/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>1294916
a simple 'yes' would have done it

>>1294924
Ok ok it wasn't quite 25 guys but still

>>1294927
all fine. i'm just pretty thin skinned when it comes to historical relativism regarding nazi germany.
especially since krautland and europe are taking the speed way to hell right now

>>1296075
Scared the shit out of me. Got it at 10:59, precocious alarm system. 💦

we know the Hitlerites wanted to ethnically cleanse the East, and they did so to the tune of 27 million or so Soviet peoples. fortunately they were stopped

Australia has had:
NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (23 November was fourth walk-off this year, 24hr strike)
Australian Nursing Federation - WA Nurses walk-off on 24 November, 3000 march to WA Parliament ("first [strike] in 24 years", "Western Australia's Industrial Relations Commission orders the state's nurses to call off planned industrial action – an instruction that will almost certainly be ignored.")
Rail, Tram and Bus Union running train strikes in NSW (months-long action may have ended last week in victory)
Transport Workers Union - Adelaide bus drivers "could strike over Christmas", ballot closes 20 December.
United Firefighters Union - Cancelled strike planned for 9 December due to successful bargaining.
Flight Attendants' Association of Australia - "99 per cent of votes received were in favour of industrial [24hr strike] action" against Qantas Airways in late November, no strike date announced.
Maritime Union Australia - Employees locked out of Svitzer tug boats in mid-November in an "escalating industrial dispute". "The company said the union action has resulted in 250 instances of industrial action since late October, amounting to 2,000 hours of work stoppages."
Australian Workers Union - Taronga Western Plains Zoo went on strike 17 November.
National Tertiary Education Union - News report says "Staff at five Queensland universities to take industrial action" in mid-November
United Workers Union - Pampas Pastry Factory started "indefinite strike" on 28 November.
United Workers Union - Tasmanian state service workers including teachers, "Thousands […] have walked off the job in the biggest coordinated industrial action in the state since 2019." 10th November.

That's just in the last month.

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>>1295829
fuark yeah

>>1281212
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>>1281230
It's supposed to be smoke - ie. the country has been bombed and is on fire

"there is no ethical consumption under capitalism"
At what point does this argument still stands?

why did Stalin choose to fail and decided to create all those separate republics like China, Poland, Germany, Romania etc etc, why not immediately integrate them as SSR's?

>>1292827
>reductio ad hitlerum
Godwin's Law has been suspended for the duration of the fascist emergency
https://gizmodo.com/godwin-of-godwins-law-by-all-means-compare-these-shi-1797807646
Inter arma enim silent leges

Is it true that this photo was produced based on >>1295767
after 1930? Most websites don't cite anything and others cite Wikipedia which itself cites nothing.
As far as I know, the one and only source is "the Commissar Vanishes" by David King, but that book cites absolutely nothing for either the photo or for the information (him getting shot in 1930/getting erased from the photo).
The book uses that 4-panel image of Stalin, Kirov, and two others at a table on its cover, which is really suspicious considering that image is extremely dishonest. only one person in that photo was actually purged and the other two images are completely unrelated: one was a photo included in one single history book that cropped the others out because they wanted to focus on Stalin and Kirov, and the other was just a random artist a decade before the purge who used the photo as a reference. Neither were pretending to "rewrite history". The one that only has Kirov and Stalin was literally produced while one of the cropped figures was still alive and in a high post. So already the book seems silly, let alone that it claims Malchenko was shot in 1930 with zero sources.

>>1295205
TYBNA

The parliament has tried 3 times this year to impeach Castillo rather than govern.

His predecessor Fujimori also dissolved parliament, but he was a conservative, so it was fine and democratic to dissolve the parliament then.


Peru's Leader Dissolves Congress 1992 - NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/06/world/peru-s-leader-dissolves-congress.html

>President Alberto Fujimori announced Sunday night that he was dissolving congress and suspending the constitution. Troops in armored personnel carriers took to the capital's main thoroughfares.

>Mr. Fujimori has been hamstrung in his reform efforts by a hostile congress. Mr. Fujimori announced the moves in a surprise 22-minute television address, saying he was ordering them as Commander in Chief of the military in the name of guaranteeing order and preserving democracy.

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The goverment of exception already fell so…
TYBNA

Rail workers warn of exodus after Congress forces through deal
Those who were holding out hope for a strong contract might look for a new job after the deal failed to provide paid sick leave or put an end to strict attendance policies and strenuous schedules that require workers to be on call constantly, rail workers say. “I don’t think you’ll just see half of the workforce disappear, but you’ll see a good percentage, and we can’t afford for anybody to leave because we’re so undermanned as it is,” said Hugh Sawyer, an Atlanta-based engineer at Norfolk Southern.
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-lobbying/3762605-no-paid-sick-leave-could-spur-rail-worker-exodus-that-ripples-across-economy/
https://archive.ph/9dFXa

New York Times Union Workers Planning Dec. 8 Walkout, Rally Over Pay
Over 1,000 New York Times workers are planning a full-day walkout and afternoon rally on Thursday, December 8 amid ongoing negotiations with newspaper management about pay and healthcare contributions. Times Guild members, represented by the NewsGuild of New York, are pushing for a $65,000 salary floor and "funding employees' health insurance sustainably."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/07/new-york-times-union-workers-planning-dec-8-walkout-rally-over-pay

'Monumental Victory': Manchin's Industry-Backed Permitting Reform Defeated Again
Progressive lawmakers in Congress and outside environmental campaigners celebrated a defensive victory overnight and into Wednesday after a much-maligned oil and gas industry giveaway was left out of the major military NDAA spending bill introduced for passage in the U.S. House.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/07/monumental-victory-manchins-industry-backed-permitting-reform-defeated-again

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Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands: Right-wing propaganda disguised as historical scholarship — Part Four
Perhaps the most disturbing component of the relativization of the crimes of fascism in Bloodlands is Timothy Snyder’s systematic distortions of the Nazi-led genocide of six million European Jews. For all the detailed descriptions of gassings and mass shootings in Bloodlands, Snyder offers the most systematic right-wing historical revision of the established understanding of the crimes of fascism in decades, outstripping anything that Ernst Nolte dared to do in the late 1980s.  Snyder persistently downplays the persecution of the Jewish population of Western and Southeastern Europe by the Nazis. The murder of Dutch, French, Greek and Yugoslav Jews, as well as the annihilation of Hungary’s Jewish community of half a million people, are mentioned in a few sentences, if at all. Other victims of the genocidal policies by the Nazis are all but ignored as well. The systematic mass murder of an estimated 200,000 mentally ill and handicapped people, first in Nazi Germany and then in occupied Europe, is skipped over by Snyder in a single paragraph. The genocide of between a quarter and half a million European Sinti and Roma is not mentioned at all. 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/06/lyom-d06.html

France’s Most Degrading Talk Show Is Promoting Far-Right Politics
If you had to imagine what France’s most-watched TV talk show looks like, you might think of something resembling the high-brow discussions hosted on the nation’s public airwaves — a place where guests debate topics like the legacy of Chopin, the future of EU integration, or the shifting depictions of the American dream in the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The reality is much grimmer. According to ratings, France’s most popular talk show is a two-hour sludge of infotainment where topics are selected according to their traction on social media and their capacity for provocation. Typically, these range from a potpourri of pop culture happenings and blood-curdling crimes to trends on TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram with just a smidge of political news: welcome to the world of Touche Pas à Mon Poste! (literally “Don’t Touch My TV Set!” in English, a pun on the anti-racist slogan Touche Pas à Mon Pote!, “Don’t Touch My Pal!”)Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>1294728
Just make sure you know proper lifting technique and don't fuck up your back.

>>1294733
Yeah, those or certain family-run [or in rare cases just normal small well-run] businesses that don't want shitty customers. Rare gems.

see also: https://teddit.net/r/IDontWorkHereLady/top?t=all
People who don't even work at a place getting shitty customers treating them like slaves employees.

>>1294737
>I just went to the shops cause nobody cares as long as long as I deliver my target
This.
I've been fortunate enough to have office jobs where you're judged on whether you do your work, rather than burning yourself out. I've also heard many charities are just better work environments. I assume the people running it probably value human beings more so long as it's not a scam place.

>>1294748
Black Friday Matters

>>1294737
thanks for the idea I will have a look into working for charities.

>>1294069
>no culture
eille mon cabochon, mange don un char de marde

>>1294311
anglo canadians have no culture.

The fact that canada has a large french speaking minority doesn't really change much. America has a large spanish speaking minority, the only difference is french speakers in canada have more rights in law than spanish speaker in america

>>1294311
Just speaking French doesn't except you from the capitalist consumerism and its corrosive effects on culture. Quebec has the same monoculture as the rest, just in French.

what's worse: CPC or CPC-ML

>>1288038
>What are the implications of services like ChatGPT for AI-assisted writing
IMO Amazing. Could be a huge boost in creativity, alleviating writers block. Same with shit like Dall-E. Really good.

>coding
None at the moment. The implications at this point are that it is unfeasible to write code. It is at best a good "buddy" to ask questions to regarding programming stuff, but this shit can't write code for you. Software engineering is a delicate, precise, but also a social activity. Ask any software engineer, programming is the easy part, it's the other stuff that is hard.

>>1294509
That was basically just one guy working in the department, everybody else said he was full of shit
>inb4 but that's just what Google wants you to think

If Google had an AI that actually qualified for personhood they'd be exploiting the fuck out of it for publicity while doing the Elon Musk strategy of laughing off ethical concerns

>>1295366
this

>>1294509
>When inevitably AIs become [snip] almost indistinguishable from humans, [imitating] emotions and feelings, would you still consider them as [automatons without human needs]?
Yes.

It is not economically viable to make robots like humans. Why would you give a computer program the limitations of animals? Why would any owner want a labour machine to be able to fight against them?

Also, and I cannot stress it enough, this: >>1295366

>>1294214
>after Petro announced plans to name dozens of youths as peace managers, paving the way for their release. Petro, Colombia's first leftist president who took power in August, promised in his campaign earlier this year to release dozens of young people prosecuted and imprisoned for participating in demonstrations in 2021.
Basado

Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands: Right-wing propaganda disguised as historical scholarship — Part Three
The real political purpose of Snyder’s false equations of Stalinism with communism, and of the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany, is revealed in his account of World War II. In Bloodlands, the Nazi war of annihilation and the crimes of Hitler’s Wehrmacht are systematically trivialized and relativized as a “reaction” to, or as part of, an “interaction” with violence from the Soviet side. The Nazis attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, launching the bloodiest war in human history. The estimated death toll among the Soviet population is 27 million, but may well have been higher. The war also marked a critical turning point in the development of the Nazis’ genocide of the European Jews. Within less than two years after the beginning of the Nazi-Soviet war, almost the entire Jewish population of Eastern Europe had been murdered. The falsifications and omissions with regard to the Nazi-Soviet war in Bloodlands are of the most fundamental character. It is impossible to enumerate them all. Let the reader be reminded that over half of the victims of the Nazi-Soviet war do not even figure in Bloodlands as part of the death toll of the Nazi regime. Some of the most important chapters in the history of this war are effectively ignored. This includes the battle of Stalingrad, which led to the first major defeat of a German army, in February 1943, and is widely seen as the beginning of the end of the Third Reich.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/05/vcct-d05.html

From the Progressive Era to Today, Employers Have Always Been Petty Dictators:Review of The Bosses’ Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor Before the New Deal, by Vilja Huldon (University of Illinois Press, 2023)
Victims and observers of today’s ruthless anti-union employers will profit from reading Vilja Hulden’s deeply researched, well-written book about early twentieth-century bosses and their powerful organizations. Her new study, focusing on both national developments and local case studies, reminds us that the contemporary ruling class owes much to earlier generations of elites who practiced some of the same detestable deeds: refusing to recognize unions, firing labor organizers, and pitting unionists against anPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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TYBNA

President Castillo Installs a 'Government of Exception' in Peru
On Wednesday, President Pedro Castillo decreed the temporary dissolution of Congress and established an "Emergency Government" that will rule Peru in the coming months while the judiciary and electoral powers are restructured.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/President-Castillo-Installs-a-Government-of-Exception-in-Peru-20221207-0009.html

>>1295045
The parliament has tried 3 times this year to impeach him rather than govern.

His predecessor Fujimori also dissolved parliament, but he was a conservative, so it was fine and democratic to dissolve the parliament then.


Peru's Leader Dissolves Congress 1992 - NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/06/world/peru-s-leader-dissolves-congress.html

>President Alberto Fujimori announced Sunday night that he was dissolving congress and suspending the constitution. Troops in armored personnel carriers took to the capital's main thoroughfares.

>Mr. Fujimori has been hamstrung in his reform efforts by a hostile congress. Mr. Fujimori announced the moves in a surprise 22-minute television address, saying he was ordering them as Commander in Chief of the military in the name of guaranteeing order and preserving democracy.

>Some analysts say paramilitary violence – the rightist response to the rebel Shining Path guerrilla movement – poses as great a threat as the Maoist-inspirted insurgents.

>His leftist opponents in congress contend that by cutting social spending the president is aiding the Shining Path in its recruitment efforts.

>>1294763
what does t. means

>>1294791
oh thank you, finally after many years of using it I know know.

>>1294778
tbinlan