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>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™
<Stupid & Spiritually Depraved Edition
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: >>2879888
/USApol/
🗽 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™
<Stupid & Spiritually Depraved Edition
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: >>2879888
R: 42 / I: 4
What is anti-Western about it?
Why do right-wingers say Marxism is anti-Western?
Marxism is part of Western culture. It's the combination of English political economy (e.g. Mill, Ricardo, Smith), French socialism (e.g. Fourier, Proudhon, Saint-Simon) and German philosophy (e.g. Hegel, Fichte, Feuerbach).What is anti-Western about it?
R: 32 / I: 1
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.
R: 22 / I: 11
I just invented a new anti-white slogan
"Crush the crackers into crumbs" or "CCC" for short, it's alliterative so it just rolls off the tongue like poetry. Replace C with K and triple the Ks for Maoist Standard English version. 🔥✍️
R: 487 / I: 180
Bandera's Gore-y dead man's switch edition
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/
—————————————————–
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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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #293
Previous: >>2869607Bandera's Gore-y dead man's switch edition
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/
—————————————————–
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
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https://t.me/Slavyangrad
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• 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?
R: 64 / I: 9
Workkkers of the world, divide!
Workers of the world, do not, under any circumstances, unite. You don't look the same. You don't speak the same language. You don't worship the same Gods. You don't have the same history. You don't agree on history, science, philosophy, biology. You don't have the same art styles or aesthetic tastes. You don't have the same GDP. You don't have the same natural resources. You don't have the same supply chains. You don't have the same interests. You don't like each other. In fact, workers from other countries would gladly kill you if their governments told them to. And you would kill them too. And if you wouldn't, other workers would. And you will never ever ever ever overcome that. If a country is 0.0000000000000001% more imperialist than yours it is full of irredeemable treatlerite """workers""" who must be put to the sword. If a country is 0.0000000000000001% less imperialist than yours it is full of weak untermensch vermin who must kneel to your might. Don't you see? This is how it is supposed to be. You have everything to lose! You have nothing to gain but even tighter chains!
R: 292 / I: 47
>Situation heating up in Spain
>Some are saying that Israel and the US is trying to punish Spain through Morocco because of recent anti-zionist actions
>But the situation is causing a shitstorm at the moment with on the ground fighting occurring
So what is going to happen in this situation and how will the EU respond?
==Ceuta and Spain Situation==
NOW - Thousands of illegal migrants from Africa storm the border of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco>Situation heating up in Spain
>Some are saying that Israel and the US is trying to punish Spain through Morocco because of recent anti-zionist actions
>But the situation is causing a shitstorm at the moment with on the ground fighting occurring
So what is going to happen in this situation and how will the EU respond?
R: 192 / I: 28
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: 4 / I: 1
>constantly happy and laughing
>simply doesn't give a fuck what pronouns you use
>cucks genderpervs erryday
>a very sexual person
Pat was the badass the world needed.
>constantly happy and laughing
>simply doesn't give a fuck what pronouns you use
>cucks genderpervs erryday
>a very sexual person
Pat was the badass the world needed.
R: 219 / I: 67 >>2586971
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
R: 493 / I: 105
Increased security for England and Argentina tie
<Authorities say there will be increased security measures in place for Wednesday's World Cup semi-final between England and Argentina.
>The pair will resume one of international football's most storied rivalries at the Atlanta Stadium, as England bid to defeat the defending champions and reach their first World Cup final since 1966.
>Atlanta police are aware of historical tensions between the two countries.
/leftybritpol/ - This England edition
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/clyey5glv4koIncreased security for England and Argentina tie
<Authorities say there will be increased security measures in place for Wednesday's World Cup semi-final between England and Argentina.
>The pair will resume one of international football's most storied rivalries at the Atlanta Stadium, as England bid to defeat the defending champions and reach their first World Cup final since 1966.
>Atlanta police are aware of historical tensions between the two countries.
R: 8 / I: 0
you can't criticize software vendors for restricting access to their source code and invoking intellectual property law to sue people who copy it, and then turn around and invent a copyleft license so you can do the exact same thing. you can't copy the source code from unix and emacs and violate their license to write unauthorized clones and then lock those clones behind your own license to stop others from doing whatever they want with "your" code.
words are not things and language is a means, not an end. the significance of a legal document is not in the text itself but in how the text is interpreted and enforced in a court of law. permissive licenses such as the bsd license can effectively be thought of public domain licenses because they contain no enforceable non-trivial restrictions that could conceivably ever warrant an actual court case, but copyleft licenses like the gpl can and have been involved in real courtroom cases and any civil litigation in any courtroom requires a specific plaintiff, and it cannot be "the people" as in a criminal case filed by the state. the plaintiffs in gpl violation cases are typically non-profit organizations like the free software foundation or the software freedom law center who act as legal representatives for one or more of the developers, and which developers get to be constituents and potential beneficiaries in the lawsuit is decided entirely at the discretion of whomever happens to be in the room when the lawsuit is first filed.
to illustrate the real-world ramifications of this, consider the busybox lawsuits filed against various companies by busybox developers erick anderson and rob landley represented by the software freedom law center. the cases were settled for undisclosed sums and these two developers got paid off, but none of the other hundreds of contributors to the busybox project, including the original authors bruce perens and dave cinege, were represented or given a share of the settlement or even contacted by the plaintiffs. so in practice, enforcement of the gpl does not really represent the open source community and all the contributors to a particular project, it only represents the tiny fraction of contributors who have enough extra time and money on their hands to pursue litigation and are under no compunction to share the rewards with anyone else.
thus, the whole idea of the gpl is just one big contradiction, it is a way for certain privileged people to appoint themselves as representatives of a supposedly democratic community project with or without the consent or even the knowledge of the other contributors and invoke their names and their work to extract financial restitution for themselves. this is not democracy, this is not the commons; this is just private ownership. and there's no way to correct for this, it is the result of a fundamental category error, trying to govern a public resource using a legal system that is only designed to govern private property. you can't have your cake and eat it too, either you release something to the public and accept that the world will do whatever it pleases with it, or you treat it as private property. intellectual property is either legitimate or it isn't, there is no coherent middle position.
the gpl is dumb
there are two positions one can take on the issue of intellectual property, either you believe in it or you don't. either information is a material resource that can be governed and owned, or information is an immaterial resource that cannot be governed nor owned.you can't criticize software vendors for restricting access to their source code and invoking intellectual property law to sue people who copy it, and then turn around and invent a copyleft license so you can do the exact same thing. you can't copy the source code from unix and emacs and violate their license to write unauthorized clones and then lock those clones behind your own license to stop others from doing whatever they want with "your" code.
words are not things and language is a means, not an end. the significance of a legal document is not in the text itself but in how the text is interpreted and enforced in a court of law. permissive licenses such as the bsd license can effectively be thought of public domain licenses because they contain no enforceable non-trivial restrictions that could conceivably ever warrant an actual court case, but copyleft licenses like the gpl can and have been involved in real courtroom cases and any civil litigation in any courtroom requires a specific plaintiff, and it cannot be "the people" as in a criminal case filed by the state. the plaintiffs in gpl violation cases are typically non-profit organizations like the free software foundation or the software freedom law center who act as legal representatives for one or more of the developers, and which developers get to be constituents and potential beneficiaries in the lawsuit is decided entirely at the discretion of whomever happens to be in the room when the lawsuit is first filed.
to illustrate the real-world ramifications of this, consider the busybox lawsuits filed against various companies by busybox developers erick anderson and rob landley represented by the software freedom law center. the cases were settled for undisclosed sums and these two developers got paid off, but none of the other hundreds of contributors to the busybox project, including the original authors bruce perens and dave cinege, were represented or given a share of the settlement or even contacted by the plaintiffs. so in practice, enforcement of the gpl does not really represent the open source community and all the contributors to a particular project, it only represents the tiny fraction of contributors who have enough extra time and money on their hands to pursue litigation and are under no compunction to share the rewards with anyone else.
thus, the whole idea of the gpl is just one big contradiction, it is a way for certain privileged people to appoint themselves as representatives of a supposedly democratic community project with or without the consent or even the knowledge of the other contributors and invoke their names and their work to extract financial restitution for themselves. this is not democracy, this is not the commons; this is just private ownership. and there's no way to correct for this, it is the result of a fundamental category error, trying to govern a public resource using a legal system that is only designed to govern private property. you can't have your cake and eat it too, either you release something to the public and accept that the world will do whatever it pleases with it, or you treat it as private property. intellectual property is either legitimate or it isn't, there is no coherent middle position.
R: 135 / I: 22
>free universal healthcare
>free college
>very high HDI
>GDP increased by SEVEN times since 1990
>trade surplus without engaging in mercantilism
>low crime, high social cohesion
>only economy in EU to not suffer from 2008 financial crisis
>didn't pretend to be socialist while achieving all this
Poland is underrated.
>free universal healthcare
>free college
>very high HDI
>GDP increased by SEVEN times since 1990
>trade surplus without engaging in mercantilism
>low crime, high social cohesion
>only economy in EU to not suffer from 2008 financial crisis
>didn't pretend to be socialist while achieving all this
Poland is underrated.
R: 1 / I: 0
How does this etsy Djinn stuff work? Does anyone here ,have any experience with it? any amazing success (or spooky) stories?
it's expensive but it seems real somehow? my gut instinct tells me it sends real djinn to you or whatever
How does this etsy Djinn stuff work? Does anyone here ,have any experience with it? any amazing success (or spooky) stories?
it's expensive but it seems real somehow? my gut instinct tells me it sends real djinn to you or whatever
R: 2 / I: 0
Serious question. By all cultural, economical and political metrics, Latin America is part of the western world and, dare I say, far more western than many European countries and all of East Asia. Let’s start with the basics.
Now, I should mention that being western and being peripheral aren’t mutually exclusive since countries like China aren’t western and yet aren’t deemed as peripheral either. So no, being a core country isn’t a strict requirement for”western status”.
All in all, I fail to see why shouldn’t Latin America (or the entirety of the western hemisphere bar Suriname and Guyana for that matter) be deemed as part of the western world and, but extension, have Latinos be deemed as westerners without resorting to double standards and selective bias.
Why isn’t Latin America considered part of the west
Pictured: Huntington’s retarded “Clash of Civilizations” thesis, mappedSerious question. By all cultural, economical and political metrics, Latin America is part of the western world and, dare I say, far more western than many European countries and all of East Asia. Let’s start with the basics.
- Majority religion in the region is Christianity across all Latin American countries, with Protestant and Catholics being the two biggest denominations there.
- All Latin American countries have an European language as the primary language and lingua Franca. Mostly Spanish, but Portuguese in Brazil’s case, and (tentatively FWIW) French in the cases of the French Guyana and Haiti, with said languages being the sole official or co-official language in their country.
- All Latin American countries have been republics for much longer than many European states today
- With the exception of Brazil which broke ties with the kingdom of Portugal by establishing its own monarchy, all former Spanish colonies waged revolutionary wars of independence modelled after the American and French bourgeois revolutions, and installed in place republican governments modelled after enlightenment principles
- Latin American cultures are heavily based on European cultures. Sure, it’s specifically Iberian, but decades of European immigration has brought in influences from other parts of Europe like Italy and Northern Europe. Of course there are African and indigenous influences too, but ultimately LatAm cultures are heavily derivative of European ones, as indicated by both language and religion.
- For much of its history, Latin American countries have rarely if ever been involved with Africa and Asia, instead having been more heavily involved in western affairs, of which Latin America’s ones are part of.
- A substantial portion of Latin Americans are of predominantly European descent, and even the mixed race majority in LatAm has predominant or slight European ancestry, meaning that they aren’t completely divorced from Europe
- In terms of domestic affairs, many are currently western liberal democracies (however flawed it might be) that follow along the politics of both the USA and European domestic politics. Indeed, most Latin American countries are structured after western countries and have been so for centuries.
Now, I should mention that being western and being peripheral aren’t mutually exclusive since countries like China aren’t western and yet aren’t deemed as peripheral either. So no, being a core country isn’t a strict requirement for”western status”.
All in all, I fail to see why shouldn’t Latin America (or the entirety of the western hemisphere bar Suriname and Guyana for that matter) be deemed as part of the western world and, but extension, have Latinos be deemed as westerners without resorting to double standards and selective bias.
R: 500 / I: 113
Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!
Reminder That None of This Is Real!™
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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
—————————————————–
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
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Inb4:
>Muh Adam Green
>Muh Bart Ehrman
>Muh consensus
>Muh Christophobia
Yadda yadda, I know who Adam Green is, about the Ehrman talking point, and how this subject can be touchy to both Christcuck and e-crusader secularised midwits here, so I’ll be blunt here:
Hopefully this thread won’t devolve into a flame war, I hope.
Did the historical Jesus Christ ever exist?
Good book on Jesus’ historicity, analysing not just every argument on the historical Christ but also giving a holistic assessment on how Christianity likely came to be, with a vigorous reference section. If you don’t want to buy it on Amazon, it’s available at z-library (link not given to avoid piracy charges).Inb4:
>Muh Adam Green
>Muh Bart Ehrman
>Muh consensus
>Muh Christophobia
Yadda yadda, I know who Adam Green is, about the Ehrman talking point, and how this subject can be touchy to both Christcuck and e-crusader secularised midwits here, so I’ll be blunt here:
- Adam Green’s background doesn’t invalidate his broader points on Christianity, the Bible, and Jesus Christ’s existence
- The “consensus” doesn’t mean much since it’s mostly made up of Christians and Christian-sympathisers who engage in confirmation bias and gatekeeping to discourage any critical opinion on the historical Christ theory. Given that Ehrman himself relies on this very unreliable consensus for his book on Jesus’ historicity
- Not believing in Jesus’ existence as a historical figure isn’t anti-Christian as many non-mainstream Christian sects like the early Church-era marcionites and gnostics assert the notion of a mythical non-physical Christ. On the top of that, much of Judaism (and by extension Zionism) rests on the notion of the Old Testament as being 100% true and historically accurate text, whilst Islamic doctrine holds the existence of a historical Christ. So by negating the existence of a historical Christ, and by extension undermining the value of the Old Testament as a historical text, Christianity and Islam and Judaism are effectively undermined
- There’s no evidence for the existence of Christ dating back to when he was canonically alive. Every alleged proof for his existence as a historical figure date back to decades and even centuries after his death.
- There’s no mention of a Jesus Christ being crucified in any surviving Roman documents.
- There’s far and few in-between evidence attesting to Jesus’ existence beyond the gospels, which are themselves unreliable and of dubious historicity as pointed out by Russell Gmirkin and Robert M Price.
- Among the non-Christian sources, none of them are contemporary to the canonical Christ’s lifetime (i.e., the 1st century) despite Jewish concerns at the time being well-documented. And of the ones that exist, most either repeat earlier hearsays about Christ without actually investigating them (e.g., Tacitus and Pliny the younger), ambiguous and subject to heavy debates (e.g., Lucian and Suetonius) or outright forgeries whose veracity rests on Christian interpolation (e..g., Josephus’ passage). But the thing is, all of them either never tried to prove the hearsays in 1st century AD Judea, or were born after Christ’s canonical death (which for the record, was determined centuries after his death, with early Christians themselves disagreeing on when he was born and died), so they aren’t even contemporary sources at all, let alone independent ones, especially as by the time Tacitus and Josephus wrote about Christ he was already dead by then + the gospels were already spreading.
- There are no Roman records that mention Jesus. Not only all that, but, there are no Christian eye-witnesses of Jesus. All of the Gospels are anonymous and written by friends-of-friends, and none are written in the first person; also, Paul (who authored 13 of the 27 books of the NT) never met Jesus, except in a vision. They're also written in very competent Greek (the language of later converts), rather than in Hebrew (the language of the original converts, excepting Paul).
- Going back to the gospels, they are just fictional tales derived from the Old Testament authored by many people throughout history. The Dead Sea Scrolls and other manuscripts don’t necessarily prove the historicity of the gospels nor that there was just one author, at best it only proves that said tales were already in wide circulation, especially as there’s no evidence of a complete Bible contemporary to Christ’s lifetime. Unless you believe in the resurrection and the miracles and the existence of the biblical floods and the GIGANTIC kingdoms of Israel and that of King Solomon, then the gospels themselves become unreliable as proofs for Christ’s existence as a historical figure.
Hopefully this thread won’t devolve into a flame war, I hope.
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The Postcolonial Volk
By Benjamin Zachariah
Polity, 176 pages, $25
You might have noticed that at some point, progressive types began to use the term “folks” to refer to “people.” There are black folks, queer folks, indigenous folks. The change is significant. Whereas “people” evokes a sense of a universal subject, “folks” is particular. It implies a world of distinctions: different cultures, different experiences, different interests. No people, just “peoples,” all speaking with a different voice. From this perspective, “The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.”
While the idea of a pluriverse has become increasingly popular within decolonial thought, that last line didn’t come from the tradition’s ever-proliferating ranks of academic adherents. It came from Carl Schmitt, the Nazi jurist. At a time when everything is “literally Hitler,” the comparison can seem overwrought. But it is precisely the comparison between post-colonial particularism and the völkisch right that Benjamin Zachariah reveals with a keen sense of the absurd in his new book, The Postcolonial Volk.
Zachariah critiques the “conglomerate” of postcolonial and decolonial theory clustering around what’s come to be known as “theory from the Global South.” But appearances are deceiving, because it’s not really from the Global South at all. As Zachariah describes, its language and legitimacy claims are crafted in the Global North, exported to the Global South, and then reimported as authentic non-Western knowledge.
And just as it is not really of the Global South, this ostensibly left-wing “postcolonial-decolonial-Global South conglomerate” is not really of the left either. Despite the right’s insistence that the ghost of Karl Marx is currently undertaking a long march through the institutions, Zachariah’s central claim is that the contemporary left actually has far more in common with anti-communist and proto-fascist forces than with the nineteenth-century founder of “scientific socialism.” In important respects, its ethos actually arises from an entirely rival tradition, one that encompasses romantic nationalism, indigenism, cultural organicism, and völkisch thought. It is, Zachariah says, “Romanticism, rather than the much-reviled Enlightenment, that suggests itself as the intellectual basis of the ‘post-Enlightenment’ world that Global Southistan now lays claim to.”
This is why, as Zachariah shows, the postcolonial outlook now common on the contemporary left is so hostile to the Enlightenment and its ideal of universal truth. In his satirical “Twelve Theses on Postcolonialism,” he condenses its outlook into its propositions including “the individual is an Enlightenment conspiracy” and “the Age of Reason is the Age of Empire.” Contrary to popular belief, universal reason and the emancipation of the individual were central to Marxism and the socialist and communist traditions shaped by it (“We are communists out of egoism,” Engels once wrote to Marx), however miserably they failed in practice. Marx and Engels were part of the Young Hegelian milieu, who were deeply impressed by the “heroes of the French Revolution,” and even called themselves “encyclopaedists” after the eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophes. This is a far cry from the unholy trinity that Zachariah skewers, however much its adherents may sometimes rummage in the dustbins for what he calls the “debris of Marx- and- Engels-isms.”
Postcolonialism does not simply swap out the working class for some other group of the oppressed. Its object is a mystic unity of culture, collective memory, fraught relationships to race and place, and inherited victimhood. Blood and soil in these formulations are only slightly obscured by a thin rhetorical dust.
As Zachariah shows, the postcolonial tendency’s hostility to individualism and universalism follows precisely from its Romantic and völkisch premises. This is why, as Zachariah describes through a number of jarring examples, its language passes so easily out of the mouths of Hindu nationalists, Islamists, and white identitarians. All emphasize authentic peoples, violated inheritances, foreign contamination, internal betrayers, and cultural restoration as a magical solution to social and political problems.
One of Zachariah’s most illuminating examples is that of Benoy Kumar Sarkar, a Bengali social scientist whom Zachariah describes as “a self-conscious and dedicated user of völkisch ideas” and “zealous co-worker with the Nazis,” who is now unselfconsciously revered as a pioneer of Indian sociology, political science, and forebear of postcolonial thought. That Sarkar was a resolute admirer of Hitler, whom he called “Vivekananda multiplied by Bismarck,” is forgiven or ignored by those eager to find in him a postcolonial precursor.
The story is similar, if more well known, regarding Martin Heidegger, whom Zachariah describes as “postcolonial scholars’ preferred philosopher of ‘affect’” and whose defenders’ attempt to save him from the charge of Nazism “faltered on the evidence of his own diaries.” One compromised intellectual ancestor might be a mere misstep, a product of a momentary lapse in judgment (even if lasting many years). But when the fascist affinities of your forebears must repeatedly be bracketed or explained away, it should tell you that something is wrong with your outlook.
Not that this is really possible, because postcolonialism’s epistemology means it is singularly incapable of recognizing the proto-fascism of its völkisch affinities. As Zachariah writes, these are instead routinely “underplayed or explained away in terms of the ‘difference’ of non-Western cultures, which are allegedly incapable of fascism or to whom Western concepts such as fascism simply do not apply.” If the volk is light-skinned, the politics belong to the right; if dark-skinned, to the left, and ne’er the twain shall meet. And so, the right remains evil for its organic nationalism, while the left is merely seeking cultural renewal; the right is dangerous for denouncing non-white internal enemies but when the left denounces whites it is merely identifying obstacles to “decolonization.” It is the peculiarities of the volk, rather than the politics, that matter.
Why has the left turned to these romantic ideas? Zachariah cites the collapse of the Soviet Union as one cause. But he hits on an even deeper reason near the start of the book, when he draws on Walter Benjamin’s much-quoted vignette inspired by Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus. This is the backward-facing, forward-blown Angel of History, who is to Benjamin, “surveying the debris of the past” as a storm blowing from Paradise drives him perilously into the future. “He would like to pause,” goes the vignette, “to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed,” but the gale has got so strong he cannot close his wings.
Zachariah’s intended point is well taken: We can no more return to an earlier materialist left than postcolonial volk can return to the idyllic time before the colonial “Fall.” Both the longing and the backward-looking means of overcoming it are misguided. But Benjamin’s image also answers a deeper question: Just why is there such a passionate desire to escape the forces of history and take refuge in the wholeness of the past?
In You Shall Be as Gods, Erich Fromm reads the expulsion from Eden not as man’s corruption but “the beginning of his rise.” Eden is the central symbolic story of man’s gradual alienation from animalhood and nature in the development of his capacity to reason and disobey, that is, his capacity for freedom. But crucially, this freedom is experienced as a painful sense of loss, as freedom imposes burdens of uncertainty, choice, and responsibility.
“Man suffers from this loss of oneness,” Fromm writes, and “his most passionate striving is to return to the world of union which was his home.” And so while man, in Fromm’s radical humanist reading of the Hebrew scriptures, reasons and argues with God on his ascent to independence, he is always drawn back downward, “to the womb, the Mother Earth,” and the certainties and bindings of the past, nature, clan, and idols.
This is the deeper yearning expressed in Benjamin’s Angel of History. We want to go back and pick up the pieces, rebuild what’s been lost. But the most painful lesson, the one we continually cannot accept, is that there is no going back.
Ashley Frawley is a Compact columnist, a visiting fellow at MCC Brussels, and a visiting researcher in the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent.
@AshleyAFrawley
The Rise of the Völkisch Left
July 31, 2026The Postcolonial Volk
By Benjamin Zachariah
Polity, 176 pages, $25
You might have noticed that at some point, progressive types began to use the term “folks” to refer to “people.” There are black folks, queer folks, indigenous folks. The change is significant. Whereas “people” evokes a sense of a universal subject, “folks” is particular. It implies a world of distinctions: different cultures, different experiences, different interests. No people, just “peoples,” all speaking with a different voice. From this perspective, “The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.”
While the idea of a pluriverse has become increasingly popular within decolonial thought, that last line didn’t come from the tradition’s ever-proliferating ranks of academic adherents. It came from Carl Schmitt, the Nazi jurist. At a time when everything is “literally Hitler,” the comparison can seem overwrought. But it is precisely the comparison between post-colonial particularism and the völkisch right that Benjamin Zachariah reveals with a keen sense of the absurd in his new book, The Postcolonial Volk.
Zachariah critiques the “conglomerate” of postcolonial and decolonial theory clustering around what’s come to be known as “theory from the Global South.” But appearances are deceiving, because it’s not really from the Global South at all. As Zachariah describes, its language and legitimacy claims are crafted in the Global North, exported to the Global South, and then reimported as authentic non-Western knowledge.
And just as it is not really of the Global South, this ostensibly left-wing “postcolonial-decolonial-Global South conglomerate” is not really of the left either. Despite the right’s insistence that the ghost of Karl Marx is currently undertaking a long march through the institutions, Zachariah’s central claim is that the contemporary left actually has far more in common with anti-communist and proto-fascist forces than with the nineteenth-century founder of “scientific socialism.” In important respects, its ethos actually arises from an entirely rival tradition, one that encompasses romantic nationalism, indigenism, cultural organicism, and völkisch thought. It is, Zachariah says, “Romanticism, rather than the much-reviled Enlightenment, that suggests itself as the intellectual basis of the ‘post-Enlightenment’ world that Global Southistan now lays claim to.”
This is why, as Zachariah shows, the postcolonial outlook now common on the contemporary left is so hostile to the Enlightenment and its ideal of universal truth. In his satirical “Twelve Theses on Postcolonialism,” he condenses its outlook into its propositions including “the individual is an Enlightenment conspiracy” and “the Age of Reason is the Age of Empire.” Contrary to popular belief, universal reason and the emancipation of the individual were central to Marxism and the socialist and communist traditions shaped by it (“We are communists out of egoism,” Engels once wrote to Marx), however miserably they failed in practice. Marx and Engels were part of the Young Hegelian milieu, who were deeply impressed by the “heroes of the French Revolution,” and even called themselves “encyclopaedists” after the eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophes. This is a far cry from the unholy trinity that Zachariah skewers, however much its adherents may sometimes rummage in the dustbins for what he calls the “debris of Marx- and- Engels-isms.”
Postcolonialism does not simply swap out the working class for some other group of the oppressed. Its object is a mystic unity of culture, collective memory, fraught relationships to race and place, and inherited victimhood. Blood and soil in these formulations are only slightly obscured by a thin rhetorical dust.
As Zachariah shows, the postcolonial tendency’s hostility to individualism and universalism follows precisely from its Romantic and völkisch premises. This is why, as Zachariah describes through a number of jarring examples, its language passes so easily out of the mouths of Hindu nationalists, Islamists, and white identitarians. All emphasize authentic peoples, violated inheritances, foreign contamination, internal betrayers, and cultural restoration as a magical solution to social and political problems.
One of Zachariah’s most illuminating examples is that of Benoy Kumar Sarkar, a Bengali social scientist whom Zachariah describes as “a self-conscious and dedicated user of völkisch ideas” and “zealous co-worker with the Nazis,” who is now unselfconsciously revered as a pioneer of Indian sociology, political science, and forebear of postcolonial thought. That Sarkar was a resolute admirer of Hitler, whom he called “Vivekananda multiplied by Bismarck,” is forgiven or ignored by those eager to find in him a postcolonial precursor.
The story is similar, if more well known, regarding Martin Heidegger, whom Zachariah describes as “postcolonial scholars’ preferred philosopher of ‘affect’” and whose defenders’ attempt to save him from the charge of Nazism “faltered on the evidence of his own diaries.” One compromised intellectual ancestor might be a mere misstep, a product of a momentary lapse in judgment (even if lasting many years). But when the fascist affinities of your forebears must repeatedly be bracketed or explained away, it should tell you that something is wrong with your outlook.
Not that this is really possible, because postcolonialism’s epistemology means it is singularly incapable of recognizing the proto-fascism of its völkisch affinities. As Zachariah writes, these are instead routinely “underplayed or explained away in terms of the ‘difference’ of non-Western cultures, which are allegedly incapable of fascism or to whom Western concepts such as fascism simply do not apply.” If the volk is light-skinned, the politics belong to the right; if dark-skinned, to the left, and ne’er the twain shall meet. And so, the right remains evil for its organic nationalism, while the left is merely seeking cultural renewal; the right is dangerous for denouncing non-white internal enemies but when the left denounces whites it is merely identifying obstacles to “decolonization.” It is the peculiarities of the volk, rather than the politics, that matter.
Why has the left turned to these romantic ideas? Zachariah cites the collapse of the Soviet Union as one cause. But he hits on an even deeper reason near the start of the book, when he draws on Walter Benjamin’s much-quoted vignette inspired by Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus. This is the backward-facing, forward-blown Angel of History, who is to Benjamin, “surveying the debris of the past” as a storm blowing from Paradise drives him perilously into the future. “He would like to pause,” goes the vignette, “to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed,” but the gale has got so strong he cannot close his wings.
Zachariah’s intended point is well taken: We can no more return to an earlier materialist left than postcolonial volk can return to the idyllic time before the colonial “Fall.” Both the longing and the backward-looking means of overcoming it are misguided. But Benjamin’s image also answers a deeper question: Just why is there such a passionate desire to escape the forces of history and take refuge in the wholeness of the past?
In You Shall Be as Gods, Erich Fromm reads the expulsion from Eden not as man’s corruption but “the beginning of his rise.” Eden is the central symbolic story of man’s gradual alienation from animalhood and nature in the development of his capacity to reason and disobey, that is, his capacity for freedom. But crucially, this freedom is experienced as a painful sense of loss, as freedom imposes burdens of uncertainty, choice, and responsibility.
“Man suffers from this loss of oneness,” Fromm writes, and “his most passionate striving is to return to the world of union which was his home.” And so while man, in Fromm’s radical humanist reading of the Hebrew scriptures, reasons and argues with God on his ascent to independence, he is always drawn back downward, “to the womb, the Mother Earth,” and the certainties and bindings of the past, nature, clan, and idols.
This is the deeper yearning expressed in Benjamin’s Angel of History. We want to go back and pick up the pieces, rebuild what’s been lost. But the most painful lesson, the one we continually cannot accept, is that there is no going back.
Ashley Frawley is a Compact columnist, a visiting fellow at MCC Brussels, and a visiting researcher in the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent.
@AshleyAFrawley
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"Acho muito difícil fazer uma coisa boa em televisão. Os donos das emissoras não querem que o povo realmente saiba das coisas. Eles querem é Ibope, querem faturar e faturam muito bem."
Anão, o que é a vida?
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
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EDIÇÃO ANTÔNIO ABUJAMRA"Acho muito difícil fazer uma coisa boa em televisão. Os donos das emissoras não querem que o povo realmente saiba das coisas. Eles querem é Ibope, querem faturar e faturam muito bem."
Anão, o que é a vida?
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
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The explosion occurred just before 8pm close to an Italian restaurant located in one of Moscow’s seven Stalin-era skyscrapers at Kudrinskaya Square, the police said. Russia’s anti-terrorism committee said an unidentified woman had tried to get into the restaurant but was stopped by a security guard, the state RIA news agency reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/02/moscow-restaurant-bombing-kills-three-people-as-device-carried-by-woman-explodes
London mayor Sadiq Khan accuses Palantir of bypassing procurement rules
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https://www.politico.eu/article/sadiq-khan-london-police-palantir-legal-case-bypassing-procurement-rules/
https://archive.ph/vAwP2
Greece orders partial evacuation of Athens suburb as wildfire burns
The blaze was being fanned by gale force winds that were hampering water-dropping aircraft from flying over the area. The air turbulence meant that only one helicopter was able to take on water from the sea to fight the blaze.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260731-greece-orders-partial-evacuation-of-athens-suburb-as-wildfire-burns
https://archive.ph/PyXmh
Morocco NGO calls for probe after Ceuta migrant influx
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https://www.newarab.com/news/morocco-ngo-calls-probe-after-ceuta-migrant-influx
Fighting breaks out in western Tigray as Ethiopia and TPLF trade blame
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/1/fighting-breaks-out-in-western-tigray-as-ethiopia-and-tplf-trade-blame
https://archive.ph/dl9Sp
Colombia’s deforestation rises slightly as Amazon forest loss holds steady
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https://apnews.com/article/amazon-deforestation-data-colombia-2025-forest-loss-358febf57fc327e053ae1c260b41bbc9
US-backed Venezuela talks to begin without opposition leader Machado
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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-backed-venezuela-talks-begin-without-opposition-leader-machado-2026-07-31/
Sexual and Gender Violence Soaring in Shan State, Rights Group Reports
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https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/sexual-and-gender-violence-soaring-in-shan-state-rights-group-reports.html
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https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-easter-bombings-police-chief-islamic-state-3552d08464abb4c0cf35b88c354496cc
Ultra-processed food companies hindering health drives by suing countries, says WHO
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/01/ultra-processed-food-companies-hindering-health-drives-by-suing-countries-says-who
News 8/1/26
Moscow restaurant bombing kills three people as device carried by woman explodesThe explosion occurred just before 8pm close to an Italian restaurant located in one of Moscow’s seven Stalin-era skyscrapers at Kudrinskaya Square, the police said. Russia’s anti-terrorism committee said an unidentified woman had tried to get into the restaurant but was stopped by a security guard, the state RIA news agency reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/02/moscow-restaurant-bombing-kills-three-people-as-device-carried-by-woman-explodes
London mayor Sadiq Khan accuses Palantir of bypassing procurement rules
The case follows concerns expressed by multiple parliamentary committees about the U.K.’s dependence on foreign technology firms such as Palantir, which was co-founded in 2003 by Alex Karp and Peter Thiel. The tech firm brought a claim against the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime in the High Court in June after Khan’s deputy mayor refused to sign off on a £50 million contract with the Metropolitan Police for the provision of an AI and data analysis service.
https://www.politico.eu/article/sadiq-khan-london-police-palantir-legal-case-bypassing-procurement-rules/
https://archive.ph/vAwP2
Greece orders partial evacuation of Athens suburb as wildfire burns
The blaze was being fanned by gale force winds that were hampering water-dropping aircraft from flying over the area. The air turbulence meant that only one helicopter was able to take on water from the sea to fight the blaze.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260731-greece-orders-partial-evacuation-of-athens-suburb-as-wildfire-burns
https://archive.ph/PyXmh
Morocco NGO calls for probe after Ceuta migrant influx
The Moroccan Association of Human Rights called in a statement for "a serious and independent inquiry to be launched in order to shed full light on the circumstances and causes that led to the recent exodus, and to establish who is responsible". It also condemned "the worrying silence of officials and institutions" which have still not responded publicly to the crisis.
https://www.newarab.com/news/morocco-ngo-calls-probe-after-ceuta-migrant-influx
Fighting breaks out in western Tigray as Ethiopia and TPLF trade blame
The fighting follows months of deteriorating relations between Addis Ababa and the TPLF, the party that ruled Ethiopia for nearly three decades before Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018. Both sides have accused each other of failing to implement the provisions of the 2022 peace agreement. Tigrayan authorities said Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party has waged a long blockade and drone campaign against the region, adding that this had now escalated into full-scale war.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/1/fighting-breaks-out-in-western-tigray-as-ethiopia-and-tplf-trade-blame
https://archive.ph/dl9Sp
Colombia’s deforestation rises slightly as Amazon forest loss holds steady
Colombia’s government said nationwide deforestation increased slightly in 2025 but that it had still surpassed its four-year target to reduce forest loss under President Gustavo Petro, with pressure on the Amazon remaining largely unchanged in the administration’s final year.
https://apnews.com/article/amazon-deforestation-data-colombia-2025-forest-loss-358febf57fc327e053ae1c260b41bbc9
US-backed Venezuela talks to begin without opposition leader Machado
They will be led on the government side by Rodriguez's brother Jorge, the head of the National Assembly and a longtime negotiator at previous talks with the U.S. and the opposition. The opposition delegation - which the U.S. backs over efforts to overhaul the country's electoral council and top court to ensure free and fair elections - will be led by Dinorah Figuera, according to a statement issued by the government and the opposition earlier this month.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-backed-venezuela-talks-begin-without-opposition-leader-machado-2026-07-31/
Sexual and Gender Violence Soaring in Shan State, Rights Group Reports
Soldiers on both sides were also implicated in domestic violence, SWAN team member Nang Morn Kaein told The Irrawaddy. SWAN highlighted how armed conflict and mass displacement have fueled the violence while further weakening already fragile justice systems. “Since the coup, SGBV cases have proliferated amid conflict and justice breakdown, leading to growing violence,” Nang Morn Kaein said.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/sexual-and-gender-violence-soaring-in-shan-state-rights-group-reports.html
Two former Sri Lanka officials sentenced to death for negligence in deadly Easter bombings
Former Police Chief Pujith Jayasundara and former Defense Ministry Secretary Hemasiri Fernando were convicted and sentenced Friday by the three-member High Court bench. They have the right to appeal the ruling. The near-simultaneous bombings in 2019 were carried out at three tourist hotels and three churches — two of them Catholic and one Protestant — and killed 42 foreigners. A parliamentary committee found that police and intelligence officials failed to act on repeated intelligence warnings of the attacks.
https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-easter-bombings-police-chief-islamic-state-3552d08464abb4c0cf35b88c354496cc
Ultra-processed food companies hindering health drives by suing countries, says WHO
Publicly, the world’s biggest UPF companies insist they back the policies, want to help consumers make informed choices and are committed to being part of the solution. But an investigation by the Guardian, in collaboration with academics, the non-profit newsroom Lighthouse Reports and a coalition of media partners across four continents, found many of these same companies were taking governments to court to overturn, weaken or delay the policies.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/01/ultra-processed-food-companies-hindering-health-drives-by-suing-countries-says-who
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>Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says there will be no security in the region if Iran’s security is not guaranteed.
>President Donald Trump threatens that the US will bomb and destroy critical Iranian infrastructure every time Iran shoots at ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
>Iran has pledged retaliatory attacks on civilian infrastructure in the region, including bridges and energy sites.
>Iran’s Health Ministry says that at least 53 people have been killed in US strikes on the country since June 27.
/Iran War/ #70
The people's comprador edition>Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says there will be no security in the region if Iran’s security is not guaranteed.
>President Donald Trump threatens that the US will bomb and destroy critical Iranian infrastructure every time Iran shoots at ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
>Iran has pledged retaliatory attacks on civilian infrastructure in the region, including bridges and energy sites.
>Iran’s Health Ministry says that at least 53 people have been killed in US strikes on the country since June 27.
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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.
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Capitalism is extinction.
South Korea has double the population of North Korea, but South Korea only has half as many babies as North Korea. Which economic feature of capitalism causes this?
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>its stance on US investors
>its stance on US imperialism
>its trade status with Israel
Iran
Welcomes US investors
against (unless US imperialism is targeting the great satan (Iranian Communists, Iraq, Afghanistan, anti-IMF protests…))
Ceased covert oil trade with Israel in the 90s
anti-imperialism vibe check
>favorite anti-imperialist state>its stance on US investors
>its stance on US imperialism
>its trade status with Israel
Iran
Welcomes US investors
against (unless US imperialism is targeting the great satan (Iranian Communists, Iraq, Afghanistan, anti-IMF protests…))
Ceased covert oil trade with Israel in the 90s
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AI just makes me dumber and makes thinking for myself harder, it would be really cool if some people here could help spread this!
Make some posters for this in the thread.
No AI july
What if for the entirety of July we didn't use AI chatbots, or AI searches at all, using duckduckgo or other search engines with no AI intergration instead.AI just makes me dumber and makes thinking for myself harder, it would be really cool if some people here could help spread this!
Make some posters for this in the thread.
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>The Soviet Union
>Tsarist Russia
>Fascist Italy
>Nazi Germany
>The German Empire
>The Second French Empire
>Hezbollah
>Ba'athist Iraq
>The Islamic Republic of Iran
>The PRC
I dislike
>America
>Britain
>The French third and fifth republics
Third positionists be like
I like>The Soviet Union
>Tsarist Russia
>Fascist Italy
>Nazi Germany
>The German Empire
>The Second French Empire
>Hezbollah
>Ba'athist Iraq
>The Islamic Republic of Iran
>The PRC
I dislike
>America
>Britain
>The French third and fifth republics
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how does /leftypol/ feel about leftysoy?? it seems promising, a leftist sharty..
not an advertisement i dont even use the site, have mercy jannies
not loooooooooooooooooooooooonnnggg enough
how does /leftypol/ feel about leftysoy?? it seems promising, a leftist sharty..
not an advertisement i dont even use the site, have mercy jannies
not loooooooooooooooooooooooonnnggg enough
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Here's the list of the first thread I very subjectively added some shit to.
<S Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre
>Kubrick: 2001, Barry Lyndon
>Shane Carruth: Primer
<A Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
>De Sica: Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D.
>Pontecorvo: Battle of Algiers
>Cocteau: Orpheus, Blood of a Poet
>Godard: Breathless, Band of Outsiders, The Little Soldier
>Kurosawa: Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, Ran, High and Low
>Mizoguchi: Sansho, Ugetsu
>Kobayashi: Seppuku, Human Condition
>Fritz Lang: Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, M
>Bunuel: Discreet Charm, Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel
>Kieslowski: Dekalog
>David Lynch: Anything, including Twin Peaks old and new.
>Ki-duk Kim: Spring, Summer…
>Gilliam: Brazil
>Kubrick (pt. 2): The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, FMJ
>Villeneuve: Incendies, Arrival
<A- Tier - Entertainment
>Cronenberg: Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers
>Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three, Sunset Blvd, Witness for the Prosecution
>Becker: Le Trou, Touchez pas au Grisbi
>Melville: Army of Shadows, Le Cercle Rouge, Bob le Flambeur
>Clouzot: Diabolique, Wages of Fear (the ultimate languagefag film)
>Bresson: A Man Escaped, Pickpocket
>Renoir: The Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game
>Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant, King of NY
>Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre
>Peckinpah: Straw Dogs, Alfredo Garcia
>Woody Allen: Annie Hall. All the other old-and-good ones too.
>Carpenter: The Thing, They Live
>Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
>Scorsese: Kind of Comedy, Taxi Driver. The rest can kinda fuck off.
>Hitchcock: Pretty much all of them.
>Don Coscarelli: John Dies at the End
>Villeneuve (pt. 2): Sicario, Dune
Also:
First thread >>>1660
Films You Just Watched 2.0 >>>24481
Let's talk about movies, then.
Film Thread II
Hola filmfags, last thread was full so here we are. I'm thinking we also could use this thread as Films You Just Watched edition 3 as traffic is low.Here's the list of the first thread I very subjectively added some shit to.
<S Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre
>Kubrick: 2001, Barry Lyndon
>Shane Carruth: Primer
<A Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
>De Sica: Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D.
>Pontecorvo: Battle of Algiers
>Cocteau: Orpheus, Blood of a Poet
>Godard: Breathless, Band of Outsiders, The Little Soldier
>Kurosawa: Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, Ran, High and Low
>Mizoguchi: Sansho, Ugetsu
>Kobayashi: Seppuku, Human Condition
>Fritz Lang: Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, M
>Bunuel: Discreet Charm, Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel
>Kieslowski: Dekalog
>David Lynch: Anything, including Twin Peaks old and new.
>Ki-duk Kim: Spring, Summer…
>Gilliam: Brazil
>Kubrick (pt. 2): The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, FMJ
>Villeneuve: Incendies, Arrival
<A- Tier - Entertainment
>Cronenberg: Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers
>Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three, Sunset Blvd, Witness for the Prosecution
>Becker: Le Trou, Touchez pas au Grisbi
>Melville: Army of Shadows, Le Cercle Rouge, Bob le Flambeur
>Clouzot: Diabolique, Wages of Fear (the ultimate languagefag film)
>Bresson: A Man Escaped, Pickpocket
>Renoir: The Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game
>Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant, King of NY
>Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre
>Peckinpah: Straw Dogs, Alfredo Garcia
>Woody Allen: Annie Hall. All the other old-and-good ones too.
>Carpenter: The Thing, They Live
>Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
>Scorsese: Kind of Comedy, Taxi Driver. The rest can kinda fuck off.
>Hitchcock: Pretty much all of them.
>Don Coscarelli: John Dies at the End
>Villeneuve (pt. 2): Sicario, Dune
Also:
First thread >>>1660
Films You Just Watched 2.0 >>>24481
Let's talk about movies, then.
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>Paris Commune was preceded by the Franco-Prussian war, it's contradictions and crisis allowed it to happen
>Russian revolution was preceded by the deadliest war in history at the time, it's contradictions and crisis allowed it to happen
>WW2 preceded the communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, Korea, and China. The contradictions and crisises developed the revolution
why would nuclear war not have the same effect if not a greater effect? Would nuclear war not be a global crisis that would bring about the conditions for international revolution?
Posadas
Was he even wrong?>Paris Commune was preceded by the Franco-Prussian war, it's contradictions and crisis allowed it to happen
>Russian revolution was preceded by the deadliest war in history at the time, it's contradictions and crisis allowed it to happen
>WW2 preceded the communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, Korea, and China. The contradictions and crisises developed the revolution
why would nuclear war not have the same effect if not a greater effect? Would nuclear war not be a global crisis that would bring about the conditions for international revolution?
R: 102 / I: 49 >>>/leftypol/2851498 says mods will remove it so I am proving it wrong.
The Zionist Entity is a genocidal settler-colonial apartheid state set up by the European and North American powers to colonize the middle east. Even early zionists like Theodor Herzl understood Israel in these explicitly settler-colonial terms. Here is Herzl speaking in the 1800s, when Palestine was still Ottoman territory:
>If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could offer to resolve Turkey’s finances. For Europe, we would form part of a bulwark against Asia there, we would serve as the advance post of civilisation against barbarism.
So Theodor Herzel felt not only that European people were entitled to Palestine over the people already living there (including Ottoman Jews), but that the presence of "civilized" Europeans in Israel would form a "bulwark" (forward operating base(offensive, not defensive)) against Asia, which entire continent Herzl racistly characterized as "barbaric."
Herzl was born on May 2nd , 1860 in Budapest, Hungary to a family of German speaking assimilated Jews. His father, Jakob, was a wealthy businessman and the young Theodor was expected to enter politics or engineering by his parents. In a sense, he did not disappoint, as Herzl was destined to become the father of political Zionism. While Herzl never saw his Jewish state during his lifetime, his ideology remains so influential that even today he is considered the father of Israel.
Herzl’s birthday is a holiday in Israel, his grave is a national monument, the organization he founded is still active today and the largest mountain in the country was re-named in his honor. It is not an exaggeration to say that Herzl and his ideology remain central to Zionism.
As a young man, Herzl was a fanatic Germanophile. He believed that if Jews simply tried hard enough, they could become “Germanized” and shake off what he called “shameful Jewish characteristics.” Herzl viewed German culture and language as inherently superior to that of the reviled working-class Yiddish speaking Jews. At first, he believed that Jews should be Germanized, arguing that Eastern European Jews were so "savage" and backwards that they must learn the very concepts of beauty and nobility by studying the works of authors like Goethe and Shakespeare. He initially envisioned his Zion as a German colony, and waxed poetic about importing German culture to the orient. However, as time went on, Herzl increasingly started to believe that Jews could not and should not assimilate into Europe, and the only solution to the “Jewish question” was the complete removal of all Jews from Europe. Herzl’s Zionism is fundamentally based in notions about Jewish incompatibility with gentile society. Herzl dedicated the rest of his life to his goal of a Jewish state. In 1897, he founded the World Zionist Organization, a big tent coalition of Zionists dedicated to creating a Jewish state by any means necessary. As time went on, and the "Labor" Zionist wings were increasingly persecuted by Herzl, the organization moved farther and farther to the right. Given what Herzl believed in, this is understandable. Unlike the Zionists of today, who must pretend to have some respect for the charade known as international law, Herzl was quite open about his plans.
In the view of Herzl, Israel was explicitly a colonial project, and he toured the capitals of Europe trying to drum up support and funding for his cause. Herzl cast a wide net, he was not terribly concerned with who supported him, or why. He gladly worked with some of the most extreme antisemites on earth. After many attempts to get a meeting with Tsar Nicholas II by promising to solve Russia’s “Jewish problem”, Herzl finally got a letter saying Russia would support his proposed deportation of the Jews. He kept it for the rest of his life, treating it as one of his most prized possessions.
At the same time, Tsarist forces were carrying out reactionary pogroms all throughout the so-called Pale of Settlement, the home of most of Europe’s Jews. In 1903, the same year Herzl was in correspondence with the Tsar, over seven hundred pogroms took place in Ukraine and Moldova alone resulting in the murder of thousands of Jews. In many cases, the pogroms were incited by the Tsar’s secret police and in others the guilty were simply granted clemency by the government. Herzl knew all of this, and his continued support of the Tsarist government was controversial even inside his own movement.
In the end, it was all for nothing. The Tsar did not keep his word and Herzl was perfectly willing to sacrifice thousands of Jews in exchange for empty promises. Sadly, the genocidal tendencies inside Zionism would only accelerate as the movement grew. The Tsar wasn’t the only one who used Herzl as a tool. Starting in 1896, Herzl actively worked with the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. After a meeting with the Sultan’s advisors in the Levant to discuss strategy, Herzl threw his support behind the Armenian Genocide, a crime so vile it had cut off the Ottomans from European loans. Herzl believed that he could jump in to fill that gap, offering to pay off the empire’s increasing debts using funds raised from European Zionists in exchange for permission to start a colony in Palestine.
Although he found almost no support even inside the World Zionist Council, Herzl spent 5 years touring Europe, speaking, raising funds and writing articles in support of Turkey’s extermination of the Armenian people. Herzl cast the crumbling empire as a historical ally of the Jews and one they should support. He called the Ottomans civilized and decent people, justified in their actions due to the allegedly backwards and violent ways of the subhuman Armenians. He was even awarded a medal by the Grand Vizier in Istanbul, in commemoration of his loyal service to the Ottoman Empire.
In 1901, Herzl finally got his long-awaited meeting with the Sultan, who rejected his proposal out of hand. Once again, Herzl was perfectly willing to sacrifice thousands of lives for words on paper. Today, Herzl’s "civilized" slaughter is viewed as an act of genocide by all credible historians and groups as diverse as the United Nations, the United States Government, the European Union, the Anti-Defamation League, and the World Jewish Congress, who specifically called it “the blueprint of the Holocaust.” With his options dwindling, Herzl even turned to Cecil Rhodes, the openly white supremacist founder of the unrecognized apartheid state of Rhodesia to ask for his advice and blessing to colonize Palestine. Although his efforts amounted to nothing, the ideological connections remained, and the state of Israel became a close ally of Rhodesia. At one point, Israel was one of the only countries willing to sell weapons and licenses to its fellow apartheid states. Israel even collaborated with apartheid South Africa on its nuclear program, a direct violation of international law which was never punished.
>"You are being invited to help make history. It doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews… How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial" - Herzl in a letter to Cecil Rhodes
At best, Herzl represents the sort of reactionary, callous “realpolitik” that the state of Israel still embraces today. At worst, he was a genocidal racist willing to support even the vilest crimes to advance his movement.
Palestine Versus The Zionist Entity
We haven't had this thread in a while so I'm bringing it back.The Zionist Entity is a genocidal settler-colonial apartheid state set up by the European and North American powers to colonize the middle east. Even early zionists like Theodor Herzl understood Israel in these explicitly settler-colonial terms. Here is Herzl speaking in the 1800s, when Palestine was still Ottoman territory:
>If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could offer to resolve Turkey’s finances. For Europe, we would form part of a bulwark against Asia there, we would serve as the advance post of civilisation against barbarism.
So Theodor Herzel felt not only that European people were entitled to Palestine over the people already living there (including Ottoman Jews), but that the presence of "civilized" Europeans in Israel would form a "bulwark" (forward operating base(offensive, not defensive)) against Asia, which entire continent Herzl racistly characterized as "barbaric."
Herzl was born on May 2nd , 1860 in Budapest, Hungary to a family of German speaking assimilated Jews. His father, Jakob, was a wealthy businessman and the young Theodor was expected to enter politics or engineering by his parents. In a sense, he did not disappoint, as Herzl was destined to become the father of political Zionism. While Herzl never saw his Jewish state during his lifetime, his ideology remains so influential that even today he is considered the father of Israel.
Herzl’s birthday is a holiday in Israel, his grave is a national monument, the organization he founded is still active today and the largest mountain in the country was re-named in his honor. It is not an exaggeration to say that Herzl and his ideology remain central to Zionism.
As a young man, Herzl was a fanatic Germanophile. He believed that if Jews simply tried hard enough, they could become “Germanized” and shake off what he called “shameful Jewish characteristics.” Herzl viewed German culture and language as inherently superior to that of the reviled working-class Yiddish speaking Jews. At first, he believed that Jews should be Germanized, arguing that Eastern European Jews were so "savage" and backwards that they must learn the very concepts of beauty and nobility by studying the works of authors like Goethe and Shakespeare. He initially envisioned his Zion as a German colony, and waxed poetic about importing German culture to the orient. However, as time went on, Herzl increasingly started to believe that Jews could not and should not assimilate into Europe, and the only solution to the “Jewish question” was the complete removal of all Jews from Europe. Herzl’s Zionism is fundamentally based in notions about Jewish incompatibility with gentile society. Herzl dedicated the rest of his life to his goal of a Jewish state. In 1897, he founded the World Zionist Organization, a big tent coalition of Zionists dedicated to creating a Jewish state by any means necessary. As time went on, and the "Labor" Zionist wings were increasingly persecuted by Herzl, the organization moved farther and farther to the right. Given what Herzl believed in, this is understandable. Unlike the Zionists of today, who must pretend to have some respect for the charade known as international law, Herzl was quite open about his plans.
In the view of Herzl, Israel was explicitly a colonial project, and he toured the capitals of Europe trying to drum up support and funding for his cause. Herzl cast a wide net, he was not terribly concerned with who supported him, or why. He gladly worked with some of the most extreme antisemites on earth. After many attempts to get a meeting with Tsar Nicholas II by promising to solve Russia’s “Jewish problem”, Herzl finally got a letter saying Russia would support his proposed deportation of the Jews. He kept it for the rest of his life, treating it as one of his most prized possessions.
At the same time, Tsarist forces were carrying out reactionary pogroms all throughout the so-called Pale of Settlement, the home of most of Europe’s Jews. In 1903, the same year Herzl was in correspondence with the Tsar, over seven hundred pogroms took place in Ukraine and Moldova alone resulting in the murder of thousands of Jews. In many cases, the pogroms were incited by the Tsar’s secret police and in others the guilty were simply granted clemency by the government. Herzl knew all of this, and his continued support of the Tsarist government was controversial even inside his own movement.
In the end, it was all for nothing. The Tsar did not keep his word and Herzl was perfectly willing to sacrifice thousands of Jews in exchange for empty promises. Sadly, the genocidal tendencies inside Zionism would only accelerate as the movement grew. The Tsar wasn’t the only one who used Herzl as a tool. Starting in 1896, Herzl actively worked with the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. After a meeting with the Sultan’s advisors in the Levant to discuss strategy, Herzl threw his support behind the Armenian Genocide, a crime so vile it had cut off the Ottomans from European loans. Herzl believed that he could jump in to fill that gap, offering to pay off the empire’s increasing debts using funds raised from European Zionists in exchange for permission to start a colony in Palestine.
Although he found almost no support even inside the World Zionist Council, Herzl spent 5 years touring Europe, speaking, raising funds and writing articles in support of Turkey’s extermination of the Armenian people. Herzl cast the crumbling empire as a historical ally of the Jews and one they should support. He called the Ottomans civilized and decent people, justified in their actions due to the allegedly backwards and violent ways of the subhuman Armenians. He was even awarded a medal by the Grand Vizier in Istanbul, in commemoration of his loyal service to the Ottoman Empire.
In 1901, Herzl finally got his long-awaited meeting with the Sultan, who rejected his proposal out of hand. Once again, Herzl was perfectly willing to sacrifice thousands of lives for words on paper. Today, Herzl’s "civilized" slaughter is viewed as an act of genocide by all credible historians and groups as diverse as the United Nations, the United States Government, the European Union, the Anti-Defamation League, and the World Jewish Congress, who specifically called it “the blueprint of the Holocaust.” With his options dwindling, Herzl even turned to Cecil Rhodes, the openly white supremacist founder of the unrecognized apartheid state of Rhodesia to ask for his advice and blessing to colonize Palestine. Although his efforts amounted to nothing, the ideological connections remained, and the state of Israel became a close ally of Rhodesia. At one point, Israel was one of the only countries willing to sell weapons and licenses to its fellow apartheid states. Israel even collaborated with apartheid South Africa on its nuclear program, a direct violation of international law which was never punished.
>"You are being invited to help make history. It doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews… How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial" - Herzl in a letter to Cecil Rhodes
At best, Herzl represents the sort of reactionary, callous “realpolitik” that the state of Israel still embraces today. At worst, he was a genocidal racist willing to support even the vilest crimes to advance his movement.
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In most cases the EIC formed alliances with regional rivals and local elites who were acting in their own political and strategic self-interest. These groups were not passive victims manipulated into conflict, they saw cooperation with the British as the best way to advance their own ambitions and often they achieved many of their goals through those alliances.
While I'm thinking primarily about South Asia, the exact same narratives appear is most third world societies. Former colonies often claim they were conquered because the colonizers "divided and conquered" them, implying that major social, political or ethnic divisions either did not exist before colonialism and shouldn't matter now.
I'm curious have socialist historians or theorists argued against the simplified "divide and conquer" narrative or offered a more nuanced explanation of how colonialism relied on alliances with local elites, existing class structures, and pre-existing political conflicts?
The validity of the "divide and conquer" narratives
Growing up in my country I constantly read in our textbooks that the British conquered us because they divided us and that this should serve as a reminder that national unity is the only way to avoid foreign domination. But the historical reality doesn't show that.In most cases the EIC formed alliances with regional rivals and local elites who were acting in their own political and strategic self-interest. These groups were not passive victims manipulated into conflict, they saw cooperation with the British as the best way to advance their own ambitions and often they achieved many of their goals through those alliances.
While I'm thinking primarily about South Asia, the exact same narratives appear is most third world societies. Former colonies often claim they were conquered because the colonizers "divided and conquered" them, implying that major social, political or ethnic divisions either did not exist before colonialism and shouldn't matter now.
I'm curious have socialist historians or theorists argued against the simplified "divide and conquer" narrative or offered a more nuanced explanation of how colonialism relied on alliances with local elites, existing class structures, and pre-existing political conflicts?
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Por medio del mundial estan pintando al pais como una potencia sionista corrupta y despreciable. Estan habiendo demasiadas decisiones y doble vara arbitral que es dificil que sean todas coincidencia. Hay alguien interesado en generar toda esta dinamica, quiza para devolverle un favor a alguien y de paso indirectamente arrastrar polemica pero mejor no digo más. Despues del partido contra Egipto cualquier tipo de simpatia entre el pueblo que pudiera tener argentina en medio oriente y muchas partes del mundo directamente se evaporó.
Y por otro lado, llevan años queriendo pintar al pais como un pais racista, colonialista y hasta settler-imperialista por no tener negros en su seleccion o por sesgos historicos terribles que los anglosajones liberales y progres se tragan como bobos. Para muchos en su imaginario ya argenitina no es menos que el manifest destiny americano y por supuesto un estado ilegitimo.
Algo estan cocinando. Guarden post
Psyop anti-Argentina
Hay una psyop masiva para generar odio contra argentina y justificar una posible intervención o lento takeover del país y sus recursos.Por medio del mundial estan pintando al pais como una potencia sionista corrupta y despreciable. Estan habiendo demasiadas decisiones y doble vara arbitral que es dificil que sean todas coincidencia. Hay alguien interesado en generar toda esta dinamica, quiza para devolverle un favor a alguien y de paso indirectamente arrastrar polemica pero mejor no digo más. Despues del partido contra Egipto cualquier tipo de simpatia entre el pueblo que pudiera tener argentina en medio oriente y muchas partes del mundo directamente se evaporó.
Y por otro lado, llevan años queriendo pintar al pais como un pais racista, colonialista y hasta settler-imperialista por no tener negros en su seleccion o por sesgos historicos terribles que los anglosajones liberales y progres se tragan como bobos. Para muchos en su imaginario ya argenitina no es menos que el manifest destiny americano y por supuesto un estado ilegitimo.
Algo estan cocinando. Guarden post
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The Worldwide Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the future Global USSR (All the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are shown in the Map I posted) will flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, with all Women forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing are banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. The Worldwide flattening of the Reactionary Gender Binary will ironically cause a noticeable Global decline in Transgenders (less Men will desire to become Women once the Aesthetics of Bourgeois Femininity such as Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick, are banned for Women) in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes will still be Free and Legal to anyone who wants one, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
Additionally, any Woman who keeps her Hair longer then a Pixie cut (a Very Short Bob cut “might” be tolerated only if it is not a millimeter longer then the Chin, but I could change my mind on this very quickly, so it would be strongly advised that all Women keep their Hair no longer then a Pixie cut), wears a Dress/Skirt, or uses Makeup/Lipstick, will have her Head completely Shaved by the Female (mostly Lesbian) International Red Guards, who will march her through the streets wearing a Dunce Cap, force her to attend Struggle Sessions, and put her in a Re-Education Camp, where she will be taught how to become a Liberated Socialist Woman and embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
When a Woman gets her Hair Chopped/Shaved off She is symbolically breaking the Chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that Long Hair on Women symbolizes in the Patriarchal Superstructure of the modern Capitalist and historical Feudal Modes of Production (then it would have been called Aristocratic Femininity), thus meaning that Forcing Women to have extremely Short Hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), along with banning Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick and making everyone wear Mandatory Mao suits is the only way to Flatten the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary and create Liberated Socialist Women, as Mao said “The times have changed, Men and Women are the same”, and the only way to create a Superstructure of Gender equality that reinforces the Socialist Mode of Production is to purge the Superstructure of all vestiges of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that symbolize Patriarchal Female Subjugation and the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary (ie. Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick), and before people say “why not force Men to look like Women”, the reason why the Liberated Socialist Woman must have the aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity (ie. extremely Short Hair, wearing Mao Suits instead of Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick, etc.) is because the Aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, while the Aesthetics of Bourgeois “Femininity” symbolize Weakness, Dependence, and being an Oppressed “Object”, so a Liberated Socialist Women must have Aesthetics that symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, in a Socialist Superstructure of total Gender Equality resulting from the Flattening of the Reactionary Gender Binary and the destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
The Worldwide Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the future Global USSR (All the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are shown in the Map I posted) will flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, with all Women forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing are banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. The Worldwide flattening of the Reactionary Gender Binary will ironically cause a noticeable Global decline in Transgenders (less Men will desire to become Women once the Aesthetics of Bourgeois Femininity such as Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick, are banned for Women) in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes will still be Free and Legal to anyone who wants one, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
Additionally, any Woman who keeps her Hair longer then a Pixie cut (a Very Short Bob cut “might” be tolerated only if it is not a millimeter longer then the Chin, but I could change my mind on this very quickly, so it would be strongly advised that all Women keep their Hair no longer then a Pixie cut), wears a Dress/Skirt, or uses Makeup/Lipstick, will have her Head completely Shaved by the Female (mostly Lesbian) International Red Guards, who will march her through the streets wearing a Dunce Cap, force her to attend Struggle Sessions, and put her in a Re-Education Camp, where she will be taught how to become a Liberated Socialist Woman and embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
When a Woman gets her Hair Chopped/Shaved off She is symbolically breaking the Chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that Long Hair on Women symbolizes in the Patriarchal Superstructure of the modern Capitalist and historical Feudal Modes of Production (then it would have been called Aristocratic Femininity), thus meaning that Forcing Women to have extremely Short Hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), along with banning Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick and making everyone wear Mandatory Mao suits is the only way to Flatten the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary and create Liberated Socialist Women, as Mao said “The times have changed, Men and Women are the same”, and the only way to create a Superstructure of Gender equality that reinforces the Socialist Mode of Production is to purge the Superstructure of all vestiges of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that symbolize Patriarchal Female Subjugation and the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary (ie. Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick), and before people say “why not force Men to look like Women”, the reason why the Liberated Socialist Woman must have the aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity (ie. extremely Short Hair, wearing Mao Suits instead of Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick, etc.) is because the Aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, while the Aesthetics of Bourgeois “Femininity” symbolize Weakness, Dependence, and being an Oppressed “Object”, so a Liberated Socialist Women must have Aesthetics that symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, in a Socialist Superstructure of total Gender Equality resulting from the Flattening of the Reactionary Gender Binary and the destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
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To raise questions on the dictatorship americans have on leftists spaces is not anti-American racism.
>go to non-american spaces
<no! burger bullshit will be negated where it is spewed
Vive l'internationale !
I am impressed by the American's ability to always flip the narrative and be the victim. So now american workers are the great victims of the world because of a few shitposting TWists. The same few TWists who are in fact feds who are ruining discussions which would otherwise lead to a socialist uprising.To raise questions on the dictatorship americans have on leftists spaces is not anti-American racism.
>go to non-american spaces
<no! burger bullshit will be negated where it is spewed
R: 72 / I: 12 >>2766805 have been so poor I intended to make a new thread, giving a historical overview of the last few decades of the communist movement.
>What is the difference between:
>Mao Zedong Thought [ML-MZT]
>Maoism-ThirdWorldism [M3W]
<Missing: >Classical Marxism-Leninism-Maoism [classical MLM]. Exemplified by Communist Party of the Philippines and Communist Party of India (Maoist) as key leaders and influences.
>Gonzalo Thought [aka "MLM-pM" and "Gonzaloism"]
>How interrelated are they?
Comrades. don't forget these tools:
<Historical materialism.
<General-Particular-General dialectical spiral in analysis.
<Never capitulate proletarian leadership to reactionary classes.
<Analyze the contradictory relationship of petty-bourgeois ideology to scientific socialism-communism throughout time, which always ends just yesterday.
<50s-70s:
ML-MZT is a part of the revolutionary pole of Marxism-Leninism, along with Socialist Albania and the still revolutionary wave of subsequent parties, red armies and masses internationally basing themselves on this praxis; which fought the reactionary turn that resulted in numerous setbacks in the international workers movement during the post-war period. Influenced both by the hot wars waged in US imperialism's so-called "Cold War" as well as the now great power chauvinist USSR having capitulated the weapon of Lenin and transforming into a social-imperialist obstacle, funding pacifist reformist, anti-revolutionary parties the world over. Mao, in direct communication with parties seeking revolutionary guidance all over the world clarifies a tactical point on protracted peoples war [PPW]: it is a tactic working specifically for semi-colonial / semi-feudal areas and not for largely urbanized or imperialist countries, where the "October road" tactic should be used. This is important to keep in mind later on in the post.
CPP forms in the 60s around Marcos dictatorship period. The party is influenced by ML-MZT.
TKP/ML forms in the 70s in the midst of Turkish state anti-communist repression. Party leader Kaypakkayakaya assassinated early. Reorganizations and splits define this early period until mid 90s.
<80s-90s:
MLM appears as a group of competing interpretations, tendencies, backgrounds (and eventual results), trying to assess the lessons of the Chinese revolution and the potential nature of Maoism as a new stage of development. Abimael Guzman ("Gonzalo") gains influence thinking he has found a "new synthesis" after a trip to China during the Cultural Revolution. The Revolutionary Internationalist Movement [RIM] formed in the mid 80s and peaking in influence in the mid to late 90s, dissolving from inactivity in the early 2010s. Foundational and leading parties were PCP-SL (Gonzalo), RCPUSA (Avakian), TKP/ML and a south asian multitude Maoist groups (pre early 2000s period of reorganization, consolidation and major growth). They end up drawing dispairate conclusions on the fundational question of what 'Maoism'"is".
PCP-SL launches their campaign in the Peruvian countryside, elevating the principal nature of Maoism having been uncovered through 'Gonzalo Thought', growth is made easier in part by the social emiseration through hyperinflation initiated during the social fascist presidency of Alan García. A wrecked population and particularly peruvian agricultural workers of indigenous background, turned to the Maoists. President García commits suicide by gunshot (a rare poetic suicide, the political-economic actions of his admin. clearly "hit the fan" in a similar sense) and is followed by Alberto Fujimori, a Japanese capitalist with deep connection to both Peruvian intelligence as well as supported by US intelligence now actively monitoring the situation). Fujimori is growing a political dynasty in Peru of which he hyper-exploits with clear disdain for the Peruvian people. Later it is revealed that his campaigns were funded and aided by the US, even militarily and that his side murdered more peruvians in the civil war. One tactic tactic utilized by the Fujimori dictatorship was the forced sterilization program disguised as public health / economic development, specifically targeting impoverished Peruvian indigenous women. 300.000 women were sterilized.
The PCP-SL tries to connect the rural base areas by growing into the urban environment. The civil war is now at its peak in a now military dictatorship. Having the entire hierarchy of the party written down and organized on a personal computer in the urban area he hides in, Gonzalo is a single point of failure. In '92 the Peruvian state finds him, raids the place and decapitates the party in one sweep. The Peruvian movement has still not recovered. It's partially due to 'Gonzalo Thought' proclaiming importance to Jefetura transl. 'Great Leadership' which places emphasis on a singular "Great Leader" being a key aspect this theoretical "advance".
RIM's "contribution" then was the announcing the universality of this Maoism, which also includes the "universality" of the PPW, around '93, following his capture.
CPP enters a Second Great Rectification in 1992, a key turn for the party's success, with adjusting their praxis, expelling a variety of negative elements that have managed to enter the organization(s) and which are inflicting problems. Some were literal Gorbachevites that wanted to liquidate the armed communist basis for the legal organizations, others were left-adventurists (people advocating tactics that sound like 90s LatAm adventurists, whether Gonzaloist or Guevarists). CPP seeks to persecute these elements. CPP adopts MLM, without adding 'Gonzalo Thought' "contributions", or joining RIM. these years CPP struggles against such deviationist tendencies, reemerging as hostile parties, kept afloat by petty bourgeois sympathizers, gangster networks and reformists. CPP manages to persecute some (red areas constitute dual power, a state within the bourgeois state of the philippines), others happen to be killed (not proscribed party policy). Brief tumult ensues for some years in the philippine communist movement. CPP emerges victorious.
TKP/ML conflict with state escalates in the mid 90s, in a brutal power struggle. Its power base is the Kurdish community in Turkey. As I have limited info on the situation it's safe to limit the statement to the fact that the repression appears to remain unsuccessful as the culture of the region still is supportive (corresponding to Irish views of IRA / socialist republicans).
RCPUSA takes a turn away and in the late 90s "creates" "his own" "synthesis". It becomes another cult. Today they mostly protest and theatrically praise Bob Avakian himself in the manner a black book of communism chapter would characterize what a socialist mode of production is.
In the 90s M3W is formed as less of a political force and more of… an art project, in North America. Their activity consists of media engagement, primarily online. Their "theoretical elaboration" (that the proletariat in any imperialist nation is structurally incapable of revolution) deviate from MLM and MZT theory and practice, while retaining the militant verbiage and symbolism. They don't last more than a decade in terms of noticeable output, are still technically existing today as "MIM (Prisons)" which also still just posts stuff online, which can be described as "bizarro US exceptionalism".
Historical overview: ML-MZT vs MLM vs M3W
The replies of thread>What is the difference between:
>Mao Zedong Thought [ML-MZT]
>Maoism-ThirdWorldism [M3W]
<Missing: >Classical Marxism-Leninism-Maoism [classical MLM]. Exemplified by Communist Party of the Philippines and Communist Party of India (Maoist) as key leaders and influences.
>Gonzalo Thought [aka "MLM-pM" and "Gonzaloism"]
>How interrelated are they?
Comrades. don't forget these tools:
<Historical materialism.
<General-Particular-General dialectical spiral in analysis.
<Never capitulate proletarian leadership to reactionary classes.
<Analyze the contradictory relationship of petty-bourgeois ideology to scientific socialism-communism throughout time, which always ends just yesterday.
<50s-70s:
ML-MZT is a part of the revolutionary pole of Marxism-Leninism, along with Socialist Albania and the still revolutionary wave of subsequent parties, red armies and masses internationally basing themselves on this praxis; which fought the reactionary turn that resulted in numerous setbacks in the international workers movement during the post-war period. Influenced both by the hot wars waged in US imperialism's so-called "Cold War" as well as the now great power chauvinist USSR having capitulated the weapon of Lenin and transforming into a social-imperialist obstacle, funding pacifist reformist, anti-revolutionary parties the world over. Mao, in direct communication with parties seeking revolutionary guidance all over the world clarifies a tactical point on protracted peoples war [PPW]: it is a tactic working specifically for semi-colonial / semi-feudal areas and not for largely urbanized or imperialist countries, where the "October road" tactic should be used. This is important to keep in mind later on in the post.
CPP forms in the 60s around Marcos dictatorship period. The party is influenced by ML-MZT.
TKP/ML forms in the 70s in the midst of Turkish state anti-communist repression. Party leader Kaypakkayakaya assassinated early. Reorganizations and splits define this early period until mid 90s.
<80s-90s:
MLM appears as a group of competing interpretations, tendencies, backgrounds (and eventual results), trying to assess the lessons of the Chinese revolution and the potential nature of Maoism as a new stage of development. Abimael Guzman ("Gonzalo") gains influence thinking he has found a "new synthesis" after a trip to China during the Cultural Revolution. The Revolutionary Internationalist Movement [RIM] formed in the mid 80s and peaking in influence in the mid to late 90s, dissolving from inactivity in the early 2010s. Foundational and leading parties were PCP-SL (Gonzalo), RCPUSA (Avakian), TKP/ML and a south asian multitude Maoist groups (pre early 2000s period of reorganization, consolidation and major growth). They end up drawing dispairate conclusions on the fundational question of what 'Maoism'"is".
PCP-SL launches their campaign in the Peruvian countryside, elevating the principal nature of Maoism having been uncovered through 'Gonzalo Thought', growth is made easier in part by the social emiseration through hyperinflation initiated during the social fascist presidency of Alan García. A wrecked population and particularly peruvian agricultural workers of indigenous background, turned to the Maoists. President García commits suicide by gunshot (a rare poetic suicide, the political-economic actions of his admin. clearly "hit the fan" in a similar sense) and is followed by Alberto Fujimori, a Japanese capitalist with deep connection to both Peruvian intelligence as well as supported by US intelligence now actively monitoring the situation). Fujimori is growing a political dynasty in Peru of which he hyper-exploits with clear disdain for the Peruvian people. Later it is revealed that his campaigns were funded and aided by the US, even militarily and that his side murdered more peruvians in the civil war. One tactic tactic utilized by the Fujimori dictatorship was the forced sterilization program disguised as public health / economic development, specifically targeting impoverished Peruvian indigenous women. 300.000 women were sterilized.
The PCP-SL tries to connect the rural base areas by growing into the urban environment. The civil war is now at its peak in a now military dictatorship. Having the entire hierarchy of the party written down and organized on a personal computer in the urban area he hides in, Gonzalo is a single point of failure. In '92 the Peruvian state finds him, raids the place and decapitates the party in one sweep. The Peruvian movement has still not recovered. It's partially due to 'Gonzalo Thought' proclaiming importance to Jefetura transl. 'Great Leadership' which places emphasis on a singular "Great Leader" being a key aspect this theoretical "advance".
RIM's "contribution" then was the announcing the universality of this Maoism, which also includes the "universality" of the PPW, around '93, following his capture.
CPP enters a Second Great Rectification in 1992, a key turn for the party's success, with adjusting their praxis, expelling a variety of negative elements that have managed to enter the organization(s) and which are inflicting problems. Some were literal Gorbachevites that wanted to liquidate the armed communist basis for the legal organizations, others were left-adventurists (people advocating tactics that sound like 90s LatAm adventurists, whether Gonzaloist or Guevarists). CPP seeks to persecute these elements. CPP adopts MLM, without adding 'Gonzalo Thought' "contributions", or joining RIM. these years CPP struggles against such deviationist tendencies, reemerging as hostile parties, kept afloat by petty bourgeois sympathizers, gangster networks and reformists. CPP manages to persecute some (red areas constitute dual power, a state within the bourgeois state of the philippines), others happen to be killed (not proscribed party policy). Brief tumult ensues for some years in the philippine communist movement. CPP emerges victorious.
TKP/ML conflict with state escalates in the mid 90s, in a brutal power struggle. Its power base is the Kurdish community in Turkey. As I have limited info on the situation it's safe to limit the statement to the fact that the repression appears to remain unsuccessful as the culture of the region still is supportive (corresponding to Irish views of IRA / socialist republicans).
RCPUSA takes a turn away and in the late 90s "creates" "his own" "synthesis". It becomes another cult. Today they mostly protest and theatrically praise Bob Avakian himself in the manner a black book of communism chapter would characterize what a socialist mode of production is.
In the 90s M3W is formed as less of a political force and more of… an art project, in North America. Their activity consists of media engagement, primarily online. Their "theoretical elaboration" (that the proletariat in any imperialist nation is structurally incapable of revolution) deviate from MLM and MZT theory and practice, while retaining the militant verbiage and symbolism. They don't last more than a decade in terms of noticeable output, are still technically existing today as "MIM (Prisons)" which also still just posts stuff online, which can be described as "bizarro US exceptionalism".
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The Worldwide Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the future Global USSR (All the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are shown in the Map I posted) will flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, with all Women forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing are banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. The Worldwide flattening of the Reactionary Gender Binary will ironically cause a noticeable Global decline in Transgenders (less Men will desire to become Women once the Aesthetics of Bourgeois Femininity such as Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick, are banned for Women) in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes will still be Free and Legal to anyone who wants one, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
Additionally, any Woman who keeps her Hair longer then a Pixie cut (a Very Short Bob cut “might” be tolerated only if it is not a millimeter below the Chin, but I could change my mind on this very quickly, so it would be strongly advised that all Women keep their Hair no longer then a Pixie cut), wears a Dress/Skirt, or uses Makeup/Lipstick, will have her Head completely Shaved by the Female (mostly Lesbian) International Red Guards, who will march her through the streets wearing a Dunce Cap, force her to attend Struggle Sessions, and put her in a Re-Education Camp, where she will be taught how to become a Liberated Socialist Woman and embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
When a Woman gets her Hair Chopped/Shaved off She is symbolically breaking the Chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that Long Hair on Women symbolizes in the Patriarchal Superstructure of the modern Capitalist and historical Feudal Modes of Production (then it would have been called Aristocratic Femininity), thus meaning that Forcing Women to have extremely Short Hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), along with banning Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick and making everyone wear Mandatory Mao suits is the only way to Flatten the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary and create Liberated Socialist Women, as Mao said “The times have changed, Men and Women are the same”, and the only way to create a Superstructure of Gender equality that reinforces the Socialist Mode of Production is to purge the Superstructure of all vestiges of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that symbolize Patriarchal Female Subjugation and the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary (ie. Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick), and before people say “why not force Men to look like Women”, the reason why the Liberated Socialist Woman must have the aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity (ie. extremely Short Hair, wearing Mao Suits instead of Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick, etc.) is because the Aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, while the Aesthetics of Bourgeois “Femininity” symbolize Weakness, Dependence, and being an Oppressed “Object”, so a Liberated Socialist Woman must have Aesthetics that symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, in a Socialist Superstructure of total Gender Equality resulting from the Flattening of the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary and the destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
The Worldwide Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the future Global USSR (All the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR are shown in the Map I posted) will flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, with all Women forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing are banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. The Worldwide flattening of the Reactionary Gender Binary will ironically cause a noticeable Global decline in Transgenders (less Men will desire to become Women once the Aesthetics of Bourgeois Femininity such as Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick, are banned for Women) in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes will still be Free and Legal to anyone who wants one, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
Additionally, any Woman who keeps her Hair longer then a Pixie cut (a Very Short Bob cut “might” be tolerated only if it is not a millimeter below the Chin, but I could change my mind on this very quickly, so it would be strongly advised that all Women keep their Hair no longer then a Pixie cut), wears a Dress/Skirt, or uses Makeup/Lipstick, will have her Head completely Shaved by the Female (mostly Lesbian) International Red Guards, who will march her through the streets wearing a Dunce Cap, force her to attend Struggle Sessions, and put her in a Re-Education Camp, where she will be taught how to become a Liberated Socialist Woman and embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
When a Woman gets her Hair Chopped/Shaved off She is symbolically breaking the Chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that Long Hair on Women symbolizes in the Patriarchal Superstructure of the modern Capitalist and historical Feudal Modes of Production (then it would have been called Aristocratic Femininity), thus meaning that Forcing Women to have extremely Short Hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), along with banning Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick and making everyone wear Mandatory Mao suits is the only way to Flatten the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary and create Liberated Socialist Women, as Mao said “The times have changed, Men and Women are the same”, and the only way to create a Superstructure of Gender equality that reinforces the Socialist Mode of Production is to purge the Superstructure of all vestiges of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity that symbolize Patriarchal Female Subjugation and the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary (ie. Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick), and before people say “why not force Men to look like Women”, the reason why the Liberated Socialist Woman must have the aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity (ie. extremely Short Hair, wearing Mao Suits instead of Dresses/Skirts and Makeup/Lipstick, etc.) is because the Aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, while the Aesthetics of Bourgeois “Femininity” symbolize Weakness, Dependence, and being an Oppressed “Object”, so a Liberated Socialist Woman must have Aesthetics that symbolize Strength, Independence/Autonomy, and being a Liberated “Subject”, in a Socialist Superstructure of total Gender Equality resulting from the Flattening of the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary and the destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️ 💇♀️👩🦲!
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THE AESTHETICS OF COMMUNISM
This thread will describe what exact superstructural changes will occur in the aftermath of a Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution once the Material Base has been transformed after the Socialist Mode of Production has been established Worldwide. Enjoy Comrades, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
I will present a thought experiment, what will the World look like a century from now, decades after the World Maoist Protracted People's War (PPW) swept the forces of Capital and Reaction into the dustpan of History in the aftermath of World War III (it started in the Late 2020s as a High-Intensity Conventional Conflict between the U$ and China that escalated into a Global Nuclear War, but contrary to most Pseudoscientific Bourgeois Liberal and Revisionist expectations did not cause an apocalyptic "Nuclear Winter", but instead destroyed the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System and allowed for a World Maoist PPW that saw Maoist rebels seize control of the entire planet after decades of guerrilla warfare), 🤔? This Effort post will seek to answer that question, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
First, I will explain the political structure of this future Socialist world. There will be a Global USSR, in which every major Nation/Ethnic group will receive their own SSR or ASSR according to the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principle of Self-Determination of all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR (as articulated in Stalin’s “Marxism and the National Question” https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm and Lenin’s “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination” https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm , along with the National Delimitation Policy of the USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_delimitation_in_the_Soviet_Union ), including New Afrika, Aztlan (in a Hispano-American SFSR that includes all the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas), the First Nations, Azawad, Oromia, Afaria, Basque Country, Catalonia, Scotland, Wales, Sapmi, Palestine (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Kurdistan, Circassia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Tatarstan, Arabistan (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Balochistan, East Turkestan/Uyghuristan, Tibet, Kashmir, Punjab, Sindh, Manipur, West Papua, Aboriginal Australia, Hawaii, and many others as shown in the Map of all the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR I posted. Obviously, this Global USSR will have a Socialist Mode of Production (Centrally Planned Socialist Economy) and Dictatorship of the Proletariat (One-Party Marxist-Leninist-Maoist State). This Centrally Planned Socialist Economy is characterized by State ownership of all companies, a State Planning Agency, the outlawing of Stock Exchanges, and a massive Social Safety Net consisting of Free Housing, Free Healthcare, Free Education, a Job Guarantee, and a Universal Basic Income, along with a long-term effort to Automate the entire Economy (hence the need for Universal Basic Income) on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
The first great Superstructural transformation brought by the Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was the final destruction of that great “Opiate of the Masses” that had been used by all the ruling Classes of every previous Mode of Production to neuter the oppressed Classes, Religion. This was done by sending the International Red Guards to bulldoze/burn down all Churches/Mosques/Synagogues/Temples/Pagodas worldwide and arrest all Priests/Monks/Nuns/Imams/Rabbis and force them to March through the streets wearing Dunce Caps on their way to the re-education camps where they were re-educated to embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (This also happened to all Fascists, Liberals, and Revisionists as well), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
Another key aspect of this Superstructural transformation was seen in the dramatic transformation of Urban planning that was carried out by the Global USSR. This process was made easier by the aftermath of World War III (especially the Nuclear Exchange) and the subsequent World Maoist PPW that left most cities as smoldering ruins and thus in desperate need of rebuilding. The new “People’s cities” were built to be as efficient, environmentally friendly, and high-density as possible, with the entire population living in high-density Concrete Commie Bloc Apartment buildings, and all Suburban McMansions/“Single-Family Homes” bull-dozed and left to be reclaimed by nature (most had already been destroyed anyway). At the center of every major city is a single massive Skyscraper that contains all the administrative agencies of the various SSRs/ASSRs, including the local CPSU headquarters. Additionally, these cities have been designed to be as walkable as possible (this, combined with the Worldwide ban of all GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, ended the Global Obesity epidemic that was already reduced significantly by the decades of Conventional and Nuclear Warfare), with all Automobile ownership outlawed, and most transportation carried out by Mass Rail Transit (ie. Subways, Streetcars, Bullet trains, etc.) powered by Electricity from exclusively renewable sources (ie. Wind, Solar, Hydro, Nuclear, Geothermal, etc.), thus ending Global Warming (The Global Nuclear War already helped this, by thinning the World population and reducing temperatures with the mild fallout). All Rural populations employed in agriculture live in Collective Farms until this sector can be completely Automated and they can be moved to the Cities, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
Finally, the Superstructural changes that resulted from the necessary Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution included dramatic changes in the nature of Sexuality, Gender Roles, and Personal Expression. In order to flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, all Women are forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses and Makeup were banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing were banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. Interestingly, their has been a noticeable decline in Transgenders in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes are still Free and Legal to anyone who wants one. The nature of Sexuality has changed dramatically with the elimination of the Reactionary emphasis on Reproduction, considering that that are now Artificial wombs, in order to finally free women from the oppressive nature of child birth. Homosexuality is obviously completely Legal and totally accepted, with the caveat that the institution of Marriage (both Homosexual and Heterosexual) has been completely phased out as a relic of Reactionary culture in favor of much looser sexual relationships among consenting adults. Finally, all Drugs have been legalized for recreational purposes, in order to simultaneously end the discriminatory and classist nature of the Global War on Drugs waged by the Old Reactionary Bourgeois order, and unleash the creativity of the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World as they travel on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
THE AESTHETICS OF COMMUNISM
This thread will describe what exact superstructural changes will occur in the aftermath of a Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution once the Material Base has been transformed after the Socialist Mode of Production has been established Worldwide. Enjoy Comrades, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
I will present a thought experiment, what will the World look like a century from now, decades after the World Maoist Protracted People's War (PPW) swept the forces of Capital and Reaction into the dustpan of History in the aftermath of World War III (it started in the Late 2020s as a High-Intensity Conventional Conflict between the U$ and China that escalated into a Global Nuclear War, but contrary to most Pseudoscientific Bourgeois Liberal and Revisionist expectations did not cause an apocalyptic "Nuclear Winter", but instead destroyed the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System and allowed for a World Maoist PPW that saw Maoist rebels seize control of the entire planet after decades of guerrilla warfare), 🤔? This Effort post will seek to answer that question, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
First, I will explain the political structure of this future Socialist world. There will be a Global USSR, in which every major Nation/Ethnic group will receive their own SSR or ASSR according to the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principle of Self-Determination of all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR (as articulated in Stalin’s “Marxism and the National Question” https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm and Lenin’s “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination” https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm , along with the National Delimitation Policy of the USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_delimitation_in_the_Soviet_Union ), including New Afrika, Aztlan (in a Hispano-American SFSR that includes all the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas), the First Nations, Azawad, Oromia, Afaria, Basque Country, Catalonia, Scotland, Wales, Sapmi, Palestine (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Kurdistan, Circassia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Tatarstan, Arabistan (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Balochistan, East Turkestan/Uyghuristan, Tibet, Kashmir, Punjab, Sindh, Manipur, West Papua, Aboriginal Australia, Hawaii, and many others as shown in the Map of all the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR I posted. Obviously, this Global USSR will have a Socialist Mode of Production (Centrally Planned Socialist Economy) and Dictatorship of the Proletariat (One-Party Marxist-Leninist-Maoist State). This Centrally Planned Socialist Economy is characterized by State ownership of all companies, a State Planning Agency, the outlawing of Stock Exchanges, and a massive Social Safety Net consisting of Free Housing, Free Healthcare, Free Education, a Job Guarantee, and a Universal Basic Income, along with a long-term effort to Automate the entire Economy (hence the need for Universal Basic Income) on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
The first great Superstructural transformation brought by the Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was the final destruction of that great “Opiate of the Masses” that had been used by all the ruling Classes of every previous Mode of Production to neuter the oppressed Classes, Religion. This was done by sending the International Red Guards to bulldoze/burn down all Churches/Mosques/Synagogues/Temples/Pagodas worldwide and arrest all Priests/Monks/Nuns/Imams/Rabbis and force them to March through the streets wearing Dunce Caps on their way to the re-education camps where they were re-educated to embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (This also happened to all Fascists, Liberals, and Revisionists as well), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
Another key aspect of this Superstructural transformation was seen in the dramatic transformation of Urban planning that was carried out by the Global USSR. This process was made easier by the aftermath of World War III (especially the Nuclear Exchange) and the subsequent World Maoist PPW that left most cities as smoldering ruins and thus in desperate need of rebuilding. The new “People’s cities” were built to be as efficient, environmentally friendly, and high-density as possible, with the entire population living in high-density Concrete Commie Bloc Apartment buildings, and all Suburban McMansions/“Single-Family Homes” bull-dozed and left to be reclaimed by nature (most had already been destroyed anyway). At the center of every major city is a single massive Skyscraper that contains all the administrative agencies of the various SSRs/ASSRs, including the local CPSU headquarters. Additionally, these cities have been designed to be as walkable as possible (this, combined with the Worldwide ban of all GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, ended the Global Obesity epidemic that was already reduced significantly by the decades of Conventional and Nuclear Warfare), with all Automobile ownership outlawed, and most transportation carried out by Mass Rail Transit (ie. Subways, Streetcars, Bullet trains, etc.) powered by Electricity from exclusively renewable sources (ie. Wind, Solar, Hydro, Nuclear, Geothermal, etc.), thus ending Global Warming (The Global Nuclear War already helped this, by thinning the World population and reducing temperatures with the mild fallout). All Rural populations employed in agriculture live in Collective Farms until this sector can be completely Automated and they can be moved to the Cities, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
Finally, the Superstructural changes that resulted from the necessary Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution included dramatic changes in the nature of Sexuality, Gender Roles, and Personal Expression. In order to flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, all Women are forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses and Makeup were banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing were banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. Interestingly, their has been a noticeable decline in Transgenders in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes are still Free and Legal to anyone who wants one. The nature of Sexuality has changed dramatically with the elimination of the Reactionary emphasis on Reproduction, considering that that are now Artificial wombs, in order to finally free women from the oppressive nature of child birth. Homosexuality is obviously completely Legal and totally accepted, with the caveat that the institution of Marriage (both Homosexual and Heterosexual) has been completely phased out as a relic of Reactionary culture in favor of much looser sexual relationships among consenting adults. Finally, all Drugs have been legalized for recreational purposes, in order to simultaneously end the discriminatory and classist nature of the Global War on Drugs waged by the Old Reactionary Bourgeois order, and unleash the creativity of the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World as they travel on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀☢️!
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https://secapedia.org/index.php/The_Great_Vichan_Crisis
Don’t move this thread
Vichan has been abandoned now and there’s a massive bug (idk how or why) where a single hacker has been gaining access to imageboards and killing them off for blackmail it looks like.
There’s a conspiracy that this is by the admin of the sharty to wipe out competition and establish a monopoly for some reason.
Is this site’s shit up to date?
https://secapedia.org/index.php/The_Great_Vichan_Crisis
Don’t move this thread
Vichan has been abandoned now and there’s a massive bug (idk how or why) where a single hacker has been gaining access to imageboards and killing them off for blackmail it looks like.
There’s a conspiracy that this is by the admin of the sharty to wipe out competition and establish a monopoly for some reason.
Is this site’s shit up to date?
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Over 37 never-before-heard tracks and performances of noise rock, post-punk, post-hardcore, electronic, emo, shoegaze, death metal, and more!
https://atlantaagainstgenocide.bandcamp.com/album/atlanta-against-genocide-vol-3
Atlanta Against Genocide Vol. 3
Out August 1st!Over 37 never-before-heard tracks and performances of noise rock, post-punk, post-hardcore, electronic, emo, shoegaze, death metal, and more!
https://atlantaagainstgenocide.bandcamp.com/album/atlanta-against-genocide-vol-3
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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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Am I trans?
Sometimes I get dysphoria, but it's rare and not "that" bad. I would push le button without hesitation, but I don't hate my body. I feel I can't fit in with either cis or trans people. R: 12 / I: 2
Hello, guy who is discovering his bisexuality here. I’m into feminine guys and consider myself dom, but I also want to suck dick. Is that interpreted as a submissive act? I see it as an act of appreciation and a good looking dick looks like something I want to put in my mouth. Would subs interpret this as a contradiction and no longer see me as dom? Or is this highly individualistic with no general tendency to speak of? I’m likely very biased by a straight viewpoint, so I was wondering.
Hello, guy who is discovering his bisexuality here. I’m into feminine guys and consider myself dom, but I also want to suck dick. Is that interpreted as a submissive act? I see it as an act of appreciation and a good looking dick looks like something I want to put in my mouth. Would subs interpret this as a contradiction and no longer see me as dom? Or is this highly individualistic with no general tendency to speak of? I’m likely very biased by a straight viewpoint, so I was wondering.
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Questions from CisHet-Anons that don’t deserve their own threads
I have seen so many Cishet Anons (including me) ask questions on this board but create new threads in doing so. So I decided to make this thread so we don’t have to clutter up the board.
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>Deleted all posts by IP address: xxxx
Are you nuts? Why the fuck would you do that if you only need to delete one post?
Literally every, or almost every, ban comes with this.
>Deleted all posts by IP address: xxxx
Are you nuts? Why the fuck would you do that if you only need to delete one post?
Literally every, or almost every, ban comes with this.
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On the Rainbow Liberal Question
Why do some on >>>/lgbt/ treat cishet men as if they are the imperialist bourgeoisie and should we add a rule to ban the rainbow liberals who propagate such braindead discourse on this board thinking they're in good company?
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What is to be done with Poles and other Volkerabfaelle?
The Polish Question
Third worldism taught us that oppressed nations can become oppressors once they snatch a seat at the imperial table. Poles were once white negroes. Now NATO uniforms wash away solidarity. Marx exalted them. Today, the city of COMECON friendship kisses the Pentagon's boot and calls it sovereignty. Yesterday's revolutionary becomes today's border guard.What is to be done with Poles and other Volkerabfaelle?
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i saw in a letter by marx he doesnt feel the need to prove it but i rlly dont understand
can someone please explain the ltv (with proof)? trying to read das
trying to read das but both it and secondary sources take the labor value theory as a 'given'i saw in a letter by marx he doesnt feel the need to prove it but i rlly dont understand
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This increases the safety of Donald Trump the most. How do you plan on stopping him?
Donald Trump Vs ... ?
The correct play for America is actually to force allied countries to adopt a 0 immigration policy.This increases the safety of Donald Trump the most. How do you plan on stopping him?
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/ck/ -- everything cooking related
Onyo edition
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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
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I reached mid 20s with barely any experience, autism made sure of that. Kissed a drunk lesbian once, I don't even think I looked that cute for a guy in his 20s, so I was honored more than anything. Broke up a friendship with a trans girl after some hasty choices, but she was crazy anyways. Now focusing on friends, making and deepening them.
Wish I had a man I understood and was understood by, someone light-hearted and whimsical to have fun with on the short time I have here on Earth. Femboy-ish ig, not masculine, but takes care of himself, with a touch of femininity to him. Impartial on sex, willing to do it, might be fun even.
One thing I like is the idea of relations as temporary, serial monogamy if you will. I'm all for loyalty while in a relation, but that doesn't necessarily mean it must be forever and ever. People change, why shouldn't their relations? Admittedly I do see the romance in a lifelong relation, sticking with someone and changing together with them. Besides looking for a new partner every x amount of years sounds exhausting.
Romance & Love thread
Figured I made a thread to share our romantic experiences – or lack of thereof, – opinions, wishes and advice. That is part of the whole LGBT experience besides the sex and gender.I reached mid 20s with barely any experience, autism made sure of that. Kissed a drunk lesbian once, I don't even think I looked that cute for a guy in his 20s, so I was honored more than anything. Broke up a friendship with a trans girl after some hasty choices, but she was crazy anyways. Now focusing on friends, making and deepening them.
Wish I had a man I understood and was understood by, someone light-hearted and whimsical to have fun with on the short time I have here on Earth. Femboy-ish ig, not masculine, but takes care of himself, with a touch of femininity to him. Impartial on sex, willing to do it, might be fun even.
One thing I like is the idea of relations as temporary, serial monogamy if you will. I'm all for loyalty while in a relation, but that doesn't necessarily mean it must be forever and ever. People change, why shouldn't their relations? Admittedly I do see the romance in a lifelong relation, sticking with someone and changing together with them. Besides looking for a new partner every x amount of years sounds exhausting.
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Laws, religion, governments, wars, technology and farming destroyed us as a species
Think about it. Humans have been around for 300,000 years and didn't have code of law until the last 3,800 during the Bronze Age when Hammurabi ruled Mesopotamia. Before that, humans were animals just like any other. Before the farming revolution of the neolithic period 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, we were all hunter-gatherers. The moment we switched from stones to metal was the moment humanity messed up. When we were cave and hut dwellers, our world was way different. Humans are going outside of their very nature to enslave itself, basically. Laws, religions, all of these are forms of control. We need to stop pretending we are above other animals. We are destroying the world with our bullshit.
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Android phone models/brands
What are some genuinely good phones that do not shit the bed after 3 years, and without software updates shitting it's functionality? I've been stuck with Samsung, falling for propoganda that it's long-lasting when in reality they've just added some new pointless OS updates that makes it slower to use.
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<MAGGOT SPACING
We should also discuss gamerules (allow crits? don't allow crits? add this plugin? dont add this plugin? etc,etcetc)
<MAGGOT SPACING
If this thread gets enough interest with multiple anons wanting to participate then it's a deal. AND WE SHOULD MAKE THE MOST OF IT!
<MAGGOT SPACING
My proposed dates for when this could happen:
07/25 - 18:30 EDT (UTC-4)
07/26 - 18:40 EDT (UTC-4)
MarxFortress 2 / TF2 / LETS, HAVE, FUN!
We should organize a date and time where we all hop on a game for a couple of hours. I know how to run TF2 servers and have experience running one. If there's anybody who is more confident in running a tf2 server, then be our guest.<MAGGOT SPACING
We should also discuss gamerules (allow crits? don't allow crits? add this plugin? dont add this plugin? etc,etcetc)
<MAGGOT SPACING
If this thread gets enough interest with multiple anons wanting to participate then it's a deal. AND WE SHOULD MAKE THE MOST OF IT!
<MAGGOT SPACING
My proposed dates for when this could happen:
07/25 - 18:30 EDT (UTC-4)
07/26 - 18:40 EDT (UTC-4)
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And so i had to temporarily stop HRT and i feel like i'm dying, currently in a state of induced menopause for a couple of months more and my god, the cold sweats, my throat closes because of the anxiety, depersonalization and disociation makes it hard to do anything besides bedrotting and playing fast paced shooters that let me keep my brain in a constant state of focus in such tasks
and i swear to god, the only thing keeping me from letting me fall apart right now, since my mother decided to stop talking to me because i refused to boymode for her, it's my boyfriend and our future together raising our children in Spain and having them visit their grandparents in México- which hopefully won't go to hell because my brother's gen decide to elect a right winger as president of México to fuck everything up and sell everything to Israel and the US.
Distract me from the pain
So, i realized i want to be a mom a while ago, which had me crying a lot for days til i spoke to a therapist, and my endocrinologist.And so i had to temporarily stop HRT and i feel like i'm dying, currently in a state of induced menopause for a couple of months more and my god, the cold sweats, my throat closes because of the anxiety, depersonalization and disociation makes it hard to do anything besides bedrotting and playing fast paced shooters that let me keep my brain in a constant state of focus in such tasks
and i swear to god, the only thing keeping me from letting me fall apart right now, since my mother decided to stop talking to me because i refused to boymode for her, it's my boyfriend and our future together raising our children in Spain and having them visit their grandparents in México- which hopefully won't go to hell because my brother's gen decide to elect a right winger as president of México to fuck everything up and sell everything to Israel and the US.
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Chaos Theory and MGS3 proably my two favorite stealth games
MGS vs Splinter Cell ideology
MGS Aside does Splinter Cell critique anything on the right, yeah I know tom clancy blah blah, but I thought it's funny because Chaos Theory is directed by a Socialist and the first game by a Liberal which I find ironicChaos Theory and MGS3 proably my two favorite stealth games
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PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
Fuck flood detection
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
Canada Thread 2: People's Republic of Carney
Previous thread:PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
Fuck flood detection
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
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FARC
What's up with FARC? I don't see much discussion of them in leftist circles despite being a communist ML group? Are/were they just drug traffickers and gangsters, or a real political movement?
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>Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.
>Or just walk away.
>AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.
>It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today.
>There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.
>Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs" standpoint.
>But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem to do.
>The solution is to make sure those LLM tools _help_ maintainers instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that side.
>We're not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore people who try to argue against other people from using it.
>And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time.
>Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either.
>The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.
>Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project.
>This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be.
>In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.
>And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools.
>Linus
linus torvalds pro-AI meltdown
>I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.>Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.
>Or just walk away.
>AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.
>It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today.
>There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.
>Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs" standpoint.
>But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem to do.
>The solution is to make sure those LLM tools _help_ maintainers instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that side.
>We're not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore people who try to argue against other people from using it.
>And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time.
>Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either.
>The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.
>Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project.
>This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be.
>In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.
>And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools.
>Linus
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Not like random murder or other such crimes, more like riotting, looting, stealing, treason, assassinations, etc. Its like everyone wants to react on their class anger but only few do so.
Urge to commit crime
Why does everyone have a urge to commit crime and strike at the empire, but never do such?Not like random murder or other such crimes, more like riotting, looting, stealing, treason, assassinations, etc. Its like everyone wants to react on their class anger but only few do so.
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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/
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
/ 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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She's clearly nerdy and shy which gets me going. She comes in and makes tea while wearing neon blue headphones sometimes and is oblivious. I like watching her bend over the copy machine.
Anyways, I'm pretty sure it would be a bad idea to actually hit on her, I really like this job and I'm 33 (though young looking) and she's like in her early 20s I think so I don't wanna get fired for being a groomer or whatever. Plus I just don't wanna make things awkward in general or make her uncomfortable at work.
What should I do anons? Other than furiously jerk off thinking about her? Should I embrace my chaser urges? What if she likes me too?
I keep lusting after this girl at my work that I think is trans
There's this girl at my work who I really wanna cuddle up with/bang, she's like a recent graduate student or something, at first she was really shy but gotten more friendly over time. She's really tall and I kinda get the vibe she might be a transgirl, not like I can just ask obviously, or not like it really matters, but I feel fantasizing about fucking her cute ass. I wanna get her to warm up with me more and get more comfortable with each other.She's clearly nerdy and shy which gets me going. She comes in and makes tea while wearing neon blue headphones sometimes and is oblivious. I like watching her bend over the copy machine.
Anyways, I'm pretty sure it would be a bad idea to actually hit on her, I really like this job and I'm 33 (though young looking) and she's like in her early 20s I think so I don't wanna get fired for being a groomer or whatever. Plus I just don't wanna make things awkward in general or make her uncomfortable at work.
What should I do anons? Other than furiously jerk off thinking about her? Should I embrace my chaser urges? What if she likes me too?
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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™.
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>Gigabazed EditionA 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™.
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Doing Time
If you are queer in prison you are statistically much more likely to get abused and raped than if you are a literal child molester. I doubt leftists would fare much better in the hyper macho rightoid environment that prison is. Not to mention the guards that will intentionally set you up to get attacked if they dont like your politics. I have done time in a criminally insane institution though im not sure how much authotity i have to speak on this considering the environment is a usually regarded and softer and my crime was not necessarily political, even though we had rape and beatdowns there too, though i kept my opinions on anything to myself and minded my own bussiness so i avoided the bulk of the drama. Still, leftists have a big disadvantage on this front considering any type of violent action in service of the revolution will have to face this reality. This will deter a lot of people and i feel especially sad for the queer people that endure so much violence form the right yet cant retaliate because the alternative is being thrown into a sadistic rape dungeon to be tortured till suicide by both cops and inmates. This is a major blackpill a lot of people here are not ready to swallow.
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>why
idkno, they have aura, well at least mamdani, and also planter makes the maga seethe so i support him for that and only that.
I like mamdani
I like mamdani and planter>why
idkno, they have aura, well at least mamdani, and also planter makes the maga seethe so i support him for that and only that.
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>What companies manufacture electronics in America?
>How many people work at these companies making electronics specifically for the military?
>Does manufacturing electronics for the military help people? Is there something else that workers should be doing?
>If people did something else, would quality of life in America go up, or would it go down instead?
I am interested in hearing some opinions. ANSWER ME DAMN IT!!1
Noire Mystery
>How many people are employed in electronics manufacturing in America?>What companies manufacture electronics in America?
>How many people work at these companies making electronics specifically for the military?
>Does manufacturing electronics for the military help people? Is there something else that workers should be doing?
>If people did something else, would quality of life in America go up, or would it go down instead?
I am interested in hearing some opinions. ANSWER ME DAMN IT!!1
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While being a stupid bi moid, I've always been drawn to a very androgynous look because of a certain aversion to masculinity and many things associated with it - I'm very proud of my long hair, and I know that if I ever get a receding hairline, It'll be either Turkey or the rope due to body dysmorphia. One of the best experiences of my life was being accidentally misgendered and hit on by a drunk alt lesbian. The whole general male pickup culture, its toxicity, and the way it objectifies the other person really disgusted me - not to mention that most of the foids, and people in general, seemed like goycattle not worth paying attention to and devoid of any interests.
About a year ago, I met a older than me twink at a philosophy group at uni. He also had an andro appearance, we shared a similarly complex view of gender, he was also bi and a bottom (it wasn't hard to figure out) - he studied something related to HR, and I started to appreciate his genuine, even a little naive, woke stance, especially compared to the cynicism that had built up in me. As time went on, I started to like him more and more and wanted to spend as much time with him as possible; I even waited in places where I knew he would be passing by, hoping to bump into him *by chance*. At some point, I realized that I was romantically attracted to him.
This is a post in style of "i am a sad lonely faggot, here's some embarrassing information about me, please dont bully me with it", but honestly, I've never had any experience with picking up or flirting. So I feel pathetic because I can't even convey to him that I like him. I've known him for a year - we even ride the same train home from our philosophy group - but I don't know how to subtly let him know how much I want to fuck him and give him a blowjob. I know my problem is just me being a pathetic loser, but how the fuck do I pick up a theymab woke twink?
While being a stupid bi moid, I've always been drawn to a very androgynous look because of a certain aversion to masculinity and many things associated with it - I'm very proud of my long hair, and I know that if I ever get a receding hairline, It'll be either Turkey or the rope due to body dysmorphia. One of the best experiences of my life was being accidentally misgendered and hit on by a drunk alt lesbian. The whole general male pickup culture, its toxicity, and the way it objectifies the other person really disgusted me - not to mention that most of the foids, and people in general, seemed like goycattle not worth paying attention to and devoid of any interests.
About a year ago, I met a older than me twink at a philosophy group at uni. He also had an andro appearance, we shared a similarly complex view of gender, he was also bi and a bottom (it wasn't hard to figure out) - he studied something related to HR, and I started to appreciate his genuine, even a little naive, woke stance, especially compared to the cynicism that had built up in me. As time went on, I started to like him more and more and wanted to spend as much time with him as possible; I even waited in places where I knew he would be passing by, hoping to bump into him *by chance*. At some point, I realized that I was romantically attracted to him.
This is a post in style of "i am a sad lonely faggot, here's some embarrassing information about me, please dont bully me with it", but honestly, I've never had any experience with picking up or flirting. So I feel pathetic because I can't even convey to him that I like him. I've known him for a year - we even ride the same train home from our philosophy group - but I don't know how to subtly let him know how much I want to fuck him and give him a blowjob. I know my problem is just me being a pathetic loser, but how the fuck do I pick up a theymab woke twink?
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World Revolution & Coffee
A little known topic about how the basis of Vietnamesse coffee production came from their socialist era. Trade agreements that benefit the client state are rare and shows how communism can work
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i just want endless hype moments
i don't want to "read theory", i don't want to "liberate the proletariat". all i want is to see fucking awesome stalin edits and videos about how the red army destroyed everything that was in their way. why can't the left do this for me? the chuds have figured out that putting phonk and hitler into a tiktok is sick af, why can't tankies do this?
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CSAM ALERT
Its on siberia again
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Writing and Fanfiction General
Thread for those who like to read and write including fanfiction. Share drafts, look for beta-readers, ask for writing advice, give recommendations and do all that other cool jazz. Just remember to not bully anyone else no matter how shit their taste might be.
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>Do people on this forum like progressive rock/krautrock/space rock
Post data: listen to king crimson
Progressive rock
From progarchives to leftypol by pomodoro64:>Do people on this forum like progressive rock/krautrock/space rock
Post data: listen to king crimson
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Hip Hop General
Hip hop of any genre
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How do i stop feeling like a creep?
How do i stop feeling like a chaser?
I love trans women but i also love cis women and guys and i genuinely see tgirls as real women. I consider support for the trans community an integral part of my political worldview yet every time i see one and think shes hot i always have that though go through my head and i feel disgusted by myself. This happens specially when i watch trans porn even though thats just one of the many types of porn i watch. It got to the point that if i ever met a transwoman in real life id be too scared to even look at her let alone talk to her for fear that i might come off as a chaser. I do have ocd which might play a part but it is not one of the main themes currently so i dont think its that aloneHow do i stop feeling like a creep?
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Naruto General
Is there a character that could even possibly EVEN TOUCH Madara Uchiha? Let alone defeat him. And I'm not talking about Edo Tensei Uchiha Madara. I'm not talking about Gedou Rinne Tensei Uchiha Madara either. Hell, I'm not even talking about Juubi Jinchuuriki Gedou Rinne Tensei Uchiha Madara with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan and Rinnegan doujutsus (with the rikodou abilities and being capable of both Amateratsu and Tsukuyomi genjutsu), equipped with his Gunbai, a perfect Susano'o, control of the juubi and Gedou Mazou, with Hashirama Senju's DNA implanted in him so he has mokuton kekkei genkai and can perform yin yang release ninjutsu while being an expert in kenjutsu and taijutsu. I’m also not talking about Kono Yo no Kyūseishu Futarime no Rikudō Juubi Jinchuuriki Gedou Rinne Tensei Uchiha Madara with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan (which is capable of Enton Amaterasu, Izanagi, Izanami and the Tsyukuyomi Genjutsu), his two original Rinnegan (which grant him Chikushōdō, Shuradō, Tendō, Ningendō, Jigokudō, Gakidō, Gedō, Banshō Ten’in, Chibaku Tensei, Shinra Tensei, Tengai Shinsei and Banbutsu Sōzō) and a third Tomoe Rinnegan on his forehead, capable of using Katon, Fūton, Raiton, Doton, Suiton, Mokuton, Ranton, Inton, Yōton and even Onmyōton Jutsu, equipped with his Gunbai(capable of using Uchihagaeshi) and a Shakujō because he is a master in kenjutsu and taijutsu, a perfect Susano’o (that can use Yasaka no Magatama ), control of both the Juubi and the Gedou Mazou, with Hashirama Senju’s DNA and face implanted on his chest, his four Rinbo Hengoku Clones guarding him and nine Gudōdama floating behind him AFTER he absorbed Senjutsu from the First Hokage, entered Rikudō Senjutsu Mode, cast Mugen Tsukuyomi on everybody and used Shin: Jukai Kōtan so he can use their Chakra while they are under Genjutsu. I'm definitely NOT Talking about sagemode sage of the six paths Juubi Jinchuuriki Gedou Rinne Tensei Super Saiyan 4 Uchiha Madara with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, Rinnegan, Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, and Geass doujutsus, equipped with Shining Tvåldtäktzohedron while casting Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann as his Susanoo, controlling the Gold Experience Requiem stand, having become the original vampire after Alucard, able to tap into the speedforce, wearing the Kamen Rider Black RX suit and Gedou Mazou, with Hashirama Senju's DNA implanted in him so he has mokuton kekkei genkai and can perform yin yang release ninjutsu while being an expert in kenjutsu and taijutsu and having eaten Popeye's spinach. I'm talking about sagemode sage of the six paths Juubi Jinchuuriki Gedou Rinne Tensei Legendary Super Saiyan 4 Uchiha Madara with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, Rinnegan, Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, and Geass doujutsus, equipped with his Shining Tvåldtäktzohedron while casting Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann as his Susanoo, controlling the Gold Experience Requiem stand, having become the original vampire after having absorbed Alucard as well as a God Hand, able to tap into the speedforce, wearing the Kamen Rider Black RX suit, with Kryptonian DNA implanted in him and having eaten Popeye's spinach while possessing quantum powers like Dr. Manhattan and having mastered Hokuto Shinken.
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The document, signed by prosecutor Brayan Melgar Ledezma of the specialized corruption prosecution unit, names Morales and other unidentified individuals in connection with six alleged offenses: armed uprising against the security and sovereignty of the state, terrorism, endangering the safety of transportation, criminal association, public incitement to commit crimes, and endangering the safety of public services. The investigation stems from a complaint filed by the Pro Santa Cruz Civic Committee, later joined by the Interior Ministry.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/07/30/bolivia-issues-arrest-order-against-morales-over-may-and-june-road-blockades
Murder victims in Ecuador were conducting probes into Noboa and US boat strikes
On June 15, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa was received at the Pentagon by US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who thanked him for being a founding member of Donald Trump's “Shield of the Americas” coalition. “You have been a model partner with us,” Hegseth told him. In the week before that meeting, two women behind probes into the criminal activities of both governments and the Noboas were killed.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/07/29/dwub-j29.html
Child soldiers recount horrors of Sudan’s war and presence of Colombian mercenaries
The rare, firsthand accounts show the perils faced by tens of thousands of children believed to have been conscripted into the war by all sides. Six former child soldiers who were abducted and forced to fight with the Rapid Support Forces, known as the RSF, spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. Two said they were trained by Colombians.
https://apnews.com/article/sudan-war-child-soldiers-colombia-mercenaries-uae-rsf-9730de7a24a28895b2c2c500e7c1fd6b
Detained Ugandan opposition leader Besigye in intensive care, wife says
Detained Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been hospitalised in an unresponsive state after he collapsed during a court hearing on Wednesday, according to his wife. Besigye, who has been in prison since late 2024 on treason charges, is now “unconscious, unable to speak, and unresponsive”, his wife, Winnie Byanyima, said in a post on X on Thursday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/30/detained-ugandan-opposition-leader-besigye-in-intensive-care-wife-says
https://archive.ph/VgMZk
15-point draft peace plan between Hamas and Israel in Gaza
The agreement forms part of the latest attempt to end Israel's campaign of killing in the besieged Palestinian territory. In a statement on X, the Board of Peace wrote: "The agreement concludes months of intensive, good faith negotiations to advance President Donald J. Trump's vision for establishing new governance, security, humanitarian relief, reconstruction, and economic recovery in Gaza as set out in the Comprehensive Peace Plan and U.N. Security Council Resolution 2803."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/full-text-15-point-draft-peace-plan-between-hamas-and-israel-gaza
Turkey detains another opposition mayor among dozens of suspects in crackdown
Mayor Erdal Besikcioglu was among 37 municipality employees detained after police raided the municipality in western Ankara. Detention warrants were issued for a total 55 suspects, including 18 company officials, the ministry said. Three suspects were still being sought. It was the latest step in an unprecedented legal crackdown on municipalities run by the main opposition to President Tayyip Erdogan.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-detains-another-opposition-mayor-among-many-crackdown
Oil spill from shadow fleet tanker spreading off Oman, satellite images show
A sanctions-hit tanker is leaking oil off the coast of Oman and the spill has spread in recent days, increasing concern about possible environmental damage to coastal areas, according to an analysis of satellite imagery and shipping specialists. The Caroline Bezengi took Russian oil on board at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk before leaving for its most recent voyage, ship tracking data shows.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/07/oil-spill-shadow-fleet-tanker-spreading-oman-satellite-images-show
Germany widens deportations to Afghanistan
Things would likely have turned out very differently had Faridoon Tofan not taken the bus to Italy. He had intended to go on a short trip to Rome. The 46-year-old — who had fled the Taliban to Germany just under four years ago and had since been working and learning the language — was detained during a border check in mid-April and taken directly to a deportation detention center in Munich.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-widens-deportations-to-afghanistan/a-78173466
https://archive.ph/jix1y
BP exits the North Sea after 60 years
The company currently employs 1,100 workers in the field, running five production hubs pumping out 117,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day last year. BP chief executive Meg O’Neill announced the sale, saying it would be “better positioned as part of another company.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bp-exits-north-sea-after-60-years
Nepal’s PM urges calm after unrest leaves 3 dead
Shah, who has kept a low profile since being elected in March, broke his silence to deliver his first address to the nation, calling on his countrymen to be “responsible citizens and remove the clouds of unrest”. The violence began late Sunday in a village in the southern Sunsari district, which borders India, after an argument over loud music and the use of religious flags during a Hindu procession, according to officials.
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/highlight/2026/07/31/nepal-s-pm-urges-calm-after-unrest-leaves-3-dead
Soldiers delivering school chairs an ‘insult’ to Lumad militarization victims
However, for Lala Empong, a young Lumad victimized by closure of Indigenous schools in Mindanao, the entry of the Philippine Army’s 60th Infantry Battalion is an “insult” to Lumad students who were deprived of their right to education. This is also an insult, she said, to their fellow Lumad who were allegedly killed by the military and paramilitary, citing the murder of Lumad student Obello Bay-ao and Datu Kaylo Bontolan.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/07/31/soldiers-delivering-school-chairs-an-insult-to-lumad-militarization-victims/
Pakistan’s military rejects UN report alleging hundreds of civilian deaths in strikes on Afghanistan
Chaudhry questioned recently released reports by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, and Amnesty International, saying they relied largely on accounts from Afghans despite what he described as restrictions on freedom of expression under Taliban rule. He also accused Afghanistan’s Taliban government of sheltering militants responsible for attacks inside Pakistan and said international rights organizations had failed to document such violence.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-military-rejects-un-report-afghan-casualties-566742150ca713e04bb25b6fc432e65e
News 7/31/26
Bolivia issues arrest order against Morales over May and June road blockadesThe document, signed by prosecutor Brayan Melgar Ledezma of the specialized corruption prosecution unit, names Morales and other unidentified individuals in connection with six alleged offenses: armed uprising against the security and sovereignty of the state, terrorism, endangering the safety of transportation, criminal association, public incitement to commit crimes, and endangering the safety of public services. The investigation stems from a complaint filed by the Pro Santa Cruz Civic Committee, later joined by the Interior Ministry.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/07/30/bolivia-issues-arrest-order-against-morales-over-may-and-june-road-blockades
Murder victims in Ecuador were conducting probes into Noboa and US boat strikes
On June 15, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa was received at the Pentagon by US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who thanked him for being a founding member of Donald Trump's “Shield of the Americas” coalition. “You have been a model partner with us,” Hegseth told him. In the week before that meeting, two women behind probes into the criminal activities of both governments and the Noboas were killed.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/07/29/dwub-j29.html
Child soldiers recount horrors of Sudan’s war and presence of Colombian mercenaries
The rare, firsthand accounts show the perils faced by tens of thousands of children believed to have been conscripted into the war by all sides. Six former child soldiers who were abducted and forced to fight with the Rapid Support Forces, known as the RSF, spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. Two said they were trained by Colombians.
https://apnews.com/article/sudan-war-child-soldiers-colombia-mercenaries-uae-rsf-9730de7a24a28895b2c2c500e7c1fd6b
Detained Ugandan opposition leader Besigye in intensive care, wife says
Detained Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been hospitalised in an unresponsive state after he collapsed during a court hearing on Wednesday, according to his wife. Besigye, who has been in prison since late 2024 on treason charges, is now “unconscious, unable to speak, and unresponsive”, his wife, Winnie Byanyima, said in a post on X on Thursday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/30/detained-ugandan-opposition-leader-besigye-in-intensive-care-wife-says
https://archive.ph/VgMZk
15-point draft peace plan between Hamas and Israel in Gaza
The agreement forms part of the latest attempt to end Israel's campaign of killing in the besieged Palestinian territory. In a statement on X, the Board of Peace wrote: "The agreement concludes months of intensive, good faith negotiations to advance President Donald J. Trump's vision for establishing new governance, security, humanitarian relief, reconstruction, and economic recovery in Gaza as set out in the Comprehensive Peace Plan and U.N. Security Council Resolution 2803."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/full-text-15-point-draft-peace-plan-between-hamas-and-israel-gaza
Turkey detains another opposition mayor among dozens of suspects in crackdown
Mayor Erdal Besikcioglu was among 37 municipality employees detained after police raided the municipality in western Ankara. Detention warrants were issued for a total 55 suspects, including 18 company officials, the ministry said. Three suspects were still being sought. It was the latest step in an unprecedented legal crackdown on municipalities run by the main opposition to President Tayyip Erdogan.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-detains-another-opposition-mayor-among-many-crackdown
Oil spill from shadow fleet tanker spreading off Oman, satellite images show
A sanctions-hit tanker is leaking oil off the coast of Oman and the spill has spread in recent days, increasing concern about possible environmental damage to coastal areas, according to an analysis of satellite imagery and shipping specialists. The Caroline Bezengi took Russian oil on board at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk before leaving for its most recent voyage, ship tracking data shows.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/07/oil-spill-shadow-fleet-tanker-spreading-oman-satellite-images-show
Germany widens deportations to Afghanistan
Things would likely have turned out very differently had Faridoon Tofan not taken the bus to Italy. He had intended to go on a short trip to Rome. The 46-year-old — who had fled the Taliban to Germany just under four years ago and had since been working and learning the language — was detained during a border check in mid-April and taken directly to a deportation detention center in Munich.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-widens-deportations-to-afghanistan/a-78173466
https://archive.ph/jix1y
BP exits the North Sea after 60 years
The company currently employs 1,100 workers in the field, running five production hubs pumping out 117,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day last year. BP chief executive Meg O’Neill announced the sale, saying it would be “better positioned as part of another company.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bp-exits-north-sea-after-60-years
Nepal’s PM urges calm after unrest leaves 3 dead
Shah, who has kept a low profile since being elected in March, broke his silence to deliver his first address to the nation, calling on his countrymen to be “responsible citizens and remove the clouds of unrest”. The violence began late Sunday in a village in the southern Sunsari district, which borders India, after an argument over loud music and the use of religious flags during a Hindu procession, according to officials.
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/highlight/2026/07/31/nepal-s-pm-urges-calm-after-unrest-leaves-3-dead
Soldiers delivering school chairs an ‘insult’ to Lumad militarization victims
However, for Lala Empong, a young Lumad victimized by closure of Indigenous schools in Mindanao, the entry of the Philippine Army’s 60th Infantry Battalion is an “insult” to Lumad students who were deprived of their right to education. This is also an insult, she said, to their fellow Lumad who were allegedly killed by the military and paramilitary, citing the murder of Lumad student Obello Bay-ao and Datu Kaylo Bontolan.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/07/31/soldiers-delivering-school-chairs-an-insult-to-lumad-militarization-victims/
Pakistan’s military rejects UN report alleging hundreds of civilian deaths in strikes on Afghanistan
Chaudhry questioned recently released reports by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, and Amnesty International, saying they relied largely on accounts from Afghans despite what he described as restrictions on freedom of expression under Taliban rule. He also accused Afghanistan’s Taliban government of sheltering militants responsible for attacks inside Pakistan and said international rights organizations had failed to document such violence.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-military-rejects-un-report-afghan-casualties-566742150ca713e04bb25b6fc432e65e
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/leftypol/ Ordinances
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- 'Real Proletarian' rhetoric which implies a large percentage of wage workers are not proletarians is banned - per modocracy vote passed on 2024-12-25
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"Feral" furry porn (i.e. drawn or cartoon pornography depicting a character that is a four-legged animal, or to a significant degree non-anthropomorphic) is BANNED, and will be spoilered or removed at the moderator's discretion - per modocracy vote passed on 2025-01-11Superseded by extension of rule 10 on 2025-02-17- Climate change denial, especially to the extent of excessive doomerism and BP shill tier takes, is banned - per modocracy vote passed on 2025-01-11
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Can image boards make a comeback?
X is well-known for being a reactionary shithole where all of the cheerleaders for the Epstein administration congregate together and decide which new edgy talking points they should peddle out, most of which goes “viral” and is hamfisted on the “for you” page. A lot of leftists still use that platform despite how rotten to the core it has become, since BlueSky isn’t anything more than a well-monitored echo chamber. With the rise of AI slop, bots and shills pushing for the most insane nonsense, will we see people tuning out social media and trying to find forums and image boards again?
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>Looks inside
>Actually is a highly individualized moral dilemma
Look buddy just because your moral problems have a political dimension doesnt make it political. Ask yourself whether the cause you think is political has the potential to mobilize the masses; if the only impact it has is soothing your conscience then its moral, not political, and you should by no means confuse it with actual political organizing.
You can have a moral guidelines that is separate from the political
>everything is political!!!!>Looks inside
>Actually is a highly individualized moral dilemma
Look buddy just because your moral problems have a political dimension doesnt make it political. Ask yourself whether the cause you think is political has the potential to mobilize the masses; if the only impact it has is soothing your conscience then its moral, not political, and you should by no means confuse it with actual political organizing.
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https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20230384
So what is the position on police unions and public service unions?
>Collective bargaining rights for police significantly increase police killings of civilians without having any impact on officer safety. This is consistent with the theory that unions provide cover for police and reduce their likelihood of incurring costs for unjustified killings.https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20230384
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What happens to the party after communism is established? Does anyone believe organizations like the ccp or cpk or anyother communist party in power in a country will just willingly let go of all their power?
What happens to the party after communism is established? Does anyone believe organizations like the ccp or cpk or anyother communist party in power in a country will just willingly let go of all their power?
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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
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Li ser siyaseta giştî ya Tirkiyê biaxive!
Şıma qısey bıkı Poliya Turika!
Yurtişi siyaseti p'ara yoxaleps!
تحدثوا عن السياسة العامة في تركيا!
/Türkipol/
Genel Türkiye siyaseti ile ilgili konuşun!Li ser siyaseta giştî ya Tirkiyê biaxive!
Şıma qısey bıkı Poliya Turika!
Yurtişi siyaseti p'ara yoxaleps!
تحدثوا عن السياسة العامة في تركيا!
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Literature Thread
This board needs a literature thread i think. So itt write about books you are currently reading. Feel free to post opinions, pictures and discussions about books.
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Pueden hablar del franquismo la republica o pueden hacer incluso un what if… y coño si hay alguien nazbol que hable.
/Esp/ HILO DE ESPAÑA
Lo siento me siento excluido no se si hay un tablon dedicado a europa pero me gusta hablar con gente que sabe español coño bueno si alguien es de españa que opine o hable en este hilo y si no eres tambien puedes participar.Pueden hablar del franquismo la republica o pueden hacer incluso un what if… y coño si hay alguien nazbol que hable.
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"I'm economically left and socially right"
Shut the fuck up. You aren't smart. You didn't invent some new political ideology. You're an incel chud who just prefers Soviet aesthetics instead of Nazi.
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The shift from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt toward individual responsibility and the presumption of innocence was gradual rather than revolutionary. In many ancient and medieval societies, families, clans, villages, or entire communities could be held liable for the actions of one member, and accused individuals often had to prove their innocence through oaths, ordeals, or social standing. These proofs were often ritual in nature and lacked scientific rigor. Over centuries, especially under the influence of Roman legal principles, canon law, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and liberal constitutionalism, legal systems increasingly emphasized that guilt should be based on evidence against a specific individual rather than group affiliation. Thinkers such as Beccaria and Blackstone argued that protecting the innocent from wrongful punishment was more important than maximizing convictions, leading to higher standards of proof, formal rules of evidence, due process, and the modern principle that the prosecution bears the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Despite these legal prohibitions, governments and armed groups have at times been accused of imposing measures that amount to collective punishment, especially during wars, occupations, and counterinsurgency campaigns. Whether a specific case qualifies is often legally and politically disputed.
The transformation from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt to individual liability and the presumption of innocence was driven largely by changes in state capacity and legal administration. As governments became stronger, more centralized, and more bureaucratic, they relied less on kinship groups to police their own members and more on professional courts, investigators, and judges. Improved record-keeping, forensic methods, written legal codes, and standardized procedures made it increasingly feasible (but not necessarily easy) to determine who actually committed an offense, reducing the perceived need to punish families or communities collectively. At the same time, expanding commerce and more diverse populations required legal systems that were universalist in nature, and treated strangers as individuals under uniform rules rather than as second class citizens, gradually making individualized justice and procedural safeguards the foundation of modern law.
From a class and economic perspective, the shift from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt to individual responsibility can be understood as a consequence of the rise of market economies and capitalist social relations. Collective liability was well suited to feudal and kin-based societies, where obligations were shared by households, villages, and estates, but it impeded commerce by making contracts and property rights unpredictable. As merchants, urban aristocracy, and later industrial capitalists gained influence, they demanded legal systems that treated people as autonomous individuals capable of owning property, entering contracts, and being held liable only for their own actions. The resulting legal order replaced inherited collective responsibility with individualized rights and duties, not simply out of humanitarian concern, but because wage labor, private property, investment, and impersonal markets functioned more efficiently when legal responsibility was attached to discrete individuals rather than families, classes, or communities.
However, there is a problem which persists. Engels' concept of "social murder" refers to the idea that when a social and economic system predictably produces premature death through poverty, unsafe working conditions, malnutrition, or inadequate housing, those deaths are not mere accidents but the foreseeable consequences of institutional arrangements. Under this interpretation, responsibility is diffuse rather than individualized: no single capitalist or official commits murder in the ordinary legal sense, but the ruling class collectively maintains a system whose predictable effects include preventable deaths. Should the ruling class be collectively punished for this crime, potentially undermining or reversing the the historical changes described above? Furthermore, are not the proletariat themselves being collectively punished by the bourgeoisie for the crime of being poor?
One could argue that this represents a functional return of collective punishment, despite the formal triumph of individualized criminal law. Modern legal systems generally reject punishing innocent individuals for another person's crimes, yet they often tolerate economic institutions that systematically expose entire classes to greater risks of illness, violence, and early death based on their socioeconomic position. In that sense, the poor may experience harms not because of anything they individually did, but because they belong to a structurally disadvantaged class. The "punishment" is not imposed by a judge but by social and economic arrangements.
Bourgeois apologists argue that collective punishment involves intentionally imposing penalties on innocent people for the actions of others, whereas poverty-related harms arise from impersonal market processes, policy tradeoffs, historical contingencies, or individual choices rather than a deliberate punitive intent. From this perspective, calling these outcomes "collective punishment" obscures important distinctions between legal sanctions and structural inequality.
Collective Punishment Versus Individual Responsibility
Today most legal systems nominally reject collective punishment, emphasizing individual responsibility. It is also prohibited in armed conflict under international humanitarian law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention. This was not always the case. The Athenian Draco is remembered for harsh laws, from which we get the word "Draconian" but one of his major reforms was to replace private blood feuds with state-administered justice. Before his code, killings were often avenged by the victim's family, leading to cycles of retaliation.The shift from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt toward individual responsibility and the presumption of innocence was gradual rather than revolutionary. In many ancient and medieval societies, families, clans, villages, or entire communities could be held liable for the actions of one member, and accused individuals often had to prove their innocence through oaths, ordeals, or social standing. These proofs were often ritual in nature and lacked scientific rigor. Over centuries, especially under the influence of Roman legal principles, canon law, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and liberal constitutionalism, legal systems increasingly emphasized that guilt should be based on evidence against a specific individual rather than group affiliation. Thinkers such as Beccaria and Blackstone argued that protecting the innocent from wrongful punishment was more important than maximizing convictions, leading to higher standards of proof, formal rules of evidence, due process, and the modern principle that the prosecution bears the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Despite these legal prohibitions, governments and armed groups have at times been accused of imposing measures that amount to collective punishment, especially during wars, occupations, and counterinsurgency campaigns. Whether a specific case qualifies is often legally and politically disputed.
The transformation from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt to individual liability and the presumption of innocence was driven largely by changes in state capacity and legal administration. As governments became stronger, more centralized, and more bureaucratic, they relied less on kinship groups to police their own members and more on professional courts, investigators, and judges. Improved record-keeping, forensic methods, written legal codes, and standardized procedures made it increasingly feasible (but not necessarily easy) to determine who actually committed an offense, reducing the perceived need to punish families or communities collectively. At the same time, expanding commerce and more diverse populations required legal systems that were universalist in nature, and treated strangers as individuals under uniform rules rather than as second class citizens, gradually making individualized justice and procedural safeguards the foundation of modern law.
From a class and economic perspective, the shift from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt to individual responsibility can be understood as a consequence of the rise of market economies and capitalist social relations. Collective liability was well suited to feudal and kin-based societies, where obligations were shared by households, villages, and estates, but it impeded commerce by making contracts and property rights unpredictable. As merchants, urban aristocracy, and later industrial capitalists gained influence, they demanded legal systems that treated people as autonomous individuals capable of owning property, entering contracts, and being held liable only for their own actions. The resulting legal order replaced inherited collective responsibility with individualized rights and duties, not simply out of humanitarian concern, but because wage labor, private property, investment, and impersonal markets functioned more efficiently when legal responsibility was attached to discrete individuals rather than families, classes, or communities.
However, there is a problem which persists. Engels' concept of "social murder" refers to the idea that when a social and economic system predictably produces premature death through poverty, unsafe working conditions, malnutrition, or inadequate housing, those deaths are not mere accidents but the foreseeable consequences of institutional arrangements. Under this interpretation, responsibility is diffuse rather than individualized: no single capitalist or official commits murder in the ordinary legal sense, but the ruling class collectively maintains a system whose predictable effects include preventable deaths. Should the ruling class be collectively punished for this crime, potentially undermining or reversing the the historical changes described above? Furthermore, are not the proletariat themselves being collectively punished by the bourgeoisie for the crime of being poor?
One could argue that this represents a functional return of collective punishment, despite the formal triumph of individualized criminal law. Modern legal systems generally reject punishing innocent individuals for another person's crimes, yet they often tolerate economic institutions that systematically expose entire classes to greater risks of illness, violence, and early death based on their socioeconomic position. In that sense, the poor may experience harms not because of anything they individually did, but because they belong to a structurally disadvantaged class. The "punishment" is not imposed by a judge but by social and economic arrangements.
Bourgeois apologists argue that collective punishment involves intentionally imposing penalties on innocent people for the actions of others, whereas poverty-related harms arise from impersonal market processes, policy tradeoffs, historical contingencies, or individual choices rather than a deliberate punitive intent. From this perspective, calling these outcomes "collective punishment" obscures important distinctions between legal sanctions and structural inequality.
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What am I actually supposed to read to make Hegel legible?
On making Hegel legible & such
Wtf do I actually read to understand him? I've bought Philosophy of Right, and Phenomenology of the Spirit, which I tried reading 3 times and fell asleep every single one. Tried reading Kant's Crit. of Pure Reason to understand his influences, but no.What am I actually supposed to read to make Hegel legible?
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Why are 99% of gay men attracted to cute twinks rather than masculine men? It's barely even gay to be into twinks, y'all're a bunch of posers
Why are 99% of gay men attracted to cute twinks rather than masculine men? It's barely even gay to be into twinks, y'all're a bunch of posers
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Why don't you vote third party, leftists? And no not DSA. Something else. Besides I'm afraid it might be controlled opposition anyway just like Drumpf was. We could possibly outnumber the babyboomers as well if we both voted in a legitimate third party candidate.
First on the agenda is getting away from the Middle East, and removing foreign influence from Congress. If you can do me this favor we'll chat about other things upon a compromise.
Deal?
Why don't you vote third party, leftists? And no not DSA. Something else. Besides I'm afraid it might be controlled opposition anyway just like Drumpf was. We could possibly outnumber the babyboomers as well if we both voted in a legitimate third party candidate.
First on the agenda is getting away from the Middle East, and removing foreign influence from Congress. If you can do me this favor we'll chat about other things upon a compromise.
Deal?
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>IT workers don't need an union, that's socialism and we are libertarian entrepreneurs who are going to be rich
>NOOOOOOOOOO WE JUST GOT MASS LAYOFFED AND REPLACED BY AI
Does this happen in your country?
>IT workers don't need an union, that's socialism and we are libertarian entrepreneurs who are going to be rich
>NOOOOOOOOOO WE JUST GOT MASS LAYOFFED AND REPLACED BY AI
Does this happen in your country?
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You peasants just don't get it.
it's clearly the consumer that's the problem. The management are aghast at how the public treats their workers. How could you expect somebody to work for free? Servers need tips to survive, not tipping them at least 100% is the financial equivalent of murder. It should come with jail time, because at least with real murder the victim doesn't suffer for a long time. Anybody tipping less than 120% is a monster.
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>IT workers don't need an union, that's socialism and we are libertarian entrepreneurs who are going to be rich
>NOOOOOOOOOO WE JUST GOT MASS LAYOFFED AND REPLACED BY AI
Does this happen in your country?
>IT workers don't need an union, that's socialism and we are libertarian entrepreneurs who are going to be rich
>NOOOOOOOOOO WE JUST GOT MASS LAYOFFED AND REPLACED BY AI
Does this happen in your country?
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>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™
<Outta Ammo Edition
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: >>2878074
/USApol/
🗽 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™
<Outta Ammo Edition
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: >>2878074
R: 50 / I: 8
YES I DID IT. I SOLVED CAPITALISM. BE BOURGEOISIE NOT A WORKER. THE BOURGEOISIE HOLD THE INSTRUMENTS OF THE STATE AND CONTROL THE MODE OF PRODUCTION, SI SI SI IL DUCE, SI SI SI SI, ᴉuᴉlossnW was right you didn't understand his genius ya'll.
SO, citizens of left of /pol/ I have created a new current to end capital - negative proletarianism. Deng had it right but stopped because he cares about the workers, but the workers are evil, they don't start the revolution - they benefit from capital exploiting them because they are masochist and ignorant. The bourgeoisie may be ignorant but they have the means to end capital. Citizens of left of /pol/ accumulate CAPITAL and join the world market economy so we can bond together and bring about the end of class society FROM ABOVE.
JOIN THE ELITE, join SOROS, join the WEF. DO IT. This is what ze new world order meant. THEY ARE THE GOOD GUYS. This is like negative utilitarianism or some shit where this one crazy guy said that life is bad because of suffering so like killing life reduces suffering I forgot what the premise was but thats basically on the correct track minus the economic analysis - you see the real analysis is that things are the opposite of what they seem SO the bourgeoisie are the guys who can make change but are exploited by the workers to stagnate because the workers are the masses and reactionary and they will get really dumb and angry if the bourgeoisie actually have the interest to end capitalism. One poster said that the biggest lie is that capitalism benefits the bourgeoisie - when capitalism is obviously self destructive. So petite-bourgeoisie and bourgeoisie must unite to end capitalism and fend off against the reactionary workers who are not yet ready for communism. Il Duce you devious schemer I knew you had it in you, you great man, they hated you because they loved you.
Negative Proletarianism - To End Capitalism
Fuck the workers, they ruined the movement. The workers are the real class collaborators and traitors. Long Live the international bourgeoisie making things worse so that the workers may realize how much they are being fucked slowly but surely. WHO ALLOWS CAPITALISM? WHO HAS NOT YET REVOLTED? WHO HAS NOT YET DONE A REVOLUTION? THE FILTHY WORKERS. So they are the client. Capitalism benefits the workers masochism and not the bourgeoisie. If the workers weren't retarded masochists they would have done away with it already.YES I DID IT. I SOLVED CAPITALISM. BE BOURGEOISIE NOT A WORKER. THE BOURGEOISIE HOLD THE INSTRUMENTS OF THE STATE AND CONTROL THE MODE OF PRODUCTION, SI SI SI IL DUCE, SI SI SI SI, ᴉuᴉlossnW was right you didn't understand his genius ya'll.
SO, citizens of left of /pol/ I have created a new current to end capital - negative proletarianism. Deng had it right but stopped because he cares about the workers, but the workers are evil, they don't start the revolution - they benefit from capital exploiting them because they are masochist and ignorant. The bourgeoisie may be ignorant but they have the means to end capital. Citizens of left of /pol/ accumulate CAPITAL and join the world market economy so we can bond together and bring about the end of class society FROM ABOVE.
JOIN THE ELITE, join SOROS, join the WEF. DO IT. This is what ze new world order meant. THEY ARE THE GOOD GUYS. This is like negative utilitarianism or some shit where this one crazy guy said that life is bad because of suffering so like killing life reduces suffering I forgot what the premise was but thats basically on the correct track minus the economic analysis - you see the real analysis is that things are the opposite of what they seem SO the bourgeoisie are the guys who can make change but are exploited by the workers to stagnate because the workers are the masses and reactionary and they will get really dumb and angry if the bourgeoisie actually have the interest to end capitalism. One poster said that the biggest lie is that capitalism benefits the bourgeoisie - when capitalism is obviously self destructive. So petite-bourgeoisie and bourgeoisie must unite to end capitalism and fend off against the reactionary workers who are not yet ready for communism. Il Duce you devious schemer I knew you had it in you, you great man, they hated you because they loved you.
R: 6 / I: 0
Who fuck was Stalling and Lean-in what they did done aint shit to me. they mad I aint licking theyz balls n shit.
Argumentin augmentin history n shit like
>NOO HE AINT DO SHIT IS CIA
Ain't shit mean nothing to me bro.
OR da common motherfucking motherfuckery
>YESS he did do it loser, we be killin u u reactionary shitty shit
Bitchass fucks wants do me gay? Like what? Yo stfu I dont care all talk shit lol. Aint see u outside, don't give a fuckk YO!
Stop givin shits if u do
Like who shits giv bout history who did what and trillions? Bitch please they be stealin shit from you all the time n lyin to get u to be shit stealin tool 3000 for some bitchass guy whos above u and u be aint shit cuz he be greedy from above and shit.Who fuck was Stalling and Lean-in what they did done aint shit to me. they mad I aint licking theyz balls n shit.
Argumentin augmentin history n shit like
>NOO HE AINT DO SHIT IS CIA
Ain't shit mean nothing to me bro.
OR da common motherfucking motherfuckery
>YESS he did do it loser, we be killin u u reactionary shitty shit
Bitchass fucks wants do me gay? Like what? Yo stfu I dont care all talk shit lol. Aint see u outside, don't give a fuckk YO!
R: 2 / I: 0
After a measurement is made, the system has a definite value for the measured property. This requires a sudden change in the wave function: before measurement, it describes many possible outcomes, but after measurement, only one outcome remains with a 100% probability while all others become 0%.
If these other possibilities are not removed from the wave function, the predictions for future measurements of the same system would be incorrect. This transition from many possible outcomes to one actual outcome is called wave-function collapse.
The problem is that collapse is not described by the Schrödinger equation, which describes how quantum systems evolve over time. The Schrödinger equation only describes the continuous evolution of the wave function; it does not explain when or why collapse happens.
Because collapse is not produced by the Schrödinger equation, its cause cannot be found within the physical processes described by that equation. The main problem in quantum physics is explaining how a system goes from an undefined state containing multiple possibilities to a state with one definite outcome. Since all known physical interactions are already described by quantum mechanics, the cause of collapse cannot simply be another physical interaction within the same framework.
After a century of debate, collapse remains one of the central problems of quantum mechanics. On one hand, collapse seems to contradict the Schrödinger equation. On the other hand, it seems necessary because without collapse there would be no single physical event. The wave function contains possibilities, but an actual event requires one possibility to become real while the others are eliminated.
Quantum mechanics therefore challenges the idea that reality exists as a continuous physical world with definite properties at every moment. Instead, it describes reality as a series of events where definite properties appear only when they are measured. Before collapse, the properties of the system are not determined.
This does not mean that a quantum particle is literally in many places at once. A non-collapsed wave function does not describe one particle existing in multiple locations simultaneously; it describes multiple possible outcomes. If a system has no definite properties, then those properties do not exist in the classical sense.
Photons, electrons, and other quantum particles can therefore be understood as names we give to mathematical descriptions of possible events. Collapse represents the transition from possible outcomes to an actual event.
Quantum mechanics appears incompatible with traditional realism, because realism assumes that physical objects exist continuously and have properties independent of observation. Since collapse cannot be explained by the Schrödinger equation, it must involve something outside the equation.
A measuring device cannot fully explain collapse, because the device itself is made of quantum particles and follows quantum laws. Therefore, the collapse cannot simply be caused by another physical interaction already described by quantum mechanics.
The only known phenomenon that cannot be reduced to the Schrödinger equation is consciousness. Therefore, actual events may require the involvement of consciousness.
However, this does not mean that a person's mind directly creates reality. The argument is not that human observers magically force particles into existence. Instead, it argues that there is a connection between conscious observation and the appearance of definite events. A correlation does not necessarily mean direct causation.
From this perspective, idealism provides a solution to the measurement problem. Instead of assuming an external physical world independent of the mind, idealism argues that reality exists as experiences within consciousness.
In the Berkeleyan view, the universe exists as ideas in the mind of God. God directly sustains and creates the experiences we perceive. The universe is not a physical object existing independently from minds, but a consistent order of experiences created by God.
Under this interpretation, wave-function collapse is not a physical process that needs a mechanism. It is simply the mathematical description of how possible experiences become actual experiences.
This view is similar to the philosophy of George Berkeley, where God is not only the Creator but also the continual Sustainer of reality.
Idealism argues that it is unnecessary to assume a hidden physical reality existing independently of the mind. What we directly know are our experiences, and mathematics describes the patterns within those experiences. The laws of physics are therefore understood as the rational structure God uses to produce an ordered universe.
This explains both why conscious experience exists, and why mathematics is so effective at predicting nature.
The brain and mental experiences are correlated, but the brain does not necessarily create consciousness; instead, physical processes may represent mental processes.
The claim that decoherence solves the collapse problem is disputed. Decoherence explains why quantum systems appear classical when they interact with their environment, but it does not explain why only one possible outcome becomes actual.
Even after decoherence, the wave function still contains multiple possible outcomes. If one outcome is not selected and the others are not removed, then the predictions for later measurements remain problematic.
The laws of classical physics can be derived from quantum mechanics, but this does not solve the measurement problem. The same wave function can still correspond to many possible classical outcomes. Collapse is still required to explain why one possibility becomes a real event.
The many-worlds interpretation does not solve this problem because it simply denies that collapse happens. It keeps the Schrödinger equation as the fundamental law, but then must explain why observers experience only one outcome.
If two measurements are performed on the same system, standard quantum mechanics requires updating the wave function after the first measurement. Without this update, the predictions for the second measurement would be incorrect.
Many-worlds avoids collapse by claiming that all possible outcomes continue to exist in different branches of reality. However, critics argue that this introduces an unnecessary and untestable idea of countless universes without actually explaining why we experience one outcome.
The concept of "branching" remains controversial because it is difficult to explain exactly when and how these branches form.
Furthermore, many-worlds assumes that consciousness arises from physical processes described by quantum mechanics. Critics argue that consciousness cannot be explained by the Schrödinger equation alone.
Finally, the wave function itself is a mathematical concept, not a physical object. Since many-worlds treats the wave function as describing many physical universes, critics argue that it relies on abstract mathematical entities and the minds capable of understanding those abstractions.
God is real, reality is a dream and quantum physics proves it
In quantum mechanics, the state of a physical system is described by a wave function. Before measurement, the system does not have definite values for every measurable property. Instead, the wave function gives probabilities for the different possible outcomes that could be observed.After a measurement is made, the system has a definite value for the measured property. This requires a sudden change in the wave function: before measurement, it describes many possible outcomes, but after measurement, only one outcome remains with a 100% probability while all others become 0%.
If these other possibilities are not removed from the wave function, the predictions for future measurements of the same system would be incorrect. This transition from many possible outcomes to one actual outcome is called wave-function collapse.
The problem is that collapse is not described by the Schrödinger equation, which describes how quantum systems evolve over time. The Schrödinger equation only describes the continuous evolution of the wave function; it does not explain when or why collapse happens.
Because collapse is not produced by the Schrödinger equation, its cause cannot be found within the physical processes described by that equation. The main problem in quantum physics is explaining how a system goes from an undefined state containing multiple possibilities to a state with one definite outcome. Since all known physical interactions are already described by quantum mechanics, the cause of collapse cannot simply be another physical interaction within the same framework.
After a century of debate, collapse remains one of the central problems of quantum mechanics. On one hand, collapse seems to contradict the Schrödinger equation. On the other hand, it seems necessary because without collapse there would be no single physical event. The wave function contains possibilities, but an actual event requires one possibility to become real while the others are eliminated.
Quantum mechanics therefore challenges the idea that reality exists as a continuous physical world with definite properties at every moment. Instead, it describes reality as a series of events where definite properties appear only when they are measured. Before collapse, the properties of the system are not determined.
This does not mean that a quantum particle is literally in many places at once. A non-collapsed wave function does not describe one particle existing in multiple locations simultaneously; it describes multiple possible outcomes. If a system has no definite properties, then those properties do not exist in the classical sense.
Photons, electrons, and other quantum particles can therefore be understood as names we give to mathematical descriptions of possible events. Collapse represents the transition from possible outcomes to an actual event.
Quantum mechanics appears incompatible with traditional realism, because realism assumes that physical objects exist continuously and have properties independent of observation. Since collapse cannot be explained by the Schrödinger equation, it must involve something outside the equation.
A measuring device cannot fully explain collapse, because the device itself is made of quantum particles and follows quantum laws. Therefore, the collapse cannot simply be caused by another physical interaction already described by quantum mechanics.
The only known phenomenon that cannot be reduced to the Schrödinger equation is consciousness. Therefore, actual events may require the involvement of consciousness.
However, this does not mean that a person's mind directly creates reality. The argument is not that human observers magically force particles into existence. Instead, it argues that there is a connection between conscious observation and the appearance of definite events. A correlation does not necessarily mean direct causation.
From this perspective, idealism provides a solution to the measurement problem. Instead of assuming an external physical world independent of the mind, idealism argues that reality exists as experiences within consciousness.
In the Berkeleyan view, the universe exists as ideas in the mind of God. God directly sustains and creates the experiences we perceive. The universe is not a physical object existing independently from minds, but a consistent order of experiences created by God.
Under this interpretation, wave-function collapse is not a physical process that needs a mechanism. It is simply the mathematical description of how possible experiences become actual experiences.
This view is similar to the philosophy of George Berkeley, where God is not only the Creator but also the continual Sustainer of reality.
Idealism argues that it is unnecessary to assume a hidden physical reality existing independently of the mind. What we directly know are our experiences, and mathematics describes the patterns within those experiences. The laws of physics are therefore understood as the rational structure God uses to produce an ordered universe.
This explains both why conscious experience exists, and why mathematics is so effective at predicting nature.
The brain and mental experiences are correlated, but the brain does not necessarily create consciousness; instead, physical processes may represent mental processes.
The claim that decoherence solves the collapse problem is disputed. Decoherence explains why quantum systems appear classical when they interact with their environment, but it does not explain why only one possible outcome becomes actual.
Even after decoherence, the wave function still contains multiple possible outcomes. If one outcome is not selected and the others are not removed, then the predictions for later measurements remain problematic.
The laws of classical physics can be derived from quantum mechanics, but this does not solve the measurement problem. The same wave function can still correspond to many possible classical outcomes. Collapse is still required to explain why one possibility becomes a real event.
The many-worlds interpretation does not solve this problem because it simply denies that collapse happens. It keeps the Schrödinger equation as the fundamental law, but then must explain why observers experience only one outcome.
If two measurements are performed on the same system, standard quantum mechanics requires updating the wave function after the first measurement. Without this update, the predictions for the second measurement would be incorrect.
Many-worlds avoids collapse by claiming that all possible outcomes continue to exist in different branches of reality. However, critics argue that this introduces an unnecessary and untestable idea of countless universes without actually explaining why we experience one outcome.
The concept of "branching" remains controversial because it is difficult to explain exactly when and how these branches form.
Furthermore, many-worlds assumes that consciousness arises from physical processes described by quantum mechanics. Critics argue that consciousness cannot be explained by the Schrödinger equation alone.
Finally, the wave function itself is a mathematical concept, not a physical object. Since many-worlds treats the wave function as describing many physical universes, critics argue that it relies on abstract mathematical entities and the minds capable of understanding those abstractions.
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What champs and modes do you guys prefer?
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Anyone still playing the game? For me swiftplay kinda saved it. Only fun mode to play right now, wish they would just return twisted treeline.What champs and modes do you guys prefer?
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