I have returned! Here is July 4th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is July 5th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is July 6th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

Here is July 7th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

No update today, I'm frantically going through all of my previous social media accounts to delete any negative mention of Assad.

Here is July 9th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.

No updates on Sundays. Aside from this reminder: Stalin, and the brave Soviet people commanded by him, saved the world from fascism.

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Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Add to the above list if you can, thank you.

Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.

Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)

Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.

Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.

On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Telegram Channels

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

Pro-Russian

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.

https://t.me/asbmil ~ ASB Military News, banned from Twitter.

https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.

https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster - crowd-funded U.S journalist, mostly pro-Russian, works on the ground near warzones to report news and talk to locals.

https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it's a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.

https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.

https://t.me/rybar ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense.

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine

With the entire western media sphere being overwhelming pro-Ukraine already, you shouldn't really need more, but:

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.

Last week's discussion post.

  • half_giraffe [comrade/them]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Thank god the West hasn’t been experiencing a brain drain of skilled workers into the finanacial sector becoming professional astrologists and alchemically creating new types of mortgage scams and thus destroy the lives of people every ten years or so.

    I've always been a fan of that quote (I'm paraphrasing) that's like "I'm less impressed by Einstein's genius than I am horrified that thousands of the same intellect have been condemned to die in squalor." (maybe some good brained hexbear recognizes it and can chime in with the author).

    But I'm realizing that framing the issue as "poor people can be smart" fell short in the brains of liberals because they've been conditioned to view poor people as easily-tricked rubes. If instead you bring up all the wasted effort expended by brilliant people in tons of useless or damaging industries (finance, corporate law, energy, advertising, etc.), you can cut into the insistence that capitalism is the most efficient and beneficial system available.

    • estii [they/them]
      ·
      2 years ago

      I feel like that's a Stephen Jay Gould quote but my brain is 50% dogshit by weight 🤷‍♂️

      • half_giraffe [comrade/them]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Yes it's him! Thanks comrade :avoheart:

        I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.