This is a boy account, if you can’t tell. I’m big into books.
[2026-05-16] @baoshaoshan@twitter.com: China has made clear that it will ignore American illegal unilateral sanctions in any case. If this report is true, Trump is reluctant to test his willingness or capacity to enforce.
@bloomberg@twitter.com: President Donald Trump said he’s weighing whether to ease sanctions on Chinese oil companies that buy supplies from Iran, a move that would mark a concession to Beijing after his summit with President Xi Jinping. https://archive.is/fzmyY
[2026-05-15] @s_m_marandi@twitter.com: War may be imminent. In case of further military aggression, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Axis of Resistance will go much further and strike much harder than in the 39-day Epstein War.
“Sources tell me Israel is stable, please God”
[2026-05-13] Peoples Dispatch – Iran rejects Kuwaiti accusation of IRGC infiltration
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait Ambassador Hamad Sulaiman Al-Masha’an, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs met with Ambassador for the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Toutounji to deliver a protest note following the alleged “infiltration of an armed group associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard into Bubiyan Island”. Photo: MFA Kuwait/X
Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior announced on Tuesday, May 12, the arrest of four people they say are affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), while they were allegedly trying to infiltrate the country.
The ministry added that during interrogation, the suspects confessed being tasked with sneaking into Bubiyan Island “to carry out hostile acts against Kuwait.”
Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Wednesday, May 13, condemning Kuwait’s “improper action” against the four Iranian personnel.
The ministry clarified that the personnel accidentally entered Kuwaiti territorial waters due to a navigational system malfunction, while on a routine naval patrol mission.
Tehran slammed the Gulf state for “politically and propagandistically exploiting” the incident, while reaffirming “its principled policy of respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries in the region, including Kuwait”.
It also urged the Kuwaiti authorities to immediately release the detained Iranian nationals, and called on the Arab country to “avoid hasty statements and baseless allegations”, and “to pursue the existing issues through official channels.”
Kuwait’s accusations against Iran came a few days after Bahrain had announced the arrest of 41 individuals allegedly linked with the IRGC on its soil.
Analysts suggest that both Gulf states have resorted to accusing the IRGC of orchestrating security plots on their territories as part of a propaganda campaign, which potentially aims to influence public opinion and justify their involvement in the US-Israeli aggression against Iran. Qatar, the UAE, and Bahrain were quick to release their own statements echoing Kuwait’s accusations.
Like Bahrain and other US-backed Gulf states, Kuwait has cracked down on people who peacefully expressed their opinions about the unprovoked regional aggression on Iran on social media.
Dozens of citizens were arbitrarily arrested by Kuwait’s state security apparatus, including elderly people, women, and young children in need of care, according to rights groups. Prominent Kuwaiti-American journalist, Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, was also arrested last March for the same reason.
It is worth noting that Kuwait hosts key US military installations including Camp Arifjan, Camp Buehring, Ali Al Salem Air Base and Kuwait Naval Base (Camp Patriot), which facilitate the movement, training, and logistics of US troops across the West Asia region.
Statement 1 already posted. Military Media is, of course, Hezbollah, won’t clarify that again. I’m sure you know.
[2]: Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli vehicles in the town of Rashaf with artillery rounds: Military Media
Statement 3 missing from RSS feed.
[4]: Islamic Resistance fighters intercepted an Israeli enemy army drone in the skies over Abbasia with a surface-to-air missile
[5]: Islamic Resistance fighters targeted at 13:00 on Saturday 09-05-2026 a gathering of “Israeli” enemy army soldiers in Rashaf town with artillery shells, achieving a confirmed hit
[6]: Islamic Resistance fighters targeted at 14:15 on Saturday 09-05-2026 a gathering of “Israeli” enemy army soldiers in Al-Bayyada town with artillery shells, achieving a confirmed hit
[7]: Islamic Resistance fighters targeted an Israeli enemy army D9 bulldozer in the vicinity of the Al-Abbad site with a loitering glider and achieved a direct hit
[8]: Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy soldiers near the Misgav Am site with a loitering glider and achieved a confirmed hit
[2026-05-12] @mmirlb@telegram.org: Statement Issued by the Islamic Resistance (1):
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful “Permission [to fight] has been given to those who are being fought because they were wronged. And indeed, Allah is competent to grant them victory.” Allah Almighty is Truthful
In defense of Lebanon and its people, and in response to the “Israeli” enemy’s violation of the ceasefire and its attacks on villages in southern Lebanon which resulted in the martyrdom of civilians and injuries among others, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted at 23:20 on Monday 11-05-2026 a Merkava tank in Al-Bayyada town with a guided missile, and it was seen burning.
“And victory is not but from Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Wise”
Tuesday 12-05-2026 24 Dhu al-Qi‘dah 1447
#Battle_of_the_Devoured_Straw #In_Defense_of_Lebanon_and_Its_People #Military_Media
Exquisite
[2026-04-07] @PressTV: The missile and drone units of the Iranian Navy have carried out a powerful response to the US enemy following their acts of aggression against Iranian oil tankers.
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They got so fucking mad at people pointjng out the 2% of regional oil exports leaving OPEC freed up were 100% within range of bombing they werelike “but the ceasefire” okay for how long?? Well now we know! LAWYER BRAIN LAWYER BRAIN LAWYER BRAIN NONE OF YOU ARE FREE FROM IT
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THE FUCKING UAE ANALYSTS WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW THEIR PIPELINE WAS GOING TO CHANGE SHIT STILL LIKE YESYERDAY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAABGET FUUUCKED
I fucking love Iran dude I feel so electric when they make big money moves
WTF he’s like the most amenable to the western media (the freelance/alt part anyways which is still securely controlled by their social media companies & publishing platforms) out of any of them, that’s not even something I hold against him he has clout
Oh ya that was hyperbole idk what my deal was with that, anyways. No by all means it’s good for a third of the audience to be put off by something to keep the conversation going, so if you disagree with a third of what I’m saying that’s beneficial.
A lot of the world systems stuff is arguing over what different terms mean I don’t like a great deal of it although I do recommend reading Braudel etc if you have the time lmao doorstoppers w that guy. I don’t agree with a lot of the structural takes about “historical capitalisms” with the whole crowd. But amin is worth investigating because following him around leads you to abt a billion underlooked antiimperialist organizations & he’s on the right side of most of those I looked at.
Like one weird example is Andre Gunder Frank’s contention that a world system has to be the entire world just because it’s called a world system. Rather than smaller interacting chunks that later become the global imperialist world system choking everyone to death etc etc brb
Interspersing it is terrorism yes but it keeps me closely connected to True English if that makes sense and if I stop doing it I die
These are fair questions and that hideous man shoukd really consider answering them
P.S. I post better on this network than I ever have on Twitter, and I constantly get “ratio’d” - whenever I post something that took me 1000 hours to find I just get shrugs. However this instance in particular has over time displayed that it is the only place that can have a serious discussion about music or books, so you are unlikely to get rid of me. If anyone bears a grudge, just know that permagrudges encourage actual alt abuse not open profile swapping, as well as removing any social barrier to crashing out again constantly, forever. Just look next door
Just kidding I know it’s federation issues people on third instances don’t even get half of these. It has nothing to do with the multiple groups of threadiverse admins openly maintaining user blacklists. Nobody would ever bot a site where there are zero barriers to it whatsoever. I’m not paranoid. You’re paranoid that I might be. Seek help. I don’t want Twitter or Rednote likes. i want Lemmygrad and Weibo likes. i have standards. Stingy bastards
Yes I know I can just go get 380 likes by /r/antiwork posting in /c/memes@lemmy.ml
That’s degrading and we all know it
I wasn’t serious, the lasagna man thing amused me… I feel a connection to Garfield the cat. Went in looking for shit to ridicule but figured I ought to come back when I got smarter. Never did. I didn’t get much out of reading Fundamentals of Marxist Orientation because I wasn’t really dping hist mat then, I was just obsessed with the cold war.Deeply neurotic about mind control. I think realizing they faked aliens to scare people & tried to use religious terror spoopy style in SEA woke me up to the CIA’s exaggeration of their success with MK which can mostly be summed up with SERE. Well that’s reductive, but also that has nothing to do with anything I’m just doing my weekly blunt to not go crazy yet, so mooving on
Samir Amin, well where to start. Start with Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins if you haven’t already. Read Ruy Mauro Marini’s Dialectics of Dependency. Short but rigorous take notes. Read this https://monthlyreview.org/articles/the-new-imperialist-structure/
Monthly Review is so hit-or-miss, a year before this they were publishing a loving memorandum for Bertrand Russell that literally said nobody would deny Stalin was an ebil dictator. O’ve been cherrypicking their archives too much… I thought the slop was contained to the newswire which just feels like Foster’s reposts… Aaaargjh
Only People Make Their Own History is a good survey of his work which can be roughly split into the study of the origins of capitalism as a mode pf production by the consumption of tributary modes of production in West Asia + China + Subcontinent, & the study of modern imperialism & how it instrumentalizes but is also destabilized by colonialism, how feudal elements persist in the global periphery. Gets into the details of how the west hoards technology & profits from laying waste to resource-rich places where they want people in squalor, in strategically marginal areas for transnational corporations they want to basically not exist lmao.
If that gets you interested, go for Eurocentrism (which really rips into the foundations of western philosophy, anthropology, history etc, if you are all reading Losurdo & Rockhill’s books, this is a must, I have found more like it: Back to Marx, as well as A Deep Plough by Zhang Yibing, groundbreaking shit).
Maldevelopment is depressing but also essential for understanding how subimperialism works, how India works, how apartheid South Africa worked.
Russia & the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism is a good intermediate one that gets into the nit & grit of how the USSR was mired in developmentalism & the periphery fell behind (building pseudo-autarky where the USSR serves as a kind of filter between the west & its allies was insufficient). He is clear that the USSR was dismantled… He argues the soviet mode of production persisted post-destruction, proving its durability & the nature of the betrayal. I am looking for more like it. Nobody listens to me because I’m too impatient on here bruh you can find them for sure
Brb lemmygrad
The children will speculate upon the Feastables I suppose
I think Saymaz’s book discussion thread would be more likely to get an in-depth response but there’s no reason not to do both with slightly different focus, site’s cozy enough.
Also I wanted to say “they got you too huh” the fucking Telegram memes from the evil NATO-sexuals in their ideology chats got me with Bordiga… Pandemic made me insane
Read Samir Amin.
[2026-04-28] @secondbyfarce (the hank hill char avi guy jonnysocialism is always posting with): ACP leadership Chris Helali works for an international business law firm specializing in protecting multinational corporations and banks. the party is literally run by the foot soldiers of the international bourgeois
[2] @/CDMorlock do you support your party being ran by the foot soldiers of FIRE?
Lmao the second one took me a moment, like, wait that’s right this is a grave sin against their variant of Hudsonianism. more pertinently, not recognizing this as CIA behavior is bot/historical illiterate behavior. I thought I had all the lore on this guy, republican Brace Belden if you will, but no, there’s more. Beasts all over the shop
Some thanks Turkey gets for helping to destroy Syria!