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It was easy for me to forget how poor Yemen is when Ansar Allah was fearlessly bleeding the US military of billions of USD, holding the Red Sea blockade, and terrorizing the zionist regime directly.

Yemeni Resistance is cool as fuck and absolutely worth celebrating, but the US-israeli bombing campaigns have probably inflicted a much more difficult cost to bear on Yemeni society, which was already in a dire economic state. Yemeni GDP per capita is like $500 USD.

Real “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will” hours

it would be truly jokerfying if libs coopt AES and it becomes a colloquial term to refer to “actually effective socialists” like AOC and Bernie

iSSrael replaces klanada as the 51st state

when deepseek first released, it seemed miles ahead of chatGPT, but now i feel like chatGPT usually works better :(

israel is a stain on humanity.

seeing news about Rafah reminds of that day when everyone on instagram was posting ai generated “all eyes on rafah” like it was the black square in 2020

and its the same mfers that complain about echo chambers

Sending thoughts and prayers (to the fire)

Praying for them (the fires)

it’s honestly hard for me to say, because they’ve allowed themselves to fade into the background in the last few months. They’ve lost something like 30-50% of their support compared to the last election. Part of that is definitely strategic voting in our rotten voting system (e.g., genuine NDP/Green supporters casting votes for Liberals to keep Conservatives from winning), but they’ve also made it really easy just to forget about them, likely losing them genuine support and failing to connect with potential supporters.

I think they’re more comfortable nagging liberals to do marginally better for the working class than fighting for real power to make bigger changes.

Maybe I’m missing discussion about the Canadian federal election, but the Libs have won again.

At least the conservatives were kept from winning, but support for the NDP (the party to the left of the libs) is way down.

as if every sitting president hasn’t overseen the killing of tens to hundreds of thousands of innocent people

interesting angle, it reminds me of this paper from Jason Hickel and colleagues on “unequal exchange” AKA “imperialist appropriation” (… and this one too).

In the first paper, they estimated that every $1 of aid received by the Global South is offest by more than $30 lost to unequal exchange.

In the second, they estimated that unequal exchange/appropriated labour effectively doubles what Global North countries can consume, of course, depriving the Global South of productive capacity to meet their own needs.

Reframing it as “aid” really highlights the banal cruelty of it all.

LOL, I really ate an onion this morning because I saw this post on /r/TrueAnon saying he was moving to israel, and I thought that was the news.

even worse, that graph looks like it shows its down from 1 whole year, so since last April.

I’m seeing it down almost 9% since the start of this year

edit: Seeing Amerikkkas hubris tank the global economy is funny and all, but my tax-free savings account is down hundreds

Trump is pushing this poor African-American immigrant off the glass cliff and you’re laughing?

Every Western outlet stumbling over itself to report on “anti-Hamas” protests in Gaza is some heinous shit.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/26/middleeast/why-gazans-are-protesting-hamas-now-intl-latam

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g71lk09npo.amp

A photo of it was also near the top of Reddit, and there’s dozens of top comments about “it looks like they’re all children!” and of course blaming the genocide on Hamas from their enlightened perch inside the empire that is responsible for the genocide.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1jkekcz/antihamas_protesters_in_gaza_call_for_an_end_to/

… it says a lot about Western “civilization” that witnessing a few hundred children allegedly protesting the Resistance evokes more empathy than the slaughter of tens of thousands by the empire. Complete dehumanization, until they can be straw-manned into a pro-empire position

type shi

Killing people who are undeniably white

Amal Saad on israel’s genocide:

Waking up once again to the hellscape of Israel’s latest genocidal crimes, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that Hamas and the Axis of Resistance were not merely weakened by Israel’s military, intelligence, or technological superiority. This war has always been asymmetrical, and while Israel has made significant advancements in these areas, they are not the primary reason for the Axis of Resistance’s massive losses. Israel could have possessed unmatched military and intelligence capabilities, yet without the collapse of even the illusion of ethical constraints, it could never have unleashed destruction on this scale.

What is truly defeating these forces is that the US-led unipolar world order has ushered in a new kind of superiority—one where raw brutality has supplanted military dominance as the highest form of power. It is not merely an abandonment of humanity, but a full-scale war against it—a war on moral and legal restraints, not just their erosion but their outright annihilation.

The goal is not just genocide and annihilation but to make an example of Palestine—both for those within and beyond the empire’s reach. It is an attempt to extinguish not just the Palestinian cause but any remaining trace of “optimism of the will” and all the forms of resistance this sustains.

interesting analysis, imo

Yeah, I met someone in their 30’s who was seriously considering MAID because they could not get reliable healthcare for their mental and physical conditions, which required significant supports and accomodations. Their situation was fucked up, because the combined disablement from their conditions was pervasive and life-ruining, but taken separately (i.e., physical only, or mental/cognitive only), they often slipped through the cracks of whatever system they’re reaching out to help from (e.g., supports for adults with mental disabilities). They spent most of their life getting shuffled between healthcare experts because nobody could handle/treat/support all of this person.

And at the same time, most instances of MAID in Canada have been for very old and very sick people: “… The median age of recipients was about 78, and […] cancer was the most frequently cited medical condition, at 64 per cent.”. I know many more people whose parents or grandparents chose MAID because the alternative was to spend the final weeks, months, or years of their lives barely alive and in severe chronic pain.

In a better society where healthcare and notions of health aren’t poisoned by capitalism, I can see the benefits of MAID for reducing suffering and providing a peaceful, less painful end to someone’s life. Until then, I think that MAID programs created by capitalist societies will inevitably become a nightmarish biofascist, eugenicist killing machine used to cull the “unproductive” and “costly” people.