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

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

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

No updates on Thursdays.

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

Here is September 10th's update!

A few improvements:

  • I'm gonna try and include more images, now that I've figured out how to do it on my end without things getting confusing. Namely, I now have a whole folder on my computer dedicated to this stuff where I can put things. A truly incredible development. However, a lot of the articles don't have images, and if they do, they aren't all that noteworthy - think "typical stock image of an oil barrel or a dude looking frazzled at a stock market screen". But still, there's usually at least 1 or 2 images that I can and should put in every day for added pizazz.

  • I'm actually using the tagging system, instead of it just being "ukraine" and "russia" the whole time, and will be slowly working on adding them for the previous updates too. Eventually, you will be able to search by country throughout the whole update list, from the ever-present "china" or "united states" to the very rare "uzbekistan".

  • More consistent climate and space updates. Hopefully.

  • 100% more love for our trans comrades.

  • Adding what you people post in these megathreads to the summaries too. The tyranny of only referring to my own work without talking about anything of the comments you guys make shall end.

On that note: do you have a lot of knowledge about the current state of a particular country (beyond mindless electorialism)? Do you, for some reason, have a lot of knowledge about hydrogen power, or the fossil fuel industry, or renewables, or rare earth mining, or have you delved into a wikipedia rabbithole on a topic and became a semi-expert? Hell, are you an actual expert? If the answer to any of the above is yes, please comment more! There are like 200 countries on this planet and I realistically only have time to talk about a fraction of them on a given day, and of that fraction, only a single article. I may have a vibe about certain countries, but if you wanna rant about the current situation in X country or how neoliberalism is ruining Y country, but you think "nah, who gives a shit" - I give a shit. Some of the best content in these megathreads is people being like "The general media narrative around what's happening in this country is wrong, here's what's actually going on here."

I'll even quote your username in the summaries if you do it. It's a meritocratic version of the general megathread's username list that they do every time. The thrill of a purple number next to the bell in the upper right corner of your screen can be yours for the low low price of a microessay for our reading pleasure.

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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists, for the "buh Zeleski is a jew?!?!" people.

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.

  • Praksis [any]
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    2 years ago

    I believe a huge reason the new constitution didn't pass in chile is because it had quite some... radlib seemingly urbanite ideas in it. I mean can I really be surprised coming from a guy who self-describes as ''libsoc''?

    • geikei [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Partly yeah. But its all part of greater issues with Boric and his government

      Lets take Cuba, they change and amend the constitution through referendums making small or large jumps socialy with them . But for each change , like the upcoming ulta mega progressive family law, there is a lot of groundwork and education in the local level preceeding it and it is done when both party and masses both have trust and participation in the drafting process and they reflect achievable steps and leaps

      The Chillean constitution along with a bunch of great stuff having parts like what you say, detatched from where the vast majority of the country is socialy and without an educational groundwork and social conversation perceeding them seems like it was drafted to fail and to be an easy target for the opposition. Unless your government is uber popular and has massive goodwill or has strongarmed the local media and bourgeois ,which is the opposite of what Boric has done. So a whole bunch of idealism , bad political instincts and inability to use power (even democraticaly) to have your perspective dominate and resonate.

      And of course a failure to capitalize on the popular mass energy that got Boric elected along with inadequate militancy or mass work for any transformative socialist change to take place

      Boric can cry about how he dislikes Chevismo and the authoritarian latam leftists but he is weak lib shit as a figure , politician and ideologue compared to them. Chavez with his genuine working class populism with results and grassroots focus and militancy would have replaced a 50 yo fascist constitution with a socialist one in his sleep. Without "undemocratic" means. The support and energy was there and it was a lay up honestly

      • Praksis [any]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Yep... it's really the failures of social democracy once again coming up.

    • Praksis [any]
      ·
      2 years ago

      not to alienate any comrades here but I'm not surprised you alienate people by having a constitution which gives animals the same rights as humans, how would that even work? I feel like they should've just stuck to mainly electoral and economic changes, mayhaps some social policies.

    • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Lol Boric did not create this constitution himself and it's honestly a disservice to the constituent assembly to imply it to be the case. Yes, some measures in there were impractical, but those are getting lumped in with stuff like "don't privatize water," and "indigenous people can have little a rights." Anyways, anything that comes after will be worse so its not worth celebrating Rechazo

      • Praksis [any]
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        2 years ago

        I'm not celebrating, it's just that I'm not completely surprised. I'd much preferred it passed. It just sucks that people lost limbs and lives for this for all of it to fizzle out.