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.
lmao Hasan with the 100k views
He's stanning for
lololol like come on Hasan duuuuude.
don't know what you're talking about. kamala winning is the only way for us to fulfill the funniest outcome protocol
Time to stock up on coconut water then I guess
Freezers full of coconut sorbet.
I think you might have misunderstood a joke or something. Hasan has never supported Kamala. Hasan has been saying for weeks now that he thinks the most likely candidate to replace Biden is Gretchen Whitmer.
He's definitely stanning for Democrats in general, though. He wants so badly for them to just name someone—anyone—so they appear "unified/in charge/like the adults in the room/etc."
Until today, the Democrats had named someone, the democratic establishment had chosen Joe Biden as the nominee. Until today, most people thought that Joe Biden wouldn't drop out, out of spite. People did not believe that Joe Biden would drop out. Everyone thought that there was going to be a repeat of 2016 where the Democrats lose because they chose an deeply unlikeable candidate.
Up until this point, Hasan has consistently said that Joe Biden should drop out. That means that Hasan has been consistently saying the opposite of what you just said. He's been saying that the Democrats should have had an actual primary and not a coronation. He has even said that it's good that they haven't selected a candidate yet because it's harder for Trump to run attack ads.
What you said is so funny because it is so clear that you're projecting your own mental demons. You're criticizing your own made up guy.
You're confusing what Hasan thinks of the Democrats' process with what he thinks of the "party" generally.
Hasan has literally praised Biden. I'm not projecting that. I listened to it. His caveat was genocide (should've bookmarked that one particular section of that one video, but it's lost to thousands of hours of day-long bullshit, so whatever). That's independent of whether he thinks the Democrats should've just crowned him as they did.
I just watched a video in which he literally went on a long spiel about how they Democrats should have (and should have had) someone else lined up to coronate, in order to avoid a contested convention. I'm not projecting that. I just watched it before making the comment you replied to.
And he's MOST DEFINITELY stanning Democrats in general. All of these "shoulds" we're talking about are in the interests of making sure the Democrats win the presidency. Even now that they're fucking cooked, he's looking to try to resurrect them and put them back in charge, when any actual fucking leftist would be filling up that grave as fast and thoroughly as possible so they can't crawl back out of it and then pissing on the new gender-neutral bathroom. Whatever you or I think that Hasan thinks the Democrats "should" do, it's because he literally wants them in power. That's not projection. It's literally what YOU are describing, just as much as I am.
Yeah thank you not sure why so many people who watch shows like this which essentially turn the Chris Hedges leftism into media targeted at my generation are in denial about their convictions (or lack thereof)