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/brg/ - Brazil General

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

O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>19167
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ocarina of time remake extended gameplay!!! i'm soyfacing to an insane degree rn

THOTS?!?!?!?!?!??!!
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GREEN BART- GET RICH OR TRY SMILING

IM GREEN BART

REAL MUSIC FOR REAL GREEN ASS BART PEOPLE, MUSIC TO STOP GOING TO WORK TO, MUSIC TO STOP BEING MAD AT YOUR MOM AND DAD

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO0lwDBaZU_g
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Mishima & Evola's writings

I think that this is the only community that is the best qualified at resolving this mystery. Does everyone who's interested in Evola's magic, suffer from gender dysphoria?

Gender dysphoria doesn't always have to mean that you want to be another gender. It could even include that you're suffering because you're not fulfilling your ideal of your self-identified gender and in that case, it resolves with age because ideals change.

Weininger → Evola → Mishima

Both Weininger and Mishima died to suicide and Weininger studied and released a book on gender before he died at a young age. Mishima lived for decades in love with the idea of his own death and prepared for it. He wasn't stereotypically straight and was fully aware of Magnus Hirschfeld's work on LGBTQ+ as a Japanese writer.

If both Weininger and Mishima had personal troubles with gender, did Evola too have trouble with gender?

https://www.reddit.com/r/literature/comments/1ly1h24/yukio_mishimas_gender_and_his_path_to_suicide/
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How do I stop from hating humanity?

I'm so tired of it all. Everyone believing the lies. Everyone legislating our torture. Everyone celebrating our oppression. Everyone pretending they're justified. All the money, all the technology, all the grifting, all just to hurt me and the handful of my kind. I just want to give up and cry.

I know that's what they want. They want us to hate humanity so they can justify branding us as terrorists. They want to push us into a corner where the whole world is against us, and our only choice is to fight back, so they can use that retaliation to manufacture consent for our eradication. It's the exact same playbook they've been using against the people of Palestine.

But even as horrible as things are for them, at least they have people fighting for them. The powerful stomp them into dust, but there's a dim light at the end of their tunnel of thorns. Journalists risk their lives to spread awareness, citizens risk arrest for speaking out. They have real allies in this fight, a frayed thread to cling to. We have no flickering light of hope, we have only ourselves.

People might feign support in passing, but anything more than empty platitudes is asking too much. Nobody wants to make even minor sacrifices for us. Nobody wants to spread empathy or awareness for us. Everyone is all too happy to let us sink to second-class citizens. Everyone is all to happy to publicly dehumanize us without so much as flinching. Nobody knows we're 10 times more likely to be murdered. Nobody knows there's state-mandated conversion therapy and human experiments. Nobody even knows what V-coding is. When they start marching us into the ovens, will anyone even know? Will anyone even care?

How can I cope? How can I not become jaded? I don't want to hate the human race, but anything less feels like letting myself be in an abusive relationship. I'm so tired.
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Michael Jackson and the left

Why does it seem like so many leftists support Michael Jackson to the point where they make defending him from all his abuse allegations a political issue?

I've seen this a lot recently, with the new MJ biopic out as well as all the new allegations of abuse from the Cascio family and also a new Leaving Neverland documentary. In spite of the left staunchly holding on to #metoo and the fact abuse survivors/victims need to be believed and supported, the same isn't true with the multiple people who have accused MJ of CSA and grooming. The Epstein case has made discussions of pedophilia, CSA, and power imbalances in relationships mainstream. People are even going so far as to debate whether or not the Age of Consent should be raised to 21 in order to shield 18-year olds from predatory 30-year olds. Yet, if you bring up the fact MJ engaged in such things, you're denounced as a right-winger or reactionary (or even a racist).

Perhaps the most bizarre claims I've heard is that MJ was pro-Palestine and (allegedly) wrote a song about Palestine, Israel knew this so Mossad planted the CSA allegations against him in order to ruin him before the song could be recorded. There's no evidence of this, and MJ actually travelled to Israel and met with the IOF about a month after the Chandlers made the allegations known. I've also heard the conspiracy that MJ was protecting kids from the "real predators" in Hollywood and was saving kids from being trafficked to Epstein Island. That claim is easily debunked once you realize Epstein didn't buy his infamous island until 1998, and MJ was already taking in kids long before that.

And let's be honest: even if MJ did nothing criminal with the boys he surrounded himself with, his behaviours with them was still NOT appropriate. A grown man in his 30s and 40s should never, ever be having sleepovers with 8,9, and 10-year olds, much less sharing a bed with them. Plus, all of the stories his accusers tell fit perfectly with the model of grooming: MJ would dazzle the parents of these kids and buy them lots of expensive items, the parents would let their guards down and allow him to do what he pleased with their children, then MJ would have almost romantic-like relations with these kids. In no possible world would that ever be acceptable for a grown man to do.

So what gives? Why do so many comrades still defend MJ so viciously?
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hi its me again

why cant everyday life feel like this album




body too short body too short body too short body too short body too short body too short
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Anime Music Videos and webms

AMV thread
I know that AMVs aren't as big (or good) as they used to be, but I certainly think they're a lot of fun so lets enjoy the best of it!
https://www.animemusicvideos.org/home/home.php
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GTA VI TRAILER 2 JUST DROPPED!!!!!
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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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Alternative treatments for gender dysphoria

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

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

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

Feels good to be vindicated as opposed to the people on /tech/ who said hes a good guy or whatevr.
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die beste, inoffizielle art X zu benutzen. diese app ist ein echter gamechanger, definitiv eines meiner lieblings services. was habt ihr für geheimtipps?

https://github.com/Teskann/QuaX
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/Unemployment/

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

How can you protect yourself from a drone attack as an individual?

I know there are ways to beat drones using tech but as a foot soldier on the ground, how can you maximise your survivability?
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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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New vid

I got a new vid out, will you please re-distribute some views and subs my way comrades?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a28vk3UfOcU

You know you like big tiddy goth girls
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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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trolling the CEO of mastodon.

this could be very funny!

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

not too short. not too short. not too short
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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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Digital Grass Thread 2

Take a moment to find a website you didn't know about before, or ones you just think are neat, and share them here.

The thread from last year on /siberia/ didn't get archived, unfortunately, so posting here so it lasts longer.
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Writing and Fanfiction General

Thread for those who like to read and write including fanfiction. Share drafts, look for beta-readers, ask for writing advice, give recommendations and do all that other cool jazz. Just remember to not bully anyone else no matter how shit their taste might be.
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HoI4 +HoI4 Modding Thread

Legacy of the Chinareich Edition

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

So most recently the latest update from vanilla broke every mod's nation selection screen. You simply hate to see it
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https://youtu.be/9PU1e7kfkfs?is=pg2tYVlqczFkaQH_
What is the general consensus on this piece of interactive media that takes the form of a post apocalyptic grand strategy game? Hopes? Dreams? Thoughts?
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Sad

Post music to cry to.
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NEO CHINA COMES FROM THE FUTURE!

I AM A MASTER PROGRAMMER! I AM GOD!

THIS IS MY MASTERPIECE! I MADE THIS WITH 0% CODING KNOWLEDGE. JUST GEMINI. I AM BECOMING INSANE.

https://pst.moe/paste/fxkvpi
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shrek ...animeスレッド

はじめまして。小林です。こちらには西洋アニメファンもありませんか?
そのシュレックという作品は結構面白いかな。
ちょうw。
もしそんなみたいなアニメのすすめを持ったら素晴らしいものです。
英語はOK。それにいつかテックサスにも旅行つもりです。よろしくお願いします。
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/bi/

<hurr durr why do bifags end up with women
Because relationships with women have many of the same issues but none of the social baggage of being in a gay relationship.
Anyway had a fight with my bf last night and now wanna call it quits. Anyone else know how to cope with this?
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Fanmods, total conversions, and independent projects

I was kind of intending this thread to be a storehouse of replies for

<hurrr but who would work without profit motive???? you ever thought about that commie?


where fans have for one reason or another put in a great deal of time and effort to maintain or recreate digital experiences.

For example, I stumbled on some videos for a fan recreation of TIE fighter which, from the clips of it, looks really neat. It seems like video related is a mod based off of another mod for the million year old X-wing Alliance engine. I need to look further into it and see if it's built off of the original game, or its own standalone deal meant to mimic it.

Then there's also Tamriel Reborn that seems like it isn't just a remake of the original, but actually expands on the original Morrowind, I guess to add back in all of the content that had to be cut. Apparently they've been going at it since 2001.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKyrzZRo-O0

Then there's DOOM, which has just had an insane amount of work done on it and with it since it was released. It's actually pretty amazing to see what people are capable of doing with it after so long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3bwKzHEpbA
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azumanga daioh

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

Previous thread: >>36889
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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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Are there any multiplayer FPS/TPS games that are actually good?

I've been seeing all the hype over Wardogs but apparently it already has tons of hackers, and they're going to do progress wipes (kill me). I tried looking up comparable games but they all just have terrible reviews about how the developers ruined the game and shit like that, is there anything actually good to play?
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what are some popular (somehow) games that are extremely boring? games that go for dozens of hours and have a shitfuckton of dialogue and are repetitive af

and is any of these games worth playing
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En tu opinión, quién es el mejor poeta hispanohablante de la historia? No conozco ni uno. Quiero aprovechar ya que hablo español.

meow.
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Based tgirl

A transsexual woman from Mexico City just beat the shit out of some far-right incel losers.

If she can do it, what are YOU as a trans woman/man doing to eradicate fascist rats from YOUR country?
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Never gonna pass

I'm a disgusting male on estrogen and I'm pretending that I'm a trans woman. I only do it online though, so as to not harm actual women idk what to do at this point I've got a vial of estrogen I'll keep taking till it runs out is it worth getting into peptides to stop being ugly and fat
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The greenSS randomly ejected a trans woman and sent her a link to a suicide hotline
How is the United KKKingdom genuinely this mind raped?

meow meow meow meow
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Luna roasts Alice

>Sup, can a hon come up in yo crib?
<bitch, fuck you. i'll see you at cord
>aw tr*nny, don't hate me cus i pass tr*nny, maybe if you got that old weave brushed you'd get some bitches on ya gock.
>Oh better yet maybe Lilith would call your puppy-ass if she ever stop fuckin' wit that femboy or theyfab she fuckin' with…
>Tr*nny~…
<What?
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Film Thread II

Hola filmfags, last thread was full so here we are. I'm thinking we also could use this thread as Films You Just Watched edition 3 as traffic is low.
Here's the list of the first thread I very subjectively added some shit to.

&ltS Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre
>Kubrick: 2001, Barry Lyndon
>Shane Carruth: Primer

&ltA Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
>De Sica: Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D.
>Pontecorvo: Battle of Algiers
>Cocteau: Orpheus, Blood of a Poet
>Godard: Breathless, Band of Outsiders, The Little Soldier
>Kurosawa: Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, Ran, High and Low
>Mizoguchi: Sansho, Ugetsu
>Kobayashi: Seppuku, Human Condition
>Fritz Lang: Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, M
>Bunuel: Discreet Charm, Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel
>Kieslowski: Dekalog
>David Lynch: Anything, including Twin Peaks old and new.
>Ki-duk Kim: Spring, Summer…
>Gilliam: Brazil
>Kubrick (pt. 2): The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, FMJ
>Villeneuve: Incendies, Arrival

&ltA- Tier - Entertainment
>Cronenberg: Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers
>Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three, Sunset Blvd, Witness for the Prosecution
>Becker: Le Trou, Touchez pas au Grisbi
>Melville: Army of Shadows, Le Cercle Rouge, Bob le Flambeur
>Clouzot: Diabolique, Wages of Fear (the ultimate languagefag film)
>Bresson: A Man Escaped, Pickpocket
>Renoir: The Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game
>Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant, King of NY
>Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre
>Peckinpah: Straw Dogs, Alfredo Garcia
>Woody Allen: Annie Hall. All the other old-and-good ones too.
>Carpenter: The Thing, They Live
>Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
>Scorsese: Kind of Comedy, Taxi Driver. The rest can kinda fuck off.
>Hitchcock: Pretty much all of them.
>Don Coscarelli: John Dies at the End
>Villeneuve (pt. 2): Sicario, Dune

Also:
First thread >>>1660
Films You Just Watched 2.0 >>>24481

Let's talk about movies, then.
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Psyop anti-Argentina

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

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

Algo estan cocinando. Guarden post
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eiii to perdida turista aqui

EU to confusa, minha primeira vez usando aqui, droparam o link do site no forum LGBT do 4cham e eu entrei, queria saber se tem alguma menina trans por aqui
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what happened to call of duty, it kinda became oppsite of what it used to be

What happened to call of duty, it kinda became opposite of what it used to be. The games feel completely bloated now and they completely lost that original, classic identity that made the older titles so good.
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Sadpill

>sad this board does not get many visitors
>such juicy topics to discuss but nobody cares
>retards stuck on /leftypol/
Why is the world like this?

Anyways, I recently visited the pleroma, if anybody is curious, hit me up.
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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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Poppy straw tea

Any experience making this? Just looking for comfortable self therapy for aches and pains. I cant seem to find any results when I websearch for any sellers of the straw, even though its legal (for non extractive use aha). other than that you guys have any Idea on how to process the stuff and how to control concentration? from what little gpt research Ive done concentration values can vary from 1000-2000mg/kg of the morphy. Ideally Id only want like 5-10 mg in a cuppa tea. nothing to get smacked on
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what religion explains this?

I have come to the conclusion that demons obviously exist, and they are winning. (Epstein, chatgpt, etc)
what religion can I look into that explains the prevelance of demons in society?
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PDF/EPUB post outage thread

drop them PDFs, we will rebuild edition
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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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Why and how did microdosing shrooms fixed my life better than everything else I tried ffs

Also shreems thread.
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/pgg/ Puzzle Games General

Post about logic puzzles, puzzle vidya and other puzzle type games. Do you play any games with some regularity? What are your goto ones to relax?

Picrel is the Zero romhack for NES Tetris. I recently started playing two games of Tetris in parallel to see if i can improve my multitasking and this is the score of the first game i finished without getting a headache.
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Leftist Argument copypasta general /LACG/

Post Copy pastas, videos and books which debunk common Fascist, Liberal talking points which are repeated often.
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>IT workers don't need an union, that's socialism and we are libertarian entrepreneurs who are going to be rich
>NOOOOOOOOOO WE JUST GOT MASS LAYOFFED AND REPLACED BY AI
Does this happen in your country?
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BUMP WHILE HIGH THREAD

bwh
/bwh/
bump while high
this is a thread you can bump when you're high
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I greatly dislike being a trans woman

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

Discuss what info, links, resources, etc. to add on this sticky as well as drop ideas and suggestions to the /leftymu/ board at large

Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#leftymusic:matrix.org
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Why isn’t Latin America considered part of the west

Pictured: Huntington’s retarded “Clash of Civilizations” thesis, mapped

Serious question. By all cultural, economical and political metrics, Latin America is part of the western world and, dare I say, far more western than many European countries and all of East Asia. Let’s start with the basics.

  1. Majority religion in the region is Christianity across all Latin American countries, with Protestant and Catholics being the two biggest denominations there.

  2. All Latin American countries have an European language as the primary language and lingua Franca. Mostly Spanish, but Portuguese in Brazil’s case, and (tentatively FWIW) French in the cases of the French Guyana and Haiti, with said languages being the sole official or co-official language in their country.

  3. All Latin American countries have been republics for much longer than many European states today

  4. With the exception of Brazil which broke ties with the kingdom of Portugal by establishing its own monarchy, all former Spanish colonies waged revolutionary wars of independence modelled after the American and French bourgeois revolutions, and installed in place republican governments modelled after enlightenment principles

  5. Latin American cultures are heavily based on European cultures. Sure, it’s specifically Iberian, but decades of European immigration has brought in influences from other parts of Europe like Italy and Northern Europe. Of course there are African and indigenous influences too, but ultimately LatAm cultures are heavily derivative of European ones, as indicated by both language and religion.

  6. For much of its history, Latin American countries have rarely if ever been involved with Africa and Asia, instead having been more heavily involved in western affairs, of which Latin America’s ones are part of.

  7. A substantial portion of Latin Americans are of predominantly European descent, and even the mixed race majority in LatAm has predominant or slight European ancestry, meaning that they aren’t completely divorced from Europe

  8. In terms of domestic affairs, many are currently western liberal democracies (however flawed it might be) that follow along the politics of both the USA and European domestic politics. Indeed, most Latin American countries are structured after western countries and have been so for centuries.


Now, I should mention that being western and being peripheral aren’t mutually exclusive since countries like China aren’t western and yet aren’t deemed as peripheral either. So no, being a core country isn’t a strict requirement for”western status”.

All in all, I fail to see why shouldn’t Latin America (or the entirety of the western hemisphere bar Suriname and Guyana for that matter) be deemed as part of the western world and, but extension, have Latinos be deemed as westerners without resorting to double standards and selective bias.
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middle-class retirees re-entering the workforce

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

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

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

post jah chune n dat fam
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Can Ranma get preggers? Could Ranma get preggers with his own sperm between forms? What happens if Ranma gets hit with hot water while preggers?
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>existe uma possibilidade acima de zero de eu ouvir a palavra "leftypol" no jornal de amnhã

acham que tem possibilidade de o Mijão realmente tentar um falseflag ou foi só um anão esquizofrenico?
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What do I take to turn me into a complete normie?

I love drinking and the social boost that comes with it, but it doesn't "truly" turn me into a normie, just lowers inhibition a lot, I'm still an awkward autist. Gabapentin made me a bit more talkative and made me feel good but that's about it, will probably have to tweak the dosage a bit. I've heard pregab is good but haven't had the chance to take it. Can someone suggest any others?
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Fighting games

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

Talk space socialism to me. Was recently rewatching a few series with my fiance, both old and new Trek, and we both feel like Deep Space 9 is our favorite series (closely followed by TNG).

Everything else in order from best-to-worst would be:
Deep Space 9
The Next Generation
Voyage Home
Wrath of Khan
Undiscovered Country
Enterprise
Picard Season 3
Lower Decks
Voyager
Prodigy
Motion Picture
Strange New Worlds
Original Series
Beyond
First Contact
Generations
Discovery
Nemesis
Insurrection
Star Trek 2009
Into Darkness
Picard Seasons 1&2

Skipped a couple of the TOS movies we haven't seen cause it wouldn't be fair to rank them. Also split Picard up since the 3rd season is basically a different show both in quality and tone.

Previous thread:
>>1857
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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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Why did From Software decide to make Elden Ring about gay incest?

meow.
meow.
meow.
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I just need to bounce back

I said as i'm back at dreaming of my death in a bed of flowers like princess Padme as i did back when i was 15

i didn't even knew i wanted to be a woman, and somehow being dressed and presented as one and put in a casket full of flowers for everyone's last memories of me felt like the way to go.
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I don't give a fuck about your gender.

I seriously don't care what your pronouns are, you don't need them, no-one needs them. I barely even care what your name is. I don't care what you have in your pants unless you want me to touch it. This shit is an absolute waste of time and I only tolerate it because the patriarchal status quo is fucking poison and these coping mechanisms might help a few aching people.

Act how you want. Just don't expect me to accept society's genderist delusion. Masculinity is a spook. Femininity is a spook. You're looking for something lying underneath those labels - not the labels themselves.
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Just started working at a new job.

Boss wants me to operate a forklift without a license, move extremely heavy and broken pallets through a tight hallway, where I sometimes climb up the pallets, but I get minimum wage.
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ethnic boymoder thread

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

How do you feel about it (and its creator)?
also please spam Charlie pics
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College seems like a load of bullshit to me, all fluff and no actual learning

HIIII its me ERVA!!
I've come to complain about my experience with college and schooling as a whole. As a bonus I posted some pics of my books.

But anyway Ill keep it short and sweet, college feels like an extension the same bullshit I dealt with in high school.

I was expecting college to be more focused on writing in depth essays/proofs and reading big large books and writing summaries and drawing diagrams for the professor. In reality though school has been thoroughly taken over by online bullshit, online assignment sheets that you fill in the answers for.
I'm fine with repetition, in fact repetition is actually good for learning at times, but this just feels lazy, and it blocks actual learning it feels like for me.

Idk, I guess I've just been so accustomed to self study and doing writing summaries and essays according to what the books Ive read that it feels really weak by comparison.

I've told my parents how I feel and they say that I just gotta wait till I get into a more advanced class, but idk If I really have the patience for that :(.

Honestly the one thing I am currently going to school for to learn, medical stuff (surgery) may not even be necessary.
I really really wanna learn brain surgery, but honestly college just seems so boring and a barrier to actual learning that I might just try to learn surgery outside of school.
Of course theres books on it, but for something like that I'd need actual samples to work on.

Idk.
Maybe I should still go to school…. :(

also not trying to bookflex on ppl w that library pic, I havent even begun to read all of them
currently just reading my biology book for the course Im taking and euler algebra (working my way up to his calc textbooks)
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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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/hrtgen/

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

See following post for a pharmacy list.

Survey: https://1drv.ms/xs/s!AudRJceTA5C9c2G5lCV2Avq0kQ0
▶ Survey data: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AudRJceTA5C9cyIWo6_X14AvHyM
▶ HRTGen Data Analysis: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AudRJceTA5C9gRLLWnbpdzlIxe4r
▶ HRT Info Sheets: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AudRJceTA5C9gQnyM7wxZcBGWRzW
▶ Pill ID: https://www.drugs.com/imprints.php
▶ DrugBank: https://www.drugbank.com/
▶ Basic HRT: https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/gsc/assets/hormones_MTF.pdf
▶ HRT ranges: https://www.hemingways.org/GIDinfo/hrt_ref.htm
▶ Powers Method: https://powersfamilymedicine.com/s/Healthcare-of-the-Transgender-Patient-V60.pptx
▶ Endocrine Society Guidelines: https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/102/11/3869/4157558
▶ Transline Guidelines (with bicalutamide): https://transline.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/360047702053/TransLine_HRT_Guidelines_FINAL.pdf
▶ WPATH SOC: https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc
▶ TransDIY: https://www.reddit.com/r/transDIY
▶ Blood tests (US): https://www.privatemdlabs.com/, https://www.labsmd.com/
▶ Blood tests (UK, Ireland): https://www.medichecks.com/
▶ Blood tests (Canada Only): https://bloodtestscanada.com/
▶ Blood tests (Sweden): https://werlabs.se/
▶ Blood tests by mail: https://www.letsgetchecked.com/ DIY capillary blood samples. Expensive.
▶ Lab test guide: https://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/
https://www.inhousepharmacy.vu/t-shipping.aspx- Has been popular in the US. Ships from Vanuatu to some countries.
▶ euaibolitatgmaildotcom - Ships from EU to Worldwide.
https://unitedpharmacies-uk.md/(UK only) - Ships from HK.
https://unitedpharmacies.md/(US only) - Ships from HK.
https://alldaychemist.com/- Ships from India to some countries.
https://shape-shifter.webnode.page/- Ships from Turkey to Worldwide.
https://stayhealthynow.co/- Ships from Turkey to Worldwide
https://amazing4health.com/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.
https://favskinhouse.com/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.
https://goodstuffstore.net/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.
https://otc-online-store.com/- Ships from Russia to Worldwide.
https://www.weborderpharmacy.md/(US only) - Ships from India.
https://www.weborderpharmacy-uk.md/(UK only) - Ships from India.
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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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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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Chainsmoker Cat

What do we think about this disgusting nicotine-addicted lumpen of a cat girl?

Can't tell if this anime is even for or against smoking. Bunch of poop, piss, nyaa jokes and what not actually I appreciate how unhinged it is
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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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I definitely don't want to be a man, but something keeps me from fully feeling like a woman. I don't feel any solidarity or strong connection to men or women; I see them as alien to me and mired in an unnecessary idpol. I feel uncomfortable when I have to identify my gender. It's like I'm a third gender or something. Is this normal and will it go away with time? I've been on HRT for a little over half a year, obviously boymoding.
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guys rate my os
is it cool?
my specs area pentium p6200 2 gigabytes of ddr3 ram made by micron a 500 gigabyte Toshiba hard drive and intergrated grafics
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>They wrote books, so they HAVE to be right about everything!
>I've read all the literature! What? What do you mean "other ideas"?
>My argument? Let me find the page…
How do you deprogram the type of leftist who takes literature as literal gospel? The one with all-or-nothing thinking incapable of nuance or critical thought or questioning any passages of the "holy scriptures"?
Is this person even of value to the leftist movement, or is their religiously-wired mind more detrimental to leftist evolution than their manpower is beneficial to revolution?
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Reggae/Ska/Rocksteady General

Post all music that’s in the style of reggae, ska and their derivants

Bonus points:
Post any reggae musician that’s not Bob Marley

*meow
meow
meow
meow*
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What should you do when 'phobes deny the truth?

>transhumanists/fags are da modern/joowish invention!
<Wrong *insert link to the list of pre-Hirschfeld trans/homosexuals*
>They wuznt real transhumanists/fags! Fake history!
or
>People become gay/trans cuz *insert idealistic goyslop*
<Wrong *insert link to the neurological studies n shi*
>Fake science! Author is Joowish (John JohnSON is da joowish name, rite?)
It's amazing how much cuckservative discourse is just them denying facts, thus making discourse impossible.
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whats the retort to this?

the book "Drugs as Weapons Against Us" by john l. potash posits that drugs (including marijuana) is used by the powers that be (capital) for the purpose of suppression and control (opium wars, cia mkultra, contras, etc). i imagine the fine folks over here might surely have something different to say, discuss.
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Owning guns shouldn’t be a issue yet it is.

Look i love guns as much as the next person but sometimes i feel like we’re pointing in the direction of either major reform or outright banning them. And theres no way to cure a mental health crisis or poverty not without money some people arent willing to pay owning guns should be a right people retain till the end of time but its hard to think about it feeling like sometimes your in the wrong
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Measuring CMOS Sensor Failure / Functional OCR Reliability After Exposure to High Intensity Lasers

you guys are not my political equals. i am vastly different in my disposition. that isn't what I'm here to discuss. I'm here for results against a surveillance state and to build a better future.
i am looking to build a low-cost sacrificial CMOS sensor test rig. interested in characterizing how permanent sensor degradation propagates through an image pipeline and eventually causes OCR failure. not primarily interested in temporary saturation/blinding. the question is where the functional threshold actually occurs after persistent sensor damage accumulates.
>Hardware
Raspberry Pi 4 as controller and replaceable CSI camera modules. IMX477 HQ Camera as primary test sensor IMX296 global-shutter comparison. IMX219 as cheap disposable baseline. interchangeable optics, fixed hardware and software baseline.
>Optical source
controlled, wavelength-defined laser source. output will be measured and recorded to construct a reproducible guide. fixed image sensor mounting and consistent exposure intensity and angling analagous to real world conditions. treat each camera module as a sacrificial test article. the goal is the destruction of optical recognition capabilities in a reproducible and on-the-go formula.
>Software
Raspberry Pi OS/libcamera OpenCV + NumPy Tesseract + PaddleOCR RAW + processed-frame capture automated OCR against a standardized text target
>Goal
log dead/stuck pixel count, persistent defect distribution saturation/clipping noise/SNR contrast and edge degradation OCR confidence character error rate / word error rate
>tl;dr
baseline sensor, controlled exposure, capture RAW + processed frame, run OCR, map persistent defects, repeat with fresh sensor
The interesting result is the curve:
sensor degradation → image-quality degradation → OCR error rate
rather than simply declaring the camera “dead” when OCR first fails.
Looking for recommendations on Pi-compatible sensors that would make useful analogues for higher-end commercial OCR/machine-vision cameras, particularly sensors with RAW access and well-documented characteristics.
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do americans even like playing videogames?

every server i have to share with american players they're either cheating, trolling, immediately detaching themselves off the game whenever someone tries to take it serious, literally being too high off their fucking brains to even know where they are, or just downright begging for attention with racist rants or in the case of queers, just turning the whole server into ERP

and the most "hardcore oldfag" gamers spend more time complaining about videogames than playing them

so what is even going on with americans and videogames?
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/dead/ reads

what are you reading right now?
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Draw Alunya 4

Alunya Art thread 4th edition
(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)
A thread for drawfriends to make new art of Cat Alunya.
The bestest leftist catgirl everyone knows!
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Sex is disgusting, imagine putting your pee hole into someone elses pee hole or poop hole like what the fuck? how can someone do that and not feel disgusted? im killing every single sex-defending homofascist and heterofascist, cry ablt it, TROGLODYTE, go STUDY ELEPHANT SEAL HAREM, you SUBHUMANS ARE ELEPHANT SEAL HAREM, sex-defenders dont have rights, sex-defenders are the problem, the only good sex-defender is a DEAD one.
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Autistici/Inventati case sets a new counterterrorism precedent, Irdi says

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

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


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



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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


< A: The asset freeze is probably the least significant part of the measure: it is difficult to imagine that a small Italian association has substantial assets in the United States. The real effect comes instead through de-risking. A U.S. designation prompts banks, payment systems, registrars, hosting providers and connectivity providers to pre-emptively cut ties.

< An entity can therefore effectively be expelled from the services market without any court ruling ever having been issued in Italy, and potentially without a criminal proceeding even having been opened. In other words, the real coercive power of the United States lies in progressively making it impossible to bank, host or provide services to the designated entity.

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


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


>Q: Why have we reached this point?


< A: Because over the past few years, the evolution of hostile activities in Europe has followed a very clear trend, especially on the Russian side. After the mass expulsion of Russian officers operating under cover, Moscow has increasingly relied on intermediaries and proxies.

< Assessments by European intelligence services describe a model in which recruiters can identify financially vulnerable individuals or people from criminal environments online and task them with surveillance, vandalism, arson or sabotage. Contact takes place remotely, payment can be made in cryptocurrencies and the person carrying out the act may not even know who they are actually working for.

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


< A: The advantage of this model is deniability. If an operation is built through a succession of intermediaries, it becomes much more difficult to trace it back to the principal. And if the operational model is based on intermediation, it is quite natural for the response to begin shifting from the perpetrators to the enablers: not only those who physically carry out the act, but also those who provide the infrastructure that makes it possible or more difficult to attribute. This is an important evolution of the security paradigm.

< The U.S. designation of A/I does not claim that the organisation is controlled by Russia and should not be interpreted in that way. But the analytical perspective is the same: identifying not only those who carry out the action, but also the network of actors and tools that makes it possible.

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


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


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


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


>Q: What would be the critical point?


< A: For example, it is difficult to imagine that all allies would accept the principle that networks which, in some way, are associated with the Antifa sphere should no longer be allowed to provide services. A very careful distinction must be drawn between political affiliation, protest activity, ideological radicalism and concrete support for violence.

< The same infrastructure can be used by a dissident, a journalist, a political activist or someone claiming responsibility for an act of sabotage. In A/I’s case, projects are openly selected based on their compatibility with certain political principles. Taken on its own, that is a rather weak element on which to base judicial proceedings.

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


< A: That they will increasingly have to confront the structural elements of the threat. Intelligence may reach the conclusion that an organization represents a risk, but moving from that assessment to a measure carrying legal consequences requires different standards. The issue raised by the A/I case is therefore broader than the individual organisation.

< It is another manifestation of a dilemma that liberal democracies are facing in many different forms as they confront modern threats to their security: how to fight them without eroding the safeguards that constitute their foundation and, ultimately, their freedom.
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After nearly two decades, I realize that this r*tarded angel was a fucking weirdo groomer, OH MY FUCKING GOOOOOD BRO WTF

I was a child when i watched this series whyyyyyy :[
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Jazz General

Time to share some of that most sophisticated music, you know what it is.

https://youtu.be/LgaIUqH0w6c
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All surgeries on the Welsh Gender Service cancelled

Last week an English terf grifter made an "expose" on how more people were getting surgeries on the WGS than in England. This got shared on Welsh nationally funded news. Due to this, along with whining from tories, NHS Wales has cancelled every single surgery including ones only hours away from happening. Basically trans people in Wales have had their healthcare stripped from them by some angloid whiners.

https://yserengoch.cymru/2026/08/29/oppose-transphobic-libel-on-welsh-government-funded-news-site/
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prolestations - the desktop thread

Share your desktop!

Installed NeoVim a few days ago. It's my new favorite Emacs!
Am currently writing some monadic parser combinators in Common Lisp with Vlime.
Using nwm as my window manager inside of NeoVIm!
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A general for "western" animations/cartoons.

New thread for Western animation (or wanime) now that the old one is full at long last. The old thread can be found here:

>>22171

I'm sure with everything we've seen and learned from the last thread, this one will be even better.

Related threads:
Hazbin Hotel: >>5447
TADC: >>46854
MLP: >>37939
Lefty/co/: >>1328
Communist cartoon General: >>47870
Animation today: >>7658
Knights of Guinevere: >>46648
KOTH: >>46468

Good luck, be yourself, and don't forget to have FUN.
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Cockshott's critique of "Born This Way"

Paul Cockshott has recently uploaded a video arguing against the idea that gay people are born gay, and that genes can affect sexuality. Instead Coockshott believes that being gay is caused by capitalism. He outlines his "theory" explaining this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f1nisT6ji8
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I dislike the leftist emphasis on "work"

Don't get me wrong, I fully support unions and workers' rights but I don't think labor is a good thing in and out of itself. Creative labor, scientific labor, etc. sure but I think most jobs should just be automated in the long term.
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expectation
>oh i'll learn to code; that means i'll learn the syntax of some language then start building stuff
reality
<oh i'm installing a bunch of libraries and dependencies and package managers and IDEs and other garbage I don't want in order to follow tutorials, and the commands i'm being told to use aren't working and the error messages are really long and impossible to paste into a search engine and full of doxxing details about my file system