Democrats Back Resolution Thanking Federal Agents For Handcuffing Alex Padilla
Democrats Back Resolution Thanking Federal Agents For Handcuffing Alex Padilla
WASHINGTON—After he was forcibly removed from a press conference held in Los Angeles yesterday by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Democrats in the House of Representatives backed a resolution Friday that thanked federal agents for handcuffin…The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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MLS over ActivityPub Draft
Good news in privacy for ActivityPub. The first early draft of the MLS over ActivityPub specification went out this week. It’s been part of my work on our E2EE for ActivityPub project at the Social Web Foundation.
Messaging Layer Security (MLS) is an IETF standard for end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging. It lets people on laptops and phones communicate with each other in a secure way that no one in between can see.
MLS is designed to use pluggable lower-level protocols. This specification defines an envelope format for distributing MLS messages through the network, and an Activity Streams 2.0 profile for the packets of application data stored inside the messages.
This specification is ready for review from both ActivityPub developers and security analysts. It’s time to start making proof-of-concept implementations and testing interoperability.
The best place to make comments or report problems is on the ActivityPub E2EE GitHub repo issues list. I’m looking forward to these next steps!
End-to-end Encryption (E2EE) over ActivityPub
Encrypted direct messages supply the confidence that people need to connect with family, friends and colleagues privately over a social network. As part of the Summer of Protocols 2024, we explore …Social Web Foundation
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Re: MLS over ActivityPub Draft
The use case seems clear: actual DMs on the fediverse. How does this interop with existing implementations that utilise direct addressing (and intentional omission of as:Public) as a form of direct messaging?
As usual I am assuming we will have to support both.
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6 Android apps that are so slick, I thought Google made them
6 Android apps that are so slick, I thought Google made them
Not all Android apps are created equal: here are 6 of my favorites that embrace the Material design language so well, they could pass for Google apps.John Kanellakos (Pocket-lint)
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Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple and Google app stores still offer China-based VPNs.
The Apple and Google app stores continue to offer private browsing apps that are surreptitiously owned by Chinese companies, more than six weeks after they were identified in a Tech Transparency Project report. Apple and Google may also be profiting from these apps, which put Americans’ privacy and U.S. national security at risk, TTP found.The apps are virtual private networks (VPNs), which promise to mask a user’s identity as they browse the internet. But Chinese-owned VPNs raise serious privacy and security concerns for Americans because Chinese companies can be forced to share user data with the Chinese government under the country’s national security laws. VPNs have access to particularly sensitive user data since they see all of a person’s web activity.
TTP - Spot Check: Apple and Google Still Have a Chinese VPN Problem
The Apple and Google app stores offer VPNs without revealing they’re owned by Chinese companies. That keeps Americans in the dark about privacy and national security risks.www.techtransparencyproject.org
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Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple and Google app stores still offer China-based VPNs.
The Apple and Google app stores continue to offer private browsing apps that are surreptitiously owned by Chinese companies, more than six weeks after they were identified in a Tech Transparency Project report. Apple and Google may also be profiting from these apps, which put Americans’ privacy and U.S. national security at risk, TTP found.The apps are virtual private networks (VPNs), which promise to mask a user’s identity as they browse the internet. But Chinese-owned VPNs raise serious privacy and security concerns for Americans because Chinese companies can be forced to share user data with the Chinese government under the country’s national security laws. VPNs have access to particularly sensitive user data since they see all of a person’s web activity.
TTP - Spot Check: Apple and Google Still Have a Chinese VPN Problem
The Apple and Google app stores offer VPNs without revealing they’re owned by Chinese companies. That keeps Americans in the dark about privacy and national security risks.www.techtransparencyproject.org
Ukraine is paying civilians up to $2,400 a month to shoot down Russian drones with whatever they can find
Ukraine to pay civilians up to $2,400 a month to shoot down drones
The new measure says paid volunteers have the right to use their personal cars, drones, or even hunting guns to fight off drones.Matthew Loh (Business Insider)
109 children rescued, 244 arrested in Operation Soteria Shield, exposing widespread child exploitation in North Texas
The North Texas Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and FBI Dallas’s North Texas Child Exploitation Task Force announce the conclusion of Operation Soteria Shield, a month-long collaborative enforcement effort conducted in April 2025 aimed at rescuing children from online sexual exploitation and bringing perpetrators to justice. This operation was run in conjunction with the National Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and was jointly managed by the FBI Dallas Division, Dallas Police Department, Plano Police Department, Wylie Police Department, and Garland Police Department.More than 70 Texas law enforcement agencies joined forces throughout the month of April to combat the exploitation of children in the digital space. These agencies leveraged the expertise of highly skilled computer crimes investigators that worked around the clock to identify victims and apprehend offenders engaged in the production, distribution, and possession of child sexual abuse material.
Operation Soteria Shield resulted in the rescue of 109 children and the arrest of 244 offenders. In addition to these enforcement actions, investigators seized extensive volumes of digital evidence, including terabytes of illicit data stored on electronic devices that were used in the commission of these crimes. These devices are undergoing forensic analysis and may lead to further arrests and the identification of additional victims.
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109 children rescued, 244 arrested in Operation Soteria Shield, exposing widespread child exploitation in North Texas
The North Texas Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and FBI Dallas’s North Texas Child Exploitation Task Force announce the conclusion of Operation Soteria Shield, a month-long collaborative enforcement effort conducted in April 2025 aimed at rescuing children from online sexual exploitation and bringing perpetrators to justice. This operation was run in conjunction with the National Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and was jointly managed by the FBI Dallas Division, Dallas Police Department, Plano Police Department, Wylie Police Department, and Garland Police Department.More than 70 Texas law enforcement agencies joined forces throughout the month of April to combat the exploitation of children in the digital space. These agencies leveraged the expertise of highly skilled computer crimes investigators that worked around the clock to identify victims and apprehend offenders engaged in the production, distribution, and possession of child sexual abuse material.
Operation Soteria Shield resulted in the rescue of 109 children and the arrest of 244 offenders. In addition to these enforcement actions, investigators seized extensive volumes of digital evidence, including terabytes of illicit data stored on electronic devices that were used in the commission of these crimes. These devices are undergoing forensic analysis and may lead to further arrests and the identification of additional victims.
Gulf states anxious about being drawn into Israel lran fight
Gulf states anxious about being drawn into Israel-Iran fight
Israel's attacks on Iran are also putting pressure on the Gulf states, who worry they too could be drawn into the escalating conflict.Kersten Knipp (Deutsche Welle)
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after trying a tiling manager
I like the idea of tiling window managers – I just find it so much less hassle to use tiling keybinds on a stacking window manager …
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Alternatively:
Ubuntu users switching back to Ubuntu after using Arch for ten minutes
Or at the very least Debian.
I haven't tried Arch, the whole idea gives me fever.
It sounds so dramatic and I know people roll their eyes when I say things like that, but it's absolutely true.
The deeper I've gone with Linux over the years the more Windows seems (aside from the obvious privacy concerns and generally being trash corporate citizens) like an intentionally convoluted and overcomplicated mess.
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Mac is actually nice to use though... My wife has one and it was my first exposure to them.
As a lifelong Windows user, I recall vividly asking myself "why am I not being abused by random pop ups and an overly complicated process to achieve basic things right now?" over and over while working on her machine.
Plus their graphical interface is a pleasure to work with once you get past some of its quirks. If I wasn't already happily on Linux I would definitely move to Mac.
It may only be possible to say so because I have not used windows in 20ish years, but I find mac to be completely horrible.
Super slow. Even the arm ones, to switch to the workspace where my vscode windows are takes like 4 seconds, starting bash (I have gone through my bashrc like 10 times) takes several seconds. After a boot it takes minutes before everything is loaded in the settings, meaning some settings are not available directly after boot (why is the settings window modular and dynamic like that?)
The mouse speed and accelleration just feels like I'm stuck in butter. I have made some config change outside of the settings to speed up the mouse, but I have to reboot to make them take effect is insane. Accelleration is suppose to be off, but that disgusting buttery feeling is still there. If I switch to linux it is not.
They had an update where they broke ssh. They fucking broke ssh for like two months. How the fuck am I suppose to work on it?
Not having a proper distinction between left and right opt/cmd/control which makes adapting keyboard layout to your personal workflow hard as shit.
You have to like click everything and random shit grabs the window focus all the time. So many times I have switched workspace or something and it displayed it but the focus is still left on the laptop or something. Randomly you have to click on a window instead of just using a keybind to get there.
Performative and dirt-on-lips pilled.
I use arch btw.
I use windows at work. even WSL doesn't make it great....
Half the time, we dont even deploy to windows boxes. They are too expensive haha. Its all Linux cause they are much cheaper and just as powerful. But mostly the cheaper angle. Still wont let us use Linux for development work though...
According to one of our adjuncts: "Windows just works for dev, why are we teaching Linux at all?"
He didn't last.
Company policy and MS licensing agreements. Also while devs can work with any OS, most users are "used" to windows and windows based products. We are talking 30+ years at the job. So they just stay there.
Although its changing slowly. More and more apps are just web interfaces with makeup. Theres real talk that getting macs for certain departments. Its just one small step for linux at that point. And as people age out of the workforce, theres a push for newer tools...which dont require windows at all.
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I had to click 4 times over 90 seconds on "sleep" on my work laptop windows 11 machine today before it actually did anything.
A meme can't be more right.
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My personal problem is that I'm so bad at using it
It's not you, it's just that Windows is badly designed.
>Build new PC
>"Maybe I'll try out Linux. "
>Fairly popular 2 year old Motherboard
>Integrated WiFi Module no drivers available
>Integrated Bluetooth Module no drivers available
>No support for $170 Sound Card
>4 hours of troubleshooting later
>Linux more bloated with dependencies and packages from troubleshooting than your grandmas browser extensions
>"Fuck this"
>Nuke Partition
>Install Windows
>Shit instantly just works
>Use Linux partition drive for backups
did you try and use Arch?
i've only ever had to fuck around with wifi drivers when installing Arch
Everytime i've installed ubuntu on a laptop it's worked fine out of the box, including on the same laptop i had to fuck around with drivers on for Arch
My WiFi on arch is so all over the place when it connects to my phone hotspot. Connects, disconnects, "oh what's the password again?" Otherwise router based WiFi is fine.
Actually the Bluetooth is somewhat even more reliable than the Windows one. And it waits for you to connect manually instead of auto connecting to that one speaker you happen to have on.
The MT7902 WiFi/Bluetooth Chip by Mediatek Corp. does not (and probably never will) have any official driver support. There are some unsuccessful community attempts to get it working, but nobody actually managed to pull it off.
G6 Soundcard works for simple pass-through but SBX features aren't natively enabled, you need a Windows install with Soundblaster Connect to enable the functionality and load the settings into the onboard memory of the card.
Linux "supports" Dolby Atmos but it sound mostly like dogwater if not combined with Atmos mixed audio.
This was in the desert in texas wasn't it?
good chance nobody has been in that particular spot for a long time
bought one of the new snapdragon x elite laptops refurbished recently. obviously it came with windows 11 and i had to briefly use it to shrink the boot partition and disable bitlocker so i could install the ubuntu concept image on it.
The amount of advertising i was subjected to in that time was infuriating. not to mention the frankly arduous setup wizard.
Even with the slight bugginess of a "concept image" OS, the user experience is SOOOO much better than shitty horrible windows.
Sent from my HP OmniBook running NOT windows
There was some fiddling to do post installation to get wifi and audio through the speakers working (although careful with this, apparently fiddling with alsa can cause hardware damage. you have to set a kernel flag for it to work).
It's mostly fine, The omnibook is apparently one of the least problematic models in getting shit working. There isn't a catch all guide though you have to sort of figure it out from the launchpad bug comments
The function bar at the top doesnt have the shortcuts for things like vol up and vol down working; it's literally just F1-12, wasnt a big deal for me. and apparently, although i havent tried it myself yet, external displays over HDMI isnt working. screen bightness goes up to 95ish% and then for some reason drops down to basically nothing which is kind of weird but not game breaking. Software support is reasonably good since a lot of linux stuff is already compiled for ARM because of the Raspberry Pi and other SBCs. mine is currently running the "Raspberry Pi" build of Private Internet Access
I set it all up pretty quickly before i flew off on holiday. i did a two and a bit hour flight watching movies and still had 75% battery.
couple days later i did a 4 hour train journey watching movies and having bluetooth and wifi with VPN active and was trying (and failing) to compile stuff and ended the journey with like 30% battery
It's mostly silent so long as you keep it on a hard surface.
Honestly it's game changing not having to hover around a power outlet. i'm probs selling my 2020 Razer when i get back to the UK
Bug #2084960 “[X1E] Support HP Omnibook X 14” : Bugs : ubuntu-concept
== Device Information == Name : HP OmniBook X Laptop 14-fe0xxx Vendor : HP Version : ConfigID Caption : Computer System Product Family: 103C_5335M8 HP OmniBook X == Kernel Support == Works with some limitations: - Wifi doesn't work (needs firmwar…Launchpad
VIDEO: Watch Iranian missiles hit heart of Tel Aviv
VIDEO: Watch Iranian missiles hit heart of Tel Aviv
📆 _Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:59:32 GMT_TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) – Footage shows the moment when Iranian missies hit Tel Aviv.
Republicans Want to Ban Pets From Domestic Violence Shelters
Republicans want to ban pets from domestic violence shelters
The budget proposal is the Trump administration's latest attack on services supporting abuse survivors.Mother Jones
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France Escalates War on Sports Piracy with Real-Time IP Blocking * TorrentFreak
France Escalates War on Sports Piracy with Real-Time IP Blocking * TorrentFreak
The French Senate has passed a new anti-piracy bill bolstered by a "secret" agreement to automate and streamline direct blocking requests.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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1337x.to seems to be playing up - here's some alternative domains
According to 1337x-status, they own the following domains:
Official domains (May 2024):
1) 1337x.to
2) 1337x.st
3) x1337x.ws
4) x1337x.eu
5) x1337x.se
6) x1337x.cc NEW May 2024
1337x Status Page - Official Domains - News
Get latest news, official domains and status of 1337x torrent website.1337x-status.org
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You forgot to mention their Tor link, seems to be working fine l337xdarkkaqfwzntnfk5bmoaroivt…
(also linked in 1337x-status.org/ )
1337x Status Page - Official Domains - News
Get latest news, official domains and status of 1337x torrent website.1337x-status.org
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Fuck. Israel has so much goddamn fucking money and the United States still hands out billions of dollars every year to them.
If any of you are struggling in the US, your government would rather help Zionists commit genocide than make sure you have a roof over your head.
I beleive real change will only occur in Israel after the Palestian conflict is over and the Israeli public transition from the propaganda content feed to standing in Gaza, witnessing what they've done for real. Some will be pleased but many, particylarily the younger generation, will be appauled at what they've done. My heart goes out to all those in Palestine suffering right now.
I also hope that no kind hearted Israel citizens were harmed in these attacks from Iran.
You mean younger as in pre IDF age? Or do you mean the ones carrying out the killings?
I hope that Iranian citizens will not be deliberately murdered by israel.
Where are the videos from the Iranian perspective?
Why are we giving Israel a stage, but not Iran?
Seyed Mohammad Marandi: Israel Attacks Iran - Reality vs. Deception
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[Live] Explosions Heard Across Israel As Iran Fires Missiles In Response For Israeli Strikes
Explosions Heard Across Israel As Iran Fires Missiles In Response For Israeli Strikes
Israel has launched a massive attack on Iran, striking dozens of nuclear and military facilities across the country, raising fears of a potential all-out war between the two countries.RFE/RL
Been reading Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore. So, I am wondering if National identity of an individual is actually taught and whether nations is even a good thing.
I guess, I turning into a bit of an anarchist.
Identity is aquired naturally. National Identity isn’t.
In other systems our core identity might be city, or village, or lake, or mountain range, or tribe, or class, or job, or beliefs, or culture, or relgion, or clan, or langauge, or dialect etc.
National Identity (Nationalism) is a rather new thing to be mainstream. Only a couple centuries.
Iran launches missile attack on Tel Aviv
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If only they had done this during the Iran protests.
But Zionists don't care about protecting innocent people from abuse.
Iran Says Air Defenses Down 2 Israeli Warplanes, Female Pilot Captured
The Israeli jets were downed on Friday. According to reports, the pilot of one of these warplanes, who is a woman, has been captured.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has vowed a crushing response to Israel’s acts of aggression.
The Israeli regime attacked a number of residential neighborhoods of Tehran and locations in other parts of Iran in the early hours of Friday.
Iran’s Air Defenses Down 2 Israeli Warplanes, Female Pilot Captured
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Two Israeli warplanes were shot down by Iran’s air defenses.Tasnim News Agency
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Yeah honestly this is like the Tesla "bomb" - until more information comes out to show otherwise it just did that.
Admittedly the Tesla didn't just do that, but still...
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[Updated] F-35B Crashes Near Albuquerque Airport, New Mexico - The Aviationist
An F-35 crashed near Albuquerque. According to the first reports, the pilot successfully ejected.David Cenciotti (The Aviationist)
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Reports of Iranian media on it now
tasnimnews.com/en/news/2025/06…
Iran’s Air Defenses Down 2 Israeli Warplanes, Female Pilot Captured
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Two Israeli warplanes were shot down by Iran’s air defenses.Tasnim News Agency
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I checked with the Nazi AI and Iran did not make this claim.
A few Twitter users made this claim, but it cannot find Tasnim state media or the Iranian army making this claim of destroying grounded Israeli F35's in 2024.
Based on the available information, there is no direct evidence that the Iranian army claimed through their state media that they bombed 20 Israeli jets in 2024. *nstead, this specific claim appears to have originated from other sources, such as Israeli sources and IranIntl (a Persian-speaking Israeli outlet), rather than from Iranian state media outlets like Tasnim News Agency or statements directly attributed to the Iranian army or the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC).
It even states that this misinformation about 20 destroyed jets originated from Israeli sources which is interesting. Not sure if true but at least not from Tasnim.
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This is not snark, it's genuine concern: are you doing research by asking AI bots questions? If so, for the love of God please stop, you're ruining your brain. This information is freely available from any search engine if you use the date feature. I used Kagi to find these in like, 5 minutes:
forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/20…
tehrantimes.com/news/504777/Ne…
Iranian Media Claims Israeli F-35 Fighters Destroyed In Missile Strike
Claims were made that it destroyed entire squadrons of the Lockheed Martin F-35I Adir—the Israeli Air Force's fifth-generation fighter.Forbes
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Yes. Google and other DDG are awful at finding any article and quote from the past when it comes to Israel except if it says 'Israel has the right to defend itself am yisrael chai Hamas terrorists'. AI does not always get it correct but it makes far fewer mistakes and will actually show me articles not from NYT or Reuters, which Google frequently literally refuses to do even when verbatim typing a sentence from that site.
According to the same AI Tehrantimes is not Iranian state media, whereas Tasnim is. A quick search confirms this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran_T…
Furthermore Forbes quotes Tehrantimes. Tehramtimes attributes the claim to an IRGC general Ebrahim Jabbari . Hovewer reading the Tehrantimes article, it only claims what title says this in the summary which weird. Now here is what is likely the full quote which I found by searching on Ebrahim Jabbari 20:
Iranwire:
Ebrahim Jabbari, an advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), claimed, "Based on the information received, it is likely that around 20 Israeli fighter jets were destroyed." However, no evidence was provided to support it."Even if the exact number is lower, the key point is that we were able to inflict heavy blows on their security, military, and economic centers," he added.
So after using a search engine myself I conclude that the Nazi AI was correct and that Tehrantimes misquoted the Iranian army general which made a vague bombastic quote instead of using concrete numbers.
The current article says 2 and is a direct claim by the Iranian military. It might still be fake but at least it not a "possibly 2".
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I need a fat video confirmation or nothing happend lol
Cmon there's gotta be some soldier who took a photo or video
Initialen reports said Iranian army confirmed it. So far no updates. Usually when it is a dud there is no followup.
Hiding this post for now unless more confirmation comes out.
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Ah but you see, that line only works when it's used by a lib. The same standard does not apply to them!
There's absolutely no need to read books like "Do Muslim Women Need Saving?" for a better understanding on why Western media's portrayal of Muslims is the way that it is, why do so when it's much easier to regurgitate unfounded, fabricated, downright mythological what-is-practically Western projections on to populations that they deem "uncivilized", all at the comfort of doing so from your own couch!
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To the lurkers, if this was somehow not obvious, /s.
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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? - Allegra Lab
Lila Abu-Lughod’s book, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, expands on her thoughts from an earlier article similarly titled. As she explains, this book is “aHarriet James (Allegra Lab)
i am very much for a more humane govt there and against medieval islamic culture but iran are saints when compared to israel.
israeli snipers have been shooting pregnant women for years and wearing tshirts about it with “one shot two kills”
israel is full of the most disgusting humans on earth who will murder a kids family infront of him then shoot him in legs two days later. all because they tried to save some olive trees which are their only source of livelihood.
and israelis do it just because they can and won’t face any consequence for it.
Both sides are run by religious fundamentalist which are the worst types of human on earth. Any religion that thinks they’re “chosen” treat women like shit because of their males littlest-of-dick-energy available.
Watching them fuck themselves up while I’m over here eating my popcorn.
CW: Israeli war crimes, SA, torture, etc
Dying in ‘Hell’: The fate of Palestinian medics jailed by Israel
One of Gaza’s most prominent doctors may have been raped to death, recent revelations show. He’s not the only one.Simon Speakman Cordall (Al Jazeera)
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Depending on your understanding, the concept of god can be very real.
It's not a uniform idea across cultures and beliefs.
It's a widespread Islamic phrase but yes it stems from Arabic it means "God is greatest" and is often chanted in celebrations in Iran (and anywhere else with high Islamic influence)
Many Muslims will use Arabic for certain religious/symbolic purposes regardless of native language as the Quran was revealed in Arabic so it holds special purpose and unites the global Islamic community as they all can understand such phrases no matter where they live/which language they speak.
As I posted the above comment there were reports of Iranians shouting it to each other from the rooftops and thousands taking to the streets in groups to chant it despite the threat of Israeli attacks to celebrate Irans successful retaliation.
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Doesn't the majority of Americans agree with Trump's immigration policy as well? Guess if the approval rating is > 50% we should just allow anyone to bomb the everliving shit out of any civilian no matter of their political view?
I'm in no fucking way in support for Israel, fuck them and the people supporting their actions, but I am also 100% against killing civilians anywhere. Not in Israel, not in Russia, not in Iran, not in Gaza.
The normalization of accepting civilian casualties because they belong to the "enemy" state is a fucking disgusting mindset we all need to get rid off as soon as possible.
The majority of the world is critical of ALL Americans now for Trump, he was elected twice, thant's on them all. Israelis have expressed majority support for this ongoing genocide and attacks on Iran, this is on them all.
Bomb a soverign nation "pre emptively" get bombed back.
Fuck the entire Israeli government and anyone who supports it.
By that logic you could say that because there is an overwhelming support for outlawing LGBTQ rights in Iran and Gaza, Israel is fine with commiting their genocide because fuck anyone who wants to imprison or kill LGBTQ people, am I right?
Just stop fucking killing civilians, or cheer for the death of civilians, it's never morally correct. It's an act of terror, and any regime doing it should be classified as a terrorist regime.
Just to be clear, I am FINE, no, I even SUPPORT retaliatory strikes on Israel, but do it on military targets FFS. Bomb the everliving fuck out of Israel, but don't target civilians, there are plenty of tactical targets to choose from.
Fuck the zionist bastard Israelis and fuck the Iranian regime.
But Fuck the Israeli zionists more.
Ok, so what makes it OK to kill Israeli civilians but not Palestinian or Iranian? Where is the line drawn for when it's ok to kill civilians? Is the line exactly at supporting genocide? Is it OK as long as one side is worse than the other?
I have a co-worker who support Israel, should I just go ahead and stab them to death the next time I see them?
What's stopping you from going to the closest Israel apologist and shooting them in the face?
Please let me know what makes you accept civilian casualties of one kind but not the other.
I'll be back here with my insane and moronic reasoning of civilians being killed always being a bad thing.
When a country attacks a sovereign nation, they should expect retaliation. When the majority of that country backs genocide, I don't feel too much empathy.
I am far more outraged at the tens of thousands of dead civilians in Gaza, if I haven't made that clear by stating several times that Israel is committing fucking Genocide.
The comment I first wrote a reply to insinuated that because a majority of Israelis agree with the genocide, the Iranian strikes are valid despite targeting civilian locations. I am of the opinion that no side, ever, have validity in targeting civilians. I don't care what the majority thinks, if you don't partake in said genocide, I don't think you deserve to be targeted.
As I see it, you are arguing against me in targeting civilians being wrong. If that is not the case, its a misunderstanding. If it is the case, we are in disagreement.
Peace out ✌️
I am Lebanese and have lived through two Israeli wars on Lebanon, the 82 invasion and the 2006 July war. Israel targets journalists and medics and civilians constantly as I have witnessed first hand.
I don't condone attacks on civilians, but when Israel is involved I have zero empathy. I used to, but now zero. I couldn't care less if the entire Israeli popluation live in shelters for decades until they behave like a normal country. They cannot tout being a democracy anymore and the wests support for Israel is disgusting.
I have complete understanding of your feelings on the subject and will not hold your reasoning against you, and just want to end with saying our feelings against Israel seem to be very much alike, with the exception of the subject of civilian casualties.
I wish you a very nice weekend!
As they always have proven their entire miserable history.
Singling out Netanyahoo is Bernie the sheepdog's tactics of dammage control
Blaming the government in power and those who put them in power for the actions taken by the government is totally reasonable.
You're suggesting well "what about a hypothetical government that doesn't exist huh?". That doesn't matter. They don't exist. Blame the government
Israel didn't become an apartheid genocidal occupation of Palestinian land under Netanyahu. It's has been since its founding.
You're suggesting we close our eyes and pretend their entire history doesn't matter, that we just blame the current figurehead and his (variable but typically increasingly few) direct supporters.
What doesn't exist is a reality where the next government isn't brutally mistreating Palestine.
Your hasbara is weak
First let's settle one thing, Israel has no right to exist. I'm against assuming 100% of the populace is all for the genocide. The majority government and their supporters clearly are.
The apartheid state of Israel needs to end. The genocide needs to be stopped by any means, except a genocide in return.
The entire majority government and their supporters can hang.
I'm not going to condem the rest for a "thought" crime they didn't commit. Maybe they would have done the same thing, maybe not.
I hope you are being naive.
aljazeera.com/news/2015/11/9/p…
timesofisrael.com/poll-half-of…
Plenty of jews outside the apartheid state are against it.
Those that live there, wether bcs of propaganda or a superiority complex don't.
Maybe 5 to 10% maximum have normal views.
You know what they say about people trying the same thing and expecting different results.
Poll: 53% Israelis support extrajudicial killings
Findings by Israel Democracy Institute reflect hardening attitudes among Jewish citizens amid tensions and violence.Al Jazeera
Idk man. If you’re a child, a unhoused, or a otherwise a person without the economic means to leave because your ancestors were settlers and you just so happened to be born in the colonized land, I’d consider you a civilian. I think your view is too black and white.
Screw you if you’re a deliberate Zionist benefiting from genocide though.
Israelis aren't walled in and prevented from leaving like Palestinians are in Gaza.
Israelis have no practical excuse to continue their occupation, especially when everyone is forced to serve in the IDF to actively aid the occupation rather than just passively.
As long as they are not on active duty, they shouldn't be targets. And if they are forced to serve, they should still only be killed if they are an active threat. Normally, they should first be offered to surrender.
Hope you're acting ironic and do not actually call to genocide all Jews in Israel.
No, but all Israelis that are zionists maybe.
Zionists are not Jewish people, they are actually against Judaism.
I believe it's the Talmud that says Israel cannot exist until the messiah returns. This is why you have many religious Jews in the US against the state of Israel.
Zionists are the one and only antisemites.
Zionists are mostly Jews, but Jews are mostly not Zionists.
But yes, according to Talmud, Israel shouldn't exist.
There are more Christian Zionists than there are Jews in total.
"Zionists are mostly Jews" is an objectively false statement.
Maybe specifically in Israel the statement could be seen as true, but that's only because Israel is a jewish settler ethnostate, so most of almost any grouping would be a majority Jews.
Hope you're acting ironic by saying that you can commit a genocide, put your gun over the fireplace you murdered a family to steal, and suddenly not be a valid target.
It doesn't matter if you put your gun down as a settler colonizer. You're still actively engaging in the genocide. You are still a valid target.
And the objective of any just war is to expel you.
Normally, they should first be offered to surrender.
Get on a plane and go home. No one's stopping you. That's your opportunity.
How are you engaging in genocide if you do not take part in the war? And especially if you denounce the actions of your government? Is being born in Israel enough to be seen as a genocidal maniac?
I swear this "settler" discourse is gonna drive me crazy at some point.
How can you call me a robber just because I accepted all of these stolen goods that were stolen specifically for me to have?
Shut the fuck up holy god
Good. Go crazy. Shut the fuck up.
Is being born in Israel enough to be seen as a genocidal maniac?
If you join the IDF yes it fucking is. And why are you acting like this is something that happened at the dawn of history? These are not people who were born there. These are people who settled there because they were told they could murder people and steal their homes. Stop making ahistoric excuses for fucking fascists, you fucking fascist piece of shit.
In no way to be a snob, but could we tone it down? After all, we're mostly on the same page on that the state of Israel is committing war crimes, we only differ in who we blame for it.
Back to the substance:
First, Israel as an independent state exists since 1948, so yes, the absolute majority of people living in modern day Israel were born there; they are not the same people who came to displace Palestinians all those decades ago.
Second, I did not talk about IDF soldiers. Those who voluntarily joined Israeli armed forces do take part in an act of evil, and deserve to be judged. I do not support the same notion in respect to Israeli civilians and those on mandatory service.
Third, in your robber hypothetical, where are the Israeli civilians? Do they have to renounce their citizenship and go live abroad not to receive "stolen goods"? Someone who is opposed to the war taking place are not "robbers" here.
First, Israel as an independent state exists since 1948, so yes, the absolute majority of people living in modern day Israel were born there
Mind palace nonsense. Fuck you just saying shit so confidently. 50% of the jewish population emigrated since 2000.
Second, I did not talk about IDF soldiers. Those who voluntarily joined Israeli armed forces do take part in an act of evil, and deserve to be judged. I do not support the same notion in respect to Israeli civilians and those on mandatory service.
Literally learn the first fucking thing about the subject you're talking about before you open your dumb fucking mouth about it. Not even going to help you here. Shut up. Sit down. Listen. Read. But most importantly shut the fuck up.
hypothetical
Fucking nazi genocide denial
Someone who is opposed to the war taking place are not “robbers” here.
Again just speaking out of pure fucking mind palace ignorance. The jewish population of Isn'treal almost unanimously supports the extermination of the palestinians. You are arguing pure rhetoric outside of reality. That's why it's so important that you shut the fuck up
Most of your points can be readily disproved with a single search query, however, it's not worth engaging with a person who can't hold their temper for a second.
Therapy does magic.
You know what you call someone who remains placid and unphased in the face of a genocide?
A Nazi.
Most of your points can be readily disproved
A Nazi that believes The Secret works on reality retroactively
Wonder how you easily disprove the genocide denial you committed in this thread...?
On July 11, Landau had to “work” through the night shooting Jews and Ukrainians. Nevertheless, he and a colleague still managed to find time between the killings to grab a snack of sour milk and new potatoes, while his “thoughts remained” with his Trudy.⁶² Early the following morning, he was back at work executing twenty-three men and women. Subsequently, Landau recorded, “Strange, I am completely unmoved. No pity, nothing.”
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The most navel staring country on the planet
The reason the US supports Israel is exactly because Israel is a settler-colony. They're part of the same genocidal settler project, Zionism is Manifest Destiny.
If landback wins in Israel the ones paying attention know that it's coming for them too.
But they didn't have to make a colony of European settlers to do that, did they? Egypt is a loyal collaborator with the US and it fulfills the same geostrategic goals, but the amount of support Egypt gets pales in comparison to Israel. Why is that?
We can't dismiss the ideological importance of Israel. The unlimited support of the 51st state is exactly because it is a settler-colony.
Egypt hasn't always been loyal, certainly not the population.
They overthrew the previous puppet despite US efforts to keep him in place.
When they saw it was hopeless they threw him under the bus and 'supported' the arab spring movement.
In reality they hijacked the revolution and simply put another puppet in place.
Settler-colonialism isn't just about who is in power (although it is about that). That's just regular colonialism, like French Algeria.
Settler-colonialism is about importing settlers to replace the indigenous population while enacting genocidal policies to exterminate or expell the indigenous population. Egypt isn't experiencing that.
That's why Egypt doesn't get the level of support that Israel does.
This belief that Israel is a US controlled proxy has always vexed me.
So-- honest question here-- From inside the US it appears that our entire political apparatus is controlled by a relatively small sprinkling of zionists doing whatever is good for Israel and is inevitably bad for the US-- going all the way back to the Nakba. But theres always people (like yourself) on Lemmy and Reddit claiming Israel is a US creature under US control for US gain.
As an American my free speech ends and I get prosecuted if I say anything anti semitic. I CAN say racist things about anyone else, all I want as long as I dont start a riot.
Can you tell me why you are so certain zionism is controlled by the US (your understanding), not the US by rich zionists (my understanding)?
edit: Did you just ..downvote and run away from the question? It was an honest question.
The US and Israel have a partnership.
While the zionist representation is very visible in US politics and creates the belief that they contol it it is not so.
Can you honestly believe that if you objectively compare the two?
A tiny country with a small population and a small army (despite again being disproportionally and relatively big) vs a huge country with the largest military in the world that was already a world power before the other even existed.
" doing whatever is good for Israel and is inevitably bad for the US"
Can you give an example?
If you're thinking now that the bad thing is israel may drag the US into war with Iran you're mistaken.
That may happen but it's bcs it is the US intention to have war on Iran.
They have provoked them many times all on their own without using the israel proxy.
Hijacking ships, small attacks and unilaterally breaking the nuclear deal, etc. to increase tension.
Anyway here's a good article I recently read.
Whatever is happening now has long been predicted.
"Did you just …downvote and run away from the question? It was an honest question."
I sometimes sleep, and never run away from a discussion if it's civil or useful.
Which is rare here since .world is infested with reactionary clowns throwing insults and platitutes when they lose an argument.
Let me know what you think.
Why does the U.S. support Israel? A geopolitical analysis with economist Michael Hudson | MR Online
A former U.S. secretary of state boasted, “Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk”. Journalist Ben Norton and economist Michael Hudson discuss why the United States so strongly supports Israel.Editor (MR Online)
examples of whats good for Israel being bad for the US:
Our aligning with Israel during the Yom Kipur war (6 day war) caused Oil prices to quadruple, which caused a decade of turmoil in the US, and almost incalculable damage to our currency. And it never really recovered to a natural pattern. The US runs on oil.
macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil…
See that massive bump up in 1973? I dont suppose you are old enough to remember interest rates in the 80s are you? it peaked at 21.5%. Thats catastrophic damage to the average US persons purchasing power. Wages didnt keep up with costs-- not even close. The Israeli's colonial war cost the US our middle class and created a massive underclass. We all paid for their war, that they claim was preemptive and unavoidable, and not their fault (just like their attack on Iran today).
And what was our reward for that? Did we gain any political leverage at all in that region? Bases? soft power? No. No we didnt. all we got was some of the blame for the Nakba, and some of the blame for the ridiculous levels persecution and murder of the Palestinian people. It was pure cost.
1990-1991 Desert storm
Israel badly wanted Sadam Hussein removed. Iraq said they invaded Kuwait because Kuwait was slant drilling into their oil fields, which is true and was known at the time to be true. So we invaded and rescued a bunch of literal thieves-- and coincidentally destroyed a potent adversary of Israel. What did we gain? anything? Two air bases, and thats about it, at great cost. The government or Iraq is barely more friendly to us that they were before. I suppose we got CENTCOM established in Kuwait. So thas not nothing, but its darn close to nothing. Israel got a major enemy removed for them. They didnt join in desert storm-- and did not allow overflight of their territory during it. They are not, and never have been a real military ally. They court Russia as much as they do the US. Same as India.
9/11/2001. Bin Laden says he attacked the world trade centers in new york to bring US public eyes to the plight of the Palestinian people that their government was facilitating, but that Americans had no idea about. And what did our people do? Our government idiotically claimed "they hated us for our freedoms", and made a big show about not blaming all muslims, just some. What was America's gain there? And when the attack happened, Israelis in New York and Israel were caught on tape literally cheering about it and filming it.
Bin Ladens interview with PBS:
pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/s…
"The American imposes himself on everyone. Americans accuse our children in Palestine of being terrorists--those children, who have no weapons and have not even reached maturity. At the same time, Americans defend a country, the state of the Jews, that has a policy to destroy the future of these children."
Obviously no one condones or support what Bin Laden did, but lets be clear eyed in our foreign policy: was he incorrect in any way in his statement? I dont see how we can honestly say he was not being earnest -- to his point of view anyway. 9/11 and its outcomes would seem to be a massive, massive, massive cost to the United states in terms of hard power and soft, and added tremendously to our national debt burden. We have the TSA exactly because of Israel's murderous colonial adventurism. What of we'd simply show the muslim world the diplomatic respect of equals from the start? And he was right, zionism IS a policy of displacing the locals from their land however possible. Thats all it is. Its racist theft and murder. Its not self defense or justice, and it never has been.
And that brings us to today. We're literally sponsoring a genocide of innocents, for Israel's benefit. Its one of the most illegal and immoral things a country can possibly do.
The world HATES the US because of our stand with Israel. They now see us as almost as bad as Israel. Stupid. Easily manipulated. A global problem. This is as we have also been the main contributor to food aid and the stability of trade across the planet. Thats a cost. And what have we gotten out of it? Our funding of free weapons for shenangans and murder, and our vetoing every resolution that is about peace and justice in the region for Israeli gain costs us dearly. It makes every American traveler unsafe and unwelcome, and makes people not want to trade with us or listen to our opinions. It is destroying the concepts of democracy and the rules based order, and the concept os the western world itself. The world is ditching the dollar. I hope its all worth it for Israel to finish their genocide of innocents, who today have nothing. They are doing it for beachfront condos. They will not be any more secure after this.
And what does the US population gain for our support? Its not for any philosophical or moral reason, obviously. Israelis literally spit on christians they see in the street-- is that what friends and long term allies do? Does it indicate a "partnership"? What exactly does Israel provide to the US beyond campaign bribes through AIPAC? Intel on their enemies?
The US has done plenty of scumbaggery including some you put in pisrahells shoes.
That's why they hate you and it's well deserved.
You caused infinitely more deaths and miserythan the little coloniser entity.
Can't explain anything to someone who's american dumb and had crappy propagandised education and news on his banana republic.
Waste of time, like explaining quantum theorie to a dog.
Enjoy yor shithole, now fuck off
Uh huh. Except none of what I listed is as complex and theoretical as quantum theory.
You're just using that comparison as a dodge because you have no answer to what I laid out. 50 years of the US being continually shafted and getting nothing from our "partnership" with zionists has been a disaster for the US and it has to stop.
Manifest destiny said the US land is all ours. Also Hawaii.
Divine right mandated by God, so..
/s
Just a reminder: 82% of all the Israeli Jews support ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
Just saying.
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Don't forget European colonialism.
That's what really started this whole shitshow.
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Were there not an Israel the USA would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region.
Short version is that in WW1, the UK conquered Palestine from the Ottoman empire. 1922-1948, the British ran the territory, getting shot at regularly by both native Arabs, the tiny number of native Jews, and the comparatively much larger group of immigrant Jews. In the 1940s, the UK asked for and got US help with counterterrorist operations, especially against Jewish ones. Arabs and Jews pinky promised to play nice with each other if the UK left, so rather than continue getting shot by everyone in the region, they left. Arabs and Jews immediately started a war as soon as the UK army left. Then, every single neighbouring country attacked the newly formed Israel, which they somehow survived.
(Missing HUGE amounts of context and nuance here, obviously)
Just look up the history of Israel before it was given statehood and of Zionism. Here is a good article by the Guardian. warning, it's a very complicated situation, all in all, and this article really gets into the nitty gritty of history. Literally, deep into it. It's some heavy reading.
Boiled down though...
After the defeat of the Ottomans and their empire partitioned off to various countries after the Sinai and Palestine campaigns of WW1, the British were given control via a mandate by the League of Nations over a territory that became known as the Mandate of Palestine, but it was still mostly Arab citizens, the British were just given authority to maintain order in the region.
During the years of occupation, the British government encouraged European Jews to settle the region in an effort to fulfill political obligations to the Zionist movement made at what is known as the Balfour Declaration. This caused a civil war to break out over the whole colonization thing.
With the end of the Mandate over the region drawing to an end, and the tensions of the area heightened after civil war, the U.N. voted to subdivide the Mandate of Palestine into two separate states: Palestine and Israel
The Mandate years: colonialism and the creation of Israel
Charles Glass reappraises British rule in Palestine and a century of ZionismGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Here a good article about british complicity into heping the creation of the state of israel
declassifieduk.org/how-britain…
How Britain supported Zionism and prevented Palestinian freedom
Long read: British rule in Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s enabled Zionist colonisation at the expense of Palestinians.A BUSTOS (Declassified Media ltd)
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Yea, they say they restricted the Jewish immigrants. Yet, if you read the article posted in my other comment, you'd see that their actions during the time period of their mandate speaks a different tale.
Them abstaining from the vote is purely performative, and doesn't negate the rest of what they did to facilitate the colonization of Palestine.
Back before Britain/US/Pissrael there was the Persian empire, and there were maybe a war with Russia or the Ottomans in good sport once in a while
This shit is a modern creation thank you very much
I meant more politically and materially than just monetarily.
If we cut social programs at home and continue to send/ ramp up even more billions to support Israel it will just create even more unrest, which is already at a low boil.
We also don't have unlimited manufacturing capabilities. How much material can we sacrifice without weakening our own access to these resources.
all violence against fascists is justified
all violence against genocidaires is morally good
I'm cheering for the destruction of the Zionist regime just like I'd cheer for the destruction of the Nazi regime.
Good hit. Let's see more.
I've seen reports of Airbases, the Kirya, many anti-air systems, and some city infrastructure/housing.
As usual it's iffy as Israel silences reports on impacts. But it's undeniable, Israel was rocked.
Come back to America where you belong.
I’ll kick your fucking teeth in for perpetuating genocide, but at least you’ll be alive
O great chudjack in the sky
Let the power of your nothing ever happens flow through me one last time
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That’s hardly a reasonable comparison though is it?
It's entirely reasonable, you just have a white supremacist double standard.
The allies during WW2 were mostly functioning democracies.
The vast majority of the British Empire couldn't vote and were considered lesser beings. The US had racial inequality inshrined into law and a habit of murdering minorities. The USSR I leave as an exercise to the reader.
This conflict is a theocratic dictatorship
I assume you mean Israel.
which treats women as second class citizens
Lol, the WW2 allies absolutely treated women as second class citizens, and criminalised homosexuality. Its also ghoulish the way westerners go "these countries treat minorities badly, so it's ok to kill them (including the minorities). Ukraine isn't perfect about minorities either, do you use that to say they deserve to get invaded? Oh wait, Ukraine in white.
Both sides are fucking evil and to celebrate one over the other is ignorant.
The British Empire was more evil than Iran by multiple orders of magnitude, yet for some reason (white supremacy) you don't take this stance on WW2
A white supremacist who used the slogan 'keep Britain white'.
Called Jews 'hebrew bloodsuckers' and has murdered millions
The USSR was a functioning democracy, moreso than its peer countries. Rather than being entirely decided by Capital, the Soviets extended democratic input to the economic sector. Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan and This Soviet World by Anna Louise Strong are both good first-hand accounts.
It certainly wasn't perfect, either, but it was a dramatic improvement on Capitalism. Zhenli has a good article on contextualizing some of the failures of democracy in early Socialism, as well as pointing out how western leftists often let the perfect Socialism in their heads be the enemy of the flawed but really existing Socialism in the real world, that faces real struggles thanks to being a really existing system.
Why Do Marxists Fail to Bring the “Workers’ Paradise”?
Often I am asked, “why did Marxism-Leninism fail to bring the workers’ paradise into existence?” Sometimes people respond to this by pointing to the democratic benefits Marxist-Leninist countries…真理zhenli (Medium)
My point was about the USSR being democratic, which is historically true. They held elections, decided economic decisions collectively, and extended democracy not just from the realm of deciding which bourgeois politician or party represents you to the economic and political sectors governing policy and direction. A simple "they weren't dude" doesn't disprove historical fact.
Unless, of course, your parameters for deciding if something is democratic or not is decided by vibes, there's really no reason to call it undemocratic. As an overall measure of material functions of democracy, the USSR was more democratic than the major powers of the allies and axis during World War II. They certainly had flaws with their democracy, hence the inclusion on my part of Zhenli's essay, but these flaws weren't because they had the "wrong recipe," but because democracy is a material structure that needs to be built.
As for the "tankie" jab, I'm not going to apologize for being a Marxist. I agree that they were the most important force in World War II, but I disagree with your characterization of their democracy, hence why I offered sources for you or onlookers to read into to learn more. The opening of the Soviet Archives has only affirmed these primary sources as accurate, and the Zhenli essay helps us reframe how we think about building democratic structures in general.
Iran ranks 3rd in the world in numbers of engineers. 70% of them are women.
'The second class citizens' is exagerated, and often simply lies for propaganda purposes, like the Mahsa Amini case.
The last execution of homosexuals was 20 years ago, and this was for rape, not bcs homosexuality.
Yes many islamic countries have issues, and these are the typical hasbara machine's ammo:
"Let us genocide the Palestinians bcs they hate the gays!"
Also your WW2 'democracies' were - and still are in many cases - colonisers and looters of a large part of the world.
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Maybe go on Lemmygrad and ask them directly.
A few hours ago there were some discussing the attacks.
And the other side is caricaturally evil
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Watch out, the enlightened centrist has arrived!
Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, well, they are both bad people. Let's root for neither of them.
I'm not denying Churchills crimes or painting him as good.
How many would Hitler have murdered if he had similar control over the region? Just look at General plan Ost...
There's a reason the USSR tried to ally with Churchill against Hitler before hostilities even started.
Still I would have rooted for Churchill when it comes to the conflict of Nazi Germany versus Britain because I am able to separate actions from blindly supporting everything.
Iran too did absolutely horrible things in the past They sent a lot of children to die during their war with Iraq. The Mahsa Amani stuff everyone keeps bringing up is so lightweight but Western propagaganda is the dumbest stuff.
However, currently Iran is aiding Palestine and fighting Israel and they are not sending children to die for it. So I support that action.
Yeah, when I said that I didn't really adequately consider what would actually come of Iran being crippled. Civilian rule is not the likely outcome of Iran being defeated.
And Iran isn't as bad as Israel, I agree, but that's a pretty low bar.
A low bar it may be, but as you said in the beginning, a toppled Iran would end up like a toppled Iraq - utterly devastated and all of the flaws that existed pre-Iraq War seem like beauty marks after the genocidal US invasion.
People need to chart their own destiny, free from terrorization backed by the US Empire. Without that pressure, social movements in Iran have more room to breathe without fearing rocket-fire from Israel.
It would look like no more Iranians being executed for not wearing a hijab, or being gay, or saying mean things about the ayatollah.
But I guess their regime is absolutely necessary to stop the very long list of people that want to genocide Persian culture.
Typical .ml authoritarian apologist.
Iran is a flawed state, certainly, but if Israel succeeds then they will succeed in killing far more women and queer people than the Iranian state could ever hope to execute, along with cisgender folk, liberals, etc. This is pinkwashing. As a queer person myself, this type of rhetoric is just Imperialist apologia, the path to queer liberation of Iranians would be dramatically pushed backwards if Israel succeeds in destroying Iran.
Further, yes, Iran is necessary to stop the genocide in Palestine at this moment. When Western countries are all condemning Iran and backing Israel, it is the Global South that backs Iran. Gazans are cheering, Yemeni people are watching the bombings of Tel Aviv on the big screen. Israel has been the single greatest obstacle in queer liberation in the Middle East as the fomenter of chaos, genocide, and destabilization.
Why is it that queer liberation happens in some countries, and not others? When does it happen? Social progress is a product of economic development and liberation of the Working Class. Bombing Iran and creating a failed state would result in thousands of deaths of queer Iranians, children, and many more.
Do some self-crit. You're caping for Israel and advocating for the country doing the most to oppose genocide to collapse.
We saw how it ended up in iraq. How many time you guy get fooled by the west propaganda?
Iranians are smart enough to know the threat number one is israel then the rrgime
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Still it doesn't compare and there's no excuse.
In this case the colonising is still going on, hence the genocide.
They are not 'citizens' but colonisers.
They deserve all they get, what they don't deserve is sympathy.
I'll deliver this reply in Choose Your Own Adventure Format:
If you want to make a reference to Donald Trump being at his birthday parade and thus exposed, vulnerable and in the open and presently not looking up, turn to page 89.
If you rather make a reference to how we should leave the Devil be because the Devil himself is more respectable and honorable than any of these monstrous despots who murder out of spite and wrap themselves in scripture, turn to page 322.
I would disagree. If you go back far enough, every land has been stolen. There is probably no piece of land that hasn't been held by multiple different groups over time.
I'd also argue a government existing at all is stolen land. What gives them the right to the land, instead of the people using it as they want? At some point someone decided the land was theirs, and not someone else's, and decided they could sell, lend, or use the land as they want, even if someone else also wanted to use it.
Before colonialism, empires would conquer lands and then just make the people who already live there into their subjects.
And before empires and agriculture and such, people weren't really organized enough to steal land (and weren't embedded deeply enough in the land for it to be stolen). They'd just move to the new land and become part of the people already there.
And before empires and agriculture and such, people weren't really organized enough to steal land (and weren't embedded deeply enough in the land for it to be stolen). They'd just move to the new land and become part of the people already there.
Yeah, that's my point. At one point in time land wasn't something owned, just something utilized. The fact that governments exert control over them implies they were stolen, as it prevents some people from utilizing it. See: Proudhon - What is Property?
Okay, you need to recognize that there are greater and lesser contradictions. Yes, all property is theft, but is that a useful line for Palestinians to struggle against? Can they even meaningfully abolish property without solving the colonial question?
That's why we say the colonial question is the primary contradiction. Israelis are colonial invaders that have come to steal the land and expel or kill the indigenous population. This is a greater concern than, say, Palestinian business owners owning property (and thus stealing the land from the Commons). If we don't focus our struggles and identify the primary contradiction, we just lash out at every injustice all at once and accomplish nothing because we are overwhelmed.
Every successful decolonial struggle for national independence involves cooperation between the landless and the landed, because colonialism takes primacy. We can deal with the question of "who gets to own the land" once the invaders are gone.
They are not ‘citizens’ but colonisers.
It's not an unfortunate fait accompli like the US that eradicated the original inhabitants for instance.
Yes, all property is theft, but is that a useful line for Palestinians to struggle against? Can they even meaningfully abolish property without solving the colonial question?
I never said that, though "the colonial question" is solved if you abolish property, so it's still worth considering, even in this context.
Israelis are colonial invaders that have come to steal the land and expel or kill the indigenous population. This is a greater concern than, say, Palestinian business owners owning property (and thus stealing the land from the Commons).
Yes, and the whole system is built on ownership of property. Addressing the surface level issue (colonizer stealing land) is great, but you should also consider the root cause. If they can't own land then there's no colonization. It's worth looking at both of these and fighting both. If there is to be a system enacted (which currently is no where close to happening, but still needs to be a consideration), it should be one that protects people and prevents exploitation, so this doesn't happen again.
We can deal with the question of "who gets to own the land" once the invaders are gone.
It's too late to do it then. That's how you have a revolution collapse into something horrible; it didn't have a plan for what comes after. The people struggling to just survive don't need to consider this, but it does need to be considered. If you wait until after it's done then you just end up with squabbling, and the group who can exert control takes it without consent.
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Or have I just made that up?
I never double checked. It was something I've just thought existed. Obviously not..
It's an order of operations. If they try to resolve every contradiction all at the same time they stretch the revolution too thin and drive all of their enemies into one unified front.
That doesn't mean they shouldn't even think about the other contradictions (in fact, progressive forces should internally theorize and strategize in secret about what to do after the colonial occupation is defeated) but it does mean that those secondary contradictions are to be set aside in public while they focus on the primary contradiction.
Now isn't the time to air the dirty laundry of everyone that's on your side against the occupation.
Obviously propertied interests are going to be a problem after the occupation is defeated, but until the occupation is defeated they can used. Not only does this increase the power and size of the decolonial struggle by creating a unified front, but without that ability to set aside secondary contradictions those propertied interests will join the occupation's side instead. Those propertied interests are only using the revolutionaries for their own ends, but progressive forces are only using them in turn.
This is how every successful decolonial struggle was won.
Many decolonial struggles only achieved flag independence and failed to achieve sovereignty because they either failed to identify those secondary contradictions or chose to forget the secondary contradictions in their nationalistic fervor, but that's not what I'm advocating! Once the occupation is defeated one of those secondary contradictions will become the new primary contradiction, and progressive forces will need to be prepared for that.
But that has to wait. In the immediate struggle, everyone has a common enemy.
[Nobara] Help fixing boot situation
So I have a weird situation that I'm not sure how to fix, and it's going to require some background.
I have 4 drives in my machine:
1. A ~15 year old 128GB SATA SSD (windows, ntfs)
2. An ~8 year old 512GB SATA SSD (libraries, ntfs)
3. A ~5 year old 1TB NVMe SSD (nobara, btrfs)
4. A ~1 year old 2TB NVMe SSD (games, ntfs)
I've gone a month now without booting into windows so I figure it's time to clean up my windows install and reclaim/retire those drives, but my boot situation is kinda weird. #1 is my current default boot drive in bios, and it has both the boot loader for windows and for a previous ubuntu install I also had on the current-nobara install, and then #3 has another one (but won't boot when I select it in bios for whatever reason), so what I really need to do is clean up all these extraneous boot-loaders and set one up on drive #3 to be my main boot from now on. But I'm very nervous about messing with that sort of thing and rendering my system unbootable (I know, I still have the install USB I could use, but still.) I've tried reading guides and such on how to do bootloader stuff in general, but I am not confident in my ability to not fuck it up.
Although now that I think about it if I don't care about the windows boot drive I can just pull it, I just need to make sure I can boot off drive #3 before I do do that and I have no idea how to go about setting that up with my current situation.
Every one really shits on brave so i decided to use Fennec from now on
I'm on android
So i downloaded fennec today and it seems to be pretty good, and quick aswell. But the settings are kinda confusing, for now tho!
I have already enabled ublock, Clearurls and Privacy Badger.
What other settings would you recommend to make fennec even more privacy hardened?
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Brave is an ok browser. But you’d also be supporting Brendan Eich’s raging homophobia, so no thank you.
Edit: Oh wait, I missed an episode. Apparently he’s also a COVID ‘truther’ now as well. A flaming garbage can of a man.
Make sure tracking protection is set to strict in the settings.
Otherwise you only really need uBlock, other extensions can be useful but the more you add the more unique your browser is and stands out more.
Brave Shields block ads and trackers by default, and they’re built natively in the Brave browser—no extensions required. Since Shields are patched directly onto the open-source Chromium codebase, they don’t rely on MV2 or MV3.
brave.com/blog/brave-shields-m…
What Manifest V3 means for Brave Shields and the use of extensions in the Brave browser
Brave is committed to maintaining Manifest V2 support, allowing users to keep their favorite extensions functioning beyond the industry-wide deprecation.Brave Software
Interesting, I never even knew Brave had that stuff built in, i switched from Chrome years ago and installing ublock origin had already just become the default thing I do to any browser first thing by that point. Though I will note this line in the link you provided:
For as long as we’re able (and assuming the cooperation of the extension authors), Brave will continue to support some privacy-relevant MV2 extensions—specifically AdGuard, NoScript, uBlock Origin, and uMatrix
Which suggests that they're planning to eventually be forced into Manifest V3 (or something similar) to gimp those extensions, but I s'pose I'll give it a shot without ublock and see how it goes. Firefox has given me trouble in a bunch of ways (not remembering per-page zoom, hotkeys changing on me unexpectedly, issues with reddit/lemmy on long posts, etc) and I wouldn't mind switching back.
The way I understand it is that you dont need the extensions if you use brave (i dont have any of those installed and just use as strict shield settings as I can) but they will support them for as long as possible for those who also want to use the extensions. Brave seems to use a modified version of the chromium engine in their browser which includes the shields.
The only issues ive had so far are with youtube's recent "3 strikes" message, which gets fixed by brave within a couple of days to make yt unable to detect that brave is using (or is itself) an ad blocker.
If you really want privacy than have a look at Ironfox, its a continuation of Mull.
gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
They implement the settings from this project, like arkenfox's user.js but with regular updates:
IronFox OSS / IronFox · GitLab
Privacy and security-oriented Firefox-based web browser for Android. https://ironfoxoss.org/GitLab
Macron criticises Iran following Israeli attack
French President Emmanuel Macron says Iran bore a heavy responsibility for destabilisation in the Middle East and that it had pushed ahead with an unjustified nuclear programme, but he also urged restraint after Israel struck Iran.
Macron, speaking at a news conference, said he regretted that Iran had not taken up the overtures by the United States to find a diplomatic solution to its nuclear programme and hoped that these talks could resume.
LIVE: Iran vows ‘powerful response’ to Israeli strikes, Trump urges deal
Iranian president urges unity as Israel again attacks cities, nuclear sites, Trump says still time for an Iran deal.Nils Adler (Al Jazeera)
ICE Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release Mahmoud Khalil
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A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the Columbia University graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.By Jonah E. Bromwich
June 13, 2025, 11:04 a.m. ET
ICE Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release Mahmoud Khalil
A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the Columbia University graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.By Jonah E. Bromwich
June 13, 2025, 11:04 a.m. EThttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-trump-detention.html
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ICE Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release Mahmoud Khalil
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/31638976
A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the Columbia University graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.By Jonah E. Bromwich
June 13, 2025, 11:04 a.m. ET
ICE Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release Mahmoud Khalil
A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the Columbia University graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.By Jonah E. Bromwich
June 13, 2025, 11:04 a.m. EThttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-trump-detention.html
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Oh Look, a New Censorship Tool: It's a new era for site-blocking bills — featuring some of the same ol' mistakes as before.
Oh Look, a New Censorship Tool - Public Knowledge
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.Meredith Filak Rose (Public Knowledge)
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Oh Look, a New Censorship Tool: It's a new era for site-blocking bills — featuring some of the same ol' mistakes as before.
Oh Look, a New Censorship Tool - Public Knowledge
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.Meredith Filak Rose (Public Knowledge)
ICE Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release Mahmoud Khalil
A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the Columbia University graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.
By Jonah E. Bromwich
June 13, 2025, 11:04 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-trump-detention.html
Reviving the Spirit of Open Science Hardware: Highlights from the 2025 Open Hardware Summit
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Since starting our open science hardware company, LabCrafter, last year, I’ve been reflecting on the current state of open-source hardwar...Gerrit Niezen
Japan vows to work with G7 partners to ease Middle East tensions (Al Jazeera, 2025-06-13, 15:50 GMT)
Japan vows to work with G7 partners to ease Middle East tensions (Al Jazeera, 2025-06-13, 15:50 GMT)aje.io/auoxkc?update=3772588
------>> Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has condemned the attack on Iranian nuclear and military sites, and promised to work with other G7 members to ease tensions in the Middle East.
>> Ishiba was quoted as saying by the local media that Israel’s move was “totally intolerable” and “extremely regrettable,” adding, “any actions that could further escalate the situation must be refrained from”...
Oh, wow... 😮 “TOTALLY INTOLERABLE” !!
LIVE: Iran vows ‘powerful response’ to Israeli strikes, Trump urges deal
Iranian president urges unity as Israel again attacks cities, nuclear sites, Trump says still time for an Iran deal.Nils Adler (Al Jazeera)
Dazi Trump 2025: gli accordi di Londra, il nuovo scontro USA-Cina e gli effetti sull'Italia
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Dazi Trump 2025: gli accordi di Londra, il nuovo scontro USA-Cina e gli effetti sull'Italia Il ritorno della guerra dei dazi sotto l...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft.In less than three months' time, almost no civil servant, police officer or judge in Schleswig-Holstein will be using any of Microsoft's ubiquitous programs at work.
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