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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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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.
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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.

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Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.


Telegram Channels

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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.


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[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago
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[-] DeDollarization@lemmygrad.ml 47 points 1 year ago

PFLP Founder George Habash "Al-Hakim" when asked about relations with the Islamic forces in the Arab countries (1997):

"This is one of the greatest dilemmas facing the Arab national liberation movement, at the pan-Arab level and within each country. To begin with, one cannot take an arbitrary decision concerning whether or not to cooperate with the forces of Islam, putting them all in the same basket, as it were. Second, one feels an obligation to deal with them because these forces are indigenous to their societies, except for some movements or groups with dubious connections. This means that we and the forces of political Islam should find a common denominator that would permit us to work together under the current and foreseeable circumstances.

However, we need to differentiate between the Islamic forces that are truly engaged in the struggle on the basis of their perspectives on society and their ideology (as is the case with Hizballah in Lebanon, Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Palestine, and the Jama'a Islamiyya in Jordan) and those forces and groups whose acts are no longer either comprehensible or justifiable on the human, ethical, or Islamic dimensions (as is the case now in Algeria and Egypt).

We believe that our relations with Islamic forces of the first type should be characterized by a deep alliance in the struggle with the enemy of our nation to bring about a showdown. The condition for such an alliance should be that joint action should be undertaken on a democratic basis."

(From Twitter)

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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Israeli Anti-Furniture Brigades performing their mission effectively and efficiently.

Receiving reports that the Hamas front known as "IKEA" - that is, the Islamic Khamas Evil Army - might be the next target for Israeli bombing raids.

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[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago
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[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

The released Palestinian hostages should be moved to a friendly country like Egypt or Jordan because I fully expect Israel to be petty enough to try and murder these people later.

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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Relative to gdp per capita, wages are at their lowest point in history.

Also a reminder that the "spike" in wage growth in 2020 was illusory as many more low wage workers were laid off or fired compared to higher wage workers.

Here is versus productivity. Can someone explain to me how productivity grew when a bunch of people were laid off?

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[-] edge@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago
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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Funny watching chuds defend the Dublin riots.

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[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Small ray of "hope": Milei is having trouble building a cabinet, and there are already signs of internal conflicts even though he takes charge on the 10th of December. Here's the thing: Milei made an alliance with former president and insane neoliberal Mauricio Macri, the guy who pretty much runs the standard right wing anti-peronist coalition. He did that to pretty much have a clear shot at winning the election, and he did win so it worked out.., kinda. Now this shows two things: One is that Milei is a fucking amateur who puts all his eggs in a single basket and his goals are very short sighted and the other is that he sold his soul to an absolute ghoul, the demon, and now he must pay the price.

Now Macri is no employee of anybody, he likes to be the boss, now Milei must returns some favours. Macri-aligned people are slowly beginning to displace Milei's people to fill in the vacant spots in his cabinet, and might have to concede more and more. He lost the Ministry of Economy, a very strong ministry indeed, to one of Macri's employees, and that's a big hit. Former candidate for Governor of the Buenos Aires Province for the Ancaps was removed from her post as the head of Social Security, I wouldn't be surprised if she gets replaced by someone close to Macri. This is all very bad, and it can get worse considering he doesn't have majority in the Chamber of Deputies or in the Senate, he'll have to negotiate A LOT with the Juntos por el Cambio people. He's kinda fucked, at least for now.

Reality is slowly beginning to settle in for the ancaps. Their victory is indeed bad, and of course Macri gaining a lot of influence within the government is terrible news, but they're slowly realizing that their victory also comes at a high price, leading to internal strife. Their political instincts are like really bad, they could have gotten second place in the elections, lose to Massa but also claim a "moral victory", because they could have gotten a high number of votes without having to make suicidal alliances, probably selling the idea of "look how many people follow our ideals even though we lost". This could have made them build a lot of power for the future, directly challenging the standard opposition for the right wing votes and Peronism for the working class vote.

We have to see him in action as well. He's very honest about his ideals, he truly believes in what he says. But there are no economic, political or social bases for anarchocapitalism in this country, material reality always plays a huge role in the application of political and economic programs, here and everywhere. There's a chance that he'll get immediately frustrated at not being able to carry out his program, then he might lose an internal power struggle with Macri and he'll be the actual man in charge. Or perhaps Macri winning influence might provoke an institutional collapse, some people truly believe Milei is completely unfit to be president and he wont last 4 full years. But this is just my guess.

Nothing have started yet and he's failing already.

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[-] edge@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

lmao Democrats please pied piper RFK in attempt to take votes from Trump. The backfire would be hilarious.

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Terminal Zionist cope is accusing the IDF of being Hamas: https://nitter.cz/Idgafwarvet/status/1727146667143794798

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Your Saturday Briefing

The EU's Hydrogen Bank has begun operating, offering a total of 3 billion euros over 10 years to incentivize hydrogen producers to kickstart operations to meet a target of 10 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen annually by 2030. 3 billion euros will facilitate less than 3% of that goal. Germany has its own domestic hydrogen scheme, H2Global, which has a total of 5 billion euros assigned to it - or less than 5% of that annual 2030 goal.

Afghanistan has announced the closure of its permanent embassy in India, as India has failed to provide visa extensions for Afghanistan's diplomats due to their non-recognition of the Taliban government.

China has published a document: "Vision and Actions for High-Quality Belt and Road Cooperation: Brighter Prospectors for the Next Decade" which outlines the direction the BRI will take over, uh, the next decade. It wants to do more cooperation in green development, digital cooperation, health cooperation, technology innovation, organic integration of trade, as well as making industrial and supply chains more resilient. Meanwhile, according to medical experts, the outbreak of disease in youth in China is unpleasant, but not especially concerning - these are all known diseases so no COVID-19 sequel, and it seems to be happening because these children didn't experience these kinds of diseases over the lockdowns, so are now catching up all at once.

In New Zealand, after over a month of negotiations in the aftermath of the October 14th elections, the conservative National Party leader, Christopher Luxon, signed a coalition deal to form a government with two fascist parties, ACT and New Zealand first, thus forming the most far-right government in decades.

The dengue fever epidemic in Burkina Faso, which has infected over 120,000 people this year, appears to be accelerating, as while 570 have died from it this year, about 360 of those have been in the last month or so. The government has launched an anti-mosquito spraying campaign in the two largest cities, Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso, with over 1500 homes and 700 public spaces sprayed.

Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa, has expressed its intention to become a member of BRICS within the next two years, stating their desire to be "multiple aligned" - they also want to join the G20.

The Madagascar opposition collective consisting of 11 candidates - including two former presidents - has said that it would not recognize the results of the first round of the presidential election due to irregularities. It appears that the incumbent president, Andry Rajoelina, has won a solid lead of 59%. 60% of registered voters did not vote.

South Africa, Colombia, and other countries are ramping up production of tuberculosis and HIV drugs, taking on international pharmaceutical companies like J&J to obtain patents. In September, under pressure from South Africa, J&J announced that it would drop a patent in 130 countries for bedaquiline, used for treating tuberculosis. There is some precedent here, from when Nelson Mandela successfully took on pharmaceutical companies in 2001 to produce AIDS drugs. Meanwhile, in Colombia, the government has declared that it would issue a compulsory license for HIV drug dolutegravir without permission from the patent-holder.

An article on the optimism of offshore wind power projects in the Great Lakes - an ideal place to put them - in the 2010s, which were then cut down before construction began due to a mixture of fossil fuel company opposition and public opposition.

In Honduras, the current left-wing government under Xiomara Castro is fighting a $11 billion case against Honduras Prospera, a US company started by a group of libertarians including literal vampire Peter Thiel, which sought to establish a private government and create a free market paradise on a Special Economic Zone on the island of Roatan under the previous America comprador government in 2013, but which Castro's government banned. This is but one case of the nearly 400 ongoing ISDS cases, which are frequently written into bilateral trade agreements that allow corporations to sue governments for decreasing their profits, like trying to decrease tobacco smoking.

The Amazon rainforest is facing an unprecedented drought that will likely continue into mid-2024, with the lowest river levels seen in over a hundred years, due to a combination of the eastern El Nino (warm water in the eastern equitorial Pacific); the central El Nino; and the Atlantic dipole, in which there is warmer water in tropical North Atlantic Ocean and colder water in the South Atlantic.

Russia fired a large wave of drones at Kiev last night. Ukraine, of course, shot down all of them - the hundreds of houses without power just happened to lose it because of, uh, falling drone debris. Of course.

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

More settler POWs are being released right now, plus a group of Thai workers

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had to turn CNN off because of the reporter going on about the special angel baby treatment the kids were getting, converting hospital wards into like gentle cozy spaces for them and having psychiatrists on hand to tend to them. All I can think of is Palestinian kids getting napalmed and nobody cares.

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[-] iheartmold@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Woman who hate crimed a man with his child because he wearing on a kufiya turns out to be Iranian. What's up with the Persian diaspora?

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

I'm a bisexual female atheist who advocates for liberalism and limited government. My rights would be protected in Israel. I would be murdered by terrorists in Gaza.

Real or The Onion?

Real.

Nitter

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

If she was a bisexual female atheist in Gaza she would be murdered ... by indiscriminate zionist carpet bombing.

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[-] krammaskin@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Israeli military cemetery directors revealed to Israeli media on Sunday that they are burying large numbers of Israeli soldiers killed, especially after the ground invasion of Gaza.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-military-cemeteries--we-receive-a-dead-soldier-every

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Oh so Joe BIDEN pardons two turkeys but not our boys from Jan 6th?

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[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Norman Finkelstein looks strikingly like Julius Caesar and seems to love engaging in the same type of public antics.

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[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 1 year ago

Wrong thread but I dont give a shit newsheads can hear me complain too, why do people hate the dentist so much when the eye doctor exists? It’s like demons from hell designed the eye health tests to torture me for 30 minutes as I struggle to keep my eyes open and keep from blinking, as I get blasted with flashbang after flashbang and get air shot at my eye. Also I have absolutely 0 drip so picking out new frames is hell on earth I unironically have to get my mom or sister to help me it’s so bad

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[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago
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[-] Huldra@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

Insane to me to see people just play calvinball with their own made up bullshit.

"Oh Stockholm Syndrome isnt real? Actually its plainly obvious in thousands of abused women" like NO that is not what the fucking syndrome is about in the slightest what are you talking about? Stockholm Syndrome is when someone is hostile to you but you like them anyways?

And then also the fucking shit with like "Oh its not real? Then why does the FBI say it happens in 8% of kidnapping victims?" and its like, because there are made up criteria that claim to be the result of some actual hyperspecific situation in the brain, and sooner or later someone will correspond to those criteria but that doesnt validate the hypothesis behind it!

The sun actually setting doesnt validate the hypothesis that theres a guy pulling the sun on a chain to do it!

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[-] absolutefuckinidiot@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 1 year ago

Hamas seeks to extend truce with Israel with some conditions

Nov 26 (Reuters) - Hamas announced in a statement on Sunday that it is seeking to extend its four-day truce with Israel should serious efforts be made to increase the number of Palestinian detainees released from Israel.

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

Hezbollah claims of Israeli losses:

354 Soldiers dead/wounded
275 Attacks against military sites
77 Communication systems
21 Jamming systems
15 Military gatherings
35 Intelligence systems
70,000 Settlers evacuated
21 Armored vehicles
170 Cameras
47 Radars
3 Drones

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