August 15th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 16th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 17th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Thursdays.
August 19th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 20th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Sundays.
Links and Stuff
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.
Nordic socialism moment: A survey among members aged 40 to 59 of the Danish union 3F that organises "unskilled" workers have shown that 67,5% of members are taking painkillers to be able to go to work.
Meanwhile the same union is heavily supportive of and involved in the social democratic party that is responsible for making Danish retirement age one of the highest in the world and who is right now campaigning with slogans about "responsible economic policy so we can afford the future".
Oh, and by the way, that responsible economic policy that requires people to work full time until they're 72 doesn't prevent the social democrats from increasing military expenditure to 2% of GDP, including a replacing the entire navy with new ships
I love living in this country during election season. Especially now that the Denmark's Liberal Party or w/e they translate their name as, have decided to run on a platform of "people who don't work make too much money" while their party is led by the most low-energy failson of a previous high ranking minister.
Oh yes, the same old "the poor are too rich" bullshit that makes cuddled home owning treat boys envious of the luxurious lifestyles of the people who are worst off.
It's either that or the succdems who doesn't give a shit about the poor either because they're too busy being fascists.
It is so revolting.
Also looking forward to seeing the Social Justice party make a big stink about how we need to stand up for progressive european values and save the planet, while also voting to allow BlackRock to buy every single public housing project in the entire Greater Copenhagen Area. Btw, remember how at the beginning of the year I talked about a specific provision that allowed people to be evicted from public housing if a member of their family committed a crime in the same neighbourhood as they lived in? Turns out, our "left-wing" government just voted to expand that provision, so that now more types of crime are covered. I fucking love the social democrats :jokerfied:
The political elite really hate public housing and the people living there. A lot of it is old-fashioned racism and class hatred but I also don't think that is a coincidence that some of the social housing units they attack the hardest and try to privatise in order to "improve the area" are also located close to the centres of the largest cities.
It's going to be some some very attractive real estate once they kick the poors and the non-whites out. The speculants who are buying it at firesale prices are going to make a lot of money off this. I can't prove anything but I would be totally unsurprised if there was some "campaign contributions" or cushy jobs for ex-politicians flowing the other way.
I also wonder how much of this is old-fashioned corruption, with either campaign contributions or consulting jobs for the politicians, and how much is just neoliberalism infecting litterally every single politician in the country. Because from what I can read, the people who work for the municipalities seems to genuinely believe in this shit, and that gentrification is a desirable process, which will help the communities in question lessen their "crime-problem" or whatever they call it.
Great example of how the dominant ideology is that of the dominant class.
And let's also remember that all of the politicians and bureaucrats who get to have public opinions about this lives on the sunny side of society. None of them live in public housing themselves, none of them have had trouble finding a place to live because they were deemed inferior by the state, none of them will have to live with the consequences of their decisions.
All they see is how the unsightly and scary poors are removed and replaced with good people that look much more like they do themselves. Of course there going to see that as a positive development.
People who work manual labor should really have lower retirement ages than desk jobs in general.
They did in the USSR.
https://nintil.com/the-soviet-union-working-hours/
Fuck imagine retiring at 45.
The illegal dissolution of the USSR is one of the greatest evils in history
Well you were "allowed" to retire at 45 but then Stalin would show up to your door with a comically large spoon and...
You know what happens next
:comically-large-spoon::stalin-gun-2:
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