/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2819187
It was really terrible for people who lived alone in a tiny appartment or renting a maid's room. Young people being trapped with abusive parents also. I had several friend in Paris who became almost insane from it.
Otherwise it was fine. It's the economic consequence that we are still dealing with that are bad. Nothing ever came back to pre-covid level. Employment (which was already bad), prices, the quality of most services, even lots of food products have become bad.
It also made a quarter of the population insane.

My dad died

>>2819191
So it sucked for people who already had sucky lives. It was probably going to suck for them no matter what happened.

Quarantine showed we can reverse climate change

>>2819191
I lived alone in a studio apartment in a basement during covid and it still wasn't that bad for me. I did get to go to work but people acted like they got sealed in their apartments like china

>>2817239
>I am not wasting my vote
do you actually think your vote matters? are you literal cattle? all votes are wasted

>>2816533
Soychestra Ode to Liberalism

>>2816516
Nah its definitely the private investigator leftoid who keeps spamming about some juche cult

>>2812889
GOP will sweep the polls due to fraud and corruption
Cascading, New England, New Mexico, Minnesota stay blue.

>>2818940
Geg so true

>>2817176
>>2817253
We got Atomwaffen x Antifa before GTA 6

>>2817286
>So this is what fedlix was rambling about. if he had any social skills whatsoever he could have easily explained what he meant instead of making it sound like he was celebrating the death of victims lol
making sense is contrary to his mission. he has to say the truth in the most confusing and hostile way possible

American national bouj, about 150 years too late

>>2819110
i feel bad for deaf people who think the easter egg subtitles are what he's actually saying lol

>>2819110
the guy is wrestling with the contradictions but still coming up short. he thinks a mid sized regional business won't be destroyed like a mom and pop shop, but it will be. it just can't compete with a monopoly. this is why the teddy roosevelt era bourgeoisie in america did trust busting, while across the pond lenin was nationalizing monopolies and having them owned by the proletarian dictatorship. those are your two options. break up the monopolies which is just kicking the can down the road since it resets competition, punishes "winners" and makes the future emergence of new monopolies inevitable, or build a new mode of production centered around worker ownership of monopolies.

>>2818343
>Probably the majority of people have no idea that millions of non Jews were killed in the Holocaust,
even in the US i was taught that so idk what you're on about

>>2818213
>>2818333
didn't deny there's a jewish-centric and jewish supremacist revisionist history, just pointed out that history of the non-jewish victims is not generally denied, even if it is also not mentioned often enough. I think it should be mentioned more often, in contrast to nazis, who deny all of it, or say it was all good

>>2818990
the techbros made everyone stupider and more reactionary in a matter of years

>>2818990
Sophie is based.
Calling reactionaries out for their contradictions is good. Even if done so crudely. These filth are not interested in good faith debate so telling them they are the real "Epstein sl4ves" in a way is praxis.

>>2813589
>Communism is an impossibility
I will make it possible

>>2813589
>equating capitalist mode of production with expertise/specialization
You know that guilds predate capitalism by thousands of years right?
The idea that "entrepreneurs" and investors are experts is also hilarious - the opposite is true in most cases.

>>2813589
>you’re never getting rid of the division of labor.
so? division of labor is good. do you want plumbers doing neurosurgery?

>>2818963
If you have a problem with your brain, that’s your own fault and moral failure, every kind of surgery is just enabling bad behavior

>>2819008
Stop bumping slide threads, retard.

evoluution nor the LTV were crazy concepts, i'd argue both existed in some form in the roman period

Marx never claimed to have invented LTV, he was very clear about being a critic of the inconsistent LTV of Ricardo and Smith.

>Ibn Khaldun already had a labor theory of value and theory of evolution in 1377
so did Thomas Aquinas, who died before Ibn Khaldun was even born

>>2818714
Both are far better than the revisionist Karl Marx.

>>2818714
Did Tom also invent sociology?

Whoever is the most historically progressive.

>>2818760
Finally a good fucking threat

>>2816658
gee beria, how come the politburo lets you have two typewriters?

>>2816658
Damn, I can't believe the Soviets would deliberately fill their archives with false documents to mislead western researchers 50 years later. What a bunch of dumbasses.
That's almost as bad as every old Bolshevik being a secret Trotskyist wrecker and Nazi collaborator and no one finding out until Stalin did in the 1930s. Was the USSR always this incompetent?

>>2816692
there's no need for snark
the implication is that there's people working in the archives, who have access to blank letterheads, producing documents that push whatever narrative the Russian Federation wants the world to see. there was a thread on this board a couple of years ago looking at the forensics of this, the conclusion of which is that either Beria used a second typewriter only for things like execution orders that put the USSR in a bad light, or someone is or was producing fakes
>That's almost as bad as every old Bolshevik being a secret Trotskyist wrecker and Nazi collaborator and no one finding out until Stalin did in the 1930s
do you have evidence to the contrary?

>>2816658
>there's also the possibility that some purported documents from the archives are fakes
This is probably true. Especially from both Khrushchev, and the wrecker Yakovlev. The katyn massacre files were most likely forged, for sure.

All of the "Soviet Archives" released during Yeltsin's term are fake.

>>2818361
>one of the interpretations of qm that i prefer over the others is heavily inspired by diamat
wait so if certain interpretations of QM build on DiaMat how is DiaMat ahead of it. We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us, but those who came before us are not "ahead" of us. We are "ahead of them" because we are able to see farther by building on top of their frameworks.

>the world under diamat is close to that of the implicate order, with the contradictory nature of temporal moments being relatable to basil hiley's concept of the "duron" as well as the uncertainty principle

>the recognition by marx of sensuous activity being before the division between subject and object also provides a better way of interpreting the role of consciousness in material reality compared to the consciousness wave-function collapse which takes the self-standing observer for granted imo


interesting, thank you.

>>2818505
>in all his supposed knowledge about computers, he could not figure out how to navigate the imageboard
anon being born in the 50s and knowing a fuckton about logic gates and turing machines has nothing to do with knowing how to navigate a dogshit user interface first made by japanese autists in the 00s for anonymously discussing anime titties

>>2818561
excuses excuses
I wanna know why he is unconscious

>>2815873
>Because there would have to be a gradient from non-consciousness to consciousness, which is not identified.
As someone that's been dehydrated before, there absolutely is a gradient between consciousness and non-consciousness.

US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report finds
Employers spent company money hiring consultants and law firms specializing in union avoidance and on legal counsel, representation, and litigation services during union elections and organizing campaigns. US employers spend $442m on union-avoidance consultants annually, according to an estimate by the EPI. Amazon alone spent $26.6m in 2025 on union-avoidance consultants, based on filings with the US Department of Labor.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/20/how-much-companies-spend-fight-unions

US Democrats push to rein in Trump on Cuba as White House steps up pressure
A group of ​Democratic U.S. senators introduced a resolution to stop President Donald Trump from using the ‌military against Cuba on Wednesday, as his administration escalated pressure on the island's government by indicting former President Raul Castro. Democrats Tim Kaine of Virginia, Adam Schiff of California and Ruben Gallego of Arizona introduced a War Powers ​Resolution to block the use of the U.S. armed forces against the Communist-ruled ​island.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-democrats-push-rein-trump-cuba-white-house-steps-up-pressure-2026-05-20/

NTSB: Flaw that led to engine flying off UPS plane grew unnoticed under relaxed inspection schedule
The National Transportation Safety Board’s questions also drew out that Boeing relied on older data when it asked to extend the inspection schedule in 2015, and didn’t seem to account for seven instances on other planes of the same model when the key engine mount parts were failing. The Federal Aviation Administration, for its part, approved the request after a month’s review without seeking more information.
https://apnews.com/article/ups-louisville-ntsb-md11-plane-engine-d31d05f24d5a8277c76abae298d30e52

Tennessee man jailed over Charlie Kirk post wins $Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Debanking, an Authoritarian Threat to the Left
The twenty-first century brought the utopian promise of an ever more interconnected world. Champions of globalization aspired to ever more international connectivity, meant to discourage powerful actors from creating divisions that might threaten the well-being or existence of others. It was rarely mentioned, however, that global interconnectedness could also allow individual actors in key positions of power to influence decisions across the entire network. Nowhere is this danger more evident than in the now-globalized banking sector. The serious consequences of interconnected global banking and finance have recently threatened the left-wing German solidarity organization Rote Hilfe (Red Aid). Citing the Trump administration’s declaration of an enigmatic German antifa group as a “terrorist” organization, a Göttingen-based bank attempted to shut down Rote Hilfe’s accounts. Similar cases have threatened other left-wing and anti-fascist groups in Germany and across the world. It lays bare the threat that “debanking” — the shutting down of accounts or refusal of services on political grounds — poses to the Left.
https://jacobin.com/2026/05/rote-hilfe-debanking-germany-repression

What Do People Attending a Tommy Robinson March Really Believe?
What do the 60,000-odd people at a Tommy Robinson march believe? Surely – at a minimum – they all like Tommy Robinson? I have news: no. He’s a “Zionist shill”, “a grifter”, I was told by two of his own attendees. One man confidently told us he wouldn’t have come on the march if it had been associated with Tommy Robinson (the march was organised and emceed by Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon). Were they all, at least, united in their hatred of migrants? Not entirely, no – not least because some of them were migrants: Iranian monarchists, to be exact, here at Robinson’s request, they repeatedly told me. They held up banners of Robinson that depicted him and US president Donald Trump in shimmering light as saviours of the Iranian nation. Some called for the UK to immediately invade Iran. They were, at least, keen to underline that they were genuine migrants (as opposed to the fake ones you apparently get these days). Most of the British nationalists we spoke to looked on, bemused aPost too long. Click here to view the full text.