[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

Macron sees blood in the water and doesn't want his party to be a part of it. Let someone else lead, let them take the fall, and swoop in.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago

obviously because immigration just spontaneously happens because the US is simply just that desirable of a place to go

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

We knew this. Everybody knew this. Ukraine still requested them.

Frankly, this isn't Canada's problem. The Senator isn't designed for actual combat operations. It's a glorified armoured car designed to protect against shrapnel and small arms fire. At best, it's an ERT vehicle.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

A vigorous fascist is preferable to a corpse

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Same reason the NDP in Canada runs Singh instead of Notley or Eby.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The dollar-crunched Global South is a direct consequence of the dominance of the USD in global trade. There's absolutely a third route here where China's pursuit of trade through local currencies decouples regional blocs from the USD (ASEAN, the AU, etc.), or where government borrowing in this countries begins to be RMB-backed with China acting as the supply of USD. The RMB's soft peg with the USD introduces many opportunities for forex fuckery.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Only so many ejects your body can take

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Don't you shit on cooks. Cooks are the lifeblood of any large organized group.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

China achieved this at the cost of rising income inequality, though. Entirely part of Deng Xiaoping's plan ("some regions get rich quicker than others"), but if left unchecked it would've been pretty disastrous. Fortunately, recent years have seen a reversal in this policy and it's the less rich regions that are growing more quickly now.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

The EU is trying to tax German and American car manufacturers... This was the best way they could come up with.

BYD will just circumvent these tariffs by going all-in on hybrids for the EU market anyway. It's a silly game.

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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Propaganda is flying around like crazy in this conflict and I think it's time for our community to come together and try to separate the truth from misinformation and chaff. Similar to my last post on the al-Ahli Hospital Massacre, we're going to go with the following format:

For top-level comments, post the claim being made as well as who made the claim (please cite as close to the original source as possible) and, if possible, the date/time that claim was made.

For other comments, please try to either prove or debunk claims using multiple sources and verifiable information.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

There's a ton of information coming out from a bunch of different sources and it's difficult to keep track of who's said what and who has evidence of what. This thread is to keep track of who's making what claims, who has what evidence, and discussion surrounding those.

For top-level comments, please separate into two categories:

Evidence (videos, facts, circumstantial evidence, etc.) that we can validate, invalidate, or provide supporting sources for

Claims (IDF, Hamas, Western media, etc.) that we can prove or disprove using current evidence

=== 2023-10-19 ===

It's established fact that Israel was operating aircraft near the hospital, that Israel was striking targets near the hospital, that Israel had indicated that they would strike the hospital, that Israel had striked the hospital in the past, and that Israel had targeted multiple hospital staff in the days leading up to the strike.

It's currently up to debate, but many indications suggest that Israel's message has changed multiple times. The initial claim was that the attack was on Hamas operatives within the hospital. The claim afterward was that this was a Hamas misfire (using demonstrably falsified audio evidence).

The videos show that a single large explosion triggered whatever happened, not a sequence of smaller explosions or secondary detonations. The video circulating of a Hamas rocket "misfire" is more indicative of a MANPADS launch given multiple comparable flight paths from other MANPADS. It's a clear usage of a multi-pulse rocket motor, something Hamas does not have domestic capability for but does have access to through Iranian MANPADS. An Iranian Misagh-2 fires a missile with less than 2kg of explosives and less than 20kg of total weight.

At this stage, my most likely conclusion is that the damage was the result of an airburst bomb.

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