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It takes very little effort to find an article from Western state propaganda decrying Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas as authoritarian and rife with human rights abuses. This is the natural reaction the US has to any successful liberation movement. This fairly long report from Jason Cohen, a socialist who travelled to Nicaragua one week ago, should quell any suspicions.

He describes a country with high political consciousness among the masses, who are working to construct critical infrastructure for the country and their communities. There is a virtual education system that is free across the entire nation, which serves the dual goal of democratizing education and ensuring that those in rural areas or without much free time for university can still achieve degrees and a quality education; and these classes cover technical skills in the production of infrastructure and agriculture, but also political and ideological education in order to counter the fascist propaganda produced by imperialist nations abroad.

While Nicaragua is deeply invested in its nationality and national figures who led to their socialist revolution, such as Sandino, they are also immensely proud of their indigneous history, recognizing it as also part of their anti-colonial history which continues to the present day. Additionally, they honour the struggles of other nations on the continent, such as the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, as well as Castro in Cuba and Allende in Chile. Countries around the world are also celebrated and admired, such as Burkina Faso; during the Reagan administration, Nicaragua and Burkina Faso were comrades in arms, and now Traore is continuing the legacy of Sankara's anti-imperialism in the present. Perhaps most relevant today is their dedication towards Palestine, involving the creation of the Parque Palestina (shown in the post image), in which the Palestinian flag flies alongside the flag of Nicaragua. In July, Leila Khaled of the PFLP gave a speech in Nicaragua, in which the solidarity of the two nations was highlighted.


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

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

Please check out the HexAtlas!

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

Israel-Palestine Conflict

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

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

UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

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

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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

Sources:

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful. Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

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

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:

Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.


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[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 116 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I've seen it, the videos coming out of Gaza of the huge crater made by the US-made bomb dropped on a refugee camp by the zionist genocidal entity. This, coupled with the very recent video of a palestinian emergency worker carrying the lifeless body of a young girl amid the rubble, whose head is completely cracked open and is later seen being filled with pieces of cloth just to give it some proper form for a proper humane burial... It's over, it's completely over. If the continued stream of horrific information that comes out from Gaza doesn't turn you into a radical anti-Zionist and anti-Genocide person, you're dead to me and to everyone else. There is no more room for doubters, either you're against this genocide or you fully embrace it and celebrate it. Large portions of the western world fall into the latter. Let us not forget about the decadent comprador regimes and royals who plague the Arab World, those like Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia... whose lack of response directly aids the genocidal effort of "Israel".

There is no more discussion to be had, it cannot get any clearer than this, it is impossible. "Israel" has done everything they can to show the world their genocidal intentions, they're very open and shameless about it. Whoever doubts, at this stage, is supportive of genocide.

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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 107 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

the debate, especially the parting words, was a fantastic demonstration of the two ways that the American political class as well as citizenry is responding to its decaying empire:

  1. denying it as hard as possible and demanding that people disbelieve their lying eyes; everything is fine and if it's not fine, it was because of Trump

  2. admitting to it but flailing around trying to blame everybody but themselves; everything is bad but if we oppress powerless minorities hard enough, things will get better

simultaneously hilarious and depressing

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[-] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 104 points 3 weeks ago
[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 101 points 3 weeks ago

Watching the debate just ended up reinforcing my belief that Kamala Harris has serious issues with her rhetoric on non white/POC men. Literally everytime she brought them up implicitly in the debate, she associated them with making and selling fentanyl and other drugs, brought up the fake Hamas sexual assault myths, and bragged about her job locking these people up and working on the border. Just despicable.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 73 points 3 weeks ago

It fits. She was the highest ranking cop in California. She has to be an ardent white supremacist to do that job.

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 100 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 96 points 3 weeks ago

The position liberals have is basically nazism. They want you to support the democrats despite the fact they're committed to performing genocide because they have the inherent belief that they are better than people in the rest of the world. They are asking you to support the lives of people in one place over the lives of the inferiors in the periphery.

It's nazi shit. How is this not nazi ideology? "We are better and you should support us because it's better for us, regardless of what happens elsewhere".

We're beyond Hitler particles here. It's just repackaged master race supremacist shit. Imperial core people are better than the periphery and therefore you shouldn't care about these people getting genocided.

What hurts most is that these liberals can see it too, but Marx and Engels were right, people do mainly only care about their own conditions and what materially affects them.

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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 95 points 3 weeks ago

Went onto Reddit out of curiosity and saw a comment comparing Tim Walz to Henry Wallace. Somebody gave a good response on his flaws and a liberal responded with. “I’m not reading all that lil bro” and I logged out.

American libs seem to like using illiteracy as some kind of smug one-liner

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[-] plinky@hexbear.net 94 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 92 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 90 points 2 weeks ago

Guy who bushnell in front of the Israeli consulate is Matt Nelson.

https://xcancel.com/samhusseini/status/1834604438440362274

"My name is Matt Nelson and I'm about to engage in an extreme act of protest. We are all culpable in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.... We are slaves to capitalism and the military industrial complex. Most of us are too apathetic to care. The protest I'm about to engage in is a call to our government to stop suppling Israel with the money and weapons it uses to imprison and murder innocent Palestinians, to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza, and to support the ICC indictment of Benjamin Netanyahu and other members of the Israeli government.... A democracy is supposed to serve the will of the people, not the interests of the wealthy. Take the power back. Free Palestine."

Aparently he's still alive.

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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 88 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

WaPo must be utterly perplexed that a high-ranking official fucks up and instead of receiving no negative consequences and then being promoted to Chief Organ Harvester at the IMF, the guy is actually removed from his position and access to power.

Qin Gang got involved in, and proceeded to try and hide, an extramarital affair with a reporter, which is a potential liability for state security. I've seen rumors in articles that the reporter had Western intelligence connections but nothing I can substantiate.

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 88 points 2 weeks ago

NYT wants you to know that the murdered protestor wasn't a real American

[-] Flaps@hexbear.net 82 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There was not an american flag in sight

the absolute fucking balls it takes to expect to fly the flag of the country that manufactured the bullet that killed the one who was murdered is just.. fuckin hell man

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[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 87 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

@sexywheat@hexbear.net Here's why the Zionist entity has been doing polio vaccinations in Gaza:

Although polio has been eradicated in most developed nations, Israel has particular reason to be concerned about the disease. The country has at least 175,000 vulnerable children—the offspring of the ultra-Orthodox, or haredim, who are notorious for their opposition to vaccinations.

Because the haredim comprise 17 percent of Israel’s Jews and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs their support to remain in power, his government has exempted hundreds of thousands of haredim from Israel’s immunization program against polio as well as measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis and HPV, influenza, and COVID-19—despite the threat to domestic and global health from these vaccine-preventable diseases.

https://archive.ph/NSGXt

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[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 86 points 3 weeks ago

Polish Nationalists call Bandera "Hitler's Whore" in front of a rally of Ukrainian Nationalists. https://x.com/mylordbebo/status/1833981329811124428?

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[-] CDommunist@hexbear.net 85 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The only IRL Zionist settler I've met didn't believe in germ theory

She claimed that virus, diseases, ect. had never been seen with a microscope

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 84 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So, I just saw on twitter that the elections for São Paulo (Brazil's largest city) had a debate, and a neoliberal candidate just used a chair to hit a neonazi (bolsonarista) candidate in the head live on Brazilian TV lol. I think the Bolsonaro candidate called him a rapist and mocked the fact that his mother-in-law died.

During the São Paulo mayoral debate, candidate Datena attacked Pablo Marçal with a chair after Marçal called him a "coward" for not being man enough to slap him in the face.

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Pablo Marçal (Bolsonarist) is injured, with suspected fractured ribs and difficulty breathing - according to a journalist from TV Cultura

After hitting Pablo, journalists asked Datena if he regretted the aggression

Journalist: You don't regret [using the chair to hit Pablo].

Datena: Of course not.

lol

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[-] miz@hexbear.net 83 points 3 weeks ago

On this day 23 years ago, New York City was rocked by two explosions some eyewitnesses alleged to be passenger planes mysteriously colliding with the World Trade Center.

Nearly 3 thousand people died according to figures by the former Bush-run Department of Health.

When pressed for comment, a spokesperson for Al-Qaeda said they were conducting an internal investigation to determine the circumstances behind the event. The spokesperson added that the collision may have been caused by a technical malfunction.

Final conclusions are pending.

Fact: The average cruising altitude of a passenger airplane is roughly 35,000 feet. The World Trade Center measured only 1,368 feet.

Aviation experts question the accuracy of accounts by purported eyewitnesses.

from https://xcancel.com/Aldanmarki/status/1833658125661904952

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[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 83 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

https://pix11.com/news/shooting-near-sutter-ave-l-train-station-disrupts-service-in-brooklyn-officials/

Apparently the NYPD shot a man to death after tasering him multiple times for jumping a turnstile today. One pig ended up in the hospital from friendly fire and they also shot at least two bystanders. Death to America.

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 83 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 82 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
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[-] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 82 points 2 weeks ago

I thought that the first Trump shooter might have been a NAFO, which was proven incorrect, but it's hilarious that this one is as NAFO as you can get.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 81 points 3 weeks ago

Joe Biden wears a cap in support of Donald Trump during an event; the White House says the president wore the cap as a gesture of unity between the parties in defense of the country. Donald Trump's campaign shared the photo and thanked the Democrat for his “support”.

Lol

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[-] a_party_german@hexbear.net 80 points 2 weeks ago

When you, a man from the West, realize it is that dreaded day - when the savages finally catch up.

(Source is WSJ or something)

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[-] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 80 points 3 weeks ago

US-israeli jets just bombed a gathering of tents and refugees in a so-called "safe zone" in Khan Yunis.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--kills--injures-tens-of-palestinians-in-new-al-mawas

This is one of the craters left behind where people were sleeping. They don't even know how many people were martyred because the physical destruction is so extreme.

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 79 points 2 weeks ago

Sucks to suck:
https://xcancel.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1835253085838414311

Israeli media reported that the occupation's army was surprised this morning by the Yemeni missile and that the occupation's air forces did not see, know, or hear anything.

Israeli media also said that the new head of the Aman Unit was asleep when the missile fell, blasting the occupation's army spokesperson as no longer trustworthy, adding that he does not convince anyone.

Earlier today, a Yemeni ballistic missile triggered sirens across central occupied Palestine. A statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces is expected, in which the spokesperson will clarify the details behind the operation.

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[-] LargePenis@hexbear.net 79 points 3 weeks ago

Just random thoughts incoming:

  • My son is already two months old, time just passes so quickly. This mf is growing fast on that breast milk diet. He's balding though, guess I'll take him to Turkey soon. On a different note, I'm going to need an archive of communist cartoons soon to start the training early.

  • Asian Qualifiers for the Great Satan World Cup in 2026 has started, with a great start for Iraq and surprisingly Palestine who drew with South Korea in Seoul. Iraq should make it in this group, while Palestine could possibly be in a decent position if they beat Jordan tomorrow. Iran won their first match, they'll make it for sure. North Korea sadly lost to Uzbekistan (we should a Central Asian COTW period btw), their chances look below average.

  • Ugledar is about to be encircled, very big news for us Ugledar haters. Very stupid town, but a marvel of Soviet engineering. Ukraine have mainly stopped the bleeding near Pokrovsk, but they're quickly losing ground in the Kurakhove sector and near Kupiansk. Important weeks incoming now before mud season.

  • Damn when will Iran stop edging, we need them to goon soon

  • My wife's sister is getting married in Iraq next month, very annoying timing because we can't travel yet with the lil kid. In her defence, the wedding was supposed to be like 7 months ago, but the groom's uncle suddenly died like a month before the wedding.

  • What is Israel even doing right now? They've been in Gaza for like 11 months now with barely anything tangible achieved, their internal situation is kinda complicated, Iran keeps edging them, the US fired like 50 missiles into Yemen and was like "bro I'm all out of ideas", peace negotiations keep getting wrecked by Satanyahu. What's the long-term goal here, I'm not sure that there's one.

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 77 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] BanjoBolshevik@hexbear.net 76 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] weeen@hexbear.net 76 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

https://xcancel.com/pawelwargan/status/1834901542782021887

Harris is positioning herself as a Reaganite warlord in a chilling ad that makes clear as day that the Cold War—which proved unbearably hot for the tens of millions of lives the US destroyed in the Third World—was and will continue to be the consensus project of US imperialism.

LMAO - "[Reagan] 'Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall,'

[JFK] 'And when one man is enslaved, all are not free,'

American presidents, Republican and Democrat, have always defied Russia's communist dictators, and defended American ideals.

Kamala Harris gets this. [Kamala] 'If we stand by, while an aggressor invades its neighbour with impunity, they will keep going,'

Kamala Harris will stand up to Putin, protect our allies, and keep us safe."

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

tangentially news related - america's worst magazine, the atlantic, has unveiled next month's cover. it amazes me that liberals have spent 8 fucking years now convincing themselves that trump is not widely beloved by the entire republican party and that he is instead dragging them along. he had like 90+% approval among republicans during his term! but these fancy lads from the ivies have surrounded themselves with the half-dozen remaining die hard romneyites in the country and believe that they represent the party, not the skidoo dealership heir who blew the family fortune on the iraqi dinar and has been in prison since january 6

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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 75 points 3 weeks ago

Looks like $300 million annually will be given to the state department for anti-China propaganda. This probably means more working with NGO’s to create China bad narratives, especially with BRI.

I can already tell which countries are more likely to fall for it than others.

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

Hexbear debate chat rn, we made it to the Israel portion

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[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 74 points 3 weeks ago

Germany tightens controls at all borders in immigration crackdown

The controls within what is normally a wide area of free movement - the European Schengen zone - will start on Sept. 16 and initially last for six months, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Monday.

The government has also designed a scheme enabling authorities to reject more migrants directly at German borders, Faeser said, without adding details on the controversial and legally fraught move.

The restrictions are part of a series of measures Germany has taken to toughen its stance on irregular migration in recent years following a surge in arrivals, in particular people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East.

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[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 74 points 3 weeks ago

Really weird to have my Polish lib boss drop that the Ukraine war was about Russian gas and that nordstream was done by the US.

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[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 74 points 3 weeks ago

bloomer

China is beating America in the nuclear-energy race
They have pioneered a new generation of reactor

China connected its first civilian reactor to the grid in 1991, some three decades after America had done the same. Now, though, China is ten to 15 years ahead of America in deploying fourth-generation nuclear technology, according to the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, a think-tank in Washington. China is also building conventional reactors far more quickly. Of the 60 or so plants under construction globally, 45% are in China.

https://archive.is/Y0DWh

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 73 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
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[-] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 73 points 3 weeks ago

All the talk about TIFF cancelling the documentary about Russian soldiers is breaking my brain. It's not enough that the documentary is already pro Ukraine by showing the Russian soldiers become disillusioned with the war, anything that shows Russians as human beings cannot be allowed in Western media. Knowing kkkanada they would gladly show a documentary humanizing Nazis but Russians are a bridge too far

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[-] notceps@hexbear.net 73 points 3 weeks ago

Double update time

That german bridge that collapsed? It collapsed again, US wishes it could collapse bridges this well the world is witnessing superior german engineering and efficiency.

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[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 73 points 3 weeks ago

Can he just stop praising genociders? This is getting really annoying

ADOLF HITLER DESTROYED MUSSOLINI soypoint-1

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 73 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A new poll finds a surprising presidential choice for Muslim American voters in Michigan

The survey by the Council on American Islamic Relations finds 40% of Muslim-American voters in Michigan say they support Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.

Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump (18%) and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (12%) trail far behind in the poll.

“Jill Stein is polling very strong from previous Democratic voters…independent voters,” said Robert McCaw, CAIR’s director of Government Affairs, “And we also see that she’s pulled away from some traditionally voting Republican.”

According to the poll, Michigan is something of an outlier.

Muslim American Public Affairs Counci endorses Stien / Ware for president

DNC / Turd Way research

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 73 points 3 weeks ago

GREAT NEWS: ALBERTO FUJIMORI, DICTATOR OF PERU, HAS DIED FROM CANCER!!!!

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

PSL disqualified from Georgia's ballot . . . again

Two Fulton County judges disqualified independent candidates Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz from Georgia’s presidential ballot Wednesday, rulings that narrow voters’ choices one month before early voting begins.

But it already may be too late to remove their names from ballots. Notices would be posted in polling places warning voters that West and De la Cruz have been disqualified and that votes for them wouldn’t be counted.

Full text, since the Archive is taking foreverTwo Fulton County judges disqualified independent candidates Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz from Georgia’s presidential ballot Wednesday, rulings that narrow voters’ choices one month before early voting begins.

But it already may be too late to remove their names from ballots. Notices would be posted in polling places warning voters that West and De la Cruz have been disqualified and that votes for them wouldn’t be counted.

More than 110 of Georgia’s 159 counties already have printed ballots with the minor candidates’ names.

“It would be extremely difficult to reprint ballot(s) and remove Dr. West as an option before the election,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox Jr. wrote in his decision. “This court finds that there is insufficient time to strike the candidate’s name or reprint the ballots.”

Meanwhile, a separate ruling by Cox kept Green Party candidate Jill Stein as a qualified candidate under a new state law that allows third-party candidates if they’re also on the ballot in at least 20 other states.

The bottom line for Georgia voters is there now are four candidates remaining in the race: Democrat Kamala Harris, Libertarian Chase Oliver, Stein and Republican Donald Trump.

The judges reversed decisions by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who had sought to include West and De la Cruz among presidential candidates. Raffensperger had added them to the ballot last month, overruling a recommendation of an administrative law judge.

“Partisan activists are attempting to tilt the scales of this election, and I believe that is wrong,” Raffensperger said Thursday. “The law is clear, and these qualified candidates have a right to be on Georgia’s ballot, and I will fight for voters’ rights every day to choose the candidate for whom they want to elect.”

Raffensperger is a Republican, and his attempt to add liberal presidential candidates such as West and De la Cruz would give voters an option to pick them instead of Harris.

The two judges found both independent candidates failed to follow state laws to appear on the ballot.

Independent candidates must gather more than 7,500 signatures to qualify — both candidates did so — but state law requires those signatures to be submitted in the name of at least one of their 16 potential Georgia electors to the Electoral College. None of their presidential electors met that requirement, the judges ruled.

But that does not mean the legal battle is over, as both cases could be appealed to the Supreme Court of Georgia. Court disputes over independent candidates potentially could continue all the way until Election Day.

“We believe this ruling defies logic and expect it will be overturned on appeal,” said Edwin DeJesus, who is with the West campaign. “The conclusion reached is frankly ludicrous. The campaign remains optimistic about the end result we will achieve.”

Estevan Hernandez, co-chair of De la Cruz’s campaign in Georgia, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday that the campaign plans to appeal. “This is the result of an effort by the Democratic Party to sabotage democratic rights of Georgia voters at the very moment that they say that the 2024 election is about democracy itself,” Hernandez said in a statement. “This is an example of extreme hypocrisy by the Democratic Party establishment.”

The Democratic Party of Georgia didn’t immediately comment Thursday.

The Democrat-backed legal challenges are part of a national strategy to block independent and third-party candidates from potentially siphoning votes away from Harris, which could make the difference in a close race between Harris and Trump.

Last month, Raffensperger overruled a Georgia administrative law judge and sought a presidential ballot with six names: Harris, Trump, Oliver, West, Stein and De la Cruz, the candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation who sought to qualify in Georgia as an independent.

Georgia voters will not see independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the ballot after he withdrew from the race and endorsed Trump.

Joe Biden beat Trump by fewer than 12,000 votes in Georgia’s 2020 general election. In what’s expected to be another close race between Harris and Trump, every vote could matter.

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[-] theother2020@hexbear.net 72 points 2 weeks ago

I was watching some European news channel in English about 30 minutes ago: The talking head guest is defending Israel and bemoaning Putler. The interviewer starts asking good questions. She’s pro-Kiev but points out the hypocrisy. She pointedly asks if the sanctions are working against Russia, and he hedges, well, yes. And she says then why not sanction Israel. And he says, we cannot apply logic here, it’s about principles.

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 72 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think we're beating climate change

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 75 points 3 weeks ago

the competition for the 21st century

There is no hope for mankind while America persists

unfair economic practices

Jfc on a biscuit

AI grifting, taiwan brinksmanship fuckery, finance imperialism

Can't compare her to satan because satan never acted with this much malice and cruelty.

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[-] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 72 points 2 weeks ago

Aw jeez it’s gonna be another week when decades happen. So far we got:

-ballistic missile from Yemen

-Trump assassination attempt #2

-anti-immigrant violence in Ohio

-Zionist involved shooting in Massachusetts

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