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 No.6035[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

It's that time again. Post trams and trains and other rail vehicles. Both vehicles from AES and c*pitalist countries welcome.I am looking for this one very aesthetic picture of a tram going down a grassy incline. I think it was from Czechoslovakia but not sure.
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 No.38858

>With the Tren Maya (Maya Train) rail project in Mexico’s Quintana Roo and the Yucatan set for completion next month, Mexico is planning to build another passenger rail line. The Cabo Sun reports that the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has set his sights on a new project: building a passenger rail line in the Baja California peninsula to be called the Tranpeninsular Train
Is the President of Mexico /ourguy/?

 No.39464

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https://southfront.press/russian-military-ingenuity-tsar-train-protects-russian-defense-line-in-southern-donbass/
>Russian Tsar Train defensive line
>several kilometers long
Epic. First it was the armored trains, now this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_armoured_train_Volga?useskin=vector

Also on the topic of armored trains, I can't believe nobody mentioned the Krajina Express ITT, I'll have to make a post about it at some point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krajina_Express?useskin=vector

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 No.40749

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>The first hybrid electric locomotive EMKA2 was manufactured in Russia
At the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant of Transmashholding, the first Russian hybrid electric locomotive EMKA2 was manufactured for customers. The EMKA2 electric locomotive is capable of operating from a contact network or from an on-board energy storage device. The EMKA2 electric locomotive is designed for operation in depots and passenger terminals of large stations, where for environmental reasons the use of diesel engines is undesirable. The EMKA2 electric locomotive can be recharged in two ways - from the contact network through a standard 3 kW pantograph, or from an external charger. The energy in the electric locomotive's storage unit is sufficient to propel a train weighing up to 2 thousand tons over a distance of up to 14 km. Without a train, an electric locomotive can travel up to 100 km. Using an electric locomotive instead of a shunting diesel locomotive allows you to save up to 70-80% of fuel and lubricants and reduce current operating costs by 40-60%. The operating speed of the electric locomotive is 90 km/h, weight is 92 tons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCsmEXv2geM

 No.40847

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The German FLIRT-H2 made a Guinness record distance run on hydrogen power, going on US railways (surprisingly).
https://topwar.ru/239434-v-ssha-poezd-na-vodorodnom-toplive-ustanovil-novyj-mirovoj-rekord-po-dalnosti-poezdki.html


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 No.31830[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Thoughts on Avatar? It's probably the most explicitly anti American movie of the decade and has strong anti imperial and anti capitalist themes.

Will it change anything?
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 No.40620

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>>40619
>>40618
Fucking Witnessed, KEK

 No.40622

>>40618
Ok retard

 No.40835

>>38807
Don't know, but it's gonna be great when it comes out, 1 and 2 were fantastic anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist storytelling in a sci fi setting.

 No.40836

>>40618
shitty bait, the US is imperialism itself.

 No.40837

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>>38807
It got delayed from December 2024 to December 2025.


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 No.11615[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Noticed a lot people talking about Tolkien’s works and philosophy. So, I created a thread specifically dedicated for that and other things related to it, like the movies and games.
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 No.40788

>>40719
NTA, but iirc Tolkien's response to the belief that Lord of the Rings was supposed to be an allegory for WWII was to give an outline of what Lord of the Rings would have looked like if it actually WAS an allegory for WWII, in which case it would have been a much more grey vs black conflict and if the elves, Gondor, Rohan, et al were allegorical for the Western Allied Powers (France, Britain, the United States, et al) then would have taken the Ring for themselves and conquered the Shire and enslaved the hobbits.

 No.40791

>>40788
The simplistic "forces of good vs forces of evil" don't really work then since national chauvinism, like anything people call "evil," is just false consciousness. There is no good and evil as ideologies, these are simply ideological judgements of others. It's all just spooks in your head, people are evil because they think they are the good guys. Orks should think they did nuffin rong and that they are blessed by Jesus.

 No.40796

>>40791
Okay, so
1) Tolkien stated multiple times that Lord of the Rings wasn't an allegory for anything. His example in my post was what the story would have looked like if he was making it some kind of political allegory, namely for WWII.

2) Tolkien didn't necessarily deal strictly with Malthusian evil. He plays with the idea, but Malthusian evil (which is evil as its own motive force opposite to good) takes a huge thematic backseat to "evil as an absence of good" or "evil as an absence of virtue."

 No.40798

>>40796
>Malthusian evil
Sorry, I meant Manichaen evil. Whoops.

 No.40809

>>40796
The idea of virtue is also relative to one's ideology. Just because the evil is defined through the lack of good doesn't mean that it changes anything, it just makes "goodness" the ideology that defines what "evilness" is not. The kind of relationship between good and evil becomes a dependency instead of opposition, otherwise it's all the same.


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 No.3333[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Since Star Wars got a thread why can’t this? Discuss anything you like of the universe. lore, art, diy modeling or even Marxist critique of the setting and gw parasitic relationship with it.

To start of the part 5 of Astartes fan film and the promise for more.
https://youtu.be/eoCcpMW8fSs
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 No.37032

>>37031
Doesn't change the fact that the smurfs movie looks like shite you wrong faggot.

 No.37033

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>>37032
>Doesn't change the fact that the smurfs movie looks like shite
Ok and what is the relevance you caustic twat?

 No.37036

>>37033
the relevance is that your justifications for this sub reboot piece of shit looking like crap are wrong and you should consider suicide

 No.37037

>>37036
>All this no-argument word-salad
Take your own advice.

 No.40738

Tzeentch is based, praise Tzeentch, heil Anarchy, and fuck the spooked Redditor Emperor.


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 No.12105[Reply]

Lets have a thread dedicated to the most ridiculous and most intimidating piece of headwear ever conceptualised
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 No.41039

Looks like shit lol.

 No.41040

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>>41039
Ok lol

 No.41041

>>41040
>wanting to look like a clown
>if you laugh you're "salty"
Sure is 9gag in here.

 No.41042

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>>41041
>9-9gag
>C-clown! I-I'm totally laughing
<saging Torpost
<obvious salt
Keep crying copelet and go back to /pol/ where you belong

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 No.36720[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

So a buddy of mine works as a security contractor—Mall Cop or Night Watchmen tier stuff. Anyways, he's a Socialist, has a pretty materialist worldview, and has been a skeptic of most idealistic woo-woo for as long as I've known him.

Recently he's been experiencing some genuinely creepy stuff in one of the locations he's been assigned to, and apparently some of his coworkers have too. It started off with weird one-off occurrences: hearing footsteps running behind him only to turn around and see nothing there, hearing doors slamming open and closed on the floor above him, getting an experience of someone breathing behind him. Recently it's gotten a lot worse. He's experienced some strange hallucinations: a black dog running across his path and disappearing into a wall, figures looming over his shoulder or peaking at him from behind corners, and even strange figures staring at him from behind second-story windows. It's spooky stuff, he can't explain it, and neither can I. Not helping things are the weird occult graffiti at his workplace: pentagrams and stuff.

Everything from Ghost Hunting to Occult Philosophy has been a guilty pleasure of mine. And seeing as we don't have a thread on sp00ky shit, I figure I might as well make one.

Consider this the start of the /x/-files! A place to push the boundaries of Socialism to the outer limits of the universe. Everything from Ghosts to ESP to Magic or Cryptids and what their impact on the Socialist movement could be. Questions like:

>Do AyyLmaos exist and are they Comrades?
>Can we summon the specters of dead Revolutionaries for advice?
>Are the Bourgeoisie literally Demons?
>Can Occult rituals stir the global proletariat to action?
And so many more.

LINKS
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.38948

>>38906
but every so often we do get proof of bourgies, along with intelligence agencies, cult leaders/religious personalities, politicians, and so on conspiring. So there's no reason to a priori assume the default is that no direct conspiring takes place. We know it takes place, we know there are sub-conspiracy levels of interaction between rich and influential people ("networking", lobbying, conventions, etc.) also regularly take place and those are out in the open. We know that criminals try to keep their crimes from being public. All this together, we could assume that conspiracies are relatively common and we just don't know about it every single time.

Also depending on what you consider conspiracy… essentially all businesses (all large ones at least) engage in it if you consider intentionally trying to counter unions a conspiracy. It requires bourgeois praxis being shared between them, it requires some level of clandestinity or obfuscation of what they are doing, to the employees, its often illegal or in a gray area, and it's directly in the service of maintaining bourgeois rule and profits. Same with all policing of activists… isn't this directly conspiracy to maintain the bourgeoisie as the ruling class? Even if the pigs don't realize this purpose explicitly. But it has all the elements of a conspiracy.

 No.38949

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>>38874
>You do not have to “love terrorists” to recognize the well documented fucked up practice of intelligence agencies preying on mentally ill Muslim youth to trick them into terrorist stings they’d never have done otherwise

 No.38950

>>38949
Y o it’s even worse now. These reports of FBI entrapment wouldn’t surface nearly as prevalently as they did back then (which they were not broadcast widespread back then). The media was owned by a mixture of different corporations, millionaire families, and petit bourgeois during the GWB era. You also had a lot of popular independent websites operated by entrepreneurs during that time which was before the internet was heavily commoditized and monopolized. We live in an era where about 5 mega-corporations and investor firms own 97% of all legacy and new media outlets. If the FBI did the same thing today then it might make it into a Trotskyist rag website if you were lucky, but you couldn’t expect The Atlantic to report on it unless it served the interests of the bourgeoisie. This late-stage capitalism just gets more decrepit by the day.

 No.38951

Bumping this thread, it's relevant again

 No.40701

Related to this thread >>>/edu/8394


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 No.10810[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

I have never seen a show cause more butthurt on /tv/ than this. What are leftypols thoughts?
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 No.40682

/co/ 2006-2018
>wow Totally Spies is just an excuse for writers inserting all their fetishes
/co/ 2019-present
>wow The Boys is just an excuse for writers inserting all their fetishes

 No.40683

>>40682
I mean are they necessarily wrong? /co/ may be full of idiots, but that is one thing they got right.

>>40527
>>40410
???

 No.40692

>>40683
How was it possible to cast AOC as an actor in a superhero film?

 No.40693

>>40683
That's also one thing /co/mrades never said. I made it the fuck up. It's a literary technique often called 'humour'.

 No.40700

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>>40693
Actually /co/ has said both things, it's like the oldest joke on the board, pic rel.

>>40692
LOL


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 No.7554[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

So my grandma lived in Lithuania back when it was an SSR (She says she was born right after ww2 for reference) and she liked the movies there, from what I can gather they were family friendly affairs similar to the first pirates of the carribean in tone, any comments and maybe recomendations for old soviete media?
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 No.24216

Chippolino is a classic that leftypol neglects

 No.40662

>>24216
>Сказки для детей - Чиполлино
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6xQDChpUR0

>>22625
>The Mystery of the Third Planet (1981) Soviet Sci-Fi Animation with English and Russian subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBOVmZgLsxk

>>19323
Armenfilm - Sahakyants
>Все хорошо/ Everything is fine (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCjGbWR59jg

 No.40663

>>7560
are you implying cops are bunch a dickheaded pigs? imagine my SHAWK. Just use this as ammo when debating libs and point out how soviet animation in the 20th century was more critical of policing than most american media is now when some dipshit lib is like "but le ebil soviets killed anyone who diagreed".

 No.40664

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>>24216
cartoon lacks red flag march

 No.40677

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG4qM0CxEqI

Worth a watch, very interesting and well made.


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 No.5853[Reply]

http://markluskin.blogspot.com/2011/03/from-archive-dark-deco-by-dr-michael.html?m=1
&ltthe Art Deco enthusiast, like the devotee of Expressionism, is by that interest making a statement about the nature of his or her soul. He or she is impatient with surface images, bored with frippery, and drawn by the weird and the outré. Art Deco portrays the human being as one secretly wishes to be: a kind of _Metropolis_ robot[rix] with a dispassionate, cool, and cruel disposition. Art Deco is never warm, cozy, reassuring; it is glacial and impersonal. Those fearful of, dissatisfied with, or contemptuous of human emotions seek in Art Deco a mirror which will show them - and reinforce in them - only the non-human aspects of their souls.

Post pics of your favourite pieces of art deco.
Pic related: Hoover building, A40 (Western Avenue), London, England.
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 No.14207

a better question is: Is art Deco bourgeois?

 No.14209

>>14207
100%

 No.14414

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>>14207
It is bourgeois. But is it any good? That's another question. the better question depends on whether you're looking at it from the viewpoint of hobbyist, or from that of a town planner, in my view.

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The quintessential art deco skyscraper.

 No.40661

>>14207
No I do not believe so. Art Deco was an aesthetic exploited by the bourgeoisie but I do not believe it arose from that, as it impacted architecture and urban planning in ways that ignored class divides, although obviously the most grandiose examples belonged to the rich, since they had more money to throw away for vanity projects and additions.


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 No.9401[Reply]

How based was this show? And, do you have faith that the reboot will do any justice to the previous seasons?
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 No.21795

>>21792
Based Ruckus

 No.22312

It's so funny/sad seeing all the dumbfuck retarded Americans on /co/ still cope to this day that McGruder isn't leftist despite being a card-carrying socialist and, well, literally everything about the show and comic…

 No.22313

>>21793
Man I remember that event, it was so fucking funny.

>Alterman walked out. “I turned to Joe and said, ‘I can’t listen to this crap anymore,’” he remembers. “I went out into the Metropolitan Club lobby—it’s a nice lobby—and I worked on my manuscript.”

>Newfield joined in the heckling, as did Stephen Cohen, a historian and the husband of Katrina vanden Heuvel. “It was like watching LeRoi Jones try to Mau-Mau a guilty white liberal in the sixties,” Newfield says. “It was out of a time warp. Who is he to insult people who have been putting their careers and lives on the line for equal rights since before he was born?”

>By the time McGruder had finished, and a tipsy Joe Wilson took the microphone to deliver his New Year’s Resolutions, perhaps half the guests had excused themselves to join Alterman in the lobby. A Nation contributor estimated that McGruder had offended eighty per cent of the audience. “Some people still haven’t recovered,” he said, sounding thrilled.

>“At a certain point, I just got the uncomfortable feeling that this was a bunch of people who were feeling a little too good about themselves,” McGruder said afterward. “These are the big, rich white leftists who are going to carry the fight to George Bush, and the best they can do is blame Nader?”

McGruder rocks.

 No.22944

>>9401
>the reboot
Didn't it get cancelled?

 No.40657

>>22944
Yes, it was (sorry for the necrobump)
https://comicbook.com/anime/news/boondocks-reboot-cancelled-sony-pictures-pulled-the-plug-star-reveals/


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