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> America might have still lost, so there's a claim to a Pyrrhic victory. Might have?? America has spent - at the lowest possible estimate - at least 8 trillion dollars on the "war…

> children got killed because their school was used as a ground base to fire rockets from. I don't really know how to talk to people who think killing children - by the tens of tho…

More than 14,500 children were killed by Israel in that period. 14,500 / 154 = more than 94 children per resolution. Seems fair. How many children did "Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Ru…

Hind Rajab. Sidra Hassouna. Reem and Khaled. The premie babies at Al-Nasr hospital. Over a hundred bombed hospitals. The Irish president's sister kidnapped and abused. Assassinatin…

> There's lots of physical labor jobs that pay more. More than a billion? ... Let's keep things in perspective here.

Are you saying that with the awareness that this will be used to remove privacy from social media?

To be perfectly honest, I actually do think we should stop all the both sidesing - but only after following it to its logical conclusion. Have _both sides_ actively collaborated in…

And law.

No, we can not stop with the both sidesing. We are here in many ways as a direct result of the last admin, particularly the way they threatened tech companies. This moved tech comp…

There are actually quite a few trillion dollar industries that exist thanks to "side projects". Apple was Woz's side project, once upon a time. Adsense came from Google's 20% time.…

Yes, he thinks his moral stance is the correct one, and lives by it. ... And?

> it's clear the author thinks his' is the moral stance If you don't think your moral stance is the correct one - then why aren't you changing your moral stance? Why do you have on…

Some people care about things beyond their own immediate self interest. Some don't, and find it hard to believe others really do.

Apologies for reading your comment in an antagonistic way, but, I couldn't find a better way to read it. If you're saying that it was just about adding context, okay, but I think t…

> a smaller story Sure. Any one person's story will be smaller than the whole picture - is that your whole point? What are you proposing - that we ignore stories like this until we…

If we weren't heavily complicit in rapidly accelerating fascism, as a direct and immediate outcome of those stories and others like them, then I might agree. But we are, and I don'…

> people will just assume the whole chain is bad. The whole chain is bad. We're far past the point where the company bigwigs should have fixed this. It's not like they don't know. …

> any competent criminal defense attorney I don't think 'going to town on illegally obtained evidence' works as often as you believe it does [0, 1]. And think back - how many peopl…

Supposing that to be true... Does justice depend on what every other country is doing?

> "anyone with an opinion different from mine must be a paid shill" Not remotely what I said. One of the better HN guidelines here is to try and interpret comments you read in the …