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Rat_in_a_hat

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  • [Opinion] Canada has its eyes wide shut in approach to strengthening China ties

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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...

  • Israel puts Palestinian doctor in solitary confinement after 17 months held without charge

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  • I think you mean the Gestapo

  • US destroys Iran reservoirs, leaving thousands without water in searing heat

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  • If we've been paying attention, then the US is a vassal state of Israel and likes to support authoritarians globally (like Russia).

  • Proton has respond on reddit

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  • 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.

  • Lebanese president accuses Iran of using his country as a bargaining chip in peace talks with the US

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  • 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?

  • Lebanese president accuses Iran of using his country as a bargaining chip in peace talks with the US

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  • 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?

  • Lebanon says Israel has bombed it nearly 3,500 times during ceasefire

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  • 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.

  • Lebanese president accuses Iran of using his country as a bargaining chip in peace talks with the US

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  • Since its founding in the 1980s, Hezbollah has gone to war with Israel multiple times.

    CNN should probably mention the conditions that led to Hezbollah's founding.

    Admittedly, Hezbollah hasn't been great to Lebanese either, but Israel never let up the pressure and aggression that only continued to justify Hezbollah's argument to exist. And a fractured neighbor is much better than a unified neighbor.

  • UK readies sanctions against Israel to deter proposed illegal West Bank settlement

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  • When there's a case of genocide being investigated, the UK would like to say that they did all they can to prevent it. All while the beat and outlaw protests against the genocide.

    It's OK to call out the hypocrisy.

    Or do you want me to clap for them like a trained monkey and say "what a great step in the right direction"?

  • UK readies sanctions against Israel to deter proposed illegal West Bank settlement

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  • Lip service. With no actual sanctions on the state itself or ceasing to send weapons and components, then it'll be more useless than the paper it's written on.

  • Iran fires missiles at Israel; official warns Tehran: ‘We won’t let this pass’

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  • Should just start downvoting all Israeli sources

  • [Discussion] Which privacy apps / services do you think are most likely US government honeypots?

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  • Israeli actually, like express VPN

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    Israel hit by wave of Iranian missiles. Iranian military says: "This is the beginning of a full week of continuous strikes"

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  • The BBC doesn't capture the sequence of events on purpose and Wuddi is trying to obfuscate even further.

    • Israel has been threatening to bomb a densely populated area in a Beirut suburb (this is while there's supposed to be a ceasefire in Lebanon)

    • Iran warns Israel saying that they will retaliate if they do

    • Israel bombs that area

    • Hezbollah respond with rockets

    • Iran makes good on their retaliation

  • Israeli bombings on Residential Building in Lebanon

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  • Noted, corrected the title

  • Ukraine targets St. Petersburg again after Putin rejects Zelenskyy's offer for direct talks

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  • Listen, fuck Putin and Slava Ukraine your analysis is mostly sounds, but civilians are definitely getting hit and I wouldn't generalize or gloss over the loss of life

    A bus being hit https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3peyykxd5o

    A school with children casualties https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/05/1167579

    But while this is a protracted war where civilians are still being hit, we can see how accurate both sides can be. Meanwhile Israel is carpet bombing and calling it precision strikes.

  • Israeli strike kills Lebanese army general, two soldiers; IDF says incident under review

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  • Yeah, I wouldn't direct traffic of Israeli war crimes to their propaganda outlets. Best to choose a better news source or a Lebanese one.

    And Israel actually killed 12 people, but are reporting on only these 3

  • Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say

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  • That's pretty much what happened with USAID. Their reports kept mentioning how Israel was blocking aid trucks and shooting at civilians. The director said that Israel was in breach of the Leahy law. Biden admin censored them and pulled the operations out of Palestine. Trump came in and completely dismantled it.

  • [American-owned media] TTC under fire from Jewish community over inverted red triangle on FIFA theme shirts

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  • Guess I'll need to buy a ttc jersey

  • Most people across 36 countries have negative views of Israel and little confidence in Netanyahu

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  • Could be settlers in the West Bank...