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  • Russia has banned them, sort of.

    Although I don’t think their methods would work here, or rather, I don’t think they could grab the kind of power necessary.

    Russia now has regional internet blackouts, were they effectively only allow a small number of white listed sites to be accessible.

    So if you you literally cannot reach the VPN servers because only a handful of Russian government websites, preferred businesses, and UK banks (oligarchs gotta oligarch) are whitelisted, well then you banned VPNs, again, sort of.

    They did roll out a government approved VPN for specific approved individuals and use cases, to a get around those blackouts…so that’s something.



  • Chloe Zhao was a huge Buffy fan and her enthusiasm for the show got Sarah Michelle Gellar to sign-on to her reboot.

    Hollywood loves franchises and reboots because of the built-in audience, but her pilot was so bad they scrapped it entirely.

    Nothing about this project is at all comparable to The Expanse, which was adapting a series of books, with the authors involvement.

    This is adapting a few chapters, without the deceased authors involvement.

    A much more relevant comparison would be The Rings Of Power, which was similarly based on an extremely limited scope of Tolkien’s work and while I’m sure some people enjoyed that show, it was broadly very much disliked, as evidenced by it being canceled.

    While others are free to disagree, I think it’s fair to say that every Tolkien project, after The LotR trilogy, has been bad, or at best, just not very good.

    I’m not saying that this is destined to be bad, I was just taking issue with the notion that it’s guaranteed to be good.



  • At no point that did I say that the killing of the girls was a strategic move to demoralize the IRGC.

    And I remain dumbfounded as to why people keep giving the benefit of the doubt to Trump and Hegseth.

    I’m not saying it was a strategic choice, I’m saying I could easily see Pete being a sadist who got off on killing those schoolgirls, who approved the strike package based on that alone, and that’s before you even consider his crusades and killing Muslims fetishes.

    In that scenario the fact that they are the children of IRGC members just gives him an excuse to rationalize his choice to pleasure himself with their blood.

    Again, I don’t know that’s what happened, but I know it’s just as likely as it being an “oppsie” when the man in charge of the Pentagon is a known abuser of women, in addition to being a drunk moron ultra Zionist Christian nationalist with crusader tattoos.




  • When was the last time a European state deployed counter-terrorism police or soldiers to protect muslim communities as a response to anti-Muslim hate crimes?

    So while I don’t disagree with your premise, the politically motivated decisions to deploy soldiers in Belgium and counterterrorism police in Britain are choices that are clearly rooted in each state’s support of Zionism, or at minimum, the states preferential treatment of Jews over other minorities, and can be legitimately criticized as such.