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Image is of a protest in Pakistan after the attempted assassination of Imran Khan in November 2022.


What a clusterfuck of an election.

Imran Khan, the previous official Prime Minister of Pakistan, was removed by the command of the United States in April 2022 in a no confidence motion. This made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. Imran Khan and his supporters have protested since then against the Pakistani state, which is more-or-less governed by the military despite the furnishings of civilian rule. This has ranged from largely peaceful protests to trying to burn down and occupy houses and headquarters.

It was assumed by the Pakistani elite that they could make the problem go away by arresting Imran Khan and effectively forcing many PTI candidates to run as independents while hounding them with police raids and stopping them from campaigning - and adding salt on the wound by disabling social media access and mobile services on the day of the election to make it more difficult to co-ordinate. Fortunately, these people don't seem to quite understand how the internet works in the current day, and so Khan's supporters started up WhatsApp groups and improvised websites and apps to spread the word about which candidates to vote for, leading to Khan's party getting the plurality, though not the majority, of votes in the election.

This has created a rather depressed mood in the Pakistani elite. A coalition of eight parties joined together, obviously excluding the PTI, but this coalition is shaky and lacks much legitimacy, with two major parties inside it, the PML-N and PPP, being ideologically opposed on several issues. It has been regarded as "the coalition of losers" by Khan's supporters. The new Prime Minister is Shehbaz Sharif, who also ruled from April 2022 until August 2023 and is the younger brother of Nawaz Sharif, who served as Prime Minister three times before in the last few decades. With inflation at 30% and the economy greatly struggling, there are fears that things may only stay together for months, not years, before the coalition fragments and something else has to be done.


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UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
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English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
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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.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

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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.
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:

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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.


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[-] 420stalin69@hexbear.net 98 points 3 months ago

Rishi Sunak felt the need to explicitly “reject” the idea that “Britain is or has been on the wrong side of history.”

Keep bullying.

[-] MrPiss@hexbear.net 86 points 3 months ago

I don't know how someone of Indian descent can say that with a straight face.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 91 points 3 months ago

BREAKING: U.S. Air Force employee charged with giving classified information to woman he met on dating site

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1764781238550680002

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 73 points 3 months ago

Is it this easy to dupe US military losers?

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 68 points 3 months ago

It’s why honey trap espionage is so effective

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 91 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The food the US dropped for Gaza was MREs that were 8 years out of date.

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[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 89 points 3 months ago
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[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 80 points 3 months ago

Yemeni forces attacked the cargo ship True Confidence in the Gulf of Aden, after which it caught fire.

Al Jazeera reports this with reference to the Houthi press service.

Two sailors were killed, the British embassy in Sana'a said.

According to the AP, the ship is owned by Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital Management.

Reuters claims that it is owned by a Greek company with no connection to the United States, and that the ship was flying the flag of Barbados.

Ambrey, which specializes in maritime security, claims that the attacked bulk carrier is still American.

Pretty interesting how every time Ansarallah strikes another ship, media falls over itself to say it’s “Greek owned, Lebanese flagged, heading towards Cyprus” or some shit to try and make Ansarallah look like reckless terrorists, but it always comes out eventually it was indeed US/UK/Israeli connected in some major way. They deliberately omit the connections and only report on everything else. In one article they will mention the flag but omit the owner, in another they will omit the flag but mention the owner. It’s such obvious bad faith propaganda on their parts

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 80 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 63 points 3 months ago

Text is

"I will no longer be complicit in the genocide in Gaza. Free Palestine".
"The martyr of rejection to the American Genocide / the American soldier Aaron Bushnell"

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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 80 points 3 months ago
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[-] Dr_Gabriel_Aby@hexbear.net 79 points 3 months ago

Exactly 1 month ago Sweden ended their investigation into the NordStream pipeline, saying it lacked jurisdiction on the issue. Today they join NATO officially.

How much circumstantial evidence do we need to conclusively say NATO INTENTIONALLY caused one of the worst environmental disasters of all time?

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[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 79 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Democrats say they aren’t worried about the “Uncommitted” campaign because it isn’t garnering that much support, when in reality people will just sit out the election if they don’t like your candidate.

Funny enough, this always makes me think of an episode of Kitchen Nightmares where Gordon Ramsay once said something that really stuck with me. A restaurant was failing due to the low quality of its food, and people were sending their food back to the kitchen saying that it was no good. The owner/chef were shocked because they said this never happens, and it must just be because Gordon Ramsay was there influencing their decision. Ramsay said that in the restaurant business, almost all restaurants stay afloat due to repeat customers. He went on to say that it may be true that people are sending food back now because they know he’s here, but on a normal day it’s different. If you go out to eat and the food is low quality, the vast majority of people don’t send food back, they just never come back to your restaurant.

This so perfectly encapsulates how the “Uncommitted” vote in the Democrat primaries is actually an underrepresentation of people who will not vote for Biden on Election Day. It is much more difficult to go out to a predetermined primary election and vote for nobody than it is to simply stay home and not vote at all.

Democrats will lose a sizable chunk of voters as a result of this election cycle, many of them forever. This alienation event is almost certainly going to be larger than the Bernie 2016 and 2020 events, and is probably going to be the largest since NAFTA. If you are a young person, it is just so blatantly obvious that democrats have almost no policy overlap with you.

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 78 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Houthi attack kills two sailors in group’s first fatal strike on shipping

The True Confidence bulk carrier is no longer under the command of its crew because they have abandoned the vessel, UK Maritime Trade Operations says.

hamas-red-triangle

ever-given

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[-] edge@hexbear.net 78 points 3 months ago

Libs love to say "Biden doesn't have the power to send weapons to Israel, it's up to Congress.".

Except Congress hasn't sent any weapons, Biden has bypassed them multiple times to send weapons. It's not even a spin or bad faith or anything, they're just dumbasses.

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 77 points 3 months ago

In Toronto, there was a protest against a Zionist real estate show selling Palestinian land, which culminated in a Zionist freak attempting to attack protestors with a nailgun and a few cars trying to run over the protestors.

Background of the protest: https://twitter.com/sasa_ghada/status/1764424937375166754

Aniti-Zionist rabbi explaining the protest: https://twitter.com/Mivasair/status/1764322548215410811

Car attempting to run over protestors: https://twitter.com/sasa_ghada/status/1764308711265202490

Zionist loser attempting to attack protestors with a nailgun, getting scared, attempting to throw hands with some middle-aged lady, getting scared again, and storming off in his car: https://twitter.com/sasa_ghada/status/1764426956483817739

Different POV of the same Zionist loser: https://twitter.com/sasa_ghada/status/1764345290109145174

Lurking more, there was apparently multiple Zionist venues in Canada selling illegally occupied land, which led to multiple protests, which lead to multiple Zionist attempts at injuring and murdering protestors.

I don't know if this is part of the same Toronto protest. Apparently, Thornhill is right next to Toronto proper: https://twitter.com/sasa_ghada/status/1764704064942576039

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[-] edge@hexbear.net 76 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Biden invoking Reagan in the first 10 minutes, amazing. Insane that Reagan has had 11 terms.

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 74 points 3 months ago

bushnell Residents in Areeha named one of the streets in the city after the American pilot Aaron Bushnell, who self-immolated in front of the occupation embassy in Washington, in solidarity with Palestine and in rejection of his country's position supporting the genocide war waged against #Gaza. This sign of appreciation from Palestine comes just a week after a government order in Sana'a, Yemen put Aaron's face on billboards across

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 74 points 3 months ago
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[-] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 73 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As of 22h00 SAST, there is again a total communications blackout in the entire Gaza Strip.

The total amount of water also entering the strip, of which 97% is contaminated, is less than 7 million liters daily. This is half a million liters below that of Johannesburg's Berea suburb by contrast, which has 1/50th the population.

The intentional annual homicide rate also stands at 3,500/100K, 100 times greater than that of South Africa.

ICJ does not consider this urgent BTW.

[-] edge@hexbear.net 72 points 3 months ago

Macron: "If Russia moves towards Kiev or Odessa, there will be no red lines for France"

agony-shivering

Hopefully other NATO countries won't be stupid enough to follow France's lead.

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[-] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 72 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The ICJ has refused South Africa's request for the court to issue demands for the idf-cool to cease it's campaign on last Monday, reverting to their empty statements of "ensuring the safety of Palestinian civilians". On the flip side, Nicaragua has filed a seperate suit against germany-cool for complicity in genocide. Ireland has imposed sanctions and Brazil is the latest country to sever relations with the apartheid regime.

Damn this photo still goes hard. Death to ISISrael

To top it off, the South African government has very openly stated that the West has no grounds to speak of human rights, validating the us-foreign-policy

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[-] Kaplya@hexbear.net 70 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Medvedev ditched his usual Western suit and donned a Zhongshan suit in the conference “Knowledge First” two days ago.

lmao this guy.

What is he trying to say? That Russia is a Chinese colony now?

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[-] companero@hexbear.net 70 points 3 months ago

I don't think the Zionists actually want this "temporary ceasefire" deal to happen. They want it to be rejected so they can say "oh, we wanted peace, but Kkkkhhhhamas refuses" and then re-intensify their genocidal bombing and starvation campaigns.

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[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 70 points 3 months ago

What would be substantially different about a Trump presidency? Biden has, to my knowledge refused federal action against LGBT discrimination in red states, signed on to every last bullet point of Trump's white nationalist border sadism, given unlimited greenlights to the rogue state of Israel to carry out a genocide, refused to codify Roe and essentially allowed the Supreme Court to remain an unchecked organ of hard right political power.

Which elements of fascism would materialize under Trump that Biden hasn't either sleepwalked into or enthusiastically supported?

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[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 69 points 3 months ago
[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 64 points 3 months ago

Is anyone truly surprised that the go-to yt urbanism guy who is allergic to talking about China's incredible advancement in public transit and urban infrastructure, but will spend hours talking about the Dutch King taking a bike-shaped shit turned out to be a Nazi sympathizer?

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 69 points 3 months ago

Israeli settlers have walked past the military without issue and are walking directly to the humanitarian aid trucks headed to Gaza in order to stop them.

[...]

These people brought their babies with them to a highly sensitive and militarized zone on the border of Gaza in order to celebrate illegally blocking humanitarian assistance meant for a desperate and starving Palestinian population that has been bombarded with 2,000 pound bombs for 5 months

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[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 68 points 3 months ago

FAIR: US Media and Factcheckers Fail to Note Israel’s Refutation of ‘Beheaded Babies’ Stories

Bituah Leumi, the Israeli social security agency, provided that missing proof when it posted the official list of victims that showed only one infant was killed in the attack.

The mainstream US news media ignored that authoritative evidence.

[-] newmou@hexbear.net 68 points 3 months ago

A whole room clapping extra long for his comments on Israel. We are firmly in the shadows of history

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 67 points 3 months ago

Looks like the resistance carried out a massive operation in the West Bank centered around Nablus, Al Mayadeen English is reporting all checkpoints were attacked. Still too early to tell, but it could be a major event

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[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 67 points 3 months ago

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/unrwa-report-says-israel-coerced-some-agency-employees-to-falsely-admit-hamas-links/ar-BB1jzR5h

The document said several UNRWA Palestinian staffers had been detained by the Israeli army, and added that the ill-treatment and abuse they said they had experienced included severe physical beatings, waterboarding, and threats of harm to family members.

torture of kidnapped aid workers to extract false confessions for the purpose of defunding a tremendously important humanitarian aid organization. Horrifying

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[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 66 points 3 months ago

Holy fuck, San Francisco is evil. This passed 63-37:

Shall the City require single adults age 65 and under with no dependent children who receive City public assistance benefits and whom the City reasonably suspects are dependent on illegal drugs to participate in screening, evaluation and treatment for drug dependency for those adults to be eligible for most of those benefits?

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 66 points 3 months ago
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[-] edge@hexbear.net 65 points 3 months ago

"Political violence has no place in America."

Because it belongs in Gaza of course.

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 65 points 3 months ago
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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 65 points 3 months ago

I was watching some of Genocide Joe's older interviews (2016 and earlier)... He sounds incredibly coherent, incredibly well-spoken, and incredibly arrogant. A model American statesman.

What the fuck happened?

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 65 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I do love seeing Dems screamed at by Palestine activists, while also seeing the old people look like they are willing to die for that politician when they confront the activist.

[-] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 64 points 3 months ago

As it is 'International' Women's Day, why not learn how MI6 cynically weaponised Syrian women for information warfare purposes

https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/syrian-women-exploited-in-british

"Roughly a year after that CIA memo was authored, Gay Girl in Damascus, a blog purportedly written by Syrian-American lesbian Amina Arraf, garnered significant mainstream attention. Widely hailed for her “fearless” and “inspiring” eyewitness reporting, the author was lauded as a symbol of the “progressive” revolution erupting in the country.

In June 2011, Amina’s cousin announced on the blog Amina had been kidnapped by three armed men in the Syrian capital. In response, numerous Facebook pages were set up calling for Amina’s release and ‘liked’ by tens of thousands, #FreeAmina trended widely on Twitter, journalists and rights groups begged Western governments to demand her release, and the US State Department announced it was investigating her disappearance.

Six days later, it was revealed ‘Amina’ was in fact Tom MacMaster, a US citizen residing in Scotland. While corporate news outlets hurried to forget all about the hoax they’d so comprehensively fallen for, their appetite for dubious human interest stories emanating from the crisis evidently wasn’t diminished."

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 64 points 3 months ago

Gaza has been divided in half by a new road the IDF constructed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68514821.amp

They are almost certainly going to maintain control of this post-conflict, using it as a tool to control travel between north and south just like they control travel through checkpoints elsewhere in the country.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 64 points 3 months ago

I am going to go fucking postal.

Q: How does the Pentagon address the apparent paradox of providing bombs to Israel on the one hand and ready-to-eat meals to the Palestinians on the other?

PENTAGON: Israel has an inherent right to defend itself.

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 64 points 3 months ago
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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 64 points 3 months ago

Houthi Attacks In Red Sea And Gulf Of Aden From November 19, 2023 To March 5, 2024

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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 63 points 3 months ago

Shut the fuck up: Pro-Zionist Danish PM Booed Off Stage By Anti-genocide Protesters

Friday night Danish succdem prime minister Mette Frederiksen was booed off stage by anti-genocide protesters at an international women's day event in Copenhagen where she was scheduled to give a speech about "girls' and women's rights".

Shortly after beginning her speech Frederiksen was interrupted by a man shouting "stop your hypocrisy!", which resulted in cheers and applause among the crowd. Several protestors began shouting "Free Palestine!" and "genocide in Palestine!". A part of the crowd was discontent with the disruption and applauded Frederiksen who then attempted to continue her speech, only to be immediately cut short by chants of "Free Palestine" and "shut the fuck up" from protestors who had unfurled Palestinian flags and hung banners from the balconies of the venue.

Frederiksen made several attempts to ignore the protesters and continue her speech but eventually she gave up and went off stage. She then immediately left the building together with three other government ministers who were scheduled to appear at the event. One of the ministers described the vibes of the venue going from "good" to "unsafe and unpleasant".

Protesters distributed flyers among the crowd with the headline "Mette Frederiksen is not a feminist", describing the atrocities done to Palestinian girls and women by the genocidal zionist occupiers.

Frederiksen has declined to give interviews about the protest. Instead, following her usual style of preferring strictly controlled one-way communication, she has made a both whiny and pompous post on Facebook saying that "Unfortunately there was so much shouting that I couldn't get through with my words. Thanks to all of you who insisted on the democratic dialogue. Luckily you were the most." She goes on to write "I hope it will give cause to thought. Our democracy is only as strong as we make it".

With Denmark being an American satellite state it is no surprise that establishment politics in the Nordic country is near-universally pro-zionist. However, throughout her career Frederiksen has been more vocal than most about her support for the settler-colonialist project in Palestine than most politicians. She has made nebulous accusations against the left of "anti-semitism", attempted to pass an "official definition of anti-semitism" that labelled anti-zionism as antisemitic and keenly collaborated with the illegal zionist entity as well as placed orders for weapons with the zionist arms manufacturer Elbit. Since the Al-Aqsa Flood happened her government has followed the American lead of condemning Palestinian resistance while handwringing over the suffering of the Palestinian people.

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 63 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's already happening with the text spam, despite my growing plethera of blocked numbers, that the Democrats are going shotgun anything breadcrumbs to ignore or move on from the genocide. Rolling out Bend the Knee Bernie. Rolling out Kyle Cucklinsky. Other trying to raise decimated worthless stale crumbs up from the depths of the abyss of future nothingness they are. The can kicking "pragmatic" tone deaf farts they blow at you and proudly claim historic "accomplishments" shall be mocked and dismissed as the absence of material improvements and lies that they are.

It is our duty to not ever let these fuckers off the hook and bully them and their mouthpieces harder than ever.

IN NOVEMBER WE REMEMBER.

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[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 63 points 3 months ago

New NYMag long form profile of Biden has some banger quotes from Biden's melted brain

I asked Biden if he intended to apply more pressure on Israel’s leaders, and, for the first time that day, he did not jab back at the question. “I understand the anger and the rage” sparked by October 7th, he said. “But you can’t let the rage consume you to the point where you lose the moral high ground.”

I asked Biden what he would do in a second term to protect abortion access at the federal level. “Pass Roe v. Wade as the law of the land,” he said. Democrats would need to win control of the House of Representatives and gain seats in the Senate, but Biden expressed confidence. “A few more elections like we’ve seen taking place in the states” would suffice, he said. “You’re seeing the country changing.” Then, reiterating his position on Roe, he said, “I’ve never been supportive of, you know, ‘It’s my body, I can do what I want with it.’ But I have been supportive of the notion that this is probably the most rational allocation of responsibility that all the major religions have signed on and debated over the last thousand years.”

foucault-madness

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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 63 points 3 months ago

143 Greenlandic women who had contraceptive spirals inserted without proper consent in the 1969's and 1970's has filed a human rights lawsuit against the Danish state. Each of the victims are demanding a compensation of USD 44.000 for violation of their right to family life among other offenses

The so-called Spiral Campaign was a eugenics programme in the years 1966 to 1975 initiated by Danish colonial administrators in Greenland who were alarmed over a rising number of Inuit children born out of wedlock. Indigenous girls as young as 13 had contraceptive spirals inserted by Danish colonial health professionals often without asking them or their parents for consent and without informing victims about the procedure. Several victims have told how they experienced the procedure as forced. Victims experienced high rates of complications as the spirals inserted were sized for adult women who had given birth and not for the teenagers who received them. Complications were made worse by victims lacking proper information about the procedure and many victims suffered lasting injuries.

The Danish government promised to make an official investigation of the Spiral Campaign in 2022 but has been dragging it's feet, leading to a diplomatic crisis with the government of Greenland last year. Danish officials refuse to make statement regarding compensations as long as the investigation is ongoing.

The victims are not content with waiting for the investigation that is due to be finished next year though. They see the investigation as a stalling tactic and according to their lawyer the scope of the official investigation is not to assign culpability or to assess compensation and as the oldest victim is 85 there is no time for further delays.

In recent years the Danish state has settled human rights lawsuits with 26 Greenlandic legally fatherless children, six survivors of a 1950's experiment to assimilate Inuit children into Danish culture and 46 Danish men who were abused at an orphanage as children and paid out compensations. No steps has been made to settle this case though and if it goes to trial it will be the largest human rights case in Danish legal history.

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