Image is from Futurama.
Happy holidays, fellow godless communists. We are in year three of the Five-Year Plan to eliminate all Christmas cheer and create a world free of the joys and festivity of Christmas. Nobody should have to be reminded that in our concrete brutalist communist strongholds, NO ornaments are allowed in December. Please report any Christmas trees, snowflakes, baubles, and presents to the evil secret police, and anybody caught violating their Volcel Pledge by having a tentative kiss under a mistletoe will be shot on sight.
Developments lately have been grim. Our Supreme Communist Dictator Brandon is being removed from office by Christmas-loving patriots, and soon, Christmas will adorn the White House for another four years. This is obviously very disappointing, but while Christmas joy is strictly prohibited, good vibes are still strongly encouraged. Revolutionary optimism (a term we only bring out when things are going very badly and we need to be delusional) shall triumph over defeatist rhetoric by stooges of the Christmas regime.
We must have hope. Our foreign allies aiding us in destroying Christmas now possess hypersonic weaponry, allowing us to compete with and overcome the engine technology powering Santa's sleigh. Abroad, they have destroyed factories and hit cities with missiles travelling at unimaginable speeds into precise targets, while the Christmas regime struggles to produce their own such missiles, as they are still reliant on aircraft bombing campaigns. Precision has a quality all its own, or something along those lines. We just have to hold out another two years or so, and I swear to you: we will live in a world without this accursed holiday.
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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 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.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-us-president-jimmy-carter-dies-100-atlanta-journal-constitution-reports-2024-12-29/
Jimmy Carter dead, lol
His legacy:
Put Neo-Kissingerite anti-Soviet regime change Zibgniew Brzezinski @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml you will pay reparations for such cringe diaspora
East Timor genocide
Backed Angola and Afghan mujahideen's anti-communist rebels, before Reagan ramped it up
Sanctioned Vietnam, before and after they overthrew Khmer Rouge, and fought with its remnants and China. Also backed Khmer Rouge and China, during this time, in Vietnam-aligned People's Republic of Kampuchea.
Started allying with Nicaraguan Contras and Baathist Iraq, before Reagan ramped it up.
Started neoliberalism before Reagan ramped it up.
https://afflictthecomfortable.org/2020/11/19/jimmy-carter-is-a-saint-now-was-a-war-criminal-then/
There's a ton of hagiography about Jimmy Carter among evangelicals. My mom saw the news and cried. The news at some point mentioned his dad was a doctor and she was like "His family wasn't poor?" And I was like no lol they were slave owners.
I mean, not exactly, the slave owners evolved into prison wardens and sharecropper farmlorders, the latter of which James' family was part of
I mean its an evolved form of slavery.
Exactly like he said...
Well yeah, we have tons of gusanos too, though he was undoubtedly most harmful of those. Of course he's considered a hero here, but it is nothing new, Poland national tradition since XI century bishop Stanisław is to often celebrate traitors and villify heroes.
All the mastodon libs posting about how this was the greatest humanitarian and how anti-racist he was and such. Going to have to post this link there.
I've also had a link from someone else, regarding the East Timor genocide funding
That being said, it's funny, post presidency, he turned "tankie" on foreign policy, during his time in the Carter Center (like what stopped you during your presidency to do that, man, lol)
Damn, I was kinda hoping he'd outlive Biden
He was so healthy and young :’(
I guess the Carter/Biden 2028 ticket is no longer possible
He didn't outlive biden or clinton
Fuck Jimmy Carter for dying he ruined my dream Democrat ticket for 2028: Carter-Biden
We're so Cartover
I log in and old Jimmy kicks it coincidence?
Were were u wen jimi kater ded?
I waz hom wacing teevi
Gone to the big peanut farm in the sky