Image is of Jeff Daniels in The Newsroom, giving a speech (parodied below) about how - gasp - America sucks. But in a patriotic way.
And you - general megathread poster - yeah - just in case you accidentally wander into the news megathread one day, there are some things you should know, and one of them is that there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest megathread in the world.
We're seventh in citations, twenty-seventh in accurate predictions, twenty-second in effortposts, forty-ninth in non-mainstream article posting, 178th in guessing when wars will start, third in powerusers, number four in dialectics, and number four in megathread exports. We lead Hexbear in only three categories: pointless infighting, number of adults who believe Putin is based, and copium manufacturing, where we produce more than the next twenty-six lemmy megathreads combined, twenty-five of whom are full of delusional liberals. None of this is the fault of any Hexbear user, but you, nonetheless, are without a doubt, a member of the WORST-period-GENERATION-period-EVER-period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest megathread in the world, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about! Jokes about whether they got a Zionist's semen in time?!
Please check out the HexAtlas!
The bulletins site is here!
The RSS feed is here.
Last week's thread is here.
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.
Nytimes is now confirming the flag found on the truck killer is an IS flag so strap in folks
Edit: multiple people involved which is pretty uncommon with these “isis inspired” kind of attacks since it usually involves a single person getting radicalized online(by Feds or otherwise) rather than a group like this that even included a woman which I’m pretty sure actual daesh would deem to be an apostate thing to do.
It’s possible the flag was meant to just be more of an edgy thing and something else motivated him but idk this is strange to me
Not enough info for me to go full 👁️ but between this and US military/tech connection this is pretty odd.
Edit 2: Surveillance video was nothing apparently
Probably more likely a case of cops being stupid thinking maintenance people watering plants or something was sus
waving an ISIS flag while killing a bunch of civilians proves that you can take a person out of the US military but you can't take the US military out of a person
Here's a cha-cha throw back:
Not all troops
~7DeadlyFetishes
iirc, the biggest problem is that this user didn't just start defending people like US soldiers in Vietnam and Iraq. But also Nazi soldiers and concentration camp guards, something like that.
Yep big "wow that escalated quickly" moment some may say.
Birds of a feather roast in hell together, like you said
That user still posts on Reddit, primarily in NFL meme pages I think
I saw their (slightly adjusted) signature in a /r/cfb thread and got smacked with cognitive dissonance like a baseball bat to the knee.
Prime grounds to defend the troops and the democrats
Ex-US soldier and US citizen. Can’t blame this one on immigrants or foreigners, it’s a home grown terrorist who probably trained with ISIS-types while in the army.
This type of blowback is inevitable when you share a bed with ISIS
The Daesh flag will be repeated by the media ad nauseum, no one will ever know he was in the US military which is arguably more important as a cause of this attack
Jolani chuckles and says i disavow
CNN too, if that means anything (it doesn't). But yeah it looks like it could be an IS flag from the images on social media.
Is the blob trying to goad Trump into entrentching in the middle east more rather than pulling out?
It seems like one of those false flag plays.
If he's white it won't matter, if he's not well.....
Not white
deleted by creator
Now we got the cyber truck explosion in Vegas