Image is of Elon Musk giving the Nazi salute a week or so ago.
I didn't really want to keep spotlighting American domestic events as I had assumed that shit would calm down pretty quickly, but it appears that the Trump administration, including Musk, are determined to bring down the empire from the inside.
One of the most important lessons of ruling a country - and especially an empire - is to never, ever believe your own propaganda; and yet now we have neo-Nazi failsons disrupting parts of the imperial apparatus and causing general government mayhem because they actually seem to believe in libertarianism; that the state and the capitalists are somehow in opposition, rather than working in lockstep to maximise profit and boost American hegemony around the world.
I'm not so optimistic as to believe that a national collapse is FOUR DAYS AWAY, like those weird anti-China cranks often speculate - the US has at least a decade or two left even under these conditions. But consider the damage being inflicted in these past couple weeks, and extrapolate that over the next four years. Does any living American political figure possess the competency to halt - or even meaningfully slow - the already ongoing decline? And could they achieve power (or even be allowed to do so) after Trump's term is done?
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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.
[redacted] the Boer
It looks like this includes all the white settlers in SA. Good, they should all leave SA!
Think about who will take such an offer and who will stay in South Africa amongst the white population. The people that would take up such a offer from the US will be the most virulent extreme racists, while those that will choose to stay will be those with more ties to their local community. Remember, racial segregation ended over 30 years ago over there. There are going to be fully grown white adults with jobs, with friends, family and spouses of different races, who enjoy freedom, who have no idea what full blown segregation looks like because they weren't even born yet. These people are not going to want to be some pawn in a Trump - Musk project to make the USA more racist.
What I'm saying is that this is a complete negative for the USA from a left wing perspective. The US imports more racists of a similar mindset as genocidal Israelis, while South Africa keeps those interested in building their young country. From a right wing USA perspective this is great, the US gets more racists and true believers in empire, who are in a unique position of being skilled workers (thanks to the legacy of apartheid) while being prepared to work for substantially less money than the US domestic workforce, as they've used to South African wages (1 US Dollar = 19 South African Rands). That's why Donald Trump and Musk want this in the first place, it's a great policy for the right wing in the USA! Trust me, based off of what I see on social media, you do not want these people to join your country. Do you want millions more Elon Musk clones running around?
Of course it's a negative for the US, but it's a positive for SA
Yeah probably, a great way to flush out all the racists I imagine.
I'm sure SA would be glad to be rid of all the colonial crackkkers. The racist core getting more racist is no reason to hamper decolonization efforts
South Africa is a majority black nation and white people haven't had political power for over 30 years, if they wanted to get rid of all of them it would have happened already. The reality is it's not that simple, white people still have a lot of economic power and even ignoring that, despite apartheid and racial segregation, there has been a substantial amount of integration between different races. According to some basic research online, there are over 5 million mixed race people in South Africa, making up over 8% of the general population, and over 40% of the population in two provinces. So where is the line drawn here? Ultimately the political capital to do some kind of "deportation of white people" just doesn't seem exist, I don't think even the more radical political parties in government want that (I could be wrong). But I think that this offer from the US could be a blessing in disguise, South Africa can use it to get rid of a bunch of racists, whom will even be leaving voluntarily!
Who said anything about deporting them? These are the self styled “refugees” that would take Trump up on his offer to emigrate to America. These are self-deporting racists.
I never said anything about SA kicking anyone out, these are people who elect to leave. They should be assisted and given a nice welcome package
Yeah I agree with you there. But apparently they don't want to leave anymore know that the offer is on the table...
These people are pathetic and honestly should face some consequences for treason. But unfortunately I doubt that will happen.
I mean, start expropriating these people's wealth and land and see how many change their tune. A lot probably would just flee to America if they were actually being "oppressed" like Trump claims they are.
how many apartheidiste holdouts are even left at this point? surely the muskesque too-racist-to-function crowd have fled by now
I have no idea, but I imagine there are still quite a few based off of what I can see on twitter and Reddit. On Wikipedia, the most racist Afrikaner political party I can find that currently has seats in government, VF+, got 414,864 votes, or 2.38% of the vote, in 2019 as their best ever result. So there definitely are still at least a couple hundred thousand adult extreme racists around. And remember, many of the less outwardly extreme racists but still racist/scratched liberals would still take a US offer. Is the USA prepared to deal with hundreds of thousands, if not a million new Elon Musks that are as racist as your average genocidal Zionist? In South Africa these people have no effective platform locally (2.3% of the electorate at best), in the USA these people can be streamlined straight into the GOP apparatus which has Trump hitting his highest approval ratings ever. Imagine a bunch of Elon Musks, Ben-Gvirs, etc, with seats throughout the Republican party.
it's very hard to imagine a boer that's held out for decades finally calling it because the US makes a minor administrative change to the immigration process, which was already easy for them (white)
e: offer them some money and i'd believe it but 'refugee' status in the US is not generous
Boers that wanted to leave, have mostly left. Of course you could still redistribute the lands & assets but thats on the majority of SA to make that happen.
the US is becoming like Rhodesia now? they are importing racists and neo-Nazis?
They imported classic nazis, might as well import the neos as well
I have never met a White south african who did not fit into this category one way or another
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Yeah they aren't moving to the US. They have it good in South Africa on their stolen land
Israel, Australia, and Georgia got them already, too late for that us government.
From memory in Australia the conservative racist immigration Minister made some comments about the poor White south African farmers but then rejected and deported the first one that applied