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Post by JumpCrisscross »

siltcakes wrote: post #390
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #264

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> Ashkenazis are Europeans Okay? So are most American Jews. Most humans can legitimately claim ancestry to the Levant. It's the coast closest to the cradle of civilization. There is absolutely evil happening in Gaza. But pretending this is black-and-white, from an ocean away, is just alienating. It turns what should be a broad political discussion into a niche issue.

Most people on the planet view this as a black and white issue. Zionists are the modern day Nazis and I don't see a lot of sympathy for them.

> Most people on the planet view this as a black and white issue. Zionists are the modern day Nazis and I don't see a lot of sympathy for them.

No. Most people see the nuance. There are a small number of extremists (on both sides, granted) who see this as a black-and-white issue requiring extermination.

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Post by siltcakes »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #511
siltcakes wrote: post #390

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people on the planet view this as a black and white issue. Zionists are the modern day Nazis and I don't see a lot of sympathy for them.

> Most people on the planet view this as a black and white issue. Zionists are the modern day Nazis and I don't see a lot of sympathy for them. No. Most people see the nuance. There are a small number of extremists (on both sides, granted) who see this as a black-and-white issue requiring extermination.

Do most people see nuance with the Nazis? I suggest you talk to some Gen Z people as they most definitely view Zionists as Nazi equivalent. A view I think most of the non-Western world also holds.

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Post by FunnyUsername »

cess11 wrote: post #502
UltraSane wrote: post #432

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This is a very bizarre conspiracy theory definition.

How so? Which part do you disagree with, the violent crimes or that most participants in the movement are christians?

It's like defining Germany as "a state that genocided various groups", or defining Irish nationalism as "a movement characterized by terrorist attacks against British civilians". Whether or not those claims are accurate, they're not defining features of the things we're trying to define.

And sure, most Zionists are not Jews because the Jewish population is too tiny to be a majority in almost any political category. Similarly most people who support Somaliland independence are not Somalilanders, but probably Indians or Chinese or something.

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

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

siltcakes wrote: post #512
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #511

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Most people on the planet view this as a black and white issue. Zionists are the modern day Nazis and I don't see a lot of sympathy for them. No. Most people see the nuance. There are a small number of extremists (on both sides, granted) who see this as a black-and-white issue requiring extermination.

Do most people see nuance with the Nazis? I suggest you talk to some Gen Z people as they most definitely view Zionists as Nazi equivalent. A view I think most of the non-Western world also holds.

> suggest you talk to some Gen Z people

I have Gen Z friends.

> they most definitely view Zionists as Nazi equivalent

Some of them do. They’re concentrated in a few cities. (Principally New York.)

Most of them see the back and forth and minority of extremists in each camp not representing the others. (There are more than two factions at play before we even figure on the international elements.)

> most of the non-Western world also holds

Most of the non-Western world doesn’t know what Zionism is because it’s irrelevant to them.

Ukraine was my pet war. I had to fight the tendency to reduce every geopolitical and domestic political issue through it. Because it’s not true. We aren’t abandoning Ukraine because of some Russia conspiracy, we’re abandoning it because most voters care much more about pocketbook issues.

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Post by Cyph0n »

FunnyUsername wrote: post #509
Cyph0n wrote: post #377

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Next time, if you really want to have a serious discussion, cut the snark and try not to hide behind a throwaway. This is not Reddit.

You might want to review the HN guidelines yourself. You shouldn't be complaining about snark right after writing > your good faith arguments have convinced me! > Silly me, how could I even argue about this? It’s just so damn obvious!

I only employ snark in response to snark..

> That would seem very unfair, if Russia did it just because they're mean

> Still not a great idea to have random journalists waltzing around and tweeting photos of military assets.

> This is a funny explanation

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Post by oa335 »

cbeach wrote: post #417
oa335 wrote: post #263

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Likud government and charter explicitly calls for all land between the river and the sea to be for Jews.

That is a territorial/sovereignty claim (i.e., rejecting Palestinian sovereignty/statehood in that space). It is not an explicit call to kill, expel, or physically destroy Palestinians, nor does it literally say “for Jews only.” Under the Genocide Convention, genocide requires specific intent (“intent to destroy, in whole or in part”) a protected group, plus one of the listed genocidal acts (killing; causing serious…

> nor does it literally say “for Jews only.”

You are incorrect.

The official policy of the current government of Israel is ”the Jewish people have an exclusive right on all the land” between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.” per the coalition agreement the Likud-led government made in 2022: https://archive.is/EYGLU

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Post by siltcakes »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #514
siltcakes wrote: post #512

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do most people see nuance with the Nazis? I suggest you talk to some Gen Z people as they most definitely view Zionists as Nazi equivalent. A view I think most of the non-Western world also holds.

> suggest you talk to some Gen Z people I have Gen Z friends. > they most definitely view Zionists as Nazi equivalent Some of them do. They’re concentrated in a few cities. (Principally New York.) Most of them see the back and forth and minority of extremists in each camp not representing the others. (There are more than two factions at play before we even figure on the international elements.) > most of the non-West…

I don’t agree with everything you’re saying but appreciate the level headed thinking. Thanks for that.

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Post by hackable_sand »

iso1631 wrote: post #295
simondotau wrote: post #254

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The internet is where every issue is a binary, nuance is scorned, and moderate views are weakness. You should know this already.

"centrist dad" is apparently an insult

The only positive quality to centrists and moderates is their endurance of sledgehammer attacks.

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

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Post by anonzzzies »

wombat-man wrote: post #393
anonzzzies wrote: post #104

Of all the tools I try and review, replit remains to be simply the worst in my opinion. I struggle to do anything useful with it except trivial hello world type of stuff. The bubble is real.

replit worked really well as a way to play with code ideas. Going from 0 to running code on their site is very handy. I can try something out in python without much setup, as someone who rarely uses the language. I tried their AI coding feature a few months back, and it was quite bad, but it was interesting to watch it iterate.

I am comparing it to the state of the art of AI envs and as for the setup; github could also do that for quite a long time now (but it got a lot easier and cheaper); for the past, I would say year, it was easy to experiment with whatever on github too, and recently on chatgpt and claude. All of them now have containers that start which can run anything.

So they caught up with Replit there, but AI wise replit didn't catch up with them. Sure it is interesting to watch it iterate, but that is also interesting for all the others as they do that too, just better.

I cannot see why one would use replit over the rest at this point but obviously that can change if it does get significantly better.

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