/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Puerto Rico board submits third plan in attempt to restructure power company debt of $10 billion
If confirmed by a federal bankruptcy judge, the plan would mean an increase in already high power bills for many people on the island if the new charge is approved by Puerto Rico’s Energy Bureau. On average, residential bills would increase by nearly $9 a month and commercial bills by $35. Some 1.4 million customers would not pay the new charge if they consume less than 425 kilowatt-hours a month, the plan states. The average monthly power consumption for a U.S. residential customer is about 886 kilowatt-hours, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-power-company-debt-restructuring-c10aafb2e375c577dce57003e91cb41b

Kaiser Permanente unions will vote on strike authorization
The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, which represents more than 85,000 health care workers in seven states and the District of Columbia, announced Thursday that its members would vote to authorize a strike between Aug. 26 and Sept. 13. This would be “the largest strike of health care workers in the history of this country,” said Dave Regan, president of the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW).
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4169752-kaiser-permanente-unions-will-vote-on-strike-authorization/
https://archive.ph/HYANz

‘They would not listen to us’: inside Biden’s troubled $53bn chip plant
The plant’s owner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the largest chip maker in the world, has pushed back plans to start manufacturing to 2025, blaming a lack of skilled labor. It is trying to fast-track visas for 500 Taiwanese workers. Unions, meanwhile, are accusing TSMC of inventing the skills shortage as an excuse to hire cheaper, foreign labor. Others point to safety issues at the plant.
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>>1583353
>US officials visit Syria's pro-Turkish rebel area
I pray Rojava kill those mfs
>ib4 rojava muh us imperialism

Tudeh Party of Iran, Tudeh Party of Iran: an assessment of the ongoing “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement
More than eight months have passed since the brutal death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the Islamic Republic's mercenaries on 16 September 2022 and the beginning of the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement thereafter. Although daily street protests have subsided in various cities, the notion that the anti-dictatorship movement of our country has been defeated is as wrong and unscientific as that put about by some at the outset of the uprising of "Woman, Life, Freedom" uprising that another "revolution" was underway in Iran. The October meeting of the Central Committee of the Party rightly emphasised that in examining the widespread street protests, it should be clearly noted that over the previous two years we have witnessed a wave of mass protests among various social strata that have continued [despite fierce repression by the authorities]. The widespread strikes of workers, farmers, teachers, education workers, retirees, nurses, and students across the country during those past two years have been a constant and unignorable feature of life in Iran and there has not been a day in the cities and provinces around the country when various currents of the people and intellectuals have not taken to the streets to protest the continuing of oppression, corruption, and deprivation imposed by the anti-people ruling regime, despite the manifest risks in doing so.
http://www.solidnet.org/article/Tudeh-Party-of-Iran-Tudeh-Party-of-Iran-an-assessment-of-the-ongoing-Woman-Life-Freedom-movement/

Brics expansion is positive – but not a coherent challenge to US power
The six applicants will mean the Brics (which already account for a larger share of world GDP than the G7 group of developed capitalist countries) rise to representing 37 per cent of the global economy and 46 per cent of the human race. They are also heavily concentrated in the Middle East, a region traditionally dominated by US imperialism. There is a definite move from Middle Eastern powers away from Washington’s orbit and the implications for continued US hegemony could be great. Could be. Socialists should be alert both to the positive aspects of BricsPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Thanks News Anon

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>>1582850
Not him, but socdems parties backed the war on Vietnam, and Korea too, while we're at it.

*ahem*
Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.

That's because social democracy inherently supports a class based society with no social mobility. You are born bourgie/prole and you will remain there. If you are bourgie, you have to give a lot of your money to the proles, but you still keep all political power and make all economic production decisions.

Most modern conservatives want a class based society too, but unlikely social democrats, they believe in social mobility. The free market allows some proles to become bourgies. Fascism locks down classes to how you were born, so conservatives don't want this, but in this aspect, it's identical to social democracy.

>>1548610
All cuckservative opposition to fascism is post-WW2 and pure theatrics. Hitler was the darling of the entire Western right-wing, before the whole Holocaust business. If you believe otherwise, congratulations, you fell for conservative PR, who, like the fascists, consider lying to you a legitimate political strategy.

>>1548610
I don't think you're giving conservatives enough credit. A crucial element to the rise of the Nazis was the support they received from the conservative petit-bourgeoisie, who believed Jews and others were hogging all the small businesses in Germany, and were thus happy to see them killed.

This isn't to say that social democrats haven't played a historical role in the rise of fascism, but conservatives are very susceptible to fascist rhetoric - they are, after all, the targets of it.

>>1582817
To build on this: social democrats behave this way strictly because they worship liberal democracies over everything else. They see the structure of government as their top priority, and if they have to stab communists in the back or make a united front with Nazis to do it, then you better believe they will.

And of course, in true succdem fashion, they will call this pragmatism - and then turn around and accuse communists of abandoning their ideals!

>>1573170
i mean media with no use value beyond entertainment

civilization will end because of intellectual property rights

>>1573187
people in general are pretty aware that copyright is fucking shit

>>1572542
Copyright drools, copyleft rules!

>>1583519
Copyleft is a coping mechanism under capitalism.
I'm not saying it isn't good, it is, but it's will become meaningless and will be abolished under socialism.

>>1583437
cis morons like you have no idea what you are talking about.

>>1583530
natsuccs gonna soy

>>1583437
So what's the plan, ban hormones and actively make our lives harder under socialism? Are we a reactionary capitalist threat that needs to be eugenically struggled against in the new socialist society? If so, why would that be desirable? There are a lot of trans people who are Communists including myself, why would we alienate them for simply existing, why do trans people being this or that have to be the biggest topic on your tongues, can't we just conclude its healthcare and move on?

>>1582853
>I’ve been thinking about Ghana for a bit and why so many black Americans decide to move there
I don't think it's a lot. There are apparently around 3,000 African-Americans live in Ghana, while the local Chinese population might be as much as 10x higher. There are 47 million black Americans. But it's politically stable and has better infrastructure than the rest of West Africa. The U.S. dollar goes far there so if you work remotely it's a good deal, a typical American salary puts you in the elite there, or if you wanna retire there and have a source of passive income like rental properties.

>It didn’t do anything for the average person, of any kind for the countries entire history.
I'm not sure about that. The U.S. is a well-organized economic superpower and is highly attractive to immigrants from all over the world. Not that the U.S. is exactly safe or "normal" and other places are "Black Hawk Down," but there are many parts of the world where wanton bribery, violence, and general lawlessness discourages enterprise and self-worth.

>Why can a country like Ghana end up being a romanticized paradise free from the problems associated with the relentlessness of American style capitalism
Relentless is one way to describe it. Have you ever been to the United States?

I've pulled this from people I know from third-world countries, but one thing about the U.S. compared to a lot of third-world countries is that life moves faster in the U.S., so life can sometimes feel more stressful. It's the "rat race" and comes with a hyper-consumer, everything-is-available-everywhere-always set of expectations, such that the 15-minute rolling blackouts during a heatwave once in the summer is huge deal instead of like, a normal, daily occurrence. A lot of things in the U.S. are easy compared to many countries, but some things are harder because of the relentlessness, it's like you have to be "on" all the time, you can't just drop out of the rat race for a month.

>>1582881
>rat race
Yeah towards nothing. I described American style capitalism as relentless because compared to other countries, there’s a level barbarism that accompanies it since it pays little respect to the fact that actual people have to maintain it. Again 40+ mass shootings monthly and nearly half the country at this point has had to be checked for severe cases of degradation to their mental health. A lot of it isn’t coming off trying to better there situation, but trying to cope with the dwindling opportunities that used to be there.

>>1583030
I think things have to change and they will change, and what it changes into, I have no evident idea. But I meet people from the Global South who have immigrated here and universally they buy into the "American Dream" more than the natives do because it's an automatic step up.

>>1583014
I've seen this book and it's written by a liberal historian attempting to make the Soviet Union look bad. I want something by Marxist historians or original literature from the Soviets themselves about this subject.

>>1582563
>>1582847
thx for proving my point abt the sectarians on this site being the worst most immature posters

Left Unity>>>>>>>>>>whatever the fuck ideology you chose to misunderstand and form a personality replacement around

>>1582697
>its another episode of MLs turning into fanatic anti-communists regurgitating western propaganda but its ok cuz its abt slighlty different communists this time

lmao yall mfers dont care abt revolution just hollow aesthetics

>>1582867
It's defending the USSR by quoting white propaganda about Makhnovia, which undermines their defense of the USSR since it gives credence to the idea that it's legitimate information, which elsewhere shits on the Bolsheviks. Literally undermining their "own" side to take pot shots at their "enemy."

>>1583232
No I meant what the ancom flag said about defending old socialism. A communist that doesn't have a grudge againsts anarchists but also doesn't let stuff like "communisms killed billions of people" slide is not equal to the guy posting literal white propaganda.

>>1583203
>lmao yall mfers dont care abt revolution just hollow aesthetics
People with a genuine commitment to socialist revolution don't crawl up their own assholes worshipping a movement that demonstrably failed to accomplish the actual goals of socialism even with superpower status that is correct t

>look at 2020 archived thread
>people actually making shit
>people actually getting shit done
>actual diversity of userbase, enough that there are interesting people who have shit worth listening to
hold me, comrade

>>1582875
thanks caballo you stupid fuck

thanks whoever spammed 'christcom gang' on /christian/. Planted a seed in my soul, now my faith isn't wholly disconnected from reality but more complete.

>>1582882
??? That one based shitposter i guess.

post sorticition when?
we dont care about logical sequence of events.
we're not cookiecutters, we're freaks!

I disagree with the suggestion that this is artificial: there really are a lo of threads with bad assertions in the OPs and it's a healthy sign that they're being told to piss off so early.

I think people are just shitposting. Negativity gets more engagement. Assuming its regulars or mods doing it, I think there are better methods of driving up PPH but whatever, I kinda like the uptick in alternative views, I just wish they werent such spergs about it. It doesnt even bother me till people are generalizing tendencies based on those shitposts but tbh thats probably just the same people continuing to shitpost. Its shitposts all the way down, randy.

Alright, that's three.

OP IS BIG HOMO THEMSELVES THIS IS SHIT NONOSENSE GET THE FUCK OFF MY BOARD YOU (((HIBERNIAN))) PRICK

>>1582543
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

>>1582518
WEAK ENERGY….WEAK

>>1582518
Natural reaction to scare libs away