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I think the more interesting angle is focused ultrasound which is proposed as a solution to a whole lot of diseases

What I am saying is that as often missed by American policy makers, bringing Democracy does not make a population automatically Liberal, and they often vote for disaster for both them and for the US.

Also, contrary to your theory, most of human history people were ruled by non-democratic governments that were deemed legitimate, so I think you are conflating the two

And you suppose the Nazi party that had won a large enough of the seats to enforce democratic consensus is also better than any alternative?

That's entirely possible, I was joking of course

> Where exactly this happened, really?

Iraq, Egypt, Gaza, Post-Soviet Russia comes to mind among others

That's fair, I have witnessed unions that took companies to the ground, were a center of corruption and created class favoritism between old and new workers.

That does not say it cannot work, or is never needed though

It happens that these are also the types that are attracted to union leadership positions

That's not a bad policy, considering America's disastrous history of spreading democracy and then finding out those voters want different shades of fascism

Or maybe you are backed by the CIA?

There are countries with universal healthcare and SV comparable wages

The archetype of the whining activist. Getting himself in idiotic trouble so he could benefit from the status of a victim and ensuing drama

I think the gun proliferation situation in Denmark is probably different than the US

I was expecting the story of the magical ¥ path separator

> Facing a broad decline in education test scores, the government in 2024 banned smartphones from schools and has given teachers back more powers to enforce discipline in the classroom.

Isn't that expected in most countries in Europe? There's an aging overall population that is shrinking and immigration is rising. So you get a progressively rising percentage of immigrants among school students, many of those coming from 3rd world countries with non-functioning education systems.

> I’d guess Occam’s razor the administration just leapt at the chance after their supplier sanctions fell flat?

For me Occam's Razor are these facts:

1. The Chinese are distilling American models

2. Anthropic last models have national security implications (large volume of exploit creation)

3. China is the US major adversary today

That's why restricting access to the models sound like a reasonable to do

Alphabet has Google with 99% of the profit through Ads, Search, Cloud, Gmail, Youtube etc

and tens of losing companies that make balloons or whatnot

Sorry, but none of your examples are related to Iran or are state mandated (and are awfully cherry-picked).

Iran ideological wishes of destroying Israel are pretty much in the open, no need to try to weasel around it. While there isn't any such ideology in Israel towards Iran

It's more complicated than that as the Palestinians are speaking the language of an earlier foreign colonizing empire that replaced another empire that ethnically cleansed the Jews and then colonized the area

> Which is why the PLO has a bloody conflict with Jordan, which you conveniently omit. It's almost as if they were opposed to being occupied, period.

The PLO tried to takeover Jordan after Jordan stopped occupying the West Bank, I don't see how that makes sense chronologically. You could also point at Palestinian attempts at taking over Lebanon, but that doesn't really support your argument that Palestinians are aggressive due to being under occupation

Regarding the Iranians comparison with the Soviets, The Soviets were an aggressive actor and that's why the world was on the brink of nuclear war numerous times in the 20th century, causing both sides to regulate. Iran had never really toned down its aggressive behavior towards Israel, culminating in the October 7th massacre and ended eventually with Iran in complete ruins

No, because the people who ruined the Internet were people like you who grew up on it, and then continued on to monetize it. The government was always too slow to be an actual threat.

Also chill with the anger

Sorry to break it out to you, but the internet was already destroyed by people like you in silicon valley, not the government

I think the bigger issue was when terror attacks started imitating FPS games

> Except Israel invaded Lebanon before that. It also engaged in assassinations, espionage, terror and sabotage before that. In fact Israelis engaged in those even before the state of Israel was officially pronounced.

That is moving the goal posts, as these are not instances of attacking Iran, it's hard to claim Iran never attacked Israel first when it is either financing attacks against Israel or participating in them for the last 45+ years

> Israelis will say they invaded Lebanon in the 70s/80s because of the PLO, (no Hezbollah yet) however the PLO was itself a consequence of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.

Back when the PLO was founded there was no "foreign territory occupied by Israel", only internationally recognized Israeli borders and Gaza/West Bank which were under Egyptian/Jordanian occupation. Two countries that refused to create an independent Palestinian state

Well, conspiracy theories are easier to explain when they are based on non-logic and I guess they also bring comfort.

> you say that as if israel doesn't have the exact same ideology against iran (it does)

What are the parallels in Israeli society for Iranian school systems morning chants of "Death to Israel" and a public countdown clock to the destruction of Israel?

> Much of the Israeli government believes that the entire world is out to get them; that every generation brings a new “Amalek” (as Prime Minister Netanyahu put it);

Sorry to inform you but the idea that every generation breeds someone that will try to destroy the Jewish people is firm in Jewish religion (and with merit). That is repeated in every Passover. It is also based on quite firm historical grounds though.

> that every Gentile anywhere in the world is at risk, if exposed to the right trigger, of waking up tomorrow wanting to start another Holocaust

That's your interpretation, as for someone that is versed in the local language and culture, I think it is wrong

> Here in the US, I see Zionists make similar arguments constantly ("Israel is the only country where Jews can be safe", "antisemitism is part of the European DNA", etc.). This (delusional, paranoid, insane) attitude is central to the national ideology, and the #1 reason why the country is so messed up.

Like it or not, but Zionism has said that European antisemitism is pathological and will end in disaster for the Jewish people. That might be regarded as paranoid in 1932, but zionist jews were largely saved while other less paranoid Jews were completely exterminated in an actual real genocide.

The message which you characterize as paranoid is quite easy for Israelis to understand as most of the country is descendent to refugees from genocide, ethnic cleansing or both

> That's why they just increased their PR budget to over $700 billion.

Sounds like a lot. In any case, I don't see how any of this explains Israel's obsession with municipal elections in France. But I guess it's a difference in axioms. Once you believe Israelis are insane, then you don't need to rationalize your own beliefs, even though they lack any logical ground

That's not a conspiracy theory though, the fact that political parties during elections campaign try to influence voters, sometimes in morally questionable ways, is pretty well known and common.

I had an issue with the idea that a nation in the Middle East is somehow interested in municipal elections in Europe as it somehow will advance its security interests... that's kinda way out there

Wait until you hear how many families could survive on the food you throw away