Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices

Re:Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices by llm_nerd on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @09:42AM (#44309820)

Palantir, Meta and OpenAI just had executives commissioned as lieutenant colonels in the US armed forces. They are defacto extensions of the US government now.

It is rather shocking seeing how rapidly the US is shifting from all of its historic norms. Trump sees the US as a "store" where he dictates the terms, he directly has control over US Steel after the Nippon Steel "takeover" -- straight out of the communist central control dictums -- and now US major corporations are embedded in the US military.

It is insane. This is stuff people accused China of for time eternal but apparently it was taken as a good lesson to learn from.

But absolutely no one outside the US -- whether enemies or allies -- should trust anything from US corporations now. The country has fallen.

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Re:Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices by llm_nerd on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @04:05PM (#44312893)

Seeing this downvoted is amazing. As amazing as seeing the American Right call everything communism, when Trump's current administration and activities is absolutely Maoist. It's utterly bizarre the extraordinary conflict of ideas the US is under right now, and the end result absolutely will be a civil fracturing of some sort.

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