The huge Project Zomboid build 42 finally gets multiplayer just in time for the holidays
The huge Project Zomboid build 42 finally gets multiplayer just in time for the holidays
Wow - that sure took a while! A year since the first part of build 42 released and just in time for the holidays, Project Zomboid build 42 finally goes online.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Hakeem Jeffries Pilloried for Putting Pro-Industry Democrats on AI Policy Task Force, Despite Voter Distrust of Big Tech
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/7003284
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1280…
At a time when the American public, and especially Democratic voters, express overwhelming distrust of artificial intelligence and Big Tech, the top House Democrat is being accused of failing to meet the moment.
On Tuesday, in preparation for an executive order to be signed this week by President Donald Trump, which would seek to block states from implementing new AI regulations, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) unveiled his own effort to cozy up to the industry, whose major players have set aside more than $200 million to push out anti-AI politicians during the 2026 midterms, according to the New York Times.
Jeffries announced the creation of a “House Democratic Commission on AI and the Innovation Economy,” which will “develop policy expertise in partnership with the innovation community, relevant stakeholders, and committees of jurisdiction.”
What immediately caught the eye of critics was the list of fellow Democrats Jeffries picked to serve on the commission. It will be co-chaired by Reps. Ted Lieu (Calif.), Josh Gottheimer (NJ), and Valerie Foushee (NC), with Reps. Zoe Lofgren (Calif.) and Frank Pallone (NJ) serving as ex officio co-chairs.
As Sludge reported Tuesday: "The panel’s leaders rank among the House Democrats with the deepest ties to Big Tech and AI, from holding millions of dollars in tech stock to the contributions they’ve raised for their campaigns and the Republican-backed deregulation bills they've signed onto."
In July, Gottheimer introduced a bill along with Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) "that would require financial regulators to create 'AI Innovation Labs' where firms could experiment with AI-driven financial products under looser regulations and without the normal threats of enforcement actions."
Gottheimer is also a major stakeholder in Microsoft, which has invested tens of millions of dollars into AI and nearly $7.5 million on lobbying in 2025 so far. Beyond the almost $100,000 in contributions Gottheimer has received from Microsoft, he is also a former executive who received anywhere from $1 million to $5 million last year from his stock holdings in the company, according to financial disclosure forms. He also frequently trades in other AI power players like Amazon, Meta, and Dell.
Lofgren, meanwhile, has accepted more money from the Internet industry over the course of her career than all but one other current House Democrat—including $265,000 from Google, $115,000 from Apple, and $110,000 from Meta, according to data from OpenSecrets.
In September 2024, Lofgren co-sponsored a bill introduced by Rep. Jay Abernolte (R-Calif.) which "would create a federal 'center for AI advancement and reliability' that it would instruct to work closely with private companies and other stakeholders on developing 'voluntary best practices and technical standards for evaluating the reliability, robustness, resilience, security, and safety of artificial intelligence systems.'"
Foushee, a member of the corporate-backed New Democrat Coalition, rode to Congress in 2022 with more than $1 million from the Protect Our Future political action committee, which was backed by former FTX CEO and convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.
In response to Trump's industry-friendly "AI Action Plan" in July, Foushee and the New Democrats unveiled their own "Innovation Agenda," which called for federal tax credits to companies that "reskill" workers and perform private research and development as well as federal investments in apprenticeships and "labor market data modernization."
Jeffries has neglected to take a position on Trump's proposal to preempt state regulations. Last Monday, he told reporters, "That conversation hasn't been brought to the leadership level yet."
In his statement announcing the Democratic commission on Tuesday, Jeffries said, "It is important that American companies continue to thrive" in the arena of AI, while "at the same time, Congress must consider what policies are needed to prevent bad actors from exploiting this transformative technology and inflicting harm upon the American people." However, he did not specifically mention Trump's pending block on state regulations.
— (@)A poll released Friday by the progressive group Demand Progress showed that Americans across the political spectrum are unsettled by AI's influence in Washington: 68% of respondents overall said they were more worried that "the US government will not regulate artificial intelligence enough," as opposed to just 21% who feared too much regulation. While Democrats and independents were somewhat more concerned about underregulation at 71%, Republicans largely shared those fears, with 62% saying they feared the government would not regulate AI enough.
The consensus was even stronger regarding Big Tech's power over AI policy, with 78% of respondents overall saying it had too much influence. This included 81% of Democrats and independents and 74% of Republicans.
With this in mind, many critics were puzzled by Jeffries' decision to stack his AI commission with some of the industry's top allies.
— (@)As Aaron Regunberg wrote in the New Republic last month, harnessing anger against the rapid, largely unregulated expansion of expensive, energy-sucking AI data centers was an essential part of Democrats' victories across the board in November's off-year elections:
In New Jersey, Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill’s closing argument was a pledge to freeze electricity rates, which have soared because of data-center demand.In Virginia, Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger won after pledging to make data centers “pay their own way,” and many Democrats went even further.
At least one candidate, John McAuliff, flipped a seat in the House of Delegates by focusing on tying his Republican opponent to the “unchecked growth” of data centers, with an ad that asked, “Do you want more of these in your backyard?”
And in Georgia, Democrats won their first nonfederal statewide races in decades, earning 60% of the vote against two Republican members of the Public Service Commission by criticizing Big Tech “sweetheart deals” and campaigning for policies “to ensure that the communities that they’re extracting from” don’t end up with their “water supplies … tapped out or their energy … maxed out.”
"This is the most populist moment of voter rage I've ever seen, and the leading Democrats are absolutely hostile to the idea of doing anything to address Silicon Valley's massive power," said Matt Stoller, an anti-monopoly expert.
"Anticorruption is one of the strongest arguments with the broadest appeal in American politics right now, but the Democratic leadership simply refuses to stop tanking it," added Matt Duss, a former advisor to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
"I have never seen a gulf this wide between Democratic leadership and the party writ large," said author Zachary D. Carter. "The top is corrupt, the base is raging against corruption."
From Common Dreams via This RSS Feed.
Hakeem Jeffries Pilloried for Putting Pro-Industry Democrats on AI Policy Task Force, Despite Voter Distrust of Big Tech
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1280…At a time when the American public, and especially Democratic voters, express overwhelming distrust of artificial intelligence and Big Tech, the top House Democrat is being accused of failing to meet the moment.
On Tuesday, in preparation for an executive order to be signed this week by President Donald Trump, which would seek to block states from implementing new AI regulations, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) unveiled his own effort to cozy up to the industry, whose major players have set aside more than $200 million to push out anti-AI politicians during the 2026 midterms, according to the New York Times.
Jeffries announced the creation of a “House Democratic Commission on AI and the Innovation Economy,” which will “develop policy expertise in partnership with the innovation community, relevant stakeholders, and committees of jurisdiction.”
What immediately caught the eye of critics was the list of fellow Democrats Jeffries picked to serve on the commission. It will be co-chaired by Reps. Ted Lieu (Calif.), Josh Gottheimer (NJ), and Valerie Foushee (NC), with Reps. Zoe Lofgren (Calif.) and Frank Pallone (NJ) serving as ex officio co-chairs.
As Sludge reported Tuesday: "The panel’s leaders rank among the House Democrats with the deepest ties to Big Tech and AI, from holding millions of dollars in tech stock to the contributions they’ve raised for their campaigns and the Republican-backed deregulation bills they've signed onto."
In July, Gottheimer introduced a bill along with Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) "that would require financial regulators to create 'AI Innovation Labs' where firms could experiment with AI-driven financial products under looser regulations and without the normal threats of enforcement actions."
Gottheimer is also a major stakeholder in Microsoft, which has invested tens of millions of dollars into AI and nearly $7.5 million on lobbying in 2025 so far. Beyond the almost $100,000 in contributions Gottheimer has received from Microsoft, he is also a former executive who received anywhere from $1 million to $5 million last year from his stock holdings in the company, according to financial disclosure forms. He also frequently trades in other AI power players like Amazon, Meta, and Dell.
Lofgren, meanwhile, has accepted more money from the Internet industry over the course of her career than all but one other current House Democrat—including $265,000 from Google, $115,000 from Apple, and $110,000 from Meta, according to data from OpenSecrets.
In September 2024, Lofgren co-sponsored a bill introduced by Rep. Jay Abernolte (R-Calif.) which "would create a federal 'center for AI advancement and reliability' that it would instruct to work closely with private companies and other stakeholders on developing 'voluntary best practices and technical standards for evaluating the reliability, robustness, resilience, security, and safety of artificial intelligence systems.'"
Foushee, a member of the corporate-backed New Democrat Coalition, rode to Congress in 2022 with more than $1 million from the Protect Our Future political action committee, which was backed by former FTX CEO and convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.
In response to Trump's industry-friendly "AI Action Plan" in July, Foushee and the New Democrats unveiled their own "Innovation Agenda," which called for federal tax credits to companies that "reskill" workers and perform private research and development as well as federal investments in apprenticeships and "labor market data modernization."
Jeffries has neglected to take a position on Trump's proposal to preempt state regulations. Last Monday, he told reporters, "That conversation hasn't been brought to the leadership level yet."
In his statement announcing the Democratic commission on Tuesday, Jeffries said, "It is important that American companies continue to thrive" in the arena of AI, while "at the same time, Congress must consider what policies are needed to prevent bad actors from exploiting this transformative technology and inflicting harm upon the American people." However, he did not specifically mention Trump's pending block on state regulations.
— (@)A poll released Friday by the progressive group Demand Progress showed that Americans across the political spectrum are unsettled by AI's influence in Washington: 68% of respondents overall said they were more worried that "the US government will not regulate artificial intelligence enough," as opposed to just 21% who feared too much regulation. While Democrats and independents were somewhat more concerned about underregulation at 71%, Republicans largely shared those fears, with 62% saying they feared the government would not regulate AI enough.
The consensus was even stronger regarding Big Tech's power over AI policy, with 78% of respondents overall saying it had too much influence. This included 81% of Democrats and independents and 74% of Republicans.
With this in mind, many critics were puzzled by Jeffries' decision to stack his AI commission with some of the industry's top allies.
— (@)As Aaron Regunberg wrote in the New Republic last month, harnessing anger against the rapid, largely unregulated expansion of expensive, energy-sucking AI data centers was an essential part of Democrats' victories across the board in November's off-year elections:
In New Jersey, Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill’s closing argument was a pledge to freeze electricity rates, which have soared because of data-center demand.In Virginia, Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger won after pledging to make data centers “pay their own way,” and many Democrats went even further.
At least one candidate, John McAuliff, flipped a seat in the House of Delegates by focusing on tying his Republican opponent to the “unchecked growth” of data centers, with an ad that asked, “Do you want more of these in your backyard?”
And in Georgia, Democrats won their first nonfederal statewide races in decades, earning 60% of the vote against two Republican members of the Public Service Commission by criticizing Big Tech “sweetheart deals” and campaigning for policies “to ensure that the communities that they’re extracting from” don’t end up with their “water supplies … tapped out or their energy … maxed out.”
"This is the most populist moment of voter rage I've ever seen, and the leading Democrats are absolutely hostile to the idea of doing anything to address Silicon Valley's massive power," said Matt Stoller, an anti-monopoly expert.
"Anticorruption is one of the strongest arguments with the broadest appeal in American politics right now, but the Democratic leadership simply refuses to stop tanking it," added Matt Duss, a former advisor to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
"I have never seen a gulf this wide between Democratic leadership and the party writ large," said author Zachary D. Carter. "The top is corrupt, the base is raging against corruption."
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Venezuela, The Day After
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1253…
This article by Luis Hernández Navarro originally appeared in the December 9, 2025 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.Since 2002, the date of the 47-hour coup against Hugo Chávez, Washington has unsuccessfully sponsored and supported regime change in Venezuela time and again. In the name of human rights, freedom, and democracy, economic sanctions, color revolutions, oil strikes, recognition of illegitimate leaders, theft of foreign currency and infrastructure, assassination attempts, media offensives, military uprisings, and threats of ground invasion have been instigated or combined without interruption.
Many of these attacks, aimed at seizing the largest oil reserves on the planet, are acts of international piracy. They have caused immense damage to the country and enormous suffering to its people. They have resulted in billions of dollars in lost oil revenue. Countless Venezuelans have been forced to migrate to other nations to survive. Meanwhile, a segment of the old, corrupt oligarchy lives the high life in their mansions in Miami and Madrid.
But despite the lethality of the punishments and the harshness of the siege, the Bolivarian Revolution continues. Certainly, some Chavista political leaders have betrayed the cause. A few military and intelligence officers have gone over to the enemy ranks. Intellectuals have succumbed to the siren song of metropolitan power. But, against all odds, the majority of the population draws a line in the sand against gunboat democracy; they remain loyal to a project that allowed them to recover their dignity and advance in popular power.
For 27 years, Bolivarianism has won almost every election. Desperate in the face of this setback, the empire has tried other formulas for regime change. In December 2007, Enrique Krauze laid his cards on the table. “If Hugo Chávez has thought of turning Venezuela into a Cuba with oil, the Venezuelans who oppose him have discovered the antidote. It is the student movement,” he wrote. So the far right latched onto this movement and tested an insurrectionary scheme. However, the reactionary forces clashed with a reality that wasn’t in their playbooks. So they left to make their fortunes abroad.
All imperial attempts at regime change have run up against what, until now, seems insurmountable: the unity of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB). There is not a single indicator showing any internal divisions. Part of the key to this unity is the development of a new military doctrine known as the Comprehensive Defense of the Nation. This doctrine seeks to confront the US military threat based on a set of actions designed to deter a technologically and numerically superior enemy.
This strategy has three central elements: strengthening military power, deepening the civil-military union (between the people and the soldiers), and bolstering popular participation in national defense tasks. Previously, the armed forces were fragmented into divisions and brigades. Commander Chávez organized the country into regions, and each region has a military structure with all its components: Army, Navy, Air Force, National Guard, militias, and the people.
If someone attacks a region, that region has the capacity to defend itself. It doesn’t need to move units from elsewhere. On February 23, 2019, under the pretext of bringing in humanitarian aid from Colombia, the Contras and Washington attempted to establish a beachhead in Táchira that would give the illegitimate Juan Guaidó control of a strip of Venezuelan territory to establish a “seat of government.” For 17 hours, fierce clashes erupted between Chavistas and Venezuelan paramilitaries and guarimberos, who operated mostly from the Colombian side. The skirmish ended with the opposition’s defeat.
Diosdado Cabello
There, amidst the events, at the military installation beside the Simón Bolívar Bridge, I spoke with Diosdado Cabello, then president of the National Constituent Assembly. Most of the FANB (National Bolivarian Armed Forces) chiefs were also present, whom he introduced to me as his friends and as longtime collaborators of Hugo Chávez. I asked him about the resolve of his troops. In good spirits, he explained: “President Maduro has visited every barracks. He shows up in the early morning.”
He arrives, runs with them, shares, does military exercises with them. We have total contact with them. We are like brothers. Many of us have been in this movement since we were children. We support each other and follow each other. We are a family. They will not break us…” Regarding the role of the militias, he told me: “For the friends of the State, they are a diamond. For the enemies of the State, they are the worst news.” A military intervention by a foreign country in Venezuela is very complicated, and not only because of the civil-military alliance.
Caracas has modernized its weaponry by acquiring it from Russia, China, and Iran, with whom it also maintains an alliance. Furthermore, it covers an area of almost one million square kilometers. Its topography is highly diverse: the Andes mountain range, the Coastal Range, and the Guiana Shield, along with the extensive Orinoco River basin. It boasts 4,208 kilometers of coastline and dense rainforests. The poor neighborhoods of cities like Caracas are dangerous. It shares a 2,341-kilometer border with Colombia, a 2,199-kilometer border with Brazil, and a 789-kilometer border with Guyana.
No neighboring country desires armed conflict on its borders. Venezuela possesses the men, weapons, determination, and territory capable of sustaining a prolonged popular resistance, turning any attempt to occupy the country into a quagmire for whoever tries it. Regardless of what might happen on the day of the occupation, the true military challenge for an invading force lies in what to do in the days that follow. However, beyond what may happen in the future, in Venezuela, today is the time for peace.
Luis Hernández Navarro is the Opinion editor of La Jornada*, and the author of numerous books, including* Chiapas: La nueva lucha india and Self-Defense in Mexico: Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty Wars.
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Venezuela, The Day After
This article by Luis Hernández Navarro originally appeared in the December 9, 2025 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.Since 2002, the date of the 47-hour coup against Hugo Chávez, Washington has unsuccessfully sponsored and supported regime change in Venezuela time and again. In the name of human rights, freedom, and democracy, economic sanctions, color revolutions, oil strikes, recognition of illegitimate leaders, theft of foreign currency and infrastructure, assassination attempts, media offensives, military uprisings, and threats of ground invasion have been instigated or combined without interruption.
Many of these attacks, aimed at seizing the largest oil reserves on the planet, are acts of international piracy. They have caused immense damage to the country and enormous suffering to its people. They have resulted in billions of dollars in lost oil revenue. Countless Venezuelans have been forced to migrate to other nations to survive. Meanwhile, a segment of the old, corrupt oligarchy lives the high life in their mansions in Miami and Madrid.
But despite the lethality of the punishments and the harshness of the siege, the Bolivarian Revolution continues. Certainly, some Chavista political leaders have betrayed the cause. A few military and intelligence officers have gone over to the enemy ranks. Intellectuals have succumbed to the siren song of metropolitan power. But, against all odds, the majority of the population draws a line in the sand against gunboat democracy; they remain loyal to a project that allowed them to recover their dignity and advance in popular power.
For 27 years, Bolivarianism has won almost every election. Desperate in the face of this setback, the empire has tried other formulas for regime change. In December 2007, Enrique Krauze laid his cards on the table. “If Hugo Chávez has thought of turning Venezuela into a Cuba with oil, the Venezuelans who oppose him have discovered the antidote. It is the student movement,” he wrote. So the far right latched onto this movement and tested an insurrectionary scheme. However, the reactionary forces clashed with a reality that wasn’t in their playbooks. So they left to make their fortunes abroad.
All imperial attempts at regime change have run up against what, until now, seems insurmountable: the unity of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB). There is not a single indicator showing any internal divisions. Part of the key to this unity is the development of a new military doctrine known as the Comprehensive Defense of the Nation. This doctrine seeks to confront the US military threat based on a set of actions designed to deter a technologically and numerically superior enemy.
This strategy has three central elements: strengthening military power, deepening the civil-military union (between the people and the soldiers), and bolstering popular participation in national defense tasks. Previously, the armed forces were fragmented into divisions and brigades. Commander Chávez organized the country into regions, and each region has a military structure with all its components: Army, Navy, Air Force, National Guard, militias, and the people.
If someone attacks a region, that region has the capacity to defend itself. It doesn’t need to move units from elsewhere. On February 23, 2019, under the pretext of bringing in humanitarian aid from Colombia, the Contras and Washington attempted to establish a beachhead in Táchira that would give the illegitimate Juan Guaidó control of a strip of Venezuelan territory to establish a “seat of government.” For 17 hours, fierce clashes erupted between Chavistas and Venezuelan paramilitaries and guarimberos, who operated mostly from the Colombian side. The skirmish ended with the opposition’s defeat.
Diosdado Cabello
There, amidst the events, at the military installation beside the Simón Bolívar Bridge, I spoke with Diosdado Cabello, then president of the National Constituent Assembly. Most of the FANB (National Bolivarian Armed Forces) chiefs were also present, whom he introduced to me as his friends and as longtime collaborators of Hugo Chávez. I asked him about the resolve of his troops. In good spirits, he explained: “President Maduro has visited every barracks. He shows up in the early morning.”
He arrives, runs with them, shares, does military exercises with them. We have total contact with them. We are like brothers. Many of us have been in this movement since we were children. We support each other and follow each other. We are a family. They will not break us…” Regarding the role of the militias, he told me: “For the friends of the State, they are a diamond. For the enemies of the State, they are the worst news.” A military intervention by a foreign country in Venezuela is very complicated, and not only because of the civil-military alliance.
Caracas has modernized its weaponry by acquiring it from Russia, China, and Iran, with whom it also maintains an alliance. Furthermore, it covers an area of almost one million square kilometers. Its topography is highly diverse: the Andes mountain range, the Coastal Range, and the Guiana Shield, along with the extensive Orinoco River basin. It boasts 4,208 kilometers of coastline and dense rainforests. The poor neighborhoods of cities like Caracas are dangerous. It shares a 2,341-kilometer border with Colombia, a 2,199-kilometer border with Brazil, and a 789-kilometer border with Guyana.
No neighboring country desires armed conflict on its borders. Venezuela possesses the men, weapons, determination, and territory capable of sustaining a prolonged popular resistance, turning any attempt to occupy the country into a quagmire for whoever tries it. Regardless of what might happen on the day of the occupation, the true military challenge for an invading force lies in what to do in the days that follow. However, beyond what may happen in the future, in Venezuela, today is the time for peace.
Luis Hernández Navarro is the Opinion editor of La Jornada*, and the author of numerous books, including* Chiapas: La nueva lucha india and Self-Defense in Mexico: Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty Wars.
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December 9, 2025Venezuela possesses the people, weapons, determination, and territory capable of sustaining a prolonged popular resistance, turning any attempt to occupy it into a quagmire for whoever tries.
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Venezuela, The Day After
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/7003411
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1253…
This article by Luis Hernández Navarro originally appeared in the December 9, 2025 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.Since 2002, the date of the 47-hour coup against Hugo Chávez, Washington has unsuccessfully sponsored and supported regime change in Venezuela time and again. In the name of human rights, freedom, and democracy, economic sanctions, color revolutions, oil strikes, recognition of illegitimate leaders, theft of foreign currency and infrastructure, assassination attempts, media offensives, military uprisings, and threats of ground invasion have been instigated or combined without interruption.
Many of these attacks, aimed at seizing the largest oil reserves on the planet, are acts of international piracy. They have caused immense damage to the country and enormous suffering to its people. They have resulted in billions of dollars in lost oil revenue. Countless Venezuelans have been forced to migrate to other nations to survive. Meanwhile, a segment of the old, corrupt oligarchy lives the high life in their mansions in Miami and Madrid.
But despite the lethality of the punishments and the harshness of the siege, the Bolivarian Revolution continues. Certainly, some Chavista political leaders have betrayed the cause. A few military and intelligence officers have gone over to the enemy ranks. Intellectuals have succumbed to the siren song of metropolitan power. But, against all odds, the majority of the population draws a line in the sand against gunboat democracy; they remain loyal to a project that allowed them to recover their dignity and advance in popular power.
For 27 years, Bolivarianism has won almost every election. Desperate in the face of this setback, the empire has tried other formulas for regime change. In December 2007, Enrique Krauze laid his cards on the table. “If Hugo Chávez has thought of turning Venezuela into a Cuba with oil, the Venezuelans who oppose him have discovered the antidote. It is the student movement,” he wrote. So the far right latched onto this movement and tested an insurrectionary scheme. However, the reactionary forces clashed with a reality that wasn’t in their playbooks. So they left to make their fortunes abroad.
All imperial attempts at regime change have run up against what, until now, seems insurmountable: the unity of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB). There is not a single indicator showing any internal divisions. Part of the key to this unity is the development of a new military doctrine known as the Comprehensive Defense of the Nation. This doctrine seeks to confront the US military threat based on a set of actions designed to deter a technologically and numerically superior enemy.
This strategy has three central elements: strengthening military power, deepening the civil-military union (between the people and the soldiers), and bolstering popular participation in national defense tasks. Previously, the armed forces were fragmented into divisions and brigades. Commander Chávez organized the country into regions, and each region has a military structure with all its components: Army, Navy, Air Force, National Guard, militias, and the people.
If someone attacks a region, that region has the capacity to defend itself. It doesn’t need to move units from elsewhere. On February 23, 2019, under the pretext of bringing in humanitarian aid from Colombia, the Contras and Washington attempted to establish a beachhead in Táchira that would give the illegitimate Juan Guaidó control of a strip of Venezuelan territory to establish a “seat of government.” For 17 hours, fierce clashes erupted between Chavistas and Venezuelan paramilitaries and guarimberos, who operated mostly from the Colombian side. The skirmish ended with the opposition’s defeat.
Diosdado Cabello
There, amidst the events, at the military installation beside the Simón Bolívar Bridge, I spoke with Diosdado Cabello, then president of the National Constituent Assembly. Most of the FANB (National Bolivarian Armed Forces) chiefs were also present, whom he introduced to me as his friends and as longtime collaborators of Hugo Chávez. I asked him about the resolve of his troops. In good spirits, he explained: “President Maduro has visited every barracks. He shows up in the early morning.”
He arrives, runs with them, shares, does military exercises with them. We have total contact with them. We are like brothers. Many of us have been in this movement since we were children. We support each other and follow each other. We are a family. They will not break us…” Regarding the role of the militias, he told me: “For the friends of the State, they are a diamond. For the enemies of the State, they are the worst news.” A military intervention by a foreign country in Venezuela is very complicated, and not only because of the civil-military alliance.
Caracas has modernized its weaponry by acquiring it from Russia, China, and Iran, with whom it also maintains an alliance. Furthermore, it covers an area of almost one million square kilometers. Its topography is highly diverse: the Andes mountain range, the Coastal Range, and the Guiana Shield, along with the extensive Orinoco River basin. It boasts 4,208 kilometers of coastline and dense rainforests. The poor neighborhoods of cities like Caracas are dangerous. It shares a 2,341-kilometer border with Colombia, a 2,199-kilometer border with Brazil, and a 789-kilometer border with Guyana.
No neighboring country desires armed conflict on its borders. Venezuela possesses the men, weapons, determination, and territory capable of sustaining a prolonged popular resistance, turning any attempt to occupy the country into a quagmire for whoever tries it. Regardless of what might happen on the day of the occupation, the true military challenge for an invading force lies in what to do in the days that follow. However, beyond what may happen in the future, in Venezuela, today is the time for peace.
Luis Hernández Navarro is the Opinion editor of La Jornada*, and the author of numerous books, including* Chiapas: La nueva lucha india and Self-Defense in Mexico: Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty Wars.
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Venezuela, The Day After
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1253…This article by Luis Hernández Navarro originally appeared in the December 9, 2025 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.Since 2002, the date of the 47-hour coup against Hugo Chávez, Washington has unsuccessfully sponsored and supported regime change in Venezuela time and again. In the name of human rights, freedom, and democracy, economic sanctions, color revolutions, oil strikes, recognition of illegitimate leaders, theft of foreign currency and infrastructure, assassination attempts, media offensives, military uprisings, and threats of ground invasion have been instigated or combined without interruption.
Many of these attacks, aimed at seizing the largest oil reserves on the planet, are acts of international piracy. They have caused immense damage to the country and enormous suffering to its people. They have resulted in billions of dollars in lost oil revenue. Countless Venezuelans have been forced to migrate to other nations to survive. Meanwhile, a segment of the old, corrupt oligarchy lives the high life in their mansions in Miami and Madrid.
But despite the lethality of the punishments and the harshness of the siege, the Bolivarian Revolution continues. Certainly, some Chavista political leaders have betrayed the cause. A few military and intelligence officers have gone over to the enemy ranks. Intellectuals have succumbed to the siren song of metropolitan power. But, against all odds, the majority of the population draws a line in the sand against gunboat democracy; they remain loyal to a project that allowed them to recover their dignity and advance in popular power.
For 27 years, Bolivarianism has won almost every election. Desperate in the face of this setback, the empire has tried other formulas for regime change. In December 2007, Enrique Krauze laid his cards on the table. “If Hugo Chávez has thought of turning Venezuela into a Cuba with oil, the Venezuelans who oppose him have discovered the antidote. It is the student movement,” he wrote. So the far right latched onto this movement and tested an insurrectionary scheme. However, the reactionary forces clashed with a reality that wasn’t in their playbooks. So they left to make their fortunes abroad.
All imperial attempts at regime change have run up against what, until now, seems insurmountable: the unity of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB). There is not a single indicator showing any internal divisions. Part of the key to this unity is the development of a new military doctrine known as the Comprehensive Defense of the Nation. This doctrine seeks to confront the US military threat based on a set of actions designed to deter a technologically and numerically superior enemy.
This strategy has three central elements: strengthening military power, deepening the civil-military union (between the people and the soldiers), and bolstering popular participation in national defense tasks. Previously, the armed forces were fragmented into divisions and brigades. Commander Chávez organized the country into regions, and each region has a military structure with all its components: Army, Navy, Air Force, National Guard, militias, and the people.
If someone attacks a region, that region has the capacity to defend itself. It doesn’t need to move units from elsewhere. On February 23, 2019, under the pretext of bringing in humanitarian aid from Colombia, the Contras and Washington attempted to establish a beachhead in Táchira that would give the illegitimate Juan Guaidó control of a strip of Venezuelan territory to establish a “seat of government.” For 17 hours, fierce clashes erupted between Chavistas and Venezuelan paramilitaries and guarimberos, who operated mostly from the Colombian side. The skirmish ended with the opposition’s defeat.
Diosdado Cabello
There, amidst the events, at the military installation beside the Simón Bolívar Bridge, I spoke with Diosdado Cabello, then president of the National Constituent Assembly. Most of the FANB (National Bolivarian Armed Forces) chiefs were also present, whom he introduced to me as his friends and as longtime collaborators of Hugo Chávez. I asked him about the resolve of his troops. In good spirits, he explained: “President Maduro has visited every barracks. He shows up in the early morning.”
He arrives, runs with them, shares, does military exercises with them. We have total contact with them. We are like brothers. Many of us have been in this movement since we were children. We support each other and follow each other. We are a family. They will not break us…” Regarding the role of the militias, he told me: “For the friends of the State, they are a diamond. For the enemies of the State, they are the worst news.” A military intervention by a foreign country in Venezuela is very complicated, and not only because of the civil-military alliance.
Caracas has modernized its weaponry by acquiring it from Russia, China, and Iran, with whom it also maintains an alliance. Furthermore, it covers an area of almost one million square kilometers. Its topography is highly diverse: the Andes mountain range, the Coastal Range, and the Guiana Shield, along with the extensive Orinoco River basin. It boasts 4,208 kilometers of coastline and dense rainforests. The poor neighborhoods of cities like Caracas are dangerous. It shares a 2,341-kilometer border with Colombia, a 2,199-kilometer border with Brazil, and a 789-kilometer border with Guyana.
No neighboring country desires armed conflict on its borders. Venezuela possesses the men, weapons, determination, and territory capable of sustaining a prolonged popular resistance, turning any attempt to occupy the country into a quagmire for whoever tries it. Regardless of what might happen on the day of the occupation, the true military challenge for an invading force lies in what to do in the days that follow. However, beyond what may happen in the future, in Venezuela, today is the time for peace.
Luis Hernández Navarro is the Opinion editor of La Jornada*, and the author of numerous books, including* Chiapas: La nueva lucha india and Self-Defense in Mexico: Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty Wars.
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Venezuela, el día después
El país caribeño dispone de hombres, armas, determinación y territorio capaces de sostener una resistencia popular prolongadaLuis Hernández Navarro (La Jornada)
this is going to turn into another vietnam or afghanistan.
it'll run for decades while the american public forget that it's happening (like everything else) and there'll be a few sensational stories when the us leaves w it's collective tail tucked between its legs.
No discussions on phase two of the ceasefire as long as Israel continues attacks, says Hamas
Hussam Badran, of Hamas’ political bureau, stated on Tuesday, December, 9 that the movement demands the cessation of Israel’s violations of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal before proceeding to phase two.
Badran added that any discussion on the second phase of the deal must be preceded by real pressure by the mediators and guarantors, above all the United States, to ensure that all terms of phase one were implemented.
The terms of the first phase included a prisoners-for-captives exchange, ending the fighting, and aid entry to the besieged enclave. However, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) committed 738 violations of the deal since phase one took effect on October 10, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
At least 386 civilians were killed, 980 others were wounded, and 43 were unlawfully arrested as a result of these violations. Death toll estimates of Palestinians killed by Israel since October 2023 vary. While the official death toll of the Gaza Government Media Office surpasses 70,000, independent calculations have the number much higher.
Disarming Palestinians equals taking their soul; says Khaled Meshaal
Amid uncertainties of the direction of the ceasefire, the Head of Hamas political bureau abroad, Khaled Meshaal, told Al Jazeera during an interview aired on Tuesday, that the Palestinian resistance is bringing forward “realistic and practical approaches”, which would guarantee no military escalation against Israel from the Gaza Strip, but without disarmament.
“For Palestinians, disarmament equals taking the soul,” Meshaal insisted.
The senior Hamas official also asserted that the movement rejects a non-Palestinian authority to rule Gaza, in response to the US-led “board of peace” proposed by President Donald Trump.
Meshaal further emphasized the importance of providing aid to Gaza as a prerequisite for negotiations on phase two of the deal.
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Hamas says no second phase for Gaza ceasefire until Israel ceases 'violations'
Palestinian militant group Hamas on Tuesday threatened to delay the start of phase two of the Gaza ceasefire agreement until more pressure is put on Israel to cease deadly strikes, open the key Allenby border crossing and allow more aid into the bele…FRANCE 24
No discussions on phase two of the ceasefire as long as Israel continues attacks, says Hamas
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1281…
Hussam Badran, of Hamas’ political bureau, stated on Tuesday, December, 9 that the movement demands the cessation of Israel’s violations of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal before proceeding to phase two.Badran added that any discussion on the second phase of the deal must be preceded by real pressure by the mediators and guarantors, above all the United States, to ensure that all terms of phase one were implemented.
The terms of the first phase included a prisoners-for-captives exchange, ending the fighting, and aid entry to the besieged enclave. However, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) committed 738 violations of the deal since phase one took effect on October 10, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
At least 386 civilians were killed, 980 others were wounded, and 43 were unlawfully arrested as a result of these violations. Death toll estimates of Palestinians killed by Israel since October 2023 vary. While the official death toll of the Gaza Government Media Office surpasses 70,000, independent calculations have the number much higher.
Disarming Palestinians equals taking their soul; says Khaled Meshaal
Amid uncertainties of the direction of the ceasefire, the Head of Hamas political bureau abroad, Khaled Meshaal, told Al Jazeera during an interview aired on Tuesday, that the Palestinian resistance is bringing forward “realistic and practical approaches”, which would guarantee no military escalation against Israel from the Gaza Strip, but without disarmament.“For Palestinians, disarmament equals taking the soul,” Meshaal insisted.
The senior Hamas official also asserted that the movement rejects a non-Palestinian authority to rule Gaza, in response to the US-led “board of peace” proposed by President Donald Trump.
Meshaal further emphasized the importance of providing aid to Gaza as a prerequisite for negotiations on phase two of the deal.
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No discussions on phase two of the ceasefire as long as Israel continues attacks, says Hamas
Hussam Badran, of Hamas’ political bureau, stated on Tuesday, December, 9 that the movement demands the cessation of Israel’s violations of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal before proceeding to phase two.Badran added that any discussion on the second phase of the deal must be preceded by real pressure by the mediators and guarantors, above all the United States, to ensure that all terms of phase one were implemented.
The terms of the first phase included a prisoners-for-captives exchange, ending the fighting, and aid entry to the besieged enclave. However, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) committed 738 violations of the deal since phase one took effect on October 10, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
At least 386 civilians were killed, 980 others were wounded, and 43 were unlawfully arrested as a result of these violations. Death toll estimates of Palestinians killed by Israel since October 2023 vary. While the official death toll of the Gaza Government Media Office surpasses 70,000, independent calculations have the number much higher.
Disarming Palestinians equals taking their soul; says Khaled Meshaal
Amid uncertainties of the direction of the ceasefire, the Head of Hamas political bureau abroad, Khaled Meshaal, told Al Jazeera during an interview aired on Tuesday, that the Palestinian resistance is bringing forward “realistic and practical approaches”, which would guarantee no military escalation against Israel from the Gaza Strip, but without disarmament.“For Palestinians, disarmament equals taking the soul,” Meshaal insisted.
The senior Hamas official also asserted that the movement rejects a non-Palestinian authority to rule Gaza, in response to the US-led “board of peace” proposed by President Donald Trump.
Meshaal further emphasized the importance of providing aid to Gaza as a prerequisite for negotiations on phase two of the deal.
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Hamas says no second phase for Gaza ceasefire until Israel ceases 'violations'
Palestinian militant group Hamas on Tuesday threatened to delay the start of phase two of the Gaza ceasefire agreement until more pressure is put on Israel to cease deadly strikes, open the key Allenby border crossing and allow more aid into the bele…FRANCE 24
No discussions on phase two of the ceasefire as long as Israel continues attacks, says Hamas
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/7003282
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1281…
Hussam Badran, of Hamas’ political bureau, stated on Tuesday, December, 9 that the movement demands the cessation of Israel’s violations of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal before proceeding to phase two.Badran added that any discussion on the second phase of the deal must be preceded by real pressure by the mediators and guarantors, above all the United States, to ensure that all terms of phase one were implemented.
The terms of the first phase included a prisoners-for-captives exchange, ending the fighting, and aid entry to the besieged enclave. However, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) committed 738 violations of the deal since phase one took effect on October 10, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
At least 386 civilians were killed, 980 others were wounded, and 43 were unlawfully arrested as a result of these violations. Death toll estimates of Palestinians killed by Israel since October 2023 vary. While the official death toll of the Gaza Government Media Office surpasses 70,000, independent calculations have the number much higher.
Disarming Palestinians equals taking their soul; says Khaled Meshaal
Amid uncertainties of the direction of the ceasefire, the Head of Hamas political bureau abroad, Khaled Meshaal, told Al Jazeera during an interview aired on Tuesday, that the Palestinian resistance is bringing forward “realistic and practical approaches”, which would guarantee no military escalation against Israel from the Gaza Strip, but without disarmament.“For Palestinians, disarmament equals taking the soul,” Meshaal insisted.
The senior Hamas official also asserted that the movement rejects a non-Palestinian authority to rule Gaza, in response to the US-led “board of peace” proposed by President Donald Trump.
Meshaal further emphasized the importance of providing aid to Gaza as a prerequisite for negotiations on phase two of the deal.
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No discussions on phase two of the ceasefire as long as Israel continues attacks, says Hamas
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1281…Hussam Badran, of Hamas’ political bureau, stated on Tuesday, December, 9 that the movement demands the cessation of Israel’s violations of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal before proceeding to phase two.Badran added that any discussion on the second phase of the deal must be preceded by real pressure by the mediators and guarantors, above all the United States, to ensure that all terms of phase one were implemented.
The terms of the first phase included a prisoners-for-captives exchange, ending the fighting, and aid entry to the besieged enclave. However, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) committed 738 violations of the deal since phase one took effect on October 10, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
At least 386 civilians were killed, 980 others were wounded, and 43 were unlawfully arrested as a result of these violations. Death toll estimates of Palestinians killed by Israel since October 2023 vary. While the official death toll of the Gaza Government Media Office surpasses 70,000, independent calculations have the number much higher.
Disarming Palestinians equals taking their soul; says Khaled Meshaal
Amid uncertainties of the direction of the ceasefire, the Head of Hamas political bureau abroad, Khaled Meshaal, told Al Jazeera during an interview aired on Tuesday, that the Palestinian resistance is bringing forward “realistic and practical approaches”, which would guarantee no military escalation against Israel from the Gaza Strip, but without disarmament.“For Palestinians, disarmament equals taking the soul,” Meshaal insisted.
The senior Hamas official also asserted that the movement rejects a non-Palestinian authority to rule Gaza, in response to the US-led “board of peace” proposed by President Donald Trump.
Meshaal further emphasized the importance of providing aid to Gaza as a prerequisite for negotiations on phase two of the deal.
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Hamas says no second phase for Gaza ceasefire until Israel ceases 'violations'
Palestinian militant group Hamas on Tuesday threatened to delay the start of phase two of the Gaza ceasefire agreement until more pressure is put on Israel to cease deadly strikes, open the key Allenby border crossing and allow more aid into the bele…FRANCE 24
System76 Launches Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS With COSMIC Desktop
Release Notes
- Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS includes the new COSMIC Desktop Environment, designed and developed by System76.
- Some GNOME apps are replaced by COSMIC apps
- GNOME Files (Nautilus) > COSMIC Files
- GNOME Terminal > COSMIC Terminal
- GNOME Text Editor > COSMIC Text Editor
- GNOME Media Player (Totem) > COSMIC Media Player
- Pop!_Shop is replaced by COSMIC Store
- Key components
- COSMIC Epoch 1
- Linux kernel 6.17.9
- Mesa 25.1.5-1
- NVIDIA Driver 580
- Some games may start partially off-screen. Press F11 or Super+F11 to fullscreen the game
- Display toggle hotkeys and an on-screen display is not supported yet
- COSMIC has a built-in screenshot tool. If you require annotations, we recommend Flameshot, which can be installed from Flathub via COSMIC Store. Version 13.1 or higher is required for COSMIC
- COSMIC is not currently optimized for touch devices. An on-screen-keyboard is in development.
- The COSMIC Desktop will be continuously updated with new features and improvements after release
- Kernels and hardware support are continuously updated in Pop!_OS
- You can follow COSMIC DE feature and improvement progress on the project board
System76 Launches Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS With COSMIC Desktop
Back in October System76 announced a planned release date for Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and the COSMIC Desktop..www.phoronix.com
I like Cosmic, it was a little janky with steam windows when I tried it, but everything else was very nice.
Liked the hot keys, tiling, theming, and a decent built in terminal.
Create a desktop without tiling and run steam on it.
I never really resolved my issues, Ive installed bazzite for now.
I had those too, but they have gone away for me on 24.04.
Not the Steam client itself, but some games like to start minimized still. That's a minor annoyance, but it is also completely fixed by simply launching everything in gamescope, which plays very nicely with COSMIC.
Krohnkite
A dynamic tiling extension for KWin6. Kröhnkite is mainly inspired by dwm from suckless folks, and aims to be "simple" in both development and usage....store.kde.org
to some disappointment is still using Mesa 25.1 series graphics drivers
Good call IMO, my distro just upgraded to MESA 25.3, and I've had problems with black screens in games since that. I even tried switching to older kernels and since it's apparently not the kernel, my guess is on the MESA driver.
PS:
I use a Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU, and it has worked fine for years before the upgrade.
I checked the cabling first, and that the card was firmly socketed, but they are fine, and it clearly happened after the kernel/MESA upgrade??? It doesn't happen in desktop, only in games.
EDIT!!!
Turns out it was KDE/Wayland that caused the problem, for some reason the upgrade moved me from X11 to Wayland, and I had to install X11-session for KDE, after switching to that it works fine again.
Sad that Wayland which is supposed to be the better supported option now fails where X11 is still going strong.
I had to install X11-session for KDE, after switching to that it works fine again.
Unfortunately, KDE is planning to remove X11 session entirely around 2027, so if the problem still persists then it might be wise to find another distro or stick with old KDE versions.
Personally, I have XFCE installed alongside KDE for running programs that are buggy on Wayland (which was few and far in-between). Otherwise, my hardware supports Wayland well (as it only has Intel integrated graphics anyways).
I used XFCE many years because there were bugs and limitations in KDE I couldn't live with.
Now I've used KDE for about 2 years without issues, and they pull this stupid stunt!
I still have XFCE installed, and when I switched to that my games worked fine again. Then when I wanted to switch back to KDE/X11 I couldn't. It was friggin removed as an option after the latest upgrade, despite I specifically used KDE/X11 instead of Wayland because of a KDE/Wayland limitation that you can't disable compositing.
I do use compositing, but I like to have the option to disable it if I need to. And it was when I noticed I couldn't disable compositing, I switched to XFCE to see if that worked.
So long story short, I had to install a kde-x11-session package to be able to switch to it? WTF??
I must admit this incident has made me think of switching to another distro that respect user settings more.
PS:
My short trip to XFCE was quite nice, they have refined the design some since last I used it. But damned I'll have to port all my hotkeys again, I used top have them in xbindkeys, but I moved them to native KDE to be compatible with both X11 and Wayland. 🙄
Going all-in on a Wayland future
Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.Going all-in on a Wayland future
Agreed.
What is even stranger, but great, is that they plan to release a 26.04 LTS in 4 months.
That will be the start of the real next generation for Pop!OS. We should get a real sense of where System76 wants to go with COSMIC then. Today is all about getting a minimally viable system into production so people can start to use it. Making 24.04 an LTS means that people do not have to hold off until next year.
The Gnome overview is simple enough to use that people think there's nothing to it.
I've never had a better tool for interacting with apps, and I've worked with a lot of tools / DEs. There are some that are arguably more fun, or that clearly give better customization options.
..but just being a clean tool that works, provides what you need, looks good doing so, and gets out of your way? Gnome, hands down.
I've been daily driving COSMIC for about 6 months now. It has improved dramatically, and I (mostly) love it. Stable too. It's kept me on Pop and I'm now on 24.04.
I have a triple monitor setup, and I like COSMIC's tiling features and that I can very easily move around between windows and workspaces without the mouse. It's similar to i3 in feel (not as lightweight of course), but with easier setup. I can set tiling on or off for specific workspaces, which is great for differing workloads. Numbered shortcuts work too (e.g. option+3 takes me to workspace 3). It is much, much, MUCH better than the tiling features they added for Pop Shell in earlier versions using Gnome.
There are a couple things I would like: the ability to pin specific apps to specific workspaces would be nice, and I wish workspace numbering could span monitors (at the moment, each monitor has its own set of numbers, but they overlap each other so you can't jump to another display only with the number). But tbh I don't care too much about these since everything else has been great.
I don't really use the COSMIC apps (Files, text editor, etc), but that hasn't mattered either.
Edit: if anyone finds it relevant, I'm running a 9700x with 64GB RAM and a 7800XT. Go Team Red.
I am very curious to see what kind of uptake COSMIC gets.
It seems like a nice compromise between the overly locked-down simplicity of GNOME and the complexity of KDE. And it balances tiling with stacking really well.
Finally, tiling for the masses.
(Says the i3 and yabai user)
GitHub - asmvik/yabai: A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning - asmvik/yabaiGitHub
Yeah.
People harp on Onlyfans, but how sexualized and “softcore teasing” Insta and even TikTok are kinda creeps me out. They’re literally entry points to OF.
I have a parent who’s blissfully off of social media, and it was interesting to see their reaction to what they’re like now.
Im not. Dont think its a profession people should have.
Guess i think human beings should not sell their bodies. Strange right?
Serious answer: Humans are not meant to sell their bodies. They are meant to do physical work, of course.
If you cant see the difference, maybe a good example is if this was your daughter. Would you think selling her body is the same as working as a waitress? If yes, you are missing something inside.
If you don't like sex work then that's totally fine, don't do sex work, but there's a large market for it and plenty of people willing to fulfil that demand. Even if you don't like it, it's important to destigmatize it to make the lives of sex workers safer through legal protection, health care, etc. As far as sex work goes, onlyfans can be much better than the traditional porn industry because channels can be run independently, which reduces the risk of exploitation and human trafficking.
Sex work should be completely consentual and safe, and destigmatization and legal protections can help make that happen.
Im surprised anyone can like it. Its obviously wrong, morally, spiritually, emotionally, as a human being.
People are doing it anyway of course. Because a lot of people are broken in this world. And there is a market for it, of course. Its still wrong. We are not here to serve the market with our bodies. Lol.
If you think its fine, you are missing something inside. It really is that simple. And then you rationalize it with lots of market arguments or protection arguments, because you dont mind people selling their bodies. Even try to make it seem like a normal profession for humans to do.
A lot of people, like yourself, wants to believe they are good humans while doing bad things. So they rationalize it the way you do above. But you know the truth. You are just not capable of understanding why its wrong. Because that part is missing.
bro's jealous of people actually being attractive instead of annoying jerks
just let people be they aren't hurting you or anyone else.
Its obviously wrong, morally, spiritually, emotionally, as a human being.
Says who? Morals and the emotional reaction to this job are subjective, "as a human being" makes no sense at all, and fuck all the way off with your spirituality bullshit.
People are doing it anyway of course. Because a lot of people are broken in this world.
I would assume that they mainly do it because, like most people on earth, they live in capitalist hell and need money to survive. And just like most other professions, they sell their bodies, so what? Sometimes not even that, OF models or cam girls often just sell pictures or videos of their bodies, what makes that job any different than that of models or actors?
If you think its fine, you are missing something inside.
What would that be?
You are just not capable of understanding why its wrong. Because that part is missing.
Well, I know that the prudishness part in me is missing, and I'm glad it is.
You're not capable of understanding why it's not wrong at all. Take your own advice, find that missing part inside of you, whatever the fuck that is.
Sometimes not even that, OF models or cam girls often just sell pictures or videos of their bodies, what makes that job any different than that of models or actors?
If I recall correctly Belle Delphine did a ton of money before showing anything explicit she was doing mostly what any model do.
If sex work is consensual, why does money have to be involved?
Although I don't really have a problem with temporarily increasing regulations on the already existing sex work markets, it is fundamentally coercive and should be phased out by providing welfare and rehabilitation for sex workers and eliminating the capitalist forces that drive people to it.
Humans are not meant to sell their bodies.
they aren't but they all do anyway, me and you included. if i had a daughter living well from sex work, i'd be happy for her over having a minimum wage job that doesn't afford a decent life.
i'm not morally opposed to sex work, much grosser jobs to have. like cop, or lawyer.
and let's hope you don't get to have any woman in your life you can dump your misogyny on.
though i have a suspicion we are thankfully covered on this one.
Equally serious (and just a bit more deranged of an answer):
Humans are not meant to do work. Physical or otherwise. This slavery thing where everyone, regardless of race, gender, orientation (and almost even age) we have going on is just degrading and nonsensical.
Humans should live in tightly-knit families and tribes. Of course, the woman should do the simpler housework like cleaning, cooking and tidying, while the father should do the more manual stuff like fixing things, growing plants, keeping animals and hunting.
Women should likewise be seperated from books because they are more likely ro succumb to the words of the devil. I'm sorry, but that's just how it is. Therefore men must educate their heirs (male, of course), while the wife should teach her daughters how to domthe chores.
If you can't see how exposing a frail woman to the harsh reality of being the man of the house, try thinking of your own daughter.
Humans have worked since we appeared on the planet but yes, I agree that our current society is full of completely meaningless jobs and we are a debt slave planet.
Your most interesting comment was about women and how they should be separated from books. I guess you have that view because of a religious background, or?
I do believe we have a lot of words from the devil in our society today. Im not religious in that way, but I absolutely see how some people, maybe most, dont have basic morals and dont care how they treat other people online, where its easy to be your worst without consequences.
There is a spiritual war ongoing right now in my opinion.
‘We’re drowning’: Gaza baby dies as storm floods tent encampments
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40189934
By Maha Hussaini and Mohammed al-Hajjar in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
Published date: 11 December 2025 12:50 GMT
A Palestinian infant died from the cold on Thursday as heavy rain across the Gaza Strip continued for a second day, flooding tented encampments and roads.Eight-month-old Rahaf Abu Jazar died in Khan Younis after rainwater leaked into her family’s tent during overnight storms.
Her family was among hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians awoken in the night as torrential downpours inundated the makeshift shelters they rely on for protection.
Gaza’s war-damaged sewage system also overflowed under the heavy rain.
“We are drowning in rainwater mixed with sewage,” said Amal Eleiwa from Gaza City.
‘We’re drowning’: Gaza baby dies as storm floods tent encampments
By Maha Hussaini and Mohammed al-Hajjar in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
Published date: 11 December 2025 12:50 GMTA Palestinian infant died from the cold on Thursday as heavy rain across the Gaza Strip continued for a second day, flooding tented encampments and roads.Eight-month-old Rahaf Abu Jazar died in Khan Younis after rainwater leaked into her family’s tent during overnight storms.
Her family was among hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians awoken in the night as torrential downpours inundated the makeshift shelters they rely on for protection.
Gaza’s war-damaged sewage system also overflowed under the heavy rain.
“We are drowning in rainwater mixed with sewage,” said Amal Eleiwa from Gaza City.
‘We’re drowning’: Gaza baby dies as storm floods tent encampments
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40189934
By Maha Hussaini and Mohammed al-Hajjar in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
Published date: 11 December 2025 12:50 GMT
A Palestinian infant died from the cold on Thursday as heavy rain across the Gaza Strip continued for a second day, flooding tented encampments and roads.Eight-month-old Rahaf Abu Jazar died in Khan Younis after rainwater leaked into her family’s tent during overnight storms.
Her family was among hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians awoken in the night as torrential downpours inundated the makeshift shelters they rely on for protection.
Gaza’s war-damaged sewage system also overflowed under the heavy rain.
“We are drowning in rainwater mixed with sewage,” said Amal Eleiwa from Gaza City.
‘We’re drowning’: Gaza baby dies as storm floods tent encampments
By Maha Hussaini and Mohammed al-Hajjar in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
Published date: 11 December 2025 12:50 GMTA Palestinian infant died from the cold on Thursday as heavy rain across the Gaza Strip continued for a second day, flooding tented encampments and roads.Eight-month-old Rahaf Abu Jazar died in Khan Younis after rainwater leaked into her family’s tent during overnight storms.
Her family was among hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians awoken in the night as torrential downpours inundated the makeshift shelters they rely on for protection.
Gaza’s war-damaged sewage system also overflowed under the heavy rain.
“We are drowning in rainwater mixed with sewage,” said Amal Eleiwa from Gaza City.
‘We’re drowning’: Gaza baby dies as storm floods tent encampments
By Maha Hussaini and Mohammed al-Hajjar in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
Published date: 11 December 2025 12:50 GMT
A Palestinian infant died from the cold on Thursday as heavy rain across the Gaza Strip continued for a second day, flooding tented encampments and roads.Eight-month-old Rahaf Abu Jazar died in Khan Younis after rainwater leaked into her family’s tent during overnight storms.
Her family was among hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians awoken in the night as torrential downpours inundated the makeshift shelters they rely on for protection.
Gaza’s war-damaged sewage system also overflowed under the heavy rain.
“We are drowning in rainwater mixed with sewage,” said Amal Eleiwa from Gaza City.
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Consolidations Are as Much a Threat as AI
Consolidations Are as Much a Threat as AI
Netflix is , one of the largest movie and TV studios in the world. The deal is set an a staggering $82.7 billion. Except, maybe not. The day after the ann...Josh Griffiths
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It'll have a devastating effect for people who work in the industries.
Those of us who don't play AAA games or watch Warner Bros or Paramount movies don't really have much to lose here. Worst case scenario there are always Nigerian and Uzbek movies.
Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI
Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI | TechCrunch
Calibri, which could make documents easier to read for the vision impaired, was apparently installed in 2023 by the department’s then-DEI office.Julie Bort (TechCrunch)
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Calibri, which could make documents easier to read for the vision impaired, was apparently installed in 2023 by the department’s then-DEI office. Rubio’s memo has designated Times New Roman as his tenure’s official font, stating it will “restore decorum and professionalism” to documents.
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Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI
A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
Why are Israeli lawmakers wearing gold nooses?
More than 110 Palestinian prisoners have died from torture and mistreatment since Itamar Ben-Gvir became Israel’s security minister. Now he wants the power to hang them.
Why are Israeli lawmakers wearing gold nooses?
Israel's national security minister wants the power to hang Palestinian detainees accused of terrorism.Al Jazeera
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