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Whoop whoop whoop, mod tyranny alert

I understand that everyone had a big day yesterday and surely there will be more excitement to follow as the kirk killing is digested by the news cycle. However, the newsmega is meant to have an international focus. Please keep top level replies on the newsmega to more substantive issues or at least more substantive posts about the impact of Kirk's death.

For example, trump doing some crazy executive order citing the kirk killing - newsmega worthy. An effort post rounding up the story and how it may impact real policy on America or elsewhere - newsmega worthy. On the other hand, loser US pundit tears, subreddit drama, and low effort memes belong elsewhere on the site, such as the kirk megathread. You don't even have to leave the news comm, but it doesn't belong in the international newsmega.

I'm not going to go back and delete low effort or off topic posts in this thread, but please follow the above authoritarian 1984 diktat in the future as a gesture of respect to Kirk's steadfast defence of free speech, including centering the voices of people of lead (this is the woke term for bullets).

Thank you for your attention in this matter.

The reaction of some people to the video (Hasan Piker especially) actually has me wondering a few things, as far as "worst things to see on the internet" it ranks a solid 5/10 in terms of bloodiness, even those ghoulish "Killing in self-defense/heroes shoot robbers" snuff films they allow on Youtube are more visceral and distressing than Kirk getting domed

I can't come to any other conclusion than the realization that the vast majority of people have no fuckin clue what has taken place in Gaza, and by that I mean they can't actually visualize what's happening to Gaza, I think we here on Hexbear because of our access to direct and Arabic news sources have seen things the vast majority of the western left has not

I always wondered why so many "leftist" commentators, podcasters, streamers still have this unspoken hesitation and almost unconscious need to abstract the Gaza genocide, while spaces like TikTok inexplicably have the same serious attitude we here on Hexbear have despite TikTok being filled with right-wingers, and it hit me, people on Hexbear and TikTok HAVE SEEN the videos; the burning people, the kids without faces, the babies hanging dead off rebar. The worst that many of the politics Andies have seen are smoke clouds in the distance, people covered in dust, or the New York Times x-rays

The fuckin commentariat haven't seen shit, they either avoid those videos on purpose or most likely they rely on dry articles, journalistic reports and stats to form an opinion, no wonder when I watch their vids they sound sociopathic to me, I saw a kid missing their face and they're just reading an article, the disconnect is enormous

This whole time I thought most of the left was on the same page concerning the visual knowledge of the atrocities, but if people are fainting over a video of a single gunshot wound, then wtf do people really know about what's happening in Gaza?

Huge tide of civil disobedience as pro-Palestinian protestors took the streets of Madrid and forced the shutdown of the last section of the Spanish Vuelta Ciclista as a protest against the presence of the Isn'treali team.

This is a very significant event: a mass of above 100k protestors (by gvt estimates) flooded the streets without any organization overtly coordinating, since protests today weren't allowed due to the Vuelta Ciclista. This is a total victory of class struggle against Zionism, and is the first time since the 15-M/occupy movement days that such an act of civil disobedience takes place in the capital of Spain.

The goal of the protest is mainly to force the big unions to declare a general strike for Palestine, and the Sindicato de Estudiantes (students union) has already summoned an education strike on October 2nd, two days before the next big protests which will take place on the 4th of October on a state-wide event.

This day followed the example of the Italian harbour strikes, and the previous big protests against la Vuelta Ciclista in Euskal Herria. Free Palestine from the river to the sea!

No one should ever be shot in the neck while hosting an event titled “Prove Me Wrong” and lecturing people about how guns are good and all gun deaths are worth it. It would be like taking a Gadsden flag to a rally and being trampled to death. That is also not funny.

There is no way that the shooter is a leftist. When they find the shooter, they are gonna look at his google search history and find stuff like "who is the president?" and "what is politics??"

Having your own Wikipedia article is our generation's equivalent of going to Valhalla. It's the same as the trump shooter, people just want to be the main character.

Spain Will Formalize its Arms Embargo on Israel

Spain continues to lead opposition to Israel among European states. Not a high bar to clear, but credit where it's due to the extent that it is.

“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”

-Charlie Kirk

/c/news mod: No more news on Charlie Kirk. This is an international news mega.

MEP: I'm about to ruin this mod's whole career.
https://twitter.com/DropSiteNews/status/1966239228108390670

🇪🇺 The European Parliament rejected a request for a moment of silence to honor slain U.S. conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. The initiative was proposed by right-wing MEP Charlie Weimers, who described Kirk as a ‘loving father and patriot’ and sought to symbolize that free speech cannot be extinguished. However, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola denied the request, explaining that minutes of silence are solely her prerogative and are only held at the opening of plenary sessions, which had already passed earlier in the week. When Weimers tried to yield his remaining speaking time to observe the silence, Vice President Katarina Barley interrupted, triggering protests including desk banging and shouting from right-wing MEPs in the chamber. All requests for a moment of silence were denied, eliciting a strong backlash among some members.

UK fuel tanker took off from Qatar, refueled Israeli fighter jets that were attacking Qatar then landed in Qatar.

Hope rises that shooter made a clean getaway

I had to look up the dead fascist because, being non USian, I didn't know much about him. For anyone else who's out of the loop, here is some important context: apparently, today the world lost

• an influential propagandist who pushed all kinds of hate and fascist ideology: incited millions of his followers on many platforms to commit racist, anti-LGBTQI+ and genderbased violence and to support such policy, spread deadly misinformation around vaccinations, covid and climate change
• the leader of a large and multipronged reactionary propaganda organization focusing on students with even an arm in the UK, spreading the same fascist ideology
• a powerful politician and ally to Trump who tried to prepare a coup and might have become a contender in the next elections

Did I miss anything important?

Political violence is inexcusable. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to vote for concentration camps at the border and more funding for the police, nazis, and zionists.

Progressive International reporting that the Global Sumud Flotilla, currently en route to break the siege of Gaza, has been struck in a drone attack off the coast of Tunis

Death to the Zionist entity

Link to a video from the Flotilla

The strike has been confirmed by the Global Sumud Flotilla

Absolute insanity, being a vassal with a small opinion is apparently too much for the Zionist cancer. I've talked about this before in a lengthy post before, but Qatar's nominal foreign policy independence and their small tolerance for anti-imperialist opinions within their borders simply can't be tolerated by the bloodthirsty imperialist machine. A random Tunisian man who lives in Doha can freely wear a hoodie with Sinwar's image on it while riding the Doha Metro. This why Qatar gets bombed and not Saudi Arabia or the UAE. This is not about Hamas or assassinating "dangerous terrorists". This is about crushing Qatar's nominal independence.

Al Jazeera are reporting that the US only informed Qatar about the strike when the bombs actually started to fall on Doha. The Gulf States are receiving the Kurdish treatment for the first time, getting fully stabbed in the back by the US when a more important ally needs to go on a new adventure.

And no one is talking about 's terrorist attack on Hamas in Qatar anymore or that birthday card to Epstein. How convenient.

Supreme Court lifts restrictions on ‘roving’ ICE raids in Los Angeles

The justices, who apparently divided 6-3 along ideological lines, put on hold a federal district judge’s order that reined in what critics called “roving” raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That judge had found the tactics were likely unconstitutional because agents were detaining people without probable cause at car washes, bus stops and Home Depot parking lots based on stereotypes.

The high court’s majority offered no explanation for its decision to grant the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to block the district judge’s order. However, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote separately in support of the decision, saying it was reasonable to briefly question people who meet multiple “common sense” criteria for possible illegal presence — including employment in day labor or construction, and limited English proficiency.

They’re not even bothering to workshop their bullshit explanations anymore

“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. “Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”

If you put this in a book people would say it was too on the nose

Today in hellworld news:

So today I was working during the night while listening to the Ecuador - Argentina football match for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers. I wasn't paying much attention, I didn't really care for the match, I just wanted to listen to something while I drive around and do deliveries.

During half time I usually mute the headphones and tune back in around 15 minutes later, however this time I decided to keep them on because I wanted to hear the half time commentary, but in the mean time the radio station was on the commercial break. Suddenly, I heard a message which went more or less like this:

"If you have a relative living illegally in the United States, you will see them again very soon. Tell them to download [name of the app that I can't remember] so that they may deport themselves safely. I am Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security in the United States. We can provide economic aid as well as free tickets to your relatives so that they may return legally, if not, we will find them and we will deport them by force. Under President Donald Trump's strong administration, law is respected and our borders are secure."

I was COMPLETELY shocked to hear this on the radio. It's absolute dystopian to hear the US-version of the Gestapo telling random ass argentinians to snitch on THEIR OWN RELATIVES so that they might get themselves DEPORTED. I really couldn't believe what I was hearing, it's absolutely insane.

The message was spoken in very clear castellano, with a strong Porteño accent (Basically the one of Buenos Aires). It couldn't have been Noem, I don't think she can speak fluent castellano. It must have been a local woman hired for the job or AI.

What in the ever loving name of fuck man, WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS. Literal nazi propaganda in my fucking radio station. For clarity, it's Radio La Red, it's AM, I listen to them only when there are football matches because I like their commentary... but to hear straight up nazi shit my fucking god.

They're playing pro-Trump propaganda campaigns on argentinian radio, it's just... insane. Also, there aren't a lot of "illegal" argentinians in the US, a lot of them travel to Miami to work in bars and what not, a bunch of them are also educated white men who work in financing and whatnot and live with, I assume, green cards or something, or get work visas. But to have ICE propaganda here? Aimed at who? I think this is a large scale campaign aimed at ALL Latin America, this ad must be playing everywhere... also, who the FUCK approved it?

And I think it's trying to sell the idea of deporting people to Argentina. Parts of milei's government have played with the idea of "setting up a wall in the northern border [with Bolivia and Paraguay]" to "stop the flow of immigration", same messaging as in the US. However immigrants are not a huge part of milei's agenda, but the remnants of whatever will be left after he's gone will surely pick it up.

Jesus christ, this is no longer a meme, it became reality...

Imagine dying in Utah

As cynical as I am, but I have a feeling that this image will mean something for the Middle East in years:

Context: Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad performing funeral prayers for one Qatari martyr and four Palestinian martyrs after the Zionist bombing of Doha.

Watch how all the copers who reacted to the murder of George Floyd and the zionist entity's genocide of Palestine with mockery or silence suddenly start crying about "muh civility" and "muh empathy" and how there is "no place for muh violense" because charlie kirk got fountain'd.

Perfect shot, target dead before they hit the ground, shooter gets away.

It’s some kind of weird cosmic joke this happens to Charlie Kirk of all people 2025 and not someone like Trump.

Where was this person in 2024??

ICE killed a man in Chicago per Breakthrough News

Let’s go into more lighthearted news: Eurovision

Ireland is not participating in Eurovision if israel takes part

“In a statement released today, the broadcaster said that "it is RTÉ's position that Ireland will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, if the participation of Israel goes ahead, and the final decision regarding Ireland’s participation will be made once the EBU’s decision is made".

RTÉ Director General Kevin Bakhurst said that "RTÉ feels that Ireland’s participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza. RTÉ is also deeply concerned by the targeted killing of journalists in Gaza, the denial of access to international journalists to the territory, and the plight of the remaining hostages".

What were his last words? Spewing hate against trans people?

Shithead had it coming. wont leave his house for 30 years.

We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk

By Jezebel | September 8, 2025 | 12:49pm

https://www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some-etsy-witches-to-curse-charlie-kirk

Given that Nepal is in the Western news, as can be expected, the kind of media coverage and narratives they'll proliferate will be likely near entirely socialist-agnostic, with all the leftist elements of the given country's historical background stripped out. So here's a primer I wrote with some readings on the background of the Communist Parties in Nepal:

The entryist nature of the major Communist Parties in Nepal aside, the rarity of new leftist successes beyond AES following the end of the Cold War means that the condition of Nepal shouldn't be entirely dismissed out of hand outright, despite their lack of significant achievements following the dissolution of the armed struggle.

The country was an absolute monarchy for most of the Cold War. It slowly transitioned into a constitutional monarchy, a deal where the royals could be expected to retreat to their palace and parasitize off the public budget just like their welfare leech counterparts in Europe. Then, in 2001, their crown prince did a Romanov by going on a shooting massacre against his own family and parents in their palace, gunning down his parents, the reigning king and queen. He then shot himself and his uncle became the new king. This uncle then quickly demonstrated an autocratic obsession with reconsolidating the monarchy's institutional power but this attempt to assert monarchical authority stumbled against the shattered prestige of the Nepalese royalty from the self-inflicted extermination of the royal household. This ultimately led to the complete abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of a republic in 2008.

Meanwhile, as this was happening, there was a Maoist People's War conducted through the leadership of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist, after the government's violent suppression of attempted land reform in the 1990s. This period of armed struggle lasted twenty years from 1996 to 2006. In 2006, the CPN-M conceded to liberal reformers by agreeing to a bourgeois liberal republic and a constituent assembly, when the Maoists had the upper hand through its control of most of the countryside. This broke the party's unity and some of its founding members left afterwards, who saw the party as having betrayed its goal of New Democracy. The armed wing of the Party, the People's Liberation Army of Nepal was also disbanded and eventually integrated with the national army of the new bourgeois republic.

This is the major contradiction between the two major Communist Parties: CPN-UML (Unified Marxist-Leninist) and CPN-MC (Maoist Center). There's also a rather plentiful amount of breakaway and splinter Communist Parties, who saw the 2006-8 establishment of the bourgeois republic as a betrayal of the armed struggle and comprador parliamentarianism.

You could say that the electoralist Communist Parties are merely working within the contradictions of the times. The establishment of a true New Democracy and an official Marxist-Leninist state during the 2000s right as the United States had its full attention on the region during its "War on Terror" nearby in Afghanistan would have been unwise. Nevertheless, despite the suppression of land reform in the 1990s having been the catalyst for the Nepalese People's War, there is still no comprehensive land reform in Nepal to this day. This has been directly attributed to the concessions of the CPN-Maoists. Here is a criticism of the current "Land Bank" system, which is more akin to the liberal land reform of post-WW2 granted to Japan and Taiwan by the US' permission as a concession to co-opt and destroy socialist sentiment (only the redistribution of land) than those of a socialist land reform (which entails a comprehensive breakdown of land relations, destruction of the landlord class and their intergenerational communal ties and power base).

Nevertheless, the difference between the Nepalese electoral entryism and that of the West's leftists is their strong territorial control of the countryside and their military power prior to their swerve towards entryist politics which prevented the liberals in the bourgeois republic from suppressing them like what was done to the CPI in Italy and the KKE in Greece or from outright ignoring and sidelining them like what was recently done to the so-called French left coalition NPF by Macron. As such, the only way to suppress the various leftists by the liberals is through the parliamentary system itself. This original leading position in the parliamentary system has now indeed been slowly eroded with the liberal "soc-dem" Nepali Congress party ending with the most seats in the 2022 election.

As for geopolitics, Nepal is essentially the Mongolia of the Himalayas, a country between two larger ones, but with even worse geographical positioning. The majority of the country is near entirely on the southern side of the Himalayas, which means that it is almost completely dependent on India as a route to the sea and as a conduit for trade. It has been subjected to regular Indian interference, especially in its southern territories which are on the Gangetic plain and whose Madhesi ethnic minority population are said to be aligned more in interests with India than Kathmandu generally. India itself views Nepal as essentially a second Bhutan though slightly more "unruly," the latter being essentially an Indian client monarchy whose foreign affairs are completely dictated by New Delhi. The Indian-manufactured annexation of the independent state of Sikkim right next door in 1973 has Nepal's principal foreign policy objective being to avoid that exact same outcome.

In 2015, the newly elected BJP Modi government of India blockaded Nepal following a constitutional reform that, according to it, disfavored the aforementioned Madhesi ethnic minority. India was outraged because its appropriation of ethnic minority constituencies was how it had been able to historically annex Sikkim and this reform weakened its ability to potentially repeat it in Nepal if it ever wanted to utilize that option. India then froze fuel and goods imports into Nepal, demanding that the constitution include clauses of self-determination and an autonomous territory for the Madhesi. This had the potential of a humanitarian disaster in the making as Nepal had just suffered an earthquake earlier in the year and it relied on fuel imports through India for heating in the winter months. It was at this point that Modi's India outplayed its hand and Nepal reached out to China. Nepal agreed to the construction of a railway linking Kathmandu to China's national rail system with China's rail gauge standard as a result of this blackmail. Nevertheless, a near decade long bureaucratic stalling has delayed the railway negotiations and construction which still continues to the present day. It was only in July of 2024 that an agreement was finally signed. As such, over 64% of Nepalese imports come from India and only 13% from China as of 2022, meaning that Nepal is still deeply dependent on India.

It also recently signed, during the Trump I period, the US State Department/USAID program, the Millennium Challenge Compact (also the name of that Bush-era wargame against Iran), controversially allowing for US infiltration of Nepal against China in the New Cold War. It was ratified by Nepal’s then-Communist Party coalition led parliament (Maoist-Centre and United-Socialist) in 2022. Here's a piece that the Tricontinental wrote on this: https://thetricontinental.org/asia/ticaa-issue-1-the-millennium-challenge-corporation/

This external dynamic has had a sizeable dampening influence on the internal willingness of Nepal's Communist Parties to pursue more significant socialist reforms such as the comprehensive land reform that the People's War had been fought for in the 1990s to early 2000s.

At approximately 12:10 p.m. local time (MDT), Kirk, while speaking at an event, was shot in the neck from approximately 200 yards away. Kirk was answering a question on low numbers of mass shootings committed by transgender people prior to the shooting.

He was specifically asked "Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?". Kirk responded, "Counting or not counting gang violence?", and was then shot.

I take a break from the news mega for 5 days and this happens lol

Estonian government to punish spreading and VIEWING "terrorist propaganda". This includes pro-Palestinian shit. So much for being the "vanguard of democracy" bordering "Russian barbarism and autocracy"

It looks like it is slowly starting, still a long way to go!

By one estimate, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Tesla will by the end of this year have collectively spent $560 billion on AI-related capital expenditures since the beginning of 2024 and have brought in just $35 billion in AI-related revenue.

P.s. Death to Israel & US & EU

Hamas leaders survive Israeli assassination attempt in Doha

Everyone saying this is political violence. But idk we haven't heard from the shooter. Maybe he had personal beef with him.

Saw the number of new comments and was afraid the US has started bombing Venezuela. Pleasantly surprised.

China has deployed the Red Alert 2 desolators apparently

U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty has claimed that China used an “electromagnetic weapon” to “literally melt Indian soldiers” during a border clash with India, reviving concerns about Beijing’s military tactics and India’s geopolitical stance.

https://archive.ph/jPntI

looking forward to US ships in the Pacific getting pulled down by giant squids

He just died? Wow. I didn't know that. You're telling me now for the first time. He led an amazing life. What else can you say? He was an amazing guy. Whether you agreed or not, He was an amazing guy who led an amazing life. I'm actually saddened to hear that. I am sadden to hear that. Thank you very much.

Would it be too much to ask from those Etsy witches to do Bibi next?

POV: your cake day is 9/11

It was posted about already but the DHS released a statement about the man killed by ICE in Chicago. I've been following local reporters on bluesky covering the incident and haven't seen much confirmed, just police and federal statements. As reported on by yahoo news:

ICE agent kills undocumented migrant in Chicago; agent severely injured

Link to video from reddit, thank you to smokeppb:

https://www.reddit.com/r/illinois/comments/1nfighl/new_video_of_ice_agents_killing_someone_in/

NYT reporting that the bullet engraving story appears to be fake news:

https://bsky.app/profile/thelincoln.bsky.social/post/3lyl5ljm2h22m

US naval academy shooting. Several injured https://www.ktvu.com/news/naval-academy-lockdown-reports-threats

israel is back to bombing Yemen, killing at least 35

death to israel, forever

There is a large new propaganda effort developing against China involving a leak of 500gb of data from 2 organisations MESA Labs and Geedge Networks. The primary source is: https://archive.ph/0ZHKt

The framing is essentially "China is exporting the Great Firewall to other countries they're ebil blah blah blah".

Expecting to see this everywhere shortly. They're going to have to take some time trawling through the data to find things to do propaganda with though, and it's all in Chinese obviously which slows them down.

EDIT: The companies involved look like private companies to me, so if I had to guess this would be more to do with private competition between surveillance companies. Someone like Peter Thiel being mad that Palantir has international competition from a Chinese company perhaps? Speculating.

The fact that they're private companies does not stop the propaganda effort pinning this on the Chinese state, as usual.

a more substantial article on nakedcapitalism on european militarization, austerity, and the shift from fever dream balkanization of russia via shipment of arms to their ukrainian proxy towards domestic crackdown with the same military assets.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/09/is-europe-preparing-for-war-against-russia-or-against-own-populations.html

The money graph:

[Protests in western European capitals] might look like child’s play once the current European leadership is finished decimating national economies with endless self-destructive decisions all stemming from a ruling class dream to balkanize Russia. In the name of that goal, they have replaced cheap and affordable energy with the expensive kind, killed industry, engaged in economic warfare with much of the rest of the world in a failed bid to isolate Moscow, and become completely beholden to American vultures.

I think that connecting the dots between proxy dreams, militarization, austerity, and domestic crackdowns is very important for the actual left.

If we ignore all the political implications of everything and just focus on the human side.

This is Badr Al Dossari

His Qatari blood is now mixed with Palestinian blood, Lebanese blood, Syrian blood, Iranian blood, Yemeni blood and the blood of countless others on the road to Al Aqsa. He's just another sacrifice to satiate the unstoppable bloodlust of the Israeli war machine. May Allah grant him the highest ranks of heaven, next to all martyrs of the past two years and beyond.