Bulletins and News Discussion from August 19th to August 25th, 2024 - Our Mountains, Our Treasures - Child of the Week: Hassan LargePenis
Image is a snapshot taken from the recent Hezbollah video "Our Mountains, Our Treasures", showcasing their extensive underground fortifications, supply lines, and weaponry.
iran can't keep doing this to me, they've gotta respond soon, right? I'm gonna run out of analysis about countries soon, oh god
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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.
I'm going to try and give you some grace, but you are testing my patience at this point.
It has been correctly identified that this sort of protest is not getting results.
It has been correctly identified that it's not getting results because there is no organizational power behind these protests that can meaningfully threaten any existing power structures.
The next step is to then determine how to build that organizational power and then set about building it. Dwelling on #1 or #2 stops being productive and becomes an egotistical exercise in spiking the football on comrades who are upset about a genocide.
No,they do,but I'm in the same boat as you are and I disagree with the premise
I certainly sympathize with this way of viewing things,but it seems a bit undeveloped on account of you being so young
Still,maybe you're right and this way of viewing things will be more effective in the future,but even I,as a fellow young'un myself,I find it to be a erroneous way of viewing things
my opinion comes from looking at the history of the american communist movement. there's pretty much 2 explanations for why the american communist movement was and still is so weak no? lack of material conditons and weakness of the theory and practice of our communists. Our material conditions aren't great for recruiting communists for much of the population (labor aristocracy etc.) but also our communists groups really seem like they've fucking sucked ever since the black panther party got crushed
I think this is an erroneous way of looking at things
I am not American,but in my opinion the first factor has more to do with active state suppression of radical leftist figures rather than just simple rot within the party structures of these organizations
I am not American,but in my opinion the first factor has more to do with active state suppression of radical leftist figures rather than just simple rot within the party structures of these organizations
I actually think this is something else you can critcize our orgs for. why is that we all still seem completely cowed and terrified by the state? there must be a path through this that we havent found yet. This is something I havent done much reading on, but for instance why arent our party leaders just hiding out in antiwestern countries? once again that's what lenin did, why don't we copy that better? maybe there are better reasons for not doing it, but I certainly am unaware of any good theory debates over it
I will preface this by saying I am equally not well versed in theory, but i don't think you can just copy what Lenin did back then and have it work in the here and now
Also,this is the CIA we're talking about,I'm not saying that maybe something more couldn't have been done,but it was kind of a done deal, especially by the end of the cold war
copy? of course not, if I thought we should copy him i would be a (shudders) trot, but we should look to see if we can find inspiration from older revolutionaries in any ways we can
of course the state repression is always something to keep an eye on, but i dont think it can be the ultimate excuse either. there must have been ways to deal with that we didn't figure out (and hell still need to figure out better than FRSO's "let's make it really weird and hard to figure out who our highest leaders are")