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"The dominant youth archetype of 2020s suburban and provincial America. The dinergoth sits at the mainstream convergence of once-niche culture: alt fashion, geek fandoms, and downward mobility.

Formed online via Discord, TikTok, and YouTube, dinergoths mix formerly subcultural aesthetics like goth, emo, piercings, and dyed hair into mass-retail fashion. They openly display interests once seen as nerdy or deviant: anime, queerness, cosplay, furry culture, BDSM. Neurodivergent diagnoses are worn as identity markers.

Unlike earlier subcultures, dinergoths aren't rebellious or ironic. Hentai and stagnation are just facts of life. Cultural touchstones include Deltarune, Hazbin Hotel, Genshin Impact, VTubers, streamers, and drawing "OCs". They practice queerness as default, learned through fandom rather than via theory.

Dinergoths are suburban or rural, often working in service, warehouse, or anonymous office jobs. More Buffalo than Brooklyn. They prioritize comfort, creative hobbies, and online community over career status. Content creation is often seen as an exit out of a disenchanted world.

Dinergoth traits now permeate Gen Z mass culture, but the archetype is clearest in the pierced, anime-addled, downwardly mobile alt-prole who thrives in the stagnation and placelessness of the American hinterlands."
The person who came up with this is a rightoid so he focuses on the "overweight green haired non-binary walmart prole who spends xer time off talking on hazbin hotel fandom discords" type, but it also largely applies to the Samantha Rupnow types as well if you swap a few words around.
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>>2789280
>Cultural touchstones include Deltarune, Hazbin Hotel, Genshin Impact
literally what?

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>how to have fun on a budget

>>2789991
how are millennials this insane you're like 40 and balding. sit down unc

>>2789589
That's not why she's wearing it lol, she's wearing it because Dylan Klebold wore one.

>>2789544
That's what I was getting at with " it also largely applies to the Samantha Rupnow types as well if you swap a few words around.".



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COMRADES OF LEFTYPOL, ERIK HOUDINI NEEDS YOUR SOLIDARITY
Houdini has been arrested.
https://gofund.me/826555a5f

He is in deep Florida country. Anons in Florida, please do what you can for him. Those who can make online payments, please help him.

Pasting the message from his comrades:
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TL;DR Our friend Erik is in jail for allegedly trolling a right wing influencer, Kaitlin Bennet, and we’re putting together a bail fund for him. If we don't get him out in 10 days or locate a foster the local animal shelter may put down his dog.



Hey everyone. We do not come here lightly and it is with a heavy heart that we come to you and ask for monetary assistance. Not for ourselves but for a dear friend of ours who was arrested Tuesday February 24th 2026 by the police.

Sometime in November of 2025, not long after the Kirk assassination, our friend allegedly got into a conflict on Instagram with a right wing influencer, Kaitlin Bennet, when she visited their city. In this conflict he allegedly referenced Kirk's assassination and that was enough for her to take these as threats on her life and call the police on him and an investigation was conducted where they allegedly found evidence of plans to harass Bennet next time she visits their City.
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Houdini deleted his "solidarity is a buzzword" thread after the people who were dumb enough to give him money rightly got mad at him LOL

>>2770674
dont worry leftypol always remembers.
i remember those late-night incel posts.

>>2770674
You just made me think of that Revolutionary Blackout guy who is now an ACP orbiter (or something) complaining about No Kings because nobody gave money to his food bank charity scam a few years ago.

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>>2770680
>i remember those late-night incel posts.

Houdini is a juche gang proxy.



 

Honest question (NOT trolling):

What exactly should the western left do for Palestine that they haven’t already been doing for the past 2.5 years (or even longer for that matter)?

I’ve seen Palestinian activists say “we need to do more to stop the genocide” more times than I can count. But what should we feasibly be doing that we’re not doing already? Boycotts? Mass protests? Blockading arms sales? Policing your peers’ consumer habits so they’re compliant with BDS? Making lists of politicians who receive money from AIPAC and voting them out? We’ve done this already. In NYC, there was a mass protest every fucking weekend where we were told to “escalate for Gaza” yet we never escalated; I don’t even fucking know what “escalate” is supposed to mean. Were we supposed to be engaging in violent riots and molotoving the banks or whatever?

I asked this to a comrade of mine and he said: “You know what we mean when we want the left to do more for Palestine.” By that, he clearly means engage in political violence, bring back the Weathermen. But how would ultra-left adventurism do anything? Elias Rodriguez did exactly this and is now facing life in prison for killing two interns who were replaced the next day. What a fucking waste.

The American left is way too weak, disorganized, and incompetent to do anything meaningful to help the Palestinians resist or stop Israel. It’s gotten to the point where people are putting all their hope and faith in the idea Israel will collapse on its own because they’ve run out of strategies. So what should the left be doing that it’s not doing already? Give clear examples.
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>>2791295
>palestinians aren't a race
I thought this was clipped out of context but it's direct from her channel. how did she even get into this frame? overcompensating for saying some dumb racist shit? the palestinian genocide is occurring across racial lines: how does she not know that palestinians are predominantly arab and bedouin? she is precisely the kind of misinformed moron who should be shut down.

>>2787294
the trans-atlantic slave trade is foundational to the american empire, but the crusades to the middle east started in the 11th century, and the west african slave trade occurred in the 15th century colonialism has a longer and broader history than just the USA.

of course there's a resurgence of kamala supporters now that piker is chasing the zionists and abundance weirdos out of the dems. crakkkerpoints came out of the woodwork to say some dumb shit as well.

what are these bids for attention? making pointless drama is self defeating, and they seem to be forgetting harris's unconditional support for the palestinian genocide cost the dems the election and not palestinians. they're at war with reality, not trump.

>>2791896
How were the Crusades a bigger atrocity than Black slavery? The Crusades were also empire vs empire, not empire vs helpless, stateless people.

>>2791896
The crusades were not “anti-Palestinian violence” the same way slavery was anti-Black violence.

>>2791896
Okay, you’re being just as retarded. Minor nobles from France and Germany, as well as rabble made up of common criminals and peasants, being spurred on by the Orthodox and Catholic religious institutions to fight recently converted Turks and Slavs in the 11th century in centuries long war is not the same as a Zionist foothold in Palestine



 

The primary contradiction in non-AES Global South countries is not "foreign-bourg vs national-bourg" but rather, it's "industrial capitalist vs financial capitalist".

An imperialist foreign Western capitalist who builds a factory and develops the productive forces by outsourcing and transferring technology and capital is infinitely more progressive than a "patriotic" "sovereign" nationalist financial capitalist or service capitalist.

Countries that realized this simple fact, like South Korea, Mexico, Poland, Indonesia etc are able to develop and massively increase their standard of living.

Countries that misguidedly pursued "sovereignty" instead via protectionism and over regulation, like many post-colonial countries, suffered from stagnation. Those countries were actually scammed by their "patriotic" bourgeoisie to protect their local capital from competition that would have built industry and improved their standard of living.

Therefore, being blindly anti-imperialist by default is not useful. Collaborating with foreign and domestic industrial giants while keeping both domestic and foreign finance at bay should be the primary goal of socialists in these countries.
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>>2786505
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>it amounts to the same thing, since the financial capitalists are the comprador booj in thrall to the imperial core while the indsustrial capitalists are the national booj who wanna develop the productive forces and exercise sovereignty over the natural resources. It basically is the modern equivalent of the difference between tories and patriots in 1776. Loyalty to the metropole of capital vs a national independence movement.
underrated trvke

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>>2786720
>industrial capital good! finance bad!

>>2786715
Western europe had pesants until the 1960's, and it's countries were already well developed

>>2786213
It loosely follows that the opposite is true in the developed world and that the current protectionist turn is reactionary.

>>2786779
> the Austrian school as lackeys of finance capital against workers
remember what Von Mises was doing furing ww2: serving Engelbert Dollfuss under "Austrofascism"



 

if japan hadn't surrendered to the USA, would we have gotten AES japan?

Replace "they were more terrified of stalin" at the end with "they were more terrified of a Communist Japan" or "they were more terrified with an end to class society." and you will have the true essence of the problem.



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Happy birthday to the GOAT, the magnificent Vladimir Ulyanov Lenin!

May his brilliant words and shining example continue to inspire workers across the world to win their liberation and fight back the tyranny of capitalist imperialism
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>>2792301
Your quote is relevant since Nietzsche was still inhabiting the class consciousness of the old aristocracy, not the new bourgeois world.

>>2792307
Kind of like king charles does
Or how bronze age pervert represents premodernity.

capitalism was ~400 years old by then btw

>>2792323
>Or how bronze age pervert represents premodernity
>represents
<Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language. Thus Luther put on the mask of the Apostle Paul, the Revolution of 1789-1814 draped itself alternately in the guise of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and the Revolution of 1848 knew nothing better to do than to parody, now 1789, now the revolutionary tradition of 1793-95. In like manner, the beginner who has learned a new language always translates it back into his mother tongue, but he assimilates the spirit of the new language and expresses himself freely in it only when he moves in it without recalling the old and when he forgets his native tongue.

>>2792323
The British Monarchy was already thoroughly bourgeoisified by the 18th century. Today, most monarchists simply give grumblings about "tourism" as a meagre defense of the institution.

>>2792328
>>2792333
I was being sarcastic jeez



 

watch john k cartoons they are the best


way better than those shitty disney cartoons

looking at you moon girl and shitty dinosaur

the only people who hate his cartoons are shitty artists
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>>2790868
omg, thingnoticer, are you back???

>>2790868
Unfappable

I was always a big fan of the original series, This is the first time I watched an episode of the Adult Party cartoon and I can now see why people Hate it and Love it at the same time. It can go from a funny gag of Red waxing a women's pussy like he is waxing off paint to a terrible gag of watching him stuck between a hairy dude's calves.





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What exactly is the logic of American liberals who claim getting "money out of politics" would do anything to fix the innate contradictions of capitalism?

I live surrounded by liberals. When I ask them how they would solve the existing problems in the current system, they always reduce their solutions down to three things: 1. arrest the "Epstein class" (yay, prisons!), 2. overturn the Citizens United SCOTUS decision to get money out of politics, and 3. bring back the Fairness Doctrine (no idea how that's supposed to work when everyone under 35 is getting their political views from influencers, YouTubers, and Twitch streamers rather than TV news but I digress).

I have a very hard time understanding how politics is supposed to be divorced from money in any way. The entire political system is designed to serve the capitalist class. Putting limits on how much the rich can donate to politicians or lobbyist groups doesn't change that.

It seems like the main reason liberals like spreading this myth is because they take for granted the idea everyone would willingly vote for mediocre establishment Democrats over the GOP if billionaires weren't allowed to give large sums of money to GOP candidates, never mind the fact that plenty of billionaires also support liberal Democrats too (Obama's biggest donor in 2008 was Goldman-Sachs, for instance). I fail to see how overturning Citizens United would do anything to lead us to socialism. Seems like more of a symbolic victory than anything. What does everyone else say?
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>>2791301
This
We need less Jeffrey Epsteins and more Oprah Winfreys

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>>2791060
>sophisticated material analysis is when you post random graphs without context and spout reactionary nonsense to defend some allegedly 'better past' of a settler colonialist bourgeoise oligarchy
okay

>>2789502

Realizing that the only way to see true change is to completely flip the system on it's head is obviously required for many'a leftists

These cattle who would chose what we have now over any left wing economic system have yet to have this realization and never will because they are either to brainwashed from the residue of the Red Scare or they have no empathy and re in a position which benefits from the system.

The only reason to pose these hypothetical ways to do the best within the system is if you have completely abandoned the idea of any serious socialist movement gaining power.

>>2789502
These are "safe" solutions that doesnt threaten them or the status quo. Its about rationalization of self-interest.

>>2791992
asinine but incredibly common worldview.
let me ask you this: trade unions are effectively regulated into pointlessness in england. there are so many restrictions on what you can do that it's basically impossible to withdraw your labour in a way that does real damage. would "supporting"* a future centre-left government in weakening or repealing the 1980s-1990s laws that gave effect to this situation - an undoubtedly reformist act - really constitute "abandoning" the idea of any socialist movement gaining power? would it not make more sense to think of this change as the first and most obvious direct step towards building the kind of left-wing institutions that can actually take power in future?
once you accept this broad principle, all of the rest follows.
ironically the left would do well to read a lot of rightoids and neoliberals on incentives. why is it that the bourgeoise can run a lemonade stand but we can't? easy: they're being paid. building a serious revolutionary org is hard work, but you get exactly the same - perhaps better - short term rewards by posing as radical online. the ROI on cosplaying a revolutionary is so much better than the ROI on seriously working towards it.

*a wonderful non-term which can mean anything from "saying 'yeah cool good' on leftypol.org" to "actively a member and works 16 hour days to help the party"



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>Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia's most decorated living soldier, was arrested at Sydney Airport and charged with five counts of war-crime murder over the killing of unarmed Afghan civilians while deployed in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012.

ben roberts smith situation is crazy:

> old mate is complaining about being in an aussie jail like he's not on trial for offing prisoners

> dickhead is doing two weeks in lockup on purpose by not filing for bail as a media stunt
> katter and the cockroach are losing their shit
> seppo propaganda outlet channel 10 conspicuously not mentioning the wife beating and the substance of the war crime allegations
> greens tying themselves in knots calling him a black sheep like the ADF protects us and not the angloamerican empire
> it's been years since the courts validated the war crime allegations
> crazy this is happening during the oil crisis
> urkrainian volunteer also picked up
> mcbride still in prison

curious what this signals from canberra, there's a few readings:

> labor is relitigating the forever war on terror because the yanks fucked us over and abandoned us (requires too much spine)

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It's the planting season and there is a mouse plague, authorise ZP50 you dumb muppets

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Welcome to Did You Know Australia.
Did You Know: The children of Australian veterans generally don't like Nazism?

>only 1 chud boo’d the welcome to country in Sydney despite the massive working class support the boo’ers got last year
Total middle class victory, the middle class exertion of force upon the working classes most sacred day is now uncontested as the welcome to country has successfully jumped from the company board room to Anzac Day, the working class has been defeated



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Israel 'preparing large scale assault on Gaza' amid Iran, Lebanon ceasefires: reports
It said that if US President Donald Trump decides to end the war with Iran and the truce in Lebanon holds, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will seek to keep the offensive ongoing on other fronts, particularly as the October 2026 Israeli elections approach. Netanyahu’s opponents have accused him of failing to achieve "absolute victory" in Gaza, and according to Haaretz, this is one of the reasons why he would want to restart the war.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-prepares-major-assault-gaza-amid-iran-truce-report

Israeli settlers cross into Syria and Lebanon calling for new settlements
According to Israel’s Walla news site, around 40 activists from the Halutzei HaBashan movement crossed the Syrian border on Wednesday and entered the village of Hader in the Quneitra governorate. Some of the group reportedly barricaded themselves inside a building, tying themselves to it and urging the public to pressure Israeli ministers not to remove them from Syrian territory.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-settlers-cross-syria-and-lebanon-and-call-new-settlements

Europeans must recognize US, China and Russia are ‘dead against’ us, says Macron
He said the main difference between the first and second Trump terms was that many European countries thought the first term was an aberration that would end, not requiring fundamental changes. “Now, a lot of colleagues are more lucid, because after so many years, we say, okay, we have to react. We have to act as Europeans, to be more united, to defend ourselves our own interests. And for me, this is the right direction.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-warns-europe-unity-against-us-china-russia/
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Trump administration pushes DoJ to pursue denaturalization cases – report
The US government can ask a court to remove citizenship status of people who illegally obtained it. In some cases, people who have been denaturalized have been caught lying to officials or caught entering into a false marriage. In other cases, people who commit crimes can be denaturalized.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/23/trump-administration-denaturalization

Mamdani vetoes one protest buffer zone bill, ‘allows’ another to become law
The other protest buffer zone bill, Intro. 1-B, would establish protective measures near houses of worship. Mamdani said he would “allow it to become law,” but did not indicate that he would put his signature to it. Under the city charter, legislation sent to the mayor’s desk may become law within 30 days if the mayor neither signs nor vetoes it.
https://www.amny.com/politics/mamdani-vetoes-protest-buffer-zone-bill/
https://archive.ph/Rwtox

Maine Gov. Mills Ripped for Veto of Landmark AI Data Center Moratorium
The bill, LD 307, which passed both chambers of Maine’s Legislature with bipartisan support earlier this month, would have stopped state and local governments from issuing permits for data centers with electric loads of 20 megawatts or more until November 2027, giving the state time to study their effects.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mills-veto-data-center-moratorium

South Dakota Supreme Court rules officer names can be kept secret
Two police officers involved in a shootout with a suspect in 2024 can have their names protected from public view to prevent someone from potentially locating or harassing the officer or their families, according to a ruling Thursday by the South Dakota Supreme Court that reversed a lower court’s decision. Justices ruled that Marsy’s Law, a state constitutional amendment approved by South Dakota voters Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tybna!

Mandelson, May elections, and the markets: Pressures pile up for Starmer
In these troubled times, spare a thought for poor old Keir Starmer. Britain’s hapless Prime Minister can’t catch a break Everyone – and everything – seems to be lining up against him. And events, at home and abroad, are unlikely to offer any respite. Amongst voters, Starmer is the most unpopular PM in recent history – as will no doubt be seen in the upcoming May elections. The Labour leader and his party are on course to receive a drubbing in contests for the Scottish and Welsh devolved parliaments, and in local councils. But it is not only the electorate who, rightly, despise Starmer. Nobody is happy with the current occupant of Number 10. Across the pond, Donald Trump is also fuming about the uselessness of his British counterpart. Angered by the UK government’s refusal to join his disastrous war on Iran, the American President has repeatedly lashed out at Starmer: remarking that the Labour Prime Minister is “no Winston Churchill”, and threatening to tear up Britain’s trade deal with the USA, if Washington’s normally obedient poodle does not yield to his master’s call. Of course, Starmer’s stance towards Trump’s war has nothing to do with political principles, and everything to do with political expediency. The Labour leader has repeatedly demonstrated that he is happy to grovel and fawn before his boss in the White House. But with the British public in no mood for an Iraq 2.0, Zack Polanski’s Greens breathing down his neck, and elections approaching, Starmer is calculating that a few anti-Trump noises and a dash of feigned defiance might play well with voters and backbench MPs alike.
https://communist.red/mandelson-may-elections-and-the-markets-pressures-pile-up-for-starmer/

Rizospastis organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece: On Zyuganov’s outrageous statement and its coverage by the Greek bourgeois media
Various bourgeois media outlets in our country did not conceal their satisfaction, tinged with a dose of irony, at the recent provocative statement by Gennady Zyuganov, Chairman of the Central Commitee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), who declared from the floor of the Russian parliament that a new 1917 —that is, a nPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The evilness of zionists never ceases to surprise me



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