The Iron Wall, an essay from influential revisionist Zionist jabotinsky in 1923, just shy of 100 years ago to the day. It is nakedly, unabashedly colonialist and its influence can clearly be seen in the Netanyahu regime.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/quot-the-iron-wall-quot

Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonised.

That is what the Arabs in Palestine are doing, and what they will persist in doing as long as there remains a solitary spark of hope that they will be able to prevent the transformation of “Palestine” into the “Land of Israel.”

Consider reading your ethnonationalist veggies instead of doomscrolling

Another section of the slide provides an estimate on the percentage each country allocates to naval production in its shipyards, with China garnering roughly 70% of its shipbuilding revenue from naval production, compared to about 95% of American shipbuilding revenue.

Because of China’s centrally planned economy, the country is able to control labor costs and provide subsidies to its shipbuilding infrastructure, allowing the Chinese to outbid most competitors around the world and dominate the commercial shipping industry, Sadler said.

Sadler argued that the U.S. has not built a comparable shipbuilding infrastructure because builders only have the U.S. government as a customer.

“The federal government is the sole customer … your biggest customer where you get your biggest margin of profit is building the big high-tech expensive naval ships,” Sadler said. “That’s the only show in town for us. And unfortunately, **because that’s the case, no one’s looking to get competitive **and building better container ships or the next generation commercial shipping vessel, which is what we really need to be doing.”

So the American naval yards derive much more revenue from the federal government than Chinese naval yards, yet they aren’t actually federally controlled. Also, they aren’t able to innovate or compete like china’s centrally managed naval yards.

Sounds like a real contradiction brewing.

Genocide Justin

Country-involved invasion incident

He’s not great on everything but boy does he ever kick ass on Israel doing genocide

More forensics on Canada’s attitude towards nazi immigration post ww2

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/10/13/Canada-Let-Thousands-Former-Nazis/

Canada’s Immigration Department after the war determinedly and successfully prevented communists and other leftists from immigrating to Canada or even visiting the country. It also determinedly and successfully prevented non-whites from becoming immigrants to Canada between 1946 and 1962. For several years after the end of the war they also successfully prevented Jews, desperate to leave deportation camps in Europe and settle in permanent homes, from coming to Canada.

Communists and other leftists were unwanted because they would threaten the power of capitalists more than because they were adherents of anti-democratic, authoritarian forms of government. Non-whites were unwanted because they would threaten notions of Canada as a “white country.” Nazis and fascists were wanted because their authoritarian impulses and often despicable pasts showed their embrace both of a class system in which capital ruled and of white supremacy.

imagine what Hezbollah with additional Iranian backing could pull off.

Adventurist fantasy is a helluva drug

this is propaganda doing its work. not that many people are as terminally newsbrainpoisoned as the hexbear crowd and I suspect the sheer brutality of the accelerated gaza genocide by israel is still percolating through the electorate. This level of “support” (not that it means anything when it’s just the electorate instead of elected officials) will fade the longer this goes on

no kidding, if they weren’t fucking cowards they’d just load up an aid ship and rock up to gaza. are the israeli’s really wilding out enough to do another USS liberty? what good is being the global superpower if you can’t bang your dick on the table now and again

I mean the real reason is that they absolutely 100% do not give a flying fuck about palestinians and hope they all die

on the one hand, genocide and ethnic cleansing on behalf of an ethnostate

but on the other hand, have you considered pipi hard ?

We talk about capital atomizing society and destroying social bonds - this really does seem like another symptom of the same. Who wants to go fight and die for a society you’re alienated from? There’s easier ways to make 50k/year.

Quite a sprawling article but written by someone who understands a marxist definition of fascist, about it as imperialism applied to the core. Discussion of successful implentation of neoliberal policies as fascism

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/10/rob-urie-is-it-fascism-yet.html

This was probably posted but I don’t know

Poland didn’t go for more PiS

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/16/new-era-tusk-celebrates-exit-polls-suggesting-opposition-win-in-poland

I am an anglo settler in the west. I want to buy one of these that I could actually use. There are many colours and designs available. Presumably the colours are culturally significant in some way. Am I over thinking this? Should I just buy one that I think looks cool?

Same playbook as in ukraine too

Yes, this was a terrorist attack that was terribly terrible, just like how Russia invading ukraine was an illegal unprovoked invasion. You can tell what is the most bullshit in the media by what they emphasize. If it was that obvious that these were terrorist/unprovoked activities they wouldn’t have to say it so much.

if america had just taken up the taliban’s offer to give them OBL in October 2001 or whatever the world would have been 100 times better

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5

Something like 5 million people died in the iraq/Afghanistan wars and libs learned literally nothing except their desire to support the same level of bloodletting but as the resistance. In the ukraine war we are less than 20% of the way there. Don’t hold your breath waiting for shitlibs to learn.

I feel like one could win over a decent number of people on mao with this