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.

  • Lydia [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Can someone tell me like, what the queen has done that’s actually that bad? I know she was needlessly wealthy but aside from that why are we celebrating so much

    • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Well before anyone tells you she’s just a figurehead, she has veto power over British law called Queen’s Consent, which she has exercised nearly 1000 times. She’s an unelected monarch who still wields power over the population, and all monarchists deserve the guillotine

      She also has a pedophile family that she works to protect from legal reprimand

      She was queen during WW2 while the British purposefully starved tens of millions of Indians and Bangladeshis and she could have intervened but chose not to. I would put the brunt of that on Churchill though, despicable slug man

        • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
          ·
          2 years ago

          Oh fuck me I thought she was a 200 years old or something. Ok scratch that part, all of that blame resides on the slug

          • DigimonOtis [none/use name]
            ·
            2 years ago

            She is actually 200 years old and her spirit has just migrated over to the next royal in line.

            • Mardoniush [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              In fairness, victoria reigned 64 years, elizabeth 70, and between them were 3 wierd dudes who barely broke fifty years together.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I don't know that she had the power to do bad things besides be a landlord, but she was a chud who regularly admonished the British Parliament not to spend too much money helping poor people.

      • cogito_ergo_cum [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Didn't she have a shitton of formal power as well? Like over the City of London and such?

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Maybe, I'm not an expert. But I know that City of London is just a tax haven for global imperialists so if she did then nothing good came of it.

    • Lydia [she/her]
      ·
      2 years ago

      I’m asking this only because I have very minimal knowledge on this

    • Vncredleader
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      2 years ago

      https://www.irishpost.com/news/anger-queens-speech-appears-dismiss-fight-justice-bloody-sunday-victims-vexatious-claims-175999

      She called attempts to make the butchers of Bloody Sunday face court "vexatious claims", she also gave one of the killers a medal for his actions https://www.irishtimes.com/news/victims-families-want-apology-from-queen-elizabeth-1.130469

      "However, I think there is somebody who should consider apologising at this stage for something which happened after Bloody Sunday and that is the Queen of England who decorated the murderers of our innocent dead. I would like now, on behalf of the families, to call on her to apologise to the people of Derry for what she did," Mr Doherty said: he did not want the Queen to apologise for the killings. "The Queen of England insulted the memory of the dead of Bloody Sunday by awarding Lt Col Wilford the OBE at the first possible opportunity after the massacre. "By decorating the senior army personnel involved in the slaughter on that day it was clearly a calculated insult to the nationalist people of Derry and to the families of the deceased of Bloody Sunday. I think it is a situation that can be reversed.

      She was a monster and enemy of the Irish people

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      For decades the British court would not hire non-whites for any non-menial jobs.