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/lgbt/

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transness as an economic symptom
men are seen as the breadwinners, value determined by money, finances, economic power
more and more men are unable to access this value, this causes gender dysphoria, and seeing that the economic power of women is stronger than men, seek to gain that economic power via transitioning. this only accounts for a small but noticable percentage of trans people, and does not imply that all trans people come from this logic, only that this logic does to some degree create trans people, and if economic opportunities were better, there would surely be less trans people. This is also why the bulk of new trans people are trans women. Women don't really need to transition to a man to access the economics that womanhood innately brings. The inability to perform the role of man, which is fundmentally an economic role, leads to men transitioning.

would you be trans if you had a good job making 120k a year? if you had the ability to support a family? I wouldn't be.
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>>8722
Edit: Transitioning when you are poor can, however, work if you have a good starting point. That is why, for example, so many ladyboys are in Thailand, which is a very poor country, because Thai people are very androgynous by nature. By the way, Thailand is actually the prime example for OPs point - you don't see a lot of FTMs in Thailand, I don't think I have ever seen or heard about one, but MTFs are so common, they're one of the first things people think about.

By the way, what I said earlier that your starting point affects your chances of getting out of poverty by transitioning - shows that feminity itself is a very valuable resource, you cannot really be poor if you are feminine, not in the same sense and to the same extent as a poor man.
Bringing this up usually make a certain demographic absolutely lose it and foam at the mouth, so I'm not sure how long this post will stay here.

>would you be trans if you had a good job making 120k a year? if you had the ability to support a family?
It would follow that there are no rich trans people, an easily contradicted implication.

>>8722
>I think to be trans you already need to be kind of well off
Civilized countries cover the cost of trans healthcare.

This is a popular urban myth tats promoted by right wingers.
Also most women donot have as much economic prosperity under feminism as you think.
The only successful women in the era are the lucky few who found jobs and wages relative to thet degree

>>8803
An onlyfans girl can make several times more than a professional wage worker.
Women get offered a professional worker's monthly wage for a night with some rich guy.

A dominatrix can easily charge $1000/hour. To be clear basically no software engineer at google or whatever gets paid $1000 an hour. People with PhDs, very senior positions, researches, scientists etc, are overwhelmingly valued less than a woman who can dress in latex an spank a man.

I am not sure why women bother to wageslave at all. I mean I understand if a woman likes her work and just does it because she enjoys the work itself, not for the money. But women definitely cannot be wage slaves, they are NOT in the same boat as me when it comes to employment as a phenomenon. I have to participate in this circus because I cannot survive otherwise. I imagine they can participate in it only if they enjoy the process for some reason.



/anime/

 

i cant watch anything anymore without being irrationally annoyed at how theatrical 99% of anime is. the dialogue, the action, etc makes me start imagining whatever nerd wrote it without experiencing anything even remotely similar.
gimme something real!!
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>>30294
>>30291
Honestly? The Nolan movies are campier than they’re often given credit for despite their realism, and I think Nolan knew exactly what he was doing.

Realism and camp depending on the context aren’t necessarily irreconcilable. Stuff like the Nolan Batman movies are realist in setting rules and aesthetic, but still very heightened and theatrical in their acting, dialogue and plot.

Again, realism is relative

>>30297
I agree with this as well.
I especially am mind-boggled over how people often like to roast fictional characters for their motives not being “realistic” enough

It’s especially dumb when done for superhero media.

It’s like people forget that this shit is meant for amusement. Trying to find “deeper meaning” to the plot is just dumb.
The same people who take time to logistically analyze this shit are the same ones who cannot be bothered to research any science or geopolitical affairs

>>30285
Look up method acting

>>30304
method acting does not really deliver natural-sounding performances, and depending on the director, the whole performance may be actually worse. because of brechtian alienation or whatever.

>>30293
That's fair, no characters really have anything to do with leftist politics. It's more anti-colonial/pro-revolutionary I guess. It don't see how it would be facist to me unless you think the slave-holding, sadistic, child-killing, authoritarian humans are the good guys for some reason.



/latam/

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EDIÇÃO BANCO MESTRE
"Daniel Vorcaro é economista, empresário, ex-banqueiro e criminoso brasileiro. (Wikipedia)"
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>17216
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>Julian Pitt-Rivers' essays on honor in Mediterranean world. One of his observations being that honor is necessarily positional: someone's honor depends on another's dishonor.

Eu fico pensando sobre como Brasil tem essa cultura de "não há graça sem a desgraça". Vi uns postagens no twitter sobre a dolarização do rio de janeiro e como os Airbnb estão expulsando os moradores do Rio de Janeiro em favor de turistas e estrangeiros. Os Brasileiros, todos rindo no comentarios da um povo ja miseravel de uma a forma: "Não basta eles ser miseravel, nem teto deveria ter."

Brasil é muito mais perto da India do que o mundo Occidental, na sua estrutura economico e formação social em volta de humiliação e estatus. Pelo menos India não tem ilusão que possui um sistema de casta.

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TAVA NA ESCOLA FAZENDO LIÇÃO
AÍ A PROFESSORA FALOU: VOU PASSAR QUESTÃO
A CONTA É MUITO FÁCIL, ACHO QUE VOCÊS CONHECEM

PROFESSORA, QUE CONTA É ESSA?
VINTE MAIS VINTE, MAIS VINTE, MAIS SETE
AÍ É MUITO FÁCIL, PROFESSORA, É SIX SEVEN

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>>18968
Muito interessante. Ou seja, EUA quer que o Paraguai seja o Israel da América do Sul. Está sendo engraçado ver os bolsonaristas indo pra lá.

>>18981
conheço brasileiros que moram lá. Eu fico preocupado com eles, sei que vai ter muito merda na fronteira eventualmente.
Não sou religioso e nem acredito em deus, mas a unica coisa que posso fazer é orar para proteção.

>>18981
>>18982
Só não entendo o motivo dos ianques usarem essa fronteira ao invés das do Rio Amazonas, que são mais irregulares por natureza. Duvido que aquele la Espriella recusasse um acordo como esse dos paraguaios.



/lgbt/

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Episode 9 spoilers

idk does anyone else feel like making jax a repressoid then immediately killing her is kind of fucked up?
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>>9331
Focusing on Jax is fine, but if that was the direction they wanted to go then it should have been the focus from the start. Instead they suddenly decided that Jax was the main character 2/3 of the way through and lazily tied up all the plot threads laid down in the earlier episodes to focus on that. It's a pacing issue really.

>>9255
>the best authors sperg out on twitter
Retarded contrarian

>>9257
I personally wish they'd fuck off. Artists are insufferable people

Not hating on Goose, but "What happens next" (the web comic) is far better in regards to speaking to trans zoomers, and I wish people would talk about that more often; on a surface level it would seem to be on the kind level of maturity (the tumblr aesthetic and pop-culture references don't help) but it's actually pretty realistic regarding its themes rather than replacing "suicide" with "abstraction" for example.

That was kind of a chatGPT answer but basically, it's a lose-lose situation regardless because it's always going to feel unnatural.

>>9257
>>9338
It goes both ways. Artists and fans are mutually toxic people who fail to realize that fiction is just meant for gratification for things that are impossible in meatspace.

>>9357
>on a surface level it would seem to be on the kind level of maturity (the tumblr aesthetic and pop-culture references don't help)

Mature works use pop culture references as well



/ufo/

 

isnt it strange how on the same board that Epstein most likely had a hand in making (4chans /pol/) people also """coincidentally""" discovered a giant human trafficking child rape ring which only damaged the peoples perception of democrats, and putting republicans on a pedestal. all while Donald trump was running for presidency? hmmm,,,weird

I mean the only real issue /pol/acks have with epstein island is the fact that they weren't invited and thats it. They're biggest aspiration in life is to be a WASP epstein.



/tech/

 

Graphene OS is not degoogled. Recent revelation of security researcher mike kuketz reveals the thruth:

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/grapheneos-warum-android-eine-verbindung-zu-gstatic-com-aufbaut/

The "privacy" ROM connects to Google's gstatic.com for Certificate Transparency logs. While no app data is leaked, Google captures the user’s public IP address and exact request timestamps during these background HTTPS connections.

This enables tracking via cross-correlation: If you open sandboxed apps like X or Instagram, they log your IP. Since Big Tech cooperates and shares telemetry data, Google can match the gstatic connection timestamp with your app activity IP, instantly identifying your GrapheneOS device.

YOU HAVE BEEN LIED TO.
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Blindly trusting an operating system just because it claims to be private is the ultimate security flaw, isn't it? 🤔

>>33693
graphene is android.

🍕🍕🍕

hmm graphene defenders have become quiet here… i guess i have won?!!!

>>33698
we are just waiting for the mods to ban your ass for the most retarded ragebait ever made but they are severely incompetent



/anime/

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One Piece is leftist
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>le Media agrees with me
ok, but is it good?

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>>30065
I hate pedoshit and lolicon but this is a hell of a reach for a number of reasons.
1) Early marriages have happened throughout history and she's not even that young relative to age of consent in many countries outside the USA.
2) Actually she was 16 when she married him and had her daughter with him when she was 19

One Piece is for kids. Sure, there’s a lot of gore, but fundamentally it’s basically the weeaboo version of LOTR, and both are idealist children’s tales, moreso LOTR since it began with The Hobbit.

>>30065
I’m amazed that people still go apeshit about fictional teens getting married to slightly older people but are ok with fictional teens being groomed into soldiers

>>19898
Didn’t they release season one of the live action adaptation already?
Or was that another platform?



/lgbt/

 

Trying to put together a reading list for Queer Socialist Theory/ Trans Liberation.
While we agree that LGBTQ people should be free to live their lives under socialism, unfortunately this hasn't been the case for all socialist govs.
Past reactionary behaviours/ policies have also emerged in certain so-called Socialist orgs like the ACP who use the USSRs past homophobia to justify their bigotry.
As a result, I think it's important that we assemble resources to ensure that future/ existing parties, platforms and orgs don't repeat the same mistakes.

Any recs?

Quotes and examples of pro-LGBTQ policies in Socialist Govs are also welcome.
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>being this desperate to make communism/marxism some useless impotent all encompassing academicoid "theory"
im a transhumanist and i think youre all fucking retarded

>YES IM ILLITERATE, SO WHAT >:''((
>YOU CANT TELL ME TO READ!! SHUT UPP!!1 QQQQ

bump

>>8700
>No one contributed

>>8929
When was your last plastic surgery, poser?



/lgbt/

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hi just wondering if any transfems know about whether infertility from hrt can be reversed? ik that tgel can be used to regain function but can you go like fully infertile and not be able to regain function?
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>>9367
im gonna permaboymode as to not commit social suicide so i might as well have a kid

>>9366
arent AAs necessary though?

>>9368
>Im mentally ill freak and a coward, better pass my genes on!

>>9371
it would be a waste to not pass on such a brilliant mind as mine ;)

>>9374
Euginicists scared of uyghurs like this guy right here



/labor/

 

im fucking tired of Capitalism. My previous job gave me heart issues that caused me to quit, and I can't even find a new job because of it which is putting me in collections. I genuinely never wanted to die more in my life

what is there to even do anymore?

Do you have medically assisted suicide in your state?



/music/

 

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

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Nascar Aloe’s old stuff was mostly average punk-rap, but his newest album is really political and it’s been stuck in my head all week.






/lgbt/

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Yuropean boymoders, how do you even live in this heat?
meow. meow. meow. meow.
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>>9355
Come to Australia and it's an European heatwave majority of the year and even winter would be considered a normal day

Just get an air conditioner

>>9358
That's not chilly thats positively balmy

>>9359
aussies, arabs, iranians, mexis how do you CHADS handle anything harder than 35?

>>9372
They don't want you to know this but having air dry enough that your sweat can still evaporate helps greatly.



/games/

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Legacy of the Chinareich Edition

The other one filled up again so I might as well recreate it. For all those interested this is the big thread for all your Hearts of Iron 4 and modding related content, mostly modding because let's be real nobody plays vanilla anymore. Specifically alternate history. From Kaiserreich to The Fire Rises, mods from this shoddy game set in alternate timelines seem to really do numbers. And create serial killers.

So most recently the latest update from vanilla broke every mod's nation selection screen. You simply hate to see it

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I wonder if in hoi4 vanilla mp is it possible to beat UK's navy as Italy (assuming both are experienced players), since the game favours more numbers of ships & stat stacking in the naval calculation.
Ig its near impossible :'(

I am also having hard time thinking of counters to some metas, like what will be counter to low visibility, high speed, light/torpedoe attack dd spam, maybe armored light cruisers or light attack heavy cruisers , or maybe cheap battleship spam with only one turret to maximize armor/hp.

>>47193
i'm bored, who should i play as? in any mod you recommend

>>47214
Not the OP but,

If you are visual novel enjoyer,
TNO - Iberian Union,
If you want more fighting, more war mechanics, and then a story,
EAW - Changelingia
(Or Posada's Hippogriffia / Siren's Hippogriffia )
If you want to larp & have a challenging game
Kaiserredux - German Empire w kaiserredux expert ai mod, its actually difficult fighting the two front war with Communards and Russian Sphere.

Those r what comes to my mind rn.

>>47215
Cheers. Have already played all of those (except KRR but played it in KR, not with expert ai though) but good suggestions.

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Thoughts on map-game-in-development, Espiocracies iteration on event chains? Kind of interested, as event chains have become very stale:
>Technically, it's a kind of advanced event chain, so it has all the usual features of event popups known from other strategy games – trigger conditions, flavor text, clickable decisions, and effects on the game world. The caveat is that they are never triggered automatically; they are launched through a conscious governmental decision (so the Soviets may decide to never launch the blockade).
<Inside, what makes it "advanced" is that the event has a decision tree (a'la dialogue tree) which is traversed in turns by two opposing parties.
>Every decision has defined availability and costs (in terms of state budget, strategic intelligence, military deployment, etc). Once chosen, a decision:
<-directly influences the game world; for instance, "nuclear escalation" means actual progress up the escalation ladder, which may lead all the way to WW3;
<-modifies the event's -100 to +100 score (similar to a "war score");
<-grants a new set of decisions to the other side.

>The point of divergence is won by either side once the score reaches -100/+100, or when the end of the decision tree is reached (in which case the side with no responses left loses the confrontation), or when external circumstances derail the event (eg. the aforementioned WW3). The final outcome implements a wide range of bespoke history-rewriting consequences. For instance, a Soviet victory in West Berlin will cause further Western retreats, delay the establishment of NATO (or significantly weaken NATO if it is already established), damage the image of the current American administration, turn the German population against the West, and so on.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1670650/view/697642648593240744



/anime/

 

The Summer Hikaru died is so fucking funny for pulling a 180 on the gay stuff. How are they constantly no-homo-ing after Yoshiki fingerfucked his internal organs. The appeal of the early stuff is the mixture of the horror with the erotic, and once they decide to explicitly state it's not gay that appeal is completely lost, and they just oscillate between mid horror and subpar romance.

Another anime too good for BL reduced to le "queer themes". 🙄
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>>30229
So it flopped and that's why it disappeared off my algo
Well, Heated Rivalry it is then

>>30231
That’s because BL is a descendent of nanshoku literature. In a gay relationship, both partners are social equals, they are both men who are mutually attracted to each other. In BL and nanshoku before it, one partner is dominant and the other submissive and the submissive partner is treated as if he is the social equivalent of a woman. The love can also be one sided and pederastic.

>>30231
Maybe it's because it's usually aimed at straight women who still want to fantasize that they could get with one of the guys. Yuri is actually not that different (it's better nowadays but still), lesbianism is often treated as this cute and innocent schoolgirl episode that you grow out of to marry a man.

>>30235
BL and GL both run on this constant themes of self-denialism

>>30235
Toxic yuri is the new hotness. Sisters, we have never been so back.



/labor/

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NORMALIZE DOING LOUD WORK OUTSIDE AT NIGHT
I'M TIRED OF ONLY BEING ALLOWED TO DO HOT LOUD OUTDOOR WORK DURING THE DAY WHEN IT'S A BAJILLION DEGREES OUTSIDE
NORMALIZE NOCTURNAL SLEEP SCHEDULES
CONSTRUCTION WORKERS IN EQUATORIAL REGIONS ALREADY WORK AT NIGHT, NORMALIZE THIS IN SUB-EQUATORIAL REGIONS, AND WITH "RURAL" WORK LIKE TREE WORK

>hurr durr you need to see


GIVE EVERY WORKER NIGHT VISION GOGGLES AND BIG ASS LAMPS

AS CLIMATE CHANGE GETS WORSE AIN'T NOBODY WANNA BE AWAKE DURING THE FUCKIN DAY ANYWAY
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They do loud work at 3 am here, I don't have sleep issues so it doesn't bother me. Only hear it when I wake up to take a piss.

You will work under the sun. You will dehydrate. You will pass out. You may die. And you will like it.

>>1858
i saw some guys doing vital infrastructure work at 12pm the other day in 95 f (35 c) weather. it was fucking bleak. i was on my lunch break and these poor souls were all suited up and covered in dust

>>1858
at least in the burger state I live in the DOT workers only do big projects at night

>>2033
Because otherwise they'll cause traffic chaos if you do it in rush hour traffic. Less traffic in the middle of night or twilight hours.



/edu/

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What do you think of this text?
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/

>meow

>meow
>meow

>>26163
Our lord Marx and his sidekick Engels loved the Christian theology. But really, who gives a shit?

>>26164
Give me a serious analysis of this text.

To me, it is a genius and overlooked text of Marx's.
In the first part, Marx criticises political secularism as often being a motive for an intensified civic theocracy, as in the case of the US. This relates to Marx's reply to Bauer in general; that secularism is not enough, since the content of religion can transform itself in new ways. Such is the case of Judaism and Christianity; the Christian imagines that they have extinguished Judaism, but really, they are "inwardly circumcised" Jews, in the Paulian sense. The absence of the external Jew does not negate the internal Jew, and so on. Further, what is the spectre of Jewishness? To Marx and Bauer, the Jew represents capitalism in the realm of civil society, while the Christian sublimes this relation in the state. The Christian state thus preserves an inner Judaism, or as Marx says, the Christian has become a Jew himself (e.g. a capitalist), but in a more severe form, because he spiritualises it. The honest Jew is better than the dishonest Jew; that's what I interpret.



/edu/

 

Should I drop aspirations of being a conservationist? I find myself lucky enough to be able to go back for a second degree and have wanted to get a degree in biology since before I finished my first, entirely unrelated to that field (though much more marketable), degree. Everyone seems to be in love with environmental rape and collapse now and I can't muster much hope in regards to the importance of futilely trying to keep the various floundering ecologies of the world afloat anymore.

I'd resigned myself to the truth of environmental collapse but reading daily about how America has decided to kill another endangered species, actively, entirely without any remorse, has become more than I can handle.

I don't want to be doing shit in an office 'till I die, but I don't know if going back to follow what I'm actually interested and passionate about will yield much fruit, if any at all.

>>25988
if you're passionate about it you should do it. even if it's difficult it will be meaningful. also people with the means and motivation to do something are in short supply. things get worse because nobody does anything.

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Destroying nature is a good thing.

https://benthams.substack.com/p/against-biodiversity

>The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive; others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear; others are being slowly devoured from within by rasping parasites; thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst and disease.


>For example, there’s an organism called the new world screwworm that that lays magots in the flesh of their victims, causing almost incomprehensible amounts of agony as the maggots eat their way out from the inside. These worms also tend to live pretty short lives of intense suffering. So when we got rid of the new world screwworm in north America—ridding the continent of a miserable animal that reproduces by torturing other animals—I think that was a great thing! It’s possible it will turn out bad because of some weird ripple effects, but if things are as I’ve supposed, then it seems pretty great. In case you doubt my position, as you can see below, I’ve depicted it as the Chad and the alternative view as the crying angry person, so it’s very likely true.

>>26061
kill utilitarians
behead utilitarians
roundhouse kick a utilitarian into the concrete
slam dunk a utilitarian baby into the trashcan
crucify filthy utilitarians
defecate in a utilitarian's food

there is more need for conservationists now than ever before, millions despise and oppose the rape of the earth and you will find friends everywhere who will help you, even if it's not financially rewarding

>>26061
Growing up I would see villains in fiction whose ideologies are so retarded that it de-immersed me from what I was reading, but as an adult I've come to realize that reactionaries are simply like that and have podcasts and substacks where they say so plainly.



/music/

 

What do you listen while you wagecuck, anons?
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Classic dad rock usually. Construction workers love this shit.



/hobby/

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let's talk about some left wing movies and some left wing directors

bonus points for american and english directors, they seem to be rare when you go outside average libshit stuff
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>"The coin don't call it. It's just you."
This is the message. We see it more honestly with Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight (2008); that when the coin flip 'fails', he "makes [his] own luck". The power is not in the coin flip, but the one who flips the coin. The same logic was present at the Nuremberg Trials. To just "follow orders" is not a valid legal defense. For the Pharisees to kill Jesus by the "letter of the law" is not to abide by the "spirit" in it.

Daniel Plainview tests the faith of Eli and Eli chooses his real God:
<The English Established Church, e.g., will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income. Now-a-days atheism is culpa levis [a relatively slight sin, c.f. mortal sin], as compared with criticism of existing property relations.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p1.htm

It seems like magic.
Light is captured in form.




/games/

 

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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>>47271
latest political compass test just dropped

Been playing Dragon Age 2 and left off a week or two ago in the middle of act 3 because I got crazy busy.

just finished gta vice city (PS2). it's janky af, but it's fun… But it's mostly janky af. And I probably only enjoyed it because I was using save states at the beggining of each mission, in order to not have to reload the game and drive around before doing each mission whenever I died

>>47313
i didn't know about this game, looks interesting

>>47364
>save states
>for GTA
anon I don't want to talk mad shit but like… people like you are the reason we need gatekeeping.

>>47365
Bro who cares? It's his game. Let him enjoy it how he wants.

>>47364
It's pretty fun but a lot better if you have a fellow faggot/s playing it with you so you can laugh about it together



/edu/

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In this thread we list examples of western collaboration with fascism, including both private companies and governments.

>"without American petroleum and American trucks, and American credit, we could never have won the Civil War."


-Spanish diplomat José María Doussinague
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Union Banking Corporation: While Prescott Bush, father of the elder President George Bush, was its director, the Union Banking Corporation represented the interests of the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, in the 1930s. Bush was also linked to the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company, on the German-Polish border, which used slave labor from the concentration camps.

>>26152
The Rockefellers and Chase bank

>“The Rockefellers owned Standard Oil of New Jersey, the German accounts of which were siphoned through their own bank, the Chase, as well as through the independent National City Bank of New York, which also handled Standard, Sterling Products, General Aniline and Film, SKF, and ITT, whose chief, Sosthenes Behn, was a director of the N.C.B. Two executives of Standard Oil's German subsidiary were Karl Lindemann and Emil Helfferich, prominent figures in Himmler's Circle of Friends of the Gestapo-its chief financiers-and close friends and colleagues of the BIS's Baron von Schrode”


>“As war approached, the links between the Rockefellers and the Nazi government became more and more firm. In 1936 the J. Henry Schroder Bank of New York had entered into a partnership with the Rockefellers. Schroder, Rockefeller and Company, Investment Bankers, was formed as part of an overall company that Time magazine disclosed as being "the economic booster of the Rome-Berlin Axis. " The partners in Schroder, Rockefeller and Company included Avery Rockefeller, nephew of John D., Baron Bruno von Schroder in London, and Kurt von Schroder of the BIS and the Gestapo in Cologne. Avery Rockefeller owned 42 percent of Schroder, Rockefeller, and Baron Bruno and his Nazi cousin 47 percent. Their lawyers were John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles of Sullivan and Cromwell. Allen Dulles (later of the Office of Strategic Services) was on the board of Schroder. Further connections linked the Paris branch of Chase to Schroder as well as the pro-Nazi Worms Bank and Standard Oil of New Jersey in France. Standard Oil's Paris representatives were directors of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, which had intricate connections to the Nazis and to Chase.”


-TRADING WITH THE ENEMY: An Exposé of The Nazi-American Money-Plot 1933-1949

>After the Rockefellers, the next largest stockholder in Standard Oil was I.G. Farben, the giant German chemical company. This investment was part of a pattern of reciprocal investments between the U.S. and Germany during the Nazi years. During the Great Depression, Germany was viewed as a hot area in which to invest.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160216112736/https://web.mit.edu/thistle/www/v13/3/oil.html

Farben built a factory for producing synthetic oil and rubber (from coal) in Auschwitz, which was the beginning of SS activity and camps in this location during the Holocaust.
At its peak in 1944, this factory made use of 83,000 forced laborers.

The pesticide Zyklon B, for which IG Farben held the patent, was manufactured by Degesch (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung), which IG Farben had 42.2 percent (in shares) of and which had IG managers in its Managing Committee. Of the 24 directors of IG Farben indicted in the so-called IG Farben Trial (1947-1948) before a U.S. military tribunal at the subsequent Nuremberg Trials, 13 were sentenced to prison terms between 1½ and eight years.

-https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_igfarben08.htm

IBM

Hitler awarded prestigious decorations to Thomas J. Watson, IBM’s chief executive officer. Its German subsidiary, with the support of the American company, helped the Nazi government with a punch-card mechanism for identifying Jews, Gypsies, and other ‘undesirables,’ thus making it possible to destroy that population in Germany and the occupied countries. Each concentration camp kept tabs on inmates using IBM’s technology; IBM trained SS personnel in how to use their machines to record the movement, sorting, and mass execution within the death camps. Without this technology, the camps could never have achieved their horrendous numbers, and the Final Solution would not have been as final.

https://jewishcurrents.org/doing-business-with-hitler


There’s also a book on the subject called IBM and the holocaust

Following the rise of Hitler to power, Teagle and Hermann Schmitz jointly gave a special assignment to Ivy Lee, the notorious New York publicity man, who had for some years worked for the Rockefellers. They engaged Lee for the specific purpose of economic espionage. He was to supply I.G. Farben, and through it the Nazi government, with intelligence on the American reaction to such matters as the German armament program, Germany's treatment of the Church, and the organization of the Gestapo. He was also to keep the American public bamboozled by papering over the more evil aspects of Hitler's regime. For this, Lee was paid first $3,000 then $4,000 annually, the money paid to him through the Bank for International Settlements in the name of I.G. Chemie. The contract was for obvious reasons kept oral and the money was transferred in cash. No entries were made in the books of the employing companies or in those of Ivy Lee himself. After a short period Lee's salary was increased to $25,000 per year and he began distributing inflammatory Nazi propaganda in the United States on behalf of I.G. Farben, including virulent attacks on the Jews and the Versailles Treaty.

–TRADING WITH THE ENEMY: An Exposé of The Nazi-American Money-Plot 1933-1949

http://www.whale.to/b/higham_b.html



/lgbt/

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How to post on /tttt/? Am I really need to pass this shit?
meow.meow.meow.meow.



/hobby/

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I only heard about this movie yesterday so I decided to watch it on Xitter for free because Elon(gated) Musk(rat) isekais himself as the MC. But I was like… how would the producers make money? So it's only up until saturday kek. Money always trumps ideology I guess.

First of the bat: I agree with the message with this movie that the governments of yurop ain't doing shit to stop migrant violence. Idgaf about leftoid sensibilities about muh migrants bla bla. If the Warsaw Pact was still around, you wouldn't be seeing this lawlessness and I never understood leftists going bonkers on migrants as if they are not mostly reactionary lumpens that would fight communism on the ground that their tribal deity said sharing is evil or some shit. So you will not get me criticizing this flick for THE MESSAGE (critical drinker voice) but the irony is THE MESSAGE was delivered in a very strange fashion. It's almost as if the movie was not made to be art or agitprop, but as a controversy piece.

The movie is low budget and you can tell most of the money went to Armie Hammer's acting salary. The SFX are alright but clearly AI/Photoshop with some practical SFX in that police shoot out scene where faces of cops explode (literally) from PKM bullets.

You can read the synopsis on wikifedia, it's pretty accurate, I'll just summarize it in my own Sinbadish style.
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>>47799
> the governments of yurop ain't doing shit to stop migrant violence. Idgaf about leftoid sensibilities about muh migrants bla bla.
Tell me you've never lived in a different country without telling me. I'm disappointed in you Sinbad I thought you were above this kind of discourse. Immigration is already very strict in europe and "getting tougher" means, like everywhere else, making it harder for proles from country X to migrate while allowing the reactionary comprador booj from from country X to go wherever they want. Immigration laws are not targeting a cultural integration problem. It's a question of keeping proletarians of different nations separated so the human capital can be easier allocated according to the needs of the global market.
>>47848
>>47850
>>47854
Unfortunately it's a lot more strange than that.
Army was named after his great-grandfather Armand who was the son of one of the founders of the CPUSA, and through these connections made his fortune as an american asset of the the USSR. He acquired large shares of the parent company of Arm and Hammer in the late 80's because everybody thought it would be funny
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Hammer
Poor Julius. Imagine spending your whole life as a bourgeois KGB Asset, thinking you're furthering the cause of socialism all to end up with a descendant who turns out to be a disgraced actor with a fetish for rape and cannibalism who had to pay to get roles.

>>47800
>>47802
>>47803
>>47804
>>47806
>>47807
I don't think i'm going to watch this film, but going by your summary it sounds like the hidden message is that the main character is also a criminal migrant, far more criminal and antisocial than the ones he targets, but because he is a huwite booj picking on ethnically marginalized/lumpens his sociopathic criminality is lauded redeemed and lauded by bourgeois society. Is this a fair interpretation?

Watched the movie - it is hardly a neo-nazi gorefest, as it is hyped up to be. It is a milquetoast defense of "democracy" and "the rule of law" (as uttered by Armie's character), against "Islamic extremists" and a "blindsided woke left". In terms of the film-making itself, it is absolutely atrocious; the acting, editing, directing, plot, soundtrack, etc. are less than amateur. Everything is cheap. Worst of all, though, is that it is absurdly boring. Don't bother with it.

> I agree with the message with this movie that the governments of yurop ain't doing shit to stop migrant violence. Idgaf about leftoid sensibilities about muh migrants bla bla.
Eh depends on where you live, here in the US immigrants commit less crime per capita than normal citizens but in places like sweden it's the opposite.

lmfao



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What is to be done about all media moving toward a service model where you don't even have access to the game files? Streamed games never took off because there is too much latency, but it's only a matter of time before they figure out how to stream the data to your computer at load-time instead of at run-time. Other forms of media are already largely handled through full streaming at the point of access.

ITT let's keep up to date with developments in this area, including but not limited to
<DRM and loss of ownership rights
<Alternative means of distribution
<FOSS and open access models for games
<Developers and distributors who support genuine ownership
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>>47318
>Other forms of media are already largely handled through full streaming at the point of access.
And they're successfully pirated because digital information is very easy to copy no matter what. The technical measures they come up with can only make it more of a pain in the ass.

>>47352
Mate, the whole point about digital only is that you cant get a used copy on the market. Sure piracy wont ever be legal in a capitalist society but why should they not clamp down on the second hand market also? Nintendo (or apple) can charge humongous prices for their software or hardware respectively and it sadly works. And sadly, it seems that in the current direction we are headed, key resellers (which have been becoming very popular for a while now) will become illegal at some point into the future.


>>47352
piracy HAS to work because it's not only a means of obtaining stuff, it's literally a means of archival. clamping down piracy worries me more than digital distribution ever will, because that means losing access to shitton of movies, video games and music IP holders have 0 interest in distributing in my country

This shit is so annoying!
I have no idea how anyone can be a capitalist in 2026



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Are there any modern games that actually get the cyberpunk aesthetic right?

Cyberpunk 2077 looks pretty great during the night cycle, but during the day it becomes clear and sunny and looks more like gritty Futurama than cyberpunk.

Deus Ex

I think Cyberpunk 2077 looks better at day than it does at night

there's a LUT mod for cyberpunk 2077 or whatever that lets you tone down saturation which makes it look a lot like your third image and less like los angeles. in fact cyberpunk 2077 is hands down the best rendering of a cyberpunk city ever made for a video game, too bad the game itself is so fucking shit.

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Cloudpunk is really the only game i've seen capture cyberpunk urban sprawl/arcology at anywhere near the correct scale. The sequel is going to be a lifesim, and largely ditch the voxel graphics, so it could either turn out great or completely disappointing in that aspect.

>>47361
pure kino



/anime/

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Is this type of attitude the reason why the Japanese are losing a lot of money to Korean and Chinese game developers? Manga sales are at record lows and yet in spite of this their zoomers double down on the chud maxxing thanks to electing in the idol anime conservative for president
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>>30201
>"[so] production teams can earn revenue from their work"

They dont pay them regardless.

People still think the worker gets royalties or some shit instead of a fixed salary, I thought that retardation was done after they stopped talking about it in video games, but looks like every cultural product still suffer from this

>>30055
I actually watched a video on this recently. Aside from the common reasons one might assume (rigid hierarchy structure, strong social aversion to any crime, assumption that it's harming one of their largest industries, etc), the video breaks down the history of Japan's crazy strict copyright laws and the impact it's had on the collective psyche as a result. Definitely an interesting dive into the topic, worth a watch

Japanese would be such an ideal LION NATION under a DotP, they are such hardcore regimers.



/latam/

 

EDICIÓN IVÁN CEPEDA PRESIDENTE

Hoy son las elecciones presidenciales en Colombia. El candidato de la izquierda (Pacto Histórico) encabeza las encuestas de intención de voto en un escenario de primera vuelta.

<Iván Cepeda es senador por el Pacto Histórico, la alianza de izquierda que respaldó la elección del presidente colombiano Gustavo Petro, y su candidato para sucederlo en la presidencia en las elecciones generales de mayo y junio de 2026. Defensor de derechos humanos, Cepeda tiene una extensa trayectoria política que lo llevó, en distintos momentos, a militar en el Partido Comunista, la Unión Patriótica, la Alianza Democrática M-19 —el partido surgido tras la desmovilización en 1990 de la guerrilla del M-19, a la que perteneció Petro— y más tarde en el Polo Democrático, hoy integrado con otras fuerzas en el Pacto Histórico.

<Cepeda es conocido por su papel en diversos procesos de paz con la hoy disuelta guerrilla de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) y con el Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), una fuerza guerrillera que sigue activa tras varios intentos fallidos de negociación. Su padre, Manuel Cepeda, congresista por la Unión Patriótica —un partido surgido de un proceso de paz con las FARC— fue asesinado en 1994 por paramilitares en el marco de una campaña de exterminio de los dirigentes de ese partido, por la que la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos condenó al Estado colombiano. Tras el asesinato de su padre, Cepeda impulsó el Movimiento Nacional de Víctimas, con el objetivo de lograr justicia para las personas asesinadas por agentes estatales y grupos paramilitares.
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Momento peruano

>>18738
Las bases del Pacto Histórico están esperando los resultados del escrutinio (que le suceden al pre-conteo rápido). Esta es una anomalía en política electoral colombiana, pues suele anunciarse un presidente cuando llevan un margen significativo de votos y una tendencia irreversible. Aquí el candidato ultraderechista ganó por un margen de 0,94% según la Registraduría Nacional, aunque Petro asegura que esta es todavía menor.

No se sabrá con certeza hasta unos días, pues habrán abogados, observadores y jueces dictaminando la validez de los resultados obtenidos. La izquierda espera una reposición, como ha sucedido en otros comicios pero, francamente, parece una batalla difícil de ganar con todas las condiciones para perder (Hondurasgate y Estados Unidos).

<Ahora, algo curioso es que ningún medio colombiano lo ha pronunciado ganador de la contienda electoral. Solo ganador del pre-conteo…Así van las cosas.

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Gustavo Petro alega que ha habido interferencia Israelí en la elección.

Hace algunas semanas autoridades francesas vincularon a la compañía Israelí Blackrock con interferencia digital en las elecciones de Nueva York, Angola, Togo y Escocia.

https://www.reuters.com/world/israeli-firm-blackcore-also-suspected-meddling-nyc-scotland-votes-french-2026-06-11/

Hay que tener presente Hondurasgate. Recordar que se confirmó interferencia directa Israelí en la política Hondureña y se destapo una conspiración Estadounidense-Israelí para sabotear movimientos izquierdistas latinoamericanos.

>>18741
Irónicamente, a pesar de la derrota, la izquierda está más viva que nunca en Colombia. Era impensable que un candidato de este espectro político alcanzara una votación de más de 12 millones hace menos de diez años.

Antes de Gustavo Petro, la votación más grande de un político de izquierda fue la de Carlos Gaviria del Polo Democrático Alternativo en el 2006, alcanzando una votación de 2.613.157 (22% contra un 62% de Álvaro Uribe, de ultraderecha). Las experiencias previas fueron exterminios; el del AD-M19 (el ala democrática de la guerrilla a la que perteneció Petro), el genocidio de la Unión Patriótica (UP) con 8.884 muertes selectivas entre 1977-1991, y más atrás el genocidio de la Unión Nacional de Oposición (UNO) con 152 asesinatos entre 1972 y 1983. Nuestras izquierdas han sido grandes pero rápidamente diezmadas. Es fácil descalificar a Petro de liberal o "rosado", pero ocupar una presidencia en esas condiciones y contra todo pronóstico fue una proeza.

Ahora, en cuanto a tu pregunta, yo creo que sí podría ser un campo fecundo para un proceso revolucionario. Sin embargo implicaría un inevitable regreso a las armas. Ahora mismo se nos amenaza con el destripamiento.

>>18743
No sorprende. Hay quienes están anticipando una dura campaña de "lawfare" contra Petro. Ya veremos cómo se desarrolla.

Amigos colombianos. ¿Como ven las probabilidades de éxito de Petro en su campaña por anular los resultados fraudulentos de la elección?



/edu/

 

drop them PDFs, we will rebuild edition
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/hobby/

 

Tired of cyberpunk and dystopian culture in general, post ITT worlds you would want to live in or not too bad depictions of leftist societies.

Pic related, an anarchist moon revolving around a capitalist planet 200 years after the revolution.
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>>29025
>>24808
You mean the Miyazaki one, made by his son?

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>>2419
Would Star Trek be considered Utopian sci-fi? I think it fits.

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>>34895
Pic restored

two good kinds of sci fi:

  1. so hard it's basically just a drama
  2. so soft it's basically just a fantasy

anything in between those 2 extremes tends to be dull

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VGH… what could have been…



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DOING DRUGS IS A SIN AND I WILL SEND YOU TO HELL FOR IT!!!
(How do you respond?)

<Why?

this kirkuinely happened to me once and I told that bitch to fuck off because he's just an infohazardous thoughtform and will NEVER be a real deity

>>1338
i do nothing because gods a faggot

>>1338
opium of the masses dealer doesnt want you seeing other dealers, that's his turf



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