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Image is from this SCMP article.

Much of the analysis below is sourced from Michael Roberts' great website.


Japan's ruling parliamentary coalition, consisting of the LDP (purple) and it's junior coalition partner Komeito (in light pink) have lost their ruling majority. They have ruled post-war Japan for almost its entire history. The LDP is currently led by Shigeru Ishiba after Kishida stood down due to a corruption scandal, and ties to the Unification Church.

While geopolitical factors (over the cold war between the US and China, etc) may have played a role, by far the biggest reason for this result in the poor economic conditions over the past few years. Inflation has risen and real wages have fallen, with little relief for the working class via things like tax reductions. While inequality in Japan is not as extreme as in America, it is still profound, with the top 10% possessing 60% of the wealth, while the bottom 50% possess just 5%.

Shinzo Abe previously tried to boost economic performance through monetary easing and fiscal deficits, while Kishida ran on a "new capitalism" which rejected Abe's neoliberalism and promised to reduce inequality. Nothing substantial has resulted from all this, however, other than increasing corporate wealth. Innovation continues to fall, and domestic profitability is low, resulting in decreasing investment at home by Japanese corporations. Labour productivity growth has only slightly picked up since the mid-2000s and is falling again. The rate of profit has fallen by half since the 1960s, and Japan has been in a manufacturing recession - or very close to it - since late 2022. In essence: there is no choice but between stagnation or decline.


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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA 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.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

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 Telegram Channels:

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.


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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 52 points 1 day ago

A few days ago, I commented on the fact that Daniel Chapo (Socdem, Democratic Socialist) was elected president of Mozambique. People keep going to his article on Wikipedia English and making references to Cumtown and Chapo Trap House. I think the current page still has some references to Chapo Trap House.

[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 30 points 1 day ago

Now Chapo Fans will finally learn where Mozambique is

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 4 points 23 hours ago

Daniel Chapo go on Chapo

[-] Zascoco@hexbear.net 64 points 1 day ago

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2024/10/31/american-drone-supplier-on-ukraine-faced-problems-due-to-chinese-sanctions

American drone supplier on Ukraine faced problems due to Chinese sanctions

"China's retaliatory sanctions against the United States led to the fact that the American manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles Skydio, which supplies drones to Ukraine, faced a shortage of essential components that it had previously received from China. This was reported by TASS with reference to the Financial Times (FT) newspaper."

the US: *gives its the majority of its productive capacity to one country*

China: lol k

the US: *starts a trade war with that country*

China: lol k

the US: *can't produce anything*

China: sit-back-and-enjoy

the US: surprised-pika

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 8 points 23 hours ago

Mindboggling that the amerikkkan ruling class is still sabre rattling and trying to amp people up for a war with China when they can't even supply their proxy forces without buying shit from China. How do they expect to fight the country that makes all their stuff?

[-] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

Probably nothing to do with Ukraine? On some basic googling people say they tried for years to ban DJI(Chinese competitor) in the US? This may just be retaliation?

They're spending 500k a year on lobbying and the ban just passed recently, seems hard to argue this got anything to do with Ukraine imo.

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[-] dead@hexbear.net 55 points 1 day ago

DPRK conducted ICBM test-fire on Thursday morning

Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of National Defence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea said in a statement that an ICBM test-fire was conducted on Thursday morning.

The Missile Administration of the DPRK conducted a very crucial test on Thursday. The test-fire, conducted under the order given by the head of state of the DPRK, updated the recent records of the strategic missile capability of the DPRK and demonstrated the modernity and creditability of its world's most powerful strategic deterrent.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said on the spot:

"The test-fire is an appropriate military action that fully meets the purpose of informing the rivals, who have intentionally escalated the regional situation and posed a threat to the security of our Republic recently, of our counteraction will, and it also constitutes an indispensable process in the course of constantly developing our state's strategic attack forces. As recently witnessed by us, the rivals' dangerous tightening of their nuclear alliance and various adventuristic military maneuvers go to further highlight the importance of strengthening our nuclear forces. We should never allow any threat to approach the security sphere under our state's influence. The security situation of our state and ever-aggravating prospective threats and challenges require us to continue to bolster up our modern strategic attack forces and more perfectly round off our nuclear forces' response posture. I affirm that the DPRK will never change its line of bolstering up its nuclear forces." -0-
www.kcna.kp (2024.10.31.)

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/b3d35ab730b11b9daba5949a3c27e051.kcmsf
https://archive.is/Pk0Lc

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-conducts-longest-icbm-test-amid-storm-over-troop-deployment-russia-2024-10-31/

[-] Sasuke@hexbear.net 73 points 1 day ago
[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago

incredibly powerful aura

Death to America

[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 52 points 1 day ago

garbage truck nerds: how much does that truck cost

[-] HankScorpio@hexbear.net 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Almost all of the news coverage of this only has shots of Trump speaking from the cab. But there is one image I found indicating on the door this is a Freightliner M2. The M2 is a very broad vehicle platform for Freightliner with gross vehicle weights ranging from class 6 to class 8. Meaning it can have a combined weight of truck plus whatever body is mounted on it (box, crane, or in this case refuse) ranging from as low as about 25k lbs to in the M2's specs application as high as 65k lbs. A quick look at this particular truck I'd guess it is closer to class 6-7, mainly due to the refuse body mount seeming to be smaller than the "severe" applications that come in class 8. But the key info is the truck has to 1) be made at the Freightliner factory and sold to a refuse body manufacturer. 2) The refuse application is installed and either sold direct by that manufacturer or 3) the finished truck is sold to a dealer who tries to sell it to a customer.

This dealer selling what should be a very close match and manufactured in 2024 has it listed at $180k. Given the custom Trump paint and probably some other obnoxious custom features that may have added to the Trump truck, I'd estimate it goes for $200-225k+.

[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 1 day ago

I almost cried when I saw the textwall in my notification then I realized this is about agarbage truck

[-] egg1918@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago

Fuck yeah dude, excellent comment

[-] VHS@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He looks awful. I don't think the vest is helping the whole orange thing

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 104 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There's a lady on tiktok that comes up for me very often and she sets off my psyops alarm bells every time.

https://www.tiktok.com/@openbookshelf

She shows up for me often and has nominally soft socialist-adjacent criticisms of power, authority, current government, wealth, landlords, even anti-monarchism and anti-cop, etc etc etc. But when it comes to the biggest issues? The issues of anti-imperialism? She falls on the side of nato EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.

She's a pretty lady, whose brand is basically a caricature of Britishness, she pulls off the British librarian caricature that I can only describe as like Rachel Weisz in The Mummy. Is almost always seen with a mug of tea in her hand and if it wouldn't make it too obvious I think they'd throw the British Union Jack flag in every video but instead they keep that to only a few.

It's like she's tailor-made to suck people in to a kind of up your arse intellectualism that then redirects any potential anti-establishment or revolutionary energy into fucking uselessness.

The biggest giveaway here however is that she worked in China until recently, for the Chinese government she claims, for 3 years. Yet she calls the party by the shibboleth CCP and regularly performs anti-China propaganda unprompted, like it's a job. She does not promote other left accounts. She does not promote events. She exists solely as a sheepdog.

This strategy is what I think should be called "de-influencer", the goal is to stick people into the left that appear left and have a great media image that's attractive and easily something people can be sucked in by, and to use that to suck air out of the sails of real leftist influence in online platforms.

I'm telling you, this woman is a cop. GCHQ, Scotland Yard, MI, some branch of Civil Service, maybe military, I don't know. But she's one of them.

The fact that she stopped working in China at the exact moment in time China cracked down on western agents within their government makes me think she was pulled out because it got dangerous.

No offense but there are a lot of people like this. My favorite is a Buddhist monk who has insane Discord receipts floating around

[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

You must share this, I'm tired of Jake Paul and Mr Beast drama.

I need my slop and rabbit holes

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[-] Barx@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago

By aesthetics alone it looks like if a McKinsey dweeb decided to become an Instagram (image only) influencer. Like they took the basic formula of conventionally attractive and lots of pictures with text on them but then tried to make them look a bit like a corporate headshot combined with a powerpoint slide.

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