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We as creatures behave certain ways because of a result of biology and circumstances. How can you say anything we do isn't a natural/biological impulse. When did we stop being a part of nature? And stop being controlled by biology?

Only if you don't wash them and don't clip your nails, or if you paint your nails that's also nasty

Fish is not meat, but it's also not vegetarian

Its not allowing the release, its requiring it.

High income in New York is definitely above 1% globally, and likely even nearing 1% nationally

Well the rich it seems did vote for Mamdani

You lost. That flag don't fly.

This is a really bad argument that people use. Plenty good causes have lost.

The issue with the Confederacy is that it was a really bad cause, fighting for the enslavement of millions for generations.

Have you been to America? Plenty of leftists around the country fly American flags.

Usually when people have flags it's for fairly innocuous stuff. Poland has a kind of ridiculous law criminalizing the desecration of a flag of any country.

This is pointless

I've never used any, but Molly seems well liked

You can use Signal with a different client. Signal being operated within the US has no effect. As of now the jurisdictions that I know of to be worried about are:

The UK, where Apple was recently ordered to remove end-to-end encryption features, and have been gagged from talking about it

Sweden, where a law is proposed to add an encryption backdoor

The EU, where leadership is pushing for an encryption backdoor

My understanding is that the Indian government under the BJP and Congress has been pretty consistently anti-encryption, and violated privacy rights

France arrested the founder of Telegram for using end to end encryption in Telegram

Australia in 2018 passed a law that enabled the government to require communications platforms add a backdoor for government decryption. The Director of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) said that “privacy is important but not absolute”. Which has the same vibes as "this is not about human rights, this is about human life."

WhatsApp was previously suspended in Brazil for refusing to hand over decrypted messages.

Austria is in the process of passing legislation allowing police to backdoor encryption in messaging apps

China and Russia are very obvious problems. Here's an easy one of many examples

The White House both in Trump's first term and in Biden's presidency were pro-encryption. Signal and Tor were US government funded projects. That's not to say the US is great on encryption, and there have been laws in the past that did/were proposed to limit it. But, as of now, it seems that the US is (edit: one of) the most hospitable jurisdictions for encrypted messaging non-profits.

BTW, I'm not saying using Tox is bad, or that Signal is good, I'm just talking about the US jurisdiction part.