[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 weeks ago

When you can't support your own arguments, you could of course just acknowledge this or even just not comment at all instead of lashing out at those who can.

It is particularly disgusting when your arguments serve to obscure genocide.

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago

When you cease being part of the execution squad itself it becomes much easier to fight them.

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago

"Hardcore lefties" have a very different understanding of the value of their vote, which is to say, it means very little.

Have you deigned to ask them questions?

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago

Yeah like all of these people out here telling me to vote for genociders. There's no way that real humans would think so little of Palestinian lives, right?

Right?

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago

a reference to Sabra Hummus, a popular brand of hummus manufactured in the United States.

This is where they buried the actual point. Sabra is on the main BDS list because they are an Israeli partner brand that funds the IDF, specifically occupation brigades.

Sabra fans reference = people that support genocide or don't care about Palestinians (same difference).

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago

Certainly compared to the settler imperial core responsible for virtually every war and the racist status quo of systemic deprivation. It is not a serious discussion to imagine otherwise.

I kind of already said that.

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago

Oh yes, sorry if I implied giving these particular people a break. I was speaking more generally but miscommunicated. The people you mentioned should all be banned in my opinion.

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago

It coincides with their switch to more and more "AI" black box models. Whereas before they would use a hand-tuned heuristic model to describe whether you are turning, merging, or continuing on a road, they just use a less correct but automagic model where they still inevitably have to tune it a whole lot but it is "AI" so it has the approval of the petty lords of management.

Incorrect entrances and closed roads are another example. They're just using satellite and street level imagery and tossing it at some models that spit out things like "door 99% confidence" and "road 98% confidence" while neglecting the question of, "are you actually allowed/able to use this?"

PS under basically every correct answer in this category is a team of poorly-paid "labelers" whose answers directly turn into the data in the map. Your door-that-is-not-an-entrance was marked entrance because someone making $8/hr only had 10 seconds to review before moving to the next question.

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months ago

Don't complain about me doing bad things or my buddy over here will do even worse.

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 months ago

The princes squabble over who will be king.

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 months ago

Israel just assassinated the person they were supposed to be negotiating with. In Iran. Now they issue a press release "warning" Iran not to respond.

This is just genocide supporters playing a PR game.

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 months ago

Countries like the UK weaponize aid. It's not simple charity, it is another means by which to exert power. You can see it right now with the defunding of UNRWA, the blockade of Gaza, sitting by while Israel blocks aid. It is part of a pressure campaign.

It also acts as PR.

As Thomas Sankara said, "he who feeds you, controls you".

This is why Western powers react negatively when other countries seek food sovereignty.

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