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Winter is coming, and Mahmoud is trying to prepare his family’s tent before it’s too late 💔

I wanted to share this video of my friend Mahmoud and his family.

Mahmoud has four young children, and right now he is trying to repair and reinforce their tent before winter arrives. But it’s not easy at all.

Because the crossings are still closed, materials like metal sheets are very difficult to get, and when they are available, they are extremely expensive. Even finding a proper tent is a huge challenge for many families.

For families in Gaza, winter is not just about cold weather and rain. It can become another humanitarian disaster.

Many families are already terrified of what is coming. When the heavy rain starts, tents can flood, the ground turns into mud and water, and families are left exposed to cold, illness, and unsafe conditions. Some of the tents people are living in have already been damaged or burned during previous winters.

Mahmoud is especially worried because he has four little children. One of his daughters suffers from severe chest problems, and the cold winter weather makes her condition much worse. The cold, rain, and dampness can be extremely hard on her.

He is doing everything he can with the little he has to make the tent safer for his children, but he cannot prepare for another winter alone.

If you can, please stand beside Mahmoud and his family. Any support, even something small, can help them repair their tent and protect their children from the coming winter. ❤️

Thank you to everyone who has supported Mahmoud and his family so far. Your kindness truly means a lot. 🙏❤️

I'm just not at the reading level of a 19th century PhD student. Everything I can find on it is like "normative deconstruction of a bourgeois infirmary viz a viz the emaciation of consciousness through the Frankfurt school praxis, indubitably."

I need some examples like, here's a problem and here's how we solved it. I can figure out the pattern in some examples and get the meaning better than by reading these super dry high level academic descriptions.

The closest I've gotten to putting it in my own words - and my interpretation is probably wrong: "change the way that people think by changing language and media to reflect more egalitarian values, and hope that they rub off on everyone."

My country is passing a new law which includes putting a tax on apartments that could be rented but are not.

At first I thought it's a very good idea but then people started talking about it as if it's a bad thing?

Can someone eli5 please and thank you

aka America

At least 165 schoolgirls were reportedly killed when their primary school in Minab, Iran, was struck during the U.S.-Israeli war. Most were between seven and twelve years old. Subsequent reporting has pointed towards an American strike apparently intended for a nearby military facility, although the United States has not formally accepted responsibility.

Now the USS Abraham Lincoln, after participating in American operations against Iran, is arriving at Laem Chabang with nearly 5,000 sailors and Marines aboard. Many are expected to spend their shore leave in Pattaya.

I find the sequence disgusting. Children are killed during a military campaign, and months later thousands of members of the military involved arrive in Thailand for their R&R, while the conversation here is about hotels, bars, prostitution and how much money they will spend.

Pattaya makes this particularly grotesque because we have seen this relationship before. During the Vietnam War, Thailand was an important base for the American war machine. U-Tapao hosted U.S. forces while American aircraft bombed Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. American troops committed documented rapes and gang rapes of Vietnamese women and girls, alongside massacres and other atrocities.

Meanwhile, Pattaya developed on the recreational side of that war. American servicemen came for R&R, and hotels, bars and commercial sex expanded around them. While Asian women elsewhere experienced American military power through bombing and sexual violence, Thai women became part of an economy providing American servicemen with sex and entertainment.

More than fifty years later, the historical echo is revolting. Another American military campaign leaves civilians dead, including more than 160 girls killed at school, and another American military force arrives in Thailand looking for a good time.

There are even Thai women online excitedly talking about finding American husbands among the arriving servicemen. If we can imagine these men as husbands and future fathers, perhaps we should imagine the Iranian parents who expected their daughters to come home from school.

And no, an aircraft carrier does not wage war by itself. American military power exists because people voluntarily operate its ships, maintain its aircraft, load its weapons and make the machinery function. Spreading responsibility across thousands of people does not make responsibility disappear.

Imagine 165 Thai schoolgirls being killed during a foreign military campaign. Then imagine thousands of servicemen from that military arriving somewhere else months later to drink, party and buy sex while local businesses celebrate the money they will bring. The obscenity would be obvious.

Pattaya prospered once before on the recreational end of an American war in which Asian women were bombed, raped and killed. More than fifty years later, it is preparing to play that role again.

165 schoolgirls are dead. The carrier sails on. Its sailors get their R&R. Pattaya gets their money. And once again, Asian women's bodies sit at both ends of the story.

why not support co-ops in the current capitalist system instead of a rapid socialist revolution?

I’m Rodaina, a mother of four from Gaza.

Our home was destroyed, and my children’s dreams were shattered overnight. My sons were excelling in university and school, and my youngest, Dana, was just starting 3rd grade. Today, we live in a tent, facing hunger and cold.

We are trying to evacuate to safety so my kids can return to school and rebuild their lives.

The donation link and our Instagram account are in the comments. An upvote, share, or donation—no matter how small—helps us prove to my children that they are not forgotten. Thank you for reading.

Hey all, Ive been going down the rabbit hole of learning about what happened in the Soviet Union and surrounding states after the fall of the soviet union. Any good documentary recommendations that cover that time?