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His spokesperson said Londoners only wanted to see public money being paid to companies that “share the values of our city”. I wander if they'd care to further
by eruci 4mo ago
His spokesperson said Londoners only wanted to see public money being paid to companies that “share the values of our city”.
I wander if they'd care to further elaborate on that.
- b40d-48b2-979e 4mo agoNot paying the people helping bomb children in Gaza and Iran is a good start.
- eruci 4mo agois that so?
- herrherrmann 4mo agoYes.
- spacedcowboy 4mo agoPalantir is effectively a US spy company, and let's face it, even Iran have a better international rep than the US right now. He's just reading the room - no-one wants to be associated with the current US regime, and given Trump's specific dislike of him (you know, because he's not white), he probably doesn't seem to see much reason to beat about the bush. The US has proven to be a bad international partner, they flout international law, they engage in piracy, their political system is prone to rapid and catastrophic change, and the people there seem to be just fine with electing a narcissistic fraudulent rapist and felon as president. Twice. Not just "No" but "Hell, No!" [ITT: Watch the butt-hurt USAsians downvote because they're not used to someone telling it as it is about the USA]
- eruci 4mo agoSaying Iran has a better international reputation than the United States is a massive stretch, but yes, this is emotional decision making.
- spacedcowboy 4mo agoIts really not a stretch. Not even slightly. That's just how low the US has sunk in international rating.
- oliwarner 4mo agoIran just killed thousands of protesters. As far as the US has fallen, they're not quite there yet.
- shimman 4mo agoWhat realm of reality do you live in because the United States is a massive force of evil. Invading nations, ignoring international law, starting illegal blockades, bombing school children, bombing first responders, starving children, helping enable a genocide. The idea that Iran has a worse international reputation is laughable. The US is literally causing a global recession, along with an energy crunch, and likely manmade induced famine that will ruin the lives of 10s of millions of people; or do none of these lives matter because they have the wrong shade of melatonin? Whatever goodwill the US built from WW2 has been thoroughly destroyed. I wish I could say we deserve the imperial boomerang but the only people that will continue to suffer, both domestically and abroad, will be innocent civilians while the elites (who are the only beneficiaries of US imperialism) go unpunished. And this is strictly talking about political governance, US corporations are another layer of evil as well.