The Zionist entity drafted some bonus letter where a bunch of heads of Christian and Druze villages say that Lebanon totally deserves to be invaded:
https://xcancel.com/ainiladra/status/1839638768652869703

Yes, there’s that aspect as well. Alcohol is just a byproduct of a biological process. Banning alcohol is on par with banning plants or banning compost. Likewise, banning marijuana is a fool’s errant because cannabis is a hardy plant that’s easy to grow. It’s like trying to ban an invasive species. Once you move to stuff like cocaine or heroin, it becomes easier to target them because they are synthetic products that have chemical precursors. You don’t even have to ban the actual drug but instead target the precursors required to manufacture the drug. This would be ideal because it targets drug production instead of personal use.

And I just suddenly remembered that there are some people who say that Prohibition wasn’t even done to curb alcoholism as a social vice but to prevent workers from organizing. The idea is that workers fraternize in bars and pubs after work, which would lead to a degree of class consciousness and organizing, so by banning alcohol, it was a way of destroying a third space for workers to fraternize with one another. Browsing the Wikipedia article on Prohibition shows that rich people were largely unaffected by Prohibition because they quickly hoarded large quantities of alcohol in preparation for Prohibition and had the means and land necessary to set up their own personal production of alcohol.

People don’t propose banning alcohol because a previous attempt to ban alcohol led to failure. The problem is that some people are extrapolating a single attempt to ban alcohol into some general law about how prohibition will always be doomed to failure. An easy counterexample is when the PRC banned opium. During the Century of Humiliation, huge swaths of the population were addicted to opium, so when the CPC seized power and proclaimed the People’s Republic of China, they banned opium because they saw opium as a social vice wrought by Western imperialists. And when opium was banned, the percentage of the population that were addicted to opium plummeted to the point where opium addiction ceased to be a social vice.

We have yet another example in a giant pile of examples of something leading to failure when the USians did it but leading to success when the Chinese did it. This is “China good US bad” trumping “prohibition will never work.” Instead of clinging on the false idea that prohibition never works, we ought to analyze why the CPC was successful in eradicating opium addiction while the US failed in its attempt at banning alcohol.

Lathing the phrase “Iran-backed CCP” into existence.

RIP India’s strategic ambiguity

And I love how he didn’t put Yemen under the curse because he still has to keep the fiction that Ansarallah doesn’t de facto control the country.

mfw the first tenured professor fired for anti-Zionist speech is Jewish:
https://xcancel.com/natashalennard/status/1839285771892633911

The University of Chicago just received $100 million from an anonymous donor. I wonder where this anonymous donor stands on the issue of Palestinian liberation:
https://xcancel.com/emanabdelhadi/status/1839309088397639860

Terrorist getting arrested in Morocco:
https://xcancel.com/RyanRozbiani/status/1839102434498822423

Israeli soldier Moshe Avichzer was reportedly detained in July while vacationing in Marrakesh.

He is accused of committing war crimes in Gaza after completing a three-month tour of duty there.

Avichzer had shared photos from his vacation in Morocco shortly after posting images of himself amid destroyed Palestinian homes and rubble in Gaza.

Following protests by hundreds of Moroccans demanding his prosecution as a war criminal, a Moroccan court is now reportedly preparing to hear his case.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq threatens the UAE:
https://xcancel.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1839410871325630859

The leader of the Sayyid ash-Shuhada Brigades, part of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, directly threatens the UAE, saying it is the “first line of fire” if a larger war erupts, and that the militia’s drones, which have reached Israel, can easily reach “alternative locations”.

BURKINABÉ CREATES FIRST 100% AFRICAN TYRE BRAND:
https://xcancel.com/african_stream/status/1839271402647457995

A young man from Burkina Faso named Yannick Laurent Bado has created the first fully African-owned tyre brand, JEPEB. The company is set to produce 40,000 tyres per year that can handle rough African roads and off-road terrain for the African market which, up until now, has been dominated by imports.

Seems they’re trying to say that liberalism hijacks identity politics to shelter the capitalist system from serious critique, and deflects and redirects academic and intellectual critique to the avenue of amelioration and reform of the capitalist & state welfare systems.

I guess the part that really gets me is Hedges also rejects Marxism, so what serious critique of capitalism is he trying to accomplish?

Chris Hedges is somehow against both Marxism and liberal idpol. What does that make him?

This map is terrible for East Asia (and probably everywhere else). Tibet had a kingdom that was established around 500 BC. Both the states of Ba and Shu were kingdoms as well that were only conquered by the state of Qin in 316 BC. Really the parts of the map that form modern China should just be entirely orange/blue except the northeast which should be purple. Like who the fuck is farming in Manchuria with 500 BC tech?

This map sucks.

Krauts itching to have another Kristallnacht:
https://xcancel.com/derJamesJackson/status/1839296960941142368

Dirty old man

I think the CPSU was completely damaged from the onslaught of WWII and there wasn’t anybody who could rebuild the party like Mao did with the CPC after the Long March killed the majority of CPC members. Stalin was way too old at that point and just wanted to retire. Being in a weakened and vulnerable state meant that opportunists can take advantage of personal and structural weaknesses within the party.

I thought about that angle as well. It’s a good (and scary) way to normalize the use of nukes. The idea is they start off small with indistinguishable-from-a-MOAB-with-depleted-uranium tactical nukes and work their way up. And the really scary part is there’s no hard line between a tactical nuke and a strategic nuke. Are base busters strategic nukes? How about neighborhood busters? How about dropping a tactical nuke in the middle of a metropolitan downtown that leaves a giant crater in the middle of the city while keeping the rest of the city intact? How about dropping a tactical nuke on a port that doesn’t completely obliterate the port but leaves it 65% destroyed and virtually inoperable for years to come?

Since people have been talking about nukes lately, if the IOF dropped a tactical nuke in southern Lebanon, how would people conclusively proof that a tactical nuke was actually dropped assuming that:

1. The Zionist entity lies about dropping the tactical nuke with a shit-eating grin

2. The US covers up the tactical nuke by falsifying radiation readings from their satellites

3. The US accuses the radiation readings picked up by Russian/Chinese/Iranian satellites of Russian/Chinese/Iranian disinformation

I guess my question is how obvious would it be that a tactical nuke was dropped instead of just a really large conventional bomb assuming you couldn’t rely on detecting radiation from the crater?

Most “middle of nowhere” places in the US are where the ICBM silos are located, so you should still be on track to be completely vaporized by enemy nukes.