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/USApol/ 🇺🇸

🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<"Held Hostage By Thugs" Edition

>May Lenin awaken the workers and help them to see the necessity of revolutionary civil war in the United States.

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

🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

📺 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

🏚️ Local News 🏚️
https://www.50states.com/ce/

✊Live Protest Streams✊
https://woke.net/

🏝️ Epstein's Client List🏝️
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures

🇮🇱 Track Zionazis (warning: ShareBlue)🇮🇱
https://www.trackaipac.com/

📖Read, Burgga, Read! 📖
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXUFLW8t2sntNn5jQO8vF7ai9x0fna3PV

Previous thread: >>2644818

Remember, legal + illegal struggle
Remember, praxis + theory
Remember, it's not impossible

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Kojève

Any Kojève-pilled anons here? Should I read him? Anything interesting about him? Was he truly a KGB spy? Is his philosophy worthwhile or just pseud ramblings?
Edoookayte me

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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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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #279

Previous: >>2634097

SMO adhered to UN law, ignore NAFO shills 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

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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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Do they really?

Do multipoltards realize that two of their main positions are straight up contradictory?

The idea that:
>American empire must collapse to achieve communism.
And
>American proletarians have no revolutionary potential.
Being somewhat compatible is impossible.

How does America collapses and then a continuation of that geographical pole of economic influence doesn't appear again? What exactly is the way that the continental mass that was once called the United States of America doesn't become, by virtue of their natural resources, industrial machinery and population, an economic powerhouse again?

I personally think that the way to stop this would be for a socialist America to happen, that way, an imperial, capitalist nation won't take its place, but in order for that to happen we would need a proletariat revolution to take its place which automatically implies that the American working class is revolutionary.

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What does /lgbt/ think of how people on this site use the F-slur?

Im sure you guys have noticed that people on this site do that thing that is just a carry over from 4chan where people call each other "Newf-word," "Oldf-word," "Draw-word," or whatever, (Can straight people type out the F-slur in this context? I'd rather not find out the hard way) I never personally did that shit myself because I have queer friend who DEFINITELY don't think straight people like me should say that shit and even if they won't know my conscience would feel heavy. But I know that queer people are not a monolith and I was wondering what the majority of people here think of it even if I won't use it either way obviously. I can already image 5 different responses,
1. Most Lgbtqianons people are okay with it
2. Most are not okay with it but don't bother calling it about because they will be labeled "Idpol"
3. Nobody cares
4. It turns out that most people on this site who do that are actually gay themselves
5. A mix of all of the above

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you are all replacable. you are all replacable.
you are all replacable. you are all replacable.
you are all replacable. you are all replacable.
you are all replacable. you are all replacable.
you are all replacable. you are all replacable.

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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO BEBÊ-DIABO DO ABC
"Durante um parto incrivelmente fantástico e cheio de mistérios, correria e pânico por parte de enfermeiras e médicos, uma senhora deu a luz num hospital de São Bernardo do Campo a uma estranha criatura, com aparência sobrenatural, que tem todas as características do diabo, em carne e osso. O bebezinho, que já nasceu falando e ameaçou sua mãe de morte, tem o corpo totalmente cheio de pelos, dois chifres pontiagudos e um rabo de aproximadamente cinco centímetros, além do olhar feroz, que causa medo e arrepios."
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>14559

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/prc/ 20🇨🇳

/PRC/ People's Republic of China 20🇨🇳
>Deng Xiaoping 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: >>2586643

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Iranian protests #04

2,559 CONFIRMED DEAD WITH ESTIMATES REACHING QUADRUPLE THAT NUMBER

tactical placedholder thread - edeshen

Previous archived threads:
https://archive.ph/dDpTN
https://archive.ph/5s7Ek
>>2644990 (archive it when it's full)

Quick run-down: Unlike previous mass protests in Iran the current ones were caused primarily by crushing economic conditions rather than civil rights, and so they carry undeniable proletarian character and potential. The true scale of the protests is hard to confirm due to conflicting imperialist propaganda, however the staggering death toll in such a short period dwarfs the previous protests.

Statement of the Workers’ Councils of Arak: All power to the councils!

>“To the workers of Markazi Province, to our comrades in Khuzestan, and to all the people of Iran.”

>For decades, our demands for bread have been answered with bullets, and our demands for dignity with prison. But today, the silence has come to an end. We, the workers of Arak’s factories, declare the following:

>Workplace control: From now on, the management of the Machine Manufacturing Company, AzarAb, and Wagon Pars factories will be in the hands of workers’ councils elected by the workers themselves. We no longer recognize managers appointed by the state or the regime’s puppet unions.

https://cpiran.org/statement-of-the-workers-councils-of-arak-all-power-to-the-councils/

Joint statement of Worker-Communist Parties of Iraq and Kurdistan:

>The protests come amidst profound political transformations in the region and a clear decline in Iranian influence, which had expanded in recent years through militias and their allies, relying on funds looted from the working class and the welfare of the lranian masses. In the same vein, American imperialism, known for its bullying and unwavering support for fascist regimes, foremost among them the state of lsrael, is attempting to market itself as a defender of human rights and a supporter of the demands of the lranian masses, by brandishing the threat of blatant intervention, as recently occurred in Venezuela the two Communist Workers' Parties in Iraq and Kurdistan, while declaring their full solidarity and support for the just demands of the lranian working class and the masses yearning for freedom and dignity simultaneously warn against relying on American policies or allowing its intervention which plays a role in providing the lranian regime with pretexts to escalate its repression of the protesters.

>Any real change, any tangible improvement, and any victory for the protests in lran depends on maintaining their independence, separating their ranks from American imperialist policies, and preserving their class and popular unity.
>Long live the working class of Iran
>Long live the just demands of the Iranian people for freedom and equality

https://wp-iraq.com/الى-الامام-273

Unconditional support to Iranian workers as they face the full savagery of capital on the local and international fronts.

NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR

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there is nothing wrong in being manly

Many men on the left and centre, in critiquing patriarchal norms, have gone further and made a point of rejecting aesthetic standards traditionally associated with masculinity. Over the past two to three decades, this rejection has cohered into a recognizable counter-aesthetic.

This set of aesthetic includes: talking in a nasally and whiny way, upward inflection, limbs flopping around, slouched stance, indesicive movements, intentional shabbiness in dress or over-attention to dress, over-qualification (or redditifcation) of speech (“I might be wrong but…”), distancing or discomfort with tools, mechinary, firearms, navigation, etc. A meme-word captures this aesthetic aptly, “soy.”

Time to change course. It’s one thing to know to not harm women, it’s another to not have a firm handshake.

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Primitive Society Simulator

Primitive Society Simulator is a historical society-building game that lets players guide a prehistoric tribe from a simple communal existence to a stratified civilization. It begins in an egalitarian “primitive communist” stage, where resources, labor, and tools are shared, and there is little distinction between individuals. As the tribe develops agriculture, metalworking, and trade, it begins to produce surpluses, allowing some members to specialize as craftsmen, warriors, or leaders.

This specialization gradually introduces inequality: leaders accumulate authority, private property appears, and social ranks emerge. The game models this shift through systems like organization hierarchies, diplomacy, and class-based housing. Over time, patriarchal families, inheritance, and noble titles develop, solidifying class divisions. In this way, Primitive Society Simulator portrays the long historical transformation from communal, cooperative tribes into societies defined by hierarchy, property, and power.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1876880/view/530981557607858282?l=english

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:)

>OH MY FUCKING GOD, I'M NGMI, MY BIDELTOID IS 17 INCHES, I WILL NEVER BE A WOMAN, I AM SUCH A LATESHIT HON BECAUSE I STARTED AT 17, AND I WAS FINE AT 15 BUT
>*slaps face*
>kyle: *sighs* alright, you know the drill, get on the bed
>wh-what?
>kyle: you know, your brain has a lot of really valuable natural resources, they're called "worms", ever heard of them?
>*takes off your clothes*
>kyle: you've been hoarding them all to yourself lately. don't you think they would be better of in the hands of my big seltzer?
>kyle: *kyle kaugh* you ready? i'm gonna invade you like you're venezuela!
>moral collapse
>"kyle, kyle, i love you!!!"
>*kisses forehead* kyle: you want my oil, alice? you wanna steal my oil?
>"kyle please, i wanna have your baby!!!!!!"
>kyle grunts out "hooouuungry!" as his oil gets stolen

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deltaruni

it brings me no pleasure to announce this, but it's peak. the furry twink has done it again. total tumblr teen victory. i can't sleep at night and my life is irrevocably changed.

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Is it possible to be a Christian and be a communist I know Huey Newton was a Christian and a communist, but do you think it’s possible to still be one? I know there’s a lot of Muslim communist like haz

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eugenics, normality, trauma and mental health

I am posting this in the lgbt board because as a queer person I think a lot of these topics resonate much louder to a queer audience, who's likely given more thought to these ideas.

as some background, me and my girlfriend recently broke up over both being traumatized and her getting tired of my ever worsening situation.

in our current superstructure it would simply be discarded as a inherently codependent trauma relationship that could've never worked and under this understanding of the world the proposed solution is avoiding these relationships completely by simply getting over the trauma before dating.

now, my first question is, what does it even mean to get over trauma? some argue that the first steps are to engage in masking, similar to how someone would hide their neurodivergence. others suggest that getting over trauma is a matter of normalizing to oneself.

neither of these seems to be particularly effective, I understand that trauma cannot be undone but neither of these strategies seems to me like much more than internalizing and individualizing a systemic fault which feels contradictory and self destructive.

now, extending this at large I find myself disagreeing with the liberal capitalist perspective on mental health, I see it as one of my core values to be radically against eugenics and I find the idea of normality repulsive and unhelpful as it is often utilized to justify this line of thinking.
I understand that some deviations from our agreed normality are inherently harmful to others under our existing superstructure but I find it very difficult to justify a culture who glorifies the suppression of any behaviors that aren't helpful to the advancement of the capitalist system.

I have tried to adopt dialectical materialism to form a coherent opinion on what is the appropriate approach to many of these questions. it has helped with identifying contradictions within the status quo but I've been unable to find any reasonable uncontradictory answer to these questions, both within our existing superstructure and within a hypothetical utopian communist society.

inb4 anarchist will do anything before going to therapy.
I have tried, it feels to me like therapy isn't much more than a social support structure that can help you identify your problems but it hasn't been very helpful at actually resolving any of them.

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/US-Venezuela War #15/

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/leftydeutschpol/ - "Seid ihr bereit für den hybriden Krieg?"-Edition

Die Oma mal am Joint ziehen lassen gegen die vaterlandslosen Gesellen.

Alter Faden:
>>2363945

Ein paar Links:
https://mlwerke.redflag.ps/
https://www.papyrossa.de/
https://www.marxistische-blaetter.de/
https://www.jungewelt.de/
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/
https://www.wsws.org/de
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/
https://kommunistischepartei.de/
https://wiki.kommunistische.org/index.php?title=Hauptseite
https://www.rf-news.de/rote-fahne-news

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/leftybritpol/ - war edition

Get them recruited
Get them trained
Get them armed
Get them shipped
Get them turned into mincemeat

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c5y9gr1jr91o

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Palestine vs The Zionist Entity 122: HAPPY OCT 7! Edition

NEVER FORGET THAT BEAUTIFUL DAY!

🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸
~~>>2442214~~

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🚨 Live Happenings/Updates 🚨
Sites that have active live-blogs:
• Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/

• Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion

• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories

• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/liveblog/ (trigger warning)

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WIKI
Our own wiki. Be sure to add to it and create branching articles:
https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/2023_Israel–Gaza_war

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🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️

• https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source

• https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA

• https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective

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

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

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

• https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog

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💣🔫RESISTANCE💣🔫
al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/

PFLP
http://pflp.ps/

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📺 WATCH TOGETHER 📺

https://tv.leftypol.org/r/LGBTA
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✊🪧 TAKE ACTION AND TOUCH GRASS 🏴🔥

(USA)
• https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
• https://www.palestineaction.org/

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HIDE JIDF POSTS, IGNORE GLOWIE BAIT, DO NOT REPLY TO MOSSAD POSTERS
(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia, excessive doomer and jewish-blood-quantum posting)

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

الله أكبر
.الى جميع الكادحين في الشرق، ان مصيركم في ايديكم
!يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا

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How can you bd a leftist thsts agaisnt ai? Ai is the best thing that has happened to leftism since the great depression er. On the one hand its accelerationist on the other hand it actually makes workers democracy possible for the first time realistically.

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/FrancoPol/ 🇫🇷

🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Aux armes, citoyens ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
I noticed there is no thread for France related shit. So let this be one. French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
J'ai remarqué qu'il n'y a pas de thread dedié pour la France, alors que les salauds américains et anglais en ont des centaines. Français, ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!

Subjets of Macronpiter, leave a post.

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pro-tip :(

if you want a trans woman in your life to shut up, just mention every single trait of her body that's clocky and influenced by male puberty to her. hearing it from another person, and giving her confirmation that other people do indeed see it and the testosterone mutilation is indeed real, is bound to make her cry and want to go sulk in bed.

it doesn't matter if she's a stealthing passoid, it doesn't matter if you exaggerate and don't even care about the trait you're pointing out. there's something innate about post-puberty transitioners's minds that just flips a switch and makes them horribly sad for hours whenever someone says these things to their face.

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Leftist Argument copypasta general /LACG/

Post Copy pastas, videos and books which debunk common Fascist, Liberal talking points which are repeated often.

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Need help posting to rosetta code

I'm trying to post some rust code to https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Execute_Brain**** but I'm IP banned on the site :( . Is anyone able to upload it on my behalf? Feel free to take full credit and everything, it's fine.

(I added the legal disclaimer just in case, feel free to remove it)

https://gist.github.com/rust-play/7cdcab6fcd62f684b926e6860aeca9c7

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/USApol/ 🇺🇸

🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<"Chairman TJ Sabula" Edition

>May Lenin awaken the workers and help them to see the necessity of revolutionary civil war in the United States.

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

🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

📺 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

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https://www.50states.com/ce/

✊Live Protest Streams✊
https://woke.net/

🏝️ Epstein's Client List🏝️
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures

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https://www.trackaipac.com/

📖Read, Burgga, Read! 📖
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXUFLW8t2sntNn5jQO8vF7ai9x0fna3PV

Previous thread: >>2640963

Remember, legal + illegal struggle
Remember, praxis + theory
Remember, it's not impossible

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Fuck the working class in first world countries, they don't care about the working class of poor countries. There's no international "proletarian solidarity". I support the interclass struggle of oppressed nations to oppose imperial domination.

Fuck America
Fuck Zionism
Glory to the resistance

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I am currently in search of a new online home. Having experimented with numerous platforms over the past two years, I was captivated by X for a long time. However, I believe I have now discovered something superior: Substack.
In truth, I appreciate X for its seamless integration of text, video, and imagery, not to mention its unparalleled diversity of perspectives. Yet, my main grievance with X is the brevity of its text content. This is precisely why I am exploring Substack; it captures the best elements of X but offers the space for more long-form writing.
The platforms are relatively similar in terms of free speech, but Substack prioritizes high-quality 'effortposts.' You can publish in-depth articles or share shorter, tweet-like updates called 'Notes.' I wasn't aware of how much Substack had transformed!

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/auspol/ #11 - Southern Cross edition

Australian and Oceania politics general thread.

Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au
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://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)

https://xcancel.com/WhiteRoseSocAU/status/1998189853826289765

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Naarm (Melbourne) channel has been newly recreated. Gadigal (Sydney) channel has been newly created. The bot mentions a Woolongong one with no activity this year. Meanjin (Brisbane) channel has occasional activity.

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

Previous thread: ~~>>2177902~~

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.

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/ICEPOL/ #1

ICE PROTESTS GENERAL
*ICE SHOOTS TWO PROTESTORS EDITION*

Everybody was wrong, ICE began shooting protestors only one day after the protests began. This Thursday afternoon, ICE agents shot two protestors and put them in critical condition in the city of Portland, Oregon.

>What will come of this?
<We don't know yet, but if you had to realistically guess, nothing probably.

Source: https://katu.com/news/local/ice-shoots-two-people-in-portlandoregon

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Why does this board have so many falseflagging grifters compared to the 4chan equivalent? Every like third thread in the catalog looks like bait of some kind.

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Hytale

i'm thinking of buying it, looks very nice and stuff

what ya'll think about the game, has anyone tried it already?
any cool mods you've seen yet? personally i want to make a mod about weapons

but i'd love to see a mod with realistic terrain + a mod to make ships

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Iranian protests #03

2,559 CONFIRMED DEAD WITH ESTIMATES REACHING QUADRUPLE THAT NUMBER

Show Trials - addation

Previous threads:
https://archive.ph/dDpTN
https://archive.ph/5s7Ek

Quick run-down: Unlike previous mass protests in Iran the current ones were caused primarily by crushing economic conditions rather than civil rights, and so they carry undeniable proletarian character and potential. The true scale of the protests is hard to confirm due to conflicting imperialist propaganda, however the staggering death toll in such a short period dwarfs the previous protests.

Statement of the Workers’ Councils of Arak: All power to the councils!

>“To the workers of Markazi Province, to our comrades in Khuzestan, and to all the people of Iran.”

>For decades, our demands for bread have been answered with bullets, and our demands for dignity with prison. But today, the silence has come to an end. We, the workers of Arak’s factories, declare the following:

>Workplace control: From now on, the management of the Machine Manufacturing Company, AzarAb, and Wagon Pars factories will be in the hands of workers’ councils elected by the workers themselves. We no longer recognize managers appointed by the state or the regime’s puppet unions.

https://cpiran.org/statement-of-the-workers-councils-of-arak-all-power-to-the-councils/

Joint statement of Worker-Communist Parties of Iraq and Kurdistan:

>The protests come amidst profound political transformations in the region and a clear decline in Iranian influence, which had expanded in recent years through militias and their allies, relying on funds looted from the working class and the welfare of the lranian masses. In the same vein, American imperialism, known for its bullying and unwavering support for fascist regimes, foremost among them the state of lsrael, is attempting to market itself as a defender of human rights and a supporter of the demands of the lranian masses, by brandishing the threat of blatant intervention, as recently occurred in Venezuela the two Communist Workers' Parties in Iraq and Kurdistan, while declaring their full solidarity and support for the just demands of the lranian working class and the masses yearning for freedom and dignity simultaneously warn against relying on American policies or allowing its intervention which plays a role in providing the lranian regime with pretexts to escalate its repression of the protesters.

>Any real change, any tangible improvement, and any victory for the protests in lran depends on maintaining their independence, separating their ranks from American imperialist policies, and preserving their class and popular unity.
>Long live the working class of Iran
>Long live the just demands of the Iranian people for freedom and equality

https://wp-iraq.com/الى-الامام-273

Unconditional support to Iranian workers as they face the full savagery of capital on the local and international fronts.

NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR

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/ CYBERCOM /

This thread is for the discussion of cybercommunism, the planning of the socialist economy by computerized means, including discussions of related topics and creators. Drama belongs in /isg/

Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)

Active writers/creators sorted by last name

>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)

Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/

Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
https://archive.is/0sAS2
https://archive.is/jXivP
https://archive.is/Lx8TF

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what's the deal with 4chan transgenders?
i don't know much about 4tran4 im not trans, what kind of stereotype do they have and why are they extremely into looks and passing?

also at this point i don'tknow what a hon is and i need to get it

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Being into femboys doesn‘t make a man gay or bisexual. This may sound like a cope to avoid admitting to being either, but think about it.

Men who are into femboys are usually men who are also into women. And what they are into in femboys is a heteronormative presentation of femininity. Such men are usually not into men who look like men. One could then argue this is a preference, but a preference would mean that they are still into men but merely prefer this type of man. This isn‘t the case for men who into femboys though. Of all the people who are male they aren‘t turned on by any of them except femboys. So it‘s not a preference, it‘s exclusivity. Finally, men who are into femboys are generally not interested in sucking dick or being fucked in the ass.

We either conclude that 1) this is bisexuality but a very, very limited form of it with peculiarities that make it distinct from ordinary bisexuals who are attracted to average men, or 2) it is heterosexuality, but a redefined version whose basis isn‘t biology but certain signifiers and presentation, or 3) these men are standard heterosexuals but given enough female elements the gullible human brain mistakes it for a woman and lights up the horny center of the male brain. Evolution did not foresee cute, horny femboys and therefore didn‘t exclude it as a pointless mating option.

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News 1/14/26

Palestinian students strike as Israel bans access to West Bank teachers
The strike was called by the General Secretariat of Christian Educational Institutions in Jerusalem and later joined by all private schools in East Jerusalem. It follows Israel’s decision to limit the number of days on which work permits are granted to teachers from the West Bank. Under Israeli rules, Palestinians must obtain a permit from the Israeli military to cross checkpoints separating the West Bank from East Jerusalem.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/14/palestinian-students-strike-as-israel-bans-access-to-west-bank-teachers
https://archive.ph/2QQUm

Iran’s judiciary suggests fast-tracked trials for protesters
Iran’s judiciary has said it will move swiftly against those arrested in massive nationwide protests now into their third week, signalling fast-track trials and executions. Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, the head of Iran’s judicial system, delivered the warning in a video released by state television on Wednesday, calling on courts and prosecutors to act without delay. “If we want to do a job, we should do it now,” Mohseni-Ejei said, adding that any pause would undermine the state’s ability to deter further violence.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-calls-un-confront-us-over-trumps-incitement-overthrow-government

Ugandan voters go to the polls amid soldiers on the street
UGANDANS go to the polls today in an election that is likely to extend the rule of the long-term president while raising concerns about transparency, hereditary rule, military interference and an opposition strategy to prevent vote tampering at polling stations. President Yoweri Museveni, who has held power since 1986, seeks a seventh term that would bring him closer to five decades in power.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ugandan-voters-go-polls-amid-soldiers-street

‘Home Secretary tells MPs that the government will reinstate powers to fire chief constables over ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans
Protests are being arranged in Birmingham as Palestine and anti-racism campaigners slammed Westminster interference in local politics over the ban from a match against Aston Villa in November. West Midlands Police and crime commissioner Simon Foster declined to sack chief constable Craig Guildford without “full and proper consideration” after Ms Mahmood told MPs that the government will reinstate the Home Secretary’s powers to fire chief constables.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cynical-and-authoritarian

The UK is watering down plans for mandatory digital ID cards after a backlash
Officials confirmed Wednesday that it won’t be compulsory for citizens and residents to show a digital ID card in order to get a job, ditching a key plank of the policy announced in September. “The digital ID could be one way you prove your eligibility to work,” Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander told the BBC, alongside other documents such as biometric passports. The government said detailed plans for digital ID cards will be “set out following a full public consultation which will launch shortly.”
https://apnews.com/article/britain-digital-id-cards-retreat-starmer-immigration-6fad47dc1e4e0de79606e6ac4c73046e

France's government survives two no-confidence votes over Mercosur deal
The Socialist Party had ruled out backing the no-confidence motions and the conservative Les Républicains also said they would not vote to censure the government over Mercosur. As a result, both motions failed. The one tabled by LFI received only 256 votes in favour, 32 votes short of what was needed for the ‍motion to pass. The second motion, put forward by the far right, received 142 votes in favour and also failed.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260114-france-government-survives-two-no-confidence-votes-over-mercosur-deal
https://archive.ph/2twwq

Quebec premier François Legault resigns from post in surprise move
The surprise resignation of the businessman turned politician follows months of chaos that has rocked the governing CAQ. Key ministers and allies have stepped down and polling suggests his government faced long odds of re-election in the fall. Some polls suggested the party, which won majority governments in 2018 and 2022, could lose all seats in the upcoming election.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/14/quebec-premier-francois-legault-resigns

Haiti drone operation strikes home of gang leader 'Barbecue'
Haitian security forces on Wednesday bombed three houses belonging to top gang leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier, local outlet Gazette Haiti reported on Wednesday, after unverified footage showed a large explosion in the capital Port-au-Prince.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/haiti-operation-destroys-homes-gang-leader-barbecue-local-media-reports-2026-01-15/

Urban poor residents demand compensation from DSWD for disaster victims
Urban poor community residents affected by the recent typhoons trooped to the Department of Social Work and Development (DSWD) national office on January 12 to demand compensation that should’ve been distributed. Led by Kadamay, they sought to hold a dialogue with DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian but was refused. “More than six months have passed since typhoons Crising, Dante, and Emong struck, along with the successive floods caused by the southwest monsoon,” said Kadamay. “But until now, millions of Filipinos remain neglected and have not received fair compensation.”
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/urban-poor-residents-demand-compensation-from-dswd-for-disaster-victims/

Government panel proposes mandatory integration program for foreign residents
The panel proposes an integration program that takes into account the needs of not only individuals, but also their family members as a unit. In the program, which foreign nationals intending to live in Japan would be required to take part in before and after entering the country, participants would gain basic knowledge about Japanese society and administrative procedures. The panel suggests that participation in the program be made a condition of residence.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/14/japan/politics/foreigner-measures-final-report/
https://archive.ph/6fRHk

New Zealand government exploits Auckland fire to slander striking firefighters
The pile-on by government ministers and state agency Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) represents an attempt to criminalise industrial action and intimidate workers throughout the public sector who are fighting against austerity.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/14/zvuz-j14.html

‘Bizarre’ bonuses and sausage sizzles: how Australia’s outsource call centres try to lure in poorly paid workers
Tens of thousands of Australians speak to government agencies every day about sensitive matters, including tax debts, pensions, aged care, and disability and support payments. But few know they are probably speaking to a private contractor, without the training, pay, conditions or public service support of a civil servant. Guardian Australia has interviewed more than a dozen call centre workers at four private contractors with government agency contracts; the US private equity-owned Probe Operations, the Nasdaq-listed Concentrix Services, the British multinational Serco, and TSA Group.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/14/australia-outsourced-call-centres-staff-incentives

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Lmao at multipolartards maybe the next random dictator you retards suck off will turn out differently lol.

>body was too short somehow

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Hip Hop General

Hip hop of any genre

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Tarot readings for free

Doing tarot readings to grind divination EXP points and because I'm bored as fuck.
Post any dream you remember having (ex: "I dreamed of a giant lady tied upside down to a tree in the middle of the ocean") and a picture you like.

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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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South Yemen secessionists, supported by the UAE, are crushing the Saudi puppet state and took over most of the cities in the Southern part of the country, also taking control of the Oman-Yemen border. But the Southern Transitional Council isn't communist like was South Yemen, and fully supports the Palestinian genocide:

https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/us/2025/09/24/southern-independence-opens-door-to-ties-with-israel-says-yemens-al-zubaidi/

>Transitional Council chief says Abraham Accords will be key to stability after Gaza war
Declaring an independent southern Yemeni state would pave the way for entering the Abraham Accords, the deputy chairman of Yemen's Presidential Council Aidarous Al Zubaidi told The National in an interview.

>The president of the Southern Transitional Council said all the conditions were in place for statehood and added that secession would allow the south to make its own foreign policy decisions, including the option of joining the Abraham Accords.

>“Before the events in Gaza, we were advancing towards joining the Abraham Accords,” he said. “If Gaza and Palestine regain their rights, the Accords will be essential for stability in the region. When we have our southern state, we will make our own decisions and I believe we will be part of these accords.”

>Yemen's eight-member Presidential Council leads the anti-Houthi, internationally recognised government in exile in Aden. The secessionist Southern Transitional Council holds three of those eight seats.

>Mr Al Zubaidi framed independence not just as a local aspiration but as part of a wider commitment to stability in the region. “We support the two-state solution – a Yemeni state in the north and in the south – and a Palestinian state alongside Israel,” he said. “Self-determination is a right. All people have the right to determine their future.”

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The 1400s was when the world ended. The Roman empire collapsed, the printing press was invented which helped spread Christianity from barbarism. I miss the days when Europe was virtually without law, pre-new world order.

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Post-Literate Society

This [^1] is the most conservative article I've read in a while, but I think there's some truth to it and I'd be interested in hearing other's opinions. Well, many of the points mentioned do not resonate such as that the decline in the Flynn effect might be related to cell phones, or that reading creates a more dissident disposition (clearly videos have been quite effective in mobilizing people against genocide for example), or that innovation is declining in the modern world. Perhaps the core that does is as follows:

1. Long-form text is more analytical, more structured, etc.
2. Analytical text produces a enlightened disposition of mind.
3. This enlightened disposition is responsible for a degree of functioning in the western world.

Politically the most interesting question is how this new mode of thought at the dictates of a our material culture might resonate with different policy advocacy and rhetorical tactics. As someone just sort of reforming their political axioms, this is more of interest for personal reasons than political reasons however. I've a tendency not to watch videos, but have lately been watching some videos liked the attached, and some anime, but could it be that avoiding these things is beneficial for the attention span.

There have been studies [^2] which indicate that short-form video has a significant negative impact on attentional functions and self-control. One could see the same being true of long-form video, and short-form text, although likely to lesser degrees.

:[^1] https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1
:[^2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11236742/

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Stalin and Deng are the litmus test for whether you’re a materialist or just a liberal with red aest

The absolute state of the discourse on this board lately is pathetic. It’s almost 2026 and I’m still seeing "socialists" parroting CIA talking points like they’re reading from the Black Book of Communism. It’s time to filter the radlibs and the ultras who care more about moral purity than winning.

If we actually apply historical materialism instead of utopian wish-casting, it becomes obvious that Stalin and Deng aren't just "good" – they are the two greatest practitioners of Marxism in history because they did what Western leftists refuse to do: they prioritized the survival of the revolution over the approval of the bourgeoisie.

1. Stalin: The Shield
Stop crying about "authoritarianism" and read Losurdo. His Critique of a Black Legend completely exposes how the "millions dead" narrative is just recycled Nazi war propaganda that the West adopted during the Cold War. The "Holodomor" wasn't a genocide; it was a combination of kulak sabotage and cyclical drought that the Soviets eventually ended through collectivization. Stalin understood that you don't survive capitalist encirclement with good vibes. He took a country of wooden plows and turned it into a nuclear superpower in a single generation. He purged the fifth columnists because he knew a war of annihilation was coming. Without that "authoritarianism," the Wehrmacht would have wiped the Slavs off the map.

2. Deng: The Sword
The hate for Deng is even more embarrassing. You guys claim to care about the poor but hate the man who oversaw the greatest poverty alleviation program in human history? Deng understood that "poverty is not socialism." He developed the productive forces necessary to compete with the West. And regarding 1989: He saved China from the fate of the USSR. Tiananmen was a textbook color revolution, backed by Western NGOs and intelligence. Deng saw Gorbachev selling out to Pizza Hut and realized that sometimes you have to crush a counter-revolution to preserve the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Because he had the spine to do that, China is now mogging the US economy while Russia spent the 90s getting looted by oligarchs.

TL;DR
Parenti said it best in Blackshirts and Reds: you people want a revolution without a revolution. You want a clean, safe process that never makes mistakes and never exercises power. That doesn't exist. Stalin secured the state; Deng secured the economy. If you reject them, you’re not a revolutionary – you’re just an idealist waiting to lose.

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The Palestine movement failed miserably to stop the genocide because the movement is largely one of SYMBOLIC politics, not one of instrumental politics. It’s not about the Palestinian people but about angry western youth letting off steam. This exact BDS movement has become about self-righteous zoomers showing off how “virtuous” they are by boycotting Starbucks and Coke, never mind that boycotts are supposed to be a militant tactic and weapon to attack an enemy head-on. The campus protests from 2024 were also aimless and did nothing except get a bunch of students and professional activists arrested. Makes sense that NYU banned criticism of Zionism right afterwards.

Let this be known for the next time the world is thrown into a state of crisis.

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/ditg/ Dead Internet Theory General

Talk about why every single site except reddit and fbi.gov has been complete and utterly abandoned.

>Interesting things going on
Browsers are all forcing https by default. On the surface this sounds like a good idea but in reality it's part of a larger plan of control.
Website owners are now at the mercy of the cert authorities. Host something they dont like? you cert gets revoked and now your site wont load on 99% of web browsers.
you have been shutdown.

>What is the dead internet theory?
Dead internet is partly caused by a generational problem, zoomers just want to be where they're friends are. it's understandable, we even did the
same back in the 2000s. everyone was on AIM and myspace. The only difference is those platforms actually did allow free speech back then. now the
internet has become more centralized and a handful of big corps run it all. they are in charge of what gets said on their platforms. not you.

>big techs goal
Big tech is fighting a future war. They know the young are the future. It’s about indoctrination. They are building their vision for the future. A dumbed down controlled population.

>What is the purpose of these threads?
To start a community outside of those corporate owned platforms.
To have a place to discuss things without having to self police yourself.
To discuss and share decentralization technologies.

Official IRC chat: #deadinternettheory on Rizon

Webchat link for zoomer cattle: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.rizon.net

Chose a nickname and enter #deadinternettheory into the channel box, click start.

Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#deadinternettheory:matrix.org

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What does leftypol think of Tolstoy?

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Does leftypol like the sounds of Boards Of Canada?

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Beginner's guide to firearms and other equipment

This guide will be purely talking about equipment. There are many other resources for training and organizing. I will leave out anything that requires further knowledge, this guide is meant to be accessible NOT in depth. This guide is meant to be shared to people who do not own a gun or are otherwise ignorant. If you have any suggestions or corrections I will edit it. Once the final product is complete I will turn it into a pdf and a simple image guide to be shared. This is a collaborative project so if you think something I said is stupid, let me know.

You need a semi-auto rifle, specifically an ar15.
They're accurate, lightweight, high capacity, and can shoot quickly.
An ar15 is recommended due to their customization and versatility. Parts and ammo for an ar are also very easy to get (at least in the US). The 556 round has proven time and time again to be effective. Sure an ak might look cooler but they are often more expensive and not as reliable as an ar. This guide will be US centric so a lot of the advice maybe won't apply to you if you live elsewhere.

Ar15 Basic Guide:
You can save money by getting a separate lower and upper. They're easy to put together. The upper matters a lot, the lower much less so. Oftentimes complete ars will have an overpriced lower so buying just the upper and the lower separate can save you quite a bit.

Handguard style: I always recommend M-Lok. It's lighter and better than keymod and allows easy attachments. I honestly don't see any reason to choose anything else unless if you just don't like the feeling of m-lok for whatever reason in which case you can research alternatives.

Length: The length you'll likely end up using is 16", this is as short as you get without dealing with any annoying laws. For whatever reason anything below this is much more of a hassle to get. 16 is a fine length anyway. A 20" will shoot the round faster and a bit further, but the military decided to move away from it in favor of a shorter length. I don't think the extra speed makes enough of a difference to justify the extra length. As for going shorter the rifle will get less accurate but for close quarters combat (such as inside buildings) this is preferred. Specifically an 11.5" is a great option. Remember though the military used 20" barrels inside for years. If they can do it so can you.
Tldr: Buy a 16"

Brands: Now this part depends heavily on your budget. If you're well off I would recommend just buying a complete Daniel Defense ddm4v7, it's high end and out of the box simply works. (Around $2k) The next runner up is a BCM upper and an aero M4E1 lower. This is still pricey but cheaper than the ddm4v7 and has 99% of the performance. You can also get a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 Sport III for around $700. There are many other brands but these are just to give you an idea of what's out there. There's also PSA guns for under $500 but honestly you're betting on this thing to protect your life, you may as well spend the extra money.
I got to go to work so I'll continue this a bit later. I'm going to write up parts about Pistols, Holsters, Plate Carriers/Armor, boots, Gloves, magazines, optics, etc.

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is this video game racist?
is this a racist video game?
in your opinion is the subject matter and or execution of this video game of a racialist/racist quality?
body was too short
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1662860/Trapper_Drug_Dealing_RPG/

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Gay hot or not?

Post pics of men and other posters will tell you if they are hot or not. I will start by posting a picture of Tyler Robinson, the guy who shot Charlie Kirk.

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How unusual is it to be heavily into "hons" in lack of a better word? I legit find them much hotter than passoids. Btw I'm a trans girl myself only willing to have relationships with other transgirls (I simply do not trust cissoids anymore). Are there any more people like that? SHOW YOURSELVES.

Vid unrelated.

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What causes people to cling so desperately to right wing narratives even when they themselves can see the truth? I've come across so many people admitting we were right about Trump all along, but still refusing to acknowledge that our line of thinking has any merit.

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On the Singapore Question

Singapore is an economical and social miracle undoubtedly, low rate of corruption, high rate of employment, FDI, Income and quality of life in general.
All this achieved through a strict neoliberal economy, Lee Yew is practically worshipped by Neoliberal for not only his policies but also for his Anti-communist operations.
Marxist (atleast I haven't found any) can point out to any contradiction plaguing Singaporean multicultural society.
Does this economical path is the way to prosperity, as an alternative to liberal western ideology.
What does /leftypol/ say on this? Can he be refuted by Dialectical Materialism?

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/draw/ Drawing and visual art general №1

Post your drawings and studies here.

Video Tutorials:
Proko - https://www.youtube.com/user/ProkoTV
Sinix - https://www.youtube.com/user/sinixdesign
Scott Robertson - https://www.youtube.com/user/scottrobertsondesign
Matt Kohr (CtrlPaint) - https://www.ctrlpaint.com/library
Aaron Blaise https://www.youtube.com/user/AaronBlaiseArt

Poses/Gestures
QuickPoses - https://www.quickposes.com/en
PoseSpace - https://www.posespace.com/posetool/default.aspx

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/sg/ - Syrian Civil War General #24 - New Watches edition

Recent news:
STG sets up roadblocks on the roads leading to Suwayda, pursuant to the ceasefire agreement.
Remaining tribals in Suwayda governorate launch a last-ditch attack on Suwayda city.
Tribals enter some of the city's northwest areas. They suffer heavy casualties and retreat from the city on the same day.
Straggler tribals launch a few attacks on Druze villages here and there, nothing significant.
Overall ceasefire holds up after that. STG prevents further entry of tribals and their numbers keep dwindling.
STG releases their report on the massacres of Alawites in March of this year. They say that they aren't directly responsible.
Saudi announces they will buy a bunch of property in Syria.
Israeli and Syrian officials meet in Paris. A second meeting in Baku was cancelled.
Accusations that the STG is doing a soft siege on Suwayda governorate and worsening the humanitarian situation.
Turkey/SNA starts threatening the SDF and launches a few attacks against them in Deir Hafer and Tishreen dam.

Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com

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Bolivia

El MAS implosionó y ahora 2 turboliberales lideran las intenciones de voto. El sindicalismo es un cáncer y el viejo demente de evo lo deben castrar químicamente

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A self-confessed "communist" shilled for pro-reactionary gov. for a decade and

I know this guy, personally.

This guy is your typical chud:
>le dysgenic
>le genetically uggo
>anglo teeth rotting in hell
>built like a fuggen troll
yet he was participating in the Marxist reading group I organized for my country (Hungary) for months.

This guy (heterosexual male) considers himself to be so U G G L Y that he even considered becoming "trans" just so he may get some pussy, even tho he prefers women and prefers thinking about himself as male. He was so desperate for intimate contact that he thought about artificially becoming a "woman".

Long story short, vidrel is a random dude I had the misfortune to work with, who turned out to be a sadist, a pro-NATO asslicker, and a FIDESZ (Hungarian conservative governing party) "meme-creator" who did it for pennies…

I met this dude when he was merely 20-something and he joined our Marxist reading group. He did his homework and reported in his own words about the assigned (=freely, topically chosen from a literature list) texts. He seemed above avg. and so on.

Then his "best friend" who also participated in our reading group started to complain that this mother fucker was a sadist: he tormented him, hit him, tortured him, and so on.

Later, "Mr. X" was a co-funder of the group/party called Táncsics (named after the first socialist-leaning Hungarian president), which he manipulated into being anti-China and pro-LGBT (his relation with said group is deeply ambiguous, given he resents his inability to get pussy.)

He then "came out" to the "public," meaning literal Soros founded media (444.hu) about his "deep regrets" about how he was towing before the conservative meme-drive for cash.

Long story short, and to conclude.

I think that MLs should take the utmost measure to identify, allow in to the org, and follow up on such members. Why?

Because they are literal fucking anti-communists who change their "beliefs" based on what is fashionable. Allowing in such trojan horses – while knowing they are trojan horses – and then literally stalking them from the shadows allows us to comprehend how the bourgeois state apparatuses think, behave, interact with our own orgs.

……
I guess this OP is in ways against the grain, in the sense of "wanting the most class conscious, etc." elements in our party, but I think it is absolutely important to have IDENTIFIED LITTLE SNITCHES to be allowed to work around their shitty agendas (while thoroughly supervised by the party) and to get a good feel thereby of how's the establishment is doing so far.

Yes, allow incel-forced-trans-reactionary-shills into your org, but monitor them daily; execute them only once: after the revolution.

vidrel: basically he confesses that he did admin and create shit for conservative groups out of love for memes and then "he realized" he was much far left to that – ending him in an existential crisis, drawing him towards le radical "left".

But his "radicalism" was nothing else but NAFO-propaganda masked as "leftism."

TL;DR: make sure to take note of deranged infiltrators with potential ties to the bourgeois government and let them into your org while allowing them to act while closely monitoring their steps in an attempt to get a 'feel' how said bourg government behaves, feels, etc. After the revolution: execute them and dump their bodies in the closest river.

If you have questions about the vid, what he says, etc. I will oblige!

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Hello!

I am a teaching assistant who provides emotional and academic support to students with special needs at a public (government) school. I joined this job in part for its capacity to provide me access to the American labor movement such that I can assess its shortcomings. In what felt almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy, I would soon discover one almost immediately after becoming a union representative at my school.

Essentially, myself and my co-workers were duped into voting for a union leadership and city council that had put forward a bill offering a $10,000 bonus (with provided funding sources through the legislation. Union leadership insisted it was a no-brainer and 47/50 city council members were outright sponsors on the bill.

Tl;Dr: in spite of what was OSTENSIBLY overwhelming support to the powers that be, the political will of both the politicians and leadership dissipated as soon as election day had come and past. Like a fool, I said as much to my co-workers and have let them down tremendously. I have to make this up.

As an American public sector employee, it is illegal for our union to hold strikes and Americans do not have the political will for a wildcat. After some analysis, I have concluded that the most productive avenue I can take is to begin a hunger strike on the last day of school for students demanding that the bill be brought to a vote. I am fairly sure at this point that it is the only course of action viable to affect change for my co-workers, who are in desperate need of this additional income due to cost of living increases in spite of their living in the epicenter of the imperial core.

Do you, anon, think this is the right course of action for myself at this time? If so, do you have any tips for how I can execute this without literally killing myself? Can answer any clarifying questions you might have.

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MAGA-Communism?

What do you think about rightoids who idolize autocracies and isolationism like Juche?
They have been pushing for a multi-polar world and I have definitely seen rightoids that idolize centralized governments, mainly Russia but also places like North Korea and Juche for being self relying and so on.

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Is Puppet trans?

>Animatronic too short or empty
>Animatronic too short or empty
>Animatronic too short or empty
>Animatronic too short or empty

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Uncritical support for;

<Republic of Cuba
<Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
<People’s Republic of China
<Lao People’s Democratic Republic
<Socialist Republic of Vietnam
<Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Rest of the world is ruled by bourgeoisie and personal opinions and political positions are up to debate but not these countries. Dictatorship of the proletariat means that these countries are ruled by the proletariat and their representatives.

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Is it true that this entire alt-right agenda was stolen from the Japanese?
I came across an old thread on Russian chan that contained the following post:
>Alt-right assholes somehow got into the habit of writing about the feminist threat via Google Translate to Japanese 2ch, and they were told, "We know everything without you and we don't need your help."
And it also said that this happened in Japan years before Trump.

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Question about marxist thought/philosophy

Can /leftypol/ answer these questions that I have ?
I consider myself a social-liberal. I've read and understood fairly well marxist literature (mostly read secundary sources though), aswell as most other polsci theory because of my degree.
I don't align with marxism mainly for 3 reasons that I'll formulate as questions:

>1. Why does the dialectical movement have to worsen the proletariat's lives
In essence, if material institutions change because they can't objectively and materially fulfill their purpose (i.e. a company that exists to make profits faces competition which lowers its profit rate), why would these changes and evolution incur a decline in the proletariat's condition and accentuate class antagonism ? I know marxist's economic theories, but they don't explain as to why the new institutions that would emerge from the old ones wouldn't be better.
For example, capitalism's crisis (a contradiction) have lead to the creation of better financial managing, which imo is a better thing than recurring crisis every 10 years.

>2. Why can't the state and different class interests agree on a mutual interest.
I understand that in marxist theory the state essentially only lives as a tool for the bourgeoisie to use. However, in the face of revolutions or class conflict, why couldn't both parties collaborate rather than face off ? Both the bourgeoisie and the proletariat can have an advantage in collaboration and mutual interest rather than pure conflict. I mean, in polsci theory this is the founding basis of the state.

>3. (and a bit more practical) Isn't the whole marxist linguo counter-productive to the ideal you hold ?
For instance, shouldn't you say "workplace democracy" rather than "abolishing private property", given the sentence's long history of being misinterpreted ? Same goes for the dictatorship of the proletariat, the exploitation theory etc.

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/MENA/#1

A general to compile all news, articles, essays and info related to the Greater Middle East-North Africa region.

Creating this general in an effort to centralize all the info that currently gets posted to 5 different threads concerning conflicts and developments in the MENA region. Seeing how slow they generally are and at risk of getting bumped off besides the Palestine thread and that it’s likely people interested in Yemen, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Palestine are likely also interested in news and info from across the region I think it would be useful to post everything in one place.

This will be the inaugural edition to see how it goes. Welcome!

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what is revisionism?

are there different definitions depending on who you ask?

is it someone who doesn't understand marxism or wants to change its core assumptions?

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Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
<vid
CLASS WAR DECLARATION MIX FROM THE THAI LABOUR MUSEUM STORAGE ROOM

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Addressing the end of various leftist holdout conflicts and their aftermath

The 2010s marked the effective end of most remaining communist insurgencies. Although many had been in decline for years, it was during that decade that they finally collapsed. The Naxal movement, communist insurgencies in Africa and Southeast Asia, and the last remnants of the IRA either fizzled out or ended with arrests after failed attacks and raids. In 2023, the Zapatistas dissolved their Autonomous Municipalities. The conflicts that leftist magazines and academics once wrote papers about and sometimes even traveled to for the occasional photoshoot are now over, so what is to done?

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Hardening and pain in the nipples

I've been on HRT for about a month and a half now, and this recently started happening. I'm also taking a type of pill, half of which also contain progestins, and I think that's what started it.

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Iranian protests #02

2000 KILLED ACCORDING TO THE GOVERNMENT - 6000 KILLED ACCORDING TO HOSPITAL DATA

Killing workers in the streets, bending to the west in the sheets - edish

Quick run-down: Unlike previous mass protests in Iran the current ones were caused primarily by crushing economic conditions rather than civil rights, and so they carry undeniable proletarian character and potential. The true scale of the protests is hard to confirm due to conflicting imperialist propaganda, however the staggering death toll in such a short period dwarfs the previous protests.

Statement of the Workers’ Councils of Arak: All power to the councils!

>“To the workers of Markazi Province, to our comrades in Khuzestan, and to all the people of Iran.”

>For decades, our demands for bread have been answered with bullets, and our demands for dignity with prison. But today, the silence has come to an end. We, the workers of Arak’s factories, declare the following:

>Workplace control: From now on, the management of the Machine Manufacturing Company, AzarAb, and Wagon Pars factories will be in the hands of workers’ councils elected by the workers themselves. We no longer recognize managers appointed by the state or the regime’s puppet unions.

https://cpiran.org/statement-of-the-workers-councils-of-arak-all-power-to-the-councils/

Unconditional support to Iranian workers as they face the full savagery of capital on the local and international fronts.

NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR

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Tomoko thread… why? Because I like the character… and other reasons…
Post lewds (spoilered), memes, edits, pics and anything else related to the subject

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News 1/13/26

US files for warrants to seize dozens more Venezuela-linked oil tankers, sources say
The U.S. government has filed multiple civil forfeiture actions in district courts, primarily in Washington, D.C., enabling the seizure and confiscation of oil cargoes and ships that have been involved in the trade, the sources told Reuters. They declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter. The exact number of seizure warrants the U.S. has filed for, and how many it has already received, is unclear, the sources said, because the filings and legal orders are not public. Dozens have been filed, they added.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-files-warrants-seize-dozens-more-venezuela-linked-oil-tankers-sources-say-2026-01-13/

Argentina Registers Increase in Repression During Milei’s Term
The document denounces a systematic and selective increase in repression, particularly affecting retirees, journalists, human rights defenders, and minors participating in social protests. Fifty-one out of 139 demonstrations monitored between 2024 and 2025 were met with repression. Over two years, 2,585 injuries were recorded, including 155 senior citizens in 2025, five children exposed to tear gas, and 184 journalists affected by the repression. The use of rubber bullets at point-blank range, tear gas grenades, Byrna pistols, and water cannons violates international protocols.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-registers-increase-in-repression-during-mileis-term/

Plane used in boat strike off Venezuela was painted to look like a civilian aircraft, AP sources say
The plane, part of a secret U.S. fleet used in surveillance operations, also was carrying munitions in the fuselage, rather than beneath the aircraft, raising questions about the extent to which the operation was disguised in ways that run contrary to military protocol. Details of the plane’s appearance, first reported Monday by The New York Times, were confirmed by two people familiar with the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.
https://apnews.com/article/drug-boats-trump-military-law-venezuela-beb8ebd91d8c2d8950c9438ad379d5b2

Turkish-backed factions shell vicinity of Teshrin Dam
SOHR activists monitored a new military escalation in northern and eastern of Syria, where Ankara-backed factions working for the Ministry of Defence of the Interim government shelled the strategic Teshrin Dam at Euphrates River.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/376318/

Iran forms task force to study 'Gen Z anger' amid protests
At a press conference, Mohajerani acknowledged government shortcomings but said "not everything that happened was of its making". She said authorities had "heard the voice of the people", announcing the formation of a fact-finding committee and the inclusion of public demands on the government's agenda. She expressed condolences to families who lost relatives during the unrest, saying protesters were calling for "respect, a decent living, and a dignified life", and warned that Iranian society was in urgent need of solidarity.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-forms-task-force-study-gen-z-anger-amid-protests

US labels Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan as ‘terrorists’
The United States has designated Muslim Brotherhood organisations in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan as “terrorist” groups, the administration of President Donald Trump announces, as Washington intensifies its crackdown on Israel’s rivals across the world. The decision on Tuesday came weeks after Trump issued an executive order directing his administration to start the process of blacklisting the groups.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/13/us-labels-muslim-brotherhood-orgs-in-egypt-lebanon-jordan-as-terrorist
https://archive.ph/7w9nK

Somalia cancels all agreements with the UAE over alleged sovereignty violations
Authorities say the agreements, which span key port operations, security co-operation and defence, have been stopped because of “harmful actions” of the UAE that undermine Somalia’s unity and sovereignty. The announcement is clearly linked to Israel’s recognition in December of Somaliland, a self-declared independent region in north-western Somalia that broke away in 1991, said Abdinor Dahir, an independent Somalia analyst.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/somalia-cancels-all-agreements-uae-over-alleged-sovereignty-violations

Cosatu’s Shingange challenges Mantashe on youth unemployment claims
In an interview with South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) News, Mantashe said that young people are passive when it comes to applying for job opportunities. Shingange says maybe Mantashe has not come across young people who are applying for jobs. He says maybe the youth should hand their CVs over to Mantashe at Saturday’s anniversary celebrations taking place at the Moruleng Stadium in the North West. “If his government is of the view that the young people have not been looking for jobs, perhaps he has not come across them looking for jobs. So maybe they must give him CVs here. We agree. They have been looking for jobs and it’s not true that they have not been looking for jobs. If you have not seen them, perhaps he must receive the CVs here from them,” says Shingange.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/cosatus-shingange-challenges-mantashe-on-youth-unemployment-claims/

US State Department threatens UK over probe into Elon Musk’s X
Rogers, an appointee of President Donald Trump, has repeatedly criticized European efforts to crack down on hate speech. She was involved in last month’s State Department decision to sanction former European Commissioner Thierry Breton and four other European nationals involved in efforts to curb the spread of disinformation.
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-state-department-threaten-uk-probe-elon-musk-x-grok/
https://archive.ph/9S1YT

UK teenager goes on trial accused of preparing far-right attack
The boy, now 16 and who cannot be named for legal reasons, downloaded and shared videos of attacks, shootings and beheadings, expressed his admiration for Adolf Hitler, and kept notebooks where he wrote of his hatred for Jews and black people, prosecutor Michelle Heeley said.
https://www.newarab.com/news/uk-teenager-goes-trial-accused-preparing-far-right-attack

Attica taxi drivers launch strikes over taxes, electric transition
SATA said the compulsory shift to electric cars threatens the sector’s survival without adequate charging infrastructure, affordable electricity prices or realistic vehicle costs, adding that such a move amounts to “economic destruction rather than green development.”
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1292194/attica-taxi-drivers-launch-strikes-over-taxes-electric-transition/

Hungary grants asylum to former Polish minister amid abuse of power investigation
On Monday he said on social media that he was determined to “fight against political banditry and lawlessness”, claiming he was a victim of a “personal vendetta” from Tusk. “I have decided to remain abroad until genuine guarantees of the rule of law are restored in Poland,” he said, thanking Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, for granting him asylum.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/12/hungary-grants-asylum-to-former-polish-minister-zbigniew-ziobro-abuse-of-power-investigation

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John Maus

I was tripping on acid alone and discovered him & Ariel. Some people have called him a nazi… I disagree. What's the take here? I kinda like him but I'm a dolt

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Cockshott is probably the best Socialist theorist of our age

he's completely BTFO'ed all arguments against Marx's Law of Value, he's empirically proven that Economic Planning is 100% possible with current data sets and modern computation, he's shown that current economic theory is based on complete woo that doesn't hold up to basic mathematical scrutiny or even basic logic.
The thing is, because all his online content is extremely complex, technical post-grad level university lectures, it's hard to get his idea's out there. Which I think why as Socialists, we should try present his arguments, theories and evidence in a far more presentable, digestable, ELI5 fashion for Normies.
What made classic Leftypol good is that we were able to present Socialist content for normies that would be shared by Zoomers and such. So I think a good project for us on this board, would be to work How the World Works (https://libgen.rocks/ads.php?md5=0f775aef8cbe24a8978e115669bfcdfb) into a decent Youtube series that explains how we can build a new economic order in the not too distant future.

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All you need is kill 2026

Where can I watch this? I hope its not Japan only. Some things online say it came out in 2025. Doesn't seem like its screening in the UKKK unfortunately…

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/USApol/ 🇺🇸

🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<"Quiet Part Loud" Edition

>May Lenin awaken the workers and help them to see the necessity of revolutionary civil war in the United States.

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

🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

📺 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

🏚️ Local News 🏚️
https://www.50states.com/ce/

✊Live Protest Streams✊
https://woke.net/

🏝️ Epstein's Client List🏝️
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures

🇮🇱 Track Zionazis (warning: ShareBlue)🇮🇱
https://www.trackaipac.com/

📖Read, Burgga, Read! 📖
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXUFLW8t2sntNn5jQO8vF7ai9x0fna3PV

Previous thread: >>2640963

Remember, legal + illegal struggle
Remember, praxis + theory
Remember, it's not impossible

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How do i become a mercenary?

Do you fill put an application form or is it a job you make it to through connections? Is there a formula?

I have no money, no job and no purpose.

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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?

R: 515 / I: 76 (sticky)

/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
https://archive.is/saN3S

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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First tablet attempt

just got a tablet a few days ago, only made two attempts thus far at pictures in MS paint. Steeper learning curve then I imagined. These are not really meant to be taken seriously though and also I am not pro-Trump or anything.

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Is Market-Socialism the future of the socialist movement or only temporary?

Ever since the retirement of Fidel Castro in 2006 ever self-described communist country (all five of them) has been a market-socialist economy. China and Vietnam seem to have taken a liking to it, North Korea seems to be indifferent, I don’t know anything about Laos, and Cuba seems to be reluctant to it. Is only supposed to be temporary for until the communist movement gets back on its feet or are we stuck with Labubus and billboards forever?

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Why do so many on /leftypol/ take imperialist pinkwashing propaganda at face value when 10 years before Obama it was the Christian fundamentalists and conservatives who were saying "kill all the ragheads, bomb the entire 3rd world" and the whole "gay liberal imperialism" thing is a fairly recent development in American society, rather than some kind of eternal truth going back to the Monroe Doctrine?

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Horse Racing General

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

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

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Things the islamic republic did
>support the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan
>fuel Israel during the intifada
>forcibly privatize the economy
>hand oil extraction to european monopolies
>kill millions of workers
Things Iranian protesters did NOT do
>support the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan
>fuel Israel during the intifada
>forcibly privatize the economy
>hand oil extraction to european monopolies
>kill millions of workers

Yeah I know which side I'm on :3

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Is it possible to fix American culture?

American culture, and I'm not talking about cultural objects like Burgers, Banjos, Straw hats, or Seersucker suits or cultural Music like Country, Rap or Jazz. Im talking about behavioral culture like Hyper consumerism, Hyper materialism, American exceptionalism, or the insane Police and Military culture that's normalized. Like the last two could be fixed if the left plays its cards right but the consumerism and Materialism thing I think could be permanently bricked into the American brain. I live in America and I will always remember this time when ii was a kid and my family was on our way back from a road trip and we stopped at a McDonalds that was around an hour away from our and my little brother was upset that my Dad forgot to order a Root-Beer so he said "Don't worry we will pass like 15 other McDonald on the way home." And he said that like it was normal. I don't even think that in countries like Europe you can just walk into a Walmart and get like 47 different flavors of Oreos, Like I don't think that its inherently bad but there is no way that we get the stuff to make those Oreos without exploiting the labor of Sugar farmers in or from Guatemala or something, if it was self reliant then its fine but America doesn't manufacture anything we use anymore, Our entire economy is just 5 AI companies shuffling money between themselves. I will always remember that time that Trump was doing in interview about the Tariffs and he said "Well maybe Girls in America can have two dolls instead of thirty dolls" and although I hate Trump and his hostility to China he Isn't wrong about how kids don't need to have 30 of the same dolls to survive, and of course that is why the liberal media attacked him for saying that more then the stuff that deserves condemnation.

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AI news shit general

The other thread hit bump limit and I'm addicted to talking about the birth of the ̶a̶l̶l̶-̶k̶n̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶ the biggest financial bubble in history and the coming jobless eschaton, post your AI news here

Previous thread: >>27559

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Victoria 3

I'm pretty new to victoria 3, and I'm looking for some advice. What are some fun countries to play as while still being a beginner? Also, what are the best mods I should get?

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Industrial/Noise/EBM

Post em if you got em

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Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Is this worth watching or not? I see it called some deep masterpiece on politics or whatever online but I have a feeling it's just full of retarded bourgeois philosophy.

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why do leftists always make banger songs?

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Seriously wtf is going on and what does it mean for global economy?

Is it just someone cornering it again or something actual driving demand? Is it the collapse of the dollar or what?

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Consequentialism

It doesn't matter if everyone has to wear red on Tuesdays, or sing Maoist songs at their workplaces. So long as everyone does it there's no material consequences. The moment actions start to change the material conditions of man, or the structure of power they become significant. Is there room any longer for: peace, freedom, equity, and fairness? Spooks. The moral principles and value to institutions which have made our social fabric have run their course. Only power and material conditions remain.

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Iranian protests #01

500 KILLED IN 15 DAYS

Previous thread >>2635855

Quick run-down: Unlike previous mass protests in Iran the current ones were caused primarily by crushing economic conditions rather than civil rights, and so they carry undeniable proletarian character and potential. The true scale of the protests is hard to confirm due to conflicting imperialist propaganda, however the staggering death toll in such a short period dwarfs the previous protests.

<Statement by Tehran and Suburbs United Bus Company Workers' Syndicate, dated January 07, 2026

>"Support for the people's just movement; advancing toward real freedom and equality, not a return to the past.

>Popular protests and strikes in various cities across the country have entered their eleventh day. Despite an intensified security crackdown, a heavy presence of law enforcement and security forces, and violent confrontations, the scope of the protests has remained broad and diverse. According to reports, during this period, protests have taken place at at least 174 locations in 60 cities across 25 provinces, and hundreds of protesters have been arrested. Unfortunately, during the same period, at least 35 protesting citizens, including children, have lost their lives.

>From December 2017 to November 2019 and September 2021, the oppressed people of Iran have repeatedly shown by taking to the streets that they cannot tolerate the prevailing economic-political relations and structures based on exploitation and inequality. These movements have emerged not to return to the past, but to build a future free from the domination of capital, based on freedom, equality, social justice, and human dignity.

>While declaring our solidarity with the popular struggles against poverty, unemployment, discrimination, and repression, we explicitly state our opposition to any return to a past dominated by inequality, corruption, and injustice. We believe that true liberation is only possible through the conscious and organized leadership and participation of the working class and the oppressed people, not through the reproduction of old and authoritarian forms of power. Meanwhile, workers, teachers, retirees, nurses, students, women, and especially the youth, despite widespread repression, arrests, firings, and economic pressures, remain at the forefront of these struggles, and the Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company emphasizes the necessity of continuing independent, conscious, and organized protests.

>We have said it many times and we repeat it again: The path to liberation for workers and the working class is not through top-down leadership, not by relying on foreign powers, and not through the factions within the ruling regime, but through unity, solidarity, and the creation of independent organizations in the workplace and in life, and on a nationwide scale. We must not allow ourselves to be sacrificed once again in the power games and for the interests of the ruling classes.

>The Syndicate also strongly condemns any propaganda, justification, or support for military intervention by foreign governments, including the United States and Israel. Such interventions not only lead to the destruction of civil society and the slaughter of the people, but also provide another pretext for the regime to continue its violence and repression. Past experiences have shown that Western imperialist governments have no regard for the freedom, livelihood, and rights of the Iranian people.

>We demand the immediate and unconditional release of all detainees and insist on the identification and prosecution of the perpetrators of the people's massacre.

>Long live freedom, equality, and class solidarity! The solution for the working class is unity and organization."

There are unconfirmed reports of a Soviet being created in the industrial district of Arak.

Unconditional support to Iranian workers as they face the full savagery of capital on the local and international fronts.

NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR

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Well, /tech/? How do you keep your notes? What do you do while you read endless pages of theory? How do you remember and process information into your personal zeitgeist?

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/lang/ - language learning general #1

Choosing a language edition

I do not know why we do not have an active language learning thread, so here you go.
If you got other links you think are worthy of being on here, do mention them.

>Language learning communities
r/languagelearning
https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/

Language learner's forum
https://forum.language-learners.org/

Linguaholic's forum
https://linguaholic.com/

>General resources
r/languagelearning's list
https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/wiki/resources/

>Bonus and misc
Omniglot: Omniglot is a compendium of linguistic knowledge and the different writing systems used to represent language.
https://omniglot.com/

HTLAL's archive: A nice website which housed a number of interesting things, such as the life of cardinal mezzofanti, a list of languages and some details about them, a list of resources and a forum.
(latest working snapshot)
https://web.archive.org/web/20250629150605/http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/index.html

Today's questions:
>What language/languages are you learning?
>What is your level currently?
>Why are you learning them?
>What is your plan for improving?
>What tips can you share with someone who also has your TL?

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Why is it socially acceptable if not encouraged in all political axes to hate work but it's considered blasphemous to hate school?

Why is it that whenever I ask most people what they learn in school, all they tell is the dumb shenanigans they committed, even to the point of wanting to officiate "rites of passage" based on dumb reckless childish stunts, but they cannot remember one intellectual thing?

Whenever adults are asked to help with schoolwork, their minds are blank. Whenever it comes to bullying, they have no backbone except for punishing victims for self defense.

I notice that the people who miss school the most usually are those with no work ethic or people who kinda have some unfulfilled teenage quests.

I'm not against schooling, but we need to revamp it entirely. Trying to segregate worldly factors from the classroom for the sake of "protecting the younguns" usually results in an immature society.

I believe a lot of our problems with labor and education is due to how modern society views them as parallel worlds with differing rules.

School should reflect the workforce in social treatment, type of tasks, and infrastructural design

LeftyPol talks about reparations for the proletariat, yet from what I see, it's mostly people who wanna escape work and get luxury for merely existing.
They feel that people who wanna go into/currently working in blue collar jobs are subhumans.

They think that the only jobs worth respecting are the white/pink collar ones.

This fearful and contemptuous attitude towards work is the same I find in liberalism and the right.

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STEMtards

Stemlords are actually picrel. Its no surprise stemlords are complete retards. Im doing a masters in STEM and can't believe how intellectually barren math and this field is. There is no critical thinking involved, just memorizing some garbage symbols and their rules. Solving some dumb problems with some dumb patterns and repeat.

How did stemlords get so much prestige, while being just mere symbol technicians? Humanities at least teaches some theory and critical thinking, STEM is just complete trash meant for brainlets.

No wonder philosophy underpins all math and logic, stem is just surface level work for retards. I havent encountered a single intellectually deep thought in STEM once.