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There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.


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

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account.
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 PalestineResist telegram channel.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.


The Country of the Week is Palestine! 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.

The weekly 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.


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[-] elgonzalors@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is been fucking me up so much that I've been crying the entire last three days. My girlfriend's family is of Palestinian descent, and seeing entire families been wiped out from the face of the planet, people who resembles me and my family holding their dead relatives in their hands it's really devastating. Also seeing the West always portraying themselves as the civilized ones is infuriating, fucking barbarians, they can get away with genocide in this century while the world watches. I cannot believe it.

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I wish I could offer you more than my solidarity, this is so fucked up

[-] Sandinband@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I'm truly sorry comrade meow-hug

There's nothing I can say to make it hurt less but know you're not alone and that you can talk about it here whenever you need to.

If you can, try taking a break from the news for a little and treat yourself to a food you like or some comfort media

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

One thing the Palestine situation has revealed is the pure, vapid emptiness of liberal ideology. I’ll bet you everything I own that every one of these universities putting out their genocide-supporting statements have some sort of land acknowledgement on their website.

It’s all virtue signaling. If indigenous Americans rose up and tried to take back their land, you’d see them change their tune real fuckin’ quick. They’d be shitting their pants over the brown savages coming to kill them and behead their precious white babies. They would demand concentration camps.

Modern liberal ideology is just conformism. It is a cynical weaponization of actual beliefs against anything revolutionary. It’s so-called “beliefs” can be twisted to mean anything at any time.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

The current thing that creeps me out is how many live interviews on American tv news feature so-and-so from the Yada Yada Institute for Peace. And they are just as much of a hawk as the Israeli generals. The only difference is the think tankers just use a lot euphemisms for death and destruction.

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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The stupid thing is that there's already a solution to the land issue. In Vancouver, First Nations groups are leading massive real estate development projects on First Nations land in the city. It's simultaneously incredibly lucrative to the nation, addressing a massive gap in Vancouver's housing market, and hosing all the NIMBYs who want development as long as it's not close to them. It doesn't undo the past, but it's probably been the single most effective means of compensation and reparations in the country.

Props to the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people.

Meanwhile, fucking NIMBYs in Vancouver are still trying their hardest to block the developments or make their lives as hard as possible... Because indigenous rights only matter when they're not blocking your view, I guess. Good thing that it's a political no-no to go against the First Nations here on their land.

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[-] buh@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Remembering how "muslims should stay in their home countries and work to make it better instead of becoming refugees in the west" was a mainstream talking point for almost 2 decades

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[-] MoreAmphibians@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

listen here kiddo, i get it. i dont like the two state solution

and quite frankly, i dont wanna support hamas, it feels like supporting terrorists

but im gonna do it, you wanna know why?

because the alternative is a fucking genocide

a genocide! its a genocide!

so maybe we can have a conversation around dismantling the terror network when a genocide isnt happening

maybe we can do that later kiddo. champ. chief. maybe we can talk about it later

maybe-later-kiddo

[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I hate you. I can hear it.

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Twitter discourse has reached "Marx was an antisemite, and that's why the leftists won't support apartheid"

https://twitter.com/sleepy_devo/status/1711380327447380073

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

He's suggesting people read a text that he himself has clearly only read the title to

[-] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty good community note.

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

New site tagline just dropped

[-] star_wraith@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Readers added context

Marx does not speak of Zionism in "On the Jewish Question."

It is principally an essay defending the civic emancipation of Jews on materialist, rather than spiritual grounds.

It is also a general criticism of religion.

Based Twitter users stepping in here.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Marx: "Jews do not need to give up their religion to be free, and being free requires much more than being able to practice your religion."

frothingfash "MARX HATES JEWS!!!!!!!"

also

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Don't tell them about the long, long history of secular and even atheistic Jewish intellectual movements their heads might explode.

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Norman Finkelstein

Chaim Rumkowski was a Jewish collaborator with the Nazis during World War II. Known as "King Chaim," Rumkowski accumulated massive wealth and power in the Lodz ghetto as he presided over the deportation of Lodz Jews to the death camps.

He harbored the conceit that he himself would be spared. But King Chaim was wrong. Here's how Wikipedia describes his ending:

In August 1944, Rumkowski and his family joined the last transport to Auschwitz, and he was murdered there on August 28, 1944, by Jewish Sondercommanado inmates who beat him to death as revenge for his role in the Holocaust.

I was reminded of this episode in Jewish history when it was reported this morning that "King Mehdi" Hasan was suspended from MSNBC for being a Muslim.

Context: MSNBC suspends Muslim anchors amid Israeli war in Gaza; Arab News sources confirm reports that US network sidelined Mehdi Hasan

[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

From John Wayne Westerns to horror movies about ancient Indian burial grounds, Orwell's leering 1984 bureaucrats with irish surnames, red Dawn and the turner diaries. Westerners are constantly anticipating the terror our society is built on being revisited on us.

A lie about Israeli babies being beheaded will always resonate with the average political subject in the west than the truth of thousands of Palestinian children murdered or starved.

Nonetheless, even with all their secular resistance slaughtered, all possibilities of diplomacy exhausted, their water and electricity cut off, Palestine and Hamas are still the moral betters of their oppressors.

[-] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Went ahead and paid my (lack of) respects to the Pissnotreali flag:

[-] edge@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

ukkkraine 🇪🇪‍🔥 🇮🇱‍🔥

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[-] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

r/worldnews creatures seeing a cartoonishly fake dead baby story and immediately going WE HAVE TO KILL ALL THEIR BABIES is just maximally chilling

the west's full to the brim with temporarily embarrassed dirlewangers

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

It is shocking how some people can treat the grief and suffering of other people so disrespectful.

From a Twitter post made by the Zionist entity's self-styled "embassy" in Copenhagen as comment to a video of masked men wearing Palestinian colors removing flowers that local residents sympathetic to the apartheid regime has put at the "embassy".

The tweet was posted while the occupation regime's air force was conducting terror bombings of civilian Palestinians in retaliating for the Al-Aqsa Flood.

Shoot and cry is easily one of the most disgusting forms of propaganda.

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Absolute banger Chinese meme

I'm confused, the top right quadrant should also mention how beautiful and handsome we all are too

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Highlight from Al-Qassam Brigades military spokesman Abu Obeida's speech yesterday:

We heard today that the senile old man Yoav Gallant called us "human animals." Perhaps they meant the lions that trampled over their pig soldiers' necks inside their military bases, tanks, and fortresses.

lol owned

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Banners reading "Genocide Gaza" and "Victory looks like zero people in Gaza" hang in Tel Aviv.

[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

careful, the libs are starting to learn capybara-theorist

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