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Why is this flagged? First of all, it's about an entrepreneur traveling to the US for a startup, which is directly relevant to a significant proportion of YCombinator founders themselves. Beyond its direct relevance to the core founding audience of HN, it is not clickbait or wantonly inflammatory, and is clearly of interest to many based on the comment activity and votes.
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Proselytizing isn't help. A mentally ill woman shrieking about a wizard who lives in the sky isn't support.
Perhaps, but you would not have said that to her if you were there.
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As a Brit: be careful about bigging up how Europe treats immigrants, because the Mediterranean issue has really upped the brutality of immigration enforcement and has resulted in some countries making it illegal to rescue drowning people.
The charges are that they facilitated trafficking by rescuing people that didn't need rescuing: https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/30/these-people-face-20-yea... Ironically somewhat corroborated by the photo in the article. What is the solution for Italy and Greece with these massive coast lines and islands? The refugees deliberately lose their passports. If the rescuers dumped them in a random North African country, e…
The solution is to once again enable applying for asylum at the embassies and consulates. Then nobody has to drown.
> If the rescuers dumped them in a random North African country, everything would be fine.
Apart from the many people being killed by random North African country, like what is happening currently with migrants in Libya. That's not fine at all.
> But they want to import as many as possible for ideological reasons.
Humanitarian reasons, not ideological.
In the UK you can be detained at the border without being given any reasons why, you don't have the right to a lawyer and you don't have the right to NOT answer the questions of the border agents. You also have to disclose the passwords to your phone and computer.
Then,they usually seize your devices for an arbitrary amount of time before eventually releasing you.
This applies to British citizens or foreigners.
It seems that the world is slowly but surely sliding in the wrong direction.
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To be fair, they're okay with what they got so long as they're not the ones getting it . Hamas is a hardline theocratic political party based on a very conservative interpretation of a religion. That means they're anti-free speech/press/religion/assembly, anti-LGBTQ rights, anti-free enterprise, anti-secular jurisprudence, and anti-representative government. Neither of the Palestinian Territories have had meaningful…
I don't know. I do know when I've worked in Gaza I've had to deal with Hamas because they are the defacto civil service. It's the same story we're seeing in the west though, from Hungary to America to Turkey to the UK. Strongman comes along and correctly says "your life sucks", then says "it sucks because of this group of people" Run with that message for generations, throw in members of "this group of people" actual…
Oh, absolutely. But the way to solve that is to realize that it was authoritarianism that started the problem.
If the Arab states had been willing to talk about the concept of a Jewish state in the Middle East immediately after WWII, this probably doesn't happen. Instead a bunch of authoritarian rulers (most of them monarchs) decided to send troops to try to snuff out the founding of the new state. "I was put here by God; what I say goes" was their entire experience, and they tried applying it to the geopolitical disagreement in their region.
A bunch of countries who more-or-less sat out WWII were up against the survivors of industrialized state-backed efforts to wipe out their people during the bloodiest war in human history. As we know, the former lost, and with it, any real chance of establishing a meaningful state for the Palestinian people on their terms.
There's two ways to handle a loss: you can accept it on reasonable terms, or you can keep digging a hole. Egypt and Jordan eventually came around to reasonable terms. So far, those terms have held over multiple governments and decades on both sides.
If the continued method taken by Hamas (and by extension, Iran) is going to be that of violence, particularly against a state they have to know, deep down, that they can't beat, then there's not too much else to be done other than keep the region from falling further into chaos. That, whether it is right or wrong in the minds of American voters, means blunting the impact of enemy action against Israel. It's one of the bloodiest examples of realpolitik.
Related: "The case for boycotting the United States" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/18/us-tru...
This is what main stream media propaganda looks like. > Dr Alawieh had traveled last month to Lebanon, her home country, to visit relatives. No, she did not; she attended the funeral of a leader of a US-designated terror organization. https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1901668299793899705
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Genuinely. Are they all Trump fans that say "finally we can do what we always wanted to do" or what? I mean there's the law or some executive order but there's also leeway in implementing. I am not qualified to judge but it just seems to be some sort of preemptive obedience.
I get the impression that a lot of school bullies get into law enforcement. they don't have the skills/credentials to do anything else and they have the streak of cruelty that you need to fit in.
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Objective is to earn as much money as possible without regard for people. Those detention centers and prisons are privately owned.
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Extremist positions on trans issues. To quote Sam Harris: "Congratulations, Democrats. You have found the most annoying thing in the fucking galaxy and hung it around your necks."[1] [1] https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-reckoning
And that impacts you on a daily basis exactly how? Think long and hard about why that would even begin to bother you. Not to mention is was barely a passing side issue for Harris
Harris failed to distance herself from positions that are deeply unpopular with the majority of Americans (e.g. sex changes for illegal immigrants). That's all there is to it.
If you want to step away from this particular issue, she failed to distance herself from the Biden administration's policies. There's a pretty famous clip of her failing to answer a question to that point, definitely on the youtubes.