It’s real! https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/25/julian-assange-is-free-wikileaks-founder-freed-in-deal-with-us

The classic rebranding ala facebook -> meta / insta, or food companies with their thousands of differently named subsidiaries.

This works if they fly low enough

They don’t. The genocide and theft of land of their indigenous populations mostly happened less than 150 years ago. That land should be returned to indigenous sovereignty.

How that decolonization should proceed is a question not for the colonizers or their descendents to answer, but the indigenous tribes themselves.

I don’t think it’s wrong to stay with apple, you could always just go with something else for your next phone, although if you are concerned enough about the privacy aspect, you could always sell your phone, and get some advice about which are the best smartphone models to run the privacy-focused android variants.

Some of them list the devices they work on, like lineageOS.

There’s ppl here a lot more knowledgeable than I am here that could help you choose one.

Only in imperial-core countries, most Gen Z’s worldwide don’t use apple products.

Few reasons, first is this: . Seems like as long as something has a clean interface, or it looks shiny enough, then all its privacy faults are overlooked.

Apple also seems to intentionally cultivate and sell their products as privacy-friendly, which is clearly not the case (see image above).

2nd reason is that I had an iphone 2g (one of the first models, I forget which one), and it had bluetooth support. An iOS update broke it, and when I reached out to apple, they lied to me and told me my device had no bluetooth module at all. They’re one of the worst offenders of planned obsolescence, and have become one of the richest companies on the planet because of it.

3rd reason: they sell overpriced products to mainly to high-income imperial-core consumers, selling an image of “upper-class professional”. Look at a graph of iOS market share worldwide, vs its market share in the richest countries. Apple didn’t even bother to condescend to make affordable products for the global south.

The markup on iphones is something outrageous, like 40% of the purchase price is going to the shareholders of apple, not the workers who built the phones. By buying apple, you are mainly supporting these wealthy parasites. Its also why other smartphone brands have higher performance at half the cost of iphones. They really bank on the fact that they’re selling an upper-class identity, and less of a phone.

4th reason: Their ecosystem is locked down in such a way as to make it difficult for open source development. iirc apple won’t even let you use the GPL for any app on their app store.

France has assassinated 22 African presidents since 1963.

Nice

Some classic greatest Briton quotes:

“I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.”

“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.”

“I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them. I believe that as civilized nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations. I believe in the ultimate partition of China — I mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.”

“There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews, it is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others.”

Do you realize what a racist bubble you’re in, that you think people in the PRC are locked up for saying something about the June 4th incident?

I’m considering locking / removing this thread, because of the massive number of orientalist comments and articles being posted. Redditors have no idea how racist they’re being right now, its completely unnacceptable.

Finally found it! Not on youtube of course. The CNN one cuts off all the important parts.

Tank man full video

That one cuts off right before the interesting part. When he keeps climbing up and down the tank, having a conversation with the crew, tries to stop it a 2nd time, and then gets rushed off by bystanders without incident.

Youtube keeps removing the full video, every link I used to have of it is gone.

Does anyone have the full video link, that shows the entire interaction? Youtube keeps censoring / removing it.

EDIT: Finally found it! Not on youtube of course. The CNN one cuts off all the important parts.

Tank man full video

Ahhh it got me too.

It’s hard to quantify, but the US instigated or had a hand in causing most of the largest mass-killing events of the twentieth century.

To give just a single example, the CIA was the main driver behind the anti-communist massacres in Indonesia in 1965. 500k-1M people killed.

Or operation Condor, another anti-communist CIA-led program in several latin american countries: about 60-80k people killed, and 400k imprisoned.

A larger list of US atrocities is here.