Image is a snapshot taken from the recent Hezbollah video “Our Mountains, Our Treasures”, showcasing their extensive underground fortifications, supply lines, and weaponry.
iran can’t keep doing this to me, they’ve gotta respond soon, right? I’m gonna run out of analysis about countries soon, oh god
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The Child of the Week is Hassan LargePenis! He is chad-and-cuck rater and general commenter @LargePenis@hexbear.net’s son, born over a month ago. @Greenleaf@hexbear.net recommended I have him as the COTW for a week and I finally got around to it.
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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 daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
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.
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 needed to be reinforced.
i’m young and have been a marxist for like 2 years you dont need to reinforce shit with me
I’m going to try and give you some grace, but you are testing my patience at this point.
It has been correctly identified that this sort of protest is not getting results.
It has been correctly identified that it’s not getting results because there is no organizational power behind these protests that can meaningfully threaten any existing power structures.
The next step is to then determine how to build that organizational power and then set about building it. Dwelling on #1 or #2 stops being productive and becomes an egotistical exercise in spiking the football on comrades who are upset about a genocide.
disengage
my point was more that I dont see myself anywhere near lenin, not that my opinions hold no merit???
No,they do,but I’m in the same boat as you are and I disagree with the premise
I certainly sympathize with this way of viewing things,but it seems a bit undeveloped on account of you being so young
Still,maybe you’re right and this way of viewing things will be more effective in the future,but even I,as a fellow young’un myself,I find it to be a erroneous way of viewing things
my opinion comes from looking at the history of the american communist movement. there’s pretty much 2 explanations for why the american communist movement was and still is so weak no? lack of material conditons and weakness of the theory and practice of our communists. Our material conditions aren’t great for recruiting communists for much of the population (labor aristocracy etc.) but also our communists groups really seem like they’ve fucking sucked ever since the black panther party got crushed
I think this is an erroneous way of looking at things
I am not American,but in my opinion the first factor has more to do with active state suppression of radical leftist figures rather than just simple rot within the party structures of these organizations
The second I can agree with
I actually think this is something else you can critcize our orgs for. why is that we all still seem completely cowed and terrified by the state? there must be a path through this that we havent found yet. This is something I havent done much reading on, but for instance why arent our party leaders just hiding out in antiwestern countries? once again that’s what lenin did, why don’t we copy that better? maybe there are better reasons for not doing it, but I certainly am unaware of any good theory debates over it
I will preface this by saying I am equally not well versed in theory, but i don’t think you can just copy what Lenin did back then and have it work in the here and now
Also,this is the CIA we’re talking about,I’m not saying that maybe something more couldn’t have been done,but it was kind of a done deal, especially by the end of the cold war