Image is of a Hezbollah missile attack on a military camp west of Jenin.
The situation between Hezbollah and Israel is rapidly escalating, with massive bombing campaigns on southern Lebanon by Israel predominantly on civilians (as the tunnels in South Lebanon are mostly unreachable to the Zionists, just like in Gaza), while Hezbollah and its allies respond with missile attacks predominantly on Israeli military facilities. Israel is spreading an evacuation order to the residents of southern Lebanese villages while also bombing their routes of escape and civilian infrastructure, similar to a terror tactic used widely in Gaza.
Northern Israel is currently under military censorship to hide their losses, so we get very little information other than what the Resistance provides and what videos and images get through the censors.
I don't know if Israel will dare a ground incursion soon, but it seems fairly likely in the coming days or weeks.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
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.
It's interesting to compare my dad, who's a stereotypical old-school boomer misogynist, with modern incels. For all of his reactionary politics, he genuinely loves women and is comfortable with his boomer understanding masculinity. I don't see this love for women and security of their masculinity in modern incels. I see his reactionary politics as a barrier to truly loving women while I see incel's reactionary politics as a political expression of their profound hatred of women. They adopt reactionary politics because they hate women. Perhaps their attraction to combat sports is led by their hatred of women and their fantasies of injuring, maiming, and even killing women. This can even explain their attraction towards gaming streamers. Anyone who's been gaming for a while know about freaks who go out of their way to kill every single sex worker they meet in GTA or who exclusively teabag enemy female avatars. Let's not even talk about the mountain of H-games where you r-word women.
So why do they hate women? My belief is that online dating apps greatly cultivate this hatred. There's this contradiction about how men can sleep around but women have to be faithful ie men are keys while women are locks. This contradiction is resolved with a small percentage of men (the chads) hoarding all the women (the beckys) with the rest of men being involuntarily celebrate (the incels). In this schema, every woman is assigned to a particular chad while every chad has multiple woman being assigned to him. In other words, all women belong to a particular harem catered towards a particular chad. The men who do not have a harem of women are the incels.
This is literally that dating app meme where all the women point to a single chad at the top with the rest being womenless incels. Online dating apps obviously don't actually want people to be in successful relationships in order to retain users, so from the perspective of the bottom 90% of male users who constantly get rejected matches, it's the confirmation of the chad-becky-incel schema. The fact that women get sexually harassed on those apps is not relevant to these men, and even with leftist men who have embraced feminism, there's still a degree of bitterness and resentment. I see this bitterness and resentment whether Hexbear men talk about their lack of success with dating apps. The problem is that since most men haven't embraced a leftist politics (and for many men who have nominally embraced a leftist politics), that bitterness and resentment is targeted towards what's in front of them ie the women who rejected them. It will eventually become hatred, which makes them extremely susceptible to reactionary politics.
Maybe live music performance help otherwise womenless men mellow out a bit. Unlike a bar or a club setting, there's less of an expectation that you have to hook up with women, but it's also not like a church setting where you won't ever hook up with women. It's a setting where single people who are ready to mingle congregate for the stated purpose of not mingling but they're still down for whatever.
I don't know if this is the case. These boys are usually not women haters before they get sucked into the manosphere, in my opinion at least. They get into combat sports because many boys at that age are into comparing themselves to the strength of their peers and they all have tendencies towards competing physically, probably partly driven by having developing bodies and varying sizes and ages.
I think they're primed for the hate though, and I think the primer is pornography and the way women are treated in porn. This gives all sorts of impressions to young boys that didn't occur in the past, and having those impressions makes taking the next "natural" step into how you become a man that treats women like that and gets loads of sex feel correct.
So pornography as a primer, followed by segue between combat sports and incelosphere grooming is the pipeline that leads these boys into conservative-led spaces and beliefs. They're then groomed in these spaces for conservative thought whether or not it's actually beneficial for them. Often it's NOT beneficial for them, it hurts their lives and relations with others, but this alienation from their peers serves as excellent space to take them further down the pipeline and blame the WOKE CULTURE for the way they're being treated, poor relations and so on that they have (all as a result of their incel male supremacy bullshit).
If instead they had gotten into music influencers like was more common previously then they would have real relationships with peers. They wouldn't be socially isolated. They wouldn't be given views that are designed to intentionally divide them from others and further socially isolate them. Etc etc.
So... Ban dating apps?
Serious question actually. Remove dating apps entirely and what happens? A vacuum opens up and people will seek out a means of filling the gap.
I don't have the answers, but modern misogyny feels very different from my dad's old school misogyny. He will never vote for a woman to be in any elected position but he'll open doors for women. Andrew Tate might also think women shouldn't be allowed to vote but I seriously doubt he'll open door for women. I seriously doubt my dad would be impressed by Tate or Rogan conception of masculinity where masculinity is measured by how many women you sleep with or how big your muscles are. His understanding of masculinity is more about starting a family and being a patriarch with grand- and great-grandchildren who all look to him as the moral center of the family.
Now that I think about it, the best way to describe my dad is that he's how modern conservative women think a man should behave. So I think that what's happening is socially conservative men and women used to be on the same page, but there is a divergence between conservative men and women. I guess you could call it the incelification of conservative men. However, I also think the amount of socially conservative women is declining as much, much of which has to do with the fact that women trend more socially liberal than men.
I'm just throwing shit on the wall at this point. I really don't know. I still think the decline of third spaces where single young people can socialize without that third space being a place for sex is a part of it.