/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

I have to ask.
What is wrong with /pol/???

They seam to embrace being stupid and unable to read even 5 words, complaining how difficult it is for them and how hard this is.
Do they embrace being retarded?
Do they not understand that this shows them to be the real retarded untermenchen (truly white uyghurs)?

Do they think that their inability to read long sentences somehow translates into them being the genius autism score rocket designing race or something?
I doubt these retards can even grasp the instructions on how to warm up a pizza far less build anything of value.

I have seen this behavior countless times.

Sure I myself will refuse to read the same nonsensical trash that I have seen far to often. However at least I can read one page in before starting to skip if the author clearly is not addressing the central subject and saying nonsense.

However /po/l-tards take this to a self parody level.
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Why do people continue believing in ghosts or souls after Phineas Gage?

I see a handful of religious leftists on here who believe in souls, ghosts, and even silly things like an immutable "National Character" inherent to geographic regions. They usually use these things as an excuse for reactionary idealism or outright sadism.

The "self" is a function of biology, rather than an eternal and immutable immaterial thing.

>Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable  survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his life‍—‌effects sufficiently profound that friends saw him (for a time at least) as "no longer Gage". 

>Phineas Gage influenced 19th-century discussion about the mind and brain, par­tic­u­larly debate on cerebral local­i­za­tion,​​ and was perhaps the first case to suggest the brain's role in deter­min­ing per­son­al­ity, and that damage to specific parts of the brain might induce specific mental changes.

Absolutely spooked reactionaries to this day continue to believe we have little ghosty ghosts created by God that determine our personality, our disposition, the kinds of choices we make in our life, and that in turn determines which fictional realm our ghosty ghosts get sent to after we die. When, in reality, something out of your control like an illness or traumatic brain injury can fundamentally change who you are and how you act and the kinds of decisions you make.

Spooked reactionaries are sadists who want to continue to punish people for how the machinery of their brains work, rather than closely study people to determine a path to changing behavior without torture, imprisonment, capital punishment and other reactionary spookery. They say "actions have consequences" not realizing that the "consequences" of actions are socially constructed or that crime and other taboo behaviors are rarely deterred by the severity of punishments.

Things (pragmata) have not mere objective presence (vorhandenheit), but also a handiness (zuhandenheit), and in average-everydayness we fall into infinite chains of 'in-order-to' via references (verweisungen) between useful things and the 'what-for' (wozu); the mode of being that Heidegger calls circumspection, in which we only perceive things in their handiness. Capital makes heavy use of accessibility, signage, to make things easy to use in production– think about the dull soullessness of modern operating systems and computers; Capital has its own entire branch of study for this - 'ergonomics'. The effect of this is to pull us further into circumspection and out of a recognition of the pure being of things, so that we keep following orders, consuming, obeying, etc.

Things in their pure objective presence only become noticeable for a person stuck in average-everydayness when they break or become unhandy, when there is a 'disruption in the chain of references', bringing us back into the real world and provides real possibility for a re-evaluation of the surrounding world (umwelt). For me this implies that as people who wish to change the world and destroy Capital, we should as our first point of praxis in resistance seek to destroy chains of signification and reference. This calls for not simply protesting calls for people to re-evaluate their relation to labour– but outright sabotage. anti-work. pure destruction of that which pulls people in most into average-everydayness in terms of productive work. large corporations' attempts to ever improve 'accessibility' for the disabled, ease-of-use, ergonomics, etc requires the strongest opposition. the more anti-work and anti-capitalism you are the better, putting up positive ideals for systems has to come after we already have disrupted capitalist signification and brought people back into a sober relation to the objective presence of things so that we can start re-evaluating our relation to the world which has to itself begin with a relation to our own Being. This is not to say protesting capitalism doesn't work since protestations can also yank people out of their average-everydayness but generally it has to be an emotional affair first rather than a rational one.

sooo let's break things ig :)
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-pouget-sabotage

Don’t worry about the formula just know the exponent is how long it’s gonna take from 2020 in years for my country, Ghana, to have a rate of births per woman fall to the global replacement level. 40 years doesn’t sound that bad but Ghana has lived for less than 70 around half of those years spent trying to prevent losing independence. Going through so much just to die off so quickly is gonna cause some problems not just here but everywhere else in the continent. Like low birth rates aren’t a new concept but it has not managed to fall as quickly than in Africa, same goes for SEA dudes. Wonder how the rest of the planets gonna adapt to the second half of this century when every country even the ones here can’t provide enough incentives for civilians to reproduce

hot take: Kautsky's theory of "ultra imperialism" was ultimately correct, but 100 years ahead of its time. Lenin was correct in the contemporary debate, but Kautsky is correct today. Today we have an ultra-imperialist coalition called NATO that will coup, sanction, embargo, invade, wage proxy wars, and otherwise destabilize any government, even bourgeois governments, that do not align with its economic hegemonic interests. This ultra-imperialism, rather than exporting capital and creating its own future competitors in a developmentalist fashion, has learned from the mistakes of past empires, and now limits the amount of capital it exports. It no longer develops the periphery like the traditional bourgeoisie of the 18th and 19th century did. It instead arrests the development of peripheral countries, so that they can remain neo-colonies for as long as possible. This is done through relatively innocuous methods like coup regimes taking out high interest IMF loans with structural adjustment programs rather than obvious methods like invasion and enslavement. Because of the innocuousness and efficiency of the methods of neocolonialism, the neocolonial relationship is obfuscated and made confusing to the general public, who do not see it operating. It also make geopolitical conflicts more confusing, and can make a power defending against a proxy war look like an aggressor. Furthermore, China is bourgeois, but they are bourgeois in the traditional sense that they actually export capital and help develop the global south, which is why global south nations are choosing to ally with them over the imperial core. Having a traditional imperialist relationship turns out to be less parasitic than having an ultra-imperialist relationship in the same way that being an indentured servant is better than being a slave. Traditional imperialism makes the nations of the periphery indentured servants to the imperial core. Ultra-imperialism constantly resets the clock and arrests development, effectively making them slaves to the imperial core, because their level of development can't catch up enough to throw off the shackles of the imperial relationship and its fundamental wage disparity, even though their development nominally continues. this is the source of all the confused argument over multipolarity/unipolarity, whether such and such nation is bourgeois or not. The difference between comprador and national bourgeoisie now matters more than ever. Also, the climate iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Palestinian resistance hit back after two days of Israeli air strikes
PALESTINIAN resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip hit back at Israel today after the besieged coastal enclave suffered two days of continuous air strikes by Tel Aviv’s forces. The resistance fired dozens of rockets into Israel in a first response to ongoing Israeli air attacks that have killed 19 Palestinians, including three senior fighters. The rocket fire set off air-raid sirens throughout southern Israel and as far away as the Tel Aviv area 50 miles away.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/palestinians-strike-back-after-two-days-israeli-airstrikes

Two soldiers killed as guerrillas respond to Turkish attacks on guerrilla areas
In its daily overview of the war in Kurdistan, the press centre of the People's Defence Forces (HPG) reported that two soldiers of the Turkish army have been killed in the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq). According to the HPG statement, the Turkish invading forces attacked a guerrilla position in Sîda in the Zap region on Tuesday.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/two-soldiers-killed-as-guerrillas-respond-to-turkish-attacks-on-guerrilla-areas-67116

Turkey Elections: Gulf investments likely to be challenged if Erdogan loses
Several Gulf Arab states have a large stake in Turkey’s presidential elections, and stand to have their years-long investments scrutinized if President Recep Tayyip Erdogan loses his 20-year power streak. Saudi Arabia injected $5 billion in Turkey’s central bank in March to help strengthen the country’s currency after the two massive earthquakes that devastated its people and economy the month before.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/05/turkey-elections-gulf-investments-likely-be-challenged-if-erdogan-loses

Imran Khan arrest: Army called in as Pakistan pPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Has electronic mass media made people stupid??

I can't help but feeling that literacy peaked in the 19th century and that radio, television, internet, etc. has made it possible to interact with material on a very shallow level and shortened attention spans.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/features/2023/5/8/a-david-vs-goliath-battle-unfolding-in-the-dating-app-industry

Can't believe a dating app can be legal fucked so hard

>can't use the word "match"
>can't use a heart in its logo
>must remove all swiping

How dare you infringe on my monopoly intellectual property.

Why don't more people just stop financially supporting corporations like Walmart and Amazon? Why isn't union membership and going on strike more popular? Do the majority of people just not care? What's the cause of their apathy?

My fucking God when will it stop? Well, the answer to that is NEVER. Even if it fucking stopped, people still have nukes, dirty / salted bombs, ransomware that can shutdown the power grid of a large city, sabotaging a nuclear power plant, chemical weapons (like Sarin), biological agents, or airplanes (assuming we do see a repeat of 9/11 which is extremely doubtful). And that's not even an exhaustive list either.

What do you suggsst we do to curb this (aside from gun control laws)? I'm at a loss for words.