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>>2422436
thats cool but IP is bullshit and the only reason to pretend to respect it is to not get in legal trouble



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The more i read about him the more retarded he seems. He's basically just a shittier stalin that failed at everything he tried to do after unifying china.
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>>2388340
>no one is looking at 'excess mortality' in the US and condemning them for killing millions of people.
Listen to Death Panel podcast and read Health Communism
>Yes, the GLF and cultural revolution were bad
(Maoist Red Guard schoolgirls with eye lasers meme)

>>2388238
Not this individualism nonsense.

Comrade Mao had far less importance and power than is mistakenly attributed to him. Mao was a good man but not a great man who do not exist.

Jesus Christ this site is cooked.
>mao was bourgeois
vs
>mao was retarded aside from the bourgeoise things he did and Deng was better

>>2388358
didn't the cultural revolution target not just capitalist roaders and bourgeoisie but also random people people educated in STEM fields who were contributing massively to the PRC? Like the very same people who helped China get its first atomic weapons were targeted by the GPCR. So it seems to me that it was at least partially retarded, counterproductive, and a circular firing squad. Some people always want to defend purges as getting rid of reactionaries but it's very obvious when a shotgun is being used instead of tweezers to remove lice.

And just like the purges of the 1930s didn't stop revisionism from eventually taking hold, the GPCR didn't stop Deng. It is very easy for defenders of these purges to double down and say no, actually they didn't go far enough. But the question becomes in what regard? Perhaps they didn't go far enough in the regard that they actually failed to target the bourgeoisie, and perhaps they went too far in the regard that they falsely targeted a lot of communists?

>>2423087
"They should have targeted the bourgeoisie" is easy to say but what do you mean by that specifically? The old pre-revolutionary Chinese bourgeoisie had been reduced to a bunch of pensioners without any capital, they were expropriated in the 50s. If you mean that the bureaucratic clique constituted a new bourgeoisie and the GCPR should have targeted them more than it did then most Maoists would agree with you.



 

>The exponential growth of data and the rising demand for data centres is challenging global climate progress. The rapid development of AI could undermine decarbonisation efforts worldwide by driving electricity consumption and emissions to extreme levels.
>As AI models evolve from simple text generation to more complex image, video, and music generation, data requirements are expanding rapidly, further amplifying energy demand. Since 2022, global investment in data centres has nearly doubled, reaching half a trillion dollars in 2024. However, this boom has also triggered mounting concerns around the sector’s growing energy footprint. Today, data centres and data transmission networks are responsible for about 1 percent of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions.
>AI-optimised data centres, particularly hyperscale facilities, are pushing energy use to unprecedented levels. Some centres now require 100 megawatts or more of electricity. For perspective, a single large-scale facility can consume as much electricity annually as 350,000 to 400,000 electric vehicles.
>In 2022, data centres consumed an estimated 240 to 340 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity, accounting for approximately 1 to 1.3 percent of global electricity demand. Electricity demand from AI-optimised data centres is projected to more than quadruple by 2030, reaching about 945 TWh, which would exceed Japan’s current electricity consumption.
>As of March 2025, the United States holds the largest number of data centres globally, operating 5,426 facilities. As a result, the USA accounts for the highest share of global data centre electricity consumption, responsible for 45 percent of global usage in 2024, followed by China at 25 percent and Europe at 15 percent.
>In the United States, data centres are expected to drive nearly half of the country’s electricity demand growth between now and 2030. By the end of the decade, the USA will consume more electricity for data centres than for the production of aluminium, steel, cement, chemicals, and all other energy-intensive goods combined.
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>>2421254
I thought that most disease was caused by the adoption of cattle? So that would make it even more recent

>>2421206
Yeah well, I agree 100% with you on this lmao

>>2421254
Yeah it was a paradise before permanent settlements lmao. Ecofascoids should be airdropped in the middle in Siberia to see how long they can survive.

>>2423053
Keeping third world in peasant mode will neither make them more resilient to effects of inevitable climate change nor will it improve their quality of life. More industry and tech is the way forward to keep third world hospitable because again climate chamge is unstoppable

>>2423063
Are you legitimately retarded? Continued technological and industrial development only worsens the effects of climate change.
Why is everyone on this thread having the same opinion as tech porkies? Am I still on leftypol?



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Why does the left completely lack people with any understanding of planning or management, even at fairly basic levels?
The average microparty cult barely reaches the organizational complexity or success of the average small business, and the average small business fails within a year.

Entire lifetimes are spent debating whether or not we'll have coca cola under communism or whether the Soviet Union imploded because of revisionism or because of not revising enough, or on which children's entertainer on youtube is more revolutionary. Nobody seriously sits and plans out the necessary tasks to perform if we're to bring communism closer, then sets off to do them. if they do, they'll usually find some nagging detail, like the first step for any westerner being a boring program of raising class consciousness back to a level where trade union membership starts increasing again rather than the fun bit where they get to send missives to the comintern, and they'll revert to LARPing. Nobody operates with measurable goals, nobody adjusts the strategies that clearly haven't worked. Christ, even if your aim is just to LARP the CPSU, these organizations are failures: Given a year, even a mediocre capitalist could set up a more popular communist party than any extant English-speaking communist party.

Making people do things is not an impossible task: Look at McDonalds, look at Linux, Look at fucking Wikipedia, it's eminently possible to organize people to get things done, even without paying them. The task is hard, not impossible. Why, then, is the left so terrible at it? I'd half-confidently suggest that ChatGPT could do a better job.

For all their nonsense, cliches and flaws, I believe every communist should be forced to learn modern business management theories and techniques. Left-org management is so dismal that it could only be improved, even if ultimately any communist movement will need to go beyond them. Baby steps - if you can run a communist party better than your local bakery runs its affairs, then maybe we can talk about some Apollo Project level management skills…

My main answer is incentives. LARPing is fun, management ain't, and nobody's getting paid for this. Hell, I'm only writing this because I find the problem interesting and the lack of other people writing on the same subject unusual, I'm not going to go out and start Leftist-Walmart myself juPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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Cooperatives!

>>2423064
no, i dont think those help.

i think they potentially have a place in a DotP as a loyal opposition that should be minimally appeased. i understand, appreciate, and would critically support (as in actually help despite my reservations) formation of coops among workers i knew, if they decided to push for it as a means of improving their immediate situation. its worse than unionizing but better than retarded grindset class traitoring.

ultimately i dont think there is really a way forward besides organizing as communists. i absolutely support unions, unionization is objectively historically progressive in the american context, not least of all bc even most american proles have been successfully brainwashed to hate unions now. IWW would be a nice thing to try to bring back if it wasnt mainly a weird furry thing now

>>2423071
>its worse than unionizing
Explain your position please

>>2423073
every time i have seen a cooperative form, they abandoned class struggle. it worked ok for them. every time ive seen a union, theyve been furious that well-established unions didnt bother with them because they already had theirs. were talking about twice in terms of coops and three times in terms of unions, each times small businesses and/or franchises. im not saying this is universally applicable, but thats what ive seen



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>>2423013
I'm on trazodone for sleep, shit is pretty tight. I was on Seroquel 50mg before but the side effects were pretty heavy. Knocked me the FUCK out though like another ever did or has since. Seriously if you cannot sleep at all I'd recommend asking for a script. I'm bipolar and that shit put me to sleep while I was manic.
Trazadone isnt as reliable but it's a hell of a lot gentler.

>>2423044
> GO ARREST NICK FUENTES
the bourgeois state is not your personal army though. right now their whole thing is using scarequote "ant-semitism" as a catchall term for anything the left does against zionism. Nick isn't on the left so he won't have a hair on his head touched. Also it helps him that he stays behind a microphone and isn't getting in physical altercations with zionists.

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>>2421815
>What stood out was how much they sounded like a very specific type of western communist, with the arguments inverted. There was this one Chinese guy who insisted China today should be balkanized and that "we'd have been better off if the British conquered the entire mainland and ruled us for over a hundred years". There was this Russian dude who regarded Russian culture itself as backwards and retarded. And they all had eager ideas for how to "punish" their people for not-complying: sanctions, invasion, forced re-education with liberal values.

People like this end up being useful idiots for the neoliberal balkanization fetishists who want to turn everything into microstates and city states. The Gunther Fehlingers and Moldbugs of the world.

>>2423042
>God I just can't stand how actual Nazism is making a comeback and all people think is that opposing genocide is the REAL antisemitism!
This is by design. Whatever is convenient for capital. On any strange issue like zionism where both the extreme right and the extreme left have takes that go against the bourgeois status quo, the bourgeois state is going to crack down on the left harder. Because nazism is ultimately more compatible with capitalism than anti-imperialism and marxism-leninism. So it is the anti-genocide protesters actually out in the streets who are going to get their eyes shot out with rubber bullets, their arms broken by night sticks, etc while the atomwaffen freaks will always mysteriously pile into a van and get away just before the police arrive.

cant find the israle Palestine thread. but top lel

>During a phone call, when Netanyahu claimed reports of starvation in Gaza were fabricated by Hamas, Trump reportedly cut him off and shouted:


>“I don’t want to hear that the starvation is fake — my aides showed me proof that children there are starving!”


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Are right wingers genuinely stupid or just selfish? I know it's a massive generalization (and maybe ironic because of that) but I'm just dumbfounded. It's like they either know they're lying or too stupid to either understand cause and effect, or just struggle with empathy.
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>>2333844
>Are right wingers genuinely stupid or just selfish?
Overwhelmingly majority of right-wingers are hetero males, a demography consisting mostly of sociopaths to a degree, reactionarism is politized sociopathy

You just connect the dots

>>2387549
By your logic whatever North Africans do is just retaliation for the Spanish colonial outposts in the canaries and even in Morocco proper

>>2333844
Depends on what kind of right-wingers you mean. The young highly online alt-right is largely people who just genuinely lack empathy and are fueled by anger. The more rational and intelligent right-wingers, on the other hand, are often people who correctly perceive that the left has a problem with pathological empathy, misunderstanding complex situations, and knee-jerk emotional desire to support supposed "rebels against the oppressors" no matter whether those "rebels" are actually righteous or not: an example is how many left-wingers support BLM even though reducing policing of black neighborhoods actually results in more black people dying from the lack of policing than were dying because of policing.

>>2337551
"Also just for genetic diversity between human ethnicites, would result at minimum, 12 different species, if we applied that distance, to any other animal. " is bullshit. After all, dogs have vastly more variation than humans and are considered to be one species. Not like species are well-defined, anyway.

That said, there are indeed many good arguments in favor of the idea that human genetic groups differ in things like intelligence and culture in part for genetic reasons, not just because of nurture. Leftists who reflexively lash out against this concept instead of engaging with it intellectually, by doing so, just cede ground to people who are willing to talk about the concept.




 

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Readable English Version
1. Drones at the Front
Drones have become the primary cause of daily casualties at the front, striking Russian forces within 0–15 km and acting as the main force multiplier for the AFU. This has allowed a relatively small defending force to hold over 1,200 km of front line, creating zones of denial and attrition.

2. Russian Adaptation
While drones have increased Russian losses relative to terrain gained, it’s unclear if they can fully stabilize the front given Ukraine’s manpower shortages, Russia’s ability to replace losses, and possible Russian countermeasures. Russia has now deployed its own “line of drones” and improved their use, particularly with Rubicon units, which are present across all troop groupings. These target logistics 20–25 km behind the line, destroy Ukrainian drone sites, and intercept ISR and heavy multirotor drones.

3. Shifting Battlefield Dynamics
Ukraine retains a qualitative edge in drones, but the gap is narrowing. The Sumy front has stabilized after air assault units were deployed, while Russian forces advance slowly near Kupiansk and east of the Oskil River. The most urgent threats are around Pokrovsk, Kostiantynivka, and Novopavlivka.

4. Russian Offensive Tactics
Despite advantages in manpower and materiel, Russia has underperformed. Attacks now often involve 2–3 man teams infiltrating gaps rather than large mechanized assaults, which have become rare due to equipment conservation and Ukraine’s strong anti-armor defenses. Some infiltrations succeed, leading to small gains.

5. Fortifications and Troop Deployment
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>>2421412
Russia was supposed to gain population not lose it with this war by annexing both Ukraine and Belarus with this 3-day-special-operation. Problem is that once Russia was stuck in this war it cant get out of it without risking government collapse and Putin ousted.

>>2423052
Abridged version: 14:1 K/D ratio in favour of Ukraine! Do not panic!

>>2423057
>annex Belarus
Any second now NATObros

>>2423057
Even the IMF says there around 6-7 million people in New Russia, retard



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>>2419674
excuse me what are you talking about exactly? quick rundown in english?

>>2419783
On July 22nd, a 14-year-old girl in Jiangyou, Sichuan Province, China, was bullied by three students. Her coat was taken off, her mobile phone was snatched away and she was slightly injured. The bulliers took a video and posted it online. The victim of bullying reported the case to the police, and the police's handling result was released on August 4th. However, because the perpetrators were minors and under the age of 16, they were not sentenced to prison. They were only administratively detained for about ten days and fined. Local residents were dissatisfied with this handling, protested outside the government and clashed with the police.
Documentary on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qjZ89NSwYs&t=93s
There aren't many reports in English yet. They are mainly from BBC and CNN, so they can't be fully trusted. However, public protests and conflicts did occur. On the night of the incident, there were related videos on Douyin in China, but they were all deleted later.

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>>2421205
idk why the video is so fudging loud guys. Sorry please mute that thing.

Anything I forgot?

Treaty of Wanghia (1844)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Rock Springs Massacre (1885)
Los Angeles Massacre (1871)
Geary Act (1892)
Boxer Rebellion's U.S. Intervention (1900)
Angel Island Station Detention (1910)
Magnuson Act (1943)
Occupation of Beijing and Tianjin by American Troops (1945)
Sweeping Immunity for Major Japanese War Criminals (1946)
Non-Recognition of the PRC (1949)
U.S. Involvement in Korean War (1950)
CIA Involvement in Tibet (1950)
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There is power in Marxism that you cannot find in other systems of ideas. Marxism is a totality; if you’re a committed Marxist, you can’t pick and choose where to apply it. You cannot have a bit of Marxism for breakfast and a bit of liberalism for lunch. Choosing to be a Marxist means examining every facet of the social world through a rigid system that rejects esotericism, magic, or religious thinking.

But when you step outside your Marxist bubble, you realize: people are fucking idiots. Not "idiots" meaning "stupid," but ἰδιώτης (idiotes), an Ancient Greek term for a private person indifferent to politics or public life. Most people refuse to see the connection between politics and their daily existence. They prioritize a "good" private life: a stable job, a wife who cooks and cleans, 1.8 children, maybe a dog, a home, and holidays twice a year (sorry, Americans, this is Europe). Young Marx (or Engels, I can't remember) once called this an "animal’s life": unreflective, driven by instincts the bourgeoisie instilled in workers. Tragically, this remains true 150 years later. The separation of private and public life poisons any cohesive society.

As capitalism’s crises deepen, bourgeois propaganda (mass media, PR) aggressively pushes unscientific, esoteric, and religious ideas. I told my family I’m a materialis - not chasing money, just rejecting spirits - and they got sad for me. Like I’m some empty husk because I don’t "feel" ghosts. It’s even more exhausting to explain that most "personal" thoughts aren’t original. Humans rarely have new ideas; we recycle old ones. Yet people resent being asked to examine their beliefs. They deny that their desires are manufactured by mass media, or that history predates them. Many cling to a nonexistent sentimental past or an idealized future. I’ve developed profound hatred for the state, family, private property, and religion. My mother understands my critiques of the state, religion, and property, but family is sacred to her. Explaining its evolution as a social structure is pointless. This mental block leads to a common schema: individual → family → nation. You see this everywhere. ("States are cities; cities are families.") Most people can’t grasp their own historicity.

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>Being a communist is the most mentally tiring thing to be.
>My mother understands my critiques of the state, religion, and property, but family is sacred to her.
I think being your mother might be more mentally tiring. Imagine wiping your ass, changing your diapers, keeping you safe from harm, breastfeeding you, raising you, just to have you grow up and be like "OUR RELATIONSHIP IS BOURGEOIS, MOM! I REJECT YOU!"


>>2421828
I actually have a healthy relationship with my mom and deeply love her. This does not contradict family being a spook.

>>2421840
ok fair I'll stop giving you a hard time

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