Here is November 7th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is November 8th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

I strategically retreated from doing an update on Wednesday (and I always perform tactical update withdrawals on Thursdays and Sundays) so this next one covers a bit from those two days.

Here is November 11th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists, for the “buh Zeleski is a jew?!?!” people.

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Add to the above list if you can, thank you.


Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins


Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.

Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)

Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.

Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.

On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.


Telegram Channels

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

Pro-Russian

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.

https://t.me/asbmil ~ ASB Military News, banned from Twitter.

https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.

https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster - crowd-funded U.S journalist, mostly pro-Russian, works on the ground near warzones to report news and talk to locals.

https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it's a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.

https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.

https://t.me/rybar ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense.

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine

With the entire western media sphere being overwhelming pro-Ukraine already, you shouldn't really need more, but:

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.


Last week's discussion post.


    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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      hexbear
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      2 years ago

      Great job all for destroying democracy and freedom!

      I think our next steps should be to make every video game character gay and then destroy all food and iPhones, and lastly steal everybody's toothbrush, but we'll have to ask the Supreme Dictator of Fascist Tankies, Greta Thunberg, permission first at the annual Green Woke Summit

    • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
      hexbear
      49
      2 years ago

      During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum. :parenti::parenti: :parenti::parenti::parenti:

    • CarmineCatboy [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      i love this movie. especially the part where the protagonist john brandon said 'its brandon time' and the republicans cooperated with the government on a spirit of bipartisanship

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
        hexbear
        8
        2 years ago

        At this moment, I don't know whether another government shutdown will be better or worse for the country long term.

        Short term, it will still suck of course.

      • ElHexo [comrade/them]
        hexbear
        5
        2 years ago

        and then john brandon looked the parliamentarian in the eyes and everyone clapped

    • SoyViking [he/him]
      hexbear
      43
      2 years ago

      Brandon failed to appeal to leftist voters. If democrats wants to be electable they have to reach across the aisle and listen to the socialist left.

      • Fartster [comrade/them]
        hexbear
        14
        2 years ago

        My new game is to start an argument with libs on :reddit-logo: , get them to try and convince me I'm spreading republican propaganda or whatever, then say something like this and block them. 1/2 the time they change account to respond so I can get them banned from :reddit-logo:

    • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
      hexbear
      28
      2 years ago

      But didn’t you hear? Democrat’s pied piper strategy worked! Elevating far right lunatics and funding their campaigns has results in sweeping Democratic victory….

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
        hexbear
        38
        2 years ago

        They're going from control of both houses and the executive (the presidency) to control of just one house at best. Their ability to get anything done has been reduced from 100% ability to get things done to 0% ability to get things done, and they're cracking champagne and congratulating themselves about it.

        • SoyViking [he/him]
          hexbear
          35
          2 years ago

          To be fair that is kind of an ideal outcome for a party that doesn't want to get anything done.

        • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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          M
          hexbear
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          edit-2
          2 years ago

          "This dude who had been talking all year about how he's gonna behead me has only cut my limbs off instead! Bring out the mimosas! Tomorrow's brunch is on me!"

          (though I think the worst parts of the admin will either have bipartisan support or Biden will magically get over his fear of using executive orders just for those things, leaving any good things in the dust, so it's less than the Dems are truly disabled but more that they now have no pressure at all to try and do good things - the ideal state for the Democrats to be in.)