chapotraphouse

https://xcancel.com/Dusty42402999/status/1854533423291126122

If you're trying to escape red states, we can probably help with a couch to crash on or a hot meal.

If you're queer and considering buying firearms, we will help you train.

Things are going to be dark.

Could not find a chart with the breakdown "of them children" for Palestine on Statista.

Experts believe the real death toll in Gaza is at least ~4.4x what this shows, so IOF is more accurately ~40 times worse.

Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext

Using this estimate, the civilian deaths per day average is 497.33 in Gaza.

The UN agency said it verified the details of 8,119 people killed in Gaza from November 2023 to April 2024.

Its analysis found around 44% of verified victims were children and 26% women. The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds.

About 80% of victims were killed in residential buildings or similar housing, the agency added.

above quotes from here: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5wel11pgdo

It's still pretty early in the genocide but the damage is easily visible

@Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net

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I asked to see BOB hoping to see the guy in the advert but instead it was some early 30s guy who looks like he masturbates too hard. I want to buy a bed / futon because I stood on mine and it broke so it’s like I’m slowly being swallowed by the hole when I sleep and it’s extremely uncomfortable. I asked “best bed couches please” and the guy showed me there “best” but they were two thousand dollars minimum, I asked “oh so the discount is applied during the purchase” and discount Bob was like “no you pay this price AND taxes” wtf.. I asked if they had any cheaper and they said “go to reymour and Flanagan across the street or order online”

https://xcancel.com/ayeejuju/status/1854292515870159036

They were running against a batshit insane senile cheeto and couldn't win the election anyway. They refused to go left, they collaborate with devils like the cheneys and when we pointed out the writing on the wall, we were met with "russian disinformation farms" and "tankies" for having a fucking brain and seeing that moving right will not make racist sexist republicans vote for a black woman. And lo and behold, 94% of republicans voted for trump, FUCKING OBVIOUSLY. The only fucking reason Kamala didn't run on being progressive was because at the end of the day, there's no "lesser evil," and we've all been saying this for fucking ever, the democrats are genocidal capitalist ghouls, and they will support america's interests no matter how much blood is spilled and no matter how many people get stomped on by bigots controlling the white house, the senate, the supreme court (which the democrats just let get stocked with republicans) and probably the house too. And they don't care. "Just give us money and make sure to vote blue next election" before they slink off into the darkness and begin their political pickpocketing two years from now. FUCK, now queer and genderqueer and bipoc people in america have to live with the republicans doing whatever they want for the next four years because GOD FORBID THE DEMOCRATS LISTEN TO A SINGLE FUCKING HING THEIR CONSTITUENTS SAY INSTEAD OF PLUGGING THEIR EARS AND SCREAMING "VOTE!"

i hate it here. every one of you redditors that posted shit like "i'm on the right side of history" while you refuse to leverage your one single fucking scrap of political power in this shitty dictatorship. fuck lemmy.world, fuck reddit, fuck libs for soypogging for kamala's campaign and not using their eyes to see that there's no difference in the end, the ghouls are ghouls.

Edit for clarity: I'm not asking why the Tankie/Anarchist grudge exist. I'm curious about what information sources - mentors, friends, books, TV, cultural osmosis, conveys that information to people. Where do individuals encounter this information and how does it become important to them. It's an anthropology question about a contemporary culture rather than a question about the history of leftism.

I've been thinking about this a bit lately. Newly minted Anarchists have to learn to hate Lenin and Stalin and whoever else they have a grudge against. They have to encounter some materials or teacher who teaches them "Yeah these guys, you have to hate these guys and it has to be super-personal like they kicked your dog. You have to be extremely angry about it and treat anyone who doesn't disavow them as though they're literally going to kill you."

Like there's some process of enculturation there, of being brought in to the culture of anarchism, and there's a process where anarchists learn this thing that all (most?) anarchists know and agree on.

Idk, just anthropology brain anthropologying. Cause like if someone or something didn't teach you this why would you care so much?

Absolutely demonic

I wonder if mainstream media will report this part of the story, or just the part where they get their backsides beaten.

These are the people Biden pretends to want a two state solution with.

Utterly demonic settler behavior

I'm struggling to find numbers because Google has been enshittified and will only show me local rental advertising, but, like, if I understand this the cost of food, since Biden took office, is up like 20%, and rent is up ~30%, medicine and childcare are still totally unaffordable, and everything else is much more expensive. Meanwhile wages are up like, idk, 20$ a week or something.

Cause, this all adds up to me as people are drastically poorer than they were four years ago, but the economics perverts on bsky insist people should kiss Biden's shoes because wages are up 4.3% and "The ecnonomy is good."

Can someone help with numbers I don't know how to convince a liberal that people need to eat food or they'll die.

There's so much text here I don't know how to alt text it but it's a list of 17 bluesky block lists I'm on because I'm a evil cryptofash tankie authoritarian trump supporting jill stein voting blah blah blah and it looks like I got on an anti-ukraine list somehow?

Democratic politics in a nutshell

many such cases folks

My university 🏫 days were filled with enthusiasm and hope. Every morning ⏱️at seven, I would wake up eagerly, get ready, and head to my university—the place where I planted my dreams. 💤I attended lectures, met my friends who ere an inseparable part of that beautiful ♥️🌷experience. We’d have breakfast together, laugh, and share our thoughts about the future and the projects we dreamed of achieving.🥺 But suddenly, the war came. The bombs of occupation destroyed everything. Our lives turned upside down, and the dream became rubble. I lost many of my friends, and the place lost the warmth it once had. Our dreams vanished, leaving painful memories of every moment I spent with them.😭💔 Each of us emerged from that experience with a painful story, with a wound that doesn’t heal, a dream that turned into a memory, and a hope that evaporated in the sky of cruelty and occupation.💔 https://gofund.me/1222af19

Ugh these people suck so bad. On average, western leftists are worse than useless. Some bullet points are kinda interesting, even if annoying.

That's the post

“I didn’t vote,” says the Kangaroo.

“Are you not allowed?”

“I am not allowed and I don’t want to.”

“You don’t want to?”

“No, because it’s not an election,” says the Kangaroo. “It’s just the illusion of democracy, a mock poll, the Fata Morgana of popular government. In short, it’s only the appearance of an election, or, to use the official terminology: a dummy ballot.

“A dummy ballot?”

“It’s as if you go into a supermarket and can choose between soup packets by Maggi or soup packets by Knorr, but in reality, it’s all Nestlé. The dummy ballot suggests freedom, but in reality, I tell you: it’s all capitalism, it’s all Nestlé, it’s all chicken. But because I generally do not wish to consume packaged soup, I don’t really give a hoot about brand options at the supermarket.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kangaroo_Chronicles

I never finished reading it, but the first chapter is on youtube as an audiobook read by the author, it's good for a laugh

Marc-Uwe Kling: Kangaroo Chronicles - Chapter 1 (youtube, 4m 17s)