September 12th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
September 13th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
September 14th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Thursdays.
September 16th's mini-update is here, because western journalists are bad at their jobs. Here's the in-thread comment.
Today and tomorrow I'm gonna be doing some prep as I'm moving in a few weeks. The updates will continue as planned on Monday.
:Care-Comrade: to you all.
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.
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Denmark is way more fash than Sweden. In Sweden the other political parties agreed not to let the Nazis get any influence no matter what and to pretend their seats don't exist. That agreement lasted for decades and has been bitterly denounced in Denmark as "undemocratic".
The Danish political establishment went in the opposite direction when neofascism became politically prominent in the 1990's. The right wing used the fash seats in parliament to gain power. Meanwhile the social democrats embarked on a journey as old as centrist triangulation: They started at "we'll give the working class a little racism as a treat so they won't vote fascist" in the 1990's to today's social democrats who sees it as politically essential that they are at least as racist as the fascists.
In the current Danish political climate you won't be taken serious unless you support stuff like banning non-whites from moving into cheap social housing and any discussion of racism as anything other than something done by a handful of skinhead losers makes you a woke leftist extremist.
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Remember the :reddit-logo: cope about how Bernie would be considered right wing in Europe? :yea:
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https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1934/07/23.htm
Stalin called it 90 years ago. This is a very interesting interview between HG Wells and Stalin, and it’s remarkable how little the discourse has changed since then. All of HG Wells succdem arguments are identical to the ones you hear today
This is a very insightful interview. Thank you for sharing comrade
I have never read Stalin, but he fucking articulates what I'm thinking of this interviewers crap. This dipshit really believes that private property is somehow synonymous with individualism. Fucking hell.
Individualism is when you order people around because daddy gave you a factory or something.
The oligarchs let them have a little freedom after the Soviet collapse. But now modern socialism (which can use the capitalist system against the capitalists) has been rising rapidly with China being nearly as strong as the USSR used to be on the global stage. The capitalists are sweating really hard.
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Europeans will definitely blame minorities first and capitalism last. When you consider the near absence of any serious Marxist mass organising in the west it is almost certain that this self-inflicted energy crisis is going to benefit the fascists and not the sorry succdem excuse for a left.
What Bernie was proposing would be right-wing compared to what exists in the Nordic countries af long as we speak strictly about welfare services. Stuff like racism is more... complicated.
And you also have to consider the direction they're moving in rather than the place they end up. Bernie, despite all his flaws, actually wanted to make society better whereas the Nordic political establishments has inherited some immensely popular welfare states that they are slowly chipping away at.
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As far as I remember their main defense against this being racist was that the policy also targets the poor, the disabled and the uneducated. That and the completely nonsensical "how can this be racist if a large majority in parliament voted for it?".
i didnt read a ton about it back when this came out but i feel like it could be intended as an anti-segregation measure
but also theres probaly no reason to be generous in interpreting this
It was marketed as one to get the bleeding heart liberals to feel better about supporting it but it was also marketed to chuds as a policy that would "prevent parallel societies" and "erase black spots on the map of Denmark".
No matter what, it is a policy that explicitly frames non-whiteness as undesirable, alien and problematic and no matter what bullshit words politicians say it puts non-whites in a worse material position than whites. It is an objectively racist policy.
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