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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO GRANDE DIA
"Em 11 de setembro de 2025, a Primeira Turma do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) condenou o ex-presidente Jair Bolsonaro, por quatro votos a um, a 27 anos e 3 meses de prisão, com início em regime fechado. O tribunal considerou Bolsonaro culpado pelos crimes de tentativa de golpe de Estado e conspiração para assassinato. A corte concluiu que, após sua derrota nas eleições de 2022, Bolsonaro articulou um complô que incluía um plano para assassinar o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva e outros líderes, com o objetivo de se manter no poder"
O covil dos webcomunas no BR

Último fio: >>11091
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/USApol/🇺🇸

🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<Kanceled KKKimmel edition.


The most popular thread on lefytpol returns once again for a new edition.

🏈 💵 🌭 🍔

🛠️ Strike Tracker ⚒️
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/

🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md

📺 Live News 📺
(sponsored by USAID)
• CNN: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us

Live Protest Streams
https://woke.net/

Epstein's Client List DOES NOT EXIST
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/

Track Zionazis
https://www.trackaipac.com/

Previous Thread: >>2482880

Remember we do this bullshit everyday
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/leftybritpol/ What Would Orwell Think? edition

FIGHT BACK, OR DIE!

>Elon Musk told the far-right rally that "violence is going to come to you. You either fight back, or you die."


Ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence?
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visionboard rant\venting

I just Wish I Was a skinny-albino super pretty prettyboy, spending my time trough rich parent's money; in arcades, fashion shopping malls, collecting prize machine toys\ temu trash\ thrift store and street fair nostalgia items and toys.
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18/09 - French Riot & Strike Day

Big french riot day in the follow up of the 10!

Share your lives, news etc…

A lot of high schools and uni blocked. Main demo at Lyon, Rennes, Marseille started this morning. Paris should start at 2PM
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pro-war socialists

how did fascists come out of the pro-war section of the italian socialist party? the argument for italy's entrance into ww1 seems to make sense from a socialist perspective, reads like most national liberation movements that come out now so how and why did they flip to such a reactionary degree ?
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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 14

Reestablishing this thread because the last unanchored one is gone.
Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv

leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html

bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
https://archive.is/pCecr
previous thread: >>2412519
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #257

Masha and the Bear (RELOADED) edition.

Previous: >>2455657

Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine

https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/

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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY

Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/

Watch Together
📺 News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast

Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8

📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4

📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q

📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo

<Current Happenings

📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary

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Social media
>Twitter
https://twitter.com/GeromanAT
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<Telegram

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law of attraction\reality shifting

I will work extremely hard to make this Bill, BE PASSED in 3d reality
>Georgia House of Representatives - 1995/1996 Sessions HB 1274 - Death penalty; guillotine provisions
>To amend Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the death penalty generally, so as to provide a statement of legislative policy; to provide for death by guillotine; to provide for applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: SECTION 1.
I'm gonna bring back the Guillotines.
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Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
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CLASS WAR DECLARATION MIX FROM THE THAI LABOUR MUSEUM STORAGE ROOM
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Materialist explanation for this phenomenon in online politiKKKs?
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ACP lol

What's their fucking problem? Their membership ranges from genuine MLs all the way to reactionary rejects. Do they think the way to build communism is to adopt all the worst and most aggravating positions held by the now defunct black hammer?
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>grabs your arm
>with the other hand gets a syringe with a live full strength pertusis bacteria in it ready
>injects you with it

Have fun!
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Eugenicist Canadian healthcare system murders baby for being disabled

We frequently talk about how eugenics is the ideological backbone of capitalism and how nearly every aspect of capitalism is rooted in eugenics. This happens even in capitalist countries with “universal” healthcare such as Canada, where a hospital recently killed a baby girl by denying her a much-needed liver transplant. Why? Because she had Down Syndrome.

>Krystal Vanderbrugghen gave birth to her daughter, Veya, in December of 2023. She was born with Down syndrome and a congenital heart defect (CHD). Though Veya was able to have a successful heart repair, she then began experiencing complications with her liver.


>In an interview with Live Action News, Vanderbrugghen said Veya is a medically complex child, but her liver has been an ongoing problem, which took nearly a year to diagnose.


>As the hospital attempted treatment with multiple procedures last year, Veya then contracted Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) — which is mild in adults, but can be life-threatening for infants, the elderly, or people with compromised immune systems. “That really knocked her down,” Vanderbrugghen said.


But then, this year, something even more frightening occurred.

>“… [T]he more alarming thing that happened was she was overdosed on January 6th of this year with potassium… 10 times the amount of what she normally receives,” Vanderbrugghen told Live Action News. “… [S]he usually gets two doses of potassium in a day. Each are drawn up as 1.5 milliliters. And on that day, she got two syringes filled with 15 milliliters of potassium. So that sent her heart rate to 350 beats per minute, and they had to use cardioversion shocks on her three times to stabilize her.”


>Initially, Vanderbrugghen assumed it was an honest mistake. But due to subsequent events, she’s now questioning if it was truly an accident.


>Just two weeks after this terrifying incident in January, the family met with Veya’s team of doctors treating her liver condition. “… [E]verything we’ve done so far has not been successful,” said Vanderbrugghen. “And that’s when we learned that she was denied a transplant, which left us questioning a lot of things.”


>The reason for the family’s confusion is because all of Veya’s “individual system teams — like cardiology, nephrology, respirology, all of them — said she would do great, and she’s allowed to go for the liver transplant,” she said. The transplant team seeks feedback from those teams to help determine whether a transplant is a good course of action.


>“But [the transplant team] decided that they were looking at the big picture and said no,” Vanderbrugghen said. “And so I’ve been asking for six months, what is this ‘big picture’?”


>When Vanderbrugghen challenged Veya’s medical team, she said she was then told that the doctors “need to think about the live donor. If it’s not successful, we don’t want to put them through it.”


>Vanderbrugghen argued that “consenting adults” can choose whether or not to take the risk, “knowing that it may work or it may not work” — and urged the transplant team to leave the decision to the donor or donors.


https://www.liveaction.org/news/mom-fights-save-daughter-canadian-healthcare-dead/

This disabled baby later died of her illness on August 1. She was 20 months old and slept her entire life at the mercy of doctors who routinely denied her care BECAUSE of her disability.

So why aren’t comrades up in arms about this? Denying a baby with Down Syndrome an organ transplant because of their disability and “quality of life” sets a dangerous precedent. Imagine if autistic people were denied lifesaving care in the basis our “quality of life” wouldn’t improve and scarce organs should only go to allistic people instead? Canada is already in the middle of legalizing MAiD for neurodivergent differences just like they push MAiD on people with physical disabilities. They literally want all disabled people eradicated.

We need to stop this and demand action against eugenics.

RIP Veya and all other disabled people killed by eugenics
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Alright, it has come to my attention that anti-pornography sentiment has started to fester on this board. Often in casual discussion of pornography an anon will bring up "pornography addiction" as an implied argument against pornography, in the past I ignored such interlopers because there is no evidence of the existence of "pornography addiction." But it seems such busybodies are not interested in evidence or lack thereof, rather they bring up "pornography addiction," not out of any genuine concern, but in the form of concern trolling, they use the concept of a hypothetical addiction to pornography as an excuse to oppose pornography regardless of context.

So let's just assume that "pornography addiction" is real. You are not any kind of authority as to whether or not some stranger on an anonymous imageboard is actually suffering any kind of addiction, you have no medical license, and even if you did, bringing this up on an anonymous imageboard is more than enough to get you laughed at as the pathetic larper that you are. When you bring up "pornography addiction" in the context of an otherwise irrelevant discussion about pornography, it is obvious you are not doing so for any reason other than to demonize pornography, as you would have absolutely no way of knowing that the anons discussing pornography are actually "addicted" or simply responsibly gooning. Cease this obscurantist moralist immaterial undialectical anti-intellectual idealist nonsense immediately.
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Topics of Discussion // Emma Goldman

It seems to me that our old pro-revolutionary Anarchist literature has ceased to answer the demands of the modern day. Without going now into any discussion as to whether Anarchist literature has ever adequately dealt with the practical application of our ideas, the question at issue now is whether the time has not come for a new and more popular interpretation of our ideas, particularly in light of the World War, the Russian Revolution and the subsequent vital social developments.

I feel that with the almost generally admitted fact of the bankruptcy of Socialism and the growing conviction of the failure of Bolshevism and of revolutionary party dictatorship, the opportunities for Anarchist propaganda have immeasurably increased. People demand to now what Anarchism really is; they want an exposition of our ideas that they can clearly understand; they demand to know how it will work and how it is to come about.

Now, can we refer them to the old Anarchist literature with any hope of their finding there a direct and clear answer to their pressing questions? I personally feel that we cannot.

Because of these considerations, very briefly state here, I have come to the conclusion that what is of the utmost need just now is a new Anarchist literature based particularly on the recent experiences of mankind; on the War, the Russian Revolution, the German Revolution, as well as on the modern development of capitalism and on the new forms that industrialism is assuming in international proportions.

The fundamental spirit of that new literature must deal primarily with the following matters:

1. The Anarchist attitude to modern life in its new political, industrial, agrarian and social aspects;

2. the problem of Anarchist propaganda in view of the new development of capitalism and of the changing relationships between capital and labor;

3. does the modern phase of capitalism justify the old Socialist and Anarchist conception of the meaning of the Social Revolution?

4. is the old conception of the social revolution not subject to revision? Have we not over-emphasized the destructive side of revolution at the great cost of its constructive phases?

The new character and the inter-relationship of the destructive and constructive sides of revolution.

5. a) The character of an Anarchist revolution; or at least of a revolution inspired by Anarchist ideas and spirit;

b) the question of political parties, of dictatorship and of the State in the Revolution;

6. The place of the labor unions and the role of Anarcho-syndicalism in the revolution;

7. The manner and methods of the revolution developing along Anarchist lines toward the ultimate Anarchist society;

8. Means and ways of beginning NOW the educational and preparatory of work of inspiring the revolution with the Anarchist spirit and ideals;

What is to prevent the repetition of the Bolshevik experiment in the next revolution?

9. The new literature dealing with these matters in a direct, concise and popular form and language.

The above is merely a brief general outline of the issues to be discussed, a few preliminary suggestions.
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Both /pol/ and /leftypol/ are the same exact fucking thing, same bullshit, both of you people are clearly manifestations of yaldabaothic energies and it’s clear that neither of you really give a shit about anyone
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why are leftcoms an antisocial tendency?

why does it seem that whenever marxists post relevant studies, articles, books it's always very precise, to the point, relevant to the topic at hand; while when leftcoms post books here, they are usually not relevant, or a debate from 50 years ago in one sect, pseudointellectual nonsense? has anyone else noticed this? it seems like they haven't read the books they spam and are very ecclectic in their takes (i've seen them post anarchist alongside left-communist literature, indicating their ideological confusion).

i've also noticed that the leftcom spazs around here just scream at clouds at this point because almost everytime their replies reduce down to accusations of taking perverse pleasure in the genocide of proletarians, which is completely ridiculous. and i've noticed leftcoms never have anything relevant about organization to say. i also do not know any leftcom that is organized or isn't a complete social outcast.

why does this happen?

posting two rare lenins alongside
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/ISG/ - Internet Spectacle General

A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.
Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!

Reminder That None of This Is Real!
ɢʀᴀʙ ᴀ ᴘᴀɪʀ ᴏꜰ sᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀᴄʟᴇs

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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ

<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin

📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA

>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer

📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY

<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan

📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE

>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs

<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault

📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko

>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard

📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs

<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek

📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4

<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze

📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY

>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson

📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI

<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida

📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q

>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI

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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory

📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30

📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI

📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo

📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw


<Documentaries

The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA

Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc

HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco


>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)

We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y

Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg

The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs

Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw

The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI


<Situationist Archives

https://situationist.org/
https://notbored.org/SI.html
https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm

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RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/

Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
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⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡠⠊⣠⠖⠁⣰⡀⢕⢕⢎⢔⡸⡢⠪⠃⡇⢐⣾⢣⠪⠕⢇⠳⡈⣄⢑⡂⠄⣧⢸⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⠉⣒⣀⢈⣀⣤⠠⠈⠁⡀⠙⠦⣈⠂⠅⠨⠨⢐⠢⠈⠓⣅⣼⣒⣒⠿⠽⠛⠛⠛⠟⠷⠶⣤⣄⡀⡀⡀⡀
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⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⢰⡀⣿⡇⡇⡢⢜⢡⡸⢌⢅⠆⣠⣇⡇⡀⡀⡀⡀⡳⡀⠈⣦⡈⡀⡀⠠⡀⠉⢦⡀⠸⠈⠉⢊⣂⢀⡀⡀⡀⡇⡀⡇⠂⠁⠅⡀⡤⡀⣿⠨⠕⢑⠨⠨⢅⠨⠅⠨⠅⠌⢐⠌⢐⠌⡀⠻⣄⡆⡀⡀
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⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⣸⡀⡀⢧⣿⡀⡀⡀⡄⠑⠐⠈⣦⡀⠈⡀⠳⡀⡀⠓⠤⢚⠄⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⡀⠠⡀⡀⢠⢸⡀⠛⡵⣼⣸⣿⠶⠚⢠⠒⠒⠒⠒⠲⠤⡐⠂⡐⠐⠠⡈⠳⣛⡀⡀⡀⡀
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Hasan is next.

Sleep tight everyone! Hasan is next and all of you weirdos are going to jail! HAHAHAHAHSHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHSHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHSHSHSHSHAHHAHAHAHA
R: 11 / I: 2

Outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist(CPI-M) and other Naxals Surrender

Previously outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) that had been fighting a decentralized insurgency against the Government of India in states like Chattisgarh, has surrendered along with other Naxal fighters has surrendered and offered a ceasefire and supposed "peace-talks".

>https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/raipur/chhattisgarh-cpi-maoist-announces-to-suspend-armed-struggle-calls-for-peace-talks-with-centre/articleshow/123927943.cms

>https://www.firstpost.com/india/maoists-offer-giving-up-armed-insurgency-seek-ceasefire-and-peace-talks-with-centre-13934482.html
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Indian leftists are so fucking weird man. I don't know if there's another group of leftists from a third world non-white country that does any of the following:

>defend western colonialism because your own people were apparently worse

>dismiss or even affirm racism against your own people overseas so you can own the chuds in your country
>gleefully bash your own people in front of foreign company

Like bruh. Hindutva types are crazy and all, but your average ambedkarite doesn't seem any less retarded lol.
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Its mask off

Antifa is now being designated as a terrorist organization despite the fact that it’s not even an organization and has no centralized leadership. So now anyone who describes themselves as anti-fascist is now a terrorist.
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Political implications of more Americans converting to Catholicism?

The American right was heavily associated with Evangelical idpol for the past 50 years. They became the cultural backbone of the GOP from the 80s to the late 2000s. Now it appears like a huge number of former Evangelicals are converting to Catholicism. I even know some ex-Mormons who are Catholic now.

At the same time, it seems like leftists are embracing Catholicism too. Remember when everyone was convinced Pope Francis was a secret socialist? Jacobin mag goes out of their way with appealing to Catholics as well (every other article of theirs is something along the lines of: “Move over pink-haired bipolar feminist queers, here’s why the Catholic Church are the REAL socialists!”). People like Dorothy Day are propped up even though her actual contributions to the American left were minimal and symbolic at best (the Catholic Worker also referred to the priests killed by /ourguys/ in Catalonia as “martyrs” which is disgusting). Not to mention, the Jacobin crowd seems very big on appealing to right-wing Catholic sentiments like complaining about birthrates being too low and proposing Bernie-style policies like universal healthcare to “fix” it, as if low birthrates are a problem to begin with.

But anyway, if Catholicism becomes a major cultural force in America in the next few years how do you see it affecting the political landscape?
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Places for Succdem/Demsucc Bitching?

Worst place to bring this stuff up (besides /pol/ I guess), but I'm a succdem/demsucc I guess (I'm not really into labels) and first learned about /leftypol/ from seeing an ad for it on Jacobin of all places (which is bizarre given leftypol's disdain for democractic socialists and Jacobin but idk wht that happened, maybe others can tell me). Having skimmed through it, I realized this isn't the right place for someone like me given it's mainly MLs and hardline commies here, and if I'm being honest, I find them to be irrelevant fringe morons that I don't wanna get involved with. What are some better places for a shithead succdem/demsucc disillusioned and frustrated with the state of politics in America and the world post-2020/2024 to bitch online about it and shit on leftists (especially American leftists) for being ineffectual dipshits who couldn't enact change if their lives depended on it? Like, is there a democratic socialist equivalent to leftypol that may be better for someone in my position, if such a thing even exists? I'm probably gonna get told to kill myself, but I may as well ask since I assume a lot of you guys were in a similar position in their political journey as I am, and I'm curious to see what you guys say.
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Costa Rica

¿Que piensan de Costa Rica?

¿Que piensan del actual gobernador de Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves?


Vivo aquí y no sé si hay alguien más de Centroamérica o Costa Rica con el cual discutir. Este país se ha vendido a narcos, es bastante conservador y es más una muestra de cómo los gringos convirtieron otra nación en Puerto Rico 2.0.
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Wonder Woman vs Goku thread

Yeah that’s right, I think this matchup is actually one of the closest fiction has to offer and is far more plausible than the decades long Goku vs superman debates. Superman is a lazily written brawler whose strongest forms (one million and cosmic armour) aren’t even canon to the main plot. Superman has also lost a lot of times in canon to Diana in open combat just off the fact that Diana is far more skilled and experienced in close quarters combat than superman could ever dream to be. This ultimately makes the debate between who would win in this matchup a lot more interesting. A literal demigod trained by gods possessing untold levels of martial prowess and power vs an alien whose trained in martial arts his whole life developing some of the strongest powerups and fighting techniques known to fiction who has also been trained by dieties.
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Beauty

How can socialists bring beauty back into the arts, especially in music?

Beauty has transcendent qualities which are as important for socialists as they are for Christians and the peoples of old. When you are surrounded by nothing but ugly, you start to see the world as nothing but ugly, and begin to lose faith in your fellow working man. Beauty thus builds a sense of solidarity between workers as much as it builds a connection between the spiritual and the material. "Beauty is truth."

Our music today is disgusting. Most of it is chaotic, distorted and off-kilter. Music sampling, which makes up the backbone of hip hop and electronic music, has turned producers into god-men and has completely destroyed the collectivist element of music creation. The Soviet Union, meanwhile, had public orchestras play for the people out in the open free of charge. China bans hip hop and teachers its youth classical music as any socialist nation should.

Beauty is crucial to socialism and we must use socialism to bring it back.
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/leftydeutschpol/ - DB-Edition

Neuigkeiten

<Unpünktlich wie die Eisenbahn; verspätet auf maroden Strecken zu hohen Preisen: DB-Konzern überbietet jedes Jahr seine Negativrekorde

https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503080.versp%C3%A4tungen-bei-der-bahn-unp%C3%BCnktlich-wie-die-eisenbahn.html
<Rot gewinnt; Präsidentsschaftskandidatin in Chile ist von der KP
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503066.kommunisten-rot-gewinnt.html

<Gideon Levy über Massaker der israelischen Armee an Hungernden in Gaza

https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/503098.dokumentiert-gideon-levy-%C3%BCber-massaker-der-israelischen-armee-an-hungernden-in-gaza.html

<NATO-Manöver am Niederrhein: Kriegsvorbereitung statt Sicherheit

https://www.rf-news.de/2025/kw27/nato-manoever-am-niederrhein-kriegsvorbereitung-statt-sicherheit

<Parteitag der DKP

https://www.unsere-zeit.de/live-ticker-vom-26-parteitag-der-dkp/

<Maja T. ins Haftkrankenhaus verlegt

https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192276.budapest-komplex-maja-t-in-haftkrankenhaus-verlegt.html
R: 1 / I: 0

furry anon did it again

>desperate for frens
>find a zoophile of all people on a tf2 discord server
>join their zoophile discord server
>chill for a week

>feel *really* bad

>say some psychotic shit to a member whom i trusted for some reason
>they leaked the dms to a moderator of one of the two zoophile discord servers i was in, got banned from one

>decided to oust him as a zoophile to his "favourite server" which he got his discord tag from

im quitting discord :D
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why don’t they just have more children?
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Autistic Pride and Anti-Greg manifesto

Daily reminder that most NTs will always hate autists on a subconscious level no matter how hard you try to "mask". Don't let the bad NTs and the crabs (e.g. Gregs) tear you down.
I will NOT:
>mask
>engage in small talk
>look you in the eye
>keep up with the latest fashion and trends
I WILL:
>stim and fidget in public
>infodump about special interests
>walk on my toes
>speak in a flat affect
>have meltdowns whenever I am inconvenienced by normies in the slightest
>be my authentic self and you WILL put up with it
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Update on the fallout of the South Korean coup attempt

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/06/urgent-appeal-stop-the-judicial-coup-in-south-korea-and-defend-democracy/
>Urgent Appeal: Stop the Judicial Coup in South Korea and Defend Democracy
<On May 1, 2025, South Korea’s Supreme Court issued a politically charged decision that overturned the acquittal of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, the leading candidate in the upcoming presidential election, on charges of election law violation. Lee had endured intense repression under the administration of impeached former president Yoon Suk-yeol, having been subjected to investigation by over 200 government prosecutors, but despite countless allegations, these nearly non-stop investigations failed to result in a conviction. Now, with South Korea gearing up for a historic snap election on June 3, 2025 following Yoon’s ouster, authorities are once again attempting to convict Lee to remove him from the political playing field.
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Grace Alunya Fanfic

Gather around for story time
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I'm making a whole new thread on this because mods never answer any questions in the meta thread, so I hope they won't consider this spam. I'm trying to be considerate and ask a serious question here.

Why are anons getting banned for merely mentioning lolicon? >>42785 This is the most recent example but I've seen it happen before.
There is a site that hosts lolicon porn permanently linked on the top bar, but if any anon here posts or links to lolicon, or even mentions it in passing in any other context they get banned? I saw someone link a slice of life manga with a shota character in it a week ago on /siberia/, and it got removed. It wasn't even pornographic. How exactly is this a reasonably action? That is not a rhetorical question, I seriously want to know if there is a decent explanation for the mods actions here, I want to know why they do this.

Also literally nobody likes the feral ban BTW, but it seems now porn is banned altogether so whatever.
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Lula: Brazilian Democracy and Sovereignity are Non-Negotiable

I decided to write this essay to establish an open and frank dialogue with the president of the United States. Over decades of negotiation, first as a union leader and later as president, I have learned to listen to all sides and to take into account all the interests at stake. That is why I have carefully examined the arguments that have been put forward by the Trump administration to impose a 50 percent tariff on Brazilian products.

Bringing American jobs back and reindustrialization are legitimate motivations. When in the past the United States has raised the banner of neoliberalism, Brazil warned of its harmful effects. Seeing the White House finally acknowledge the limits of the so-called Washington Consensus, a policy prescription of minimal social protection, unrestricted trade liberalization and overall deregulation dominant since the 1990s, vindicated the Brazilian position.

But resorting to unilateral action against individual states is to prescribe the wrong remedy. Multilateralism offers fairer and more balanced solutions. The tariff increase imposed on Brazil this summer is not only misguided but illogical. The United States is not running a trade deficit with our country, nor is it subject to high tariffs. Over the past 15 years, it has accumulated a surplus of $410 billion in bilateral trade in goods and services. Nearly 75 percent of U.S. exports to Brazil enter duty-free. By our calculation, the average effective tariff on American products is just 2.7 percent. Eight out of the 10 main items face zero tariffs, including oil, aircraft, natural gas and coal.

The lack of economic rationale behind these measures makes it clear that the motivation of the White House is political. The deputy secretary of state, Christopher Landau, reportedly said as much earlier this month to a group of Brazilian business leaders who were working to open negotiation channels. The U.S. government is using tariffs and the Magnitsky Act to seek impunity for former President Jair Bolsonaro, who orchestrated a failed coup attempt on Jan. 8, 2023, in an effort to subvert the popular will expressed at the ballot box.

I am proud of the Brazilian Supreme Court for its historic decision on Thursday, which safeguards our institutions and the democratic rule of law. This was not a “witch hunt.” The judgment was the result of proceedings carried out in accordance with Brazil’s 1988 Constitution, enacted after two decades of struggle against a military dictatorship. It followed months of investigations that uncovered plans to assassinate me, the vice president and a Supreme Court justice. Authorities also discovered a draft decree that would have effectively annulled the 2022 election results.

The Trump administration has furthermore accused the Brazilian justice system of targeting and censoring American tech companies. Those allegations are false. All digital platforms, whether domestic or foreign, are subject to the same laws in Brazil. It is dishonest to call regulation censorship, especially when what is at stake is the protection of our families against fraud, disinformation and hate speech. The internet cannot be a land of lawlessness where pedophiles and abusers are given free rein to prey on our children and teenagers.

Equally baseless are the administration’s allegations of unfair practices by Brazil in digital trade and electronic payment services and its alleged failure to enforce environmental laws. Contrary to being unfair to U.S. financial operators, Brazil’s digital payment system, known as PIX, has enabled the financial inclusion of millions of citizens and companies. We cannot be penalized for creating a fast, free and secure mechanism that facilitates transactions and stimulates the economy.

In the last two years, we have cut the rate of deforestation in the Amazon by half. In 2024 alone, the Brazilian police seized hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of assets used in environmental crimes. But the Amazon will still be in danger if other countries fail to do their part in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Rising global temperatures could turn the rainforest into a savanna, disrupting rainfall patterns across the entire hemisphere, including the American Midwest.

When the United States turns its back on a relationship of more than 200 years, such as the one it maintains with Brazil, everyone loses. There are no ideological differences that should prevent two governments from working together in areas where they have common goals.

President Trump, we remain open to negotiating anything that can bring mutual benefits. But Brazil’s democracy and sovereignty are not on the table. In your first address to the United Nations General Assembly in 2017, you said that “strong sovereign nations let diverse countries with different values, different cultures and different dreams not just coexist, but work side by side on the basis of mutual respect.” This is how I see the relationship between Brazil and the United States: two great nations capable of respecting each other and cooperating for the good of Brazilians and Americans.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/opinion/lula-da-silva-brazil-trump-bolsonaro.html
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im unironically angry i was born in country that has such a terrible PR, almost like india. im tired of thinking people hate my cuntry or people who look like me because of what they heard or seen, wish i was born in japan or some other place that people over fetishize and glazed up instead of get dusgusted or paranoid at

look at dis shit, ironic or not ironic, which i was from a people who had such a very nice global image as rich or cultured, fuck it i wish russia, china, iran india the entire middle east didn't have a really hated image of dictators and barbaric shitholes, this is not a happy reality
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Leftybooru Feedback Thread

This thread is for feedback, suggestions, complaints, questions etc. regarding leftybooru, the main image repository used by /leftypol/

https://lefty.pictures/

Leftybooru FAQ and Rules:
https://lefty.pictures/wiki/help:home
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Really makes you think.
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/US-Venezuela war/ US invasion of Venezuela, nothingburger or actual happening?

Is Venezuela about to be fucking invaded?

>Venezuela mobilizes its militia after US says it’s deploying military forces to waters around Latin America:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/americas/venezuela-maduro-militia-us-military-deployment-intl-latam
>US destroyers head toward waters off Venezuela as Trump aims to pressure drug cartels:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-destroyers-maduro-drug-cartels-e33794ebc24d9031e536d132ce205b4c
>Donald Trump Deploys 3 Missile Destroyers: What to Know:
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-missile-destroyers-venezuela-drug-cartels-2115786
>Proposed United States invasion of Venezuela:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_United_States_invasion_of_Venezuela
>Estados Unidos, “dispuesto a usar todo su poder” contra el narcotráfico desde Venezuela:
https://elpais.com/us/2025-08-19/estados-unidos-dispuesto-a-usar-todo-su-poder-contra-el-narcotrafico-desde-venezuela.html

I don't know if you've heard the news, but several US ships have sailed towards Venezuela's coast in order to "combat drug trafficking". Someone investigate the ships to see if they're old to see if they gonna false-flag Venezuela. I know that Nothing Ever Happens, but Trump has already put a price to Maduro's head and these news… I think something's cooking, something's sizzling.

Just making this thread in the case to discuss this, and to see if there are further happenings. I'm going to be honest, I'm getting bad vibes from this.
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Having trouble relating to other trans people.

Why can’t I relate to other trans people? I just can’t relate to the level of comfort and pride and self-love many of them have. It genuinely seems like so many of them don’t have the part of the brain that makes them cringe. They’re just so unfiltered and unapologetic, I just can’t relate at all, I constantly feel like a gross disgusting excuse for a woman and feel scared interacting with the world as one. I don’t know why I cling so strongly onto this meekness, maybe it’s misogyny, I just associate being boisterous and loud with being masculine. I can’t relate to how willing they are to make cringy niche trans memes to their cis friends. I just am so anxious to discuss transness in any open forum where I know cis people might see it. I admit I still have this kind of backwards view that being trans is something shameful and it would be better to stealth if possible. Idk what to do, I want this level of comraderie other trans people have but being in trans spaces, especially trans women spaces just makes me cringe, it either feels like it’s full of very bro-ish sorts of trans women who are unapologetically masculine, or trans women who feel sort of overly preformatively feminine. I genuinely just can’t relate to most of trans culture right now.
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LGBT+ General 3

MadoHomu Exedra edition
Previous Thread:
>>618934
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waifuism forum

2dpill.me is a community where you can take the 2dpill and talk about your waifus. no, we are not incels. we neither jerk off to 3dpd nor are desperate for a 3d girlfriend/wife
feel free to lurk or come join our community and get to learn more and make some friends you are not alone
we reserve the right to remove any content deemed too low-quality and inflammatory, and ban anyone very likely to be outsider trolls
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America

I made it myself, Its a drawing of Uncle Sam riding a drone over the Middle East. What do you think?

The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short
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News 9/17/25

New French PM faces massive strikes amid perilous budget talks
The scale of the protests will help the new prime minister gauge the depth of widespread discontent across the country. Authorities are planning to deploy more than 80,000 members of the security forces and 24 armored vehicles across the country, an impressive show of force rarely seen since the 2018-2019 Yellow Jackets protests. Workers from France’s railway, aviation and education sectors are all set to walk out, which appears likely to bring the country to a near halt.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-new-pm-sebastien-lecornu-massive-strikes-amid-budget-talks/
https://archive.ph/K4Tea

Plaid Cymru and Reform UK almost neck and neck in Senedd voter intention poll
COMPETITION to become the largest party in Wales is turning into a neck-and-neck battle between Plaid Cymru and Reform UK, new polling has indicated. An ITV survey of voting intentions showed Plaid on 30 per cent and Reform close behind on 29 per cent, while Labour slumped to just 14 per cent. Translating into seats after the Senedd election next May, Reform could have 37 members versus Labour’s 11.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/plaid-cymru-and-reform-uk-almost-neck-and-neck-senedd-voter-intention-poll

Bus drivers at three Greater Manchester companies to take four days of strike action
The members of the Unite union work for bus companies who rank among the largest and most profitable in the UK—Stagecoach, Metroline and First Bus. The planned walkout will shut down two-thirds of the Greater Manchester network. This itself shows the operational grip of the private operators functioning collectively under the “Bee Network”, the franchised public transport system including the Metrolink tram/light rail service overseen by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM). This is controlled by the 10 councils in the combined authority and led by Labour Mayor Andy Burnham.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/17/nfnz-s17.html

Students, teachers, and workers to march in a mass protest against Milei
Tens of thousands of students, teachers, and workers will march in the streets in cities across Argentina on September 17, for the Federal University March. The national mobilization was called for by the Argentine University Federation (FUA), the Trade Union Front, and the National Interuniversity Council (CIN), and numerous progressive groups and trade union fronts have pledged support and that they will join them on the streets.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/17/students-teachers-and-workers-to-march-in-a-mass-protest-against-milei/

Argentina's Milei to partially privatize nuclear power plants operator
The Milei administration intends to sell 44% of the shares of Nucleoelectrica Argentina (NA-SA), which operates the Atucha I, Atucha II and Embalse power plants, through an international public tender, spokesperson Manuel Adorni told a press conference.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/argentinas-milei-partially-privatize-nuclear-power-plants-operator-2025-09-16/

Transport Workers’ Protests Continue in Ecuador After Diesel Subsidy Elimination
Several transit points in northern Ecuador remained blocked this Wednesday, September 17, by protests led by transport workers in response to the executive branch’s elimination of diesel subsidies. The demonstrations were concentrated on strategic routes connecting urban and rural regions, affecting mobility and local supplies.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/transport-workers-protests-continue-in-ecuador-after-diesel-subsidy-elimination/

Thai security forces use rubber bullets and tear gas in border melee with Cambodian protesters
Thai Army spokesperson Maj. Gen. Winthai Suvaree described the situation as a Cambodian mob encroaching on Thai territory, obstructing operations and destroying official property. He said Thai authorities regarded the incident as a provocation and an intentional violation of the ceasefire agreement.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-indian-sikhs-travel-ban-guru-nanak-623c14f1c4c879c596066dff8d18104e

Romualdez resigns as House speaker amid alleged corruption, budget woes
Romualdez cited the issues hounding the government's infrastructure projects in his final speech as speaker. He said he hopes his resignation would allow the Independent Commission for Infrastructure to "pursue its mandate freely and fully." "I step down not in surrender, but in service — for sometimes, the greatest act of leadership is the grace to let go, so that this institution may endure stronger than before," Romualdez said.
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2025/09/17/2473471/romualdez-resigns-house-speaker-amid-alleged-corruption-budget-woes

Sikh leaders urge India to lift ban on pilgrims traveling to Pakistan shrine
The appeal came from Mahesh Singh, vice president of the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, the official body that manages Sikh shrines in Pakistan, where many holy places of Sikhs are located. His remarks followed the Indian government’s Sept. 12 decision to deny permission for Sikhs to cross into Pakistan for Guru Nanak’s birth anniversary, citing security concerns. There was no immediate comment from New Delhi.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-indian-sikhs-travel-ban-guru-nanak-623c14f1c4c879c596066dff8d18104e

Taliban announces internet ban in northern Afghanistan
The hardline Islamist movement has previously voiced concerns over pornography and flirtation between men and women online. It is the first such internet ban since the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021, though it has announced other measures, including stopping girls from attending high school and women from working in many fields.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/taliban-announces-ban-on-internet-in-northern-afghanistan
https://archive.ph/ioKyK
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Horse Racing General

- Games about Horse Racing,
- actual Horse Racing,
- Your favorite horse,
- related media, etc…

## Links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_racing
https://umamusu.wiki/Main_Page
Admittedly don't know much about horse racing myself so if you got more links feel free to share.
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Hentai thread

Since the old one was deleted. Remember to spoiler pics.
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Sex and Relationships General #53

It's okay to be misogynistic towards rightoid women edition
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Epstein = Israel, and Trump loves Israel

Epstein is connected to Israel, this is why Trump is covering it up. He doesn't want to risk the political fallout for Israel when people realize all of Epstein's clients were blackmailed and used as Israeli assets.

"The most concrete link is his relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Epstein and Barak met numerous times between 2013 and 2017, with Barak visiting Epstein’s properties in Florida and New York approximately 30 times, including a 2014 private flight in Florida. Barak received $2.3 million from an Epstein-associated foundation between 2004 and 2006, and Epstein invested $1 million in a limited partnership established by Barak in 2015.

Another connection stems from Epstein’s ties to Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father, Robert Maxwell, was a British media mogul alleged to have had links to the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. Some sources, including former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe, have claimed Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ran a “honey-trap” operation for Mossad to blackmail influential figures. A lawsuit by a woman identified as Jane Doe 200 alleged Epstein boasted of being a Mossad agent.

Epstein was also associated with the Wexner Foundation, which supports Jewish leadership and has ties to Israel. His financial backer, Leslie Wexner, was a member of the “Mega Group,” a collection of Jewish philanthropists, which some, like former NSA counterspy John Schindler, have speculated was linked to Israeli intelligence operations. Epstein reportedly invested in an Israeli startup, Reporty Homeland Security (later rebranded as Carbyne), connected to Israel’s defense industry, further fueling speculation."
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Question for the leftypol community

Is it just one guy who always makes posts that say "Wrong. Read so and so, you are this and that" or is that some quirk specific to this site? Thank you for your attention in this matter.
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Violators will be launched from trebuchet
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Webm Thread

Webm Thread. The old one seem to have disappeared.
Try to keep it to as much 'OC' as possible, including just things you cut yourself.
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Israel is bound to fail

Although unfortunately Israel’s ethnic displacement/genocide of the Gazans might be successful, Israel’s end goal of the “Greater Israel Project” will inevitably fail. Conquering this amount of land is hypothetically possible, the Ottomans did so. But you can’t while simultaneously killing the native population. This is like Lebensraum on steroids because you don’t even have a high population in the first place. Ethno-Suprematists are so dead set on an idea that is not true that they are bound to fail. German Nazis thought that they were so superior to Slavs that they could invade Russia during the winter, but since in reality no race is superior to another they failed. Something similar will probably happen when they invade Egypt or Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately though whenever Israel falls tons of people will have already died.
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I hate how capitalist make fun of us communists for supposedly always saying that something “Isn’t real Communism” despite the fact that they do the exact same thing when communism works like in China or Vietnam. (Not to mention the fact that the bad material conditions in Cuba are a result of an embargo that the United States refuses to end)
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So why did he do it?
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Totally Off-Topic / Weed

General Thread for randumb stuff that doesn't deserve their own new threads. And weed. I have several questions and observations, none of which are worthy of dedicated threads. Just put anything like that in here.

I'm watching that show Bosch. Why does Bosch have such stupid tattoos on his arms? Maybe you're supposed to want to read the books. They drop little hints to things that don't always pan out, and I don't think it's because they fucked up.

I have a bunch of really good weed and edibles and concentrates. My cup runneth over.
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Palestine vs The Zionist Entity 121: Official Famine edition

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-city-officially-famine-says-global-hunger-monitor-2025-08-22/

>UNITED NATIONS, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine, and it will likely spread, a global hunger monitor determined on Friday, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more aid into the Palestinian enclave.


<It was the first time the IPC has recorded famine outside of Africa, and the global group predicted that famine conditions would spread to the central and southern areas of Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of next month.



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Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective

https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org

https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv

https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine

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(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia, excessive doomer and jewish-blood-quantum posting)

Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.

الله أكبر
.الى جميع الكادحين في الشرق، ان مصيركم في ايديكم
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Republicans want to "crack down on the left" in response to Charlie Kirk's unfortunate hunting accident but what does that even mean? Who are these leftists they are going to crack down on? What leftist group has any political power in America right now? Tyler Robinson was an American white guy using his Second Amendment right to bear arms, how do the Republicans "crack down" on that?
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Destroy everything sacred

Fuck the sacred order

Fuck "the way it's always been"

Fuck class, caste, fuck expectations you are given from birth, defy them deny them

Destroy what they think is immortal

Move mountains

Build factories everywhere

Destroy nature and the natural order, AND TAKE YOUR LIVES INTO YOUR OWN HANDS

Liquidate the bourgeois as if you are tilling earth

Built a train to space.

Socialist development means former imperial core resources are spent modernising the former colonies until parity is reached, and then due to the economic efficiency of socialism there will mean exponential industrial growth throughout the galaxy.

The poor peasants they call bumpkins, idiots, genetically inferior, backwards, too primitive to understand modernity, they will become high skilled military engineers, robotics operatives, doctors, computer scientists and party politicians.

All we have to do is beat the bourgeois in AmeriKKKa, UKKK, China, and their lackeys
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I can’t bring myself to start hrt

There’s so many things that seemingly make it impossible for me to start hrt.

I have an extreme phobia of needles. It’s genuinely ruining my life. I know that there’s other forms of hrt that aren’t injections, but either way I would still need to use a needle on myself to do blood tests.

And then there’s the effects hrt has on the genitals. I would love every effect of hrt if it wasn’t for the effects it has on genitalia. I know using it will prevent atrophy, but it still won’t prevent my balls from shriveling up and the dck from shrinking. I don’t have bottom dysphoria and my genitals are one of the few parts of my body that I don’t actively hate.

And lastly, I’m afraid I’ll miss out on the experiwnce of being a gay guy. I’ve never been in a relationship as a man, but mlm relationships seem to be much more loving and deeper than straight relationships are. I’m scared I’ll never experience true love with a straight man if I transitioned to being a woman. (Especially since many men who want to date trans women are just chasers)

All of this shit just piles up to make me feel too much fear and anxiety to start hrt. I don’t know what to do
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>big noses
>hands always clasped together
>trade like "32 arrows for 15 emeralds"
>protected by golems
>seem to have religion as one of the main pillars of community
>player is incentivised to put them in concentration camps for an optimal play

Did Marksus Persson/"Notch" do that on purpose?
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/arg/ - Argentina General

SANTUCHO EDITION

El thread con más copas del mundo™

Ahora que tenemos nuestro propio board, es hora de tener nuestro propio hilo también.

Bienvenidos.
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Why are they like this

When the left talks about Zionism:
>stress the need to end the genocide
>stress the need for palestinian sovereignty
>stress the capitalist/imperialist nature of the zionist project
>stress the complicity of western leaders
>can distinguish between zionist and anti-zionist jews
>historical materialist approach

When the right talks about Zionism:
<stress the jews
<stress how the based whites in the past warned you about the jews
<stress how western governments and officials are controlled by the jews and not fully responsible for their own actions
<don't really care about palestine or genocide, just want to stop the jews
<stress the "judeobolshevik" nature of the zionist project
<cannot distinguish between zionist and anti-zionist jews or insists that such a distinction is statistically irrelevant
<ahistorical idealist approach
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I hate how the right constantly claims ownership over Masculinity!

It’s so fucking stupid how the Right claims that it’s the left that is “Soy and Gay” when they literally voted for a president who is the soyest, fattest, bitch on the planet. I could get into how the term “Masculine” is wishy washy or whatever but I would rather go with their terminology so I can disprove it. Even if they are a right winger that doesn’t like Trump this extend just to establishment republicans this extends to the far right as well, fascism is a suicidal ideology invented by a fat bald Italian bozo in which the cucked masses allow one leader to walk all over them. The right are the soy ones and the left are the chads. The right is so fucking cucked, Female anti-feminists are literally advocating for men to boss them around, Black White nationalists are advocating for White people to boss them around, and middle class capitalists are advocating for billionaires to boss them around. Being a cucked sycophant isn’t really a masculine trait last time I checked but being strong and standing up to the oppressors is.
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A Memorial to Kazimierz Mijal and Polish Communism

On September 15, 1910, 115 years ago, Kazimierz Mijal — a steadfast Polish Revolutionary Communist, an adamant opponent of revisionism and capitalist restoration in Poland, was born in Wilków. The 18th child of poor and illiterate parents, Mijal worked himself to the bone to secure an education under the backwards regime of the Republic of Poland. On the eve of world war 2, he met a young Communist painter, Jadwiga Gniewkowska, who introduced him to Marxism. They married.

When the fascists invaded Poland with ease and found fast friends among the officials of the old regime, Mijal joined the Communist guerilla fighters of the Polish Workers' Party and helped lead the struggle until the end of the war, where he became Mayor of Łódź. He was a founding member of the Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP/PZPR), a longtime member of its Central Committee, and close colleague of its First Secretary Bolesław Bierut, who he had formed a close working relationship with during their time in the guerilla war. His commitment to Revolutionary Communism led him to become one of the leaders of the opposition to "de-stalinization" and capitalist restoration in Poland under Władysław Gomułka, who was allowed back into the Party and clawed his way back into power after Stalin's death.

Gomułka could not openly move against him at first, and so slowly chipped away at the people around Mijal until he himself was removed from his posts. In response, Mijal and others founded the Communist Party of Poland and propagandized widely across the country with support from Albanian intelligence and remaining contacts from the old underground operating in industrial sites. This would be met by fierce repression by the revisionist Party, and Mijal would not return to Poland until 1983, where at 74 years old he was immediately met again with repression and imprisonment until the final complete fall of the People's Republic in 1989.

In the waning years of the People's Republic, Mijal spared little venom in his denunciations of the reactionary "Solidarity" movement and the color "revolution" it represented, while also observing that it could never have existed in the first place had Poland stayed on the socialist road in the 1950s. After the fall of the People's Republic, he would continue denouncing the new bourgeois regime and vigorously opposed Poland joining the EU and NATO. He would continue to write and attempt to reconstitute the Revolutionary Communist Party until he died in 2010.

Committed to Revolutionary Communism and socialism till the end, in an interview in 2000 Mijal stated that:
>It is said that communism lost, did not pass the exam, that Marxism is on the shelves of history and other such nonsense, theoretical nonsense! In fact, there is a revolution under the skin, the explosion is inevitable. Capitalism is on its way to falling and that is beyond doubt for me. Communism will prevail.

Be like Mijal. Dare to struggle, dare to win.
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Birthrate decline as a contradiction of capitalism

This post is just a quick informal thing to kick off discussion, I won't claim to be as informed as I should be and some of my points may be wrong.

>declining birthrates lead to shrinking economic growth and tax revenue+larger proportion of dependents, all due to a shrinking labor force

>birthrate decline (not yet population decline) is happening in most countries outside of Africa, regardless of socioeconomic development, cost of living or culture (incl. religion or "feminism")
>the most likely primary common cause is the simple availability of choice: not needing children as extra labor, more access to birth control/abortion, etc.
>>secondarily, often it is not the case that people don't want children but that they want to have them later in life and want to give their children optimal lives, e.g. being unwilling to raise children until one has a high-paying stable job; this also leads to people having less children overall
>>the chain reaction here is that the higher the standard of living gets, the bigger the opportunity cost of having children when one actually gets to DECIDE whether to have them, as well as a more demanding standard for WHEN one should have them
>the proposed liberal capitalist solutions fail to tackle the problem:
>>paying people to have children needs to cover the opportunity cost of not having them, which is already massive and will continue to increase the more an economy grows, which will eventually become unsustainable for governments
>>roundabout solutions like providing parents with tax cuts, exceptional welfare or a lower retirement age suffer from the same problem
>>even increased immigration will only stop the bleeding temporarily as the global population fails to keep up
>>automation might "cover" the decrease in labor force but at the same societal cost that massive automation will always bring

With all of the above in mind, it seems that capitalism combined with reproductive choice contains the seed of its own decline. Stagnation threatens the system, but growth leads in its own roundabout way back to stagnation.
The capitalists thus only have the option of restricting or steering choice, from banning abortion and contraceptives to the more extreme scenario of forcing women to be broodmares; or alternatively, by an ideology of pro-natalism for the "greater good", requiring many people to act against "rational self-interest".
In practice, however, those options are just forms of reaction, and even when reaction is successful (and it rarely is) all it can ultimately lead to is a repeat of the past, susceptible to the same conditions and contradictions that caused it to crumble once before.
This is a classic problem that manifests in many ways: capitalism needs laborers to be spenders, but progress inevitably requires a decrease in their ability to do so; in this case, by directly cutting the supply of labor.

Unironically, the only solution is socialism.
The only way to change this equation around without making things worse for everyone is by challenging the assumptions of growth and opportunity cost. This can happen in many ways.
If making a living isn't tied to the success of companies which need constant growth to stay competitive, the dependence on constantly increasing birthrates is reduced.
On the other hand, if society can directly contribute to making child rearing easier and less expensive instead of subsidizing the artificial difficulties and costs created by the market, the opportunity cost of having children is also reduced.
And this ties into many other factors. More safety, more education, more stability, they all ease the burden on parents.
But as you can see, it requires real socialism. Can't half-ass it and call it socialism anyway or you'll pay the price. You need real socialist outcomes.

So. Can porky survive this?
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Ok, I'm giving Nostr a try and I don't know where to begin. Recommend me please some interesting people to follow. Thanks!
(My body was to short or empty, I don't know what else to say??)
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There will never be a revolution

There will never be a global communist revolution, there will never be an anarchist revolution, there will never be a revolution, there will never be an end of capitalism without the end of this planet and its inhabitants.

I am sure of this, because I am bored and its true and if you want to prove me wrong then go and try it. Do it.
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Is religion a debate around here?

Just wondering what everyone's takes are, personally I believe that state atheism is a necessity and anything short of that is a failure. I've seen some communists online be religious and I truly don't understand how that would work. I don't mean a vague notion of a god, I mean like actual religion following a set of ideas. It doesn't make sense to me so I want to hear you guys' thoughts.
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Soviet Union should have fell in the 1960s

So that a new socialist revolution could have formed right after, the contradictions were held together for over 40 years until 1989, that was far too long.

In order for socialism to be built we need constant boom and bust cycles of burocreacy being built and then smashed down through constant uprisings

Either way, burocreacy needs to be destroyed as quickly as possible to accelerate determinitic development to communism.
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how do you respond without sounding mad
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i can't stop watching this weird worm looking guy doing wacky things. this is better than skibidi
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Why do they have a part of their brain scooped out at birth and replaced with nationalism?
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/rus/ - Russia General

Thread №2

Переможный, переговорный, пятнадцатотравневый.

Продолжаем трястись и ждать мобку.
Лолируем с красных фашистов, пыняславов и чучхеисов - вместе.
Переезжаем в тюмень, так как там нефтяная мекка и все жрут черную икру поварешками.
Левый поворот путина будет… надо только подождать… еще лет двадцать.
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Watched Evangelion with my mum

I just finished watching Evangelion with my mum and dad (well my dad sat in the room with us but refused to even look at the telly and instead scrolled football forums instead on his laptop). I basically told about every production quirk and lore detail all the time it was really fun. She liked it but didn't think it was that deep, and she said it repeated itself too much towards the end and she liked the beginning more (a very interesting opinion imo). She hated the last two TV episodes and also didn't seem to care about Kaworu that much.

She liked the elevator scene a lot, that was the standout part for her. I think the character she was the most invested in was Asuka (maybe because I am a bit like Asuka). Lastly she liked End of Evangelion but didn't love it that much, she thought it was just repeating what the show said and didn't think it was the most artistic film ever or anything. She liked the mech battle the most.

I think my mum likes fight scenes more than wierd abstract character moments and she doesn't really understand the intricate parts of animation. This is all very interesting to me tbh as someone super into anime since it shows what a normal person thinks of it.
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tell me your most unhinged historical larpy sex fetish. don't tell me you have none, all imageboard addicts and history lovers have a few. sharing the few larps i caught in my lifetime

a girl fantasizing about being a european queen owning a harem of male slaves eating her out

a guy fantasizing about being a roman soldier and fucking boudica, or letting her take out all her anger and frustration on him with severe rape

being enlaved by dacian female raiders

fucking roman girls in toga while disscussing philosophy

being an icelandic skinny guy and getting captured and sold into gay slavery in the ottoman harem

young stalin

young drugged out hitler

being a conquistador and fucking everything from aztec girls to japanese geishas, to moor pricesses
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Big 2d booba #2

Electric boogaloo edition

ITT: lovely anime tits but the thread isnt full anymore

body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty
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I really want to like it but the author is just fucking horrible

The setup of the world is original, the lore is interesting as fuck, the uncensored brutality showcases an interesting take on violence that feels genuine to what something like this in real life could occur and the plot is overall entertaining

But fuck the amount of other garbage in this pretty much “makes a perfectly baked caked bathed in the shittiest frosting you could’ve gotten”. Child nudity that only exists to satisfy the authors god awful fetishes, crying and death when it isn’t needed or doesn’t do anything to contribute to any form of character development, major figures like bondrewd, wazukyan and his crew or just reg and his origin in general either gets sidelined completely or just flat out abondoned after less than a single episode and it fucking sucks and makes trying to be entertained or even gain any cool ideas like how ethics are considered when the promise of discovery is near or how people respond and develop tools to new threats or just how nature itself adapts to the geography that surrounds it doesn’t truly feel like it got the attention it deserved in a series that felt like it was made for it
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Utah

Any comrades from Utah here?

How do we fix this beyond fucked up state?

The LDS church runs everything here. Nearly every single little detail of the state’s culture is dictated by Mormonism. Mormon temples are the largest buildings in every city and town. Mormon bookstores are more numerous than most other stores, and old school soda shops are more numerous than cafes (Mormons prohibit coffee and tea but allow caffeinated soda for some reason). Multiple buildings, streets, and businesses are named after Mormon things (e.g. “Cumorrah Avenue”). Multi-level marketing companies are everywhere and sponsor things like stadiums (MLM companies are littered with Mormon moms).

The LDS church is basically run like a massive corporation. They are very good at missionizing and making new converts, plus Mormons tend to get married young and have bucketloads of kids. The average Mormon family has between 4-7 children. The point is, the LDS church is highly reactionary and rules over Utah with an iron fist, yet there is almost no internal resistance to it. “Utah” basically is the LDS church. And that’s not even mentioning the entire settler-colonial history of the church either, the mass slaughter of the indigenous that Mormons participated in to create the state of Utah and such.

With that said, how do we deal with this state’s politics if we are socialists living in it? There’s no way someone like AOC or Mamdani or any DSA candidate could ever win here. If there was ever a socialist candidate, they’d either have to ensure the Utah public that they’re a “good Mormon” (which would mean throwing away their principles and participating in a reactionary, settler-colonial theology) or seek to dismantle Utah culture outright by going against the grip of the LDS church, which would be political suicide.

I’m sorry, but I wish this fucking state didn’t exist. Trying to organize anything leftist here feels like a lost cause.
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>Westoids only take their shoes off when they shower.
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American Years of Lead

Am I the only one who thinks Maupin needs to update his book with discussion on?:
>the Tesla burnings
>the Pennsylvania governor’s house being arsoned
>the shooting of the two Israeli embassy workers in DC
>the Minnesota school shooting
>the recent shooting death of Charlie Kirk

Seems like this is a good opportunity since it furthers his argument that an American Years of Lead are already here.
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/futbol/

Hablemos del deporte rey

Si les soy sincero solo quiero la Unión Latinoamericana para ganar absolutamente todos los mundialesㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎
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Digital Grass Checkpoint

Link to at least one website you didn't know about prior to today. If you don't have one, open up a new tab and explore until you find one.
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Im shocked that you can actually get this close to a president

Wasn’t this guy almost assassinated? This is some Pre-Kennedy shit. I can’t believe some lib protesters can just go up to him and shout at him, I’m not complaining but it’s very interesting.
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Nepal happenings thread

https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/amp/international/news/gen-z-charge-nepals-anti-corruption-protesters-parliament-building-police-water-cannons-tear-gas-135868694.html

A thread dedicated to the inner happenings of the country of Napal, including the current anti corruption protests and the escalating government actions that have lead to 19 dead so far. Post all of your Nepal related discussions and info dumps here (at your own discretion of course).
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Travel is Kinda Bullshit

We have no history of travel.So many people out there say they love traveling and will happily tell you about all the places they been to and sights they’ve seen and where they want to go to next. It’s also one of the first things people say they would do if they had more time and money.

But traveling sucks. It’s expensive and tedious. You have to pack, organise a passport, deal with airports, security and there’s just so much waiting! And that’s if everything goes to plan and to schedule. Things can easily get canceled or postponed. Then you’ve got jet lag to deal with, different currencies, language barriers, etc.

Even if you’re not going overseas/flying it’s not like road tripping is any better. Sitting in a car for hours on end just plain sucks.

And don’t think I’m only hating on the actual transport, being away from home sucks too. Whether you’re staying in a hotel or an Airbnb or camping or whatever, you’re away from home and all your things; you’re own bed, your own room, your pets, all your other bits and pieces that make your home your own.
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I've been studying ways to buy one of those scam-hoax "historical bond assets"…I KNOW they're a scam, but I genuinely enjoy the cheesy\childish top sicrit aesthetic these boxes have!!
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Trump on the Epstein list is "a step toward normalization"

These fags want to remove the age of consent laws and normalize pedophilia
They think Trump will do that by making people ignore his involvement in child abuse
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DAS RITE

If a based BLACK MAN were on the train with Iryna she would still be alive.
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ancient gooning

ancient gooning

body too short or empty body too short or empty baieqkhr2oe88rwkwnrk
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¿Qué piensan los anónimos de /latam/ sobre Nayib Bukake?

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Hosting a New Vegas Themed game jam this month. Going to be hosting a new game jam every month going forward, so this thread is for that!

Come join: https://itch.io/jam/new-vegas-jam
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why are countries like pretty much all of latin america exempt from the "settler colonial" label when they went through the exact same shit as the united states and canada lol. they fit the category quite literally yet everything those bourgeois nation states do is supported uncritically by the same third worldists calling even even the poorest shithole in europe "settler colonial"
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hypothetically speaking, if an athletic-thin young man had a face like this -tcof rough magick cof cof- :Would he get massive attention from young women, rich girls, etc?
Would he get locally famous\get stans even if he doesn't use any social media?
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women dressing up in fighting uniforms medieval or modern and women holding rifles always get me hot and bothered, the brain says its a LARP wake up idiot but the cock says she's the one to slay shoot with
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1. Religion is the opium of the people.
2. Religion justifies an unequal social order.
3. The problem of an afterlife gives people something to look forward to after death.
4. Religion makes a virtue out of suffering.
5. Religion offers the false hope of supernatural intervention to improve current conditions.
6. Religion is a form of social control.
7. The bourgeoisie and religious authorities also support other more overtly brutal methods of control.
8. The bourgeoisie fund the religious institutions.
9. The religious institutions are class-collaborationist and legitimize bourgeois power through ideas like "prosperity gospel."
10. Religion is not necessary under socialism or communism.
11. Religion has no purpose if there is no longer clas society since its purpose is to justify an unequal social order and to provide the exploited with a coping method with their misery.
12. With communism and decent working conditions controlled by the workers religion will wither away.
13. Religion creates false consciousness.
14. Religion mystifies material phenomena.
15. Religion teaches that human misery is a result of divine will.

Can these theses on religion be refuted?