• D61 [any]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    Some podcast I was listening to this last week (I think it was the Deprogram) talked about the IDF using fast track promotion systems to help with propaganda campaigns. Get somebody who normally rides a desk a really high sounding rank, put them in front of a camera and let the Rear Admiral General Secretary of the IDF (23, F) talk about how its okay to bomb hospitals and ambulances because … HAMMAS!

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        11 months ago

        They’ve got an interesting perspective with two of them growing up around christian zionists. Highly recommend people tuning into them if they aren’t.

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        11 months ago

        My first attempt to listen to them months ago I just didn’t vibe with. But yeah, for some reason there recent stuff has just been 🔥 to me.

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          If you like the recent episodes and want another good listen, go back to last year when the floods hit eastern Kentucky. They had an excellent run of episodes dealing with the causes of the disaster and it’s aftermath. When they have something to sink their teeth into they can really run with it. Don’t get me wrong, I like when they shit post and make dick jokes, but they are genuinely insightful and intelligent when they want to be

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        11 months ago

        Actually haven’t listened to the Trillbillies in months… I’m pretty confident that where I heard it from was the Decolonize Palestine episode 105 (106?) of The Deprogram.

        Good to know the info is being spread around by everybody though. they-were-comrades

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    Fascists are almost always at a slight disadvantage in warfare because their belief in their inherent superiority to the people they are fighting, a product of the racist and xenophobic mentality often used by fascists to promote false consciousness and distract from the contradictions of capitalism, keeps them from objectively evaluating their opponent’s capabilities

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      even if just one building was destroyed it wouldn’t be wrong to call that the ruins of Gaza, I don’t think they’re saying all of Gaza s ruins necessarily.

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    It was so funny how in the weeks leading up to the Gaza invasion the idf-cool amassed on the borders and barked at Gaza like a dog does the mailman only to look around at each other and realize how pathetic their military had become as they shit their guts out from the shigella infections they gave each other. It’s 100% US bombs that are even keeping the IOF scum in this fight. The IOF were too pussyass scared to leave their US-funded Merkavas and risk their bodies and lives for this genocide they wanted so badly so guys were just walking up to the tanks and blowing them up on foot with zero infantry support. An army of cowards.

    Wishing all IOF officers a happy :red-arrow:

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    I wonder if it’s just grifting the US. like the funds the US sends have to be spent on the military, so they make everyone generals and justify giving their own citizens huge pay for no reason?

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    The IOF is basically just cops with missiles and tanks. They implode the moment they have to do any fighting at anything remotely near parity. They’re only in their element when they have a population of unarmed civilians to brutalize with rifles and clubs. Shoot an IOF loser and all of them lose composure.

    Also many of them are conscripts.