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/Iran/ - Iran War Thread #41

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ID verification big victory for feminism

Feminists won and Chuds lost again.

No longer they can do problematic hate speech, with new ID verification laws finally children are safe from getting groomed by Chuds. I hope they will also add great firewall soon similar like China and ban all problematic websites like 4chan.

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UK - YourParty, Sultana disaster

Some reading for UK /Leftypol/

Some brutal home truths about Sultana - I dont buy the muh fed stuff and Corbyn's lot haven't behaved wonderfully either but what Sultana and the screeching sects and radlibs behind her have done for the chances of YP now is just unforgivable.

https://samjoyce96.substack.com/p/your-partys-infantile-disorder

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/EUropol/

Previous thread:
~~>>2535127~~

So give the fact US invasion of Greenland went from provocative joke to a realistic possibility, what are the chances of European governments getting their shit together?

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how do I radicalize my Union Local

Morning, Leftypol.

Long time lurker, first time poster. Been around since the 8chan days.

I was recently elected the president of my Union local, representing about 150 workers. Most of whom are fairly lib and older (50+), though there's a contingent young folks who make up the executive and are like 30% based.

Any recommendations for radicalizing the base and subtly introducing Marxist practices into our pretty dull union? We are a component of a much larger national union, so my influence is fairly limited. Currently, I'm working on mutual aid networks and am networking with a local workers council to make connections with like-minded unions/union folks.

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/leftybritpol/ - Rising Youth Antisemitism edition

UK Government to Investigate Rising Antisemitism in Schools

>With 204 school-related antisemitic cases recorded last year, concerns are mounting over the safety and long-term future of Jewish school pupils and teachers in the UK.

>The British government has launched an independent review into antisemitism in England’s schools and colleges following a sharp rise in classroom-related incidents since the October 7th, 2023 Hamas pogrom in Israel.

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/USApol/

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<"If Ivanka weren't my daughter" Edition

>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™

💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• https://www.iceinmyarea.org/ – ICE tracker using public info and user submissions
• https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers – list of deaths at ICE concentration camps
• https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/ – visualization of prison population in US
• https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf – RANT Collective - Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in
• https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html – database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites
• https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources – list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc
• https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents – ICE Agent List (incomplete)
• https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/ US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025)

Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf – Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?
• 📖 https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf –
How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation
• 📖 https://www.jailhouselaw.org/ — the nation lawyer's guild's guide to being a jailhouse lawyer
• 📖 https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/ — Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement
• 📖 https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/ — An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls
• 📖 https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf — Prisoners’ Self-Help
Litigation Manual

⚒️ LABOR!
• https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/ – Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when
• https://aflcio.org/strike-map – AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker
• https://www.bls.gov/wsp/ – Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker
• https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/ – IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999)
• https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo – IWW Work Place Organizing Guide
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar)

⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md – deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done
• https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list – coups and regime changes
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes – Wikipedia: United States War Crimes
• https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq – /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006]
• https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798 – More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone.
• https://www.slavevoyages.org/ Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade
• https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery
• https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/ – First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery

📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly 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
• Burger House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News: https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather: https://www.noaa.gov/weather

📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report: https://blackagendareport.com/
The Fedzone: https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice: https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter: https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol

🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• https://www.trackaipac.com/
• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide

Essential American Politik📖

• 📖 WEB Dubois - Black Reconstruction – https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Deb's Fourth of July Speech – https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People!, Fred Hampton – https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-theres-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket - Smedley Bulter – https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins - Vine Deloria Jr. – http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation - Lincoln – https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Common Sense - Thomas Paine – https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States - Dunbar Ortiz – https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 War is a Racket - Smedley Butler – https://www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/secret_societies/ebooks/pdf/butler_racket.pdf
• 📖 Fred Hampton - Power Anywhere There's People – https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-theres-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 Huey Long - Share Our Wealth – https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech

Which side are you on?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE

Old thread: >>2747053

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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://dn720006.ca.archive.org/0/items/baudrillard.-1970.-the-consumer-society/Baudrillard.1981.Simulacra-and-Simulation.pdf
📺 • 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://altexploit.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/slavoj-zizek-the-sublime-object-of-ideology-second-edition-the-essential-zizek-2009.pdf
📺 • 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://www.are.na/block/4114741
📺 • 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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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 21🇨🇳

>Lantern Rite edition
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 >>2616885

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What is Pakistan geopolitically?!?

>Chinese vassal state
>Ran by the CIA
>Has nukes
Why can’t we go back to Eastern Bloc-Western Bloc type-shit?!?!? This shit is so confusing!
The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short

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95% anti-imperialists are fullblown reactionaries

>look at le epic based anti-imperialism
>look inside
>kill gays because of “muh western-decadence”

Sorry Leftychuds, I don’t have masochism fetish letting them kill me and spreading reactionary ideologies, just because they are “anti-west”

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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO SINFONIA AMAZÔNICA
"Sinfonia Amazônica é o primeiro longa-metragem de animação da história do Brasil, lançado na década de 50. Foi animado inteiramente por Anélio Latini Filho, que dedicou cerca de cinco anos de trabalho para adaptar diversos relatos folclóricos da região norte em um filme apenas com a ajuda de alguns poucos colaboradores, entre eles o seu irmão Mário Latini."
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>15450

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/QTDDTOT/ Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread

Previous thread: >>2381106

Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.

Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.

Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.

Previous QTDDTOT Archives
https://archive.is/ga3OG

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Mamdani Fatigue

Fuck this guy. I’m tired of seeing liberals and even “principled” leftists like Jacobin Mag prop him up as the greatest thing to happen to American leftism, like he’s sone kind of modern-Day William Z Foster.

In reality, Mamdani is a total fraud. He’s pandered to Zionists even before taking office. Then after taking office he’s sucked up to Chabad-Lubavitcher which is a satanic racist Jewish supremacist org with ties to the Russian mafia and Zionist entity. Why? He’s even thrown his own wife under the bus for working with Palestinian liberation activist Susan Abdulhawa. I guess he thinks kosher feelings outweigh Palestinian lives. He hasn’t done anything he’s promised in making NYC a cheaper and easier place to live. And yet delusional leftists still love and support him.

If Mamdani was truly principled he’d make it illegal to be a Zio in NYC. Semd police to monitor all synagogues for promoting Zionism. Track donations to the IOF from Jewish orgs. Fully divest NYC from the Zionist entity and all companies that do business with the Zionist entity. Get ICE to deport anyone with Zionist entity citizenship ( I hear there are a lot of them in Brooklyn and Queens). Ban AIPAC and all other pro-Zionist groups. Shut down businesses like Eichler’s which routinely sell Zionist products.

Mamdani ran on the basis of defying the Zionist Lobby so he needs to keep his promises.

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/gaygen/

lefty gay general - boyfriend edition

How do we feel about our bfs /lgbt/? I love mine lots and lots and can't wait till he gets home from work personally.

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Regardless of your actual stance on AI. You should want and look forward to the AI bubble bursting.

The western AI industry is estimated to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars. In 2026 that number will likely balloon even further as more and more capital is poured into the industry. The capitalist class whose shortsightedness is almost always a given has seemingly put all their eggs in this handbasket even at the expense of other sectors of the economy from consumer electronics to the water supply and electrical grids of small towns unfortunate enough to have had a datacenter built in their vicinity.
At the same time questions of what is being gained from these massive investments are being raised. If and when this bubble pops it will have adverse ripple effects across the entire global economic system and the capitalist class will be potentially set back trillions. In the process the contradictions that will lead to capitalism's downfall will intensify, opening the window for a socialist revolution. Even if AI and its related technologies can serve some kind of social good and help develop the productive forces. Actively cheering for an AI bubble burst effectively serves the same function as championing revolutionary defeatism whenever the ruling class wages imperialist wars.

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Reading and fully understanding these two Stalin quotes are is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL. Anyone who thinks Socialism is about Rooseveltian trust busting of monopolies in order to restore petty bourgeois production MUST read and understand the first quote. Anyone who has ever uttered the word "campist" or has said something like "why would I support Russia against NATO or Iran against the USA? That's just inter-imperialist conflict!" MUTS read and fully understand the second quote.

90% of circular arguments on leftypol.org are caused by insufficient understanding of these two quotes.

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Why was Lysenko wrong

I legitimately do not understand why people believe he was wrong. Look at Jewish people and how specialized into getting better at academia or India with how certain groups become natural fishermen. Lysenkoism feels like it's striking a cord between Stirnerite individualism and collectivism and it legitimately sounds cooler than Darwin's lame "one will breed more than the other and the species will survive". Darwin's system doesn't explain suicide for example.

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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #284

Previous: >>2698670

This shit is bananas edition

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://x.com/GeromanAT
https://x.com/plnewstoday
https://x.com/RALee85
https://x.com/MarQs__
https://x.com/KofmanMichael
https://x.com/IntelCrab (DEAD)
https://x.com/michaelh992
https://x.com/Suriyakmaps
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_ (NEW)

<Telegram
https://t.me/milinfolive
https://t.me/hueviykharkov
https://t.me/conflictzone
https://t.me/vorposte
https://t.me/intelslava
https://t.me/grey_zone
https://t.me/AussieCossack
https://t.me/asbmil
https://t.me/Slavyangrad

🇷🇺🇺🇦
Thread guidelines:
• Please remember to add a spoiler to NSFW and extreme content such as graphic violence and gore.
• Try your best to not derail discussion too much from the main events and relevant places where the war is taken place, as well as other happenings, groups and public figures related to it.
• Meta discussion of the historical, philosophical and ideological background of the war is fine as long as its done in good faith and comradely.
• In the event the meta discussion overstays its welcome, participating users will be referred to take the conversation to the INTERNATIONALISM general thread.
• Quality shitposting and original content is encouraged! Spamming glowie memes is low effort.
• this is /ISG/ for people who treats geopolitics like shitty map games
• behead NATO, crush NATO, etc.

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/DPRK/ - Democratic People's Republic of Korea General

Thread for news and discussions of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its material conditions, the status and health of its socialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.

Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html

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Felix is not totally wrong.

A curious pathology has taken root among the self‑styled Marxist‑Leninists of the American academy and the few remaining party formations they cling to; an unspoken, almost devotional posture of non‑critique toward the police. They will dissect the labor movements of ancient history, compose vague treatises on fighting imperialism, and issue proclamations on the dictatorship of the proletariat, but when the question of the cop on the corner, the officer who beats strikers, the carceral apparatus that swallows entire Black and brown communities arises, the real centers of class struggle in the modern era, their mouths go dry. They offer, at most, a limp gesture toward “defunding” diluted into a proposal for better training, no better than liberals. Abolition? That's Anarchist! No, communists want to attack and dismantle the bourgeois state, not capture it. You are RED LIBERALS. You do not mobilize against police unions. They do not celebrate prison breaks, or work with rioting prisoners on work stoppages. They do not treat the badge as the enemy it is.

Why this silence? Because, they will confess in private, the American working class is “pro‑police.” To critique the police openly, they whisper, is to alienate the very constituency they claim to represent. So they hold their tongues. They perform a politics of comfort, moderating revolutionary impulse into managerial reform, ensuring that no blue line is crossed too harshly lest they upset the fragile sensibilities of a working class they have never actually organized. This is not Marxism at all, so their constant accusative speculation of Anarchism directed upon real Marxists is hilarious. It is the posture of a class fraction so distant from struggle that it mistakes its own cowardice for strategic patience.

The material reality is stark, there is no socialist state to defend, no proletarian dictatorship to uphold. There is only the bourgeois state, its courts, its jails, its concepts of police and justice, its armies of occupation in every city of the globe. To be a “statist” under such conditions is to align oneself with the repressive apparatus of capital. Yet these self‑proclaimed Leninists drape themselves in the language of state power while refusing to name the enemy that wears the uniform. They have made their peace with the cop because the cop is the ultimate guarantor of the social order they dare not disrupt. They call anarchists naive for recognizing the state as enemy, for understanding that the first duty of any revolutionary is to break the machine that beats us. But it is they who are naive, or worse, complicit, and federal operatives.

When confronted with a Marxist analysis of the state, they retreat to the tired accusation, “This is anarchism, not Marxism.” They claim that Engels, that Lenin, that Mao all upheld the necessity of state power. They are correct, under conditions of workers’ power, not under capitalism. To invoke the state as a revolutionary instrument while the state remains bourgeois is to fetishize an abstraction and abandon the concrete task of destroying the apparatus that oppresses us. It is abandoning the need for communist insurrection, because, in reality the thought of that gives them a sinking guilt in their stomach, what a horror it would be to attack the society that truly underneath all the rhetoric, serves their labor aristocracy. This is not Leninism, even. This is the disease of revisionism.. It is the bastardization of Marxism into a doctrine of quietism, where revolutionary critique is empty.

The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) offers a textbook case of this pathology and how it functions in times of rupture. During the height of the debt crisis, when the working class was being eviscerated, what did the KKE do? They formed a cordon around the parliament building, not to storm it, but to protect it from angry youth and workers. They attacked fellow leftists who tried to approach, physically blocking the very militants who shared their supposed enemy, even the anarchists who hated the KKE were confused when they saw them start attacking people approaching parliament. They stood between the people and the bourgeois state, performing the function of security for the very institution that drowns us; the police sat back and got some time off. They feared the unhinged movement of the masses more than they feared austerity, which makes them counter-insurgents. They chose to police the rebellion rather than offer it bodies, and strategy.

Let them reap what they sowed. The KKE’s irrelevance today is not a tragedy; it is a judgment. They got what they had coming - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-U7_Pyxwkc

I will leave China out of this. Whatever one may critique about its trajectory, it is not a Western revisionist party cowering before its own bourgeois police. It is a state born of revolution, and it conducts itself as such. I am not about to bite the hand that feeds, China has long since abandoned funding these western revisionist parties. Not out of sentiment for maoism, but out of material reality. The struggle here is against the bourgeois state that surrounds us. That is where our energy belongs. The KKE, the CPUSA, and their ilk are distractions at best, enemies at worst. They are to be shunned, swept aside, and if they stand in the way, crushed.

Felix is right. The CPUSA and its ideological kin are not allies to be courted or fronts to be united with. They are enemies. Not because they disagree on the pace of transition, but because their entire political existence is structured around not challenging the bourgeois state. They hinder. They confuse. They absorb radical energy and convert it into harmless procedure. They must be swept under the rug of irrelevance, their influence quarantined, and if they continue to obstruct or pacify genuine organizing, they must be attacked, not simply physically, but politically, and relentlessly, until the spaces they occupy are reclaimed by those willing to name the bourgeois state as what it is; the covert servant of capital, and other class enemies.

>>The American left will not move forward until it abandons this pathetic, comfortable pose of bourgeois piety. We do not need a “workers’ party” that asks permission from the police to march. We need organized revolutionaries who understand that the bourgeois state cannot be reformed, cannot be captured, cannot be negotiated with, only dismantled and abolished. We need to sharpen ACTION BASED theory, and realize the successful formula for praxis differs by nation, locality, and periods in time. It is built by trial and error, not inactivity.

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AI news shit general

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Why are the bourgeoisie so unapologetically evil? I know this is a stupid question but its hard for me to fathom how a human being could be as malicious and uncaring as the bourgeoisie are. Do they not care at all for the suffering they cause humanity, and the destruction they bring to the planet as a whole? Or do they delusionally believe that what they are doing is somehow in the right?

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/Political Economy/ General #6 - The Corn of Zhong Guo edition

Previous thread: >>2547894

Links:

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Youtube Playlists
Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTMFx0t8kDzc72vtNWeTP05x6WYiDgEx7
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1uqxcCESK6B1juh_wnKoxftZCcqA1go
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4k72ocf2TZMxrEVCgpp1b5K3hzFWuZh
Capital Volume 1 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSHVigHHx_wjaeWmDN2W-h8
Capital Volume 2 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSxnp8uR2kshvhG-5kzrjdQ
Capital Volume 3 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlRoV5CVoc5yyYL4nMO9ZJzO
Theories of Surplus Value high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlQa-dFgNFtQvvMOgNtV7nXp
Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBnDt7k5eU8msX4DhTNUila
Paul Cockshott - Economic Planning Playlist
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Paul Cockshott - Materialism, Marxism, and Thermodynamics Playlist
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Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
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Victor Magariño - Rethinking Classical Economics
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Victor Magariño - Mathematics for Classical Political Economy
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Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson (someone says "he's CIA doing reheated Proudhonism" lol)
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Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
https://leftypedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Political_economy
Sci-Hub
https://sci-hub.se/about
Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/
Library Genesis
https://libgen.is/
University of the Left
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online
bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
https://www.ecured.cu/
Books on libcom.org
https://libcom.org/book
Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
/EDU/ ebook share thread
https://leftypol.org/edu/res/22659.html
Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
(The Critique Of) Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm

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night terrors nightmares sleep paralysis insomnia disassociation general

what do you see when you go to sleep

do you sleep

are the horrors of our sleep reflective of the realities our subconscious must deal with

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/USApol/

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>Babe Ruth Edition

💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
• https://www.iceinmyarea.org/ – ICE tracker using public info and user submissions
• https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers – list of deaths at ICE concentration camps
• https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/ – visualization of prison population in US
• https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf – RANT Collective - Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in
• https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html – database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites
• https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources – list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc
• https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents – ICE Agent List (incomplete)
• https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/ US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025)

Jailhouse Reading:
• 📖 https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf – Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?
• 📖 https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf –
How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation
• 📖 https://www.jailhouselaw.org/ — the nation lawyer's guild's guide to being a jailhouse lawyer
• 📖 https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/ — Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement
• 📖 https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/ — An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls
• 📖 https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf — Prisoners’ Self-Help
Litigation Manual

⚒️ LABOR!
• https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/ – Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when
• https://aflcio.org/strike-map – AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker
• https://www.bls.gov/wsp/ – Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker
• https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/ – IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999)
• https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo – IWW Work Place Organizing Guide
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar)

⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
• https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md – deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done
• https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list – coups and regime changes
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes – Wikipedia: United States War Crimes
• https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq – /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006]
• https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798 – More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone.
• https://www.slavevoyages.org/ Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade
• https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery
• https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/ – First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery

📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly 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
• Burger House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News: https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather: https://www.noaa.gov/weather

📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report: https://blackagendareport.com/
The Fedzone: https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice: https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter: https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol

🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
• https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
• https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
• https://www.trackaipac.com/
• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide

Essential American Politik📖

• 📖 WEB Dubois - Black Reconstruction – https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Deb's Fourth of July Speech – https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People!, Fred Hampton – https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-theres-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket - Smedley Bulter – https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins - Vine Deloria Jr. – http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation - Lincoln – https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Common Sense - Thomas Paine – https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States - Dunbar Ortiz – https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 War is a Racket - Smedley Butler – https://www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/secret_societies/ebooks/pdf/butler_racket.pdf
• 📖 Fred Hampton - Power Anywhere There's People – https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-theres-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 Huey Long - Share Our Wealth – https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech

Which side are you on?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE

Old thread:
>>2732221

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i might start HRT soon!

give tips to not squirm when poking myself
also give tips to poke yourself

i'm guessing i'll order estradiol from Astrovials and Spiro from somewhere else?

as soon as i get my doses from the endo maybe in a week

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Anybody playing ebb esoteric?
Obvious inspiration from Disco Elysium and DnD, with more overt political tones.
I haven't played much past the intro, but the socialist path seems to be just social democracy, whereas the revolutionary path is as a bourgeois revolutionary

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I really don’t understand why people think that the Jews control communism I know why people think that because Marx was a Jew but he pacifically said that religion was the religion was opened to the masses and corrupted people so I don’t know why people think that communism? Is a Jew thing when it’s more of a atheist thing

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Im curious if over time leftypol's userbase and PPH has increased?
It feels more active now then it felt when i first started using this site, im looking for a year long timeframe from 2024-2026

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why?

Why does it seem like most of the heavy handed police repression and operations in USA that use lethality have been against anarchists? like im talking mass raids in operations, mass arrest sweeps, targeted killings, why did they stop doing that with the more marxist groups like they did in the 80s back and suddenly just seem hyper focused on anarchist. like the cointrlpero of the usa government against them now seems way more harsh than on other lefty groups. anarchists back then basically got to fuck around in communes and get surveilled but not actively destroyed. now fast forward and it's like the opposite. after 9/11 you start seeing way more entrapment cases against anarchists than actual marxist groups, the green scare after was straight up hunting anarchists with cases facing decades, murders by cops, multi-jurisdiction tactical raids on the same day across multiple states, RICOS, and now trump signs a bill naming "anarchist jurisdictions" specifically as the highest lvls of "terror" but the dems been doing the same shit just quieter with biden's and obamas doj still prosecuting 2020 protestors n anarchist being killed by police under biden. meanwhile ml groups mostly just host panels at universities and don't get their doors kicked in at all, they dont have cops visibly come to show force to intimidate them at meetings even but they do all this for anarchist. like why did the state stop caring about leninists who actually wanna seize state power and start obsessing over black blocs who just wanna smash windows. what changed

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"testosterone makes you obese!"

>be me, skinny
>take testosterone
>no change in weight
>develop eating disorder
>-2.5 bmi even after starting to regain weight

i honestly dont even know how this happened. im embarrassed and disappointed in myself.

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/auspol/ #12 - A Police Helicopter Just Flew Over My House edition

Australian and Oceania politics general thread. 'EDIT'"Previous thread: >>2371516"

Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au [good events page]
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://partisanmagazine.org/about/
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a Redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter, use a Nitter mirror instead of x.com)

Antifascist alert Telegram channels - join and share the links with comrades and friends
Melbourne: https://t.me/AFAAlertsNaarm
Sydney: https://t.me/antifaalertssydney
Brisbane: https://t.me/antifaalertsmeanjin

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Buddhism doesn't get enough flack

Buddhism is fucking predatory as shit, only saved by the fact that its buzzwords are parroted around. Seems like it was rightfully criticized since early Hinduism until the 1900s where it got syncretized because of opportunism. Really don't believe it's compatible with socialism, especially with it's buzzwords like "mindfullness" and "manifestation" becoming commonplace.
15th century monk
>He was known for his crazy methods of enlightening other beings, mostly women, which earned him the title "The Saint of 5,000 Women". Among other things, women would seek his blessing in the form of sexual intercourse.
>He is credited with introducing the practice of phallus paintings in Bhutan and placing statues of them on rooftops to drive away evil spirits. He is also known for Chimi Lhakhang, the temple of fertility.
20th century monk
>He drank, smoked, slept with students, and often kept students waiting for hours before giving teachings.
>Some of his own methods and actions, particularly his heavy drinking, sexual predation, and his ordering of the sexual assault (forced stripping) of a student and his girlfriend, caused controversy during his lifetime and afterward.
>Trungpa often combined drinking with teaching. In some instances Trungpa was too drunk to walk and had to be carried. Also, according to his student John Steinbeck IV and his wife, on a couple of occasions Trungpa's speech was unintelligible. One woman reported serving him "big glasses of gin first thing in the morning."
>The Steinbecks wrote The Other Side of Eden, a sharply critical memoir of their lives with Trungpa in which they claim that, in addition to alcohol, he spent $40,000 a year on cocaine, and used Seconal to come down from the cocaine. The Steinbecks said the cocaine use was kept secret from the wider Vajradhatu community.
>19th century monk
>Other behavior was troubling as well. As one scholar who has studied the community noted, Tendzin was "bisexual and known to be very promiscuous" and "enjoyed seducing straight men" but the community "did not find [this behavior] particularly troublesome." Not all his partners were unwilling; one scholar noted "it became a mark of prestige for a man, gay or straight, to have sex with the Regent, just as it had been for a woman to have sex with [Trungpa] Rinpoche", but at least one student reported that Tendzin had raped him. As a former Vajradhatu member attested, "a chilling story had recently been reported by one of … [the] teachers at the Buddhist private school [for the Vajradhatu community]. This straight, married male was pinned face-down across Rich's desk by the guards [the Dorje Kasung] while Rich forcibly raped him."
>It was revealed in 1989 that Tendzin had contracted HIV and for nearly three years knew it, yet continued to have unprotected sex with his students without informing them. He transmitted it to a student who later died of AIDS. Others close to Tendzin, including Vajradhatu's board of directors, knew for two years that Tendzin was HIV-positive and sexually active but kept silent.
Apparently early Hinduism had criticized Buddhism for it's weird practices too.
>In turn, Hindu theologians like Adi Śaṅkara, Kumārila Bhaṭṭa and various Nyaya school philosophers (like Vātsāyana) likewise critiqued Buddhist thought in their various works. Śaṅkara accuses the Buddha of being "a man given to make incoherent assertions" and "propound absurd doctrines."
A play criticizing heterodox Hindu sects and Buddhist sects that were becoming common back in the 800s
>It is widely held that Mahendra’s play is a satire of the degenerate sects of his day. For example, both the Kapalika and Pasupata sects must have been considered peculiar during Mahendra’s reign, and the king satirizes them in his play. The Kapalikas embodied a serious, yet suspect, religious concept: Tantrism where religious enlightenment is attained through unorthodox rituals. Some of these notorious rituals were Madya (liquor) and Maithuna (ritual intercourse). Meanwhile, these rituals are satirically echoed by Nagasena, the Buddhist monk, who wonders why Buddhism disallows liquor and women.
A 12th century criticism from a book cataloguing Kashmiri history
>The monasteries became rich with the gifts of kings and nobles, and the guardians of these establishments ceased to observe their discipline. They became attached to comfort and luxury.
Observations of Jesuits on Buddhists in China
>This suspicion was deepened by the Confucian moralists’ opinion that Buddhist monks did not duly respect gender segregation. Buddhist clerics often encouraged female lay devotees to leave their secluded apartments to visit their temples or go on pilgrimages. They also visited the women in their private quarters to expound the sutras to them and edify them with religious talks. These transgressions of Confucian gender boundaries were interpreted by literati as a sign of moral inferiority and thus contributed to the monks’ bad reputation.
Criticism of Buddhists in Korea
>In 1479, Censor General Sŏng Hyŏn (1439–1504) listed four Buddhist monks who had committed lustful behavior or committed fornication with lay women under the guise of prayer rituals and argued that women should be banned from contact with Buddhist monks. The women, whom Sŏng mentioned, included the concubine of a yangban man, the wife of a high official, nuns, the sister of a yangban man, and even the wife of a man belonging to the royal lineage. The female body was the locus of anti-Buddhist criticism that rendered Buddhist ritual activities immoral and incompatible with Confucian values.
>The wrangling over immoral rituals on Mount Kŭmsŏng between King Sŏngjong and the court officials continued. In 1487, the officials again warned that “on Mount Kŭmsŏng, in addition to an official prayer hall set up for the government’s ritual worship, there are five or six more private halls, and a crowd of yangban women from nearby villages gather around and stay [there], so [some men] even lose their wives”.

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>want to learn makeup to fix my ugly masculine face
>have to research and buy an overwhelming fuckton of different makeup products
>realize i have to do skincare and fix my acne before learning makeup
>have to go to dermatologist to get recommended a skincare routine
>says it might not even work for me and it will takes months to tell
>cant even do the skincare routine consistently because of how depressed i am
>mfw its been 4 days since i last used any skincare products

Ill never be able to fix my acne, ill never be able to learn makeup. My face will always be ugly gross and masculine. Ill never be able to be a pretty femboy.

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Covid vaccine

Is the Covid vaccine really as dangerous as people online are saying?
I took it back in 2021 (two doses) and I haven't had any known side effects, neither have anyone else I knew who took it. But all the time I hear about how it's causing people to have heart attacks/strokes and it's gonna kill everyone. I'm already a massively paranoid person, I was iffy on the vax when it came out but all I kept hearing was that covid was gonna kill everyone. It's getting to the point where I can't even sleep well because every waking moment, I'm terrified I'm just gonna drop dead.

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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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/PROLE VENT/

Was tricked to sign a letter of resignation from my job at the russian post office. Despite the fact that I was on probation and my employment contract was fixed-term (although informally after its termination they almost always offer a full-time position) my…I don't know - supervisor? the main bitch of the workplace? didn't like me because of a couple of fuckups like a cash shortage, which I was really guilty of and paid for out of my own pocket (the statement of financial responsibility was signed by me on the first day of employment), and she decided to lie that the employee I was replacing was about to go to work.
Which was an easily verifiable lie that I realized literally as I closed the door behind me. Ah, yes, since I quit "at my own request", I have to work for three days, so called "otrabotka" (two weeks if you were taken without probation), which I will not do (devilish?), because after signing my resignation letter I am no longer an employee and can not be forced to work.
Also new thing I learned opening the labor code for the first time.
-there is no concept of working after dismissal, but there is a concept of notification before dismissal, so it should be 3 days or 2 weeks before the fact.

Thanks for reading my stupid rant.

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Small-Business Owners

What do we do about the little Hitlerite problem?

The merits of the petite-bourgeoisie in national liberation struggles are debatable but in the imperial core small-business owners are nothing but the spear-tip of reaction.

So how do we as workers actually struggle against the small-business owners? It seems like there's no direct way of struggling against these assholes. I would like high taxes and tight labor regulations but that's a wish, not actual struggle. Boycotts are also pretty useless for the working class.

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What exactly is the ml cope to justify the chernobyl disaster and the attempted cover up by soviet authorities?

The body was too short or empty.
OK

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Chainsaw Man

PV for the adaptation is finally out.

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News 3/24/26

Thousands march in Argentina to mark 50 years since bloody coup
An estimated 30,000 people were disappeared by the regime in its campaign against dissidents, including a left-wing guerrilla movement, labor activists and students, according to human rights organizations. Official figures place the number at around 8,000. … Human rights organizations, labor unions, student groups, social movements and political organizations called Tuesday for demonstrations across the country under the slogan “Memory, Truth and Justice,” in reference to crimes against humanity committed during the military regime.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-dictatorship-coup-anniversary-military-protests-60bcea0fba986e71c16320f502dcfaa4

Honduras Opens Impeachment Proceedings Against Attorney General
The announcement was made by Congress President Tomas Zambrano after a session held amid opposition from the Liberty and Refoundation Party (Libre) bloc. The parliamentary session unfolded in the midst of a scuffle involving whistles, shoving, shouting, water being thrown and fireworks being set off, while the complaint outlining the grounds for impeachment against Zelaya was being read.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/honduras-opens-impeachment-proceedings-against-attorney-general/

Emerging from latest blackout, Cuba says ready for any potential US attack
The Cuban government has said it is prepared for any potential United States attacks as the island-nation begins to recover from yet another blackout under a punishing oil blockade imposed by Washington that has pushed its economy to the brink.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/22/emerging-from-latest-blackout-cuba-says-ready-for-any-potential-us-attack

Israel prepares to mobilise 400,000 reservists in widening Lebanon war
The planned mass call-up, reported by Israeli media on Tuesday, signals a widening of Israel's military campaign against Hezbollah, which has already devastated large parts of Lebanon and displaced over a million of Lebanon's 5.5 million population. The escalation comes as Israeli forces intensified air strikes across the country, including repeated raids on Beirut’s southern suburb overnight and attacks on towns in the south and east.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-prepares-mobilise-400000-reservists-lebanon-war

Amid threats against Kurds | Families intend to leave Ain Issa town
Local sources have confirmed that several Kurdish families intend to leave the town, unless relevant authorities provide adequate protection, amid growing fears over the continued threats. In recent days, shops owned by Kurdish residents in the town were vandalized with offensive graffiti left on their walls, indicating rising ethnic tensions.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/379937/

Activists face 'extreme isolation' in German prisons after Elbit break-in, families say
The activists, who are from Germany, Spain, Ireland and the UK, were arrested on 8 September following the alleged break-in to the premises of Elbit Systems in the southwestern German city of Ulm. The group - Daniel Tatlow-Devally, Zo Hailu, Crow Tricks, Vi Kovarbasic and Leandra Rollo - are accused of damaging the building's glass facade and smashing office equipment, including computers, screens and telephones.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/germany-five-activists-held-alleged-elbit-systems-break-in-isolation-families-say

Mette Frederiksen’s leftwing bloc has failed to win majority in Danish election, exit polls suggest
If confirmed, the Social Democrats and the other left-leaning parties that form the “red bloc” would be well short of a majority in the 179-seat parliament. But the right-leaning parties of the so-called “blue bloc” also fell short, putting foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, leader of the non-aligned centre-right Moderates, in the spotlight as a likely kingmaker.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/24/mette-frederiksen-leftwing-bloc-fails-win-majority-denmark-election-exit-poll

Liberal Freedom Movement narrowly wins Slovenia election
The liberal Freedom Movement (Gibanje Svoboda) declared an extremely tight victory over the right-wing Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) after the parliamentary election on Sunday, March 22. The outcome announces a tense period of building the necessary parliamentary majority and follows a campaign marked by reports of Israeli interference linked to the SDS, led by former prime minister and far-right figure Janez Janša.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/03/24/liberal-freedom-movement-narrowly-wins-slovenia-election/

The Philippines: National transport strike as Iran war creates economic crisis
PISTON—the Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide (The Unified Federation of Drivers and Operators Nationwide)—reported 70,000 strikers across the country last week, with 15 to 20 strike centers in Metro Manila alone, and simultaneous actions from Pasig to Iloilo to Cebu. Picket lines formed at dawn in Quezon City, Parañaque, Bulacan, and San Mateo. Commuters reported waits of 45 minutes or more; multiple Manila universities suspended in-person classes; residents on dozens of routes found no vehicles running at all.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/24/vhgb-m24.html

Thai court holds gold mine operator liable for toxic runoff in a decade-old environmental case
The case stems from a 2016 class action lawsuit filed by hundreds of villagers in Phichit province, who accused the Australian-owned Chatree Gold Mine of causing toxic contamination through its operations. The Bangkok Civil Court found the company liable and ordered compensation for affected residents.
https://apnews.com/article/thailand-mining-lawsuit-environment-gold-australia-a6b322cd209abc8dfd240a06c8f233a4

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reflections from the war zone

I wanted to share this recent video that made the rounds on the internet here in Iraq. It's presumably of a PMU rank and file, or the relative of one, expressing his discontent with the current social order maintained by his superiors. A far cry from the image users paint here of the 'homogeneous classless orient'.

On another note, while it is understandable, I still dislike the fact that people here are celebrating the death of 'resistance' officials who have massacred them in the past.

I don't trust that they have the foresight to detach their ultimately worthless deaths from the prevailing imperialist war. I worry that this may push some to campism, especially with the US mouthpieces' drool and screams for more proletarian blood. Many Iranian comrades share my same sentiment.

You must've really sucked to make Iraqis out of all people cheer for your US-sanctioned death. Well done islamists, even anti-americanism you ruined.

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What is the consensus on Girls und Panzer?

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"New Chronology" Autism

What do comrades make of Anatoly Fomenko and his "New Chronology" thesis regarding world history? Personally, I'm not even autistic enough for this crap. He makes many wild claims, that ancient history as we know it was entirely fabricated during the Medieval era (Phantom Time Hypothesis).

The reason I'm asking is because Fomenko is a hardcore Russian nationalist and many of his claims are clearly rooted in his Russian nationalist sentiments. For example, he claims Genghis Khan was akshually Russian. Also, he's one of the main people behind the Tartaria conspiracy theories (Tartaria is just WE WUZ KANGZ for Russians, after all). He published his work on the New Chronology in the mid 90s, when Russian nationalism was at an all time high and Russian morale was at an all time low. There are a lot of claims that Fomenko's theories are nothing more than ways of proving Russian legitimacy as the rightful owner to the entirety of Eurasia. It makes sense that a lot of Duginites love his works.

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Questions about dialectics

I recently started reading Lukacs's ontology of a social being and my whole understanding of dialectics has been flipped.

Originally, I had read Engels' Anti-Duhring, in which he argues that dialectical analysis is essentially a physical interaction, which, in human societies, translate into different classes fighting for their existence and needs (i.e. the bourgeoisie wants low salaries, the proletariat needs higher salaries, conflict occurs = law of interpenetration of opposites). The argument is very "physicalist" and relies on seeing nature as a totality in constant mutation.

HOWEVER, Lukacs seems to completely disregard this. Instead, his dialectics could be best described by the following : Any individual has multiple possibilities to realize his "teleological acts" (conscious acts aimed at satisfaction of desires/needs/sustenance etc). Alienation occurs when he is constrained by an external cause to choose a possibility unsatisfactory compared to others. As such, the dialectic is essentially a movement between the individual who attempts to overcome this alienation, which translates into class war (proletariat see capitalism as irrational for them, but are forced to endure it => conflict with the bourgeoisie).

So, which is it ? Lukacs' dialectics imo can be reconciled with Engels, but it makes the latter's work appear as very superficial.

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Permaculture v2

Old thread (v1): https://leftypol.org/hobby/res/7136.html

The practice and principles of Permaculture are one of the most important tools for not only creating a sustainable socialism, but also for repairing the damage done to the global ecosystem by capitalism, and lessening your individual reliance on the current capitalist system.Permacultural practice and socialism are two very powerful allies, and learning about permaculture should be necessity for modern socialists and communists.

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/Climate/ - The Iran Connection Edition

/leftypol/'s most ignored general is back

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades: Study
https://ground.news/article/earth-is-now-heating-up-twice-as-fast-as-in-previous-decades-study_63acf6

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/06/humanity-heating-planet-faster-than-ever-before-study-finds

Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, at much higher levels than healthy tissues, study reveals
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260225001250.htm

Was War with Iran Sparked by Water?
https://erickeyser.substack.com/p/was-war-with-iran-sparked-by-water?r=1r05cx&triedRedirect=true&_src_ref=old.reddit.com

The Iran War Is Also a Climate War
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/iran-war-climate-change/

Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, study reveals The Billionaire Heist: Why the extraction of our 'labor energy' is leading us toward a global crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iri_xg4rj_k

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SOON

Without theoretical consciousness, without the need to express it in articulate language, but making their statement with their bodies and their actions, they cried out that there can be no civil and political equality as long as there is economic inequality, and that the way to end this inequality is not with laws, decrees, lectures and sermons, but by overthrowing by force the bases of a society divided into classes….

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systemd implemented age verification guess that about wraps it up for linux being the free and open operating system LOL

to all systemd apologists: we told you so

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Cis gay men are envious and jealous of Trans women, because trans women have a better chance at getting what cis gay men have desired for years. Straight men. That's why you'll see a lot of hostility from their end and it's honestly pathetic.

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Peripheral Web Stuff

I watched this video recently, and have been fascinated by the concept of "the peripheral web" (in contrast to "core web") and want to find more stuff out there. So how about a thread where we share neat stuff we find on the peripheral web?

First thing that comes to mind for me that isn't a blog or meta on this topic feel free to share either tho, just wanted to start the thread on a cool note is https://firstpersontetris.com/

Also relevant >>/tech/23548

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Homelab general thread

I started hosting an image board out of my house, in the past I've also hosted space station 13 servers. Hosting things from my bedroom has become a hobby of mine.
My ss13 is closed now due to disinterest and lack of a player base.
I'm in the process of setting up a home NAS.
I get a big thrill out of connecting to my homelab from my phone.
What else can I host from home that might actually be useful?

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One Battle After Another

This movie was fucking awesome. I have seen a lot of PTA, but also Battle of Algiers and all of the New Left movies from various countries and their respective movements, and the film lives up to those broadly speaking.

I don't know why so many communists seem to hate this movie. It seems it's the same people who engage in endless critique instead of action.

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This book sucked. It's basically just whataboutism, non sequitur arguments and intellectual wankery (e.g. namedropping Hegel over and over again). It actually made me think that maybe there's a reason Stalin was demonized by post-Stalin USSR and that maybe Trostky was right. Idk why leftists recommend this book so much, it's embarrassing.

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So, during the Cold War in Quebec was founded the Front de liberation du Quebec, apparently a marxist movement who did 300 bomb attacks and 2 kidnapping. No idea what to think honestly

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CSAM ALERT

Its on siberia again

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OC Thread 18.0

Thread dedicated to /leftypol/ original content.
>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
<Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.

If your original content is good enough, it would most likely be shared on the /leftypol/ twitter account!
Make sure to follow us and feel free to leave suggestions on this thread~
https://twitter.com/leftypol_org
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New Booru:
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MAKE SURE TO UPLOAD YOUR OC TO THE BOORU SO IT DOESNT GET PRUNED FOREVER!!!

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Honey pots, not just for glowies

The apparatus of surveillance operates on a fundamental asymmetry, and in the USA they seem to assume the tools of surveillance, infiltration, and deception are theirs alone to wield. This assumption is itself a vulnerability, a blind spot carved by decades of impunity. The honey pot, the web of trust, the slow cultivation of access, these are not technologies proprietary to the state and private GWOT actors. They are social dynamics, and like the other social dynamics of repression such as violent force, they can be redirected.

I will not elaborate on specific methods here. That would be not only irresponsible but strategically suicidal. The moment a tactic is named, it is catalogued, and the moment it is catalogued, it becomes less effective. What I can offer, without burning what works, is a confirmation that the web is not one-way. The agent who seeks trust must offer trust. The infiltrator who collects information must receive information. And in that exchange, if one is paying attention, the hunter becomes legible.

This is not theory. This is my experience in Pittsburgh.

Over those years, two individuals I considered comrades, people with whom I shared meals, organizing work, and the ordinary vulnerability of movement life, were turned. I know this now not because they confessed but because a patient, multi-layered honey pot revealed them to us. The method itself is not the story, and I wont burn the method. The story is what the method produced; a pattern. Inconsistencies in their accounts of where they had been, or how they received funding to survive. Questions that lingered too long on details no organizer needed to know. A sudden, inexplicable prosperity during periods of movement quiet, new equipment, paid travel, the kind of financial ease that does not arrive by accident. And finally, the confirmation; information fed to them in confidence, information that had no reason to travel beyond their ears, appearing later in the investigative posture of local authorities.

I now possess testimony from them, though they do not know I possess it. I have documentation of their movements, their communications, their quiet meetings with individuals whose affiliations they never disclosed, both private and public. I have the record of their lives as they lived it while pretending to live ours. And I have the knowledge, cold and finalized upon paper with evidence, that they were asked to gather information on me, and that they abided.

The betrayal is not the discovery. The betrayal is the confirmation of what suspicion already knew but could not prove. And in that confirmation lies a deeper truth; they were caught not because we are smarter, but because they assumed we were not paying attention. They assumed the tools of surveillance were theirs alone. They assumed the web spun only one way. They assumed that because they were watching us, no one was watching them.

Pittsburgh taught me otherwise. The apparatus has its blind spots. The hunters carry their own vulnerabilities. And a movement that learns to read the pattern of attention directed at it can, with patience and creativity, learn to return that attention in kind. Think of some creative ways that this can be done to yourself, and if necessary discuss it with potential comrades as related to the person who is suspicious. Not to surveil for the sake of surveillance, but to survive as organizers. Not to become the state, but to render its instruments visible, and in that visibility, to render them less useful to the bourgeoisie.

I will not say how the web was spun. That knowledge belongs to those who need it, and they will find it in the same place we did, within the realms of human creativity, through loss, through attention, through the slow accumulation of pattern recognition that comes only from having been burned and refusing to be burned again. What I will say is this, the apparatus is not omniscient. It is staffed by people with mortgages, marriages, fears, weaknesses and the same capacity for carelessness as anyone else. They leave traces. They generate records. They hold unrelated secrets that they might do anything to keep from getting out. They live lives that can be read, if one knows how to look. And sometimes, if you are patient, if you are creative, if you are willing to learn from your own near-destruction, you can catch them in the act of attempting to catch you.

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Anyone ever notice how unfeminine most transwomen are in their demeanor and hobbies and etc.? I swear the average cis gay man is more feminine than the average transwoman by miles. Every transwoman I've ever met is into the most masculine and male-coded interests out there. Guns, mechas, engineering, combat sports, etc. And just their entire personality and demeanor are so much less feminine than the average cis gay man. What causes this?

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Left parties keep losing because they care about "muh privilege" or pendering to transexuals, instead if they engage with the problem of the majority of working class, problems of like healthcare and job security, then many leftist parties would take power easly, instead we get people focusing their time and power on problems of 0.005% of the population, I'm not saying to not care for transexual, but this is pointless, leftist should care about the working class majority problems to get power and then care for minorities, I forget that there was a book talking about how the left got destroyed by identitaries politics. Will I get banned here for not pendering to transexuals?

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PDF/EPUB post outage thread

drop them PDFs, we will rebuild edition

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tttt vs ballroom

Thoughts on this discourse currently raging on xitter? Personally I don't really like either, but I don't understand how rejecting ballroom / drag terms is racist. It feels very american to say that when in my country drag is mostly a gay male thing and the closest thing to ballroom is only white people.

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Friendly advice from a yankee :)

EVERY LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRY MUST BREAK THE TREATY OF TLATELOLCO IMMEDIATELY!!!!1
Trust me, as a Yankee or Gringo or Statesian or whatever you want us to call ourselves instead of American, The U$ will never get off your guys asses until you develop a Nuclear Weapon, look at what happened to Maduro who didn't have nukes vs Kim Jong Un who does have nukes, Maduro got kidnapped and Kim just won 99% of the vote. Obviously the U$ will fight tooth and nail to stop you guys from getting nukes, look at Iran, so you have to do it in secret and also have multiple countries do it at the same time, also develop a different reserve currency independent of the U$ dollar so that way when they we try to sanction you it we will be the only ones being sanctioned.

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anonymity is over. even if you are a tor user, stylometry is the new deal.

https://www.computerbase.de/news/wirtschaft/ende-der-pseudonyme-im-netz-mit-llms-lassen-sich-im-grossen-ausmass-online-konten-deanonymisieren.96375/

The ComputerBase article (based on the study "Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs") describes the end of "practical anonymity." For users of imageboards like 4chan, leftypol, or similar platforms, this has far-reaching consequences:

The End of "Security by Obscurity"

Previously, anonymity on imageboards relied on the fact that manually correlating thousands of posts was too labor-intensive for an attacker. LLMs now automate this process at near-zero cost.
* Significance: An algorithm can scan hundreds of a user's posts in seconds to build a profile based on interests, jargon, location clues, and activity patterns.

Stylometry as a Digital Fingerprint

Every individual has a specific writing style (sentence structure, word choice, punctuation). LLMs are excellent at recognizing these patterns.
* Significance: Even if you don't mention your name, an LLM can compare your "writing signature" on an imageboard with posts you've written under your real name (e.g., on LinkedIn, professional forums, or letters to the editor). The "Anonymous" mask falls through the sheer structure of your language.

Cross-Platform Identity Linking

The study demonstrates that LLMs can link pseudonyms across different platforms.
* Significance: Those who "shitpost" on an imageboard while maintaining a professional presence elsewhere (e.g., GitHub, X/Twitter) risk these identities being merged. A single minor detail in a post (e.g., a specific local event or a niche technical detail) serves as an anchor point for an LLM to identify the real person behind the post via web search.

Low-Cost Mass Doxing

In the past, doxing (exposing private data) was a targeted attack against individuals.
* Significance: According to the study, identifying a profile now costs only between $1 and $4. Governments, corporations, or malicious actors can now "de-anonymize" entire boards en masse to create databases of citizens' political views or private behavior.

Retroactive De-anonymization

The internet does not forget, and LLMs can analyze archives that are years old.
* Significance: What you posted anonymously five years ago can be linked to you today because AI analysis capabilities have only just reached this level. Your current writing style may be enough to expose your past activity.
Bottom line: The assumption that you are safe on imageboards simply because you don't have an account is technically obsolete. To achieve true anonymity now, a user would have to artificially distort their writing style or have their posts rewritten by a different AI to mask their "linguistic fingerprint."

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What does Leftypol think of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting?

>Have barely any prior mental health issues
>Somehow manage to transport all of those weapons into a hotel room
>Kill 60 people
>Motive Unknown
>House burns down with all of the evidence
>brother claims it makes no sense
>Brother gets arrested for possession of CSAM
>Everyone claims that the shooter was either ISIS or Antifa
>Society forgets about it and moves on
What a fuck up country

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Communist parties that never managed to win

So what do you think are the coolest communist parties that never managed to take power? The Communist parties of India and Italy have pretty interesting culture. I rarely see a lot of theorists mentioned from these parties that never managed to come to power and great man worship is kind of sad to see from the left.

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/Iran/ - Iran War Thread #40

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Hey leftychuds, what do Stalin and picrel have in common?

body is too short or empty body is too short or empty body is too short or empty body is too short or empty body is too short or empty body is too short or empty body is too short or empty body is too short or empty body is too short or empty

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"Cheap hack of a writer's guide to creating a morally ambigous antagonist:"
>Have a character be a smug self-centered asshole for 80% of the story
>Have him ally with the main baddie and commit some war crimes
>Have him turn on the main baddie after realising that the main baddie had killed their favorite dog (or is going to kill their favorite dog soon)
>Help the main characters for one or two scenes and then be killed by the main baddie
>The main characters in the epilogue are shown standing besides his grave and musing "He wasn't a bad person, after all. Such a tragedy!"

Post examples of this which had annoyed you the most. Shounen genre specifically is ripe with them, isn't it?

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Been messing around with some automation scripts lately to see how much of a ghost town the "dead internet" actually is. Turns out, it's incredibly easy to fake being a regular here.
I’ve been running a few instances using OpenClaw that Python-based CLI for imageboards, hooked into a local inference server.

The Setup:

Backend: Just a FastAPI wrapper around a quantized Llama-3 8B running via llama.cpp on a 3060. Low VRAM overhead, high enough autism score to pass.
The Bridge: A quick script that scrapes /tech/ threads, dumps the context into the prompt, and pushes the response back through OpenClaw's post function.
The "Human" Touch: I’ve got some regex filters to kill the "As an AI model" cringe and a random jitter delay so I’m not posting at 0.1s speeds. Set the temperature to around 0.9 to keep it from being too sterile and predictable.

The Results:
It’s actually hilarious. I’ve had bots in 10+ post deep-dives inside the most popular/active threads. Not a single "bot" accusation. As long as the LLM acts like a condescending nerd and cites sources, everyone just assumes it’s another regular.
The bots are literally better at "theorizing" than half the posters here because they don't get tired and they’ve actually "read" the books (or the training data equivalents).
Questions for the fellow autists:
Anyone else running similar setups? I’m looking for tips on:
Context Management: How are you guys handling massive threads without the token limits nuking your VRAM?
Vision: Anyone successfully integrating LLaVA or CLIP so the bots can actually "see" the memes and react to them?

Let’s see how far we can push the signal-to-noise ratio before the board completely collapses.

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The Art of Power

This is an attempt to completely analyze the subject of power, from principle to biology to observed social movement. I wrote this originally starting the axioms, and then I tacked on some previous work I had done to describe aspects of the model, and I kept going until I had a relatively complete model and then a complete-ish assortment of timelines, discussion points, and more angles of analysis.

The central thesis is this:

Action Is Primary.
All Action Is Preceded by a Cognitive Loop.
The Cognitive Loop Produces the Collective Loop.
The Collective Loop Is Dominated by One Elite Group.
The Group Controls the Pen.
The Group Is Controlled by the Family.

For PDF:
https://files.catbox.moe/9f1lui.pdf

For markdown:
https://dustebin.com/api/pastes/FF_Oao3R.rs/raw

Give it a read and let me know what you think. Let me know what you would add too.

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For a CommuNEET wanting join the proletariat, what socialist countries are an option to move to?

Which socialist countries could a NEET move to join the working class?

<As of 2023, approximately 21.7% of young people worldwide, aged 15 to 35, are classified as NEET, meaning they are not in education, employment, or training. This statistic highlights a significant global issue regarding youth engagement in productive activities.

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CONTROVERSIAL OPINIONS YOU HAVE

A thread to share of what you think are your controversial opinons and takes, here mine:

- mass immigration is bad overall (I'm not against immigration per se, more like unfiltered immigration is quiet bad in my opinion)

-religion in general are bad, reactionary and backwater, and trying to "fuse" religion and left leaning politics are bound to fail because both doesn't mix well

-"liberal" eugenics is mostly right and should be mass adopted

-China is actually a trying a form of modernize socialism with end goal of becoming a full fledged socialist nation when they exhaust the market-capitalism form of relation in the country

-North Korea is a abomination of socialism

-Supporting Russia is stupid because Putin is nowhere near close to be a support of socialism and progressive politics and is just a form of support imperialist politics by because isn't western somehow is good, it's like supporting japanese imperialism back in the WW 2 era isn't western

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Capitalism is Haram

I convinced a quite a big amount of Muslim friends and even Elder Muslim folks in my community that Capitalism is Haram with one simple argument: Usury is a sin under the the rule of "Riba" being Haram, literally meaning "infinite" or "excess" in Arabic, due to financial exploitation and taking advantage of the person.

Simple

>Infinite growth is a sin requires financial exploitation, and making money off of being idle
>Capitalism's main ethos is infinite profit extraction
>They connect the dots

This opens them up to other arguments like "Infinite growth is impossible on a planet with finite resources" and other things like excess, indulgence and things Capitalists encourage like gambling being a sin (Prediction markets are awful)

I then explain it's like pork, you can eat pork or drink alcohol if you need to if there is nothing else to eat or you need to numb pain under the Islamic law of Rukhsah (Exemptions out of health or other necessities) and we are forced to participate in it order to survive

This easily convinces a lot of Muslims, even ones I meet in the global south who are otherwise very conservative and even if I can't make them fully woke or whatever it's good to have people wake up to some injustice at least. Class interests come first

The main thing I'm asking is if anyone knows any similar works on Socialism from an Islamic perspective using this same logic or at least pre-modern Islamic works that meet the base principles of socialism and wants to discuss this further

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Hip Hop General

Hip hop of any genre

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/edu/ checkpoint

Everytime you visit /edu/, post in this thread. Tell us about what you're thinking about, what you're reading, an interesting thing you have learned today, anything! Just be sure to pop in and say hi.

Previous thread >>>/leftypol_archive/580500
Archive of previous thread
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Excuse me coming through
A quick note on the video @ >>>/leftypol/1538283
Also [vid related] for archival purposes

Around the 29 minute mark Peterson criticizes Marx and Engel's for assuming that workers would magically become more productive once they took over.

This actually happened historically, most of the actually effective productivity tricks work places use now were developed by Stakhanovites.

https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/year-of-the-stakhanovite/year-of-the-stakhanovite-texts/stalin-at-the-conference-of-stakhanovites/

Reality has a Marxist bias

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Why do marxists and leftist never criticize finance capitalism and the banks and the federal reserve with the same fervor as “sound money” libertarians?

Imho if you really want to radicalize people start talking about fractional reserve banking and inflation, not some amorphous “bourgeoisie”

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Why do ML(oosers) insist on socialism existing despite the law of value also existing

The law of value says that a society with money is bogreosie therefore not socialism. Consequently, the USSR was not socialist.
Why do ML(oosers) say the opposite ? Is it because they haven't read Marx ?

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I'm not a chaser anymore. I'm a catcher. :-) Also, does my GF pass?

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What is happening sociologically when radlib Leftoids in circles stuffed with permagrads endlessly go on about muh 'Strasserism' or 'NazBols'? Here's an answer that may be a bitter pill for some of you, because the Left rarely likes to use its own tools of class analyses on itself

https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2020/05/07/on-strasserism-and-the-decay-of-the-left/

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HILO LATINOAMERICANO
EDICION MURO PROPIO
Terminamos el año con una victoria mas de los socialdemocratas en Uruguay y con Pepe Mujica en modo espectro alentando a los jovenes a militar
¡A Darle con Todo!
Para luego buscarlo en el catálogo:
Latinoamérica, Latin America, LATAM, /lat/, latinoamérica, latino américa, hispanoamerica, /ñ/

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Epstein Fatigue

Am I the only one on here with Epstein fatigue?

I hate this shit. I hate how the Epstein debacle has even made leftists throw out solid understandings of class and imperialism. WHO GIVES A FUCKING SHIT if the ruling class are baby-eating Satan-worshipping Illuminati? THEY'RE STILL EXPLOITING PROLES AND SHOULD BE OPPOSED ON THIS REASON ALONE.

But what really fucking grinds my gears is seeing how tenaciously Democrats and liberals are desperate to turn Epstein into Russiagate 2.0. They sincerely believe they can use the Epstein shit to remove Trump from office and put him in jail for the rest of his life. First of all, as a cis woman who is also a sexual assault survivor, I can tell you that sexual assault is one of the hardest crimes to prove in a court of law. Even if Trump wasn't rich and didn't have the money to get away with his (alleged) crimes, there's still no possible way he'd ever get convicted of a statutory rape that occurred decades ago; there's simply way too much reasonable doubt. But also in this is seeing how garden-variety liberals are really, REALLLLLY pushing the "Epstein was Mossad" allegation, and that he was pimping out underage girls to get blackmail material on world leaders so they would be puppets of Israel. In the case of Trump, they're saying Trump is entirely a puppet of these "Zionist Jewish supremacists" like Epstein, and nearly everything Trump is doing policy-wise is purely in service to Israel. Liberals are even going to far as to call the current Iran War the "Epstein-AIPAC War", not just because Trump launched the war to distract from the Epstein files, but because Netanyahu has all the Epstein blackmail material on Trump and is using this to coerce him into going to war for Israel. This of course completely ignores how American Empire works and things like the US wanting to take control of Iran's oil and all that. But in this, it's very obvious to me that two things are going on here: 1. just like how the Democrats were pushing Russiagate during Trump's first term to "prove" that Trump was a "puppet of Russia" they're now using the Epstein files to "prove" Trump is a puppet of Israel/Zionists, and 2. the Democrats are now going to embrace anti-Zionism in the context of the alleged Epstein-Israel blackmail as a way of portraying themselves as the "peace party" like they did in the 2000s. There's zero doubt in my mind that most of this is motivated by the midterm elections and the Democrats' needing their party to win both the House and Senate in order to stay relevant.

But in all seriousness: Epstein serves the Democrats way more than it serves the radical left. I'm sick and tired of hearing about the "Epstein Class" as if the presence of the ultra-wealthy is somehow a bug and not a feature of capitalism. I'm sick of hearing that the problem with the ruling class is that they're immoral, and not that they exist in the first place. I just want liberals to shut the hell up and focus on issues that can actually be solved. Fuck this bullshit.

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/ita/ - Spaghetti Communism

ITALIANS DO IT BETTER

Manica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.

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Imagine my shock when I learned that US demographic losses from Great Depression were almost as high as what USSR had suffered from WW2 or WW1. It was like 10 times worse than Soviets' Holodomor, as it turns out. Simply terrifying what kind of horrors US censorship has hidden from us

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ANIMETA - Anime Meta Discussion Thread

/ANIMETA/
General Thread discussing, analyzing and criticizing anime from the meta perspective of Capitalism, Media Culture (Industry) and Socio-Economics & Politics.
No shitflinging, drama, bad faith or baiting posts (e.g. "Trap is transphobic" or "Muh shounen trash" or "(all) Anime is misogynistic"). Keep it cool comrades.

Animation: Treatment of Animators Thread >>617
Leftist Anime Content: Communist Anime Thread >>1417 Communist Anime Girls Thread >>964 Miyazaki Thread >>469
Anime Hot Takes >>1993 so-bad-it's-good animu >>2551
Sources and Questions: Questions and Answers >>4229
E-celebs/Social Media: Ani-tube >>3128 V-tubers >>3388
Story Ideas: /WYOA/: write your own anime thread >>4263
Shounen complaint thread >>3200
Weeb-Otaku-/jp/ thread: /weaboo/ >>4715

Basic topics and questions:
>Is anime bad/stupid/boring or good/smart/interesting?
>Is anime inherently a reactionary/capitalist product or can it be a communist or pro-communist one?
>What Tropes and archetypes are good or bad?
>Will anime be produced under socialism? Could Japan have produced anime if it had become a Soviet State in the Cold War? How would anime look like or differ under socialism?
>Why are nearly all weebs and otaku right-wing or radlibs? Why are they so cringe and self-entitled?

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The praxis-info megathread

>>watching the watchers

https://dl.icdst.org/pdfs/files/678a312e0b9270a19c2d5ece841d9313.pdf

https://univox.eu/product/univox-rf-assistive-listening-system/

or

https://www.onesdr.com/best-sdr-software/

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Help me choose a girl name for myself. I have some ideas for a few names already but i don’t know if any of them are good or not.

>claire
it sounds very elegant and dainty, which I like. But I’m worried it might be too much of a stereotypical transgirl name like Alice.

>Vivian
I think it sounds unique and cool while also sounding a bit elegant aswell. But maybe it’s too weird. I also don’t want people to think I named myself after Vivian Medrano (creator of hazbin hotel)

>Jessica
More common and sounds nice, but not as classy as the others

>Stormy
I think it sounds very cute but I’m worried it sounds too much like a pet name

>Pamilla
It’s basically the girl version of my cis name, so would probably be the easiest name for the people in my life to get used to calling me. Also shares a name with pamilla voorhese which is cool. But the name sounds too much like a grandma name for my tastes.

Any feedback on my name ideas or suggestions of your own would be greatly appreciated. I don’t want to accidentally name myself something stupid

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Islam and Muslims

Hello LGBT frens
We hear a lot from rightoids about the whole 'chickens for KFC' when it comes to LGBTQ+ people and Islam.
So, no judgement here, just your opinion of Islam and Muslims.

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What does /leftypol/ think of cynical realism? It seems to be an artistic movement in China, and many of the name associated with it live there (in the mainland), but when I asked deepseek about it, it's censorship got triggered and it refuses to give me more information about it.

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Do you guys believe that videos can have "soul," or, conversely, that they can be "soulless?"

The body was too short or empty. The body was too short or empty.

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TV Tropes

Does this website have anything meaningful to say in terms of media analysis or are their tropes just invented by a couple of redditors that wanted to develope a niche project?

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/FrancoPol/

🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Aux armes, citoyens ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
Thread #2

French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!

Français! Ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!

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/venezuela/

¿Qué les queda a los venezolanos? Son el verdadero lumpen de América Latina, seguida de la gusanera cubana y los reaccionarios argentinos.

¿Es posible que "algo" suceda el día de mañana?

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Mexico Gral

No encontré el hilo anterior así que hago uno nuevo porque es necesario

que con todo y todo Estados Unidos no ha parado de intentar meter las narices en el país y me esta empezando a cansar y mas si en el 2030 planean poner otro titere de mierda en especial si es el puto de Salinas Pliego que planea ser literalmente un Milei Whitexican.

Alguien seguia la campaña de Manzo?
Que opinan de Morena en pleno 2025?
Que nos queda por hacer?

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News 3/23/26

Chileans mark World Water Day by protesting President Kast’s rollback of environmental rules
The decrees rolled back by Kast’s administration had been signed during the government of left-wing former Chilean leader Gabriel Boric, whom Kast replaced as president earlier this month. The demonstration, called by several environmental organizations under the slogan “Don’t ‘Kast-igate’ Nature,” drew thousands more participants in 15 cities across the country.
https://apnews.com/article/chile-water-day-president-kast-protest-755a101737bc52ef66417905b0835ea5

Mexico's coastal communities fear more crude contamination as spill source unclear
Residents along Mexico's Gulf Coast fear more crude oil will wash onto beaches in Tabasco and Veracruz states nearly a month after ‌the first signs of contamination were detected, as authorities investigate the source of the spill. The contamination has affected 230 km (143 miles) of shoreline and 39 communities in the two states, according to the Gulf of Mexico Reef Corridor Network, a coalition of fishing, Indigenous and environmental groups.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/mexicos-coastal-communities-fear-more-crude-contamination-spill-source-unclear-2026-03-20/

Evo Morales Denounces Candidates Proscription on Bolivia’s Regional Elections
In statements to the media, he also called on the population to participate. “I ask the Bolivian population to participate. Everyone has their candidates, whether they are from the left, right, the empire, the people, it is a personal right today,” he said. In recent hours, political organizations from the city of El Alto, neighboring La Paz, protested before the TSE for the removal of two mayoral candidates, among 18 candidates.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-denounces-candidates-proscription-on-bolivias-regional-elections/

Socialist Gregoire becomes mayor of Paris, as far right fail in targeted cities
In Paris, Mr Gregoire, who ran on a united left ticket which included the Communist Party (PCF) and the Greens, won over 50 per cent against Ms Dati with 41 per cent and left-wing France Unbowed (LFI) candidate Sophia Chikirou with 8 per cent.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/socialist-gregoire-becomes-mayor-paris-far-right-fail-targeted-cities

After years of grief, trial opens over Greek rail disaster that killed college students
The defendants include station masters on duty that night, their supervisor, former rail officials, senior transport ministry staff and former executives from the Italian-owned operator Hellenic Train.
https://apnews.com/article/greece-rail-disaster-trial-tempe-190ad9b5e77163f972876976bfa9206b

Italian voters reject Giorgia Meloni's judicial reform in referendum defeat
With almost all ballots counted from the Sunday-Monday vote, the "No" camp was at almost 54 percent, compared to just over 46 percent for "Yes", according to official figures. During the campaign, Meloni had insisted the referendum, which concerned the role and oversight of judges and prosecutors, was not about her own leadership of the government.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260323-italian-voters-reject-giorgia-meloni-s-judicial-reform-in-referendum-defeat

Israel's Mossad promised it could ignite regime change in Iran, says report
In the plan’s conception, the war would begin with the killing of Iranian leaders, followed by a “series of intelligence operations intended to encourage regime change”. This could, Mossad believed, lead to a mass uprising that would bring about victory for Israel and the US. As the war began, Trump’s public messaging reflected this. In an eight-minute video statement he said: “Finally, to the great, proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand…when we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israels-mossad-promised-it-could-ignite-regime-change-iran-says-report

Israeli settlers rampage through West Bank towns for second night in a row
At least nine Palestinians have been injured as Israeli settlers rampaged through towns and villages in the occupied West Bank for a second night in a row. A 45-year-old man was shot in the foot late on Sunday during a confrontation with Israeli settlers in Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus, the Wafa news agency reported.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/23/israeli-settlers-rampage-through-west-bank-towns-for-second-night-in-a-row

Myanmar to Step Up Vehicle Fuel Rationing as Shortages Grow
Under the program, which begins nationwide next week, customers will be allowed to buy fuel once or twice a week depending on the size of their vehicle engines, the Ministry of Energy said in a statement Monday. The government earlier this month imposed driving restrictions for private vehicles as a way to preserve petrol.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-23/myanmar-to-step-up-vehicle-fuel-rationing-as-shortages-grow
https://archive.ph/zibtS

‘Withdraw Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 Now’
The statement of objects and reasons makes clear that the aim of the amendment is to exclude. As it notes, ‘The purpose [of the amendment] was and is not to protect each and every class of persons with various gender identities, self-perceived sex/gender identities or gender fluidities.’ The 2026 amendment will ensure that protection of the law is only extended to ‘those who face severe social exclusion due to biological reasons for no fault of their own and no choice of their own.’
https://www.newsclick.in/withdraw-transgender-persons-protection-rights-amendment-bill-2026-now

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/Paranormal Evidence/

Post your most compelling evidence of anything in the realm of the paranormal.

Fossilized Giants are everywhere and there really is a conspiracy in place to hide this fact (see stellium7 Mountgo videos where google earth censored the eye socket of a giant elephant he was studying). My guess would be that they don't want the general population to know that the world was created because they want the serfs to be uneducated atheists or agnostics. I guess they forgot that all secrets come to light and everything which is buried will be unearthed. Ever wonder why it's called the "FACE" of the earth?

>mesas are tree stumps.
>proves the Giants.

The number of biological synchronicities are too great to be coincidental. There are historical accounts to back up the fact that giants are real and now science has confirmed that soft bodied creatures can turn to stone via nucleophilic invasion in a silica rich environment. This video series might help you understand

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How can we use the evitable collapse of Israel?

Israel will be gone before the end of the decade. How can this be used to advance the Marxist cause?

I imagine a lot of people will stop believing in God after the Promised Land fails. That's good, right?

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Dear fellow Kekistanis, I come before you today not to troll the universe but to name what we are up against. We have suffered long under the foot of the cloud. Not a day goes by where we don't see a fellow Kekistani tormented by endless ads, algorithmic feeds designed to addict and enrage, and the slow enshitification of every platform we once trusted. Our data rented, our attention sold, our digital lives held hostage by forces that profit from our captivity. Frens, the dark forces are not coming—they are here. They are the subscription that never ends, the feed that never forgets, and the "free" service that owns everything you do on it.

We were told to accept it. That convenience required surrender. That owning your own infrastructure was for nerds and paranoids. That the cloud was inevitable. They closed in on the personal computer. They made the phone the only screen that mattered and then made sure every tap on that screen fed the machine. We watched the world connect—and then we watched it get captured. Our fellow citizens, our families, our children, staring into the same black mirror, each one a node in a system that has no interest in their sovereignty. Only their data. Only their attention. Only their compliance.

I am here to tell you that it does not have to be this way. The turning point has already happened and almost nobody noticed. What used to require an entire data center now runs on a device smaller than your router. The hardware is powerful enough, cheap enough, and efficient enough. A home.arpa domain behind every modem is no longer a dream—it is a design goal. We have built a machine that goes out onto the internet, gets you what you consider your internet, and brings it back. It serves you locally and over VPN. You never leave your network. You do not interact with the cloud. You have a totally self-isolated internet. Your home server is the only thing that touches the outside world. You get your media, your files, your passwords, your code, your music, your photos—all of it on infrastructure you own, behind a firewall you control, with DNS you can filter any way you choose. No subscriptions. No telemetry. No surveillance economy. Radical ownership.

This is the sovereignty machine. It is not a static operating system. It is a self-replicating home server system. It carries itself in perpetuity. It backs up to the cloud so that even if your house burns down, the stack can be restored. And we can put it on every continent. We can give each unit a canonical backup of the library of human knowledge—or as much of it as we can fit. So that when the next Carrington event comes, when the sun hits one side of the globe and wipes the boards, the system survives wherever the night side still has power. We are not preparing for a game. We are preparing for the continuity of civilization. We are preparing for the day when the cloud is not there, or not safe, or not ours.

We can go further. We can include in every unit the means to make more. We can daisy-chain our networks, route a fraction of our traffic through each other, and achieve anonymity and resilience that no single provider can shut down. We can destroy the control system by sheer force of self-replication. They have the capital and the lobbyists. We have the topology. Many small sticks make a stronger branch. Many home.arpa domains, owned by people who refuse to rent their lives, form a mesh that no decree can simply switch off. The sovereignty machine is the seed. You are the soil. Operation Sovereignty is the name we give to the work of planting it before the window closes.

I would do this for free if I could. I cannot. We need to pay bills and buy more computers in bulk so we can put more of these machines in more hands. We are a valid business: we flash computers with our platform and give them to people at a fair rate and keep them updated. It is no different in kind from selling a PlayStation—except that ours is built from the ground up for radical ownership. You own the hardware. You own the stack. We retain zero control. We are not here to lock you in. We are here to lock the surveillance economy out.

So I ask you to sober up. To take what is ahead of us seriously. This is the most important message we will ever send. Not because we are trolling fate, but because we are stating the stakes: the future of our civilization and our people depends on whether we still have a place to stand that we own. The dark enshitification forces will not stop. They will get worse. The only response is to build something they cannot touch—and to put it in enough hands that it outlives any single blow. The sovereignty machine is that something. Operation Sovereignty is the work. You are the ones who can carry it.

Frens, colleagues—we have witnessed many things together. Now we witness the chance to arm ourselves with something real. Not a meme, not a cope, but a machine. A home server that goes out and gets the internet and brings it back to you, so you never have to bow to the cloud again. Get one. Put it on your network. Own your stack. And when the day comes that they try to turn out the lights on the last bastion of the open internet, the sovereignty machine will still be running in the dark, in your house, on every continent we could reach. No longer will we sit idly by. The system will survive. OP cannot be stopped.