Image is of Trudeau and Trump together at Mar-a-Lago in November 2024. Source is here.

The Liberals, headed by Trudeau, have not been doing so hot lately. Polls have been rather poor, showing the party far behind the Conservatives, and the Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland (an outspoken apologist for Ukrainian Nazis) resigned recently, with more MPs following her lead. Trump’s return to power has shaken the Canadian establishment due to his threats to impose massive tariffs on Mexico and Canada, which will have substantial economic consequences given that Canada sends most of its exports to the US, compounding the economic malaise that has affected most of the world over the last few years.

With all this bad news, there are rumors and reports that Trudeau will soon resign, ending his nine years of rule. His fall would be yet another casualty in the wave of incumbent parties falling across the imperial core, only to be replaced by more conservative parties that have very similar policies but wish to cast all blame and hardship onto minorities.

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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

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.

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    53·
    11 hours ago

    https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1877474174652002533

    related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyJTv_qLqsI

    Modern Nazis like the AfD are so shit, they don’t even have the ‘dull the Germans by giving them jobs’ part, they only have Islamophobia.

    Kalecki’s saying “One of the important functions of fascism, as typified by the Nazi system, was to remove the capitalist objections to full employment.” no longer applies

    • grandepequeno [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      4 hours ago

      Kalecki’s saying “One of the important functions of fascism, as typified by the Nazi system, was to remove the capitalist objections to full employment.” no longer applies

      I think you’re just landing on how “fascist” isn’t the most correct label for the modern far right

      • kittin [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        2 hours ago

        It’s a good term because it opens a discussion about how fascism is really not just the post-WW1 military fetishism but also the genocidal white supremacist colonialism of the British, French, and American empires.

        The fact the far right reject the label and reject being associated with Hitler shouldn’t stop us from giving them that label or associating them with Hitler.

        Whenever someone says “akshually Hitler was a socialist” that’s an opening to describe how Hitler’s economic aims are similar to neoliberalism.

    • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      4 hours ago

      Right has whole project to say everything killing people is communism. Average american believes stalin killed 30 million people already, selling that it was inter-leftist beef is relatively easy

    • Seasonal_Peace [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      29·
      8 hours ago

      Her grandfather Hans Weidel was a Nazi judge, appointed directly by Adolf Hitler. He joined the NSDAP at the end of 1932 and the SS in January 1933.

      From 1941 he was an army judge, one of 3,000 judges in the Nazi military justice system, and from 1944 a chief staff judge.

      She knows what she is doing, she should hang for it, as her grandpa should have.

      • Hexboare [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        14·
        5 hours ago

        There were more Nazi judges in West Germany than in Nazi Germany, so it’s not surprising.

        Edit - not judges, public officials in the department of justice:

        Fully 77 percent of senior ministry officials in 1957 were former members of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party, a higher proportion even than during the 1933-45 Third Reich, the study found.

    • xiaohongshu [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      51·
      11 hours ago

      they nationalized industries like crazy

      lol. The Nazis were the first to re-privatize the economy during the Great Depression after European powers nationalized their economies during WWI, which led to unprecedented socialist movements all over Europe and especially that revolution in Russia.

      The mass privatization that begin in the late 1960s-1970s was based on the re-privatization effort of Nazi Germany, where that part of history has been conveniently scrubbed when academics talk about the history of neoliberalism and where the roots of marginalist/neoclassical economics were concerned.

      From the Economy of Evil:

      In February 1933, as Chancellor, Hitler met with the leading German industrialists at the home of Hermann Goring. There were representatives from IG Farben, AG Siemens, BMW, coal mining magnates, Theissen Corp, AG Krupp, as well as a locust of Bankers, investors, and other Germans belonging to the top 1%. During this meeting, Hitler said, “Private enterprise cannot be maintained in the age of democracy.”

      In 1934, Nazis outlined their plan to revitalize the German economy. It involved reprivatization of significant industries: railways, public works project, construction, steel, and banking. On top of that, Hitler guaranteed profits for the private sector, and so, many American industrialists and bankers gleefully flocked to Germany to invest.

      The Nazis had a thorough plan for deregulation. The Nazi’s economist, stated," The first thing German business needs is peace and quiet. It must have a feeling of absolute legal security and must know that work and its return are guaranteed. The interferences in a business which occurred at first, perhaps as a result of too much zeal, have become intolerable."

      Germany had the most robust social-democratic movement, and consequently, the best worker protections in Europe codified by law. This was a significant impediment to businesses “operating freely without interference.”

      …

      On January 20, 1934, the Nazis passed the Law Regulating National Labor. The act explicitly took power away from the government to set minimum wages and working conditions. The act stated, “The leader of the enterprise makes the decisions for the employees and laborers in all matters concerning the enterprise, as far as they are regulated by this law.” Employers lowered wages and benefits. Workers were banned from striking or engaging in other collective bargaining rights. Worker conditions were so deteriorated that with the head of the AFL visited Nazi Germany in 1938, he compared the life of an average worker to that of a slave. Workers in Nazi Germany worked longer hours for lower wages.

      “Adolf Hitler was a socialist” lmao

      • xiaohongshu [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        28·
        10 hours ago

        From the opening paragraphs of Against the Mainstream: Nazi Privatization in 1930s Germany:

        Privatization of large parts of the public sector was one of the defining policies of the last quarter of the twentieth century. The privatizations in Chile and the United Kingdom, implemented in the 1970s and 1980s, are usually considered the first privatization policies in modern history (e.g. Yergin and Stanislaw, 1998, p.115). A few researchers find earlier instances: Some economic analyses of privatization (e.g. Megginson, 2005, p. 15) identify partial sales of state-owned firms in Adenauer’s Germany in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the first large- scale privatization program, and others argue that, though confined to just one sector, the denationalization of steel and coal in the United Kingdom during the early 1950s should be considered the first privatization (e.g. Burk, 1988; Megginson and Netter, 2003, p. 31).

        None of the contemporary economic analyses of privatization takes into account an important, earlier case: the privatization policy implemented by the National Socialist (Nazi) Party in Germany. The modern literature on privatization, the recent literature on the twentieth- century German economy (e.g. Braun, 2003) and the history of Germany’s publicly owned enterprises (e.g. Wengenroth, 2000) all ignore this early privatization experience. Some authors occasionally mention the re-privatization of banks but make no further comment or analysis (e.g. Barkai, 1990, p. 216; James, 1995, p. 291). Other works, like Hardach (1980, p. 66) and Buchheim and Scherner (2005, p. 17), mention the sale of State-owned firms in Nazi Germany only to support the idea that the Nazi government opposed widespread state ownership of firms and do not carry out any analysis of these privatizations.

        And it’s all the same. Neoliberals (British marginalists/neoclassicals) derived much of their economic theorems from studying contemporary fascist regimes, and became its successor in a more perfected form.