/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

NASA Map Shows Impact of Water Crisis on Tens of Thousands of Puerto Ricans
Meteorologist Wright told Newsweek that the latest drought situation in Puerto Rico is “definitely one of the fastest onsets.” He noted that just three months ago, only about a third of Puerto Rico was considered “abnormally dry,” whereas around 40 percent is now classified as being in extreme drought. According to Wright, “the recent spike is the most dramatic.” A new analysis report prepared for Newsweek by geoscientist Elena Maksimovich, CTO and head of climate data at Everloop, a sustainability and climate-risk consultancy, found that the summer of 2026 in Puerto Rico was exceptionally dry, though not unprecedented.
https://www.newsweek.com/nasa-map-shows-puerto-rico-extreme-severe-drought-conditions-12412340
https://archive.ph/OBVGz

New lawsuit filed against Cesar Chavez, alleging sexual assault, union cover up
The lawsuit revolves around an 86-year-old woman named only as Jane Doe suing the Cesar Chavez Foundation, the late labor leader’s estate and the United Farm Workers Foundation, saying Chavez raped her in 1973. The woman, who now lives in San Bernadino County according to the suit, is suing the three entities for negligence, negligent supervision, negligent infliction of emotional stress, sexual harassment, violation of Bane Act and the violating of Unruh Act.
https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/new-lawsuit-filed-against-cesar-chavez-alleging-sexual-assault-union-cover-up/
https://archive.ph/fbcL5

Teachers union reaches AI privacy deal with Microsoft
The AI privacy standard consists of 10 legally enforceable protections, including an agreement by the tech giant to not use student or teacher data to train or improve an AI model, with the exception of “narrow safety and security” circumstances, according to a Microsoft fact sheet shared with POLITICO.
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Mass Arrests in Jakarta
According to the information currently available, 322 protesters were detained by the Jakarta Metropolitan Police (Polda Metro Jaya) in connection with the demonstration on 27-28 August 2026. Of those detained, 273 people have been released, while 49 people remain in custody. Of the 49 people still detained, 44 are adults and 5 are minors. The legal status of each detainee should be made transparent, including the grounds for detention, the charges brought against them, and their access to legal assistance and representation. At the same time, serious questions remain regarding the alleged involvement of mass organizations or groups seen wearing white headbands in the incident that resulted in the death of Bambang Setiyawan. If evidence indicates their involvement in violence, all parties implicated should be investigated through a transparent, independent, and impartial legal process. It is unacceptable for law enforcement to take harsh measures against protesters while other parties allegedly involved in violence are not subjected to equally serious investigation. The law must apply equally to everyone, regardless of political affiliation, organizational membership, clothing, social status, or position.
https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2026/09/03/mass-arrests-in-jakarta/

KKE on AfD surge in Germany: Capitalist exploitation and imperialist rivalries fuel the far-right
“The attack on workers’ and people’s rights by the bourgeois political forces — liberals, social democrats, the pseudo-‘left’ and others — the sharpening social contradictions in every country on the terrain of capitalist exploitation and imperialist rivalries, combined with the absence of a strong, class-oriented labour and communist movement, are the factors that, in Germany and elsewhere, are ‘pushing’ disappointed sections of the people into the nets of far-right and supposedly ‘anti-system’ populism. Moreover, under conditions of preparation for war, such forces become even more useful to the system, sowing the poison of racism and nationalism among workers and the peoples, so that the main culprit remains untouched: the dominant anti-people policy, the EU of capital and war, and the capitalist system itself.
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>>2904822
If Iraqis want to overthrow the regime it becomes a resistance state against color revolution
Otherwise it's a comprador state that isn't REAL islamic resistance o algo

idk just wanted to put this here.

did it reached the bump limit?

>>2904009
>are you really so illiterate
representation in the modern liberal colloquial sense means representation in media, which is what I assumed the poster was implying. No need to be an asshole about it
>>2904012
>The revolution decommodifes gender
somebody's gonna have to pay the surgeon to give me grs and I can't afford it by myself

Just read this leftcom critiques of him:
https://desperatetimes914496456.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/the-myth-of-graeber/
https://desperatetimes914496456.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/again-graeber/
https://desperatetimes914496456.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/graeber-history/

https://kalikoba.substack.com/p/david-graeber-owes-me-a-book?utm_source=publication-search

>>2909111
I'm AuDHD so give me the TL;DR or else you're ableist.

>>2909112
I do too which is why I haven't read them either

>>2909085
One of his big claims is that primitive communism never existed.

>>2910091
So humans society always had surplus that was privately owned?
How does he criticize capitalist economists for being evil and wrong then go ahead and claim private property is human nature?

>>2909831
Strange how all the good ideas came from that time period but modern society is still stuck using morality from the enlightenment at the very least. The best we can come up with is sloppaganda AI ethics and nobody can agree on anything let alone stop the genocides or wars. Almost like hard conditions create strong men yada yada.

>>2909901
>enlightenment ethics
Bro, try ethics from 2,000 year-old religions.

>>2907005
so there's no such thing as ethnic competition anymore? everything has to be viewed through an universal moral framework?

>>2909910
That's why I said at least.
>reading comprehension

I love how this thread is becoming increasingly chuddy. We need more /pol/ in /leftypol/.
Traffic is at an all time low.

>>2904901
Are you ignoring that Trotsky specifically stated that Zionism was a dead end? He would have just done what the Soviets did by giving the Jews an autonomous oblast.

>>2903019
Trotsky never was the alternative people hoped he would be. Communism became corrupted way before Stalin as he was just a natural result of conditions set by Lenin. But even blaming him misses the point of Marx disregarding warnings from Proudhon and Bakunin that his model of socialism would create just more tyranny and slavery instead of abolishing it.

>>2909866
>more
More than or just more ?

>>2903678
Why do people make cringe art and fan fiction about trotsky?

>>2909866
And bakunin and proudhon would become fascists to save their (lack of) systems. Anarchist dreams vs reality that people as a whole are passive and need a strong patriarch to guide them.

>leftard using the n word
Watch jannies not ban them

>>2909757
>bordigger clitty leakage over getting called what they call themselves
Truly most neurotic deranged specimens

Under communism we will clone bordiga billions of times and send them straight into the sun to keep its nuclear fusion reaction going

>>2909271
>society on a different continent centralized different hereditary tribute structures
>socialism
OHHH I HATE BLOOD AND SOIL SO MUCH

>>2909417
Beria regularly sacrificed young girls to Perun, Khrushchev put a stop to this and the USSR immediately declined.

>>2909712
You're not familiar with steroid-induced rage?
It leads to a lot of physical aggression.

>>2909764
No it does not. It simply makes people make decisions faster not better. A lot of men are probs walking around with violent thoughts. Testosterone makes it so that the decision is made faster without thinking it through. In itself testosterone doesnt cause violence

>>2909765
>steroids dont increase aggression
Delusional.
>violent thoughts
Don't women also have violent thoughts and are less self-controlled?

men don't commit more crimes, they just get caught more often.

>>2909787
It's not about crime in general, but violent crime in particular.

>>2909497
What’s the point in reading anything? You’ll only ever be wrong or misinterpret something, even if you’re right there’s no reward for it

>>2909511
That's just sad now.
Come on now.
Please tell me you are trolling.

Marx read books in a library all day, called the people actually doing irl experiments the utopians, shit on their ideas, then borrowed them later and everyone gave him credit (e.g. labor vouchers).

>>2909516
I’m being 100% sincere

>>2909675
Sad. Reading is healthy for you. Not asking for bookwormism but you have to exercise the brain like a muscle among other things.
>>2909674
The guys doing irl experiments were learned men so no contradiction. Marx was a gamer. Only a gamer can get angry at jewish nigger lassalle.

NYC officials release unseen 9/11 documents about air quality following the attacks
"The very least our city owes the families, survivors and first responders whose lives were forever changed by the September 11th attacks is transparency and accountability," Mamdani said. "For too long, New Yorkers have had to fight for access to records that should have been available to them in the first place. This portal is part of our administration's enduring commitment to honor those we lost, care for those living with lasting health consequences, and give thousands of New Yorkers the answer they've been asking for."
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/9-11-air-quality-documents-records-nyc/

SEC wants to end pay-to-play prohibition for private equity
The Trump administration is seeking to rescind a rule that was put in place to stop private equity funds from bribing public officials, following a raft of pay-to-play scandals. The Securities and Exchange Commission claims that the Rule 206(4)-5 of the Investment Advisers Act stifles "free speech" and had too many unintended consequences.
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/08/sec-pay-to-play-private-equity
https://archive.ph/BUd4Y

Connecticut towns are installing license plate reading cameras on school buses
More than half a dozen towns — including Vernon, Bridgeport, Danbury, Shelton, Stratford, North Haven and New Haven — have contracted with a company called BusPatrol, which installs the technology on the towns’ bus fleets, then uses it to gather footage of any motorist passing a bus that’s displaying flashing red signal lights. The company’s technicians log the events and provide the recordings to local law enforcement.
https://apnews.com/article/license-plate-readers-school-buses-connecticut-43e4546bb39afc677c671c4916be98e6

1,300 casino workers strike Wynn Resorts’ Encore Boston Harbor
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Thank you based news anon

Germany’s Far Right Is Close to Power. Appeals to “Defend Democracy” Won’t Stop It.
One possibility is that a few Christian Democrats (CDU) who sympathize with the AfD and want nothing to do with Die Linke might switch sides. With its 17.2 percent share, the CDU’s ability to bring people together seems to have hit a low point. Alternatively, the BSW, on 5.3 percent, could be key. Whether BSW will support the AfD, as feared by the anti-AfD camp, or simply cost Siegmund his outright majority (as the AfD itself warned before the election) remains to be seen. Die Linke did a lot worse than polls suggested, on 8.6 percent; the Social Democrats (SPD) did slightly better with 9.3 percent; and the Greens did significantly better with 8.9 percent. If the Greens had failed to win any seats, as seemed possible, the AfD would likely have secured an absolute majority. Groups advocating tactical voting will likely interpret this outcome as validation of their efforts. Yet this overlooks the main consequence of this politics of interchangeability within the “democratic camp.” For it is made up of four weak parties that, taken together, are barely as strong as the AfD alone. The fact that this kind of “defense of democracy” is close to bankruptcy is evident from what “democracy” is being defended against here. For this election saw a near-absolute majority, a record voter turnout of 76 percent, and an enormous mobilization of previous nonvoters, the vast majority of whom went to the AfD.
https://jacobin.com/2026/09/afd-saxony-anhalt-election-nonvoters-left

The Imperialist Owl: Duolingo is Sanctioning Iranians
Duolingo’s green owl has become one of the most recognizable corporate mascots on the planet. It sends reminders, guilt-trips users over their streaks, and sells itself as a cheerful gateway to language learning across borders. But for Iranians, the owl now speaks the language of U.S. imperialism. As of September 1, Duolingo’s English Test is unavailable not only inside Iran but reportedly to people using Iranian identity documents anywhere in the world. Iranian students seeking admission, scholarships, visas, or a path into international education are being made to pay for Washington’s sanctions regime. Duolingo’s corporate restriction follows the suspension of a U.S. TreasPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tybna

>>2907931
sanduyghurs have much better k/d than you howeverbeit

>>2908326
because those were ground invasion you dumb fuck, instead being a boy pussy behind a rocket luncher try to do that, let's see how many American skulls we gonna collect.

being easy to anger is a feminine trait :/

>>2908767
being israel's bottom bitch for half of decade is a feminine trait.