Apologies, this one is smaller than usual, as I'm gonna be very busy over the next few days. It's the same amount of headlines, just not as much quoted from them.
Links and Stuff
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Yesterday's discussion post.
Thought I could be friends with my new coworker. It's not even been 2 weeks and he's already said 3 explicitly anti communist/China things unprompted. I don't really care if somebody has those views, but if they're bringing that shit into a new job that soon and nonchalantly then :yea:
They brought it up so you are therefore entitled to confront them on those things.
IDK if it's a situation where you can do that safely but that's my first thought.
Its amazing how deep the "CCP bad" rhetoric in MSM goes. Honestly it wasn't that long ago for me that I thought "CCP bad." I've been firmly anti capitalist for 10 years but I still believed the concentration camps line. They hammer it so hard that even if you are critical of the news you still end up believing some of the lies. "China bad" is an easy brain worm to pick up. Start with probing questions to see if they are beyond hope. See where they stand on capitalism as a whole.
So I've been at my new job for a few months, and we literally had a seminar about "China bad", which is why we shouldn't reply to any inquiries we get from them. Considering this was before the war began in Ukraine, and we explicitly had Russia, China and Iran on the list of bad countries we shouldnt engage with, I felt really fucking tempted to push back, but I'd rather not risk anything at the moment, since I can't cure brainworms that fast. Also we had a huge email-chain about the whole 100 talents program, and whether it was a threat to us. I did manage to push back somewhat against some of this, just with my immediate coworker. I don't know if he believes me or not, but at least he shut up about the subject.
if they say that shit they presume you agree. a little push back even to get them to shut up is good