If you have the space plant a herb garden. Once established herbs are generally low maintenance and fresh herbs are an easy +10% bonus to your cooking skills.

Don’t beat yourself up about being a coward. Not everyone needs to be willing to die. Most of us have more useful things to offer than our lives.

It not that those people don’t fear death, it is that they fear the continuation of the status quo even more and in some cases they know that their death will further their cause.

For many people being under the continuation of the white supremacist imperialist patriarchy is a fate is worse than death. Its a trade off and the less you have to gain and more you have to lose the less sense that makes.

There is always a risk of death and suffering in any moment. The risk rises when you decide to be a vocal advocate for opposition to the white supremacist imperialist patriarchy. The ending of that system decreases the chance of death and suffering moment to moment for most people.

probably just rage bait to drive up reader interaction

Adnan Husain knows about that stuff. Hes got a good reading list there.

You can build makeshift roads with ladders over the rougher spots. Drive till you get stuck, lay down some ladders, drive across, pick up the ladders, repeat.

Oh my god! The Republic of China detected Chinese boats and Chinese planes?

In other news: I detect deeznuts.

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Silver outflows from China to britain in 1800-1900 were over a billion silver dollars. This was exacted in war “reparations” and the opium trade which was forced on them.

In the 250 years before 1800 China took in around a billion silver dollars from European traders in exchange for goods.

So europe took a billion silver dollars worth of trade goods from China over 250 years. Then over the next 100 years Britain took all that money along with any trade goods. Essentially making all of china slaves for 350 years.

In 1800 china’s populaiton was almost 300 million and britain was 11 million. So back of the envelope math says that Britain owes China 10,000 years of slavery. (i’ve never though about it like that but its fucking crazy)

The headline was kinda silly but I actually laughed at the sub headline.

China might, by some, be considered the great provider, but its pseudo-communist regime is a malign actor on the international stage,

What did they do that makes them malign? surely there must be evidence that they are evil.

I grew up pretty conservative too. All the right information (capitalism bad, elections and peaceful protest don’t change shit, politicians are liars, wars are made by the rich to get richer) was rolling around in my head in my late teens but so was all the reactionary bullshit and anti communist lies. They just took a long time to shake out into the conflicting sides of an argument.

The tipping point for me was the Ukraine war. It was one lie too many. I’ve got a memory that doesn’t let go when it comes to media. So I never forgot that ukraine had a nazi coup. The liberal “democracies” openly supporting nazis was too much.

All the nazi symbols that the msm didn’t know it was sposed to be blurring were like pins stabbing my eyes. Suddenly I could see that “both parties bad” wasn’t even going far enough. The entire system was built by rich white supremacists to maintain power. There is no middle ground there are fascists and there are anti fascists and all the western governments are fascists.

After a short while I realized the only anti-fascists who have a plan to eradicate fascism and make sure it can never return are communists.

It’s not just wasting our time. They are giving us a stone to sharpen our rhetoric.

Trump used to be a good liar now he is just pathetic. This is really funny.

Russia has been targeting “recruitment” offices with their air strikes over the last few weeks which is pretty fucking based.

and fuck a peace that is acceptable to both side. Genocidal fascists belong in a hole. Kill them all. They don’t get a voice in the settlement.

I’m not saying “no israeli civilians” were killed by the resistance on october 7th. I am saying that there was no organizational intention to kill civilians. I’m saying the the number is under 100.

Human rights watch is a western puppet. The videos they got came from the israelis. The article has 3 incidents and the context surrounding the incidents is purposely missing. There is no link to the videos, so we have to trust that hrw’s analysis is correct.

The 3rd story is the most telling re-read it. Every israeli in the article gets the “wearing civilian clothing” line except the person killed in the 3rd story.

Put the whole thing together and you get a story of a soldier/security/police using a civilian as cover. He got shot, the resistance fighters stopped shooting when they realized the soldier was hit and the remaining person was a civilian covered in a soldiers blood. They lead the civilian away and another fighter finished off the soldier instead of leaving him to bleed out and die slowly.

And that is the 3rd best evidence they could find.

The other incidents near the kibbutz and shelter could have been idf commanders that had been intentionally targeted by the resistance. Or they could have just ditched their guns a moment before the video starts. We don’t know.

There’s a bunch of really well researched articles here. these 2 are probably a good place to start.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/released-captive-tells-how-israeli-fire-killed-kibbutz-resident/45121 https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/new-evidence-emerges-israel-killing-its-own-civilians

None of the confirmed actions of the Resistance mach up with “frenzy of blood lust” narrative the israelis and western msm spin. Their plan was to break out, kill soldiers, take hostages, trade them for prisoners. Mass murder does nothing to help that plan. They kept their plan secret for years while preparing under the nose of a the most advanced surveillance state in history. The resistance had iron clad discipline.

There is a body of evidence showing that the idf had not just the intention to kill israelis rather than have them taken hostage but that it did so on several occasions and we only found out about the times people survived the idf’s attacks.

Everything we have seen since october 7th shows that the idf is psychotic, blood thirsty, and cares nothing for the lives of israelis or Palestinians. Everything we have seen from the resistance shows that they were more than fair to the captives, that they fight in areas without civilians, and that they are careful to not plan suicidal attacks.

We can’t know who killed all the civilians because the israelis are holding (and hiding) all the evidence but the physical evidence we do have points only at the idf.

This is why we call them social fascists

I’m sorry for your misery but this kinda made me laugh.

No. 1/3 killed on that day might have been military but it wasn’t the resistance that killed the other 2/3.

There is no evidence that the resistance killed any civilians. Its likely they might have killed some civilians but the did not intentionally kill non-combatants. There are numerous videos and testimony of Resistance fighters being cordial and kind to the captives.

The idf is directly and indirectly responsible for nearly every civilian who was killed. There is testimony from helicopter pilots that they fired on the parking lot of the rave as ravers tried to flee. There is video of israelis firing while calling ravers to come to them in effect using them as human shields. There eye witness testimony of idf firing on homes and vehicles that they knew had civilians inside. In some cases it was actually the perpetrator themself admitting to their crimes. There were over 200 resistance fighters who’s bodies were mistaken for civilians because they were burned beyond recognition along side civilians.

Lenin didn’t spend half a book talking about the necessity of founding newspapers because he never considered talking to people in real life. You will never be able to have a one hour political conversation with 10,000 people. A small podcast does that every week. Podcasts are the pamphlets and newspapers of the 21 century. If the podcasts aren’t reaching the right people we need more of them not less.