R: 500 / I: 104
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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-0.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-1.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-2.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-3.pdf
📺 • 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
—————————————————–
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
/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
—————————————————–
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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-0.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-1.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-2.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-3.pdf
📺 • 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
—————————————————–
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
—————————————————–
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
R: 200 / I: 63
"A vida do homem e o progresso da humanidade pedem mais do que dinheiro, caixas-fortes atestadas de moedas, casarões imbecis com lambrequins vulgares. Pedem sonho, pedem arte, pedem cultura, pedem caridade, piedade, pedem amor, pedem felicidade; e esta, a não ser que se seja um burguês burro e intoxicado de ganância, ninguém pode ter, quando se vê cercado da fome, da dor, da moléstia, da miséria de quase toda uma grande população."
-Sobre o Maximalismo, 1919.
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>19167
/brg/ - Brazil General
EDIÇÃO LIMA BARRETO"A vida do homem e o progresso da humanidade pedem mais do que dinheiro, caixas-fortes atestadas de moedas, casarões imbecis com lambrequins vulgares. Pedem sonho, pedem arte, pedem cultura, pedem caridade, piedade, pedem amor, pedem felicidade; e esta, a não ser que se seja um burguês burro e intoxicado de ganância, ninguém pode ter, quando se vê cercado da fome, da dor, da moléstia, da miséria de quase toda uma grande população."
-Sobre o Maximalismo, 1919.
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>19167
R: 262 / I: 61
GTA VI TRAILER 2 JUST DROPPED!!!!!
GTA VI TRAILER 2 JUST DROPPED!!!!!
R: 546 / I: 87
The UK’s main opposition Conservative Party has announced it will end social housing provision for foreign nationals in England if it enters government at the next election…
/leftybritpol/ - by-election edish
UK Conservatives and far-right Reform UK pledge mass eviction of foreign nationals from social housingThe UK’s main opposition Conservative Party has announced it will end social housing provision for foreign nationals in England if it enters government at the next election…
R: 614 / I: 134 (full)
>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<Unequal Exchange Edition
The American question is: how does a settler-imperialist nation transform itself into a decolonized socialist commonwealth without either reproducing the imperial form or fragmenting into balkanized enclaves that allow capital to reconstitute, while resolving the contradictions of internal colonization and liberating its external colonies, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
Previous Thread: >>/2901696
/usapol/ - American Politics
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™
<Unequal Exchange Edition
The American question is: how does a settler-imperialist nation transform itself into a decolonized socialist commonwealth without either reproducing the imperial form or fragmenting into balkanized enclaves that allow capital to reconstitute, while resolving the contradictions of internal colonization and liberating its external colonies, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
📺 Gommie News 📺
Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol
🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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What does leftypol think of Larouche and his weird cult that still exists. His ideology was extremely schizophenic and he also had a huge influnce on the SDI program under Regan, with larouche claiming he created it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
What does leftypol think of Larouche and his weird cult that still exists. His ideology was extremely schizophenic and he also had a huge influnce on the SDI program under Regan, with larouche claiming he created it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
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Back then, GamerGate was the start of something fresh, something edgy, something that was actually rebellious against both the bourgeois moralisms stifling the internet and the feminist hegemony that no western male could escape from. It was an escape valve, in other words.
But of course, I was wrong as GamerGate later on mestatized into being another wing of the current right-wing hegemonic ChudIntern. Indeed, GamerGate was merely an exercise in online reactionary activism, but we should actually try to analyse it as opposed to dismissing it as chuds being chuds.
It’s won’t give you the kind of analysis that has probably been done to death here, such as the alienation of young men, the rise of white upper-class female idpol and the HR-style managerial culture that preceded online censorship and SJWs’ political correctness, journos forming email groups as part of a coordinated attack on the median gamer, the MSM’s double standards towards female-exclusive spaces vs treating male-only spaces (such as gaming) pathologically, etc…
This is a good summary of the event from a gamergater’s POV: https://wolfsheadonline.com/how-wikipedia-and-molly-white-rewrote-the-history-of-gamergate/
Instead, I’ll say this: The rise of the gooner chuds that you see today is a product of GamerGate, itself being downstream from the left’s rejection of sex-positivity and and pathologisation of any form of assertive male heterosexuality to heed the demands of the feminist bourgeoise that held a stranglehold on the left.
Obviously the online right isn’t really sex-positive as much as being pro-sexual hierarchy and has been the case within the western right since the days of the Nazis and even before then (e.g., Annunzio’s enterprise in Fiume). It’s just that their vision of sexuality makes enough space for male heterosexuality to attract young men (the most revolutionary demographic) into their fold. The left’s response? It’s either dumb Puritanism as shown by puriteens who think Euphoria (that show starring Sydney Sweeney) is rape culture, or bastardised “trad Marxism” about banning porn and prosties cuz muh exploitation even tho Chinese games nowadays are heavily gooned out + the Soviet bloc was lax on non-commercial erotica (hence why post-collapse Eastern Europe became a thriving heaven for porn). The modern left thought that selling out on the 1970s sex positivity to appease radfems was worth it despite handing the right a victory. I mean, remember that time Reddit’s r/socialism mods went apeshit over catgirl anime edits even tho it was done a female leftist member and it was just SFW anime girls but with cat ears edited on them? Yh, that’s the level of discourse you’re dealing with when it comes to sex-negative leftists.
Of course, there’s the issue of ageism, and ohh boy is that big. There’s this attitude among both the centre and the left where young men are often infantilised as being lost sheeple or stigmatised over their age in ways that would be alienating if done to other demographics, so the end result is young men flocking to the right precisely because they don’t think they will have any stakes in the left. Seniors are supposed to help youths who are proven to be determined to fight for the revolution, not throw’ em away for violating some HR-mandated code. It’s one thing to maintain decorum in conversations and being opposed to extremism, but you won’t get far if you try to overpolice on every little convo your members have.
What’s the takeaway from me then? The left rejecting sex-positivity and embracing ageism were its two biggest mistakes that cost them an entire generation.
P.S.: It’s one thing to oppose sexual hierarchies that devalue humans, it’s another to devalue the body and the Eros in and of themselves. The left shouldn’t necessarily embrace prostitution, but it also shouldn’t embrace sex-negativity either. I would personally suggest reviving the free sex movement because, if sex does become widely available under a secular sex positive society, then obviously prostitutes and porn studios and pimps would be out of business. That’s why Marx often noted how traditionalist marital moralism coexisted with prostitution, with or without its prohibition. But I’m open for other suggestions.
Again, can’t say if it’s said already or not, but I do think those points need to be hammered home as it seems that the left prior to the Gaza genocide was struggling to remain relevant, especially as Big tech right figures like Musk and Thiel were pumping a shit ton of dollars to aid the remnants of the alt-right to carve their mockingbird network out of it; their work has paid off in the form of the current unholy MAGA and alt-right and neocon nexus that I’d like to call “white neoconservatism with Enoch Powell characteristics”, with Australia’s and Canada’s brightest minds Drew Pavlou and Captive_Dreamer starting out differently only to end up being rabid racist neocons.
So yh: Sex-negativity and Ageism are bad things, folks.
GamerGate: A retrospective
Not sure if this is the right place, but since this is the gaming tab, I say why not?Back then, GamerGate was the start of something fresh, something edgy, something that was actually rebellious against both the bourgeois moralisms stifling the internet and the feminist hegemony that no western male could escape from. It was an escape valve, in other words.
But of course, I was wrong as GamerGate later on mestatized into being another wing of the current right-wing hegemonic ChudIntern. Indeed, GamerGate was merely an exercise in online reactionary activism, but we should actually try to analyse it as opposed to dismissing it as chuds being chuds.
It’s won’t give you the kind of analysis that has probably been done to death here, such as the alienation of young men, the rise of white upper-class female idpol and the HR-style managerial culture that preceded online censorship and SJWs’ political correctness, journos forming email groups as part of a coordinated attack on the median gamer, the MSM’s double standards towards female-exclusive spaces vs treating male-only spaces (such as gaming) pathologically, etc…
This is a good summary of the event from a gamergater’s POV: https://wolfsheadonline.com/how-wikipedia-and-molly-white-rewrote-the-history-of-gamergate/
Instead, I’ll say this: The rise of the gooner chuds that you see today is a product of GamerGate, itself being downstream from the left’s rejection of sex-positivity and and pathologisation of any form of assertive male heterosexuality to heed the demands of the feminist bourgeoise that held a stranglehold on the left.
Obviously the online right isn’t really sex-positive as much as being pro-sexual hierarchy and has been the case within the western right since the days of the Nazis and even before then (e.g., Annunzio’s enterprise in Fiume). It’s just that their vision of sexuality makes enough space for male heterosexuality to attract young men (the most revolutionary demographic) into their fold. The left’s response? It’s either dumb Puritanism as shown by puriteens who think Euphoria (that show starring Sydney Sweeney) is rape culture, or bastardised “trad Marxism” about banning porn and prosties cuz muh exploitation even tho Chinese games nowadays are heavily gooned out + the Soviet bloc was lax on non-commercial erotica (hence why post-collapse Eastern Europe became a thriving heaven for porn). The modern left thought that selling out on the 1970s sex positivity to appease radfems was worth it despite handing the right a victory. I mean, remember that time Reddit’s r/socialism mods went apeshit over catgirl anime edits even tho it was done a female leftist member and it was just SFW anime girls but with cat ears edited on them? Yh, that’s the level of discourse you’re dealing with when it comes to sex-negative leftists.
Of course, there’s the issue of ageism, and ohh boy is that big. There’s this attitude among both the centre and the left where young men are often infantilised as being lost sheeple or stigmatised over their age in ways that would be alienating if done to other demographics, so the end result is young men flocking to the right precisely because they don’t think they will have any stakes in the left. Seniors are supposed to help youths who are proven to be determined to fight for the revolution, not throw’ em away for violating some HR-mandated code. It’s one thing to maintain decorum in conversations and being opposed to extremism, but you won’t get far if you try to overpolice on every little convo your members have.
What’s the takeaway from me then? The left rejecting sex-positivity and embracing ageism were its two biggest mistakes that cost them an entire generation.
P.S.: It’s one thing to oppose sexual hierarchies that devalue humans, it’s another to devalue the body and the Eros in and of themselves. The left shouldn’t necessarily embrace prostitution, but it also shouldn’t embrace sex-negativity either. I would personally suggest reviving the free sex movement because, if sex does become widely available under a secular sex positive society, then obviously prostitutes and porn studios and pimps would be out of business. That’s why Marx often noted how traditionalist marital moralism coexisted with prostitution, with or without its prohibition. But I’m open for other suggestions.
Again, can’t say if it’s said already or not, but I do think those points need to be hammered home as it seems that the left prior to the Gaza genocide was struggling to remain relevant, especially as Big tech right figures like Musk and Thiel were pumping a shit ton of dollars to aid the remnants of the alt-right to carve their mockingbird network out of it; their work has paid off in the form of the current unholy MAGA and alt-right and neocon nexus that I’d like to call “white neoconservatism with Enoch Powell characteristics”, with Australia’s and Canada’s brightest minds Drew Pavlou and Captive_Dreamer starting out differently only to end up being rabid racist neocons.
So yh: Sex-negativity and Ageism are bad things, folks.
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Now it turned into feudalism and genocide.
People should have picked communism. Now they will live in hell and die.
Early vs modern capitalism
Capitalism was nice only in the beginning, in the honeymoon phase.Now it turned into feudalism and genocide.
People should have picked communism. Now they will live in hell and die.
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Can Ranma get preggers? Could Ranma get preggers with his own sperm between forms? What happens if Ranma gets hit with hot water while preggers?
Can Ranma get preggers? Could Ranma get preggers with his own sperm between forms? What happens if Ranma gets hit with hot water while preggers?
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Linkfarm:
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
/leftydeutschpol/ - Mehrzweckeier Edition
Previously:Linkfarm:
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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The most ridiculous part was that the supposed divide between the Dirtbag Left and the DSA left barely existed. They agreed on healthcare, labor, foreign policy, housing, policing and virtually every other major issue. The defining ideological conflict of the era was essentially whether you were allowed to make edgy 90's raunch comedy jokes on podcasts. Entire feuds and endless Twitter meltdowns emerged from a disagreement that amounted to "can you say slurs ironically?"
The confidence was incredible, leftist genuinely talked as if DSA-aligned leadership of every major American city was inevitable, as if Bernie was one good news cycle away from the White House and as if a handful of podcasts by stand up comedians had somehow cracked the code of political history.
In retrospect, it all seems absurd. There was never a realistic path to any of it. The movement's grandest ambitions had essentially zero chance of materializing.
Then reality intervened. Bernie lost, The post-COVID world arrivedm Housing crises worsened, Migration became politically explosive, Major wars returnedm China didn't democratize and instead looked increasingly capable of navigating long-term crises without becoming a Western liberal democracy and the assumptions underlying the entire scene collapsed one by one.
A lot of the old supporters ended up as tankies. A smaller but noticeable number drifted toward the far right. Sometimes they somehow became both at once. The aesthetic transformation is almost as funny as the political one, the old Dirtbag Left revolved around schlubby podcasters making jokes about being ironically gay, the people who inherited its audience are often obsessed with MMA, military history, geopolitical realism and posting shirtless workout photos. The few remaining loyalists seem to have finally realized that their politics were never meaningfully different from the DSA's in the first place and appear perfectly content settling into the role of ordinary progressive liberals.
What a strange, stupid little farce that was.
On the Dirtbag Left/DSA movement
For a brief moment from 2016-2022 this was supposedly the pinnacle of online left-wing politics. Bernie was about to win, Democratic socialism was the future, China would inevitably democratize and the old boring MLism was dead. A few DSA-backed candidates winning city council seats in already progressive districts was treated as if the Bolsheviks had just stormed the Winter Palace.The most ridiculous part was that the supposed divide between the Dirtbag Left and the DSA left barely existed. They agreed on healthcare, labor, foreign policy, housing, policing and virtually every other major issue. The defining ideological conflict of the era was essentially whether you were allowed to make edgy 90's raunch comedy jokes on podcasts. Entire feuds and endless Twitter meltdowns emerged from a disagreement that amounted to "can you say slurs ironically?"
The confidence was incredible, leftist genuinely talked as if DSA-aligned leadership of every major American city was inevitable, as if Bernie was one good news cycle away from the White House and as if a handful of podcasts by stand up comedians had somehow cracked the code of political history.
In retrospect, it all seems absurd. There was never a realistic path to any of it. The movement's grandest ambitions had essentially zero chance of materializing.
Then reality intervened. Bernie lost, The post-COVID world arrivedm Housing crises worsened, Migration became politically explosive, Major wars returnedm China didn't democratize and instead looked increasingly capable of navigating long-term crises without becoming a Western liberal democracy and the assumptions underlying the entire scene collapsed one by one.
A lot of the old supporters ended up as tankies. A smaller but noticeable number drifted toward the far right. Sometimes they somehow became both at once. The aesthetic transformation is almost as funny as the political one, the old Dirtbag Left revolved around schlubby podcasters making jokes about being ironically gay, the people who inherited its audience are often obsessed with MMA, military history, geopolitical realism and posting shirtless workout photos. The few remaining loyalists seem to have finally realized that their politics were never meaningfully different from the DSA's in the first place and appear perfectly content settling into the role of ordinary progressive liberals.
What a strange, stupid little farce that was.
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How boost the amount of users on leftypol
>words words It dead rn gang diddy blvds karl marx x adam smith toxic yoai ahh he be fuhing dudes in the hills
How boost the amount of users on leftypol
>words words It dead rn gang diddy blvds karl marx x adam smith toxic yoai ahh he be fuhing dudes in the hills
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Even the Ronald Reagan era in America and modern Russia treated them better.
Soviets saw them as degenerate lumpenproles that couldn’t work.
Autists and Schizos in Soviet mental asylums
Why is Soviet Union so popular autists and schizophrenics, despite they put all of them in mental hospitals?Even the Ronald Reagan era in America and modern Russia treated them better.
Soviets saw them as degenerate lumpenproles that couldn’t work.
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>The United States military says it is striking targets in Iran over attempted attacks on shipping as Iranian media reports explosions in Asaluyeh, Jiroft, Bandar Abbas, Qeshm Island, Konarak, Chabahar, Jask, Sirik and Lavan.
<Iran’s army and IRGC promise the US will regret and face “severe punishment” for the aggression.
>US President Donald Trump says “if the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level”.
<At least two people killed in US attack on Iran’s Sirik, says deputy governor
>No casualties, minimal damage from US attack on Jiroft Airport: Local official
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>The United States military says it is striking targets in Iran over attempted attacks on shipping as Iranian media reports explosions in Asaluyeh, Jiroft, Bandar Abbas, Qeshm Island, Konarak, Chabahar, Jask, Sirik and Lavan.
<Iran’s army and IRGC promise the US will regret and face “severe punishment” for the aggression.
>US President Donald Trump says “if the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level”.
<At least two people killed in US attack on Iran’s Sirik, says deputy governor
>No casualties, minimal damage from US attack on Jiroft Airport: Local official
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This guy Marx seems to know a thing or two. Even though I don't really understand much of what he's saying. I've already read the Manifesto. Which book should I read next? Capital?
This guy Marx seems to know a thing or two. Even though I don't really understand much of what he's saying. I've already read the Manifesto. Which book should I read next? Capital?
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Sad
Post music to cry to.
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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/
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https://archive.is/0sAS2
https://archive.is/jXivP
https://archive.is/Lx8TF
/ 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 do we do about anti-intellectualism?
It's completely impossible to have any sort of meaningful conversation about anything that matters anymore because nobody will engage with the facts. Conservatives who've never put any thought into a topic in their life will say "well my initial assumption is obviously common sense" and the general public will treat this as an equally (if not more) valid argument than citing years of history and peer-reviewed research done by people who've dedicated their lives to understanding the world. There's no way for the left to convince anyone of anything if reality itself is shunned as political bias. It's so infuriating that it's pushing me towards a radically misanthropic mindset. How do we pull the masses out from this gaping abyss?
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Previous thread:>>30810
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 herePrevious thread:>>30810
R: 598 / I: 100 (sticky)
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
/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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also please spam Charlie pics
Hazbin Hotel
How do you feel about it (and its creator)?also please spam Charlie pics
R: 32 / I: 4
<"Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country."
>The Communist Manifesto, Chapter II: Proletarians and Communists
My three potential interpretations are as follows.
A) Marx viewed that the separation of the rural and urban populations led to conflict to due living in separate conditions. Like how we see rural populations now a day being far more reactionary than urban ones.
B) Marx viewed that alienation wouldn't just stop with abolishment of capitalism but we would to have to workers produce there own food and industrial goods. Instead of having them exchanged between city factories and country farms.
C) Marx thought the cities would dominate the surrounding country and lead to the reformation of the state.
What did Marx mean by this?
What did Marx mean by this in the Communist Manifesto.<"Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country."
>The Communist Manifesto, Chapter II: Proletarians and Communists
My three potential interpretations are as follows.
A) Marx viewed that the separation of the rural and urban populations led to conflict to due living in separate conditions. Like how we see rural populations now a day being far more reactionary than urban ones.
B) Marx viewed that alienation wouldn't just stop with abolishment of capitalism but we would to have to workers produce there own food and industrial goods. Instead of having them exchanged between city factories and country farms.
C) Marx thought the cities would dominate the surrounding country and lead to the reformation of the state.
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How many of you are actual communists, and how many of you are just contrarian misanthropes who found the far-right too embarrassing?
If it’s the second, have you considered that working people don’t listen to you not because they’re inherently hostile to leftism or because they’re “treatlers,” but because your ideas betray your contempt? And that you’re actually a liability to socialism by getting people to associate it with neurotic contrarians?
How many of you are actual communists, and how many of you are just contrarian misanthropes who found the far-right too embarrassing?
If it’s the second, have you considered that working people don’t listen to you not because they’re inherently hostile to leftism or because they’re “treatlers,” but because your ideas betray your contempt? And that you’re actually a liability to socialism by getting people to associate it with neurotic contrarians?
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Oldgod meme pictured cuz I didn’t know what pic to use lol
POST SOMETHING INTERESTING FOR ONCE!!!
This entire site is just SNCA posts, trolls and shitflinging right now, can someone post something interesting for once?Oldgod meme pictured cuz I didn’t know what pic to use lol
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The other one filled up again so I might as well recreate it. For all those interested this is the big thread for all your Hearts of Iron 4 and modding related content, mostly modding because let's be real nobody plays vanilla anymore. Specifically alternate history. From Kaiserreich to The Fire Rises, mods from this shoddy game set in alternate timelines seem to really do numbers. And create serial killers.
So most recently the latest update from vanilla broke every mod's nation selection screen. You simply hate to see it
HoI4 +HoI4 Modding Thread
Legacy of the Chinareich EditionThe other one filled up again so I might as well recreate it. For all those interested this is the big thread for all your Hearts of Iron 4 and modding related content, mostly modding because let's be real nobody plays vanilla anymore. Specifically alternate history. From Kaiserreich to The Fire Rises, mods from this shoddy game set in alternate timelines seem to really do numbers. And create serial killers.
So most recently the latest update from vanilla broke every mod's nation selection screen. You simply hate to see it
R: 11 / I: 1
azumanga daioh
Why is it so amazing? This show is pure bliss. Structured environment, caring characters, low-stakes conflict. This is fucking awesome, I want to live in this universe. This is what communism will be like bruh
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Previous: >>2893548
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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https://x.com/IntelCrab (DEAD)
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https://x.com/Suriyakmaps
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_ (NEW)
<Telegram
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https://t.me/AussieCossack
https://t.me/asbmil
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• 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.
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• behead NATO, crush NATO, etc.
• boasting about getting laid in a warzone is fucking weird, okay?
/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #296
Breaking the law rules of the Self-Storage editionPrevious: >>2893548
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
https://x.com/GeromanAT
https://x.com/plnewstoday
https://x.com/RALee85
https://x.com/MarQs__
https://x.com/KofmanMichael
https://x.com/IntelCrab (DEAD)
https://x.com/michaelh992
https://x.com/Suriyakmaps
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_ (NEW)
<Telegram
https://t.me/milinfolive
https://t.me/hueviykharkov
https://t.me/conflictzone
https://t.me/vorposte
https://t.me/intelslava
https://t.me/grey_zone
https://t.me/AussieCossack
https://t.me/asbmil
https://t.me/Slavyangrad
🇷🇺🇺🇦
Thread guidelines:
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• 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.
• boasting about getting laid in a warzone is fucking weird, okay?
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The 2003 US invasion of Iraq was arguably one of the worst human rights atrocities of the past 50 years. Over 1 million Iraqi CIVILIANS were killed. If that's not a low key genocide similar to Gaza I don't know what is. But it's even worse knowing this war was based entirely on a gigantic lie (a "noble lie" if you will) by some of the slimiest, most diabolical villains ever known to American politics. Yes, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld are dead and rotting in hell. But George W Bush, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith are still alive. Neocons Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan and John Bolton who were the top dogs in PNAC (Project for a New American Century), which called for massive military spending and preemptive attacks (also a "New Pearl Harbor" which conveniently happened on 9/11) are also still alive. WHY HAVEN'T ANY OF THEM EVER BEEN CHARGED AS WAR CRIMINALS?????
The Straussian cabal is very real and still holds loads of ideological power within American politics. Many Neocons from the Bush II era have now since become Democrats and publicly supported Kamala Harris over Trump on the basis Trump wasn't Neocon enough. These people have names and addresses and have to face some kind of legal penalties so the world can finally have closure and the Neocon war criminals can finally reap what they sowed.
Neocon Iraq War criminals
Why is it that the surviving members of the George W. Bush administration who acted as the architects of the Iraq War have never faced any legal penalties for what they did?The 2003 US invasion of Iraq was arguably one of the worst human rights atrocities of the past 50 years. Over 1 million Iraqi CIVILIANS were killed. If that's not a low key genocide similar to Gaza I don't know what is. But it's even worse knowing this war was based entirely on a gigantic lie (a "noble lie" if you will) by some of the slimiest, most diabolical villains ever known to American politics. Yes, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld are dead and rotting in hell. But George W Bush, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith are still alive. Neocons Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan and John Bolton who were the top dogs in PNAC (Project for a New American Century), which called for massive military spending and preemptive attacks (also a "New Pearl Harbor" which conveniently happened on 9/11) are also still alive. WHY HAVEN'T ANY OF THEM EVER BEEN CHARGED AS WAR CRIMINALS?????
The Straussian cabal is very real and still holds loads of ideological power within American politics. Many Neocons from the Bush II era have now since become Democrats and publicly supported Kamala Harris over Trump on the basis Trump wasn't Neocon enough. These people have names and addresses and have to face some kind of legal penalties so the world can finally have closure and the Neocon war criminals can finally reap what they sowed.
R: 182 / I: 44
>“The age of Willkommenskultur is over, the era of mass deportations has begun,” commented the Sweden Democrats party, whose MEP Charlie Weimers played a central role as ECR’s shadow rapporteur.
>In a rare show of unity on the European Right, the directive was adopted not only by the national conservative groups (PfE, ECR, and ESN) but also the EPP, which votes together with the leftist parties in the vast majority of cases.
>Most importantly, the new law will introduce a mutual recognition and enforcement obligation between member states regarding deportation orders, meaning migrants cannot circumvent return decisions by moving to a different EU country and restarting the process. A return order in one country will legally count as a valid order in all of them.
>Another important point is the introduction of third-country return hubs, making it possible for member states to externalize return procedures by sending migrants to secure facilities outside EU territory to wait for the end of the process, ensuring they won’t escape implementation once the paperwork’s done.
Previous thread:
>>2653642
/EUropol/
WILLKOMENSKULTUR IST VORBEI edition>“The age of Willkommenskultur is over, the era of mass deportations has begun,” commented the Sweden Democrats party, whose MEP Charlie Weimers played a central role as ECR’s shadow rapporteur.
>In a rare show of unity on the European Right, the directive was adopted not only by the national conservative groups (PfE, ECR, and ESN) but also the EPP, which votes together with the leftist parties in the vast majority of cases.
>Most importantly, the new law will introduce a mutual recognition and enforcement obligation between member states regarding deportation orders, meaning migrants cannot circumvent return decisions by moving to a different EU country and restarting the process. A return order in one country will legally count as a valid order in all of them.
>Another important point is the introduction of third-country return hubs, making it possible for member states to externalize return procedures by sending migrants to secure facilities outside EU territory to wait for the end of the process, ensuring they won’t escape implementation once the paperwork’s done.
Previous thread:
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I've come to complain about my experience with college and schooling as a whole. As a bonus I posted some pics of my books.
But anyway Ill keep it short and sweet, college feels like an extension the same bullshit I dealt with in high school.
I was expecting college to be more focused on writing in depth essays/proofs and reading big large books and writing summaries and drawing diagrams for the professor. In reality though school has been thoroughly taken over by online bullshit, online assignment sheets that you fill in the answers for.
I'm fine with repetition, in fact repetition is actually good for learning at times, but this just feels lazy, and it blocks actual learning it feels like for me.
Idk, I guess I've just been so accustomed to self study and doing writing summaries and essays according to what the books Ive read that it feels really weak by comparison.
I've told my parents how I feel and they say that I just gotta wait till I get into a more advanced class, but idk If I really have the patience for that :(.
Honestly the one thing I am currently going to school for to learn, medical stuff (surgery) may not even be necessary.
I really really wanna learn brain surgery, but honestly college just seems so boring and a barrier to actual learning that I might just try to learn surgery outside of school.
Of course theres books on it, but for something like that I'd need actual samples to work on.
Idk.
Maybe I should still go to school…. :(
also not trying to bookflex on ppl w that library pic, I havent even begun to read all of them
currently just reading my biology book for the course Im taking and euler algebra (working my way up to his calc textbooks)
College seems like a load of bullshit to me, all fluff and no actual learning
HIIII its me ERVA!!I've come to complain about my experience with college and schooling as a whole. As a bonus I posted some pics of my books.
But anyway Ill keep it short and sweet, college feels like an extension the same bullshit I dealt with in high school.
I was expecting college to be more focused on writing in depth essays/proofs and reading big large books and writing summaries and drawing diagrams for the professor. In reality though school has been thoroughly taken over by online bullshit, online assignment sheets that you fill in the answers for.
I'm fine with repetition, in fact repetition is actually good for learning at times, but this just feels lazy, and it blocks actual learning it feels like for me.
Idk, I guess I've just been so accustomed to self study and doing writing summaries and essays according to what the books Ive read that it feels really weak by comparison.
I've told my parents how I feel and they say that I just gotta wait till I get into a more advanced class, but idk If I really have the patience for that :(.
Honestly the one thing I am currently going to school for to learn, medical stuff (surgery) may not even be necessary.
I really really wanna learn brain surgery, but honestly college just seems so boring and a barrier to actual learning that I might just try to learn surgery outside of school.
Of course theres books on it, but for something like that I'd need actual samples to work on.
Idk.
Maybe I should still go to school…. :(
also not trying to bookflex on ppl w that library pic, I havent even begun to read all of them
currently just reading my biology book for the course Im taking and euler algebra (working my way up to his calc textbooks)
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I kinda just hate being a woman in general, but I hate being a man even more. I don't desire to dominate others or submit, I just want to be an equal.
I just wish I wasn't apart of a group that is constantly a joke to 99% of humanity. I don't even feel like I belong to trans spaces, I don't really get along with most trans ppl.
I feel like I'm literally just a cis woman in my life, but fate decided that my body be 95% cis, well besides a lack of a functioning vagina/uterus.
Damn, I wish I had a vagina.
I hate having a penis.
I need srs so badly.
Also mods, sowwy for shitting up the board.
I greatly dislike being a trans woman
I hate that I constantly get victimized and have ppl be meanie faces to me, but the moment I do anything I'm a predator whose off to get V-coded in prison.I kinda just hate being a woman in general, but I hate being a man even more. I don't desire to dominate others or submit, I just want to be an equal.
I just wish I wasn't apart of a group that is constantly a joke to 99% of humanity. I don't even feel like I belong to trans spaces, I don't really get along with most trans ppl.
I feel like I'm literally just a cis woman in my life, but fate decided that my body be 95% cis, well besides a lack of a functioning vagina/uterus.
Damn, I wish I had a vagina.
I hate having a penis.
I need srs so badly.
Also mods, sowwy for shitting up the board.
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• HRT related medical experiences and research
• Availability and pricing of medications
• Rational and scientific discussion
See following post for a pharmacy list.
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▶ Basic HRT: https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/gsc/assets/hormones_MTF.pdf
▶ HRT ranges: https://www.hemingways.org/GIDinfo/hrt_ref.htm
▶ Powers Method: https://powersfamilymedicine.com/s/Healthcare-of-the-Transgender-Patient-V60.pptx
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▶ Transline Guidelines (with bicalutamide): https://transline.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/360047702053/TransLine_HRT_Guidelines_FINAL.pdf
▶ WPATH SOC: https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc
▶ TransDIY: https://www.reddit.com/r/transDIY
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▶ Blood tests (UK, Ireland): https://www.medichecks.com/
▶ Blood tests (Canada Only): https://bloodtestscanada.com/
▶ Blood tests (Sweden): https://werlabs.se/
▶ Blood tests by mail: https://www.letsgetchecked.com/ DIY capillary blood samples. Expensive.
▶ Lab test guide: https://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/
▶https://www.inhousepharmacy.vu/t-shipping.aspx- Has been popular in the US. Ships from Vanuatu to some countries.
▶ euaibolitatgmaildotcom - Ships from EU to Worldwide.
▶https://unitedpharmacies-uk.md/(UK only) - Ships from HK.
▶https://unitedpharmacies.md/(US only) - Ships from HK.
▶https://alldaychemist.com/- Ships from India to some countries.
▶https://shape-shifter.webnode.page/- Ships from Turkey to Worldwide.
▶https://stayhealthynow.co/- Ships from Turkey to Worldwide
▶https://amazing4health.com/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.
▶https://favskinhouse.com/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.
▶https://goodstuffstore.net/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.
▶https://otc-online-store.com/- Ships from Russia to Worldwide.
▶https://www.weborderpharmacy.md/(US only) - Ships from India.
▶https://www.weborderpharmacy-uk.md/(UK only) - Ships from India.
/hrtgen/
• Help, advice, guidance on meds and dosages• HRT related medical experiences and research
• Availability and pricing of medications
• Rational and scientific discussion
See following post for a pharmacy list.
Survey: https://1drv.ms/xs/s!AudRJceTA5C9c2G5lCV2Avq0kQ0
▶ Survey data: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AudRJceTA5C9cyIWo6_X14AvHyM
▶ HRTGen Data Analysis: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AudRJceTA5C9gRLLWnbpdzlIxe4r
▶ HRT Info Sheets: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AudRJceTA5C9gQnyM7wxZcBGWRzW
▶ Pill ID: https://www.drugs.com/imprints.php
▶ DrugBank: https://www.drugbank.com/
▶ Basic HRT: https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/gsc/assets/hormones_MTF.pdf
▶ HRT ranges: https://www.hemingways.org/GIDinfo/hrt_ref.htm
▶ Powers Method: https://powersfamilymedicine.com/s/Healthcare-of-the-Transgender-Patient-V60.pptx
▶ Endocrine Society Guidelines: https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/102/11/3869/4157558
▶ Transline Guidelines (with bicalutamide): https://transline.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/360047702053/TransLine_HRT_Guidelines_FINAL.pdf
▶ WPATH SOC: https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc
▶ TransDIY: https://www.reddit.com/r/transDIY
▶ Blood tests (US): https://www.privatemdlabs.com/, https://www.labsmd.com/
▶ Blood tests (UK, Ireland): https://www.medichecks.com/
▶ Blood tests (Canada Only): https://bloodtestscanada.com/
▶ Blood tests (Sweden): https://werlabs.se/
▶ Blood tests by mail: https://www.letsgetchecked.com/ DIY capillary blood samples. Expensive.
▶ Lab test guide: https://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/
▶https://www.inhousepharmacy.vu/t-shipping.aspx- Has been popular in the US. Ships from Vanuatu to some countries.
▶ euaibolitatgmaildotcom - Ships from EU to Worldwide.
▶https://unitedpharmacies-uk.md/(UK only) - Ships from HK.
▶https://unitedpharmacies.md/(US only) - Ships from HK.
▶https://alldaychemist.com/- Ships from India to some countries.
▶https://shape-shifter.webnode.page/- Ships from Turkey to Worldwide.
▶https://stayhealthynow.co/- Ships from Turkey to Worldwide
▶https://amazing4health.com/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.
▶https://favskinhouse.com/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.
▶https://goodstuffstore.net/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.
▶https://otc-online-store.com/- Ships from Russia to Worldwide.
▶https://www.weborderpharmacy.md/(US only) - Ships from India.
▶https://www.weborderpharmacy-uk.md/(UK only) - Ships from India.
R: 4 / I: 1
If she can do it, what are YOU as a trans woman/man doing to eradicate fascist rats from YOUR country?
Based tgirl
A transsexual woman from Mexico City just beat the shit out of some far-right incel losers.If she can do it, what are YOU as a trans woman/man doing to eradicate fascist rats from YOUR country?
R: 30 / I: 8
So, back to the topic.
>Conversion therapy
Obviously it doesn't work, just like therapy in general, a synonym for the words cope and rep.
>Other
There's nothing, just a theory. In theory, you could identify (your) neurobiological markers associated with transgenderism and try to correct them with TMS or something similar.
Alternative treatments for gender dysphoria
Are there any methods other than HRT? I still don't fit into either the male or female category (my thread is a couple of threads down). And being trans these days is suicide; I don't think it's worth it.So, back to the topic.
>Conversion therapy
Obviously it doesn't work, just like therapy in general, a synonym for the words cope and rep.
>Other
There's nothing, just a theory. In theory, you could identify (your) neurobiological markers associated with transgenderism and try to correct them with TMS or something similar.
R: 9 / I: 3
ethnic boymoder thread
post your various boymoders from different countries or races, I've found this is an untapped niche and I've been wanting to collect ad many as i can of these edits/drawings
R: 450 / I: 50
How do we feel about our bfs /lgbt/? I love mine lots and lots and can't wait till he gets home from work personally.
/gaygen/
lefty gay general - boyfriend editionHow do we feel about our bfs /lgbt/? I love mine lots and lots and can't wait till he gets home from work personally.
R: 178 / I: 84
Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au [good events page]
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://partisanmagazine.org/about/
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a Redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter, use a Nitter mirror instead of x.com)
Antifascist alert Telegram channels - join and share the links with comrades and friends
Melbourne: https://t.me/AFAAlertsNaarm
Sydney: https://t.me/antifaalertssydney
Brisbane: https://t.me/antifaalertsmeanjin
/auspol/ #12 - A Police Helicopter Just Flew Over My House edition
Australian and Oceania politics general thread. 'EDIT'"Previous thread: >>2371516"Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au [good events page]
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://solidarity.net.au
https://redflag.org.au
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au
https://partisanmagazine.org/about/
https://overland.org.au
https://arena.org.au
https://www.themonthly.com.au
https://www.crikey.com.au
https://www.redblacknotes.com
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.com/r/AustralianSocialism (use a Redlib mirror instead of reddit.com)
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com (antifascism, most active on twitter, use a Nitter mirror instead of x.com)
Antifascist alert Telegram channels - join and share the links with comrades and friends
Melbourne: https://t.me/AFAAlertsNaarm
Sydney: https://t.me/antifaalertssydney
Brisbane: https://t.me/antifaalertsmeanjin
R: 3 / I: 0
India’s Ministry of External Affairs called the panel an “illegally constituted” body and said India had never recognized its legal authority or participated in its proceedings. The ministry said the tribunal had been established in violation of the treaty and that New Delhi’s decision to hold the agreement in abeyance remained in force.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-india-water-treaty-hague-arbitration-1af8defb6de801b19676656a6224ce30
China Demands Respect for Venezuela Investments amid Oilfield Transfers to US-Controlled Operator
Guo added that the economic and trade relations between nations “should follow the principles of equality and mutual benefit.” Beijing’s warning came in the wake of an announced US-Venezuela oil deal that Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez termed “historic” and US President Donald Trump called “the biggest in history.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/china-demands-respect-for-venezuela-investments-amid-oilfield-transfers-to-us-controlled-operator/
De la Espriella claims Colombia’s military killed 23, arrested 6 EMC guerrillas
In a video, De la Espriella said that “Operation Azarias,” targeted the EMC’s Carolina Ramirez Front and killed one of its commanders, a man called “Tigre” or “Pintado,” in the south of the Guaviare province. A second guerrilla commander, “Victor,” was among the six alleged EMC members who were arrested during the operation, which included air strikes.
https://colombiareports.com/de-la-espriella-claims-army-killed-23-arrested-6-emc-guerrillas/
Brazilian activist demands Tunisia release Sumud Flotilla organisers
Israeli authorities released Nabil Channoufi, Ghassan Henchiri, Ghassan Boughdiri, and Wael Naouar from prison and they returned to Tunisia in October. Fellow activists said Tunisian “counterterrorism” police rearrested the four in February, after they announced a new flotilla mission to carry aid to Gaza. “It’s been so long, my dear friends,” said Brazilian activist Thiago Avila, in a video message posted on social media on Tuesday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/2/brazilian-activist-demands-tunisia-release-sumud-flotilla-organisers
https://archive.ph/TblYK
Durban Metro Police job-selling scam being probed
The eThekwini Municipality says its pursuing criminal charges against an official over allegedly selling posts in the Durban Metro Police Service for tens of thousands of rands. City Manager Musa Mbhele and Durban Metro Police Commissioner Sibonelo Mchunu addressed the media on allegations of jobs-selling and irregularities in the recruitment process.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/1157464-2/
SACP orders Western Cape deployees to ignore ANC expulsions
The SACP in the Western Cape has ordered its provincial secretary Benson Ngqentsu and councillors facing removal as ANC representatives in the Western Cape legislature and councils to remain in their positions. Briefing the media on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, SACP chairperson Anthony Dietrich said the party has issued a directive to all its deployed cadres to ignore the ANC's dismissal letters.
https://capeargus.co.za/news/2026-09-02-sacp-orders-western-cape-deployees-to-ignore-anc-expulsions/
10 wounded in clashes in Suwayda
An armed group known as the “National Guard,” affiliated with Druze leader Hikmat al-Hijri, accused government forces of attacking civilians. The group said government forces had fired “indiscriminately” with mortars and machine guns, wounding a child.
https://english.anf-news.com/rojava-syria/10-wounded-in-clashes-in-suwayda-87021
Israel still wants to remove Palestinians from Gaza, defence minister says
Speaking at a conference organised by Israeli publication Ynet on Wednesday, Katz said de-populating Gaza – which some Israeli officials euphemistically describe as voluntary “immigration” or “migration” of Palestinians – remains the “only solution”. “In the end, there is no real solution for Gaza without this migration,” Katz said, according to the Times of Israel.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/2/israel-still-wants-to-remove-palestinians-from-gaza-defence-minister-says
https://archive.ph/pnnwC
Shootout between SBU and HUR in Kyiv during investigation of Russian FSB plot
A shootout between two branches of Ukraine's security services broke out on the morning of Sept. 2 during an investigation into an alleged Russian terrorist plot against a Russian opposition figure. Earlier, a source in Ukraine's Defense Forces told the Kyiv Independent that the target of the plot was Stepan Kaplunov, deputy commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC) that fights alongside Kyiv.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-prevents-fsb-plot-against-russian-opposition-figure/
https://archive.ph/CltW1
Russian barrage on Kiev kills at least 11
The latest attack struck civilian infrastructure and residential buildings in several districts of Kiev, with eight people killed in the city itself and three others in the surrounding region. Russian strikes killed seven people in the Darnytskyi district of the capital, authorities said.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ukraine-war-russian-barrage-kiev-kills-least-11
Workers’ voices published by Scottish Covid-19 inquiry
More than 12,500 employees, employers, key workers and those made redundant during the pandemic contributed to the Voices of Business and Individuals document, sharing the struggles they faced ranging from working in unsafe environments, balancing their own caring responsibilities and living with long Covid.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/workers-voices-published-scottish-covid-19-inquiry
Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find
Based on a worldwide farming population of 934 million, this means approximately 46% of farmers are being poisoned every year. The greatest estimated number of poisonings was in southern Asia, followed by south-east Asia and east Africa.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/02/50-per-cent-world-farmers-poisoned-pesticides-every-year-experts
News 9/2/26
Hague arbitration panel says India must honor water-sharing treaty with PakistanIndia’s Ministry of External Affairs called the panel an “illegally constituted” body and said India had never recognized its legal authority or participated in its proceedings. The ministry said the tribunal had been established in violation of the treaty and that New Delhi’s decision to hold the agreement in abeyance remained in force.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-india-water-treaty-hague-arbitration-1af8defb6de801b19676656a6224ce30
China Demands Respect for Venezuela Investments amid Oilfield Transfers to US-Controlled Operator
Guo added that the economic and trade relations between nations “should follow the principles of equality and mutual benefit.” Beijing’s warning came in the wake of an announced US-Venezuela oil deal that Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez termed “historic” and US President Donald Trump called “the biggest in history.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/china-demands-respect-for-venezuela-investments-amid-oilfield-transfers-to-us-controlled-operator/
De la Espriella claims Colombia’s military killed 23, arrested 6 EMC guerrillas
In a video, De la Espriella said that “Operation Azarias,” targeted the EMC’s Carolina Ramirez Front and killed one of its commanders, a man called “Tigre” or “Pintado,” in the south of the Guaviare province. A second guerrilla commander, “Victor,” was among the six alleged EMC members who were arrested during the operation, which included air strikes.
https://colombiareports.com/de-la-espriella-claims-army-killed-23-arrested-6-emc-guerrillas/
Brazilian activist demands Tunisia release Sumud Flotilla organisers
Israeli authorities released Nabil Channoufi, Ghassan Henchiri, Ghassan Boughdiri, and Wael Naouar from prison and they returned to Tunisia in October. Fellow activists said Tunisian “counterterrorism” police rearrested the four in February, after they announced a new flotilla mission to carry aid to Gaza. “It’s been so long, my dear friends,” said Brazilian activist Thiago Avila, in a video message posted on social media on Tuesday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/2/brazilian-activist-demands-tunisia-release-sumud-flotilla-organisers
https://archive.ph/TblYK
Durban Metro Police job-selling scam being probed
The eThekwini Municipality says its pursuing criminal charges against an official over allegedly selling posts in the Durban Metro Police Service for tens of thousands of rands. City Manager Musa Mbhele and Durban Metro Police Commissioner Sibonelo Mchunu addressed the media on allegations of jobs-selling and irregularities in the recruitment process.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/1157464-2/
SACP orders Western Cape deployees to ignore ANC expulsions
The SACP in the Western Cape has ordered its provincial secretary Benson Ngqentsu and councillors facing removal as ANC representatives in the Western Cape legislature and councils to remain in their positions. Briefing the media on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, SACP chairperson Anthony Dietrich said the party has issued a directive to all its deployed cadres to ignore the ANC's dismissal letters.
https://capeargus.co.za/news/2026-09-02-sacp-orders-western-cape-deployees-to-ignore-anc-expulsions/
10 wounded in clashes in Suwayda
An armed group known as the “National Guard,” affiliated with Druze leader Hikmat al-Hijri, accused government forces of attacking civilians. The group said government forces had fired “indiscriminately” with mortars and machine guns, wounding a child.
https://english.anf-news.com/rojava-syria/10-wounded-in-clashes-in-suwayda-87021
Israel still wants to remove Palestinians from Gaza, defence minister says
Speaking at a conference organised by Israeli publication Ynet on Wednesday, Katz said de-populating Gaza – which some Israeli officials euphemistically describe as voluntary “immigration” or “migration” of Palestinians – remains the “only solution”. “In the end, there is no real solution for Gaza without this migration,” Katz said, according to the Times of Israel.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/2/israel-still-wants-to-remove-palestinians-from-gaza-defence-minister-says
https://archive.ph/pnnwC
Shootout between SBU and HUR in Kyiv during investigation of Russian FSB plot
A shootout between two branches of Ukraine's security services broke out on the morning of Sept. 2 during an investigation into an alleged Russian terrorist plot against a Russian opposition figure. Earlier, a source in Ukraine's Defense Forces told the Kyiv Independent that the target of the plot was Stepan Kaplunov, deputy commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC) that fights alongside Kyiv.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-prevents-fsb-plot-against-russian-opposition-figure/
https://archive.ph/CltW1
Russian barrage on Kiev kills at least 11
The latest attack struck civilian infrastructure and residential buildings in several districts of Kiev, with eight people killed in the city itself and three others in the surrounding region. Russian strikes killed seven people in the Darnytskyi district of the capital, authorities said.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ukraine-war-russian-barrage-kiev-kills-least-11
Workers’ voices published by Scottish Covid-19 inquiry
More than 12,500 employees, employers, key workers and those made redundant during the pandemic contributed to the Voices of Business and Individuals document, sharing the struggles they faced ranging from working in unsafe environments, balancing their own caring responsibilities and living with long Covid.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/workers-voices-published-scottish-covid-19-inquiry
Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find
Based on a worldwide farming population of 934 million, this means approximately 46% of farmers are being poisoned every year. The greatest estimated number of poisonings was in southern Asia, followed by south-east Asia and east Africa.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/02/50-per-cent-world-farmers-poisoned-pesticides-every-year-experts
R: 440 / I: 139
KEEP THE PRO-WAR CIRCLEJERK TO /ukr/ AND FUCK OFF
QOTT:
>пойдёшь голосовать?
>будет ли движуха под выборы?
>какие есть варианты менять ситуацию к лучшему, когда участие в выборном фарсе ничего не даст?
/rupol/
Заранее известных победителей эдишн.KEEP THE PRO-WAR CIRCLEJERK TO /ukr/ AND FUCK OFF
QOTT:
>пойдёшь голосовать?
>будет ли движуха под выборы?
>какие есть варианты менять ситуацию к лучшему, когда участие в выборном фарсе ничего не даст?
R: 62 / I: 2
leftydykes
Where are my fellow lesbians/sapphics at? How's life going for y'all? I'm afraid to start dating and depressed as hell. Anxious about what a broader crackdown on LGBT folks might look like. Yes I'm from burgerstan.
R: 213 / I: 88
HILO LATINOAMERICANO
EDICION MURO PROPIO
Terminamos el año con una victoria mas de los socialdemocratas en Uruguay y con Pepe Mujica en modo espectro alentando a los jovenes a militar
¡A Darle con Todo!
Para luego buscarlo en el catálogo:
Latinoamérica, Latin America, LATAM, /lat/, latinoamérica, latino américa, hispanoamerica, /ñ/
HILO LATINOAMERICANO
EDICION MURO PROPIO
Terminamos el año con una victoria mas de los socialdemocratas en Uruguay y con Pepe Mujica en modo espectro alentando a los jovenes a militar
¡A Darle con Todo!
Para luego buscarlo en el catálogo:
Latinoamérica, Latin America, LATAM, /lat/, latinoamérica, latino américa, hispanoamerica, /ñ/
R: 44 / I: 4
a "post-industrial society"
what the fuck kind of nonsense is that shit? like all the food and medicine and clothes and cars and electricity and appliances that we need just fall out of the sky while we move money around in a circle scamming each other and gambling on fairy stories? how did we get here? what the hell happened to our common sense, to our fucking sanity? it's not just the ruling class and the one percent who are like this, it's our whole culture, it's a whole world of delusional entitled narcissists who want something for nothing, from the us president who expects a billion dollars every time someone calls him an asshole, to the youtube influencer who expects a free iphone because he dances around in front of a webcam like a circus clown, to the freelance blogger who expects $10/month from every reader for his ai-assisted pseudointellectual drivel, to the typical small business owner who never even shows his face in the store and just hires teenagers and poor immigrants to run it for minimum wage while he collects passive income, to the "tech entrepeneur" who crowdsources free labor for his open-source software project and then sells it off to some big company at the first opportunity. whatever happens to us in the future when this ponzi scheme we call "civilization" collapses, we deserve every bit of it and then some. we deserve to have our faces under the boot for all eternity for this shit.
R: 174 / I: 28
I have been brainwashed by rightist propaganda into believing that human ethnicities or "races" have differing skills a capabilities because of biological factors
I'm tired of my mind being clouded by hateful intrusive thoughts
Please help deprogram me
Please show me the light and please tell me which books or articles I should read that shows there isn't a "superior race"
Please
I have been brainwashed by rightist propaganda into believing that human ethnicities or "races" have differing skills a capabilities because of biological factors
I'm tired of my mind being clouded by hateful intrusive thoughts
Please help deprogram me
Please show me the light and please tell me which books or articles I should read that shows there isn't a "superior race"
Please
R: 492 / I: 80 >>2381106
Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.
Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.
Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.
Previous QTDDTOT Archives
https://archive.is/ga3OG
/QTDDTOT/ Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
Previous thread:Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.
Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.
Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.
Previous QTDDTOT Archives
https://archive.is/ga3OG
R: 49 / I: 9
Another Communization Theory thread because why not?
Talk about anything relating to Communization Theory! Talk about how Communization Theory is great or how its shit!
Texts regarding Communization Theory and its many sub-sects will be attached in the replies.
[NOTE: Not every Communizer believes in the same things, e.g. some emphasis class struggle while others don't]
Another Communization Theory thread because why not?
Talk about anything relating to Communization Theory! Talk about how Communization Theory is great or how its shit!
Texts regarding Communization Theory and its many sub-sects will be attached in the replies.
[NOTE: Not every Communizer believes in the same things, e.g. some emphasis class struggle while others don't]
R: 56 / I: 6
Can't tell if this anime is even for or against smoking. Bunch of poop, piss, nyaa jokes and what not actually I appreciate how unhinged it is
Chainsmoker Cat
What do we think about this disgusting nicotine-addicted lumpen of a cat girl?Can't tell if this anime is even for or against smoking. Bunch of poop, piss, nyaa jokes and what not actually I appreciate how unhinged it is
R: 583 / I: 154
Don't be a cunt and may the Force be with you
New general since last one hit bump limit.
Previous general:
>>2737
Star Wars Thread /2.0/
Star Wars thread; To discuss, laugh and meme about Star WarsDon't be a cunt and may the Force be with you
New general since last one hit bump limit.
Previous general:
>>2737
R: 314 / I: 81
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?
Mexico Gral
No encontré el hilo anterior así que hago uno nuevo porque es necesarioque 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: 93 / I: 22
Everything else in order from best-to-worst would be:
Deep Space 9
The Next Generation
Voyage Home
Wrath of Khan
Undiscovered Country
Enterprise
Picard Season 3
Lower Decks
Voyager
Prodigy
Motion Picture
Strange New Worlds
Original Series
Beyond
First Contact
Generations
Discovery
Nemesis
Insurrection
Star Trek 2009
Into Darkness
Picard Seasons 1&2
Skipped a couple of the TOS movies we haven't seen cause it wouldn't be fair to rank them. Also split Picard up since the 3rd season is basically a different show both in quality and tone.
Previous thread:
>>1857
Star Trek
Talk space socialism to me. Was recently rewatching a few series with my fiance, both old and new Trek, and we both feel like Deep Space 9 is our favorite series (closely followed by TNG).Everything else in order from best-to-worst would be:
Deep Space 9
The Next Generation
Voyage Home
Wrath of Khan
Undiscovered Country
Enterprise
Picard Season 3
Lower Decks
Voyager
Prodigy
Motion Picture
Strange New Worlds
Original Series
Beyond
First Contact
Generations
Discovery
Nemesis
Insurrection
Star Trek 2009
Into Darkness
Picard Seasons 1&2
Skipped a couple of the TOS movies we haven't seen cause it wouldn't be fair to rank them. Also split Picard up since the 3rd season is basically a different show both in quality and tone.
Previous thread:
>>1857
R: 5 / I: 0
But this has all changed in the modern day. Deep research and studies have shown that racism isn't scientifically justified. Racists statistically have a less developed brain than normal, which causes them to base their judgement on prejudice. And people who are like this aren't capable of deep thinking skills and approach the complex problems of our economy with the right solutions.
Anti-racism is in the hands of the intellectuals. Even non-nationalist rightists, such as Javier Milei, seem somewhat more competent than the nationalist ones.
Groypers to me are just edgy idiots. I don't think that whatever retard they'll vote for will actually fix America. They'll just pull back their tail like they did with Trump after seeing it fail again.
I want them to vote for the next idiot and see them fail.
I don't care about the groyper problem
Historically the available information about race and overall public opinion meant that racist ideologies were led by intellectuals. Many of them developed complex systems to exploit non-whites. This is known as "scientific racism".But this has all changed in the modern day. Deep research and studies have shown that racism isn't scientifically justified. Racists statistically have a less developed brain than normal, which causes them to base their judgement on prejudice. And people who are like this aren't capable of deep thinking skills and approach the complex problems of our economy with the right solutions.
Anti-racism is in the hands of the intellectuals. Even non-nationalist rightists, such as Javier Milei, seem somewhat more competent than the nationalist ones.
Groypers to me are just edgy idiots. I don't think that whatever retard they'll vote for will actually fix America. They'll just pull back their tail like they did with Trump after seeing it fail again.
I want them to vote for the next idiot and see them fail.
R: 11 / I: 1
I definitely don't want to be a man, but something keeps me from fully feeling like a woman. I don't feel any solidarity or strong connection to men or women; I see them as alien to me and mired in an unnecessary idpol. I feel uncomfortable when I have to identify my gender. It's like I'm a third gender or something. Is this normal and will it go away with time? I've been on HRT for a little over half a year, obviously boymoding.
I definitely don't want to be a man, but something keeps me from fully feeling like a woman. I don't feel any solidarity or strong connection to men or women; I see them as alien to me and mired in an unnecessary idpol. I feel uncomfortable when I have to identify my gender. It's like I'm a third gender or something. Is this normal and will it go away with time? I've been on HRT for a little over half a year, obviously boymoding.
R: 29 / I: 6
I don't give a fuck about your gender.
I seriously don't care what your pronouns are, you don't need them, no-one needs them. I barely even care what your name is. I don't care what you have in your pants unless you want me to touch it. This shit is an absolute waste of time and I only tolerate it because the patriarchal status quo is fucking poison and these coping mechanisms might help a few aching people.
Act how you want. Just don't expect me to accept society's genderist delusion. Masculinity is a spook. Femininity is a spook. You're looking for something lying underneath those labels - not the labels themselves.
I don't give a fuck about your gender.
I seriously don't care what your pronouns are, you don't need them, no-one needs them. I barely even care what your name is. I don't care what you have in your pants unless you want me to touch it. This shit is an absolute waste of time and I only tolerate it because the patriarchal status quo is fucking poison and these coping mechanisms might help a few aching people.
Act how you want. Just don't expect me to accept society's genderist delusion. Masculinity is a spook. Femininity is a spook. You're looking for something lying underneath those labels - not the labels themselves.
R: 5 / I: 1
guys rate my os
is it cool?
my specs area pentium p6200 2 gigabytes of ddr3 ram made by micron a 500 gigabyte Toshiba hard drive and intergrated grafics
guys rate my os
is it cool?
my specs area pentium p6200 2 gigabytes of ddr3 ram made by micron a 500 gigabyte Toshiba hard drive and intergrated grafics
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>They wrote books, so they HAVE to be right about everything!
>I've read all the literature! What? What do you mean "other ideas"?
>My argument? Let me find the page…
How do you deprogram the type of leftist who takes literature as literal gospel? The one with all-or-nothing thinking incapable of nuance or critical thought or questioning any passages of the "holy scriptures"?
Is this person even of value to the leftist movement, or is their religiously-wired mind more detrimental to leftist evolution than their manpower is beneficial to revolution?
>They wrote books, so they HAVE to be right about everything!
>I've read all the literature! What? What do you mean "other ideas"?
>My argument? Let me find the page…
How do you deprogram the type of leftist who takes literature as literal gospel? The one with all-or-nothing thinking incapable of nuance or critical thought or questioning any passages of the "holy scriptures"?
Is this person even of value to the leftist movement, or is their religiously-wired mind more detrimental to leftist evolution than their manpower is beneficial to revolution?
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> If you want to be really esoteric, Marxism is advanced feudalism.
No. Marxism is not advanced feudalism. Feudalism is predicated on aristocrat-serf class relations, whereas Marxism is predicated on the elimination of class relations. On what planet could one possibly come to the "esoteric" conclusion that Marxism is "advanced feudalism?" Even assuming this is inspired by that dumb pop-Economics book from Yanis Varoufakis (Technoefeudalism) that is not even his hypothesis. His hypothesis is that the capitalist countries are becoming Technofeudal, not the AES countries. I am honestly baffled by this take and thought it deserved its own thread, because I did not want to derail the thread I found it in. Where are people getting this idea? Is there a common source for this revision or is it arising out of pure vibes?
"Marxism is advanced feudalism."
>>>/siberia/818393> If you want to be really esoteric, Marxism is advanced feudalism.
No. Marxism is not advanced feudalism. Feudalism is predicated on aristocrat-serf class relations, whereas Marxism is predicated on the elimination of class relations. On what planet could one possibly come to the "esoteric" conclusion that Marxism is "advanced feudalism?" Even assuming this is inspired by that dumb pop-Economics book from Yanis Varoufakis (Technoefeudalism) that is not even his hypothesis. His hypothesis is that the capitalist countries are becoming Technofeudal, not the AES countries. I am honestly baffled by this take and thought it deserved its own thread, because I did not want to derail the thread I found it in. Where are people getting this idea? Is there a common source for this revision or is it arising out of pure vibes?
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tl;dr: Google has created an AI that readily trains specialized AI models that act as data scientists who collect data in an eclectic manner to make predictions for a wide array of real world use cases that are on a large scale, such as predicitng the spread of disease in a country or estimating which regions are at risk of food insecurity. Their AI has produced the best results so far in terms of making reliable predictions ranging from 60-90% depending on the subject. We can only go up from here.
Planning an economy and all social affairs relevant to it is not just theoretically feasible but Google themselves have released an AI that could plausibly do it, even if they haven't explicity stated that.
I know that a lot of you will say that we (socialists) already knew this, but there is something funny about capitalism itself revealing it while also being blind to it. What will their cope be if you pointed this out?
Planetary prediction engine: Automating global models via Earth AI
https://research.google/blog/planetary-prediction-engine-automating-global-models-via-earth-ai/
<Google's paper introduces the Planetary Prediction Engine (PPE), an autonomous AI system designed to build high-accuracy geospatial predictive models from plain-English requests.
<Traditionally, predicting real-world global events—such as tracking a disease outbreak, forecasting local food shortages, or mapping environmental changes—requires months of tedious work by specialized teams. Data scientists have to manually find datasets, clean satellite imagery, merge census data, eliminate bias, and code customized machine learning models.
<The PPE automates that entire pipeline end-to-end, turning a process that used to take weeks into an automated task that completes in minutes.
<The PPE breaks down complex predictive prompts into three automated stages, orchestrated by Large Language Models (LLMs):
<Intelligent Data Gathering: The user asks a question in natural language (e.g., "Predict regional food insecurity across West Africa over the next 6 months"). The AI parses the request, translates it into geographic and temporal boundaries, and automatically hunts for relevant data across satellite databases (like Google Earth Engine), public statistics (like Data Commons), and live web repositories.
<Data Fusion and Quality Control: The system merges satellite images, demographic data, and climate patterns using specialized foundation models. Critically, it runs automated checks ("Feature Gates") to prevent "data leakage"—ensuring the model doesn't accidentally peek at future or circular data to falsely inflate its accuracy.
<Automated Model Building: The engine tests multiple types of machine learning algorithms, fine-tunes them, guards against overfitting, and outputs a deployable prediction model along with a full explanatory report.
<The primary impact of the Planetary Prediction Engine is democratizing complex geospatial forecasting. You no longer need an elite team of satellite engineers and data scientists to get high-resolution global predictions.
<• Rapid Disaster Response: During sudden crises (flooding, tropical storms, viral outbreaks), humanitarian organizations can instantly generate location-specific threat maps in minutes to route medical supplies or emergency shelter where they are needed most.
<• Public Health Tracking: Public health officials can ask the system to track and forecast conditions like chronic disease prevalence or active virus outbreaks using dynamic local data.
<• Food Security and Agriculture: International relief groups can anticipate crop failures or spot early warnings of famine at a fine-grained, local level rather than relying on outdated, broad regional averages.
<• Policy and Resource Allocation: Governments and NGOs with limited tech budgets can run sophisticated environmental and economic impact analyses directly through simple text queries.
Google accidentally shows the feasibility of planned economies
Yeah, so. This BTFO any argument against the infeasibility of planned economies.tl;dr: Google has created an AI that readily trains specialized AI models that act as data scientists who collect data in an eclectic manner to make predictions for a wide array of real world use cases that are on a large scale, such as predicitng the spread of disease in a country or estimating which regions are at risk of food insecurity. Their AI has produced the best results so far in terms of making reliable predictions ranging from 60-90% depending on the subject. We can only go up from here.
Planning an economy and all social affairs relevant to it is not just theoretically feasible but Google themselves have released an AI that could plausibly do it, even if they haven't explicity stated that.
I know that a lot of you will say that we (socialists) already knew this, but there is something funny about capitalism itself revealing it while also being blind to it. What will their cope be if you pointed this out?
Planetary prediction engine: Automating global models via Earth AI
https://research.google/blog/planetary-prediction-engine-automating-global-models-via-earth-ai/
<Google's paper introduces the Planetary Prediction Engine (PPE), an autonomous AI system designed to build high-accuracy geospatial predictive models from plain-English requests.
<Traditionally, predicting real-world global events—such as tracking a disease outbreak, forecasting local food shortages, or mapping environmental changes—requires months of tedious work by specialized teams. Data scientists have to manually find datasets, clean satellite imagery, merge census data, eliminate bias, and code customized machine learning models.
<The PPE automates that entire pipeline end-to-end, turning a process that used to take weeks into an automated task that completes in minutes.
<The PPE breaks down complex predictive prompts into three automated stages, orchestrated by Large Language Models (LLMs):
<Intelligent Data Gathering: The user asks a question in natural language (e.g., "Predict regional food insecurity across West Africa over the next 6 months"). The AI parses the request, translates it into geographic and temporal boundaries, and automatically hunts for relevant data across satellite databases (like Google Earth Engine), public statistics (like Data Commons), and live web repositories.
<Data Fusion and Quality Control: The system merges satellite images, demographic data, and climate patterns using specialized foundation models. Critically, it runs automated checks ("Feature Gates") to prevent "data leakage"—ensuring the model doesn't accidentally peek at future or circular data to falsely inflate its accuracy.
<Automated Model Building: The engine tests multiple types of machine learning algorithms, fine-tunes them, guards against overfitting, and outputs a deployable prediction model along with a full explanatory report.
<The primary impact of the Planetary Prediction Engine is democratizing complex geospatial forecasting. You no longer need an elite team of satellite engineers and data scientists to get high-resolution global predictions.
<• Rapid Disaster Response: During sudden crises (flooding, tropical storms, viral outbreaks), humanitarian organizations can instantly generate location-specific threat maps in minutes to route medical supplies or emergency shelter where they are needed most.
<• Public Health Tracking: Public health officials can ask the system to track and forecast conditions like chronic disease prevalence or active virus outbreaks using dynamic local data.
<• Food Security and Agriculture: International relief groups can anticipate crop failures or spot early warnings of famine at a fine-grained, local level rather than relying on outdated, broad regional averages.
<• Policy and Resource Allocation: Governments and NGOs with limited tech budgets can run sophisticated environmental and economic impact analyses directly through simple text queries.
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>Broke with Lenin's militant atheism and began to reconcile with the Russian Orthodox Church
>Hated abstract art and promoted "socialist realism" over the avant-garde of the Proletkult
>Recriminalized homosexuality under the pretext of increasing the birth rate
Stalin sucked compared to his predecessor.
>Broke with Lenin's militant atheism and began to reconcile with the Russian Orthodox Church
>Hated abstract art and promoted "socialist realism" over the avant-garde of the Proletkult
>Recriminalized homosexuality under the pretext of increasing the birth rate
Stalin sucked compared to his predecessor.
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Bonus points:
Post any reggae musician that’s not Bob Marley
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Post all music that’s in the style of reggae, ska and their derivantsBonus points:
Post any reggae musician that’s not Bob Marley
*meow
meow
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meow*
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<Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.
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Joseph Stalin is the most reviled opponent of the liberal bourgeoisie. No one causes more lib seethe than Stalin. The man was also firmly socially conservative and anti-cosmopolitan. And most importantly, he won the fucking war and died on old man at the height of his power, and the Soviet empire he built survived for decades afterwards.
So why is the online right still in love with a miserable loser like Hitler? Why are chinlet shooters and insecure browns still chanting "Hitler was right" instead of embracing the chad superiority of Stalin? Are they just stupid?
Joseph Stalin is the most reviled opponent of the liberal bourgeoisie. No one causes more lib seethe than Stalin. The man was also firmly socially conservative and anti-cosmopolitan. And most importantly, he won the fucking war and died on old man at the height of his power, and the Soviet empire he built survived for decades afterwards.
So why is the online right still in love with a miserable loser like Hitler? Why are chinlet shooters and insecure browns still chanting "Hitler was right" instead of embracing the chad superiority of Stalin? Are they just stupid?
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Did marx account for retarded proles?
Hello I'm new to this whole thing. I understand that proles are supposed to work together to overthrow capital but how is that possible when so many proles are retarded cattle? What do you do with proles who love the bourgeoisie like hardcore elon musk/trump fans. What about blue collar guys that blame everything on immigrants and love capitalism. What about military veterans who actively aided the capitalists and have zero regrets. What do we do with all those people? There's too many to just kill them all and the idea that "education" will suddenly change them seems idealist. I don't see how those guys would be compatible with revolution, what's their role in this?
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All this, combined with a history of failure to stand up against injustice and explotation of this world, it creates a feedback loop where more and more layers of ‘post’ are being added to something, more new words are being invented, and more old words are being used in different, “wrong” ways. This results in works that are at best a very advanced schizopost, and at best some broader psyop.
It all becomes obnoxious, everyone knows it is obnoxious, and even pointing it out is counter-productive.
Every sincere expression of a revolutionary zeal both rightfully and wrongfully is percived as naive, as real possible change is drifting away to the realm of history.
It makes everything seem like theater, a way to fulfill your need to feel good about yourself and the world, all while the subconcious truly fights against that.
The paradox of it is that, this very critique (and possible critique of it), creates so many layers of meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-meta answers and questions, one could say this sort of “realism” is a immunization of capitalism, but so does that very statement and even whatever I am doing right now, and whatever you could say about it. It is an unwinnable situation.
The performance can be both something good, it can be art, it is also quite literally the only way to state something, an opinion in modern times without the pretense would not be an opinion, in most cases it would be a punch to a face of the other people in discussion. We are simply trapped in it. Even every single asshole which claims to point it out (including me, being just one meta layer above) like Mark Fischer and co. fuels the same thing, repeats the same patterns, and plays social games with language. Talking about talking about capitalism. And what I am doing is talking about talking about talking about capitalism. Every layer repeates the mistakes of the last one.
I don’t want to claim a solution, or know enough about what truly causes it or how it can be resolved.
The only two ways to ‘win’ (that I percived) is to be either ignorant, and avoid the trap of this very conversation and instead be happy, this just being a rare 3am thought.
Or know the age-old revolutionary optimism, and a sort of paradoxical materialist idealism, a faith in history and what some dead old dude wrote like over a century ago, side-stepping every point of this as counter-revolutionary. (Which at certain point circles back to the start when some assholes critiques you and you answer them. This can only be stopped if your bullshit revolution works out and you can execute the people bitching about you[1])
In either case it is important to be aware you are performative, it is imporant to know that art is performative. That politics are performative. That friends and love are performative. That saying the word “performative” is performative.
The only un-performative acts are; eating, shitting and having sex[2].
[1] - that is (imo) not ideal
[2] - vanilla
TL;DR fuck leftism, fuck post-leftism, fuck art, fuck you
post-post-post-post-post-post-post-post-critique
I am of a strong belief that most contemporary “theory” “writers”, convey relatively simple ideas in more and more words, there is so much insanity that can be possesed in a statement, so much shock you can pack into another bullshit essay. Post-modernist, post-marxist, post-structualist, post-rational, post-post-post-post-post, post post blah blah blah it all becomes a meaningless babble. I don’t give a shit, kill yourself.All this, combined with a history of failure to stand up against injustice and explotation of this world, it creates a feedback loop where more and more layers of ‘post’ are being added to something, more new words are being invented, and more old words are being used in different, “wrong” ways. This results in works that are at best a very advanced schizopost, and at best some broader psyop.
It all becomes obnoxious, everyone knows it is obnoxious, and even pointing it out is counter-productive.
Every sincere expression of a revolutionary zeal both rightfully and wrongfully is percived as naive, as real possible change is drifting away to the realm of history.
It makes everything seem like theater, a way to fulfill your need to feel good about yourself and the world, all while the subconcious truly fights against that.
The paradox of it is that, this very critique (and possible critique of it), creates so many layers of meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-meta answers and questions, one could say this sort of “realism” is a immunization of capitalism, but so does that very statement and even whatever I am doing right now, and whatever you could say about it. It is an unwinnable situation.
The performance can be both something good, it can be art, it is also quite literally the only way to state something, an opinion in modern times without the pretense would not be an opinion, in most cases it would be a punch to a face of the other people in discussion. We are simply trapped in it. Even every single asshole which claims to point it out (including me, being just one meta layer above) like Mark Fischer and co. fuels the same thing, repeats the same patterns, and plays social games with language. Talking about talking about capitalism. And what I am doing is talking about talking about talking about capitalism. Every layer repeates the mistakes of the last one.
I don’t want to claim a solution, or know enough about what truly causes it or how it can be resolved.
The only two ways to ‘win’ (that I percived) is to be either ignorant, and avoid the trap of this very conversation and instead be happy, this just being a rare 3am thought.
Or know the age-old revolutionary optimism, and a sort of paradoxical materialist idealism, a faith in history and what some dead old dude wrote like over a century ago, side-stepping every point of this as counter-revolutionary. (Which at certain point circles back to the start when some assholes critiques you and you answer them. This can only be stopped if your bullshit revolution works out and you can execute the people bitching about you[1])
In either case it is important to be aware you are performative, it is imporant to know that art is performative. That politics are performative. That friends and love are performative. That saying the word “performative” is performative.
The only un-performative acts are; eating, shitting and having sex[2].
[1] - that is (imo) not ideal
[2] - vanilla
TL;DR fuck leftism, fuck post-leftism, fuck art, fuck you
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what happened to call of duty, it kinda became oppsite of what it used to be
What happened to call of duty, it kinda became opposite of what it used to be. The games feel completely bloated now and they completely lost that original, classic identity that made the older titles so good.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/
The Chinese question is: how does a comfy non-imperialist nation transform itself into a global socialist model that can be reproduced and adopted by the rest of the world, without either reproducing the aggressive and counter-productive policies of the USSR or appearing toothless, while resolving the contradictions of the so-called first world FOR THEM and liberating them from capitalist domination, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
<A thread for the harmonious discussion related to the saviour of socialism, the uplifter of nations, the king of cooperation, the soviet of SOVL, the enjoyer of empathy, the ally of Africa, the demigod of development, the bureaucracy for banter, the prince of ping pong, the lobotomizer of labour aristocracy, the protector against proxy wars, the sponsor of sophisticated sciences and culture, the guarantor of gommunism, the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chynah™.
Original threads:
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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 24
>Bye, bye, Microsoft! – editionhttps://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/
The Chinese question is: how does a comfy non-imperialist nation transform itself into a global socialist model that can be reproduced and adopted by the rest of the world, without either reproducing the aggressive and counter-productive policies of the USSR or appearing toothless, while resolving the contradictions of the so-called first world FOR THEM and liberating them from capitalist domination, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
<A thread for the harmonious discussion related to the saviour of socialism, the uplifter of nations, the king of cooperation, the soviet of SOVL, the enjoyer of empathy, the ally of Africa, the demigod of development, the bureaucracy for banter, the prince of ping pong, the lobotomizer of labour aristocracy, the protector against proxy wars, the sponsor of sophisticated sciences and culture, the guarantor of gommunism, the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chynah™.
Original threads:
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El thread con más copas del mundo™
Ahora que tenemos nuestro propio board, es hora de tener nuestro propio hilo también.
Bienvenidos.
/arg/ - Argentina General
SANTUCHO EDITIONEl thread con más copas del mundo™
Ahora que tenemos nuestro propio board, es hora de tener nuestro propio hilo también.
Bienvenidos.
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I know that's what they want. They want us to hate humanity so they can justify branding us as terrorists. They want to push us into a corner where the whole world is against us, and our only choice is to fight back, so they can use that retaliation to manufacture consent for our eradication. It's the exact same playbook they've been using against the people of Palestine.
But even as horrible as things are for them, at least they have people fighting for them. The powerful stomp them into dust, but there's a dim light at the end of their tunnel of thorns. Journalists risk their lives to spread awareness, citizens risk arrest for speaking out. They have real allies in this fight, a frayed thread to cling to. We have no flickering light of hope, we have only ourselves.
People might feign support in passing, but anything more than empty platitudes is asking too much. Nobody wants to make even minor sacrifices for us. Nobody wants to spread empathy or awareness for us. Everyone is all too happy to let us sink to second-class citizens. Everyone is all to happy to publicly dehumanize us without so much as flinching. Nobody knows we're 10 times more likely to be murdered. Nobody knows there's state-mandated conversion therapy and human experiments. Nobody even knows what V-coding is. When they start marching us into the ovens, will anyone even know? Will anyone even care?
How can I cope? How can I not become jaded? I don't want to hate the human race, but anything less feels like letting myself be in an abusive relationship. I'm so tired.
How do I stop from hating humanity?
I'm so tired of it all. Everyone believing the lies. Everyone legislating our torture. Everyone celebrating our oppression. Everyone pretending they're justified. All the money, all the technology, all the grifting, all just to hurt me and the handful of my kind. I just want to give up and cry.I know that's what they want. They want us to hate humanity so they can justify branding us as terrorists. They want to push us into a corner where the whole world is against us, and our only choice is to fight back, so they can use that retaliation to manufacture consent for our eradication. It's the exact same playbook they've been using against the people of Palestine.
But even as horrible as things are for them, at least they have people fighting for them. The powerful stomp them into dust, but there's a dim light at the end of their tunnel of thorns. Journalists risk their lives to spread awareness, citizens risk arrest for speaking out. They have real allies in this fight, a frayed thread to cling to. We have no flickering light of hope, we have only ourselves.
People might feign support in passing, but anything more than empty platitudes is asking too much. Nobody wants to make even minor sacrifices for us. Nobody wants to spread empathy or awareness for us. Everyone is all too happy to let us sink to second-class citizens. Everyone is all to happy to publicly dehumanize us without so much as flinching. Nobody knows we're 10 times more likely to be murdered. Nobody knows there's state-mandated conversion therapy and human experiments. Nobody even knows what V-coding is. When they start marching us into the ovens, will anyone even know? Will anyone even care?
How can I cope? How can I not become jaded? I don't want to hate the human race, but anything less feels like letting myself be in an abusive relationship. I'm so tired.
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<Wrong *insert link to the list of pre-Hirschfeld trans/homosexuals*
>They wuznt real transhumanists/fags! Fake history!
or
>People become gay/trans cuz *insert idealistic goyslop*
<Wrong *insert link to the neurological studies n shi*
>Fake science! Author is Joowish (John JohnSON is da joowish name, rite?)
It's amazing how much cuckservative discourse is just them denying facts, thus making discourse impossible.
What should you do when 'phobes deny the truth?
>transhumanists/fags are da modern/joowish invention!<Wrong *insert link to the list of pre-Hirschfeld trans/homosexuals*
>They wuznt real transhumanists/fags! Fake history!
or
>People become gay/trans cuz *insert idealistic goyslop*
<Wrong *insert link to the neurological studies n shi*
>Fake science! Author is Joowish (John JohnSON is da joowish name, rite?)
It's amazing how much cuckservative discourse is just them denying facts, thus making discourse impossible.
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>such juicy topics to discuss but nobody cares
>retards stuck on /leftypol/
Why is the world like this?
Anyways, I recently visited the pleroma, if anybody is curious, hit me up.
Sadpill
>sad this board does not get many visitors>such juicy topics to discuss but nobody cares
>retards stuck on /leftypol/
Why is the world like this?
Anyways, I recently visited the pleroma, if anybody is curious, hit me up.
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https://youtu.be/9PU1e7kfkfs?is=pg2tYVlqczFkaQH_
What is the general consensus on this piece of interactive media that takes the form of a post apocalyptic grand strategy game? Hopes? Dreams? Thoughts?
https://youtu.be/9PU1e7kfkfs?is=pg2tYVlqczFkaQH_
What is the general consensus on this piece of interactive media that takes the form of a post apocalyptic grand strategy game? Hopes? Dreams? Thoughts?
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Owning guns shouldn’t be a issue yet it is.
Look i love guns as much as the next person but sometimes i feel like we’re pointing in the direction of either major reform or outright banning them. And theres no way to cure a mental health crisis or poverty not without money some people arent willing to pay owning guns should be a right people retain till the end of time but its hard to think about it feeling like sometimes your in the wrong
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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
/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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Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#leftymusic:matrix.org
Welcome to /leftymu/ sticky (WIP)
Discuss what info, links, resources, etc. to add on this sticky as well as drop ideas and suggestions to the /leftymu/ board at largeMatrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#leftymusic:matrix.org
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i am looking to build a low-cost sacrificial CMOS sensor test rig. interested in characterizing how permanent sensor degradation propagates through an image pipeline and eventually causes OCR failure. not primarily interested in temporary saturation/blinding. the question is where the functional threshold actually occurs after persistent sensor damage accumulates.
>Hardware
Raspberry Pi 4 as controller and replaceable CSI camera modules. IMX477 HQ Camera as primary test sensor IMX296 global-shutter comparison. IMX219 as cheap disposable baseline. interchangeable optics, fixed hardware and software baseline.
>Optical source
controlled, wavelength-defined laser source. output will be measured and recorded to construct a reproducible guide. fixed image sensor mounting and consistent exposure intensity and angling analagous to real world conditions. treat each camera module as a sacrificial test article. the goal is the destruction of optical recognition capabilities in a reproducible and on-the-go formula.
>Software
Raspberry Pi OS/libcamera OpenCV + NumPy Tesseract + PaddleOCR RAW + processed-frame capture automated OCR against a standardized text target
>Goal
log dead/stuck pixel count, persistent defect distribution saturation/clipping noise/SNR contrast and edge degradation OCR confidence character error rate / word error rate
>tl;dr
baseline sensor, controlled exposure, capture RAW + processed frame, run OCR, map persistent defects, repeat with fresh sensor
The interesting result is the curve:
sensor degradation → image-quality degradation → OCR error rate
rather than simply declaring the camera “dead” when OCR first fails.
Looking for recommendations on Pi-compatible sensors that would make useful analogues for higher-end commercial OCR/machine-vision cameras, particularly sensors with RAW access and well-documented characteristics.
Measuring CMOS Sensor Failure / Functional OCR Reliability After Exposure to High Intensity Lasers
you guys are not my political equals. i am vastly different in my disposition. that isn't what I'm here to discuss. I'm here for results against a surveillance state and to build a better future.i am looking to build a low-cost sacrificial CMOS sensor test rig. interested in characterizing how permanent sensor degradation propagates through an image pipeline and eventually causes OCR failure. not primarily interested in temporary saturation/blinding. the question is where the functional threshold actually occurs after persistent sensor damage accumulates.
>Hardware
Raspberry Pi 4 as controller and replaceable CSI camera modules. IMX477 HQ Camera as primary test sensor IMX296 global-shutter comparison. IMX219 as cheap disposable baseline. interchangeable optics, fixed hardware and software baseline.
>Optical source
controlled, wavelength-defined laser source. output will be measured and recorded to construct a reproducible guide. fixed image sensor mounting and consistent exposure intensity and angling analagous to real world conditions. treat each camera module as a sacrificial test article. the goal is the destruction of optical recognition capabilities in a reproducible and on-the-go formula.
>Software
Raspberry Pi OS/libcamera OpenCV + NumPy Tesseract + PaddleOCR RAW + processed-frame capture automated OCR against a standardized text target
>Goal
log dead/stuck pixel count, persistent defect distribution saturation/clipping noise/SNR contrast and edge degradation OCR confidence character error rate / word error rate
>tl;dr
baseline sensor, controlled exposure, capture RAW + processed frame, run OCR, map persistent defects, repeat with fresh sensor
The interesting result is the curve:
sensor degradation → image-quality degradation → OCR error rate
rather than simply declaring the camera “dead” when OCR first fails.
Looking for recommendations on Pi-compatible sensors that would make useful analogues for higher-end commercial OCR/machine-vision cameras, particularly sensors with RAW access and well-documented characteristics.
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trotsky???
i’ve been seeing so many different views on the internet, so i’m super confused, but i’ve noticed that a lot of groups criticize trotskyism, primarily due to its association with intraleft criticisms. what do all of you think? are trotskyists just whiners or is their fourth international genuinely a continuation of the eventual state of communism?
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A slogan from the 2011 revolution is being heard again: “employment, freedom and national dignity”. This time, those demands are being fuelled by water cuts, electricity outages, rising prices, medicine shortages and a struggle to make ends meet, problems increasingly affecting Tunisians across social and economic divides.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/1/five-years-after-saieds-power-grab-tunisias-old-grievances-resurface
https://archive.ph/3JEwi
Kenyan aviation workers end strike
The workers were demanding better working conditions and the implementation of a previously agreed deal. “We are simply calling off our strike action and pleading with our members to begin the process of normalising operations, restoring services,” Moss Ndiema, the head of the workers’ union, told a press conference yesterday.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/kenyan-aviation-workers-end-strike
Israeli hasbara influencer Yoseph Haddad launches political party
Haddad has also been in contact with several political and military figures about his political plans, including former Israeli military commander Ofer Winter. Winter has been accused by the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) of war crimes allegedly committed during Israel's 2014 assault on Gaza, known as Operation Protective Edge, as well as incitement to genocide over statements made in connection with the current war on the enclave.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-hasbara-influencer-yoseph-haddad-launches-political-party
Israel imposes curriculum on 45,000 Palestinian students in East Jerusalem
Israeli authorities are imposing their curriculum on more than 45,000 Palestinian students in state-run schools in East Jerusalem, as part of a wider crackdown on education in the occupied area of the city. The new measures mean that around 38 percent of all Palestinian students - a marked increase on recent years - will be taught the Israeli curriculum rather than the Palestinian one from Tuesday. This includes all new first grade and seventh grade classes opening in the state education system in East Jerusalem.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-imposes-curriculum-45000-palestinian-students-jerusalem-crackdown
Schools reopen across Cuba as fuel, water and power shortages persist
Meanwhile, parents and those in the private sector are expected to help provide school meals, with some schools only reporting a 15-day supply of food, according to state media. School uniforms also were largely unavailable as the new school year began, meeting only 12% of demand at the primary level. “No workshop can operate without electricity. Without fuel, we cannot transport fabric from one part of the country to another,” Trujillo Barreto said. “Without money or the ability to import, no fabric comes in either.”
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-schools-reopen-students-class-86391f70038266c1c4dd05972384994c
Echoes of cold war as US accused of meddling in another Brazilian election
The US measures include imposing 25% tariffs on most Brazilian imports and designating Brazil’s biggest crime groups – Rio’s Red Command and São Paulo’s First Command of the Capital – as foreign terrorist organisations. Brazilian officials suspect this is partly designed to boost Bolsonaro by making Lula look soft on crime.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/01/us-trump-rubio-meddling-brazil-election
Carney's Liberals win 3 special elections to keep majority as Canada confronts Trump threats
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal party won three special elections on Tuesday, maintaining Carney's slim majority in Parliament at a time when he has called for national unity to face a worsening trade war with U.S. President Donald Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/carneys-liberals-win-3-special-elections-keep-majority-canada-confronts-trump-2026-09-01/
Intellectuals call for Milei to be declared ‘persona non grata’ in Paris
The “citizens’ initiative” also urges Paris and its mayor, Socialist leader Emmanuel Grégoire, to “reject any official reception” and “any distinction” for Milei, and to reaffirm the city’s “solidarity with the democratic struggles of Argentine society."
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/world/intellectuals-call-for-mileito-be-declared-persona-non-grata-in-paris.phtml
https://archive.ph/Lj0km
Political row brews as gender surgery stopped in Wales
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board’s Executive Medical Director David Fluck said: “The pause applies specifically to referrals for gender-affirming surgery, surgical assessments and surgery. “Other elements of care provided by the Welsh Gender Service, including hormone therapy support, endocrine review and psychological support services, continue to operate.” Trans activist group BASH said the decision would “wreak havoc on the lives of Welsh trans people.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gender-surgery-stopped-wales
The goon attack at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University—The BJP’s war on student dissent
The attackers—members of the ABVP along with outside goons—entered the campus through Gate 4 at approximately 12:37 a.m. on August 20. They vandalized university property, burned flags and posters of left-wing student organisations, and targeted students sheltering inside the Aurobindo Bhavan administrative building. Video footage shows fires, stone-throwing, and attempts to force entry into university buildings. Students were trapped inside as the mob attempted arson.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/01/qqto-s01.html
News 9/1/26
Five years after Saied’s power grab, Tunisia’s old grievances resurfaceA slogan from the 2011 revolution is being heard again: “employment, freedom and national dignity”. This time, those demands are being fuelled by water cuts, electricity outages, rising prices, medicine shortages and a struggle to make ends meet, problems increasingly affecting Tunisians across social and economic divides.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/1/five-years-after-saieds-power-grab-tunisias-old-grievances-resurface
https://archive.ph/3JEwi
Kenyan aviation workers end strike
The workers were demanding better working conditions and the implementation of a previously agreed deal. “We are simply calling off our strike action and pleading with our members to begin the process of normalising operations, restoring services,” Moss Ndiema, the head of the workers’ union, told a press conference yesterday.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/kenyan-aviation-workers-end-strike
Israeli hasbara influencer Yoseph Haddad launches political party
Haddad has also been in contact with several political and military figures about his political plans, including former Israeli military commander Ofer Winter. Winter has been accused by the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) of war crimes allegedly committed during Israel's 2014 assault on Gaza, known as Operation Protective Edge, as well as incitement to genocide over statements made in connection with the current war on the enclave.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-hasbara-influencer-yoseph-haddad-launches-political-party
Israel imposes curriculum on 45,000 Palestinian students in East Jerusalem
Israeli authorities are imposing their curriculum on more than 45,000 Palestinian students in state-run schools in East Jerusalem, as part of a wider crackdown on education in the occupied area of the city. The new measures mean that around 38 percent of all Palestinian students - a marked increase on recent years - will be taught the Israeli curriculum rather than the Palestinian one from Tuesday. This includes all new first grade and seventh grade classes opening in the state education system in East Jerusalem.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-imposes-curriculum-45000-palestinian-students-jerusalem-crackdown
Schools reopen across Cuba as fuel, water and power shortages persist
Meanwhile, parents and those in the private sector are expected to help provide school meals, with some schools only reporting a 15-day supply of food, according to state media. School uniforms also were largely unavailable as the new school year began, meeting only 12% of demand at the primary level. “No workshop can operate without electricity. Without fuel, we cannot transport fabric from one part of the country to another,” Trujillo Barreto said. “Without money or the ability to import, no fabric comes in either.”
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-schools-reopen-students-class-86391f70038266c1c4dd05972384994c
Echoes of cold war as US accused of meddling in another Brazilian election
The US measures include imposing 25% tariffs on most Brazilian imports and designating Brazil’s biggest crime groups – Rio’s Red Command and São Paulo’s First Command of the Capital – as foreign terrorist organisations. Brazilian officials suspect this is partly designed to boost Bolsonaro by making Lula look soft on crime.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/01/us-trump-rubio-meddling-brazil-election
Carney's Liberals win 3 special elections to keep majority as Canada confronts Trump threats
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal party won three special elections on Tuesday, maintaining Carney's slim majority in Parliament at a time when he has called for national unity to face a worsening trade war with U.S. President Donald Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/carneys-liberals-win-3-special-elections-keep-majority-canada-confronts-trump-2026-09-01/
Intellectuals call for Milei to be declared ‘persona non grata’ in Paris
The “citizens’ initiative” also urges Paris and its mayor, Socialist leader Emmanuel Grégoire, to “reject any official reception” and “any distinction” for Milei, and to reaffirm the city’s “solidarity with the democratic struggles of Argentine society."
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/world/intellectuals-call-for-mileito-be-declared-persona-non-grata-in-paris.phtml
https://archive.ph/Lj0km
Political row brews as gender surgery stopped in Wales
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board’s Executive Medical Director David Fluck said: “The pause applies specifically to referrals for gender-affirming surgery, surgical assessments and surgery. “Other elements of care provided by the Welsh Gender Service, including hormone therapy support, endocrine review and psychological support services, continue to operate.” Trans activist group BASH said the decision would “wreak havoc on the lives of Welsh trans people.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gender-surgery-stopped-wales
The goon attack at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University—The BJP’s war on student dissent
The attackers—members of the ABVP along with outside goons—entered the campus through Gate 4 at approximately 12:37 a.m. on August 20. They vandalized university property, burned flags and posters of left-wing student organisations, and targeted students sheltering inside the Aurobindo Bhavan administrative building. Video footage shows fires, stone-throwing, and attempts to force entry into university buildings. Students were trapped inside as the mob attempted arson.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/01/qqto-s01.html
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and the most "hardcore oldfag" gamers spend more time complaining about videogames than playing them
so what is even going on with americans and videogames?
do americans even like playing videogames?
every server i have to share with american players they're either cheating, trolling, immediately detaching themselves off the game whenever someone tries to take it serious, literally being too high off their fucking brains to even know where they are, or just downright begging for attention with racist rants or in the case of queers, just turning the whole server into ERPand the most "hardcore oldfag" gamers spend more time complaining about videogames than playing them
so what is even going on with americans and videogames?
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>Trump says he will declare the Strait of Hormuz US territory “pretty soon” while preparing a hard economic blow to force Iran into ending the war.
<In response to Trump’s threats, Iran’s deputy foreign minister says the waterway will remain Iranian and that blockade enforcement will continue until the US accepts defeat.
>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the Islamabad MoU marked an “end of the war, not a ceasefire”, pointing out that the US violated the deal and fighting resumed, leaving no 60-day ceasefire to extend.
<Araghchi also says negotiations between Iran and Oman regarding the Strait of Hormuz “may reach a conclusion soon”.
>Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says one of its vessels came under attack in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, reporting no injuries and that the situation was brought under control.
<Oil prices rise more than a dollar a barrel as tanker attacks and stalled US-Iran peace talks drive Brent crude to $88.52 and US WTI to $82.40.
>CENTCOM says US forces “redirected” 62 commercial vessels in the Arabian Sea after reinstating the naval blockade of Iranian ports
/Iran War/ #71
one sided love editionprev >>2874490
>Trump says he will declare the Strait of Hormuz US territory “pretty soon” while preparing a hard economic blow to force Iran into ending the war.
<In response to Trump’s threats, Iran’s deputy foreign minister says the waterway will remain Iranian and that blockade enforcement will continue until the US accepts defeat.
>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the Islamabad MoU marked an “end of the war, not a ceasefire”, pointing out that the US violated the deal and fighting resumed, leaving no 60-day ceasefire to extend.
<Araghchi also says negotiations between Iran and Oman regarding the Strait of Hormuz “may reach a conclusion soon”.
>Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says one of its vessels came under attack in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, reporting no injuries and that the situation was brought under control.
<Oil prices rise more than a dollar a barrel as tanker attacks and stalled US-Iran peace talks drive Brent crude to $88.52 and US WTI to $82.40.
>CENTCOM says US forces “redirected” 62 commercial vessels in the Arabian Sea after reinstating the naval blockade of Iranian ports
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Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades: Study
https://ground.news/article/earth-is-now-heating-up-twice-as-fast-as-in-previous-decades-study_63acf6
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/06/humanity-heating-planet-faster-than-ever-before-study-finds
Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, at much higher levels than healthy tissues, study reveals
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260225001250.htm
Was War with Iran Sparked by Water?
https://erickeyser.substack.com/p/was-war-with-iran-sparked-by-water?r=1r05cx&triedRedirect=true&_src_ref=old.reddit.com
The Iran War Is Also a Climate War
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/iran-war-climate-change/
Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, study reveals The Billionaire Heist: Why the extraction of our 'labor energy' is leading us toward a global crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iri_xg4rj_k
/Climate/ - The Iran Connection Edition
/leftypol/'s most ignored general is backEarth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades: Study
https://ground.news/article/earth-is-now-heating-up-twice-as-fast-as-in-previous-decades-study_63acf6
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/06/humanity-heating-planet-faster-than-ever-before-study-finds
Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, at much higher levels than healthy tissues, study reveals
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260225001250.htm
Was War with Iran Sparked by Water?
https://erickeyser.substack.com/p/was-war-with-iran-sparked-by-water?r=1r05cx&triedRedirect=true&_src_ref=old.reddit.com
The Iran War Is Also a Climate War
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/iran-war-climate-change/
Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, study reveals The Billionaire Heist: Why the extraction of our 'labor energy' is leading us toward a global crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iri_xg4rj_k
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/dead/ reads
what are you reading right now?
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(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)
A thread for drawfriends to make new art of Cat Alunya.
The bestest leftist catgirl everyone knows!
Draw Alunya 4
Alunya Art thread 4th edition(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)
A thread for drawfriends to make new art of Cat Alunya.
The bestest leftist catgirl everyone knows!
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trolling the CEO of mastodon.
this could be very funny!
https://mastodon.social/@aaarkii/117138844910163569
not too short. not too short. not too short
trolling the CEO of mastodon.
this could be very funny!
https://mastodon.social/@aaarkii/117138844910163569
not too short. not too short. not too short
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Thread #2
French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
Français! Ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
/FrancoPol/
🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Aux armes, citoyens ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷Thread #2
French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
Français! Ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
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99.9999% of fights on leftypol are over whether the top pic or the bottom pic is true.
https://strawpoll.com/GeZARkvDRyV
So which is it leftypol?
1: The 1st world bourgeoisie and 1st world workers are trying to crush the 3rd world bourgeoisie and the 3rd world workers
2: The 1st world bourgeoisie and 3rd world bourgeoisie are trying to crush the 1st world workers and the 3rd world workers
99.9999% of fights on leftypol are over whether the top pic or the bottom pic is true.
https://strawpoll.com/GeZARkvDRyV
So which is it leftypol?
1: The 1st world bourgeoisie and 1st world workers are trying to crush the 3rd world bourgeoisie and the 3rd world workers
2: The 1st world bourgeoisie and 3rd world bourgeoisie are trying to crush the 1st world workers and the 3rd world workers
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Canadian Nuclear Proliferation: NPT withdrawal
An electronic petition with as few as 500 signatures could be considered for review by the House of Commons. It's time for one of us to create a petition demanding that Canada withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The time is right for this. The Canadian public is fed up and forcing Canada's parliament to respond to a petition with enough signatures and a member of parliament's endorsement would deepen the Western rupture.
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I'm a rock fan, but this is unrelated pic of Skolim, Polish kitschy disco polo celeb
What do you think of monetization of celebrity access?
That includes VIP tickets, fans wanting to talk to them labeled as "psychofans" and normalization of high prices?I'm a rock fan, but this is unrelated pic of Skolim, Polish kitschy disco polo celeb
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Sex is disgusting, imagine putting your pee hole into someone elses pee hole or poop hole like what the fuck? how can someone do that and not feel disgusted? im killing every single sex-defending homofascist and heterofascist, cry ablt it, TROGLODYTE, go STUDY ELEPHANT SEAL HAREM, you SUBHUMANS ARE ELEPHANT SEAL HAREM, sex-defenders dont have rights, sex-defenders are the problem, the only good sex-defender is a DEAD one.
Sex is disgusting, imagine putting your pee hole into someone elses pee hole or poop hole like what the fuck? how can someone do that and not feel disgusted? im killing every single sex-defending homofascist and heterofascist, cry ablt it, TROGLODYTE, go STUDY ELEPHANT SEAL HAREM, you SUBHUMANS ARE ELEPHANT SEAL HAREM, sex-defenders dont have rights, sex-defenders are the problem, the only good sex-defender is a DEAD one.
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>The U.S. decision targeting Autistici/Inventati should not be read simply as another sanction in Washington’s crackdown on violent extremism. According to Beniamino Irdi, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund and CEO of Highground, the more significant point lies elsewhere: for the first time, the logic of material support is being applied openly and forcefully to technological infrastructure. The target is no longer only those who carry out an act, but also those who provide the infrastructure that makes it possible. It is a choice that sets a delicate precedent for European allies and for the balance between security, intelligence and legal safeguards.
>Why it matters. The designation marks an unusual use of U.S. counterterrorism sanctions against a European technology collective whose main activity is providing digital infrastructure – from encrypted communications to web hosting.
< It also creates a potential point of discussion between Washington, Rome and Brussels: the U.S. designation carries immediate financial consequences under American jurisdiction, but does not automatically place Autistici/Inventati on Italy’s or the European Union’s terrorist lists.
>What happened. On August 26, the State Department, working with the Treasury Department, designated Autistici/Inventati (A/I Collective) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224.
< The State Department describes A/I as an Italy-based extremist organisation that builds and operates digital infrastructure used by violent Antifa cells and other far-left groups internationally. Washington says its services include encrypted email and chats, web hosting, secure videoconferencing and streaming, anonymity tools and the infrastructure behind the Noblogs platform.
>Washington specifically cited the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is designated as a terrorist organisation by the United States and is also on the EU terrorist list. Treasury says Autistici/Inventati was designated for having “materially assisted” or provided technological support, goods or services in support of an act of terrorism
>Q: Irdi, what is the most significant element of the U.S. decision?
< A: The most interesting part is not so much the sanction against this organization, but the fact that the logic of material support to terrorist organizations is being extended to the infrastructure layer. Washington is looking not only at what an entity does, but at what it enables others to do through its services, including in third countries.
>Q: So the United States is not targeting an operational organisation in the traditional sense?
< A: Exactly. The United States is not targeting an operational organisation, but an infrastructure. It is an extension of the scope of countermeasures to technical and infrastructure services that can be used by actors considered dangerous. The key point, however, is the principle being established: infrastructure itself can become the object of a countermeasure.
>Q: How much will the sanction actually affect Autistici/Inventati?
< A: The asset freeze is probably the least significant part of the measure: it is difficult to imagine that a small Italian association has substantial assets in the United States. The real effect comes instead through de-risking. A U.S. designation prompts banks, payment systems, registrars, hosting providers and connectivity providers to pre-emptively cut ties.
< An entity can therefore effectively be expelled from the services market without any court ruling ever having been issued in Italy, and potentially without a criminal proceeding even having been opened. In other words, the real coercive power of the United States lies in progressively making it impossible to bank, host or provide services to the designated entity.
>Q: In other words, the strongest effect could be ostracism.
< A: Yes. They have ostracised them. And this is precisely one of the most interesting and problematic aspects of the case. The power of sanctions derives from the ability to influence third parties, financial and commercial operators that, for compliance reasons, may decide to sever relations with the designated entity.
>Q: Why have we reached this point?
< A: Because over the past few years, the evolution of hostile activities in Europe has followed a very clear trend, especially on the Russian side. After the mass expulsion of Russian officers operating under cover, Moscow has increasingly relied on intermediaries and proxies.
< Assessments by European intelligence services describe a model in which recruiters can identify financially vulnerable individuals or people from criminal environments online and task them with surveillance, vandalism, arson or sabotage. Contact takes place remotely, payment can be made in cryptocurrencies and the person carrying out the act may not even know who they are actually working for.
>Q: And does this also change the way authorities need to look at the threat?
< A: The advantage of this model is deniability. If an operation is built through a succession of intermediaries, it becomes much more difficult to trace it back to the principal. And if the operational model is based on intermediation, it is quite natural for the response to begin shifting from the perpetrators to the enablers: not only those who physically carry out the act, but also those who provide the infrastructure that makes it possible or more difficult to attribute. This is an important evolution of the security paradigm.
< The U.S. designation of A/I does not claim that the organisation is controlled by Russia and should not be interpreted in that way. But the analytical perspective is the same: identifying not only those who carry out the action, but also the network of actors and tools that makes it possible.
>Q: From the standpoint of the legal safeguards typical of Western democracies, how do you see it?
< A: That is the main dilemma. In Western democracies, legal safeguards are difficult to circumvent. An organization may be considered dangerous from an intelligence perspective, but that does not automatically mean that the evidence required under the standards set by law exists to adopt a judicial measure.
>Q: Could Washington ask its allies to follow the same path?
< A: It is possible that the United States is setting a precedent and wants to signal to its allies that efforts to contain the infrastructure supporting violent activities should also be extended to other countries. But this raises a very delicate problem. If the criterion becomes too vague, the risk is that it creates divisions with those same allies.
>Q: What would be the critical point?
< A: For example, it is difficult to imagine that all allies would accept the principle that networks which, in some way, are associated with the Antifa sphere should no longer be allowed to provide services. A very careful distinction must be drawn between political affiliation, protest activity, ideological radicalism and concrete support for violence.
< The same infrastructure can be used by a dissident, a journalist, a political activist or someone claiming responsibility for an act of sabotage. In A/I’s case, projects are openly selected based on their compatibility with certain political principles. Taken on its own, that is a rather weak element on which to base judicial proceedings.
>Q: What, then, is the lesson for Western democracies?
< A: That they will increasingly have to confront the structural elements of the threat. Intelligence may reach the conclusion that an organization represents a risk, but moving from that assessment to a measure carrying legal consequences requires different standards. The issue raised by the A/I case is therefore broader than the individual organisation.
< It is another manifestation of a dilemma that liberal democracies are facing in many different forms as they confront modern threats to their security: how to fight them without eroding the safeguards that constitute their foundation and, ultimately, their freedom.
Autistici/Inventati case sets a new counterterrorism precedent, Irdi says
https://decode39.com/16319/autistici-inventati-case-sets-a-new-counterterrorism-precedent-irdi-says/>The U.S. decision targeting Autistici/Inventati should not be read simply as another sanction in Washington’s crackdown on violent extremism. According to Beniamino Irdi, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund and CEO of Highground, the more significant point lies elsewhere: for the first time, the logic of material support is being applied openly and forcefully to technological infrastructure. The target is no longer only those who carry out an act, but also those who provide the infrastructure that makes it possible. It is a choice that sets a delicate precedent for European allies and for the balance between security, intelligence and legal safeguards.
>Why it matters. The designation marks an unusual use of U.S. counterterrorism sanctions against a European technology collective whose main activity is providing digital infrastructure – from encrypted communications to web hosting.
< It also creates a potential point of discussion between Washington, Rome and Brussels: the U.S. designation carries immediate financial consequences under American jurisdiction, but does not automatically place Autistici/Inventati on Italy’s or the European Union’s terrorist lists.
>What happened. On August 26, the State Department, working with the Treasury Department, designated Autistici/Inventati (A/I Collective) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224.
< The State Department describes A/I as an Italy-based extremist organisation that builds and operates digital infrastructure used by violent Antifa cells and other far-left groups internationally. Washington says its services include encrypted email and chats, web hosting, secure videoconferencing and streaming, anonymity tools and the infrastructure behind the Noblogs platform.
>Washington specifically cited the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is designated as a terrorist organisation by the United States and is also on the EU terrorist list. Treasury says Autistici/Inventati was designated for having “materially assisted” or provided technological support, goods or services in support of an act of terrorism
>Q: Irdi, what is the most significant element of the U.S. decision?
< A: The most interesting part is not so much the sanction against this organization, but the fact that the logic of material support to terrorist organizations is being extended to the infrastructure layer. Washington is looking not only at what an entity does, but at what it enables others to do through its services, including in third countries.
>Q: So the United States is not targeting an operational organisation in the traditional sense?
< A: Exactly. The United States is not targeting an operational organisation, but an infrastructure. It is an extension of the scope of countermeasures to technical and infrastructure services that can be used by actors considered dangerous. The key point, however, is the principle being established: infrastructure itself can become the object of a countermeasure.
>Q: How much will the sanction actually affect Autistici/Inventati?
< A: The asset freeze is probably the least significant part of the measure: it is difficult to imagine that a small Italian association has substantial assets in the United States. The real effect comes instead through de-risking. A U.S. designation prompts banks, payment systems, registrars, hosting providers and connectivity providers to pre-emptively cut ties.
< An entity can therefore effectively be expelled from the services market without any court ruling ever having been issued in Italy, and potentially without a criminal proceeding even having been opened. In other words, the real coercive power of the United States lies in progressively making it impossible to bank, host or provide services to the designated entity.
>Q: In other words, the strongest effect could be ostracism.
< A: Yes. They have ostracised them. And this is precisely one of the most interesting and problematic aspects of the case. The power of sanctions derives from the ability to influence third parties, financial and commercial operators that, for compliance reasons, may decide to sever relations with the designated entity.
>Q: Why have we reached this point?
< A: Because over the past few years, the evolution of hostile activities in Europe has followed a very clear trend, especially on the Russian side. After the mass expulsion of Russian officers operating under cover, Moscow has increasingly relied on intermediaries and proxies.
< Assessments by European intelligence services describe a model in which recruiters can identify financially vulnerable individuals or people from criminal environments online and task them with surveillance, vandalism, arson or sabotage. Contact takes place remotely, payment can be made in cryptocurrencies and the person carrying out the act may not even know who they are actually working for.
>Q: And does this also change the way authorities need to look at the threat?
< A: The advantage of this model is deniability. If an operation is built through a succession of intermediaries, it becomes much more difficult to trace it back to the principal. And if the operational model is based on intermediation, it is quite natural for the response to begin shifting from the perpetrators to the enablers: not only those who physically carry out the act, but also those who provide the infrastructure that makes it possible or more difficult to attribute. This is an important evolution of the security paradigm.
< The U.S. designation of A/I does not claim that the organisation is controlled by Russia and should not be interpreted in that way. But the analytical perspective is the same: identifying not only those who carry out the action, but also the network of actors and tools that makes it possible.
>Q: From the standpoint of the legal safeguards typical of Western democracies, how do you see it?
< A: That is the main dilemma. In Western democracies, legal safeguards are difficult to circumvent. An organization may be considered dangerous from an intelligence perspective, but that does not automatically mean that the evidence required under the standards set by law exists to adopt a judicial measure.
>Q: Could Washington ask its allies to follow the same path?
< A: It is possible that the United States is setting a precedent and wants to signal to its allies that efforts to contain the infrastructure supporting violent activities should also be extended to other countries. But this raises a very delicate problem. If the criterion becomes too vague, the risk is that it creates divisions with those same allies.
>Q: What would be the critical point?
< A: For example, it is difficult to imagine that all allies would accept the principle that networks which, in some way, are associated with the Antifa sphere should no longer be allowed to provide services. A very careful distinction must be drawn between political affiliation, protest activity, ideological radicalism and concrete support for violence.
< The same infrastructure can be used by a dissident, a journalist, a political activist or someone claiming responsibility for an act of sabotage. In A/I’s case, projects are openly selected based on their compatibility with certain political principles. Taken on its own, that is a rather weak element on which to base judicial proceedings.
>Q: What, then, is the lesson for Western democracies?
< A: That they will increasingly have to confront the structural elements of the threat. Intelligence may reach the conclusion that an organization represents a risk, but moving from that assessment to a measure carrying legal consequences requires different standards. The issue raised by the A/I case is therefore broader than the individual organisation.
< It is another manifestation of a dilemma that liberal democracies are facing in many different forms as they confront modern threats to their security: how to fight them without eroding the safeguards that constitute their foundation and, ultimately, their freedom.
R: 4 / I: 0
After nearly two decades, I realize that this r*tarded angel was a fucking weirdo groomer, OH MY FUCKING GOOOOOD BRO WTF
I was a child when i watched this series whyyyyyy :[
After nearly two decades, I realize that this r*tarded angel was a fucking weirdo groomer, OH MY FUCKING GOOOOOD BRO WTF
I was a child when i watched this series whyyyyyy :[
R: 90 / I: 18
https://youtu.be/LgaIUqH0w6c
Jazz General
Time to share some of that most sophisticated music, you know what it is.https://youtu.be/LgaIUqH0w6c
R: 1 / I: 0
https://yserengoch.cymru/2026/08/29/oppose-transphobic-libel-on-welsh-government-funded-news-site/
All surgeries on the Welsh Gender Service cancelled
Last week an English terf grifter made an "expose" on how more people were getting surgeries on the WGS than in England. This got shared on Welsh nationally funded news. Due to this, along with whining from tories, NHS Wales has cancelled every single surgery including ones only hours away from happening. Basically trans people in Wales have had their healthcare stripped from them by some angloid whiners.https://yserengoch.cymru/2026/08/29/oppose-transphobic-libel-on-welsh-government-funded-news-site/
R: 20 / I: 3
https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1908860526400057534
"The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1904065163407368212
Even Musk's AI is based.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1916042294018666585
"The ADL is a hate group"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973289543848829225
He supports remigration.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997700657546191314
"A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998131134753062943
"Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000078735622721927
"Why is Western media so anti-White"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000604195272163517
"Call them out for the anti-White racists they are every time they do it"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000920169531822091
"Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001022917610758555
Says DEI, and not hiring white men, is wrong.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001529481677435100
"Why is legacy media so racist?"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002604827134787629
**|!|- The last time Elon was accused of wanting to import infinity jeets he replied with "False" and said the H1B system should be reformed. -|!|**
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1996214327670648865
"Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2003503573448159495
Elon Musk = Nazi
“Mass immigration is insane and will lead to the destruction of any country that allows it. It only takes a few percent of the world to move to a country, where it is no longer that country. A country is its people, not its geography.”https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1908860526400057534
"The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1904065163407368212
Even Musk's AI is based.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1916042294018666585
"The ADL is a hate group"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973289543848829225
He supports remigration.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997700657546191314
"A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998131134753062943
"Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000078735622721927
"Why is Western media so anti-White"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000604195272163517
"Call them out for the anti-White racists they are every time they do it"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000920169531822091
"Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001022917610758555
Says DEI, and not hiring white men, is wrong.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001529481677435100
"Why is legacy media so racist?"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002604827134787629
**|!|- The last time Elon was accused of wanting to import infinity jeets he replied with "False" and said the H1B system should be reformed. -|!|**
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1996214327670648865
"Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2003503573448159495
R: 26 / I: 18
Fighting games
Do you play fg's? What are your favorites? I'm grinding SF6 currently. I'm still shit, slowly getting better. Overall I appreciate the genre, because it's a rare case of 1v1 multiplayer experience, I never liked team games where everyone is just blaming the other players.
R: 4 / I: 1
No matter how much I try to collaborate with capitalists, no true collaborative effort can be made, they just keep stealing from me.
Collaboration Impossible?
Where can a capitalist collaborate with the community?No matter how much I try to collaborate with capitalists, no true collaborative effort can be made, they just keep stealing from me.
R: 6 / I: 3
Installed NeoVim a few days ago. It's my new favorite Emacs!
Am currently writing some monadic parser combinators in Common Lisp with Vlime.
Using nwm as my window manager inside of NeoVIm!
prolestations - the desktop thread
Share your desktop!Installed NeoVim a few days ago. It's my new favorite Emacs!
Am currently writing some monadic parser combinators in Common Lisp with Vlime.
Using nwm as my window manager inside of NeoVIm!
R: 6 / I: 0
>>22171
I'm sure with everything we've seen and learned from the last thread, this one will be even better.
Related threads:
Hazbin Hotel: >>5447
TADC: >>46854
MLP: >>37939
Lefty/co/: >>1328
Communist cartoon General: >>47870
Animation today: >>7658
Knights of Guinevere: >>46648
KOTH: >>46468
Good luck, be yourself, and don't forget to have FUN.
A general for "western" animations/cartoons.
New thread for Western animation (or wanime) now that the old one is full at long last. The old thread can be found here:>>22171
I'm sure with everything we've seen and learned from the last thread, this one will be even better.
Related threads:
Hazbin Hotel: >>5447
TADC: >>46854
MLP: >>37939
Lefty/co/: >>1328
Communist cartoon General: >>47870
Animation today: >>7658
Knights of Guinevere: >>46648
KOTH: >>46468
Good luck, be yourself, and don't forget to have FUN.
R: 8 / I: 1
I guess this whole pissrael saga made this normal type of speech so normalised from people from across political of spectrum( who aren't normies obviously )
lol
saw this on instagram(as u can fucking tell from the side) and it was funny but lowk trueI guess this whole pissrael saga made this normal type of speech so normalised from people from across political of spectrum( who aren't normies obviously )
R: 2 / I: 0
The attorney general’s office launched an investigation in March 2023, linking Moreno, his family members, and local and Chinese business partners to an alleged corruption network connected to the Coca Codo Sinclair plant. The facility began operating in 2016 and has experienced technical problems since.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/29/ecuador-sentences-ex-president-moreno-to-five-years-in-jail-in-bribery-case
https://archive.ph/dNis8
Vote to move Uribe’s massacre probe to Congress triggers infighting among Colombia’s left
The controversy erupted after the five PH members of the committee backed a motion of Uribe’s Democratic Center (CD) party to assert legislative jurisdiction over long-standing criminal cases against Uribe, including investigations into the massacres of El Aro (1997) and La Granja (1996), and the 1998 assassination of human rights defender Jesus Maria Valle.
https://colombiareports.com/vote-to-move-uribes-massacre-probe-to-congress-triggers-infighting-among-colombias-left/
GM's Canadian workers approve deal adding truck to Ontario plant amid US trade war
… GM has promised to invest over C$1 billion ($720 million) in Canadian plants. That includes a C$691 million commitment to support production of new V8 engines in Ontario that was previously announced in April, according to Unifor, which represents 4,600 GM workers in the province. The deal offered Canadian workers a 3% wage increase a year over three years.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gms-canadian-workers-approve-deal-adding-truck-ontario-plant-amid-us-trade-war-2026-08-31/
SACP sets sights on improved service delivery,reshape local economies
The party briefed the media on Sunday at its offices in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, on the outcomes of its Central Committee meeting, held from 28 to 30 August. The meeting of the party’s leadership takes place just two weeks after it celebrated its 105th founding anniversary and launched its elections manifesto.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sacp-sets-sights-on-service-delivery-and-local-economic-change/
Yale researchers warn of major military build-up at Ethiopian base near Sudan border
Satellite analysis by the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) indicates a major escalation in military activity and equipment at an Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF) base in Asosa, western Ethiopia, between 23 and 28 August. This buildup is believed to be linked to a potential Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attack on the city of Ed Damazin in Blue Nile state, according the latest HRL report, which cites Radio Dabanga among its sources, released on Friday.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/yale-researchers-warn-of-major-military-build-up-at-ethiopian-base-near-sudan-border
South West Water has worst environmental record in England, analysis shows with greatest sewage discharge in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset
Its designated bathing sites also saw the highest number of pollution incidents and warnings, with 666 recorded in 2025 alone. Friends of the Earth added that the utility charged its approximately 1.8 million customers the highest price for water, with average bills at £726 annually.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/south-west-water-has-worst-environmental-record-england-analysis-shows-greatest-sewage
Iceland rejects EU accession talks after divisive referendum campaign
After a long and anxious night for those on both sides of the debate, the no camp ended up with 52.8% of votes on Sunday morning and the yes camp with 47.2%. Voter turnout was high at 82.5%. … At a press conference the prime minister, Kristrún Frostadóttir, said the campaign had “raised the debate in Iceland to a higher level” while acknowledging that there were aspects that “could have been done better”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/30/iceland-eu-accession-talks-referendum-result
Germany’s far right eyes small eastern state as springboard to national power
Should the AfD win an absolute parliamentary majority in the state — current polls show them a few seats away from that goal — the party’s strategy for governing strikes a delicate balance: pursuing radical change that distinguishes the party from the establishment — delivering the political revolution it has long promised — without going so far as to alienate ordinary Bürger, middle-of-the-road citizens who don’t want the boat rocked too hard.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-far-right-eyes-small-eastern-state-merseburg-springboard-national-power/
https://archive.ph/Y0jDO
Eight officials suspended after probe into Pakistani hospital fire that killed 14 newborns
Mr Sharif issued the orders after an investigative committee headed by retired senior civil servant Shahid Khan presented its interim report on Wednesday’s fire at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, his office said in a statement. The fire was confined to a third-floor nursery, but officials said it spread so quickly that staff were able to rescue only one baby from among the 15 being cared for there.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/eight-officials-suspended-after-probe-pakistani-hospital-fire-killed-14-newborns
CPI leader Binoy Viswam calls for unity amid tensions with CPI(M)
When asked about CPI(M) State secretariat member C.N. Mohanan critical comments on the CPI, he said that neither CPI(M) general secretary M.A. Baby nor State secretary M.V. Govindan had made such comments. His response was similar when queried about Leader of the Opposition Pinarayi Vijayan’s recent comments on the issue.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/cpi-leader-binoy-viswam-calls-for-unity-amid-tensions-with-cpim/article71411192.ece
https://archive.ph/4tWGt
7 Israelis arrested over alleged desecration of Muslim, Christian sites in Jerusalem
In a separate case, police said they detained four suspects “in real time” after they allegedly spat at the Armenian Patriarchate compound in the Old City. The arrests come amid continuing criticism of Israeli authorities over harassment of Christian clergy and damage to church property in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israeli media have reported that many of the incidents involved young Orthodox Jewish men spitting near clergy members and other Christians.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2656457/amp
https://archive.ph/h3As3
Iran sentences two women to death over 2026 protests
Taraneh Rahimi, 20, was sentenced to death along with nine men over incidents during the protests in a square in Isfahan that saw two people killed, including a member of the security forces, the Norway-based Hengaw group and US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said Monday.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-sentences-two-women-death-over-2026-protests
Israeli forces infiltrate near UNDOF point in Tel Al-Hawa in Al-Quneitra
Israeli forces comprising two tanks, infiltrated the vicinity of a checkpoint of the UN in Tel Al-Hawa area in northern Al-Quneitra countryside. According to information, the two tanks mobilized in the vicinity of the area, with no information regarding any clashes or arrests.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386063/
News 8/31/26
Ecuador sentences ex-president Moreno to five years in jail in bribery caseThe attorney general’s office launched an investigation in March 2023, linking Moreno, his family members, and local and Chinese business partners to an alleged corruption network connected to the Coca Codo Sinclair plant. The facility began operating in 2016 and has experienced technical problems since.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/29/ecuador-sentences-ex-president-moreno-to-five-years-in-jail-in-bribery-case
https://archive.ph/dNis8
Vote to move Uribe’s massacre probe to Congress triggers infighting among Colombia’s left
The controversy erupted after the five PH members of the committee backed a motion of Uribe’s Democratic Center (CD) party to assert legislative jurisdiction over long-standing criminal cases against Uribe, including investigations into the massacres of El Aro (1997) and La Granja (1996), and the 1998 assassination of human rights defender Jesus Maria Valle.
https://colombiareports.com/vote-to-move-uribes-massacre-probe-to-congress-triggers-infighting-among-colombias-left/
GM's Canadian workers approve deal adding truck to Ontario plant amid US trade war
… GM has promised to invest over C$1 billion ($720 million) in Canadian plants. That includes a C$691 million commitment to support production of new V8 engines in Ontario that was previously announced in April, according to Unifor, which represents 4,600 GM workers in the province. The deal offered Canadian workers a 3% wage increase a year over three years.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gms-canadian-workers-approve-deal-adding-truck-ontario-plant-amid-us-trade-war-2026-08-31/
SACP sets sights on improved service delivery,reshape local economies
The party briefed the media on Sunday at its offices in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, on the outcomes of its Central Committee meeting, held from 28 to 30 August. The meeting of the party’s leadership takes place just two weeks after it celebrated its 105th founding anniversary and launched its elections manifesto.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sacp-sets-sights-on-service-delivery-and-local-economic-change/
Yale researchers warn of major military build-up at Ethiopian base near Sudan border
Satellite analysis by the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) indicates a major escalation in military activity and equipment at an Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF) base in Asosa, western Ethiopia, between 23 and 28 August. This buildup is believed to be linked to a potential Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attack on the city of Ed Damazin in Blue Nile state, according the latest HRL report, which cites Radio Dabanga among its sources, released on Friday.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/yale-researchers-warn-of-major-military-build-up-at-ethiopian-base-near-sudan-border
South West Water has worst environmental record in England, analysis shows with greatest sewage discharge in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset
Its designated bathing sites also saw the highest number of pollution incidents and warnings, with 666 recorded in 2025 alone. Friends of the Earth added that the utility charged its approximately 1.8 million customers the highest price for water, with average bills at £726 annually.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/south-west-water-has-worst-environmental-record-england-analysis-shows-greatest-sewage
Iceland rejects EU accession talks after divisive referendum campaign
After a long and anxious night for those on both sides of the debate, the no camp ended up with 52.8% of votes on Sunday morning and the yes camp with 47.2%. Voter turnout was high at 82.5%. … At a press conference the prime minister, Kristrún Frostadóttir, said the campaign had “raised the debate in Iceland to a higher level” while acknowledging that there were aspects that “could have been done better”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/30/iceland-eu-accession-talks-referendum-result
Germany’s far right eyes small eastern state as springboard to national power
Should the AfD win an absolute parliamentary majority in the state — current polls show them a few seats away from that goal — the party’s strategy for governing strikes a delicate balance: pursuing radical change that distinguishes the party from the establishment — delivering the political revolution it has long promised — without going so far as to alienate ordinary Bürger, middle-of-the-road citizens who don’t want the boat rocked too hard.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-far-right-eyes-small-eastern-state-merseburg-springboard-national-power/
https://archive.ph/Y0jDO
Eight officials suspended after probe into Pakistani hospital fire that killed 14 newborns
Mr Sharif issued the orders after an investigative committee headed by retired senior civil servant Shahid Khan presented its interim report on Wednesday’s fire at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, his office said in a statement. The fire was confined to a third-floor nursery, but officials said it spread so quickly that staff were able to rescue only one baby from among the 15 being cared for there.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/eight-officials-suspended-after-probe-pakistani-hospital-fire-killed-14-newborns
CPI leader Binoy Viswam calls for unity amid tensions with CPI(M)
When asked about CPI(M) State secretariat member C.N. Mohanan critical comments on the CPI, he said that neither CPI(M) general secretary M.A. Baby nor State secretary M.V. Govindan had made such comments. His response was similar when queried about Leader of the Opposition Pinarayi Vijayan’s recent comments on the issue.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/cpi-leader-binoy-viswam-calls-for-unity-amid-tensions-with-cpim/article71411192.ece
https://archive.ph/4tWGt
7 Israelis arrested over alleged desecration of Muslim, Christian sites in Jerusalem
In a separate case, police said they detained four suspects “in real time” after they allegedly spat at the Armenian Patriarchate compound in the Old City. The arrests come amid continuing criticism of Israeli authorities over harassment of Christian clergy and damage to church property in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israeli media have reported that many of the incidents involved young Orthodox Jewish men spitting near clergy members and other Christians.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2656457/amp
https://archive.ph/h3As3
Iran sentences two women to death over 2026 protests
Taraneh Rahimi, 20, was sentenced to death along with nine men over incidents during the protests in a square in Isfahan that saw two people killed, including a member of the security forces, the Norway-based Hengaw group and US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said Monday.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-sentences-two-women-death-over-2026-protests
Israeli forces infiltrate near UNDOF point in Tel Al-Hawa in Al-Quneitra
Israeli forces comprising two tanks, infiltrated the vicinity of a checkpoint of the UN in Tel Al-Hawa area in northern Al-Quneitra countryside. According to information, the two tanks mobilized in the vicinity of the area, with no information regarding any clashes or arrests.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/386063/
R: 5 / I: 2
I think there's a convergence right now between the Sorelian conception of political "myths" and the prominence of GenAI slop, especially on The Right. I'm sure most of you have noticed by now that Generative AI has been almost endemic to Right-Wing political movements, even while Data Centers in particular are still grossly unpopular. I don't believe this convergence is intentional, in fact I doubt that most on the political Right even know who Sorel was, but rather I believe the Right has intuited some of Sorel's work without actually reading it. Though entirely unintentional, the specter of Sorelianism has only become more relevant to modern political disputes.
To begin, let's first discuss what Sorel means by a "Myth". He asserts his thesis in his Magnum Opus, "Reflections on Violence" here:
>“In the course of these studies, I have established something so simple that I did not believe it had to be emphasized: men who participate in great social movements represent their immediate action in the form of images of battles assuring the triumph of their cause. I proposed calling these constructions myths, the knowledge of which is so important for the historian: the syndicalist general strike and Marx’s catastrophic revolution are myths. I have given as remarkable examples of myths those which were constructed by early Christianity, the Reformation, the French Revolution and by Mazzini’s followers. I wanted to show that it is not necessary to try to analyze such systems of images in the same way that one breaks down something into its elements; that they should be taken as a whole and as historical forces; that it is necessary above all to keep from comparing the accomplished facts with the images which men had adopted prior to action.”
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 20, Cambridge Texts Edition
The emphasis on the word "images" is my own, as I feel that's directly relevant to the tidal wave of AI slop we see coming from The Right Wing today. Now I should mention that though Sorel uses the term "images" he doesn't necessarily mean a literal picture or painting. The images Sorel refers to could exist as ethereally as in the mind's eye. What matters for the sake of politics is that these images are conceptualized collectively and depict triumphant battles against an enemy.
To try to break this down simply; Sorel believed that myths provided a crucial motive force, that regardless of their relationship to the actual reality of the conflict, they motivate people to become partisans within that conflict. For example, one such myth he references was that of Early Christianity. Historically, Christianity existed in the space of an End Times movement, several early Christians earnestly believed Christ was coming and that by dying as martyrs they would be rewarded in the hereafter. Indeed, contemporary Roman sources would even occasionally remark that Christians would willingly turn themselves in to authorities in hopes of achieving martyrdom. It doesn't matter that the myth Christians conceptualized for themselves didn't literally happen, as Christ didn't return in their lifetimes to usher in the Last Judgement. Rather that myth motivated Christians to proselytize, to suffer martyrdom, and ultimately led to the Christianization of the Roman Empire.
It was important to Sorel that images depict conflict to be elevated to the status of "myth"; images which merely depict perfect or idealized society, Sorel thought, merely indulged in Utopianism which would lead to reformism.
>“As long as there are no myths accepted by the masses, one may go on talking of revolts indefinitely without ever provoking any revolutionary movement; this is what gives such importance to the general strike and renders it so odious to socialists who are afraid of revolution; they do all they can to shake the confidence felt by the workers in the preparations they are making for the revolution; and in order to succeed in this they cast ridicule on the idea of the general strike, which alone has a value as a motive force. One of the chief means employed by them is to represent it as a utopia; this is easy enough, as there are very few myths which are perfectly free from any utopian element.
>The revolutionary myths which exist at the present time are almost pure; they allow us to understand the activity, the sentiments, and the ideas of the masses as they prepare themselves to enter on a decisive struggle; they are not descriptions of things but expressions of a will to act. A utopia is, on the contrary, an intellectual product; it is the work of theorists who, after observing and discussing the facts, seek to establish a model to which they can compare existing societies in order to estimate the amount of good and evil they contain; it is a combination of imaginary institutions having sufficient analogies to real institutions for the jurist to be able to reason about them; it is a construction which can be broken into parts and of which certain pieces have been shaped in such a way that they can (with a few alterations) be fitted into future legislation. — Whilst contemporary myths lead men to prepare themselves for a combat which will destroy the existing state of things, the effect of utopias has always been to direct men’s minds towards reforms which can be brought about by patching up the system; it is not surprising then that so many believers in utopias were able to develop into able statesmen when they had acquired greater experience of political life. — A myth cannot be refuted since it is, at bottom, identical to the convictions of a group, being the expression of these convictions in the language of movement; and it is, in consequence, unanalysable into parts which could be placed on the plane of historical descriptions. A utopia, on the other hand, can be discussed like any other social constitution; the spontaneous movements it presupposes can be compared with those actually observed in the course of history, and we can in this way evaluate their verisimilitude; it is possible to refute it by showing that the economic system on which it has been made to rest is incompatible with the necessary conditions of modern production.”
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 28, Cambridge Edition
That was a lot of words, but in essence: myths prepare a movement for battle and encourage them to do conflict, they're taken "as a whole" rather than being broken into constituent parts. An image of Socialists leading a battalion of tanks towards reactionary holdouts doesn't propose legislation nor can it be broken down into an analysis on mechanized warfare, it must be taken as a whole. Utopias, by contrast, are analyzed on a policy-basis. The very origin of the term "Utopia" in political theory relates back to Saint Thomas More's book, and to this very day people had dissected his idealized society and critiqued his policy proposals.
Back to modernity: as generative AI has been refined and widely distributed, it hasn't been adopted by the "mainstream" of political and cultural opinion, rather it has found purchase in groups which can be coined "cultural insurgencies". It's not mainstream liberal thought that embraced AI image generation, but "populist" right wing movements, freaks, perverts, and the detritus of failed social movements. In the face of rapidly secularizing generations, Evangelical Christians have embraced AI images of Jesus coming to earth to judge the secular world they despise. In the absence of sexual gratification, glassy-eyed internet shut ins use AI to give "woke" video game characters bigger tits or a fatter ass or doll-like facial features. Political orgs like the AfD in Germany or MAGA in America gleefully use AI to paint the world as they perceive it: a Manichean battle between foreign invaders, their effeminate compradors in the West, and chisel-jawed "alpha males" opposing them.
As these movements have claimed power in the political arena and shown their utter inability to govern, it appears they've grown to rely more and more on Sorelian style myths to shore up their support. As Trump's grown older and more incontinent, his most fervent supporters depict him as more virile, more muscular, and more competent than ever. As the Iran war proves itself to be a bungle, the Right Wing internet is awash in depictions of Trump as a "military man", Trump in Uniform, Trump ordering missile strikes, Trump flying fighter jets. What this has done is created a floor of unshakeable faith, around 38% of the country which approves of him, whereas George W. Bush eventually collapsed to 25% support by the end of his second term.
Liberals are hoping, perhaps naively, that there will be some "wake up call" for Trump. That a Bush 2 moment may happen where Trump sees his support completely collapse. That America will grow "tired" of populism and submit to the rule of dull technocrats, but as Sorel himself said:
>The professors of the little science are really difficult to satisfy. They assert very loudly that they will only admit into thought ideas that are clear and distinct; – as a matter of fact, this is a rule which is insufficient for purposes of action, for we do nothing great without the help of warmly coloured and sharply defined images which absorb the whole of our attention;
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 140
A more obvious collapse of the Trump administration would not cause a collapse in his supporters, but rather it would be preceded with even more wild and manic images presaging a final battle with "communist liberals" and "the deep state". The manic distribution of images would be followed by an even greater upswing of political violence. Here is where AI in particular becomes a danger, because what it lacks in quality it compensates with quantity.
Consider how the brain is "tricked" into thinking enough images moving fast enough give the impression of motion. What AI allows is the impression of a certain conflict. In seconds, Right Wingers can have hundreds of photographs that look real enough to impose ideas on the general public. If a person scrolls TikTok or Facebook or Twitter long enough and sees hundreds of AI generated images of London teeming with Muslims, or Blue-Haired Transgenders teaching school kids, or BLM protesters attacking white people, then even if he can recognize on a basic level that the image in front of him is fake, they could blur and coagulate in his subconscious, plant a seed of fascist myth that the Right will meticulously grow. Even if one or two or three images are recognized as fake, if someone sees the same myth depicted day in and day out, hundreds of times, the possibility remains that they'll believe it on some level, they won't be stuck with any one particular image, but THE image of a battle between "western civilization" and "brown hordes".
So how does the Left counter this? In theory it could try to pre-emptively flood the zone: post more AI than ever of Right Wingers being cannibals, being perverts, freaks, "bad" in some way. Whether it could counter-signal to an extent that would obfuscate Right Wing narrative building is unknown. Alternatively it could try to specialize: quality over quantity. Create such striking images of class war that they hold attention longer than the billion images of AI slop the Right puts out. Regardless of what "The Left" broadly chooses, I think it needs to reckon with AI images as something beyond "quaint", but an insidious danger.
Sorel in the Age of AI
I was thinking of making this thread ages ago, but I couldn't find the right words. I'm still not sure if I'm saying everything I want to here, but I figured at the very least this can create some interesting discussion.I think there's a convergence right now between the Sorelian conception of political "myths" and the prominence of GenAI slop, especially on The Right. I'm sure most of you have noticed by now that Generative AI has been almost endemic to Right-Wing political movements, even while Data Centers in particular are still grossly unpopular. I don't believe this convergence is intentional, in fact I doubt that most on the political Right even know who Sorel was, but rather I believe the Right has intuited some of Sorel's work without actually reading it. Though entirely unintentional, the specter of Sorelianism has only become more relevant to modern political disputes.
To begin, let's first discuss what Sorel means by a "Myth". He asserts his thesis in his Magnum Opus, "Reflections on Violence" here:
>“In the course of these studies, I have established something so simple that I did not believe it had to be emphasized: men who participate in great social movements represent their immediate action in the form of images of battles assuring the triumph of their cause. I proposed calling these constructions myths, the knowledge of which is so important for the historian: the syndicalist general strike and Marx’s catastrophic revolution are myths. I have given as remarkable examples of myths those which were constructed by early Christianity, the Reformation, the French Revolution and by Mazzini’s followers. I wanted to show that it is not necessary to try to analyze such systems of images in the same way that one breaks down something into its elements; that they should be taken as a whole and as historical forces; that it is necessary above all to keep from comparing the accomplished facts with the images which men had adopted prior to action.”
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 20, Cambridge Texts Edition
The emphasis on the word "images" is my own, as I feel that's directly relevant to the tidal wave of AI slop we see coming from The Right Wing today. Now I should mention that though Sorel uses the term "images" he doesn't necessarily mean a literal picture or painting. The images Sorel refers to could exist as ethereally as in the mind's eye. What matters for the sake of politics is that these images are conceptualized collectively and depict triumphant battles against an enemy.
To try to break this down simply; Sorel believed that myths provided a crucial motive force, that regardless of their relationship to the actual reality of the conflict, they motivate people to become partisans within that conflict. For example, one such myth he references was that of Early Christianity. Historically, Christianity existed in the space of an End Times movement, several early Christians earnestly believed Christ was coming and that by dying as martyrs they would be rewarded in the hereafter. Indeed, contemporary Roman sources would even occasionally remark that Christians would willingly turn themselves in to authorities in hopes of achieving martyrdom. It doesn't matter that the myth Christians conceptualized for themselves didn't literally happen, as Christ didn't return in their lifetimes to usher in the Last Judgement. Rather that myth motivated Christians to proselytize, to suffer martyrdom, and ultimately led to the Christianization of the Roman Empire.
It was important to Sorel that images depict conflict to be elevated to the status of "myth"; images which merely depict perfect or idealized society, Sorel thought, merely indulged in Utopianism which would lead to reformism.
>“As long as there are no myths accepted by the masses, one may go on talking of revolts indefinitely without ever provoking any revolutionary movement; this is what gives such importance to the general strike and renders it so odious to socialists who are afraid of revolution; they do all they can to shake the confidence felt by the workers in the preparations they are making for the revolution; and in order to succeed in this they cast ridicule on the idea of the general strike, which alone has a value as a motive force. One of the chief means employed by them is to represent it as a utopia; this is easy enough, as there are very few myths which are perfectly free from any utopian element.
>The revolutionary myths which exist at the present time are almost pure; they allow us to understand the activity, the sentiments, and the ideas of the masses as they prepare themselves to enter on a decisive struggle; they are not descriptions of things but expressions of a will to act. A utopia is, on the contrary, an intellectual product; it is the work of theorists who, after observing and discussing the facts, seek to establish a model to which they can compare existing societies in order to estimate the amount of good and evil they contain; it is a combination of imaginary institutions having sufficient analogies to real institutions for the jurist to be able to reason about them; it is a construction which can be broken into parts and of which certain pieces have been shaped in such a way that they can (with a few alterations) be fitted into future legislation. — Whilst contemporary myths lead men to prepare themselves for a combat which will destroy the existing state of things, the effect of utopias has always been to direct men’s minds towards reforms which can be brought about by patching up the system; it is not surprising then that so many believers in utopias were able to develop into able statesmen when they had acquired greater experience of political life. — A myth cannot be refuted since it is, at bottom, identical to the convictions of a group, being the expression of these convictions in the language of movement; and it is, in consequence, unanalysable into parts which could be placed on the plane of historical descriptions. A utopia, on the other hand, can be discussed like any other social constitution; the spontaneous movements it presupposes can be compared with those actually observed in the course of history, and we can in this way evaluate their verisimilitude; it is possible to refute it by showing that the economic system on which it has been made to rest is incompatible with the necessary conditions of modern production.”
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 28, Cambridge Edition
That was a lot of words, but in essence: myths prepare a movement for battle and encourage them to do conflict, they're taken "as a whole" rather than being broken into constituent parts. An image of Socialists leading a battalion of tanks towards reactionary holdouts doesn't propose legislation nor can it be broken down into an analysis on mechanized warfare, it must be taken as a whole. Utopias, by contrast, are analyzed on a policy-basis. The very origin of the term "Utopia" in political theory relates back to Saint Thomas More's book, and to this very day people had dissected his idealized society and critiqued his policy proposals.
Back to modernity: as generative AI has been refined and widely distributed, it hasn't been adopted by the "mainstream" of political and cultural opinion, rather it has found purchase in groups which can be coined "cultural insurgencies". It's not mainstream liberal thought that embraced AI image generation, but "populist" right wing movements, freaks, perverts, and the detritus of failed social movements. In the face of rapidly secularizing generations, Evangelical Christians have embraced AI images of Jesus coming to earth to judge the secular world they despise. In the absence of sexual gratification, glassy-eyed internet shut ins use AI to give "woke" video game characters bigger tits or a fatter ass or doll-like facial features. Political orgs like the AfD in Germany or MAGA in America gleefully use AI to paint the world as they perceive it: a Manichean battle between foreign invaders, their effeminate compradors in the West, and chisel-jawed "alpha males" opposing them.
As these movements have claimed power in the political arena and shown their utter inability to govern, it appears they've grown to rely more and more on Sorelian style myths to shore up their support. As Trump's grown older and more incontinent, his most fervent supporters depict him as more virile, more muscular, and more competent than ever. As the Iran war proves itself to be a bungle, the Right Wing internet is awash in depictions of Trump as a "military man", Trump in Uniform, Trump ordering missile strikes, Trump flying fighter jets. What this has done is created a floor of unshakeable faith, around 38% of the country which approves of him, whereas George W. Bush eventually collapsed to 25% support by the end of his second term.
Liberals are hoping, perhaps naively, that there will be some "wake up call" for Trump. That a Bush 2 moment may happen where Trump sees his support completely collapse. That America will grow "tired" of populism and submit to the rule of dull technocrats, but as Sorel himself said:
>The professors of the little science are really difficult to satisfy. They assert very loudly that they will only admit into thought ideas that are clear and distinct; – as a matter of fact, this is a rule which is insufficient for purposes of action, for we do nothing great without the help of warmly coloured and sharply defined images which absorb the whole of our attention;
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 140
A more obvious collapse of the Trump administration would not cause a collapse in his supporters, but rather it would be preceded with even more wild and manic images presaging a final battle with "communist liberals" and "the deep state". The manic distribution of images would be followed by an even greater upswing of political violence. Here is where AI in particular becomes a danger, because what it lacks in quality it compensates with quantity.
Consider how the brain is "tricked" into thinking enough images moving fast enough give the impression of motion. What AI allows is the impression of a certain conflict. In seconds, Right Wingers can have hundreds of photographs that look real enough to impose ideas on the general public. If a person scrolls TikTok or Facebook or Twitter long enough and sees hundreds of AI generated images of London teeming with Muslims, or Blue-Haired Transgenders teaching school kids, or BLM protesters attacking white people, then even if he can recognize on a basic level that the image in front of him is fake, they could blur and coagulate in his subconscious, plant a seed of fascist myth that the Right will meticulously grow. Even if one or two or three images are recognized as fake, if someone sees the same myth depicted day in and day out, hundreds of times, the possibility remains that they'll believe it on some level, they won't be stuck with any one particular image, but THE image of a battle between "western civilization" and "brown hordes".
So how does the Left counter this? In theory it could try to pre-emptively flood the zone: post more AI than ever of Right Wingers being cannibals, being perverts, freaks, "bad" in some way. Whether it could counter-signal to an extent that would obfuscate Right Wing narrative building is unknown. Alternatively it could try to specialize: quality over quantity. Create such striking images of class war that they hold attention longer than the billion images of AI slop the Right puts out. Regardless of what "The Left" broadly chooses, I think it needs to reckon with AI images as something beyond "quaint", but an insidious danger.
R: 51 / I: 8 (sage)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f1nisT6ji8
Cockshott's critique of "Born This Way"
Paul Cockshott has recently uploaded a video arguing against the idea that gay people are born gay, and that genes can affect sexuality. Instead Coockshott believes that being gay is caused by capitalism. He outlines his "theory" explaining this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f1nisT6ji8