/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

TLDR at the end for those who don't care about my explanation/story


The mindset that things are the way they are and they will never change frustrates me to no end. As someone who wants to make movies, living in America means I have to conform to the will of mega-conglomerates and let greedy execs ruin potential masterpieces so they can profit. When telling liberals that I was concerned about how artists are being exploited, they say I'm at fault for wanting to create art in a business that big, and that I'm the greedy and needy one. I never questioned capitalism before questioning my career, but now I think my anxiety was misplaced this whole time. I'm not anxious about my career, I'm anxious about how capitalism will ruin my future. Then I realize… this threat is present in all aspects of life all over the world.

The environment I live in is heavily conservative. I've never really had any debates that helped me learn and change. I think it's time for me to wake up and learn new possibilities that aren't "we need to become a fascist state after a bloody race war because globohomo." I also have a lot of doubts about leftism, I think; I'm somewhat religious, enjoy gun ownership, and believe people should speak freely to an extent… and I'm not sure how leftist that really is.

I'd hate to come here and ask you to wipe my ass and educate me, so if you have any reading recommendations based on the concerns I've raised (such as socialism's relation with personal freedoms), I'd love to read them in my free time. Thanks in advance

TLDR: I think I'm a socialist now, so I'd like some recommendations for reading, infographics, and video essays that'd help a newbie learning about the philosophy of socialism.

Why do entertainment companies put out schlock so much? Does it really make money to put out extremely vapid, cynical try-hard media that is utterly unappealing except to the most 2-bit personality straight out of a marketer's mind-palace? Is there really even a bottom line or lowest common denominator? Or is it just rich people flipping their dicks in the wind and/or being subsidized in order to put out propaganda, in which case is even that effective for its own ends?
Growing up gen Z, so much of my childhood was being force-fed awful pandering media that I never cared for and it seemed like other people my age didn't really care for much either. Interest is usually directed towards older stuff, like maybe from the 90s/80s and before. Idk

https://theme.archives.go.kr/next/economicDevelopment/primary.do

First five year plan

The most important task for the government was to expand social overhead capital, including energy sources such as electricity and coal, and railways, roads, and ports. These energy sources and social overhead capital are prerequisites for industrialization. Prior to full-scale industrialization, the government needed to expand energy sources and social overhead capital needed to achieve the level of industrialization assumed by the government. Accordingly, the government attempted to achieve this goal by constructing new facilities or expanding existing facilities.
For example, in the case of electricity, the government planned to increase production by 2.7 times in 1966, the target year compared to the base year of 1960, through expansion during the planning period, and it was also assumed that cargo transport would increase by 1.9 times.

Since the government set 'industrialization as the ultimate direction of the Korean economy', the construction and expansion of key industries was one of the most important tasks of the first plan. The industries selected for development in the first plan amounted to about 40, such as oil refining, fertilizer, chemical fiber, cement, general steel, railway vehicles, shipbuilding, automobiles, and machine manufacturing. These industries are industries where domestic demand already exists or the demand is expected to increase rapidly along with future economic development.



second five year plan



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A good economy contributes a lot to the quality of life. Besides a certain amount of freedom of business is healthy since competition results in higher quality products and innovation. Too many measures can also push companies from our country, so realistically speaking it affects a lot of people's lifes. I am quite conservative but I am moderately left on a few issues.

Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Wednesday gave his first TV speech, during which he announced a plan to ban gun ownership and tackle drug trafficking, among other relevant measures.

“Armed violence will not be tolerated,” said Boric, who will introduce legislative proposals to radically narrow the possession of guns, following various shooting massacres in the United States.

The President spoke of a “total ban on gun ownership” because “armed violence will not be tolerated in our country and that is why our Program 'Fewer Arms, More Security' proposes the radical limitation of legal access [to firearms].”

The head of state has asked Chile's Congress for “all the support to pass a law that will allow us to move towards a total ban on gun ownership and at the same time strengthen the institutional framework in charge of control.”

The President also vowed to “increase controls to dismantle the organizations dedicated to illegal arms trafficking” and prevent armed violence, a new and growing phenomenon in Chile in recent years, from taking root in society. “There are some who do not applaud this, we have seen what happens in other countries, let's not allow it to happen to us in Chile,” Boric argued. “A Chile without weapons is a safer Chile,” the president insisted.

His plan seeks to reduce the number of firearms in the illegal market to help reduce homicide and violent crimes. Boric also argued the reform he proposed would be “in favor” of the police's work.

In his first televised speech, Boric also said he would submit a tax reform bill in the coming months.

The far-left leader, whose ruling coalition includes Chile's Communist Party members, has announced he would attend the Summit of the Americas next week in Los Angeles.
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>criticizes capitalism for its shortcomings
>instead of trying to formulate a new system that takes history into account and tries to be pragmatic, let’s just try this retarded boomer ideology and it’ll work! trust me!
Really, uygha

Today I find myself agreeing with a Gawker article.

https://www.gawker.com/culture/i-should-be-able-to-mute-america

>The martyrdom of fungbunger has made it crystal clear in my mind: we need a way to mute America. Why? Because America has no chill. America is exhausting. America is incapable of letting something be simply funny instead of a dread portent of their apocalyptic present. America is ruining the internet.

>America is the internet.

(…)

>The greatest trick America’s ever pulled on the subjects of its various vassal states is making us feel like a participant in its grand experiment.

This is an idea that just came to me, and I'm not entirely sure how stupid it is, but given the current challenges of irl leftist organization why not have publicly accessible leftist internet forums for specific local areas? This would be for the purpose of discussing local news, theory and politics, spreading awareness of mutual aid efforts, and discussing and spreading awareness of local actions. This would be accessible publicly with no membership requirement to maximize involvement, and would be multi-tendency. The operations of the site, if hosted independently, would be crowdfunded, perhaps through some aesthetic perks given to paying members. It probably wouldn't be an imageboard or anything conducive to anonymous shitposting to broaden its quality of discussion and appeal. There would need to be effective moderation, accountable to membership, to maintain the space and keep out spam and trolls. Fed & pig infiltration would be a given, but the stuff discussed in these spaces would obviously be things publicly accessible and discussed on social media anyways, with information you don't want public for opsec kept out of it. And no, it wouldn't really be a worker's council but it could be a place for leftist groups of various tendencies to discuss local issues and local actions, and it potentially could form the basis for actual local councils of some kind if successful enough if the membership had a broad consensus in favor of going beyond local forum discussion to forming an actual local organization for verified members.

The way it seems, leftist social media seems incredibly diffuse in character, and frequently also atomized with mass social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram built around followings. Most of the people that you're talking to on whatever subreddit or on twitter or here will be diffused around the world or your nation at least, making discussing local affairs and organization difficult. Often social media as an effective local leftist organizing tool is limited to places that are already saturated with a very big leftist scene. Propertied boomers have their own social media dedicated to local affairs like Nextdoor, but these are incredibly reactionary and suburban. On the other hand, irl leftist organizations are often divided and have limited mass participation.

Is this a bad idea that would never gain traction? I am aware that there is probably a good reason why these don't really exist, especially Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

How do I stop being a LARPER (Legally of course)
Surely someone here actually does socialist/ communist/ anarchist / union shit in real life instead of just shitposting all day.

They aboutta make vidya games real.
But the absolute state of burgers
On topic though, why have mass shooter incidents shot through the roof this year?
Is this how glowies demonstrate their fears of potential revolutionary turmoil?