[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Maybe, but you are missing a point too. Even if it was a mistake to create Israel in hindsight (the world was very different just after 1945), the fact is that there are millions of people who live there, call the place home and will do anything to keep what they have.

Good luck "making them disappear" by basing all your reasoning on dismissing them as zionists and a settler state who cannot possibly feel like they truly belong there.

The best you can get is a palestinian state and expulsion of settlers from the West Bank, but for that you need assurances that Iran or anyone else won't be placing missiles 20km away from any major Israeli city, which anyone who thinks like you will never be able to guarantee, because of what you believe.

Now compare that to russia, largest country on Earth, with infinite resources, enough nukes to destroy every major capital, huge strategic depth (less than the US, more than most countries) acting like they are the victim against a country that committed the crime of not submitting to their influence and then annexing 5 Israels' worth of their land.

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

If Ukraine had done to russia half of what hamas and hezbollah have done to Israel, nobody would be rushing to Ukraine's defense, like nobody rushed to Iraq's defense.

Human rights can at most make you neutral about Israel vs its opponents, because none of Israel's opponents give a crap about human rights either. Not the case with Ukraine, they at most match russian escalation.

Israel, despite being captured by fucking brutal idiots right now (whereas before Oct7, bibi was eventually going to jail, gee thanks hamas), has always faced some existential threat of some kind, whereas russia never faced any realistic threat from anyone and still brag about their willingness to break all rules for "russian greatness".

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

No, it is just a convenient muddle to serve your polarizing narrative of what is happening all around the world. When did Ukraine ever attack russia before 2023? When did Ukraine ever declare "death to russia" or that russia should disappear? You keep trying to plug your square peg to a circular hole, because Ukraine is backed by the West.

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Faced with the lack of a legal representative of the social network X in Brazil, the minister of the Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes blocked accounts of the company Starlink Holding, which also belongs to billionaire Elon Musk – which provoked a new reaction from the businessman (read more below)

Last week, Moraes considered the existence of a “de facto economic group” under Musk and, on August 18, ordered the blocking of all the financial values of this group in Brazil, to guarantee the payment of fines imposed by the Brazilian Justice against Rede X.

According to aides to the office of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, the other company under Elon Musk in the country – in addition to the X – is precisely Starlink, which operates in Brazil in the sale of internet services by satellite, especially in the North region.

What Starlink is and how does it work

Elon Musk compares Alexandre de Moraes to movie villains

All Starlink leaders in Brazil have already been notified and subpoenaed to also answer for the amounts due to the Brazilian Justice by X.

After the blockade of the accounts, the billionaire returned to criticize Alexandre de Moraes - whom, on Wednesday (28), compared to villains of films (see video above).

In a publication in X on Thursday (29), Musk called the minister "dictator" and said that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) is conniving with him.

“The tyrant Alexandre [de Moraes] is the dictator of Brazil. Lula is his dog,” Musk wrote in a free translation.

The businessman Elon Musk decided, according to announced on the 17th, to close the X office in Brazil.

The reason is the fact that the company does not agree with the fines imposed by the Supreme Court or with the determination of withdrawal of content published by users on the social network that confront the Democratic State of Law and Brazilian legislation.

Since then, Minister Alexandre de Moraes has gone on to request the businessman to establish a legal representative to officially answer for the acts of the platform. O processo de Elon Musk contra megaempresas por suposto 'boicote' ao X — Foto: Getty Images

Elon Musk’s lawsuit against mega-companies for alleged ‘boicote’ to X — Photo: Getty Images

The subpoena in post

On Wednesday (28), Moraes gave 24 hours so that the social network again has a legal representative in the country, under penalty of suspension of service.

The decision was released overnight, in a post on the STF’s profile on X, in response to the company’s post made on August 17 about the closure of the office. On that occasion, in addition to announcing the closure of the office and the withdrawal of its representative from the country, the platform informed that the network would continue to be used in the country.

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[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 124 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's one of the things I love in lemmy. Moderation transparency.

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[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 255 points 1 month ago

The other day I visited youtube without any add-ons and concluded I'd rather do anything else than use youtube under those conditions.

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[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 75 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd guess it would be a vertical breakup rather than horizontal: separate android, cloud, youtube, search, chrome, ads...depending on how aggressive they want to be.

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 180 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Antitrust comes in waves in the US. First, it's a free for all to let the tech develop freely...then you see the horrors and a time of antitrust kicks in. This would be the 4th wave since the Sherman Act. Let's hope it's a good one.

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 77 points 1 month ago

Is this guy delusional? After the way his party treated him in the convention, he still doubles down that the problem is the democrats?

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 85 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'd rather have him tried and imprisoned at the Hague. He destroys institutions. Institutions must destroy him in the end, not guns.

PS: and before the tankies rush in with their whataboutisms: Sinwar, Netanyahu and Dubbya should be made an example of too.

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 80 points 2 months ago

My only regret was not deleting all my comments before deleting my reddit account :P

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 74 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What have new generations been led into thinking that the internet is supposed to be? They dont even know what a directory is or what a file path is, because of design that dumbs things down...

It is important, because what people think the internet is and what they value will affect what it will evolve into.

E.g. wikipedia is reflects somehow my view of the internet in the 2000s (Encarta :D)...but for some people today the internet is just social media...or just videos?

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