The west

Are authoritarian regimes somehow supposed to be more opposed to using children to promote heightened surveillance?

Private companies can be dicks. Public companies can and will be sued by their shareholders if they aren’t big enough dicks.

The disconnect is you seem to think it’s a black and white thing. That one must love Hamas if they disapprove of recklessly bombing civilian encampments. Surely if these allegations were fake, Israel would be more than happy to disprove them? To not, I don’t know, protest violently for their right to horrifically mistreat Palestinians when reined in even slightly?

It is senseless to damn every living person in gaza for the actions of one group.

Also, it feels real questionable to talk so much about the Palestinian president without addressing Bibi - I highly recommend the behind the bastards episodes for anyone unsure what his deal is.

That’s cool granddad, you must be such an open minded and pleasant individual

Dude there’s like, maybe twenty real games in that pile. Most of which I wouldn’t want to play on my steam deck anyways, not that I’ve ever wanted to play a battlefield game, but I sure don’t want to try and aim with a controller.

Ah yes I am 100% positive “Fisherman75” is not baiting whatsoever

Israel and Hamas are both bastards, but neither wholly represent their respective constituent citizenry, and no group ever deserves starvation or genocide. Not a complicated situation to identify as fucked.

A chinese owned company, by chinese law, is the CCP’s bitch. An american owned company, by contrast, at least has the chance to refuse government requests, not that they always do.

I would like to preface my comment with the statement that this is a sad subject and a very unfortunate situation.

But has anyone considered the possibility that the cats of Istanbul may have seized control of the government?

I hope and dream for the day somebody makes the clausewitz engine look like the fucking dinosaur it is. I initially hoped it would be paradox but any loyalty to them has been squandered years ago.

They didn’t want Biden to step down. They wanted him running against Trump and losing.

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I’m not sure gunpowder is the thing you wanna try and argue is a western invention

I don’t see why Trump would really need to be in on it. Plenty of people stand to gain from a trump presidency, and I’m not sure an “accidentally successful staged assassination” would be that much worse.

I would honestly say the odds it was a failed genuine assassination attempt are slim to none. Doesn’t this feel far too convenient? We obviously know nothing now, but I feel like it’s gotta be the knee jerk assumption.

“AI” will probably get there someday, but I agree the tech is nowhere near there. Calling what we have now “intelligence” is a very strong stretch at best.

“The idea” no longer means jack shit, unfortunately.

I’m not disagreeing, but can anyone really be surprised? IP theft is Chinese policy 101.

“I cannot reasonably purchase anything not connected to China, this is an issue”

“Wow guys, he just admitted to buying things from China! What a hypocrite!”

C’mon.

At this point, I just use someone complaining about the national debt as a secret code for them saying “I have zero idea how economics works”.