/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Woah how high can they go.

Why are right wing and conservative podcasts so popular on youtube and other social media? its like I cant swing a dead cat without seeing some rando channel I've never heard of that has millions of subscribers and hundreds of thousands of views.

Whats the real story about Atlanta, I can't find any info that isn't rightoid fear mongering. I can't find any left-wing publications talking about it, WSWS had no articles about it.

>“I’m 100 percent [Murdoch’s] bitch,” Carlson said. “Whatever Mr. Murdoch says, I do. … I would be honored if he would cane me the way I cane my workers, my servants.” - Tucker Carlson

How do we solve the problem of low autism score rightoids? Being stupid is unironically half the reason people turn/are reactionary. I remember going to high school with a bunch of guys (of all races, not even just white) who were military dependents from the south and they would tend to say shit about how it was good for 17-18 year olds to get spanked hard with a paddle, and how America either needed to be right wing libertarian or "the military should run everything", or "anarchy could be good to thin the population". These motherfuckers were basically conan the barbarian without the muscles, a lot went on to join the marines and went to Iraq/Afghanistan. The characters from 'generation kill' were actually pretty accurate to your average young 90s/2000s male, just get that plus a southern drawl and it's like 50% of the guys I went to high school with. It truly was an era of pre-woke, unthinking "chinlet-iness".

These are probably the same people who are "backing the blue" and voting for Trump and complaining about shit being woke. When I say they're low autism score I mean their thoughts are really just ID and they don't even conceptualize shit in terms of justifying their beliefs, or if they do it only goes 1 layer deep. These are the types of people who would respond to some liberal criticizing the war by (literally) starting to chant "USA! USA!" after a short pause. It's the barbarian id made manifest.

There are just some people who, unironically, like hierarchy and authority (especially when they see people like themselves reflected at the top). The "cruelty is the point" because they like the idea of domination, competition, and hierarchy. "Liberation" doesn't really even fucking compute for these guys.

All I'm saying is there's a deep connection between anti intellectualism and a preference for hierarchy because thinking too much leads you to question the rationality of tradition and hierarchy, which means conservatism will always be appealing to people who can't think (stupid low autism score) or don't want to think (religious schizo, anti intellectualism generally). This is probably why there are more conspiracy theories on the right and also why conspiracy cumbrains like shoe, dore, brand, etc. alwPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Brazil’s Lula announces measures to promote and protect women after years of setbacks
At a ceremony in the capital Brasilia on Wednesday, Lula, as the president is universally known, presented a package of over 25 measures, including a Bill that would guarantee equal pay for women and men doing the same jobs. He also announced plans to spend 372 million reais (£60.9m) to build domestic violence shelters and 100 million reais (£16.4m) on science projects led by women.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/brazil-lula-announces-measures-to-promote-and-protect-women-after-years-of-setbacks

Colombia: Petro Signs Act Replacing Jailed Mothers' Sentences
The act will apply only to women with sentences of less than eight years. In exchange for benefiting from it, female prisoners must provide unpaid services to their communities. "The alternatives to imprisonment that this law provides allow to reduce recidivism and prevent social and family ties breaking. It is not by imprisoning that we can prevent violence. Societies develop themselves in freedom,” he pointed out.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Petro-Signs-Act-Replacing-Jailed-Mothers-Sentences-20230309-0007.html

Chilean lawmakers shelve government tax reform in defeat to Boric
The government of Chilean leftist President Gabriel Boric suffered a major setback on Wednesday after lawmakers refused to move forward with a proposed tax reform meant to finance key elements of the president's progressive agenda. The tax reform aimed to ultimately collect up to 3.6% of gross domestic product and proposed a mining royalty, which is also being discussed separately.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chilean-lawmakers-shelve-government-tax-reform-defeat-boric-2023-03-08/

Georgia to drop foreign agents law after massive protests
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I've been recommend Leszek Kołakowski from anticommunist before, he seems well read but his main argument is that the state will simply not dissolve when classes are eliminated. And that Marx was somehow a nihilist. Anyone else read up on him?

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN'S DAY TO ALL WOMEN AND THOSE WHO FEEL OR IDENTIFY THAT DAY.

On this day remember all the greats that advanced half of the proletariat, and those who work to reproduce the working class… And they do it for free.

"Women hold up half the sky." – Mao Zedong

Política de Perú.

PRIMERA NOTA: Peruvian President Pedro Castillo was arrested by the authorities after he dissolved the Congress of Peru on Wednesday. The accused as the leader of a “criminal organization” was approached in the street, in downtown Lima, by police officers when he was leaving the Government headquarters, it was reported by local media.

Cuál es el contexto de todo el desmadre que está sucediendo?

no quería postear en el hilo del namefag 🤮

Peru’s President Pedro Castillo announced on Wednesday that he will dissolve Congress temporarily and install an emergency government – hours before lawmakers were due to make an impeachment vote in congress.

In a televised speech from the Presidential Palace on Wednesday, Castillo said he will call for early parliamentary elections to work on a new constitution.

The embattled president, who has survived two impeachment attempts, also declared a national curfew from Wednesday from 10 p.m. local (5 p.m. ET) to 4 a.m. local.

Congress appeared defiant however, beginning its session on Wednesday with lawmakers singing the national anthem.
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I've always been skeptical of identifying "the left" as the savior of proletarians, such orthodox Marxist thinking seems to have been shown flawed by history.
There can't be any savior of the proletarian. The proletarian is itself the revolution, the outside, the avant-garde, the mass of minorities. What a lot of the European left saw is that capitalism is far more resilient than the early Marxists gave it credit for, and would in fact create its own oppositions in order to maintain control over every flow, every aspect.
The proletarian is far from the Christ-like crusaders the left would like to believe. Turns out, people are extremely flawed, and the most radical shit can come from terrible people.

>The protest, which was called the Freedom Convoy (French: Convoi de la liberté) by organizers, was "first aimed at a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers" when the convoy of hundreds of vehicles, including semi-trailers, headed towards Ottawa, Ontario the nation's capital, starting on January 22. The protesters quickly changed their messaging to include demands that all COVID-19-related public health restrictions be lifted. By late January and early February, the professional trucking industry and labour groups, such as Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA), Teamsters Canada, Canadian Labour Congress, had published statements distancing their members from the convoy protest. By January 29, when the convoy converged in what became known as the red zone in Ottawa, there were estimates of from 8,000 to 18,000 pedestrian protesters at its peak on the first weekend and hundreds of vehicles, including 18-wheelers that were parked directly on Wellington Street, in front of the Prime Minister's office. In spite of an injunction by a judge and the invocation of three levels of states of emergency, municipal, provincial, and federal, protesters temporarily refused to end blockades and the occupation of the red zone. On February 14, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act. Over the weekend of February 17 to 20, a large joint-operation police presence in Ottawa arrested about 200 organizers and protesters, laid 389 charges, issued fines, removed the heavy trucks and trailers with 79 vehicles towed away, seized 36 license plates, and dismantled encampments across the city. Action was taken against thirty-six commercial vehicles by the Ministry of Transportation. By February 20, the area surrounding the Parliamentary Precinct, occupied by protesters for three weeks, was fenced off by police after it has been secured by a series of police advances pushing the crowd away from Parliament Hill. A heavy police presence remained.

Who was in the right here? Was it a based working class uprising vs the neoliberal capitalist state? or right wing schizos vs common sense? Something similar happened in the late 70s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractorcade