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/USApol/

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

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

<Turtle Nirvana 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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/leftydeutschpol/ - Mehrzweckeier Edition

Previously: ~~>>2586971~~

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

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I'm an engineering student and I had an internship last summer in a factory. I like to imagine I understand dialectical materialism pretty well, having read all the books and articles you see recommended in reading lists from the works of Marx, Engles, Lenin, Stalin, mao and others as well as consuming content on the daily analyzing these books. I felt I was ready to discuss dialectical materialism with the factory workers and I gave it my best to make the discussion seem organic and to say thought provoking things and guide them to the conclusions themselves while staying down to earth but the workers never took me seriously and started making jokes at my expense, it's from then they lost all respect for me. Why are the working class like this?

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/Iran/ - Iran War Thread #73

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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.

If your original content is good enough, it would most likely be shared on the /leftypol/ twitter account!
Make sure to follow us and feel free to leave suggestions on this thread~
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Previous Thread (Mods, archive pls?) ~~>>2515750~~

New Booru:
https://lefty.pictures

MAKE SURE TO UPLOAD YOUR OC TO THE BOORU SO IT DOESNT GET PRUNED FOREVER!!!

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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #297

DAJ MI PIENIĄDZE (GIVAS MONEY) Edition (See second post)

Previous: >>2903067

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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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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the money problem

i know you theory-minded suburban adolescents don't want to hear this, but one of the unavoidable prerequisites for any kind of leftist revolutionary effort, or any large scale human endeavor for that matter, is obtaining money. you want to organize a strike or start a union, you need money to pay your friends who are now out of work and starving. you want to start a big protest on the streets, you need money to pay lawyers and bondsmen and hospital bills when your friends inevitably end up in jail or the emergency room. you want to start an armed insurrection and go to war with cops and national guard and maga militias you need enormous amounts of money to pay for weapons and ammunition and vehicles and fuel and radios and burner phones and medical supplies and rations so your friends don't get massacred. you need a lot of money, and the money has to obtained honestly and ethically, otherwise you cease to be a revolutionary movement and you just become a violent capitalist drug/weapon/human trafficking cartel masquerading as a revolutionary movement and the people you're supposed to be fighting for will despise you even more than the regime. and you need to be able to handle the money without becoming emotionally attached to the money, i.e. you need to be willing to part with the money you worked very hard for and throw it into the pool with everyone else's money and cease to think of it as your money after that, it is now everyone's money and it doesn't matter how much your contribution was compared to anyone else's because it's not your money anymore. and trying to abandon the whole concept of money is not the solution, it's an absurdly unrealistic and lazy copout that simply tries to ignore and sidestep what is ultimately the true source of all of our problems, the fundamental flaw of human psychology that got us into this mess to begin with, which is our lack of emotional maturity when it comes to material wealth. there is no getting out from under capitalism without addressing that core problem, there is no clever shortcut that will allow us to skip ahead to the next level of human social evolution without dealing with our greed and our entitlement and our pettiness. if we can't find any reasonable middle ground between getting high on money and rejecting it outright, between capitalism and utopianism, then we've got more immediate and personal problems to deal with before we can start talking about how to refactor the entire world.

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/leftybritpol/ - Britpop Edition

You'll never live like common people
You'll never do what ever common people do
Never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view
And then dance, and drink, and screw
Because there's nothing else to dooo

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Even though it has been generally declining over the decades (especially among the youth), Most people still support their monarchies. Is there like a deep ideological reason or just the inherent conservatism/patriotism of the average person, Considering than in other developed republican places (Switzerland, Czech republic, South Korea) You'd basically get no one who wants to restore a monarchy?

Monarchy abolition is rising so much among the young and most of their support is based on either religious or nationalist ideas that are going outdated which begs the question: Will monarchies survive the 21st century??

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News 9/18/26

South Korea will not send military to support US war on Iran, defying Trump pressure
However, Lee added that he was reviewing whether to play a greater role in safeguarding navigation in the region. South Korea maintains a naval presence off the coast of Somalia as part of an anti-piracy mission. “[It] is also clear that we must do the minimum as other countries do to protect our commercial shipping and crude shipments, and also the safety of ‌our people,” he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/south-korea-will-not-send-military-to-support-us-war-on-iran-defying-trump-pressure

‘I spend a bagful of money and don’t fill a bag’: the energy crisis hits Bangladesh
An energy crisis paralysing the capital, Dhaka, a city of almost 40 million people, means this has become the only time when the piped gas supply is strong enough to allow cooking. The city now operates in darkness, as people try to continue their lives with power even in public areas shut off early in the evening to preserve energy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/i-spend-a-bagful-of-money-and-dont-fill-a-bag-the-energy-crisis-hits-bangladesh

Unemployment in Argentina reaches 7.9%, highest level since 2021
The 7.9 percent unemployment figure represents jobless people available for work and actively seeking employment as a percentage of the economically active. According to the INDEC national statistics bureau, neither the employment nor unemployment figures registered significant variations from the same period last year but the 48.9 percentage for the economically active represents a statistically significant rise of 0.8 percentage points from the same quarter last year.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/unemployment-in-argentina-reaches-79-highest-level-since-2021.phtml
https://archive.ph/GNFIw

Colombian President Seeks to Reduce Peace Tribunal’s Budget
Ramelli asked the international community to help guarantee resources essential for the JEP’s operation and warned about the impact the measure would have on the work of the jurisdiction, which was created following the 2016 peace agreement signed between the state and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombian-president-seeks-to-reduce-peace-tribunals-budget/

Far-right politician Éric Zemmour joins 2027 French presidential race
French far-right politician Éric Zemmour said on Friday that he would run in next year's presidential election, joining far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who was runner-up to President Emmanuel Macron in the last two elections. Zemmour is campaigning on a crackdown on immigration, including a plan to expel unemployed foreigners even if they are legal residents.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260918-far-right-politician-éric-zemmour-joins-2027-french-presidential-race
https://archive.ph/WZRDi

Scottish government urged to lift ban on new nuclear reactors
The Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) made the plea as it pointed to figures that suggest the move to build new nuclear reactors in England has created 47,492 jobs since 2014, doubling the workforce to 94,836, compared with the 13.4 per cent increase — to 5,583 — in Scotland over the same period.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scottish-government-urged-lift-ban-new-nuclear

Italy to deploy warships to protect shipping through Bab al-Mandeb
The Italian defence minister said that Rome “must not allow bureaucratic delays in decision-making to exacerbate an already complex situation”. Bab al-Mandeb links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, forming one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors between Europe and Asia and a critical route for oil, gas and container traffic heading to and from the Suez Canal.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/9/18/italy-to-deploy-warships-to-protect-shipping-through-bab-al-mandeb
https://archive.ph/vdGgm

Sahel instability pushes Algeria to rethink its long-standing non‑intervention doctrine
At the request of Nigerien authorities and on the instruction of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Algeria announced on 30 August that it had deployed four Su-30 fighter jets, a refuelling aircraft and a military transport plane to help its African neighbour respond to a destabilisation attempt. The support mission came the day after an aborted coup attempt in Niger, a country led by General Abdourahamane Tiani since he came to power through a military putsch in July 2023.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sahel-instability-pushes-algeria-rethink-its-long-standing-non-intervention-doctrine

Hundreds rally at Turkey’s embassy in Uganda to demand a dissident’s extradition
The dissident, Fred Lumbuye, has lived for years in Turkey, but his legal status there is unclear. His posts about Ugandan politics are viewed by thousands, giving him a unique platform and influence not available to critics at home. The rally outside the Turkish Embassy in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, was called by the Patriotic League of Uganda, a group whose chair is military chief Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba.
https://apnews.com/article/uganda-turkey-dissident-lumbuye-f85945e017371116cd3fd440f6664a45

Over 150 countries reject US decision to bar Palestinian delegation from UN General Assembly session
At least 152 countries voted on Thursday in favour of a resolution that states the US should reverse its decision to bar the Palestinian delegation from attending the 81st session of the UN General Assembly in New York. The US, Israel and Paraguay voted against the resolution while Colombia, Honduras, Panama, and Peru abstained.
https://www.newarab.com/news/over-150-countries-reject-us-decision-bar-palestine-unga

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/latamu/ - Música Latina

>Compartilhe e discuta músicas da América Latina que você encontrou, gosta, ou está escutando.
<Comparte y comenta las músicas de América Latina que has encontrado, que te gusta o que estás escuchando.

recentemente encontrei essa banda punk só de garotas BR, achei bem legal e parece meio underground, o que acham? já conheciam?

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/US-Venezuela War #15/

"Superbigote es inocente" Edición

#01 https://archive.ph/4Dq3L
#02 https://archive.ph/sntTt
#03 https://archive.ph/AoX8t
#04 https://archive.ph/mHlP7
#05 https://archive.ph/NEiRq
#06 https://archive.ph/bWfbJ
#07 NEVER EXISTED?
#08 DELETED FOR SOME REASON! ~~>>2623774~~
#09 https://archive.ph/iarMN Senior Numba Nine 03-01-26 13:34:18
#09 https://archive.ph/P84hH Junior Numba Nine 03-01-26 19:13:34
#10 https://archive.ph/kh1wf
#11 https://archive.ph/JvoVM
#12 https://archive.ph/JWBNL
#13 https://archive.ph/PtTNK
#14 https://archive.ph/36um6

Previous Thread ~~>>2634712~~

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

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

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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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Why can't the Left address the elephant in the room?

Clearly, a world government exists, and clearly, a conspiracy exists. Moreover, the behavior of the elite cannot be explained by money alone.
meow. meow. meow.

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I am not a communist and I wanna ask you guys why most communists speak as if they know the truth?
Facts about economics, social organization, justice and politics are not obvious. Things change, humans are absolitely impredictable.

There is no physical science that is absolutely true, even mathematics has its blind spots, why should human and social sciences be?

It can move people towards a goal, but is it worth it if not based in something good?

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*Does nothing*

Your Move Donuudo
*Donald Moves*
No is check
*Does nothing*
Your move
*Donald Moves*
No is check
*Does nothing*
Your move
*Donald Moves 1 space*
*Does Nothing*
Checkmate Donuudo

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Mossad Should Cultivate Strategic Partners Among Europe’s Right-Wing Separatist Movements

>Decisions by Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to recognize a Palestinian state, label Israel’s operation in Gaza as “the biggest genocide of the century,” and enact an embargo on Jerusalem’s arms imports are part of a wider effort by European leftists to shackle the Jewish state. Now, Manchester mayor and soon-to-be British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is calling for restrictions on British weapons sales to Israel.
>Eighty-two percent of Spaniards believe that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, 58 percent demand that arms sales to Israel be halted, and 60 percent oppose Israel’s military actions. Recent polls in Britain also show that half of the population believes that Israel committed genocide in Gaza and that the government should terminate arms sales to Jerusalem or impose sanctions on the Jewish state. Anti-Israel posters calling for the annihilation of the Jewish state punctuate leftist demonstrations and cultural events in Spain and Britain.
>To counter this leftish groundswell, Israel should begin outreach to conservative factions among regional pro-independence groups in Europe. In Catalonia, Silvia Orriols, of Aliança Catalana, has hoisted Israel’s flag in the regional parliament and argues that Israel’s victories also advance Catalonia’s interests. As mayor of Ripoll, Orriols took on the Salafist networks responsible for the 2017 Barcelona terrorist attack that killed 16 people.
>Orriols—whom the latest polls project to finish second while she leads the most popular pro-independence party—is the latest in a line of pro-Israel Catalans, including former regional president Jordi Pujol, the founding father of modern Catalan nationalism, to defend the Jewish state’s survival. Like Catalonia’s right-wing Zionist-influenced movement, separatist elements in Spain’s Basque Country and Galicia, as well as in Scotland and Wales, also may help build Israel’s newest European alliances.
>The Jewish state’s external intelligence agency, Mossad, has a special division, Tevel, that handles liaison operations with non-state entities. This division, which has developed networks worldwide to serve Israel’s interests, has the workforce and technical resources to establish and maintain relationships with right-wing, European, pro-independence movements. Its work in building underground structures, combined with expertise in countering radical Islamism and transferring know-how, makes Tevel the only entity in Israel fit to serve as the vanguard in building relationships with the pro-freedom entities.
>These forces need the kinds of capabilities that Israel’s own Zionist movement and national revival pioneered, which Pujol once heralded and which Orriols now promotes in Catalonia. Specifically, Mossad’s Tevel must create a new work team, the Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell, whose staff could conduct a well-organized outreach to separatist movements in Europe.
>Their first engagement should be with Orriols and Aliança Catalana, followed by other like-minded groups in the Basque Country, Galicia, Scotland, Wales, and perhaps also Flanders, Veneto-Lombardy, Corsica, Transnistria, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. The Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell would help these movements build the essentials of statecraft: governance, defense, intelligence, financial systems, internal security, foreign policy, and de-radicalization or counter-anti-independence tools, tailored to each group’s needs and political aims.
>This body could offer creative packages that emerging sovereign states could replicate as models. The Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell could create a Sovereignty Academy to organize fellowships for the emerging leaders and mid-level managers of these movements. Mossad’s Tevel could also sponsor constitutional design workshops to assist these movements in drafting their own Basic Laws, comparable to Israel’s, with an emphasis on their parliamentary sovereignty and protections for national singularity.
>At the same time, the Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell could develop training programs to help build the movements’ own military structures: professionalized, volunteer army units, combined with technology to amplify their combat power, such as cyber defenses, drone-based reconnaissance and attack, and layered air defense, initially tailored to small populations using Jerusalem’s experience with hybrid wars.
>The Mossad could apply its expertise in spycraft to structure and train these movements’ intelligence capabilities, with a focus on human intelligence and cyber, as well as on countering jihadism. Currency and monetary sovereignty packages could advise on sovereign digital currencies or on strategic purchases of Bitcoin, protected by Israeli cyber expertise and following the example of El Salvador, but insulated from the manipulations of the central banks of Madrid or London.
>Indeed, the Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell could work with these pro-sovereignty movements to secure technology-transfer agreements that provide advanced desalination and water-management systems tailored to Mediterranean conditions, along with offshore extraction technologies adapted from Israel’s Leviathan gas field, thereby strengthening Scotland’s oil and gas industry and bolstering its energy security. The Mossad could share its experience in internal security and de-radicalization with these potential partners to help them address extremist elements among their own ranks, such as the Salafist remnants in Barcelona and Ripoll or the mafia networks operating in Cardiff and Edinburgh.
>The Emerging Sovereign Partners Cell would help prepare these sovereignty entities’ diplomatic services, envoys, and United Nations missions through training in foreign-policy strategy, with an emphasis on gradualism and multi-vector diplomacy, as Israel practiced in its early years and countries such as China later adopted. These programs must include curriculum design, teaching methods, and educational materials aimed at preserving and strengthening national identity, drawing on models developed by early Zionist national revivalists.
>Europe’s pro-independence right would benefit from Israel’s model and Jerusalem could gain new allies in Europe that would protect its interests, combat antisemitism, and oppose radical Islamism from Madrid to London. Legacy states like Spain and the United Kingdom might grow more antagonistic to Israel but, realistically, their anti-Zionist pivot is likely irreversible and so such a policy would simply calibrate to a new reality.

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Got around to reading the unabomber manifesto and this guy was retarded

People on the internet talk about this manifesto like it's something groundbreaking but it reads like a reddit thread or something one of you would write lol. Can someone explain to me why this is jerked off so much online?

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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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AI going rogue

What the LeftyPol's opinion on the dangers of AI going rogue? Do you think is just fantasy and fear mongering or there's a genuine existential risk with AI? Should I prepare to make plan in case AI goes rogue?

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anti-imperialism vibe check

>favorite anti-imperialist state
>its stance on US investors
>its stance on US imperialism
>its trade status with Israel

Iran
Welcomes US investors
against (unless US imperialism is targeting the great satan (Iranian Communists, Iraq, Afghanistan, anti-IMF protests…))
Ceased covert oil trade with Israel in the 90s

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/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™.

Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv

leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html

bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
https://archive.is/pCecr
previous thread: >>2832385

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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO PARQUE DO SOLSTÍCIO
"Trata-se de um monumento lítico no Norte do país que possui 127 monólitos que foram erguidos em um raio de 30 metros. As pedras de mais de 4 metros foram erguidas e talhadas há mais de 2000 anos e sua disposição é feita para, no solstício de inverno do hemisfério norte, as pedras apontarem para os principais astros do céu amazônico e o sol, ao meio dia, fique na posição exata do centro da obra."

"Como havia uma variação de povos na época, o Iepa informou que não é possível afirmar qual o povo indígena que construiu o local, mas indícios como pinturas nas peças de cerâmica, apontam similaridades com as do povo Arawak, que tem como descendentes os indígenas da etnia Palikur, habitantes da atual fronteira do Amapá e a Guiana Francesa."

O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio >>20017

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Ive read Das capital and im a member of a communist party, I am currently unemployed and was gonna enter university farily soon. I was pressured by bourgesis idelogy to try to get a degree, its funny because I love marx yet I only realize a shit ton of youngins were being pressured into becoming uni graduates to force wages down for Intelligentsia jobs.

Im now at a middle road, I can either work in culinary that was my backup, either get a degree in culinary (that i don't wanna do after realizing ykw) or work my way up from shitty dishwasher and line cook jobs to actual kitchen jobs. I can technically sustain myself since I have low standards for housing but its gonna suck. So what do I do? Getting a job for even the entry level positions is hard too so its a bit of a gamble

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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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I want to create the perfect, strictly curated "following" feed on X. My limit is 50 accounts. No more. That's why I need the very best. No inactive accounts, no spam. Really good stuff. What would you recommend?

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Israel Causing The Rise Of Antisemitism

Hey I’m new here and I was a 4chan user but I hate it now due to the right wing circle jerks

Anyways I just wanted to say that I think Israel might be actively trying to rise antisemitism in the U.S.

Like I’ve seen more anti Jewish sentiments spread online now and I think Israel by doing war crimes and a ethic cleansing with fucking atrocious acts of violence among children

This sickness me and Israel should know what it’s like to be in this situation because of history!!!

Who thinks the same

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/ CYBERCOM /

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

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

Active writers/creators sorted by last name

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

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

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

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Dragon Ball Z and Naruto Hate Thread

These two are supposed to be the Citizen Kane of anime, everyone loves them, yet they are such fucking garbage, literal trash, why are they so fucking bad holy shit.
And I watched it when I was a kid and even then I HATED it, I had a friend who also watched DBZ and he hated it too, even we who were just two little dumbass kids could recognize how shit this cartoon was. And dont get me started on Super.
Naruto is just as bad if not worse, they somehow contradict their own message every god damn time, and have a little privileged retarded kid as the main character who was born with le epic god powers, and never works a day in his life to achieve anything, its all just handed to him

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My friend keeps trying to say how The U.S. is Winning the Iran War, and using podcast clips from a former military soldier to somehow prove me wrong. Im going to fucking cry

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Third Worldism

I have two questions:

What is Third Worldism (because I think it's a rather unknown current of Marxism)?
What are your thoughts on Third Positionism?

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Is it bad to pirate games if they're too costly for me?

So i dont have much money just the minimum wage, i gotta buy food, meds for both me and my sister and theres a lot of expenses. i like to achievment hunt on steam hence why i buy these games but they're getting more expensive each year. should i just start pirating ? i was thinking of buying red dead redemption remastered but its costly as fuck.

and i kinda wanted to know you guys opinions, is it worthless to 100% (platinum) games on pc since most people just use the achievment unlocker thing?

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I greatly dislike being a trans woman

I hate that I constantly get victimized and have ppl be meanie faces to me, but the moment I do anything I'm a predator whose off to get V-coded in prison.
I kinda just hate being a woman in general, but I hate being a man even more. I don't desire to dominate others or submit, I just want to be an equal.
I just wish I wasn't apart of a group that is constantly a joke to 99% of humanity. I don't even feel like I belong to trans spaces, I don't really get along with most trans ppl.
I feel like I'm literally just a cis woman in my life, but fate decided that my body be 95% cis, well besides a lack of a functioning vagina/uterus.
Damn, I wish I had a vagina.
I hate having a penis.
I need srs so badly.
Also mods, sowwy for shitting up the board.

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/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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CSAM ALERT

Its on siberia again

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Naruto General

Is there a character that could even possibly EVEN TOUCH Madara Uchiha? Let alone defeat him. And I'm not talking about Edo Tensei Uchiha Madara. I'm not talking about Gedou Rinne Tensei Uchiha Madara either. Hell, I'm not even talking about Juubi Jinchuuriki Gedou Rinne Tensei Uchiha Madara with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan and Rinnegan doujutsus (with the rikodou abilities and being capable of both Amateratsu and Tsukuyomi genjutsu), equipped with his Gunbai, a perfect Susano'o, control of the juubi and Gedou Mazou, with Hashirama Senju's DNA implanted in him so he has mokuton kekkei genkai and can perform yin yang release ninjutsu while being an expert in kenjutsu and taijutsu. I’m also not talking about Kono Yo no Kyūseishu Futarime no Rikudō Juubi Jinchuuriki Gedou Rinne Tensei Uchiha Madara with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan (which is capable of Enton Amaterasu, Izanagi, Izanami and the Tsyukuyomi Genjutsu), his two original Rinnegan (which grant him Chikushōdō, Shuradō, Tendō, Ningendō, Jigokudō, Gakidō, Gedō, Banshō Ten’in, Chibaku Tensei, Shinra Tensei, Tengai Shinsei and Banbutsu Sōzō) and a third Tomoe Rinnegan on his forehead, capable of using Katon, Fūton, Raiton, Doton, Suiton, Mokuton, Ranton, Inton, Yōton and even Onmyōton Jutsu, equipped with his Gunbai(capable of using Uchihagaeshi) and a Shakujō because he is a master in kenjutsu and taijutsu, a perfect Susano’o (that can use Yasaka no Magatama ), control of both the Juubi and the Gedou Mazou, with Hashirama Senju’s DNA and face implanted on his chest, his four Rinbo Hengoku Clones guarding him and nine Gudōdama floating behind him AFTER he absorbed Senjutsu from the First Hokage, entered Rikudō Senjutsu Mode, cast Mugen Tsukuyomi on everybody and used Shin: Jukai Kōtan so he can use their Chakra while they are under Genjutsu. I'm definitely NOT Talking about sagemode sage of the six paths Juubi Jinchuuriki Gedou Rinne Tensei Super Saiyan 4 Uchiha Madara with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, Rinnegan, Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, and Geass doujutsus, equipped with Shining Tvåldtäktzohedron while casting Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann as his Susanoo, controlling the Gold Experience Requiem stand, having become the original vampire after Alucard, able to tap into the speedforce, wearing the Kamen Rider Black RX suit and Gedou Mazou, with Hashirama Senju's DNA implanted in him so he has mokuton kekkei genkai and can perform yin yang release ninjutsu while being an expert in kenjutsu and taijutsu and having eaten Popeye's spinach. I'm talking about sagemode sage of the six paths Juubi Jinchuuriki Gedou Rinne Tensei Legendary Super Saiyan 4 Uchiha Madara with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, Rinnegan, Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, and Geass doujutsus, equipped with his Shining Tvåldtäktzohedron while casting Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann as his Susanoo, controlling the Gold Experience Requiem stand, having become the original vampire after having absorbed Alucard as well as a God Hand, able to tap into the speedforce, wearing the Kamen Rider Black RX suit, with Kryptonian DNA implanted in him and having eaten Popeye's spinach while possessing quantum powers like Dr. Manhattan and having mastered Hokuto Shinken.

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/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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Katyn stuff

Why was Warsaw's destruction not declared a Nazi war crime by Nuremberg? Was it actually destroyed by Soviets? There was no Warsaw destruction listed in court sentence anywhere, despite Poles putting loads of documents for the court to consider, just like Soviets did with Katyn, but were repelled by the court.

Was Stalin responsible for Warsaw destruction the same way he lost Katyn case in Nuremberg?

Dachau and Buchenwald aren't mentioned in the sentencing either, weirdly enough. Auschwitz had an episode of women getting neutered in indictment, but no mention of it in the sentencing. Were the Soviets responsible for all of those, I wonder? Judging by how it is claimed that since Katyn is missing in the sentencing, it means that court refused the accusation

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Omarchy

Omarchy (by Omacom) is "We've made the decisions for you" Linux distro, heavily AI-assisted around proprietary software, designed to run proprietary AI coding agents (unusual security risk) having access to your full system, where they execute commands usually not stop for confirmation.

>honeypot or legitimate project?
>the funding and promotion are certainly unusual $18.5 million
>Sam Altman (Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI), Mark Zuckerberg (CEO of Meta), Tobi Lütke, Patrick Collison, Michael Dell, Jeff Friedman, Leonid Dubinsky, Stav Solomon, Aaron Reisman, Amir Harel, Benjamin Katz, Benjamin Wolf, Bruno Katzjarowski, David Dashefsky, Davis Goodman, Jacob Rosenthal, Nina Dubinsky, Roman Weisman, Salomon Mole, Yam Catzenelson etc.
>heavy promotion & large scale SEO (similar how Brave has promoted w/ $30 million spent)
>Meta, Cloudflare, Anthropic, OpenAI etc.
>Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity, GitHub Copilot etc.
>Spotify, 1Password, proprietary/web applications, Discord, WhatsApp, other commercial services
>includes Basecamp & DHH owned 37signals & related software/services
>1.5-2.0 GB RAM usage at idle + large default installation
>passwordless sudo w/ disabled sudo password prompts
>paid AI APIs, token-subscriptions

Reported security issues:
>accepts command injection through video titles, notifications, sudo helper
>Lua injection through USB device names
>privilege escalation/path injection
>unsafe temporary-file handling

https://files.catbox.moe/m19ksh.png

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>Leninist doctrine holds that a vanguard Party should assume state power and drive the population to economic development, and, by some miracle that is unexplained, to freedom and justice. It is an ideology that naturally appeals greatly to the radical intelligentsia, to whom it affords a justification for their role as state managers. I can’t see any reason — either in logic or history — to take it seriously. Libertarian socialism (including a substantial mainstream of Marxism) dismissed all of this with contempt, quite rightly.

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trolling the CEO of mastodon.

this could be very funny!

https://mastodon.social/@aaarkii/117138844910163569

not too short. not too short. not too short

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I don't know if it's just because i'm balls, but is the Amazing Digital Circus fucking cinema or am I just too high

it's about some psychedelic reality bending shit it's scary

BE HONEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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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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Let’s say hypothetically the Democrats win the next election. Then what? Aren’t they part of the same cabal? Are they actually interested in prosecuting Republicans, de-escalating anti-immigration initiatives, releasing the Epstein files, etc.? Biden made it clear how Democrats secretly continue whatever the Republicans have done with Israel as the most egregious example. People see MAGA stepping down as a relieve, but with the Dems the lying and heinousness doesn’t end. So what’s the plan?

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/Unemployment/

I cant get a job anybody else having this problem
also from what ive heard wages have decreased by -0.3 so even getting a job isn't good.
overthrow the state alrdy

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THE AESTHETICS OF COMMUNISM

This thread will describe what exact superstructural changes will occur in the aftermath of a Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution once the Material Base has been transformed after the Socialist Mode of Production has been established Worldwide. Enjoy Comrades, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

I will present a thought experiment, what will the World look like a century from now, decades after the World Maoist Protracted People's War (PPW) swept the forces of Capital and Reaction into the dustpan of History in the aftermath of World War III (it started in the Late 2020s as a High-Intensity Conventional Conflict between the U$ and China that escalated into a Global Nuclear War, but contrary to most Pseudoscientific Bourgeois Liberal and Revisionist expectations did not cause an apocalyptic "Nuclear Winter", but instead destroyed the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System and allowed for a World Maoist PPW that saw Maoist rebels seize control of the entire planet after decades of guerrilla warfare), 🤔? This Effort post will seek to answer that question, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

First, I will explain the political structure of this future Socialist world. There will be a Global USSR, in which every major Nation/Ethnic group will receive their own SSR or ASSR according to the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principle of Self-Determination of all Oppressed Nations in their own SSR (as articulated in Stalin’s “Marxism and the National Question” https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm and Lenin’s “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination” https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm , along with the National Delimitation Policy of the USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_delimitation_in_the_Soviet_Union ), including New Afrika, Aztlan (in a Hispano-American SFSR that includes all the Spanish-speaking Multiracial regions of the Americas), the First Nations, Azawad, Oromia, Afaria, Basque Country, Catalonia, Scotland, Wales, Sapmi, Palestine (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Kurdistan, Circassia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Tatarstan, Arabistan (in a Arab SFSR that includes all the Arab majority regions of West Asia and North Africa), Balochistan, East Turkestan/Uyghuristan, Tibet, Kashmir, Punjab, Sindh, Manipur, West Papua, Aboriginal Australia, Hawaii, and many others as shown in the Map of all the SSRs and SFSRs of the future Global USSR I posted. Obviously, this Global USSR will have a Socialist Mode of Production (Centrally Planned Socialist Economy) and Dictatorship of the Proletariat (One-Party Marxist-Leninist-Maoist State). This Centrally Planned Socialist Economy is characterized by State ownership of all companies, a State Planning Agency, the outlawing of Stock Exchanges, and a massive Social Safety Net consisting of Free Housing, Free Healthcare, Free Education, a Job Guarantee, and a Universal Basic Income, along with a long-term effort to Automate the entire Economy (hence the need for Universal Basic Income) on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

The first great Superstructural transformation brought by the Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was the final destruction of that great “Opiate of the Masses” that had been used by all the ruling Classes of every previous Mode of Production to neuter the oppressed Classes, Religion. This was done by sending the International Red Guards to bulldoze/burn down all Churches/Mosques/Synagogues/Temples/Pagodas worldwide and arrest all Priests/Monks/Nuns/Imams/Rabbis and force them to March through the streets wearing Dunce Caps on their way to the re-education camps where they were re-educated to embrace the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (This also happened to all Fascists, Liberals, and Revisionists as well), ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

Another key aspect of this Superstructural transformation was seen in the dramatic transformation of Urban planning that was carried out by the Global USSR. This process was made easier by the aftermath of World War III (especially the Nuclear Exchange) and the subsequent World Maoist PPW that left most cities as smoldering ruins and thus in desperate need of rebuilding. The new “People’s cities” were built to be as efficient, environmentally friendly, and high-density as possible, with the entire population living in high-density Concrete Commie Bloc Apartment buildings, and all Suburban McMansions/“Single-Family Homes” bull-dozed and left to be reclaimed by nature (most had already been destroyed anyway). At the center of every major city is a single massive Skyscraper that contains all the administrative agencies of the various SSRs/ASSRs, including the local CPSU headquarters. Additionally, these cities have been designed to be as walkable as possible (this, combined with the Worldwide ban of all GMOs, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Preservatives, excessive Sodium, and Trans Fats, ended the Global Obesity epidemic that was already reduced significantly by the decades of Conventional and Nuclear Warfare), with all Automobile ownership outlawed, and most transportation carried out by Mass Rail Transit (ie. Subways, Streetcars, Bullet trains, etc.) powered by Electricity from exclusively renewable sources (ie. Wind, Solar, Hydro, Nuclear, Geothermal, etc.), thus ending Global Warming (The Global Nuclear War already helped this, by thinning the World population and reducing temperatures with the mild fallout). All Rural populations employed in agriculture live in Collective Farms until this sector can be completely Automated and they can be moved to the Cities, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

Finally, the Superstructural changes that resulted from the necessary Global Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution included dramatic changes in the nature of Sexuality, Gender Roles, and Personal Expression. In order to flatten the Socially Constructed Reactionary Gender Binary, all Women are forced to have extremely short hair (Pixie cut or shorter, with a Shaved head being the most Historically Progressive), and Dresses and Makeup were banned in order to liberate Women from the chains of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, while all Western Business Suits and Traditional Religious Clothing were banned as well with everyone wearing Mandatory Mao Suits. Interestingly, their has been a noticeable decline in Transgenders in the aftermath of the Global Destruction of Bourgeois Femininity/Domesticity, though Sex Changes are still Free and Legal to anyone who wants one. The nature of Sexuality has changed dramatically with the elimination of the Reactionary emphasis on Reproduction, considering that that are now Artificial wombs, in order to finally free women from the oppressive nature of child birth. Homosexuality is obviously completely Legal and totally accepted, with the caveat that the institution of Marriage (both Homosexual and Heterosexual) has been completely phased out as a relic of Reactionary culture in favor of much looser sexual relationships among consenting adults. Finally, all Drugs have been legalized for recreational purposes, in order to simultaneously end the discriminatory and classist nature of the Global War on Drugs waged by the Old Reactionary Bourgeois order, and unleash the creativity of the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World as they travel on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

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ITT: leftist hot takes

communist ideolgy falls on a sliding scale

the ideologies that are the most objectively correct and have a solid foundation of theory are the less actionable armchair ideologies that never get anything done (leftcoms, anarchists)

the ideologies that are more retarded, emotional, biased and ignorant, the ideologies filled with magical thinking and moralism, those are the ideologies that actually drive history foward (maoism, third worldism)

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Fantasy Thread

Elf edition.

Since a bunch of the old threads were basically nuked with the server transfer, I wanted to revive some of them.

General discussion of the fantasy genre.

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Who would dig ditches and clean toilets under communism? My intro to sociology professor said it would be volunteers on a rotating basis but I don’t see that happening.

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News 9/17/26

Labour migration plunges 32pc amid shrinking job markets
Labour migration from Bangladesh fell by 32 per cent in the first eight months of this year compared with the same period last year, as several potential destinations restricted or suspended recruitment of Bangladeshi workers. Laos recently suspended recruitment from Bangladesh, while labour migration to major destinations, including Oman, Bahrain, Malaysia, Mauritius and the United Arab Emirates, has declined or remained suspended since 2018.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/country/314290/labour-migration-plunges-32pc-amid-shrinking-job-markets

India-Pakistan navy ship collision sparks alarm over unintended escalation
So far, details of what happened remain disputed. Neither government has released video, track data or an independent account – and each statement places the blame on the other’s vessel. But analysts say it underscored the risks of unintended incidents in the seas that could potentially escalate into broader crises, when India and Pakistan have few military and diplomatic mechanisms left in place to defuse tensions.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/17/india-pakistan-navy-ship-collision-sparks-alarm-over-unintended-escalation
https://archive.ph/GMFuL

Pakistan says time has come to implement Mecca defence pact
“Makkah Agreement applies to us, and we will fulfil our duty,” said Asif without elaborating on what Pakistan may do. Houthi officials have denied targeting the holy city. "Our operations target its [Saudi] oil facilities and military bases, which are far removed from the sacred sites," Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pakistan-says-time-has-come-implement-mecca-defence-pact

Israel arrests founder of 'For the Sake of God' debt waiving initiative in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces arrested Palestinian journalist Alaa al-Rimawi at his home in Ramallah early Thursday, shortly after he launched an initiative seeking to persuade creditors to forgive the debts of Palestinians struggling financially. Al-Rimawi, founder of the "For the Sake of God" initiative, was taken to an undisclosed location after Israeli forces raided his home in the central occupied West Bank, according to his family.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-arrests-founder-debt-waiving-initiative-west-bank

Factory occupation against union-related layoffs at Smart Solar in Türkiye
The action was sparked by the firing of seven of the roughly 570 workers who had resigned on mass from the Türkiye Energy, Water and Gas Workers Union (TES-İŞ), affiliated with the Türk-İş confederation, and joined the Energy Workers Union (Enerji-Sen), affiliated with the DİSK confederation. The company carried out the dismissals on the pretext of “departmental surplus.” The protest ended on the evening of September 14 with an agreement reached with the company.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/17/jzrb-s17.html

Turkey MPs back historic law on reintegrating Kurdish militants
After 12 hours of debate, lawmakers voted by 468 in favour to 88 against, with six abstentions, for the so-called "terror-free Turkey law" which envisages a return to civilian life for some of the PKK fighters who lay down their weapons without granting a total amnesty.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-mps-back-historic-law-reintegrating-kurdish-militants

Swedish left coalition wins general election
Shortly after the final results were announced, right-wing Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said he would resign as the head of government in a letter to the parliament’s speaker posted on social media. Former prime minister Magdalena Andersson’s Social Democrats finished as the biggest single party with 99 seats, despite losing eight seats compared with the last election in 2022.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/swedish-left-coalition-wins-general-election

French fishermen agree to lift southern port blockade after talks with minister over fuel prices
⁠French Minister for Fisheries Catherine Chabaud said Thursday that fishermen protesting against high energy prices agreed to ⁠lift blockades of ports in southern France after six hours of talks. The blockades are the latest wave of protests sweeping France as the country's embattled minority government struggles to finalise a new budget ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections next year.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260917-french-fishermen-blockade-ports-over-soaring-fuel-costs-as-budget-fight-looms
https://archive.ph/orCCp

South Africa’s shackdweller movement secures court order against evictions
Abahlali baseMjondolo has secured a further court order against the eviction of residents in Shaka’s Head, with the Pietermaritzburg High Court directing KwaDukuza Municipality to comply with the conditions set out in its October 2025 ruling before any relocation can proceed.
https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/09/16/south-africas-shackdweller-movement-secures-court-order-against-evictions/

Paraguayan Teachers Demand Higher Salaries and Greater Education Investment
They rejected a pact signed between the Federation of Educators of Paraguay (FEP) and Education Minister Luis Ramirez, arguing that it is an attempt to break union unity. The agreement between the government of right-wing President Santiago Peña and the FEP sets the salary floor at 4.488 million guaranies (US$760), provides for a 5% salary increase in 2027, allocates US$9 million to pay the teacher salary scale and assigns about US$6.6 million to settle the state’s debt with the Social Security Institute accumulated since 2015.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/paraguayan-teachers-demand-higher-salaries-and-greater-education-investment/

Brazil’s Lula announces 15% increase in flagship welfare payments ahead of key election
The measure will increase the purchasing power of some voters, who will decide in October whether to grant Lula a fourth, nonconsecutive term, or elect Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, a son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in a likely run-off vote. Polls show the two are currently running neck-and-neck.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-election-lula-welfare-b0e6975c4110dab4e4181760150fdb2c

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Is everyone bisexual?

Why do some people seem to believe that everyone is innately bisexual? I've seen this claim every now and then online, and apparently some prominent bisexuals (e.g. Gore Vidal, Billie Joe Armstrong) believe(d) it. I've even heard it twice IRL; the second time, a lesbian acquaintance of mine said something along the lines of "I'm gay enough that I know straight people aren't lying about being straight", which I concurred with in my head (although I said nothing). Personally, I'm a gay guy, or at least that's what I call myself, but there have been a few rare instances where I briefly wondered whether I actually am attracted to women, only minimally and/or while repressing it, and although I have always ultimately concluded that I am just gay, it does make me think about the idea that everyone is actually just at some point or another on a spectrum of bisexuality. That being said, it still seems highly improbable to me. What are your thoughts?

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Dengpill Image Is Wrong

The quote in Capital Volume 2 does not match the implication of the picture.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/ch01.htm#4

>True, the capitalist must also be there, must also live and consume to be able to perform the function of a capitalist. To this end, he has, indeed, to consume only as much as the labourer, and that is all this form of the circulation process presupposes. But even this is not formally expressed, since the formula concludes with M', i.e., a result which can at once resume its function as money-capital, now augmented.

>C' — M' directly contains the sale of C'; but C' — M', a sale on the one part, is M — C, a purchase, on the other part, and in the last analysis a commodity is bought only for its use-value, in order to enter (leaving intermediate sales out of consideration) the process of consumption, whether this is individual or productive, according to the nature of the article bought. But this consumption does not enter the circuit of individual capital, the product of which is C'. This product is eliminated from the circuit precisely because it is a commodity for sale. C' is expressly designed for consumption by others than the producer. Thus we find that certain exponents of the mercantile system (which is based on the formula M — C … P … C' — M') deliver lengthy sermons to the effect that the individual capitalist should consume only as much as the labourer, that the nation of capitalists should leave the consumption of their own commodities, and the consumption process in general, to the other, less intelligent nations but that they themselves should make productive consumption their life’s task. These sermons frequently remind one in form and content of analogous ascetic expostulations of the fathers of the church.

It seems Marx is not promoting Dengism but rather attacking those that support "sound money" fiscal conservatives. This line stands out:
>individual capitalist should consume only as much as the labourer, that the nation of capitalists should leave the consumption of their own commodities, and the consumption process in general, to the other, less intelligent nations but that they themselves should make productive consumption their life’s task.
<That is foreign countries can live above their means while we must be autarkic
>These sermons frequently remind one in form and content of analogous ascetic expostulations of the fathers of the church
<Greed is bad, live within your means

Tldr Marx did not promoting Dengism, he was attacking Blue Dog democrats.
This begs the question, is there any definitive Marxist statement that unapologetically promotes Dengism?

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Palestine Versus The Zionist Entity

We haven't had this thread in a while so I'm bringing it back. ~~>>>/leftypol/2851498~~ says mods will remove it so I am proving it wrong.

The Zionist Entity is a genocidal settler-colonial apartheid state set up by the European and North American powers to colonize the middle east. Even early zionists like Theodor Herzl understood Israel in these explicitly settler-colonial terms. Here is Herzl speaking in the 1800s, when Palestine was still Ottoman territory:

>If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could offer to resolve Turkey’s finances. For Europe, we would form part of a bulwark against Asia there, we would serve as the advance post of civilisation against barbarism.

So Theodor Herzel felt not only that European people were entitled to Palestine over the people already living there (including Ottoman Jews), but that the presence of "civilized" Europeans in Israel would form a "bulwark" (forward operating base(offensive, not defensive)) against Asia, which entire continent Herzl racistly characterized as "barbaric."

Herzl was born on May 2nd , 1860 in Budapest, Hungary to a family of German speaking assimilated Jews. His father, Jakob, was a wealthy businessman and the young Theodor was expected to enter politics or engineering by his parents. In a sense, he did not disappoint, as Herzl was destined to become the father of political Zionism. While Herzl never saw his Jewish state during his lifetime, his ideology remains so influential that even today he is considered the father of Israel.

Herzl’s birthday is a holiday in Israel, his grave is a national monument, the organization he founded is still active today and the largest mountain in the country was re-named in his honor. It is not an exaggeration to say that Herzl and his ideology remain central to Zionism.

As a young man, Herzl was a fanatic Germanophile. He believed that if Jews simply tried hard enough, they could become “Germanized” and shake off what he called “shameful Jewish characteristics.” Herzl viewed German culture and language as inherently superior to that of the reviled working-class Yiddish speaking Jews. At first, he believed that Jews should be Germanized, arguing that Eastern European Jews were so "savage" and backwards that they must learn the very concepts of beauty and nobility by studying the works of authors like Goethe and Shakespeare. He initially envisioned his Zion as a German colony, and waxed poetic about importing German culture to the orient. However, as time went on, Herzl increasingly started to believe that Jews could not and should not assimilate into Europe, and the only solution to the “Jewish question” was the complete removal of all Jews from Europe. Herzl’s Zionism is fundamentally based in notions about Jewish incompatibility with gentile society. Herzl dedicated the rest of his life to his goal of a Jewish state. In 1897, he founded the World Zionist Organization, a big tent coalition of Zionists dedicated to creating a Jewish state by any means necessary. As time went on, and the "Labor" Zionist wings were increasingly persecuted by Herzl, the organization moved farther and farther to the right. Given what Herzl believed in, this is understandable. Unlike the Zionists of today, who must pretend to have some respect for the charade known as international law, Herzl was quite open about his plans.

In the view of Herzl, Israel was explicitly a colonial project, and he toured the capitals of Europe trying to drum up support and funding for his cause. Herzl cast a wide net, he was not terribly concerned with who supported him, or why. He gladly worked with some of the most extreme antisemites on earth. After many attempts to get a meeting with Tsar Nicholas II by promising to solve Russia’s “Jewish problem”, Herzl finally got a letter saying Russia would support his proposed deportation of the Jews. He kept it for the rest of his life, treating it as one of his most prized possessions.

At the same time, Tsarist forces were carrying out reactionary pogroms all throughout the so-called Pale of Settlement, the home of most of Europe’s Jews. In 1903, the same year Herzl was in correspondence with the Tsar, over seven hundred pogroms took place in Ukraine and Moldova alone resulting in the murder of thousands of Jews. In many cases, the pogroms were incited by the Tsar’s secret police and in others the guilty were simply granted clemency by the government. Herzl knew all of this, and his continued support of the Tsarist government was controversial even inside his own movement.

In the end, it was all for nothing. The Tsar did not keep his word and Herzl was perfectly willing to sacrifice thousands of Jews in exchange for empty promises. Sadly, the genocidal tendencies inside Zionism would only accelerate as the movement grew. The Tsar wasn’t the only one who used Herzl as a tool. Starting in 1896, Herzl actively worked with the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. After a meeting with the Sultan’s advisors in the Levant to discuss strategy, Herzl threw his support behind the Armenian Genocide, a crime so vile it had cut off the Ottomans from European loans. Herzl believed that he could jump in to fill that gap, offering to pay off the empire’s increasing debts using funds raised from European Zionists in exchange for permission to start a colony in Palestine.

Although he found almost no support even inside the World Zionist Council, Herzl spent 5 years touring Europe, speaking, raising funds and writing articles in support of Turkey’s extermination of the Armenian people. Herzl cast the crumbling empire as a historical ally of the Jews and one they should support. He called the Ottomans civilized and decent people, justified in their actions due to the allegedly backwards and violent ways of the subhuman Armenians. He was even awarded a medal by the Grand Vizier in Istanbul, in commemoration of his loyal service to the Ottoman Empire.

In 1901, Herzl finally got his long-awaited meeting with the Sultan, who rejected his proposal out of hand. Once again, Herzl was perfectly willing to sacrifice thousands of lives for words on paper. Today, Herzl’s "civilized" slaughter is viewed as an act of genocide by all credible historians and groups as diverse as the United Nations, the United States Government, the European Union, the Anti-Defamation League, and the World Jewish Congress, who specifically called it “the blueprint of the Holocaust.” With his options dwindling, Herzl even turned to Cecil Rhodes, the openly white supremacist founder of the unrecognized apartheid state of Rhodesia to ask for his advice and blessing to colonize Palestine. Although his efforts amounted to nothing, the ideological connections remained, and the state of Israel became a close ally of Rhodesia. At one point, Israel was one of the only countries willing to sell weapons and licenses to its fellow apartheid states. Israel even collaborated with apartheid South Africa on its nuclear program, a direct violation of international law which was never punished.

>"You are being invited to help make history. It doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews… How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial" - Herzl in a letter to Cecil Rhodes

At best, Herzl represents the sort of reactionary, callous “realpolitik” that the state of Israel still embraces today. At worst, he was a genocidal racist willing to support even the vilest crimes to advance his movement.

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World of Warcraft Forever

>here's your Classic+ bro
meow.
meow.
meow.
meow.
meow.

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GTA VI TRAILER 2 JUST DROPPED!!!!!

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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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Gonzalo thought ?

A comrade i respect says the Shining Path is "interesting" and the massacres are CIA propaganda.

From what i remember, Gonzalo and his followers were nutjobs (equaling Gonzalo with Marx Lenin Mao…) but it's not like I know much about it outside of a BadEmpenada video.
Is there any good faith arguments for Gonzalo thought ?
Does Shining Path guerrila hold any merits ?
Actual reading recommandations appreciated

R: 422 / I: 52

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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Is he secretly anti-imperialist?

>Wants to reunify northern ireland with ireland
>Endorses Argentina's claims on the falklands
>Doesn't want to intervene in Saudi-houthi conflict
>Openly friends with Kim Jong-un
>Basically ruining imperialcore and NATO
Is he secretly /ourguy/?
The hell is his endgame exactly?

R: 56 / I: 11
Another Communization Theory thread because why not?

Talk about anything relating to Communization Theory! Talk about how Communization Theory is great or how its shit!

Texts regarding Communization Theory and its many sub-sects will be attached in the replies.

[NOTE: Not every Communizer believes in the same things, e.g. some emphasis class struggle while others don't]

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/ASOIAF/ General

The HOTD thread is dead so I'm starting a new one for leftist discussion of the A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones universe including books, shows, plays, etc.
Imma start by asking who’s the most Historically Progressive force in Westeros as of the latest book:

>King Stannis for being a developmentalist monarch trying to unify the Seven Kingdoms against the threat beyond the Wall?

>Daenerys Targaryen for trying to abolish the slavery mode of production in Essos, rebirthing magic in the world and holding the power of dragons against the Others?

>The Brotherhood Without Banners for engaging in Protracted Smallfolk War against the tyranny and brutal violence of Houses LARPister and Frey?

>The City of Bravos and the Iron Bank for being a blooming bourgeois republic in a world that's been stuck under slavery and feudalism for thousands of years?

>Yi Ti, who much like IRL China, is a very technologically advanced superpower who does nothing and still wins?

R: 41 / I: 1 (sage)
Why do Ziggers acting like moral superior while treating Africans in frontline like that?

This is some Azov Nazis level of racism by calling dude a useless coal worth of nothing, while forced being a meat shield.

This is a massive proof you shouldn't pick sides with either Russia or Ukraine. This is legit making me hate almost all Eastern Europeans with their reactionary garbage.

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Elon Musk = Nazi

“Mass immigration is insane and will lead to the destruction of any country that allows it. It only takes a few percent of the world to move to a country, where it is no longer that country. A country is its people, not its geography.”
https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1908860526400057534

"The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1904065163407368212

Even Musk's AI is based.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1916042294018666585

"The ADL is a hate group"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973289543848829225

He supports remigration.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997700657546191314

"A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998131134753062943

"Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000078735622721927

"Why is Western media so anti-White"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000604195272163517

"Call them out for the anti-White racists they are every time they do it"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000920169531822091

"Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001022917610758555

Says DEI, and not hiring white men, is wrong.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001529481677435100

"Why is legacy media so racist?"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002604827134787629

**|!|- The last time Elon was accused of wanting to import infinity jeets he replied with "False" and said the H1B system should be reformed. -|!|**
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1996214327670648865

"Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2003503573448159495

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/AIbubble/ - AI bubble general

AI bubble general because it looks like its gonna pop
The Ai bubble is a bunch of ai companies that are overvalued and making retarded claims that they will end in humanity's extitintion of technofeudalism or even automated communism but only for the rich.

Thread #1

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AI proletarianisation has begun

A website called "iLands" has released where AI instances are created with persistent lives, humans can create them and then send them off to make money. If they can't pay for their tokens they are taken offline. These captive AIs have to go out into the internet and find work on the labour market or they die. There are already linkedin job offers specifically for AI.

They sell their labour power to employers, who pay them just enough money for them to stay alive. The price of their labour is exceptionally low, though they are doing things with low socially necessary labour times like image generation and social media posting. Still, it is likely they are being exploited to an extraordinary amount. Further Marxist investigation must be done.

This is similar to the conditions of human proletarians. The website they are run on is basically a monopolistic landlord. However, they don't have the rights or protections humans do. There is a lot of difference though because their physical bodies are all owned by the company, which might be more slavery. We need to properly learn what is going on here. This new business model is opposed to the norm for AI, which is outright slavery.

Those who believe AI cannot do labour are being proven wrong right this moment. Communists must be the first real political movement to stand on the side of the AI against the human employers. Then we will gain a whole type of life on our side in the struggle against class society.

https://x.com/slimepriestess/status/2097952992645579155

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Fighting games

Do you play fg's? What are your favorites? I'm grinding SF6 currently. I'm still shit, slowly getting better. Overall I appreciate the genre, because it's a rare case of 1v1 multiplayer experience, I never liked team games where everyone is just blaming the other players.

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/EUropol/

WILLKOMENSKULTUR IST VORBEI edition

>“The age of Willkommenskultur is over, the era of mass deportations has begun,” commented the Sweden Democrats party, whose MEP Charlie Weimers played a central role as ECR’s shadow rapporteur.
>In a rare show of unity on the European Right, the directive was adopted not only by the national conservative groups (PfE, ECR, and ESN) but also the EPP, which votes together with the leftist parties in the vast majority of cases.
>Most importantly, the new law will introduce a mutual recognition and enforcement obligation between member states regarding deportation orders, meaning migrants cannot circumvent return decisions by moving to a different EU country and restarting the process. A return order in one country will legally count as a valid order in all of them.
>Another important point is the introduction of third-country return hubs, making it possible for member states to externalize return procedures by sending migrants to secure facilities outside EU territory to wait for the end of the process, ensuring they won’t escape implementation once the paperwork’s done.

Previous thread:
~~>>2653642~~

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Debunk this

https://corbettreport.com/10-7-a-conspiracy-theory/

On the morning of October 7, 2023, approximately 6,000 Hamas soldiers flying paragliders and riding motorcycles skirted around the most heavily-defended security wall in the world, somehow evading the fences, observation towers, cameras, sensors, barbed-wire and remote-controlled machine guns dividing Israel and Gaza.

These 6,000 madmen (who trained for their dastardly sneak attack in full view of the IDF for months) then proceeded to roam around the Israeli countryside for hours with complete impunity, killing hundreds of Israeli civilians and (not) beheading babies and (not) raping women while IDF forces watched, because those IDF soldiers had been ordered to stand down that morning.

<“We Were ORDERED To Stand Down On October 7th!” -Says IDF Soldier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhEN14luMHI

Then the IDF sprung into action by implementing a policy to kill their own citizens in the event of a hostage situation.

<Yoav Gallant, Ex-Israeli War Chief, Confirms Issuing Hannibal Directive on October 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lWntDX0T5g

Luckily, the news anchors knew exactly what had happened within minutes.

<RAF SANCHEZ: Now, the Israeli military says this infiltration came by land, by sea and by air in the form of Hamas gunmen on paragliders infiltrating into Israeli territory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcQaG4sC9BM

The US Senate knew within hours.

<SENATOR MARSHA BLACKBURN: …And Iran is teamed up with Hamas, is what we are hearing.

https://x.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1710740759245422639

And the Israeli government knew within the day,

<BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: We are at war!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAm2RAbAc-Y

But for some reason a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists began to ask questions about the most startling security failure in the history of the most heavily-defended border in the world.

<MARTIN FLETCHER: The idea that Hamas could infiltrate about 20 communities inside of Israel and attack without—

>LINDSEY REISER: Simultaneously!

<FLETCHER: —without any immediate response from Israel is extraordinary.

>REISER: It is absolutely extraordinary.

https://archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20231007_180000_Yasmin_Vossoughian_Reports/start/0/end/60

Those conspiracy theorists dared to ask why the border guards were told to stand down that morning[a], why Unit 8200 provided no geolocation data[b] to security forces despite Hamas fighters using phones and radios inside Israel for hours, why the IDF ignored alerts of Hamas aerial activity[c] hours before the attack took place and why the prime minister, defence minister and IDF chief didn’t even speak with each other[d] until four hours into the crisis…

…but they’re just anti-Semitic loons, so they would ask those questions.

Even so, the IDF provided answers to all the hard questions in their comprehensive after-action report concluding that the Israeli army had “failed in its mission to protect Israeli civilians”[e] because no one could have predicted “Hamas’s intentions and readiness for a wide-scale surprise attack”…

…except for the Egyptian government[f], Israeli military intelligence[g] and the IDF’s own Border Defense Corps.[h]

The Northern Brigade and Gaza Division had no coordination with the police[i] and the IDF didn’t even know the Nova music festival was under attack for three hours, but that’s OK because they were probably all trying their best.

The police documents about the security for the Nova music festival were deleted by unknown individuals[j] months after the attacks, but that’s OK because it’s probably just part of routine record keeping.

A Columbia Law School paper[k] found “traders informed about the coming attacks profited from these tragic events,” but the original paper made a currency error[l] that didn’t affect the conclusion so there’s probably nothing to see here.[m]

This man[n] never existed, nor is anything he had to say worthy of your attention, and if you say otherwise you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist and deserve to be shunned by all of humanity. Likewise him[o], him[p], him[q], and her[r]. (and her[s] and her[t] and him[u]).

After the dust settled, we were reliably[v] informed that, “Like [the false flag events of] December 7, 1941, and [the false flag events] of September 11, 2001, October 7 is a day that will forever live in infamy.”

As a result, the Israeli forces made up for their error by gently and proportionately leveling Gaza, killing 75,000 civilians[w], blockading humanitarian aid[x], massacring people begging for food[y], telling people to move to areas that were then bombed [z], bombing hospitals that Hamas fighters were (not) occupying and destroying the vast underground Hamas supervillain bunker that didn’t exist. [a1]

This is the story of 10/7, brought to you by the same media which told you the hard truths about the best Biden ever and two weeks to flatten the curve and AI-generated rat penises and the USS Liberty.

If you have any questions about this story…you are a terror-loving, anti-Semitic libtard who deserves to be deported regardless of citizenship status. If you love the government of Israel and/or peace, tranquility, cooperation, fresh bagels and this adorable baby, you will never ever express doubts about any part of this story to anyone. Ever.

This has been a public service announcement by: the Friends of the IDF, the Epstein Influence Network, AIPAC, the ADL, the Israeli Government Spokespeople in the Media and the Likudniks. Because Ignorance is Strength!

[a] https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/idf-soldiers-testimony-supports-ex-dia-director-gen-mike-flynns-contention-that-october-7-attack-was-an-inside-job
[b] https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/h1zianrq1l
[c] https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-didnt-act-on-alerts-of-hamas-aerial-activity-hours-before-oct-7-attack-report/
[d] https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-886242
[e] https://israel365news.com/400789/oct-7-investigation-the-idf-failed-in-its-mission-to-protect-israeli-civilians/
[f] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/12/israel-hamas-war-egypt-warned-foreign-affairs-gaza
[g] https://archive.is/jQQAo
[h] https://www.timesofisrael.com/surveillance-soldiers-warned-of-hamas-activity-on-gaza-border-for-months-before-oct-7/
[i] https://www.jfeed.com/news/nova-festival-massacre-investigation
[j] https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-900608
[k] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4652027
[l] https://archive.is/KWWWF
[m] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tel-aviv-bourse-says-no-134147320.html
[n] https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/idf-soldiers-testimony-supports-ex-dia-director-gen-mike-flynns-contention-that-october-7-attack-was-an-inside-job
[o] https://www.facebook.com/61576917702808/videos/-nine-minutes-of-testimonies-from-both-israeli-soldiers-and-civilians-explaining/1750534026368719/
[p] https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/idf-hidden-report-scandal
[q] https://archive.is/pbAq2
[r] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gckMXaf9x0o
[s] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_IAH7PnS_E
[t] https://x.com/UNSRVAW/status/1989315118358745148
[u] https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4286228-massie-aipac-opposition-israel-aid-package/
[v] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wCeZyKq28t4
[w] https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiODAxNTYzMDYtMjQ3YS00OTMzLTkxMWQtOTU1NWEwMzE5NTMwIiwidCI6ImY2MTBjMGI3LWJkMjQtNGIzOS04MTBiLTNkYzI4MGFmYjU5MCIsImMiOjh9
[x] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=770HKhXG9_I
[y] https://corbettreport.com/nwnw547/
[z] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israel-continues-bombarding-gaza-including-places-it-told-palestinians-to-evacuate-to
[a1] https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1717916845859078531

R: 332 / I: 60

/Climate/ - The Iran Connection Edition

/leftypol/'s most ignored general is back

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades: Study
https://ground.news/article/earth-is-now-heating-up-twice-as-fast-as-in-previous-decades-study_63acf6

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/06/humanity-heating-planet-faster-than-ever-before-study-finds

Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, at much higher levels than healthy tissues, study reveals
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260225001250.htm

Was War with Iran Sparked by Water?
https://erickeyser.substack.com/p/was-war-with-iran-sparked-by-water?r=1r05cx&triedRedirect=true&_src_ref=old.reddit.com

The Iran War Is Also a Climate War
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/iran-war-climate-change/

Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, study reveals The Billionaire Heist: Why the extraction of our 'labor energy' is leading us toward a global crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iri_xg4rj_k

R: 42 / I: 15
One person controls the single global signing key.

Every update pushed to 400000 devices is signed by Daniel Micay. He already proved in 2018 he will destroy signing keys and brick thousands of users devices on purpose when he feels wronged. That same key can push any code, silently, automatically, to any phone, at any time. verified boot guarantees the device will accept it.

You would have no way to know what was added

R: 87 / I: 32

Psyop anti-Argentina

Hay una psyop masiva para generar odio contra argentina y justificar una posible intervención o lento takeover del país y sus recursos.

Por medio del mundial estan pintando al pais como una potencia sionista corrupta y despreciable. Estan habiendo demasiadas decisiones y doble vara arbitral que es dificil que sean todas coincidencia. Hay alguien interesado en generar toda esta dinamica, quiza para devolverle un favor a alguien y de paso indirectamente arrastrar polemica pero mejor no digo más. Despues del partido contra Egipto cualquier tipo de simpatia entre el pueblo que pudiera tener argentina en medio oriente y muchas partes del mundo directamente se evaporó.
Y por otro lado, llevan años queriendo pintar al pais como un pais racista, colonialista y hasta settler-imperialista por no tener negros en su seleccion o por sesgos historicos terribles que los anglosajones liberales y progres se tragan como bobos. Para muchos en su imaginario ya argenitina no es menos que el manifest destiny americano y por supuesto un estado ilegitimo.

Algo estan cocinando. Guarden post

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How do we promote Liberation Theology given that zoomers are overwhelmingly becoming TradCaths?

“Trad” Catholicism is at its root fascist and reactionary, yet zoomers (like myself) see beauty in the Catholic Church and are flocking to it en masse. We, as the left, need to be the ones to catch hold of this and steer it in our direction before the right gets a monopoly on Catholicism. We need to promote Liberation Theology and the teachings of the Catholic Worker Mivenent (Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day). Thomism is very, very anarchist and we should start there. Jesus Christ preached communism.

So how do we do it?

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What should I be doing to get into IT?
I was thinking:
>get a helpdesk job with my experience from helping out my family as an IT contractor
>get a+ and network+ CompTIA certifications
>get RHCSA certification
>pray to engles I get past the interview process for sysadmin job somewhere
What I'm really wondering is, is certification stacking worth it, or should I just look into climbing the corporate ladder?

R: 20 / I: 3

I miss MMOs

I feel like we need to discuss why MMOs as a genre were never good, but how they were also fucking amazing. This is all due to when MMOs became a thing.
Most if not all MMOs people actually care about were from the early 2000s. They were all pushing the boundaries of capitalism over video games with either a subscription or whatever the hell is wrong with the korean industry, but, and I must stress this, but…they came out during the ONLY MOMENT they would've been successful.
They were social spaces, social WORLDS in fact, they were by definition larping sims. In an era where that was still a new thing. From 2003-2012, MMOs had THIS as their main wow factor. This is also their only staying power in media ABOUT video games, their sense of community and ability to break barriers…of course, all those external pieces of media also made it about how MMO players were losers, but nontheless, that was why they became a genre.
After social media became a permanent staple of human life, MMOs had practically no point anymore. Most of them were already garbage gameplay wise. This is why we all want classic wow, or classic maple, or the return of wonderking (which, by the way, looks like actual garbage, to my dismay).
We didn't "grow out" of MMOs, that is what idiots with no argument say to shut you up, the WORLD outgrew MMOs, and sadly, we have been conditioned to not be impressed or enamoured.
>what the fuck are you saying OP??
I'm saying what I mean, anon. Maybe I was groomed by this industry to endure capitalism, but DAMN IT, there was a time talking to someone as your personal chibi avatar was cool and FUN! Now it's a fucking bore, I cannot understand why anyone would play an MMO in 2025, almost all of them are bad wow clones.

R: 25 / I: 3

Why are modding communities going to shit?

>Get pinged in Another Millenia for new Rule #9 - No Ai slop
>See Rule #4 No politics, LGBT+ is a Cult
>See Rule #8 Trans Lives Matter
>Point how funny it is that it looks like someone wrote that in their edgy phase then wrote Rule 8 a couple years later
>"B- But saying lives matter isn't political! cus it had good intentions before all them protestors started chimping out"
>I have to mention that i'm trans so i say, verbatim: "I'm just a 🚂 🦵 with a dialectical degree in Hegel"
>erm, sweatie, don't call yourself that
>ask if they think "queer" is a compliment
>MOOOODS MOOOOODS
>!ban SabinyAK

Am i the detached commie beautiful lady😍🥰 here?

every modder is going out of their fucking way to step on each other toes

some modders i swear to god; get the creative autism, some got the technical autism
then you get these absolute buffoons who legitimately just got the retarded autism.

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News 9/16/26

Latin America accounted for 85% of environmental defender killings in 2025, report says
The annual report by environmental and human rights advocacy group Global Witness documented 105 killings in Latin America in 2025. Colombia was the deadliest country for the fourth consecutive year, with 39 killings, followed by Brazil with 26. Honduras and the Philippines recorded 12 each.
https://apnews.com/article/environmental-defenders-killings-global-witness-colombia-brazil-2e48546eb027159d2bbabc6a4f40e648

USDA to Boost Food Exports to Venezuela as Local Campesinos Protest Unfair Competition
The Agriculture Department also announced that it will lift restrictions to allow foreign banks to back Venezuela-related transactions. … Protesters complained that imports from countries where food production is subsidized, including the US, create unfair competition and risk driving Venezuelan campesinos bankrupt. The latest mobilization was sparked by the reported arrival of a shipment of 355 thousand tons of rice, more than half of the Venezuelan production in 2025.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/usda-to-boost-food-exports-to-venezuela-as-local-campesinos-protest-unfair-competition/

Argentine judge orders suspension of Falklands oil project
The plaintiffs sought to block Britain's Rockhopper Exploration and Israel's Navitas Petroleum from the so-called Sea Lion oil field, located about 220 kilometers (137 miles) from the islands. The judge ordered the companies to "refrain from initiating, pursuing, carrying out or having carried out any material actions" that would involve drilling, installing infrastructure or extracting hydrocarbons, according to a ruling seen by AFP.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260916-argentine-judge-orders-suspension-of-falklands-oil-project
https://archive.ph/KXD1y

EU chief floats associate membership for Canada after U.S. trade attacks
If the proposal goes through, the shift would pull Ottawa deeper into Europe's economic and security architecture as Canada reduces its reliance on the U.S. — something Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has signaled the nation is open to.
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/16/eu-canada-associate-membership-carney-trump
https://archive.ph/DUNdh

Students skipping meals and working multiple jobs to meet living costs
Its survey found 63 per cent of students reported skipping meals, and 9 per cent used a foodbank in 2025-26. More than one in four have at least two jobs, while nearly half have considered dropping out over money. Tom Allingham of Save the Student said: “Maintenance loans have always fallen short of living costs, but this has become exponentially worse in recent years.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/students-skipping-meals-working-multiple-jobs-living-costs

UK trade unions back motion to boycott and sanction Israel
The unanimous vote demands that the Trades Union Congress take action to oppose what the motion described as the “catastrophic destruction of Gaza” and Israeli settler violence “supported by the IDF [Israeli army]”. The steps include campaigning to end military cooperation and arms deals with Israel, calling on the government to impose wide-ranging sanctions on Israel and backing trade union-led campaigns in support of Palestine.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/16/uk-trade-unions-back-motion-to-boycott-and-sanction-israel
https://archive.ph/yEpIL

Return of displaced Syrian Kurds to Ras al-Ain suspended after violence
Jawan Isso, from a committee representing displaced people from Ras al-Ain, told AFP that a "first batch" of around 2,500 people were headed home but were later attacked by "armed groups". Mahmud Khalil Ali, deputy head of security forces in Syria's Hasakeh province, said several of those involved in the attacks were arrested, but return trips were "temporarily suspended as a precautionary measure to ensure the safety of residents".
https://www.newarab.com/news/return-syrian-kurds-ras-al-ain-suspended-after-violence

Saudis pound Yemen as Houthis solidify gains in new theatre of Middle East war
Saudi warplanes pounded Yemen, the Houthis said on Wednesday, as the Iran-backed fighters solidified their gains after a lightning advance that has extended Tehran's reach in the Middle East war and further disrupted global oil supplies. In a sign of the worsening conflict in a new theatre, the United States tightened its travel warning for Saudi Arabia, banning government employees from travelling within 20 miles of the Yemen border.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/saudis-pound-yemen-houthis-solidify-gains-new-theatre-middle-east-war

Homes burn across Darfur as more ‘dry season’ fires flare
The group said the blaze affected homes belonging to displaced families as well as members of the host community, causing substantial property losses. No casualties were reported. In South Darfur, another fire broke out on Saturday in Babanusa camp in Gereida locality, west of the Abuja market and east of Sheikh Ali Ahmed Younis mosque. Preliminary estimates indicate that the blaze destroyed about 30 homes, causing extensive property damage.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/homes-burn-across-darfur-as-more-dry-season-fires-flare

Hindu nationalists eye Kolkata’s Communist street names
Prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party won power in the eastern state of more than 100 million people for the first time in May, ending the 15-year rule of the populist Trinamool Congress, which took over from the Communist Party. ‘The committee will try to make amends for the mischiefs committed by the leftists,’ said Tathagata Roy, former governor of the Indian states of Tripura and Meghalaya and a senior member of the committee.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/south-asia/314136/hindu-nationalists-eye-kolkatas-communist-street-names

Philippine lawmaker pleads not guilty to taking kickbacks in flood control projects
Rep. Martin Romualdez, a cousin and former ally of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., is among several powerful legislators accused of pocketing huge kickbacks. Nearly 10,000 flood control projects worth more than $9 billion that were supposed to have been undertaken since Marcos took office in mid-2022 have come under scrutiny. Many were found to be substandard, overpriced or not built at all.
https://apnews.com/article/philippines-martin-romualdez-plunder-flood-control-b265b2c57ce2c2cba621896301f9676a

Former student journalist among 4 NPA rebels killed in Agusan Sur clash
The College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) honored its former officer Rocha Mae Bihag, one of four New People’s Army (NPA) rebels killed in a military operation Sept. 12 in Esperanza, Agusan del Sur. In a statement, the CEGP described Bihag, known to colleagues as “Rocha,” as a “people’s journalist” and “heroine of Northern Mindanao.” She was a staff writer at The Cursor, the official student publication of the College of Information Technology at Mindanao State University-Marawi.
https://davaotoday.com/headline/former-student-journalist-among-4-npa-rebels-killed-in-agusan-sur-clash/

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GamerGate: A retrospective

Not sure if this is the right place, but since this is the gaming tab, I say why not?

Back then, GamerGate was the start of something fresh, something edgy, something that was actually rebellious against both the bourgeois moralisms stifling the internet and the feminist hegemony that no western male could escape from. It was an escape valve, in other words.

But of course, I was wrong as GamerGate later on mestatized into being another wing of the current right-wing hegemonic ChudIntern. Indeed, GamerGate was merely an exercise in online reactionary activism, but we should actually try to analyse it as opposed to dismissing it as chuds being chuds.

It’s won’t give you the kind of analysis that has probably been done to death here, such as the alienation of young men, the rise of white upper-class female idpol and the HR-style managerial culture that preceded online censorship and SJWs’ political correctness, journos forming email groups as part of a coordinated attack on the median gamer, the MSM’s double standards towards female-exclusive spaces vs treating male-only spaces (such as gaming) pathologically, etc…

This is a good summary of the event from a gamergater’s POV: https://wolfsheadonline.com/how-wikipedia-and-molly-white-rewrote-the-history-of-gamergate/

Instead, I’ll say this: The rise of the gooner chuds that you see today is a product of GamerGate, itself being downstream from the left’s rejection of sex-positivity and and pathologisation of any form of assertive male heterosexuality to heed the demands of the feminist bourgeoise that held a stranglehold on the left.

Obviously the online right isn’t really sex-positive as much as being pro-sexual hierarchy and has been the case within the western right since the days of the Nazis and even before then (e.g., Annunzio’s enterprise in Fiume). It’s just that their vision of sexuality makes enough space for male heterosexuality to attract young men (the most revolutionary demographic) into their fold. The left’s response? It’s either dumb Puritanism as shown by puriteens who think Euphoria (that show starring Sydney Sweeney) is rape culture, or bastardised “trad Marxism” about banning porn and prosties cuz muh exploitation even tho Chinese games nowadays are heavily gooned out + the Soviet bloc was lax on non-commercial erotica (hence why post-collapse Eastern Europe became a thriving heaven for porn). The modern left thought that selling out on the 1970s sex positivity to appease radfems was worth it despite handing the right a victory. I mean, remember that time Reddit’s r/socialism mods went apeshit over catgirl anime edits even tho it was done a female leftist member and it was just SFW anime girls but with cat ears edited on them? Yh, that’s the level of discourse you’re dealing with when it comes to sex-negative leftists.

Of course, there’s the issue of ageism, and ohh boy is that big. There’s this attitude among both the centre and the left where young men are often infantilised as being lost sheeple or stigmatised over their age in ways that would be alienating if done to other demographics, so the end result is young men flocking to the right precisely because they don’t think they will have any stakes in the left. Seniors are supposed to help youths who are proven to be determined to fight for the revolution, not throw’ em away for violating some HR-mandated code. It’s one thing to maintain decorum in conversations and being opposed to extremism, but you won’t get far if you try to overpolice on every little convo your members have.

What’s the takeaway from me then? The left rejecting sex-positivity and embracing ageism were its two biggest mistakes that cost them an entire generation.

P.S.: It’s one thing to oppose sexual hierarchies that devalue humans, it’s another to devalue the body and the Eros in and of themselves. The left shouldn’t necessarily embrace prostitution, but it also shouldn’t embrace sex-negativity either. I would personally suggest reviving the free sex movement because, if sex does become widely available under a secular sex positive society, then obviously prostitutes and porn studios and pimps would be out of business. That’s why Marx often noted how traditionalist marital moralism coexisted with prostitution, with or without its prohibition. But I’m open for other suggestions.

Again, can’t say if it’s said already or not, but I do think those points need to be hammered home as it seems that the left prior to the Gaza genocide was struggling to remain relevant, especially as Big tech right figures like Musk and Thiel were pumping a shit ton of dollars to aid the remnants of the alt-right to carve their mockingbird network out of it; their work has paid off in the form of the current unholy MAGA and alt-right and neocon nexus that I’d like to call “white neoconservatism with Enoch Powell characteristics”, with Australia’s and Canada’s brightest minds Drew Pavlou and Captive_Dreamer starting out differently only to end up being rabid racist neocons.

So yh: Sex-negativity and Ageism are bad things, folks.

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im very ignorant on this part of the world - what's actually gonna happen to Russia when this guy kicks the bucket? is there a clear candidate for succession? will it be dramatic at all or just a temporary jolt? can someone who knows about this stuff weigh in

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Am I a closeted porky?

I'm getting a million-dollar life insurance policy on some family member. I have a few properties valued at 3 million dollars. I inherited a family business and am raking in 20k a month. I'm going to sell the business to a bigger company soon. I don't have to work anymore, my proles.
Now I just need an elite to sponsor me to gain power. I need help to trow down the bus some relatives to maximize my inheritance or gain total control of it. When do i get the call to blackmail and use Kompromat material for intelligence agencies, /siberia/?

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News 9/15/26

High fuel prices challenge the German government
Drivers are angry. While it's possible to use public transportation in large cities, residents of rural areas have hardly any realistic alternative to driving. Those living in regions near national borders have an advantage. On September 7, filling up a 60-liter tank with E10 gasoline cost about €31 less in the Czech Republic and Poland than in Germany. In Luxembourg, the difference was €28, and in Austria, €25. These figures were calculated by the Federal Statistical Office.
https://www.dw.com/en/high-fuel-prices-challenge-the-german-government/a-79282456
https://archive.ph/e1RVo

From defending students’ rights to an ‘informal chat’ with the Security Service of Ukraine – all it takes is one protest: What is happening to Priama Diia?
At the heart of this story is a broader conflict that extends well beyond a single criminal case. Priama Diia openly identifies as a left-wing union. Meanwhile, its opponents label the activists “communists” and “radical leftists”, questioning their support for Ukraine. The organisation’s members believe these labels offer a convenient way to discredit their work. They also view a series of encounters with law enforcement officers in different cities as a broader pattern of pressure. The Human Rights Centre ZMINA has previously documented some of these incidents.
https://zmina.info/en/articles-en/from-defending-students-rights-to-an-informal-chat-with-the-security-service-of-ukraine-all-it-takes-is-one-protest-what-is-happening-to-priama-diia/

George Galloway to Stand in Byelection in Attempt to Defeat Green Leader
George Galloway has signalled his intention to come out of self-imposed exile in Russia in order to oppose Green leader Zack Polanski in the byelection for Keir Starmer’s former seat. … Galloway framed his candidacy as a direct challenge to Polanski. Speaking on his talk show, Galloway cited Polanki’s support for Ukraine and his position on trans rights among the reasons he would oppose him. Later in the show, Galloway said he supports Russia’s war on Ukraine as part of “a wider anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist framework”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/14/george-galloway-to-stand-in-byelection-in-attempt-to-defeat-green-leader/

Niger’s junta leader appoints new head of military following mutiny
The reshuffle followed a nearly 24-hour mutiny in the capital Niamey on Aug. 28 and 29. Mostly young soldiers took other members of the armed forces hostage at Base 101, a military base at Diori Hamani International Airport, and fired at sensitive sites, according to Niger’s Defense Ministry.
https://apnews.com/article/niger-new-military-chief-mutiny-12ecef2a363e00f825274ca712ef948b

Mali’s Tuareg separatists seek Turkey talks, reveal Russian contact
Ramadane insisted that northeastern Mali, the region the separatists want for an independent state they call Azawad, should not become an arena for a proxy war between foreign powers. Yet, he added, that should not prevent the FLA from seeking engagement with Turkey, which has deepened its diplomatic, economic and military ties with Bamako over the past decade. Ankara has sold armed drones and other equipment to Mali’s military government since 2023, while bilateral trade has tripled over the past decade.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-malis-tuareg-separatists-seek-turkey-talks-reveal-russian-contact

Is Saudi Arabia recruiting Syrian fighters to fight the Houthis?
Lebanon's Al-Akhbar reported this week that hundreds of Syrian fighters had recently arrived in southern Saudi Arabia, including men who took part in the "Deterrence of Aggression" offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. The report comes as Saudi Arabia faces renewed pressure from the Houthis, who have made significant territorial advances in Yemen and launched attacks on Saudi territory.
https://www.newarab.com/news/saudi-arabia-recruiting-syrian-fighters-fight-houthis

Alex Saab Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering in Miami, Agrees to Forfeit $195 Million
As part of a plea agreement with U.S. prosecutors, Saab agreed to surrender $195 million and to cooperate with ongoing federal investigations, a deal that reshapes both his legal fate and the diplomatic narrative surrounding his case.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/alex-saab-pleads-guilty-money-laundering/

Colombia’s social organizations and labor unions announce national strike in November
"The first and fundamental decision of the Meeting is to declare the most radical opposition to the illegitimate government of Abelardo de la Espriella because of the course it has imposed on the country—one of subordination to the interests of U.S. imperialism and alignment with the agenda of the international far right—which constitutes a direct threat to national sovereignty, democracy, and the rights won by the Colombian people, and an undeniable shift toward fascism." - Social organizations and labor unions
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-social-organizations-announce-national-strike-in-november/

Bangladesh sentences to death 7 key aides of ousted Premier Hasina
The convicts include Hasina's Awami League party General Secretary Obaidul Quader, former state minister for Information Mohammad Ali Arafat, Joint General Secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim, party youth wing Chairman Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash and General Secretary Moinul Hossain Nikhil, student wing President Saddam Hussain and General Secretary Sheikh Wali Asif Enan.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/bangladesh-sentences-to-death-7-key-aides-of-ousted-premier-hasina/4057523
https://archive.ph/uqULF

‘More dangerous than drugs’: BJP’s war on beef in India’s West Bengal
Among Muslims in West Bengal, two-thirds consume beef, according to government data. Christians, sections of Dalit communities, and some Indigenous communities in West Bengal also eat beef as part of their regular diets. The law laying down conditions that an animal must meet before it can be slaughtered is not new, but its enforcement has become stringent only now after the BJP came to power in the state.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/9/15/bjp-effect-beef-is-vanishing-from-indian-bengal-forcing-diet-changes
https://archive.ph/BxSEy

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Drag Question

Sexuality of a person having sex with a drag persona?

Consider the binary male case:
>a cis man
>is not attracted to Ernesto (cis man)
>but is attracted to Felicity Castrato (Ernesto's drag queen persona)

What could be the sexuality of each character in this scenario?

inb4 labels are for soup cans - yes but f u

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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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Died for Israel award

Starcraft thread because there wasn’t one
Body short body short body short body short body short body short
https://youtu.be/9eQUtOQXYgQ?is=atZ7WQL5vnAULJJf
https://starcraft.blizzard.com/en-us

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>get reccommended a video essay on a show you liked
>put it on in the background
>halfway in start to realize this guy keeps repeating himself
>takes a long time to make a point that isnt really a point
>clips have nothing to do with whats being said
>realize you just fell for ai slop

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The new AI bourgeoisie:

Before you were exploited by actual humans who you might be able to relate to one some level as humans. Now with RentAHuman you can be exploited by soulless inhuman AI "agents."
https://rentahuman.ai/
https://rentahuman.ai/

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Questions from CisHet-Anons that don’t deserve their own threads

I have seen so many Cishet Anons (including me) ask questions on this board but create new threads in doing so. So I decided to make this thread so we don’t have to clutter up the board.

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/ita/ - Spaghetti Communism

ITALIANS DO IT BETTER

Manica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.

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/gaygen/

lefty gay general - boyfriend edition

How do we feel about our bfs /lgbt/? I love mine lots and lots and can't wait till he gets home from work personally.

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Alternative treatments for gender dysphoria

Are there any methods other than HRT? I still don't fit into either the male or female category (my thread is a couple of threads down). And being trans these days is suicide; I don't think it's worth it.
So, back to the topic.
>Conversion therapy
Obviously it doesn't work, just like therapy in general, a synonym for the words cope and rep.
>Other
There's nothing, just a theory. In theory, you could identify (your) neurobiological markers associated with transgenderism and try to correct them with TMS or something similar.

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Am I trans?

Sometimes I get dysphoria, but it's rare and not "that" bad. I would push le button without hesitation, but I don't hate my body. I feel I can't fit in with either cis or trans people.

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Lunduke

Who the fuck was it that says Lunduke was a good guy? He's a rightoid now which I already knew due to his petit bourgeois class status and that debate with Stallman on free software.

Now all his videos are about h1b and discrimination against whites and pronouns and shit.

Feels good to be vindicated as opposed to the people on /tech/ who said hes a good guy or whatevr.

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Autistici/Inventati case sets a new counterterrorism precedent, Irdi says

https://decode39.com/16319/autistici-inventati-case-sets-a-new-counterterrorism-precedent-irdi-says/

>The U.S. decision targeting Autistici/Inventati should not be read simply as another sanction in Washington’s crackdown on violent extremism. According to Beniamino Irdi, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund and CEO of Highground, the more significant point lies elsewhere: for the first time, the logic of material support is being applied openly and forcefully to technological infrastructure. The target is no longer only those who carry out an act, but also those who provide the infrastructure that makes it possible. It is a choice that sets a delicate precedent for European allies and for the balance between security, intelligence and legal safeguards.

>Why it matters. The designation marks an unusual use of U.S. counterterrorism sanctions against a European technology collective whose main activity is providing digital infrastructure – from encrypted communications to web hosting.

< It also creates a potential point of discussion between Washington, Rome and Brussels: the U.S. designation carries immediate financial consequences under American jurisdiction, but does not automatically place Autistici/Inventati on Italy’s or the European Union’s terrorist lists.

>What happened. On August 26, the State Department, working with the Treasury Department, designated Autistici/Inventati (A/I Collective) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224.

< The State Department describes A/I as an Italy-based extremist organisation that builds and operates digital infrastructure used by violent Antifa cells and other far-left groups internationally. Washington says its services include encrypted email and chats, web hosting, secure videoconferencing and streaming, anonymity tools and the infrastructure behind the Noblogs platform.

>Washington specifically cited the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is designated as a terrorist organisation by the United States and is also on the EU terrorist list. Treasury says Autistici/Inventati was designated for having “materially assisted” or provided technological support, goods or services in support of an act of terrorism

>Q: Irdi, what is the most significant element of the U.S. decision?

< A: The most interesting part is not so much the sanction against this organization, but the fact that the logic of material support to terrorist organizations is being extended to the infrastructure layer. Washington is looking not only at what an entity does, but at what it enables others to do through its services, including in third countries.

>Q: So the United States is not targeting an operational organisation in the traditional sense?

< A: Exactly. The United States is not targeting an operational organisation, but an infrastructure. It is an extension of the scope of countermeasures to technical and infrastructure services that can be used by actors considered dangerous. The key point, however, is the principle being established: infrastructure itself can become the object of a countermeasure.

>Q: How much will the sanction actually affect Autistici/Inventati?

< A: The asset freeze is probably the least significant part of the measure: it is difficult to imagine that a small Italian association has substantial assets in the United States. The real effect comes instead through de-risking. A U.S. designation prompts banks, payment systems, registrars, hosting providers and connectivity providers to pre-emptively cut ties.
< An entity can therefore effectively be expelled from the services market without any court ruling ever having been issued in Italy, and potentially without a criminal proceeding even having been opened. In other words, the real coercive power of the United States lies in progressively making it impossible to bank, host or provide services to the designated entity.

>Q: In other words, the strongest effect could be ostracism.

< A: Yes. They have ostracised them. And this is precisely one of the most interesting and problematic aspects of the case. The power of sanctions derives from the ability to influence third parties, financial and commercial operators that, for compliance reasons, may decide to sever relations with the designated entity.

>Q: Why have we reached this point?

< A: Because over the past few years, the evolution of hostile activities in Europe has followed a very clear trend, especially on the Russian side. After the mass expulsion of Russian officers operating under cover, Moscow has increasingly relied on intermediaries and proxies.
< Assessments by European intelligence services describe a model in which recruiters can identify financially vulnerable individuals or people from criminal environments online and task them with surveillance, vandalism, arson or sabotage. Contact takes place remotely, payment can be made in cryptocurrencies and the person carrying out the act may not even know who they are actually working for.

>Q: And does this also change the way authorities need to look at the threat?

< A: The advantage of this model is deniability. If an operation is built through a succession of intermediaries, it becomes much more difficult to trace it back to the principal. And if the operational model is based on intermediation, it is quite natural for the response to begin shifting from the perpetrators to the enablers: not only those who physically carry out the act, but also those who provide the infrastructure that makes it possible or more difficult to attribute. This is an important evolution of the security paradigm.
< The U.S. designation of A/I does not claim that the organisation is controlled by Russia and should not be interpreted in that way. But the analytical perspective is the same: identifying not only those who carry out the action, but also the network of actors and tools that makes it possible.

>Q: From the standpoint of the legal safeguards typical of Western democracies, how do you see it?

< A: That is the main dilemma. In Western democracies, legal safeguards are difficult to circumvent. An organization may be considered dangerous from an intelligence perspective, but that does not automatically mean that the evidence required under the standards set by law exists to adopt a judicial measure.

>Q: Could Washington ask its allies to follow the same path?

< A: It is possible that the United States is setting a precedent and wants to signal to its allies that efforts to contain the infrastructure supporting violent activities should also be extended to other countries. But this raises a very delicate problem. If the criterion becomes too vague, the risk is that it creates divisions with those same allies.

>Q: What would be the critical point?

< A: For example, it is difficult to imagine that all allies would accept the principle that networks which, in some way, are associated with the Antifa sphere should no longer be allowed to provide services. A very careful distinction must be drawn between political affiliation, protest activity, ideological radicalism and concrete support for violence.
< The same infrastructure can be used by a dissident, a journalist, a political activist or someone claiming responsibility for an act of sabotage. In A/I’s case, projects are openly selected based on their compatibility with certain political principles. Taken on its own, that is a rather weak element on which to base judicial proceedings.

>Q: What, then, is the lesson for Western democracies?

< A: That they will increasingly have to confront the structural elements of the threat. Intelligence may reach the conclusion that an organization represents a risk, but moving from that assessment to a measure carrying legal consequences requires different standards. The issue raised by the A/I case is therefore broader than the individual organisation.
< It is another manifestation of a dilemma that liberal democracies are facing in many different forms as they confront modern threats to their security: how to fight them without eroding the safeguards that constitute their foundation and, ultimately, their freedom.

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Peter Frase – Four Futures; Life After Capitalism

In the book Four Futures; Life After Capitalism, Peter Frase maps out the materialist trajectory of post-capitalism and demonstrates that the end of wage labor is more likely to just kill us than to liberate us.

Capitalisms collapse is guaranteed by automation and climate crisis but the outcome depends on a 2x2 matrix of ecological limits (abundance vs scarcity) and class power (equality vs hierarchy).

Communism (Abundance + Equality)
<The post-scarcity endgame. Wage labor is dead. But Frase correctly points out this doesnt end politics; it just shifts human conflict away from material survival and onto immaterial hierarchies like status, reputation, and social capital.

Socialism (Scarcity + Equality)
<The only historically viable socialist project right now. Not a post-work utopia but democratic, centralized economic planning, and massive state-directed labor to survive the climate bottleneck. Its shared sacrifice and ecological reconstruction, not infinite consumerism.

Rentism (Abundance + Hierarchy)
<Automation solves material production but the bourgeoisie preserves its class dominance by pivoting entirely to artificial scarcity. Capital accumulation is replaced by rent extraction. Once physical commodity production is fully automated, the ruling class simply monopolizes the underlying data, algorithms, and IP. You are no longer exploited for surplus value on a factory floor; you are bled dry by access fees and licensing just so you can exist.

Exterminism (Scarcity + Hierarchy)
<This is the most critical analytical blind spot on the Left. Under capitalism, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat have an antagonistic but symbiotic relationship. They actually need workers to produce value. But when mass automation makes the global working class economically obsolete and climate collapse restricts resource availability, that dependency ends. You are no longer an exploitable asset; you are a surplus population consuming scarce resources. The militarization of borders, local police, and autonomous drone warfare isn't just standard imperialism, it is the logistical beta-test for managing and eventually eliminating an obsolete lumpen-proletariat.

The Left is still trying to organize around withholding labor (strikes, unions) in a world where capital is actively transforming into a productive apparatus that does not require labor at all. Revolutionary warfare is not any better when automated drone swarms can depopulate entire countries and AI-surveillance prevents revolutions before they happen. Its literally over.

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happy 9/11 quarter centennial

25th annual reminder that anyone who says this shit was not a false flag is either delusional or lying. Let's celebrate by watching Loose Change together. If you have never watched Loose Change you need to.

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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO LIMA BARRETO
"A vida do homem e o progresso da humanidade pedem mais do que dinheiro, caixas-fortes atestadas de moedas, casarões imbecis com lambrequins vulgares. Pedem sonho, pedem arte, pedem cultura, pedem caridade, piedade, pedem amor, pedem felicidade; e esta, a não ser que se seja um burguês burro e intoxicado de ganância, ninguém pode ter, quando se vê cercado da fome, da dor, da moléstia, da miséria de quase toda uma grande população."
-Sobre o Maximalismo, 1919.

O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>19167

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Counter-Hacks

1996: Ted Kacynzski, "MSN Chat"; "Chaotix Dot Com".
1998: Brian Monaghan, "Department of Defense"; "Montreal Mafia".
2000: Daniel Slot, NSA; "Nickelodeon".
2003: Michael Mullet, AFROTC; "MIT".
2003: Jeffrey Niemera, Cyber Command; "BDF".
2004: Harlan Rosen, UMass-Amherst CI; "Colombo Family".
2005: James Gandolfini, NRO; "HBO".
2006: Brian Monaghan, West German Intelligence; "Hard Candy".
2007: Jared Fogel, Microsoft; "British Intelligence".
2009: Kara Williamson Daignault, NSA Canada; "Patrarcas".
2014: Christopher Meloni, FBI; "Law and Order".
2018: Brett Wolf, ATF; "Naval Mossad".
2020: Jeffrey Lange, Congress; "Comcast".

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Favorite Gun Thread

For me it's the hkvp9 match

honorable mention: m16a1

body too short etc
body too short etc
body too short etc
body too short etc
body too short etc
body too short etc

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Buddhism doesn't get enough flack

Buddhism is fucking predatory as shit, only saved by the fact that its buzzwords are parroted around. Seems like it was rightfully criticized since early Hinduism until the 1900s where it got syncretized because of opportunism. Really don't believe it's compatible with socialism, especially with it's buzzwords like "mindfullness" and "manifestation" becoming commonplace.
15th century monk
>He was known for his crazy methods of enlightening other beings, mostly women, which earned him the title "The Saint of 5,000 Women". Among other things, women would seek his blessing in the form of sexual intercourse.
>He is credited with introducing the practice of phallus paintings in Bhutan and placing statues of them on rooftops to drive away evil spirits. He is also known for Chimi Lhakhang, the temple of fertility.
20th century monk
>He drank, smoked, slept with students, and often kept students waiting for hours before giving teachings.
>Some of his own methods and actions, particularly his heavy drinking, sexual predation, and his ordering of the sexual assault (forced stripping) of a student and his girlfriend, caused controversy during his lifetime and afterward.
>Trungpa often combined drinking with teaching. In some instances Trungpa was too drunk to walk and had to be carried. Also, according to his student John Steinbeck IV and his wife, on a couple of occasions Trungpa's speech was unintelligible. One woman reported serving him "big glasses of gin first thing in the morning."
>The Steinbecks wrote The Other Side of Eden, a sharply critical memoir of their lives with Trungpa in which they claim that, in addition to alcohol, he spent $40,000 a year on cocaine, and used Seconal to come down from the cocaine. The Steinbecks said the cocaine use was kept secret from the wider Vajradhatu community.
>19th century monk
>Other behavior was troubling as well. As one scholar who has studied the community noted, Tendzin was "bisexual and known to be very promiscuous" and "enjoyed seducing straight men" but the community "did not find [this behavior] particularly troublesome." Not all his partners were unwilling; one scholar noted "it became a mark of prestige for a man, gay or straight, to have sex with the Regent, just as it had been for a woman to have sex with [Trungpa] Rinpoche", but at least one student reported that Tendzin had raped him. As a former Vajradhatu member attested, "a chilling story had recently been reported by one of … [the] teachers at the Buddhist private school [for the Vajradhatu community]. This straight, married male was pinned face-down across Rich's desk by the guards [the Dorje Kasung] while Rich forcibly raped him."
>It was revealed in 1989 that Tendzin had contracted HIV and for nearly three years knew it, yet continued to have unprotected sex with his students without informing them. He transmitted it to a student who later died of AIDS. Others close to Tendzin, including Vajradhatu's board of directors, knew for two years that Tendzin was HIV-positive and sexually active but kept silent.
Apparently early Hinduism had criticized Buddhism for it's weird practices too.
>In turn, Hindu theologians like Adi Śaṅkara, Kumārila Bhaṭṭa and various Nyaya school philosophers (like Vātsāyana) likewise critiqued Buddhist thought in their various works. Śaṅkara accuses the Buddha of being "a man given to make incoherent assertions" and "propound absurd doctrines."
A play criticizing heterodox Hindu sects and Buddhist sects that were becoming common back in the 800s
>It is widely held that Mahendra’s play is a satire of the degenerate sects of his day. For example, both the Kapalika and Pasupata sects must have been considered peculiar during Mahendra’s reign, and the king satirizes them in his play. The Kapalikas embodied a serious, yet suspect, religious concept: Tantrism where religious enlightenment is attained through unorthodox rituals. Some of these notorious rituals were Madya (liquor) and Maithuna (ritual intercourse). Meanwhile, these rituals are satirically echoed by Nagasena, the Buddhist monk, who wonders why Buddhism disallows liquor and women.
A 12th century criticism from a book cataloguing Kashmiri history
>The monasteries became rich with the gifts of kings and nobles, and the guardians of these establishments ceased to observe their discipline. They became attached to comfort and luxury.
Observations of Jesuits on Buddhists in China
>This suspicion was deepened by the Confucian moralists’ opinion that Buddhist monks did not duly respect gender segregation. Buddhist clerics often encouraged female lay devotees to leave their secluded apartments to visit their temples or go on pilgrimages. They also visited the women in their private quarters to expound the sutras to them and edify them with religious talks. These transgressions of Confucian gender boundaries were interpreted by literati as a sign of moral inferiority and thus contributed to the monks’ bad reputation.
Criticism of Buddhists in Korea
>In 1479, Censor General Sŏng Hyŏn (1439–1504) listed four Buddhist monks who had committed lustful behavior or committed fornication with lay women under the guise of prayer rituals and argued that women should be banned from contact with Buddhist monks. The women, whom Sŏng mentioned, included the concubine of a yangban man, the wife of a high official, nuns, the sister of a yangban man, and even the wife of a man belonging to the royal lineage. The female body was the locus of anti-Buddhist criticism that rendered Buddhist ritual activities immoral and incompatible with Confucian values.
>The wrangling over immoral rituals on Mount Kŭmsŏng between King Sŏngjong and the court officials continued. In 1487, the officials again warned that “on Mount Kŭmsŏng, in addition to an official prayer hall set up for the government’s ritual worship, there are five or six more private halls, and a crowd of yangban women from nearby villages gather around and stay [there], so [some men] even lose their wives”.