GenJohnONeill

They were the bad guys. Koresh might have been, too, but the good guys don't murder 25 children over a photo op.

The app merely gilds the cage, it's still just as much of a cage as it was before. Putting a prettier face on women being owned as chattels doesn't help change the system, in fact it makes reform harder as people are more 'comfortable'.

Most people refuse to recognize injustice as long as its hidden behind even the thinnest veil, which this app provides. That's why revolutionaries like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. used non-violent resistance to expose the injustice inherent in the system as violence in the streets. When people saw the violence in the streets, they were horrified and demanded change. When the same policies and the same injustice were not resisted, but quietly accepted as the status quo, people didn't care.

To the extent that this app makes it "easier" for men to control women, it actually inhibits real change or meaningful reform. Anyone who wants fundamental freedom for women in KSA should not support it.

I'm sorry, did you just link to actual blatant Russia-funded propaganda to accuse the Kyiv Independent of being propaganda? LOL. Actual socialists have been complaining about the KGB- (now FSB-)funded Monthly Review since the 1950s.

The European Endowment for Democracy gave a grant to get started. They are now fully funded by their patrons. These two things are not incompatible.

The U.S. has been trying to push Puerto Rico to either become a state or choose Independence for decades. Both parties agree that the people of PR should choose their own fate and have not done anything to change PR's status because the people of PR have not made a clear choice.

The situation could not be more different, seriously. In a similar choice the U.S. is not going to send in the military to kill everyone protesting like China has done many times.

They are also building these church’s for 40 years not 200.

To the extent this is true, it's because most of the heritage Churches in the U.S. are lightly attended at best. For every St. Patrick's in New York there are 25 beautiful buildings that are in danger of being torn down because their parishioners can't afford to maintain them. They might have been worked by hand by master masons, but if no one goes there anymore, that just makes them incredibly expensive to service.