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Image is the famous photograph Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag, taken during the Battle of Berlin.
On Friday is May 9th, which is the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, which Russia, among other places, celebrates as the day when the Soviets defeated the Nazis. Naturally, one of the current hotspots of fascism in the world today, Ukraine, is essentially threatening that they might strike Russia or even Moscow itself during that timeframe. Any such strike would almost certainly be symbolic and not aimed at anything too important, as I doubt even Zelensky and his American handlers would actually want to kill a world leader, not least somebody like Xi Jinping. But I would not be surprised if they tried something nonetheless, if only to disrupt the event in some way and not actually kill anybody.
And, as we're on this topic, @EllenKelly@hexbear.net has reminded me that Tuesday is the anniversary of the Nazis burning the Institut für Sexualwissenschaf in 1933, an early institute advocating for the rights of LGBT people, and which also provided early forms of gender-affirming surgeries, as well as hormone therapies. We are currently seeing a crackdown on LGBT rights throughout swathes of the imperial core (as well as countries in the periphery, to the extent that those rights existed there already), and this Nazi-inspired movement will be similarly defeated in the future.
Last week's thread is here. The Imperialism Reading Group is here.
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The RSS feed is here. Also currently not used.
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.
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In heartwarming news of the day, Asmongold's house is currently filled with asbestos debris.
Sen's fortress? more like fucking Blighttown.
why does it take an entire day to remove a single animal corpse from one's attic? Seems like a 20 minute job tops
Also, isn't he a multimillionaire? Has he ever heard of hiring people?
Pretty convinced this is just his public persona at this point
Ita a day of mourning silly
also that just looks like oldschool roofing insulation to me
Some "attics" (crawl spaces) are really, really, really badly constructed and inaccessible. That would be my guess. And it probably just being inundated with the odor all over, requiring a search through all the nooks and crannies—probably half-filled with insulation—while crawling on joists (so as not to fall through the ceiling like he ultimately did) and squeezing through little claustrophobic openings to find the corpse. I could easily imagine this taking a good number of exhausting hours to do in some of the crawl spaces I've seen and been in.
If anyone's going to be subjected to such a miserable experience, I'm glad it was him. Hope as he fell through that ceiling he got a good face full of maggoty, decaying possum or whatever.
Why is there a cross on the wall? His house is a shrine to nurgle.
he lived with his mom who was a normie religious southerner, she passed away a couple years ago and he hasn't changed anything about the house whatsoever since. He doesn't clean or change anything
I dont think thats asbestos. Looks like old fiberglass insulation.
Popcorn ceiling 80s house? It's gotta be asbestos.
Hard to tell without testing. The asbestos could easily be in the drywall rather than the insulation. But who knows.
if its actual asbestos he'll get mesothelioma in 20 years and die, motherfucker's on borrowed time lmao
The way he is living, he already was.
It actually takes a lot of exposure to kill you, it's more that each exposure increases the damage done to lungs. The material was used up till like 85 in aus. Most houses include a fair bit, our fence was, our garagae and laundry are entirely, soffits etc all are.
The people who worked with it, in mining and manufacturing mainly, were the ones most affected. He can huff some fibres and be fine, which while regrettable in his case is good news considering how widely contaminated the world is.
Shit it was recently found in mulch in children's playgrounds here haha, haha send help.
You know, I have absolutely no idea what that emote means.
You're sad imagining being happy at that?
it's the sicko emoji from the onion cartoons. The sicko sits outside the window watching something happen and nodding, saying "yes! hahaha yes!"
There's all sorts of variants for our more bespoke sicko needs
etc....
This variation is the sad sicko imagining being a happy sicko. As in, the stuff we want to happen isn't happening
Ah, thanks for the thorough explanation.
It's a sicko who has to be non-sicko, he had hopes of celebrating that which delights the sicko (
) but instead must eat dinner with his kids or something.
He's sad because he's imagining the situation he would celebrate but it has not come to fruition.
In case you aren't familiar with the sicko it's from the Onion cartoons by Kelly
Appreciated the explanation :)
bro lives in a literal shithole
there are people out here who are asmongold fans and are proud of that, in case you think your life is shitty
ong just like in vibeo gane
omg my house i let become a decrepit pit of filth is just like the pits of hell from Diablo
But unlike Diablo, there's no gold chest at the end of that dungeon.
what are you talking about, there's a boss who you can subjugate and extort for millions of gold
The dead animal that wasn't his alarm clock?