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

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

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.

  • MelaniaTrump [undecided]
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    2 months ago

    https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeBiden/comments/1e8vnow/im_sitting_here_taking_in_the_news_a_manual/

    Which one of you wrote this highly upvoted masterpiece on /r/JoeBiden?

    I'm in shock. I don't know what was the final straw for the President, a man who I have considered -- and still do consider -- to be a real-life Jed Bartlett hybridized with Captain America.

    I trust the President and always have. He has never let me down. For him to make such a move means he must have compelling reason to do so.

    I keep thinking back to 2020. That year, in a moment of somber and morbid inspiration, we lost Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an icon to whom, if she were a religion, I would convert despite my pro-life -- yet otherwise liberal -- tendencies. Her death was like a clarion call for all of us to rise up and remove the now-convicted-felon donald trump. I wondered much these last few weeks what would be the move which would propel us in this election.

    Starting now, we must quickly pick up the pieces and, just as Captain America said in Endgame, we must "Assemble". We have a convention coming up. The delegates, democratically chosen by the voters, will democratically elect at that Democratic convention the nominee of the Democratic Party.

    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]M
      ·
      2 months ago

      reading this has actually ruined my fucking day. I agree, this has to be a bit by one of us. otherwise I'm gonna have to find this person and give them a swirlie

      • Kieselguhr [none/use name]
        ·
        2 months ago

        What "concern posts"? I am happy to stand with the Vice President. I would have carried the President over hot rocks like Samwise carried Frodo up Mount Doom if I had to. He has said "it is her time now" and I shall be honored to carry her just the same.

        • ziggurter [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 months ago

          Imagine being fooled into thinking Democrats would destroy the One Ring when they've been wielding it to their own benefit on and off for centuries now and just doing more of the same Sauronism with it.

    • HotAtForty [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Why don’t libs ever quote a cool movie?

      Just like Elio in Luca Guadagnino‘s masterpiece Call me by your name, I feel a sense of excruciatingly painful but still beautiful loss as I stare into the flames left with nothing but memories and desire at the news of Oliver’s marriage. Biden was my Oliver and Kamala, at best a Marzia.

      • Wertheimer [any]
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        2 months ago

        I saw a headline last week that tried to compare this to Seven Days in May, in which the uninspiring and insufficiently anti-communist president was almost couped by the evil Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Burt Lancaster.

    • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
      ·
      2 months ago

      Starting now, we must quickly pick up the pieces and, just as Captain America said in Endgame, we must "Assemble".

      Come the fuck on

    • Chronicon [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeBiden/comments/1e8vnow/im_sitting_here_taking_in_the_news_a_manual/ non tracking link here

    • ziggurter [he/him, comrade/them]
      ·
      2 months ago

      "Rise up." LMAO. Gotta love it with diehard liberals actually use this phrase. With zero self-awareness, of course.