MolotovHalfEmpty

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[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They do this every 4 years. As do the Labour party here in the UK. It has literally never worked.

BlueAnon, let's go! lets-fucking-go

I did yes. It's been the hottest day of the year here today and I have been day drinking. My phone catches typos but not the rest of my nonsense. Cheers.

You can't see it on the first kit really in that picture, but that's a map of Palestine on the sleeve. They also use the shape of the map as '1's for the numbers on their shirts

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Very. I've got these two currently:

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Club Deportivo Palestino is third division Chilean team from Santiago that was originally made up entirely of refugees from the Nakba (Santiago took more Palestinians than just about any city in the world at the time) and still advocate and fundraise for Palestine. I've got several of their excellent shirts.

I used to live near some woodland that smelt like mint for what seemed like miles. It's too dark for it to grow on the woodland floor beneath the canopy, but every large clearing and the banks of the stream and field in the centre was absolutely covered in it.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

From the live news feed:

The model was launched 14 years ago and just six weeks ago the US planemaker lauded the fact the model, also known as the Dreamliner, has reached the milestone of carrying 1 billion passengers. To mark that occasion the company said the global 787 fleet of more than 1,175 airplanes has flown nearly 5 million flights covering more than 30 million flight hours.

I'd like a grand. Could they put on a shitshow more local to me?

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

jesus-christ

Absolute carnage. The plane was barely off the ground before what looks like a total, sudden failure.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

The comments pictured really just demonstrate that they don't understand power dynamics and cannot imagine themselves not in the position of the more dominant superpower.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

doubt I'll take my chances.

How exactly do you type a response like this and not realise you're a crank? This would be over the top rhetoric as the fascist villain in a terrible B-movie.

 

In news that won't surprise people paying attention at the time but has finally been 'noticed' by news reporting (the way British media usually operates), the funds for Starmer's leadership election including illegal donations, breaches of electoral law, and a shady slush fund from shady interests.

I linked the Novara article as the Sunday Times original is behind a paywall, plus there's some other links for context.

What's interesting to me is why this is reaching the surface of the British media now. The press hedging it's bets in case the dissent in the Tory party does take down Rishi? Plausible deniability as they grow uncomfortable with Labour's massive polling lead? A warning shot for some perceive recent sleight?

 

The BBC ran a story about a Muslim family who upped sticks from the city and bought a farm in rural Wales, and how they're encouraging more diverse people from cities to enjoy the outdoors. You can read it here.

The headline now reads Muslim farmer wants more diverse rural visitors. But it didn't when they posted it as evidenced by the Tweet linked in this post, as they can't change that.

For anyone who can't follow the Twitter link (Nitter couldn't find it even with a link, sorry) the original headline was this:

Muslim farmer wants more ethnicity in rural Wales

A headline that very deliberately baited a massive number of racists who predictably used it to tout great replacement theory.

 

David Mencer, who was the director of Labour Friends of Isreal before recently moving there, had an extremely normal one when invited on to discuss the growing calls for Labour (and others) to back a genuine ceasefire.

Seriously, it has to be seen to be believed; from his total lack of self-control, absurd rhetoric, and the worst case of long-Corbyn derrangement sysndrome I've ever seen.

Keep in mind that TalkTV is an explicitly right-wing Rupert Murdoch funded news channel here and the host feels compelled to warn, repudiate, lower and eventually cut Mercer's mic in favour of a left-wing Labour activist with a pro-Palestine view.

(Posted here as it seemed most fitting, if it shouldn't be then just let me know - edited with Nitter link)

 

George Grosz was a fascinating and viceral painter, deeply scarred and influenced by his experience serving in the first world war, before he was discharged and left with psychiatric problems and a serious drinking problem. Many of his paintings from that period deal explictly with the horrors of war and the human cost juxtaposed against societal conflict.

His later work saw him fined by the German government and some of his collections ordered destroyed as they became more satrical and focused upon what he saw as the hypocracy of those that advocate for such violence - things like preachers vomiting grenades and Jesus being forced into conscription.

He also went to Russia in the 1920s, where he was initially detained as a spy, but released when proven not to be and even met Lenin. He lived in the US for most of his life after the '30s but eventually returned to Berlin, where he died falling down the stairs one night drunk.

 

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This is Thanet Parkway.

No ticket office, no information point, no staff, about as wide as a balance beam and less vibrant than a self-storage complex. It was supposed to cost £11m but somehow ended up spiralling to over £35m.

Southeastern Railways is on Twitter trying to answer or deflect angry questions, predominantly from disabled people, explaining the ever more complicated and absurd ways disabled people can 'request' assistance in using the station.

It's important to note that most of their answers rely on just saying that the trains on that line have conductors on the trains themselves who can help, at a time when both the government and the rail companies are pushing for DOO trains (Driver Operater Only i.e. no train staff apart from the driver who is not allowed to leave their cabin).

They've also been asked numerous times for the dimensions of the platform so that disabled users can check if there is enough space for their wheelchairs / mobility scooters. This is the only question they have repeatedly ignored.

It also appears that the station, which many local politicians have argued was not required, may have been promised as part of a deal with a housing developer to increase the value of the development they were building. Which is a whole other can of worms.

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(I hope this is the right comm, sorry if not)

It's not the first time this has happened, but I was making kind of an effort post in reply to a news commenter's question but the Hexbear logo just spins infinitely when I hit reply.

Have I hit some sort of character limit or included too many links or something? Or is it nothing to do with the actual post?

I'm old and not very tech savvy chomsky-yes-honey

Edit: Split it up and reposted this morning. Seemed to be a character limit.

 

Kim Philby was an MI6 agent who had been working for the KGB since college. The man looked like a young Noam Chomsky, but spent his career fucking over MI6, the CIA, and notably Stephen Bandera's fascist 'resistance' movement in Ukraine.

Despite some gross but typical ingrained excuses for Western fascism...

When his forces reached the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, they found thousands of political prisoners had been slaughtered by the Soviets.

In retaliation, they joined the Gestapo in murdering thousands of Jews and Poles in the Lviv Pogrom. It is estimated that around one and a half million Jews were killed in Ukraine during the Holocaust.

The article is pretty damn good and talks frankly about Bandera and the UK/US effectively working with Nazis and spin-off fash as well as that legacy being celebrated in modern Ukraine.

I don't think it's smuggling in positive propoganda by stealth though. Just an accurate account and that reality, especially then, had a Soviet bias.

Also, Kim Philby Soviet stamp emoji when?

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