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>>2857780

so, everyone struggles with reading books, that sense of frustration and tiredness, that's your brain processing information, if you struggle with reading books, that means you should keep reading books

having a reading list, and a book club or some kind of community helps, better if you have an actually class/course

i know this sounds like an a-hole opinion, like yes videos and audibooks / lectures / podcasts are solid options, but telling people 'you don't have to read if you find it challenging' is kind of the wrong advice imo, education is inherently challenging, and i fear we may encourage a casual consumerist attitude if we aren't up front about that



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>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
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>>2870210
>depending on how committed the german state is to islamophobia.
Yea, about that.
He'll be fine.

Hasan Speech upload


>>2870194
investing significant time to blowing and cupping the balls of people that hate them is a democrat tradition. telling israel and nato to piss off is a good start, but they still need to fuck off corpo, arms, crypto, the military, and every other cunt that stabs them in the back.

>>2870208
hasan is the least offensive DSAcrat and the face of normie anti-zionism. pulling a walkout stunt is going to make the protestors look like zionists or some other kind of gay baby.

>>2870218
lmao, that aged well.



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Zelya: 40 more days edition, Russia will surrender in 40 days! count started on 26/06/2026 - Briritsh callendar - 06/26/2026 - American calendar: 22 days

Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine

https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
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Boring farcoid spam, the people want more footage of the treat strike

TRUE SMOKE CONTENT
>Demonstrators gathered in Odessa against the removal of Fedorov, setting off smoke bombs during the rally.
well, the smoke wars can also include smoke from protests, can they not?

I guess the lib media calling
>the biggest military leadership crisis (yet)
doesn't suit well for the development of an army of imaginary drones, robots, and mechanized whatnots that will fight for two years another army.

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BREAKING: Odesa, that “totally historically Russian clay” (lmao), is out here protesting to bring back the guy who literally painted Russia into a corner—and they’re not giving up a single inch of dirt to the Kremlin.

And this is… good for Russia?

How?

Russia: “We want Odesa.”

Odesa: “Best I can do is a mural of your L.”

Russia: surprised Pikachu

Meanwhile, locals are like “Nah, we’ll take the guy who ratio’d Russia over actual Russian rule, thx.”

Russia’s 5D chess: Lose land, lose influence, lose the PR war, but hey—at least the conscripts get free sunflowers, right?



 

Kiwifarms has officially shut down at least on the clearnet. Sometimes id use it, but it was mostly made up of some of the grossiest bigots ever, and also major hypocrites.

It is pretty funny the site created to make fun of lolcows were the real lolcows all along.

what happened this time + press s to spit

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>>2870205
The DDOSing has been getting more extreme and Null is a broke lazy retard that cant afford to pay for it. Ever since kiwifarms lost hosting using cloudflare null has had to use his own DDOS protection using donations.

TLDR people don't want to gib money to null to prevent DDOS attacks



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How come they didn't manage to build decent cadres to lead the country? Why someone like Khrushchev managed to be the next into power? How the rise of revisionism could've been prevented?

Because it wasnt a revolutionary socialist state anymore, stalin and his buddies created a new class, and Khrushchev was unable to reform the state because the new stalinist class had become so entrenched into the USSR.

In an real worker's republic the proletriat would be allowed to participate in governace and electing one of their own candres who truly wanted to help, stalin did not want this.

>>2870183
>stalin and his buddies created a new class
Wrong

>>2870183
>the proletriat would be allowed to participate in governace and electing one of their own candres who truly wanted to help
Wait, are you saying this wasn't the case when Stalin was in power?
>stalin did not want this
why?

>>2870190
>Wait, are you saying this wasn't the case when Stalin was in power?
Initially there was several political parties in Soviet Russia, but more importantly there were local soviets of worker's that held actual political power electing actual representatives, allowing a true democracy that if continued, wouldve prevented a new class separate from the conditions of the working class to have formed.

>why?

He wanted to centralize power for himself and his buddies, turning local soviets into bodies for party bureaucrats allowed him to empower himself further and limit opposition to himself and his interpretation of marxism.

>>2870175
>Why someone like Khrushchev managed to be the next into power?
Because stalin killed off every single actually competent marxist during the purges.
People glaze stalin because of the great things he accomplished during his reign.
But he also laid literally all the economic cultural and political foundations that doomed the ussr in the end.



 

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™


<Lil Marco Edition



OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources

(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)

ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
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>>2870094
>vid
>seretse khama
sus r/neoliberal loves to shill this guy while talking shit about Sankara. this video is very neoliberal coded.

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/ps4o5n/ik_he_didnt_deserve_to_be_killed_in_a_coup_but/

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>>2870094
Not only does r/neoliberal shill Seretse Khama while shitting on Sankara, but the funny thing is Seretse Khama took foreign aid, the very thing that this conversation began by disparaging Africans for, while Sankara wanted independent development. Neoliberals literally shit on Sankara for not wanting to take poisoned IMF loans, while you ostensibly use loan-taking Khama as an example for how Africans can be more "independent" in a conversation that literally started with a racist shitting on Africans for taking money from the west here >>2870041
Sankara is the perfect example of what I'm talking about here, because he is the quintessential example of an African leader who was couped by the CIA for trying to avoid western "gibs"

https://xcancel.com/MKW1296/status/2078578820488085727

After supporting ICE’s extrajudicial killings of civilians, I don’t think chuds are in any position to whine about the Ruby Ridge standoff and the Waco siege.

And honestly, Randy Weaver was a literal white nationalist fundie who could have avoided the whole ordeal if he actually paid his taxes, didn’t have his batshit insane wife spread threatening messages to US officials, and didn’t get into this white nationalist Christian fundamentalist survivalist nonsense.

As for Waco? Koresh was an abusive and coercive POS and his cultists should have either surrendered or take an escape route when possible instead of thinking they could win a standoff against the fucking US government. The feds sucked too since they should’ve planned to pick off David Koresh for interrogation by one of the supermarkets he visited and, when the surprise element for the siege was gone, they should’ve called it off instead of going on ahead. Reno was bad, but so were the Branch Davidian extremists that inflamed the conflict by doing little to actually mediate and de-escalate the situation.

>>2870105
Hillary 2.0 lmao

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>>2870207
hillary has more in common with trump than with AOCIA, and I don't even like AOCIA



 

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/clyey5glv4ko
Increased security for England and Argentina tie

<Authorities say there will be increased security measures in place for Wednesday's World Cup semi-final between England and Argentina.


>The pair will resume one of international football's most storied rivalries at the Atlanta Stadium, as England bid to defeat the defending champions and reach their first World Cup final since 1966.


>Atlanta police are aware of historical tensions between the two countries.
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Fav sort of Antisemitism story
>"They harassed and osctricized me because I was Jewish"
>*Turns out is a vocal and abusive Zionist who goes around saying Israel did and does nothing wrong and anyone who criticizes it is an antisemite. Leads Zionist org.*
Every fucking time. Anybody watching the Australian antisemitism royal commission atm? Literally the same story over and over and over again lmao.

>>2869918
#nooticing it is also identical to every single radfem sob stories about being persecuted by BTC on campus

>>2869882
It just confirms the obvious: There’s as much corruption in British politics as there is in American politics, and both American and British politicians are cheap whores for foreign lobbies and transnational oligarchs. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if much of the “Russian interference” was less about Putin’s involvement and more about the few Russian oligarchs that have Putin’s favor trying to cut cheap deals in the British financial and real estate markets by paying off Westminster people, as opposed to actual Russian state lobbying.

And Robinson is to Farage what Rohm was to Hitler.

>>2869918
Same in American campuses, where all the cries of Jewish persecution are just privileged Jewish students whining about feeling uncomfortable at goy students talking about Palestinian people being human beings deserving of dignity.

So much for all the hamstringing about Russian/ Chinese and Qatari interference when none of those lobbies have 1% of the power Jewish lobbies have across the Atlantic.

>>2869970
Further proof that, unlike islamophilia and western interest in Buddhism and eastern mysticism, philosemitism is much less pure and based solely on a combination of tribalistic hatred of the “I love the crips cuz they hate the bloods” type and bourgeois class solidarity, considering how most radfems are middle and upper class bourgeois and petit bourgeois and will thus identify themselves with Borg-coded groups like capitalists and Israel over prole-coded ones like socialists and Palestinians and even trans people. Hence why I think philosemitism is far less stable and incapable of self-reproduction, unlike interests in Islam and Buddhism which actually involves genuine appreciation for them à la Guenon and Savitri Devi, regardless of their faults.

But yh, I never understand why radfems are entertained in the left to begin with considering how not only much of their support rests on institutional support within the imperialist and reactionary undercurrents of the bourgeois, especially TERFs given how niche their pet issue is, but also because radical feminism only emerged as a rejection of BOTH liberalisPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>2869601
>New Order = Progressive. Hopeful. Hip. Labour-coded. Tasteful. Pro-social. Life affirming.
New Order. New Labour.

>>2869691
>Very strange bunch they ran a leaflet in the Gorton and denton by-election basically saying "Long Live Socialist Cuba and Bibiist Israel!".
Yeah their American equivalents are very pro-Cuba too. I did buy a copy of a Cuban military commander's memoir of the Angola war from them because it was interesting when I came across their table. Pathfinder Press is their publishing house and they translate these Cuban books. They lean on Malcolm X hard too. It's like Cuba, Malcolm X, and then this die hard pro-Israel stuff. The members are mostly old Jews following a guru named Jack Barnes. So they've got this tiny U.K. groupuscle following them but the source of this abnormal group is in America.

The Militant is their newspaper. They had a moment in the 1960s with students who were coming into the left. Lee Harvey Oswald held up a copy of their paper in a famous photo of him also holding a rifle. He tried to join the party but they didn't let him so they sent him newspapers. They were a different organization then. I'm not sure how many members they have here now, maybe 100. They act like Jehovah's Witnesses.

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Good match Engerland.



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marx loved europe, european progress, 18th century liberalism, capitalism, and believed only through that high point of civilizational evolution communism can be achieved.
it's easy to understand then why marx approved of european colonialism as marxist, taking hunter-gatherer groups into capitalist societies was a progressive act.
so then, where did this "europe bad, pre-colonial societies good" nu left come from? is it not reactionary?
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Once again, leftoids are proven to be ideologues no different than the average evangicuck who thinks supporting goysrael will usher in the end times where space Jesus will suck every evangicuck into outer space known as “heaven”.

If the best leftists can come up with is this thread, then perhaps Hitler was right about Marx being some stupid fat Jew bullshitting the goyim with his crap.

>>2870179
I don't support anything. I'm a cow on a farm talking with other cows. So you think that's a good Marxist definition of progressive, but you don't believe it, so what is progressive then? Or you just don't like the word? I'm not sure what the argument is. I'm the one poking Marxists about how they support capitalism and genocide because it's progressive.

Some people seem to think socialist parties do developmentalism better than neoliberals. Seems to be the case sometimes, other times it's a boondoggle. Neoliberal growth is lower than the Keyenesian era but you could argue we can't go back and it died for a reason so I dunno. Not sure about all these grand plans given resource depletion.

>>2870181
You reminded me of how MAGA and the media laughed when Biden said we need more economic intercourse. Everyone is 12.

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>>2870187
>I'm the one poking Marxists about how they support capitalism and genocide because it's progressive.

Thought you were one of ‘em, but I was doing the same as you tbh.

As for “progressive”? I think it’s a meaningless buzzword that means nothing since the term already carries a moral judgement regardless of Marx’s intentions, and I’m against it since far from treating history in a dispassionate way it just leads to liberal whigghism of the kind you see ITT. As if human history is one of continual progress and every single collapse must be part of said progress.

That’s why I cringe at “historically progressive”: It’s inherently moralistic and vacuous, on the top of being applicable to any event.

Plus, I think history should be engaged on as it exists, not based on some ideological precepts as Marxists typically do.



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Islamic Resistance™️ in Iraq edition

>The first day of the funeral procession for the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who died alongside family members at the beginning of the US-Israel war on Iran, has come to a close.

<UK and French leaders issued a joint statement regarding the Strait of Hormuz, describing it as “a vital artery for the global economy” and stressing that “restoring safe transit for ships of all nations through the strait is a matter of global concern”.
>Tehran pledged to deploy every available judicial and diplomatic channel to challenge what the Iranian president characterised as unlawful acts perpetrated against the country by the US and Israel.
<Israeli settlers stepped up their incursions and land seizures across the occupied West Bank, launching assaults that involved taking over or destroying Palestinian homes and vandalising critical infrastructure, including water springs, power lines and greenhouses.
>The Israeli military announced that it targeted approximately 10 “Hezbollah infrastructure sites” across southern Lebanon.
<Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks with US President Donald Trump, and the two leaders agreed to hold a meeting in the United States. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), upwards of 640,000 displaced individuals in Lebanon have gone back to their homes following a US-Tehran agreement signed last month that incorporated a ceasefire in Lebanon.
>Yemen’s Houthis warned they will target Saudi Arabian airports and critical infrastructure if Riyadh breaches their airspace or launches an attack, following accusations by the Iran-backed group that the kingdom committed an airspace violation.
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>>2869933
Another video. Tiny resolution though but the force of the impact of ballistic missiles is crazy. There's an old war correspondent I follow who has seen a lot of wars say that nothing scared him much really, except ballistic missiles (having witnessed them coming down onto Grozny during the second Chechen war)

It's probably going to be another night of heavy attacks.

>>2870126
really? I think ceasefire might be in the air; every time they've gotten close to serious escalation both sides pussy out.

>>2870193
We still have some time for a good bloodfest until the stock market opens on monday

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>The US State Department issues a Worldwide Caution alert for US citizens “due to heightened tensions in the Middle East.”

>It urges US citizens worldwide, and “especially in the Middle East,” to “follow the guidance in security alerts issued by the nearest US embassy or consulate. Flight cancellations and periodic airspace closures may cause travel disruptions. US diplomatic facilities, including outside the Middle East, have been targeted,” it says, without offering further details.


https://x.com/TravelGov/status/2078567441089593444



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