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mackyspaceon Microsoft fires engineers who protested during company's 50th anniversary

Americans who lightly support Israel are baby boomers that won't be with us much longer.

mackyspaceon Microsoft fires engineers who protested during company's 50th anniversary

What happened? About a trillion dollars worth of hasbara, which in the end couldn't counteract the actual footage IDF were posting of their war crimes.

mackyspaceon Microsoft fires engineers who protested during company's 50th anniversary

There's zero evidence that the protests have had negative impact on support for Palestinians. The media is staunchly Zionist, you could make the case the protests have effectively counterbalanced their propaganda.

mackyspaceon Microsoft fires engineers who protested during company's 50th anniversary

Just because you had no reaction to it, it doesn't mean it didn't do anything. I know people at Microsoft and now they're talking internally about this.

mackyspaceon Microsoft fires engineers who protested during company's 50th anniversary

That's not true at all and you won't find a poll that backs up what you're saying.

mackyspaceon Microsoft fires engineers who protested during company's 50th anniversary

Support for Palestinians has increased steadily since Israel started its latest genocide. I think you're confusing Zionist PR expenditures with actual support, which is rapidly dwindling for Israel.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/657404/less-half-sympathetic-to...

mackyspaceon Microsoft fires engineers who protested during company's 50th anniversary

I'm going to go out on a limb and say the side bombing hospitals is fully animated. What is important is that more and more people realize the companies their giving their money to are using it to kill children.

mackyspaceon Microsoft fires engineers who protested during company's 50th anniversary

You might want to look up the definition of sacrifice if you think it's synonymous with self-indulgent. It's literally the opposite.

mackyspaceon Microsoft fires engineers who protested during company's 50th anniversary

We're talking about it, so it seems pretty effective to me! The "won't people think of Bill Gate's feelings!" arguments aren't very compelling, just makes you look like you want to be complicit.

mackyspaceon Microsoft fires engineers who protested during company's 50th anniversary

They used their positions to put pressure on a mega corporation. A huge sacrifice and now there are multiple mainstream media stories about Microsoft supporting genocide. Their efforts aren't going to end the killing but they are going to increase pressure on all corporations.

mackyspaceon Microsoft fires engineers who protested during company's 50th anniversary

They sacrificed their jobs to protest genocide. You are nothing like them.

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China is doing what it's always done and its culture far predates "the west".

mackyspaceon Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft

If you don’t think the war in Israel, AIPAC, Zionist owned AI, Zionist VCs, the presidential election… are important, then there’s not much for us to discuss.

Side note, the pathological Israeli desire to have the last word is super obnoxious. You can just let a conversation end without adding one more reiteration of the same thing you’ve already said many times. I find this bad trait is omnipresent amongst Zionists.

mackyspaceon Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft

Yes a ceasefire is pro-Palestinian and they have been celebrating it. There’s another hostage exchange happening where they get back 200 people in exchange for 4 today.

mackyspaceon Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft

Yes. It’s directly related to the most major issues of today including the post we are currently commenting on.

mackyspaceon Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft

I think the last election agrees with me! Harris lost because of her support for Israel and sure enough Trump got a ceasefire done immediately. I’m no Trump fan and think he’s anything but pro-Palestinian but he was the lesser evil here.

mackyspaceon Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft

The end game is a single state, full rights to Palestinians and reparations. It’s also quite possible Israel goes the way of Rhodesia.

mackyspaceon Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft

The vast majority of Americans do not know about The Balfour Declaration, Nakba, The March of Return… they know what Zionist media teaches them, which is nothing about the actual history of the region. This is the source of demographic split in how Israel is viewed. People who grew up with the internet vs msm are more informed.

mackyspaceon Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft

I don’t agree. Palestinians will use force to reclaim their land and rightfully so. Again, Israel could choose peace to stop this from happening. They are the occupying force and the only humane option is to end occupation. I think demographics in the west will support this line of thinking more and more so I don’t see Israel having much of a choice in the long run.

mackyspaceon Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft

I’m in the US so I would start with immediately ending all funding, military and political support for Israel. They’ve been able to be belligerent because we empowered that. Then I would sanction US companies that operate in Israel until apartheid is fully ended and a singular democratic state exists and the right of return is honored with reparations. I think we’d either see Israel play ball or collapse ala Rhodesia. Focusing on putting economic pressure on Israel seems like the most peaceful solution but I wouldn’t deny Palestinians a military option if that was all they had.

mackyspaceon Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft

That ignores history though. There’s a very clear right and wrong here. Israel was artificially constructed through ethnic cleansing. The Balfour Declaration and Nakba pretty much explain it all.

mackyspaceon Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft

What helps is to know the history of Israel’s ethic cleansing campaign against Palestinians. Zionists have been murdering civilians en mass since Israel was founded. We don’t hear about it in the West, but it’s actually well documented. They even sniped over a thousand people during the peaceful March of Return protest, leaving Hamas essentially no option.