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lemon_zest commented on Pete Hegseth shared Yemen attack details in second Signal chat theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/n1b0m

ty6853 · 4 months ago

Obama started doing it as a concession to the Saudis for our policies in the ME. More recently Yemen has pirated ships as an immediate response to our support and funding of mass murder of civilians in Palestine. So the Yemenis are not blameless and there is some sort of valid reasoning for the attacks, but to be clear we are the instigator here.

lemon_zest · 4 months ago

Agreed, mine was more of a rhetorical question. The concession was that we allowed the Saudis to bomb them and further excarcerbate the civil war in Yemen. Now because they are blockading shipments in protest of the current onslaught in Gaza we are pummeling them for it. We sure do have a taste for war crimes in the region.

lemon_zest commented on Pete Hegseth shared Yemen attack details in second Signal chat theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/n1b0m

lemon_zest · 4 months ago

It kinda gets buried under the utter incompetence of these clowns but why are we even bombing Yemen? How is it acceptable to brazenly destroying other countries’ civil infrastructure? It’s a US president’s pastime activity since Obama

lemon_zest commented on University of Toronto Snags Yale Professors as Canada Raids American Brain Trust deanblundell.substack.com... · Posted by u/newaccountlol

DiscourseFan · 5 months ago

It is difficult not to think your country is perfect when you can't make good money anywhere else in the world...

lemon_zest · 5 months ago

But you are just proving WeylandYutani’s point. You can make good money outside the US (ex. Switzerland, Singapore, etc) but because your preconceived notion you don’t even look at the evidence. I won’t be arguing on the definition of ‘perfect’ which is highly subjective.

lemon_zest commented on Federal Government Detains International Student at Tufts nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us... · Posted by u/breadwinner

ggm · 5 months ago

I am interested in the mechanistic approach which would drive the interventions by the feds.

* are people suggesting targets? who would that be? is this organized online somewhere?

* is there a 'u-tip' number people can dial anonymously?

* is this based on some metric over feed analysis, and smart tools so there's a threshold test in software and a priority list which is run as a join over immigration status?

I'm not asking people to break OPSEC, this is in the spirit of "how exactly did Hollerith cards help the bad people do the information processing" of past times.

lemon_zest · 5 months ago

It’s much more simple and depraved. They are taking tips from doxxing websites like this: https://canarymission.org/individual/Rumeysa_Ozturk

lemon_zest commented on U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat theatlantic.com/politics/... · Posted by u/_tk_

lemon_zest · 5 months ago

Yes, same Jeff who was an ex-IDF prison guard

lemon_zest commented on U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat theatlantic.com/politics/... · Posted by u/_tk_

hnburnsy · 5 months ago

>A shame it is probably getting flamed and downvoted over partisan reasons

Is this the forum for this type of news?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html...

  On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

  Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

lemon_zest · 5 months ago

There was a post about George Foreman in the front page the other day so why not this one?

lemon_zest commented on U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat theatlantic.com/politics/... · Posted by u/_tk_

dekhn · 5 months ago

The republicans hold the presidency, have a majority in congress, and a majority (depending how you interpret the moderate members) of the supreme court. Even the more moderate republicans are afraid of the Trumpets so they mostly vote in-line (see for example Cassidy voting for RFK Jr).

There are some things the democrats can do but it's mostly "spanner-in-the-works" slow-downs of the process, or mid-level judges. At the same time, the democrats are in disarray with no clear leader or message.

Probably the best strategy for the democrats is to let Trump make more mistakes until even his base questions his presidency.

lemon_zest · 5 months ago

They can impeach. That’s their only political tool. And have it on the record who votes against it. But they are useless

lemon_zest commented on NASA employees advised to delay responses to Musk's "what did you do" email spacenews.com/nasa-employ... · Posted by u/ironyman

rashidae · 6 months ago

Because making the U.S. solvent is critical to preserving democracy. A country drowning in debt with an inefficient government is weak. If the U.S. collapses financially, who do you think fills the void? China? Russia? Do you trust them to uphold free speech and individual rights?

Fixing the system isn’t just about economics… It’s about ensuring that democracy doesn’t get replaced by something far worse.

lemon_zest · 6 months ago

I don’t think you have a solid understanding on how government works and are conflating many things here. Fiscal balance is not going to cause the USG to gonna blink out of existence (unlike a company). While there is certainly the need to increase efficiency and solidify government operations, you don’t fix democracy by unilaterally gutting the federal government and regulations and concentrating power on a handful of rich individuals. That’s going in the opposite direction of a democratic system. Try more reading a history book and less of Elon’s feed.

lemon_zest commented on NASA employees advised to delay responses to Musk's "what did you do" email spacenews.com/nasa-employ... · Posted by u/ironyman

rashidae · 6 months ago

Resistance is normal. We saw it when he made changes to Twitter, now X. But I wouldn’t bet against Elon.

If I had to guess, he’s trying to get a full map of how things actually work—breaking operations down into numbers, ranking everything by importance, and then… the firings will come. When I say “he,” I don’t just mean Elon himself. I mean the whole system around him—his mind, the engineers, the massive compute power, the LLMs feeding him insights.

One thing is certain: he’s about to shake things up. Ray Dalio has talked about a shift in the world order, and Elon is positioning himself right in the middle of it. But he’s not looking to tear things down—he’s here to protect democracy.

He’s playing a different game. All in on Elon.

lemon_zest · 6 months ago

How does this protect democracy?

lemon_zest commented on CDC data are disappearing theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/doener

lemon_zest · 7 months ago

What is the argument you are trying to make?

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