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Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead women and children - UN in c/palestine@lemmygrad.ml

[–] soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds.

US Election Megathread in c/us_news@lemmygrad.ml

[–] soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Just a note on this :

While it is probably just that they werent counted yet

It's unrelated to the rest of your comment, but i wanted to underline something here : California has 25.2M eligible voters(, based on the VEP column from the document given by @multitotal above). If we've only counted half of their votes, then it's there that we'll find most of the missing 15.5M votes.
Since California overwhelmingly votes Democrat(, appr. 66%-33%), then it may be fair to assume 8M more votes for K.Harris and 4M for D.Trump, and they're separated by 4M votes.
In the end, Kamala Harris probably got almost as many votes as Donald Trump but i've yet to read a newspaper saying that. Even if it won't change the outcome of the election obviously, and i was too young/uninterested in 2016 to say if newspapers correctly reported from the beginning that H.Clinton ended up with more votes than D.Trump, i think that something so obvious/easy should have been noticed, or perhaps that i'm mistaken again and/or that they don't really care since the results stay unchanged.

Just to add that a lot of people are focused on explaining these results by the votes of minorities, even if it's mostly white people voting republican(, confirmations : 1, 2, 3, 4), yet when we look at it, it didn't evolve that much between 2012 and 2020(, here's for 2020, and here's for 2024). I'm not saying that there's nothing to say about the hispanic vote, but it just feels 'less pertinent'/'too simple' once you see the ups&downs, i.d.k., there's probably more pertinent infos, such as the inflation or something(, i.d.k.), here's my 2cts on your election 🤷.
In any case, it's too obvious to even point out, but journalists didn't explained the results solely by the hispanic vote, so i can't criticize some biases towards oversimplification here, and since i've checked i can confirm that the hispanic vote is indeed a noticeable change like we're being told(, even if it doesn't seem to be particular to D.Trump, but something that began ~20 years ago, at least here&there, but not here&there).
This seems like a good news for our instance though.

US Election Megathread in c/us_news@lemmygrad.ml

[–] soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

And if they don't have the same source, it confirms the WaPo's 65% with its 64.52%(, in the VEP_TURNOUT_RATE column)

we’re making some error somewhere

Yeah, you're right, it's too obvious, anyone can do 72.6M+68M+2.2M and easily see that it's only ~143M out of 158.5, so we're indeed making an obvious mistake somewhere. They're probably simply not counted yet, as you said(, California is slow here).

US Election Megathread in c/us_news@lemmygrad.ml

[–] soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

It says those are expected vote totals for states where less than 97 percent of the vote has been counted

We may have understood it the same way, yet just to be sure : The turnout is counted normally, except for states where less than 97% of the votes are counted, in which case the reported turnout has been replaced by the expected turnout.

That sounds to me like a lot of Dem voters didn’t show up

You're right, if they didn't voted for third parties, if the votes are mostly counted, if the voter turnout is the same, and if republicans didn't received more votes than in 2020, then where did these 14M votes went ?
Thanks for confirming that i'm missing something, don't know if you or someone here have the explanation.

US Election Megathread in c/us_news@lemmygrad.ml

[–] soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

Ideally, stats by categories would be more useful to draw a conclusion, but at first sight it doesn't seem so though :

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Palestinians will not be allowed to return to homes in northern Gaza, says IDF (www.theguardian.com)

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US Election Megathread in c/us_news@lemmygrad.ml

[–] soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

At first, i agreed with the explanations based on the lack of cohesion of the democratic party, and the influence of Palestine, on the votes :

With most votes counted, the 2024 election elected D.Trump with ~73M votes vs. ~68M for K.Harris, compared to 2020 when D.Trump was rejected despite having the same numbers(, 74.2M,) and J.Biden was elected with 81.3M votes.
Furthermore, D.Trump would have received less votes without influent people like Robert Kennedy Jr. on his side, who still received votes apparently.
However, third parties like the libertarian party or the Green party received much more votes in 2016 than in 2024(, and the republican&democratic parties much less). Having gained 1M votes at most wouldn't have that much of an impact.
(I've also sometimes heard(, mostly twitter, but here's msnbc,) that the 2.5M muslim-americans voted D.Trump in opposition but that's not supported(source), even if J.Stein should have obtained much more if these surveys were trustworthy).
While i can't deny the influence of many pro-Palestine actors, i can't really prove it by the numbers either, and some deny its importance. Also, the high voter turnout doesn't favor the alternative of a boycott.
I only took a superficial look, so i don't doubt that there're many americans here who could easily correct my mistakes if they want to

Say 'hi' to our future. No risk of disobedience when they'll decide autonomously. in c/technology@lemmygrad.ml

[–] soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, and they'll be like "but we don't have a choice, we have to build these machines !"
Of course they have, we could stop wars and live in peace with our neighbors, united in diversity, ensuring everyone's security, but we're not even trying. And inside, we could enable a real/direct democracy(, e.g., sortition,) with efficient checks and balances to prevent a risk of deterioration.
Of course, we won't, just that it'd always be false to say that we have no other choice than the current road.

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Say 'hi' to our future. No risk of disobedience when they'll decide autonomously. (lemmygrad.ml)

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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/10/01/army-has-sent-armed-robot-dog-middle-east-testing.html

Or with only a light supervision, when you're not thinking too hard about it, e.g., with one person supervising many of them, and not caring too much about killing human shields. We're already quite desensitized when we explode buildings by simply pressing a button, "not our responsibility".
But of course the real barbarians are those who 'commit suicide'/'take their own lives' when killing 1% of our body count.
Also internally, tyrans fall when their police&army abandon them, some will be pleased.

The good thing is that perhaps, with enough decades, both sides will only use machines and wars won't ever kill humans again. One could hope i guess.

About the defederation with jlai.lu in c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml

[–] soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 days ago

For those interested : https://leftychan.net/leftypol/src/1622232510872-4.pdf

2 - ‘IMPERIAL SOCIALISM ’

Mutilation of class struggle can take another form : closing one’s eyes to the fate visited by capitalism on colonial peoples or peoples of colonial origin.
From the outset, calling attention to the ‘millions of workers’ forced to die in India, to allow capitalists to make modest concessions to British workers, Marx underlined the connection between the colonial question and the social question in the capitalist metropolis (see Chap. 2, Sect. 3). This was a demanding intellectual perspective.
In sharp contrast to Proudhon, Fourier was a champion of the cause of women’s emancipation. But it happened that, in the very years when Marx and Engels were expressing their hopes in the proletariat as the agency of universal emancipation with youthful hyperbole, followers of Fourier (and Saint-Simon) planned to construct communities of a more or less socialist kind in Algeria, on land taken from the Arabs in a brutal, sometimes genocidal war. ^11^
Later, utopian socialism mostly viewed the abolitionist movement with condescension or suspicion. After the February 1848 revolution, Victor Schoelcher and the new government proceeded to the definitive abolition of black slavery in French colonies, almost half a century after it had been reintroduced by Napoleon, who had thereby cancelled the results of the black revolution on Santo Domingo led by Toussaint L’Ouverture and the laws emancipating blacks enacted by the Jacobin Convention.
However, Etienne Cabet, an eminent representative of French utopian socialism, criticized Schoelcher for focusing on a narrow objective—the emancipation of black slaves—rather than committing himself to the universal emancipation of labour. ^12^
On the outbreak of the Civil War in the USA, Lassalle argued similarly, judging at least from a letter to Engels of 30 July 1862 in which Marx criticized the ‘antiquated, mouldering speculative rubbish’ of Lassalle, for whom the gigantic clash underway in the USA was ‘of no interest whatever’. Rather than developing positive ‘ideas’ for transforming society, ‘the Yankees’ confined themselves to mobilizing a ‘negative idea’ like ‘the freedom of the individual’. ^13^
For the two representatives of socialism cited here, commitment to the abolition of slavery in the colonies or the North American republic distracted attention from the social question, which remained a burning issue in the capitalist metropolis.
To the American Civil War—in Marx’s view, an epic event—Lassalle made only distracted, reductive references. Because of the blockade imposed by the Union on the secessionist South, and the consequent shortage of cotton for the textile industry of Britain, and Lancashire in particular, British workers were forced into unemployment and risked having to ‘emigrate to the colonies’. It was ‘one of the most bloody and horrible wars that history has ever seen’.
What was at stake in it was not touched upon. In fact, rather than the institution of slavery, Lassalle indicted ‘federalism’ and the self-government accorded states as allegedly responsible for the ‘absorption in particular interests’ and ‘mutual hatred’ of the contending parties, which were thus put on par. ^14^
The economistic or corporatist limitations of representatives of the labour and socialist movement were not unconnected with the initiative of the dominant classes, whose effectiveness was in fact underestimated by Marx and Engels. Having included ‘Young England’ in the ‘spectacle’ of ‘feudal socialism’ staged by ‘aristocrats’, the Communist Manifesto concluded: ‘the people, so often as it joined them, saw on their hindquarters the old feudal coats of arms, and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter’. ^15^
In fact, things turned out rather differently. The historically most important member of Young England was Disraeli. In him (as in the organization he joined) are to be found elements of the transfiguration of the ancien régime, but he may be regarded as the inventor of a ‘socialism’ more appropriately defined as ‘imperial’ than ‘feudal’. Far from meeting with derision from the popular classes, this was socialism that often enchanted and ensnared them.
In the same years as The Holy Family and The German Ideology proclaimed the irreducible antagonism between proletariat and bourgeoisie, Disraeli published a novel that in its own way dealt with the same themes. We find a Chartist agitator bitterly challenging the existing order and denouncing the reality of the ‘two nations’ (‘rich and poor’) into which England is divided. In the Communist Manifesto, the Chartists are included among the ‘existing working-class parties’; ^16^ and the agitator seems to exhibit the revolutionary consciousness attributed to the proletariat by Marx and Engels. It is interesting to observe Disraeli’s response: it made no sense to speak of ‘two nations’; a bond of ‘fraternity’ now united ‘the privileged and prosperous English people’. ^17^
The key word is the one emphasized by me : the English aristocracy had shelved the caste, even racial arrogance it traditionally displayed towards the popular classes ; and now it was the ‘fraternal’ national English community as a whole that adopted a pose of supreme aristocratic disdain for other nations, especially colonial populations.
In other words, rather than disappearing, the racialization traditionally suffered by the British popular classes was displaced. It is no accident if Disraeli, who subsequently became the author of the Second Reform Act (which extended political rights beyond the circle of the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie), and of a series of social reforms, was simultaneously the champion of imperialism and the right of the ‘superior’ races to subjugate ‘inferior’ ones. In this way, the British statesman proposed to defuse the social question and class struggle in his own country : ‘I say with confidence that the great body of the working-class of England […] are English to the core. They are for maintaining the greatness of the Kingdom and the Empire, and they are proud of being subjects of our Sovereign and members of such an Empire.’ ^18^
These were the years when in France Proudhon adopted the position (according to Marx) of a ‘socialist of the Imperial period’—to be precise, the Second Empire. ^19^
Thus, we see a new political movement emerge. In the late nineteenth century, alluding to Napoleon III and Bismarck as well as Disraeli, a German observer spoke of an ‘imperialist social policy’ or ‘imperial socialism’ (Imperialsozialismus ). ^20^
Already brought out by Marx, the connection between the colonial question and the social question in the capitalist metropolis was recognized and put at the centre of a new political project, which proposed a kind of quid pro quo: the popular masses and proletariat were invited to respond to the dominant classes’ limited social reforms with patriotism and support for colonial expansionism.

About the defederation with jlai.lu in c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml

[–] soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

That's what i thought, but after rapidly checking i edited my comment because i realized that i've been abused by some clickbait titles about some kind of "war" between Morocco and Algeria over the Sahara(, and that our president recently took the side of Morocco).
When i'm looking a bit more into this, they're not lying to this point, but they're not saying that the algerian position is based on its own decolonial tradition, every article i found(, out of the 5-6 i've skimmed through, 2015 in a specialized magazine, up to 2024 in a more general one,) say that it's primarily done to annoy Morocco, and more power/influence over the region. Not in favor of the Sahrawis whose point of view isn't really told.
So, i guess that if i had to find the bias in our propaganda, it'd be that usually we'd be in favor of the independence of the Sahrawi republic, but we're curiously not taking their sides(, just like for south-eastern ukrainians or others). So our bias is that we're progressively aligned with the position of Morocco, and the u.s.

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[–] soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Indeed, the algerian position is more about supporting their independence, there're no claims, thanks 👍

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[–] soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

Internet is the occasion to meet other nationalities, so i was wondering : do you have an opinion(, and/or could you tell me the general algerian opinion,) about the western Sahara ? Should it be independent, moroccan, algerian, divided, ... ?
Also, it's not important but it reminds me of seeing a channel a few years ago that offered a bounty for archeological findings proving that the western Sahara was the ancient location of Atlantis, e.g. with this, it's almost certainly false but kind of the only thing i know about this topic 🤷

The Fr*nch left is Charlie Hebdo

And yeah, the so-called "freedom of expression"*
*As long as we agree with you. Terrorism apologia or what we deem "hate speech" or "disinformation" is a threat to our "values".

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[–] soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

It’s very French.

It makes me think of this video from Blast : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AASPDZd-DKc (5k likes for 145k views)
First you watch the video(, in x2,) hoping from something, then you're disappointed, and then you read the comments and you're pleasantly surprised(, at least in my case :))

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About the defederation with jlai.lu (lemmygrad.ml)

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Hi,

jlai.lu is the french instance of Lemmy, some user posted this thread 16 days ago : https://jlai.lu/post/11504685, and a flamewar ensued between hexbear and the french, e.g. between happybadger and their administrator here.

Since they didn't really have any reason to defederate initially, they're now adamant that they should defederate only because of this discussion, since it proved that every Hexbear&Lemmygrad user is agressive(, as if jlai.lu users weren't agressive in this discussion as well).
I still find hard to believe that they could defederate on such weak basis, and it does feel like a convenient excuse, but that's what they're saying, ask them for confirmation if you don't believe it either.

They also used a list of post found on /c/MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works as if it was representative, but it hardly counts as an argument, what a stupid situation...

They've now pinned this post for 12 days, and the defederation with both Hexbear and Lemmygrad seems unavoidable.
I've known this for more than a week but didn't care that much, yet when talking with them, and especially @Camus here, they/he said that they/he would like to talk to you. @Camus is very patient/nice, and you can look at his number of comments/posts to gauge his influence, probably their most active user(, kind of a french ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆).
Well, to be more precise, he informally asked for some excuses from Hexbear, but my post here didn't reach them, perhaps because of "r*tard" in my username(, r*tardataire designate someone who's late in french).
However, more than excuses in the name of others, you only have to show him that we're not aggressive(, if you have some time, it won't change much in the end), something very easy/natural to prove for >90% of Hexbear users(, and perhaps >70-80% of Lemmygrad 🙂, it does feel a bit more bitter/serious here, not a criticism).

They have some communities that aren't that far apart from what could be found on Lemmygrad or Hexbear b.t.w., so it can't really be said that they'd reject us solely based on terrorism apologia, supporting Stalin, etc.(, even if their "leftist" admin is against socialist countries because our capitalists said that they're authoritarian).
Staying federated with a french instance would be useless for 99% of Hexbear and Lemmygrad, so if you intervene it'd mostly be on the behalf of current/future french users(, it can be nice sometimes to speak your native language without using an alt account), and perhaps also for Lemmygrad and Hexbear's reputation on jlai.lu.
If you're french, and/or simply nice, and want a chat with them, feel free to do so directly under the post or with @Camus.
(Kinda worth mentionning in passing that, currently, their top two posts of all time sorted by the most comments are the ones cited above about this defederation)

Also, keep in mind that this defederation is unavoidable though, if it doesn't happen now it'll be next year or the year after. As you know, reddit banned ChapoTrapHouse, GenZedong, etc., and we were quickly banned from lemmy.world and others, so we'll one day be banned from other "centrist" instances such as the french one. Just like we'd also be banned/censored by our governement if our numbers grow enough to disturb/'be a threat'.
Furthermore, Hexbear took action, and decided to defederate first without even trying to discuss more calmly. So don't waste too much of your time either(, but please don't go there unless you intent to speak calmly).

Thanks for reading :) !

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Some news about Evo in the selftext, it's now confirmed by the government itself that it was bolivian policemen who fired at him (lemmygrad.ml)

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https://x.com/evoespueblo/status/1851575983821742513

Quite a few talks these last days apparently, from indigenous policemen saying that they knew it was policemen who fired at Evo and the persons with him.
The government now isn't saying that Evo staged the attempt, and recognize that it was policemen that fired at him, but says that it was justified because Evo was escaping from a checkpoint for anti-narcotics operations and 'fled from'&'fired at' them unprovoked(, Del Castillo showed videos in which Evo can be seen saying that he himself had shot at the tires of the cars).

Here're two articles in these community notes :

https://www.lostiempos.com/actualidad/pais/20241028/del-castillo-evo-huyo-reten-control-atropello-uniformado-disparo-policia

Government Minister Eduardo del Castillo stated in a press conference today, Monday, that the former president fled from a routine police checkpoint for anti-narcotics operations, after which a pursuit ensued. Morales allegedly ran over a police officer and fired at the officers.
Del Castillo questioned Morales’ flight, his possession of weapons, and requested that his vehicle undergo a gunpowder residue test.
Additionally, he announced the initiation of criminal proceedings against the former president for attempted murder.
Although videos shared by Radio Kawsachun Coca, which supports Evo Morales Ayma, show an alleged attack on the vehicle carrying Morales and other companions, the footage does not show the moment when the former president allegedly attacked the police.
However, hours later, Morales confirmed he had used a firearm "to defend himself."
"We ducked down, since they were blocking us, we sped up, ran a fair bit, and the second car following us barely made it across, it kept following us, caught up, (I heard) more shots. I shot at the tire of the car that was there, it couldn’t keep going, and we quickly switched to the second car, and they kept shooting," Morales said in an interview with Kawsachun Coca on Sunday.

https://www.dw.com/es/bolivia-gobierno-acusa-a-morales-de-evadir-control-y-disparar/a-70622679 :

Del Castillo described that the car did not want to stop and that shots were fired from inside the group of agents.
According to the minister, this vehicle also ran over a police officer, and even backed up to try to finish him off.

Well, what's your opinion, (i barely took more than a dozen minutes to document myself on that, so )do you know more about this ?

Addition : Del Castillo also suddenly seized more than 21 tons(!) of cocaine, the highest in years, what a coincidence...

Keep in mind that this conspiracy could have also happened behind the back of Luis Arce, who knows...
I find hard to believe Arce would have tried to assassinate Evo, but he's still attacking him in lawfare and his speeches, so weird...

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Assassination attempt on Evo Morales (lemmygrad.ml)

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https://t.me/theredstream/11195

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Wtf : Out of 654 Thai women surveyed working in israeli agriculture, every single one declared having experienced some form of sexual assault at their jobs (m.jpost.com)

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"If a foreign worker is required to quit her job due to a complaint she filed, she is also, in fact, losing her place of residence," noted Shiri Lev-Ran

They're the ones for are always talking about Hamas' alleged rapes :

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Meanwhile, outside the west : (lemmygrad.ml)

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From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events, which is worth checking everyday.

Sources :
https://en.royanews.tv/news/55053
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqi-protesters-storm-wreck-office-saudi-owned-mbc-channel

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British “counterterrorism” police raided Electronic Intifada editor's home, seizing multiple electronic devices on suspicion that he violated the UK’s 2006 Terrorism Act with his journalism (www.caitlinjohnst.one)

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https://x.com/AliAbunimah/status/1846970521193267685

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/australian-officials-push-authoritarian

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The Grayzone's debunking of Israel's atrocity propaganda lies (44mn) (youtu.be)

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I'm still not entirely convinced by their debunking of the rapes(, not that i care, murder is worse than rape, being tortured dozens of minutes beforehand is still only marginally worse in comparison to the eternity of death, and we(sterners) have done so much more barbaric in our "prisons", sometimes for years), but i can't trust our journalists who don't have the necessary time to investigate before publishing, nor Israel who lies at least as much as our western governments(, if not even more).

According to Paul Linebarger, atrocity propaganda leads to real atrocities, as it incites the enemy into committing more atrocities, and, by heating up passions, it increases the chances of one's own side committing atrocities, in revenge for the ones reported in propaganda.[5]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda

Some quotes :

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
Hannah Arendt

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“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
Aldous Huxley

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“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
Noam Chomsky

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“If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.”
Rudyard Kipling

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The success of the Al Aqsa Flood Operation, in Imam Khamenei's Words (10mn) (english.khamenei.ir)

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Because it's always interesting to learn about other point of views, they've got much more on khamenei.ir and elsewhere, as well as other websites such as Al-Jazeera, as you know.

That they call this a success means that they can't envision any other path than the armed struggle in order to succeed.
As long as their demands aren't for the total disparition of Israel(, ideally it should exist outside of the Middle-East, in the u.s.a. or Europe), but to be aligned with their neighbours and palestinians' desires, then Israel should agree, and doesn't, instead it's asking to steal more territories and tries to overthrow every neighbor not aligned with the west.

https://x.com/caitoz/status/1843406404612432213 :

B.t.w., if you missed it :

My personal opinion is something similar to William Blum in his book "Rogue State"(, although with more rules, nobody would like to bet on a natural resolution) :

What, then, can the United States do to end terrorism directed against it ?
The answer lies in removing the anti-American motivations of the terrorists.
To achieve this, American foreign policy will have to undergo a profound metamorphosis, as the contents of this book testify.

If I were the president, I could stop terrorist attacks against the United States in a few days. Permanently.
I would first apologize to all the widows and orphans, the tortured and impoverished, and all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism.
Then I would announce, in all sincerity, to every corner of the world, that America's global interventions have come to an end, and inform Israel that it is no longer the 51st state of the USA but henceforth—oddly enough—a foreign country.
I would then reduce the military budget by at least 90% and use the savings to pay reparations to the victims. There would be more than enough money. One year's military budget of $330 billion is equal to more than $18,000 an hour for every hour since Jesus Christ was born.

That's what I'd do on my first three days in the White House. On the fourth day, I'd be assassinated.

Washington, DC, January 2002

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Israeli forces have killed many times more people in Lebanon(, purple,) than Hezbollah has killed in Israel(, yellow,) over the past year. (lemmygrad.ml)

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Source

Also :

« Israel last week rejected a proposal by the U.S. and France calling for a 21-day ceasefire to give time for a diplomatic settlement that would allow displaced civilians on both sides to return home. »

Please watch this 2mn video from the foreign minister of Jordan : https://x.com/LetsStopC9/status/1840635863073436150

I'm not going to try/search again to cite all the possibilities for Israel to make peace with its opponents, something could be given &/or conceded, but if we sometimes hear that the west loses its battles across the globe despite its military superiority it's because you don't win completely as long as there's still one heart in the population that hasn't been conquered, and it becomes problematic to solve if a majority of this population hates you(, you can't kill everyone).
The demands made to Israel are legitimate, who cares about expanding your borders, we'll be multi-planetary one day, and perhaps that alliances will make borders meaningless before that(, e.g. with the e.u.), uniting with its neighbours isn't impossible, including Iran, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, ...
Its opponents are opposed(, at least officially,) to very specific characteristics of Israel that aren't integral to its identity, where's the problem then, just agree with their demands. A pro-palestinian/yemeni/iranian/syrian/.. Israel that makes palestinians happy by 'living with'/helping each other would be accepted, that's only two requests. And making palestinians happy doesn't necessarily mean losing, but sharing the land, the wealth, the human rights(, not necessarily the population), and the rest. While i know it won't be easy and stay uncertain that it would go well, i dare think that it's not impossible.

Heck, i'll go further, so mock/correct me if you want, but 'in a perfect world'/'with perfect humans', we would have united with the vietnamese people and with the communists worldwide, we would have embraced Germany after a WW1 that shouldn't have happened in the first place, and colonization wouldn't have threatened the nazis/fascists/.. because it'd have been an honest/altruistic help to the South and not a.n 'greedy exploitation'&'irrecoverable destruction'. Our Earth is big enough for multiple ideologies, and are all these wars, for personal/nationalist gains, karma for our lack of humanity/'mutual aid', everyone suffers in the end.
The selfish preoccupied with keeping what's his doesn't even realize that he/we would be wealthier by sharing(, lands/resources/..).
These eternal wars for gaining always more are senseless if we're already one(&diverse), and it's not just words, it has practical/real consequences.

Israel could be accepted under certain legitimate conditions(, the same could be said for any country/conflict), of course the solution/compromises aren't always obvious, and the sober imperfect reality is that propaganda only exposes one side, so in the end only might makes right.
In fact, it's often(, almost always now that i think about it,) the weakest that is right, at least if it's the only one ready to make concessions, while usually the strongest doesn't want to, or on an unequal footing. Israel would have already accepted a ceasefire a long time ago if its opponents were strong enough(, and that's the truth), it isn't actively seeking to make peace with its neighbours, nor even ready to make the most basic concessions in regard to its illegal settlements.
I believe that the conditions/details for Israel's acceptation should be one of the main topic in discussion(, not only that everyone knows them, which isn't the case at least here in the west, but that Israel finally complies with the basic demands in order to be finally accepted, instead of greedily wanting more&more). It won't, and i don't think that they'll vote far-left anytime soon, so causes will bring their consequences.

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I've got an idea to help capitalists (lemmygrad.ml)

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Among other things, free market theories assume that the employee or the consumer has perfect knowledge, even if "unfortunately" s.he doesn't, let's help them then.

The salaries of each employee, with their bonuses, are already known, as well as their categories.
If it's displayed on a website then every employee of that category could know where to go in order to get a better pay(, yeah, i don't believe it solves the most important problems(, e.g., monopolies, surplus value, lack of democracy in the workplace, ...), but it wouldn't be worse than nowadays).
If the consultation of this website is insufficient, and it will, then an annual text summarizing the result of such research for them should be sent.

Similarly, for each product sold, a little screen underneath should indicate where's the cheapest same product ~50kms around.

I'm sure they would be glad to realize that they can put into practice their theories(, unironically for the honest ones though).