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  • No doubt Israel started this iteration but to say that Iran doesn’t want war is viewing the regime too favourably. Of course they don’t want war on Iranian territory - but they do want to directly sponsor Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, al-Assad (until he fell), and other mostly Shia militias while severely oppressing their own population - especially minorities. Fuck Israel but it’s not like Iran comes with peaceful intentions. My parents fled from this regime, and while virtually no Iranian supports Israel’s actions or wants war, most of us wouldn’t shed a single tear if the entire regime were wiped out.



  • Oh trust me, the Danish people find this highly criricisable. It’s been debated a lot over the past months - but the government - which is made up of the neoliberal parties who’s always had their tongues way up USA’s ass - has done everything they can to push it under the rug and to make it as secretive as possible. These people see only profit and the thought of “losing” USA as a partner is worse than the fact that we just invited the enemy in - with a deal where they can do whatever they want to do and we can’t even take them to court. Officially it’s because of “the Russian threat” but the only country that’d ever invade Denmark or has ever threatened to do so is USA… Russia has a few other countries to go through and they can’t even win their current war.

    We’ve just always been an American puppet state.


  • The Danish news ran a story as to why Greenland was so important to Trump.

    Apparently the special deal we did with the Americans in 1949 or whatever is tied to NATO membership. The US presence on the island is entirely dependent upon them being a member of NATO. Were the Americans to withdraw they’d have to shut down Pituffik and give up all their interests in the Arctic.

    As to why Greenland is important - apart from the hope that resources can be extracted in a profitabel way - is, as you say, the northern shipping lanes (and theoretically the Russian military threat) as well as various possibilities with the changing climate. And of course it’s a classic “mine is bigger than yours” contest




  • Absolutely a nuanced area. But on top of not modelling random people as full individuals it’s hard to determine what spying on people might actually mean. I don’t really want to defend working for a company as nefarious as Palantir - even if I honestly hardly knew them before Trump #2 - but convincing yourself that gathering people’s data isn’t problematic is quite easy, and we all inherently accept a wide array of surveillance measures as - willing or unwilling - members of state entities, be it a video camera in a clothing store or governments logging our tax data. Then comes the fact that employees below the level of “board of directors” usually don’t know everything going on in the company; I wouldn’t fault a junior dev choosing to work for, say, ‘cool’ Google or Apple in 2017.

    Of course it’s relevant that humans are egocentrical animals; I wouldn’t give my own life to save five people that I don’t know in Moldova. Being too empathetic is a poor trait in a dog eat dog world. Of course we need standards and to hold others up to these standards; I don’t know your friend, what he does at Palantir or when he started working there - maybe he’s a lazy ass that holds them back haha - and I do think, especially with all that’s transpired the past 5 months, that it’s a problematic company to be part of - I just wanted to discuss that I don’t think it’s just lack of empathy