libs screech about Trump didn't win because Russia bought ineffective facebook ads while in other countries we get to create an entirely fictitious media environment full of fake people and fake information but actually the elections are still super legit when the nazis when

if those are shotguns not rubber bullets they are about to start a revolution. there can't be any coming back from that

Telegram caption translated:

This is what the war in Iran looks like for ordinary people. Supermarket shelves in southern Italy sit empty because truckers and farmers have blocked roads—protesting the high cost of diesel, which they can no longer afford to pay. Deliveries have stopped, shelves are bare, and people say they can no longer make ends meet. Today, similar pressures are fueling protests in France as well. Trump keeps saying that once the war ends, prices will plummet. The problem is, no one knows when that day will come. ✍🏼

So it's the effects of workers going on strike causing this (albeit dramatic-looking) shortage. This is just what happens when your supply chain goes on strike or gets disrupted internally, it's hardly worth the alarming title lol. For all we know this is just a single store.

I saw the same empty shelves in my local Co-Op when they were subject to a cyber attack that fucked up their distribution network. I saw the same in Covid lockdowns due to panic buying of specific goods, and supply chains adapting to new regulations.

* ^In reality Iranian markets or grocery stores arent barren like this, so the comparison is a bit moot. Perhaps idk pharmacies?^

Yup, things have been going on since last week when striking workers of the "ex-ILVA" steel plant in Taranto (the ILVA situation is a whole complex mess I won't get into) cut off a local refinery causing severe fuel shortages in the Southern Italian regions of Puglia, Basilicata and Calabria. Shelves have been progressively emptying there for days, many gas stations had to stay closed, alongside several other interruptions of services like public transport.

Because of high fuel prices the strikes are now multiplying, especially involving transport workers and farmers (an EU classic). Last week things were already bad in the south but the news underreported it, perhaps they were waiting for the strikes to end and everything to go back to normal, but the fuel shortage hit immediately and hard, and now even threatens to spread nationwide.

This is not even related to the unrest you are seeing from places like Milan

this is Italy under socialism

You can grow certain mushrooms from cardboard... Mushrooms are quite interesting creatures.

Why would communism do this?

I have like 8kg of dried beans stashed around my apartment, yesterday I cooked lentils i got in 2023, i did go and guys some fresh vegetables today

It's good to try and coordinate this with other people if you can, Ive recently contacted a food co-op, they have ~40 gallon barrels of dried goods stored in a church

Eng Translation:

::: spoiler Qalibaf, addressing Asim Munir:

❌ "We have nothing new to say, and America cannot earn Iran's trust except by implementing the seven conditions."

🔖 Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, in a meeting with Asim Munir held Tuesday evening at Baharestan (Iranian Legislative Assembly), referred to the fraternal relations between Iran and Pakistan and expressed his appreciation and thanks for the solidarity of the Pakistani people and government, who stood alongside Iran through conditions of war and negotiation.

📌 Asim Munir, responding to the follow-up by the Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly regarding border exchanges between the two countries, said that the border issues had been temporary and technical, and that the border between the two countries has been open since today.

📌 At this meeting, Qalibaf, referring to the negotiations that took place between Iran and the United States in Islamabad, said: "I said there explicitly, addressing the US Vice President, that America's long record of negative actions against Iran before and after our Islamic Revolution has placed us in a state of peak distrust toward America. And now, with the Trump administration's violation of the Islamabad Memorandum, his repeated threats have built that edifice of distrust higher than before."

📌 "We have nothing new to say, and America cannot earn Iran's trust except by implementing Iran's seven conditions, which were presented in New York."

📌 "We are not warmongers, but we are fully prepared to defend our homeland and our national dignity. Threats and military movements cannot influence the strategic decisions of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It was America that, through miscalculation and war against Iran, fell into the quagmire - and now it is they who must take the necessary steps to get out."

This is in Farsi, the English subtitles are very high quality.

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

• yewtu.be
• inv.nadeko.net
• yt.artemislena.eu
• piped.video

one thing is for sure, these gold bars are definitely nowhere near Florida or Tel Aviv, don't even waste your time looking there, trust me

What wealth, industrial capacity, or economic soverignty?

HOI4 Popup ass event. If there's a hell Milei is going to it

That's like 900 or so gold bars. Someone's gonna make a killing

manufacturing consent for eventually dissolving LFI.

I don't really see what that's going to do that benefits the state. The people in it are still going to exist and still be active.

If anything it might make the entire situation in France way more turbulent because some of these groups will take much more radical action. It will be seen as an anti-democratic action and give the left the ability to argue democracy is over and only revolution can restore it.

A bit like how proscribing Palestine Action didn't actually make anything better, Elbit factories are still being destroyed and a tonne of people radicalised to the point that you've got 80 year old supporters of PA being arrested on a weekly basis in London. The proscription made the situation worse rather than better. Doing this to LFI will be similar but at a far far larger scale.

Is Macron just thinking of himself? Trying to secure his re-election? It is as dangerous a move as when Cameron called the Brexit referendum as an electoral ploy.

With 11 billions usd you can buy and install solar panels and batteries for a country of 50 million people. A fully renewables electric grid for 50 million people.

It just reminds me that the capitalists threw up their hands and started panicking when it came to real estate in 2008. Here they are in the self-valuation circle-jerk keeping 100 billion dollar funds alive through pure circle-jerking.

It makes me wonder, does one think this is an especially zealous reaction to something they believe can reverse the falling rate of profit?