Libbed: Out Votes: Cast Bismillah: Al Rahman al Raheem

Things that will not tank your election campaign: -Being Muslim -Seeing Muslims and Arabs as human beings -Recognizing the genocide in Gaza -Seeing trans people as human beings Things that will tank your election campaign: -Being in the Republican Party

I don't want to directly quote tweet but there are apparently still people who think the US is somehow only "indirectly" involved in the genocide in Gaza. We've spent probably $50+ billion to make sure it happens! American soldiers have killed and died making sure it continues!

It doesn't really get reported in US media but the factions of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces are uniformed members of the Iraqi Security Forces and serve on Iraqi Ministry of Defense installations alongside Iraqi MoD personnel. And we don't act like it, but Iraq is a sovereign state.

Mayor bf, aloof gf

Amusing that a group that traces some of its lineage to Gaddafi pan-arab/pan-africanist militias in Chad like 40 years ago now enjoys the support of Israel and the DC Beltway politicos who just learned about them when the piles of bodies of the dead civilians they killed became visible from space

Bro got that "Arkan's Tigers" fit on at the farmers market

To be clear this would be an act of brazen aggression and an act of war against a sovereign state and its internationally recognized government and should (in a just world) bring strong sanctions on the US by the rest of the international community

It's crazy how basically every factual statement here is just flat out wrong.

For all the pro-Israel people who enjoy pointing to the genocide the UAE-supported RSF is carrying out in Sudan as an attempt to highlight the imagined hypocrisy of Pro-Palestine people... That be your mans, tho. Yeah, the country you be hangin with! You don't feel bad or nothin? Like, no guilt?

So we finally accept that the Gaza Ministry of Health statistics are legitimate now that Trump is President? Cause I seem to recall every article having "Hamas-controlled health ministry" up until late January 2025, and a certain liberal President saying Palestinians were lying about dying.

Killing hundreds including children because Palestinians can’t dig up bodies buried under stories of rubble fast enough with their bare hands, quite literally ignoring the remains of their own kin because certain lives are worth more, even in death. Demented and deranged.

I wish we were a country with municipal governments who actually gave a shit about providing services and improving the lives of their residents

National level American politicians would sooner imagine the end of the Republic than exerting any leverage whatsoever over Israel. Indeed, that's why Trump is president right now.

Israel is going to keep bombing Gaza and making our efforts at diplomacy loon stupid and embarrassing until we actually take away their toys. Which the President can do with a simple phone call to his Secretary of Defense or his Secretary of State, or both with the miracle of a conference call.

Started doing the ICE fitness test as a warmup to my real workouts

I think it's important to see this acquisition as both a bridge from a fleet of aging (American) F-16s to a theoretical future fleet of (Turkish) KAANs, but also as a big political move in an era where Turkey is now one of NATO's biggest arms producers in an era of re-armament against Russia

Really don't love how normalized genocidal mass murder is* *when done by Israel or a UAE proxy militia

It kind of tracks though because the UNSC government in the series is a militarist hellhole whose Marines are stupid incompetent jarheads who suck absolute shit at fighting and humanity is basically on the verge of extinction when the alien Covenant have a religious schism and civil war.

Chuckling at the fact that the production of fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom is being saved by... Turkey ordering EuroFighters. The sun truly has set on the British Empire, the Turk lusts for Vienna once again, and the British will sell him the weapons to do so.

Turkey has formally selected its next conventional aircraft - and, as has been long hinted, it is the Eurofighter Typhoon. This will be the first Turkish Air Force combat aircraft since WW2 that is not made in the United States. Delivery (which currently is limited to 20 aircraft) will take years.

I know this will impact tens of millions of people, obviously, but I'm currently thinking of my old refugee clients, mostly Afghans, who were 100% reliant on SNAP to eat. Mostly big families, with a single earner (the husband) who worked minimum wage jobs cleaning hotels or working groceries.

Look at my Navy dawgggggg We're losin to China 🤯😂🤣

Small point but the weapon burning ceremony a few weeks ago consisted mostly of older AK-47s and PKMs. Here we see PKK members with their actual standard combat weapons - M16s and M4s, usually with some kind of optic, including thermal optics. Also an AKS-74U because that's still a prestige gun.

A year ago we had a government Bureau with hundreds of highly experienced international disaster response personnel, with tons of funding, capable of getting search and rescue teams and 10s of thousands of tons of relief items anywhere in the world in hours. We don't have that capability anymore.

Relatedly, someone should tell Dems that a lot of the white, non-college educated, working class voters in the Midwest are (((“””Dearborn”””)))-style individuals, maybe that’ll help.

Hell yes let's make a huge ship that fits our entire stockpile of SM-3s and TLAMs and Harpoons and just park it in the SCS. We can even paint a big target on it.

Hundreds of senior USAID civil service staff decided "maximum compliance" was the way to deal with the illegal, irrational, and absurd DOGE dismantling of the Agency. The result? Their entire legacy was destroyed but crucially most kept their jobs in the new State Dpt. These are careerist cowards.

but... but the troops... the troops are all libs who love the constitution... they were gonna do a mutiny... the cynical lefties on bluesky were too disconnected from how diverse and educated and woke the troops are...

It can be just like UNIFIL, which Israel has bombed and attacked with impunity in southern Lebanon! Very helpful.

We got DC Shabiha folks, watch out

It is often forgotten, but Israel has been dropping bombs on Lebanon since October 8, 2023. I take a brief look at that forgotten front, where Israel has killed thousands of Lebanese civilians. Using recent Google Earth images, I discuss the war in southern Lebanon.

It is often forgotten, but Israel has been dropping bombs on Lebanon since October 8, 2023. I take a brief look at that forgotten front, where Israel has killed thousands of Lebanese civilians. Using recent Google Earth images, I discuss the war in southern Lebanon.

DC tonight

Also (speaking from experience) the more you learn about what the US government has done very recently in most in the world, the less you want to be a part of it. And that only gets worse once you spend time in government service.

Might do a brief write up on this topic but the UNIFIL shooting range is within a few hundred yards of dozens of visible bomb craters from Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon through summer 2024, visible on Google Earth.

Genuinely lmao Who could have predicted

Two years ago I got permanently banned from lib stronghold r/politics for saying "River to the sea is not an inherently genocidal statement" lol How the turn tables...

Unsure how you'd decentralize economic planning, allow worker cooperatives to generate profit from state industries, while decentralizing political power away from Party control and into the control of the Soviet Republics, thus destroying the Union, but for youth sports.

Smiling serenely as I remember the posts from earlier this year fantasizing about our brave Troops™ (whomst all voted for Kamala) saving us because they just love the God Damned Constitution so much.

I fear we're going to need an even bigger "fell for it again" award then all the previous fell for it again awards for Saudi Arabia in a few weeks

Somebody in the IDF finally looked at the price of having 50yo F-15 airframes launching AIM-9s and Python 3s and even AIM-120s at Shahed 101s

"I'm going through a divorce" We know, you already said you work at DHS

Daily reminder that USAID recorded zero (0) incidents of Hamas looting humanitarian aid. Meanwhile, the Israel-backed former ISIS drug smuggling gang of Yasser Abu Shabab was allowed to camp out just beyond the gates of the Karem abu Salem crossing and loot trucks in sight of IDF troops.

Iran is the only Democracy in the Middle East. The Guardians of the Islamic Revolution are the most moral army in the world. Velayet e-Faqih has a right to exist. Iran is the only Twelver Shia country in the world. Why can't Baloch people just go to Pakistan? If we don't sell them F-14s, Russia will

Sorry, but "-ian" is also a common Iranian last name, so I have no choice to assume that Lando is in fact from Esfahan. لاندو کالریسیان

UXO cleanup was not something USAID did, that was a State affair. In Gaza, we kept advocating for more UXO work, but it was always tied to the ceasefire negotiations and Israel's desired "humanitarian bubbles" - the project which became GHF. As a result, no meaningful US-funded UXO work occurred.

"The November 5 UNAMI report put the death toll from teargas cartridges to the head and chest at 16 at least. The IHCHR reported that on October 25 alone, eight people were killed in this way."

Do not let anyone attempt to memoryhole or whitewash what has happened to the people of Gaza. Do not let it be flattened into "just another war." Anyone with a computer can go look at Gaza right now. Left: "Netzarim Corridor" area in April of 2021. Right: Same area, December 2024.

Indonesia reinforces growing rumors that they will acquire Chengdu J-10 fighter jets from China. They are hedging their bets, buying something from everyone now, plus potential future options (Turkish KAAN and S. Korean KF-21). Now they add China to the list.