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>>2572136
The situation definitely isn't good for them, the regime is once again attacking them, they have conceded a lot and got nothing out of it.

So many words in this thread

>>2572113
Transitional Government forces opened fire on protesters
In response to the recent violence in Homs, shots were fired at people who took to the streets in the cities of Homs and Latakia.

In Latakia, the Alevi community held a protest at the Ziraa Junction in response to recent violence and attacks in Homs. However, a group of youths attacked the protesters with stones, who were then shot at, injuring some.

A similar situation occurred in Homs. A group attacked protesters with clubs and knives. During the demonstration, some were injured, and people were fired upon directly.

Following the shooting of demonstrators, military mobilization of government forces is taking place in all cities and districts under the control of the Transitional Government.
>>2572389
>So many words in this thread
READ THEM!

>>2572113
>>2572113
oh well, welcome to the best Syria

>>2575201
Lenin may have been correct but forbidding cooperation with social democrats and being like "sorry but this grounds for dismissal from the Comintern" was probably a big mistake. Like couldn't he see that the Bolshevik model wasn't for wholesale export? Whatever.

>>2575245
The difference is whether you're trying to "turn the democrats left", or if you're going to join to trash talk them for supporting capital against their own voters and then getting kicked out

imagine mamdani, after having gotten elected, continued to say more radical things, which get approval numbers up, and then getting kicked out.

>>2575253
I'm researching it, and they can only kick you out caucus by caucus. But in a lot of states, they can't even stop you from running in the primary and from becoming the party nominee apparently lol.

Parties in America aren't even real parties so much as in like other countries.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/10/texas-republican-party-censures-primary-ballot-court-precedent/
>State Sen. Thomas B. Love had declared his intention to run for governor as a Democrat, just months after he campaigned for Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover. For this unacceptable breach of party loyalty, the State Democratic Executive Committee wanted him off the primary ballot.

>But they could do no such thing, the Texas Supreme Court said, ruling that Texas’ election laws “jealously guard the voters’ power” by compelling state political parties to place otherwise qualified candidates on the ballot, regardless of their adherence to party rules or loyalty tests. The state’s high court has repeatedly upheld this ruling, remarking in 1958 with some frustration that “no other holding would comport with sound public policy.”

>>2575209
very nice. very nice. i see your preserved fish and I raise you praisegod barebone

https://soyjak.st/soy/thread/14148208.html

KEKKK THEY ARE SCARED OF US

>>2575232
I just got one of my friends on the janny team to wipe /soy/
Bordiga won btw

>>2575232
I'd be more worried about Rapeape and 4chan trying to spread influence indirectly than I would be us.

>>2575232
screencap
i dont want to go there

>>2574388
KEK

>>2575206
Can you talk me about D.A.R.E.? It is late and I am not American so I don't really care for USian shitty drug programs

>>2575217
Nice assumptions but I am not and never have been a christian, and I do not think sex is something bad, it is something great, when done responsibly, this is, with condoms, STI screening and sexual exclusivity (be it a fwb, your partner or your partners, given that all of these don't have casual sex, this doesn't seem like a really christian position, right?)

>There's tons of real world data showing that trying to scare kids away from having or experimenting with sex doesn't work while giving them factual information and the means of dealing with it leads to much better outcomes.
Post them. Anyways, you and >>2575206 misinterpreted me and think I want to scare children off sex. I don't, I just think we shouldn't tell 5-year-old about sex and just know how to say not when an adult is trying to touch them/their parts, and leave the sex part for later, with sex-positive education that empathizes on the risk of sexual promiscuity and STIs, and how the safest sex is no sex/sex in a sexual exclusivity/non-penetrative sex
And is your data about 5 year olds or teenagers?
>vid
It is age restricted, I can't see it

>>2575217
is that vanessa from fnaf?

>>2575228
Yeah, I keep forgetting google doesn't work any more.

>>2575233
>Nice assumptions but
It doesn't really matter if you're a christoid or not if you're saying christoid things for christoid reasons. Some real "I'm not a racist but" *most racist shit you ever heard* type shit.

>Post them.
I just did. Do Communists Have Better Sex is a documentary about the national differences in sex education and sexual culture that developed between East and West Germany, with East Germany taking a facts and figures approach and West Germany a christoid abstinence only approach, with predictable results.

I don't really get the impression you actually care so I'm not going to spend my time looking for things for you when you're not going to bother reading them. If you want to though the data for the US states which practice scare based and abstinence only "sex ed" methods and those that do fact based methods is out there and available, so best of luck.

>>2575249
>you're saying christoid things for christoid reasons
Saying that polygamy and fwb are okay is christoid now? All the things I said above include homosexual sexuality/sodomy, I don't really see how speaking highly of a sin is a christoid behaviour.

>I just did
As I said, it is age restricted, I have tried to search for it but only film review websites appear.

>scare based
As I said, I do not want this, but you seem to be stuck on the idea that I am a rural christian american for some reason

>>2575228
The below cited quotes are from the first result under "does early childhood sex education make children sexually active sooner" on DuckDuckGo. This is not difficult information to find. This is a very well-researched topic globally due to the extreme prevalence of sexual violence worldwide, particularly against girls.

>>2575233
>Post them.
Considering the general intellectual level of this site, I don't believe any of you will actually read them beyond the abstract of an academic paper. Attached are a few on this subject, and quoted below is from an ABC interview with a Professor of Education:
<Reasons for a reluctance to discuss sex often include concerns it might ruin children's innocence, encourage an unhealthy curiosity about sex, or lead to early sexual activity.
<But is there any evidence to suggest this is the case?
<Absolutely not, says Debbie Ollis, an associate professor of education at Deakin University.
<Dr Ollis says: "In actual fact, what a number of studies shows is that by providing comprehensive sexuality education, young people actually delay the onset of sexual activity."
<"And for kids who are sexually active, the research shows that they participate in much safer practices around sexual activity."
…
<A review by UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation) provides some hard data on how sexuality education can influence behaviour.
<The review looked at 87 studies from around the world and found none of the programs led to earlier sexual activity in young people.
<It also found more than a third of the sexuality education programs increased condom or contraceptive use, while more than half reduced sexual risk-taking.
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2574520
>>>2574203 (You)
>blah blah
אתה יהודי או גוי?

BIGGEST TRVKE

There will always be Communists who side with Lenin, Stalin, Mao, etc in general support for national liberation movements.
There will always be Communists who side with Luxemburg, Pannekoek, Bordiga, etc and oppose it for varying reasons.
And of course there will always be those who take a stance somewhere in-between on the national question, such as the followers of Trotsky.

We can argue the theoretical positions for the rest of our lives while quoting one pamphlet or another.
But regardless of the theoretical positions, all Communists are opposed to the ongoing genocide, settler colonialism, racial apartheid and we all support armed revolutionary resistance to imperialism. Even if we disagree on what the eventual state in Palestine should be like.
Instead of the autistic and pointless infighting which is fine during times of relative calm, during a time of crisis like the present isn't it better that we focus on more urgent matters and wider issues facing Palestine today which unite us?
Rather than this focus on the specifics of the character of the nation that ultimately emerges, which is something we currently have no influence over given most factions in Palestine are not Marxist but Islamist in nature?

Every day there are more stories of "Israeli" and American atrocities against the Palestinians, every day the situation on the ground changes.
This isn't the time for hypotheticals, we must deal with the situation as we find it.

>>2573839
>according to the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principle of Self-Determination of all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR as articulated in Stalin’s “Marxism and the National Question” https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm and Lenin’s “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination” https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm , along with the National Delimitation Policy of the USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_delimitation_in_the_Soviet_Union ,

Really bro, that's your reasoning? Your religious texts said we'll all live happily ever after?

>>2575222
How do you organize for these things in a socialist context? Especially when there is no real American leftist party or movement?

>>2575231
You don't because they are retarded anti-social garbage that will get you laughed at at best and at worst just give more ammo for rightists to rally people against socialism

>>2575235
>nooo what are the rightoids going to think about us!
once again the ""lefty"" /pol/er reveals himself

>>2575239
Do you have difficulty reading or something? Where did I say the concern is what rightists are gonna think of us?

This retarded garbage you are peddling is simply repelant and anyone in the right or that isn't insane can use it as ammo to ridicule the movement because of how out of touch with reality it is

>>2575235
>respectability politics

>>2574851
Why is this place filled with promiscuity-promoting and sex-obsessed people?

>>2575222
Sarcasm is funnier without a <sarcasm> tag, the great thing about it is when the other person understands it, it builds a connections between the two (or more) of you. It shows you two understand each other.

>>2575108
this is hong kong we're discussing

2 National Guard Troops Shot Near White House
Vito Maggiolo, the public information officer for the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Service Department, confirmed that first responders transported all three people from the scene to the hospital, and unnamed law enforcement officials told multiple media outlets that the Guard members were in critical condition.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/shooting-near-white-house

Computer maker HP to cut up to 6,000 jobs by 2028 as it turns to AI
Announcing a lower-than-expected profit outlook for the coming year, HP said it would cut between 4,000 and 6,000 jobs by the end of October 2028. It has about 56,000 employees. “As we look ahead, we see a significant opportunity to embed AI into HP to accelerate product innovation, improve customer satisfaction and boost productivity,” said the California company’s chief executive, Enrique Lores.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/26/computer-maker-hp-to-cut-up-to-6000-jobs-by-2028-as-it-turns-more-to-ai

City of Los Angeles paid millions for homeless beds that did not exist
Last April, the City of Los Angeles reported to a district court that the Lincoln Safe Sleep Village, a homeless site in South Los Angeles, had 88 beds, but when a court-appointed monitor checked in June, she found only 44. The site, a makeshift campground on parking lots adjacent to the abandoned Lincoln Theater, is run by the nonprofit Urban Alchemy, which holds a $2.3 million contract to operate it.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/26/zumc-n26.html

Just After Settling With Trump DOJ, RealPage Sues New York Over Ban on Algorithmic Rent-Setting
After securing a corporate-friendly settlement with the Trump Justice Department earlier this week, the real estate software company RealPage on Wednesday turned its attention to the state of New York, suing to block a recently enacted law aimed at preventing algorithmic rent-setting that haPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Ezra Klein Needs to Look More Closely at His Housing Chart
Ezra Klein had a classic column in the New York Times today where he advertises in his title, “America’s Housing Crisis, in One Chart.” The chart he highlights — new housing units per capita — is informative, but not quite in the way he says. The chart shows the cyclical ups and downs in the housing market and then a massive plunge in construction following the collapse of the housing bubble in 2007-2008. Construction falls to one-third the long period average by 2010. It gradually creeped up so that it was 75 percent of the long period average by the pandemic. It rose somewhat further after the start of the pandemic, fueled by low interest rates and increased demand. Klein looks at his chart and sees massive underbuilding of housing which he attributes primarily to excessive government restrictions on building, such as zoning and outdated safety requirements. I look at his chart and see the lasting devastation to the housing market that resulted from letting a bubble grow unchecked in the first decade of this century.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/26/ezra-klein-needs-to-look-more-closely-at-his-housing-chart/

Medicare for All Disappeared. Its Popularity Didn’t.
In early 2020, all roads in American politics led to Medicare for All. The policy demand, shorthand for a universal, tax-funded, single-payer health insurance plan, began its ascent four years prior when it was elevated by Bernie Sanders’s first presidential campaign. Over the intervening years, its popularity soared, and debate became intense. By the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, everyone had an opinion, and where you stood seemed to say everything about your core values and fundamental worldview. For the rising economic populist left, Medicare for All was the flagship demand — the purest expression of the Sanders movement’s ethos, promising to mobilize ordinary working-class people en masse, across lines of political and demographic difference, in a necessary challenge to capitalist domination and exploitation. The Medicare for All army came equipped with political arguments, economic projections, policy papers, physicians’ opinions, patient testimonies, and regiments of self-taught true believers readyPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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