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France proposes creating a regional and international coalition to fight Hamas - Macron

Uhhhhhhhhhhh?

look at this website. one of the subheaders is:

A hostage released by Hamas, Yocheved Lifshitz, said she went "through hell."

their video showing Lifshitz speaking only shows the one part where she says she was beat by sticks. another subheader under 'What we know' is

One of the freed Israeli women has spoken about the "hell" of her seizure by Hamas and described how she was treated in captivity after being led through tunnels that resembled a "spiderweb."

you're supposed to see "the hell of her seizure" and see "describe how she was treated in captivity" and think it was this horrific, scary thing where she was tortured. they of course never mention her saying she was treated very well and had regular medical care and even fucking hair conditioner.

So Liz Cheney – not Bernie Sanders, not MSNBC – in her interview with Jake Tapper, suggested that Trump's leaking of top-secret intelligence may be a factor in the current world troubles. Chew on that for awhile.

what is wrong with the liberal brain?

Just saw a tweet by a Palestinian asking for the full list of dead published by the Gaza Ministry of Health because he hasn't heard from his family in more than a week.

Thankfully his family isn't on the list.

British Radlibs when events are occurring around the globe that could fundamentally reshape the world for decades to come:

British Radlibs when a Tory is caught lying about something:

Desperately trying to convince liberals that the only moral and practical options for opposing Hamas is to either directly by force stopping the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, or by creating and funding a 100% morally correct and non-antisemitic militia, giving them superior arms and materiel, and then supporting them in a campaign of military violence in freeing Palestine from ethnic cleansing, therefore depriving Hamas of legitimacy and role as primary armed resistance to Israel.

And of the two the former is obviously the more practical.

I can’t believe this morherfucker is in nato LMAO

thread (nitter alt) about how Hollywood propaganda has completely broken people's brains about US military capabilities

One of the worst moments in the history of military cinema was the final battle in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Considering that film was heavily supported by the Pentagon, recent events have put a sinister cast on what is facially just an over-the-top action scene. ... an American general in a high-tech command center sees the battle happening on a drone feed and barks out orders to commence the operation. This causes a US Navy armada (including one destroyer mounting a railgun) to magically appear off the Egyptian coast and launch an amphibious assault with LCACs 110 miles up the Nile Delta to Giza to put US Army tanks on the ground and firing on Megatron in what appears to be literally a couple of minutes of in-universe time.

Of course the good guys win, hooray, it's a fun action set-piece in a lowbrow blockbuster. But here's the thing. This entire sequence was vetted and approved by the Public Affairs Office, and the US military was heavily involved with the production - to the point some of the "special effects" in the battle were live tank gun rounds being fired into the set. And yet, apparently, none of the soldiers involved with this thought for a moment to pump the brakes and point out that all of this was ridiculous. How ridiculous? This is a franchise about transforming robots from outer space and somehow the most unrealistic moment in all five movies doesn't even involve them. That cinematic low point instead falls on a depiction of the United States military teleporting its entire joint force enterprise into battle over the course of a literal phone call. And nobody thought to point this out to Michael Bay, probably, because that was exactly the message the Pentagon wanted to send.

And now we have people on this website assuming that the United States can just handwave the kind of military forces out of thin air needed to deter and, if necessary, defeat Iran. Logistics, basing, access, transit times, force correlations, who cares - we've got this. And that is, unfortunately, exactly in line with the Pentagon's most public messaging about its own capabilities. This has seen the US government repeatedly embarrassed and the US public disappointed in recent years when it turns out that American aircraft take days, carriers take weeks and tanks take months to arrive at the crisis of the hour.

Something tells me that the death of Israel just started tonight

— 🇱🇧 BREAKING: Hezbollah S.G. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will give a speech on Friday, November 3rd, 3:00 PM Beirut time

It will be the first time he gives a speech since the start of the war, and it is expected to be unprecedented.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-google-criticised-keffiyeh-headscarf-terrorists

This is just a half baked idea, not a fully formed thought… but I think their has to be a psychological connection between white Americans supporting Israel ethnic cleansing Palestinians and slaughtering brown “terrorists”, and their own feelings that in their suburban enclaves, that they are sitting on their own volcano. If you’re white and grew up in the suburbs, you probably have some idea of what I’m talking about. The notion that there are large masses of black folks in the inner city who are just waiting to do some mass invasion of the suburbs where the white folks are slaughtered. Even if they don’t have these explicit thoughts, it’s an anxiety deep in the id of so many white suburbanites. I feel like this support for Israel and lust for revenge comes from there. Also how they’re so easy to convince that “Hamas is pushing babies through Vitamix blenders” or whatever because they want to believe that only brown people are capable of that sort of thing.

There were virtually no major BLM protests in the wealthy, all-white suburbs. I’m convinced if there was, there would be multiple reports of white folks shooting protestors and the media kinda supporting it or at least both-sidesing it.

The USA lost to poor people using tunnels fighting against occupation in Vietnam.

The USA's vassal state is going to lose against poor people using tunnels fighting against occupation in Palestine.

It's like poetry it rhymes.

Looks like I'm going to cover the SiFive/RISC-V drama. RISC-V is an instruction set architecture (like ARMv8 or x86) that's unique because it's an open standard. Unlike ARM or x86, you don't need a license to develop a core that implements the RISC-V ISA. SiFive is one of the pioneers of RISC-V and was founded by, well, the creators of the RISC-V ISA. They develop cores that implement the RISC-V ISA, which you can then license and integrate into your chips.

Amid intensifying tech war, 1 US chip design firm sees opportunity in China

It's not exactly a secret that RISC-V has gained significant traction in China and that SiFive has been trying to court Chinese customers.

RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war

Representative Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House select committee on China, said in a statement to Reuters that the Commerce Department needs to "require any American person or company to receive an export license prior to engaging with PRC (People's Republic of China) entities on RISC-V technology."

Jack Kang, vice president of business development at SiFive, a Santa Clara, California-based startup using RISC-V, said potential U.S. government restrictions on American companies regarding RISC-V would be a "tremendous tragedy." "It would be like banning us from working on the internet," Kang said. "It would be a huge mistake in terms of technology, leadership, innovation and companies and jobs that are being created."

However, recent US political decisions are screwing over SiFive's expansion plans... And, judging by the comments made by Congress, nobody knows what they're talking about.

The Risk of RISC-V: What’s Going on at SiFive?

Through multiple sources, SiFive has instigated a large number of layoffs. Numbers vary, from 100 to 300+, but multiple sources confirm that most of the engineering team, especially the physical design engineers, sales, and product team. The management team have also been fired from what I’ve been told, leaving the founders and CEO Patrick Little at the helm.

It's been reported that SiFive will no longer be providing predesigned cores (think like ARM's X1, A55, A76, etc.) and will be shifting their business model entirely to custom cores. In general, custom = less money because of poor scalability.

I don't think this is a coincidence. The loss of the Chinese market is a massive reduction in serviceable addressable market, which VCs pay a lot of attention to. I think this is a sign that VCs are derisking from their SiFive investment and forcing SiFive to adopt a leaner business model. I think this is also an indication that lobbyists from ARM, AMD, and Intel are working hard behind the scenes to spread FUD among Congress.

A huge number of fuel tankers have accumulated on the border of Iraq and Jordan. Protesters blocking the borders say they will not allow a drop of fuel into Israel.

https://streamable.com/aide5s

How many new fighters do you think all this bombing and mass murder has created inside the strip?

If you bombed my family and I survived I probably wouldn't give a shit about the ideology of any of the various groups, I would go to whoever can put a gun in my hand.

It’s so easy to support Palestine when it’s under attack by Israel. Everyone who today is shedding tears for Gaza was a couple weeks ago calling for blood going “Israel has a right to defend itself.” Well they got what they wanted, they should be celebrating. One would hope this would cause some self-reflection in westerners but we all know it won’t, in fact this is a situation that is desired in those same westerners. They are happy to support opponents of imperialism when those opponents are being killed off and displaced and on the run, but they can never support those opponents of imperialism when they are actually materially threatening imperialism.

Where's the sarcastic post about lgbt people losing all their principles and supporting apartheid because muslims are a little bit reactionary about queer things? There was a joke in it about israeli bombs having the technology to avoid queer people.

I lost the post. Want it again.

The current GOP explained.

• Moderate Republicans. Far-right. Gets mad if called a fascist but wants fascism.
• Republicans. Unhinged and possibly dangerous far-right. Might get mad if called a fascist or they might say they are "proud to be a Christian and a nationalist". It depends the polling and/or their mood.
• Far-right Republicans. Fascists. Possibly believe the Soros-funded Democrats are using THE G5 MINDRAY to turn Americans into zombies.

The Democrats explained.

• Worse than useless.

Someone removed the Israel flag at the United Nations protest in Rome

https://streamable.com/lqjakd

US State Department echoes Biden death toll scepticism, but says no way to assess

Spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters that Washington does not “trust Hamas”.

“Now, we don’t have any way to make an accurate assessment of our own about the number of civilians who have died in Gaza,” Miller said. “But we do have scepticism about everything that Hamas says.”

genocide denying scum. the ministry of health just released a spreadsheet of the names of the people killed. the first 88 names are from the same family. they're killing entire families and the garbage US politicians are saying they're lying. god damn I'm so angry.

RSF says killing of Reuters journalist in Lebanon a targeted strike

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says that the killing of Reuters visuals journalist Issam Abdallah in Lebanon on October 13 was the result of a targeted strike from the direction of the Israeli border.

“According to the ballistic analysis carried out by RSF, the shots came from the east of where the journalists were standing; from the direction of the Israeli border,” RSF said.

“Two strikes in the same place in such a short space of time (just over 30 seconds), from the same direction, clearly indicate precise targeting.”

Footage released online shows Abdallah and other colleagues were clearly marked as “Press” when they were fired upon.

- Al Jazeera

> Walks 2 steps into border

> Everyone gets captured

Yeah, the ground invasion is gonna go swimmingly

They say anything they can to avoid saying the IDF is doing it. "What's happening in Gaza right now is a massive casualty event." MSNBC's reporter in southern Israel just said that.

I kind of feel like China will of course do whatever it can to simmer down tensions and prevent the war from escalating to be a region-wide conflict because it has its own strategic interests in Middle Eastern stability. But if it were to blow up into essentially a multi-country hot conflict that the world might regard as WW3 or something, I’m actually not so sure they would send troops to fight other than like stationing troops at their Afghanistan border and some carriers out in the ocean. I think they would try to stay out of the conflict, and let the West throw itself at the Middle East as a means of like weakening/depleting. And maybe they would get dragged in if the US was like ok we’re officially going to send US troops to “defend Taiwan” or whatever, to intentionally get them into the war. Idk, I think if it actually pops off, we’re gonna have to temper our expectations of an Iran-Russia-China effort happening

🚨 BREAKING: NewPress reports that combat continues after commando units of Al-Qassam Brigades successfully landed on the beaches of the zionist “Zikim” naval base. Resistance fighters in #Gaza have provided dense mortar fire as cover for the maneuver.

Source

Actually amazing that Hamas is still managing to get people outside the fence. How fucking rotten is the whole IOF that even now this is happening to them. Incredible bravery from these commandos

President Putin, my country, America, yearns for de-Nazification.

Next Monday in Tunisia a law will be passed to punish with a fine of 30k dinars and life imprisonment for any normalization with Israel.

About damn time

A majority of the two dozen or so holdouts against Tom Emmer are members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, and many of them continue to say they will vote for Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, the hard-right chairman of the Judiciary Committee who failed to win the speakership last week.

The longer this goes on the better. Keep our genocidal government at least partially non-functional for as long as possible.

Example of the fake rubbish out there that I avoid posting here lmao:

From the Hebrew website: Colonel Yair Shalam, Israel commander of the attack on the Bureij camp in Gaza, was captured by the Palestinian resistance!!!

For those that don't know. This dude is Herzi Halevi and he's literally the highest ranking person in the IDF. Extremely obviously and easily verifiable fake post that is getting reshared by massive numbers of accounts.

The liberals are doing it AGAIN and it’s making me furious! People all over Twitter who have been like relatively good about Palestine are suddenly handwringing about “River to the sea,” “There is only one solution! Intifada, revolution,” and “Honor our martyrs,” claiming that these are all basically calling for genocide of Israelis and glorifying Hamas. It’s just so transparently people wanting to support Israel so they can stop feeling bad about the ACTUAL REAL GENOCIDE Israel is doing RIGHT NOW to the Palestinians. Fuck all these people, I hope they all suffer and die so they can feel a tiny fraction of what the Palestinians have had to go through.

Continually my mind is drawn back to Red Sails’ essay on how Brainwashing isn’t real and people intentionally buy into propaganda to justify that which they already want to believe.

I expect hexbear to receive collective royalties for coining GenocideJoe, if not, then I will write a very strongly worded letter to The News

Periodically poking the nazi telegrams with shit that pisses them off to unbelievable levels in such a way that I repeatedly kill the chats because none of them enjoy it anymore and fuck off elsewhere lmao.

Liberals have to undergo a Brainectomy as part of the initiation into their cult

“The Royal Navy is ending its century-old tradition of having Chinese servants on warships amid fears that they could be forced to spy for Beijing. Hundreds of Chinese laundrymen have worked on Britain’s warships since the 1930”

Nepalese Gurkhas will replace them due to fears that Beijing could threaten the servants’ families in China to make those on board ships pass on Royal Navy secrets, The Sun has reported.

my honest reaction to this policy

anglos thinking they are so important they are going to be spied on by a major power and are not seen as a minor satellite of another power

any updates on ? Has he fled back to Long Island yet?

Unclear? Israel did it.

The cause of phone and internet outages in Gaza remains unclear, experts say.

It was unclear on Saturday whether a widespread communications outage in the Gaza Strip was because strikes had damaged cellular infrastructure or because Israel had deliberately cut Palestinian service, experts said.

[Continues]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/28/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas-news/the-cause-of-phone-and-internet-outages-in-gaza-remains-unclear-experts-say?smid=url-share

"I'm so shocked (or maybe just pissed) how I've seen multiple posts about the dude from friends that died (thankfully never watched the show) from the same people that have seen my posts and never responded or reacted to anything about the current genocide. Is it really that easy to brainwash people? Wow"

text I got from a friend

oh for fucks sake, now the western MSM claims that they were wrong to blame Israel for the Hospital bombing:

The World Paid a Stiff Price for Bad Reporting on Gaza Hospital Explosion

Within minutes of the explosion at a hospital in Gaza, the court of public opinion had fully adopted the story that the tragedy was Israel's fault.

• First of all, from hour zero the whole MSM (excluding UK Channel 4 and Al Jazeeera) scrambled together to find evidence against Israeli culpability and to blame Hamas, even though Occam's razor/Bayesian priors whatever makes Israel the most likely culprit, considering they've been bombing Gaza and they never stopped

• The supposed refutation fell apart in days, but it was perceived to be obvious bullshit by people not biased towards the IOF. Hell, they even made a fake phone call with bad accents.

• Now US intelligence claims it wasn't Israel, so it wasn't Israel. Yeah, the CIA is famously trustworthy.

• "When Ukrainians misfire it's Russia's fault"

• All this is secodary in some sense - Gaza's Health Ministry says at least 5,791 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombardments, including 2,360 children.

Fucking Guatemala voted against the UN ceasefire proposal. Fucking America worshipping cucks. We have the fourth highest Palestinian population in the Americas and yet our US-led government can't help themselves from following whatever Daddy tells them to do. A ceasefire is the bare minimum and even that was too much for you.

Arbenz please come back from the dead or have your spirit passed on to someone ffs

Jesus Christ, every day I take like ten minutes and go to /r/worldnews to see what they're up to, and I've honestly never seen this level of pure, unmitigated bloodlust on Reddit. This is post-9/11 levels of just the most unhinged islamophobic blood thirst that I've ever seen.

These motherfuckers are mainlining IDF propaganda 24/7, and even the most tepid, timid pushback is downvoted to oblivion and gets dozens of answers that read like absolute fucking demons demanding nothing but the complete annihilation of Gaza. I saw comments implying that all Palestinians support Hamas and are therefore fair game in war, and these comments have thousands of upvotes.

I don't know why I still bother. That site achieves the unthinkable: it is way fucking worse than Twitter.