[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 75 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And that means those Israeli air strikes probably have been hitting weapons stockpiles.

I hate it when I construct underground facilities in southern Lebanon to launch missiles and then place those missiles above ground a hundred miles away in Beirut when my enemy has total air superiority and can destroy my stockpiles at any time instead of placing my stockpiles underground and not in northern urban centers, where they are safe and near the launchers. Somebody really needs to organize my military better. I also shouldn't have put all these rakes in the hallway to my office so that I step on them and the handle hits me on the head a dozen times every time I go there to do paperwork

???

I'm not gonna lie and say that some Hezbollah commanders haven't been making some questionable decisions about where they meet foreign nationals (a better place might be where you have a hundred feet of solid rock above you) but no amount of Israeli infiltration can magically generate poor decision-making about meeting places. Hopefully the next leader keeps his head below ground most of the time from now on. However, the organization did also defeat Israel when Hezbollah was ten times weaker than they currently are, so these may as well be speedbumps rather than a "very bad situation". The actual physical capabilities of Hezbollah are approximately the same as they were a month ago.

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 74 points 2 months ago

A US Navy replenishment ship sustained damage while operating in the Middle East in an incident that remains under investigation, according to a Navy official.

The USNS Big Horn was damaged after the ship refueled and replenished Navy vessels operating in the region, including the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and several guided-missile destroyers. The Navy official would not say where the incident occurred or what type of damage the replenishment oiler sustained.

lol

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 75 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I swear for the defeatists on the site, Israel could claim that every Hezbollah commander is currently afflicted with Peepee-Poopooitis and shits their pants every 10 minutes and they'd go "fuck. well, how do we think this massive setback will impact the Resistance? seems likely that they will have to surrender in a few weeks."

and we'd go "what the hell are you talking about? they're just making shit up again, that's not even a real disease."

and they'd go "look, I'm as unhappy as you are about this development but we can't just sit back and cope about these things. we're communists, not reddit liberals, we need to make sure we see and analyze information that may inconvenience us if we're going to be serious. anybody know what Marx had to say about Peepee-Poopooitis?"

and we'd go "no, like, this literally isn't true. it's demonstrably not true. here's evidence. just because Israeli propaganda is trying to make you think that the information they're spreading is objective, it doesn't actually make it objectively true, it's still just propaganda. they aren't going to attach a label to their articles that says "this is propaganda, by the way!", they're going to try and convince you with every single technique in their arsenal to make you believe it's true."

and they'd go "oh, what are you gonna do, ban me for wrongthink against the Peepee-Poopooitis scourge? stop huffing that copium. honestly I'm even beginning to think that Iran and Russia might have to surrender too because what if Peepee-Poopooitis spreads to them? see, I've even got a long article by the American Institute of War and the Objective Analysis of Peepee-Poopooitis proving that it's not only real, but spreading across the world. oh fuck, it's also hit the Chinese government."

and we'd go "this is literally hasbara, dude. half the authors behind that AIWOAPP study are directly connected to the Israeli government, and the other half were on Epstein's island. it's not a real problem. they spread the same propaganda about Peepee-Poopooitis during the 2006 war, and the wars before that, and they weren't real then."

and they'd go "well, we've spent the last few days on the megathread discussing the Scourge of Peepee-Poopooitis (see, it's now got a capitalized title, it HAS to be true now) with hundreds of comments on it, so it must have some degree of truthfulness. but okay, maybe the latest Hezbollah attacks do show it was an exaggeration. ...hey, it seems like there's a new article by the NYT that reveals that every Russian general is just crying and puking all the time, it's really getting in the way of their operations."

and we'd go "this is the exact same narrative as the Peepee-Poopooitis, just reworked with different symptoms! they're just reusing it for a different geopolitical situation!"

and they'd go "nah, I never actually believed in Peepee-Poopooitis, that was obviously silly. but THIS time around, it might actually be real, and we can't be huffing that copium and hopium and insisting that it isn't just because we don't like it!"

and we'd go "why don't we just wait for the official response of Hezbollah/Russia/Iran/China/etc to the ongoing situation? they'd explain what's going on clearly, and if what's happening is real, which it still very obviously isn't."

and they'd go "oh, what, and believe a BIASED account from one of the parties in the conflict?! of course they're not going to report their own problems with accuracy, they have a motive! you really are gullible. anyway, here's another report, this time by the This Is Literally A Propaganda Outlet Of the Israeli State Organization, an esteemed and unbiased thinktank which produces hourly articles on these sorts of issues. Hezbollah can take an entire DAY to write up a statement, whereas these guys absolutely flood my inbox every single day with analysis, so it must be better because I have to instantly react to every single geopolitical event, or how will people know that I'm a very intelligent geopolitical analyst?"

and on it goes, for over 2 years. they get to look like the world-weary grizzled cynical adults in the room for believing every piece of bad news and catastrophizing about how it means the imminent global collapse of anti-imperial resistance, and we get cast as the copium-overdosers who are ignoring reality and creating echo chambers because we don't want to hear any bad news, even though we're generally right when we say "this either isn't really a problem that exists, or it is a problem but it can be overcome" and they're generally wrong

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 74 points 11 months ago

Oops. Joe Biden mixes up Chinese leaders, refers to Deng Xiaoping instead of Xi Jinping

“I’ve said this to Deng Xiaoping in the Himalayas, and I’ve said this to every world leader: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against the American people,” Biden said.

Also corrected in the White House transcript was a mistaken reference to former South Korean president Moon Jae-in instead of his successor Yoon Suk-yeol.

Joe Bideng kelly

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago

It speaks volumes that the Palestinians are forced to commit mass attacks to get children back from Israeli prisons.

Make no mistake: this is a battle between good and evil.

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 75 points 1 year ago

sir, we strictly followed your orders for the implementation of a tactical incursion as part of the strategic plan to neutralize Gaza and the subterranean nexus within, and in the process, an incident code-named delta bravo charlie two-niner occurred in which a series of islamic-style teenagers launched some anti-tank munitions towards our position. a kinetic event then occurred in my military-grade underwear involving the tactical release of a semi-solid substance. investigations into who committed this act are ongoing with haste; initial findings indicate that the terrorist organization known as Hamas was responsible.

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it's literally the exact same playbook as the Kunduz hospital strike by the US. They've just swapped out the names of the hospitals. Laziest propaganda I've seen in my life. Honestly if Mossad (or Shin Bet or whatever the fuck)'s best attempt to make it convincing was that hilariously scripted phone call (even the "intercepted Russian calls" where soldiers admitted to genociding Ukraine and that Putin was a very bad stupid idiot were more convincing) then I can totally see why they failed to catch October 7th

failsonization is bringing down Western intelligence agencies faster than Russia/China/Iran/etc ever could

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago

It's so funny that we're on the cusp of a conflict that might devour the whole Middle East and Biden, a sentient fossil that predates the fucking dinosaurs, is the guy leading America into it

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 75 points 1 year ago

Morales welcomed Hamas' actions on the people of Israel and maintained that the policy of the “democratic and cultural revolution” promoted by his administration was “in defense of Palestine.” He then argued that the Foreign Ministry's note “was biased” and reflected “one more sign of the right wing of the Government” of President Luis Arce Catacora.

“The Bolivian people will always condemn the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territories, the systematic aggressions against the Palestinian people, and their struggle for independence. Those are the real causes of the conflict, not to denounce them is to be an accomplice,” said Evo on X. He also regretted that the Bolivian Foreign Ministry did “not denounce with political coherence the real situation that the Palestinian people are going through” and condemned “the imperialist and colonial actions of the Zionist Israeli government.” Morales insisted that “solidarity among peoples is the basis of a more just and dignified society,” and questioned that “it is not possible for a government of the Democratic and Cultural Revolution to defend the invasionist and expansionist policy of Israel.”

“When a people defends its sovereignty they call it terrorist. But when the United States finances wars, armed invasions, coups d'état, and assassinations, they speak of democracy,” he underlined.

evo based-department

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago

I actually hate what both sides have been doing, which is why I spend 99.76% of my time and comments on what Palestine has done to Israel and why Palestinians now deserve what's coming to them. The remaining 0.24% is a single comment from 2014 saying "thoughts and prayers".

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago

you got reported for this by a lemmitor lenin-laugh

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