The Donald vs Big Tech

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Israel has never even openly admitted it has nukes and so, along with three other countries (India, Pakistan, and South Sudan), has never signed the non-proliferation treaty either. In fact, contrary to the very notion of non-proliferation which most UN states, incl the US, signed up to in 1970, Israel collaborated with apartheid South Africa throughout the 1970s to help them attain to nuclear power status. The US also did fuck all to stop Pakistan attaining to nuclear power status because, at the time, they saw them as an ally against Afghanistan/Soviet Russia. So yeah, in a nutshell, preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons is definitely more about politics than genuine fears of existential threat. The overarching existential threat is still there in the fact that there are nuclear weapons at all, and, personally, the country I trust the least with having them just happens to be the one country who doesn't admit to having them, all while obsessively claiming that neighbouring nations, who don't have them, either do (Iraq) or are just about to (Iran).

You've perfectly summed up what I did not have the patience to type out earlier, thanks 

Basically to properly understand the absurdity of the position/situation, you have to know the level of absolute disingenuous bullshitting on the part of Israel. Surely long past the definition of rogue state at this point.

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[ochoill]

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/229798/Iran-discovers-antimony-reserve-after-10-years-of-exploration

Something that got sent to me in the midst of it all, article from March.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/battery-makers-sweat-antimony-shortage-hits-after-chinas-export-curbs-2025-06-17/

Some more to add to this element.

[astfgyl]

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/229798/Iran-discovers-antimony-reserve-after-10-years-of-exploration

Something that got sent to me in the midst of it all, article from March.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/battery-makers-sweat-antimony-shortage-hits-after-chinas-export-curbs-2025-06-17/

Some more to add to this element.

There's a bit of the Ukraine about that one!

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Might serve as a motivating bonus for the US especially, but I doubt it even crossed Netanyahu's mind.

[The Heretic]

[Mower Liberation Front]

Concentrating on the Big Tech side for a change, Sky's getting a little ahead of themselves over this "There will be consequences for dodgy box users" thing they're pushing, aren't they? Wonder what they'll do when their private investigators explain to them they can't spy on people's Whatsapps as they're encrypted, never mind the whole data protection thing. Just because the CEO has been losing his shit since he saw those two guys with "Dodgy Box" and "Firestick" as sponsors on their Ireland shirts.

Maybe if they allowed people to subscribe to Sky Sports without having to subscribe to the shitty Sky Entertainment first, they mightn't have as much a problem.

[Emphyrio]

If ever there was a company to screw over, guilt-free, it's Sky. Which I happily do.

[The Heretic]

Perhaps if sky would lower their prices a good bit to get more people under their umbrella it would be a start, do they think that all those dodgy box users will suddenly take out subscriptions? No fkn chance

[mickO)))]

When I lived in Canada, Rogers who along with Bell have the monopoly on mobile, landline, Internet and TV services all across the country tried something similar and it failed. We all know how corrupt Irish politicians are so don't be surprised if a few brown envelopes in the right pockets helps Sky get somewhere with this.

do they think that all those dodgy box users will suddenly take out subscriptions? No fkn chance

I don't think sky would care they would rather you have nothing than pay someone else for services they can provide.

[Born of Fire]

pReSiDeNt Of PeAcE......

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0622/1519709-us-iran-attack/

[Bürggermeister]

So much for USA for USA, 'murica first and all that. MTG won't be happy with him doing the bidding of the cunts with the space lasers.

It feels like a massive, massive mistake, even by Trump standards.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Trump standards are just whether it has negative repercussions for him personally, which this may not. I presume there has already been a wave of MAGA who were isolationists up until yesterday but have suddenly seen the light about why this strike was "necessary"/"beneficial"?

[Ducky]

Strait of Hormuz gonna get closed. Will have to look at burning furniture this winter, because RIP oil prices.