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[wannabehistorianandauthor]

I don't think enough Americans realize just how disastrous Covid was. Over 1 million Americans died in just 2 years. More people died from Covid then the fucking civil war and people seemingly don't give a shit. 1 million deaths. That's horrifying. We need to acknowledge how impactful this has been.

[milf-adjacent]

Covid killed over 41,000 Americans in the last three months, and that's just the deaths that are being counted. Excess deaths are still at 2021 levels. This shit isn't past tense.

[ellevandersneed]

finished reading thru The Hundred Years' War On Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid Khalidi and I cannot recommend it enough. A lot of people and, very likely, the average, person not completely blinded by Islamophobia and/or USamerican/European/British exceptionalism are probably at least moderately sympathetic to the Palestinian cause but I don't know how many of us actually understand the degrees by which Israel is based in settler colonial ideology, how it has continually attempted to subjugate and ultimately eradicate the Palestinian people, and the degree by which the US and Britain (but mostly the US ever since the Six Day War in 1967) have been complicit in this continual genocide.

This book is an amazing comprehensive guide on understanding the conflict and I genuinely think you should give it a read (or listen) if you want to learn more. It is one thing to feel sympathy and to declare support for a cause, but I think it is important to take a step further and educate yourself more on it. A ploy I have seen frequently by zionists is to tell people to "educate themselves" before commenting on this genocide, hoping to instill doubt and encourage silence. Well, here is your chance to educate yourself! I'm obviously biased in favor of this one as it is the first major text on the Palestinian genocide that I have read, but I fully believe in its quality.

You can find this book online in PDF format or, if you prefer, you can purchase a physical copy from many of the large retail bookstores; Barnes & Noble in the US sells it, and so does Waterstones in the UK. There is also an official audiobook that you can either purchase through many of the major audiobook distributors (though I recommend avoiding Amazon if it can be helped), but you can also obtain it via other means if necessary. It's actually currently up on YouTube in its entirety, though I won't link it here in case it gets taken down. (It's really easy to search for, just type in the books title + 'audiobook' into your preferred search engine or on YouTube itself and you'll find it. It's about 10 hours long which is a reasonable length for an audiobook). I'll include a link in this post to an overview/lecture/dialogue with the author Rashid Khalidi on the contents of the book conducted at Brown University in 2020.

I do ask you read this book. I think a lot of people already are. I checked a couple of online libraries that have a limited number of audiobook copies that had all been checked out and that to me implies that people do want to educate themselves. There's a sizeable stack of these books at the local bookstore I ocassionally shop at, front and center on the table in the history and world affairs section. It's not hard to find. I hope you all have a good day or evening and I know that if we all take the time to educate ourselves further and approach this genocide with a deeper understanding, we may be able to do something about it. Emotional pleas are not enough, they must be informed ones as well.

[ellevandersneed]

i also wanna say that this is probably the easiest academic read I've ever experienced. It is specifically designed to appeal to a more general audience beyond people in academia. it is of course cited and full of sources like any academic text should be but the prose has a good flow to it and it doesnt have that super dry analytical stuffiness that puts me off from a lot of academic writing. like i seriously cannot recommend this enough. if you are looking for an introduction to the history of this genocide, here is something tailor-made for you

[endbrain]

archive.org link: https://archive.org/details/100yearswarpalestine/

[ubernegro]

Biden is shipping weapons to Israel every 36 hours

Joe Biden Is Shipping Weapons to Israel Every 36 Hours

The Biden administration has been able to maintain a low profile by spreading arms provision to Israel across more than 100 smaller munition

He has only disclosed to the public only 2 of his 100 shipments.

[soon-palestine]

[borrelia]

if you donate one single us dollar to the unrwa, you will have donated more money than you would have by clicking that stupid arab.orb link every day for four and a half years. yes, they do actually donate money to the unrwa, but even with tens of thousands of clicks, most of that money is the baseline $90 they send every quarter. from 2023 quarter 4, half a million clicks turned into $380.57. maths out to six hundreths of one cent per click. just donate to unrwa.

[wizardarchetypes]

Highlighting the additional comment from the OP.

Click if that’s what you can give! But if you have even a few dollars to spare, please just give directly.

[crimethinc]

How They Stopped Work at the Raytheon Facility

https://crimethinc.com/Raytheon

On November 13, demonstrators in southern California blockaded a defense contractor facility in solidarity with the Palestinians on the receiving end of the bombs that it produces.

This report explores how they used the element of surprise to surround it and shut down work for the day.

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

"Ur-Fascism" is the most popular text on fascism with liberals because it focuses on superstructural manifestations of fascism (all of which you can find existent exceptions to) and treats fascism as a mystical populist phenomenon driven by a desire to reject modernity and democracy instead of the rational end result of capitalism facing diminishing returns. The truth they most desperately want to avoid is fascism exists on the same continuum as, and always grows forth from, liberal capitalism.

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

If you nail fascism down to 14 vaguely defined points that mostly have to do with how fascism manifested in two European countries in the 20th century, you can tell yourself having militarized police, active-duty soldiers patrolling subway stations, military occupation of foreign countries, the prison and military-industrial complexes, funding of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and proxy wars, securitizing and reinforcing borders, and so much more are neutral phenomena that don't become fascist until uhhh cult of tradition or something. Unscientific and unserious nonsense.

[chilxiuitl]

first time hearing criticism about that paper. interesting, i actually found it a useful jumping off point to examine some social psychology because it explains a lot of motivation for people to join fascist movements. specifically, revolutionary cosnervative reaction. or "pallo-generative ultra nationalism". i do see how the above are certainly relevant to fascist movements, but i see that more as the normal capitalist imperialist state? to me fascism is something beyond and mystical. maybe i need to read how fascism ties to capitalism in decline beyond "imperialism, the final stage of capitalism".

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

People don't become fascists for nebulous psychological reasons but to protect their racial-class position. Fascism is an irrational solution to a rational problem (i.e. capitalism in decay). Read Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti and Blood In My Eye by George Jackson.

[spooky-spaghetties]

Adding Trotsky’s Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It

You can read Blood In My Eye here (unfortunately only as a scanned pdf, but the quality is ok).

The internet archive has a scanned copy of Blackshirts and Reds, but it’s mangled, and the publisher has it on sale right now for only $11.87 + $4 flat-rate shipping.

[sayruq]

The thing is... Israel admitted to this from the very beginning.

They said the confessions were obtained through 'interrogation' in the Shin Bet aka torture (Shin Bet is where they like to torture Palestinian prisoners for intel) so every country that cut funding to the UNRWA knew from the beginning that Israel was using false forced statements.

The famine in Gaza is partly due to this. Never forget that.

[fallahifag-deactivated20240722]

hey do you know if palestine still needs e-sims?

yes

buy an e-sim here!

[el-shab-hussein]

They always need e-sims!

[ungezieferwerden]

i can’t believe this is real

[hopefulmisanthrope]

Elaine Chao was Transportation Secretary from 2017-2021 under the Trump Administration. One of the agencies under the DOT is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which oversees, among other things, federal motor vehicle safety standards.

[spooky-spaghetties]

This is extremely funny

[read-marx-and-lenin]

[traycakes]

This happens all over the world, because the US government (like other empires before it) rewards charities whose "food aid" involves shipping American crops and food to a country, rather than helping that countries agriculture sector grow so it can sustain itself. In fact, the large amounts of "free" food donated by charities can destroy local agriculture because they cannot sell their crops, forcing them to find new jobs or start growing cash crops to sell instead.

Empires actively work against trying to "teach people how to fish," because they want countries dependent on "charity" from the empire and exploitative international trade. Bill and Hillary Clinton's actions in Haiti are despicable, but not unique.

"Charity" under capitalism is rarely done for the long-term benefit of those given "aid," and that is by design.

[read-marx-and-lenin]

Thomas Sankara

[pftones3482]

So the "food" that the US dropped to Gaza is MREs. Expired. Saw a stitch of this video from a woman saying this is the same thing they did with Hurricane Katrina survivors.

MREs are shelf stable for 7 years. Total. These ones were over 15 years old.

And ofc there were people in the comments being like "ummm well our military eats them just fine, they were expired when I was in the army too" THATS NOT OKAY THO?? NO ONE SHOULD BE FORCED TO EAT EXPIRED FOOD!

Fuck the US, fuck the Israeli government, and fuck you if you think that this is any kind of help to the people of Gaza. They're starving to death and the US is sending expired applesauce while also giving bombs to their murderers.

[gendergeometries]

What is the most common cause of death for ants?

Old Age

Combat

Squished

Raindrops/Water

Exterminators

Natural Disasters

Pancaked by Dump Truck Driver

Fire/Magnifying Glass

Cannibalism

Fungus

Voting ended onMar 7, 2024

[gabagoofs]

[i-am-aprl]

“No room for genocide.” The African Union expels Israel and removes its observer status at its sessions. Immediately.

[zvaigzdelasas]

"You call that dogshit? I don't."

[ganurath]

136 billion would have more punch, but that'd require looking at all that's been forgiven rather than the individual increments he's been doing to avoid Republican attention, which would inevitably result in Republican obstruction.

[zvaigzdelasas]

so what you're saying is he's politically ineffective.

what a great ringing endorsement.

[sayruq]

Officially the Palestinian death toll has passed 30,000. As this article will tell you, the official count is far below the actual death count

Gaza's death toll now exceeds 30,000. Here's why it's an incomplete count

Gaza's health ministry announced Thursday that 30,035 Palestinians have been killed in the war. A close look at how the ministry counts thos

Gaza's health ministry said Thursday that the number of Palestinians killed in the war has surpassed 30,000. The official number now stands at 30,035 deaths. The figure is widely viewed as the most reliable one available. The health ministry provided NPR with one of its latest reports on the death toll, 38 pages long, to analyze. A close look at how Gaza's health ministry counts those killed in the war reveals a system that is buckling under the weight of war and unable to keep an accurate toll of the dead. Thousands remain unaccounted for — either missing under the rubble, buried hastily in side streets or decomposing in areas that can't be safely reached.

The Gaza health ministry says its daily tally now relies on a combination of accurate death counts from hospitals that are still partially operating, and on estimates from media reports to assess deaths in the north of Gaza, where Israeli forces control access. Its detailed daily report shows that its electronic system for counting the dead was disrupted on Nov. 12, when communication was lost with three major hospitals in the north, soon followed by more in other parts of Gaza. In the early days of the war, as the wounded and dead streamed into hospitals, Gaza's health ministry kept a detailed daily count of the number of people killed. Public and private hospitals were recording into an electronic database the names, ages, genders and ID numbers of the dead.