/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Trump moves to merge wildland firefighting into single force, despite ex-officials warning of chaos
The order aims to centralize firefighting efforts now split among five agencies and two Cabinet departments. Trump’s proposed budget for next year calls for the creation of a new Federal Wildland Fire Service under the U.S. Interior Department. That would mean shifting thousands of personnel from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service — where most federal firefighters now work — with fire season already underway. The administration has not disclosed how much the change could cost or save.
https://apnews.com/article/wildland-firefighting-trump-administration-d4b356433e91c1d90805c0d39012e745

US immigration agency flies drones capable of surveillance over LA protests
In a statement to 404 Media, which first reported the presence of the drones, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said the drones were deployed to support “our federal law enforcement partners in the Greater Los Angeles area, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with aerial support of their operations”. Ice conducts raids and arrests, activity that has ramped up under Donald Trump’s administration and against which protesters in Los Angeles have been demonstrating.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/12/predator-drone-los-angeles-protests

Protests ignite after U.S. customs detains Palestinian men at SFO
An East Bay Jewish congregation had invited Eid Hthaleen and Ouda Alhadlin, two community leaders in the occupied West Bank, to participate in an interfaith speaking tour. The men's detention comes as the Trump administration escalates immigration raids, cracks down on nationwide protests and tries to deport some pro-Palestinian protesters.
https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/06/12/palestinian-men-detained-sfo-customs

House votes to claw back $9.4bn in spending including from NPR and PBSPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Τιμή, δόξα και αλληλεγγύη στα παλικάρια μας!

Episode 465: 09A — The Eastern Front (TrueAnon)
We’re joined by eventsinukraine (eventsinukraine.substack.com/) to talk about the strange overlap between a double murder in Midwest, the Russian Volunteer Division, FBI informants, Roblox, and more…
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/09a

Money is not enough
EIGHT long and painful years since the Grenfell Tower Fire, here we are once again reflecting on what has and has not been achieved that would prevent Grenfell 2. For many of us, this is just sickening. We have a new government, “Labour” in name at least. There have, of course, been changes made. But changes do not always mean progress. So yes, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, “the Grenfell Council,” has written some heartfelt and finely calibrated statements, press releases, held public meetings, consultations and published policies. But genuine change? Ask anyone in North Ken — No. After tens of millions of pounds spent, people are still suffering without the support they need; they still don’t get it. Ask residents of Lancaster West, the estate of which the Tower is a part, how their refurb is going. Ask residents of the year-old Kelso Cochrane House, council built on council land — just read the PRs! But it leaks. The leccie is dodgy. There is damp, mould and the lifts break down. So this “award-winning exciting new build” is actually potentially dangerous. This really doesn’t bode well for the extraordinarily “generous” spending review announcements of Wednesday June 11. If the council so desperate to be seen to have improved, with the world watching, a council under investigation for corporate manslaughter — if they can’t get it right, what hope for this juggernaut of spending on affordable and social housing announced this week?
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/money-not-enough

CP of Greece, To Communist and Workers’ Parties. Subject: Response to the slanderous attack of the “Appeal”
On 11 June 2025, SolidNet received an “Appeal” from Parties attempting yet another slanderous attack, initiated by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) and the Russian Communist Workers’ Party (RCWP), regarding an article by thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Thanks News Anon

>>2317668
that's not how politics work. reported for low effort bait

>>2302819
>they'd get torn to shreds
Just like the CPSU tore the Soviet Union to shreds?

i think mao had a good reason to be the way he was, after all, landowners deserve death

>>2315966
proletarians are not lumpen animals
proles, no matter how poor, sacrifice their needs to a bare minimum and manage to save anyway

>>2302933
where are you from, Lear

NECROMANTIC COMMUNISM
IN THE GRAVE WE ARE UNITED

>>2315026
Daily reminder that Nietzsche wasn't a leftist.

>>2314879
I think it was easier when there was only one socialist country (the USSR) for communists to soy out about. The USSR was the red fortress. They didn't see a contradiction between their ideals and the twists in Soviet foreign policy (although some did). But it became more complicated when more socialist countries came into being. In a historical plot twist, Stalin had formulated socialism in one country, but during his lifetime his armies installed new socialist governments in Eastern Europe, and more new socialist states emerged in China and Yugoslavia which were outside of his grasp.

Another issue is how communist parties themselves changed once they came into power. I think a lot of people who treat historical commuism as fandom glide this over, but there were real and violent disputes about this, culminating in the Cultural Revolution in China where Mao launched a mass campaign directed at his own party. But there were also the "new class" theories about the Soviet Union, that the communists, state-owned factory directors and various low-cunning strivers had essentially formed a new social class even though the official ideology held that there were no classes (and many people who were doing pretty well and had privileged positions probably believed that because that's how ideology works).

The main thing is that there's a strong argument it had started to turn into a conservative regime focused on stability above all else. Now it was a different kind of conservatism compared to traditional reaction, but nonetheless shared the basic elements of dogmatism (like Catholic dogma), coasting on historical inertia, and assuming an attitude of opportunism to the world as it is. Now there might have also been elements of this during the Stalin era, but there were also really radical things happening during the Stalin era too, so one might say the Stalin era was also a transition period between the initial revolutionary period and the conservative period of the USSR later on.

But a lot of noob communists on the internet probably shy away from these criticisms, either because they don't understand it and never really learned about these things, or they don't (understandably) want to lend ammunition to the liberals and others on the right who use what I'm saying as a way to dismiss socialism.

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i feel this is absolutely true, israel is completely justified with its existance, it was created by a people who were escaping fascistic capitalism, we should root for Palestinians simply because they are the underdog

This doesn't apply to us leftcoms - we shit on 99.9% of all so-called revolutions and communist/socialist parties both successful and unsuccessful.

>>2315918
yes, it is. If that's the best argument you have you might as well give up convincing anyone

>>2315929
the ones without aid are the hamas supporters

>>2315930
Hamas is resisting an occupation, they are heroes like those who died in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the exact same sort of situation really. I hope me telling that upsets you because you know deep down it's the truth, and what does that make you?

>>2315937
freedome fighters that would slaughter millions if they were let into israel proper and given free reign. there incredibly hostile. and deserve it

>>2315943
all attacks within their legal borders are self defense, all I've seen hamas do for years is self defense. Get off their land and stop crying victim while putting them in a ghetto and starving them. The fact that you can acknowledge and defend these crimes while crying victim is a lot like how the Nazis claimed it was the Jews own fault, Isreal is a state of warped fascist monsters and deserves everything it gets and more

>>2315629
It really ought to be obvious what the difference in intent is behind selling something for cash and giving it away for free with the caveat that the donee uses it in an agreed way.

>>2315637
as opposed to what? are iranians under impression their drones might be used for agriculture? you're splitting hair - support is support nothing more, nothing less.

>>2315643
Their drones would have the same purpose in peacetime, they were for sale in peacetime as well. But no one could randomly ask NATO
>givas tenk
in peacetime and expect for that request of givas to be satisfied for free.

>>2315624
I'll do it

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>self-styled communist
>petty vengeance
unsurprising,go minecraft the electrical grid instead of posting you fucking poser

>>2297322
I've been sick, went back to my parents house and shitposted on the interwebz

might go to a palestine demo on sunday tho

Honestly I took one of the biggest dump I can remember this week, shit (no pun intended) was intense.

>If you aren't involved in the labor movement, you are knowingly complicit.
This is probably a bait thread but this is 100% true, before and after joining a Union was like taking the good version of the redpill. My wages increased by literally 326%, I shit you not. We should all be doing this, and If you're not involved in union-organizing in your workplace, atleast volunteer to form it in others. If you're a neet, you can even do it online:
https://workerorganizing.org/

>>2277478
me when I'm a fucking retard who doesn't know what words mean

>>2277478
Marx is easily one of the top 10 individuals in history in terms of the sheer amount of productive intellectual work that he did.

What if instead of that we militarize society?
A soldier on each son you have

Military service is abolished because every school every community and every institution becomes a military complex
kinda like the Ba'athist guilds

While some people might be against it and they should at first
i believe it's ultimately the only way to uphold an "equal" society
this would imply to rethink the concept of a "soldier" to not be alienated from society altogether
a soldier doesn't mean you should be a combatant, ideally everyone would be trained to perform in combat if needed but that would be in such extreme case that our front lines of career combatants can't cover their position at the time being.

>>2315146
I’ll raise you one, conscription for basic public service and everyone rotating jobs every six months for at least two years. If at the end of two years you wanna go out and find your own permanent job you can and if you’re not functional outside a barracks environment you can just stay conscripted, for the rest of your life if you wanted to.

>>2315499

deal, but conscription just means you have to help in kitchens and shit that teaches you basic life skills / find a career in a logistics body military branch
active combatants should still be *mostly* voluntary.

you'd still have to join the drills and training courses as well as do exercise with active duty conscripts and enlisted

that'd be the best course of action as well as to redefine soldiers as part of society rather than a separate power alienated from the public and vice versa

as much as i like numbers go up it helps nobody if a soldier doesn't wanna be operating outside of emergencies and such scenarios where it's more of a self preservation situation

it's more likely to go AWOL / trivialize the hold

to be fair I always knew the CIA didn't have anything to do with either Kennedys deaths
they were not threats to the system, I was more interested that the CIA were willing to declassify that Kennedy was aware of an Israeli nuclear program

>>2315066
>”the president is being petty”
<simultaneously claim Trump declared war on your family because you weren’t invited to the picnick
Brah….

honkoid status?

I too would be pissed off if I wasn't invited to a BBQ.

>>2315119
>I too would be pissed off if I wasn't invited to a BBQ.
New thread:

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>>2286129
Collect rolexes like a normal rich guy.

>>2285748
What about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? I heard they do some good works.

i thought being selfish is bad tho

Some lady stole millions of dollars from children with cancer. That's why I don't donate to anything unless it's local.

>>2314478
See >>2285762