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Bulletins and News Discussion from December 2nd to December 8th, 2024 - May A Hundred Hazel Flowers Bloom - COTW: Russia (hexbear.net)

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Image is of one of the six salvos of the Oreshnik missile striking Ukraine.

The Oreshnik is an intermediate-range ballistic missile that appears to split into six groups of six submunitions as it strikes its target, giving it the appearance of a hazel flower. It can travel at ten times the speed of sound, and cannot be intercepted by any known Western air defense system, and thus Russia can strike and conventionally destroy any target anywhere in Europe within 20 minutes. Two weeks ago, Russia used the Oreshnik to strike the Yuzhmash factory in Ukraine, particularly its underground facilities, in which ballistic missiles are produced.

Despite the destruction caused by the missile, and its demonstration of Russian missile supremacy over the imperial core, various warmongering Western countries have advocated for further reprisals against Russia, with Ukraine authorized by the US to continue strikes. Additionally, the recent upsurge of the fighting in Syria is no doubt connected to trying to stretch Russia thin, as well as attempting to isolate Hezbollah and Palestine from Iran; how successful this will have ended up being will depend on the outcome of the Russia and Syrian counteroffensive. Looking at recent military history, it will take many months for the Russians and Syrians to retake a city that was lost in about 48 hours.

Even in the worst case scenario for Hezbollah, it's notable that Ansarallah has had major success despite being physically cut off from the rest of the Resistance and under a blockade, and it has defeated the US Navy in its attempts to open up the strait. Israel has confirmed now that their army cannot even make significant territorial gains versus a post-Nasrallah, post-pager terrorist attack Hezbollah holding back its missile strike capabilities. In 2006, it also could not defeat a much less well-armed Hezbollah and was forced to retreat from Lebanon.

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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 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.
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.

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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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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[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 124 points 2 weeks ago (21 children)

Just want to point out that whoever the person is that killed the healthcare CEOscum absolutely knew what they were doing. Today is the tree lighting in Rockefeller Center, so there's a fuck ton of tourists out. They knew that the best way to get around the city is on bike, which they used to flee the scene right into Central Park. You can get there way faster on bike than anything else. And they knew that in Central Park, specifically in the forested area of the Ramble, there are few cameras and many places to hide where they could change clothes and then blend back in with the massive crowds hitting the city today. Also apparently used a suppressed pistol, and knew exactly which door the CEO would be coming out of/when to be there. Impressive. I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that this assassin gets away with this. Trump assassins take notes.

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 117 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Like 90% of US citizens are happy that that health insurance CEO died, but apparently the US can't have free healthcare because "they like their insurance"

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[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 75 points 1 week ago

I haven't seen the internet this giddy since the steering-device . clearly if there's one thing Americans can rally around it's billionaires dying. and yet, neither party supports this as policy. this is what they call democracy?

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 115 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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[–] Praxagora@hexbear.net 106 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Hey all, long time lurker, first time commenter. I used to spam up my geopolitics addiction-brained "effort posts" back on r/genzedong but finally decided to leave R*ddit after seeing how large parts of the site turned on LGBT as a scapegoat after the US election.

Just wanted to post some thoughts on the Syrian tragedy. It’s personal to me in that back when I was a little snot shitlib teenager, I used to volunteer for Amnesty International to fundraise and spread awareness for the “heroic Syrian rebels” fighting for democracy against the “Assad regime” (aka extort white-guilt tithes from schoolmate parents and propagandize for the US State Department). Of course, then Al-Qaeda/ISIS came along with more rebrands than Blackwater, United Fruit and the "formerly known as Twitter" company combined and showed everyone who cared to pay attention whom exactly the “Syrian opposition” really were. Ever since becoming a leftist and a Marxist-Leninist, I’ve tried to keep up with this conflict as best I can and so since I’ve been lurking for a while now and saw some people lost on the complexities of this 13 year long humanitarian catastrophe, so I'll try to fill in some information about the conflict insofar as I understand it. My sources are primarily A.B. Abrams' two books “World War in Syria” and “Atrocity Propaganda Fabrication and its Consequences” (Both on Z-Library and Libgen, both fantastic works that I highly recommend, we seem to be getting an outpouring of actually anti-imperialist published books nowadays when we used to have to scroll through random-ass substacks and twitter threads just to get any information)

Part 1: Target Syria: Origins of the Syrian Civil War

As can be expected, nothing about the “Arab Spring” which led to the outbreak of the conflict in March 2011 was organic. Being notorious self-plagiarists, this was the same playbook the West always uses: taking advantage of strained socio-economic material conditions within a designated adversary's society and funneling that discontent into the direction of regime change.

The origins of Western motives for Syrian regime change:

Anti-Imperialist Geopolitics: For such a “small” country, Syria has been the bastion of West Asian anti-imperialism during the Cold War. Since the dissolution of the United Arab Republic after Nasser’s successor Sadat swung Egypt’s foreign policy away from the Soviet Union and towards the comprador role it diligently upholds today under Sisi, Syria "quickly emerged as the primary opponent of the imposition of Western hegemony in the Middle East.” After the collapse of the USSR, Syria began its alignment with the Axis of Resistance (Iran, Hezbollah) and with the DPRK for its Hwasung missiles to counter Israel. Later, this alignment expanded to Russia and China, hosting Russia’s sole Mediterranean naval base and signing onto China’s BRI.
Syrian Secularism as Islamist target: The naked alignment of Al-Qaeda and ISIS with the US in Syria at the present moment, closely examined, is actually a long continuation of Western ties with the Islamist groups in the 20th century Cold War that "received considerable support from NATO member states, enabling them to more effectively target a number of Soviet-aligned and neutral governments.” In 1979, the Muslim Brotherhood targetted Syria with a Islamist uprising that occupied the city of Hama, killing over 1000 Syrian personnel before the restoration of the city. This is the origin of the West’s Islamist underlings’ particular hatred for the Damascus government and the lightbulb moment for the West in how they could be used against Syria. Following 1979, "Israeli and Western experts would notably highlight the presence of radical Islamist elements as an asset to undermine Damascus which “would not be difficult to operate again” and offered “increased U.S. opportunities for destabilization activities if this form of pressure proves necessary.””
Pipeline Diplomacy: Its closer relationship with Iran in the post-USSR period led to Assad deciding to reject a Qatari oil pipeline project to Europe in 2009 that would have led from Qatar’s North Field through Saudi Arabia-Jordan-Syria-Turkey in favor of a Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline that would ship out via the Mediterranean through the Syrian port and oil refinery of Baniyas in Tartous Governorate without the need for Turkey. Tellingly, the major regional sponsors of Syria’s regime change in the 2010s became precisely those same countries in the Qatari project that Assad sunk. As America's imminent Healthcare Wormbrained Genius RFK Jr. once wrote for Politico:

Secret cables and reports by the U.S., Saudi and Israeli intelligence agencies indicate that the moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline, military and intelligence planners quickly arrived at the consensus that fomenting a Sunni uprising in Syria to overthrow the uncooperative Bashar Assad was a feasible path to achieving the shared objective of completing the Qatar/Turkey gas link […] the CIA began funding opposition groups in Syria. It is important to note that this was well before the Arab Spring-engendered uprising against Assad
Syrian sovereignty: Ultimately, Syria’s stance as a sovereign West Asian country unbeholden to the West just like Hussein's Iraq and Gaddafi's Libya was the primary Western rationale. Once again, it goes to show that Western hegemonic chauvinism is the root of it all. I’ll just let Abrams conclude this section:

While there were multiple converging casus belli which led the Syrian state to be targeted for destabilisation and eventual overthrow by the Western Bloc and its partners, one common factor underlying every rationale for targeting Syria was the country’s position as an independent state under a single ruling party which was outside the Western sphere of influence. All states of this nature, from the Soviet Union and Ba’athist Iraq to Cuba, Afghanistan (pre-1992) and North Korea among many others, have been targeted for various economic, military and information warfare efforts. The final goal of these efforts has been to bring about their downfall, placing Western soldiers permanently on their soil and placing their territories and populations firmly within the Western sphere of influence. All reasons for targeting Syria are in some way consequences of this one single fact.

[–] Praxagora@hexbear.net 76 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Part 2: In March 2011, the Civil War began. What happened after?

Why did the Syrian "Arab Spring" occur?: Three primary socio-economic factors were: The Great Recession. Historic Crop Failures. Shock Therapy. An untimely trifecta but only the third was really entirely the doing of the government. Bashar Al Assad was the second pick as his father's successor. The story goes that he was in his opthamology practice in London curing black eyes for Arsenal football rioters when his father from Syria rang him up and told Bashar that his military education-groomed elder brother Bassel got himself killed in a car accident and that Bashar would be the new heir to Syria. Western analysts were initially thrilled at the selection of the Western-educated Assad Junior and had their eyes gleaming at a potential "Syrian Gorbachev." Bashar would disappoint on the geopolitical front, but he would completely take up the role with his domestic reforms: replacing from his father's government "nearly every economic official in cabinet, [...] privatization of universities, banks and media, reducing subsidies on a number of basic goods, reducing tariff protections for domestic industries and the breaking the state monopoly on education which the party had maintained since 1963. Government funding for education was cut, and the influence of the party was undermined with party flags featured much less prominently at state events – often not at all – and non-party officials promoted to senior positions in government." Abrams writes:

As has been widely observed since 2011, popular discontent in Syria was largely fuelled by opposition to its Western-style neo-liberal reforms moving Syria away from a state centred economy and towards privatisation. Former chair of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group and Oxford University lecturer in modern history, Dr. Mark Almond, was one of many to observe to this effect: “One of the big causes of discontent in Syria is precisely the transfer of the state assets into private hands.” This contrasted strongly with Western portrayals of discontent motivated primarily by calls for greater Westernisation of the country’s political system.

As such, Bashar Al Assad basically recreated the same socioeconomic material conditions that led to the overthrow of the USSR and the appropriation of popular mass discontent in response to shock therapy towards the agenda of regime change by the West mirrored near perfectly the same context of the failed Tiananmen counter-revolution: resistance to neoliberal reform was then subverted in the Western narrative as a "pro-democracy uprising." The privatization of Syrian media and the entrenchment of Western discourse propagation mechanisms within the country meant that, just like every other color revolution, the initial causes for popular protest became irrelevant as the West's "pro-democracy" regime change narrative took over and became all-encompassing. The role of Facebook in the concurrent Egyptian Tahrir Square protests is well known and similarly, the adoption of Western social media platforms and Gulf State news media by the Syrian population meant that, once the initial protests began, they were susceptible to the same atrocity propaganda feedback loop seen in Ukraine 2014, Hong Kong 2019 and elsewhere. Initial reports of police brutality, then tear gas, then murders, then mass killings, then chemical gas. Combined with a manipulation of the ethno-religious and socio-economic divides in Syrian society, the West created an image of the Assad government that became demonic in the eyes of the population, providing the support for anti-Assad militant forces to emerge.
Why did protests lead to civil war? It became possible with covert military infiltration by foreign entities including the US, UK, France, Turkey and the inbred monarchist comprador Gaza Genocide abetting shits in Jordan. Abrams:

There was little illusion among Syria’s foreign adversaries that mass protests could topple the Ba’ath Party by themselves, with the protesting minority, no matter how well trained and vocal their organisers were, still relegated to outlying areas and holding few prospects of gaining support in the capital. What the protests did achieve, however, was to create enough confusion and disruption to allow Western-trained militants flowing across the borders to make serious gains. Al Qaeda commander Abu Mohammad Al Julani, (Yes, the same one being paraded around the Western press circuit right now) who would later lead the most powerful antigovernment militant group with strong foreign support, stated to this effect regarding the protests paving the way for a Syrian jihad: “Syria would not have been ready for us if not for the Syrian revolution… The revolution removed many of the obstacles and paved the way for us to enter this blessed land.”
Who are the "Free Syrian Army”/"Syrian ‘Moderate’ Rebels”/"Syrian Opposition?”: The onset of the Syrian Civil War pitted a thousand different little anti-Assad and Islamist factions against Damascus. The Western brain is incapable of comprehending a conflict beyond that of a Manichean Good vs. Evil and so all the opposition forces to the Syrian government were clumped together for the sake of Western news coverage in a nominal "coalition" called the “Free Syrian Army.” For most of the Civil War, this allowed the West to present the conflict in an artificial David vs. Goliath angle, allowing for sucker Westoids to become volunteer Amnesty mouthpieces with an comprehensible story to sell. This avoids the “it’s complicated” aneurysms that would otherwise appear like you see currently with mainstream western media trying to grasp Myanmar’s civil war and watching them undergo mental contortions trying to calculate which of the multitude factions there would potentially be the biggest US toadie and stick it to China the most. Eventually, this became untenable with Al-Qaeda offshoot Al-Nusra and ISIS becoming the only operating contingents of this FSA “coalition" and that gave birth to the idea of the “moderate rebel.” There’s been enough said over the course of the civil war debunking this and I’ll just add the commentary of Cato Institute neocon John Glaser, who noted how remarkable it was that ISIS in 2017 “imploded right after external support for the ‘moderate’ rebels dried up.”
Did Assad use Chemical Weapons?: There is no concrete evidence linking the Syrian forces with any chemical attack in the Civil War. This is the big one, the original sin for why "Assad must go" and the West has had over a decade of time to provide some definitive evidence, but they haven't because they can't. Though it hasn't stopped them from repeating it to this day. From a pragmatic standpoint, conducting mass atrocities of any kind would have been detrimental to the Syrian government when there’s such a long history of Western attempts to use allegations of such actions as pretexts for their military intervention, for example, in Yugoslavia. Regime change means you lose your government, while being pinned with atrocities by the West means you get a tribunal like Milosevic. Atrocity propaganda against the Syrian government had its pre-chemical attack precursors. In August 2012, a massacre of 245 in Daraya was scapegoated as done by “Assad’s army.” Independent UK journalist Robert Fisk investigated and later revealed it was done by the FSA. In December 2012, a massacre of 120-150 in Aqrab was blamed on Assad by the NYT. British journalist Alex Thompson revealed that "the Free Syrian Army had been the perpetrator and had held 500 villagers from the president’s Alawite religious minority hostage for nine days before carrying out mass executions.” In 2013, following months of Syrian government military successes, the Western objective became that of imposing a “no-fly zone” as they did with Libya to level the playing field for their “moderate rebels.” This was when the first breathless accounts of a “chemical attack” in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta. Abrams' books cover the later copycat allegations but this first is the one that created the "Chemical Assad" propaganda narrative and so I'll focus on this:

Theodore A. Postol, a professor of science, technology and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Richard M. Lloyd, an analyst at the military contractor Tesla Laboratories, which was published by the New York Times in December […] concluded based on the calculated maximum ranges for the sarin-filled rockets that the attack could not have come from Syrian Arab Army positions, and that Islamist insurgents were the most likely perpetrators. Evidence implicating Al Nusra mounted quickly […] reports indicated that the sarin used had been supplied by Saudi Arabian intelligence services, which had provided significant material support to the insurgency since early 2011.

Seymour Hersh wrote a scathing indictment of the US narrative that Obama was waving around, reporting that:

A former senior intelligence official told me that the Obama administration had altered the available information – in terms of its timing and sequence – to enable the president and his advisers to make intelligence retrieved days after the attack look as if it had been picked up and analysed in real time, as the attack was happening. The distortion, he said, reminded him of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, when the Johnson administration reversed the sequence of National Security Agency intercepts to justify one of the early bombings of North Vietnam. The same official said there was immense frustration inside the military and intelligence bureaucracy: ‘The guys are throwing their hands in the air and saying, “How can we help this guy” – Obama – “when he and his cronies in the White House make up the intelligence as they go along?”

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[–] Lando@hexbear.net 102 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have to admit the sentiment regarding the dead CEO was way more extreme than I expected, and I don't mean that in a bad. Just a little of the standard liberal scolding, but largely unanimous that he had it coming. Hope that pressure point keeps getting pushed on.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 73 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

I don't think I've ever seen such a big difference between the standard news media narrative and the respective comments by the public. Normally people just think what they're told they're supposed to from the media, or at least take the proper tone.

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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 100 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's pretty wild that Reddit is universally celebrating this guy's death. Like yeah no shit but just a couple years ago you would get banned for saying whatever holden-bloodfeast bit the dirt that month deserved it. Dare I say it, shit is accelerating.

[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 73 points 1 week ago

IMO it is just the fact that Trump is coming back. You could talk lots of shit when he was president. I got banned from major politics subreddits for criticizing MBS while Biden was visiting Saudi Arabia. You're supposed to STFU when the libs are in power.

[–] sweet_pecan@hexbear.net 97 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/murdered-insurance-ceo-had-deployed-175638581.html

Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People

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[–] Red_Renewal_Cosmonaut@hexbear.net 95 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

The guy was just so disgusted with the state of american political assassinations and had to show us hows it done

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[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 94 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Libs' favorite Feel Good Stories: 98 YEARS OLD lady picked up a JOB at MC DONALD'S to pay for her RENT. Here's her EMOTIONAL story.

My favorite Feel Good Stories: Man KILLS CEO in DOWNTOWN Manhattan and ESCAPES. He left some MESSAGES behind.

[–] Daireon@hexbear.net 94 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

A Healthcare CEO got assassinated this morning. I am surprised this doesn't happen more frequently in America of all places with all the guns.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 82 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

fatally shot in the chest on Wednesday morning outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan
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The company canceled the remainder of an investor event in Manhattan that had just kicked off.

lol gunned down on the way in to the investor conference. good symbolism

There are no arrests at this time, and the investigation is active and ongoing.

omg the perp got away too?

hahaha

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[–] makotech222@hexbear.net 93 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

A new american debt jubilee has been created

https://x.com/baldbucknut/status/1864671174484955198

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[–] LargePenis@hexbear.net 93 points 1 week ago (16 children)

For everyone that is confused why me and other Syrians might be happy about this:

A stagnant, oppressive and expired regime has finally been kicked out after strangling us since 1971. Yeah yeah the geopolitical implication and all that, but we're human in the end and there's an emotional weight in seeing the omniscient Baath regime with all the fucking Hafez and Bashar statues and pictures get stomped on and thrown in the trash. Let us have this at least, these fuckers have killed or tortured a young man from every single Syrian family.

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[–] sempersigh@hexbear.net 93 points 2 weeks ago

is it finally happening

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 90 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

The CEO killing is being called a targeted killing, but the MSM taking the opportunity to scaremonger and make this about the safety of the general public. There's probably more people walking the streets that have been fucked over by healthcare corporations. Pretty sure they aren't going to be the targets of a hit or premeditated murder.

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[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 88 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Could be cops lying, but reports coming out that the shooter's motive was ideological:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-shot-chest-midtown-manhattan-masked-gunman-large/story?id=116446382

The words "deny," "defend" and "depose" were discovered by detectives on the shell casings found at the scene where Brian Thompson, the CEO of major insurance group UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down, police sources told ABC News late Wednesday evening.

[–] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 85 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

very clever, Mr shooter, good reference

imo, this was 100% someone who got personally fucked over by UHC and decided to do something about it.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 88 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

Zelensky says that the country's army does not have the strength to recover Crimea and that he will have to make “diplomatic efforts”. This is his first statement indicating that he would cede territory to Russia.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 87 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (15 children)

Absolutely pissing myself laughing. This propaganda telegram I follow which I've long believed has some feds in it has a moderator who has been telling people he's Swiss for years now. Constantly posts racist, hateful and homophobic shit in a bid to get me to quit the group because they don't like my presence there constantly undercutting stuff.

Anyway dude posted a voice message to the chat (quite common on telegram) without thinking about it and the dude has a yank accent so now I call him the fed.

This isn't news per se but as it's one of the fashy places I get shit from it's tangentially related

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 86 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Israel is now starting to sell the story for why they need to invade Syria

https://tankie.tube/w/nzPuRscsdJmWj6G9E6BgUi

They intend to cross the Golan Heights (which currently exists as a buffer zone) because they say they need a buffer zone. It's an excuse to take Syrian land.

Greater Israel is their goal. Has always been their goal. They will never stop.

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[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 85 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

this assassination is one of the most threathing things that has happend to the US Oligarchy in quite some time imo.

it happend in the middle of New York , he got away.

a unrelenting Order was shown to be helpless and unprotected & and somewhere "he" still roams..

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[–] SoloboiNanook@hexbear.net 85 points 1 week ago (18 children)

Lol maybe they are scrambling harder than we think...

They actually shook down a store over a welrod sale and he was absolutely not using a welrod lmao.

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[–] LargePenis@hexbear.net 83 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Hmmmm

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[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 82 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It’s funny reading about the TikTok ban and seeing Redditors talk about how China will hack them through back doors.

Once again liberals believe China is more aggressive than it actually is.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 81 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

China's BYD to produce its EVs in Brazil. “This will be the largest and most advanced electric vehicle production plant outside of China”. 300,000 vehicles are expected to be produced per year by the end of 2026, primarily to supply the Brazilian and South American markets.

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[–] sempersigh@hexbear.net 81 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

lol extremely chad move if he just left the phone on purpose just to fuck with them/waste their time

Edit: if they do manage to unlock the phone I hope there’s literally nothing on there but hundreds of pig poop balls images

[–] WilsonWilson@hexbear.net 74 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'll be very surprised if the shooter is taken alive. The bourge are shocked by the show of support and they don't want to see a trial play out in the news cycle for a year or two. Imagine the shit storm if the jury found them not guilty.

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[–] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 81 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I guess a year from now we are going to be seeing reports of Jihadi crimes in Syria with people asking what went wrong in Syria

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 79 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Bro the way the NYPD keeps glazing this assassin is only something I've seen with like Lebron's myrmidons, they are in love with this man

Real "Batman needs his Joker" ass dynamic going on with these cops

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[–] LargePenis@hexbear.net 79 points 1 week ago (13 children)

And just like that, the Baath government in Syria is no more. I'm very emotional right now, many mixed feelings, one part of me is very happy and relieved, another part knows that some American and Israeli ghouls are sharing my happiness, which makes me question that happiness. There's much to dissect in the events of these last 10 days, we'll do that slowly and carefully over the next weeks. But wow, I can't believe that this even happened. 14 years, what was even the point of all this pain and destruction? Congrats to Jolani, he has cemented his place in the history books as the conqueror of Syria, he did what Alloush, Baghdadi and countless others couldn't do. Assad goes into the trashcan of history, another failson goes.

And for the last time:

Who must go? 😔

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[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 79 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Live DPRK reaction: sit-back-and-enjoy

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[–] LargePenis@hexbear.net 78 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A little report from Aleppo, I called my aunt yesterday. She stayed in Aleppo, more specifically Hayy Salah Al Deen in the western parts of Aleppo. Life is pretty normal according to her, the Jihadists are actually behaving well in their interactions with civilians. Shops are open, but there's some confusion about currency and prices, because fighters from Idlib mainly carry Turkish Liras instead of Syrian Liras, so all the prices are unstable and people are confused about what to do with their money. They distributed free bread yesterday, which was neatly organised. Electricity has somehow gotten better.

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[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 76 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Christ, what a miserable state of affairs. Assad has always been a piece of shit, but I cannnot imagine how awful things are going to get once again in Syria without his regime at least nominally committed to multiethnic harmony. And the Axis of Resistance? What a joke tbh, I'm almost glad Nasrallah isn't here to see this. Iran is just watching all its pieces wiped from the board, for what? Some vague hope that Trump of all people is going to dial back sanctions? Disgusting. I hope I'm wrong, but grim days seem to be ahead.

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[–] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 76 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

Hezbollah: Following the repeated violations initiated by the Israeli of the cessation of hostilities agreement announced to come into effect at dawn on Wednesday, November 27, 2024, which take various forms including firing on civilians and airstrikes in various parts of Lebanon, which led to the deaths of citizens and the injury of others, in addition to the continued violation of Lebanese airspace by hostile Israeli aircraft reaching the capital Beirut, and since the reviews of the relevant authorities to stop these violations did not succeed, the Islamic Resistance carried out an initial warning defensive response this evening, Monday, targeting the Ruwaysat al-Alam site belonging to the Israeli army in the occupied Lebanese hills of Kafr Shuba

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[–] edge@hexbear.net 76 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield calls off decision to cap anesthesia for surgical patients

lmao absolutely not a coincidence.

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[–] Kieselguhr@hexbear.net 76 points 1 week ago (10 children)

It's mindblowing how many libs are Wuhan-pilled after the ~~show trial~~ The Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

They believe everything if it says CHINA BAD, even if western scientists themselves don't believe the lab leak theory.
If you point this out, you are a Chinese bot, case closed.

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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 75 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Czechoslovak comic from 1958

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 75 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Romania has annuled the results of the first round of their elections. Citing Russian interference.

In reality they didn't like the result so they're fighting it. Bourgeoise democracies are only allowed democracy if it's the outcome the bourgeoisie want.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4x2epppego

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[–] Darthsenio_Mall@hexbear.net 74 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Got emself a dang roll-top knapsack. 5/5 fit.

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[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 74 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

Fucking tired of hearing about the fucking hostages. In particular these past few days with the video of the hostage being released by Hamas. Guy is a fucking IDF soldier, he willingly signed up for this shit for the glory of being a colonizer. And now they're banging on about another soldier who actually got what he deserved on Oct. 7th, but everyone thought was being held hostage.

I hate how the media treats these genocidal freaks with more humanity than the all of the innocent Palestinians that are being systemically exterminated by Israel.

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[–] sempersigh@hexbear.net 74 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Now would be a great time to clog up their tip line with bullshit if anyone wants to have some fun

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 74 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

horrors approaching

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[–] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 73 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in New York City

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 72 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Seized from here

Also i lost the link but apparently an official account of the DDP of taiwan congratulated the ROK president for the coup and said taiwan should do the same, they deleted after it failed

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