They’re a master of not understanding context or history. Surely, this shift in policy with Russia is because he’s a deep cover agent. All those years of opposing Russia through the proxy war were just to blend in. The fact that there is an impending fuel crisis is unrelated.
RussiaGate forever!
I dream of a left wing party, one that exists without the liberal wing of DSA and without the sex pests of upper PSL.
I don’t exactly trust the upper CIA echelons to be fair arbiters of this. They have a vested political interest in maintaining a certain vision and message.
They have multiple.
There is the obvious split, Israeli and Palestinian.
Then, there are the Druze awkwardly shoved in the middle as the "acceptable" racial minority that they leverage against the Palestinians.
There is deep white supremacist strains, where black Jewish people are treated as lesser, including even sterilization.
One of the biggest internal splits, and the one perhaps most dangerous to the State, is the Haredi groups, which are a flavor of ultra-orthodox Judaism. They have an exemption from serving in the IDF, which they very much take, "studying the Torah" instead. They are the main driver of population growth in Israel, generally aren't super wealthy, and are opposed to serving in the military, albeit for selfish reasons rather than moral. Collectively, this is a very big issue for the Israeli project that's silently growing in the background. They're also incredibly regressive in regards to stuff like women, which isn't a surprise.
They aren't the only strain of reactionary though of course. There are soooo many different fucked up groups in Israel trying to enact their great future vision. There's a reason why Netanyahu is "the Moderate" by those who get Israeli society. It gets so much more insane. Some of these groups are more secular, many are religious, but all of them are tearing into the base foundation of the society. They are also all conditioned to commit horrific violence by the nature of the Israeli state.
This is all of course surrounded by an increasingly strained and isolated Israeli economy leading to worsened living conditions, worse employment and so on. It's an incredibly unstable powder keg. It's only a matter of time until the knives start turning inward, in a very bloody way.
Israel is a deeply unstable country internally. Not over issues like the genocide, as that’s pretty broadly popular, but there are so many internal contradictions. Fascism, especially in its mature state, is not a stable governing structure. It’s like a Ponzi scheme, but as a government.
Cool, thanks for the update. I don't follow German politics as well as I should, so it's very appreciated.
Aren't they mostly socdems? Don't get me wrong, it's better than AFD. Just, the best we can hope for with them is slowing the rise of the AFD, unless they turn further left.
He fried the brains of so many people in the media this week, by (rightly) calling the US a larger terrorist threat to the world than Al-Qaeda. I like to think it made a few people think at least. Real people I mean, not the liberal braintrust.
There's a second one that's also very good. It's a collaboration with some Palestinian artists.
He came out with this song in 2005, when he was 25. It kind of got buried and went unnoticed in his career blow up, but there were signs even then.
BREAKING: Yemen's Houthis appear to have directly struck the YASREF oil refinery in Yanbu on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast this morning, the 400,000 barrel per day Aramco-Sinopec joint venture and one of the Red Sea's largest diesel exporters. Footage shows a large fire, with heavy black smoke from a flare stack, thick black smoke rising at ground level across the site and workers evacuated.
NASA FIRMS shows two heat anomalies inside the refinery, one at high confidence, with fire radiative power above normal for the site. Yanbu is the terminus of the East-West pipeline and the port holding the week of crude stocks Saudi Arabia has left for export.
There’s a video of the burning refinery in the tweet. Things are going to get crazy soon.
He's clearly stroked the fuck out. Like, look at him lol.
It's questionable how much he's actually there.
Victoria 3 has always been pretty fun as a communist to play. It's not a perfect economic simulator, but its rooted in materialist analysis. You see it all. Building the economic forces, proletarianizing your people, and eventually building the drive for revolution. It's very fun.
The new DLC seems super promising so far, based on the dev diary. I'm so excited.
Some images:
The demonstrators arrived late at night with a plan to set off fireworks as part of a noise demonstration to show solidarity with those detained inside. A few of the protesters spontaneously broke off from the main group and vandalized cars in the parking lot, a guard shack, slashed the tires on a government van and broke a security camera. When a police officer arrived on the scene and drew his weapon, one of the activists fired an AR-15 from the woods, hitting the officer in the shoulder. The officer survived.
Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill, Savanna Batten, Elizabeth Soto and Meagan Morris were sentenced to 50 years in prison. Maricela Rueda, another demonstrator, was sentenced to 70 years in prison. Benjamin Song, who fired the gun at the police officer, was sentenced to 100 years in prison
The ninth defendant, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada was not at the protest, but was convicted of corruptly concealing a document or record after prosecutors said he moved leftwing zines and other materials at the request of Rueda, his wife, after she was arrested. Sanchez-Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday.
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30 years for moving some pamphlets.
A little peek into some very depressing happenings on 
See the first link at the bottom, for the main evidence dump and collation.
For a brief tldr, a convicted pedophile abuser, Brynn, got uncovered as a mod in a subreddit for trans women, /r/mtf. In leaked discord convos, the head mod, CedarWolf, was shown downplaying it, and suggesting they swap their account for a new, anonymous one. Cedarwolf is a mod on over 100 subreddits, most of them LGBT related.
With the news blown, instead of like dealing with it responsibly, they just locked down, deleted, and banned anyone who mentioned it on subreddits they controlled. They're going all in on damage control and pedo defense. They made a few posts trying to downplay the news as misleading or harassment, but the community was not accepting it. For a while, they locked the subreddit entirely, but apparently Cedarwolf stopped looking at it for a bit, as it's now entirely filled again with posts calling for them to resign.
The news stayed relatively quiet for a bit, but now it's to the point that Elon discovered it and is tweeting about it. Needless to say, this is fucked in so many ways. It's likely people were put at risk or harmed by the mod teams behaviors and actions, and it's also perfect propaganda bait for right wing shitheads as the news continues to slowly grow. Predictably, Reddit admins are choosing to stay uninvolved, given their "libertarian" lean.
(Also the pronoun use in regards to CedarWolf is deliberate. They aren't a trans woman, despite running a trans woman subreddit. They're he/they/she non-transitioning bigender).
I don't have the full list of all assorted evidence, as this is more just me being depressed and venting, but here's a few bits and pieces.
Main collection of evidence. User since deleted their account, so it's an archive link. Has pictures of discord screenshots, plus snips of the mod's sex offender registry. An ex, who's a reddit mod of /r/egg_irl, posted in the thread alleging that the modremovedd and abused her.
Post with various response/discussion links
Sex offender registry of Brynn
Elon Musk discovering the story through a TERF propaganda outlet and massively amplifying it.
Link - xcancel
Platner really is a level of organic stupid that we should be proud of. He's the pinnacle of American culture.
Love my non-political anime
