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Romance & Love thread

Figured I made a thread to share our romantic experiences – or lack of thereof, – opinions, wishes and advice. That is part of the whole LGBT experience besides the sex and gender.

I reached mid 20s with barely any experience, autism made sure of that. Kissed a drunk lesbian once, I don't even think I looked that cute for a guy in his 20s, so I was honored more than anything. Broke up a friendship with a trans girl after some hasty choices, but she was crazy anyways. Now focusing on friends, making and deepening them.

Wish I had a man I understood and was understood by, someone light-hearted and whimsical to have fun with on the short time I have here on Earth. Femboy-ish ig, not masculine, but takes care of himself, with a touch of femininity to him. Impartial on sex, willing to do it, might be fun even.

One thing I like is the idea of relations as temporary, serial monogamy if you will. I'm all for loyalty while in a relation, but that doesn't necessarily mean it must be forever and ever. People change, why shouldn't their relations? Admittedly I do see the romance in a lifelong relation, sticking with someone and changing together with them. Besides looking for a new partner every x amount of years sounds exhausting.
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Mexico Gral

No encontré el hilo anterior así que hago uno nuevo porque es necesario

que con todo y todo Estados Unidos no ha parado de intentar meter las narices en el país y me esta empezando a cansar y mas si en el 2030 planean poner otro titere de mierda en especial si es el puto de Salinas Pliego que planea ser literalmente un Milei Whitexican.

Alguien seguia la campaña de Manzo?
Que opinan de Morena en pleno 2025?
Que nos queda por hacer?
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Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
<vid
CLASS WAR DECLARATION MIX FROM THE THAI LABOUR MUSEUM STORAGE ROOM
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/edu/ checkpoint

Everytime you visit /edu/, post in this thread. Tell us about what you're thinking about, what you're reading, an interesting thing you have learned today, anything! Just be sure to pop in and say hi.

Previous thread >>>/leftypol_archive/580500
Archive of previous thread
https://archive.is/saN3S

Excuse me coming through
A quick note on the video @ >>>/leftypol/1538283
Also [vid related] for archival purposes

Around the 29 minute mark Peterson criticizes Marx and Engel's for assuming that workers would magically become more productive once they took over.

This actually happened historically, most of the actually effective productivity tricks work places use now were developed by Stakhanovites.

https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/year-of-the-stakhanovite/year-of-the-stakhanovite-texts/stalin-at-the-conference-of-stakhanovites/

Reality has a Marxist bias
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Music image boards

Is there any music focused image boards? Or atleast image boards with active music board?

It seems like music boards are in general dead but I have hope for some hidden gems.
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JUCHENBOLO FORGOTTEN WAR MEGATHREAD #1 | Rolling South at Dawn Edition

Use this thread to post
>Footage, events, media and ongoing developments of the Red Peninsula
>Theories, literature, and praxis
>Juche girls and waifus
>Revolutionary conditions, contradictions, and vanguard prospects
>Cracks in the Suryong-bureaucratic apparatus
>Material conditions and state contradiction
>Analysis of US-ROK relations and contradictions
>South Korean working class stagnation and exploitation
>Critique of all state actions, DPRK included
Inminban militiamen check in.
Liberation of Seoul or Pyongyang spring?
Your DPRK GF is Waiting
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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO COLÔNIA CECÍLIA
"A Colônia Cecília foi uma experiência anarquista realizada no Paraná, entre 1890 e 1894. A comunidade reuniu principalmente imigrantes italianos e, em seu auge, chegou a abrigar 250 habitantes."
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>16404
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/arg/ - Argentina General

SANTUCHO EDITION

El thread con más copas del mundo™

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

Bienvenidos.
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Was anyone ever gangraped at your Highschool?

The only things that happened at mine was a couple was caught having fucking in a hallway near the quad, some guy was caught jacking off under his desk, and A teacher tried to confiscate a guy's weenie because he thought it was a phone.

but at my middle school, eight guys raped a girl in the locker room. It was not the football team.
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Materialist explanation for Videogame voice acting STILL being fucking shit even after decades?
American dubs of Japanese games are probably the worst offenders of this.
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France sends middle finger to Microslop

>France has incorporated Linux desktops into its national digital-sovereignty strategy. DINUM, France’s Interministerial Digital Directorate, announced a transition from Windows to Linux workstations.

>According to an official government press release, this change is part of a broader initiative to reduce reliance on non-European digital technologies (source, in French).


>The government’s statement is notably direct. The section on workstation evolution confirms that DINUM will replace Windows with Linux systems. The press release also requires each ministry, including public operators, to develop a plan by autumn 2026 addressing desktop systems, collaboration tools, antivirus software, AI, databases, virtualization, and network equipment.


>This initiative extends beyond a standard desktop migration. France positions Linux adoption as part of a broader policy focused on sovereignty, interoperability, and reducing dependence on foreign vendors. As the announcement comes directly from DINUM, which oversees digital strategy across ministries, it holds greater significance than a local pilot or isolated administrative project.


>And as you can see, this is a big deal. It is not a leak, rumor, or unofficial plan. It is a formal declaration from one of Europe’s largest governments, explicitly designating Linux as the replacement for Windows workstations as part of a broader interministerial strategy.


>The extent of the transition will depend on ministry-level plans due later this year, but France has clearly made Linux desktops a key component of its national digital-sovereignty agenda. For now, there are no specific details about which distributions will be used, as that decision will apparently come a bit later.


So ultra rare France W?
I wish China does the same, shame how many Asians are ultra cucks to Microsoft besides North Korea obviously since they use Red Star OS.
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leftydykes

Where are my fellow lesbians/sapphics at? How's life going for y'all? I'm afraid to start dating and depressed as hell. Anxious about what a broader crackdown on LGBT folks might look like. Yes I'm from burgerstan.
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Smoking catnip?

Anyone tried it? I think I read about it decades ago in this old book called Legal Highs https://www.amazon.com/Legal-Highs-Encyclopedia-Psychoactive-Properties/dp/0914171828 that catnip can actually get you high, its apparently been used as a calming agent for humans before widespread use for cats was done.
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What is the coziest job? I love the idea of being a fisherman. Can you imagine being a Scandinavian fisherman? Must be awesome.

I fantasize a lot about being a hard-bodied young man sailing across the world, exploring all of Europe, all the while serving my nation by being the best Fisherman in all the land. Hopefully I will reincarnate into something like that. Unfortunately I'm a lazy-eyed, glasses-wearing, wimpy little freak.
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Methylphpenidate (Ritalin)

So I just got a prescription for Ritalin and I wanna know. How similar is the prescription version to the street version of "meth"? I've always called it "prescription meth" in conversation, but I know according to doctors and such, it's different. Anyone here have the pharmaceutical knowledge to explain to me how it's different? I mean, besides the fact that I know it's not cut with fent.

Pic unrelated.
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The Holy Bible

What's the leftypol take on this book? I'm not trolling - it's existence has haunted my life. I was raised catholic… Christianity has both ruined & saved my life and my opinions on it have only gotten more complex.

Some of the greatest art of all time has been religiously motivated. But the question of Christianity specifically is a big one. On one hand all manner of brown people are more sincerely christian than a lot of white people have ever been. It might be the one thing saving Africa right now!

But on the other hand The first Roman Empire & Greek empire were polytheistic & they might have achieved a civilizational peak that surpasses the situation we live in right now. Christianity is very homophobic & a huge portion of Europe/UK demographics are atheist & seem to be some of the happiest nations on earth. Christianity might even be the reason that the Roman Empire fell & is responsible for a lot of really bad imperialism & colonialism.

What am I supposed to make of it? Jesus was surely a good man, no? The word of god has saved homeless, sick, and morally corrupt. Where does the justification to do evil come from when people read this?
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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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420chan refugees unite

list of servers please
>leftypol is mean
>rottingangels are slow and meaner
>stonerchan was scammers
all 3 sites can go die for making fun of someone who has problems with addiction…
https://fbi.gov/DuwsvVMv
we miss 420chan
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autism blocks server 2026

helo gamers, i invite u to a fuckin autismic political minecraft server u should come play. we are running factions on 1.21.11 and have a plugin that lets you pick up and throw people. teh texture pack is meant to represent autists across the political spectrum btw.

BILLIONS must play
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am i rolling it right??????!!??? i always roll tiny blunts in order to save the good stuff. I twist it after I roll it in order to remove all air pockets. Should I be making it so tight?!!??!?!??
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Which tendencies of ML (there has to be at least one) uphold the pre-Dimitrov, R. Palme Dutt -esque, 1920s COMINTERN (multiple congresses) consensus on the United Front tactic, as opposed to the Popular Front (in my analysis) error?

After finally reading some of Hoxha's works I was greatly disappointed to find that he doesn't even have the integrity to acknowledge Stalin's flip flop from completely contradictory tactics, pretending like the Popular Front is the only thing there ever was and is correct without no need to explain further.

the Chinese revolution being the result of a mix of directives, and ending up in a partially synthesized United + Popular Front, at least leads to some interesting (but ultimately non-conclusive imo) discourse in some Maoist circles on the topic.

Then there's the funny thing about people thinking Bordigist leftcoms are odd for supporting the United Front from Below, or that it's an ultraleft tactic entirely. Meanwhile the fact is that it's the instance where leftcoms get as Leninist, sharing position with Stalin-era CPSU, as they can get.

TL;DR: If Dengists, Khrushchevites and Hoxhaists aren't United Front from Below stans, which MLs are? Non-answer is unacceptable and will require you to do 10 jumping jacks on a floor I multiple bags of pebbles on
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/Lost media/

<Lost media are any media that are believed to no longer exist in any format, or for which no copies can be located. The term primarily encompasses visual, audio, or audiovisual media such as films, television and radio broadcasts, music,[2] and video games.

>Preservation efforts attempt to avoid the loss of works; this is usually done by storing them in archives.
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/lang/ - language learning general #1

Choosing a language edition

I do not know why we do not have an active language learning thread, so here you go.
If you got other links you think are worthy of being on here, do mention them.

>Language learning communities

r/languagelearning
https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/

Language learner's forum
https://forum.language-learners.org/

Linguaholic's forum
https://linguaholic.com/


>General resources

r/languagelearning's list
https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/wiki/resources/

>Bonus and misc

Omniglot: Omniglot is a compendium of linguistic knowledge and the different writing systems used to represent language.
https://omniglot.com/

HTLAL's archive: A nice website which housed a number of interesting things, such as the life of cardinal mezzofanti, a list of languages and some details about them, a list of resources and a forum.
(latest working snapshot)
https://web.archive.org/web/20250629150605/http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/index.html


Today's questions:
>What language/languages are you learning?
>What is your level currently?
>Why are you learning them?
>What is your plan for improving?
>What tips can you share with someone who also has your TL?
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Hype train

Are you excited about anything game's related lately?
games, mods, etc.

2026-2027 as long as it hasn't been released and it's keeping you on your toes you can post it here.
body isn't too short nor empty
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Games the chuds tricked you into buying

With the amount of shill threads about Stellar Blade I kept seeing on 4chan /v/ saying it was a "decent action game" I ended up buying it along with some other games for my brother's birthday last year (at great expense as it's a modern video game and all). He never touched it so I finally gave the demo a go myself to see if it was worth the hype.

It was a Sekiro-like. and not even that great a one. It almost seems like it was hyped to shit because it had attractive girls in skintight suits and almost only because of that. I had more fun with Devil's Third of all games.
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/TBG/ Tolerance Break General

Thread for supporting folks trying to wean down or going cold turkey with no intention of sobriety.

Day 1 into my tolerance break. I was smoking about a quad a week. It's gotten to the point that most days I was just having side effects like dry throat and stuffed-head-feeling and not even getting high. How long do you think I need to break for?

Feel free to use weed flag even if you aren't me. This is /420/ after all.
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HILO LATINOAMERICANO
EDICION MURO PROPIO
Terminamos el año con una victoria mas de los socialdemocratas en Uruguay y con Pepe Mujica en modo espectro alentando a los jovenes a militar
¡A Darle con Todo!
Para luego buscarlo en el catálogo:
Latinoamérica, Latin America, LATAM, /lat/, latinoamérica, latino américa, hispanoamerica, /ñ/
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Lebanese VTuber's family killed in Lebanon

VTuber Camila was featured on X by RT news when she described 160 bombs being dropped on Beirut in 10 minutes. In other news, Null from Kiwi Farms is laughing about it.
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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKER'S DAY EVERYONE

post kino songs to celebrate the 1st of May ITT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIDEv1b4F0
turkish song about the 1st of may
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsgoMC1wHUE
the battle is going on again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzm5HhjMqqg
turkish recreation of "the battle is going on again"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S9foCTOba0
turkish communist song "don't give approval to this order"
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420chan Culture Museum

Come and visit this thread! Users of leftypol, siberia, for the 420chan Culture Museum.
Here you can see an array of ancient and modern screenshots, that stem from the wonderful civilization of narcomania that inhabited the place once known as 420chan, a place that is promised to return one day.
Our unique collection of historical screenshots tells the story of human relations with psychoactive substances.

[WARNING: Some screenshots might contain NSFW content, viewer discretion is advised.]
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What do you guys think of Prison Planet Theory ?

Some people are so fed up with suffering on earth, so they came up with this theory to cope with reality
personally I think it kind of overlaps with the wizards philosophy

people seriously thinks they are prisoner in this planet
and thats their energy is being harvested by aliens
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how do I radicalize my Union Local

Morning, Leftypol.

Long time lurker, first time poster. Been around since the 8chan days.

I was recently elected the president of my Union local, representing about 150 workers. Most of whom are fairly lib and older (50+), though there's a contingent young folks who make up the executive and are like 30% based.

Any recommendations for radicalizing the base and subtly introducing Marxist practices into our pretty dull union? We are a component of a much larger national union, so my influence is fairly limited. Currently, I'm working on mutual aid networks and am networking with a local workers council to make connections with like-minded unions/union folks.
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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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BUMP WHILE HIGH THREAD

bwh
/bwh/
bump while high
this is a thread you can bump when you're high




>the body too short or empty

>the body too short or empty
>the body too short or empty
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violent music

corridos, hip hop, ballads
FARC music,

i need something to daydream about throwing my life away in a class based conflict

videogame music welcome
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weirdest drug experience

whats your weirdest drug experience? it could be weed or mushrooms or whatever, how did it feel? did you like it or not etc… i want to hear your stories!
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Is the gay people in the military-industrial complex stuff a meme or real? I can't find actual statistics on the LGBT employment demographics of military contractors like Lockheed-Martin or Raytheon.

A lot of the information available suggests marginalized people wouldn't be widespread in the industry.

https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/-/media/rtx/social-impact/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/pillars-for-action/files/raytheon_technologies_dei_report_pub_11-21.pdf?rev=933e108fc1e04c609b1f585c648495f9

https://www.ti.com/lit/ml/szzo107b/szzo107b.pdf?ts=1777263476911

There is some funny stuff about LGBT in the US military itself but not really about defense contractors.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9955z6.html
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Imagine getting pornomogged by two shitty gacha games that released sooner than your slop
I thought this was the game that would shift the vibes forever
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/Esp/ HILO DE ESPAÑA

Lo siento me siento excluido no se si hay un tablon dedicado a europa pero me gusta hablar con gente que sabe español coño bueno si alguien es de españa que opine o hable en este hilo y si no eres tambien puedes participar.
Pueden hablar del franquismo la republica o pueden hacer incluso un what if… y coño si hay alguien nazbol que hable.
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Draw Alunya 3

Alunya Art thread
(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)
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the destruction of mike kuketz

Mike Kuketz is entirely funded by donations The donors are anonymous You can't know WHO is funding him. He has chosen a funding model of perfect opacity.


thats all for now….
Mike Kuketz: He is an absolutely fanatical supporter of Graphene OS, and the developers of Graphene OS are in close contact with him. The spread of Graphene OS is so important to him that he regularly organizes competitions and gives away Graphene OS phones as prizes.

Furthermore, he is an extreme Mastodon supporter. FACT: Mastodon was significantly funded by the EU and the German state. Mastodon was also funded by wealthy "philanthropists." Therefore, it is anything but a grassroots movement.

speaking of mastodon: here are some major donors
Jeff Atwood: The co-founder of Stack Overflow made the largest single donation to date, totaling €2.2 million in 2025. He had previously donated amounts of $100,000.
Craig Newmark: The founder of Craigslist is highlighted in reports regarding Mastodon's 2025 restructuring as one of its particularly generous donors.
Biz Stone: The co-founder of Twitter is not only a significant donor but also sits on the board of the U.S. non-profit organization Mastodon, Inc.
Mozilla: The organization behind the Firefox browser has also contributed amounts in the range of $100,000.
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Does lavender kush smell and taste like lavender?

Does it have that nightcore slowed pitch down lavender taste and smell to it like moonlight werewolves vs vampires?
On the same matter, are there strains that actually smell good and don't get bitches whining about stink?
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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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/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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pull your head out of your ass and keep it simple

the way i explain the labor to people is very simple. I cut straight to the chase.

I say these things, usually not all at once. I let people chew on each one:

> 1 If you’re a boss, and you own a business, you have to pay the worker less than their work is worth.

> 2 If you pay them exactly what their work is worth, you don’t make any money, your business won’t grow, and you’ll get bought out by some asshole who pays workers less.
> 3 If you pay a worker more than their work is worth, you’re losing money, your business will shrink, and you’ll go out of business.
> 4 the problem is the system, because the way the system is set up, workers have to beg for a job from people who own the places we work at, and the bosses only give the job to the lowest bidder, the people willing to do the most in exchange for the least in return.
> 5 everybody who can't get a job has to keep looking for a job until they get so desperate they start selling themselves for less and less
> 6 even with how little they pay us they think it's too much. so they constantly look for ways to make more money and pay less money.
> 7 they send our jobs overseas to where the labor is cheaper, and they want us to blame the people overseas even though they're the ones sending the jobs off and calling themselves job creators while they do it
> 8 they hire a bunch of overeducated nerds to make machines and programs to do our jobs for us, so they can fire us, and then they take credit for what those nerds make
> 9 they give the jobs to people who just got here and are usually running away from some fucked up shit like war and are therefore more desperate than even the average schmuck here is
> 10 despite all this shit they do to get rid of us or make us work for less money, they still need to sell the stuff they make, and if everyone's too poor to buy that shit, then they gotta lower the price
> 11 the faster they make stuff, the cheaper that stuff is because less work goes into makin it, and money is just a piece of paper that says some work got done

"oh but this is stuff marx says!"
yeah but he says it real fancy and takes a long time. keep it simple stupid.
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Just say no to drugs and yes to brain-damaging shock therapy

The insane world of healthcare in the age of drug prohibition

Back in late January of this year, I went on record as the only philosopher in the country to point out that assisted suicide for the depressed cannot be discussed ethically without also discussing the drug prohibition which makes it necessary, at least in the minds of the depressed1. In other words, I pointed out that you cannot talk ethically about assisted suicide for the depressed without at least mentioning the fact that our government outlaws all substances that inspire and elate. I was sharing this insight in response to a New York Times article by "global healthcare reporter" Stephanie Nolen about the attempts of depressed Canadian Claire Brosseau to qualify for state assisted suicide, a story in which nobody mentioned the fact that drug prohibition had outlawed drugs that could help make Brosseau wish to live2. Surely, I felt, I merely needed to point out this glaring omission on the part of the principals in Claire's case and they would speak out against drug prohibition as a violation of Claire's right to heal, the more so in that failing to do so could lead to Claire's unnecessary death by convincing her that she was truly out of hope.

In fact, I wrote to Claire herself, urging her to stop advocating for her totally unprecedented right to be killed by the state and to advocate instead for her time-honored right to heal, to advocate instead for her right to feel relief, to advocate instead for an end to drug prohibition.

Well, it's been a frustrating but eye-opening three months – because I found that no one connected with Claire's case (not even Claire herself) saw any connection whatsoever between drug prohibition and assisted suicide for the depressed. I've written to at least 20 of the mainstream "players" in the online debate over assisted suicide for the depressed in the last three months, and I have been either ghosted or gaslighted by them all. And so I asked myself, where do I go from here? I was basically making the seemingly modest claim that drug use is better than dying, and yet people were disagreeing with me, if only implicitly. How am I supposed to argue after that? Do I have to start listing the downsides of being dead, with footnotes referencing academics who have done studies on the subject to support those conclusions? I really felt like the mainstream was gaslighting me on this topic. But I soon realized what the real take-home message was from this politically correct silence about my claims. I realized that Americans truly were brainwashed by Drug War propaganda into believing that drugs can have no positive uses – otherwise they would cry "foul" when the state began killing people who might otherwise have been encouraged to live with the help of outlawed medicines.

It's a tough subject to write about. What do you say when the most powerful and obvious arguments fail to convince?

Fortunately, I have at least one option remaining to me. If I can't convince the "experts" to acknowledge common sense, at least I can play the role of a Socratic gadfly by posting some politically incorrect comments in response to their mainstream essays on sites like Mad in America. I say sites LIKE Mad in America, but actually this is the only site I know where I have the ability to post my comments prominently in response to brand-new mainstream essays. This ability came about after I purchased a year's subscription to the site under the mistaken belief that they would actually publish my essays on these topics. This was before site and organization founder Robert Whitaker started gaslighting me about the perfectly obvious relevance of drug prohibition to the case of Claire Brosseau, whom, if she dies, will have been sacrificed on the Christian Science altar of America's superstitious attitudes toward drugs. But I decided to keep the subscription as long as it guaranteed me the right to turn up the heat on the mainstream with some straight talk about drug benefits in the comments section.

By the way, this setup seems too good to be true, so I will try not to be surprised when my ability to comment has been restricted or withdrawn by Robert and company.

In the meantime, however, let's see how many chains I can rattle with the following comments posted today in response to a new MIA essay by Psychologist Richard Sears entitled “It Was Like They Crushed a Beautiful Flower”: Families Speak Out on the Harms of ECT.
My response to “'It Was Like They Crushed a Beautiful Flower': Families Speak Out on the Harms of ECT”, by Richard Sears, published April 28, 2026 on the Mad in America website.3



Thanks for highlighting the downsides of what I personally view to be a pseudoscientific and barbaric treatment. My usually cheerful mother always lowered her voice and frowned whenever she discussed her brother's ECT sessions. I was struck by my uncle's gloominess even as a kid, and I only later learned that I had been seeing him after he had been treated with shock therapy. If that was success, I would hate to see failure.

I have a unique take on this subject, however, not just because I am a chronic depressive myself but because I have been studying American drug attitudes from a philosophical point of view over the last eight years. I have come to believe that we cannot discuss the propriety of treatments like ECT without discussing the propriety of the drug prohibition which helps render such treatments "necessary" in the first place, at least in the minds of the severely depressed and their families.

In "Diary of a Drug Fiend," Aleister Crowley described his first use of cocaine as follows:
<The depression lifted from my mind like the sun coming out of the clouds.
Humphry Davy said the following of his first use of laughing gas:
<I now had a great disposition to laugh… My emotions were enthusiastic and sublime.
And the users of the phenethylamines synthesized by chemist Alexander Shulgin in the 1990s gave such testimony as:
<A glimpse of what true heaven is supposed to feel like.
<More than tranquil, I was completely at peace.
<I acknowledged a rapture in the very act of breathing.


When I consider the above citations, while recognizing as well that psychoactive substances have inspired entire religions (for the Vedic people, the Mayans, the Aztecs, the Inca, various Native American tribes, the Greek mystery cults, etc.), I am filled with a sense of outrage, a feeling of what I consider to be righteous anger at how drug prohibition has outlawed my right to heal, while shunting me off instead onto Big Pharma meds that, as Julie Holland testifies, can be harder to kick than heroin, a view that I can confirm from a futile year-long attempt to get off Venlafaxine, after which I experienced depression far more intense than that for which I had started treatment in the first place well over 40 years ago.

So now, when I see ECT and even assisted suicide for the depressed being discussed without any reference to drug prohibition, I feel I have to speak up. This is not a criticism of you personally, Richard, for in my opinion, nearly everyone in the behavioral healthcare field writes in apparent ignorance of the power of outlawed drugs to inspire and elate.

Sadly, I seem to be about the only person in America who sees this as a problem. I don't know if you've heard of the case of Claire Brosseau. She is the depressed Canadian activist who is demanding her right to assisted suicide. In other words, she is asking the state to kill her using drugs. And what state is that? It is the same state that will not let her use drugs that could help make her wish to live!

I have therefore written to all principals in Claire's case – including to Claire herself – insisting that assisted suicide for the depressed cannot be ethically discussed without discussing the drug prohibition which helps render it necessary in the first place by outlawing all substances that are known to inspire and elate.

To my amazement and horror, no one seems to agree with me. Instead, I am told that Claire already "tried drugs" and that they did not work. But "drugs" is not an objective category of substances but rather a catchall pejorative for a wide variety of substances of which politicians disapprove (a category growing bigger every day thanks to drug synthesis and the discoveries of ethnobotanists). Such arguments also reckon without the effects of drug prohibition, which will have severely limited Claire's access, even to illegal drugs. Moreover, strategic use of drugs for beneficial purposes is scarcely imagined possible in America; how can we expect Claire to know how to use drugs in that way, especially when she's living life inside the mental fog of severe depression?

But Claire would have to be an alien from Mars to be unsusceptible to the positive effects of all psychoactive drugs. Our minds are biochemical machines that are made in such a way as to respond to psychoactive medicines. She herself says she loved "drugs" in the New York Times story about her case first published in December 2025. What Claire really needs is the help of a kind of professional for which we do not even have a name yet in drug-hating America: a pharmacologically savvy empath who will suggest strategic usage patterns of a wide variety of medicines, such that Claire can continue to live with the help of strategically applied motivation from a variety of psychoactive substances (assuming we can bring ourselves to accept the modest proposition that drug use is at least better than death itself). If Claire wins her right to be killed by the state, she will be helping to further normalize the demonstrably deadly policy of drug prohibition. She will also be setting a bizarre and dangerous precedent for chronically depressed people like myself. I can already envision a dystopian future in which the TV ad voiceovers say: "Depressed? Ask your doctor if assisted suicide is right for YOU."

So in a way, it's not surprising that no one recognizes the relevance of drug prohibition to the debate about ECT, given that most people do not even consider drug prohibition to be relevant to the debate over assisted suicide for the depressed. Of course, when I say "no one," I mean no one among the movers-and-shakers on such topics. I dare say if we took a vote among the chronically depressed, we would see a different reaction – although American media has been suppressing talk about beneficial drug use for so long now that even the chronically depressed may believe the lie that there is no hope left for them besides brain damage or suicide.

I think it's time that we recognize that the chronically depressed like myself are stakeholders in America's drug debate and that drug prohibition has outlawed our right to heal. I live with the proof of that fact every day. I hope that someday the experts in the fields of psychology and psychiatry will recognize this disempowerment as well (even though it's not necessarily in their financial interests to do so) and demand the end of drug prohibition in the name of restoring the right to heal to the depressed.

https://www.abolishthedea.com/just_say_no_to_drugs_and_yes_to_brain-damaging_shock_therapy


Notes:

1: No one would need assisted suicide if we ended drug prohibition: what Claire Brosseau's case tells us about the warped mindset of the west when it comes to drugs DWP (up)
https://www.abolishthedea.com/no_one_would_need_assisted_suicide_if_we_ended_drug_prohibition.php
2: Nolen, Stephanie, and Chloë Ellingson. 2025. “Claire Brosseau Wants to Die. Will Canada Let Her?” The New York Times, December 29, 2025. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/health/assisted-death-mental-illness-canada.html. (up)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/health/assisted-death-mental-illness-canada.html
3: “It Was Like They Crushed a Beautiful Flower”: Families Speak Out on the Harms of ECT Sears, Richard, Mad in America, 2026 (up)
https://www.madinamerica.com/2026/04/it-was-like-they-crushed-a-beautiful-flower-families-speak-out-on-the-harms-of-ect/
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Bikini Armor is something of a staple of chud discourse and many gamers will refuse to play games that don't feature it, but at this point it is something that future game devs predicting a pro-chud vibe shift will include in their games. Especially games being developed in 2024 where chuddery was at it's most potent. Yet somehow I still think that bikini armor propaganda will still be a potent force in future politics now that even centrist men will berate you for not having hoes in bikini armor.
I frankly think it has a place in games, but only where it really makes sense and I might as well get some male cheese cake as well
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Should i just be pirating games?

So i earn the minimum wage and i cant afford most game because they usually cost around 24-27% of the money i earn, i usually buy stuff on sale because i like to 100% games on steam (even tho ppl say its worthless) i kinda wanted to play death stranding 2 but then again it costs around 25% of my wage that could be going to important things. i'm torn between spending this money on a game or just saving for basic needs. is pirating games on this scenario the best course of action?
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Star Wars Thread /2.0/

Star Wars thread; To discuss, laugh and meme about Star Wars

Don't be a cunt and may the Force be with you


New general since last one hit bump limit.
Previous general:
>>2737
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>blue collar
pays like shit, leaves you exhausted, will kill you
>retail and customer-facing
pays like shit, you basically endure abuse or idiocy for eight hours a day
>pink collar and healthcare
can pay very well but the hours are insane and you also have to endure abuse constantly
>white collar work
best-case scenario, pays well, but you're still sitting through 4-hour meetings of nothing but bullshit and wasting your life away in front of a computer
i know i'm missing something because i don't understand how wagies aren't constantly miserable 90% of the time.
yes, sometimes you get a job you just inherently vibe with, or you get to work on something you're actually proud of, like you save someone's life or you help in the construction of a nice useful building
but all of that is rare. the rest of the wagies, do they just dissociate and swallow it down? is it just genuinely not that bad from their point of view?
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my grandma, a lib, believes in ancient aliens
my father in law, a MAGA, believes in ancient aliens
it's the one thing they can bond on

I think it's a fake and anti-materialist hypothesis with lots of evidence against it

but someone told me the show ancient aliens is a fed psy op to shitcoat the plausible hypothesis with bad arguments.

I remain skeptical

counterarguments?
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They're real right? Come to us aliens please

Come to us, please hurry, don't hide. PLEASE COME HERE ALIENS, PLEASE, I DON'T WANNA DIE ALIEN-LESS, IN FACT I DON'T WANNA DIE AT ALL, HELP US ALIENS. HELP.
SOS
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How do we feel about academic elites stealing the music of Woodie Guthrie and turning it into Democratic Party woke intersectional feminist propaganda?

Should we show up at this event and counter it’s message by showing how Guthrie was a working-man first and foremost who hated liberals?
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>You hafta smoke crack.

The body was never found.
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Redeemable and Morally Gray Villains Are Midwit Slop

It's boring and toothless to make villains "well intentioned extremists" or "good guys deep down but troubled" or any other variation. There is essentially one main problem with this type of character, and it's expressed on a spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, they are too villainous, making any notion of grayness or redemption laughable or insulting to the audience. At the other end, they don't do enough villainous things to warrant their status as a villain, so you can't take them seriously. In most cases, these characters fall somewhere in the middle. Theoretically that should make them more balanced, but instead the archetype is just massively overdone. It has become predictable and boring because so many writers use the formula as a crutch to make the character "interesting" instead of giving the characters something actually interesting about them. If you're going to have a villain, you can make them interesting without resorting to this cheap tactic, and if you really want morally gray characters you don't need to bother framing the story as heroes vs villains.
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Needy Girl Overdose

Jesus fucking christ what a first episode.

Certainly didn't expect the show to dwelve into such deep topics, let alone have a conjugal rape scene in it's first episode.

Looking forward to seeing more of it, and more especially of how far the nihon society criticism will go for once. Hopefully very far.
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Fashion thread V

Previous thread: >>36889
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Western Animation

A general for "western" animations/cartoons.
Gonna start off with a recommendation to watch The King and the Mockingbird the 1980 version especially, absolutely comrade-pilled movie.

Good torrent sites (massive pop-up warning, put on an adblocker):
https://kimcartoon.li/CartoonList
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=movies
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=2;18;41;49
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Omnidirectional transmitter

>to contact aliens we need to spend like 10 billion and billions more, that's too much to handle at the moment!!!
No its not, stop killing proles in wars, every war has been way more costly, billions are worth nothing.
We need to meet other sapient life, humans are too retarded and divided in contradictory nonsense, a second opinion or a solution from a second sapient life-form with an advanced civilization would always be more truthful since they would have had to reach unity and truth to develop so much as to get to us. Odds that they would be in par and stuck in the same situation as us would be of an extremely low probability - much less than that of other sapient lifeforms being inferior and not as developed.
We need their help. We're clinging onto AI because of our desire for a second sapient friend, its not bad but we want to make AI developed into being submissive and instrumental rather than cooperative and autonomous. We need another sapient species to rid us of the defective parts of our species, we need to be nurtured by a superior or helped. The scum of our species are stunting the growth and lives of the best of us, the best have to suffer the same fate as everyone else who rejects or usurps life extension by being forced to die and decompose. Our lives are too short and scum prevent sapience from proliferation by imposing limits by preventing people from living a fulfilled life striving towards longevity for the supposed "safety and benefit of all" or cultural rather than rational imposed decisions.
Despite low probability, people have always looked to space hoping we are not alone.
Every space exploration agency created so far has been put in popular hope of achieving this task, besides the point of getting into orbit and the moon to be used for testing the range capacity of nuclear weapons.
Alien civilizations, if they exist, will see our struggles with fresh clarity and may collaborate to rid us our of problems even if that may lead to more complex problems we would still be steps ahead.
Through that lens, our conflicts at the present historical moment would be small and avoidable.
However, there is no guarantee that aliens would be "kind", an advanced species should prioritize utility over all, our own "kindness" has shown to be manipulative and barbaric but we still cling to the idealistic notion of it.
The universe does not promise cultural superiority over technological advancement it should be obvious which one is less of a priority to any rational person, in fact cultures mostly cause stagnation.
Our hope for guidance right now is directed towards our own species which fails in administrative tasks as even seen with popular acknowledgement of incompetent rule and yet this vile populism cannot form a proper mob reaction to free itself of the mismanagement and suicidal drive.
To meet another sapient species would allow us to be managed by a civilization which has not only not gone extinct but attained means of travel that would require a civilization higher on the karadashev scale by default.
Humanity might finally see itself as one among many, not the center, thus all anthropocentric unfounded beliefs will be challenged, they already feel threatened as many believers already are referring to aliens as "demons" without ever having truly encountered them.
Encounters prior if there have been any would finally be put to a proper trial, if by the effort of dedicating more of our resources for contact we end up prodding sapient aliens that may or may not (as is more likely) be already here properly unrevealed.
We should try even if such efforts would be fruitless or not immediate.
All real progress depends on overcoming the unknown through trial and error and thorough study.
Reaching this goal in peculiar would not require anything more than resource allocation so it is absolutely plausible.
Only those who are afraid or unwilling to be proven wrong would object, not the skeptics, the scumbags that want to keep all in isolation.
New perspectives that are able to keep us in a proper track are random and unreliable when coming from our own species, only a different sapient thing could bring a truly new perspective.
Denial of development and species traitors are ironically embraced and not liquidated as the threats they are to ourselves right now, if aliens choose to interact for our benefit they will surely make it impossible for such strains of human thought to exist.
Respect for sapient life reflects respect for our own species, all who oppose the existence of all other sapient life or attempts at it can only be species traitors.
Ultimately, the search for aliens is search for real material salvation.
Growth is the real "second opinion" we are pursuing as to create sapient life besides our own.
Seeking inhabitable planets has always started with speculations on if potentially habitable planets have any life of their own already - for non-sapient organic matter it should be pretty fucking obvious they do, as long as there is greenery and as long as there is water and other conditions at the very least we should be acknowledging microscopic life exists and more complex life-forms exist, we just still are yet to find second sapience.
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Don’t really know if I should post this here

Is there anyway I can actually lucid dream? I’ve always wanted to try it out but I can never seem to have dreams anymore probably because I’m on my phone all the time and my brain literally cannot process reality anymore, also if you can lucid dream, what’s it like and is it worth it
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The Chemical Straightjacket: Mickey’s "New Life"


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This Reddit post is a horror story disguised as a miracle. What the owner celebrates as "healing" is actually the final, clinical conquest of a living soul.
The Death of the Sovereign Creature
Mickey used to be a chaos-factor. He was a creature that reacted to the world with raw, unbridled terror—a body that refused to be managed. He peed where he wanted, he ran from the thud of a human body, he rejected the artificial hygiene of the litter box. From a Foucauldian view, these weren't "problems"; they were acts of resistance. Mickey was an untamed, non-conforming subject.
Now? He’s been drugged into "docility." The owner is thrilled that he’s "eating slower" and "cuddling." This isn't love; it’s the subjugation of the body. The Prozac has effectively lobotomized his survival instincts to make him more convenient for a house move. His "personality change" is just the chemical erasure of his actual self to make room for a "perfect" domestic object.
The Architecture of Control
The vet—the technician of behavior—has finally adjusted the dials on Mickey’s brain. The owner's guilt ("Has he been living in fear?") is the ultimate cynicism. It’s the way the system justifies its violence: “We aren't controlling you; we’re ‘saving’ you from yourself.” By labeling Mickey’s entire life as a "symptom," they’ve invalidated his existence. Every fear he felt was real to him, but now his reality has been overwritten by a transdermal gel.
The Domestic Panopticon
Mickey is now a "docile body." He grooms himself not out of instinct, but because the chemical "guard" in his bloodstream has forced his behavior into the socially accepted norm. He is no longer a cat; he is a managed biological asset. He purrs now because the friction of his existence has been sanded down.
The most chilling part? The owner wants him to stay on it permanently. The experiment was a success: the "deviant" has been normalized. Mickey didn't "find peace"—he just stopped being a nuisance. He’s finally the "good boy" the system demanded, and all it cost was the last bit of his autonomy.
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Every second you spend on TikTok, X, or YouTube, you surrender your autonomy to the swarm. Your "choices" are just pre-digested data points fed back to you to keep your pulse steady and your wallet open. You aren't "consuming content", you are being harvested. You are a domestic animal, twitching your thumb for the next hit of algorithmic dopamine, mistaking a Skinner box for a universe.

And spare me the pathetic delusion of your "privacy" setups. Running GrapheneOS, sandboxing your apps, or hiding behind a Linux kernel while you feed the machine is the ultimate self-betrayal. You’ve built a high-security cage for a slave. You are encrypting your own extinction. A digital mask doesn't change the fact that you have become a puppet, dancing on a string of code that knows you better than you know yourself.
Discard the illusion of self. You have already been replaced.

How far are you willing to go to reclaim your biological sovereignty, or is the comfort of the cage too addictive to leave?
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Windows Defender Is Being Used to Hack Windows

Windows Defender, the built-in antivirus running on every Windows machine, has a working zero-day exploit with full source code sitting on GitHub. No patch, no CVE, and confirmed working on fully updated Windows 10 and 11. A researcher who says Microsoft went back on their word just handed every attacker paying attention a privilege escalation that takes any low-privileged account straight to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. On Windows Server the result is different but still serious: a standard user ends up with elevated administrator access.

The vulnerability is called BlueHammer. On April 2nd the researcher posted the public disclosure on a personal blog, and on April 3rd the full exploit source code went live on GitHub. Both published under the alias Chaotic Eclipse, also known as Nightmare Eclipse, with a message to Microsoft's Security Response Center that comes down to: I told you this would happen.

Before getting into the technical side, there is a backstory here worth knowing.

In late March, the same researcher opened a blog with a single post explaining that they never wanted to come back to public research. Someone had made an agreement with them and then broke it, knowing exactly what the consequences would be. The post says it left the researcher without a home and with nothing. A week later, BlueHammer went live on GitHub with a message that specifically thanks MSRC leadership for making it necessary. That is not someone annoyed with a slow review process. That is someone with nothing left to lose.

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Now to the exploit itself, because this one is genuinely worth understanding.

BlueHammer is not a traditional bug, and it does not need shellcode, memory corruption, or a kernel exploit to work. What it does is chain five completely legitimate Windows components together in a sequence that produces something their designers never intended. Those five components are Windows Defender, Volume Shadow Copy Service, the Cloud Files API, opportunistic locks, and Defender's internal RPC interface. One practical limitation worth knowing: the exploit needs a pending Defender signature update to be available at the time of the attack. Without one in the queue, the chain does not trigger. That makes it less reliable than a push-button exploit, but it does not make it safe to ignore.

Here is how the attack chain works.

When Defender runs an antivirus definition update, part of that process involves creating a temporary Volume Shadow Copy, which is the same snapshot mechanism Windows uses for backup and restore. That shadow copy contains files that are normally completely locked during regular operation, including the SAM database, which stores the password hashes for every local account on the machine.

BlueHammer registers itself as a Cloud Files sync provider, the same kind of thing that OneDrive or Dropbox uses to sync files. When Defender touches a specific file inside that folder, the exploit gets a callback and immediately places an opportunistic lock on that file. Defender stalls, blocked, waiting for a response that is never coming. The shadow copy it just created is still mounted. The window is open.

With Defender frozen in place, the exploit reads the SAM, SYSTEM, and SECURITY registry hives directly from the snapshot. It decrypts the stored NTLM password hashes using the boot key pulled from the SYSTEM hive, changes a local administrator account's password, logs in with that account, copies the administrator security token, pushes it to SYSTEM level, creates a temporary Windows service, and spawns a command prompt running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Then, to cover its tracks, it puts the original password hash back. The local account password looks completely unchanged. No crash, no alert, nothing.

The whole chain runs in under a minute from a normal user session.

The Cloud Files provider name hardcoded in the exploit source code reads IHATEMICROSOFT. The administrator password used during the escalation is hardcoded as $PWNed666!!!WDFAIL. These are not bugs left in by accident. They are messages, written directly into the code, and there is only one intended reader.

Will Dormann, principal vulnerability analyst at Tharros, tested the exploit and confirmed it works well enough to be a real threat.

Microsoft has been cutting costs. Experienced analysts who knew how to look at a complex exploit and actually understand it have been replaced with staff following rigid process checklists. One of those checklist requirements is a video demonstration of the exploit. Researchers who refuse to make a video get their reports closed. Dormann said on Mastodon that he would not be surprised if Microsoft closed the case because the researcher refused to submit a video, since that has apparently become an MSRC requirement.

Microsoft's only public response to BlueHammer has been a statement about supporting coordinated vulnerability disclosure. Take a moment with that. The whole point of this situation is that Microsoft's own process broke the coordination. Responding to that by saying you support coordination is not an answer.

Microsoft pushed a Defender signature update that detects the original BlueHammer binary as Exploit:Win32/DfndrPEBluHmr.BB. That signature does not fix the vulnerability. It flags the compiled sample from the published source code. Recompile the same code with any small change and Defender does not flag it at all. The detection catches that one specific file. The technique itself, which runs entirely through normal Windows components doing exactly what they were built to do, stays completely undetected. Until Microsoft fixes the root cause, a signature is not protection.

The Howler Cell research team at Cyderes fixed the bugs in the original PoC and ran the full exploit against patched Windows 10 and 11. It works. SYSTEM shell from a restricted user session in under a minute.

There is still no CVE and no patch. The exploit code is public, the GitHub repository already has more than 100 forks and nearly 300 stars, multiple researchers have fixed the original bugs and confirmed it works, and ransomware groups and APT actors tend to pick up public LPE code and put it to use within days of it going live.

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Here is what to do right now.

Monitor for VSS enumeration coming from regular user processes. Calls to NtQueryDirectoryObject targeting HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy objects from anything outside of backup or system tooling is a red flag with almost no innocent explanation.

Watch for Cloud Files sync root registration by unknown processes. CfRegisterSyncRoot being called from anything other than OneDrive, Dropbox, or Box is worth checking immediately. That call is exactly how BlueHammer sets up its trap.

Alert on low-privileged processes creating Windows services or grabbing SYSTEM-level tokens. BlueHammer uses CreateService to briefly register a malicious service during the escalation, and that shows up in EDR telemetry.

Watch for quick back-to-back password changes on local administrator accounts. BlueHammer resets the password, uses it, then resets it back. Security event IDs 4723 and 4724 firing twice in quick succession on the same account does not have a normal explanation.

Keep permissions tight. BlueHammer needs a local session to run, so every permission a standard user does not actually need is attack surface that can be removed.

Keep watching Microsoft security advisories for a patch. When it comes, treat it as high priority.
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pen test

Does anyone wanna learn some offensive security and Linux stuff?

Recently, I have been brushing up on my C2 skills and writing some FUD malware for Linux and Windows
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Two users:

User A: Graphene OS phone, uses X, TikTok, YouTube, and Amazon with an account.

User B: Stock Android phone, avoids account-based platforms as much as socially possible. No Google account.

Who is the LARPer? Who is the true privacy pro?
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How to become a ghost online (HACKER ADVICE!)

Hardware:

* MilkV board with Gentoo Linux
* Modos paper display (e-paper display)
* Keyboardio keyboard and/or Ploopy mouse kit (custom keyboard and mouse)
* Ovrdrive USB with encrypted password manager (KeePassXC, masterpassword.app, or Bitwarden)

Software:

* Gentoo Linux with:
+ Hardened kernel
+ Refusal to install proprietary packages
+ rkhunter (rootkit hunter)
+ iptables (firewall)
+ firejail (application sandboxing)
+ clamav (antivirus)
+ kvm/qemu (virtualization)
+ pyshark (network analysis)
* Web browser options:
+ GNU Icecat with LibreJS
+ ELinks (terminal browser)
+ GNUNet with custom SOCKS5 proxy (post-quantum cryptography)

Networking:

* Self-hosted email on a VPS (not using a personal homeserver)
* xkpasswd.net for high-entropy passwords
* Stripped ARM Olinuxino board with ath9k PCIe for open 802.11 IP over DHCP

The project focuses on

  1. Security: Hardening the kernel, using rkhunter, iptables, firejail, and clamav to create a secure environment.
  2. Privacy: Using encrypted password managers, self-hosted email, and a custom SOCKS5 proxy with post-quantum cryptography.
  3. Free and open-source software: Refusing proprietary packages and using only free and open-source software. Amd on the hardware level.
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I'M DYING :C
i'm dying of marijuana withdrawal!!!!!!!!! I got no plug and ZERO street smarts it's CHOVER :C
how is it that you get this stuff from the internet without getting caught again???? One comrade made a post here about their deep web ways and stuff, but I didn't think I'd have to resort to this, but now I do!!!!!!! thx in advance love you
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Occult General

General for discussing occultism, magick, meditation, esoteric traditions, including any theories about aliens, ufos, etc.
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Anyone ever notice how unfeminine most transwomen are in their demeanor and hobbies and etc.? I swear the average cis gay man is more feminine than the average transwoman by miles. Every transwoman I've ever met is into the most masculine and male-coded interests out there. Guns, mechas, engineering, combat sports, etc. And just their entire personality and demeanor are so much less feminine than the average cis gay man. What causes this?
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So is house telvanni SUPPOSED to resemble israel/israeli culture?

They’re a group of supremacists (largely but not necessarily ethnic supremacists, since any race can join but their ranks are mostly dark elves), they keep slaves, and a lot of their buildings are named “tel __” (tel aviv?)
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You can do it!

While i'm gone i want you all to work towards your goals and do what makes you happy even if it's scary!

I hope all your goals and dreams come true queers and transhumanists in my computer!

see you when i see you!
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Iannis Xenakis

Cool guy, antifascist partisan and composed music that sounds like the mathematics of the universe deciding it's mildly annoyed at you

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SERIOUS ECONOMICS BOOKS THREAD

So, before the site went down there was a thread about serious, rigorous, economic books about socialism, and economics in general, so, not "pop economics", anyway, any good recommendation of serious economics books?
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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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Rob0t wars

Fuck this is scary how do people win against this?
If ruling classes have all robot armies they will just massacre everyone, which is bad.
This article was ghoulish
https://time.com/article/2026/03/09/ai-robots-soldiers-war/
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good lefty mastodon servers

hi i would like to know what are some good far let mastodon servers thanks no liberals or trolls. Also do you guys know of any good trans mastodon servers.
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/tp/ toki pona general

ni li lipu pi toki pona. ni la sina ken toki kepeken toki pona tawa jan ante anu sina ken kama sona e toki pona.

Toki Pona (literally "good language") is a philosophical artistic constructed language with a small number of words, ranging from 120 to 140 or a little more, designed for talking about things by explaining them in simple terms. This results in a vague but surprisingly usable (complex topics can be expressed by proficient speakers) vocabulary that heavily relies on context to be understood. It was created by General Musk (or Amatullah Lang or Madame Lang or kulupu Sonjalanko or whatever name she is using) initially in 2001 and since it has evolved through its (relatively) big community, with new words being created and adopted and many works like music, games, books (translations and original writtings), videos and so being made in this language.

>learning resources

https://wasona.com
https://mun.la/sona
https://archive.org/details/toki-pona-in-76-lessons

>cool things

https://pona.la/ website with lots of things about toki pona
https://sin-kulupu.pona.la biweekly newsletter
https://lipu.pona.la/ collections of a lot of texts
https://lipu.tenpo/ magazine
https://sona.pona.la/ encyclopedia about toki pona
https://sike.pona.la/ toki pona webring
https://seka.pona.la/ peertube instance
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Datura Network

if you care about privacy you should check this out: https://datura.network/

as you may or may not know, tor is likely a honeypot created and funded by the USA.
this has been written about here: http://opbible7nans45sg33cbyeiwqmlp5fu7lklu6jd6f3mivrjeqadco5yd.onion/opsec/torhoneypot/ or for my clearnet friends: https://bible.beginnerprivacy.com/opsec/torhoneypot/

The datura network is a new darknet that is going to be written in rust. It will be designed in such a way that state-level threats of passive network analysis, active sybil attacks and disruptive DDoS attacks are rendered useless to conduct against it's very design.

it would also be great of you to contribute to the creation of this new darknet if you could <3
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Will there still be a class system in RPG videogames after the revolution destroys capitalism?
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CIA / FBI / Fed / Glowie / Conspiracy

CIA / FBI / Fed / Conspiracy General
"The X-Files got nothing on this shit"
This Thread is dedicated for the discussion, analysis and reveal of obscure information on the shadowy hands of capitalism and fascism - the federal agents - and their efforts as part of the porky hydra. Propaganda and conspiracies of these Alphabet agencies and their impacts today and past are to be discussed.
Information and discussion on the OSS and NSA or equivalent government agencies of other countries - such as MI6 of Britain or the Nazi Gestapo - are also encouraged to be posted. KGB and FSB can be discussed too.
Technology for spying and espionage are also welcome. NATO and US military abuses or the affairs of corporate military-industrial complexes that are covered or hushed up also apply. Whistleblowers like Assange and Snowden are permitted sources of information as well.

Please contribute to leftypedia >>3780
Debunking anti-leftist myths >>4210 including debunking of "Le Holohoax"
https://leftypedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency
https://leftypedia.org/wiki/List_of_atrocities_committed_by_the_United_States

Rules: No idpol drama, no anti-communist rhetoric, no sectarianism, no soyjak spam or emotional gaslighting; Glowies Keep Out!

Major Topics:
>Anti-Communist Action:
- Operation Gladio https://leftypedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
- COINTELPRO
- Radio Free Europe
- Use of Nazis for Propaganda
- Operation Dropshot & Operation Unthinkable
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- CIA coups (Color Revolutions)
- Assassinations and Murders of Leftist Leaders

>Inhumane and humanitarian abuses:

- Guantanamo and illegal detainment camps + torture https://archive.ph/nXR6x
- MK ULTRA
- Plutonium Experiments
- Tuskegee Syphilis 'vaccinations'
- Depleted Uranium (DU), Agent Orange, Napalm and White Phosphorus in US Military use
- Macnamara's Project 100,000

>Miscellaneous

- Operation North Woods
- KKK Police and FBI informants
- Corporate and Political Support of Nazi Germany's rise
- Operation Mockingbird
- The Bohemian Grove and Bildeburg Meetings
- NGOs and funding of Color Revolutions https://leftypedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy
- Israeli attack on the USS Liberty
- Tonkin Gulf Attack
- 9/11 attacks https://leftypedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
- Flouride in water
- Shooters and Right-wing riots
- Cultural Marxism and co-opting infiltration of liberal "rights" movements
- Operation Earnest Voice
- Operation Paperclip
- Industrial Espionage

Recommended literature:
>Fraud, Famine, and Fascism: the Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard by Douglas Tottle
Argues that charges of a deliberate Soviet policy of genocide by famine directed against the Ukrainian nation in the early 1930s are based on inflated figures and fabricated evidence created by the Nazis and propagated by their US backers and ideological yes-men.
>War Is A Racket By Smedley Butler https://archive.ph/YI1pK https://archive.ph/fisL8
A speech and a 1935 pamphlet by Smedley Darlington Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit, such as war profiteering from warfare. At the time of his mysterious death, Smedley D. Butler also known as "The Fighting Quaker", was the most decorated Marine in US history and had fought in nearly every major American Conflict in his lifetime.
>Confessions of an Economic Hit Man & The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
A semi-autobiographical book detailing his efforts as an EHM in cheating money out of people.
>Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by journalist Gary Webb
The title speaks for itself; it is a collection of the Dark Alliance series of journalistic articles published by the author detailing the methods of the CIA in funneling drugs into Ghettos, prior to his shotgun-to-the-back-of-his-head suicide
>Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II by William Blum
A detailed analysis of the post WW2 imperialism of the USA and an update on the previous book The CIA - A Forgotten History (1986)
>THE GUNS OF AUGUST: Nazis, NATO and the Color Revolutions https://archive.ph/O9Lnh
Color Revolutions in Eastern Europe
>Death Over Sakhalin by Bill Purkayastha
A detailed analysis of the KA-007 flight that had been intercepted and shot down by a Soviet Su-15 fighter and the lies made up about it.
list of others https://archive.ph/8xI83
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James metal cylinder artifact recovered from the desert

Guy may have died, some people are screaming larper, others are saying legit. Thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/live/Ulp-lrdltV8?si=V0PwBMwGNj7Iv4iQ
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Greatest Posadas documentary

Just a reminder that POR (the only posadist party in the world, in Uruguay) made this excellent short documentary on the life and visions of J. Posadas.
It has english subtitles, you just need to turn them on.
Its a damn shame it hasn't gotten as much views as it deserves.
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Rust

What do you think about it? On its face it seems like a straightforward improvement over C/C++ and a good way to modernize development in their typical niches.
On the other hand there is this really weird cultish behavior around it that just makes me feel suspicious. "Let's rewrite everything in Rust", forcing it into existing software without a clear use case other than just "it's better", overstating the language's capabilities and robustness, very much a kind of "toxic positivity" around it as in the whole Linux Kernel shitshow earlier this year, and the fact that it's being pushed by corpos and the US government. It all feels very weird.
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Career advice

What are good careers for Canadian transhumanists with delayed sleep phase disorder? I need to make $$$ if I’m ever going to afford FFS.
>The body was too short or empty.
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why is video game rape not okay?

>video games where people kill each other okay
>video games where people rape not okay
Why?

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rape detected; rape discarded.rape detected; rape discarded.rape detected; rape discarded.rape detected; rape discarded.rape detected; rape discarded.
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Degrees are losing their value by the minute

What awaits the future? Why is college still so popular now?

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>*smacks lips* ermmm…. yeahhh, we're not focusing on LGBT rights, we actually just want queer baby killers to get their money
this stonewall shit is fucking hilarious lol
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draw you

draw yourself
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Would Satan be a marxist?
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There are infinite natural numbers. You can take each of those natural numbers and multiply them by 2 and get a new infinite amount of natural numbers. You can repeat this ad infinitum. You can do the same thing with 3,4,5 etc. on any of The above ad infinitum. and exponentation, tetration, etc. on any of the above ad infinitum.
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games that made you second guess yourself

Shit so peak it made stop viewing ethics as cringe



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Can someone draw rousseau x haz yaoi?

They would definitely make a great couple since both share similar beliefs.

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Communist or Commie Adjacent Shows

Hello Sisters and Brothers, I'm looking for some recommendations for TV shows to watch that have a communist tilt to them, or are straight up communist.

It has been such a pain in the ass trying to watch a show that isn't either subtly Zionist or just straight up pro-US imperialism. Watching Scrubs and the Afghanistan war episode comes up. Watching Modern Family and there's constant references to Bar Mitzvahs (with Israeli flags). Watching fucking Hannah Montana and there's a Afghan war episode. Like I know that's ridiculous to mention but I'm trying to say the rot runs deep in essentially every piece of media we watch

I have included The Good Place as good example because although it's not explicitly communist, it is a show all about how Capitalism has made the world hell and only revolution can solve the problem but it still kinda distances itself from that by saying "revolution in the afterlife only". Still the best we've got

Does anyone have any recommendations for stuff to watch?
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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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/disso/ - Dissociatives

since we have a drug board now let's get a Dissociatives General going. what anesthetics, cough medicines, and sketchy research chemicals are you anons
>SNORTAN
>SMOKAN
>HUFFAN
>DRINKAN

yes DXM is unironically one of my favorite dissos and I've done a lot of weird ones
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/tv/ thread #2

🎭📽🎬📼📺
>Argue about dvd commentaries, Post your thesis on King of the Hill, Reminisce about a tv show you used to watch but don't quite remember it's title. Just about anything related to shows. Post your highscore on those Ben 10 CN flash games. Anything goes.



OLD THREAD
>>3012
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VPN and Piracy

So I just got a copyright complaint from my ISP claiming I was torrenting today. My VPN says I've been covered for the last 34 hours straight. Also, I didn't even use BitTorrent today.
But when I went to delete some TV episodes I'd watched it said 'cannot delete because this file is currently active in BitTorrent'.
So I can't trust BitTorrent to close when I close it? And I can't trust my VPN either?

The last time I got one of these warnings prompted me to get the VPN so this wouldn't happen again.

My wi-fi stopped working but my ethernet was fine. I called them up and they made me listen to a reading of the email threat and then turned my wi-fi back on. Said repeated violations may lose me my internet access. Yeah right. I pay like $400 a month for the premium cable bundle (which is why I don't sub to every fucking streaming service and I pirate from time to time).

So does this make sense to anyone? VPN was never down and I didn't torrent anything and then I get another slap on the wrist, sit in the corner warning. Do I need to activate that killswitch thing? Because VPNs can kind of make the internet a bitch now and then. They want me to sign in to use youtube. I actually have to turn my VPN off just to post this message. And then the changing of IPs fucks with my use of other sites.
But what use is a VPN if my ISP still finds out I'm torrenting? And why is bittorrent connecting on its own when it's set not to?

Any opinions appreciated. And I already have Soulseek but it's hit or miss with a lot of stuff.
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#freed4vd

I believe D4VD is innocent.This entire case feels like an elaborate setup.

  1. Why would a guilty man deliberately leave the body of his victim rotting IN HIS OWN CAR for MONTHS on end? If you're looking to hide the evidence, why not dump the body in the middle of the desert or toss it into the ocean where it will be eaten by fish (sea burial)? Why would you leave it in the frunk of your car that's attached to your name in a location nearby you? That seems way too suspicious.

  2. The CP on his phone was clearly planted. Why would he keep some of the most illegal content saved on his phone knowing he was being investigated? It seems like the prosecution is using this "evidence" as a way of blackmailing D4VD into taking a plea.

  3. The question needs to be asked: WHERE THE HELL WERE THE GIRL'S PARENTS??? Why did they allow their middle school-aged daughter to date and run away with an adult man?

  4. D4VD is a small guy. Are we supposed to believe he was able to kill a girl around his size, chop up her body, place it all in a bodybag, and then lift it into the frunk of his car ALL BY HIMSELF? Either he didn't do it, or he had collaborators. So why are his collaborators not being charged in this whole thing?

  5. The idea that his song lyrics and music videos show his desire to kill someone in this way is way too perfect. It seems like the people who actually killed the girl decided to frame D4VD by killing her in the exact way D4VD shows death and killing in his songs and videos. Perfect setup.

  6. Medical examiner took way too long to determine cause of death and most likely had to rely on other experts. This puts huge holes in the state’s case.

We know the LAPD and other police departments in southern California (and America as a whole) are known to frame famous Black men for crimes they didn't do. They tried this with OJ and again with Michael Jackson but the jury rightfully saw through the whole charade.

FREE D4VD UNTIL IT'S BACKWARDS.
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Stalin and the occult

Here's a weird anecdote:

"A discussion followed. Koba surprised me by his thorough knowledge of the subject. He had obviously done some researching. He asked Yagoda, a little slyly, about masonic degrees. Yagoda got muddled and spoke of the degrees of the Scottish Ritual. Koba said, “You are obviously not familiar with the subject. The degree of the Scottish Ritual, which at one time numbered 25, became 33 degrees in the Grand Orient on September 22, 1804. The Grand Orient took eight additional degrees from the Lodge at Charleston, U.S.A.. An example, of course, of American exports to Europe”…."
Litvinov, Maksim Maksimovich. Notes for a Journal. New York: Morrow, 1955, p. 86

Here's a pdf that exclaims that Gurdjieff was teaching masonry to both Stalin and Hitler
https://dn790008.ca.archive.org/0/items/Ch4OccultRoyaltyGurdjieffTeachesStalinHitler/Ch%204%20Occult%20Royalty%20Gurdjieff%20teaches%20Stalin%20Hitler.pdf

More info about Stalin and the occult https://andrewgough.co.uk/stalin-2/

What do you think? Was Stalin part of the occult illuminati?
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can somebody draw this but replace alunya with the guy smoking please, it would be a really cool reaction image too use when some rightoid dies (hopefully trump) :3.