cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/76163261

Reuters reports that around 100 people made it into the construction site, with some scaling a crane to place a “fuck AI” banner. Protesters also unfurled a “Microsoft powers genocide” banner on the construction site, and chanted “Microsoft has got to go” and “free Palestine.”

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    Protesters also unfurled a “Microsoft powers genocide” banner on the construction site, and chanted “Microsoft has got to go” and “free Palestine.”

    rrrriiiight. So 100% politically motivated.

    Any reason why these protests shouldn’t be completely ignored by normal people?

    edit I take that as a no

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        Of course. Normal people can also correctly identify genocide.

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          Well you know when an entire group of people on being killed because of who they are. Yeah that’s genocide. It’s actually really easy to identify it has a very particular look.

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            Yep, we agree on that. Some people still get it amazingly wrong (mostly false positives) because they just get their thinking from their ingroup.

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            This is an 80/20 issue now, normal people hate Israel.

            Yeah, I’ve noticed, at least in here. That doesn’t mean they’re right in everything they say. It just means that Hamas won the PR war.

            Hating Israel is not antisemitic in itself, but still the history of antisemitic hatred is interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_antisemitism

            Netanjahu fucking off and perhaps rotting in prison (if it could happen) would not be a bad thing though and I would fully support that.

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      What else would you desire motivate a protest? Oh no, please don’t protest genocide! The humanity!

      you tit

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        Look at their post history, it’s absolutely shotgun there’s no consistency at all, so it’s almost certainly a bot.