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pungently denouncing the foul & dastardly rigmarole of the thrice-cursed neo-hitlerite yankee cannibal burlesque/imperialist caboodle

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

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The hypnotic geometric patterns of Soviet era residential facades

+1 in my search for updated communist aesthetics

I drew Vladimir Lenin in a different way)))))

@ciscaucasian Nothing will outniche the Mexican-Yugoslavia current of culture

Happy 51st reunification day!

@Souvie looks LIT

Last year for the 50th anniversary of reunification day, I walked around HCM from 1am to 8am and still couldn’t find a seat for the parade 😭

@chronicalihere someone pls shove historical materialism down his throat STAT

@chronicalihere curtis yarvin is a typical tech bro who doesn’t know shit about the world but takes his high thoughts too seriously, hyped up on the VC circuit and fooled by the Great Man theory so pervasive in silicon valley. terrifying this idiot has the ears of lunatic billionaires

Everyone should be reading up on Curtis Yarvin, and everyone should be worried about what he theorizes. You know that old adage about companies becoming more powerful than countries? Well that's pretty much happening; particularly when you look at tech giants like Palantir— embedding itself deeper into the state apparatus and now supply chain control— further consolidating itself into the fiber of every function within your daily life. Mirroring the state itself; until the two become bound together; indistinguishable. The corporate and political classes are currently, seemingly colluding to manufacture a massive socio-economic collapse in the western world. An event of such catastrophic magnitude, it would usher in the need to entirely overhaul our contemporary political, financial and cultural infrastructures. And that is what Palantir is laying the groundwork for. Not just a need to completely dismantle and replace these hierarchies and systems; but reimagining everything into being solely powered through AI-operated entities (surveilled, dictated by and dependent upon). Free from the chaos and catastrophe of moral failure, or restraint. Under the premise of eliminating human error and protecting us from human corruption. As local municipalities/ democratic-governance/ power structures are disbanded, they will be replaced by authoritarian tech-oligarch run city-states with AI overlords— this is the vision of Curtis Yarvin. Peter Theil has long been an open, aggressive advocate for it, and he also happens to be the ideological force behind the Trump Administration as it meshes itself deeper with Silicon Valley. They imagine a society where there is no longer a need for morality; where the only dominant ethic is that of that singular corporate power. A totalitarian, unregulated, unaccountable corporate power that wields its will and might over all; that consumes and encapsulates everything. A new form of societal organization where everything runs through and from that corporation.

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damn that happened to me last tuesday

@Chetuyachinago wow thank you for this detailed summary, I don’t think I fully understood what the Sudan conflict meant until now. my hatred of Amerika grows with every word I read

The ongoing crisis in Sudan is a calculated offensive in the U.S. economic war against China. It is a geopolitical move to conquer Eurasia and ensure Washington emerges as the world's sole, unchallenged superpower. To understand this, we must look at the history. Before the 2011 balkanization of Sudan, China forged an ironclad relationship with the Sudanese government. Beijing was not just buy 80% of Sudan’s oil; it built the entire industry from the ground up with a massive $6 billion investment. Because the bulk of Sudanese oil was locked in the South and far from the Red Sea, Sudan lacked the logistics to transport it. China shattered that barrier by single-handedly constructing a 1,500-mile pipeline to funnel that wealth to the northern ports for international trade. Once the oil began to flow in 1999, Sudan’s GDP surged at an average of 6% per year, and oil eventually accounted for 95% of the country’s export earnings. But this growth was something Washington could not allow. China held an effective monopoly in East Africa, and Sudan provided Beijing a way to bypass U.S. sanctions and naval blockades. Because the oil moved through the Red Sea and not international waters, the U.S. Navy could not illegally intercept the shipments. Realizing they could not "break" Sudan through financial pressure or sanctions due to this Chinese bypass, Washington pivoted to balkanization. If you cannot control the government of a unified state, you weaponize a rebellion to rip it in half. You steal the oil fields from the un-sanctionable North and hand them to a new Southern puppet state, one entirely dependent on Western aid and recognition. This was when the American and British media manufactured the "Christian Genocide" narrative. they exploited internal conflicts, reframing them as the targeted slaughter of Christians by a Muslim majority, the exact same script they are currently running in Nigeria. Suddenly, the "Save Darfur" movement dominated American media. The Bush administration flooded the public with reports on the persecution of Christians, and NGOs scattered across the country blew the trumpet for international intervention. By the time Obama took office, this narrative was so deeply scorched into the American psyche that he had the "moral" cover to finish the job without a whisper of public dissent. Bowed by Western outcry and Pentagon pressure, the government in Khartoum succumbed and signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005. This plan mandated that the North stop defending its sovereignty against rebels who were sabotaging pipelines. The agreement forced the Sudanese government to allow the South to hold a "referendum." To achieve this, Obama deployed a "Sticks and Carrots" approach. The "carrot" was the hollow promise that Sudan would be removed from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list and allowed to re-enter the global market. Simultaneously, Obama swung the "stick," by threatening to impose crippling economic sanctions every year to keep Khartoum’s economy in a state of terminal collapse should they refuse this offer. UN Ambassador Susan Rice led the charge to ensure the UN Security Council remained a unified front against Khartoum. The U.S. framed the referendum as a "matter of global security," making it clear that if Khartoum interfered, the U.S. would launch unilateral strikes or impose a "no-fly" zone, the same imperialist tactic used to destroy Libya. These geopolitical games marked the official start of the balkanization of Africa’s largest state. The fact that South Sudan lacked the infrastructure to function as a state did not deter Obama. He shipped hundreds of millions of dollars to the Southern rebels to bankroll this transition. This funding provided training, communications gear, and a formal chain of command, effectively building a Western-aligned army inside a sovereign state before it had even been partitioned. The Obama administration used USAID to bypass Khartoum and fund infrastructure specifically in the South. This wasn't "aid"; it was hostile state-building. By constructing roads, government offices, and legal systems in the South, the U.S. ensured the region was administratively decoupled from the North long before the 2011 vote. In January 2011, the people of southern Sudan voted. The secessionists "won" the referendum by a staggering, statistically impossible 99%. The event was almost entirely funded and organized by the U.S. and its allies. It was conducted under the absolute military grip of the Southern rebels, the very group Washington had been bankrolling for years. In many areas, there was no secret ballot and no "No" campaign was allowed to exist. Following this 99% "Yes" vote, Israel was among the first to recognize South Sudan, immediately establishing military and economic ties, exactly as they are currently doing with Somaliland. The unified state of Sudan, the largest in Africa, was effectively destroyed. China was forced to recognize this "new country" to protect its multi-billion dollar oil investments. They set up an embassy in Juba, desperately trying to work with this Western-backed mini-state. But the country was a shell; it had almost no domestic industry. Its "government" existed only to collect oil rents, while the survival of the population was outsourced to the "humanitarian-industrial complex." Billions in aid flow in, but it never builds a self-sustaining economy. Instead, it ensures the state remains weak and dependent on foreign whims. Within just two years of independence, South Sudan collapsed into a brutal civil war that slaughtered 400,000 people. By 2024, the pipeline used to export oil was damaged and clogged. This cut off 90% of the government's revenue, leading to a total halt in civil servant salaries and the vaporization of what little state authority remained. Washington’s plan worked. China has effectively packed its bags and left the country. The situation in Sudan is now so dire that you would need a heart made of silicone to read about it and not shed tears. Seventeen million people across both Sudan and South Sudan have been uprooted, reduced to perpetual refugees at the mercy of NGOs. The current phase of the war began when General Mohamed Dagalo (Hemedti), leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), seized the Jebel Amer gold mines in Darfur. Hemedti bypassed the state entirely, funneling his gold to Dubai through his family-run company, Al Junaid, and parking the profits in UAE banks. Today, 80% of Sudanese gold is shipped straight to Dubai. The UAE bankrolls the RSF. It is not just gold that the Gulf powers want. When the UAE and Saudi Arabia needed troops for their war in Yemen, they paid Hemedti and the military billions to ship thousands of Sudanese soldiers off to fight as mercenaries. This is the fate of Sudan today. It is the ruinous result of a superpower war fought to maintain primacy over the entire hemisphere.

Kenyan Anti-Poaching Soldier stationed infront of Elephant Ivory

For anyone curious about what started the war—the Korean War itself and its aftermath:

i will never not talk about soundtrack to a coup d’etat omg what a work of art

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