/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>1799356
The issues being that the masses are not the main target of mass surveillance. The state has other tools for that. And it is not likely that 90% of the population is going to simultaneously rise up in revolt.

>>1799504
>And it is not likely that 90% of the population is going to simultaneously rise up in revolt
I never even remotely suggested this. You've either misunderstood me, or put words in my mouth. You are also quite unfortunately unspecific about which population you're talking about. What of the populations in Chile, in China, in Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran… Do I need to elaborate further? Every successful revolution is ultimately a revolution of the masses.

>>1799532
Sorry, assuming you were arguing in good faith and simply misunderstood, a population "simultaneously" rising up in revolt is not only a gross mischaracterization of historical revolutions (such as the ones I've mentioned above), it is patently un-marxist, like he literally never even implied that. No serious Marxist ever has. That's a Hollywood idea of what a revolution is.

>>1797964
Idiotic response. I have to confess my eyes glazed over it.

>>1798632
>The ex-junkie at my job understands the master-slave dialectic better than y'all
Many roads lead to rome

Prosecute a Cop? You’ll Face Removal From Office
Two unions representing police and state troopers in Minnesota wrote a letter to Gov. Tim Walz last friday. An elected prosecutor in Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis, was prosecuting one of their own, and they wanted her removed from the case — immediately.
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/22/mary-moriarty-minnesota-reform-police-union-removal/
https://archive.is/o9zTN

North Carolina court rules landlord had no repair duty before explosion
In the majority opinion that sided with then-Durham County Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson’s ruling to dismiss Terry’s lawsuit, Associate Justice Tamara Barringer said that the common law created no duty for a landlord to inspect a leased property. Lucas hadn’t inspected the furnace or and other portion of the property since Terry and his family occupied it, she wrote. Terry’s wife signed a lease for the home in the mid-2000s.
https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-landlord-tenant-explosion-supreme-court-37356107c0041838346424786afdb103

Texas troops clash with migrants over barbed-wire breach at US border
A group of migrants clashed with Texas national guard troops over a breach of barbed wire fencing in El Paso on Thursday as they waited to turn themselves in to federal border agents – underscoring the power struggle between the state and federal government over immigration law enforcement.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/22/texas-troops-clash-migrants-border-el-paso

FBI: Alaska Airlines passengers may be victims of a crime after Boeing blowout
The Justice Department investigation adds to the legal peril Boeing is facing. The company also is the subject of ongoing probes by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
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From Ang Bayan: Women Bear Half The Imperialist Sky
Filipino women bear the worst effects of the neo-liberal policies imposed by US imperialism and its puppet state in the past four decades. Due to policies of liberalization, deregulation and privatization, they are further marginalized to the fringes of society, where they are forced to endure informal, insecure and jobs with slave-like wages. The majority of women belong to the most exploited and oppressed sectors of society—workers, farmers and indigenous people, the rural and urban poor. In the past decade, more than half of them, age 15 and older, have not been counted as part of the labor force because of the nature of the jobs they perform. Among them are the millions of housewives who engage in farm work and accept “sideline” jobs while burdened with heavy housework and childcare. In 2022, about 20 million were excluded from the labor force, unemployed and underemployed.
https://www.redspark.nu/en/peoples-war/from-ang-bayan-women-bear-half-the-imperialist-sky/

As VP Harris Visits Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans Call for End to US Colonialism
Vice President Kamala Harris is on her way to Puerto Rico, which is marking two historic events this week: the abolition of slavery and a United States-backed massacre that left 21 Puerto Ricans dead. … On March 21, 1937, Puerto Rican nationalists assembled for a peaceful march on Palm Sunday in the city of Ponce to commemorate the abolition of slavery and protest the imprisonment of their leader, Pedro Albizu Campos. Like the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover, then U.S.-appointed Gov. Blanton Winship saw Puerto Rican independence activists and groups as a threat to U.S. economic and military control of the island. On his watch, local police fired at and brutalized the marchers, with 21 killed, nearly all civilians, and 200 wounded. A U.S. commission found that Winship lied about marchers initiating the violence, but he was never prosecuted for that or for reportedly ordering the Ponce massacre. The violence of white supremacy and its iterations today, and the violence against pro-independence advocates have been constants, whether under Spanish or U.S. rule.
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World's largest democracy, btw

I grade this as 100. This source even tackles controversial questions, like: Are lawyers, doctors, government officials, etc. petty-bourgeois? Their high, excess incomes allow them to accumulate capital. The Canadian Institute of Economics has a more complete grasp of proletarian consciousness than this website.

Who is Petty Bourgeoisie?
In the Manifesto of the Communist Party, Marx described the petty bourgeoisie as:

. . . fluctuating between proletariat and bourgeoisie, and ever renewing itself as a supplementary part of bourgeois society. . . The individual members of this class, however, are being constantly hurled down into the proletariat by the action of competition, and, as modern industry develops, they even see the moment approaching when they will completely disappear as an independent section of modern society, to be replaced in manufactures, agriculture and commerce, by overlookers, bailiffs and shopmen.

The petty bourgeois class includes:
– intellectuals
– scientists
– small business owners
– handicraftsmen
– doctors
– lawyers
– civil servants
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>>1801344
>and nobody cares, right?
What are you talking about BDS is a large campaign.

>>1801344
>you know there are more blatant and well-known cases and nobody cares, right?
>nobody cares
Top 3 hasabra talking point right there. Sure bro, nobody cares about anything. This >>1801274 is sus af also.

>>1801315
Spar is upset about the Hungarian government: https://dailynewshungary.com/popular-international-food-chain-flees-hungary-due-to-pm-orban-and-his-oligarchs/

If you are applying at a European company for a job and they ask you about the gap in your CV ask them about the gap in their company history from 1933 to 1945.

Sure, the Nazi shit was bad, but what's just as bad is the Marshall Plan just handed back these corporations to their owners. Like, imagine if somebody is trying to kill you, you fight them and win, then give them your stuff back. It makes no sense.

>>1801816
>Gotta love that quick 25% income boost compared to Western countries
What's the wage under which you'd pay no income taxes? I bet that would feel like poverty wages in the US

>>1801849
Imagine unironically comparing Chinese SOEs and cooperatives such as Huawei to private chaebols or keiretsus lul.

This is just lazy anti-Asian racism tried to be passed off as 'economical analysis'.

>>1802134

Average hours worked in China are still about 33% higher than in Europe, and 25% higher than in the United States.

In some industries, 60-72 workweeks are not unheard of.

>>1801671
>Never heard anyone talk about Jews anywhere IRL.

How many times a month do you step outside and talk to people? It definitely isnt especially common but its not exactly rare either

>Are there any China anons that are well-versed on ghost cities?
They barely exist. All of those reports are +15 years old and anticipated urbanization, as you said. Of course, supply and demand always influence each other as well.

>How much does it cost to buy a unit there?
Housing in China is cheap and most married couples own an apartment. Renting is seen as something for people who have to move around a lot or singles in their 20s. Practically everyone else owns a house (in rural areas) or an apartment (in urban areas). A decent apartment in a Tier 2 city. let's say about 75 m², costs about 50.000 - 100.000 USD depending on the location. Of course the prices are higher in Tier 1 cities, and lower in Tier 3 cities and below. Most apartments are bought with credit. Owning a home is seen as a pre-requisite for most men in order to be seen as an eligible bachelor, otherwise women won't even consider marrying you (a car too).

>but it takes a while before people move in, and for the time being, you can expect unusually low property prices in the interim, giving you the opportunity to get housing on the cheap.
Truly empty stuff is rare and if so, it is mostly people speculating on the housing in order to sell it off later. The real estate business is big in China - you have a population of over a billion and most people own their own housing.

whats stopping me from ascending into an immortal, omnipotent being and creataing objective morality

>>1802155
Material reality.

>>1802169
darn

>>1802172
I knew someone would post this, But if i am god everything i say is because it is. And I will say this isnt a problem, because i say so.

>>1781040
>What is? state precisely what you think is a performative game?
One-upmanship in regards to any progressive belief.
>The government should stop abusing the indigenous tribes and honor their treaties with them
<Oh yeah? Well I think the indigenous tribes won't have justice until all white Americans are deported back to Europe
>Oh yeah? Well I think white Americans deserve nothing less than genocide!
<Oh yeah? Well all of Europe should just be nuked!
A little bit of an exaggeration, but you get the idea. You take a generally good idea and turn it into a game where you prove you're the most moral person in the audience by showing you have the most extreme belief.

>claiming that criticism of america is "whinging about things from 300 years ago"
Complaining about shit from the American Revolution as is, in fact, "whinging about things from 300 years ago" especially if that thing is saying that the Patriots weren't fair towards George III

Especially if you take that so far as to start portraying the British Empire as a champion for African slaves and indigenous rights

Well if we're being honest, constitutional monarchy is objectively a superior form of government to whatever petty-bourgeois republicanism the Americans cooked up.

>>1783851
Whatever form of governement Americans will adopt will automatically become ultra shit.

>>1779433 (OP)
Same goes for the Haitian Revolution for black nationalists, and just like the American revolution, it was a matter of geophagy and circumstances.
For starters the revolution was not started by slaves rising up, but by the condition of the French Revolution. The French revolutionary government granted citizenship and freedom to free people of color in May 1791, but white planters in Saint-Domingue refused to comply with this decision. So a force was sent to free the slaves and arm them to fight the local nobility. It was basically taken over by a few local generals who then trained the former slaves into a decent enough fighting force to defeat whatever little resistance they encountered.
Four decades later the few Haitian officers had been trained in French and American armies who then trained the former slaves into a fighting force were dead or very old, and the army's only experience was to suppress rebellions. Foreign observers noted the army that had too many officers, "generals" who were actually civilians with no military training, like General Damien Delva (a wealthy tribunal clerk). The troops were gives guns and uniforms but ignored discipline and tactics. It was an army that could stop a small rebellion, but had more trouble battling a resolute enemy: its men would rather be at home growing food for their families than fighting the Panyols. The constant infighting, backstabbing, and general distrust between high-ranking Haitian politicians and officers did not help.

>>1802103
The Dominican Haitian war is genuinely interesting to read up about because on one side, you find zerg rushing while the other side employs basic Sun Tzu tier tactics. and focus on training their soldiers to shoot rifles and march for hours without looting every village they come across. they also utilized defensive positions and ensure that cavalry serves a purpose beyond being a fancy ride for the officers and elites

>>1778384
>Unlike oligarch
How the fuck is a Junta not an oligarchy

That aside, there are two main objections: as long as there exists capital, it doesn't matter who's in power, they will be inherently corrupted by it. Be it explicitly through (for example) military suppression of unions and strikes, be it hidden through any kind of involvement of business in government.
And second, a free civilian life is incompatible with military discipline. Give them all the meme sensitivity training you want, where there's a "peacekeeping" army there are horrible crimes.

>Additionally, many of Marx's predictions were incorrect, as Communist revolutions occurred in unindustrialized nations first, and his theory that worker militias could defeat professional armies has been proven false in every situation
Why THE FUCK do you think theorists post-Marx were compelled to write theory? Yes, it was fucking because Marx was fucking WRONG, because history is not a static process. Would you say,
>ah yes mendel was fucking wrong with whole inheritance thing shame no one else took it up and expanded it to be more correct
Because this is what you are doing you fucking retard.

>>1778390
>Newton didn't invent gravity
No shit.

I believe that Nazism won't be coming back(at least for now) but Fascism(and I mean actual Fascism) will be a threat many nations the world will have to deal with, I believe liberal democracies won't be able to overcome them, that's why communism is necessary .

>>1778390
only relevant not completely pointless and bullshit version of communism is marxism

Americans support humanitarian aid for Gaza over military aid for Israel: Poll
50% favor providing humanitarian aid to Gaza, Pew found. 19% oppose providing aid, and about 30% have no clear preference or aren't sure. Meanwhile, 36% of Americans favor providing U.S. military aid to support Israel, while 34% oppose it. Pew also found that 20% of Americans want the U.S. to play a role in diplomatically resolving the war.
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/21/us-israel-gaza-support-polling

US accuses Apple of ‘broad, sustained, and illegal’ smartphone monopoly
The US government on Thursday filed a sprawling antitrust case against Apple, alleging that the tech giant has illegally prevented competition by restricting access to its software and hardware. The case is a direct challenge to the company’s core products and practices, including its iMessage service and how devices such as the iPhone and Apple Watch connect with one another.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/21/us-antitrust-lawsuit-apple

New Hampshire Senate passes bill to expand scope of youth detention center victim settlements
Under the current system, former center residents can make claims based on sexual assault or first- and second-degree physical assault. The bill proposes allowing claims based on a slew of other crimes, including reckless conduct, criminal threatening, child endangerment, solitary confinement, unlawful strip search and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
https://apnews.com/article/new-hampshire-youth-center-abuse-252597cc15b7936dd58b7dcda9ff7d60

Iowa's drought conditions have farmers budgeting water use
Iowa had enough sub-soil moisture that farmers were able to produce a bountiful yield last fall with timely rains, said Don Roose, president of Iowa-based U.S. Commodities. "This year, we're running on empty, moisture-wise," Roose said.bout 23% of Iowa's corn acres and 19% of its soybean acres are in an extreme drought, accordiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Abandon Biden: We owe it to humanity to stop voting for evil
It was almost eight years ago that I penned an op-ed about why I wouldn't be voting for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election. I had grave concerns over her enthusiastic warmongering and wanton disregard for Palestinian sovereignty. I certainly wasn't going to vote for Donald Trump and his promised "Muslim ban", either. Rejecting the "lesser of two evils" fallacy, I instead voted for a third-party candidate. Unsurprisingly, there was backlash and accusations that my vote helped secure a Trump victory. Four years later, it was with tremendous reluctance that I voted for Joe Biden simply because he was not Trump. Now, as primary elections are underway across the country and with the presidential election fast approaching, America is once again faced with a no-win situation: elect the cartoonishly villainous bad guy or the insidiously malfeasant bad guy. But Trump isn't the one brazenly orchestrating the merciless slaughter and starvation of over two million Palestinians in Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/abandon-biden-we-owe-humanity-stop-voting-for-evil

Your Car Is Spying on You for Insurance Companies
Just in case you thought the capitalist surveillance network foisted on us by bandit corporations and complicit governments wasn’t dystopian enough, your car may now be spying on you — and selling the data it collects to insurance companies via LexisNexis. Last week, the New York Times and others reported that certain General Motors (GM) vehicles were collecting driver data — in some cases unbeknownst to the owner — that insurance companies could, and did, use to adjust (that is, raise) premiums. GM’s Smart Driver program isn’t the only one of its kind. Other automakers have similar services, which may seem innocuous (in-car Wi-Fi, amazing!), but is in fact insidious, since you end up “consenting” to being spied on for automaker profit. In 2023, the Mozilla Foundation released research in which they said cars were a “privacy nightmare on wheels” and “the official worst category of products for privacy.” Writing in The Conversation, law professor Katharine Kemp detailed the extensive data collection mechanisms in vehicles, including “cameras, microphones, sensors aPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>1793434
I doubt it

>this might sound like we are doing an anti-communism by making it seem like the shining path were cia
<does an anti-communism by doing just that
The crux of this tripe is that the Shining Path were not cia (even though everything from the title to the way the prose is worded paints that bad faith picture) but conducted itself the same way cia outfits did at the time even though all the tactics in creating fake fronts (which were usually always rightwing) the cia used they literally got from them spying on rebel/guerilla movements which include communist movements and using those same tactics in their schemes ala Gladio. This shit wasn't even written by communists and has been used to delegitimize a real fucking revolution that happened in Peru where many died and struggled for liberation. Shame on all the bastards who paint themselves red yet push this blatant anti-communist work.

>>1792821
Damn, someone translated it.
Congrats.

>>1792821
Huge pull thank you OP. Machine translation doesn't do it for anything above a certain reading level ❤️❤️❤️

So… is there any particular piece of evidence you want to point to that would be what can be called a smoking gun? Or is it all just conjecture? Otherwise, I will remain unconvinced