This reminds me of the US soldiers after the Iraq invasion not understanding why the population didn't celebrate them as liberators. Even young Iraqis initially optimistic about the future were quickly disillusioned by the reality.

Two full decades in Afghanistan "liberating" the Afghani people from the Taliban, when you left it took less than a day to undo with zero resistance, that's how much the population appreciated your efforts to "bring them liberal democracy".

I suppose it's because the US public never had to reconcile their fantasies with reality in quite the same way as them.

I'll admit I don't understand the situation in Afghanistan. Rejecting liberal democracy isn't surprising, but the Taliban sucks and it's hard to imagine that it's actually popular.

Obviously it's not up to me to decide for them. It's not like we gave Aghanis the option to move out if they didn't like it. Still...

> Rejecting liberal democracy isn't surprising

I wonder what you think that means and why they rejected it?

It's a bit ironic that I want to point people so badly to Edward S. Herman and Chomsky's work on the propaganda model to explain why the current war propaganda in the west in support of Operation Epstein's Fury is nothing new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model

I don't even think it's bots, it's like the LinkedIn lunatics broke containment again or something. Cause HN is such an irrelevant platform who bothers botting it?

Israeli malware companies also use targeted ads to use drive-by exploits to infect people's devices using ad networks based on IP addresses:

https://securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/12/intellexa-lea...

The fact that we still just allow arbitrary 3rd party code to run through ad networks is bizarre.

> The fact that we still just allow arbitrary 3rd party code to run through ad networks is bizarre.

It's interesting to imagine how things would change if those ad-networks were legally liable for their role in spreading scams and malware.

Ad networks yes. Also the website operators and application developers.

There are so many mirrors anyway and trivial to get a local copy? What is much more concerning is government censorship and age verification/digital id laws where what articles you read becomes part of your government record the police sees when they pull you over.

Exactly, this is Iran, international law applies to them unlike Israel and the US. So they better watch out or we carpet bomb their capital and assassinate their head of state, which isn't violating international law because come on it's US!

anyone got a non paywalled/subscription version?

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemini-ai-wrongful-death-lawsuit... is the Gift Article link. This was what I submitted, but the query params got stripped.

Thanks it didn't work with archive.is/org for me either

Ringway Manchester video on the station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErmbTpxAM7Q

At this point the media apparatus that shaped all these people's brains in the comments here must've cost more than the wars they simp for.

Most people assume its because of the influx in chatgpt users switching to claude. 295% daily uninstall hike of ChatGPT: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/chatgpt-uninstalls-surged-...