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I am personally enjoying the fall of the American empire. At least for now. Until it starts invading everyone to try and prevent the inevitable.

Is there any effort to archive the IDF videos and videos out of Gaza? Its something I would be interested in doing and keeping saved locally. If this effort exists anywhere already I'd be interested in know.

Or if people have sources for raw footage.

I see IDF tiktoks or stuff out of Gaza on rednote. What sources exactly are "disappearing"?

Edit: Just realized it's not just a short article but a video. Will have to watch later for more details I guess.

But feel to free live a comment if you know of resources.

Doesn't look like it supports libdvdcss in any way.

Check that library and look for alternatives. dvdbackup is what I used back in the day.

Edit: looks like people still use dvdbackup. Which is open source. Dump the disk with it and then use handbrake.

Though I don't know if this will be raw video passthrough like MakeMKV. But you probably want to compress it anyway. I don't know why you'd want to keep a 8GB 1080p video in 2025 with the modern compression we have today. This is why there is CPU intensive stuff happening in handbrake. It's using modern compression. Do you not want this? Just want to dump the massive files and be done?

Wish I had time to mess around making something like this. There definitely SHOULD be an open source project. These are all very doable things. My guess is it's just not worth anyone's effort when MakeMKV or dvdbackup exist.

This is great when it works and you have the numbers. But long term that is not a solution and not a solution all the time. A gun is a solution at all times. Get one before they don't let you.

If they are coming for you it's not a "misunderstanding". You wont be able to talk your way out of it by being nice and doing what they say. They are Nazis. They are taking you to a death camp.

They don't care if you're a citizen. They didn't care when it was a green card.

Stay in your home and defend it. Coordinate with your neighbors. Have one of them to call to bring additional resistance and pressure. But have a gun. Because when they break down your door. That's it.

Organizing with your community to protect each other is the best thing you can do. And part of that is making sure you are all prepared and armed.

It's not about winning. It's about resisting. You don't only resist when you have good odds of winning. The people that fought the Warsaw ghetto uprising knew they would die. It is better to die taking down a few Nazis then to die on their terms.

TLDR: Get a gun. Fuck ICE. They're Nazis.

He's working on it. He has to be careful not to accidently forgive the student loans associated with it.

Sounds about right. I know we all like to pretend Trump is "the worst". And he is. But hear me out.

In no time in US history (except maybe post WW2 for white men) has this country ever respected the young adults that happened to survive from wars.

It's just a different level of "fuck you" this time.

It doesn't but trying to perfectly time your kids nap to the meeting time (she's still young and needs at least 2) usually results in a really cracky kid at some point.

Sleep is important and I try not to fuck with it when I can. So doing that when someone just cancels 10 minutes prior is frustrating and usually means I woke her up early from a nap previously to get on a good time sync.

Rescheduling to a different time that day is less bad because I can more easily keep her up another 30-40 minutes depending on the time of the day.

Basically if it's a completely different day it means she's cranky back to back days.

They don't really even "like" them but they're basically the only thing they do that makes it seem like they do any work.

It's like grabbing a broom when your boss enters the restaurant. Better to pretend you're doing something.

Though a lot of them do just like the sound of their own voice.

Not when you're working from home and being a dad at the same time. Got my kids nap times aligned with meetings. "Oh, sorry to cancel last minute"

Fuck me, I gotta align this shit all over again tomorrow.

I mean that's essentially what this does. I will of course still pay 1000% on on my "please XI. Please invade the US t-shirts" but that's mosyt just me trying to send a message to XI.

I mean at some point they can hopefully both agree on a number so we can stop getting updates on something that essentially just blocks all trade. But I think Trump and his tiny cock will have to keep adding another 100% forever to compensate.

I think a lot of people don't realize that for Zionist this is a double win.

If I knew that it was possible to save all the (Jewish) children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.

-David Ben-Gurion

The first prime minister of Israel.

Zionism is a force of destruction to the Jewish people. It often promotes or excuses Antisemitism to accomplish is colonialist objectives.

Yep. Which is why there were a disproportionate number of small business owners, landlords, and other nonwage "workers" on January 6th. The people that could actually afford to fly out and storm the capital are people already in a very financially sound and privileged position. They either do not do actual work or have a job they can easily take time off for and not fear being fired.

And these people are the base of the Republican party and the MAGA movement. It's why it's so mucher harder to get leftist organized in places like this. There are just not as many of us that can afford to do something like that.

I'm vooting! I'm vooting!

I think you missed the entire point of my comment if you don't think I acknowledge that. Two things can be true at once.

There are also other nations like the EU and China that are assisting these countries. As well as private charities working to compensate for this lack of immediate aid.

USAID is not meant to help these nations. It is meant to control their crops by injecting massive amounts of cheep foods, grown in the US, to destroy their local markets for growing crops that country would need to be self sustainable.

It forces the farmers in these countries to only grow sugarcane, bananas, or other crops that cannot be grown in the US. Forcing a reliance on USAID and ensuring the most profitable crops are grown for Capitalist.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Get better material.

Zzzzzzzzzzz I'm bored with you. You just keep repeating the same thing. Calling me a piece of shit human for not respecting piece of shit humans with they die. The irony.

I'd say destroying USAID is the one good thing they did. Long term mind you. I won't deny the short term effects of such an instant cutoff to these programs.

But USAID is primarily used to disrupt the economic systems of nations that the US exploits for cheap labor.

I'd quote the revolutionary Thomas Sankara

Those who come with wheat, millet, corn or milk, they are not helping us. Those who really want to help us can give us ploughs, tractors, fertilizers, insecticides, watering cans, drills and dams. That is how we would define food aid.

The US primarily uses its food aid to disrupt these nations from being self sustainable and force their industry into a single crop that is most beneficial for US capitalist to export.

So, while the shorterm is bad. The disconnection of these exploitative relationships are good.

Obviously it would be better if these programs were slowly removed. But continuing them for the next 4 years would be worse then ending them drastically.

Also, mind you, I don't think Trump even realizes why these programs exist to benefit the US exploitation of the third world. I think he sees them simply as "foreign aid". So his own ignorance of them actually ends up destroying an important part of US Imperialism by mistake.

Removing the exploitative relationships that the US has with third world countries in the form of "foreign aid" is good. It's just that (1) Trump actually thinks these benefit these nations. Which they do not. And (2) the well intentioned liberals thinks the same as Trump does. So we end up with this weird state where both are wrong but the policy is actually good long term.

Again, there will absolutely be problems as these dependencies are cut of so quickly. But no more than the continued exploitation in the long term would result in.

At Thomas Sankara said. These direct food injections are not helpful. They are a way that capitalist use to direct the economy of third world nations towards dependency on America Imperialism. Ending them is good for these nations. Even if there are struggles when they end.

Self determination and self sustainability have been robbed from these nations by USAID for decades.