/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2877377
companies like cursor and lovable just wrap access to chatgpt or claude in a pretty interface, so the minute chatgpt or anthropic start raising prices, which is what they intend to do to make their investors whole, they either absorb the rising costs and go bust, or pass the cost to consumers and go bust. meaning that their existence literally depends on what AI providers decide their price should be. with open weight models, they can just grab kimi, retrain it a little bit, and pass it as their own model, and not be tied to the whims of either chatgpt or anthropic. which is what cursor did with composer 2.

>>2877379 (me)
open weight models also mean that openai and anthropic effectively lose the defacto monopoly over the AI space, which means that they can no longer raise prices as a cartel to recoup investor money because consumers will just go to another provider. so if they have no avenue for profit through cartelized pricing schemes, then they can just go bust. so you see, either open weight models are allowed in the US, and companies like cursor live another day while openai dies, or open weight models are banned, cursor dies, and openai and anthropic get to dominate through a government-mandated oligopoly.

>>2872811
who is this moron anyway?
>a Visiting Fellow at Heritage Foundation
ah yes…
>served as Senior Policy Advisor for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
>was the primary staff drafter of America’s AI Action Plan
okay
>he also serves as a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School
>where he co-teaches the Colloquium on Frontier AI Governance
whatever that means
<a lot more yada yada about AI and whatever policy
>graduated magna cum laude from Hamilton College in 2014 with a B.A. in History
LMAO. why is it the most unqualified people lobby for and make policy for shit they have zero qualification to talk about in any way?

>>2877342
>At the end of the day capital will embrace whatever reduces socially necessary labor time to produce commodities, which means embracing whatever is most efficient.
But I thought we lived in the age of imperialism and monopoly capitalism. Only losers have to compete.

>>2875461
Why was the Russian Empire pro union? I know why the UK wanted the South to win. Cotton for their textile industry.

>>2877306
Negative polarization against the UK

The South was the major interventionist region in pre-Pearl Harbor USA. If you want an alt history, have the North join the Axis in order to conquer the South.

>>2877309
Turtledove’s novels have the north joining the central powers in WWI, that’s the closest you’ll get

>>2877326
You saw the movie.

>>2877326
>amerimutt
stopped reading

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.
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>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?