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by volleyball 7mo ago
I wrote the following comment 4 months ago when Larry Ellison bought Tiktok ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267643 ). Reposting it here, verbatim since it is part of the same story (imo) and everything in it has bee
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by volleyball 8mo ago
It is just basic logic really. Hypothetically, If the Nobel committee was to right now announce that this year's Nobel Peace Prize was to be awarded to a Greenlandic independence/opposition activist - Some one who applauds and su
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by volleyball 8mo ago
To be fair in this case, they gave it to him for making peace and ending a long-running conflict. A peace which didn't last evidently and was overshadowed by his later actions. Not unlike Aung San Suu Kyi.
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by volleyball 8mo ago
They didn't give it to Machado hoping she would bring peace. In fact, they did it for the opposite reason. They awarded it at the height of tension and build-up of US forces outside Venezuela, while they were blowing up boats in the Ca
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by volleyball 8mo ago
They embarrassed themselves by giving the prize to such an obvious neocon toady. It was a weak attempt at appeasing Trump and the neocons by using the prize to burnish another foreign intervention, while using the compliant press to spin it
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by volleyball 8mo ago
This is Trump who is the most transactional leader ever. It is obviously meant as a bribe from Machado and her backers. Venezuelan interests or people don't factor in this at all except that they are in the way. Trump couldn't ma
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by volleyball 8mo ago
Might as well because it was always meant as a tacit prize to Trump and the neocons/neoliberals anyway. From October, 2025 : https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/10/16/how-trump-got-... Machado w
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by volleyball 8mo ago
This is quite rich coming from the FreePress which has devoted the last 2 years denying genocide in Gaza , denying famine in Gaza, or any crimes or fault on part of Israel. TheFreePress is an Israeli-propaganda operation that was founded i
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by volleyball 9mo ago
This being Trump and all, Is there any confirmation from someone other than Trump? Or is he pulling a prank again and going to announce how the economy is doing great like he did at last week's press conference? On a related note: Look
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by volleyball 9mo ago
I will admit i was slow to catch on. But watching the whole abominable horror show laid out - Gaza, Ukraine, Epstein, Trump coins, resorts, and ballrooms. Seeing the Nobel prize being given to the woman literally calling for Trump to invad
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by volleyball 9mo ago
"Rules-based order" just means Washington makes up the rules and gives out the orders. The very phrase hints at its conceit. Why "Rules-based order" instead of "International law" ? Its because International la
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by volleyball 9mo ago
A quick glance at his twitter - you would think he is a minister of some middle-eastern country rather than Belgium. I didn't know about this man before but your comment about "A European minister shilling for Palantir and Oracl
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by volleyball 11mo ago
What a cruel joke. Trump's role in negotiations was to threaten to fully back Israel's genocide of Palestinians if Hamas were to refuse the deal. The actual 'peace plan' also doesn't have any credible roadmap to a P
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by volleyball 11mo ago
Knowing the Israelis and their history (both recent and otherwise), There is a good chance that this will be a repeat of the charade that was Trump's first ceasefire in January. Like then, Israel will probably wait to get all the hosta
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by volleyball 1y ago
The lawnmower in question is a big-time donor to the Israel state and the IDF. Regarding the IDF the lawnmover seems to have caught some feelings: Through all of the perilous times since Israel’s founding, we have called on the brave me
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by volleyball 1y ago
>TikTok is as free to boost a pro-Israel narrative as you are to boost an anti-Israel narrative. I boost an anti-israel narrative by exercising my right to free speech. In this case, The zionists are boosting a pro-israel narrative by ex
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by volleyball 1y ago
I would argue that on this matter and all matters relating to the middle-east, American minds are still being swayed by a foreign country and have been for the last 50 to 80 years. At least, with Chinese Tiktok, Elon's twitter and comp
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by volleyball 1y ago
I replied to your original comment. Also, I wasn't invoking some dog-whistle. I was using the same phraseology of the Zionists. From the CEO of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, addressing the Israeli Knesset[1] : "Pushing extrem
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by volleyball 1y ago
In large part, yes. There is also Trump, Republicans and their drive to carve out a bigger conservative-space in a liberal-dominated media landscape. There is Silicon valley, the rising digital-military-industrial complex, the china hawks,
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by volleyball 1y ago
So Larry Ellison just took over Paramount group which is now looking to bid for Warner Brothers and CNN. And now Ellison is going to take over TikTok. Paramount(being run by Larry Ellison's son) is looking to install the pro-israel-pro
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by volleyball 1y ago
As i mentioned in another post, if you measure success as creating a strong, prosperous, independent, viable democracy - then Iraq was an utter failure and so was Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Jordan, Egypt and Iran. Which begs the question
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by volleyball 1y ago
edit : I forgot to mention that as of 2024, the US still controlled all oil revenue transactions in Iraq. - thecradle.co/articles-id/27007 >George W. Bush's heart was bigger than his brain: he thought the U.S. could create
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by volleyball 1y ago
(Shimon Peres too in list of questionable peace laureates)
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by volleyball 1y ago
In 1920 (the year when British took over Palestine from the Ottomans) the jewish population was less than 10% Jewish and represented less than 1% of global Jewry. By 1948, after the British flooded in Jewish migrants mainly from Europe an
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by volleyball 1y ago
I guess the Israeli government's original plan to arm and support drug gangs and literally ISIS (euphemistically called 'clans') as "aid security" wasn't working out? Especially after it was revealed said &qu
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by volleyball 1y ago
Major, minor or imagined differences between populations being exacerbated causing them to turn against each other wasn't a byproduct of some poorly conceived policy. It was the whole point and was (and continues to be) a keystone to c
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by volleyball 1y ago
Afghanistan , Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, Somalia. 15000 children (at least) killed in gaza alone since October 7. Thats like an Ariana Grande concert everyday for the last 2 years.
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by volleyball 1y ago
Middle eastern media is a fart in the wind compared to western media. Except in the latter case it is phrasing is along the lines of "spreading freedom and democracy" or similar.
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by volleyball 1y ago
Is that the type of shredder they used though? It seems too slow especially when considering live squirrels. I imagine it would be more like the one used to kill male hatchlings in the poultry industry[1]. Quicker and bit more humane. [1] -
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by volleyball 1y ago
Someone explain to me how this works? Big Tech acquires companies founded and run by literal foreign spies and recruits said agents into critical positions with their departments. Meanwhile their alumni buddies down the street over at prosc

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