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"The Al-Qassam Brigades - the armed wing of Hamas - established an official military choir back in 2017. This was their first song. "Heaven's Wrath Upon the Invaders". I've taken the liberty of adding English subtitles with the help of
Work in progress by the talented, Aubrey Jangala Dixon
Aubrey Tjangala was born in 1974 at Yayi Yayi, a Pintupi outstation 30km west of Papunya. Yayi Yayi was a temporary settlement established by Pintupi people as they began their migration back into the Western Desert during the homelands movement of the 1970s.
After returning to his home Country,
Aubrey lived at his father's outstation,
Ininti, before settling in Kintore where he resides today.
So beautiful, so relaxing.
michael hurley.
Orbital Harvest.
My piece for the new issue of Kitchen Table magazine, crowdfunding now.
Started watching The Pitt last week, and omg it's just like Grey's Anatomy except if Grey's Anatomy were good ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ
fuck it, i think we should let the Chinese mad scientist guy experiment with controversial alzheimer's cures on great apes leading to a new age of higher intelligent primates. can't make anything worse.
Planet of the Apes 2028
going to raise a cadre of militant maoist orangutans deep within the cascade mountains. o7
people paid attention to the systematic slaughter of alawites for a total of two days then everyone moved on. it is not enough that ikhwani/daeshi/hts supporters continue to lie through their teeth; they've been doing it for the past 14 years as they fooled everyone with their color revolution and worked hard to suppress their true sectarian tendencies to non-arabic speakers, but at least now more people see right through them. don't forget their common genocidal revolution slogans popularized by abdul baset al-sarout: "we will kill the alawis and the shias have to leave", and "oh nusayri (pejorative for alwaites) we're coming to slaughter you without agreement", and "alawis to the grave, christians to beirut". it was never about assad, they made their intentions clear from the beginning, and those of us who are native arabic speakers knew exactly what they meant. have you guys seen the footage of a syrian ngo distributing iftar meals wrapped in text that reads "the alawi has the right to live in peace in the grave." mocking & celebrating the massacres...
it was a proxy war backed by the west and arab gulf states; not a "sunni genocide" like they deceivingly love to claim, how many hundreds of thousands of combatants were killed during the war? the syrian army soldiers and jihadists included? no one is denying that civilians were killed but don't omit the fact that jihadists were perpetrators of heinous crimes. it wasn't bashar regime vs sunni civilians, they love to completely take takfiri death squads out of the discussion. bashar's army was a sunni majority and alawites are mass slaughtered, it was never about assad. alawites who spent years in bashar's prisons were/are also killed by the jihadis. it was never about assad and it wasn't about rejecting ba'athism when they've been seen praising saddam.
the killings and major human rights abuses overwhelmingly perpetrated against alawites did not start on march 6, they have been happening since december, only they escalated on a much larger scale with entire families killed in cold blood starting march 6. militants from death squads have been ordered to cease filming and uploading their atrocities otherwise they'd be seriously reprimanded which explains why new emerging videos have significantly declined. shame on every single one who applauded the cia/nato-backed takfiri jihadist militant takeover. you have the blood of thousands on your hands but you most likely have no regrets.
it is not just western media that not only whitewashed these unforgivable crimes but went as far as blaming them on/framing alawites and other minorities as 'remnants of the regime', how are women and children remnants of the regime... just like regurgitating zionist propaganda pertaining to gaza claiming civilians including children are hamas militants. not to mention the EU's despicable statement. and let's not forget qatar and saudi's involvement with financing those salafist militants over the years. as well as arabic ~news~ outlets like qatari al jazeera which has been the mouthpiece of al-qaeda over the years. we rightly condemn usa and european hypocrisy but we cannot disregard global south hypocrisy when it happens, and i don't just mean news outlets, there are people who are still celebrating these events.
starring in an iraq war shoot and cry in the year 2025โฆ absolute fucking loser behavior. i think none these dudes should ever get to be in front of a camera ever again. a24 marketing this shit like a goddamn boyband film is straight up evil
yeah this shit is EVIL evil and people are SO fucking stupid it's unreal
westboro baptist maxxing until moral improves & all pinkwashing homoimperialist yanks reach the deepest circles of hell.
Stamps printed in Oman dedicated to cats
Do we think "Israel" brazenly bragging about not allowing humanitarian aid through the border will be enough for people to stop scolding Gazans for making individual/family fundraisers because "it's better to donate to trusted orgs instead" or are they never going to get it?
Don't let your anxiety cause inaction, especially since there are people spending an incredible amount of effort to weed out the scammers and ease your anxiety about scammers. I don't know what else to do short of begging. Please don't let them starve. All my friends in Gaza are asking me why their campaigns are stagnating and I don't know how to answer them.
Anas is fighting cancer. (fundraiser) (vetting)
Amal needs to feed her baby. (fundraiser) (vetting #175)
Samir is in danger of losing his leg. (fundraiser) (vetting #428)
Mahmoud needs to pay remote tuition fees. (fundraiser) (vetting)
Please boost them and every vetted fundraiser that comes your way, and donate if you can. If you have any following and can think of anything like charity streams or giveaways to promote campaigns, please do so. This is a very crucial and difficult time for Gaza.
โMy place is placeless, my trace is traceless,no body, no soul, I am from the soul of souls.I have chased out duality, lived the two worlds as one.โ โ Rumi
Portal to the Infinite Talon Abraxas
Nikolay Georgiev
Really funny that Western press & media suddenly understands how asymmetric warfare works when one of its partisans is looking to wage it.
What is described here isn't functionally different from Palestinian resistance but when Lebanese or Palestinians do it it's "terrorism". When Euro-Canadians do it it's asymmetric / irregular warfare and resistance.
If you're still somehow unconvinced of the hypocrisy.
people in the usa are so uninformed/misinformed/propagandized about socialist countries that even knowing like, basic facts about the electoral system of marxist leninist countries feels like being privy to some kind of forbidden knowledge.
most of my ride-or-die mutuals probably already know about al of this, but for any of the non-tankies who follow me who might not be aware:
in most marxist-leninist countries, the way the elections work is that the citizens elect representatives to the local council/assembly, who in turn elect from amongst themselves a delegate to go to the council/assembly at the next level up, all the way up to the national assembly, which in turn elects from itself a president/chairman. depending on the country and time period these selections by the assembly might also be put to a confirmation vote by the public, to either confirm or veto the assembly's selection, but this is largely a formality.
let's use cuba as an example, since it's a small country and consequently it's system of nested assemblies has a lot less layers and is much easier to keep track of. community meetings are held where between two and eight candidates are put forward for a single seat to the local municipal assembly. the municipal assemblies, in turn, elects from themselves a representative to go to the national assembly. prospective representatives to the national assembly are also put forward by various trade unions and other mass organizations which represent students, the elderly, non-working mothers, etc, these proposed candidates are also voted on by the municipal assembly. the national assembly then in turn elects from itself the 31 member council of state, which in turn elects the president. these representatives elected by the municipal and national council are then put to a confirmation vote by the whole citizenry, but again, this is largely a formality. there also used to be provincial assembly that was above the municipal assembly and below the national assembly, but this was removed in order to streamline the system and give a more direct path from the democratic input at the municipal election level to the national assembly.
now, i'm sure there are any number of critiques you could make, or ways this system might be improved- but anti-communists by and large aren't interested in critiquing the cuban electoral system (or any other marxist-leninist electoral system) as it actually exists. they completely ignore the multi-candidate municipal elections, ignore the electoral process by which the municipal assemblies select the delegates to the national assembly, and instead laser focus on the mere formality confirmation vote on the representatives the municipal assemblies elected, to paint a narrative that in communist countries you can only choose one candidate. you know the drill, "in communist countries, 'elections' have become a sham, a farce! you have no choice, but to vote 'YES' for your evil dictator overlord- under communism, so-called 'elections' are merely a method of control and humiliation, meant to enforce total submission to a system you have no say in!" here's just one example of that kind of rhetoric: [link]
the very existence of multi-candidate municipal elections utterly debunks this of course, people in communist countries choose between candidates in elections all the time. even if you completely reject the "bottom-up" method of leninist democracy, and you think that the elections by the municipal assembly of representative to the national assembly have no meaningful democratic content, (if this is you, just out of curiosity, what's your opinion on the electoral college? or the supreme court?) it's pretty hard to deny that the competitive races in the municipal/local level put at least some democratic input into the system.
now, i can already hear what some of the anti-communists who lurk my blog because they hate-follow me are thinking. "multi-candidate municipal elections? in cuba????? where the fuck are you getting this dogshit. let me guess, you read it on the website of some tankie political party, and like the gullible moron you are, you immediately believed it. pathetic. find any source, *any* source at all that isn't overtly communist that corroborates this claim."
this is a genuinely good point! i did originally learn about this from overtly communist sources, and if those were the only sources claiming this, it really would cast some pretty serious doubt on the veracity of these claims. so, can i find anti-communist sources that corroborate this?
yes.
from the congressional research service:
Although National Assembly members were directly elected for the first time in February 1993, only a single slate of candidates was offered. Direct elections for the National Assembly were again held in January 1998 and January 2003, but voters again were not offered a choice of candidates. In contrast, at the local level elections for municipal elections are competitive, with from two to eight candidates. To be elected, the candidate must receive more than half of the votes cast. As a result, runoff elections between the two top candidates are common. In 2007, the process of nominating candidates for the local municipal assemblies took place in September 2007. Municipal elections were held October 21, 2007 (with runoffs on October 28), and over 15,000 local officials were chosen. The new municipal assemblies then met on December 2, 2007 to nominate candidates for provincial assemblies and for the National Assembly of Peopleโs Power.
[link]
given that this is an anti-communist source, they are of course playing up the confirmation vote in the usual ways (ouagh! aough! only one candidate! no choice!) but given that this document is intended to be viewed by congress, and isn't really intended for the general public, it has to at least passingly address actual reality at least a little and can't spend it's whole time rolling in propaganda slop.
or check this out, from fox fucking news:
Municipal assemblies also nominate candidates for half the representatives on provincial assemblies. The provincial assemblies then nominate candidates for half the representatives for the National Assembly, which elects Cuba's ruling Council of State, which in turn elects the president. The other half of the candidates for the municipal and provincial assemblies are selected by a government electoral commission, assuring continued Communist Party control. Once all of the candidates are nominated, voters choose among them in general elections. Every municipality is divided into block-level voting districts. The two-month process of electing municipal assembly representatives begins when residents gather in an empty lot or at a school to nominate neighbors as candidates. Each district picks at least two candidates โ more populous ones have more. The top winners of show-of-hands votes at the meetings became the official candidates put before voters in Sunday's election. In all, there are 27,000 candidates to fill 12,589 seats on municipal assemblies for 2ยฝ-year terms.
and this is in an article about overt anti-communists successfully getting nominated as candidates for the municipal assembly! (they lost their election though lol bye bozos) [link]
they're trying to spin it, of course- the part about the "government electoral commission" is misleading and inaccurate (as previously stated, the other half of candidates are put forward by mass organizations such as trade unions, which are then voted on by the municipal assembly. the electoral commission simply approves the selections made by the municipal assembly.) fox news, engaging in anti-communist disinfo? unheard of!
but even here enough of the truth is shining through the lies to put to bed the idea that there's no element of choice in the cuban electoral system.
and what's crazy is that all of this info is just out there for anyone who cares to look. but a lot of people are simply too incurious to bother, they were told that the Enemy Country is a totalitarian regime without any democracy and it just never occurs to them to check into it. the US ruling class barely even needs to try to hide the truth, because most people in the US are too lazy and apathetic to look for it.
