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Man, TikTok libs who were fully on board with Palestine a month ago have just fully switched over to being huge Kamala Harris stans and the hate for people who continue to care about the Palestinian genocide is pretty palapable.

This isn't really News but it's just a pretty crazy shift in vibes that has me, as an American, feeling like no American can be trusted with access to any power ever.

I feel like maybe a PRC appointed viceroy might be the way to go in the future or something.

News mega gang, listen up. Based on vibes, pit in my stomach, voice tone of family in Beirut, and the spirits of George Hawi and Kamal Jumblatt speaking to me:

Iran and Hezbollah will be attacking Israel before Sunday. If it doesn't happen, I'll show my face here again on Sunday and you're all allowed to call me a dumbass.

Pope Francis says the IDF is commiting terrorism
Under no circumstances do you have to hand it to the Catholics but this is cool at least

Visiting someone who has cable news on. First time i've seen cable news in a long time, and there's a lot of super carefully engineered psychic damage inducing electoral propaganda. And you know what? American electoralism isn't just largely pointless, it's actively evil. It's indoctrinating people in to a completely false reality disconnected from any either domestic or foreign political realities.

Zak Cope, third-worldist marxist and author of Divided World Divided Class and mentioned fairly regularly on Hexbear, has gone completely off the deep end. October 7th was too much for him.

He's now stated his full support for free-market capitalism and colonialism, and is advocating for the rules-based international order as a way to protect from Russian and communist influence, is drawing equivalencies between Nazis and the Soviets, is saying that unequal exchange is not real, centralized planning is impossible, quoting Thatcher, etc.

For many western leftists, now that oppressed people are actually beginning to fight back in (necessarily imperfect) ways, rather than being pitiable victims marching into the sea as Gandhi wished, all left-wing values go out the window and they realize their class interests are aligned against these uprisings. I must admit that I thought a big exposure to the literature and even writing a significant book on the subject would inoculate a person against taking the complete opposite values less than a year after they held those values, but Zionism is a stubborn little tumor which can rapidly take over the body once it awakens.

Happening now: Israeli ambassador to the UN goes on hysterical genocidal screed at UNSC, stops himself every 2 seconds to emphasize that Arabs are terrorists, and again every 4 seconds to scream and moan about the UNSC falling for “terrorist lies”, ends Hitlerite speech with “WE ARE THE DEFENDERS OF CIVILIZATION” and storms out of the room

On holiday and a bunch of yanks and white south africans having an open conversation about how the idf can kill anyone in their sleep and how apartheid wasnt exactly nice but at least it was good for the economy. First time ive encountered the famed zionist lib. Awful people.

A representative from the Vatican City State delivered credentials to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, giving legitimacy to his government in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church.

Far-Right latino catholics and protestants really pissed rn lol.

Come on do something Mr Khamenei, my hexbear reputation is on the line here. What if my son finds out that his dad became TinyPenis after being let down by the Axis of Resistance

The insurance industry has succeeded in blocking a rule that would require them to act in their clients' best interests.

The Lawyer in the Disney+ case is the grandson of Batista

kamala harris being considered "youthful" when she'll be 60 on election day just tells me the bar is on the ocean floor. lmao obama was 47, bush was 54, clinton was 46

she's not even gen x, she's just a (late) boomer and would be america's 5th boomer president lmfao. love how when biden said he's "passing the torch to the next generation" he just meant from his silent gen ass back to another boomer

WSJ attempting the worst headline of all time

If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs

James Connolly, Socialism and Nationalism 1897

Minor but still significant victory for LGBT rights in China https://www.attitude.co.uk/news/world/chinese-court-recognises-two-legal-mothers-in-landmark-lgbtq-ruling-471531/

Hasan getting hit up by Obama and other Dems to do some shit at the DNC is pretty funny in that it shows how much of a lib he comes across as lmao

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UN envoy calls Canada’s use of migrant workers ‘breeding ground for slavery’

Throughout the country, he found workers were locked in debt bondage.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/canada-foreign-workers-un-report

Capitalism is when no food.

A million Argentine children skip meals each day due to poverty

Over half of families with children had to stop buying basic foods because they couldn’t afford them, a UNICEF report has found

In Argentina, over one million children are skipping meals each day because their families cannot afford food, according to a UNICEF report published Tuesday. The number of households who cannot make ends meet has risen significantly since 2022.

An April study of households with children found that 7% of children and teens, and 30% of adults, had to skip at least one meal a day because they couldn’t afford food. The report showed that seven in 10 children were poor in April. Poverty was defined as either economic poverty or deprivation of basic needs such as education, social protection, or adequate housing.

In a context of growing economic and social inequality, 52% of households with kids stopped buying essential foods because they could no longer afford them. This is 11 percentage points higher than in June 2023, and the highest since UNICEF started conducting these surveys in 2020. This number represents 3.3 million households, which are home to almost 7 million children.

According to UNICEF’s data, 90% of these homes stopped buying milk, meat and other similar products. “The intake of foods crucial for the nutrition of children and teenagers (meat, vegetables, fruit and dairy) has significantly dropped, while it has increased in the case of cheaper and less nutritious foods (pasta, flour and bread),” the report read. In 48% of the homes surveyed, the monthly income wasn’t sufficient to cover basic household expenses. This was seven points higher than last year, and 15 points higher than in June 2022.

The situation gets worse when the head of the household is unemployed, on welfare, or a single woman. Almost a quarter (23%) of families also stopped buying medicine, while 32% stopped going for medical or dental checkups. Many had to borrow money or spend their savings to cover basic expenses.

In the 12 months prior to the survey, a quarter of teenagers had jobs, UNICEF found. A further 12% were looking for work.

UNICEF’s numbers are in line with recent studies on poverty in Argentina. An analysis of official data by the Argentine Catholic University’s Social Debt Observatory released last week showed that seven out of 10 children were poor in the first quarter of 2024. Poverty hit 55% and destitution rose to 20% in the first three months of the year, the observatory found.

The damage this is doing simply cannot be calculated. The very social fabric is being destroyed, slowly but surely. Of course, ancaps and their fascist and liberal allies will see this as "mere numbers", "poverty rates can go down actually" they'll say. Yes, sure, but the damage malnutrition does to a child marks them for life. A child that doesn't have access to quality food at that age develops problems that will follow them for the rest of their lives. This is absolutely degrading the material conditions in which we live, it's degrading people who never had a shot on their lifes. The effects will be truly felt in 20, 30 and 40 years.

Capitalism is a crime against humanity.

it's interesting that there has been zero coverage on Hezbollah successfully striking an Israeli base with many missiles with none of them being intercepted

New slammer

Donald Trump criticizes Kamala Harris and says that the Democrat, if elected, will implement a “communist system” in which “everyone has access to health care”.

it is august 12 and stalin saved the world from fascism

A vote for the Democratic Party is a vote for genocide. A vote for the Republican Party is a vote for genocide.

Anybody see that footage of Ukrainian Army funeral processions where there’s a loudspeaker saying you must kneel or be legally charged with offending the Armed Forces and all the people on the sidewalk start kneeling?

Fucking weirdos. Weird country where they tape naked people to lampposts with their bare butts sticking out. If democrats care so much about not appearing weird, they should distance themselves from this deeply diseased nation

It's joever

Humiliate me hexbear, laugh in my face, call me a virgin cuck, and rename me TinyPenis, I deserve this for making dumbass predictions

The San Francisco Chronicle actually quoting PSL members at length in their article about the protests outside Harris's fundraiser

‘You feel like you’re suffocating’: Florida outdoor workers are collapsing in the heat without water and shade / Florida has passed legislation banning local safety rules for outdoor workers, despite heat stress set to cost global economy $2.4tn by 2030

new Slammer post

https://x.com/FuknSlammer/status/1823509485110821315

Cuba warns against sustained US-UK aggression on Yemen

The US and the UK have been launching airstrikes on Yemen to protect the interests of the Israeli occupation.

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New Al Quds brigades/Al Qassam video https://x.com/Hanzpal2/status/1823386645476814892

the two people arguing in the middle part of the video are saying "Habibi let me blow it up 🥺 ; no I'll do it; habibi, by Allah let me do it I have sinned a lot in my life let me do it 🥺 ; okay let's do it together"

In the end they thank Allah

Nord Stream sabotage: Germany issues arrest warrant

In an investigation published Wednesday, the outlets reported that the suspect is a Ukrainian diving instructor, named only as Volodymyr Z. for privacy reasons.

Holy shit Zelenskyy personally blew up the pipelines.

Some communist from the West Bank posted on TheDeprogram saying they overheard that PFLP members are being arrested by the occupation forces in Nablus, Jenin, etc. even the 80+ year olds who can no longer walk.

It's almost funny how quickly the libs pulled out the Nuremberg defense for Kkkamala in regards to her active participation in the Gaza genocide and her complete unwillingness to actually take a stand separate from Biden's.

a little bit of analysis about Kursk

The only thing I'd want to add to Mikael's excellent analysis here is that the Russians are actually fighting a much more conventional area defense than we've seen in the very static fighting in the Donbass. They're not trying to stop Ukrainian drives at the screen line like we saw in the Hundred Days, they're instead diverting them into engagement areas between their front line of screening troops and the main defensive line 5-10km to the rear and destroying them there. Ergo why we've seen Ukrainian units just go on these long runs in the last couple days - way past where the front line should be - and then get wiped out in what look like complex ambushes. That's... actually just how you do a very normal area defense.

Why have the Russians changed tactics? Two reasons. First, in Kursk they - paradoxically - have space to fight. The Donbass is a cramped theater where real estate is at an absolute premium. They're either backing up into the sea, key lines of communication, or critical urban areas there. There's actual operational space in rural Kursk. Second and relatedly, the "forward" defense we're used to seeing in the Donbass will not inflict crippling casualties on an attacker quickly for the simple reason that attacks often fail in the "cone of fire" in no man's land or even behind the attacker's front line, allowing defeated units to easily withdraw. In a conventional defense the attacker is defeated in a kill zone behind the screen line and it is far easier to annihilate an attacking force. Ergo why we're now seeing huge AFU equipment losses, with entire Ukrainian companies burning out behind the ostensible Russian "front."

Having found themselves in battle with the AFU's strategic reserves, the Russians now very much intend to use the Battle of Sudzha-Korenevo to destroy as much of those reserves as possible. Even if that means scaring some war mappers on the internet.

There is sabotage occurring openly in Ukraine now. They're playing it off as "kids are being paid" but I strongly question that explanation.

NAFO car burned: https://xcancel.com/frontlinekit/status/1824559984425783470

Nearly two years after the Nord Stream pipelines sabotage, German authorities have reportedly issued an arrest warrant.

The suspect, a Ukrainian national, was named only as Volodymyr Z. for privacy reasons.

Sanders applauds Harris’s ‘strong, progressive’ economy agenda

Ireland's military is pathetically weak and underfunded. Ireland does need a proper military, but not because of Russia. So often I see redditors shrieking about how Russia could invade Ireland at any moment if they wanted to - like they think Russia is an existential enemy of Ireland.

Ireland needs a functioning military because there is a foreign imperialist country occupying the north of our country, and is the only actual threat to our national security. The UK is the only country which has invaded Ireland in the past 1000 years, and has done a very good job of oppressing and colonising, and now liberal dipshits think we should join NATO and team up with the British because of fucking Russia.

Twitter user @EmissaryOfNight shares what is allegedly the US's vision for a resolution of the Gaza genocide: https://xcancel.com/EmissaryOfNight/status/1824237079011926458

Thread

I don't think this has really circulated on Twitter because it's only been covered by Arab and Hebrew press with some translations by Jacob Magid etc but here is the ten principles the U.S. is allegedly sponsoring in a document they've drafted with allied Arab states. 🧵

"Meaningful pathway to an independent Palestinian state" seems to be the language that the U.S. has landed on for a peace process they hope to establish will almost certainly lead to anything but an independent Palestinian state. — Emissary of Night 🔆🍉 (@EmissaryOfNight) August 16, 2024

1. "The international community must support the Palestinian people in rebuilding their lives in the Gaza Strip, including through extraordinary investments in humanitarian, reconstruction, and economic development needs....cont

"This requires the opening of land crossings into the Gaza Strip and the unimpeded and sustainable flow of humanitarian and reconstruction assistance. Gaza’s neighbors must support and facilitate this process."

2. Groups that espouse the use of violence or commit terrorist attacks against civilians cannot govern or dictate Gaza’s future. cont

"All terrorist organizations and armed groups must disarm and renounce violence. A disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration mechanism will facilitate this process in Gaza"

3. "Israel must withdraw from the Gaza Strip with no reduction in its territory or reoccupation. There must be no forced displacement from Gaza and Palestinians must be allowed to return to all their communities in Gaza."

4. "The West Bank and the Gaza Strip must ultimately be reunified under the sole authority of the Palestinian Authority, including civil governance and security responsibilities. cont

"The transitional period of Palestinian-led governance will require unique arrangements and support and contributions from international partners."

5. "An enduring end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and end to the occupation can only be achieved through direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization that resolve all final status issues. cont

"We fully support steps to resume final status negotiations to achieve the goal of two states for two peoples enjoying mutual recognition and full equal rights for all their citizens."

6. "Palestinians deserve to live in dignity and security in an independent, contiguous, and viable state of their own and Israelis deserve to live in security and to be accepted, recognized, and integrated into the region, in a two-state solution negotiated on the basis cont

...of the June 4, 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps and a just and agreed solution for Palestinian refugees, as envisioned in the Arab Peace Initiative"

7. "An end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires a coordinated regional effort. The possibility of normalization between Saudi Arabia and other Arab statesa nd Israel with concrete progress toward a two-state solution cont

...is a promising avenue to achieving peace, security, and regional integration that will benefit all."

8. "Unilateral actions and violations by the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority that undermine progress towards the two-state solution must end, including the expansion of settlements and outposts and the glorification of terrorism and violence. cont

...The Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority must uphold the rule of law and reject violence and incitement to violence, whether committed by officials or members of the public."

9. "The parties must implement commitments made in prior agreements, including at Aqaba and Sharm al-Sheikh in 2023, and uphold the historic status quo at the Holy sites in Jerusalem and respect the special role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. cont

...We recognize the deep connection of people of many faiths to Jerusalem and that the boundaries in Jerusalem are subject to final status negotiations."

10. "The Palestinian Authority must implement a comprehensive reform agenda, focused on good governance, transparency, fighting corruption, and education and welfare reform." /end of principles.

"Notably, the US vision does not advocate a “time-bound, irreversible pathway to a Palestinian state,” as Blinken has repeatedly insisted will be necessary for Saudi Arabia to agree to normalize relations with Israel." Times of Israel. https://t.co/vqyLnUnec7

Assuming this is accurate, the only way this deal gets accepted is if the Palestinians living in Gaza are truly broken. The idea that not only "terrorists," but any "armed group" in Gaza should lay down their weapons while the colonizers get to keep their nuclear weapons is preposterous. That they would trade their arms for the promise of an unimpeded flow of aid. This is the exact state of affairs which lead to Gaza being turned into the biggest concentration camp in history, with the colonizers literally imposing quotas on the number of calories being shipped into the ghetto.

The idea that a "transitional period" needs to be imposed from outside. Installing the PA in Gaza will work just about as smoothly as installing Guaido in Venezuela. It's a farce.

If this is seriously what they're pushing in these negotiations, these negotiations will not last very long. Jacking off into a toilet would be a more effective use of our diplomatic resources.

Canada's foreign worker program a 'breeding ground for contemporary slavery,' says UN report

Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program serves as a "breeding ground for contemporary slavery," according to a scathing UN report examining Canada's efforts to limit unfair labour.

The program allows employers to hire foreign workers to fill temporary jobs when they can't find qualified Canadians. The number of workers employed through the program has grown considerably in recent years. According to the UN report, there were just over 84,000 permit holders in 2018. In 2022, there were nearly 136,000. Most of them worked in agriculture and related labour sectors.

The report, written by UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery Tomoya Obokata, says the program puts workers in an unfair power imbalance with their employers.

For example, if a worker is fired, they may be deported. Some workers are deliberately not informed of their rights or too fearful to report exploitative working conditions, wrote Obokata. Many of them are also ensnared in debt bondage while participating in the programs, according to the report.

Because workers lack access to justice, they are at risk of a variety of other abuses, Obokata wrote.

NASA Investigation Finds Boeing Hindering Americans’ Return to Moon

A report from the space agency’s office of the inspector general pins the blame on the aerospace giant’s mismanagement and inexperienced workforce.

Gee, it's almost like it wouldn't be mismanaged and inexperienced if they didn't sell out the space industry when the USSR fell.

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Another IOF dumbass standing in front of a window:
https://xcancel.com/martyrabuh/status/1823033349423722907
https://xcancel.com/cheriblossom__/status/1823024629121785984 (full video with slowmo of him dropping to the floor)

i really love when there are big brawls in parliaments, like people punching each other in the face and shit. It gives politics a very realistic outlook, it makes it feel very alive and real. I want MY representatives to break some noses and kick opposition members while they're on the floor. I want my representatives to have fucking blood in their veins, none of that "yes uhm sir mr hitler sir let us uhm debate why we shouldn't exterminate non whites sir" liberal bullshit. NO MAN, go and punch that motherfucker in the nose RIGHT NOW.

(I'm talking about this in the context of a brawl which just happened in the Turkish Parliament)

I remember the puppet Korea used to have lots of brawls in their Parliament, aye, I can respect that. If people are punching, kicking and spittin' blood over politics, well, at least these people feel something. They're not truly dead inside. Plus it's fun to watch on video.

I loved that moment I think it was in Taiwan, where a member of parliament stole the bill from the opposition and ran away with it LMAO. That is so good. I want people like that.

Under the reign of King Brandon the Feeble-minded, the people languished in despair, but with Kamala the Awkward enthroned upon the Throne of Skulls, it seemed as though the very heavens smiled anew upon the realm. Priests and sages divined hopeful prophecies of triumph over the Orange Troll King, reading them in the entrails of their sacrifices. They proclaimed Kamala the Awkward as pure and unsullied by sin. The might of the Orange Troll King appeared to wane, and he grew weak and weary. The scandalous revelations of the unnatural proclivities of his lieutenant, known as the Vance, bewildered and demoralized the trollish hordes.

So diminished was the power of the Orange Troll King that he found himself compelled to ride up to Lord Elon the Divorced, to abase himself and kiss his ring, indulging in the latter's disgraceful vanity, all in the desperate hope of forging an alliance with him and his repulsive subterranean minions.

Community Notes aren't always bad:

Real as of right now: https://x.com/consciousphilos/status/1823639305807429838

372 years ago, on this day in 1652, the Act for the Settlement of Ireland was passed by the English Parliament, preceding the greatest exercise in ethnic cleansing in early modern Europe.

How was it not one of us who came up with “Holocaust Harris”? We’re slipping.

Nagasaki mayor Shiro Suzuki defended today his decision to invite Palestine instead of Israel to the peace ceremony. The threats from U.S. and its vassals to boycott the annual event to commemorate the hibakusha could not work on the mayor, whose parents were a-bomb survivors.

On 2 August 2024, Suzuki announced that Israeli ambassador Gilad Cohen was not invited to the ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki due to concerns over potential protests related to the Israel–Hamas war. In response, the ambassadors of the United States and the United Kingdom chose not to attend the event on 9 August and sent lower-ranked diplomats instead. The ambassadors of Russia and Belarus were also not invited to the ceremony, while the Palestinian ambassador was invited.

Did the Resistance retaliate yet?

Nah still cookin

I have started noticing, in the last year or so, a reversal in West^TM in regard to green energy rhetoric (EV and solar in particular) and is becoming worse and worse as time goes by.

This is not the usual global warming denial. In fact you rarely see outright denialist any more (what are they gonna argue about any more anyway, since it is plainly obvious what is happening in the world...).

What you do see from MSM, to YT channels, to everything, is an effort to downplay or even dismiss the potential positive impact EV and solar technology could have and already has in regard to global warming and our way of life in general.

It's quite obvious that this is a result of what is happening in China.

I believe Burgeristan and their puppets thought (10+ years ago) that they would become world leaders in EV, solar and other green technologies.

They thought they could monopolize the industry and sell it to the rest of the world as the only possible solution.

If you didn't subscribe to their, ridiculously overpriced, Greenflix service you would be deemed a barbarian third world nation that leads humanity to catastrophy (which of course we, the West, had nothing to do with...) and you would have many sanctions imposed on you.

So for a time almost everyone went along with green technology in West^TM*.

Green roofs, green roads, green new deals, you name it.=

There was only one problem.

Burgeristan is run by complete idiots.

They thought that we are in the 30s and 40s where US still had semi-competent captains of industry that could compete with the rest of the world or that they had a political elite that was actually capable of multi-year planning and wasn't completely subservient to the economic elite.

Instead what they got was the Cybertruck and Solar Freaking Roadways.

So what now?

I believe the rhetoric against EVs and Solar is gonna get much worse for starters. The "China is spying on you don't buy from them" is not gonna fly for long.

What we are gonna see more and more is a focus on the technologies themselves. "These technologies are not viable/profitable" is what you are gonna hear.

The next step will probably be Burgerland developing their own version of "green technology". Maybe focus on hydrogen, "clean coal", maybe something else who knows**. They will probably give it some asinine name like "Green Freedom" or something...

Then they will try to create a new Edison vs. Tesla, Direct vs Alternative Current situation and will use their military/economic influence to force countries to adopt their inferior technology.

They will fail of course because again they are run by complete idiots (and I'm not even taking politicians into account, they have no say in this anyway...) but what else are they gonna do at this point. They can no longer compete with China. This is their only play.

So when that finally fails (because you know at the end of the day even puppet nation have a survival instinct) all that they will have left will be an empty anti-China rhetoric.

Their barbarian germanic protestant syphilitic brains could not imagine a "non-white" nation surpassing them. But here we are. So instead of taking all the ill gained surplus value they extracted from the rest of the world for 300 years and actually invest it in something sustainable, they just want to go and kill their neighbor's mule.

Judging by what is happening in the last year or so, I would say we might see a complete reversal in 2-4 years with people that previously where telling you to vote insert status-quo party otherwise "X guy comes and it's the end of the world (due to global warming)" now they will call you a China puppet for wanting the most affordable green high-tech in the world made by China.

Sorry for the long thread. I was thinking about making a post about it but I'm not sure people outside the news mega give a damn about these things anyway.

*Fossil fuel industry at that point was playing both sides. They knew that the world moving from fossil fuels was inevitable, but they wanted that transition to happen on their own terms. It had to be gradual so that they kept making superprofits and they had to create and control the new "green" monopoly.

**I wouldn't be surprised at all if lets say someone like Elon Musk does 180 in regard to EVs. Maybe he will pivot to another technology or maybe even he finds an excuse to outright sell Tesla (somehow...) and pivot to another grift altogether. That's if he manages not to go bust until then...

Oh sick framing, who was violence directed towards at UCLA again?

American public is being scammazed

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Japan joins BRICS due to instability of Yen and USD debt and close proximity to China. Kicks out US military.

Remember five years ago when every westerner was lining up to service Jimmy Lai and was going apoplectic that China was going to gulag everyone in Hong Kong? Weird how nobody still gives a shit

havent been active (other than reading comments) on the news mega since I started my new job, felt like logging in to say I'm convinced the dooming about russia must come from too much reddit usage, Ive gone back to lurking on there a lot more during the day when im at my job because I dont really want my chud coworkers leaning over my shoulder and seeing me be on a socialist website, and there are constant posts on the front page about the kursk offensive and how terrible and humiliating it is for russia and how russia is now days from collapse. idk which is more embarrassing, if this is their own genuine analysis or they're being swayed by the most astroturfed site in existence

I listened to the and discussion. I feel like 75% of my brain just died by just listening to musk try to make an argument that was not 100% racist.

I have mixed feelings over all this show. In one hand it's pure insanity, richest man in the world is a massive white supremacist and will push for such agenda. But on the other... this is it, this is the best the bourgeoisie has - Trump and Musk. That's all there is, Trump speaks incoherent things about "nuclear" (Still don't know if he refers to nukes or nuclear energy, I think he's unsure as well) and Elon is.. pathetic. He's a ridiculously mediocre man, everything he does is mediocre, the more he shows himself the more mediocre he appears. He is that, he is the embodiment of the bourgeoisie in it's decadent phase, one phase they will never recover from.

democrats be like: hell yeah, kamala is popular with the kids. she's so fucking rad and 1337. they'll love her more when she sends another 80 billion dollars of aid to "israel".

Trans mega news mega crossover:

‘We have way more power than they think’: Advocates host Trans Folks for Harris Zoom call

More than 1,000 people attend Trans Folks for Harris Zoom call.

Trans mega link because I know which side of the posting wars I'm on.

Hezbollah has just released never before seen footage of their massive underground missile launch facility called Al-Imad 4:
https://xcancel.com/AMoqawem313/status/1824359248135925778

I just had an epiphany: This Kursk offensive is the exact reason Zaluzhny was kicked out and replaced with Syrsky back in February!

Zaluzhny would never agree to such a harebrained waste of troops and resources, but Syrsky, the butcher of Bakhmut, who tried to hold onto that city for no gain whatsoever and doesn't give a rats ass about Ukrainian lives, certainly would.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

For those that need to use as reference or reminder.

Some more footage from the front.

Surrendered Ukrainian soldier reveals that his commander ordered the shooting of civilians in Kursk oblast: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Ukrainian-pow:d

Russia's Chechen Akhmat special forces ambush and capture Kiev regime infantry fighting vehicle in Kursk oblast: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Ukrainian-APC-Kursk-region:4

Russian drones continue destroying Kiev regime armored vehicles in Kursk oblast: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/mod-kursk:3

Incredible moment Russian soldier shoots down enemy drone: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Drone_shot_YT:d

So this might end up being cope, but I'm starting to think we are seeing a modern version of the Battle of the Bulge happen in Kursk.

At first, it seems like a major L for Putin as the thinly guarded Russian border is overwhelmed by what looks like another PR stunt by Ukraine. But after a couple of days it becomes obvious that this is actually a major offensive by Ukraine. As Ukraine pours in thousands of troops from the Donbass front into Kursk. We are now getting reports that Ukraine planned to go much further into Kursk than they did and possibly wanted to capture the nuclear plant in Kurchatov to do some kind of nuclear blackmail to force Russia to make major concessions.

This obviously isn't working as their incursion been halted/severely slowed down. Sure it's another propaganda W, but they are taking massive casualties, while simultaneously weakening the Donbass front and failing to force the withdrawal of substantial Russian forces from Donbass. Even Ukraine NAFO cheerleaders aren't happy about this one.

So Ukraine now has to choices: Option A is to double down and pray they can hold out and make some gains and remove some Russian troops from the Donbass. Or option B which is to cut their losses and take the L (Ironically what Hitler did several decades ago during the Battle of Kursk).

Either way is would be some kind of poetic irony if the modern Kursk battle ended up being the nail in the coffin for the Kiev regime just like the 1943 battle of Kursk was described as the "last gasp of Nazi aggression" for Germany.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-17/musicians-vote-no-condience-mso-gillham/104237004

Musicians at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra have expressed a vote of no confidence in the managing director, after a pianist's performance was cancelled over comments he made about the conflict in Gaza.

Jayson Gillham was scheduled to perform on Thursday, but his performance was removed from the schedule after he made comments about the killing of journalists in Gaza.

In an email to ticketholders of Sunday's performance, the MSO said it did not condone the use of its stage as "a platform for expressing personal views", and apologised for any "offence and distress" caused by the comments.

The MSO has since admitted it "made an error" in pulling Gillham's performance and was working with the musician to reschedule the concert.

In a letter shared with the ABC, musicians said the decision to pull the concert had served to highlight an ongoing pattern of issues at the MSO, and called for the Orchestra's managing director and chief operating officer to stand down and to conduct a full investigation into the decision to cancel the concert.

"Despite ongoing attempts to engage with senior leadership and provide feedback through formal channels … the response from management has been insufficient, and in many cases dismissive," the letter read.

"The result has been a work environment characterised by poor communication, a lack of accountability, and continuingly declining morale."

The letter claimed numerous decisions made without consulting staff have resulted in "significant negative artistic and financial impacts on the MSO".

The musicians said they reached the decision by way of "overwhelming majority vote."

In a statement from the MSO, the board said it would commit to conducting an "independent external review" into the events leading up to the decision to cancel Gillham's concert, and the processes following it.

"The Board determined a formal review would provide transparency and certainty for our people — including our musicians, management and employees — and our broader community of audience members, supporters and other stakeholders," the statement read.

"The review will help ensure our policies and processes reflect best practice in the contemporary environment."

Has anyone here watched the show Derry Girls set in Ireland during the Troubles? It ended with

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a cameo by Chelsea fucking Clinton lmao, worst possible ending

https://apnews.com/article/russia-chechnya-kadyrov-cybertruck-musk-33b123d4bd7fe0036e80952026a54a74

Chechen warlord invites Musk to Russia after he’s filmed driving machine-gun mounted Cybertruck

described the vehicle as “undoubtedly one of the best cars in the world. I literally fell in love.”

He also said he would donate the vehicle to Russian forces fighting in the invasion of Ukraine. “It’s not for nothing that they call this a cyberbeast,” he said. “I’m sure that this beast will bring plenty of benefits to our troops.”

said he received the truck from Musk, although this was not independently confirmed. Messages left with Tesla seeking comment were not immediately returned

Kadyrov also took advantage of the video clip to invite Musk to Chechnya.

“I don’t think the Russian Foreign Ministry would mind such a trip,” he said. “And, of course, we’re waiting for your new developments that will help us finish our special military operation (in Ukraine).”

Lol

2.9 billion records, including Social Security numbers, stolen in data hack: 

The class-action law firm Schubert, Jonckheer & Kolbe said in a news release that the stolen file includes 277.1 gigabytes of data, and includes names, address histories, relatives and Social Security numbers dating back at least three decades.

According to a post from a cybersecurity expert on X, formerly Twitter, USDoD  claims to be selling the 2.9 billion records for citizens of the U.S., U.K. and Canada on the dark web for $3.5 million.

Since the information was posted for sale in April, others have released different copies of the data, according to the cybersecurity and technology news site Bleeping Computer.

A hacker known as "Fenice" leaked the most complete version of the data for free on a forum in August, Bleeping Computer reported. introduce a little anarchy. .. or someone didn't pay the ransom.

Why are we just finding this out now when they knew about it for 8 months?!

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Chinese netizens in 2022: If you add the gold medals of Chinese Taipei to the PRC, China has more gold medals than the US.

Chinese netizens in 2024: If you add the gold medals of Japan and South Korea to the US, the US has more gold medals than China.

Price controls are capitalism, Dim Fool. It implies existence of market pricing and price leadership. It is supposed to restrain the excesses.

In an ideal market shown in textbooks there would be no price gouging because they assume perfect competition. There would be no price flexibility. With oligopolies, price controls are meant to constrain the markups on goods, the capitalist earns a profit, just lower.

If it were under public ownership, the Government gets to set the price that is most socially appropriate. Like in GDR bread prices was fixed at 1 Mark for literally decades.

Yea if there were shortages or if demand was too high the markets would be empty but this was because of resource constraints not corporate price fuckery.

Wake up babe, another man made water and food toxin that they always knew about has come to light, and it's especially prevalant in baby food - perchlorates (rocket fuel).

Venezuelan Congress to debate law to regulate social networks

The bill will be included in the so-called "Antifascist Law" and comes after an escalation of tension between the government and social networks

The president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, said on Monday (12) that he will discuss the regulation of social networks in the country. According to him, the idea is to include this debate in the Law Against Fascism, which is already in force. The announcement was made during a meeting of the Venezuelan Security Council.

"Venezuela needs to regulate the functioning of social networks, we are not pioneers in this matter. More than 70 countries, which make up 40% of the UN [United Nations], have already regulated the operation of social networks," he said.

For Jorge Rodríguez, this type of regulation will aim to combat the spread of hatred and fake news on the networks and will be important not only to "defend the institutions", but also to "guarantee the well-being of Venezuelans". The government also announced the creation of the Cybersecurity Council, to think about strategies and manage issues related to networks in Venezuela.

Apparently there is a mass exodus of Israeli doctors.

Text of Aug 13 Tweets by Adi Callai / Rev [and] Reve youtube (@AdiCallai)

The entity is crumbling.
Two untranslated Haaretz articles (published in its daily Hebrew business paper TheMarker) on the unprecedented exodus of Israeli doctors. First one from July says 70% of MD's doing early-to-mid career fellowships abroad are unlikely to return.
2nd...
[screenshots of articles described and summarized in tweet text]

...one from August saying the departure of "excellent doctors" is "unprecedented, and likely to get worse."
Add that to the list. Plus the breaking news about newly lowered credit rating (this time from @FitchRatings).
Hebrew business dailies are an encouraging nighttime read.

Germany stopped financial military aid to Ukraine 💀I guess someone finally realised that Russia didn’t blow up the Nordstream.

out with another banger. In this case, he attempted to describe the "progressive" society in an instagram post. This is what he does when he's not starving children or sending our last remaining gold reserves abroad.

It reads:

PRISON: THE IDEAL PROGRESSIVE SOCIETY

• There's no need to work (SO COOL)
• Free housing (BASED)
• Free Healthcare (HELL YEAH)
• Free Education (LET'S FUCKING GOO)
• Free Services (BASED)
• Lots of gay sex ( )
• Everyone receives the same treatment (COOL)
• Everyone is on the same economic level (AWESOME)
• Only those who belong to the forces have weapons (mf right here describing capitalism)

Yesterday I spoke how I believe the bourgeoisie is in it's decadent phase. This is another example: This man is steering the ship of a massive nation and is at the head of the capitalist regime that exists here in Argentina, and this is all he is able to produce: starvation for children and very mediocre ideas for social media. These people are not enlightened, at all, this man is spreading mediocrity all around the place. He's infecting others with his rot. Sometimes I say, yeah, let this man conquer the world, because the more he think he's winning, the more he negates his (and by extension their) own existence.

He ---> was right.

Might be a hot take but I think Israel should die

Another Biden gaffe? Earlier today, US President Joe Biden said that the idea of new elections, proposed jointly by Brazilian President Lula da Silva and Colombian President Gustavo Petro, was a good idea and that he would support it. And that Washington would maintain a line of contact with the Maduro government to negotiate this.

However, later today, Joe Biden, or a member of the White House administration, denied that Biden supports a new election in Venezuela. Saying that President Joe Biden didn't understand the question and insisting that the United States would recognize Gonzalez because “it's clear that he won”. But they also say that the elections were neither fair nor clean.

MoA:

FT Reports A Ukrainian Warcrime

The willful killing of unarmed soldiers, especially when there is a good chance of taking them prisoners, is certainly a war crime.

It is astonishing that Christopher Miller of the Financial Times reports of it without further comment.

How Ukraine pulled off its biggest gamble: invading Russia (archived) - Financial Times, Aug 12, 2024

As Volodymyr prepared to enter Russian territory, adrenaline ran through his veins. It was not lost on him that 81 years ago, another battle in Russia’s Kursk region marked a turning point for Europe. ... “We entered Russian territory for the first time at 1pm on Tuesday [August 6],” Volodymyr said. “We were among the first to enter there.”

To his astonishment, his unit faced no resistance as their eight-wheeled, 20 tonne US Stryker fighting vehicle stormed across the border in broad daylight.

They soon encountered a Russian unit “sitting in the forest, drinking coffee at a table”, Volodymyr recalled. “Then our Stryker drives right into their table.

“We killed many of them on the first day,” he said. “Because they were unarmed and didn’t expect us.”

Not wanting to end up like their comrades, he added, “dozens” of stunned Russian soldiers simply laid down their weapons and surrendered.

"81 years ago, another battle in Russia’s Kursk region marked a turning point for Europe," writes Miller. He and others should consider what that really means. If I remember correctly, the German fascists and their Ukrainian allies also committed war crimes - and lost the fight.

when the retaliation comes I hope it targets American surface vessels as well. the USA is directly culpable for those chunks of viscera being weighed into bags for burial

There's a huge media push on and many of the stories coming out of there are spinning acts of desparation or straight up war crimes as heroic. There is a white triangle symbol for whatever the fuck reason to counter Russia's Z. "Stunned Putin". Yeah sure it did

Such as Ukrop suicide APC that rammed a Russian checkpoint. It got stopped hard, and then drone bombed, and it's occupants neutralized but isn't that exciting boys!

It's all very

Bots are out in force saying how it's a good thing the west is blowing their money and old equipment turning into a burn pit. "So many orcs at a fraction of the annual trillion plus dollar budget!" Hurr hurrrr!

Real dead internet vibes.

Requesting thoughts from the New Mega Economic Bureau:

I do believe the prospects for the Israeli economy are very grim (inshallah). They've lost a huge number of citizens to emigration, disability, and death. The economy relied quite a bit on over 200k Palestinian workers who Israel has said they don't intend on welcoming back. I think they will stick to that, and their plans for replacing those workers from others from places like India I don't think will pan out (both for logistical reasons and because Israelis are deeply racist). I can't imagine they will be able to draw immigrants like they used to and will likely bleed more citizens as they've shown their own people just how precarious their lives there are. The tourism industry there is dead. Their reputation in surveillance and security - an important export industry for them - has taken a massive reputational hit. I doubt Intel will want to continue on there.

When the potential destruction of the Israeli economy (and thus, by extension, the Israeli state) is brought up, a perfectly understandable retort is that the US will do whatever they need to to prop up the Israeli economy. That's what I more or less what I think at least on the surface. But the question I have been asking myself is: is it even possible for the US to prop up the Israeli economy?

My understanding is that all "aid" from the US to Israel takes the form of US dollars being used to purchase US-made munitions and military equipment. The money never touches Israeli hands, is never sent through the Isreali economy, and is not used for anything "productive" from the Israeli economic perspective. And this the general modus operandi for US foreign aid - the foreign country doesn't get cash and they CERTAINLY aren't granted like, the ability to recruit US firms to build facilities there. So point being... sure, the US can take USD and buy not just military gear from the US MIC, but they can also buy food from US farmers, cars from US manufacturers, etc. They can make sure Israel has food to eat and coal to keep power plants running. But all of that won't actually do anything for the real, productive economy of Israel.

Oct 7 has shattered the very foundations of the productive economy of Israel - industrial capital, in the language of vol 2 of Capital. And these fundamental problems that have been created cannot be cured with US foreign aid. If I'm right then I don't think there's any the US can do in order to rescue the Israeli economy in the long run.

Thoughts?

Some sources in the Trump campaign claim that Trump was traumatized by the assassination attempt and is losing the ability to campaign

KKKhamas rejects the "bridging proposal" put forward by the U.S.

Wow how could the evil terrorist organization reject such a fair proposal? All it would have required of them was accepting permanent control of the Egypt-Gaza border by the IDF and having the rest of Gaza indefinitely bisected by an occupied corridor that would definitely not become a permanent occupation that prevents movement between the north and south of Gaza

News mega nerds begging Iran to finally Do Something Funny about the zionist entity so they can post. A sad sight.

Lmao eat shit

The president of México AMLO, on the election in Venezuela , mentions that everything was going well until Sunday night when things started to go wrong. He claims that the following Tuesday, the secretary of USA, Anthony Blinken, the OAS and more countries came out to demonstrate in favor of a candidate. He proposed to wait for the resolution of the electoral bodies

Mexico refused to take any action other than waiting for the Venezuelan Supreme Court to prove that the elections were fair and that Maduro won. Brazil and Colombia tried to reach an agreement to hold another election, but this was quickly ruled out as an option, because no one accepted this and Gonzalez said he would refuse this option, because he basically said that there is no way he could win an election against Maduro.

The liberal newspapers in Brazil and Colombia, from what I've seen, are already saying that Lula and Petro will probably end up recognizing Maduro, since they really need to have diplomatic relations with Venezuela. They keep trying to push a narrative that Lula and Petro are bad because they are supporting the ebiquitous dictator Maduro and this will affect the electoral results of their coalitions.

The US seems to keep saying that Gonzalez won, but they don't really recognize it. Gonzalez and Machado are currently hiding somewhere, probably in Panama or Miami. Diplomats from Panama, Peru and Argentina have been expelled from Venezuela. Meanwhile, Maduro has banned Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter and Tik Tok. The situation on the streets seemed to have calmed down, apart from an unrelated gas explosion accident, nothing really happened.

Brazil said that it does not recognize Gonzalez electoral results documents, and will wait for the CNE and Supreme Court results. I believe Colombia also is going to do the same.

Gold just broke another all time high $2500 per ounce. The economy is doing just fine

Interesting FTC news: they're banning fake reviews, social media followers, like, and any other method of implying your product is more popular/well rated than it is. Not sure if this applies to everyone or just businesses.

French news anchors realizing footage of a Ukrainian soldier wearing an SS helmet inside Russia got past their censors: https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1euznep/ua_pov_french_lci_broadcast_presenter_noticed_the/

Seems like they're far more embarrassed at the fact they missed it rather than the fact their government is supporting nazis invading Russia

Blinken will visit the Zionist entity this weekend. Adjust your ideal retaliation hopes accordingly.

the date of the retaliation will be whenever is the objectively best moment in time to retaliate

It has now been 0 hours since i heard people pretending to care about breakdancing

Minnesota held their primary elections yesterday. Omar is in, Stancil is out.

Taliban celebrates three years of return to power in Afghanistan - Al Jazeera

The article is mostly irrelevant. The main question is: Is this a technical?

Guys in the spirit of Hexbear predictions my date for the retaliation is 8/23. If I'm wrong then I'll come back and edit this comment to reflect an updated prediction.

Hey does anyone have some good articles or news sources on migrants in New York? My conservative mother wont shut up about how "they are getting free hotels" and shit, and I want some solid numbers beyond just saying "stop being a racist asshole"

Thanks.

Columbia University's president has resigned (CW: New York Times). Do Emory next.

Y'all are not going to believe what the official newspaper of Lehi (aka the Stern Gang), the Zionist terrorist group that split from Irgun over wanting to ally with the Nazis, and counted first Likud PM Yitzhak Shamir among its members, was called.

The ministry of defence for Ukraine just up and outright advertising the existence of an actual Dirlewanger brigade by publicly outing their agitprop photos.

Source of ukro-nazi photos and evidence

https://x.com/mossrobeson__/status/1825245904984555746

I can only hope that the photo is of their actual numbers and not an actual brigade size element of the most depraved monsters to walk the earth since ww2.

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Ireland was pretty cool when I had the chance to visit. Folks seem to have decent foreign policy takes and they hate the English so props to em

Me rambling about Ireland

spoiler

Speed limits were hilarious to me, like you'll be driving down a road out in some rural field that's like 1.5 lanes wide but it goes both ways and it bends around trees and bushes that go right up to the road but the speed limit will be like 80kph

Also Dublin seemed to be run by gangs of children? Like we'd just see 60 or so kids riding the train to the harbor just to sit on the walls or I once turned a corner and saw 2 kids getting talked to by police for doing hijinks but there were 20-30 kids standing around and laughing at them for getting caught. Seemed like a combination of economic malaise and accessible public transport.

West Ireland was neat, Galway was an absolute gem and the Cliffs of Moher alone were definitely worth the trip. Couldn't see myself living in Ireland though, it rains 75 times a day and rent is outrageous

during the Hillary and Biden campaigns against Trump, we reasoned that the democrats didn't plaster pics of Trump and Epstein together everywhere and engage in attacks based on the allegations against Trump because Hillary had the Billdawg millstone around her neck, and Biden didn't want to highlight his own treatment of women and girls.

why or why won't Bombala Harris bring it out as an attack this cycle? (if this should be its own post, tell me)

Ukraine is so funny. There are literally two real sectors of the front that decide the long-term future of the war, the south in Zaporozhye Oblast, and the urban areas in Donetsk. We all like to talk about Kupiansk, Kherson and the Kharkov regions, but the war didn't drastically change when Russia controlled them, and it didn't change when Ukraine took them. The south with its relation to Crimea and the population centers in Donetsk is where the conditions for victory are set for both sides. So what does Ukraine do, they take out some of their best brigades and battalions from Zaporozhye and Donetsk, and send them on a useless adventure in Kursk. Yes they captured a bunch of villages and towns and HUMILIATED Pootin, but Russia have now obliterated Ukrainian defence lines near Pokrovsk and Toretsk and have moved into the connecting towns a few kilometers from Pokrovsk and into the suburbs of Toretsk itself. Absolutely incredible IQ by the Ukrainian command.

welcome to bad gatewaybear․com

The IOF can't resist practically sticking their heads out of holes in the wall:
https://xcancel.com/RFN3138/status/1823808776555913530

Amal Saad:

It seems that the potential retaliation by Iran and Hizbullah against Israel may hinge on the outcome of tomorrow's ceasefire talks in Doha. This connection has been indicated by multiple sources: Iran's UN envoy mentioned it last week, three Iranian officials conveyed this to Reuters yesterday, and today, Nabih Berri, the Lebanese parliament speaker and close Hizbullah ally, referred to the upcoming talks as "the last shot". However, given that Israel is more likely to scupper the talks, especially considering new demands it has reportedly added, and its longstanding aversion to a cease-fire, it's more probable that Iran and Hizbullah are merely engaging in a perfunctory exercise, ready to take action once these negotiations inevitably conclude without yielding any meaningful results.

Iran and Hizbullah appear to be allowing this last ditch diplomatic attempt to run its course despite their recognition that these talks have been weaponised against the Resistance Axis: first, to buy Israel more time at the Palestinians' expense, and second, to delay or limit the expected retaliation from Iran and Hizbullah. But responding is an existential matter, particularly for Hizbullah. While longer term deterrence remains elusive, Hizbullah is seeking to restore immediate deterrence so that Israel doesn't expand its "phase 3" assassination campaign or its attrition-focused drone warfare strategy from Gaza into Beirut. As such, this delay will do little to blunt the intended impact of Hizbullah's and Iran's retaliatory strike(s).

> claims to be indigenous to West Asia
> eats West Asian treat
> dies

https://xcancel.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1823473434615226672

Argentina's far-right libertarian President Javier Milei is selling off his country, turning it into a US colony. Milei is now letting the US military take over Argentina's state-owned arms manufacturer. The US will use it to make ammo to send to Ukraine.

Before far-right libertarian Javier Milei came to power, Argentina was neutral in the Ukraine proxy war. Previous President Alberto Fernández resisted US pressure to send weapons to Ukraine. Milei invited Zelensky to his inauguration. He is now joining the US-NATO war on Russia

It seems like Kamala’s campaign is having Tim Walz carry it. Keep seeing this man everywhere and hearing zoomer libs gush over him. He does have more charisma than Kamala by a long shot.

Kamala is good at fooling liberals into thinking she’s further left than she actually is. Looking into her campaigns for each position she’s had shows this pattern and libs with their goldfish memories keep falling for it. The power of idpol and making vaguely progressive statements.

God this is so

HUMILIATING

and

EMBARRASSING

I bet Russia feels very

SCHMECKLEDORFED

God this whole situation has left them so

DINGLE DANGLED DONGLED

They should just surrender now, there's no recovering from this

At this point I think George Santos would've legit been a better running mate than Vance.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I see part of the game Ukraine is playing now.

https://streamable.com/gu2nll

They are trying to get prisoner exchanges, these prisoners (probably captured conscripts in the attacks) are requesting an exchange for Azov fighters, likely the ones captured in Mariupol.

They are trying to get their nazis back.

Does lacrosse being at the 2028 Olympics mean the Iroquois Nation gets to be represented for the first time at an Olympics?

Edit: I looked into it and it’s up to the US Olympic committee of they’ll be able to. Would be a bad look if a country that pretends to care about cultural genocide in China bars them from competing.

Final post tally in the megathread posting wars:
News Mega: 2502
Trans Mega: 2562

Real nailbiter this week. I saw it as close as a 6 post difference on the final evening

Only Gaza ceasefire will delay retaliation, say Iranian officials - Reuters

Edit: Using provided headline instead of paraphrasing

The worst ever global debt crisis (CADTM)

This policy briefing, based on the new Debt Service Watch database, shows that the citizens of the Global South now face the worst debt crisis since global records began. Debt service is absorbing an average 38% of budget revenue and 30% of spending across the South, rising to 54% of revenue and 40% of spending in Africa. Spread across all continents, 35 countries are paying more than half of revenue, and 54 over one third.

too sleepy to read the actual report, but i figured this might be something for the newsmega heads

Fumio Kishida announces that he will step down as Prime Minister of Japan. Kishida's decision not to run for re-election as president of the Liberal Democratic Party comes amid a scandal over campaign funds that dropped his approval rating to 21% in June.

Donald Trump mocks Kamala's “totally communist” plan and calls the economic agenda the “Maduro Plan”. “That's Maduro's plan, Venezuela's, just like in the old Soviet Union.”

& trying to do a live Twitter interview right now apparently. Trump's team don't seem to be able to get his mic working right. There's just a lot of bumping noises of a mic being moved around.

Edit:

Elon claims technical difficulties are due to a "massive DDOS attack" by people afraid to let Trump speak.

Elon starts by rambling about the assassination to Trump for several minutes before asking "How was it for you?"

Trump responds "Not great. Not great" with a bit of a laugh.

Trump talking about how close the shot came but that he was lucky the shooter missed from so close by talking golf: "it's like not sinking a two foot putt"

Trump just implied he would have talked to Elon from the afterlife if he'd been killed: "if I hadn't turned my head just then we'd be doing this from a very different place, I'd be in a very different place right now"

Australia leads world demonstrations over Venezuela's presidential election

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-18/australia-leads-world-demonstrations-over-venezuela-presidential/104239552

aussies posting Ls

i can't sub to the_dunk_tank on hexbear for some reason so i'm gonna post this here. I found a video of jim cramer saying how he manipulates stocks, it 100% mirrors what we've been seeing in the stock market recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DJlogbrDcA&t=1s

he can't shut the fuck up about the shady shit he's doing despite the host trying to pivot away from it

New Zealand might extradite the Kim dot com guy to the US for piracy lol

I wonder what the effect could be if the retaliation is timed with the start of the DNC convention?

I doubt many in the media class will be happy about covering the genocide instead of gushing over their mediocre orgy

Ireland - a country that immediately springs to mind as one surrounded by enemies

Only one enemy but technically true

Ukraine is destroying Lenin statues inside Russia

Russians are really on the verge of turning the Donbass front into a rout at this point. Very little of the Ukrainian 2014 defensive line that hasn't been surpassed, with the final section of it (around "New York" whose actual name escapes me right now) falling apart right now.

With it behind them, the Ukrainians have basically no ability to dig in and stop the Russians anywhere in the Donetsk oblast. Whatever happens in Kursk, embarrassing as it is for the Russian state, will not reverse the much more impactful gains the Russian army is making, and does not change the fact that the only thing standing between the Russian army and the Dniepr is time.

We're very much leaving the regime of "stare at a static line on the map every day for the past year and a half"

Anybody got Joe Bidens Social Security Number?

RFK Jr. attempted to meet with Kamala Harris to discuss the possibility of serving in her administration in exchange for her endorsement. However, Kamala Harris and her advisers did not respond to the meeting offer nor did they express interest in the proposal.

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The chuds got boxing banned from the Olympics so Algeria and Cuba couldn't look good