Image: one of our POW camps filled with captured soldiers of the Christmas regime.
Season's greetings, fellow godless communists. I'm here to disseminate orders from our Supreme Communist Dictator as we once again find ourselves fighting against the very concept of Christmas. As a reminder, by the end of our five-year plan, we plan to be in a position to attack and dethrone God, but this intermediate step is required to fulfil this directive. Our forces in the field have made significant, if gradual, progress since you received your mission update last year. It has been difficult, but we have developed a series of defensive lines to prepare for a counteroffensive out of Lapland that will try and reach the Gulf of Bothnia in an attempt to cut the land bridge that we have set up across Scandinavia.
Currently, we foresee a few major threats. General Santa Clauswitz has been developing many tools in his workshop, including artillery-launched snowballs, barbed tinsel, and reinforced gingerbread armor plating for his tanks and infantry carriers. President Frostyy has made the following public statement: "The socialists who wish to destroy us have no idea what their defenses are about to face. Democracy will always defeat autocracy. Christmas will always triumph over X-mas. The leaders of the axis facing us are all on the naughty list and will be tried for crimes against festivity once this war is over."
Delusional as this may be, the next couple days will be the most dangerous as they stage their counteroffensive, and we need everybody to pitch in and get into defensive positions. We expect this to be the last major push that they will make before collapse. Please report any Christmas trees, mistletoe, or general symbology of the Christmas regime to your superiors.
Over and out.
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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.
according to al jazeera they just bombed fucking Bethlehem, on CHRISTMAS. i mean, obviously its absolutely monsterous not matter when and where palestinians are being killed, but surely even the most hardhearted bastard at the IDF knows this is fucking terrible optics right? like, how can their hardline christian base in the us possibly swallow this??
it's just irrelevant
a) hardline american evangelicals worship pastors who tell them that protecting israel is godly
b) american foreign policy is not up for elections
as far as israel is concerned they have to bomb palestinians as much as they can get away with, which as it turns out means bombing all palestinians as long as the US exists
okay, i'm not religious or american so maybe some of this escapes me, but surely those christians are still human, they still think about these things and arrive at their own conclusions, they still have hearts - theres no amount of religion that can beat that out of you. And at least some of those pastors must geniunely believe in jesus and all the peace and love stuff, you don't devote decades of your life to a religion without believing in it. there must be a point where 'thou shalt not kill' and 'turn the other cheek' wins out. i mean, they care (or at least think they care) so much about life that they're trying to outlaw abortion, but kids being blown up and babies being left to rot in hospital beds is actually based? that level of cognitive dissonance shouldn't be possible and it has to boil over eventually
and you'd think that the politicians would have the good sense to want to minimise the odds of riots or (inshallah) being shot by their constituents.
You're in the hexbear news megathread. Your vision of reality is fundamentally different from someone who consumes american media, or who is subject to the censorship you see in campuses and american mainstream social media. Just as you wouldn't ask the palestinians to turn the other cheek to the state that massacres them, christian supremacists in the US don't have to strain their minds in solving these contradictions. They are all properly insulated.
The only thing Israel (the State) cares about is that there be a critical mass of voters in the US who are slavishly pro Israel. Those who still are pro Israel today will continue to be that forever, and no amount of Jesus Christ in their lives will change that. Worst case scenario, the current zionist president Israel hates will lose the elections next year and Israel will get a zionist president they like.
But to go back to your initial question: asking wether Israel (or Israelis) even cares about optics is something else. Simply put the Israelis have been othering and massacring the palestinians for so long, that they are simply speaking their truth online. The israeli people are ghoulish and murderous towards palestinians because that is normal in Israel. There is nothing strange about israeli tiktok viral challenges about laughing and singing at crying old women who lost their entire families, or posting videos online about fun it is to torture palestinians. The Israelis are documenting their own war crimes because they are proud of it all.
You don't spend 70+ years dehumanizing a people without becoming a little bit inhuman yourself. You just can't.
shit. i mean, you're right, you make a lot of sense, but fuck the whole concept is just so dark
its really starting to seem like the only immediate solution is global revolution or straight up 
Best thing I can tell you is to take a step back once it starts getting to you, because these things probably will.
90% of the time, if an American Christian is upset about Israel, they’ll condemn them and “let god sort it out.” There’s no other action
They are "human," not because they want to be but because they cannot escape it. There were plenty of Christian nazis too. They don't think about things. That is why they join the church. The church's function is to render all philosophical ideas superfluous. They have chosen to banish the fundamental difference that separates humans from nature which is the grasping for meaning. They do not ask "why am I" "what is it all about." They wish to return to the state of beasts that do not contemplate. They know it is impossible but they lie to themselves and all their fellow christians that they are doing it. It makes them blameless in their own eyes.
Whatever the man in the pulpit says is the word of god and thus beyond reproach. They have chosen to sell their soul so they can avoid any sort of difficult thinking. Their hearts are wrong if they conflict with what preacher man says. ("The devil will try to use your heart to tell you lies") The religion doesn't "beat it out of them." They choose this every day. They lay the weight of being a conscious thinking feeling being on a dead man. They kill this part of themselves daily and force Jesus to spend another day in hell for their sins.
This is why they lust for the end times. They wish to be free of the torment of their consciousness. Self-awareness is the original sin and they will murder a million babies to be free of it. They will feel no guilt for those murders because it was in the pursuit of "gods will" and even if they are shown that they are wrong it will be ok because Jesus will pick up the tab.
How does a culture even evolve away from this state without the exact kind of bloodbath we're demanding to be stopped? I have no idea how it could be ended.
Killing cristo-fascists because they want to purify the holy land and bring about the end times is not "the exact kind of bloodbath" as israeli settler colonist murdering Palestinians for their land. The only similarity would be scale and I would imagine the number of evangelicals who are reeducatable is probably like 70%.
I'm speaking very carefully because "Execute about 33% of the population of the United States for crimes against humanity" isn't currently actionable, and daydreaming about it before doing any community building or reading theory would only make me a homicidal maniac.
Have you met the average amerikkkan?
IDK. When you spend your whole life convincing yourself of an elaborate fiction about the entire universe in order to justify acting in certain ways, the idea that those actions you are justifying can be hypocritical or change on a whim don't seem that far out to me. Base everything on a lie with no basis and it's not surprising the foundation will wobble and warp and do any silly ol' thing right up to you convincing yourself genocide is cool. Seems to be a lot of that historically (e.g. Crusades, missionaries), in case anyone doubts. The religion is there as a facade to justify whatever other motivations (generally material) the actor and their puppet masters are acting on. And that's pretty much it. Religion: here's how you can feel good about what you are doing.
American evangelicals arent Christians, they are the false Christians prophesied in the book of revelations
They're darksided blasphemers much closer to being apostates of Satan at this point
I'm a godless heathen agnostic and even I'm closer to God's grace than they can ever hope to be
This was earlier today Palestinian March by Christians in Bethlehem
https://youtube.com/shorts/WHQF4rdDIX0?si=NXUQy627SQhDZhT0
Easy. Israel is fighting a holy war agains the Muslims who are occupying god’s holy land. If Israel bombs it, then it must not be part of my bible, so it’s fine.
Terrible optics is the point, Zionists are flexing on the world and gloating
The hardline evangelical protestant base in the USA have apocalyptic visions involving Israel which are actually very antisemitic upon further analysis. Apocalyptic visions involving the death of all Jews, moving all Jews to Israel, and/or sparking a war in the region, all to speed up the second coming of Christ or rapture, depending on the type of Evangelical brainrot present. They'll just view this as a sign that the "end times" are fast approaching. Also a lot of protestant reformation was, and continues to be, behind the times and an obstacle to social progress.