There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly update is here.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
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.
Last week's discussion post.
It's truly amazing how easily it is to find sanctimonious, self-righteous people who clowned themselves.
20 hours ago
15 hours ago
On Nitter I first searched his account for
gazansand thengazanbut somehow that had zero results. I think Nitter only goes back 1,000 results. And he has 59k tweets. I wonder what I'd find if I went all the way back to 2009---
It reminds me of redditors who seemed to be utterly shocked by the fact that I spent a couple miunutes after I clicked their name and checked their history to find recent stuff they wrote so I could quote it back to them. Often they'd accuse me of being creepy and/or "doxxing" them.
How dare you hold me accountable for things I've said in the past! That's so rude!
I first did it at Myspace around 2008. I wonder if the word doxxing even existed yet. Anyway - the people I was arguing with didn't use a word like that or call me creepy. If I remember correctly they said stuff like "You don't have better things to do than follow me around?" And I'd just say something like "I love winning arguments." We were in a net forum but social media wasn't really a thing yet and the hivemind wasn't a thing either and dogpiling was rarer. It was more - I don't know what to call it - so I guess I'll use the word normal. I was on the bottom of dogpiles yet I did manage to use my arguments to get people to stop. But those days are long gone.
As social media developed people went into their ideological and interest bubbles and many people stopped thinking for themselves. Everybody wants upvotes and likes. They are the only important things. By the mid 2010 I knew talking/arguing with many people was a waste of time because they have mindsets based on "People I like agree with me," along with "I don't care" or "You're wrong." Yet I must admit - I continued to argue on year after year anyway. And I even argued with idiots about covid from 2020 for about a year and a half.
If the tweeter I quoted actually ended up in this thread - I think the chance I ~~could~~ should talk to him is likely zero. He'd most likely call me hateful and the site hateful. And if he's typical "political" lib on Twitter - his kiss off to us would probably be his effort at zinging us. We are deluded, naïve, and hateful Bernie bros who don't understand anything. But this ain't my first rodeo. I already had that convo a million times on reddit.
Reminds me of an old friend of mine who would get angry if in the middle of an argument about some banal, trivial fact like "what was the first fighting game" you decided to look up the answer on your phone. Apparently this was annoying to do because it ruined the fun?
I forgot to say something - some people don't care about facts or the truth or reality. They really only want to argue.
One day at Myspace I got annoyed that the guy I was arguing with wasn't actually reading what I was writing. It would have been best to simply leave but I couldn't help trying to focus his attention in the simplest way possible so I did this...
You said X and that's wrong. Here's why...
You said Y and that's wrong too. Here's why...
Z wasn't entirely wrong but it was mostly wrong. Here's why...
His reply was "You and your list!" and that was it. I was disappointed. I was like an MMA fighter and I managed to work on the body to the point my opponent was hurt so his arms were down to protect his torso. I had carefully softened him up for what I hoped will be a head kick KO. But he yells "Tap out!" to the ref and the fight is over. Unsatisfying.
I've been having fun on reddit using the comment search website on people who claim they have "spoken out about Israeli crimes" in the past. They never sem to have any actual comments...
I have done such-and-such is often such a red flag. At reddit but I did have a redditors say "Oh, on another website." It only happened rarely but I'd say "Oh, I don't need links because I don't want to dox you. Why don't you give me a short paragraph about some of what you said?"
Crickets.
What's that?
https://redditcommentsearch.com/
Wow - that's great. I wish they allowed me to bookmark searches though.