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  • The amount of opinion pieces and fear mongering on Chinese EV cars stealing data I’ve seen - doesn’t look like eyes shut, but actually a lot more sinophobia and more scrutiny than I’ve seen applied to anything else.

    US funding separatists in Alberta - opinion piece saying we need stronger ties with the US

    Israel spyware known to track car systems and their phone hacking software used by RCMP - MPs drafting documents to diminish EV (specifically) data collection

    The US abusing it’s extradition treaty to imprison Huawei CFO - opinion piece about how we need to watch out for Chinese influence and their international policing

    And I’m not saying that these protections aren’t important, just that now it’s a big issue and harms our sovereignty all of a sudden.

    I wonder who gains the most when we put up these barriers but to only one country instead of all others…




  • While I agree that the response is heavily AI generated, I have to disagree that he’s pro-Maga. He reached out to both democrats and republicans to talk about the importance of privacy and the democrats turned him down (or entirely ignored him) while the republicans met with him.

    He then went on Xitter to shame the Dems and said that the Republicans seemed to be the party caring about privacy.

    He’s definitely a dumbass for trying to play it that way, but he did not come out in support of Maga.



  • I’m not sure what your argument is.

    We can talk about the marginalization of the Shia and also their forced migration from central parts of Lebanon to the South all day long. Yes, it happened. I’m not denying that. But the primary reason that Hezbollah exists is as a resistance group, otherwise they wouldn’t need their weapons.

    You’ll also notice that even in the article you quoted, issa mentions that the South was also unstable with the influx of refugees and skirmishes between them and Israel, AND the marginalization of the Shia.

    The problem was not simply poverty, according to Issa, but government abandonment under the conditions of permanent threat.

    So what’s your argument exactly?


  • Israel pulled their occupation out of Lebanon in 2000, the Syrian occupation lasted until 2005 (post Prime Minister assassination). Then 2006 war, then 2008 clashes where Hezbollah attacked Lebanese because their communication system was threatened.

    So to say that the South was neglected as if it was purposefully done by the central government and not that the central government was in disarray is heavily misunderstanding the political landscape.

    Not to mention that Hezbollah and allies have had a majority of seats in parliament for most of that period. So the question is, why didn’t Hezbollah provide more support to the South through the central government rather than their own networks?


  • The past few years there was a great “purge” of journalists that were publicly against the genocide with the excuse that the news outlets needed to stay independent (this was at Reuters and AP news). Because being against genocide is equated with supporting Hamas.

    But while those who protested the genocide were fired, those supporting the genocide were simply supporting a country against terrorism, and so they remained.

    And you can see how apparent that is in the language used by most media outlets.