/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2585297

Ugandan memes aside, my experience is that the title is generally. A large segment of Africans may not like lgbtetc, but it is not at all preoccupation. There are just many other major issues in their lives.

why did nigeria intervene in benin but not in niger during the recent coups?

Tanzania crackdown on planned protest leaves streets deserted

Security was tightened across Tanzania on Tuesday with police and military seen patrolling major cities ahead of anticipated anti-government protests called to coincide with independence day.

By sunset, however, no major demonstrations had taken place.

The demonstrations were called to demand political reforms in the wake of October's post-election unrest which left an unknown number of people dead.

The authorities have admitted using force against protesters, claiming that some groups were attempting to overthrow the regime.

Security vehicles were seen driving along major roads and intersections, while officers took up positions at strategic locations, including around key public infrastructure.

Public transport stopped operating entirely, the AFP news agency reported.

On social media, activists and campaigners urged supporters to stay alert, suggesting any demonstrations were unlikely to begin until the afternoon. The messaging echoed previous protest calls in Tanzania, when turnout increased later in the day.
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>>2590804
Margaret was a Marxist, she built the productive forces with reform and opening up while preventing the Irish glowies to secede just like Xi did with the uygurs

>>2590840
Trvke so bright it gave me stage 4 cancer from the radiation

>>2590840
>built the productive forces
if by productive forces you mean sports centres for stockbrokers

>>2590804
Under the Supreme Leadership of Comrade Kim Ju-Ae

>>2511880
And they have Gundams too, right? Just like in your animes.

Down with the Silicon Valley billionaires. California has the ultimate potential yet we are being sucked dry both figuratively and literally. Massive farming corporations drain our natural water reserves while techbros fuck over our state over and over again.

>another usapol
this is why I don't support secessionists.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/weak-japanese-yen-is-ticking-time-bomb-2025-12-04/

>LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The Japanese yen is too weak, meaning the gap between the currency’s spot rate and what is consistent with Japan’s economic fundamentals will likely narrow in the coming years. That amplifies risks of a sudden unwind of the yen carry trade.

>The USDJPY cross rate is currently around 155, near the top of its multi-decade range of 80 to 160, having experienced an explosive rally since early 2022 when it was trading near 115.

The main driver of this slump has been the yawning yield differentials between the U.S. and Japan.

>While the Federal Reserve and many other central banks were compelled to raise their interest rates sharply in 2022 to combat elevated inflation, the Bank of Japan kept its policy rate negative and maintained full operation of its yield curve control (YCC) program, which manages long-term rates, until March 2024. Only then did it reset its policy target rate back near positive territory at 0.0-0.1%.

>Since then, under Governor Kazuo Ueda, the BOJ has very gingerly raised the policy target rate to the current 0.50%. But that is not only lower than the current U.S. federal funds rate of 3.75-4.00% but also well below Japan’s CPI inflation of 3.0%, meaning Japan’s real interest rate is still deeply negative.

<WRONG TYPE OF INFLATION

>The weak yen has, unsurprisingly, stoked inflation in Japan.
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>>2517297
Crisis status?
>>2586219
What does this mean?

>>2586273
The "unrealized loss" part means that the value of the bonds has declined without the bonds being sold. This is happening even as the price to purchase those bonds have also declined, though apparently not enough to make buying them attractive. In essence, no one is buying Japanese bonds from these regional banks, which means they're being loaded with bad assets they can't sell, because they'd lose money on the transaction, thus "realizing" the loss.

I am officially reopening the CRISIS thread.

>>2586948
>>2590181
too Woke for his own good

>>2586948
I guess they all deserve to live in the absolute shithole Yugoslavia has turned into.

>>2586993
>im and Stalin should have just made up and been friends.
two napoleons (i don't mean this in a bad way btw) could never be friends lmao

>>2588828
The Balkan Peninsula, approximately the size of Germany but with only two-thirds of its population, is carved up into numerous independent states. In these tiny states, each possessing its own army, currency, and customs system, or belonging to this or that economic union or military alliance, live numerous nations and peoples, shattered into separate fragments. The borders between these dwarf states were not drawn in accordance with ethnic realities or national needs, but are the result of wars, diplomatic intrigues, and imperialist interests. The Great Powers have always had a direct interest in pitting the Balkan nations and states against one another, only to subject them to their own economic and political influence once they have mutually weakened themselves.

The petty dynasties of political compradors ruling these 'fragments' of the Balkan Peninsula have served, and continue to serve, as levers for European diplomatic intrigues. This entire mechanism, founded on violence and treachery, constitutes an immense burden that suffocates the Balkan nations and stifles their economic and cultural development. The peninsula, richly endowed by nature, is senselessly partitioned; people and goods constantly run up against the barbed wire of state borders. This slicing of nations and states into numerous strips prevents the formation of a unified Balkan economic space, which could serve as the foundation for a great expansion of industry and culture. On top of everything, there is debilitating nationalism, created to maintain division and generating the danger of wars fatal to the peninsula's progress.

The only way out of this national and state chaos is the unification of all the peoples of the peninsula into a single economic and political entity, based on the national autonomy of its constituent parts. Only within the framework of a unified Balkan state can an individual people connect into a single cultural community while enjoying the benefits of a common economic union. Only united Balkan nations can truly stand up to the predatory aspirations of European imperialism.

The state unity of the Balkans can be achieved in two ways: from above, through the expansion of the European Union, neoliberalism, and capitalism—this is the path of oppressing weak nations, a path that consolidates imperialism and militarism; or from bPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2586948
Based. He's exactly what most socialists should strive to achieve. His worker's self management objectively worked great and produced one of the "best" economies in the block in terms of consumers goods and quality of life.
The goal of a federated country with socialist self-management and macro-economic planning is probably the most viable path that we should aspire for

>but muh decline & unemployment
The decline and unemployment were initiated by the Party. In essence, the party would subsidize failing companies and incentivize them to hire workers even when they didn't do anything. This caused massive debt that the party couldn't fund and high taxation within the most productive republics, which eventually enflamed the nationalist tendencies.
Unemployment, which was pictured as an ontologic problem, wasn't as endemic as people tend to think. Slovenia, which was the most succesful republic, never had above 4% unemployment iirc. A competitive market alongside state-owned companies directing the economy could've guaranteed low unemployment for everyone.

>>2586993
Iirc Stalin got mad that he didn't get to manage and integrate Yugoslavia into his sphere of direct influence

>>2587150
>Worker co-operatives are a reactionary step backwards
Anon you can't have any more "workers' control" than with self management

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>>2583110
I bet that never gets changed.

>>2584182
Chyna collapse(TM) is copyrighted. expect a lawsuit for using the those words too loosely.

>>2584375
Also in the same polls have the most positive reception to "socialism" and the highest group to oppose War with Venezuela. It is less a moderate group but more that the bloc chooses moderate candidates.

Man US tech is now just a completely anti-social industry. None of these companies are even attempting to make a product that’s good for society, or even community, at this point. The goal seems to be some completely autistic culture of people with locked in syndrome who can’t even think, can’t hold a conversation, can make a meal, can’t even function.

>>2590970
>bumping a dead thread to make a casual observation to nobody in particulary
>apparently thinks "autism" means total lack of any functionality like RFK
sheesh

>>2590730
of course, but it won't happen because it's just another ploy to get the US to commit to go to war with Russia on Ukraine's behalf. the much better solution is for Ukraine to lose and Zelensky to be executed.

A nazi-with-liberal-charactistics governments being replaced with a neutered-liberal government is still progress and it represents a true end of the war.

>>2590730
It won’t happen, Zelensky is not “ready” for an election, he commits unironic terrorist attacks at the mere mention of diplomacy. Because while long lasting peace is unlikely to be found in the negotiation room, eventually Russia’s refusal to acknowledge Zelensky’s authority to sign papers will very likely result in the west holding an election in Ukraine to select someone who technically would have the authority. It goes without saying that Zelensky is very unlikely to be that select and also unlikely he remains a free man in that eventuality.

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>>2590786
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>>2590630
He's not wrong

>>2590800
Lies. The bourgeois intelligentsia and counter-revolutionary reformist 'left' have been exaggerating the effects of nuclear war for half a century. Atomic war is not only eminently survivable, but a necessary catalyst for the mass organization of the working class to overthrow capitalism and establish a post-apocalyptic socialist society.

>>2590551
If you want to die just kill yourself. No need to drag the rest of us down with you.
Anti-social anti-communist.

Moved to >>>/dead/6259.

>>2590345
>>2590351
My respect for TRIF decreases when he starts leaving breadcrumbs for the feds. Learn some opsec you ginger fuck. Ain't you ever watch Columbo?

https://archive.fo/20251210135958/https://www.newsweek.com/project-2026-heritage-foundation-document-11183162

This says China is killing 100.000 Americans per year with fentanyl. So, K/D ratio in this cold war is already 1.000.000 to 0, China is crazy effective, K/D ratio this huge is first in history

>>2590176
Also even if the got A.I to work and it replaced a bunch of call center jobs and capitalist bureaucrats. That’s not going to produce any long term profits or value and it’s highly questionable if the infrastructure would be able to support these A.I systems in the first place.

>>2589768
Damn, sucks to be you. still, Platner sucks and I feel the only reason the American left supports him is because they're desperate to get universal healthcare in the US by any means necessary as a result of decades of shame over the US not having it

>>2589756
political discourse on reddit - at least among reddit liberals, including socdems/demsocs; idc about right-wing redditors - basically boils down to one of a few things:
1. American redditors going "omg, America sucks! I just learned Europeans have good public transportation, universal healthcare, a welfare state and good education unlike us stupid Americans! We wanna make everything more like Europe!!! I hate orange man and the republicans and everyone who voted for trump is evil and deserves what they get!"- in other words, they think Europe is the pinnacle of human society and don't think there's anything wrong with it or question aiming for anything beyond it
2. European redditors jerking themselves off over the above - "European here, why are burgers so inferior?" type shit

It's silly and unproductive. One side claims to be leftist but deep down they're basically just intensely self-hating burgers that want to move to Europe so they can become centrist European treatlerites, while the Euro-redditors are too self-absorbed and more treatlerite than they want to admit to themselves to do anything to actually push for meaningful resistance to the US outside of smug posturing, because it would mean having to break from the Marshall Plan-backed US support that makes their welfare states possible in the first place.

>>2589603
vivek chibber is that you

either way, this is correct

Everyone is starving, everyone is in prison, everyone has Kim’s haircut, and even though everyone is starving and in prison they are also a threat somehow

Kim eats all the food

>>2590344

Ask in the DPRK thread.

>>2590344
Have a good day!

https://www.youtube.com/c/ZoeDiscovers/about
North Korea isn't a completely closed off country, a major source of foreign currency for them is Chinese tourists. This is a YouTube channel with videos of North Korea owned by a woman who works in North Korea tourism.