Skip Navigation
news @hexbear.net
SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him] @hexbear.net

Bulletins and News Discussion from December 30th, 2024 to January 5th, 2025 - Another Goddamn Year of the Goddamn News

Image is of Jeff Daniels in The Newsroom, giving a speech (parodied below) about how - gasp - America sucks. But in a patriotic way.

And you - general megathread poster - yeah - just in case you accidentally wander into the news megathread one day, there are some things you should know, and one of them is that there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest megathread in the world.

We're seventh in citations, twenty-seventh in accurate predictions, twenty-second in effortposts, forty-ninth in non-mainstream article posting, 178th in guessing when wars will start, third in powerusers, number four in dialectics, and number four in megathread exports. We lead Hexbear in only three categories: pointless infighting, number of adults who believe Putin is based, and copium manufacturing, where we produce more than the next twenty-six lemmy megathreads combined, twenty-five of whom are full of delusional liberals. None of this is the fault of any Hexbear user, but you, nonetheless, are without a doubt, a member of the WORST-period-GENERATION-period-EVER-period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest megathread in the world, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about! Jokes about whether they got a Zionist's semen in time?!

Please check out the HexAtlas!

The bulletins site is here!
The RSS feed is here.
Last week's thread is here.

685 comments

  • Seems like ukkkraine started their first part of offensive in kursk, couple of columns for now hit with drones, probably in next 5-10 days we'll see how much can russia fumble/not fumble the bag.

    • I think it's a diversionary attack. Either to spoil a Russian offensive, or draw attention away from a new Ukrainian offensive elsewhere. A lot of people are hyping it up, but it sounds like it was ~200 people max, which is not really that big.

      There were some recent reports from Russian sources of Ukrainian troops gathering for a potential offensive on Bryansk. We'll see if the Ukrainians are drinking their own kool aid about North Koreans already being in battle. If Ukraine attacks somewhere else in Russia, I think the defensive pact will be triggered and the DPRK troops will magically appear en masse.

    • Seems like a crazy hail mary to do at this point in time. If they do take some more of kursk or retake what russia retook then it will still have little to no military value, especially if you consider they're trading off slowing the russian army in ukraine.

      So again it's a political move, if it's anything like the last time they just want to show they're backers in the west that they're still worth giving money to, add to that the idea that ukraine could hold on to this territory and trade it off during negotiations with russia to end the war, again if this means russia keeps advancing in ukraine proper idk how this is worth it.

      I guess russia can still fuck it up some way or another, let's wait a few weeks to see how the latest fight between the world's dumbest vlads/volods turns out

    • Ukraine has had the equipment in reserve, but not used it to defend the east. The Ukrainian army over the past few months has consisted of poorly equipped troops or conscripts holding the line to buy time for Ukraine's elite NATO armed brigades to be formed. If they saved all this new NATO equipment for Kursk 2.0, I don't know how it will go. Apparently Russia managed to thwart a Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG attack yesterday involving at least 10 Ukrainian Su-24 attack aircraft, so if Kursk 2.0 is more of that, Russia should be able to handle it. However if the Ukrainians have learnt their lesson and are planning to fight with tactics that make sense, like they did in the beginning of the original Kursk gamble, and not PR offensives, which the Kursk gamble became, they could achieve something.

685 comments