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Sorry in advance if I don't reply, the ability and energy to communicate are both fickle

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from June 1st to June 7th, 2026 - Zionists Violate Ceasefire / Suspiciously Pro-Fascist Colombia Runoff Elections / Sudan Quagmire Continues

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  • Where is the video where it finally hits I can't take this anymore

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from May 25th to May 31st, 2026 - Mounting Protests Against Paz in Bolivia / Iran Deal Remains Out of Reach / Sahel Holds Firm Against Foreign Aggression

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  • jellyfish

    like, stuck to the ship?

    *edit, probably polyps

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  • I think darkcalling was referring to Ekpar Asat, not Adrian Zenz

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  • On the other hand, supplying rare earth elements (REEs) to the US has kept the US dependent on China.

    China needs leverage against the US to avoid embargo, but China has limited ability to project power or control governments around the world. What they do have is a massive economy and central planning. The US is nearly the opposite: they can project power and control governments, but they are weak to economic pressure because their political economy makes planning difficult -- private capital controls the US government and capital demands short-term profits, they're less willing to tunnel through temporary costs to reach a stronger position.

    The US could have foreseen the threat of a REE bottleneck decades ago and made the strategic decision to build up and maintain their own REE supply chain, but it would have hurt profits. Because China supplied cheap REEs to the US for decades, the US neglected to secure REE autonomy, and now China has that leverage over them.

    China gains leverage, in other words, by shaping the incentive structure of US capital. They do this by trading, not withholding trade.

    ...this is my amateur analysis, anyway.

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    How a struggling school tackled misogyny and became a happier place

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/c1j2dd5l5p3o
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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from May 25th to May 31st, 2026 - Mounting Protests Against Paz in Bolivia / Iran Deal Remains Out of Reach / Sahel Holds Firm Against Foreign Aggression

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  • Maybe he wants to help control the Americas, and/or maybe he thinks the war between NATO and Russia could go nuclear?

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  • 38:31 Blumenthal mentions a "withering" analysis of Venezuela's military preparedness, issued under a pseudonym by a member of the Cuban Five intelligence cell. I have no clue where to find that but I would like to read it.

  • US drops charges against Israeli whose illegal biolab left neighbours 'deathly ill'

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  • Solomon’s arrest in February came as Israeli and pro-Israeli mouthpieces raised fears of supposed Iranian chemical or biological attacks on US soil. They attempted to pressure the US into attacking Iran, as it ultimately did. The occupation has a long and confirmed history of ‘false flag’ attacks for political gain.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from May 25th to May 31st, 2026 - Mounting Protests Against Paz in Bolivia / Iran Deal Remains Out of Reach / Sahel Holds Firm Against Foreign Aggression

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  • Are they gonna make a missile with a fucking drill on the front?

  • The Sangri-La mythos has cooked every single liberal mind on earth.

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  • It kinda reads like, "the more humiliating it is to live in America, the more intolerable it is that a nonwhite nation is on a better trajectory"

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  • I appreciate the "dynamism of historical processes" perspective of the fifth article (On 'Betrayals').

    History is not "ingredients in, results out," it's a process in time, with twists and turns. If you want to explain a chess game, you look at the moves, you don't say "Player A won because they are the kind of person who wins." Sure, you can talk about how Player A makes their decisions -- maybe they have a particularly effective "doctrine" or "style" that helps them win. But that only goes so far to explain the course of any particular game. So I like the "how exactly did we get here" angle of the author of that article.

    (I'm not a chess nerd I just think it's a good analogy)

  • (CW: transphobic hate crime) Texas trans woman found stripped naked and murdered

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  • The article also never once uses a she or her pronoun. Pronouns are scrupulously avoided except for a single "their"

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  • If the US has any sort of plan against Iran, it seems like that plan is to space things out and hope the Iranian people start to get comfortable again, with the idea that the IRGC will start to lose some of their public mandate for big retaliatory strikes?

    Or maybe the idea is to just lob shit at Iran every month or two, to keep the conflict barely hot enough to justify the blockade, and then drag this out to somehow hurt China more than they hurt themselves? Can their allies in East Asia wait that long?

    If this blockade raises oil prices high enough for long enough, at what point do we start an irreversible shift to renewables, which China dominates? If there's some way this all makes sense, I want to know it, but to my limited understanding it looks like flailing.

  • Surplus value

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  • The low-value jobs you're talking about are essential to the basic functioning of society. That is your food, water, and sanitation. If they stopped doing those jobs, you would die within days or weeks. What you are saying, essentially, is that you think those jobs should be done but that the people who do them should be poor.

  • "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden" (it isn't good)

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  • Your friendly neighborhood IRGC is here to show Democrats how it's done #RealResistance

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    Afghanistan: America's Other Ongoing Proxy War

    journal-neo.su /2026/05/11/afghanistan-americas-other-ongoing-proxy-war/
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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from May 11th to May 17th, 2026 - Relative Quiet Continues; US Destroyers Test Luck And Flee; Iran Seemingly Eager To Keep Firing

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    [CW: animal cruelty] The Guardian's obituary for the Dalai Lama's younger brother includes a story of how he pushed a nun out of a helicopter. He also beat the family cat and her kittens to death.

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  • how does someone write this article and not even insinuate the height of the helicopter? It says they were taking off, were they 1 meter off the ground or 10 meters? A helicopter reaches a dangerous height almost immediately. If they were still on the ground you say "moments before they took off."

  • "Why does Lemmy.ML admire authoritarian regimes ? "

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  • If someone is willing to patiently educate themself by reading posts on a tankie forum, that suggests that they are probably already interested in altering their worldview and are open to tankie positions, which is 90% of the battle.

    But because our worldview is so demonized, most liberals don't want to be persuaded by it. It would be like, if one of us wandered into a highly detailed holocaust denial forum -- if we lacked the knowledge to argue back, because we're not nazis obsessed with denying the holocaust, that would be an uncomfortable feeling, and rather than opening our minds to this atrocious new perspective, we would hightail it out of there looking for someone, anyone, to debunk those claims (and in our case we'd be in luck).

    The first thing to reach a liberal (or anyone) isn't evidence, it's credibility, which comes from our values, conduct, and epistemology. They first have to see that, despite what they hear and currently believe about us, we're good people, we care about the same things they do, and we try to inform ourselves in a rigorous, media-literate, open-minded way. Then they need to see liberal media as less credible -- it can help to start with low-hanging fruit, to establish that they do lie, at least sometimes. Then they're open to argument.

    That can all happen pretty quickly during an interaction, even in the span of a few well-constructed comments. We have a few people who are great at this. But if someone is just minding their own business in other forums, absorbing the ambient anticommunism of their environment, they'll never reach that point, they'll never be curious enough to want to lurk or browse a tankie forum.

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    (Apr 14) Journalist argues China insulated from US Hormuz blockade

    spectator.com /article/china-wont-be-hurt-by-the-us-blockade-of-hormuz/
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    ‘No longer theoretical’: Golden Dome czar touts first steps amid skepticism

    breakingdefense.com /2026/04/golden-dome-guetlein-show-the-public-norfolk/
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    Japan, with US funding, wants to mine rare-earth deposit on sea floor, 6km down. ~16M ton deposit would be world's 3rd largest known, but mining and refining may cost up to 20x the going rate

    www.chinausfocus.com /finance-economy/the-6000-meter-mirage-is-japan-extracting-rare-earths-or-political-capital