Comment on TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion

• YeetPics@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow you’ve solved the whole issue we’re discussing.

  /s

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  • spiderplant@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The current problems in the middle east are mainly due to western powers. Whether that is the British or French drawing random lines on a map over 100 years or america destabilising resource rich countries.

    Things that make it look like the US is the bad guy once again:

    • the US and Israel funded Hamas to take power away from the more secular left PLO (not the first time funding religious extremists)
    • the US tried to stage a coup after Hamas took won an election
    • Gaza has oil and gas deposits that Israel is selling contracts for
    • Israel has released plans to build a bigger competitor to the Suez canal that would benefit the US as they would profit from international trade and not Egypt who isn’t aligned with US interests (read Muslim country)
    • going through Gaza would make this proposed canal straighter therefore cheaper to build and faster to navigate
    • US arms companies benefit anytime a country is buying stockpiled armaments

    Unironically we wouldn’t be in this situation if the US and israel weren’t dicks about everything.

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• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s the idea, yeah.

  Can you say “The European Protectorate?”

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  • spiderplant@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Neo-colonialists the lot of them sadly

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