NoneOfUrBusiness

It’s a half-pun about actual piracy. Not sure if illegal fishing is actually considered piracy, but that’s the idea.

Why did they even do that?

Apparently it’s the former. Their prosecution rate is 8% apparently according to Wikipedia, because they’re too understaffed to deal with cases that can go either way. They also have a false confession problem, but that’s not what’s getting them to that rate.

I’ve never used a Mac but my experience with iPhones and iPads (not mine) has convinced me to never touch anything Apple makes. The requirement of iTunes to send files between an iPhone and a PC is, for example, just ridiculous.

car makers just jack up their prices so they make more off the subsidy

Exactly.

Really we should be subsidizing EVs from our own manufacturers.

You are. Still not doing much to corporate greed.

Just how eager are these people to strip the word antisemite out of all meaning?

He called them out because they’re supporting genocide. That’s a very valid thing to call someone out for, crowd or no crowd.

I don’t think Israel has a similar problem right now? If this was how Israeli politics worked you’d see right wingers and left wingers concentrating into one party each, but that’s not happening. I don’t see how Palestinians would cause the left wing to abandon all their causes and run towards the right wing and their genocidal agenda when they’re the people advocating for Palestinian rights and a Palestinian state.

I can see your concerns, but this is a very unlikely worst case scenario. The two-state solution equivalent is “two states are created, but they hate each other and immediately go to war”.

Okay I think you misunderstood me. I meant a coalition with left-wing and Palestinian parties. The 2021 government had an Arab party in the coalition so it’s not exactly impossible. At least on matters of Palestinians these two groups have a decent amount of common ground, no?

Yeah right wingers and Palestinians don’t go together at all. I’m saying that with more Palestinians a left wing-Palestinian government is also possible.

Isn’t that coalition mostly right wing?

given population differences alone and presumed voting along established political (ie religious) lines, you’d end up with a Jewish/Israeli government rather than a Muslim/Arab government.

You’d end up with a government with both groups. It’d be possible to, for example, have a large Arab party in a coalition government with a left-wing Jewish coalition. And also someone like Netanyahu would’ve never won; because Palestinians would all rally around someone else.

This is especially true in a parliamentary government like Israel; the Knesset would look much different if the Palestinian population suddenly tripled.

Israel has existed for 80 years, so if it suddenly stopped existing, where do the people who have been born there over 3 generations go?

I never said they should go anywhere. Israel not existing simply means Israel, the Jewish state, not existing, not its people being driven off.

It also doesn’t satisfy the reasons for why Israel was created in the first place; to have a Jewish state where, in the worst of circumstances, non-Israeli Jews can flee to.

Something like that never should’ve existed in the first place. Jewish “right” of return is half the reason we got the current mess. There’s no reason Jews should have a country that’ll take them unconditionally for the same reason it’d be ridiculous to suggest the same thing if Roma people decided to build a state in India.

And no, I’m not a Nazi. I’m not sure when white supremacists coopted the idea that Israel shouldn’t exist given they tend to be supportive of Israel, but anyway it’s first and foremost an Arab and Palestinian idea.

No no. Irgub and crew then went on to create Likud and their ilk. They are the current government. Anyway I guess if you wanna only count the actions of the modern Israeli state, it went beyond self-defense in 1948 with Israeli massacres like Deir Yassin.

BTW Israeli shouldn’t exist. That’s not white supremacism; it’s the belief that Apartheid ethnostates don’t have a place in the modern world.

Yep. Israeli militias used terrorism against Palestinians and the British starting at least that early. Those militias would go on to become Likud and crew.

Went beyond self-defense in the 30s.

How do they even check that?

When you run a server you are free to allow all the illegal content you want – see how that plays out when the cops come and confiscate all your hardware.

Again, that’s only when you actually host illegal content. Just hosting discussion about piracy isn’t enough for legal action. See: r/piracy.

Either way it’s not an excuse to ban the whole thing.