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Please pronounce his name wrong to make the title pun work better.

Anyway - Javier Milei, a caricature of a libertarian invented deep in the Hexbear Bit Factory, has won the Argentinian general election; and with a 12 point lead over Massa, it wasn't even particularly close. There are several analogies for this situation - Trump beating Hillary, Bolsonaro winning in 2018, or the alternate universe where Le Pen beat Macron. Massa is not a great guy. The last couple years have been difficult for Argentina, facing massive inflation and the same general economic downturns that are happening everywhere.

Milei is an... interesting person. To name just a couple things going on in his deeply bizarre life, he has a very special relationship with his sister, and an even more special relationship with his mastiff, Conan. When Conan died in 2017, he was so utterly distraught that he had him cloned into four new dogs, named Murray, Milton, Robert, and Lucas, for his economist idols. And he uses mediums to speak to his dead dog. This is probably the closest we're ever going to get to having a dog be president of a country.

Milei wants to essentially collapse the economy even harder. Playing off the general public sentiment of "dollar = good, peso = bad", he has vowed to make the national currency of Argentina the US dollar, thus eagerly giving a massive amount of control over the Argentinian economy directly to America. He wants to take a chainsaw to the status quo, cut off trade with communist countries like China, and demolish the Central Bank. Will Argentinian capitalists and the Senate let him do this? Probably not. What happens with their membership in BRICS+? Who knows. Where does Peronism go from here? Who can say.

But he still won, and will now be president. I suppose that every dog has its day.


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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:

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English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
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Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
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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.


The Country of the Week is Argentina! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.

This week's update is here!

Your Thursday Briefing.

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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

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Resources For Understanding The War


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.


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 ~ 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

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] 116 points 1 year ago (5 children)

bad empanada replying with "DID THEY GET HIS SEMEN IN TIME?" to obituaries of dead israeli soldiers is such a great bit

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.

“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”

“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”

“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”

The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”

“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”

“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”

He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”

“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”

I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.

“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.

“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.

“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”

It didn’t seem like they did.

“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”

Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.

I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.

“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.

Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.

“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.

I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”

He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.

“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”

“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.

“Because I was afraid.”

“Afraid?”

“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”

I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.

“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”

He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

fellas, idf cum jokes are not funny anymore

you have milked it to death

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (9 children)

shouldn't have blown our load that early, should have edged it out over time instead

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Hamas killcams have me convinced that George Lucas was right. Fascists cannot aim for shit and rebels are guided by the Force/Allah/Juche/etc.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A Ukrainian immigrant in Munich pooped on Bandera's grave

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (13 children)

The Swedes have a hard time sticking to the script it seems.

Here's the Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson saying that “Sweden and the EU stand united in that Israel has the right to genocid- [No, I mean] self-defense…”

Listen to the reaction from the crowd...

https://nitter.cz/tparsi/status/1727133686682824814?s=20

hahaha

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Auschwitz Museum posting genocide apologia.

Most of the hidden replies are pretty good. They hid a quote from Norman Finkelstein. Also apparently Israel is supposedly killing kids faster than the Holocaust.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (10 children)

The posting from Yemen is on another level

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The Auschwitz Museum Twitter account is now blocking Jews who are criticizing them for supporting genocide in Gaza.

Edit: I don’t think I even realized just how utterly insane that sentence is. Yet somehow it’s true and barely even phased me at first.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The media still refuses to call this a "prisoner swap", it's just "Hamas liberates hostages" which clearly paints "Israel" as the winner. Cool, we're not calling it a Genocide, we're calling it a "war between Israel and Hamas", we're not reporting on the thousands of dead Palestinians, many of whom are children, we're not reporting on "Israel" continuously raiding the West Bank for random arrests and land grabs, we're not reporting on "Israel" taking fat Ls in Gaza, we're not reporting on Gaza being under complete blockade even after Oct. 7th, we're not reporting on the absolutely insane comments coming from "Israeli" officials like "Let's do a second Nakba".

This is the absolute state of the West, the Knights of Freedom and Democracy. May the West burn, may the West die. Freedom to Palestine, death to the colonial project of "Israel".

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Saw some chud on twitter posted this unironically and it slaps. How do I join the Woke Army?

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (9 children)

NYC’s public libraries are now being forced to close on Sundays due to budget cuts while the NYPD spends 95% of the Library system’s total budget ($390 million dollars) to get new encrypted radios that prevent people from knowing when the cops kill people

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Congratulations to the PRC for lasting longer than the Soviet Union.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A released Palestinian prisoner says in Arabic that Israel held them in the cold w/o electricity, "sprayed us w/ pepper spray" & "left us to die."

She never mentioned Hamas or a word like it. Yet @BBC translated to: "No one helped us. Only Hamas cared...We love them very much."

twitter | nitter

pooh-wtf

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (4 children)

do the Zionists know you can just coom while you are still alive? Before going into an active warzone

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (15 children)

It's kinda funny thinking about how racist whites in the mid 00s would mock black people's names and since then those same whites are naming their kids shit like Brontley and Mykeighlla

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I keep trying to convince my wife to practice with the semen extraction tools I ordered for us, but she's so hung up on the fact that we don't want kids. Babe, when I die you are going to yearn for my genetic code to be carried on but it will be too late if you don't practice with the damn tools!

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Communist theory is thousand page tomes.

Anticommunist theory is half-baked anecdotes and books for children

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Destiny: Which part of Cuba did we came from?

Destiny's mom: My grandfather's sugar plantation

I always thought the "my grandfather slaves" thing was just a meme but no, it is not like at all. They were literally slave owners lol. Look, I gotta be fully honest here: I can't blame this piece of shit weak ass liberal man called "Destiny" for the sins of his long-dead family members, he has no control over it. However, he never truly embraced the way of liberation, he never chooses the side of the exploited and the oppressed. He, instead, became a rabid anti-communist, he is a weak man, like all liberals.

"You would've enjoyed it", that's so true though, he would have enjoyed being a slave owner.

https://nitter.1d4.us/Acid_Communist/status/1727182708663840785#m

I bet this decadent spineless man can't find Cuba on the map anyways, just like he couldn't find "Israel" (to be honest I can't either, because it's all Palestine) or thought Erdogan was the president of this so-called "Israel" thing.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'd think by now the settlers driving the tanks would realize that if a giant red arrow suddenly appears in the air above the vehicle they should move asap but nope, they don't. They're probably taking pictures of it thinking to report it to MUFON

smh my head

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (6 children)

WOW!

Staffers had recommended that Bien cut the line in his speech about "Hamas beheading babies because those reports were unverified."

But Biden actively rejected the recommendation, stating as fact something his staff told him was unverified.

twitter | nitter

lol, why is it so hard for liberals to come to terms with the fact that Genocide Joe is a massive Zionist and actually ideologically supports everything happening?

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Greta Thunberg, welcome to the (Islamic) resistance

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

voting in america is like the dialog options in a bioware game where one choice makes your character gleefully bomb an orphanage (with orphans in it ofc) and the other makes your character solemnly bow their head and apologize while dropping the bombs

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago

The US right is facing a split between those who are antisemitic and hate Israel, and those who are antisemitic and love Israel

Nitter

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago

17 more hostages rescued from Hamas control

How TV news just described the hostages being exchanged by Hamasdata-laughing

This conflict has been a treasure trove for examples for people teaching media literacy.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Holy shit, Yemen uploaded video of its boatjacking op:

https://streamable.com/2a1e5n

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Lmao the Netherlands elected a fascist because he was anti Muslim and he immediately started improving relations with Russia.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (12 children)

This whole Hamas hostages situation reminds me of when Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian F1 Legend, was kidnapped in Cuba in 1958 before the Grand Prix that he was to participate in. He was taken hostage by two members of the 26th of July Movement while he was in an Habana hotel, Batista saw this as massive embarrassment and sent the police after the three men, while at the same time ordered the race to begin without Fangio. The race lasted for a few laps as a big accident claimed the lives of 6 people and wounded about 40. In captivity, Fangio was allowed to listen to the race through radio and was also told by his captors in one of the hideouts that the purpose of his kidnapping was "to let the world know about our struggle" and that they never meant to cause any harm to him. After 28 hours or so in captivity, he was released unharmed. He then declared on the press that "I was treated very well" and also "felt among friends", saying "if their actions are for a good cause, then I support them". He returned to Cuba in 1981 after he accepted an invitation by Fidel and even got to speak with his former captors in a friendly manner, claiming that he holds no hostility towards them.

I guess when you seek freedom and decolonization, you don't go around murdering hostages...

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I can't get this tweet out of my head.

It seems inevitable that Elon Musk and the ADL will come to an understanding in which Twitter users CAN engage in virulent anti-semitism but CANNOT criticize the Israeli government, thus giving both sides what they care about most

Nitter

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago

Happy Thanksgiving

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Anti-Palestinian censorship has gone into overdrive over at YouTube and wider. We've lost brand deals, which we saw coming, but straight-up deletion of content is a new low. Without grassroots financing (Patreon in our case), there's little "free speech" allowed for Leftists.

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Deprogram's Palestine episode got removed for "hate speech"...

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Biden folks feared that a pause in the fighting would enable more journalists to get into Gaza and cover the carnage...

"And there was some concern in the [Biden] administration about an unintended consequence of the pause: that it would allow journalists broader access to Gaza and the opportunity to further illuminate the devastation there and turn public opinion on Israel."

satanically evil

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