Image is from Futurama.
Happy holidays, fellow godless communists. We are in year three of the Five-Year Plan to eliminate all Christmas cheer and create a world free of the joys and festivity of Christmas. Nobody should have to be reminded that in our concrete brutalist communist strongholds, NO ornaments are allowed in December. Please report any Christmas trees, snowflakes, baubles, and presents to the evil secret police, and anybody caught violating their Volcel Pledge by having a tentative kiss under a mistletoe will be shot on sight.
Developments lately have been grim. Our Supreme Communist Dictator Brandon is being removed from office by Christmas-loving patriots, and soon, Christmas will adorn the White House for another four years. This is obviously very disappointing, but while Christmas joy is strictly prohibited, good vibes are still strongly encouraged. Revolutionary optimism (a term we only bring out when things are going very badly and we need to be delusional) shall triumph over defeatist rhetoric by stooges of the Christmas regime.
We must have hope. Our foreign allies aiding us in destroying Christmas now possess hypersonic weaponry, allowing us to compete with and overcome the engine technology powering Santa’s sleigh. Abroad, they have destroyed factories and hit cities with missiles travelling at unimaginable speeds into precise targets, while the Christmas regime struggles to produce their own such missiles, as they are still reliant on aircraft bombing campaigns. Precision has a quality all its own, or something along those lines. We just have to hold out another two years or so, and I swear to you: we will live in a world without this accursed holiday.
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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.
China is building the world’s largest hydroelectric dam to try and save the world from climate change, but at what cost?
Link
if 3 gorges is big enough to affect the earth’s rotation, I can only assume this will cause a ‘The Core’ like scenario
Staking this position before it becomes BlueAnon doctrine in a month or two
Hydro does often have some pretty huge negative impacts
What energy form has the least negative impacts? Solar has the minerals and inconsistency, wind probably has something similar, nuclear is obvious, geothermal feels like the same as hydro…
Nuclear, wind, and space-based solar probably
Clean coal
NATURAL gas
Fracking
Lmfao
Wood
I’d say solar and wind. Yeah, you need to do production for them, but it’s relatively low impact. They can be very easily integrated into urban, rural, and even wild spaces. Because they’re so modular, they can operate at every imaginable scale. I also agree with the geothermal suggestions, but that one’s very hard to scale up. There’s stuff that’s currently pretty experimental, like tidal power, that would be very cool if it comes to fruition.
Hydro isn’t necessarily bad, of course! But huge hydro projects often destroy nearby environments and communities by so radically altering and disrupting waterways.
If tidal can work it’ll completely transform the economies of my deeply-impoverished homeland of east-coast Canada. The amount of energy involved in the Bay of Fundy tides is massive, predictable, year-round, clean, and weather-independent. The problem so far is that that same massive energy in the flowing water just rips apart even the sturdiest-built underwater turbine prototypes.
Wind and solar also can’t possibly account for our energy demands.
Even if every surface on earth was covered in them it wouldn’t be sufficient to keep up with increases in energy demands
Hydro and nuclear are necessary
I never said they could, but they’re the best way to hit most of it.
Please provide a source because I find this extremely difficult to believe. This suggests the difference in land needs between hydro and PV are not very significant. Solar has a higher high and a lower low.
So are solar and wind.
Hydro also isn’t sufficient, you could dam every river and it barely makes an impact overall. I’m not really going to bat for hydro specifically, just that all of them will be necessary and especially nuclear
Instinct is geo thermal. Obviously still have to manufacture the plant but taking some heat from the earth… Well no problem.
Any damn you build will screw with the flow of the river which will screw with habitats everywhere up and down river. If planned excellently effects can be ok. In the US there is I believe one river with natural flow and no dam has been created that doesn’t have knock on effects
geothermal is sick where it’s possible, but it’s very local and would require massive population transfers to specific locations.
Yaaa quite true
Dinorwig is a nice example of infrastructure upcycling - taking an old quarry and doing something cool with it (although it does seem to have some negative impacts on Arctic Char with the variable water levels in generates in lakes used as overflow)
Oh that’s pretty sweet. Gravity and water a good combo. Just not as easy as it seems
I think nuclear, right? The amount of waste produced is negligible and can actually be used to generate energy itself if you gather enough in one place, if I understand it right.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1
I know you can’t account for everything but don’t build your reactors in flood zones and you’ve got a 40 year safety record.
The issue is also them being around war, as we see in Ukraine desperate people aren’t against direct attacks against them. We are incredibly lucky the ZNPP has not melted down after years of Ukro terrorism, partially due to amazing Soviet construction techniques that heavily reinforced the structure for war.
Every developing nation on earth needs energy and the US is willing to employ terrorists to target their infrastructure
Just don’t go to war
I’ll simply ask the NATO terrorist proxies to please stop
People can have a little war, as a treat, just don’t blow up the nuclear power plants please.
using people as a battery
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Geothermal is very localized, not lots of problems tbh. Just expensive and semi unique conditions needed for cheap version