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Thank god Israel makes apps, I was thinking they were a repugnant settler-colonial state doing crimes against humanity under the watchful gaze of people like Ro Khanna. But no. They have apps.
"Startup culture" is the newest advancement to civilization and is only comprehensible to those with the correct Indo-Aryan skull shape. The "swarthy races" are unable to comprehend and therefore properly appreciate the value of free markets, minimal government control, business-friendly policy, and "anti-terrorism operations". For their own good, the IDF and the great United States of America will continue to bear the burden of managing the feral natives in the region.
So apartheid settler colonialist shit is forgiven if your country makes candy crush? Cool, cool.
My favourite part is how he tries to decamp from that bit immeditely by claiming people are taking him out of context and he didn't just say what he said. Liberals will literally lie about what they're saying as they're saying it.
Posting is not practice, and electoralism is (generally) bourgeois, but it's nice seeing him get shredded in the replies.
There does seem to be a bit of a turning point this time around, with a lot of online "progressives" (breadtube etc) vocally supporting the Palestinians. That stuff often trickles down and out to regular libs (but not really to the politicians ofc). Acab used to be kinda "out there" and edgy, but most liberals will be onboard or at least see where you're coming from if you bring it up ime.
I'd like to think so, but scared liberals always run to the right. And liberals are trivially easy to scare. If a window gets smashed, the libs will forget all about ACAB / provide lists of names who said it / approve of another hundred million going to cops to restore law and order.
Why the fuck would you even talk about “startups and innovation culture” in this moment. What kind of sick pathology drives that thought. Wtf
He had no idea what to say and dipped into standard libspeak
MBS would like a word, mister khana. Please report to your nearest Saudi embassy
It is great because it tells you a lot about how these Silicon Valley slimeballs see the world. There is nothing about the question that should even involve "startup or innovation culture", yet that becomes the main focus of the answer.
The Unit 8200 to “start up” pipeline is real and everywhere in US tech SaaS outsourcing. I get looked at like a nazi whenever I point it out.
One of those Unit 8200 alumni founded Waze, which is basically Google Maps now - that thing everyone constantly had running on their phone, which they take everywhere they go.
It’s not the specific product that’s a problem in buyouts like Waze. Intelligence agencies work off of influence. When waze gets bought by Google, the threat isn’t some sneaky aspect of waze’s code base. Google wouldn’t allow that. The problem is suddenly a bunch of Waze people end up in positions of power and have huge influence over what technology capital should create in the future and which groups the institution will be friendly towards and what groups of people get hired and promoted in the institution of power.
All bets are off for some SaaS services. They have a lot of black boxes.
And WeWork black box slush funds that just serve to move money around for the plutocrats whilst making sure that none of it goes to undeserving hands.
From one of his replies :
My point is on a moral basis and human rights there is no comparison between Saudi and Israel government.
What the fuck is he even trying to say? That Israel's slow decades long displacement of Palestinians is somehow not nearly as bad as the Saudi's unrelenting bombing of Yemen in these past few years?
Isn't he one of those "progressive" Democrats that soccdems like to praise in here?
He's basically a soccdem with Silicon Valley brain, and it creates beautiful stuff like this from time to time. He's generally better than most democrats on most issues, but that's more an indictment of the democratic party than anything.
This guy is seriously one of the best 10 members of Congress. He co-chaired Bernie 2020. That’s how low the bar is.
"I think it is totally unreasonable to compare Saudi Arabia and Israel. Saudi Arabia has no barefoot nature trance parties whatsoever."
