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Image is of many Hamas soldiers supervising the handing over of Israeli hostages to cars heading out of the Gaza Strip.

After 15 months of genocide - and resistance to it - the Israeli regime realized that they could not win a military victory against Hamas, and were forced to sign a humiliating ceasefire in order to get their hostages returned.

With much of Syria under the control of Al-Qaeda, and an increasing level of covert infiltration into Lebanon, the crisis in the Middle East is not over, and we may still be in its beginning stages, as the center of hegemony continues its gradual shift away from the United States. Their navy, once considered the best in the world, is likely also not very happy about their ships and aircraft carriers being forced to retreat by Yemen, one of the poorest countries; and all eyes are on Iran, who has, over the last year and a half, demonstrated a newfound confidence and strength to directly strike Israel.

The recovery for Gaza will take, at a minimum, decades; it could indeed never fully recovery to even how it was before, considering it is not in Israel's interests to see their concentration camps recover. But Hamas has proven to be steadfast and the tunnel network has proven its resilience, despite facing some of the most powerful conventional bombing in history. This shows that Palestine's liberation is a when, not an if; and hopefully a much sooner "when" than expected before October 7th.


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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (5 children)

:sicko-poll-watcher: but actually, it just sucks that voters defect to right wing parties (same with spd->afd) instead of plausibly leftist like greens/linke

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In great british extravagance, they have 3 right wing parties at the top spot.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

3 equals at a quarter and one at 1/8th, just fully 7/8th brits like (in actuality) right-wingers with different colors

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Money and media are with the fascists. People are still easily brainwashed and manipulated in the age of information.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

But at some point you think to yourself - pisrael is fucked state (a statement agreable to 60 % of brits), sturmer is fucking the economy (also 60 % of brits), so at minimum you have intersection of 36 % of people for whom both statements are true. The fuck do they vote for? tory or reform don't give a fuck about nhs, or winter fuel allowance or corruption or whatever, so what they think in 7 months out of power tories know how to unfuck economy ~~of money laundering~~?

(And labor share gone to reform and tories explicitly)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The eternal problem of FPTTP voting, of which Canada suffers, is nobody has anything to vote FOR, only against. Thus why Poilievre is gonna be the next PM, not cause people love him or the conservatives, really, they're just the opposition party so people will vote for them to punish the Liberals but ofc, due to FPTTP, this just results in a sort of seesaw elections where people vote whatever the opposition of the time happens to be.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

first taste the penix voting

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Uk is in a floaty fptp state due to reform tho, and this is polling not voting, rightwingers were perfectly fine fucking tories by going to reform, like a fourth of them did (and doesn't explain germany)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

I have to imagine that, in the mind of the average voter, Greens are just Labour+

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

If Trump is the Reagan of the current moment, who is the Thatcher, Farage?

First as tragedy, then as farce, etc

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

plausibly leftits and green should not be in the same sentence. They are literally the democrats of europe

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Uk greens are not like eu greens shrug-outta-hecks linke is also split on pisrael for some goddamn reason