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Comment Re:'No evidence' is not encouraging (Score 1) 12

The evidence was deleted :D

It is and always has been insane that all these governments run mostly on Windows.

A lot of them use to use a lot of IBM mainframe stuff behind the scenes, and there's still a fair bit of it around underpinning things, but pretty much all of the new projects are Windows-based.

Comment Re:Everyone knows... (Score 1) 123

It's also naive to think that Israel is only facing murderous terrorists in Gaza, the entire arab world has wanted them destroyed for decades.

They've wanted to conquer the whole Arab world since forever, and they are now attacking pieces of it outside of Gaza. They wrote themselves a book that said it was all theirs, and now they're trying to make it come true. The evangelicals are helping them try because they believe it will bring about the end times. As it happens, there's several of the foretold signs around right now, so they naturally think it's working and are doubling down. In the bargain, we have the tools and equipment to make it happen, and long since furnished the technology to Israel to try to make it happen sooner. But they kicked out Netanyahu and things were looking relatively sane for a while (though the Israeli settlers never stopped stealing more land or murdering more Palestinians) and we're all supposed to believe that none of it is their fault. This would be funny if it weren't actually terrifying that people can believe that.

Comment Re:Everyone knows... (Score 1) 123

If the roles were switched, there wouldn't be a single Jew left alive in Israel right now

Soon there won't be any Palestinians alive in Gaza.

Netanyahu is just as bad as Hamas, both of them need to go. Hamas is going, and Netanyahu won't be in power forever

It won't take him forever to finish his genocide.

Comment Re:Everyone knows... (Score 1, Interesting) 123

I'm very liberal but I do not in any way excuse what happened on Oct 7th, quite the opposite. But choosing to back Palestine is a moral decision isn't the same as the willful ignorance and lies told by the right.

Is it even "backing Palestine" to oppose genocide of Palestinians? I can't stand either religion whose followers lay claim to Gaza, but I don't think that disliking someone's religion is sufficient justification for genocide. Israel was founded on the British partition of Palestine by the USA through the UN and it immediately began literal and self-described colonization of as much land as it could get its hands on, whether or not it was included in the lands which were handed to it.

Hamas is terrible, but it was founded in the eighties and in response to Israeli terrorist organizations which were murdering Palestinians, and Netanyahu has repeatedly and publicly told us that he makes sure Hamas receives funding which is sent to it as part of his Gaza strategy — so not only does history not start October 7, but Netanyahu deliberately made sure that something like the October 7 attack would happen, and then proceeded to go from semi-genocidal behavior to fully genocidal behavior. Therefore it's clear that his goal was always genocide. What did the world expect Palestinians to do, roll over?

To me, both Hamas and Israel's terrorist organizations are the enemies of not just all people who even believe in morality, but also the future of humanity because this conflict increases the chance of nuclear war day by day. We are closer to it today than we have ever been because the US-Russia cold war was between two nations with some things to lose. But Hamas was also inevitable and the blame for their successes falls on Netanyahu's willful insurance of their funding. And We The People of these United States of America have in turn enabled both him and Israel to do what they are doing in the region.

On that basis, we've already picked sides, and we've chosen the side of genocide.

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