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That man has never been universally liked, surely you don't actually think this is true?

Y Combinator CEO Gary Tan evangelises this company and YC was an early stage seed funder (Summer 2017)

Y Combinator CEO Gary Tan evangelises this company every chance he gets and YC was an early stage seed funder (Summer 2017)

Dirt poor people in 3rd world countries have smartphones and internet access and write comments in well-formed English.

Why are you telling on yourself so hard?

https://limewire.com/d/78gwF#5ggn4AJCfX

Because the US populace and US media only holds Democrats to account.

Republicans can do whatever they want.

People are what they are.

You can take the information I have provided into consideration when you build your internal worldview or you can ignore it.

There is no call to action here. It's just data.

The difference between Islam and Christianity on this is so stark that I am trying so hard to not respond in a rude manner and tell people to read a book or something.

It's like if you didn't know a single thing about Mandarin but insisted on making claims about its grammatical rules because you know English grammar.

You seem to have misread my comment.

None of the people I know and have spoken to are capable of or even thinking of violent retaliation.

I am extrapolating from their sentiments that someone out there will be moved to violence.

No, I am not muslim.

Every single muslim, whether devout, practicing, lapsed or whatever, knows whether they are/were Sunni or Shia. They are literally born into it. It determines who is seen as the authority in matters of their faith, the way they pray, the sites they consider holy, the religious days they observe. Even Ramadan starts and ends on different days depending on which you are.

It's such a fundamental thing that I question whether you have any idea about what you're saying here.

While the comment you replied to was "extreme", it is impossible for any muslim to not know the difference when the difference defines everything about how they practice their religion.

I don't think doctrinal reformation is possible with Islam.

The Qur'an is totally prescriptive. It contains direct legal commands, judicial rules and explicit government principles which are all binding and considered as direct divine speech.

I think Westernisation and an increase in the number of "casual" muslims is and will continue to be the moderating effect.

Think of what is happening in Europe (as the clearest example) with the influx of Muslim immigrants who raise increasingly more assimilated children as the blueprint.

No, I am telling you about people's sentiments. You are not required to do anything with the information.

I'd love to know what the military's chatbots thought about this idea.

What a mad world we're hurtling ourselves into.

Any celebrations are an indicator but are far from the entire picture.

Wouldn't there be celebrations in the US if Trump died? What conclusions would you draw from that?

Every single one of them?

There are many Sunnis who view their leadership as "traitors to the cause" and respected Iranian defiance especially against Israel.

It's far from black and white.

Yes they were silent about the Iranian regime's tyranny. Yes they are hypocrites.

So what?

It doesn't matter whether it suits you nor I. You calling them out has zero effect other than making you feel righteous. They don't hear you and even if they did they do not care a whit what you think.

They believe, with utter conviction, that martyrdom in service of Islam will be rewarded in the "hereafter". Their holy book tells them this explicitly. And there are millions of them.

Hence my comment.

I work with and know a lot of Shia (non-Iranian) Muslims and listening to them talk about this assassination I'm convinced that the likelihood of attempted terror attacks against the US has increased significantly.

The non-Iranian part is key. Millions of muslims around the world viewed the Iranian theocracy as the only power in the world fighting for Islam. They are devastated.

You actually believe these people when they talk?

The US government doesn't give a single damn about the Iranian people.

What does all this code do? What software are you writing?

Military academy boards have been purged and stacked with loyalists.

He's still a member of the board though.

They actively WANT the dystopian surveillance state.

Y Combinator's CEO promotes and praises them almost every day.

"End all American foreign interference" he says.

But this one guy can do all the foreign interference he wants, in America's name, as a treat.

"It's ideal" he says.

Better to have the foreign interference done directly by the President himself along with his family and cronies for personal gain.

only like 3% of that program was spent on actual AID, like food and medicine for the third world, but most of it went to funding media, news and journalists across LatAm, Asia, Africa dn EE, that would push domestic support in those regions for US policies and be critical of US adversaries.

3%? There was a lot of waste with the program but surely, please give this at least 30 seconds of thought.

Garry Tan beating the drum as usual: https://x.com/garrytan/status/2022326673421771228