pydry

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by pydry 8mo ago
israel will never be reasonable. we can bully them or appease them but they cannot be reasoned with. appeasement is seemingly having the same effect it did when chamberlain did it.
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by pydry 8mo ago
And yet still far worse than a publicly owned body that is accountable to voters rather than shareholders. You might as well argue that it's better for visa to regulate the financial sector "because you wouldnt want the banks do
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by pydry 8mo ago
The guilt trip is aimed by people who support the genocide at meek liberals who might be worried that they're not demonstrating "equal" concern about Iran. It was the same shit back when they used to accuse meek liberals of b
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by pydry 8mo ago
I was a customer before they started advertising. I saw the ads saying "and then?" and still didnt get it. I like the product but i think their ad campaigns suck. If they want exposure and controversy i think they should run adver
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by pydry 8mo ago
>My British perspective: I don’t want advertisers free to lie as much as they want. Not exactly what happened here is it? A private company which somehow gets to approve ads rejected an advert complaining about a dystopian lack of privac
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by pydry 8mo ago
shrug i developed a hobby of visiting countries that are in the news a lot and meeting the locals and talking about their day to day lives. Iraq, Israel/Palestine, North Korea, Venezuela, Saudi, Russia, etc. I didnt exactly ask Iraqi
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by pydry 8mo ago
>There isn't even a falsified pretext like WMD's to quiet the howling in the UN. 30,000 dead protestors. The source for both was "the state department bribed a guy in the Iraqi/Iranian government and you'll NEVER
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by pydry 8mo ago
I went there and asked people about it. It was pretty clear they felt theyd gone through hell. They were also complaining bitterly about things that got worse thanks to there being a war like corruption and a lack of jobs. I have no idea wh
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by pydry 8mo ago
Many of whom were cops. Trump and Israel are not backing nonviolent protestors in Iran. Theyre hell bent on provoking a civil war and are quite open about it. Plenty of video of evidence of protestor violence if you care to look. Meanwhile
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by pydry 8mo ago
>If people keep their mouth shut when a regime murders 30 000+ unarmed people That 30k number came from the same source the WMDs did - paid informants who knew exactly what they were being paid to deliver. Same sales pitch, different war
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by pydry 8mo ago
Netanyahu committed genocide. The worst crime humanity can commit. It's not actually very funny how many people go very far out of their way to try and downplay that.
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by pydry 8mo ago
It's actually not all that surprising to see recently created accounts purporting to be Iranian and liking Israel.
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by pydry 8mo ago
They have a military base under a mountain, not a uranium enrichment facility. Building military defenses against crazed, genocidal, racial supremacists who routinely fire missiles at your country seems more like sensible forward planning t
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by pydry 8mo ago
Recently created accounts of dubious provenance on hacker news are not "its people". The views of its people can be determined through polling. E.g. https://wanaen.com/nearly-70-of-iranians-believe-country-can...
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by pydry 8mo ago
You dont speak for Iran.
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by pydry 8mo ago
>Normal people are starting to call themselves goyim and aren’t afraid to call themselves antisemites anymore. Normal people distinguish between Israel and Jews and call themselves antizionists. It's Zionists who blur the distinctio
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by pydry 8mo ago
Not especially. Their other facilities were being bombed routinely by Israel (along with infrastructure).
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by pydry 8mo ago
Ask Libya. They gave up their nuclear weapons program as a sign of good will. The US then lied through their teeth to the security council about wanting to conduct a humanitarian operation and instead acted as the rebels' air force, he
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by pydry 8mo ago
Not in completely open communities, no. It would be better to gatekeep political communities with precisely worded "principle" questions and then flag for violations of those for anybody who slipped in under the radar. Even politi
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by pydry 8mo ago
There are plenty of european hosts (e.g. hetzner) and with payments systems the technology is rarely the problem it's the politics. I imagine EPI will have no problem succeeding. The major problem Europe has (mentioned in the draghi re
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by pydry 8mo ago
I insist, as does the United Nations.
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by pydry 8mo ago
The US lies through their teeth in the run up to launching military action. What else is new?
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by pydry 8mo ago
If your modus operandi is simply that of a thug then no, there is not.
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by pydry 8mo ago
Activists tend to care most when it is their government participating in inflicting the suffering. The people taking a dump on those activists for how they "allocate" their activism not only dont care about the suffering their g
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by pydry 8mo ago
The economic suffering has largely been inflicted deliberately by US sanctions. This would seem to suggest that sinking an aircraft carrier and frigate or two would actually be justified according to your principles?
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by pydry 8mo ago
>I'm saying if you were a very vocal pro-Hamas activist "Pro hamas activist" has become the calling card of deeply committed western and israeli islamophobes. Much like their close cousins, the holocaust denying anti semit
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by pydry 8mo ago
>As opposed to standing idly by when the regime 'stabilizes' the country by murdering thousands of people? Do you demand an invasion of Israel? Because your moral principles seem to demand an invasion and subjugation of Israel.
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by pydry 8mo ago
>So there are no circumstances where armed rebellion is justifiable What circumstances has Iran created that demand armed rebellion?
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by pydry 8mo ago
>Coding is a relatively verifiable and strict task: it has to pass the compiler, it has to pass the test suite, it has to meet the user's requests. Except the test suite isnt just something that appears and the bugs dont necessarily
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by pydry 8mo ago
It's already made it impossible to trust half of the content i read online. Whenever i use search terms to ask a specific question these days theres usually a page of slop dedicated to the answer which appears top for relevancy. Once i

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