As an american not from the US, I'm glad they used "US Americans"

That's not the important point, it's that they are already at their last resort

It was always the only resort. The best, the worst, the first, the last, the richest, the poorest. The only one.

Because the title of the post should match the title of the submission - unless the mods dislike it, then it'll be changed to something else.

The mods dislike many titles but only change some of them. We also like some of the ones we change!

That's because there's a principle involved. It's not hard to find: see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671377 nearby.

I feel strongly about this issue. I don't feel it's divisive, it might be dismissive but my point in the comment is factual.

Edit: Take a look at The Intercept as an example. Protests began three weeks ago. The only posts TI has on Iran basically amount to "Israel bad" and "Son of Shah likes Israel and Israel is bad, therefore son of Shah is bad". That's it. This is a moral failure of the highest order and it underscores, for me at least, that most of these faux-progressives' activism is purely performative.

You politely left out "overtly anti-Semitic"

I get you -- when I was doing investigative reporting about policing and technology, the Intercept's energy was basically "great pitch, but we want you to do 8mo more work before we'll talk; good luck not being able to afford rent in the meantime".

But, friend, with love -- shit talking about what people are doing or not doing is not the answer. Lead by example.

> But, friend, with love -- shit talking about what people are doing or not doing is not the answer. Lead by example.

Why do you assume I'm not doing? Having said that, my options are limited to obtaining the lion and sun flag and participating in a demonstration. Quiet solidarity in other words. Shit talking about people who have a platform and are not using it because Israel is absolutely valid and legitimate.

That by the way is the danger with a singular obsession with one conflict, which, objectively, is not even the deadliest conflict in its region, let alone the world. Everything is either viewed through the Israel prism, as in "we're not going to express any solidarity with Iranian protesters because the fall of the theocracy might benefit Israel", or, it gets ignored entirely because there's no clout to be gained on social media.

Just to be clear, I never said I disagreed with you. But I've seen a lot of infighting happening in these spaces that stems from shit talking -- people who can no longer work together anymore because of how the shit talking bifurcated the work instead of building layers between.

> This is a moral failure of the highest order and it underscores, for me at least, that most of these faux-progressives' activism is purely performative.

It is worse than that. Faux-progressives will also play into antisemitic conspiratorial tropes that this was all perfectly and precisely planned.

Wouldn't your energy be better spent doing what you think the should be doing rather than complaining about them not doing what you think they should be? Take some agency in the world.

It's hackernews because if it was Musk's fans the mods would unflag it

What caused this alleged "internal bleeding"? He wasn't hit so this is clearly a lie.

Also Minneapolis emergency services reports indicate that Jonathan Ross was not taken anywhere, but instead remained at the scene and then left with the feds.

Use indexeddb

There are lots of obese homeless people in Brazil too and we aren't a rich country. Obesity is higher in the poorer areas too.

I'm glad you are not being competent enough to create a paid version of HN with the help of AI