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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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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

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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.


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[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 47 points 2 months ago (4 children)

BREAKING : Kamala Harris found ripped in half in random warehouse

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[–] jimmyjohnsandwichsix@hexbear.net 47 points 2 months ago (6 children)

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??? I WAS ASLEEP FOR THIS

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 47 points 3 months ago (2 children)

https://www.stimson.org/2024/current-defense-plans-require-unsustainable-future-spending/

some discussion how backloaded spending plans can fuck usa defense spending in next decades via maintaining programs inshallah-script they ignore it and start building f45 for 10 trillions

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[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 47 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Trump will meet Zelensky in ukraine .. if he does ,he is dead .. its gonna be a rasputin ending but they will manage.

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[–] edge@hexbear.net 47 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

I'm becoming more Michelle Obama-pilled. Not that I like her or will vote for her or think she should be president, but that she might actually be the person with the best chance of actually beating Trump. An Ipsos poll from early this month has per polling the highest against Trump and the only one beating him.

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 47 points 2 months ago

When was the last time Joe appeared in Public? How bad could he be? Could he already be dead?

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 47 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Another footage of the drone hitting the building with bonus Russian swearing:
https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1814232301800226842

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[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 47 points 2 months ago

Why now? You had 4 years to do this.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 46 points 3 months ago

have people considered that secret service head comes from pepsi, and trump famously drinks coke? think-about-it

[–] Sulvor@hexbear.net 46 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 46 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

After some time of not posting ancaptain news, here's some!

Industrial Sector Falling Off A Cliff As Activity Shrinks 14 percent in May

A report by the UIA Argentine Industrial Union accounts for a year-to-year collapse and a contraction compared to the slight monthly growth it had shown in April. The June advance showed similar results. The claim by industrials to the government.

Industrial production has suffered a year-to-year collapse by 14.3 percent in May and, in the opposite direction of what happened in April, recorded a deseasonalised monthly 0.6-percent fall. Thus, the sector had a new slowdown after the incipient bounce-back by 4.5 percent from the previous month. In addition, over 21,000 jobs have been lost since August.

The data come from a report by the UIA Argentine Industrial Union, which explains that the performance of the sector “was influenced by the lower demand level and increase in costs in some sectors”. It was also the twelfth month running with a year-to-year fall and so far in 2024, it accumulates a year-to-year 12.8-percent contraction.

In the meantime, the report by the entity headed by Daniel Funes points out that the anticipated June numbers reflect a persistent collapse compared with 2023 and forecasts that the monthly series would also show a decrease, thus prolonging the recessive valley.

Nevertheless, the analysis highlights that the information provided was “partially affected by the lower number of working days due to the holidays. Besides, deducting that effect, major falls were observed”, the authors of the text warned.

Widespread collapse

In the sector analysis from last month, there were dives in the automotive sector (-40.2 percent), cement dispatch (-32.8 percent), and patents of agricultural machinery (-36.6 percent). In addition, the demand for electricity of major industrial users fell (-13.3 percent).

As for trade, imports from Brazil declined by 50.8 percent, whereas exports increased by 8.8 percent. In the opposite direction of what happened in April and March, the settlement of foreign currency in the foreign exchange market grew by 25 percent.

“Even though the performance of the month was partly affected because there were fewer working days, industrial activity continues facing difficulties due to the low demand, as well as higher costs. In this context, in April, recorded wage-earners in the industry plummeted. 5,074 jobs were lost in that month and a decrease by 21,285 jobs is accumulated since August 2023”, industrials warned.

In most sectors comprising the UIA’s index, the downward term prevailed. The most significant falls were in non-metallic minerals (-28.8 percent), and in the automotive sector (-27.9 percent), where the decline was driven by a lower level of sales both to the domestic market (-36.2 percent) and the export market (-24.1 percent).

At the same time, the production of basic metals was contracted (-19.5 percent), affected by the drop in steel (-29.4 percent), whereas the production of aluminium grew from May last year (+3.5 percent). Metal-mechanic also gave in (-17.6 percent), accumulating twelve months running of decline, with a drop in all segments of the sector.

“In the case of the segment of chemical substances and products it fell once again year-to-year (-9.7 percent), with drops in all products comprising the indicator, and mainly by a lower performance in the production of paints, cleaning products and toiletries and medication. In the chemical and petrochemical segment the fall of intermediate petrochemicals(-21.9 percent), inorganic chemicals (-12.4 percent) and plastic raw materials and synthetic rubber (-8.9 percent) stand out”, the report holds.

As for the production of food and beverages, it experienced a -4.9-percent decline, offset by the increase in oils (10.9 percent). Deducting that category which grew year-to-year, the variation of the rest of the food sector was -7.1 percent.

The manufacturing of paper and cardboard, in turn, declined year-to-year by -12.6 percent, with a slowdown prevailing in nearly all sub-sectors. It was driven by the general fall of production of paper for packaging, printing and tissue, whereas paper for newspapers grew.

Energy

The only sector in the index which had an increase was oil refinery (4.4 percent), after five months of consecutive fall. It is one of the sectors which grew most in the Milei era, along with a greater exploitation of Vaca Muerta.

Given the data which expose the deep crisis the sector is going through, representatives from the industry within the UIA expressed their concern over the fall in activity, the rising costs of supplies, the impact of the economic context in the production sector and the rise of energy rates, which especially affected SMEs. In addition to alerting about job losses, industrials agreed about the need to drive an “agenda of measures to gain back the dynamic of the internal market (focusing on the development of local production consumption and formal employment), promoting added-value exports (increase of reimbursements, lowering of duties) and countering unfair competition (anti-dumping and customs values, among others)”.

They also seized the opportunity to insist on the SME law grounded on six axes: tax simplification, creation of a regime to incentivise industrial SME investment supplementary to the RIGI Big Investment Incentive Regime; an automatic update of categorisation parameters; tools to internationalise companies; simplification of the creation of new companies and access to financing.

RIGI

Regarding the RIGI, the Industrial Union asked Javier Milei’s government to regulate the initiative approved in Congress within the fiscal reform contemplating a series of points favouring national industry.

In this vein, they claim that any local suppliers declaring VPU single project vehicles be a local industry; establishing for 20 percent to be for the development of national industrial suppliers with the same benefits as the rest of those entering the RIGI, among other relevant points for the national industry. “The objective is for RIGI benefits to generate more local suppliers and employment”, they explained from the UIA.

RIGI is a law approved by the Senate and Congress that is basically an "incentive regime for large investments". You know what that means in the neoliberal capitalist hellworld: Say a mining company like Barrick Gold comes in, buys an entire area that is known to have X mineral, makes an """investment""", takes the mineral out (using local cheap manpower without regulations) and fucks off leaving nothing but devastation behind. Almost all natural resources are now free for the taking, they're "investments" apparently. Not all provinces are going to apply the RIGI, some are in open conflict about it, others are more than willing to give everything away for some money.

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[–] companero@hexbear.net 46 points 3 months ago

https://www.flightradar24.com/EC35/36357e4f

More weird aircraft activity relating to Ukraine. This time a helicopter with no specified country/operator is flying just inside Poland, almost perfectly along the Polish-Ukrainian border.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 46 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Anyone who watches chud spaces: have they made up a conspiracy tying Trump's assassin to Biden somehow? I want to read some funnies.

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[–] TheOtherwise@hexbear.net 46 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

They won't seriously put up Harris, will they? She's going to lose worse than Joe would've. top-cop

But who else would even want the nom at this point?

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[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 46 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Lmao at trump labeling the dip in undocumented immigrants once covid ramped up as his last week in office

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[–] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 46 points 2 months ago

So the libs currently seem to be in some state of coconut induced ecstasy because they think that, because Kamala (or whoever they pick) isn't as old as Donald, that they have it in the bag.

These are the same people who spent over a year posting about how Trump was definitely done for and was gonna get locked up in prison, only to be hit by the biggest "Ah! Well, nevertheless" yet.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 46 points 3 months ago

Can't believe Hulk Hogan sent that Drone to attack Isn'treal

[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 46 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I can't believe a total failure like Kamala is literally 15 minutes away from becoming president even though she's unlikeable and unpopular. Like remember when she got like 3rd place in her own state during the 2020 primaries? lmao

A true ameriKKKa moment

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[–] SovietyWoomy@hexbear.net 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How many days until Biden denies dropping out at a press conference?

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[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 45 points 3 months ago (4 children)

We're getting theocratic trump it's so joever

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[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 45 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If Biden's COVID story is real, and the virus kills him, I will blame Trump's shit COVID policies for it. Trump would have killed Biden.

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[–] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 45 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Saree' released a video about the attack https://x.com/army21ye/status/1814164134524535226
(it's in Arabic)
They announced a new drone type called "Yafa" that can't be detected by radars

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[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 45 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (18 children)

What's happening in the universe where trump died? How are the hogs reacting?

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