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New comment by throwaway3060 in "Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login"

throwaway3060 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:07:29 +0000

Suddenly started happening to me out of nowhere while browsing. Really does feel like one of the last pillars of the old internet just toppled - that reading is open to anyone. New Reddit is basically unusable.

Edit: I still am a strong believer in anonymous usage of the internet. Increasingly it feels like we've become an endangered species.

New comment by throwaway3060 in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

throwaway3060 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:16:17 +0000

This is not what the word "colonialism" means in modern times; which imperial state is exploiting the resources of the destination?

New comment by throwaway3060 in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

throwaway3060 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:48:07 +0000

Is it? Don't know about other countries, but I am pretty sure the constitutional bedrock of the United States is to limit the federal government's ability to be malignant, even at the cost of some benefit. Whether that has been achieved is a separate question.

New comment by throwaway3060 in "Amazon paid music subscription will soon include ads and lose downloads"

throwaway3060 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:01:27 +0000

Not to defend Amazon here, but I think this is talking about the already severely limited streaming benefit of Prime, not the dedicated Amazon Music paid subscription. The former is not really comparable to a actual paid music subscription service.

New comment by throwaway3060 in "Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly""

throwaway3060 — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:06:14 +0000

It is doing a lot of work. People who vilify the US rarely bother to make the distinction, to acknowledge the good (and the ones who do get crowded out). Human nature is not that forgiving.

New comment by throwaway3060 in "Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and "Spreading Rapidly""

throwaway3060 — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:41:17 +0000

When you constantly get villainized for being involved, that makes it a lot harder to justify to the populace that these things are worth doing. People actually do listen, but not always in the way one intended. At this point, is it any wonder that much of the populace is now convinced that non-involvement is the moral choice? (And I say this as someone who fears this state of affairs)

New comment by throwaway3060 in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

throwaway3060 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:19:45 +0000

I've been hearing the school strike was an Iranian misfire, actually.

New comment by throwaway3060 in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

throwaway3060 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:23:16 +0000

I remember that the alternative has also unleashed hell on Earth for countless innocent people.

At some point, you have to take the path that offers at least some hope for the future. To turn into something that has lost all hope - there is no fixing that.

New comment by throwaway3060 in "Khamenei Dead"

throwaway3060 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:45:30 +0000

Going after the monsters that murdered thousands of Americans was entirely justified.

Russia's problem is that all their reasons for invading Ukraine, they made up. The very people Russia claims to have been 'saving', are the ones that they are disproportionately killing.

New comment by throwaway3060 in "Khamenei Dead"

throwaway3060 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:42:41 +0000

The same state's leader that sold to Russia the drones being used to violate Ukraine's sovereignty?

New comment by throwaway3060 in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

throwaway3060 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:52:49 +0000

As big as this is, the Russia-Ukraine war pretty much marked the end of the post-WW2 era and redefined global relations between the powers. In that sense, this is yet another major shift within this new era. But also, the series of events that led to this point does connect to the Russia-Ukraine war, and maybe doesn't happen without it.

New comment by throwaway3060 in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

throwaway3060 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:00:32 +0000

If you're going to go pre-20th century, Russia has the dubious distinction of having waged the most "total" recorded genocide in history, the Circassian genocide.

Just because you haven't heard of Russia colonizing doesn't mean it didn't happen just as much. It just wasn't where the other imperial empires were. How else would one city come to a rule a continent-sized territory? A big difference is, they didn't keep records of such things. People picture Siberia as an empty wilderness and have no idea that rich societies once lived there.

New comment by throwaway3060 in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

throwaway3060 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 01:14:35 +0000

Then Liebowitz was wrong (and Kanheman, though it seems to me he wasn't trying to make a reasoned argument in that interview). And thus, those who cite him would presumably do better to read other, more historical sources.

New comment by throwaway3060 in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

throwaway3060 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:56:44 +0000

> Comparisons needn't be limited to one event or one atrocity.

You can't openly call a group Nazis and then claim you only meant in terms of their behavior on the western front. It misses the whole point, not to mention it makes people forget what the Nazis did.

> All? I doubt that.

Yes, at times all.

New comment by throwaway3060 in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

throwaway3060 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:34:16 +0000

What is ample? Can you provide any evidence that Gaza can be put in the same breath as Leningrad? Russia calls all the West "Nazis", should we just listen to them?

I think you really need to learn more about the eastern front, if you're going to keep making or supporting comparisons based on incomplete knowledge. There is no comparison between the experiences in France and the experiences in Ukraine during WW2. There is a reason why historian Timothy Snyder titled one of his books "Bloodlands".

Gaza is no Leningrad or Stalingrad.

New comment by throwaway3060 in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

throwaway3060 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:56:13 +0000

Less genocidal federation? That is quite the claim.

The Soviets starved millions of people to death, in order to secure their control. All that help was then built on the backs and blood of those victims. At least let's be honest about that much.

New comment by throwaway3060 in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

throwaway3060 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:46:22 +0000

Given the track record of knowledge of the eastern front beyond the iron curtain, maybe he didn't. I don't know how anyone can read about Operation Barbarossa, the full scope of the plans to wipe out half of the continent, and come away with the impression that anything else, let alone a regional conflict, is even in the same universe.

But this isn't about Leibowitz, who isn't here to try to explain himself. This is about the idea that a falsity is "not up for debate".

New comment by throwaway3060 in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

throwaway3060 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:28:47 +0000

Are you trying to imply there is a comparison between Gaza and Leningrad? Where a number equal to the entire modern population of Gaza perished?

Something is very wrong with education on WW2 if anyone thinks this is a reasonable thing to say. A bubble, I suppose.

New comment by throwaway3060 in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

throwaway3060 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:12:56 +0000

I thought for a bit whether I should reply to this or not. But I noticed one point in here I felt obligated to correct.

If your idea of the Nazis is their occupation in the west, then you are missing most of the picture. Their atrocities in the east are far beyond anything that has ever taken place on this Earth before or since. There is no comparison whatsoever.

New comment by throwaway3060 in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

throwaway3060 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:05:16 +0000

Soviets who murdered millions of people.

Will those decolonial movements then accept complicity, even if reluctantly, for all the peoples the Soviets oppressed and even genocided?