The other day when he flew in France’s airspace they could’ve just forced Bibi’s plane to land, detain him and send him to the Hague as he is a wanted man by the ICC and France as a member of the treaty that created the ICC has the obligation to capture such a fugitive and remand him to ICC custody if he enters their territory.

They did NOT do so.

That says everything you need to know about the French elites’ position towards Israel and their Genocide.

This shit now is just the smallest possible looks-like-an-action-whilst-having-negligible-impact that they could do to try and calm down a public opinion that doesn’t share their love for the White Jewish supremacist state doing their own version of Nazism.

Same here.

Unlike pretty much all other digital media out there, I have de facto possession and control of the games I buy there as long as I download the offline installers (because they enforce that the games they sell cannot have DRM, once I have the installer I can install and play the game whenever and wherever I want), so I’m fine with buying from them and do not feel that it’s morally right to pirate games sold there.

Meanwhile I’ve actually gone back into piracy for other kinds of media as over the last 2 decades pretty much everything digital turned into “subscriptions” or comes wrapped in some kind of phone-home DRM shell.

Ultimately, whatever will be will be.

Why should we care what people that are still using Reddit do or don’t do do?

Sorry, but anybody still there deserves whatever shit they get.

IMHO Liberalism was manufactured by Capitalism as a left-sounding form of politics to allow mainstream parties which were genuinelly leftwing to move Right in Economic, Quality Of Life and even broad Equality whislt still appearing to be left-wing due to their pro-liberty posture on Moral and Social subjects.

I say this because I have yet to see any form of Liberalism in mainstream politics, ever, anywhere, which sought to maximize people’s freedom to access limitied or constrained resources which are required merelly to live, such as Land (which Land Ownership goes against), so I don’t think that at least in Politics there was ever any genuine Liberalism for Capitalism to corrupt.

A TOS presented after an electronic device has been sold is not valid in most of the World since it’s considered an attempt to, after the sale, force a change of the terms of the implicit contract which is the sale.

A company can shove whatever they want in front of the customer as contract conditions they have to accept for a sale before the sale - by which point the potential customer can refuse and not buy or accept and buy - not after.

Of course, they don’t do that because they would lose most sales, so instead there’s a TOS or EULA which the owners of the devices are forced to agree to after the sale to fully enjoy that which they bought, but these are really just legal fictions in most countries.

Mind you, this does not apply to a subscription to an ongoing service, though even then at least in Europe, there are conditions they much obbey to have the customer accept a TOS or a TOS change after subscribing, such as it being possible for the customer to cancel the service at no cost rather than accept the new TOS.

I’ve been boycotting Sony since the Rootkit Scandal, what took you so long?

“Somebody else will pay the salaries of our customers”.

As far as I can tell the individual actors extracting more from a system that its capable to support if everybody does the same (the kind of situation Game Theory calls a Tragedy Of The Commons) always think in one of 3 ways:

• They simply don’t think about systemic consequences at all, be it simply that they don’t have the kind of intelligence for it or purposefully don’t dig down into it because they don’t want to think about consequences.
• They expect the “system” (i.e. somebody else, maybe everybody else) will make up for it so it’s fine if they take more from it than the put back in, as illustrated in my first paragraph.
• They’re aware of what the commulative impact of their actions can or even will have in the future, but they think they themselves and their families will be alright and screw everybody else - essentially that if they can get ahead enough they can ride the wave whilst it crashes.

The same kind of thinking also applies to Ponzi Schemes (like the current AI bubble) - Ignorance (willful or due to lack of knowledge/intelligence), The Many Will Make Up For The Over-Extraction Of The Few and/or I Myself Will Be Alright.

And you know what?

Those people have very good reasons to believe in the second one (that I illustrated at the start) - you look at Neoliberal Capitalism so far that’s what’s been happening as Money acummulates in fewer hands and sin ce with regulations neutralized and Corruption through the roof, those holding most of the wealth can do whatever the fuck they want so they are increasingly pillaging wealth from the rest, and the “system” - i.e. everybody else - just gets poorer and instead of Revolutions and Guillotines for the rich all we see is passive acceptance so the rest so have been making up for the depredations of the few for decades. Also just look at how Governments the world over sacrificed everybody else to make sure Finance and Asset owners in general came up better of after the 2008 Crash - these people have very good reason to believe that those in power, being very much in their pockets, will use said power to sacrificed the rest in order to deflect away from the Few the consequences of the actions of those very Few.

And if they’s CEOs they also have very good reasons to believe the third - just look at corporate governance in the last decades, with getting those jobs being far more abour Cronyism than Merit and incompetence being de facto rewarded with golden parachutes a even failing upwards. From all they’ve seen their whole lives there is no reason for them to expect to ever personally suffer the consequences of their own depredations and pillaging.

In summary, some don’t even realise the problem and as for those who do, given the experience of CEOs for at least the last 3 or 4 decades, it’s pretty rational for them to believe that their depredations wont destroy the Whole enough to come back to them and even if they do, they themselves personally will be alright even if the companies they manage are destroyed.

I really, really hope that the Chinese take most of the market away from these assholes.

If I had a cent for every time the Finnish allied themselves with the most Nazi-like regime in a given century, I would have 2 cents, but it’s still weird that it happened twice.

Whilst fear seems to be used to induce hate in many (just listen to the fables of “we need to protect ourselves” coming from the politicians there), I’m pretty sure others just directly hate without the need to be led there through fear.

I think you misspelled the word “hate”.

I think it’s pretty clear by now that per the wishes of America’s elites and even most of their electorate (who voted for somebody explicitly promising that) the only “winner” acceptable for America in an America-dominated World is America itself (which in practice means just a handful of people in America, since the common Americans aren’t actually “winning” anything).

So any article framing the replacement of an American-led World order by a Chinese-led World order as being a bad thing is either ignorant as fuck or purposeful propaganda by one of the few Americans “winning” from the current setup or one of those foreigners getting some crumbs from it - i.e. somebody who makes money from being a “friend” to America and spreading the idea that American dominance is a great thing for everybody.

A fair article would be pretty neutral about it - pretty much “these other guys who don’t give a shit about us are trading places” - with maybe even a “let’s get this over with ASAP” slant since as the saying goes, “when the elephants fight it’s the grass that suffers”, and at this point the “grass” is pretty much all of us in countries other than the US and China as even Canada is now not in the inner circle with America.

Fair point.

The other poster wording it like that does indeed stink of somebody coming at it from a “blame the Race” rather than “blame the Rich” point of view.

Mate, all dictatorships are shit.

No need for Red Scare bollocks - just look at Pinochet in Chile or Putin in Russia which are at the opposite end of the Left-Right political spectrum and you’ll see similar shit as the CCP. Hell, just look at what’s increasingly happening in America and you see them pretty much moving at speed towards that kind of shit.

That however has no relevance on my point that America is nastier for people outside of America in general than China is, if only because America has invaded way more countries and killed way more people than China has and the repercussions of America’s action’s abroad for rest of the World tend to be larger (just look at the current gas prices at the pump if you have any doubts of that, or go read the History of how ISIS was born in American prisons in Iraq).

It just so happened that through most of that time Canada wasn’t a target of American nastiness so it didn’t look like that to Canadians who didn’t give a shit about the rest of the World, but rather it was mainly directed against South American and Middle Eastern nations.

Next to just what’s happening to Oil prices worldwide due to America’s and Israel’s attack on Iran, your single example of China’s interference abroad (the second one, as your first example is not even that since it happened in China) are pretty much zero impact actions.

Even in a 100% Canada-centric perspective, just Trump’s tariffs cause way, WAY, WAY more pain to Canadians in aggregate than two Canadians being unfairly arrested for almost 3 years in China, and China running “Foreign Police Stations” in Canada targeting Chinese Nationals living in Canada.

My point stands that “China is better than America”, not because China is good but because America is horrible. Further, even whilst (until recently) America was treating Canada reasonably well, that doesn’t mean they America wasn’t a horrible nasty nation - they were just did inflicted the suffering on people in various countries amongst which was not Canada - just ask most people living in Latin American or the Middle East how nice America is.

My point also stands that when China does interfere abroad “their impact on the rest of the World is much smaller” than America’s. I mean the immediate example of that is America’s attack on Iran and what’s happening to Oil prices Worldwide due to it, but well before that America was always (almost literally “always”: if I remember it correctly the US was only ever not at war for 7 years in its entire History) attacking other countries and have left enormous piles of corpses in many of them. China did do some pretty fucked up shit abroad (most notably attacking and annexing Tibet), it’s just that they haven’t done in quite a while whilst America has done some of their nastiest things in the last 2 or 3 decades and have done a lot more of that and left a lot more people dead on their trail.

And, of course, your examples of China’s abuses in Canada and against Canadians in China just reinforces my expectation that eventually China will be just as bad as America once it finds itself in a similar position.

China is better than America because they’re way less likely to interfere outside its own borders (yet still do it, hence all the shit in the South China Sea, plus lets not forget Taiwan) and when they do their impact on the rest of the World is much smaller.

That is however, for now.

If things carry on in the direction they seem to be going and China replaces the US as the World’s foremost imperial power (the kind of things History shows us invariably happens and is even roughly on schedule), given enough time they’ll be as bad as America is now.

As somebody else mentioned when quoting (I believe) a Canadian politician, middle powers should stick together. If you look at the EU, that’s basically one of its purposes, which is probably why American Administrations of either color dislike it - it use to be much easier for America to push around European nations, even the mid-sized ones.

Yeah, articles in the Western Press are far too often anchored in a presumption treated as beyond dispute that America are the good guys, something that’s only true in the portrayals of American politicians, military, intelligence operatives and police officers in the films that America itself makes.

Dispute said presumption and suddenly American voters electing a president who treats Western First World nations a little closer (yet, still not as bad) to how American presidents have treated Developed and Developing nations in pretty much all continents of the World including Europe and Oceania (in the latter the small island states being the victims) isn’t exactly a wild idea.

What the current American elected president is doing to Canada basically qualified as a “know unknown” before it actually happened - something like this was likely to happen, only the exactly when and with whom being the unknowns (I supposed a decade or so ago Mexico would seem more likely to be a victim of something like this than Canada)

The idea that some extremely rich Jews support a Fascist hyper-supremacist regime which says they’re superior people because of their ethnicity isn’t at all outrageous.

That doesn’t mean it’s because they’re Jews - extremely rich people supporting Fascist hyper-supremacist regimes of their ethnicity is pretty common in History, quite independently of the ethnicity of said extremely rich people.

Also, some extremely rich American Jews have quite openly supported the state of Israel well after it was clear they were a Genocidal state (which was clear since all the way back during the Nakba in 1947) and which by it’s very constitution is very clearly and unabashedly supremacist: it is an undisputed fact that extremely rich Jews support and supported the Genocidal state of Israel in the full knowledge it’s Genocidal and supremacist.

Let’s not fall into the Discriminatory practice of trying to suppress valid criticism of extremely rich people who support violent ethnic supremacists when those people happen to belong to a very specific ethnicity but not when they belong to other ethnicities - treating people differently depending on their ethnicity is the very definition of Racial Discrimination (i.e. Racism), even when it’s done using a form many Americans have been trained to think is “positive”.

Working your way around stupid obstacles is the Linux way…