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Image: one of our POW camps filled with captured soldiers of the Christmas regime.

Season's greetings, fellow godless communists. I'm here to disseminate orders from our Supreme Communist Dictator as we once again find ourselves fighting against the very concept of Christmas. As a reminder, by the end of our five-year plan, we plan to be in a position to attack and dethrone God, but this intermediate step is required to fulfil this directive. Our forces in the field have made significant, if gradual, progress since you received your mission update last year. It has been difficult, but we have developed a series of defensive lines to prepare for a counteroffensive out of Lapland that will try and reach the Gulf of Bothnia in an attempt to cut the land bridge that we have set up across Scandinavia.

Currently, we foresee a few major threats. General Santa Clauswitz has been developing many tools in his workshop, including artillery-launched snowballs, barbed tinsel, and reinforced gingerbread armor plating for his tanks and infantry carriers. President Frostyy has made the following public statement: "The socialists who wish to destroy us have no idea what their defenses are about to face. Democracy will always defeat autocracy. Christmas will always triumph over X-mas. The leaders of the axis facing us are all on the naughty list and will be tried for crimes against festivity once this war is over."

Delusional as this may be, the next couple days will be the most dangerous as they stage their counteroffensive, and we need everybody to pitch in and get into defensive positions. We expect this to be the last major push that they will make before collapse. Please report any Christmas trees, mistletoe, or general symbology of the Christmas regime to your superiors.

Over and out.


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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 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.


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[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago (13 children)
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[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago

Repercussions about these new chinese government measures against lootboxes, gacha, gambling and so on have been quite a sieve. Even in the subreddits outright created to spread sinophobia you can tell who's just there because they enjoy having a psychotic break online.

Turns out even freeze-gamer can tell when something is to their interest.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The king of U.S. fascism and genocide—Andrew Jackson—apparently taught his parrot to swear, and it was so foul-mouthed and obnoxious and disruptive at his funeral that they kicked it out.

I guess what I'm trying to say is: way to make excellent use of your training, birdie. parrot-vibin

[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago

Our Yemeni friends are pulling gigantic pro-Palestinian rallies every day or so.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (14 children)

The evolution of social transfers in Iran between 2010 and 2020

The evolution of social transfers in Iran between 2010 and 2020 Iran has a robust social safety net that combines cash transfers, social insurance, near-universal health care, and subsidies. Protections include unemployment insurance, sick leave, maternity benefits, family allowances, unemployment benefits, and allocations for disabled persons (Ridao-Cano et al. 2023). The two direct benefits on which Iranians rely the most are pensions and cash transfers.

Iran’s pension system comprises 18 contributory pension funds, which provide defined benefit pensions. An estimated 75 percent of employed people have pension insurance, of which half are covered by the Social Security Organization. Those without pensions work primarily in the informal sector and as seasonal laborers (LANDINFO 2020). Contributions are mandatory for wage workers and optional for the self-employed, who may opt in to the pension system with a payment of 12 percent of their income. Full pension is paid at age 60 for men and 55 for women with at least 20 years of contributions, or at age 50 for men and 45 for women with at least 30 years of covered work. Critically, pensions are benchmarked to the minimum wage and adjusted for increases in the cost of living, so they retain their real value.

While Iran long relied on universal fuel and bread subsidies, economic reforms in 2010 and 2011 phased out these subsidies and replaced them with targeted cash transfer program known as the Targeted Subsidy Program (Guillaume, Zytek, and Farzin 2011). The transfer was set at 455,000 Iranian rials, or about US$40 (US$90 in 2011 purchasing power parity terms) per person per month for all Iranians (Salehi-Isfahani, Stucki, and Deutschmann 2015). While initially intended to be universal, the government has tightened the requirements gradually to exclude the top 30 percent of households (UNICEF 2019). Initial estimates suggested that the cash transfers had a positive effect in reducing poverty and inequality, with a reduction in the headcount ratio by 11.9 percentage points (Enami, Lustig, and Taqdiri 2019).

source - World Bank report pg 21

I don't know if anyone's interested, I've been reading about Iran's economy and didn't even know a lot of this stuff. Iran has:

  • near-universal health care
  • free university
  • sick leave
  • 52 days PTO (30 days of PTO with 22 public holidays on top of that)
  • 3 months maternity leave
  • pensions that cover 75%+ of the employed, indexed to minimum wage/inflation/COL such that they retain their real value and are never lower than the minimum wage
  • (among?) the lowest retirement age in the world
  • a direct monthly cash payment to citizens
  • subsidization of energy costs

the single biggest problem seems to be the criminal sanctions and lack of economic opportunity/growth. so much interesting stuff going on otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Juan Guaidó was seen training tennis among millionaires in Miami

lol guaido-despair

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Evo Morales can no longer run for President.

Bolivia's Plurinational Constitutional Court has overturned a previous ruling by the same court allowing indefinite re-election. As a result, Evo Morales, the country's former president, cannot stand for re-election in 2025. The Court considered that the human right to be elected has limitations, and that the country's constitution prohibits more than two terms for one person.

Well, this sucks. I still have hope that Luis Arce and Evo Morales still reconciliate just like Lula da Silva and Marina Silva did.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Today's Gaza combat footage, featuring another instance of planting a bomb right on the side of a tank.

Its crazy hiw small some of these tunnel holes are. Do you think some of them are improvised? Im thinking long horizontal tunnels with locations that can be very quickly dug or excavated to provide dynamic ambushes. It's crazy how close this guy pops up beside that tank

https://streamable.com/27peer

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Bit idea: Go into chud Facebook groups complaining about the lack of gloryholes in this day and age and blame their disappearance on “the woke mob”. Then try to get people riled up enough to start a movement dedicated to bringing them back.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (13 children)
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[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (11 children)

talking to straight women about their sex lives is the most depressing shit. they dont even like having sex with their partners.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (1 children)

hexbear should make up a fake philosopher like max stirner to argue against, it would be a good bit

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

Who said that "from the river to the sea" means there is no place for an israeli state?

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (26 children)
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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Korean pigs harassed a Parasite actor so much over fucking weed that he killed himself.

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2023/12/251_365851.html

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (15 children)

A young Israeli man has been jailed for refusing mandatory service

Tal Mitnick, an 18-year-old Israeli, has been sentenced to 30 days in military prison for refusing to enlist in the army in protest of Israel’s war in Gaza.

“Violence cannot solve the situation, neither by Hamas nor by Israel. There is no military solution to a political problem,” he wrote in a statement explaining his decision.

https://aje.io/trvz4m?update=2583427 @Al Jazeera English

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago

FBI Uncovers Hamas Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy IOF Shitting Themselves To Dearh

[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Update from Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas:

Al-Qassam Brigades are engaged in fierce, intense, and unprecedented battles against the IOF forces, causing significant losses in both their lives & equipment for the occupying army.

Al-Qassam targeted at least 5,000 soldiers/officers during the ground battles, resulting in 1/3 killed, 1/3 seriously injured, and the remaining 1/3 with permanent disabilities. Regarding military vehicles, 750 of them were destroyed, either completely or partially.

Al-Qassam have shattered the Israeli army, continuing on the path of breaking it, and they will not submit to the conditions of the occupation.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

We could see almost a quarter of Gaza’s population - close to half- a million human beings - dying within a year. Largely deaths from preventable health causes & collapse of the medical system. It’s a crude estimate, but one that is data-driven…

twitter | nitter

this is just insane. 75% of homes in Gaza are destroyed and 50% of buildings as a whole damaged/destroyed. there's no functioning Gaza left. even if the bombing stops now, the situation is catastrophic, and it's not stopping.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (13 children)

I have been thinking a bit about Javier Milei and his government. It is clear that this guy is going to fail miserably. I've even seen some liberals saying that this guy is crazy and that his reforms will not pass congress.

It seems as if he is trying to speedrun a communist revolution or just dumb enough to believe 100% in his own ideology. The thing is, most people in Latin America like having a strong state, as long as it doesn't directly interfere in their private lives. Everyone enjoys public transportation, healthcare, public education and social security.

What this guy is doing is destroying the state because he is either dumb and really thinks it will help, or he is just evil and wants to steal as much money as he can in his job while making life really worse for people. Since destroying the state would mean destroying the lives of the people who depend on it, which is basically 90% of the population.

Also, it's really funny how he's fucked, he has no relation to China or Brazil. The US doesn't care about him. And he destroyed all the media platforms that the government had, besides his social media accounts.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago

It legitimately seems like he is a true AnCap believer.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago

The HNYT - the Hasbara New York Times

It's at the top of the homepage. - https://www.nytimes.com/

The rag must have an October 7th article at the top at least twice (if not three times) a week.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

My beloved DDR, come back. angry-hex

Edit: I erroneously thought this was the General Megathread. See, this is what happens if my socialist state doesn't come back.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Israel is gonna pass the US as greatest Satan soon

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago

Taiwan has given me a Boris Yeltsin moment where I just sat outside and stared at everything. It's hard to see a country smaller and just as much of a US vassal as yours reaping the benefits so much more. All we get out of it is corruption, violence, and cultural regression. We have more resources and territory than Taiwan with a much younger population. Yet we're still barely above countries like Argentina and Ukraine that are torn apart at the moment.

Part of me doesn't want to leave after experiencing a better living standard than even the US when I lived there.

Another part of me remembers the comrades back at home that are still fighting on and it's at that point that I remember why I chose to go back.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (1 children)

reddit is full of fedposting and shitlibs and chuds, of course, but I swear since even western MSM started to talk about Ukraine like it's a lost cause, the posts about "evil ruZZians" resurged with a fresh momentum.

users on r/europe have the gall to say Gaza is off-topic since it's not in Europe, even though EU countries send weapons to Israel - so it would definitely be more relevant to the presumably Western redditors handwringing about Putler. But I guess they don't want to vote out politicians aiding Israel's genocide. EU and European redditors are the worst kind of shitlibs.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago

Christ I have just had to sit through Sky News' military ghoul (obviously planted by British intel) talking through how 2024 is a great opportunity for Ukraine and they'll do very well as long as they're properly equipped and blah blah blah.

JUST ONE MORE TANK BRO I SWEAR JUST ONE MORE AND RUSSIA WILL LOSE BRO SERIOUSLY BRO

I am losing my mind

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (6 children)

At 12:00 AM sharp and within the first seconds of 2024, Hamas fired rockets towards Tel Aviv. Israelis will not celebrate and get drunk while Palestinians are decomposing on the streets of Gaza.

Hamas did not kill anyone. They knew rockets will be shot down by the iron dome. However, this attack forced thousands of celebrating Israelis into the bunkers at the first second of New Years festivities. This is a message to Israel: “You won’t live normally when Gaza cannot”

twitter | nitter

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago

Organizations and peoples throughout Latin America maintain the demand for an urgent severing of relations with the Zionist entity, after South Africa instituted ICJ proceedings against Israel for its genocide of Palestinians

President of Chile, Gabriel Boric: "Consistent with our policy of defending human rights anywhere in the world, we reiterate their request to break relations with Israel for genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. Let us also follow the example of South Africa before the ICC."

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm cleaning screenshots out of a desktop folder and I found this. Two years ago I wouldn't have any idea what this meme was about.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (4 children)

the world according to my parents:

the Shah was the leader of OPEC and he caused the oil shock in the '70s because he loved Iran so much he wanted a better deal on oil. it was the US that overthrew the Shah and put Khomeini in power. the US doesn't actually hate the IRI, that's just talk. the US props up the IRI because they do whatever the US wants, and it's preferable to an independent, secular government like the Shah.

why do US politicians constantly talk about bombing Iran and why did they assassinate Soleimani, nearly starting a war?

well, that was just a joke. Iranian generals aren't 'real' generals anyway, they make anyone general over there - most of them are drug dealers and potato vendors.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ancap Update: ancaptain

Argentina's General Workers' Confederation, the CGT, has announced a general strike against the government. The strike will take place on January 24, 2024.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (2 children)

When Xi finally opens a third front in Taiwan, I demand the news mega thread be titled WAR COMMUNISM, in all caps, just like that.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Israel's channel 12: "Tony Blair to head team on voluntary evacuation from Gaza"

FUCKING TONY BLAIR. illegal-to-say Must refrain for fedposting too hard

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Has there been an alternative assessment of Israeli losses in Gaza? Their self-reported numbers sound low, but I haven't seen any published figures from Hamas/Hezbollah. Is anyone tracking this? Is there any indication that Israel can or can not sustain this level of losses indefinitely? Mercouris downplayed the RPG/tank videos early on saying "Israel has many thousands of tanks", but how many experienced tank crews do they have to operate them?

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