverse Muslim community and without them, Biden is unlikely to win the state.
His policy on Israel's war has lost him those votes, and that has been reflected in the polling since long before the debate.
This isn't a new development.
No one here is debating that there is some hidden upside to theocracy. They're bad, we get it.
His point though, is that much like the Miami Cubans, the Iranian exiles that fled after the overthrow of the Shah, tend to be part of the old ruling class that had been disempowered. At least, the most vocal ones.
Also, just like Batista, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was enabled and backed by Western powers, before revolutionaries overthrew him and ended his dynasty.
Sure, they had a system of relatively successive monarchies, but that isn't the same as having a single running system of government. And it certainly not somehow more legitimate than theocracy, if your own benchmark is democratic rule - which you just said was the determining factor of a government's legitimacy.
Also, not for nothing, but the last monarchical dynasty was literally installed by the British, and propped up by Western powers until the people, or at least, a fanatically religious subset of the people, overthrew them.
Again, it's not like I'm a fan of theocracies, but saying that their current government is illegitimate is absurd, whether viewed in the context of international relations, or internal support and control.
He failed to legitimize the government that has been ruling the country since 1979....?
Presumably this website feels the Pahlavi dynasty, which was installed and backed by foreign powers and also lasted about 50 years, was the last legitimate government.
You don't have to support theocracy to recognize the absurdity of claiming that a government that's been in charge for 50 years, and is recognized around the world, is somehow illegitimate.
Losing one artist isn't the implication....it's losing all your independent venues because they won't financially survive being blacklisted by every artist that hopes to tour anywhere else because LN is a monopoly...
So goodbye independent venues and hello to exponentially higher prices, because that's what monopolies do...
Just duct tape some EREC (explosive reactive egg cartons) on that bitch and you'll be good to go.
No, it won't.
You're clearly uninformed on the power of Operator Prayer, or Tactical Theology, and the role it plays on the modern battlefield.
With sufficient levels of belief, that bullet can achieve anything. Just remember, if you believe, your bullet can achieve.
Correct, they rigged it: past tense.
I don't mean by literally stuffing ballots, but via mostly boring administrative and bureaucratic maneuvering. Although, some state Democratic parties did actually cancel their Presidential primaries entirely, which frankly should be illegal.
Nothing I'm saying is breaking news. This was covered at the time, and has seen a small resurgence in coverage since the debate.
I think The Lever actually just republished the reporting they ran at the time.
Throws down? She might as well have said: