Using Google products is implicit support for Google.

Which, by the way, I understand, but if you actually read the comments from top to bottom, you would have grasped the context.

So tell me you didn’t actually read the comment thread without telling me.

The person I was responding to was declaring that their choice to use an Android based phone makes them a more ethical consumer, and therefore a better person, then iPhone users.

That’s an absurd position, which was what my comment was highlighting.

How about you just don’t act high and mighty and pretend that your personal consumer choice of using an Android based OS somehow make you more ethical then those who use an iPhone.

Oh that’s fantastic.

Can you please tell me you’re entirely ethical smartphone setup?

Obviously you won’t have any Android in there, including Android ROMs which are based off of AOSP, as Google is just as, if not more, evil than Apple, and any project based off Google’s OS is inherently unethical.

Are you’re using a Fair Phone? If not, what ethical phone are you using?

And for your OS, is Sailfish or Ubuntu Touch?

Not yet.

For starters, you can’t even spell québécois with the real American alphabet.

Their use of tidles alone is just cause for annexation and reeducation.

How about we just take Quebec off your hands?

Now, that’s the art of the deal, problem solved.

Unless you live in Quebec, then my condolences because it’s about to get real rough for you.

I went to their about us page expecting to see at least one Vietnamese American.

Nope, all wealthy white people.

Maybe they are a group of well meaning individuals, I don’t know, as I didn’t look past that page.

But… If their entire purpose is advocacy for, and about, Vietnam, you would think they would want at least someone from the region on their core leadership team…

And I can pull out a dozen other US military and CIA officials, current and present, who would say differently.

Would their status as current, or former, as cogs in the wheels of the US military and intelligence branches, make them credible as well?

I don’t know if this can considered terrorism, the same way I don’t consider car bombs driven into coalition FOBs in Iraq or Afghanistan, or roadside IEDs and VBIDs that killed soldier on patrol, as terrorism.

If you’re targeting military personnel, it’s not terrorism. But, if you’re doing it in a way that unnecessarily causes collateral damage, too much collateral damage, etc., that’s a war crime. Which I believe this was.

I can understand the argument that considers this terrorism, and I’m not putting down this flag saying that my understanding of it is right and yours is wrong. Just explaining my current view of the situation.

But at this point, I’m not sure it makes any difference. Israeli troops, and settlers, are regularly committing unquestionable acts of terrorism and war crimes on a daily basis, so what difference does it make classifying this one incident as terrorism, or just another war crime.