Image is of Joseph Robinette Biden, who has stepped down and will not run against Trump in the 2024 election.
In the aftermath of Trump surviving an assassination attempt, many professional opinion-havers are now talking about the scourge of "political violence" that has overtaken, or will soon overtake America, and how we must not let chaos rule. This is, of course, patently absurd. The American government and its allies have been the greatest force of political violence on the planet since the beginning of colonialism, and the foundations of the country are made of corpses. Today, America commits political violence by forcing Ukrainians into the maw of Russian artillery instead of trying to reach a peaceful settlement, which Russia has repeatedly expressed interest in and offered Ukraine relatively favourable terms. They supply Israel with endless weaponry to destroy entire cities and populations, while Biden supporters insist that somehow things could be worse than daily massacres and mass starvation.
In May 1945, French police fired on protestors, causing retaliatory attacks on French settlers, killing about a hundred. In response, the French murdered 45,000 Algerians in a little under two months, in a frenzy of political violence called the Sétif and Guelma massacre. As the massacre was being completed, the International Court of Justice was established. It goes without saying that Algeria never benefited from the ICJ, and the War of Independence from 1954 to 1962 was made inevitable. Over a million Algerians were killed before France could bear the fighting no longer and gave up, and Algeria won itself a state. Comparisons to the ongoing war of independence and genocide in Palestine are obvious.
While the means of colonial violence have evolved over the centuries, the basic structure of it has not. As in Algeria, Vietnam, and Cuba, resistance groups in and around Palestine are fighting for a world with less political violence. The American government would drown every city in the developing world in blood to prevent peace.
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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 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. - 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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
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.
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.
Apparently there is some MASSIVE IT fuckery afoot right now. We are almost certainly in the midst of the single largest IT outage in history. Will update the list below as necessary, and I’m sure there’s a lot more than this too
911 services disrupted in AK, AZ, IN, MN, NH, OH
London stock exchange major disruptions
Payment systems in UK and Australia major disruption (Australian government has called for an emergency meeting)
Several major banks experiencing payment issues
Widespread outages in USA hospital EMR systems
Major Microsoft services out
FAA has grounded delta, American, United flights
Berlin has suspended flights
UK and Australian supermarkets experiencing widespread outages
ALL airports in Spain impacted by outage
Sky News went off air for three hours, came back on air for 5 minutes, is now back off air
Singapores Changi airport only able to do manual checkins. Same situation in Hong Kong
Telegraph reporting that ALL of their PCs are down
Airports around the world reaching deadlock as flights are grounded, delayed, and then unable to be rescheduled or rebooked
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein is forced to cancel all planned operations today
JFK Airport checkins are backed up out of the door at 5:20am
Widespread reports of PCs being stuck BSoDing (Blue Screen of Death)
Washington DC suspends ALL rail service
MTA claims that NYC transit will remain functional for use but is having back end issues providing information to riders
Pharmaceutical companies reporting widespread outages
Belfast airport being forced to resort to using whiteboards for updates on flights
NHS reporting outages impacting critical systems
Widespread rail service disruptions across the US and UK
Stores across Japan unable to do business
Systems at Paris Olympics are not functioning properly
Container ships unable to load or unload cargo at some ports
~~I would advise that if you have a PC that you~~
~~don’t~~
~~update it~~
~~for now.~~
Ok you should be good to update it now. A fix has been rolled out but like… don’t update to fix it yet if you could just keep not doing work and getting away with it. And we certainly haven’t seen the last of the impacts yet so I’ll keep updating if anything else juicy happens
https://cybersecuritynews.com/crowdstrike-update-bsod-loop/
Ok but you can’t get a virus if your computer doesn’t work
This is true
Cybersecurity solved
Alternatively, a foolproof way to make sure you don’t get a virus is to get rid of where they hide!
All you need to do boot the computer through an external storage device, go into the computer’s storage, find a file called “system32” and then delete it. Once you are finished with those steps, you simply power down the computer and then unplug your external storage device.
Now the viruses have nowhere to hide and you can rest assured you won’t have to worry about them anymore.
ALL CRIME IS COMMITTED BY THE LIVING
THE CRIME IS LIFE
THE SENTENCE IS DEATH
It was literally some idiot pushing something late night lmao. That person will never live this down
It was a company built on donations to the Clinton Foundation from
and epic fraud. 
WHY THE FUCK MRI SCANNERS (or whatever that is) RUN ON WINDOWS FOR FUCK SAKES
I want to play Doom in the MRI machine tho
I think that is a CT scanner, but I have no doubts MRI’s probably run on windows too
more importantly, why the fuck is it connected to the internet
MRI machines were critical to extracting argent energy.
Just use Linux
Use Linux for… my computer to keep working so I have to do my job?
Hmmmm that is a tough offer to refuse, but I think I’m ok
Windows for work so it breaks and Linux for pleasure so you can whatevythe heck you want whole windows is melted
Stock exchange getting bricked is probably the closest we’ll ever get to Bane raiding it and killing bankers
absolutely wild shit to wake up to
Pretty funny too (if you're not affected by it yourself)
Is this what millennials meant when they talked about Y2K?
Gen x were the people talking about Y2K, millennials were still kids.
Yeah I'm a very young millennial and ran around my parents living room banging pots and pans lol
I was 18 for Y2K and i think i'm technically a millenial?
But me and my family were broke as hell and didn't even have a computer so i didn't give a fuck about all that nerd shit lmao
This is way funnier than Y2K
it seems to be from a botched or infected update to Crowdstrike security software, i unsuspectingly posted about it a few hours ago https://hexbear.net/comment/5144648 It seems to only be affecting corpo stuff
The WW3 EMP attack we were all warned about 20 years ago.
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As long as you don't use Crowdstrike Falcon(antivirus for large organizations), you're probably fine to update.
If you work for a large organization at a bullshit job you are morally obligated, as a communist, to update your computer to find out
As far as I know the spread is over and the difficulty now is fixing the bad update on already bricked machines. Updating now would get the fix
Yep I was just coming back to say you can update. But unless you work at like… a hospital lowkey just dont
Wiki article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2024_global_cyber_outages
Remember that time that the RegreSSHion attack happened and some systems were entirely not affected like Alpine and OpenBSD because they weren't using glibc but instead musl/other thread safe mitigations.
It seems like if you have a monoculture of software, diseases are common and more deadly. The West brought this on itself though, China needs to wrap up their RISC-V developments quick because my next laptop will NOT be a shit 86 garbage 64 zionist computer.