My sources for the preamble come mostly from here, here, and here.
The thread image depicts Kenyan police, trained by the Zionist entity, in a meeting with President Ruto before being sent to Haiti, sourced from this article.
As has been planned for the last couple years, foreign police officers have been inside Haiti for a few months now. It will surprise nobody to learn that this has not gone very well. Gangs continue to control much of the country, and violence has continued in the form of massacres and forced relocations (approximately 1.3 million). Something like 80% of the capital, Port-au-Prince, is under the control of one gang or another.
The aim by the US was to import 2500 police officers to Haiti from a wide variety of countries. One of those was Kenya; President Ruto had to fight his own country's courts to force this through, and ironically is now apparently considering withdrawing those officers once the UN mandate expires on October 2nd. The issue here is not only the limited manpower (Haiti has a population of 12 million), but also very pedestrian things, like the fact that the officers who arrive don't even speak the language.
The situation in Haiti appears to be a fairly standard operation of American national control, in which both battling sides are being supported by the US in order to create maximum disorganization and prevent a coherent political force from arising and thus threatening their Caribbean interests. While the US funds foreign forces to arrive in Haiti to "control the situation" or similar justifications, the Haitian gangs get their weapons smuggled in from the US itself. That this is happening alongside escalations against Venezuela is obviously not a coincidence - in a world in which American interests are being gradually shrugged off, and where the American state military is becoming rapidly more impotent and unable to dissuade and defeat even tiny states like Yemen, total imperial dominion of their immediate surrounding territory must be ensured by any means necessary.
The police and the gangs are likely designed to be mutually reinforcing, without even much kayfabe of fighting each other. As an example, once the Kenyan police arrived, they immediately began brutalizing anti-government protestors instead of focussing on gang activity. They were trained by the Zionist entity, after all.
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Israel's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA 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.
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.
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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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.
This happened to Tesla's sales but it didn't really damage the stock price. Disney does not have Musk immunity in the markets.
On top of that, Disney's audience are probably majority liberals now after all the anti-woke shit.
Tesla's stock has never really been correlated with reality anyway. It's truly a mystery how that one works to me.
EVs are literally a trillion dollar market (in terms of global revenue), and not only does Tesla have major brand recognition, they were also a big early player in the game.
Even if Chinese companies are beating the shit out of Tesla right now, it will take some time before the current cycle of overproduction ends.
Regular vehicles are an even bigger market and yet Tesla stock is valued higher than like Toyota/Honda/GM combined. The trick is lying all the time and not getting sent to FEC jail over it.
Not to defend Tesla or Musk, but the company was built on the (correct) bet that EVs as a market would grow rapidly and take market share away from ICE cars. They were also a major early player. Investors thought that Tesla would become to EVs what Apple became to smartphones.
And they did so in a time of major overaccumulation of capital, so have tons of money to throw on such a bet.
The overprice stock remained overpriced on this bet then that Tesla would rapidly scale up sales revenue and profits.
Such a bet obviously could not be taken on legacy automakers, because they were established companies that could not simply throw everything at making EVs like Tesla could.
Tesla also made some intelligent moves, like building battery factories and remaining in China. In theory, the company would have had a much bigger revenue stream, but they squandered it by focusing on luxury cars and cost-cutting manufacturing processes.
Nobody thought that one vehicle manufacturer would magically own the market because they were an early mover, that's not how the industry has ever worked. Even if it was, we know the upside of all the other current major auto manufacturers combined and they're still valued below Tesla.
The over valuation was based on Musk saying that he's got a switch that he can flip to turn all Teslas into autonomous taxis. He's been lying about that for close to a decade now and he's still lying about it today.
https://companiesmarketcap.com/tesla/marketcap/
Tesla market cap only blew off starting November 2019, well after the announcement of the robotaxi. In fact, the stock blowing seems to coincide with the unveiling of the cybertruck? And on January 2020 they started producing the model Y. Tesla's gigafactory 3 also started rolling out cars on December 2019. Furthermore, they were publically choosing locations for another gigafactory in 2019 and 2020.
So I don't think the robo taxi idea is really what explains things.
2019 was when they hosted investors for their "autonomy day" where they showed off their supposed capabilities and announced that it would roll out the following year. Roughly zero percent of Tesla's market cap is based on their ability to sell cars.
What they did in the past does not reflect their current price. They have a P/E ratio of almost 250 with declining revenue. That is unheard of. It implies that from their current position they’d need to 6-8x their profits just to reach its current level of valuation and be comparable to their competitors valuations. This means that after 6-8xing their profits their stock price shouldn’t move and only then would they be comparable. If it does move up from here, it would necessitate even more growth
You are describing Tesla’s growth and justification for valuation maybe, 4-5 years ago.
Yeah we're on the Communist site. We both know the stock market is dumb and investors are slow to see the writing on the wall. What I'm saying is the reason why investors got into Tesla and made it a bubble. Not why it remains a bubble.