HTS fighter gives 'brotherly advice', asking me to wear headscarf - BBC

troubling stuff from lebanon:

truly feel those shitheads will rather start shia/sunni conflict than notice entity across the border

Now I'm convinced that NATO also did this Syria thing to expel Syrian immigrants. I'm seeing way too much of this "Syria is good now so go back" propaganda.

lol

There is something that needs to be said about Syria - what is the message being sent to the Global South?

A lot has been said and asked about why Global South countries don’t dare to stand up and reluctant to fight the creeping Western imperialism being waged against them. Well, compradors aside, for one, most governments don’t want to end up like Libya. Many governments really don’t want to have a huge target being painted on their back, so it’s better to keep your head down and pray that the imperial hegemon doesn’t take an interest in you.

If one could still argue that Libya fell because Medvedev butt headed with Putin and refused to veto the UN resolution (though it is doubtful that would have made any substantial change to the situation, there are people who believe that if Putin had been in charge in 2011, Russia could have served as a counteracting force against NATO in Libya), then Syria shattered that illusion completely by demonstrating that even Putin’s Russia will abandon you.

This does not fare well for the anti-imperialist banner that Russia and Iran (and maybe even China) are attempting to portray themselves as the spearheads of the movement. If you piss off the empire, nobody is coming to save you. You’re going to be all alone. So, it’s better to keep your heads low and learn to know your place, then maybe, just maybe, the empire will let you live for another day.

Syrian territorial integirty said "Assad must go" and now syrian territorial integrity is getting bum fucked by israel and turkey.

The curse still holds, people, be careful with what you say

https://xcancel.com/marcus_herve/status/1867493161397830069

🛑🇳🇪- Niger suspends BBC News!

Niger has suspended BBC for 3 months for falsely reporting that over 130 people died in the recent attack, a claim that they couldn’t prove. So, the State decided to suspend them.

David Ignatius in the Washington Post: "Ukrainian intelligence sent about 20 experienced drone operators and about 150 first-person-view drones to the rebel headquarters in Idlib, Syria, four to five weeks ago to help Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)."

Harden your heart, oh Putin. Increase your attacks.

it's not even a question anymore (if it ever was), this was a US/Israeli coup.

I think one thing we can learn from this is that it is impossible to prop up a legitimately unpopular government forever, no matter which country is doing it.

There was a massacre in Islamabad by the US backed military forces against peacful PTI protestors and hundreds have potentially died with thousands being arrested. There is nearly complete silence about this in western media who're currently busy glazing the dead CEO.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/pakistan-govts-midnight-crackdown-ends-protest-by-imran-khans-party-in-islamabad/article68917294.ece

Rybar: "'Woke Terrorists' Take Over Syria: How It Happened and What’s Next"

Yeah, that's what's wrong with them. You got it.

PSA: How white people in your life react to the Daniel Penny verdict is a good barometer for how actually racist they may be but aren’t telling you.

Saying he was a hero and/or innocent almost certainly means they are way more racist than they are letting on.

This is one way in which racism works in 2024 in the US. Racist white folks will generally avoid being openly racist but will latch on to any chance they can get to flex that racism in ways that superficially are socially acceptable.

Daniel Penny murdered a black man who wasn’t harming anyone. The fact that he was acquitted is ridiculous but sadly predictable, as is the reaction from many white people. In a way I can’t describe, the support Penny is getting feels more overtly racist than Rittenhouse.

BREAKING REPORT - DRONES OVER NEW JERSEY ARE FROM IRAN: Congressman Jeff Van Drew claims Iran has stationed a "mothership" off the U.S. East Coast, reportedly launching drones now flying over New Jersey.

Can they go back to blaming aliens, cause this is beyond nonsense, beyond desperate

Nancy Pelosi tripped on the stairs (NYT)

Ms. Pelosi tripped going down marble stairs at the Grand Ducal Palace and took a hard fall, according to a person familiar with the incident who was not authorized to comment and spoke on condition of anonymity.

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It was the second time this week that an octogenarian congressional leader sustained an injury while carrying out their official duties.

On Tuesday, Senator Mitch McConnell, 82, Republican of Kentucky, tripped and fell in the Capitol following the weekly G.O.P. luncheon, spraining his wrist and sustaining a small cut to his face.

I always know we got a new cuck n chad ranking because my thread on mobile is fucked lmao

New version of the Azov patches dropped. I haven’t seen this many black flags in a minute

But at least Syria is free!

Syria no longer has an Air Force or an Air Defense network, virtually all planes, helicopters and AD systems have been destroyed by over 300 Israeli strikes in the past 48 hours

China’s ‘explosive’ ironmaking breakthrough achieves 3,600-fold productivity boost

Known as flash ironmaking, the method “can complete the ironmaking process in just three to six seconds, compared to the five to six hours required by traditional blast furnaces.”
According to calculations by Zhang and his colleagues, the new technology could improve the energy use efficiency of China’s steel industry by more than one-third. As it eliminates the need for coal entirely, it would also enable the steel industry to achieve the coveted goal of “near-zero carbon dioxide emissions”, Zhang’s team added.

They're already done pilot testing and are rolling out commercial versions of the required machinery. Could be huge for countries with large reserves of low and medium quality steel.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi held a meeting with IDF Chief-of-Staff Herzi Halevi in Cairo. In the meeting, Israel reportedly guaranteed to offer assistance and protection to the Sisi regime in the event of an uprising in Egypt. Israel sees Egypt's current government as a 'friendly and stable' regime that poses no direct threat to Israel, according to officials. – Maariv

What Israel means, is that if Sisi falls, they will bomb Cairo and the Sinai killing both revolutionaries and pro-goverment people.

Exclusive: Syria's new rulers back shift to free-market economy, business leader says - Reuters, 10 December 2024

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Syria's new government has told business leaders it will adopt a free-market model and integrate the country into the global economy in a major shift from decades of corrupt state control, the head of the biggest Syrian business lobby said on Tuesday.

"It will be a free-market system based on competition," Bassel Hamwi, head of the Damascus Chambers of Commerce, told Reuters in an interview...

Yes, it's real, we're getting neoliberal free market jihadists now, 2024 just keeps on giving...

"People are still waiting to see if it will be an open society or an Islamic state," a Beirut-based Syrian businessman said, who asked not to be named to talk freely.

Why not both, an open market and Islamic state?

Hamwi said he had been informed by Adelaziz that the stifling customs system would be done away with, fulfilling a major demand of traders and industrialists.

"Everyone who registers at the chambers will be able to import the goods they want into the market, within a specific system," he said.

Reuters spoke to four prominent Syrian businessmen who said the message from the new authorities appeared encouraging and a far cry from a system that had been heavily controlled by a small cohort of loyalist businessmen close to the Assads.

related meme, because if you don't laugh, you'll cry.

Not exactly news, but hearing discourse now that countries are planning to send back refugees that have fled with Assads rule as the reason for seeking asylum. Not even a week has passed and the immigration ghouls are already finding ways to use this as a way to turn people away.

Wow everyone’s a prison abolitionist in theory, but when some upstart rebels do the praxis and abolish every prison in Syria, everyone complains

The future of USA’s political assassinations are going to be done between bronze age perverts tech broes and slava zucchini liberal small business owners.

Luigi was a patsy, clearly hes just a distraction to protect the real shooter, Mario

My heart still breaks into a million pieces whenever I see a clip of Nasrallah on twitter or anywhere else. I can't believe he's really gone, I still can't fully accept it. I kept watching a beautiful clip of a Lebanese man in Iraq reading a little poem to mourn him on repeat today. The lyrics were this:

أين نصرالله أين - Where is Nasrallah, where

ليته في الحاضرين - I wish he was present

نحن اقسمنا يمينا - We took an oath

للشهادة سائرين - Towards martyrdom we march

It sounds better in Arabic I promise

The working draft of the Republican Party's HHS funding bill for next year includes a stipulation to withhold federal funding from any recipient that provides HRT.

For the last few years, the GOP has coalesced around an idea that would short-circuit essentially all trans health care in America: banning federal funds from going to businesses that provide health care specific to changing one’s sex or gender identity, including hormones and surgeries. It would essentially signal to the private sector that if it wants federal dollars, it needs to stay away from sex- or gender-affirming care, and bow down to right-wing pundits who aim to, in their own words, “eradicate” and “erase” this form of health care.

Language in House Republicans’ most recent funding bill for the Health and Human Services Department would do just that — ban money from any federal program to entities that do “social transitioning” or drugs and surgery for “gender dysphoria.” Gender dysphoria is the specific diagnosis doctors use to justify those medical interventions. This legislation has not gotten a vote yet and would need to be reintroduced next Congress to be considered. But it has been a top priority for Republican lawmakers in the House, and Trump himself has promised he’d ask Congress “to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these [trans] procedures.” (You can hear all his promises on trans health care in this short campaign video.)

Bans like these can lead to the private sector discontinuing behaviors altogether — and once they are in place, they are hard to get rid of: The Hyde Amendment, enacted in the 1970s, led to most abortions no longer being performed in hospitals, and is continually renewed each year.

Medical groups and civil rights advocates in D.C. tell Rolling Stone they believe that if a Hyde-level ban on federal funding were enacted, many hospitals will simply prioritize federal dollars over continuing this highly specialized form of medical care. So much medicine is performed through hospital systems and universities that this could mean ending access for many.

Given the Democratic Party leapt at the chance to scapegoat transgender people for all their own failures in the election, I think it would take a miracle to prevent this from going into law. It will immediately put large health institutions in certain states between a rock and hard place, as local legislation requires them to offer these services, which will likely lead to appeals, but as it stands I doubt they will make even a token effort to get this language out of the bill, and it will make HRT completely legally inaccessible for anyone who can't afford private practice virtually overnight. This article's author, Jael Holzman, is the guest on this week's Chapo, you can hear the story in her own words there.

Saw on CNN that the guy is saying that the cash wasn't his and it may have been planted when speaking at his first court hearing. 👀

This dude almost gave himself the wedgies to end all wedgies (CW: suicide):
https://xcancel.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1866699959187157170

South Korea's former defense minister attempted suicide, trying to hang himself with his underwear.

Anti-~~Soviet~~ Assad warrior puts his army on the road to peace:
https://xcancel.com/USEmbassySyria/status/864144602584035328

We remain committed to bringing leading AQS figures in HTS to justice. #Syria

Man this is not good. Assad sucks bad but he really did seem to me the least terrible option. Now any pretense of secularism is gone, openly Islamic fundamentalist groups are taking power; any facade of rights for women, religious minorities, other oppressed groups will fade into the background. I don't see HTS being anything of a bulwark to US or Israeli interests like Assad had been. Despite his lukewarm response to these things it seemed he at least was stopping Syria from becoming a base for that shit. Maybe I'm just stressed about nothing but it feels to me that an anti imperialist player has crumbled in this key region and I just can't imagine how this could be a positive development

Trump invites China's Xi Jinping to inauguration

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-invites-china-xi-jinping-inauguration/

really feeling the vibe of this 72t post recently https://hexbear.net/comment/5044804

whenever I get a bit too anxious about ongoing events, I like to imagine a hypothetical person during, say, the Mongol conquests. in the middle of massive battles that shaped civilizations, but just trying to get by on the day-to-day, trying not to get murdered, harvesting grain or weaving or something, and totally forgotten by history. did they ever think that centuries on, people would still be talking about and analyzing events back in their time? did they hope that we'd have overcome war by that distant decade? I sure hope that the people of the 2100s and 2200s are living in lovely communist cities and free from many of our blights.

Jimmy Carter Has Outlived United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson - r/JimmyCarterAliveCheck

hey with assad gone and the "who must go" meme sent to the dust bin of history, why don't we use a picture of from his personal life, they are pretty meme like

Mr jolani DO SOMETHING about israel or you gonna end up falling to cuck status!!!!!!!!

Is it fair to say that, if Luigi truly is the guy, and he truly is still a libertarian weirdo (and didn't change his mind in the two years since he stopped tweeting), that the future of organizing in the United States should be based on the health insurance industry, since that is THE great unifier of the American people, it seems?

So now that the Assad government is gone do we all become Rojava guys? Is it time to send anarkiddies some flowers to let the tankies into the Abdullah Ocalan stan community?

On a serious note I've been peering though some portuguese language Rojava twitter accounts and they seem very scared of HTS, they're not buying into the reformed jihadist idea at all and seem to be expecting the rebel government to strike the kurds at the behest of turkey, also they've been reporting abuses of minorities in rebel territory.

Under the cover of heavy artillery and airstrikes, the Israeli Army is continues to make advances into Syria, allegedly their goal is Daraa.

Nothing ever happens gang

Elizabeth Warren introduces Senate bill to hold capitalism ‘accountable’

FINALLY! Why don’t someone do this before?!

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