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Cake day: April 25th, 2025

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  • Yeah so the other day here on Lemmy I was arguing that they’re trying to oust the Spanish left-leaning government over using Huawei antennas but no one is gonna get more than a few headlines for using fucking Palantir.

    Pretty sure the Spanish government is corrupt as fuck and I wouldn’t be surprised if the Huawei deal was shady af, but why does the usage of Palantir and Pegasus, etc. not have any consequences at all? This is literally the prequel to fascist total observation and everybody just rolls along with it because it’s American big tech.





  • Hm but that’s an interesting point. In Nazi Germany people’s excuse was that they didn’t know and if they knew they were against it but because of the Nazi dictatorship they didn’t say anything.

    In 2025 Germany the cost of opposing Staatsräson is infinitely lower, it’s possible to speak out and it’s possible to protest even though German police is notorious for beating and locking up anti-Genocide protestors. Yet, the German media and politicians in 2025 are still ironclad in their support. If really the majority of Germans are against this and they are against colonialism, apartheid and genocide, then where are they?

    They all know and they don’t have to fear for their lives, yet they are mostly apathetic. Following Occam’s razor the simplest explanation is that they honestly just don’t care.







  • So will it really cost someone’s job? Will there be any consequences? Are we anywhere near banning Palantir which is arguably magnitudes worse than Huawei could be by running cell phone towers? Are there any consequences for anyone using Palantir or Pegasus?

    Again, I don’t think the Chinese are any better than the Americans and I don’t live in China nor do I speak the language so I don’t care what they tell their people, I care that now a scandal is being manufactured against one of the last left leaning countries because China bad while we allow the same and even worse stuff because European politicians and media are transatlantic bootlickers.



  • I recommend reading "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine“ by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe. Most Jewish Arabs had no desire to move to the settler colony until religious violence was facilitated by western countries and Zionists after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

    Examples are the Baghdad bombings that aimed at frightening Iraqi Jews or even doing payments per head to the Moroccan king because Jews didn’t want to leave home. They successfully managed to escalate tensions so far that people eventually did move, but European politicians try to frame the Arab world as antisemites when Europeans have committed the worst possible atrocities against Jews including, but also long before the holocaust, whereas the Muslim world was a refuge for Jews. Very sad development.

    Let’s hope that people don’t fall for the Zionist propaganda that conflates Judaism with Zionism, although I’m not having too much trust in humanity at this point.