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Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

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Re: Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

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Post by mhb »

kombine wrote: post #94
inglor wrote: post #37

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Israeli here - I'll try to write this the least political as I can since I on one hand disagree strongly with the government and on the other my experience has been getting antisemstic (yes, not anti-zionist) comments whenever this gets discussed a lot (and likely downvotes but who cares I've been here 10 years and have more fake points than is important anyway). Israel has several "cores" of technology. The military…

> Israeli here - I'll try to write this the least political We are more than two years into full-on genocide and you hesitate to be political? This position reminds me of many Russians who prefer to "stay out of politics" because there are "two sides" to the conflict and it's an uncomfortable topic for them.

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Re: Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

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Post by trimethylpurine »

nick_ wrote: post #100
trimethylpurine wrote: post #69

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Is the UK a US ally? Is Japan? If you only focus on one country for some strange reason that you can't explain, people are going to notice. That shouldn't surprise you.

Does the UK or Japan engage in election meddling in the US?

Nearly every country does it, in nearly every other country. That's well known fact at this point. The US government is openly, actively, warning American citizens about it. FOIA continues to reveal clandestine ops including faked terror attacks that happened (and are probably still happening) all over the world.

What does that have to do with Israel?

Re: Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

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Post by Matl »

mhb wrote: post #231
kombine wrote: post #94

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> Israeli here - I'll try to write this the least political We are more than two years into full-on genocide and you hesitate to be political? This position reminds me of many Russians who prefer to "stay out of politics" because there are "two sides" to the conflict and it's an uncomfortable topic for them.

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Is this the disgusting attempt to deny the Gaza genocide it sounds like?

Re: Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

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Post by perpetualpear »

joxdosba wrote: post #207
timoshishi wrote: post #203

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Can you provide these sources?

First google result https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-03/ty-article/.p... At least according to this study, almost all Israelis are monsters who openly support genocide.

I wouldn't be surprised if the results of a poll for actual genocide would be the same, but expulsion is not genocide. I really wish people would stop diluting the meaning of genocide at every opportunity.

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Post by bigyabai »

r_lee wrote: post #36
Matl wrote: post #31

Last time I suggested on a similar story that there's a disproportionate number of firms in Israel with an explicit focus on subversion, manipulation, spying and malware, seemingly because a large portion of the Israeli population gain a certain expertise in these fields as part of serving in the IDF and working to suppress Palestinians, I got accused of bias because apparently there's many more Israeli startups work…

there's not much controversy that would pull media attention in green tech or medical research

Medical research is still plenty controversial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Aftonbladet_Israel_contro...

Re: Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

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Post by SauciestGNU »

perpetualpear wrote: post #234
joxdosba wrote: post #207

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First google result https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-03/ty-article/.p... At least according to this study, almost all Israelis are monsters who openly support genocide.

I wouldn't be surprised if the results of a poll for actual genocide would be the same, but expulsion is not genocide. I really wish people would stop diluting the meaning of genocide at every opportunity.

Forced displacement and ethnic cleansing is a core component of genocide, you're making a distinction without a difference.

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Post by trimethylpurine »

aaomidi wrote: post #150
mhb wrote: post #145

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I’m not going to argue with you. I’m going to leave a comment for others to inform themselves that you’re wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

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Re: Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

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Post by trimethylpurine »

Matl wrote: post #112
trimethylpurine wrote: post #98

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> Must be nice to live in a country where your neighbors don't blame you for killing Jesus and want to exterminate you. Says a country that's been credibly accused of trying to exterminate its neighbors you mean? The absolute lack of self-reflection that is on display here is something else.

Lack of self reflection? I'm American. I'm in my living room judging a nation that kidnapped Jewish kids.

I don't need to reflect on anything. I didn't do that, and I'm fully justified in telling you that it's wrong to do that.

I didn't fire rockets from schools to hide behind children. That's reserved for Hamas, and Iran.

I don't see Israel doing that.

Someone definitely needs to self reflect. It's those people. It's not Israelis.

Children are sacred. Life is sacred. IRGC apparently doesn't see it that way. Hamas apparently doesn't. And you apparently don't either.

That's on you. You don't have a leg to stand on where it comes to morality. That's obvious to everyone in America, just to be clear.

You think the left supports Gaza? The moment they see that Hamas is using children as rocket shields they won't. That's all temporary.

It's incompatible with American society. It will never work for you. You only have some support right now because you've managed to hide that fact.

But we both know you're okay with it. It's for the cause, in your mind.

Tell me I'm wrong. Go ahead.

Re: Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

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Post by breppp »

Georgelemental wrote: post #202
breppp wrote: post #139

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That's doubtful, I don't think Israel has the resources to spend huge sums of money to invest in manipulating French municipal elections.. That's absurd

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