Reminds me of iOS users (who tend to be financially better off) getting charged more than Android users. Random recent-ish examples, but this goes way back:

https://timelinedaily.com/technology/ride-hailing-apps-charge-iphone-users-more-than-android-users-report

https://mashable.com/article/doordash-iphone-android-class-action-lawsuit

https://www.msn.com/en-in/technology/tech-companies/ios-users-are-being-forced-to-pay-more-than-android-owners-for-the-same-products-on-zepto/ar-BB1rpWpY

Sure, but what play is being performed here? These men are more than powerful enough to go against Trump, yet every single one of them is playing the part of the obedient subject to the mighty king. The message of this bizarre play is that Trump is in charge, that he demands, in return of leaving you and your business alone, acts of what can only be described as public debasement.

That’s unsettling for a long list of reasons.

Consider an Android TV device. Fire TV Stick at the low end, Shield TV Pro at the high end. Not much point to anything in between.

For the right reasons:

Khan’s social media activity, between November 2023 and April 2024, was said to have included videos in which he accused Americans, Germans, French, English, and Italians of supporting impure Zionists. He also invoked Allah to destroy the oppressors, particularly Western states that support Israel. […] He expressed admiration for Hamas, claiming they had demonstrated Israel’s inability to confront men and could only target children, women, and civilians. He also voiced his belief that Hamas was not a terrorist organisation but was defending its territory.

Encouraging and supporting terrorism is illegal in Europe and they had every right to expel him. You can’t be living as a guest in a Western country and at the same time demand their destruction. He’s not pro-Palestinian, he’s just your run of the mill Islamist demagogue.

Voting for a third party candidate only helps Trump. They might as well just vote for him directly. The outcome is the same and if America and the world are unlucky enough to experience a second Trump term, then these idiots would strongly regret their decision. Palestinians wouldn’t be the only ones to suffer from this.

He was inspired by Stalinist practices, but as shown by this example and many others, far-left and far-right autocrats are very similar in this regard.

An alt-right LLM (large language model). Think of it as a crappy Nazi alternative to the text part of GPT-4 (there’s also a separate text-to-image component). It’s probably just a reskinned existing language model that had Mein Kampf, The Turner Diaries and Stormfront added to its training data.

Numbers according to Hamas. Read this:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers

I’m not denying that lots of civilians are dying in Gaza, that many are buried under rubble and starving - but please, don’t use numbers that are obviously false in order to create emotional outrage.

One should also keep in mind that Hamas knew Israel would strike back with full force in response to the massacres and rapes they committed. And yet they didn’t build a single bomb shelter for civilians. There aren’t even air raid sirens in Gaza. This is the only war in human history where one side is fighting a nation with overwhelming air power and yet does absolutely nothing - hell, usually the opposite - to protect their civilians. They are also, right in the open, stealing aid and firing at desperate civilians, but I guess you choose to ignore this as well.

Because this short guy was beaten up 100 times in the past until they decided to strike back and win - and they are also doing everyone’s homework.

At least update those false talking points you are repeating to the current year.

Can you explain to me how a pogrom can ever be justified? Because that was what Palestinian terrorists did on October 7, under the applause of a worrying number of people. It was the kind of pogrom Jews have been experiencing for millennia.

Why are you ignoring previous Iranian attacks on Israel?

Are you seriously pretending that Israel attacked Iran first?

Yeah, no. Your point is whataboutism in order to deflect from an obvious failure. It’s the old hypernormalization approach that dictatorships and their defenders love to use. “If everything’s bad, then the countless problems of this autocracy can’t be that bad, right?”

I should add that it wasn’t the norm back then either.

What’s kind of funny is that all of the debates around these systems are exactly the same today as back then, like for example that you should use the voting system to reward quality comments, not use it as an agree/disagree button.

I’ve used forums that had these things 20 years ago. This isn’t new.

What a weird person.

Why are you having a problem with someone not liking this dictatorship?

I mean, we should pull all production out of China. There is no actual need for our goods to be made there and it comes with a long list of side-effects, including propping up a regime that is hell-bent on starting at least one major war in Asia.

Are you seriously trying to redefine slavery just to defend a murderous dictatorship?