Here is November 7th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is November 8th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
I strategically retreated from doing an update on Wednesday (and I always perform tactical update withdrawals on Thursdays and Sundays) so this next one covers a bit from those two days.
Here is November 11th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Links and Stuff
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.
If the Democrats outperform every poll they will still deliver nothing and shoulder all of the blame. I'm not voting anymore in the short term.
Yeah, probably.
The way I view it Democrats are slow walking us towards fascism while Republicans want to do a speed run. If Democrats give the left more time to get organized we'll fair better when the shoe drops. But like I said, voting doesn't really matter, especially a single vote.
I'm not sure we'd be better under the Democrats even (especially) for cadre building. The right wing will have its run for a while I'm guessing maybe a decade, but have no answers to American problems. It is worrisome knowing these ghouls are set to manage the decline of the American Empire but democratic administrations only will also only fuel right wing populism because the Democrats refuse to be genuine champions for the people. Gotta let that party die it's been dead for a while now. Number one impediment to the Left. Let it die.
Imagine the DSA, under the guns of our enemies, marching themselves strait into the work camps rather than getting pushed through the gates as a disorganized mob. The fascists would be so owned!
Actually they'd have a referendum to determine which members march first and then petition the fascists to respect their referendum.
Really though, if fascism is the foregone conclusion to liberal democracy then what is the alternative to organizing against it?
It sounds like accelerationism but hear me out. Maybe the fascists rise to power would be better if it was quicker.
What if the shock of becoming a fascist state over night is what is needed to make libs into comrades? Isn't fascism's second wave way more likely to be successful if they start the frog in cold water not throw it in a boiling pot?
Most people are reactionary in the most literal sense of the word. The trick is getting them to react to the right thing in the right way. Libs react to insecurity by embracing authoritarianism/fascism but they react to authoritarianism with cries for freedom and democracy. If Fascism was the immediate and clear threat to their security they would rail against it.
The only problems with this plan. 1 it presupposes that fascism is inevitable. 2 it doesn't account for the percentage of people that are Fascists and the number of libs that lean more fascist than anti fascist.