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Trump's victory, and the further mass oppression of minorities, is closer than ever before. May god have mercy on our souls.


previous preambleThe totalitarian capitalist dystopia which was created by the United States in the aftermath of the Korean War has increasingly experienced problems as the multipolar world is being gradually birthed.

Due to the widespread exploitation of the population, long work weeks, and high housing prices, the population growth of South Korea has plummeted, with the lowest fertility rate on the planet, and the highest suicide rate in the OECD. While a capitalist "success story" before the 2008 recession in terms of profit accumulation for the richest at the expense of most others, conditions have grown more dire in the Long Depression since the crash. GDP growth per year has averaged out at 2-3%. For more concrete figures, labour productivity has stagnated, particularly in the service sector. The rate of profit hit a peak when the dictatorship ended in the late 1980s, but has since massively tumbled. These dynamics are not unique to South Korea; they are happening throughout the West.

While South Korea is stagnating, perhaps even falling, its northern neighbour is rising. With Russia already persona non grata to much of the developed world and yet still maintaining fairly good economic growth and continuously albeit gradually moving towards victory in Ukraine, Putin sees no reason to be intimidated by the West's shunning of the DPRK, and Russia is establishing ties as well as military and economic deals. This seems to portend an end to the post-Soviet period of forced isolation due to UN actions forbidding the people of the DPRK to leave the country (which many westerners believe is a policy originating from the Korean leadership due to their propagandized education).

Many in the West are still, regrettably, unable to properly analyze the geopolitical situation of Korea due to their government programming, leading to bizarre takes about imminent collapse, or desperation on the part of Russia or the DPRK, unable to recognize that the DPRK has a powerful military sector all its own, and decades of autarky has created a durable society where limited resources must be used efficiently and effectively. The position of the Korean Peninsula seems likely to be a critical part of the US-China conflict, whether this is an outright war or instead a series of proxy wars. Indeed, Korea's position may soon become very important in global trade routes if the US tries to cut off the Strait of Malacca to Chinese-bound cargo ships, with vital resources like oil and food potentially transported both over land and via the Arctic Route over Russia and through the DPRK to China. Russia's leadership clearly sees the importance of Korea in the future, hence their actions now; and, of course, South Korea siding with Ukraine has also forced Putin's hand to oppose them more openly.


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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

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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.


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[–] [email protected] 160 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (29 children)

Two days ago, on the first day of the Islamic month of Muharram, my son was born. The little fucker busted out of my wife a few weeks too early, but he's finally here. We left the hospital a few hours ago after two days of medical checks and both he and my wife are now peacefully sleeping while I'm writing. I won the naming battle and we settled on a traditional, but cool name in my very biased opinion. I'm now Abu Hassan, which sounds unreal, because how the hell am I a father lol. Now the real battle starts, I cannot do the same mistakes that Pete Buttigieg's father did and accidentally make him a liberal. Maybe in 16 years or so, you'll have Hassan LargePenis posting a VR interactive three dimensional chad n cuck ranking in the news mega about the slow Russian progress in the Central European front of WW3. Thank you all in advance for the well wishes!

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 117 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I gotta say, after having avoided it for years, watching the libs tear each other apart over biden on the politics subreddit is fucking cathartic right now lol

I never would've thought i'd see turbolibs throwing around "blueMAGA" at each other like this hahaha sicko-hexbear

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Okay now let's remind y'all that this morning (or yesterday depending on the zone) over 100 Palestinians got killed in a massacre in Khan Younis

body bags

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

why do I even bother touching grass when extremely funny things keep happening while I do so.

I saw this when I loaded up Hexbear and I was just like "oh fuck, has Israel invaded Lebanon or did Russia hit NATO or something?":

must once again make an effort to be 100% online at all times. put the newsmega microchip in my brain

the sheer whiplash from "WE MUST DEFEAT TRUMP AT ALL COSTS! we're so desperate that we have to consider ditching the president to do so. it's the ONLY WAY to defeat fascism and Project 2025" to "<3 get well soon, hope your hospital stay is good, xoxoxo" from liberals is going to be extremely entertaining. violence is never the answer unless it happens to be against Palestinian children.

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 4 months ago (10 children)

"There’s no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it."

pretty sure America is THE place for gun violence.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Every westerner who has opinions for a living is going liberty-weeping over the Trump shooting right now. "Political violence" is unacceptable, we are told. It's an attack on Our Democracy™, we are told. People who were talking about how dangerous Trump was are now wishing him well because of how beyond the pale the shooting was.

Meanwhile, in a very different instance of "political violence", the very same people are sitting on their ass doing absolutely nothing as hundred thousands of Palestinians are being murdered in the zionist genocide. That's not a big deal to western professional opinion-haverd, at least not big enough to do anything about beyond at best saying that both sides are bad and voice an uncommitting support for the general idea of a "two-state solution".

It has never been more clear that when the media- and political elite are talking about how "political violence is unacceptable" what they really mean is that it is unacceptable for the violence to affect them personally. They are clutching their pearls because the violence that they are so nonchalant about inflicting on others suddenly got too close to one of of their own.

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 4 months ago (13 children)

the whole ruling class crying about "political violence" after months of manufacturing consent for the ongoing genocide of Palestine is entirely about the state reclaiming their monopoly on violence, right? hasan-stfu

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Remember in the first days of the genocide, when Israel bombed a hospital (I think it was Al-Shifa?) and killed like 400-500 people? Except Israel came out and said “oh that wasn’t us that was a wayward Hamas rocket”. And then the American media did a full court press of taking everything Israel and the US govt said at face value. And even beyond that, all the major news outlets would keep bringing on OSINT guests who would explain how it could have been a Hamas rocket, but rarely if even did they explain why it was Israel?

No one can possibly think that it was anyone other than Israel now. But that whole thing has been memory holed (like the beheaded babies) so even if you try to remind people about it, they don’t care.

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

My newest flex on the libs is that the Democratic Party needs to drop out of the U.S. presidential race entirely, so that a candidate from e.g. the Green Party who actually has a chance of winning can take their place. Neither Genocide Joe nor some yutz the Democrats pick using a completely undemocratic appointment process is going to win.

Move over. Leftists are coming through. Your blue vote is just a protest/spoiler now. Sorry.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 4 months ago (39 children)
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[–] [email protected] 98 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

The new theorized death toll numbers (from Lancet) are too much to bear. If those numbers are true, then the genocide of Gaza - in terms of a percent of the population killed and wounded - is right up there with the worst crimes of the 20th century. The Nazi invasion of the USSR, the American genocides in Korea and Vietnam, the bombing of Cambodia, etc. And all of those took place over a matter of years, not months.

Death to America and Death to Israel. Libs in the US had better pray to whatever deity might be out there that this country never gets what it actually deserves. Because Jeremiah Wright was right. We absolutely deserve hell on earth.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

The Samsung strikes in South Korea. They can't fly socialist symbols but this sure doesn't look like a liberal union aesthetically.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 4 months ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 97 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 97 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

This dude tried to no scope headshot Trump lmao.

Not an optic to be found rip-bozo-grave

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 4 months ago (11 children)

oh so now they're able to condemn strikes on hospitals

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 4 months ago (3 children)

All the redditors who salivated 24/7 over gore footage of surrendering Russian conscripts being shot are now telling us that political violence is never acceptable.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

This old fuck is hell bent on destroying every last ounce of respect he has left

The guy they said was literally Hitler is the same guy they are now sending their thoughts and prayers.

I guess between endorsing genocide and kowtowing to the DNC he still finds time to pull this shit

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 4 months ago (11 children)

Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20 yr old from Bethel Park, PA. He was wearing a gun youtube merch shirt and is a registered Republican for what its worth. Kind of looks like a lone crank honestly. Thank god it wasn't a leftist doing a adventure-time

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Literally the funniest news I've ever woken up to

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 4 months ago (25 children)

Absolutely terrifying. At a concert in Madrid, the band and crowd sing "Let's Go Bomb Tel Aviv.”

https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1810276678276464984

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Chinese Shinzo Abe meme

Since July 8, 2022,
Shinzo Abe has not uttered a bad word about China,
paid respects to war criminals at the Yasukuni Shrine,
involved himself in Cross-Strait Affairs,
nor has he whitewashed WWII war crimes!

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Hey is posting more sympathetic messaging for your opponent than for genocide victims good messaging?

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is the modern version of Jeremiah Wright saying America's chickens have come home to roost on 9/12/01 lmao

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 4 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 90 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Lmao the consequences of this have the potential to be so fucking insane I cannot even begin to fathom much less predict was is to come from this

Real unknown territory ahead! Nothing ever happens stonks-down at an all time low

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 5 months ago

can-excuse-1 i can excuse genocide, but draw the line at old age.

can-excuse-2 you can excuse genocide?

[–] [email protected] 88 points 4 months ago (11 children)

Okay what the fuck, I disappear for a few days after my son's birth and I miss the assassination attempt on Big Don T. What a world, this is why one should never log off. What a moment for the dumbass undecided voter who votes on pure unfiltered vibes, one guy can barely talk while the other guy gets shot and then raises his fist in victory. Say what you want about Donny, but there hasn't been such a good showman politician in a long time. His brain scattering on the floor would've been funnier and more iconic, but this is better for the accelerationists here, a more unhinged Trump on a revenge tour might just send America deeper into the spiral. Trump dying would mean that the old party heads nominate some robot loser who wins and actually stabilises the deep brainworms.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 4 months ago (11 children)

I am really starting to think that the liberal infighting and constant media coverage about Biden's age is an attempt at hedging against any argument that his electoral failure is tied to his support for the genocide in Gaza. Biden was not going to win the election against trump before this debate, it was already assured that millions would refuse to hold their nose and vote for him regardless. But now the ruling class can ignore this sort of analysis and focus on, "Biden lost because he was too old, he couldn't connect with young people" and they will hammer that home until they can completely erase the effect of the first anti-imperialist mass movement in the USA since the Vietnam war. The death toll coming out from the Lancet article had really driven this home for me. They have fully convinced themselves they can invent their own reality. The public hand-wringing the Biden admin has done, all while being primarily responsible for the genocide continuing as it has, is just so absurd for anyone paying close attention. This is probably the worst atrocity of the 21st century (so far doomjak ) and they will try their best to erase any electoral consequences, and thus erase anti-imperialist discourse from popular understanding of history. Seems even more important now to symbolically vote for an anti-imperialist candidate like Claudia de la Cruz, because even a relatively large, but still marginal vote in a battleground state would be hard to ignore, particularly if liberals decide to demonize and blame 3rd party voters for a Trump victory. "If everyone who had voted for de la cruz in Georgia voted for Biden, he would have won" etc. etc.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"I'd Like to See Ol Donny Trump Wriggle His Way Out of THIS Jam!" - yamagami

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 4 months ago (4 children)

First picture of the shooter just dropped /j

By slammer

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 4 months ago (5 children)

the frantic text polling of "Will you vote for Joe Biden to save democracy?" has now changed. this morning I got a spam poll asking me if I would accept Kamala Harris as the democratic nominee

it's never been more joever joever

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Biden.com redirects you to the Alzheimer’s Association donation page lmao

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

garcia-aim -------------------------------- trump-who-must-go -------------------------- family-guy-death-pose

soypoint-1 soypoint-2 you-have-been-promoted wojak-nooo frothingfash kill-em-all scared cedar-rapids quokka-wink pepe-silvia joever here-it-comes hasan-stfu

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

The senator who brought a snowball into Congress to prove that climate change is a hoax is dead. They're calling it a "sudden, unexpected illness" but I think we should decide it was heat stroke.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I'm sure there's a funnier outcome, but "Trump gets shot and Biden still is the one who dies" has got to be up there, right?

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 months ago (2 children)

“My numbers are better in Israel than they are here.”

no-mouth-must-scream

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Biden just tried to kill Trump because the Supreme Court made it legal last week. very-smart

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

George Clooney: I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee.

Somewhat noteworthy given he's probably the highest profile non-politician to speak out, but the real juice is this:

It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe “big F-ing deal” Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.

I think that's the first time someone is going on the record to say they've seen him go doo-doo brain in another instance. Of course it was known that's been happening at least 15-20 times thanks to Carl Bernstein and co., but that was all on background or deep background.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 4 months ago (7 children)

another bad Biden speech. got him to say "battle bots" while trying to say "ballot box" though

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Semi-regular Chinese meme posting

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 4 months ago (15 children)
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[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 months ago (15 children)

Liberals have completely lost their minds saying that the Trump shooting is fake. Really going full BlueMAGA now. Spectators died and there's videos of the shooter's body on a rooftop. It happened.

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