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Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam - Europe is witnessing a wave of protests against data centers. (www.theverge.com)
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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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[+] -38 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (8 children)

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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  • [–] 21 points 16 hours ago* (5 children)

    Normal people oppose genocide.

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  • [+] -13 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

    Of course. Normal people can also correctly identify genocide.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago* (1 child)

    There's still people like you? Wow!

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

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  • [–] -5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

    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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