They are not usernames, so why do they call them that? They are more like disposable per-conversation identifiers.
"Usernames in Signal do not function like usernames on social media platforms. Signal usernames are not logins or handles that you’ll be known by on the app – they’re simply a quick way to connect without sharing a phone number."
Also, this is not finally the feature Signal users actually want - not having to sign up for Signal with a phone number and using a username instead.
This new "feature" does very little to make signal more secure or private.
For every Israeli Jewish civilian, there is an equivalent Palestine refugee living in a camp (~7mil). Israeli can only exist as a Jewish majority state as long as the original inhabitants remain displaced. So the Gazans are probably not going to be pro-Israeli any time soon.
Not quite. It's all about labor and getting rid of the class that used to (and could have) threatened the elites.