Pumpkins and Ooze Discussion for October 30th to November 5th, 2023 - The International Ghouls-Based Order - COTW: Lebanon

Image is from the January 2023 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. Over 50 heads of state and 600 CEOs attended.

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Imagine a terrifying world where we are all ruled by monsters of every stripe. And not hot ones like werewolves, but instead decaying zombies and mummies who are both insensitive to, and actively benefit from the immense suffering they cause on a daily basis. The top echelon of society, filled with profit-seeking, bloodsucking vampires. And the worst of it is that they repeat on a daily basis that what they are doing is not only just, but there is no other possible way to do it.

Pretty spooky, right? What if I told you that this world... was our own?

Happy Halloween!

Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

The Country of the Week is Lebanon! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.

Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.

This week's first update is here.

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When Russian troops crossed the Ukrainian border on the 24th of February 2022, I was pretty unsure on what position to adopt regarding that war. As the annoying politics guy in the lives of the people I love, I had to adopt an official stance. I spent the first week of the war just confused, then I leaned towards the pro-Russian side because of vibes and contrarianism, then solidified my pro-Russian stance after realising the effects of that conflict for American hegemony across the planet.
Now 600+ days later, I've never been so confident about the legitimacy of an ideological decision. The way the Ukraine-Israel-USA axis has coalesced around being the most delusional, evil and cringe axis in history has really solidified my hate for these weirdos. Hating the illegitimate zionist entity has been the only consistent position in my life, and seeing the Ukraine freaks align themselves with the entity has made my hater life easier. I remind you all of what Chinese social media people said, supporting Russia and Palestine makes you a real geopolitics understander.
- Trust in DPRK, they don’t miss. If ever confused I look to them
- As I’ve read more about the modern history of Palestine, I think I’m starting to understand at least one reason why Israel and the US are so close: the very existence of Israel and the nature of the Zionist state throws the entire region into chaos. This prevents the Arab nations from being able to focus resources on their development outside of the sphere of imperial influence.
  Instead of being able to focus on internal development, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan (among others) have to deal with the refugee issues Israel creates. They have to be on guard against the aggressive Israeli military. They have to deal all the little ways in which Israel fucks with them.
  Don’t want to deal with all this? Well the US has the cure to the disease they created! Just be like Sisi or Abdullah or whatever and bend the knee the to US and Israel. That won’t make all your problems go away, but they take the boot off your neck just enough to let you breathe a little.
  (btw I know I’m preaching to the choir with you, LargePenis. You are more familiar with these issues than I am so please correct me if I’m out of line at all)
  In this way, Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan really are an axis as they serve the precise same functions in their respective regions: to try and divert Russian and Chines resources, time, energy, and focus to having to deal with their bullshit.
- The way the Ukraine-Israel-USA axis has coalesced around being the most delusional, evil and cringe axis in history
  Maybe the most cringe, but I feel like the Axis axis takes the cake for being the most delusional and evil.
  
  Yeah good point lmao, maybe the most evil axis of my lifetime
  
  :so-far:
  
  So far
- If it wasn't for my party's connections in the donbass I wouldn't have known what's up in the lead-up to the war and probably adopted the second internationalist fence straddler position a lot of the Communists of Europe and America hold and be one of the insufferable contrarians that goes "both sides has fascists"

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