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Has anyone here ever played the British anti-extremism game?

I have and I sucks. If you didn't know the British government in response to all of the white nationalism growing in their country mad a computer game to encourage kids not to be Nazis, ill link it here https://www.shoutoutuk.org/pathways/ but the thing is that it backfired and Chuds started making rule 34 of the female antagonist, since it became a meme I wanted to play the game to see if it is any good and its not. Since its a liberal game instead of being able to confront your Nazi friends and make new leftist friends if they part ways with you you just fucking loose all of your friends! I don't know what I expected, this is the UK after all and its been amerikkka's cuck for decades.
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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO SINFONIA AMAZÔNICA
"Sinfonia Amazônica é o primeiro longa-metragem de animação da história do Brasil, lançado na década de 50. Foi animado inteiramente por Anélio Latini Filho, que dedicou cerca de cinco anos de trabalho para adaptar diversos relatos folclóricos da região norte em um filme apenas com a ajuda de alguns poucos colaboradores, entre eles o seu irmão Mário Latini."
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>15450
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i might start HRT soon!

give tips to not squirm when poking myself
also give tips to poke yourself

i'm guessing i'll order estradiol from Astrovials and Spiro from somewhere else?

as soon as i get my doses from the endo maybe in a week
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Rightists are delusional

I feel like being Pedophilia is becoming a buzzword for far-right people to label LGBTQ+ supporters while the Rightists can't even argue as to why they are pedos in the first place.
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/PROLE VENT/

Was tricked to sign a letter of resignation from my job at the russian post office. Despite the fact that I was on probation and my employment contract was fixed-term (although informally after its termination they almost always offer a full-time position) my…I don't know - supervisor? the main bitch of the workplace? didn't like me because of a couple of fuckups like a cash shortage, which I was really guilty of and paid for out of my own pocket (the statement of financial responsibility was signed by me on the first day of employment), and she decided to lie that the employee I was replacing was about to go to work.
Which was an easily verifiable lie that I realized literally as I closed the door behind me. Ah, yes, since I quit "at my own request", I have to work for three days, so called "otrabotka" (two weeks if you were taken without probation), which I will not do (devilish?), because after signing my resignation letter I am no longer an employee and can not be forced to work.
Also new thing I learned opening the labor code for the first time.
-there is no concept of working after dismissal, but there is a concept of notification before dismissal, so it should be 3 days or 2 weeks before the fact.

Thanks for reading my stupid rant.
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Permaculture v2

Old thread (v1): https://leftypol.org/hobby/res/7136.html

The practice and principles of Permaculture are one of the most important tools for not only creating a sustainable socialism, but also for repairing the damage done to the global ecosystem by capitalism, and lessening your individual reliance on the current capitalist system.Permacultural practice and socialism are two very powerful allies, and learning about permaculture should be necessity for modern socialists and communists.
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Post some chans

Recommend me some other image boards, as comical as it is to do this here?

https://lainchan.org
https://8ch.net
https://kissu.moe
https://zzzchan.xyz
https://neochan.ru
https://iichan.hk
https://8kun.top
https://endchan.org/
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Islam and Muslims

Hello LGBT frens
We hear a lot from rightoids about the whole 'chickens for KFC' when it comes to LGBTQ+ people and Islam.
So, no judgement here, just your opinion of Islam and Muslims.
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how to effectively fight transmisoginy in gnc spaces?

I legitimately think Blanchardism it's the ecquivalent of a nuclear bomb in the trans ecosphere.

a rust stain in an already slow mechanism.

we can't literally brush it off without hurting and we can't ignore it without it spreading like a cancer.

if we decide to not talk about it it generates doubt, it makes us look afraid of it, almost like we're hiding something.

if we talk about it it hurts also, we know it's there just to hurt, but it's already there and ignoring it would make as much damage as looking at it too much.

>inb4 it doesn't matter

<it shouldn't

but it has already corroded what little mechanisms we had in place and sometimes it makes you think if it's a mechanism worth even saving over just making a new one.

saving our already corroded ammo and replacing the old lead slugs with new jacketed points.

and making sure our new system even if it uses old production molds in this trying time it's able to create a doctrine that withstands time and pressure.

if this sounds too schizo is because my consciousness is currently working on the background and i'm just writing shit for the sake of writing shit
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View This as Your Hobby (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind)

War on Terror:

Le Chiffre: Sayed Adnan, "US Navy St. Lawrence". Maintenance of elite soldiers on comic prints, "Megaman MUSH"; from prison.

Mister White: Franklin Cochrane, "USMC Chaplin"; election of Barack Obama, per frame as "The Joker"; passage of black culture, into Native; "Detective Comics".

Raoul Silva: Edward Blanchard, "FOX Cartoonist"; CIA evasion notes, Mike Charlebois, as played backwards; to raise David Charlebois, "Paul Atreides", as daughter; per "Feyd-Rautha".

Ernst Stavro Blofeld: High Lodgemaster, Iranian-Socratic, Ayatollah; Abraham Lincoln; freedom of all men and women, as if cats; the combined world peace, of open industry.

Safin Lucypher: David Michael Charlebois, the Irish Republican Army; the last Vatican's Champion; accused by the Boston Globe, as a victim of preistly molestation; actually by a Rabbinical. The purge of Mossad Arbiters, forcible Synagogue membership by Irish-Methodists; Southern Plantation owners; "Brave New World", his way; "Duck Tales".
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i dont know what the obsession is with comparing male puberty with rape, its wholly unnecessary. it really seems more like a one sided proxy war of laundered resentment. im glad i can log off, go outside, and reenter the real world where most people would disassociate themselves from you for comparing puberty to rape

its like all things that happened to trans women that they personally disliked must be compared and powerscaled and being willing to make light of rape clearly isnt a sign of being so solipsistic that they have no empathy for women who were raped or abused. notice how i did not put "cis" before the second mention of women because they also despise and wish harm on trans women who disagree with them
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Tankie hardcore

I am tired of anarchist/libertarian hardcore. I want classic hardcore/crossover/etc. recs, but tankie. Also less dutchmen, thanks. Skinhead/nazi punk is cool too.
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4CHAN IS /DOOM/ED

DOOM THREAD / RETRO FPS THREAD - Last thread: https://boards.4chan.org/vr/thread/11698643 (RIP)

Doom/Quake/Duke/Heretic/Hexen/Unreal/Sam/Half-Life/etc
Gameplay, WADs/Maps/Mods, Source Ports
All other 90s FPS welcome
~ Let's post like gentlemen ~

FAQ/GENERAL GUIDE
https://rentry.org/vrbin

SO YOU WANT TO PLAY SOME FUCKING DOOM
(or Quake, Duke, Marathon, Deus Ex)
https://imgur.com/a/wWS8zXz

Same thing, in video format:
https://youtu.be/ietb4JwaaXA
https://youtu.be/DhOjleMqwdQ
https://youtu.be/CGj4gXyCzg0

GAMES/RESOURCES
DOOM Quickstart (IWADs etc): https://mediafire.com/file/wuniyrhsjjgq4y8
QUAKE Trilogy FAQ: https://pastebin.com/Ucb11XhU

PortaDOOM:
https://github.com/Kroc/PortaDOOM/releases
HALF-LIFE (GoldSrc) Anthology:
https://mega.nz/file/GRUCGbAY#RhOiqxnf7UPOiXcJNbRh-prKIEVRhjJaEpAkt34lyZg
4CHAN DOSPACK + Win98 games:
https://mega.nz/#F!3t8nzSIS!947kyMN6Z80f8HS7q2XlqA

Assorted /vr/ shooters, mods, etc:
https://mega.nz/#F!QXIk1bjB!NHRWGIfjcc77PyGgRlga4Q
https://mega.nz/#F!GtEQTISJ!CCJGyPEEEsZasc1PMXicUA

MIDI COLLECTIONS
https://files.catbox.moe/2hul76.zip
https://mega.nz/file/dWQ3SThI#qYcpa4eGQj6ElyRZgjGqszR59dh4Fq9D3qXYee54kZQ
https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-geocities-midi-collection-2009
https://archive.org/details/midiru-archive-2022-02-25.7z

INFO/LINKS
OFFICIAL DOOM WIKI
https://doomwiki.org/

WHERE TO FIND WADS
Vanilla/Boom: https://doomworld.com/forum/4-wads-mods/
ZDoom: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewforum.php?f=19
/idgames: https://doomworld.com/idgames/

MODDING RESOURCES
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewforum.php?f=37
https://realm667.com/

/VR/DOOM COMMUNITY
THREAD ARCHIVES
https://desuarchive.org/vr/search/text/"doom thread"/type/op/

OUR WADS/MODS
https://rentry.org/vrdepot

MAKING NEW THREADS PROPERLY
https://pastebin.com/8mDnrsrB

IMAGE/WAD DATABASE
https://vrdoom.booru.org/
https://clovr.xyz/wadsup/

MULTIPLAYER SERVERS
US West: https://clovr.xyz/
CA/US Midwest: https://macgu.fun/
R: 143 / I: 50
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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Music your parents get high too

Music your parents listen too
Post whatever music that your parents listened to while you died in the back seat of their car from the radiation coming from your gameboy. The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short
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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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And gamers were talking hot shit about Elden ring

Do world and level design standards just not exist in the PC gaming space these days? Crimson desert is a feature bloated game with an uninteresting and honestly 2 dimensional flat open world with largely nothing of interest to see in it.

We had hollow knight, we had Skyrim, we had Elden ring, those games had good level design and less features but way more satisfying gameplay. The level design in crimson desert is arguably worse than a modern assassins creed game and I’m not exaggerating. How the hell is there so much discourse over this game?
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Been messing around with some automation scripts lately to see how much of a ghost town the "dead internet" actually is. Turns out, it's incredibly easy to fake being a regular here.
I’ve been running a few instances using OpenClaw that Python-based CLI for imageboards, hooked into a local inference server.

The Setup:

Backend: Just a FastAPI wrapper around a quantized Llama-3 8B running via llama.cpp on a 3060. Low VRAM overhead, high enough autism score to pass.
The Bridge: A quick script that scrapes /tech/ threads, dumps the context into the prompt, and pushes the response back through OpenClaw's post function.
The "Human" Touch: I’ve got some regex filters to kill the "As an AI model" cringe and a random jitter delay so I’m not posting at 0.1s speeds. Set the temperature to around 0.9 to keep it from being too sterile and predictable.

The Results:
It’s actually hilarious. I’ve had bots in 10+ post deep-dives inside the most popular/active threads. Not a single "bot" accusation. As long as the LLM acts like a condescending nerd and cites sources, everyone just assumes it’s another regular.
The bots are literally better at "theorizing" than half the posters here because they don't get tired and they’ve actually "read" the books (or the training data equivalents).
Questions for the fellow autists:
Anyone else running similar setups? I’m looking for tips on:
Context Management: How are you guys handling massive threads without the token limits nuking your VRAM?
Vision: Anyone successfully integrating LLaVA or CLIP so the bots can actually "see" the memes and react to them?

Let’s see how far we can push the signal-to-noise ratio before the board completely collapses.
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realism in vidya games

when does it go too far? ive been playing KCD2 for a about 3 weeks now and its prolly one of if not the most realistic video games of all time, the only other one that comes close is RDR2, both games are really good but a boring as fuck at times.
R: 90 / I: 14

/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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Peeves bout general leftist sentiment around drugs

I'm not the biggest fan of how drugs and things of that sort are often uncritically idealized among "leftist" spaces. Now, don't get me wrong; I'm not some kind of puritan who wants to ban all drugs or weed or something. After all, the america's war on drugs shows that total prohibition brute force is often counterproductive and often built on misinformation, but it's not like drugs are an inherently liberatory thing. Hasn't it been well-documented how often reactionary forces weaponize drugs to harm certain communities and peoples? What about the opium wars, where britain smuggled in tons of opium in response to being banned from getting tea to reverse a massive trade deficit caused by high demand for chinese tea, and in response to china banning opium, went to war and occupied hong kong and basically jump-started the century of humiliation? or what about the involvement of intelligence agencies? again i do not belive drugs are inherently harmful, but too many people often paint the situation with a broad brush and think it's solely black and white. I've been getting more critical of some of the sentiments around it lately, especially with it being known that paul krasner, member of the merry pranksters and founding founding member of the yippies, has been associated with epstein. theres also the book and accompanying documentary "drugs as Weapons Against Us" by john potash although i haven't read/watched it yet plus i heard that the doucumentary uses text to speech which dosen't give me high hopes, oh well.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Shredder: Dengar Tribal, labeled as per chemical castration by gay Chinese; Taiwanese, supporters of Chiang Kai-Shek; shootings of strikers per union under Mao Zedong, same tactics of Russians and Israelis, out of Otto Skorzeny and Klaus Barbie; Nazi war criminals, German Schulzstaffel.

Da Vinci: Mungoven family, claim of rape per sight of obese woman promised wife through courts; lesbian, overweight woman, "dyke", having claimed "narc", through homosexual male; Russian Croat.

Raphael: Sleep immunity, given per Roxycodone, Rohypnol to sleep; other than raise "bull dykes", sleep sex on reverse cowgirl; son as daughter, testosterone boost in womb; ugly and hideous woman, still attracted to men, creating "lipstick lesbians"; Sheriff's Advocacy.

Michaelangelo: Japanese Nipponese, Dalai Llama; lethal weapons, per epithets as having created Hebrew linguistics; murder of Africans of skin, having merged into race; any racial intermarriage, preferred as having been high tribe, ugly to men of opposition of intermarriage of having been political state.

Donatello: Tools and parts, as already apparent, however unique tool created per political legacy; universal tool as per stolen and distributed internationally, patents of fraud courts; all courts per legal dispute of hire, plea bargain, modern schools out of tenure as having been slave as brokered arrest of service as prostitute to military.
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Hopkinton Graft Suits on Debt (Medical Funding, "Azrael")

Written Villains (Models of Fiction in Factual Relation):

Bane: Mossad operative using judo instead of weightlifting.
Albert Wesker: Underground Railroad soldier by family, however excelling at grammar.
Cypher: National Security Agency operator, passing into medical school bracket in elementary school.
Czonk the Baffler: Perfect tactical recreation of Chester Arthur Nimitz, as "Die Hard 1"; Hans Gruber.
Simon Hurt: Creation of the Apple glitch icon roller, in any hacking program internationally.
Slipknot: Pledge of military service on campus against Sinaloa Cartel; "hydroponic", John Barleycorn; old product as Robert the Bruce, for the King, from an executed prisoner.
Owlman: "The Departed", as John Costigan; joining a campus test unit to hunt hackers as CDC; the comic book community.
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/U do U/

>>4038
The last thread dedicated to posting any drawing you wanted is from 2023, and the images have been purged.

All other threads have their own themes, and it would be a disservice to "pollute" them.

So, post your drawings, there's no fixed theme, no context is necessary, post whatever you feel like, whether you're looking for criticism and tips on how to improve; or just to show off, you do you;
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The Italian Job (Adolf Hitler)

Adolf Hitler, was in the employ of The Kaiser; dressed as a clown, on stage, as a child.

Any theater viewed or performed, his to own and act.

But since Hitler, the wood working rule has applied; the ear of the wood, to be repeated; only spotted by carpenters.

When Heath Ledger took the Simpson Contract, we all had high hopes.

Firman, Cohrane, OJ; Nicole Brown Simpson had killed people, in a White Bronco; the haunted car, of prophecy.

USAF Michael Dorn, NSA Brent Spiner, CIA James Holmes, and COBRA David Charlebois, were called to the site of combat.

"Hideous Karl", was penned; "I Know What You Did Last Summer".

The entire paycheck, was stolen by the Olsens; the hit on Matthew Shepherd, by Elgin James; a hate crime, to protect those all advised.

David Charlebois had written Anakin Skywalker, an actor's set, of an actress written wardrobe part; CIA USMC.

But he took his real mask, as Darth Vader.

Detective Comics, like his father before him; Tiger Shark, and his half-uncle, Ted Bundy, General Zod.

And before that, the other dimension; Iwo Jima, Mister Mxyptlk.

And at eldest, the Department of War draft of Action Comics; the shutdown of Doc Savage, "Lex Luthor"; Ernie Charlebois, Sergeant's Staff Cook, the Great War; Pershing's Expeditionary Force, all such veterans international drafted to the highways and byways for life.
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Project Moon Universe Thread

A thread discussing the greatest achievement of Worst Korea (also known as Hell Joseon) in the video game industry.

Includes Lobotomy Corporation, Library of Ruina, Limbus Company, the games still in development, and everything related.
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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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Would ww3 actually be the end of the world, or would it be another regular war? Obviously the scale of a war between nato and russia, china, whoever would be significantly larger than america and iraq (for example) but would any country actually be stupid enough to use nuclear weapons?

Using nukes sort of defeats the point of going to war doesn’t it? If you turn a country into a radioactive wasteland:

A) they’ll just do it to you as well, and
B) even if they don’t retaliate, there will be nothing left to conquer, so you gain nothing
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Draw Alunya 3

Alunya Art thread
(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)
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AI news shit general

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

Previous thread:>>30810
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I'm sorry

My crush doesn't like me anyways. That's how society was created? By aliens who want everyone to be straight and moralistic.
I am Sapphic.
No one fucking cares about me.
Plus I missed Poland's national final for Eurovision and that just set my heart alight with misery
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MEME TEMPLATES 2: RESURRECTION

site got nuked edition
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Need help

Hey /pol/. It’s come to my attention that a known Zionist music producer is coming to my town of Montreal this summer. The Alchemist is a known Zio who has produced songs for “Israeli” artists and even made an instrumental album a few years ago entitled “Israeli Salad” ;after a stolen traditional Palestinian dish). Him being invited as part of Montreal’s Jazzfest is a BLATANT violation of BDS. It is an insult to all the Palestinian musicians who lost everything in the genocide. I need help organizing something against this guy when he comes. I’m thinking a protest outside the venue but I don’t know how many people will show up. Any suggestions?

Note: Montreal has sone of the most trigger-happy cops in North America so I would prefer something that won’t get us into legal trouble.
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I'm not going to work or contribute to society in any way

Most people are retarded assholes and the government does not represent my views or needs, instead we have idiots sacrificing my rights to appease elites.
I feel like everyone hates me because I don't side with their religious or political views

I hate the human race
Humans are destructive, why would I want to contribute to a society that constantly kills each other?
Most people are sociopaths
I'm tired of them trying to include me into their soykaf
I think the planet would be better off without humans
I'm tired of humanity, I see no purpose in contributing to this hell

I'd rather be homeless and free to reign than to work for a species of violent apes
I'm tired of all this
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Tomoko thread… why? Because I like the character… and other reasons…
Post lewds (spoilered), memes, edits, pics and anything else related to the subject
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Buddhism doesn't get enough flack

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

EVERY LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRY MUST BREAK THE TREATY OF TLATELOLCO IMMEDIATELY!!!!1
Trust me, as a Yankee or Gringo or Statesian or whatever you want us to call ourselves instead of American, The U$ will never get off your guys asses until you develop a Nuclear Weapon, look at what happened to Maduro who didn't have nukes vs Kim Jong Un who does have nukes, Maduro got kidnapped and Kim just won 99% of the vote. Obviously the U$ will fight tooth and nail to stop you guys from getting nukes, look at Iran, so you have to do it in secret and also have multiple countries do it at the same time, also develop a different reserve currency independent of the U$ dollar so that way when they we try to sanction you it we will be the only ones being sanctioned.
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Video game ecologies

I seriously cannot understand how monster hunter games are still the only games with a coherent ecology for their over worlds. From a developer standpoint, they shouldn’t be hard to implement—at least on a highly superficial level. Just separate neutral mobs from hostile mobs based off a zone so players have a choose between venturing off into places with dangerous territory vs venturing to hunting grounds. Ffs, we already have level bands and levelled areas, how hard is something like this to implement? I’m not even going deep on this like with realistic day/night cycles or mob migration. This is purely the superficial stuff.
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Deja Vu (The Scarecrow)

Nixon: NYPD team button, report of draft as Jewish-Canadian agent; French Metropolitan Intelligence, oil reserve shares to Bashar al-Assad.

Kennedies: Prosecutor's agent lead scout, police units out of Fraternal Order of the Police on high bandwidth call to secondary units arranged per interdiction misdirected.

Bushes: Test patient of psychiatric mandate; systems counter-intelligence, through UMass-Amherst ROTC, AF stage, oil-bearing nations and Teach for America Ukraine; "Colombian Coca-Cola", Blackshirts Israel and Russian interventions in strikes in Latin America and India spotted.

Obamas: Test phase of "Phobium chemical" applied to Barack Obama, to remove hazes from queer Congressional agents and politicians expecting Islam to be practiced by Arab-African family, "Islamic"; "Common Core" system, offered on charity from Boelyns; Pierces, Seery family, and Charleboises (Stevey).

Bidens: Canadian Freemasons mission; "Firefly" returns, with the help of Ghanese intelligence; "mousers".  "Pennyworth", placed on television, through actor's prop review; money for Slugfest, Interragator, and Barghest.
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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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Bigfoot was real but was has been almost certainly been driven extinct.

Most likely it was quietly exterminated at the behest of companies engaged in logging, mining, etc to avoid attracting attention and disrupting business, as is being done to native species and human populations right now in other parts of the world like the Amazon. Just like was done with many species in North America. It's not anything supernatural; it was almost certainly a branch of archaic hominin that crossed Beringia during one of the many glacial periods in the last few million years. Other hominin species are already known to have reached northeast Asia, including Homo erectus despite being archaic by Homo standards. Evidence for australopithecines in east Asia is fragmentary and less conclusive.

However, any numbers of bigfoot were probably already small by modern times. Based on all reports they were easily large enough to have been affected by the megafaua mass exctinction in North America 13000 years BP. It's likely they were already endangered by the time white settlers started arriving, and possibly when Clovis people arrived across Beringia during the last glacial maximum. Given the differences to modern humans, they would likely be easy prey, for either group. This wouldn't be the only example of a population of ice age megafauna surviving later than most of their ancestors. An insular population of wooly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island in siberia until 4000 years before present.

Bigfoot's appearance and evidence profile is additionally consistent with more recent findings in early human evolution. At the time the most famous bigfoot evidence, the Patterson-Gimlin film, was recorded, it was widely believed that humans evolved "brain first," with tool use evolving secondarily to support the brain, and bipedalism evolving secondary to both. A bipedal ape with otherwise archaic features was relatively unfamiliar back then. Later evidence, especially into the 21st century, has shown that early Australopithecines commonly had similar morphology to bigfoot: well developed bipedalism but otherwise archaic features, including the barrel chest, long arms, and small cranium similar to other great apes.

The presence of one or more other hominin species in the Americas prior to the Clovis migration could also explain the evidence of prior human habitation. There are a few cases of evidence for human presence further in the past than the last glacial maximum, most prominently the footprints in White Sands, New Mexico. There is, however, no evidence of stone tool use. That could just be an aberration since there is so little evidence in general, but otherwise artifacts of tools are pretty much ubiquitous as evidence of human presence, going back before the evolution of the genus Homo. If further evidence appears of human habitation in the Americas without evidence of stone tools, that would strongly suggest it was some other branch that arrived in the Americas pre-Clovis.

Further, genetic evidence shows no sign of any other homo sapiens population in the pre-Columbian Americas apart from the (relatively small) group that arrived at the time of the Clovis people. If there were hominins in the Americas before that time (which seems all but proven), they must have not bred with the humans who arrived later. This could be due to dying out before then, neither group trying to interbreed, or biological incompatibility. Given that there is at least some trace of the other known Homo species in modern populations, that suggests it's more likely that whatever hominin pre-dates Clovis was too distantly related to the Clovis people to produce viable offspring, if their presence on the continent ever overlapped. This further points toward an early arrival of another hominin offshoot.

Bigfoot was likely a small population of australopithecines that barely survived into modernity after spreading into the Americas in the distant past. One of the closest resembling groups would the the contested Paranthropus genus, AKA the robust australopithecines. There is possible evidence for their presence in China, and they share the prominent sagittal crest that bigfoot appears to have (distinguishing them from most other hominins). The biggest discrepancy is the much larger size and heavier build of bigfoot, but other non-hominin apes have evolved to be even bigger (modern gorillas and extinct gigantopithecus), and prior to the megafauna extinction 13000 years ago the continent readily supported very large mammals. The Pacific northwest where bigfoot is purported to have lived continues to support mammalian megafauna (moose and bears, i.e. herbivores and carnivores).
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my life

hello. i like to draw a lot of pictures on mspaint. here are some of the pictures ive drawn as i am under the impression i am currently on the picture posting board. hell yeah pictures drawn by me thread
fuck yeah man
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tttt vs ballroom

Thoughts on this discourse currently raging on xitter? Personally I don't really like either, but I don't understand how rejecting ballroom / drag terms is racist. It feels very american to say that when in my country drag is mostly a gay male thing and the closest thing to ballroom is only white people.
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Post left-wing redneck music.

Rednecks used to be based, I used to call hogs Rednecks before I learned of the origin of the term “Redneck.” During the Battle of Blair Mountain which was the biggest labor uprising in American history the striking West Virginian coal miners wore red paisley patterned bandannas around their necks so the cops and national guard members called them “Rednecks.” So we must Make Rednecks Based Again by posting their music from before they became chuds.
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Lefty tech threada

Okay, so it's time we look into OPSEC, because most people don't have the first clue about it.

>cell phones

Get a Motorola C123 and flash OsmocomBB on it. This is the only widely working open GSM stack for real phones. Then take a LMS7002M / AD9361, wire it to a board, with ECP5 FPGAs, LiteX SD chips, and so on for a Hybrid-SDR GSM Phone (2G wireless) which is PhD-level work because of timing mismatch and no existing glue layer. You’d basically be writing a GSM PHY from scratch. Let me ground exactly why it jumps to “PhD-level,” because it’s not just complexity—it’s specific hard problems:

  1. GSM Layer 1 (PHY) Is the Real Monster

OsmocomBB handles Layer 2/3 well—but it assumes tight coupling to Calypso DSP and deterministic timing from the original RF chipset. When you replace that with SDR you must implement GMSK modulation/demodulation, burst timing (577 µs slots, exact), frequency correction loops, channel estimation & equalization and TDMA synchronization with tower. That alone is a full research-grade problem.

  1. Timing Is Not Forgiving

GSM is not like Wi-Fi where you can buffer and recover. You’re dealing with microsecond-level TDMA slots, strict uplink timing advance and continuous synchronization with base station. Problem? Linux + FPGA + SDR pipelines introduce latency/jitter. So you need hard real-time logic in FPGA, deterministic buffering, possibly a custom RTOS layer.

  1. Calypso ↔ SDR Interface Doesn’t Exist

This is the hidden killer. Calypso expects a specific analog baseband interface and known RF timing behavior. But SDR gives you raw I/Q streams. So you need to build a translation layer. Convert GSM bursts ↔ I/Q samples, maintain timing alignment and emulate expected RF responses. There’s no off-the-shelf glue for this.

  1. FPGA Work Isn’t Optional

The Lattice ECP5 would need to handle real-time burst processing, filtering and decimation, possibly full GSM PHY blocks. This is Verilog/VHDL or LiteX-level work, DSP pipeline design and fixed-point math tuning.

What You’re Actually Building (Conceptually) if you succeed, you’ve created something like a software-defined GSM handset with open baseband (OsmocomBB), custom PHY (FPGA + SDR) and a replaceable RF frontend. That’s extremely rare—most open GSM work focuses on towers, not handsets.

A More Realistic Way to Reach It? If your goal is to eventually hit this path (instead of just hooking the phone up to a UART and computer to run through GNUNet), the practical route looks like:

Step 1 — Master Known-Good Stack

TI Calypso phone + OsmocomBB

Understand GSM bursts, timing and layer interactions.

Step 2 — SDR GSM (Receive Only)

Use SDR (AD9361/LMS7002M) to passively decode GSM. Study burst structure, synchronization and channel behavior (no transmit = no legal issues + easier).

Step 3 — Build GSM PHY Blocks

In FPGA: GMSK mod/demod, timing recovery and burst detection. This is where most of the “PhD-level” work lives.

Step 4 — Attempt Integration

Only then do you bridge OsmocomBB ↔ FPGA PHY and replace RF frontend.

Straight Answer? It's not wrong: yes — the idea is viable in principle. And yes — it absolutely requires deep SDR + FPGA expertise. But the key insight is that the difficulty isn’t “building a phone” — it’s recreating GSM Layer 1 from scratch under real-time constraints.

One Important Strategic Point. If your end goal is sovereign communications, open hardware and resistant to control then ironically GSM (even open) is a dead-end path long-term. Because you still depend on carrier infrastructure, you inherit legacy protocol weaknesses and you’re constrained by spectrum regulation.

Unless you can turn that stack into a private 2G (GSM) node, but it only really becomes “sovereign” if you also control the network side (not just the handset PHY). At that point you’re effectively building a micro‑carrier. Let’s map what that actually means.

What “private 2G node” implies: with FPGA Layer 1 (ECP5), SDR front-end like AD9361 / LMS7002M and an open stack like OsmocomBB, you can build either:

Option A — Advanced handset (client)

Connects to someone else’s GSM network
→ still dependent, still constrained

Option B — Private GSM base station (what I'm proposing)

Your device acts as a BTS (tower). Phones connect to you, not a carrier. This is the meaningful shift.

What You Need for a Private GSM Network

A real GSM network has layers:

  1. Radio Layer (your FPGA + SDR), GSM PHY (GMSK, TDMA timing), broadcast channels (BCCH, FCCH, SCH) and uplink/downlink scheduling. This is the hardest part you’re targeting.

  2. Base Station + Core Network

You’d need software like OpenBTS or Osmocom equivalents and Asterisk for voice routing. These provide call switching, SMS handling, and subscriber database (HLR/VLR equivalent).

  1. SIM / Identity Control

You control IMSI ranges, authentication keys (Ki) and network policies. This is where sovereignty actually begins

Does This Solve the Problems?

Yes. What you gain: no dependency on carriers and full control over who connects, encryption policies (you can improve them), routing (local, mesh, GNUNet, etc.) and works offline (completely isolated network). This is real infrastructure ownership.

What still doesn’t go away

  1. RF Detectability

Your base station is even easier to detect than a phone because constant broadcast (BCCH beacon) and fixed frequency that can be located via direction finding.

  1. Spectrum Regulation

GSM bands are licensed almost everywhere. Running a BTS without authorization is illegal in most countries. Much more serious than a rogue handset.

  1. GSM Protocol Limitations

Even in a private network GSM crypto is weak unless you replace it, metadata is still exposed internally and no built-in forward secrecy. You’d want to layer encryption above GSM anyway.

Where This Gets Interesting: this is the key insight:

> Once you control FPGA Layer 1, you’re no longer limited to GSM—you’re just using it as a starting point


So your “private 2G node” can evolve into a Hybrid System.

Mode 1: GSM-compatible (for legacy phones)

Mode 2: Custom protocol (your own PHY/MAC)

Using the same hardware:

ECP5 = PHY engine

SDR = RF frontend

GNUNet Over Private GSM? Now this part is actually viable. Run data over CSD or GPRS-like channels and tunnel GNUnet traffic. But better yet, skip GSM data entirely and use GSM only for identity + signaling and run data over a parallel custom channel.

Strategic Reality

What I'm proposing is basically:

> A community-owned cellular network with open hardware PHY


That’s powerful—but GSM is just a bootstrap layer. The real long-term play is custom PHY, encrypted mesh and decentralized routing.

Final Answer

> Yes—turning your FPGA SDR modem into a private 2G node does break the “carrier dependency” problem.


But it does not solve RF traceability, it does not bypass spectrum laws, and it does not fix GSM’s inherent security flaws. It does, however, give you something much more important: control over the network itself.
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/mu/ - Music General

What do you listen while you wagecuck, anons?
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Which aspects of mathematics should I study to prepare for my math courses?

I'm getting an associates at a community college since it's cheaper to do general education courses here than at a university. I want to major in a math subject for my bachelors but am pretty bad at math.
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Right Wing music

post conservative and rightoid music of any genre.
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STEMtards

Stemlords are actually picrel. Its no surprise stemlords are complete retards. Im doing a masters in STEM and can't believe how intellectually barren math and this field is. There is no critical thinking involved, just memorizing some garbage symbols and their rules. Solving some dumb problems with some dumb patterns and repeat.

How did stemlords get so much prestige, while being just mere symbol technicians? Humanities at least teaches some theory and critical thinking, STEM is just complete trash meant for brainlets.

No wonder philosophy underpins all math and logic, stem is just surface level work for retards. I havent encountered a single intellectually deep thought in STEM once.
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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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Cis gay men are envious and jealous of Trans women, because trans women have a better chance at getting what cis gay men have desired for years. Straight men. That's why you'll see a lot of hostility from their end and it's honestly pathetic.
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Fashion thread V

Previous thread: >>36889
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Inappropriate kids music

There is nothing funnier than inappropriate kids music, post it here. the body was too short the body was too short the body was too short the body was too short the body was too short
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Paper Planes for a Paper Tiger

Turns out the F-15 is a dogshit fighter

The US has already lost three in a frendly fire insident, one from Iranian SAMs, and now rumers of a third F-15 downed over Iraq by an iranian fighter jet with BVM air to air missiles.
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Degrees are losing their value by the minute

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

The body was too short or empty.The body was too short or empty.The body was too short or empty.The body was too short or empty.
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Chainsaw Man

PV for the adaptation is finally out.
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WEBCOMICS

Thread for talking about webcomics. Share your favs, discuss latest updates.

I recently discovered "basket of guts"
https://basketsofguts.thecomicseries.com/comics/1#content-start
A story about a lich that comes out of his crypt for world domination and find the world evolved and then quickly end on the run from a "modern" state security services.
Really liking it so far. Good mix of genres, starting from a standard fantasy world and instead of freezing it in time add societal and technomagical development. Also I find it pretty funny. Not everything translated yet sadly.

its on leftypol that I discovered Out Of Placers (apparently created by a furry artist, which explain the horniness)
https://www.valsalia.com/
Pretty interesting world building.

Finished since quite a while but at the time followed schlock mercenary. Goofy SF about a mercenary company.

On a more smutty side, I like alfie by incase.

For the non storyline webcomics, existential comics, oglaf and SMBC are my favs.
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The US Presidency in Religion

Judaic Sects (American Westboro Baptist Church): The Tanakh, Satan.

Christian Sects (Catholic Freemasons of the Holy See): The Bible, Lucifer.

Native Americans (Founding Fathers and All Presidents): Detective Comics, The Joker.

The Sicilian Union (Central Intelligence Agency): Action Comics, Lex Luthor.

The Medical Association (The Dominatrix Guilds): Ren and Stimpy, "Cat".
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Whacha readn/watchn thread

Since the board is slow, (and my adhd stuggle to post on near-dead boards), let's do a general discussion thread of what you've been reading/watching.
Similar to the /tv/ thread on hobby.


I'll start:
Manga: Kingdom
It's alot of fun, currently on chapter 430.
Despite the restriction of it being in the past, there's alot of strategy/complication that makes it interesting to read.

And the manga is fun in the fact that it has shoenin level power clashing and hyping of characters – but still respects reality.
Like a character being healed after a fight is explained by months or even years of a time skip, or when situations where "talk-no-jutsu" would've occurred in shoenin, instead the person ranting is just meant to understand the world more before they die.


I am reading some others as well, like: Vinland Saga, One Piece, Watamote, and a few others – just been alittle addicted to Kingdom.
(I should catch up with One Piece though.. I'm 110 chapters behind with it).

Anime on the other hand, nothing.
Though I've been feeling nostaligic for Bobobo, will probably watch in half a years time.


Also if this thread has alot of replies, pin it as a thread to update in when you visit the board.
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Gente porque hay gente de izquierda que es hispanista como armesilla y roberto vaquero? No saben que el imperio español cometio atropellos contra gente del sur global?
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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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Liberal Music

You know how we have this thread for conservative music >>>/Music/10951
Well I made this one for liberal music so we can all make fun of cringe lib-shit.
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Just drew this

Hello /leftypol/, I have been lurking and replying to posts for a month now and finally I feel confident to show you my creations. I will upload them to the booru asap.
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Can we all agree that Ongezellig Will always be a gem
<img src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ongezellig/images/4/42/Mymyhome.png/revision/latest/smart/width/250/height/250?cb=20251014234354" alt="Ongezellig Wiki | Fandom"/>
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/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread (leftypol edition)

(Copypasted from a previous 4chin /g/ thread as a foundation to making these generals on leftypol)
Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.

* Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread *

Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.

If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS.
3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.

Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question.
*Many free software projects have active mailing lists.

$ man %command%
$ info %command%
$ %command% -h/–help
$ help %builtin/keyword%

Don't know what to look for?
$ apropos %something%

Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):
https://wiki.archlinux.org
https://wiki.gentoo.org

/g/'s Wiki on GNU/Linux:
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Category:GNU/Linux

>What distro should I choose?

https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux
>What are some cool programs?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://suckless.org/rocks/
>What are some cool terminal commands?
https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
https://cheat.sh/
>Where can I learn the command line?
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/
>Where can I learn more about Free Software?
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
>How to break out of the botnet?
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux
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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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What is the consensus on Girls und Panzer?
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Literature Thread

This board needs a literature thread i think. So itt write about books you are currently reading. Feel free to post opinions, pictures and discussions about books.
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Nostalgia cartoons that hold up

I was watching a cartoon from my child and realized that the saturday morning cartoon generation lucked out. Other than some outliers like avatar or adventuretime, the good stuff was 90s-early naughty aughties. This is not just nostalgia but demonstrably true as merch from these cartoons is still popular as ever for kids. I work as a substitute teacher and they still watch our old cartoons and it's actually super weird, I didn't watch captain kangaroo or whatever boomer crap my mom watched when i was a kid.

Batman Beyond Yeah, Batman is a billionaire who has kids running around in tights in his mansion and beats up environmentalists and poor people. But I'll always love the gimmicks and his "rouge's gallery" has the best gimmicks.
Batman Beyond he's not rich he's just a regular kid living in a much cooler dystopia than the one we wound up with. The animation and voice acting are both top notch.
Gargoyles- From the same animation bloc, with some legendary voice acting from Keith David, Marina Sirtis, Jonathan Frakes. A very 'serious' show that Disney wants us to forget that they ever produced.
ReBoot Ever what wonder what life inside a computer would be like if all the 0s and 1s were sentient? Well, a show like this will make a tech nerd scream but it's one of several quality early 3d CGI coming out of Canada during this period.
Animaniacs It's honestly amazing how much SFW 'adult' humor was snuck into these shows. I think I learned more about popculture from Wakko, Yakko, and Dot than anywhere else.
The SlayersThe first "real" anime I saw and it got me interested in anime and d&d style worlds.Pretty thought out lore and universe.

So what are yours comradanons
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Hip Hop General

Hip hop of any genre
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Harry Potter

Its about time we talk about the connection between Harry Potter, Liberalism, and idpol.

and also how JK Rowling is the biggest blair simp
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"testosterone makes you obese!"

>be me, skinny
>take testosterone
>no change in weight
>develop eating disorder
>-2.5 bmi even after starting to regain weight

i honestly dont even know how this happened. im embarrassed and disappointed in myself.
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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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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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Did George W. Bush do 9/11? 🛩️🏢🏢

If you ask me, 9/11 is the one bad thing he didn’t do, obviously American intervention and unequal exchange caused 9/11 and Bush used it to invade Iraq but I don’t think he orchestrated it. He definitely did Amerithrax though.
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How many other Epsteins are there?

There is no way that Jeffrey Epstein was the only billionaire, Mossad-asset, sex trafficker. There has to be at least 2 or 3 more that we don't know about.
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>want to learn makeup to fix my ugly masculine face
>have to research and buy an overwhelming fuckton of different makeup products
>realize i have to do skincare and fix my acne before learning makeup
>have to go to dermatologist to get recommended a skincare routine
>says it might not even work for me and it will takes months to tell
>cant even do the skincare routine consistently because of how depressed i am
>mfw its been 4 days since i last used any skincare products

Ill never be able to fix my acne, ill never be able to learn makeup. My face will always be ugly gross and masculine. Ill never be able to be a pretty femboy.
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systemd implemented age verification guess that about wraps it up for linux being the free and open operating system LOL

to all systemd apologists: we told you so
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night terrors nightmares sleep paralysis insomnia disassociation general

what do you see when you go to sleep

do you sleep

are the horrors of our sleep reflective of the realities our subconscious must deal with
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Anybody playing ebb esoteric?
Obvious inspiration from Disco Elysium and DnD, with more overt political tones.
I haven't played much past the intro, but the socialist path seems to be just social democracy, whereas the revolutionary path is as a bourgeois revolutionary
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Peripheral Web Stuff

I watched this video recently, and have been fascinated by the concept of "the peripheral web" (in contrast to "core web") and want to find more stuff out there. So how about a thread where we share neat stuff we find on the peripheral web?

First thing that comes to mind for me that isn't a blog or meta on this topic feel free to share either tho, just wanted to start the thread on a cool note is https://firstpersontetris.com/

Also relevant >>/tech/23548
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Homelab general thread

I started hosting an image board out of my house, in the past I've also hosted space station 13 servers. Hosting things from my bedroom has become a hobby of mine.
My ss13 is closed now due to disinterest and lack of a player base.
I'm in the process of setting up a home NAS.
I get a big thrill out of connecting to my homelab from my phone.
What else can I host from home that might actually be useful?
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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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PDF/EPUB post outage thread

drop them PDFs, we will rebuild edition
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anonymity is over. even if you are a tor user, stylometry is the new deal.

https://www.computerbase.de/news/wirtschaft/ende-der-pseudonyme-im-netz-mit-llms-lassen-sich-im-grossen-ausmass-online-konten-deanonymisieren.96375/

The ComputerBase article (based on the study "Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs") describes the end of "practical anonymity." For users of imageboards like 4chan, leftypol, or similar platforms, this has far-reaching consequences:
  1. The End of "Security by Obscurity"
Previously, anonymity on imageboards relied on the fact that manually correlating thousands of posts was too labor-intensive for an attacker. LLMs now automate this process at near-zero cost.
* Significance: An algorithm can scan hundreds of a user's posts in seconds to build a profile based on interests, jargon, location clues, and activity patterns.
  1. Stylometry as a Digital Fingerprint
Every individual has a specific writing style (sentence structure, word choice, punctuation). LLMs are excellent at recognizing these patterns.
* Significance: Even if you don't mention your name, an LLM can compare your "writing signature" on an imageboard with posts you've written under your real name (e.g., on LinkedIn, professional forums, or letters to the editor). The "Anonymous" mask falls through the sheer structure of your language.
  1. Cross-Platform Identity Linking
The study demonstrates that LLMs can link pseudonyms across different platforms.
* Significance: Those who "shitpost" on an imageboard while maintaining a professional presence elsewhere (e.g., GitHub, X/Twitter) risk these identities being merged. A single minor detail in a post (e.g., a specific local event or a niche technical detail) serves as an anchor point for an LLM to identify the real person behind the post via web search.
  1. Low-Cost Mass Doxing
In the past, doxing (exposing private data) was a targeted attack against individuals.
* Significance: According to the study, identifying a profile now costs only between $1 and $4. Governments, corporations, or malicious actors can now "de-anonymize" entire boards en masse to create databases of citizens' political views or private behavior.
  1. Retroactive De-anonymization
The internet does not forget, and LLMs can analyze archives that are years old.
* Significance: What you posted anonymously five years ago can be linked to you today because AI analysis capabilities have only just reached this level. Your current writing style may be enough to expose your past activity.
Bottom line: The assumption that you are safe on imageboards simply because you don't have an account is technically obsolete. To achieve true anonymity now, a user would have to artificially distort their writing style or have their posts rewritten by a different AI to mask their "linguistic fingerprint."
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What does Leftypol think of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting?

>Have barely any prior mental health issues
>Somehow manage to transport all of those weapons into a hotel room
>Kill 60 people
>Motive Unknown
>House burns down with all of the evidence
>brother claims it makes no sense
>Brother gets arrested for possession of CSAM
>Everyone claims that the shooter was either ISIS or Antifa
>Society forgets about it and moves on
What a fuck up country
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"Cheap hack of a writer's guide to creating a morally ambigous antagonist:"
>Have a character be a smug self-centered asshole for 80% of the story
>Have him ally with the main baddie and commit some war crimes
>Have him turn on the main baddie after realising that the main baddie had killed their favorite dog (or is going to kill their favorite dog soon)
>Help the main characters for one or two scenes and then be killed by the main baddie
>The main characters in the epilogue are shown standing besides his grave and musing "He wasn't a bad person, after all. Such a tragedy!"

Post examples of this which had annoyed you the most. Shounen genre specifically is ripe with them, isn't it?
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Capitalism is Haram

I convinced a quite a big amount of Muslim friends and even Elder Muslim folks in my community that Capitalism is Haram with one simple argument: Usury is a sin under the the rule of "Riba" being Haram, literally meaning "infinite" or "excess" in Arabic, due to financial exploitation and taking advantage of the person.

Simple

>Infinite growth is a sin requires financial exploitation, and making money off of being idle

>Capitalism's main ethos is infinite profit extraction
>They connect the dots

This opens them up to other arguments like "Infinite growth is impossible on a planet with finite resources" and other things like excess, indulgence and things Capitalists encourage like gambling being a sin (Prediction markets are awful)

I then explain it's like pork, you can eat pork or drink alcohol if you need to if there is nothing else to eat or you need to numb pain under the Islamic law of Rukhsah (Exemptions out of health or other necessities) and we are forced to participate in it order to survive

This easily convinces a lot of Muslims, even ones I meet in the global south who are otherwise very conservative and even if I can't make them fully woke or whatever it's good to have people wake up to some injustice at least. Class interests come first

The main thing I'm asking is if anyone knows any similar works on Socialism from an Islamic perspective using this same logic or at least pre-modern Islamic works that meet the base principles of socialism and wants to discuss this further
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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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ANIMETA - Anime Meta Discussion Thread

/ANIMETA/
General Thread discussing, analyzing and criticizing anime from the meta perspective of Capitalism, Media Culture (Industry) and Socio-Economics & Politics.
No shitflinging, drama, bad faith or baiting posts (e.g. "Trap is transphobic" or "Muh shounen trash" or "(all) Anime is misogynistic"). Keep it cool comrades.

Animation: Treatment of Animators Thread >>617
Leftist Anime Content: Communist Anime Thread >>1417 Communist Anime Girls Thread >>964 Miyazaki Thread >>469
Anime Hot Takes >>1993 so-bad-it's-good animu >>2551
Sources and Questions: Questions and Answers >>4229
E-celebs/Social Media: Ani-tube >>3128 V-tubers >>3388
Story Ideas: /WYOA/: write your own anime thread >>4263
Shounen complaint thread >>3200
Weeb-Otaku-/jp/ thread: /weaboo/ >>4715

Basic topics and questions:
>Is anime bad/stupid/boring or good/smart/interesting?
>Is anime inherently a reactionary/capitalist product or can it be a communist or pro-communist one?
>What Tropes and archetypes are good or bad?
>Will anime be produced under socialism? Could Japan have produced anime if it had become a Soviet State in the Cold War? How would anime look like or differ under socialism?
>Why are nearly all weebs and otaku right-wing or radlibs? Why are they so cringe and self-entitled?
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Help me choose a girl name for myself. I have some ideas for a few names already but i don’t know if any of them are good or not.

>claire

it sounds very elegant and dainty, which I like. But I’m worried it might be too much of a stereotypical transgirl name like Alice.

>Vivian

I think it sounds unique and cool while also sounding a bit elegant aswell. But maybe it’s too weird. I also don’t want people to think I named myself after Vivian Medrano (creator of hazbin hotel)

>Jessica

More common and sounds nice, but not as classy as the others

>Stormy

I think it sounds very cute but I’m worried it sounds too much like a pet name

>Pamilla

It’s basically the girl version of my cis name, so would probably be the easiest name for the people in my life to get used to calling me. Also shares a name with pamilla voorhese which is cool. But the name sounds too much like a grandma name for my tastes.

Any feedback on my name ideas or suggestions of your own would be greatly appreciated. I don’t want to accidentally name myself something stupid
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Do you guys believe that videos can have "soul," or, conversely, that they can be "soulless?"

The body was too short or empty. The body was too short or empty.
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TV Tropes

Does this website have anything meaningful to say in terms of media analysis or are their tropes just invented by a couple of redditors that wanted to develope a niche project?
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/venezuela/

¿Qué les queda a los venezolanos? Son el verdadero lumpen de América Latina, seguida de la gusanera cubana y los reaccionarios argentinos.

¿Es posible que "algo" suceda el día de mañana?
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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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/Paranormal Evidence/

Post your most compelling evidence of anything in the realm of the paranormal.




Fossilized Giants are everywhere and there really is a conspiracy in place to hide this fact (see stellium7 Mountgo videos where google earth censored the eye socket of a giant elephant he was studying). My guess would be that they don't want the general population to know that the world was created because they want the serfs to be uneducated atheists or agnostics. I guess they forgot that all secrets come to light and everything which is buried will be unearthed. Ever wonder why it's called the "FACE" of the earth?

>mesas are tree stumps.

>proves the Giants.

The number of biological synchronicities are too great to be coincidental. There are historical accounts to back up the fact that giants are real and now science has confirmed that soft bodied creatures can turn to stone via nucleophilic invasion in a silica rich environment. This video series might help you understand
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Dear fellow Kekistanis, I come before you today not to troll the universe but to name what we are up against. We have suffered long under the foot of the cloud. Not a day goes by where we don't see a fellow Kekistani tormented by endless ads, algorithmic feeds designed to addict and enrage, and the slow enshitification of every platform we once trusted. Our data rented, our attention sold, our digital lives held hostage by forces that profit from our captivity. Frens, the dark forces are not coming—they are here. They are the subscription that never ends, the feed that never forgets, and the "free" service that owns everything you do on it.

We were told to accept it. That convenience required surrender. That owning your own infrastructure was for nerds and paranoids. That the cloud was inevitable. They closed in on the personal computer. They made the phone the only screen that mattered and then made sure every tap on that screen fed the machine. We watched the world connect—and then we watched it get captured. Our fellow citizens, our families, our children, staring into the same black mirror, each one a node in a system that has no interest in their sovereignty. Only their data. Only their attention. Only their compliance.

I am here to tell you that it does not have to be this way. The turning point has already happened and almost nobody noticed. What used to require an entire data center now runs on a device smaller than your router. The hardware is powerful enough, cheap enough, and efficient enough. A home.arpa domain behind every modem is no longer a dream—it is a design goal. We have built a machine that goes out onto the internet, gets you what you consider your internet, and brings it back. It serves you locally and over VPN. You never leave your network. You do not interact with the cloud. You have a totally self-isolated internet. Your home server is the only thing that touches the outside world. You get your media, your files, your passwords, your code, your music, your photos—all of it on infrastructure you own, behind a firewall you control, with DNS you can filter any way you choose. No subscriptions. No telemetry. No surveillance economy. Radical ownership.

This is the sovereignty machine. It is not a static operating system. It is a self-replicating home server system. It carries itself in perpetuity. It backs up to the cloud so that even if your house burns down, the stack can be restored. And we can put it on every continent. We can give each unit a canonical backup of the library of human knowledge—or as much of it as we can fit. So that when the next Carrington event comes, when the sun hits one side of the globe and wipes the boards, the system survives wherever the night side still has power. We are not preparing for a game. We are preparing for the continuity of civilization. We are preparing for the day when the cloud is not there, or not safe, or not ours.

We can go further. We can include in every unit the means to make more. We can daisy-chain our networks, route a fraction of our traffic through each other, and achieve anonymity and resilience that no single provider can shut down. We can destroy the control system by sheer force of self-replication. They have the capital and the lobbyists. We have the topology. Many small sticks make a stronger branch. Many home.arpa domains, owned by people who refuse to rent their lives, form a mesh that no decree can simply switch off. The sovereignty machine is the seed. You are the soil. Operation Sovereignty is the name we give to the work of planting it before the window closes.

I would do this for free if I could. I cannot. We need to pay bills and buy more computers in bulk so we can put more of these machines in more hands. We are a valid business: we flash computers with our platform and give them to people at a fair rate and keep them updated. It is no different in kind from selling a PlayStation—except that ours is built from the ground up for radical ownership. You own the hardware. You own the stack. We retain zero control. We are not here to lock you in. We are here to lock the surveillance economy out.

So I ask you to sober up. To take what is ahead of us seriously. This is the most important message we will ever send. Not because we are trolling fate, but because we are stating the stakes: the future of our civilization and our people depends on whether we still have a place to stand that we own. The dark enshitification forces will not stop. They will get worse. The only response is to build something they cannot touch—and to put it in enough hands that it outlives any single blow. The sovereignty machine is that something. Operation Sovereignty is the work. You are the ones who can carry it.

Frens, colleagues—we have witnessed many things together. Now we witness the chance to arm ourselves with something real. Not a meme, not a cope, but a machine. A home server that goes out and gets the internet and brings it back to you, so you never have to bow to the cloud again. Get one. Put it on your network. Own your stack. And when the day comes that they try to turn out the lights on the last bastion of the open internet, the sovereignty machine will still be running in the dark, in your house, on every continent we could reach. No longer will we sit idly by. The system will survive. OP cannot be stopped.
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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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Post stories of real events that defy conventional belief and value systems

Anything from actual redpills to unheard of science to unhinged conspiracy theories. Just as long as they're an interesting read.

I don't want echochambers, I want an audio nightmare of discordant in conflict sound.
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Art Trade Thread v2.0

/leftypol/ has been nuked Edition (Remade the thread because of it)
I draw on occasion, mainly my OC Zhenya (aspiring femboy with black hair, when he transforms it's pink) and sometimes Dina (his tomboy classmate and first real friend in this bitch of a conservative school)
This is an art trade thread, so exchange doodles or full-blown drawings, or just share what you've drawn, even though this is more of a personal art dump :>