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/ISG/ - Internet Spectacle General

A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.
Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!

Reminder That None of This Is Real!™
ɢʀᴀʙ ᴀ ᴘᴀɪʀ ᴏꜰ sᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀᴄʟᴇs

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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ

<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA

>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer
📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY

<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-0.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE

>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs

<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko

>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-1.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs

<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-2.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4

<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY

>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-3.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI

<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q

>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI

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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30

📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI

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

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

<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA

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

• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc

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

>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y

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

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

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

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

<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm

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RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/

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

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

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Jew fatigue

I'm tired of seeing people missing the point entirely. "It's the zionists" "It's the epsteins" "it's dajoos" even.
This is just an extension of the altright diverting understandable rage against the current state of things but pinning all the blame on "le juice" and I fucking hate it. It's specially frustrating for me how many people with revolutionary potential fall for this trick.
Of course, zionism is a very big problem affecting not just Palestine but also other countries where Israel is doing colonialist extraction (it's happening a lot in Latin America) and most jews support Israel but reducing your worldview to simply "Israel bad joos bad" doesn't lead anywhere and as I said makes you ripe to become coopted by far-right retards. "Israel bad" becomes "Hitler good" way too fast way too often.
I'm pissed off that's all.

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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO PROFESSOR GIRAFALES
"Enquanto tiverem os livros nas mãos serão pessoas honradas, serão gente de bem; em outras palavras, serão como eu."
Feliz Dia dos Professores a todos os mestres no fio!

O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>22255

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/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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/USAPOL/

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>Thread for the civil war

<bunch of links not working on this thread anymore 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

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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #300

300 more threads edition

Previous: >>2931297

Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine

https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/

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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY

Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/

Watch Together
📺 News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast

Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8

📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4

📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q

📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo

<Current Happenings
📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary

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Social media
>Twitter
REMEMBER TO USE NITTER!
https://x.com/GeromanAT
https://x.com/plnewstoday
https://x.com/RALee85
https://x.com/MarQs__
https://x.com/KofmanMichael
https://x.com/michaelh992
https://x.com/Suriyakmaps
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_

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

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

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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 alone

How do i stop feeling like a creep?

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Discussion on Neo-Dengists

What is the leftypol consensus on Western Neo-Dengist economics, specifically economists such as Isabella Weber, that are making huge waves right now?

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Just a reminder to vote trvmp
>trump has destablized the USA
>traffis have destroyed US hegmony/capitalism
>Losing in iran
>Contradictions in capitalism are only accelerating
>DSA is winning (even if its reformism it shows people are becoming recepitive to socialism again).

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/leftybritpol/ Zionism is Racism! edition

GRETA SPEAKS!

Opinion Zionism as Racism: The Soviet Ploy Used to 'Explain' Israel and Hamas
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-12-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/zionism-as-racism-the-soviet-ploy-used-to-explain-israel-and-hamas/0000018c-6261-de43-affd-f663727c0000
>The preponderance of Hamas apologists emerging among some in the progressive left reveals that not only is the "Big Red Lie" back, it's more potent than ever.

The ‘Z’ word: Reclaiming Zionism
https://thejewishindependent.com.au/the-z-word-reclaiming-zionism/

Zionism is racism debate ‘unhelpful’, says Scottish Green co-leader
https://www.eastrennews.co.uk/news/national/26646170.zionism-racism-debate-unhelpful-says-scottish-green-co-leader/

Equality watchdog writes to Greens over 'Zionism is racism' motion
https://www.British Broadcasting Corporation.co.uk/news/articles/cmly0np1gldvo

Fighting Delegitimization: The United Nation’s “Zionism Is Racism” Resolution, a Case Study
https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/85th-anniversary/fighting-delegitimization-the-united-nations-zionism-is-racism-resolution-a-case-study
>On November 10, 1975, the UN General Assembly adopted G.A. Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism to be “a form of racism and racial discrimnation.” The resolution also cited the political declaration adopted at the Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries held at Lima, Peru, on August 25–30, 1975, which had condemned Zionism “as a threat to world peace” and a “racist and imperialist ideology.”

>This resolution—most commonly referred to as the “Zionism is racism” resolution— came onto the scene against the backdrop of the Cold War. At that time, the United Nations was a forum in which countries often vied for the approval of, and were aligned with, one of the two great powers. Beginning in the 1960s, following the June 1967 Six-Day War, the Soviet Union began promoting the concept of “Zionism-equals-racism” as a way to strengthen its relations with, and support for, the Arab countries in their ongoing conflict with the State of Israel. The very essence of Zion- ism as the Jewish movement of national liberation and self-determination, which created the only democratic society in the Middle East where Jews and Arabs could live alongside one another, was deliberately distorted into its own antithesis. According to Israel’s enemies, which after 1967 included almost all of the Communist states and many of the so-called non-aligned countries, any manifestation of Jewish national rights was deemed hostile to Arab claims to the entirety of the territory between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. Thus, anti-Zionism became a staple of foreign policy not just for Arab and Communist governments, but also for those countries that wanted to burnish their so-called “anti-imperialist” credentials. This process accelerated as Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, began moving away from the Soviet sphere of influence in the Middle East. In 1973, the UN General Assembly passed an anti-apartheid resolution that condemned “the unholy alliance between Portuguese colonialism, South African racism, Zionism and Israeli imperialism.”

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/leftydeutschpol/ - Gesichert Antisemitisch Edition

Alter Faden: >>2839919

Links:

Klassikertexte:
https://mlwerke.redflag.ps/

Papyrossa-Verlag:
https://www.papyrossa.de/

Marxistische Blätter (Theoriemagazin der DKP):
https://www.marxistische-blaetter.de/

Junge Welt:
https://www.jungewelt.de/

Wochenzeitschrift der DKP:
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/

Klasse gegen Klasse (Trots):
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/

Dem Volks Dienen (Maoisten):
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/

GSP:
https://de.gegenstandpunkt.com/

World Socialist Website auf Deutsch:
https://www.wsws.org/de

Kommunistische Organisation:
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/

Kommunistische Partei (KO-Abspaltung):
https://kommunistischepartei.de/

Kommunistisches Wiki:
https://wiki.kommunistische.org/index.php?title=Hauptseite

MLPD Wochenzeitschrift:
https://www.rf-news.de/rote-fahne-news

Le Monde diplomatique auf Deutsch:
https://monde-diplomatique.de/

Nachdenkseiten:
https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/

Russia Today:
https://rtde.media/

YouTube-Kanäle:

Fabian Lehr:
https://youtube.com/@fabianlehr4318

Wolfgang M. Schmitt:
https://youtube.com/@neuezwanziger
https://youtube.com/@filmanalyse

Tägliche Frontberichte aus der Ukraine:
https://youtube.com/@frontberichteaufdeutsch

Gesellschaft für Dialektische Philosophie:
https://youtube.com/@gesellschaftfurdialektisch32

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Do cissoids really?

>Be me, twinkhon
>Try to make friends at college
<"Have you had the surgery yet?"
>Hang out with cis gay friends
<"I know that you're technically a girl, but would you be open to having sex?"
>Tries to start talking with people in my org
<"Can I suck your dick sometime?"
>Goes to a gas station to get some alcohol
<"Heres my number, call me sometime ;)"

Is this what my fate is? To be endlessly seen as some exotic sex object by people that I have absolutely zero interest in? Can it just fucking end already?

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Swtor outlives bioware

Fuck I hope the arabs find another developer to make mass effect. I love swtor even if the story is barebones now. being able to replay the original story and larp in the star wars universe is the best thing ever for me. I love the old republic and hope Casey Hudson can do Fate of the old republic justice.
https://www.ign.com/articles/bioware-shutting-down-next-mass-effect-canceled

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Iran war thread #75 no flod this tim

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Am I the only one worried that the right-wing is already taking advantage of the fact that the left has become a vacuum of intellect, and is now re-embracing intellectualism on its own terms?

I’ve seen multiple IG pages recently that talk about the literacy crisis in America; however, a good number of these pages/accounts are made by right-wingers/reactionaries. They use very blatant dogwhistles like “classical education”, “great books”, “virtue of the Ancients”, “glory of Western Civilization”, etc. etc. They talk about getting kids (read: they’re kids, the kids of right-wing elites) to study Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, etc., learn Latin and Ancient Greek at young ages, and pump their heads full of political philosophy. Yeah it’s indoctrination but still.

My assumption here is that the right-wing in America is trying to regroup and reorganize now that MAGA is clearly crashing and burning beyond repair. A lot of the rhetoric they use makes me think this stuff is coming from either the Heritage Foundation, Claremont Institute, or both.

But I think the deeper issue here is that the left has no way of effectively countering this, assuming this is true. Especially in the past five years or so the American left has almost entirely dismissed intellect and intellectualism in favour of appeals to emotion and petty in-fighting over covid masking, whose identity makes them the most marginalized, and whether or not going to the gym is “fascist”. Hell, someone just posted a screenshot from Reddit arguing that narcissists and psychopaths should be seen as “oppressed”. Why? What’s our antidote to the right when the right uses literacy and philosophy and such as a means of implementing fascism (or fascism-lite)? The American left seems to be taking the view that intellect is either 1. oppressive (because it inevitably creates a culture whereby smart people are upheld over stupid people) and/or 2. useless, because ethics are allegedly already embedded within human genetics and therefore all we need is intuition (Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid book is often invoked here). Why?

So what should we be doing in response?

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Never gonna pass

I'm a disgusting male on estrogen and I'm pretending that I'm a trans woman. I only do it online though, so as to not harm actual women idk what to do at this point I've got a vial of estrogen I'll keep taking till it runs out is it worth getting into peptides to stop being ugly and fat

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Im so tired of being around death all the time

>be me

>transhumanist for no reason, rlly autistic so I mostly befreind ppl online

>every 30 seconds forever I have to intervene to call the cops and save my freinds lives

>sometimes I fail and just, lose freinds

>no 19 year old should be around this much death

how do I make freinds that dont constantly try and end their lives

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G - Vasily Gordov (Commander of the troops of the Volga Military District).
R - Chief of Staff, Major General Filipp Rybalchenko.
Recorded by the MGB (Ministry of State Security) in 1946, this conversation became the reason for the execution of both men. It was declassified in 1991.
R. – The winter crops are lost, of course. Stalin passed through here, did he really not look out the window? Everyone is so dissatisfied with life; they speak about it completely openly, on trains, everywhere, they just speak outright.
G. – Eh! Nowadays everything is built on bribes and sycophancy. And they sidelined me in a flash because I refused to engage in bootlicking.
R. – Yes, everything is built on bribes. And look at what is happening all around: incredible hunger, everyone is dissatisfied. "Newspapers are nothing but lies" — that's what everybody is saying. They’ve installed so many ministers, bloated the bureaucracy. Just like in the old days — a priest, a constable, a village elder, 77 people sitting on the back of every peasant — it’s exactly the same now! And now the empty chatter about elections has started up again.
G. – Where are you going to vote?
R. – I'm not going to fucking vote. I'm not going anywhere. Such a situation can only exist in our country; only here can people be treated this way. Abroad, they treat the unemployed better than they treat generals here!
G. – In the past, one man ruled [referring to the Tsar], and we had everything. Now there are so many ministers, and it’s of no use whatsoever.
R. – We lack the bare necessities. We've literally become beggars. Only the government lives well, while the broad masses are living in poverty. I’m just amazed — does Stalin really not see how people are living?
….
R. – They think that once Stalin is gone, the kolkhozes [collective farms] will be gone too…

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resolutely fight against blanchardism

blanchardism should be formally and explicitly banned from this board
it is total pseudoscientific drivel that hurts trans people, especially trans women.
We have a site-wide mandate against wojaks and pepes, but not against this bullshit?

blanchardism fails to meet even the bourgeois scientific standards of validity, let alone the scrutiny of dialectical-materialist analysis
it's a crackpot theory concocted by an ameriKKKan Klanadian cishet boomer moid working in the aKKKademic mediKKKal SSience establishment.

All blanchardist lingo should result in an immediate ban lasting 3 to 7 days, with repeat offenders being permabanned.

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Dengism is retarded
>created a national bourgesisie that constantly has to be purged because they obviously oppose the state
>created an economic bubble that caused the GDP and living standards to collapse by 1993
>the industrial base for it was only even possible because of maoist central planning years earlier
>is not giga
>is retarded

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/MENA/#2

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

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

Previous edition: ~~>>2591246~~

Some highlights from last thread:
>The United Arab Emirates allies of the European far-righ
https://orientxxi.info/les-emirats-arabes-unis-allies-de-l-extreme-droite-europeenne,8034
>How Dirty Money Finds a Home in Dubai Real Estate
https://www.occrp.org/interactives/dubai-unlocked/en/
>Why Maids Keep Dying in Saudi Arabia
https://archive.is/u3Dea
>Escape From the Abyss: Surviving the Atrocities in El Fasher
https://archive.is/lJOet
>The emerging sub-imperial role of the United Arab Emirates in Africa
https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-emerging-sub-imperial-role-of-the-united-arab-emirates-in-africa
>From land to logistics: UAE's growing power in the global food system
https://grain.org/e/7170
>Dubai Ports World: UAE’s Tentacles Monopolizing Maritime Trade
https://en.al-akhbar.com/news/dubai-ports-world--uae-s-tentacles-monopolizing-maritime-tra
>Extractive agribusinesses—guaranteeing food security in the Gulf
https://farmlandgrab.org/post/32403-extractive-agribusinesses-guaranteeing-food-security-in-the-gulf
>'Pipe dream': Turkey's plan to redraw Middle East energy routes after Iran
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pipe-dream-turkey-plan-redraw-middle-east-energy-iran-war-hormuz
>System of sexual torture targeting Palestinians exposed in new report
https://electronicintifada.net/content/system-sexual-torture-targeting-palestinians-exposed-new-report/51373

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AI news shit general

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

Previous thread:>>30810

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What's your take on the coming elections in the demon colony?
I hope that Netanyahu and the extreme right win, it will tarnish Israel's reputation even further + they are very incompetent. If the "moderate" liberal Zionists win it's fucking over. They will present themselves as more sane but will continue dispossessing Palestinians under a nice guy mask.

Basically I see Netanyahu as the Shabtai Tzvi of Zionism.

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Canada Thread 2: People's Republic of Carney

Previous thread: ~~>>1950708~~
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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CSAM ALERT

Its on siberia again

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My Predictions:

>The dems will win congress (duh)
>The senate will almost be won by the dems, but by 1 senator it will still be a republican hold
>The impeachment process of trump will begin immidently after midterms, easily passing congress but will be held up in the senate and likely fail to actually remove him from office
>Trump will anounce an national emergency related to the midterm election
>Republicans will accuse voter fraud was commited by dems
>Gridlock will happen throughout the rest of 2026-2029, with congress passing nearly nothing
>because of the said gridlock, trump will continue using executive to continue everything
>1-5 dem congress members will be arrested by the FBI in relation to voter fraud, causing a crisis
>moderate dems will roll over but the DSA will declare a general strike against the executive branch
>the general strike will expand to over 4 million
>second great depression or something
>Trump attempts to run in 2028 using the national crisis as justification
>DSA runs nationally in 2028
>dems start attempt to purge the DSA from its party
>in 2028 the election will say trump lost in democrat media, while republican media will claim he won
>second civil war

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SINO SOVIET SPLIT DISCUSSION THREAD. WHAT WENT WRONG??

The Sino-Soviet split was the gradual worsening of relations between the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War. This was primarily caused by divergences that arose from their different interpretations and practical applications of Marxism–Leninism, as influenced by their respective geopolitics during the Cold War of 1947–1991.[1] In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Sino-Soviet debates about the interpretation of orthodox Marxism became specific disputes about the Soviet Union's policies of national de-Stalinization and international peaceful coexistence with the Western Bloc, which Chinese leader Mao Zedong decried as revisionism. Against that ideological background, China took a belligerent stance towards the Western world, and publicly rejected the Soviet Union's policy of peaceful coexistence between the Western Bloc and Eastern Bloc.[1] In addition, China resented the Soviet Union's growing ties with India due to factors such as the Sino-Indian border dispute, while the Soviet Union feared that Mao was unconcerned about the drastic consequences of nuclear warfare.[2]

In 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced Joseph Stalin and Stalinism in the speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" and began the de-Stalinization of the USSR. Mao and the Chinese leadership were appalled as the PRC and the USSR progressively diverged in their interpretations and applications of Leninist theory. By 1961, their intractable ideological differences provoked the PRC's formal denunciation of Soviet communism as the work of "revisionist traitors" in the USSR.[1] The PRC also declared the Soviet Union social imperialist.[3] The Soviet Union, in turn, criticized Mao Zedong and China's practices during the subsequent Cultural Revolution. For Eastern Bloc countries, the Sino-Soviet split was a question of who would lead the revolution for world communism, and to whom (China or the USSR) the vanguard parties of the world would turn for political advice, financial aid, and military assistance.[4] In that vein, both countries competed for the leadership of world communism through the revolutionary parties native to the countries in their spheres of influence.[5] The conflict culminated after the Zhenbao Island border incident in 1969, after which the Soviet Union reportedly considered the possibility of launching a large-scale nuclear strike against China, and the Chinese leadership, including Mao, was evacuated from Beijing, before both sides eventually returned to diplomatic negotiations.[6][7][8][9][10][11]

In the Western world, the Sino-Soviet split transformed the bi-polar cold war into a tri-polar cold war. The rivalry facilitated Mao's realization of Sino-American rapprochement with the US president Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972. In the West, the policies of triangular diplomacy and linkage emerged.[12] Like the Tito–Stalin split, the occurrence of the Sino-Soviet split also weakened the concept of monolithic communism, the Western perception that the communist nations were ideologically, and therefore politically, united.[13][14] However, the USSR and China both continued to cooperate with North Vietnam during the Vietnam War into the 1970s, despite rivalry elsewhere.[15] Historically, the Sino-Soviet split facilitated the Marxist–Leninist Realpolitik with which Mao established the tri-polar geopolitics (PRC–USA–USSR) of the late-period Cold War (1956–1991) to create an anti-Soviet front, which Maoists connected to the Three Worlds Theory.[3] According to Lüthi, there is "no documentary evidence that the Chinese or the Soviets thought about their relationship within a triangular framework during the period."[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_split

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Communist calisthenics?

If anarchist calisthenics is to break the law in small ways just to develop the habit and thus be ready to fuck shit up in an uprising, what would communist calisthenics be?

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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #299

Doxxing Leftypol’s Server Location Edition

Previous: >>2921048

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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https://t.me/Slavyangrad

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

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Horse Racing General

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

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

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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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/hrtgen/ #796 - Exodus Edition

QOTT: Were you expecting this?

• Help, advice, guidance on meds and dosages
• HRT related medical experiences and research
• Availability and pricing of medications
• Rational and scientific discussion

▶ FAQ: https://pghrt.diy/
▶ Info Directory: https://diyhrt.info/
▶ MTF Vendor index: https://valerie.vg (Formerly https://diyhrt.market/)
▶ Articles/literature: https://transfemscience.org/
▶ Estradiol simulator: https://estranshumanistai.se/
▶ TransDIY: https://www.reddit.com/r/transDIY
▶HRTGen Template (use for new posts) https://rentry.co/hrtgtemp
▷ Pill ID: https://www.drugs.com/imprints.php
▷ DrugBank Database (requires account): https://www.drugbank.com/
▷ Basic MTF HRT: https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/gsc/assets/hormones_MTF.pdf
▷ MTF HRT ranges: https://www.hemingways.org/GIDinfo/hrt_ref.htm
▷ Powers Method (2020): https://powersfamilymedicine.com/s/Healthcare-of-the-Transgender-Patient-V60.pptx - Anything from Powers should be taken with a grain of salt.
▷ Endocrine Society Guidelines: https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/102/11/3869/4157558
▷ Transline Guidelines w/bicalutamide (2019): https://transline.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/360047702053/TransLine_HRT_Guidelines_FINAL.pdf
▷ WPATH Standards of Care: https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc
» Blood tests by mail: https://www.letsgetchecked.com/ - DIY finger-prick samples. Expensive.
» Blood tests (US): https://www.privatemdlabs.com/, https://www.labsmd.com/
» Blood tests (UK, Ireland): https://www.medichecks.com/
» Blood tests (Canada): https://bloodtestscanada.com/
» Blood tests (Sweden): https://werlabs.se/
» Lab Services Handbook: https://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/path_handbook/

Links that need updating:
∗ Survey data: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AudRJceTA5C9cyIWo6_X14AvHyM
∗ HRTGen Data Analysis (2017): https://1drv.ms/f/s!AudRJceTA5C9gRLLWnbpdzlIxe4r
∗ HRT Info Sheets: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AudRJceTA5C9gQnyM7wxZcBGWRzW

Pharmacies:
› https://www.inhousepharmacy.vu/t-shipping.aspx - Popular in the US. Ships from Vanuatu to some countries.
› euaibolitatgmaildotcom - EU => Worldwide.
› https://unitedpharmacies.md/ (US only) - Ships from HK.
› https://unitedpharmacies-uk.md/ (UK only) - Ships from HK.
› https://alldaychemist.com/ - Ships from India to some countries.
› https://711418.8b.io/ (updated link for shape-shifter.webnode.page) - Turkey => Worldwide.
› https://amazing4health.com/ - Thailand => Worldwide.
› https://favskinhouse.com/ - Thailand => Worldwide.
› https://otc-online-store.com/ - Russia => Worldwide.
› https://www.weborderpharmacy.md/ (US only) - Ships from India.
› https://www.weborderpharmacy-uk.md/ (UK only) - Ships from India.
› https://aipctshop.com/ - Ships from India
› https://www.indiamart.com/ - Ships from India

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How do I stop tranny thoughts?

How do I stop transhumanist thoughts? Every time I think they're gone for good they eventually come back stronger than they were before. I think the only way to deal with it is to just distract myself forever.

Not sure if this is the right place to ask but no therapist has helped with this. Bio woman if it matters. Don't tell me to go on t because I won't.

Pic unrelated.

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ethnic boymoder thread

post your various boymoders from different countries or races, I've found this is an untapped niche and I've been wanting to collect ad many as i can of these edits/drawings

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PDF/EPUB post outage thread

drop them PDFs, we will rebuild edition

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2026 French protests will die out

The ongoing student, and non-student protests (and also those of Belgium, Italy, and Albania to a weaker extent) are promising signs of revolution, BUT if this is only the start it is the end.

Occuptions, student strikes, riotting, and arson don't overthrow the state only dual power (ex establishing parallel political Institutions) will make these amount to anything beyond a histotical footnote. The only form of dual power that exists is theoractial, and I will give credit to the students attempting to create assembies and trade unions also attempting so, but unless THEY ACTUALLY DO IT the protests will be a fail.

And if these fail the state will just have more of a justifcation to further its surveillance state and prevent anymore uprisings, this is why the USA looks pathetic right now its not because people aren't mad its because the bourgesis state kidnaps anyone who attempts them and aids reformist liberals.

TLDR no organization dual power = these protests will die out and stregthen the bourgesis state in the long-term.

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/Africa/

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

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There is no "AI" ya nincompoops. It's just dead labor feasting on living labor.

Marx called capital "dead labor" that feasts on "living labor" because capital is the result of past human labor that has been accumulated in the form of money, machinery, factories, and other means of production, no matter how "advanced" and "futuristic" those means of production get. Although these things were created by workers, they become instruments of capitalist power when privately owned and used to generate profit. In capitalism, workers must sell their labor power to survive, producing goods and services whose value exceeds the wages they receive. The capitalist takes this surplus value and reinvests it to accumulate even more capital. Thus, “dead labor” feeds on “living labor” because the wealth created by workers in the past becomes a force that controls and exploits workers in the present, continually expanding through their labor. For Marx, this expresses the central contradiction of capitalism: human labor creates wealth, yet that wealth confronts workers as an independent power that dominates them. Now take that basic Marxian principle and apply it to "AI."

There is no magic "AI." There is an emerging body of technologies built by human beings, trained on human-generated data, powered by enormous human-built computing infrastructure, and sustained by significant human-made investments of energy, water, hardware, labor, and capital (dead labor!). Calling these technologies “artificial intelligence” can obscure more than it explains. The term encourages us to imagine an independent, almost supernatural intelligence that exists apart from human knowledge and effort, when what we actually have are complex systems that identify patterns, generate predictions, and produce outputs based on statistical relationships learned from data. That data comes, directly or indirectly, from people: their writing, research, art, expertise, experience, and accumulated cultural knowledge. These systems do not emerge from a vacuum. They are built upon the intellectual labor of human civilization, and their capabilities are inseparable from the quality, diversity, and limitations of the material on which they were trained.

The quality of these systems depends on much more than the quantity of data they consume. It depends on whose knowledge is represented, whose experience is excluded, how accurately the material reflects reality, and how effectively the system has been trained to distinguish reliable information from error. A system trained on a broad mixture of knowledgeable experts, careful researchers, skilled practitioners, and diverse perspectives may be useful in many contexts. A system trained on incomplete, biased, outdated, or poorly vetted information may reproduce those weaknesses with remarkable confidence. Even high-quality training data does not guarantee high-quality answers in every situation. These technologies can make mistakes, fabricate details, miss context, and produce plausible explanations that are fundamentally wrong. They can be powerful tools, but their outputs still require judgment, verification, and often the very expertise that people are being told they no longer need.

The most dangerous misconception is the idea that this technology is a black box into which anyone can type a request and receive an infinite supply of high-quality work at virtually zero cost. The interface may look effortless, but the infrastructure behind it is not free, the resources required to operate it are not infinite, and the quality of its output is neither unlimited nor guaranteed. The apparent simplicity of asking a question conceals layers of human engineering, training, maintenance, evaluation, and physical infrastructure. More importantly, generating an answer is not the same as knowing whether the answer is correct, useful, ethical, or appropriate. A person who understands a field of expertise can use these tools to accelerate their work, identify possibilities, and explore unfamiliar territory. A person who lacks that understanding may have difficulty recognizing when the same tools have confidently led them astray. Expertise does not become irrelevant when technology advances; in many cases, it becomes more important because someone still has to evaluate what the technology produces.

This is why the growing narrative that young people should stop pursuing education, abandon difficult skills, or give up on developing expertise because "AI is going to take their jobs" is so socially destructive. It teaches people to surrender their agency at precisely the moment when they need to become more capable, adaptable, and intellectually independent. Education is not merely vocational training for a specific job that may or may not exist in twenty years. It teaches people how to reason, investigate, solve problems, communicate, recognize flawed arguments, understand complex systems, and make responsible decisions. Learning mathematics, engineering, medicine, history, writing, art, or a skilled trade develops capacities that cannot be reduced to the production of a finished document or the completion of an isolated task. If society persuades an entire generation that learning is pointless because a machine will do everything for them, it risks creating a population increasingly dependent on systems it does not understand and increasingly unable to challenge their mistakes.

There are also serious economic and social consequences to normalizing this message. If workers come to believe that their skills are destined to become worthless, they may be less inclined to invest in education, negotiate for better working conditions, or organize to ensure that technological gains are shared fairly. Employers may use the threat of automation to suppress wages, reduce staffing, intensify workloads, or justify replacing experienced workers before they have demonstrated that the technology can reliably perform the work. Educational institutions may feel pressured to prioritize immediate technological trends over the deeper development of human capabilities. And individuals who are already anxious about their economic future may experience greater insecurity, alienation, and hopelessness. These outcomes are not inevitable consequences of the technology itself; they are consequences of how societies choose to deploy it and how people are taught to understand their own future in relation to it.

We should be having a more serious conversation. The question is not whether these technologies can be useful; clearly, they can. The question is how to use them without confusing automation with understanding, statistical prediction with wisdom, or convenience with genuine competence. We should teach people how these systems work, where their limitations lie, how to verify their outputs, and how to combine their capabilities with human knowledge and judgment. We should encourage students to learn difficult things, not because technology will never change their professions, but because people who understand the underlying principles of their work are better positioned to adapt when it does. We should demand transparency about the resources these systems consume, the labor and data on which they depend, the economic interests driving their development, and the real-world consequences of their implementation.

Ultimately, the greatest risk may not be that machines become capable of doing more of the work that people once did. It may be that people are convinced they no longer need to understand the world, develop their abilities, or take responsibility for what happens within it. Human knowledge is not an obsolete input to be consumed by a machine and discarded. It is the foundation on which these technologies are built, the standard by which their outputs must be judged, and the resource society must continue to cultivate if it wants to use them wisely. We do not need to worship "AI," nor do we need to dismiss it. We need to demystify it. These are human-made technologies with real capabilities, real costs, and real limitations. Our future will depend less on whether we can make them produce more and more output, and more on whether we remain capable of understanding, evaluating, and directing what they produce.

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/O9A/ Esoteric Fascism and it's derivatives General

General duscussion thread Inspired by the sucess of the Esoteric Hitlerism threads we used to have a while ago - talk about the O9A,Atomwaffen, and their modern knockoffs that are so often in the news these days. Thread to materially analyze and generally discuss anything you want about these groups from a leftist perspective.

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How do I cope with fact both my transition and the reveloution have failed

how do I cope with the fact that ill always look like a man, even though im 4 years on estrogen I still get he/himd and I look like a bricky man. even then. how do I cope with the fact that the marxist movements have devolved into petty infighting. where people believe in the false idea of "histories end point" everything I believe in has turned around and punched me in the face, both that I could ever be a woman. or I could ever be free

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why comics fell off, illustrated in a single image
meow, just like my lil itty bitty cocko that no woman wants to touch, yet nonetheless it is mine, and i love it like the son i'll never molest

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The West CANNOT survive if it doesn't solve the incel crisis

>https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/researchers-delve-incels-rejection-work-and-study-365369

1 in 3 incels have already dropped out of the workforce. Right wingers were spamming Self Improvement content everywhere for years in a desperate attempt to keep incels in the workforce. Shifting the blame on the individual while the problem is societal. Gym memberships, protein supplements, books and courses, were all a gimmick. A false hope selling industry, making a profit out of young men's misery.

Today, the looksmaxxing culture is just the new rebrand of the Self Improvement industry. Same fraud, different name. And right wingers are behind the spam.

Truth is societal problems CANNOT be fixed with atomic solutions. This is insanity, it's like trying to repair your house during an earthquake. Even if everyone became a male model tomorrow women would still chase 20% of the best men. You cannot outcompete billions.

There's only one solution and both left wingers and right wingers tremble before hearing it but its the truth. State mandated relationships. Ban dating apps who give women infinite options and milk men out of money and start regulating the dating market.

Use AI to match people and ban serial dating and break ups without a serious justification. Until then, the West will only keep getting worse and more men will drop out of school and the workforce

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OC Thread 19.0

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

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New Booru:
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queer history thread

Queer history thread! give your favorite moments in queer history! here's mine!

Transexuality was first coined by pioneering german endocrinologist Johann Transsexualismus who used the term to describe the patients he most enjoyed shocking with a cattle prod (known at the time as an ëndoschtuk). His experiments helped pave the way for the modern field of endocrinology. Isn't queer history so inspiring 😁

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let's talk about long lost love

how'd *that* relationship go? the one you still think about, months or years later. what happened? maybe share a nice anecdote and how they defined who you are now. if you could say one last thing to them, what would it be?

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Notícias absurdas da direita

Quando vemos alguma notícia ou acontecimento ridículo perpetrado pela direita brasileira, logo nos vêm à mente: "e se fosse alguém de esquerda fazendo isso?". Se a resposta for algo como "uma choradeira imensa", proponho postar esse tipo de matéria aqui.

Tantos absurdos acontecem e já somos bombardeados com tanta merda que tudo se esvai em poucos dias, então achei interessante arquivá-los em um fio próprio para que possamos rever de tempos em tempos. O intuito é postar assuntos que realmente te fazem pensar mas que costumam passar batido (ainda que não devessem), o que for de fato "URGENTE" fica pro /brg/.

Penso em colocar mais prints e resumos curtos para não ficar cansativo. Fiquem à vontade para contribuir ou comentar.

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can it run crysis?

so i have a shitty intel integrated graphics office laptop, it can barely run csgo, minecraft and gta 5, but i somehow i managed to beat crysis on it at 120 fps at 1080p

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Victoria 3

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

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/Serbia/

Thread for the landlocked ex-Yugoslavian Balkan country in Southeast/Central Europe, bordering Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Croatia.

I guess the president of Serbia who looks like Chudjak has a football mafia that shoves people into meat grinders or some shit Edition

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

Previous thread: ~~>>2381106~~

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

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

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

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

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French Riots Thread 2

THE HERO APPEARS

France imposes curfews in parts of Paris, other cities after weekend of riots
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/frances-macron-declines-interior-ministers-offer-resign-2026-10-19/

>French authorities set curfews in parts of several cities on Monday, including Paris, Lille and Nice, as they faced pressure over security failings after a weekend of riots and looting stemming from nationwide anti-government protests.
Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu had ruled out a blanket curfew in Paris but not a state of emergency, and had said it was more appropriate for now to ‌apply partial and localised curfews.

>"My determination to restore order is absolute," he told reporters.
Paris police said they had issued orders barring protests in certain areas of the French capital from 8 p.m. (1800 GMT) and had issued a curfew around the Place de la Republique and Les Halles from 11:00 p.m. Both would remain in effect until 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning.

>"A police deployment is in place to ensure strict compliance with these measures," the police said in a statement.

>A source in Lecornu's office said a curfew for minors had been set between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. for the next two days in Lille, Douai, Wattignies and Denain with the agreement of the local mayors.

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So..I heard you like progress. Progress is always good, right?

It's always so good, and so proper, to be progressive after all.

You wouldn't want to be a CONSERVATIVE or God forbid, a REACTIONARY, would you? Yeah.. Why would we like those people..

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East Vs West campism is retarded

Gen-Z revolution in east is le bad and something something CIA

Gen-Z revolution in the west is le good something something.

Just admit it you only care about East Vs West and give zero fucks about Gen-Z

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

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HARDCORE THREAD

give me some good hardcore punk shit that good shit that makes you wanna break shit with your face and puke up blood

https://youtu.be/T7NEnaRbZZU?si=84eCPQY0HW8xAMl6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXYX29vsVbU
https://youtu.be/Es-jbUUNii8?si=1tB8-8o2J36unyrv

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/SEA/ Southeast Asia General

Flying and Nazi Malays Edition.

A general thread for the discussion for all things happening in Southeast Asia. What a year it has been. Forest fires in Borneo now. Border skirmishes with Thailand and Cambodia. Vietnam mimicking South Korean chaebols. Singapore begging its citizens to have kids. Malaysia sending Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar while it is still in a civil war.

All the while the heat is cooking us now.

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stuck in rural purgatory

northeastern nevada is fucking hell theres no trans healthcare everyone is insane i genuinely do not know what to do because i cant leave, im living w/ my only friend and im NOT gonna be able to save up enough to actually support myself let alone transition

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What is the difference in sex drives?

For those who took treatments to transition in either direction, how did the following change? What differences did you notice?

Sex drive
Desire
Emotions, feelings, intensity
Mood and concentration

Do you get massive changes and is it better or worse after? Does the way you feel and express your emotions change?

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is it over

i’m 23 mtf, fat (100kg), one year on hrt recently and i’m just fucked up i look bad but my hair looks okay. have any lateshit fathons actually made it or have i ruined my body by being fat and lazy playing gmod when i was a teenager

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How do differentiate compliments and flirting?

Ever since I've beautiful lady😍🥰ed out, people have been respecting me more and acting nicer towards me, always calling me "cute" and "beautiful", yet, I cant tell if they're just being nice or trying to pick me up like a whore

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ImageBoards and trans culture

what's the synthesis of IBs and trans culture?

obviously pre-2016-fed/pol/ era, if you're a tran browsing IBs you're or should obviously be old enough to remember life before the rise of "beta" and "incel" culture in 4chan, where the absurd became nihilism and then it came the grooming;

it's not a conspiracy, the "glowie" meme became a thing thanks to the known fact of federal agents browsing these sites, but back on topic:

I don't usually do this but;
>TW:
<Brainworms
<Depression
<Slurs(?)

think Bailey Jay, tranchan and "trap aesthetics" guides, faproulette?

at least for me it was an important part of my self-discovery as a depressed teen isolated and with no education on what even trans people, spending time between IBs only interacting with terminally online incels at the peak of my delayed puberty

Giving up and taking my first steps in gender exploration i realized i had to make a choice between "malebrained" nihilist spaces and actually transitioning, fast forward to the present i'm here, brainworms and a shaky early transition due to contact with transmedicalists overlapping with Blanchardism makes me stick to /tttt/ culture

and here's where i make a pause to make a critique of "transmedicalism" not as a method but as a cope starved for validation
I once got kicked for "comparing it to nazism" while making the comparison to how quoting Evola doesn't make you a nazi/fascist, but puts you in a place where you're at least adjacent to nazi/fascist ideas.

now let's think the two sides of terminally online trans spaces: trans hugboxes and trans brainworm nests

they're different enough in "vibe" and yet they both represent a terminally online space where both positive and negative feedbacks of self-affirming dogmas and paranoias.

As a result of this i struggle constantly with the concept of Autogynephilia to a point where it affects my bf;
as an outsider he doesn't understand it, but he has an aversion to the concept and a desire to understand it as he wishes to understand me.

I've infected a cis person with brainworms.

I have to tell him it's not real but he says there seems to be a degree of credibility to it. it hurts me, and even without that second opinion the fact that Blanchardism has been co-opted by trans spaces, in fact the mere fact the AGP typology is still part of the DSM-V is hurtful even if i recognize psychology under capitalism seeks to colonize such conditions; in order to explain it to a group of scholars who clearly have no interest in the wellbeing of the people they pathologize.

How do we break this cycle?

we have the Thesis; a pathology that makes trans women in particular (for some reason) dwell in a cycle of self hate which innevitably overlaps with the same nihilistic worldview that degenerated IBs into what they are today

and on the other side the Anti-thesis; the hugbox where you won't hear any of this, their sisters are falling apart and their reaction is "fuck them, they're rude and their negativity makes me sad, best of luck but fuck you", liberalism in it's maximum expression, *every woman by herself.* if i pump the music higher i won't hear their screams.

what would be the next step to break this cycle? do we engage? do we appropriate? how would you organize this purposefully balkanized community?

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IT’S OVER for Zohran

I’m done with this fraud.

Mamdani was elected specifically to fight against the Zionist Lobby and yet he’s show MULTIPLE TIMES he’s a full-blown Zio himself. He sells out to Jewish feelings over Palestinian resistance every time he can. He quotes the satanic Talmud which calls for Jews to enslave and oppress “goyim” in order to appease Zionists. Then he has the NYPD arrest hundreds of anti-Zionist protesters. Now he attends a “memorial” lead by an “Israeli” hasbara group to memorialize 1200 Zionist settlers killed during the greatest act of anti-colonial resistance in modern history. If Ziohran was truly principled he would have unequivocally stated that “Israelis” have no right to life given that every single one serves in the army and that Hamas and the PFLP have a right to resist.

Fuck this man.

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New anime recs

Just a thread to post what anime from the past year or two you've enjoyed and why you think other anons should watch it. I haven't been able to keep up with anime recently due to personal circumstances so I'm trying to catch up. I know we have old wishlist and seasonal anime threads but this one is primarily to recommend stuff to other people, and then maybe others can comment on the rec. Pic not remotely related

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¿Por qué los comunistas extranjeros toman a Abimael Guzman (aka chairman gonzalo) como un referente?

osea en líneas generales entiendo que fue uno de los intentos insurgentes más grandes de latinoamérica pero genuinamente no toma mucho tiempo investigar que era un delusional larper as fuck
Existieron muchos otros teóricos revolucionarios más decentes y si vamos a andar cromandosela a cualquiera que se pone a escribir y juntar 5 traidores de clase hijos de terratenientes con fusiles para hacer una guerrilla mejor mierda.
Replicaron una lógica colonial de mierda y masacraron población índigena tal y como lo ha hecho el estado burgués, igual jodan a los milicos, todos jodanse. Nadie de ellos realmente intenta decolonizar su revolución (almenos en Perú) y eso da mucha pena

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Draw your fursonas :33

This is my fursona bluegrass the goat, if anyone else on here is a furry i’d like to see your fursona

ahahafjwixbriabcisjfjeoxjfidjciejsbfkdfjfkfjdjdjfjfjfjf

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FFS consult next week

After around 6 months of navigating through various surgeons and getting drs notes I finally have my ffs consult next week. Anyone here who has gone through surgery have any advice?
Yes im namefagging idgaf

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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, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️ 💇‍♀️👩‍🦲!

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Happy 12th Anniversary, /leftypol/!!

On this day, 12 years ago, /leftypol/ was created!!
What are some of your favorite /leftypol/ memories since?
Share some of yours!

We'll also share some birthday goodies in this thread as well.
(Art by https://twitter.com/lemondool)

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Hungry and in a fked up situation

I'm ashamed to post this but push came to shove and my situation is desperate. I wanted to give me and my mother a bit of happiness.

I'm 29 and live with my 68yo mother in a 25m rented apartment. I also take care of three kittens. Both me and my mother have serious health issues that make it impossible for us to work. My mother receives disability benefits in Greece but I was assessed at 60%(you need 67%) and I don't get shit. Currently trying to appeal this.

Because of this, we live in extreme poverty. For more than half of this month we’ve basically been surviving on plain pasta with sauce.

I'm asking for a very small donation so we can finally order a couple of meals and eat something different for the next few days. Food in Greece is relatively cheap so only a small tip will suffice.

I understand people might be skeptical but I can provide proof about our living conditions and also post the food ordered. If someone is from Greece, they can order themselves for us if they want.

If anyone reads this and wants to help, it will be greatly appreciated.

Posting a link:

https://ko-fi.com/anonstails

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Back in the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube days there was a Godfather game where you played as a random henchman, and it inserted you in all the iconic scenes from the movie, doing missions for the Corleones and so forth. I'd love a game revolving around the October Revolution where you're just some random Bolshevik functionary, taking missions from Lenin, Sverdlov, Trotsky, Stalin, and so on. Maybe you even get to be in the basement when the royal family gets shot. That would be cool. And the gameplay could have a similar feel to RDR2 with the horses, guns, trains, and so on.

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/FrancoPol/

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

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

Français! Ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!

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Communism VS Central Planning

I have seen this retardation spammed all over the place because of austrian economic loons however it always did feel so retarded.

I think this is the most condensed example of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3OH4QO5JY

Basically it becomes more and more retarded until you end up
>What about captain america?
>And captain america not fighting Thanos in my MCU?!
>communism and money can not exist!

That was always a incredibly retarded argument and I do not understand how the viewers of this trash are not dying of cringe.

Did people make debunking of this """"logic"""" because the video is pure insanity. The truth is that there is no such thing as central planning.
>Herp derp how do we produce things? How many of them?!
How does the factory do it now?

This is something this video never answers it only says
>People do whatever they want today this is capitalism
Absurdist and ridiculous.

However austrian loons will throw around literally religious phrases
<They are measuring the market signals
By the magic powers the oracle has presumably.
<The market decides!
Like there is some god entity the clergy talks to on this subject and this god is named the market.

And pretend like their insanity makes any sense whatsoever.
However instead of asking where this self contradictory god named the market lives or who exactly is talking to him (questions who will never be answered by Austrian cultists) the video ditches the religious nonsense of the Austrian cult and tries an atheistic version of this argument.

I mean this is a simple question if you are 18 or about to start to think(and never worked in any production job whatsoever; student/NEET) about how to organize things however the solution is very simple an this is true of everyone even magical capitalist will fail this.

If you throw people on some isolated island and tell them to figure things out everything will devolve into chaos this is regardless of anything involved. And no
>Letting people decide their own things
Will result in total disaster very fast. The scenario is not even coherent it does not even say if this is some isolated island or the walking dead universe or what.

Presumably there is internet and it has power since people are submitting things there and presumably there are farms and factories and transportation and it was not destroyed.

However after a communist revolution with all of this in place(not isolated island not the walking dead universe) the solution is simple, just do it like it was always done. The video makes only sense if you are trying to come up with some alternative to money, however lets keep money and do the same thing. I mean there is no controversial question of
>HoW MuTcH Is tHeRe To PrOdUcE?!
Because this is handled by orders who did come by the client firms and they did come long before today since most businesses can have year long contracts that are not even fully realized yet.
This is something you realize if you ever worked in your life and not are a NEET or Student or only produce youtube videos for a living!
>What if people order to mutch?!

1) You are dealing with bosses or firms who are serious and not insane. You can replace capitalist boss with Combine Manager if you like.
2) Normally they order the same things like 50K units every day with some fluctuation for seasonal events so +10% -20% fluctuation
3) If the client orders something out of the ordinary like lets say 100Bilion units you seriously ask them if they can fulfill this obligation or if this is a mistake. I presume a boss would reject a order like that and either phone back or simply give them their standard unit of 50K if they can not talk to them and are getting some deranged e-mails and no one saying anything.
4) If they can not pay their obligation they get sued.
5) A factory has a maximal output capacity so if you have 10 clients who all take 50K units (500K per day) your max output is about 600K of the factory or presumably 700K if you really try to do overtime and speed some things up. So a ridiculous order like 100Billion will get rejected since that means you need to break obligations with other clients.

Seriously this is something you can figure out if you ever worked in a factory or even in any business! I have no idea how people who have a job do not realize this cringe shit arguments for absolute bullshit. I seriously think the only people who repeat this are Students(legal NEETS), NEETS who did not work a day in their life and people who do some bullshit like make youtube videos for a living.

6) The final part of this is some fidgeting with the number if you have a order for 50K units you will make something like 51K or 52K units because sometimes the machine fucks up and shredded the product or some parts come out defective and need to be thrown out.

There is also some guess work like
>(ice cream) Last year this season(winter) we needed to make only 10K units a day so it will probably be the same.

7) Now one can ask where these numbers come from? They come from the previous years and previous records of orders and production. Something the capitalist boss keeps. In a communist revolution scenario these records can be taken or people who work there can remember things if the capitalist decides to burn or destroy these records.

8) Another idea is that the video insists on creating some kind of economic dictator who decides everything. Now if taken as a serious argument and not some exercise for students or people who start thinking about the economy that is silly. Because in the military you do not have 1 guy who decides everything. There is no magic dictator who orders every foot moved of every soldier at what time
<Epic debunking of the army everyone!
<How can 1 guy decide what position of every finger ever soldier must have?!
<Ha no one can do that!
<IMPOSSIBLE! GENERALS DEBUNKED!

A general gives orders to lower-ranking officers (Lieutenants) who give orders to people under them and a general does not micro manage every movement of every private there is a chain of command and the general will order a Battalions to move to a position at a given time and this is the responsibility of the people under him to do it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_hierarchy
https://www.army.mil/ranks/

So after a communist revolution things can get ruff because some capitalists can decide to destroy their records(far more easy on the computer then on paper) of these things however things will iron themselves out eventually.

I also do not want people to go to the traditional
>and some people are better at making pants! Capitalism YES!
And go to the the insulting with
<And then there is the capitalist boss who is the best at TAKING money so he takes the most! Capitalism YES!
Because this avoids the silly student question and concentrates on the capitalists as parasites.

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i'm faketrans

i feel like i'm lying to myself about being trans somewhat but at the same time i kind of feel like i'm not
like, i 100% would rather be a cis woman and hate being male but i feel like a complete idiot for that bc men are generally more privileged than women in society. a part of me fears becoming john 50 so i'm still 100% going to beautiful lady😍🥰 out but fuck i wish i could just banish this transhumanist shit from my mind before i go mad. iwnbaw why the fuck did i buy estrogen
pic unrel

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nu-imageboard megathread #2

The neverending quest to rewrite vichan -

Archived threads:
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/arg/ - Argentina General

SANTUCHO EDITION

El thread con más copas del mundo™

Ahora que tenemos nuestro propio board, es hora de tener nuestro propio hilo también.

Bienvenidos.

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What are you playing general

Post in this thread every time you play a new game and rate it, I'll start, currently playing Dread Dawn, pretty jank and honestly not that good but I'm desperate for more zombie games to wait until PZ 42 comes out. 6/10.

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middle-class retirees re-entering the workforce

they're like the worst employees you could ever imagine, worse than any apathetic stoned teenager because at least the teenager doesn't have delusions of seniority or experience or a complete inability to accept criticism or admit to making a mistake, at least they can be trained. but the boomers and karens are unreformable, they complain and exude indignation and misery out of every orifice and destroy employee morale, they do things the wrong way and they get belligerent and defensive when you try to show them how to do them the right way, they get irritated with busy shifts and lines and impatient customers and they show their irritation very publicly, they gossip about co-workers and discuss politics and religion and create drama, they speak condescendingly to co-workers and customers and even managers, it's unbelievable. it's like a paroled convict who was in prison for decades and has no idea how to re-enter normal society. and when you are forced to finally reprimand them, they have a fucking emotional breakdown.

i was dealing with a recent hire who was like this, and one day i noticed that she was burning through rolls of paper towels at several times the rate of any other worker wadding up huge balls of paper towels and wiping stuff down and throwing it away and grabbing another, so i kind of pulled her aside so as not to embarrass her and explained to her how to take one paper towel and fold it twice to make four surfaces and use one surface until it gets dirty, then use another, etc. she became indignant and said "sweetie, i've been cleaning up after four kids for 20 years i know how to use a paper towel." i told her, "first of all, i'm trying to help you, i'm trying to show you how to do the job right, i'm trying to make your job easier. second, this is work, this isn't your house, and you are a brand new employee here. don't talk to me or anyone else here that way. don't call me 'sweetie' and don't get an attitude with me. you do it again, you're gone. do you understand?" she started crying. she cried about it for the rest of the day and then the next day she never showed up for work, no call no show. someone had to come in and pull a double to cover for her. and i didn't even get a chance to confront her about all the other shit she was doing wrong.

i felt guilty about it, which makes me even more annoyed when i really think about it because i shouldn't feel guilty just for expecting a perfectly healthy able-bodied adult to listen and follow basic directions and not behave like an entitled spoiled brat at work. i understand that your hero donald trump betrayed you and destroyed the economy and your security and i understand how humiliating it must feel to be a suburban middle-class retiree for years and then suddenly be reduced to the lowly task of wiping down tables and ringing up customers, but you know what? too bad.

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GTA VI TRAILER 2 JUST DROPPED!!!!!

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News 10/21/26

Indian court orders release of two leaders of Cockroach movement
The two leaders of the Cockroach Janta party (CJP) movement, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, had spent a week in Delhi’s Tihar jail after being arrested by Delhi police last week. On Wednesday, a special magistrate ordered that Das and Ranka be released, despite efforts by police to keep them in prison. They were made to sign a bond pledging no further breach of peace.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/21/india-cockroach-movement-leaders-released-protests-government-crackdown

RMCH interns go on indefinite work stoppage
A man, who allegedly attempted suicide by consuming pesticide in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Tuesday, is now in stable condition, according to police. Abul Hasan Mia, who claimed that power, energy and mineral resources minister autism scorebal Hassan Mahmood owed him money, was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital after he took pesticide at about 3:30pm on Tuesday.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/country/318981/rmch-interns-go-on-indefinite-work-stoppage

Tunisia jails opposition politician for four years over social media posts
Intern doctors at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital began an indefinite work stoppage on Wednesday, demanding adequate medicines, medical supplies and security at the government hospital. The 252 interns, under the banner of the Intern Doctors Society, stopped work at 8:00am, saying they faced threats and occasional attacks when asking patients’ relatives to buy essential items, including cannulas, saline and syringes, from outside.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/21/tunisia-jails-opposition-politician-for-four-years-over-social-media-posts
https://archive.ph/ZlVZr

Khartoum airport under drone fire as safety concerns mount
Five successive waves of drone attacks attributed to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have struck Khartoum, including areas around the capital’s international airport, killing a man and four children and raising fresh concerns over aviation safety. The attacks targeted seven locations across the city, according to Radio Dabanga. Air defences reportedly intercepted threats directed at the airport and its facilities, while a drone fell in an unoccupied area east of the runway, with no casualties reported at the site.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/khartoum-airport-under-drone-fire-as-safety-concerns-mount

Thousands of Greek students, teachers protest over education, pay
About 10,000 demonstrators, including school and university students, rallied peacefully in central Athens and suburbs, ‌police said. Others joined rallies in cities across the country, all voicing their solidarity with growing protests in France and elsewhere in Europe over soaring living costs and over what they called crumbling school conditions.
https://www.reuters.com/world/thousands-greek-students-teachers-protest-over-education-pay-2026-10-21/

Booking.com under investigation by EU regulators over fake listings and scams
The European Commission, which regulates the world’s biggest tech companies operating in the EU, said Booking.com may have breached the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) with its “absolutely substandard” approach to tackling fraudulent listings and phishing scams, where criminals impersonate a third party to trick people to hand over money.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/21/bookingcom-under-investigation-eu-regulators-fake-listings-scams

Millions starting winter with average £220 fuel debts and bills set to rise in January
MORE than nine million households will start winter in energy debt or with no credit, with many worried about paying rising bills up from 28 to 40 per cent this year, research showed today. Analysis by price comparison site Uswitch.com also found that more than three million households owe their suppliers an estimated £750 million — an average of £220 each.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/millions-starting-winter-average-ps220-fuel-debts-and-bills-set-rise-january

Venezuelans Select State-Funded Local Projects in New Popular Consultation
More than 37,000 proposals, debated and prioritized in local assemblies under the Seven Transformations (7T) framework, were put to a vote in 5,418 communes and communal circuits. Most options focused on infrastructure and basic service repairs, including addressing water supply and electricity issues. In this event, and for the first time, over 400 condominium boards took part as well. Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez announced the expansion of the electoral exercise to residential instances outside the traditional popular power organizations.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/images/venezuelans-select-state-funded-local-projects-in-new-popular-consultation/

Bolivia Lawmakers Demand Orobe Into Alleged Plot to Abduct Evo Morales
Bolivian lawmakers from several political parties are demanding an impartial investigation into audio recordings allegedly detailing a plan to abduct former President Evo Morales, including the procurement of surveillance equipment, contacts with foreign actors and a budget of up to 8 million bolivianos ($685,000).
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-alleged-plot-abduct-evo-morales/

Indigenous voters in Brazil’s Amazon fear missing runoff after court denies transportation
Voters in Amazonas state will choose a governor and president in Sunday’s runoff between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, a far-right candidate and son of former President Jair Bolsonaro. … Most people in the Amazon live in urban areas, but thousands reside in tiny villages several days from the nearest city by boat, including the Javari Valley, one of the Amazon’s most remote regions and home to several Indigenous communities living in isolation. Its population is estimated at about 6,300, according to official data.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-elections-amazon-rainforest-indigenous-c487c12f92cffaf7bc41f71c806f1442

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What is the materialist explanation to as to why straight wome are the single most homophobic demographic while heteronormative media keeps potraying them as the 'natural ally'?

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The essence of Grift is to create a problem that exists but doesn't need to exist, and to repeatedly sell a whackamole solution to it that doesn't get at the root cause of the problem.

My favorite 2 are law enforcement and drug rehab.
Drug rehab doesn't actually remove addictive substances from society, it just charges people exorbitant fees to "Recover" no drug rehab center actually has a long term financial interest in seeing drug addiction permanently eradicated.

Law enforcement officials often cause or exacerbate crime by being military occupiers of urban communities they don't even live in. Crime takes the form of resistance against the police, and the police view the population they "enforce the laws" against as disobedient animals. A cop loves nothing more than to plant drugs on a homeless person and use that as a pretext for arresting them, or to bait a person into illegal behavior through provocation, as a pretext for arresting them. Pig stations get more budgets based on the arrests they make and tickets they give, so there is a direct incentive for them to create more crime to get more budget, even if it means creating crime that would otherwise not exist. Crime is a byproduct of policing also because capital hungers for prison labor, which comes more cheaply and with less legal protections than the standard "free" working class population.

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Leftypol is a contradiction.

Why do you need a /pol/ if your ideas can be expressed on every mainstream site without censorship? Before you mention talks of forced censorship and interpreted oppression. Those are rare events. In practice, you are rarely censored.

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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 24

>Bye, bye, Microsoft! – edition
https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/

The Chinese question is: how does a comfy non-imperialist nation transform itself into a global socialist model that can be reproduced and adopted by the rest of the world, without either reproducing the aggressive and counter-productive policies of the USSR or appearing toothless, while resolving the contradictions of the so-called first world FOR THEM and liberating them from capitalist domination, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?

<A thread for the harmonious discussion related to the saviour of socialism, the uplifter of nations, the king of cooperation, the soviet of SOVL, the enjoyer of empathy, the ally of Africa, the demigod of development, the bureaucracy for banter, the prince of ping pong, the lobotomizer of labour aristocracy, the protector against proxy wars, the sponsor of sophisticated sciences and culture, the guarantor of gommunism, the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chynah™.

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/smt/ general

/smt/ general #1 - Schwarzwelt edition

What's hidden at the South Pole is the Schwarzwelt, which is a world comprised of alternate dimensions inhabited my demons. The Schwarzwelt is connected to humanity's abuse of nature. As long as humans harm the environment, the Schwarzwelt can not be removed from reality.

https://smtgen.neocities.org/starter_guide

Thread question: Do you prefer the DS or 3DS version of Strange Journey? Why?

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Imagine waiting 20 years for a new classicvania-style Castlevania game. The last one in this style, aside from the terrible Lords of Midnight game on the 3DS, was for the Nintendo Wii in, like, 2008: Castlevania: Adventure Rebirth. A series known for its extravagant art style, beautiful baroque-esque paintings and character designs with a wonderful gothic flavor. And instead of hiring Japanese artists to honor a Japanese series, they hire Western Tumblr-trained artists who completely desexualize and ruin all of the theming and have no soul whatsoever. I bought all of the recent Castlevania collections solely with the hope that by supporting the series, a new game would be made. Regretful purchases.

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What Can be Done According to Communization Theory

According to Communization Theory, what can communists actually do in terms of action. Is it actually like some users on here say, that communists and communist organizations can't even serve a supplementary role in the real movement? Is it really just sitting back and waiting for the proletariat to spontaneously rise up and then finally communists should get involved?

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Modern day AI is literally just the
>All personal property is owned by the collective
communist strawman that boomers and rightoids like to espouse. So why do they all love it so much?

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I dislike the leftist emphasis on "work"

Don't get me wrong, I fully support unions and workers' rights but I don't think labor is a good thing in and out of itself. Creative labor, scientific labor, etc. sure but I think most jobs should just be automated in the long term.

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azumanga daioh

Why is it so amazing? This show is pure bliss. Structured environment, caring characters, low-stakes conflict. This is fucking awesome, I want to live in this universe. This is what communism will be like bruh

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the future of politics isnt left vs right, but bio conservative vs post humanism. This is especially going to play out if AI and tech dont turn out to be duds.

You can already see the seeds of these movements blossoming between people who are anti AI, pro human, and people who are pro tech and accelerationist slap fighting on various social media

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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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Warning: session.upload_progress.enabled must be set to "Off" in your php.ini file to mitigate the PHP vulnerability. All PHP version 5, 7, 8 are affected.
https://xitter.cf/k_firsov/status/2112641845926989944
https://xitter.cf/J4ck3LSyN/status/2112703096443097263
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/php-warns-admins-of-two-critical-flaws-emergency-patches-coming-tomorrow/
https://prostack.uk/blog/critical-php-security-update-october-2026/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1xb2utu/upcoming_critical_php_security_release/

Reload PHP-FPM (or whatever process manager you're using) after you're done (e.g. sudo systemctl reload php7.3-fpm) to apply changes.

Find your php version with "php -v". Mine is 7.3.x so my php.ini is located in /etc/php/7.3/fpm/php.ini. It may be different for your installation or distro. Search "session.upload_progress.enabled" in that file, uncomment it and set it to Off:

session.upload_progress.enabled = Off

In order to test that it is actually off, create and view a test PHP file like check-progress.php with the below code:
<?php
echo 'session.upload_progress.enabled is: ';
echo ini_get('session.upload_progress.enabled') ? 'On' : 'Off';

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/ttg/ - Tech Team General

This thread is only for feedback related to technical issues (bug reports, suggestions).

We are currently working on improvements to the site, subject to the need of the tech team to sleep and go to their day jobs. If you need more immediate feedback please join the matrix room[s] and ask around. Feel free to leave comments, concerns, and suggestions about the tech side of the site here and we will try to get to it as soon as possible

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I can't see communism as a path to liberation because the masses, society and the hivemind are tyranical too.

don't get me wrong, capitalism takes away your freedom too, but stop gaslighting me into thinking capital is the only cause of societal ills, mass conformity, hive thinking, wrong think, constantly trying to shape you into something you are not, I have seen this in leftist spaces too, just a popularity contest.

I'm still anti capitalism but stop with the bullshit of all we need is community community is tyranny by the majority.

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Cynical Socialism / Practical Socialism

I don't really know what else to call my views. I'm a socialist in a third world country and I've been on this path for quite a long time. Since I was young, more than anything I've always wanted my nation to have a decent standard of living, so that ordinary people don't have to live in conditions worse than dogs, as far too many of them do today.
I've done some aid work, spent roughly a third of my life involved in socialist groups and I'm still active today. I do believe I've done some good but obviously nowhere near enough.

But there are also things I've come to accept. One of them is that I don't think Marxism is a realistic solution in itself. Anyone who claims that Marxism will inevitably become reality is deluding themselves, perhaps even more so than the Islamists. That doesn't mean I think Marxist thought is useless. Quite the opposite, Marxist-Leninist economics, sociology, history and political writings contain an enormous amount of material that is still incredibly valuable. I see them as necessary resources.
At this point, I have come to believe that the thing that matters most for third world societies is authoritarian developmentalism, regardless of ideology. It could be nationalist, Fascist, communist, ethnic, religious, monarchist or something else entirely. What matters to me is whether a centralized state can actually be formed that has the capacity to force through development, to industrialize, build infrastructure, improve education and healthcare, create jobs and ultimately pull people out of the slums and the conditions they are forced to live in today.

I don't particularly care what ideological label such a government carries if it can actually accomplish that. I increasingly see this as the only realistic path for most third world societies. Liberal democracy in my view is the worst option when it simply reproduces stagnation, poverty and political paralysis. And liberal socialist democracy just as bad when it offers neither meaningful socialism nor meaningful development, also leaving people trapped in the same misery and stagnation.

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Revolution has never taken place in the bubble of first world conditions. Revolution has necessarily been deformed in the periphery. Most people today are adventurists, larpers or liberals. Things are going to get very exciting very soon what with climate change, the decline of the empire, world war and several other crises hitting all at once. We need to start organizing extremely quickly.

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News 10/20/26

Hundreds of Moroccan personnel trained for Gaza force deployment
While Albania, Kazakhstan and Kosovo have also agreed to contribute troops, Morocco is expected to be the first to put boots on the ground, officials familiar with the Board of Peace's plans told TOI in July. In comments to the Israeli outlet on Monday, the Board of Peace official said the training of up to 500 personnel began in Morocco around late August. It involved an initial group of officers and instructors, followed by the broader contingent.
https://www.newarab.com/news/hundreds-moroccan-personnel-trained-gaza-force-deployment

Israel's Ben-Gvir poised for election gains as young voters turn to far right
"I used to think he was a bit crazy, but then I actually looked at what he was saying, and it all made sense," said Gavriel Marmon, an 18-year-old student and first-time voter from Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem. Marmon points to Ben-Gvir's sponsoring of a law passed in March that makes hanging the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of attacks on Israelis, which Ben-Gvir celebrated with the noose cake ⁠and a noose lapel pin. The bill is likely to be struck down by the Israeli courts, in part because it would not apply the same punishment to Jews.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-ben-gvir-poised-election-gains-young-voters-turn-far-right-2026-10-20/

UK to deploy fighter jets to protect Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks
RAF Typhoon fighters are to be used in efforts to protect Saudi Arabia from attack by Yemen’s Houthis, flying protective missions over the country’s cities and critical infrastructure as western allies increase their intervention in the escalating conflict. The operation – the most significant military mission signed off by Andy Burnham as prime minister – will involve RAF pilots attempting to shoot down Houthi missiles and drones, which attacked Saudi airports and oil facilities.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/20/uk-raf-typhoon-fighters-saudi-arabia-houthi-attacks

Burnham Rejects Corbyn’s Call for Inquiry Into UK’s Role in Gaza Genocide
The government rejected that call in response to a written question in parliament on Monday, arguing there were “extensive mechanisms already available for parliamentary accountability and oversight”. Burnham has continued the policy of his predecessor Keir Starmer by allowing the sale of military equipment to Israel, in defiance of widespread calls for a full arms embargo, including by UN experts.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/20/burnham-rejects-corbyns-call-for-inquiry-into-uks-role-in-gaza-genocide/

Paris sees calm following curfew to quell protests
At least 2,400 people were arrested across France on Saturday after some protesters set cars on fire, stormed public buildings and engulfed a historic city hall in flames in response to police violence, amid nationwide protests against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/paris-sees-calm-following-curfew-quell-protests

Italy to deploy 500 troops to Milan after days of protests and looting
The government of the far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, is also planning to swiftly approve tougher new security measures, including extending preventive detention for minors, cracking down on youth gangs and banning gatherings for people deemed a threat to public order, Italian media reported on Tuesday.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/20/milan-luxury-shops-close-italy-to-deploy-troops-youth-protests-europe

Thousands Flee as Regime Troops Push Into Myanmar’s Oil Hub
Resistance forces have controlled the area since 2022, repelling repeated efforts to choke off their crucial revenue stream. However, a regime offensive backed by 1,000 troops gained a foothold on May 24, seizing the Well-2 oil field in Tae Gyi village. The latest push began on October 18, when regime reinforcements arrived in Kamma town, Pakokku Township while gyrocopters bombed the nearby village of Ohntaw, killing five people, including children, and injuring four others.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/thousands-flee-as-regime-troops-push-into-myanmars-oil-hub.html

17 Filipino workers in British Columbia fight back against labor trafficking
The 17 migrant workers who came from Taiwan, worked over four months in Newfoundland as seasonal workers at a seafood processing plant. After their seasonal employment, they were referred to HHIS recruiters Cherry May Ricafort and Vincent Macalipay to process extension of work permits. According to the workers, the two allegedly took advantage of the situation knowing that they were newcomers and that their work statuses were about to expire.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/10/15/17-filipino-workers-in-british-columbia-fight-back-against-labor-trafficking/

Cuba accuses US of letting terrorists operate with impunity after speedboat raid
Cuba said on Monday that its investigation, which included confessions from those detained by its authorities, found that some of those involved in training insurgents remain at large in the US. "It is also important to highlight … the crimes still being committed today by individuals and organizations that, from within the United States, provided the property used to carry out these acts, arranged and secured land and maritime transport, and facilitated the purchase and stockpiling of weaponry," said Cuban prosecutor Edward Roberts.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cuba-accuses-us-letting-terrorists-operate-with-impunity-after-speedboat-raid-2026-10-20/

Colombia’s Congress Approves 2027 Budget Over Opposition Objections
Colombia’s Congress approved the 2027 national budget of 200 billion dollars on October 20, igniting a backlash from opposition lawmakers who say the plan favors debt payments and financial interests over education, peace and regional development.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-approves-2027-budget-objections/

Alberta rejects move towards independence from Canada
With more than 1.5 million votes counted, the majority supported remaining while about 24 per cent backed beginning a process toward independence, according to unofficial results from Elections Alberta. The referendum was not a direct vote on independence as approval would have set Alberta on a path toward a future vote on independence.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/alberta-rejects-move-toward-independence-canada

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Neocon Iraq War criminals

Why is it that the surviving members of the George W. Bush administration who acted as the architects of the Iraq War have never faced any legal penalties for what they did?

The 2003 US invasion of Iraq was arguably one of the worst human rights atrocities of the past 50 years. Over 1 million Iraqi CIVILIANS were killed. If that's not a low key genocide similar to Gaza I don't know what is. But it's even worse knowing this war was based entirely on a gigantic lie (a "noble lie" if you will) by some of the slimiest, most diabolical villains ever known to American politics. Yes, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld are dead and rotting in hell. But George W Bush, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith are still alive. Neocons Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan and John Bolton who were the top dogs in PNAC (Project for a New American Century), which called for massive military spending and preemptive attacks (also a "New Pearl Harbor" which conveniently happened on 9/11) are also still alive. WHY HAVEN'T ANY OF THEM EVER BEEN CHARGED AS WAR CRIMINALS?????

The Straussian cabal is very real and still holds loads of ideological power within American politics. Many Neocons from the Bush II era have now since become Democrats and publicly supported Kamala Harris over Trump on the basis Trump wasn't Neocon enough. These people have names and addresses and have to face some kind of legal penalties so the world can finally have closure and the Neocon war criminals can finally reap what they sowed.

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Am I a traitor for immigrating to china?

Im an american ML and moved to china a few years ago, been doing the privileged ESL job thing, currently working at a gov uni for like 1700$ a month teaching 16 hours weekly while i study chinese and try to get out of english teaching with hopes to start a family and raise some red diaper kids, but im plagued by a sense of guilt. Is leaving the US behind the cowards way out? Am I abandoning the a righteous cause or a sinking ship?

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