>American politics

Is racism/aversion to it a uniquely American phenomenon?

BAPS denies that they made any such request (let alone a _demand_); seems weird that DW omits any mention of this.

I can see why they would say that.

I can’t see any reason why the tower management would sideline half of their staff without someone asking them to.

I suspect they're a bot, fwiw.

And if the terrorist group that provides the impetus for the sanction is practically nonexistent, it's entirely sensical?

They aren't specifically supporting terrorism, and in fact are cooperating with the US to stop terrorist groups. This isn't an ends justifies the means situation, as I was trying to illustrate with the oxygen/atmosphere metaphor.

>They are making and providing tools that enable communication specifically for Far Left groups, some of which are terrorist groups.

As per a government who puts cycling and expressing distaste for inflation in the same camp.

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Especially funny because by his own admission, Spector wasn't even a major contributor to the development of Thief.

Quite a lot of folks who got into tech for the tech are also miserable, because, as the byline rather aptly puts it, a lot of it is pointless. It does not serve a public good, or even a public desire, and 'work for its own sake' is only engaging up to a point.

I quite regularly read weird characterizations of the USSR, but 'feudal dictatorship'?