Random Politics

[Lightspeed]

'No sign of life' at crash site of helicopter carrying Iran's president

Well this isn't a great roll of the dice.

[Ab]

My first thought was "Mossad whistling innocently in the corner" but then when the media reports out of Iran said things like "rescue efforts in the mountainous region are hampered by fog" I had a Kobe flashback and remembered that flying helicopters near mountains in fog is fucking retarded.

[Lightspeed]

Ireland's speech regarding recognising the state of Palestine is compelling.

https://youtu.be/bm81x9kFAKU?t=1009

[Ab]

NZ: not only are children failing at school, their teachers would too

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-z...dge-study.html

[xor]

1/4 of teachers failed level 1 NCEA maths. Jesus, that's damning

[xor]

https://x.com/aniobrien/status/1795622349351596108

lol

[Ab]

Well, Te Pāti Māori seems to be getting a bit of unwelcome attention this week:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/te-pat...DA3AE64OZS6WA/

[xor]

Originally Posted by Ab

Well, Te Pāti Māori seems to be getting a bit of unwelcome attention this week:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/te-pat...DA3AE64OZS6WA/

Seems to be an open secret that's been known about for some time. This guy has some really good insight into the fraud that's going on
https://x.com/CranmerWrites/status/1798823306071818459

[Ab]

TPM's former comms guy is dropping bombs on Twitter:

https://x.com/Haimonaetc/status/1797163314360848466

@Haimonaetc
Don't want to spoil tomorrow's piece, but in my first day as Head of Comms for TPM it was made clear that the various leadership structures and boards existed as a smoke-screen. Behind every Oz-like curtain was JT. Every single one.

[Lightspeed]

How to spot a Nazi: Fascism Factsheet

To summarise, key identifying features of fascism including Nazism are that they:

• arise when capitalism is in crisis (e.g. during economic recession)
• are pro-capitalist (anti-worker, anti-socialist)
• are anti-elite (anti-bourgeois, anti-transnational capitalist class)
• tend to comprise the lower-middle class (or petite bourgeoisie, including small business owners) and the unclassed (or lumpenproletariat, e.g. long-term unemployed)
• ‘punch down’, seeking to re-entrench social hierarchies (along the lines, for example, of race, religion, nationality or migration status, gender, sexuality, ability, etc)
• engage in, or prepare for the use of para-state violence.

[Lightspeed]

Everyone's getting what they want! (Don't mind the civilians.)

[Ab]

From a propaganda POV one has to admire Hamas's pure chutzpah in the way it frames anything that happens. E.g.

"In a gesture of goodwill, today we released four hostages. Israel must be condemned for the deaths of 200 people during the rescue operation."