I don’t know how many of you beloved news mega Hexbears even know my name, but I wanted to tell you that this chad n cuck ranker is going to become a father in a few months. This is the main reason that I’ve been absent recently, my wife is having quite a difficult pregnancy and it’s really hard for us both to prepare to raise a child far away from our homelands with barely any bigger family structure. It’s a boy, but my wife isn’t liking my name suggestions. How can she not love suggestions like Nasrallah, Qassam and Shahid-136.

To keep it news related, I’ve been getting into the Ukrainian war again and it’s finally exciting to follow the line moving. Learning new names like Krasnogorovka, Netailove, Ocheretyne has been great, and now I’m excited to see what insane Soviet industrial achievement is in Chasiv Yar after the salt mines of Soledar, the coke plant of Avdiivka and the Azot mining complex in Severodonetsk. It has been also fantastic to finally see some of the most annoying battles end, like what was the point of Ivanivske, Marinka and Pervomaiske after all this time. Inshallah one day I can stop hearing about Synkivka, Ugledar and Robotyne, the line freezing there for so long deeply annoys me.

BREAKING: An actionist broke in to Kongsberg Gruppens weapons factory in Norway and destroyed multiple engine parts for Israel’s F-35 fighter jets:
https://nitter.poast.org/Pal_action/status/1781719987729604922

Local news: Rise in anti-semetic incidents.

Pictured: Free Palestine graffiti

Biden admin is quietly pressuring countries to vote against Palestinian statehood at the UN, according to diplomatic cables leaked to me

this guy is so evil

It still blows my mind that the Nordstream pipeline sabotage was the single largest release of methane ever at 478,000 tonnes. Methane has a Global Warming Potential over 20 years that is 81.2 times worse than CO2. But don’t worry, it’s not like the rest of global production and transport of methane is riddled with holes.

AOC continues to stake out a very interesting position on the Dem ideological spectrum

Votes against Israel aid, but joins statement — unlike any other Squad member — affirming Israel’s right to self-defense and signaling support for strengthening Iron Dome

https://x.com/WakeUp2Politics/status/1781757416625103208

/r/chapotraphouse AOC-haters are forever vindicated. she is Nancy Pelosi.

My favourite lecturer was in a severe car accident. His wife might not make it, they’re both very old. He’s an old Yugo tank commander turned engineer. Very sad

Edit: wrong mega, pour one out

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what do you even say to this

US makes failed bid for Iran to allow ‘symbolic strike’ by Israel - The Cradle - 16 April 2024

Washington used diplomatic backchannels to ask Tehran not to retaliate to an Israeli strike, which would allow Tel Aviv to ‘save face’ following the massive retaliatory attack launched by Iran

“Iran has received messages from mediators to let the regime do a symbolic strike to save face and asked Iran not to retaliate,” the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed to The Cradle.

He added that Tehran “outright rejected” the proposal, delivered by mediators, and reiterated warnings that any Israeli attack on Iranian soil would be met with a decisive and immediate response.

“Iran successfully embarrassed all of the integrated radar network and anti-missile systems of the US and the [Israeli] regime. The US even activated its parked satellites over the region to do maximum protection and failed miserably,” the Iranian military official added.

Does it get any more embarrassing for the US? They are constantly begging Iran and its allies to stop, and keep getting told no.

On the same day Israeli forces airstrike a husband, his pregnant wife, and their 3-year-old child — and another 17 kids and two women — the White House releases a statement condemning hundreds of interfaith American students protesting the airstrikes in question

I hate this place so much

the day after Biden signed a bill that’s been called “the largest expansion of surveillance on U.S. soil since the Patriot Act”

CW: guy gets blown up

armed settler sees a Palestinian flag and tries to kick it down, gets blown up instead

I can’t find an article that explicits says so, but it looks like by my math every House democrat voted in favor of sending tens of billions of $ to Ukraine and Taiwan. So that includes AOC but also Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib.

It could be as simple as these “progressives” don’t want to upset the apple cart with DNC leadership; or have to explain why they broke from the party. Possible - but unlikely - that these social fascists recognize how important US and NATO hegemony is the preserve imperial spoils.

Honestly though, I feel like the answer is as simple as:

USA good

Russia bad

China bad

I was watching the super lib “Handmaids Tale” last night (not really by choice). Gilead - the former USA turned into an evil religious conservative state - shoots down some planes from the old, “good” US government. One of the Gilead leaders says “we’ve already been congratulated by the Russians, Chinese, and North Koreans for sticking it to the Americans”. The episode finished with a schmaltzy scene of Americans reciting the pledge of allegiance. And made me think… libs really just see Russia and China as “bad”, and are utterly incapable of seeing the USA as anything other the good guys who occasionally get it wrong but it’s nobody’s fault, really. Russia and China bad because “authoritarianism” and any reason they have for hating us isn’t based on material reality but because they hate the goodness we represent.

I have met a few House reps in my life, and know people who know some of them even better. I can tell you with a high level of confidence that these people as group don’t have a level of geopolitical understanding that’s any higher than your typical college-educated American. This news megathread alone operates on a level these people will never think at. They cannot (and refuse to) see American imperialism. The US is good and these “authoritarian” countries are bad. NATO keeps the world safe. Taiwan should be free. These cliches are the terms in which libs - including those who make policy decisions - think at and it never goes beyond that.

From the people who brought you “Russia has enough missiles left for 1 or 2 strikes”