My cousin died in Volchansk, Ukraine, yesterday. He was so cool—he would always take me to the gym with him when I was just 5. I can't believe he's gone. Rest in peace, dear cousin.

About the DNC not allowing ANY palestinian on stage, like, you know AIPAC's maximalism is behind the decision because they COULD'VE just gotten a centrist or right-wing palestinian or arab democrat, who's totally loyal to the regime to be like "hamas doesn't represent me, we want peace but israel has to free the hostages first", obviously any self-respecting adult would see through it but that would've gotten a solid chunk of the woke identitarian left to ease off on kamala and given liberals a token palestinian to shield themselves behind.

But ANY palestinian is a no-go.

What an absolute honor to have my son as the COTW, proud dad here. I'm sure he'll be very happy when I tell him in a few years that he's famous on the Putin-backed bear podcast offshoot forum nerd mega. You're all getting a good old ranking today, in honor of my humiliation yesterday and for the little fella.

I think what I need to articulate, to really engrave for posterity right now, is the experience of liberals freaking out and throwing tantrums when people just describe what's happening in Gaza.

They start going EWWW EWW EEWW AHHH!!!! AHHHH!!!!, I'm not kidding. Like you've thrown acid on them.

There literally can't be a cure for this kind of brain damage, but maybe it would help to start with forcing these people to hold down a shift at a service industry job where people bark at them

BREAKING NEWS: Trotskyists successfully sell newspaper.

I realised something about the Iranian & gang response to Israel while scrolling through Arab Facebook today. They're waiting for the Arbaeen pilgrimage to end by Monday. Arbaeen is the biggest gathering of people in Shia Islam and happens every year fourty days after the martyrdom of Imam Hussein and his family. To give an example of how important it is, the massive youth protests in Iraq broke out on the 1st October 2019 and lasted five days, then they took a 20 day break to do Arbaeen, then returned on the 25th. The pilgrimage usually attracts more than 25 million people who walk from the Iraqi-Iranian border and main hubs in the cities of Basra, Baghdad and Najaf. The success of this pilgrimage is of utmost importance to the Iranian and Iraqi governments, even covid couldn't fully stop it. When dealing with a freak enemy such as Israel, you can't put 25 million people in the danger zone. My wife's uncle posted pics this morning and it was just crazy, the amount of people there is just unfathomable. I think we've all missed this context on the bear forum and on twitter. The Axis of Resistance acts upon Shia interests first and Palestine second, this pilgrimage has to be protected in order to do something for Palestine. The Iranians and Lebanese Shias get home by the end of the weekend, then something can be done. Look up a stream on YouTube or something, you'll be shocked by the scale of this. Lots of revolutionary content is in this year's pilgrimage btw, I've seen posters of Ismail Haniyah and other martyrs, and there are Palestine flags along the whole road.

Search this on YouTube if you're interested: زيارة الاربعين

My sympathies if you're a lib who has been radicalized by the especially intense genocidal horror of this 2024 election cycle. For many people, 2016 and 2020 made it clear that hoping for a better world makes us stand apart from liberals. 2024 has made it clear that we are surrounded by fascists, who, when their mask slips, proudly display their fangs, still dripping viscera from ongoing slaughter.

It's nothing we didn't already fear to know in our heart of hearts.

In dark times, should the stars also go out?

vibes-based reporting: i've been browsing r/fauxmoi today, a celebrity gossip sub that's been very pro-palestine but extremely 🌴🥥 pilled since biden crossed the west wing bridge (rip). now though, after the grim spectacle the DNC put on, the mood is souring. all the most upvoted electoralism posts are back to be critical of kamala and the democrats, with people starting to realize that maybe she's not be the fun aunt they can project all their political hopes and dreams onto.

Based Tariq we love to see it. Respect to anyone still talking about Palestine and not jumping on the embarrassing circus that this week has been while children are having their heads blown off (600+ upvotes)

it really seems the democrats have done a great job of killing off the good-vibe momentum they had going for them. literally snatching defeat from the jaws of victory <3

brat summer has come to an end; we're entering fight song fall.

the specter of joever lives on.

Watching the vod of Hasan going to the Anti-Genocide protests in Chicago and some random french channel asked for an interview without knowing who he is

Getting some answers they weren't prepared for, that's for sure

Also the protest looks amazing, even with the bull parade following them on bicycles

British tech billionaire missing, likely dead after yacht accident RIP bozo

This do not come convention has been a great reminder why I hate all these liberals even the ones who are "progressive." All of them in a room together applauding the most deranged shit and act like they care because well at least their rhetoric is different than their actions. Which is currently carrying out a genocide

Colombian president suspends coal exports towards Israel, effective the 23rd. They represent 84% of Israel coal imports.

Goddamn, I log off for 12 fucking hours to have a nice silent day with the wife after delivering the boy to her mom. I check my phone and the family group chat suddenly has 150 messages and pics of my aunt storing rice and cans of chickpeas in her Beirut house attic. One should truly never even consider logging off.

I'm not gonna lie, listening to Kamala Harris last night proclaim her undying support for Israel's "right to defend itself" against the "rapist Palestinian hordes" and to then turn around and go "but I'm sad for Palestinians uWu" after all the bullshit of this week and the bombs she and her boss have given Israel, it's probably the closest I've ever been to being unironically "I'm voting for Trump to spite liberals". I'm going to vote third party, but I'm still human, and I want these liberals to fucking suffer.

The DNC is going to let the family of an Israeli hostage speak at the convention. No Palestinians are scheduled to speak.

Dr. Amer Mohsen words of wisdom for the impatient re: Axis of Resistance retaliation.

these “football coach-like behaviors” are the offspring of the romanticized, oversimplified theory of “liberation,” which believes that reclaiming Palestine is nothing but a courageous decision, a “heroic moment” we endlessly await, that will dismantle Israel and Zionism in one fell swoop. This culture is the product of decades of departure from action, reality, and impact, crafted for the masses by the propaganda of the Arab regime and the dialogues of generations from TV shows and series. Liberation is available at the push of a button, and it will happen in one major decisive battle where the curtain of history will fly open and return to us our first pre-colonial state Andalusia, I mean Palestine.

The problem with this culture is not just its simplification or its lack of realism, but primarily, because it is a “comfortable” and “suitable” narrative for those who want to believe that liberation can happen without profound changes in the structure of the region, its systems, and its culture; that liberation can happen without sacrifices, tough choices, and confrontations with those who hold power and money around you.

From what I can gather, Hezbollah fired 320 missiles at Israel in various waves in order to deplete the Iron Dome and allow their drones to pass through and hit their intended targets, most of which were military bases and important headquarters. Israeli air defense, including hundreds of jets, were unable to prevent the drones from hitting their targets, and clearly the attack by Israel to try and degrade Hezbollah's launchers was unsuccessful, given, uh, all the missiles and drones. Hezbollah has said that the operation was a complete success, while I imagine Israel is re-using the Ukraine narrative and saying that 150% of ~~Russia's~~ Hezbollah's rockets were shot down, but also that they're dangerous and evil because they hit big targets. Westerners are stupid enough to believe both things simultaneously.

We have a speech by Nasrallah soon. Rumors are that this is merely Stage 1 of the response to the assassination of Fouad Shukr.

She fucking sucks, bro.

DNC attendees literally applauded the police for "controlling" Gaza protestors

University of California bans encampments and face masks

Even in Commiefornia.

The president of the University of California has announced that the system would enforce bans on encampments as well as the use of masks to “conceal identity” in guidance that comes as schools across the US are planning for protests in support of Gaza similar to those that roiled campuses across the country.

Michael V Drake, the president of the 10-campus university system, said in a statement on Monday that the UC was taking steps to “ensure a safe, inclusive campus climate that fosters a free exchange of ideas”.

“Freedom to express diverse viewpoints is fundamental to the mission of the University, and lawful protests play a pivotal role in that process,” Drake wrote. “While the vast majority of protests held on our campuses are peaceful and nonviolent, some of the activities we saw this past year were not.”

Ukraine - or rather, the Ukranian people - have already lost the war against Russia by basically every important metric. They have lost tens of thousands of soldiers, millions have emigrated, their domestic assets have been completely sold to and looted by American capitalists, and they are still likely to lose militarily. Ukraine will not recover for decades. But Zelensky and his ilk keep getting richer by selling off the country and the lives of the people to the American war machine, and the American capitalists keep getting richer by having a massive demand for their weapons and gathering information about the Russian military. Just fucking end the war, please.

Lmao democrat party is saying trump should have declared war on Iran in 2020. Lesser evil everyone

BREAKING: Congressional Democrats are scrambling to buy keffiyehs and watching YouTube videos on how to do the dabke in a planned attempt to win over Pro-Palestine voters. Insiders are noting that arms shipments to Israel will still continue.

Incredibly, in the last seven days, an entire week has happened. This is absolutely unprecedented.

When Israel does it, it's "pre-emptive", but when anyone else does something to them, it's "unprovoked"

Funny how quickly libs went from worshipping the ground Joe Biden tripped on to never mentioning him again. Really lays bare the cynicism of it all

listen to Palestinian women in the us. being women of color, and in many cases muslim, they probably have the most to lose under a fascistic trump administration. and if they are saying they are not fucking voting for harris, then why should anyone else?

it really shows the white chauvinism when we hear the whole 'well trump would be worse on this' argument trotted out. YOU DON'T THINK PEOPLE FUCKING KNOW THAT? THAT'S WHY YOUR PARTY NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING TO MAKE SURE IT DOESN'T HAPPEN

Great Satan is so ready for fascism. Almost nobody cares about decapitated children. I expect a pseudo scientific article about how minorities are evil to make dems support concentration camps.

"but what do you expect people like AOC to do? The Democratic Party is a broad party with a lot of views"

Oh uh... I don't know... Maybe not support genocide enablers like Biden or Harris? Resign from the Party in complete disgust and at the very least run as an independent from now on?

Is it really that hard to support the people being massacred these days? Do we have to show them the video of that Palestinian father carrying the headless body of his son? Or the rescuers shoving off bits of what once was a human being off a wall?

I don't know how these people sleep at night. And I don't mean the Pelosi-like ghouls, these people don't sleep naturally, they get drugged up and that's it. Or maybe they stay awake 24/7 because they're not human at this point. I mean the people who once showed glimpses of empathy like AOC... I just don't get it, have they lost their humanity? And for what? For cheap political points? For improved relations with Zionists? Do they not know Zionists will, sooner or later, suffer an historic defeat that will completely destroy their genocidal colonial project and they will be forever remembered as traitors and collaborationists? Do they not want to be in the correct side of history?

Do they not lose their fucking mind over all this? I know I'm losing mine... Does they not get moved by all this? I know I do...

And let's just say for a minute that people like her and other social imperialists are "forced to act this way by the current circumstances", that they have no other alternative to "play nice", that, in a way, they're victims too. Nah, fuck off, History and people remember those who stood up for those who are in desperate need of help, pathetic spineless Quislings will be seen with complete disgust by the future generations. We have such examples here, our friend John Brown fought to free human beings from slavery against all odds, perhaps an impossible task, yet he was willing to sacrifice everything for such noble cause. We shall celebrate him until the end of times. Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire to protest this genocide, giving everything away for people he never personally knew and never will. We shall celebrate him until the end of times. And you tell me she can't protest because "party cohesion" or some shit? What does she even fear, to be expelled from the pro-Genocide Party? Is that too much of a price to pay? I would wear that proudly as a badge of honor.

Feels like we're reaching a History defining moment. History called, she wants to know where everyone stands. They didn't skip the call, they answered, but instead of choosing the way of peace, dialogue and humanism (the very least you could do) which could have prevented so much pain and misery, they answered and insisted with the way of destruction, of annihilation, of barbarism, so typical of western culture. But History is wise, and she will remember. When their time comes, which will be our time, we too have to remember what they said and what they have done in such moments, memory is important, without there will be no proper Justice.

Organize. Agitate. Don't let them win. Reject Doomerism. Remember who you are fighting for.

At this point Kamala can proclaim that she'll help Israel Gas all Palestinians and Liberals will tell me how this is actually good for Palestine.

Ansarallah burns oil tanker on its way to Israel

https://xcancel.com/i/status/1827069268124418305

I didn't know I could hate dems even more than I previously did. I truly despise these fascists with all my heart

Seeing Ana Navarro crying at the DNC about “Communist” Nicaragua while her father is a Contra made me almost vomit. She couldn’t help herself from smearing the Castros either while her father probably burned schools and murdered nuns. She even compared them to Trump.

I did some research out of curiosity and she’s also negatively covered Venezuela and Lula in Brazil. But nothing on Bukele or Milei. She only had negative things to say about Bolsonaro because of his friendliness with Trump. Nothing on his policies unrelated to Trump.

Fuck gusanos.

I don't care how Class Consciousness 101 this is, I can't get over the fact that Democrats value the health and safety of Donald Trump more than they do that of Palestinian children.

Harris is excited to be the competent steward of imperialism. She understands every implication and benefit, and she feels joy at the idea of heralding the position as a woman, and doing an even better job at it than her male counterparts

I've listened to AOC's small fragment at the DNC where she (lied) spoke how "Kamala is working tirelessly to secure a ceasefire in Gaza and bring the hostages home" (the last bit is a zionist talking point lmao). I paid attention to her theatrics, how she physically delivers her speech to a genocide-friendly crowd. And it couldn't get more politician than that. Go on, watch it on mute and you will see, it's quite disgusting. She delivers that speech while presenting it as some sort of "great achievement" as if Biden secured medicare for all or whatever. She's doing theatrics while defending a genocidal regime that is NOT GOING TO STOP FUNDING ANOTHER GENOCIDAL REGIME. Theatrics for the cameras, for the flashes, for the future archive.

It's disgusting. Fucking social imperialists dig really deep into me.

Gotta love media

Is this source a credible one regarding West Asia: a simple test.

Search "Hamas" & "Babies". Did this outlet spread the fake news about 40 babies on October 7th? Yes or No? If Yes, it is not credible. If yes, did they retract that news later? If No, then it is a nazi outlet.

Search "Hezbollah" and "airport". Did this outlet spread fake news about Hezbollah storing weapons in Beirut airport? If Yes then it is absolutely not credible.

This is not exhaustive but will weed out the nazi outlets. Some outlets like al Jazeera may pass these tests but should still be treated like enemy outlets regarding topics in Iran and Syria.

However, don't worry - this is still a general news megathread where you can post about ongoing events from any child

My nephew is no longer a spineless gusano (crawler) he can sit upright now most of the time.

I think the greatest achievement of the Republican Party is to be so utterly insane they pushed the Democratic Party into solid far-right territory lmao

Meanwhile social imperialists tried to convince leftists that the Democrats can be pushed "to the left"

We can push the Democrats indeed. We can push them off a mountain.

Ralph Nader is saying that AIPAC demanded a Palestinian-American not be allowed to speak, and that they did the same thing to Jimmy Carter in 2008. I have no idea how in the know he would be, but it seems plausible.

Under strict AIPAC demands, the Democratic National Convention rejected appeals by some of their own delegates and outside protestors to give a few minutes to a Palestinian American pediatrician back from Gaza to describe the horrors of civilian death and destruction and urge a permanent ceasefire. AIPAC demanded and received time on stage for an Israeli hostage family to speak to over 4000 delegates. Astonishing double-standard cruelty that will not be forgotten by millions of Arab and Muslim Americans.

AIPAC made similar demands on the DNC in 2008 to stop Jimmy Carter—who brokered the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel—but later called out the Israeli regime for its apartheid practices. All former presidents usually get a few minutes on the stage. AIPAC humiliated Carter, who had to settle for silently walking across the stage with Rosalynn to mild applause. The power of the "Israeli Government Can Do No Wrong" lobby keeps intensifying to the detriment of the USA and its taxpayers.

https://x.com/RalphNader/status/1826762262004260964

So I'm reading the John Brown biography by W.E.B. DuBois and I was struck by how his guerilla tactics are straight up Maoist. The enemy's rear is the guerilla's front, guerillas must be disciplined and treat enemy prisoners humanely, guerillas swim among the people as fish in water, etc. I'm sure that's just because Mao studied guerilla movements and based his theory on actual practices but it's still interesting that Brown came to these same conclusions eighty years earlier.