One difference is that Egypt and Turkey have a lot of tourism, so they tend to be quite tolerant towards tourists. You don’t want to scare off potential customers. The US seems to forget that.

I think a lot of them, actually. Germany certainly does.

My condolences for moving to Crackfurt.

Kindly ask them about the current prognoses, like the Club of Rome one, the expected number of climate refugees in the next decades, and how well we are on track to hit any climate goal. And then about a protest form that will actually work and stop unprecedented human suffering.

Good news, we are on a good track to do jack shit about the climate and also severely cutting into rule of law and right to protest. Hooray.

Luckily, there is nothing you could do to change things, ever. It must be nice to have a clear conscience.

It is one thing I learned during Corona: a lot of people don’t give a shit about erosion of fundamental rights or people dying horribly. But don’t you dare inconvenience them in their god-given right to party on and pretend all is well.

If nobody bought iPhones, would Apple exist?

The oil industry exists because people demand oil. Period.

I am mildly inconvenicenced for a short term, I demand to restrict basic freedoms and go for the highest sentence!

God help I even change my life a little to protect the life of literally billions of people.

People remember Chelsea Manning not for exposing war crimes, but for the crime of being trans. Checks out.