Image, sourced from this article, is of George Bush in 2002 meeting with María Corina Machado, who was even then being trained as a figure to oppose Venezuelan socialism, and very briefly succeeded with the Carmona Decree. Now the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, she has begged the Zionist entity to drop bombs on the Venezuelan people.
As of me writing these sentences, it appears that the ceasefire in Gaza is underway. Zionist ceasefires are, of course, an oxymoron - not only in the grand sense that their work to continue genocidal atrocities against others locally and regionally will not cease until the Zionist entity’s occupation of Palestine is overthrown and Palestinians can resume the governance of their territory - but also in the literal sense; that bombings and shootings are often only merely reduced, and rarely cease entirely (as was/is the case on their northern border with Lebanon). Nonetheless, hopefully the population can receive some aid, and the long process of rebuilding can begin.
On the other side of the world, it seems increasingly likely that a new war is set to begin. Because the US is eschewing the usual process of generating pro-war propaganda and casus bellis (aside from a laughably transparent Nobel Peace Prize award) and seems content to just skip straight to the “bomb and depose” step, it’s quite hard to predict what precisely they want to do. Anything seems to be on the table - from freely striking Venezuelan territory where “drug dealers” are to try and prompt a Venezuelan response, to assassinating Maduro and/or his generals and hoping a power vacuum can be filled with compradors, to attempting to outright invade Venezuela and establish direct American control over important government sites. All appear to be possibilities, though as of right now, the most drastic measures seem unlikely due to their difficulty.
We know that the US has almost totally abandoned diplomatic communication with Venezuela, and that the US has deployed warships, a nuclear submarine, F-35s, surveillance planes, and at least 4,000 military personnel to the Caribbean, with some sources putting the numbers higher. Some people have suggested that the point is to try and force Maduro into a situation where he must begin hostilities, or be seen as weak and perhaps overthrown from within. It is at least encouraging that Maduro is not like Allende in Chile, and is taking this situation extraordinarily seriously; the masses are being trained and mobilized in the event of an invasion, and military drills are ongoing. Venezuela has no real capacity to stop the US from attacking and bombing them, but it is much more possible to prevent a West-friendly puppet from gaining meaningful control of the country. A comprador might be able to make a brief statement or decree in a Venezuelan city saying that Chavismo is over, but actual power will hopefully prove very elusive.
2020, and particularly 2022, has clearly become a turning point for the Western imperial system, in which increasingly aggressive and reckless moves are required to keep the system functional (stability is, at this point, out of the question). Unfortunately, this has also resulted in the deaths of many long-lasting, inspiring figures, such as Nasrallah, and many more will certainly die before the empire collapses. If Maduro is assassinated - and I’m having trouble imagining how he won’t be doggedly pursued in the days. weeks, and months to come - I have hope that a successor will rise to continue to lead the Bolivarian Revolution.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
There’s some reporting going around that Abu Obeida is dead, any truth to that?
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5518 This HR 5518 bill passes and it allows US law enforcement to operate more freely on Canadian soil
Vassal status affirmed
Portugal local election roundup: read my previous post about it here, and about the broader dire situation in portugal after last may’s election hereThe big winner was the ruling center-right PSD and its coalition partner CDS, the right has, in all its coalitions combined, taken the center-left socialist party PS’ spot as the party with the most mayorships and won in the biggest 5 cities, another confirmation of the right-wing shift in Portugal that we witnessed pretty dramatically in May’s legislative elections. The PS with 30% lost but not majorly, which to them is a win since at the legislative level they basically tied with the far-right CH but retained their heavy presence at the local level and they also took, for the first time, a couple of long-held PSD bastions that the PSD had never lost. The far-right CH got 3th with 11% and ONLY 3 mayorships, which is far more than they gained last time but really nothing special for a party that tied with the socialists at the national level and that constantly brags about having broken the 2-party system. As expected the communist party’s coalition dropped to 4th place with 5.2% and 300k votes, which is more than we got in May’s legislative elections which was expected, and we got 12 mayorships, 6 of them with absolute majorities, which is more than the far-right, but this is down from 2021’s 8% when we got 400k votes. The coalitions of the post-trot demsoc BE with the green eurocuck L and the animalist PAN barely helped those parties in trying to matter at the local level, and honestly if the people who voted for them had voted for the communists we would’ve taken a lot more mayorships from the PS and the right.
We lost our biggest mayorship, city of Setubal, by a pretty huge margin but that was a complicated scenario with a former communist mayor that split from the party due to her being investigated for corruption running as an independent backed by the PSD, and apparently when she WAS with us she did a good job in the mayorship so people still support her. We also squarely lost Evora in the interior even though one of our best guys was the candidate. The one that personally hurts the most was losing Santiago do Cacem by less than 60 votes to an anti-communist coalition of the PS/PSD/CDS/IL that mascaraed as an “independent citizens movement”, which really should be illegal to do since almost everyone in the “movement’s” lists were from parties, the locality was governed by us for 50 years and it shows, positively, but it’s a little solace that the anti-communist forces had to resort to such an underhanded stratagem to beat us. It’s also dramatic how we’ve seemingly lost the little footing we had in the north of the country, a very conservative region where even the 1974 revolution barely changed things.
However we held on to quite a few of our other bastions and significant mayorships, and one of the most surprising events was regaining from the PS the increasingly important port city of Sines which we hadn’t governed for 20 years, and looking at some results there were a lot of places where we lost or didn’t gain the mayorship by numbers in the low 100s.
12 mayorships and 93 electeds to juntas all in different districts, at the time where the country has CLEARLY shifted rightwards, with local elections being far more crowded than they used to be with the far-right now being a valid option to vote for and a non-communist “left coalition” always available for anti-communist leftists that also don’t want to vote for the PS, and all this with the specter of the communist party’s anti-nato position on the Ukraine war which a lot of people still don’t shut the fuck up about, all in all, it was not a terrible results, I just feel personally shitty because of Santiago like I mentioned.
For us it was a familiar night, similar to the last few elections, not a strong WIN to reward us for our hard work (which really matters in local elections), but also not the blowout LOST that would politically extinguish portuguese communism that the media keeps trying to manifest into reality (there were polls that showed us winning 0 mayors lol), it’s another light to moderate lost that adds to the downward trajectory of portuguese working class politics however one where we still hold on to plenty of positions from which we can grow again (which hasn’t happened in a while) maybe when times are better, we’re still in a time of resistance and our weakening position in the country reflects both the state of organized labour and the shifting political identities in portugal (no one wants to be a communist anymore when they have so many other less controversial choices, like “green europeanist”).Speaking of spoilers in the capital Lisbon the communist party outperformed all polls and is set to tie for 3rd place with 10% with the far right, by less than 11 votes, with just 11 more votes we’d have taken a council member from the far-right. And as I explained before, the communists sat out of the broad “left coalition” that included the PS and every other left parties, and all throughout we’ve face accusations of wanting to spoil the PS’ win against the right-wing mayor. Well they can eat my ass because that coalition lost but clearly not because of the communists, the communists got basically the same votes as 2021, around 26k, while all the parties in that coalition summed together lost 15k votes and only got 33% losing to the incumbent right-wing 41%. The fact that the communists didn’t really gain much while the left coalitions lost votes just proves these coalitions are not just exercises of sum and addition and that if the PS wanted to win the mayorship and the support of the communist party all it needed was to not suck ass.
Next are the presidential elections in 2026, where the 3 contenders are a non-party frontrunner from the marine who was the guy that organized the covid vaccine distribution, the far-right guy, the center-right. There is a centrist to right-wing socialist party candidate that is demanding the rest of the left vote for him to stop the right, even though he’s not even backed by his own party, the demosoc lady in the european party and one of the more respected guys from the communist party, one of our guys that gets people to say “oh he’s really good…if only he wasn’t a communist”. Well, the struggle continues.
What do the demographics look like between the average communist voter and average chega voter? I’ve been wondering who that shithole party actually appeals to and why
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will cut hundreds of jobs this week as part of a workforce restructuring plan, JPL Director Dave Gallagher announced:
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/nasa-jet-propulsion-lab-to-lay-off-hundredsIt was so inspiring as a kid thinking that in 30 years we’d send humans to mars, and have soil return missions, and probably send probes to all the moons that might have life, and probably return to the moon in some capacity
Sucks that children can’t have that anymore
The collapse of the Soviet Union was a disaster of unimaginable magnitude.
Hope some of them know some Chinese.
It’s JPL, pretty sure that’s the new immigrant exploitation wing of NASA because NASA only hires citizens. Half of them probably are Chinese.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko, Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov, and other delegates are heading to Washington DC, USA this Friday, to discuss (with government officials, energy and most notably US defence companies) “air defense and our long-range capabilities aimed at exerting pressure on Russia for the sake of peace.” In other words, Tomahawk cruise missiles. (And potentially other weapons, but Tomahawk will be the main discussion point due to it’s unmatched range of over 1600km/1000mi)
Co-incidentally today, Oshkosh has revealed a Ground-Based Tomahawk Launcher, called X-MAV, that can launch 4 Tomahawk BGM-109 cruise missiles per truck.
Two points here: This illustrates that it’s not a significant engineering challenge for the US military industrial complex to mount 4 launch cells to a truck, trailer or shipping container; even if Ukraine doesn’t get X-MAV, there are alternatives. Secondly: 4 cruise missiles per ground launch vehicle is actually a lot in the context of the Ukraine - Russia war. 1 Russian Tu-95 bomber can carry 8 Kh-101 cruise missiles maximum (all externally), and 1 Russian missile corvette in the Black Sea can launch 8 Kalibr cruise missiles. So you only need two trucks/trailers/containers to match the maximum loadout of a Russian Tu-95 bomber or warship. Three to match a Tu-160 bomber, which carries 12 Kh-101 internally (rarely used). Obviously strategic bombers and missile corvettes have a much wider use case outside of the constraints of the Ukraine-Russia war, but in the context of this war, you only need 2 trucks to match one’s combat capabilities.
The threat these advanced low flying cruise missiles is significant. This is a completely different threat to the crude Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo or even Ukraine’s upgraded Kh-35/Neptune cruise missiles (the latter have caused significant losses, most notably the sinking of the Moskva), which is why Ukraine wants them so badly, and why Russia is quite concerned.
To defend Moscow from all angles against Tomahawks and the AGM-86, the USSR in the 1980s calculated that they would need a ring of 56 S-300P batteries, (That’s 168 launch vehicles, 672 surface to air missiles, 56 fire control radars, 56 low altitude surveillance radars, 14 command posts and 14 long range surveillance radars). Accompanied by mobile Tor air defence systems, and the inclusion of look down-shoot down capability in the radar of the MiG-31 (MiG-25 did not have this) to “thin the herd” of cruise missiles beforehand. And this was just to defend Moscow, which still has an impressive air defence ring to this day. Obviously not every facility can have such protection. While Russia did manage to shoot down Tomahawks over Syria, the actual number was insignificant. Now air defence systems have advanced significantly since the 1980s, and Russia is vastly more defended than Syria. But if (big if) Ukraine gets Tomahawks, some will get through and hit targets, just like ATACMS and Strom Shadow/SCALP-EG previously. And mission planning will be done by or heavily assisted by US military staff. Russia will probably respond with more actions towards Europe if this happens.
Interesting. US military Tomahawk operators and maintainers are required to have a Top Secret clearance, so it would absolutely be US troops doing everything up to pushing the “Fire” button
Pretty much. Which is why it’s such a big deal.
Nuclear-capable US-satellite-guided terrain-hugging super-long-range cruise missiles. I mean, where else would you draw a red line? My jaw will drop if this does come to pass.
It would be probably the most significant geopolitical escalation in modern history, surpassing even the Cuban Missile Crisis, in my opinion.
Modern variants of the BGM-109 haven’t been nuclear capable for over a decade. There’s zero chance Ukraine gets nuclear armed Tomahawks. Russia fires conventional Kh-101s, Kinzhals and Iskander-Ms at Ukraine (which all have nuclear capable variants currently in service) weekly. I think all the talk of nuclear capable missiles is completely overblown on both sides.
The real big thing Tomahawks offer in navigation is Digital Scene Matching Area Correlator (DSMAC) and Terrain Contour Matching (TERCOM) navigation. The first Tomahawks were operational before GPS/satellite navigation was, and relied on this to navigate. DSMAC compares images from its optical sensors with those stored in memory, taken from spy satellites and converted to the perspective of a low flying cruise missile. TERCOM uses an altimeter to measure the altitude of the missile and compared it to stored topographical data. Modern Tomahawk variants combine this with satellite navigation, and this is why these missiles can be accurate in GPS denied environments, and can hug the terrain very effectively. It’s also why US military assets will be very involved in any potential mission planning. This is the big issue that can’t be ignored. Who is actually firing the missiles, if all the mission planning is done by the United States?
Modern Tomahawks probably can do “GPS only” missions, so that’s an option, but I doubt that it would be used in such a scenario.
Firing standoff weapons provided by a third party against a nuclear armed nation happened earlier this year, India fired plenty of Israeli and French/British made missiles at Pakistan, and hit plenty of targets. Pakistan fired a few Chinese made missiles at India, didn’t hit much in comparison. (This is about ground targets, Pakistan shot down a number of Indian fighter aircraft). The stability-instability paradox may no longer be relevant with such modern weapons. States may be perfectly fine with firing conventionally armed standoff weapons directly against a nuclear power and escalating despite the risk of nuclear conflict. Iran did so twice towards Israel last year, but backed down after Israeli attacks in response. “Standoff wars” may be a new variable that hasn’t been accounted for adequately in doctrine and statecraft.
*Turkish Missile Crisis
So what will Russia respond with? Nukes? Are we all gonna die? 0.0
Highly doubt any nuclear response. Escalation against Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania, or one way attack drones/cruise missiles towards Poland? Maybe. Russia has already flown MiG 31s in Estonian airspace and flown drones made of styrofoam with no warhead over Poland.
There are still many escalation options short of nuclear weapons. In that case of nuclear escalation it could be a tactical nuke in a non-NATO country. Make some tea you’re going to sit through much more of this
This seems like a massive escalation for no advantage that opens up a lot of risk of Russia flattening significant portions of western Ukraine in retaliation.
The advantage would be hitting key manufacturing sites, and all of these actions must be seen in the context of threat reduction both in Ukraine and a hypothetical NATO-Russia land war in Europe, as this is what NATO is thinking. Ukraine is not going to waste Tomahawks on random sheds in Russia (like the US does in the Middle East). For instance, the “target” that there’s a lot of noise about is the Alabuga Geran/Shahed one way attack drone manufacturing facility in Tatarstan. Destroying that would put a large dent in Russia’s drone production, reducing the amount of one way attack drones in over Ukraine, and the size of the stockpile Russia can build up against Europe (in theory). Apply the same theory to missile production, air defence production, fighter jets, etc. This is what NATO planners are thinking about. To bring Russia to the “negotiation table”. They know Ukraine is unlikely to take back ground currently, so this is the card they might play.
As for a hypothetical Russian response, what was Russia’s response to having over 10 Tu-95 and Tu-22M3 bombers being destroyed? That was a big attack by Ukraine. Russia doesn’t have air superiority over western or central Ukraine, launching attacks require on that part of Ukraine requires one way attack drones, cruise and ballistic missiles. Standoff weapons. Russia has been carrying out such attacks for over three years, a big one usually involves hundreds of one way attack drones and dozens of cruise and ballistic missiles. Russia can’t turn Lviv or Kiev into 2022 Mariupol. The Russian ability to respond directly to Ukraine is limited. Which is why I think that they’ll look to respond outside of Ukraine if they respond, there are more options available.
will russia strike their plane over atlantic or continue cuck any% run 🤔
If decapitation strikes won wars then there wouldn’t be any wars.
they do certainly help, and usa pursues them for some reason
As does Israel. Certainly slowed down Hezbollah and Iran for a bit there.
I think such a move would be largely symbolic and such moves are avoided by both sides for good reason, they don’t want to open “Pandora’s box” of civil leadership strikes. Zelenskyy is not going to push the big red button to launch the missiles cold war movie style, and the chances of him being replaced by a pro Russian leader are slim to none in the event he’s assassinated by Russia. If anything, Ukraine would be even more anti Russia and such a move would fail to establish deterrence.
(a) he absolutely would lmao, and the feasibility of that is approaching (b) the networks of corruption run through yermak, by all ukrainian accounts, that would take time to reestablish © that implies ukrainians like z-man, they don’t (d) ukraine, even now, operates as a state, with some laws and procedures still applying, especially as related to mobilization.
Eurovision Song Contest organiser calls off Israel vote
Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer vote on Israel’s participation in the competition following Middle East “developments”, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) says.
Eurovision has faced controversy linked to Israel’s war on Gaza, and several countries pledged to withdraw from the event if Israeli contestants took part.
“The Board agreed to put the issue on the agenda of its ordinary Winter General Assembly, which will be taking place in December,” instead of the extraordinary meeting that had been slated to take place online in November, an EBU statement said.
Whatever fate europeans end up inflicting on themselves, they deserve worse.
Europe is basically saying that if the Nazis in 1943 said: “That is enough for now, lets give this war business a rest for a while”, that would be perfectly acceptable.
unlimited strikes on Brussels
I hope Austria crashes and burns even further that would make Switzerland look like a joke
Critical support for the Hague invasion act
mr. amoc, time to stop
Leaders of Egypt, Qatar, Turkiye and US sign Gaza deal
Strange, I feel like there’s an important name missing from this list, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
Albania will not stand for this exclusion
Dua Lipa is being deployed to Egypt for a tactical humanitarian retaliatory strike AS WE SPEAK.
Republican House weirdo Mike Johnson is still keeping the House in recess and saying that the Dems in the Senate should pass his “clean” funding bill. At least for now, extending extra extra ACA subsidies is still not on the table, as Republicans still believe that the Dems will surrender.
Maybe I’m very late to this and maybe what I’m about to say is obvious, but has anyone else been thinking that the massive mobilization of ICE is a way for the state to integrate the fascist gangs/militias/paramilitaries like Proud Boys, Patriot Front, et al. into the security services in a similar manner to what happened in Ukraine with their fascist groups? They’re obviously the “target audience” for the recruitment drives and it feels like we haven’t heard from those groups in some time, especially since you’d expect them to show up in defence of ICE at the counter-ICE rallies. It’s also possible that these people could move “laterally” into other agencies once they have their foot in the door via ICE mass recruitment, then we’d really be seeing something similar to Ukraine. Just some things I’ve been thinking about after watching this translated documentary about Ukraine’s “decentralized totalitarianism” (the author disparages the original use of the term to conflate fascism and communism, but he feels it’s descriptive in a post-Maidan context) and how every imperialist frontier is a labratory for the future, and was curious about what the newsmega crowd thought.
I’m certain they’re going to use ICE to patrol polling stations to “stop illegals from voting” i.e. stop non-white people from voting.
Of course! Both israel and especially ukraine are blueprints of the re-fascisization of western society and measures of social control
we’ve long been saying it. We’re not making Ukraine “more democratic”. Ukraine is making us more explicitly fascist. The ukrainification of Europe is well underway
LMAO at the idea that Ukraine is making the US more fascist. Its like saying the Polish made Nazi Germany more fascist. Ukraine is a testbed for US (and European) fascism.
It makes sense if you agree with Aimé Césaire’s argument that fascism is colonialism turned inwards to the metropole.
What the empire does in Ukraine it will do to itself soon enough
The American populace is not even 50% as fascist as the Ukrainian populace. We have a ton of people of color here, immigrants, urban populace that hates the government but can’t do anything about it. Ukraine doesn’t have any of that. Everybody who was anti-Nazi left years ago, either to Russia or to Europe.
To be clear, this is mostly the fault of American psychological operations, propaganda and the putting into power rightwing elements in Ukraine. It’s not something unique to the Ukrainian character, just a reality of Operation Aerodynamic and the Maidan. It’s more acute there, but ultimately, they are a pawn of the real imperialists.
Ironic how so many did deny the danger Ukraine poses.
why do you care so much about the “nazis” that’s just Putin propaganda
We care because they don’t. The very fact of them being willing to overlook nazism for political expediency is a major red flag and warning. We care because those nazis will get infinite good press, weaponry, training and funds and freedom to set up their own drug and trafficking networks throughout europe. We care because their nazism will corrupt the supporters of it.
Agreed, the moment I realized that yeah libs weren’t immediately turned off associating with azov nazis, was the moment I knew fascism is locked in now.
how every imperialist frontier is a labratory for the future
It truly is except USAmericans have no Russia to denazify them by force. I do believe that Trump will be the vehicle for the ruling class to obtain their domestic fascist militias in preparation for the mass climate change migration (the current migratory corridors will look minuscule compared to 5-20 years down the line). Once the fascist thugs become part of the American civil society it will be impossible for any progressive reformer from within the system to take them out.
To add to that. I do think that the american ruling elite is preparing to get rid of its „sickly“ „excess“ population and reduce wages.
100%. The massive mobilization of ICE, its giant budget, etc, is a way for Trump and co to have a fascist paramilitary arm operating directly under the purview of the executive, without all the strings attached with going through the FBI or the DoD or CIA. ICE are basically the Brownshirts, the internal police force answerable directly to the executive, given broad and vague powers and vast hardware to directly carry out their will.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Up to 700 people attend pro-Palestine protest in Tallinn, Estonia
The protest comes as Estonian support for Palestine finally exceeds that of Israel.
11/10/25
On the weekend, hundreds of people marched in the capital of Estonia. The protest was titled “Wake up, Estonia – a genocide is taking place in Gaza!”, with its primary demands being the immediate recognition of the Palestinian state and the genocide in Gaza. The protest was organised by the Noorte Palestiina Liikumine (Youth Palestine Movement) and Palestonia, with a significant Noorsots (Young Socialists, youth wing of the Social-Democrats) presence.
The protestors marched from Freedom Square through the old town and then to the Riigikogu (parliament). An Estonian rendition of Bella Ciao was performed right in the centre of the old town.
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Photo: protestors heading towards the Riigikogu
The protest coincided with a poll by the Estonian public research institute, Ühiskonnauuringute Instituut, which showed around 18% of Estonians support Palestine compared to the 16% that support the Israelis, though 44% of people preferred Estonia not take a side and 22% simply didn’t know. In October 2023, support for Palestine was around 5% and 29% for Israel, meaning support for Palestine has more than tripled increasing by more than 13 points while support for Israel has more than halved, decreasing by the same amount, 13 points.
The results are as follows:
Support Palestine – 18% [+13%]
Support Israel – 16% [-13%]
Support neither – 44% [+6%]
Don’t know – 22% [-7%]
The poll also showed support for the recognition of the Palestinian state among Estonians being 34%, compared to 32% being in opposition and 35% not knowing. The highest backing for the recognition of Palestine was found among Social-Democrats and Centre Party supporters, 51% and 47% respectively, while the highest opposition to a recognition being among Rightwingers (name of a party), Fatherland and EKRE.
The protest comes as Estonian support for Palestine finally exceeds that of Israel.
Nazi country finally decides it has enough of this particular genocide.
The Soviet legacy still exists in Estonia even if it’s suppressed by fascists. Like Disco Elysium literally came out of Estonia.
eeeeeehhhh maybe? like yeah, they’re communist, and its a communist game, but they’re more specifically post-soviet communists, euro-communists, the kind that still loves zizek, i can’t speak for all of the core members, but at the very least Hindpere and Luiga seem to disavow the Soviet Union or are at best soviet-critical. If anything, its the Estonian-ness that shines through them despite the communism. very odd
(ps. you’re going to have to believe me on the luiga one because i couldnt find that one time he retweeted some stuff about ‘‘soviet colonization’’ or whatever because the man is insane and posts like his life depended on it)
Sadly it’s mostly on ethnic lines. The Russian minority is a lot more progressive on these kinds of issues. The Centre Party which is seen as a “Russian party” for not outright being hostile to Russians in Estonia, is the second most pro-Palestinian party despite being pretty conservative on most other topics. 60% of Russians in Estonia regret the fall of the Soviet Union, 50% think Stalin did more good than bad. This is mostly due to the fact that to some extent, a fairly large portion of the ethnic Estonian population benefited from the collapse. The Russians who worked mostly in the industrial sector, experienced the brunt of the collapse and deindustrialization.
That’s 3.5% of Estonia’s population
wait how come esti skirted by recognition of palestine? or did they de-recognize it?
They didn’t reaffirm their recognition inherited from the soviet union. All three Baltic chihuahuas of course did growl the loudest at the empire’s to demonstrate their loyalty the moment they became independent.
40% of employees are reporting wasting an average of 2 hours at a time cleaning up AI-generated workslop, per CNN
This isn’t just annoying for whoever’s receiving the workslop — it actually costs companies money. Employees reported spending an average of nearly two hours dealing with each instance of workslop. Researchers calculated, based on participants’ self-reported salaries, that these incidents amount to an “invisible tax” of $186 per month. For a company with 10,000 people, they estimated workslop costs more than $9 million a year in lost productivity.
Confirming. This is ruining my life. I hate it. I have to look over other people’s work and the second I can tell it’s written with AI my day is ruined. It saved them an hour of writing at the cost of my two hours of reviewing and climatological devastation. Deeply stupid bullshit to be doing, especially in the environmental field
Same, but in fucking railway safety shit
Just sanction them, I don’t think the Dutch economy is surviving sanctions from China.
the end of white supremacist hegemony can’t come soon enough, these people need to be humiliated
China has perpetrated the first genocide that created no physical evidence. Everywhere else people are still dealing with the pesky problems of easily discovered mass graves.
The way they pretend to have learned not to oppress people after colonialism ended while still benefitting from neocolonialism will always infuriate me.
the end of white supremacist hegemony can’t come soon enough, these people need to be humiliated
These are the same people crying about “white genocide” btw.
Wish their whining about it would speak it into existence. Crakkkers when their people don’t want to have 3+ kids anymore: “this is literally genocide btw”
-sorry, johnny, the west have not extracted enough surplus value this year, the christmas is cancelled. - fuck the global south.
(some tweet)
God I fucking hate whites. Unlimited genocide on the first world. Death to europe.
Pale architect of your own delusion: the gilded spires of your so called civilization rise not from virtue, but from the marrow of slaughtered nations, the blood of stolen lands, and the silent screams of those your ancestors deemed unworthy of breath. Your banks? They are temples to a greed older than your republic vaults lined with the bones of the dispossessed. Your “free trade”? A velvet noose, draped in the language of liberty while strangling the life from continents you carved like spoils. Do not prattle to me or to any who have gazed into the abyss of history about morality while your hands drip with the legacy of empire. You cloak your plunder in hymns of democracy, yet your foundations tremble with the weight of unburied ghosts. And now you dare point fingers across oceans, as if your ledger were clean? China, or any power that rises in your shadow, need not your hollow sermons. Turn your gaze inward, little man. Confront the specters in your own halls. The oppressed, the erased, the living echoes of your conquests. Only then might you shed your nursery tales of innocence and glimpse the world as it truly is: not a fairy tale, but a feeding ground. And when you finally stop humming lullabies to drown out the truth… perhaps you’ll be ready to speak as an adult and not a child clutching a flag stitched from lies.
Pale architect of your own delusion
New anti-white slur just dropped.
damn son, where’d you find this?
Training a LLM on my PC with legacy of kain protagonist called razeal
And if China cuts off rare earth metals to em this will further hurt several industries… Including the very chip company you just seized
Nationalization? Oh no! Communism!
@WhyEssEff@hexbear.net can we get the expropriese button
seconded
The not-Nobel prize in economics was awarded to - as far as I can tell - three turbo neoliberals. From what I can quickly gather, their work is centered on how “creative destruction” makes everyone better off. A lot of claptrap about how much wealthier “we” are than compared to past centuries. All keeping in line with the massive western chauvinism of the award, because while the western world is better off, plenty of data shows most folks in the global south outside of China and Vietnam (I.e. those who suffer under capitalist, post-colonial hegemony) are most definitely NOT better off.
This and the Nobel peace prize really makes it feel like the European elites are trying to double down on neoliberalism while it’s getting slowly dismantled by forces both internal and external.
It was about muh „innovation“ rising due to „a society openness to change“, typical word salad to reaffirm EU policyslop.
I glanced at a few articles and bios, and the whole premise was very “some cultures are just so much more predisposed to being more innovative” couched in academic terms.
I’ve seen a few stories of this nature lately, seems like Russia has disconnected the znpp from the ukrainian power grid
I suspect they will reconnect it to the Russian grid at some point as it is dangerous to have only local power available for cooling
Gotta take stories like this coming from Ukrainian propaganda outlets with a huge grain of salt. It’s just as likely that Ukraine disconnected it.
I doubt it considering that Russia has started destroying Ukrainian energy infrastructure in retaliation. Makes zero sense to give them free energy right now.
This seems like a big invitation to Ukraine and random rogue groups to try and destroy its backup generators and cause an international nuclear incident in the hopes that this galvanizes Ukrainian allies to send troops to Ukraine. Bad decision.
Its not like they havent been trying to sabotage it for years at this point
Destroying the ZNPP is perfect for Ukraine. Russia probably won’t nuke them for blowing up a NPP in annexed territory and western media will just blame Russia anyways.
True. It also kills off “russians” aka Ukrainians not aligned with the west, so they jump at that chance.
He is more self-aware than most rightwingers;
TRUMP: " I think I’m not maybe heaven bound … I’m not sure I’m gonna be able to make heaven."
This could have been an amazing line for a villain in a spaghetti western once he’d been mortally wounded.
I’m thinking of, like, the white evangelical who reacts very emotionally to this like “Nnooooooo mr trump you’re a great person you’ll make it to heaven”
They’re not emotional because they think good people go to heaven, they’re emotional because their most fundamental belief is that every nominal Christian goes to heaven no matter how rancid a piece of shit they are. The idea that the kind of life a person chooses to live could result in them not going to heaven is a direct threat to Evangelicals’ belief in their own salvation.
Send $30 to gofundme.com/savetrump to send our savior to heaven
I fear he thinks it because he failed israhell
You must be an optimist to think trump has any awareness of his own failures
