/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2919766
>I don't know how you could have direct democracy in a sprawling industrial society that requires highly specialized knowledge
This is an argument against democracy in general, not just against direct democracy as opposed to representative democracy (same as picrel, I fucking hate this image). The only requirement for being a professional politician is being of age and getting elected. Might as well have a technocracy if you're concerned about the competence of the people voting for this or that law.

Direct democracy would probably just mean replacing the current parliaments of the world with citizens elected by way of sortition. Of course, we would also want a dictatorship of the proletariat along with that.

>>2919869
This is funny because it's the literal argument for aristocracy from the man himself, the ship of state.

>>2919728
Direct democracy is just like gang rape.
Representarive democracy is just like oligarchy.

Why many leftist don't like Transhumanism?

>>2919869
>The only requirement for being a professional politician is being of age and getting elected. Might as well have a technocracy if you're concerned about the competence of the people voting for this or that law.
Yeah this. Politicians are making decisions about just about any topic.

>>2885990

Угу: >>2885996

ладно, не проголосую

https://www.bbc.com/russian/articles/c0qv3qpqv25o

>>2885388
Cute Yuno

Yunocchi

Votes status?

>>2912223
>we're gonna starve you until old women are expiring on piles of garbage on the streets

>this is proof of your evil and/or incompetence. Ignore the contradiction in terms.

Death to the burgerreich

cuba won

>>2889375
>So the whole "China isn't helping!" bit was bullshit?
duh.

>>2920605 Genuinely horrific.

US weighs new limits on Cuban travel at the UN as Havana decries Trump’s economic squeeze
Even as a sizable Cuban delegation was approved to come to the U.N. General Assembly this week, the State Department is now weighing “strict controls” on the officials who plan to return next month for an annual U.N. vote on the decadeslong U.S. economic embargo on Cuba.
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-oil-embargo-united-nations-trump-cdf46e89c7b33077efd0d8d31e265c18

Senate narrowly votes down resolution calling for end to Iran war
All but four Republicans voted against the measure despite concerns that GOP candidates will face fallout in November’s midterm elections from the war’s economic costs. Some Republicans running in tight races have recently broken with President Donald Trump and called for an end to the war to bring gas prices down, a sign of potential voter discontent over the war’s impact on the economy. The Republicans who voted for the resolution were Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Maine’s Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Rand Paul of Kentucky. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the lone Democrat to vote against it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/24/iran-war-powers-senate-vote-fuel.html

Marking One Year of NSPM-7, Rights Advocates Call On Congress to Rein In FBI’s Spying Capabilities
The 19-page report, titled “7Can the FBI Spy on the First Amendment?,” was sent to every congressional office by the advocacy group Defending Rights and Dissent (DRAD), exactly a year after the president signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) in the wake of the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fbi-national-security

Federal court says Pentagon can label Anthropic a supply chain risk
The decision allows the Pentagon to continue to remove Anthropic’s Claude models from its systems and bar the use of its products for Defense Department work. Judges from the U.S. Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

(Chapo Trap House)1073 - Unsafe, Illegal, and Common feat. Kylie Cheung (9/21/26)
Journalist and author Kylie Cheung joins us for a survey of abortion rights in the post-Dobbs landscape. We discuss the anti-abortion surveillance state, the medical establishment’s failure to meet the moment, and the right’s construction of a broadly pro-rape politics. We also discuss the Democratic Party’s failures in protecting abortion and their continual usage of reproductive rights to hold voters hostage despite funding genocide—including genocide of pregnant women—abroad.
https://podbay.fm/p/chapo-trap-house/e/1790054513

A Union Feud Shouldn’t Sink California’s Billionaire Tax
While much of the discourse around Prop 40 has understandably been devoted to what it means to tax the billionaires, it is saving Medi-Cal — and not some vague notion of “punishing the rich” — that is the central purpose of the initiative. However, rather than support this pragmatic solution to a looming crisis, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California has officially remained neutral on the initiative, which was put forth by one of their own member unions, SEIU United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW). Now investigations commissioned by SEIU California and the international union allege that SEIU-UHW’s president, Dave Regan, the man widely acknowledged as the architect of the tax, has attempted to “extort” support for Prop 40 from them, according to the inflammatory headline in the Los Angeles Times, a newspaper owned by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong. Coming less than two months before the election in November, the allegations against Regan bear all the hallmarks of a politically timed campaign — an attempt to chip away at Prop 40’s popularity. Now SEIU will have to decide which path to take: save health care coverage for nearly fifteen million Californians, or surrender to the billionaires. The key allegations against Regan are that he attempted to “extort” support for Prop 40 from SEIU California by threatening to investigate governance issues at the state council, and that this action was part of a pattern of “bullying,” directed at women in particular. At issue are Regan’s interactions with SEIU California’s then president, David Huerta, and its executive director, Tia Orr, who claims Regan attemptedPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2917597
> Is leaving the US behind the cowards way out?
Maybe you shouldn't take responsibility over entire countries. Focus on your own life and do what you can for the revolution.

>>2917620
>common white monkey makes over 3000$ still.
Surprisingly high considering how little locals make.

>>2919702

yeah avg person makes 500-800$ a month

but the average farmer/worker is not a foreign import worker for a for profit bougie rich kindygarden

>>2917620
Im American, but it possible to learn this power without a bachelors?

>>2919940
If you like living as a visa criminal, yes. Private schools here will help and enable this, but will cut you off when it benefits them. To live like this is to live outside the workers protections, free gov attoerneys,, government moderated arbitratiob, insurance, pension programs foreign workers get. You also live with an unending risk of being deported or needing to run away.

I reccomend applying for a chinese uni

OP is right you should move to leftysoy.st

>>2919992
>4/pol/'s right about you.
They fucking auto-saged and then deleted the Savanna Cannon OP picrel of my thread about life. The mods should get vivisected ass first on 4/gif/rekt/, fuck them.

>>2920282
>bro this place has its problems but you couldn't pay me to post on 4chan in the big 26
Trve.

>>2920377
>they even pay hundreds of dollars every year to elon musk.
Disgusting.

>>2919992
Woke idpol has lead to the highest ever numbers of people identifying as socialists and communists in the Anglo world. This theory is stupid.
What actually happened is that politics has become mostly about dispositional expression. Wokeness and leftism appeal to one underlying disposition, and right-populism and reaction to another. /Leftypol/'s traditional anti-idpol stance is just what happens when you pair leftism with the underlying autism and alienation of imageboard users, and not for nothing has leftypol become more progressive over time.
(4chan on the other hand pays rapeape to keep his thumb on the scale in /pol/s favor)

>>2920373
I just went to check it out and it is the most pozzed thing I have seen. Truly the leftyverse of the sharty.

>>2919992
> Back to 4chan.
Stay there next time.

>>2914904
nobody can answer these basic theoretical questions smdh

>>2905756
The premise of utopian socialism is to simply create an alternative bubble mode of production and watch it grow.

>>2914701
You've definetly missread him there with the "dark alien god" thing. His point is exactly that its a retarded concept. First chapter retraces the steps of Camatte to why it might appear that capital is a Landian alien AI that has vome to kill us all, but then cuts through the bullshit word for word with what >>2914859 said: its all ultimately human relations, or to rephrase it in Bordiga's / meme words - "we live in a society".

>>2918880
Indeed. These stupid leftcoms will do anything but accept that Kaiser Wilhelm was successfully building socialism until the damnable libsoc ultras stopped him.

>>2891661
The motivating premise of communisation is that we aren't lenin shoes. Communisers believe that the mass party politics of old was historically contingent - that is contingent upon the organised labour movement which in turn was contingent upon mass semi-skilled industrial factory workforces. Capitalist restructuring has decomposed this reality and thus decomposed the possibility for the old communist projects.

>In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a whole historical period entered into crisis and came to an end — the period in which the revolution was conceived … as the affirmation of the proletariat, its elevation to the position of ruling class, the liberation of labour, and the institution of a period of transition.
<Editorial - SIC 1

>Everywhere, the working class is less homogeneous — it is stratified across high- and low-income occupations; its work is more precarious; and it switches jobs more frequently. More and more workers feel like work has no purpose; for more and more are employed in dead-end service jobs, or are unemployed or unemployable. Like the housewives of an earlier era, they produce little more than the everyday reproduction of the class relation itself. For these reasons, we cannot follow the autonomists in supposing that an “objective” recomposition of the class will find its correlate in a new “subjective” affirmation of class identity.

>It’s not that it’s impossible today to glorify work or workers; it’s that those who can do so are necessarily a minority. They can no longer pose their activity, or the activity of any concrete fraction of the class, as having universal significance. The workers’ movement rested on a vision of the future that turned out to be a dream. In the second half of the twentieth century workers awoke from this dream to discover that all that was supposed to bring them together had actually separated them.
<A History of Separation - Endnotes 4

As opposed to previous era of struggle we have entered a new era in which the factory no longer serves as the germ of a new society in waiting. Masses of workers are expelled from the process of labour, either entirely, partially or intermittently. Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Fossil-fuel firms in line for billions in benefits after answering Trump’s donation call
The fossil fuel industry secured an estimated $190bn in tax breaks and subsidies over the next decade after responding to Donald Trump’s pre-election call for major campaign donations, leaving American taxpayers to shoulder higher bills and public health costs associated with pollution, according to a new report.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/24/fossil-fuels-trump-donations

Homeland Security defends officers in immigrant’s fatal car crash in Michigan
Federal immigration officers were about a half-mile away when a man who was illegally in the U.S. crashed a car at high speed and died in Michigan last weekend, authorities said Thursday, attempting to rebut any claim that they were in hot pursuit.
https://apnews.com/article/immigrant-fatal-crash-michigan-3938983d2a55aab9dcb5b42ba6c6cda5

Mikie Sherrill demands NJ lieutenant governor resign after report found improper behavior with women
The investigation — first reported on Sept. 4 but commissioned by Gov. Mikie Sherrill more than three months earlier — focused on Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell’s conduct in office. The report found Caldwell engaged in ethics violations, including attempts to promote a romantic partner in a state job — while not disclosing the personal relationship.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/24/mikie-sherrill-demands-nj-lieutenant-governor-resign-after-report-found-improper-behavior-with-women-01092915

Nearly 200 people wrongly identified on Nevada’s voter rolls as non-citizens
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wrongly identified 185 people on Nevada’s voter rolls as non-citizens, state officials said this week, escalating concerns over the shoddy methodology the government is using to raise fear about non-citizen voting ahead of the midterm elections.
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Liberal dilemmas as the ruling class seeks a new vehicle for fragmented Britain
ED DAVEY has the perennial problem of Lib Dem leaders — how to make his second division team avoid further relegation. With polls showing just one in 12 voters considering voting for his party the Lib Dems are in fifth place behind Labour, Reform, the Tories and the Greens who have laid siege to a slice of their voters. Where Davey is right is in arguing that some elements in our ruling Establishment favour a Tory/Reform UK coalition. (Davey didn’t put it in these terms because to do so might draw attention to the uncomfortable fact that the austerity policies currently driving some of the support towards Nigel Farage were the centrepiece of Cameron’s Tory-Lib Dem coalition government and Lib Dem Treasury ministers were in the driving seat.)
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ed-davey-liberal-democrats-polls-dilemmas-ruling-class-britain

What Are Prediction Markets—and Can They Really Predict the Future?
Supporters argue that this process aggregates publicly available information into a real-time forecast, allowing markets to reveal probabilities that sometimes outperform polls or expert opinion. Critics counter that these same incentives can reward speculation, manipulation, or insider knowledge, raising questions about whether they function primarily as forecasting tools, gambling platforms, or something in between. A contract’s price fluctuates with the probability of an event occurring and reflects that prediction. The price is intended to serve as the implied probability of the event occurring. Every contract includes a resolution date and rules that indicate how and when it will be settled. When the resolution date arrives, the market closes automatically, and the bettor is informed about the outcome. One major advantage of prediction markets is their simplicity. Will a given event occur by a certain date? It’s either yes or no. On two of the most prominent markets, Kalshi and Polymarket, a user buys one or more contracts that pay out $1 each if they’re right and nothing if they’re wrong.Unlike Kalshi, Polymarket relies on UMA (Universal Market Access), a decentralized oracle protocol, to resolve markets. Most outcomes are finalized automaticalPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

socialism in one country doesn't work bro.

>>2914906
>Communism seems to me like propaganda, it has no basis in reality
you only think this because you're retarded. this is your, what, 5th thread this week trying to debooonk gommunism?

>>2914972
it is not moral terrorism to say that murdering children is bad you weird ayn rand sycophant

>>2917820
2026: the only people who say 'thats not real communism' are liberals who are mad that communism works

>>2914929
We will make it work no matter the cost.

>>2919159
>>2919579
GTFO with this 2005-tier bullshit.

>>2919579
Meds

>>2920040
Who?

Look up:

Luck Larry “PULL IT”