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Elon provides no real evidence that the funds were diverted. But who needs evidence when we can blame Hamas for something we want to assume is happening.

This will decide the movie for tonight and several weeks. The poll will still be live for those weeks and we'll just go down the list in place.

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Sometimes if someone is being kind of a Nazi we call them a Nazi. In reality National Socialism is really this huge body of dogmas and views. But if one of their views intersect we'll say it.

Well Israel doesn't just intersect with nazism on one issue, but several, and along the more critical areas. Some areas are more critical than others. Like you wouldn't call someone Hitler for being a vegan. When we say that someone is Nazi we are highlighting a few key factors. You can't just line up on things that don't matter. It's the things that matter.

Ethnically cleansing the area around you to create more living space for a country whose sole-purpose is to host exclusively the interests of a particular ethnic group. Pretty nazi.

Claiming that a group of people are less human to you and have access to fewer corporate rights than you, in this case because you disacknowledge the existence of their history. Pretty nazi. In this case corporate rights refers to the idea that groups of people can have rights and not just individuals. The concept that genocide is particularly wrong depends on that concept. I hope that's a concept we accept. Because corporate rights are an element of human rights it is necessary that everyone has equal access if we are to treat everyone as equally human. But Israel claims they have more corporate rights than others and argues it from an ethnic position. Pretty nazi.

Now none of this is anti-semitic or more accurately anti-jewish. It was possible to be anti-nazi in the US during the 1940s and not hate German Americans. But if someone supported Nazi Germany in the 1940s they would pretty accurately be called a Nazi if they were German American or not.

I'm just saying if someone says "I think white people are pretty great and maybe better than others." You might say that's pretty nazi. My point is Israel and support for Israel is easily more nazi than that is because being pro-white is only one element of alignment, and was not unique to the nazis exclusively (kkk, even Winston Churchill). And importantly that person is not actively genociding people right now!

I'm not saying it's not nazi. I'm saying it's comparatively less so than either the state of Israel or support for it. By L'Hopital if it is not ridiculous to call one a nazi it is satisfied that it is not in any way ridiculous to openly call Israel Nazi.

Some will protest. They will say that due to history the comparison is unfair. Well the average American skinhead meth addict has a different history and life experience than a Bavarian who group up in a stable household and attended Hitler Youth camp (scouting). But they ended up at the same point and have common views. History doesn't matter to the present. If you don't want to be called a Nazi then don't behave like a Nazi. A few areas of disalignment in history now past will not save you from that label if you behave and argue like a Nazi now.

So I'm saying it now. It is fair and legitimate to call Israel and its supporters Nazis. Just openly say it. If they complain just explain.

I tried to tell you guys that this is what the whole TikTok thing was really about. It has nothing to do with data safety considering half the app store is also from Chinese companies with the exact same condition, and no one in Washington wanted to address that.

The mass data leak from the US to China is like water flowing through a sive. Anyone who argues that we should plug up one hole and only one hole is either an idiot or as an alternate motive.

That alternate motive was that TikTok was allowing young people in the US to talk about Israel negatively. So congress went ahead and singled them out, and collapsed their business if they wouldn't comply on the real issue or get bought out by Steven Mnuchin and friends who would definately implement a different content policy

Remember that the first person to be angling to buy this was a US federal employee and departmental officer and his business partners.

This is why you don't let your government single out single business even if they are Chinese. How bad does that look to any other foreign company from any country that congress crashed a business and then tried to offer the wrecked business to a government employee on a discount sale? At least if they don't adopt a policy of banning speech protesting a genocide committed by someone our congress chooses to like (why I don't understand?). Like do you all understand how this is a bad pattern.

The whole idea of attacking TikTok should have been dismissed as an idea on that alone regardless of the details. This is why laws are meant to address behavior and not companies, so it applies to everyone big or small, so congress can't single out or bully companies that differ from congress's political tastes (in this case the political taste that genocide is good when Israel does it).

This is why the phrase "Congress is deciding if {company} will be banned" is something we should have all picked up on as being absurd and unacceptable unless we live in idiocracy. Those are words that should never exist no matter the circumstances. If any of this had been legitimate it would have been "Congress is deciding if sending American personal data to Chinese servers will be made illegal."

But congratulations. No one argued the principle and now you can't say Free Palestine on TikTok because it's hate speech. Because wanting people to be free and or not be bombed is hate speech now. There is no way TikTok would have come to that content policy decision if they weren't bullied. Now we see the point of the bullying.

Pardons for members of government for actions they took from the seat of government just removes the public's ability to hold our government accountable. We already have too little accountability.

Further because pardons are more likely to be political in nature it allows for a regime to entirely protect themselves when and if they commit abuses of power.

The Chinese make about half the apps on the Apple app store. Probably more in the Android store. All of them are just as able to be spyware as TikTok is. In fact more so. The amount of Wireshark TikTok has been exposed to and will continue to be exposed to is far more than the various obscure apps you have. Half of which or known to be Chinese. A half of the remaining could be the Chinese using a straw developer in another country. Any of the for certain Chinese ones have the same obligation to share data with the government TikTok has.

If they ban TikTok and only TikTok the only differentiating factor it has verse a large number of allowed apps is the speech they've allowed. This would be congress singling out a single company for punishment over speech it has allowed others to do. IDK. Maybe TikTok would have a case in the courts.

Some say "yeah, but TikTok is a larger company more capable of doing shady processing of the data they receive on the back end." What with their algorithms! We don't know what these "smaller" companies back ends look like. If they are a state sponsored data collection their back end processing could be just as capable. Heck they could just raw dog the data sharing and give everything to the Chinese government and then their government could apply whatever sophistication is claimed TikTok has exclusive access to.

Banning TikTok because it's Chinese while China is the single largest app source in general makes no logical sense. Maybe we shouldn't have a bunch of Chinese apps on a device with a mic that's always on and always with us. Maybe there are exploits I'm not aware of that could make that dangerous. But if that's a problem let's fix that. Banning one single app that congress decided they don't like wouldn't fix that anyway.

It's like arresting someone exclusively for being at Walmart, no other details, which is not a crime, while at least half the other people at Walmart are also at Walmart.

Make it make sense!!!