genzedong GenZedong 10 Countries Most in Debt to the IMF
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  • fruityloop fruityloop 4 months ago 100%

    egypt always topping the charts that no one should want to top.

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  • fruityloop fruityloop 4 months ago 100%

    does that mean if he dies our debt goes away?

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  • fruityloop fruityloop 4 months ago 100%

    i need a tutorial

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  • genzedong GenZedong General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 20
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  • asklemmygrad Ask Lemmygrad What are the most important things to you when looking for a partner?
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  • fruityloop fruityloop 5 months ago 100%

    So true, we are studying the dark art of Juche necromancy.

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  • technology Technology Chinese rocket maker Space Epoch is working with Alibaba's online shopping platform Taobao to make reusable rockets for express deliveries that could arrive globally in an hour.
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  • fruityloop fruityloop 5 months ago 100%

    Only thing this seems useful for is delivering medical supplies/humanitarian aid. How exactly is it supposed to land though??

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  • genzedong GenZedong PSA: be careful with the orgs you join
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  • fruityloop fruityloop 7 months ago 100%

    i would finally have some use for my hobbies.

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  • genzedong GenZedong Why Bashar why? 😭
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  • fruityloop fruityloop 9 months ago 100%

    Unfortunately they are. I checked each bit and there's nothing wrong with the subs. I'll find the full video to see the context of this, but it's looking real bad for him.

    the full memri video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlzpnP1221Y

    the original video it was taken from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZaQzBcjOgM

    i'll check if there was any convenient cutting of words from the original clip.

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  • worldnews World News milei won, we're dead
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    horrible news, please stay safe. hoping he won't last long.

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  • shitreactionariessay Shit Reactionaries Say Gay pride means murdering entire neighborhoods -- brought to you by "Israel" and neoliberalism
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  • fruityloop fruityloop 10 months ago 100%

    Zionists really have no limit to their disgusting bullshit, do they? They can't even get married in their colonial shithole, since that's the epitome of gay rights according to liberals.

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  • games Games Any FPS games where I can play as a militia fighter or anything like that?
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  • fruityloop fruityloop 10 months ago 100%

    the same thing currently said by zionist as psywar to justify ongoing massacres of Muslims 🤷‍♀️

    yeah that's true. i'll just delete that comment.

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  • fruityloop fruityloop 10 months ago 100%

    i'm literally surrounded by muslims who constantly say anti-lgbt shit in my daily life, including my family members. that doesn't mean i think all of them are bigots because i also know muslims who aren't anti-lgbt.

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  • comradeship Comradeship // Freechat please somebody liberate the west
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  • fruityloop fruityloop 10 months ago 100%

    did you even read what i said

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  • fruityloop fruityloop 10 months ago 100%

    taking palestinians as refugees means they can never go back because the zionists won't ever let that happen, no matter how much they pretend it's temporary now.

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    an attempted actress from isntreal

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  • palestine Palestine Genocide in Palestine is still ongoing but the moratorium is retired
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  • fruityloop fruityloop 11 months ago 100%

    the confirmed number of martyrs has surpassed fucking 10 thousand. unlimited death to israel.

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    Document leaked from "Israeli" Ministry of Intelligence concerning plans to deport Gazans

    [**The complete document of the Ministry of Intelligence: occupation of Gaza and total transfer to its residents**](https://archive.ph/R4rZO) > A document on behalf of the Ministry of Intelligence, the full content of which is published here for the first time, recommends the forced transfer of the population of the Gaza Strip to Sinai permanently, and calls for the international community to be harnessed for the move. The document also suggests promoting a dedicated campaign for the residents of Gaza that will "motivate them to agree to the plan" > > By: Yuval Avraham 28.10.2023 > > image caption: "Massive population migration from combat zones is a natural and necessary result." Minister of Intelligence, Gila Gamliel, October 3, 2023 (Photo: Haim Goldberg / Flash 90) > > An official document of the Ministry of Intelligence recommends that the security system carry out a full transfer of all residents of the Gaza Strip to North Sinai, as the preferred option among the three alternatives it offers regarding the future of the Palestinians in the Strip at the end of the war. > > The existence of the document does not necessarily indicate that its recommendations are being considered by the security system. Despite its name, the Ministry of Intelligence is not responsible for any intelligence body, but independently prepares studies and policy papers, which are distributed for perusal by the government and security bodies but are not binding on them. The annual budget of the office is about NIS 25 million and its influence is considered relatively small. > > The document recommends that Israel act "to evacuate the Gazan population to Sinai" during the war: to establish tent cities and new cities in northern Sinai, which will accommodate the deported population, and then "to create a sterile zone of several kilometers inside Egypt and not allow the population to return to activity or residence near the Israeli border." At the same time, countries in the world, and primarily the USA, must be harnessed to implement the move. > > The ten-page document is dated October 13, and features the logo of the Ministry of Intelligence headed by minister Gila Gamliel of the Likud. An official at the Ministry of Intelligence confirmed to "Local Talk" that this is an authentic document, which was distributed to the security system on behalf of the Ministry's Policy Division, and "was not supposed to reach the media." > > The document unequivocally and explicitly recommends carrying out a transfer of civilians from Gaza as the desired outcome of the war. This week its existence was [reported](https://archive.ph/hgcfv) in "Calcalist" and it is published here in full. The transfer plan is divided into several phases: in the first phase, the population in Gaza must be "vacated to the south", while the Air Force strikes will focus on the northern part of the Strip. In the second phase, ground entry into Gaza will begin, which will lead to the occupation of the entire strip, from north to south, and the "cleansing of the underground bunkers from Hamas fighters." > > link to the previewed scribd document: https://www.scribd.com/document/680677071/%D7%97%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%9C%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%99%D7%91%D7%94-%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%94%D7%90%D7%96%D7%A8%D7%97%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%96%D7%94-4-0 > document reuploaded to internet archive: https://archive.org/details/alternatives-to-political-directive-for-civilian-population-in-gaza-4.0 > > At the same time as the Gaza Strip is occupied, the citizens of Gaza will move to Egyptian territory, leave the Strip, and will not be allowed to return to it permanently. "It is important to leave the traffic lanes towards the south usable, to allow the evacuation of the civilian population towards Rafah," the document states. > > According to an official at the Ministry of Intelligence, the Ministry's personnel stand behind these recommendations. The source emphasized that the ministry's studies "are not based on military intelligence" and are only used as a basis for discussions in the government. > > In the document, it is proposed to promote a dedicated campaign for citizens in Gaza that will "motivate them to agree to the plan", and make them give up their lands. "The messages should revolve around the loss of the land, that is to make it clear that there is no longer any hope of returning to the territories that Israel will occupy in the near future, whether this is true or not. The image should be "Allah made sure that you lost this land because of the leadership of Hamas - there is no choice but to move to another place with the help of Your Muslim brothers," the document reads. > > In addition, it is written that the government must lead a public campaign that will promote the transfer program in the Western world "in a way that does not incite and blacken Israel", in which the deportation of the population from Gaza will be presented as a humanitarianly necessary move and will receive the support of the world because it will lead to "fewer casualties among the civilian population compared to the expected number of casualties And the oculus remains." > > image caption: "Allah saw to it that you lost this land." Palestinians in Khan Yunis, October 14, 2023 (Photo: Abd Rahim Khatib / Flash 90) > >The document also states that the US should be harnessed to the move so that it will put pressure on Egypt to take in the residents of Gaza, and to harness other European countries, and in particular Greece, Spain and Canada, to help take in and settle the refugees who will be evacuated from Gaza. The Ministry of Intelligence said that the document was not distributed through the ministry to US officials, but only to the Israeli government and security agencies. > > Last week, the Meshgav Institute, a right-wing research institute led by Meir Ben Shabat, a close associate of Netanyahu and the former head of the National Assembly, published a position paper that similarly called for the forced transfer of the population of Gaza to Sinai. The institute recently deleted the publication from Twitter after it drew strong international reactions . > > Interestingly, the deleted study was written by Amir Weitman, an activist in Likud, and according to evidence, also an associate of Minister Gila Gamaliel in the Ministry of Intelligence. [Weitman](https://www.facebook.com/61552497628635/videos/6498832673572815/) recently interviewed Knesset member Ariel Kellner of the Likud, who told him that "the solution you are proposing, to move the population to Egypt, is a logical and desirable solution." > > And this is not the only connection between the Likud, the Ministry of Intelligence, and the right-wing research institute: about a month ago, the Ministry of Intelligence [pledged to transfer](https://archive.ph/B1eTl) about one million shekels from its budget to the "Meshgav Institute", so that it would conduct research on Arab countries for it. If the "Mashgav Institute" was involved in drafting the transfer document of the Ministry of Intelligence, its logo, at least, does not appear on the document. > > Officials at the Ministry of Intelligence said that this was an independent study by the Ministry's policy department, without cooperation with an outside party, but confirmed that they recently started working with the "Meshgav Institute" and emphasized that they work with various research institutes with diverse political agendas. No response has yet been given from the "Mashgav Institute". > > And here is another connection: the document of the Ministry of Intelligence was leaked for the first time in a small internal WhatsApp group of right-wing activists, who promote, together with Amir Weitman of the Likud, a lobby for the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and transfer to the Palestinian citizens who live there. According to one of these activists, the document from the Ministry of Intelligence reached them through the mediation of "a member of the Likud" and its public distribution is related to an attempt to find out whether "the public in Israel is ready to accept ideas of a transfer from Gaza." > > The chances of implementing such a plan, which amounts to the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, are nil in many respects. The President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, [recently stated](https://archive.ph/cwohC) that he strongly opposes the opening of the Rafah crossing for the absorption of civilian population from Gaza. He said that the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza to Sinai would threaten Israeli peace with Egypt, and warned that it would lead to Israeli attacks on Egyptian territory. Al-Sisi himself [proposed](https://archive.ph/JRgqd), however, several years ago to expand the territory of the Gaza Strip to Sinai and establish an independent Palestinian state there, a proposal that was rejected by the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, outright. A plan in a similar spirit [was also presented](https://archive.ph/WNTh9) in the past by other Israeli officials, and it also did not mature into a real discussion. > > In relation to this difficulty, the document states that Egypt will have an "obligation under international law to allow the passage of a population", and that the United States can contribute to the move by exerting "pressure on Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates to contribute to the initiative either in resources or in accepting displaced persons". In the document, it is proposed to run a dedicated public campaign that will be addressed to the Arab world, to countries such as Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Libya, and Tunisia, "in which the message of aid to the Palestinian brothers and their rehabilitation is focused even at the cost of a tone that scolds or insults Israel." > > Finally, it is written that "massive migration" of the population from combat zones is a "natural and necessary result" that also happened in Syria, Afghanistan, and Ukraine and that only the deportation of the population will be "an appropriate response that will allow the creation of a significant deterrent in the entire region." > > **"The most dangerous alternative": a Palestinian state** > > The document presents two other alternatives regarding the citizens of Gaza the day after the war. The first is to import the rule of the Palestinian Authority to Gaza, and the second is to grow another local Arab rule as an alternative to Hamas. Both alternatives, it is claimed, are not desirable from a strategic and security point of view for the State of Israel, and will not provide a sufficiently deterrent message, especially to Hezbollah in Lebanon, as a response to the massacre by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. > > The drafters of the study claimed that the introduction of the Palestinian Authority into Gaza is the "most dangerous alternative" of the three, because it could "lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state." > > "The division between the Palestinian population in Yosh and Gaza is one of the main obstacles today to the establishment of a Palestinian state. It is not possible that the result of this attack ([the massacre by Hamas](https://archive.ph/gNdUq) on October 7; 11), will be an unprecedented victory for the Palestinian national movement and paving the way for the establishment of a Palestinian state," the document reads. > > The document claims that a model of Israeli military rule and PA civilian rule, as exists in the West Bank, is expected to fail in Gaza. "There is no way to maintain an effective military occupation in Gaza only on the basis of a military presence and without settlement. In a short time there will be an internal Israeli and international demand for withdrawal." > > The drafters of the document added that in such a situation the State of Israel "will be considered a colonialist power with an occupying army... similar to the situation of Yosh today, only worse". A reason to think that it will be possible for her to rule there today. > > The last alternative, the formation of a local Arab leadership to replace Hamas, is not desirable according to what is written in the document, because there are no local opposition movements to Hamas and the new leadership may be more radical. "The likely scenario is not a change in ideological perception, but the establishment of new, perhaps even more radical, Islamist movements," it says in relation to this alternative. > > Finally, it is claimed that if the population of Gaza remains in the Strip, there will be "many Arab deaths" during the expected occupation of Gaza, and this will damage Israel's international image even more than the deportation of the population. For all these reasons, the recommendation of the Ministry of Intelligence is to promote the transfer of all citizens from Gaza to Sinai permanently. > > **There was no response from the Ministry of Defense, the spokeswoman for the army and the "Meshgav" Institute until the time of publication of the article.** translated using [google translate](https://translate.google.com/).

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  • fruityloop fruityloop 11 months ago 100%

    world war 3 really is inescapable at this point, isn't it. kinda scary when i live right next to it.

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    Ask Lemmygrad fruityloop 11 months ago 100%
    Question about modlog

    cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2537847 > Is there some way to filter the modlog by community or instance? The federated modlog is a bit hard to go through.

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    Question about modlog

    Is there some way to filter the modlog by community or instance? The federated modlog is a bit hard to go through.

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    shitreactionariessay Shit Reactionaries Say but do they serve in occupation army?
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  • fruityloop fruityloop 11 months ago 100%

    no more paywall, though idk if i'd advise others to read this. the rest of it is somehow more insufferable.

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  • fruityloop fruityloop 11 months ago 100%

    There has been two incidents of "stray" and "unknown origin" projectiles into Egypt after the first "accident" that "Israel" has admitted to, wonder how the spineless state will react.

    Israeli tank 'accidentally' shelled Egyptian outpost (22 Oct 2023 20:55)

    Rocket lands in Egypt injuring 6, source remains unknown (27 Oct 2023 08:27)

    بعد حادثة طابا.. سقوط مقذوف ثانٍ داخل الأراضي المصرية في نويبع (٢٧ اكتوبر ٢٠٢٣)

    The last one happened only hours after the one in Taba. "Israel" is playing with fire. They're claiming the Houthis did it.

    Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said that combat helicopters had been scrambled when "an aerial threat was spotted in the Red Sea region".

    "To our understanding, the strike that took place in Egypt originated in this threat," he added in a televised briefing before Israel's foreign ministry attributed the drones to the Houthi.

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  • announcements Announcements GrainEater and DankZedong join the Lemmygrad admin team
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  • fruityloop fruityloop 11 months ago 100%

    stalin heart hands

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  • asklemmygrad Ask Lemmygrad Why do so many of you hate Tiktok?
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  • fruityloop fruityloop 11 months ago 100%

    it's way too addicting and i've wasted lots of free time scrolling through tiktok so i had to uninstall. i already lose a lot of time to just trying to stay focused on whatever task i'm doing and don't need an extra thing that can derail that. i also don't use most social media sites anymore so it's not just tiktok.

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  • fruityloop fruityloop 11 months ago 100%

    i'm absolutely disgusted by my government's inaction and spinelessness towards "israel", as well as other neighboring countries.

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  • genzedong GenZedong BRICS announces 6 new members
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  • fruityloop fruityloop 1 year ago 100%

    Finally! I was waiting for this since we applied last year, I'm honestly surprised they invited Egypt considering the current economic situation. Maybe this will help us get out of the crippling weight of foreign debt. Also surprised Algeria wasn't invited when it's more ideologically aligned to current BRICS countries, while Egypt tries to play both sides since the 70s (although it's increasingly looking east recently).

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  • announcements Announcements Today, Lemmygrad is 4 years and 1 week old
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  • fruityloop fruityloop 1 year ago 100%

    wow 4 years, here's to many more!

    stalin heart hands

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  • learnchinese Learn the Chinese language Trying to comprehend chinese slang through google translate is certainly an experience
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    deepl may give you better results. i've compared it with gtranslate for a few languages and it's usually better at slang.

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  • genzedong GenZedong Russia bans gender reassignment surgery
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  • fruityloop fruityloop 1 year ago 100%

    damn how is this real 💀

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  • fruityloop fruityloop 1 year ago 100%

    extremely disappointing and reactionary bullshit.

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  • fruityloop fruityloop 1 year ago 100%

    what else is to be expected from a capitalist country with active interference of religion in state affairs? i don't believe queer liberation will ever be possible under capitalism anyways.

    despite that, these news are still tragic of course. the state's treatment of queer people in my country is similar to what russia is trying to implement and i don't wish than on anyone. even though homosexuality is not expliclitly illegal here and transitioning is technically legal, gay* people still get arrested on prostitution and public indecency charges instead of homosexuality charges, and trans people can't change their legal identification anymore because the committee that would authorize it has not operated in years and is leaving trans people in limbo.

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  • comradeship Comradeship // Freechat Favourite lemmygrad theme?
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  • fruityloop fruityloop 1 year ago 100%

    you can add an email in jerboa so you can reset the password.

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  • technology Technology We talk a lot about the Reddit thing, but can we also talk about the moderation strike at Stack Exchange?
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    i had no idea about this even though i use the site pretty regularly. big tech is killing itself.

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  • comradeship Comradeship // Freechat Hexbear will be migrating to Lemmy (with federation disabled at first) on Saturday
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    crab-rave-gif

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    well since reddit is going to shit, do you have any plans to leave it or will you (the mods) wait and see?

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    oh okay, makes sense. i was wondering if it's lemmy developers being pressured by the mobs, but seems like it isn't.

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    why does it get removed from join lemmy? i noticed it wasn't there when looking yesterday.

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  • fruityloop fruityloop 1 year ago 100%

    Here's some good open source alternatives (you can use their own hosted ones with some restrictions or self-host):

    https://framaforms.org/abc/en/

    https://cryptpad.fr/form/

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    Left Piracy fruityloop 2 years ago 96%
    Anna's Archive - shadow library search engine https://annas-archive.org/

    > Search engine of shadow libraries: books, papers, comics, magazines. ⭐️ Z-Library, Library Genesis, Sci-Hub. ⚙️ Fully resilient through open source code and data. ❤️ Spread the word: everyone is welcome here! I came across this site when z-library's clearnet domain was taken down and have been using it regularly since then because of how easy it is. I haven't seen anyone talking about it here so I thought I'd share.

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    Digital Privacy fruityloop 2 years ago 90%
    Does anyone know any good mastodon instances?

    My needs are simple: - not a libshit hellhole - federates with other cool instances and mastodon.social cuz that's the biggest one

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    Comradeship // Freechat fruityloop 2 years ago 100%
    I'm scared of the future of my country

    Sorry if this isn't the right place to post this. In late October, the central bank decided to stop supporting the price of the EGP against USD and it jumped several pounds overnight. This decision was a requirement for the latest round of IMF loans (fuck those ghouls for destroying my country) and naturally people are angry because inflation was already fucking us over for a long time and it only gets worse with time. There was calls for protesting on 11/11 for the past month and I'm not optimistic about those because the biggest promoters are islamists taking advantage of the growing anger and misery of the people. Security forces have been growing more paranoid because of the growing discontent and there was an increase in checkpoints in vital areas and people are getting randomly stopped and forced to open their phones for a search before being let go (or taken away). There's a communist party here but I doubt the majority of the people have heard of it or even care that it exists, they at least have a decent analysis of the situation. There's a lot more stuff on my mind but I don't want the post to be too long. I'm terrified of what is coming for this country and I have no idea what to do about it...

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    Fuck the Colonists fruityloop 2 years ago 92%
    When the meddling backfires in your face

    ![The story behind the construction of Cairo Tower](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/df1eb6ad-1692-4447-97f1-b35e930bbd8e.jpeg) hope it's apropriate for this sub. ::: spoiler alt text Built from 1956 to 1961, the tower was designed by the Egyptian architect Naoum Shebib, inspired by the Ancient Egyptian Architecture.[1] Its partially open lattice-work design is intended to evoke a pharaonic lotus plant, an iconic symbol of Ancient Egypt.[8] The tower is crowned by a circular observation deck and a revolving restaurant[9] that rotate around its axis occasionally[10] with a view over greater Cairo.[11] According to documents published by Major General Adel Shaheen, the funds for the construction of the tower were originated from the Government of the United States through the CIA that represented by Kermit Roosevelt, which had provided around $US1-3 million to Gamal Abdel Nasser as a personal gift to him with the intent of stopping his support for Algerian Revolution and other African independence movements.[8][12][13] Affronted by the attempt to bribe him, Nasser decided to publicly rebuke the U.S. government by transferring all of the funds to the Egyptian government for the use of the tower construction, which he stated that it would be "visible from the US Embassy just across the Nile, as a taunting symbol of Egypt's, Africa and the Middle East's resistance, revolutions and pride".[12][14] The book also stated that the General Intelligence Service took full responsibility for everything related to the design and planning work, including the selection of the architect who was assigned to design, the construction work, and even providing the necessary materials for the building with the aim of giving the heroic character of the president.[8] However, its design was controversial as the Egyptians called it the "waqf Roosevelt" ("Roosevelt's endowment"), which was then mistakenly interpreted by the Embassy of Egypt in Washington, D.C. as the "waqef Roosevelt" ("Roosevelt's erection"). This prompted the Americans to react by calling it "Nasser's prick".[13] Because of that, a local Islamic group issued a fatwa to demolish the tower in the 1990s, stating that it "could excite Egyptian women", but this failed to be implemented due to its influence on national history and popularity among the nation and tourists.[15][16] Between 2006 and 2009, the tower underwent an £E15 million restoration project that included a new installation of light decoration. It was stated that the project used the LED lamp for its efficiency on energy consumption.[17] :::

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