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Bulletins and News Discussion from May 5th to May 11th, 2025 - Fuck Fascists Friday

Image is the famous photograph Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag, taken during the Battle of Berlin.

On Friday is May 9th, which is the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, which Russia, among other places, celebrates as the day when the Soviets defeated the Nazis. Naturally, one of the current hotspots of fascism in the world today, Ukraine, is essentially threatening that they might strike Russia or even Moscow itself during that timeframe. Any such strike would almost certainly be symbolic and not aimed at anything too important, as I doubt even Zelensky and his American handlers would actually want to kill a world leader, not least somebody like Xi Jinping. But I would not be surprised if they tried something nonetheless, if only to disrupt the event in some way and not actually kill anybody.

And, as we're on this topic, @EllenKelly@hexbear.net has reminded me that Tuesday is the anniversary of the Nazis burning the Institut für Sexualwissenschaf in 1933, an early institute advocating for the rights of LGBT people, and which also provided early forms of gender-affirming surgeries, as well as hormone therapies. We are currently seeing a crackdown on LGBT rights throughout swathes of the imperial core (as well as countries in the periphery, to the extent that those rights existed there already), and this Nazi-inspired movement will be similarly defeated in the future.

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  • Whenever you wonder "Why India and Pakistan hate each other?" it is important to remember the British, that goddamn good for nothing piece of shit country that created chaos and misery everywhere they went. And while of course there are local actors who are very responsible for this entire clusterfuck of a shitshow, ultimately the blame falls into Britain.

    Thanks to their colonization of the land, the absolute and utter destruction of local peoples and societies, the stealing, the looting of the indian subcontinent's riches and the genocides, we came to this awful situation. The stupid ass princes and local monarchs who allied with the British colonial administration for protection and to keep "everything under control", one of whom created this whole Kashmir mess to begin with, the stupid ass Indian Nationalism (especially the Far Right one, can't really attack Nehru's secular nationalistic ideals) and the Pakistani nationalism, spearheaded by Jinnah, who willingly or not became Britain's agent of chaos to cripple India as it inevitably became independent...

    It's impossible to know what would have happened if Britain never made it to the Indian Subcontinent, or France, or the Netherlands or Portugal. It's counterfactual, it's "what-if" history that serves no purpose other than mere entertainment.., but we do know what happened when Britain intervened and colonized India, you're seeing it right now.

    Death to Britain and of course, death also to "israel", another hellspawn of theirs.

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