soumerd_retardataire

Here's the long thread(, which would have already been censored on Meta or the old twitter based on how they handled the uyghur debunkings, covid, ..., and would very obviously never appear on t.v.) : https://x.com/caitoz/status/1856795055375487249

And yeah, who knows in the end, it would take a few days to investigate all of the evidences, and wouldn't change much about the current situation, i know, just in case people here were collecting such links.
Even if they didn't let it happen on purpose, anyone can see that they used this excuse to act as they wanted to for a long time.

(and if you'd prefer, we can also discuss solutions, especially starting from that one since, even if we have no power, it feels a bit more productive)

From his wiki :

In February 2021, Khan was elected the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). In May 2024, he announced the ICC's decision to apply for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif, and Ismail Haniyeh for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

But for the Guardian :

Addressing the allegations last month, Khan said “this is a moment in which myself and the ICC are subject to a wide range of attacks and threats”.

They prefer to be naive than conspiratorial i guess :

Two sources said that if there had been genuine concerns that the alleged victim was part of a plot, she would have been removed from her position and her access to deliberations in the Palestine case would have been revoked, but this did not happen.
“For a second I had my doubts, but if you look at the timeline and the details of how this came about it has nothing to do with any kind of plot,” one ICC official said. “I don’t think anyone in the [prosecutor’s] office seriously believes in that.”

(What about the timeline then ? Why don't they tell us the date ? A.f.a.i.k. these accusations began in May 2024, not before Oct.7th, seems like the article ended like others on a manipulation)

Yeah, i agree that this news is w/e, but this post is useful to know/'be reminded' about the classical western "playbook", many people asked him to quit his position afterwards. It's usually kinda forbidden to doubt the words of the "victim"(liar/agressor).

Good to insist that it is far from the only pressure they received, here's their president a few weeks ago, and here's a suspicious replacement(, i don't remember the details,) on health grounds at the exact same period.

« America should punish the i.c.c. and put Karim Khan back in his place »
Liberals don't have the excuse of saying that this is exclusive to D.Trump.
Trump will probably(, e.g.,) endorse Israel's annexation b.t.w., i think it's time to be ready for that. What could Israel's neighbors do ? They're not even willing to cut ties, probably because of the consequences, so nothing will happen on their part.
Let's say that they're waiting for better times before acting(, and that Israel won't be able to ask for a 50-50 split at that moment).

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/10/01/army-has-sent-armed-robot-dog-middle-east-testing.html

Or with only a light supervision, when you're not thinking too hard about it, e.g., with one person supervising many of them, and not caring too much about killing human shields. We're already quite desensitized when we explode buildings by simply pressing a button, "not our responsibility".
But of course the real barbarians are those who 'commit suicide'/'take their own lives' when killing 1% of our body count.
Also internally, tyrans fall when their police&army abandon them, some will be pleased.

The good thing is that perhaps, with enough decades, both sides will only use machines and wars won't ever kill humans again. One could hope i guess.

Hi,

jlai.lu is the french instance of Lemmy, some user posted this thread 16 days ago : https://jlai.lu/post/11504685, and a flamewar ensued between hexbear and the french, e.g. between happybadger and their administrator here.

Since they didn't really have any reason to defederate initially, they're now adamant that they should defederate only because of this discussion, since it proved that every Hexbear&Lemmygrad user is agressive(, as if jlai.lu users weren't agressive in this discussion as well).
I still find hard to believe that they could defederate on such weak basis, and it does feel like a convenient excuse, but that's what they're saying, ask them for confirmation if you don't believe it either.

They also used a list of post found on /c/[email protected] as if it was representative, but it hardly counts as an argument, what a stupid situation...

They've now pinned this post for 12 days, and the defederation with both Hexbear and Lemmygrad seems unavoidable.
I've known this for more than a week but didn't care that much, yet when talking with them, and especially @Camus here, they/he said that they/he would like to talk to you. @Camus is very patient/nice, and you can look at his number of comments/posts to gauge his influence, probably their most active user(, kind of a french ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆).
Well, to be more precise, he informally asked for some excuses from Hexbear, but my post here didn't reach them, perhaps because of "r*tard" in my username(, r*tardataire designate someone who's late in french).
However, more than excuses in the name of others, you only have to show him that we're not aggressive(, if you have some time, it won't change much in the end), something very easy/natural to prove for >90% of Hexbear users(, and perhaps >70-80% of Lemmygrad 🙂, it does feel a bit more bitter/serious here, not a criticism).

They have some communities that aren't that far apart from what could be found on Lemmygrad or Hexbear b.t.w., so it can't really be said that they'd reject us solely based on terrorism apologia, supporting Stalin, etc.(, even if their "leftist" admin is against socialist countries because our capitalists said that they're authoritarian).
Staying federated with a french instance would be useless for 99% of Hexbear and Lemmygrad, so if you intervene it'd mostly be on the behalf of current/future french users(, it can be nice sometimes to speak your native language without using an alt account), and perhaps also for Lemmygrad and Hexbear's reputation on jlai.lu.
If you're french, and/or simply nice, and want a chat with them, feel free to do so directly under the post or with @Camus.
(Kinda worth mentionning in passing that, currently, their top two posts of all time sorted by the most comments are the ones cited above about this defederation)

Also, keep in mind that this defederation is unavoidable though, if it doesn't happen now it'll be next year or the year after. As you know, reddit banned ChapoTrapHouse, GenZedong, etc., and we were quickly banned from lemmy.world and others, so we'll one day be banned from other "centrist" instances such as the french one. Just like we'd also be banned/censored by our governement if our numbers grow enough to disturb/'be a threat'.
Furthermore, Hexbear took action, and decided to defederate first without even trying to discuss more calmly. So don't waste too much of your time either(, but please don't go there unless you intent to speak calmly).

Thanks for reading :) !

https://x.com/evoespueblo/status/1851575983821742513

Quite a few talks these last days apparently, from indigenous policemen saying that they knew it was policemen who fired at Evo and the persons with him.
The government now isn't saying that Evo staged the attempt, and recognize that it was policemen that fired at him, but says that it was justified because Evo was escaping from a checkpoint for anti-narcotics operations and 'fled from'&'fired at' them unprovoked(, Del Castillo showed videos in which Evo can be seen saying that he himself had shot at the tires of the cars).

Here're two articles in these community notes :

https://www.lostiempos.com/actualidad/pais/20241028/del-castillo-evo-huyo-reten-control-atropello-uniformado-disparo-policia

Government Minister Eduardo del Castillo stated in a press conference today, Monday, that the former president fled from a routine police checkpoint for anti-narcotics operations, after which a pursuit ensued. Morales allegedly ran over a police officer and fired at the officers.
Del Castillo questioned Morales’ flight, his possession of weapons, and requested that his vehicle undergo a gunpowder residue test.
Additionally, he announced the initiation of criminal proceedings against the former president for attempted murder.
Although videos shared by Radio Kawsachun Coca, which supports Evo Morales Ayma, show an alleged attack on the vehicle carrying Morales and other companions, the footage does not show the moment when the former president allegedly attacked the police.
However, hours later, Morales confirmed he had used a firearm "to defend himself."
"We ducked down, since they were blocking us, we sped up, ran a fair bit, and the second car following us barely made it across, it kept following us, caught up, (I heard) more shots. I shot at the tire of the car that was there, it couldn’t keep going, and we quickly switched to the second car, and they kept shooting," Morales said in an interview with Kawsachun Coca on Sunday.

https://www.dw.com/es/bolivia-gobierno-acusa-a-morales-de-evadir-control-y-disparar/a-70622679 :

Del Castillo described that the car did not want to stop and that shots were fired from inside the group of agents.
According to the minister, this vehicle also ran over a police officer, and even backed up to try to finish him off.

Well, what's your opinion, (i barely took more than a dozen minutes to document myself on that, so )do you know more about this ?

Addition : Del Castillo also suddenly seized more than 21 tons(!) of cocaine, the highest in years, what a coincidence...

Keep in mind that this conspiracy could have also happened behind the back of Luis Arce, who knows...
I find hard to believe Arce would have tried to assassinate Evo, but he's still attacking him in lawfare and his speeches, so weird...

https://t.me/theredstream/11195

"If a foreign worker is required to quit her job due to a complaint she filed, she is also, in fact, losing her place of residence," noted Shiri Lev-Ran

They're the ones for are always talking about Hamas' alleged rapes :

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events, which is worth checking everyday.

Sources :
https://en.royanews.tv/news/55053
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqi-protesters-storm-wreck-office-saudi-owned-mbc-channel

https://x.com/AliAbunimah/status/1846970521193267685

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/australian-officials-push-authoritarian

The text and pictures below are from AfricanStream, a very informative account present on multiple platforms :

Not only do Western countries unendingly exploit Africa’s resources, but to keep African nations crippled, they also utilise multiple avenues that ensure the continent remains in a perpetual cycle of under-development.

These avenues, which range widely from currency control and unfavorable trade deals to private ownership of strategic assets and the extracting of resources without re-investments back into these nations, guarantee that Africans do not benefit from their minerals and lands.

If interested, you can read more about it in their sources.

These are only 12 ways, if you've ever read books documenting/explaining neo-colonialism you'll know that the mechanisms don't stop there, from some notes i've quickly reread i could cite :

• Different measures of exploitation show that global South workers are more exploited than westerners(, if it wasn't the case their goods would be more expensive and/or western margins would be reduced) ;
• Unequal exchange(, document yourself about it, it's a long topic with many subcategories, here's one of many possible quotes : « By the end of the colonial period, the periphery was losing $22 billion each year as a result of unequal exchange, which is equivalent to $161 billion in 2015 dollars. That is twice the amount of aid and investment that the periphery was receiving each year during the same period. This arrangement became a major driver of global inequality. In 1820, at the dawn of the second wave of imperialism, the income gap between the richest country and the poorest country was only 3 to 1. By the end of colonialism in the middle of the 19th century, the gap was 35 to 1. ») ;
• The problems with capital exports to low-wage countries has only partially been cited by the 12 examples, e.g., there may be consequences on local/national politics, as well as psychological/cultural consequences on the population subjected to foreign powers instead of their own ;
• Monopolisation of land, technology, and finance capital ;
• Similarly, the concentration of production and capital leading to monopolies that dominate the economy ;
• Also, the formation of international cartels or economic alliances that carve up the world ;
• Unequal wages for equally productive work ;
• The productive employment isn't shared ;
• E.Reinert extensively&convincingly critized Ricardo, included by highlighting the distinction between products with a higher valued added than others(, e.g. selling/exporting planes vs. t-shirts, or manufactured goods vs. raw materials, the latter being subject to a stronger competition and less margins among other things) ;
• Explaining the exploitation of the South because of their lack of productivity has been harshly criticized with many proofs in « The wealth of (some) nations» ;
• The export of surplus capital to other countries, driving imperialist expansion ;
• The "unholy trinity"(, the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO) ;
• The debt as a way to control these states : « Between 1973 and 1993, global South debt grew from $100 billion to $1.5 trillion. Of the $1.5 trillion, only $400 billion was actually borrowed money. The rest was piled up simply as a result of compound interest. » ;
• Please don't conclude that this amateurish list is anything close to being extensive.

our world in data :

The rate of growth is more visible here(, two lines aren't visible under the line "Latin America and Caribbean", these two lines are "Middle-East and North Africa", and "World")(, India is joined with "South Asia"). Also, note the pseudo-logarithmic scale of the graph.
How long until everyone catches up on the same standards of living ? Apparently not anytime soon(, except for the exception China, or close geopolitical allies such as Japan, Israel, and South Korea, since we always knew how to develop countries but simply didn't want to, just as we don't want to be united in diversity).

What an amazing coincidence that China(, and India, kinda,) was one of the only countries who refused to follow our advices(, commands in the case of the "unholy trinity"), apparently protectionnism>liberalism>autarky, «do as they do/did not as they say» is the argument of Ha-Joon Chang.

Writing this made me want to re-read "The Divide" by J.Hickel, and while there's way too many arguments to sum them up here, i just stumbled upon this quote(, here's the chapter/justification) :

The charity paradigm obscures the real issues at stake : it makes it seem as though the West is ‘developing’ the global South, when in reality the opposite is true.
Rich countries aren’t developing poor countries ; poor countries are effectively developing rich countries – and they have been since the late 15th century.

In regard to the current genocide, i'm also adding his example, without adding well-known details for Lemmygrad users about the confiscation of palestinian water by Israel.
It happened when he visited Palestine in 2012, just two months after the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 66/225, calling for the restoration of Palestinians’ rights to their own water(, 167 nations voted in favour of the resolution, the United States and Israel voted against it) :

On one particularly hot afternoon, my hosts drove me down into the Jordan Valley to interview some farmers there about water issues.
Along the way, bumping along a gravel track, we came across a huge white sign jutting out of the desert rocks. The sign announced a USAID initiative ‘to help alleviate recurring water shortages’ by adding a new well in the area.
It was branded with the American flag and bore the proud words: ‘This project is a gift from the American People to the Palestinian People.’
(...)
I tell this anecdote not just as an example of how aid often misses the point, but to illustrate a much larger truth. Poor countries don’t need our aid ; they need us to stop impoverishing them.
Until we target the structural drivers of global poverty – the underlying architecture of wealth extraction and accumulation – development efforts will continue to fail, decade after decade. We will continue to watch the poverty numbers rise, and the divide between rich and poor countries will continue to grow.
This is a difficult truth to swallow for the millions of well-meaning people who have been sold on the development story. It can be scary to grapple with the collapse of a core myth. At least it was for me.
But it also opens up a world of exciting new possibilities, and clears the way to a different kind of future.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Stream

I'm still not entirely convinced by their debunking of the rapes(, not that i care, murder is worse than rape, being tortured dozens of minutes beforehand is still only marginally worse in comparison to the eternity of death, and we(sterners) have done so much more barbaric in our "prisons", sometimes for years), but i can't trust our journalists who don't have the necessary time to investigate before publishing, nor Israel who lies at least as much as our western governments(, if not even more).

According to Paul Linebarger, atrocity propaganda leads to real atrocities, as it incites the enemy into committing more atrocities, and, by heating up passions, it increases the chances of one's own side committing atrocities, in revenge for the ones reported in propaganda.[5]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda

Some quotes :

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
Hannah Arendt

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“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
Aldous Huxley

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“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
Noam Chomsky

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“If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.”
Rudyard Kipling