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Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by OfficeChad »

mise_en_place wrote: post #90
oceanplexian wrote: post #81

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What are you even talking about? My family is Argentine and 100% assimilated, speak English, love and embrace American culture and values. No one has ever treated us any differently in any context both in middle America and on the coasts. It’s not a racial issue either, because my friends who are first generation Asian, Indian, etc, would all share the same sentiment. America is the most welcoming place on Earth for…

I'm not making a normative judgement here, it's just my observation as the child of immigrants myself. There are of course exceptions to the rule. I'm making an argument in the context of political economy, please don't take it personally.

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Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by flumpcakes »

UltraSane wrote: post #207
cholantesh wrote: post #26

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I found the piece rambling and incoherent, but I don't really see how this follows. This is an individual Jordanian founder who made a political statement. That's not really the same thing as the deep integration between the Israeli state, Zionist organizations, and big tech.

What does "Zionist" mean to you? I honestly don't understand what it means when Israel has existed as a Jewish state for 76 years and seems likely to continue doing so for the foreseeable future.

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Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by Y_Y »

flumpcakes wrote: post #239
internet_points wrote: post #233

well, it's not a high bar – these days anyone who says "I support Palestine Action" or "she was murdered by ICE" is called a terrorist sympathizer

> these days anyone who says "I support Palestine Action" They have a video of people from this group attacking police with sledgehammers. It is strange how much of this 'direction action' is harming Ukraine support and not Israel. If people wanted to support Palestine they can do it without attacking their own countries' military - which is not operating in Israel at all. > "she was murdered by ICE" They have a vide…

Congratulations, you've reached the level of "terrorist well-wisher"

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by cess11 »

UltraSane wrote: post #207
cholantesh wrote: post #26

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I found the piece rambling and incoherent, but I don't really see how this follows. This is an individual Jordanian founder who made a political statement. That's not really the same thing as the deep integration between the Israeli state, Zionist organizations, and big tech.

What does "Zionist" mean to you? I honestly don't understand what it means when Israel has existed as a Jewish state for 76 years and seems likely to continue doing so for the foreseeable future.

Zionism is older than the state of Israel. It is a political movement consisting mainly of christians.

If you want to learn more you could do worse than follow Zachary Foster's lectures for the Rutgers Center:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zachary+foster+...

The podcast The Empire Never Ended has recently finished a rather good series on Meir Kahane, one of the most important influences on contemporary zionism:

https://www.patreon.com/tenepod

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by cess11 »

flumpcakes wrote: post #242
UltraSane wrote: post #207

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What does "Zionist" mean to you? I honestly don't understand what it means when Israel has existed as a Jewish state for 76 years and seems likely to continue doing so for the foreseeable future.

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chakintosh wrote: post #226
cbeach wrote: post #224

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> The Hamas Charter explicitly called for the “annihilation” of the Jewish state. See, this is what grinds my effing gears. On one hand you have a party "calling" for the "annihilation" of Israel. On the other hand, you have a part who is calling for the annihilation of palestinians AND they are ACTIVELY doing it. But no, you have to draw an equivalence somehow ...

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Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Post by cess11 »

UltraSane wrote: post #211
ebbi wrote: post #132

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So you don't accept the fact that a lot of this sectarian violence flared after the toppling of Saddam, which was because of the US? And how many of the deaths do you attribute to the sectarian violence, as opposed to the direct actions of the US in the region?

The VAST majority of the deaths were from sectarian violence.

After toppling Saddam Hussein the US took political control in the country and decided who got to decide what. The slaughter that followed was a direct and rather predictable result of this.

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Post by cess11 »

cbeach wrote: post #224
jeanlou wrote: post #220

It's funny how when talking about Israël's wrongdoings, everything is just "allegedly". Facts already confirms genocide, but hey, they don't want to land in hot water.

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The Hamas charter indicates that they would accept a two-state solution with 1967 borders.

This is not something the state of Israel will accept and is quite blatant in declaring that they would prefer to keep up the genocide.

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