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Also known as "Foucault's boomerang" or the "imperial boomerang".

Image is of a sniper on the roof of the Indiana Memorial Union at Indiana State University, overlooking a student protest.


The Imperial Boomerang is the observation that the tactics of mass oppression and totalitarianism used by Western countries in their colonies and neocolonies will, sooner or later, return home to be used against the citizens of those Western countries. While the people living at the time of WW2 were, rightfully, in deep shock of the concentration camps used by Nazi Germany, those paying attention to what was occurring in Africa would not have been terribly surprised. Concentration camps were used in several countries in order to separate out ethnic groups and place them in more easily controlled environments which aimed to prevent them from rising up and fighting back against the Western governments which exploited them. There is the additional factor of governments taking notes from each other - Hitler was inspired by America's racial segregation and genocide of indigenous groups, which author Carroll Kakel among others have written books on.

Today, the totalitarian strategies used by the Zionist entity in occupied Palestine are being brought home to Western countries as the American Reich and its global influence accelerate in their decline. Gaza was and is a cyber-concentration camp, with digital surveillance taking place alongside old-fashioned techniques of paying informants. Aside from being an unsinkable aircraft carrier and disrupting the entire Middle East, Israel's primary role appears to be to generate new ways to monitor entire populations. Propaganda about China being an authoritarian police state with social credit scores and AI which knows where everybody is at all times was probably created, at least in part, to deflect attention from Israel doing those exact things. The paranoid and flimsy American regime with its gerontocratic upper circles now use these tactics at home: cracking down on any and all protestors with political views left of Mussolini; placing snipers on roofs ready to fire at the slightest provocation; and arresting organization leaders. Pegasus has wormed its way around the world, with a notable recent example in Poland, in which the previous conservative government used the spyware to monitor the current liberal ruling party. The Israeli military, experts only in killing children and not actual warfare, have trained the police of other nations.

It would be easy to end the preamble there, on a gloomy note about the brick wall - or, indeed, iron curtain - that upstart left-wing groups are up against. What history has shown is that these regimes are, in fact, beatable. Liberation movements around the world have found ways to counter imperialism, even if they required wars in which millions of their countrymen were murdered. The legacy of Israeli propaganda psyops and digital tracking is not victory, as Hamas demonstrated on October 7th and continues to show with every ambush executed and every Merkava destroyed. The legacy of Western military defence equipment is not success, demonstrated by every missile fired by Hezbollah and Iran which hits Israel. The legacy of the American Navy is not competence, with a naval blockade of the Red Sea still maintained after months by one of the poorest countries on the planet.

The protests of at least the last couple decades have been marked by failure to produce material results: from those against the Iraq War, to Occupy Wall Street, to the BLM protests of 2020. Of course, it would be silly to tell American protestors to start digging tunnels. But sooner or later, the failure of Western protest movements will be overcome, and a more effective strategy will be devised, in order to deflect the boomerang.


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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 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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[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 127 points 5 months ago

Thank you comrade checks notes Ken Bone

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 120 points 5 months ago
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[-] Zrc@hexbear.net 119 points 5 months ago

US soldiers watching Russian troops come to occupy their base in Niger after the government told america to fuck off

lol, nice empire dude

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[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 110 points 5 months ago
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[-] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 110 points 5 months ago

10 years ago today was the Odessa trade union massacre.

On May 2, 2014, NATO-backed Ukrainian neo-nazis attacked an encampment of anti-maidan protestors. When some of the protestors took refuge in the trade union building the neo-nazis lit it on fire. Those who tried to escape the building were beaten to death. This was all recorded live and posted online but the Ukrainian regime never punished the perpetrators. 48 people were murdered.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240502/odessa-massacre-ten-years-on-how-radicals-drowned-city-in-blood-to-subdue-ukraine-1118193803.html

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[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 108 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Biden sleeps while entire blocks and hospitals are blown up in Gaza

Biden wakes up when a college kid breaks a window with a hammer.

Hope you die soon, Joe.

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[-] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 107 points 5 months ago

Zionists at UCLA have been throwing fireworks into the encampment, spraying people with bear mace and physically attacking protestors with batons, lasers in the eyes and such for about 4 hours now, theres an LAPD helicopter watching overhead and there has been 0 police response.

https://twitter.com/joeyneverjoe

All this so they can keep bombing toddlers! What do you even say at this point?

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[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 107 points 5 months ago

Unbelievably based May Day propaganda from PFLP

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[-] mushroom@hexbear.net 105 points 5 months ago

zionists threw a backpack filled with mice at the UCLA encampment last night. people say they have marks on their backs indicating they were injected with something. unclear what they were injected with, if anything, but even if they weren't it seems like a clear threat of bioterrorism against the protesters. if someone did this at a pro-israel rally or something the msm would talk about it nonstop for weeks and would bring it up as an example of "terrorism on the left" for years afterwards

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 103 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[-] newmou@hexbear.net 96 points 5 months ago

And renaming it “Hind’s Hall” after the little girl who called into the Red Crescent for help when Israel was bombing her family and killed her shortly thereafter.

“This time, students and community have deployed a multi-level occupation of Hamilton Hall: barricading themselves inside the building, bolting and tying the doors, and renaming it Hind's Hall in honor of Hind Rajab, and in honor of all of our martyrs. We affirm that we will not cower to Columbia's threats, and that we will continue to escalate until divestment is met..”

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[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 102 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Columbia has just sent out a note that it is suspending media access to its campus "as a safety measure". The statement notes that Hamilton Hall is "an active crime scene" under police investigation, and the campus will only be accessible to those with university IDs or "essential personnel".

In a statement earlier on Wednesday, President Minouche Shafik said the events of the past few days have "filled me with deep sadness. I am sorry we reached this point".

"It is going to take time to heal, but I know we can do that together," she wrote.

"active crime scene" fills me with dread and horror at what the pigs have done

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[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 101 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Faculty from Columbia’s sociology department are outright stating they will subvert a university suspension of students who participate in pro-Palestine protests by continuing to allow students to attend class, take exams, and receive grades.

Link to the full letter from the sociology department here

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[-] Ideology@hexbear.net 101 points 5 months ago
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[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 101 points 5 months ago

Biden is so fucking done lmao. All Trump has to do now is sit back and watch it all burn, not that he will gain a lot of votes out of this scenario but Biden will bleed voters left and right.

And excuse me but I think this was probably one of the "easiest" presidencies one can hope for. Trump was so fucking bad all you had to do was not screw up, but this old fuck did just that. Serves them right, death to the DemoKKKratiKKK Party and JoSSeph Biden.

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[-] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 100 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The following is a comment left by user Emma under the Naked Capitalism story about Türkiye cutting off trade to Israel. Sharing it because it makes me hopeful, and I think we all appreciate having some hope:

I will say that I don’t think there’s going to be a real day after for Israel or the West, even if they ethnically cleanse all of Gaza or put it under some sort of PA led Vichy regime.

Ilan Pappe said that he thought the next 12 to 24 months will be very hard, but then Israel will break from its internal contradictions. People will leave, the struggles in the West Bank and with Hezbollah will intensify, and there won’t be a sustainable Jewish entity on the other end.

The external factors will also be very harsh on Israel. Once Russia is done in Ukraine, it and China will look to help Syria recover its territory and economy. Iran and China will also want to bring Iraq fully into the BRICS system and out of American domination. The salvo from this new Bahraini resistance organization suggests that Iran’s Axis of Resistance is spreading into places ruled by Western placed emirs and kings. The actual positions of ISIS and other regional players has been unveiled by their actions. All in all, an Israel that is now clearly intolerable to basically all Arabs is not going to last in a sea of Arabs.

Yes there are the nukes and the Samson option, but I don’t think Israelis have it in them to die for the land. Look how quickly the fanatical settlers in the north and around the Gaza envelop abandoned their homes. Look at how quickly the ultra orthodox deeply implicated in pogroms in the West Bank and lies of Zaka, threatened to leave the country if they’re called up for conscription. Look at the desertions of reservists in the latest call ups.

Would any of these people, who can still have comfortable lives in the Levant or in the West, really give up their lives for a land that they’re only willing to kill for (and in many cases, brainwash the young into killing for them)?

Especially now that their finally waking up somewhat from their October 7 freakout and are confronting the fact that Mass Hannibal was likely responsible for the majority of civilian deaths, and that their ‘most moral army in the world’ shot 3 white flag waving defenseless hostages in cold blood.

The Afrikaans didn’t use their nukes, even though their ties to the land go back centuries and their ancestors did die in large numbers in the Boer War. So while the chances of the Israelis using nukes is not zero, I hope and think its quite unlikely

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[-] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 99 points 5 months ago

I was not expecting the pro-Palestine demos to dominate the news cycle for a full week.

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[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 99 points 5 months ago
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[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 98 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Trans comrades have hacked Andy Ngo's The Post Millennial and leaked subscriber emails and other data which was apparently saved in a plain text format

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[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 98 points 5 months ago

Americans who get their news primarily from cable are the only people who believe that Israel is not committing a genocide in Gaza, according to according to a new survey that examined the relationship between attitudes toward the war and news consumption habits.

https://theintercept.com/2024/04/30/gaza-israel-palestine-cable-news-poll/

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[-] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 97 points 5 months ago
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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 97 points 5 months ago

Chad Moves to Kick Out US Military:
https://orinocotribune.com/chad-moves-to-kick-out-us-military/

(I forgot if this was already posted)

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[-] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 97 points 5 months ago
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[-] khizuo@hexbear.net 96 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

According to my dad who just came back from China, entrepreneurs in China are getting scared because of Xi’s strong left position xi-shining

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[-] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 96 points 5 months ago

https://twitter.com/xpmov/status/1783871060682637507

Need more like them. 👍

American protestor waving Hezbullah flag saying "I love Hezbullah"

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[-] edge@hexbear.net 95 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

lmao RFK Jr is proposing to Biden that they hold a nationwide poll putting Biden and him each 1-on-1 vs Trump and the loser will drop out. He’s showing polls where Trump beats Biden but without Biden, Kennedy beats Trump. Saying “Biden is the real spoiler”.

Regardless of how true or crazy it is, it’s a good bit.

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 95 points 5 months ago
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[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 94 points 5 months ago

The Guardian has been editing out mentions of Israel in its articles without even telling the authors in question that edits were made. It was highlighted this morning by author Noreen Masud, but other authors have chimed in to say they've gone back and checked and it's been done to their articles too.

Twitter thread here and some excerpts posted below:

I wrote about what I’d been reading, for the @guardian. Now: editing’s important. I’m happy to be edited and I welcome it. But isn’t it funny how it’s always the same word that gets edited out?

I did not approve these edits and I condemn the moral cowardice behind them. Name the hand behind the deaths of 15,000 children. It is Israeli violence, funded and supported by the US and the UK.

I am so so sickened by the cowardice of our media

UPDATE. No one has been in touch with me

Despite the thread blowing up and her contacting the Guardian they were ignored until, according to an email screenshot, her publisher intervened with the Guardian.

the ‘lost’ word has mysteriously been found

Another author who was asked by the Guardian to write about the conflict then chimes in with others with another particular egregious example:

(2nd Author) I noticed a similarly shocking omission in a piece I’ve just read about the horrors unfolding in Rafah.

My god - am I right in thinking that Israel is not mentioned there even once in a whole article about its violence towards Gaza’s children?

(2nd Author) Not once

Speechless

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[-] morninghymn@hexbear.net 94 points 5 months ago
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[-] Zrc@hexbear.net 94 points 5 months ago

zionist freikorps beating up protesters while being protected by the pigs, very cool and normal country

[-] somename@hexbear.net 94 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Got an email from my union president a few minutes ago. UAW 4811, the union of academic workers in the UC system, "voted to hold a strike authorization vote as early as next week to give the Executive Board authority to call a strike."

This is obviously in regards to the attack at the UCLA encampments. My opinion of the highest level of my union leadership is kinda bad, there's still a decent bit of corruption that hasn't been stamped out, but I think this might have been egregious enough for the other organs of the union below to push for this. This could be pretty huge if it goes through, there's 48000 people in the union altogether. This would be a massive amount of economic pressure, so I can only hope.

The strike authorization vote will be across the entire union membership, which is good. The membership is consistently better about things than the highest leadership levels.

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[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 93 points 5 months ago

Ukrainians are again demolishing WW2 monuments dedicated to brave Ukrainians who fought against the Nazis

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[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 93 points 5 months ago

Mr Genocide Joe who is currently sponsoring a genocide literally woke up and called his own allies Xenophobic lol what the fuck is wrong with this guy?

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 93 points 5 months ago
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[-] ziggurter@hexbear.net 92 points 5 months ago
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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 92 points 5 months ago

The term "Zaren" has been spreading all over Tik Tok to refer to the freakish phenomenon of Zionists playing victim at protests, Gen Z is brutal lmao

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[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 92 points 5 months ago

Since nobody else has mentined it here yet, 2 major developments today:

  • Turkey has suspended all trade with Israel
  • Ansarallah has announced that they have spread theitr target range to include the Mediterrenean sea.

Yesterday:

  • The IOF has been deploying explosives in canned food containers set to explode when opened. People are finding them in their homes upon returm.
  • The Islamoc Resistance in Bahrain has joined the fight, and claimed credit for an attack on occupied Palestine
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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 91 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
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[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 91 points 5 months ago

I love how Biden's America has enlisted brownshirts

❗ABC7 news footage shows a pro-Israel mob attacking protesters at the UCLA encampment for Palestine. No law-enforcement or police intervened to stop the violence.

Video: https://t.me/thecradlemedia/14792

Even the news guy can't hide his shock

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[-] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 91 points 5 months ago
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[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 91 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ah but pigs are quick and brutal when dealing with a bunch of peaceful students protesting against a genocide. But when it comes to saving kids from a mass shooter? Hold it there chief, they ain't going in. There are kids in Uvalde whose lives were cut short because the pigs never cared for them.

Never trust a pig, never. Pathetic losers and cowards too mediocre to choose an actual career that does something positive for society.

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[-] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 90 points 5 months ago

Just found out the president of Columbia is literally a baroness in the UK and has a life peerage in the House of Lords, jfc.

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[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 90 points 5 months ago

Went into the gym listening to the Rev Left Radio episode about the college uprisings, then I saw Fox News on a few of the TVs there and they were crying "CAMPUS CHAOS" and about the "hands-off approach" to the protests. Absolute fucking swine, top to bottom. God damn this country to hell.

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 90 points 5 months ago

Saying "Dissent must never lead to disorder" is like saying "rain must never lead to flooding".

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 90 points 5 months ago

CNN has not had ONE pro-palestine voice on any of their shows in the last like 72 hours or so the 3 days I've had CNN on. But boy oh boy do they like to have the chief of the Apartheid Defense League on ADL

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[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 89 points 5 months ago

Not sure if this is staged, but I have seen it floating around. waow-based

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 89 points 5 months ago

Remember what you feel in this moment, what you did, and where everyone else stood. In a decade or two, liberals will swear they were next to you all along.

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 89 points 5 months ago

As well as attackers who served in the IOF, it seems there was more Israeli involvement in the attacks on UCLA protesters.

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[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 89 points 5 months ago

I do not like police officers.

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[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 88 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Found the Gaza solidarity zone at my relatively small campus, commuted to go to class assuming there wasn’t one but I guess I’m taking the absence lol

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