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Image: one of our POW camps filled with captured soldiers of the Christmas regime.

Season's greetings, fellow godless communists. I'm here to disseminate orders from our Supreme Communist Dictator as we once again find ourselves fighting against the very concept of Christmas. As a reminder, by the end of our five-year plan, we plan to be in a position to attack and dethrone God, but this intermediate step is required to fulfil this directive. Our forces in the field have made significant, if gradual, progress since you received your mission update last year. It has been difficult, but we have developed a series of defensive lines to prepare for a counteroffensive out of Lapland that will try and reach the Gulf of Bothnia in an attempt to cut the land bridge that we have set up across Scandinavia.

Currently, we foresee a few major threats. General Santa Clauswitz has been developing many tools in his workshop, including artillery-launched snowballs, barbed tinsel, and reinforced gingerbread armor plating for his tanks and infantry carriers. President Frostyy has made the following public statement: "The socialists who wish to destroy us have no idea what their defenses are about to face. Democracy will always defeat autocracy. Christmas will always triumph over X-mas. The leaders of the axis facing us are all on the naughty list and will be tried for crimes against festivity once this war is over."

Delusional as this may be, the next couple days will be the most dangerous as they stage their counteroffensive, and we need everybody to pitch in and get into defensive positions. We expect this to be the last major push that they will make before collapse. Please report any Christmas trees, mistletoe, or general symbology of the Christmas regime to your superiors.

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[–] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Zionist Occupation Can No Longer Hide Its Losses

Zionist savagery backfires: even fungi reject the occupiers Additionally, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Authority (Kan 11) revealed earlier this week that dozens of occupation soldiers have become seriously ill due to an infection by a deadly fungus. According to Kan 11, some of the injured soldiers, who returned from the war in the Gaza Strip, are being treated in the ICU, and their condition was described as “very serious.” According to Lebanese outlet Al-Akhbar, “Israeli” epidemiologists have declared an emergency meeting to discuss the dangerous repercussions of the fungi, and the possibility of an outbreak among occupation soldiers. The “Israeli” epidemiologists suspect that its source is contaminated soil in Gaza, which was mixed with sewage after the occupation army destroyed the sewage pumps in the northern areas of the Gaza Strip.

The deadly fungus is not the first disease to affect enemy soldiers participating in the war of extermination on Gaza. The Zionist newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth revealed earlier this month that the army faced a massive outbreak of intestinal diseases and cases of food poisoning among its soldiers. Dozens of soldiers were transferred to the hospital with cases of dysentary that were “caused by a combination of expired donated food that was stored in an unprofessional way, and lack of personal hygiene.” It seems the colonizers who, for years have used biological weapons against the Palestinians, are getting a taste of their own savagery.

Imperialists can only do two things: murder and lie

As the US-Israeli war on the Palestinians approaches its third month, it is noteworthy that the occupation has been unable to achieve any strategic victories in the Gaza Strip. It has been unable to free a single one of its POW’s outside of prisoner exchange; it has not succeeded in eliminating the leadership of the Resistance despite endless claims that it is “close to eliminating” Hamas leader Yahya al-Sinwar; it has not significantly diminished the capacities of the resistance in any way, this is proven by the fact Resistance rockets continue to strike “Tel-Aviv” and other occupation cities on a daily basis; it has not succeeded in breaking the spirit of the brave Palestinians or uprooting the people of Gaza into the Sinai Peninsula. It is quite evident that the United States, which is leading this war, and the Zionist entity’s only “successes” consist of bombing civilian infrastructure and martyring civilians.

Since October 7, the genocidal war on Gaza has claimed the lives of at least 20,424 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 54,036 others, according to local health authorities. Thousands of innocent civilians are unaccounted for, trapped under the rubble, due to the scorched earth nature of the Zionist genocide.

The imperialists who are hellbent on annihilating Palestine are only capable of two things: murdering civilians and lying about their crimes and their losses. The longer this war drags on, the more the Resistance continues to punish the occupiers for their arrogance and their crimes against humanity.

[–] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The fact these colonizing child-killers literally can't even store food right or wipe their own asses is so funny to me.

[–] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the ones in the Namer APC shit in their own helmets in a bag

[–] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

if they have dirrhea from their food and can't stop the APC somewhere they just do it there, my source is an IOF member on a discord server I lurk, he talked about the dirrhea thing in his food before it was public so I'm guessing this is correct too, apparently the air conditioning inside is really good so the smell goes away quick

[–] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I'm reminded again of the reality that the Prophet (SAW) and later Imam al-Saadiq (AS) over a thousand years ago emphatically spread the practice of washing hands (Wudhu) meanwhile the Europeans didn't wash their hands before delivering babies until something like 1860...

Bu you know... the "Garden" and all that...

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Epicurus, a Greek who literally named his philosophical school 'the Garden' also discovered proto-germ theory. He believed disease was spread by creatures too small to see that were present inside dirt and filth. He also was against slavery and treated slaves as equal in his garden and freed them when he could. There were elements in the West that weren't reactionary crap, but Epicurus was sidelined, persecuted and his followers eventually wiped out by Christian romans.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

There's literally a whole ass hand you aren't supposed to even wave at people because it's the ass hand.

[–] NPa@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

mao-wave oh, sorry, let me switch hands

red-sun

[–] Commiejones@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

I'm a big believer of having a "shit hand" and a "food hand" but like a quarter of people are left handed so the whole "your left hand is for shit" thing is pretty fucked.

[–] star_wraith@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

If aliens visited earth in say 1400 CE, and assuming they would want to first visit with the places on earth that were the most “advanced” (obviously this is a very loaded term) and had the most going on, they would certainly spend their time in China, Arab lands, India, and Tenochtitlan. Western Europe would get completely bypassed as the backwater that it was at that time.

[–] daisy@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The fact these colonizing child-killers literally can't even store food right or wipe their own asses is so funny to me.

Now, I'm not Jewish, and have only a passing familiarity with Jewish customs and practices because I grew up in a part of the world with proportionally very few Jewish people. But isn't a pretty big part of the religion about maintaining food and hygiene standards?

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Murdering civilians is bad in basically every religion, they just don't care

[–] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

"We mobilized 300,000 soldiers!"

"Are they competent soldiers?"

"Who cares, we have 300,000 soldiers!"