Smif_N_Lenin

naive is quite generous, they knew exactly what they were doing

Not so unjustifiable that he won’t play nice with Robert Kraft, aka as long it won’t affect his bottom line

CoMaps now has reviews!? Hell yeah, that was the main reason preventing me from switching over from gmaps

At the award ceremony, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft.”

“Aww, super sweet! apolitical btw”

• Ed Sheeran

Are you not taking the user reports on down detector at face value? All I pointed out is that those unverified reports conflict with official data about uptime. I even explicitly said there was a spike, as usual. It’s just not literally breaking the app. Then you conjectured those baseless claims I don’t hold simply because I said there’s no real evidence the spike was so big it breaks the app

You’re arguing against positions I don’t have, you good?

I would expect something to have recorded downtime at least, but none is reported. Just saying that down detector isn’t as reliable as the official logger

No one claimed Grindr activity didn’t increase, but it never went down

Is Grindr also in denial?

https://status.grindr.com/

You’re the one making up that distinction.

Why is a post about Apple’s matching of donations to Israel about Apple? Wow, what a brain teaser.

This post is about supporting the Apple employees just demands to stop and investigate these donations. You’re just concern trolling over not having the findings of that investigation already available.

additional open letter started by even more Apple employees, demanding the removal of organizations on the company’s Benevity site that fund and weaponize illegal settlements in the West Bank. Yes, you read that right! Apple Inc. matches 100% to organizations in Israel that fund and arm illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land.

I already boycott any company supporting israel and do my part for my local BDS movements. What the fuck are you doing besides running defence for apple here? You sure as hell ignored all the other connections Apple has with Israel.

You’re the only one who’s only focused on apple here

Use the No Thanks or even join a BDS working group

The matching program is setup in such a way that we CAN’T verify how much apple has donated through the matching program. On this topic, the issue is with Apple allowing donor matching to Apartheid, Genocide, and Settler Colonialism in the first place.

Additionally, through Project Nimbus, israel is directly funding the Zionist project, both financially as it’s a 1.2 billion dollar project, and military as this project is used to bolster the Israeli military apparatus. Not to mention how Apple has fired those who employees oppose Apple’s financial ties and projects with Israel.

There’s also the issue of Apple having factories in Israel. Either way you cut it, Apple materially supports Israel, and by extension the Apartheid, Genocide, and all other aspects of ethnic cleansing intrinsic to the Zionist project.

The Intercept has a more in-depth article

https://theintercept.com/2024/06/11/apple-donations-idf-israel-gaza-illegal-settlements/

There’s far more going on than just the contributions, when it comes to Apple’s material support to Israel

Of course you’re too high on smugness to bother getting the connection. My point hasn’t changed since the first comment I made on this thread, you’re just too much of a debate pervert to understand that

You clearly don’t even understand my point, because you’re not bothering to learn anything. You can’t even grasp the differences in economies, let alone the differences in how one is operated from a liberal party compared to a workers party.

Do you even know the main difference between the Chinese economy and the US economy? Both are mixed, as in they both have elements of socialist and capitalist organization, yet are organized and controlled in vastly different ways. The US, and other western economies, are beholden to Capital interests, because the liberal parties subservient to Capital. The socialist aspect has been withered away since the gains of socialist forces for decades, because workers have no power. The Chinese economy is under the control of the CCP, a workers party. While the party itself is organized as a Democratic Republic, the State is under the dictatorship of that workers party, meaning that Capitalist forces are subservient to the state. And that’s before the discussion of how a party can be communist, yet be able to wield the forces of capitalism within a controlled scope to rapidly industrialize key industries before taking state control to socialize those industries in the form of state capitalism. Let alone how worker cooperatives, where there is an actual socialist means of production, fit into the picture.

No investigation, no right to speak

You’re just proving my point here

Thanks for sharing what you know, it’s a refreshing perspective to learn from

Do you know of any historians on the revolution to modern-day china that you’d recommend?

authoritarian and democracy are not mutually exclusive concepts. I think ignoring the details of both aspects in favor of thought terminating clichés is counterproductive, assuming the goal is to actually understand the intricacies of these societies instead of a black and white understanding.

You can either investigate yourself or lean into your preconceived biases, if you’re choosing the latter that’s your choice.

You clearly don’t want to have an actual discussion that includes those nuances that take into account the geopolitics of global capitalism and material conditions, so let’s just agree to disagree or something