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double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Grapplejack posted:

Lmao ayfhfhausggk

Just rolling out all the hits

so is israel

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double nine
Aug 8, 2013

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1713337621424877795

the only nonshit diplomatic message I've seen all week

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Lpzie posted:

gotten so many PMs calling me the R word. impressive...

rearguard?

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

BillsPhoenix posted:

Also sending a 2nd (but really a 4th) carrier group is loving insane. 1 carrier group was an idea of empty support, 4 is absurd escalation.

Feels like Cuban missile crises levels of insanity right now.

what does this mean? are there two aircraft carriers per group? I'm not up to speed on american navy makeup/positioning

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Frosted Flake posted:

Without going into all of the math, and the characteristics of aerial bomb fuzes,



Craters are wasted energy, so unless making a crater is intended, a lot of effort goes into making sure the blast wave is as destructive as possible laterally through instantaneous and airburst fuzes.

The new JDAM kits Israel has specifically have "height-of-burst sensor(s) for airburst applications",



At heights of 1.5 - 10.5M, even a 2000lb bomb would not leave much of a crater on concrete with hard, dry, soil underneath.

I appreciate this because I know I'm going to get "there's no crater" arguments from dumbass relatives .

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1714706863349027317

I doubt they'd blow up the governing coalition over foreign affairs, but it's at least a little heartening to see small cracks in european politics. God willing this trickle will become a storm

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

out of morbid curiosity I looked at the trading data for israel

those wishing an IMF loan for them might be closer than you'd think:
https://oec.world/en/profile/country/isr?yearlyTradeFlowSelector=flow1

total imports (2021): 92 billion $
total exports (2021): 64 billion $

quote:

The top exports of Israel are Diamonds ($9.06B) Integrated Circuits ($5.09B), Refined Petroleum ($2.73B), Medical Instruments ($2.36B), and Other Measuring Instruments ($2.32B), exporting mostly to United States ($17B), China ($5.04B), Palestine ($4.16B), India ($2.82B), and Germany ($2.22B).

quote:

The top imports of Israel are Diamonds ($6.73B), Cars ($5.1B), Broadcasting Equipment ($2.54B), Integrated Circuits ($2.08B), and Refined Petroleum ($1.88B), importing mostly from China ($13.2B), United States ($10.5B), Turkey ($6.31B), Germany ($6.28B), and Switzerland ($4.32B).


you're trying to fuel a war economy with this poo poo? no wonder they're trying to loot more of palestine they're bleeding out through trade

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1716402217245405266

I have to say the idea that the intelligence services 'allowed' october 7 to happen hadn't occured to me, it kind of seems possible but I feel like that recuperates Israel's humiliating defeat.

It also doesn't really matter bc the concentration camp nature of Gaza justifies any attempts to lift its siege, but still. how functional and calculating is the mossad?

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Al-Saqr posted:

Israel allowed itself to be humiliated and defeated completely and utterly and have the reputation of it's army, intelligence and technology sector fatally compromised and its ability to secure settler colonialists destroyed to show the world they could if they really wanted to.

right? that's what floors me about the logic.

The most charitable analysis I can think of is that if Israel allowed it, they thought the attack would be stopped by their superweapons/superzoldaten, and got the humiliating results we've seen

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Sancho Banana posted:

Imagine being a hostage and Hamas tries to release you, then they come back and say "sorry your country wants you dead lol".

"give me a gun"

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Al-Saqr posted:

america might as well have bombed mecca at this point, theres going to be an unprecedented explosion and blowback soon.

what happened?

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Dokapon Findom posted:

lol. New Pharaoh about to drop

didn't they release a remake this year? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1351080

double nine
Aug 8, 2013


love to stand up from my own dumbass clumsiness to aim an automatic rifle at the onlookers.
it's all in goofy fun righ

double nine has issued a correction as of 14:09 on Oct 27, 2023

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

I'm weirdly calm about a war between Israel and Hesbollah/Iran, even a direct conflict between the US and Iran;
while I can't tolerate the idea of Gaza starving to death.

is that weird? A war would almost certainly destroy more lives than what israel is doing to Gaza right now, but the inhumanity of starvation and slow bombing creep by Israel feels so much worse than a direct conflict.

gently caress this loving poo poo world built for sadists and maintained by sociopaths. gently caress this festering puss that rules this shitheap. Let every parasite in that apartheid regime get the loving plague.

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

lol iirc the second carrier arrived today and they didn't even wait a moment before going in

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Death By The Blues posted:

Houthis may have launched more rockets missiles and drones towards Israel. Reported explosions in Eilat, and both Egypt and Israel have activated air defense.

wait the Houthis? I thought they were in Yemen? or do they have brigades inside Egypt?

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

the (lynch) mobs are not good, because (along with the regular horrid morality) it'll reinforce the Israeli 'the world is out to get us' mindset. Which will frustrate ceasefire negotiations.

It'll be interesting if those types of events do get plastered all over the imperial media as justification for Israel's bloodthirst

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

can we deploy later? we have a Scrum in 15 minutes

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1718731175689081041

more dead americans incoming

I guess they could be going towards Syria but lol I don't believe that for a second

double nine
Aug 8, 2013


in-laws, amirite fellas?

god what an awful snipe

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

bespoke western civilizational missiles vs barbaric mass-produced middle-eastern Hamas rockets

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Atrocious Joe posted:


the imperialists are freaked out by Hamas in part because this no longer seems to be a viable future strategy, at least at the cost they were expecting

lol Eastern Europe doesn't even get token consideration

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

out of curiosity, why is the US flying over south Gaza, if the north is where Israel is focusing its bombardments?

https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/1720382868025655429

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

some of you might be interested in listening to this tomorrow:

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

"you have to leave within 12 hours"
"where to???"
"gently caress if I care"

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

https://twitter.com/umyaznemo/status/1720816101846651034

Hamas has claimed another victim, Israeli tourism

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

PawParole posted:

after the failure of the seventh and eighth offensives in Eritrea the Ethiopian military junta (trained in counter-insurgency by Israel) started bombing weekend markets, so Eritreans would morbidly joke that you could tell how close liberation was by how many bombs were falling.

jesus christ that's bleak.
probably accurate, but ...


gently caress everything man. gently caress whatever you call this system.

double nine
Aug 8, 2013


Not this poo poo again

I'm logging off. Everyone better protest tomorrow. Or do direct action if you have an opportunity to like stop weapon transports.

double nine
Aug 8, 2013


what a senseless waste of human life.

moving on.

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

so are they doing that thing the americans did in Vietnam where they assume there's a single Pentagon-esque command center that can be destroyed to knock out the entire military logistics of Hamas?

cause that's monumentally stupid. And hilariously plausible

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Al-Saqr posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VvQn7ZzGWQ

just look at the look of defeat, sadness and despair of Benny 'Droopy' Gantz, he loving knows he's loving cooked.

self-awareness is a hell of a curse for these people

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Gaza is going to be a rubble, they're going to get their loving cleansed pile of concrete and decaying corpses - and Hamas is going to harrass the settlers there for loving decades. A true monument to Israel's deathcult

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Al! posted:

in about a year we will be told "if palestinians were so interested in statehood, how come they don't even have a parliament building????"

a year? probably gonna be next loving month

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Al-Saqr posted:

The Ministry of Health in Gaza: The occupation forces are barricading themselves in the lower floors of the Al-Shifa Complex and are taking the cadres and displaced people as human shields.

https://twitter.com/ajarabic/status/1724814138013098039?s=46&t=kY7HKwmb1RBg9U186lxtbg

I'm having trouble parsing this. are they using the human shields as they prepare to make it an IDF installation , or are they being pushed out by Hamas fighters and retreating within the hospital?

or am I falling for warpropaganda to make the other side as vile as possible (it's israel, they need no loving help with that)

double nine
Aug 8, 2013


Israel created the perfect conditions for training elite soldiers with the mental fortitude to endure long periods of hardship.

small hitch is that these elites are Palestinian

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

we are so far out of the *decorum* zone but, if you're in a discussion about the zionist genocide, this might be useful?

https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1724944179510591933


the longer this goes on, the clearer to me that the Palestinians will only survive this genocide by the grace of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, unfortunately.
god willing

this is all so heartbreaking.

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Digital Jedi posted:

Anyone have that link to the free books on Palestine?
I thought I saved it but didn't

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/solidarity-with-palestine-free-resources-and-further-reading

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

HallelujahLee posted:

War Monitor
⚡️Netanyahu to NPR: "It is necessary to make a cultural change in Gaza similar to the change that occurred in Germany and Japan"

so long as he means East Germany I'll allow it

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double nine
Aug 8, 2013

FlapYoJacks posted:

Ahahahahaha Hamas is amazing. Balls of depleted uranium (No blood/gore)

https://twitter.com/mylordbebo/status/1726231017659474294

did that thing go off while in its hand or is that smoke from a timer w sound effects?

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