/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

US job openings fall to 6.5 million, fewest since 2020, as labor market remains sluggish
The Labor Department reported Thursday that vacancies fell to 6.5 million in December — from 6.9 million in November and the fewest since September 2020. Layoffs rose slightly. The number of people quitting their jobs — which shows confidence in their prospects — was basically unchanged at 3.2 million.
https://apnews.com/article/jobs-labor-economy-ai-layoffs-1304701fb238015de750a931c4175579

Database of Court Filings Shows ‘Startling Pattern of Abuse’ by Federal Agents Against Citizens in Minnesota
The suit was filed last month by the ACLU of Minnesota and partnered law firms, which said that as part of President Donald Trump’s Operation Metro Surge, “masked federal agents in the thousands are violently stopping and arresting countless Minnesotans based on nothing more than their race and perceived ethnicity, irrespective of their citizenship or immigration status, or their personal circumstances.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/minneapolis-ice-violations-database

Minneapolis man is charged with threatening and cyberstalking ICE officers
Attorney General Pamela Bondi alleged in a statement that Wagner doxed and threatened law enforcement officers, claimed an affiliation with antifa and “encouraged bloodshed in the streets.” And at the White House on Thursday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt held up Weber’s photo at the daily briefing and said such conduct by “left-wing agitators” won’t go unpunished.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-officers-minnesota-threats-doxing-385b11ccd93a9805aa31d4e058689c44

Private jet owned by Trump friend used by ICE to deport Palestinians to West Bank
His sleek Gulfstream jet – which he has called “my little rocket ship” – was used to transport the men from an airport near a notorious removal centre in Arizona to Tel Aviv. The jet made three refuelling stops en route: iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Can Mandelson’s downfall prompt revolt against the Labour Party he shaped?
KEIR STARMER is a dead man walking. His fake indignation at Peter Mandelson convinces no-one: claiming he believed in the integrity of a man nicknamed “the Prince of Darkness” would be a tough sell even if Starmer hadn’t such a track record of dishonesty himself. The Prime Minister has form on pretending he never said things he’s said. He’s still at it. In the Commons on Wednesday he admitted that he knew Mandelson continued to associate with Epstein after the latter’s conviction on a child sex offence. He had to: the Financial Times broke that story in 2023 and it was brought up by critics (including this newspaper) when Mandelson was named a likely ambassador to the US in 2024. Yet today he dissimulated, referring to “information that was not known at the time of his appointment… before he was appointed ambassador… he was asked whether he had stayed with Epstein after his conviction.” That was already a matter of record.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/can-mandelsons-downfall-prompt-revolt-against-labour-party-he-shaped

Mongolia’s Crisis Is an Opportunity to Transform Its System
On paper, the Mongolian state is becoming richer, with record exports, higher budget revenues, and decent rates of growth. Yet in daily life, it feels absent. Six years after winter protests that fused discontent over air pollution and corruption into a single story about trust or the lack of it, that story has only thickened. Since then, Mongolia has moved from outrage over theft of public resources to open constitutional crisis. In October of last year, parliament voted to remove Prime Minister Zandanshatar Gombojav barely four months into his term. Three days later, the president vetoed the dismissal on constitutional grounds. Tsets, Mongolia’s constitutional court, deemed the president’s veto lawful, ruling that a parliamentary motion passed by the State Great Khural to dismiss the PM violated several procedural and constitutional principles. If Western media outlets notice any of this, they tend to reach for the easy frame. Earlier in 2025, Britain’s Times ran a breathless piece about a “Putin-aligned” President who had supposedly orchestrated a coup of sorts agaiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>2660197
They played us like a damn fiddle

Loli Gear..?

>>2646147
stalin liked dostoyevsky THO

>>2646013
>I like Pierre because of his avoidance of the aristocratic traditions, but he didn't do much of anything to change it.

I feel like it wasn't from lack of trying, and because he was sabotaged by Tolstoy's religious delusions. As a character the desire was there, and iirc he does take on a more direct, practical role after the book, but yeah, he was too hopped up on idealism.

>>2646147
Tolstoy late in life was basically a Slavic Quaker

Dostoyevskiy is a reactionary piece of shit and Western fascination with him annoys me endlessl

>>2646202
Bulgakov wrote proto-new-age shit

>>2646168
they do, aside from Ilf & Petrov, but they're really hard to read without the cultural context

t. Russian

I like the movie.

>>2682075
>Dostoyevskiy is a reactionary piece of shit and Western fascination with him annoys me endlessl
i remember jordan peterson claiming he was the wisest man who lived.

Independently recreated Trotskyism from first principles.

Not sure what he was expecting to happen, but at the same time I don't know how one would actually counter revisionist ideas in the Brezhnev era.

>>2639030
nobody would remember or care about him if it wasn't for a hoi4 mod

>>2682102
Sablin was already memorialized in Hunt for Red October, they made him into a US patriot who wanted to leak all of the Soviet military secrets to his hero Ronald Reagan.

>>2639776
this pretty much
>>2639030
a hero beyond all measures. genuinely among the most admirational personalities in all of history who suffered tragedy due to his excellence. he should forever be remembered

>>2682136
The neo nazi also worked for the CIA.

>>2682149
and the CIA should be destroyed. what's your point?

>>2682151
death to israel, nobody said otherwise

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>>2682142
A similar thing happened in Trump 1 where his flagship issues actually became more unpopular. But when Biden won, he and the Dems immediately conceded all of the issues to Trump, instead trying to "surround him" by occupying his positions with a seemingly more mature and reasonable vibe.

I'm just saying, if we actually do have more elections, the democrats are just not capable of being opposition and fighting on any issues. They simply don't understand the electorate. It's really grim to say it, but they operate according to an outmodded set of assumptions about how politics works that hasn't really been updated for 50 years, and the only ones who have tried are the super weird neo nazis and esoteric hitlerists (who have had some success).

>>2646230
His source is NYT, unironically

>>2646051
Jfl “four 9/11s”

https://thegrayzone.com/2026/02/01/guardian-iranian-death-toll-concocted-monarchist-doctors/

Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op

>>2682080
OP claims 2k were killed since then the cucktollah hinself came out to state "Thousands were killed"

Seethe and cope labor aristocracy socdem retard

Starting to think that the guy with the cigar is harboring some weird psychpatholical anti-proletarian ressentiments, likely a result of their own personal class position which is the peak of irony, really. Even bourgeois social science has shown that anti-social behavior peakes among wealthy people and people of lower social strata are shown to be more generous, and this is something even the least class conscious individual you will ever know has picked up on. It radiates from all this babble about how working class families are supposedly all incestous child abusers.

It's almost like when you are without capital, when you can't buy people and their services like objects or commodities you are required to engage in a minimum of pro-social behavior and solidarity for your own survival.

>>2681313
The creepiest ones are where they list the ages of the kids.

>>2681314
NO!!! THIS IS AN IMAGEBOARD!!!! YOU MUST BE ARGUING WITH ME SO I CAN GET MAD!!!!!

>>2681285
it is your belief that is closer to moral essentialism dumbass. There is nothing in your class structure that dictates how your moral beliefs should be, otherwise Americans, who are pretty much labour aristocrat in comparison to the global proletariat, should all be racist pedophile rapist cannibals
The part about anti social behaviour peaking among wealthy people is about >>2681321 how wealthier people will normalize sociopathic behaviours that reinforce their class position; not that they will become complete antinomians who go around SAing children
what you are trying to do is not Materialism. Its trying to tie your perception of morality to class position, so you can end up in a simplistic prole=conventionally morally good, and bourgs=conventionally morally bad. But what Marx pointed out about alienation is that everyone is socially alienated with their species being, regardless of their class position , and that this alienation can be overcome after communism, not that proles are kind and wholesome reddit benefactor.

>>2682073
addendum: we know, thanks to the advancement of psychological sciences today, that anti social behaviours like sociopathy and psychopathy, and anti social symptoms like BPD and DID and CPTSD happens regardless of your class. The "your morality is immanent to your class position" people do not understand how to explain this, because in their view if you are a prole then conventionally good morality is somehow immanent to your behaviour, and this is considered materialism to them.
These people also could not explain why it is poorer countries, with higher concentration of proles, that have a lower trust society where you are incentivized to grift and destroy common goods for profit, and why is it that the richer a country becomes the more high trust it becomes.

The root of this confusion is that the pseudo-materialist confused class interest with Conventional Moral Goodness. They believe that because you are a prole, then you are good (in the Marxian sense, namely that you have revolutionary potential). The pseudo materialist confuses the Marxian definition of good, with the Moral definition of good, which means that they unironically think that if you are a prole then you are a good person who doesnt kick puppies or beat up minorities for fun. And if you are a bourg then you have to be an evil cannibal jeffrey dahmer tier rapist. But none of this is scientific

>>2658417
More so than the crackers, asains, and hispanics

>>2658415
Where the fuck can you afford to live on 20 a day?

>>2658431
>This job would not exist under communism and if it did we wouldn’t have party members on shift at all times to fuck with us.
What makes you say this? Labour discipline in communist countries was typically less severe than in capitalist ones.

>>2658417
Still the most revolutionary group in the US

Making Eve fartlow proud 🫡

>>2657214
30 Year USD Bond Yields just spiked up because of Greenland shenanigans

>Euros dumping US stocks and bonds
>Bonds riskier = Yields rise
>Mortgages for example are tied to these, so burger mortgage monthly payments are going up
>Everyone gets higher borrowing costs (from people to corps/govts) and dollar dumps

Those argie gusanos that spent their life savings on dollars must be shitting themselves to death rn lole

>>2657220
This means in a while CD interest yields will rise as well, since they tail the bond market

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… chuds

>>2656849
They think that Trump will rig the elections or something

>>2650032
They don't have to trust anything. It's a question of whether the relations of production can accommodate mutually beneficial relations between different segments of the population. In the USSR they could, in capitalist countries they cannot. Ergo the USSR is more democratic in content than the average capitalist country and represented an important step towards proletarian democracy even if it was imperfect. To say that they just "replaced one class with another" ignores the fact that bureaucrats aren't a class, and even if they were this would be a class with an entirely different relationship to the proletariat as compared to capitalists.

>>2648087
LMAO look at the OP not replying to this one

>>2649559
THIS!
One of the most formative Marxist text I ever read. Short to. Could carry a copy of dozens to just hand out whenever a comrade says something fucking cringe (happens constantly)

You know your ideology is moribund when you are consumed with defending political decisions made 90 years ago for a state which stopped existing 35 years ago that no IRL worker today gives a flying fuck about