/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Court records reveal gutting of DHS oversight: ‘Incredibly dangerous’
Hundreds of pages of court filings in a key legal battle in federal court serve to contradict the Trump administration’s repeated claims that the DHS watchdogs are performing “all required functions”. The allegations of failings within the shrunken oversight offices at the DHS, tasked by Congress with investigating civil rights and related concerns, come as the department grapples with public criticism of killings by immigration agents, escalating arrest tactics and plans to increase immigrant detention.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/dhs-oversight-court-record-review

A federal jury awards $667K to Muslim men who were pepper-sprayed by prison guards while praying
The money will be distributed among eight men who were handcuffed, pepper-sprayed and placed in solitary confinement after praying in the housing area at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre on Feb. 28, 2021.
https://apnews.com/article/missouri-muslim-prison-prison-inmates-lawsuit-3938ff0820c6eeb8b9a88ba5c302660e

Ken Martin's dysfunctional DNC alarms Democrats
Democratic sources tell Axios that Martin has shown a thin skin and that he personalizes criticism in a way that can be self-defeating. Many DNC officials, donors, and other Democrats believe honest feedback would be greeted with hostility. Thirteen months into his tenure as DNC chair, the limelight — and the criticism that has come with it — appear to have taken a toll on Martin, who often seems melancholy and put-upon, his allies told Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/08/dnc-ken-martin-crisis
https://archive.ph/RqbnE

Ahead of midterms, Republicans confront cooling support from young men over Trump policies
Trump’s pledges in his 2024 campaign to curb inflation, boost economic growth, and toughen immigratPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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1017 - Mogging in Agharta feat. Will Sommer (3/9/26): Chapo Trap House
Will Sommer returns to the show to talk more about the Iran War, this time through the lens of a rapidly fragmenting Republican elite. We discuss the war between the Israel skeptics like Tucker Carlson and the hawks like Mark Levine, and how this ties into a hijacked shipment of nicotine pouches and the transvestigation of Laura Loomer. We also talk about Candace Owens’ docuseries on Erika Kirk, another leaked racist groupchat, and the emerging multiracial coalition of White Supremacy.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/1017-mogging-in-agharta-feat

Reject Blair, reject war
THERE can be no surprise that Tony Blair has said he believed Britain should have backed the illegal US-Israeli attack on Iran from the start. It shows that he has learned nothing from the disaster of backing George Bush’s criminal war against Iraq 23 years ago, a decision from which his reputation will never recover. The former Labour prime minister thus joins Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage in berating Keir Starmer for being insufficiently pro-Trump. Indeed, you are unlikely ever to hear a breath of criticism of the US president from Blair. Trump has appointed him to the “executive board” dealing with Gaza operating under his notorious and preposterous “Board of Peace,” the only non-US citizen so honoured. Matters of legality or even decency always take second place, with Blair, to his belief that Britain must at all times subordinate itself to the whims of whoever is in the White House. No president can be too deranged, no war so gratuitous, that Blair-Farage-Badenoch will not step up in support. They persist even in face of Trump’s gross US imperialism and brazen authoritarianism.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/reject-blair-reject-war

March 8 between the legacy of working women’s struggles and socialist feminism
In this context, it becomes important to connect feminist struggle with broader social struggle against austerity and privatization policies and to develop new forms of organization combining political action, social mobilization, and trade union pPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2730035
>…targeting infrastructure serving Iranian civilians could backfire strategically, potentially rallying Iranian society around the government…
Wow, you don't fuckin say! Turns the strategy of bomb and kill everyone doesn't bring anyone over to your side! What a concept! Truly groundbreaking revelations, it's not like there were extensive studies done after WW2 that concluded terror bombing hardens people's resolve or anything.

>>2729772
This Jiang guy needs to stay.

Like the ACP, he's an entirely online, culture-war driven thing which unwitting retards brand themselves with. When "Prof Jiang" is mentioned the appropriate response is to say nothing, leave it there and be glad the moth light trap is working. Someone will go there, and that someone will repeat the rank, schizoid takes.

The vicious mockery and reputational damage they will receive for it, once Jiang's hustle finishes, will motivate them to read outside social media.

>>2729704
I'm sure she will be the most BMW driver that ever cutoff a school bus.

>>2729760
>>2729777
poltards

>>2729857
>Labor theory of value comes from Ibn Khaldun therefore Marx is a filter for midwits
not a fan of Dugin but this is retarded reasoning. Ever consider that most renowned theorists, political or otherwise, don't "invent new ideas" out of whole cloth but merely change how existing ideas are used in real life and/or arranged in a theoretical framework with each other?

>>2729717
>according to Israeli media
pssh just as likely to be a false flag by jizzraelis at this point.

>>2728426
Asia is more reliant on gulf oil especially India. Everything is getting more expensive.

Recession delayed again

• Nikkei will probably rebound now at the open
  
• G7 has implemented countermeasures to stabilise oil prices by releasing reserves
  
• Trump tricked the trading algos to push the US markets into the green before close by making a BS claim about the war being over
  
  

we'll see how long this can continue, but it's very clear that keeping the markets afloat is a paramount consideration for the westerners prosecuting this war

No!!! The evil Iran is making my Nippon suffer, I support Trump now. US Army, PLEASE invade Iran!

Iran made anime no longer real

>>2729359
trump made anime no longer real (debatably indirectly)

Somebody cook

>>2728987
So there it is
>>2728989

>>2728790
You cant put Russian and Chinese foreign policy under one hat lol??
Russia has on one hand proven to just be a bad ally in general, leaving Armenia and Venezuela on their own. But on the other hand, them not helping Iran is more or less his way of "trying to maintain good relations with the USA". The US has effectively stopped supporting Ukraine, has tried to force a resource deal on Ukraine that would exploit them and keeps tightening the thumb screws in general. Russia knows this and in return doesn't want to land in conflict with the US in other theathers (i.e. Iran) even if the may very well help.
China on the other hand seems to pursue a policy of no military intervention anywhere whatsoever. Whereas Russia is active in e.g. Africa via Wagner, China only really builds up its influence financially to try and cement its image as the "friendly superpower that helps everyone" while they still just as much exploit the countries, claim their waters, fish in foreign territories etc.
>including an attempt on Putin himself
Source?

>>2729047
>bad ally in general, leaving Armenia and Venezuela on their own
venezuela they couldnt have done shit, armenia fucked around cozying up with nato and refusing to give basic concessions despite being in the weak position until being face to face with the consequences

>>2729047
>them not helping Iran
except they are helping iran

>>2728349
The American ones, especially the anti missile missiles, are gold plated shit, the Chinese and Russians have better and more reliable models

>>2728305
If you do this without keeping a connection to grassroots organizing/left social spaces you'll just lose yourself and become another cog. In order to reduce cognitive dissonance, when someone has conflicting beliefs/morals and actions, one of them has to conform to the other. If you maintain your employment it will inevitably your morals and beliefs that bend to accommodate your actions.

If you have and maintain connection to organized communist efforts, this is a very good idea.

>>2728464
>If you maintain your employment it will inevitably your morals and beliefs that bend to accommodate your actions.
What is the mechanism behind this hypothesis?

>>2728517
It happens all too often. I don't think it's impossible to get to these positions as a true double agent, but you'd have to be connected firmly to the people/party/objective you're committed to. Like the Scientologists and other cults plant agents in government. You'd have to be a true agent. No wannabe leader shit.

I agree with OP

>>2727536
Same in Arabic, they’re weirdly unbiased. They run articles about how Gulfies feel betrayed etc, yet the actual reporting is slightly pro-Iran. I highly respect them for that, considering Qatar is being bombed.

>However, the US and Israel are still looking for new ways to escalate kinetically. From Axios in U.S. weighs sending special forces to seize Iran’s nuclear stockpile:

>>The U.S. and Israel have discussed sending special forces into Iran to secure its stockpile of highly enriched uranium at a later stage of the war, according to four sources with knowledge of the discussions.

>If the IAEA were involved in such an operation, this would confirm it is not a good faith actor. Iran-connected sources contended that the IAEA assisted in the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists by providing information about their whereabouts.

>Now assuming this raid is executed and does not become Bay of Pigs 2.0, Trump’s team may intend to use this as a cross between the Caracas raid and pre-negotiated “obliteration” strikes on Iranian nuclear site, which ended the 12 Day War. Trump might declare victory and stop attacking and expect Iran to stand down.

But even if that is what transpires, it solves nothing for Iran. First, Israel is sure to regard this resolution as unsatisfactory since they want to eliminate Iranian missiles, and better yet, balkanize Iran. So Israel is sure to find a way to resume a hot conflict as soon as possible. Second, after reaffirming that he had indeed “obliterated” the nuclear sites last year, Trump has recently maintained that somehow the Iranians are very far along with rebuilding their enrichment program.

>We discussed earlier what a nutty idea the idea of taking Kharg Island, first voiced publicly by Keith Kellogg, is. Look at a map. It is in the north end of the Persian Gulf. Daniel Davis and others have discussed long form that sending a convoy open the Strait of Hormuz was asking for a turkey shoot of US vessels. This sort of operation would be that, cubed.

>Nevertheless, there are more signs of force mobilization[…]

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/iran-war-more-trump-bluster-as-us-and-israePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2728525
Iran's best chance by far would be to bait America into a ground invasion, which they could then grind down with endless guerrilla warfare from their mountains ala Afghanistan but with A LOT more and better weapons for the guerrillas.

Hezbollah uses tactics it learned from, then taught to Iran. Most of what they do is IED followed up almost immediately by an infantry ambush at close range. You have to fight at close range against these western pattern armies because their fire support is so devastating. If you're right on top of them, they can't call in any airstrikes, so you can fight them man to man. At that point, the element of surprise counts for a lot and pre-positioned infantry ambushes can cause massive damage.

If Iran can bait America into a ground invasion then they can actually WIN this war, instead of just surviving it.

>>2728550
I dunno I think the western armies infantry is gonna be very vulnerable to getting attacked by light quadcopter FPV's and I'd be surprised if Iranian forces don't have them.
Western militaries are just still used to the idea that they're going to have dramatic technological advantage over their opponents and this simply isn't true anymore.

>>2727603
>magacommunism is a failure. Haz was wrong
>>2727594
>you are telling me haz was wrong?
The plan to turn MAGA into communists by being homophobic and anti-war has unfortunately failed because it turned out that MAGA is less homophobic and more hawkish than non-MAGA Republicans.

>>2725744
Actually I think you have it backwards

The simplest theory of everything bad in society is "bad people made it happen on purpose". You just need to know that people have power and agency. It's much more complex to explain the relationship between commodities, gold, labor, capital, the proletariat, the bourgeoisie, markets, the state, and so on and how this is a system which produces certain results regardless of any subjective variance and agency in the individual participants.

So while I also agree with validating conspiracies as real and not reducing everything to market incentives and selection forces, if you veer too far towards individual agency you get an idealist and liberal understanding of how society works. It leads to "just get rid of the bad apples" and "capitalism is bad because greed", and these necessitate liberal solutions that ultimately maintain capitalism. This is why conspiracy theories are so much more popular among the masses. The answers are mentally easy and don't challenge the system, only scandalize it.

>>2728472
If we kill all the bad people, they no longer exist, they can no longer do bad things. It's that shrimple.

>>2728474
And, frankly, bad people are like animals. They only understand the kind of language, of I am going to physically inflict pain on you in certain amounts for a certain time. This is the only thing that deters them.

>What uyghas wan' do when you see me off camera
>uygha strip who? I'll beat you till you lavender

>>2728475
Let's see Musk get beat once til he's Lavender and what he ever has to say again after that. Let's see his facial geometry get rearranged.

Occam's Razor, is I am going to flay all your skin from your flesh with a razor. Funkytown time nah mean?

Depends on which part of the U.S., I'm moving to Houston to work as a rent boy for oil millionaires $$$

I hope the No Kings marches inspire more "Never Trump" Republicans to defect and impeach the orangutan

It's a shame they locked Houdini up in Florida because he could get in on this

>>2727928
Jesus preached socialism and it was first practiced as described in the book of Acts where "everyone had everything in common". Deacons (servants) were responsible for the distribution of goods. This was the inspiration for what came later. Now the nascent church was scattered when persecution by the Jews intensified after Steven and James were martyred but the missions still sent supplies to whoever was in need. This broke down gradually over time because of the influence of politics on the religion. The co-opting of religion to serve politics has given us the madness were experiencing today. The separation of church and state is necessary to protect the integrity of both, so Christian socialism is just as bad an idea as Christian nationalism. The ASP exists in a few states to try to influence elections by promoting the socialism found in church teaching but the aim isn't a utopian end but because they believe that "God made us all equal in his image and that no man should be born into, and live in, poverty".

Christian Socialism was debunked by Marx and Engels 178 years ago. Nothing more needs to be said.

>>2728011
Marx and Engels are dead, ELN is alive

>text wall
I enjoyed reading the full version of this.

>The Social Basis of the Woman Question - Kollontai 1909
https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1909/social-basis.htm