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Image is from this article on the excellent Canadian environmental journalism outlet, The Narwhal.


The Giant Mine just outside of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada is one of the country's largest recognized environmental liabilities. The mine's 100 plus year history illustrates the continuity between resource colonialism in the late 19th/early 20th century and neoliberalism at the turn of the millennium.

There were several gold rushes in northern Canada/US in the late 19th century, such as the Klondike. The Giant gold strike on was first discovered by settlers about the same time as the Klondike, but as Giant is on Great Slave Lake (named for an Anglicization of the name of local peoples, not after slavery) instead of the Pacific Ocean, it is much less accessible and didn't take off like the Klondike. Parallel with displacement of local Yellowknives Dene people https://ykdene.com/, the town of Yellowknife sprung up around small mining operations through the 30s. It wasn't until after WW2 that the mine was developed at a large scale. Starting operation in 1948, Giant was owned by a Canadian mining conglomerate through the 80s, then some Australians, and for the last ten years of its operating life, by Americans, who went bankrupt and abandoned the property in 1999. The Canadian federal government is responsible for the site and its remediation now, similar to the way the EPA has Superfund sites in the USA.

The project is infamous for poisoning the people and environment of the surrounding area through arsenic poisoning. The ore at giant is arsenopyrite, an arsenic sulphide mineral that often contains gold. Roasting it in large furnaces or kilns releases the gold as well as fine arsenic trioxide dust. The most infamous arsenic poisoning incident was in 1951 when a Yellowknives Dene toddler in died after eating contaminated snow in the fallout area, 2 kilometers from the processing mill's smokestack. Over the years, improvements to the mill reduced the amount of toxic dust released to the environment. This is better than blasting it into the air wildly, but meant that the site accumulated hundreds of thousands of tonnes of arsenic trioxide dust that they chucked in empty mine workings underground. Unfortunately, arsenic trioxide dissolves in water as easily as sugar and so represents a tremendous risk to groundwater and waterbodies nearby, like Great Slave Lake and Yellowknife's water supply.

Arsenic issues contributed to labour disputes as well. In 1991 the union workers of the plant went on strike, refusing management's demand to reduce their salary and wanting better safety measures for workers . The company brought in Pinkertons and strikebreakers, backed by RCMP thugs. The situation escalated, culminating in a bomb planted on a train track deep in the mine. When it was triggered, it killed 6 scabs and 3 Pinkertons. For the next year, the RCMP interrogated mine workers, their family and community without determining who did it, supporting the company in their refusal to sign a new contract until an arrest was made. Finally a worker named Roger Warren confessed to doing it alone and was sentenced to life in prison. He was released in 2014 and died in 2017.

Since 1999, the site has been the responsibility of the Canadian federal government and is being every so gradually remediated. Operated through what are effectively private-public partnership contracts, environmental engineering companies are attempting to clean up and isolate the huge amounts of arsenic trioxide dust. The concept is move the dust into specially ventilated chambers of the underground mine, where it is frozen in place and thus prevented from leaching into groundwater. Active remediation is supposed to be finished in about 15 years at a cost of $1 billion CAD, but will surely take longer and cost more than this. Also, freezing material in place will definitely work because the climate isn't changing, and the Canadian north is definitely not seeing extreme levels of temperature rise.

After active works are complete, the site will require perpetual care.


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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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[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 105 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I understand everyone is excited that chairman 72T isn't home but that's no reason to track american electoralism all over this thread

take it to the containment thread or c/electoralism . you don't have to go home but you can't stay here

Edit: I've been informed that a second ban has hit the containment thread and it is now closed. I have also been requested by 1% of the hexbear electorate to maintain the red terror on low effort electoralism posts.

For the rest of the week, high effort electoralism posts are allowed but low effort posting will be deleted and you will never reach Valhalla.

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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 100 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

@carpoftruth@hexbear.net is hosting the news megathread this week while I'm busy irl!

Make sure to head to the US electoral containment thread for everything to do with the election on a domestic level, as we don't want too much US-centric news to flood this thread. Discussion of Harris' or Trump's potential geopolitical impacts is still perfectly fine here.

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 104 points 1 month ago

https://xcancel.com/TameeOliveFern/status/1853136289144459387

Remember all that talk about Hamas “stealing aid”?

As it turned out & via Israeli media: Hamas chief Sinwar didn’t eat anything in his last three days alive.

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[-] LargePenis@hexbear.net 102 points 1 month ago

This hot dude threw one of the Israeli hooligan fascists in the river. Happy he's on our side, we need more hot dudes with winner energy.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 101 points 1 month ago

Megathread activity has dropped from moving the megas into a single holding thread, the extra click it takes to get here matters and people can't see how many new comments are in the thread at a glance from the main page. sadness

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[-] LargePenis@hexbear.net 100 points 1 month ago

Our gigachad is still being based as hell

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 99 points 1 month ago
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[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 95 points 1 month ago
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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 92 points 1 month ago

Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's first Jewish president: “I'd like to thank Jesus for accompanying me.” The co-chair of @DemMaj4Israel tried to smear the incoming Mexican president by implying she isn't Jewish enough. He said she even "thanked Jesus for her victory." There was just one catch. She was thanking her HUSBAND, whose NAME is Jesús María Tarriba.

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[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 92 points 1 month ago

They took down Palestine’s flag and then it all started.

An eyewitness stated: “It all kicked off when they pulled a Palestinian flag off a facade. Then they started provoking and destroyed a taxi driver's car and beat up the driver themselves.”

Some Maccabi fans were seen with metal chains, ready to attack.

Also during tonight’s match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv, the Israeli supporters refused to hold a minute of silence for Valencia flood victims. They even started illegal fireworks.

They sang racist extermination songs

“Let the IDF win to Fuck the Arabs”

Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans chant their genocidal song while being protected by the police in Amsterdam, this song they’re chanting has a part that says “there are no schools in Gaza because there are no children left”.

https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1854701760385872270

[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 77 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Their team went on to lose 5-0 lmfao. Maybe the "israeli" players wanted to score goals but got distracted with all the women, kids and reporters in the stadium. Also their goalkeeper is nicknamed "Iron Dome": He can't catch anything.

"Israeli" teams visiting europe for UEFA matches have been inciting violence and attacking pro-Palestine people. They did so earlier this year in Greece in a match against I think it was Olympiakos. Meanwhile, UEFA refuses to ban "israel" from the federation or sanction their clubs. FIFA doesn't saction "israel" either as they continue to kill FIFA-registered players in Gaza. Russia was banned by UEFA for the war in Ukraine and ukrainian fans are allowed to carry Azov flags and display tifos remembering deceased Azov members. It's too evident.

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 90 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

An American soldier has died in Israel. US military won't say how he was killed other than that it was non-combat related, which sure is interesting.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 88 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This US election outcome seems to be testing the resolve of a lot of leftists who were earlier discussing how both parties served the same masters and change wouldn’t be that different under either one. A lot of them have quickly turned to doomerism after years of seemingly expecting this outcome.

In Guatemala it’s more of a shoulder shrug. We weren’t expecting much from Kamala and Trump didn’t really have any major impact on us. No more than every other President that’s been increasingly anti-immigrant

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[-] tocopherol@hexbear.net 87 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Middle East Monitor: ‘It’s not close’ - Israel committing genocide concludes Wikipedia ending editorial debate

The decision to include the Gaza genocide in the list followed Wikipedia’s formal Request for Comment process, which began in July. Editors supporting the inclusion argued that it met the page’s criteria of events “classified by significant scholarship” as genocide. They also pointed out that the Gaza situation had stronger scholarly consensus than some existing entries on the list, such as the Darfur and Rohingya genocides.

Even nato-cool pedia has agreed that it is genocide, in case any libs in your life still have doubts they love Wikipedia don't they?

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[-] companero@hexbear.net 86 points 1 month ago

https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1854662797185188348#m

Ansarallah took down another US Reaper drone.

What's the count at now? 13? Why do they just keep sending them???

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[-] newmou@hexbear.net 86 points 1 month ago

Was just driving down the street and a couple folks probably mid 20s were at the corner of a stoplight, one holding a big Palestinian flag, going to rally I’m about to swing by. These two probably like mid 50s liberals ride by them on those very expensive $5000 low to the ground seated bicycle things, one of them says “oh ok, well it’s not over yet, you should have voted Kamala!” In the most rich, condescending, sneering liberal way. It encapsulated so much in just a single moment

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[-] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 86 points 1 month ago

US officially announced donald trump as the next elected president, all the news sites from CNN to FOX have called it for trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/11/06/trump-harris-presidential-election-live-updates/ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/5/us-election-results-live-polls-shut-in-trump-harris-indiana-kentucky-race https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/2024-presidential-election-results-news https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/election-trump-harris-11-06-24/index.html

it seems kamala's strategy of not trying fucking flopped, who knew?

It also seems that republicans have gained a majority in every branch of government. the senate and the governors have a republican majority, while the house is still heavily contested, but leaning towards republicans.

what does this change? nothing. America is descending towards fascism either way.

[-] sisatici@hexbear.net 85 points 1 month ago

Rather out of topic but my god I didn't knew it was this bad

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[-] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 84 points 1 month ago

Lots of Ukraine stans saying that European countries need to decouple from the US now michael-laugh

Idiotic vassals just spent the last 3 years becoming entirely dependent on US support. Trump is gonna have a field day with you.

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[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 83 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

BRICS need to start pushing de-dollarisation urgently given the current geopolitical situation. They had a golden opportunity in 2022-2023, and decided not to. That decison could bite us in the ass...

Hopefully Trump winning will kill the liberal delusion that we in the global south can reconciliate and negotiate with the imperial triad of the USA, Western Europe and Japan. Especially the USA of course. Fear of Trump seems to mobilise the liberals in situations where they'd otherwise stay quiet.

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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 83 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The events in Amsterdam were totally like the Kristallnacht!

... except that it was a gang of fascist hooligan tourists and not a persecuted minority that got beat up.

... and except that the people who got beat up were not innocent but had spent their entire time there provoking locals and starting fights.

... and except that no buildings were burned down and nobody was killed.

... and except that the authorities were attempting to stop it from happening instead of actively participating.

But other than that, it was totally like the Kristallnacht.

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[-] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 82 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"israel" Ministry of "Justice" is proposing a prison sentence up to 20 years for anyone advocating for boycotts or sanctions against the Reich.

Sources: Africa4Palestine, JNS, Mondoweiss

Infinite red triangles on "israel"

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[-] Venat@hexbear.net 82 points 1 month ago

https://x.com/WVanwagenen/status/1855366838437150767

YNet says Netanyahu, Smotrich, Ben Gvir are waiting for the hostages to die. The issue of the hostages in Gaza will be solved 'naturally and tragically.'

They will then use these deaths as further pretext to permanently occupy and establish Jewish settlements in Gaza, YNet says.

Netanyahu's cabinet has always wanted the hostages dead after the plan to kill them all with helicopters before they reached Gaza on 7 October was not entirely successful.

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[-] immuredanchorite@hexbear.net 82 points 1 month ago

I hope this won't run afoul the containment of burgerland-election-related posts, but this is more an observation/analysis of the media and the bourgeoisie's response to it in relation to foreign policy...

I have heard my whole life, and in the news mega, that burgerland-subjects don't actually care about foreign policy and that it had no effect on the election. And although I think there were plenty of other considerations, I think the fallout from this particular election has really solidified in my mind that that meme is another product of the empire's superstructure imparting its own ideological conformity onto the minds of its subjects. In almost every swing-state, over 30% of voters said they would have been more likely to vote for Harris if she had put an arms embargo on Israel (without a correspondingly high number of people saying it would make them less likely to vote for her). Harris also didn't really run a primary, and objectively ran on platform very similar to Trump's 2016 platform sans the performative talk about abortion. 16 million fewer people voted for Harris than Biden in 2020, which suggests a deep disaffection with the Democrats themselves. Other evidence is that the two politicians who were for an arms embargo against the apartheid state won handily in districts Harris loss. And Muslim voters voting in large percentages for Stein and Trump (I think this isn't a shift to the right, but people playing the logic of the two-party system, punish Harris by not only withholding your vote but giving her "only" opponent a vote too.)

I really think we are witnessing in real time the invention of reality about the election, and how the media perpetuates this meme that burger-landers don't care about the outside world. Pundits are saying the Harris ran a "flawless" campaign (she only ran for a few months), that she was defeated due to racism and misogyny alone, with the most sanctioned "outsider" opinions (Sanders) being that 22% inflation and no plan to help struggling people may have led to her defeat. (by "coming from" Sanders this serves a dual purpose of marginalizing the idea that the DNC ignored working-class issues and also allows the DNC to forcefully object to it without acknowledging the movement on the left which has been making a much stronger case for this, all along, than Sanders who is essentially part of the DNC and campaigned for Harris) So now we see articles talking about the "secret gen-z men who hate women and are MAGA" which I think is a real thing, but isn't a particularly significant phenomenon, but plays into the ruling-classes desire to reproduce the ideological conflicts of previous generations in the young-- to make that particular thing more prevelant via the Baader-Meinhof illusion. -- My point isn't to dive deep into the election itself, but I think we can all see the willful ignorance that foreign policy played in spoiling Harris' image, tying her to Biden's unpopularity, and making a lot of people sit the election out (why vote if the outcome is the same either way?). I think this is a ruling-class meme that reinforces itself, because if there is no democratic choice on foreign policy, then people who play the voting game have no need to pay attention to or consider foreign policy. There is no social pressure to educate yourself or create a moral red-line about murdering people abroad because everyone in the media says nobody gives a shit about it and you are stupid if you give a shit about it too.

So even though the media will replicate this idea that burgerland-subjects, particularly young men, are actually becoming more right-wing, that they don't care about Gaza or the outside world, I think what you are actually seeing is the aspirations of the ruling class in finding an analysis that will uphold the status quo and placate as many people as possible. They don't want to acknowledge that there has been a mass movement for Palestinian liberation, and when leftists repeat that yankees don't give a fuck about foreign policy I think it plays right into the hands of the ruling class.

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[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 80 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

JERUSALEM POST - "Just in case: Mossad agents to join Maccabi Tel Aviv FC trip to Amsterdam"

spoiler

In the first year of a revamped format, the yellow-and-blue currently sit in 34th place out of 36 teams in the Europa League, with three losses from three games.

After a disappointing 1-0 league loss to Ironi Kiryat Shmona, Maccabi Tel Aviv is refocusing on European competition, set to face Ajax in Amsterdam on Thursday night. The yellow-and-blue will aim to secure its first points in the UEFA Europa League group stage.

As with all Israeli teams playing in Europe over the past year, security concerns are paramount. On Tuesday, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported that, in addition to Maccabi’s regular security personnel, Mossad agents will join the team in Amsterdam to provide maximum protection.

On Monday, Spain’s AS newspaper reported that a pro-Palestinian group is planning a major protest outside the stadium targeting the Israeli team and its fans, with an estimated 2,600 supporters expected from Israel.

Calls for the match's cancellation

Throughout Amsterdam, posters have appeared calling for the match’s cancellation and demanding Israel’s removal from UEFA. Notably, Ajax, often recognized as a club with Jewish ties, is widely considered pro-Israel.

Throughout Amsterdam, posters have appeared calling for the match’s cancellation and demanding Israel’s removal from UEFA. Notably, Ajax, often recognized as a club with Jewish ties, is widely considered pro-Israel. Just this past Saturday, a pro-Palestinian protester was reportedly attacked by Ajax fans before its recent game.

In the first year of a revamped format, the yellow-and-blue currently sit in 34th place out of 36 teams in the Europa League, with three losses from three games.


lmfao. So Mossad agents travelled to another country to "provide protection"... more like agitators to me. Anyways, there's a fair chance that Mossad agents were beaten that night lol, awesome.

Death to "israel"

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[-] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 80 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

On this sad day the Lenin museum in Finland is closed.

The warmongering nation and it's revisionist bourgeoisie will reopen the museum at a later date as "the museum of eastern relations", the name will be Nootti which refers to the diplomatic note the Soviet Union sent Finland that was used heavily as an anti-communist propaganda tool that coloured for example my childhood and the discussions around finlandization (the CIA term that is now being plastered on Ukraine and Georgia, searcing for this term nowadays is eye-opening)

The museum was the birthplace of the Soviet Union. soviet-heart

Edit. Adding that the statement of the new museum (that you can find in the link) claims that there was no external influence in this decision. This is absolutely not true. There has been media discourse, opinion pieces and the curator of the museum is a turbolib who was first in line to say sorry about the museums name when the ukraine crisis started. They have also removed statues of Lenin and renamed places with his name in them in the country in the last few years.

The word "nuance" is used a lot in this explainer of the new museum, it doesn't take a genius to see this for what it is.

[-] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 80 points 1 month ago

Fucking lol, European lapdogs rush to congratulate tromp in a stunning display of performative civility.

Putin, who is in the minds of liberals Trumps greatest ally, will not congratulate him since the US is a hostile country and will instead judge him on his deeds.

[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 80 points 1 month ago

This bears repeating: Western states cannot sustain support for Israel's carnage in Gaza unless they compromise democracy and the rights of their citizens.

Here's Prof. Haim Bresheeth, a child of Holocaust survivors, getting arrested in the UK for speaking against Israel's war.

Arrested under the terrorism act btw

https://nitter.poast.org/tparsi/status/1853624055812817154

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[-] scarcity_of_the_self@hexbear.net 80 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://en.irna.ir/news/85648949/Sinwar-his-men-had-not-eaten-for-3-days-before-assassination

Sinwar and his men had not eaten for 3 days before falling in battle

Been reading a lot more about his history lately, he wasn't as much of an omnipresent voice for me as Nasrallah was. These people are legends.

Ah I see this was already posted. Good, I will add something else.

https://en.irna.ir/news/85648898/Israel-arrests-4-regime-staffers-over-leaking-secret-information

4 Zionists arrested over leaks

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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 79 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The re-election of Donald Trump is a decisive rejection of liberalism, writes Francis Fukuyama:

https://www.ft.com/content/f4dbc0df-ab0d-431e-9886-44acd4236922

~~What's the best paywall bypass nowadays? Ft does that shit thing where it loads once and then forces a paywall if you reload or whatever~~ thanks, now I can add this wild quote:

The second distortion was the rise of identity politics or what one might call “woke liberalism”, in which progressive concern for the working class was replaced by targeted protections for a narrower set of marginalised groups: racial minorities, immigrants, sexual minorities and the like. State power was increasingly used not in the service of impartial justice, but rather to promote specific social outcomes for these groups.

what-the-hell

Does capital cynically employ identity politics as a veil? No, the state is woke now.

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[-] sisatici@hexbear.net 79 points 1 month ago

Here is another iconic image

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[-] Halloweenbean@hexbear.net 79 points 1 month ago

More lib surrender news, seems like SNL has wisely chosen the path of least resistance. And by least resistance, I mean "let's not talk about politics, let's be a little more racist, please don't murder us" material.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 79 points 1 month ago

1-year-old baby is the third Brazilian victim to die in Israel's attacks on Lebanon, says Brazilian Goverment. According to the government, three Brazilians - all minors - have already died amid Israel's offensive.

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[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 79 points 1 month ago

Alright so now that we're done with the "most important election of our lifetimes" let's get back to Operation True Promise 3 posting

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[-] LargePenis@hexbear.net 78 points 1 month ago

It's not over for Kamala actually, just wait for the diaspora pro-EU votes to trickle in folks

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 77 points 1 month ago

Hezbollah celebrates Trump's win by launching celebratory rockets at a settlement in the Golan Heights called Trump Heights:
https://xcancel.com/MenchOsint/status/1854091963701604636

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[-] makotech222@hexbear.net 76 points 1 month ago

My Copium analysis:

Harris losing 15m votes since biden (trump losing 3m votes) shows that american people are moving to the left in general. The only issue is the democratic party itself is moving farther to the right.

Harris offered nothing but more genocide; wouldn't even hammer on abortion and offer a plan to reinstate roe v wade. Democrat voters just stayed home.

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[-] sisatici@hexbear.net 76 points 1 month ago

I have found evidence of attacks plans on Israelis in Amsterdam

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 76 points 1 month ago

POV you just called gamers a bunch of gammons in a mod sticky:

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 76 points 1 month ago

Now watch all the Republicans become pro-Ukraine and Azov, and all Democrats become anti-Ukraine and Azov

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[-] kittin@hexbear.net 75 points 1 month ago

wtf it’s been almost 24 hours since trump won and the Ukraine war is still going wtf

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[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 75 points 1 month ago

zelensky-pain Zelensky is about to have an awful morning.

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[-] HonestMistake_@lemmy.ml 75 points 1 month ago

Our president sent an invitation to Xi to visit our country, and now our government is in hysterics, because she didn't "consult" them ahead of it. Probably already got an angry call from Frau Genocide lmao.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 75 points 1 month ago

Israeli tourist arrested for racially insulting a worker on Boipeba Island, Brazil. The tourist called the porter a “monkey” and was arrested by the Military Police on Tuesday.

An Israeli tourist was arrested on Tuesday (05) on the island of Boipeba for racially insulting a local worker. According to initial reports, the foreigner had offended a man carrying suitcases on the island by calling him a “monkey”, which caused outrage among the people present. Military police officers were called and took the tourist to Boipeba police station, where he will be charged with the crime.

Racial insult has been considered a non-bailable and imprescriptible crime in Brazil since January 2023, when President Lula sanctioned new legislation equating racial insult with the crime of racism. The penalty for racial insult ranges from two to five years in prison and includes a fine. According to the legislation, any action that causes embarrassment, humiliation or undue exposure on the grounds of color, ethnicity, religion or origin is characterized as racial insult, especially when the discriminatory treatment is not meted out to other groups.

They come to South America (Specially Bolivia and Peru), commit crimes and are surprised when local police or population arrest/attack them.

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 73 points 1 month ago

https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1853484155834679509

⚡️|🇵🇸 MUST WATCH: The Al-Qassam Brigades published a magnificent footage showing the total destruction of a Merkava tank with a powerful explosive device, in the Qasasib neighborhood, Jabalia.

4 Israeli soldiers were observed getting into the tank, they were all killed.

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[-] kittin@hexbear.net 73 points 1 month ago

The Ukraine War is Lost. Three Options Remain

  1. WW3
  2. Ukraine as a failed state
  3. Negotiate

Beebe says the West has an erroneous idea as to the very nature of the conflict. The US and the Europeans defined the Russian invasion as a “deterrence model problem” rather than a “spiral model problem”. In the former, the adversary is a kind of Hitler that must be stopped at all costs.

“We have internalised that model as a universal truth in international relations. We believe every problem that we’re facing is that deterrence model problem and we can’t possibly negotiate.”

In reality, Beebe says, the conflict conforms to what Robert Jervis defined back in the 1970s as a “spiral model problem” – where you have one state that attempts to enhance its own security by taking measures (for example, Ukraine joining NATO) that another state (Russia) believes are threatening. You get into a dynamic of action and reaction that can spiral to the point where you get into a conflict.

“When you attempt to deal with a spiral problem by refusing to negotiate, you make the problem worse on both sides. It’s like pouring gasoline on a fire,” Beebe says.

The former head of the CIA’s Russia desk argues that if we are to think our way out of the disaster that is Ukraine, the West needs to rediscover diplomacy and the ability to negotiate with geostrategic opponents. US triumphalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall led, he says, to the US feeling it could abandon statecraft.

“We no longer felt that we had to engage in normal diplomatic give-and-take, attempting to balance interests as well as balance power – the kinds of things that statecraft has involved for thousands of years. We thought that wasn’t necessary. Number one: we know we’re right.

And number two: US power was just so disproportionately greater than any other country’s power, we could simply impose our views, whether they liked it or not.”

The Ukrainians face a terrible dilemma. Most seem to realize the war is lost. Any attempt at negotiation with the Russians, however, would unleash internal pressures inside Ukraine that could lead to a coup, assassinations or other upheaval. The US won’t want the war to end before President Biden leaves office in January 2025 – and may prolong the agony, loss of life and the ceding of yet more territory to Russia for US domestic reasons rather than the best interests of Ukraine. Where is all this leading?

George Beebe sees three options. NATO escalates and becomes directly involved in the fighting – action that could have unspeakable consequences. More likely, Ukraine could suffer a collapse – a combination of military and political failure as the ability to put an effective army in the field is lost.

“If I am wearing my analyst hat, I would say the more likely scenario is Ukraine collapses and becomes some sort of dysfunctional ward of the West. We then have more or less a security black hole in the middle of Europe that causes real problems.”

Absent an agreed framework, other hot spots could flare at any time – including Georgia, Moldova, Belarus, Kaliningrad.

The third option, and clearly the preferable one for Beebe, is that the West changes course and “picks up the phone”, ending its refusal to negotiate.

“The West has got to recognize that it is important for us to find a negotiated settlement,” Beebe says.

“We can’t simply say to the Russians, let’s freeze the conflict in Ukraine, and someday we’ll get down to talking about broader European security – ‘trust us’. That’s not going to work. We’re going to have to indicate that we understand that these issues are important and that it is in our self-interest to address them in a way that accommodates Russia’s core security interests. The Russians are not going to get everything they want out of this. Neither will we. Both sides are going to have to get their most vital interests protected in all of this. That’s a truism in diplomatic agreements.”

And that is how grown-ups talk.

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