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Please pronounce his name wrong to make the title pun work better.

Anyway - Javier Milei, a caricature of a libertarian invented deep in the Hexbear Bit Factory, has won the Argentinian general election; and with a 12 point lead over Massa, it wasn't even particularly close. There are several analogies for this situation - Trump beating Hillary, Bolsonaro winning in 2018, or the alternate universe where Le Pen beat Macron. Massa is not a great guy. The last couple years have been difficult for Argentina, facing massive inflation and the same general economic downturns that are happening everywhere.

Milei is an... interesting person. To name just a couple things going on in his deeply bizarre life, he has a very special relationship with his sister, and an even more special relationship with his mastiff, Conan. When Conan died in 2017, he was so utterly distraught that he had him cloned into four new dogs, named Murray, Milton, Robert, and Lucas, for his economist idols. And he uses mediums to speak to his dead dog. This is probably the closest we're ever going to get to having a dog be president of a country.

Milei wants to essentially collapse the economy even harder. Playing off the general public sentiment of "dollar = good, peso = bad", he has vowed to make the national currency of Argentina the US dollar, thus eagerly giving a massive amount of control over the Argentinian economy directly to America. He wants to take a chainsaw to the status quo, cut off trade with communist countries like China, and demolish the Central Bank. Will Argentinian capitalists and the Senate let him do this? Probably not. What happens with their membership in BRICS+? Who knows. Where does Peronism go from here? Who can say.

But he still won, and will now be president. I suppose that every dog has its day.


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English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

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Resources For Understanding The War


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.


Telegram Channels

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

Pro-Russian

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

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.


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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (6 children)

New dumbass Zionist cope just dropped

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ancaptain

The last sight of many a commie

"Im crashing this country with no survivors"

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Responsible Statecraft: Pentagon fails sixth audit in a row

On Wednesday, Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord revealed that the Department of Defense had failed its sixth audit in a row, with no significant improvements over the last year. “We are working hard to address audit findings as well as recommendations from the Government Accountability Office,” McCord said in a statement. “The Components are making good progress resulting in meaningful benefits, but we must do more.”

In a repeat of last year’s audit, just one in four of the Pentagon’s auditing units received a clean bill of financial health, though auditors made some progress in accounting for the agency’s $3.8 billion in assets. McCord said that a clean audit likely remains years away, according to Reuters. The Pentagon remains the only federal agency to have never passed an audit. Its failure to make significant progress has drawn scrutiny from lawmakers, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who called for an independent audit of the department.

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee also slammed the Pentagon for its financial troubles, arguing in a post on X that the department’s “inability to adequately track assets risks our military readiness and represents a flagrant disregard for taxpayer funds, even as it receives nearly a trillion dollars annually.”

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) said the news showed that it’s “time to stop misdirecting hundreds of billions of dollars away from domestic and human needs to pad unnecessary budget lines for endless wars, failed weapons, & the Pentagon’s corporate handouts.”

The news could reinvigorate efforts to impose a 1 percent budget cut on any parts of the military that fail an audit, a policy that would “provide a much greater incentive to get financial books in order,” according to Jennifer Knox of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

I propose a 100% budget cut on any part of the military that fails an audit. And also on the parts that succeed an audit.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (3 children)

When a political opponent branded him a 'dishevelled panellist who screams on stage and sleeps with eight dogs and his sister', Milei simply replied: 'I don't have eight dogs'!

Holy shit lmao he really sleeps with his sister doesn’t he?

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago

:mystery-emote:    🔻
:mystery-emote::settler:

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

Milei proposes closing 12 secretaries (in red)

Closing the turism and sports when that sector brings so much money to the country is a move outside human comprehension

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (4 children)

you're telling me that the extremely skilled special forces teams and various esoteric strategies were unable to rescue any hostages from the tunnels? shocked-pikachu

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (11 children)
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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (1 children)

at what point do we start calling it the Third Intifada

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Hezbollah is escalating to keep the pressure on once the ceasefire period begins tomorrow, with 17 attacks today so far.

edit: 22 today so far.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Someone explain to me how the prosecution of voices critical of Israel's regime is not censorship in favour of the government position? How the prosecution of people seen "protesting for Palestine" isn't a suppression of the right to peaceful protest and a clear example of government suppression?

How is this any different than China?

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (9 children)

For high-speed underground rail?

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Elon is going to go on a charm offensive backed up by his nutsack riders on the right to woo over the ADL then he'll burn all the good faith in a single hour replying "WOW insightful!" to KekGroyper88's post about jews putting soy in muscle milk powder to shrink white guy's dicks.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"If Milei wants to privatize Aerolíneas, he'll have to kill us"

The head of the Pilots' Union of Aerolíneas Argentinas, the country's airline that was privatized in 2008, strongly opposed Milei's privatization and said the phrase in a headline, but then retracted it.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Earlier this morning we were contacted about the shooting of three Palestinian students in Vermont. We have been in touch with the families of the students.

At this moment here is what we know:

- The students were wearing a Kuffiyeh

- The students were speaking Arabic

- The shooter screamed at the students

- Shots fired, the three students were each it

- 2 of the students are in ICU, one of them critical

- 1 of the students will be released today

What's next?

- Pray for full recovery of the victims

- Give the family privacy and room to get through this

- VT law enforcement must look into hate crimes

- Vermont has hate crimes laws

- DOJ/FBI urged to investigate as hate crime

College campuses must immediately take all measures to ensure safety of Palestinian and Arab students.

More info will be provided once available.

twitter | nitter

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago (8 children)

click to receive psychic damage

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago (5 children)

another holiday, another 8 hours listening to my dad talk about how amazing the Shah was

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

in my darkest dreams i see a thumbnail of alexander mercouris smiling wide, captioned with the title 'only 7 nukes launched today'

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Ever wonder if X person or brand has professed public support for Israel?

https://reversecanarymission.org/ is a search bar for just that. Bookmark it

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Can't wait for China to finally use its naval presence in the Middle East to... protect Israeli cargo ships. yea

(There's no indication that this will happen, just doing a little dooming)

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I didn't know how to process my emotions during an intense ethnic war. But then then the Assistant to the Regional Manager had coffee with me and now I'm right as rain.

Nitter

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ehud Barak gets to be interviewed on CNN and spew Zionist bullshit but nobody asks him about his frequent hangouts with Jeffrey Epstein including getting photographed trying to sneak into the 77th St mansion in iirc a shitty disguise

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (3 children)

germany-cool being totally normal:

(Warning: Estonian cope. Also it's in Estonian) https://maailm.postimees.ee/7903548/saksamaal-algas-haarang-hamasi-toetajate-kodudesse

In brief, Germany is now raiding the homes of people who show support to or are associated with pro-Palestinian groups, with the added cope of "Hamas engaging in

anti-cracker-aktion " alongside links to other articles of Estonian cope about Russia. Anyways, anyone have that one video where a Jewish South African got assaulted by the police in Germany some months ago for being in a Palestine rally?

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (10 children)

This is the epitome of dumbfuck "commentary" on china by westoids

  1. gesture vaguely about some "international rules based order" that china is breaking somehow while not really making sense

  2. insert some Chinese sounding words that are completely irrelevant to imply some kind of "oriental inscrutability"

(Tianxia means "under heaven" and i have no earthly idea how this factors into this)

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (27 children)

Geert Wilders is going to be the next Prime Minister of the Netherlands. Another victory for the far right in Europe.

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What Makes Hamas Worse Than the Nazis

this is a truly appalling article, once of the worst I've read. literally just Nazi apologia.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Israel broke the ceasefire first on October 7th. The first shots fired were from automatic sniper rifles mounted by the IDF on the border walls of Gaza.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I found this article about Milei yesterday to learn a bit about him and it's absolute unhinged. I read this part and I lost my shit, cackling at work:

But he quit football at 18 to study economics, going on to lecture at university, then working as an economist at various financial institutions.

In his free time he sang in a band, Everest, which played Rolling Stones songs — and he looked the part. Advertisement

Milei claims he hasn’t combed his hair since he was 13, adding: "From that moment on, the invisible hand combs my hair.”

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yemeni Ansar Allah political bureau member

With the power of God, we will make you [israelis] hate Balfour and curse the UK that brought you to our region

twitter | nitter

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Can't stop thinking about the mad lads in Yemen and how much respect I have for them.

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