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Visiting family over the weekend and shout out to my boomer ass parents for shutting the hell up when I hit them with a "I support Palestinian right to self determination and I stand with them in their struggle for liberation from an apartheid occupation"

I think i got to them before they heard the official Bill Maher Leftist Party Line

China's been rapidly deleveraging from their property sector: direct and indirect contributions from the property sector went from 30% of GDP in 2020 to 23% of GDP in 2023.

Hezbollah: Tomorrow, Wednesday, is the day of anger of the resistance

https://streamable.com/scw2cy

3. While the Palestinian Youth Movement offered chants that would be much stronger than other demonstrations on this issue, one was cut off before hearing the response: "They've got tanks, we've got hang gliders-" was cut off and turned to "Free, free Palestine!"

One of the funniest things I've seen recently. This is a protest group in Washington DC. "No that's too much not here" and quickly changing the chant. PSL were also present.

From this thread: https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1714847599616737474

Today or tomorrow - what will you do to take a break from war doomscrolling?

Asked if the US was giving Israel the “benefit of the doubt,” Kirby paused a bit, @betsy_klein reports. “I think we certainly recognize that they feel very strongly that this was not caused by them,” Kirby said.

At this point any government not trying to intervene is complicit in the crimes of israel. If the international rules based order means anything, 800 murdered in a hospital attack should erase any right for the state of israel to exist.

Head of the Israeli National Security Council: If our enemies intervene because of the war on Gaza, the United States will intervene against them

https://fxtwitter.com/SkyNewsArabia_B/status/1714274624576614849

Biden: I will not talk about the hospital incident in Gaza unless I have confirmed information. I understand the skepticism of some around the world about who is behind the attack on the hospital in Gaza. I did not say what I said about Israel’s irresponsibility in targeting the hospital except because I trusted the source of the information… The Pentagon says it is unlikely that Israel was behind the attack on the hospital

• Al Arabiya (per here)

bruh

Right now wine mommy Kamala is almost done with a bottle of chardonnay and she's thinking about sitting in the big chair in the Oval Office. Out loud she says "_____________ go boom. Kamala moves into the room," and then she giggles.

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It seemed wise to remove a certain word or phrase.

I just love how none of the newscasts I've seen so far mention the phrase "cease responsibility for life" when talking about Israel's plans after they execute their operation. Also haven't looked into it, but one mentioned that supposedly they want the Arab League and the UN to govern Gaza... love how the Middle East's beacon of democracy wants a bunch of unelected outsiders to be the ones to govern after they get rid of the democratically elected government of Gaza.

Cards are falling in China's supercomputing game and I think Huawei is winning. Bester was initially contracted to build a NVIDIA supercomputer: https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/china-bester-wins-usd247-million-ai-deal-for-supercomputing-center

Recent sanctions make that impossible and they've now switched to Huawei's platform (which, if anyone has actually used, is a little rough around the edges but otherwise viable). This is really good for Huawei, because they now have a completely captive market that they can use to pitch accelerators like Ascend to. Absolutely massive win for Huawei.

Hey all, just remember the government would never lie to protect its interests!

I rarely find Don funny for whatever reason but I chuckled at this

"yeah ofc blake it's black/white it's either genocide or not genocide and you're taking a side"

over and over and over and over i hate my workplace this day and i'm definitely due for an HR meeting

Here's an analysis/message/memo? of some Russian lieutenant general: https://nitter.cz/DD_Geopolitics/status/1715500053207675210 I have no idea how the Twitter account got the memo, but it's interesting all the same.

Here's an older analysis/message/memo of the same dude from the same Twitter account: https://nitter.cz/DD_Geopolitics/status/1711882620899057750

His Wikipedia article is pretty funny:

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, he made it clear that in case of a world war, Russia would bomb London before Warsaw, Paris or Berlin.

On 30 August 2022 Gurulyov "encouraged Putin's regime to launch missile strikes on the British Isles", and said that "would be the end of the British Crown."

Israel says the next stage of the war might not be what everyone is expecting, and that a ground offensive into Gaza was never explicitly mentioned

No fucking idea where this is being sourced from.

EDIT: Another version --

"We are preparing for the next stages of war. We haven't said what they will be. Everybody's talking about the ground offensive. It might be something different," - IDF Spox

If accurate this is the first clear sign of the IDF walking back on the idea of a ground offensive.

Westoid media when reporting on zionist atrocities: "So and so many Palestinians dead"

Westoid media when reporting on dead settlers: "Completely ordinary people! Little girls! Innocent civilians! Murdered by terrorists!"

White zionist settlers are humanised people that you are supposed to relate to, Palestinian civilians are a faceless dehumanised mass of others that is fundamentally unlike you. It is allowed to feel bad about them dying but only in the "isn't it a shame" way you get when you hear about some endangered frog going extinct and nobody on the zionist side ever has a clear moral responsibility for their deaths.

Israel bombed that hospital correct? I can't imagine that a hamas rocket did that much damage tbh

I'll make this my summary of this 600 word update at the NYT from ~25 minutes ago.

The conditions were so bad that some people were considering going back to their homes in the north, he said.

The most doomer I've been about anything is thinking how the US empire and Israel are going to be like Twitter. It's run by a buffoon. It should have collapsed already, it's going to suck when it does because how that will affect people there but at least we could rip the bandaid off and build something better. And yet it persists.

If the Resistance doesn't engage now then I genuinely do not see what could make them do so outside of the ground offensive. Now is literally the perfect moment. I will assume that if they do not go within the next 12 hours, they never will.

Rush by west to back Israel erodes developing countries’ support for Ukraine (archived)

Western support for Israel’s assault on Gaza has poisoned efforts to build consensus with significant developing countries on condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine, officials and diplomats have warned.

That had eroded efforts since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine to build consensus with leading states in the so-called Global South — such as India, Brazil and South Africa — on the need to uphold a global rules-based order, said more than a dozen western officials.

rules-based "order" of letting the Israelis carry out a genocide, and even actively aiding them militarily

The backlash had solidified entrenched positions in the developing world on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, officials said. They warned that this could derail future diplomatic efforts on Ukraine. “We have definitely lost the battle in the Global South,” said one senior G7 diplomat. “All the work we have done with the Global South [over Ukraine] has been lost . . . Forget about rules, forget about world order. They won’t ever listen to us again.”

lol. lmao

“What we said about Ukraine has to apply to Gaza. Otherwise we lose all our credibility,” the senior G7 diplomat added. “The Brazilians, the South Africans, the Indonesians: why should they ever believe what we say about human rights?”

well, they fucking shouldn't believe you obviously, and no-one should have believed you in the first place

Arab states, particularly Jordan and Egypt, have pressed western officials to harden their tone on protecting Gaza’s civilians. “If you describe cutting off water, food and electricity in Ukraine as a war crime, then you should say the same thing about Gaza,” said one Arab official.

“What New Delhi, Jakarta and Brasília want to see is a common position on these issues, and consistency. And if they don’t see that . . . then on the major global issues there’s a certain danger EU, G7, Nato will not be taken seriously,” said Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, former Nato secretary-general.

Russia’s proposed UN Security Council resolution garnered support from only four countries — China, the United Arab Emirates, Mozambique and Gabon — but many western diplomats worry that an amended Russian resolution could gain the nine votes required to pass. The US, UK or France might then veto it, handing Moscow a propaganda victory.

“We have to prevent Russia . . . supported by the Chinese . . . taking the initiative to use this against us,” said a senior western diplomat. “There’s a risk that at the next vote in the [UN] General Assembly on supporting Ukraine, we’ll see a big explosion in the number of abstentions.”

“Russia has a huge stake in prolonging this conflict, given the distraction value . . . and the use in shifting the global narrative,” said one western foreign minister.

News really keeps translating it to "axis of resistance" to make them sound like Nazis right

U.S. State Dept issues "worldwide caution" travel alert.

Biden to address the nation later today.

The head of the Israeli Ministry of Defense told the military at the border that an order to enter the Gaza Strip could “soon” follow - media.

Israel has warned 24 hospitals in Gaza to evacuate, saying they will be bombed - Gaza Ministry of Health

Israel is evacuating its diplomatic missions throughout the Middle East.

Israel announced the evacuation of its diplomats from Turkey for security reasons.

Israel is committing crimes against humanity in Gaza, there is a risk of genocide - UN experts

They turned away from the speech of the US Ambassador at the human rights meeting in Geneva. People attending the human rights summit in Geneva turned away from Washington's full support for the crimes of the Zionist regime during a speech by that country's ambassador.

The American C-17 Globemaster III transporter delivered to Israel the first batch of MDT David armored vehicles, intended to replace those lost during the battles with Hamas in the early days of the invasion.

ABC News reports Israel has received the green light to invade the Gaza Strip.

Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced that after the end of the conflict between Israel and the Hamas movement, Tel Aviv intends to create a "new security reality" by cutting off all supplies to the Gaza Strip.

From VC ghoul Marc Andreesen's "manifesto"

Its completely deranged, just pure unadulterated Chicago School drivel: https://pmarca.substack.com/p/the-techno-optimist-manifesto

I'm not saying that phrenology is real, but sometimes I seen a screencap for a live twitch steamer talking about the conflict, and I already know what side they are taking.

Iran warned its citizens to leave Lebanon within 24 hours

Footage taken from the Baptist Hospital in Gaza just 20 hours before Israel bombed it.

WOOOW what a menacing Hamas base, those dastardly children doing the best they can to survive and thrive

Norm is comedy posting again

Oh baby there’s things I wanna say

But I can’t