The reaction of some people to the video (Hasan Piker especially) actually has me wondering a few things, as far as "worst things to see on the internet" it ranks a solid 5/10 in terms of bloodiness, even those ghoulish "Killing in self-defense/heroes shoot robbers" snuff films they allow on Youtube are more visceral and distressing than Kirk getting domed

I can't come to any other conclusion than the realization that the vast majority of people have no fuckin clue what has taken place in Gaza, and by that I mean they can't actually visualize what's happening to Gaza, I think we here on Hexbear because of our access to direct and Arabic news sources have seen things the vast majority of the western left has not

I always wondered why so many "leftist" commentators, podcasters, streamers still have this unspoken hesitation and almost unconscious need to abstract the Gaza genocide, while spaces like TikTok inexplicably have the same serious attitude we here on Hexbear have despite TikTok being filled with right-wingers, and it hit me, people on Hexbear and TikTok HAVE SEEN the videos; the burning people, the kids without faces, the babies hanging dead off rebar. The worst that many of the politics Andies have seen are smoke clouds in the distance, people covered in dust, or the New York Times x-rays

The fuckin commentariat haven't seen shit, they either avoid those videos on purpose or most likely they rely on dry articles, journalistic reports and stats to form an opinion, no wonder when I watch their vids they sound sociopathic to me, I saw a kid missing their face and they're just reading an article, the disconnect is enormous

This whole time I thought most of the left was on the same page concerning the visual knowledge of the atrocities, but if people are fainting over a video of a single gunshot wound, then wtf do people really know about what's happening in Gaza?

as of now on CNN the chyron is saying no one in custody for Kirk's shooting

Given that Nepal is in the Western news, as can be expected, the kind of media coverage and narratives they'll proliferate will be likely near entirely socialist-agnostic, with all the leftist elements of the given country's historical background stripped out. So here's a primer I wrote with some readings on the background of the Communist Parties in Nepal:

The entryist nature of the major Communist Parties in Nepal aside, the rarity of new leftist successes beyond AES following the end of the Cold War means that the condition of Nepal shouldn't be entirely dismissed out of hand outright, despite their lack of significant achievements following the dissolution of the armed struggle.

The country was an absolute monarchy for most of the Cold War. It slowly transitioned into a constitutional monarchy, a deal where the royals could be expected to retreat to their palace and parasitize off the public budget just like their welfare leech counterparts in Europe. Then, in 2001, their crown prince did a Romanov by going on a shooting massacre against his own family and parents in their palace, gunning down his parents, the reigning king and queen. He then shot himself and his uncle became the new king. This uncle then quickly demonstrated an autocratic obsession with reconsolidating the monarchy's institutional power but this attempt to assert monarchical authority stumbled against the shattered prestige of the Nepalese royalty from the self-inflicted extermination of the royal household. This ultimately led to the complete abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of a republic in 2008.

Meanwhile, as this was happening, there was a Maoist People's War conducted through the leadership of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist, after the government's violent suppression of attempted land reform in the 1990s. This period of armed struggle lasted twenty years from 1996 to 2006. In 2006, the CPN-M conceded to liberal reformers by agreeing to a bourgeois liberal republic and a constituent assembly, when the Maoists had the upper hand through its control of most of the countryside. This broke the party's unity and some of its founding members left afterwards, who saw the party as having betrayed its goal of New Democracy. The armed wing of the Party, the People's Liberation Army of Nepal was also disbanded and eventually integrated with the national army of the new bourgeois republic.

This is the major contradiction between the two major Communist Parties: CPN-UML (Unified Marxist-Leninist) and CPN-MC (Maoist Center). There's also a rather plentiful amount of breakaway and splinter Communist Parties, who saw the 2006-8 establishment of the bourgeois republic as a betrayal of the armed struggle and comprador parliamentarianism.

You could say that the electoralist Communist Parties are merely working within the contradictions of the times. The establishment of a true New Democracy and an official Marxist-Leninist state during the 2000s right as the United States had its full attention on the region during its "War on Terror" nearby in Afghanistan would have been unwise. Nevertheless, despite the suppression of land reform in the 1990s having been the catalyst for the Nepalese People's War, there is still no comprehensive land reform in Nepal to this day. This has been directly attributed to the concessions of the CPN-Maoists. Here is a criticism of the current "Land Bank" system, which is more akin to the liberal land reform of post-WW2 granted to Japan and Taiwan by the US' permission as a concession to co-opt and destroy socialist sentiment (only the redistribution of land) than those of a socialist land reform (which entails a comprehensive breakdown of land relations, destruction of the landlord class and their intergenerational communal ties and power base).

Nevertheless, the difference between the Nepalese electoral entryism and that of the West's leftists is their strong territorial control of the countryside and their military power prior to their swerve towards entryist politics which prevented the liberals in the bourgeois republic from suppressing them like what was done to the CPI in Italy and the KKE in Greece or from outright ignoring and sidelining them like what was recently done to the so-called French left coalition NPF by Macron. As such, the only way to suppress the various leftists by the liberals is through the parliamentary system itself. This original leading position in the parliamentary system has now indeed been slowly eroded with the liberal "soc-dem" Nepali Congress party ending with the most seats in the 2022 election.

As for geopolitics, Nepal is essentially the Mongolia of the Himalayas, a country between two larger ones, but with even worse geographical positioning. The majority of the country is near entirely on the southern side of the Himalayas, which means that it is almost completely dependent on India as a route to the sea and as a conduit for trade. It has been subjected to regular Indian interference, especially in its southern territories which are on the Gangetic plain and whose Madhesi ethnic minority population are said to be aligned more in interests with India than Kathmandu generally. India itself views Nepal as essentially a second Bhutan though slightly more "unruly," the latter being essentially an Indian client monarchy whose foreign affairs are completely dictated by New Delhi. The Indian-manufactured annexation of the independent state of Sikkim right next door in 1973 has Nepal's principal foreign policy objective being to avoid that exact same outcome.

In 2015, the newly elected BJP Modi government of India blockaded Nepal following a constitutional reform that, according to it, disfavored the aforementioned Madhesi ethnic minority. India was outraged because its appropriation of ethnic minority constituencies was how it had been able to historically annex Sikkim and this reform weakened its ability to potentially repeat it in Nepal if it ever wanted to utilize that option. India then froze fuel and goods imports into Nepal, demanding that the constitution include clauses of self-determination and an autonomous territory for the Madhesi. This had the potential of a humanitarian disaster in the making as Nepal had just suffered an earthquake earlier in the year and it relied on fuel imports through India for heating in the winter months. It was at this point that Modi's India outplayed its hand and Nepal reached out to China. Nepal agreed to the construction of a railway linking Kathmandu to China's national rail system with China's rail gauge standard as a result of this blackmail. Nevertheless, a near decade long bureaucratic stalling has delayed the railway negotiations and construction which still continues to the present day. It was only in July of 2024 that an agreement was finally signed. As such, over 64% of Nepalese imports come from India and only 13% from China as of 2022, meaning that Nepal is still deeply dependent on India.

It also recently signed, during the Trump I period, the US State Department/USAID program, the Millennium Challenge Compact (also the name of that Bush-era wargame against Iran), controversially allowing for US infiltration of Nepal against China in the New Cold War. It was ratified by Nepal’s then-Communist Party coalition led parliament (Maoist-Centre and United-Socialist) in 2022. Here's a piece that the Tricontinental wrote on this: https://thetricontinental.org/asia/ticaa-issue-1-the-millennium-challenge-corporation/

This external dynamic has had a sizeable dampening influence on the internal willingness of Nepal's Communist Parties to pursue more significant socialist reforms such as the comprehensive land reform that the People's War had been fought for in the 1990s to early 2000s.

The shooter has to be miltary right? 200 yards, neck shot

So what's our prediction on the profile of the shooter? 23 year old groyper, a strategy of lead style government influenced shooter, or something else?

What does this news mean for Venezula?

of course the Kirk shooter had to go for a neck shot. his face was too small of a target

South Park writers: well now what the fuck are we gonna do?

What were his last words? Spewing hate against trans people?

Shithead had it coming. wont leave his house for 30 years.

Political violence is inexcusable. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to vote for concentration camps at the border and more funding for the police, nazis, and zionists.

He just died? Wow. I didn't know that. You're telling me now for the first time. He led an amazing life. What else can you say? He was an amazing guy. Whether you agreed or not, He was an amazing guy who led an amazing life. I'm actually saddened to hear that. I am sadden to hear that. Thank you very much.

Looks like Charlie Kirk couldn’t talk fast enough this time. Nazi loser DESTROYED.

I hope all his nazi fanboys get PTSD from this and have debilitating nightmares for the rest of their wretched lives

Satisfying.

With the events since the Trump assassination attempts and now this last few days (Charlie Kirk assasination and the Ukrainian refugee in the United States being murdered in cold blood on the train, honestly the Ukrainian woman getting murdered on the train was one of the worst videos I've ever seen), I think that the overton window is going to shift so far to the right that Trump will be considered a moderate. There's no going back.

New poverty data for 2024 is out

https://x.com/ceprdc/status/1965521242762469673

I had to look up the dead fascist because, being non USian, I didn't know much about him. For anyone else who's out of the loop, here is some important context: apparently, today the world lost

• an influential propagandist who pushed all kinds of hate and fascist ideology: incited millions of his followers on many platforms to commit racist, anti-LGBTQI+ and genderbased violence and to support such policy, spread deadly misinformation around vaccinations, covid and climate change
• the leader of a large and multipronged reactionary propaganda organization focusing on students with even an arm in the UK, spreading the same fascist ideology
• a powerful politician and ally to Trump who tried to prepare a coup and might have become a contender in the next elections

Did I miss anything important?

CHARLIE KIRK DISS TRACK:
https://nitter.net/sugefrmjerz/status/1965901959556374783

And no one is talking about 's terrorist attack on Hamas in Qatar anymore or that birthday card to Epstein. How convenient.

Can someone please post the video

israel is back to bombing Yemen, killing at least 35

death to israel, forever

American dog yaps out unwanted eulogy of man with small face:
https://twitter.com/bikhim/status/1965947660801888590

if you start to feel bad that Kirk's children had to see him die, remember that it's what their father wanted

Hope the assassin did some insider trading.

Imagine dying in Utah

Social media networks of Brazilian right-wing groups are buzzing with posts referring to the protests in Nepal and expressing the desire for a similar uprising to take place in Brazil against the Federal Supreme Court (STF), which this week concludes the trial of Jair Bolsonaro (Liberal Party) and seven other defendants in the attempted coup case.

Minister Flávio Dino filed a complaint with the Federal Police (PF) on Wednesday (September 10) requesting investigations into social media posts encouraging lethal attacks on ministers and their families, as well as the destruction of the STF headquarters. “Among the striking features is a constant allusion to events that took place in ‘Nepal,’ which seems to suggest a concerted action of an inciting nature,” Dino states in the complaint sent to the PF.

"In right-wing groups, in particular, we found many videos and images making comparisons. Saying: ‘In Nepal, it's a communist government; in Brazil, it's a communist government.’ 'In Nepal, they tried to silence the population; here in Brazil, they try to silence the population.‘ 'In Nepal, a dictator took away the people's freedom of expression. In Brazil, we have a dictator supreme court justice,’" are some of the things posted by the far-right online.

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POV: your cake day is 9/11

Seems like a pretty good breakdown here: Why Israel Attacked Qatar

Good Morning America segment:

FBI calling on public to help find suspect who fatally shot Charlie Kirk

they've got nothing

As cynical as I am, but I have a feeling that this image will mean something for the Middle East in years:

Context: Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad performing funeral prayers for one Qatari martyr and four Palestinian martyrs after the Zionist bombing of Doha.

Hope rises that shooter made a clean getaway

NYT reporting that the bullet engraving story appears to be fake news:

https://bsky.app/profile/thelincoln.bsky.social/post/3lyl5ljm2h22m

There is no way that the shooter is a leftist. When they find the shooter, they are gonna look at his google search history and find stuff like "who is the president?" and "what is politics??"

Having your own Wikipedia article is our generation's equivalent of going to Valhalla. It's the same as the trump shooter, people just want to be the main character.

US naval academy shooting. Several injured https://www.ktvu.com/news/naval-academy-lockdown-reports-threats

“There will never be a Palestinian state,” Netanyahu says as he allows settlement expansion in the West Bank

Two days ago, Israel ordered a mass evacuation of the largest city in the Gaza Strip, causing panic and outrage among residents. Israel is preparing a large-scale ground operation against the terrorist group Hamas in the area. “We will fulfill our promise: there will never be a Palestinian state; this place belongs to us. We will protect our heritage, our land, and our security,” Netanyahu declared during the event in Maale Adumim, an Israeli settlement east of Jerusalem.

The Israeli prime minister was accompanied by nationalist members of his coalition, including far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who in August said that a Palestinian state “is being erased from the table, not with slogans, but with actions.”

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Rent up 0.34% MoM, highest since Dec 24

Shelter up 0.39% MoM, highest since Jan 25

Bloomberg journalists got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

Title is rambling cause I took it from reddit cause hard to highlight headline in article

After a Tip off by a friendly intelligent service , US is now looking for a 5 year old Palestinan Man.

I really need to stop being irresponsible with the lathe.

Anyone have an update on what's going on in France?

The sub-: TheDeprogram has been banned. I hope some of them find their way here

No one should ever be shot in the neck while hosting an event titled “Prove Me Wrong” and lecturing people about how guns are good and all gun deaths are worth it. It would be like taking a Gadsden flag to a rally and being trampled to death. That is also not funny.