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3-4 more hurricanes gonna hit back to back. Giant toxic chemical clouds in Georgia. A protracted labor battle at the ports.

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[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 9 points 1 hour ago

Also Israel bout to get its shit kicked in and maybe start wwIII

[–] HumanAnarchist@hexbear.net 6 points 1 hour ago

What if we just ended America here, before the election? It could happen.

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 1 points 15 minutes ago

bro wake up an even bigger october surprise just dropped

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 hour ago

And now an existential war of ideologies in the middle east

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 21 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

MFW we’re literal communists and we probably care more about the well-being of this country than its so-called ‘patriots’.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 24 minutes ago

The wine cave liberals really, really enjoy death and suffering, especially if they can watch it on their screens. It is like their Prestige TV treats, but authentic. Authenticity is very valuable to the bored idle rich. libbing-out 🍷 clink 🍷 maybe-later-honey

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 2 points 19 minutes ago

Bernie was the compromise. No more half measures. The world is ending and only we can stop it.

[–] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 24 points 2 hours ago

mr xi, my country yearns for reverse-cloud-seeding, please send your gay-frog-chemical equipped chengdu j-20

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

what's that about the prolapsed labor battles?

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 13 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Yea we heard about the strike just not about the part where their buttholes were dropping out.

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 16 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

I can only find info on hurricane ivan, and that’s not supposed to hit the us. What are the other ones?

[–] MonsterRancher@hexbear.net 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 18 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (3 children)

Jesus Christ there's a giant centipede in the middle of the Atlantic no wonder folks are freaking out

[–] Lurker123@hexbear.net 11 points 42 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

The size of the centipede is distorted by Mercator projection, it’s not that big, don’t worry.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 1 points 9 minutes ago

It eats the other sea leviathans, so it's good to let it skitter around untroubled.

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 1 points 12 minutes ago

And yet the government insists on sending more money to Israel, instead of doing the sensible thing with the money: Building giant mechs to fight the centipede in the Atlantic before it reaches the coast

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)
[–] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 5 points 2 hours ago

Best resource outside of local (weather) news would be https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/?atlc. I relied on them, Tropical Tidbits, and checking local when a local hit was likely when I lived in Florida.

Looks like I see 3 cells, 1 named, 1 likely, 1 possible.

[–] buh@hexbear.net 11 points 2 hours ago
[–] LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net 7 points 2 hours ago

I’ll bet they don’t get anything worse than Helene this season but this strike is pretty unbelievable

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 13 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

3-4 more hurricanes

Where’s that from?

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 6 points 1 hour ago

clickbait bullshit

there are several named storms in the Atlantic rn (Ivan, Joyce, & Kirk), none of which are expected to hit the continental US

there's a depression forming in the gulf that won't be a hurricane but could dump an unfortunate amount of rain on all the areas hit by Helene

there's another depression forming off the eastern coast of Africa that is likely to turn into Tropical Storm Leslie, but it's gonna take a few days to a week to see if that happens and how she decides to move across the ocean

[–] egg1918@hexbear.net 16 points 2 hours ago

Usually the ocean

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 16 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

“Israelis” will dance in New Jersey again.

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 7 points 2 hours ago

kel-what you better not be talking abt what I think ur talking abt wtf

[–] Kestrel@hexbear.net 26 points 4 hours ago

Nah it's just Tuesday

dumpster-fire

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 points 2 hours ago (7 children)

The whole world is collapsing but yes if you have Anti-USian Tumescence Syndrome yeah so happens that the US is on that same world.

[–] Tom742@hexbear.net 5 points 38 minutes ago

Is tankie not enough letters for you to feel smugly superior?

smuglord

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 6 points 58 minutes ago

Sometimes it's not so much "anti-US", but anti-regimes that tend to drone strike hospitals...and then follow it up with a double-tap when rescue teams arrive. (I wasn't going to hyphenate all that.)

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 1 points 13 minutes ago

This one time I freaked out because I shat and pissed blood, but then I realised I had just eaten rhubarb

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Can you describe the symptoms of Anti-USian Tumescence Syndrome for me? Need to see if I missed any.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 7 points 1 hour ago

Lmao if they plan on making that a thing. Just stick with tankie if you’re going to throw around snarl words

[–] DerRedMax@hexbear.net 19 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The term “October Surprise” comes from an event during the Regan administration in October of a Presidential election year.

Today is October 1st, during a Presidential election.

It is, by definition, US-centric. It wouldn’t make sense to call events around the world October surprises.

At the same time, “Israel” has launched a ground invasion – fully backed by the top two candidates for President, hundreds of people are dead with thousands stranded after a hurricane during hurricane season that has Katrina-levels of incompetence, and a major labor action threatens to disrupt the churn of consumption in the capital of capitalism.

Not really Anti-USian whatever the fuck you said.

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 13 points 2 hours ago

the only one of those 3 things that applies to the whole world is climate change, and even in that case, more functional countries will respond to it and prepare for its consequences in more meaningful ways than the US is.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 20 points 2 hours ago

A Marxist understanding of capitalism leads to anti-imperialism. Anti-imperialism is understood by detractors as a simple rhetorical dressing over simplistic heuristics like “reflexive anti-americanism,” “history repeats itself,” and “the military-industrial complex needs contracts,” but all of these are reductive. Marxists understand that human political leadership in the imperial periphery, whether enlightened or tyrannical, will only be antagonized by empire for one single possible reason: it is getting in the way of market penetration. This is phrased succinctly by Kevin Dooley when criticizing Noam Chomsky’s support for a military alliance between the Kurds and the USA in Syria: “The difference between [Chomsky’s] position and a hard-line anti-imperialist position isn’t tactical. What he’s arguing is simply a violation of anti-imperialist principles based on a fundamentally different understanding of what can drive the empire to act in the world.” [16]

The accusation that anti-imperialists are unconcerned with human rights deserves a sharp rebuke. The USA was born of slavery and genocide, dropped atomic bombs as a matter of political brinkmanship, imported Nazi scientists and installed war criminals like Klaus Barbie and Nobusuke Kishi around the world to defend and advance anti-communist positions [17], and enthusiastically supports gruesome butcherers today. Simply put, Capital has destroyed innumerable countries and murdered hundreds of millions directly and indirectly. It is precisely a concern for the rights of humans that should make one immediately skeptical of any humanitarian posturing by Capital. Anti-imperialism not only means support for the important pro-social projects of states like Cuba, Vietnam, and China; it also means critical support for non-socialist states such as Iran and Russia. Critical support acknowledges that, though instituting various indefensible policies, enemies of empire are not being antagonized because of said policies. The only thing that can drive empire to act in the world is capital accumulation.

from https://redsails.org/why-marxism/

[–] frauddogg@hexbear.net 12 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)
[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 51 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I don't think any of this will be enough to collapse America unfortunately. Nothing ever happens kitty-cri-potato

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Our position as the international hegemon is definitely in decline, but yeah outright collapse doesn't seem likely.

Look at Britain; just a century ago they were in the position we are in now. They're no longer at the head of global empire, but all their political structures and institutions still exist today prettymuch unchanged.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I think Britain was propped up by the US and the rest of the EU. They severed their connection to the EU which has already massively backfired, and the US won't bail out the UK anymore if the US is also collapsing

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 1 points 15 minutes ago

INB4 gammons have the bright idea to beg the US to make them the 51st state.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 20 points 3 hours ago

it's gonna be like letting air out of leaky pool float

the pool is filled with blood

[–] BioWarfarePosadist@hexbear.net 47 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

"America Collapsing" is what I hope for every month.

[–] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 8 points 2 hours ago

American, with vested material interest in the status quo.

It can't fucking happen fast enough for me to be happy.

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 20 points 4 hours ago

"You can't vote me out if you can't vote, Jack!" DaBiden

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 16 points 4 hours ago
[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 11 points 4 hours ago

Collapse faster

[–] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 12 points 4 hours ago
[–] mustGo@hexbear.net 13 points 5 hours ago