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Sure, and president-elect Ronald Reagan had no effect on the Iran hostage crisis.

Almost the opposite happened. How did this even get upvoted?

• Dec. 4, 2024, Reuters: Trump’s Middle East envoy in diplomatic push to help reach Gaza ceasefire before inauguration
• Jan 13, 2025, Haaretz: Trump’s Mideast Envoy Forced Netanyahu to Accept a Gaza Plan He Repeatedly Rejected
• Jan. 15, 2025, Times of Israel: ‘WE HAVE A DEAL’: Trump becomes first leader to announce hostage-ceasefire deal, besting Biden
• Jan. 15, 2025, Al Jazeera: US Muslim group lauds Trump for pushing ceasefire deal

 
Of course the genocide is bipartisan so the ceasefire was never going to last.

Yes, some free/freemium products mislead or straight-up lie. Check the source code and the license(s). In some cases the fee version is open source but the premium version is neither open nor even source-available. AlternativeTo lets you filter based on Open Source, Free, and Paid.

🙏🍆👄 No Zionazis.

I wonder what the logic was behind dual-licensing this under both a copyleft and non-copyleft license.

What do you think Israel would do if iron dome was taken away?

I don’t have a crystal ball, but they might reconsider what they’re currently doing if they were less invincible.

It would be like cornering an angry dog.

Israel has had the “dog” cornered for generations. Before that the “dog” was living its life, unperturbed by settler-colonial invaders.

And how does one single vote on an amendment that lost by somewhere around 400 votes make the difference?

This is a dodge. You still haven’t answered the question. Why did she vote against an amendment for not arming Israel?

Do you think about any of this with your mind or do you just react on impulse and emotion like an animal?

Yes, I am a hysterical genocide condemner and you are a rational genocide apologizer.

What does the “defensive” Iron Dome do? It helps Palestinian genocide and illegal, unprovoked attacks on Iran to continue unimpeded. Israel does not have the right to defend itself while committing these acts.

Then why did she vote to keep the arming of Israel on the bill? Where’s the consistency in that?

The votes speak for themselves. Everyone knows that the yearly defense budget bill gets passed every year without exception.

She knew the bill would ultimately pass regardless of her final vote, and yet knowingly voted against an amendment to remove the arming of Israel. Her final no vote is a fig leaf covering her vote to send weapons to Israel.

The corporate algorithms are not on the side of the Palestinians.

Should we have forced him to shave before photographing him, like the US military did in Iraq in 2006?

Or should we clean up his image, as the US is doing right now?

How are they occupiers when they’re at least as Iranian as you? Are they occupying themselves? And where is this 1,500 number coming from? Because it doesn’t seem to be coming from Wikipedia. The Western imperialist puppet regime installed after the CIA-led coup was no angel, either. Do want a repeat of that? Because they’ll come in and 1) take the oil and 2) set Iran up for a proxy war with Russia and/or China, just as they did with Ukraine.

Are you also going to claim that DeepSeek isn’t censored?

You can download DeepSeek and run it yourself to get uncensored answers.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are not truth machines. They are garbage in, garbage out. The input to English-language models are largely English-language texts from Five Eyes countries, with all the disinformation and bias that that entails. So the DeepSeek company is in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation. They can either refuse to answer certain questions, in which case Western media will accuse them of censorship; or they can answer them, in which case (a) their model will perpetuate Cold War I & Cold War II falsehoods and (b) Western media will parade those false answers around in a victory lap. They chose the former for the cloud version of their app, and the latter for the local version.

If you don’t see any protests in a democracy, it’s not because everybody is happy.

Now you’re just vagueposting 🙄 Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds:

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

Let’s talk about Tiananmen Square.

• Tank Man (now with more raw footage)
• The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
• Columbia Journalism Review: The Myth of Tiananmen
• 1989 Tian’anmen Square riots
• A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
• Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
• How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning

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Or how about Uyghurs.

• https://lemmy.ml/comment/15126223
• https://lemmy.ml/comment/14839342

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Let’s use a picture of Winnie the Pooh.

Not censored. You can buy Pooh-branded toys, watch Pooh Disney films, and ride Pooh-branded amusement park rides. Nobody has a problem with this adorable meme.

People’s democracy my ass.

• Most in China Call Their Nation A Democracy, Most in U.S. Say America Isn’t
• Long-term survey reveals Chinese government satisfaction
• Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says [UN] Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
• China’s Energy Use Per Person Surpasses Europe’s for First Time
• At 54, China’s average retirement age is too low
• China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

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If you want to talk about a fake democracy, look no further than the US. Previously:

The US government was never not captured by the bourgeoisie, because the US was born of a bourgeois revolution[1]. The wealthy, white, male, land-owning, largely slave-owning Founding Fathers constructed a bourgeois state with “checks and balances” against the “tyranny of the majority”. It was never meant to represent the majority—the working class—and it never has, despite eventually allowing women and non-whites (at least those not disenfranchised by the carceral system) to vote. BBC: [Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

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Why would I think that Apple would be worse than Google when Apple is predominantly a hardware company and Google is predominantly an ad company?

Wait, now I’m a Russian pretending to be an American? This tale gets taller every time you tell it 😂

He has some older account where there was Russian being used but I think he may have deleted it or I just can’t be arsed to look enough rn.

There’s no guessing what will catch the world by storm. At a party once, Bram Cohen tried to get me interested in his ideas for a a peer-to-peer protocol, and I thought nothing of it.