No only around 2.9% + 30 cent charge on each individual donation. So when you donate 25 you pay 29 something like that. If for some reason you don't want to donate to the GoFundMe but are able to donate in general I can check with Banah if it's okay to send her PayPal email to you directly with a dm, which I have sent her money through before early in the war an which went through fine.

Just want to say I am overwhelmed with all the generous people who have donated, it means so much to Balaha an her family. I'm going to repost once in /c/Mutualaid, after that I will just let the post ride you all have been so great! And thank you for the bumps too!

Remember if you can't donate (which is of course very understandable) then please please send to friends and family an repost on social media ! That also helps immensely.

I will of course repost a thank you message from Balaha an her family here once the funds are donated after I feel like the GoFundMe has reached its maximum potential, which will be July 1st at the latest but will certainly be sent much sooner then that, even if we cant get enough for Her an her family Members to cross through rafah (which seems to be 7,000 dollar's at the vert least - damn those shamless smugglers an the Egyptian Junta! -) the money still helps immensely for what comes after the war as well as buying food stuffs if worse comes to worse.

Thank you all again so much :,). I'm going to remake a Twitter account later today an be dm'ing semi big accounts on Twitter to share, it's a long shot but I think it's worth going for it! If you have a Twitter account (especially if it has a following of any kind) please feel free to do the same! <3

Before I start going to bed just wanna say thank you to whoever donated . Any bit helps, truly . Bless you .

I will thank you my friend <3. An I hope it isn't inappropriate to say as it is self involved but I will be posting here more again in the future.

As far as the satanic ARPA/DARPA internet goes this place has always been a relatively warm light. Thanks peoples.

Okay I will change it to that. Thanks for the engagement truly! If I I/we/the world can even do a tiny bit for this person an her family it would mean so much. But I know we are all funding strapped an there is much pain to go around.

Edit: Unless my brain no worky (which it doesn't) I guess you can't change the post /c/ so I will let it cook so to speak, then repost tomorrow in mutual_aid

Really ? When I click on it it works. What happens with it ? I just used the share button on GoFundMe and pasted the link at the bottom.

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Oh my God lol . Okay updated now gofundme linked to bottom of post. I haven't posted in a while so I thought i did but it's in the main post now at the bottom. Thank you

Also the intro of the GoFundMe with "I'm this cracker interested in the middle east" is very cringe I know but putting up something about yourself helps show GoFundMe that its legit.

yes thank you! I've heard great things about Pillars (haven't played it yet) and am enjoying Tyranny for it's writing and gameplay and in spite of it's art style not being the greatest imo, which is also made by Obsidian.

Divinity Original Sins world and overall design just feels too much like a GAME ya know. It's clearly well polished and has a lot of depth but it's world feels so light hearted (Unlike Pillars Of Eternity or Dragon Age 1) and not immersive. The world building feels like it exists for the sake of the game and gameplay structure rather then it's own other place.

Not really a critique, can tell they are very solid games yet like you they didn't capture my interest.

Denuvo and other 'anti tamper' spyware always get cracked so quick after release 😆. The real envy of pirating games is a multiplayer/server requirement and patches lol. Especially how often people who upload cracked games don't upload patches or the newer version.

Divinity Original Sin 1 or 2 have never really captured me but hoping this game is the kind of rpg I've been looking for sense finally playing Dragon Age Origins. Glad it's coming out of early access.

Still haven't played through Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 lol.

Hit the nail on the head. The motivation and historical forces behind the US reaching for the stars particularly after Sputnik lay within the Cold War and the larger desire to dominate the next frontier. Not solely for exploration, but for conquering. Look at it like the Pacific and the larger global system of commodity's and so on in contemporary capitalism from the gulf and beyond. Said flows are largely guaranteed by the US Navy. The US looks at space the same way in the long term.

Everyone laughed at trump's Reagen esque space force, yet like the fascist border enforcement it is now an excepted reality. A branch of the military and a key pillar in the future of might makes right geopolitics as far as Washington's concerned.

Thank you for alluding to the placement of that last quote in my post, the contrast between the needs of the global south and that quote makes one ..☠️ ....

Chomsky has his limits but he was so right about quoting western newspapers, other official sources as well as leaders in power to expose their own hubris/evil. Like if you can muscle through it not totally dying inside while hearing their bullshit the contradictions are so obvious.

Well put and completely agree. There's so many things to say about the Marshall plan but as we've alluded to it of course didn't happen in a vacuum and revolves around the context of the end of WW2, rising post fascist an anti colonial Communist movements and in no small part the Soviet Union. And ultimately a replacement of the - then relatively - modern western European lifestyle financed in large part by it's own imperialism to one in large part financed by Washington's imperialism.

Such idiocy being a litmus test for US leaders shows the hubris of empire. Hope this isn't too galaxy brained but the out of touch nature of the legislative branch and Washington in general from the State Department on down makes me think of Paine's quote about monarchy:

"There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to act in cases where the highest judgment is required. The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly; wherefore the different parts, by unnaturally opposing and destroying each other, prove the whole character to be absurd and useless."

CPC stay winning. And honestly that last section of the FT article is so juicy. Basically an expert from a western university being like:

"China is being cunning and manipulative by offering genuine peace proposals and development in the sphere of international relations :rage-cry: ! The West must do better they're winning!!"

Oh no need thanks for your comment <3 was funny and insightful (and hopefully cathartic lol).

Definitely one of those "masks off" moments that are rare for these very well trained EU diplomats so glad you reminded me (: !

Whether Washington and NATO as a whole are totally unaware of Poland's geopolitical interests in Ukraine or it is hubris (probably a mix of both) it'll be hilarious (I mean not really it'd be horrible but you get what I mean lol) if Poland's hunger for a chunk of Western Ukraine that was apart of Poland until roughly the second half of the 20th century becomes unrestrainable.

I can see it now "Poland occupys western Ukraine in Peace Keeping Operation" or something of the sort. They've [Poland] made so many comments about incursion and honestly Russia doesn't want much to do with the part of Ukraine West of the Dnipro River so it could happen. 50/50 I say lol

Deaf, blind, stupid and just plain David Ike lizard person evil lol.

I feel you , I often run into a wall writing anything not because there isn't anything to write but because there's always MORE EVIL SHIT to fill in lol.

And ah yes The European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell's recent comment about the rest of the world being a "jungle" in danger of encroaching upon on Europe's "garden". A comment that echoes the opening of the fascist novel Imperium written by American White Supremacist Robert Harris, which begins with a view of earth then progressively zooms into Western Europe describing it as a special bustling beacon of light and civilization like no other beset by darkness all around it.

Its not just the sanctions that have hindered fertilizer from arriving where it needs to be. According to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin back in November of 2022 more than 280,000 tonnes of Russian mineral fertilizers were detained in European ports over the previous months. And despite most headlines a lot of said grain and fertilizer goes to monocultures and some to Western Europe itself.

Then there's the general market forces that are affecting wheat prices. Leading some to argue that some fears about a collapse in wheat production are unwarranted (though as you alluded to regardless the threat of famine particularly in the Sahara and the Horn of Africa is very real) but contemporary capitalism will keep wheat prices volatile nonetheless.

Why are global wheat prices rising so much?(MR)

 ....if the broad global totals of supply and demand are not supposed to change that much even with the Ukraine war, what explains the dramatic increases in wheat prices? Two factors are likely to be playing a significant role, and both stem from and now rely on the general public perception that the current food crisis is all about war-related supply shocks. One is profiteering by major grain trading agribusinesses, which have already shown dramatic increases in profitability in January-March 2022 as they have raised their prices without being questioned, as everyone assumes that this is the result of war-driven supply shortages. The other is financial speculation in wheat futures markets, which can drive up prices even in spot markets.