Bulletins and News Discussion from August 19th to August 25th, 2024 - Our Mountains, Our Treasures - Child of the Week: Hassan LargePenis

My cousin died in Volchansk, Ukraine, yesterday. He was so cool—he would always take me to the gym with him when I was just 5. I can't believe he's gone. Rest in peace, dear cousin.

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About the DNC not allowing ANY palestinian on stage, like, you know AIPAC's maximalism is behind the decision because they COULD'VE just gotten a centrist or right-wing palestinian or arab democrat, who's totally loyal to the regime to be like "hamas doesn't represent me, we want peace but israel has to free the hostages first", obviously any self-respecting adult would see through it but that would've gotten a solid chunk of the woke identitarian left to ease off on kamala and given liberals a token palestinian to shield themselves behind.

But ANY palestinian is a no-go.

What an absolute honor to have my son as the COTW, proud dad here. I'm sure he'll be very happy when I tell him in a few years that he's famous on the Putin-backed bear podcast offshoot forum nerd mega. You're all getting a good old ranking today, in honor of my humiliation yesterday and for the little fella.

I think what I need to articulate, to really engrave for posterity right now, is the experience of liberals freaking out and throwing tantrums when people just describe what's happening in Gaza.

They start going EWWW EWW EEWW AHHH!!!! AHHHH!!!!, I'm not kidding. Like you've thrown acid on them.

There literally can't be a cure for this kind of brain damage, but maybe it would help to start with forcing these people to hold down a shift at a service industry job where people bark at them

BREAKING NEWS: Trotskyists successfully sell newspaper.

I realised something about the Iranian & gang response to Israel while scrolling through Arab Facebook today. They're waiting for the Arbaeen pilgrimage to end by Monday. Arbaeen is the biggest gathering of people in Shia Islam and happens every year fourty days after the martyrdom of Imam Hussein and his family. To give an example of how important it is, the massive youth protests in Iraq broke out on the 1st October 2019 and lasted five days, then they took a 20 day break to do Arbaeen, then returned on the 25th. The pilgrimage usually attracts more than 25 million people who walk from the Iraqi-Iranian border and main hubs in the cities of Basra, Baghdad and Najaf. The success of this pilgrimage is of utmost importance to the Iranian and Iraqi governments, even covid couldn't fully stop it. When dealing with a freak enemy such as Israel, you can't put 25 million people in the danger zone. My wife's uncle posted pics this morning and it was just crazy, the amount of people there is just unfathomable. I think we've all missed this context on the bear forum and on twitter. The Axis of Resistance acts upon Shia interests first and Palestine second, this pilgrimage has to be protected in order to do something for Palestine. The Iranians and Lebanese Shias get home by the end of the weekend, then something can be done. Look up a stream on YouTube or something, you'll be shocked by the scale of this. Lots of revolutionary content is in this year's pilgrimage btw, I've seen posters of Ismail Haniyah and other martyrs, and there are Palestine flags along the whole road.

Search this on YouTube if you're interested: زيارة الاربعين

Watching the vod of Hasan going to the Anti-Genocide protests in Chicago and some random french channel asked for an interview without knowing who he is

Getting some answers they weren't prepared for, that's for sure

Also the protest looks amazing, even with the bull parade following them on bicycles

My sympathies if you're a lib who has been radicalized by the especially intense genocidal horror of this 2024 election cycle. For many people, 2016 and 2020 made it clear that hoping for a better world makes us stand apart from liberals. 2024 has made it clear that we are surrounded by fascists, who, when their mask slips, proudly display their fangs, still dripping viscera from ongoing slaughter.

It's nothing we didn't already fear to know in our heart of hearts.

In dark times, should the stars also go out?

British tech billionaire missing, likely dead after yacht accident RIP bozo

This do not come convention has been a great reminder why I hate all these liberals even the ones who are "progressive." All of them in a room together applauding the most deranged shit and act like they care because well at least their rhetoric is different than their actions. Which is currently carrying out a genocide

vibes-based reporting: i've been browsing r/fauxmoi today, a celebrity gossip sub that's been very pro-palestine but extremely 🌴🥥 pilled since biden crossed the west wing bridge (rip). now though, after the grim spectacle the DNC put on, the mood is souring. all the most upvoted electoralism posts are back to be critical of kamala and the democrats, with people starting to realize that maybe she's not be the fun aunt they can project all their political hopes and dreams onto.

Based Tariq we love to see it. Respect to anyone still talking about Palestine and not jumping on the embarrassing circus that this week has been while children are having their heads blown off (600+ upvotes)

it really seems the democrats have done a great job of killing off the good-vibe momentum they had going for them. literally snatching defeat from the jaws of victory <3

brat summer has come to an end; we're entering fight song fall.

the specter of joever lives on.

Colombian president suspends coal exports towards Israel, effective the 23rd. They represent 84% of Israel coal imports.

Goddamn, I log off for 12 fucking hours to have a nice silent day with the wife after delivering the boy to her mom. I check my phone and the family group chat suddenly has 150 messages and pics of my aunt storing rice and cans of chickpeas in her Beirut house attic. One should truly never even consider logging off.

I'm not gonna lie, listening to Kamala Harris last night proclaim her undying support for Israel's "right to defend itself" against the "rapist Palestinian hordes" and to then turn around and go "but I'm sad for Palestinians uWu" after all the bullshit of this week and the bombs she and her boss have given Israel, it's probably the closest I've ever been to being unironically "I'm voting for Trump to spite liberals". I'm going to vote third party, but I'm still human, and I want these liberals to fucking suffer.

From what I can gather, Hezbollah fired 320 missiles at Israel in various waves in order to deplete the Iron Dome and allow their drones to pass through and hit their intended targets, most of which were military bases and important headquarters. Israeli air defense, including hundreds of jets, were unable to prevent the drones from hitting their targets, and clearly the attack by Israel to try and degrade Hezbollah's launchers was unsuccessful, given, uh, all the missiles and drones. Hezbollah has said that the operation was a complete success, while I imagine Israel is re-using the Ukraine narrative and saying that 150% of Russia's Hezbollah's rockets were shot down, but also that they're dangerous and evil because they hit big targets. Westerners are stupid enough to believe both things simultaneously.

We have a speech by Nasrallah soon. Rumors are that this is merely Stage 1 of the response to the assassination of Fouad Shukr.

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She fucking sucks, bro.

The DNC is going to let the family of an Israeli hostage speak at the convention. No Palestinians are scheduled to speak.

Ukraine - or rather, the Ukranian people - have already lost the war against Russia by basically every important metric. They have lost tens of thousands of soldiers, millions have emigrated, their domestic assets have been completely sold to and looted by American capitalists, and they are still likely to lose militarily. Ukraine will not recover for decades. But Zelensky and his ilk keep getting richer by selling off the country and the lives of the people to the American war machine, and the American capitalists keep getting richer by having a massive demand for their weapons and gathering information about the Russian military. Just fucking end the war, please.

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University of California bans encampments and face masks

Even in Commiefornia.

The president of the University of California has announced that the system would enforce bans on encampments as well as the use of masks to “conceal identity” in guidance that comes as schools across the US are planning for protests in support of Gaza similar to those that roiled campuses across the country.

Michael V Drake, the president of the 10-campus university system, said in a statement on Monday that the UC was taking steps to “ensure a safe, inclusive campus climate that fosters a free exchange of ideas”.

“Freedom to express diverse viewpoints is fundamental to the mission of the University, and lawful protests play a pivotal role in that process,” Drake wrote. “While the vast majority of protests held on our campuses are peaceful and nonviolent, some of the activities we saw this past year were not.”

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Incredibly, in the last seven days, an entire week has happened. This is absolutely unprecedented.

"but what do you expect people like AOC to do? The Democratic Party is a broad party with a lot of views"

Oh uh... I don't know... Maybe not support genocide enablers like Biden or Harris? Resign from the Party in complete disgust and at the very least run as an independent from now on?

Is it really that hard to support the people being massacred these days? Do we have to show them the video of that Palestinian father carrying the headless body of his son? Or the rescuers shoving off bits of what once was a human being off a wall?

I don't know how these people sleep at night. And I don't mean the Pelosi-like ghouls, these people don't sleep naturally, they get drugged up and that's it. Or maybe they stay awake 24/7 because they're not human at this point. I mean the people who once showed glimpses of empathy like AOC... I just don't get it, have they lost their humanity? And for what? For cheap political points? For improved relations with Zionists? Do they not know Zionists will, sooner or later, suffer an historic defeat that will completely destroy their genocidal colonial project and they will be forever remembered as traitors and collaborationists? Do they not want to be in the correct side of history?

Do they not lose their fucking mind over all this? I know I'm losing mine... Does they not get moved by all this? I know I do...

And let's just say for a minute that people like her and other social imperialists are "forced to act this way by the current circumstances", that they have no other alternative to "play nice", that, in a way, they're victims too. Nah, fuck off, History and people remember those who stood up for those who are in desperate need of help, pathetic spineless Quislings will be seen with complete disgust by the future generations. We have such examples here, our friend John Brown fought to free human beings from slavery against all odds, perhaps an impossible task, yet he was willing to sacrifice everything for such noble cause. We shall celebrate him until the end of times. Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire to protest this genocide, giving everything away for people he never personally knew and never will. We shall celebrate him until the end of times. And you tell me she can't protest because "party cohesion" or some shit? What does she even fear, to be expelled from the pro-Genocide Party? Is that too much of a price to pay? I would wear that proudly as a badge of honor.

Feels like we're reaching a History defining moment. History called, she wants to know where everyone stands. They didn't skip the call, they answered, but instead of choosing the way of peace, dialogue and humanism (the very least you could do) which could have prevented so much pain and misery, they answered and insisted with the way of destruction, of annihilation, of barbarism, so typical of western culture. But History is wise, and she will remember. When their time comes, which will be our time, we too have to remember what they said and what they have done in such moments, memory is important, without there will be no proper Justice.

Organize. Agitate. Don't let them win. Reject Doomerism. Remember who you are fighting for.

Lmao democrat party is saying trump should have declared war on Iran in 2020. Lesser evil everyone

listen to Palestinian women in the us. being women of color, and in many cases muslim, they probably have the most to lose under a fascistic trump administration. and if they are saying they are not fucking voting for harris, then why should anyone else?

it really shows the white chauvinism when we hear the whole 'well trump would be worse on this' argument trotted out. YOU DON'T THINK PEOPLE FUCKING KNOW THAT? THAT'S WHY YOUR PARTY NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING TO MAKE SURE IT DOESN'T HAPPEN

When Israel does it, it's "pre-emptive", but when anyone else does something to them, it's "unprovoked"

At this point Kamala can proclaim that she'll help Israel Gas all Palestinians and Liberals will tell me how this is actually good for Palestine.

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I didn't know I could hate dems even more than I previously did. I truly despise these fascists with all my heart

Great Satan is so ready for fascism. Almost nobody cares about decapitated children. I expect a pseudo scientific article about how minorities are evil to make dems support concentration camps.

Ansarallah burns oil tanker on its way to Israel

https://xcancel.com/i/status/1827069268124418305

I think the greatest achievement of the Republican Party is to be so utterly insane they pushed the Democratic Party into solid far-right territory lmao

Meanwhile social imperialists tried to convince leftists that the Democrats can be pushed "to the left"

We can push the Democrats indeed. We can push them off a mountain.

Gotta love media

Harris is excited to be the competent steward of imperialism. She understands every implication and benefit, and she feels joy at the idea of heralding the position as a woman, and doing an even better job at it than her male counterparts

Seeing Ana Navarro crying at the DNC about “Communist” Nicaragua while her father is a Contra made me almost vomit. She couldn’t help herself from smearing the Castros either while her father probably burned schools and murdered nuns. She even compared them to Trump.

I did some research out of curiosity and she’s also negatively covered Venezuela and Lula in Brazil. But nothing on Bukele or Milei. She only had negative things to say about Bolsonaro because of his friendliness with Trump. Nothing on his policies unrelated to Trump.

Fuck gusanos.

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Billionaire Mike Lynch has been confirmed dead after his body was recovered from the oceans following his yacht sinking in the Mediterranean.

So I'm reading the John Brown biography by W.E.B. DuBois and I was struck by how his guerilla tactics are straight up Maoist. The enemy's rear is the guerilla's front, guerillas must be disciplined and treat enemy prisoners humanely, guerillas swim among the people as fish in water, etc. I'm sure that's just because Mao studied guerilla movements and based his theory on actual practices but it's still interesting that Brown came to these same conclusions eighty years earlier.

I don't care how Class Consciousness 101 this is, I can't get over the fact that Democrats value the health and safety of Donald Trump more than they do that of Palestinian children.

Funny how quickly libs went from worshipping the ground Joe Biden tripped on to never mentioning him again. Really lays bare the cynicism of it all

193 years ago today, Nat Turner did nothing wrong

The New York Times is an organ of infamy. It is wrong to read it. Anyone who contributes to this newspaper is socially unacceptable. It would be wrong to be friendly or even polite to one of its editors. You have to be as unfriendly to them as the law allows. They are bad people who do horrible things.

Ralph Nader is saying that AIPAC demanded a Palestinian-American not be allowed to speak, and that they did the same thing to Jimmy Carter in 2008. I have no idea how in the know he would be, but it seems plausible.

Under strict AIPAC demands, the Democratic National Convention rejected appeals by some of their own delegates and outside protestors to give a few minutes to a Palestinian American pediatrician back from Gaza to describe the horrors of civilian death and destruction and urge a permanent ceasefire. AIPAC demanded and received time on stage for an Israeli hostage family to speak to over 4000 delegates. Astonishing double-standard cruelty that will not be forgotten by millions of Arab and Muslim Americans.

AIPAC made similar demands on the DNC in 2008 to stop Jimmy Carter—who brokered the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel—but later called out the Israeli regime for its apartheid practices. All former presidents usually get a few minutes on the stage. AIPAC humiliated Carter, who had to settle for silently walking across the stage with Rosalynn to mild applause. The power of the "Israeli Government Can Do No Wrong" lobby keeps intensifying to the detriment of the USA and its taxpayers.

https://x.com/RalphNader/status/1826762262004260964

The Democratic Party exists to make sure good people do nothing.

BREAKING: Congressional Democrats are scrambling to buy keffiyehs and watching YouTube videos on how to do the dabke in a planned attempt to win over Pro-Palestine voters. Insiders are noting that arms shipments to Israel will still continue.

I've listened to AOC's small fragment at the DNC where she (lied) spoke how "Kamala is working tirelessly to secure a ceasefire in Gaza and bring the hostages home" (the last bit is a zionist talking point lmao). I paid attention to her theatrics, how she physically delivers her speech to a genocide-friendly crowd. And it couldn't get more politician than that. Go on, watch it on mute and you will see, it's quite disgusting. She delivers that speech while presenting it as some sort of "great achievement" as if Biden secured medicare for all or whatever. She's doing theatrics while defending a genocidal regime that is NOT GOING TO STOP FUNDING ANOTHER GENOCIDAL REGIME. Theatrics for the cameras, for the flashes, for the future archive.

It's disgusting. Fucking social imperialists dig really deep into me.

This is not new (2023) but I don't really have anywhere else to put it.

29% of the UK support Communism

53% of the UK support Socialism

39% of the people asked to define Socialism define it correctly

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/blogs/new-poll-finds-strong-support-for-socialism-in-the-uk

I'm here from the future. The 2032 election is actually THE most important election of our lifetimes, you won't want to miss it

DNC attendees literally applauded the police for "controlling" Gaza protestors

Burkina Faso changed the country motto back to Sankara's : Homeland or Death, We Will Overcome

A Kennedy becoming leader of the CIA and using it to overthrow a sitting president would be pretty funny, +1 meme point for the right.

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The DNC kicked Hasan out of the box they gave him to stream, seemingly because of this tweet, but wouldn't tell him what was going on. He was saying on stream that at least the didn't take his credentials away, and then like 5 minutes later a DNC staffer stream sniped him to take his credentials lol.

EDIT: Apparently AOC's team had reached out to the Pod Jons and they were going to let Hasan use their space lol.

Haven't seen anyone mention that the US Navy is planning to mothball 17 support ships due to a lack of manpower. This includes ships completed as recently as this year!

These cuts will probably not significantly affect the operations of the Navy, but it will hamper their coordination with other branches - the Navy will now have no real troop transports in service.

Heard Brace saying this in the latest trueanon and I 100% echo the sentiment: "please let some allegations come out about this guy (tim walz)"

Because holy shit I'm tired of the wholesome big chungus posting about him

DNC has parents of an “Israeli-American hostage in Gaza” speaking right now, full of Zionist talking points. Honestly I didn’t think they’d go that far. Jesus Christ it’s disgusting

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Mujica says he's 'destroyed' after cancer treatment: “Time to go”

Former Uruguayan president Pepe Mujica has announced that his radiotherapy treatment for oesophageal cancer has been successful. However, at the age of 89, he feels “destroyed”. Mujica also expressed the feeling that he is losing his life and that “it's time to leave”.

“They did a radiation treatment on me. According to the doctors, everything went well, but I'm destroyed,” Mujica told the New York Times.

“Life is beautiful. With all its ups and downs, I love life. And I'm losing it because it's my time to go. What meaning can we give to life? Man, compared to other animals, has the ability to find a purpose.”

He criticized consumerism and the incessant creation of needs by the market, advocating a simpler lifestyle connected to nature. “It [the market] has made us voracious buyers. We live to buy. We work to buy. And we live to pay. Credit is a religion. So we're kind of screwed,” he said. The former president, who declares himself an atheist, also reflected on religion and the search for consolation in the face of mortality. Mujica wants to be remembered as a “crazy old man”, highlighting his life dedicated to social justice and happiness.

Colombia suspends coal exports to Israel

Bogotá accuses the country of using raw material to 'kill children'

Colombia will officially suspend coal exports to Israel as of August 22. The measure, published in a decree, is a protest against the military actions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in the Gaza Strip.

“With Colombian coal, [the Israelis] make bombs to kill children in Palestine,” wrote the South American country's president, Gustavo Petro, on the social network X. With the decision, Israel will only be able to buy coal from Colombia under agreements that have already been negotiated. According to the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, the conflict in the region has caused the deaths of more than 40,000 Palestinians since it began in October 2023.

Looks like the Palestine subreddit has been taken over by Liberals. There's next to no coverage of the open support of genocide at the DNC.

Yes, I may be a genocide supporter, but in a way, isn't genocide a less serious crime than that of being certain? Don't you damned kids know that you're at a university, a place that "is, in Learned Hand’s famous phrase, “the spirit which is not too sure that it is right,” a spirit that is willing, even happy, to be proved wrong"?

After all, if someone is certain about something and they still disagree with me, their epistemology must be faulty. I've never been more sure of anything in all my life.

P.S. - The university is not taking a political position when it makes "investment decisions" to finance war crimes.

(Do not make the same mistake I did by clicking on this latest from The Bedbug.)

Currently on the front page of the biggest german (state funded) news site:

TL of the headline: Human lives don't count for Hamas

Father down they say that it is the opinion/experience of a german spy that negotiated between Palestine and Isn'treal. But I'm so sick of the the state narrative here. Just pure anti-palestine propaganda and they don't even try to hide it, they call it 'reason of the state'. The GDR should have lived on, I can't wait for the day when happens. Sorry for the small rant.

Was at the Palestine DNC protest earlier, tons of folks out which was great. Saw a huge diversity of leftist organizations and parties. Speakers were great. There was a Palestinian boy missing a foot in a wheelchair. Press were taking pictures of him. Literally one million cops out, and they kept idling a helicopter right over the protest to intimidate and drown out the speakers. People in pageant suits and dresses walking with their lanyards past the protest and to the DNC

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I've been watching some clips of the DNC because I hate myself and like to torture myself. It's still a freak show, but I give the Democrats credit for being significantly less freaky than the Republicans. I think that the main takeaway from watching all the speeches and the reactions is that it's so clear that Obama is the greatest modern American politician when it comes to charisma and presence. I wish that he was on our side, it's a shame that such a natural talent is evil. You look at the rest with their boring soulless speeches and lack of charisma, then comes Obama and makes everyone look like an absolute noob. I genuinely believe that both parties won't produce anything close to him even in 50 years if the corpse of the US continues even fighting for so long.

So I commented the other day about the British billionaire whose boat sunk in a freak storm off Sicily, two days after his codefendant in a fraud trial was run over and killed.

After reading this Twitter thread:

1. He was absolutely, without doubt, a product of the intelligence services, making Keir Starmer’s intelligence connections look innocent
2. He’s entered the Blowback universe due to his connection with no less than fucking Richard “The Prince of Darkness” Perle

[...] liberals freaking out and throwing tantrums when people just describe what's happening in Gaza. They start going EWWW EWW EEWW AHHH!!!! AHHHH!!!!, I'm not kidding. Like you've thrown acid on them. [...]

https://nitter.poast.org/BTnewsroom/status/1826479453414850813#m ugh right on schedule. huge salute to these demonstrators I will save my breath about how ineffectual just imitating cold war style activism out of context is

Richard Medhurst on being held up in solitary confinement and facing political persecution for his journalism and political beliefs:
https://xcancel.com/richimedhurst/status/1825663412904288585

In French news, you may recall that the left pulled off a surprise victory, trouncing Macron's party especially but also the right.

That was seven weeks ago, and Macron... has simply ignored the results. He has refused to nominate a new PM, at first saying it should wait until after the Olympics but now just generally slandering the French left. The endgame of this remains to be seen - the left is popular with average people (they won the election, after all), but there's a lot of money and power behind the center and right.

Quick edit: Didn't realize someone beat me to the punch on this one, check out their thread for more discussion

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Politico Europe: French left (Socialist Party) looks to UK Labour as a model for booting out Mélenchon

France’s centrist socialists are eyeing Britain’s experience of how to purge the hard left.

Get ready for some CHOICE QUOTES, people

“By turning the page on Corbyn, British Labour allowed itself to turn the page on right-wing populism. We’re going to do that here,” the French MEP told Le Point, comparing Mélenchon to former British left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn, who opened up years of devastating rifts on the British left.

Mélenchon never ceased from escalating tensions within the already fragile pan-left coalition. Earlier this week, discomfort reached a new peak after Mélenchon called to impeach French President Emmanuel Macron. He has been a divisive on topics ranging from Ukraine to support for Palestinians.

As the traditional left kept losing ground, anti-establishment Mélenchon became unstoppable. The hard leftist, who wants to “disobey” EU treaties and admires former Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez, got over 20 percent of votes in the 2022 presidential election (10 times more than the Socialists) and became the líder máximo of the French left, with his party leading the left-wing coalition in the French parliament. Things started to look slightly brighter for the moderate left this summer, when the Socialists and Glucksmann scored better than Mélenchon’s France Unbowed at the European parliament election.

Mélenchon and Corbyn have much in common, noted Sébastien Maillard, a London-based advisor to the Jacques Delors Institute, citing “their opposition to economic liberalism, their strong support for Palestine and their ambiguity regarding Hamas, their accusations of anti-Semitism, their Euroskepticism.”

The moderate left would like to focus more on economic issues, job policies, and security, in a bid to bring the country together instead of fuelling divisions, Socialist Geoffroy said. “The labourists did it quietly, calmly. They finally broke with the more radical positions and it worked, people trusted them,”

Fucked situation, whoever "is seen as" breaking the coalition is going to get punished by voters for sure though

It has been less than two months since the day when Donald Trump almost ended up behind bars, and the Western left has a new victim - the head of Telegram, Pavel Durov.

-Rybar in English this morning posting about the Telegram founder being arrested.

This is why I love Russian telegram. You just don't get brain worms like these on the western internet. Tbf I had to leave most of them like Intel Slava Z because the brainworms there are too advanced and cause me psychic damage

Mexico's planned judicial reform is 'major risk' to democracy, says US ambassador

The controversial reform, set for a congressional vote in September, proposes that judges, including all Supreme Court justices, be elected by popular vote.

Letting people vote on more stuff is... a risk to democracy

"Direct elections would also make it easier for [...] bad actors to take advantage of politically motivated and inexperienced judges," [U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar] said.

"My investors are concerned, they want stability, they want a judicial system that works if there are problems," [Canadian Ambassador Graeme Clark] said.

You barely even have to read between the lines here...

Ambassadors should be instantly expelled after saying shit like that.

Non western people I have a question. Does "Palestinian people hate your people" propaganda exist in your country too? Such propaganda exists in Turkiye for turks, we all know it exists for lgbt. I wonder if there are other groups that get this propaganda

Some of the sights in the ongoing Arbaeen pilgrimage in Iraq:

I was wrong in my assessment of AOC. A zoomer liberal opened my eyes today. She’s a politician and not an activist! She’s just appealing to the center to “hide her power level.”

So her going on a cocaine-fueled monologue about Biden being a victim is really just her going out of her way to be a politician and not an activist. Because what kind of activist would have the political chops to continue backing Biden right before he drops out?

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During a three-day visit to Beijing, Vietnam's new president, [To] Lam, and Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to strengthen political and economic ties, emphasizing their shared communist ideology. They signed 14 cooperation agreements across various sectors. China remains Vietnam's largest trading partner, with bilateral trade reaching $172 billion in 2023. Lam affirmed Vietnam's support for China's territorial claims, despite historical tensions over the South China Sea.

https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/china-and-vietnam-strengthen-ties-sign-14-agreements-9c76774f

The Liberal Party of Canada is the latest major group to withdraw from the annual Ottawa Pride parade after organizers pledged solidarity with Palestinians in a statement earlier this month. Among several others, including some Children's hospital board, the CHEO. Really putting all the cards on the table.

Venezuelan Supreme Court has issued a final verdict following the review of the July 28 elections. The country's maximum judicial authority ratified Maduro's victory after an "expert review" of electoral material submitted by the CNE, political parties and candidates.

The Venezuelan Superior Court of Justice declared that the minutes presented by the CNE are valid, thus validating the CNE's electoral results.

The OAS and the parties of the unitary platform had already announced that they do not recognize the TSJ as an actor in the dispute, and that therefore any decision of itss would be useless for them.

Maria Corina Machado, opposition leader, posted this a few minutes ago, which has the following connotation: "Supreme Court: here's your victory, Maduro".

Opposition leaders, and several countries in the OAS and around the world, have already said that they will not accept the TSJ's decision as valid.

Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) ruling states that based on results of the expert report, it's concluded that the CNE bulletins are supported by the voting records (actas) issued by the voting machines and fully coincide with records in the databases of the counting centers.

OAS literally has no power in Venezuela, as they are not a member of the OAS lol.

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesman, Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini:

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The enemy should be prepared for precise strikes at the appropriate time.

Today, the zionist regime has admitted defeat, and even American politicians acknowledge this fact, as they have not achieved any of their goals so far.

The people of Iran are intelligent and know that the commanders of the armed forces carefully assess all conditions at the highest decision-making levels, make precise and calculated decisions, and through effective actions, change the enemy's calculations.

Time is on our side, and the wait for this response may be prolonged.

For now, the zionists must remain in a state of imbalance, and must taste the bitterness of waiting for the next Iranian response.

Iran's response may not necessarily be a repeat of past operations. The response scenarios are not uniform, and our commanders have the experience and skill to effectively punish the enemy without rushing into action.

No attack against Iran's objectives has gone unanswered, and the enemy should be prepared for calculated and precise strikes at the appropriate time.

Tehran does not consider US moves sincere; it is a party to the war on Gaza.

Iran supports any move to end the war and help Gazans.

Political developments have nothing to do with our right to respond to "israel."

There it is, folks: stop holding your breath, the response will come when it comes.

British billionaire missing after yachting accident off the coast of Sicily

This comes 2 days after his codefendant in a fraud trial was hit by and car and critically injured

is it bad that I saw this tweet's image and was like "with a bit of cropping, this would make a great hexbear emoji"?:

Demonstrators gathered near the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to protest U.S. aid to Israel amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza. They emphasized that the Democratic Party must earn their votes. A smaller group of pro-Israel supporters advocated for continued U.S. support for Israel's defense. The protests reflect a growing divide in opinions on U.S. foreign policy regarding Israel and Palestine.

https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/protesters-demand-change-in-us-policy-on-israel-17498278

https://www.marchondnc2024.org/

imagine fragging your CO with an iskander

anyone else forget the DNC was happening today?

When Kkkamala said that she wants to make America more lethal, she meant it.

I've seen the critiques of the Non Committed movement for being too nice to the Democrats, but the fact the DNC wouldn't let them give a speech that isn't really radical is definitely something we can use to point out that Harris won't change anything.

The Scottish Government announces that it is suspending all meetings with the Israeli government and its officials until there is "real progress" towards peace in Gaza.

reporting in from twitter: ton of fighting over the dnc protests going on there, opinions ranging from them being "useless fed-work" to "keeping protests inclusive for everyone". curious what newsmegaheads think about the protests. me? more just depressed than anything, we american communists have been fighting about this shit for decades and still haven't figured it out? points to an extreme lack of knowledge being passed down from older marxists to newer marxists. maybe we need to establish a neutral marxist academy or something idk lol

Chicago police arrest dozens of anti-genocide protesters on second night of DNC | The Cradle

DNC putting Bill Clinton on stage in 2024 like

cuck n chad ranking: COTW son edition

A reminder of the rules (which change whenever I want): First row is reserved for UKR vs RUS, because we respect traditions on this website. 2nd and 3rd rows are random, anything can be included here. 4th is just people. I'm doing these once a month these days, enough room to give some new material and I have less free time since lil Hassan spawned.

Gigachad	Chad	Neutral	Beta (Fe)Male	Virgin Cuck
News nerds (us daily Telegram readers are finally vindicated, things are hot again for the first time since 2022)	Putin (downgrade, he took a reputation L with Kursk, but things are going so quick and well on the real front so he's still a chad)	Zaluzhny (he did lots of useless shit as commander-in-chief, but he's vindicated for questioning and refusing to accept some of the current clown show)	Zelensky (little upgrade for our actor, he got some positive coverage for Kursk and got his F-16)	Syrskyi (so stupid and incompetent that he's actually Russia's strongest solider)
Hamas, PIJ, Qassam, PFLP and all resistance groups in Gaza (Allah's bravest soliders)	Hezbollah and Iran (based on paper considering past record, but:	Cuba olympic team (amazing socialist sports program, but sanctions and athletes immigrating and getting bought by rich capitalist nations have decimated this wonderful program)	Bahrain olympic team (buying a bunch of Armenians and Kenyans just to win gold medals, embarrassing)	LargePenis (this person should never make predictions again, he deseves this cuck place until he understands this)
The people of Gaza, especially Yahya Sinwar (bravest people ever)	Ansarallah (undefeated by the great satan and his little cucks, eat shit Saudi Arabia)	Bangladeshi "revolution" (still haven't decoded who's based or not here, but I mostly respect people getting angry and getting out on the streets)	Bernie Sanders (getting more coherent socialist ideas from Theo Von these days)	Lebanese Maronite nationalists (strong competitor to the Iranian diaspora in cucked behavior, imagine wanting your country to get bombed because you don't like Hezbollah and want to speak French like a true comprador cuck)
Ismail Haniyeh (lived an honorable life, and died an honorable death)	Pan Zhanle (record-breaking Chinese swimmer that made the mayos seeth)	Kamala Harris (dems did some competent moves, she sucks but she will win just because she kinda looks normal compared to that freak Trump)	Donald Trump (completely fumbled the easiest election ever, has lost his steam and even his getting shot aura)	Emmanuel Macron (familiar place for this cuck, imagine getting booed at your own olympics lmao)

Rep. Omar: it’s been unconscionable “to witness my colleagues in this administration refusing to recognize the genocidal war that is taking place in Gaza … working tirelessly for a ceasefire is really not a thing and they should be ashamed of themselves”

https://x.com/akela_lacy/status/1826302251113349500

The second part in bold is a sub at AOC, who praised Kamala and the Biden admin for "working tirelessly" towards a ceasefire.

EDIT: Before anyone wants to stan Ilhan too hard:

Who would've thought the political party that was established for the sake of upholding chattel slavery would continue to be shitty centuries later?

Guess what percentage of foreign Thai workers get SA when they work in the Zionist entity:

What's it with Liberals and the need to "Humiliate" foreign adversaries. Putin apparently gets Humiliated everyday because the Russians either did something strategic like pulling out of a death trap or mess up some operation.

And the whole "Saving Face" thing they do with Xi where anything good happening in China is Xi saving face and anything bad is "Humiliating" and him "losing face".

Sucks to suck:
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-vessel-hit-kills-soldier-during-hezbollah-s-response

The killed sergeant and the two injured soldiers were aboard a Dvora-class boat off the northern coast of occupied Palestine near Nahariya when their vessel was struck by shrapnel.

The shrapnel allegedly came from an Iron Dome missile that had attempted to intercept a Hezbollah drone, according to the Israeli occupation army's claim.

Another national Presidential election being disenfranchised and not voting for anyone...

so how long until the CIA uses one of those home-use humanoid robots (backdoored of course) to kill someone they don't like? 10 years max?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-21/ai-chatbot-psychosocial-training-bunbury-regional-prison/104230980

The psychosocial safety training company that used the full name of an alleged sexual harassment victim in a course at her former workplace says artificial intelligence (AI) is to blame.

Psychosocial Leadership trainer Charlotte Ingham said she used Microsoft's Copilot chatbot to generate examples of psychosocial hazards employees might face at Bunbury prison, where she was delivering the course.

Reporters are being briefed, it seems, that the DNC accepted Dem state Rep @Ruwa4Georgia as a Palestinian speaker for tonight on the stage but @uncommittedmvmt turned her down. That is simply not true. It’s a lie. Being told, I assume, by DNC spinners now on the defensive. Uncommitted are the ones who pitched her! And there’s still time for the @DNC to put @Ruwa4Georgia on stage tonight for two mins. If they have time and space for a former Republican congressman, and for Israeli family members of a hostage, they have time and space for an elected Palestinian Democratic lawmaker. Anything else is straight up racism and erasure.

https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/1826735037934698760

Response from Rashida Tlaib:

Oh, also, Peelon is now working with th DNC to censor the Uncommitted twitter account:

I should bait Israeli's into getting mad that Hunter x Hunter is coming back on Oct 7th

A couple of months ago I saw a translated copy of 'journey to the west', the chinese classic about monkey king, on the shelf in the library and picked it up on a whim. I had an idea about the character of monkey king or sun wukong because of other video games but had no idea that black myth was coming out soon. I read this recent translation by julia lovell. The specific translation I picked up was quite abridged compared to a word for word translation (about 350 pages compared to 2000). I really enjoyed it so I'll share some things I learned with the newsheads here. I'm doing my best here to be accurate but I'm not a chinese speaker or reader so I encourage others to correct me.

Though the book was written about 500 years ago, the story of Journey to the West starts about 1500 years ago. A buddhist monk from the tang empire in China, xuanzang, went on a journey to the west to india to study buddhism, retrieve and translate buddhist writings, and generally be a diligent travelling scholar. He made a 15-20 year round trip, brought back a bunch of writings, and wrote a book called 'Records of the Western Regions' about his travels. His book RotWR covers all kinds of non-religious matters - geography, ethnography, local industry/agriculture, manner of government, etc. A little like Herotodus' history without making a bunch of shit up. Anyway, xuanzang brought all this scholarly work back, the Tang emperor offered him high civil honours but he declined, deciding to stay in the monastery, translating texts and doing effort posts about buddhism.

Xuanzang was rightly lauded and his travels were remembered as folk tales over the next few hundred years. I get the impression that while Wu Cheng'en wrote down the 'definitive copy' of all the stories about Xuanzang, the stories had been floating around in the zeitgeist for the past thousand years. in that time, the figure of xuanzang grew larger than life and his stories became one of a traveling troupe of himself the monk and various monstrous companions on a path of redemption, monkey king among them, as well as a big river monster, a flying, gluttonous pig, and a disgraced failson who was turned into a horse.

There's three main parts of the overall monkey king story - the first part is about monkey on earth doing shenanigans, getting in trouble with heaven, and then devouring/stealing all kinds of heavenly objects, effectively gaining him superpowers. The second part is about the monk xuanzang getting selected to go west by the tang emperor and the buddhist figure guanyin, and the third part is the majority, xuanzang getting together with monkey and the others and going on adventures across the land. There's a short epilogue where they eventually all make it back with buddhist teachings and are rewarded with appropriate roles in the heavenly court. Most of the story is the journey, taking the form of short, episodic adventures in different places, most of which involve demons trying to eat one or more of the characters and them escaping through monkey's wit and warrior wisdom.

I enjoyed the book on a few levels. First, it's funny. There's a ton of satire of bureaucracy of all sorts, in heaven, on earth, and in the underworld. Monkey is irreverent and brash and shits on many people, often literally. Second, it's got endless fights and encounters with crazy monsters. It's easy to see the influence of the book on shows like dragonball Z or avatar the last airbender. I can see why it would be a fun concept to turn into a game. A bit deeper than that, the group of companions collectively are an allegory for different human feelings. Xuanzang the monk is morally upright but rigidly so, and often a coward. Monkey is selfish and arrogant but also has a heart. The pig is lazy and loves treats, while the river monster is pretty chill and goes along to get along. Together they remind me of how the cast of star trek TNG collectively represent different aspects of human personality and experience, navigating challenges as an integrated whole that is not without conflict.

Anyway A++ would culturally enrich myself again

New Eli Valley dropped

The N/T ratio for last week's megathreads landed at about 0.75. Week over week the news megathread has been decelerating. At this rate I expect we'll reach the end of history in 3 to 4 weeks.

(cw: discussion of a twitter video showing death, gore) soooooo there's a recent video on twitter of the most recent zionist school massacre bombing going around of a Palestinian father holding his kid and his kid's head is like, flopping open and mostly gone and it's uhhh I think I'm gonna be sick death to america.

Lemmy and Reddit libs are some of the saddest people I’ve come across. I’ll make a passive comment giving a “bad country of the week” some props and the replies will be filled with frothing Americans and some Euros. They love making emojis to show me how not mad they are.

I then click on their profiles and it’s nothing but obsessive posting about Russia, China, and every other bad country. Several comments made in the last hour alone and it goes on and on.

Like even I don’t spend that much time ranting about liberals or the US but I can tell these guys do nothing but that even irl.

On this occasion I would like to recommend Pedagogy of the Oppressed for the COTW reading list.

Especially if you are a teacher. There are great passages about the humanization of children and other oppressed groups and it makes you think of your class as something like a Maoist guerrilla cell, which can only be a good thing.

the betting markets are swinging back toward Trump:

https://electionbettingodds.com/

did the convention go badly or something?

One thing I don't get is how Argentina is still standing as a country. I've read the UNICEF reports about kids being forced to skip meals and adults having to sell off their insurance and valuables. But really, forget Iran's measured response, how tf is Milei still standing after months of pulling copper wire out the walls.

It really proves that if you are backed by the US the military won't fuck with you. Bangladesh was 100% a color revolution and Sheikh Hasina would still be in power if she acquiesced to US demands.

Currently watching the DNC with my MSNBC in-laws. I love them to death but dear god libs man. I have no clue how people don't just have disdain for Obama, Biden, et.al.

From Al-Jazeera Live Updates:

Why is Israel demanding to keep control of the Netzarim Corridor?

The Netzarim Corridor, a 7km (4.4-mile) stretch established by the Israeli military that divides northern and southern Gaza, has become a major point of contention in ceasefire negotiations.

Israel is now insisting that its forces maintain control over this corridor, directly opposing one of Hamas’s central demands — Israel’s complete withdrawal from Gaza.

Hassan Barari, a professor of international affairs at Qatar University, told Al Jazeera that control of the corridor is crucial for Israel because it allows it to screen any Palestinians moving from south to north.

Israel’s military fears that if Palestinians are able to move freely to the north, “it would be an opportunity for Hamas to regroup and attack Israel”, said Barari. “The memory of October 7 is still there.”

However, Barari stated that by including this stipulation in ceasefire demands, Israel is negotiating in bad faith, knowing it is a non-starter for Hamas.

“Hamas wants Israel’s full withdrawal from the entire Strip … and to make sure those who are displaced can return to their homes once and for all,” he said. “Anything short of that Hamas would interpret as a kind of capitulation.”

Further evidence that Israel wants to turn Gaza into the West Bank.

Found a guy irl who is Vote Blue No Matter Who, but also supports the Palestinian Armed Resistance

I take it Kamala's speech last night was really bad huh?

Subjected myself to MSNBC in the car on my ride home... the fawning over Kamala is so fucking pathetic. Literally talking about "vibes" and how Kamala represent "a new generation" (she's three years younger than Ocrumbo!).

Nothing ever happens gang rn

Trump calling bibi asking him to not make a deal on the ceasefire (even though it sucked to begin with) is actually a perfect escape-goat for the Dems to not actually deliver on a ceasefire for their base that might actually be on the fence about voting for Kamala. Harris campaign can go the rest of the year saying “oh yeah we are pushing for a ceasefire deal! All the way through November then when they get the votes they can just forget like nothing ever happened and it’s back to business as usual. Then people will forget all about Gaza in 4 years time which is perfect for the dems to ramp up false promises again and just attach them all to Michelle Obama. People will love it

Lmao they put glass behind him too just in case his own supporters shoot him

Michelle Obama doing a DNC speech like she's definitely never planning a presidential run

Https://youtube.com/watch?v=YgJBFBwRXvc&

Amazing how she's older than Kamala by a year but still seems 20 years younger

This thread of David Cross making fun of one of the Pod Johns on their own show is

https://x.com/Edward__Bernays/status/1815974647793435040

You know what? My critical support for Iran is now dropping because the US has evolved passed Spongebob and Spiderman and now has heroes - Kamala Harris and Charli XCX - yet they have not struck them with a drone missile.

New investigation claims that the UK funded much of the equipment used in the Kursk incursion in an effort to encourage other NATO members to also escalate their roles in the war.
This seems to have backfired as the incursion was predictably unsuccessful (except perhaps on the PR front), and the US is denying any role in the attack or even any foreknowledge of its occurrence.

Sir Der Sturmer planning to make a speech on Tuesday where he blames the recent race riots on genuine concerns that society was left broken and a lack of prison places.

I’m sure that will solve it. Can’t see this as anything other than as a bullhorn loud dog whistle that it is time to crack down on minorities. Asbo back with a vengeance.