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- Comment on Starmer claims that America under Donald Trump 'keeps us safe' 3 weeks ago:
Starmer has been ramping up on domestic and European defence spending
In complete accordance with the USA’s orders? These were the USA’s orders to the UK. war.gov/…/opening-remarks-by-secretary-of-defense…
Is anything Starmer has done in conflict with these orders? Has he done anything that makes it harder or impossible to follow these orders in the future that shows that he’s disregarding them? Otherwise, the specific examples you gave are in line with following the USA’s orders so far.
- Comment on Muslim states join European powers in backing Trump Gaza plan 3 weeks ago:
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A word used with its dictionary definition is precise. The fault here is entirely with you for not knowing its dictionary definition. Those aren’t consecutive steps of reason, I repeated the same information multiple times.
If someone threatens you like that, and they say “I will wrong all persons sharing your name”, do you simply assume you aren’t included in the threat? In talking to you, it seems like your only motivation is wasting time and playing devil’s advocate for impossible to defend positions, in hopes of catching an amphibolic technicality.
You seem to want to derail the converstation to make it appear like I argue that it has something to do with the nature of their religion
If that isn’t your position, then clarify your position. Stop with your vague allusions. What point where you trying to make? Why did you previously describe countries as “muslim majority” and “Sunni”? Speaking in dog-whistles only invites assumptions. Clarify your position.
If you want to go into why I think it’s mentionable that basically all of the important sunni states are on board I suggest you start by reading about the Abraham Accords and how that history ties in with what happened with Gaza.
Ah well you see, that’s actually refuted by if you read the history of the Tulkarem electrical safety building codes. Or perhaps it would be better if you actually explained your own position.
His apology is public in the sense that they proudly and loudly proclaimed he did so before praising Qatar for supporting their plan.
Strange that I couldn’t hear it.
Would you accept a fraction of this attitude towards your own home?
I think it’s interesting that you’re turning from “religion has nothing to do with this” to something like this.
I have discovered it is possible to have empathy without religion. It’s even possible to not do tribalism.
But the words you’re using makes it sound more like you don’t honestly believe that there isn’t a religious angle to the conflict with Israel but instead that you think there should be some kind of taboo on it?
It isn’t taboo, it’s wrong. By pretending like the actors are religiously motivated, you’re pretending the Palestinians, driven by the most universal motivation there is, are in actuality esoteric and unrelatable, irrational.
I encouraged you to relate the situation to human beings twice and both times you dodged sharing your reflection. There are human beings in Ukraine, therefore it’s appropriate to ask if they would deserve better than these terms of surrender. The dominant religion doesn’t change that. There are human beings where you live, therefore it’s appropriate to ask if they deserve better than to be misrepresented like you are misrepresenting the Palestinians. There are seven hundred zero-year-olds among those culled by Israel in 2024. Did they choose to die in service of their religion?
- Comment on Muslim states join European powers in backing Trump Gaza plan 3 weeks ago:
Feel free to let me know where you’re reading that Palestinians should kill themselves.
I did. Article 13.
I don’t know which list they’ve sent you but in mine article 13 is about the disarmament of Hamas
Trump’s exact phrasing:
Hamas and other factions agree to not have any role in the governance of Gaza, directly, indirectly, or in any form. All military, terror, and offensive infrastructure, including tunnels and weapon production facilities, will be destroyed and not rebuilt.
“And other factions” means everyone. It means PFLP, it means everyone in PLO and everyone who is part of some political entity (e.g. a labour union) is directly called out and barred from public life, and then in the same breath all military infrastructure has to be surrendered. It doesn’t say “Hamas’ weapons”, it says all weapons.
If you live next to someone actively trying to kill you and you do not have any means to protect yourself, you will be killed. There are zero steps of assumption or inference required here. It is obviously immediately equivalent to death. You pretending like there’s a semantic difference is dishonesty.
that’s the point
What point were you trying to make that I missed? Is part of the Sunni religion that you must support Donald Trump? Is Donald Trump a Sunni prophet? If that is the point you’re making, then at some point you accepted and internalised some misinformation.
making Bibi publicly apologize
Do you have a recording of this apology? Since it was public, there must be a recording.
Why else do you think they did that?
I’m not arguing the Qatari administration doesn’t care about saving face. I’m saying the administration isn’t deterred by having to participate in war crimes. Yes, obviously the optics of promising amnesty and initiating a dialogue in the guise of negotiation when your goal is assassination is very bad, and improving optics is worthwhile to the USA, Israel, and Qatar. But the tactic is demonstrably not beyond their evil. Genocide was already their baseline, so any optics management is an uphill battle, and they aren’t going to prioritise it too much.
Yeah, thanks for opening my eyes! I’ve just reread the history of the region and indeed, religious differences were never an issue there
You’re still being orientalist. It’s very off-putting. Would you accept a fraction of this attitude towards your own home?
- Comment on Taiwan becomes worldʼs largestimporter of Russian naphtha, sending1.7 bn in tax revenue to Putinʼs war chest 3 weeks ago:
With the two question-marks, I’m pretty sure she was making a joke.
- Comment on Muslim states join European powers in backing Trump Gaza plan 3 weeks ago:
I’m sorry do you not think this is weasely?
A Trump economic development plan to rebuild and energise Gaza will be created by convening a panel of experts who have helped birth some of the thriving modern miracle cities in the Middle East. Many thoughtful investment proposals and exciting development ideas have been crafted by well-meaning international groups, and will be considered to synthesize the security and governance frameworks to attract and facilitate these investments that will create jobs, opportunity, and hope for future Gaza.
This is article 10. Please explain to me how my abbreviation does anything else than remove positive loading and noise.
sunni states They are not Sunni states. They are states. And both are client states of the USA.
Making the supposedly “fully behind Palestine” leaders of these countries lose face completely by having them backing this plan publicly and then shredding it will lose him a lot of money.
21 days ago, the USA invited Palestine to Doha to negotiate. Then they bombed the Palestinian delegation with fighter jets. The Qatari prime minister said “The Qatar-US security and defence partnership is stronger than ever and continues to grow” the following day.
Your claims that the Palestinians have to kill themselves or leave under this ‘plan’ doesn’t jive with reality.
Article 13 enables the death of all Palestinians at the moment of Israel’s choosing. Israel has shown that their goal is the eradication of Palestinians.
Sir, how dare you imply a religious conflict?!
This is not a religious conflict. You’re being orientalist. The Israeli’s are not religious, they are just racist. When western nations want emaciation, you don’t ascribe illogical motivations to them, you take it for granted that emancipation is worthwhile.
If you think this proposal has any balance, then go through it again but replace Gaza with Ukraine and Trump with Putin and see if you would consider it viable for Ukraine.
- Comment on Muslim states join European powers in backing Trump Gaza plan 3 weeks ago:
Multiple muslim majority countries have agreed to send troops for a peace force.
Which ones are these? Why do you describe them as ‘muslim majority’, are you implying this a holy war? Or are muslims uniquely opposed to genocide? Because then it’s prudent to remember that Jordan and Egypt are muslim majority countries but among the top enablers and participants in the genocide.
Ownership of ´the ground´ is not an issue at first
The conflict is over ownership of Palestine. Israel is illegally occupying Palestine. It is an issue.
Trump and his buds will be making their money will be through leeching the money donated for rebuilding
They will make money through hotels and selling land to settlers, same as he previously said he would. reuters.com/…/trumps-gaza-riviera-echoes-kushner-…
Pretty wrong on most points here
Let’s go through the plan without the weasel wording.
- All Gaza inhabitants must leave.
- Gaza will be turned into a resort.
- Israel will stop bombing. Hamas will release prisoners.
- Hamas has a 72 hour time limit.
- Israel will release 1950 hostages. Israel will release 15 corpses per corpse Hamas releases.
- Hamas will not be persecuted but must leave.
- The UN will sustain life in Gaza for the duration of the ethnic cleansing.
- Israel won’t commit terrorist attacks against aid distribution sites.
- Donald J. Trump will be the new governor of Gaza. He is required to employ one Palestinian in his government. Tony Blair will be in the government. The government will eventually be renamed Palestinian Authority. It will follow a neo-liberal model.
- Trump will create a company to manage building projects in Gaza.
- Trump’s Gaza won’t have tariffs placed on it by the USA.
- There will be a legal framework for ethnically cleansed Palestinians to return to Gaza.
- All resistance groups must leave. All Palestinians must permanently disarm.
- Hamas must consent to monitoring (and likely assassination) in their new host countries.
- Trump will deploy a private military force to Gaza. Israel, Egypt and Jordan will be consulted.
- New borders will be agreed on for Gaza between Trump and Israel. Israel will not occupy or annex Trump’s Gaza. Part of the current Gaza territory will be annexed by Israel.
- The plan will be forced on Palestine and Gaza by the IDF with or without their consent.
- The messaging and propaganda surrounding this annexation is difficult and should be carefully considered.
- If Gaza is surrendered peacefully, the USA will entertain Palestinian statehood.
- The USA will establish some form of diplomatic channel with the West Bank.
You accused me of being wrong on the majority of my points, except for one of my two points. The remaining point being that Gaza must be surrendered to Trump and Israel. If we look through the proposal, articles 1, 2, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19 support my claim.
- Comment on Muslim states join European powers in backing Trump Gaza plan 3 weeks ago:
It’s not clear from reading the article, but the proposed peace plan, the context here, is that they demand Palestinians completely disarm/kill themselves, and for ownership over Gaza to be given to Trump and Israel. No one should even entertain this proposal.
- Comment on Trump says designating Antifa 'a major terrorist organization' 5 weeks ago:
They burnt a car? Boy yeah I can see why that needs the top leader of a country to get involved.
- Comment on Oh nooo! 5 weeks ago:
It does also suplex dragons onto your house.
- Comment on Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle 5 weeks ago:
They did that without her consent!?
- Comment on Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle 5 weeks ago:
Okay so Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were arrested, that’s big news, guess they resurrected him. Who are the other two?
- Comment on 600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet 1 month ago:
confiscating Palestinian flags displayed publicly and preventing mobilizations in support of Gaza
I don’t really think the evidence is strong enough to attribute any sort of anti-Palestinian policy. The video is short, only 13 seconds, with no audio and no context. It doesn’t depict a large mobilisation of support, only one person, though it does look like he had his flag confiscated by school-security. In the clip, another person also has their Chinese flag confiscated. It’s possible given the evidence that large flags were confiscated regardless of which flag it is. We can also see a smaller Palestine flag allowed by the school-security.
The twitter account you attributed only posts unsourced and impossibly to verify anti-China news, so it’s possible this video is widely taken out of context given who’s reporting it.
- Comment on 600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet 1 month ago:
That’s such a tenuous connection. Why are you highlighting this? Those are off the shelf cameras, everyone uses them, because they are cheap. China isn’t unique in not sanctioning Israel. They absolutely should. But you may just as well focus on the use of Microsoft Windows or who their Ethernet cable supplier is.
- Comment on Solar-powered Logitech keyboard appears on Amazon Mexico — MX Keys S look-alike promises up to 10 years of power 1 month ago:
Pretty neat. Perfect for a HTPC in a sunny main lounge. It charges during the day while you’re at work, and you just never worry about it. I have to swap the AAA batteries on mine every few weeks. It’s barely a bother but still better if I didn’t have to.
- Comment on Lebanon to discuss army's plan to disarm Hezbollah 1 month ago:
Should disarm Israel instead.
- Comment on UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action 1 month ago:
The public must be so terrorised in their homes, knowing the orphan crushing machines can’t come and save them when they need snap-orphan crushing.
- Comment on Still no EU action on Israel, despite Gaza famine 1 month ago:
The body of the post starts with
Israel will not face any EU sanctions despite
Further, EU nations could invade Israel and deliver famine relief with armed escorts instructed to shoot at any disruptions from the IDF.
- Comment on Valve now require UK Steam users to verify their ages with a credit card, thanks to the Online Safety Act 1 month ago:
What are Steam cards? It says in the article that debit cards are valid.
Top paragraph:
According to reports, debit cards are acceptable too.
- Comment on Valve now require UK Steam users to verify their ages with a credit card, thanks to the Online Safety Act 1 month ago:
It says in the article(/the linked Steam page) as long as you have ever made a purchase, you’re assumed to be over 18, since being over 18 is a requirement to having a card. The third party verification is for sites that only ask for ID or vibes-check photo of your face.
- Comment on Valve now require UK Steam users to verify their ages with a credit card, thanks to the Online Safety Act 1 month ago:
Could you buy premium games from Steam in the UK without a debit card or credit card before this change?
- Comment on Portuguese president calls Trump Soviet or Russian agent 1 month ago:
Okay but Putin was nobody in the KGB. He had a high salary, knew more shady foreigners, he had some advantages sure, but it’s not like the rest of the KGB is who formed the new governments. His job was transcribing Nazi pub banter, essentially the spy version of a market analyst, and then he was fired for being a Nazi sympathiser.
On the worthless comment, it was very harsh, we shouldn’t talk that way about other people. But I did think it was funny and wouldn’t take it as a slight if directed at me, more just a funny way to express frustration.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch: I’d go further than Farage and deport women and children 1 month ago:
She was born in London and received citizenship at birth. It’s not her skin colour that inspired her politics.
- Comment on Trump claims EU leaders call him ‘president of Europe’ 2 months ago:
Inshallah 🙏
- Comment on Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it's not a bad idea. 2 months ago:
The two you wouldn’t advocate for have their own crawlers and index. The remainders which you are advocating for, don’t have the ability to not pass on the result manipulation from Google, Bing or Yandex.
At best they serve as anonymisers, but Ecosia’s (non-profit) business model is telling Google what you search for, and DDG is beholden to USA laws, which means for all practical consideration they are a front for the NSA.
- Comment on UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action 2 months ago:
The USA has the world’s highest incarceration rate. Since at least 1990.
- Comment on Somewhere in a parallel universe.... 2 months ago:
- Comment on Library user borrows rare Chinese artwork, returns fakes: US officials 2 months ago:
Hero
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 2 months ago:
The article talks about eighteen year olds that were hired “because they look very young”, playing children characters, with costumes and makeup meant to make them look younger.
- Comment on Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike 2 months ago:
That’s very cool
- Comment on Ukraine Sends Evidence of 10,000 Russian Chemical Attacks to The Hague 2 months ago:
Are there more effective chemical weapons for this task at a similar price? Include transport risks in your assessment.