I’ve been watching Trump talk about Israel on Hasan’s stream for a bit now. Honestly, Trump is truly disgusting. The way he talks about Israel is disgusting. It’s worth noting that Trump will still be REALLY BAD for Palestine.

And I will fully admit, watching Trump talk about Israel elicits an emotional reaction in me. It was making we waver. I was starting to think maybe - MAYBE - I should go ahead and hold my nose and vote for Kamala, because she can’t be as bad as him right. Or at least losing to her will make this asshole and his supporters mad.

And then, in my mind I saw the face of Nasrallah amongst a sea of Hezbollah flags. I thought about how much Hezbollah has had to deal with from Israel. How much poking them with a stick they’ve endured. How they’ve had to see Israel act like an out of control child. It must be so hard for them to not respond out of emotion. And yet, they haven’t. They kept a cool head for nearly a year now. And because they didn’t respond reflexively, I truly believe Hezbollah will destroy the IOF and even maybe bring about the end of the entity in time. So, be like Nasrallah and don’t give in to the need for immediate satisfaction.

(No, I’m voting for Kamala and never was, just to be clear)

It’s worth point out that KSA recognizing Israel was a VERY big deal right up to Oct 7th. I don’t recall if it was an explicit or implicit reason for Oct 7th, but it was a major contributor regardless. This is a significant W for the Resistance.

Also, most of the damage is done through maiming (hands/fingers especially) and not killing the victims. Not to minimize the physical and emotional pain of losing some fingers, but a senior commander in Hezbollah doesn’t need those to fill their role as a commander. Even their vision, that can be compromised and they can still be just as effective.

I’m sure there’s a number of soldiers who are no longer as effective after the attacks, but that’s not the same as losing leadership, as these articles are claiming.

Also one of the few global south nations engaged in settler colonialism (in Western Sahara).

Nasrallah just started to give his speech about 10 minutes ago.

Hillary Clinton Suggests Posting Russian Propaganda Should Be A Crime

"I think it's important to indict the Russians, just as Muller indicted a lot of Russians who were engaged in direct election interference and boosting Trump back in 2016," Clinton said, referring to 2018 indictments against Russian individuals and companies accused of election tampering to boost support for Trump in the 2016 election.

"But I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda. And whether they should be civilly or even in some cases criminally charged is something that would be a better deterrence, because the Russians are unlikely, except in a very few cases, to ever stand trial in the United States."

They really want to make saying “we should stop propping up Ukraine and pursue a peaceful end to the conflict” a crime, along with pretty much anything that challenges US hegemony, don’t they?

I like to pretend Robert Kurvitz or Helen Hindpere is secretly behind that account and they like to check things out here from time to time.

In honor of today’s doomer discourse, I present you all with this absolute gem of a comment from comrade @DiscoPosting@hexbear.net in one of the news megas in the days after Oct 7.

I am a bloomer, and I would like to think that I have very good, grounded reasons for my bloomerism. But I do worry that being a bloomer leaves me with blind spots in my analysis.

coffee

I think if Trotsky became head of the USSR, there probably would have been counter-revolution and full capitalist restoration one way or another within a decade or two.

I noticed a day or two after she was murdered, the media flipped from calling her an “American” to a “Turkish-Amercian”. The hyphenated descriptor allows you be assured she wasn’t a “real” American.

And is it just me who thinks it’s completely insane to see left wing publications regurgitating neoclassical myths like using monetary policy to control inflation

While this isn’t an excuse, I think even on the left it’s hard to escape the underlying economic assumptions of society. While we should insist that leftists and leftists publications educate themselves and be better informed how the economy works… it’s not as simple as reading up on the first volume of Capital or even the third volume. Understanding the nuts and bolts of modern capitalism is hard. Of course it’s imperative the Marxists most of all understand it (again, not making excuses), but I think there’s just a dearth of resources out there to improve here.

Yeah if there’s one thing Americans are demanding this election, it’s to spend tens of billions more on the war in Ukraine.

Also when did the US ever actually “stand up” to our boy Papa Joe? Honestly the US never was able to do shit to Lenin, Stalin, or even Khrushchev frankly (the US did kinda back down in the Cuban middle crisis)?

I’m not sure, it’s fairly common knowledge nowadays (my teacher in HS covered it). Real estate speculation in lands not yet fully ethnically cleansed was a massive source of wealth for many of the founding fathers.

Yakovlev taking over the glasnost media and immediately putting anti-communists in every position of power is a big reason why we don’t have the USSR anymore, IMO. Just to further your point about Zdhanov.

We’re also seeing that either the Chinese government has less control over its own banks than we previously thought, or they believe that the economic benefits of trading with Western countries still far outweigh a closer relationship with Russia (a very tiny economy compared to the collective West), indicative of their inability to wean off an export-oriented economy.

My hunch is that it’s the later. It tracks with all the other moves China has made in recent years, where trade with the west is prized over potentially harming that trade with “hostile” moves like de-dollarization.

He’s right that the Americans wanted to genocide the indigenous people west of the Appalachians and take their land, and that was a big reason why they declared independence because the British wouldn’t let them.

He’s wrong that the British were restricting expansion out of morals and preserving the land for the indigenous peoples. It was just for the British, that maintaining a military presence in the Ohio Valley was much more expensive than the economic benefits they would get. If the numbers worked out a little differently they would have been just as eager to genocide as the Americans.

Just that part about violating “community guidelines”, because YouTube can’t say the real reason IMO.