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Everyone's listening to Usher

Jon Stewart is hosting the daily show

A shitty racist president is bombing the middle east

I'm playing halo 2

2004 is so back

Biden will not be taking a cognitive exam as part of his presidential physical, making him the first president ever to decline it

Putin endorses Biden

Asked in a state television interview to choose between Biden and Trump, Putin said the US leader was “more experienced, predictable, an old-school politician”, adding that Russia would “work with any US leader who wins the trust of the American people”.

At their last meeting in Geneva in 2021, Putin recalled, “they were already saying Biden wasn’t competent [ . . . ] but I saw nothing of the sort. Yes, he looked at his notes, and to be honest, I looked at mine. No big deal. So he banged his head on the helicopter when he was getting out of it — who of us hasn’t banged their head on something?”

Russia should not "try to save Assad, who represents a military junta," Navalny said.

Another day, another banger

Okay I've just seen the bodycam footage of the unloading his gun because he thought he was getting shot at, when in reality an acorn fell on his cop car. Pigs are always on edge lmao, always scared of everything and everyone. They truly behave like an occupying force that has the community in front of them, much like occupying armies, the civilians are there to be watched and repressed and not protected. Plus the cop's training in ameriKKKa is just awful lol

That officer is probably serving with the IOF now tho

azov losers try not to get surrounded in a dirty factory basement challenge (impossible)

I know that Israel is certainly trying to force Palestinians into the Sinai/Egypt, but this final push in Rafah makes it all so real. This feels like the beginning of the end, and the realization of Israel's genocidal goal of ethnic cleansing and starving out the Palestinians in Gaza. It doesn't matter that Israel can't defeat Hamas. Their victory conditions and objectives are the destruction of the Palestinian people, not the annihilation of Hamas itself.

With Gaza and Hamas defeated, it's all but certain Israel will intensify its colonization of the West Bank and create a permanent and oppressed minority for generations to come.

The mantra behind liberal democracy and liberalism's virtues of human rights, rule of law, equality, fraternity, egalitarianism, and freedom are exposed as vicious lies and tools used to reinforce white supremacy and Euro-American hegemony.

In a twisted irony, the citizens of these polities are okay with the lie being exposed. The disillusionment is embraced, celebrated, and venerated. Human rights, equality, and dignity for us, not for you.

What is to be done?

Disneyland cast members announce plans to form a union

Calling themselves "Magic United," the cast members seeking to organize announced they are working with Actors' Equity Association, a union representing 51,000 theater actors and stage managers across the U.S. Although most of the roughly 35,000 workers at Disneyland already have labor unions, about 1,700 performers and character actors do not, the labor group said.

Wake up babe, new Russian disinfo network has dropped

Can’t believe they excluded Richard Medhurst, Michael Hudson and Alexander Mercouris! My favorite Russian stooges snubbed!

https://old.reddit.com/r/IDF/comments/16ca32c/this_is_michve_alon/

IDF recruit spots another one with a sonnenrad and swastika tattoo in a training camp. check out the people saying "it's not a big deal, when i was in the idf i served with guys with these tattoos, they are actually ancient eastern european symbols, nothing to see here"

A lot higher than we expected’: Russian arms production worries Europe’s planners

https://archive.is/20240215164219/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/rate-of-russian-military-production-worries-european-war-planners

As Ukraine has scrambled to source ammunition, arms and equipment for its defence, Russia has presided over a massive ramping up of industrial production over the last two years that has outstripped what many western defence planners expected when Vladimir Putin launched his invasion.

As Russia’s war in Ukraine drags into its third year, the massive Russian investment in the military, projected this year to be the largest as a share of GDP since the Soviet Union, has worried European war planners, who have said Nato underestimated Russia’s ability to sustain a long-term war.

A tale as old as time: Smug Europeans with planet-sized hubris decide to poke the bear and find out the hard way.

Since Starship Troopers was in the discourse on Twitter, I've come to realize the film basically depicted Israel after seeing all those TikToks

Useful guide for any cities Russia will conquer

Absolutely bizarre how much of a media blitz there has been over Navalny, good god

Haven't seen this discussed here, sorry if it was mentioned a few days back or something:

Apparently a zionist group chat (well, at least two, one for creatives, one for lawyers) in Australia was organizing harassment campaigns against people who publicly supported Palestine and one of their members was disgusted enough to leak their chat logs to one of the targets. The group chat required everyone to use real names as display names so when the target made the logs publicly available, the group chat members' names were exposed.

Australia is now passing a law to ban doxxing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/InternationalNews/s/wC0jg3Z0DV

Kanye becoming a Zionist after realizing it’s the most antisemitic thing you can be https://twitter.com/karaokecomputer/status/1757524839160746178

It's fun reading old reddit posts about Euromaidan and seeing people like "why not just split the country in half and the east can go to Russia?"

Like well done, posters from 10 years ago - you called it.

The British cargo vessel "Morning Tide" tried to pretend to be Chinese (CHINESE OWNER SHIP) but Yemen was not fooled

Germany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an End

The underpinnings of Germany’s industrial machine have fallen like dominoes. The US is drifting away from Europe and is seeking to compete with its transatlantic allies for climate investment. China is becoming a bigger rival and is no longer an insatiable buyer of German goods. The final blow for some heavy manufacturers was the end of huge volumes of cheap Russian natural gas.

Fading industrial competitiveness threatens to plunge Germany into a downward spiral, according to Maria Röttger, head of northern Europe for Michelin. The French tiremaker is shutting two of its German plants and downsizing a third by the end of 2025 in a move that will affect more than 1,500 workers. US rival Goodyear has similar plans for two facilities.

Other examples of decline surface regularly. GEA is closing a pump factory near Mainz in favor of a newer site in Poland. Auto-parts maker Continental AG announced plans in July to abandon a plant that makes components for safety and brake systems. Rival Robert Bosch GmbH is in the process of slashing thousands of workers.

One of the hardest-hit sectors has been chemicals — a direct result of Germany’s loss of cheap Russian gas. With the transition to clean hydrogen still uncertain, nearly one in 10 companies are planning to permanently halt production processes, according to a recent survey by the VCI industry association. BASF SE, Europe’s biggest chemical producer, is cutting 2,600 jobs and Lanxess AG is reducing staff by 7%.

america in ✅

russia out ✅

krauts down ✅

NATO success story

European governments look for ways to send ukrainian refugees home

I'm sure this won't cause any ukrainian resentment towards the west or backfire in any way

a baby born during the early bombardment of gaza died in yesterday's rafah bombardment

I'm sorry, who approved this tweet?

Navalny's dead.

MOSCOW, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is dead, the prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets region where he had been serving his sentence said on Friday.

In a statement published on its website, the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District said that Navalny "felt unwell" after a walk on Friday, and "almost immediately lost consciousness".

It said that medical staff had been called, but that they were unable to resuscitate Navalny. It said the reason of death was being established.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/jailed-russian-opposition-leader-navalny-dead-prison-service-2024-02-16/

Libs are going to be insufferable.

ICJ has left South Africa on hold since Monday and just on Friday, announced that further provisional emergency measures were not necessary. The way the report was also written comes off really nothing more than crocodile tears and them hoping that readers wouldn't notice the dismissal.

Anyways, the educational sector and the Supreme Court is totally annihilated, with healthcare in terminal condition and all medical services with the exception of primary care (such as ICU, dentistry and surgery) having been suspended. The price of food has increased tenfold in the Strip. A singular hen egg now costs R20 ZAR.

Rafah Municipality's population is now estimated to be anywhere between 1.4 to 2 million people, with a density in critical mass hovering at 36,000/km2. For context, this is the Berea suburb at 42,000/km2:

The Battle of avdeevka is ending. This is happening too fast to follow in detail at work but holy shit UAF are getting routed

CW: No visible gore but extremely sad video https://streamable.com/pmpm0i

Chinese scientists say new calcium-based battery offers ‘cheaper, safer’ alternative to lithium-ion cells

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3251755/chinese-scientists-say-new-calcium-based-battery-offers-cheaper-safer-alternative-lithium-ion-cells

• Fudan University team creates battery able to charge and discharge fully 700 times at room temperature, in a first for the calcium-based technology
• With calcium 2,500 times more abundant than lithium, battery offers viable option with possibly comparable energy density, team says in Nature paper

I feel like I have had my sanity tested every day since Oct 7th. Seeing atrocity after atrocity. I also have observed many people I know basically seeing the US Empire fully in their face for the first time ever.

I'm not clicking that:

Blowback's here

Magdeburg: "Centuria", one of the most powerful neo-Nazi organizations in Ukraine, has an offshoot in Germany

The timely demise of Navalny means that Ivan Guaidovich becomes the interim leader of the Russian pro-democracy opposition.

Greek Parliament Passes Bill on Same-Sex Marriage

The "Equality in Civil Marriage" law also grants same-sex couples full parental rights for both partners.

On Thursday, Greece's parliament approved a landmark bill allowing same-sex civil marriage, granting same-sex couples the right to wed and adopt children.

A majority of 176 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament voted in favor of the bill, entitled "Equality in Civil Marriage." A total of 254 participated in the roll call vote.

"We are here to deal with an existing social reality together, with responsibility, putting an end to an inequality that is serious for our democracy," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said, addressing the plenary shortly before the roll call vote.

The new law also grants same-sex couples full parental rights for both partners, but not the use of assisted reproduction methods.

Legal systems are adapted internationally in response to trends in societies and same-sex marriage is legal already in 36 countries worldwide, Mitsotakis stressed, adding that there are already parents in same-sex couples who cannot legally care for their children, pick them up from school or accompany them to hospital.

However, recent opinion polls showed that the Greeks were divided on the reform. Even when the bill was voted on, opposite groups were both in demonstrations on Thursday.

"In a Christian Orthodox country, we should not allow the ratification of something that goes against the teachings of the Bible," Dionisis Makris said during a protest of conservative groups near the parliament.

"Today is a day of joy and celebration for equality of human beings," said Rafaela, a member of the LGBT+ community which organized another gathering outside the parliament. Greece legalized civil partnerships among same-sex couples in 2015.

Avdiivka has totally fallen, even the coke plant and citadel are lost and Ukraine is routed

Nitter is over - It's been a fun ride

tl;dr - Twitter blocked the last known way to access their network without a user account.

RIP Nitter dot cz

Avdiivka is COMPLETELY fucking wiped:

Protests are going on in the DRC. You can see them burning US and Belgian flags:

• https://nitter.mint.lgbt/african_stream/status/1757779305390624923

• https://twitter.com/african_stream/status/1757779305390624923

• https://nitter.mint.lgbt/ajplus/status/1757852245029499303

• https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1757852245029499303

• https://nitter.mint.lgbt/AfricanHub_/status/1757896052483441003

• https://twitter.com/AfricanHub_/status/1757896052483441003

NATOpedia articles on the Western-backed separatists:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_23_Movement

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M23_offensive_(2022%E2%80%93present)

India has new farmer protests

Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades (PFLP Military Wing) have announced the launch of West Bank groups under the name “Red Eagles”

The year is 2100. My great great granddaughter is scrawling the latest news about the next Ukrainian village to fall on the Hexbear post-apocalyptic cave.

Imran Khan's party won a plurality of seats in the parliamentary election

A decent chance they'll form the government and maybe free him. What a clusterfuck of a coup

"I'm putting my foot down, Bibi! I'm putting it down. Do you hear me! I'm putting my foot down. Do you hear me! Do you hear—"

Softly at the President: "Mr. President - we lost the connection."

"What do you mean 'We lost the connection'? Did he hang up on me again?!"

The room is deadly silent as the president fumes like a fumarole which is an opening in or near a volcano where hot sulfurous gases emerge. The other people in the room are afraid. Their elderly president gets so mad at times like these they are afraid he'll give himself a stroke.

Tweet summary...

The Biden admin won't punish Israel for a Rafah military operation that doesn't protect civilians. Three U.S. officials told us no reprimand plans are in the works, meaning Israeli forces could harm civilians in the city with no American consequences.

US won't punish Israel for Rafah op that doesn't protect civilians - POLITICO

BadEmpanada got banned from twitter, AGAIN

The Putin Insider is going right for the jugular with this headline:

Ukraine's military is shifting to a defensive strategy that failed Nazi Germany in WWII

https://archive.is/kBEt6

But inside contains the usual cope about "massive Russian losses" that you've all seen a thousand times before. Not a very interesting article overall apart from the headline.

UAF announced complete withdrawal from Avdeevka

https://twitter.com/CinC_AFU/status/1758642687417417845

if i was Navalny I would simply not have returned to Russia after almost dying from getting poisoned