I don’t know if it’s true, but I do know that the Israelis always always lie about who they kill and consistently spread propaganda to demoralize their enemies. I’m not doing their job for them, and I don’t think you should either.

A lot of dooming in this thread. Nasrallah is a massive loss, he’ll be missed and honoured as a true hero. But we’re really missing the forest for the trees here. What’s next for Israel? What wins do they even have left? What happens when tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, and every day after that, when the rockets keep flying into northern Israel, when the settlers are still unable to return to their homes, when the residents of Haifa keep running for cover? Nasrallah has already won, the decline of the entity is baked in. There’s nothing for them to do but death, death at a mass scale, but none of it changes the game. Hezbollah will keep pounding the Israelis, and a thousand Nasrallahs wait in the ranks. Leaders are important, but when the people have resolve you cannot stop them. If you need some hope today watch The Battle of Algiers, it shows how even if you kill everybody, you eliminate all the leaders, you cannot kill the movement. You cannot win.

Bruv you’re actually posting Hasbara propoganda on Hexbear unironically. Please reevaluate.

No real way to know until Hezbollah puts out a statement. One way or another we’re waiting. Best to prepare yourself for the worst and be joyful if otherwise.

No worries, this shit is confusing!

You’re conflating two things. I’m talking about the PRC invasion of Tibet in 1950, after which they agreed to join China. The 1959 uprising is indeed a decade afterwards and involves the total dissolution of any Tibetan autonomy, but prior to 1950 Tibet was claiming themselves as an independent sovereign nation. I’m talking about the Battle of Chamdo in 1950, where the PRC “invaded” Tibet, after which Tibet “joined” China. The 1959 rebellion is clearly a case of the PRC putting down an internal rebellion. The 1950 invasion is a bit murkier, given the confused semi-autonomous status of Tibet at the time.

True; I only didn’t include it in my comment since the Sino-Indian wars actually resulted in China losing territory, so not sure how that should be represented here.

I mean they invaded Tibet and conquered it. That was “aggression.” You can also interpret it as putting down an internal rebellion, but regardless deploying troops to a territory that you currently do not control and using force/violence to wrestle back control is “aggressive.” Note that doesn’t imply negative or positive connotations, “aggressive” is a neutral term. Again, I want to reemphasize the idea that I think this “aggression” was an unequivocally good thing.

It’s a historical fact. Parts of Tibet were annexed by the Qing, parts weren’t, but in the chaos of the breakdown of the Qing Tibet was able to wrestle some de facto independence and was governed separately, outside of control of the Chinese. The CPC brought Tibet back under control, and again I’m arguing that this invasion was a good thing and freed Tibet. But it still was an aggressive invasion.

This map is wrong; obviously China cannot be compared to the United States in terms of military invasions and occupations, but the People’s Republic of China invaded and occupied parts of Vietnam in 1979 for around a month, so that should be coloured in. Likewise, China conquered and annexed the de facto independent state of Tibet in ~1950. I’d argue that “invasion” was Very Good (unlike the Sino-Vietnamese War, which was cringe) but regardless it should be on the map. Still a marked difference but pretending the PRC hasn’t fought any aggressive wars is misleading and wrong.

I mean tbh it looks like Tumblr, which is wild to think that people might still be using

Our beloved mayor has been indicted for taking bribes from Turkish officials. 2024 is such a wild timeline. Adams is a piece of shit, basically his entire staff has already resigned because the FBI kept raiding their homes, and he’s still pledging not to resign. Pretty hilarious stuff.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams was indicted Thursday on charges that he took illegal campaign contributions and bribes from foreign nationals, including lavish overseas trips, in exchange for favors that included helping Turkish officials bypass a fire inspection for a new diplomatic tower in the city.

Adams, a Democrat and former police captain, faces conspiracy, wire fraud and bribery charges in a five-count indictment outlining a decade-long trail of corruption that began when he served as an elected official in Brooklyn and continued through his mayoral administration.

From: https://apnews.com/article/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-indictment-fbi-5aad135d1808cb9d049fccd74604e5d4

I think the only issue with this map is still the clear European bias for “cultural development.” The difference between Iron Age Ireland, with small chiefdoms and farming communities is here classified as “complex farming societies/chiefdoms”, and southern China outside of direct Zhou dynasty control is somehow just a “simple farming society” despite also having small chiefdoms and quasi-states is clearly just a case of Euro-centric “oh we’re civilised, all of us, even at this time, whilst other people aren’t.” There’s just no world where you can claim that like north-western Russia was a more complex state/culture formation than the quasi-states forming around the Pearl River delta in southern China.

Key is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_in_500_BCE.png

white — uninhabited

yellow — hunter-gatherers

purple — nomadic pastoralists

green — simple farming societies

orange — complex farming societies/chiefdoms

blue — state societies

brown — empires

Marxism is not incompatible with Islam, you don’t need to be an atheist to be a Marxist.

Yeah I think the French Resistance is definitely the most overhyped that actually ended up doing fuck all

That’s actually not true. Specifically the Yugoslav Resistance headed by Tito and the communists was incredibly effective. They had liberated parts of Yugoslavia by 1944 without any Allied help, and tied down significant German and Italian regiments that would’ve been deployed elsewhere. The Italian partisan movement helped to move Italy into all out civil war, collapsing the Italian state and forcing the Nazis to create the rump state of the RSI, again tying down a bunch fo German divisions and helping the allied advance. Sure like the French resistance didn’t really do shit but there were significant resistance movements that did materially contribute to the defeat of the Nazis.

I think it’s more of an image thing. Obviously some random UN organized “pro-democracy meeting” is not going to achieve anything of note.

Well no, the point of this video is actually Bronze Age swords like the one shown are actually about using the pointy side, not the pointy bit, in a cutting/chopping motion rather than a thrusting into another person type motion.

My favorite little quote

In addition to replicating the armor, the volunteers followed diets similar to what a Mycenaean soldier would have eaten in preparation for battle, including a meal of bread, beef, goat cheese, green olives, onions and red wine. “Interestingly, our results for blood glucose showed that the nutrition plan provided adequate energy for the volunteers during the 11-hour protocol,” Flouris said.

It’s like they’re shocked that Homer just didn’t make this shit up.