/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2896151
elites believe in institutions, common people believe in interpersonal ties. institutions win every single time.
you can see this in the macro scale today: do all the elites governing things have problems? yes. there is some kind of competency crisis.
but are these problems multiplied a thousandfold when a Trump figure comes along and starts breaking things at random to appeal to the coalition of morons and shysters he's put together in the name of the common sense of the common people? a thousand times yes. give me a man who can read a chart but judges character poorly over Trump's remarkable interpersonal aura slammed together with trying to tariff uninhabited territories.

the fundamental flaw of vanguardists is that despite being a would-be elite, the institutions they imagine creating are bad at what they set out to do. but institutions themselves are essential if you want to achieve anything.

>>2896212
if western statisticians are flagrant liars, why would they not pretend to have lower suicide rates? (indeed, there are suspicions that Japan does the opposite, pushing up the "suicide" rate to keep the murder rate low…) without putting forward a methodology and a way of verifying it, why is you saying it's cope any better than me saying that you are coping right now?

if anything, it wouldn't be "cope from western statisticians", it would be bad statistical data from poorer countries. (many African countries GDP figures, for example, consist of a handful of guys guesstimating the numbers based on whatever ad-hoc information they can find, which is often little better than "well, my friend got a job in a factory, so manufacturing must be booming". not because they're malicious or incompetent - in domestic terms they're elites! - but because that's the best their institutions can furnish them with.)

>>2896228

elites don't really believe in institutions so much as they begrudgingly depend on them because it's the only way a small group of people can govern a very large group of people over the long term and the trump figure coming along and the institutional decay is not a random stroke of bad luck, it is an inevitability when the elites become increasingly myopic and eventually come to resent the institutions and view them as unnecessary expenses and limitations of their power. we treat the political elite and the business elite and the intellectual elite as different kinds of elite, but they really are not, they're all composed of ambitious opportunistic ladder-climbers who tend to become more irrational and amoral the higher up the ladder they go and the more their position insulates them from reality. today's eisenhower is tomorrow's trump, the good intelligent forward-thinking leader is a product of the same meritocracy as the bad stupid myopic leader. the fundamental flaw of vanguardists is the fundamental flaw of elitism and meritocracy, which is that they are based on the incorrect assumption that human intelligence and morality are intrinsic qualities of the individual human being which can be isolated by a system of social filters that separate the good people from the bad people and appoint them to positions of power. the truth is, intelligence and morality are just statistics, they aren't intrinsic rpg attributes, they are just a scorecard of a person's past behaviors which can only be determined after the fact and just because a person behaved intelligently and morally in the past is no indication that they will continue to do so in the future. in other words, the entire concept of the elite is a lie, there are no good people to select for and the kinds of people to rise to the top of any kind of social hierarchy are just people who are good at gaming the system and doing or saying whatever it takes to help them rise to a position of greater power, usually the ones who had a headstart by being born into a position of great privilege to begin with.

>>2896059
Ok thanks for this. Have a nice Oakeshott for your effortpost.

>>2896370
basically a very good post. I think you underrate how effectively institutions can select for good people to some extent, though in the long run you get an arms race between selection criteria and goodhart's law. (a measure that becomes a target stops being a good measure)

still, I think a degenerated elite institution type model is better than the cult leader or big man model of governance. (though undermining this slightly is, as you note, the problem that many elites don't believe in their own institutions, they just want what they can get..)

>>2896827
>I think a degenerated elite institution type model is better than the cult leader or big man model of governance.

well the problem is the former tends to easily turn into the latter, all it takes is an erosion of public trust in the elites and one charismatic leader to bring down the republic and history has very clearly demonstrated this pattern over and over again.

Nonprofit sues over US push to auction areas of water around American Samoa for potential mining
It noted that the U.S. plans to sell leases with the intention of allowing mining across some 33 million acres (13.4 million hectares) of seabed off American Samoa that is rich in minerals including nickel, cobalt and manganese that are used to build batteries, electronics and other products. The lawsuit stated that the U.S. first must ensure that such activity will not destroy critical habitats or push species closer to extinction.
https://apnews.com/article/us-sued-deep-sea-mining-earthjustice-american-samoa-ca8adde08a645e0471a017e98c645836

Senate Democrats question USDA about data errors, staff losses
Six senators, led by Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, sent a ​letter to USDA Deputy Under Secretary Michelle Bekkering seeking details about USDA's data procedures amid growing concerns ​among farmers, grain merchants and investors about market-moving data produced by the agency.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/senate-democrats-question-usda-about-data-errors-staff-losses-2026-08-20/

Man suffered brain injury and severe bruising after ICE arrest in Virginia, records show
José Mejía Hernández, 45, was walking to a bus stop in Arlington on the morning of 11 August when two agents got out of an unmarked vehicle and started chasing him, according to one of his lawyers, Margaret Hellerstein. The man recalled being hit by some kind of stun gun, but did not remember what happened after that, only waking up hours later in the hospital, Hellerstein said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/20/ice-arrest-brain-injury-virginia

‘It kept adding up’: how add-on utility fees can lead to eviction for tenants
For more affluent tenants, Rubs can be an uPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

(TrueAnon )Episode 571: Drugs and Thugs
We are joined by Jack Poulson to talk about a little-known State Department agency that is sending machine guns to Ukraine, hiring mercenaries in Mexico, and selling AI to Colombia.
Read Covert Action Diplomacy by Jack Poulson (https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/covert-action-diplomacy)
https://www.patreon.com/TrueAnonPod/posts/episode-571-and-167200550

AOC and Mamdani Should Stop Throwing the Black Lives Matter Movement Under the Bus
In 2020, a record number of people across the United States took to the streets in the movement for Black lives, demanding justice for George Floyd and victims of police violence. Last week, two of the country’s most popular progressives — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — threw this historic movement under the bus. Speaking to ABC, AOC said that, “Woke 1 was crazy” — a phrase attributed to a tweet by New York City Council member Chi Ossé, referencing his social media posts from 2020. Days later, Mamdani more explicitly repudiated a key demand of the uprising, saying: “I’ve made very clear that I do not believe in defunding the police.” But what’s actually “crazy” is calling yourself a socialist while believing in peaceful coexistence with the police.
https://www.leftvoice.org/aoc-mamdani-woke-1/

( 1995) Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm part 1: Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism by Murray Bookchin
This short work was written to deal with the fact that anarchism stands at a turning point in its long and turbulent history. At a time when popular distrust of the state has reached extraordinary proportions in many countries; when the division of society among a handful of opulently wealthy individuals and corporations contrasts sharply with the growing impoverishment of millions of people on a scale unprecedented since the Great Depression decade; when the intensity of exploitation has forced people in growing numbers to accept a work week of a length typical of the Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2895982
I am not a Bot, a Fed, or a Troll, I have been posting on this website since May 2020, I have a very unique eccentric/eclectic posting style (ie. The cute Emojis, Random Capitalization, run on sentences, etc.), I uphold the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Highest Stage of Marxism, with the caveat that I believe that Maoist PPW will not be viable in the Material Conditions of the Imperial Core (Maoist PPW is currently viable in the Material Conditions of the Periphery/Semi-Periphery as proven by the ongoing Maoist PPWs in India, the Philippines, Turkey and Peru) as long as Liberal Bourgeois Democracy exists and/or World War III has not started, with Social Democracy being the only viable Praxis in the Imperial Core until either the suspension of Liberal Bourgeois Democracy and/or the outbreak of World War III (both of these events are related and will probably happen around the same time), which is why I vote for Democrats as a Lesser Evil to the Crypto-Fascist Christian Zionist Nationalist MAGAtard Republicans and support AOC for President in 2028, and finally I am very serious that during the Worldwide Maoist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the future Global USSR all Women will be forced to have really Short Hair (at least a Chin-length Bob cut or preferably a Pixie cut) and wear Mao suits in order to reject the aesthetics of Bourgeois Femininity (ie. Long Hair, Dresses/Skirts, Makeup/Lipstick, etc. which promote being a Weak, Dependent, Controlled “Object” that is dominated by Men) and the Reactionary Patriarchal Gender Binary and embrace the aesthetics of Proletarian Masculinity (Short Hair and Mao suits, which promote being a Strong, Independent/Autonomous, Liberated “Subject” that is equal to Men) in order to become Liberated Socialist Women, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️ 💇‍♀️👩‍🦲!

>>2896004
I uphold the Dialectical Materialist stance on the Biological Concept of Race (ie. Races are the Genetic Clines of various heritable Physical Characteristics (ie. Nasal Index humanphenotypes.net/metrics/nasalindex.html , Cephalic index humanphenotypes.net/metrics/cephalicindex.html , Facial Index humanphenotypes.net/metrics/facialindex.html , Skin Color, Eye Color, Hair Color, Hair Texture, Epicanthic Fold, etc.) and AutosomaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2895982
>I really don't understand this "King Lear" entity
you can safely ignore the Zionist schizo

the californian is obsessed with aesthetics
of course

>>2545468
You are cattle.

>>2896664
Why do you say that about me and my Dialectical Materialist Marxist-Leninist-Maoist masterpiece effort post on the “Aesthetics of Communism”, Comrade, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️💇‍♀️👩‍🦲🤔?

Yes this is an islamo third worldist thread

>>2896698
>global south
When did poor shitholes start calling themselves this? Was being third-worlders too humiliating?

english is a fag language that must be destroyed. i am skull face

>>2843382
Wrong. I bet you were all like "tee hee :^)" when posting this too.

>>2863196
this is great!

English is already being changed by every generation o algo. Now we speak by adding memes bruh and ebonics fo real and gen z slang is being added as well no cap. Its improving every year ya kuch aur.

Lead rhymes with read
Read rhymes with lead
But lead doesn't rhyme with read
Neither does read with lead

>>2892514
That would be Hungary and the Czech Republic

>>2893172
Literally just use AMD

>>2892982
בולבול שחור וגדול

>>2892193
Raid shadow legends has basically jack all fanart or fanfics so you know it's spiritually israeli

>>2895211
You can't AC your way out of climate change my scientifically illiterate friend.

>>2895331
As much as pretty much everyone else

>>2895331
>>2895932
I mean, at least you’re going to get some Gulfoif to start some geoengineering project to deal with the heat and then we’ll see what happens next, for better or worse.

>>2895331
Tell your wealthy government to start geoengineering now

>>2896175
So they can collapse the food chains faster? No thanks.

>>2896435
source?

>>2896448
>we shouldn't support unions to maintain 8hr work day
Who is saying this?

>>2895962
Based.

>>2896489
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>>2890834
this is a good sabo post, i was sad (and mad) when you yelled at me for being mean to the burger troops.

neutralpedos are we really posting on here GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG

>>2890803
Delaware also used to be a Swedish colony.

>>2888716
The fact that the America's manufacturing industry is so rent-sought makes me doubt this. The US can't build anything and won't be able to until the current financier class is removed or reigned in.

The avarage american doesn't have anything to do with your shitty turd world culture and low trust society

>>2893413
Read Wang Ming

>>2894815
ok hitler

>>2894908
Credit crisis/inflation/fuel embargo/TOPTF, the crisis in part set the stage for Reaganite make believe anything goes voodoo economics.

>>2893417
> Yeah those corporations didn't compete in a free market
The world was then and has been since the the end of WW2, a socialist world. Socialist as Marx understood it. Yeah because allocation by markets and profitability doesn't matter anymore or matters very little in allocation of production. The allocation of resources is all centrally planned and about if the company useful to the elite and their state apparatus, if they are they can stay and grow and they never even need to be profitable, because they get propped up by the state through various channels and associated insiders, if you are not or you don't matter you just float there and die off with the next economic shock. Markets and profitability don't matter, nor do companies live or die by it. That's why there are multi billion dollar unprofitable companies floating around at the top of the economy. Doesn't look like capitalism to me. It's all just state socialism everywhere with different goals. USSR was just a one big corporation with the goal of ensuring russia's et al. survival, industrializing and expanding productive forces, with the party at the head doing all the same things that a sovereign Russian liberal government would have done in their place, with maybe a small smidgeon of humanity, piece of the pie and dignity left to the workers under communism. Mutt and wider western bourgeoisie socialism is just there to keep the society itself from collapsing, proles down and the old age old families and social order in power. The existing social pyramid is justified with a story of competition in the free market and a thin veneer of pretense capitalism. The meme you people keep falling for.

China and the west look the same because they are the same fundamentally. China just has more economic freedom of movement, less gunk and less intermediate steps, in the systems gears and the elites understand the game better. While the west is in terminal collapse and the ideological bourgeoisie/elite is hellbent in wrecking their systems for the sake of appearances and their own personal appearance of power and of them still being relevant and at the top of the world power instead of accepting reality and reforming politically.

>>2896479
>The world was then and has been since the the end of WW2, a socialist world. Socialist as Marx understood it. Yeah because allocation by markets and profitability doesn't matter anymore or matters very little in allocation of production. The allocation of resources is all centrally planned and about if the company useful to the elite and their state apparatus, if they are they can stay and grow and they never even need to be profitable, because they get propped up by the state through various channels and associated insiders, if you are not or you don't matter you just float there and die off with the next economic shock. Markets and profitability don't matter, nor do companies live or die by it. That's why there are multi billion dollar unprofitable companies floating around at the top of the economy. Doesn't look like capitalism to me. It's all just state socialism everywhere with different goals.

What you call "socialist" in Marxist theory is called monopoly capitalism. Socialism as Marx understands it is when the worker's control the means of production.

In Marxist theory, competition is merely a phase before accumulation takes place. After that comes monopoly capitalism (and imperialism). Your are correct in your analysis that competition is not that important today in capitalism and that everything is controlled by monopolies. But you confuse that with socialism for some reason.

>China and the west look the same because they are the same fundamentally.
You are not qualified to make that determination. You don't even know what socialism is in Marxist theory. China and the west are not the same.