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One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain't worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.

Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.


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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 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.
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.

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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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.


  • Boredom [none/use name]
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    5 days ago

    I stopped paying attention to the presidential elections for obvious reasons, apparently the current story is that Trump is promising to unleash the alien and sedition act to round up foreigners. Due to American being a common law country, we may have camps by next christmas.

    • GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]
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      5 days ago

      Please get away from the lathe, there are already concentration camps at the border. How much more evil are USians going to be?

      Things are going to get so bad so quickly, I pity any POC unfortunate enough to be in the US.

      Edit: "progressives" will abandon those same immigrants at the mercy of this act like they did Palestinians and black Americans unfairly prosecuted by kamala.

        • xiaohongshu [none/use name]
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          5 days ago

          It’s never going to happen.

          If what they say about 11 million illegal immigrants in the US is true, then the toll of the economy is going to be extremely heavy, not to mention the resources it would take (physically impossible) to deport 10+ million people.

          The 1950s was a very different time for America, when it was an industrial powerhouse coming out of the war economy of WWII with very strong labor backbone to support its industries. No such condition exists in today’s America.

          Trump is selling a dream to his supporters that can never be realized. At least the Democrats are smart enough to destroy the European economy through Ukraine so they can import European refugees into America to replace the deported immigrants, if the plan were to go ahead, just like what happened after WWII.

          • GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]
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            5 days ago

            If what they say about 11 million illegal immigrants in the US is true, then the toll of the economy is going to be extremely heavy, not to mention the resources it would take (physically impossible) to deport 10+ million people.

            Wasn't the Holocaust a financial drain on Nazi Germany? They still did it. Never doubt evil.

            • xiaohongshu [none/use name]
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              5 days ago

              Slave labor (including those in concentration camps) made up a quarter of Nazi Germany’s labor force during the war, where it was a key component fully integrated into the war economy allowing large corporations (the familiar names e.g. Thyssen, Krupp, Bosch, Siemens etc) to utilize these labor.

              I don’t know what America’s plan is for deporting these immigrants but the labor force needs to be replaced somehow. Right now, these immigrant labor are already fulfilling their function as intended under neoliberal capitalism, which benefits the Wall Street financier class.

              • GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]
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                5 days ago

                You got me there, I was thinking of some of the death camps when I made my comment.

                I'm still going to believe that USians are awful enough to support this or make excuses for it. Even if it is expensive, they'll convince themselves that it keeps costs down in the long run. Or saves the country.

                They'll find an excuse, they always do.

              • Boredom [none/use name]
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                4 days ago

                Prison labor is slave labor. All they need to do is criminalized states that made marijuana legal aka blue states.

          • Boredom [none/use name]
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            5 days ago

            When I say common law, I mean so lomg as the supreme court says it's okay, the government can just default to any super old precedent even if it was supposed to have been functionally upended by later laws. Also of course there are all the cold war contingencies you are not supposed to know about.

            • FungiDebord [none/use name]
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              4 days ago

              I think putting this at the feet of the genius of the English/American Common Law is misguided. There seems to be plenty of precedent for providing due process protections for established, naturalized aliens, which should otherwise guide a precedent-respecting common law court.

              From Cornell's gloss on the Court's gloss of the Constitution's treatment of Aliens w/in the US:

              In various opinions, the Court has suggested that at least some of the constitutional protections to which an alien is entitled may turn upon whether the alien has been admitted into the United States or developed substantial ties to this country.

              See Dep’t of Homeland Sec. v. Thuraissigiam, No. 19-161, slip op. at 2 (U.S. June 25, 2020) (stating that “aliens who have established connections in this country have due process rights in deportation proceedings” ); United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez, 494 U.S. 259, 271 (1990) ( “These cases, however, establish only that aliens receive constitutional protections when they have come within the territory of the United States and developed substantial connections with this country.” ); Landon, 459 U.S. at 32 ( “[O]nce an alien gains admission to our country and begins to develop the ties that go with permanent residence his constitutional status changes accordingly.” ); Kwong Hai Chew, 344 U.S. at 596 n.5 ( “But once an alien lawfully enters and resides in this country he becomes invested with the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people within our borders.” ); Johnson v. Eisentrager, 339 U.S. 763, 770 (1950) ( “The alien, to whom the United States has been traditionally hospitable, has been accorded a generous and ascending scale of rights as he increases his identity with our society.” ); Yamataya v. Fisher, 189 U.S. 86, 101 (1903) ( “[I]t is not competent for the Secretary of the Treasury or any executive officer, at any time within the year limited by the statute, arbitrarily to cause an alien who has entered the country, and has become subject in all respects to its jurisdiction, and a part of its population, although alleged to be illegally here, to be taken into custody and deported without giving him all opportunity to be heard upon the questions involving his right to be and remain in the United States.” ).

              My intuition is that even if the due process rights recognized above were read narrowly by the Court to be procedural rather than substantive, I think in a practical terms this would make an undertaking of denaturalizing and removing established American aliens prohibitively costly (it just would not be practical to provide sufficiently fair process for millions of people).

              I'm not saying that Trump/Miller won't be able to do this. But they will be able to because the Court, with its jurisprudential drift towards natural law- inflected Originalist interpretation, has and will be abandoning stare decisis (see Dobbs, overruling Casey, which, other than being the abortion case, was the Court's articulation of its own stare decisis guardrails) and will be looking at cases, when it sees fit, as a matter of first impression. This is an abandonment common law principles, a terrible devolution towards continental, "civil" law barbarity.

              • Boredom [none/use name]
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                4 days ago

                The incorporation of the bill of rights was a long process that can be easily anulled

                • FungiDebord [none/use name]
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                  4 days ago

                  Boredom w all due respect: that's not really responding to my post, and, no, it would not be easy to get rid of the Bill of Rights: formally it would new Constitutional amendments, absolutely impossible, and insofar as you mean that the Court might make the protections vacuous, it would be abandoning totally it's role as a Common Law actor; it would be acting by unprecedented, judicial-legislative fiat.

                  • Boredom [none/use name]
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                    4 days ago

                    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights

                    They don't have to do am amendment, they just have to turn to old precedent stating that it only applied to the federal government.

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      5 days ago

      If that happens, who the fuck is even going to stop America? Nobody on earth has the balls to try. I hate it...