Telegram is awful, but that’s mainly because it is readily bent towards the interests of malicious state actors like we see here. This headline is produced by two things being bad, not just one.

I seem to remember a book where TVs watching people was a core element of the setting. Ah well

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imperate

I don’t think they used it right (and they’re a Spanish speaker, see the little tag?) but the verb they used is a valid English verb.

Your heart is in the right place, but relying on what Wikipedia calls a fallacy and on implicit “natural rights” both undermine your argument severely. Your fourth paragraph is far and away the most valuable one.

christo-jihad

“What are we, a bunch of Muslims?”

In a country with many vocal boot lickers (“play stupid games . . .”) it seems like a fair term to have in your lexicon