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Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by holowoodman »

johncolanduoni wrote: post #362
varjag wrote: post #262

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Uh the whole concept of collective responsibility was first applied to Germans in the aftermath of WW2.

The occupying powers very much did not assign collective responsibility to Germans after WW2. Material reparations were massively reduced in scope compared to WW1 (and the norms of the previous century), and the Allies actually poured substantial resources into Germany’s reconstruction (far in excess of the reparations). Also, collective punishment is literally as old as written history. I’m not sure if there are wri…

> The occupying powers very much did not assign collective responsibility to Germans after WW2. Material reparations were massively reduced in scope compared to WW1 (and the norms of the previous century), and the Allies actually poured substantial resources into Germany’s reconstruction (far in excess of the reparations).

Mostly because the USSR was the new enemy and Germany had to be an ally after WW2.

While the war was still ongoing there was carpet-bombing of German civilians, and some of the plans for after the war originally included complete destruction of industrial capacities, forced displacement of the population of formerly industrialized areas and forced labour for the whole population (google Morgenthau plans).

Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by dns_snek »

Xelbair wrote: post #348
bradlys wrote: post #244

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Who is "you"? The US government doesn't reflect the majority of Americans, at all. It reflects capital interests - which the majority of Americans are not. Majority of Americans are laborers.

it was voted in by majority, no matter what mental gymnastics you do. People either voted, or decided that their vote was worthless enough.

Who voted on this issue and how many options did they have (on this issue)? The answers are "approximately zero" and "just one". There was no choice when it came to this issue.

Our western "democracies" aren't nearly as democratic as people like to believe.

Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by zoobab »

redbell wrote: post #228

That was a difficult and frustrating reading! I never imagined that sanctions could hit individuals this hard, especially on the digital side. You get banned from outside and blocked from inside. You can read about The Internet situation inside Iran here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33025954 There was a lot of interesting stuff went into the article: 1. Microsoft: > Back when I was a student, I got access to…

The current internet relies on censorable technologies (ip, dns, http, etc...).

Let's hope the next gen protocols will make censorship impossible, especially by law.

Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by michtzik »

varjag wrote: post #258
piokoch wrote: post #240

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It's year 2025. You just open company in Brazil or Argentina and you can purchase whatever you want. Before 1989 communistic countries were overcoming CoCom restrictions in this way. Russia is doing this successfully since 2014. Surely Iran, North Korea are doing the same, this is really a no brainer and today and it is not even hard or costly, as nobody needs to physically travel, money transfers go through Kaiman,…

Germany is not purchasing Russian oil. The only two EU states doing so are Hungary and Slovakia and both have vocally pro-Russian governments.

Your parent comment is correct. Germany buys millions of tons of "Kazakh" oil via the Druzhba pipeline, arriving at the PCK refinery in Schwedt. This oil is "blended" with Russian oil, and in any case is transported by Russia.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/kazakhstans-january-...

Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by tryauuum »

dustedcodes wrote: post #386
tryauuum wrote: post #357

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I don't know. If I would run "docker run hello-world" and got and error "403" because I'm from Iran, I would be more pissed at US for making my life harder. --- unrelated but jesus christ I'm so pissed at west as a russian. For years London was welcoming russian oligarhs with their stolen money. Putin was invited to Finland even after 2014 invasion of Crimea. But you fuckers decided to ipmlement sanctions only after…

> unrelated but jesus christ I'm so pissed at west as a russian > So if I sell my appartment in Russia and want to transfer money to Europe now I would need to prove this is not money I pillaged from Ukraine. Just stay at home then, whats the problem? If you are so pissed with the West then why is it a problem that you cannot come here? Just stay in Russia then.

you chose to ignore the part of my post where I was pissed at the west for happily inviting russians with stolen money

Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by m000 »

holowoodman wrote: post #375
m000 wrote: post #250

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>> the active administration is chosen by like a third of the voting population > Not really. Yes, REALLY. In fact it can be even worse. See the latest (June 2023) elections in Greece [1] (supposedly the cradle of democracy): First party got a 40.56% on a 53.74% turnout. I.e. around 22% of the electorate. Yet, this was adequate to yield a solid parliamental majority for 4 years. Also mind that the election system had…

Low turnout means non-voters just don't care, or that they find no palpable option on the ballot sheet. In any case, the non-voters are OK with whatever party might win, because otherwise they should have made their vote or created a political party that might be agreeable to them.

You are just rationalizing a deeply undemocratic process. These are the exact self-serving arguments that the winners make to legitimize a fundamendally unpopular government.

Also, in practice, no, you cannot make a political party in Greece. There's a country-wide threshold of 3% that you need to exceed to get into the parliament. A lot of well-organized parties struggle (and often fail) to exceed it. So even if you get 100% in an electoral district, you won't get its respective parliament seats. In fact (IIRC the tidbits of the election law), you will be making the first party stronger (and I don't mean by depriving votes from the second party).

This is not unlike other Western democracies. But this is essentially a design to cull any grassroot movements. Not very democratic.

Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by DanielHB »

tgma wrote: post #15

The sad part about living in Iran from a technology perspective is you are often blocked from both sides. Often you have to circumvent the government's aggressive internal firewall and other times you will have to hide your IP from the service providers. On the bright side, your average Iranian grandma can immediately work as a network engineer given the amount of experience she has with VPN protocols.

Oh boy, I remember the days you had to be a proper engineer to understand and set up VPNs. Like adblocking making this stuff popular just makes it less effective for people in-the-know.

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Post by spwa4 »

kelnos wrote: post #358
chabska wrote: post #221

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> Nobody should be expected to take that risk I've seen this sentiment so many times from westerners. You all say this, and yet at the same time you levy economic sanctions on countries like Iran, Cuba, and North Korea, with the justification that by making their citizens lives horrific, you encourage them to rise against their government. Their authoritarian militaristic government that doesn't care for human rights…

> I've seen this sentiment so many times from westerners. You all say this, and yet at the same time you levy economic sanctions on countries... "You all" is a weird way of putting it. I don't support my government levying sanctions on these countries, but I have zero power to change it. It's funny, as the gist author points out that he doesn't support the actions of the Islamic Republic, and has no power to change i…

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Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by m101 »

To the comments that talk about Iranian politics: Iran under a monarchy will do well, perhaps even limited democracy. The monarchies of the Arab world seem to be doing well, and not by chance. Democracy alone is not good for any country in the long run imo.

Re: Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

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Post by skywhopper »

bitkrieg wrote: post #378
kelnos wrote: post #358

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> I've seen this sentiment so many times from westerners. You all say this, and yet at the same time you levy economic sanctions on countries... "You all" is a weird way of putting it. I don't support my government levying sanctions on these countries, but I have zero power to change it. It's funny, as the gist author points out that he doesn't support the actions of the Islamic Republic, and has no power to change i…

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