Image is a frame taken from this video of Iranian missiles raining down on Israel without interception due to a weak and depleted air defense system after a year of war and genocide.

Mao, 1956:

Now U.S. imperialism is quite powerful, but in reality it isn't. It is very weak politically because it is divorced from the masses of the people and is disliked by everybody and by the American people too. In appearance it is very powerful but in reality it is nothing to be afraid of, it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe the United States is nothing but a paper tiger.

When we say U.S. imperialism is a paper tiger, we are speaking in terms of strategy. Regarding it as a whole, we must despise it. But regarding each part, we must take it seriously. It has claws and fangs. We have to destroy it piecemeal. For instance, if it has ten fangs, knock off one the first time, and there will be nine left, knock off another, and there will be eight left. When all the fangs are gone, it will still have claws. If we deal with it step by step and in earnest, we will certainly succeed in the end.

Strategically, we must utterly despise U.S. imperialism. Tactically, we must take it seriously. In struggling against it, we must take each battle, each encounter, seriously. At present, the United States is powerful, but when looked at in a broader perspective, as a whole and from a long-term viewpoint, it has no popular support, its policies are disliked by the people, because it oppresses and exploits them. For this reason, the tiger is doomed. Therefore, it is nothing to be afraid of and can be despised. But today the United States still has strength, turning out more than 100 million tons of steel a year and hitting out everywhere. That is why we must continue to wage struggles against it, fight it with all our might and wrest one position after another from it. And that takes time.

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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

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.

  • LargePenis [he/him]
    ·
    1 month ago

    cuck n chad ranking: Nasrallah tribute show

    Gigachad Chad Neutral Beta (Fe)Male Virgin Cuck
    Putin (slow and steady wins the race) Ukrainian guys in Kursk (brave guys tbh, I don't know how they even motivate those guys now that the chance of success is less than 1%) Telegram comments (a strange mix of incredibly based dudes, 1930s antisemites, unemployed turboposters and weirdly a lot of Spanish-speakers) NAFO nerds (either exposed as a pedophile, or coping in the darkest corners of Elon's X) Zelensky (another downgrade, his tour in the US and Europe was horribly unsuccessful and it's seems kinda joever)
    Hamas, PIJ, Qassam, PFLP and all the people and resistance groups in Gaza (Allah's bravest soliders) Spain and Ireland (the only non-cucked EU nations) North Korean National Football Team (stole a valuable point from the satanic UAE, not very good though sadly) American pro-Israel "activists" (these people are so pathetic and reek of such loser vibes that they're a laughing stock wherever they go) The entire nation of Saudi Arabia (what a waste that Mecca and Madinah is located in a nation that is so cucked on all levels, Palestine and Lebanon are burning next to them while they only care about football and concerts)
    Hezbollah and Iran (owned the Zios hard in every single way in the last few weeks) Ansarallah (still undefeated, although I miss some of their lil mischief with the missiles to Tel Aviv and attacking random ships) Arab Gulf states (very cucked existence actually, but they finally showed some backbone recently in refusing to let Israel use their airspace vs Iran Sunni islamists (except a few prinicipled ones, this whole group have proved to be nothing but ultra cucks for the interests of America who would rather accept Israel than Iran) Lebanese Maronite nationalists (cheering on Israel against fellow Lebanese people because they turbo-cuck so hard for the West)
    Hassan Nasrallah (the GOAT of the resistance, the man I indirectly named my son after, even in death he still frightens the Zionists) Ali Khamenei (promised to shake the Zionists, and he did although a bit late, the only Muslim leader that I trust these days) Donald Trump (back into front-runner status by literally doing nothing, all the assassins comically fail, he just keeps doing his WWE promos and it works because Kamala is so flat) Kamala Harris (fumbled the momentum, is now doing weed and crypto programs to attract black men wtf) Olaf Scholz (will go down in history as one of the biggest imperial cucks that the world has seen)
    • PointAndClique [they/them]
      ·
      1 month ago

      apology for bad english

      Where were u when chad/cuck ranking removed by mod

      i was on bidet hosing butthole when phone ring

      "Chad/cuck ranking is kil"

      "no"

    • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
      ·
      1 month ago

      I feel like we need an honourary gigachad or chad ranking for the Ukrainians going around torching the stupid NAFO press gang vehicles too

      • Redcuban1959 [any]
        ·
        1 month ago

        Wait what? Did those NAFO people (they still exist?) go to Ukraine to harass random Ukrainians?

        • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
          ·
          1 month ago

          Nah, I think NAFO donations have just paid for vehicles used by the press gangs so some of them have cringe references on them and stuff

          As far as I know most actual NAFO "members" just go to the baltics to front like they're contributing to the war effort and do sex tourism

          • Pentacat [he/him]
            ·
            1 month ago

            Different front in the World War, but do IOF soldiers who cross borders to cum posthumously count as sex tourists?

              • Pentacat [he/him]
                ·
                1 month ago

                Damn. I wish there was a way to get an alert when that AMA happens. I just know I’ll be doing something way less important when it happens and I’ll miss it.

    • pierre_delecto [he/him]
      ·
      1 month ago

      I thought I could just flip over to the mod log to read this, but the table formatting is gone

      all-my-apes-gone

    • carpoftruth [any, any]M
      ·
      1 month ago

      who-must-go

      assad-must-stay

      Comment restored. I'm open to a struggle session over cuck v chad language and alternatives but I'm not ok with just deleting this straight away

      Edit: another mod noted to me the use of "beta female" in the header. Yeah fair enough. Fix that or this post is going back to the modlog.

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
        ·
        1 month ago

        Edit: another mod noted to me the use of "beta female" in the header. Yeah fair enough. Fix that or this post is going back to the modlog.

        Ironically given the subject matter, that's from the post trying to be gender inclusive, as it's written "(Fe)Male" with the "Fe" in brackets, so the person being called a "beta" could either be a male or female. I doubt it's being done to be sexist, it's the same as writing "s/he", or "(s)he" to be fomatically consistent, to refer to both genders without having to write it out fully. At least that's how I read it, I could be wrong.

      • LargePenis [he/him]
        ·
        1 month ago

        I don't understand what's so controversial about "beta (fe) male". When I started this dumb thing more than a year ago, it was only dudes on this list and the category was named "Beta Male". Then women started to appear on this so I added the (Fe) thing so that women can also be here without being called men by restrictive categories. Literally no one has ever complained about this ever

        • carpoftruth [any, any]M
          ·
          1 month ago

          Ah, so that someone like kamala can achieve the rank of beta. I didn't parse the brackets like that but I see what you mean

          • LargePenis [he/him]
            ·
            1 month ago

            Yeah exactly. It was originally just Beta Male, then the (Fe) part was added when AOC appeared in that category

      • REgon [they/them]
        ·
        1 month ago

        If cuck isn't part of the slur filter I really don't see an issue with it. The only reason people dislike cuck as a slur instead of just a derogatory is because chuds use it as well, but there's nothing inherently right wing about it. Nor is there anything gendered in this modern day and age. A woman can get cucked just as easily as a man.

        I am aware that "cuck" comes from "cuckold" which was specifically about men, but again nowadays anyone can be cucked. Brave new world.

    • Redcuban1959 [any]
      ·
      1 month ago

      I think Slovenia also recently recognized Palestine, which makes them + Spain, Ireland, East Europe and the Nordics (minus Denmark and Finland) as the only Europeans contries to recognize Palestine. And also the Pope/Vatican recgonizes Palestine.

      Olaf Scholz (will go down in history as one of the biggest imperial cucks that the world has seen)

      This fucking cuck decided to make an indirect arms embargo to Colombia and Brazil, because they dared to not help Ukraine.

      • Kuori [she/her]
        ·
        1 month ago

        kind of an alarmingly high upvote ratio ngl

        also please don't come back, shithead

      • Yor [she/her]
        ·
        1 month ago

        Just say you don't like queer people next time

    • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
      ·
      1 month ago

      According to a certain Islamic street debater, Shia Islam is basically a heretical minority while 90% of the world’s Muslim population are Sunni. (General audience question) Are Sunni civilian populations more pro-Palestine than the governments and what’s up with that?

      • Dolores [love/loves]
        ·
        1 month ago

        According to certain Islamic street debater

        this kind of makes me think this is a bit, but any observer should know that sunni/shia--besides being a uselessly reductive way of interpreting the world--has NO bearing on the issue of zionism. the 'sunni' states now defending 'israel' used to be its primary opponents. Iran before the revolution was supportive of israel. Ansarallah in yemen are 'shia' but they do not recognize the same religious authorities or doctrine as twelver Iran.

        as it has always been, the composition of resistance and alliance is a material and political phenomenon, not springing from ancient religious rifts and conflicts

        • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
          ·
          1 month ago

          as it has always been, the composition of resistance and alliance is a material and political phenomenon, not springing from ancient religious rifts and conflicts

          contextphobic hegel

            • REgon [they/them]
              ·
              1 month ago

              nah just stick to memes, they learn you everything important

            • TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]
              ·
              1 month ago

              Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the craziest mystifying nonsense.

              Arthur Schopenhauer

        • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
          ·
          1 month ago

          Which is why I was surprised to see the category in the cuck chad list and searched for enlightenment

          • Dolores [love/loves]
            ·
            1 month ago

            they were probably mostly talking about ISIS but since there are a thousand lil groups 'sunni' could be a tempting designation (as the broad majority). i'm sure the CIA and Mossad have gotten shia groups to work with them tho

            • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
              ·
              1 month ago

              Hence the statistical question. After reading about Hamas and Hezbollah, my 2d western brain got into the “Shia good Sunni bad” mindset, which is obviously false, but I’m trying to get to the root. It may be material conditions ofc, since the vast majority of Muslims worldwide regardless of affiliation are not genocide enthusiasts

      • Al_Sham
        ·
        6 days ago

        deleted by creator

        • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
          ·
          1 month ago

          Idk what madkhali means, nor why British intelligence would sponsor Muslim YouTubers.

          After googling I now know slightly more (how bad do you have to be for Wikipedia to mention how much the Feds love you?). How can one tell if an interlocutor subscribes to sincere or false Islamic belief, how do you check dawah for validity?

    • plinky [he/him]
      ·
      1 month ago

      Chad vs beholden to someone not respecting you ranking™️

      (Actually we can substitute cuck for olaf or keir, completely devoted to the master)

    • REgon [they/them]
      ·
      1 month ago

      I love your rankings and I gotta know, what are the rows determined by? Is it regions of conflict or something else?