Let them buy all the defensive weapons they can afford, Iron Dome, etc.
I think US gives them the weapons otherwise, they don't even buy them? No more.
It is insanity to let them just kill whomever they want whenever they want as many as they want
Israel has a right to exist but not kill thousands of innocent people
They also have universal healthcare while US never will because we've spent $21 Trillion since 9/11 on militarization, adding another trillion this year and now have to replace all the tomahawks etc
The West at large continuing to be complicit in Israel's aggression and genocide is a source of great shame to me. Unlike many other atrocities of the past 75 years, this could not have been done without our help.
Daily reminder that "championing human rights in the middle east" is the easiest thing in the world if you get to determine who is considered "human" and who is considered "cattle".
[Please excuse the following poorly crafted bit of text that follows; I fundamentally agree with your position and this is the kind of writing I do when I am trying to work out why I have both a visceral reaction to this site but cannot look away.]
One of the solid exercises I get from paying attention to this site is
a precise understanding of who the tech-bro class thinks is human (and thus relatable in ways that makes violence against those Others scary)
and those whom they believe to be living in base-biological forms which they themselves could surely never occupy (positions not "really" human and thus naturally the target of things like 'authorized' and 'legitimate' state-violence).
I can't really get my brain into their positions- I generally am opposed to being violent to folks for all reasons, and even if it could be justified ex pos facto, in my understanding violence is never legitimate or authorized.
But the site:
it's kind of like reading a poorly-written epic poem in some kind of horrid and post-modern style:
exegesis of the melted ideas here is work that keeps some of us in touch with what the sociopaths of the tech world think, with their out-sized influence over a world where most of us are simply subject to their fast and violent movement.
However, what is more important than teasing out the aesthetics of the violence they may either like or fear is learning what must be done to avoid being seen as legitimate and human by this class vicious wanna-be capitalists and shitters-out-of toxic technology.
That work seems like a difficult task, but this site provides so much relevant exercise and example.
As a Lebanese, this is deeply saddening. Israel is trying to exact some sort of "lesson" on the Lebanese. I don't want to blame everything on Israel, but the fact that Lebanon is a weak country unable to rein in Hezbollah is very strongly influenced by the US need to make Israel a hegemon in the region. And the vicious cycle continues ... As a Lebanese I feel helpless. And this type of situation only emboldens the "resistance" which in turns justifies Israels actions in Lebanon. It's never ending and we're done with it ...
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 41.8 ms ] threadLet them buy all the defensive weapons they can afford, Iron Dome, etc.
I think US gives them the weapons otherwise, they don't even buy them? No more.
It is insanity to let them just kill whomever they want whenever they want as many as they want
Israel has a right to exist but not kill thousands of innocent people
They also have universal healthcare while US never will because we've spent $21 Trillion since 9/11 on militarization, adding another trillion this year and now have to replace all the tomahawks etc
If the US–Iran front of the war is relevant for hn I don't see why the Israel–Lebanon one wouldn't.
From tech perspective, technology builders now need to be extra aware how it’s used.
Is releasing the next autonomous algo/library worth it?, if the US department of war with their friends can use that tech to kill more people.
Especially when more and more weapons become autonomous. Targets are chosen based on LLM hallucinations.
In 2026, we are the baddies.
More than tech we need to vote to reign in the Department of War spending. It will be the death of American Empire.
The white cells meant to protect, have become cancerous.
Bombings? [flagged]
One of the solid exercises I get from paying attention to this site is
a precise understanding of who the tech-bro class thinks is human (and thus relatable in ways that makes violence against those Others scary)
and those whom they believe to be living in base-biological forms which they themselves could surely never occupy (positions not "really" human and thus naturally the target of things like 'authorized' and 'legitimate' state-violence).
I can't really get my brain into their positions- I generally am opposed to being violent to folks for all reasons, and even if it could be justified ex pos facto, in my understanding violence is never legitimate or authorized.
But the site:
it's kind of like reading a poorly-written epic poem in some kind of horrid and post-modern style:
exegesis of the melted ideas here is work that keeps some of us in touch with what the sociopaths of the tech world think, with their out-sized influence over a world where most of us are simply subject to their fast and violent movement.
However, what is more important than teasing out the aesthetics of the violence they may either like or fear is learning what must be done to avoid being seen as legitimate and human by this class vicious wanna-be capitalists and shitters-out-of toxic technology.
That work seems like a difficult task, but this site provides so much relevant exercise and example.
“They” have almoat every big corporation under the belt now.