Is there any incentive other than showing who’s boss on the internet? I struggle to see how the amount of time and energy involved in moderating just one community, let alone multiple ones, are worth it just to get a power high. It seems exhausting.

Indeed. One can only wish to live in exceedingly boring times…

“Interesting” - the understatement of the century

Eeeh… Pro-Russians gotta Russian

What a fucking shitstain

Done

It’s a BBC alert, article is on their main page

Would love if the geopolitics people of anime_titties could move over, a lot of them were supporting the protests and may have considered making the jump. Right now, the only geopolitics community that I have found has 3 subscribers… Also wouldn’t mind at some point to have a meta community aggregator like SubredditDrama, HobbyDrama or BestOfRedditorUpdates. It makes for excellent reading material while on the toilet.

Kadyrov’s Akhmat units are heading to Rostov to supposedly counter Wagner’s advance. As of this moment the head of the column is 40km away from Rostov. Worth remembering that just a few weeks ago Kadyrov’s Chechen troops were tipped to take over from Wagner in Ukraine. https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-31-2023

The Public Council of the Federal Penitentiary Service confirmed the information of the VCHK-OGPU about the riot in the Vodnik pre-trial detention center. “Prisoners began synchronously knocking on the doors of the cells and screaming,” they said.https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1672575188850843648

Wagner is made up of a large number of ex convicts, I wonder how much sway Prigozhin has with the prisons’ population in Russia.

Russia analyst on Al Jazeera talking about revolution

I posted it from the F24 app, that may be why. Here’s a link to the browser version https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230624-live-moscow-accuses-wagner-head-of-mutiny-he-says-his-forces-enter-russia

Thank you, will check it out!/

Hard-core Muslims and Christians should really drop all pretense and just get together on an island somewhere and create their perfect little backwards community, they have much more in common than the rest of civilized society.