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breppp··on The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color
Jewish communities in Europe trace their roots to Israel/Judea and the Roman expulsion and subsequent colonization.

Israel nowadays is mostly non-Ashkenazi in any case, and is mostly composed of Jews ethnically cleansed from Arab countries following the 1948 war

There's a widespread antisemitic conspiracy theory which links Ashkenazi to Khazars, but except being historically unsound, it echoes very ancient antisemitic (racist) tropes such as British Israelism, which are christian ideas claiming Jews are imposters to their own religion/nationality

breppp··on The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color
So a thousand civilians weren't shot by death squads in civilian towns? babies weren't kidnapped? women weren't raped? houses weren't burned with people inside? bodies weren't found dismembered?

I think you should really investigate your sources of information as this is approaching an alternative reality.

breppp··on Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
The same binary has encrypted strings so I assume there was a pass, but if you look at the source control strings they seem to decrease the appearance of maliciousness, even today they are out of place for malware
breppp··on Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
Headspace leaves health data, that's where my first guess would be
breppp··on DeepSeek v4
I'd like to see the numbers please, how that gets close to 50 million dead by the CCP, and I can't fathom how do you attribute the Khmer Rouge genocide committed by a communist party to the USA or others on the list
breppp··on DeepSeek v4
To be fair, I don't know where starting a union under Mao would get you
breppp··on DeepSeek v4
Nazis? Soviets? CCP? Spanish Empire? How are you doing the math?
breppp··on Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys
> Didn't Donald Trump state that immigrants are poisoning the blood of the country? Didn't Adolf Hitler say Jews are poisoning the blood of the country? Aren't both simulates?

That is actually something that is pretty popular with anti-immigration rhetoric before and after Hitler, although there are probably over a hundred such politicians who used that rhetoric, not many have killed millions, that's hardly enough to think you have found Nazism.

> I have high confidence that Adolf Hilter, Bentio Mussolini, and Emperor Shōwa never were part of a child trafficking ring that catered to the wealthy and assisted them with raping and torturing of youths on a privately owned island. There are simulates though with _human trafficking_ between all parties.

As far as I can tell apart from guilt by association, there is no definitive proof about Trump being part of their pedophile ring, nothing that can't be said about Clinton, Chomsky or Gates or many others for example. The relation to Hitler in any case is no relation at all, so this segue is confusing

In any case, this examples are redundant as similarities are not enough to establish a category, as I could establish similarities between Hitler and Gandhi (Vegetarianism, cult following, theatrical rhetorics and meta-narratives) to say Hitler is actually a pacifist. That's of course absurd.

Ignoring the Nazi anti-morality and national scale paranoid schizophrenia which are major missing points, the rapid takeover of a single party of the state, destroying the parliament, making the Executive into the law, creating a party's army and using state violence against political enemies are some of the hallmarks of the beginning of third reich germany. This is simply not Trump USA after 6 years, not close.

I am sorry but these false comparisons are simply a social media convention of getting engagement by turning the volume to 11, and nothing works better than misusing categories through superficial comparisons

breppp··on US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
Soldiers can't catch a flight back home when war starts (or about to), and by the time the Iranians were able to attack back after the initial shock, all US soldiers knew there's a war going on

That's why I am having great difficulty following that argument

breppp··on US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
Some, and probably very few.

When the people feel everyone is corrupt without any evidence then the next step is getting actual corrupt leaders like Trump's government and soldiers like this that feel corruption is standard behavior

breppp··on US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
If you are in Kuwait you will find yourself under rockets whether you knew in advance or not

I think the worse aspect is if the news of an attack being leaked to the defender and you are being blown to bits as their ballistic missiles are not decimated in their preemptive strike.

breppp··on US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
The entire corruption-as-service aspect of this is interesting.

I wonder when someone figures out vote-buying-as-service

breppp··on Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys
It's been almost 6 years of Trump, when do you think it's going to start?
breppp··on Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
Only someone who had so much luck in finding a product that clicks, would know the worth of buying such a product
breppp··on Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys
And a lot of dissimilarities, like the lack of mass executions of the disabled for example or a missing mass extermination plan of millions, maybe also kidnapping teenagers from the street and shipping them to brothels for soldiers, shooting babies? but apart from that exactly the same
breppp··on Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs
It's as far away as a google search, but:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/t-mobile-claimed...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ice-cell-m...

breppp··on Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs
He is using a mobile phone, his location is sold by the mobile company and can be bought for relatively cheap
breppp··on Ban the sale of precise geolocation
Imagine how lost your morale compass needs to be to defend Stalin because you don't like Trump.

Apart for the fact that people were released from El Salvador system, the population percentage is wrong for El Salvador, USSR and US, the difference between slavery camps and a penal system, Gaza not being a prison.

But what are you really saying, that the 200-500 dead in El Salvador, most non associated with Trump, makes Trump equivalent with Stalin's 15 million dead? Does that make sense?

breppp··on Ban the sale of precise geolocation
Let's see, during Stalin's Rule 18 million people went through forced labor camps and roughly 10% died, around 1.8 million

Let's add around 5 million for man made famine, and probably a 2 million for arbitrary executions and deportations, while many estimate the full death count as between 15-20 million

As far I can understand the top range of estimates for CECOT, which is a non American facility, are that 500 died, of around imprisoned 20,000 inmates. So the scale is a bit... different

I think the issue here is that contrary to popular belief, not every wrong thing is the same

breppp··on Ban the sale of precise geolocation
Never saw the current US administration shipping people to labor camps with a single winter life expectancy
breppp··on Casus Belli Engineering
This misses the worse scapegoating kind in software organizations, the kind which end with an actual engineer being sacrificed
breppp··on Ban the sale of precise geolocation
Pretty sure it would be hard to enslave these people through television
breppp··on Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
Why do we need to bother with facts when we can do rage bait conspiracy theories instead?
breppp··on Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours
> But the thing that gets them rioting is economic failure. Which the strikes have exacerbated.

Past riots were related to women rights or election fraud. The last one were related to the economic situation, but there is a large young population in Iran which aren't religious anymore, and living in an oppressive theocracy

breppp··on Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours
If you look at the chances, there's a far greater chance of dying in the hands of SUV mounted machine guns firing at crowds than precision bombs that mostly hit regime forces
breppp··on Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block
Vote early, vote often
breppp··on France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjd8275jrrko
breppp··on The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet
It's more complex than that, you have direct evidence of Iran recruiting 12 year old child soldiers in this war (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wqgjn7x89o).

Using stadiums as security forces hiding places (https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-iran-leadership...)

Misusing hospitals for military purposes (https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602215486) and schools (https://x.com/IranIntl_En/status/2032846253189411146 https://www.instagram.com/p/DV8NUQPFJJv), while the last ones are weak visual evidence and backed up by rumors, Iran is currently under internet blackout for over a month as the regime is interested in controlling information flowing out of the country.

breppp··on France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
Generally speaking: Spain, Italy, Austria, France and Switzerland prevented the US from using its airbases or airspaces to transit their planes to the Middle East.

The UK at times also blocked use of its air bases.

France probably cut a separate deal with Iran, evident from the release of the French hostages, the call Macron had with the Iranian FM and the fact Iran lets their ship cross

breppp··on The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet
Your links talk about the places that were bombed, but I don't see anything apart for conjecture that this was the product of AI targeting.

Also this is a vast underestimate of the ability of organizations that were able to locate most of Iranian leadership throughout the war in their hiding places, but suddenly their Farsi is so bad they need a twitter account to tell them this is a Park

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