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Bulletins and News Discussion from February 3rd to February 9th, 2025 - Fuhrer Failsons
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Image is of Elon Musk giving the Nazi salute a week or so ago.
I didn't really want to keep spotlighting American domestic events as I had assumed that shit would calm down pretty quickly, but it appears that the Trump administration, including Musk, are determined to bring down the empire from the inside.
One of the most important lessons of ruling a country - and especially an empire - is to never, ever believe your own propaganda; and yet now we have neo-Nazi failsons disrupting parts of the imperial apparatus and causing general government mayhem because they actually seem to believe in libertarianism; that the state and the capitalists are somehow in opposition, rather than working in lockstep to maximise profit and boost American hegemony around the world.
I'm not so optimistic as to believe that a national collapse is FOUR DAYS AWAY, like those weird anti-China cranks often speculate - the US has at least a decade or two left even under these conditions. But consider the damage being inflicted in these past couple weeks, and extrapolate that over the next four years. Does any living American political figure possess the competency to halt - or even meaningfully slow - the already ongoing decline? And could they achieve power (or even be allowed to do so) after Trump's term is done?
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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 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.
CIA sends ‘buyout’ offers to entire workforce
The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar with the offer said, part of President Donald Trump’s broad effort to shrink the federal government and shape it to his agenda.
Trump and his allies have claimed at different points that intelligence officers at the CIA have been part of a “deep state” determined to undermine him, and some critics have described the deferred resignation program as a purge – something Trump officials have denied. Some national security officials in Trump’s orbit believe that the CIA in recent years has become too heavily weighted towards analysis at the expense of clandestinely collecting intelligence and carrying out covert operations – functions of the agency’s much smaller Directorate of Operations. Ratcliffe during his confirmation hearing vowed to reinvest in both. “To the brave CIA officers listening all around the world, if all of this sounds like what you signed up for, then buckle up and get ready to make a difference,” he said in his opening statement. “If it doesn’t, then it’s time to find a new line of work.”
Every day a frightening new development of fascism, but also every day, more of the empire apparatus getting hollowed out. I wonder where the critical point is for this to collapse and reform into a new state.
hexbear active userbase is about to collapse 😔
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for the love of the game
That seems to be their goal, basically getting rid of departments as they currently exist and rebuilding them filled to the brim with right wing fanatics and loyalists. Except they are already filled with fanatics, and the hegemony is dealing with material threats with the same analysis, zeal, and loyalty to Capital anyway, so idk what would actually change. Whatever the new thing is will still be a blob out of necessity for the means of control
I do think they gain big loyalty points by doing shit like this, which is a benefit for them for obvious reasons, but they lose even the smallest vestiges remaining of institutional experience. At a certain point, you're just not going to be able to manage the networks as well when everyone in the department is some random groyper. It just won't work the same without the patience to rebuild and manage that apparatus, and everything we're seeing here is a lack of long term planning, so I doubt they can handle that.
everything we're seeing here is a lack of long term planning
A second is all it takes to do the deed. If they can accomplish their goals against any proletarian movement, they won't have to do it again.
Out with the cisgender Latina millennial with imposter syndrome and generalised anxiety disorder, in with the lumberjack beardo operator with his own line of anti DEI whey protein powder and a pornography addiction.
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After collapsing their coalition government with the Centre party last week the floundering norwegian Labour party has formed a new government. Most notably is the addition of former prime minister/NATO ~~ghoul~~ chief and alledged lifelong CIA asset Jens Stoltenberg as the country's new minister of finance. He will no doubt be spending his tenure talking about how important it is to keep investing even more funds in domestic "ethical" arms and munitions manufacturing.
https://apnews.com/article/norway-stoltenberg-finance-minister-nato-d15adb51f118e9fd2f7914f508477a8b
I don't want to get all "muh constitution" but if the president can just unilaterally decide to eliminate federal departments there really isn't a constitution at that point is there? Like that's so far out of bounds of what's legal in any way. Looks like it's just going to happen?
I also don't understand any of the reporting or statements regarding being denied access to the buildings either. Every report I have read (and I have gone intentionally searching for this) has said that they were told no. It does not specify who told them no, the democrats are not specifying who is telling them no. The closest I have been able to find is an article The Hill saying the dems were stopped by "security forces". WHO ARE THOSE PEOPLE? Is anyone going to ask who the fuck they are working for or under whose authority? What answer could they possibly give you that would be acceptable to pack up and leave?
If I drop you off at a gas station and 20 seconds later you came back and said "they said no." I would be like "who said no? What did they say? And you just keep repeating "they said no" I would get actually pissed at you! Yet that's what were getting for some reason?
There was this story in the guardian
- “They apparently just sort of walked past security and said: ‘Get out of my way,’ and they’re looking for access for the IT systems, as they have in other agencies,” said Andrew Rosenberg, a former Noaa official who is now a fellow at the University of New Hampshire. “They will have access to the entire computer system, a lot of which is confidential information.”
What is even going on here?!?! If you walked into where I work and were like "hey were taking over?" I would be like "who the fuck are you? what the hell is going on?". Even if I don't give a shit about my job I'm not just going to leave my post because some goofball told me to. Could I actually just walk into any federal building and say I'm with doge and they just let me in? Because that's legitimately what it feels like here!
So we have people we know nothing about, closing down federal office buildings, locking everyone out and nobody cares who is doing that? Do they have names? Are they security for the agency? Who gave them the orders? Are they just random people? I feel like these are kind of important questions that are being completely glossed over!
I don't want to get all "muh constitution" but if the president can just unilaterally decide to eliminate federal departments there really isn't a constitution at that point is there? Like that's so far out of bounds of what's legal in any way. Looks like it's just going to happen?
The president always had this power. Outside of edge cases like the post office or the army, every federal department exists at the discretion of the president. Nothing's stopping a president from shutting down almost every single federal agency outside of norms^TM^, threats of impeachment, or being shown footage of the JFK assassination from the grassy knoll.
Perhaps it's premature to say, but what we know so far paints a stark picture of the paralytic culture within US government institutions. Nobody will twitch a muscle without word from on high, and all it takes is a few white kids who feel entitled to act with impunity to punch right through. Meanwhile, the vast liberal public simply cannot accept what their lying eyes show them, because it would require that they accept that all the excuses for decades of inaction, of political impotence, was just kayfabe.
If it’s any consolation, the first trump administration made plenty of people into leftists. So we are in for a rough ride.
I honestly don’t think they’re smart enough to realize even that. There is nothing except the Present Situation for them
Could I actually just walk into any federal building and say I'm with doge and they just let me in?
Could work tbh
The school shooter 6 has couped the government basicallly. No more elections. The only question now is when will elon coups trump. And becomes the new god emperor. Who would’ve thought the end of America was put in place by a ghb broccoli boy frat bro in a suit and khaki pants
The 6 18-26 year olds Elon Musk hired to do his dirty work is a common tactic used in startup/rapidly expanding companies. The higher ups don't like an older employee, so they hire someone young with a fancy resume/degree and little real life work experience, to basically act as their puppet and undermine the older employee. Older employee is obviously pissed off by someone half their age with no real life work experience coming in and telling them that everything they're doing is wrong and conspiring behind their back with upper management, so they usually quit, get moved onto another department where they do busybody work and eventually quit, or even get fired. I've seen it happen before personally. Elon Musk is just expanded this model and applied it to the whole US government.
“Nazi Germany was another subsidiary of IG Farben”
History always repeats itself.
Could I actually just walk into any federal building and say I'm with doge and they just let me in? Because that's legitimately what it feels like here
yes .. the people in goverment work in goverment because they have demonstrated that they follow autority. and they will follow authority , because this is what they do.
This is fairly reductive. Just about everyone follows authority. Wether in private or public enterprise.
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Nobody expected the executive branch to reduce its own powers by attacking its departments, I guess
The Saudis already pouring cold water on this plan.
I don’t doubt Trump wants to do this, he’s had Bibi whispering in his ear all day about it. Just like how he wants to take over Greenland, the Panama Canal, and fucking Canada. But operationally this plan is DOA. The Saudis aren’t on board, Sisi knows he will get coiled by the military if not murdered by his own people if he goes along. And I think most actually knowledgeable people in the deep state know how bad it’s gonna look when Qassam starts releasing videos of US soldiers getting got.
Trump wants a lot of things, but there is no way this happens. Honestly IMO I think even Bibi knows this and he’s only hyping this up to Trump to try and torpedo the ceasefire deal.
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DEATH TO "AMERICA"
DEATH TO "ISRAEL"
GLORY TO THE RESISTANCE. GAZA AND PALESTINE WILL WIN.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-military-flight-deporting-migrants-india-official-says-2025-02-03/
US military flight deporting migrants to India, official says
There has been no protest from the Indian Government btw.
Kind of the opposite, bootlicking 
Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has said New Delhi is open to the return of undocumented Indians in the United States. His comments came following a meeting with U.S. foreign secretary Marco Rubio in Washington during which illegal immigration was one of the issues discussed.
“New Delhi has been proactive in saying that we also have no reason to support illegal immigration and that we would, as in the past, cooperate in deportation of those who have been identified by our authorities as Indian citizens. At the same time, there is a push from the US side to try and ensure that legal migration is streamlined which is an important source of talent for the country. For us, a lot of our talented young people would have opportunities if these aspects are simplified, whether it is access to H-1b visas or green cards, I think this should be a part of the narrative with the United States,” Former Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla recently told IANS.
Fascists are the most servile bastards ever.
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A dog can’t play basketball
le epic airbud moment
This should be the copypasta we say to liberals everytime trump does the thing the liberals insist the law will not allow him too.
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