Image is from the January 2023 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. Over 50 heads of state and 600 CEOs attended.
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Imagine a terrifying world where we are all ruled by monsters of every stripe. And not hot ones like werewolves, but instead decaying zombies and mummies who are both insensitive to, and actively benefit from the immense suffering they cause on a daily basis. The top echelon of society, filled with profit-seeking, bloodsucking vampires. And the worst of it is that they repeat on a daily basis that what they are doing is not only just, but there is no other possible way to do it.
Pretty spooky, right? What if I told you that this world... was our own?
Happy Halloween!
Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is Lebanon! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
This week's first update is here.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Last week's discussion post.
Israeli exiles are gonna give Cubans a run for their money in terms of annoying exiles.
can't wait until after this is over and Palestine is liberated, hundreds of thousands of some of the most violent, bloodthirsty people on the face of the planet, who do TikTok dances celebrating the mass genocide of infants, are going to get top-tier treatment in the West, while all the other various non-white migrants that the West has forced out of their countries due to endless wars either get deported or thrown in fucking barges. fucking awesome
Not just top tier treatment.
They're going to give them jobs. Every single person responsible for turning Israel into the mess it is will get a job in the American state apparatus.
Get ready for apartheid america.
Not sure if American intelligence agencies are going to get more or less competent after all the Mossad agents flood into it, post-Nazi Germany style. Both of them have been taking Ls lately but I'm not sure if your average FBI/CIA/NSA/etc member is better or worse at their jobs than your average Mossad/Shin Bet member
Chickens coming home to roost. America deserves to face itself
America wonβt learn anything until it is sufficiently humbled and destroyed
To be fair, a lot of them are already American citizens.
Only 200,000 hold dual citizenship when I checked which is surprisingly low. Still a lot, but lower than I expected that number to be.
When people ask me what will happen to Israeli's with a one state solution and I say they will become Jewish citizens of Palestine, but the most annoying ones will move to America
the most annoying ones will move back to America
25% of Ashkenazis go to Germany and the UK and become the most annoying liberals
25% of Ashkenazis go to Russia and Ukraine and seeth on VK about Muslims in Dagestan having too much rights
50% of Ashkenazis go to America and become the most racist people in history, and have the most radical Republicans in Congress within one generation
50% of Mizrahis get deprogrammed from racism within two generations and learn to live again next to Arab people
50% of Mizrahis move around the west, realize that no one respects them because they're brown, and go back to Jerusalem, Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad
Nah that's good, just hit them with the "No apartheid colonial settler state?π’? ππππππππ"
Iranians absolutely dominate the cringe diaspora Olympics. Never seen a worse diaspora in my life and I'm fucking Lebanese lmao
I don't what's going around in Iranian diaspora communities, but literally every single Iranian I've met in the West has been a top level freak. Everyone is involved in weird cults as well, it's always MEK or "the shah will be back trust me bro", or even fucking scientology. I hate to judge people's religious affliation, but literally every diaspora Iranian hates Islam and is wildly atheist, which is a solid indicator of how unrepresentative they're of local attitudes.
Lebanese Christians are freaks, but at least they don't hate Lebanon and don't want Donald Trump to nuke Lebanon and kill 5 million people so that some weirdo who left Lebanon in 1979 comes back to power. Their kids are also not named Brandon and Jaclyn
I'm surprised that you guys know this stuff.
The top three cringiest American diaspora are Cuban, Vietnamese, and Iranian in no particular order. Vietnamese gusanos are really bad. Any city with a decently sized Vietnamese diaspora would push for the ban of the actual Vietnamese flag and fly the flag of a fake country that was never recognized by the UN. At least shah-simps are waving a flag that used to be internationally recognized and doesn't look like Adidas stripes lol
And the Vietnamese ones will always go on and on about 'communist atrocities' until you ask what they or their father did and it is always, invariably, 'police officer'.
Yeah, I'm sure that there is no bias at all in that reporting.
"I'm not Iranian, I'm Persian."
K, bud. You moved to Toronto in 2007.
Idk man how many cuban-americans have you interacted with and how close were you to their epicenter in Miami
The most annoying usually call themselves Persians and shit on Iran every moment they can get
The ones that aren't exiles are already pretty bad. I lived in a heavily jewish town in the US where there were many Israeli immigrants. A muslim girl at our high school published an article in the school paper about Palestine and the Israeli students harassed her all day and asked if she had bombs in her backpack.
I've been joking about letting the Israelis have Miami/Eastern Florida as a compromise, but then I thought about how insufferable it would be to have the gusanos and the Zionist exiles there lol.
Israeli exiles are going to become the American version of the Rhodesians who moved to Britain and became "when we"s. It's gonna be great to have to pretend to entertain them as they go on some of the most insane racist tirades you have ever heard.