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  • Don’t worry about the downvotes, I don’t.

    I’m not just feeding you slogans I’m telling you that there is no scenario where Israel continues to exist and we get peace. Any deal you come to will just get ignored. They’ve historically ignored ceasefires, ICJ rulings, UN Security Council resolutions, treaties, mandates, international law, and advice and requests from their allies. They have no interest in peace. What they want is the destruction of Gaza, the death or displacement of its inhabitants, and the land it sits on. Even if they succeed in that goal they won’t stop there, they will move on to the West Bank, then Lebanon, then who knows.

    If they can’t even use those stockpiled weapons to eliminate a smaller force with inferior arms in a tiny strip of land right next door then why should I have any concern about them using those weapons to “wipe out the Middle East” in some kind of spiteful fit? Do you think they’d have any more success with Hezbollah than they’ve had with Hamas?

    No state is permanent, nothing is. Saying that it’s not going anywhere doesn’t make it true. There are historical examples of genocidal and apartheid regimes ending without the surrounding area being rendered into ash; pretending that it’s impossible is absurd.

  • Yeah and apartheid South Africa had nukes. If you’re going to just pretend that Israel is a permanent fixture that cannot be undone then there is no solution. From the river to the sea is commonly used to imply the removal of Israel, but it's been used by zionists as well to mean the opposite. The only way this conflict ends is with a single state because Israel will never be satisfied with two.

  • What exactly do you want me to say? I cannot lay out a plan for peace in the Middle East for you; it is literally a euphemism for an unsolvable problem.

    From the river to the sea is the only way this resolves in a way that ends the conflict permanently, and if you care at all about justice then Palestine must be what remains.

  • That bird had legs that wouldn’t quit, and an unblinking stare that looked right into your soul. She kept pleading with me to tell her “Who? Who?” but I had no answers.

  • You’re saying we can’t go back in time like this is ancient history. The prime minister of Israel was born one year removed from its founding. There are people who live in Gaza right now who had family and friends who were massacred by the colonists who are presently squatting on their land.

    Would you be willing to make peace with people who forced you from your home, killed your family, and herded you into the largest open air concentration camp in the world? Do you think those people would be content to live in peace with you, when they continue, to this day, to forcibly evict your people from their homes to move in settlers? It is not the Palestinians responsibility to reconcile this, and Israel has no intention of coexisting.

  • Should probably add that Israel propped up Hamas specifically because they made for a more unsympathetic enemy than the more moderate groups in the region.

  • If they believed in collective action they wouldn’t be working for the US government.

  • I don't foresee anyone with the kind of data needed to do more investigation releasing it to the public, so I doubt we're going to be getting any satisfying answers to this. Microsoft may have an internal team combing through github logs, but if they find anything they're unlikely to be sharing it with anyone but law enforcement agencies.

  • we know about the singapore VPN because they connected to IRC on libera chat with it. the only reason I can think people would believe they're from hong kong is because of the pseudonym they used, but it's not like that proves anything.

    see link posted in another user's reply: https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor#irc

  • please only make your voices 'heard' in the designated free speech zones.

  • he was using a singapore VPN and had access to multiple sockpuppets. we know literally nothing else about them and anything you've heard to the contrary is baseless rumor.

    leading theory is that it was a state-sponsored actor, but frankly even that much is speculation and which state is still way up in the air.

  • if you feel comfortable mucking about in your BIOS, disabling TPM will pretty much guarantee they don't spring 11 on you. they are really dead set on that requirement for some reason.

  • nothing on this page mentions anything about Ozempic, semaglutide, or the amounts of funding received. the closest thing is a list of current diabetes research projects with, again, no amounts listed and no clear relation to ozempic.

  • if the stakes are so low then blocking them is as low-stakes as not, so why make a fuss about it?

  • When questioned about this report Biden admin state dept spokesperson Matthew Miller accused its author of antisemitism and disregarded the accusation of genocide without justification.

    Seems like the accusation of antisemitism stems from a claim she made that there is a strong Jewish lobby in America, and from mocking Macrons statement that Oct 7 was the greatest antisemitic incident “this century”, a century shared with WW2. I suppose one could argue he meant the century starting from 2000 but it feels odd to evoke a hundred year period when you’re referring to less than a quarter of that.

  • Sure, just the one with the most ability to act on his own. His culpability is proportional to that. He's used that ability previously to aid Israel, he could use that same power to hinder them, but chooses not to.

  • If you have the power to unilaterally hinder a genocide and instead you use that power to enable it, you are culpable.

  • it would have been a much better website if that were the case.

  • Also helpful for pages that try to hide parts they let the search engine index behind a paywall when it’s a human visitor. Like the notorious expertsexchange before it got usurped by stackoverflow.