Hezbollah is a Shiite Muslim political party and militant group based in Lebanon, where its extensive security apparatus, political organization, and social services network have fostered its reputation as “a state within a state.” Founded in the chaos of the fifteen-year Lebanese Civil War, the Shiite group is driven by its opposition to Israel and its resistance to Western influence in the Middle East.
Led since 1992 by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese Parliament.
Hezbollah was established in the wake of the 1982 Lebanon War by Lebanese clerics who had studied in Najaf. It adopted the model set out by Ayatollah Khomeini after the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and the party's founders adopted "Hezbollah" as the name chosen by Khomeini. The organization was created with the support of 1,500 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps instructors, and aggregated a variety of Lebanese Shia groups into a unified organization to resist the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon.
During the Lebanese Civil War, Hezbollah's 1985 manifesto listed its objectives as the expulsion of "the Americans, the French and their allies definitely from Lebanon, putting an end to any colonialist entity on our land". From 1985 to 2000, Hezbollah also participated in the 1985–2000 South Lebanon conflict against the South Lebanon Army (SLA) and Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and fought again with the IDF in the 2006 Lebanon War. During the 1990s, Hezbollah also organized volunteers to fight for the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War.
Since 1990, Hezbollah has participated in Lebanese politics, in a process which is described as the Lebanonisation of Hezbollah, and it later participated in the government of Lebanon and joined political alliances. After the 2006–08 Lebanese protests and clashes, a national unity government was formed in 2008, with Hezbollah and its opposition allies obtaining 11 of 30 cabinet seats, enough to give them veto power. In August 2008, Lebanon's new cabinet unanimously approved a draft policy statement that recognizes Hezbollah's existence as an armed organization and guarantees its right to "liberate or recover occupied lands" (such as the Shebaa Farms). Hezbollah is part of Lebanon's March 8 Alliance, in opposition to the March 14 Alliance. It maintains strong support among Lebanese Shia Muslims, while Sunnis have disagreed with its agenda. Hezbollah also has support in some Christian areas of Lebanon.
Since 2012, Hezbollah involvement in the Syrian civil war has seen it join the Syrian government in its fight against the Syrian opposition. Between 2013 and 2015, the organisation deployed its militia in both Syria and Iraq to fight or train local militias to fight against the Islamic State.
From 2006, the group's military strength grew significantly, to the extent that its paramilitary wing became more powerful than the Lebanese Army. Hezbollah has been described as a "state within a state", and has grown into an organization with seats in the Lebanese government, a radio and a satellite TV station, social services and large-scale military deployment of fighters beyond Lebanon's borders.The group currently receives military training, weapons, and financial support from Iran and political support from Syria, although the sectarian nature of the Syrian war has damaged the group's legitimacy. In 2021, Nasrallah said the group had 100,000 fighters.
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I'm mad about petty shit
I'm still salty about an interaction on here from like over a week ago. Like I was trying to encourage someone to exercise and they said they didn't have the energy and I was like "if you make yourself get over that initial difficulty you might have more energy in the future" and some random ass uninvited third party motherfucker came in accusing me of anti-neurodivergant ableism for saying "just make yourself" do a thing, and I just gotta sayFUCK YOU. You don't know me, you don't know my brain, you don't know what I personally fucking struggle with, and i don't deserve some random shithead casting some fucking malicious aspersion on my genuine attempt to encourage someone to take better care of themselves. Fuck you fuck you fuck you.
I've had luck blocking the most annoying people. Irk me once, shame on you. Irk me twice, can't get irked again.
blocking sucks and limits usability tbh. I get it but if they're prolific enough threads are populated with comments you can't expand or read.
I wouldn't want to read a thread in which an annoying person played a major role.
This could never work for me because I can't block myself.
I can block you for you if you like.
I wonder how many people have blocked me because i can be pretty annoying
I block people based on how often they use the following emojis in arguments.
In any case I vaguely recall liking you and or your takes.
the most neurotypical behavior ever, holding grudges about shit like this for weeks!!
I hate how accusatory the internet can be. I do get frustrated myself over being told "just do the thing!" But like... That doesn't mean the person telling me is ableist, tf.
Not like I'm immune to being salty on the internet, but yeah. Sorry that's frustrating for you I definitely will think about shit like that for years lol
As close to universal advice as you can get other than a few post-exertion disorders.
"just do the thing" is the best advice because its right.
Telling someone who cant walk to get a wheel chair isn't ablist. its just good advice. Neuro divergent people might not want to do some things but forcing themselves to do them is often the best thing to do.
nah it's fucking garbage. If we could just do it we wouldn't be asking goddamn