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I had no idea a hurricane could cause tornadoes when still 100+ miles away

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I fucking hate liberals. I thought writing out my comment would make me feel better but it did the opposite.

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I saw mention of David Simon on Bluesky and I wondered what he had to say about Gaza and genocide. I found a tweet that is quite something. I had to read it a few times because he obfuscates. I've always thought it's funny when something can be phrased simply but the person can't do that. To me it's a Freudian slip. They are so arrogant and obnoxious they convince themselves that confusing and muddled text makes their self-defined iron-clad case even stronger.

He refuses to mention any place or group by name. He avoids words like Gaza, Gazans, Israel, Israelis. I might be wrong but I don't think even the UN does that when taking about a specific location with a specific war and not some abstract, theoretical debate club bullshit. He claims what's happening in Gaza is not a genocide because there has been no intention by Israel to destroy or mass murder the populace.

Also - hypothetically - if somebody makes civilians suffer or targets them that guy is a war criminal. Obviously - that's kind of weird. Israel isn't just small bunch of guys in Gaza committing war crimes. In any case - he says they should be prosecuted fully. After that he pokes fun at people who in his opinion - intentionally or not - misuses the words genocide and war criminal.

He believes the silly people conflate horrific-but-oopsie mass death and suffering as genocide when he says that some undefined group might be war criminals.

If with intent, you attempt to mass murder a people by any means -- starvation included -- it is a genocide. But if the prosecution of a war results in human desperation without the intention of a belligerent to destroy or mass murder the populace, no. That said. If you are needlessly indifferent to the sufferings of civilians, or if you work to maximize or increase that suffering, or if you target civilians without regard for their status, I'd say you are a war criminal.

Few people are acknowledging that even war crimes, which should be prosecuted fully, are not genocides. They use the words interchangeably now as rhetoric.

https://xcancel.com/AoDespair/status/1827461170963656899#m

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Despite myself I kept looking around at his tweets. He also praised Israel's pager terror attack. Because of course he did.

You can call it terror or you can it a war. But certainly, throwing rockets without regard to where they land is indiscriminate, as are, perhaps, many of the Israeli air sorties in reply. Civilians are at great risk. This business with the pagers, purchased for use by Hezbollah combatants and officials, is pretty damn discriminate as weapons systems go.

https://xcancel.com/AoDespair/status/1836783946178134277#m

My 40-something year old cousin is going in for emergency surgery in St. Petersburg tomorrow morning, and his wife has decided to bunker down with their two kids and my uncle despite being in a mandatory evacuation zone. I don't know his wife well enough to try and talk some sense into her about leaving my cousin in the hospital and booking it out of the Tampa area. Really kind of hoping this thing doesn't make landfall near them.

Finally came across the sat pic with the power outtages from Helene. Sept. 28. Sure its going to be a few days to weeks for the pics of the extent of Milton to come out. Milton hit the area that's just to the South of Helene.

Roll off dumpster sitting on a roof in Palm Beach Gardens cw: link

couple other pictures in that subreddit

I once again will encourage you all to check out Jon Elmer’s “Resistance Report” section on this week’s Electronic Intifada livesteam. The whole thing is great but Jon’s segment (starts at 1:51:40) is really a wonderful cure for doomerism.

The Resistance is fighting hard and it appears in Gaza that their ability to fight the entity has not degraded at all in the last year. And it’s only just now that Israel has had to commit serious ground troops to Lebanon and this had to come at the cost of taking troops out of Gaza, so the already inept IOF has to try and do more with less in Gaza (and they were already failing with “more”).

Virgin Zionist media: We have 10 sources saying Qaani is a traitor.

Chad Iranian media: We have 20 sources that say your 10 sources are full of shit.

https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1844527011743588639

Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said this Thursday that his country will maintain its position in favor of dialogue in Venezuela, a country in which Brazil has great interests.

Brazil actually depends on Venezuelan oil and energy aid for it's most northern states.

me coping and seething with barely concealed tears: He can't keep getting away with this!

Jackson Hinkle interviewing Ansarallah
https://xcancel.com/LegitTargets/status/1843420825451446700

PIJ detonating various IEDs to take out vehicles:
https://xcancel.com/TVFreePalestine/status/1844034999915598050

Looks like the hurricane it's hitting Florida pretty hard rn

Happy October 7th everybody! Death to israel and zionism!

Live stream announcement from Al-Quassam Brigades on YouTube, happening right now: https://www.youtube.com/live/B21OJIb66-U

EDIT: It repeats.

EDIT: Interesting. They call the Oct 7 action "preemptive". I can't recall exactly how this has been documented over the last year, but I suspect this means Hamas had good intel telling them that Israel's escalation of the genocide that's happening over the last year was going to happen anyway. We should perhaps work on analyzing this and making it clear where/if true. On some level we've, of course, known that Israel was just looking for an excuse to flatten Gaza. But solid evidence of that that we could shove in liberals' faces would be pretty cool. It undermines the "but, but, but was it WORTH IT?!" argument.

EDIT: LOL. I posted and stickied this in /r/BreadTube. Then I cross-posted it to /r/Palestine, who removed it, citing "Reddit's Content Policy, Reddiquette, and Moderator Code of Conduct". Sorry, but: fucking cowards! (They also removed a video of a rally by Jill Stein, Worker's Strike Back, and Abandon Harris about opposing electoral support for genocide, but w/e.)

Ooh hexbear on all/active page 1!

https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-moving-to-blow-up-cross-border-roads-seoul-says/a-70483720

it seems the DPRK is cutting all roads to the south. Some are saying this precludes invasion but why would you blow up the roads leading to the place you're invading? Seems to be a defensive measure.

wtf is tourism with Taliban a thing now?

They banned discord in Turkiye. Darn

The Nobels are being awarded and both physics and chemistry prize have gone to AI related breakthroughs.

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two scientists, Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield, for their work on machine learning.

Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of DeepMind and computational biologist David Baker share prize for protein structure breakthroughs

The chemistry one was very obvious that it would be eventually awarded for the development of AlphaFold. But the physics one has come as surprise for many, and it is controversial among physicists.

Palestinian Authority to attend BRICS summit, apply for membership (The Cradle, Aug 26, 2024)

Palestine’s ambassador in Moscow, Abdel Hafeez Nofal, said on 26 August that Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas had received an invitation from President Vladimir Putin to attend the upcoming BRICS summit.

“We received an invitation from President Putin to President Abbas, and he was invited to participate in the BRICS summit prior to the invitation [to visit Russia] … but we will see if the prime minister will participate,” Nofal said. “The most important thing is that we [Palestinian representatives] will participate in this event,” he added.

The ambassador said Abbas and Putin have a good relationship with one another and can meet at any time.

“After our first participation in the BRICS summit, we will send a request to join this association,” Nofal revealed.

He also said that Putin promised Abbas that the upcoming BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan, scheduled for October 2024, will include a session dedicated primarily to Palestine.

Old article, but with the BRICS summit in Russia approaching (22–24 Oct), I need to hear what (if anything) my fellow newsmega heads expect will come from this.

Some lousy no good disease was trying to make me too sick to remember the first anniversary of October 7th.

Yemen reminding the settlers what day it is today:

https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/1843303211089989654
https://xcancel.com/MenchOsint/status/1843305581119172943
https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/1843306313113362610

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Denmark's succdem-led right-wing regime intends to clamp down on the right express pro-Palestinian and anti-apartheid views. A new bill proposed by the regime that is likely to pass Denmark's rubber-stamp parliament will slap a statutory extra 50% on top of the punishment for "hate crimes" committed at protests or public meetings. In addition, the police will be enabled to unilaterally declare a nationwide "increased punishment period" during which the penalty for any so-called "hate crimes" will be increased by 50%.

Free expression on the internet is also in the crosshairs of the regime's authoritarian measures. If the bill passes the police will be empowered to demand the removal of any "terrorism-related" material from social media, online media or websites. Service providers will only be given one hour to comply, there is no system of appeals and the current requirement for a judge to sign off on the censorship will be removed, effectively giving the police unchecked powers to remove any material that crosses the regime.

The bill itself is written in abstract legal terms normally used for hate crimes but the regime makes no attempt to hide that the intent is to punish and suppress the movement against apartheid, genocide and zionism. The only example given by the succdem-controlled ministry of justice for when the new powers would be used are so-called "antisemitic hate crimes" relating to the Al-Aqsa Flood.

The regime has consistently been equating anti-zionism with antisemitism. In the remarks to the bills the regime writes that it is intended to suppres so-called antisemitism "generated by a disdain for the state of 'Israel'".

• Source: Arbejderen, October 11th 2024