/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>european far right still attacking climate proposals and shit
>they keep doing this even after the heatwave
well I guess we will die

>>2904776
Download bean books

The new CMIP7 ensemble
https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-the-cmip7-emissions-scenarios-and-how-they-explore-future-climate-change

>>2912059
>The only meaningful way you can impact climate change is to overthrow the US government as quickly as possible
you are like a little baby. Consider…

mediterranean sea had record high temperatures which makes for extreme rainfall, valencia saw over 70mm of rain in 30minutes

>>2914116
6/7 of the verses in question are in the old testament
makes you wonder why christians even keep that book. also 1 corinithians 7:36 in context just says you should hurry up and get married to the virgin you're engaged to if you want to have sex. it says nothing about the virgin being a child. naturally one might assume that is the case since people got married very young back when the new testament was written. but it's not explicit

>>2913454
> religious people are outbreeding the non-religious
>This means that global I.Q. will fall, in tandem with higher religiosity
this is assuming religiosity and intelligence are both nature (genetic) and not nurture (societal). but two very smart people can have a child with severe mental deficiencies, and two very dumb people can have a smart child. religious people have kids who leave the faith, and atheists can have children who become religious.

>>2914128
hope is just cope so what does it matter

>>2913425
>>2913243

The detachment from zoomers is so real people can’t even figure how to appeal to them even with warnings from literally 25 years ago in advance:
https://www.espn.com/page2/s/thompson/010918.html

>>2914563
I was born a couple months before 9/11 and this is basically how I view the late 20th century mfers. Its even worse when they try to give advice that just boils down too "well I was born as a white middle classer during the golden age of american social democracy you should just do the same, if you cant its because your a bad person with bad thoughts being punished for it"

Long-shot push for AI 'kill switch' bill fails in the Senate
The bill failed after Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, offered the legislation on Sept. 16 via unanimous consent, meaning all 100 senators needed to agree to the measure. Kennedy said his bill wouldn’t put the federal government in charge of any kill switches, but would require developers to create their own mechanisms, which he likened to an "emergency shutoff."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/09/16/ai-kill-switch-bill-fails-senate-john-kennedy/91797861007/
https://archive.ph/rkosu

Fossil Fuel Advertising Contracts Hit Record High as Big Oil Pockets Billions From Iran War
A report published by Clean Creatives on Wednesday reveals that fossil fuel firms across the world have “engaged 802 advertising and PR agencies to shape corporate and public opinion about their products and services,” over the last two years.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/abortion-ban-in-texas

Tennessee woman sues Fargo, city detective over AI-aided arrest
In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, Angela Lipps alleged five counts against the City of Fargo and Detective Lucas Heck, including violation of her civil rights and malicious prosecution. The city has been preparing for a lawsuit from Lipps, according to reporting from The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/09/16/angela-lipps-sues-fargo-over-ai-aided-arrest
https://archive.ph/4g7SH

Karen Bass’ allies are starting to worry: ‘The energy is with Nithya’
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Communist Party of Greece (KKE) strongly condemns release of Golden Dawn neo-Nazi Kasidiaris
The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has strongly condemned the release from prison of Ilias Kasidiaris, a former leading member of the Nazi criminal organization Golden Dawn, describing the decision as a “provocation” against the organization’s victims, their families and the working people who fought for its conviction. Kasidiaris’ release follows that of almost the entire former leadership of Golden Dawn, which was convicted in 2020 of operating as a criminal organization. In its statement, the KKE also denounced what it called the “crocodile tears” of Greece’s establishment parties. It held both the current conservative New Democracy government and the previous SYRIZA government responsible for the lengthy judicial proceedings, noting that the case took 11 years to reach its present stage and has still not been concluded irrevocably. According to the KKE, this situation could be exploited by Kasidiaris in an attempt to stand in future elections.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/09/communist-party-of-greece-kke-strongly-condemns-release-of-golden-dawn-neo-nazi-kasidiaris.html

Deregulation, Not Data Centers, Broke the Grid
The public attribution of blame for rising electricity costs is half right. Data centers are indeed driving the first sustained surge in American electricity demand in more than a generation. But the historical record shows that electricity demand — what the industry calls “load” — has grown this quickly before without pushing prices up. What is different this time is not the load itself but the fact that it is landing on deregulated electricity markets that were never built to absorb growth. Today, about a third of US retail electricity sales are in deregulated markets; the rest are served by traditional regulated utilities. That institutional variation — the same load growth running through two different market structures at the same time — is why economists can compare the bills.
https://jacobin.com/2026/09/us-canada-electricity-costs-generation-deregulation
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3M, DuPont and more to face lawsuit on Pfas in US firefighters’ protective gear
Lawyers ⁠for 13 firefighter union ⁠organizations and ​12 individual firefighters said “turnout gear” that shields against extreme heat and flames leached the chemicals through absorption into skin, ingestion and inhalation. ⁠They have called the proposed class action the first to exclusively target firefighter gear containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or Pfas.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/15/connecticut-firefighters-pfas-lawsuit

Hundreds of Groups and Lawmakers Demand Trump Not Give Private Developer Part of Yosemite
The Washington Sun—formerly known as NOTUS—revealed late last month that federal staffers were under political pressure to keep working on a possible land swap for a quarter-mile strip of the famed park with “a company that, through a web of limited liability companies, is operated by real-estate developer and investment firm Kingsbarn Realty Capital.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-yosemite

He Was Banned From Police Work In California But Hired In Honolulu
The case illustrates the blind spots that persist in vetting law enforcement applicants in Hawaiʻi. Even during what Denton described as a “very thorough background check,” the office’s investigators did not have access to his personnel records and relied instead on references from three former supervisors including two from the San Francisco department. All of those were outstanding, she said.
https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-officer-banned-hired-investigator-honolulu-cc254b24c54b15f5152a8def8241e913

Senate moves forward with college sports bill
The Protect College Sports Act would establish protections for name, image and likeness (NIL) compensation, guardrails for school revenue sharing with student-athletes, along with rules for transfers, eligibility and recruitment. It has been championed by Commerce panel chair Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

The Death of David Cobb and the Green Party
There is no denying that the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have accomplished in one decade that which Greens have not in the thirty years since Ralph Nader ran his first limited test campaign for president on the Green ticket in 1996. First, in the immediate sense, Cobb’s anti-confrontational stance made it possible for the Democrats to campaign using a right-wing argument, that Kerry would be a more competent Commander-in-Chief in Iraq as opposed to pursuing immediate withdrawal. If Kerry had a viable opposition from the Left vocalizing immediate withdrawal of military forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, it could have easily reshaped the national dialogue and ended those two abysmal quagmires more than ten years earlier. Kerry’s preposterous hawkishness on Iraq made him the perfect target for Karl Rove and the Swift-boat Veterans controversy where fellow Vietnam GIs publicly accused him of cowardice. In this sense, Kerry’s campaign pulled the entire party rightward, something that became increasingly evident during the first term of the Obama administration.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/15/the-death-of-david-cobb-and-the-green-party/

Russian Elites Are Fighting for Unchecked Power
Ignoring a problem is rarely enough to make it go away. Take civilizationism, an approach based on shared culture taken to the level of civilizational identity. Also called civilizationalism, the idea has been around for centuries and has quietly inspired many conflicts. Overshadowed briefly by Cold War ideological conflict, it resurfaced in the 1990s when political scientist Samuel Huntington famously proposed a coming “clash of civilizations,” in contrast to his student Francis Fukuyama’s suggestion of the “end of history.” Huntington’s thesis was heavily criticized in mainstream academia, partly due to his Orientalism and racialized stereotyping. Still, it had its political impact, even beyond Huntington’s own homeland. After Russia’s conservative turn in 2012, President Vladimir Putin started to call his country a “civilization state,” and the civilizational framing later became central to Putin’s speeches. Similar civilization talk has since spread everywhere from Narendra Modi’s India to Donald Trump’s AmeriPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2913894
Thank you news anon.
>George Galloway.
It's the same old shit pushed by h*z, the A"C"P, assorted "post leftist" grifters, and so on.
Why would anyone vote for these, and not just Reform? Farage is pro-Russia, has a "man of the people" schtick, and has even made some noises about nationalising certain industries, and re-opening coal mines.

10/7 and 9/11 were both inside jobs btw

Osama is responsible for 9/11 as much as Gaddafi is responsible for the Lockerbie bombing.

>>2913505
Phew, thank goodness regular lgbt porn is fine

>>2913517
>thank goodness
thank science

Trade balance is not a measure of imperialism. Imperialism in the Marxist sense isn't “who sells more shit abroad.” Lenin's analysis concerns the concentration of capital, the dominance of finance capital, the export of capital, monopolies, and the division of the world among major capitalist powers. A country can run a trade deficit and still be an imperialist power; Britain is the obvious historical example. Conversely, a trade surplus doesn't magically make a country non-imperialist. Turkmenistan having a gigantic export surplus mostly tells us that it exports a shitload of hydrocarbons relative to what it imports. It does not mean the Turkmen working class has somehow achieved the highest stage of anti-imperialism. A petroleum-exporting economy dependent on one overwhelmingly important commodity is hardly a useful metric for proletarian internationalism.

If you want to measure imperialism, ask who owns capital, where capital is exported, who controls productive and financial assets, who has monopoly power, who commands investment and technology, and what political/military apparatus protects those interests internationally.

Long live Turkmenistan.

>>2913513
Idk man all my past para-relationships with nation states have left a sour taste in my mouth, I still think about Venezuela when I'm trying to sleep, I'm just not ready yet

>>2913666
good post

>>2913820
convincing

>>2913822
convincing? I just wanted to call you a Retard

your actions gave birth to unexpected consequences

>>2912423
>participation shouldn't be compulsory
well that's the paradox of governance. if mass participation isn't compulsory, the working class won't participate, because they are busy working. then you will have a class of bureaucrats who govern "in their name" and however representative their intentions may be at first, they will, over the course of time, develop their own interests separate from the working class. to prevent the decay of a representative system into an oligarchy, you need compulsory mass participation. the bourgeois revolutions all dealt with these contradictions in the 17th-19th centuries, but our so called proletarian revolutionaries on here refuse to acknowledge these problems even exist, ignore them, or dismiss them, and write contradictory poetic verses about how the proletariat will directly govern as a class, but totally not in a compulsory way, because that would be unfair, but at the same time they will not avoid their duties as the ruling class and give their responsibilities over to a class of representatives who decay into mere bureaucrats. You have to deal with this problem.

>>2911841
> live with your parents and don't spend money
my parents don't own a home, didn't raise me, and borrow money from me

>>2897466
OldBO was not vindicated, in fact if Assad had held out a little longer imagine how things would be going now. He was the weak link that allowed Syria to fall.

>>2913595
It was also the failure of the Ba'athists and Rojava to cooperate that ultimately led to the rebel victory. People are just mad at Rojava for existing instead of swearing unquestioning loyalty to a government that didn't even treat them as full citizens at the best of times and abandoned them to the terrorists at the first sign of trouble.

>>2913629
TO be fair, they did try quite hard to negotiate with Damascus, it was this autismo unwillingness that ultimately doomed Assad IMHO.

>>2913633
I won't pin it all on the Ba'athists since they had good reasons to be suspicious, mainly the cooperation of Rojava with the Americans. I'd consider both to share blame.

>>2913013
But if you say industrial society is bad Marxists get quite irate, even though Marx said industry and science had dehumanized man, he just thought it would do the opposite in the future, which hasn't happened yet.

>>2912638
2/3rds of those class societies collapsed into capitalism.

>>2913308
primitivism has no method of implementation. how are you supposed to re-establish hunter gather society through revolution when most conflicts are determined by who has superior productive forces and technology?

>>2913331
Because all that fancy machinery is going to run out of oil and lithium, you can’t make more of either, and you can’t use them when the population will be halved by super hurricanes from the el nino and wet bulb temperatures spreading

>>2913359
running out of oil and lithium doesn't instantly put us back in hunter gatherer mode, it just means people will fall back on other fuel types. Even if technology goes backwards, conflicts will be determined by who has the most advanced stuff. There is no way to implement primitivism.

Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University for showing 'deliberate indifference' to pro-Palestinian students
Khalil claims Columbia failed to respond to persistent and severe harassment those students allegedly encountered because of their advocacy, despite repeatedly asking Columbia administrators for help in the days and weeks preceding his March 2025 arrest by ICE agents.
https://abcnews.com/US/mahmoud-khalil-sues-columbia-university-showing-deliberate-indifference/story?id=136427312
https://archive.ph/YBSJR

‘Proven Leaders and Voices of Clarity’: Progressives Urge Ocasio-Cortez and Khanna to Enter 2028 Presidential Race =
Two progressive advocacy organizations Monday called on Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) to enter the 2028 presidential race, singling them out as “proven leaders and voices of clarity.” Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) and RootsAction announced an initiative aimed at lobbying the two congressional progressives to put their hats in the ring for the presidency, arguing they offer a much-needed alternative to establishment Democrats too eager to do the bidding of corporate interests.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-ro-khanna-2028

Pay Pal Founding Board Member Earmarks $40 Million To Hit Back Against DSA
Make Liberty Win noted that “self-proclaimed socialists” are running for public office and winning within the Democratic Party, as was the case with New York’s newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani. The campaign aims to mobilize young and college-aged activists to knock on the doors of more than 2 million voters in key states.
https://politicspa.com/pay-pal-co-founder-earmarks-40-million-to-hit-back-against-dsa/152935/
https://archive.ph/Yi9Fv

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Promises, Promises: AOC, Israel, and the DSA
Eager to maintain her image as a left populist as well as the patina of democratic socialism that comes with a DSA endorsement, AOC is changing her tune. After eight years of supporting Israel, she has now vowed to oppose all military funding to the country and promised to oppose any legislation that equates ant-Zionism with antisemitism. But her newfound political clarity on the state of Israel is too little too late. In fact, even a cursory reading of her public statement shows that she is — as the soviets used to say — trying to sit on two chairs with one ass. AOC wants to signal to the DSA that she is willing to vote against additional funding for the Iron Dome while still making it clear to her Democratic colleagues that she supports the defense of Israel and the Zionist and imperialist project the missile system helps to maintain.
https://www.leftvoice.org/promises-promises-aoc-israel-and-the-dsa/

Erik Houdini:Butt-Rock Hauntology, Nu Metal Nostalgia
Why are right-wing accounts suddenly nostalgic for Puddle of Mudd, one of the worst bands of the 2000s? This essay explores how the reactionary longing for a "pure" white rock past erases nu-metal's true multiracial, working-class roots. Hauntology is the anti-nostalgia because it is predicated on examining what was lost by past futures, not envisioning the past as a superior future. Are we nostalgic about nu-metal? Or do we see the multi-racial working class background of the artists who produced it, along with its current revival, as producing insights into a future that never came? It seems like a pseudo-intellectual difference, but you can see how it manifests within the discourse. That’s the thing with nostalgia. It is typically framed as a look at what they took from you, but seldom is "they" defined, and it is predicated on an idea that the past was more pure than the present or the future could ever be. It is deeply anti-material, acting on a baseline emotion that capitalism causes. When you participate in the capitalist economy, you cannot help but feel despair for this reality we are forced to drudge through. When you were a child in 1996 and someone bought you an N64 and Ocarina of Time, you were not aware that the climate was collapsing or that most species Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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