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the newsmega can have a little 'is zohran mao or obama' struggle session as a treat (such as in this subthread) but this is the world newsmega, not the electoralism-mega and so please limit zohran posting to a dull roar. things like zohran struggle sessions are literally exactly what c/electoralism was made for, not the news mega.

along the same lines, zionists and fascists are having a shitfit about zohran and yes it is funny, but let's try to keep the newsmega to only the dankest of memes and the saltiest of zionist tears. we don't need to hear about every DC think tankie pondering the orb with bill ackman.

Does your oomphie speak entirely in historical analogies? Do they reject the announced political objectives of all states - knowing them to be manipulable - only to substitute them with a neocon-tier understanding of "national interest" rather than the class interest of their ruling elite? Do they propose purging everyone who gets a prediction wrong because results proved them ideologically impure and unreliable? Do they attack the source of information rather than evaluating its claims? Do they genuinely in the year of our lord 2025 believe in the existence of trustworthy journalists that rely on anonymous high ranking sources? Have they become dissatisfied with merely proofreading the headlines of the New York Times and begun taking its IDF-sourced claims at face value?

Today we are raising awareness about Mearsheimer brain. Some of our most venerable shitposters - even woman and squirrels - have been consumed by the social libertarian wiles of popular alternative media figures. Check on your shitposters today. You are not immune to propaganda. Gambling addiction is real and it gets even worse when you can't go properly broke. #mearsheimeraddiction #readabookaday #womanisaflower #launchamissileaday #nuketelaviv #againstgeopoliticsgooning

Democratic congresswoman @RepLauraGillen says of Mamdani: "His comments about intifada, calls for violence against Jewish people, it's really inappropriate for someone like that to lead the city of New York."

Dayen;

Senate Dems are going to force a full reading of the Big Beautiful Bill, all 940 pages, on the Senate floor, delaying things by about 15 hours. Apparently advocates had to push @SenSchumer to get this done.

Huge move by the Dems, delaying things by one day! This probably helps the GOP because a lot of GOP Senators are still against it, looks like mostly because of the SALT tax change? The new bill cuts almost $1 trillion from Medicaid, by the way.

A "Death to the IDF" chant at Glastonbury music festival was broadcast live on the BBC today

https://hexbear.net/post/5406323?scrollToComments=false

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rdI61hudsRQ Sex pestiny telling idf soldiers not to record their war crimes and have fun. Have fucking fun. These fucking youtubers are devoid of anything resembling humanity. always said he was a psychopath that neolibs sucked off.

Fury as Glastonbury crowd chants 'Death to the IDF!' in scenes aired live on the BBC

Punk duo Bob Vylan led crowds in chants of 'Free Palestine' and 'Death to the IDF' on Saturday, prompting fury from supporters of Israel on social media.

The English group was streamed live by the BBC while performing directly before Irish language rap trio Kneecap, who the corporation refused to show live after controversial incidents including one of its members being charged with a terror offence.

The BBC previously confirmed it would not livestream Kneecap's performance but would likely upload an edited version on iPlayer later - but if it hoped to avoid controversy over the war in Gaza bosses will be disappointed.

In the act just before Kneecap, singer/guitarist Bobby Vylan and drummer Bobbie Vylan, who founded their band in 2017 in Ipswich, flashed up a large message in support of Palestinians while their set was being broadcast live by the BBC.

Archived link, I went with the Daily Fail because I like seeing their pearl-clutching.

https://xcancel.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1938607536887779553

@yanisvaroufakis

It seems that our rulers, here in the 'liberal' West, have homed in on a new way of turning a person into a non-person. Here is a man, Hüseyin Doğru, a German journalist (of Turkish origins, but not a dual citizen) whom the EU authorities have found a novel, immensely cruel, way of punishing for his coverage of, and views on, Palestine.

The German authorities learned a lesson from my case. Not wishing to be answerable in court for any ban on pro-Palestinian voices (similar to the court case I am dragging them through currently), they found another way: A direct sanction by the EU utilising some hitherto unused directive, one introduced at the beginning of the Ukraine war, that allows Brussels to sanction any citizen of the EU it deems to be working for Russian interests. Clinging to the argument that Hüseyin’s website/podcast used to be shown also on Ruptly (among other platforms), they are using this directive aimed at an ‘anti-Russian asset’ to destroy a journalist who dared oppose the Palestinian genocide.

In practice, this means that Hüseyin’s bank account is frozen; that if you or I were to give him cash to buy groceries or make rent then we would be considered his accomplices and subject to similar sanctions; it also means that if he were a civil servant, he would be fired; if he were a student he would be expelled from his university; if he received a pension it would be suspended; if he received any social benefit it would be frozen. It also, astonishingly, means that he cannot leave Germany! Last, but definitely not least, it means that Hüseyin cannot sue his government for turning him into a non-person but only challenge the European Commission in Brussels – where he is not even allowed to go!

Need I say more? Is it not abundantly clear that we live, today, in a nominally liberal Europe where, in a jiffy, your political and human rights can be rescinded, including your right to challenge your government in a court of law?

normal Western democracy hours