Image is of Joseph Robinette Biden, who has stepped down and will not run against Trump in the 2024 election.
In the aftermath of Trump surviving an assassination attempt, many professional opinion-havers are now talking about the scourge of “political violence” that has overtaken, or will soon overtake America, and how we must not let chaos rule. This is, of course, patently absurd. The American government and its allies have been the greatest force of political violence on the planet since the beginning of colonialism, and the foundations of the country are made of corpses. Today, America commits political violence by forcing Ukrainians into the maw of Russian artillery instead of trying to reach a peaceful settlement, which Russia has repeatedly expressed interest in and offered Ukraine relatively favourable terms. They supply Israel with endless weaponry to destroy entire cities and populations, while Biden supporters insist that somehow things could be worse than daily massacres and mass starvation.
In May 1945, French police fired on protestors, causing retaliatory attacks on French settlers, killing about a hundred. In response, the French murdered 45,000 Algerians in a little under two months, in a frenzy of political violence called the Sétif and Guelma massacre. As the massacre was being completed, the International Court of Justice was established. It goes without saying that Algeria never benefited from the ICJ, and the War of Independence from 1954 to 1962 was made inevitable. Over a million Algerians were killed before France could bear the fighting no longer and gave up, and Algeria won itself a state. Comparisons to the ongoing war of independence and genocide in Palestine are obvious.
While the means of colonial violence have evolved over the centuries, the basic structure of it has not. As in Algeria, Vietnam, and Cuba, resistance groups in and around Palestine are fighting for a world with less political violence. The American government would drown every city in the developing world in blood to prevent peace.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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.
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.
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.
I think Trump is really going to go for the “unity” thing. He’s got this in the bag. He already understood that his best debate performances are when he just lets Biden destroy himself whilst he appears “presidential” and actually stands back. He’ll do the same here. It’s his to lose at this point, and even if he is feeling Full Vengeance Mode he gains nothing by showing his hand before winning.
it’s fascinating how this venal sack of shit has such good political instincts. if he can pull off a conciliatory feint and deny the pearl clutchers what they want most, Biden may suffer the worst election loss in American history
Reagan won all but Minnesota and DC in 1984, I doubt Trump can win that much.
“The energy coming from the people there in that moment, they just stood there; it’s hard to describe what that felt like, but I knew the world was looking,” Trump said to the Examiner. “I knew that history would judge this.”
It’s been said before but I am amazed at how publicity brained he is. Someone shoots at him and his first thought (after his shoes) is playing to the crowd, raising his fist and telling them to “fight, fight, fight”. It’s incredible not only how well the shooting went for him but how he reacted like a perfect media creature, his only thoughts were how it was going to look on the news.
“Usually you have to die to have an iconic picture.”
Incredible trump quote that’s not far off the mark. He’s got this election in the bag if he can keep underplaying his fascism and leans into the Great Unifier schtick, and judging by how he’s been playing this election so far I think he’s got it
Trump is too skilled a bullshit artist to use the assassination attempt to go more fash. He knows he doesn’t need to do that as the fash are already solidly behind him. Contrary, he understands that the failed assassination has given him a huge opening with civility libs who are horrified about the attack on Our Democracy™ who will gobble up any cheesy unity slop delivered with “presidential” vibes to soothe their upset anxieties.
showmanship=/=good political senses
the crowd is going to baying for blood, he’s profoundly selfish & will be personally angry. very very easy to get the biggest applause of his career while weakening his electoral outlook. i wouldn’t put my money down on him doing the ‘smart’ thing
I wonder if he’ll find some way to try to blame the assassination attempt (or something else big) on China…or maybe Mexico. Best way to unify is against a common enemy and all that…
Unification AND fascism sounds like a “winning” combination.
Here’s hoping that Trump doesn’t pull this off. Biden’s best bet is Trump going full fascism so he can capitalize on the terror under Trump.
Monkey paw is that Biden doubles down and goes full fascism instead
that’s baked in now, isn’t it? biden’s already talking about cracking down more on anyone who dares to protest against his ongoing enthusiastic support for the genocide of the palestinian people. he’ll have to so he can demonstrate how steadfastly opposed to political violence he is.
It’s going to be weird to see them switch places like that. Biden will be the spray tanned senile fascist and Trump is going to be the reasonable, reach across the aisle unity candidate (in appearances anyway)
Maybe this is how he’ll cinch his Reaganite legacy that’ll lead to people still loving him decades down the line regardless of how much he fucked the working class over
His plan is to pivot away from attacking Trump and to go harder after pro-Palestine protesters, so ya…
Literally the worst part about the whole assassination attempt is that trumpnis never, ever, ever going to shut the fuck up about this.
He might literally think he is chosen by God to win.
a chance to bring the whole country […] together
Unity as in Gaullism/Mussolini-style “participation” of the reactionary workers in bourgeois “management” (read: terror), I guess? Guessing the bit about “even the whole world” means ? Maybe I should be more charitable to Trump - I’m sure he means well :)
