MyMindIsLikeAnOcean

Interesting…all of it? I’m in Ontario but my hub/ISP is in Quebec so all my random advertising is in French.

Somehow it knows to target advertising to you in English…maybe you need to work on your privacy?

Heh. I’m in Ontario, but I guess my DNS is outta Quebec…so most of my banner/insert advertising is in French. It’s fucking awesome because I have no idea what they’re saying or advertising to me most of the time. Highly recommend.

Welp, now I’m off to XHamster. Thank a ton >B|

You haven’t really engaged with anything I said. You’re just repeating more inform from the article and what is generally known.

It is a fact that, rather than simply bringing existing ID into “compliance” (some are, and some aren’t - and for a reason you haven’t sufficiently explained these non compliant states appear to be Democratic) there is an entire new system being superimposed that, which you like it or not, was sold to the states as a revenue source. Additionally, the feds are collecting massive amounts of data that was formerly considered private.

Sorry, I’m referring to the “better is better” argument many so-called liberals make: where we’re presented with a false choice and make apologies for one of the bad choices. Democrats v Republicans is an example. In this case it’s Destructive capitalism v Nuclear Capitalism. I just can’t say nice things about Costco because they’re part of the continuum of late stage capitalism that lead to what we’re seeing today.

Yeap.

But Franco was still Franco…with his own purges, massacres, and various other fascisms.

The notion that Costco is providing a benefit to families is grotesque. They were just in on the ground floor of destroying our socio-economic fabric. A world full of Costcos is just a different capitalist hellscape.

I’m basically done with the “better is better” argument…it’s a false dichotomy. It’s why I compare Costco to Franco: at least Franco didn’t do a holocaust.

It’s gross that I have a single good thought about an abomination like Costco. It’s like cheering for Franco to overthrow Hitler.

You’re just repeating information from the article.

It’s definitely a cash grab, and also a privacy invasion. It’s a cash grab because it would be much cheaper & easier to standardize state ID requirements and use the existing infrastructure, rather than issue an entirely new ID through an entirely new database controlled by the feds. The states certainly view this as a revenue source…and the feds view it as an “information” source.

It should be noted that, to my knowledge, all the “non-compliant” states (where you can’t use state ID in place of Real ID) are States that are controlled by Democrats, so there’s an additional layer of shenanigans that appears partisan.

My guess is the intent was always revenue…not security. Security was just the pretext for new revenue, because margins are thin and there’s a certain proportion of people who will pay to prioritize privacy.

It would only make sense if it was a one time fee, and you got your ID as a result.

We also know it’s not about security, or you couldn’t fly without one.

We know it’s a cash grab because they’re counting on a “built-in” amount of flyers who won’t have or will refuse to get ID with privacy issues. If, by some anomaly, more or all flyers acquire the ID, then we’d see maintenance fees added and the fee itself increased to maintain revenue certainty - but who are we kidding, those things will eventually happen anyways.

Yeap.

Until very recently I was prone to the “better is better, and at least we’re not open fascists” argument. But I’ve come to understand that incremental fascism is just the mechanism used on so-called “liberals”.

Don’t give up…that’s the point of the NYT article. It’s manipulation.

Every step each of us in the “west” takes to help has an outsized positive effect.

That’s pretty much what I came to say. The NYT just serves their propaganda in a sophisticated way.

Hey just wants to oust (kill) Maduro because he’s still choked about his Bay of Pigs.