The same thing could be said about Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood or many other terrorist groups. It’s an excuse for plausible deniability. There is for example a real group called the Portland Rose Antifa who organized and plotted violent acts in a Signal chat.

as stated in my peer comment made prior to yours

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091084

please see my comment one level deeper in the tree

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091084

I agree and find my country's behavior unacceptable as well. Some of us are doing what we can under the current regime, but it is not easy and comes with real risk. America is not in a good place right now.

"Your comparison doesn't hold."

Yes, it does. Dependence may be mutual, but the leverage is not equal. Trump could make a Truth Social post tomorrow and erase billions of ASML market cap, and they know he's irrational enough to do it. ASML and the Netherlands can't reciprocate such force without inflicting great harm on themselves.

I'm not arguing that's right or just. Only that it is. If you doubt it, go figure out why ASML shares dropped ~5% last April 7th. These people hang on the US government's every utterance.

Something to think about when selecting a host nation for your international hacktivist IT operation.

Why should the fact that these two entities are NATO members have bearing on whether America can demand Dutch citizens be arrested?

I heard the lens thing from another HN comment, it looks like that person misremembered lens vs light source.

> The light source as a whole is engineered by Cymer, a San Diego company ASML bought in 2013 specifically to control this piece.

https://www.makesureiknowit.com/blog/who-supplies-asml

I'm not suggesting dictation, just that there are deep ties in the global supply chain that make decoupling impossible.

but wow, way to read way too much into this and extrapolate into hyperbole?

I don't see how there's any basis for concluding that Tyler Robinson is "left-aligned." He seems pretty apolitical. He did it to defend his girlfriend's honor, or something. If you think his dating preferences make him "left-aligned," that seems more revealing of your own leanings

And where do you place the people at the US Capitol on January 6th?

Figure 4 shows left-wing political violence completely flat with a 1 year decrease in right wing violence as the basis for your “flipped” narrative. Table 1 shows the last 10 years highlighting 152 right wing attacks causing 112 deaths and 35 left wing attacks causing 13 deaths…

You quoted the "trend has recently flipped" but the graph showing the total numbers show right wing violence is still by far the majority, and the 2025 datapoint was incomplete.

> My too-online left friends worship Luigi IRL

And? When you see systemic/societal killing regularly, are we supposed to clutch pearls when one very very rich and powerful guy dies?

> got in over their heads on a protest action

Yeah, two small groups that weren't connected were all made an example of.

> Someone left-aligned

Total conjecture.

The weather underground accidentally killed more of their own than they did in their actual bombings. They went after property. Right wing terror goes after soft targets like kids and worshipers.

Does any of this actually address what I said that rightwing terror groups are going completely unbothered?

There is a lot of misinformation in this post that is parroted from right-wing propaganda channels. I know we are not supposed to engage in ideological battles here on HN, so I am not going to try to convince anyone here. Simply try to fact check any of the individual claims here by a simple web-search, and the whole argument will fall apart on factual ground very quickly.

The government designation of A/I as a terrorist organization is https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20... and I have failed to notice anything about Israel, just your standard left-wing anarchy.

I'm ruled by my wife's weight

Pretty sure the police won't come after you for criticizing disabled people or your colleagues' babies.

You can’t criticize whoever rule over you =/= everyone you can’t criticize is ruling over you.

It is reasonable, I don't care who said it. There's no law in the US against saying the N word, but we have anti-BDS laws.

It’s 2026; trying to conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism is not going to work anymore.

> assuming there are Zionists everywhere is borderline antisemitic

It’s more just basic conspiracy theorizing. Assuming there is a secret group in charge of world affairs is a lot more comforting than facing the reality that we’re careening towards political anarchy on multiple continents. I don’t think one need be anti-Semitic to subscribe to that system.

One of these days we as a species really need to learn that Zionism and Semitism are not the same Venn circle.

Not all Zionists are Semitic (or even Jewish) and not all Semites (or even Jews) are Zionists.

Now, it’s obviously extremely easy to conflate Zionism with Semitism, and vice versa, which is a trap both the actual antisemites and those most likely to point and yell “antisemite” seem wont to fall into.

Personally I’d call that borderline antisemitic, since in either case it’s conflating an ethno-nationalist political agenda with both an ethnicity and a nationality that may not subscribe to or support that political agenda at all.

Ah, sorry for assuming, I figured it was safe guess based on my limited French. It was a wrong guess.