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Image is of Joseph Robinette Biden, who has stepped down and will not run against Trump in the 2024 election.


In the aftermath of Trump surviving an assassination attempt, many professional opinion-havers are now talking about the scourge of "political violence" that has overtaken, or will soon overtake America, and how we must not let chaos rule. This is, of course, patently absurd. The American government and its allies have been the greatest force of political violence on the planet since the beginning of colonialism, and the foundations of the country are made of corpses. Today, America commits political violence by forcing Ukrainians into the maw of Russian artillery instead of trying to reach a peaceful settlement, which Russia has repeatedly expressed interest in and offered Ukraine relatively favourable terms. They supply Israel with endless weaponry to destroy entire cities and populations, while Biden supporters insist that somehow things could be worse than daily massacres and mass starvation.

In May 1945, French police fired on protestors, causing retaliatory attacks on French settlers, killing about a hundred. In response, the French murdered 45,000 Algerians in a little under two months, in a frenzy of political violence called the Sétif and Guelma massacre. As the massacre was being completed, the International Court of Justice was established. It goes without saying that Algeria never benefited from the ICJ, and the War of Independence from 1954 to 1962 was made inevitable. Over a million Algerians were killed before France could bear the fighting no longer and gave up, and Algeria won itself a state. Comparisons to the ongoing war of independence and genocide in Palestine are obvious.

While the means of colonial violence have evolved over the centuries, the basic structure of it has not. As in Algeria, Vietnam, and Cuba, resistance groups in and around Palestine are fighting for a world with less political violence. The American government would drown every city in the developing world in blood to prevent peace.


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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.
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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] 61 points 5 months ago (10 children)

This is a real Atlantic headline kamala-coconut-tree

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (10 children)

second mention of parenti and caesar from adam.

Concerning.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So Joe didn’t really have Covid?

He just took a 4 day break?

The president of the United States just quiet quit.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (6 children)

BIDEN 'SOUL SEARCHING' ABOUT DROPPING OUT OF RACE: REUTERS

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Rip bozo, etc

I'm looking forward to the shitshow, one can never log off in this new world

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I don't know much about Mandates of Heaven, but seems like Biden really lost it eh

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Crooks, immediately after firing the first shot:

Well, I’d like to see ol Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam!

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

https://www.flightradar24.com/ZM300/362d4261

There is currently a UK military propeller plane flying in Ukraine along the border with Russia blocky-wat

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago (3 children)

funny how every catholic turns out to be a 1-term president

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago (6 children)

social democracy is never going to happen in this country. the ruling class gave us a pittance at the start of covid and look what happened. we were like the french for once, in a good way. they're never giving us shit again lmao. we're fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Joe Biden diagnosed with Covid-19 and cancels speech in Las Vegas

US President Joe Biden was diagnosed with Covid-19 on Wednesday (17). A speech scheduled for an event in Las Vegas was canceled. The White House said that the Democrat will remain in isolation.

Earlier, in an interview broadcast by BET News, the president said he would consider abandoning his bid for re-election if his doctors indicated that a health condition was developing.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Sometimes I’ll get some angry Reddit liberal talking shit at me. I decide to respond based on their posting history. I don’t bother If they’ve done nothing but obsess over NATO and “lefties” with a series of 30 posts in the last couple of hours. It shows they have no interest in a conversation.

I know straight white men are the stereotypical Reddit posters but I’ve found most of my more aggressive stalkers have been queer liberals, ex-Muslims, and bougie libs from the global south.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago (4 children)

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-warship-saved-tanker-crew-pirate-attack-under-missile-threat-2024-7

Captain of the boat goes capitaldcolon when houthis drop two missiles near his ship after chasing off some Somali pirates.

The commanding officer of the Mason, which just returned home from a monthslong Middle East deployment, said his first combat experience with these missiles was surprising.

Cmdr. Justin Smith recalled in a recent interview with Business Insider that his first reaction was disbelief. He was shocked that someone was actually firing missiles in their direction.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago

Biden just dropped? Wow. I didn't know that. You're telling me now for the first time. He led a genocide. What else can you say? He was genocidal. Whether you agree or not, he was genocidal. I am glad to hear that, actually. I am glad to hear that. Thank you very much.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago

joe 'the butcher of gaza' biden rip 1942 - 2024

his long reign of terror is joever

[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago

"god damn it's like ten years went by this week"

-Vinny Soviet, inventor of the Soviet Union

[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago

The fact that the guy’s name was “Crooks” makes me believe even more so that we are in fact trapped in a cartoon

[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

AOC is such a fucking little worm. The GOP is going to sue if the Democrats don't nominate Biden?! Their is no official party nominee until the convention, and the courts have repeatedly ruled that the parties get to decide their nominee however they want. The primaries aren't fucking binding, otherwise Adlai Stevenson wouldn't have been the party nominee in 1952.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Bidens twitter account is so shit man it’s so obvious that somebody else is pretending to be Biden. Trumps twitter account was the best.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe Thomas Matthew Crooks was timetraveller, he was trying to stop Trump from selecting JD Vance as his VP.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (4 children)

But, I thought Biden was the only one capable of defeating Trump and anyone who disagreed was a secret Republican who wanted Trump to win?

Well, don't worry, Biden supporters. I've taken your arguments to heart, and you can rest assured that I'll write in Biden this fall, no matter who the Democrats decide to run. It's the only way to defeat Trump.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (4 children)

All these billionaires lining up behind Trump is amazing. They want an American Caesar so badly. They need him to wage global war.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

Just saw some post on reddit saying stuff like this:

"You do not have the privilege of getting the exact person you want in office. Accept this fact, and help us get CLOSER to where we CAN, because I can guarantee you we won’t get what we want under Trump."

Whoever the Democratic party pick as their presidential nominee, you HAVE to vote for. If it’s Joe Biden, you HAVE to vote for him. if it’s someone else, good, but you have to vote for them!!!

If we split the democratic voter base, we will lose 2024 like we lost 2016 when we joked about Hillary, and thus we WILL be killing many American women, trans, gays people!!!

Even if Biden gets nominated, elected, and is then deemed unfit to hold office, Kamala will take over

Think not about what could happen if Biden gets reelected, think about what will happen if Trump is allowed to take control of the country. People will be killed, and it will be your fault if you helped make it happen.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago

Y2K came 24 years late in reduced impact format, smdh my damn head American inefficiency

[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago (11 children)

WSJ extremely unhappy after their propagandist gets locked up

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Trump and his speeches aren’t exactly going to win over non-voters, but this could be a Hillary case where the hate for Biden is so strong that it overrides dislike of Trump.

Hate to say it but immigration and trans children are on the minds of on-the-fence voters. Hear it all the time when I’m up there, again using my time in Upstate New York as an example. People don’t exactly want trans people dead but they get disgusted at the thought of children knowing about them or having them compete in sports.

Immigration is also something more people have on their mind than they want to admit. I’m not completely in the camp of an inevitable Trump victory, but I do think he still has a very solid shot.

At the same time, Trump lacks a little of the bite he had in 2016 and his speeches aren’t nearly as populist as before. I remember talking to people who thought trump would be anti-war and push for universal healthcare.

There’s a good shot Trump pulls a Rutherford B. Hayes and ends up winning based on some technicalities. People really underestimate just how bloodthirsty Americans can be outside of liberal cities.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago (6 children)

President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks — including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I can’t wait for this to go absolutely nowhere

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago (1 children)
US diplomat says Georgian Dream actions put Tbilisi’s Euro-Atlantic integration hopes at risk

Following up on NATO’s rebuke of the Georgian government’s embrace of illiberal practices, a US State Department official said in a statement to Eurasianet that Tbilisi needs to show a “demonstrable commitment to democracy” or otherwise risk shutting “the door on Georgia’s European future.”

“We – and the EU and many European countries – have been clear that there would be consequences for Georgian Dream’s actions and rhetoric,” the State Department official said in a written statement, speaking on background.

“The statements and actions of the Georgian government – including its attacks against civil society and democratic norms and its promotion of disinformation about the United States, the EU, and EU member states – are incompatible with the democratic values that underpin membership in the EU and NATO and thus undermine Georgia’s path to Euro-Atlantic integration,” the official added.

my "Our NGOs are not doing anything suspicious inside Georgia" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Robert Kennedy Jr, independent candidate, said he would be open to "accepting an invitation" from the Democratic Party to participate in an Open Convention to define the party's candidate for the November elections. Kennedy also says that, if it doesn't happen, he's fine running as an independent because "he's the only one who can win."

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Biden drops out and it's just Trump vs Trump this election.

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