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The swift show of force underscores the rising power of Abu Shabab and other gangs in Gaza, who have in recent months developed a lucrative trade robbing aid trucks travelling into the enclave.

These gangsters act, humanitarian officials and Palestinian transporters allege, with the tacit permission of the Israeli military: what a UN memo seen by the Financial Times called “the passive, if not active benevolence” of the Israel Defense Forces. [...]

While some theft occurs on the road itself, in other cases trucks are forced into the gangs’ bases. In such instances, one transport broker said, “the driver is led under the threat of weapons to the eastern border areas within the eye line and earshot of the Israeli military”.

Multiple senior UN officials argue that such brazen theft could not happen without the assent of Israeli forces. “These guys are probably the only people in Gaza who can get 100 yards from an Israeli tank or Israeli soldiers without being shot,” one said.

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maybe mean but i’ve been thinking about it and “empathy is more important than theory” yeah it’s important to be compassionate but how are you going to ensure that everyone’s basic needs, and more, are met without critically engaging with and learning about revolutionary movements, theory, and history… i feel like people will do literally anything to justify not reading or educating themselves when they’re perfectly able to because it’s too much work for them, people want everything so easy and nothing works that way

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I do think it's very funny that I have this reputation as like, a rabid tankie lunatic on the absolute political fringe, when my actual positions are like. well within the norms for uhhhh the average member of the cpc. puts me in the company of quite a lot of people actually!

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"the pro-palestine movement has done an awful job with boundary maintentance [because i saw someone say something antisemitic on twitter]" the most powerful politicians in israel are openly calling for genocide and ethnic cleansing, you cannot possibly think this is a smart criticism to make.

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Your closest experience to agitprop is Sesame Street. Your fatigue is so unearned, I can’t stand it.

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One man’s drudgery was another man’s stability. With some justification, Erich Honecker looked with pride at the changes in living standards that had been achieved under his leadership. Despite continuous problems with supplies and being behind technological standards in the West, the GDR felt like a stable country with comparatively high living standards. By design, there was full employment and the subsidized rents, food, cultural offerings and childcare meant that there were few existential concerns. At a time when West Germany was grappling with around 8 per cent unemployment and job security was a worry to many of those who did have work, East German families never really had to fear a sudden loss of income or not being able to pay the rent. By 1987, over half of all households had a car and all had at least one washing machine, fridge and TV. Products that were difficult to get hold of through regular routes were often obtained with the help of Western relatives who ordered them directly through Genex catalogues or provided the currency for a trip to the Intershop. Friends and family in the right places could also help. All in all, the economic shortcomings of the GDR in the mid-1980s, while reaching crisis level behind the scenes, appeared to many East Germans as nuisances rather than existential threats to their way of life. This lack of existential concerns coupled with a solid life–work balance meant that East Germans had a fair amount of money and time on their hands without having to worry too much about having to make the most of it. As a result, they spent a lot more time socializing and enjoying leisure pursuits. Clubhouses, allotment gardens, restaurants, communal barbecue pits and party rooms in apartment blocks were popular retreats where friends, colleagues and neighbours would meet to relax. Accordingly, alcohol consumption in the GDR skyrocketed. By 1988, the average East German drank 142 litres of beer a year and 16.1 litres of hard liquor, twice as much as their West German neighbours and enough to make VEB Nordbrand the largest Schnapps producer in Europe. The American academic Thomas Kochan has argued that this is not due to a need to escape the dreary realities of the GDR, as has often been claimed, but rather to the ‘existential carefreeness’ experienced by ‘a low-competition collective society’. Most East Germans drank not to forget their worries but rather because they had too little to worry about.

Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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pointing out that capitalist welfare states are built on imperialist superprofits gets a lot of wank on here so just wanted to point to a new example. novo nordisk, denmark's (our favourite nordic model state) largest company (its market capitalisation exceeds the size of denmark's economy) is a pharmaceutical company that saw its fortunes rise after the decades long battle that enforced international IP law on India to prevent it from re-engineering drugs as generics. quite literally extraction of super profits via enforcement of fake monopolies.

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Your straight male friends after two beers: "Hgey man can I smell your hair"

Your friend with the haunted shamisen: [plucks a baleful chord of ill portent]

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This is, truly, the funniest response by Zionists to the events in Amsterdam.

You DO believe that people who shout "globalise the intifada" should be dragged off by police! You DO think anti-zionist campus protesters should be beaten up and imprisoned! You DO think Palestinians who throw stones ought to be shot in the head by soldiers! You're happy to cheer along with all those acts of violence, because you're a total partisan.

It's both sickening and pathetic when you turn around and make these high-handed appeals to peace, but only when the violence is turned against you. It's a sad and predictable double standard. Israelis chanting racist, genocidal slogans against the people of Gaza can't even be responded to; what response would you possibly accept? A gentle finger-wag?

Nothing ever justifies violence against Israelis, but anything can be used to justify violence against Palestinians. Settler behaviour.

Your ppl were chanting for the death of arabs. You got what u deserve 💕

so by your own logic everyone who ever shouted khaybar ya yahud or globalize the intifada deserves capital punishment, got ya

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November 6 / 7, 2024 - The actual full reconstruction of what happened with the so-called "pogroms" against far-right zionist hooligans in Amsterdam, including an interview with Yuval Gal from Erev Rav (an Amsterdam Antizionist Jewish organization) who had to cancel their Kristallnacht commemoration because of fears of attacks by Israeli Zionist hooligans. Contains interviews with many of the people attacked by the violent zionist hooligans of Maccabi tel aviv. The zionist lies being parroted by most of the western politicians and media are despicable. The attacks on Maccabi fans were antifascist community self defense and completely warranted. It's insane that Israeli teams are still playing in the UEFA, let alone that our police and political class bend over backwards to accommodate them and protect them, despite all the evidence of their genocidal chants and racist violence. it's bizarre to see how directly the Israeli propaganda machine is integrated in all western media. It's so incredibly blatant. [video]

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misogyny cost hillary the presidency, so why wouldnt it cost kamala? class isnt everything

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Democrats constantly express their seething contempt and disdain for the electorate and then wonder why they aren't more popular. Ladies, we've been doing this for two decades, at some point you'd realise that it's not the voters who are stupid, selfish, and incompetent.

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A point I rarely see articulated is that "smiling support for genocide in Gaza" was actually the winning strategy for Harris, because the alternative of opposing Israel would have 100% for sure lost her the election. Gaza is a wedge issue for Democrats. What makes something a wedge issue, is that coming down on either side splits your base. The pro-Israeli faction in the US is much larger, more popular, and crucially far more politically connected than the pro-Palestine faction, that should be obvious! She couldn't possibly win without them, so she gambled that she could win without the weaker, less organised faction, and lost.

Could Harris have still won if she ran a better campaign? Maybe! Could she have won if she called Israel an apartheid state and promised an arms embargo? Absolutely not.

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i hate the american electorate