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Image: the last sight of many a commie.


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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If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.


Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish 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 (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. - 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.

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.

Your Friday Briefing.

Your Saturday Briefing.

Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.

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.


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[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

https://albertaadvantagepod.com/2023/11/19/why-does-canada-love-ukrainian-nazis/

This is a good podcast episode about Canada's history with ukrainian nazi immigrants, why they were allowed into Canada, and their role in disrupting the Canadian labour movement and left wing ukrainian diaspora communities. I've read lots of things that allude to these subjects but not much that really goes into the details.

This is a good show in general - their episode about nuking the oil sands was good too. Yes that was an actual plan for bitumen extraction.

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Economic and political ramifications of the seizure of Galaxy Leader: https://nitter.cz/meowsandry/status/1727301741492715764

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

You could share this with libs.

Israel has used the October 7 attack by Hamas to destroy many norms. The biggest ones have gotten the most notice, those that are part of genocide and ethnic cleansing. But there's more, and it's going to have profound effects on warfare going forward. Israel has intentionally targeted civilians, hospitals, ambulances, schools, journalists, UN shelters, humanitarian workers, and civilian infrastructure of all kinds. They've done these things before but never on this scale and never so openly.

Israel has made no effort to hide these acts. On the contrary, they have tried to justify them as intentional acts. They've been supported in this by the US and EU. In the future, other countries will do the same and opposition will only reinforce the already widely held view that there are no rules, just what the US will allow its friends and forbid others.

The US and Israel have struck what could be a mortal blow to the fledgling effort to establish international laws that protect civilians. Congratulations.

Nitter

I edited it a tiny bit. I took out the hash tags and created actual paragraphs.

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Honest Q - if Argentina wants to piggyback amerikkka currency, what do they think of our reckless endless warmongering and 30+ Trillion in debt? Have they not paid attention to the cost of living in the US or do they think we're all like Dynasty and the Beverly Hillbillies?

Like what do they think is the .appeal of an increasingly worthless currency of a failing empire? Do they think we'll bail them out? Have they seen Puerto Rico?

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[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

I cant vouce for this link, but this appears to have dropped "in Turkish media": https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/turkiyes-mit-saves-palestinian-iron-dome-hacker-from-mossad-hit/news

Türkiye's MIT saves Palestinian Iron Dome hacker from Mossad hit

*by Abdurrahman Şimşek Nov 22, 2023 12:03 pm *

Türkiye’s MIT rescued a Gazan hacker behind the disruption to Israel’s Iron Dome defense system from the agents of Mossad seeking to abduct him according to the details of an operation by the intelligence agency

Türkiye’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) saved Omar A. from possible death or abduction in an international operation and offered him protection as the renowned Palestinian hacker was targeted by Mossad in Türkiye and Malaysia. The young man credited with hacking into Israel’s notorious Iron Dome air defense system was sought by Israel for a long time.

Full article at link, no paywall

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[-] Huldra@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Modern Animal Farm spoof where farmer whatever(not googling to find out) confronts the animals and says they can either choose to be milk cattle with him or be treated like meat cattle by the next farmer that comes around.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Will your family be leaving out a plate for the hostages still in Gaza this thanksgiving?

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[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

This is probably the closest we're ever going to get to having a dog be president of a country.

Ain’t no rule that says a dog can’t play basketball

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

The Committee to Protect Journalists has said that between October 7 and November 25 the number of journalists killed stood at:

  • 50 Palestinians

  • Four Israelis

  • Three Lebanese

The watchdog also said that 11 journalists were injured, three were missing and 19 were arrested.

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Deranged Zionist advocates imprisoning the families of Israeli hostages to get them to stfu: https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1728057942405005703

[-] Ossay@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

what happened to the rumors of us soldiers on the ground in gaza

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[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Condolenses to any Argentinian comrades, this guy looks like a real piece of work

[-] DeDollarization@lemmygrad.ml 42 points 1 year ago
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[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Fuck me this fucking sucks.

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[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

I stand by my earlier cynicism, but I have been crying like a baby at these women and children coming home

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

But what happens if the IDF corpse has ED or cums too quickly and only does a lil' splurt under intense fire?

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[-] Trustmeitsnotabailou@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

The media and propaganda machine seem to think one way of getting us to all become pro Israel or just shut up is by putting Candace and Tate on the side of the Palestinians.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mad dog Israel - bombing all of Gaza, attacking hospitals in Gaza, and storming cities in the West Bank.

14m ago (19.24 EST)

In breaking news, we’re seeing reports that the IDF is “storming” the city of Hebron in the West Bank. The Hamas-affiliated Shehab news agency and Al Jazeera report that IDF forces have stormed the city, with Shehab also reporting arrests. The Guardian has not verified these reports independently.

“Israeli occupation forces storm the city of Hebron in the south of the West Bank and launch a campaign of raids and arrests,” Al Jazeera reports.

The AP has this recent report from the West Bank:

When Israeli warplanes swooped over the Gaza Strip following Hamas militants’ deadly attack on southern Israel, Palestinians say a different kind of war took hold in the occupied West Bank.

Overnight, the territory was closed off. Towns were raided, curfews imposed, teenagers arrested, detainees beaten, and villages stormed by Jewish vigilantes.

With the world’s attention on Gaza and the humanitarian crisis there, the violence of war has also erupted in the West Bank. Israeli settler attacks have surged at an unprecedented rate, according to the United Nations. The escalation has spread fear, deepened despair, and robbed Palestinians of their livelihoods, their homes and, in some cases, their lives.

Before the Hamas assault, 2023 already was the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank in over two decades, with 250 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire, most during military operations.

Over these six weeks of war, Israeli security forces have killed another 206 Palestinians, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, the result of a rise in army raids backed by airstrikes and Palestinian militant attacks.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2023/11/25/locals-on-the-dublin-riots-what-good-is-all-that-going-to-do-for-that-teacher-and-the-five-year-old-in-hospital/

Sounds like Dublin was briefly in the cool zone. I'm having a rough time tracking down just what happened, but it sounds like someone was stabbed and reactionaries used it as an excuse to blame the Irish housing crisis on migrants.

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