/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>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.

>thread about Serbia
>nobody is discussing the elections that were just announced

>>2910658
No? The only thing they have in common is Islamophobia.

>>2910673
you need to clue us in

>>2910711
Well it's a long story if you don't know the current political situation in Serbia. If you do, it's a surprise that there are going to be snap elections in the first place since Vucic/SNS popularity is down by a lot and it looks like they're going to lose. Due to how presidential elections work in Serbia (two round system), SNS would have lost them if they were the first or together, so SNS decided to just disband the parliament and have Vucic remain president, then transfer over to prime minister if they win the parliamentary elections (proportional system, with 3% threshold). They also went for the minimum allowed period between announcement and election day (45 days) so the election will be on 25 October.
On the opposition, there has controversy over whether the opposition parties should take part in the elections or just endorse the Student list. I'm probably forgetting some, but like 5 have endorsed it, 3 made one lib coalition, another 3 made another lib coalition and some others went into a conservative coalition. It's very likely that at least one of these three coalitions are going to fall below the threshold, maybe even all 3.

I'll try to give a QRD on the current political situation, but I find it hard to explain. There's been a protest movement since November 2024 that has been calling for elections since May 2025. It started as a response to the Novi Sad canopy collapse, which killed 16 people. It was initially started by opposition parties like several other protest movements during the Vucic era (all of them whimpered out after like a month or two). They blamed SNS and their corruption for the collapse and that has generally been the central theme of the protest movement. In my opinion this is true, but western leftists on the Internet seem to call it bullshit when corruption is protested. But I've heard that the term political corruption has a broader meaning in Serbian than in English, though I don't quite understand that.
Anyway, the protest movement was, after a few weeks, taken over by university students organized into meetings called plenums where any student of the faculty (universities in Serbia are divided into faculties, which are like departments but much more independent) could come to participate. The plenums formed and blockaded the faculties in Serbia one by one, until almost all the public universPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2910884
Thanks for the effortpost king

>>2910884
I'll write an update post of some things that happened in the past few days, in case anyone cares. The most relevant thing is probably that one of the opposition lib coalitions fell apart. Two of three of the parties in that coalition had municipal branches entirely leave the party because of the decision to run instead of endorse the Student list, which caused the leadership of these parties to decide to leave the coalition, then the only party left decided to quit too.

The Student movement managed to collect signatures and get the Student list on the ballot without much issue. The only issue is that in several places public (and maybe private, not sure) notaries refused to work with the Student list. Many still did, so this just caused a (probably) unintentional publicity stunt, where there were videos of huge lines all over Serbia of people waiting to give their signature. They collected signatures for 2-3 days and submitted twice over the required amount without incident. SNS' submission was somewhat suspicious though, as they submitted a little over the required amount just a few hours after the Republic Electoral Commission published the forms.

Another thing that happened, which I'm not sure has any relevance, is concerning a conspiracy theory rightwing kind of party, led by a guy called Nestorovic. He is a medical doctor who gained fame among conspiracy theorists for denying COVID19 then later peddling other conspiracy theories. He ended up a significant factor in the 2023 Belgrade city assembly elections, where SNS had less votes than the opposition parties together, but neither side had a majority without Nestorovic's party. Nestorovic refused to form the city government with either, which led to a repeat election in 2024 where the opposition absurdly fumbled and gave SNS the win. I don't think his party is particularly relevant now, since not only did COVID19 stuff lose steam, but also his party split almost immediately after the parliament was formed. Nestorovic himself also lost credibility due to being seen as taking SNS' side. What happened is that his party (the one he formed after the split) refused his proposal to form an election coalition with the Movement of Socialists. This is another party whose name implies it's socialist but actually isn't. It's an offshoot of the long defunct JUL (Milosevic's wife's parPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2752797
what the fuck is a moffinist

Bumpy

https://unrollnow.com/status/2095933284668576111

"Americans are in a position to kill any Italian politician; they are in a position to kill quite easily the Prime Minister, the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. And why? Because the CIA has a capillary control of Italian territory, because the CIA has been among us for decades. If you look at what happened in Venezuela, the CIA managed to conduct that operation—Americans managed to conduct that operation without having any CIA bases in Venezuela. The CIA in Italia knows every single square centimeter of Palazzo Chigi, of Montecitorio, of Palazzo Madama; it knows everything about the lives of our politicians and our ministers. On any Italian minister, the CIA has a dossier that it can release at any moment.
In Italy, American bases ensure that American soldiers have capillary control over Italian territory, because we not only have at least five American bases on our territory and various nuclear warheads, but we also have 120 installations—120 installations on Italian territory that American soldiers have access to. We call them NATO installations; they are radars, shooting ranges, barracks, warehouses. The United States in Italy—look at this scandal that has just come out, Rutte said: '500 aircraft took off from Italy for the war in Iran.' Giorgia Meloni said: 'They are not 500, they are 200,' which is a staggering number in a 40-day war, meaning aircraft took off from Italian airports every single day involved in the war in Iran.
At Camp Darby, near Pisa, the United States has the largest weapons and ammunition warehouse in the world outside of national borders, and weapons from Camp Darby can leave in only two ways: either they leave through the port of Livorno—which is often blocked by dock workers—or they leave through the military airport of Pisa.
And the American bases in Italy—think of the phrase that Giorgia Meloni keeps repeating, she says: 'American bases are in Italy to defend Italians.' It is not true. American bases are in Italy for America's wars. American bases in Italy serve to increase the power projection of the United States, and power projection is the ability of a State to wage war far from its own borders." Prof. Alessandro Orsini

https://unrollnow.com/status/2099456407934271515

La segretaria nazionale dei Giovani Democratici, Virginia Libero: “Non saremo noi i soldati delle vostre guerre. Se queste destre ci porteranno ad un vero conflitto, alle armi andateci voi, perché noi organizzeremo i disertori”.

Ed ovviamente, i vecchi del PD la attaccano mentre sono all’oscuro della ragione per qui il PD sta schifando nei sondaggi italiani.

Venezia, aggressione fascista nel cuore della città:
https://www.osservatoriorepressione.info/venezia-aggressione-fascista-nel-cuore-della-citta/

Un gruppo dell’estrema destra olandese aggredisce giovani veneziani con spray al peperoncino e pugni. Sei finiscono al pronto soccorso. Il Morion denuncia: non una semplice rissa, ma un’aggressione fascista dentro una città trasformata in palcoscenico della propaganda reazionaria.

Prima lo spray al peperoncino, poi le botte. Sei giovani veneziani finiscono al pronto soccorso, uno con un trauma cranico e una ferita all’arcata sopraccigliare. È accaduto sabato 12 settembre nel centro di Venezia, in zona San Bartolomeo, dove un gruppo di giovani ha incontrato una comitiva di una decina di olandesi riconducibile alla galassia dell’estrema destra internazionale. Tra gli aggrediti c’è Giovanni Fassioli, consigliere di Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra nella Municipalità Venezia-Murano-Burano.

A denunciare immediatamente quanto accaduto è stato il Laboratorio Occupato Morion, in un comunicato ripreso da Global Project, che definisce senza ambiguità l’episodio un’«aggressione fascista» contro un gruppo di giovani veneziani. Non una generica rissa tra ragazzi, dunque, ma un episodio che, secondo la ricostruzione del centro sociale, deve essere letto dentro un contesto politico preciso: quello di gruppi e influencer dell’estrema destra europea che utilizzano le città come scenografia per provocazioni, propaganda social e costruzione di consenso.

La ricostruzione pubblicata nelle ore successive conferma alcuni elementi essenziali. Il gruppo straniero sarebbe stato composto da una decina di olandesi e avrebbe avuto come figura centrale l’influencer di estrema destra conosciuto come “Jolly Time”, seguito sui social da oltre centomila persone. I giovani veneziani lo avrebbero riconosciuto mentre realizzava contenuti destinati ai propri canali e avrebbero contestato le posizioni espresse dal gruppo. Da lì la situazione sarebbe precipitata: prima sarebbe stato utilizzato spray al peperoncino, poi sarebbe partita l’aggressione fisica. Sei persone hanno dovuto ricorrere alle cure del pronto soccorso.

È un particolare che rende difficile derubricare quanto accaduto alla solita categoria rassicurante degli “opposti estremismi” o della “rissa politica”. EppuPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2912229
I think he was going to do it after Iran but then that started taking too long and he just has summer seasonal depression, so he's not feeling it anymore, just wants to build the ballroom.

>>2912223
>we're gonna starve you until old women are expiring on piles of garbage on the streets

>this is proof of your evil and/or incompetence. Ignore the contradiction in terms.

Death to the burgerreich

two more sneeds

cuba won

>>2889375
>So the whole "China isn't helping!" bit was bullshit?
duh.

>>2911635
She’ll probably approve more aid to Israel the day after she assumes office.

>>2912132
NTA but nobody was ever held accountable for the War in Iraq. What makes you think the current generation of crooks will face justice?

Interesting how you can get 50+ years in fed prison for advocating blowing up an ICE detention centre, but those who promoted a full-scale invasion and war of aggression against a sovereign nation get zero prison time.

>>2909140
Are you familiar with Myles Burnyeat's polemic from the mid 80s, Sphinx Without a Secret? His complaint was seeing some Straussians in the Reagan administration (Carnes Lord and Leon Kass, I think? Maybe he had Robert Goldwin in mind too). Before that, the usual take on Straussians from the early 60s to the late 70s was that they were merely perverse scholars who were blinded by their teacher.

Yes, I’m Jewish. I’m proud. I love Trump.
I love MAGA. I love neocons. I love Strauss. I love the Claremont Institute. I hate white people unless they’re good goyim who advance Jewish supremacy. I hate redneck cattle.

>>2913453
>Faith is not a hereditary faith, stupid. While it is almost impossible for a child of non-religious parents to become religious, the opposite is not true at all.
discussion of this subject

Catholicism in America is not known as a progressive force.

Ave Maria, FL, USA has a Catholic University that discussed adding a Charlie Kirk Statue one year ago. They also had a Charlie Kirk Memorial Vigil on 2026-09-10.

Bishop Robert Barron joined in on a "Prayer" service on the sidewalk in front of the Rochester, MN, USA Planned Parenthood.

Jason Evert's Chastity Project floods the youth group scene with Purity Culture material.

Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, USA has a "memorial" to the "unborn".

EWTN routinely goes against choice regarding abortion.

> "yet zoomers (like myself) see beauty in the Catholic Church and are flocking to it en masse"

The beauty you are thinking of might be stained glass, a desire for routine, a desire for community, and in-group solidarity.
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>>2913216
>zoomers are overwhelmingly becoming TradCaths
lol fucking poylps, touch grass

>>2913531
>Catholicism in America is not known as a progressive force.

Yeah, the Catholic supreme court judge majority very progressively banned abortion.

>>2913117
Can you describe the true 5% leftist?

>>2912977
>you're rich, they're probably the only people that will care about you. That is ,assuming they are rich as well, and not after a slice of your inheritance.

Oh, they're way richer than me. I even have a second uncle who's "technically" a billionaire.

>>2912695
then you are not a porky. you are a piglet.

itt: idiots falling for the most obvious bait

>>2911661
>Now I just need an elite to sponsor me to gain power.
It's addictive isn't it? By why not just stop where you're at? Why become part of the diddyblud caste that is hated and targeted for extermination in a revolution? The flower that aspires to be the tallest is the one that gets pruned.

>>2911019
sparrows are revisionist

>>2913374
Wikipedia clearly states the primary food source of sparrows, and counterarguments included 1860s German experience of eradicating sparrows (no discernable effect) and tales about how there were 10 pairs of sparrows imported to New York, and modern research actually shown their population decrease by the millions as horses - and their feed - were replaced by cars, proving sparrow campaign to have been sensible

>>2913039
>Most Lefties would cry Fascist if they came across someone with the exact same positions Marx holds in it
Summoning the spirit of Engels at a seance and nervously asking whether Israelis or Palestinians are the völkerabfälle.

The age of consent is bourgeois moralism designed to oppress young people by forcing them into inceldom and to cajole the working class into subservience, alongside other measures like reactionary lumpenprole busting unions.

>>2913487
why are there so many poles on the leftcom subreddit?

Sweden Democrats perform worse compared to last election for the first time ever

>>2912552
Any good that can come of this election?

>>2912556
Not really tbh. Looked like the Liberals might not make it to parliament for a while but unfortunately they will. SD losing ground is nice.

>>2912559
>Mohamsson was born in Hamburg, Germany;[3] her father is a Sunni Palestinian born in Haifa who lived for a long time in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp outside Tripoli in northern Lebanon, and her mother is a Lebanese Shia Muslim whose family is from the mountain village of Tayr Harfa in southern Lebanon, a few kilometres from the Israeli border.
>In August 2026, Mohamsson wore a Star of David necklace during a televised debate, in order to draw attention to, and take a stance against, rising antisemitism in Sweden, saying that she wore it for children who didn't dare to do so themselves.[16][17] The gesture sparked controversy and prompted hostile reactions on social media.[18]
Jesus, what a fucking piece of shit.

>>2913327
The husblatte GOAT. She also said her father "fled islamism" and not Israeli bombs

>>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.