Nothing really, it’s a lose-lose.

In terms of geopolitical strategy, Turkey could serve the same kind of function as Israel in terms of aiding the US in projecting regional influence.

And then morally, obviously, there is no case to be made for supporting Israel.

I guess the only real consideration is that Israel has nukes, but then so does North Korea, China, Russia etc.

This is purely ideological for Biden. If it was strategic his staffers likely wouldn’t be resigning, but they recognize that this is a product of fantacism.

He’ll only have himself to blame if he loses in November.

Utter fool.

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In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don’t require video feeds—or allow anyone with similar tools to take a photo of a person found online and make them appear to say whatever they want.

…or open a dystopian hellscape of disinformation, scams and corporate police state control of information at an unprecedented scale! Three cheers for the reckless pursuit of technology for technologies sake!

No, the IDF are child killers because they kill indiscriminately.

The children are not Hamas. The World Central Kitchen workers are not Hamas. The medics, doctors and patients in hospitals are not Hamas. The people cut down while following Israel’s evacuation orders are not Hamas.

Yeah, one lesson we all should’ve learned from the start of the pandemic is that you should have a cache of some basics in your home or apartment that can keep you stable for a few weeks at least. So you can avoid getting embroiled in the chaos of human stupidity that unfolds in public. It won’t sustain you forever but it will give you a chance to make rational decisions.

You won’t get a chance to do that stuff after whatever event is going to happen has started.

The very fact that we have to airdrop in aid and have to build this stupid pier to begin with tells you that it’s not going to work. It’s a delaying tactic so Biden can pretend he’s doing something.

This is the kind of shit you do when there’s an enemy force keeping you from bringing aid into a place.

Lol, wth is this bullshit? We’re past the point of this kind of propaganda having any kind of effect, dude. They fucking double tapped World Central Kitchen workers who were in contact with the IDF to make sure their route was approved.

The IDF are child killers.

They are bulldozing cemetaries explicitly.

There are mass graves where they executed doctors, patients and sheltering civilians.

They’re drawing people out of safe zones using drones playing recordings of screams and cries for help.

Detaining and stripping children as prisoners.

Sniping seven and eight year olds.

What planet are you on right now?

That’s the beauty of it, the deal isn’t for an end to the genocide, just a temporary pause so that Israeli hostages can be exchanged for Palestinian ones.

And then presumably the released Palestinians will be bombed.

Conan’s episode made me panic a little if I’m being honest, lol. It was funny (and a bit gross) but I think he also kind of blew up the format a little. He didn’t really give Sean much of an interview, he seemed very focused on the spectacle part maybe.

As long as they can’t be sent back to fight. Honestly I don’t ever feel good seeing or hearing about Russian troops being killed for the simple fact that I know many of them are conscripts or people scraped out of the bottom of the economic barrel (prisoners, mentally ill etc.).

I remember seeing a video of a guy who was so drunk he literally walked over into the Ukrainian trenches thinking they were his own. Luckily he was taken prisoner rather than shot, but they literally had to explain to him where he was.

I wonder sometimes if some of them haven’t also been some of the young people imprisoned for protesting the war at the start, now used as fodder at gun point. Russia has shown no issue with sending their soldiers on suicide missions to test defense lines etc. A body can have “use” to the war machine, whether it’s willing or not.

The war is righteous for Ukraine and needs to be fought, but I never feel celebratory about the scale of death.

I guess I’m curious if the user submitted products are vetted or not. Seems tough for one guy to keep up with that.

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It’s amazing that you must work under the assumption that I’m defending facebook in order for your rambling to have any kind of structure.

No one is defending facebook or FISA or anything else shitty the US has done. I said that claiming Facebook is owned by the government or that the US is totalitarian like the CCP is false and now you guys just can’t accept that fact.

God I thought we left this dishonest tankie shit behind on Reddit. But nope, here’s the brigade of fanatics up to their old rhetorical bullshit.

“Corporate shill pouts about people’s protests of genocide threatening his lobby paycheck.”

No. The government does not own Facebook. You’re free to make that baseless assertion, but there’s nothing to really say about it other than it’s false on its face and makes you appear unserious.

We’re not talking conspiracy theories, China is not a normal country, it’s literally a totalitarian state in which the government has complete control. Not like hyperbolic “Oh, the US is totalitarian.” but actually totalitarian in the legal and material sense.

Is Facebook owned by the government?

Does anyone even use FB anymore besides boomers?

No. The totalitarian technofascist state of China is not the same as the US, nor are their state owned apps comparable to those of privately owned one regardless of how much of a sociopath Zuckerberg is.

TikTok isn’t just some random, normal app. It’s spyware and a tool for CCP propaganda.

May as well ask why the government would ban Russian anti-virus software.

Do you know why Hamas attacked when it did?

Because Israel and Saudi Arabia were preparing to normalize relations through the Abraham Accords, which would’ve meant the last leg of support of Palestine would’ve been swept away. This was the only way that Hamas could interrupt regional consensus that would’ve ensured the end of Palestinians.

Israel is not under threat from its neighbors and has not been for decades. Even Iran, who Israel strikes with impunity, has shown remarkable restraint in their response to provocation. The only group looking to start a regional conflict with Israel is the far-right Israeli government that needs war and violence to continue justifying their genocidal colonial project in Palestine.

The narrative about Israel fighting for its existence has run its course, most Arab nations have accepted that Israel is here to stay.

Stopping funding to Israel is important, but the university protests specifically are aimed at getting their universities to divest from Israel, to stop taking funding from Israel.

We have a major problem in the US in that Israel has massive influence in our politics and government due to how much money they dump on our politicians and academic institutions.

There’s obviously nothing stopping students from demanding both, and the two ideas have overlap, but the Uncommitted vote in the primaries is more how you communicate with the Biden admin directly. Actually going and casting a vote shows them concretely that you’re someone who will vote.