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Image is a frame taken from this video of Iranian missiles raining down on Israel without interception due to a weak and depleted air defense system after a year of war and genocide.


Mao, 1956:

Now U.S. imperialism is quite powerful, but in reality it isn't. It is very weak politically because it is divorced from the masses of the people and is disliked by everybody and by the American people too. In appearance it is very powerful but in reality it is nothing to be afraid of, it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe the United States is nothing but a paper tiger.

When we say U.S. imperialism is a paper tiger, we are speaking in terms of strategy. Regarding it as a whole, we must despise it. But regarding each part, we must take it seriously. It has claws and fangs. We have to destroy it piecemeal. For instance, if it has ten fangs, knock off one the first time, and there will be nine left, knock off another, and there will be eight left. When all the fangs are gone, it will still have claws. If we deal with it step by step and in earnest, we will certainly succeed in the end.

Strategically, we must utterly despise U.S. imperialism. Tactically, we must take it seriously. In struggling against it, we must take each battle, each encounter, seriously. At present, the United States is powerful, but when looked at in a broader perspective, as a whole and from a long-term viewpoint, it has no popular support, its policies are disliked by the people, because it oppresses and exploits them. For this reason, the tiger is doomed. Therefore, it is nothing to be afraid of and can be despised. But today the United States still has strength, turning out more than 100 million tons of steel a year and hitting out everywhere. That is why we must continue to wage struggles against it, fight it with all our might and wrest one position after another from it. And that takes time.


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https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 minutes ago (2 children)

I kneel before Sinwar, the entire resistance seen him fight to the last moment along his men.

And indeed Israel's bank of low-risk high-award targets is shrinking, they will eventually reach a point where all the targets are Iranian.

Two days ago there was an interview with a high-ranking former IRGC official who was part of committee responsible for acquiring, building and modernizing weapons. He said:

No country is empty-handed. We have equipment that is far superior to nuclear bombs. The request of honorable parliamentarians to change the nuclear doctrine is right, but they do not know some matters, because not everyone knows these matters. These information are confidential, completely confidential. We can't reveal many things and the day may not be known. But if one day a direct war happens or the Americans enter directly, then they can and will understand. I will just point out and give a hint; when Trump wanted to reduce our oil exports to zero, some tactical operations happened.

I don't want to say who did it. But five oil tankers exploded in the port of Fujairah. What exploded? If it was in the sea, a torpedo would have hit them or gunboats, unknown boats or drones would have hit them. But they were hit in Fujairah port, which is almost the most secure port. They don't even know where they were hit. Two oil tankers were also attacked in the Oman Sea, when the Prime Minister of Japan came to Iran as Trump's envoy. By the way, both tankers were Japanese.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 minutes ago (1 children)

Can somebody interpret his hint? How did they blow up those tankers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

Slow-moving underwater stealth drone kind of thing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

Shia Space Lasers

[–] [email protected] 11 points 31 minutes ago (1 children)

Greek trade unionists blocking shipments from being send to the Zionist entity:
https://xcancel.com/illwilleditions/status/1847001663506198631

[–] [email protected] 7 points 29 minutes ago

Meanwhile American unions make me wish for a JDPON

[–] [email protected] 12 points 34 minutes ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago) (1 children)

Opsec looking more important in the UK lately

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

Doing counter terror raids for corroborating months old Haaretz articles.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 39 minutes ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago)

We have comrades from all over the world here, sharing the news of their countries. Argentina, Denmark, South Africa, many others. Usually it’s “bad” news. I understand many of you despise your own countries, and no doubt with good reason. But I sincerely feel you should consider yourselves lucky to not, by cosmic accident, have been born in America. So much evil is done in your name. And on top of that, everyone around you is either oblivious to it or actively cheers it on. When you’re an American you are cursed to sail around on a ship of the damned, witnessing the horrors your shipmates commit all over the world and yet powerless to either stop it or escape off the ship.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Sinwar died like an anime character, and I don't mean to trivialize his death with that statement, I mean it in the most respectful way possible. Defiant to the end, almost brings a tear to my eye how powerful it was.

I'm convinced that the Zionists sent the drone to kill him out of fear that if any of them tried to do so in person, he would have merc'd them with the stick.

excuse me I'm gonna wax poetic for a bit, except poorly written because I only have a couple minutes.

All through this it's become more and more clear that the oppressed of the world, the very people the "civilized" world consider to be "sub-human savages", have exhibited far more humanity than any of the ghouls in the "civilized" world ever has. In them I see the kind of strength, bravery, compassion, and fire that the "civilized" world arrogantly believe themselves to possess; the oppressed and their defiance to the savagery of the "civilized" world are truly inspiring, they have shown what humanity truly looks like. The "civilized" world believes themselves to be the bastion of compassion and humanity. But that cannot be further from the truth. The "civilized" world is a world of evil, cowardice, and barbarity. Their only desire is to satiate their own greed and desire to crush and dominate others. They have no values, and I can hardly believe they can exhibit human emotions. The "civilized" world are the true savages and barbarians, only hungering for blood, slaves, and sacrifices. Only... when it comes to the "savages" they look down on, they don't consider any of them to be "sacrifices" in any sense.

This isn't limited to Palestine, this goes throughout all of history of anti-colonial struggles.

EDIT: I had to edit this because a line I added while writing it fucked up the sequence.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 hour ago

they could never kill a man in a way that matters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 53 minutes ago (3 children)

Was Kamala Harris Fox Interview good or bad?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 39 minutes ago* (last edited 38 minutes ago)

"Why aren't you more fascist? I think you're a weak liberal"

"I assure you I am incredibly fascist, I cannot emphasize this enough"

over and over again for like an hour or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 24 minutes ago

Apparently she came off looking pretty good, I've heard from people around me. But if you're trying to appeal to people on Fox, it probably doesn't bode well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 41 minutes ago

It's Kamala Harris just always assume bad.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

ASML share plunge wipes over $50 billion off Dutch chip giant’s value

ASML is facing a tougher business outlook in China due to U.S. and Dutch export restrictions on shipments.

Last month, the U.S. government rolled out new export controls on critical technologies to China, including advanced chipmaking tools. Separately, the Dutch government announced plans to take over control of exports of ASML’s machines to the country

Some good news in these times

Literally one of the most valuable/important companies in the eu and they're allowing the americans to do this to them shrug-outta-hecks

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

It's completely insane to me that the Israelis actually released the video of Sinwar's death, along with a bunch of details that confirmed that he died fighting until his last breath on the front lines. Do they not understand how that looks?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 hour ago

They gave him the warrior's death he wanted and ensured that it would be henceforth remembered with the video. They really don't know anything

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 hour ago

It's the same reason they release ghoulish videos from their soldiers. They don't see a problem with it. Israelis generally love them in fact. Fascists can't understand how others perceive them it seems. Atleast they don't care.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

former home affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo is beanposting about being stripped of his Order of Australia honours:

"With wars underway around the world, and more likely to break out, possibly in the Pacific, with rising intolerance and anger in public debate, with many people struggling to make ends meet, and many other problems besides, being stripped of my official honour does not amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world," he said.

followed by the maddening unreality of western rhetoric:

“It’s regrettable that force and violence sometimes have to be used, but when you’ve got someone who is so determined to pursue the annihilation of another group of people sometimes it just comes down to that,” he said.

"There is simply no point in rushing to peace if all that just simply happens is the next cadre comes through, who are as well trained and have thought about how they want to continue the campaign.”

death to israel, death to australia, death to the western colonial project forever and ever amen

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 hour ago

meanwhile, the northern territory has lowered the "age of criminal responsibility" back down to 10, after raising it to 12 in 2022.

This comes amid increased fearmongering around crime rates, in a territory with the largest indigenous population in the country, in a country with the largest indigenous incarceration rates in the world.

the white australia policy never left

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Has Hamas released a statment on Yahya Sinwar's supposed death?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I went to sleep right after work. Has there been any official statements from the resistance around Sinwar?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 29 minutes ago

Complete silence so far

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Zelensky is threatening NATO that he'll cook up some nukes.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 hours ago

Might be the quickest way for NATO to drop Ukraine like a hot potato if that happens. No one wants a nuclear armed Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

🇵🇸 | Yahya Sinwar’s narration of a saying by Imam Ali (as), he said:

“I have well remembered this saying from Imam Ali: There are 2 days in a person's life: a day when death is not your destiny, and a day when death is your destiny. On the first day, no one can harm you, and on the second day, no one can save you."

from https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1846933415704019321

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 hours ago

One of those days is when the IOF bombed his house when he was not home during the Sword of al-Quds in 2021. That's where the famous picture of him sitting on a chair cross-legged came from.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

a more "positive" video. As good as we are going to get from the humanitarian disaster that is the war in Ukraine I guess. Ukrainian women confront military recruiters trying to kidnap men for the war and load them into a white van, and almost tip it over, before the recruiters flee and the van is pelted with a few rocks.

Can't believe we're at the stage of trying to kidnap men into unmarked vans to continue the war. It's comically evil. The acts of bravery by the women trying to prevent the kidnapping of their sons, husbands, fathers and brothers gives me just a tiny bit of hope though. Humanity is not dead, not yet at least.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago

There’s a reason these vans are hit with arson mysteriously

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 hours ago

The western puppet state was abducting people in white vans over a year ago, It's understandable that Ukrainians have had enough

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Just watched footage of some of the Ukrainian infantry retreats from Kursk. It consists of dozens of infantrymen running through open fields while being bombed by drones and motars. It's like a scene from a movie. Somehow, some of them survived. Hell on earth...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 hours ago

This war is a damn meat grinder

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago

git on now git

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 hours ago

Cuba: A massive march in solidarity with Palestine took place in Havana, to condemn the genocide of the Israeli government against the Palestinian people for the past year. This demonstration is also being replicated in Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.

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