I'm not wading into some 100+ comments thread, so I'll comment here instead:

1. A lot of this is because we are on some shitty Reddit clone that doesn't have a read button. I pretty much just used the upvote button as a read button on Reddit. It's something that I had to unlearn on here.

2. People are going to accidentally upvote stuff they shouldn't have upvoted, especially when they're on their phone. I know on Twitter, some people would just block you because you accidentally liked something they don't like. This is why I use an alt when browsing Hexbear on my phone. I don't want to be put in a situation where I get banned because my fingers accidentally upvoted something that I shouldn't have upvoted.

3. I'm glad you're still around. I was worried the dunk tank drama had chased you off the site.

https://xcancel.com/Pal_action/status/1860030550951825519

BREAKING: Elbit Systems UK loses its biggest contract worth over £2billion, as the Ministry of Defence scraps the Watchkeeper drone project.

This comes after sustained direct action caused severe disruption to Leicester's Israeli weapons factory, the site leading the production.

"Election? What election?" - Dark Brandon

For much of Eastern Europe, they were only socialist because the Red Army stomped on the native fascists. How deeply rooted can Bulgarian socialism even be when Bulgarian socialism only existed because the Red Army liquidated Bulgarian fascism? It's completely different from places like Cuba and the DPRK where socialism was brought forth by the masses of people under the guidance of a vanguard party. I don't want to say that Bulgarian socialism was "fake," but its hold on society would be weaker relative to Cuban socialism unless there was a huge undertaking conducted by the then socialist government to cultivate love and loyalty of Bulgarian socialism among the Bulgarian masses.

First victim of "you have to resign your current position before you get your new position oops too bad I have rescinded my offer."

In massive bloomer/too good to be true news:
https://xcancel.com/ChenKojira/status/1859658593588613336

China has developed a surgical cure for alzheimers

China successfully invented a surgery for curing Alzheimer’s disease. Known as LVA surgery, it is performned on neck lymphatics. So far, there have been 42 clinical trials, all have been successes.

Overall, I agree with shipwreck's analysis, but it's tempered by these things:

1. The US will not lose its seat in the throne without a war. Yes, I don't think China is optimizing its fiscal policy for the sake of weakening the US, but if China actually did, the US would almost certainly push towards a hot war against China. US foreign policy operates under Thucydides Trap and if it gets to the point where the US is about to lose the throne, they will either pursue or threaten to pursue a hot war as either a last ditch effort to hold on the throne or to say that if the US can't have the throne, neither can China. So the question is not whether Chinese economists are neoliberal but rather whether the party and people are willing to bear the cost of direct military confrontation. If they're not willing to, then they will continue the status quo. It literally doesn't matter if every single Chinese economist has their brains replaced by clones of Michael Hudson's brains.

2. Shipwreck vastly underestimates the internal contradictions within the US which permeates throughout US society. I suspect this is because they weren't raised in Burgerland. In their analysis, they even admitted that China's more timid moves has good short term and medium term benefits but questionable/bad long term prospects. But I don't think it's good analysis to leave it at that because if the US lacks the means (and it absolutely does lack the means) to resolve those internal contradictions, then whatever roosters that should come home to roost in China will never come because the US will suffer even more from those unresolved internal contradictions. You can even see this happening with Trump. Shipwreck has more or less been right about the economic dimension of the war in Ukraine, but with regards to how Biden is some 5d chess grandmaster, it's not so much that Shipwreck is wrong but more that Biden will not be in office forever and his subsequent successors (ie Trump) might not and most likely will not have the same talent in 5d chess as Biden. I think Trump's second administration is going to challenge much of what Shipwreck has said because if Trump's administration wind up sabotaging what Biden's administration has carefully build, then the the bloomers could just say that China purposely didn't rock the boat because they knew Trump would fuck it up for them.

I agree with you, and I'll go one step further. Hasan needs to be prepared for unhinged Zionists attempting to murder him and his family. This ranges from hiring security to being prepared for self-defense to moving out of the US. The cold harsh reality is that Hasan is no longer safe in any Western country. These Zionist freaks are no joke when they feel like the legal system will protect them, and they will be protected. And I'm saying this as someone who doesn't particularly like his content or particularly respect streamers as an occupation. But I know a call to "rid this troublesome priest" when I see one.

People in this thread shouldn't be in some celebratory mood. Things are going to escalate really fast from here. Kicking him off Twitch is a given and an inevitability, but the Zionists will not stop there. They will first start to do light property damage like slashing his tires. Then they'll escalate to something like firebombing his house. Then they'll escalate even further by trying to harm but not kill him and his family.

Remember, we saw a bunch of Zionist football hooligans attempt to conduct a pogrom on Dutch Moroccans and the entire Western media go, "uh atkually, the pogrom was conducted against the hooligans not by the hooligans." This is no joke, and I hope Hasan doesn't treat this as one.

Ali Mortada summarizing the attack in Tel Aviv. Bonus footage of some settler getting run over by another settler:
https://xcancel.com/aliimortada/status/1858840797275193550

Yeah, I have no idea why people even bother with Western sources at this point, especially since the genocide in Gaza has exposed them so thoroughly. It's one thing to read Inventing Reality or Manufacturing Consent, but to see it happen in real time is another. They shamelessly made up a fake pogrom less than two weeks ago, but some people here still think Western MSM is credible lol

Kicking myself for not saving a clip of a Hong Kong patriot slapping the shit out of some Joshua Wong clone (all male Hong Kong separatists look like Joshua Wong).

Another IOF loser getting sniped:
https://xcancel.com/TVFreePalestine/status/1858322733777428749