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That's the most active use of passive voice the NYT has ever used to describe Israeli atrocities. What I'm saying is that it's a little less passive than usual which actually is a big change. Sadly enough.

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Ordered shit online and discovered the website had an old login from me with an old address that they decided to fill in as my billing address, however my delivery address was taken from paypal and was correct therefore.

Sent them an email telling them that the billing address specifically is wrong and that it should match the delivery address, get an email back telling me they fixed it.

Delivery notification this morning... they changed the delivery address to the outdated billing address, and now tell me that the delivery company doesnt allow address changes usually so I gotta wait for them to return it with no recipient then redeliver it.

What a headache.

Edit: Oh this is news.

Legal argument on why the seizure of Galaxy Leader isn't piracy: https://nitter.cz/meowsandry/status/1727184910710882785

surely they have a contingency chain of cummand in case the frontline extraction squad is killed

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Occupation is the problem not the resistance. Remember Mandela?

Recent events have got me thinking just how goddamn foolish modern apartheid supporters/neo nazis are in South Africa. Thinking back to the AWB in the 90s, these people made a three legged swastika as a logo, seemed obsessed with the current North West province, tried to fight a war over fucking Ventersdorp (a town of 4000 people) because F.W de Klerk was speaking there, wanted to make Brits their capital, and ended up fighting battles against the apartheid police and army, as well as invading the bantustan located in the current North West province and getting humiliated by them.

I'm glad they were so stupid, because at their peak they had over 500 000 members. Now they only have 5000.

Israel is gonna be killing more of their hostages when they formally end the ceasefire.

Now that I watched that wretched film Napolean starring that timid Brooklynite and directed by the alien, I can proudly say i am now a Marxist-napoleon

Fascinating that as soon as there were reports of Gabriel Boric's "nightly visits to his lady friend" Argentina elected a guy that has clearly never eaten ass.

Its like Chile and Argentina are intercontected and only one of their presidents can fuck at a time.

Al Jazeera: Apartheid South Africa reached a tipping point, Israel will, too

The number of children killed in Gaza has surpassed the annual number of children killed in conflict globally; the number of civilians killed in Gaza has now exceeded the total death toll in Ukraine since February 2022. These numbers are climbing every day, as the Israeli military continues to indiscriminately bomb civilian buildings, including hospitals and schools.

As a Black South African, watching these horrific events unfold, I cannot but reflect on my country’s own violent past. I recall the relentless planning and violence that accompanied the last decades of white South Africa’s attempts to make apartheid work. I remember the fears that grew among white South Africans as they put their trust in a sophisticated military capability, a conscription army, a nuclear weapons capacity and steadfast friends in the West, particularly the United States, Britain and France.

It was the height of the Cold War and South Africa claimed to be the only democracy in Southern Africa, protecting “civilisation” from the encroaching threats surrounding it. Its military might and expansive police force were accompanied by a series of policies designed to maintain white minority rule. Each attempt to impose new such policies failed in the face of mass resistance. The more they failed, the more brutal the violence meted out by the military and the police with the encouragement of white politicians and a terrified white electorate.

The “terrorists”, as the national liberation movements were referred to, could not be crushed by the mightiest army in Southern Africa. By mid-1985 a significant section of the white electorate and some in the ruling party realised that the problem of Black resistance was not going to go away. Something more drastic was going to be required.

The then State President, the hawkish P W Botha, himself a former defence minister, was encouraged by a faction of his party to open parliament that year with a conciliatory speech, to make a grand policy statement that would offer the Black majority a hopeful sign that they would become part of the whites-only democracy that was South Africa. It was called the “crossing of the Rubicon speech”. Botha played along but at the last minute baulked and defiantly went in the opposite direction, instead giving a speech in which he vowed to intensify the fight against “terrorism”, refusing to negotiate with “terrorists” in prison, like Nelson Mandela. What followed was the extension of the state of emergency in South Africa and the killing of thousands of people resisting apartheid rule, as Botha and his faction turned to more and more violence and repression.

Eventually, his own party leaders staged a palace coup and installed F W de Klerk in power. The new president and the faction he represented had realised that the end was nigh, that the decades of repression were not succeeding in making a political and economic system work that excluded the majority and only benefitted the white minority. De Klerk and his faction realised that whites were not going to win the war, even if they had more guns, bombs, tanks and artillery and could probably continue to rule for a long time through sheer force. It was not sustainable because the more repression they deployed, the more resistance they faced and the more white South Africans lived in fear.

The more the violence was flashed across the world’s television screens, the harder it became for white South Africa’s friends in the West to steadfastly support it. It was a tipping point that led to political negotiations, to talking to “the terrorists” who they saw as their existential enemy. It was a tipping point that created the pathway to a single state with equal citizenship for all, based on residency, not origins, race, religion or ethnicity.

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Ordinary Israelis may begin to realise that no matter how sophisticated or strong the Israeli army, Mossad, or the apartheid regime appear, the “Palestinian problem” is not going to go away as long as the Palestinians are alive. Just as with white South Africans, fear grows exponentially. And Israel is responding to that fear with a colossal bombing campaign of annihilation. But as white South Africans learned, violence cannot eradicate the “problem”, nor create the life of peace they might long for. [...] Whatever may be left in the ruins and rubble that awaits us after this war on Gaza, Israel’s “Palestinian problem” will not have gone away. Ordinary Israelis will surely never sleep again with the confidence that their state can fully protect them. They will do well to learn from white South Africans who, after 300 years of minority rule, realised it was an impossible political project to continue to defend so violently, and still maintain any semblance of a moral high ground.

There is a tipping point when even for the defenders of such a project, the faint question rings louder and louder in the collective conscience: how far is too far? There can be no going back to the promises of security based on what was before. There can be no going forward in peace if it means more and more blood of children and civilians haunting successive generations who will have to take responsibility for the actions unfolding before our eyes today. As a South African who has lived to cross the Rubicon, I hope this catastrophe will force Israelis to see that only a just and inclusive political solution based on equal citizenship for all is going to bring them freedom from fear.

https://archive.is/YXjQN

Which one of you nerds lathed "AI Prompt Engineer job title" a while back?

Prompt engineer is one of the hot jobs AI is creating

Business Insider writes.

Literally a bullshit job. Whoever gets a job like this should get swirled then shoved in a locker.

bit idea: flying the Jordanian flag 🇯🇴 to bait American zionists who don't know the difference

virgin Saudi official vs chad Ansarallah operator wearing an Abu Obeida headband and seizing Isntreali ships

Are Democrats betting on Project 2024 fearmongering being all they need to win the upcoming election? That's the only thing I'm seeing them talk about and nothing else.

Dengism goes hard

Hezbollah blew up ~~some barracks~~ the headquarters of the Galilee Division

can't wait for the idf to claim that 2 soldiers were lightly injured

Dublin be like:

We gotta get more racist

Oh and even mcnuggets weighing in, should have had both legs broken.

P.S. you having shite housing, and your prime minister being landlord, are in fact connected, dissafected irish masses

I think the decision to remove a recent article posted by one of our comrades which criticized white gay males should be reconsidered because I don't think it was reactionary

It included the segment from a gay white male perspective on why intersectionality is still important, and the article specifically mentions the Gay Liberation Front, the org named after the National Liberation front of Vietnam, where Leslie Feinberg spent so much energy fighting rival assimilationist orgs and assimilationist currents motivated by gay white male individuals who always had the liberty to jettison anti-racism and anti-imperialism if they wanted to (and successfully did so, e.g considering the current state of Pride© and queer struggle today, the tendency of many queer spaces to end up almost exclusively white, and among these spaces even as irrelevant but visible and memed about "leftist" discords being 100% white anti-authoritarian chauvinists etc etc)

The article goes into intersectionalist and assimilationist currents, I think many respondents did not read the article before writing

What I'm Reading: Pushing back on pandemic revisionism.

Pandemic revisionism has been on my mind lately. It seems that many people incorrectly believe we didn’t achieve much, despite our efforts. How quickly we forget. The horrors of New York City in the early days of Covid-19 reflected a virus spreading without mitigation. Virtually everywhere other than New York City experienced Covid-19 dramatically differently—that is, other US cities encountered the novel coronavirus in the context of serious efforts to contain it. That’s why truckloads of dead bodies didn’t become a fixture anywhere outside of New York City’s early outbreak.

I’m not alone in worrying that people have forgotten all of this. Lately, New York Times writer David Wallace Wells has been using his column to interview some pandemic experts around this topic. His interviews with two colleagues with whom I have collaborated, Dr. Katelyn Jetelina and Dr. Michael Mina, are highly recommended reading for anyone interested in what lessons from the pandemic we should have learned—and these go beyond the usual platitudes.

So for this installment of “What I’m Reading,” I’m sharing another Wallace Wells interview. In this interview, Wallace Wells interviews the authors of a new book entitled “The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind.”

This is no ordinary interview. Wallace Wells clearly read this book and identified within it a key—and devastating—contradiction in its reasoning. Here is an early excerpt from the interview:

In the beginning of the book you write, in what almost feels like a thesis statement for the book: “A central tenet of this book is that we could not have done better, and pretending differently is a dangerous fiction, one that prevents us from taking a much needed look in the mirror.”

This claim, that the U.S. could not have done any better, runs against your other claim, that what we observed was an American failure. It is also a pretty extreme claim, I think, and I wanted to press you on it in part because it is, in my view, undermined by quite a lot of the work you do in the book itself.

Would the U.S. not have done better if it had recognized earlier that the disease spread through the air rather than in droplets? Would it not have done better if it hadn’t bungled the rollout of a Covid test in the early months? You write at length about PPE shortages and the problems of coordinating care between hospitals in the early months — would the country not have done better if it had addressed those problems quickly, or not suffered from them to begin with? Disparities in health care access — is it a dangerous fiction to think we might address that? You guys are big champions of Operation Warp Speed — would it not have been better if those vaccines had been rolled out to the public in nine months, rather than 12, getting shots into the arms of the vulnerable elderly before the first big winter surge? —David Wallace Wells, The New York Times.

Indeed, how can someone say we failed and also say that we could not have done any better?

[...] Wallace Wells surgically dissects a bizarre but increasingly popular viewpoint espoused in the book; that we did too much and that the benefits were nowhere near sufficient to justify them.

So ceasefire just means IOF cops do the brutalizing instead of the bombers?

White House advisor in Israel to talk de-escalation with Lebanon

Senior White House advisor Amos Hochstein arrived in Tel Aviv on 20 November to discuss preventing a war with Lebanon with Israeli officials, two US and Israeli officials told Axios.

“Some in the Biden administration are concerned Israel is trying to provoke Hezbollah,” two US and Israeli sources told Axios, “and create a pretext for a wider war in Lebanon that could draw the US and other countries further into the conflict. Israeli officials outrightly deny this.”

US officials said that they have grown anxious over heightened escalations between Israel and the Lebanese resistance group on the border, fearing that it could increase the chance for a regional war.

they are so scared of Hezbollah

Idiot neolib toady I know on another social media space brought up the Myanmar civil war going on now and referred to the country as having a "communist military government that has been mostly stable the last 70 years"

Fucking nitwits

Dublin Riots seem similar to those Ukraine-backed airport mobs in Dagestan. A hard right telegram/whatsapp group gets whipped into a frenzy and sicked on the streets. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if intelligence agencies were at least supporting this kind of thing.

Israeli snipers shot a man and left him to bleed and they opened fire at anyone that tried to go help him. CW gunfire

fuck landlords
fuck cars

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US may redesignate Houthis as ‘terrorist’ organisation after ship hijacking

White House National Security Council spokesman Kirby says the Biden administration is considering the redesignation, citing “recent targeting of civilians by the Houthis” and “piracy of a ship in international waters”.

The Biden administration formally delisted the group as a “foreign terrorist organization” and “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” in 2021, undoing a last-minute move by former US President Donald Trump. The UN and aid groups had criticised the designations, saying the restrictions they created complicated aid delivery in the war-torn country.

The Yemen-based Houthis yesterday claimed the hijacking of a cargo ship in the Red Sea with 25 crew aboard. It said the ship was linked to Israel, although Israel said none of the crew were Israeli. They continue to be held by the Houthis.

Speaking to reporters, Kirby also said US officials did not want to comment on a possible captive release deal between Hamas and Israel: “We won’t say and do not want to say anything in these delicate hours that could put a deal at greater risk.”

- Al Jazeera

Summary of the economic impact of the war on Israel: https://nitter.cz/meowsandry/status/1728029686091956732

This thread succinctly explains the effect on “Israel’s” economy inflicted by the resistance. Highly suggest you all read the articles. I’ll just summarize a few points:

— ‘Israel’ borrowed $6B in loans just to finance this war, which is plummeting them into debt & making many investors reluctant to invest due to high ESG (environmental, social and governance) risk

— Amid an immediate effort to quell up-coming inflation, the Central Bank of ‘Israel’ has already sold $30B in foreign exchange to reserve the shekel from collapse. This coupled with the loans will inevitably drive up interest-rates, which is already starting to happen

— S&P Global Ratings lowered Israel’s credit outlook from stable to negative

— IMF chief says this could lead to a grave economic weakness, as global oil supply may face disruptions

— Companies that are supporting ‘Israel’ (ex. McDonald’s) are starting to feel the effects of the boycotts, especially in ME.

— “Israel” postponed nearly 3M shekels of loan repayments in October. A total of 117,000 loans were deferred.

— The Washington Post publishes an article stating that if the ground war invasion continues for three months, the economy would be gravely affected, and the 300,000 reservists would need to return to work, they’ve already considered reducing the mobilization of reserve soldiers (from 360,000 to 200,000)

— There are practically no flights to “Israel”

(Keep in mind, these effects all worsen as this continues, and it doesn’t include the millions ‘Israel’ has lost bc of the resistance destroying their military vehicles)

I do condom hamas and jerk off dead IDF soldiers

We're so close to having an unedited Ben Garrison comic that just has "cum" labeled everywhere

least unhinged Israeli: "What Hamas is committing is worse than what the Nazis did"

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bolsonaro under investigation for harassing a whale

Some funny and probably positive news from Greece with the political landscape there being both the same and the opposite from other countries in Europe rn.

Its same in the sense that New Democracy (not Maoist but like 80% Macron - 20% Le Pen) governs after getting ~40% in the elections this year all while the socdem to center-left has either been eating shit and imploding (SYRIZA), being PASOK doing nothing after being Pasokified and or being Varoufakis enjoying his internationalist larp party at ~2% outside of parliament. With Syriza's implosion being the funny one since they ate shit in the elections, Tsipras resigned and then they literaly imported some better looking Pete Buttigieg - Beto O'Rourke dude from the US but with worse politics (reaganite, campaigned for Biden in 2008) and made him the leader so now they are about to be polling at signle digits. Like look at this

But there are also opposing trends compared to other countries.

The Greek Communist Party (Hardline MLs who also dont suck too much on LGBT issues anymore despite what the convo was some years ago) has more than doubled their support, consistently hitting 10%+ in recent polls and now has a real chance of actually reaching 2nd place. Looking at the state of communist parties and movements in most of the west , at eurocommunism and in general the post war trajectory of most , you dont have that kind of party that doesnt suck in 90% of issues with that kind of parliamentary numbers + organizational strength at a youth or union level almost anywhere else.

Also contrary to other countries the far right is very split and incoherent . After the collapse of Golden Dawn the overtly anti-migrant fascists, neonazis , ethnonationalists, alt-right nutjobs, religious nutjobs etc are split over 4-6 parties with basicaly no organizational strength or organic reach. They wont and cant reach any really threatening unified movement as of now and they mostly overtly clownish and lame

Common Ansrahalla Win

Israeli Anti-Furniture Brigades performing their mission effectively and efficiently.

Receiving reports that the Hamas front known as "IKEA" - that is, the Islamic Khamas Evil Army - might be the next target for Israeli bombing raids.