Comedic actors being desperate to take a dramatic turn often leads to this kind of slop, especially in the case of Will Farrell. There’s a whole era of films he did that’s bizarre and “cringey”, including that insane Woody Allen film. He said the lifetime movie was a satire…but there’s a certain amount of hubris involved in believing he could pull it off.
I live in a rural area that’s a popular tourist destination for people from big cities.
In the summer it drives me absolutely bonkers when the tourists come with their bikes/rent bikes…and ride in groups up to 5-wide, around blind corners etc. We don’t have shoulders, and if we’re do they’re rarely maintained.
Using the phrase “in-group” to describe an entire society, group of societies really - just for the purpose of calling somebody a Nazi - is pointlessly edgy, and makes the word so broad it’s meaningless.
The correct words are available…they even used one of them.
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 happy anyways.
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”.
This was the first thing that threw me off: people here tend to comment in good faith. I’m so used to people begging the question and generally having iron clad closed minds…from Reddit.
…but here conservations have often come to conclusion where I and another user agree to disagree amicably, or one of us moves towards the other in light of new information or a logical argument.
it’s really weird…but I hope it stays like that so I can get used to it.
Yeah. The way it seems to function is Reddit itself has automated moderating…and the mods have almost absolute control over their own subs. Reddit itself doesn’t check for ban evasion…unless a mod requests it….so the sub mods have another layer of moderation that activates additional automated moderation. The very obvious problem with this is that too many mods are petty little dictators and know how to exploit the automated moderation system: ie there’s nothing preventing mods from taking note that a person uses two accounts, ban the account that person is not using when they want to prep for a site ban - then trigger the autoban to get rid of a user. The bans some subs give out are always horribly uneven…and now I see why. I’ve seen this scenario play out several times due to ideology or personal grudges, rather than the breaking of Reddit rules.
Short story long…”ban evasion” appears to be a gift given to sub mods to use at their pleasure.
Our “liberal” government is indistinguishable from 80s/90s conservatives.