/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

I'll believe in aliens when they actually abduct me and do the probe

>>1676109
Thats impossible to say, we don't actually know what are the conditions necessary for the creation of life on earth, let alone intelligent life, Earth might be the only planet in the whole universe where life is possible
every planet we know off lacks life (admitetly thats a very small amount for the universe), and in the entire history of our planet, there has been, as far as we know, only one inteligent species. Maybe there just is one planet suitable for intelligent life and it's earth. It's definitly not inevitable that life exists on other planets

>>1676328
>in the entire history of our planet, there has been, as far as we know, only one inteligent species.

i agree with you overall that we shouldnt extrapolate the existence of aliens without real evidence, but there are plenty of intelligent animals that meet criteria for consciousness. the fact that both mammals and birds on such different evolutionary paths independently evolved seperate intelligent branches (corvids and parrots for birds, elephants, apes, and cetaceans for mammals) indicates that developing intelligence and robust social life is not uncommon. the real variable seems to be whatever allowed hominins to apply intelligence to language and complex tool use, which seem to be the reason why humans are able to so exponentially develop and inherit material and social culture. its possible that whatever biological mechanism that allows for this is so vanishingly unlikely that the chances of it occurring again are closw to zero

>>1676332
you uyghas keep saying "consciousness" when you mean something completely different

>>1676328
Based Analysis Comrade, ✊😜! If their is any “Alien” life on any other planet, it is most likely nothing more then some exotic Bacteria, as the whole “little green men”, “flying saucers”, shit is so blatantly a combination of Hollywood Bullshit and MIC Glowie psyops to cover up Classified DARPA projects to anyone with a room temperature I.Q., 😂🤣✊😜!

Carbon emissions of richest 1% equal to those of poorest 66%, Oxfam report finds
The world’s richest 1% of people are responsible for around the same percentage of global carbon emissions as the 5 billion people who represent the 66% poorest, according to a report published Monday by Oxfam. The charity’s analysis, conducted with the Stockholm Environment Institute, found both groups contributed to 16% of emissions in 2019. The wealthiest 10% were responsible for 50% of global emissions, it found, while the bottom 50% were responsible for just 8%.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/20/richest-1percent-produce-same-carbon-emissions-as-poorest-66percent-report-.html

Appeals court says private citizens, civil rights groups can’t sue under Voting Rights Act
A federal appeals court issued a ruling Monday declaring that only the U.S. government, not private citizens and civil rights groups, can sue under the Voting Rights Act, a decision that would deal a major blow to the anti-discriminatory protections included in the landmark law. The ruling, issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, said only the U.S. attorney general has the power to introduce legal challenges under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color or language of minority groups.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4319132-court-says-private-citizens-civil-rights-groups-cant-sue-under-voting-rights-act/
https://archive.ph/kNU1R

Libraries, summer school, police and composting face cuts amid NYC budget crisis
Libraries announced that they would soon be forced to end Sunday services at every branch except one. Beginning in 2024, only the Kew Gardens library in Queens will have Sunday hours. In a move that could affect the mayor’s priority on public safety, the NYPD is set to freeze hiring and suspend the next five police academy classes, according to budget officials. TPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Defeatism and antimilitarism
We present here our translation of the text “Defeatism and antimilitarism: Only possible class response to the war in Ukraine” written by “Centro di documentazione contro la guerra” originally published in June 2023 in Italian on their website. We consider this text to be one of the clearest expressions of the revolutionary defeatism in the current anti-war movement. We would like to especially underline several very strong points, that the comrades are developing in this text: The insistence on the necessity to organize practical actions on the “home front” of “our own” camp, like blocking the deliveries of the military material to the front. The insistence on an uncompromising stance opposing both sides of the inter-imperialist war in Ukraine and defending the third camp of revolutionary defeatism even against the pacifist calls of the social-democratic forces. The insistence on the fact that “War in Ukraine” is not just one of many wars, but has a central place in the forming global military confrontation between two opposing blocks. The recently unfolding war in the Middle East, centered on the relentless slaughter of the proletarians in “Gaza” seems to becoming the second such a place.
https://libcom.org/article/defeatism-and-antimilitarism

The “Human Shields” Defense of Bombing Gaza’s Civilians Is Morally Bankrupt
Progressive commentator Ana Kasparian recently appeared on the popular right-wing podcast PBD. The interview ranged over several subjects, but her most intense debate with the two hosts was about Israel’s assault on Gaza. Kasparian expressed horror at the civilian death toll, which she compared to historical atrocities like the Armenian genocide during and after World War I. In response, one of the hosts accused her of falling for a liberal “media narrative.” The Israeli military didn’t want to kill civilians, he told her. The problem is that Hamas uses civilians as “human shields.” In response, Kasparian asked him if he had any kids. When he said no, she switched examples: "OK, your mother. You talked about your mother. If an armed gunman grabbed your mother [and] had a gun to her head . . . and he is confronted by the authorities . . . they just decide, you know what? We’re not going to negotiate. We’re not going to do anything. We’rPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Same energy

>>1681780
Completely different, but proletarian, energy.

>>1681780
What is the name of this one?

This is an extremely historical painting.

>>1681846
Noble People of the Land of the Soviets

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>>1681661
Lol I was reading some ancient Roman raciology and they thought heat makes you smart and cold makes you dumb. So the northerners were strong and dumb giants and the Africans were smart but weak and they, the meds, eere in the golldilocks zone.

>>1681700
Anon can you even read graphs? Can you not see that there are so many outliers (low brain volume high iq, high brain volume low iq, etc.) that the only fact you can conclude from this data is that the majority of people have average intelligence and average brain size? This image doesn't say anything no matter how much fake ass linear progression its author is trying to perform.

Dude, read the Communist Manifesto, it says we should spread the population out over the countryside. They're secret commies.

>>1681676
Funny how the authors of race science always make it so their race is the superior one.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-urbanized-countries

It is not that bad compared to Africa. We are less urbanized than LATAM for sure though.

Another singaporean asiatic mode of production W
https://nitter.net/orikron/status/1726255788921065909
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-17/china-puts-money-behind-singapore-model-in-major-housing-shift

>>1681710
This is incredibly obviously fake lol.

>>1681256
I'd say so. People come out with old racist tropes and decades old urban legends about Chinese and China and then use them to build a "left critique."

>>1669581
>The CCP “was always going to decouple.. were always meant to be temporary
No they werent, this is just more Liberal Anti-China cope.

>>1674813
Cool idealism, friend. Was that an intentional parody?

Stop, stop, you're trying to view this in a political thought that doesn't really process "liberty" conceptually. I'll tell you what it is - there has been since the 19th century nascent communities of "drop-outs", and these have precedents going back ultimately to peasant revolts that sputtered out during times of crisis. A lot of these people were too incoherent to have any "political" or "class" position, drawing from a tendency within humanity that above all wants a "way out" of many social and political obligations. When land was cheap, these people would form communities, and they would usually fall apart because there was nothing holding them together. Other times, they would become insular, perhaps last a generation, then return to the fold of mainstream society or find some niche. The rise of the institutions enclosed these small offshoots of humanity and subsumed them. There is a tradition in America of forming these new communities, often with a religious doctrine. Some of them are still around - the Amish, the Mormons, built worlds apart from much of the norm.

The libertarians took advantage of that tendency but weaponized it and imported an essentially German institutional conceit about how these things work, and like all things Germanic, it's shit up and destroys itself. This weaponization has its precedents, but it was largely a thing to dismantle nascent movements around free love, "actual socialism" and various experiments to break away from the institutions that did form. The "libertarian party" as a construct has no organic basis, but was constructed as a vehicle for this Nazification. There were other "new parties" that weren't really parties so much as they were vehicles for various agendas - the Greens are another, except they became bigger in parts of the world. Not the US though, where they were almost entirely a political organization around Nader and had basically no one else saleable as a political leader or committed enough to act as if they had any business in politics. Then there are "new religious movements" which have grown in prominence recently. There's a lot more Scientology shit than there was a decade ago, as some of these people are attached to politicians. One of the people working with Michael Flynn's "let's start the next civil war" tour is a Scientologist lawyer for example, and there's a deep cult thinking that has been promulgated extensively since the natsec state began. We only now see some of that.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

There isn't a "libertarian" theory of anything. There is anarchism, which at heart imperial and fascistic, and a vehicle for eugenism. Mostly though, these flash in the pan "parties" are a way to shit up anyone who wants to do anything different, by insisting they enter the political arena where they are destined to lose, and handing them a self-defeating strategy that herds them to the slaughter. Anything of substance either isn't allowed to exist or is a "system-approved" candidate.

It is a simple reality that unless you have the technocratic qualifications, you have no political rights after 1947 - none. Nor do you have a right to exist, and that right will always be held by a body that has a knife at your throat at all times. That is the situation we live in - and if you don't like it, you're "paranoid" for noting what is right in front of you. There's your "liberal democracy", lol.

If anyone thinks ideology has anything to do with politics, they are idiots and frankly should not be allowed to vote.

>>1674869
American Libertarianism does not descend from peasant revolts. It didn't even form until the 1950s.

>>1680734
This is from the 19th century American libertarian entrepreneur. We are still refining our ideas unlike some other folks; libertarianism is supposed to be robust and ready to face new unexpected challenges.

>>1682263
e depois de inevitalvelmente dar merda vão fazer ferradura ou bode espiatorio com o tapado pra salvar a ideia a custa do corno.

>>1682194
começam

>Bolsonaro 2026
A piada de que liberal está errado literalmente 100% das vezes não é mais piada.

>>1682272
Segunda e terceira pica relatadas. Os artigos chamando Milei de socialista já estão escritos e prontos pra imprimir desde antes da Comuna de Paris sequer existir.

Aproveito pra fazer uma previsão que, agora, parece-me tão óbvia que, imagino, muitos jpa deve ter feito antes.

A democracia burguesa nunca foi grande merda no capitalismo periférico, e agora, não é mais merda nenhuma em nenhum lugar; está filosoficamente oca, não tem mais nada a oferecer. Por outro lado, não há alternativa; essa democracia com morte cerebral é tudo que existe no momento. Some-se esses dois fatores e o resultado é o acirramento da falsa disputa de classes que a democracia burguesa transforma em ritual. As tendências:

- Redução do rol de candidatos a 2 campos com cada vez menos diferenças entre si
- Aumento da intensidade da disputa eleitoral, não no campo físico (ou seja, não descambará, pelo menos por enquanto, pro campo da violência), mas no campo das aparências: toda eleição será a eleição mais """""importante""""" pro futuro da nação até aquele momento, cada vez mais emocionalmente exaustiva
- Esses dois fatores supra-citados podem parecer contraditórios entre si. Não apenas não são, como fazem perfeito sentido. Ambos os lados exageram e exacerbam inconscientemente as poucas diferenças que há entre eles, justamente pra disfarçar a essa falta delas. Vide os wedge issues que regem o circo político dos EUA disputado por 2 lados quase iguais.
- Nessa dinâmica da democracia-zumbi, a tendência antiga de estabilidade inercial (tendência de um candidato vitorioso a se reeleger a menos que faça um governo extremamente ruim) é substituido por uma "instabilidade estagnante": não importa se o governo é ótimo ou uma catástrofe total, a próxima eleição vai ser acirrada. Como eu digo há anos, fatos não importam mais. Eleições degeneraram a um nível abaixo do que os gregos antigos já a tinham; eles as desdenhavam porque as consideravam meros concursos de popularidade. Pois bem, o nível atual é ainda inferior a isso, porque as pessoas cujas popularidades elas medem são mais ficção do que reais. Fake news, infocalipse, identificação com candidato, absolutamente todo tipo de asneira tem precedência sobre fatos na hora de decidir eleições. Nesse novo paradigma, personagens são ótimos candidatos, completamente independente de quão lastimáveis eles sejam na vida real.
- A única solução pra isso é outra coisa que venho falando há anos. A morte da democracia representativa só pode ser superada com o aprofundamento dela, transformando-a em democracia participativa. Se isso não ocorrem, desabamento em ditadura é o Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

fio novo
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>>1683261

Puerto Rico raises alarms as FEMA ends power generation mission
Puerto Rico’s government and private institutions are worried the island’s electric grid could once again collapse, after federal officials announced the end of an emergency power generation mission. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials last month informed Puerto Rico’s reconstruction authority, known as Cor3, that it would cease operations by March 15 of two emergency power generating stations with a 350 megawatt capacity installed on the island. The announcement puts Puerto Rico in a bind, as officials there are hoping to keep the generators online through the end of the 2024 hurricane season next November.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4315719-puerto-rico-raises-alarms-fema-end-power-generation/

Macy’s workers to strike Black Friday across Washington over ‘unfair’ labor practices
“When workers ask that store safety just be a topic that they can talk about in future meetings with management, Macy’s even says no to that,” Joe Mizrahi, Secretary-Treasurer of UFCW 21, said on Friday. “Macy’s workers would much rather be inside the store helping customers this Black Friday. But instead they’ll be out here (at the Southcenter Mall) on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.”
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/macys-workers-strike-black-friday-across-washington-over-unfair-labor-practices/BMCFTDYVW5GPLFWDCLE4MU277U/

BlackRock is overhauling its lobbying unit as the firm scrambles to protect its reputation, leaked memo shows
The money management giant is looking for a new Washington, DC-based head of US government affairs and public policy as well as a new head of state government affairs, wrote John Kelly, BlackRock's global head of corporate affairs, in a previously unreported company memo last week. The state-focused position will be responsible for developing efforts "in priority capitals" to manage state-level relationships.
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Solidarity with Myriam Bregman, Socialist Congresswoman in Argentina, Under Attack for Her Defense of Palestine
During the second Argentinian presidential debate on October 8, the other four candidates unconditionally aligned themselves with Israel’s declaration of war against the Palestinian people. In contrast, the candidate of the Workers Left Front — Unity (FIT-U), while expressing pain at the civilian deaths, condemned the colonial oppression and apartheid regime suffered by the Palestinian people. Since then, Bregman and other representatives of the FIT-U have been subject to all manner of threats. Many of them come from the same right-wing sectors — like far-right presidential candidate Javier Milei and his vice-presidential candidate Victoria Villarruel — who defend the military dictatorship in Argentina that viciously tortured detainees, especially those who were Jewish. Other threats come from supporters of the Juntos por el Cambio candidate Patricia Bullrich, who launched a fake news operation against Bregman, accusing her of having objected to a minute of silence for civilians who were killed.
https://www.leftvoice.org/solidarity-with-myriam-bregman-socialist-congresswoman-in-argentina-under-attack-for-her-defense-of-palestine/

Airline Unions Aim To Preserve Sky-High Credit Card Fees
A congressional effort to rein in ever-increasing credit card swipe fees that are costing retailers billions and raising consumer prices has encountered a new hurdle: airline unions. Swipe fees, which retailers pay to process credit card transactions, fund the airlines’ lucrative credit card rewards programs that flight attendants push on travelers mid-flight in exchange for a healthy commission. To protect that arrangement, labor unions representing industry workers have joined forces with powerful banking and credit card lobbies to beat back the reforms. “It would probably hurt the revenue of the airline industry if they didn’t have these credit card partnerships and rewards,” said Lulu Wang, a finance professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management who studies competition in credit card markets. “So then, of course, they rally the troops.” Labor unions that represent flight attendantsPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

TYBNA

>>1680967
I fucking wish.
>>1680972
Elitist.

Aesthetics are much more important then many other Anons believe, as they are visual symbols of the Superstructure which maintains the Base, thus showing why it is important for Communists to maintain an Aesthetic profile which promotes the Hyper-Rationalization of the Superstructure (a key aspect of Social Libertarianism, along with UBI and a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy), which will eventually (once Maoist PPWs sweep the Periphery/Semi-Periphery, and proceed to semi-peacefully merge with the Social Libertarian Imperial Core to form a Global USSR) allow for the destruction of the Capitalist Base, which will place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜!


The Aesthetic profile that Communists should embrace consists of any visual Aesthetic symbol that demonstrates a rejection of the Reactionary Superstructure of Organized Religion, Patriarchy, Nationalism, etc. that reinforce the Capitalist Base (in particular, the Right-Liberal/“Conservative”, Fascist, and Theocratic ideologies). Thus, true Communists will dress up as Red Guards wearing Mao suits (with Communist Flag pins on them), and carrying the Little Red book with them at all times, have personal Maoist shrines in their house with red candles lit (with hammers and sickles on them) for the Six Heads of the Immortal Science (Marx, Engles, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Gonzalo), with all of their portraits present with a Red flag draped on the table (with a Naxalite or Shining Path Hammer and Sickle on it), fly Communist (Soviet, Chinese, Naxalite, and/or Shining Path) Flags on the window or balcony of their dwelling, live in a small Apartment in a walkable big city and use mass transit in order to save the environment and reject Petit Bourgeois Suburbia, never go to Church/Mosque/Synagogue/Temple, listen to Leftist music (ie. The International, Old Soviet and Chinese Communist Music, 60s/70s counter-culture artists like John Lennon, and modern U$ Alternative Rock music like Green Day and Rage against the Machine which have Anti-American and/or Pro-Communist lyrics), smoke pot, buy guns, never get married (marriage is a bourgeois Capitalist, Feudalist, Theocratic, Reactionary, Superstructure, just have as many Girlfriends and/or Boyfriends as you want), be a NEET, vote Democrat, and if you are a Woman, cut your Hair extremely short (Pixie cut, Buzz cut, or Shaved Head), don’t wear dresses (wear a Mao suit), don’t use makeup, and don’t wear highPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I'm not going to live the Ted Kaczynski lifestyle if it's not going to do any good in the long run. You can't just live outside the system, you'll eventually be brought back in anyway because otherwise you'll die.

>>1681477
A bunch of schizo nonsense