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14·5 days agoAt a guess, the word ‘allege’ is used, because the Israeli government are litigious.
5·5 days agoAlong with all of the politicians that helped them get to where they are, a market manipulating monopoly. I can remember a campaign warning that this would happen if they got control.
I can’t remember what they were known as before it went ahead, but I think the campaign was against ‘world nation’ or something similar, around 2007 (Years after they had already been monopolising in many other ways in the US). It was a fairly basic website - no social media, but it spelled out in detail every single little thing that was bad about allowing them all to merge, and what would happen.
It was largely ignored, and now we have this global behemoth destroying festivals and events worldwide, taking over some of the best and turning them to shit, overcharging for everything, little to no competition, hiring touts to resell their tickets, claiming tickets are sold out so that their ‘dynamic pricing’ could charge more. Creating reseller platforms and allowing themselves to drive the prices up to insane levels that they would never get away with on their regular sites.
And the only reason it even got looked at is because the Presidents daughter or somebody wanted to go to Taylor Swift and the prices were crazy. It would probably be still ongoing today (and may still if Trump can do anything). That’s why so many politicians get free tickets and is the same reason that politicians shouldn’t get free tickets to anything.
2·6 days agoAs mentioned, they weren’t there. Not even near. What Israel did was illegal, and the UK Government are ignoring it. I wonder why that could be…
91·9 days agoEspecially given the new “lifetime” price. More people will switch to Jellyfin. Plex lifetime might be shorter.
The UK wasn’t asked to intervene on behalf of Ireland, and it is very unlikely that they would be. The article specifically mentions that the Irish government have done fuck all too, other than condemn it. They are mostly forced to do that, as the majority of Ireland’s population would be against this.
The article also mentions that there are British people on the flotilla that were also kidnapped/abducted in International waters, illegally, by Israel, and Starmer hasn’t even condemned it. He has said or done nothing about it.
The only reason Ireland is linked, is because one of the people taken, has a famous (in Ireland) sister, who happens to be President, (which is not the head of government in Ireland). There are many more nationalities on board the flotilla.
But second; It’s the relative of the IRISH president! You know the sovereign country that exists outside the UK! The fuck is Starmer, prime minister of the UK supposed to do about it?! Also Ireland can stand on it’s own two feet without the UK interfering with Irish politics.
The sister of the Irish president (you know, the sovereign country that exists outside the UK!) was only one person on board. They were off the coast of Cyprus, you know, a country that exists in Europe, and has nothing to do with Israel.
The article that you obviously didn’t read, or the one that was linked after that, but decided to add your tuppence worth anyway, Mentions other people on board of the flotilla. I will quote one of the relevant bits for you. I will even bold some of it.
The Irish government condemned Israel’s actions as “wrong” and “unacceptable”.
UK citizens are also among the victims, but UK PM Keir Starmer has still kept silent about Israel’s crimes. Abductees in previous flotillas have been beaten and tortured, and at least one has been raped. The occupation regime regards rape as a weapon of war. Its routine and brutal rape of Palestinian prisoners has begun even to catch the attention of US ‘mainstream’ media, but is still mostly ignored by UK ‘msm’ – though a few have noted Israel’s threat to sue the New York Times for covering it.
NOBODY in Ireland wants the UK (Especially in this context) to interfere with Irish politics. If you knew anything at all about the history of Ireland and the UK, and the ongoing mess in the North of Ireland, you might have been able to stop yourself sounding so obtuse about this. It also might have helped if you had read the article that people are specifically talking about in this thread.
So you post a link to Sky instead???
They were in international waters, not belonging to Israel. Israel illegally boarded their boats and took them captive.
It’s not really surprising that Starmer has said nothing given his strong links to Israel.
Good, and the viewing figures will likely continue to drop globally while KAN (Israels broadcaster) are allowed in.
Death to Eurovision!
2·11 days agoI didn’t see it initially, so I just assumed the other poster was correct (along with the other comments). Either way, it is undeniably correct now.
Good luck with the project, I would guess that it is going to be huge to maintain.
A few other phone OS’s mentioned in this thread - It is in Buy European, but not all are European, It’s mainly to help people move away from big tech on their phones.
I’d say OP changed it. It seems to be their project.
Matrix is listed as USA? Can someone explain that?
It has been edited/fixed already (fairly quickly)
I wonder why they didn’t mention Fairphone. There are a few others worth getting an honourable mention too.
GrapheneOS - Partner with Motorola, although the first Graphene phone may not be until early 2027
Operating Systems (as are both above) that can be installed to a list of devices that can be purchased today. Nothing really new here, I just thought it might be nice to have a longer list of devices all in the one place.
CalyxOS (Discontinued?)
Among a list of demands made by the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran is that only officially recognized national flags should be displayed during the team’s games, extending to those flags carried by fans in the stands.
If enforced, that would prevent the visibility of Pride rainbow flags
The sensationalist headline vs. what the article actually says are two very different things.
it’s likely that there are other reasons Iran don’t want flags. It’s all politics. https://iranwire.com/en/features/152112-iran-wants-opposition-flags-banned-at-the-2026-world-cup-but-america-isnt-qatar/
UK media has been barred from disclosing it until now.
How had it not been ‘leaked’ to foreign media and reported on? It is nothing short of disgusting that the government can act with such impunity when they decide to do something that they are fully aware would generate harsh criticism.
Nothing that the government do or decide upon should be banned from the media, with the exception of where it may affect children in a negative way.
The whole reason that they are in their positions are because people who trusted them gave them their vote. It absolutely flies a massive “fuck you” in the face of that.
I know WhatsApp belongs to Meta and is handing over all my data to the US, Israel, Iran, China, the Vatican, and Mars, but for personal reasons, I can’t ditch it right now
You can y’know… - Old article, they work now
Birdychat is from Latvia - Madeometer
Haiket is from Cuba (I think), - Madeometer
Both are interopereable with whatsapp while we wait for the others.
They’re trying to imply that the flotilla activists cause trouble wherever they go and that beating them is almost unavoidable, just to get them to comply with their orders.
There’s just a couple of differences that Israel left out.