/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Inside the growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras
As anger grows towards law enforcement contracts with Flock, vigilantes across the country are taking matters into their own hands by smashing, obstructing or taking down these cameras.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/25/flock-surveillance-cameras

Food banks confront growing SNAP gap
As the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) continues to undergo a historic remolding, food banks say they're staring down a gap they can't fill. "We've been operating kind of in emergency management mode," says Terri Shoemaker, the executive vice president of the Arizona Food Bank Network. "At some point, that will fatigue."
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/25/food-banks-snap-cuts-obbb
https://archive.ph/HeLAl

Americans rewire their grocery shopping routines while digesting the biggest price jump in 50 years
An economic indicator like median wages does not capture the capacity of family budgets to accommodate additional price hikes. Americans spent an average of 12.9% of their pretax incomes on eating out and at home in 2024, but the share was 33% for the one-fifth of U.S. households with the lowest earnings, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Prices also can vary substantially by region. In St. Louis, food for home use cost 2% more in June compared to a year earlier; in San Francisco, it was 6%, the consumer price index showed.
https://apnews.com/article/grocery-shopping-prices-food-affordability-8468c1d6532ca762bbcfa17e3c7707d1

Troy Jackson secures Democratic nomination for Maine Senate seat after chaotic primary race
Jackson’s win amounted to a coronation for the progressive fifth‑generation logger and former state senate president, who faced no real opposition at the special convention after every major rival stepped asidePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Pushed Face to the Ground, Abderrahim Fakir Couldn’t Breathe
Anger stirred in Italy this past week after forty-two-year-old Abderrahim Fakir was killed while under police restraint during a routine check in Bologna. On Sunday, Fakir’s neighbors had called emergency number 118 after hearing screams, and police arrived first on the scene. Video footage shows two officers grabbing the man and holding him face down on the street for several minutes, applying pressure on his back after pepper-spraying him while he was already face to the ground, his ankles bound. When paramedics arrived, they stood watching as Fakir cried “help, stop.” He then stopped talking and moving, before being pronounced dead at the scene. A later preliminary exam showed lung compression was a possible cause of death. Fakir was a Moroccan national, and the country’s embassy said it was “following the case closely and with deep concern.” The Bologna city attorney has already opened a case against two officers and four paramedics, ordering an autopsy. But this case is also significant because for the first time a so-called criminal shield was invoked. This legal device, introduced in the right-wing government’s security decree this April, can prevent attorneys from writing someone on the suspect list if there is reason to believe they acted in self-defense or — crucially for violence by police — in the line of duty. This restarted debates about the propriety of this measure that many Italians already feared would give police too much power, and even impunity.
https://jacobin.com/2026/07/italy-fakir-police-violence-protest

Remembering Lindsey Graham Not for the Evil He Did But for the Fun He Had Doing It
When Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham died suddenly on Saturday night, July 11, corporate media’s elegiac coverage didn’t just whitewash his record—it illustrated the affinity and symbiosis between the press corps and the politician they were meant to hold to account. Like corporate journalists, Graham played a key role in cheerleading imperial wars and promoting domestic inequality. And Graham and the media both prioritized the appearance of bipartisanship while normalizing Trump and his politics.
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>>2875334
What the other anon said. Also, I don't know if you're a zoomer or not, but I don't think you understand how misogynistic raunch culture used to be. A lot of the annoying feminists out types complained about were reacting against that. I'm talking about dozens of big budget movies eyes year where young women were routinely humiliated and sexualized, then paired with unattractive male protagonists. That was a standard formula for nearly 50 years.
As I've gotten older, I've become more sympathetic to feminists. I still think the movement would benefit from embracing socialism and being less individualistic, but I understand where it comes from.

>>2875397
He and you are both retardedly myopic.

>>2875416
I'm not against sexuality or romance in media, but I do think a healthier approach benefits both men and women. You can tell romantic stories featuring attractive people or more average-looking people without reducing everything to depraved fetishes. There's a big difference between portraying romance or attraction and promoting a raunch ideal that basically encourages men to act like perverts.

Bad weed, good blow and good acid decent music too
Dont forget queludes

>>2875693
shit, shit, shit and more shit

Doesn't everyone have original sin?

I kind of welcome the ecological collapse just because I wanna see right wingers stunned faces when their houses burn down

>>2876961
Native Americans have lived on the land for 12000 years yet whites managed to destroy the world in less than a couple of centuries

>>2876962
Look up which countries most pollute the planet.
Capitalism is not a "white" system.

Moved to >>>/siberia/808472.

The longer we wait, the more violent the revolution will have to be

KILL THE EPSTEIN ELITE

Not gonna happen, everyone is too fat, addicted, or old

>>2839206
I’d say it’s likely by the 2040s I’d say

USA USA USA USA

OP is retarded but he is correct about red incels here making socialism sound like hell, which makes complete sense when you realize they are state-capitalists larping as socialists
>>2876474
the latter are temporarily confused reactionaries

>>2876475
You have clinical depression, seek help

>>2876161
Prostitution is wage labor. Marx would want it abolished, just like all wage labor. But you are a moralist
>I disagree that working men have no country because imperialism proved that wrong.
Retardism of the highest degree.

too many retards with main character syndrome on leftypol now for my tastes

>>2876913
That’s what being on the internet does to you, it’s a mirror and you become a narrow minded narcissist

>muh law
>muh decorum
Lawyers and their protected caste of parasites get the rope

>>2876815
That's a fair point, but people aren't making a systemic critique about what American elected offices are capable of in order to illustrate the limits of reformism. They're criticizing Mamdani himself for not doing something they seem to think he could do if he wanted, implying that it's simply a failure of will and that a more radical mayor could accomplish this. If anything it ends up running cover for reformism in an ass backwards way by implying the issue is the politician and not the institution.

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>>2876791
Socdem on socdem violence is awful

>>2876774
>the world would be a muhc better place in 2026 if yall voted for Hillary in 2016.
<"We came he died" Hilldog
<NO FLY ZONE Hilldog
<Trump's bombing of Iran is the only good thing he does Hilldog
Don't know about that

>>2876694
This what serious people mean by degrowth. Stop/limit all the overproduction made by big capitalists. Nationalists foam at the mouth cause they think it means eating bugs meme and thirdworlists foam cause they seriously think every westerner is rich and they do deserve "degrowth".

lazy morons
we need to produce a lot more, just not this consumerist garbage. communism is about accompanying and guiding the transition of the the still-chimp homo sapiens into the truly, fully sapient Homo Sovieticus .

how will Timmy CPUSAnon have his 196 Terabyte NAS full of questionable hentai hooked to his 12,000$ sick rig on 10Gb connection then? Think about that burgerboy

Socialism is not about altering the social relations of production, it's about using the state to make sure everyone is comfy and has enough to eat (but not white westerners because that's "treatlerism")

>>2876737
Do you believe that quantity is a quality of its own or not?

>>2876680
You already have /AKM/ for your retardo violent fantasies.
Off you fuck.

using "elites" instead of class terms shows you to be a pre-fascist

> But the really disruptive thing is that it enables individuals to target the ruling class much easier.
Lol, you mixed that up. Innovation in general tends to lead to concentration of power, not distribution.
The reality is:

1. a prole can barely afford a decent drone, he can hardly buy one anonymously when everything is tracked
   
2. elites live in private mansions and can easily get their own air defense
   
3. elites in turn can afford endless drones, swarming with ai and allowing for more advanced surveilance on the poor, like they already have traffic control drones in some countries, China is even testing arresting people using drones, in the Ukrainian war "surrendering to a drone" has been a thing for a while now, it only takes adoption for that to become a reality in law enforcement
   
   

>>2876680
Start by training in virtual reality so you get muscle memory how to steer the drone. Its quite hard until you have done it for couple of days. You dont need VR-goggles but having a proper controller is a must. After buying first drone and flying it outside try to avoid trees as rotors easily tangle in branches and it can get stuck there. Cheap drones have terrible signal so focus on having good connection.

Moved to >>>/AKM/6350.

maybe if strasserites weren't gay they would have taken over the NSDAP in the end and then boom AES, which is why I put forward the motion to ban the homosexuals from the DSA

I just feel like the vast majority of leftists don't live busy enough lives to have too little time to fill in some boxes every 2-4 years.

>>2876371
oh my fucking god bruh

>The old parties are products of an epoch whose task was to develop capitalism as speedily as possible. The struggle between the parties was over the question how best to expedite and facilitate this development.

>The new party is a product of the present epoch, which raises the issue of the very existence of capitalism. In the U.S.A., the freest and most advanced country, this issue is coming to the fore more clearly and broadly than anywhere else.

>The entire programme and entire agitation of Roosevelt and the Progressives turn on how to save capitalism by means of bourgeois reforms.

>The bourgeois reformism which in old Europe manifests itself in the chatter of liberal professors has all at once come forward in the free American republic as a party four million strong. This is American style.

>We shall save capitalism by reforms, says that party. We shall grant the most progressive factory legislation. We shall establish state control over all the trusts (in the U.S.A. that means over all industries!). We shall establish state control over them to eliminate poverty and enable everybody to earn a “decent” wage. We shall establish “social and industrial justice”. We revere all reforms—the only “reform” we don’t want is expropriation of the capitalists!

>The national wealth of the U.S.A. is now reckoned to be 120 billion (thousand million) dollars, i.e., about 240 billion rubles. Approximately one-third of it, or about 80 billion rubles, belongs to two trusts, those of Rockefeller and Morgan, or is subordinated to these trusts! Not more than. 40,000 families making up these two trusts are the masters of 80 million wage slaves.

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>>2876590
The position held by Marx, Engels, and Lenin is not to vote for bourgeois parties. Their stance regarding participation in bourgeois elections is to organize communist candidates within a distinct workers' party—independent of the bourgeoisie—and to vote for these communists, even if they have no chance of winning. Voting for the center-left is intolerable according to their writings, because doing so constitutes voting for a bourgeois party.

This is what Lenin is referring to here:
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Hakim Jefferies 2028

>>2839259
Keeping services up and running tbqh. Sick and tired of porkies turning into trillionaires while proles have to suffer austerity and cut services.

i support banning anime pictures in OPs

Indefinite moratorium on new highway creation or expansion. Maintenence only for the foreseeable future with the intention of scaling back asphalt surface area by X% per year, replacing it with light and heavy rail and other mass transit options.

abolishing commodity production, abolishing the money system, razing capitalism to its foundations and socialising all the means of production

>>2839259
I would argue that a crucial demand is the guarantee of public employment—a measure that would easily attract many people, preventing them from being co-opted by reactionary prejudices and fostering solidarity among all workers by directly undermining the industrial reserve army maintained by capitalists. This includes the right to radical unionization free from the control of capitalists and the bourgeois state; mandatory unionization for all workers; wage equalization across unions to encourage joint struggle and discourage betrayal or co-optation; and the legal right for workers to defend themselves and one another in solidarity. Furthermore, any worker subjected to intense exploitation would receive compensation for unpaid time—covering the gap between their actual pay and the average wage—with costs and penalties levied against the capitalists. State-owned enterprises should compete with private firms across all sectors, offering low-cost products to drive private companies into bankruptcy so they can be expropriated, nationalized, collectivized, and occupied by workers. All pensions must be removed from capitalist control and established as public guarantees independent of profit motives, with costs covered by the capitalists who exploited the worker, backed by a government guarantee. All banks should be nationalized and managed by a workers' council to provide affordable credit to the population and incentivize cooperatives, nationalization, and socialization. Laws mandating fiscal responsibility must be abolished. A legal minimum wage must be mandated—determined annually by a workers' statistical commission based on local food prices and living costs. Finally, regulations must ensure that immigrant workers are paid no less than native workers, with any violations resulting in penalties—including back pay and additional fines—levied against the capitalist.

All of these measures serve to advance the class struggle and prepare for a revolutionary situation, while simultaneously plunging the bourgeois state into crisis and squeezing capitalist profits to fuel further conflict. Naturally, the intention would be to abolish private property, the anarchy of production, and social classes during the dictatorship of the proletariat, wherein the proletariat acquires political supremacy in order to socialize the economy.