/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

A thread for the forgotten continent, so forgotten the thread got wiped since I made it that recently.

Discuss anything related to:
>Algeria
>Angola
>Benin
>Botswana
>Burkina Faso
>Burundi
>Cabo Verde
>Cameroon
>Central African Republic (CAR)
>Chad
>Comoros
>Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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Just for context, I’m not a scientists and I’m likely wrong about most if not all of these ideas.

When looking at animal populations and the history of pre civilization humans, it’s clear that childlessness, sociopathy, aggressiveness, loneliness, and whatever else we consider to be “immature” has been common for quite some time.

Our attitude to child rearing today shows how much different people are compared to before. Many people today tend to believe or at least internalize the belief that most people had sex and children. That’s not true. The cause of the low population of humans internationally wasn’t purely disease related. Actually, disease played a shockingly low role in suppressed population growth than one would think. Most people just didn’t engage in sex out of personal preference and or circumstances. Maybe celibacy got selectively purged, but I don’t think that’s true.
As for behaviours like working with groups, avoiding direct confrontation, continuously working, pacifism, tenderness with children, socialization, I think much of that was either beaten into people by the rich or was bred organically through natural selection. I don’t see a lot of these behaviours with animals. These behaviours do keep a lot of people alive and ensure that humanity can survive. However, they tend to also create a population of generally weak and almost totally enslaved people. At times, I struggle to imagine a world where anybody can stand up for themselves ever. Even in mainstream art, you can find constant examples of confrontation and individually earned dignity being demonized while confrontation against nonhuman or dehumanized groups is rewarded. Hell, today we even belittle and mock ethnic groups and societies where any form of infighting among their members is present as if that is unnatural.

Like, when was the last time have you ever seen a news article encouraging confrontation between people that the author was aligned too?

Personally, I don’t know whether or not if civilization was a mistake. Even if that technically saved us from the real threat of extinction, a lot of us came out less apt to survive and thrive independently.

"Marxist" solutions according to 99% of /leftypol/: Making wage-slavery more efficient and 'comprehensively' regulated reproduction of proletarian misery in order to halt the decline of the petite-bourgeoisie.

Recent news:
First statement by Bashar al-Assad ever since his ouster. Israel takes more land, this time south of the Golan. More sectarian incidents. US-mediated temporary truce between the SDF and Turkey + SNA, with an impending offensive on Ayn Isa, Sirrin and Kobani.

Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://syria.liveuamap.com/

I hope we take this time to remember our hero, Charles Dickens, one of the greatest of liberal writers, and of the strongest of liberal spirits indeed, to those that say bah, humbug, I say, cum, dine with us
And indeed, leftypol, I’ve always thought of Christmas time when it comes right as a good time, a kindlier, forgiving, charitable time, a time when men and women seem to, of their own want and consent, open their shut up hearts freely to their fellow creatures.
So thought it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I do believe it has done me good, and I say, God bless it

Does anyone else remember the internet being predominantly left-leaning prior to the 2014 gamergate anti-sjw explosion? Occupy wall street was big for a while, new atheism was nearly impossible to escape, everyone regularly shit on Fox news and the Westboro baptist church, as well as conservative pundits like Jack Thompson and Ken Ham, and most people seemed pretty satisfied with Obama for the most part. That all changed following gamergate and the anti feminism/sjw wave in the years following, tack on Trump's 2016 campaign and it was all downhill from there.
I want to know what the fuck happened.

There's the tendency to substitute "women" for "prostitutes," which for most people are synonymous. So prostitution and sex work are seen and portrayed as "women's issues," and so to sidestep the Christian moral issue of prostitution being wrong/evil it's made an issue of "women's liberation."

Under those constraints any effort to reform sex work therefore has to benefit women exclusively or else it's portrayed as being a gift to men or the patriarchy or whatever. Like for example, the argument that legalizing prostitution just benefits the pimps that control the prostitutes. For the liberals the path of least resistance is to just say "okay well we can't go after the poor women who are just doing this because they have no choice, but we will go after the REAL problem which is the MEN that are EXPLOITING these poor women." The end result ends up being the same because even though these women aren't being prosecuted for prostitution, they're still targeted by police for being accessories to a crime, and to function they still have to operate outside the law.

What ends up happening is that you get people pushing for further reforms, either to decriminalize pimps or johns or whatever other part of the process because these are integral parts in the industry, which elicits screeching from libs about how it's a con by the patriarchy to make it okay to buy women or that kind of thing. Which isn't to say that there aren't good or valid feminist critiques or complaints being made, but often that the language of good faith criticism is adopted by liberals as an impediment to reform.

Two Protesters Self-Immolate Over Bhopal Toxic Waste Plan in India
Union Carbide—now owned by Dow Chemical—and the Indian government have never carried out an operation to remove all the contamination from Bhopal's groundwater, which has been found to contain levels of carcinogenic chemicals that were 50 times higher than what's accepted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/self-immolation-2670734994

Rajasthan: Left Parties Demand Resignation of Union Home Minister
After more than 370 tons of hazardous waste from the deadliest industrial disaster in history arrived in the town of Pithampur in central India, two men were filmed in the city on Friday dousing themselves in liquid before they were set on fire in an apparent self-immolation protest.
https://peoplesdemocracy.in/2025/0105_pd/rajasthan-left-parties-demand-resignation-union-home-minister

Thousands of rival protesters rally in Seoul after Yoon Suk Yeol avoids arrest
Members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, South Korea’s largest umbrella union, attempted to march to Yoon’s residence to demonstrate against him, but were blocked by police. It said two of its members were arrested and several others were injured in clashes.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/04/rival-protests-rally-seoul-south-korea-yoon-suk-yeol

Biden plans to send $8bn arms shipment to Israel
The US Department of State has notified Congress of a planned $8bn (£6.4bn) arms sale to Israel, an American official has confirmed to the BBC. The weapons consignment, which needs approval from House and Senate committees, includes missiles, shells and other munitions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvne94v1rdo
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Hahaha
Zionist cowards are only capable of getting anything done against unarmed women and children. At least the ruskies had the balls to fight for what they viewed was right to the end.