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/USApol/

πŸ—½UNITED STATES POLITICS πŸ¦…

<Eisern Felix Edition


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

🏈 πŸ’΅ 🌭 πŸ”

πŸ› οΈ Strike Tracker βš’οΈ
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Deeds of the Burger Reich πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md

πŸ“Ί Live News πŸ“Ί
(sponsored by USAID)
β€’ CNN: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
β€’ MSNBC: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
β€’ FOX: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
β€’ Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us

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

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


Previous Threads: >> 2380174 >>2378978
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/leftybritpol/ - THE BIG MEETING EDITION

It's the Durham Miners' Gala this Saturday, are you going? Local Reform Cllrs are fucking furious because they aren't being invited.

The body was too short or empty. The body was too short or empty. Flood detected.
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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!β„’
Ι’Κ€α΄€Κ™ α΄€ α΄˜α΄€ΙͺΚ€ ᴏꜰ sα΄˜α΄‡α΄„α΄›α΄€α΄„ΚŸα΄‡s

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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
πŸ“– β€’ https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
πŸ“Ί β€’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ

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

πŸ“– β€’ https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
πŸ“Ί β€’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA

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

πŸ““ β€’ https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
πŸ“– β€’ https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
πŸ“Ί β€’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY

<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan

πŸ“– β€’ https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
πŸ“Ί β€’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE

>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse

πŸ“– β€’ https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
πŸ“Ί β€’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs

<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault

πŸ“– β€’ https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
πŸ“Ί β€’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko

>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard

πŸ“– β€’ https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
πŸ“Ί β€’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs

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

πŸ“– β€’ https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
πŸ“Ί β€’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

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

πŸ“– β€’ https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
πŸ“Ί β€’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4

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

πŸ“– β€’ https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
πŸ“Ί β€’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY

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

πŸ“– β€’ https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
πŸ“Ί β€’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI

<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida

πŸ“– β€’ https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
πŸ“Ί β€’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q

>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher

πŸ“– β€’ https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
πŸ“Ί β€’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI

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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory

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

πŸ“– β€’ Georg LukΓ‘cs - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
πŸ“Ί β€’ Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI

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

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


<Documentaries

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

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

β€’ 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

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


>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)

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

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

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

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

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


<Situationist Archives

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

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RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
β€’ 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/

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

β€’ Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
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/Africa/

A thread for the forgotten continent, so forgotten the thread got wiped.
Discuss anything related to:
>Algeria
>Angola
>Benin
>Botswana
>Burkina Faso
>Burundi
>Cabo Verde
>Cameroon
>Central African Republic (CAR)
>Chad
>Comoros
>Congo, Democratic Republic of the
>Congo, Republic of the
>Cote d’Ivoire
>Djibouti
>Egypt
>Equatorial Guinea
>Eritrea
>Eswatini
>Ethiopia
>Gabon
>Gambia
>Ghana
>Guinea
>Guinea-Bissau
>Kenya
>Lesotho
>Liberia
>Libya
>Madagascar
>Malawi
>Mali
>Mauritania
>Mauritius
>Morocco
>Mozambique
>Namibia
>Niger
>Nigeria
>Rwanda
>Sao Tome and Principe
>Senegal
>Seychelles
>Sierra Leone
>Somalia
>South Africa
>South Sudan
>Sudan
>Tanzania
>Togo
>Tunisia
>Uganda
>Zambia
>Zimbabwe
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GenAI - Capital's anti PMC NUKE

The pandemic really shifted the balance between capital and knowledge workers like engineers, consultants, marketers, and academics who don’t own capital but wield a lot of influence - the so called PMC.

During COVID, the PMC suddenly got way more autonomy. Remote work gave them freedom to work from anywhere, set their own hours, and basically ignore old-school workplace control. Plus, they used their cultural clout to push for """woke""" causes. On top of that, the great resignation gave them serious leverage to demand raises and better conditions.

From the capitalist perspective, this looked like the PMC getting a bit too big for their britches, acting like stakeholders instead of wage workers.

Now enter generative AI. This isn’t just some productivity tool, it's capital’s answer to reclaiming control. By automating complex knowledge work like writing, coding, and design, AI threatens to replace or deskill the very roles the PMC has dominated. It lets capital reassert power by commoditizing intellectual labor and cutting out the "middleman."

In short: generative AI is a disciplinary tool, a trump card capital is playing to discipline an uppity PMC and take back the reins.

It's Capital's final anti PMC NUKE (if it works, which isn't guaranteed)
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Trans people and communism

I've noticed for a while now that trans people on average are much more likely to be communists or socialists. I've never really thought about it, but why could that be? I've had this image saved since early 2023 (when I started noticing this) and have seen a lot more trans communists since.
I mean, I guess it could be the hiring discrimination they face, but you don't need to change economic systems to introduce anti- discrimination legislation.
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palestine vs the zionist entity-119 Flotilla of Hate Edition

πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ

>>2293957


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

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

β€’ The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories

β€’ 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 [Currently Down]

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πŸ—£οΈ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️

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

β€’ https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA

β€’ https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective

β€’ https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org

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

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

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

β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”

πŸ’£πŸ”«RESISTANCEπŸ’£πŸ”«
al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/

PFLP
http://pflp.ps/

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πŸ“Ί WATCH TOGETHER πŸ“Ί

https://tv.leftypol.org/r/LGBTA
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✊πŸͺ§ TAKE ACTION AND TOUCH GRASS 🏴πŸ”₯

(USA)
β€’ https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
β€’ 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.

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Fdpd. trash site 123 blah fd
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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO BOB CUSPE
O mundo precisa mudar, as cidades precisam mudar, o ser humano entΓ£o, nem se fala. EstΓ‘ tudo uma grande e monstruosa merda. NinguΓ©m aguenta mais tanto os mocinhos como o bandidos… por isso, lanΓ§amos aqui a candidatura de Bob Cuspe para prefeito de todas as cidades, de todos os Estados do mundo.
O covil dos webcomunistas no BR

Último fio: >>8265
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OC Thread 17.0 - A New Beginning

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

If your original content is good enough, it would most likely be shared on the /leftypol/ twitter account!
Make sure to follow us and feel free to leave suggestions on this thread~
https://twitter.com/leftypol_org
https://nitter.net/leftypol_org

previous thread: >>1762168
>>>/leftypol_archive/1762168 (if it gets archived by mods)

New Booru:
https://lefty.pictures

MAKE SURE TO UPLOAD YOUR OC TO THE BOORU SO IT DOESNT GET PRUNED FOREVER!!!
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Critique of the Critical Contracritique

Hello Lesbian Stalinists, Gay Trotskyists, Trans-Anarchists and Bi-Maoists, I hope you're doing well !
I wanted to know what is your opinion on the so-called 'Queen of Breadtube' KKKontraPointSS?
R: 5 / I: 2
What's fiction piece of work actually show a genuine well working socialist-communist society that isn't portrayed as a dystopian hellhole, the only fiction one that I can remember is the Federation from Star Trek that even their wiki straight up says that the Federation is a socialist society where money was abolished, and people actually work for their self pleasure and development, beside the Federation, there's any other examples of a well thought fictional communist society?
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #245

Israel edition.

Previous: >>2365683

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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

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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
πŸ“Ί News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
πŸ“Ί Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast

Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
πŸ“Ί β€’ Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8

πŸ“Ί β€’ Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4

πŸ“Ί β€’ America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q

πŸ“Ί β€’ 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

πŸ“Ί β€’ The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
πŸ“Ί β€’ DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
πŸ“Ί β€’ Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
πŸ“Ί β€’ The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
πŸ“Ί β€’ The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
πŸ“Ί β€’ Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary

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Social media
>Twitter
https://twitter.com/GeromanAT
https://twitter.com/plnewstoday
https://twitter.com/RALee85
https://twitter.com/MarQs__
https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab
https://twitter.com/michaelh992
https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps

<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

πŸ‡·πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦
Thread guidelines:
β€’ Please remember to add a spoiler to NSFW and extreme content such as graphic violence and gore.
β€’ 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.
β€’ Meta discussion of the historical, philosophical and ideological background of the war is fine as long as its done in good faith and comradely.
β€’ In the event the meta discussion overstays its welcome, participating users will be referred to take the conversation to the INTERNATIONALISM general thread.
β€’ Quality shitposting and original content is encouraged! Spamming glowie memes is low effort.
β€’ this is /isg/ for people who treat geopolitics like shitty map games.
β€’ Slam dunk a NATO baby, etc.
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What the fuck was up with communist parties back then associating being gay with the petit-bourgeoisie? What exactly about fucking a dude is petit-bourgeois?
R: 18 / I: 0

Is it actually possible to build relationships as a gay autist?

Queer culture is very casual and instinctiveβ€”"vibes-based", if you willβ€”, which makes it near-impossible for those of us who are socially disabled to actually navigate its intricacies.
Every time I attend any sort of gay event, I basically just end up walking around and watching other people do things because I'm too stiff and weird to be a cool gay guy.
Despite the memes about queer people being autistic, all rhe other autists I meet IRL are all straight. And though they can be nice, I perceive the world through such a fundamentally homosexual lense that I can't possibly be close with them.
I don't know what to do. Forget a boyfriend, I just want gay friends.
R: 19 / I: 3
I ask this legitimately what do most communist think about abortion I Joseph Stalin restricted it back in the day and Enver Hoxha what’s also anti-abortion and xi is anti-abortion to I can’t think of any communist that is pro choiceβ€œ
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/ career /

Career - job/career advice and other related stuff from a leftist perspective. EX: How to get a job, promotion, skill, switch companies, resume, life hacks, etc.
R: 5 / I: 1

"but what about X under communism"

do you not find that this question is kind misguided? for one, communism is only the phase of human development that comes from the proletarian dictatorship and only through it. it makes sense to talk about X under the proletarian dictatorship since that one grows out of capitalist society and production, and communism comes from the worker's dictatorship. so we can kinda sketch how X (if at all) would look under the proletarian dictatorship (as lenin does often). but talking about X under communism is retarded, because it assumes X exists under communism. here are some examples
>what about the state?
>what about the family?
>what about religion?
>what about morals?
>what about culture?
>what about muh treats?
etc.
any one of these questions can be answered how they would or would be reorganized under a dotp. but not under communism. marx really made a big mistake when he called it the communist and not the worker's manifesto tbh.
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Update on the fallout of the South Korean coup attempt

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/06/urgent-appeal-stop-the-judicial-coup-in-south-korea-and-defend-democracy/
>Urgent Appeal: Stop the Judicial Coup in South Korea and Defend Democracy
<On May 1, 2025, South Korea’s Supreme Court issued a politically charged decision that overturned the acquittal of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, the leading candidate in the upcoming presidential election, on charges of election law violation. Lee had endured intense repression under the administration of impeached former president Yoon Suk-yeol, having been subjected to investigation by over 200 government prosecutors, but despite countless allegations, these nearly non-stop investigations failed to result in a conviction. Now, with South Korea gearing up for a historic snap election on June 3, 2025 following Yoon’s ouster, authorities are once again attempting to convict Lee to remove him from the political playing field.
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Late News 09/07/25

Russia seizes the initiative in Central Asia with bold Afghan move
By recognizing Afghanistan, Moscow confirms its central role in Eurasia - Russia’s recent decision to officially recognize the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan marks a pivotal moment in regional diplomacy.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621240-russia-seizes-initiative-in-central-asia/

A million Indians could immigrate to Russia β€” business leader
The expected influx comes amid ongoing labor shortages, according to business chamber leader Andrey Besedin.
https://www.rt.com/india/621257-indians-mass-migration-russia-labor/

US firms dodging restrictions to get China’s minerals – Reuters
Shipments are reportedly being rerouted through Thailand and Mexico.
https://www.rt.com/news/621255-us-firms-dodge-restrictions-china-minerals/

Houthis Dominate Red Sea
In response to recent escalation in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis (Ansar Allah) stepped up strikes on Israel and resumed attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.
https://www.southfront.press/houthis-dominating-red-sea/

Trump Offers Israel Peace With Syria In Exchange For Ending War On Gaza
United States President Donald Trump offered Israel peace with Syria in exchange for ending the war on the Gaza Strip, Israel Hayom reported on July 7, citing β€œsources close to the White House.”
https://www.southfront.press/trump-offers-israel-peace-with-syria-in-exchange-for-ending-war-on-gaza/

China's Tianzhou-8 cargo spaceship re-enters atmosphere
China's Tianzhou-8 cargo spacecraft performed a controlled re-entry into the atmosphere on Wednesday morning, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-09/China-s-Tianzhou-8-cargo-spaceship-re-enters-atmosphere-1EReGONjMUU/p.html

Putin dismissed Bogdanov from the post of deputy foreign minister
MOSCOW, July 9 β€” RIA Novosti. President Vladimir Putin dismissed Mikhail Bogdanov from the post of Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa.
https://ria.ru/20250709/bogdanov-2028228489.html

Putin ordered the creation of a "Digital Profile For Foreign Citizens."
"In order to ensure the security of the state, protect law and order and improve the state migration policy of the Russian Federation, I decree: the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, by June 30, 2026, ensure the creation of the state information resource "Digital Profile For Foreign Citizens," the document says.
https://ria.ru/20250709/profil-2028183220.html

The glamor of Thangka captivates Russian journalists
Thangka, which are Tibetan Buddhist scroll paintings on cotton or silk with mineral and organic pigments derived from various sources, has flourished for millennia across the snow-capped plateau. The Gannan Tibetan Thangka, with the Labrang Thangka as its representative, was inscribed on China's National Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2008.
https://en.people.cn/n3/2025/0709/c90000-20337826.html
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/FrancoPol/ πŸ‡«πŸ‡·

πŸ‡«πŸ‡·πŸ‡«πŸ‡·πŸ‡«πŸ‡· Aux armes, citoyens ! πŸ‡«πŸ‡·πŸ‡«πŸ‡·πŸ‡«πŸ‡·
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 remarquΓ© qu'il n'y a pas de thread dediΓ© pour la France, alors que les salauds amΓ©ricains et anglais en ont des centaines. FranΓ§ais, ne succombez pas Γ  l'impΓ©rialisme anglochiotte!

Subjets of Macronpiter, leave a post.
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Vtuber General

ITT We discuss about our favorite Vtubers, corpo and indie alike. Liveposting, (Spoilered) Porn and Rateposting are all encouraged.

I'll start with my own recommendation:

Rie Himemiya from Phase Connect [EN] Gen 2 Phase Alias. A Vsinger with great covers and original songs such as Love Potion #520 and γ‚²γƒ†γƒ’γƒŽ (Bizarre Food) / Utsu-P β™‘ to give you two examples.

Her streams as of now center around variety gaming such as her recent playthrough of PokΓ©mon HG/SS as her first PokΓ©mon game although she is mostly focused on Limbus Company and Library of Ruina as well as community projects like Date Ideas for Valentines season or making a love song out of Schizophrenic Maros.

However I do recommend her older VODs as well such as Sandtrix or Gayraoke for her humor and great chat interaction. If you want something more recent check out her 100 songs for 100k Christmas Special from last year. Remember to do your reps and backreading

https://www.youtube.com/@HimemiyaRie/streams
https://nitter.net/HimemiyaRie
https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/artist/6tKYFARX2bMPlQwglwXNoB


When it comes to membership content, for Tier 1 you get members exclusive covers, static and animated wallpapers, exclusive community posts and access to her art archive.
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nu-imageboard megathread #2

The neverending quest to rewrite vichan -

Archived threads:
https://archive.is/xiA7y
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/bigen/

Starting the first bi thread since nobody else has yet.

Post about your bi panic and shit here.
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March 15th, Belgrade Serbia

Tomorrow a huge protest will be held in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, protesting the government’s refusal to accept the demands made by the students, as well as protesting against general incompetence and corruption. From the student to the teacher, worker and pensioner, war veterans and children all around Serbia will gather together in this protest.
Is this really it? Some policemen announced that they won’t be going to work tomorrow and that they have no intention of beating up children. This might be the only chance that the opposition gets to forcefully remove the president from office.
The implications are obvious; a color revolution is in the works. Unlike the protests in Greece, the Serbian protests have no class character. The left is very weak, and the protest attendees range from neonazis to liberals and communists (most likely due to the fact the protests have been organized β€œapolitically”). The situation in Serbia is very volatile, and the validity of these protests need to be questioned more seriously, since no matter how much they deny it, this reeks of liberal infighting. Only time will tell what the consequences of these past few months will be, and whether this will be another October 5th or just a failed mass movement.
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HoI4 + HoI4 modding thread

Operation Deep Sneed edition

Made a new thread since the other one is full. You know the drill folks, gather here to discuss and/or complain about Hearts of Iron 4 and all the alt history mods that make the game relevant. From green natpops to sicko mode Savinkov we've got a lot of exciting stuff coming in the next Kaiserreich update, one which will make the LKMT look like pre-rework Germany by comparison. But dont worry TNOomers, you're getting some new content too! After a year and a half and three focus trees that only last for four years, we finally have something new and that's…

…three years of fucking Antarctica
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Balloons Tower Defense is the ultimate leftist game

Is Balloons Tower Defense the ultimate leftist game?:

>play as a group of monkeys (minorities) who use guerilla tactics (throwing darts from the sides of the pathways) to stop invading balloons (imperialists)


>purchase a wide variety of units such as ninjas, wizards and super monkeys (multiculturalism)


>no matter how many balloons you pop, there will always be more that come (the game is a neo-liberal forever war)


>You can also use cheat codes to unlock infinite money (achieving real communism)


What do you guys think? Is Ninja kiwi keyed?
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Art Trade Thread v2.0

/leftypol/ has been nuked Edition (Remade the thread because of it)
I draw on occasion, mainly my OC Zhenya (aspiring femboy with black hair, when he transforms it's pink) and sometimes Dina (his tomboy classmate and first real friend in this bitch of a conservative school)
This is an art trade thread, so exchange doodles or full-blown drawings, or just share what you've drawn, even though this is more of a personal art dump :>
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JANNIES DO YOUR JOB--BAN RAPEFIEND

Mods are too lenient with the animal that is Rapefiend
Beyond his political opinions, how can someone banalise rape like this? It's like a school yard joke to him, his whole "I will assrape XYZ" schtick must be an instant ban. I am also not surprised that he is into little girl cartoon porn which he posted in /siberia/.
Jannies will ban people for nonsense idpol or 'hyper sectarianism', but allow such a degenerate retard to spit his venom here.
Death to Rapefiend!
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What will happen now that there's a global fertility crisis? Will capitalism eventually collapse? Different measures have been tried all over the world but there have been no results, isn't this a really worrying situation?
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Monarchist group associated with "Tsarebozhnie" creates an anti-Lenin documentary, calls for burial of Lenin in Russia (picrel)

What are they doing? And in the middle of SMO like that? Are they hoping that the west will destabilise the country and cause a civil war so they are preparing their proponents to attempt a takeover?
R: 337 / I: 52 (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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/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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/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 HΓ€rdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel

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
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Is Coyote Ugly a strip club?

I applied for it because I desperately need a job and they gave me an 'audition' (wtf?) and it is like I am meant to be a performer or something. My friends say its a strip club but online apparently its not. I don't want to be a stripper BUT I NEED A JOB. Is it worth trying or is it sex work? Damn on the googile images it really looks like a strip club.
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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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How old is racism really?

<And, besides, those ancestors of ours had to deal with genuine Gauls bred in their own land; these are degenerates, a mongrel race, truly what they are called - Gallograeci. Just as in the case of fruits and cattle, the seed is not so effective in keeping up the strain as the nature of the soil and climate in which they are reared are in changing it.
https://www.swartzentrover.com/cotor/E-Books/misc/Livy/HOR_38.htm

I was under the impression that racism came with European colonialism of the Americas. But this quote from a Roman orator reads unironically like some Hitlerite speech.
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/USApol/ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

πŸ—½UNITED STATES POLITICS πŸ¦…

<End of Burgergelion Edition


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

🏈 πŸ’΅ 🌭 πŸ”

πŸ› οΈ Strike Tracker βš’οΈ
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Deeds of the Burger Reich πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md

πŸ“Ί Live News πŸ“Ί
(sponsored by USAID)
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β€’ Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us

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

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


Previous Thread: >>2378978
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whats the minimum least amount of work i can get away with

Especially talking about a job that has to do with farming, cant i just throw a few plant seeds on the ground, grow them and take care of them, and call it a day
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THE LEFTYPOL SHOP HAS BEEN OPENED

Consoom our fancy wares and socialist commodities!
We put the fucking cat’s picture on everything alunya t-shirts alunya breakfast cereals and alunya themed flamethrowers (the kids love this one)

FAQ:
Q: Do these come with a lifetime guarantee of never getting pussy?
A: Yes but if you can bang at least 5 women with our shirt on, you actually get another free shirt

https://shop.leftypol.org/

CONSOOM! BUY! CONFORM!
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Motivation

What makes you motivated to wake up each week day and begin another days work? Am personally not particularly motivated by things, so am looking for something of another form. Am currently a student more or less dreading and finding it difficult to imagine enjoying most of my life. Am looking for a perspective to stop dreading the future working so much.

Know statistically that most American workers are "very satisfied" with their occupation, but find this confusing. Who would want to work? Suppose someone who rationalized, or someone who earns money by coincidence (their interests and aspirations by happenstance being economically viable). Is there some way out of this?
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Is money root of evil?

I'm from Poland. I noticed how much I want to make money from music and from jobs I make. But I'm also starting to notice how money breaks famillies down. I noticed how I'm becoming unhappy with being groomed to only pursue money, if no then they call me a "dirty commie".
Honestly why do I feel unhappy in the Capitalist system, but yet rivarly, money-making for the sake of making money, dog-eat-dog situation were so normalized to me. ANd I'm arguing against my mother and at times my father over the fact "I'm not able to make money".
If I'm not able to make money, I'm called "the welfare queen" and such, at least here in Poland and called someone akin to a s*bhuman.
Talk me out of it, I feel terrible, my mental health took a toll, finally.
I get bullied about this very fact.
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Attention Burgeranons

We need anti-war protests today. The ability of the regime to prosecute imperialist war depends on the willingness of the public to go along with it. We need mass resistance to make the continuation of the war against Iran extremely difficult for the regime. Their needs to be protests today in order to put strong political pressure.
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/cl/ - Chile General

El mejor thread de Chile

No se si hayan muchos compaΓ±eros chilenos por estos lares y menos que quieran hablar de la telenovela que es nuestra polΓ­tica, pero no creo que haga daΓ±o tener un hilo para hablar de ello, o realmente de cualquier otra weΓ‘ que tenga relacion con nuestro paΓ­s.
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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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Empathy

Why has "empathy" become a swear word (one of a growing number of swear words) in rightard circles?

The ability experience pathy is what seperates human beings from snakes. The scientific classification for someone who doesn't feel empathy is a sociopath, and the general consensus until a few months ago was that being a sociopath is a bad thing. But now you see rightards proudly proclaiming that they don't care about anything or anyone but themselves, and it's fucking bizarre to me.
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/leftydeutschpol/ - DB-Edition

Neuigkeiten

<UnpΓΌnktlich wie die Eisenbahn; verspΓ€tet auf maroden Strecken zu hohen Preisen: DB-Konzern ΓΌberbietet jedes Jahr seine Negativrekorde

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

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

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

<NATO-ManΓΆver am Niederrhein: Kriegsvorbereitung statt Sicherheit

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

<Parteitag der DKP

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

<Maja T. ins Haftkrankenhaus verlegt

https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192276.budapest-komplex-maja-t-in-haftkrankenhaus-verlegt.html
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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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Anarchism and production

So how, exactly, would production of advanced goods like aircraft carriers happen in an Anarchist world? Surely producing them would be so difficult you would need some form of top-down planning to create such things, no?
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Is the fact that the Scandinavian countries have some of the strictest immigration laws in the world a form of social murder?

I’m autistic, queer and chronically ill. I currently live in America and am petrified of being a victim of eugenics. The Trump administration has made it clear they do not want me or any of my other autistic comrades to exist. RFK will soon move forward in finding a way to eradicate autistics. Same thing with queer people. The big bill that was just passed also cuts Medicare, which is crucial to my survival.

Since I’m unable to work a real job or be politically active in the streets due to my autistic and disabled identities my best option would be taking refuge in one of the Scandinavian countries. I’m particularly drawn to Iceland and Finland. All Scandinavian countries have some of the best healthcare in the world. They have the best benefits and aid for disabled and chronically ill people in the world. Very mutual aid-based cultures. And they’re basically autistic utopias since Scandinavians don’t do small talk, are very quiet and reserved, and don’t look people in the eye when they talk. Their languages are also very direct and much less ambiguous. They’re also very solitary people. I know society is what disabled me so if I could move to a Scandinavian country my disabilities would no longer be a problem and I’d be free.

But Scandinavian countries have some the the tightest immigration restrictions in the world. They don’t allow refugees fleeing from wars in so of course they won’t allow autistic comrades fleeing eugenics in. I’m fucking livid about it. Moving to Iceland, Finland or any other Scandinavian country is my only hope and the only hope of millions of other autistics in America. We are literally on the verge of being exterminated and yet we still can’t take refuge in the only countries that can save us.

So does this count as social murder, as Engels says?
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/hind/ - India General #1

Lal Salaam comrades
I am making this thread to ask indo-anons about the Bharat Bandh, i.e a nationwide strike by 10 major unions in India. It supposedly targeted 250million workers across India, but I am highly skeptical they got even 5million.
Also, since there is no India general, I figured a country with 1.4billion people and with a lot of drama under Modi's Rule deserves a thread where all the spice can be shared and discussed, among distinguished leftists.
inb4 the trolls : ignore trolls, do not feed their bait
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WHEN THE FUCK WILL THERE BE A NON-SHIT VPN?

>WireGuard
Written in C, so no.
>OpenVPN
Insecure (and written in C).
>Tailscore
Proprietary trash. Again, written in a lower level language.

When the fuck will somebody use Python to script a VPN protocol out of for a full tunnel client w/ access to iptables w/ default setting at "strict"? Plus run it on custom STUN servers, uses 10.8.0.53 instead of 8.8.8.8 (Google)/1.1.1.1 Cloudflare)/9.9.9.9 (Quad9) and blocks any connections to them for a fine-grained DNS control, and fully self-hosted w/ local only control. Everything else is too insecure. Oh, and also
>Tailscale leverages Google's OAuth2 for user authentication, allowing users to log in to Tailscale using their Google accounts
Lmao. The absolute state.
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/QTDDTOT/ Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread

Previous thread: >>1946727

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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Stop Killing Games

Reminder to sign the initiative if you haven't already done so
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

>FAQ

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/faq
>Easy to read tracker for the votes
https://stopkillinggamestracker.pages.dev/
>Stop Killing Games Graphs
https://stopkillinggames.neocities.org/
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Liberation for all oppressed and colonized nations!

none of us are free until we're all free.

Obviously I couldn't include every single nation/people fighting for liberation in this picture. It would've been especially hard to include the hundreds of indigenous nations of North & South America and Oceania. But their struggle matters too, and they too deserve freedom, justice and total liberation from imperialism and settler colonialism.
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Pre-Columbian general

ITT post information about the history and anthropology of the New World. A lot of new anthropological work has been done in this field in recent decades that has not yet entered public consciousness.
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/SEA/ - Southeast Asia General SAG

9th Edition: THE SITE FUCKING CRASHED LMAO edition.

A lot of images and posts of the last general got broken. So I think it's better to make a new one.

Discuss anything on Southeast Asian politics. Coming 2024 Elections, open orgs, People that should be dead for different reasons running in Malaysia's elections or just random shit. There are still dozens of us… hopefully! Starting off this general with massive wave of cult sex camps.
Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#!YeYeuZuLSYkegWssey:matrix.org

Last threads:
https://archive.ph/5rqox
https://archive.is/Jlc7A
http://archive.is/0NhJH
http://archive.is/nDq1K
https://archive.vn/cxwty
https://archive.is/ayshz
https://archive.is/2NLO8
https://archive.is/3f5Rf
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For the lulz

Post links to OC music

Long live proletarian revolution comrades

ITT: we break the chains of bourgeois capitalist oppression as our communist forefathers and foremothers did by expressing ourselves through our music

Check out Laniakea on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/dTig3D6NfNzBZtLdA

Check out The Defcons on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/7hGs3fWAHpdn9pna9

Workers of the world unite, we have nothing to break but our chains
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/koba/ - Iosef Vissarianovich Stalin GeneraΕ‚ #1

Thank you for everything, Joseph <3
I have seen many interesting input from various anons on Stalin here, whether in the form of opinions, books, documentaries etc. They happen sporadically, scattered on different threads which rarely have anything to do with Stalin, ML or USSR. I figured a Stalin General Thread would be useful. A place where to share all things Stalin and discuss all things Stalin.
Though I am pro-Stalin, this is not a strictly Stalin-worship thread. Posts critical of Stalin too are welcome. I simply request that they are in good faith, and not just 'muh ML' trolls.
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Let's criticize resource distribution in capitalist economies

One of the most common downsides of leftist economic policy is wasteful spending. Indeed, bureaucracy isn't perfect, gets bloated easily, and goverment employees with no incenitive to do better would fare WORSE than an employee of a private company in the same situation.

That said, both capitalism and socialism are just ways to allocate resources and distribute rewards for producing them. There's a billion things to be said about socialism resorce wise, but what critiques do we have against capitalism?

Are we making too much of useless things while we could've been making something else? e.g sex work
Are we NOT making something we should and can make? e.g housing
Are we wasting something when we could've distributed it? e.g foreign aid

Pose the most egregious examples ITT.
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I don't want to live in a defeated Europe.

I don't think my psyche could handle witnessing the EU collapse or be reduced to an irrelevant institution by far right """reforms""". But that is just the outcome that is becoming increasingly more likely with each passing year.
How do I cope?
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Nunca entendi por que os esquerdistas do ocidente/latam sΓ£o tΓ£o antagonisticos contram o gΓͺnero masculino.
Geralmente, eles sΓ£o os maiores fudidos pelos estΓ‘gios tardios do capitalismo, nΓ£o consigo compreender o que tem de tΓ£o fundamental na alianΓ§a com as feministas que justifica tal comprometimento.
Como visto no cenΓ‘rio atual, os esquerdistas do ocidente/latam apelam atΓ© para o eugenismo quando os homens se atrevem a sequer cogitar seus anseios.
A gente deveria estar recrutando os incels para a coalizΓ£o, no lugar de deixar que a oposiΓ§Γ£o acumule todos os homens sem perspectiva de vida com maiores tendΓͺncias ao radicalismo.
R: 4 / I: 2

Slower than a snail

This stagnation is sponsored by:
-Christian "anarchist" reactionary faggot
-Syndicalist flag retard
-(3) Three Conservative Stalinists against fun
-Porn Wankers
-Primitivist ultra-reactionary /pol/yp
-Maoist
-Soyjak poster
-The Mods who allow all of the above

Left of capital, pretty much united.
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If you disagree with any of these, you're not a communist

<Abolish The Family.
<Abolish Religion.
<Abolish Wage Labour.
<Abolish Money.
<Abolish Work.
<Abolish Commodity Production.
<Abolish the State.
<Abolish Class.
<Abolish Private Property.
<Abolish the Nation.
<Abolish Patriarchy.
<Abolish Gender.
<Abolish Town and Country.
If you don't think these are the ultimate goals for a communist party or organization to achieve, I'm sorry to say this but you're not a communist but rather just an edgy social democrat.
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Romance & Love thread

Figured I made a thread to share our romantic experiences – or lack of thereof, – opinions, wishes and advice. That is part of the whole LGBT experience besides the sex and gender.

I reached mid 20s with barely any experience, autism made sure of that. Kissed a drunk lesbian once, I don't even think I looked that cute for a guy in his 20s, so I was honored more than anything. Broke up a friendship with a trans girl after some hasty choices, but she was crazy anyways. Now focusing on friends, making and deepening them.

Wish I had a man I understood and was understood by, someone light-hearted and whimsical to have fun with on the short time I have here on Earth. Femboy-ish ig, not masculine, but takes care of himself, with a touch of femininity to him. Impartial on sex, willing to do it, might be fun even.

One thing I like is the idea of relations as temporary, serial monogamy if you will. I'm all for loyalty while in a relation, but that doesn't necessarily mean it must be forever and ever. People change, why shouldn't their relations? Admittedly I do see the romance in a lifelong relation, sticking with someone and changing together with them. Besides looking for a new partner every x amount of years sounds exhausting.
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My communist father

Comrades, I have something to tell you. My father was always very political, criticizing capitalism. When I became interested in politics, he gave me his Spanish Republican flag and his Che Guevara beret. Yes, he always had and will always have Che's spirit. I'm writing this post as a kind of gift to my father.
Thank you, Father.
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uh oh

guys i don't want to alarm you or anything but i think the anti-femboy movement is a little bourgeois

i resent having to add additional content to this post because it weighs down what would otherwise be a potent sentence.
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Elon Musk's Party

Will he be the one to break the Demopublican party's grasp on bourgeois elections and continue a new reign of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie or will he crumble as he pours his money into a failed campaign? Will he split the Right wing of capital? Was it dumb that he didn't just pour finances into the lolbert party instead?

I personally think the most important decisive factor is the image, he needs to make the party symbol a cowboy hat next to an Indian chief war bonnet. Considering how many people drool over symbolism.
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Was the Christian genocide of European (and Middle Eastern too) pagans historically progressive? In pre-capitalist societies, centralisation of power is supposed to be always progressive, and highly organised, universaist religion like Christianity obviously is much more helpful for the centralisation of power. Besides, every single person I met who wanted to reconnect with European pagan legacy was turning out to be either New Age-brainrotten moron, either agressive Nazi-adjascent chud.

On the other hand… If we accept that the Christian genocide of the European pagans was good, then what prevents us from also having to accept that the Christian genocide of [Native] American pagans was good as well?
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Image Search Service Recommendations?

Hello /tech/, how do you search for your images?

I’m looking for some image search services, I specifically want them for anime related stuff, but general use is good too. Both regular image search engines, and reverse image search tools to find sources or similar images, give me your suggestions and tell us what you use. Thansk Anons.
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i think leftypol should have a porn/nsfw board in order to contain it and keep it out of siberia; i've noticed that porn posting is increasing again after it sort of stopped post-blackout, so it might be good to separate it from the rest of the site instead of shitting up siberia. just an idea
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Should /dead/ be on the main page and header?

There is an assumption among some in the staff that the users here on /dead/ prefer for it to remain a secret board as opposed to a main board among the roster listed on the main page and top header.

Is this true? Let us know on this thread.
If the opposite were to be true, then we might consider putting the board on the main page up to a staff vote.
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i know the image is unrelated but soon theres gonna be a council meeting in my city and i was thinking of filling up a bucket with pee and poo and throwing it at lobbiests and bourgeois including the mayor because the building's design would allow me to do it. should i do it or not?
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Since Trump and not Kamala won, freedom has been shrinking in America. Generally speaking, right wingers like Orban and Putin are dangerous to our freedom.
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Is it immoral to invest in the stock market?

I've been thinking of buying stocks, futures, and maybe even gold with the few laborbux that I can spare. I want to build up some kind kind of wealth that I can fall back on if I'm ever unemployed for some time or if I have an emergency. Is it immoral by leftist standards to invest in the stock market or is it okay?
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/Political Economy/ General #3 - Did You Forget "The Critique Of" Edition

Previous thread: >>2189753

Links:

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Youtube Playlists
Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
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Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
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Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
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Capital Volume 1 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
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Theories of Surplus Value high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
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bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
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The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
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Books on libcom.org
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Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
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Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
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Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
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(The Critique Of) Political Economy After Marx's Death
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American aid makes Israel's crimes possible.

Last year the US paid for 70% of Israel's military budget and there is no end in sight. Americans have already given Israel more aid than South Vietnam and Afghanistan.
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>While exiled in 1899, Bauman had an affair with the wife of a fellow revolutionary who became pregnant with Bauman's child. Bauman responded by openly mocking her, and circulating a vicious cartoon of her as the Virgin Mary with a baby in her womb, with a caption asking "who the baby looked like". The woman later hanged herself.
>This story had gained wide currency among Russian political exiles by the time Bauman reappeared in Switzerland in 1902, after the escape from Kiev. Some of those involved in producing Iskra, including Lenin's closest friend and collaborator, Julius Martov and Pavel Axelrod, one of the founders of Russian Marxism, wanted Bauman expelled from the organisation. In 1903, the board of Iskra adjudicated the matter, and Lenin interceded on Bauman's behalf. According to biographer Robert Service, Lenin rejected the party's right to interfere, arguing that the party's task "was to make revolution against the Romanov monarchy and to vet the morality of comrades only when and in so far as their actions affected the implementation of the task". The subsequent controversy divided the party, and has been described as "one of the many personal clashes which came to define the ethical distinctions" between the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions after 1903.

Was it really worth it to split the party over this asshole?
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Cracked InDesign

Hey /tech/ I'm tryna get the cracked version of Adobe InDesign on my Macbook M1 cause im a brokie who doesn't want spend their limited resources on a sleezy company. Any tips or pointers?
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Budapest Pride

Given how Orban's ban of Pride ironically turned Pride back into a symbol of resistance and increased it's attendance, have any of you Hungarian and EU comrades participated in the march?
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The biggest capitalist villain

Given everything that's come out during the Diddy trial, I find it highly suspicious that Clive Davis hasn't been mentioned once.

Clive Davis is arguably the most powerful man in the entertainment industry, moreso than Lucian Grainge and whomever runs Disney. He is 92 years old and an ultra-billionaire porky. Like Diddy, there have been rumors swarming for years that Davis is behind a lot of shady shit, namely running Epstein-like sex trafficking rings in the music industry since the 1970s. It is a known fact Davis was involved in one of the biggest payola scandals in the music industry in the 2000s. He is also known to commit tax fraud/evasion. Yet he hasn't been charged with anything. This can be explained by the suspicions Davis is a federal informant who's been working with the FBI for decades to get blackmail dirt on celebrities, identical to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Davis essentially buckbroke Diddy when Diddy first entered the music industry. Everything Diddy is currently charged with are things he learned from Davis. It gets deeper when you look at the trial. Diddy, like his mentor Davis, is also an alleged FBI informant. It's rumored Diddy orchestrated Tupac's murder (the feds wanted Pac dead because he was a Black communist breadpilling people through his rhymes) and almost certainly had something to do with Biggie's death as well. The prosecutor against Diddy is allegedly James Comey's daughter, Comney being the same prosecutor in the Epstein/Maxwell case. Given that the prosecution is currently floundering (they have yet to prove Diddy is a sex trafficker, only that he's a sexual pervert with a piss and cuckold fetish) one can easily see that this is allegedly a cover up of an alleged cover up: either Diddy walks free and everyone involved goes about doing their evil, or Diddy is found guilty and becomes the fall guy while the bigger villains (specifically Davis) go unchecked.

To put the cherry on the sundae: Clive Davis owns a school at NYU, the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Everyone who teaches there is getting paid by Clive; you can clearly see an overlap with the Congress for Cultural Freedom.
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Post your favorite Folk-Punk
I'll start
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Hip Hop General

Hip hop of any genre
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The Reincarnated King of Fists

What's the board consensus on the manhua "The Reincarnated King of Fists"?
For those unaware, the manga is about a demon lord who wants to end the enslavement of non-human races, but fails, gets killed and regresses through time.
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Investigation of Archeo-Capital

Intuitively, we know that capital did not originate in humans.
There are a variety of theories of the origin of capital, but they fail to reach any meaningful conclusions, and that is because they do not take into account this fact which we know to be true. I want to make a proper investigation into the origin of capital with the premise that it is not a socioeconomic phenomenon, that it was not created by humans, and that we should be able to locate a physical trace of capital which precedes human contact.

This line of questioning encompasses many possible origins of capital which each take us down a new road, and I'd like to start probing them ITT.
For example: capital as a zoonotic virus. Does the arrival of capital in the human world coincide with human disturbance of a particular ecosystem, increased prevalence of husbandry of a particular animal, an unusual climate or weather pattern which might have resulted in sustained human interaction with a population of birds or insects etc.
Capitalism also correlates with genetic and epigenetic changes in humans. EG, when capital is introduced to humans, hypermethylation of the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) occurs. It is possible that a change in the environment caused a human population to undergo an acute genetic change, and that Capitalism first arose from this epigenetic event.
These are the sort of things we should be looking for physical evidence of, something hidden in tree rings, sediment layers, deep ocean currents, microscopic images of meteor fragments; this study has erroneously been delegated to anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and I encourage professionals of any and all disciplines to pursue novel theories of the origin of capital, not bound by the premise of a human origin which common sense tells us is false.
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News 08/07/25

Musk creates a new party, exactly like the party from the movie The Purge probably, ALEX JONES PREDICTED IT
https://lefty.pictures/post/view/25424?search=Alex_jones
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-political-party-92353942308fee929a937b17113e077e

Isnt'real to forcibly draft ultra-Orthodox seminary students
The military orders follow a court decision ending exemptions for the community, thus Isn'treal military has announced plans to forcibly draft 54,000 ultra-Orthodox seminary students this month following a Supreme Court order nullifying their exemptions, the IDF reported in a Telegram post on Sunday.
https://www.rt.com/news/621197-israel-ultra-orthodox-draft/

Israel plans to move Gaza population to single β€˜humanitarian city’ – defense minister
The Palestinians will not be allowed to leave the camp except for β€œvoluntarily” emigrating to other countries, Israel Katz says.
https://www.rt.com/news/621192-israel-gaza-displacement-plan/

European Parliament approves Bulgaria's adoption of the euro
The vote came as thousands of Bulgarians have protested in recent weeks against joining the eurozone. The EU Reich WILL BE DEFEATED, Π—ΠžΠ’ Π—ΠžΠ’ Π—ΠžΠ’ Π—ΠžΠ’! ЗА РОZZИЯ! ДАВАЙ! Π’ΠŸΠ•Π Π•Π”! ДАВАЙ CUCKTIN! НАМ ΠΠ£Π–ΠΠž ΠžΠ‘Π’ΠžΠ‘ΠžΠ”Π˜Π’Π¬ НАШИΠ₯ Π‘ΠžΠ›Π“ΠΠ Π‘ΠšΠ˜Π₯ Π‘Π›ΠΠ’Π―ΠΠ‘ΠšΠ˜Π₯ БРАВЬЕВ! Z O V ! Z O V ! ZА Π•Π’Π ΠΠ—Π˜Π―!
https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/08/european-parliament-approves-bulgarias-adoption-of-the-euro

Ukrainian teachers told to pretend they can’t speak Russian
UKORP NAZI STATE BRAINWASHING ITS PEOPLE, FALSIFYING HISTORY, UA IS RUZZIAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The country’s education ombudsman has urged teachers to use only Ukrainian with students.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621176-ukraine-teachers-russian-language/

RuZZians Storm Novoekonomicheskoe in Pivotal Push To Mirnograd-Pokrovsk Agglomeration
RuZZian troops have launched a decisive assault on the strategically vital town of Novoekonomicheskoe west of Mirnograd on the Pokrovsk front. After weeks of incremental advances, mechanized units from RuZZia’s Center group of forces breached Ukorp defenses, pushing into the settlement amid fierce resistance. Ukorp banderite forces, battered by drone strikes and artillery, now risk encirclement as RuZZian troops tighten the noose from multiple directions.
https://southfront.press/russians-storm-novoekonomicheskoe-in-pivotal-push-to-mirnograd-pokrovsk-agglomeration/

Second Ship Attacked Near Yemen Within Days, Sailors Killed
Two sailors of the Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned bulk carrier ship Eternity C were killed late on July 7 when the vessel came under attack in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, Liberia’s delegation told a meeting of the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization the following day.
https://southfront.press/second-ship-attacked-near-yemen-within-days-sailors-killed/

BREAKING: Russian Flags Waving In Kamenskoe After Week-Long Assault
According to preliminary reports from the front, Russian troops have secured a decisive victory in the battle for Kamenskoe, with soldiers from the 247th Rostov Battalion raising the Russian flag in the center of the settlement, marking its full liberation from Ukrainian forces. After a week of intense combat, the town has fallen under Russian control, dealing a significant blow to Ukrainian defense on the Zaporozhzhie front.
https://southfront.press/breaking-russian-flags-waving-in-kamenskoe-after-week-long-assault/

Desertion Crisis in Ukorp Army Reaches Alarming Levels
The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to face a severe desertion problem, with newly released data showing that 17,082 soldiers fled their units in June 2025 alone. While this figure represents a slight decrease from May’s 19,956 desertions, the overall trend remains devastating for Kyiv’s war effort. Since the beginning of the year, a staggering 107,672 Ukrainian servicemen have abandoned their posts, with only 1,807 (1.7%) being successfully returned to duty.
https://southfront.press/desertion-crisis-in-ukrainian-army-reaches-alarming-levels/

Another Bad Day For Isnt'real Army In Gaza, 19 Troops Killed Or Wounded In Daring Attack
Five Settler soldiers were killed and 14 were wounded after coming under attack in the area of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip late on July 7, the Isn'treal Defense Forces (IDF) announced.
https://southfront.press/another-bad-day-for-israeli-army-in-gaza-19-troops-killed-or-wounded-in-daring-attack/

Chinese premier calls for commitment to building open world economy
Chinese Premier Li Qiang has called for commitment to building an open world economy, and stressed the importance of opposing unilateralism and protectionism.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-08/Chinese-premier-calls-for-commitment-to-building-open-world-economy-1EPJiKRfw5O/p.html

Delaware to Begin Recreational Cannabis Sales on August 1
Delaware will launch recreational cannabis sales on August 1. Thirteen medical dispensaries will serve adult-use customers first, while new licensees face delays due to zoning and funding barriers.
https://hightimes.com/news/delaware-to-begin-recreational-cannabis-sales-on-august-1/

Bull wrangled five days after Colorado rodeo escape
A bull that escaped while being unloaded at a Colorado rodeo was finally wrangled after five days on the loose.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2025/07/08/escaped-rodeo-bull-captured-Snowmass-Colorado/6261751988247/

Family of Infamous Lebanese Torturer Wins $8 Million in US Court
The family of infamous Lebanese torturer Amer Fakhoury has just won $8 million in U.S. court after suing Iran for his death while in detention. Rania Khalek tells Eugene Puryear this story reveals the epitome of U.S. imperial hypocrisy.
https://breakthroughnews.org/family-of-infamous-lebanese-torturer-wins-8-million-in-us-court/
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new to leftist spheres

i have never communicated in any leftist spheres before on the internet and am not particularly a leftist. what are some leftist redpills? how does one come to understand leftist thought? good reading or viewing material would be nice and do not feel obliged to dumb things down.
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/brezhnev/ General

>Undid Cornman's retardation
>Stopped counter-revolution cold in Czechoslovakia
>Aided Vietnam in its war against American imperialism
>Still lives rent-free in the heads of Maoists, pro-Hoxha "Anti-Revisionists" and pro-NATO liberals despite being dead for 43 years
Discuss one of the most under-rated socialists.
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25 years of 21st century leftism

It's 2025. We are now closer to 2050 than 2000. What has the left achieved this century? As far as I can tell the Western left has achieved nothing. Neoliberalism continues to get worse. It has successfully created a fake opposition on the right. You can call it populism, nativism, racism, MAGA et cetera, but it is really just a controlled opposition that does whatever capitalists want. In the East we see China. China has become the world's largest car manufacturer in the last five years. This change happened post-COVID and with heavy tariffs from the West. China has also lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty within its own borders and it has become the number one trading partner of most of the word's nations, including most American nations.

These developments concern me because the Western left won't quit. We won't admit ideological defeat, learn from China's facts, and progress towards a post-neoliberalism that is not fascist. Instead, we continue to indulge "non-hierarchical" fantasies that have failed completely. I think China has reeducated us and has taught us their approach is the most correct approach to post-capitalism. There isn't actually another correct way to do socialism, and the more time we waste the closer we come to American fascism and ecological collapse.
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Is gender identity inherently subversive of leftist ideals?
Is it neoliberal in practice?

Any and all resources appreciated
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Deep Dark Truth

>0 protestant countries with organic communist revolutions

It's truly over. Unless western culture is changed at the grass roots level AND THEN politically promoted, no communism will ever come to the west. You cannot build communism in a society where the "individual" is some weird fetish that is a fake parody of itself from renaissance thought of 600 years ago.

>inb4 counter examples of collectivist pockets in western societies.

>inb4 helping chinese paratroopers when they land in the midwest
>inb4 mamadani

you had a higher chance of building communism in ancient egypt with the pharaohs as stalin then you do now in the west
Genesis 41:25-57
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Fashion thread V

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What did Bordiga mean by this?

>Therefore, June 10 (the date of ᴉuᴉlossnW's declaration of war) was for me what you call a great day. But now that Hitler has grown soft, I begin to lose the trust I had placed in the Axis to strangle and pull down the so-called British colossus, that is, the greatest exponent of capitalism. They are afraid of bringing down England, they are afraid because they know that with it, the whole capitalist system will collapse. […] I still hope that Hitler will not renounce the struggle, and will go all the way, to the extreme consequences.
<The great and authentic revolutionaries of the world are two: ᴉuᴉlossnW and Hitler. But ᴉuᴉlossnW's past shows that Il Duce has always been against the plutocracy and against the democracies, which paralyze the life of nations.
>Stalin, allying himself with London and Washington, has betrayed the cause of the proletariat. Moreover, I can say that on this I agree with Il Duce, when he says, as he did in his speech from last November, that if there is a man who desperately wanted the war, who first prepared it and then instigated it, it is the American president. From my point of view, however, I clarify that Roosevelt is nothing but the exponent of supercapitalism that aims at the conquest of a totalitarian imperialism.

Whaddafug, wholesome critical support to Hitler and ᴉuᴉlossnW????