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File: 1730036979714.mp4 ( 1.66 MB , 320x568 , 10 27 2024 Evo Morales ass….mp4 )

 No.27429[Reply]

Somebody just fired on Evo's car.
https://twitter.com/DropSiteNews/status/1850529326581649668
BREAKING: Former Bolivian President Evo Morales says his vehicle was shot at amid escalating tensions with President Luis Arce’s government. Morales posted a video on Facebook showing two bullet holes in the windshield and an injured driver. While the video’s authenticity hasn’t yet been independently verified, tensions between the factions of the two former allies have been high. An economic crisis has intensified the situation, with Morales’s supporters blocking highways in central Bolivia and the government attempting to clear them. The incident has heightened fears of further unrest
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 No.27430

https://x.com/redstreamnet/status/1850526520885785049
Following the assassination attempt on Evo Morales, his supporters are calling on the police to stop obeying the orders of President Luis Arce's government. Both leaders are from the ruling Movement Towards Socialism party, which has been torn by escalating internal conflicts.
-Redstream

https://x.com/redstreamnet/status/1850517774566646165
🟡 NOW: Supporters of Evo Morales are now guarding the trade union office where he is currently staying after just surviving an assassination attempt involving 14 gunshots. The people are forming a human protective ring around the building. The attacker is still on the run.
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 No.27431

>>27429
I knew Morales and Arce had unfriended, but i didn't know it had become that bad.

Just a sanity check: are we sure it's not a third party that did the assassination attempt against Morales ?
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 No.27432

>>27431
I have no idea who's behind it lol

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 No.27397[Reply]

Interesting new article from DropSite. Here are some selected sections:

Yarvin and Land’s New Right ideas have taken a central place among Trump’s intellectual support structure. Within a month of Trump’s 2017 inauguration, Politico reported that Yarvin “had opened up a line to the Trump White House, communicating with [Trump advisor] Steve Bannon and his aides through an intermediary.” (Yarvin denied reports of speaking with Steve Bannon.) Peter Thiel—described as a friend of Yarvin, who invested in Yarvin’s startup in 2013 and hosted Yarvin at an election night party in 2016—reportedly became disillusioned with the Trump White House for not taking Yarvin-like ideas far enough. “Thiel fantasized that Trump’s election would somehow force a national reckoning,” according to Barton Gellman, who published a wide-ranging interview with Thiel in 2023. “He believed somebody needed to tear things down—slash regulations, crush the administrative state—before the country could rebuild.”

VP nominee J.D. Vance, a former employee in one of Thiel’s firms, has discussed similar ideas, citing Yarvin. In a 2021 podcast appearance, Vance was prompted to give his advice for Trump in a possible second administration. Name-dropping Yarvin, Vance advised: “fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people.” As Gaby Del Valle at The Verge pointed out, the advice Vance offered is Yarvin’s proposal “Retire All Government Employees” (RAGE)—intended to “‘reboot’ the government under an all-powerful executive.”

We can see the osmosis of these ideas into mainstream Republican politics with “Schedule F”: an executive order that would eliminate employment protections for federal workers, and allow the Trump administration to retire all government employees and crush the administrative state. Trump signed this executive order in 2020 — and had Biden not been elected that year, it would have gone into effect.

Vance finished his statements by adding: “We are in a late republican period. If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.” James Pogue at Vanity Fair notes this language also comes from Yarvin’s New Right ideology: evoking America as Rome in its “late republican period,” waiting for its Caesar to come anPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.27410

>>27409
I know but they should.

Maybe the second hand market will fix that. Second hand e-cars loose all their market exchange value because car-makers don't sell reasonably priced battery-pack-replacements. That could boot-strap car-refurbishment companies. Those can rip out the used-up battery-packs and the original electronics and replace the hole shebang with aftermarket parts. That may become a source for good value bare-bones budget cars.
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 No.27411

>>27409
>Car brands don't make or sell barebones cars, like 5000$ civic because the more useless tech shit they can cram into it the higher it's selling price
The reason they don't sell cheap barebones cars is because it's illegal. Government regulations force them to add seatbelts and airbags and catalytic convertors and all the other emissions garbage. Once all that stuff is in place the price is way over 5000$.
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 No.27412

>>27411
>seatbelts and airbags and catalytic convertors and all the other emissions garbage. Once all that stuff is in place the price is way over 5000$.
Fine make it 5500
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 No.27413

>>27412
You can get more than $500 just from extracting the metals in the catalytic converter.
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 No.27414

>>27413
Nope you'd get slightly less than 180 bucks assuming you'll be able to recover 100% of the precious metals from a average combustion catalytic converter.

With realistic recovery rates it's more like 130 bucks. If you factor in the material costs of the process-consumables you're probably at slightly less than 100 bucks.

Keep in mind that a cheap car probably won't have a massive engine. So all the support components would be moderately sized as well.

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 No.27415[Reply]

After Pavel Durov's arrest, he's now agreeing to surrender private user data.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvglp0xny3eo

pic unrel
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 No.27424

I had a retard friend telling me this was a private platform. Kept trying to evanglize me.

I was like wtf is actually private about it, they require your phone number for signup and almost nothing is encrypted, everything goes through their servers etc. There was literally nothing private about it except misguided trust in the nationality of the owner.
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 No.27425

>>27422
If it's someone else's service, you have little way of knowing it is private. Even signal collects metadata.

The most private way to communicate would be using PGP on an airgapped device, and transferring the encrypted messages to your computer with a trust medium, then sending it the recipient via a web server you own.
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 No.27426

Samidoun Telegram channel banned in the USA:
https://x.com/unityoffields/status/1851412349066101117
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 No.27427

>>27426
Never heard of this before but it seems like regular political activism.
Why is this being attacked ?
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 No.27428

>>27416
I use Session for illegal stuff but you cant trust any of these apps.

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 No.27442[Reply]

She fucking won. She will be the first female president whether you commies like it or not!
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 No.27455

>>27444
Called it
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 No.27456

>>27455
She didn't get more votes tho.
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 No.27457

>>27456
Election was rigged
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 No.27458

>>27456
True.
I actually underestimated how much of a world historic loser campaign Harris was running. People are calling it the worst campaign of all time. It's a disaster, folks!
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 No.27459

>>27458
yeah it was deff one of the worst./
>The kids are deff feeling liz chenny

 No.27433[Reply]

From Democracy Now!:
After nearly two decades of obstruction by the U.S. military, The New Yorker has obtained and published 10 photos of the aftermath of the 2005 Haditha massacre, when U.S. marines killed 24 Iraqi civilians in revenge for an IED bombing that killed a service member. The graphic images show dead Iraqi men, women and children, many of them shot in the head at close range. The victims ranged in age from 3 to 76. Release of the photos came only after producers of the investigative podcast In the Dark sued the Navy, the Marine Corps and U.S. Central Command to force them to turn over the photos and other records. "What the photos clearly show is that these were innocent people who do not appear to be doing anything threatening at the time of their deaths," says Madeleine Baran, host and lead reporter of the podcast. Four marines were charged for the killings, but the charges were dismissed in three cases, and the last ended with a plea deal that did not result in a single day in prison. Baran says the survivors of the massacre, who cooperated with producers to get the photos released, are still waiting for justice. "What they want is the world to know what happened to their family, to know that their family were good people, not insurgents, and they want justice," she says.
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 No.27437

>>27436
So if a population of a country that is actively engaged in genocide do nothing to overthrow their government, how are they innocent again?
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 No.27438

>>27437
Plenty of national governments are actively engaged in genocide while oppressing their own populace
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 No.27439

>>27434
Libtard slave moralist much? It’s not the job of communists to complain about humanitarian issues, it’s just to destroy capital. Nobody cares about how many people died from starvation or deliberate killing from particular states such as America or Israel other than petty bourgeois leftoid moralfags. Your type of thinking and what you’re complaining of it’s just the natural and plain logic of the Westphalian and bourgeois nation state, and as a Communist you are not allowed to follow this kind of one-sided libtard logical reasoning
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 No.27440

>>27439
>It’s not the job of communists to complain about humanitarian issues
Yes it is. Why do you want a better economic system then?

>it’s just to destroy capital
Destroy capitalism, maybe but it's to appropriate capital for proletariat purposes, not to destroy it.

Not sure what the point of your retarded post is tbh.
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 No.27441

>>27440
It's 100% a "hello fellow communists" op.

 No.26415[Reply]

Happening tomorrow. Who's stoked to see it fall apart?
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 No.26505

Just watched Kamala's speech. She came off as if pleading for votes, but she was at least more coherent than Trump has been lately. His age is starting to show, and the Kamala camp will hammer him on this now that he's the oldest candidate running. Trumpfags are trying to say it was some kind of huge bomb, but I'm not seeing that. She probably succeeded at appealing to the demographics that she needed. Hasan Piker may not be happy with it, but nobody who isn't extremely online gives a shit about Hasan Piker. We'll see how she does at the debates, but it's highly possible that she could win.
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 No.26506

>>26505
Giving a better speech than Trump is an extremely low bar. Wouldn't be surprised if she managed it, but I'm not gonna bother watching. So far she's been Biden on genocide, and from what I can glean nobody takes her speech as any kind of assurance that that's going to change.
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 No.26507

>>26505
There won't be debates most likely. Trump and Harris both have plausible "dodges", plus, no one really cares about that shit any more.
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 No.26508

https://x.com/contentlyshane/status/1827181546417033401/video/2
The only good spectacle

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 No.26626[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Continued from >>481432

Updates since the start of the last thread:
The (largely civilian) Palestinian death toll has now passed 39,000. With over 10,000 missing, it's expected that current estimates are lower than the actual death toll, and excess deaths have been estimated by The Lancet to plausibly be upwards of 186,000.

Reports in the Israeli press confirmed that the IDF implemented a 'mass Hannibal Directive' on October 7th, knowingly and purposefully killing many of its civilians and turning the Gaza border into an 'extermination zone' to prevent hostages from being taken alive.

The US Congress invited Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak. Tens of thousands demonstrated in DC, blockaded roads, and pulled mischief at the Watergate Hotel, but apparently failed to arrest Netanyahu for war crimes. Many were met with pepper spray and tear gas. At least 96 congress members boycotted the speech. Ahead of the visit, the Center for Constitutional Rights called for the DOJ to investigate Netanyahu for genocide, war crimes, and torture as required by US law. Simultaneous demonstrations occurred in other parts of the US and Canada.

A deal for a "national unity government" between the Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas was brokered in Beijing.

The International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion on the legal status of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories, as requested in 2022. It found that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid, its occupation is illegal, and its activity in Gaza & the West Bank has continued to constitute a de facto occupation even after the IDF ostensibly withdrew in the '00s. It also confirmed that supporting Israeli apartheid and illegal occupation is illegal.

Yemeni Houthi attacks on shipping, in solidarity with Gaza, have continued, nearly shutting down the Israeli port of Eilat. A Yemeni drone struck a building near the US embassy branch office in Tel Aviv on July 19th. This was followed by direct Israeli airstrikes on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah.

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 No.27225

>>27222
<There were reportedly 15 people in the house, seven of them children, including the man’s mother, a lawful permanent resident of the United States.

<In an effort to rescue the survivors, the family contacted Israeli authorities, providing them with the residential address and GPS coordinates of their home to arrange for the safe passage of an ambulance. However, the Israeli military apparently used that information to bomb the house a second time and then targeted the ambulance as it attempted to rescue the survivors, killing the doctor and several children.
They bombed the house a second time to make sure nobody digs out a US passport out of the rubble, also spite.

The moral of the story is that if you give GPS coordinates to the Israeli and tell them a story about people in need, they will bomb those coordinates. That is a critical operational flaw in the Israeli military. Because it means that some random schmuck can direct where they drop bombs. That includes feeding them bogus targets to just make them waste ammo pounding inert rubble.

Blumenthal was right Zionism makes people stupid.

A sophisticated adversary that can coordinate complex operations might be able to manipulate them to bomb their own soldiers. If they pick a real fight with Iran …
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 No.27226

>>27224
You are correct in your historical analysis, but the experience of the last 20 years probably has eliminated the possibility of consent for another middle eastern war.
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 No.27227

>>27224
Yeah this.

>>27226
They're 100% about to try it and will go through with it within the next year provided they aren't stopped through direct action & mass organization. Propaganda can be very powerful, there will be a lot of people going war-mad over night. It actually will be ill-advised… like, most people still will not want war with Iran, but most people aren't in command of the US military. We're about to see some more really horrible shit going down.
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 No.27228

https://twitter.com/simpleesimi/status/1846107815900778924
Snipers on the roof at Israel vs. Italy game.
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 No.27229

New thread: >>484995

 No.25599[Reply]

Masoud Pezeshkian was elected the new president of Iran on Friday. He's reportedly a moderate. What do you think of him? Will he be up to the challenges ahead for Iran, in its struggle against imperialism and Zio-fascist savagery?
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 No.25600

>>25599
I think he'll be open to restoring relations with the US. Although not at the expense of Iran's relations with Russia or China. He'll likely pursue an open foreign policy, but only to the extend it excludes foreign impositions. Basically this is an offer towards the US to choose economically beneficial relations rather than block-confrontation.

Everybody in Iran sees Israel the way Europeans saw Nazi Germany at the end of ww2. Evil and weakened. Basically Israel either gives up its malevolent comportment in the region or it chooses to self destruct with a Lebanon war. In the latter event, Iran would emerge as the uncontested regional hegemon. Israel doesn't have the leverage to get concessions from Iran.

Iran has all the components for building nukes, they're offering to remain a non-nuclear power as long as Israel doesn't threaten them with nukes.

From the perspective of the west this is the best deal we'll get. And the price is exceptionally cheap: bully Israel to turn down the belligerency-knob.
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 No.25601

The WSWs take:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/07/08/zvxm-j08.html
(I'm neutral on it)
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 No.25602

Didn't Gaddafi increasingly demilitarize toward the end of his life? We saw what happened to Libya.
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 No.25603

>>25602
>Didn't Gaddafi increasingly demilitarize toward the end of his life?
Qaddafi gave up on Libya's nuclear weapons program. And that likely did shorten his life.

The golden path would have been to max the pursuit of a Pan African Union, and make Libya the center of an African block, that played all the other power off each other. He'd have gotten nuke-technology and imported industrial development out of that.

 No.25557[Reply]

The U.S. military ran a secret anti-vaccination campaign at the height of the pandemic in the Philippines and other nations to sow doubt about COVID vaccines made by China, according to a new investigation by Reuters. The clandestine Pentagon campaign, which began in 2020 under Donald Trump and continued into mid-2021 after Joe Biden took office, relied on fake social media accounts on multiple platforms to target local populations in Southeast Asia and beyond. The campaign also aimed to discredit masks and test kits made in China. "Within the Pentagon, within Washington, there was this fear that they were going to lose the Philippines" to Chinese influence, says Joel Schectman, one of the Reuters reporters who broke the story. Schectman says that while it's impossible to measure the impact of the propaganda effort, it came at a time when the Chinese-made Sinovac shot was the only one available in the Philippines, making distrust of the vaccine "incredibly harmful."
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 No.25558

>>25557
>The campaign also aimed to discredit masks and test kits made in China. "Within the Pentagon, within Washington, there was this fear that they were going to lose the Philippines" to Chinese influence.

Did it ever occur to these people that what they were doing was going to discredit the US and push the Philippines towards China.
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 No.25559

>>25558
No, and tbf they were probably right not to expect that.
When that happens, it'll probably be because of even worse stuff.
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 No.25560

>>25559
>No, and tbf they were probably right not to expect that.
why ?
Are they so arrogant that they think that they're above it all, that their manipulations aren't being accounted for by other countries ? Even if they think the Filipino government can't penetrate US psy-ops the Chinese government almost certainly can and is likely to tip off the countries the US fucks with.
>When that happens, it'll probably be because of even worse stuff.
It kinda depends, the Filipino government may ask the question, what if this had been one of those terrible plagues that wipes out half the population unless people get vaxed. At the very least there is now uncertainty about the level of belligerency they ought to expect from the US.

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 No.25561[Reply]

“The Court effectively creates a law-free zone around the President, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the Founding,” Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor wrote. “When the president uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/07/02/wfvt-j02.html

I mean, this is pretty much the definitional opposite of "left wing". This is a mostly right-wing country by law now.
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 No.25594

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>>25590
>I'd do nothing about the political situation, and would not consider it in any calculation.
Dumb.

>I haven't for a long time, because politics does not work to give people nice things like you seem to believe for these narratives to work.
I don't believe that.

>and they were destroyed by the avarice of the middle class and their desire to kick down to get ahead. You people did more to hurt me than those at the top, who are happy to let you be their hatchetmen.
Does the American middle class even exist?
Picrel. Which part is the middle class? This looks like two classes.
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 No.25595

>>25592
🦀🗑️
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 No.25596

>>25594
The middle class kept doing it to themselves, and weren't allowed to say no. They cling to some distinction to say "at least we're not retarded", and that's all they will have. You will own nothing - not less, nothing. That's always been the goal, and it's right in front of your face. Why does anyone pretend it is anything else?

That's why you faggots make me so sick.
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 No.25597

>left
>right

stfu uygha, should take this chance and become king. it's every man for him self.
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 No.25598

>>25597
Apes together stronk

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