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Is he still vocal about it? Do you have any recent comments of his to share?

sporkxrocket 1y ago
He is, he regularly posts about it on X. I really admire his commitment to ethics. It says a lot that even for him, it must be difficult.
- crimsoneer 1y ago
  Random sidenote, but Brits in SF tend to give me unexpected civic pride.
  - Fluorescence 1y ago
    Huh - I didn't know he was a West Country boy. Barely though, moving to the states at age 4, but I guess he came back a decade ago. Not sure it warrants national pride unless his parents raised him on a strict diet of tea, scones and the BBC. I hope he turns up at YC having gained his birthright, a nice Dorset burr, "alreet moi luvlees, wart ideals be goin on ere?" I had assumed moving to the UK was a Madonna-esque escape from getting pitched every 5 minutes while trying to do family stuff in SV.
- _factor 1y ago
  My best friend since childhood is Jewish and has a difficult time even acknowledging there is an issue. My other friend works for an Israeli company and the jokes are about what they’re going to do with the flattened Gaza land. I’m not sure which is worse. In one case ignoring it and pretending your morality is in tact, on the other being crass but knowing full well no one will stop this until it’s too late (as planned). Do we really need a “Human Lives Matter” movement? Are our leaders space lizards? How much blackmail has the Israeli intelligence community accumulated? How much blackmail has it generated by clandestinely helping foreign politicians? There is a reason the world is silent, and it’s rotten.
  - closewith 1y ago
    I suppose the question is why do they remain your friends? What is the threshold at which you'd stop calling them that?
    - Chance-Device 1y ago
      Him cutting off his relationships won’t help anyone, nor change any minds. I understand the impulse, but everyone loses from that.
      - DoctorOW 1y ago
        If they were going to change their mind, they likely would have already. If you're watching people starve to death, and defending it as normal politics, you don't care about others. You don't get out of harmful relationships for them, you do it for you.
      - NomDePlum 1y ago
        If you find something morally reprehensible then staying friends is harmful to you surely?
    - barcoder 1y ago
      It is eye opening remaining friends with people who's views and actions are completely opposed to ones own. There's no point attempting to educate them (often it makes them go harder against you). But by finding out about their lives and understanding where fear has replaced love one can learn a lot. And hopefully use that knowledge to find ways to speak out and create a society that aligns with ones ethics.
      - closewith 1y ago
        I agree to an extent, but supporting genocide is a crossed Rubicon.
    - k4rli 1y ago
      Can they be called a "friend"? Or is it a case of friends close, enemies closer?

He is, he regularly posts about it on X. I really admire his commitment to ethics. It says a lot that even for him, it must be difficult.

crimsoneer 1y ago
Random sidenote, but Brits in SF tend to give me unexpected civic pride.
- Fluorescence 1y ago
  Huh - I didn't know he was a West Country boy. Barely though, moving to the states at age 4, but I guess he came back a decade ago. Not sure it warrants national pride unless his parents raised him on a strict diet of tea, scones and the BBC. I hope he turns up at YC having gained his birthright, a nice Dorset burr, "alreet moi luvlees, wart ideals be goin on ere?" I had assumed moving to the UK was a Madonna-esque escape from getting pitched every 5 minutes while trying to do family stuff in SV.
_factor 1y ago
My best friend since childhood is Jewish and has a difficult time even acknowledging there is an issue. My other friend works for an Israeli company and the jokes are about what they’re going to do with the flattened Gaza land. I’m not sure which is worse. In one case ignoring it and pretending your morality is in tact, on the other being crass but knowing full well no one will stop this until it’s too late (as planned). Do we really need a “Human Lives Matter” movement? Are our leaders space lizards? How much blackmail has the Israeli intelligence community accumulated? How much blackmail has it generated by clandestinely helping foreign politicians? There is a reason the world is silent, and it’s rotten.
- closewith 1y ago
  I suppose the question is why do they remain your friends? What is the threshold at which you'd stop calling them that?
  - Chance-Device 1y ago
    Him cutting off his relationships won’t help anyone, nor change any minds. I understand the impulse, but everyone loses from that.
    - DoctorOW 1y ago
      If they were going to change their mind, they likely would have already. If you're watching people starve to death, and defending it as normal politics, you don't care about others. You don't get out of harmful relationships for them, you do it for you.
    - NomDePlum 1y ago
      If you find something morally reprehensible then staying friends is harmful to you surely?
  - barcoder 1y ago
    It is eye opening remaining friends with people who's views and actions are completely opposed to ones own. There's no point attempting to educate them (often it makes them go harder against you). But by finding out about their lives and understanding where fear has replaced love one can learn a lot. And hopefully use that knowledge to find ways to speak out and create a society that aligns with ones ethics.
    - closewith 1y ago
      I agree to an extent, but supporting genocide is a crossed Rubicon.
  - k4rli 1y ago
    Can they be called a "friend"? Or is it a case of friends close, enemies closer?