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faxywaxy
4y ago
First of all, voters had absolutely nothing to do with this decision, it was Israel lobbyists. You do realize that Israel is receiving billions of dollars of taxpayer money right? If you were actually concerned about wasted tax dollars, y
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Apple halts advertising on Twitter with possible app store removal
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faxywaxy
4y ago
And again, that has absolutely nothing to do with the bidding process.
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faxywaxy
4y ago
He clearly states in both the quote and the BBC article you posted that Israel's actions are motivation. You're arguing semantics when the point is that Israel is a liability to US citizens and nothing you posted contradicts that.
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faxywaxy
4y ago
As a tax payer you wouldn't overpay for anything since this has nothing to do with the bidding process.
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faxywaxy
4y ago
The link points to a direct quote from Osama bin Laden. That's not "misrepresenting his views": "God knows it did not cross our minds to attack the Towers, but after the situation became unbearable—and we witnessed the
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faxywaxy
4y ago
The only thing segmenting the market are the anti-BDS laws. You can boycott Israel and still bid on a government contract and let market forces do the work. This isn't an issue of market efficiency though, it's an issue of violati
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faxywaxy
4y ago
There is no premium to be paid for boycotting Israel and that fabricated scenario has nothing to do with pro-Israel lobbyist driven first amendment violations.
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faxywaxy
4y ago
I'm not super well versed in evangelical christianity but I think they want Israel to start Armageddon, their goal is bring it about, not to avoid it: https://www.businessinsider.com/battle-armageddon-israel-eva...
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4y ago
The US and state governments are not private institutions. The money used to pay the contracts in question is collected from citizens who have to pay it. The government can't then turn around and gate that public money behind 1st amend
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4y ago
Nat is aligning himself with those who have money and are pushing for poor working conditions. Nat himself has never built anything. Highly skilled tech people don't sleep at their desk for Elon Musk. No one is envious of that.
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faxywaxy
4y ago
It will be dumb, he's an alt-right "hardcore work" guy: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1589051044369420288
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4y ago
Ah Nat Friedman the guy who was fired from GitHub for being a terrible manager and has been doubling down all over Twitter to circle the wagons with Paul Graham and Elon Musk: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/
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faxywaxy
4y ago
Honestly I was surprised that it was removed. It wasn't even flagged, it just became dead. I think it's a huge story so I'm not sure why. My other post was about Twitter and was killed as well. No explanation offered by the m
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Apple just deleted all of their Twitter posts
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Musk to Reinstate Trump's Account
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