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  • Its actually most of the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States

    Although that's with all the exceptions on the book. It might be easier to get the exceptions in the bible belt.

    Also notable: states with zero minimum age using all exceptions CA, OK, NM, MS.

    Edit: in 2017 there were 25 states with no minimum age. All 13 states with 18 as the final minimum were applied after 2018. The triggering event seems to be HRW pointing out Afghanistan had better child marriage laws than the US. So this is something that the US is just now coming to terms with.

  • Maybe I'm naive, but censorship and State propaganda seems to give the US government too much credit.

    I never said anything about state propaganda. The "state" doesn't spread propaganda directly through social media like it does through mainstream media. US propaganda does exist on these platforms though but it comes from different interest groups, PR firms, etc.

    US politicians can't even protect their own constituents from systems that spread misinformation.

    They're not really trying to because a lot of that comes from in-house and isn't seen as a threat to the state. Something like ivermectin disinfo isn't perceived as a threat to the state but too many Luigi memes are. "Protecting US citizens" is not a priority. US censorship regimes on social media however, absolutely do exist but they take the form or cooperation of the business with the state to deprioritize certain content.

    The ban is probably because politicians only want American companies exploiting American data for American profit.

    Yeah that's probably the main reason for the ban but that's not why it's being given the "national security" excuse. If Temu was actually capable of competing with Amazon in the US then there would absolutely be talks about banning it too and probably come up with other excuses.

  • There are some legitimate concerns like if someone in the military or DoD has it on their phone it can be used as an attack vector. But so can any Chinese app like Temu and it is mostly handled already by banning them on site. Maybe there were too many grunts posting vids showing off the hardware.

    The bulk data they collect can provide all sorts statistical data on the general population but only as a supplement to some other strategy. I wouldn't be surprised if China was collecting this and trying to figure out what to do with it later.

    The real reason though - as others have said - is its not subject to the same surveillance and censorship programs as US apps are and that is a very real national security concern for the state. They don't know how many Luigi memes are getting reposted. TikToks data isn't getting fed into prism. If another BLM protest kicks off, TikTok will just let it burn. They could manipulate their algorithm to turn up the heat but its not really necessary.

  • Nanaboozho

    I need to know the correct pronunciation for this. i think its nah-nah-boo-joe?

    Nanabozho most often appears in the shape of a rabbit and is characterized as a trickster. In his rabbit form, he is called Mishaabooz ("Great rabbit" or "Hare") or Gitchii-waabooz ("Big rabbit").

    I've always loved this character.

  • My local DSA chapter is absolutely capable of doing this and there are groups that aren't a big risk. But most of these groups have strong anarchist tendencies and take their autonomy seriously for more than ideological reasons.

  • Why Monero in particular? From what I've heard monero is the "more-anonymous crypto" but not much else beyond that. I'd be more inclined to choose a lite-coin or even a stable-coin since we don't was to waste capital gambling.

    individuals doing their own conversion to and from cash

    How were you imagining that working? We'd still have to accept donations in dollars so that'd be one person's PayPal account with their name on it getting all the donations.

  • Sanders knows Trump is full of shit so he's basically trying to increase his credit with Trump voters. Its not anything Sanders proposes is going to get past the Senate.

    Think of it like Biden's "bipartisan border package" except being actually good instead of embracing fascism.