Germany at the very least are very overt about their “unwavering support for Israel” being wholly because they’re “the Jewish Nation”, which is about the purest Racist motivation possible.

One might claim, as others did, that for the US geostrategical concerns apply, but for Germany the only reason for their support of that nation whilst it murders Palestinian children is the ethnicity of the genociders.

The purpose of Hollywood is entertainment and helping out manufacture consent (not necessarily in that order), not raising awareness on subjects were people’s increased awareness would threaten the power of the elites, so when it comes to the minions of the elites it’s pretty much all either “Heroes of Justice” (with a side of “anything is acceptable in the pursuit of Justice” or, at most, “Most are Good Guys but there’s a few bad apples”.

Good point - I hadn’t remembered what was going on in Myanmar since the Military Dictatorship took over.

That said, 6 months ago the estimated deaths in Gaza were already around 200,000 according to a study published in the Lancet medical journal (which differs a lot from the 50k “official” count, because the latter number has barely change in over a year after Israel destroyed most hospitals in Gaza were the dead were counted), which is well beyond the 43k upper estimation of deaths in the Rohingya Genocide in that Wikipedia entry, so “similar” is maybe not the right word.

My point still stands that Israel is on track to turn go beyond a “mere” Genocide and commit a modern version of the Holocaust, were the majority of the Gazan population will be killed (certainly the wish of over 80% of the Israeli population is all of them killed or expelled), and that population was over 2 million people at the start of the Genocide. This would make Germany one of the few, if not the only nation, which committed or actively supported TWO Holocausts

Well, a decade ago I had hope too, but also already felt the guy was fishy (because he already had a history of overpromising and under-delivering and in the areas I was an expert in, I had spotted him outright lying) and so was skeptical about his promises and his companies. Also, having been involved in Tech Startups, my expectation from people in his position and his language were already negative since the Startup World back then was already dominated by scam artists with a salesmanship or Finance backgrund for whom Tech was a vehicle for self-enrichment, not by idealists who loved challenges or the actual Tech.

Also by that point I had already spent a good period in Investment Finance and could recognize a certain style of bollocks a mile away.

I wasn’t aware of just how much a shit person the guy was, but all my instints told me he was a sociopath who would only ever do anything better for the World if it made him more money than not doing it.

The actual public meltdown started there, but before that there was already a history of sales bullshit with unachievable promises with things like the hyperloop and solar tiles, which for those who were paying attention were enough to mentally classify Musk as part of the “Fishy and possible scam artist” category.

Musk hasn’t really changed his swindling strategy much in the last couple of decades, he just started going beyond the script and sharing his actual opinions (which turned out to be “I’m a member of the Fascist elite” crap), possibly because the very cult of personality around him of all the fanboys made him think people loved him for him, rather than for the highly curate tech bro image (back when tech bros were seen as Heroes rather than Villains) he projected.

I’m shocked you’re missing the rabid anti-Islamism in most of the West - I mean, half of the support in the West for what Israel is doing comes from the whole “Muslims are violent” idea which in turn derives from over a decade of portraying the phenomenon Sunni Islamit Extremism (which is a tiny minority) as a problem of that religion in general (which is hilarious if one is well informed enough to know that for example, Indonesia is the biggest Muslim country in the World).

Not that I’m saying that Islam is any better than the rest, by the way, just pointing out the level of prejudice about it from people who literally know nothing at all about it (learning a bit about it is enough to figure out it’s pretty complex and learning a bit more is enough to figure out it’s as fucked up as most other major religions, just not in the way people think)

Then, of course, there’s the whole looking down on animist religions (most of which are African) as “savagery”, and also a bit so for Hinduism.

In the West maybe only the Eastern ones like Buddism and Shintoism don’t get looked down on, probably because the former was a New Age fad over here and the latter is unknown to most people (and those who do know it, associate it with Japan, which is a country that most people see in a positive light).

The actual religion of Christinanity gets criticized by at most very highly educated agnostic or atheists, whilst for most of the other religions, their practictioners are negativelly viewed by even the most ignorant and ill informed of morons that has no clue whatsoever about the tenets of those religions or the boundary between regional cultural practices and the actual religions.

The skateboard would literally be a plank on top of some wheel axes pinched from a shopping cart, the scooter would just be a flimsy pole stuck through a hole in the “skateboard”, the bicycle would be 2 such poles, one with a small piece of wood as a seat and at the front the wheel axis had been moved to be soldered to the front pole so that one rotates with the other.

All of them function only in the technical sense, are awkward to use, don’t last long under continuous use and look like shit because they were not done with the right techniques for resilience and have none of the finishing touches needed for ease of use and attractiveness.

Their solution was mounting the semi-built old car on top of a new car.

In my experience the waterfall one would be either be “a bicycle that was partly transformed into a monster truck when they figured out it needed to carry a lot more load, but kept some bicycle parts” or “a drag car were they installed an engine far too large for the body so it has no hood and the engine is partly out of the car, and yet the car is supposed to be used as a normal city car”.

The Cult Of Agile with its Holy Practices that Must Be Done without actual logical and well thought about reasons (instead, the reason are things like “It’s What It Says In This Agile Holy Book” and/or “That’s What I Saw Other Agile People Do”), is not at all the same as the class of Software Development Processes called Agile.

Then again, Software Development Processes are the kind of thing you tackle at the level of Technical Architect, and since there aren’t really that many genuine Technical Architects (with the actual chops, rather than merelly 5-10 years experience in a single kind of development environment and a title obtained from a company that gives fancy titles as “promotion” instead of a proper salary raise) around, Agile is mostly just blindly followed without true understanding of what it does, what it doesn’t do, how that is does it or why it cannot do it, and thus were and how it actually adds value and were it doesn’t.

I was tempted to say that “my trash can has torn the fabric of Space-Time and removed itself from existence”, but that would be an obvious exageration since any people whose trash can went that far, would not remember even having had that trash can on account of it having erased itself from the timeline and hence their memories.

Musk was already a notoriously lying grifter 10 year ago.

It’s only naive fanboys who were too immature be able to set aside the natural human tendency to look up to famous people and/or did not had the life experience to recognize and be suspicious of salesman bollocks (whether decorated with techie terms or otherwise) when they heard it that didn’t suspect the guy was something else than what the adoring fans thought.

It’s not by chance that Musk’s fanboys were mainly young adult and teen techies.

There is no such thing as Democracy in the US system, and voting Kamala without agreeing with her would have nothing to do with “democratic action” - in that duopolist power structure at most voting Kamala as the “lesser evil” was short/mid-term risk reduction: understandable, but let’s not call such a “you have no actual choice” action “democratic”.

One wonders just how viable the Ukranian strategy would be to take out LAPD choppers (when landed, of course).

I think you’re confusing Liberals with Leftists.

I can’t remember a single self-proclaimed “Communist” nation that wasn’t anti-Religion.

Tolerance of Religion comes from the Liberal political beliefs side (which many people who are also Leftwingers have) and the modern “Liberals” in places like the US and UK (which are Rightwingers) are the ones who stretch it well beyond tolerance to the point of deeming criticism of some Religions (but not others) as a bad thing, or in other words, activelly supporting certain religions and their values (which as you pointed out, tend to be Corporatist and Fascist).

In summary, Authoritarian Leftwingers tend to be anti-Religion, Liberal Leftwingers tend to tolerate Religion and “Liberal” Rightwingers at the very least defend and sometimes even support certain specific Religions (as far as I can tell, the ones supported by their local money and power elites) but not others.

The only way the sovereign nation of France can ban VPN companies not based in France is to block the IP address of every single entry point of every single VPN company and keep doing so as they add new entry points (I bet the response on the VPN company side would be to start having some kind of dynamic VPN server thing).

And then, as somebody else already pointed out, any technically inclined person can just rent a VPS anywhere in the World and fire up their own VPN server on it.

Reminds me of the running joke I had with a French bloke in a place were I worked in about how Jacquie-Et-Michelle (NSFW) was an unmissable part of French Culture, which none of our other colleagues seem to - or at least admitted to - get.

I don’t think the US was sending weapons to Germany to be used in murdering Jews as they are doing now for Israel to murder Palestinians.

If I remember it correctly the US was internally divided in who to support in the beginning of the war but wasn’t actually militarilly helping the Axis even before their Genocide of the Jewish People (and others such as the Roma People, who curiously are seldom talked about) became widelly known.

The situation now is vastly more clear-cut and beyond any doubt and the US keeps providing military and diplomatic support to the genociders even when the count of murdered babies has long exceeded the thousands (the list of babies one year old or younger murdered by Israel in the first 3 months of the Genocide was already 17 pages long).

In the scale of Evil, the support for the Nazis of part of the population and some of the power structures of the US early in WWII is not even in the same universe as the current level of American power structures support for for a widelly-know, clear as day, already legally confirmed, Genocide which is in the final mass extermination stage that will make it a Holocaust. This shit now is a close as it gets to commiting it without actually pulling the trigger.

Which other Holocaust-level Genocides were an organised force very purposedly exterminated over a million people because of their ethnicity are there?

I mean, there have been lots of Genocides in History, some of the worst ones quite recently (for example the Rwandan Genocide), but ones were the machinery of the State set out to exterminate a population because of their ethnicity and involving such large numbers of civilian victim I can’t think of any other than the Nazi Holocaust (were they use gas chambers to exterminate a civilian population) and the Zionist Holocaust which Gaza is turning into (were they are using starvation and targetted bombings of civilian buildings and refugee camps to exterminate a civilian population).

The closest I can think of is how Ghengis Khan would conquer cities (when he came with his army, they either surrendered outright or if they didn’t he would conquer them and then kill everybody in it, and that was quite independent of ethnicity) and that never involved as large a number of people as Gaza simply because there weren’t as many people back then and cities were a lot smaller.

Even the kind of shit Britain did in their Empire never reached this level in terms of numbers.

I mean, if Israel stopped now, Gaza wouldn’t be a Zionist Holocaust (just a “mere” Genocide), but with the support of the likes of the US, Germany and Britain, plus with over 80% of Israeli population supporting the Zionist “final solution for the problem of Gaza” this is bound to become on.

So, yeah, if Gaza keeps going this way this will only be the second systematic mass genocide of a civilian population by a State power due to their ethnicity in History (so Holocaust-level) and Germany will have supported both Holocausts.

The leadership of the current party in Government in the UK got their positions (both leading their party and subsequently their Government seats, as the UK like the US has a power duopoly thanks to the mathematical manipulation of the FPTP voting system, so as usual they eventually switched places in Government with the other party of the duopoly) as result of a campaign done with the help of Israeli-linked British Jewish associations against the previous leader of the party (the first leftwinger elected to lead it since the 80s) using slandering accusations of anti-semitism (so wild that at some point a Jewish Holocaust Survivor was accused of anti-semitism in order to taint said party leader by association as they were sitting in the same panel in a conference about Palestine) that eventually caused him to lose the job and got these people (who, like the Democrats in the US, are rightwing neoliberals) back leading that party.

Further, old money in Britain quite independently of ethnicity tends to be Fascist (they’re big on Fascist tropes like “some people are born supperior to others”, “people should know their place in social hierarchy”, “the upper class are natural rulers” and so on) and there’s a lot of old money in Britain which is in families of Jewish descent, so these are naturally big supporters of the Israeli regime and the whole “good old 19th-century style ultra racist ‘civilized people amongst savages’ white colonianist project” were Genocide is but a natural “removal of the vermin”. Their power in the British system (were the elites have always had far more power than the broader population compared to the rest of Europe) in turn means most of the Press just spins things to convince the riff-raff to share that view of things, which is why even the supposedly unbiased (but not really) BBC uses tricks like the “passive voice” and “verbatum repetition of one side’s statements as truth whilst for the other side use ‘X said’” to spin the stories about the Genocide in favor of the Israeli side.

(I remember some years ago a survey of the trust in the Press by the locals in the various countries of Europe showing the UK press as one of the least trusted in Europe)

I lived in the UK for more than a decade and IMHO what we’re seeing now is that after the big demonstration with 600k people against British support of Israel, the Press is being dragged by public opinion (mainly that of the well informed section of it who have Humanist values, so basically the urban middle class) so you see coverage in Liberal media like The Guardian and the BBC change from being “the voice of Israel” to something more subtle (using the spin tricks described above and others like it to favorably portray the Israeli side but not being quite as overtly one-sided in what they chose to cover), but the more overtly right-wing tabloids couldn’t give a rat’s arse and keep on pushing the pro-Fascist side (though this being Britain, even they are significantly more smooth about it than the likes of Fox News).