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Ferdinand Bardamu
Apr 30, 2013

Needs the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song at the end lol

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Votskomit
Jun 26, 2013

Tankbuster posted:

Voskomit, did poo poo get this bad near the end of apartheid?

I actually don't know nearly enough about the transition, but basically no.

I don't remember reading anything about chemical weapons being deployed (though they were developed), water being shut off, or the townships being entirely walled off or bombed during late-apartheid. Happy to be corrected if I missed those tho.

I'm not gonna defend Apartheid, but I get the impression that the Israeli occupation is more dedicated to killing than South African Apartheid was, at least towards the end.

I'm opening my copy of History of South Africa by Thula Simpson here and reading through the 1985-1990 section. It says that there were massive countrywide strikes at that point, and a state of emergency as local communities rejected the Apartheid government involvement and started self organising their own communities and setting up revolutionary councils. The attacks by uMkhonto we Sizwe members were done by like 50 people who were trained by the USSR, if I'm reading this correctly.

The police would routinely break up protests and strikes with lethal force, killing dozens and injuring hundreds per incident. So much of the resistance was more nationwide resistance via labour actions. As far as I can tell most of the killings by black people happened not because they were targeting white settlers, but suspected (black and coloured) informants.

Votskomit has issued a correction as of 21:25 on Oct 23, 2023

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

Al-Saqr posted:

the 50 hostages arent going to be released because Hamas wanted gas for Gazas Hospitals

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1716541371669184852?s=46&t=kY7HKwmb1RBg9U186lxtbg

despicable

PoontifexMacksimus
Feb 14, 2012

4d3d3d
Mar 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/1716544476770861256
Quiet part loud

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Strep Vote
May 5, 2004

أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة

Perfect, a picture of my soul.

tangy yet delightful
Sep 13, 2005



Karach posted:

If you like your apartheid state, you can keep it.

that's a lmao I wasn't expecting to have ITT

Zoeb
Oct 8, 2023

Dislike me? Don't spend $10 on a title. Donate to the Palestinian Red Crescent or Doctors Without Borders
https://www.palestinercs.org/en
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

DelilahFlowers posted:

I think im gonna post here now.

I find their legalism and debate club style literalism and nitpicking to be very frustrating. What intelligent things can there possibly be said about a massacre?

BUUNNI
Jun 23, 2023

by Pragmatica

some kinda jackal posted:

sorry for lovely doomposting


papersack
Jul 27, 2003

HallelujahLee posted:

he poo poo his pants again

The Shituation Room

hey mom its 420
May 12, 2007

spacemang_spliff posted:

lol the US isn't used to being on the other side of a proxy war

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
aljazeera just published first pics of the two released pows

https://youtu.be/W2AMjCU1_eM?si=e6yvfr_RX1ftlT2i

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
https://x.com/DeadlineWH/status/1716548685742432526?s=20

Valleyant
Jul 23, 2007

That darn catte

Only women and children matter sorry

Strep Vote
May 5, 2004

أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة

She's right, those young men from HAMAS are heroes striking against the oppressor.

Engorged Pedipalps
Apr 21, 2023
This film is dedicated to the brave freedom fighters of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Judgy Fucker
Mar 24, 2006

spacemang_spliff posted:

lol the US isn't used to being on the other side of a proxy war

tail...wagging the dog?

OctaMurk
Jun 21, 2013
i dont want a war!!! i say, as I slip the leash off my enraged vassal and tell him i got his back 100% no matter what

PhilippAchtel
May 31, 2011

boo boo bear posted:

the last ndp leader to use the words 'social democracy' in a public statement, not even the word 'socialism', was alexa mcdonough back in the mid-80s.

this has been a heritage moment.

The unions need to drag the NDP back or form a new party

Apologies if this maple posting 🍁

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010




he shat he pants again

Dokapon Findom
Dec 5, 2022

But have you considered whether the child murdered by the driver of that truck was riding an oversized bike?!?! Children riding oversized bikes are the scourge of our roadways!!

Raskolnikov38 posted:

if they call biden into the situtation room everytime they try to bomb one of our bases in syria or iraq, iran should have the various groups keep up a 24 hour bombing spree until he drops dead of exhaustion

Flying him on as many long haul flights as possible, keeping him in front of the strobing lights of the press cameras as often as possible. Surely this is good for someone as healthy as he is

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

papersack posted:

The Shituation Room

Red Baron
Mar 9, 2007

ty slumfrog :)

Dokapon Findom posted:

Flying him on as many long haul flights as possible, keeping him in front of the strobing lights of the press cameras as often as possible. Surely this is good for someone as healthy as he is

president Harris more for war or less?

err
Apr 11, 2005

I carry my own weight no matter how heavy this shit gets...
we've enraged the middle east by bombing children and now need to protect 2000 bases from advanced missiles and drones

oops

The Oldest Man
Jul 28, 2003

Isn't every room a situation room

Popy
Feb 19, 2008

send the hamburger ppl back to hamburger land

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


is that what the white house calls the bathroom

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

i vaguely recall the entire iraqi parliament voted to have the us leave iraq and like usual the us said no

Zokari
Jul 23, 2007

hey get this: maybe biden poo poo himself!!!

bobtheconqueror
May 10, 2005

The Oldest Man posted:

Isn't every room a situation room

When you've got an adult diaper on, sure.

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

spacemang_spliff posted:

lol the US isn't used to being on the other side of a proxy war

Iran has been running them ragged with proxies for ages. Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, heck they even armed their enemies in Afghanistan.
Prior to that the cold war featured heavy use of proxy war.

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

super-scientific, ultra-gay

Lipstick Apathy

HallelujahLee posted:

i vaguely recall the entire iraqi parliament voted to have the us leave iraq and like usual the us said no

correct

once the us puts troops in a country we never, ever take them out voluntarily

p sure afghanistan and vietnam are the only places that stopped having us troops or bases, for the obvious reasons

PoontifexMacksimus
Feb 14, 2012

Business Gorillas posted:

Thinking about how the Israeli government embezzled like 95% of the restitutions Germany paid to Holocaust victims and left many of them penniless and dying on the street

Would be interested to learn more about this...

Lpzie
Nov 20, 2006

some kinda jackal posted:

sorry for lovely doomposting



lol

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

US has intelligence of something that has been happening for a week already lmao

discoukulele
Jan 16, 2010

Yes Sir, I Can Boogie
I know that donation chat has come up before, but I wanted to see if there's anything out there besides the Red Crescent that's actually operating inside. The Red Crescent's donation page seems to be completely borked; I haven't been able to get it to work on a couple of browsers.

I give to DWB, but I'd love to find something that's specifically for Palestine so that I know all of my money is going there.

Uncle Wemus
Mar 4, 2004

"We can talk once they give up their leverage"


President Biden said that he would be willing to engage in talks about a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas if the hostages taken by the militant group were released.


https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4271035-biden-says-we-can-talk-about-israel-hamas-ceasefire-after-hostages-are-released/

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


I heard world war 3 was beginning

Is it true?

Cpt_Obvious
Jun 18, 2007


Quoting for later.

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Soggy Muffin
Jul 29, 2003

he poped his pants lol

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