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  • Esra'aalshafei@mastodon.social
    Dec 14, 2023, 11:40 PM

    @paulbiggar Thank you so very much for writing this. I can't articulate how much it means seeing someone with direct ties stand up to these VCs and holding them accountable for their harmful actions and reckless propaganda 🙏 🇵🇸

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  • oatmealoatmeal@kolektiva.social
    Dec 15, 2023, 11:26 AM

    “I wasn't ready to see that my friends are Brownshirts. That they actively cheer on the genocide. The anger, the desire – the need even – for retribution against innocent civilians. I wasn't ready for my friends being camp guards, party officials, propagandists.”

    “The propaganda is real, and organized, and obvious. Posting about antisemitism in universities to cover indiscriminate bombing of civilians -- have you no shame. Repeating Israeli claims which have no proof, and no credibility. Keeping the discussion anywhere except on Palestinians being murdered in Gaza. Denying the number of dead because the numbers are reported by Hamas.”

    blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sle

    @israel
    @palestine
    #IsraelHamasWar

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  • Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸BartWronski@mastodon.gamedev.place
    Dec 16, 2023, 12:16 AM

    @paulbiggar @Migueldeicaza yes, thank you for writing this up. I feel powerless and alone, and it helps with at least the latter part.

    But why do I feel alone? In private conversations, 90% of colleagues agree. Because we feel intimidated to post anything on the topic. Nobody wants to be accused of antisemitism (even if definitely not true).
    I tried not to post anything to not offend my close Israeli friend, I know he is suffering, but he stopped talking to me anyway, so whatever. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • OpticalNail 🇵🇸arh@expressional.social
    Dec 25, 2023, 9:03 PM

    @BartWronski @paulbiggar @Migueldeicaza "In private conversations, 90% of colleagues agree"
    This is the phenomenon I see at a national level here, where I live. In private, many people are against whatever shit Israel is doing. Yet at the pro-palestine protests, there's a handful of people (and those are tracked and targeted by police, because that's how we roll).

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  • Anil Dashanildash@me.dm
    Dec 15, 2023, 2:21 PM

    @paulbiggar appreciate you speaking up. Also, I fear you’ll find out what I have — it’s even worse than it seems. You *won’t* have torched your career, because they were already dismissing your sincerely-held beliefs. But speaking your truth is its own reward, and I hope you find peace in it.

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  • Anil Dashanildash@me.dm
    Dec 15, 2023, 2:22 PM

    @paulbiggar like, I called out Andreessen publicly for endorsing colonialism, while sitting on a board with A16Z folks, and…nobody there cared. They see all of the rest of us as either trifles to be ignored or enemies to be destroyed, but they certainly don’t care what we say.

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  • Jeff Craigfoxxtrot@dice.camp
    Dec 15, 2023, 2:30 PM

    @anildash @paulbiggar People like that don't really care what you think, as long as they think you can still make them money.

    Andreesen and his ilk will have power as long as the Tech Heterodoxy requires that the rest of us beg them for money so we can try and build.

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  • Paul Biggarpaulbiggar@hachyderm.io
    Dec 15, 2023, 2:31 PM

    @anildash fascinating perspective. Yeah I think this explains a lot of lack of pushback. We're just monkeys to make them money, who really care what the monkeys are saying

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  • Evan Lightelight@tenforward.social
    Dec 24, 2023, 7:26 PM

    @paulbiggar @anildash Seems that is how the richest of the rich live. After all, how many bodies did they have to climb over and up to so elevate themselves? At a minimum, willful ignorance must have been a powerful component (a.k.a. Ignoring and self-deluding when faced by the suffering they cause) in their ascent.

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  • Evan Lightelight@tenforward.social
    Dec 24, 2023, 7:24 PM

    @anildash @paulbiggar I have my own biases here (raised Jewish and living my whole life looking for signs of the next Shoah). And yet I look my ignorance in the face, when supplied contradictory information.

    Intellectual honesty seems all too rare these days. It's small wonder that the world is so fucked.

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  • Evan Lightelight@tenforward.social
    Dec 24, 2023, 7:29 PM

    @anildash @paulbiggar For so few to acquire so much, many, somehow, must pay for it.

    Statistically, some number of those must pay in blood. Some number do not pay by choice.

    Wealth should never be granted at such a cost.

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  • mk30mk30@tilde.zone
    Dec 15, 2023, 6:29 PM

    @paulbiggar "Is this what Israel is?" yes.

    for those of us who have been attached to the struggle for palestinian self-determination (to greater or lesser extents over the years), you may not see us posting much about it. all our followers already know and the sense of powerlessness is so extreme that posting about it feels like stabbing at an open wound that we can't figure out how to heal.

    (my family is originally from ukraine too, so there's too much pain to even say much of anything. all that said, i'm glad you're speaking about gaza, because what's going on is an ethnic cleansing.)

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  • LisPilispi314@udongein.xyz
    Dec 15, 2023, 10:52 PM
    @paulbiggar It is dismaying that despite the scum soldiers documenting their own crimes, it is quite likely that many of them will get away with it consequenceless.
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  • Tagazieltagaziel@meow.social
    Dec 16, 2023, 11:44 PM

    @paulbiggar
    Reading it I felt an unpleasant chill. Then I realized it's the same kind of feeling I had when I realized my brother and his wife are the kind of people who would be ideal camp guards and Party members. Their support for the genocide in Gaza dovetailed with remarks that us LGBT people don't really deserve rights, and we should be happy we aren't beaten in the streets. It made me understand the despair. I'm incredibly lucky to live where I do - and yet, I live in a place that was almost completely put to the sword by the same kind of hatred that sees tens of thousands killed in months.
    @timnitGebru

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  • srijit@fedia.social
    Dec 17, 2023, 7:45 AM

    @paulbiggar
    Thank you for such an informative and detailed post. You put in a lot of effort to write this, and it was well worth it.

    After reading your piece, I doubt many people will be able to sleep.

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  • Rock'n'Roll_φapy 🔻RocknRoll_Papy@mastodon.social
    Dec 17, 2023, 4:18 PM

    @paulbiggar
    "When the cofounder of Hamas was 9 years old, his uncle was massacred by Israeli soldiers in the Khan Yunis massacre, along with 274 other unarmed Palestinians. He was shot in house-to-house searches. Others were lined up and executed. How many Hamas' are being created today."
    Quand on lit le post, très documenté, on ne voit pas bien de différence entre la soldatesque hébreue et les hordes nazi.. Ah si quand-même : Israel est un "état démocratique".

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  • ClemensGclemensg@digitalcourage.social
    Dec 19, 2023, 8:22 PM

    @paulbiggar

    Respect for the degree of civil courage you are showing.

    We Germans have rightly stood by Israel for a long time, because it was primarily the policies and crimes of our state and our ancestors that led to the founding of Israel. But the massacres by Netanyahu's Israel in 2008, in 2014 and now in 2023 allow only one sad conclusion to be drawn: a nation of victims has become a nation of perpetrators.

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  • Martin S 🚩❤️✊ 🇵🇸🇺🇦krampus@infosec.exchange
    Dec 23, 2023, 11:06 AM

    @paulbiggar the silence, the business as usual, is horrifying. I understand that people are overwhelmed and can’t take it anymore, but the apologists for genocide will not be forgiven. They should rot in hell, for all I care. The whataboutists, the zionists. Fuck you all. And the USA: it’s the worst of them all in their blind support of Israel, their denial that this is not mainly a war, it’s mainly a genocide. The silencing of opposing voices, Jewish and gentile alike, are tantamount to the behavior of an Orwellian facist hellstate. #freepalestine #ceasefireNowPermanently

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  • Eva Infeldquaithe@mastodon.social
    Dec 24, 2023, 6:58 PM

    @paulbiggar
    Beautiful writing. You have my thanks and support, for what it's worth.

    My grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, cried when Yitzhak Rabin was murdered and Netanyahu climbed to power over his corpse.

    Militaristic ethnocrats stole the Jewish identity and exploit my grandparents' suffering to inflict more suffering. I hate them with all my heart, but most of all with the part of my heart that I consider to be Jewish values.

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  • Evan Lightelight@tenforward.social
    Dec 24, 2023, 7:41 PM

    @paulbiggar Othwr atrocities occurred as well: rockets and suicide bombings of Israeli civilians sponsored by various Arab monies and powers. And a nation under constant threat from its neighbors. And a huge subset of a people who have been unwanted, hounded, enslaved, and murdered en masse for hundreds and thousands of years: a people who have historically been, at best, tolerated.

    The shame of it is that, for decades, the Palistinians have been as the Jews have been for so very long—and, in so many ways, Arabs and Jews are so much alike, as people's. There have been so very many failures of compassion.

    All of it is awful.

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  • Skalyskaly@mastodon.social
    Dec 24, 2023, 9:35 PM

    @Edelruth @paulbiggar I'm obsessingly studying that other side for 3 months now. Please stop condescending over me while I actually live through war and you're privileged to not know what it even feels like to wake up knowing your parents may be beheaded for hours while you're waiting for the army to save them from Hamas.

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  • tjextjex@fosstodon.org
    Dec 29, 2023, 9:19 PM

    @paulbiggar I totally commend you for writing this. Thanks as well for providing so many sources.

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  • Hobson Lanehobs
    Jan 2, 2024, 12:12 AM

    @paulbiggar
    Really detailed research and history lesson for me. Might be helpful in understanding why people like me feel so strongly about the bombing and occupation of and use strong triggering words like to describe the actions and goals of those currently in control of the . @mdyshel

    @freakazoid

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