Image is a snapshot taken from the recent Hezbollah video "Our Mountains, Our Treasures", showcasing their extensive underground fortifications, supply lines, and weaponry.
iran can't keep doing this to me, they've gotta respond soon, right? I'm gonna run out of analysis about countries soon, oh god
The COTW (Child of the Week) label is designed to spur discussion and debate about a specific child every week in order to help the community gain greater understanding of the domestic situation of often-understudied children. If you've wanted to talk about the child or share your experiences, but have never found a relevant place to do so, now is your chance! However, don't worry - this is still a general news megathread where you can post about ongoing events from any child.
The Child of the Week is Hassan LargePenis! He is chad-and-cuck rater and general commenter @LargePenis@hexbear.net's son, born over a month ago. @Greenleaf@hexbear.net recommended I have him as the COTW for a week and I finally got around to it.
Please check out the HexAtlas!
The bulletins site is here!
The RSS feed is here.
Last week's thread is here.
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.
China does not censor blood or skeletons. This is a common myth.
They do have regulations that prevent content that "harms the honour of the country" and you're right about alt-history being ruled out by things like "harming territorial integrity" regulations. These rules are so vague developers don't take the risk of making games in these areas on the off chance the regulator blocks them.
I'm curious how the honor of the country is applied to stuff before the revolution. With that said I get it, kaiserreich single handedly maintained kaiserboos into the 21st century. Still though, when are we getting Chinese Call of Duty:Korea?
I don't know entirely but I know the 8 Princes DLC for Warhammer 3 pissed off China so much that the entire playerbase dropped the game. Sore historical topic for them when China was basically fought over by the 8 princes and split up over things people find really bad.
....and how is that different from the war of the three kingdoms?
Fuck did I say Warhammer? lol
It was a DLC for Three Kingdoms not Warhammer
Anyway it's mostly because of this war being viewed as embarrassing and ridiculous. The Sima clan were viewed as people that stole the throne of China then tore it apart and in the process of doing this lost the northern territories to tribal groups. The whole thing is an embarrassment that Chinese people dislike, so the idea of being the 8 princes of the Sima clan is bad in and of itself, people don't want that, and people don't want to glorify a group of people that are an embarrassment.
The Three Kingdoms on the other hand aren't viewed that way, it probably helps that this was the period Confucianism rose up in. Not to mention that The Three Kingdoms era ends with a stronger China whereas the 8 Princes ushers in the 16 Kingdoms era. One ends well for China, the other ends very badly.
There is a fantasy chinese faction in total war warhammer 3, they apparently play so different from all the other factions that I plan to return to the game after some point. (I did like 2 or three playthroughs struggling to win with the fantasy Joan of arc faction
Still, China is missing out on obvious propaganda wins probably due to their century of humiliation trauma being merged into the fact that they screwed up by technically allowing the same legal loophole which enabled the break up of the Soviet union. Still, I want some mad lad to create a wank fic merging mohism and white lotus.
I guess that's why they banned C&C Generals? The GLA bombing the US and China in terror attacks. I also remember a rumor about a censored version of The Sims 1 for China, which removed the scary phone calls and replaced the buglar with a mime, but I can no longer find any information about this on the Internet, except that the Chinese and Japanese versions have exclusive Asian sims and Asian clothes.
I think Germany has a similar problem, there was a case in Germany about censorship in video games, and the developers still think that what was decided in that case affects the whole games sector. But I don't think that de jure there is a law against violent video games, but there is no real law on violence. Except for the use of Nazi material, which is still banned in Germany and Austria.
These sound like Western companies making stupid changes based on stupid consultancy companies that make shit up tbh.
Yes because the EU and NATO have a monopoly on Nazism, no one else is allowed to factory produce Nazis besides them.