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Bulletins and News Discussion from July 15th to July 21st, 2024 - It's Joever (hexbear.net)
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Image is of Joseph Robinette Biden, who has stepped down and will not run against Trump in the 2024 election.

In the aftermath of Trump surviving an assassination attempt, many professional opinion-havers are now talking about the scourge of "political violence" that has overtaken, or will soon overtake America, and how we must not let chaos rule. This is, of course, patently absurd. The American government and its allies have been the greatest force of political violence on the planet since the beginning of colonialism, and the foundations of the country are made of corpses. Today, America commits political violence by forcing Ukrainians into the maw of Russian artillery instead of trying to reach a peaceful settlement, which Russia has repeatedly expressed interest in and offered Ukraine relatively favourable terms. They supply Israel with endless weaponry to destroy entire cities and populations, while Biden supporters insist that somehow things could be worse than daily massacres and mass starvation.

In May 1945, French police fired on protestors, causing retaliatory attacks on French settlers, killing about a hundred. In response, the French murdered 45,000 Algerians in a little under two months, in a frenzy of political violence called the Sétif and Guelma massacre. As the massacre was being completed, the International Court of Justice was established. It goes without saying that Algeria never benefited from the ICJ, and the War of Independence from 1954 to 1962 was made inevitable. Over a million Algerians were killed before France could bear the fighting no longer and gave up, and Algeria won itself a state. Comparisons to the ongoing war of independence and genocide in Palestine are obvious.

While the means of colonial violence have evolved over the centuries, the basic structure of it has not. As in Algeria, Vietnam, and Cuba, resistance groups in and around Palestine are fighting for a world with less political violence. The American government would drown every city in the developing world in blood to prevent peace.

The COTW (Country of the Week) label is designed to spur discussion and debate about a specific country every week in order to help the community gain greater understanding of the domestic situation of often-understudied nations. If you've wanted to talk about the country or share your experiences, but have never found a relevant place to do so, now is your chance! However, don't worry - this is still a general news megathread where you can post about ongoing events from any country.

The Country of the Week is Algeria! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.

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The bulletins site is here!
The RSS feed is here.
Last week's thread is here.

Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

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.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
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.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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

Sources:

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:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

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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[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 76 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

PSL statement about the assassination attempt related to the megathread topic: https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-the-attempted-assassination-of-trump-and-its-political-fallout/

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In an instant, the political situation in the United States was transformed when a gunman shot Donald Trump while he was on stage at a rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania on July 13.

The situation is still evolving, but the initial political impact is highly favorable for Trump. Instructing his Secret Service detail to pause as they evacuated him from the stage, Trump pumped his fist and yelled to the crowd, “Fight!” — instantly creating iconic images that make Trump look heroic and strong. The contrast between his (self-created and false) image as an unstoppable fighter and Biden’s feebleness has never been greater.

Immediately following the shooting, the Biden campaign suspended its advertisements. Practically every major Democratic Party elected official rushed to express their sympathy for Trump and wish him well. A range of corporate leaders, perhaps seeing Trump’s victory as now inevitable, issued statements embracing him.

The main argument the Democratic Party had in the campaign up to now was that Trump was an aspiring dictator and pathological liar who represented an existential threat to democracy. They instantly dropped all these talking points in the name of “coming together” and “turning down the rhetoric.” The furthest Biden now goes is to say Trump has a “competing vision” for the country.

The right wing, on the other hand, immediately went on the attack. J.D. Vance, a vice-presidential contender, directly blamed Biden’s rhetoric for the shooting. Donald Trump, Jr. immediately said after the shooting that his father “will never stop fighting to save America, no matter what the radical left throws at him.” There is zero indication the “radical left” had anything to do with this, as the shooter himself was a registered Republican, but such comments have saturated the far-right political ecosystem. They are meant to cow Trump’s liberal critics into silence, lest they be seen as supporting violence. It also lays the groundwork and creates a pretext for a new wave of repression, either under a second Trump presidency or even now under Biden.

Already the White House has signaled Biden is planning to go on a new political offensive this week against the campus encampments in solidarity with Palestine as an example of “violent extremism.” This is absurd. The encampments were launched to stop the genocidal violence against the Palestinian people; the student protesters attacked no one and were, in fact, targets of violence themselves.

Trump is headed to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention. His speech at the RNC will set the tone for the next phase of the campaign. Trump is reportedly rewriting his speech, which had originally been an all-out attack on Biden, to focus more on themes of national unity. With leading capitalists extending him an olive branch, Trump could calculate that his best move would be to move in a “moderate” direction and demonstrate to fellow members of the ultra-rich elite that he can be a unifying, “presidential” figure and present strength for the Empire. Trump has no fixed ideology and solely cares about his image and legacy.

In another sign that an elite consensus was emerging around Trump as the next president, the judge in the classified documents criminal case against Trump suddenly dismissed all charges two days after the assassination attempt. Soon, a DC judge will have to decide if other charges relating to the plot to overturn the 2020 election can go forward in light of the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.

Fake pacifism and a new cycle of political violence

“There is no place in America for this kind of violence,” Joe Biden says. “No exception.” It is important not to lose sight of the extreme hypocrisy of the powerful figures now issuing blanket condemnations of violence.

The same people who are so appalled that someone would shoot at a politician did not bat an eye at the news the same Saturday morning that Israeli fighter jets had just killed 90 Palestinian civilians in a failed assassination attempt of a resistance leader in Gaza. They normalize and defend all the violence carried out by the state — whether in oppressed neighborhoods inside the United States, at the U.S.-Mexico border, or overseas. But then they turn around and say, “violence has never been the answer.”

All the politicians who have suddenly become pacifists for a weekend don’t really mean it. This is about their own safety and no one else’s.

More than anything, they are concerned about a new wave of political violence that could destabilize their rule. Contrary to Biden’s assertions that such political violence is “unheard of,” working-class leaders and social movement leaders have been targeted by violence throughout U.S. history. There have also been periods of U.S. history where violence and assassination have been the methods used to resolve disputes within the ruling class. The U.S. Civil War came about after years of escalating political violence. A century later, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy in 1963 and 1968 profoundly reshaped the presidential campaigns that were underway in each of those instances. Then came the shooting that left George Wallace paralyzed in the 1972 election, an election which also saw President Nixon order the break-in to the offices of the DNC. The impeachment of Nixon, and the subsequent appointment of an unelected president and vice-president, Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller, capped off this period of extreme instability in the ruling class — and to end it, Nixon was pardoned in the name of “national unity.”

In periods of major upheaval domestically and internationally, the tendency to resolve struggles within the ruling class using violence grows stronger, as does the tendency to use violence against the people.

Lest we forget: from 2017 to 2020, Democratic Party leaders attempted to undo the 2016 election with the phony Russiagate conspiracy, asserting that Trump was elected because of Russian interference in the election. From Day One of the Trump presidency, the Democratic Party leadership and their supporters were looking to impeach him for being a “puppet” of Putin. Then, in turn, Trump tried to undo the 2020 election by mobilizing fascist forces to seize the Capitol at the moment the vote was to be ratified. And in between these two events, there was a mass uprising against police killing of unarmed civilians, during which the National Guard was called out, Democratic mayors complied with Trump to impose curfews and conduct mass arrests, and Trump itched to invoke the Insurrection Act and call out the military to occupy cities in the United States. Talk about instability.

Headed into the 2024 election, there remains all the same explosive potential around the election and the transfer of power. The underlying social crises — of job destruction, climate destruction, military confrontation, state violence, the cost-of-living crisis, etc. — cannot be solved by either faction of the capitalist class. Neither party can control the two egomaniacs who lead them. The trust in Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court are at record lows. There are already hundreds of millions of guns in circulation among the population. The country appears to be on a collision course. No wonder they’re saying, “Cool it.”

All this is more important than who, if anyone, the shooter was connected to politically. Theories already abound, and there will now be extensive investigations by multiple different arms of the government with contradictory political interests. There is intense speculation about how the gunman was able to position himself so close to the stage and why police did not stop him. Some of that may become clearer in the coming weeks, but it also may remain shrouded in mystery. Rather than focus on that, class-conscious workers should pay more attention to how the ruling class will politically utilize this assassination attempt in the here and now.

Real working-class unity — no unity with the ruling-class establishment!

The Democrats now want to invoke “unity” and American patriotism to silence criticism of the institutions whose legitimacy has been rapidly in decline. The Republicans also talk of unity and wrap themselves in the flag, but they want to use this event to blast through any opposition to their radical pro-corporate agenda.

The hypocrisy of elite politicians aside, they are playing on a sincere feeling among many working class people that the United States has become deeply divided in a way that has dangerous consequences. People do desire peace over instability, unity over division. The question, then, is what is the answer to “polarization”?

Socialists desire working-class unity, but no unity with the tiny billionaire class that has doubled their profits in the last four years by exploiting people of all backgrounds. The problem is not that people are politically polarized, but that we are polarized on totally the wrong basis.

Working-class people who vote for Biden or for Trump, or neither, have more in common than they may think. They share the same problems paying for rent, mortgage, a tank of gas, and a dozen eggs while dealing with stagnant wages, disrespectful bosses, decrepit schools, exorbitant child care, and parasitic insurance companies. They have almost no democratic say in any of it. They generally want to stay out of wars abroad and would much prefer to see their tax dollars used to build stronger communities.

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[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 76 points 3 months ago

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[-] IceWallowCum@hexbear.net 76 points 3 months ago

Fascist states can have little a two front war, as a treat

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[-] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 76 points 3 months ago

am I correct to surmise that the modern world can be brought to its knees when actual cyberwarfare comes into play?

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 76 points 3 months ago

Japan considers formal recognition of Palestinian state, says top diplomat - Press TV

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Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa says her country is considering plans to formally the State of Palestine, taking into account the progress of the so-called peace process in West Asia.

During a meeting in the capital Tokyo, the 71-year-old Japanese politician stated that her government supports the purported two-state solution to the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

She said Japan understands the Palestinians' aspiration for the establishment of an independent sovereign state, and that it supports the ongoing efforts to achieve such a goal.

“With regard to recognition of the Palestinian state, we want to continue to address this issue comprehensively, taking into account how to advance the peace process,” the top Japanese diplomat stated.

Earlier, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit had called on Japan to recognize a Palestinian state.

“That is the only solution; the apartheid, annexation and oppression committed by Israel are not feasible solutions,” he said at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, where he attended the 5th Japan-Arab Economic Forum.

Aboul Gheit said the Israeli occupation, oppression and persecution of Palestinians and Arabs since 1967 caused Hamas resistance movement to attack the Israeli regime in a large-scale offensive, dubbed Operation al-Aqsa Storm, on October 7.

“Israel has the urge and desire to suppress Palestinian hopes of independence,” he added. “We, however, are calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state.”

The Palestinians hope to establish an independent state of their own in the Gaza Strip and West Bank with East al-Quds as its capital.

Israel occupied East al-Quds during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It annexed the entire city in 1980, claiming all of al-Quds as its “eternal and undivided” capital in a move never recognized by the international community.

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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 75 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

How I feel watching the RNC/DNC:

(tshirt on sale now at the true anon merch store)

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[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 75 points 3 months ago

Uncommitted has the most delegates out of anyone left in the primaries

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[-] edge@hexbear.net 75 points 3 months ago

I swear libs are incapable of comprehending the existence of people who are deciding between voting for Biden or not voting and that those people are what make or break Biden's campaign.

I guess that's what 8 years of "not voting is the same as voting for Trump" does to your brain. It turns out it's actually not the same.

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 75 points 3 months ago

Someone made a montage of US naval officers expressing frustration on unable to stop Ansarallah:
https://xcancel.com/Aldanmarki/status/1814086981615595797

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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 75 points 3 months ago

Apparently the CPUSA is expelling and dissolving clubs for black nationalism and its the reason its austin chapter is dissolving

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

lmao

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

Lmao. A bunch of dorks at the RNC were wearing ear bandages in solidarity with Trump. That's the kind of cringe shit you'd expect from libs if Biden was the one getting shot at.

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

I hope Bernie and AOC had dump trucks full of money delivered to their homes because theyt basically tanked whatever credibility that they had left lmao

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

Libs have convinced me. It's our duty to vote to save democracy in this most important election of our lifetimes. I will be ridin' with Biden, as he's the only one who can beat Trump (I've been assured by them of this). Everyone join me in writing in Joe Biden

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

UH OH 🥵HOE👨🏻‍🦳BIDEN🍆HAS DROPPED HIS ASS 🍑OUT⬇️🤤OF THE 2024 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ ERECTION🥺😱😥🗳️🔥 THE PRESI-DICK🫡🇺🇸IS EXPERIENCING😩😲SOME 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 😏HEALTH ISSUES👨‍⚕️🩺🤒INCLUDING MEM-WHORE-Y LOSS🤔❓CUM-FUSION 😵‍💫🥛😏 AND DIFFICULTY BREATHING 😮‍💨🫁 DUE TO COVID SIDE EFF-UCKS😰🦠😷. VICE BITCH IN CHARGE 👩🏽💋🙏CUM-MALA 💦WHOR-ISS💅👮🏽‍♀️🚔WILL SQUIRT🦪💦IN HIS PLACE 🫦FOR THE UPCUMMING 🗣️ERECTION🍆🍆🍆WILL SHE FINALLY BE THE FIRST SLUT💅 TO CLAP THOSE ⚪️WHITE HOUSE🏛️ CHEEKS🍑 AND BREAK THE 🪟GL-ASS CEILING?🔨 💅OR WILL DADDY T-RUMP 🍊💁🏼👂 AND 🌈GAY-D 🍆 VANCE EAT OUT😋🍽️THE POLLS AND 🕳️HOLES ?!?!✌️👅💦

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

Hasan continuing to defend Aoc and stanning Kamala is both funny and disappointing. I knew he could be a bit liberal at times but damn.

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

Per the NYT:

It is not the first time CrowdStrike is in the news: Its analysts investigated the data breach of the Democratic National Convention in 2016 and determined that two groups of Russian operatives had breached a DNC server.

lollmao

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

“They did not just read Ibn Taymiyya. They didn't just read Sayyid Qutb. They didn't just read Hassan al-Banna. They read Lenin, they read Jean-Paul Sartre, they read Fyodor Dostoevsky. They read everything that they could come across as they tried to figure out the future and the way forward and out of that Palestinian impasse."

An interview with Dr. Mohammed Al-Hindi, one of the leaders of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

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

King Brandon the Feeble-minded, once thought invincible, now fell prey to the very plague and pestilence he believed he had banished years ago through sacrificial rites to appease the wrathful God of the Line. Scores of peasants had been offered, their lives extinguished in hopes of divine favor, yet the scourge had now returned with a vengeance upon the king himself.

Stricken and weakened, Brandon retreated to his chambers, leaving the court physicians to attempt their cures away from the prying eyes of the courtiers. The Throne of Skulls now stood empty, and the realm's defenses were leaderless and dispirited. The few remaining loyal captains, their hearts heavy with dread, implored their men to cling to faith despite the looming specter of certain defeat.

In the dim corners of the Great White Hall, rumours were whispered that the king's illness was feigned by a faction of nobles tied to his kingship, who feared that revealing him to the world would expose the severe decay of his mind.

As the king lay secluded, the Orange Troll King and his foul hordes drew ever nearer. The air was thick with foreboding, and the once-mighty realm teetered on the brink of collapse, its fate hanging by the thinnest of threads. The nobles, divided and fearful, plotted in the shadows, each seeking to secure their own survival in the face of impending doom.

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[-] WhatAnOddUsername@hexbear.net 71 points 3 months ago

I was on an ostensibly leftist subreddit thread about Biden stepping down, and there were liberals talking about how Kamala is too risky because she's not a white man, or because she's otherwise too progressive to appeal to undecided voters. They're wringing their hands about how even Kamala is too progressive and they should go with a conservative white guy instead.

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[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 71 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I read a profile of Trump's campaign/managers in The Atlantic and it's insane. Trump team took over the RNC, absolutely gutted their national ground game/voter turnout engine, replaced it with a half-assed volunteer ponzi scheme in just 4 states + Ohio, and spent the rest of the money, (over half of it!!) on "election integrity."

They're also relying on TPUSA and similar orgs for the high volume voter contact, which is a Very Stupid idea because Charlie Kirk utterly failed in the 2022 Nevada midterms when he was put in charge. And they replaced most door knocking with targeted ads for Black/hispanic men ages 18 to 34.

Tbh, they badly needed the cash from Musk, and it won't even help unless they stop pissing 70% of it away on voter fraud prevention and trumo's legal bills. Musks money is also going to "a new super-PAC" so how quickly that can ramp up operations is questionable.

The only silver lining for them is that Trump has listened to reason on the voting by mail issue and has stopped trashing it publicly. As well as Trump's dominance in the polls, which may be overestimating liberal support.

Full text: https://archive.ph/IbMy1

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

found in the wild "Project 2025 is fascism for white people"

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

If they just took him off the ballot, made a fake White House, and told him he was the president, would he even notice? Just build one of those communities for people with Alzheimers that functions like a little village that they have in the Netherlands, except it's the White House.

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

Supposedly people in the WH are claiming it’s not actually joever and that there’s no speech planned.

The “it’s joever” to “he’s so back” cycle is intensifying.

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

Israel has performed a retaliatory airstrike against an oilfield in Yemen

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

Thousands register in Poland to join Ukrainian volunteer legion, says Polish FM [11/07/2024]

Speaking during the NATO Public Forum held in conjunction with the alliance's summit in Washington, Sikorski stated that the government is "starting to prepare the first Ukrainian brigade composed of volunteers in Poland. We have up to 1 million Ukrainians of both genders in the country, and several thousand have already registered to participate in this initiative."

"Interestingly, many of them genuinely want to serve and relieve their compatriots on the front lines, but they say they do not want to be sent into combat without proper training and equipment," Sikorski emphasized.

The minister noted that Poland will provide these volunteers with training and equipment, after which they will be sent to Ukraine with the right to return to Poland after their rotation.

"If every European country did this, Ukraine would have several brigades," Poland's chief diplomat admitted.

oh yeah uh huh all those people who fled the war, actually they all wanna go fight in Ukraine, that's why they're in Poland right now, yup most definitely

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 69 points 3 months ago

Man with AK-47 arrested near Republican National Convention in Milwaukee

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

so computers go on crowd strike, and and hexbearoids don't support them. Curious, i see your vitalist chauvinism, sicko-hexbear-crowd

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

https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/804

21st century Ukraine: total population collapse. I think the "without migration uncertainty" assumes a few million refugees will return soon.

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[-] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 69 points 3 months ago

It's great that Bernie and AOC hitched their ride to Biden. Now when he's pushed out, the DNC can argue that he was just too left-wing and that's the real reason why he was unpopular, and then continue the pivot to the right.

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

It appears a drone has struck Tel Aviv

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

if I had a nickel for every time a president who is about to lose an election got coronavirus mere months before election day, I'd have two nickels

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

The more I learn about the Trump assassin dude the more I get confused about his political standing.

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

Seeing rumors (unconfirmed for now) that Biden got COVID pray-against

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[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 68 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I have a new 2020 dem primary theory: Biden wasn't chosen specifically to be the one to coalesce the other shitbird candidates behind, he was the pick because he was too stubborn to be willing to end his campaign. I'll bet money that those Obama calls to step out included Biden and Biden refused to throw in the towel and endorse anybody else. Since the rest of the field weren't at the ends of their lives they had the perspective for their future career, and so they were willing to bow out on the promise of future rewards.

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[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 68 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

collecting its always sunny emojis, tell me if i missed any

newsflash-asshole terrorists-rule did-someone thats-disgusting-where because-of-the-implication mac-concern started-blasting smug-aura-mocks-me dennis-stare both-sides pepe-silvia mac-stare charlie-stare i-get-it

tfw not a single one has dee in it

Edit: oops wrong mega my bad

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

This isn’t news, but I hope you’ll indulge me for a moment; I’m dropping a comment here because I’m currently reading Socialism Betrayed by Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny. It’s really, really good and I wanted to mention it here because I think it’s the sort of book that is right up the News Mega-heads’ alley.

The book is about the collapse of the USSR. It focuses on Gorbachev’s actions after 1986 but links it to other, longer term phenomenon. Like, for example, the development of the underground, private economy and how that created a petite bourgeois “5th column” inside the USSR. I haven’t finished it but so far it’s jam packed with excellent info and analysis.

And if anyone here has read it, I’d love to know if you have any critiques of it.

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

nothing ever happens gang in shambles

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

Biden is faking COVID.

Which really means his team have decided to pivot to a “small target” strategy. To stay out of the news.

A small target strategy is a good idea when you’re winning. Its a viable political play when you’re winning because you will bleed some support due to a loss of enthusiasm but the cost / benefit is still favorable when you’re winning since you dramatically reduce your risk of a major fuck up.

That is to say, you’re trading support for risk. A “small target” strategy works by accepting the cost of losing some support in exchange for dramatically reducing the risk of losing a lot of support.

Biden is polling at George W Bush levels and he’s behind Trump. The political cost calculus doesn’t work out. He must be stepping down or simply giving up.

Or maybe he has covid and he might die.

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[-] newmou@hexbear.net 67 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It’s never been more Joevid

Me in the mirror: jesse-wtf

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

Pelosi threatening to shoot Biden's kneecaps and toss him into the sea to sleep with the fishes if he didn't quit:
https://archive.is/20240722034509/https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/21/why-biden-dropped-out-00170106

“Nancy made clear that they could do this the easy way or the hard way,” said one Democrat familiar with private conversations who was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “She gave them three weeks of the easy way. It was about to be the hard way.”

[-] puff@hexbear.net 67 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

BBC reporting that it was NOT a hack. Just a shittty update from CrowdStrike that caused the whole world to melt down. Lol. Lmao.

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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 66 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Senator Bob Menendez was convicted on 16 counts, including including bribery, extortion, honest services fraud, obstruction of justice and conspiracy (bullshit crime). This guy beat a corruption case in 2017 and apparently decided he had not yet flown close enough to the sun. His lawyers blamed his hoarding of cash and gold on the epigentic trauma of his gusano parents fleeing Cuba. He filed to run as an independent in the 2024 NJ senate race after in June after "dropping out" of the Democratic primary.

Wishing a happy "you're going to die in prison" to the most vocal pro-embargo Democrat (and probably senator, for that matter). Armenians of hexbear, sorry your guy in the Senate took the L.

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 66 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They updated isitjoever.com and now it looks like the fucking NYT needle he-laughed

2016 flashbacks man

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