Won a local by-election that I've been doorknocking for recently 
Won't say anymore as it'll definitely dox me but it's a score.
Thank you Reform for splitting the Tory vote.
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On October 9th, Daniel Chapo won the Mozambique general election with about 70% of the vote. Chapo is the head of FRELIMO, the Marxist-Leninist party of Mozambique's liberation, which fought an internal anti-communist resistance called RENAMO which was backed by Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa; Frelimo won in 1975. However, as the USSR fell, Frelimo began to allow elections inside Mozambique, and has ruled the country with significant majorities in each election ever since.
The main opposition party inside Mozambique is Podemos, which is led by Venancio Mondlane, a former member of Renamo and trained inside the USA. He alleges that his polling figures predicted a majority win for him, not Frelimo, and has accused Chapo of electoral fraud. There have been the usual slogans about how they yearn for freedom. The EU, of course, "witnessed irregularities." As @WilsonWilson@hexbear.net has pointed out, Mozambique has massive undeveloped gas fields and is outsourcing the development process to France, Norway, the UK, and the USA, while mysterious Islamist groups have popped up to cause chaos in the exact regions which have the gas, slowing the process of actually developing those gas fields. Overall, it appears to be a cookie-cutter colour revolution attempt by the imperial core designed to install a comprador for cheaper resources. Its proximity to BRICS+ member South Africa may also be significant, noting the colour revolution in Bangladesh earlier this year exerting influence near India and China.
Protestors have been battling against the police and government since late October, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries as well as massive disruption, as the government has intermittently blocked access to the internet and social media. As of today, calm appears to be returning, with border crossings beginning to reopen.
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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.
Pretty cool for Xi to namedrop Mariategui:
https://xcancel.com/upholdreality/status/1857205700381855934
Xi Jinping arrives in Peru to unveil the largest and most modern port in South America, built by China
"As early as more than 400 years ago, the people of China and Peru started friendly exchanges through the Maritime Silk Road and the Manila Galleons..."
"Through the wisdom of our civilizations, our minds find common ground and our hearts resonate... Peruvian thinker José Carlos Mariátegui once said, "Spiritually and materially, China is closer to us than Europe. The psychology of our people is more Asian than Western...""
"The world is undergoing faster transformation unseen in a century. Humanity has again come to a crossroads in history. To fully appreciate the grandeur of the Nazca Lines, we must view them from a height because at the ground level, their true splendor remains hidden from view.
To quote a Chinese poem to the same effect, 'Fear not the clouds that obscure your view, for you stand atop the highest summit.'
China is ready to join Peru in embracing a broader vision and grasping the underlying trends of our times from a long historical perspective to champion true multilateralism, promote an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, jointly implement the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative, and build together a community with a shared future for mankind."
Those are all kinda unconnected sentences, good vibes I guess
I have invented a new word: reactionize (-izing, -ized)
I am sick of people using the word "radical" to mean picking up extreme/out-of-the-box reactionary ideology. Fuck that. Don't let them have our adjective, even in a verb or participle form.
Pretty sure this counts as news, as it is at least novel. I used this word for the first time a few minutes ago on Reddit, and I guarantee you that—unlike every other thought I've ever had that turned out to be a duplicate of someone's previous one—this is unique and never-before-seen and I will not accept information to the contrary.
This has been my Bread Talk. Thank you.
This is intentional, because they want to puss the idea of muh both sides. Just like Tyrants of old greece weren’t dictators but an equalizing force cancelling debt and redistributing land hoisted up by popular discontent, the term “radical” has aquired a negative connotation as well, despite it literally meaning “wholeness”
Sounds good to me.
I hate the word being misused almost as much as I hate being misunderstood when I use it correctly.
link to the guardian about Amsterdam last week
genuinely surprised that the guardian is still talking about this as the original framing falls apart. Still not a good article, but some super surprising admittances to find here.
Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 130 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children
21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022
54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level
45 million are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level
44% of the American adults do not read a book in a year
The Top 3 states for highest child literacy rates were Massachusetts, Maryland, and New Hampshire, in that order (highest to lowest).
The Bottom 3 states for child literacy rates were Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Mexico, (highest to lowest).
Any American here that could tell me if it's legit. It's shockingly low.
Yes, this is (probably) true, not having looked into it. The 130 million number comes from the 54% with a literacy below 6th grade level. Many americans can't pronounce complex words while reading, indicating they probably don't understand the text. I would have expected the % of americans reading books to be even worse
I honestly don’t believe these numbers. These are wildly extreme claims, I don’t think they’re accurate
I'm from Illinois. It seems accurate to me. I would say even college graduates (non-English major) aren't all that literate.
I don’t doubt that my fellow Americans have poor reading skills but I am extremely skeptical of this organization. Seems to be some kind of for profit consulting grift, and they don’t cite their sources.
Maduro declares himself a Marxist-Leninist. Says he believes in Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao-Zedong, Fidel Castro, Bolivar and Chavez.
https://tankie.tube/w/4niduPYSN8w2j6DK7RZpow
EDIT: The quality of this is shit I'll reupload.
EDIT2: Reup https://streamable.com/cijwwe
@TankieTanuki@hexbear.net interesting difference in quality occurring with this video. Both the tankietube and the streamable version here are from the same video I've uploaded. For some reason TankieTube is making the quality worse and the subs unreadable.
For some reason TankieTube decided that 144p was the highest quality version that it needed to transcode. Could you tell me the exact X and Y resolution of the video you uploaded? If the Y resolution is 222, then it should have chosen to also create a 240p version. It may be a bug.
I enabled a workaround by selecting the "always transcode original resolution" option in the admin panel. Try may to upload it again.
If you want I can upload the file I have somewhere
It's 480x222
The onion bought infowars lmao
You all think the next front will be in East Asia or even Southeast Asia, but just you wait. It will be in Central America when Guatemala finally takes Belize and El Salvador for ourselves, turning the wheels to bring back the Federal Republic of Central America.
The only certain thing is that wherever we think the next front will be, that is where it won't in fact be. Many of us dismissed that Russia would invade Ukraine before it happened, and none of us expected October 7th. We got jumpy with Venezuela during their border issue because we're all waiting to see what the next flashpoint is. We're all looking at the DPRK and China but it's gonna turn out that in twelve weeks, a group in fuckin' Tajikistan or something will hit a secret US base near India and a war will start there. Central America is as good a guess as any.
What if the next front is in the U.S. itself. This isn't based off any observations I'm just making completely unlikely guesses.
Alternatively maybe penguins in Antarctica start doing some praxis idk.
Federal Republic of Central America
Chairman Bernardo Arévalo starts the Second Guatemalan Revolution.
El Salvador for ourselves
Honduras in shambles
There’s a running joke that Belize and El Salvador are Guatemala’s 23rd and 24th departments. Honduras would just be an added bonus for the nationalists.
With the nomination of Rubio to Secretary of State, I think US imperialism will be refocusing on Latin American shortly.
My bet is that Trump will pay Bukele in bitcoin to build more supermax prisons as a super messed up version of the Uganda plan.
Is Trump basically handing DeSantis a Senate seat by picking Rubio for a Cabinet position?
DeSantis gets to pick Rubio’s replacement until the special election in 2026. 2026 is also when DeSantis gets term limited. So DeSantis can easily pick someone loyal to warm the seat for him and let him smoothly transition from Governor to Senator.
But didn’t Trump and DeSantis have issues? Does Trump realize he’s helping DeSantis?
Mmm, power hungwy
It could be an extremely smart way to leave the door open for desantis 2028, as a successor to Trump and to avoid a crisis in the party. They basically pregamed newsom vs desantis in the governor debate
But would Trump even want DeSantis as his successor? I can't imagine he's very fond of him after running against him in the primary.
He ran against Marco and huckabee, I don’t think he cares that much
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