So, uh, quick question: if enough states remove Trump from the ballot does that mean we'll have to start posting 'This is how DeSantis can still win' memes?

Breaking! Bomb blast near Israel embassy in Delhi, no staff harmed, NIA officials at the spot: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/news/breaking-bomb-blast-near-israel-embassy-in-delhi-no-staff-harmed-nia-officials-at-the-spot/videoshow/106300286.cms

These videos released by the diaper force are always unbelievably silly

In this 45 second video, we get to see a bunch of diaper babies shooting at distant buildings a little bit to psych themselves up, the finding of a hole (THERE IS A HOLE HERE!!!), a unit commander instructing his team of diaper babies that from there on out they need to all point their guns, and finally the brave neutralization of the hole with a single grenade

So since the COTW is Finland I thought I'd share some local fuckery with our rubber stamping local government in roughly the area I live around.

We're close enough to the coastline to get ships in, there's a railway that goes from the industrial areas further inland to the coastline. The railway has been in disrepair for like 30 years by now, they still use it to transfer tree-logs, but that's about it. They did a "poll" in which they asked if people would wish for the railway to be fixed for people transfer purposes, obviously people didnt want it because that's what the poll was supposed to say. It would cost 100 million or so to fix, because if you're going to fix it, it needs to be done to perfection with all new rails and trains and stations and Jesus himself needs to be brought back to bless it.

So what's great about all this, is the fact that the local areas are trying to bring in new industry which would benefit greatly from a functioning railway and would pay itself back in a few years even with the 100 million investment, instead they're going to have even more TRUCKS start going the road that leads to the coast. And let me tell you, if the railway has been in disrepair for 30 years, the ROAD has been in disrepair for fucking 50, it's basically gravel at places, but the fucking losers are going to start having loads and loads of HEAVY trucks starting to drive it again.

Everything in this fucking country is always stretched to it's limit and nothing is ever fixed until it breaks.

The Russians are moving forward with their plans to interfere in the 2024 US elections.

https://streamable.com/v570f7

It's a little known fact that Santa's sleigh was actually decommissioned during the Cold War for causing all kinds of chaos with radar systems for being a hypersonic object (in order to get the presents around the world in time). Lots of nuclear near-misses around Christmas time every year for this reason. Nowadays, Santa uses a bespoke tunnel network that spans the globe which connects to every chimney from underneath. The true evil of Hamas is that they want to repurpose this tunnel network to kill innocent people around the world, which is why they must be stopped

Israel hits back at South Africa after it launches genocide case at UN’s top court

South Africa said it had approached the UN’s international court of justice (ICJ) under the Geneva convention with respect to acts committed by Israel in Gaza.

In a statement, South Africa said it was ‘“gravely concerned with the plight of civilians” caught in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip “due to the indiscriminate use of force and forcible removal of inhabitants.”

It said there were “ongoing reports of international crimes, such as crimes against humanity and war crimes” being committed as well as “reports that acts meeting the threshold of genocide” in the Palestinian territory.

An application in this regard was filed before the court on 29 December 2023 in which the court is requested to declare on an urgent basis that Israel is in breach of its obligations in terms of the genocide convention, should immediately cease all acts and measures in breach of those obligations and take a number of related actions.

It said South Africa “condemns all violence and attacks against all civilians, including Israelis”, adding that it had continuously called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and for talks to resume “that will end the violence arising from the continued belligerent occupation of Palestine”.

Update on the Red Sea: Mearsk suspends passing through the Strait again, after the attack, don't know for how long.

From The Guadian: US Navy downs missiles in Red Sea after ship attacked by Houthi rebels

The US Navy has shot down two anti-ship missiles and sunk three small boats after responding to distress calls from a container ship that was attacked twice by Houthi rebels as it crossed the Red Sea over the weekend.

The US Central Command (Centcom) said it dispatched two destroyers, the USS Gravely and the USS Laboon, after the container ship Maersk Hangzhou reported being struck by a missile at 8.30pm local time on Saturday.

“While responding, the USS Gravely shot down two anti-ship ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen toward the ships,” Centcom said.

Ten hours later, the Singapore-flagged, Denmark-owned and operated container ship issued a second distress call, saying it was under attack from Houthi gunmen in four small boats.

“The small boats, originating from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen, fired small arms weapons at the Maersk Hangzhou, getting to within 20 metres of the vessel, and attempted to board the vessel,” Centcom said. “A contract embarked security team on the Maersk Hangzhou returned fire.”

Helicopters from the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier and the USS Gravely came under fire from the small boats as they issued verbal warnings, leading them to fire back.

“The US Navy helicopters returned fire in self-defence, sinking three of the four small boats and killing the crews,” the Centcom statement added. “The fourth boat fled the area. There was no damage to US personnel or equipment.”

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Since the Pentagon announced Operation Prosperity Guardian, 1,200 merchant ships have travelled through the Red Sea region, and none have been hit by drone or missile strikes, Vice Admiral Brad Cooper said in an interview with the Associated Press news agency.

Operation prosperity gospel.

Russia Heads Into 2024 Making A Mockery Of Western Oil Sanctions

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The IOF attempted to free a hostage from the PFLP, only to kill the hostage instead before getting owned by the PFLP: https://nitter.cz/Marxozoic/status/1741134291847836017

Edit: they blocked me, lol.

Has anyone seen videos of the merkavas getting murked that actually includes the aftermath?

Arguing with a lib who claims they aren’t showing it/cut away immediately after the rewind because the explosions aren’t doing much and this just “proves” how good the armor is.

It’s very dumb and sunk cost is a fallacy, but I’m invested in winning this.

Noooooo, you're posting cringe my dude. You're going to be put in the cuck column: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel-s--goals-in-gaza-similar-to-russia-s--lavrov

New vid

⚡️WATCH: Al-Qassam (Hamas) published a new video showing its fighters clash with militants vehicles in the areas of near Khan Yunis.

THEY DID IT AGAIN, with another point-blank sticky bomb to a Merkava tank 🔥

https://twitter.com/AryJeay/status/1741136799596966207

https://nitter.cz/AryJeay/status/1741136799596966207

John Pilger has died. RIP to a real one

The Guardian

Archive

Bit considered now with Ukraine becoming more desperate

The Resistance is starting to bring out the big boys: https://nitter.cz/BigTimeCommie/status/1740092570133532869

For the one person who cares about lemmy.world: they might be changing their policies with community feedback because the admins don't like the mods: https://lemmy.world/post/10102462

The McDonald's front intensifies: McDonald’s Malaysia sues pro-Palestine group BDS for defamation over boycott calls

May the Protracted People's War end with the public execution of javier milei and mauricio macri.

Hah I get the 1000th comment.

Edit: apparently some state rep in Maine got swatted for trying to pull Trump off their ballot lmao.

Edit 2: apparently Russia formed a small Ukrainian volunteers unit supposidly composed of all POWs and placed them under the command structure of the Donetsk People’s Republic Ministry of Internal Affairs to kick ukro-nazi ass and fight for liberation of their homeland.

Edit 3: news from my second motherland south Korea, the military is once again complaining about low birthrates steadily eroding military readiness as numbers of yearly forced conscripts dwindle. There's an estimation they're going to be forced to reduce the size of the active armed forces again but the damn bastards at the high levels of Korean politics are worried that they won't be ready for a possibly tumultuous future. Hey assholes, you can guarantee peace for all of Korea by declaring to be truly neutral should any conflicts occur and kick the American soldiers there out.

Edit 4: sounds like U.S DOD is deploying national guard to Kosovo to try and scare Serbia into line with the EU/NATO policy

Just passed a pro-Palestine trucker convoy near the Islamic center in Rashida's district (I don't live there), kinda cool.

Al Jazeera summary of 12-27-23 live blog

• WHO has undertaken “high-risk” missions to deliver supplies to hospitals in northern and southern Gaza, and warns people in Gaza face ‘grave peril’.

• An Israeli television channel reports that the Shin Bet security service had received but ignored information on the timing of Hamas’s attack.Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz says the offensive in Gaza will continue and will also expand.

• The death toll from the Israeli attack against a residential building close to the El Amal Hospital in Khan Younis has risen to 30.

• Israeli and Turkish officials traded barbs after President Erdogan compared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Adolf Hitler.

Killing my 105 year old bed bound dementia ridden grandfather who fought in Stalingrad In solidarity with the people of The Ukraine

Wolfgang Schäuble dropped dead