cygnus @ cygnus @lemmy.ca

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Oh good one but that's a trick question, because nobody has actually read it in full.

Wow, I'd love to know how they encoded the messages in there.

What?? The only books that exist are:

• Harry Potter
• 1984
• AO3 fanfics

$12.5 billion in aid from the US since 7th October represents massive ongoing subsidisation as a military outpost for Western interests.

This is true but hardly makes them a colony.

Israel is unable to sustain it’s genocide and wars without direct and continuous weapons transfers from the US and Europe.

Also true, but this doesn't make them a colony. Saudi Arabia depends on western arms too. Are they a colony?

Israel is completely dependent on Western technology transfers, investment and market access.

As is the whole region (either to the west, Russia, or China)

Military technology development is largely funded by and shared with Western allies.

Does this make NATO a colony?

Israel acts as a testing ground and laboratory for US and European weapons systems.

Does this make Pakistan a Chinese colony?

Israel relies on Western diplomatic cover for its survival

Does this make Kosovo a colony?

Domestic Israeli politics is based on the need to maintain Western support.

Does this make Saudi Arabia a colony?

Many colonial settlers are European or American in origin.

Phew, good thing we're not being racist here, eh?

Zionism’s original mission was according to Theodore Herzel as a “bulwark of Western civilization against Oriental savagery”. This is no different to the “civilising mission” of Western Empires.

That makes Israel imperialist, but doesn't make them a colony.

Israel serves as an outpost of Western interest in preventing Arab unity. A Western objective since the end of World War 1.

If this is true, why do Arab states prefer to normalize relations with Israel rather than help Palestinians? They are at least as complicit in this genocide as "the west".

But while there is nothing racist in that statement, you are by contrast a despicable racist. Apologetics defending the ethnic cleansing and mass murder of children - slaughtering indigenous peoples in their homeland based on ethnic background - is as racist as it gets. Your defense of white supremacy is unforgivable.

Haha what? Nice try. I literally said Israel was genocidal. My point is that it's possible to illustrate that within being a racist. It's the difference between saying "Somalia is a failed state" and "Somalia is a failed state because it's inhabited by black people".

At least Luckey went with the name of the good guy's sword rather than the bad guy's surveillance device, like Peter Thiel.

You could find out, if you were invited.

You should take your own advice. See my other comment.

No, it was not. Israel was recommended by the UN, after which Arab states revolted and tried to expel Jews form the region. The latter won the war and declared the creation of Israel. That in no way makes it a colony of the UK or "the west".

That doesn't make Israel a colony of anybody's. Is Saudi Arabia a colony of the US? Is the CAR a colony of Russia?

The West, through it’s [sic] genocidal colony Israel

Israel being genocidal doesn't excuse racist comments like this.

No, I pretty much only look at the number of contributors (more is better)

77 million Americans voted for the monster. This is far from over even with him gone.

and it recalls the “Dark Ages” that followed the fall of the Roman Empire

This is unfair to the Romans. They struggled through multiple economic and migratory/military crises to keep their state alive and saved it from destruction several times before entropy finally took its course. Even after Rome "fell", people maintained the appearance of continuity. What they did not do at any time is deliberately take a hammer to everything. Trump is much more like Pol Pot than Odoacer.

Then pardons should at minimum be the purview of the Senate or House, instead of a single person.

Critics of aggressive voter roll purges warn that certain methods can disproportionately impact communities of color, naturalized citizens, and other vulnerable populations.

Wow I can't believe the Racism Nexus built by racists is being used in racist ways.

I just can't get into them... I like being able to tile windows when I want to, but I find them too complicated to use. I like how Plasma already contains everything I need and I never have any problems with it. Personally I find the best implementation of tiling is in PopOS where you use a shortcut to activate and deactivate it. It's really the best of both worlds!

Alec is also (unsurprisingly) on the Fedi: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify

Depending on the use case you might want to narrow this down by how many are compatible with your needs. Stripe's API for example is extremely versatile.

Karp asserts that the tech industry has a moral duty to work with the US government, “an affirmative obligation to support the state that made its rise possible.” He frames Silicon Valley’s abdication of this duty as nothing short of a national betrayal: “We must rise up and rage against this misdirection of our culture and capital,” he writes.

Hmm, for someone who claims to be a liberal, this sounds an awful lot like "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state", the words of a famous Italian who created a certain political movement that the current US regime is emulating.