Once again, that post is about age verification, so it doesn’t apply to the California law. If there are no documents or pictures stored for age verification, there is nothing to breach.

He said exactly the same thing I said: laws like the California one that don’t require age verification are fine.

what is the point of the OS asking

Because for the purpose of securing kids accounts, it doesn’t make sense for the kids to enter their ages themselves each time they create an account at a new website.

Tell me how it can be used against me. It doesn’t give out any information beyond what I let it give out about me, and that information (an age range) is derived from information I get to make up. Remember, the California law doesn’t require any verification of the age data that is given to the OS.

Companies are already required to ask if their users are kids because, among other reasons, there are laws against creating ad profiles for kids, and companies have been sued for doing this even accidentally. The California law just changes how they’re required to check if they’re a kid from asking them at account creation to asking the OS at account creation, where the parents have set the age for them when the OS account was created. It gives the company checking if they’re a kid no more information than they had before. I agree with Havoc8154@mander.xyz that this is totally reasonable.

This particular federal bill, on the other hand seems closer to the Florida bill in that it requires some form of age verification instead of just accepting what the parents enter when creating the OS account. That is unreasonable. Complain to your representative, and we’ll see how it gets amended.

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He is the same as Sotomayor and Jackson according to many Lemmings.

The fact he still believes we need another conservative party does not look good.

He looks senile. He is.

As for voting progressive, boy, Biden and Pelosi sure were voting progressive a lot of the time with funding police.

Progressives want community policing. They don’t want no police. You’re confusing progressives with anarchists.

But you won’t convince me or many other leftists to choose a lesser evil or harm reduction or whatever false dichotomy you call come up with.

I’m more leftist than you are, and I’ve already convinced several. The key idea is that we should always do the best we can. If the choice is between bombing Iran and not bombing Iran, I choose not bombing Iran. If the choice is between sanctioning West Bank settlers and getting aid to Gaza and not doing those things, I choose the former. If the choice is between teaching Americans black history as American history and not teaching black history, I choose the former. If the choice is between helping refugees and removing their legal status after they’re already in the country and deporting them, you can guess which one I’m going to choose.

While I make these choices, I convince others who aren’t as progressive as me why the progressive policies that aren’t yet popular make sense, so the next time around, we’ll have the votes for it. In just the same way, I convince progressives who don’t think through the consequences of their actions why they need to, so we have the votes not to backslide into regressive policies. I don’t agree with anybody I vote for 100% of the time, but I do understand that voting for them is better than the alternative. Imagine if people who wanted equal rights for black people didn’t vote for Lincoln because he said he didn’t think that blacks should marry whites or go to the same schools (read the Lincoln Douglas debate transcripts).

So I’m hearing then they also cannot manage to keep themselves in order with their overall arching message of Resistance as well.

Nobody is going to get 100% of their members to vote a certain way, especially if their votes don’t matter. This is true for any political party, even your favored one. When their votes do matter, Democrats vote consistently more progressively than the alternative.

Also yeah, let’s not forget voting to fund ICE and DHS.

ICE was funded by the OBBBA. All Democrats voted against it in both houses and even convinced several Republicans to vote against it to the point that Vance had to cast a tie-breaking vote.

Oh also remember when Biden said we need Republicans as much as Democrats?

Biden is senile. He said a bunch of crazy things, but he didn’t say we need Republicans as much as Democrats. He said that we need a Republican Party that is principled and strong. It’s precisely a lack of principles and backbone that resulted in the GOP’s Trump takeover.

“Some other body” is quoted from the 25th Amendment, which empowers Congress not to do the same thing that the Vice President and Cabinet can do but to create “some other body” that can do what the Vice President and Cabinet can do. They could pass a law that empowers Congress to do that, but that would be less likely to pass than passing a law that empowers some committee because Congress has other things to do.

This commission is the “some other body” that Democrats in “Congress may by law provide.”

“They” as a group did not keep voting Trump appointees. Most of them didn’t, but you’re always going to have some throw away a meaningless vote and holdup in return for a political favor from the other side

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-confirms-48-trump-nominees-at-once-after-gop-changed-the-chambers-rules

And the US used taxpayer money to send Vance to Hungary to stump for Orbán there, right out in the open. In Hungary, using taxpayer money to fund an extremist foreign political party is a scandal. In the US, this matter is too deep in a flooded zone for anyone to care.

In the US, there’s very much a mood among the anti-MAGA crowd that an election can still fix things.

More to the point, if an election can’t fix things because the voters are still MAGA, the new government installed by the majority will be the same as the old.

Revolutions don’t make sense in a democracy, so until voting is stopped or the results of the vote are ignored (like if Trump had been successful on January 6), convincing voters to vote a particular way is the only surefire solution.

And is Melania’s patois really any less grating than Jar Jar’s?

And respiratory and cardiovascular disease.

How do you know that? To this point, they have only run the winner of the primary in the general election. In 2024, they ran the winner of the primary, but when he dropped out, they ran his running mate instead. What did you expect them to do?

If you want change to happen, you need to convince the voters. They control who the Democratic Party runs.

It looks like they aren’t ignoring you. They proposed a resolution, and they didn’t have the votes to get it passed. If you want change, vote for the ones who supported the resolution and primary the ones who didn’t while convincing voters to vote for the other candidate in the primary. Getting Trump elected just makes things worse. No Republicans are proposing these resolutions.

Maybe? No, we know the answer to that: definitely not.

There weren’t enough votes to do that yet, just like there weren’t enough votes to legalize gay marriage in 2008. In the reality we live in, California amended its constitution to ban gay marriage in 2008 by direct voter initiative. People who support gay marriage had to work to shift public attitudes while voting for the best option available, who said he didn’t support gay marriage (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/10/obama-frustrated-same-sex-marriage-david-axelrod-book) but then directed the DOJ not to defend DOMA in order for it to fail court challenges. Similarly, people fighting for civil rights had to shift public attitudes while voting for the best option available.

In the reality we live in, 51% of Americans said their sympathies were with Israelis and 27% with Palestinians in 2024. In just the same way, people opposing genocide have to shift public attitudes while voting for the best option available.

Doing otherwise means genocide stops later, and more people watch their friends die, as evacuation orders now cover half of Beirut. You didn’t have to let Trump win and kill schoolchildren in Iran with a triple tap strike. That was your decision made from not understanding the consequences of your actions.

Biden told Netanyahu U.S. won’t support an Israeli counterattack on Iran https://www.axios.com/2024/04/14/biden-netanyahu-iran-israel-us-wont-support

Hey, maybe we could have gotten that in the next election while reducing casualties in the intervening four years by increasing Biden’s sanctions on settlers and his aid to Gaza instead of removing those on day 1 like Trump did, bombing Iran, and then pretending that the ceasefire agreement didn’t apply to Lebanon when the country that brokered the ceasefire agreement said it did.

Lincoln also said blacks should be segregated and that he wouldn’t force an end to slavery, but if you voted for his opponent based on that, you made a bad choice. Always vote for the one who is better.