/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

The question of why Trump’s Iran war hasn’t sparked a wave of anti-war protest music is actually very simple.

The overall American left has been stuck when it comes to effective anti-war activism. The way the US does war nowadays isn’t Vietnam but El Salvador: instead of sending in a bajillion troops to invade/occupy the US just funds proxy armies and now uses drone/aerial warfare. That’s what Obama did in Syria last decade, for instance.

The anti-war music we’re all used to was very much a product of the 60s New Left, and there was no 60s New Left without the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War. The youth were afraid of being drafted into a bullshit war that the U.S. couldn’t win. But we don’t see mass boots on the ground today, and because of that, we don’t see a mass response to war in the cultural realm. In order for Billie Eilish to be “John Lennon”, Iran needs to be Vietnam (Gd forbid). In order for Kehlani to make a “What’s Going On?” or a “Someday We’ll All Be Free” Iran needs to be Vietnam. The war needs to conform to a method of warfare that the left knows how to effectively oppose. It’s morbid and disgusting but that’s sadly the case.

And assuming the “woke” pop stars make music in response to this conflict, what will it contain? It won’t be universalist anti-war or anti-imperialist anthems but centre entirely on “I hate Trump, this war is about Epstein, AIPAC bad”. Will be highly dated in three years once Trump and his goons leave office.

Were the fashies triggered by him depicting them accurately in Salo, therefore they went out of their way to prove him right by abducting, torturing, and murdering him? Or was he just a libtard bourgeois film maker making exploitative torture porn and got killed completely randomly?

Interested in what y'alls various takes are.

post simple images that utterly blow the fuck out of liberals and fascists.

I know trading theory is important and all, but sometimes I just want to show a retard total proof in a single image

‘Stop sucking up to America’: Japan’s youth rises up to protect pacifist constitution
On Sunday, an estimated 36,000 people squeezed on to narrow paths in front of the National Diet – Japan’s parliament – to call for an immediate end to the Iran war and to keep the country’s “pacifist” constitution intact. The event was the latest in a wave of protests that are attracting people in greater numbers each time. An estimated 3,600 people demonstrated in late February, swelling to 24,000 by late March, culminating in this weekend’s huge turnout.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/japan-youth-pacifist-constitution-trump-iran

The head of Myanmar’s army-backed government proposes new peace talks with armed resistance groups
Nay Phone Latt, a spokesperson for the National Unity Government, the main group coordinating opposition to military rule, said Tuesday that it and the People’s Defense Force units under its command would continue to fight alongside other resistance forces until their goals are achieved. “We all already understood that the military’s fake invitations are aimed at prolonging people’s subjugation under military rule,” Nay Phone Latt said.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-ethnic-armed-groups-peoples-defense-force-peace-ceasefire-db8959bd9d90158b6b3e1b8e56a82f7f

Pakistan delivers weapons to Libya's Haftar as part of Saudi-financed deal, sources say
A second official confirmed that the shipments from Pakistan had taken place, but did not say what type of arms were provided. Reuters first reported that Haftar’s eastern-based government had sealed a $4bn arms deal with Pakistan - the country’s largest - following a trip in December to Benghazi by Pakistan's army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir. The delivery of Pakistani arms to Libya has not been previously reported, but comes against the backdrop of rising skepticism about the fate of other Pakistani arms deals in Africa.
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The PRC hasn't been keen on defending even their own interests, let alone supporting communist movements or even the Global South.
In fact, they've supported a bunch of regimes that have crushed or have intended to crush communist insurgencies.
Can you imagine a militant Japan or a starving Cuba if the Soviets existed today?

Israel has killed Catholic priests, destroyed statues of Jesus Christ in a Maronite Christian village in Southern Lebanon, there was one video originating from the West Bank of a boy no older than 5 or 6 years old where an IDF soldier unzips his pants and sticks the boy's head near his crotch, a strike killed father Pierre Al Rahi, in November 2024, Israeli soldiers from the Golani Brigade desecrated the St. Mema church in the Christian village of Deir Mimas, southern Lebanon (soldiers staged a mock wedding ceremony, danced, and simulated sex acts inside the church), Armenian Christians in Israel are attacked by Jewish extremists, Armenian Christians in Lebanon are teaming up with Hezbollah to fight Israel in Lebanon, and even though Iran is an Islamic country, they are allied with Orthodox Armenia who Israel genocided through their support of Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh War. There was one church in Lebanon that was destroyed by Israel in 2024. In 2025, Israel desecrated a church in Sarada in Lebanon. 10 Americans were killed in the West Bank by Israel over the last years with zero accountability by the Israeli government.

On October 7, 2023 Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis in a low-tech invasion of Israel after the 2018-19 Gaza border protests where Israel used live ammunition on protesters, killing 223 protesters (including 46 children), and injured 9,204 others (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–2019_Gaza_border_protests), then that lead to the clashes in 2019 where Palestinian rockets killed 4 people inside Israel (source: https://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-05/06/c_138036325_13.htm). Prior, from 2008-2018 after the security checkpoints were set up in Gaza and the border wall with the West Bank following the Second Intifada, until 10 years later, only 30 were killed by rocket fire(source: https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/258177344/#q258177344). This lead to the 2021 Israel-Palestine crisis where 14 Israelis were killed, 114 wounded, 1 soldier killed, 3 wounded, 1 aerial drone was destroyed in friendly fire, 2 Jewish Israelis were killed in Lod & Acre riots, and 2 soldiers wounded, 6 border police injured inPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Unironically using the word geopolitics for example.
https://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/1/001/008/009/600.htm
Geopolitics is a bourgeois, reactionary concept that uses distorted interpretations of physical and economic geography to justify and promote the aggressive policies of imperialist states. Geopolitics's core ideas assert the decisive role of physical and geographical conditions in the life of human society and the inequality of races (see Racism). The theories of Social Darwinism (see Social Darwinism) and Malthusianism (see Malthusianism) are also used. Geopoliticians make extensive use of the concepts of "living space," "natural boundaries," and geographic location to justify militarism and wars of conquest.

The concept of geopolitics arose during the period of imperialism. The first representatives of geopolitics were the Swedish political scientist and pan-Germanist R. Kjellén, who proposed the term "geopolitics" during the First World War (1914-1918) (as a doctrine of the state - a geographical and biological organism striving for expansion), the German geographer F. Ratzel, the English geographer H. Mackinder, the American admiral A. T. Mahan. In the period between the two world wars, geopolitics was intensively cultivated in Germany. Geopolitics became the official doctrine of German fascism. The head of the German geopoliticians was General K. Haushofer, the founder and editor (in 1924-44) of the journal "Zeitschrift für Geopolitik" ("Zeitschrift für Geopolitik"), which promoted the ideas of revanchism and aggression; K. Haushofer was closely connected with the leadership of the fascist party. In the United States in the 1940s. Geopolitics' ideas were developed by N. Speakman and other geographers and sociologists.

After World War II (1939–45), geopolitics began to revive in the United States, West Germany, and other imperialist states to justify the militarization of their countries, aggressive policies, and ideas of revanchism directed against socialist countries and national liberation movements. In West Germany, the journal "Zeitschrift für Geopolitik" was republished in 1951; the "Union of Geopolitics" was revived. Contemporary geopoliticians attempt to explain the contrast between socialist and capitalist countries by geographic factors.

Colombia convenes climate ‘coalition of the willing’ to break global fossil fuel deadlock
While 54 countries have confirmed their attendance at the conference, some of the world’s biggest economies and biggest polluters, including the US, China, India, Russia and the Gulf petro states, will be missing. “Whatever nations have not yet taken that decision, then this is not the space for them. We are not going to have boycotters or climate denialists at the table,” Vélez said.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/17/colombia-convenes-climate-coalition-of-the-willing-to-break-global-fossil-fuel-deadlock

Venezuelan Gov’t Resumes IMF, World Bank Ties, Appoints New Central Bank President
On Thursday, Venezuelan authorities additionally announced a change in the Central Bank leadership, with Luis Pérez replacing Laura Guerra as president of the institution. Guerra had been appointed to the post in April 2025 by Maduro. Pérez is an economist who had served on the BCV board of directors since 2018. In his social media profile, he describes himself as a cryptocurrency enthusiast. .. . .
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-govt-resumes-imf-world-bank-ties-appoints-new-central-bank-president/

Argentina's government counts 9,421 people living on streets across 19 provinces
It found that 83 percent of those living on the streets were male, with the resulting 17 percent female. By age, 92 percent were aged 18 or over, with six percent classified as minors. Of those quizzed, 32 percent had been homeless for more than two years. Denying them access to public services, 10 percent did not hold a national identity document (DNI). Fifty-two percent of respondents had completed primary school but did not finish secondary education.
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I don't know which board this belongs to. Brutalism or functionalism has been the main architectural choice for most of the Eastern Bloc nations, I've enjoyed it for its utility but also thought of the prospect of elegance and appeal so I did some searching looking for any compromise between it and my other favorite styles - baroque and gothic and it seems like at some point galician baroque had a brutalist turn on its own accord as seen in Santa Clara Convent in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, by Simon Rodriguez (1719).
I am primarily interested in this because my organization wants to have its own office & offices at some point, right now all we've got is an apartment space used for storage and our own personal homes / apartments. I want something functional yet plausible from an aesthetic point of view.
Panel structures are not really plausible anymore - panels are no longer produced since the privatization of the industry, had it been an option we would've just settled for our own panel bloc.

Feel free to use this as an architecture general, but I'm trying to find some achievable examples of good looking buildings. I am beyond tired of shitty squats that refuse to remodel in fear that they might end up being lost anyway.
Very fond of pyramids in peculiar, as most people know pyramids are the most structurally sound and therefore stable structures that can last eons regardless of all sorts of disasters.

Chapter 15 sucks. I thought it wasn't supposed be an appeal to morality? Recurring in several parts of the text but chapter 15 especially is a pure slog.