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I reread Vineland and rewatched One battle for this. Modern /tv/ is too stupid for this, /film/ and /lit/ would find it boring or wouldn't get the discussion. You'll probably get more mileage here than any of them would have because this isn't so much about the plot structure or anything.
Although yes, One Battle After Another is the "blockbusterization" of the original novel. In the original Zoyd (Bob) is a side character to Prairie (Willa) and is actually third "protag" to Frensei(Perfidia) and Brock Vond(Lockjaw) mostly because he also doesn't look for her, he goes off screen because he is the one who sends away Prairie to go to DL(Deandra) from the start to split up so Vond can't get them together. Also because the book is 50% flashbacks, and that's probably because this is Pynchons attempt to put various short stories together into an over arching plot, but it means most of the book isn't action heavy. In fact any and all action is sort of kept to a flashbacks and single shot or hand to hand 1 on 1 combat.
This is because PTA doesn't understand the left or what Vineland had to say about it. Thanatoids are a big aspect of the original book. Thanatoids are debatable but are ultimately just Pynchons way of describing the average person becoming a treatlerite in first world nations due to immediate comfort and entertainment being granted to them, especially in the 80s, of which ones like Weed Atman, a leader of the 2nd major left wing org in the book, who was thought dead, is a part of. The entire thing is a massive critique on how quickly pacified the entire American left is, and PTA completely flushes it down the toilet for quick scenes of Mexicans fighting riot police.
In the actual book, whenever the army and cops get involved, the thanatoids don't do shit. DL (Deandra) and Takeshi (Sergio or at least close as possible to them in the book) take back Prairie with them to check out the situation at the same time the rest of her family go back to Vineland, and they note how scared everyone is and none of them do shit.
This is because the entire book this is just part of life too to a lesser measure, Americans are absolutely fine with fascist like regimes and PMCs strolling their streets as long as it doesn't affect them, it's only when Brock Vond starts to push it a little too hard that they get upset enough to be scared. Not act, just get scared.
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Holy shit that is long. That is extremely long and I didn't even mention how Pynchon channels Reich to gather reasoning for how someone becomes so fascist and discriminatory.
Read the end if you want to know what it's about and cannot be half assed to read a 400 page fiction novel and rewatch a 3 hr movie again.

>Vond and the thanatoids are either birthed or controlled by the tube, which is a metaphor for the modern worlds consumerist spectacle
Interesting.
I got the gut sense while watching the film that there was a story beat being missed about how the left became pacified. Good effort post.

>>2594444
Thanks and checked.
In the book there isn't some sort of big scene where Vond/Lockjaw take down everyone after Frensei/Perfidia snitches, everyone gradually has their own reasons for going underground and on the run, but it's pretty clear they've become pacified and worried about hiding out and keeping their families safe, leaving those who still kept up some sort of fight on their own until eventually they just sort of gave up and sat in front of tv all day like Atman and the thanatoids. Zoyd, Frensei, and DL are all mixed up with different groups and the book makes a point of this but they all end up pacified by the 80s anyway for a reason. That's why it's kind of counter intuitive to have riot scenes going on in One Battle as opposed to unorganized submission from the entire county as Vond and the military and other security forces flip the place upside down.


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/US-Venezuela war/ #3
>Third Heaven Edition

Previous Thread Archives
#1 https://archive.ph/4Dq3L
#2 https://archive.ph/sntTt

Previous thread: >>2539692

Thread in which we discuss the latest aggression-based-on-lies by the USA against a country which did not attack it.
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>>2593555
yeah, sure. she left using a fucking boat. other stories like her plane was escorted by f18 and such. in fact, more realistically, she left using dolphins (Cuban gusanos 'escapee' stories, btw).

>>2593138
>idc what anyone says, I love this guy.
honestly best man.

To consider, that Venezuela does have organized crime, as everywhere.

The worse things get the more the line of what's legal blurs. As the state institutions themselves come to, out of necessity, regularly work with the criminal side of the law, to get the things done. Such as "smuggling" all the trade the US (or sometimes the UN) sanctions. There is always a balance of this , of course, but a siege threatens the criminals gaining too much influence and eventually selling out the state to the highest bidder. Or disintegrating undermined by corruption.

So in a way, although it may not be the case for Venezuela right now, putting any place under a brutal economic siege on the premise that they are wholly corrupt and criminal is a self fulfilling prophecy. Cuba wriggled out of this by being more useful to the USA as a miserable punching bag to be made and example of, than a disaster to manage.

>>2593555
>run away
>get blown up by the US
that would have been extremely funny. In fact, venezuelan government should have kidnapped her, put her in a fishing boat without radio with some other gusanos, and remote controlled it toward the US

>>2586432
FWIW he has been making claims for years with nothing to back them up to the point where even people 100% against Maduro who think he actually did those things don't give a fuck about what El Pollo has to say, his contributions have led to nothing


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Previous thread: >>1950708
PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
Fuck flood detection
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/

NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
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BALD MAN BARRED FROM NDP RACE
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/yves-engler-barred-from-running-for-ndp-leadership/
https://x.com/EnglerYves/status/1998594829719060797

>>2591158
https://yvesengler.com/2025/12/09/ndp-takes-orwellian-world-view-to-deny-my-candidacy/

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Is Carney a political genius? He just needs another MP to become majority

>>2593523
he's a "progressive conservative" leader running in the liberal party, and he more favorable then Poilievre so far

>>2593523
Poilievre is just a colossal retard who blew the easiest election win in history by being too much of a Yankee blowing cuck.


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🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>May Lenin awaken the workers and help them to see the necessity of revolutionary civil war in the United States.

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make china win the world cup next year, icing on the cake

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>>2594296
There's nothing there.

>Also, Is this true chat?

44 years later and we're still obsessed with the soviets. Brezhnevs ghost haunts this country.

new thread >>2594309
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Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans?
<The answer, in retrospect, is obvious—and it’s part of a larger campaign to stop bans on Teflon cookware nationwide.

https://heated.world/p/why-are-famous-chefs-fighting-pfas?

God, I hate this fucking country.


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A general to compile all news, articles, essays and info related to the Greater Middle East-North Africa region.

Creating this general in an effort to centralize all the info that currently gets posted to 5 different threads concerning conflicts and developments in the MENA region. Seeing how slow they generally are and at risk of getting bumped off besides the Palestine thread and that it’s likely people interested in Yemen, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Palestine are likely also interested in news and info from across the region I think it would be useful to post everything in one place.

This will be the inaugural edition to see how it goes. Welcome!
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>>2594044
keep posting them out of spite for this poster >>2594112

>>2593957
wow, you're a fucking moron, go touch grass

>>2594112
fucking kys retard

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How Dirty Money Finds a Home in Dubai Real Estate

But the key to the UAE’s transformation was a set of policies that enticed foreigners from around the globe, including laws that made it easy for them to purchase real estate and the creation of free-trade zones with major tax exemptions.
But the key was a set of policies that enticed foreigners from around the globe, including laws that made it easy for them to purchase real estate and the creation of free-trade zones with major tax exemptions.

But behind the glittering facade is another factor that aided the city’s rise:
Dubai’s high-rises and villas have served as a safe haven for some of the world’s most wanted criminals, due in part to the secrecy its real estate sector affords.

The city’s property records are difficult to obtain and cannot be easily searched. In some cases, even international law enforcement officials have been unaware that people in their sights owned property in Dubai, one of seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates. But thanks to a new leak of data, reporters have identified scores of alleged criminals, individuals facing sanctions, and political figures accused of corruption who have owned property there.

Take, for example, the iconic palm-shaped artificial archipelago known as Palm Jumeirah, where we found an apartment belonging to Obaid Khanani,a Pakistani national who, along with his father, was sanctioned by the U.S. in 2016 for allegedly running a money laundering organization that has moved billions of dollars across the globe on behalf of drug traffickers and organized crime groups.

Then over in the nearby Palm Tower Dubai is an apartment owned by Danilo Vunjao Santana Gouveia, a Brazilian businessman better known as “Dubaiano,” who was indicted in 2018 on charges including money laundering and fraud for allegedly running a massive Bitcoin pyramid scheme. Since moving to Dubai, he has taken up a new career in the city as a musician, which he details on an Instagram account alongside photographs of him posing in front of various locations in the city, including the sail-shaped Burj Al Arab Jumeirah skyscraper.

And in the Grandeur Residences is Joseph Johannes Leijdekkers, a.k.a. Bolle Jos (“Chubby Jos”), alleged by Dutch authorities to be a major player in the global cocaine trade.
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related to an earlier article

'Islamophobic' poll on Muslims in France accused of links to UAE

A controversial poll on Muslims in France, conducted by one of the country’s leading survey institutes, was commissioned by a media company linked to an alleged Emirati smear campaign.

The survey concludes that there is "a phenomenon of ‘re-Islamisation’ that particularly affects younger generations and is accompanied by a worrying increase in adherence to Islamist ideology".

According to Ifop: "This data gives grist to the mill of those who fear that the Muslim population is developing into a ‘counter-society’, that is, seeking to organise its daily life according to religious norms distinct from, or even opposed to, those of the majority society.

>Muslims as an ‘internal enemy’

The poll has been widely reported by the French media and political class, particularly in conservative circles, where it was seen as proof of a desire among Muslims to place themselves in opposition to the republic and its laws.

Speaking of "terrifying figures", far-right politician Marion Marechal Le Pen, the niece of Marine Le Pen, described the possibility that France "will find itself facing hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of radical Muslims who will want to implement sharia law".
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Today begins the presidential and legislative election of the Central American of Honduras. With the left-wing Libre party, wish wishes to change the constitution to an anti-neolib and democratic socialist stance, at odds with the liberal and social conservative neoliberal bloc.
Whilst this is happening, Trump has pardoned a former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking offences whilst going off about how conveniently the whole Venezuelan military high command is full of alleged drug traffickers. Honduras is of considerable strategic importance to the United States. With several U.S. Army bases situated there. Trump has also gone off about how the electorate must vote away from the Libre "communists" and vote anyone else.
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>>2588839
This is my position on Maduro too, even if he did rig the erections its still better than the alternative who would destroy the revolution.

>>2578974
many such cases (actually all such cases)

Election protests in Honduras as Congress panel vows not to validate result

Officials of a Honduras Congress panel threatened on Wednesday not to validate the result of a Nov. 30 presidential election, citing an "electoral coup" and "interference" by U.S. President Donald Trump, as counting stretched into an 11th day.

While the ruling LIBRE leftist party has no chance of winning the election, it is throwing its support behind Salvador Nasralla, of the center-right Liberal party, who has also alleged fraud and said he has won the election.
It is unclear if Wednesday's declaration by the permanent commission of Congress, which escalates the election crisis, could be enough to annul the results, which must be validated by two of the three members of the National Electoral Council.

With more than 99% of ballots counted, conservative Nasry Asfura of the National Party was about 40,000 votes ahead of Nasralla of the Liberal Party, while LIBRE candidate Rixi Moncada was a distant third.
But inconsistencies in roughly 15% of the tally sheets require further review, heightening the political suspense, as those could be sufficient to sway the election outcome.

<could honduras become the 1st country to defy the us under trump?

>>2591616
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/protests-honduras-president-calls-election-be-annulled-amid-further-results-2025-12-10/

More audio recordings have leaked implying election fraud


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Previous thread: >>2177902

Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.

Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.

Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.
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>>2593322
i dont follow

>>2592223
>thats just playing semantics
no its not, you just got schooled and are too far up your own ass to accept it
do better

>>2593309
>by reading marx…?
by completely missing the point of the question, the fact that marx "didnt distinguish" is simply completely irrelevant, you think your answer is "right" while its just useless pedantry. If you're discussing communism and private and personal property concepts come up, they respectively refer to the lucrative possession of means of production or personal use, hence why I pointed out the actual best simple answer for a simple question

>which is why you sagepost
I sagepost because the question has been answered and the thread is not the place for this kind of useless debate with retards

>>2593468
if someone uses false terms, you correct the terms, ratherr than affirm them, such as you have. youre doing the opposite of educating people.

>>2593317
Countries are still too large and a state is required to manage them. Problem still exists.


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🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>May Lenin awaken the workers and help them to see the necessity of revolutionary civil war in the United States.

🛠️ Strike Tracker ⚒️
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/

🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
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americans are sleeping

New thread

https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/2593380.html#2593385

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>>2592232

MTG redemption arc?

>>2593204
No he doesn’t you fucking moron, he’s a goddam braindead diet-strasserite AT BEST

Stop fucking dick glazing goddamn internet celebrities, it’s pathetic you stupid cunts

>>2592377
didn't get answer. can only assume leftypol is taken over by LLMs now


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Starting this thread and hopefully it stays a general. There's no thread dedicated to the EVROPA and what happens here.

everal European countries are currently reevaluating their military conscription policies, with some, like Croatia, having recently decided to reinstate it. Regarding pension reforms, the debate is also active, with France serving as a prominent example where a recent reform is facing political opposition and proposed suspension.
>Croatia.
Parliament voted in October 2025 to bring back a 2-month compulsory service starting in 2026.
>Germany
The government is moving toward a "new military service" model starting with a mandatory digital questionnaire for young men from 2027, with the potential for mandatory conscription if needed.
>Denmark
Expanding to include women from July 2025. Service is selected via a lottery system from the pool of eligible 18-year-olds.
>Latvia
Reintroduced in 2023. All men between 18 and 27 must serve for 11 months.

Concurrently, pension reform is trying to be pushed in Belgium, France, Bosnia and Slovenia (that I know of). All want to raise the retirement age and lower pensions low term.

Serbia has a rebellion going on for almost a year.
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>>2593705
ddr flag correct as usual

seems like Portugal is soon going to join the Isreal boycott, by today the majority of candidates for their selection has withdrawn

Brigitte est un homme.
La grande révolutionnaire Candace d’Amerloque me l’a dit.

Crosspost from newsanon's thread

France Unbowed 'has become a target' of the UAE, Melenchon says

The leader of French left-wing party France Unbowed (LFI) and former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon has denounced “the influence of networks linked to the United Arab Emirates” following a series of accusations levelled against the party and some of its MPs.

“LFI has become a target of the Emirates,” he wrote on his blog on Tuesday, shortly after his party, the largest left-wing group in parliament, filed a complaint to the public prosecutor regarding a highly controversial poll on Muslims in France, suggesting it could be part of an Emirati “influence operation” in the country.

The survey, which suggests that there is “a phenomenon of 're-Islamisation'" in France "accompanied by a worrying increase in adherence to Islamist ideology”, has been the subject of several legal complaints from Muslim organisations, who accused it of being “based on biased questions” to spread “the poison of hatred in the public sphere”.

The poll, conducted by the French Institute of Public Opinion (Ifop), was commissioned by a magazine, Écran de Veille (Screen Watch), which is said to be linked to an alleged Emirati smear campaign against Muslim individuals and groups.

Several media outlets have exposed links between the UAE and some staff members of Écran de Veille.

The monthly publication is owned by Global Watch Analysis (GWA), a media company that is highly critical of political Islam, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood - a movement banned by the UAE - and harbours open hostility toward Qatar.
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I love you Europe stay strong!!!


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Die Oma mal am Joint ziehen lassen gegen die vaterlandslosen Gesellen.

Alter Faden:
>>2363945

Ein paar Links:
https://mlwerke.redflag.ps/
https://www.papyrossa.de/
https://www.marxistische-blaetter.de/
https://www.jungewelt.de/
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/
https://www.wsws.org/de
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/
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>>2593113
Berliner Straße 11
30890 Barsinghausen

They are open Mo, Di, Do, Fr 8 - 12 Uhr if you don't have an appointment.

If you don't get there today make sure go Monday.

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kennt ihr schon die kategorie "e-girls reacten auf fabian lehr"

Brigitte ist ein Mann mit ein Gross Penis

>>2593996
Link der video bitte

>>2594004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRy9NxB7NDU


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