/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2650759
>Buttigieg went to Harvard
To get more smarter?

>>2651618
No, to become a Neoliberal stooge and not continue the life work of his father to continue translating Gramsci's works, duh.

https://leftypol.org/edu/res/8394.html

Anyhow this is a good thread on sneaky fed bullshit.

Good US government counter-insurgency stuff

>>2648616
it's "seize power"
BTW we usually only name major updates after people who won something. Practice proves theory… what proves Gramsci correct?

>>2661814
They sold him out. Obviously they will keep doing Bolivarian PR ops to pacify the supporters.

>>2662057
this has been the message of pretty much all serious communists involved in latam I follow, that there was no betrayal

Let him who has never met with the CIA director a week after having your predecessor kidnapped cast the first stone. #delcygang #multipolarism #anti-imperialism #jesuismaduro

>>2662057
>>2662070
>>2662134
>>2662210
I lean toward Vijay here. There's no evidence of a top-down betrayal, though some betrayal at some level may have been involved. The actions of the government since are all explainable by the inequality of the situation and a badly outmatched government feeling their only option is to try to appease the much stronger foe at their throat. You don't need the grand conspiracy. It's possible, but not necessary to explain the situation.
This concerted MSM campaign to paint Delcy as the big Judas with flimsy evidence makes this seem less likely, not more. It looks like CIA propaganda designed to sow division and distrust in Venezuela to weaken the government further.

>>2662842
they don't care.
the same way they didn't care when Maduro was in power.

Like, I posted this confirmed video: >>2661811, where Delcy clearly and out in the open states that she doesn't care to face the same fate, death (being killed, at the moment they were told that Maduro was killed), and they'll spin everything to attack the leadership.
I've told multiple times that Maduro's son, Chavez's daughter came out in support of Delcy, and it's a non-stop of US cia media slop.

>>2657090
Oooohhhhhh I'm partnooooooooring
I'm strooooooootegically partnooooooring

>>2657098
Geopolitics is bourgeois politics

>>2646748
Regardless of how depraved and reactionary Americans are, their place in the world as top G is entirely situational. They got lucky during the industrial overhaul. There is no great leap to happen again for that to happen.

So regardless of how bad they are, a complete collapse of the west would be for the best. Even if it were fully capable of happening again, there's no reason we shouldn't wanna see crackers suffer and die right now.

>>2662513
You hace autism

>>2646748
I think the most generous interpretation is that the US empire collapsing not the USA literally. IE its not that the US will literally be irrelevant, the same way the UK is still a high income but geopolitically largely irrelevant actor after the fall of the British empire. So "socialist" revolutions have a chance to sprout elsewhere, because the CIA isnt crushing them or whatever, because americans military-intelligence might is gone due to China undercutting and deindustrializing the US economy at every turn and eclipsing it in income, thus undermining the dollar system and making it so the US can no longer support and fund a military with 11 aircraft carriers based on debt.

>>2659199
Lenin is Dead. Christ and His Church are Alive. Repent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dBdJ7kyqyo

>>2659213
Yea like the Christians in the Middle East?

>>2663025
it says gullible on the ceiling

>>2660785
>Their atheism is simply a product of capitalism, where no overt attachment to any value system makes you freer to pursue diverse avenues of money making
True

>>2660795
>and that is why i exactly said that the future is religious. Integration to the capitalist circuit and lifestyles make you less able to commit into social reproduction.
I think capitalism is going to win, and it has been winning. People have less time or patience to be chained to ancient books of superstitions when compared to everything new on offer.

>>2663025
>>2663030
Alive in raping kids

>>2663037
its 2026 and you still haven't moved past the muh different opinion meme
when we win, all dissenting ""opinions"" will be banned and the MSS will break down your door for anti communist wrong think

>>2663061
Yep, that is my point. But I am also pessimistic about setting up militias as if the US were going to fall into some decades long low intensity conflict. Better than nothing I guess.
>>2663089
I know you are trolling, but having a different opinion about what happened also determines how we approach it. Will you encourage people in the future to open carry in front of cops so they can get themselves shot? Or would you rather advocate for militias or actual units instead of lone wolves carrying guns for "self defense" when they won't actually need it 110% percent of the time in an actually well organized society where crime is a non-issue. Also, do all of you expect our diabolical US police force to reform itself because that is a dead end as decades upon decades of efforts have shown the US police to be rotten to the core. Do you want a society where police won't overreact to people to carrying a gun, or would you rather have a society where people do not need to carry them at all, and we had a police force in line with less barbaric ones across the developed world? Because in other countries, the police is not nearly as malicious or stupid as in the US, where it is the laughingstock of the world. Even by the standards of capitalist countries, which has plenty of incompetent or bad police, our police is pathetic and unprofessional by a large margin.

all americans are henceforth iraquis in the eyes of the police and WILL put 8 bullets in you if they see you with a gun, so you need to ask these questions now. this is why arming yourself against the police was fucking idiotic hobbyist bullshit.

>>2663148
you can also allow open carry as long as you did militia training first,kinda like switzerland,so you're "legitimate" in having a gun on you.

>>2662967
vore the rich

>>2579295
The zbors are very dead compared to their peak in early july during the dumpster barricade stuff.

>>2579297
There were 2 calls to general strike but there was no labor organizing behind them so they failed.

Two days ago there were some local elections for some rural areas (only a few tens of thousands of voters total) and SNS won but with much less votes compared to both the last local elections and the last parliamentary elections. Like usual, there were various kinds of election fraud spotted and there was even some fighting in Mionica in a tavern close to one of the poll stations (https://x.com/agrifblokira/status/1995150996067307853).

>>2581761
Forgot to mention the most important thing about those local elections. If SNS's loss of votes is proportional to the rest of Serbia then they'd lose parliamentary elections if they were held now.

On Saturday the students organized a campaign where they asked for signatures of people supporting them. They set up a few hundred stations all around Serbia and asked for name, where they lived and email. This is supposed to help gather volunteers for the election campaign when the parliamentary elections come. They said that they're not doing a legal citizen's initiative because the parliament can just ignore it and they're not doing a petition because it wouldn't really do anything. Almost 400 thousand signatures were gathered.

I guess it's a good idea for the election stuff, but it might be too early to do something like this since the next normal parliamentary election is late 2027 and SNS isn't going to do a snap election when they're guaranteed to lose seats and might lose the majority. Generally the student movement is very focused on election stuff now even though it's so far away. But this might be because of the decreased manpower since the blockades were broken.

On Saturday there was a protest in Novi Sad that was more like a political rally, where Novi Sad students presented a part of the political program for the student list: anti-corruption and lustration. The latter means banning people associated with the ruling party (SNS in this case) from holding public offices, which is confusing because apparently that's not what it means in English. There was some sort of disagreement between Novi Sad students and Belgrade students around this where Novi Sad students really wanted the lustration thing as part of the program while Belgrade students were lukewarm. There was even some sort of conflict around that protest/rally where Belgrade students didn't forward calls to it.

There was another incident in Novi Sad where a professor on the Philosophy faculty basically got fired for supporting the student protests, which caused some professors and students of that faculty to restart the blockade of that faculty. That ended yesterday when the dean of that faculty called the police (constitutionally police can only enter a faculty if called by the dean) and a lot of police came in and kicked out the students and professors. Today there was no classes either because the police remained there not letting students enter. The Novi Sad students will be doing a boycott of the classes in response.

>>2660219
Another thing, a Russia-approved solution to the NIS situation was announced where Hungarian and Saudi petrol companies buy Gazprom's share of NIS.

Thousands rally against immigration enforcement in subzero Minnesota temperatures
The protests are part of a broader movement against President Donald Trump’s increased immigration enforcement across the state, with labor unions, progressive organizations and clergy urging Minnesotans to stay away from work, school and even shops. The faith leaders gathered at the airport to protest deportation flights and urge airlines to call for an end to to what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest-ever immigration enforcement operation.
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-ice-immigration-protest-unions-faith-leaders-edc6c4884f8cc26be9ad34a28d82a7a5

Federal judges reject DOJ motion to detain arrested Minnesota protesters
U.S. District Judge Laura M. Provinzino wrote in her order for two of the protesters, Nekima Valdez Levy Armstrong and Chauntyll Louisa Allen, that Justice Department lawyers failed to “demonstrate that a detention hearing is warranted, or that detention is otherwise appropriate.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-judge-rejects-doj-motion-detain-arrested-minnesota-protesters-rcna255666

US measles cases surpass 400 with infections in 14 states: CDC
The CDC said on Friday that a total of 416 cases have been reported in 14 states, including Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia and Washington. Only three measles cases this year were from international visitors, CDC data shows.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-measles-cases-surpass-400-infections-14-states/story?id=129415270

California suing Trump administration over Sable oil pipeline restart
The lawsuit is the latest turn in a dispute between Houston-based Sable and California officials over a drilling project off the coast of Santa Barbara that was shut Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

The Year of the Billionaire Tax
In 2025 alone, the six richest men in the country (and world) became $476 billion richer. During that year, the Trump regime cut back Medicaid — the federal medical assistance program relied on by over seventy million Americans, including four out of ten children — in order to bankroll lowering taxes for the rich. The bulk of the cuts are expected to hit Medicaid programs following the 2026 midterm elections, and they will hit ordinary Americans hard. Donald Trump’s 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act will raise out-of-pocket costs dramatically and kick millions of people off insurance, many of them children, as well as nearly a third of young people between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four. For California’s state medical assistance program, Medi-Cal, federal cuts are expected to drain $100 million over the next five years, potentially collapsing the state’s health care system. That means millions of people losing coverage and families needing to make hideous choices between food, housing, and medicine, as so many are already forced to. It means hospitals and clinics closing and tens of thousands of health care jobs evaporating. For a state already struggling with vast inequality and a homelessness crisis, it would have a catastrophic impact. Fun fact: there are 214 billionaires residing in California worth a collective $2 trillion. If you carved out just 5 percent of that hoarded wealth for public use, you could fill the Medi-Cal gap and fund the state’s health care system. That’s precisely what a proposed ballot initiative aims to do.
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/california-billionaire-tax-thiel-newsom

Israel Is Turning the Yellow Line Splitting Gaza into a Physical Barrier
The Israeli military is turning the yellow line that demarcates the more than half of the Gaza Strip it occupies and controls into a physical border. Analysis of satellite imagery by Forensic Architecture shows that the Israeli military has begun constructing earth berms—large, raised mounds of earth—in areas along the yellow line to create a physical separation between the Palestinian population forced to live in the western half of the enclave, and Israeli forces who occupy the eastern half. Israeli troops withdrew to the yellow line after the so-called ceasefirePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Trump administration weighs naval blockade to halt Cuban oil imports
“Energy is the chokehold to kill the regime,” said one person familiar with the plan who was granted anonymity to describe the private discussions. Deposing the country’s communist government – in power since the Cuban revolution in 1959 – is “100 percent a 2026 event” in the administration’s eyes, this person added. The effort would be justified under the 1994 LIBERTAD Act, better known as the Helms-Burton Act, this person added. That law codifies the U.S. embargo on Cuban trade and financial transactions.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/23/trump-administration-weighs-naval-blockade-to-halt-cuban-oil-imports-00744708

>>2662415
Probably packed up the bags full of oil dollars so they can fuck off to Iraq.

>>2662483
>>2662415
From approx 6 hours ago:
Autonomous Administration sources: SDF and Damascus ceasefire extended
Erbil (Rawdaw) - The Syrian government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have agreed to extend the ceasefire, which ended today.
According to two exclusive Rudaw sources and several other sources, the Syrian government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have agreed to extend the ceasefire.
It is said that the ceasefire has been extended for a month, but another source from Damascus denies this extension.
A senior SDF commander told Rudaw editor Dawran Mahmud, "The ceasefire between us and the Syrian army has been extended for an unknown period of time."
Another responsible source in the Autonomous Administration told Nushin Hameya, editor of Rudaw's Western Kurdistan Desk, that the ceasefire will last for a month starting today.
Two Syrian government sources also spoke to AFP (Agence France-Presse) and announced that the ceasefire extension would be for one month.

The ceasefire between the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Damascus government was declared for four days.
According to that decision, the ceasefire was supposed to end at 8:00 tonight.
This ceasefire is part of a broader understanding between the SDF and the Syrian government. The aim of the extension is to reach an agreement and continue negotiations.
The most important point of the discussions is the future of the inclusion of Kurdish institutions in the province of Al-Hasakah within the Syrian government institutions.
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2661891
why? just for being black?

>>2661884
Thanks for the writeup, anon.

>>2661470
Sometimes Marx comes off as an giga-autist, ngl. The Bolshevik's "Peace, Land, and Bread" slogan was infinitely more effective.

>>2661525
Westoid mods have been consistently removing non-westoid posters for years now. Your super sikrit labor aristocrat leftist forum is secured, don't worry. Mods have been consistently on the side of not growing the userbase, essentially dooming it to forever shrinking into irrevelance BUT having the Western Left Approved (tm) opinions.

>>2661996
He is going to invade and occupy Minessota.

>>2661867
>now be approached through strength
with the new department of war?

kidnapping Xi?

>>2661846
>>2661847
Go to the incel thread

>>2662542
>I mean tbh immigrants dont come out in support of blacks when cops killed George Floyd
How do you know?

>>2662543
We have studies about the protests you know. The only immigrant groups that participated in the protests in sizable numbers are black immigrants from the Carribean and Africa. I'd wager that there are more immigrant *activists* participating in the protests than actual diasporites themselves, especially among upwardly mobile groups like Arabs or Indians

>>2662544
I haven't been able to find those studies.

>>2662545
You can look at Gallup, Pew, and any other meta analysis about participants in the protests. In many cases people with immigration status do not even feature in the studies because they are such a small minority. Like come on man

>>2662546
I am not bullshitting you, I googled "Gallup participation on george floyd protests" and all that showed up were polls about approval. Same thing with Pew, only polls about approval. And the polls about approval show general support among nearly all groups around the time the protests were happening.