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Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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

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Post by metabagel »

eltondegeneres wrote: post #11

> Masad, 38, has felt obliged to speak out about Gaza ever since, calling out those in tech who, in his view, have supported Israel’s “genocide” of the Palestinian people. This sentence would be better without the scare quotes. Something like "calling out those in tech who support what he views as a genocide."

I agree with you that it’s a genocide, but that is not universally accepted, so I think the scare quotes are OK. This article isn’t seeking to litigate the genocide in Gaza.

Scare quotes don’t mean that it’s not true.

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Post by cholantesh »

FunnyUsername wrote: post #53
cholantesh wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As it happens, genocide scholars disagree with you, and in any case, Gaza's population has not increased.

It's at least plausible that the population did increase. Estimates of births during the war are larger than the casualty count that Hamas claims.

Estimates of birth that rely on the mid-2023 figure and deliberately ignore Israel's systematic dismantling of the health and food systems in Gaza and the drop in fertility levels.

>the casualty count that Hamas claims

The Gaza Health Ministry's count is widely regarded as an underestimate, but mostly by people who don't refer to it with a dogwhistling caveat.

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

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Post by cholantesh »

ebbi wrote: post #103
cholantesh wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This clarifies things, thank you. I've gotten the impression that Masad doesn't have a very coherent worldview so I doubt he has given this contradiction much thought.

What gives you that impression?

Reading the article? The only thing resembling an ideology in there is a vague libertarianism of the like a lot of founders express.

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Post by xbmcuser »

didibus wrote: post #19

Reading through this piece and all I can think of is how he's just the other side of the same coin. Simply a different color of the same elitism that our world is moving into as money concentrates and starts to meddle more and more with our political spheres while accountability slowly errodes to zero.

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Post by ArneBab »

cholantesh wrote: post #26
didibus wrote: post #19

Reading through this piece and all I can think of is how he's just the other side of the same coin. Simply a different color of the same elitism that our world is moving into as money concentrates and starts to meddle more and more with our political spheres while accountability slowly errodes to zero.

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.

Last I checked the Koch Brothers weren’t Israeli. Do read up on them. Oversimplified narratives are bullshit.

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Post by FunnyUsername »

Cyph0n wrote: post #156
FunnyUsername wrote: post #154

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1. It's pretty much the same - no press in dangerous areas unless invited and escorted by the military. The only major difference is that Ukraine is >1000x larger, and has safe areas far from any fighting where such press restrictions aren't needed. 2. You're making a bunch of separate accusations without connecting them to the topic at hand, which was press restrictions.

No, they’re not the same, and (2) is very relevant. Let me reiterate: Ukraine is a sovereign nation with a sovereign military that has the ability to enforce restrictions within its own territory . To bring your bad analogy more in line with reality on the ground, imagine if Ukraine was still part of/occupied by the USSR/Russia, and Russia enforced press restrictions across all of Ukrainian territory during a Ukraini…

I'm not sure what you're getting at. Universally, modern militaries don't like journalists wandering around near their assets.

> and Russia enforced press restrictions across all of Ukrainian territory

Your analogy isn't very different from reality. Russia does enforce press restrictions near military assets, including in occupied parts of Ukraine.

> However, in this theoretical USSR, Ukrainians did not get Soviet citizenship, and were under a total blockade.

That would seem very unfair, if Russia did it just because they're mean and not because this hypothetical Ukraine had launched tens of thousands of rockets at them. But I'm not sure what it has to do with press restrictions.

> even during “ceasefire” periods

The ceasefire was pretty much dead once Hamas attacked IDF soldiers in Rafah. Now it's just a lower-intensity conflict. Still not a great idea to have random journalists waltzing around and tweeting photos of military assets.

> it simply wants a media blackout

This is a funny explanation because there are millions of cameras in Gaza anyway, and this is the second most covered conflict (by metrics like article count) in all of human history. Not much of a "blackout" at all.

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Post by siltcakes »

FunnyUsername wrote: post #170
siltcakes wrote: post #157

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Judaism is a religion. Jews are from all over the place. Almost none from Palestine.

"Judaism" sometimes refers to the religion, but many Jews are not religious. Jews are a group of people from Judea, hence its historical name. Some dispersion to other regions doesn't change where a group of people is from.

Judea does not exist. If you’re talking about Palestine, very few Jews are from there pre-dating Zionist invasion.

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Post by lostlogin »

dralley wrote: post #129
ebbi wrote: post #124

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Well there's Vietnam, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya etc which would tally ~300k civilian deaths alone. Given the blatantly false pretences that America invaded Iraq under, and the sectarian violence that significantly flared post-Saddam, I don't see why you'd not want to involve Iraq in the stats?

I accept US responsibility for a great many of the civilian deaths caused in Vietnam. I don't accept US responsibility for Islamists of different varieties blowing up each other's markets and places of worship with weapons provided by Iran and Syria.

Do you believe the violence would have happened without the US invasion?
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