PP and the Fed whine a lot about BC using foreign builders for our Civilian ferries, but they’re awfully quiet on how the Fed is shopping around foreign nations to buy things like Military subs and frigates, or the US for our jets…

Who gives a shit if BC’s ferries are from China, while the federal government’s military vessels are foreign made / likely ‘controlled’ (in terms of being reliant on them for maintenance / parts and operational items, let alone potential backdoors/faults that they pre-build into them for obvious reasons).

Maybe the assholes who are in charge of our military / protection ought to check their own shit, before yelling at others. Heck, our government can’t fuckin run without a Microsoft subscription ffs – we can’t claim sovereignty, when our gov is hopelessly reliant on a subscription to a foreign company to function.

I can’t help but laugh at the note about small start ups lead by 19-20 YOs succeeding with millions of dollars by ‘partnering well’ and so on.

The success or failure of these AI companies seems almost entirely driven by the amount of Venture Capital thrown at them. A company like Perplexity, with practically zero product, having been formed less than 5 years ago, but being able to put up $35 billion in an offer to buy google chrome… I can’t help but suspect that a big part of it is google handing perplexity a pile of money via “Venture Capitalist” screens, to help offload Chrome to mitigate their regulatory monopoly problems. But whatever the details, them having that pile of money is sure as shit not a matter of having a good product / partnering with other industries well.

Eye glasses started showing up around 1300 AD. Implies the basic tech / processes required to make them is relatively simple, given that they’ve been around in some form ever since the middle ages. Granted, they wouldn’t be as sophisticated as they are today, and many people with very niche issues would suffer.

Anything more modern, requiring microchips or heavily integrated international supply chains would go poof. Personally, I’d worry about dental and medical stuff we diagnose with x-rays. Like it’s not too uncommon for people to have a root canal these days… but it didn’t become a more ‘common’ thing until around the 1800-1900 period. Hell, getting your wisdom teeth pulled in a post-event world would likely suck some serious ass.

So I understand the seeming disconnect between who he is and what they attest to value, and why it’s so confusing. I wouldn’t pretend to know specifically why he has decent support amongst that demographic.

But at the same time, whatever the reason is, even if it’s straight-up racist “I wanna vote for the white power guy”, we don’t tend to see the same sort of questions being asked about minority politicians and their supporters amongst their own demographic. Like my city here in Canada elected a minority race mayor, and the minority folks who made of the bulk of his rally supporters and voters, when interviewed openly said stuff like “finally we’re going to get treated better and he’ll prioritize our issues”. Minority candidates benefit from racist viewpoints all the time, amongst the minority community – racism is only seemingly considered a problem when it’s impeding a minority.

If we accept that sort of sentiment from a minority group individual as a reasonable reason to support a candidate, then it’s equally as reasonable a justification for the white supremacists to support Trump, no?

Hamas has often been the roadblock for getting a two state setup sorted. I mean, the chant “From the River to the Sea” is about the Jordan river, and includes all of Israel – it’s legit a call for the extermination of all Israeli Jews. Hamas has pretty clearly not been in favour of a two state solution, ever. Like, the Oslo accords fell apart due to failures from both the Israeli govt and the Palestinian Authority – it’s hard to blame just Israel, when Hamas was busy assassinating people involved in the peace talks.

Doesn’t excuse what Israel’s doing to civilians currently though, nor how they’ve generally treated the Palestinian population for decades.

Another note worth highlighting, is that the ‘world response’ is largely one that eyes the USA with caution. The US govt prioritizes Israel’s interests even over their own citizens, with Trump commenting on FEMA aid being denied for any state that’s off-message on the ongoing conflict. Trump even jacked up tariffs on Canada just because the PM said he might recognise Palestine (if a bunch of impossible conditions were met). The US president isn’t exactly subtle when he tweets shit like this. Imagine what the USA would do if other countries tried to take actual military action (blockades, or deploying UN peacekeepers or whatnot) to stop Israel from committing genocide – cause that’s what it realistically would’ve taken to stop them.

Hell, Israel has nukes. That’s more than most other countries. There’s this fun conspiracy theory I’ve heard that Israel managed to get some smaller nukes into America at some point, and basically has a ‘quiet understanding’ with the USA that if Israel goes down, they’ll detonate nukes in key points in America. It’d help explain America’s capitulation to Israel, though I think it’s a bit far fetched – the more likely reason is prolly more mundane, like campaign money/financing and regular corruption.