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BMTea

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    Trump win means ‘time has come’ to annex parts of West Bank, Israeli minister says

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  • Are you describing Joe Biden's victory in 2020?

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    Trump win means ‘time has come’ to annex parts of West Bank, Israeli minister says

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  • There is quite literally zero evidence that Biden or Harris - who served wine from a West Bank settlement at the fucking White House - would have punished Israel in any real way for annexations.

  • It’s not alarmist: A second Trump term really is an extinction-level threat to democracy

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  • I do remember 2020 and 2021, and I was in fact in the Gulf at the time and talked to people with knowledge of back-channel negotiations between the US and Iran. The only difference between the Suleimani situation and today is that the Biden admin supports Israel's assassinations rather than carrying them out directly. But no one is fooled here - we know they are equal part American assassinations. This "assassination as coercive diplomacy" shit didn't work for Trump, who was pushed by the belligerent, compromised, Israel/Saudi bought GOP fanatics to ditch the JCPOA and go for violence.

    Do you know what the goal of those back channel negotiations was, by the way? The US was demanding that Iran reduce it's self-imposed 2000 kilometer missile distance limit to be far shorter so that it couldn't strike Israel.

    Well here we are in 2024, with a Biden administration that has gotten use to a point where Iran and Israel are striking each other's military bases directly. Everyone you talk to in Kuwait City, Istanbul, Manama, Doha and so on will tell you that Iran would be absolutely insane not to prioritize nuclear armament, and some suspect that they may already have some nukes stowed deep.

    The Gaza genocide and its regional implications have been a bigger policy failure than anything Trump did.

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  • To claim Trump is "isolationist" in 2016 is one. To claim it in 2024 is simply denying the facts. Trump was and remains not that much different to Biden on international policy. The key difference is diplomacy. Trump fails at diplomacy while keeping within many of the same policies.

    There is a reason that Biden foreign policy has doubled down or refused to undo Trump era policies that Democrats considered to be mistakes, like leaving the JCPOA, playing around with Taiwan ambiguities, enabling Israeli liquidation of a nascent Palestinian state, etc.

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  • There is actually little daylight between Biden and Trump on an international level. The real difference is between the parties. If you're American I can 100% understand why you'd never want the GOP anywhere near education, healthcare, climate policy etc. Their religious zealotry, genocidal inclinations towards Muslims (which is present but far more muted among Dems), racial antipathy and paranoia of black people and anti-intellectualism are a recipe for national decline and unrestrained global abuse of non-white, non-Christian peoples.

    The Democrats have a neoconservative problem which also threatens the entire world. But sadly the responsible and sensible side of America is stuck with them.

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  • Put Lina Khan in charge of all these agencies.

  • Here’s the paper no one read before declaring the demise of modern cryptography

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  • It's like nuclear fusion, always just around the corner...

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  • The Catechism of the Catholic Church reads:

    The forms taken by modesty vary from one culture to another. Everywhere, however, modesty exists as an intuition of the spiritual dignity proper to man. It is born with the awakening consciousness of being a subject. Teaching modesty to children and adolescents means awakening in them respect for the human person." (C.C.C. # 2524)

    People here are not serious, they repeat slogans and polemics very superficially. The nipple taboo is found across pre-Christian and non-Abrahamic societies, probably because of breasts' association with fertility. I.e

    When did bare breasts become taboo in Western civilization?

    Probably around 3,000 years ago. Women are displayed with exposed breasts in Minoan artwork from 1500 B.C. Some historians believe that these ancient women went topless only during religious rituals—bare-breasted, buxom goddesses have been worshipped since the dawn of civilization—but some of the artworks depict everyday activities, suggesting that bare breasts may have been commonplace. Just across the Mediterranean, ancient Egyptian women sported elaborate dresses that could either cover the breasts or leave them exposed, depending on the whim of the designer. Over the next few centuries, however, breasts become strictly private parts. Ancient Athenian women were wearing flowing, multilayered robes that concealed the shape of the bosom by the middle of the first millennium B.C. Spartan attire was more risqué, exposing the female thigh, but breasts were always covered.

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  • Their argument is that "gender is just a social construct", without acknowledging that some of the most paramount aspects of human existence are "social constructs" (i.e language) and that gender is one of them. And without addressing why sexual taboos (like public nudity) are gendered - to them its a form of irrational injustice. But expore the social ramifications -through real and hypothetical examples- and you quickly find that it is indeed rational to treat bodies different according to their gender, and that human social psychology does have strong roots in human phsyiognamy.

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  • “I've definitely learned that gender classifiers are an unreliable and flawed technology, especially when it comes to trans people's gender expression,” Ada Ada Ada said. “I regularly see my algorithmic gender swing back and forth from week to week.

    Says the person changing themselves week to week to fit different classifications?

  • UK will have removed China’s Hikvision surveillance cameras from sensitive sites by April 2025 as further risks through connected cars, EVs are addressed, report says

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  • I'd say that if you live in literally any nation that doesn't directly border them or isnt married to the Pentagon, they haven't proven to be much of a concern at all. Except maybe to your exports. As far as "free world" gibberish goes, they aren't the ones defending the Saudi monarch from his own people.

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  • Big mistake tbh.

  • UK will have removed China’s Hikvision surveillance cameras from sensitive sites by April 2025 as further risks through connected cars, EVs are addressed, report says

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  • China is a global tech competitor and any major incident relating to espionage via its commercial devices would kill the golden goose. The CCP also know this. In fact they more and more follow the US model of approaching their tech firms in more roundabout legal ways in order to get their way. It turns out having market access to the US and EU is more useful than knowing whatever some NCO at Port Hadlock is babbling about at any given moment.

    The fear appears to be that Chinese tech could become a security threat in the case of very high tensions or war. As for "free world", that's not a particularly meaningful term to me.

  • UK will have removed China’s Hikvision surveillance cameras from sensitive sites by April 2025 as further risks through connected cars, EVs are addressed, report says

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  • That's very interesting, are the security concerns warranted or just a "better safe than sorry" overcompensation? I recall when the Trump admin started their war on Huawei (for protectionist purposes), the US government suddenly treated all Huawei infrastructure near military sites as suspect despite okay'ing it during the Obama years.

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    1. Chinese manufacturers makes modern cars with modern functionality.
    2. The CCP doesn't make cars.
    3. UK has data localization laws.
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  • 25% Pentagon/Kremlin/Israeli and political bot farms.

    25% AI and Marketing sock puppets, content farms.

    50% users.

  • Kamala Harris' Fox News appearance should be a lesson for Democrats

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  • Professional Democrat Party cheerleader, Psaki: "The Democratic nominee did awesome!"

    Average Foxs News viewer, Joe Schmoe: "i could tell Kamala was a hologram during that entire thing."

  • The Biden administration has now canceled loans for more than 1 million public workers

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  • A necessary comment like this would never make it in the awful Reddit version of this sub. This place feels like the real Reddit I used to use before 2016.

  • Ukraine war: China's TikTok “more dangerous” in terms of spreading Russian disinformation than the Russia-founded messaging app Telegram, Ukrainian expert says

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  • Tends to happen when you open the conversation by calling someone a "liar for their murderous leader."