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Grok's woke

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Rabid settlers lynched Hamdan Ballal, Palestinian co-director of film No Other Land:
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US airstrikes on Yemen continue for the 13th night in a row, with multiple rounds of airstrikes, with multiple strikes each, targeting various areas of the capital city Sana'a, including the leadership centre and airport, along with various strikes in different areas in the Sana'a, Saada and Hodeidah Governorates.

Strikes reported in Al Jawf Governorate.

Strikes targeting mountains in Amran Governorate. 8 airstrikes reported.

Total of 19 airstrikes targeting Arman Governorate, including communications networks.

Very intense rounds of airstrikes currently taking place.

More airstrikes in Marib Governorate.

Over 45 total airstrikes reported tonight, this is the most intense round of airstrikes since the beginning of the current campaign against Ansarallah in Yemen.

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1700 killed on last 72 hours. First day of the attack 400.

I will share my friend's message to me from last night:

"I don’t know, honestly, I feel like I’m going insane. Why all this injustice?! Imagine, they are entertaining themselves with our death in every possible way, trying to unleash their psychological disorders on us. Today, they are shooting at people as they are being displaced! What kind of filth is this?! They are toying with us… killing the children and leaving the mother to watch her son die without being able to do anything! We are in a cage, being hunted, starved, and subjected to experiments of all kinds of psychological and moral afflictions in a live broadcast. People are running without legs, and people are crawling, while parents watch the bodies of their children thrown on the ground, abandoned as they flee from shells. It is an absurd situation—there is no war here, no resistance; the situation can only be described as a trivialization and deliberate act of killing, and a trivialization of death. It’s all absurdity, and our blood is sure to bring a curse upon everyone."

That's Gaza for the last 500 days. And I join her in curses. Yemenis are right, Israel and USA are cursed. It's an old biblical rule "do not steal" and that's why Yemenis say death to them. It's not about wanting those nations literally dead, as those nations mean about Palestinans and Syrians, but it's a call of death if their hegemony. Curse be upon them. In last month tens of thousands of Palestinians and Syrians were slaughtered. Zionists and takfiris demonic ghouls who serve Satan himself and Netanyahu is embodiment of Satan. This is all his wicked sick plan to destroy Levant and erase thousands years old culture and people who have direct ties to that land. Curse be upon everyone. This blood is on everyone's hands.

Let's talk Qatar.

I have been always fascinated by Qatar. Their weird contradictory political position, together with their ruthless ambition makes them a genuinely interesting country to observe. I spent a few weeks touring the Middle East before covid and getting married and settling down. Of all the Gulf states, Qatar was the country that gave me the biggest feeling of "living here wouldn't be bad you know". The UAE is of course the posterchild of Gulf states, but everything about it felt artificial, but Qatar is authentic in a way that I can't describe. The Friday sermon in the Doha mosque that I went to talked in detail about a Muslim's duty to defend other Muslims, while the UAE mosque talked about a Muslim's duty to honor his leaders. Qatar is in some way committed to what I can only describe as Islamic populism, which doesn't put the country as a natural enemy to Iran's Islamic republicanism.

Their projects are also more successful than expected. They were the only committed Arab nation to toppling Assad by 2024, and succeeded in that. They managed to stabilise Tripoli in Libya and their areas are way more successful and stable than the UAE-backed warlord government in Benghazi. They weathered the storm from Western media and hosted a successful FIFA World Cup. They built a good metro system that doesn't just serve the Disney Land style straight line developments like the Dubai Metro. They integrated the sons of immigrants to Qatar in a way that the UAE completely failed in doing, which is why the Qatari football team is now filled with Yemenis, Egyptians and Iraqis fighting for the team and winning cups while the UAE plays Brazilian boomers and gets embarrassed. They overcame the dumbass siege that the UAE and Saudi Arabia put on them in 2017 with an incredible resilience that strengthened their national identity. Their media investments has made Al Jazeera the undisputed number one news channel in the Arab World, BeIN Sports the number one sports network in the world, and almost every good Arab journalist has spent some time in Qatar. Their only big L is perhaps losing the battle with the UAE in Egypt when they failed to protect the MB against the military coup in 2013.

I have some strange admiration for them that is completely illogical and contradictory compared to my political beliefs. They're in tune with the Arab public in a way that the UAE and Saudi could never achieve. They've leveraged their relations with Hamas, Israel, the Taliban, Iran and Hezbollah into something that generated some kind of material benefit unlike the UAE's disgusting endless cucking for American Republican and Israeli interests. In the end, yeah, they're an American client state with a massive military base in Al Udaid, but their million sins can perhaps be slightly washed away by the fact that a random Sudanese civilian can wear a Sinwar hoodie on their way to a Friday sermon about the slaughter of civilians in Gaza, while watching Al Jazeera's coverage of Israel's bombing of South Lebanon.

I'm just rambling here, so I hope it's at least semi-coherent.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/poland-withstand-invasion-2-weeks-123604109.html Poland can withstand invasion for 2 weeks before NATO steps in, security chief says

Been saying people really underestimate the logistics of a total war.

“Kidnapped”: 1,000+ Protest After Masked ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Ph.D. Student Rumeysa Ozturk - Democracy Now

The website for the Alliance of Sahel States is at https://aes.ml/, which is just an amazing URL.

New: Rubio confirmed he revoked the visa of the Tufts student and said he likely has revoked the visas of hundreds more. “We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take way their visas." The total # of revoked visas “might be more than 300 at this point." The student had co-authored an opinion column on Gaza in the student newspaper. Rubio was asked what she did to merit her visa being revoked, but did not offer specifics to her case, only suggesting that his criteria goes beyond writing columns.

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Asked if they have any intelligence to suggest foreign backing for pro-Palestinian college protests, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard tells Congress, "there are some assessments that reflect that and we can talk about that in the closed session."

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There is a clear moment here to cast Zionism as a direct threat to "American liberties" (I know a lot of people here won't phrase like that but it is what it is) but I highly doubt any Democrats have the spine to push it.

Renowned Japanese video game designer Hideki Kamiya has reflected on the recent Assassin's Creed Shadows controversies by asserting that "normal people" don't care about them. His remarks were offered alongside some high praise for the Assassin's Creed Shadows development team.

The latest entry in Ubisoft's long-running series has been mired in controversy since its May 2024 reveal, which confirmed that the game would have a black protagonist, based on a real historical figure known as Yasuke. This fueled a lot of online vitriol, including cases of people vandalizing Yasuke's Wikipedia page and Elon Musk declaring "DEI kills art" while referencing Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Famous Japanese game designer Hideki Kamiya has recently reflected on this state of affairs by stating that "a few super-intense people" made "a big fuss" about Assassin's Creed Shadows. At the same time, the creator of Okami and Bayonetta believes that these detractors are simply a loud minority, having said as much in a March 24 tweet. Elaborating on this notion, Kamiya asserted that most "normal people" adopt an "it's fine" stance when it comes to things like video game-related drama, noting that this phenomenon isn't exclusive to the Assassin's Creed Shadows controversies.

London without Ninjas will not be the same..

"A huge oil spill in Ecuador turned rivers black, leaving 80,000+ families and 400,000+ people without water. Extracting oil in tropical forests ensures more disasters—no 'net zero' policy can offset this."

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In my extremely local local news. The person I ran campaign for to get elected as local councillor is now being offered the role of mayor after just 4 months in the role.

If the Labour party weren't doing everything they can to ruin their chances in the next election I sincerely believe I would be able to turn this person into an MP.

Dems and Schumer are ~3x as unpopular as Elon Musk.

US airstrikes on Yemen continue for the 14th night in a row, with multiple airstrikes reported in Sa'ana city, Saada city, Saada Governorate, and Al Jawf Governorate.

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