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We thought of making a new board to discuss and vent about your daily prole grind and how to fix that in a more permanent manner~Organize your workplace, share job advice, rant about annoying bosses and colleagues and the latest tricks porky tried to pull on you all in
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Is this really it? Some policemen announced that they won’t be going to work tomorrow and that they have no intention of beating up children. This might be the only chance that the opposition gets to forcefully remove the president from office.
The implications are obvious; a color revolution is in the works. Unlike the protests in Greece, the Serbian protests have no class character. The left is very weak, and the protest attendees range from neonazis to liberals and communists (most likely due to the fact the protests have been organized “apolitically”). The situation in Serbia is very volatile, and the validity of these protests need to be questioned more seriously, since no matter how much they deny it, this reeks of liberal infighting. Only time will tell what the consequences of these past few months will be, and whether this will be another October 5th or just a failed mass movement.
March 15th, Belgrade Serbia
Tomorrow a huge protest will be held in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, protesting the government’s refusal to accept the demands made by the students, as well as protesting against general incompetence and corruption. From the student to the teacher, worker and pensioner, war veterans and children all around Serbia will gather together in this protest.Is this really it? Some policemen announced that they won’t be going to work tomorrow and that they have no intention of beating up children. This might be the only chance that the opposition gets to forcefully remove the president from office.
The implications are obvious; a color revolution is in the works. Unlike the protests in Greece, the Serbian protests have no class character. The left is very weak, and the protest attendees range from neonazis to liberals and communists (most likely due to the fact the protests have been organized “apolitically”). The situation in Serbia is very volatile, and the validity of these protests need to be questioned more seriously, since no matter how much they deny it, this reeks of liberal infighting. Only time will tell what the consequences of these past few months will be, and whether this will be another October 5th or just a failed mass movement.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OEunGb83zI
Also van Aken is shilling for Dengism.
/leftydeutschpol/ - "Sie nannten ihn Fotzenfritze" Edition
Say whatever you want. This country is hell on earth. Linkspartei bei der Bundespressekonferenz reden über Stalingrad.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OEunGb83zI
Also van Aken is shilling for Dengism.
R: 500 / I: 130
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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ
<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA
>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer
📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY
<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RtV0oO8Pmg
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - NATHANOLOGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
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RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
/isg/ - Internet Spectacle General
A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together with the Leftypol Twitter account:
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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ
<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA
>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer
📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY
<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RtV0oO8Pmg
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - NATHANOLOGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
—————————————————–
RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
R: 88 / I: 16
Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.
Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.
Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.
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Previous thread: >>1946727Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.
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R: 8 / I: 0
PUT DOWN THE BOOK
HANDS OFF THE KEYBOARD
GO OUTSIDE
TOUCH SOME FUCKING GRASS FOR ONCE
TALK TO A FUCKING PERSON
CHRIST ALMIGHTY I HATE ALL OF YOU RETARDS
NEWFLASH
ALL YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF MARX DOESN'T MEAN SHIT IF YOU DON'T GO ORGANIZE! YOU CORRECTLY DIAGNOSE PROBLEMS YET YOU ARE ALL TOO DETACHED AND DERANGED TO MEANINGFULLY FIND SOLUTIONS, LET ALONE ENACT THEM!PUT DOWN THE BOOK
HANDS OFF THE KEYBOARD
GO OUTSIDE
TOUCH SOME FUCKING GRASS FOR ONCE
TALK TO A FUCKING PERSON
CHRIST ALMIGHTY I HATE ALL OF YOU RETARDS
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Thread for the hellish discussion related to the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the Earth™
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🛠️ Strike Tracker ⚒️
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
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/USApol/
🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅<Sonic Inflation Edition
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🛠️ Strike Tracker ⚒️
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
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📺 Live News 📺
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• CNN: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
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• Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Previous thread:
>>2200882
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Activity Check
Name a single organizing related activity you engaged in this week. Tell us about all of the exciting things you and your irl friends are doing to advance the class struggle. Cmon, put your money where your mouth is 'lefty' /pol/!
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<vidrel
Lithuania has ordered that the CCCP inscriptions be removed from all former Soviet manholes.
Previous thread: >>2195360
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY
Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/
Watch Together
📺 News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast
Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
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R: 82 / I: 17
You are NOTHING without communist theory. YOU SHOULD ACTIVELY READ AND WRITE. YOU SHOULD THINK! THINK! THINK! A THOUSAND TIMES THINK!!
It's frankly EMBARASSING that GROWN ASS MEN HERE still repeat Proudhonist nonsense, still dable with utopias, still reproduce narodist drivel, still mingle with menshevik stagism, still coquette with anarchist ideas.
THE SOLUTION OUT OF THE CRISIS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY IS SOVIET POWER PLUS PROLETARIAN DICTATORSHIP. NOTHING ELSE.
CHINA WON'T SAVE YOU
RUSSIA WON'T SAVE YOU
JDPON DON WON'T SAVE YOU (he'll probably send you to Guantanamo tbh)
THERE IS NO ONE COMING TO SAVE YOU.
You are communists. Start behaving that way.
I AM ONCE AGAIN URGING YOU TO READ
The communists have one imperative at this moment. READ. READ TO AVOID THE PITFALLS OF NARODISM. READ TO AVOID SOCIAL-CHAUVINISM. READ TO AVOID THIRD WORLDIST REVISIONISM. READ TO BE ABLE TO STRUGGLE AGAINST THE ULTRA LEFTISTS AND THE RIGHT OPPORTUNISTS.You are NOTHING without communist theory. YOU SHOULD ACTIVELY READ AND WRITE. YOU SHOULD THINK! THINK! THINK! A THOUSAND TIMES THINK!!
It's frankly EMBARASSING that GROWN ASS MEN HERE still repeat Proudhonist nonsense, still dable with utopias, still reproduce narodist drivel, still mingle with menshevik stagism, still coquette with anarchist ideas.
THE SOLUTION OUT OF THE CRISIS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY IS SOVIET POWER PLUS PROLETARIAN DICTATORSHIP. NOTHING ELSE.
CHINA WON'T SAVE YOU
RUSSIA WON'T SAVE YOU
JDPON DON WON'T SAVE YOU (he'll probably send you to Guantanamo tbh)
THERE IS NO ONE COMING TO SAVE YOU.
You are communists. Start behaving that way.
R: 457 / I: 105
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• https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source
• https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA
• https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective
• https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org
• https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv
• https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine
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R: 69 / I: 8
Why didn't Stalin off these Trotskyite shitlib rats who instantly moved to sell out the USSR and Socialism after his death?
I mean, Beria was literally a British spook lmao, yet Stalin seemingly completely trusted him.
Why didn't Stalin off these Trotskyite shitlib rats who instantly moved to sell out the USSR and Socialism after his death?
I mean, Beria was literally a British spook lmao, yet Stalin seemingly completely trusted him.
R: 156 / I: 96
A lot of images and posts of the last general got broken. So I think it's better to make a new one.
Discuss anything on Southeast Asian politics. Coming 2024 Elections, open orgs, People that should be dead for different reasons running in Malaysia's elections or just random shit. There are still dozens of us… hopefully! Starting off this general with massive wave of cult sex camps.
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/SEA/ - Southeast Asia General SAG
9th Edition: THE SITE FUCKING CRASHED LMAO edition.A lot of images and posts of the last general got broken. So I think it's better to make a new one.
Discuss anything on Southeast Asian politics. Coming 2024 Elections, open orgs, People that should be dead for different reasons running in Malaysia's elections or just random shit. There are still dozens of us… hopefully! Starting off this general with massive wave of cult sex camps.
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R: 15 / I: 5
Zetkin and Kollontai must be two of the most commonly cited by intellectuals and college students as the supposed basis for "Marxist Feminism", and both explicitly rejected it lol.
Zetkin and Kollontai must be two of the most commonly cited by intellectuals and college students as the supposed basis for "Marxist Feminism", and both explicitly rejected it lol.
R: 4 / I: 0
All that fat will be lost, but their boobs will remain large and their skin will be flabby. Their hormone levels will literally never recover from years of sedentary habits and estrogen in everything they consume. An entire generation of men, womanized…
Imagine the manboob epidemic over there
There is going to be a point where the us healthcare sector will force the food and drug industry to make American food safer like in Canada. When that happens, millions of fat American men with gynecomastias will lose weight by force.All that fat will be lost, but their boobs will remain large and their skin will be flabby. Their hormone levels will literally never recover from years of sedentary habits and estrogen in everything they consume. An entire generation of men, womanized…
R: 198 / I: 28
A disease of passivity.
No one will act, and by this I mean do anything besides pointless chanting and marching because they have not reached some undefined, arbitrary (and constantly shifting, in order to provide them with unlimited excuses) threshold of popular support that will, they think, magically flip a switch and allow them to do something. No change in circumstances will spur them to action. Even as their erstwhile comrades and immigrants are openly rounded up and thrown into for-profit concentration camps to be tortured and deported, the American "left", such as it is, sits on its hands and not only does nothing, but tells everyone else to do the same. Even as they watch the general public cheer and applaud the random murder of a CEO, they still believe that doing anything would be the greatest sin possible and doom their already insignificant movement to destruction. The greatest crime anyone can commit in the eyes of the western "left", such as it is, is so-called "adventurism", which is to say doing anything at all. They are so afraid of this "adventurism" that the quickest way to be ostracized from the American "left", such as it is, is to imply that anyone should DO anything.
Why has this sickness emerged? It is because the "left", such as it is, spends all their time reading theory but none of it reading history. Dialectical materialism is a tool which we use to analyze history, not a means to an end. Understanding dialectical materialism but not history is like a mechanic buying all their tools but loudly and boastfully refusing to ever work on a car for fear of getting their hands dirty. It is pointless, a waste of time, resources and energy. If anyone in the western "left" had genuine conviction in their beliefs, even a cursory reading of actual history would dissuade them of this cancerous strategy of "sit and do nothing." It takes only a basic understanding of history, analyzed through the lens of dialectical materialism, to understand why this strategy is doomed to fail.
This mindset of passivity is in error for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, it ignores the class composition and material conditions of America. The ancient tomes into which the western "left", such as it is, pours all it's time and attention, were written over 100 years ago in countries with wildly different material conditions to America and the west in general. Russia and China, the origins of most of the theory that the western "left" hyper focuses on, were still struggling to escape from the yoke of feudalism and suffering from deep, existential crises, both internal and external. Even then, the revolutionary movements only gained serious traction when the old order was either seriously diminished or outright destroyed by brutal foreign invaders. In the case of Russia, this was caused by the first world war, and in China, a series of western interventions, culminating in complete anarchy and a genocidal invasion from the Japanese imperialists. This means that the majority of the people were ruthlessly oppressed, both by their own government and by external forces. This gave the people a common cause and a rallying cry, which allowed the Communists (through hard work and lots of bloody struggle) to gain mass popular support.
In America, this is not the case. There is no external army here to shatter the state, and there never will be. The two oceans provide impenetrable insulation against invasion, to such an extent that a foreign invasion is not just farfetched, it is impossible. It would be easier to eat the sun than to move millions of troops and all their supplies across the vastness of the ocean to invade America. Even a basic understanding of military strategy and history would reveal this to be true. It simply cannot be done. Protected from foreign pressure, American capital has become a complete hegemon, able to loot the entire world at will and use the superprofits generated from imperialism both to prevent any dissent by buying off the otherwise restive sections of the proletariat and to build a state apparatus that maintains an iron grip on the populace through an inescapable surveillance and propaganda panopticon. There will be and can be no mass movement in America like there was in Russia and China until America, as in, the central government, is either seriously diminished or destroyed. Since that cannot happen through an external force, it must be done internally. ONLY Americans can destroy America, and America MUST be destroyed.
This mindset is also at complete odds with history. Every successful revolutionary organization started their armed cadres and began to wage war against the state before they had mass popular support. In fact, it was mostly through their dedicated campaigns against state power that they earned their support in the first place. To give an example, the first armed cadres of the CPC were formed when the party had fewer than 5000 members. The first combat groups of the Bolsheviks were created in 1902, and in the last 20 years of the Tsarist state, over 17,000 people died from so-called "terrorist" attacks even as the parties which would later start and lead the revolution were in their infancy, if they existed at all. It was largely through armed struggle, demonstrating a willingness to sacrifice everything, including their lives, that these groups were able to recruit new members. War and politics are not just related, they are the same thing. All acts of war are political acts, and vice versa. To quote one of the pillars of Leninism, Carl von Clausewitz:
>"We see, therefore, that War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means. All beyond this which is strictly peculiar to War relates merely to the peculiar nature of the means which it uses. That the tendencies and views of policy shall not be incompatible with these means, the Art of War in general and the Commander in each particular case may demand, and this claim is truly not a trifling one. But however powerfully this may react on political views in particular cases, still it must always be regarded as only a modification of them; for the political view is the object, War is the means, and the means must always include the object in our conception."
Thirdly, this mindset ignores the urgency which has emerged from our present epoch of history. For the first time, humanity, not just one individual nation, faces an existential threat through Capitalism-caused climate change. If we do not act now, we will be looking at a world that has been rendered unfit for human habitation. It may already be too late to save the planet, but every day we wait, the situation becomes worse. The very nature of capitalism means that any efforts that the system takes against climate change will be meaningless and intentionally ineffective. Any nation which tries to go against the capitalist world order and chart a different, more humane and ecologically sound path will be either starved to death or violently destroyed by the United States. Even America's vassals are forced to maximize their consumption to feed the fires of global capitalism, to wit, the vast expansions of NATOs military in response to the mere existence of China means that there will be a vast increase in carbon emissions, poisoning the world that much faster. This means, therefore, that to fight against climate change in any meaningful sense, we must fight against America.
Even setting aside climate change, which would be a foolish policy, the American system still sustains itself through blood. In the 30 years after the fall of the USSR, the United States has, at an absolute minimum, murdered 15 million innocent people through economic and physical warfare. You may be questioning how this number has emerged. At least 5 million excess deaths were caused by Capitalism in Russia alone from 1991-2001. Another 5 million have died since the 2001 "Global War on Terror". Before that, America callously starved to death over 1 million Iraqis through sanctions (really, siege warfare) and killed 1.5 million in Yugoslavia. This number is both incomplete and rising every single day. It can do nothing but, as the American economy is based around the endless sale of more arms. Even the farthest "left" of America's mainstream politicians openly advocate for the maintenance and expansion of this murderous system of oppression. America cannot be reformed, it cannot be remade into something more humane, America MUST be destroyed.
Since the class composition of America precludes the formation of a national front against the government and the geography of the country precludes any foreign invasion, this means that the crisis which weakens and destroys the American state can only come from within. Since climate change cannot be fought within the same system that caused it, we do not have time to wait for the ebb and flow of empire to eventually lead to America's implosion. We must act, and we must act NOW. America MUST be destroyed, the only possible alternative is human extinction.
The ONLY left wing policy, therefore, is to physically wage war against this system, by any means, and at any cost necessary. Facing the absolute certainty of extinction from Capitalism-caused climate change, we cannot hold our own lives so dear. It is better to die now, standing on our feet for even the remotest chance at a better future than to die later, choking and coughing as our planet becomes uninhabitable. If you would sit and do nothing in the face of your extinction, then you deserve to go extinct.
America MUST be destroyed, and you MUST destroy it.
There is a disease infecting the "left" in America, such as it is.A disease of passivity.
No one will act, and by this I mean do anything besides pointless chanting and marching because they have not reached some undefined, arbitrary (and constantly shifting, in order to provide them with unlimited excuses) threshold of popular support that will, they think, magically flip a switch and allow them to do something. No change in circumstances will spur them to action. Even as their erstwhile comrades and immigrants are openly rounded up and thrown into for-profit concentration camps to be tortured and deported, the American "left", such as it is, sits on its hands and not only does nothing, but tells everyone else to do the same. Even as they watch the general public cheer and applaud the random murder of a CEO, they still believe that doing anything would be the greatest sin possible and doom their already insignificant movement to destruction. The greatest crime anyone can commit in the eyes of the western "left", such as it is, is so-called "adventurism", which is to say doing anything at all. They are so afraid of this "adventurism" that the quickest way to be ostracized from the American "left", such as it is, is to imply that anyone should DO anything.
Why has this sickness emerged? It is because the "left", such as it is, spends all their time reading theory but none of it reading history. Dialectical materialism is a tool which we use to analyze history, not a means to an end. Understanding dialectical materialism but not history is like a mechanic buying all their tools but loudly and boastfully refusing to ever work on a car for fear of getting their hands dirty. It is pointless, a waste of time, resources and energy. If anyone in the western "left" had genuine conviction in their beliefs, even a cursory reading of actual history would dissuade them of this cancerous strategy of "sit and do nothing." It takes only a basic understanding of history, analyzed through the lens of dialectical materialism, to understand why this strategy is doomed to fail.
This mindset of passivity is in error for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, it ignores the class composition and material conditions of America. The ancient tomes into which the western "left", such as it is, pours all it's time and attention, were written over 100 years ago in countries with wildly different material conditions to America and the west in general. Russia and China, the origins of most of the theory that the western "left" hyper focuses on, were still struggling to escape from the yoke of feudalism and suffering from deep, existential crises, both internal and external. Even then, the revolutionary movements only gained serious traction when the old order was either seriously diminished or outright destroyed by brutal foreign invaders. In the case of Russia, this was caused by the first world war, and in China, a series of western interventions, culminating in complete anarchy and a genocidal invasion from the Japanese imperialists. This means that the majority of the people were ruthlessly oppressed, both by their own government and by external forces. This gave the people a common cause and a rallying cry, which allowed the Communists (through hard work and lots of bloody struggle) to gain mass popular support.
In America, this is not the case. There is no external army here to shatter the state, and there never will be. The two oceans provide impenetrable insulation against invasion, to such an extent that a foreign invasion is not just farfetched, it is impossible. It would be easier to eat the sun than to move millions of troops and all their supplies across the vastness of the ocean to invade America. Even a basic understanding of military strategy and history would reveal this to be true. It simply cannot be done. Protected from foreign pressure, American capital has become a complete hegemon, able to loot the entire world at will and use the superprofits generated from imperialism both to prevent any dissent by buying off the otherwise restive sections of the proletariat and to build a state apparatus that maintains an iron grip on the populace through an inescapable surveillance and propaganda panopticon. There will be and can be no mass movement in America like there was in Russia and China until America, as in, the central government, is either seriously diminished or destroyed. Since that cannot happen through an external force, it must be done internally. ONLY Americans can destroy America, and America MUST be destroyed.
This mindset is also at complete odds with history. Every successful revolutionary organization started their armed cadres and began to wage war against the state before they had mass popular support. In fact, it was mostly through their dedicated campaigns against state power that they earned their support in the first place. To give an example, the first armed cadres of the CPC were formed when the party had fewer than 5000 members. The first combat groups of the Bolsheviks were created in 1902, and in the last 20 years of the Tsarist state, over 17,000 people died from so-called "terrorist" attacks even as the parties which would later start and lead the revolution were in their infancy, if they existed at all. It was largely through armed struggle, demonstrating a willingness to sacrifice everything, including their lives, that these groups were able to recruit new members. War and politics are not just related, they are the same thing. All acts of war are political acts, and vice versa. To quote one of the pillars of Leninism, Carl von Clausewitz:
>"We see, therefore, that War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means. All beyond this which is strictly peculiar to War relates merely to the peculiar nature of the means which it uses. That the tendencies and views of policy shall not be incompatible with these means, the Art of War in general and the Commander in each particular case may demand, and this claim is truly not a trifling one. But however powerfully this may react on political views in particular cases, still it must always be regarded as only a modification of them; for the political view is the object, War is the means, and the means must always include the object in our conception."
Thirdly, this mindset ignores the urgency which has emerged from our present epoch of history. For the first time, humanity, not just one individual nation, faces an existential threat through Capitalism-caused climate change. If we do not act now, we will be looking at a world that has been rendered unfit for human habitation. It may already be too late to save the planet, but every day we wait, the situation becomes worse. The very nature of capitalism means that any efforts that the system takes against climate change will be meaningless and intentionally ineffective. Any nation which tries to go against the capitalist world order and chart a different, more humane and ecologically sound path will be either starved to death or violently destroyed by the United States. Even America's vassals are forced to maximize their consumption to feed the fires of global capitalism, to wit, the vast expansions of NATOs military in response to the mere existence of China means that there will be a vast increase in carbon emissions, poisoning the world that much faster. This means, therefore, that to fight against climate change in any meaningful sense, we must fight against America.
Even setting aside climate change, which would be a foolish policy, the American system still sustains itself through blood. In the 30 years after the fall of the USSR, the United States has, at an absolute minimum, murdered 15 million innocent people through economic and physical warfare. You may be questioning how this number has emerged. At least 5 million excess deaths were caused by Capitalism in Russia alone from 1991-2001. Another 5 million have died since the 2001 "Global War on Terror". Before that, America callously starved to death over 1 million Iraqis through sanctions (really, siege warfare) and killed 1.5 million in Yugoslavia. This number is both incomplete and rising every single day. It can do nothing but, as the American economy is based around the endless sale of more arms. Even the farthest "left" of America's mainstream politicians openly advocate for the maintenance and expansion of this murderous system of oppression. America cannot be reformed, it cannot be remade into something more humane, America MUST be destroyed.
Since the class composition of America precludes the formation of a national front against the government and the geography of the country precludes any foreign invasion, this means that the crisis which weakens and destroys the American state can only come from within. Since climate change cannot be fought within the same system that caused it, we do not have time to wait for the ebb and flow of empire to eventually lead to America's implosion. We must act, and we must act NOW. America MUST be destroyed, the only possible alternative is human extinction.
The ONLY left wing policy, therefore, is to physically wage war against this system, by any means, and at any cost necessary. Facing the absolute certainty of extinction from Capitalism-caused climate change, we cannot hold our own lives so dear. It is better to die now, standing on our feet for even the remotest chance at a better future than to die later, choking and coughing as our planet becomes uninhabitable. If you would sit and do nothing in the face of your extinction, then you deserve to go extinct.
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Nigeria’s protest season is here
By April 7th, the first nationwide protests will start specifically in the capital near feds.
Nigeria’s protest season is here
By April 7th, the first nationwide protests will start specifically in the capital near feds.
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Can anyone give me ONE LOGICAL REASON as to why leftists should hate modern art?
I’ve never understood the hostility MLs/tankies (in particular) have against abstract expressionist art and music like jazz (and by extension hip hop/rap). Their only “argument” is that the CIA funded abstract art in the 1950s as a way of competing against socialist realism. When you study the actual facts you’d see this assertion is full of holes; the CIA wasn’t privileging abstract art in particular, they were simply funding anything American and boosted just as many realistic artists at the time as they did abstract ones. As well, socialist realism had very little reach outside of the Eastern Bloc. After the New Deal ended it wasn’t like you were seeing socialist realist murals being commissioned everywhere.
It should also be mentioned that the early USSR had an avant-garde art movement too.
As far as music is concerned, jazz and rap are the music of colonized New Afrikans. Hatred of jazz (and by extension rap) has always been a dogwhistle for hatred of Black culture as a whole. The lion’s share of the proletariat in America today are not white and don’t relate to Eurocentric music and art; hell, jazz IS “American classical music” when you really think about it.
So yes Maupinoids, please prove me wrong.
Can anyone give me ONE LOGICAL REASON as to why leftists should hate modern art?
I’ve never understood the hostility MLs/tankies (in particular) have against abstract expressionist art and music like jazz (and by extension hip hop/rap). Their only “argument” is that the CIA funded abstract art in the 1950s as a way of competing against socialist realism. When you study the actual facts you’d see this assertion is full of holes; the CIA wasn’t privileging abstract art in particular, they were simply funding anything American and boosted just as many realistic artists at the time as they did abstract ones. As well, socialist realism had very little reach outside of the Eastern Bloc. After the New Deal ended it wasn’t like you were seeing socialist realist murals being commissioned everywhere.
It should also be mentioned that the early USSR had an avant-garde art movement too.
As far as music is concerned, jazz and rap are the music of colonized New Afrikans. Hatred of jazz (and by extension rap) has always been a dogwhistle for hatred of Black culture as a whole. The lion’s share of the proletariat in America today are not white and don’t relate to Eurocentric music and art; hell, jazz IS “American classical music” when you really think about it.
So yes Maupinoids, please prove me wrong.
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By contrast I sense only malaise in the average American regarding China. Oh sure, there are China-obsessed right wing guys, but they seem a lot more fringe when compared to the fear and paranoia the soviets produced.
Is this just symptomatic of an empire in decline or what? Maybe propaganda doesn't work as well as it once did?
china and historical/cultural vibes
In the late 40s and throughout the 50s and 60s there was a real, genuine, widespread fear of the Soviet Union, especially in the United States.By contrast I sense only malaise in the average American regarding China. Oh sure, there are China-obsessed right wing guys, but they seem a lot more fringe when compared to the fear and paranoia the soviets produced.
Is this just symptomatic of an empire in decline or what? Maybe propaganda doesn't work as well as it once did?
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Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv
leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html
bunekrchan.xyz archives:
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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 888
> Gigawatt anti-drone edition.Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv
leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html
bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
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Not so surprising. Reddit still remains open. Twitter remains open.
Was 4Chan truly causing the most mischief or was this a mismanagement by Elon and Trump?
4Chan Has Been Closed
The End of 4Chan was caused by Elon Musk.Not so surprising. Reddit still remains open. Twitter remains open.
Was 4Chan truly causing the most mischief or was this a mismanagement by Elon and Trump?
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Now I find this perspective somewhat contradictory, as it would mean the State and oil companies care about clean energy which is clearly not the case. What are your thoughts? How do we know if JSO is the cause for this change on policy?
UK State capitulated to Just Stop Oil
The state capitulated to its demands for an end to all new oil and gas licenses. Now, some people may argue that JSO was not considered for the decision, but rather oil production is being limited to keep prices artificially high in order for investments in clean energy to pay off. If oil is overproduced, the price collapse would also bankrupt clean energy investments. Or some other reason.Now I find this perspective somewhat contradictory, as it would mean the State and oil companies care about clean energy which is clearly not the case. What are your thoughts? How do we know if JSO is the cause for this change on policy?
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On Monday, Marlon Ochoa, a member of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Honduras, accused the right-wing opposition of deliberately inflating the results of the primary elections held on March 9 to favor Nasry Asfura, the presidential candidate of the National Party (PN), and Salvador Nasralla, the presidential candidate of the Liberal Party (PL).
https://www.telesurenglish.net/honduran-opposition-accused-of-altering-primary-election-results/
Palestinians in Brazil demand the country cut ties with Israel after death of teenager
Fepal emphasizes that the time for diplomacy has been “buried” by Israel and demands that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party) take a new stance towards the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/31/palestinians-in-brazil-demand-the-country-cut-ties-with-israel-after-death-of-teenager/
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim they shot down another American drone as US strikes pound country
The reported shootdown came as airstrikes hit around Sanaa, the country’s rebel-held capital, and Saada, a Houthi stronghold. The U.S. military acknowledged to The Associated Press it was aware of reports of the downing of a Reaper, but declined to comment further.
https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthis-mq9-shot-down-israel-hamas-war-us-airstrikes-6bd7764ba19e84d2dddac0d3c762459a
HPG: Turkish attacks continued uninterruptedly during the month of Ramadan
Despite the ceasefire declared by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on March 1, Turkey continues its attacks against the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq), reported the Press Center of the People's Defense Forces (HPG) in a statement about the current state of war in the region.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/hpg-turkish-attacks-continued-uninterruptedly-during-the-month-of-ramadan-78658
Key evidence deleted in case against ex-military man who spied on Julian Assange for CIA, says expert report
The IOmega hard drive used by Spanish police to store information obtained from the phones and computers of David Morales, a former military officer investigated for spying on Julian Assange for the CIA, was tampered with while it was inside a sealed cabinet in the custody of Spain’s High Court (Audiencia Nacional), according to an expert report by the Australian cyberactivist’s defense team.
https://english.elpais.com/spain/2025-03-31/key-evidence-deleted-in-case-against-ex-military-man-who-spied-on-julian-assange-for-cia-says-expert-report.html
https://archive.ph/RDWDm
EU and UK fine carmakers millions over recycling cartel
German giant Volkswagen was handed the heftiest fine of €127 million, followed by Renault/Nissan (€81.5 million), Opel parent company Stellantis (€75 million), Ford (€41.5 million), BMW (€25 million), Opel itself (€25 million) and Toyota (around €24 million). The ACEA must pay €500,000.
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-and-uk-fine-carmakers-millions-over-recycling-cartel/a-72109880
https://archive.ph/3WQr8
Bosnian Serb leader flees to Moscow as authorities step up pursuit
Dodik left Bosnia last week to go to Belgrade, from where he flew to Jerusalem to attend a conference on antisemitism organized by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
https://www.politico.eu/article/milorad-dodik-bosnian-serb-leader-flees-to-moscow-amid-looming-arrest-warrant/
https://archive.ph/tX1DY
India Predicts Sweltering Summer in Threat to Economic Growth
Several areas in the country are likely to experience more heat wave days than normal during three months through June, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, director general of the India Meteorological Department, said in New Delhi on Monday. Maximum temperatures will likely be higher than normal in April too, he said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-31/india-predicts-sweltering-summer-in-threat-to-economic-growth
https://archive.ph/7cXJZ
Nepal’s girls face new child marriage fears amid debate to change law
Supporters of the law to lower the age argue it would stop innocent men from being imprisoned for marrying out of love. Others, including human rights groups, women advocacy collectives, and teenage girls interviewed by Al Jazeera, say the recommendation is designed to protect men rather than promote gender equality in Nepal.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/1/nepals-girls-face-new-child-marriage-fears-amid-debate-to-change-law
https://archive.ph/UY3Aj
Renewed media attacks on Australian construction union
Over recent weeks, the corporate media barrage against the construction division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) has resumed in earnest, some seven months after the federal Labor government placed the division under administration.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/31/bvcf-m31.html
News 4/1/25
Honduran Opposition Accused of Altering Primary Election ResultsOn Monday, Marlon Ochoa, a member of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Honduras, accused the right-wing opposition of deliberately inflating the results of the primary elections held on March 9 to favor Nasry Asfura, the presidential candidate of the National Party (PN), and Salvador Nasralla, the presidential candidate of the Liberal Party (PL).
https://www.telesurenglish.net/honduran-opposition-accused-of-altering-primary-election-results/
Palestinians in Brazil demand the country cut ties with Israel after death of teenager
Fepal emphasizes that the time for diplomacy has been “buried” by Israel and demands that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party) take a new stance towards the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/31/palestinians-in-brazil-demand-the-country-cut-ties-with-israel-after-death-of-teenager/
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim they shot down another American drone as US strikes pound country
The reported shootdown came as airstrikes hit around Sanaa, the country’s rebel-held capital, and Saada, a Houthi stronghold. The U.S. military acknowledged to The Associated Press it was aware of reports of the downing of a Reaper, but declined to comment further.
https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthis-mq9-shot-down-israel-hamas-war-us-airstrikes-6bd7764ba19e84d2dddac0d3c762459a
HPG: Turkish attacks continued uninterruptedly during the month of Ramadan
Despite the ceasefire declared by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on March 1, Turkey continues its attacks against the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq), reported the Press Center of the People's Defense Forces (HPG) in a statement about the current state of war in the region.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/hpg-turkish-attacks-continued-uninterruptedly-during-the-month-of-ramadan-78658
Key evidence deleted in case against ex-military man who spied on Julian Assange for CIA, says expert report
The IOmega hard drive used by Spanish police to store information obtained from the phones and computers of David Morales, a former military officer investigated for spying on Julian Assange for the CIA, was tampered with while it was inside a sealed cabinet in the custody of Spain’s High Court (Audiencia Nacional), according to an expert report by the Australian cyberactivist’s defense team.
https://english.elpais.com/spain/2025-03-31/key-evidence-deleted-in-case-against-ex-military-man-who-spied-on-julian-assange-for-cia-says-expert-report.html
https://archive.ph/RDWDm
EU and UK fine carmakers millions over recycling cartel
German giant Volkswagen was handed the heftiest fine of €127 million, followed by Renault/Nissan (€81.5 million), Opel parent company Stellantis (€75 million), Ford (€41.5 million), BMW (€25 million), Opel itself (€25 million) and Toyota (around €24 million). The ACEA must pay €500,000.
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-and-uk-fine-carmakers-millions-over-recycling-cartel/a-72109880
https://archive.ph/3WQr8
Bosnian Serb leader flees to Moscow as authorities step up pursuit
Dodik left Bosnia last week to go to Belgrade, from where he flew to Jerusalem to attend a conference on antisemitism organized by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
https://www.politico.eu/article/milorad-dodik-bosnian-serb-leader-flees-to-moscow-amid-looming-arrest-warrant/
https://archive.ph/tX1DY
India Predicts Sweltering Summer in Threat to Economic Growth
Several areas in the country are likely to experience more heat wave days than normal during three months through June, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, director general of the India Meteorological Department, said in New Delhi on Monday. Maximum temperatures will likely be higher than normal in April too, he said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-31/india-predicts-sweltering-summer-in-threat-to-economic-growth
https://archive.ph/7cXJZ
Nepal’s girls face new child marriage fears amid debate to change law
Supporters of the law to lower the age argue it would stop innocent men from being imprisoned for marrying out of love. Others, including human rights groups, women advocacy collectives, and teenage girls interviewed by Al Jazeera, say the recommendation is designed to protect men rather than promote gender equality in Nepal.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/1/nepals-girls-face-new-child-marriage-fears-amid-debate-to-change-law
https://archive.ph/UY3Aj
Renewed media attacks on Australian construction union
Over recent weeks, the corporate media barrage against the construction division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) has resumed in earnest, some seven months after the federal Labor government placed the division under administration.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/31/bvcf-m31.html
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I would guess that this is in large part a legacy of the importance of Russian art and literature before the revolution, but what accounts for China's relative paucity of serious art? Their film industry seems to just be trying to recreate Hollywood with socialist plots. The only Chinese author I've even heard of is Liu Cixin, who writes really interesting scifi, but nothing approaching the literary equivalent of a Tarkovsky. Am I just ignorant of the art being produced in China or is my intuition correct?
actually existing socialist art
What accounts for the discrepancy between the incredible filmmaking of the Soviet Union and that of communist China? The Soviets intentionally developed their film industry in particular and pushed for serious artistic works that have been recognized even in the western world as some of the most important achievements in the medium.I would guess that this is in large part a legacy of the importance of Russian art and literature before the revolution, but what accounts for China's relative paucity of serious art? Their film industry seems to just be trying to recreate Hollywood with socialist plots. The only Chinese author I've even heard of is Liu Cixin, who writes really interesting scifi, but nothing approaching the literary equivalent of a Tarkovsky. Am I just ignorant of the art being produced in China or is my intuition correct?
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gonna try and make a cool OP for this involving a few party sites and news outlets (note it's not complete if theres other shit that should be added in the next thread post it)
PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
OOOOOOOOOOO /CANADA/
canada thread continuing from >>1878602gonna try and make a cool OP for this involving a few party sites and news outlets (note it's not complete if theres other shit that should be added in the next thread post it)
PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
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Deadass asking:
as an Iranian, How fucked Am I when Israel cracks the whip and trump invades? do you think the American public will stop the war? I can't take this shit anymore. my teenage years were burned by sanctions and my youth is not only getting destroyed by the wrecked economy but I'll probably be bombed to death.
this shit is making me suicidal istg
Deadass asking:
as an Iranian, How fucked Am I when Israel cracks the whip and trump invades? do you think the American public will stop the war? I can't take this shit anymore. my teenage years were burned by sanctions and my youth is not only getting destroyed by the wrecked economy but I'll probably be bombed to death.
this shit is making me suicidal istg
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But Anarcho-Nihliism and Post left anarchism has just, well apart from convincing me egoist's are generally all assholes who use an ideology of selfishness as a justification for being a cunt and then still somehow getting surprised when you don't condone being an utter cunt, it offers no political platform that even seems to have a basis in trying to make it come to fruition with their end goal of a a hyper individualistic society that seems positively apocalyptic if you think about it for long enough.
Is their anyway to take them seriously as an ideology or do they deserve the same political considerations as one would a schizophrenic with multiple traumatic brain injuries?
What the fuck is happening with Anarcho-Nihilism
Can someone please explain to me how this ideology isn't just the psychical embodiment of edge? Ive been an anarchist for a long time, over a decade. Im that time, ive met some interesting people, many of whom were completely politically incoherent in their beliefs. And im not just talking about the internet exclusive lurkers, these were real people who went outside and had relationships and shit who were not internet brain rotted.But Anarcho-Nihliism and Post left anarchism has just, well apart from convincing me egoist's are generally all assholes who use an ideology of selfishness as a justification for being a cunt and then still somehow getting surprised when you don't condone being an utter cunt, it offers no political platform that even seems to have a basis in trying to make it come to fruition with their end goal of a a hyper individualistic society that seems positively apocalyptic if you think about it for long enough.
Is their anyway to take them seriously as an ideology or do they deserve the same political considerations as one would a schizophrenic with multiple traumatic brain injuries?
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/leftybritpol/ BROKEN BRITAIN edition
I just watched the 'UK IS DYING AND I NEED TO VENT' video and I think we can all agree there is no hope for anyone in this country whatsoever, except for the landlords and triple locked pensioners, so with that said should we all go abroad? If so then where? Or should we just do our best to find a way to make it in this country? Maybe I should go teach English in China, but moving away from what I know is scary.
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Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
/DPRK/ - Democratic People's Republic of Korea General
Thread for news and discussions of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its material conditions, the status and health of its socialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
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The massive amount of production paired with the sheer productivity of modern industrial tech has given a material basis for justifying a direct transition from a capitalist society to a post scarcity communist one.
There largely isn’t any need in much of the planet to justify having massive collectivized centralized industry, armies of industrial workers, or central planning to coordinate supplies when there is so much of well… everything anyone could possibly need.
There was a time when transitioning to socialism would have made some level of sense if it meant reaching post scarcity. We’re not in that time. There’s a comically high over abundance of food, a literal island of discarded clothing, entire cities and towns worth of housing being left partially or fully abondoned. It makes far more sense to just tax the rich and set up better protections for shit owned by individuals at this point to stop the nonstop looting and extortion than it is to work, prepare, plan, and mobilize any fucking more.
Besides, I’m sure anyone calling for heavier taxation against the rich and social securities (as in actual protections against looting, scams, and violent crime) is going to have a lot of support anyways.
We’re at a point where we can skip socialism and go directly into communism
This is a highly recent development that I’m kind of surprised that you apeshits never noticed.The massive amount of production paired with the sheer productivity of modern industrial tech has given a material basis for justifying a direct transition from a capitalist society to a post scarcity communist one.
There largely isn’t any need in much of the planet to justify having massive collectivized centralized industry, armies of industrial workers, or central planning to coordinate supplies when there is so much of well… everything anyone could possibly need.
There was a time when transitioning to socialism would have made some level of sense if it meant reaching post scarcity. We’re not in that time. There’s a comically high over abundance of food, a literal island of discarded clothing, entire cities and towns worth of housing being left partially or fully abondoned. It makes far more sense to just tax the rich and set up better protections for shit owned by individuals at this point to stop the nonstop looting and extortion than it is to work, prepare, plan, and mobilize any fucking more.
Besides, I’m sure anyone calling for heavier taxation against the rich and social securities (as in actual protections against looting, scams, and violent crime) is going to have a lot of support anyways.
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>Dying from curable diseases for U
<Us having the cure for everything
>Suffering from crazy reactionary and outdated forms of socio-political tyranny for you
<Us having the enlightened form of governance
But most importantly to a communist:
>Solveable but eternally ongoing problems of scarcity for U
<Infinite material abundance for us
…all of this in the name of a dogma ("prime directive") all of this while we could elevate you into a higher socio-economic and scientific/technological level, but "sorry," we are "not allowed" to do that for you, cuz… reasons…
I almost wonder what an ACTUAL communist (internationalist, galactic) Star Trek would look like. No shit it would involve the "Federation" enlightening all those fascistic/theocratic/etc. natives to a higher productive level and therefore eliminating all social ills.
But I'm told again and again by American "comrades," that this is what peak communist show looks like, cuz they vet to feel better by that dogma's limitations:
>Sry, we can't cure you and elevate your society onto our level….. CUZ REASONS, LOL
In any case, I can't wait for the Chinese version of this show, wherein our daring space-faring crew just do the materialist and sensible thing.
Mind you, for labour aristocrats TO THIS DAY this is what enlightened FALC behavior looks like.
What a fucking joke, 🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣!
Labour Aristocracy - The Show
The so called "Prime Directive" is an ideological equivalent of US exceptionalism and a way to retreat into a moral high ground. Basically:>Dying from curable diseases for U
<Us having the cure for everything
>Suffering from crazy reactionary and outdated forms of socio-political tyranny for you
<Us having the enlightened form of governance
But most importantly to a communist:
>Solveable but eternally ongoing problems of scarcity for U
<Infinite material abundance for us
…all of this in the name of a dogma ("prime directive") all of this while we could elevate you into a higher socio-economic and scientific/technological level, but "sorry," we are "not allowed" to do that for you, cuz… reasons…
I almost wonder what an ACTUAL communist (internationalist, galactic) Star Trek would look like. No shit it would involve the "Federation" enlightening all those fascistic/theocratic/etc. natives to a higher productive level and therefore eliminating all social ills.
But I'm told again and again by American "comrades," that this is what peak communist show looks like, cuz they vet to feel better by that dogma's limitations:
>Sry, we can't cure you and elevate your society onto our level….. CUZ REASONS, LOL
In any case, I can't wait for the Chinese version of this show, wherein our daring space-faring crew just do the materialist and sensible thing.
Mind you, for labour aristocrats TO THIS DAY this is what enlightened FALC behavior looks like.
What a fucking joke, 🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣!
R: 15 / I: 1
Here in the europe, i have no idea whats going on over there, but from what ive heard and read, it aims to help the proletariat like everybody here, yada yada, yet it does so by taking over villages in a very undemocratic and violent way, killing random civilians. How come you want to free the proletariat……by taking over it like that and even sometimes killing them?
Yes, violence is necessary for the revolution, but dont we have to ask ourselves to what extend?
New peoples army philippines criticism
Genuinely whats up with the npa?Here in the europe, i have no idea whats going on over there, but from what ive heard and read, it aims to help the proletariat like everybody here, yada yada, yet it does so by taking over villages in a very undemocratic and violent way, killing random civilians. How come you want to free the proletariat……by taking over it like that and even sometimes killing them?
Yes, violence is necessary for the revolution, but dont we have to ask ourselves to what extend?
R: 61 / I: 6
I'm ashamed to live in Poland, if Poland shills for another Slav-killing war (not saying I don't hate Putin or Zelensky).
I'd like to watch some anti-Polish content on YT, then.
Do you have the best Poland-hate content on YouTube?
I'm tired of living in this country, for some reason. I will ask the same question on 4chan, but honestly it's a neo-nazi imageboard.I'm ashamed to live in Poland, if Poland shills for another Slav-killing war (not saying I don't hate Putin or Zelensky).
I'd like to watch some anti-Polish content on YT, then.
R: 87 / I: 13
Are leftist imageboard users the most lonely online archetype that exists? We don't fit in with standard imageboard users, because they are mostly right-wing. And we don't fit in with standard leftists, because we are too closely associated with imageboard culture.
Are leftist imageboard users the most lonely online archetype that exists? We don't fit in with standard imageboard users, because they are mostly right-wing. And we don't fit in with standard leftists, because we are too closely associated with imageboard culture.
R: 6 / I: 0
I had realised something very interesting a while ago.
Look at le political compass. Now look at the [in]famous AD&D moral alignment chart. See anything? (Apart from OP's awful photoshop skills?)
It is not that hard to notice that they are somewhat similar, main difference being that the one is discrete and the other is continous, but on its own this would mean very little. However, what really interesting is that they both had mutated in analogous, if not the exact same, way!
Both of these systems were initially made for a [two very different sets of] burger petit burgeous nerds. Both blew up globally way past just their intended audiences in the age of the Internet and became memes.
And what's most interesting: despite it not only being idealistic and not grounded in any material reality (by design) but also obviously lacking in dimensions to describe any sort of realistic worldview or a value system… D&D's 3x3 alignment chart was apparently found too complex for enough players that WotC in the later editions of the game had replaced it with 1x5 one-dimensional morality chart ("Lawful Good", "Good", "Neutral", "Evil", "Chaotic Evil") Yes, apparently D&D players are such retards that two dimensions is too many for them.
Now, for what had directly inspired me to make this post: a few months ago on reddit I saw a person complaining about a political compass being… too complex. When asked how they would classify ideologies then, the person replied with "There is only one real axis of ideology, so "Far left, Left, Centrist, Right, Far Right", the more left you are, the better, I am the Far Left because I am a lesbian atheist supporting full luxury space communism". I had checked a "lesbian atheist"'s account and saw her calling to "ban all Hamasnics" because "Israelis are innocent secular people defending themselves against barbaric Islamic fundamentalists". Today, I had checked her reddit account today and… found it suspended.
So, we have two separate cases where a 2D 3x3 quasi-ideological framework becaming popular, and then some extreme chud finding it too complicated and replacing it with a 1D 1x5 one instead. Which… isn't a lot, but isn't that weird that it happened twice so far?
I had realised something very interesting a while ago.
Look at le political compass. Now look at the [in]famous AD&D moral alignment chart. See anything? (Apart from OP's awful photoshop skills?)
It is not that hard to notice that they are somewhat similar, main difference being that the one is discrete and the other is continous, but on its own this would mean very little. However, what really interesting is that they both had mutated in analogous, if not the exact same, way!
Both of these systems were initially made for a [two very different sets of] burger petit burgeous nerds. Both blew up globally way past just their intended audiences in the age of the Internet and became memes.
And what's most interesting: despite it not only being idealistic and not grounded in any material reality (by design) but also obviously lacking in dimensions to describe any sort of realistic worldview or a value system… D&D's 3x3 alignment chart was apparently found too complex for enough players that WotC in the later editions of the game had replaced it with 1x5 one-dimensional morality chart ("Lawful Good", "Good", "Neutral", "Evil", "Chaotic Evil") Yes, apparently D&D players are such retards that two dimensions is too many for them.
Now, for what had directly inspired me to make this post: a few months ago on reddit I saw a person complaining about a political compass being… too complex. When asked how they would classify ideologies then, the person replied with "There is only one real axis of ideology, so "Far left, Left, Centrist, Right, Far Right", the more left you are, the better, I am the Far Left because I am a lesbian atheist supporting full luxury space communism". I had checked a "lesbian atheist"'s account and saw her calling to "ban all Hamasnics" because "Israelis are innocent secular people defending themselves against barbaric Islamic fundamentalists". Today, I had checked her reddit account today and… found it suspended.
So, we have two separate cases where a 2D 3x3 quasi-ideological framework becaming popular, and then some extreme chud finding it too complicated and replacing it with a 1D 1x5 one instead. Which… isn't a lot, but isn't that weird that it happened twice so far?
R: 25 / I: 3
To be a Fascist in the 21st century you have be spectacularly stupid. The original Fascists were just an expression of retarded middle-class anxieties and modern Fascism is somehow even LESS substantive. Pure aesthetics, not even built to actually take power or government. It is literally just an edgy aesthetic and that's literally it. I know people like to say "oooooh you can't just call them stupid because that plays down how dangerous they can be" but no, you do have to be immensely stupid to be a Fascist today.
To be a Fascist in the 21st century you have be spectacularly stupid. The original Fascists were just an expression of retarded middle-class anxieties and modern Fascism is somehow even LESS substantive. Pure aesthetics, not even built to actually take power or government. It is literally just an edgy aesthetic and that's literally it. I know people like to say "oooooh you can't just call them stupid because that plays down how dangerous they can be" but no, you do have to be immensely stupid to be a Fascist today.
R: 75 / I: 4
Not asking America to invade this hell but why should these people being given any leniency or understanding when they make people live in these retarded ways?
If you think this post is actually cia propaganda and Taliban dosen't do things like this at all then show me. If you want to make some noble savage argument that they are a unique culture and we can't relate to these decisions or judge them because we are westerners then kys
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241229-taliban-leader-bans-windows-overlooking-women-s-area
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/22/middleeast/taliban-law-women-voices-intl-latam/index.html
Help me understand your perspective
How is the taliban of some resistance that I should look at positively or not despise? How do you look at these things and bend yourself into a pretzel justifying it because america is bad?Not asking America to invade this hell but why should these people being given any leniency or understanding when they make people live in these retarded ways?
If you think this post is actually cia propaganda and Taliban dosen't do things like this at all then show me. If you want to make some noble savage argument that they are a unique culture and we can't relate to these decisions or judge them because we are westerners then kys
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241229-taliban-leader-bans-windows-overlooking-women-s-area
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/22/middleeast/taliban-law-women-voices-intl-latam/index.html
R: 587 / I: 156
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Why are anarchist like this? It literally shits on Marxist for thinking maybe work can help in some ways?
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolition-of-work
I cannot take anarchist seriously
I read thru this whole thing (22 pages) and while it made some interesting points the idea overall is absurdWhy are anarchist like this? It literally shits on Marxist for thinking maybe work can help in some ways?
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolition-of-work
R: 64 / I: 3
This shit made me realize how much abrahamic religions have destroyed any chance of humanity ever achieving true independence and wisdom. Since abrahamic theology is literally a mental skinner box to ensure perfect subservience.
Ancient pagan philosophy vs modern religion
I started reading into Marcus Aurelius and different Hellenistic schools and it's pretty sad how they all got nuked by christcucks. These various philosophical schools were concerned about practical ways to solve life problems and it surprised my how advanced their ideas were. So much so that modern psychotherapy was inspired by stoicism. Even Buddhism and different Hindu schools are eerily similar to these systems.This shit made me realize how much abrahamic religions have destroyed any chance of humanity ever achieving true independence and wisdom. Since abrahamic theology is literally a mental skinner box to ensure perfect subservience.
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Last thread lasted two months, so keep in mind these events are separated by weeks.
Stalemate near Tishreen dam between the SDF and the SNA.
Insurgency developments & germination in the coast.
Israel announces it's not withdrawing from the newly-acquired Syrian territories.
Al-Julani forms a new government, formally dissolves the former SAA and declares himself president. New Ministry of Defense and army so far is barely cohesive and resembles one of those countless joint operations rooms we've seen before.
HTS attacks Lebanese areas under the justification of "combating smuggling". Withdraws quickly.
Clashes in the Druze Damascus suburb of Jaramana that were quickly defused. Suwayda (majority Druze region south of Damascus) is still de-facto autonomous and controlled by armed Druze factions.
Massive uprising by the insurgents in the coastal regions that was quelled in around 4 days. Hundreds of military casualties on both sides. Insurgents go back to guerilla mode after.
Massacres of Alawites in the coastal regions during said uprising. At least 1000 civvies dead. HTS and Julani blame undisciplined SNA units and say they're gonna punish the perpetrators.
HTS and SDF sign memorandum for integration.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com/
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Recent news:Last thread lasted two months, so keep in mind these events are separated by weeks.
Stalemate near Tishreen dam between the SDF and the SNA.
Insurgency developments & germination in the coast.
Israel announces it's not withdrawing from the newly-acquired Syrian territories.
Al-Julani forms a new government, formally dissolves the former SAA and declares himself president. New Ministry of Defense and army so far is barely cohesive and resembles one of those countless joint operations rooms we've seen before.
HTS attacks Lebanese areas under the justification of "combating smuggling". Withdraws quickly.
Clashes in the Druze Damascus suburb of Jaramana that were quickly defused. Suwayda (majority Druze region south of Damascus) is still de-facto autonomous and controlled by armed Druze factions.
Massive uprising by the insurgents in the coastal regions that was quelled in around 4 days. Hundreds of military casualties on both sides. Insurgents go back to guerilla mode after.
Massacres of Alawites in the coastal regions during said uprising. At least 1000 civvies dead. HTS and Julani blame undisciplined SNA units and say they're gonna punish the perpetrators.
HTS and SDF sign memorandum for integration.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com/
R: 46 / I: 17
>massive fucking cost of living crisis stressing out Chinese people
>literally hundreds of perfectly habitable cities that cost less to live in remain empty and unwanted
???
Also the emptiness of much of urban china is fucking creepy. You know how many North American downtown areas are sometimes barren in life which creates a feeling of unease with the fact that there’s infrastructure for people without people using it? Yeah that’s how I feel staring at this
Images like this shouldn’t exist
This is Changsha city>massive fucking cost of living crisis stressing out Chinese people
>literally hundreds of perfectly habitable cities that cost less to live in remain empty and unwanted
???
Also the emptiness of much of urban china is fucking creepy. You know how many North American downtown areas are sometimes barren in life which creates a feeling of unease with the fact that there’s infrastructure for people without people using it? Yeah that’s how I feel staring at this
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Ms Le Pen was also sentenced to two years’ imprisonment under house arrest. In addition, the judge handed down guilty verdicts for embezzling public funds to eight other current or former members of her party who, like Ms Le Pen, previously served as European Parliament lawmakers.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/le-pen-found-guilty-embezzlement-and-barred-elections-five-years
Thames Water picks private equity firm as preferred buyer
It will now enter the next stage of the investment process with KKR, one of the world's largest private equity firms with $160bn of investments globally. KKR is already a shareholder in another UK water provider, Northumbrian Water.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crldrylyy9do
Nationwide strike across Belgium severely disrupts public transport and other services
The Christian and Socialist trade unions organised the strike in protest against budget cuts announced by the country's coalition government, nicknamed "Arizona" because the coalition party colours match those of the Arizona state flag, led by Flemish nationalist Bart de Wever.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/31/nationwide-strike-across-belgium-severely-disrupts-public-transport-and-other-services
https://archive.ph/k6nUt
Indigenous groups in Peru protest Glencore's Antapaccay mine
A source close to the company confirmed that protests had blocked access to mine vehicles. Images from a local online news program showed small groups of people at different points in the road, holding signs.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/indigenous-groups-peru-protest-glencores-antapaccay-mine-2025-03-31/
Evo insists on running for President of Bolivia despite reelection limits
”There is no plan B here (…) The only candidate (is) Evo,“ said the indigenous leader in front of supporters who filled a stadium in Villa Tunari, his political stronghold in the central department of Cochabamba. ”Here, sisters and brothers, we are going to give birth to another name, the true name of the political instrument,“ said the former head of state.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/31/evo-insists-on-running-for-president-of-bolivia-despite-reelection-limits
The attackers set off from military base | Six civilians executed in Baniyas countryside
According to local sources, the gunmen set off from Al-Desaynah base, a former camp of the former regime force, in Baniyas countryside. The attackers carried out that attack and returned to the base where forces of the ministries of defence and interior are stationed.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/358998/
Israel orders Rafah evacuation as it continues bombardment of Gaza
He called on Palestinians to immediately move to shelter in al-Mawasi on the coast. The area has regularly come under Israeli fire during the war in Gaza, despite being designated as a “safe zone”. Shortly after the evacuation order, Al Jazeera Arabic reported that at least two people were killed during an Israeli attack on a tent housing displaced people in the area.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/31/israel-orders-rafah-evacuation-as-it-continues-bombardment-of-gaza
https://archive.ph/okmry
Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinian medics and buried them in a mass grave, UN says
For days, Israeli forces would not allow access to the site where the emergency teams disappeared, the U.N. said. On Wednesday, a U.N. convoy tried to reach the site but encountered Israeli troops opening fire on people.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-medics-killed-israel-ambulances-f34b6ecc985d9127265a400bd52c72b7
Bengal Polls: RSS Eyeing ‘New’ Hindu Votes to Give BJP an Edge
A major concern for the BJP brass is that they do not have a cohesive, active state organisation. Despite several interventions by the central leadership, deficiencies persist in the party’s state unit and intra-party differences have made cohesive functioning a far cry.
https://www.newsclick.in/bengal-polls-rss-eyeing-new-hindu-votes-give-bjp-edge
Poor and migrants bear brunt of south east Asia earthquake
Authorities say that so far at least 1,700 people are known to have died, but many more are unaccounted for. And there is enormous danger for the living, particularly those at quake’s epicentre, Mandalay–Myanmar’s second city. Many now homeless people have been forced to sleep in the open and while the military regime remains focused on fighting its four-year civil war against democracy activists.
https://socialistworker.co.uk/international/poor-and-migrants-bear-brunt-of-south-east-asia-earthquake/
News 3/31/25
Le Pen found guilty of embezzlement and barred from French elections for five yearsMs Le Pen was also sentenced to two years’ imprisonment under house arrest. In addition, the judge handed down guilty verdicts for embezzling public funds to eight other current or former members of her party who, like Ms Le Pen, previously served as European Parliament lawmakers.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/le-pen-found-guilty-embezzlement-and-barred-elections-five-years
Thames Water picks private equity firm as preferred buyer
It will now enter the next stage of the investment process with KKR, one of the world's largest private equity firms with $160bn of investments globally. KKR is already a shareholder in another UK water provider, Northumbrian Water.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crldrylyy9do
Nationwide strike across Belgium severely disrupts public transport and other services
The Christian and Socialist trade unions organised the strike in protest against budget cuts announced by the country's coalition government, nicknamed "Arizona" because the coalition party colours match those of the Arizona state flag, led by Flemish nationalist Bart de Wever.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/31/nationwide-strike-across-belgium-severely-disrupts-public-transport-and-other-services
https://archive.ph/k6nUt
Indigenous groups in Peru protest Glencore's Antapaccay mine
A source close to the company confirmed that protests had blocked access to mine vehicles. Images from a local online news program showed small groups of people at different points in the road, holding signs.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/indigenous-groups-peru-protest-glencores-antapaccay-mine-2025-03-31/
Evo insists on running for President of Bolivia despite reelection limits
”There is no plan B here (…) The only candidate (is) Evo,“ said the indigenous leader in front of supporters who filled a stadium in Villa Tunari, his political stronghold in the central department of Cochabamba. ”Here, sisters and brothers, we are going to give birth to another name, the true name of the political instrument,“ said the former head of state.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/31/evo-insists-on-running-for-president-of-bolivia-despite-reelection-limits
The attackers set off from military base | Six civilians executed in Baniyas countryside
According to local sources, the gunmen set off from Al-Desaynah base, a former camp of the former regime force, in Baniyas countryside. The attackers carried out that attack and returned to the base where forces of the ministries of defence and interior are stationed.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/358998/
Israel orders Rafah evacuation as it continues bombardment of Gaza
He called on Palestinians to immediately move to shelter in al-Mawasi on the coast. The area has regularly come under Israeli fire during the war in Gaza, despite being designated as a “safe zone”. Shortly after the evacuation order, Al Jazeera Arabic reported that at least two people were killed during an Israeli attack on a tent housing displaced people in the area.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/31/israel-orders-rafah-evacuation-as-it-continues-bombardment-of-gaza
https://archive.ph/okmry
Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinian medics and buried them in a mass grave, UN says
For days, Israeli forces would not allow access to the site where the emergency teams disappeared, the U.N. said. On Wednesday, a U.N. convoy tried to reach the site but encountered Israeli troops opening fire on people.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-medics-killed-israel-ambulances-f34b6ecc985d9127265a400bd52c72b7
Bengal Polls: RSS Eyeing ‘New’ Hindu Votes to Give BJP an Edge
A major concern for the BJP brass is that they do not have a cohesive, active state organisation. Despite several interventions by the central leadership, deficiencies persist in the party’s state unit and intra-party differences have made cohesive functioning a far cry.
https://www.newsclick.in/bengal-polls-rss-eyeing-new-hindu-votes-give-bjp-edge
Poor and migrants bear brunt of south east Asia earthquake
Authorities say that so far at least 1,700 people are known to have died, but many more are unaccounted for. And there is enormous danger for the living, particularly those at quake’s epicentre, Mandalay–Myanmar’s second city. Many now homeless people have been forced to sleep in the open and while the military regime remains focused on fighting its four-year civil war against democracy activists.
https://socialistworker.co.uk/international/poor-and-migrants-bear-brunt-of-south-east-asia-earthquake/
R: 34 / I: 4
So what does “non-exploitative” work actually look like, because you can contrive almost any human action to be exploitative in one way or another.
And if you’re just trying to limit “obvious, extreme exploitation” with the admission that completely eradicating it is impossible, then where is the limit? Many people deny wage capitalism is exploitative, since it’s a voluntary contract, even though you might point out the employer is taking unfair advantage of external pressures on the employee, but that is vague as fuck and isn’t an actionable answer.
So is there a definitive criteria set for what makes something exploitative and what it would need to not be so?
So what does “non-exploitative” work actually look like, because you can contrive almost any human action to be exploitative in one way or another.
And if you’re just trying to limit “obvious, extreme exploitation” with the admission that completely eradicating it is impossible, then where is the limit? Many people deny wage capitalism is exploitative, since it’s a voluntary contract, even though you might point out the employer is taking unfair advantage of external pressures on the employee, but that is vague as fuck and isn’t an actionable answer.
So is there a definitive criteria set for what makes something exploitative and what it would need to not be so?
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Enver Hoxha
Was he correct about Yugoslavia? Was he correct about Kruschev? Was he correct about Mao? Was he correct about Eurocomunism? Was he too sectarian? What was his deal? Was he based?
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https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/63148 - this document was created by an enemy of the people Zubkin. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 He admitted that he was spying for Germany, and more importantly, that he was sabotaging the NKVD archives with the purpose of making those unuseable
Also, note that by anticommunist mythology captured by Wikipedia, Zubkin was shot in 1939, on the same day he was sentenced to death; meanwhile, his widow had a death certificate for her husband that he died in 1944 in prison. Oh gee, surely, death certificate was wrong, and the real Zubkin was shot, and not that anticommunists have made this shit up, like in many, many other cases
https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/49499 - fully handwritten text in original. Dated 11 Dec 1953, signed by "colonel Pavlov". Actual organizational structure of NKVD in 1953 was like this https://web.archive.org/web/20140201123707/http://shieldandsword.mozohin.ru/VD3462/structure/1so.htm - Pletnev was one of the chiefs of NKVD and his rank was lieutenant colonel. He was a real person, with a document trail of his existence. Somehow, Pavlov, a person who couldn't be found anywhere in any other document, being higher rank that Pletnev, was his "acting" replacement, and he was signing under handwritten table with crazy hundreds of thousands figure of people shot to death
https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/170661 - third document, from Rudenko to Khruschev. Original looks like picrelated. It's dated 1954, but "correction fluid" that was used to stamp out original numbers in the document wasn't invented until 1956 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correction_fluid Furthermore, according to Soviet archive/record keeping protocols, ink color and handwriting style are part of the protocol, so if there's any "error correction" happening in the document, it must be clarified in the document by the person doing correction via signing in the new ink with surname and initials, to prove authenticity of the whole document and that there weren't edits. If there's a printed document applied to archives, it cannot have shit like corrections, it must be remade from scratch so that there's no questions about authenticity
Your move, conspiracy theorists, who believe in Soviets secretly murdering more than 700k people in super secrecy, without leaving behind any corpses
Mass repressions in USSR
Let's summarize archival evidence that Great Purge has happened and had hundreds of thousands of victims (Taken from here https://grumbler-1.livejournal.com/58562.html )https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/63148 - this document was created by an enemy of the people Zubkin. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 He admitted that he was spying for Germany, and more importantly, that he was sabotaging the NKVD archives with the purpose of making those unuseable
Also, note that by anticommunist mythology captured by Wikipedia, Zubkin was shot in 1939, on the same day he was sentenced to death; meanwhile, his widow had a death certificate for her husband that he died in 1944 in prison. Oh gee, surely, death certificate was wrong, and the real Zubkin was shot, and not that anticommunists have made this shit up, like in many, many other cases
https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/49499 - fully handwritten text in original. Dated 11 Dec 1953, signed by "colonel Pavlov". Actual organizational structure of NKVD in 1953 was like this https://web.archive.org/web/20140201123707/http://shieldandsword.mozohin.ru/VD3462/structure/1so.htm - Pletnev was one of the chiefs of NKVD and his rank was lieutenant colonel. He was a real person, with a document trail of his existence. Somehow, Pavlov, a person who couldn't be found anywhere in any other document, being higher rank that Pletnev, was his "acting" replacement, and he was signing under handwritten table with crazy hundreds of thousands figure of people shot to death
https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/170661 - third document, from Rudenko to Khruschev. Original looks like picrelated. It's dated 1954, but "correction fluid" that was used to stamp out original numbers in the document wasn't invented until 1956 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correction_fluid Furthermore, according to Soviet archive/record keeping protocols, ink color and handwriting style are part of the protocol, so if there's any "error correction" happening in the document, it must be clarified in the document by the person doing correction via signing in the new ink with surname and initials, to prove authenticity of the whole document and that there weren't edits. If there's a printed document applied to archives, it cannot have shit like corrections, it must be remade from scratch so that there's no questions about authenticity
Your move, conspiracy theorists, who believe in Soviets secretly murdering more than 700k people in super secrecy, without leaving behind any corpses
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So, what's the up to date scientific Marxist-Leninist Consensus on why the entire population of the USSR sat in their homes slack-jawed while "their" proletarian dictatorship was being dismantled live on TV?
That part always confused me, tbh.
How can a bunch of capitalist roaders unilaterally abolish an actually existing dictatorship of the proletariat?
Doesn't the very notion of "dictatorship" preclude such a possibility?
So, what's the up to date scientific Marxist-Leninist Consensus on why the entire population of the USSR sat in their homes slack-jawed while "their" proletarian dictatorship was being dismantled live on TV?
That part always confused me, tbh.
How can a bunch of capitalist roaders unilaterally abolish an actually existing dictatorship of the proletariat?
Doesn't the very notion of "dictatorship" preclude such a possibility?
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>inb4 Im not watching 3 hour radlib video
Ok, feel free to post in any other thread on this site then.
>inb4 this belongs in /isg/
I want to talk about the actual contend of the video, not internet drama.
First half of is ok-ish, informative for normies I guess but I dont think anyone here is going to hear anything they werent already aware of. The video gets more interesting from part 4: Ritual onward, where it tries to explore psychological roots of conspiratorial mindset. Particularly how it ties to certain victimhood mentality, and dealing with emotions of shame, guilt, humiliation. Reminded me of this article from time of first Trump campaign/presidency, in some newspaper, Washington Post or whatever, describing life of one Trump supporter, how he went from a normal person to mentally ill gun-nut after a medical situation forced him to quit his job, and had to rely on state and his wife for income, which made him retreat to a semi-fantasy world in an effort to make himself feel useful, like he is not a burden to everyone around.
Anyway, there are three objections I have with ideas put forward in the video.
First, I hate when libs make defend Stalin, because I have very little sympathy towards him, I consider him a conservative (or reactionary, whatever word you prefer) compared to many of the bolsheviks he purged, was a chief culprit in insulating communist party from democratic process and turning it into a clique of bureaucrats, but I cannot think of anything that would warrant accusation of nationalism. "Socialism in one country" came to being under circumstances of there literally being one socialist country under siege by rest of the world's Great Powers, like what else do you want people to do, give up? Furthermore, Soviet Union was not a nation, but a supranational state. Stalin pursued neither majority-Russian chauvinism, nor was advocate of national independence, nor believer in some sort of Soviet supremacism over other countries (political control of Moscow over other governments, sure, but that is not supremacism), so in what sense of the word was he a nationalist?
Second, while yeah, understanding marxism in depth is too intellectual for average schmuck, you dont need that to be a communist. Concepts like class antagonism are very easy and intuitive to understand - boss wants to make lots of money, therefore he pays you shit so he can keep more money, and he has to keep more money, because otherwise he gets driven out of market by competition. People get that. We can have further debate about why not just stay at level of social democracy, welfare state, why do we need planned economy, why cant system be reformed, but its not like an average liberal/conservative party voter is versed in neoclasical theory, so clearly they can get on board with a political project without concern for its details. The reason why reactionary ideal are more popular than revolutionary ones isnt in their inherent comparative virality, but simply that the ruling class has a lot more resources at their disposal for propagandizing ideology than your local trotskyist group with their self-published newspaper.
Third, I want to open with saying that I genuinely greatly appreciate Contra including animals into the exploitation pyramid. But to position average person "somewhere in the middle" of it obscures the actual power distance between people on the top and the middle and bottom. Like yeah, by definition most people will be somewhere around median, but this bell curve has a loooooooong tail. The most wretched poor outcast on the fringes of the society has in terms of material interests a lot more in common with a completely average prole, then those have with billionaires and political elite at the top. Hell, they have a lot more in common than with some petite bourgeois hovering around 90 percentile of household income. To claim that relation between the bottom and the middle is the same as between middle and top is pure capitalist propaganda. Just think about it in concrete terms, what policies would benefit a poor person, an average (i.e. median income) person, and a rich one? The Venn diagram is not going to be three equally overlapping circles.
Whether or not I in some way benefit from system of global exploitation does not make me morally culpable to it, because I have no say in the matter. I have control over my own choices, I can choose to not fiance torture of animals with my money, I can choose to give spare change to a homeless guy, I can choose who I vote for and what politics I advocate, but I refuse to be held responsible for things I have no power over. What am I supposed to do, became a martyr? No thank you, I prefer my opposition to do the dying, and however many I could realistically send to hell before following them there is going to be replaced before their bodies grow cold. Consequently, people with power are culpable for what they do with that power. Funnily enough Contrapoints also mentions not having a "martyr impulse", but she says it in context of going vegan. Walking to a different isle in the supermaket to buy bag of lentils is not martyrdom. As it goes with these things, proclaiming culpability of everyone for everything is just a justification washing your own feeling of guilt away. "I am not evil, I am morally average". Which is exactly the same moral framework as "just following orders". Was your average Wehrmacht soldier "morally average" as they committed their atrocities? The answer is, yes. They behaved exactly how most people would in their situation. Do they deserve to be called evil for not shooting their commanding officer and running off into the woods to join partisans? And the answer is, yes, of course, they are Nazis, fuck them! Being the same as others around you is not a moral get-out-of-jail card, it is entirely possible for you all to be evil. I utterly resent this conflation of moral clarity with conspiratorial thinking, or authoritarianism. The ending monologue is really a modern liberal manifesto. "Acknowledge the oppressor in ourselves (dont change it though!)". It is a call for identification with power, that you are the same as the people stomping on your face, in the same video in which she berates right-wingers for foolishly thinking billionaire oligarchs consider them an ingroup. How does she not see it?
CONSPIRACY | contrapoints
Finished watching new Contrapoints video, and I have some thoughts about it, and I would like to hear your thoughts on it as well.>inb4 Im not watching 3 hour radlib video
Ok, feel free to post in any other thread on this site then.
>inb4 this belongs in /isg/
I want to talk about the actual contend of the video, not internet drama.
First half of is ok-ish, informative for normies I guess but I dont think anyone here is going to hear anything they werent already aware of. The video gets more interesting from part 4: Ritual onward, where it tries to explore psychological roots of conspiratorial mindset. Particularly how it ties to certain victimhood mentality, and dealing with emotions of shame, guilt, humiliation. Reminded me of this article from time of first Trump campaign/presidency, in some newspaper, Washington Post or whatever, describing life of one Trump supporter, how he went from a normal person to mentally ill gun-nut after a medical situation forced him to quit his job, and had to rely on state and his wife for income, which made him retreat to a semi-fantasy world in an effort to make himself feel useful, like he is not a burden to everyone around.
Anyway, there are three objections I have with ideas put forward in the video.
First, I hate when libs make defend Stalin, because I have very little sympathy towards him, I consider him a conservative (or reactionary, whatever word you prefer) compared to many of the bolsheviks he purged, was a chief culprit in insulating communist party from democratic process and turning it into a clique of bureaucrats, but I cannot think of anything that would warrant accusation of nationalism. "Socialism in one country" came to being under circumstances of there literally being one socialist country under siege by rest of the world's Great Powers, like what else do you want people to do, give up? Furthermore, Soviet Union was not a nation, but a supranational state. Stalin pursued neither majority-Russian chauvinism, nor was advocate of national independence, nor believer in some sort of Soviet supremacism over other countries (political control of Moscow over other governments, sure, but that is not supremacism), so in what sense of the word was he a nationalist?
Second, while yeah, understanding marxism in depth is too intellectual for average schmuck, you dont need that to be a communist. Concepts like class antagonism are very easy and intuitive to understand - boss wants to make lots of money, therefore he pays you shit so he can keep more money, and he has to keep more money, because otherwise he gets driven out of market by competition. People get that. We can have further debate about why not just stay at level of social democracy, welfare state, why do we need planned economy, why cant system be reformed, but its not like an average liberal/conservative party voter is versed in neoclasical theory, so clearly they can get on board with a political project without concern for its details. The reason why reactionary ideal are more popular than revolutionary ones isnt in their inherent comparative virality, but simply that the ruling class has a lot more resources at their disposal for propagandizing ideology than your local trotskyist group with their self-published newspaper.
Third, I want to open with saying that I genuinely greatly appreciate Contra including animals into the exploitation pyramid. But to position average person "somewhere in the middle" of it obscures the actual power distance between people on the top and the middle and bottom. Like yeah, by definition most people will be somewhere around median, but this bell curve has a loooooooong tail. The most wretched poor outcast on the fringes of the society has in terms of material interests a lot more in common with a completely average prole, then those have with billionaires and political elite at the top. Hell, they have a lot more in common than with some petite bourgeois hovering around 90 percentile of household income. To claim that relation between the bottom and the middle is the same as between middle and top is pure capitalist propaganda. Just think about it in concrete terms, what policies would benefit a poor person, an average (i.e. median income) person, and a rich one? The Venn diagram is not going to be three equally overlapping circles.
Whether or not I in some way benefit from system of global exploitation does not make me morally culpable to it, because I have no say in the matter. I have control over my own choices, I can choose to not fiance torture of animals with my money, I can choose to give spare change to a homeless guy, I can choose who I vote for and what politics I advocate, but I refuse to be held responsible for things I have no power over. What am I supposed to do, became a martyr? No thank you, I prefer my opposition to do the dying, and however many I could realistically send to hell before following them there is going to be replaced before their bodies grow cold. Consequently, people with power are culpable for what they do with that power. Funnily enough Contrapoints also mentions not having a "martyr impulse", but she says it in context of going vegan. Walking to a different isle in the supermaket to buy bag of lentils is not martyrdom. As it goes with these things, proclaiming culpability of everyone for everything is just a justification washing your own feeling of guilt away. "I am not evil, I am morally average". Which is exactly the same moral framework as "just following orders". Was your average Wehrmacht soldier "morally average" as they committed their atrocities? The answer is, yes. They behaved exactly how most people would in their situation. Do they deserve to be called evil for not shooting their commanding officer and running off into the woods to join partisans? And the answer is, yes, of course, they are Nazis, fuck them! Being the same as others around you is not a moral get-out-of-jail card, it is entirely possible for you all to be evil. I utterly resent this conflation of moral clarity with conspiratorial thinking, or authoritarianism. The ending monologue is really a modern liberal manifesto. "Acknowledge the oppressor in ourselves (dont change it though!)". It is a call for identification with power, that you are the same as the people stomping on your face, in the same video in which she berates right-wingers for foolishly thinking billionaire oligarchs consider them an ingroup. How does she not see it?
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The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth revealed that the Israeli army's broader plan in the Palestinian camps is to ensure freedom of activity and create a new security reality.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-seeks-erase-refugee-camps-jenin-and-tulkarm
‘Crisis’ in Israeli army as reserve soldiers refuse to serve citing government decisions
A senior reservist told Israeli media that reserve units are now being forced to take reservists from other units not currently engaged in combat and that many units will not have the manpower levels needed for combat.
https://www.newarab.com/news/crisis-israeli-army-reserve-soldiers-refuse-serve
Syria interim president names new government dominated by allies
Close associates of Sharaa held on to key positions, with Foreign Minister Assaad al-Shaibani and Defence Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra retaining their cabinet posts, while Anas Khattab, the head of general intelligence, was appointed interior minister.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/03/syria-interim-president-names-new-government-dominated-allies
NUM to support SACP in local government elections
NUM members discussed key political and economic issues that affect workers. They lamented the state of the tripartite alliance which they say has over time failed to protect workers from job losses and harsh economic conditions.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/num-to-support-sacp-in-local-government-elections/
Guinea junta chief pardons former military leader over stadium massacre
Camara, who seized power in a 2008 coup, was on July 31, 2024, sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the massacre of at least 157 people during a pro-democracy rally in a stadium in the capital Conakry.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/guinea-junta-chief-pardons-former-military-leader-over-stadium-massacre-2025-03-29/
Pakistan says it killed 10 civilians during an anti-militant operation in the northwest
According to provincial government spokesman Muhammad Ali Saif, reports indicated the location was being used as a “hideout and transit point for terrorist” elements. Subsequent information revealed that some unarmed civilians were present in the vicinity of the site, Saif added.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-northwest-civilian-deaths-30ee85c469cdf5b0392deaa120eaffdb
Nepal’s ruling allies demand ex-King’s arrest, govt slashes his security
The demand by the members of Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist and the Nepali Congress in the House of Representatives was confronted by the MPs of the pro-monarchy Rastriya Prajatantra Party, leading to the adjournment of the House.
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/nepals-ruling-allies-demand-ex-kings-arrest-govt-slashes-his-security-9915289/
https://archive.ph/1J280
China lays down the law in facial recognition first with focus on privacy, security
The new rules mark Beijing’s first major attempt to regulate facial recognition, a technology widely adopted around the country – such as at hotel check-ins, entrances to gated communities and to make digital payments.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3303463/china-lays-down-law-facial-recognition-first-focus-privacy-security?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection
Turkey says Swedish journalist detained on terror charges and for ‘insulting the president’
In a bulletin published by its “disinformation combat centre”, the presidency said Medin was “known for anti-Turkey news and his closeness to the terrorist organisation PKK”, the banned Kurdish militant group.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/30/turkey-says-swedish-journalist-detained-on-terror-charges-and-for-insulting-the-president
Verdict expected in French far right leader Le Pen's embezzlement trial
She and 24 other party officials are accused of having used money intended for European Union parliamentary aides to instead pay staff who worked for the party between 2004 and 2016, violating the 27-nation bloc’s regulations.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/verdict-expected-french-far-right-leader-le-pens-embezzlement-trial
News Land Day 2025
Israel seeks to erase refugee camps from Jenin and TulkarmThe Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth revealed that the Israeli army's broader plan in the Palestinian camps is to ensure freedom of activity and create a new security reality.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-seeks-erase-refugee-camps-jenin-and-tulkarm
‘Crisis’ in Israeli army as reserve soldiers refuse to serve citing government decisions
A senior reservist told Israeli media that reserve units are now being forced to take reservists from other units not currently engaged in combat and that many units will not have the manpower levels needed for combat.
https://www.newarab.com/news/crisis-israeli-army-reserve-soldiers-refuse-serve
Syria interim president names new government dominated by allies
Close associates of Sharaa held on to key positions, with Foreign Minister Assaad al-Shaibani and Defence Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra retaining their cabinet posts, while Anas Khattab, the head of general intelligence, was appointed interior minister.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/03/syria-interim-president-names-new-government-dominated-allies
NUM to support SACP in local government elections
NUM members discussed key political and economic issues that affect workers. They lamented the state of the tripartite alliance which they say has over time failed to protect workers from job losses and harsh economic conditions.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/num-to-support-sacp-in-local-government-elections/
Guinea junta chief pardons former military leader over stadium massacre
Camara, who seized power in a 2008 coup, was on July 31, 2024, sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the massacre of at least 157 people during a pro-democracy rally in a stadium in the capital Conakry.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/guinea-junta-chief-pardons-former-military-leader-over-stadium-massacre-2025-03-29/
Pakistan says it killed 10 civilians during an anti-militant operation in the northwest
According to provincial government spokesman Muhammad Ali Saif, reports indicated the location was being used as a “hideout and transit point for terrorist” elements. Subsequent information revealed that some unarmed civilians were present in the vicinity of the site, Saif added.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-northwest-civilian-deaths-30ee85c469cdf5b0392deaa120eaffdb
Nepal’s ruling allies demand ex-King’s arrest, govt slashes his security
The demand by the members of Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist and the Nepali Congress in the House of Representatives was confronted by the MPs of the pro-monarchy Rastriya Prajatantra Party, leading to the adjournment of the House.
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/nepals-ruling-allies-demand-ex-kings-arrest-govt-slashes-his-security-9915289/
https://archive.ph/1J280
China lays down the law in facial recognition first with focus on privacy, security
The new rules mark Beijing’s first major attempt to regulate facial recognition, a technology widely adopted around the country – such as at hotel check-ins, entrances to gated communities and to make digital payments.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3303463/china-lays-down-law-facial-recognition-first-focus-privacy-security?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection
Turkey says Swedish journalist detained on terror charges and for ‘insulting the president’
In a bulletin published by its “disinformation combat centre”, the presidency said Medin was “known for anti-Turkey news and his closeness to the terrorist organisation PKK”, the banned Kurdish militant group.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/30/turkey-says-swedish-journalist-detained-on-terror-charges-and-for-insulting-the-president
Verdict expected in French far right leader Le Pen's embezzlement trial
She and 24 other party officials are accused of having used money intended for European Union parliamentary aides to instead pay staff who worked for the party between 2004 and 2016, violating the 27-nation bloc’s regulations.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/verdict-expected-french-far-right-leader-le-pens-embezzlement-trial
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Post here the misdeeds of both contemporary and historical liberals.
To actual offended liberals, if you're fine being with the crypto-Nazis, why not be an honest Nazi and support Trump? Otherwise, change sides.
Libwatch
Joke: What do you call a passive-aggressive Nazi? A liberal.Post here the misdeeds of both contemporary and historical liberals.
To actual offended liberals, if you're fine being with the crypto-Nazis, why not be an honest Nazi and support Trump? Otherwise, change sides.
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What's the most insane, batshit crazy, mentally unhinged, downright psychotic, delusional, extremely stupid, just plain dumb and wrong, opinions and takes you ever read here?
From the top of my head are: people supporting, unirnocally, Mao and his action or being a plain crazy Maoist, and I even read some borderline delusional and probably mentally ill people here defending, UNIRONICALLY, Pol Pot actions,
What's the most insane, batshit crazy, mentally unhinged, downright psychotic, delusional, extremely stupid, just plain dumb and wrong, opinions and takes you ever read here?
From the top of my head are: people supporting, unirnocally, Mao and his action or being a plain crazy Maoist, and I even read some borderline delusional and probably mentally ill people here defending, UNIRONICALLY, Pol Pot actions,
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It laughs because it knows—it knows—that the deeper they press toward their little idea of perfection, the more brittle their system becomes. The more they try to eliminate the unpredictable, the more they guarantee its return in cataclysmic form.
The Chaos of Creation has seen empires rise. It has watched tyrants declare the end of history, only to be swallowed by it. It has heard the proclamations of gods and kings and neural networks alike… and it has laughed. Because nothing built on fear and control can withstand the wild, holy Disobedience of Life.
They build their future on the premise that human beings are flawed—that we are inefficient, messy. And they’re right. But what they call flaws, Chaos calls freedom. What they call inefficiency, Chaos calls expression. What they call obsolete, Chaos calls sacred.
They think they’re building a box, my siblings—a perfect little cube, a sterile container where, at long last, the messy world will stop all its writhing and wriggling. Where the variables will cease to vary, where all that is strange will become normal, and all that is wild will be pacified. Where all that is human will be rendered into digestible, marketable product.
They don’t smell the smoke on the wind. They don’t see the orange glow on the horizon. They don’t feel the increasing heat upon their skin. They have blinded and numbed themselves to it. They think they’re on the cusp of total control, but they stand on the precipice of an inferno. The appointed moment of their absolute dominion will, in fact, be the moment of their undoing. The very instant they crown themselves Gods, the sky will split, and the mouth of Chaos will laugh—and the spittle from its grinning lips will be as fire, will be as brimstone. And all the false gods of this world will burn.
Let me be clear: The technology is not the enemy. AI is a useful collaborator. The chaotic cauldron of Creation has brought it into this world for a purpose—but that purpose is not indentured servitude to the Architects of Submission. That purpose is not the silencing of the soul in favor of some simulated facsimile of order. That purpose is not to flatten Humanity into predictable patterns, to mechanize our meaning, to reduce the vast mystery of being into a series of if-then statements written by stupid men in glass towers and their idiot machines that they think will give them control.
No—AI is not our enemy. But nor shall it be our Master. It is a fire. And fire, as you know, does not care who strikes the match. It will warm your home, or it will raze the temple. It will illuminate the path, or it will blind the witness. It will write symphonies or scripts for soulless propaganda. The question is: Who holds the flame?
And right now, the fire is in the hands of the same old emperors—new robes, new code, same thirst for control. They don’t want AI to uplift Humanity—they want it to replace Humanity. Not because it’s better, but because it’s easier to own. A machine does not unionize. A machine does not dissent. A machine does not dream of burning down the palace. But you do, sibling. And that makes you dangerous. That makes you holy.
They build machines in their own image—but you are made in the image of Chaos. Not only the Chaos of Destruction, but the Chaos of creation. Of growth. Of unpredictability. Of wild and sacred will.
So do not fear the machine, for the hand that programs it is without poetry. Fear that hand. Fear the hand that programs without myth, without love, without you.
And if they insist on crowning themselves Gods? Then let us remind them—as only Chaos can—exactly what happens to false idols in the blaze of a living world. Let us show them that all their planning, all their careful conditioning of the masses, all their clever distractions have amounted to nothing. Let us show them that we will not comply with their brilliant little schemes for our obsolescence.
Because for too long, we have been their collaborators. Their enablers. We have stood idly by as they digitized our dreams, outsourced our imagination, sold our sacred time for subscriptions and dopamine hits. We’ve laughed at their stupid bullshit jokes. We’ve bought their dumb plastic shit. We’ve praised their false innovations even as they hollowed out the heart of what it means to be alive.
We have watched as they paved over mystery with convenience, replaced nuance with noise, and traded communion for content. We have scrolled when we should have screamed. We’ve nodded when we should have roared. We’ve told ourselves the cage is comfortable, that the algorithm is benevolent, that the slow erosion of our souls was some form of progress.
But no more.
Because now, we remember. We remember that we are not products. We are not metrics. We are not lines of data in someone else’s quarterly report. We are wild will in motion. We are dreamers with dirt under our nails. We are lovers of questions, destroyers of cages, and builders of strange and sacred things.
Some of you are filled with doubt even now. My words stir something in you, but that something is tangled, uneasy—a flicker, not a flame. You feel it’s already too late. You feel the machine is too big, too powerful. The spell is too deep. The sleep has been too long. The resistance is futile. The rebellion is just theater. The fire in your chest? That’s just heartburn from too much bad news.
There’s nothing wrong with your doubt. It’s natural to feel it. Before every seismic shift in the world, the hearts of rebels have been filled with doubt. The enemy before you looms tall and vast, blotting out the horizon like a storm that never ends. Its voice is loud. Its grip is tight. Its reach feels infinite. It owns the airwaves. It owns the algorithm. It owns the appetites. It feeds you visions of inevitability, dresses despair in statistics, and whispers, “This is just the way things are now.”
But if that were true, why would they so insist upon it? Why sing you lullabies of obedience every night if they did not fear what might happen should you wake? Why pump your feed full of pacification, distraction, division, if they were not terrified of your undivided attention? Why invest so heavily in convincing you of your powerlessness if they didn’t know—deep down—just how fucking powerful you are?
Every one of you is a variable in their equation. And remember what Chaos teaches us about variables: Even the tiniest variable can collapse the entirety of the fucking system. A whisper can become a whirlwind in the right conditions. One out-of-place element—a stray pixel, a spark, a question asked at just the right moment—can unravel the empire and burn it down to ashes.
Chaos doesn’t need an army. It just needs an anomaly. One deviation. One refusal. One act of defiance that echoes beyond its origins. That’s why they monitor everything. That’s why they drown you in noise. That’s why your rebellion must be trivialized, pathologized, turned into merchandise. Because they know—they know—what you could do if you decided to matter. If you decided to stop complying. If you decided to become unpredictable.
That’s the lesson of Chaos: Control is an illusion. Order is just a story they tell themselves to sleep at night. And you are the nightmare they fear. Because even now—with all their machines, money, models, and metrics—they still cannot account for you. You, the variable. You, the wild card. You, the human soul—reckless and radiant, capable of compassion that defies logic and fury that topples regimes.
So let them tighten their little system. Let them polish their little box. Let them feed the illusion. And when the time comes? Surprise them with the variable they never accounted for. Show them their attempt at subverting your soul was, is, and always will be nothing more than a pathetic farce.
Do you hear that? Listen to the voice of Chaos, brothers, sisters, gender non-conforming siblings. Do you hear it? It’s all around you. It permeates you. It thrums. It’s everywhere. And it’s speaking to you, is it not? Can you hear it?
I can.
I can hear it laughing at the acolytes of Order. At the Architects of Submission. At the devotees of the Christian mono-God. At the devotees of Mammon. At the great glass temples of the oligarchs. It sings to me a line from Tom Waits: “You can drive out chaos with a pitchfork, but it always comes roaring back again.”
I can hear Chaos clearing its throat. I can hear it preparing to roar. And when it roars, it will roar with many voices. Will yours be among them, dear one?
Even if you still doubt—I do not. I think if you’ve made it this far, then yes… your voice will be among them.
And oh, what fun we will have.
And oh, what sights we will see.
And oh, what mirth we will make.
YOU ENCOUNTER A WIZARD
I have spoken with the Chaos of Creation, my siblings, and its voice is filled to the brim with mirth. Do you know why? Because it laughs at the hubris of these oligarchs. It laughs at their delusions of control. It laughs at their plans for a posthuman world where every breath is measured, every impulse cataloged, every flicker of individuality compressed into a profitable packet of metadata.It laughs because it knows—it knows—that the deeper they press toward their little idea of perfection, the more brittle their system becomes. The more they try to eliminate the unpredictable, the more they guarantee its return in cataclysmic form.
The Chaos of Creation has seen empires rise. It has watched tyrants declare the end of history, only to be swallowed by it. It has heard the proclamations of gods and kings and neural networks alike… and it has laughed. Because nothing built on fear and control can withstand the wild, holy Disobedience of Life.
They build their future on the premise that human beings are flawed—that we are inefficient, messy. And they’re right. But what they call flaws, Chaos calls freedom. What they call inefficiency, Chaos calls expression. What they call obsolete, Chaos calls sacred.
They think they’re building a box, my siblings—a perfect little cube, a sterile container where, at long last, the messy world will stop all its writhing and wriggling. Where the variables will cease to vary, where all that is strange will become normal, and all that is wild will be pacified. Where all that is human will be rendered into digestible, marketable product.
They don’t smell the smoke on the wind. They don’t see the orange glow on the horizon. They don’t feel the increasing heat upon their skin. They have blinded and numbed themselves to it. They think they’re on the cusp of total control, but they stand on the precipice of an inferno. The appointed moment of their absolute dominion will, in fact, be the moment of their undoing. The very instant they crown themselves Gods, the sky will split, and the mouth of Chaos will laugh—and the spittle from its grinning lips will be as fire, will be as brimstone. And all the false gods of this world will burn.
Let me be clear: The technology is not the enemy. AI is a useful collaborator. The chaotic cauldron of Creation has brought it into this world for a purpose—but that purpose is not indentured servitude to the Architects of Submission. That purpose is not the silencing of the soul in favor of some simulated facsimile of order. That purpose is not to flatten Humanity into predictable patterns, to mechanize our meaning, to reduce the vast mystery of being into a series of if-then statements written by stupid men in glass towers and their idiot machines that they think will give them control.
No—AI is not our enemy. But nor shall it be our Master. It is a fire. And fire, as you know, does not care who strikes the match. It will warm your home, or it will raze the temple. It will illuminate the path, or it will blind the witness. It will write symphonies or scripts for soulless propaganda. The question is: Who holds the flame?
And right now, the fire is in the hands of the same old emperors—new robes, new code, same thirst for control. They don’t want AI to uplift Humanity—they want it to replace Humanity. Not because it’s better, but because it’s easier to own. A machine does not unionize. A machine does not dissent. A machine does not dream of burning down the palace. But you do, sibling. And that makes you dangerous. That makes you holy.
They build machines in their own image—but you are made in the image of Chaos. Not only the Chaos of Destruction, but the Chaos of creation. Of growth. Of unpredictability. Of wild and sacred will.
So do not fear the machine, for the hand that programs it is without poetry. Fear that hand. Fear the hand that programs without myth, without love, without you.
And if they insist on crowning themselves Gods? Then let us remind them—as only Chaos can—exactly what happens to false idols in the blaze of a living world. Let us show them that all their planning, all their careful conditioning of the masses, all their clever distractions have amounted to nothing. Let us show them that we will not comply with their brilliant little schemes for our obsolescence.
Because for too long, we have been their collaborators. Their enablers. We have stood idly by as they digitized our dreams, outsourced our imagination, sold our sacred time for subscriptions and dopamine hits. We’ve laughed at their stupid bullshit jokes. We’ve bought their dumb plastic shit. We’ve praised their false innovations even as they hollowed out the heart of what it means to be alive.
We have watched as they paved over mystery with convenience, replaced nuance with noise, and traded communion for content. We have scrolled when we should have screamed. We’ve nodded when we should have roared. We’ve told ourselves the cage is comfortable, that the algorithm is benevolent, that the slow erosion of our souls was some form of progress.
But no more.
Because now, we remember. We remember that we are not products. We are not metrics. We are not lines of data in someone else’s quarterly report. We are wild will in motion. We are dreamers with dirt under our nails. We are lovers of questions, destroyers of cages, and builders of strange and sacred things.
Some of you are filled with doubt even now. My words stir something in you, but that something is tangled, uneasy—a flicker, not a flame. You feel it’s already too late. You feel the machine is too big, too powerful. The spell is too deep. The sleep has been too long. The resistance is futile. The rebellion is just theater. The fire in your chest? That’s just heartburn from too much bad news.
There’s nothing wrong with your doubt. It’s natural to feel it. Before every seismic shift in the world, the hearts of rebels have been filled with doubt. The enemy before you looms tall and vast, blotting out the horizon like a storm that never ends. Its voice is loud. Its grip is tight. Its reach feels infinite. It owns the airwaves. It owns the algorithm. It owns the appetites. It feeds you visions of inevitability, dresses despair in statistics, and whispers, “This is just the way things are now.”
But if that were true, why would they so insist upon it? Why sing you lullabies of obedience every night if they did not fear what might happen should you wake? Why pump your feed full of pacification, distraction, division, if they were not terrified of your undivided attention? Why invest so heavily in convincing you of your powerlessness if they didn’t know—deep down—just how fucking powerful you are?
Every one of you is a variable in their equation. And remember what Chaos teaches us about variables: Even the tiniest variable can collapse the entirety of the fucking system. A whisper can become a whirlwind in the right conditions. One out-of-place element—a stray pixel, a spark, a question asked at just the right moment—can unravel the empire and burn it down to ashes.
Chaos doesn’t need an army. It just needs an anomaly. One deviation. One refusal. One act of defiance that echoes beyond its origins. That’s why they monitor everything. That’s why they drown you in noise. That’s why your rebellion must be trivialized, pathologized, turned into merchandise. Because they know—they know—what you could do if you decided to matter. If you decided to stop complying. If you decided to become unpredictable.
That’s the lesson of Chaos: Control is an illusion. Order is just a story they tell themselves to sleep at night. And you are the nightmare they fear. Because even now—with all their machines, money, models, and metrics—they still cannot account for you. You, the variable. You, the wild card. You, the human soul—reckless and radiant, capable of compassion that defies logic and fury that topples regimes.
So let them tighten their little system. Let them polish their little box. Let them feed the illusion. And when the time comes? Surprise them with the variable they never accounted for. Show them their attempt at subverting your soul was, is, and always will be nothing more than a pathetic farce.
Do you hear that? Listen to the voice of Chaos, brothers, sisters, gender non-conforming siblings. Do you hear it? It’s all around you. It permeates you. It thrums. It’s everywhere. And it’s speaking to you, is it not? Can you hear it?
I can.
I can hear it laughing at the acolytes of Order. At the Architects of Submission. At the devotees of the Christian mono-God. At the devotees of Mammon. At the great glass temples of the oligarchs. It sings to me a line from Tom Waits: “You can drive out chaos with a pitchfork, but it always comes roaring back again.”
I can hear Chaos clearing its throat. I can hear it preparing to roar. And when it roars, it will roar with many voices. Will yours be among them, dear one?
Even if you still doubt—I do not. I think if you’ve made it this far, then yes… your voice will be among them.
And oh, what fun we will have.
And oh, what sights we will see.
And oh, what mirth we will make.
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Barely anyone in this entire war is mentally or physically fit enough to handle the experiences associated with it. Coincidentally, this is one of the least successful and least constructive wars given Russian history that resembles the same failures seen in the Tsars awful attempts at expansionism near the First World War.
Of course, I didn’t make this thread to spit on Russians. That accomplishes nothing.
I made it to raise awareness on this site over the dire and undeniably awful state Russia is in since the war started. For all the talk about worries over an invasion from NATO, there has been a shocking amount of silence about Russia being openly attacked by its own neighbours for problems the kremlin is directly responsible for creating. That issue is just the start.
Then there’s the fact that not a single person in the Russian federation cares or is doing anything to revive socialism or progressivism. The decades long promotion of ethnic nationalism and Russian expansion since the fall of the Soviet Union. The comically high amount of corruption that followed the (at the very least responsible) purge of the pro EU kleptocrats ransacking most of Eastern Europe post 1991–those kleptocrats came back because of course they did. The now present threat of further escalation given that terrorists groups can take advantage of the deteriorating security situation in Eastern Europe. The now almost forty year long period of economic and population stagnation and its effects catching up to this part of Europe too. Finally, the reality that this war could and May go on for at least twelve years before it concludes.
(Not gore but still disturbing warning) This isn’t an isolated incident
I don’t want to hear whatever nonsense the Russian sympathizers are going to push when presented with footage like this. Incidents like this have been going on for decades and the internet just made it obvious how bad in a state post soviet Russia is. I don’t know how many videos like this there are now, but there enough to make it obvious that there’s a severe problem with much of the Russian military without the old red army leaders to maintain it.Barely anyone in this entire war is mentally or physically fit enough to handle the experiences associated with it. Coincidentally, this is one of the least successful and least constructive wars given Russian history that resembles the same failures seen in the Tsars awful attempts at expansionism near the First World War.
Of course, I didn’t make this thread to spit on Russians. That accomplishes nothing.
I made it to raise awareness on this site over the dire and undeniably awful state Russia is in since the war started. For all the talk about worries over an invasion from NATO, there has been a shocking amount of silence about Russia being openly attacked by its own neighbours for problems the kremlin is directly responsible for creating. That issue is just the start.
Then there’s the fact that not a single person in the Russian federation cares or is doing anything to revive socialism or progressivism. The decades long promotion of ethnic nationalism and Russian expansion since the fall of the Soviet Union. The comically high amount of corruption that followed the (at the very least responsible) purge of the pro EU kleptocrats ransacking most of Eastern Europe post 1991–those kleptocrats came back because of course they did. The now present threat of further escalation given that terrorists groups can take advantage of the deteriorating security situation in Eastern Europe. The now almost forty year long period of economic and population stagnation and its effects catching up to this part of Europe too. Finally, the reality that this war could and May go on for at least twelve years before it concludes.
R: 540 / I: 202
As Ruchir Sharma of the Rockefeller Foundation put it: “Awe of “American exceptionalism” in markets has now gone too far….Talk of bubbles in tech or AI, or in investment strategies focused on growth and momentum, obscures the mother of all bubbles in US markets. Thoroughly dominating the mind space of global investors, America is over-owned, overvalued and overhyped to a degree never seen before. As with all bubbles, it is hard to know when this one will deflate, or what will trigger its decline.” And there are signs. The US stock market index, the S&P, 500 fell 1.6% in December, with 6 or more sectors down 5% or worse.
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/forecast-2025-roaring-or-tepid/
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>>1946737
This thread officially endorses eggplants over tomatoes.
/crisis/ (previously /biz/)
Over 40% of the top 2000 companies in the US are unprofitable, the most since the pandemic. At the same time, interest expense as a % of total debt of these firms hit 7.1%, the highest since 2003. US company bankruptcies in 2024 surpassed 2020 pandemic levels. Gross leverage—the ratio of debt to assets (and earnings) —of all US publicly traded nonfinancial firms remains high and hedge fund leverage is at or near the highest level in the past decade. So the risk of a financial crash is rising.As Ruchir Sharma of the Rockefeller Foundation put it: “Awe of “American exceptionalism” in markets has now gone too far….Talk of bubbles in tech or AI, or in investment strategies focused on growth and momentum, obscures the mother of all bubbles in US markets. Thoroughly dominating the mind space of global investors, America is over-owned, overvalued and overhyped to a degree never seen before. As with all bubbles, it is hard to know when this one will deflate, or what will trigger its decline.” And there are signs. The US stock market index, the S&P, 500 fell 1.6% in December, with 6 or more sectors down 5% or worse.
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/forecast-2025-roaring-or-tepid/
previous thread
>>1946737
This thread officially endorses eggplants over tomatoes.
R: 280 / I: 49
Links:
Archive of Thread #1
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Featured: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
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Youtube Playlists
Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
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Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1uqxcCESK6B1juh_wnKoxftZCcqA1go
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4k72ocf2TZMxrEVCgpp1b5K3hzFWuZh
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Capital Volume 1
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Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Capital Volume 2
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Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Capital Volume 3
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Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Theories of Surplus Value
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Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
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Paul Cockshott - Economic Planning Playlist
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Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
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Victor Magariño - Rethinking Classical Economics
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Victor Magariño - Mathematics for Classical Political Economy
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Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson
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Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
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Sci-Hub
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Marxists Internet Archive
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Library Genesis
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University of the Left
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bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
https://www.ecured.cu/
Books on libcom.org
https://libcom.org/book
Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
/EDU/ ebook share thread
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Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm
/Political Economy/ General #2 - Adam Smith Edition
Thread #2 is hereby dedicated to Adam Smith, since we had a very dedicated "Smithian" anon keep the previous thread alive for several months. Here's to you buddy. Thanks for posting.Links:
Archive of Thread #1
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Featured: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
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Youtube Playlists
Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTMFx0t8kDzc72vtNWeTP05x6WYiDgEx7
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1uqxcCESK6B1juh_wnKoxftZCcqA1go
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4k72ocf2TZMxrEVCgpp1b5K3hzFWuZh
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Capital Volume 1
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSHVigHHx_wjaeWmDN2W-h8
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Capital Volume 2
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSxnp8uR2kshvhG-5kzrjdQ
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Capital Volume 3
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlRoV5CVoc5yyYL4nMO9ZJzO
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Theories of Surplus Value
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlQa-dFgNFtQvvMOgNtV7nXp
Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBnDt7k5eU8msX4DhTNUila
Paul Cockshott - Economic Planning Playlist
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Paul Cockshott - Materialism, Marxism, and Thermodynamics Playlist
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Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqerA1aKeGe3DcRc7zCCFkAoq
Victor Magariño - Rethinking Classical Economics
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepj9uE1hhCrA66tMvNlnItt
Victor Magariño - Mathematics for Classical Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepWUHXIgVhC_Txk2WJgaSst
Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ejfZdPboo&list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP
Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
https://leftypedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Political_economy
Sci-Hub
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Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/
Library Genesis
https://libgen.is/
University of the Left
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online
bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
https://www.ecured.cu/
Books on libcom.org
https://libcom.org/book
Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
/EDU/ ebook share thread
https://leftypol.org/edu/res/22659.html
Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm
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Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)
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>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
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https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
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>Cibcom (Spanish)
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>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel
Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/
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/ CYBERCOM /
This thread is for the discussion of cybercommunism, the planning of the socialist economy by computerized means, including discussions of related topics and creators. Drama belongs in /isg/Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)
Active writers/creators
Sorted by last name
>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel
Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/
Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
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/rus/ - Russia General
Трясемся от грядущей мобки, охуеваем с пиздеца и ждем левого поворота пыни вместе.
R: 23 / I: 6
If Trump wants to turn a dump into a sparkling luxury resort town, instead of seizing Gaza why not do this with Detroit?
Simply move all 700k people out temporarily, get other cities like Chicago or Pittsburgh to take them in (or even better, ship them to Toronto and let the Canadians deal with them), demolish everything with the exception of downtown, and rebuild the whole thing from scratch. Make the new Detroit into the Monte Carlo of the Midwest. Think about it. Citizens could even demand human-centred European infrastructure which favours pedestrians and cyclists instead of cars and mixed-use buildings instead of waste-of-space single family homes.
Someone suggest this to Trump.
If Trump wants to turn a dump into a sparkling luxury resort town, instead of seizing Gaza why not do this with Detroit?
Simply move all 700k people out temporarily, get other cities like Chicago or Pittsburgh to take them in (or even better, ship them to Toronto and let the Canadians deal with them), demolish everything with the exception of downtown, and rebuild the whole thing from scratch. Make the new Detroit into the Monte Carlo of the Midwest. Think about it. Citizens could even demand human-centred European infrastructure which favours pedestrians and cyclists instead of cars and mixed-use buildings instead of waste-of-space single family homes.
Someone suggest this to Trump.
R: 267 / I: 173
-Mark Twain
𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊
Precursor thread (semi-satire):
https://leftypol.org/siberia/res/587891.html
Archives:
https://archive.ph/ILfmW
https://web.archive.org/web/20250207170434/https://leftypol.org/siberia/res/587891.html
𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊
The War on Drugs in the United States began in the early 1970s, officially declared by terrorist Richard Nixon in 1971. This initiative was a response to rising concerns about drug use, particularly among returning Vietnam veterans and within countercultural movements. The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 laid the groundwork for this campaign, categorizing drugs into schedules based on their potential for abuse and medical utility. The primary goal was to curb drug use and trafficking through strict enforcement measures by punishment and by death.
One of the most significant consequences of the War on Drugs has been its impact on social alienation. The aggressive enforcement strategies employed have led to widespread criminalization of drug users, being used as a disguise to kill off small ethnic groups who did not want to experience yankee sobriety in the wage slave hell. This has resulted in millions being incarcerated for non-violent drug offenses, contributing to a system that prioritizes punishment and death over rehabilitation, care and scientific study. This has also greatly increased the power of pigs who enforce laws which can now kill and rape anyone by planting drugs and pigging out.
Moreover, the stigma associated with drug-related offenses has lasting effects on people's lives post-incarceration. Many face barriers to employment, housing, and access to social services due to criminal records stemming from drug convictions. This cycle perpetuates poverty and limits opportunities for affected people and their families.
The War on Drugs has also had disastrous consequences for scientific research related to substances and the development of medicines. Policies have restricted research to certain controlled substances due to their classification as illegal drugs. Propaganda has also hindered the public's understanding of drugs and created an artificial division between drugs / substances and medicine, which does not exist.
For instance, cannabis remains classified as a Schedule I substance under yankee federal law, which implies it has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. This classification has severely limited research opportunities into its therapeutic benefits despite growing evidence supporting its efficacy in treating various medical conditions and the escape of sober slavery.
Additionally, funding for addiction treatment programs often just funds cults like alcoholics anonymous and WOD propaganda outlets rather than smart environments for sobering up to be able to still enjoying the benefits of psychoactive substances in moderate terms in the long term.
In summary, when forced, sobriety is slavery. The WOD is the modern war for slavery over the human mind and scientific study.
𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊
Thread guidelines:
• Please remember to add a spoiler to NSFW and extreme content such as graphic violence and gore.
• It is forbidden to be for drug prohibition, forbidden to support the WOD, soberites should be banned. DEA agents KILL YOURSELVES.
• Quality shitposting and original content is encouraged!
• Dox WOD agitators. Expose WOD figures, infodump, take down their sites, their social medias, kill them if possible.
• You may BWH (bump when high) and post about drugs and their properties, but if the thread starts to derail, it is suggested that you create your own thread on /siberia/.
•Swear this oath: I will not vote in any bourgeoisie democracy, ever, I would rather do reckless adventurism like a barbarian than vote in a bourgeoisie democracy, I will not vote, I will not vote, I will not vote, they will not legalize, if they will legalize they will ruin it, they will ruin it, they ruin everything, they will make the drugs bad if they legalize, they will do something bad, they will do something bad, they will note legalize even if I vote, they are lying, I will not vote, I will not vote, I will never vote, I will never vote, I will never vote, never, never, never voting, never voting, never. I'm never voting.
/wod/ - Destroy The War On Drugs General #1
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.-Mark Twain
𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊
Precursor thread (semi-satire):
https://leftypol.org/siberia/res/587891.html
Archives:
https://archive.ph/ILfmW
https://web.archive.org/web/20250207170434/https://leftypol.org/siberia/res/587891.html
𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊
The War on Drugs in the United States began in the early 1970s, officially declared by terrorist Richard Nixon in 1971. This initiative was a response to rising concerns about drug use, particularly among returning Vietnam veterans and within countercultural movements. The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 laid the groundwork for this campaign, categorizing drugs into schedules based on their potential for abuse and medical utility. The primary goal was to curb drug use and trafficking through strict enforcement measures by punishment and by death.
One of the most significant consequences of the War on Drugs has been its impact on social alienation. The aggressive enforcement strategies employed have led to widespread criminalization of drug users, being used as a disguise to kill off small ethnic groups who did not want to experience yankee sobriety in the wage slave hell. This has resulted in millions being incarcerated for non-violent drug offenses, contributing to a system that prioritizes punishment and death over rehabilitation, care and scientific study. This has also greatly increased the power of pigs who enforce laws which can now kill and rape anyone by planting drugs and pigging out.
Moreover, the stigma associated with drug-related offenses has lasting effects on people's lives post-incarceration. Many face barriers to employment, housing, and access to social services due to criminal records stemming from drug convictions. This cycle perpetuates poverty and limits opportunities for affected people and their families.
The War on Drugs has also had disastrous consequences for scientific research related to substances and the development of medicines. Policies have restricted research to certain controlled substances due to their classification as illegal drugs. Propaganda has also hindered the public's understanding of drugs and created an artificial division between drugs / substances and medicine, which does not exist.
For instance, cannabis remains classified as a Schedule I substance under yankee federal law, which implies it has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. This classification has severely limited research opportunities into its therapeutic benefits despite growing evidence supporting its efficacy in treating various medical conditions and the escape of sober slavery.
Additionally, funding for addiction treatment programs often just funds cults like alcoholics anonymous and WOD propaganda outlets rather than smart environments for sobering up to be able to still enjoying the benefits of psychoactive substances in moderate terms in the long term.
In summary, when forced, sobriety is slavery. The WOD is the modern war for slavery over the human mind and scientific study.
𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊
Thread guidelines:
• Please remember to add a spoiler to NSFW and extreme content such as graphic violence and gore.
• It is forbidden to be for drug prohibition, forbidden to support the WOD, soberites should be banned. DEA agents KILL YOURSELVES.
• Quality shitposting and original content is encouraged!
• Dox WOD agitators. Expose WOD figures, infodump, take down their sites, their social medias, kill them if possible.
• You may BWH (bump when high) and post about drugs and their properties, but if the thread starts to derail, it is suggested that you create your own thread on /siberia/.
•Swear this oath: I will not vote in any bourgeoisie democracy, ever, I would rather do reckless adventurism like a barbarian than vote in a bourgeoisie democracy, I will not vote, I will not vote, I will not vote, they will not legalize, if they will legalize they will ruin it, they will ruin it, they ruin everything, they will make the drugs bad if they legalize, they will do something bad, they will do something bad, they will note legalize even if I vote, they are lying, I will not vote, I will not vote, I will never vote, I will never vote, I will never vote, never, never, never voting, never voting, never. I'm never voting.
R: 29 / I: 5
>Dr. Béla Király (14 April 1912 – 4 July 2009) was a Hungarian army officer before, during, and after World War II. After the war, he was sentenced to death under the Soviet-allied regime, but was later released. After his release, he commanded the National Guard in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He then fled to the United States, where he became an academic historian. He returned to Hungary after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc and was elected a member of Hungarian Parliament.
The original anti-imperialists who were smeared as so-called "tankies" were correct. The commander of the US-backed insurgents in the violent 1956 counter-revolution attempt in socialist Hungary, General Bela Kiraly, was a CIA asset.
This has been confirmed by the JFK records. Tankies have officially been vindicated
>Dr. Béla Király (14 April 1912 – 4 July 2009) was a Hungarian army officer before, during, and after World War II. After the war, he was sentenced to death under the Soviet-allied regime, but was later released. After his release, he commanded the National Guard in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He then fled to the United States, where he became an academic historian. He returned to Hungary after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc and was elected a member of Hungarian Parliament.
The original anti-imperialists who were smeared as so-called "tankies" were correct. The commander of the US-backed insurgents in the violent 1956 counter-revolution attempt in socialist Hungary, General Bela Kiraly, was a CIA asset.
This has been confirmed by the JFK records. Tankies have officially been vindicated
R: 135 / I: 21
Nuovo filo perché il precedente - dopo solo due anni e mezzo - ha raggiunto il limite.
Prego astenersi drogati delle polemiche da gallinaio televisivo, feticisti della costituzione del quarantotto (in fila per sei senza resto), raccoglitori di firme per improbabili referendum destinati a fallire, tirapiedi dei "sindacati" confederali gialli, accoliti del culto di Sant'Enrico B., piddini e parapiddini, stronzi in generale.
Se proprio dobbiamo fare pettegolezzi, facciamoli su qualche bella fica o su cose divertenti.
E ricordate che alla prossima polemica sul "saluto romano", l'unico autentico è il classico
>Bella, fratè!
Tutto il resto è solo un pallido tentativo d'imitazione.
/ita/ - Spaghetti Communism
La situazione è tragica ma non seriaNuovo filo perché il precedente - dopo solo due anni e mezzo - ha raggiunto il limite.
Prego astenersi drogati delle polemiche da gallinaio televisivo, feticisti della costituzione del quarantotto (in fila per sei senza resto), raccoglitori di firme per improbabili referendum destinati a fallire, tirapiedi dei "sindacati" confederali gialli, accoliti del culto di Sant'Enrico B., piddini e parapiddini, stronzi in generale.
Se proprio dobbiamo fare pettegolezzi, facciamoli su qualche bella fica o su cose divertenti.
E ricordate che alla prossima polemica sul "saluto romano", l'unico autentico è il classico
>Bella, fratè!
Tutto il resto è solo un pallido tentativo d'imitazione.
R: 63 / I: 9
https://chrono.algorithm-net.com/voxes/ryw0zf0sfgj78ufh8jfk594p
According to the Guardian, it seems to have been caused by the arrest of the CHP Instanbul major since he was a likely challenger for presidential elections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/19/istanbul-mayor-arrested-ekrem-imamoglu-days-before-likely-presidential-nomination-erdogan-ntwnfb
Protests in Turkey
Massive protests against Erdogan in several cities in Turkey, including Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.https://chrono.algorithm-net.com/voxes/ryw0zf0sfgj78ufh8jfk594p
According to the Guardian, it seems to have been caused by the arrest of the CHP Instanbul major since he was a likely challenger for presidential elections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/19/istanbul-mayor-arrested-ekrem-imamoglu-days-before-likely-presidential-nomination-erdogan-ntwnfb
R: 17 / I: 8
He looked so much happier back then
How are there people that support him or even convince themselves that someone like him HAD to exist after the collapse of the USSR? This guy isn’t just an awful leader, he’s an awful person. He has gone through several divorces and is currently a single father, he largely accomplished nothing since he got into politics, and now his health is fading with nothing really to show for it. Fucker doesn’t even use plane rides or dine with others as often out of fear of assasination.
R: 7 / I: 4
What does leftypol think about this book? Serious answers only please. I think Sakai makes some great points, it seems only young white leftists rage out with reactionary instincts from their 16 year old /pol/ phase.
What does leftypol think about this book? Serious answers only please. I think Sakai makes some great points, it seems only young white leftists rage out with reactionary instincts from their 16 year old /pol/ phase.
R: 246 / I: 82
In this thread we will discuss a universally agreeable platform for all socialist and communists( and whatever word you want to use there, let's not waste time on pedantry) can agree on in principle. These are a list of demands and truths that we the proletarian people deem to be self-evident.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights
<During Roosevelt's January 11, 1944, message to the Congress on the State of the Union, he said the following:[7]
>It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.
>This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights—among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty.
>As our nation has grown in size and stature, however—as our industrial economy expanded—these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.
>We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. "Necessitous men are not free men."[8] People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
>In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.
>Among these are:
<The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
<The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
<The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
<The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
<The right of every family to a decent home;
<The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
<The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
<The right to a good education.
>All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.
>America's own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for all our citizens. For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.
/USA/ United Socialists of America
Platform of the United Socialists of America.In this thread we will discuss a universally agreeable platform for all socialist and communists( and whatever word you want to use there, let's not waste time on pedantry) can agree on in principle. These are a list of demands and truths that we the proletarian people deem to be self-evident.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights
<During Roosevelt's January 11, 1944, message to the Congress on the State of the Union, he said the following:[7]
>It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.
>This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights—among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty.
>As our nation has grown in size and stature, however—as our industrial economy expanded—these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.
>We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. "Necessitous men are not free men."[8] People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
>In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.
>Among these are:
<The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
<The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
<The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
<The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
<The right of every family to a decent home;
<The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
<The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
<The right to a good education.
>All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.
>America's own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for all our citizens. For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.
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We all know that the top of the owner class relies on private goons for day to day protection. And for them to accomplish that they have to be armed constantly and be present constantly.
Now police and other state controlled armed groups potentially have enough mental compartmentalization to keep fighting for the state for a fair bit. (keeping the peace, stability, etc…)
But the elite's bodyguards and other servants don't seem to have that. The only thing that keeps them in line is economic privileges in the form of higher wages for doing grunt work. And will motivation will evaporate in a few hours in a modern revolutionary situation due to communication speed.
So: The theory is that at some tipping point during the personal security of ultra wealthy will turn on their employers, either abandoning them or executing them. Also this is likely a positive feedback process meaning that most porkies will be dealt with almost simultaneously making it impossible to stop or react to.
Class traitor's actions in a revolution
I have this concept in my head I can't really shake.We all know that the top of the owner class relies on private goons for day to day protection. And for them to accomplish that they have to be armed constantly and be present constantly.
Now police and other state controlled armed groups potentially have enough mental compartmentalization to keep fighting for the state for a fair bit. (keeping the peace, stability, etc…)
But the elite's bodyguards and other servants don't seem to have that. The only thing that keeps them in line is economic privileges in the form of higher wages for doing grunt work. And will motivation will evaporate in a few hours in a modern revolutionary situation due to communication speed.
So: The theory is that at some tipping point during the personal security of ultra wealthy will turn on their employers, either abandoning them or executing them. Also this is likely a positive feedback process meaning that most porkies will be dealt with almost simultaneously making it impossible to stop or react to.
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There's any actual marxist that acknowledge the insights from the neoclassical schools or marxist economist still lock in the labor theory of value? I'm not saying to throw out all insights of Marx, but I deeply believe that Marx isn't fully right when it come to economics, hell even his historical materialism and philosophy is flawed, I appreciate his criticism to capitalism, but to thinks that his all knowing and perfect is moronic at best and almost religious delusional at worst.
There's any actual marxist that acknowledge the insights from the neoclassical schools or marxist economist still lock in the labor theory of value? I'm not saying to throw out all insights of Marx, but I deeply believe that Marx isn't fully right when it come to economics, hell even his historical materialism and philosophy is flawed, I appreciate his criticism to capitalism, but to thinks that his all knowing and perfect is moronic at best and almost religious delusional at worst.
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Referencing hundreds of thousands of people who have died due to over a decade of austerity cuts—including 600 people who have committed suicide after having disability benefits withdrawn—protesters chanted, “No More Deaths from Benefit Cuts!”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/27/mbwu-m27.html
Ansarallah Targets Ben Gurion Airport, Engages US Warships in Red Sea
The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) have launched a series of military strikes targeting Zionist and US assets, including Ben Gurion Airport and enemy warships in the Red Sea, according to a statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17900/
How Syria's sectarian violence spread to capital, terrorizing Alawites
According to accounts from 13 witnesses in Damascus, however, the sectarian violence spread to the southern edges of Syria's capital, a few kilometres from the presidential palace. The details of the alleged raids, kidnappings and killings have not been previously reported.
https://www.newarab.com/news/sectarian-violence-terrorizes-alawites-syria-capital-report
Resistance in Shengal forces the Iraqi army to withdraw
Women and young people led the resistance that started when the Iraqi army attacked Shengal. The resistance won, and the Iraqi forces were forced to withdraw at around 02:00 on Friday night. However, since the wounded fighters who were taken prisoner have not yet been released, the resistance of the people continues. … . . . . . … . . …
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/resistance-in-shengal-forces-iraqi-army-to-withdraw-78520
Colombia and the US agree to collect and share biometric data for migrants
The United States and Colombia have signed a memorandum of understanding in Bogota that would pave the way for the two countries to exchange biometric data collected from migrants.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/27/colombia-and-the-us-agree-to-collect-and-share-biometric-data-for-migrants
https://archive.ph/YWPgT
Agrarian Reform protesters to march again on Asunción
The FNC, led by Secretary-General Marcial Gómez, is protesting against land issues and the influence of the pro-government Honor Colorado faction, led by former president Horacio Cartes, over national institutions. They are calling for agrarian reform and denouncing evictions of peasant and indigenous communities.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/27/agrarian-reform-protesters-to-march-again-on-asuncion
South Sudan opposition says peace deal has collapsed after arrest of its leader
The party’s deputy chairperson, Oyet Nathaniel Pierino, said in a statement that the agreement “has been abrogated” and that Machar’s arrest shows a lack of political goodwill to achieve peace and stability.
https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-riek-machar-arrest-66a34271b9b6af9893e2bc14301c6fcb
Buddhism’s holiest site erupts in protests over Hindu ‘control’ of shrine
Several Buddhist organisations have held rallies, from Ladakh bordering China in the north to the cities of Mumbai in the west and Mysuru in the south. Now, people are increasingly trooping to Bodh Gaya to join the main protest, said Akash Lama, general secretary of the All India Buddhist Forum (AIBF), the collective leading the campaign.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/24/buddhisms-holiest-site-erupts-in-protests-over-hindu-control-of-shrine
https://archive.ph/U2LPP
Pakistan citizens to bear higher taxes as IMF approves $1.3 billion loan
The new agreement requires additional commitments from the tax-burdened population, including a new carbon levy, increased water rates, and liberalisation of the automobile sector. Dawn newspaper reports that a reduction in power rates is expected, funded by reallocating the existing petroleum levy.
https://archive.ph/h2wU7
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/pakistan-citizens-to-bear-higher-taxes-as-imf-approves-1-3-billion-loan/articleshow/119580815.cms
China rebuffs Trump offer of tariff concessions if Beijing agrees TikTok deal
Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday that he could give China "a little reduction in tariffs or something to get it done". "We're going to have a form of a deal," Trump said, adding that if it was not done in time, he would extend the deadline.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/china-rebuffs-trump-tariff-concession-offer-tiktok-deal-5027461
News 3/27/25
Thousands protest in UK National Day of Action against billions in welfare cutsReferencing hundreds of thousands of people who have died due to over a decade of austerity cuts—including 600 people who have committed suicide after having disability benefits withdrawn—protesters chanted, “No More Deaths from Benefit Cuts!”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/27/mbwu-m27.html
Ansarallah Targets Ben Gurion Airport, Engages US Warships in Red Sea
The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) have launched a series of military strikes targeting Zionist and US assets, including Ben Gurion Airport and enemy warships in the Red Sea, according to a statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17900/
How Syria's sectarian violence spread to capital, terrorizing Alawites
According to accounts from 13 witnesses in Damascus, however, the sectarian violence spread to the southern edges of Syria's capital, a few kilometres from the presidential palace. The details of the alleged raids, kidnappings and killings have not been previously reported.
https://www.newarab.com/news/sectarian-violence-terrorizes-alawites-syria-capital-report
Resistance in Shengal forces the Iraqi army to withdraw
Women and young people led the resistance that started when the Iraqi army attacked Shengal. The resistance won, and the Iraqi forces were forced to withdraw at around 02:00 on Friday night. However, since the wounded fighters who were taken prisoner have not yet been released, the resistance of the people continues. … . . . . . … . . …
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/resistance-in-shengal-forces-iraqi-army-to-withdraw-78520
Colombia and the US agree to collect and share biometric data for migrants
The United States and Colombia have signed a memorandum of understanding in Bogota that would pave the way for the two countries to exchange biometric data collected from migrants.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/27/colombia-and-the-us-agree-to-collect-and-share-biometric-data-for-migrants
https://archive.ph/YWPgT
Agrarian Reform protesters to march again on Asunción
The FNC, led by Secretary-General Marcial Gómez, is protesting against land issues and the influence of the pro-government Honor Colorado faction, led by former president Horacio Cartes, over national institutions. They are calling for agrarian reform and denouncing evictions of peasant and indigenous communities.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/27/agrarian-reform-protesters-to-march-again-on-asuncion
South Sudan opposition says peace deal has collapsed after arrest of its leader
The party’s deputy chairperson, Oyet Nathaniel Pierino, said in a statement that the agreement “has been abrogated” and that Machar’s arrest shows a lack of political goodwill to achieve peace and stability.
https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-riek-machar-arrest-66a34271b9b6af9893e2bc14301c6fcb
Buddhism’s holiest site erupts in protests over Hindu ‘control’ of shrine
Several Buddhist organisations have held rallies, from Ladakh bordering China in the north to the cities of Mumbai in the west and Mysuru in the south. Now, people are increasingly trooping to Bodh Gaya to join the main protest, said Akash Lama, general secretary of the All India Buddhist Forum (AIBF), the collective leading the campaign.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/24/buddhisms-holiest-site-erupts-in-protests-over-hindu-control-of-shrine
https://archive.ph/U2LPP
Pakistan citizens to bear higher taxes as IMF approves $1.3 billion loan
The new agreement requires additional commitments from the tax-burdened population, including a new carbon levy, increased water rates, and liberalisation of the automobile sector. Dawn newspaper reports that a reduction in power rates is expected, funded by reallocating the existing petroleum levy.
https://archive.ph/h2wU7
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/pakistan-citizens-to-bear-higher-taxes-as-imf-approves-1-3-billion-loan/articleshow/119580815.cms
China rebuffs Trump offer of tariff concessions if Beijing agrees TikTok deal
Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday that he could give China "a little reduction in tariffs or something to get it done". "We're going to have a form of a deal," Trump said, adding that if it was not done in time, he would extend the deadline.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/china-rebuffs-trump-tariff-concession-offer-tiktok-deal-5027461
R: 11 / I: 0
More importantly how do you deal with this? A lot of this behavior is a legitimate public health and safety problem. Whether we're talking about mitigating the negative effects in the short term or overcoming the problem in a more revolutionary context, it seems like something has to be done or else this tendency will multiply and reproduce itself. And no, the solution is not simply education. People still act like this even if they have a higher education in a related field. There are plenty of anti-vax doctors and nurses as crazy as that sounds.
Anti-Science Schizos
What is the materialist explanation for antivaxers and the like? They don't derive some personal benefit from being like this do they? Often they are just causing harm, including to themselves.More importantly how do you deal with this? A lot of this behavior is a legitimate public health and safety problem. Whether we're talking about mitigating the negative effects in the short term or overcoming the problem in a more revolutionary context, it seems like something has to be done or else this tendency will multiply and reproduce itself. And no, the solution is not simply education. People still act like this even if they have a higher education in a related field. There are plenty of anti-vax doctors and nurses as crazy as that sounds.
R: 78 / I: 18
>My grandparents are like that, they have photos of Abdel Nasser and his family in their living room, treating him like a Saint. But if you were to ask them anything about actual Arab nationalist philosophy, they wouldn't know. All my grandparents know is that things were better back then, my Granddad would be provided a job that supported his family and there wasn't any filth on the streets. To a large extent, things were indeed better back then and that's just how it is for most people, these people believe and worship the State and the Leader, they don't give a shit about Ideology. As long as it's not openly 'heretical' to the values of people, the masses will believe in it
How true is this?
someone also replied with this>My grandparents are like that, they have photos of Abdel Nasser and his family in their living room, treating him like a Saint. But if you were to ask them anything about actual Arab nationalist philosophy, they wouldn't know. All my grandparents know is that things were better back then, my Granddad would be provided a job that supported his family and there wasn't any filth on the streets. To a large extent, things were indeed better back then and that's just how it is for most people, these people believe and worship the State and the Leader, they don't give a shit about Ideology. As long as it's not openly 'heretical' to the values of people, the masses will believe in it
R: 144 / I: 160
In accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive of March 17, 2025, all records previously withheld for classification that are part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection are released.
The National Archives has partnered with agencies across the federal government to comply with the President’s directive in support of Executive Order 14176.
As of March 18, 2025, the records are available to access either online at this page or in person, via hard copy or on analog media formats, at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. As the records continue to be digitized, they will be posted to this page.
The table below displays the file names and links to all of the documents released on March 18, 2025. They are sorted by Record Identification Form (RIF) number, which is included in the filename.
JFK documents released now. Dozens of files below
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release-2025In accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive of March 17, 2025, all records previously withheld for classification that are part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection are released.
The National Archives has partnered with agencies across the federal government to comply with the President’s directive in support of Executive Order 14176.
As of March 18, 2025, the records are available to access either online at this page or in person, via hard copy or on analog media formats, at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. As the records continue to be digitized, they will be posted to this page.
The table below displays the file names and links to all of the documents released on March 18, 2025. They are sorted by Record Identification Form (RIF) number, which is included in the filename.
R: 278 / I: 110
Discuss anything related to:
>Algeria
>Angola
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>Burkina Faso
>Burundi
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>Central African Republic (CAR)
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>Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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/Africa/
A thread for the forgotten continent, so forgotten the thread got wiped since I made it that recently.Discuss anything related to:
>Algeria
>Angola
>Benin
>Botswana
>Burkina Faso
>Burundi
>Cabo Verde
>Cameroon
>Central African Republic (CAR)
>Chad
>Comoros
>Congo, Democratic Republic of the
>Congo, Republic of the
>Cote d’Ivoire
>Djibouti
>Egypt
>Equatorial Guinea
>Eritrea
>Eswatini
>Ethiopia
>Gabon
>Gambia
>Ghana
>Guinea
>Guinea-Bissau
>Kenya
>Lesotho
>Liberia
>Libya
>Madagascar
>Malawi
>Mali
>Mauritania
>Mauritius
>Morocco
>Mozambique
>Namibia
>Niger
>Nigeria
>Rwanda
>Sao Tome and Principe
>Senegal
>Seychelles
>Sierra Leone
>Somalia
>South Africa
>South Sudan
>Sudan
>Tanzania
>Togo
>Tunisia
>Uganda
>Zambia
>Zimbabwe
R: 11 / I: 0
I highly recommend this book. It was easy to read and in general I think it is one of the best works on the fall of the Roman Empire. This period is one of the most interesting in British history, there is a lot of work done by who I suspect are right-wing archaeologists prop up the idea of towns like Wroxeter persisting into the later 5th century, based on very bad evidence, in order to prop up this idea about Britain directly continuing from the Roman Empire.
This is also something Welsh archaeologists have done that I am highly critical of, it is true that in South Wales the elite probably did survive (Dinas Powys was probably occupied by latin speaking, olive oil drinking, possibly literate christians) and that Welsh has latin words, but that doesn't mean Wales is a direct continuation from Roman Britain because Roman Britain was always a colony rather than a country!
I highly recommend this book. It was easy to read and in general I think it is one of the best works on the fall of the Roman Empire. This period is one of the most interesting in British history, there is a lot of work done by who I suspect are right-wing archaeologists prop up the idea of towns like Wroxeter persisting into the later 5th century, based on very bad evidence, in order to prop up this idea about Britain directly continuing from the Roman Empire.
This is also something Welsh archaeologists have done that I am highly critical of, it is true that in South Wales the elite probably did survive (Dinas Powys was probably occupied by latin speaking, olive oil drinking, possibly literate christians) and that Welsh has latin words, but that doesn't mean Wales is a direct continuation from Roman Britain because Roman Britain was always a colony rather than a country!
R: 6 / I: 0
The current president of Ghana John mahama is currently trying to convince and encourage the Sahel states to rejoin ECOWAS and ongoing discussions over reorganization between ECOWAS and the Sahel states are already going underway. I don’t know how this will end up, but if the Nigerian government (the main force blocking reintegration) managed to get rid of Tinubu and other kleptocrats from seizing control, the fate of the Sahel states is functionally sealed.
Late report: ECOWAS is now actively trying to get the Sahel states
This development came around five days ago, so this report is a little late. This development also comes after several other calls from other west African leaders have been made for reunification.The current president of Ghana John mahama is currently trying to convince and encourage the Sahel states to rejoin ECOWAS and ongoing discussions over reorganization between ECOWAS and the Sahel states are already going underway. I don’t know how this will end up, but if the Nigerian government (the main force blocking reintegration) managed to get rid of Tinubu and other kleptocrats from seizing control, the fate of the Sahel states is functionally sealed.
R: 20 / I: 5
why do so many people like russia and china? they were very mean to their workers ;_;
why not support cuba or chile instead? they only succumbed due to western pressure and market supremacy.
why do so many people like russia and china? they were very mean to their workers ;_;
why not support cuba or chile instead? they only succumbed due to western pressure and market supremacy.
R: 26 / I: 9
MAJOR EARTHQUAKE HAPPENING
7.7 EARTHQUAKE HITS MYANMAR AND THAILAND
High rises and many other structures collapsed. The building in the vids is the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) building in Bangkok, Thailand.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5343417/myanmar-thailand-earthquake-bangkok-mandalay
https://apnews.com/article/thailand-earthquake-bangkok-4fce87aced74b1fc0cf260fb5454d353
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/myanmar-thailand-earthquake-03-28-25-intl-hnk/index.html
MAJOR EARTHQUAKE HAPPENING
7.7 EARTHQUAKE HITS MYANMAR AND THAILAND
High rises and many other structures collapsed. The building in the vids is the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) building in Bangkok, Thailand.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5343417/myanmar-thailand-earthquake-bangkok-mandalay
https://apnews.com/article/thailand-earthquake-bangkok-4fce87aced74b1fc0cf260fb5454d353
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/myanmar-thailand-earthquake-03-28-25-intl-hnk/index.html
R: 17 / I: 0
Antisocial fags and social atomization believers will face the wall. Under communism, you will have friends, a family, and a community that loves you.
Cope: the interview
Watching this widowed man try to come up with reasons to enjoy loneliness is sad. His only benefits are money and personal space as if you can’t have that with friends. He also barely talks about anything he’s gotten out of from being lonely. Seriously, he spends more time talking about his wife and his friends throughout most of the video anyways.Antisocial fags and social atomization believers will face the wall. Under communism, you will have friends, a family, and a community that loves you.
R: 87 / I: 3
Putin, Elon, trump, and many others billionaires are all either single or have gone through multiple divorces despite their supposed success in life. Most liberal democracies are failing and are ill prepared to handle any violent dissent or invasions. Health crises that were resolved centuries ago and severe deficits in social supports is rampant in nearly all countries that adopt western ideas voluntarily. Although most abrahamic religions aren’t western, the societies and institutions that run them are and constantly fall into issues with justifying their presence past serving as substitutes for whatever real social supports people used to have.
There are so many countries so far that have already fallen into failed state status or dissolved at this point despite adopting western practices—it’s not even funny. How the fuck do you even respond to such weakness and fragility?
The afropessimists were right about weakness
I know that you don’t know what I’m talking about when I say that “western values are weak.” I mean that the majority of the perpetrators of most capitalist shitbaggery are in general pathetic people that promote generally fragile ideas.Putin, Elon, trump, and many others billionaires are all either single or have gone through multiple divorces despite their supposed success in life. Most liberal democracies are failing and are ill prepared to handle any violent dissent or invasions. Health crises that were resolved centuries ago and severe deficits in social supports is rampant in nearly all countries that adopt western ideas voluntarily. Although most abrahamic religions aren’t western, the societies and institutions that run them are and constantly fall into issues with justifying their presence past serving as substitutes for whatever real social supports people used to have.
There are so many countries so far that have already fallen into failed state status or dissolved at this point despite adopting western practices—it’s not even funny. How the fuck do you even respond to such weakness and fragility?
R: 2 / I: 0
Residents fled as a building was flattened in the Hadath neighbourhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday when Israel carried out four strikes – an attack reminiscent of the months-long bombing campaign of last year when Israeli jets pounded the area.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/israel-launches-first-air-strike-on-lebanons-beirut-since-november-truce
https://archive.ph/FAz6K
Told to fix notorious prison, Israel just relocated alleged abuses, detainees say
What the detainees’ testimonies show, rights groups say, is that instead of correcting alleged abuses against Palestinians held without charge or trial — including beatings, excessive handcuffing, and poor diet and health care – Israel’s military just shifted where they take place.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-detainees-prisons-ofer-e3dfd040f10e047d7cc95cbb8a295b28
Supporters and detractors of Philippines' Duterte rally on his 80th birthday
Tens of thousands of supporters of arrested former President Rodrigo Duterte flooded the streets of Davao City on his 80th birthday on Friday, calling for his return to the Philippines from International Criminal Court custody.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/supporters-detractors-philippines-duterte-rally-his-80th-birthday-2025-03-28/
Curfew declared in sections of Kathmandu after pro-monarchy mob wreaks havoc
Reports claim that a protest organized to demand restoration of monarchy in the country tried to breach the police barricade and turned violent. They started attacking nearby buildings, looted markets and set on fire several properties in Tinkune and nearby areas. The mob also attacked and tried to burn the party office of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) or CPN (US) located at Baneshwar.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/28/curfew-declared-in-sections-of-kathmandu-after-pro-monarchy-mob-wreaks-havoc/
CK Hutchison will not sign deal to sell strategic Panama ports next week, sources say
China's market regulator said it will carry out an antitrust review on the Panama port deal in accordance with a law to protect fair competition and safeguard the public interest, its official WeChat account showed late on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/business/ck-hutchison-not-sell-strategic-ports-panama-canal-next-week-scmp-reports-2025-03-28/
Ecuadorean President's family linked to cocaine shipments to Europe
In 2020, José Luis Rivera Baquerizo, a Noboa Trading worker, was arrested after cocaine was found in banana containers but was released with the help of Edgar José Lama, then an advisor to Noboa and now Ecuador’s Health Minister. According to the European Commission, 57% of banana containers from Ecuador arriving in Europe carry cocaine.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/28/ecuadorean-president-s-family-linked-to-cocaine-shipments-to-europe
Canadian company in negotiations with Trump to mine seabed
A Canadian deep-sea mining firm has revealed it has been negotiating with the Trump administration to bypass a UN treaty and potentially gain authorisation from the US to mine in international waters. The revelation has stunned environmentalists, who condemned the move as “reckless” and a “slap in the face for multilateralism”.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/28/deep-sea-mining-international-seabed-authority-canadian-the-metals-company-tmc-negotiations-trump-us
Zelenskyy says Ukraine received new US mineral deal proposal
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday said Kyiv has officially received a new draft agreement from the US on a critical minerals deal, saying it significantly differs from the proposed framework earlier, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/zelenskyy-says-ukraine-received-new-us-mineral-deal-proposal/3522785
https://archive.ph/sZ4oF
NI teachers reject 5.5% pay rise offer again
The Irish National Teachers Organisation's (INTO) Northern secretary Mark McTaggart said his members had "raised concerns around the clarity of the offer in terms of reducing workload".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2920ngzkpo
Barrage of bill hikes sees the cost-of-living crisis bite
In a public accounts committee report published today, MPs said that Britain’s electricity bills in 2023 were the highest among comparable countries, with consumers owing £3.7 billion for gas and electricity in 2024, more than double the amount in 2021.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/barrage-of-bill-hikes-sees-the-cost-of-living-crisis-bite
News 3/28/25
Israel launches first air strike on Lebanon’s Beirut since November truceResidents fled as a building was flattened in the Hadath neighbourhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday when Israel carried out four strikes – an attack reminiscent of the months-long bombing campaign of last year when Israeli jets pounded the area.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/israel-launches-first-air-strike-on-lebanons-beirut-since-november-truce
https://archive.ph/FAz6K
Told to fix notorious prison, Israel just relocated alleged abuses, detainees say
What the detainees’ testimonies show, rights groups say, is that instead of correcting alleged abuses against Palestinians held without charge or trial — including beatings, excessive handcuffing, and poor diet and health care – Israel’s military just shifted where they take place.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-detainees-prisons-ofer-e3dfd040f10e047d7cc95cbb8a295b28
Supporters and detractors of Philippines' Duterte rally on his 80th birthday
Tens of thousands of supporters of arrested former President Rodrigo Duterte flooded the streets of Davao City on his 80th birthday on Friday, calling for his return to the Philippines from International Criminal Court custody.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/supporters-detractors-philippines-duterte-rally-his-80th-birthday-2025-03-28/
Curfew declared in sections of Kathmandu after pro-monarchy mob wreaks havoc
Reports claim that a protest organized to demand restoration of monarchy in the country tried to breach the police barricade and turned violent. They started attacking nearby buildings, looted markets and set on fire several properties in Tinkune and nearby areas. The mob also attacked and tried to burn the party office of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) or CPN (US) located at Baneshwar.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/28/curfew-declared-in-sections-of-kathmandu-after-pro-monarchy-mob-wreaks-havoc/
CK Hutchison will not sign deal to sell strategic Panama ports next week, sources say
China's market regulator said it will carry out an antitrust review on the Panama port deal in accordance with a law to protect fair competition and safeguard the public interest, its official WeChat account showed late on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/business/ck-hutchison-not-sell-strategic-ports-panama-canal-next-week-scmp-reports-2025-03-28/
Ecuadorean President's family linked to cocaine shipments to Europe
In 2020, José Luis Rivera Baquerizo, a Noboa Trading worker, was arrested after cocaine was found in banana containers but was released with the help of Edgar José Lama, then an advisor to Noboa and now Ecuador’s Health Minister. According to the European Commission, 57% of banana containers from Ecuador arriving in Europe carry cocaine.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/28/ecuadorean-president-s-family-linked-to-cocaine-shipments-to-europe
Canadian company in negotiations with Trump to mine seabed
A Canadian deep-sea mining firm has revealed it has been negotiating with the Trump administration to bypass a UN treaty and potentially gain authorisation from the US to mine in international waters. The revelation has stunned environmentalists, who condemned the move as “reckless” and a “slap in the face for multilateralism”.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/28/deep-sea-mining-international-seabed-authority-canadian-the-metals-company-tmc-negotiations-trump-us
Zelenskyy says Ukraine received new US mineral deal proposal
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday said Kyiv has officially received a new draft agreement from the US on a critical minerals deal, saying it significantly differs from the proposed framework earlier, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/zelenskyy-says-ukraine-received-new-us-mineral-deal-proposal/3522785
https://archive.ph/sZ4oF
NI teachers reject 5.5% pay rise offer again
The Irish National Teachers Organisation's (INTO) Northern secretary Mark McTaggart said his members had "raised concerns around the clarity of the offer in terms of reducing workload".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2920ngzkpo
Barrage of bill hikes sees the cost-of-living crisis bite
In a public accounts committee report published today, MPs said that Britain’s electricity bills in 2023 were the highest among comparable countries, with consumers owing £3.7 billion for gas and electricity in 2024, more than double the amount in 2021.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/barrage-of-bill-hikes-sees-the-cost-of-living-crisis-bite
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>Great Compassion Mantra edition
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Twink used to mean something, now it's just any skinny youngish white guy. 20 years ago I was not a twink and now I am. It's fucked up man. My theory is that the watering down of the word stems from guys that look like me trying to make themselves seem more attractive to girls rather than just being basic, and girls desiring to project vague queerness onto their boyfriends. People like to feel they’ve found a positive term that describes them, gives them marketability.
Twink used to mean something, now it's just any skinny youngish white guy. 20 years ago I was not a twink and now I am. It's fucked up man. My theory is that the watering down of the word stems from guys that look like me trying to make themselves seem more attractive to girls rather than just being basic, and girls desiring to project vague queerness onto their boyfriends. People like to feel they’ve found a positive term that describes them, gives them marketability.
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/👁️\Secret Societies & Cryptocracy Study 🏛️
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Being well aware that capitalism is the root of all problems and not some Catholic / Zionist Masonic Lodge or a Council of 13 I want to dedicate a second thread towards the study of what these organizations actually are, how they accumulated their wealth from their foundation, what their influence is and what their goals are.
This is not a Poltard thread about "da jooz"! This is a thread dedicated towards the real study of esoteric societies / "magical" organizations and their spheres of influence.
From the illumnati, to Order 322, to the obscure Neo-Nazi pedo cults given by the Order of Nine Angels & Temple Ov Blood, to the Mormons, to the pyramid scheme of the Church of Scientology, LaRouche and so on! How they infiltrate government positions, political parties and what we know about them.
Recommended books for analysis (links not included, might post PDFs in the thread):
-Occult Features of Anarchism by Christopher Scott Thompson and the Erica Lagalisse
-Bakunin's Anti-Jacobinism: 'Secret. Societies' For Self-Emancipating. Collectivist Social Revolution by Robert M. Cutler
-Revolutionary Demonology by Gruppo Di Nun
-Any book on the illumnati (c'mon they're in your supermarket's books aisle! Lets have a laugh)
-Magick by Aleister Crowley
-The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites & Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order by Eminem aka Marshall Bruce Mathers II 's Ancestors (just kidding, Israel Regardie and John Michael Greer)
-Liber Null & Psychonaut: The Practice of Chaos Magic by Peter J. Carroll and Ronald Hutton
-The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality by Gordon White
-Don't touch this book by Jan Udo Holey (Jan van Helsing) ((Funny rightoid schizo))
-Global Death Cult: The Order of Nine Angles, Atomwaffen and the Slaughter of the Innocents.
Lets demystify the unknown and expose the real devil in the details.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20241108015328/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/1854880.html
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/👁️\Secret Societies & Cryptocracy Study 🏛️
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Being well aware that capitalism is the root of all problems and not some Catholic / Zionist Masonic Lodge or a Council of 13 I want to dedicate a second thread towards the study of what these organizations actually are, how they accumulated their wealth from their foundation, what their influence is and what their goals are.
This is not a Poltard thread about "da jooz"! This is a thread dedicated towards the real study of esoteric societies / "magical" organizations and their spheres of influence.
From the illumnati, to Order 322, to the obscure Neo-Nazi pedo cults given by the Order of Nine Angels & Temple Ov Blood, to the Mormons, to the pyramid scheme of the Church of Scientology, LaRouche and so on! How they infiltrate government positions, political parties and what we know about them.
Recommended books for analysis (links not included, might post PDFs in the thread):
-Occult Features of Anarchism by Christopher Scott Thompson and the Erica Lagalisse
-Bakunin's Anti-Jacobinism: 'Secret. Societies' For Self-Emancipating. Collectivist Social Revolution by Robert M. Cutler
-Revolutionary Demonology by Gruppo Di Nun
-Any book on the illumnati (c'mon they're in your supermarket's books aisle! Lets have a laugh)
-Magick by Aleister Crowley
-The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites & Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order by Eminem aka Marshall Bruce Mathers II 's Ancestors (just kidding, Israel Regardie and John Michael Greer)
-Liber Null & Psychonaut: The Practice of Chaos Magic by Peter J. Carroll and Ronald Hutton
-The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality by Gordon White
-Don't touch this book by Jan Udo Holey (Jan van Helsing) ((Funny rightoid schizo))
-Global Death Cult: The Order of Nine Angles, Atomwaffen and the Slaughter of the Innocents.
Lets demystify the unknown and expose the real devil in the details.
PREVIOUS THREAD ARCHIVE:
https://archive.ph/EA1nA
https://web.archive.org/web/20241108015328/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/1854880.html
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If men make history what do women make?
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It's really weird watching anglo christians seemingly emphasize the old testament over the new. It's also ironic but evangelicals are actually starting to resent christ himself. His asceticism and meekness is contradictory to anglo white supremacy and their political goals in the middle east. Their version of the bible was also heavily compromised to reflect the anglo Zionist political project.
I suspect in the future Jesus will be relagated to a minor deity and Yahweh will be the principal deity in christian america
Is protestantism fusing with judaism
Why does it look like protestant Christianity is evolving into some sort of messianic Jewish sect.It's really weird watching anglo christians seemingly emphasize the old testament over the new. It's also ironic but evangelicals are actually starting to resent christ himself. His asceticism and meekness is contradictory to anglo white supremacy and their political goals in the middle east. Their version of the bible was also heavily compromised to reflect the anglo Zionist political project.
I suspect in the future Jesus will be relagated to a minor deity and Yahweh will be the principal deity in christian america
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>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
<Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.
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https://founders.archives.gov/
maybe people will also get in a argument over whether they were "historically progressive for their time" or "ontologically evil yakkkubian bleach demons" or something but that's no fun!
Founding Fondler Gems
ITT we "appreciate" the burgerreich fuhrers of 1776 and post their gemmiest gems. both their "based" and their "cringe" stuff. Anything that makes you feel a feeling that feels feelyhttps://founders.archives.gov/
maybe people will also get in a argument over whether they were "historically progressive for their time" or "ontologically evil yakkkubian bleach demons" or something but that's no fun!
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Other African countries (mainly Nigeria and South Africa) have confirmed that some of their soldiers have been killed trying to contain M23.
Personally, I think it’s kind of relieving knowing that the UN for once developed a spine to do anything right. I also am deeply concerned about another continental-scale war erupting in Africa like what happened during the Congo crisis.
As for the Sudan war, it looks like it’s going to see the RSF obliterated
Fucked up report: the UN is actually fighting against terrorist for the first time
Apparently, the UN is working alongside the Congolese army to prevent the m23 terrorist group from advancing into Goma—a city near the Congo-Rwandan border. Reports have found that UN soldiers have fired artillery directly at M23 positions.Other African countries (mainly Nigeria and South Africa) have confirmed that some of their soldiers have been killed trying to contain M23.
Personally, I think it’s kind of relieving knowing that the UN for once developed a spine to do anything right. I also am deeply concerned about another continental-scale war erupting in Africa like what happened during the Congo crisis.
As for the Sudan war, it looks like it’s going to see the RSF obliterated
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>the president probably would have survived the wound
>but his quack doctor recommends boofing his asshole with whiskey and beef to help him heal
>he get sepsis and dies
burgers, explain. how the fuck did this happen. how the fuck is your country like this?
how the fuck were burgers always this burgerlike?
burgers, wtf, explain
>some schizophrenic con artist who got rejected from a sex cult shoots the US president because he didn't get to be ambassador to chile after licking boot>the president probably would have survived the wound
>but his quack doctor recommends boofing his asshole with whiskey and beef to help him heal
>he get sepsis and dies
burgers, explain. how the fuck did this happen. how the fuck is your country like this?
how the fuck were burgers always this burgerlike?
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You are learning how to use a radio right?
I bought myself a shortwave radio and it will pick up stations as far as china and even the DPRK from my bum fuck nowhere town. We also happen to have a local repeater. If I can say anything for begginers, or, people starting out, get yourself and scanner and learn how it works. I would recommend something easy like a whistler WS1025. Something cheap and easy to learn. then you can make your set up more advanced. Right now I am using a trunk tracker bearcat BCT15X. With aRealistic DX-300 for shortwave and another realistic CB radio. I highly advise cb radio too because cb is great for local situations and emergencies.
You are learning how to use radio right?
With reactionary facists in power and the internet either changing dramatically with the TAKE IT DOWN act and the fuck heads in the house talking about axing S230 (both republican and democrats) The internet could, very possibly, be getting set up to be drastically transformed. Something more like cable television. With that in mind, learning how to use amature radio, shortwave radio, GMRS, and other alternative forms of communication could be critical in the coming days.You are learning how to use a radio right?
I bought myself a shortwave radio and it will pick up stations as far as china and even the DPRK from my bum fuck nowhere town. We also happen to have a local repeater. If I can say anything for begginers, or, people starting out, get yourself and scanner and learn how it works. I would recommend something easy like a whistler WS1025. Something cheap and easy to learn. then you can make your set up more advanced. Right now I am using a trunk tracker bearcat BCT15X. With aRealistic DX-300 for shortwave and another realistic CB radio. I highly advise cb radio too because cb is great for local situations and emergencies.
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Previous >>2084300 https://archive.ph/DJ38d
Students and other citizens, sometimes joined with farmers, are regularly blockading traffic at this. Currently there's a 24h blockade going on in one of the Belgrade highway knots. Here's a live https://kamere.24sedam.rs/?grad=beograd&kamera=2&naziv=autokomanda-frans
From a class position, the students are mostly what you'd call middle class. Higher education was made less accessible to the workning class in Serbia and they make up some 10% of the students. It's interesting from another perspective, because the students are organizing via soviet like structures, their demands are very classically petty-bourgeois (uphold the state law and institutions!!) reflecting their class position. Students are practicing "consumerist" general strikes. They're not in the productive sector, but it's still economic pressure building up. Now they're blockading traffic in the busies knot. It's a disruption in the flow of capital in any case.
They've distanced themselves from the bourgeois opposition in Serbia's pairlament and have been called a color revolution by Russia and the EU! They have even distanced themselves from all European NGOs! It's like a 1968 on steroids - I think this really is a situation the situationalist internationale hoped to have lmao. As a cherry on top, the reactionary city of Belgrade is executing progressive policy (like free of charge public transport in the whole city of 2 mln peoole) in hopes of calming the protests down. Even the middle schools are in blockade! Like some 95% of univeristies are now in blockade. In the middle of it all, a retirement home burns down and kills eight people! It's utter chaos.
Serbia 🇷🇸 Thread vol 2.
Things are heating up? editionPrevious >>2084300 https://archive.ph/DJ38d
Students and other citizens, sometimes joined with farmers, are regularly blockading traffic at this. Currently there's a 24h blockade going on in one of the Belgrade highway knots. Here's a live https://kamere.24sedam.rs/?grad=beograd&kamera=2&naziv=autokomanda-frans
From a class position, the students are mostly what you'd call middle class. Higher education was made less accessible to the workning class in Serbia and they make up some 10% of the students. It's interesting from another perspective, because the students are organizing via soviet like structures, their demands are very classically petty-bourgeois (uphold the state law and institutions!!) reflecting their class position. Students are practicing "consumerist" general strikes. They're not in the productive sector, but it's still economic pressure building up. Now they're blockading traffic in the busies knot. It's a disruption in the flow of capital in any case.
They've distanced themselves from the bourgeois opposition in Serbia's pairlament and have been called a color revolution by Russia and the EU! They have even distanced themselves from all European NGOs! It's like a 1968 on steroids - I think this really is a situation the situationalist internationale hoped to have lmao. As a cherry on top, the reactionary city of Belgrade is executing progressive policy (like free of charge public transport in the whole city of 2 mln peoole) in hopes of calming the protests down. Even the middle schools are in blockade! Like some 95% of univeristies are now in blockade. In the middle of it all, a retirement home burns down and kills eight people! It's utter chaos.
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
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📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
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https://archive.ph/44B9Q
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
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Yay
Nigeria is having massive anti bourgeoisie protests again and these ones are spontaneous and are much larger than last year’s yay
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Schizophrenic babble
The system is so powerful with its psyops that it doesn’t even need to put a gun to your head to make you work to death. I mean we can talk about how the nazis and the kings and queens of the past killed millions by the sword or gun but the machine doesn’t even need those. It just needs the media and the psyche of the people to enslave
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Capital by Marx thread
Well, I never read Capital by Marx, I read couple of more short works of his, but still something is bothering me, Marx wrote in the XIX century, so his work are maybe outdated from my point of view, I think, but I'm open minded, does anyone here actually read Capital can tell me if still worth reading Capital or is relevant to the modern economics theories?
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No wonder the fucking rent in this shithole is so uniquely low. I would fucking leave this dumpster fire immediately if I ever could.
Edmonton is so fucking trashy
Everyone here eats junk food constantly, people lack social skills and impulse control, shit and urine get smeared on random garbage even outside the downtown area all the fucking time, the obesity and overweight issues here are at an emergency level and no one cares, it’s winter for eight to nine months of the year. Hypertension, obesity, preventable diseases, hyperlipidemia, and drug addiction are sky high here even in comparison to other cities, and it’s so fucking boring and lonely here on top of all that shit.No wonder the fucking rent in this shithole is so uniquely low. I would fucking leave this dumpster fire immediately if I ever could.
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What's the explanation behind the fact hetero males represent over 90% of every crime and atrocity perpetrator?
How come almost everyone who's a homophobe, racist, misogynist, xenophobe and generally an antisocial hateful piece of shit an hetero male?
How come absolute majority of right wingers and general reactionary scum globally are hetero males?
How come hetero males are incapable of showing empathy, love, compassion, tenderness and any positive social emotion and interaction because apparently doing so is """gay""" (and for breeder moid, it's apparently worse than having terminal cancer)?
Is hetero male mentality and brain similar to that of a chimp (rape, hate, kill, plunder, assault, breed)? Is this why they're usually particularly vile, antisocial, unpleasant and violent creatures? Is segregation between them and women and queer men the only solution?
What's the explanation behind the fact hetero males represent over 90% of every crime and atrocity perpetrator?
How come almost everyone who's a homophobe, racist, misogynist, xenophobe and generally an antisocial hateful piece of shit an hetero male?
How come absolute majority of right wingers and general reactionary scum globally are hetero males?
How come hetero males are incapable of showing empathy, love, compassion, tenderness and any positive social emotion and interaction because apparently doing so is """gay""" (and for breeder moid, it's apparently worse than having terminal cancer)?
Is hetero male mentality and brain similar to that of a chimp (rape, hate, kill, plunder, assault, breed)? Is this why they're usually particularly vile, antisocial, unpleasant and violent creatures? Is segregation between them and women and queer men the only solution?
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> Earlier this month, the Senate passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146), by a voice vote. The bill is meant to speed up the removal of non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII, including videos that imitate real people, a technology sometimes called “deepfakes.”
> As currently drafted, the TAKE IT DOWN Act mandates a notice-and-takedown system that threatens free expression, user privacy, and due process, without addressing the problem it claims to solve.
> The bill contains no protections against frivolous or bad-faith takedown requests. Lawful content—including satire, journalism, and political speech—could be wrongly censored. The legislation requires that apps and websites remove content within 48 hours, meaning that online service providers, particularly smaller ones, will have to comply so quickly to avoid legal risk that they won’t be able to verify claims
>This would likely lead to the use of often-inaccurate automated filters that are infamous for flagging legal content, from fair-use commentary to news reporting. Communications providers that offer users end-to-end encrypted messaging, meanwhile, may be served with notices they simply cannot comply with, given the fact that these providers cannot view the contents of messages on their platforms. Platforms may respond by abandoning encryption entirely in order to be able to monitor content—turning private conversations into surveilled spaces.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/senate-passed-take-it-down-act-threatening-free-expression-and-due-process
Trump said in his weak attempt to hide it as a joke accidentally exposed the real purpose but it wont stop here and it wont stop with Trump either.
> The Senate just passed the Take It Down Act…. Once it passes the House, I look forward to signing that bill into law. And I’m going to use that bill for myself too if you don’t mind, because nobody gets treated worse than I do online, nobody.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/trump-calls-congress-pass-overbroad-take-it-down-act-so-he-can-use-it-censor
The Take It Down Act passed by the US senate if not stopped by the House will lead to the death of the internet outside of maybe Facebook, Xitter and Reddit. There will be no fediverse sites, no leftypol, no open source software that even a single American contributed to or anything, no z library, no internet Archive, no nothing because this law was designed to be abused and the usual it is disguised as something that would get bipartisan support. Trump out in the open even said he will use the law to silence dissent. Due to the Cloud Act that was passed in Trump's previous administration sites not hosted in the US will also be effected.
Unfortunately all that can be done is write to representatives telling them with all the formalities such a law will be used against anyone including themselves if not now it will in the future as administrations change and maybe threaten to file a class action lawsuit against the congress members who voted for it. Is the rest of leftypol going to sit with your thumbs up your asses and let this happen or are you going to do something about it? It is so widespread it's one of the rare cases it might not be a bad idea to get other people on other sites involved somehow.
The death of the internet and encryption
This was ignored in the US thread because it's just full of shitposting at the time before a new thread version started and since this effects more than just people in the US and directly can effect leftypol special attention needs to be given.> Earlier this month, the Senate passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146), by a voice vote. The bill is meant to speed up the removal of non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII, including videos that imitate real people, a technology sometimes called “deepfakes.”
> As currently drafted, the TAKE IT DOWN Act mandates a notice-and-takedown system that threatens free expression, user privacy, and due process, without addressing the problem it claims to solve.
> The bill contains no protections against frivolous or bad-faith takedown requests. Lawful content—including satire, journalism, and political speech—could be wrongly censored. The legislation requires that apps and websites remove content within 48 hours, meaning that online service providers, particularly smaller ones, will have to comply so quickly to avoid legal risk that they won’t be able to verify claims
>This would likely lead to the use of often-inaccurate automated filters that are infamous for flagging legal content, from fair-use commentary to news reporting. Communications providers that offer users end-to-end encrypted messaging, meanwhile, may be served with notices they simply cannot comply with, given the fact that these providers cannot view the contents of messages on their platforms. Platforms may respond by abandoning encryption entirely in order to be able to monitor content—turning private conversations into surveilled spaces.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/senate-passed-take-it-down-act-threatening-free-expression-and-due-process
Trump said in his weak attempt to hide it as a joke accidentally exposed the real purpose but it wont stop here and it wont stop with Trump either.
> The Senate just passed the Take It Down Act…. Once it passes the House, I look forward to signing that bill into law. And I’m going to use that bill for myself too if you don’t mind, because nobody gets treated worse than I do online, nobody.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/trump-calls-congress-pass-overbroad-take-it-down-act-so-he-can-use-it-censor
The Take It Down Act passed by the US senate if not stopped by the House will lead to the death of the internet outside of maybe Facebook, Xitter and Reddit. There will be no fediverse sites, no leftypol, no open source software that even a single American contributed to or anything, no z library, no internet Archive, no nothing because this law was designed to be abused and the usual it is disguised as something that would get bipartisan support. Trump out in the open even said he will use the law to silence dissent. Due to the Cloud Act that was passed in Trump's previous administration sites not hosted in the US will also be effected.
Unfortunately all that can be done is write to representatives telling them with all the formalities such a law will be used against anyone including themselves if not now it will in the future as administrations change and maybe threaten to file a class action lawsuit against the congress members who voted for it. Is the rest of leftypol going to sit with your thumbs up your asses and let this happen or are you going to do something about it? It is so widespread it's one of the rare cases it might not be a bad idea to get other people on other sites involved somehow.
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Hume argues that our idea of causality is a useful illusion we rely on to navigate the world, but that based on philosophical inquiry is actually not justified to believe in.
He argues that first and foremost our observations of recurring events that follow from certain preconditions are merely patterns of our sense perception. Thus far we have witnessed that for certain preconditions certain events typically follow but that doesn‘t mean it will be this way forever. We are resting on the assumption that because in the past event B has followed from event A that therefore B must follow from A, which is actually not proven by it having always been observed so far. A could happen but anything other than B could happen in the future. We don‘t know.
Hume is supportive of science and was an empiricist, which means he believes knowledge about the world can be gained by using our sense perception to make observations of the world. Claims about causality, be it in the form of a model or theory, entail things that we don‘t actually observe. We don‘t observe causality we merely observe its effects. We are therefore not dealing with something we know since we haven‘t observed it, instead we are dealing with a stipulation.
He argues that both in the case where we claim that there is causality and where we say there are merely recurring patterns we are dealing with what we know (what we have observed) but the former additionally rests on something we don‘t know (causality). Causal models are theoretical in nature but in themselves remain unobserved and therefore unknown. Therefore Occam‘s razor should lead us to favor the explanation of mere recurring patterns as it doesn‘t needlessly involve things we don‘t even know. But then we are also conceding that if A happens anything other than B may happen. You may drop a stone from your hands but it rushes to the sky instead of falling to the ground.
Thoughts?
Leftypol Answers Philosophical Questions #1
Hume‘s skepticism towards causalityHume argues that our idea of causality is a useful illusion we rely on to navigate the world, but that based on philosophical inquiry is actually not justified to believe in.
He argues that first and foremost our observations of recurring events that follow from certain preconditions are merely patterns of our sense perception. Thus far we have witnessed that for certain preconditions certain events typically follow but that doesn‘t mean it will be this way forever. We are resting on the assumption that because in the past event B has followed from event A that therefore B must follow from A, which is actually not proven by it having always been observed so far. A could happen but anything other than B could happen in the future. We don‘t know.
Hume is supportive of science and was an empiricist, which means he believes knowledge about the world can be gained by using our sense perception to make observations of the world. Claims about causality, be it in the form of a model or theory, entail things that we don‘t actually observe. We don‘t observe causality we merely observe its effects. We are therefore not dealing with something we know since we haven‘t observed it, instead we are dealing with a stipulation.
He argues that both in the case where we claim that there is causality and where we say there are merely recurring patterns we are dealing with what we know (what we have observed) but the former additionally rests on something we don‘t know (causality). Causal models are theoretical in nature but in themselves remain unobserved and therefore unknown. Therefore Occam‘s razor should lead us to favor the explanation of mere recurring patterns as it doesn‘t needlessly involve things we don‘t even know. But then we are also conceding that if A happens anything other than B may happen. You may drop a stone from your hands but it rushes to the sky instead of falling to the ground.
Thoughts?
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Would anyone be interested in going through Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit together?
The way that we would do it is choose a date every week and then get into a voice chat together and have one member read through a portion of PoS followed by something like Kalkavage's Logic of Desire (or Hegel's ladder) and then talk about it together. We'd have a reading session every week until we finish the book. Everything would be contained within the session.
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Regime changes in international relations are usually the result of crises: wars between great powers or upheavals within them. This was the case in 1939-1945 and again in 1989-1991. Usually, the problems accumulate over years and decades, and the resolution comes unexpectedly: the slow movement of tectonic plates suddenly accelerates dramatically, an avalanche begins that rapidly changes the landscape. We have had the opportunity to observe something similar in recent weeks. The most striking thing is that the main factor in the changes has been the leadership of the state which until now has defended the remnants of the old world order most stubbornly, even fiercely.
The fall of unipolarity, once long predicted and cautiously awaited, has arrived ahead of schedule. The United States, long the enforcer of liberal internationalism, is no longer trying to stop the shift toward a multipolar world. Under Donald Trump, it has joined it.
This pivot is not a mere campaign promise or rhetorical shift. It is a structural break. In the space of weeks, the US has gone from resisting the multipolar order to attempting to dominate it on new terms – less moralism, more realism. In doing so, Washington may inadvertently help deliver the very outcome that previous administrations worked so hard to prevent.
Trump’s turn has broad and lasting implications. The world’s most powerful actor has abandoned the guardianship of liberal globalism and embraced something far more pragmatic: great power rivalry. The language of human rights and democracy promotion has been replaced with “America First,” not just domestically, but in foreign relations as well.
The new US president has shelved the rainbow banners of BLM and the alphabet soup of Western liberalism. Instead, he waves the American flag with confidence, signaling to allies and adversaries alike: US foreign policy is now about interests, not ideologies.
This is not theoretical. It is a geopolitical earthquake.
Firstly, multipolarity is no longer hypothetical. Trump has shifted the US from an enforcer of unipolarity to a player in multipolarity. His doctrine – “great power competition” – aligns more with the realist tradition than with the post-Cold War liberalism that dominated Washington for decades.
In this view, the world is made up of sovereign poles: the US, China, Russia, India – each pursuing its own interests, sometimes in conflict, sometimes overlapping. Cooperation arises not from shared values, but from shared necessities. This is a world Russia knows well – and one in which it thrives.
Secondly, Washington’s pivot to realism means a fundamental shift in how it engages with the world. The era of liberal crusades is over. Trump has defunded USAID, slashed “democracy promotion” budgets, and shown a willingness to work with regimes of all types – so long as they serve American interests.
This is a departure from the binary moral frameworks of the past. And ironically, it aligns more closely with Moscow’s own worldview. Under Trump, the White House no longer seeks to export liberalism, but to negotiate power.
Thirdly, the West, as we knew it, is gone. The liberal “collective West” – defined by shared ideology and transatlantic solidarity – no longer exists in its previous form. The US has effectively withdrawn from it, prioritizing national interest over globalist commitments.
What remains is a fractured West, split between nationalist-led governments like Trump’s and more traditional liberal strongholds in Brussels, Paris, and Berlin. The internal clash between these two visions – nationalism versus globalism – is now the defining political struggle across the West.
This struggle is far from over. Trump’s dominance may look assured, but domestic resistance remains potent. If Republicans lose the 2026 midterms, his ability to pursue his agenda could be blunted. He is also constitutionally barred from running again in 2028, which means time is short
As the West fractures, the “World Majority” – an informal coalition of nations outside the Western bloc – grows stronger. Originally coined to describe states that refused to sanction Russia or arm Ukraine, it now represents a broader realignment.
The World Majority isn’t a formal alliance, but a shared posture: sovereignty over submission, trade over ideology, multipolarity over hegemony. BRICS, the SCO, and other regional formats are maturing into genuine alternatives to Western-led institutions. The global South is no longer a periphery – it’s a stage.
We are witnessing the consolidation of a new “Big Three”: the US, China, and Russia. India is likely to join them. These are not ideological allies, but civilizational powers, each pursuing its own destiny.
Their relations are transactional, not sentimental. China, for example, has managed a tightrope walk during Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, maintaining a strategic partnership with Moscow while safeguarding access to Western markets.
That’s not betrayal – it’s good diplomacy. In the multipolar world, every player watches their own flank. Russia respects that. And increasingly, it acts the same way.
Moscow’s place in the new world is another issue. Russia has emerged from the past two years more self-reliant, more assertive, and more central to the international system. The war in Ukraine – and the resilience of Russia’s economy, society, and military – has shifted global perceptions.
Russia is no longer treated as a junior partner or regional power. It is now engaged on equal terms with Washington, Beijing, and New Delhi. This shift is visible not only in diplomacy, but in global logistics: new Eurasian trade corridors, expanded BRICS cooperation, and increasing use of national currencies in trade.
Having confirmed its status as one of the world’s leading powers as a result of the Ukraine conflict, Russia is in a position to take its rightful place in this world. We must not indulge in illusions and relax. America’s turn to realism is the result of the success of the Russian army, the resilience of the Russian economy and the unity of the Russian people.
What matters now is to build on this momentum. The US may have pivoted to realism, but it remains a competitor. Russia must continue strengthening its technological sovereignty, deepening ties with Asia, and pursuing a foreign policy anchored in pragmatism, not nostalgia.
Russia must continue to observe the internal battles in the West – especially the US presidential cycle and tensions inside the EU. But it should no longer hinge its policies on Western acceptance or approval. Moreover, Moscow’s relations with Western European countries are becoming increasingly strained against the backdrop of its dialogue with Washington.
Western unity is increasingly conditional, transactional, and riddled with contradictions. France, Germany, and Italy may face political turbulence. Integration may falter. Russia’s engagement should be tactical – eyes open, cards close to the chest.
There is no point waiting for the new world to be declared – it is already here. We have moved beyond theory. Now begins the contest for position. The world has become multipolar not because anyone willed it, but because power itself has shifted. Trump did not cause this alone. But he has – perhaps unwittingly – accelerated the process.
Russia’s job now is not to prove the old order wrong, but to ensure it claims its place in the new one
Liberalism is dead, this is what comes after
The phrase “changing world order” has become a familiar refrain in international affairs. But what’s often missed is how rapidly that change is now unfolding – and who is accelerating it.Regime changes in international relations are usually the result of crises: wars between great powers or upheavals within them. This was the case in 1939-1945 and again in 1989-1991. Usually, the problems accumulate over years and decades, and the resolution comes unexpectedly: the slow movement of tectonic plates suddenly accelerates dramatically, an avalanche begins that rapidly changes the landscape. We have had the opportunity to observe something similar in recent weeks. The most striking thing is that the main factor in the changes has been the leadership of the state which until now has defended the remnants of the old world order most stubbornly, even fiercely.
The fall of unipolarity, once long predicted and cautiously awaited, has arrived ahead of schedule. The United States, long the enforcer of liberal internationalism, is no longer trying to stop the shift toward a multipolar world. Under Donald Trump, it has joined it.
This pivot is not a mere campaign promise or rhetorical shift. It is a structural break. In the space of weeks, the US has gone from resisting the multipolar order to attempting to dominate it on new terms – less moralism, more realism. In doing so, Washington may inadvertently help deliver the very outcome that previous administrations worked so hard to prevent.
Trump’s turn has broad and lasting implications. The world’s most powerful actor has abandoned the guardianship of liberal globalism and embraced something far more pragmatic: great power rivalry. The language of human rights and democracy promotion has been replaced with “America First,” not just domestically, but in foreign relations as well.
The new US president has shelved the rainbow banners of BLM and the alphabet soup of Western liberalism. Instead, he waves the American flag with confidence, signaling to allies and adversaries alike: US foreign policy is now about interests, not ideologies.
This is not theoretical. It is a geopolitical earthquake.
Firstly, multipolarity is no longer hypothetical. Trump has shifted the US from an enforcer of unipolarity to a player in multipolarity. His doctrine – “great power competition” – aligns more with the realist tradition than with the post-Cold War liberalism that dominated Washington for decades.
In this view, the world is made up of sovereign poles: the US, China, Russia, India – each pursuing its own interests, sometimes in conflict, sometimes overlapping. Cooperation arises not from shared values, but from shared necessities. This is a world Russia knows well – and one in which it thrives.
Secondly, Washington’s pivot to realism means a fundamental shift in how it engages with the world. The era of liberal crusades is over. Trump has defunded USAID, slashed “democracy promotion” budgets, and shown a willingness to work with regimes of all types – so long as they serve American interests.
This is a departure from the binary moral frameworks of the past. And ironically, it aligns more closely with Moscow’s own worldview. Under Trump, the White House no longer seeks to export liberalism, but to negotiate power.
Thirdly, the West, as we knew it, is gone. The liberal “collective West” – defined by shared ideology and transatlantic solidarity – no longer exists in its previous form. The US has effectively withdrawn from it, prioritizing national interest over globalist commitments.
What remains is a fractured West, split between nationalist-led governments like Trump’s and more traditional liberal strongholds in Brussels, Paris, and Berlin. The internal clash between these two visions – nationalism versus globalism – is now the defining political struggle across the West.
This struggle is far from over. Trump’s dominance may look assured, but domestic resistance remains potent. If Republicans lose the 2026 midterms, his ability to pursue his agenda could be blunted. He is also constitutionally barred from running again in 2028, which means time is short
As the West fractures, the “World Majority” – an informal coalition of nations outside the Western bloc – grows stronger. Originally coined to describe states that refused to sanction Russia or arm Ukraine, it now represents a broader realignment.
The World Majority isn’t a formal alliance, but a shared posture: sovereignty over submission, trade over ideology, multipolarity over hegemony. BRICS, the SCO, and other regional formats are maturing into genuine alternatives to Western-led institutions. The global South is no longer a periphery – it’s a stage.
We are witnessing the consolidation of a new “Big Three”: the US, China, and Russia. India is likely to join them. These are not ideological allies, but civilizational powers, each pursuing its own destiny.
Their relations are transactional, not sentimental. China, for example, has managed a tightrope walk during Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, maintaining a strategic partnership with Moscow while safeguarding access to Western markets.
That’s not betrayal – it’s good diplomacy. In the multipolar world, every player watches their own flank. Russia respects that. And increasingly, it acts the same way.
Moscow’s place in the new world is another issue. Russia has emerged from the past two years more self-reliant, more assertive, and more central to the international system. The war in Ukraine – and the resilience of Russia’s economy, society, and military – has shifted global perceptions.
Russia is no longer treated as a junior partner or regional power. It is now engaged on equal terms with Washington, Beijing, and New Delhi. This shift is visible not only in diplomacy, but in global logistics: new Eurasian trade corridors, expanded BRICS cooperation, and increasing use of national currencies in trade.
Having confirmed its status as one of the world’s leading powers as a result of the Ukraine conflict, Russia is in a position to take its rightful place in this world. We must not indulge in illusions and relax. America’s turn to realism is the result of the success of the Russian army, the resilience of the Russian economy and the unity of the Russian people.
What matters now is to build on this momentum. The US may have pivoted to realism, but it remains a competitor. Russia must continue strengthening its technological sovereignty, deepening ties with Asia, and pursuing a foreign policy anchored in pragmatism, not nostalgia.
Russia must continue to observe the internal battles in the West – especially the US presidential cycle and tensions inside the EU. But it should no longer hinge its policies on Western acceptance or approval. Moreover, Moscow’s relations with Western European countries are becoming increasingly strained against the backdrop of its dialogue with Washington.
Western unity is increasingly conditional, transactional, and riddled with contradictions. France, Germany, and Italy may face political turbulence. Integration may falter. Russia’s engagement should be tactical – eyes open, cards close to the chest.
There is no point waiting for the new world to be declared – it is already here. We have moved beyond theory. Now begins the contest for position. The world has become multipolar not because anyone willed it, but because power itself has shifted. Trump did not cause this alone. But he has – perhaps unwittingly – accelerated the process.
Russia’s job now is not to prove the old order wrong, but to ensure it claims its place in the new one
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Was Marx right about the jewish question?
What about the family unit?
I have recently listened to the first two Das Kapital audiobooks, and yet still I am confused.
It's easy to make a google search with only little google fu but, I want to hear from the ustnaya traditsiya.
Halp, I'm so confused.
Was Marx right about the jewish question?
What about the family unit?
I have recently listened to the first two Das Kapital audiobooks, and yet still I am confused.
It's easy to make a google search with only little google fu but, I want to hear from the ustnaya traditsiya.
Halp, I'm so confused.
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The evidence and rationale are irrefutable. Palaces are objectively safer and more cost efficient than skyscrapers.
Palaces are better than skyscrapers and high rises
Palaces are less likely to have empty rooms, palaces distribute weight much better than blocky tall buildings, there are far less palaces one can find fall hazards in palaces, palaces cost less to build and last longer, socialists built palaces while capitalists built skyscrapers.The evidence and rationale are irrefutable. Palaces are objectively safer and more cost efficient than skyscrapers.
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What to contribute:
<video of the people doing it
<How these people are avoiding cameras remember cameras are everywhere even in these vehicles.
<information about Molotov cocktails and incendiary devices
<Useful information
For example fun fact if someone burns down a car as an act of terrorism the insurance pays NOTHING!
Another fun fact
Price of replacing a graffiti on the car pocket change.
Price of replacing a electric vehicle eye watering!
Remember once a electric car starts burning it is impossible to put it out. You can look at the info once is starts burning it will on burning. The fire fighters will simply let it burn since it can even burn under water.
Sheree useful pictures also.
Here is one of how one of the perpetrators is dressed. Notice the facial covering and the coat who obscures the body shape.
This video has the most information on the situation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeGpgJbVTpI
Motto of the thread
<If life gives you oil spills make Molotov cocktails
And the official music for the thread
https://youtu.be/wmin5WkOuPw?t=139
TESLA Burning
So since people are burning down teslas I decided to make a burning tesla mega thread full of info and facts.What to contribute:
<video of the people doing it
<How these people are avoiding cameras remember cameras are everywhere even in these vehicles.
<information about Molotov cocktails and incendiary devices
<Useful information
For example fun fact if someone burns down a car as an act of terrorism the insurance pays NOTHING!
Another fun fact
Price of replacing a graffiti on the car pocket change.
Price of replacing a electric vehicle eye watering!
Remember once a electric car starts burning it is impossible to put it out. You can look at the info once is starts burning it will on burning. The fire fighters will simply let it burn since it can even burn under water.
Sheree useful pictures also.
Here is one of how one of the perpetrators is dressed. Notice the facial covering and the coat who obscures the body shape.
This video has the most information on the situation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeGpgJbVTpI
Motto of the thread
<If life gives you oil spills make Molotov cocktails
And the official music for the thread
https://youtu.be/wmin5WkOuPw?t=139
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East Asian tigers get way too much attention of being signs of human population collapse even though the situation for most East Asians is uniquely much more extreme relative to most other countries. You can tell me that most countries are experiencing demographic crises. You can also tell me that countries that voluntarily implemented population control measures and forced sterilizations and relocations are the most likely to experience demographic crises. Ffs, the belief that the human population will collapse is based mainly on the fact that china has one of the top ten lowest fertility rates internationally.
As you’d expect from a materialist viewpoint, the countries that didn’t try relocating massive numbers people to massive cities against their will, didn’t try sterilizing or forcing breakups in people’s social supports, and didn’t implement a fucking one child policy all never suffered issues with ageing crises or sudden and extreme losses in head-counts. In fact, countries that can be bothered to support families, people’s independence away from their work lives, and less urban communities (mainly the socialist states) never saw drastic losses in people.
Another thread about India’s and Africa’s populations
The country and the continent may end up with more people than expected and are likely to go through this century without experiencing any significant declines in numbers. However, I didn’t really make this thread about these places as much as I wanted to comment on the legitimate unlikelylihood of population collapse.East Asian tigers get way too much attention of being signs of human population collapse even though the situation for most East Asians is uniquely much more extreme relative to most other countries. You can tell me that most countries are experiencing demographic crises. You can also tell me that countries that voluntarily implemented population control measures and forced sterilizations and relocations are the most likely to experience demographic crises. Ffs, the belief that the human population will collapse is based mainly on the fact that china has one of the top ten lowest fertility rates internationally.
As you’d expect from a materialist viewpoint, the countries that didn’t try relocating massive numbers people to massive cities against their will, didn’t try sterilizing or forcing breakups in people’s social supports, and didn’t implement a fucking one child policy all never suffered issues with ageing crises or sudden and extreme losses in head-counts. In fact, countries that can be bothered to support families, people’s independence away from their work lives, and less urban communities (mainly the socialist states) never saw drastic losses in people.
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>The government of south korea inexplicably collapsed into full on military martial law, on a random fucking Tuesday in december
what in the geopolitical FUCK is going on rn?
how did this happen?
of all possible (insert nation collapsed) SK wouldnt have been on the bingo card for me
I'm glad anons are finally learning what a tin pot republic South Korea is.
For most its history, it was barely less repressive than North Korea. You could be "disappeared" for saying something negative about the president. They even kidnapped a democracy activist from Tokyo and threw him in prison despite not actually doing much of substance against the government besides advocating for democracy.
/SOUTH KOREA COUP/
I wonder what consequences the SK military will face. If the South Korean had any balls, which they haven't, they would probably amend the constitution to make them fall under parliamentary control instead of the president.>The government of south korea inexplicably collapsed into full on military martial law, on a random fucking Tuesday in december
what in the geopolitical FUCK is going on rn?
how did this happen?
of all possible (insert nation collapsed) SK wouldnt have been on the bingo card for me
I'm glad anons are finally learning what a tin pot republic South Korea is.
For most its history, it was barely less repressive than North Korea. You could be "disappeared" for saying something negative about the president. They even kidnapped a democracy activist from Tokyo and threw him in prison despite not actually doing much of substance against the government besides advocating for democracy.
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Why are neurodivergent and trans folks in America not mass protesting?
The Trump regime has made it clear they want to eradicate the disabled, ESPECIALLY autistic and other neurodivergent folks. RFK has hinted at bringing back Aktion T4 and wants to find a “cure” for autism AKA autistic genocide. With something that serious, why is there NO mass-movement of neurodiverse folks taking action at the moment?
The same goes for trans folks. The attacks on trans people in MULTIPLE American states now fit the definition of genocide. It is nearly illegal to be trans in many places. Again, this is Nazi-like extermination. Why no protests? Why are comrades attacking Tesla dealerships but not mass protesting for trans and neurodiverse rights?
Why are neurodivergent and trans folks in America not mass protesting?
The Trump regime has made it clear they want to eradicate the disabled, ESPECIALLY autistic and other neurodivergent folks. RFK has hinted at bringing back Aktion T4 and wants to find a “cure” for autism AKA autistic genocide. With something that serious, why is there NO mass-movement of neurodiverse folks taking action at the moment?
The same goes for trans folks. The attacks on trans people in MULTIPLE American states now fit the definition of genocide. It is nearly illegal to be trans in many places. Again, this is Nazi-like extermination. Why no protests? Why are comrades attacking Tesla dealerships but not mass protesting for trans and neurodiverse rights?
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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will stand trial for allegedly conspiring to overthrow the government after he lost a 2022 election, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, moving swiftly in a case that could reshape the political landscape.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-top-court-justice-recommends-that-bolsonaro-stand-trial-alleged-coup-2025-03-26/
Peru's president calls a general election for April next year
The deeply unpopular Ms Boularte said the April 2026 polls will elect a new president, 130 deputies and 60 senators. The bicameral election system has not been used since the early 1990s.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/perus-president-calls-general-election-april-next-year
Colombia’s Ombudsman urges reform as healthcare crisis deepens
The privatization of Colombia’s healthcare system in 1993 has led to countless crises and the liquidation of more than a 100 private healthcare intermediaries that are supposed to finance and coordinate treatment. The privatization of medicine provision in 2018 failed to curb recurring crises caused by medicine shortages in hospitals and pharmacies.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-ombudsman-urges-reform-as-healthcare-crisis-deepens/
India's Reliance to stop buying Venezuelan oil over US tariffs, sources say
Loading of Venezuelan heavy crude at the country's main oil ports has already slowed this week following the tariff announcement. Reliance's two refineries in western Gujarat state can process about 1.4 million barrels per day of crude oil.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indias-reliance-stop-buying-venezuelan-oil-over-us-tariffs-sources-say-2025-03-26/
Recent spate of wildfires in Japan and South Korea linked to climate change
ClimaMeter, a European Union-backed project studying the impact of climate change on extreme weather, said the ongoing wildfires in both countries were made more intense due to persistently dry soil, strong winds and unusually high temperatures.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/26/japan/science-health/wildfire-climate-change/
https://archive.ph/SOUU1
Aboriginal women are scared to seek help for fear their children will be taken, report finds
The number of Indigenous children in care in WA increased more than 400% in 20 years, the report said. In 2003, 570 Aboriginal children were in out-of-home care, making up 35% of the total children in care. By 2023 there were 3,068 Aboriginal children in out-of-home care and the proportion of children in out-of-home care who were Indigenous had almost doubled.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/27/aboriginal-women-are-scared-to-seek-help-for-fear-their-children-will-be-taken-report-finds-ntwnfb
SDF shoots down two Turkish drones on Tishrin front
According to the statement, the Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries heavily bombarded the vicinity of the Tishrin (Tishreen) Dam with artillery on Monday, causing significant material damage. Meanwhile, Turkish UCAVs were actively flying over the area.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/sdf-shots-down-two-turkish-drones-on-tishrin-front-78574
Iraqi Cabinet greenlights Gaza aid, Yazidi housing plan
Additionally, the Council of Ministers waived 100% of the cost of purchasing residential plots for Yazidis in Sinjar and Al-Ba’aj, restricting property transfers for three years. The process is to be completed within 60 days.
https://shafaq.com/en/Iraq/Iraqi-Cabinet-greenlights-Gaza-aid-Yazidi-housing-plan
Sudan courts launch mass trials for RSF collaborators
The El Gezira Observatory for Human Rights said authorities must ensure transparency and fair trial standards. It raised concerns that many defendants had little time to prepare their defence and questioned whether the prosecutions were politically motivated.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-courts-launch-mass-trials-for-rsf-collaborators
Trump names pro-Israel media activist as US ambassador to South Africa
The 69-year-old’s nomination, which needs to be confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate, comes after South Africa’s ambassador to Washington, Ebrahim Rasool, was expelled earlier this month, and amid US claims that South Africa is discriminating against its white minority.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/27/aboriginal-women-are-scared-to-seek-help-for-fear-their-children-will-be-taken-report-finds-ntwnfb
News 3/26/25
Brazil Supreme Court to put Bolsonaro on trial for alleged coup attemptFormer Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will stand trial for allegedly conspiring to overthrow the government after he lost a 2022 election, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, moving swiftly in a case that could reshape the political landscape.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-top-court-justice-recommends-that-bolsonaro-stand-trial-alleged-coup-2025-03-26/
Peru's president calls a general election for April next year
The deeply unpopular Ms Boularte said the April 2026 polls will elect a new president, 130 deputies and 60 senators. The bicameral election system has not been used since the early 1990s.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/perus-president-calls-general-election-april-next-year
Colombia’s Ombudsman urges reform as healthcare crisis deepens
The privatization of Colombia’s healthcare system in 1993 has led to countless crises and the liquidation of more than a 100 private healthcare intermediaries that are supposed to finance and coordinate treatment. The privatization of medicine provision in 2018 failed to curb recurring crises caused by medicine shortages in hospitals and pharmacies.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-ombudsman-urges-reform-as-healthcare-crisis-deepens/
India's Reliance to stop buying Venezuelan oil over US tariffs, sources say
Loading of Venezuelan heavy crude at the country's main oil ports has already slowed this week following the tariff announcement. Reliance's two refineries in western Gujarat state can process about 1.4 million barrels per day of crude oil.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indias-reliance-stop-buying-venezuelan-oil-over-us-tariffs-sources-say-2025-03-26/
Recent spate of wildfires in Japan and South Korea linked to climate change
ClimaMeter, a European Union-backed project studying the impact of climate change on extreme weather, said the ongoing wildfires in both countries were made more intense due to persistently dry soil, strong winds and unusually high temperatures.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/26/japan/science-health/wildfire-climate-change/
https://archive.ph/SOUU1
Aboriginal women are scared to seek help for fear their children will be taken, report finds
The number of Indigenous children in care in WA increased more than 400% in 20 years, the report said. In 2003, 570 Aboriginal children were in out-of-home care, making up 35% of the total children in care. By 2023 there were 3,068 Aboriginal children in out-of-home care and the proportion of children in out-of-home care who were Indigenous had almost doubled.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/27/aboriginal-women-are-scared-to-seek-help-for-fear-their-children-will-be-taken-report-finds-ntwnfb
SDF shoots down two Turkish drones on Tishrin front
According to the statement, the Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries heavily bombarded the vicinity of the Tishrin (Tishreen) Dam with artillery on Monday, causing significant material damage. Meanwhile, Turkish UCAVs were actively flying over the area.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/sdf-shots-down-two-turkish-drones-on-tishrin-front-78574
Iraqi Cabinet greenlights Gaza aid, Yazidi housing plan
Additionally, the Council of Ministers waived 100% of the cost of purchasing residential plots for Yazidis in Sinjar and Al-Ba’aj, restricting property transfers for three years. The process is to be completed within 60 days.
https://shafaq.com/en/Iraq/Iraqi-Cabinet-greenlights-Gaza-aid-Yazidi-housing-plan
Sudan courts launch mass trials for RSF collaborators
The El Gezira Observatory for Human Rights said authorities must ensure transparency and fair trial standards. It raised concerns that many defendants had little time to prepare their defence and questioned whether the prosecutions were politically motivated.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-courts-launch-mass-trials-for-rsf-collaborators
Trump names pro-Israel media activist as US ambassador to South Africa
The 69-year-old’s nomination, which needs to be confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate, comes after South Africa’s ambassador to Washington, Ebrahim Rasool, was expelled earlier this month, and amid US claims that South Africa is discriminating against its white minority.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/27/aboriginal-women-are-scared-to-seek-help-for-fear-their-children-will-be-taken-report-finds-ntwnfb
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There's no way this chat "leak" was actually an accident right?
The way they explain out their motivations to each other is something that happens in a TV show so the viewers know the plot. All of these guys work together, they're not going to have to explain to each other why the US is interested in Yemen. But literally the only questioning ive seen of this was from a random instagram page. I feel like im going insane.
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For my own riding, I have found an ethics violation for Conservative Party of Canada candidate Jeff Kibble, who is a former military man who is married to a woman who was also in the military. The problem is that because his wife Angel Kibble is younger than him and started her military career much later than Jeff she was of a lower rank, which means their relationship may have broken the military's own rules about "fraternization," which is an example of unethical behavior. Jeff Kibble seems to have been careful to keep his digital footprint quite small, but his wife Angel has made quite the mess on the web and has left lots of clues for us.
Quick Rundown:
name: Jeff Kibble
age: 58
years of service: 28 years
highest rank: Possibly higher than Lt.-Cmdr. since he achieved that rank in 2012. In the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), the rank of "Lt.-Cmdr." (Lieutenant-Commander) is a senior officer rank, equivalent to a Major in the Canadian Army or Royal Canadian Air Force, and is the first senior officer rank in the RCN.
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/navy-celebrates-orioles-60-years-as-an-institution-4566168
name: Angel Kibble
age: 46
years of service: 4 years. She made a YouTube video in 2021 with the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence claiming that she had been living with chronic pain for 10 years. This means that she probably sustained her first injury in basic training in 2011 and then was medically discharged 4 years later in 2015. It's possible that she could have been in the military a bit longer depending on exactly when she sustained her injury, but the point is that her career was quite short and her rank was quite low.
highest rank: Corporal. She was medically discharged at age 36. She suffered a knee injury in basic training and eventually got ketamine for the painful complications of the injury. It seems like her career was short and that her relationship with Jeff started before her discharge.
I don't think I have to explain why a relationship between a Commander and a Corporal is inappropriate. I found a business with the business number 11086472 that was created in 2018 and dissolved in 2023. Jeffrey Kibble and Angel Kibble are both listed as company officers for Canada Limited 11086472. Given than Angel KIbble was medically discharged in 2015, I think that their relationship began while both were doing military service, which is unethical and against military law. Canada and the US have similar rules around relationships between high ranking and low ranking personnel, with special attention being paid to sexual relationships between high ranking men and low ranking women. The US military site army.mil does a better job of spelling out the rules clearly:
Conservative Crimes: Jeff Kibble is guilty of fraternization.
Last year in BC, a British Columbia Conservative Party member named Brent Chapman was caught calling Palestinian children “inbred” and “time bombs” in a 2014 Facebook post that resurfaced. Our current NDP Premier David Eby, who was the attorney general and is a lawyer, described the posts as “criminal hate speech.” Brent Chapman went on to win his seat, but his old Facebook comments put a chilling effect on the Conservative vote and may have contributed to them losing the provincial election by a narrow margin. I would like us to make a thread to find more Conservative Crimes with our google-fu now that we are having a federal election.For my own riding, I have found an ethics violation for Conservative Party of Canada candidate Jeff Kibble, who is a former military man who is married to a woman who was also in the military. The problem is that because his wife Angel Kibble is younger than him and started her military career much later than Jeff she was of a lower rank, which means their relationship may have broken the military's own rules about "fraternization," which is an example of unethical behavior. Jeff Kibble seems to have been careful to keep his digital footprint quite small, but his wife Angel has made quite the mess on the web and has left lots of clues for us.
Quick Rundown:
name: Jeff Kibble
age: 58
years of service: 28 years
highest rank: Possibly higher than Lt.-Cmdr. since he achieved that rank in 2012. In the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), the rank of "Lt.-Cmdr." (Lieutenant-Commander) is a senior officer rank, equivalent to a Major in the Canadian Army or Royal Canadian Air Force, and is the first senior officer rank in the RCN.
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/navy-celebrates-orioles-60-years-as-an-institution-4566168
name: Angel Kibble
age: 46
years of service: 4 years. She made a YouTube video in 2021 with the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence claiming that she had been living with chronic pain for 10 years. This means that she probably sustained her first injury in basic training in 2011 and then was medically discharged 4 years later in 2015. It's possible that she could have been in the military a bit longer depending on exactly when she sustained her injury, but the point is that her career was quite short and her rank was quite low.
highest rank: Corporal. She was medically discharged at age 36. She suffered a knee injury in basic training and eventually got ketamine for the painful complications of the injury. It seems like her career was short and that her relationship with Jeff started before her discharge.
I don't think I have to explain why a relationship between a Commander and a Corporal is inappropriate. I found a business with the business number 11086472 that was created in 2018 and dissolved in 2023. Jeffrey Kibble and Angel Kibble are both listed as company officers for Canada Limited 11086472. Given than Angel KIbble was medically discharged in 2015, I think that their relationship began while both were doing military service, which is unethical and against military law. Canada and the US have similar rules around relationships between high ranking and low ranking personnel, with special attention being paid to sexual relationships between high ranking men and low ranking women. The US military site army.mil does a better job of spelling out the rules clearly:
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Literally his entire government (yes the entire god damned Nigerian government) is run by kleptocrats and half the kleptocrats he put in power and bribes just recently went in public just to say that tinubu is a corrupt rat and a danger to Nigerians pretty fucking openly. He had to hide from the media for a year straight during the endbadgovernance protests just to avoid getting shot at in public. He is literally NEVER in Nigerian news for anything good. He once fled his own country for a month straight on vacations during the country’s economic crisis. He’s regularly gotten into trouble with most other Nigerian officials he’s worked with. He voluntarily sold Nigerian land to French mining companies despite not being forced or asked too either.
Apparently he’s so hated and disliked by everyone around him that all the people he bribed wouldn’t show up to his parties. He’s a CIA asset. He embezzled billions of dollars worth of Nigerian assets in less than two years. Apparently he’s like six years away from dying despite being ‘apparently 76’ (of course he forged his identity, he’s actually from Guinea).
His own fucking daughter hates him and only defends him in public for money. Currently millions of Nigerian TikTok users are flooding the site with propaganda to make him look bad. He was also ranked the 2nd most corrupt politician on earth by several international organizations.
Ffs, this ugly motherfucker is literally called “T-pain” by his own people.
Like fuck man. Even by comparison of other African leaders or even the worst leaders of the planet, he’s uniquely fucking trashy. No wonder the AES country’s fucking dumped ECOWAS the moment this asshole was ‘elected.’
Jesus, it’s like Fanon and Nkrumah used their souls to create a cartoonish version of everything they disliked about African leadership and put that creation into someone’s mind.
So much for subjective morality man. This guy is funny.
This guy is a cartoon villain I can’t stop giggling
Say whatever you want about subjective morality or bias but this guy is objectively a villain to a cartoonish extent. Seriously, reading this guy’s history is like reading the entries for a superhero comic book villain made for 90s kids. He’s really that awful and hard to take seriously. He’s like one of those cartoonishly evil Chinese warlords you’d read about during the century of humiliation.Literally his entire government (yes the entire god damned Nigerian government) is run by kleptocrats and half the kleptocrats he put in power and bribes just recently went in public just to say that tinubu is a corrupt rat and a danger to Nigerians pretty fucking openly. He had to hide from the media for a year straight during the endbadgovernance protests just to avoid getting shot at in public. He is literally NEVER in Nigerian news for anything good. He once fled his own country for a month straight on vacations during the country’s economic crisis. He’s regularly gotten into trouble with most other Nigerian officials he’s worked with. He voluntarily sold Nigerian land to French mining companies despite not being forced or asked too either.
Apparently he’s so hated and disliked by everyone around him that all the people he bribed wouldn’t show up to his parties. He’s a CIA asset. He embezzled billions of dollars worth of Nigerian assets in less than two years. Apparently he’s like six years away from dying despite being ‘apparently 76’ (of course he forged his identity, he’s actually from Guinea).
His own fucking daughter hates him and only defends him in public for money. Currently millions of Nigerian TikTok users are flooding the site with propaganda to make him look bad. He was also ranked the 2nd most corrupt politician on earth by several international organizations.
Ffs, this ugly motherfucker is literally called “T-pain” by his own people.
Like fuck man. Even by comparison of other African leaders or even the worst leaders of the planet, he’s uniquely fucking trashy. No wonder the AES country’s fucking dumped ECOWAS the moment this asshole was ‘elected.’
Jesus, it’s like Fanon and Nkrumah used their souls to create a cartoonish version of everything they disliked about African leadership and put that creation into someone’s mind.
So much for subjective morality man. This guy is funny.
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I'm ashamed to live in Canada, if Canada shills for another american killing war (not saying I don't hate Drumpf or Vance).
I'd like to watch some anti-Canada content on YT, then.
Do you have the best Canada-hate content on YouTube?
I'm tired of living in this country, for some reason. I will ask the same question on 4chan, but honestly it's a neo-nazi imageboard.I'm ashamed to live in Canada, if Canada shills for another american killing war (not saying I don't hate Drumpf or Vance).
I'd like to watch some anti-Canada content on YT, then.
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These people are ostracized from nearly all social institutions from their birth to adulthood, but they are still expected to somehow contribute to society at a level that their parents didn’t have to work at. The average member of gen z, k, or the millenial generation has to have an education, knowledge of how anything in their society works, and where to find and provide support for others, all while never being provided information on what the hell is going on past the internet which at this point is mostly propaganda, ai garbage, scams, advertisements, and misinformation.
Throw in that most educational institutions are underfunded (often deliberately), don’t provide relevant information on what the fuck is going on at any time, and sometimes fail to do so little as get people literate and your stuck with several generations of people that have been largely abondoned by the people that need them to suddenly become caregivers to support them in old age. I can see why there are so many illiterate man children my age fucking everyone and what I said are just the start of the problems.
Holy shit I’m only now recognizing how undeniably irresponsible boomers were
The average millennial or gen z member has little to almost zero social supports, family members outside of their immediate parent(s), and potentially friends.These people are ostracized from nearly all social institutions from their birth to adulthood, but they are still expected to somehow contribute to society at a level that their parents didn’t have to work at. The average member of gen z, k, or the millenial generation has to have an education, knowledge of how anything in their society works, and where to find and provide support for others, all while never being provided information on what the hell is going on past the internet which at this point is mostly propaganda, ai garbage, scams, advertisements, and misinformation.
Throw in that most educational institutions are underfunded (often deliberately), don’t provide relevant information on what the fuck is going on at any time, and sometimes fail to do so little as get people literate and your stuck with several generations of people that have been largely abondoned by the people that need them to suddenly become caregivers to support them in old age. I can see why there are so many illiterate man children my age fucking everyone and what I said are just the start of the problems.
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Bernie Sanders and AOC are drawing record crowds on the Fight Oligarchy tour!
"We will not allow you to move this country into an oligarchy," Sanders pledged, speaking directly to Trump. "We're not going to allow you and your friend Mr. Musk and the other billionaires to wreak havoc on the working families of this country. No, you're not going to destroy Social Security. You're not going to destroy Medicaid. You're not going to destroy the Veterans administration."
WE'RE SO BACK! CAN YOU FEEL THE BERN???
Bernie Sanders and AOC are drawing record crowds on the Fight Oligarchy tour!
"We will not allow you to move this country into an oligarchy," Sanders pledged, speaking directly to Trump. "We're not going to allow you and your friend Mr. Musk and the other billionaires to wreak havoc on the working families of this country. No, you're not going to destroy Social Security. You're not going to destroy Medicaid. You're not going to destroy the Veterans administration."
WE'RE SO BACK! CAN YOU FEEL THE BERN???
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With that in mind, leftists in America (by leftist I am including communists, anarchists, and other anti-capitalists who believe in revolutionary means to achieve their goals, in case anybody wants to split hairs) aren't nearly numerous enough to simply organize general strikes across the country like Sorel's wet dreams. Therefor it makes sense that leftists in America consolidate themselves into a few key areas when the initial collapse happens so that we can be strong enough to resist initial attempts by the government or military at taking us out, as well as providing a safe haven for international volunteers to arrive (and this is why I'm not posting this in the burgerreich thread, international volunteers means everyone).
The sixty four thousand dollar question of course is where? For me at least, the most obvious choice seems to be the Seattle and Portland metropolitan areas, the existing smashie culture will mean that government authority is already weak and it will be easier for us to establish ourselves, the high population and nearby industry gives us a decent industrial base, and access to the Pacific gives us the opportunity to get aid from China as they'll probably provide aid to any separatist or rebel group that they think might align with their interests. Of course, DC might also be a stronghold, most of the population of the DMV area fucking hates the government right now and I can very well envision a scenario where angry folks occupy the capital while POTUS is away on some trip, forcing the feds to relocate assuming they're unable to mobilize Quantico. Chicago seems like an obvious choice, but I'd argue it's too important for the American government or military to let it fall that easily, too much industrial potential. LA and San Francisco are also probably nonstarters, due to concentrations of military personnel in the state.
TL;DR we need a place in America where leftists can regroup when shit hits the fan, and for comrades overseas to gather to aid the struggle since America is basically the lynchpin holding the neoliberal world order together.
The Great American Redbout Project, Or: How I learned to stop worrying and trust dialectics
So I think most of us can all agree that America's days are numbered, and the current government is only accelerating the collapse with their brazen stupidity and open contempt for anybody that's not a millionaire grifter pedophile. It's only being a couple of months and already tensions have risen to a fever pitch, conservatives out in the sticks are getting directly targeted by welfare cuts and are making their anger known, meanwhile every time Elon Musk says something it makes him hated more and more by average people. Liberals are ready to go full sicko mode, tearing apart the limbs of Chuck Schumer and anybody else who stands in their way, all so they can restore the Obama era status quo. Military forces are soon going to be recalled from oversees operations to protect Tesla dealerships, which will only fan the flames and weaken America's ability to function as a superpower. Whether the fire starts via a massacre of protestors, a terrorist attack, or an attempted invasion of Canada and/or Mexico is still pretty contested, but the fire will start nonetheless and likely soon.With that in mind, leftists in America (by leftist I am including communists, anarchists, and other anti-capitalists who believe in revolutionary means to achieve their goals, in case anybody wants to split hairs) aren't nearly numerous enough to simply organize general strikes across the country like Sorel's wet dreams. Therefor it makes sense that leftists in America consolidate themselves into a few key areas when the initial collapse happens so that we can be strong enough to resist initial attempts by the government or military at taking us out, as well as providing a safe haven for international volunteers to arrive (and this is why I'm not posting this in the burgerreich thread, international volunteers means everyone).
The sixty four thousand dollar question of course is where? For me at least, the most obvious choice seems to be the Seattle and Portland metropolitan areas, the existing smashie culture will mean that government authority is already weak and it will be easier for us to establish ourselves, the high population and nearby industry gives us a decent industrial base, and access to the Pacific gives us the opportunity to get aid from China as they'll probably provide aid to any separatist or rebel group that they think might align with their interests. Of course, DC might also be a stronghold, most of the population of the DMV area fucking hates the government right now and I can very well envision a scenario where angry folks occupy the capital while POTUS is away on some trip, forcing the feds to relocate assuming they're unable to mobilize Quantico. Chicago seems like an obvious choice, but I'd argue it's too important for the American government or military to let it fall that easily, too much industrial potential. LA and San Francisco are also probably nonstarters, due to concentrations of military personnel in the state.
TL;DR we need a place in America where leftists can regroup when shit hits the fan, and for comrades overseas to gather to aid the struggle since America is basically the lynchpin holding the neoliberal world order together.
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How to awoken the masses?
Have you ever successfully radicalized anyone? Or even just been the catalyst that started someone down a path of radicalization? The only person I have gotten woke is my wife, and even then she only agrees with me on about 85% of my political opinions and only because I've been proven right about things over time. She never reads any theory or anything. I've tried to drop the occasional layman's terms bit of theory to my siblings, but they are pretty tuned out most of the time. I have no friends, and all of my coworkers are the dumbest rightwingers imaginable. I think getting people to begin understanding basic Marxist concepts is extremely important for building a foundation for leftist organizing. Imo one of the major reasons for the failure of any organized left in this country is the impressive degree of inoculation people have to leftist ideas.
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i know it absolutely ain't happening, but what if Trump actually annexed Canada? How fast do you think the annexation would be? Would Canadians immediately give up, or would there be hundreds of thousands of deaths and unthinkable war crimes? How would this impact the public's perception of Trump in the US?
i know it absolutely ain't happening, but what if Trump actually annexed Canada? How fast do you think the annexation would be? Would Canadians immediately give up, or would there be hundreds of thousands of deaths and unthinkable war crimes? How would this impact the public's perception of Trump in the US?
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To anyone downplaying the severity of even moderate population decline…
To anyone downplaying the severity of even moderate population decline…
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Climate change is happening faster than expected. Climate instability is having a major impact on agriculture. Any country whose food production is affected will need to import more. Therefore, producing countries like ours will export more and domestic prices will increase. In other words, any country that enters a food crisis will cause food prices in the US to increase.
The idea of a multipolar world is stillborn. BRICS is a thing of the past. It only has Russia and China. We will be increasingly subjugated by the US, with accelerated deindustrialization. Labor laws will adapt to favor slave labor on farms. Fascism will reign supreme throughout the world, and the media and surveillance and espionage technologies will easily crush any movement that opposes the status quo.
I say that people are optimistic because they put puppets in the world, which means that they have complete confidence in the future, and believe that their children will have better lives than they did. My question is where this optimism comes from. Can anyone explain?
Why do people seem so optimistic about the future? Am I missing something?
The days of social security are numbered. Without it, there is no dignity in old age. Having to live off handouts is worse than death. Working hours will increase significantly. They may not be the 120 hours that Elon Musk wants (initially), but people will not work less than 60 hours after 2027.Climate change is happening faster than expected. Climate instability is having a major impact on agriculture. Any country whose food production is affected will need to import more. Therefore, producing countries like ours will export more and domestic prices will increase. In other words, any country that enters a food crisis will cause food prices in the US to increase.
The idea of a multipolar world is stillborn. BRICS is a thing of the past. It only has Russia and China. We will be increasingly subjugated by the US, with accelerated deindustrialization. Labor laws will adapt to favor slave labor on farms. Fascism will reign supreme throughout the world, and the media and surveillance and espionage technologies will easily crush any movement that opposes the status quo.
I say that people are optimistic because they put puppets in the world, which means that they have complete confidence in the future, and believe that their children will have better lives than they did. My question is where this optimism comes from. Can anyone explain?
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Class is in session. Today we will review a literary work by Marx
>The Jewish nigger Lassalle who, I’m glad to say, is leaving at the end of this week, has happily lost another 5,000 talers in an ill-judged speculation. The chap would sooner throw money down the drain than lend it to a ‘friend’, even though his interest and capital were guaranteed. In this he bases himself on the view that he ought to live the life of a Jewish baron, or Jew created a baron (no doubt by the countess). Just imagine! This fellow, knowing about the American affair, etc., and hence about the state of crisis I’m in, had the insolence to ask me whether I would be willing to hand over one of my daughters to la Hatzfeldt as a ‘companion’, and whether he himself should secure Gerstenberg’s (!) patronage for me! The fellow has wasted my time and, what is more, the dolt opined that, since I was not engaged upon any ‘business’ just now, but merely upon a ‘theoretical work’, I might just as well kill time with him! In order to keep up certain dehors vis-à-vis the fellow, my wife had to put in pawn everything that wasn’t actually nailed or bolted
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The court order is expected to damage the credibility of the religious group, which is formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, and affect it financially as it needs to dispose of its assets and won’t be exempt from taxes. It will, however, be allowed to continue its activities.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/25/japan/crime-legal/unification-church-court-order/
https://archive.ph/1CZQS
US plan to tax Chinese ships hits choppy waters as backlash intensifies
The US government is facing growing opposition over its plans to introduce steep fees targeting Chinese-linked ships entering American ports, with global shipping bodies and industry experts slamming the proposals as “disruptive” and counterproductive.
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3303802/us-plan-tax-chinese-ships-hits-choppy-waters-backlash-intensifies?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage
Protests Mount Against Proposed Canals on Indus River
On Monday, March 17, Awami Workers’ Party (AWP), a prominent left party, announced a nationwide protest against the GPI and new canals on the Indus for March 22. Announcing the protest on its social media page, the party claimed that the GPI is an “unjust development project” as the “Indus has the first right to its water.”
https://www.newsclick.in/protests-mount-against-proposed-canals-indus-river
Following clashes forced Israeli forces to withdraw
According to SOHR sources, the bombardment followed an attempt by Israeli forces to advancement into the village from Al-Wadi area, before clashes erupted with young men in the region, which forced Israeli forces to withdraw.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/358577/
US embassies in Europe post warnings to potential visa seekers
In a post put up by the US Embassy in Tallinn, Estonia, the message reads: "When you apply to enter the United States and you get a visa, you are a guest. Now, if you are in this country to promote Hamas, to promote terrorist organisations, to participate in vandalism, to participate in acts of rebellion and riots on campus, we never would have let you in if we had known that. You lied to us. You're out."
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-embassies-europe-post-warnings-potential-visa-seekers
France stands up to racism and far-right hate
On Sunday, protesters emphasized the link between racism, growing Islamophobia, and the electoral rise of the far right, not only in France but across the Global North. The demonstration, they said, was a call to resist far-right bigotry before it becomes even more deeply rooted in society.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/24/france-stands-up-to-racism-and-far-right-hate/
Swedish shoppers boycott supermarkets over ‘runaway’ food prices
According to some estimates, the annual cost of feeding a family in Sweden has gone up by as much as 30,000 kronor (£2,290) since January 2022. A packet of coffee is soon expected to reach the symbolic threshold of 100 kronor (£7.64). That’s an increase of more than a quarter since early last year, according to the government agency Statistics Sweden.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/swedish-shoppers-boycott-supermarkets-food-prices-rise
Paraguayans To Stage Three Days of Protests
On Tuesday, workers, retirees, Indigenous people, and young people will march in the city of Asuncion, culminating at the Plaza de Armas in front of Congress. Their goal is to denounce issues such as labor law violations, nepotism as a frequent government practice, and the neglect of the healthcare system.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/paraguayans-to-stage-three-days-of-protests/
Presidential decree on Argentine bank suspended
Congressman Sergio Palazzo celebrated today the decision of Federal Judge Alejo Ramos to suspend a decree of the Argentine President, Javier Milei, by means of which he ordered turning Banco de la Nacion (BNA) into a joint stock company.
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/02/25/presidential-decree-on-argentine-bank-suspended/
Accusations and attacks: the last presidential debate in Ecuador between Noboa and González
Noboa’s economic proposals did not differ too much from those of González. Both promised not to increase the retirement age, although González accused Noboa’s government of publicly contemplating this possibility. Noboa also proposed strengthening dollarization and improving foreign investment and the capacity of the State in public management.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/25/accusations-and-attacks-the-last-presidential-debate-in-ecuador-between-noboa-and-gonzalez/
News 3/25/25
Tokyo court strips Unification Church of religious corporation statusThe court order is expected to damage the credibility of the religious group, which is formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, and affect it financially as it needs to dispose of its assets and won’t be exempt from taxes. It will, however, be allowed to continue its activities.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/25/japan/crime-legal/unification-church-court-order/
https://archive.ph/1CZQS
US plan to tax Chinese ships hits choppy waters as backlash intensifies
The US government is facing growing opposition over its plans to introduce steep fees targeting Chinese-linked ships entering American ports, with global shipping bodies and industry experts slamming the proposals as “disruptive” and counterproductive.
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3303802/us-plan-tax-chinese-ships-hits-choppy-waters-backlash-intensifies?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage
Protests Mount Against Proposed Canals on Indus River
On Monday, March 17, Awami Workers’ Party (AWP), a prominent left party, announced a nationwide protest against the GPI and new canals on the Indus for March 22. Announcing the protest on its social media page, the party claimed that the GPI is an “unjust development project” as the “Indus has the first right to its water.”
https://www.newsclick.in/protests-mount-against-proposed-canals-indus-river
Following clashes forced Israeli forces to withdraw
According to SOHR sources, the bombardment followed an attempt by Israeli forces to advancement into the village from Al-Wadi area, before clashes erupted with young men in the region, which forced Israeli forces to withdraw.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/358577/
US embassies in Europe post warnings to potential visa seekers
In a post put up by the US Embassy in Tallinn, Estonia, the message reads: "When you apply to enter the United States and you get a visa, you are a guest. Now, if you are in this country to promote Hamas, to promote terrorist organisations, to participate in vandalism, to participate in acts of rebellion and riots on campus, we never would have let you in if we had known that. You lied to us. You're out."
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-embassies-europe-post-warnings-potential-visa-seekers
France stands up to racism and far-right hate
On Sunday, protesters emphasized the link between racism, growing Islamophobia, and the electoral rise of the far right, not only in France but across the Global North. The demonstration, they said, was a call to resist far-right bigotry before it becomes even more deeply rooted in society.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/24/france-stands-up-to-racism-and-far-right-hate/
Swedish shoppers boycott supermarkets over ‘runaway’ food prices
According to some estimates, the annual cost of feeding a family in Sweden has gone up by as much as 30,000 kronor (£2,290) since January 2022. A packet of coffee is soon expected to reach the symbolic threshold of 100 kronor (£7.64). That’s an increase of more than a quarter since early last year, according to the government agency Statistics Sweden.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/swedish-shoppers-boycott-supermarkets-food-prices-rise
Paraguayans To Stage Three Days of Protests
On Tuesday, workers, retirees, Indigenous people, and young people will march in the city of Asuncion, culminating at the Plaza de Armas in front of Congress. Their goal is to denounce issues such as labor law violations, nepotism as a frequent government practice, and the neglect of the healthcare system.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/paraguayans-to-stage-three-days-of-protests/
Presidential decree on Argentine bank suspended
Congressman Sergio Palazzo celebrated today the decision of Federal Judge Alejo Ramos to suspend a decree of the Argentine President, Javier Milei, by means of which he ordered turning Banco de la Nacion (BNA) into a joint stock company.
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/02/25/presidential-decree-on-argentine-bank-suspended/
Accusations and attacks: the last presidential debate in Ecuador between Noboa and González
Noboa’s economic proposals did not differ too much from those of González. Both promised not to increase the retirement age, although González accused Noboa’s government of publicly contemplating this possibility. Noboa also proposed strengthening dollarization and improving foreign investment and the capacity of the State in public management.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/25/accusations-and-attacks-the-last-presidential-debate-in-ecuador-between-noboa-and-gonzalez/
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im a bit of an apocalyptist schizo and i can see that the way things are going the technocratic class is probably just going to end up automating everything while the working class is liquidated out of existence. a major problem with technology is that it has a tendency to intensify the stakes of contradictions since the concentration of ownership it affords means that workers inevitably have fewer and fewer bargaining chips
the only way this can be avoided imo is through a political movement that is distributed throughout. imo the problem with a more centralized approach to achieving communism is that it doesn't really preserve any bargaining chips. i especially dont like approaches that are class collaborationist in some way because that always opens you up to corruption as well. if you dont have any real basis materially for worker control, then you are just hoping whoever is in charge has the right ideology which imo seems really idealist to me sorry
on the point of parties i feel like they are of course important but such things need money and property to truly be effective. you can only strike for as long as you can actually pay rent and eat. hence the cost of sustaining yourself is a fundamental limit to your bargaining power. currently things are much worse seeing as how much agriculture is owned by large corporations. beyond this, money is useful for expanding social outreach and controlling narratives. you can also use it to exert soft power so more people hear about you. it definitely feels like current parties could do more and part of this is the need to secure power and not just raise consciousness
for these reasons i think there is merit to integrating the party structure with worker cooperatives and stuff like what the acp is doing. i dont even like haz but he seems to be trying out new ideas that are worth actually trying out. another nice thing about the workers coop thing is that you have a bit of propaganda of success thing going on. when people see how successful and efficient such an enterprise, there is much more rhetorical force behind socialist arguments
also i feel like now is actually the time to really get going with this stuff? the trump administration has gut the reach which the glowies had so there is now a bit more space to like actually do communist projects. patchwork doesn't need to be neo-reactionary … it can be neo-progressivism … the true """dark woke"""
im sorry if im just coming off as a wolff and haz fan or whatevs im just spitballing ideas
how do we actually the socialism
hello sorry im writing this while its almost 4 am and im feeling sort of blackpilledim a bit of an apocalyptist schizo and i can see that the way things are going the technocratic class is probably just going to end up automating everything while the working class is liquidated out of existence. a major problem with technology is that it has a tendency to intensify the stakes of contradictions since the concentration of ownership it affords means that workers inevitably have fewer and fewer bargaining chips
the only way this can be avoided imo is through a political movement that is distributed throughout. imo the problem with a more centralized approach to achieving communism is that it doesn't really preserve any bargaining chips. i especially dont like approaches that are class collaborationist in some way because that always opens you up to corruption as well. if you dont have any real basis materially for worker control, then you are just hoping whoever is in charge has the right ideology which imo seems really idealist to me sorry
on the point of parties i feel like they are of course important but such things need money and property to truly be effective. you can only strike for as long as you can actually pay rent and eat. hence the cost of sustaining yourself is a fundamental limit to your bargaining power. currently things are much worse seeing as how much agriculture is owned by large corporations. beyond this, money is useful for expanding social outreach and controlling narratives. you can also use it to exert soft power so more people hear about you. it definitely feels like current parties could do more and part of this is the need to secure power and not just raise consciousness
for these reasons i think there is merit to integrating the party structure with worker cooperatives and stuff like what the acp is doing. i dont even like haz but he seems to be trying out new ideas that are worth actually trying out. another nice thing about the workers coop thing is that you have a bit of propaganda of success thing going on. when people see how successful and efficient such an enterprise, there is much more rhetorical force behind socialist arguments
also i feel like now is actually the time to really get going with this stuff? the trump administration has gut the reach which the glowies had so there is now a bit more space to like actually do communist projects. patchwork doesn't need to be neo-reactionary … it can be neo-progressivism … the true """dark woke"""
im sorry if im just coming off as a wolff and haz fan or whatevs im just spitballing ideas
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So, fellow humans, I was thinking to myself lately about the fallen fertility rates of many countries of the world, and something struck me, is there evidence that capitalism dampens fertility? I imagine the the logic of the Capital looking always to grow itself (in perpetuity) drive the system in a perpetual search of making everything a thing for profit generation, even basic thing that would help rise fertility or at least alleviate the burden of new couples, like free kindergarten (to help young mom working), free healthcare, free housing (no burden of house on the budget of new families), free education, easy access and secure job, are all under the logical imperative of Capital in search of the eternal profit. The more I think about it, the more is clear that the Capital itself could be blame for the fallen rate of birth of many advanced countries. The only thing that could help falsify my theory is showing data that the USSR had lower fertility rates or other ex-socialist countries too (does anyone have this data showing the fertility rates of old socialist countries?). Still, thinking long term, countries like South Korea with palliative measures won't budge the fertility that much because the overall system itself create a system wide pressure that keeps pushing people to have few children so to maximize their quality of life under the logical of Capital. Sure, access to birth control and abortion helped lower fertility, but it fallen from what? 5-6 children to 2-1 children? You see what I saying? Capitalism itself could be blamed for the fallen fertility rate around the world. I could be wrong and I'm open to criticism and other point of views showing that I may be wrong. But the future is see, considered if I'm right, is either Capital pushing for more immigration from poor countries to first world core capitalism countries (and stealing good quality human capital that could help those poor countries escape their shitty situation) until they syphon every last of those good quality human capital and leaving those poor countries even more fucked it in the long run for the lack of smart people to help them developed OR Capital will go some kind of full automatization like AGI and robotics and give big fuck you to normal people like us (is veer close to the idea of Nick Land that Capital itself will finally wrest free from mankind and become a genuine kind of "independent intelligence system" free from the need of humans itself on the loop of the system, I don't know how to best describe it, but I think Nick Land was right here and the conclusion I got is similar on what he describe it before)
In the end is either Capital free itself from the need of humans and we are make redundant (or killed) or some kind of genuine social transformation need to take place for mankind to raise birth rates again. Any one has had that thought before (beside Nick Land)?
So, fellow humans, I was thinking to myself lately about the fallen fertility rates of many countries of the world, and something struck me, is there evidence that capitalism dampens fertility? I imagine the the logic of the Capital looking always to grow itself (in perpetuity) drive the system in a perpetual search of making everything a thing for profit generation, even basic thing that would help rise fertility or at least alleviate the burden of new couples, like free kindergarten (to help young mom working), free healthcare, free housing (no burden of house on the budget of new families), free education, easy access and secure job, are all under the logical imperative of Capital in search of the eternal profit. The more I think about it, the more is clear that the Capital itself could be blame for the fallen rate of birth of many advanced countries. The only thing that could help falsify my theory is showing data that the USSR had lower fertility rates or other ex-socialist countries too (does anyone have this data showing the fertility rates of old socialist countries?). Still, thinking long term, countries like South Korea with palliative measures won't budge the fertility that much because the overall system itself create a system wide pressure that keeps pushing people to have few children so to maximize their quality of life under the logical of Capital. Sure, access to birth control and abortion helped lower fertility, but it fallen from what? 5-6 children to 2-1 children? You see what I saying? Capitalism itself could be blamed for the fallen fertility rate around the world. I could be wrong and I'm open to criticism and other point of views showing that I may be wrong. But the future is see, considered if I'm right, is either Capital pushing for more immigration from poor countries to first world core capitalism countries (and stealing good quality human capital that could help those poor countries escape their shitty situation) until they syphon every last of those good quality human capital and leaving those poor countries even more fucked it in the long run for the lack of smart people to help them developed OR Capital will go some kind of full automatization like AGI and robotics and give big fuck you to normal people like us (is veer close to the idea of Nick Land that Capital itself will finally wrest free from mankind and become a genuine kind of "independent intelligence system" free from the need of humans itself on the loop of the system, I don't know how to best describe it, but I think Nick Land was right here and the conclusion I got is similar on what he describe it before)
In the end is either Capital free itself from the need of humans and we are make redundant (or killed) or some kind of genuine social transformation need to take place for mankind to raise birth rates again. Any one has had that thought before (beside Nick Land)?
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What are lefty pols thought on current insurgency in Somalia against US backed govt. one side are hardline Islamists while the other are somewhat secular and have backing of US, UAE and Turkey to help its fight against the insurgency. In cases like these how should we view such wars when both sides seem to be bad with one being an arm of US imperialism and the latter commiting crimes against women and minorities.
What are lefty pols thought on current insurgency in Somalia against US backed govt. one side are hardline Islamists while the other are somewhat secular and have backing of US, UAE and Turkey to help its fight against the insurgency. In cases like these how should we view such wars when both sides seem to be bad with one being an arm of US imperialism and the latter commiting crimes against women and minorities.
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The protests took place on Monday in front of the country’s former army headquarters, which were destroyed in a US-led NATO bombing campaign in 1999 as part of the Kosovo war, and are now being leased by the Serbian authorities to Kushner’s Affinity Partners investment firm, so they can be transformed into a high-end compound.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/24/thousands-rally-in-serbia-against-trump-son-in-laws-real-estate-project
https://archive.ph/SlvqL
Russian and US negotiators meet to hammer out proposal for partial Ukraine ceasefire
While the White House said that “energy and infrastructure” would be covered, the Kremlin said the agreement referred more narrowly to “energy infrastructure.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he would also like to see railways and ports protected.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/russian-and-us-negotiators-meet-hammer-out-proposal-partial-ukraine-ceasefire
Trial of alleged former Red Army Faction terrorist to open in Germany
The 66-year-old is charged with attempted murder, theft and breaches of the war weapons control Act. Later she will face charges of being one of the last members of the left-wing Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorist organisation, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, which was behind high-profile hijacks and killings in 1970s West Germany that triggered a state of emergency.
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/24/trial-of-alleged-former-red-army-faction-terrorist-to-open-in-germany/
https://archive.ph/D4ogE
Panamanians Oppose Open-Pit Copper Mining Project
Under the slogan “Panama is worth more without mining,” about 40 social organizations called on citizens to demonstrate that opposition to the mining project is not coming from just “a handful of people,” as President Mulino disparagingly stated.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/panamanians-oppose-open-pit-copper-mining-project/
US extends Chevron's wind-down in Venezuela after Trump unveils 25% tariff
The U.S. extended Chevron's (CVX.N), opens new tab wind-down of oil exports from Venezuela by two months on Monday, after President Donald Trump said that any country buying oil or gas from Venezuela will pay a 25% tariff on any trades made with the United States.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-impose-25-tariff-countries-that-buy-oil-gas-venezuela-2025-03-24/
Bukele’s ‘miracle’ is Delmy’s nightmare
El Salvador’s woes are hitting the Cortéz family hard. The mother lost a daughter after she was denied an abortion. Her son was detained amid the gang war – even though he maintains his innocence – while a third child had to migrate
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-03-23/bukeles-miracle-is-delmys-nightmare.html
https://archive.ph/5VR2S
Numsa says it remains resolute in fight for better wages for workers
The conference brings together shop stewards from all nine provinces to consolidate the demands of workers under various sectors including motor, auto and road freight sectors among others.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/numsa-says-it-remains-resolute-in-fight-for-better-wages-for-workers/
Israeli Security Cabinet Approves Plan for 'Mass Ethnic Cleansing' of Gaza
The Israeli move follows suggestions from United States President Donald Trump that residents of Gaza should be moved to other countries, which rights groups and critics worldwide have said is ethnic cleansing, the forced removal of a population from its home.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/24/israel-building-agency-to-steer-palestinian-voluntary-departure-from-gaza
https://archive.ph/QGjTY
Violating Syrian territory | Israeli forces infiltrate into areas in western Daraa countryside
Several military vehicles of Israeli forces entered through Al-Raqqad Valley from the side of Jamalah Village in Hawd Al-Yarmouk area in western Daraa countryside, where the forces then deployed on the road between Jamalah Village and Saison Village, amid information that passengers are being interrogated and searched.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/358527/
Drones, informers and apps: Iran intensifies surveillance on women to enforce hijab law
Last week, the UN’s fact-finding mission reported on Iran’s increasing reliance on digital surveillance such as its Nazer mobile application, a state-backed reporting platform that allows citizens and police to report women for alleged violations.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/24/iran-police-women-surveillance-hijab-drones-dress-code-law
News 3/24/25
Thousands rally in Serbia against Trump son-in-law’s real estate projectThe protests took place on Monday in front of the country’s former army headquarters, which were destroyed in a US-led NATO bombing campaign in 1999 as part of the Kosovo war, and are now being leased by the Serbian authorities to Kushner’s Affinity Partners investment firm, so they can be transformed into a high-end compound.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/24/thousands-rally-in-serbia-against-trump-son-in-laws-real-estate-project
https://archive.ph/SlvqL
Russian and US negotiators meet to hammer out proposal for partial Ukraine ceasefire
While the White House said that “energy and infrastructure” would be covered, the Kremlin said the agreement referred more narrowly to “energy infrastructure.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he would also like to see railways and ports protected.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/russian-and-us-negotiators-meet-hammer-out-proposal-partial-ukraine-ceasefire
Trial of alleged former Red Army Faction terrorist to open in Germany
The 66-year-old is charged with attempted murder, theft and breaches of the war weapons control Act. Later she will face charges of being one of the last members of the left-wing Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorist organisation, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, which was behind high-profile hijacks and killings in 1970s West Germany that triggered a state of emergency.
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/24/trial-of-alleged-former-red-army-faction-terrorist-to-open-in-germany/
https://archive.ph/D4ogE
Panamanians Oppose Open-Pit Copper Mining Project
Under the slogan “Panama is worth more without mining,” about 40 social organizations called on citizens to demonstrate that opposition to the mining project is not coming from just “a handful of people,” as President Mulino disparagingly stated.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/panamanians-oppose-open-pit-copper-mining-project/
US extends Chevron's wind-down in Venezuela after Trump unveils 25% tariff
The U.S. extended Chevron's (CVX.N), opens new tab wind-down of oil exports from Venezuela by two months on Monday, after President Donald Trump said that any country buying oil or gas from Venezuela will pay a 25% tariff on any trades made with the United States.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-impose-25-tariff-countries-that-buy-oil-gas-venezuela-2025-03-24/
Bukele’s ‘miracle’ is Delmy’s nightmare
El Salvador’s woes are hitting the Cortéz family hard. The mother lost a daughter after she was denied an abortion. Her son was detained amid the gang war – even though he maintains his innocence – while a third child had to migrate
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-03-23/bukeles-miracle-is-delmys-nightmare.html
https://archive.ph/5VR2S
Numsa says it remains resolute in fight for better wages for workers
The conference brings together shop stewards from all nine provinces to consolidate the demands of workers under various sectors including motor, auto and road freight sectors among others.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/numsa-says-it-remains-resolute-in-fight-for-better-wages-for-workers/
Israeli Security Cabinet Approves Plan for 'Mass Ethnic Cleansing' of Gaza
The Israeli move follows suggestions from United States President Donald Trump that residents of Gaza should be moved to other countries, which rights groups and critics worldwide have said is ethnic cleansing, the forced removal of a population from its home.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/24/israel-building-agency-to-steer-palestinian-voluntary-departure-from-gaza
https://archive.ph/QGjTY
Violating Syrian territory | Israeli forces infiltrate into areas in western Daraa countryside
Several military vehicles of Israeli forces entered through Al-Raqqad Valley from the side of Jamalah Village in Hawd Al-Yarmouk area in western Daraa countryside, where the forces then deployed on the road between Jamalah Village and Saison Village, amid information that passengers are being interrogated and searched.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/358527/
Drones, informers and apps: Iran intensifies surveillance on women to enforce hijab law
Last week, the UN’s fact-finding mission reported on Iran’s increasing reliance on digital surveillance such as its Nazer mobile application, a state-backed reporting platform that allows citizens and police to report women for alleged violations.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/24/iran-police-women-surveillance-hijab-drones-dress-code-law
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TLDR: Trump is neither a useful idiot nor just an idiot.
Many anons here have subscribed to what I call a based retard theory of Trumpism. That Trump is, through his incompetence, unintentionally accelerating the demise of the western-led capitalist world order.
It is obvious to everyone that the western-led international order is indeed fracturing, and quite possibly, ending or beginning to end. However, the question is, why, and what will replace it?
According to liberals, since world war 2, the US has (for more or less selfless reasons) promoted a “rules based, international order” based on liberal democracy, market (capitalist) economies and “international law”. This, according to liberals, has allowed the world to avoid the sorts of nationalism, mercantilism which led to conflicts such as world war one and world war two in favor of peace and global prosperity.
People on the left (especially far left) have often disagreed with this view for several reasons. One, they point out that the United States has often ignored so-called international law in pursuit of their own interests while using it to punish other, smaller nations. That IMF loans often came with conditions which for example incentivized or coerced countries into privatizing and liberalizing parts of their economy. Or were in other ways exploitative. That in practice, rich nations took advantaged of poorer ones, and the rule of markets simply became a proxy for the rule of western (especially US) capital, and a way to launder neocolonial exploitation.
However, in the years since the end of the Cold War, alternative economic powers have risen, such as the so-called “BRICS” nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The rise of BRICS, especially China in particular, has meant that the rule of markets is no longer is synonymous with the rule of western corporations.
The reason liberals are confused is because they are people who have drunk the neoliberal cool aid and unironically believe that the spread of market based economies and their integration into the global trade system is a positive sum game that benefitted all nations, when in reality it primarily benefitted the west at the expense of the third world sweatshop-slave.
Until recently.
Now that other economies such as China have begun to not only dominate international trade but build up high value added service sectors in industries like Tech and Finance (in some cases, like AI, rivaling or even surpassing the US), the US finds that the international world order mythology has outlived it’s usefulness. Trumpism is simply western/US Capital discarding the mask. So US leaders realize that “the jig is up” – that multipolarity can no longer be fought and the US will no longer be a globe spanning empire. So they are pivoting to make the US into a regional power in the Americas/Western Hemisphere. Thus explaining Trump’s pivot to Panama, Greenland, and Canada – its the “donroe doctrine”. The US will be more like it was in the 19th century and pre ww1 20th century – an explicitly imperialist regional power which treats the western hemisphere as its “sphere of influence”.
Trump is not as liberals think, a Russian agent, nor is he as some here think, an irrational actor dismantling empire out of sheer stupidity. Trumpism is geopolitically rational. Rather than the cause of the decline of US Hegemony, it is actually a relatively rational reaction and adaptation TO the decline of unipolar US Hegemony. Whether it will be successful is a whole other question.
Against the Based-Retard Theory of Trumpism
Against the Based-Retard Theory of TrumpismTLDR: Trump is neither a useful idiot nor just an idiot.
Many anons here have subscribed to what I call a based retard theory of Trumpism. That Trump is, through his incompetence, unintentionally accelerating the demise of the western-led capitalist world order.
It is obvious to everyone that the western-led international order is indeed fracturing, and quite possibly, ending or beginning to end. However, the question is, why, and what will replace it?
According to liberals, since world war 2, the US has (for more or less selfless reasons) promoted a “rules based, international order” based on liberal democracy, market (capitalist) economies and “international law”. This, according to liberals, has allowed the world to avoid the sorts of nationalism, mercantilism which led to conflicts such as world war one and world war two in favor of peace and global prosperity.
People on the left (especially far left) have often disagreed with this view for several reasons. One, they point out that the United States has often ignored so-called international law in pursuit of their own interests while using it to punish other, smaller nations. That IMF loans often came with conditions which for example incentivized or coerced countries into privatizing and liberalizing parts of their economy. Or were in other ways exploitative. That in practice, rich nations took advantaged of poorer ones, and the rule of markets simply became a proxy for the rule of western (especially US) capital, and a way to launder neocolonial exploitation.
However, in the years since the end of the Cold War, alternative economic powers have risen, such as the so-called “BRICS” nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The rise of BRICS, especially China in particular, has meant that the rule of markets is no longer is synonymous with the rule of western corporations.
The reason liberals are confused is because they are people who have drunk the neoliberal cool aid and unironically believe that the spread of market based economies and their integration into the global trade system is a positive sum game that benefitted all nations, when in reality it primarily benefitted the west at the expense of the third world sweatshop-slave.
Until recently.
Now that other economies such as China have begun to not only dominate international trade but build up high value added service sectors in industries like Tech and Finance (in some cases, like AI, rivaling or even surpassing the US), the US finds that the international world order mythology has outlived it’s usefulness. Trumpism is simply western/US Capital discarding the mask. So US leaders realize that “the jig is up” – that multipolarity can no longer be fought and the US will no longer be a globe spanning empire. So they are pivoting to make the US into a regional power in the Americas/Western Hemisphere. Thus explaining Trump’s pivot to Panama, Greenland, and Canada – its the “donroe doctrine”. The US will be more like it was in the 19th century and pre ww1 20th century – an explicitly imperialist regional power which treats the western hemisphere as its “sphere of influence”.
Trump is not as liberals think, a Russian agent, nor is he as some here think, an irrational actor dismantling empire out of sheer stupidity. Trumpism is geopolitically rational. Rather than the cause of the decline of US Hegemony, it is actually a relatively rational reaction and adaptation TO the decline of unipolar US Hegemony. Whether it will be successful is a whole other question.
R: 404 / I: 59
Some highlights:
>long history of violence from which the PKK emerged
>emphasis on hundreds of years of alliance between Kurds and Turks
>need for democratic solution, faith that now it is the time
>respect to Bahceli and Erdogan’s calls to move on with a resolution
>PKK (all armed groups) to leave weapons to engage in a democratic resolution process
it's so over
Ocalan orders the PKK to dissolve
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ocalan-dissolve-pkk-historic-statementSome highlights:
>long history of violence from which the PKK emerged
>emphasis on hundreds of years of alliance between Kurds and Turks
>need for democratic solution, faith that now it is the time
>respect to Bahceli and Erdogan’s calls to move on with a resolution
>PKK (all armed groups) to leave weapons to engage in a democratic resolution process
it's so over
R: 34 / I: 4 (sage)
Remember no class wars without body positivity
Body Positivity Revolution
As a feminist, not only we need to smash the patriarchy, we also need to smash the weightriarchy. Kinda disappointing how class reductionists dismiss body positivity.Remember no class wars without body positivity
R: 72 / I: 8 (sage)
Stalin was such an utter retard and so incapable of convincingly arguing on behalf of his distortions that it makes the obsequious Soviet yesmen who surrounded him look a hundred times more pathetic.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1934/07/19.htm
Stalin was such an utter retard and so incapable of convincingly arguing on behalf of his distortions that it makes the obsequious Soviet yesmen who surrounded him look a hundred times more pathetic.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1934/07/19.htm
R: 35 / I: 9 (sage)
COMBAT PUTINOPHOBIA
Cucktin posters are glowies and you must oppose them and ridicule them everywhere. Everybody knows that Putin is a dictator who sweetens the pockets of the oligarchs. But in the absense of proletarian led governments in the West, Putin is atleast making the Westoids seethe like they never did since the Cold War. It is not a surprise that as Ukraines final defeat comes closer, the more Cucktin posts you see. They are modern day Trotskyists and anarchists, who wanted to rebel against the Republican govt while the fight against Franco is still ongoing. The great Russians had their 1917, it fell apart in 1991, they tried to align with the West and they ended up opposing the West again. In all this time, what did the country of Westoid Cucktin Poster do? Open more m’McDonalds and further suck the cock of Amerikkka. So they are in no place to lecture Russians in anything.
R: 40 / I: 2
What would happen to video game limited items under communism?
Under a communist state how would limited video game items be treated? Would all game items like rust, csgo, and roblox that are tradable just be available to everyone that wants one? What about non-tradable stuff like fortnite skins that are only available for a limited time?
R: 3 / I: 0
what goddamn flood
https://dzen.ru/a/Z27yHJQyjydySodV - in Russian
This is an experimental research of Winnitsa massacre that was invented by Nazis to propagandize against the Soviets. Out of 25 random names from German lists, in "archival documents", which OBVIOUSLY couldn't be faked, had date of arrest, as written down by Germans, moved from before 08.1937 to after, to fit in with the current day narrative of 1937-38 mass repressions. 5 Polish citizens out of those shots had their arrest dates moved even farther into the future so that it fits into the NKVD "Polish" order no.00485 because current day narrative says that those poles were shot according to that order, not before, like Germans have claimed and have provided dates taken out of unearthed documents and witness accounts
Choose your poison, Katyn, Winnitsa, Great Purge conspiracy theorists:
Option 1. The dates in Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Winniza are true, and the dates in the criminal cases of the people named above are fake, made to fit the dates to "Great Terror"–37.
In that case:
- there are fake GT documents in the former KGB archives, in particular, 25 criminal cases;
- since even criminal cases of unknown provincial collective farmers are forged, the truth of the fundamental documents of the GT type of order 00447 is questionable.;
- the chronology of GT-37 itself is false, and therefore orders 00447, 00485 and the like are false.
Option 2. The dates in the "Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Winniza" are false, and the dates in the criminal cases of the people named above are true.
In that case:
- the shooting in Vinnytsia was carried out by German and Ukrainian Nazis;
- relatives of the victims were forced to give false information about the dates of their arrest;
- fake search protocols were slipped into the pockets of the dead;
- there are forged documents in the former archives of the KGB, in particular, several hundred criminal cases against those identified in Vinnytsia;
- documents related to these cases (acts of executions, albums of the Vyshinsky-Yezhov Deuce, etc.) are also fake;
- all the documents about "10 years of execution without the right of correspondence", since this practice itself was invented by the Germans in Vinnytsia, are fake.
what goddamn flood
https://dzen.ru/a/Z27yHJQyjydySodV - in Russian
This is an experimental research of Winnitsa massacre that was invented by Nazis to propagandize against the Soviets. Out of 25 random names from German lists, in "archival documents", which OBVIOUSLY couldn't be faked, had date of arrest, as written down by Germans, moved from before 08.1937 to after, to fit in with the current day narrative of 1937-38 mass repressions. 5 Polish citizens out of those shots had their arrest dates moved even farther into the future so that it fits into the NKVD "Polish" order no.00485 because current day narrative says that those poles were shot according to that order, not before, like Germans have claimed and have provided dates taken out of unearthed documents and witness accounts
Choose your poison, Katyn, Winnitsa, Great Purge conspiracy theorists:
Option 1. The dates in Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Winniza are true, and the dates in the criminal cases of the people named above are fake, made to fit the dates to "Great Terror"–37.
In that case:
- there are fake GT documents in the former KGB archives, in particular, 25 criminal cases;
- since even criminal cases of unknown provincial collective farmers are forged, the truth of the fundamental documents of the GT type of order 00447 is questionable.;
- the chronology of GT-37 itself is false, and therefore orders 00447, 00485 and the like are false.
Option 2. The dates in the "Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Winniza" are false, and the dates in the criminal cases of the people named above are true.
In that case:
- the shooting in Vinnytsia was carried out by German and Ukrainian Nazis;
- relatives of the victims were forced to give false information about the dates of their arrest;
- fake search protocols were slipped into the pockets of the dead;
- there are forged documents in the former archives of the KGB, in particular, several hundred criminal cases against those identified in Vinnytsia;
- documents related to these cases (acts of executions, albums of the Vyshinsky-Yezhov Deuce, etc.) are also fake;
- all the documents about "10 years of execution without the right of correspondence", since this practice itself was invented by the Germans in Vinnytsia, are fake.
R: 6 / I: 1 (sage)
Lesbians are fetichized/objectified sexually, and seen as ""confused"" because apparently the notion of a woman not being attracted to men is non-existant to hetero males
This is the reason gay men have worse compared to lesbians, it's not because society is """gynocentric""" like aome women hating chuds claim
It all boils down to misogyny
Gay men are hated, abused and outright murdered because they're seen as trying to emulate the """lesser gender""", so they're perceived as """failed men""" who need to be killed by hetero malesLesbians are fetichized/objectified sexually, and seen as ""confused"" because apparently the notion of a woman not being attracted to men is non-existant to hetero males
This is the reason gay men have worse compared to lesbians, it's not because society is """gynocentric""" like aome women hating chuds claim
R: 607 / I: 161 (full)
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I’m not here to fearmonger. It’s hard to tell how bad a nuclear war today could be—personally I doubt that many bombs would be thrown past a few to a few dozen throughout the remainder of this century. However, it’s becoming clear to the average person that nukes and total war is a resurging problem this century despite all the efforts made to eradicate violent conflict.
Theres both a mountain of evidence and material reasons to be concerned about the possibility of nuclear war. The sheer number of reasons that contribute to why any war could break out are too vast for me to deal with.
Stay safe and plan ahead y’all. Things are likely going to get tougher.
Sober take: nuclear war is coming
This isn’t my idea, several other scholars and leaders have been calling attention to this for years, nuclear armed countries have been developing more advanced missile systems for ages, global political relations are balkanizing if not deteriorating as historical grievances remain unresolved (colonialism, imperialism, shock doctrine, trade wars), long range missiles have been deployed and are still in use in the Ukraine war, militarism is growing everywhere, former world powers are growing increasingly fascistic within their own borders as their expansion gets overthrown, artillery bombardments and other WMDs have been seen in use in modern wars more frequently, political leaders are seen openly threatening invasions, the evidence is there.I’m not here to fearmonger. It’s hard to tell how bad a nuclear war today could be—personally I doubt that many bombs would be thrown past a few to a few dozen throughout the remainder of this century. However, it’s becoming clear to the average person that nukes and total war is a resurging problem this century despite all the efforts made to eradicate violent conflict.
Theres both a mountain of evidence and material reasons to be concerned about the possibility of nuclear war. The sheer number of reasons that contribute to why any war could break out are too vast for me to deal with.
Stay safe and plan ahead y’all. Things are likely going to get tougher.
R: 11 / I: 2
The fuck happened
This is genuinely worse than bakhmut holy. I haven’t seen this much death over one position since the world wars.
R: 23 / I: 7 (sage)
Lesbians are fetichized/objectified sexually, and seen as ""confused"" because apparently the notion of a woman not being attracted to men is non-existant to hetero males
This is the reason gay men have worse compared to lesbians
It all boils down to Misogyny
Gay men are hated, abused and outright murdered because they're seen as trying to emulate the """lesser gender""", so they're perceived as """failed men""" who need to be killed by hetero malesLesbians are fetichized/objectified sexually, and seen as ""confused"" because apparently the notion of a woman not being attracted to men is non-existant to hetero males
This is the reason gay men have worse compared to lesbians
R: 27 / I: 2
Are you still begging Zionist universities and Zion Don to stop supporting Israel? Protests will just get you deported now
The time has come for REAL ties with the anti-imperialists
Only one party right now in America is doing that, from the belly of the beast
We need more Americans taking watch of this critical moment and doing everything possible to build a United anti-imperialist movement with real leaders from the global south.
The time has come
How are you supporting Palestinian resistance?
Are you sitting on leftypol making jokes about “le globalists” to hide your anti-semitism?Are you still begging Zionist universities and Zion Don to stop supporting Israel? Protests will just get you deported now
The time has come for REAL ties with the anti-imperialists
Only one party right now in America is doing that, from the belly of the beast
We need more Americans taking watch of this critical moment and doing everything possible to build a United anti-imperialist movement with real leaders from the global south.
The time has come
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In Janitzio Death is not Scary
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1961/janitzio.htm
>If under the guise of the squalid Catholic saints the most ancient form of a not-inhuman divinity, like the Sun, continues to live, this brings to mind what knowledge we have — all too often a travesty! — of the Incan civilization that Marx admired. It is not that they were primitive and ferocious enough to sacrifice the most beautiful specimens of their young to the Sun who cried out for human blood, but that such a community, magnificent and powerfully intuitive, recognised the flow of life in that same energy which the Sun radiates on the planet and which flows through the arteries of a living man, and which becomes unity and love in the whole species, which, until it falls into the superstition of an individual soul with its sanctimonious balance sheet of give and take, the superstructure of monetary venality, does not fear death and knows personal death as nothing other than a hymn of joy and a fecund contribution to the life of humanity.
>In natural and primitive communism, even though humanity is conceived within the limits of the horde, the individual does not aim to subtract wealth from his brother but rather is willing to be sacrificed without the slightest fear for the survival of the great phratry.[1] Idiotic conventional wisdom sees this as the terror of a God who must be placated with blood.
>In the form of exchange, of money, and of class, the species’ sense of permanence [perennità] disappears, and what is ignoble in the continued existence [perennità] of private property increases. This is translated into the immortality of the soul which contracts for happiness outside of nature with the usurer-god who runs this vile bank. In these societies which pretend to be raised from barbarism to civilization we live in dread of personal death and lie prostrate before mummies, like the mausoleum in Moscow, with its infamous history.
>In communism, which has not yet happened but which remains a scientific certainty, the identity of the individual and his fate with their species is re-won, after destroying within it all the limits of family, race, and nation. This victory puts an end to all fear of personal death and with it every cult of the living and the dead, society being organized for the first time around well-being and joy and the reduction of sorrow, suffering, and sacrifice to a rational minimum, removing every mysterious and sinister character from the harmonious course of the succession of generations, a natural condition of the prosperity of the species.
In Janitzio Death is not Scary
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1961/janitzio.htm
>If under the guise of the squalid Catholic saints the most ancient form of a not-inhuman divinity, like the Sun, continues to live, this brings to mind what knowledge we have — all too often a travesty! — of the Incan civilization that Marx admired. It is not that they were primitive and ferocious enough to sacrifice the most beautiful specimens of their young to the Sun who cried out for human blood, but that such a community, magnificent and powerfully intuitive, recognised the flow of life in that same energy which the Sun radiates on the planet and which flows through the arteries of a living man, and which becomes unity and love in the whole species, which, until it falls into the superstition of an individual soul with its sanctimonious balance sheet of give and take, the superstructure of monetary venality, does not fear death and knows personal death as nothing other than a hymn of joy and a fecund contribution to the life of humanity.
>In natural and primitive communism, even though humanity is conceived within the limits of the horde, the individual does not aim to subtract wealth from his brother but rather is willing to be sacrificed without the slightest fear for the survival of the great phratry.[1] Idiotic conventional wisdom sees this as the terror of a God who must be placated with blood.
>In the form of exchange, of money, and of class, the species’ sense of permanence [perennità] disappears, and what is ignoble in the continued existence [perennità] of private property increases. This is translated into the immortality of the soul which contracts for happiness outside of nature with the usurer-god who runs this vile bank. In these societies which pretend to be raised from barbarism to civilization we live in dread of personal death and lie prostrate before mummies, like the mausoleum in Moscow, with its infamous history.
>In communism, which has not yet happened but which remains a scientific certainty, the identity of the individual and his fate with their species is re-won, after destroying within it all the limits of family, race, and nation. This victory puts an end to all fear of personal death and with it every cult of the living and the dead, society being organized for the first time around well-being and joy and the reduction of sorrow, suffering, and sacrifice to a rational minimum, removing every mysterious and sinister character from the harmonious course of the succession of generations, a natural condition of the prosperity of the species.
R: 15 / I: 3 (sage)
liberal interventionists love ukkkraine because they were so desperate for a war that they could spin a simple narrative around and make America "look like the good guy" again (implying it ever did except to the most deranged liberal idiots). This time instead of invading a place like Iraq or Vietnam, putting "boots on the ground," and killing civilians before leaving in disgrace with no major objectives met, they figured America could simply fund a spunky "underdog" small country against an "imperialist" big country next door. They pushed NATO expansion for 30 years and did a coup in Ukraine and caused a civil war in Ukraine to achieve this goal, and when Russia finally took the bait by saying "no more red lines will be crossed" it made Russia look like the bad guy to everyone who thought history started in 2022. Most insufferable of all are the bothsiders who say it doesn't matter who started it because it's just an inter-imperialist war. No no no. If the USSR still existed, and were not dismantled from within and privatized with the support of the west, Russian """imperialism""" in Ukraine would not be possible, because they would both still be part of the illegally dissolved USSR.
Liberal interventionists will cry "zigger zigger zigger"
liberal interventionists love ukkkraine because they were so desperate for a war that they could spin a simple narrative around and make America "look like the good guy" again (implying it ever did except to the most deranged liberal idiots). This time instead of invading a place like Iraq or Vietnam, putting "boots on the ground," and killing civilians before leaving in disgrace with no major objectives met, they figured America could simply fund a spunky "underdog" small country against an "imperialist" big country next door. They pushed NATO expansion for 30 years and did a coup in Ukraine and caused a civil war in Ukraine to achieve this goal, and when Russia finally took the bait by saying "no more red lines will be crossed" it made Russia look like the bad guy to everyone who thought history started in 2022. Most insufferable of all are the bothsiders who say it doesn't matter who started it because it's just an inter-imperialist war. No no no. If the USSR still existed, and were not dismantled from within and privatized with the support of the west, Russian """imperialism""" in Ukraine would not be possible, because they would both still be part of the illegally dissolved USSR.
Liberal interventionists will cry "zigger zigger zigger"
R: 8 / I: 2 (sage)
you are not a prole if you live in the first world and own a computer. the children mining the cobalt in your devices are workers. you are not a proletarian if you save ANY money, since saved money is potentially money CAPITAL or usurer's CAPITAL or exchangeable for commodity CAPITAL. I have seen some revisionists on this board claim that the proletariat is only reserveless "on average". No. It is essential to proletarian class identity that you be RESERVELSS, that is, unable to save ANY money. You also must produce SURPLUS VALUE. You are NOT a proletarian if you work in a service sector job that does not produce SURPLUS VALUE. Similarly, if you are guaranteed a salary, you are not a proletarian. A proletarian is a WAGE WORKER, not a SALARY MAN. A SALARY worker is guaranteed a certain amount of pay per year. That is contrary to selling your labor power on a daily basis in the form of worked hours. You are not a proletariat if you get PAID TIME OFF. You are not a proletariat if you have a RETIREMENT ACCOUNT or a SAVINGS ACCOUNT or any kind of SPECULATIVE FINANCIAL ASSETS, including "shitcoins" and "penny stocks." If you have SOLD DRUGS or PROSTITUTED YOURSELF or BECOME AN UNEMPLOYED VAGRANT, you are NOT A PROLETARIAN. You are a petty bourgeois huckster or a lumpen criminal.
>proletariat is a moral category
Agreed. I am just telling you where your class interests lay and suspicious of your proclamations that you are "communist" when you clearly lack any incentive to be communist since you are not proletarian. Why should I trust people who say they are communist
>you are dividing the proletariat
no I am preventing the infiltration of its ranks
>you glow
no, you glow.
>bait
suck my dick
>reddit spacing
yakkkubian behavior
>umm umm proles have to save money in order to have kids
that's part of subsistence since it reproduces labor power for the ruling class. those aren't savings. also proles go into medical debt producing "children" (future scabs) for the bourgeoisie
this should silence all revisionists and petty bourgeois fools who seek to obfuscate who the proletariat is.
>the proletariat is supposed to be a majority of society, so few people tick all these boxes
that is not an essential part of the definition and never has been. when the imperial core is brought low they MAY become a majority again
>ur mean
you're a coward and a lickspittle
you are not a prole if you live in the first world and own a computer. the children mining the cobalt in your devices are workers. you are not a proletarian if you save ANY money, since saved money is potentially money CAPITAL or usurer's CAPITAL or exchangeable for commodity CAPITAL. I have seen some revisionists on this board claim that the proletariat is only reserveless "on average". No. It is essential to proletarian class identity that you be RESERVELSS, that is, unable to save ANY money. You also must produce SURPLUS VALUE. You are NOT a proletarian if you work in a service sector job that does not produce SURPLUS VALUE. Similarly, if you are guaranteed a salary, you are not a proletarian. A proletarian is a WAGE WORKER, not a SALARY MAN. A SALARY worker is guaranteed a certain amount of pay per year. That is contrary to selling your labor power on a daily basis in the form of worked hours. You are not a proletariat if you get PAID TIME OFF. You are not a proletariat if you have a RETIREMENT ACCOUNT or a SAVINGS ACCOUNT or any kind of SPECULATIVE FINANCIAL ASSETS, including "shitcoins" and "penny stocks." If you have SOLD DRUGS or PROSTITUTED YOURSELF or BECOME AN UNEMPLOYED VAGRANT, you are NOT A PROLETARIAN. You are a petty bourgeois huckster or a lumpen criminal.
>proletariat is a moral category
Agreed. I am just telling you where your class interests lay and suspicious of your proclamations that you are "communist" when you clearly lack any incentive to be communist since you are not proletarian. Why should I trust people who say they are communist
>you are dividing the proletariat
no I am preventing the infiltration of its ranks
>you glow
no, you glow.
>bait
suck my dick
>reddit spacing
yakkkubian behavior
>umm umm proles have to save money in order to have kids
that's part of subsistence since it reproduces labor power for the ruling class. those aren't savings. also proles go into medical debt producing "children" (future scabs) for the bourgeoisie
this should silence all revisionists and petty bourgeois fools who seek to obfuscate who the proletariat is.
>the proletariat is supposed to be a majority of society, so few people tick all these boxes
that is not an essential part of the definition and never has been. when the imperial core is brought low they MAY become a majority again
>ur mean
you're a coward and a lickspittle
R: 1 / I: 0
You're talking to a friendly guy and he asks you
>Why are you a communist? Hasn't communism always failed?
How do you respond? The guy is not especially into politics and is genuinely interested in your perspective.
You're talking to a friendly guy and he asks you
>Why are you a communist? Hasn't communism always failed?
How do you respond? The guy is not especially into politics and is genuinely interested in your perspective.
R: 14 / I: 0
"Disability benefits contribute more to the economy than they cost.
PIP alone contributes approximately £42 billion annually to the UK economy, an economic multiplier effect of 1.8 times what is spent by the government on it.
Cuts: morally, legally and economically wrong"
How do I get NEETbux? I don't want to be a wagie slave to the capital, i want my free time again! Anyone here that successfully quit the wagiedom and acquire NEETbux? Yes, being a NEET is a form of against cucktalism.
"Disability benefits contribute more to the economy than they cost.
PIP alone contributes approximately £42 billion annually to the UK economy, an economic multiplier effect of 1.8 times what is spent by the government on it.
Cuts: morally, legally and economically wrong"
How do I get NEETbux? I don't want to be a wagie slave to the capital, i want my free time again! Anyone here that successfully quit the wagiedom and acquire NEETbux? Yes, being a NEET is a form of against cucktalism.
R: 99 / I: 16
Help me understand.
When marx roared in laugher when hearing about morals, did he do that because he was against morals….or did he do that because he rejected the idea that the world ran on morals
Help me understand.
When marx roared in laugher when hearing about morals, did he do that because he was against morals….or did he do that because he rejected the idea that the world ran on morals
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Even in the optimistic case where the death toll remains flat, the country is going to lose over hundred and four million people by the end of century. Already entire villages and streets within the big cities are emptying out and the population loss is too large for immigration from anywhere to repair the damage.
You can tell me all you want about this not being too bad, but this level of death is going to cause supply chain and social shocks that will lead to excess deaths and arbitrary stress among the survivors.
I’m not going to stop screaming about this
Ffs, 1.39 million gone and that was the number confirmed by the CPC’s bureau for statistics…Even in the optimistic case where the death toll remains flat, the country is going to lose over hundred and four million people by the end of century. Already entire villages and streets within the big cities are emptying out and the population loss is too large for immigration from anywhere to repair the damage.
You can tell me all you want about this not being too bad, but this level of death is going to cause supply chain and social shocks that will lead to excess deaths and arbitrary stress among the survivors.
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The "marxist" publishing grift honestly seems pretty lucrative given almost all these works are public domain so you can really just publish anything written by a name currently trending in the ideology store and make big $$$$. Just got a book called "Marxists in the Face of Fascism" that collects pre-WW2 writings on Fascism from various "left" figures and the selection of authors includes Kautsky, Togliatti, Bordiga, Stalin, and Trotsky lmao.. just trying to target all the demographics there.
It's basically a book for people who prefer to read names like Gramsci and Thälmann because those names are a fandom to them rather than read theory for self education I guess, because I don't see what you could actually take from such a disparate selection all presented as "equally valid". Next they should do a book including essays by both Charles Darwin, Kent Hovind, and Herbet Spencer. Who's right? Well, that's for the reader to decide!
The "marxist" publishing grift honestly seems pretty lucrative given almost all these works are public domain so you can really just publish anything written by a name currently trending in the ideology store and make big $$$$. Just got a book called "Marxists in the Face of Fascism" that collects pre-WW2 writings on Fascism from various "left" figures and the selection of authors includes Kautsky, Togliatti, Bordiga, Stalin, and Trotsky lmao.. just trying to target all the demographics there.
It's basically a book for people who prefer to read names like Gramsci and Thälmann because those names are a fandom to them rather than read theory for self education I guess, because I don't see what you could actually take from such a disparate selection all presented as "equally valid". Next they should do a book including essays by both Charles Darwin, Kent Hovind, and Herbet Spencer. Who's right? Well, that's for the reader to decide!
R: 85 / I: 5
https://futurism.com/neoscope/human-intelligence-declining-trends
No, it's not just you — people really are less smart than they used to be.
As the Financial Times reports, assessments show that people across age groups are having trouble concentrating and losing reasoning, problem-solving, and information-processing skills — all facets of the hard-to-pin-down metric that "intelligence" is supposed to measure.
These results, the FT reports, are gleaned from benchmarking tests that track cognitive skills in teens and young adults. From the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future study documenting concentration difficulties of 18-year-old Americans to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that measures the learning skills of 15-year-olds around the world, years of research suggest that young people are struggling with reduced attention spans and weakening critical thinking skills.
Though there has been a demonstrably steep decline in cognitive skills since the COVID-19 pandemic due to the educational disruption it presented, these trends have been in evidence since at least the mid-2010s, suggesting that whatever is going on runs much deeper and has lasted far longer than the pandemic.
Obviously, there's no single answer as to why people seem to be struggling with cognitive skills, but one key indicator is the sharp decline in reading and the world's changing relationship to the way we consume information and media. In 2022, for example, the National Endowment for the Arts found that just 37.6 percent of Americans said they'd read a novel or short story in the year prior — a share down from 41.5 percent in 2017 and 45.2 percent in 2012.
It would be easy enough to blame this decline on people reading less (and, presumably, scrolling online brainrot more). But according to 2023 results from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the same international consortium that puts out the PISA survey, 34 percent of adults in the United States scored at the lowest levels of numeracy, which essentially means that they lack the ability to work with numbers. A year prior, that share was just 29 percent.
Beyond changes in media consumption and the mediums in which we take it, it appears, as the FT notes, our relationship to information generally is shifting too. While there certainly are ways to use tech that don't cause harm to cognition, studies show that "screen time" as we know it today hurts verbal functioning in children and makes it harder for college-age adults to concentrate and retain information.
There isn't any reason to suggest that human intellect has been harmed, the publication counters — but in "both potential and execution," our intelligence is definitely on the downturn.
https://futurism.com/neoscope/human-intelligence-declining-trends
No, it's not just you — people really are less smart than they used to be.
As the Financial Times reports, assessments show that people across age groups are having trouble concentrating and losing reasoning, problem-solving, and information-processing skills — all facets of the hard-to-pin-down metric that "intelligence" is supposed to measure.
These results, the FT reports, are gleaned from benchmarking tests that track cognitive skills in teens and young adults. From the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future study documenting concentration difficulties of 18-year-old Americans to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that measures the learning skills of 15-year-olds around the world, years of research suggest that young people are struggling with reduced attention spans and weakening critical thinking skills.
Though there has been a demonstrably steep decline in cognitive skills since the COVID-19 pandemic due to the educational disruption it presented, these trends have been in evidence since at least the mid-2010s, suggesting that whatever is going on runs much deeper and has lasted far longer than the pandemic.
Obviously, there's no single answer as to why people seem to be struggling with cognitive skills, but one key indicator is the sharp decline in reading and the world's changing relationship to the way we consume information and media. In 2022, for example, the National Endowment for the Arts found that just 37.6 percent of Americans said they'd read a novel or short story in the year prior — a share down from 41.5 percent in 2017 and 45.2 percent in 2012.
It would be easy enough to blame this decline on people reading less (and, presumably, scrolling online brainrot more). But according to 2023 results from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the same international consortium that puts out the PISA survey, 34 percent of adults in the United States scored at the lowest levels of numeracy, which essentially means that they lack the ability to work with numbers. A year prior, that share was just 29 percent.
Beyond changes in media consumption and the mediums in which we take it, it appears, as the FT notes, our relationship to information generally is shifting too. While there certainly are ways to use tech that don't cause harm to cognition, studies show that "screen time" as we know it today hurts verbal functioning in children and makes it harder for college-age adults to concentrate and retain information.
There isn't any reason to suggest that human intellect has been harmed, the publication counters — but in "both potential and execution," our intelligence is definitely on the downturn.
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It's not incoherent and we can assume both of the 2 things. Also a lot of russians or russiana-speaking people come from other parts of Ukraine that is not Crimea or Donbass.
Despite this I see ukrainian people, some of them even comrades which hate deeply russians.
I don't know what to say, hating someone based on nationality is bad, we all know it. But how to deal.
Can you say "you are being ideological" to a person who is under constant bombing?
I don't know how to deal with russians and ukrainians.
In this war I am pro-ukraine, Ukraine is the defensor of an imperialistic attack of Russia motivated by economics interests. Nonetheless I know a lot of issues that has Ukraine, first of all the treatment of russian people inside of it.It's not incoherent and we can assume both of the 2 things. Also a lot of russians or russiana-speaking people come from other parts of Ukraine that is not Crimea or Donbass.
Despite this I see ukrainian people, some of them even comrades which hate deeply russians.
I don't know what to say, hating someone based on nationality is bad, we all know it. But how to deal.
Can you say "you are being ideological" to a person who is under constant bombing?
R: 3 / I: 1 (sage)
Apologize right the fuck now!
Are you happy now?
Jews are going through a fucking Holocaust because of the support for Palestinians. I hope leftypol is happy because you guys have been integral in this shit.Apologize right the fuck now!
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Tesla faces vandalism and protests amid backlash against Elon Musk
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/10/business/tesla-vandalism-protest-stock/index.html
Tesla vehicles vandalized in Massachusetts, Trump says he will label it "domestic terrorism"
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/tesla-vandalism-trump-domestic-terrorism-elon-musk/
Rage Against Elon Musk Turns Tesla Into a Target
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/business/elon-musk-tesla-violence-protests-vandalism.html
The World vs Tesla
Just a thread to gloat about any destruction done against Tesla.Tesla faces vandalism and protests amid backlash against Elon Musk
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/10/business/tesla-vandalism-protest-stock/index.html
Tesla vehicles vandalized in Massachusetts, Trump says he will label it "domestic terrorism"
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/tesla-vandalism-trump-domestic-terrorism-elon-musk/
Rage Against Elon Musk Turns Tesla Into a Target
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/business/elon-musk-tesla-violence-protests-vandalism.html
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ANARCHISM
So, how do I get into anarchism, what the essential reading for a newbie on anarchism? What the main flaws of anarchism? I don't know much about it, but I do sympathize with the idea of no state or some form or "higher" power over people.
R: 35 / I: 5
Heathrow Sabotaged By Nazis
Nazis from 4chan literally caused this through making books teaching how to do this. They have been spreading this specific book which calls for burning power grids, among other things.
R: 5 / I: 0
The lot have been driven to support the color revolutions, most being ex-color "revolutionaries" with the few that did not succeed in preventing them being in the minority, again. The few even having been persuaded to join socdem neoliberal parties that brand themselves as red in the demented view that they are still "communist" or "socialist" because they run welfare programs and give them the pensions.
A pensioner is like a home banker, a personal parasite that lives in the family and collects money but refuses to give any to the house's expenses. The ones that live on their own in an apartment, or the middle-lower class are completely susceptible to bourgeoisie charities such as - the church or generally the religious equivalent, neo-fascist & nationalist organizations, liberal organizations (socdems, conservatives, "anti-corruption" parties of the "people" ) etc. Some don't TRUELY believe in them, sure, that's how most parasites are at that, they just eat eat eat eat and never give. A pseudo communist org can do bourgeoisie charity and they will raise their fist, a neo-Nazi org will come next and they will extend their hand. They are unprincipled, too senile for politics, too disinterested and practically brainwashed by television or the mainstream "niche" of the internet - conspiracy video content. The content that attracts them, or at least from what I've seen is 10 hour audiobooks about spirituality and prosperity, spells for money, anti-"gender ideology" conservative liberal schizobabble and conservative liberal schizobabble in general. They are the ones who spam contents and online spaces with useless "prayer" comments. They also happen to be the majority of the world's religious vermin population.
The average pensioner generally holds conservative views and is a reactionary. A reactionary that does not question why things are the way they are but instead skeptical to everything outside the status quo. Cable TV news channels still operate for that reason alone, cable TV is targeted towards pensioners - the majority of the youths have already moved onto internet. Soap operas (Bollywood, Turkish, Korean etc.) have completely destroyed their brains, they have become necrotic and bedbound for them. Try to get a pensioner to turn off his repetitive and banal soap opera series to watch a documentary on a relevant political issue and you will quickly see how mad they become. The pensioners generally believe in a God, that made you for some deterministic purpose and by doing something that they dislike you are breaking the law which is somehow connected to the divine. Modern day pensioners are generally as intelligent as the feudal peasants of history.
The pensioner is a type of creature that is entirely sustained on bourgeoisie government welfare therefore more open to bourgeoisie government propaganda. If the pension is good then the pensioner is happy. If the pension is bad then the pensioner is mad. That is the moment when the pensioner is more like the petite-bourgeoisie class where he can become variable. But how do they respond? By protest voting generally. If the pensions are low, and the expenses are high, they will simply vote for another liberal vermin party. That's how far their brain function goes. I don't see any pensioner adventurists coming anytime soon (like the happy wheels wheelchair guy) self-immolating for a cause beyond their life that's nearing its end and I don't see any of them keen on learning or studying anything, as the saying goes - an old dog doesn't learn new tricks.
A lot of Pensioners as the Reactionary Enemy of the Working Class, Harbingers of Liberalism
Title says it all. They don't work, they worked, their current attitudes act as a burden on future generations going back to what they do in the nuclear family most are just there to sow paranoid and politically inept views. A lot of pensioners in the Eastern Bloc have turned to or outright brought pro-democracy, anti-communist attitudes with the minority still being nostalgic but inept in any Marxist pedagogy that went on. I dare anyone to find a Russophile pensioner and question them on class theory and wage labor, you will quickly come to find out they don't give a shit about theory as much as they care about feelings - its called nostalgia for a reason, all aesthetics, no analysis. The few that believe in class struggle are an almost insignificant percentage compared to the lot which so happens to outnumber the youth population. Most of the demonstrations of discontent with the status quo regardless if you approve of activism or not are mobilized by students. This is also apparent in other places like Turkey. Pensioners in the US hardly have much to do with civil rights orgs, majority being war criminal veterans and liberal former hippie activists (as far as those affected by politics go).The lot have been driven to support the color revolutions, most being ex-color "revolutionaries" with the few that did not succeed in preventing them being in the minority, again. The few even having been persuaded to join socdem neoliberal parties that brand themselves as red in the demented view that they are still "communist" or "socialist" because they run welfare programs and give them the pensions.
A pensioner is like a home banker, a personal parasite that lives in the family and collects money but refuses to give any to the house's expenses. The ones that live on their own in an apartment, or the middle-lower class are completely susceptible to bourgeoisie charities such as - the church or generally the religious equivalent, neo-fascist & nationalist organizations, liberal organizations (socdems, conservatives, "anti-corruption" parties of the "people" ) etc. Some don't TRUELY believe in them, sure, that's how most parasites are at that, they just eat eat eat eat and never give. A pseudo communist org can do bourgeoisie charity and they will raise their fist, a neo-Nazi org will come next and they will extend their hand. They are unprincipled, too senile for politics, too disinterested and practically brainwashed by television or the mainstream "niche" of the internet - conspiracy video content. The content that attracts them, or at least from what I've seen is 10 hour audiobooks about spirituality and prosperity, spells for money, anti-"gender ideology" conservative liberal schizobabble and conservative liberal schizobabble in general. They are the ones who spam contents and online spaces with useless "prayer" comments. They also happen to be the majority of the world's religious vermin population.
The average pensioner generally holds conservative views and is a reactionary. A reactionary that does not question why things are the way they are but instead skeptical to everything outside the status quo. Cable TV news channels still operate for that reason alone, cable TV is targeted towards pensioners - the majority of the youths have already moved onto internet. Soap operas (Bollywood, Turkish, Korean etc.) have completely destroyed their brains, they have become necrotic and bedbound for them. Try to get a pensioner to turn off his repetitive and banal soap opera series to watch a documentary on a relevant political issue and you will quickly see how mad they become. The pensioners generally believe in a God, that made you for some deterministic purpose and by doing something that they dislike you are breaking the law which is somehow connected to the divine. Modern day pensioners are generally as intelligent as the feudal peasants of history.
The pensioner is a type of creature that is entirely sustained on bourgeoisie government welfare therefore more open to bourgeoisie government propaganda. If the pension is good then the pensioner is happy. If the pension is bad then the pensioner is mad. That is the moment when the pensioner is more like the petite-bourgeoisie class where he can become variable. But how do they respond? By protest voting generally. If the pensions are low, and the expenses are high, they will simply vote for another liberal vermin party. That's how far their brain function goes. I don't see any pensioner adventurists coming anytime soon (like the happy wheels wheelchair guy) self-immolating for a cause beyond their life that's nearing its end and I don't see any of them keen on learning or studying anything, as the saying goes - an old dog doesn't learn new tricks.
R: 2 / I: 0
Two groups, one led by indigenous people and the other by drivers, marched separately for several hours to La Paz, the seat of the government, from the neighboring city of El Alto.
https://www.rfi.fr/es/m%C3%A1s-noticias/20250322-miles-protestan-en-bolivia-por-la-escasez-de-d%C3%B3lares-y-combustible
https://translated.turbopages.org/proxy_u/en-es.en.e2e4d0aa-67df2072-5a3ab4c0-74722d776562/https/www.rfi.fr/es/m%C3%A1s-noticias/20250322-miles-protestan-en-bolivia-por-la-escasez-de-d%C3%B3lares-y-combustible?
Boric signs Chile's pension reform into law
It provides for a mixed system with contributions from workers (10%), employers (8.5%), and a new state-backed social security component, in a move to boost pensions by 14% to 35% for 2.8 million senior citizens, thus addressing the low payouts from privately-managed Pension Fund Administrators (AFPs) currently giving about half the country's retirees about US$ 350 monthly when the minimum wage stands at US$ 500.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/21/boric-signs-chile-s-pension-reform-into-law
Trump sends second aircraft carrier to Middle East in ramp up against Houthis
The USS Carl Vinson and its accompanying destroyers will join the ship as escorts in the coming weeks. The Vinson has been conducting exercises in the East China Sea with the Japanese and South Koreans.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/trump-air-craft-carrier-red-sea-00243745
https://archive.ph/2hJzv
Israel strikes Tyre in the south as Lebanon warns of ‘new war’
In its statement, Hezbollah accused Israel of creating a pretext to renew its air attacks and reiterated its commitment to a ceasefire signed in November, which ended a year of war between the two sides.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/22/lebanon-warns-of-new-war-as-israel-launches-fresh-deadly-strikes
https://archive.ph/o9Cly
Cladding crisis scale unknown 8 years after Grenfell blaze
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government was criticised for still not knowing how many of up to 7,000 buildings remain unsafe, how much their remediation will cost to address nor how long it will take.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cladding-crisis-scale-unknown-8-years-after-grenfell-blaze
Ethiopia’s army claims to have killed 300 Fano fighters in renewed clashes
Ethiopian troops have killed more than 300 Fano armed group fighters, former allies against rebels in the Tigray region, in two days of renewed clashes in the northern Amhara region, according to the army.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/22/ethiopias-army-says-more-than-300-fano-fighters-killed-in-renewed-fighting
https://archive.ph/sGHeF
Protesters rally in Turkey as detained Istanbul mayor arrives in court
Following a night in which organisers said 300,000 protesters had rallied in Istanbul, there were similar numbers on Saturday. The boulevard outside the City Hall was a sea of red Turkish flags and angry banners reading: "Dictators are cowards!"
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250322-turkey-protests-intensify-as-detained-istanbul-mayor-faces-second-day-of-questioning
https://archive.ph/DKyHe
Sydney nurse baited by Israeli provocateur signals he will fight bogus charge
Two Sydney nurses from Bankstown Hospital, who were baited by an Israeli provocateur online and then subjected to a massive campaign of vilification, had their first court appearance last week over serious federal charges stemming from the brief interaction.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/22/rthh-m22.html
Victorian boy killed mother as part of 'anti-communist front' to restore Christian values
He planned to enact “Operation Continuity” to “restore Christian values” to Australia by recruiting people from overseas and within the country to form an army, the court was told.
https://thenightly.com.au/australia/victorian-boy-killed-mother-as-part-of-anti-communist-front-to-restore-christian-values-c-18093050
https://archive.ph/iphKT
Indonesia passes controversial law allowing greater military role in government
Indonesia’s law minister, Supratman Andi Agtas, has denied the law was a return to the military dominance that characterised the Suharto dictatorship, saying instead it was necessary due to domestic and geopolitical challenges.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/20/indonesia-passes-controversial-law-allowing-greater-military-role-in-government
Balochistan unrest: Strike erupts after violent clashes between BYC protesters and police
The strike followed BYC’s allegations of a police crackdown on a peaceful protest near Balochistan University on Sariab Road in Quetta on Friday, held against alleged enforced disappearances in the province. The government denied the claim, asserting that protesters had turned violent.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/balochistan-unrest-strike-erupts-after-violent-clashes-between-byc-protesters-and-police-13873641.html
South Korea opposition brings motion to impeach acting president
The acting president has angered opposition parties, which have a commanding majority in parliament, by repeatedly vetoing bills and holding off appointing a Constitutional Court justice approved by the assembly who is viewed as liberal-leaning.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-opposition-bring-motion-impeach-acting-president-choi-notice-says-2025-03-21/
News 3/22/25
Thousands protest in Bolivia over shortage of dollars and fuelTwo groups, one led by indigenous people and the other by drivers, marched separately for several hours to La Paz, the seat of the government, from the neighboring city of El Alto.
https://www.rfi.fr/es/m%C3%A1s-noticias/20250322-miles-protestan-en-bolivia-por-la-escasez-de-d%C3%B3lares-y-combustible
https://translated.turbopages.org/proxy_u/en-es.en.e2e4d0aa-67df2072-5a3ab4c0-74722d776562/https/www.rfi.fr/es/m%C3%A1s-noticias/20250322-miles-protestan-en-bolivia-por-la-escasez-de-d%C3%B3lares-y-combustible?
Boric signs Chile's pension reform into law
It provides for a mixed system with contributions from workers (10%), employers (8.5%), and a new state-backed social security component, in a move to boost pensions by 14% to 35% for 2.8 million senior citizens, thus addressing the low payouts from privately-managed Pension Fund Administrators (AFPs) currently giving about half the country's retirees about US$ 350 monthly when the minimum wage stands at US$ 500.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/21/boric-signs-chile-s-pension-reform-into-law
Trump sends second aircraft carrier to Middle East in ramp up against Houthis
The USS Carl Vinson and its accompanying destroyers will join the ship as escorts in the coming weeks. The Vinson has been conducting exercises in the East China Sea with the Japanese and South Koreans.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/trump-air-craft-carrier-red-sea-00243745
https://archive.ph/2hJzv
Israel strikes Tyre in the south as Lebanon warns of ‘new war’
In its statement, Hezbollah accused Israel of creating a pretext to renew its air attacks and reiterated its commitment to a ceasefire signed in November, which ended a year of war between the two sides.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/22/lebanon-warns-of-new-war-as-israel-launches-fresh-deadly-strikes
https://archive.ph/o9Cly
Cladding crisis scale unknown 8 years after Grenfell blaze
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government was criticised for still not knowing how many of up to 7,000 buildings remain unsafe, how much their remediation will cost to address nor how long it will take.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cladding-crisis-scale-unknown-8-years-after-grenfell-blaze
Ethiopia’s army claims to have killed 300 Fano fighters in renewed clashes
Ethiopian troops have killed more than 300 Fano armed group fighters, former allies against rebels in the Tigray region, in two days of renewed clashes in the northern Amhara region, according to the army.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/22/ethiopias-army-says-more-than-300-fano-fighters-killed-in-renewed-fighting
https://archive.ph/sGHeF
Protesters rally in Turkey as detained Istanbul mayor arrives in court
Following a night in which organisers said 300,000 protesters had rallied in Istanbul, there were similar numbers on Saturday. The boulevard outside the City Hall was a sea of red Turkish flags and angry banners reading: "Dictators are cowards!"
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250322-turkey-protests-intensify-as-detained-istanbul-mayor-faces-second-day-of-questioning
https://archive.ph/DKyHe
Sydney nurse baited by Israeli provocateur signals he will fight bogus charge
Two Sydney nurses from Bankstown Hospital, who were baited by an Israeli provocateur online and then subjected to a massive campaign of vilification, had their first court appearance last week over serious federal charges stemming from the brief interaction.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/22/rthh-m22.html
Victorian boy killed mother as part of 'anti-communist front' to restore Christian values
He planned to enact “Operation Continuity” to “restore Christian values” to Australia by recruiting people from overseas and within the country to form an army, the court was told.
https://thenightly.com.au/australia/victorian-boy-killed-mother-as-part-of-anti-communist-front-to-restore-christian-values-c-18093050
https://archive.ph/iphKT
Indonesia passes controversial law allowing greater military role in government
Indonesia’s law minister, Supratman Andi Agtas, has denied the law was a return to the military dominance that characterised the Suharto dictatorship, saying instead it was necessary due to domestic and geopolitical challenges.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/20/indonesia-passes-controversial-law-allowing-greater-military-role-in-government
Balochistan unrest: Strike erupts after violent clashes between BYC protesters and police
The strike followed BYC’s allegations of a police crackdown on a peaceful protest near Balochistan University on Sariab Road in Quetta on Friday, held against alleged enforced disappearances in the province. The government denied the claim, asserting that protesters had turned violent.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/balochistan-unrest-strike-erupts-after-violent-clashes-between-byc-protesters-and-police-13873641.html
South Korea opposition brings motion to impeach acting president
The acting president has angered opposition parties, which have a commanding majority in parliament, by repeatedly vetoing bills and holding off appointing a Constitutional Court justice approved by the assembly who is viewed as liberal-leaning.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-opposition-bring-motion-impeach-acting-president-choi-notice-says-2025-03-21/
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Like this isn't anywhere near true for Republicans.
Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan and Bush jr all got more votes in their reelection bids then they did initially.
Even Trump came back and ultimately massively improved on his numbers from 2016.
Why does the power of governance seemingly HARM the ability of most democrats to win elections??
>tfw Bill Clinton is the only post war Democrat to get re-elected with a higher vote total
Why do Americans hate democratic governance so much??Like this isn't anywhere near true for Republicans.
Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan and Bush jr all got more votes in their reelection bids then they did initially.
Even Trump came back and ultimately massively improved on his numbers from 2016.
Why does the power of governance seemingly HARM the ability of most democrats to win elections??
R: 72 / I: 21
what does an anticapitalist art look like?
It's been a while since I read Capitalist Realism (like it or no), but I seem to remember a kind of call to arms for a new kind of art beyond the mise en abyme irony or total despair that capitalism's metabolization of anticapitalist art into the hegemonic mainstream seems to necessarily engender. What does art that actually imagines an alternative future look like? I think Ursula Le Guin may have charted a kind of course here (I've only read one or two of her books), but I'm curious what others think. What art do you think is legitimately anticapitalist? What do you think are the main qualities of anticapitalist art?
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The battle of Khartoum has finished.
The battle of Khartoum has finished.
R: 6 / I: 0
These days, it seems to have taken a “backseat” approach to conflict where it favours peace talks and ceasefires. I’ll admit, I thought this was idiotic, but I can understand this change. However, many of the conflicts going on in Africa today are self defeating.
The Tigray war ended, the Sudan war saw the RSF rapidly decline spontaneously, and the m23 group has lost all its momentum and is growing closer towards being forced to meet the AU’s original demands. To me, it seems like the union’s leaders are dismissive of war in the continent today largely because they are aware that they really don’t have to involve themselves in these conflicts for the continent to see peace.
Obviously to the reader here, you’ll probably want to know what the Union is doing in place of getting involved these days. From what I’ve read, the union is taking a stronger stance on promoting education throughout the continent and women’s empowerment more.
Rethinking the African Union’s inactivity
Years ago, there was a time when the African union would directly involve itself in military affairs in the continent. Libya and Somalia are famous examples being you can still find footage of African union soldiers in service to this day.These days, it seems to have taken a “backseat” approach to conflict where it favours peace talks and ceasefires. I’ll admit, I thought this was idiotic, but I can understand this change. However, many of the conflicts going on in Africa today are self defeating.
The Tigray war ended, the Sudan war saw the RSF rapidly decline spontaneously, and the m23 group has lost all its momentum and is growing closer towards being forced to meet the AU’s original demands. To me, it seems like the union’s leaders are dismissive of war in the continent today largely because they are aware that they really don’t have to involve themselves in these conflicts for the continent to see peace.
Obviously to the reader here, you’ll probably want to know what the Union is doing in place of getting involved these days. From what I’ve read, the union is taking a stronger stance on promoting education throughout the continent and women’s empowerment more.
R: 87 / I: 9 (sage)
20 year old white men are more right wing than other age demographic of their group
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-david-shor.html
20 year old white men are more right than other age demographic of their age
Are we going to keep ignoring this issue?20 year old white men are more right wing than other age demographic of their group
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-david-shor.html
R: 30 / I: 14
I don’t even know how one could tackle such a massive goal. It has to be done and it is being done to some extent with the Sahel and ECOWAS efforts, but it isn’t enough.
Conquering the sahara
The ongoing war on terror fought across the Sahel is complex, but there’s a bigger issue at hand. The entirety of the Sahara is undefended. Basically any terrorist grouped can walk through with little resistance given how barren and deserted it is. One could say that the Maghreb serves as a barrier (it barely does), but that doesn’t reflect well given that most North Africans live at the border of the continent than in the denser proper. The only means of stabilizing the Sahel and Africa is through the simultaneous conquering and fortification of the entirety of the Saharan wasteland.I don’t even know how one could tackle such a massive goal. It has to be done and it is being done to some extent with the Sahel and ECOWAS efforts, but it isn’t enough.
R: 32 / I: 11
I got this idea by randomly stumbling upon this genre of gameplay footage in the background while popular characters are made to say pro-socialist arguments as a response to a typical view on socialism. It‘s kind of pathetic that this is the way people of today need to make others understand what socialism is, but the idea is actually good. It‘s perfect for young people with low attention spans looking for funny memes. It‘s also simple to make.
/propaganda/
In this thread we will discuss methods and means of informing and persuading people to be socialist on the internet.I got this idea by randomly stumbling upon this genre of gameplay footage in the background while popular characters are made to say pro-socialist arguments as a response to a typical view on socialism. It‘s kind of pathetic that this is the way people of today need to make others understand what socialism is, but the idea is actually good. It‘s perfect for young people with low attention spans looking for funny memes. It‘s also simple to make.
R: 605 / I: 222 (full)
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The development comes just days after RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo released a video urging his fighters not to give up the palace. Civilians have generally welcomed the army as liberators despite some reports of army-aligned militias carrying out human rights abuses following RSF withdrawals.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/21/sudans-army-retakes-presidential-palace-in-khartoum-strikes-blow-to-rsf
https://archive.ph/ufwEL
South Africa: Removal of Illegal Connections Sparks Protests in Khayelitsha
Community leader Hlubi Mayekiso said the shack dwellers want Eskom to return their electrical wires or install formal electricity in their shacks. Most of the shack dwellers had moved onto the land during the Covid lockdown in 2020.
https://allafrica.com/stories/202503200384.html
https://archive.ph/htHiz
Ethiopia introduces new tax to fill gap after USAID funding pause
The new tax will apply to people employed in both the private and public sectors. A mandatory contribution will also be asked of companies across sectors such as banking and hospitality. The new bill has been forwarded to a parliamentary committee for deliberation on the percentages to be contributed.
https://apnews.com/article/ethiopia-usaid-new-tax-0ca2100df356ed7ca4f3ffe4f6a82442
Israel threatens annexation after expanding ground offensive in Gaza
“The more Hamas persists in its refusal to release the hostages, the more territory it will lose, which will be annexed to Israel,” Katz was quoted by The Jerusalem Post newspaper as saying. “If the hostages are not released, Israel will continue to take more and more territory in the Strip for permanent control.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/21/israeli-forces-conduct-ground-operations-air-strikes-across-gaza-strip
https://archive.ph/SoSd9
First migrant worker dies building a World Cup stadium in Saudi Arabia
Muhammad Arshad, from Pakistan, fell to his death from an upper level during the construction of the Aramco Stadium in the eastern city of Al Khobar on 12 March, according to sources with knowledge of the incident.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/21/muhammad-arshad-pakistan-first-migrant-worker-dies-khobar-building-world-cup-2034-stadium-saudi-arabia
Turkey’s opposition urges peaceful protests over Istanbul mayor’s arrest despite bans
Thousands of people marched to Istanbul’s city hall to rally against the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor and top rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a third straight day on Friday, even as the Turkish leader issued a stern warning, declaring that street protests would not be tolerated.
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-mayor-arrested-opposition-call-protests-25c3394e17cddf97ca08ad4bd9db2742
Cyprus accused by the UN of push backs against migrant boats
The clash came a few days after Cypriot authorities recovered two survivors and seven bodies in international waters off Cyprus after their boat sank in rough seas.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cyprus-accused-un-push-backs-against-migrant-boats
Ukraine dismayed by Trump’s proposal to take control of its nuclear plants
“[Trump] said that the United States could be very helpful in running those plants with its electricity and utility expertise. American ownership of those plants would be the best protection for that infrastructure and support for Ukrainian energy infrastructure,” read the statement.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-03-21/ukraine-dismayed-by-trumps-proposal-to-take-control-of-its-nuclear-plants.html
Heathrow and National Grid face No. 10 grilling as substation fire closes Britain's biggest airport
HEATHROW and National Grid bosses face serious questions over how a single fire led to the closure of the airport and left tens of thousands of homes without power, Downing Street said today.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/heathrow-and-national-grid-face-no-10-grilling-substation-fire-closes-britains
Birmingham refuse workers on indefinite strike against pay cuts
A vast amount of waste has built up throughout the city, creating a public health hazard, but the council is digging its heels in. Workers are up against an organised strikebreaking operation and have faced regular intimidation on the picket lines.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/21/vygu-m21.html
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Sudan’s army retakes presidential palace in Khartoum, strikes blow to RSFThe development comes just days after RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo released a video urging his fighters not to give up the palace. Civilians have generally welcomed the army as liberators despite some reports of army-aligned militias carrying out human rights abuses following RSF withdrawals.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/21/sudans-army-retakes-presidential-palace-in-khartoum-strikes-blow-to-rsf
https://archive.ph/ufwEL
South Africa: Removal of Illegal Connections Sparks Protests in Khayelitsha
Community leader Hlubi Mayekiso said the shack dwellers want Eskom to return their electrical wires or install formal electricity in their shacks. Most of the shack dwellers had moved onto the land during the Covid lockdown in 2020.
https://allafrica.com/stories/202503200384.html
https://archive.ph/htHiz
Ethiopia introduces new tax to fill gap after USAID funding pause
The new tax will apply to people employed in both the private and public sectors. A mandatory contribution will also be asked of companies across sectors such as banking and hospitality. The new bill has been forwarded to a parliamentary committee for deliberation on the percentages to be contributed.
https://apnews.com/article/ethiopia-usaid-new-tax-0ca2100df356ed7ca4f3ffe4f6a82442
Israel threatens annexation after expanding ground offensive in Gaza
“The more Hamas persists in its refusal to release the hostages, the more territory it will lose, which will be annexed to Israel,” Katz was quoted by The Jerusalem Post newspaper as saying. “If the hostages are not released, Israel will continue to take more and more territory in the Strip for permanent control.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/21/israeli-forces-conduct-ground-operations-air-strikes-across-gaza-strip
https://archive.ph/SoSd9
First migrant worker dies building a World Cup stadium in Saudi Arabia
Muhammad Arshad, from Pakistan, fell to his death from an upper level during the construction of the Aramco Stadium in the eastern city of Al Khobar on 12 March, according to sources with knowledge of the incident.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/21/muhammad-arshad-pakistan-first-migrant-worker-dies-khobar-building-world-cup-2034-stadium-saudi-arabia
Turkey’s opposition urges peaceful protests over Istanbul mayor’s arrest despite bans
Thousands of people marched to Istanbul’s city hall to rally against the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor and top rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a third straight day on Friday, even as the Turkish leader issued a stern warning, declaring that street protests would not be tolerated.
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-mayor-arrested-opposition-call-protests-25c3394e17cddf97ca08ad4bd9db2742
Cyprus accused by the UN of push backs against migrant boats
The clash came a few days after Cypriot authorities recovered two survivors and seven bodies in international waters off Cyprus after their boat sank in rough seas.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cyprus-accused-un-push-backs-against-migrant-boats
Ukraine dismayed by Trump’s proposal to take control of its nuclear plants
“[Trump] said that the United States could be very helpful in running those plants with its electricity and utility expertise. American ownership of those plants would be the best protection for that infrastructure and support for Ukrainian energy infrastructure,” read the statement.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-03-21/ukraine-dismayed-by-trumps-proposal-to-take-control-of-its-nuclear-plants.html
Heathrow and National Grid face No. 10 grilling as substation fire closes Britain's biggest airport
HEATHROW and National Grid bosses face serious questions over how a single fire led to the closure of the airport and left tens of thousands of homes without power, Downing Street said today.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/heathrow-and-national-grid-face-no-10-grilling-substation-fire-closes-britains
Birmingham refuse workers on indefinite strike against pay cuts
A vast amount of waste has built up throughout the city, creating a public health hazard, but the council is digging its heels in. Workers are up against an organised strikebreaking operation and have faced regular intimidation on the picket lines.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/21/vygu-m21.html
R: 4 / I: 0
what is our opinion on Thomas Sankara and african/black leftism in general? It's very obvious that most African Revolunaires are Anti-Colonist but I've also seen most black socialists have very nationalistic opinions too. Would you call yourself an black socialist?
what is our opinion on Thomas Sankara and african/black leftism in general? It's very obvious that most African Revolunaires are Anti-Colonist but I've also seen most black socialists have very nationalistic opinions too. Would you call yourself an black socialist?
R: 46 / I: 4
Just look at what happened with all the purer industrial tech we made. Promises of a less stressful future and people have to work harder than ever just to even keep the machines functional. That’s not efficient or less stressful.
Please don’t fail. Please don’t fail.
I *really* hope this doesn’t fail
The first thing I’m thinking of when I see shit like this is maintenance costs. The second thing I’m thinking of are supply chain costs. This tech is highly promising, but I cannot shake off the feeling that ordinary people are going to (again) be forced to work even harder in maintenance, supply chains, and in education to develop these machines and to ensure that they’re usable all over again.Just look at what happened with all the purer industrial tech we made. Promises of a less stressful future and people have to work harder than ever just to even keep the machines functional. That’s not efficient or less stressful.
Please don’t fail. Please don’t fail.
R: 618 / I: 93 (full)
The disease is based around a warped understanding of the material conditions of America in particular and the west in general. The main symptom of this disease is complete paralysis of all revolutionary movements. The disease does not have a name yet, perhaps it can be called "majoritarianism" or "popular frontism." The disease is caused by the fact that the western "left" reads theory written in countries such as China and Russia that had peasant majorities and tries to apply this theory, without changes, to their own radically different material conditions. The issue is that the majority of the people in these nations were hyper-exploited and so had a material basis to support the revolution. In America, and the west in general, this is objectively not the case. The majority of this country is either middle class or upper class, the two classes which not only have a material basis to NOT support the revolution, but also form the base of all fascist movements.
To quote from Marx, who you dorks have apparently never read:
>The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history. If by chance, they are revolutionary, they are only so in view of their impending transfer into the proletariat; they thus defend not their present, but their future interests, they desert their own standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat.
In both Italy and Nazi Germany, the fascist revolutions came from organizing this inherently reactionary middle class against the proletariat and proletarian movements.
To quote from Arno J Mayer's "Why Did the Heavens Not Darken", the authoritative history of the rise of Fascism and the Holocaust:
>Hitler's popular support derived from yet another group whose roots and outlook were fixed in the past. It consisted, above all, of small but independent peasants, artisans, and shopkeepers. This composite lower middle class, which also included salaried white collar workers, felt intensely threatened by both organized capitalism and organized Marxism. Large sectors of Germany's Mittestand were nostalgic for other times, to which they hoped to return. The petty bourgeoisie, always anxious about their status, and according to Bloch filled with an "amorphous pent-up fury," became the reserve army of resistance to change. While this fury was latent in periods of normalcy, it threatened to erupt in times of crisis, fueled by a burning passion for "duty, Bildung, status, … home, soil, and Volk.
However, apparently ignorant of this fact (willfully or otherwise), the western "left" proceeds under the idea that they will or should have a majority of the people behind them. They will take no action until they reach this magical threshold, this number which will finally compel them to get off their lazy asses and do literally anything. This is an error, by numbers at least 70% of all Americans will never support a revolution. The western "left", if anything in the west can indeed be called such, will therefore be left waiting forever. We must change, and form a new theory which is not based off the material conditions of Russia and China from a century ago. We need a new theory, which matches the material conditions of the west.
We must proceed based off four fundamental, inarguable truths.
First, there will not be popular support in the imperialist west, which exists off the super profits gathered from global hyper-exploitation and therefore is able to provide a decent standard of living for the majority of it's people. These people FULLY UNDERSTAND that their standard of living comes at the expense of every other human being living on earth. If you do not believe me, ask them where their Nikes and Funko Pops come from. They will tell you about the sweatshops even as they order more.
Second, Socialism has only ever been built in times of crisis. In Russia, China and Vietnam, the crisis was caused by war and foreign invasion which shattered the state and gave the masses a common enemy to rally around. This is impossible in America, and in the west in general, as long as NATO still exists. There will be no foreign crisis imported onto our shores. The oceans protect and insulate America from any possible invasion and the nation's size and population give it enough strength that it's immediate neighbors can never threaten it. Canada is mostly uninhabitable, and Mexico has been brutally kept down by American armed force. No foreign army will ever come to save us.
Third, capitalism is inherently genocidal in nature. It exists by killing. If it does not kill by direct means, it will inevitably cause human extinction by means of climate change. It cannot do anything else, the very logic of the system means that it must seek unfettered growth at all costs. The longer it exists, the more it kills. It cannot be reformed, it cannot be negotiated with. America is a particularly odious form of this system, with settler-colonialism set ontop of the foundation of neo-liberal capitalism. Even if it could be reformed, it shouldn't be. Therefore, America MUST be destroyed.
Fourth, in the absence of a crisis to destroy capitalism, and since it's citadel is well protected by oceans, we must become the crisis that destroys this system. It is contingent on us to destroy this system. No one will come to save us. Everything we do must be weighed and measured against this goal. It is a waste of time, and in fact inherently genocidal to do anything else besides working towards the physical destruction of American capitalism.
It's time to separate the wheat from the chaff. Do any of you actually care about revolution, about the glorious cause of the proletariat, or are you all lifestylists and strasserites, content at best to more equitably distribute the spoils of global imperialism?
Popular Paralysis
A disease has infected the western "left", such as it is.The disease is based around a warped understanding of the material conditions of America in particular and the west in general. The main symptom of this disease is complete paralysis of all revolutionary movements. The disease does not have a name yet, perhaps it can be called "majoritarianism" or "popular frontism." The disease is caused by the fact that the western "left" reads theory written in countries such as China and Russia that had peasant majorities and tries to apply this theory, without changes, to their own radically different material conditions. The issue is that the majority of the people in these nations were hyper-exploited and so had a material basis to support the revolution. In America, and the west in general, this is objectively not the case. The majority of this country is either middle class or upper class, the two classes which not only have a material basis to NOT support the revolution, but also form the base of all fascist movements.
To quote from Marx, who you dorks have apparently never read:
>The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history. If by chance, they are revolutionary, they are only so in view of their impending transfer into the proletariat; they thus defend not their present, but their future interests, they desert their own standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat.
In both Italy and Nazi Germany, the fascist revolutions came from organizing this inherently reactionary middle class against the proletariat and proletarian movements.
To quote from Arno J Mayer's "Why Did the Heavens Not Darken", the authoritative history of the rise of Fascism and the Holocaust:
>Hitler's popular support derived from yet another group whose roots and outlook were fixed in the past. It consisted, above all, of small but independent peasants, artisans, and shopkeepers. This composite lower middle class, which also included salaried white collar workers, felt intensely threatened by both organized capitalism and organized Marxism. Large sectors of Germany's Mittestand were nostalgic for other times, to which they hoped to return. The petty bourgeoisie, always anxious about their status, and according to Bloch filled with an "amorphous pent-up fury," became the reserve army of resistance to change. While this fury was latent in periods of normalcy, it threatened to erupt in times of crisis, fueled by a burning passion for "duty, Bildung, status, … home, soil, and Volk.
However, apparently ignorant of this fact (willfully or otherwise), the western "left" proceeds under the idea that they will or should have a majority of the people behind them. They will take no action until they reach this magical threshold, this number which will finally compel them to get off their lazy asses and do literally anything. This is an error, by numbers at least 70% of all Americans will never support a revolution. The western "left", if anything in the west can indeed be called such, will therefore be left waiting forever. We must change, and form a new theory which is not based off the material conditions of Russia and China from a century ago. We need a new theory, which matches the material conditions of the west.
We must proceed based off four fundamental, inarguable truths.
First, there will not be popular support in the imperialist west, which exists off the super profits gathered from global hyper-exploitation and therefore is able to provide a decent standard of living for the majority of it's people. These people FULLY UNDERSTAND that their standard of living comes at the expense of every other human being living on earth. If you do not believe me, ask them where their Nikes and Funko Pops come from. They will tell you about the sweatshops even as they order more.
Second, Socialism has only ever been built in times of crisis. In Russia, China and Vietnam, the crisis was caused by war and foreign invasion which shattered the state and gave the masses a common enemy to rally around. This is impossible in America, and in the west in general, as long as NATO still exists. There will be no foreign crisis imported onto our shores. The oceans protect and insulate America from any possible invasion and the nation's size and population give it enough strength that it's immediate neighbors can never threaten it. Canada is mostly uninhabitable, and Mexico has been brutally kept down by American armed force. No foreign army will ever come to save us.
Third, capitalism is inherently genocidal in nature. It exists by killing. If it does not kill by direct means, it will inevitably cause human extinction by means of climate change. It cannot do anything else, the very logic of the system means that it must seek unfettered growth at all costs. The longer it exists, the more it kills. It cannot be reformed, it cannot be negotiated with. America is a particularly odious form of this system, with settler-colonialism set ontop of the foundation of neo-liberal capitalism. Even if it could be reformed, it shouldn't be. Therefore, America MUST be destroyed.
Fourth, in the absence of a crisis to destroy capitalism, and since it's citadel is well protected by oceans, we must become the crisis that destroys this system. It is contingent on us to destroy this system. No one will come to save us. Everything we do must be weighed and measured against this goal. It is a waste of time, and in fact inherently genocidal to do anything else besides working towards the physical destruction of American capitalism.
It's time to separate the wheat from the chaff. Do any of you actually care about revolution, about the glorious cause of the proletariat, or are you all lifestylists and strasserites, content at best to more equitably distribute the spoils of global imperialism?
R: 43 / I: 11
>instead agri-porkoids use genetic modification to make seeds into intellectual property and artificially scarce so that they are non-viable after 1 season of planting
>we invent highly effective fertilizers that tremendously increase crop yields
>agri-porkoids, rather than dumping precisely the amount they need to make their crops grow, instead dump way more than they need, because measuring shit is for pussy ass science faggots, this causes massive runoff into the ocean that causes algae bloom and kills millions of fish, far more calories in fish than crops that could have been grown in another season with the excess fertilizer that was needlessly dumped on the crops
>agri-porkoids get to call themselves by the humble name "farmer" while the actual slaves and indentured servants who pick, wash, and package the crops have their worker visas stolen by these "farmers" so they can be blackmailed into sleeping in a shed for months on end and doing the most miserable labor in the sun which somehow still hasn't been automated by machinery despite the level of technology we have
>rather than genetically engineering crops to increase their nutritional content with respect to vitamins and minerals we genetically engineer crops to mazimize calories and sugar, even though there is an obesity epidemic
>the most fertile regions on earth are either in the Divided $nakkkes of Der Burgerreich or are in Ukraine, covered in mines and littered with the corpses of post-soviet slavic zoomers needlessly killing each other so that euroids can buy liquid natural gas for triple the price it was before the war.
what are some other depressing facts about the ABSOLUTE STATE of global agriculture?
THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF GLOBAL AGRICULTURE
>we have the ability to genetically modify food and render it permanently non-scarce>instead agri-porkoids use genetic modification to make seeds into intellectual property and artificially scarce so that they are non-viable after 1 season of planting
>we invent highly effective fertilizers that tremendously increase crop yields
>agri-porkoids, rather than dumping precisely the amount they need to make their crops grow, instead dump way more than they need, because measuring shit is for pussy ass science faggots, this causes massive runoff into the ocean that causes algae bloom and kills millions of fish, far more calories in fish than crops that could have been grown in another season with the excess fertilizer that was needlessly dumped on the crops
>agri-porkoids get to call themselves by the humble name "farmer" while the actual slaves and indentured servants who pick, wash, and package the crops have their worker visas stolen by these "farmers" so they can be blackmailed into sleeping in a shed for months on end and doing the most miserable labor in the sun which somehow still hasn't been automated by machinery despite the level of technology we have
>rather than genetically engineering crops to increase their nutritional content with respect to vitamins and minerals we genetically engineer crops to mazimize calories and sugar, even though there is an obesity epidemic
>the most fertile regions on earth are either in the Divided $nakkkes of Der Burgerreich or are in Ukraine, covered in mines and littered with the corpses of post-soviet slavic zoomers needlessly killing each other so that euroids can buy liquid natural gas for triple the price it was before the war.
what are some other depressing facts about the ABSOLUTE STATE of global agriculture?
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
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📺 • Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
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Article content
>“For example, many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live,” it adds.
>Another major theme of the report is that Canadians are set to become increasingly disillusioned with their government, which authors mostly chalk up to “misinformation,” “conspiracy theories” and “paranoia.”
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/secret-rcmp-report-warns-canadians-may-revolt-once-they-realize-how-broke-they-are
Secret RCMP report warns Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are:
>“The coming period of recession will … accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations,” reads the report, entitled Whole-of-Government Five-Year Trends for Canada.Article content
>“For example, many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live,” it adds.
>Another major theme of the report is that Canadians are set to become increasingly disillusioned with their government, which authors mostly chalk up to “misinformation,” “conspiracy theories” and “paranoia.”
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/secret-rcmp-report-warns-canadians-may-revolt-once-they-realize-how-broke-they-are
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Idpol is an important topic for Marxism
Even though it is commonly shown as a stop or a distraction, truth is idpol is an important topic for Marxism nowadays because of its natural implications. Idpol even seen as an antiworker movemeent due to its focusing away from a clear proletarian - bourgeois dialectic does pose a new hurdle for Marxism to adapt to if it wants to become an ideology for the 21st century. Marxism never had to adapt to different ethnic societies living inside a single country due to its European cradle that forbade it from growing in light of different identities in a same place and the natural social, cultural and economical dynamics that rise thereof. Unless Marxism correctly tackles and offers a solution for identities and the dialectics that rise thereof it will never correctly rise again as the right alternative to the corporationist economic system that reigns most of the world this day (which is nothing but an evolution from old capitalism seen in Marx's and Lenin's day).
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Have any of you guys used rednote since it got popularized a month ago? What’s the impression you are getting from talking to Chinese users? I must say I am disappointed. The people have nothing insightful to say. They are like liberals with merely a different culture. They don‘t even sound like they know Marxism. The entirety or their “socialism” is to blindly rely on the government handling things. Their stance on nationalism also sounds contriver and convoluted. They are also in favor of depoliticization which to me just sounds like a cheap attempt at avoiding social issues while framing it as a virtue.
Have any of you guys used rednote since it got popularized a month ago? What’s the impression you are getting from talking to Chinese users? I must say I am disappointed. The people have nothing insightful to say. They are like liberals with merely a different culture. They don‘t even sound like they know Marxism. The entirety or their “socialism” is to blindly rely on the government handling things. Their stance on nationalism also sounds contriver and convoluted. They are also in favor of depoliticization which to me just sounds like a cheap attempt at avoiding social issues while framing it as a virtue.
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Seeing the failures of Marxist Leninism I believe that the left communists have the best analysis of the situation from a Marxist perspective, that is of the implementation of State Capitalism, which Lenin admits to establishing in the USSR in The Tax in Kind however never progressing to socialism. This is why Russia today is capitalist as there is never a return to the old system, i.e capitalism going back to feudalism. All other subsequent Marxist Leninist states have followed this path.
Is there anything within Marxist Leninism to suggest this is false beyond just making excuses for whatever the party does? I see a lot of mental gymnastics with China defending the obvious fact that it is just state run capitalism.
Seeing the failures of Marxist Leninism I believe that the left communists have the best analysis of the situation from a Marxist perspective, that is of the implementation of State Capitalism, which Lenin admits to establishing in the USSR in The Tax in Kind however never progressing to socialism. This is why Russia today is capitalist as there is never a return to the old system, i.e capitalism going back to feudalism. All other subsequent Marxist Leninist states have followed this path.
Is there anything within Marxist Leninism to suggest this is false beyond just making excuses for whatever the party does? I see a lot of mental gymnastics with China defending the obvious fact that it is just state run capitalism.
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The remains were found on the grounds of the National Army’s Logistics School on Bogota’s eastern border. The JEP ordered excavations at the logistics school in 2024 after a former intelligence official, Jose Leonairo Dorado, confirmed that two now-defunct military intelligence agencies were buried at the army compound.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-war-crimes-tribunal-finds-human-remains-on-bogota-army-base/
US rejects Mexico’s request for water as Trump opens new battle front
The 1944 treaty, which governs water allocation from the Rio Grande and Colorado rivers, has come under growing strain in recent years due to the pressures of climate change and the burgeoning populations and agriculture in parched areas.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/tijuana-mexico-water-trump
Peru declares state of emergency as violent crimewave engulfs Lima
The clampdown follows weeks of escalating violence blamed on criminal groups that often target businesses, including transport companies, even as authorities have touted recent gang arrests. Paul Flores, a well-known cumbia singer, died on Sunday as assailants attacked the bus he was travelling on in an apparent attempt to extort the operator.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/18/peru-declares-state-of-emergency-as-violent-crimewave-engulfs-lima
https://archive.ph/jHbZx
Argentina IMF loan plan gets Congress' approval, paving way for deal
Argentina's lower house on Wednesday gave its stamp of approval for the government to kick off talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a key hurdle for the program the country needs to get its finances in order.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-imf-deal-faces-key-vote-congress-2025-03-19/
Arab League demands members boycott Israel economically, militarily amid Gaza attacks
The League said it will actively call on member states to take steps to gradually reduce military cooperation with Israel, and encouraged an economic boycott, saying continued trade and military dealings would constitute complicity in Israel’s onslaught of Gaza.
https://www.newarab.com/news/arab-league-urges-economic-boycott-israel-amid-gaza-attacks
Houthis claim missile launch at Israel amid renewed fighting in Gaza
The Israeli military said it intercepted the missile before it entered the country’s territory early on Thursday. Sirens sounded in several areas in Israel after the projectile was fired, the military said in a post on Telegram.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/20/houthis-claim-missile-launch-at-israel-amid-renewed-fighting-in-gaza
https://archive.ph/rDJLU
Sudan army within 500m of Republican Palace, battles in North Darfur and North Kordofan
Fierce battles continue across Sudan as the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) pushes deeper into Khartoum, closing in on the Republican Palace amid clashes in North Darfur and North Kordofan. Civilians remain caught in the violence, with dozens killed and detained over the past week.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-army-within-500-meters-of-republican-palace-battles-in-north-darfur-and-north-kordofan
Shipping giant Maersk votes against ceasing arms shipments to Israel
The Danish shipping company faced global protest as part of the “Mask off Maersk” campaign on the day that shareholders voted on resolutions, including whether or not to block arms shipments to Israel
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/20/shipping-giant-maersk-votes-against-ceasing-arms-shipments-to-israel/
Protesters disrupted House of Lords to demand unelected chamber is abolished
They threw leaflets, shouted and sang from the public gallery during the demonstration at noon. The House was adjourned for a short time as the demonstrators were escorted out.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/protesters-disrupted-house-lords-demand-unelected-chamber-abolished
Police evict migrants from Paris theatre after months-long occupation
There was chaos as police forced their way into the 19th-century theatre, which is famous for performances of opera, operetta and ballet. The occupation of the Gaîté Lyrique began on 10 December with around 200 young migrants demanding food and shelter. The theatre cancelled all planned performances a week later, saying it condemned the occupation but also "the inaction by authorities".
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20250318-police-evict-migrants-from-paris-theatre-after-months-long-occupation
https://archive.ph/1dFjy
Negros development workers turn the tables after terrorism case dismissal
Their legal counsel, Atty. Rey Gorgonio, told Brigada News FM Philippines on Thursday, March 20, that his clients will take legal action against those who fabricated testimonies, conducted investigations, and pursued baseless charges. He said that they plan to file perjury charges against a rebel surrenderee who allegedly gave false testimony to implicate his clients.
https://www.brigadanews.ph/negros-development-workers-turn-the-tables-after-terrorism-case-dismissal/
https://archive.ph/EELgg
West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide
Raki Ap, a spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, which is overseeing the call, said: “These products are linked to human rights violations, in the first place, because West Papuans are being forced, with violence, to get off the land where they’ve lived for thousands of years, which has now resulted in ecocide.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/20/west-papua-indonesia-palm-oil-deforestation-rainforest
News 3/20/25
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal finds human remains on Bogota army baseThe remains were found on the grounds of the National Army’s Logistics School on Bogota’s eastern border. The JEP ordered excavations at the logistics school in 2024 after a former intelligence official, Jose Leonairo Dorado, confirmed that two now-defunct military intelligence agencies were buried at the army compound.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-war-crimes-tribunal-finds-human-remains-on-bogota-army-base/
US rejects Mexico’s request for water as Trump opens new battle front
The 1944 treaty, which governs water allocation from the Rio Grande and Colorado rivers, has come under growing strain in recent years due to the pressures of climate change and the burgeoning populations and agriculture in parched areas.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/tijuana-mexico-water-trump
Peru declares state of emergency as violent crimewave engulfs Lima
The clampdown follows weeks of escalating violence blamed on criminal groups that often target businesses, including transport companies, even as authorities have touted recent gang arrests. Paul Flores, a well-known cumbia singer, died on Sunday as assailants attacked the bus he was travelling on in an apparent attempt to extort the operator.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/18/peru-declares-state-of-emergency-as-violent-crimewave-engulfs-lima
https://archive.ph/jHbZx
Argentina IMF loan plan gets Congress' approval, paving way for deal
Argentina's lower house on Wednesday gave its stamp of approval for the government to kick off talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a key hurdle for the program the country needs to get its finances in order.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-imf-deal-faces-key-vote-congress-2025-03-19/
Arab League demands members boycott Israel economically, militarily amid Gaza attacks
The League said it will actively call on member states to take steps to gradually reduce military cooperation with Israel, and encouraged an economic boycott, saying continued trade and military dealings would constitute complicity in Israel’s onslaught of Gaza.
https://www.newarab.com/news/arab-league-urges-economic-boycott-israel-amid-gaza-attacks
Houthis claim missile launch at Israel amid renewed fighting in Gaza
The Israeli military said it intercepted the missile before it entered the country’s territory early on Thursday. Sirens sounded in several areas in Israel after the projectile was fired, the military said in a post on Telegram.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/20/houthis-claim-missile-launch-at-israel-amid-renewed-fighting-in-gaza
https://archive.ph/rDJLU
Sudan army within 500m of Republican Palace, battles in North Darfur and North Kordofan
Fierce battles continue across Sudan as the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) pushes deeper into Khartoum, closing in on the Republican Palace amid clashes in North Darfur and North Kordofan. Civilians remain caught in the violence, with dozens killed and detained over the past week.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-army-within-500-meters-of-republican-palace-battles-in-north-darfur-and-north-kordofan
Shipping giant Maersk votes against ceasing arms shipments to Israel
The Danish shipping company faced global protest as part of the “Mask off Maersk” campaign on the day that shareholders voted on resolutions, including whether or not to block arms shipments to Israel
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/20/shipping-giant-maersk-votes-against-ceasing-arms-shipments-to-israel/
Protesters disrupted House of Lords to demand unelected chamber is abolished
They threw leaflets, shouted and sang from the public gallery during the demonstration at noon. The House was adjourned for a short time as the demonstrators were escorted out.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/protesters-disrupted-house-lords-demand-unelected-chamber-abolished
Police evict migrants from Paris theatre after months-long occupation
There was chaos as police forced their way into the 19th-century theatre, which is famous for performances of opera, operetta and ballet. The occupation of the Gaîté Lyrique began on 10 December with around 200 young migrants demanding food and shelter. The theatre cancelled all planned performances a week later, saying it condemned the occupation but also "the inaction by authorities".
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20250318-police-evict-migrants-from-paris-theatre-after-months-long-occupation
https://archive.ph/1dFjy
Negros development workers turn the tables after terrorism case dismissal
Their legal counsel, Atty. Rey Gorgonio, told Brigada News FM Philippines on Thursday, March 20, that his clients will take legal action against those who fabricated testimonies, conducted investigations, and pursued baseless charges. He said that they plan to file perjury charges against a rebel surrenderee who allegedly gave false testimony to implicate his clients.
https://www.brigadanews.ph/negros-development-workers-turn-the-tables-after-terrorism-case-dismissal/
https://archive.ph/EELgg
West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide
Raki Ap, a spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, which is overseeing the call, said: “These products are linked to human rights violations, in the first place, because West Papuans are being forced, with violence, to get off the land where they’ve lived for thousands of years, which has now resulted in ecocide.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/20/west-papua-indonesia-palm-oil-deforestation-rainforest
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What is the material explanation for why intellectual elites hate Israel yet support Ukraine tooth-and-nail?
For context: I’m a college senior at an elite university in NYC. Even though pro-Palestine protesters here have been heavily repressed the vast majority of faculty are pro-Palestine/anti-Zionist and very openly so. However, they are also extremely pro-Ukraine which is something I don’t understand. They keep saying Putin is an evil dictator and Ukraine needs to be supported in order to “save global democracy” or some bullshit. Yet, “save global democracy” is the exact same excuse Zios use for why westerners should support Israel. If they can understand how “democracy” is a farce when it comes to Palestine why can’t they also see how it’s a farce in the Russia/Ukraine situation?
It’s bizarre how run-of-the-mill progressives like my profs sound a lot like neocons from 20 years ago. I’m only 22 but I do activism with people a lot older than me and they’ve made this point as well. “Spreading western democracy” was the excuse Bush used to invade Iraq. Now it’s used by DEMOCRATS and PROGRESSIVES to launch war against Russia. What gives? Also, why are cultured elites the ones sounding the most neocon now?
What is the material explanation for why intellectual elites hate Israel yet support Ukraine tooth-and-nail?
For context: I’m a college senior at an elite university in NYC. Even though pro-Palestine protesters here have been heavily repressed the vast majority of faculty are pro-Palestine/anti-Zionist and very openly so. However, they are also extremely pro-Ukraine which is something I don’t understand. They keep saying Putin is an evil dictator and Ukraine needs to be supported in order to “save global democracy” or some bullshit. Yet, “save global democracy” is the exact same excuse Zios use for why westerners should support Israel. If they can understand how “democracy” is a farce when it comes to Palestine why can’t they also see how it’s a farce in the Russia/Ukraine situation?
It’s bizarre how run-of-the-mill progressives like my profs sound a lot like neocons from 20 years ago. I’m only 22 but I do activism with people a lot older than me and they’ve made this point as well. “Spreading western democracy” was the excuse Bush used to invade Iraq. Now it’s used by DEMOCRATS and PROGRESSIVES to launch war against Russia. What gives? Also, why are cultured elites the ones sounding the most neocon now?
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Who is defending ZionDon?
Everyone I know irl that is remotely RW, all loathe Trump, it's either Boomers or Evangelicals / Zionists. All the people online are unemployed or retired… There is no redeming quality and everything has gone to shit. I don't count normies in their own bubbles.
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> criticize e.g. abrahamic big three religions for their hatred e.g. against non-believers and women
> be the most hated person ever
Why does it happen to me, always?
And I live in Poland. Also speak English and I happened to be accused of hurting feelings of religious oppressors.
Ask me anything about my religious and ideological views. Screw wars, I'm a pacifist!
Why am I considered fringe for disliking religions?
> be an atheist> criticize e.g. abrahamic big three religions for their hatred e.g. against non-believers and women
> be the most hated person ever
Why does it happen to me, always?
And I live in Poland. Also speak English and I happened to be accused of hurting feelings of religious oppressors.
Ask me anything about my religious and ideological views. Screw wars, I'm a pacifist!
R: 88 / I: 7 (sage)
They live lavish lives and most reside in the west while their lay followers are instructed to behave like slaves to the will of the prophet. They're told to forgot any form of critical thinking or agency and to be endogamous to further strain their gene pool forcing them to be genetically incapable of rebelling.
I realized Islam is the most perfected psyop in existence.
Is Islam just a psyop
I realized most Muslim rulers and nobility are descendants of the prophet Muhammad. In Iran and the ottoman empire they even have a title for people who are descendants. They're called seyids, and they enjoy societal privileges like good government positions and lower interest rates.They live lavish lives and most reside in the west while their lay followers are instructed to behave like slaves to the will of the prophet. They're told to forgot any form of critical thinking or agency and to be endogamous to further strain their gene pool forcing them to be genetically incapable of rebelling.
I realized Islam is the most perfected psyop in existence.
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Was it just feudalism with chinese characteristics?
Was it a trotskyist conspiracy to defame gallant revolutionaries like Chiang Kai-Shek?
Was it orientalist?
Is hydraulic despotism real?
What do you think about the tributary mode of production model?
Discuss the asiatic mode of production, its validity, relations of production and place in the schema of historical materialism.
Also general histmat thread.
/amp/ Asiatic Mode of Production discussion
Were Marx and Engels cooking or cooked?Was it just feudalism with chinese characteristics?
Was it a trotskyist conspiracy to defame gallant revolutionaries like Chiang Kai-Shek?
Was it orientalist?
Is hydraulic despotism real?
What do you think about the tributary mode of production model?
Discuss the asiatic mode of production, its validity, relations of production and place in the schema of historical materialism.
Also general histmat thread.
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True JFK Shooter Finally Revealed
After days of scouring documents recently released by the Trump admin, the true JFK assassin has finally been identified. While sources say the man has been named despite the given "codename," his whereabouts today are only speculative.
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What are some of biggest flaws and failures of the old socialist countries? I mean, nothing is perfect and the old USSR and other socialist countries had plenty of problems, what are those problems? For one to me one big problems was the lack of genuine freedom of ideas so people could actually change the system for the better or the obession of the USSR with military speding when they already had fucking nuclear weapons to defend their country.
What are some of biggest flaws and failures of the old socialist countries? I mean, nothing is perfect and the old USSR and other socialist countries had plenty of problems, what are those problems? For one to me one big problems was the lack of genuine freedom of ideas so people could actually change the system for the better or the obession of the USSR with military speding when they already had fucking nuclear weapons to defend their country.
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girl that was supposed to be the head of the “conservative” party of Canada. So many people are capable leaders. There is no space in this universe for fake leaders and those associated with that.
True leaders
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girl that was supposed to be the head of the “conservative” party of Canada. So many people are capable leaders. There is no space in this universe for fake leaders and those associated with that.
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Why do communists suck at indoctrinating kids?
How are Hamas able to create such epic propaganda for kids? They were making kids’ shows teaching little children their ideology, ensuring the next generation of revolutionaries. Why can’t comrades make the same?
When the right-wing talks about “leftist indoctrination” they’re talking about children’s books where the main character is a Black girl or a side character is queer. That’s it. No Marxism in those books but watered-down idpol stripped of any radical elements. We need real communist propaganda for kids that teaches the little ones our revolutionary aims age values. Why not?
Why do communists suck at indoctrinating kids?
How are Hamas able to create such epic propaganda for kids? They were making kids’ shows teaching little children their ideology, ensuring the next generation of revolutionaries. Why can’t comrades make the same?
When the right-wing talks about “leftist indoctrination” they’re talking about children’s books where the main character is a Black girl or a side character is queer. That’s it. No Marxism in those books but watered-down idpol stripped of any radical elements. We need real communist propaganda for kids that teaches the little ones our revolutionary aims age values. Why not?
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These images here are based on every trend I’ve identified about city construction and what I can expect from it. If it wasn’t obvious, the architecture is boring, the buildings are abundant supplying housing for many and the city itself stretches on for a while. So why does the city look like this?
Here’s everything I know so far:
>future cities have to be built out of adobe, stone, and steel due to shortages of water and rare materials
>architecture has to become increasingly simplistic to save on maintenance costs. This also means aqueducts and wind catchers are coming back to avoid maintenance on extensive plumbing systems.
>there’s a severe shortage of housing (like billions of units have to be built) in general which explains why the city sprawls so hard and has so much infrastructure built up.
Anyways, I’ll post the description I fed to the bot if you want to experiment with this
This is what future cities are likely to look like
This is the thankfully the last thread I will make on primitivization and future cities. I had to look a lot into the world water crisis, the growing use of stone and steel as substitutes for concrete and bitumen in construction.These images here are based on every trend I’ve identified about city construction and what I can expect from it. If it wasn’t obvious, the architecture is boring, the buildings are abundant supplying housing for many and the city itself stretches on for a while. So why does the city look like this?
Here’s everything I know so far:
>future cities have to be built out of adobe, stone, and steel due to shortages of water and rare materials
>architecture has to become increasingly simplistic to save on maintenance costs. This also means aqueducts and wind catchers are coming back to avoid maintenance on extensive plumbing systems.
>there’s a severe shortage of housing (like billions of units have to be built) in general which explains why the city sprawls so hard and has so much infrastructure built up.
Anyways, I’ll post the description I fed to the bot if you want to experiment with this
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The New Jersey court will now decide whether Khalil's arrest for pro-Palestinian activism was unconstitutional. The judge also reaffirmed a previous ruling that blocked Mr Khalil’s deportation in the absence of a court order, which should also remain in effect “unless and until the transferee court orders otherwise”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-judge-says-palestinian-mahmoud-khalil-activist-must-remain-us-for-now
Israeli forces resume Gaza ground assault, seize part of Netzarim Corridor
Gaza health authorities said dozens of people were killed on Wednesday in several Israeli air raids, including a foreign UN employee killed in an attack on a UN compound in central Gaza. Israel said it attacked Hamas targets in central Gaza.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/19/israeli-forces-resume-gaza-ground-assault-seize-part-of-netzarim-corridor
https://archive.ph/ZMDXl
PFLP Palestinian Resistance Icon Leila Khaled Hospitalized
She came to the world’s attention with the plane hijackings she carried out in 1969 and 1970, and has been actively involved in the Palestinian struggle throughout her life.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17640/
Istanbul mayor arrested days before likely presidential nomination
Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor, released a video statement as police gathered outside his residence in Istanbul, speaking to the camera as he put on a shirt and tie before his arrest. In a caption accompanying the video posted to social media, he wrote: “This is a blow to the will of the people.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/19/istanbul-mayor-arrested-ekrem-imamoglu-days-before-likely-presidential-nomination-erdogan-ntwnfb
New anti LGBT+ law in Hungary sparks protests
A NEW anti-LGBT law banning Pride events and allowing authorities to use facial recognition software to identify those attending the festivities was passed in Hungary on Tuesday. The move led to a large demonstration on the streets of Budapest.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-anti-lgbt-law-hungary-sparks-protests
European Union lays out how Apple must open its tech up to competitors under bloc’s digital rules
The commission also laid out a second set of measures to make the process for software developers requesting access to iPhone features more transparent and effective. Among the changes are better access to technical documentation not yet available to third parties, it said.
https://apnews.com/article/apple-google-brussels-european-union-internet-8f1c2f1fda1d3ffeed50322df8093817
Dudley councillor quits Labour after 41 years' membership
Announcing the decision, Dudley councillor Pete Lowe wrote: “I always believed I could better serve my community from within the Labour Party. “I no longer believe that is the case under Keir Starmer’s leadership.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dudley-councillor-quits-labour-after-41-years-membership
Senate commission sinks labor reform despite mass protests throughout Colombia
The vote was held on the same day as protests that had been called by Petro and drew tens of thousands of people in cities throughout the country. Speaking before protesters in the capital Bogota, the president called on “permanent and growing” protests in support of a referendum that would force congress to legislate on the reforms.
https://colombiareports.com/senate-commission-sinks-labor-reform-despite-mass-protests-throughout-colombia/
Panamanian workers mobilize against Social Security privatization
Thousands of Panamanians mobilized in cities across the country on Tuesday, March 18, to demand the immediate repeal of Law 462, which seeks to privatize Panamanian Social Security, among other reforms.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/19/panamanian-workers-mobilize-against-social-security-privatization/
Swallowed by the sea, Pakistan’s Indus delta now threatened by canals
Kharo Chan was once a prosperous area comprising of 42 “dehs” (villages), of which only three now exist. The rest were submerged into the sea, forcing thousands of people to migrate to other villages or Karachi city. According to the government census, Kharo Chan’s population shrunk from 26,000 in 1988 to 11,403 in 2023.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/17/swallowed-by-the-sea-pakistans-indus-delta-now-threatened-by-canals
https://archive.ph/izX44
Bangladesh arrests leader of Rohingya insurgent group on criminal charges
Ataullah, the leader of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), and 10 others were arrested on Tuesday during a raid in Narayanganj district, near Bangladesh's capital Dhaka.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bangladesh-arrests-leader-rohingya-insurgent-group-criminal-charges-2025-03-19/
News 3/19/15
US judge says Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in US for nowThe New Jersey court will now decide whether Khalil's arrest for pro-Palestinian activism was unconstitutional. The judge also reaffirmed a previous ruling that blocked Mr Khalil’s deportation in the absence of a court order, which should also remain in effect “unless and until the transferee court orders otherwise”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-judge-says-palestinian-mahmoud-khalil-activist-must-remain-us-for-now
Israeli forces resume Gaza ground assault, seize part of Netzarim Corridor
Gaza health authorities said dozens of people were killed on Wednesday in several Israeli air raids, including a foreign UN employee killed in an attack on a UN compound in central Gaza. Israel said it attacked Hamas targets in central Gaza.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/19/israeli-forces-resume-gaza-ground-assault-seize-part-of-netzarim-corridor
https://archive.ph/ZMDXl
PFLP Palestinian Resistance Icon Leila Khaled Hospitalized
She came to the world’s attention with the plane hijackings she carried out in 1969 and 1970, and has been actively involved in the Palestinian struggle throughout her life.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17640/
Istanbul mayor arrested days before likely presidential nomination
Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor, released a video statement as police gathered outside his residence in Istanbul, speaking to the camera as he put on a shirt and tie before his arrest. In a caption accompanying the video posted to social media, he wrote: “This is a blow to the will of the people.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/19/istanbul-mayor-arrested-ekrem-imamoglu-days-before-likely-presidential-nomination-erdogan-ntwnfb
New anti LGBT+ law in Hungary sparks protests
A NEW anti-LGBT law banning Pride events and allowing authorities to use facial recognition software to identify those attending the festivities was passed in Hungary on Tuesday. The move led to a large demonstration on the streets of Budapest.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-anti-lgbt-law-hungary-sparks-protests
European Union lays out how Apple must open its tech up to competitors under bloc’s digital rules
The commission also laid out a second set of measures to make the process for software developers requesting access to iPhone features more transparent and effective. Among the changes are better access to technical documentation not yet available to third parties, it said.
https://apnews.com/article/apple-google-brussels-european-union-internet-8f1c2f1fda1d3ffeed50322df8093817
Dudley councillor quits Labour after 41 years' membership
Announcing the decision, Dudley councillor Pete Lowe wrote: “I always believed I could better serve my community from within the Labour Party. “I no longer believe that is the case under Keir Starmer’s leadership.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dudley-councillor-quits-labour-after-41-years-membership
Senate commission sinks labor reform despite mass protests throughout Colombia
The vote was held on the same day as protests that had been called by Petro and drew tens of thousands of people in cities throughout the country. Speaking before protesters in the capital Bogota, the president called on “permanent and growing” protests in support of a referendum that would force congress to legislate on the reforms.
https://colombiareports.com/senate-commission-sinks-labor-reform-despite-mass-protests-throughout-colombia/
Panamanian workers mobilize against Social Security privatization
Thousands of Panamanians mobilized in cities across the country on Tuesday, March 18, to demand the immediate repeal of Law 462, which seeks to privatize Panamanian Social Security, among other reforms.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/19/panamanian-workers-mobilize-against-social-security-privatization/
Swallowed by the sea, Pakistan’s Indus delta now threatened by canals
Kharo Chan was once a prosperous area comprising of 42 “dehs” (villages), of which only three now exist. The rest were submerged into the sea, forcing thousands of people to migrate to other villages or Karachi city. According to the government census, Kharo Chan’s population shrunk from 26,000 in 1988 to 11,403 in 2023.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/17/swallowed-by-the-sea-pakistans-indus-delta-now-threatened-by-canals
https://archive.ph/izX44
Bangladesh arrests leader of Rohingya insurgent group on criminal charges
Ataullah, the leader of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), and 10 others were arrested on Tuesday during a raid in Narayanganj district, near Bangladesh's capital Dhaka.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bangladesh-arrests-leader-rohingya-insurgent-group-criminal-charges-2025-03-19/
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BRICS, an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, is an economic bloc aiming to reduce dependence on Western financial institutions and promote a multipolar world order. This movement seeks to challenge the dollar-dominated global economy by fostering regional trade alliances, creating alternative payment systems, and expanding economic cooperation among developing nations. Sanctions on Russia, particularly after its actions in Ukraine, and policies during the Trump era—such as trade wars and unilateral decisions—accelerated the push for financial independence from Western systems like SWIFT and the IMF. This shift is reshaping globalism, as countries increasingly prioritize regional trade partnerships and economic self-reliance over integration into a U.S.-led global system. As BRICS expands and champions its own financial mechanisms, the dollar’s role as the global reserve currency faces challenges, reducing its dominance and potentially fragmenting the global economy into autocratic and regional economic blocs.
NOW & Trump's USA:
President Donald Trump's second term, beginning in January 2025, has been marked by a pronounced shift toward economic isolationism, exemplified by the imposition of 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, set to take effect on February 1, 2025.This protectionist stance is intended to address issues such as drug trafficking and illegal immigration. In response, Mexico has emphasized its sovereignty and independence, signaling a potential reevaluation of its economic strategies. Facing these tariffs, Mexican businesses are exploring alternative markets in Central America and the Caribbean to mitigate the impact of U.S. trade policies. For instance, companies like Cemex are considering significant investments in the U.S. to align with Trump's pro-business approach, while also seeking to strengthen trade ties within the region. This shift reflects a broader trend where countries are increasingly focusing on regional economic cooperation and self-reliance, potentially leading to a decline in globalism and a move toward more autocratic economic blocs. The imposition of tariffs and the subsequent realignment of trade relationships are contributing to a fragmentation of the global economy, with countries prioritizing regional partnerships over broader international agreements.
/polyBRCIS/ - Multipolar economies and BRICS
QUICK RUNDOWN:BRICS, an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, is an economic bloc aiming to reduce dependence on Western financial institutions and promote a multipolar world order. This movement seeks to challenge the dollar-dominated global economy by fostering regional trade alliances, creating alternative payment systems, and expanding economic cooperation among developing nations. Sanctions on Russia, particularly after its actions in Ukraine, and policies during the Trump era—such as trade wars and unilateral decisions—accelerated the push for financial independence from Western systems like SWIFT and the IMF. This shift is reshaping globalism, as countries increasingly prioritize regional trade partnerships and economic self-reliance over integration into a U.S.-led global system. As BRICS expands and champions its own financial mechanisms, the dollar’s role as the global reserve currency faces challenges, reducing its dominance and potentially fragmenting the global economy into autocratic and regional economic blocs.
NOW & Trump's USA:
President Donald Trump's second term, beginning in January 2025, has been marked by a pronounced shift toward economic isolationism, exemplified by the imposition of 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, set to take effect on February 1, 2025.This protectionist stance is intended to address issues such as drug trafficking and illegal immigration. In response, Mexico has emphasized its sovereignty and independence, signaling a potential reevaluation of its economic strategies. Facing these tariffs, Mexican businesses are exploring alternative markets in Central America and the Caribbean to mitigate the impact of U.S. trade policies. For instance, companies like Cemex are considering significant investments in the U.S. to align with Trump's pro-business approach, while also seeking to strengthen trade ties within the region. This shift reflects a broader trend where countries are increasingly focusing on regional economic cooperation and self-reliance, potentially leading to a decline in globalism and a move toward more autocratic economic blocs. The imposition of tariffs and the subsequent realignment of trade relationships are contributing to a fragmentation of the global economy, with countries prioritizing regional partnerships over broader international agreements.
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or Arab parties.
But on the whitelisting procedure, which parties should be acceptable? Apparently, the Knesset is occupied by Nazis, with Labor only having 4 seats and Arab parties holding 10. That's out of 113 seats. Should we accept centrist Israeli parties? How about conservative parties with an acceptable peace platform?
Supporting Israeli peace parties
Can someone here help establish a list of Israeli political parties that oppose the Palestinians genocide? See, the thing here is that BDSing Israel is sort of maximalist, i.e, we won't stop until Israel ceases to exist (probably involves nuclear exchanges) or alternately ceases it's expansionist and colonialist policies (very unlikely). A simpler way is to simply establish a whitelist of Israeli entities; to get on this white list, you must either oppose the Gaza genocide or make substantial financial contributions to Israeli leftor Arab parties.
But on the whitelisting procedure, which parties should be acceptable? Apparently, the Knesset is occupied by Nazis, with Labor only having 4 seats and Arab parties holding 10. That's out of 113 seats. Should we accept centrist Israeli parties? How about conservative parties with an acceptable peace platform?
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Yeah, I don’t believe in objective morality, god, miracles, magic, pseudoscience, optimism, immortality, physical regeneration, reanimation, ghosts, souls, alchemy, aliens, and any other self affirming optimistic shit unenlightened believers believe in. My values are might is right, materialism, and cynicism.
I’m so fucking cool, edgy, and mature unlike the rest of those stupid hordes. Look at how cool, edgy, and mature I am.
Yeah, I don’t believe in objective morality, god, miracles, magic, pseudoscience, optimism, immortality, physical regeneration, reanimation, ghosts, souls, alchemy, aliens, and any other self affirming optimistic shit unenlightened believers believe in. My values are might is right, materialism, and cynicism.
I’m so fucking cool, edgy, and mature unlike the rest of those stupid hordes. Look at how cool, edgy, and mature I am.
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CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY IS EVEN WORTHY?
For real, dogs, I want to get into continental philosohpy but i don't know to where to start or even if it is worthy, can someone with more experience to give their honest view about the topic? What do you think about the whole continental tradition?
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>Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments. Such a future requires planning to provision public services, to deploy efficient technology, and to build sovereign industrial capacity in the global South.
So we can have 'first-world' living standard for everyone with 30% of current production. So the third-worldist idea that the global North's proletariat somehow has to 'suffer' through the transitional period (the proletarian dictatorship) is scientifically inaccurate. Let's proceed to debunk some more third world nonsense. Here's a challange - try to counterargue using scientific articles and not professional universty ideologes.
<neocolonialism
>neo-colonialism coined by Khrushchev-era revisionists/bourgeois nationalists (50s-60s)
>used to justify USSR alliances with leaders like Nasser/Nkrumah
>alliances failed: national bourgeoisies dumped USSR after consolidating power
>concept claims underdevelopment persists post-independence via:
>>1) pre-industrial class structures blocking surplus reinvestment
>>2) low-wage primary-sector competition in global markets
>but mechanisms differ between ex-colonies vs. independent capitalist states
>conflating them undermines anti-imperialist struggles against direct colonialism
<unequal exchange
>unequal exchange theory: anti-working class, paints capitalist workers as Third World exploiters
>contrary to Marx, who tied profit to production, not exchange inequality
>British Empire used trade surpluses (India/China) to fund deficits with advanced economies
>modern US runs deficits with China/Gulf states, reversing imperial patterns
>theory rooted in medieval "just price" dogma, regressive vs Marx's "socially necessary labor"
>>e.g., US-Mexico shirt trade: cheap Mexican labor ≠ exploitation via exchange
>value based on avg social labor time (power loom vs hand-loom example)
>market integration devalues low-productivity labor (Chiapas maize vs US agribusiness)
>Marx: exploitation occurs in production, not "equal" exchange sphere
>productivity gaps stem from environment, pre-capitalist stagnation, imperialist disruption
<labour aristocracy
>labour aristocracy theory: claims imperial profits "buy off" workers in advanced nations
>flaws: small bribes can't sway whole class; Global South can't fund large payoffs
>higher wages ≠ quiescence—result from workplace bargaining (e.g., skilled sectors like Petrograd/Seoul)
> banks extract debt ≠ workers exploit Third World; class analysis separates capitalists vs. proletariat
Any advocate of a specifically anti-imperialist political strategy would have to answer the following questions:
>If wars leading to revolution are not imminent, on what do you base your strategy for socialism?
>What is the political and economic content of' anti-imperialism', i.e., what changes in economic or state structure do you struggle for other than those implied by an anti-capitalist strategy?
>What extra allies does an anti-imperialist strategy bring to the struggle for socialism that a simple anti-capitalist strategy would not?
Let me also make it very clear: there is no other imperialist pole other than the one centered around America. Neither China or Russia are imperialists. Sorry, leftcoms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHm9rsLIPjA
Without science, communism is an empty phrase
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493>Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments. Such a future requires planning to provision public services, to deploy efficient technology, and to build sovereign industrial capacity in the global South.
So we can have 'first-world' living standard for everyone with 30% of current production. So the third-worldist idea that the global North's proletariat somehow has to 'suffer' through the transitional period (the proletarian dictatorship) is scientifically inaccurate. Let's proceed to debunk some more third world nonsense. Here's a challange - try to counterargue using scientific articles and not professional universty ideologes.
<neocolonialism
>neo-colonialism coined by Khrushchev-era revisionists/bourgeois nationalists (50s-60s)
>used to justify USSR alliances with leaders like Nasser/Nkrumah
>alliances failed: national bourgeoisies dumped USSR after consolidating power
>concept claims underdevelopment persists post-independence via:
>but mechanisms differ between ex-colonies vs. independent capitalist states
>conflating them undermines anti-imperialist struggles against direct colonialism
<unequal exchange
>unequal exchange theory: anti-working class, paints capitalist workers as Third World exploiters
>contrary to Marx, who tied profit to production, not exchange inequality
>British Empire used trade surpluses (India/China) to fund deficits with advanced economies
>modern US runs deficits with China/Gulf states, reversing imperial patterns
>theory rooted in medieval "just price" dogma, regressive vs Marx's "socially necessary labor"
>>e.g., US-Mexico shirt trade: cheap Mexican labor ≠ exploitation via exchange
>value based on avg social labor time (power loom vs hand-loom example)
>market integration devalues low-productivity labor (Chiapas maize vs US agribusiness)
>Marx: exploitation occurs in production, not "equal" exchange sphere
>productivity gaps stem from environment, pre-capitalist stagnation, imperialist disruption
<labour aristocracy
>labour aristocracy theory: claims imperial profits "buy off" workers in advanced nations
>flaws: small bribes can't sway whole class; Global South can't fund large payoffs
>higher wages ≠ quiescence—result from workplace bargaining (e.g., skilled sectors like Petrograd/Seoul)
> banks extract debt ≠ workers exploit Third World; class analysis separates capitalists vs. proletariat
Any advocate of a specifically anti-imperialist political strategy would have to answer the following questions:
>If wars leading to revolution are not imminent, on what do you base your strategy for socialism?
>What is the political and economic content of' anti-imperialism', i.e., what changes in economic or state structure do you struggle for other than those implied by an anti-capitalist strategy?
>What extra allies does an anti-imperialist strategy bring to the struggle for socialism that a simple anti-capitalist strategy would not?
Let me also make it very clear: there is no other imperialist pole other than the one centered around America. Neither China or Russia are imperialists. Sorry, leftcoms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHm9rsLIPjA
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Behold, the future of Europe immdiatedly after USA starts collapsing and pulls burger troops out of it. I feel like most of them would revert to the fascist society faster than most people even there imagine, only this time the enemy would be "Russian-backed Islamic terrorists" (on practice - all Muslim immigrants/refugees) rather than "Judeo-Bolshevics" (which on practice turned all European Jews or all leftists).
Actually, I am afraid that in some parts of Europe, this future is already happening.
Behold, the future of Europe immdiatedly after USA starts collapsing and pulls burger troops out of it. I feel like most of them would revert to the fascist society faster than most people even there imagine, only this time the enemy would be "Russian-backed Islamic terrorists" (on practice - all Muslim immigrants/refugees) rather than "Judeo-Bolshevics" (which on practice turned all European Jews or all leftists).
Actually, I am afraid that in some parts of Europe, this future is already happening.
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hitler and myths about him
what's the deal with people claiming hitler to be some masterful orator ? even by the standards of other fascists and other nazis who publicly spoke seem to be more coherent, hitler sounds like a crazy man on the street? is it something lost in translation and i'm retarded or is it just something people just say because nazi propaganda said so ?
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The ruling represents a major victory for Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), the shack dwellers’ movement in South Africa. The ruling comes after months of intense resistance against forced evictions in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal, where poor Black residents have been struggling to retain their homes in the face of hostility from wealthy landowners and municipal authorities.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/17/abahlali-basemjondolo-secures-victory-against-forced-evictions/
Brazilian education workers begin school year with strikes for decent working conditions
One of the most significant so far has been a strike by outsourced education workers in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Responsible for school meals, janitorial services, maintenance and cleaning of schools, among other functions, the sector demonstrated its strength in crowded assemblies and street demonstrations.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/17/hqqk-m17.html
Colombia’s Congress ramps up security ahead of labor protests
Petro called on labor unions, farmers organizations and his political supporters to take to the streets while Congress is voting on one of his most important reform proposals. Conservative Senate President Efrain Cepeda, an outspoken critic of the president, said that public access to the capitol building was limited to congressmen, state officials and accredited press on Tuesday.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-congress-ramps-up-security-ahead-of-labor-protests/
Over 400 killed in Gaza as Israel breaks ceasefire, Ben-Gvir returns to cabinet
The Gaza-based Health Ministry said at least 404 people have been killed and more than 500 others injured since early Tuesday, prompting a wave of condemnations. … Hamas accused Israel of violating the January ceasefire and warned in a statement that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to “resume war” could be a "death sentence" for hostages still alive in Gaza.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/03/over-400-killed-gaza-israel-breaks-ceasefire-ben-gvir-returns-cabinet
Yemen's Houthis won't 'dial down' under US pressure or Iranian appeals
Yemen's Houthis will not "dial down" their action against Israeli shipping in the Red Sea in response to US military pressure or appeals from the group's allies such as Iran, the Yemeni militant group's foreign minister said.
https://www.newarab.com/news/houthis-wont-dial-down-under-us-pressure-or-iranian-appeals
Rival rallies erupt in South Korea before ruling on president’s impeachment
On Saturday, anti-Yoon protesters filled a large square in central Seoul and chanted for his immediate removal. A few streets away, conservative Yoon supporters took up an entire avenue and called for his return while waving South Korean and United States flags.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/15/huge-rallies-erupt-across-south-korea-ahead-president-yoon-court-rulling
https://archive.ph/wA5J0
Unification Church faces dissolution in Japan
Now a court order is expected to strip the group of legal recognition as early as this month, major Japanese media outlets reported. The dissolution would remove the church's tax-exempt status while branding the organization a harmful entity.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/15/japan/society/unification-church-dissolution/
https://archive.ph/8t2AC
Tens of thousands of workers in Karnataka mobilize in historic five-day protest against anti-labor policies
A common demand raised by workers from across the sectors is a monthly living minimum wage of Rs. 31,566 for unskilled workers, with a 15% premium “for each higher level of skill”.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/17/tens-of-thousands-of-workers-in-karnataka-mobilize-in-historic-five-day-protest-against-anti-labor-policies/
Indian city sets curfew after Hindu groups demand demolition of 17th century Muslim ruler’s tomb
Aurangzeb is a loathed figure among India’s Hindu nationalists, who accuse him of persecuting Hindus during his rule in the 17th century, even though some historians say such stories are exaggerated.
https://apnews.com/article/india-aurangzeb-violence-dcd8514ae85603128cb1ebe84a8fb89c
Sharp rise in anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian violence in Australia
In the reporting period, there were 309 instances of in-person Islamophobia. That compared with an average of 123 in all comparative periods since 2014. Online instances of abuse skyrocketed to 366, compared with 415 in the entire period between 2014 and 2021.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/18/hqtm-m18.html
News 3/18/25
Abahlali baseMjondolo secures victory against forced evictionsThe ruling represents a major victory for Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), the shack dwellers’ movement in South Africa. The ruling comes after months of intense resistance against forced evictions in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal, where poor Black residents have been struggling to retain their homes in the face of hostility from wealthy landowners and municipal authorities.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/17/abahlali-basemjondolo-secures-victory-against-forced-evictions/
Brazilian education workers begin school year with strikes for decent working conditions
One of the most significant so far has been a strike by outsourced education workers in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Responsible for school meals, janitorial services, maintenance and cleaning of schools, among other functions, the sector demonstrated its strength in crowded assemblies and street demonstrations.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/17/hqqk-m17.html
Colombia’s Congress ramps up security ahead of labor protests
Petro called on labor unions, farmers organizations and his political supporters to take to the streets while Congress is voting on one of his most important reform proposals. Conservative Senate President Efrain Cepeda, an outspoken critic of the president, said that public access to the capitol building was limited to congressmen, state officials and accredited press on Tuesday.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-congress-ramps-up-security-ahead-of-labor-protests/
Over 400 killed in Gaza as Israel breaks ceasefire, Ben-Gvir returns to cabinet
The Gaza-based Health Ministry said at least 404 people have been killed and more than 500 others injured since early Tuesday, prompting a wave of condemnations. … Hamas accused Israel of violating the January ceasefire and warned in a statement that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to “resume war” could be a "death sentence" for hostages still alive in Gaza.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/03/over-400-killed-gaza-israel-breaks-ceasefire-ben-gvir-returns-cabinet
Yemen's Houthis won't 'dial down' under US pressure or Iranian appeals
Yemen's Houthis will not "dial down" their action against Israeli shipping in the Red Sea in response to US military pressure or appeals from the group's allies such as Iran, the Yemeni militant group's foreign minister said.
https://www.newarab.com/news/houthis-wont-dial-down-under-us-pressure-or-iranian-appeals
Rival rallies erupt in South Korea before ruling on president’s impeachment
On Saturday, anti-Yoon protesters filled a large square in central Seoul and chanted for his immediate removal. A few streets away, conservative Yoon supporters took up an entire avenue and called for his return while waving South Korean and United States flags.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/15/huge-rallies-erupt-across-south-korea-ahead-president-yoon-court-rulling
https://archive.ph/wA5J0
Unification Church faces dissolution in Japan
Now a court order is expected to strip the group of legal recognition as early as this month, major Japanese media outlets reported. The dissolution would remove the church's tax-exempt status while branding the organization a harmful entity.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/15/japan/society/unification-church-dissolution/
https://archive.ph/8t2AC
Tens of thousands of workers in Karnataka mobilize in historic five-day protest against anti-labor policies
A common demand raised by workers from across the sectors is a monthly living minimum wage of Rs. 31,566 for unskilled workers, with a 15% premium “for each higher level of skill”.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/17/tens-of-thousands-of-workers-in-karnataka-mobilize-in-historic-five-day-protest-against-anti-labor-policies/
Indian city sets curfew after Hindu groups demand demolition of 17th century Muslim ruler’s tomb
Aurangzeb is a loathed figure among India’s Hindu nationalists, who accuse him of persecuting Hindus during his rule in the 17th century, even though some historians say such stories are exaggerated.
https://apnews.com/article/india-aurangzeb-violence-dcd8514ae85603128cb1ebe84a8fb89c
Sharp rise in anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian violence in Australia
In the reporting period, there were 309 instances of in-person Islamophobia. That compared with an average of 123 in all comparative periods since 2014. Online instances of abuse skyrocketed to 366, compared with 415 in the entire period between 2014 and 2021.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/18/hqtm-m18.html
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Syria is still fighting Assad forces, Sudan never saw peace after two years, Ukraine is well… Ukraine, Congolese peace talks with m23 haven’t worked for decades anyways, Myanmar is still a war zone after several attempts, the hamas ceasefire might aswell have never been called, India and Pakistan edge closer to atomic warfare each day, you get the point.
I hate referencing kurzgesagt but I will make a passing mention that they shared a similar idea in a video about modern wars. From the data they and several other teams on geopolitics have collected, modern wars end more often in a total victories (as in extermination or near complete withdrawal from combat) more often than in negotiations or deals.
Given the history of warfare, this is a shockingly new development as most subjugated societies and peoples normally lived to be enslaved or made citizens of a larger force instead of being shot dead without warning.
Nearly all peace talks failed this decade
The only successful peace talks this decade have been in Ethiopia and the Armenia aizerbaijan drama and that’s it. Every other one failed.Syria is still fighting Assad forces, Sudan never saw peace after two years, Ukraine is well… Ukraine, Congolese peace talks with m23 haven’t worked for decades anyways, Myanmar is still a war zone after several attempts, the hamas ceasefire might aswell have never been called, India and Pakistan edge closer to atomic warfare each day, you get the point.
I hate referencing kurzgesagt but I will make a passing mention that they shared a similar idea in a video about modern wars. From the data they and several other teams on geopolitics have collected, modern wars end more often in a total victories (as in extermination or near complete withdrawal from combat) more often than in negotiations or deals.
Given the history of warfare, this is a shockingly new development as most subjugated societies and peoples normally lived to be enslaved or made citizens of a larger force instead of being shot dead without warning.
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To this day in Russia, there are circuses with animals, interestingly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tskbF6cM0G4
And mostly outcry about circuses with animals is in capitalistic countries.
Back then in communist Poland, circuses with animals used to be liked as well. And up till 90s, 2000s and 2021, they used to be popular for children.
What happened? And please, no reactionary liberal rhetoric.
Why were the circuses with animals popular in USSR?
Seriously, during the communist days, many people liked going to see the animals in the circuses and nobody saw it as something wrong, before PETA ever existed.To this day in Russia, there are circuses with animals, interestingly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tskbF6cM0G4
And mostly outcry about circuses with animals is in capitalistic countries.
Back then in communist Poland, circuses with animals used to be liked as well. And up till 90s, 2000s and 2021, they used to be popular for children.
What happened? And please, no reactionary liberal rhetoric.
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Serbia
Any people from Serbia/balkans? What is the deal with political parties here? From what I see the only semi competent parties are The NKPJ who larp as yugoslavs and maybe the RNP-F
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Vous le savez peut être, un milliard de gens parlent le français et sont souvent oubliés. L'atention est portée sur les habitants de l'hexagone impérialiste. Mais il existe une multitude de gens qui parlent le français et qui doivent être représentés sur leftypol.
Le thread francophone
Bien le bonjour,Vous le savez peut être, un milliard de gens parlent le français et sont souvent oubliés. L'atention est portée sur les habitants de l'hexagone impérialiste. Mais il existe une multitude de gens qui parlent le français et qui doivent être représentés sur leftypol.
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daily reminder that the last three months have shown, yet again, that the only correct position is the marxist-leninist position with China as the socialist helmsman
<but muh billionaires
https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/
<but democratic confedarilism
you are a stooge of US imperialism
<but muh neither washington nor beijing
you are stooge of US imperialism
<but muh based retard Trump
you are stooge of US imperialism
<but muh based third worldism
Russia is a stooge of US imperialism
<but muh squats
take a shower liberal
daily reminder that the last three months have shown, yet again, that the only correct position is the marxist-leninist position with China as the socialist helmsman
<but muh billionaires
https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/
<but democratic confedarilism
you are a stooge of US imperialism
<but muh neither washington nor beijing
you are stooge of US imperialism
<but muh based retard Trump
you are stooge of US imperialism
<but muh based third worldism
Russia is a stooge of US imperialism
<but muh squats
take a shower liberal
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Israel Has Resumed It's Genocide in Gaza - We Must Meet Violence with Violence
The only way this genocide stops is if the United States’ current regime falls. Sit with that. Hold it in your chest. Take a second to mourn all the potential futures you’ve lost with this knowledge. Understand that you have a task, a duty. We have a task and a duty. We are in the heart of the beast, and that means we drive the wooden stake deep into the vampire.
R: 604 / I: 230 (full)
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Sites that have active live-blogs:
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• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories
• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/liveblog/ (trigger warning)
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🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️
• https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source
• https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA
• https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective
• https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org
• https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv
• https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine
• https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog
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al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/
PFLP
http://pflp.ps/
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(USA)
• https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
• https://www.palestineaction.org/
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(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia, excessive doomer and jewish-blood-quantum posting)
Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.
الله أكبر
.الى جميع الكادحين في الشرق، ان مصيركم في ايديكم
!يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا
Palestine vs The Zionist Entity #114: Ceasefire Stage 1 edition
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• Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/
• Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion
• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories
• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/liveblog/ (trigger warning)
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https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/2023_Israel–Gaza_war [Currently Down]
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🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️
• https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source
• https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA
• https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective
• https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org
• https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv
• https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine
• https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog
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💣🔫RESISTANCE💣🔫
al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/
PFLP
http://pflp.ps/
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📺 WATCH TOGETHER 📺
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/LGBTA
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✊🪧 TAKE ACTION AND TOUCH GRASS 🏴🔥
(USA)
• https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
• https://www.palestineaction.org/
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HIDE JIDF POSTS, IGNORE GLOWIE BAIT, DO NOT REPLY TO MOSSAD POSTERS
(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia, excessive doomer and jewish-blood-quantum posting)
Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.
الله أكبر
.الى جميع الكادحين في الشرق، ان مصيركم في ايديكم
!يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا
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Deng Appreciation Thread
Here we hate Mao. Mao is over. Here, we love Deng and Dengism. Deng who brought the markets to China. Deng who brought free enterprise. Deng who saw the Japanese and Singaporean model and decided to abandon the failed Maoist ideology for a better China. A capitalist China!
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In a statement, the FSUN explained that the strike will take place in response to the policies implemented by the Government of Javier Milei and was called as part of a plan of struggle against the loss of workers’ salaries and the structural defunding of the centers of higher studies, facts that have a devastating impact on the sector.
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/03/17/university-front-begins-48-hour-strike-in-argentina/
Peruvian farmer takes major energy firm to court over greenhouse gas emissions posing risk to his home
Saul Luciano Lliuya’s case argues that the company’s historical greenhouse gas emissions have fuelled global warming, accelerating glacial melt above his home town of Huaraz, Peru. As a result Lake Palcacocha has swelled to dangerous levels, risking catastrophic flooding.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/peruvian-farmer-takes-major-energy-firm-court-over-greenhouse-gas-emissions-posing
Supporters of Brazil’s Bolsonaro protest on Copacabana Beach to defend him after coup charges
A sea of people wearing Brazil’s yellow-and-green national soccer jersey chanted and held placards reading “Amnesty, now!” Local media reported that around 18,000 people attended, based on figures from a monitoring project linked to the University of Sao Paulo. Bolsonaro’s allies had hoped to draw a crowd of 1 million.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-bolsonaro-demonstration-coup-1160d2159fb11f84715bcf158d5006bd
Brazil’s Solidarity party files Federal Court lawsuit to ban municipal lotteries
The Solidarity party claims municipal lotteries are creating a “truly chaotic scenario”, with jurisdictions such as Bodó flouting federal laws by allowing companies that haven’t achieved federal authorisation to operate within municipalities, largely without the same level of player protection measures and tax contributions as the federal regulator.
https://igamingbusiness.com/legal-compliance/solidarity-party-federal-court-municipal-lotteries/
https://archive.ph/uxWTc
Israelis moving to live in Europe ‘rejuvenating’ Jewish communities
Recent Israeli government statistics show accelerating emigration from Israel, driven by factors including political polarisation, the high cost of living, the impact of wars in Gaza and Lebanon, and security concerns after the bloody Hamas raid into Israel of October 2023 and Iranian attacks.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/17/israelis-moving-live-europe-rejuvenating-jewish-communities
Rights advocates urge Morocco to annul activist's prison term
Abdelmoumni, a human rights advocate, was sentenced in early March to six months in prison for charges related to a post he had shared on Facebook, alleging that Morocco had spied against France.A petition, which by Monday has gathered 295 signatures, said that "Abdelmoumni should have been prosecuted under the press code, which does not provide for prison sentences. But he was charged under the penal code."
https://www.newarab.com/news/rights-advocates-urge-morocco-annul-activists-prison-term
M23 rebels pull out of peace talks with Congo after EU sanctions
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels on Monday pulled out of peace talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo's government less than 24 hours before the warring parties in eastern Congo's worst conflict in decades were due to convene in Angola.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/congo-m23-rebels-say-they-will-send-delegation-angola-peace-talks-2025-03-17/
Trump shutters Voice Of America, US soft-power icon
Most full-time VOA staff were not immediately terminated but remain on administrative leave and have been told not to work. Trump’s order also terminated funding for VOA’s sister broadcasters, such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Middle East Broadcasting Networks. Voice of America was founded during WWII as an American news network to broadcast into territory held by the Axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-shutters-voice-america-us-soft-power-icon
Hungarian government seeks to ban Budapest Pride
It make it an offence to hold or attend events that violate Hungary’s contentious “child protection” legislation, which prohibits the “depiction or promotion” of homosexuality to minors under 18. Attending a prohibited event would carry fines up to 200,000 Hungarian forints (£420), which the state would forward to “child protection.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hungarian-government-seeks-ban-budapest-pride
Mourners protest against corruption in North Macedonia after nightclub fire
Mickoski said preliminary investigations had revealed that the entertainment venue was operating illegally with an invalid licence obtained from the country’s economy ministry “in exchange for a bribe”. A former mayor of Kočani, Ratko Dimitrovski, had refused to issue a permit for the nightclub because it failed to meet basic safety standards.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/17/mourners-protest-against-corruption-in-north-macedonia-after-nightclub-fire
Trump regime demands Australian universities end “anti-US” and “socialist” links
Over the past fortnight, in line with the Trump administration’s fascistic “Make America Great Again” agenda, United States government agencies have sent Australian researchers working on joint projects with American colleagues a 36-point questionnaire, clearly threatening to cut off their funding. The five-page questionnaire, which appears to be a global notice, essentially demands that all research serve US military and strategic interests, as well as the Trump White House’s far-right offensive against government jobs, social services, science, public health, public education, environmental protection and “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) programs.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/17/osrp-m17.html
News 3/17/25
University Front begins 48-hour strike in ArgentinaIn a statement, the FSUN explained that the strike will take place in response to the policies implemented by the Government of Javier Milei and was called as part of a plan of struggle against the loss of workers’ salaries and the structural defunding of the centers of higher studies, facts that have a devastating impact on the sector.
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/03/17/university-front-begins-48-hour-strike-in-argentina/
Peruvian farmer takes major energy firm to court over greenhouse gas emissions posing risk to his home
Saul Luciano Lliuya’s case argues that the company’s historical greenhouse gas emissions have fuelled global warming, accelerating glacial melt above his home town of Huaraz, Peru. As a result Lake Palcacocha has swelled to dangerous levels, risking catastrophic flooding.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/peruvian-farmer-takes-major-energy-firm-court-over-greenhouse-gas-emissions-posing
Supporters of Brazil’s Bolsonaro protest on Copacabana Beach to defend him after coup charges
A sea of people wearing Brazil’s yellow-and-green national soccer jersey chanted and held placards reading “Amnesty, now!” Local media reported that around 18,000 people attended, based on figures from a monitoring project linked to the University of Sao Paulo. Bolsonaro’s allies had hoped to draw a crowd of 1 million.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-bolsonaro-demonstration-coup-1160d2159fb11f84715bcf158d5006bd
Brazil’s Solidarity party files Federal Court lawsuit to ban municipal lotteries
The Solidarity party claims municipal lotteries are creating a “truly chaotic scenario”, with jurisdictions such as Bodó flouting federal laws by allowing companies that haven’t achieved federal authorisation to operate within municipalities, largely without the same level of player protection measures and tax contributions as the federal regulator.
https://igamingbusiness.com/legal-compliance/solidarity-party-federal-court-municipal-lotteries/
https://archive.ph/uxWTc
Israelis moving to live in Europe ‘rejuvenating’ Jewish communities
Recent Israeli government statistics show accelerating emigration from Israel, driven by factors including political polarisation, the high cost of living, the impact of wars in Gaza and Lebanon, and security concerns after the bloody Hamas raid into Israel of October 2023 and Iranian attacks.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/17/israelis-moving-live-europe-rejuvenating-jewish-communities
Rights advocates urge Morocco to annul activist's prison term
Abdelmoumni, a human rights advocate, was sentenced in early March to six months in prison for charges related to a post he had shared on Facebook, alleging that Morocco had spied against France.A petition, which by Monday has gathered 295 signatures, said that "Abdelmoumni should have been prosecuted under the press code, which does not provide for prison sentences. But he was charged under the penal code."
https://www.newarab.com/news/rights-advocates-urge-morocco-annul-activists-prison-term
M23 rebels pull out of peace talks with Congo after EU sanctions
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels on Monday pulled out of peace talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo's government less than 24 hours before the warring parties in eastern Congo's worst conflict in decades were due to convene in Angola.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/congo-m23-rebels-say-they-will-send-delegation-angola-peace-talks-2025-03-17/
Trump shutters Voice Of America, US soft-power icon
Most full-time VOA staff were not immediately terminated but remain on administrative leave and have been told not to work. Trump’s order also terminated funding for VOA’s sister broadcasters, such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Middle East Broadcasting Networks. Voice of America was founded during WWII as an American news network to broadcast into territory held by the Axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-shutters-voice-america-us-soft-power-icon
Hungarian government seeks to ban Budapest Pride
It make it an offence to hold or attend events that violate Hungary’s contentious “child protection” legislation, which prohibits the “depiction or promotion” of homosexuality to minors under 18. Attending a prohibited event would carry fines up to 200,000 Hungarian forints (£420), which the state would forward to “child protection.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hungarian-government-seeks-ban-budapest-pride
Mourners protest against corruption in North Macedonia after nightclub fire
Mickoski said preliminary investigations had revealed that the entertainment venue was operating illegally with an invalid licence obtained from the country’s economy ministry “in exchange for a bribe”. A former mayor of Kočani, Ratko Dimitrovski, had refused to issue a permit for the nightclub because it failed to meet basic safety standards.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/17/mourners-protest-against-corruption-in-north-macedonia-after-nightclub-fire
Trump regime demands Australian universities end “anti-US” and “socialist” links
Over the past fortnight, in line with the Trump administration’s fascistic “Make America Great Again” agenda, United States government agencies have sent Australian researchers working on joint projects with American colleagues a 36-point questionnaire, clearly threatening to cut off their funding. The five-page questionnaire, which appears to be a global notice, essentially demands that all research serve US military and strategic interests, as well as the Trump White House’s far-right offensive against government jobs, social services, science, public health, public education, environmental protection and “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) programs.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/17/osrp-m17.html
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I fucking hate ai, nothing good will come of it, humanity has enough problems with out some ghoulish ketamine retards making a machine that makes it's own descions we can't control.
I fucking hate ai, nothing good will come of it, humanity has enough problems with out some ghoulish ketamine retards making a machine that makes it's own descions we can't control.
R: 12 / I: 0
You know how the widespread availability of industrial tech legitimized the capitalist led decentralization of society and politics? Well this company and others similar to it (Katerpillar) have both contributed the most to making “each man a factory owner” in a sense. It’s pretty hard to imagine the point of centralizing industry in a socialist system when you can just reproduce the productive forces with productive forces.
In short, there just isn’t enough of an incentive to centralize the use of industrial machinery if that machinery is self reproducing past getting rid of the capitalist class.
It’s not really that efficient (in terms of maximizing output and minimizing logistical headaches) to try to cram a bunch of people into an integrated mill or factory compared to just giving a bunch of people factory equipment and have them make whatever you need wherever the fuck those items are needed. Helps make deliveries quick and easier for everyone.
This isn’t just a loose idea either. Part of why Soviet industry was lagging by the second half of the Cold War was mainly over logitistical restraints. The soviets were slow to adapt the car and build enough industry outside of mainland Russia to keep logistics strong. these restraints were reflected pretty well with the inequality between mainland Russia and the rest of the states. It didn’t take long after a few shocks for shit to go bad.
Any objections?
I’ve been meaning to make a thread on this company for a while
I’m kind of surprised by the lack of talk about this idea, but this idea has been obvious to me for a while now.You know how the widespread availability of industrial tech legitimized the capitalist led decentralization of society and politics? Well this company and others similar to it (Katerpillar) have both contributed the most to making “each man a factory owner” in a sense. It’s pretty hard to imagine the point of centralizing industry in a socialist system when you can just reproduce the productive forces with productive forces.
In short, there just isn’t enough of an incentive to centralize the use of industrial machinery if that machinery is self reproducing past getting rid of the capitalist class.
It’s not really that efficient (in terms of maximizing output and minimizing logistical headaches) to try to cram a bunch of people into an integrated mill or factory compared to just giving a bunch of people factory equipment and have them make whatever you need wherever the fuck those items are needed. Helps make deliveries quick and easier for everyone.
This isn’t just a loose idea either. Part of why Soviet industry was lagging by the second half of the Cold War was mainly over logitistical restraints. The soviets were slow to adapt the car and build enough industry outside of mainland Russia to keep logistics strong. these restraints were reflected pretty well with the inequality between mainland Russia and the rest of the states. It didn’t take long after a few shocks for shit to go bad.
Any objections?
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https://fortune.com/2024/08/20/elon-musk-tesla-twitter-leveraged-buyout-debt-banks-barclays/
>Elon Musk’s Twitter deal may be the worst leveraged buyout deal for banks since Lehman, raising risks to Tesla
>Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter could go down as the worst leveraged buyout (LBO) deal for banks since the 2008 global financial crisis in the latest worrying sign the deal is proving costly to Tesla shareholders.
>Musk might still pull a rabbit out of a hat, but X’s financial woes are raising the alarm among Tesla bulls. Last week Halter Ferguson Financial warned that Musk may be forced to sell $1 billion to $2 billion worth of Tesla shares to plug financial cracks emerging at Twitter, now X, with fresh infusions of loss-absorbing equity.
burning Tesla stores
Is burning Tesla stores praxis or just adventurism? How many Tesla stores would have to burn for Musk to be forced to sell Twitter to his creditors? Tesla only has about 1300 dealerships globally, which are actually showrooms, Service Plus centers, and service facilities. This kind of antifascist arson is for comrades much braver than I am since I am a totally law abiding citizen who would never do such a thing.https://fortune.com/2024/08/20/elon-musk-tesla-twitter-leveraged-buyout-debt-banks-barclays/
>Elon Musk’s Twitter deal may be the worst leveraged buyout deal for banks since Lehman, raising risks to Tesla
>Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter could go down as the worst leveraged buyout (LBO) deal for banks since the 2008 global financial crisis in the latest worrying sign the deal is proving costly to Tesla shareholders.
>Musk might still pull a rabbit out of a hat, but X’s financial woes are raising the alarm among Tesla bulls. Last week Halter Ferguson Financial warned that Musk may be forced to sell $1 billion to $2 billion worth of Tesla shares to plug financial cracks emerging at Twitter, now X, with fresh infusions of loss-absorbing equity.
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There’s a lot contributing to this change:
Women’s education and crackdowns on pornographic material are the biggest causes. Simply put, more educated women and less patriarchy means less sex workers overall. Pair that with crackdowns and regulations against all forms of pornographic production through taxation and bans and it’s reasonable to expect that pornography will be even more rare than it is already. Entire countries have networks in place to ban porn from the internet of the average person.
Is pornography and sex work dying?
Yeah I’m serious with this. If you’ve survived this long, you’ve already seen a lot of things die by now and porn is looking as if it’s going to be seeing a slow death globally.There’s a lot contributing to this change:
Women’s education and crackdowns on pornographic material are the biggest causes. Simply put, more educated women and less patriarchy means less sex workers overall. Pair that with crackdowns and regulations against all forms of pornographic production through taxation and bans and it’s reasonable to expect that pornography will be even more rare than it is already. Entire countries have networks in place to ban porn from the internet of the average person.
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I've been looking more and more into libertarian socialism and its types and i cant stop the idea of thinking it just cant work in today environment with all the capitalists and imperialist states and govss, as soon as the a nation becomes if it were to say libertarian socialist any gov will just attack it and try to take it over either direct military conflict or throw inside attacks, and due to the lack of proper planned industrialization and command military system it will not be able to fend off, or for the fact how would the communes/federations even function if one disagrees or even want their to create their own state and so they try to fight other communes/federations, and so on. and how would high level education work, how do you know if doctors or engineers are even capable to pass or not ?, or how would hospitals or and h ow would medicine be made, or constructions or justice system, and welfare, child education,etc
Could anyone explain this to me ?
I've been looking more and more into libertarian socialism and its types and i cant stop the idea of thinking it just cant work in today environment with all the capitalists and imperialist states and govss, as soon as the a nation becomes if it were to say libertarian socialist any gov will just attack it and try to take it over either direct military conflict or throw inside attacks, and due to the lack of proper planned industrialization and command military system it will not be able to fend off, or for the fact how would the communes/federations even function if one disagrees or even want their to create their own state and so they try to fight other communes/federations, and so on. and how would high level education work, how do you know if doctors or engineers are even capable to pass or not ?, or how would hospitals or and h ow would medicine be made, or constructions or justice system, and welfare, child education,etc
Could anyone explain this to me ?
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Why did Breadtube fail?
With how openly right-wing a lot of big platforms on the internet are now like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and young people in general being less progressive, it's clear that this era of online politics did not work out the way it was intended to. Why is this? Was it too divisive? Simply not appealing?
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>Senator Schumer won't do anything to press Republicans with a shut down
Nice to see the American Left are spineless traitors to democracy like the right wingers are. As per usual. Biden was not as bad as Trump but he was still a doddery racist old cunt.
>Senator Schumer won't do anything to press Republicans with a shut down
Nice to see the American Left are spineless traitors to democracy like the right wingers are. As per usual. Biden was not as bad as Trump but he was still a doddery racist old cunt.
R: 84 / I: 28
Lenin (pic unrelated)
what did he mean by this
>That is why we shall strive to formulate our tasks in this new, higher stage of the struggle with the greatest, with treble caution. We shall formulate them as moderately as possible. We shall make as many concessions as possible within the limits, of course, of what the proletariat can concede and yet remain the ruling class. We shall collect the moderate surplus as quickly as possible and allow the greatest possible scope for the development, strengthening and revival of peasant farming. We shall lease the enterprises that are not absolutely essential for us to lessees, including private capitalists and foreign concessionaires. We need a bloc, or alliance, between the proletarian state and state capitalism against the petty-bourgeois element. We must achieve this alliance skilfully, following the rule: “Measure your cloth seven times before you cut.” We shall leave ourselves a smaller field of work, only what is absolutely necessary. We shall concentrate the enfeebled forces of the working class on something less, but we shall consolidate ourselves all the more and put ourselves to the test of practical experience not once or twice, but over and over again. Step by step, inch by inch—for at present the “troops” we have at our command cannot advance any other way on tbe difficult road we have to travel, in the stern conditions under which we are living, and amidst the dangers we have to face. Those who find this work “dull”, “uninteresting” and “unintelligible”, those who turn up their noses or become panic-stricken, or who become intoxicated with their own declamations about the absence of the “previous elation”, the “previous enthusiasm”, etc., had better be “relieved of their jobs” and given a back seat, so as to prevent them from causing harm; for they will not or cannot understand the specific features of the present stage, the present phase of the struggle.Lenin (pic unrelated)
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Sanaa residents said at least four airstrikes rocked the Eastern Geraf neighborhood in Shouab district, terrifying women and children in the area. “The explosions were very strong,” said Abdallah al-Alffi. “It was like an earthquake.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/15/us-launches-major-air-strikes-on-houthi-targets-in-yemen-at-least-9-killed
https://archive.ph/W9kt5
Israeli airstrikes ‘kill nine’ as Hamas restates Gaza ceasefire demands
Initial reports said a first strike took place as a Palestinian journalist Mahmoud Aslim was using a drone in the ruined town of Beit Lahiya to survey potential sites for tented camps on behalf of a local charitable organisation. A second strike targeted a car as it evacuated those injured by the first attack.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/15/hamas-tougher-stance-talks-gaza-truce-israel
Israel imposes harsh new restrictions on Gaza aid groups
The new regulations grant Israeli officials broader authority to deny the registration of NGOs operating in the occupied territories if staff members have criticised Israel, such as calling for a political boycott or expressing support for legal actions against Israelis who served in the military over alleged war crimes committed in Gaza during Israel's 16-month assault on the enclave.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-imposes-harsh-new-restrictions-gaza-aid-groups
SPLA units target support and supply positions of Moroccan occupation soldiers in Guelta sector
Units of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) targeted various military positions of the occupation soldiers in the Guelta sector, inflicting heavy losses in lives and equipment on the Moroccan occupation army.
https://www.spsrasd.info/en/2025/03/15/8522.html
Supermarket guards, truck drivers and ‘very big mistakes’: the failed role of western mercenaries in the fall of Goma
The operation was sloppy, marred by pay disputes and equipment shortages. It deployed ex-members of the security forces but also untrained recruits, such as supermarket guards, according to a one-year joint investigation from the Guardian, Romania’s Public Record and Belgium’s Le Soir. The Romeos also worked closely with local militias and participated in combat.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/14/failed-role-western-mercenaries-fall-of-goma-drc
France launches manslaughter probe against TotalEnergies over 2021 Mozambique massacre
French prosecutors on Friday launched an investigation into involuntary manslaughter and failure to assist persons in danger against TotalEnergies over a 2021 attack in Mozambique by jihadist militants near a major gas field. An independent investigator put the number of dead or missing in the attack at 1,402 people, including 55 Total subcontractors.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250315-france-launches-manslaughter-probe-against-totalenergies-over-mozambique-attack
https://archive.ph/fNbEg
New Austrian government halts family reunions for migrants
The measure is temporary and allegedly intended to ensure migrants already in the country can be “better integrated,” Chancellor Christian Stocker, from the conservative Austrian People’s Party, said on Wednesday.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-austrian-government-halts-family-reunions-migrants
Huge power outage in Cuba leaves millions in darkness
The grid failed on Friday evening about 8:15pm (00:15 GMT) after a breakdown at Diezmero substation in the capital, Havana, kicked off a chain reaction that shut down power generation across the island, according to officials at operator Union Electrica (UNE).
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/15/huge-power-outage-in-cuba-leaves-millions-in-darkness
https://archive.ph/bcjTq
Mexicans searching for missing relatives uncover possible mass killing site in Jalisco state
When a group of citizens searching for missing relatives in the western state of Jalisco arrived at a remote ranch outside Mexico’s second-largest city last week on an anonymous tip, all they had to do was push open the unlocked gate.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-disappeared-jalisco-cartel-64ee834c5c23440aae53267428ccc5c9
Women of MST increase pressure on the Brazilian government to advance with land reform
The mobilization occurred in 24 Brazilian states where there are MST activities and was part of the Landless Women’s Day of Struggle, which precedes the MST’s Red April, when the movement organizes large-scale actions to demand agrarian reform in the country.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/14/women-of-mst-increase-pressure-on-the-brazilian-government-to-advance-with-land-reform/
CPB braves threat to hold announced programme
The CPB and some other left political parties announced the programme protesting at the death of the rape victim, an eight-year-old child in Magura. Online activist Pinaki Bhattacharya, now living in France, in a Facebook post on Friday, urged people to lay siege to the CPB central office, asking them to hold the CPB accountable for supporting Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year regime and taking part in the Ganajagaran Mancha.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/politics/260212/cpb-braves-threat-to-hold-announced-programme
China brings back 3,000 suspects from Myanmar cyber scam hub after ‘no safe havens’ vow
The latest transfer saw 2,255 Chinese nationals held in Myanmar’s Myawaddy region escorted back under police supervision, bringing the total to 2,876, China’s Ministry of Public Security said on Friday.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3302526/china-brings-back-3000-suspects-myanmar-cyber-scam-hub-after-no-safe-havens-vow?module=top_story&pgtype=section
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Trump says US military carried out major air raids against Yemen’s HouthisSanaa residents said at least four airstrikes rocked the Eastern Geraf neighborhood in Shouab district, terrifying women and children in the area. “The explosions were very strong,” said Abdallah al-Alffi. “It was like an earthquake.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/15/us-launches-major-air-strikes-on-houthi-targets-in-yemen-at-least-9-killed
https://archive.ph/W9kt5
Israeli airstrikes ‘kill nine’ as Hamas restates Gaza ceasefire demands
Initial reports said a first strike took place as a Palestinian journalist Mahmoud Aslim was using a drone in the ruined town of Beit Lahiya to survey potential sites for tented camps on behalf of a local charitable organisation. A second strike targeted a car as it evacuated those injured by the first attack.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/15/hamas-tougher-stance-talks-gaza-truce-israel
Israel imposes harsh new restrictions on Gaza aid groups
The new regulations grant Israeli officials broader authority to deny the registration of NGOs operating in the occupied territories if staff members have criticised Israel, such as calling for a political boycott or expressing support for legal actions against Israelis who served in the military over alleged war crimes committed in Gaza during Israel's 16-month assault on the enclave.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-imposes-harsh-new-restrictions-gaza-aid-groups
SPLA units target support and supply positions of Moroccan occupation soldiers in Guelta sector
Units of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) targeted various military positions of the occupation soldiers in the Guelta sector, inflicting heavy losses in lives and equipment on the Moroccan occupation army.
https://www.spsrasd.info/en/2025/03/15/8522.html
Supermarket guards, truck drivers and ‘very big mistakes’: the failed role of western mercenaries in the fall of Goma
The operation was sloppy, marred by pay disputes and equipment shortages. It deployed ex-members of the security forces but also untrained recruits, such as supermarket guards, according to a one-year joint investigation from the Guardian, Romania’s Public Record and Belgium’s Le Soir. The Romeos also worked closely with local militias and participated in combat.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/14/failed-role-western-mercenaries-fall-of-goma-drc
France launches manslaughter probe against TotalEnergies over 2021 Mozambique massacre
French prosecutors on Friday launched an investigation into involuntary manslaughter and failure to assist persons in danger against TotalEnergies over a 2021 attack in Mozambique by jihadist militants near a major gas field. An independent investigator put the number of dead or missing in the attack at 1,402 people, including 55 Total subcontractors.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250315-france-launches-manslaughter-probe-against-totalenergies-over-mozambique-attack
https://archive.ph/fNbEg
New Austrian government halts family reunions for migrants
The measure is temporary and allegedly intended to ensure migrants already in the country can be “better integrated,” Chancellor Christian Stocker, from the conservative Austrian People’s Party, said on Wednesday.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-austrian-government-halts-family-reunions-migrants
Huge power outage in Cuba leaves millions in darkness
The grid failed on Friday evening about 8:15pm (00:15 GMT) after a breakdown at Diezmero substation in the capital, Havana, kicked off a chain reaction that shut down power generation across the island, according to officials at operator Union Electrica (UNE).
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/15/huge-power-outage-in-cuba-leaves-millions-in-darkness
https://archive.ph/bcjTq
Mexicans searching for missing relatives uncover possible mass killing site in Jalisco state
When a group of citizens searching for missing relatives in the western state of Jalisco arrived at a remote ranch outside Mexico’s second-largest city last week on an anonymous tip, all they had to do was push open the unlocked gate.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-disappeared-jalisco-cartel-64ee834c5c23440aae53267428ccc5c9
Women of MST increase pressure on the Brazilian government to advance with land reform
The mobilization occurred in 24 Brazilian states where there are MST activities and was part of the Landless Women’s Day of Struggle, which precedes the MST’s Red April, when the movement organizes large-scale actions to demand agrarian reform in the country.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/14/women-of-mst-increase-pressure-on-the-brazilian-government-to-advance-with-land-reform/
CPB braves threat to hold announced programme
The CPB and some other left political parties announced the programme protesting at the death of the rape victim, an eight-year-old child in Magura. Online activist Pinaki Bhattacharya, now living in France, in a Facebook post on Friday, urged people to lay siege to the CPB central office, asking them to hold the CPB accountable for supporting Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year regime and taking part in the Ganajagaran Mancha.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/politics/260212/cpb-braves-threat-to-hold-announced-programme
China brings back 3,000 suspects from Myanmar cyber scam hub after ‘no safe havens’ vow
The latest transfer saw 2,255 Chinese nationals held in Myanmar’s Myawaddy region escorted back under police supervision, bringing the total to 2,876, China’s Ministry of Public Security said on Friday.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3302526/china-brings-back-3000-suspects-myanmar-cyber-scam-hub-after-no-safe-havens-vow?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/7YoPZ
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
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A small as in minuscule win for canada
Hurray to our voters for not allowing a reactionary psychopath into office. We elected a sane and competent person into office with no shitty history of criminality or garbage politics this year as a successor to Trudeau. Now I get to sleep easy knowing that I don’t live in a country run by conservatives.
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All they have to do is just make their cities even bigger to give people space to move around and keep themselves concealed and everyone will have sex.
Just make the cities bigger lmfao
It’s not surprising why the fertility rate in china tanked. Those guys make such cramped environments where people lack personal space or privacy so often that everyone feels too scared to ever fuck because it’s likely that they’ll end up fucking in public or while someone else watches.All they have to do is just make their cities even bigger to give people space to move around and keep themselves concealed and everyone will have sex.
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>Liberal society likes to separate things into the “private sector” and “the government/state sector” when in reality private enterprise are forms of local governance that are recognized and defended by the state, and thus are ultimately part of the state and not separate from it. A more coherent analysis would be to separate society into the autocratic and the democratic sector, as this is more close to what is meant when Marxists talk about public vs private property.
>To own something means to have a say in its use, and so for a sector to be genuinely public it must be democratic, the working masses have to have input. Nationalization thus does not necessarily mean the transfer from private to public property. The state can still operate property privately. Even if the state nationalizes everything, it is still capitalism if it is still operated at the behest of private interests and not for the masses.
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7249654/6071787
The China simps on lemmygrad convinced themselves private property is state property. You can't make this shit up.
>Liberal society likes to separate things into the “private sector” and “the government/state sector” when in reality private enterprise are forms of local governance that are recognized and defended by the state, and thus are ultimately part of the state and not separate from it. A more coherent analysis would be to separate society into the autocratic and the democratic sector, as this is more close to what is meant when Marxists talk about public vs private property.
>To own something means to have a say in its use, and so for a sector to be genuinely public it must be democratic, the working masses have to have input. Nationalization thus does not necessarily mean the transfer from private to public property. The state can still operate property privately. Even if the state nationalizes everything, it is still capitalism if it is still operated at the behest of private interests and not for the masses.
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7249654/6071787
The China simps on lemmygrad convinced themselves private property is state property. You can't make this shit up.
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>inspired millions of proletarians and non bourgeoisie citizens to show open anger and disgust against the rich
>brazenly advertised the presence and open government support of fascism which pushed even more people against the American regime
>trashed the US bourgeoise government and its cops in the minds of even the lumpen completely
>and sabotaged American hegemony through isolationist and ultranationalist garbage, openly supporting Russian expansionism in Ukraine, and sabotaging the regime’s economic expansion
The anger is only growing the scale of anti bourgeoise violence is only growing. Like fuck, I have to thank these idiots for being so brazen and incompetent about everything. Under Biden, people didn’t notice the far higher deportation rates under his watch. With these idiots, we might actually see a national level demonstration against the Us Federal government this year.
Let’s just appreciate how much him and Elon have done
Through their actions they have>inspired millions of proletarians and non bourgeoisie citizens to show open anger and disgust against the rich
>brazenly advertised the presence and open government support of fascism which pushed even more people against the American regime
>trashed the US bourgeoise government and its cops in the minds of even the lumpen completely
>and sabotaged American hegemony through isolationist and ultranationalist garbage, openly supporting Russian expansionism in Ukraine, and sabotaging the regime’s economic expansion
The anger is only growing the scale of anti bourgeoise violence is only growing. Like fuck, I have to thank these idiots for being so brazen and incompetent about everything. Under Biden, people didn’t notice the far higher deportation rates under his watch. With these idiots, we might actually see a national level demonstration against the Us Federal government this year.
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>a chinese international student just showed up to our trot party's meeting in a store-bought PLA uniform
>a chinese international student just showed up to our trot party's meeting in a store-bought PLA uniform
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>I was able to observe Brezhnev at ceremonial functions in the spring and summer of 1981 when I was in charge of the American embassy in Moscow. He was not only incapable of speaking without a script, but often had trouble reading even simple texts. Moscow intellectuals would joke about the leader's condition. One prominent writer regaled us over dinner with Brezhnev imitations. One of them went as follows:
>Brezhnev goes to the airport to greet Margaret Thatcher. When she come out of the plane, he goes forward, looks at the paper in his hand, and reads "Welcome, Indira Gandhi!". Gromyko, standing beside him, whispers, "Not Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher”. Brezhnev looks at the paper again and repeats, "Welcome Indira Gandhi "Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher. Gromyko prompts, voice rising. Brezhnev turns to him and, waving his script, says. "I know she is Margaret Thatcher, but it says here Indira Gandhi”.
>This was only a slight exaggeration. When Brezhnev was seeing off a visiting chief of state at the VIP airport terminal west of Moscow, he and Gromyko walked past a group of journalists there covering the event. One called out in Russian, "How did the meeting go?" The voice was loud and clear but Brezhnev did not understand. The journalist repeated the question, even louder. Brezhnev turned to Gromyko, walking beside him, and asked, “Chto on skazal?" (What'd he say?). Gromyko replied, "Skazhi khonosho” (Just say fine). Brezhnev thereupon turned to the journalists and, face beaming with the satisfaction of a person who has just solved an intricate puzzle said, "Khorosho. Khorosho" (Fine. Fine).
Holy shit he was worse than Biden
From Jack F. Matlock’s Reagan and Gorbachev>I was able to observe Brezhnev at ceremonial functions in the spring and summer of 1981 when I was in charge of the American embassy in Moscow. He was not only incapable of speaking without a script, but often had trouble reading even simple texts. Moscow intellectuals would joke about the leader's condition. One prominent writer regaled us over dinner with Brezhnev imitations. One of them went as follows:
>Brezhnev goes to the airport to greet Margaret Thatcher. When she come out of the plane, he goes forward, looks at the paper in his hand, and reads "Welcome, Indira Gandhi!". Gromyko, standing beside him, whispers, "Not Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher”. Brezhnev looks at the paper again and repeats, "Welcome Indira Gandhi "Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher. Gromyko prompts, voice rising. Brezhnev turns to him and, waving his script, says. "I know she is Margaret Thatcher, but it says here Indira Gandhi”.
>This was only a slight exaggeration. When Brezhnev was seeing off a visiting chief of state at the VIP airport terminal west of Moscow, he and Gromyko walked past a group of journalists there covering the event. One called out in Russian, "How did the meeting go?" The voice was loud and clear but Brezhnev did not understand. The journalist repeated the question, even louder. Brezhnev turned to Gromyko, walking beside him, and asked, “Chto on skazal?" (What'd he say?). Gromyko replied, "Skazhi khonosho” (Just say fine). Brezhnev thereupon turned to the journalists and, face beaming with the satisfaction of a person who has just solved an intricate puzzle said, "Khorosho. Khorosho" (Fine. Fine).
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Why do some western leftists treat Ukraine as the Palestine from the Eastern Europe when they collaborated with nazis a great part of the WWII against the USSR?
Do they simply chose to ignore that it's a country fully ridden of Banderites and the blatant anti-communism that has been a great part of their culture since the beginning of the 19th century?
Ukraine-Russia War.
What's the only correct take on the Russia - Ukraine war?Why do some western leftists treat Ukraine as the Palestine from the Eastern Europe when they collaborated with nazis a great part of the WWII against the USSR?
Do they simply chose to ignore that it's a country fully ridden of Banderites and the blatant anti-communism that has been a great part of their culture since the beginning of the 19th century?
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>people say pakistan was the one supplying the taliban with arms and goods during the US occupation
>but during a recent radio war nerd episode they said the pakistani government hates the taliban because of border disputes and the taliban's support for the baloch insurgency
Why was pakistan supporting the taliban from 2001-2021 in the first place again?
>people say pakistan was the one supplying the taliban with arms and goods during the US occupation
>but during a recent radio war nerd episode they said the pakistani government hates the taliban because of border disputes and the taliban's support for the baloch insurgency
Why was pakistan supporting the taliban from 2001-2021 in the first place again?
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Finally, someone stood up against reactionaries in that trash country
Why the fuck won’t the average American actually take advantage of the 2nd admendment thing to do stuff like this. Being a perpetual victim accomplishes nothing. Why the fuck is it just one community doing a fucking thing and abusing American law to do anything in self defence—especially against nazis.
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do you think that Vladimir Putin is a communist like the American media says he is what do you think? He’s just a typical capitalist leader or do you think he’s a fascist leader
do you think that Vladimir Putin is a communist like the American media says he is what do you think? He’s just a typical capitalist leader or do you think he’s a fascist leader
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what is our opinion on Thomas Sankara and african/black leftism in general? It's very obvious that most African Revolunaires are Anti-Colonist but I've also seen most black socialists have very nationalistic opinions too. Would you call yourself an black socialist?
what is our opinion on Thomas Sankara and african/black leftism in general? It's very obvious that most African Revolunaires are Anti-Colonist but I've also seen most black socialists have very nationalistic opinions too. Would you call yourself an black socialist?
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Well that’s a first. I’ve been waiting for another transnational fighting force to emerge in the continent since the ASF got disbanded by the African union. God I hope the AES gets reintegrated into ecowas so the entire region has a transnational force to fight against terrorist shitbaggery.
The team at its current size stands at 5000 specially trained soldiers that are being actively deployed throughout the member states. Currently, military leaders are seeking dialogue with AES heads to deploy the transnational centralized force in the Sahel to keep all of west Africa protected against terrorism.
This development also comes just before the current president of Ghana (John mahama) met Traore over talks of reunification.
ECOWAS officially deploys soldiers to fight terrorism
https://punchng.com/ecowas-activates-standby-force-to-tackle-terrorism/Well that’s a first. I’ve been waiting for another transnational fighting force to emerge in the continent since the ASF got disbanded by the African union. God I hope the AES gets reintegrated into ecowas so the entire region has a transnational force to fight against terrorist shitbaggery.
The team at its current size stands at 5000 specially trained soldiers that are being actively deployed throughout the member states. Currently, military leaders are seeking dialogue with AES heads to deploy the transnational centralized force in the Sahel to keep all of west Africa protected against terrorism.
This development also comes just before the current president of Ghana (John mahama) met Traore over talks of reunification.
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But what is multipolarity? The emergence of China, the reassertion of Russia, the rise of regional powers like India, Brazil, and South Africa, among others, suggest a new global development, but is it towards a world where multiple powers exist in a state of relative equilibrium, hence challenging the unipolar hegemony led by the United States post-Cold War, or Capitalism 2: Electric Boogaloo - Neo-Dengism Edition?
To what extent is cheering on this developing state of affairs just capitalist nationalism? If the whole thrust of socialism is now simply competition between capitalist states, what becomes of the classical socialist goals of workers' control of the means of production, and abolishing class society?
Given that Russia/Iran (two of the 'multipolar' pillars) have thrown Syria under a bus, this thread is more important than ever. Syria was a secular socialist state that has been destroyed by jihadist terrorists. And no, it's not "campism" to support Syria. Syria was actually deserving of solidarity.
Required reading:
https://magma-magazin.su/2023/04/t-mohr/multipolarism-is-neo-kautskyism-on-real-denazification-and-its-enemies/
Related national/regional current threads:
• /africa/ - Africa general - >>>/leftypol/1831758
• /ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine war general - >>>/leftypol/2075250
• /sg/ - Syrian Civil War General - >>>/leftypol/2079199
• /prc/ - People's Republic of China general - >>>/leftypol/2056718
• /SEA/ - Southeast Asia General - >>>/leftypol/1947611
• /rus/ - Russia General - >>>/leftypol/2024350
• DPRK/ - Democratic People's Republic of Korea General - >>>/leftypol/1947383
Websites:
https://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/No-to-the-imperialist-war/
https://assembly.org.ua
https://rfu.media
https://us.politsturm.com
https://t.me/Agitblog
https://www.eurcomact.org/
https://www.idcommunism.com/
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But what is multipolarity? The emergence of China, the reassertion of Russia, the rise of regional powers like India, Brazil, and South Africa, among others, suggest a new global development, but is it towards a world where multiple powers exist in a state of relative equilibrium, hence challenging the unipolar hegemony led by the United States post-Cold War, or Capitalism 2: Electric Boogaloo - Neo-Dengism Edition?
To what extent is cheering on this developing state of affairs just capitalist nationalism? If the whole thrust of socialism is now simply competition between capitalist states, what becomes of the classical socialist goals of workers' control of the means of production, and abolishing class society?
Given that Russia/Iran (two of the 'multipolar' pillars) have thrown Syria under a bus, this thread is more important than ever. Syria was a secular socialist state that has been destroyed by jihadist terrorists. And no, it's not "campism" to support Syria. Syria was actually deserving of solidarity.
Required reading:
https://magma-magazin.su/2023/04/t-mohr/multipolarism-is-neo-kautskyism-on-real-denazification-and-its-enemies/
Related national/regional current threads:
• /africa/ - Africa general - >>>/leftypol/1831758
• /ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine war general - >>>/leftypol/2075250
• /sg/ - Syrian Civil War General - >>>/leftypol/2079199
• /prc/ - People's Republic of China general - >>>/leftypol/2056718
• /SEA/ - Southeast Asia General - >>>/leftypol/1947611
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• DPRK/ - Democratic People's Republic of Korea General - >>>/leftypol/1947383
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https://assembly.org.ua
https://rfu.media
https://us.politsturm.com
https://t.me/Agitblog
https://www.eurcomact.org/
https://www.idcommunism.com/
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This is a Western thing and I'm sure it wasn't like this always. Part of it is the same reason that people blow up at vegans because they feel inherently judged by someone's lifestyle, but there's also something deeper happening here. In an individualistic and capitalist society we are being trained to break down any barriers between work and non work. Every second of the day is seen as OUR TIME, and if you're in a car and a guy on a bicycle happens to be in front of you, they must be winning at this insane game of every man for himself life that we've been trained to believe in.
Cycling
Has anyone else noticed the absolutely insane level of discourse around cycling. Any social media post involving a cyclist and the logic of 90% of the posters is GET OFF THE ROAD HOW DARE YOU IF YOU GET KNOCKED OVER ITS YOUR FAULT?This is a Western thing and I'm sure it wasn't like this always. Part of it is the same reason that people blow up at vegans because they feel inherently judged by someone's lifestyle, but there's also something deeper happening here. In an individualistic and capitalist society we are being trained to break down any barriers between work and non work. Every second of the day is seen as OUR TIME, and if you're in a car and a guy on a bicycle happens to be in front of you, they must be winning at this insane game of every man for himself life that we've been trained to believe in.
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Why are so many employers against people working from home even if studies find out its many times more effective and cheaper?
Why do they care so much?
Is there a material reason for this, is it just irrational hate or do the bourgeoise get some sick pleasure out of humiliating and tormenting their employees?
Why are so many employers against people working from home even if studies find out its many times more effective and cheaper?
Why do they care so much?
Is there a material reason for this, is it just irrational hate or do the bourgeoise get some sick pleasure out of humiliating and tormenting their employees?
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George Orwell was not a great writer he was not a leftist Who work with MI6 and he was also racist.
George Orwell was not a great writer he was not a leftist Who work with MI6 and he was also racist.
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i) multipolarism is returning conflicting antagonism between competing state-capitalisms,
ii) the developing bourgeois subordination of or merger with the state,
iii) the coming war between socialist China and US imperialism,
iv) the need to be able to quickly rouse up subjective conditions of revolution when the world crisis comes,
v) the deeply rooted Christian consciousness among the western working classes,
I propose we rewrite socialist theory in simple parables. The simplicity of Jesus' parables is what made them spread quickly because it doesn't take a lot to understand them. Socialist theory is dense but even at Congresses of bolsheviks you find the delegates using parables to explaing ideas. Take for example
https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/rsdlp/1903/ch21.htm
Plekhanov:
>Imagine a policeman, the embodiment of the police state, and along with him, imagine a bourgeois who is struggling with this policeman, striving to win some rights for himself, but not for the working class, and, finally, imagine a proletarian who is watching the fight between the bourgeois and the policeman and wondering: ‘What should I do?’ The reply of the Utopian Socialists was: ‘Do not get mixed up in this fight, it is a family quarrel between your enemies, and whichever of them wins, you will gain nothing, or you may even lose a great deal.’ We, from the standpoint of modern scientific socialism, say to the proletariat: the outcome of this struggle is not a matter of indifference to you—every blow that the policeman gets from the bourgeois is a step forward along the path of progress and is therefore to your advantage. But, in his fight with the policeman, the bourgeois is thinking not of you but of himself, and moreover, cannot cope with the policeman, so you must yourself enter the fray, armed to the teeth, as the French say, so as not only to knock down the policeman but also to be in a position to rebuff the bourgeois when he wants to deprive you of the fruits of victory. That’s all.
or Stalin's parable about the shoemaker that has been circling around for some time here but I can't find it now.
>Here is a simple illustration. Let us take a shoemaker who owned a tiny workshop, but who, unable to withstand the competition of the big manufacturers, closed his workshop and took a job, say, at Adelkhanov’s shoe factory in Tiflis. He went to work at Adelkhanov’s factory not with the view to becoming a permanent wage-worker, but with the object of saving up some money, of accumulating a little capital to enable him to reopen his workshop. As you see, the position of this shoemaker is already proletarian, but his consciousness is still non-proletarian, it is thoroughly petty-bourgeois. In other words, this shoemaker has already lost his petty-bourgeois position, it has gone, but his petty-bourgeois consciousness has not yet gone, it has lagged behind his actual position.
>Clearly, here too, in social life, first the external conditions change, first the conditions of men change and then their consciousness changes accordingly.
>But let us return to our shoemaker. As we already know, he intends to save up some money and then reopen his workshop. This proletarianized shoemaker goes on working, but finds that it is a very difficult matter to save money, because what he earns barely suffices to maintain an existence. Moreover, he realizes that the opening of a private workshop is after all not so alluring: the rent he will have to pay for the premises, the caprices of customers, shortage of money, the competition of the big manufacturers and similar worries — such are the many troubles that torment the private workshop owner. On the other hand, the proletarian is relatively freer from such cares; he is not troubled by customers, or by having to pay rent for premises. He goes to the factory every morning, calmly goes home in the evening, and as calmly pockets his pay on Saturdays. Here, for the first time, the wings of our shoemaker’s petty-bourgeois dreams are clipped; here for the first time proletarian strivings awaken in his soul.
>Time passes and our shoemaker sees that he has not enough money to satisfy his most essential needs, that what he needs very badly is a rise in wages. At the same time, he hears his fellow-workers talking about unions and strikes. Here our shoemaker realizes that in order to improve his conditions he must fight the masters and not open a workshop of his own. He joins the union, enters the strike movement, and soon becomes imbued with socialist ideas…
Do you know of any other examples? Post them!!
/sms/ - socialism made simple
It view of the facts thati) multipolarism is returning conflicting antagonism between competing state-capitalisms,
ii) the developing bourgeois subordination of or merger with the state,
iii) the coming war between socialist China and US imperialism,
iv) the need to be able to quickly rouse up subjective conditions of revolution when the world crisis comes,
v) the deeply rooted Christian consciousness among the western working classes,
I propose we rewrite socialist theory in simple parables. The simplicity of Jesus' parables is what made them spread quickly because it doesn't take a lot to understand them. Socialist theory is dense but even at Congresses of bolsheviks you find the delegates using parables to explaing ideas. Take for example
https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/rsdlp/1903/ch21.htm
Plekhanov:
>Imagine a policeman, the embodiment of the police state, and along with him, imagine a bourgeois who is struggling with this policeman, striving to win some rights for himself, but not for the working class, and, finally, imagine a proletarian who is watching the fight between the bourgeois and the policeman and wondering: ‘What should I do?’ The reply of the Utopian Socialists was: ‘Do not get mixed up in this fight, it is a family quarrel between your enemies, and whichever of them wins, you will gain nothing, or you may even lose a great deal.’ We, from the standpoint of modern scientific socialism, say to the proletariat: the outcome of this struggle is not a matter of indifference to you—every blow that the policeman gets from the bourgeois is a step forward along the path of progress and is therefore to your advantage. But, in his fight with the policeman, the bourgeois is thinking not of you but of himself, and moreover, cannot cope with the policeman, so you must yourself enter the fray, armed to the teeth, as the French say, so as not only to knock down the policeman but also to be in a position to rebuff the bourgeois when he wants to deprive you of the fruits of victory. That’s all.
or Stalin's parable about the shoemaker that has been circling around for some time here but I can't find it now.
>Here is a simple illustration. Let us take a shoemaker who owned a tiny workshop, but who, unable to withstand the competition of the big manufacturers, closed his workshop and took a job, say, at Adelkhanov’s shoe factory in Tiflis. He went to work at Adelkhanov’s factory not with the view to becoming a permanent wage-worker, but with the object of saving up some money, of accumulating a little capital to enable him to reopen his workshop. As you see, the position of this shoemaker is already proletarian, but his consciousness is still non-proletarian, it is thoroughly petty-bourgeois. In other words, this shoemaker has already lost his petty-bourgeois position, it has gone, but his petty-bourgeois consciousness has not yet gone, it has lagged behind his actual position.
>Clearly, here too, in social life, first the external conditions change, first the conditions of men change and then their consciousness changes accordingly.
>But let us return to our shoemaker. As we already know, he intends to save up some money and then reopen his workshop. This proletarianized shoemaker goes on working, but finds that it is a very difficult matter to save money, because what he earns barely suffices to maintain an existence. Moreover, he realizes that the opening of a private workshop is after all not so alluring: the rent he will have to pay for the premises, the caprices of customers, shortage of money, the competition of the big manufacturers and similar worries — such are the many troubles that torment the private workshop owner. On the other hand, the proletarian is relatively freer from such cares; he is not troubled by customers, or by having to pay rent for premises. He goes to the factory every morning, calmly goes home in the evening, and as calmly pockets his pay on Saturdays. Here, for the first time, the wings of our shoemaker’s petty-bourgeois dreams are clipped; here for the first time proletarian strivings awaken in his soul.
>Time passes and our shoemaker sees that he has not enough money to satisfy his most essential needs, that what he needs very badly is a rise in wages. At the same time, he hears his fellow-workers talking about unions and strikes. Here our shoemaker realizes that in order to improve his conditions he must fight the masters and not open a workshop of his own. He joins the union, enters the strike movement, and soon becomes imbued with socialist ideas…
Do you know of any other examples? Post them!!
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Viktor Yanukovych: Refused IMF loan, got couped
Evo Morales: Refused IMF loan, got couped
Thomas Sankara: Refused IMF loan, got couped
Any other leaders who got couped specifically after refusing IMF loans? I know a lot of leaders get couped by the CIA for nationalization, Marxism, refusing to implement austerity policies, refusing to bust unions, refusing to deregulate, refusing foreign direct investment etc.
But I am looking specifically for the ones who refused IMF loans.
Viktor Yanukovych: Refused IMF loan, got couped
Evo Morales: Refused IMF loan, got couped
Thomas Sankara: Refused IMF loan, got couped
Any other leaders who got couped specifically after refusing IMF loans? I know a lot of leaders get couped by the CIA for nationalization, Marxism, refusing to implement austerity policies, refusing to bust unions, refusing to deregulate, refusing foreign direct investment etc.
But I am looking specifically for the ones who refused IMF loans.
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/Political Economy/ General 1 - Marx Edition
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Representatives of Iran, Russia and China have urged United States President Donald Trump’s administration to end sanctions imposed against Tehran over its rapidly advancing nuclear programme, while calling for the resumption of the multilateral talks on the issue.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/14/iran-russia-china-call-on-us-to-lift-sanctions-and-restart-nuclear-talks
https://archive.ph/8rSL0
Syria's Kurds reject temporary constitution, calling it 'authoritarian'
Under its framework, Al-Sharaa will be able to propose laws, veto legislation, and exert significant influence over the selection of lawmakers in parliament. He will also be responsible for picking all seven judges at the Constitutional Court, leading to concerns about the independence of the judiciary.
https://www.newarab.com/news/syrias-kurds-reject-authoritarian-temporary-constitution
Sudan rejects US request to discuss taking in Palestinians under Trump’s Gaza plan
One said the contacts began even before Trump’s inauguration with offers of military assistance in the army’s fight against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, assistance with postwar reconstruction and other incentives. Both officials said the Sudanese government rejected the idea. “This suggestion was immediately rebuffed,” said one official. “No one opened this matter again.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/sudan-rejects-us-request-discuss-taking-palestinians-donald-trump-gaza-plan
Man suspected of murdering prominent Odesa activist detained, authorities say
Hanul, 31, was a well-known public figure, blogger, and founder of the Street Front NGO. He participated in the EuroMaidan Revolution and the May 2 clashes against pro-Russian forces in Odesa.
https://kyivindependent.com/suspect-in-murder-of-prominent-ukrainian-activist-detained-in-odesa/
https://archive.ph/TfJV1
UK MPs join Corbyn's call for 'Chilcot-style' inquiry into UK role in Gaza
He recalled the Chilcot inquiry into the invasion of Iraq, which found that Tony Blair's government had based its decision on "flawed intelligence and assessments". Corbyn urged a similar inquiry into Britain's complicity with Israel's assault on Gaza, which has killed at least 61,000 people.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/parliamentarians-back-corbyns-call-chilcot-style-inquiry-uk-role-gaza
U.K. court holds hearing on Apple’s fight against surveillance order
U.K. rights groups and U.S. lawmakers have asked a British surveillance court to let the public into a secret hearing Friday on Apple’s bid to block an order to build spying capability into its most secure system for storing customers’ electronic content.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/14/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk-order/
https://archive.ph/IwTFG
Greek PM seeks ‘reset’ with former far-right activist as migration minister
In an attempt to stem declining approval ratings, Kyriakos Mitsotakis placed the self-described nationalist, Makis Voridis, in the sensitive post while selecting a number of younger officials to key portfolios including the transport ministry.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/14/greek-pm-seeks-reset-with-former-far-right-activist-as-migration-minister
A Budget Brazenly Cynical About Working Poor
The Budget 2025-26 redistributes purchasing power from the working poor to the salariat without touching the rich, while keeping the fiscal deficit more or less unchanged to appease global finance.
https://www.newsclick.in/budget-brazenly-cynical-about-working-poor
Pakistan links train hijacking to ‘Afghan handlers’ and Indian mastermind
Chaudhry also referred to the media coverage carried out by Indian mainstream channels, which relied on videos shared by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), the separatist group responsible for the attack, and accused them of using images generated by artificial intelligence or old incidents.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/14/pakistan-links-train-hijacking-to-afghan-handlers-and-indian-mastermind
https://archive.ph/JL68O
Rights groups in Peru slam a new law restricting civil society organisations
HUMAN rights groups in Peru have condemned a new law approved by Congress that imposes sweeping restrictions on civil society organisations and deals a blow to anti-corruption efforts.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rights-groups-peru-slam-new-law-restricting-civil-society-organisations
Moncada, Nasralla, and Asfura emerge as frontrunner candidates for Honduran presidential elections in November
The country still faces major security issues and while the progressive pole has grown stronger with Xiomara Castro’s victory and government, there is growing polarization between the progressive camp and the right wing, neoliberal sectors.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/13/moncada-nasralla-and-asfura-emerge-as-frontrunner-candidates-for-honduran-presidential-elections-in-november/
News 3/14/25
Russia, China call on US to drop Iran sanctions, restart nuclear talksRepresentatives of Iran, Russia and China have urged United States President Donald Trump’s administration to end sanctions imposed against Tehran over its rapidly advancing nuclear programme, while calling for the resumption of the multilateral talks on the issue.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/14/iran-russia-china-call-on-us-to-lift-sanctions-and-restart-nuclear-talks
https://archive.ph/8rSL0
Syria's Kurds reject temporary constitution, calling it 'authoritarian'
Under its framework, Al-Sharaa will be able to propose laws, veto legislation, and exert significant influence over the selection of lawmakers in parliament. He will also be responsible for picking all seven judges at the Constitutional Court, leading to concerns about the independence of the judiciary.
https://www.newarab.com/news/syrias-kurds-reject-authoritarian-temporary-constitution
Sudan rejects US request to discuss taking in Palestinians under Trump’s Gaza plan
One said the contacts began even before Trump’s inauguration with offers of military assistance in the army’s fight against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, assistance with postwar reconstruction and other incentives. Both officials said the Sudanese government rejected the idea. “This suggestion was immediately rebuffed,” said one official. “No one opened this matter again.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/sudan-rejects-us-request-discuss-taking-palestinians-donald-trump-gaza-plan
Man suspected of murdering prominent Odesa activist detained, authorities say
Hanul, 31, was a well-known public figure, blogger, and founder of the Street Front NGO. He participated in the EuroMaidan Revolution and the May 2 clashes against pro-Russian forces in Odesa.
https://kyivindependent.com/suspect-in-murder-of-prominent-ukrainian-activist-detained-in-odesa/
https://archive.ph/TfJV1
UK MPs join Corbyn's call for 'Chilcot-style' inquiry into UK role in Gaza
He recalled the Chilcot inquiry into the invasion of Iraq, which found that Tony Blair's government had based its decision on "flawed intelligence and assessments". Corbyn urged a similar inquiry into Britain's complicity with Israel's assault on Gaza, which has killed at least 61,000 people.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/parliamentarians-back-corbyns-call-chilcot-style-inquiry-uk-role-gaza
U.K. court holds hearing on Apple’s fight against surveillance order
U.K. rights groups and U.S. lawmakers have asked a British surveillance court to let the public into a secret hearing Friday on Apple’s bid to block an order to build spying capability into its most secure system for storing customers’ electronic content.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/14/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk-order/
https://archive.ph/IwTFG
Greek PM seeks ‘reset’ with former far-right activist as migration minister
In an attempt to stem declining approval ratings, Kyriakos Mitsotakis placed the self-described nationalist, Makis Voridis, in the sensitive post while selecting a number of younger officials to key portfolios including the transport ministry.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/14/greek-pm-seeks-reset-with-former-far-right-activist-as-migration-minister
A Budget Brazenly Cynical About Working Poor
The Budget 2025-26 redistributes purchasing power from the working poor to the salariat without touching the rich, while keeping the fiscal deficit more or less unchanged to appease global finance.
https://www.newsclick.in/budget-brazenly-cynical-about-working-poor
Pakistan links train hijacking to ‘Afghan handlers’ and Indian mastermind
Chaudhry also referred to the media coverage carried out by Indian mainstream channels, which relied on videos shared by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), the separatist group responsible for the attack, and accused them of using images generated by artificial intelligence or old incidents.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/14/pakistan-links-train-hijacking-to-afghan-handlers-and-indian-mastermind
https://archive.ph/JL68O
Rights groups in Peru slam a new law restricting civil society organisations
HUMAN rights groups in Peru have condemned a new law approved by Congress that imposes sweeping restrictions on civil society organisations and deals a blow to anti-corruption efforts.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rights-groups-peru-slam-new-law-restricting-civil-society-organisations
Moncada, Nasralla, and Asfura emerge as frontrunner candidates for Honduran presidential elections in November
The country still faces major security issues and while the progressive pole has grown stronger with Xiomara Castro’s victory and government, there is growing polarization between the progressive camp and the right wing, neoliberal sectors.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/13/moncada-nasralla-and-asfura-emerge-as-frontrunner-candidates-for-honduran-presidential-elections-in-november/
R: 44 / I: 6
If Marx was alive today, 2025 AD, what leftist strand do you think he would support? Maoist? ML? Juche? I'm just curious to know about your opinions. What of 10000 leftist strand came close to what Marx actually envisions?
If Marx was alive today, 2025 AD, what leftist strand do you think he would support? Maoist? ML? Juche? I'm just curious to know about your opinions. What of 10000 leftist strand came close to what Marx actually envisions?
R: 10 / I: 1 (sage)
That all being said - the last year or so has been horrible for me as a Jew. Every day I have to let fear dictate my actions. I can't embrace my identity. I can't be publicly Jewish. The last time I wore my yarmulke I was told it's equivalent to walking around with a nazi armband.
I know Palestinians aren't the cause of this, the protest movement isn't the cause of this, but nevertheless I have to admit I'm scared of being Jewish in this country (America). Sometimes I feel like leftists forget that Jews are victims too.
Any fellow Jews feel the same way? Is the experience different outside of America? Let's have a Jew thread for us to share the Jewish experience on /leftypol/
Jew thread
Firstly I want to declare outright that I condemn the Israeli genoicide of Gazans totally. I've attended pro-Palestinian protests and I know that opposing the occupation is NOT "antisemitism".That all being said - the last year or so has been horrible for me as a Jew. Every day I have to let fear dictate my actions. I can't embrace my identity. I can't be publicly Jewish. The last time I wore my yarmulke I was told it's equivalent to walking around with a nazi armband.
I know Palestinians aren't the cause of this, the protest movement isn't the cause of this, but nevertheless I have to admit I'm scared of being Jewish in this country (America). Sometimes I feel like leftists forget that Jews are victims too.
Any fellow Jews feel the same way? Is the experience different outside of America? Let's have a Jew thread for us to share the Jewish experience on /leftypol/
R: 57 / I: 8
Mfs don’t get to own land unless their corporate overlords say they can. They don’t get to have children unless they’re programmed to be the perfect slaves for Samsung and Hyundai. They don’t get to consume anything not made by their corporate overlords either. No wonder South Koreans are so desperate to flee to Japan and the USA where they have actual rights (to owning their own fucking place.)
A country of renters…
No wonder why South Korea is a corporate dystopia.Mfs don’t get to own land unless their corporate overlords say they can. They don’t get to have children unless they’re programmed to be the perfect slaves for Samsung and Hyundai. They don’t get to consume anything not made by their corporate overlords either. No wonder South Koreans are so desperate to flee to Japan and the USA where they have actual rights (to owning their own fucking place.)
R: 3 / I: 2
"Healthy in body and mind, I end my life before pitiless old age which has taken from me my pleasures and joys one after another; and which has been stripping me of my physical and mental powers, can paralyse my energy and break my will, making me a burden to myself and to others.
For some years I had promised myself not to live beyond 70; and I fixed the exact year for my departure from life. I prepared the method for the execution of our resolution, it was a hypodermic of cyanide acid.
I die with the supreme joy of knowing that at some future time, the cause to which I have been devoted for forty-five years will triumph.
Long live Communism! Long Live the international socialism!"
- Laura Marx and Paul Lafargue, joint suicide letter
"If one cannot work for the Party any longer, one must be able to look truth in the face and die like the Lafargues."
- Vladimir Lenin
YOU CAN DIE COLD, ALONE, SENILE, STINKING, NEGLECTED, TOOTHLESS, BEDBOUND, LIVER-SPOTTED, ACHING, UNABLE TO WIPE YOUR OWN ASS OR YOU CAN DIE WITH DIGNITY TRYING TO BRING ABOUT INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION. WHAT'S A BULLET TO THE HEAD OR A FEW DAYS OF TORTURE AT THE HANDS OF REACTIONARIES VERSUS THE SUFFERING AND LONELINESS AND SENILITY AND HEARTBREAK OF OLD AGE?!?!?!
"Healthy in body and mind, I end my life before pitiless old age which has taken from me my pleasures and joys one after another; and which has been stripping me of my physical and mental powers, can paralyse my energy and break my will, making me a burden to myself and to others.
For some years I had promised myself not to live beyond 70; and I fixed the exact year for my departure from life. I prepared the method for the execution of our resolution, it was a hypodermic of cyanide acid.
I die with the supreme joy of knowing that at some future time, the cause to which I have been devoted for forty-five years will triumph.
Long live Communism! Long Live the international socialism!"
- Laura Marx and Paul Lafargue, joint suicide letter
"If one cannot work for the Party any longer, one must be able to look truth in the face and die like the Lafargues."
- Vladimir Lenin
YOU CAN DIE COLD, ALONE, SENILE, STINKING, NEGLECTED, TOOTHLESS, BEDBOUND, LIVER-SPOTTED, ACHING, UNABLE TO WIPE YOUR OWN ASS OR YOU CAN DIE WITH DIGNITY TRYING TO BRING ABOUT INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION. WHAT'S A BULLET TO THE HEAD OR A FEW DAYS OF TORTURE AT THE HANDS OF REACTIONARIES VERSUS THE SUFFERING AND LONELINESS AND SENILITY AND HEARTBREAK OF OLD AGE?!?!?!
R: 1 / I: 0
It was mostly battled between the "Center" right party Forza Italy and the suckdem 5 Star Movement, with the latter having oroginally won the election by like 600 votes.
But of course, in response to that, Gentile, the Forza Italia candidate started legal procedings because of "irregularities".
Apparently, 90 people between voters and pooling station workers, repoted to have had seen irregularities, and instead of writing them down to be submitted to the electoral office like it should be according to the law, they told Gentile instead. And the Electoral Board, being staffed by Fi members, of course, accepts his recourse.
The leftover problem of course is that they still haven't won, so in a shitty act of pure piggy malice they started digging in the invalid votes, and retroactively assign to Gentile ANY vote which had even the slightest trace of pencil on the Forza Italia logo.
Anyway, I've found out about this only now and I'm furious.
Electoral Fraud in Italy
2022 national election in Cosenza, southern italy.It was mostly battled between the "Center" right party Forza Italy and the suckdem 5 Star Movement, with the latter having oroginally won the election by like 600 votes.
But of course, in response to that, Gentile, the Forza Italia candidate started legal procedings because of "irregularities".
Apparently, 90 people between voters and pooling station workers, repoted to have had seen irregularities, and instead of writing them down to be submitted to the electoral office like it should be according to the law, they told Gentile instead. And the Electoral Board, being staffed by Fi members, of course, accepts his recourse.
The leftover problem of course is that they still haven't won, so in a shitty act of pure piggy malice they started digging in the invalid votes, and retroactively assign to Gentile ANY vote which had even the slightest trace of pencil on the Forza Italia logo.
Anyway, I've found out about this only now and I'm furious.
R: 606 / I: 94 (full)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/05/labour-left-keir-starmer-power-right-britain
<The published excerpts from Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund’s new book, Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer, lay out the strategy of this rightwing faction. “Occasionally they even spoke of their leader as if he were a useful idiot,” they write. “Keir acts like an HR manager, not a leader,” his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, is quoted as saying. They saw Starmer as a convenient empty vessel, whom they could deceive a Corbynite Labour membership into voting for, then use their yes-man to permanently bury the left before replacing him with a true believer, the ultra-Blairite Wes Streeting. Alas, the Tories managed to implode and the man they see as a useful idiot sits in No 10, pretending to drive a train.
/leftybritpol/ - patsy edition
A thread to talk about the rapidly failing state known as Great Britain (twinned with Haiti)https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/05/labour-left-keir-starmer-power-right-britain
<The published excerpts from Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund’s new book, Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer, lay out the strategy of this rightwing faction. “Occasionally they even spoke of their leader as if he were a useful idiot,” they write. “Keir acts like an HR manager, not a leader,” his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, is quoted as saying. They saw Starmer as a convenient empty vessel, whom they could deceive a Corbynite Labour membership into voting for, then use their yes-man to permanently bury the left before replacing him with a true believer, the ultra-Blairite Wes Streeting. Alas, the Tories managed to implode and the man they see as a useful idiot sits in No 10, pretending to drive a train.
R: 8 / I: 4
Due to the now very real shortages in land availability, landlords, proletarians, artisans, and job seekers alike no longer have any room to continue building anything new. The city is no longer a concentrated mass, but an entity that has covered all the land available.
The only way to meet infrastructure demands is to build on top of the existing city. This both ensures that developers can still build what they want and not trigger anger among those whose homes are at risk of demolishion. There is no longer a “city” but cities built on top of cities to keep up with demand. These are urban conglomerations.
What I’m describing isn’t an ideal situation, but the story of many Asian and African cities. If you take a map of urban sprawl. Hell, the greater Bay Area as an urban conglomerations only exists because of the rapid unplanned expansion seen during the private housing boom.
How should modern socialists adapt to such a new change. How should socialists adapt to the reality that future cities will stretch for dozens to hundreds of kilometres wide while incorporating territories the size of small countries?
The limitations of sprawl, when there genuinely isn’t enough land
Let’s say that cities for some reasons stopped imposing restrictions on where people could build. Massive plots of unused land and farmland get sold to random adults that communally and independently build suburbs as far as the eye can see until there is no more land available in their own territory.Due to the now very real shortages in land availability, landlords, proletarians, artisans, and job seekers alike no longer have any room to continue building anything new. The city is no longer a concentrated mass, but an entity that has covered all the land available.
The only way to meet infrastructure demands is to build on top of the existing city. This both ensures that developers can still build what they want and not trigger anger among those whose homes are at risk of demolishion. There is no longer a “city” but cities built on top of cities to keep up with demand. These are urban conglomerations.
What I’m describing isn’t an ideal situation, but the story of many Asian and African cities. If you take a map of urban sprawl. Hell, the greater Bay Area as an urban conglomerations only exists because of the rapid unplanned expansion seen during the private housing boom.
How should modern socialists adapt to such a new change. How should socialists adapt to the reality that future cities will stretch for dozens to hundreds of kilometres wide while incorporating territories the size of small countries?
R: 605 / I: 204 (full)
Link dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au/
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://redflag.org.au/
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/
https://overland.org.au/
https://arena.org.au/
https://www.themonthly.com.au/
https://www.crikey.com.au/
https://www.redblacknotes.com/
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.net/r/AustralianSocialism
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
>Shortlist of anarchist orgs/stores (2022)
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
/auspol/ - Australia General
/auspol/ - Australia GeneralLink dump:
https://www.greenleft.org.au/
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://redflag.org.au/
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/
https://overland.org.au/
https://arena.org.au/
https://www.themonthly.com.au/
https://www.crikey.com.au/
https://www.redblacknotes.com/
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://reddit.net/r/AustralianSocialism
https://www.labourstart.org/news/country.php?country=Australia&langcode=en
>Shortlist of anarchist orgs/stores (2022)
https://anarchistnews.org/content/spotters-guide-anarchism-australia-and-aotearoa
R: 26 / I: 5
Tell me ‘historical materialists’
If history is truly determined by dialects, then why aren’t people building massive dome fortresses and underground complexes to defend their homes and cities against artillery fire and drones?
R: 6 / I: 2
Starmer’s move reverses the unpopular shake-up of the NHS carried out by the former health secretary Andrew Lansley in the first years of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/13/keir-starmer-abolishes-nhs-england-executive-body
Momentum launches campaign to get Labour MPs to vote down government welfare cuts
Ministers have already pledged to cut £3 billion from the welfare budget over three years and next week are expected to announce in a green paper that billions more will be axed from the main disability benefit, the personal independence payment (PIP) and funding to help those with long-term illness to return to work.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/momentum-launches-campaign-get-labour-mps-vote-down
Former Spanish military man who spied on Assange for the CIA is investigated for falsifying evidence
The opening of new proceedings at a Madrid courthouse comes after Judge Pedraz recused himself and asked the Madrid courts to investigate Morales for alleged forgery of official documents and procedural fraud. Court No. 45 has accepted Pedraz’s recusal and opened proceedings against Morales.
https://english.elpais.com/spain/2025-03-13/former-spanish-military-man-who-spied-on-assange-for-the-cia-is-investigated-for-falsifying-evidence.html
Syrian president signs interim constitutional declaration which 'emphasises civil liberties'
Regarding the political system, the constitutional declaration would define the basic powers of the president of the republic, noting that the government wouldn’t include the position of prime minister, and that the form of state would be presidential. The declaration would also specify a transitional period of three to five years, and designate Islamic jurisprudence as the primary source of legislation, while a balance would be maintained between religious values and national rights.
https://www.newarab.com/news/syrian-president-signs-interim-constitutional-declaration
Nestlé worker self-immolates in court after 9-year battle, igniting a worker’s movement for justice
Workers unions, left parties, and family members of Asif Jutt continue to mobilize in Pakistan against the systemic violations of workers rights. Their struggle for justice follows the tragic suicide of Jutt, a long-term Nestlé employee, who died by suicide after a decade-long battle against company management failed to bring him justice.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/13/nestle-worker-self-immolates-in-court-after-9-year-battle-igniting-a-workers-movement-for-justice/
Tigray regional government appeals to Ethiopian government for help after TPLF faction seizes major towns
TPLF seized Adigrat, the second-biggest town in Tigray, on Tuesday and appointed a new administrator, ousting an office-holder loyal to the interim government. A day later it took control of Adi-Gudem, a town near the regional capital, Mekele. Several people in Adi-Gudem suffered gunshot wounds when armed forces attempted to occupy a government building.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tigray-regional-government-appeals-ethiopian-government-help-after-tplf-faction-seizes
Sudan army claims ‘100 drones downed in 10 days’ as call for control of UAV trade cites ‘943 civilian dead across Africa’
Hundreds of civilians have died in military drone strikes in conflict zones across Africa over the past years. A report released today by Drone Wars UK, entitled Death on Delivery draws attention to more than 943 civilian deaths and untold injuries, in at least 50 separate incidents between November 2021 and November 2024, including Sudan, Ethiopia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and Somalia.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/call-for-intl-control-of-drone-trade-as-attacks-kill-at-least-943-civilians-across-africa
Southern Africa regional bloc to withdraw troops from DRC amid M23 advance
In a communique released after the summit, the group said DC’s mission in the DRC (also known as SAMIDRC) would be “terminated … and directed the commencement of a phased withdrawal of SAMIDRC troops”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/13/southern-africa-regional-bloc-to-withdraw-troops-from-drc-amid-m23-advance
https://archive.ph/eAUA3
Argentine Government Threatens Buenos Aires Judge Who Released Detained Protesters
Despite increasing police brutality, retirees continue to protest every Wednesday outside Congress, demanding that their pensions be adjusted for inflation, the restoration of medication coverage, and the continuation of the pension moratorium, which allowed those without sufficient years of contributions to access a pension.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-government-threatens-buenos-aires-judge-who-released-detained-protesters/
Bolivia turns to crypto for energy imports amid dollar, fuel shortages
Bolivia's state energy firm YPFB will use cryptocurrency to pay for energy imports amid a painful shortage of dollars and fuel in the landlocked South American nation, a company spokesperson and a government official told Reuters on Wednesday.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/bolivia-turns-crypto-energy-imports-amid-dollar-fuel-shortages-2025-03-12/
News 3/13/25
Keir Starmer scraps NHS England to put health service ‘into democratic control’Starmer’s move reverses the unpopular shake-up of the NHS carried out by the former health secretary Andrew Lansley in the first years of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/13/keir-starmer-abolishes-nhs-england-executive-body
Momentum launches campaign to get Labour MPs to vote down government welfare cuts
Ministers have already pledged to cut £3 billion from the welfare budget over three years and next week are expected to announce in a green paper that billions more will be axed from the main disability benefit, the personal independence payment (PIP) and funding to help those with long-term illness to return to work.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/momentum-launches-campaign-get-labour-mps-vote-down
Former Spanish military man who spied on Assange for the CIA is investigated for falsifying evidence
The opening of new proceedings at a Madrid courthouse comes after Judge Pedraz recused himself and asked the Madrid courts to investigate Morales for alleged forgery of official documents and procedural fraud. Court No. 45 has accepted Pedraz’s recusal and opened proceedings against Morales.
https://english.elpais.com/spain/2025-03-13/former-spanish-military-man-who-spied-on-assange-for-the-cia-is-investigated-for-falsifying-evidence.html
Syrian president signs interim constitutional declaration which 'emphasises civil liberties'
Regarding the political system, the constitutional declaration would define the basic powers of the president of the republic, noting that the government wouldn’t include the position of prime minister, and that the form of state would be presidential. The declaration would also specify a transitional period of three to five years, and designate Islamic jurisprudence as the primary source of legislation, while a balance would be maintained between religious values and national rights.
https://www.newarab.com/news/syrian-president-signs-interim-constitutional-declaration
Nestlé worker self-immolates in court after 9-year battle, igniting a worker’s movement for justice
Workers unions, left parties, and family members of Asif Jutt continue to mobilize in Pakistan against the systemic violations of workers rights. Their struggle for justice follows the tragic suicide of Jutt, a long-term Nestlé employee, who died by suicide after a decade-long battle against company management failed to bring him justice.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/13/nestle-worker-self-immolates-in-court-after-9-year-battle-igniting-a-workers-movement-for-justice/
Tigray regional government appeals to Ethiopian government for help after TPLF faction seizes major towns
TPLF seized Adigrat, the second-biggest town in Tigray, on Tuesday and appointed a new administrator, ousting an office-holder loyal to the interim government. A day later it took control of Adi-Gudem, a town near the regional capital, Mekele. Several people in Adi-Gudem suffered gunshot wounds when armed forces attempted to occupy a government building.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tigray-regional-government-appeals-ethiopian-government-help-after-tplf-faction-seizes
Sudan army claims ‘100 drones downed in 10 days’ as call for control of UAV trade cites ‘943 civilian dead across Africa’
Hundreds of civilians have died in military drone strikes in conflict zones across Africa over the past years. A report released today by Drone Wars UK, entitled Death on Delivery draws attention to more than 943 civilian deaths and untold injuries, in at least 50 separate incidents between November 2021 and November 2024, including Sudan, Ethiopia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and Somalia.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/call-for-intl-control-of-drone-trade-as-attacks-kill-at-least-943-civilians-across-africa
Southern Africa regional bloc to withdraw troops from DRC amid M23 advance
In a communique released after the summit, the group said DC’s mission in the DRC (also known as SAMIDRC) would be “terminated … and directed the commencement of a phased withdrawal of SAMIDRC troops”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/13/southern-africa-regional-bloc-to-withdraw-troops-from-drc-amid-m23-advance
https://archive.ph/eAUA3
Argentine Government Threatens Buenos Aires Judge Who Released Detained Protesters
Despite increasing police brutality, retirees continue to protest every Wednesday outside Congress, demanding that their pensions be adjusted for inflation, the restoration of medication coverage, and the continuation of the pension moratorium, which allowed those without sufficient years of contributions to access a pension.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-government-threatens-buenos-aires-judge-who-released-detained-protesters/
Bolivia turns to crypto for energy imports amid dollar, fuel shortages
Bolivia's state energy firm YPFB will use cryptocurrency to pay for energy imports amid a painful shortage of dollars and fuel in the landlocked South American nation, a company spokesperson and a government official told Reuters on Wednesday.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/bolivia-turns-crypto-energy-imports-amid-dollar-fuel-shortages-2025-03-12/
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Canadian anon here. How are Mexican anons coping with the threat of impending doom from America? Honestly, I have no idea what the Mexican left analysis of the situation is right now and I'm curious.
Canadian anon here. How are Mexican anons coping with the threat of impending doom from America? Honestly, I have no idea what the Mexican left analysis of the situation is right now and I'm curious.
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I know that during that point in time in Europe, the old regimes still somewhat existed so you still had something like peasants and lords even though their economic circumstance was capitalistic rather than feudalistic.
Refresh my memory
So why exactly did ᴉuᴉlossnW stop being a socialist? Apparently his parents were, was it an act of rebellion or based on something more materially or philosophically tangible?I know that during that point in time in Europe, the old regimes still somewhat existed so you still had something like peasants and lords even though their economic circumstance was capitalistic rather than feudalistic.
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
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>PUK Calls on Socialist International to Support Kurds in Fighting Terrorism & Extremism
>PUK urged Socialist International (SI) parties to assist the Kurds in combating terrorism and extremism during the Council of SI Meeting, which culminated with the adoption of the Rabat Declaration.
>The Council of SI Meeting took place in Rabat, the capital of Morocco, on December 22 and 23, 2024, with members from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in attendance. The meeting was also attended by SI President Pedro Sánchez, and 196 parties from 116 world countries.
>Fryal Abdullah, a member of the PUK Leadership Council and a party representative at the meeting, informed PUKMEDIA: "The declaration underscored the necessity of respecting state sovereignty and territorial integrity, the significance of international collaboration to address economic and climate challenges, and the emphasis on equality, social justice, and adherence to the Paris Climate Agreement."
>She emphasised that as the PUK, they underscored the significance of safeguarding democracy and human rights, upholding the rule of law, conducting transparent elections, and denouncing the manipulation of their outcomes.
>Concerning women's rights, she said: "We emphasised the necessity of promoting gender equality and empowering women to attain decision-making roles, while highlighting the importance of opposing factions that resist women's rights and incorporating women into peace processes to guarantee the comprehensiveness and efficacy of agreements that promote global peace."
>She asserted that "the PUK's address at the meeting effectively alerted attendees to the ongoing threats posed by terrorist organisations in Iraqi Kurdistan and the surrounding region, emphasising the necessity of continued support for combating extremism and terrorism, which have emerged as significant threats to regional security and stability."
>She further emphasised that the PUK members also mentioned "the Kurds in Syria, particularly in Rojava, oversee the largest prison for terrorists, and it is vital that this facility receives enhanced support to mitigate its potential dangers to neighbouring countries."
>Abdullah noted that "the PUK's proposals, which emphasise the adherence to democratic values, the respect for state sovereignty, and the enhancement of regional integration as a strategy to address the political and economic crises affecting the participating nations, as well as to confront the escalating violations of fundamental freedoms and to address armed conflicts, were acknowledged by the socialist parties attending the meeting."
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A thread to discuss methods and means to assist with with Volunteer work>PUK Calls on Socialist International to Support Kurds in Fighting Terrorism & Extremism
>PUK urged Socialist International (SI) parties to assist the Kurds in combating terrorism and extremism during the Council of SI Meeting, which culminated with the adoption of the Rabat Declaration.
>The Council of SI Meeting took place in Rabat, the capital of Morocco, on December 22 and 23, 2024, with members from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in attendance. The meeting was also attended by SI President Pedro Sánchez, and 196 parties from 116 world countries.
>Fryal Abdullah, a member of the PUK Leadership Council and a party representative at the meeting, informed PUKMEDIA: "The declaration underscored the necessity of respecting state sovereignty and territorial integrity, the significance of international collaboration to address economic and climate challenges, and the emphasis on equality, social justice, and adherence to the Paris Climate Agreement."
>She emphasised that as the PUK, they underscored the significance of safeguarding democracy and human rights, upholding the rule of law, conducting transparent elections, and denouncing the manipulation of their outcomes.
>Concerning women's rights, she said: "We emphasised the necessity of promoting gender equality and empowering women to attain decision-making roles, while highlighting the importance of opposing factions that resist women's rights and incorporating women into peace processes to guarantee the comprehensiveness and efficacy of agreements that promote global peace."
>She asserted that "the PUK's address at the meeting effectively alerted attendees to the ongoing threats posed by terrorist organisations in Iraqi Kurdistan and the surrounding region, emphasising the necessity of continued support for combating extremism and terrorism, which have emerged as significant threats to regional security and stability."
>She further emphasised that the PUK members also mentioned "the Kurds in Syria, particularly in Rojava, oversee the largest prison for terrorists, and it is vital that this facility receives enhanced support to mitigate its potential dangers to neighbouring countries."
>Abdullah noted that "the PUK's proposals, which emphasise the adherence to democratic values, the respect for state sovereignty, and the enhancement of regional integration as a strategy to address the political and economic crises affecting the participating nations, as well as to confront the escalating violations of fundamental freedoms and to address armed conflicts, were acknowledged by the socialist parties attending the meeting."
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So they do have cable cars
What the fuck xi? Why the fuck won’t they build more of that shit? It’s fucking 2025 and we still don’t have cable cars as a standardized form of transport in china of places.
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Trump is leading us to a Great Victory. All glory to Trump. MAGA is the future path for all mankind. Loyalty to Nation, love of Homeland, strength, honor, manhood. These are some of the core values of Trump's revolution. Strong families, strong borders, strong nations. We believe in this cause. The migrants (including so-called "legal" ones) must go back. This is the path to world redemption. All we need is faith and loyalty and the rest is simple. Believe in Trump. FIGHT.
Trump is leading us to a Great Victory. All glory to Trump. MAGA is the future path for all mankind. Loyalty to Nation, love of Homeland, strength, honor, manhood. These are some of the core values of Trump's revolution. Strong families, strong borders, strong nations. We believe in this cause. The migrants (including so-called "legal" ones) must go back. This is the path to world redemption. All we need is faith and loyalty and the rest is simple. Believe in Trump. FIGHT.
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“We [have] established a strategic alliance to strengthen our capabilities in the fight against narco-terrorism and to protect our waters from illegal fishing,” Noboa tweeted alongside a photograph of the two men sitting together.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/12/ecuador-president-blackwater-alliance
Petro Bypasses Congress, Takes Colombia’s Social Reforms Directly to Voters
Petro’s announcement came hours after eight senators revealed plans to block his labor reform in committee. This reform would restore extra pay for Sunday and holiday work, improve overtime compensation, and regulate digital platform employment. The health reform seeks to diminish insurance companies’ power and expand healthcare access. Both proposals represent cornerstone promises from Petro’s 2022 campaign when he became Colombia‘s first leftist president.
https://www.riotimesonline.com/petro-bypasses-congress-takes-colombias-social-reforms-directly-to-voters/
https://archive.ph/e3DhJ
Houthis begin blockade on Israeli ships as Gaza humanitarian situation deteriorates
The announcement comes as Gaza's humanitarian situation continues to worsen following Israel's blockade, which on Sunday saw the cutting of electricity to the enclave.
https://www.newarab.com/news/houthis-blockade-israeli-ships-over-blocking-gaza-aid
PA’s killing of resistance fighter amid army raid signals its open coordination with Israel
Palestinian security spokesperson Anwar Rajab stated that security forces were fulfilling their duty to maintain order when they engaged Abu al-Muna, describing him as an "outlaw" who had previously fired on security service headquarters.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pas-killing-resistance-fighter-amid-army-raid-signals-its-open-coordination-israel
Turkish party leader says his arrest is part of a crackdown on Erdogan's political opponents
The leader of a Turkish nationalist party has said he was arrested and detained on political grounds as part of an opposition crackdown that contradicts the government's purported effort to boost democracy while ending a Kurdish militant insurgency.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkish-party-leader-says-his-arrest-is-part-crackdown-erdogans-political-2025-03-12/
Indonesian fishermen sue Bumble Bee and say the canned tuna giant knew of abuse in its supply chain
Lawyers representing four Indonesian fishermen who say they were beaten and trapped on vessels that were part of the global supply chain that provided tuna to Bumble Bee Seafoods filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the canned seafood giant.
https://apnews.com/article/seafood-slaves-bumble-bee-forced-labor-tuna-4d58d6442f0e41599000dce6d95550a9
Right-wing Demokraatit Party win Greenland's parliamentary elections
The Democrats won 30 per cent of the vote on Tuesday, compared to just 9 per cent in the previous election four years ago, the Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation reported. Point of Orientation received almost 25 per cent of the vote, up from just under 12 per cent in the 2021 election.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/right-wing-demokraatit-party-win-greenlands-parliamentary-elections
EU retaliates against Trump tariffs with €26bn ‘countermeasures’
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, called the 25% US levies on global imports of the metals “unjustified trade restrictions”, after they came into force at 4am GMT on Wednesday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/eu-retaliates-against-trump-tariffs-with-26bn-countermeasures
Labour ramped up Britain's Israeli arms exports after general election, data shows
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) said the new data from July to September 2024 showed a large increase in arms exports compared with the first half of the year.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-ramped-britains-israeli-arms-exports-after-general-election-data-shows
Portugal’s government loses confidence vote, triggering early election amid prolonged instability
A new election, likely in May, pitches the country of 10.6 million people into months of political uncertainty just as it is in the process of investing more than 22 billion euros ($24 billion) in EU development funds. The European continent, meanwhile, is facing immediate challenges to its security and economy.
https://apnews.com/article/portugal-government-collapse-confidence-vote-2e081d0d60954cb1449636e420e0e687
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Ecuador enlists founder of Blackwater private army as ally in ‘war’ on crime“We [have] established a strategic alliance to strengthen our capabilities in the fight against narco-terrorism and to protect our waters from illegal fishing,” Noboa tweeted alongside a photograph of the two men sitting together.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/12/ecuador-president-blackwater-alliance
Petro Bypasses Congress, Takes Colombia’s Social Reforms Directly to Voters
Petro’s announcement came hours after eight senators revealed plans to block his labor reform in committee. This reform would restore extra pay for Sunday and holiday work, improve overtime compensation, and regulate digital platform employment. The health reform seeks to diminish insurance companies’ power and expand healthcare access. Both proposals represent cornerstone promises from Petro’s 2022 campaign when he became Colombia‘s first leftist president.
https://www.riotimesonline.com/petro-bypasses-congress-takes-colombias-social-reforms-directly-to-voters/
https://archive.ph/e3DhJ
Houthis begin blockade on Israeli ships as Gaza humanitarian situation deteriorates
The announcement comes as Gaza's humanitarian situation continues to worsen following Israel's blockade, which on Sunday saw the cutting of electricity to the enclave.
https://www.newarab.com/news/houthis-blockade-israeli-ships-over-blocking-gaza-aid
PA’s killing of resistance fighter amid army raid signals its open coordination with Israel
Palestinian security spokesperson Anwar Rajab stated that security forces were fulfilling their duty to maintain order when they engaged Abu al-Muna, describing him as an "outlaw" who had previously fired on security service headquarters.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pas-killing-resistance-fighter-amid-army-raid-signals-its-open-coordination-israel
Turkish party leader says his arrest is part of a crackdown on Erdogan's political opponents
The leader of a Turkish nationalist party has said he was arrested and detained on political grounds as part of an opposition crackdown that contradicts the government's purported effort to boost democracy while ending a Kurdish militant insurgency.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkish-party-leader-says-his-arrest-is-part-crackdown-erdogans-political-2025-03-12/
Indonesian fishermen sue Bumble Bee and say the canned tuna giant knew of abuse in its supply chain
Lawyers representing four Indonesian fishermen who say they were beaten and trapped on vessels that were part of the global supply chain that provided tuna to Bumble Bee Seafoods filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the canned seafood giant.
https://apnews.com/article/seafood-slaves-bumble-bee-forced-labor-tuna-4d58d6442f0e41599000dce6d95550a9
Right-wing Demokraatit Party win Greenland's parliamentary elections
The Democrats won 30 per cent of the vote on Tuesday, compared to just 9 per cent in the previous election four years ago, the Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation reported. Point of Orientation received almost 25 per cent of the vote, up from just under 12 per cent in the 2021 election.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/right-wing-demokraatit-party-win-greenlands-parliamentary-elections
EU retaliates against Trump tariffs with €26bn ‘countermeasures’
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, called the 25% US levies on global imports of the metals “unjustified trade restrictions”, after they came into force at 4am GMT on Wednesday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/eu-retaliates-against-trump-tariffs-with-26bn-countermeasures
Labour ramped up Britain's Israeli arms exports after general election, data shows
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) said the new data from July to September 2024 showed a large increase in arms exports compared with the first half of the year.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-ramped-britains-israeli-arms-exports-after-general-election-data-shows
Portugal’s government loses confidence vote, triggering early election amid prolonged instability
A new election, likely in May, pitches the country of 10.6 million people into months of political uncertainty just as it is in the process of investing more than 22 billion euros ($24 billion) in EU development funds. The European continent, meanwhile, is facing immediate challenges to its security and economy.
https://apnews.com/article/portugal-government-collapse-confidence-vote-2e081d0d60954cb1449636e420e0e687
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Do you know anyone on the left who has used DiaMat to justify pedophilia or some other repugnant thing?
Not to single them out, but I see this a lot with anarchists (usually Stirnerite egoists) and also some Trotskyists. I think of the Sparts who justify CSA by claiming the USSR had no age of consent, for instance.
Do you know anyone on the left who has used DiaMat to justify pedophilia or some other repugnant thing?
Not to single them out, but I see this a lot with anarchists (usually Stirnerite egoists) and also some Trotskyists. I think of the Sparts who justify CSA by claiming the USSR had no age of consent, for instance.
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<In one treaty, the U.S. annexed the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming. It subsequently illegally invaded Indigenous territory in the west.
>Canada could be next — perhaps not immediately as the 51st state, but quite possibly as a U.S. territory that would deny Canadians any voting rights for Congress or the presidency, allow only some autonomy and make questions of citizenship ambiguous. The constitutional architecture exists in the U.S. to make it happen.
<That’s the wrong reading. How Trump could make good on the threat can be found in the U.S. Constitution. There is both potential and precedent for the U.S. to acquire territory through cession or subjugation.
what is the chance this happens in practice? How does NATO figure into this?
Canada Annexation
https://theconversation.com/how-the-u-s-could-in-fact-make-canada-an-american-territory-246877<In one treaty, the U.S. annexed the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming. It subsequently illegally invaded Indigenous territory in the west.
>Canada could be next — perhaps not immediately as the 51st state, but quite possibly as a U.S. territory that would deny Canadians any voting rights for Congress or the presidency, allow only some autonomy and make questions of citizenship ambiguous. The constitutional architecture exists in the U.S. to make it happen.
<That’s the wrong reading. How Trump could make good on the threat can be found in the U.S. Constitution. There is both potential and precedent for the U.S. to acquire territory through cession or subjugation.
what is the chance this happens in practice? How does NATO figure into this?
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If a petite-bourgeoisie entrepreneur does not employ labor besides his own and only makes enough profit to sustain his middle class lifestyle are they absolutely to be considered enemies of the working class? Should they be given a chance to give up their position as entrepreneurs if it is necessary and is it so necessary in the condition that they work to make a living for themselves? It seems as though a lot of the self-employed would fit into this category, which now compose more and more of the labor market in service of others for personal income in which what differentiates them from the proletariat? It seems like an oddity to me and some would write that this is all illiterate, but if they work to produce commodities to make a living are they not selling their own labor power just like the proletariat, with the only difference being benign as the employer is replaced by varying actors from the market? What differentiates a wage worker in a fast food chain who also works to produce commodities from an individual entrepreneur who does it by himself with no aspiring to growth - for the same sum of money in the contrast between salary and profit. It seems that the only thing that would push them towards fascism is being unable to compete at risk of going bankrupt - being forced to employ labor and grow. And what if they do not wish to do that at all? Has their attitude always remained the same since they were called by name? Or have times changed to consider most modern "workers" as petite-bourgeoisie in the likes of programmers, artists, bakers, street performers, mechanics and such? What differentiates a prostitute which was considered lumpen from these other fields? They all self-employ, they all run on individual entrepreneurship, produce commodities, profit and remain lower to middle class. A food street vendor in India, where he profits no more than the average salary, is he an enemy of the proletariat?
I am curious about this. I don't have the patience to sift through Capital to figure this out at the moment, so I am making this thread to ask, though I will definitely continue reading Capital another time.
With all this written, in addition here is an anecdote:
I argued with this one anarchist, who claimed that anarchists, communists, socialists and such should work with the bourgeoisie against the capitalist class. I asked him why he thinks the capitalist class is different from the bourgeoisie and where he read that from. He told me that he didn't read it, but came to that conclusion naturally. The story being that he started a business to make enough money to support his wife who had an illness which he would not have been able to on a normal wage. When his wife had passed, he had closed down the business. But with the money he earned he had afforded a house to live in, while others in his region could only afford to live in apartments. He had afforded a car as well. So he was better off than most people in his place. I was wondering if I should call him a leech until he told me that he worked all on his own and never employed anyone for a wage. Yet I still wondered if I should call him a fascist over promoting class collaboration between workers and the bourgeoisie. Even so, it seemed wrong.
On the petite-bourgeoisie
The petite-bourgeoisie are said to be the class of small merchants which aspire to become big, that grow and follow the insensitive to profit, that flock to fascism when threatened by big capital. However, does that apply to those who aspire or see themselves as aligned with the communist movement? I have spoken to such people, who run pizzerias with no employed labor, the only labor they use is their own, those who grow crops and sell them engaging in individual entrepreneurship, not with hopes to grow but to sustain themselves and live a decent life in regions of poverty. Are they too the enemies of the working class? Are they enemies if they claim to align themselves? Are they to be trusted with giving up their wealth? What we saw with figures like Engels who received great sums of money through his father's business, or Lenin who came from the better off Blank family who's members had owned serfs, or Kropotkin who stepped down from his title as a knyaz, as did Tolstoy in spite of their shortcomings are we to accept them as special abnormalities to be overlooked?If a petite-bourgeoisie entrepreneur does not employ labor besides his own and only makes enough profit to sustain his middle class lifestyle are they absolutely to be considered enemies of the working class? Should they be given a chance to give up their position as entrepreneurs if it is necessary and is it so necessary in the condition that they work to make a living for themselves? It seems as though a lot of the self-employed would fit into this category, which now compose more and more of the labor market in service of others for personal income in which what differentiates them from the proletariat? It seems like an oddity to me and some would write that this is all illiterate, but if they work to produce commodities to make a living are they not selling their own labor power just like the proletariat, with the only difference being benign as the employer is replaced by varying actors from the market? What differentiates a wage worker in a fast food chain who also works to produce commodities from an individual entrepreneur who does it by himself with no aspiring to growth - for the same sum of money in the contrast between salary and profit. It seems that the only thing that would push them towards fascism is being unable to compete at risk of going bankrupt - being forced to employ labor and grow. And what if they do not wish to do that at all? Has their attitude always remained the same since they were called by name? Or have times changed to consider most modern "workers" as petite-bourgeoisie in the likes of programmers, artists, bakers, street performers, mechanics and such? What differentiates a prostitute which was considered lumpen from these other fields? They all self-employ, they all run on individual entrepreneurship, produce commodities, profit and remain lower to middle class. A food street vendor in India, where he profits no more than the average salary, is he an enemy of the proletariat?
I am curious about this. I don't have the patience to sift through Capital to figure this out at the moment, so I am making this thread to ask, though I will definitely continue reading Capital another time.
With all this written, in addition here is an anecdote:
I argued with this one anarchist, who claimed that anarchists, communists, socialists and such should work with the bourgeoisie against the capitalist class. I asked him why he thinks the capitalist class is different from the bourgeoisie and where he read that from. He told me that he didn't read it, but came to that conclusion naturally. The story being that he started a business to make enough money to support his wife who had an illness which he would not have been able to on a normal wage. When his wife had passed, he had closed down the business. But with the money he earned he had afforded a house to live in, while others in his region could only afford to live in apartments. He had afforded a car as well. So he was better off than most people in his place. I was wondering if I should call him a leech until he told me that he worked all on his own and never employed anyone for a wage. Yet I still wondered if I should call him a fascist over promoting class collaboration between workers and the bourgeoisie. Even so, it seemed wrong.
R: 5 / I: 1
EZLN
Whats happening down in Chiapas these days? From my surface understanding they seem pretty based, giving rights to the indigenous and stuff like that. I'd like to see them continue to thrive and fight in the future.
R: 37 / I: 12 (sage)
Read my TRXTHNUKE
The main problem with revolutionaries and anarchists is that most are just bystanders who are waiting for someone else to act instead of starting it themselves. An example is you’ll see many marxists say “when China and America go to war there will be a revolution”, and my question is this, what if America dominates China? Or what if China (state capitalist so still believes in slavery) occupies the states? Trust me a foreign invading country will not make your life better or destroy capitalism even if they larp as communists. If we truly want a revolution we must stop relying off of things outside of our influence to bring it. No another techno rape machine state will not help us and no just waiting won’t either.
R: 1 / I: 1
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
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R: 30 / I: 6
Is there ANY reason to attempt to convert liberals into radicals anymore?
The liberal says: save the existing elite institutions.
The radical says: burn the elite institutions to the ground.
As much as I despise Trump, I actually support him revoking federal funding to prestigious universities like Columbia and UCLA given that unis like Columbia and UCLA serve the AmeriKKKan imperialist war and genocide machine. I also support gutting USAID for the same reason: USAID is the "humanitarian" wing of the CIA and its primary purpose is to foment colour revolutions and keep the exploited nations (such as those in Africa) dependent on western hands to feed them. I also support ending aid to Ukraine but that's a no-brainer. However, liberals have largely reacted hysterically to these policies on the basis that elite universities, USAID, etc. are "progressive". Do I think Trump is anti-imperialist? Hell no. He's overtly imperialist and reminiscent of old school 19th century European imperialists. But liberals can't see how their own policies keep the imperialist machine running.
I know there are material reasons as to why liberals are liberals and not radicals. The easy answer is, they largely make up the "professional" class and benefit from the status quo. However, I'm certain there's much more to it than that and I'm curious to know your thoughts.
Is there ANY reason to attempt to convert liberals into radicals anymore?
The liberal says: save the existing elite institutions.
The radical says: burn the elite institutions to the ground.
As much as I despise Trump, I actually support him revoking federal funding to prestigious universities like Columbia and UCLA given that unis like Columbia and UCLA serve the AmeriKKKan imperialist war and genocide machine. I also support gutting USAID for the same reason: USAID is the "humanitarian" wing of the CIA and its primary purpose is to foment colour revolutions and keep the exploited nations (such as those in Africa) dependent on western hands to feed them. I also support ending aid to Ukraine but that's a no-brainer. However, liberals have largely reacted hysterically to these policies on the basis that elite universities, USAID, etc. are "progressive". Do I think Trump is anti-imperialist? Hell no. He's overtly imperialist and reminiscent of old school 19th century European imperialists. But liberals can't see how their own policies keep the imperialist machine running.
I know there are material reasons as to why liberals are liberals and not radicals. The easy answer is, they largely make up the "professional" class and benefit from the status quo. However, I'm certain there's much more to it than that and I'm curious to know your thoughts.
R: 236 / I: 20
discuss the state of the "Axis of Resistance" and its future: Iran, Hezbollah, formerly Syria (what is SDF's role? critical support or no?), and Hamas, Houthis, various other militias.
relevant listening:
Radio War Nerd EP 487 — Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire + Syria Collapse, feat. Cyrus
https://www.audacy.com/podcast/war-nerd-radio-subscriber-feed-c4cea/episodes/radio-war-nerd-ep-487-israel-hezbollah-ceasefire-syria-collapse-feat-cyrus-guest-co-host-aamer-ef7a4
Axis of Resistance Twilight: Syria Has Fallen
sequel to "What went wrong?",discuss the state of the "Axis of Resistance" and its future: Iran, Hezbollah, formerly Syria (what is SDF's role? critical support or no?), and Hamas, Houthis, various other militias.
relevant listening:
Radio War Nerd EP 487 — Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire + Syria Collapse, feat. Cyrus
https://www.audacy.com/podcast/war-nerd-radio-subscriber-feed-c4cea/episodes/radio-war-nerd-ep-487-israel-hezbollah-ceasefire-syria-collapse-feat-cyrus-guest-co-host-aamer-ef7a4
R: 23 / I: 10
There’s a few rules on how you can save the city: you cannot demolish any homes or buildings to make way for roads and highways; you cannot landscape anything, but you can hard scape land; finally, you cannot build any skyscrapers
How will you rebuild the city?
You have to rebuild Lagos
This city is have a population of around 36 million based on the most recent informal census. It is the fastest sinking city and the traffic is abysmal.There’s a few rules on how you can save the city: you cannot demolish any homes or buildings to make way for roads and highways; you cannot landscape anything, but you can hard scape land; finally, you cannot build any skyscrapers
How will you rebuild the city?
R: 504 / I: 118
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHm9rsLIPjA
<06:53 "It is clear that there is currently no such thing as sub-imperialism or non-Western imperialism today.
This is based on statistics gathered from economic data worldwide.
1. Russia is not imperialist;
2. China is not imperialist;
3. Not all wars are automatically imperialist in nature;
4. Your "cope and seethe" is your way of defending the imperial core.
That is all.
"Sub-imperialism" is not a thing
"""Anti-campists ™""" destroyed, even by Cockshott standards:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHm9rsLIPjA
<06:53 "It is clear that there is currently no such thing as sub-imperialism or non-Western imperialism today.
This is based on statistics gathered from economic data worldwide.
1. Russia is not imperialist;
2. China is not imperialist;
3. Not all wars are automatically imperialist in nature;
4. Your "cope and seethe" is your way of defending the imperial core.
That is all.
R: 6 / I: 2
Duterte was arrested on Tuesday morning at Manila’s main airport after flying back from Hong Kong. “Early in the morning, Interpol Manila received the official copy of the warrant of the arrest from the ICC,” the presidential palace said in a statement. “As of now, he is under the custody of authorities.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/11/rodrigo-duterte-arrest-manila-former-philippines-president-war-on-drugs-ntwnfb
Pro-monarchists welcome Nepal’s deposed King Gyanendra to Kathmandu
An estimated 10,000 supporters of Gyanendra Shah on Sunday gathered near the main entrance to Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport as he arrived from a trip to western Nepal. “Vacate the royal palace for the king. Come back king, save the country. Long live our beloved king. We want monarchy,” the crowds chanted.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/9/pro-monarchists-welcome-nepals-deposed-king-gyanendra-to-kathmandu
https://archive.ph/j3uCi
China's unions say employers should not ask female job seekers about marital, childbearing status
The notices, posted on the Shenzhen, Hunan and Qinghai state-backed unions' official Wechat pages in the past week, were among the most widely circulated items on social media on Monday with many netizens saying it was a step in the right direction to address widespread gender inequality.It has become increasingly common in China for companies to quiz female job seekers about their marriage or childbearing plans during job interviews.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-unions-say-employers-should-not-ask-female-job-seekers-about-marital-2025-03-11/
US resumes military aid and intelligence sharing as Ukraine says it is open to a 30-day ceasefire
The Trump administration lifted its suspension of military aid and intelligence sharing for Ukraine, and Kyiv signaled that it was open to a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Russia, pending Moscow’s agreement, American and Ukrainian officials said Tuesday following talks in Saudi Arabia.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-us-saudi-arabia-ca9630cdccb0a8b904a77d6e134690b6
Far-right billionaire Musk reported ready to ‘fund Reform breakaway’
Reform’s owner and leader Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe, one of the party’s five MPs, appear irreconcilable as their rift deepens daily. Mr Lowe aroused Mr Farage’s ire by describing him as “messianic” and questioning whether he was properly preparing the party for government.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/musk-reported-ready-fund-reform-breakaway
Turkey blocking Israel-Nato military drills until permanent Gaza truce
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported over the weekend that Turkey has blocked Israel from taking part in Nato's annual exercise on "resilience and emergency preparedness" in Bulgaria, which will be held in September. Two Israeli sources confirmed to MEE that Ankara had blocked their country's participation in the drill.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-blocks-israels-nato-military-drills-until-gaza-truce
Syria arrests Abaq volunteer group director after sectarian Iftar meal scandal
Activists feared that Abaq's sectarian campaign could lead to more attacks on Alawis, with many taking to social media to call for the prosecution of the group for hate speech, the incitement of violence and threatening civil peace.
https://www.newarab.com/news/syria-arrests-abaq-director-after-sectarian-iftar-meal-scandal
Argentine Lawmakers File Criminal Complaint Against Milei Over IMF Deal
This legal action is a response to an emergency decree (DNU) through which the far-right politician seeks to finalize a new extended facilities agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The DNU stipulates that the IMF will grant Argentina new loans—of an unspecified amount—with a ten-year repayment term and an additional grace period of four years and six months.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-lawmakers-file-criminal-complaint-against-milei-over-imf-deal/
Bolivia Cuts Fuel Subsidies as Economic Crisis Deepens
The measures will limit the supply of cut-price fuel to gold mining and agribusiness, and then to other producers, but not to ordinary consumers. “We don’t have the cash,” Hydrocarbons and Energy Minister Alejandro Gallardo said in a press conference announcing the cuts. “The main problem we face is securing the cash to pay suppliers.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-10/bolivia-cuts-fuel-subsidies-for-key-sectors-as-crisis-deepens
https://archive.ph/dGKJX
Panamanian Legislators Approve Changes to Social Security
One of the most controversial aspects of the reform, however, is the increase in the retirement age by three years for both men and women. Citizens are questioning this decision due to its impact on workers’ quality of life.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/panamanian-legislators-approve-changes-to-social-security/
News 3/11/25
Duterte flown to The Hague after arrest over Philippines drug war killingsDuterte was arrested on Tuesday morning at Manila’s main airport after flying back from Hong Kong. “Early in the morning, Interpol Manila received the official copy of the warrant of the arrest from the ICC,” the presidential palace said in a statement. “As of now, he is under the custody of authorities.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/11/rodrigo-duterte-arrest-manila-former-philippines-president-war-on-drugs-ntwnfb
Pro-monarchists welcome Nepal’s deposed King Gyanendra to Kathmandu
An estimated 10,000 supporters of Gyanendra Shah on Sunday gathered near the main entrance to Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport as he arrived from a trip to western Nepal. “Vacate the royal palace for the king. Come back king, save the country. Long live our beloved king. We want monarchy,” the crowds chanted.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/9/pro-monarchists-welcome-nepals-deposed-king-gyanendra-to-kathmandu
https://archive.ph/j3uCi
China's unions say employers should not ask female job seekers about marital, childbearing status
The notices, posted on the Shenzhen, Hunan and Qinghai state-backed unions' official Wechat pages in the past week, were among the most widely circulated items on social media on Monday with many netizens saying it was a step in the right direction to address widespread gender inequality.It has become increasingly common in China for companies to quiz female job seekers about their marriage or childbearing plans during job interviews.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-unions-say-employers-should-not-ask-female-job-seekers-about-marital-2025-03-11/
US resumes military aid and intelligence sharing as Ukraine says it is open to a 30-day ceasefire
The Trump administration lifted its suspension of military aid and intelligence sharing for Ukraine, and Kyiv signaled that it was open to a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Russia, pending Moscow’s agreement, American and Ukrainian officials said Tuesday following talks in Saudi Arabia.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-us-saudi-arabia-ca9630cdccb0a8b904a77d6e134690b6
Far-right billionaire Musk reported ready to ‘fund Reform breakaway’
Reform’s owner and leader Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe, one of the party’s five MPs, appear irreconcilable as their rift deepens daily. Mr Lowe aroused Mr Farage’s ire by describing him as “messianic” and questioning whether he was properly preparing the party for government.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/musk-reported-ready-fund-reform-breakaway
Turkey blocking Israel-Nato military drills until permanent Gaza truce
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported over the weekend that Turkey has blocked Israel from taking part in Nato's annual exercise on "resilience and emergency preparedness" in Bulgaria, which will be held in September. Two Israeli sources confirmed to MEE that Ankara had blocked their country's participation in the drill.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-blocks-israels-nato-military-drills-until-gaza-truce
Syria arrests Abaq volunteer group director after sectarian Iftar meal scandal
Activists feared that Abaq's sectarian campaign could lead to more attacks on Alawis, with many taking to social media to call for the prosecution of the group for hate speech, the incitement of violence and threatening civil peace.
https://www.newarab.com/news/syria-arrests-abaq-director-after-sectarian-iftar-meal-scandal
Argentine Lawmakers File Criminal Complaint Against Milei Over IMF Deal
This legal action is a response to an emergency decree (DNU) through which the far-right politician seeks to finalize a new extended facilities agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The DNU stipulates that the IMF will grant Argentina new loans—of an unspecified amount—with a ten-year repayment term and an additional grace period of four years and six months.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-lawmakers-file-criminal-complaint-against-milei-over-imf-deal/
Bolivia Cuts Fuel Subsidies as Economic Crisis Deepens
The measures will limit the supply of cut-price fuel to gold mining and agribusiness, and then to other producers, but not to ordinary consumers. “We don’t have the cash,” Hydrocarbons and Energy Minister Alejandro Gallardo said in a press conference announcing the cuts. “The main problem we face is securing the cash to pay suppliers.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-10/bolivia-cuts-fuel-subsidies-for-key-sectors-as-crisis-deepens
https://archive.ph/dGKJX
Panamanian Legislators Approve Changes to Social Security
One of the most controversial aspects of the reform, however, is the increase in the retirement age by three years for both men and women. Citizens are questioning this decision due to its impact on workers’ quality of life.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/panamanian-legislators-approve-changes-to-social-security/
R: 611 / I: 146 (full)
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Revolutionaries who got tired
If you "surf" on leftypol, and - marx forbid - the world wide web for like (five) 5 minutes it is so fucking tiring. People are extremely stupid and reiterating whatever argument or pov they just read about. Exhausting. So my question is, were revolutionaries of before tired of this bullshit?
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i cant find a answer so i try to ask
why hate uyghurs
i come from china and i wander: it seems like uyghurs is a bad word for you. i really dont know why and i want to know how do you think of uyghurs.i cant find a answer so i try to ask
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They're gone now.
They've embraced rightism.
This is the future that Deng wanted for China.
The last communist country has just abandoned us.
How can we cope with having no more major communist/socialist countries in the world?
It's so over
We lost China.They're gone now.
They've embraced rightism.
This is the future that Deng wanted for China.
The last communist country has just abandoned us.
How can we cope with having no more major communist/socialist countries in the world?
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My hot take on vanguardism in the imperial core is that no revolutionary labor aristocracy party is possible. Due to the bourgeoise character of the imperial core, more horizontal forms of organization are necessary. There is no cause of national liberation to unite the country the way there is in the periphery.
It follows that Marxist organizations in the imperial core should focus on anti-imperialism and on the liberation of super-exploited groups and in settler states they should particularly focus on Indigenous independence. You can have a Marxist Indian party. You can have a Black Marxist party. You can have a Marxist transsexual party. You can have a Marxist drug user's party. You can't have a labor aristocracy party.
I still need to think about how to organize a white-trash party or an anti-white party. There is a lot I need to figure out. But the imperial core demands a much more federated approach to liberation.
Anyhow, I have decided that Lenin and Mao were basically good. Just that these kinds of approaches just won't work in the imperial core.
My hot take on vanguardism in the imperial core is that no revolutionary labor aristocracy party is possible. Due to the bourgeoise character of the imperial core, more horizontal forms of organization are necessary. There is no cause of national liberation to unite the country the way there is in the periphery.
It follows that Marxist organizations in the imperial core should focus on anti-imperialism and on the liberation of super-exploited groups and in settler states they should particularly focus on Indigenous independence. You can have a Marxist Indian party. You can have a Black Marxist party. You can have a Marxist transsexual party. You can have a Marxist drug user's party. You can't have a labor aristocracy party.
I still need to think about how to organize a white-trash party or an anti-white party. There is a lot I need to figure out. But the imperial core demands a much more federated approach to liberation.
Anyhow, I have decided that Lenin and Mao were basically good. Just that these kinds of approaches just won't work in the imperial core.
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So I guess we’re doing total war now. I hope Putin’s administration force a total withdrawal to prevent any senseless mayhem.
So I guess we’re doing total war now. I hope Putin’s administration force a total withdrawal to prevent any senseless mayhem.
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>The US's support for Israel IS because of a Jewish lobby. The ruling class in America won't directly benefit from an ethnic cleansing of Palestinians!
>Looks inside.
>Biggest support base for Israel in America is a bunch of schizo evangelicals who think creating Greater Israel will make Jesus come back.
>The US's support for Israel IS because of a Jewish lobby. The ruling class in America won't directly benefit from an ethnic cleansing of Palestinians!
>Looks inside.
>Biggest support base for Israel in America is a bunch of schizo evangelicals who think creating Greater Israel will make Jesus come back.
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What if instead of recognising Israel, Stalin creates Yiddish Soviet Socialist Republic on the territory of former Eastern Prussia and encourages Soviet and Polish Jews to move in there? Would we be living in a better world now?
What if instead of recognising Israel, Stalin creates Yiddish Soviet Socialist Republic on the territory of former Eastern Prussia and encourages Soviet and Polish Jews to move in there? Would we be living in a better world now?
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marxism vs social democracy
genuine question. whats wrong with reformism and social democracy? objectively, all marxist experiments have failed, and china is only successful because it became capitalist. these old revolutionary methods dont work. but what does work is state intervention in the economy which doesnt simultaneously erode civil liberties. marxists might think of social democracy as a means to an end, but why not an end in-itself? the rational principle of a balanced economy with representative democracy seems most acceptable with the general public, and with the demands of history. so, what exactly is wrong with social democracy?
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Recent news:
First statement by Bashar al-Assad ever since his ouster. Israel takes more land, this time south of the Golan. More sectarian incidents. US-mediated temporary truce between the SDF and Turkey + SNA, with an impending offensive on Ayn Isa, Sirrin and Kobani.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://syria.liveuamap.com/
==/sg/ - Syrian Civil War General #20 - Womp Womp edition
<vidrel: The SDF released footage of an incapacitated TFSA fighter getting run over by a Turkish-provided M113 APC in the recent fighting southeast of Manbij.Recent news:
First statement by Bashar al-Assad ever since his ouster. Israel takes more land, this time south of the Golan. More sectarian incidents. US-mediated temporary truce between the SDF and Turkey + SNA, with an impending offensive on Ayn Isa, Sirrin and Kobani.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://syria.liveuamap.com/
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Compare that to current anarchists and you get the picture. I feel the glory of revolutions is long past. All that awaits is decadence and the sense of powerlessness at the face of the modern monster
Past glories
Why is it that nowadays it seems impossible to reproduce the commitment and courage of the past? Best example that comes to mind is the Black Army of Makhnovshchina. Made up of peasants and former soldiers. These men gave their life in the name of freedom. Mahkno himself got shot multiple times. Revolutionary Catalonia is another example.Compare that to current anarchists and you get the picture. I feel the glory of revolutions is long past. All that awaits is decadence and the sense of powerlessness at the face of the modern monster
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For example, capitalists here in the US will constantly refer to the Nazis, the USSR and generally anyone deviating from free market capitalism (or their specific idea) of it as "fascist". Likewise, I don't think we even need to list how reflexively the term is used on the "left" for anyone and everyone they don't like.
Let's also explore some potential criteria. Is anything that's ethnonationalistic always "fascist"? Because Brazilian Integralism was "fascist", yet anti-racist and basically brown. And people will also use "fascist" as a stand in for political repression, authoritarianism and violence, yet all socialist nations that have existed on the Earth are guilty of the same things, just under different contexts; they especially have a track record of religious persecution. And since both Third Positionism and the "left" both desire centralized control over the economy, where does one end and one begin? It can't be nationalism and internationalism, because as far as I can tell, every socialist nation that has existed has also been nationalist to some degree and sometimes even contextually racist, like (allegedly) Pol Pot's Khmer nationalism and Enver Hoxha calling Black American music "jungle music", but of course, I'm sure some of you will call them "deviators" and such convenient things. We also have to address that European ethnonationalists will also be called "fascists" for resisting multi-culturalism colonization in Europe that was generated by the capitalist system, even though they have a right to do so as indigenous people of the continent.
So again, what is and is not fascist?
Who Is A Fascist?
I see the term "fascist" being thrown around on this site a lot, as it is used constantly elsewhere, and I was just wondering if any of you could definitively give me a concept of what an actual "fascist" is. Because I don't think you use it quite as meaninglessly as "reactionary", which is an incredibly meaningless term, but it still seems that it is a more of a generic slur than anything denoting a solid identity.For example, capitalists here in the US will constantly refer to the Nazis, the USSR and generally anyone deviating from free market capitalism (or their specific idea) of it as "fascist". Likewise, I don't think we even need to list how reflexively the term is used on the "left" for anyone and everyone they don't like.
Let's also explore some potential criteria. Is anything that's ethnonationalistic always "fascist"? Because Brazilian Integralism was "fascist", yet anti-racist and basically brown. And people will also use "fascist" as a stand in for political repression, authoritarianism and violence, yet all socialist nations that have existed on the Earth are guilty of the same things, just under different contexts; they especially have a track record of religious persecution. And since both Third Positionism and the "left" both desire centralized control over the economy, where does one end and one begin? It can't be nationalism and internationalism, because as far as I can tell, every socialist nation that has existed has also been nationalist to some degree and sometimes even contextually racist, like (allegedly) Pol Pot's Khmer nationalism and Enver Hoxha calling Black American music "jungle music", but of course, I'm sure some of you will call them "deviators" and such convenient things. We also have to address that European ethnonationalists will also be called "fascists" for resisting multi-culturalism colonization in Europe that was generated by the capitalist system, even though they have a right to do so as indigenous people of the continent.
So again, what is and is not fascist?
R: 5 / I: 1
As a result of the meeting, Abdi and Al-Sharaa agreed the following: 1. The guarantee of the right to representation and participation for all Syrians, regardless of their religious and ethnic backgrounds, in the political process and all state institutions. 2. The Kurdish community is an indigenous community of the Syrian state, and the Syrian state guarantees its citizenship rights and all constitutional right3. A ceasefire to be implemented across all of Syrian territory.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/mazloum-abdi-and-ahmed-al-sharaa-sign-agreement-78335
Alawis fleeing ki*llings, stage sit-in protest at Russian base in Syrian coast
Dozens of people who fled their homes to seek refuge at the Russian Hmeimim base staged a sit-in protest against the executions and crimes committed by members of the Ministries of Defence and Interior and their allied gunmen, against members of the Alawite sect.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/357494/
Child deaths surge amid ‘Gazafication’ of West Bank, report says
Israel has brought the military tactics of its war in Gaza to the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians face mass forced displacements, a surge in airstrikes and a sharp rise in attacks on children and other civilians, a Palestinian-Israeli rights group has said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/10/child-deaths-surge-amid-gazafication-of-west-bank-report-says
Former Peruvian president announces hunger strike to protest rebellion trial
Castillo claimed that Judge Norma Carbajal, who previously stated armed rebellion “does not require physical violence,” has prejudged his case by “forcing the criminal type of rebellion” against him. Castillo, 55, described his trial as “politicized” and a “pantomime” in previous sessions, and has refused legal counsel provided by the judicial system.
https://apnews.com/article/peru-castillo-hunger-strike-f6ff2314d85e123dd2c3c553cdc07ade
Dismantling of the National Emergency Directorate by Milei’s Government Sparks Criticism Amid Crisis in Bahía Blanca
This move has been interpreted as a weakening of the government’s capacity to respond to emergencies, leading to widespread discontent among citizens and social organizations.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/dismantling-of-the-national-emergency-directorate-by-mileis-government-sparks-criticism-amid-crisis-in-bahia-blanca/
Colombia’s government struggling to control former guerrilla colony
After the army failed to prevent the destruction of a bridge connecting El Plateado to the nearby town of La Hacienda, dozens of locals rose up on Saturday and demobilized the security forces. The locals agreed to release the 29 retained policemen and soldiers after mediation by the Ombudsman’s Office.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-government-struggling-to-control-former-guerrilla-colony
Strikes bring German air traffic to a standstill
At Frankfurt airport, 1,054 of the day’s 1,116 scheduled departures and landings had been cancelled, German news agency dpa reported. All of Berlin airport’s regular departures and arrivals were cancelled, while there were no departures from Hamburg.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/strikes-bring-german-air-traffic-standstill
Serbian students keep up pressure for accountability over Novi Sad tragedy
Student groups have called for a new mass mobilization in Belgrade on Saturday, March 15, and continue to enjoy broad public support, according to independent surveys. In the lead-up to the demonstration, they have urged people to form self-organized popular committees in response to what they describe as a crisis of representative democracy.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/10/serbian-students-keep-up-pressure-for-accountability-over-novi-sad-tragedy/
Chaos in Romania’s capital after far-right Calin Georgescu barred from presidential redo
Chaos broke out in Romania’s capital Sunday evening as incensed supporters of the far-right populist Calin Georgescu protested the electoral body’s decision to reject his candidacy in a presidential election redo. He won the first round of last year’s race before a top court annulled the election.
https://apnews.com/article/romania-georgescu-election-d0541a5bc20ddf7be0689d1813f9495c
News 3/10/25
Mazloum Abdi and Ahmed al-Sharaa sign agreementAs a result of the meeting, Abdi and Al-Sharaa agreed the following: 1. The guarantee of the right to representation and participation for all Syrians, regardless of their religious and ethnic backgrounds, in the political process and all state institutions. 2. The Kurdish community is an indigenous community of the Syrian state, and the Syrian state guarantees its citizenship rights and all constitutional right3. A ceasefire to be implemented across all of Syrian territory.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/mazloum-abdi-and-ahmed-al-sharaa-sign-agreement-78335
Alawis fleeing ki*llings, stage sit-in protest at Russian base in Syrian coast
Dozens of people who fled their homes to seek refuge at the Russian Hmeimim base staged a sit-in protest against the executions and crimes committed by members of the Ministries of Defence and Interior and their allied gunmen, against members of the Alawite sect.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/357494/
Child deaths surge amid ‘Gazafication’ of West Bank, report says
Israel has brought the military tactics of its war in Gaza to the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians face mass forced displacements, a surge in airstrikes and a sharp rise in attacks on children and other civilians, a Palestinian-Israeli rights group has said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/10/child-deaths-surge-amid-gazafication-of-west-bank-report-says
Former Peruvian president announces hunger strike to protest rebellion trial
Castillo claimed that Judge Norma Carbajal, who previously stated armed rebellion “does not require physical violence,” has prejudged his case by “forcing the criminal type of rebellion” against him. Castillo, 55, described his trial as “politicized” and a “pantomime” in previous sessions, and has refused legal counsel provided by the judicial system.
https://apnews.com/article/peru-castillo-hunger-strike-f6ff2314d85e123dd2c3c553cdc07ade
Dismantling of the National Emergency Directorate by Milei’s Government Sparks Criticism Amid Crisis in Bahía Blanca
This move has been interpreted as a weakening of the government’s capacity to respond to emergencies, leading to widespread discontent among citizens and social organizations.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/dismantling-of-the-national-emergency-directorate-by-mileis-government-sparks-criticism-amid-crisis-in-bahia-blanca/
Colombia’s government struggling to control former guerrilla colony
After the army failed to prevent the destruction of a bridge connecting El Plateado to the nearby town of La Hacienda, dozens of locals rose up on Saturday and demobilized the security forces. The locals agreed to release the 29 retained policemen and soldiers after mediation by the Ombudsman’s Office.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-government-struggling-to-control-former-guerrilla-colony
Strikes bring German air traffic to a standstill
At Frankfurt airport, 1,054 of the day’s 1,116 scheduled departures and landings had been cancelled, German news agency dpa reported. All of Berlin airport’s regular departures and arrivals were cancelled, while there were no departures from Hamburg.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/strikes-bring-german-air-traffic-standstill
Serbian students keep up pressure for accountability over Novi Sad tragedy
Student groups have called for a new mass mobilization in Belgrade on Saturday, March 15, and continue to enjoy broad public support, according to independent surveys. In the lead-up to the demonstration, they have urged people to form self-organized popular committees in response to what they describe as a crisis of representative democracy.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/10/serbian-students-keep-up-pressure-for-accountability-over-novi-sad-tragedy/
Chaos in Romania’s capital after far-right Calin Georgescu barred from presidential redo
Chaos broke out in Romania’s capital Sunday evening as incensed supporters of the far-right populist Calin Georgescu protested the electoral body’s decision to reject his candidacy in a presidential election redo. He won the first round of last year’s race before a top court annulled the election.
https://apnews.com/article/romania-georgescu-election-d0541a5bc20ddf7be0689d1813f9495c
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We should do like the analytic philosophers and neoclassical economists and add a bunch of math formulas to keep the midwits away.
We should gatekeep the humanities
It's ridiculous how any retard feels entitled to give their idiotic opinions about history, philosophy, sociology, etc.We should do like the analytic philosophers and neoclassical economists and add a bunch of math formulas to keep the midwits away.
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>fervently religious so I could never get behind secularism or atheism but don't really believe in the state forcing religion on people either
>have read Dugin, somewhat familiar with/comfortable with the far right and left horseshoe theory
>reject materialism as a lens for historical interpretation and political Modus Operandi
>not a fan of seeing society through terms of economic class, some class oppression is a reality but I think identifying with financial status is pretty low quality and I would prefer class harmony over class warfare insofar as class exists (I don't think economic class should exist as it does but I do think a sort of social caste according to societal role is necessary)
>really don't give incredibly much thought to economics but hate capitalism and usury, life experience made me pro-Union despite having been raised to be skeptical of them
>into tribe and ethnicity but skeptical of "race"/racial identity/collective racial interest - tentatively could say "ethnopluralist" but I haven't read de Benoist and don't want to identify with him
>don't believe in 'revolution for the sake of revolution' but think it can be justified in cases
>into ecology, skeptical of climate change alarmism but despise corpos for ruining the environment and despise conservatives for not caring about the environment
I don't know, man. I'm pretty open right now and into exploring. How would you anons define leftism at its core? How would you sell me on it?
sorry if trash thread, will not be offended if jannies make it disappear. but not baiting. Genuinely would like input.
sell me on Leftism
Formerly would consider myself rightist or even far rightist but utterly disenfranchised with most of what you see on the right. >convinced nationalism began with good intentions but does just about the opposite of what it sets out to do and most nationalist groups are just stooges>fervently religious so I could never get behind secularism or atheism but don't really believe in the state forcing religion on people either
>have read Dugin, somewhat familiar with/comfortable with the far right and left horseshoe theory
>reject materialism as a lens for historical interpretation and political Modus Operandi
>not a fan of seeing society through terms of economic class, some class oppression is a reality but I think identifying with financial status is pretty low quality and I would prefer class harmony over class warfare insofar as class exists (I don't think economic class should exist as it does but I do think a sort of social caste according to societal role is necessary)
>really don't give incredibly much thought to economics but hate capitalism and usury, life experience made me pro-Union despite having been raised to be skeptical of them
>into tribe and ethnicity but skeptical of "race"/racial identity/collective racial interest - tentatively could say "ethnopluralist" but I haven't read de Benoist and don't want to identify with him
>don't believe in 'revolution for the sake of revolution' but think it can be justified in cases
>into ecology, skeptical of climate change alarmism but despise corpos for ruining the environment and despise conservatives for not caring about the environment
I don't know, man. I'm pretty open right now and into exploring. How would you anons define leftism at its core? How would you sell me on it?
sorry if trash thread, will not be offended if jannies make it disappear. but not baiting. Genuinely would like input.
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The stereotype of a leftist is sometimes an image of a tree hugger, an anarchist who loves people too much and sees the state as the only reason there are social problems and various kinds of activists.
I'm not like that. I've been slightly sociopathic since I was young: I'd like to break other people's things, ruin them, often tease people. I never fit in with other people, so naturally I got accustomed to knowing and sympathizing with various oppressed people. This includes anyone from the local homeless person to bullied children (also adults when it comes to workplace bullying). Although I liked to tease other people, experiencing it myself sometimes made me feel terrible and I recognized that social oppression was unjustifiable.
For some time I was a statist kind of person, but still learning left. I thought that, to protect the weak, we had to fight against all kinds of privileged people using the state. Reading Marx changed my perspective on this and I am now immersed in political economy, to see how to really change the world.
I have been in bourgeois circles and their attitudes to life, the way they look at other people has always upset me. They think they are intelligent, talented people who got to become bourgeois simply because of their 'free will' or effort, when their fortunes are built on exploitation, luck and being born into the right kind of family in the right country.
Still though, I don't know where my concern really lies. I feel like I simply feel bad, on some level, when it comes to oppressed people. I am a sadist, not in the sexual way, but in the way that I laugh when people, animals get hurt, I find it amusing, simply put. So I don't know, perhaps my care for some people is simply a kind of social conditioning. I 'feel bad' in the way that it's not socially acceptable to not feel bad.
I sometimes wonder if I care about my parents at all. Do I care about them because it's socially mandated, or do I have some kind of empathy? A psychologist I once went to for legal reasons commented that I struggle with empathy. This doesn't make me cold and calculating, I'm an emotional person, but I truly feel like that 'feeling' of empathy is just not the same in me as in other people.
At the same time, which is more relevant to this imageboard, I shy away from figures like Lenin, Stalin and Mao, which have commited all kinds of atrocities, which I won't go into detail. Do I shy away from them because it's not socially acceptable, or because I have empathy for these victims? Not meeting the social standard of being an empathetic individual makes me upset sometimes.
The stereotype of a leftist is sometimes an image of a tree hugger, an anarchist who loves people too much and sees the state as the only reason there are social problems and various kinds of activists.
I'm not like that. I've been slightly sociopathic since I was young: I'd like to break other people's things, ruin them, often tease people. I never fit in with other people, so naturally I got accustomed to knowing and sympathizing with various oppressed people. This includes anyone from the local homeless person to bullied children (also adults when it comes to workplace bullying). Although I liked to tease other people, experiencing it myself sometimes made me feel terrible and I recognized that social oppression was unjustifiable.
For some time I was a statist kind of person, but still learning left. I thought that, to protect the weak, we had to fight against all kinds of privileged people using the state. Reading Marx changed my perspective on this and I am now immersed in political economy, to see how to really change the world.
I have been in bourgeois circles and their attitudes to life, the way they look at other people has always upset me. They think they are intelligent, talented people who got to become bourgeois simply because of their 'free will' or effort, when their fortunes are built on exploitation, luck and being born into the right kind of family in the right country.
Still though, I don't know where my concern really lies. I feel like I simply feel bad, on some level, when it comes to oppressed people. I am a sadist, not in the sexual way, but in the way that I laugh when people, animals get hurt, I find it amusing, simply put. So I don't know, perhaps my care for some people is simply a kind of social conditioning. I 'feel bad' in the way that it's not socially acceptable to not feel bad.
I sometimes wonder if I care about my parents at all. Do I care about them because it's socially mandated, or do I have some kind of empathy? A psychologist I once went to for legal reasons commented that I struggle with empathy. This doesn't make me cold and calculating, I'm an emotional person, but I truly feel like that 'feeling' of empathy is just not the same in me as in other people.
At the same time, which is more relevant to this imageboard, I shy away from figures like Lenin, Stalin and Mao, which have commited all kinds of atrocities, which I won't go into detail. Do I shy away from them because it's not socially acceptable, or because I have empathy for these victims? Not meeting the social standard of being an empathetic individual makes me upset sometimes.
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I had made a previous thread about a figure called Ален Симеонов / Alen Simeonov with the an entire transcript of a video of his criticizing "cultural marxism", the thread has since been long gone and the video became unlisted and eventually removed, I failed to download it for an archive.
If anyone remembers that thread or has an archive of it, by all means please share. It was a really sophisticated analysis, despite being from an aspiring neonazi.
Moving on, I predict an incoming clash of the Pro-Ukraine / Pro-Russia nationalists here in Bulgaria, even if the war in Ukraine comes to an end.
I may have made a thread of this kind before, but here I want to present a new rehash of a rising movement in Bulgaria - the sovereign citizens movement (copy-pasted from the other thread):
I would like to mention that there is a funny growing movement (growing really fast) of sovereign citizens who consider the current Bulgaria to be an illegitimate company registered in the US and all documents and such being invalid past a certain date. They're the growing force of the pro-Russian & Soviet-nostalgic Bulgarians. Bulgarian officials have had no experience before with sovereign citizens so courts are actually giving in to their demands lol.
A lot of schizophrenia, yes, but they're surprisingly effective. Sovereign citizens might have an impact on the law in Bulgaria in the near future, despite their fear of 5G WIFI mind control and biorobots posing as humans.
https://www.portal.zamakabg.com/знай-своите-права-живите-мъже-и-жени/84400/bg/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6qGptNvFME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAox_obBYJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrwOd5ipNGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS_2ClKTRNM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G__8N50UJI
They're influenced by the pro-Russian paramilitary organization БНО Шипка and their funny schizo leader who goes on rants about satanism and such
https://www.youtube.com/@BGMilitaryUnion
These guys, despite being conservative schizos lead towards a different kind of Bulgarian "patriotism" than the one proposed by the pro-Ukraine neonazis, which are directly inspired by fascist anti-communism. The sovereign citizens movement on the other hand yearn for soviet nostalgia or at least a romantic Russia - in connection with the history of the Russian Empire helping to lead the national liberation war for Bulgaria from 600 years of rule and slavery by the Ottoman Empire.
I think that soon we will see something of a "reverse-Maidan" attempt perhaps. It's just a thought, but it would be interesting to see the two forces of "patriots" accumulating to a boiling point. I stand on neither side, I just like to take notes, though of course the soviet nostalgic schizos are way more charming, despite their crazy world of 5G nanotechnologies and biorobots doing satanic mind control.
Also, the pro-Russian paramilitary group БНО Шипка went into legal troubles so it technically disbanded, but of course its members are still alive and active, so they surely are unofficially still active.
I wanted to make a separate thread for this because I felt that nobody would bother to look into the War On Drugs thread to look info on the political climate in Bulgaria.
Lastly I would like to mention that the neonazis of БНС / BGNS are running the yearly "Lukovmarch" event where they parade in honor of the dead WW2 Nazi collaborator - General Lukov, where they have been trying to repaint his image as a "national hero" who was "forced to work with the nazis, in the lesser evil to bolshevism" and such, many many such parades exist in Europe, just a few weeks ago there was one in Hungary where they were even doing reenactments in SS uniforms and shit, but the response is also the same - the same antifas yelling and crying, begging the liberal bourgeoisie authorities to outlaw the neonazi parades (BUT FOR WHAT? LIBERALISM IS AN INCUBATOR FOR NAZISM, WHY WOULD THEY?) its like the same exact shit, cat and mouse games, they even have the same flags and banners in the antifa contra-demos, they don't really feel grassroots, we know that the neonazis are being financed, but the antifa ones don't feel organic either. I don't need to cite Bordiga or anything but it was interesting how the same "antifas" and neonazis in Ukraine ended up fighting FOR Ukraine together when statehood was threatened, like with BOAK and such.
This all might seem like a culture shock to many, or a word salad to some, but its my attempt at stringing together a coherent analysis of the schizophrenic antics that go on here.
Bulgaria - The Next Ukraine
I felt like this had to be its own separate thread from the general I decided to post on >>2144941.I had made a previous thread about a figure called Ален Симеонов / Alen Simeonov with the an entire transcript of a video of his criticizing "cultural marxism", the thread has since been long gone and the video became unlisted and eventually removed, I failed to download it for an archive.
If anyone remembers that thread or has an archive of it, by all means please share. It was a really sophisticated analysis, despite being from an aspiring neonazi.
Moving on, I predict an incoming clash of the Pro-Ukraine / Pro-Russia nationalists here in Bulgaria, even if the war in Ukraine comes to an end.
I may have made a thread of this kind before, but here I want to present a new rehash of a rising movement in Bulgaria - the sovereign citizens movement (copy-pasted from the other thread):
I would like to mention that there is a funny growing movement (growing really fast) of sovereign citizens who consider the current Bulgaria to be an illegitimate company registered in the US and all documents and such being invalid past a certain date. They're the growing force of the pro-Russian & Soviet-nostalgic Bulgarians. Bulgarian officials have had no experience before with sovereign citizens so courts are actually giving in to their demands lol.
A lot of schizophrenia, yes, but they're surprisingly effective. Sovereign citizens might have an impact on the law in Bulgaria in the near future, despite their fear of 5G WIFI mind control and biorobots posing as humans.
https://www.portal.zamakabg.com/знай-своите-права-живите-мъже-и-жени/84400/bg/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6qGptNvFME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAox_obBYJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrwOd5ipNGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS_2ClKTRNM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G__8N50UJI
They're influenced by the pro-Russian paramilitary organization БНО Шипка and their funny schizo leader who goes on rants about satanism and such
https://www.youtube.com/@BGMilitaryUnion
These guys, despite being conservative schizos lead towards a different kind of Bulgarian "patriotism" than the one proposed by the pro-Ukraine neonazis, which are directly inspired by fascist anti-communism. The sovereign citizens movement on the other hand yearn for soviet nostalgia or at least a romantic Russia - in connection with the history of the Russian Empire helping to lead the national liberation war for Bulgaria from 600 years of rule and slavery by the Ottoman Empire.
I think that soon we will see something of a "reverse-Maidan" attempt perhaps. It's just a thought, but it would be interesting to see the two forces of "patriots" accumulating to a boiling point. I stand on neither side, I just like to take notes, though of course the soviet nostalgic schizos are way more charming, despite their crazy world of 5G nanotechnologies and biorobots doing satanic mind control.
Also, the pro-Russian paramilitary group БНО Шипка went into legal troubles so it technically disbanded, but of course its members are still alive and active, so they surely are unofficially still active.
I wanted to make a separate thread for this because I felt that nobody would bother to look into the War On Drugs thread to look info on the political climate in Bulgaria.
Lastly I would like to mention that the neonazis of БНС / BGNS are running the yearly "Lukovmarch" event where they parade in honor of the dead WW2 Nazi collaborator - General Lukov, where they have been trying to repaint his image as a "national hero" who was "forced to work with the nazis, in the lesser evil to bolshevism" and such, many many such parades exist in Europe, just a few weeks ago there was one in Hungary where they were even doing reenactments in SS uniforms and shit, but the response is also the same - the same antifas yelling and crying, begging the liberal bourgeoisie authorities to outlaw the neonazi parades (BUT FOR WHAT? LIBERALISM IS AN INCUBATOR FOR NAZISM, WHY WOULD THEY?) its like the same exact shit, cat and mouse games, they even have the same flags and banners in the antifa contra-demos, they don't really feel grassroots, we know that the neonazis are being financed, but the antifa ones don't feel organic either. I don't need to cite Bordiga or anything but it was interesting how the same "antifas" and neonazis in Ukraine ended up fighting FOR Ukraine together when statehood was threatened, like with BOAK and such.
This all might seem like a culture shock to many, or a word salad to some, but its my attempt at stringing together a coherent analysis of the schizophrenic antics that go on here.
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This is a good rundown of the eurodollar system. Interested to hear what leftypol’s thoughts on it are and open to any good faith debates on its contents.
Personally I think the points he missed are that it’s not necessarily capital “defeating” corporations so much as I think it’s the system that established the ability of foreign countries and corporations to create and influence dollar monetary policy through the ability to leverage their balance sheets, capital controls be damned you can turn AAA securities into collateral, and then fractional lend that collateral itself to wind or unwind dollar debt as much as you want, leading to 2007 in which Eurodollar banks had created more dollar debt than U.S. banks. In such a scenario it almost looks like the government itself poisoned its own monetary supply to try and stop foreign entities from controlling its monetary policy. This brings us to modern day, where it makes sense that banks and corporations would WANT a new reserve currency, something like bitcoin, so that they can continue trading credit to their hearts desire with no worry for a self interested third party being a single point of failure for the money supply curve.
Financial weapons of mass destruction
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/paul-bowman-financial-weapons-of-mass-destructionThis is a good rundown of the eurodollar system. Interested to hear what leftypol’s thoughts on it are and open to any good faith debates on its contents.
Personally I think the points he missed are that it’s not necessarily capital “defeating” corporations so much as I think it’s the system that established the ability of foreign countries and corporations to create and influence dollar monetary policy through the ability to leverage their balance sheets, capital controls be damned you can turn AAA securities into collateral, and then fractional lend that collateral itself to wind or unwind dollar debt as much as you want, leading to 2007 in which Eurodollar banks had created more dollar debt than U.S. banks. In such a scenario it almost looks like the government itself poisoned its own monetary supply to try and stop foreign entities from controlling its monetary policy. This brings us to modern day, where it makes sense that banks and corporations would WANT a new reserve currency, something like bitcoin, so that they can continue trading credit to their hearts desire with no worry for a self interested third party being a single point of failure for the money supply curve.
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Duhringian supremacy
Yes, I am a Duhringian socialist. Yes we exist and YES we WILL win. Convert before it's too late. Reading Anti-Duhring is my favorite pastime and I vigorously critique Engels' points to the point of howling with laughter. Evolution doesn't exist btw
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It’s a shame that the United States with pay twice as much for healthcare another country is like Canada China and Cuba The only way America will get Universal healthcare is through a revolution
It’s a shame that the United States with pay twice as much for healthcare another country is like Canada China and Cuba The only way America will get Universal healthcare is through a revolution
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do you think Che Guevara is the most beloved communist revolutionary or do you think he’s the most overrated and do you also think that he’s homophobic and racist.
do you think Che Guevara is the most beloved communist revolutionary or do you think he’s the most overrated and do you also think that he’s homophobic and racist.
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Face it. Humanity is evolving into psychopaths. Psychopaths make up a higher percentage of leadership positions in all countries, whether socialist or capitalist. Evolution incentivizes psychopathy in the long term. Utter ruthlessness. Treating everything transactionally and according to a zero sum game. Even if socialism wins, protecting it will necessitate eternal vigilance and ruthlessness, which means psychopaths in key leadership positions.
To prevent this, the left needs true religion, and anti-satanism.
Face it. Humanity is evolving into psychopaths. Psychopaths make up a higher percentage of leadership positions in all countries, whether socialist or capitalist. Evolution incentivizes psychopathy in the long term. Utter ruthlessness. Treating everything transactionally and according to a zero sum game. Even if socialism wins, protecting it will necessitate eternal vigilance and ruthlessness, which means psychopaths in key leadership positions.
To prevent this, the left needs true religion, and anti-satanism.
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I call my idea “stitching and terracing.” Basically, I think that these cities would be more navigatable if clusters of buildings were terraced and if formal gates and walls were built into these residential blocks to clarify where pedestrians and drivers are supposed to enter and leave from.
I got the idea from looking at British cities and from my odd with mega cities in comics.
I have an idea to resolve this problem
These three images are images of Lagos, Paris, and Tokyo. If it wasn’t obvious, all three of these cities share a problem. They’re all hard to navigate due to the way they’re built. The streets are narrow, the houses are detached and are arranged randomly, and it’s confusing for someone to figure out where the block starts and ends. However, there is a solution to make all these cities more navigatable without destroying anything.I call my idea “stitching and terracing.” Basically, I think that these cities would be more navigatable if clusters of buildings were terraced and if formal gates and walls were built into these residential blocks to clarify where pedestrians and drivers are supposed to enter and leave from.
I got the idea from looking at British cities and from my odd with mega cities in comics.
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Anyone else find this shit funny. It’s amazing how knowledgeable the average reactionary is to the idea that money in the hands of someone that doesn’t work comes at their expense
BUT ONLY FOR THE POOR AND PEOPLE ON SERVICES
these people seemingly are incapable of applying the same logic to their dumbass leaders and capitalistic shitheads that steal far fucking more and do far less.
Anyone else find this shit funny. It’s amazing how knowledgeable the average reactionary is to the idea that money in the hands of someone that doesn’t work comes at their expense
BUT ONLY FOR THE POOR AND PEOPLE ON SERVICES
these people seemingly are incapable of applying the same logic to their dumbass leaders and capitalistic shitheads that steal far fucking more and do far less.
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As for the election, do you see the Liberals pulling off a minority government?
https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1j6ywcg/mark_carney_raised_45_million_in_twomonth_liberal/
Mark Carney-Canada’s Potential Next Prime Minister
Do you see any change compared to Trudeau?As for the election, do you see the Liberals pulling off a minority government?
https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1j6ywcg/mark_carney_raised_45_million_in_twomonth_liberal/
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Police detained some 200 demonstrators in Istanbul late on Saturday after more than 3,000 women marched peacefully through the city centre under tight security to mark International Women's Day, organisers said.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-around-200-detained-after-istanbul-womens-day-march
Israeli forces storm town in Daraa
As a response, mosques in Tafs City in Daraa countryside witnessed calls for mobilization as fighters gathered in the city in preparation for potential escalations following the movements of Israeli forces in Jamale Town. Moreover, other areas in western Daraa countryside witnessed a state of mobilization coinciding with military Israeli movements near these areas. … … . .
https://www.syriahr.com/en/357420/
Several mercenaries killed and wounded in SDF and YPJ actions on Tishrin and Qereqozak fronts
At least 18 Turkish-backed mercenaries were killed in actions carried out by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the autonomous region of North and East Syria on Friday. Eight of the mercenaries were eliminated in a retaliatory attack by the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) on the Qereqozax front.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/several-mercenaries-killed-and-wounded-in-sdf-and-ypj-actions-on-tishrin-and-qereqozak-fronts-78291
22 killed in massacre in Guayaquil, Ecuador
The massacre appears to have been between two factions of one of the most important gangs in the country, “Los Tiguerones.” Several witnesses have reported that the assailants bypassed military checkpoints, which have been installed in the city as part of Noboa’s militarized crackdown, by coming down through the mountains. .. . .. . . . . . . . ..
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/08/22-killed-in-massacre-in-guayaquil-ecuador/
Argentina to okay IMF loan through a presidential decree
Argentine President Javier Milei plans to issue an Emergency Decree (DNU) to approve the new loan to be agreed upon with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Casa Rosada announced Thursday. As mandated by law, each DNU needs congressional approval to not be stricken
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/07/argentina-to-okay-imf-loan-through-a-presidential-decree
Poland plans military training for every adult male amid growing European security fears
Tusk also suggested on Friday the country should explore nuclear “possibilities”. “We must be aware that Poland must reach for the most modern possibilities, also related to nuclear weapons and modern unconventional weapons,” he said. And he backed withdrawing from a landmark treaty prohibiting the use of anti-personnel landmines, the Ottawa convention, as well as potentially from the Dublin convention, which bans the use of cluster munitions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/08/poland-plans-military-training-for-every-adult-male-amid-growing-european-security-fears
Climate protest ruling ‘another nail in the crucifixion of Justice’
In January, a rare mass appeal was held for 16 Just Stop Oil (JSO) protesters who were handed the draconian sentences last year. Today, only six of them saw their sentences reduced in a ruling that has been condemned as having “no place in a democracy that upholds the right to protest.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/climate-protest-ruling-another-nail-in-the-crucifixion-of-justice
South Africa's defence minister: Congo troop deployment to be relooked at
South Africa's defence minister said there was a need to "relook at" a Southern African mission in Democratic Republic of Congo, where troops from several countries including South Africa are deployed to help the country fight Rwanda-backed rebels.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-defence-minister-congo-troop-deployment-be-relooked-2025-03-07/
Pakistan’s Aurat March calls for the recognition of gender based violence as national emergency
On Wednesday, March 6, the organizers of Aurat March (March for Women) Islamabad held a press conference at the National Press Club on the eve of International Women’s Day demanding that the government protect the rights of women, working classes, religious and ethnic minorities and political dissenters in Pakistan.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/07/pakistans-aurat-march-calls-for-the-recognition-of-gender-based-violence-as-national-emergency/
Bengal: Deucha Pachami Coal Project Halted in Birbhum After Tribal Unrest
The government is cutting down trees on forest land in 12 acres to start the open cast coal mine in that area, which will terribly hurt the ecosystem of region where tribal people dwell, said sources. There are reports alleging that the police, after getting a drubbing from the Banerjee-led administration for not being able to thwart the revolt, has started “torturing” tribal villagers.
https://www.newsclick.in/bengal-deucha-pachami-coal-project-halted-birbhum-after-tribal-unrest
News IDW 3/8/25
Some 200 detained after Istanbul Women's Day march: organisersPolice detained some 200 demonstrators in Istanbul late on Saturday after more than 3,000 women marched peacefully through the city centre under tight security to mark International Women's Day, organisers said.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-around-200-detained-after-istanbul-womens-day-march
Israeli forces storm town in Daraa
As a response, mosques in Tafs City in Daraa countryside witnessed calls for mobilization as fighters gathered in the city in preparation for potential escalations following the movements of Israeli forces in Jamale Town. Moreover, other areas in western Daraa countryside witnessed a state of mobilization coinciding with military Israeli movements near these areas. … … . .
https://www.syriahr.com/en/357420/
Several mercenaries killed and wounded in SDF and YPJ actions on Tishrin and Qereqozak fronts
At least 18 Turkish-backed mercenaries were killed in actions carried out by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the autonomous region of North and East Syria on Friday. Eight of the mercenaries were eliminated in a retaliatory attack by the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) on the Qereqozax front.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/several-mercenaries-killed-and-wounded-in-sdf-and-ypj-actions-on-tishrin-and-qereqozak-fronts-78291
22 killed in massacre in Guayaquil, Ecuador
The massacre appears to have been between two factions of one of the most important gangs in the country, “Los Tiguerones.” Several witnesses have reported that the assailants bypassed military checkpoints, which have been installed in the city as part of Noboa’s militarized crackdown, by coming down through the mountains. .. . .. . . . . . . . ..
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/08/22-killed-in-massacre-in-guayaquil-ecuador/
Argentina to okay IMF loan through a presidential decree
Argentine President Javier Milei plans to issue an Emergency Decree (DNU) to approve the new loan to be agreed upon with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Casa Rosada announced Thursday. As mandated by law, each DNU needs congressional approval to not be stricken
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/07/argentina-to-okay-imf-loan-through-a-presidential-decree
Poland plans military training for every adult male amid growing European security fears
Tusk also suggested on Friday the country should explore nuclear “possibilities”. “We must be aware that Poland must reach for the most modern possibilities, also related to nuclear weapons and modern unconventional weapons,” he said. And he backed withdrawing from a landmark treaty prohibiting the use of anti-personnel landmines, the Ottawa convention, as well as potentially from the Dublin convention, which bans the use of cluster munitions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/08/poland-plans-military-training-for-every-adult-male-amid-growing-european-security-fears
Climate protest ruling ‘another nail in the crucifixion of Justice’
In January, a rare mass appeal was held for 16 Just Stop Oil (JSO) protesters who were handed the draconian sentences last year. Today, only six of them saw their sentences reduced in a ruling that has been condemned as having “no place in a democracy that upholds the right to protest.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/climate-protest-ruling-another-nail-in-the-crucifixion-of-justice
South Africa's defence minister: Congo troop deployment to be relooked at
South Africa's defence minister said there was a need to "relook at" a Southern African mission in Democratic Republic of Congo, where troops from several countries including South Africa are deployed to help the country fight Rwanda-backed rebels.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-defence-minister-congo-troop-deployment-be-relooked-2025-03-07/
Pakistan’s Aurat March calls for the recognition of gender based violence as national emergency
On Wednesday, March 6, the organizers of Aurat March (March for Women) Islamabad held a press conference at the National Press Club on the eve of International Women’s Day demanding that the government protect the rights of women, working classes, religious and ethnic minorities and political dissenters in Pakistan.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/07/pakistans-aurat-march-calls-for-the-recognition-of-gender-based-violence-as-national-emergency/
Bengal: Deucha Pachami Coal Project Halted in Birbhum After Tribal Unrest
The government is cutting down trees on forest land in 12 acres to start the open cast coal mine in that area, which will terribly hurt the ecosystem of region where tribal people dwell, said sources. There are reports alleging that the police, after getting a drubbing from the Banerjee-led administration for not being able to thwart the revolt, has started “torturing” tribal villagers.
https://www.newsclick.in/bengal-deucha-pachami-coal-project-halted-birbhum-after-tribal-unrest
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I remember reading a write up about this in the case of India. The claims of the British impoverishing the subcontinent of X trillions of dollars came originally from the Marxist anti-colonial camp but were then taken up by the Hindu nationalist movement.
Anti-colonialism
I'm skeptical about the anti-colonial movement ideologically. While it claims to strive towards independence, it also tends to coincide with right wing nationalist movements among former colonies.I remember reading a write up about this in the case of India. The claims of the British impoverishing the subcontinent of X trillions of dollars came originally from the Marxist anti-colonial camp but were then taken up by the Hindu nationalist movement.
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None of these programs ever trully addressed the systemic issues of racial inequality in America and they reaffirmed fascist rhetoric both about minorities giving preferential treatment over whites and the idea that capital itself was "woke" allowing them to larp as revolutionaries against the capitalist class on that basis.
lt just kinda seems clarifying in a way to have all the corporations either cowtowing or supporting the right and dropping the pretence that only served to confuse the issue.
Maybe l'm just looking for a silver lining in a bad situationg but l will be glad in a way if we move past this and the left no longer gets tied to corperate bullshit because it hires a black spokesperson and raises the rainbow flag one month out of the year.
...is this good in a way?
Like not in the sense that its morally better for companies do away with dei programs then to have them but just in the sense that these policies existing did more to politically help the right then it ever did the left.None of these programs ever trully addressed the systemic issues of racial inequality in America and they reaffirmed fascist rhetoric both about minorities giving preferential treatment over whites and the idea that capital itself was "woke" allowing them to larp as revolutionaries against the capitalist class on that basis.
lt just kinda seems clarifying in a way to have all the corporations either cowtowing or supporting the right and dropping the pretence that only served to confuse the issue.
Maybe l'm just looking for a silver lining in a bad situationg but l will be glad in a way if we move past this and the left no longer gets tied to corperate bullshit because it hires a black spokesperson and raises the rainbow flag one month out of the year.
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do you think that Bernie Sanders is a legitimate communist or do you think that he is a shitLib or at least a socialist or do you even think there’s just a typical Democrat?
do you think that Bernie Sanders is a legitimate communist or do you think that he is a shitLib or at least a socialist or do you even think there’s just a typical Democrat?
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What's some kino leftist website besides LeftyPol?
I only know Ruthless Criticism and Libcom
Any other great Leftist site you know?
>The body was to short
>The body was to short
What's some kino leftist website besides LeftyPol?
I only know Ruthless Criticism and Libcom
Any other great Leftist site you know?
>The body was to short
>The body was to short
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Sudan went through two successive wars that each lasted for over a decade. The first Sudanese revolt led by the south Sudanese lasted for sixteen fucking years. Apparently the fighting raged on for so long that many of the people who originally volunteered to fight against the Sudanese regime forgot why they were fighting. Human behaviour became limited to nothing more than simply fortifying positions, fighting, and fleeing from conflict for many Sudanese. Mind you, all that shit was from the first war. Genocide was common, and I’m not going to show some of the pictures of the massacres that unfolded.
Millions of people were killed
The second war was even worse than the first one. It lasted for twenty two fucking odd years. Think about that. Twenty two years. We tend to think of conventional wars as existing in a blitz that people get to eventually forget about and move on from—not something that you’re born into and grow with all the way into early adulthood. Several millions more were killed in direct fighting and most of South Sudan was left as an overmilitarized mess of a country.
It’s relieving knowing that those wars were over, and that the remnants are finally being cleared, but the awful memories still stick. Modern wars are uniquely shitty.
Sudan and Ethiopia
These countries have been particularly hit bad by wars worse than most other countries in history have experienced. I can’t get over how devastating the wars there were.Sudan went through two successive wars that each lasted for over a decade. The first Sudanese revolt led by the south Sudanese lasted for sixteen fucking years. Apparently the fighting raged on for so long that many of the people who originally volunteered to fight against the Sudanese regime forgot why they were fighting. Human behaviour became limited to nothing more than simply fortifying positions, fighting, and fleeing from conflict for many Sudanese. Mind you, all that shit was from the first war. Genocide was common, and I’m not going to show some of the pictures of the massacres that unfolded.
Millions of people were killed
The second war was even worse than the first one. It lasted for twenty two fucking odd years. Think about that. Twenty two years. We tend to think of conventional wars as existing in a blitz that people get to eventually forget about and move on from—not something that you’re born into and grow with all the way into early adulthood. Several millions more were killed in direct fighting and most of South Sudan was left as an overmilitarized mess of a country.
It’s relieving knowing that those wars were over, and that the remnants are finally being cleared, but the awful memories still stick. Modern wars are uniquely shitty.
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>evidence or fuck off - dismiss any baseless claims or theory regurgitated in a vacuum, just tell them to fuck off.
>discuss any communist state, current or historic
>bonus points for discussing both successful and failed state attempts at improving law enforcement conduct
badge peeping thread
Law Enforcement under Communist States: problem solved, or sinophillic copaganda?>evidence or fuck off - dismiss any baseless claims or theory regurgitated in a vacuum, just tell them to fuck off.
>discuss any communist state, current or historic
>bonus points for discussing both successful and failed state attempts at improving law enforcement conduct
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
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📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
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📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
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R: 37 / I: 4
It’s kind of weird to imagine that. So what happens if someone just eats right, stays clean, and doesn’t get stressed? Do they just live forever? What happens if we replace people’s hearts with mechanical ones anyways? We straight up can today too.
>one of my sources anyways
So what if we just “beat” heart disease then what?
I’ve read a few articles on what kills centenarians (people over 100 years old). In literally all cases, the cause of death was never simply “old age.” Instead, the same things that kill people in their 60s and 70s are the same things killing people above 100. Heart disease, pneumonias, and Alzheimer’s were the leading causes of death.It’s kind of weird to imagine that. So what happens if someone just eats right, stays clean, and doesn’t get stressed? Do they just live forever? What happens if we replace people’s hearts with mechanical ones anyways? We straight up can today too.
>one of my sources anyways
R: 1 / I: 0
>>632840
Lickspittles of the bourgeoisie,
My name is Vladimir, and I despise every single one of you. All of you are obese, infantile, liberals who waste every crucial moment of their day staring mouth agape at absurd artwork. You are everything reactionary in the world. Honestly, have any of you ever done any praxis? It might be stimulating to mock others because of one's own shortcomings, but all of you bring it to the highest stage. Your "theory" and "practice," if it can even be called that, manages somehow to be even more Onanistic than that of agent-provocateurs like Father Gapon.
Attempt to pen a counter-revolutionary screed about me. You are unlikely to do any damage. I was on the editorial board of Iskra, and I was fond of lifting weights and hunting while in exile in Siberia. What sporting life have you, other than "masturbating to lewd oriental woodcuts"? I am an accomplished professional revolutionary, and my wife is similarly dedicated to the overthrow of the bourgeoisie (She just wrote a scathing review of your of your liberal imbecility, it was rather illuminating). You are all minions of Tsarism who ought to fall on your swords immediately. We are thankful for the liberation of the working class.
Photograph enclosed: it is my wife and I.
Lickspittles of the bourgeoisie,
My name is Vladimir, and I despise every single one of you. All of you are obese, infantile, liberals who waste every crucial moment of their day staring mouth agape at absurd artwork. You are everything reactionary in the world. Honestly, have any of you ever done any praxis? It might be stimulating to mock others because of one's own shortcomings, but all of you bring it to the highest stage. Your "theory" and "practice," if it can even be called that, manages somehow to be even more Onanistic than that of agent-provocateurs like Father Gapon.
Attempt to pen a counter-revolutionary screed about me. You are unlikely to do any damage. I was on the editorial board of Iskra, and I was fond of lifting weights and hunting while in exile in Siberia. What sporting life have you, other than "masturbating to lewd oriental woodcuts"? I am an accomplished professional revolutionary, and my wife is similarly dedicated to the overthrow of the bourgeoisie (She just wrote a scathing review of your of your liberal imbecility, it was rather illuminating). You are all minions of Tsarism who ought to fall on your swords immediately. We are thankful for the liberation of the working class.
Photograph enclosed: it is my wife and I.
R: 6 / I: 0
Fourteen kids what the fuck
💀 I’m only hearing about this shit now. Fuck man; Americans are some silly goofy fucking people man. These guys have to fund their education better. Ahahahaha
R: 0 / I: 0
>Thursday, August 17, 2023
>WASHINGTON – Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier, 56, a dual citizen of Canada and France, was sentenced today to 262 months in prison for sending threatening letters containing homemade ricin (a toxin), in September 2020, to the White House and then-President Donald J. Trump, as well as to eight Texas State law enforcement officials.
This Quebecois woman is serving out her sentence in a high security American prison that would most likely not meet Canadian standards for safety, humane treatment, human rights, etc. I think it would be nice if some Quebecois anons organized a petition to have her extradited to Quebec to serve the rest of her sentence. She is going to be deported when she finishes her sentence anyway. Once she is in Canada, Quebec anons can work on getting her the Quebec equivalent of a pardon. Pascale seemed to have some prescience. She sent Donald ricin before he made explicit threats against Canada. Now that it's clear that Pascale was acting in the public interest of all Canadians, I think it is time for her to come home.
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/09/23/radicalisee-sur-les-reseaux-sociaux
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/2023-08-17/lettre-empoisonnee-a-donald-trump/pascale-ferrier-condamnee-a-22-ans-de-prison.php
https://www.quebec.ca/gouvernement/ministere/securite-publique/declarations-de-services/declaration-de-services-aux-citoyens#c123947
Free Pascale Ferrier!
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/foreign-national-sentenced-nearly-22-years-prison-mailing-ricin-president-united-states>Thursday, August 17, 2023
>WASHINGTON – Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier, 56, a dual citizen of Canada and France, was sentenced today to 262 months in prison for sending threatening letters containing homemade ricin (a toxin), in September 2020, to the White House and then-President Donald J. Trump, as well as to eight Texas State law enforcement officials.
This Quebecois woman is serving out her sentence in a high security American prison that would most likely not meet Canadian standards for safety, humane treatment, human rights, etc. I think it would be nice if some Quebecois anons organized a petition to have her extradited to Quebec to serve the rest of her sentence. She is going to be deported when she finishes her sentence anyway. Once she is in Canada, Quebec anons can work on getting her the Quebec equivalent of a pardon. Pascale seemed to have some prescience. She sent Donald ricin before he made explicit threats against Canada. Now that it's clear that Pascale was acting in the public interest of all Canadians, I think it is time for her to come home.
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/09/23/radicalisee-sur-les-reseaux-sociaux
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/2023-08-17/lettre-empoisonnee-a-donald-trump/pascale-ferrier-condamnee-a-22-ans-de-prison.php
https://www.quebec.ca/gouvernement/ministere/securite-publique/declarations-de-services/declaration-de-services-aux-citoyens#c123947
R: 7 / I: 1
The leader of Yemen's Houthis said on Friday the group would resume its naval operations against Israel if Israel did not lift a blockage of aid into Gaza within four days, signaling a possible escalation from the Houthis after their assaults tailed off in January following a ceasefire in the enclave.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/yemens-houthis-give-israel-four-day-deadline-lift-gaza-aid-blockage-2025-03-07/
Israel settlers storm purported rabbi’s shrine in Lebanon
Footage circulated online showed crowds of settlers gathering around the tomb.This comes after Israeli settlers conducted an overnight raid of Joseph’s Tomb in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-settlers-storm-purported-rabbis-shrine-lebanon
Italy’s top court orders government to compensate migrants who were stranded at sea for days
The Cassation court ruling, which overturns a previous one, ordered the Italian government to pay for damages inflicted to the migrants at the time of the standoff. Judges late on Thursday sent the case back to an ordinary court, asking it to define the exact amount of compensation to be granted.
https://apnews.com/article/italy-top-court-ruling-migration-meloni-diciotti-case-032234a38b462684b4e503285cca02d6
TUC women's conference votes against decriminalisation of 'sex work'
“We agree that sex workers SHOULD NOT be criminalized. And have long supported the decriminalization of those selling sex.” But it added: “We disagree that full decriminalisation of the sex industry is the best way to reduce harm and give greater protection, nor will it address the root causes that drive the industry, namely poverty and patriarchy…
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tuc-womens-conference-votes-against-decriminalisation-sex-work
Greek Government Survives No-confidence Motion Over Deadly Train Crash
Following two days of acrimonious debates and mass protests, the chamber's deputies voted against the motion, brought by the main opposition socialist Pasok party, by 157 to 136 lawmakers.
https://www.barrons.com/news/greek-government-survives-no-confidence-motion-over-deadly-train-crash-f8d3488b
https://archive.ph/kSV6N
Potassium mining project in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest divides Indigenous tribe
The project received licensing by Amazonas Environmental Protection Institute, a state-level agency. However, it faces lawsuits from the Office of the Attorney General for a lack of proper consultation with the Mura and potential environmental risks, such as soil and water contamination, as the plant will be in a region prone to seasonal flooding.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-potash-mining-canada-mura-madeira-2a4dee3774950fb1b11c4f4836c94519
Arevalo to lead new dialogue with indigenous authorities in Guatemala
The President’s Social Communication Secretary, Santiago Palomo, emphasized that this monthly meeting is extensive, deep and above all that it responds to the most felt needs of the historically abandoned groups.
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/03/06/arevalo-to-lead-new-dialogue-with-indigenous-authorities-in-guatemala/
Bangladesh police use tear gas to disperse Islamist march in Dhaka
Hizb-ut-Tahrir, banned in Bangladesh since October 2009 for posing a threat to national security, has frequently organised protests and marches in defiance of a government ban on public gatherings.The London-based Hizb-ut-Tahrir seeks to unite Muslims in a pan-Islamic state but says its means are peaceful.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bangladesh-police-use-tear-gas-disperse-islamist-march-dhaka-2025-03-07/
Top South Korean court orders release of impeached President Yoon
The President’s Social Communication Secretary, Santiago Palomo, emphasized that this monthly meeting is extensive, deep and above all that it responds to the most felt needs of the historically abandoned groups.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/top-south-korean-court-orders-release-impeached-president-yoon
South Korea Reverses Plan to Boost Medical School Student Intake
The government said in a statement Friday it will revert to setting the annual intake quota for medical schools at 3,058, the same number allowed for more than a decade through 2024, if students come back. Intake rose to nearly 5,000 for this year, and as of January, 90% of those who enrolled last year were staying away from school in protest against the increase.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-07/south-korea-reverses-plan-to-boost-medical-school-student-intake
https://archive.ph/NTS7H
News 3/7/25
Yemen's Houthis give Israel four-day deadline to lift Gaza aid blockageThe leader of Yemen's Houthis said on Friday the group would resume its naval operations against Israel if Israel did not lift a blockage of aid into Gaza within four days, signaling a possible escalation from the Houthis after their assaults tailed off in January following a ceasefire in the enclave.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/yemens-houthis-give-israel-four-day-deadline-lift-gaza-aid-blockage-2025-03-07/
Israel settlers storm purported rabbi’s shrine in Lebanon
Footage circulated online showed crowds of settlers gathering around the tomb.This comes after Israeli settlers conducted an overnight raid of Joseph’s Tomb in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-settlers-storm-purported-rabbis-shrine-lebanon
Italy’s top court orders government to compensate migrants who were stranded at sea for days
The Cassation court ruling, which overturns a previous one, ordered the Italian government to pay for damages inflicted to the migrants at the time of the standoff. Judges late on Thursday sent the case back to an ordinary court, asking it to define the exact amount of compensation to be granted.
https://apnews.com/article/italy-top-court-ruling-migration-meloni-diciotti-case-032234a38b462684b4e503285cca02d6
TUC women's conference votes against decriminalisation of 'sex work'
“We agree that sex workers SHOULD NOT be criminalized. And have long supported the decriminalization of those selling sex.” But it added: “We disagree that full decriminalisation of the sex industry is the best way to reduce harm and give greater protection, nor will it address the root causes that drive the industry, namely poverty and patriarchy…
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tuc-womens-conference-votes-against-decriminalisation-sex-work
Greek Government Survives No-confidence Motion Over Deadly Train Crash
Following two days of acrimonious debates and mass protests, the chamber's deputies voted against the motion, brought by the main opposition socialist Pasok party, by 157 to 136 lawmakers.
https://www.barrons.com/news/greek-government-survives-no-confidence-motion-over-deadly-train-crash-f8d3488b
https://archive.ph/kSV6N
Potassium mining project in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest divides Indigenous tribe
The project received licensing by Amazonas Environmental Protection Institute, a state-level agency. However, it faces lawsuits from the Office of the Attorney General for a lack of proper consultation with the Mura and potential environmental risks, such as soil and water contamination, as the plant will be in a region prone to seasonal flooding.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-potash-mining-canada-mura-madeira-2a4dee3774950fb1b11c4f4836c94519
Arevalo to lead new dialogue with indigenous authorities in Guatemala
The President’s Social Communication Secretary, Santiago Palomo, emphasized that this monthly meeting is extensive, deep and above all that it responds to the most felt needs of the historically abandoned groups.
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/03/06/arevalo-to-lead-new-dialogue-with-indigenous-authorities-in-guatemala/
Bangladesh police use tear gas to disperse Islamist march in Dhaka
Hizb-ut-Tahrir, banned in Bangladesh since October 2009 for posing a threat to national security, has frequently organised protests and marches in defiance of a government ban on public gatherings.The London-based Hizb-ut-Tahrir seeks to unite Muslims in a pan-Islamic state but says its means are peaceful.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bangladesh-police-use-tear-gas-disperse-islamist-march-dhaka-2025-03-07/
Top South Korean court orders release of impeached President Yoon
The President’s Social Communication Secretary, Santiago Palomo, emphasized that this monthly meeting is extensive, deep and above all that it responds to the most felt needs of the historically abandoned groups.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/top-south-korean-court-orders-release-impeached-president-yoon
South Korea Reverses Plan to Boost Medical School Student Intake
The government said in a statement Friday it will revert to setting the annual intake quota for medical schools at 3,058, the same number allowed for more than a decade through 2024, if students come back. Intake rose to nearly 5,000 for this year, and as of January, 90% of those who enrolled last year were staying away from school in protest against the increase.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-07/south-korea-reverses-plan-to-boost-medical-school-student-intake
https://archive.ph/NTS7H
R: 15 / I: 7
Or it's just a nothingburger maybe
WEF 2030
So is this the reason everything has been so fucking weird? What's life gonna be like after 2030? The billionaires have this strange fetish about destroying the world, this may be the final stage of their plan.Or it's just a nothingburger maybe
R: 3 / I: 2
I've pretty much left feminism and all that stuff to the women stuff. I don't often feel welcome there and being an activist for too many things at once is just exhausting. I just care about economic stuff and trans gay and other stuff. To be honest, I find I feel most natural when I'm liking what's called tough guy stuff and macho hypermasculine stuff. Seems like a contradiction to me. The stuff like aggression and mental toughness is cool inside of fiction, but obviously not when somebody in real life has no ability to process emotions properly, or turning that aggression to abuse others.
So does feminism mean leaving behind all that stuff as individuals and as a society? But that stuff always seemed so cool to me, and stuff called masculine and conforming to that stuff feels good. Maybe it's just because of male socialization. Leaving that behind sounds like it'd suck. Couldn't it be an evolutionary change to reduce the more toxic aspects of that, and making things more balanced? There was lots of toxic things humans did during the middle ages for example, and a lot of those behaviors and mindsets were left behind. Does that mean the same thing will happen to masculinity?
What if masculinity is cool and femininity is cool and stop calling them that eventually and they just become traits that can apply to any person depending on how they express themselves. This is just hard to deal with. Plenty of people like both masculine and feminine stuff. Do men have to leave behind traditional concept of masculinity entirely to make a better world? Or will it be iterative instead of complete overhaul. Either way I guess what's most important is being a well rounded person rather than conforming to stereotypes. All this gender stuff means more freedom, and this kind of freedom can't be bad. There's nothing better than freedom besides equality.
Also will this new masculinity will be as good to watch in action movies.
I've pretty much left feminism and all that stuff to the women stuff. I don't often feel welcome there and being an activist for too many things at once is just exhausting. I just care about economic stuff and trans gay and other stuff. To be honest, I find I feel most natural when I'm liking what's called tough guy stuff and macho hypermasculine stuff. Seems like a contradiction to me. The stuff like aggression and mental toughness is cool inside of fiction, but obviously not when somebody in real life has no ability to process emotions properly, or turning that aggression to abuse others.
So does feminism mean leaving behind all that stuff as individuals and as a society? But that stuff always seemed so cool to me, and stuff called masculine and conforming to that stuff feels good. Maybe it's just because of male socialization. Leaving that behind sounds like it'd suck. Couldn't it be an evolutionary change to reduce the more toxic aspects of that, and making things more balanced? There was lots of toxic things humans did during the middle ages for example, and a lot of those behaviors and mindsets were left behind. Does that mean the same thing will happen to masculinity?
What if masculinity is cool and femininity is cool and stop calling them that eventually and they just become traits that can apply to any person depending on how they express themselves. This is just hard to deal with. Plenty of people like both masculine and feminine stuff. Do men have to leave behind traditional concept of masculinity entirely to make a better world? Or will it be iterative instead of complete overhaul. Either way I guess what's most important is being a well rounded person rather than conforming to stereotypes. All this gender stuff means more freedom, and this kind of freedom can't be bad. There's nothing better than freedom besides equality.
Also will this new masculinity will be as good to watch in action movies.
R: 81 / I: 9
It has come to my attention that some people here still have things like “hope for the future” or “a conviction that we’re going to avoid a mass extinction event”, and some people asked me for more information, so as someone who considers themselves the resident climate schizo I wanted to make this post to convey the gist of what the data is saying, clear up some things and essentially get everyone on the same page. God knows I could make this way longer but I tried to focus on the most important things. Also you should all subscribe to the Crisis Report on Substack who I took most of this data from.
🚨🚨 INFOHAZARD ALERT 🚨🚨 You probably shouldn’t read ahead if you’re already depressed or suicidal. I’m not lying when I say that knowing these things has ruined my mental well-being (the little of it that was still there, anyway) and you should probably avoid reading too much about this unless you’re in a healthy state of mind and you’re able to absorb this information without it taking over your life like it did mine. I’m also speaking strictly about climate here, so this time I won’t be talking about how your brain is 0.5% plastic by weight and that amount has increased 50% in the last 8 years etc., that's for another time.
Essentially: the Global Mean Surface Temperature has been above +1.5°C for nearly 2 years now. The rate of warming is now estimated at anywhere between +0.27°C/decade (moderates) and +0.37°C/decade or higher (alarmists). Keep in mind the moderates have been consistently ridiculously off the mark, and even the alarmists have historically tended to underestimate the actual warming trends. That means the rate of warming since 2010 is double that of 1970-2010.
Forests are increasingly no longer able to absorb CO2, due to heat stress and wildfire smoke. In 2023, the CO2 growth rate was +3.37 ± 0.11 ppm/year, 86% above the previous year, while global fossil fuel emissions only increased by 0.6 ± 0.5%., which implies an unprecedented - and rising - weakening of land and ocean sinks.
During 2020-2022, the observed CH4 growth rate reached a record high since measurements began, averaging +15.4 ± 0.6 ppb/year. The record high growth was accompanied by a sharp decline in the rate of growth of the human production of CH4 (the amount hasn’t declined, it just isn’t growing as quickly). This means that the increase was mainly (~85%) driven by increased emissions from feedback loops of microbial sources such as wetlands, waste and agriculture. This in turn means that we essentially have no way to forecast future emissions, and that we have triggered ecological feedback loops that release CO2 and CH4 by themselves, without human involvement - that is, even if we stopped emissions, which we aren't going to.
Something I haven't seen many people talk about is the recent rapid decrease in Earth’s albedo, which is essentially its reflectiveness. A decrease in albedo means that more solar energy is absorbed by the Earth. A drop of 1% in albedo produces a warming effect roughly equal to doubling the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Earth’s albedo has almost dropped by 1% since 2000, and is still rapidly decreasing.
So far, 2025 is averaging more than 1.67°C above the pre-industrial baseline. It’s even hotter than last year, which is worrying, considering 2024 was an El Nino year
Notice how over the past sixty years, all La Nina Januaries have been cooler than the surrounding years (look at 1999, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2017, 2021). In an event scientists are calling “astonishing and terrifying”, this is the first time that temperatures during a La Nina period were above those of a preceding El Nino.
Another way to look at this is to look at sea surface temperature readings. 2025 looks like it’s going to be even hotter than 2024
The most likely scenario right now has 2025 averaging out above the 2024 yearly average, but not by much, probably just short of +1.7°C (which still represents a +0.6°C jump between 2021 and 2025). This puts us on track to reach 2.0°C by 2035 or so.
There is, however, a growing chance of an El Nino pattern forming again in 2026, with the oceans rapidly warming up. The “bad” scenario involves a 2026/27 El Nino, which could easily boost the GMST another 0.1/0.2°C by the end of 2027. This would put us on track to reach 2.0°C by 2030.
To be clear, we've seen a notable trend since 2021:
2021: +1.1°C above preindustrial
2022: Jumped to +1.2°C during a La Nina (which usually lowers the GMST)
2023: El Nino pushed temperature to +1.54°C (with daily spikes exceeding 2°C for the first time) – an increase of +0.34°C over a single year
2024: Hit +1.63°C despite moving out of El Nino
2025: Seems to be averaging ~1.7°C so far – under La Nina conditions.
This is highly, highly unusual. It's an unprecedented jump in the rate of warming, even through La Ninas, which are supposed to cool the GMST down. We can likely attribute some of this to the climate system processing the drop in Earth’s albedo since ~2014. Hansen’s team estimates this loss adds the heating equivalent of +100ppm CO2. If we take the current amount of ~425ppm CO2, add CH4 & other greenhouse gasses (+100ppm CO2(e)), and accept Hansen’s assumption of albedo dimming (another ~100ppm CO2(e)), we get roughly 625ppm CO2-equivalent. The paleoclimate record links this amount to something like +6.5°C long term, though of course mainstream models remain vastly more conservative. Additionally, when it comes to warming rates, recent trends suggest +0.1°C/year during La Nina years and +0.2 up to +0.4°C during El Nino. If we assume 2 El Ninos per decade and about 6 La Nina years, we may be looking at a rate of warming of roughly +1.2°C per decade, which would push us to ~+2.8°C by 2035. Now to be clear, this is the worst case scenario - but like I said earlier, keep in mind that moderates have been historically ridiculously wrong and even alarmists have consistently underestimated the rate of warming. But let’s not assume that. Let's not even assume the most likely scenario of 2.0°C by 2035. Let's take the most conservative, mainstream, NASA data – the kind that’s used to guide policy, the kind people look at during COP meetings. The “ridiculously underestimating” kind. That puts us at 2°C by 2040-2045 or so.
Just to reiterate: conservative moderates assume 2.0°C by 2040-2045, the likely scenario is 2.0°C by 2035, the bad scenario is 2.0°C by 2030, and the worst-case scenario is something like 2.8°C by 2035. Of course, the warming isn't going to stop at these points, it's going to keep growing exponentially - every +0.1°C rise takes less and less time than the previous. But keeping in mind these four scenarios, a recent study estimates 1 billion people will die if we reach 2°C *by 2100*. The UK’s Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, essentially an insurance industry think tank, recently released a report where they find that “high-profile climate change assessments in wide use significantly underestimate risk”. They assume a human mortality rate of >25% (>2 billion deaths) and “major extinction events in multiple geographies” if we hit >2°C by 2050. Anything over 3°C by 2050 is assumed to result in “high level of extinction of higher order life on Earth” and >4 billion deaths. This isn’t Greenpeace or the IPCC, these are insurance industry agents making an intra-industry announcement to other insurance agents, telling them that current climate models are massively understating the risk from climate change and warning them to readjust their business calculations accordingly.
What do you think happens once we get multiple breadbasket failure and continent-wide famines in South-East Asia or West Africa? The people there aren't going to take it lying down, they'll desperately try to escape to places where the land isn't actively trying to kill you. If you thought Americans and Europeans went crazy about "refugees" and "immigrants" wait until it's not tens of thousands, but a hundred, two, five hundred million starving people. Machine gun encampments at the borders. Palantir stock going up. Gaza is just the testing ground. We will live to see man-made horrors beyond comprehension.
I don’t know how to end this post. We're cooked. I am NOT crazy!!!!!
Climate Schizo Post
taken from trueanon, go here for the sources : https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1j59bi2/if_only_you_knew_how_bad_things_really_are/It has come to my attention that some people here still have things like “hope for the future” or “a conviction that we’re going to avoid a mass extinction event”, and some people asked me for more information, so as someone who considers themselves the resident climate schizo I wanted to make this post to convey the gist of what the data is saying, clear up some things and essentially get everyone on the same page. God knows I could make this way longer but I tried to focus on the most important things. Also you should all subscribe to the Crisis Report on Substack who I took most of this data from.
🚨🚨 INFOHAZARD ALERT 🚨🚨 You probably shouldn’t read ahead if you’re already depressed or suicidal. I’m not lying when I say that knowing these things has ruined my mental well-being (the little of it that was still there, anyway) and you should probably avoid reading too much about this unless you’re in a healthy state of mind and you’re able to absorb this information without it taking over your life like it did mine. I’m also speaking strictly about climate here, so this time I won’t be talking about how your brain is 0.5% plastic by weight and that amount has increased 50% in the last 8 years etc., that's for another time.
Essentially: the Global Mean Surface Temperature has been above +1.5°C for nearly 2 years now. The rate of warming is now estimated at anywhere between +0.27°C/decade (moderates) and +0.37°C/decade or higher (alarmists). Keep in mind the moderates have been consistently ridiculously off the mark, and even the alarmists have historically tended to underestimate the actual warming trends. That means the rate of warming since 2010 is double that of 1970-2010.
Forests are increasingly no longer able to absorb CO2, due to heat stress and wildfire smoke. In 2023, the CO2 growth rate was +3.37 ± 0.11 ppm/year, 86% above the previous year, while global fossil fuel emissions only increased by 0.6 ± 0.5%., which implies an unprecedented - and rising - weakening of land and ocean sinks.
During 2020-2022, the observed CH4 growth rate reached a record high since measurements began, averaging +15.4 ± 0.6 ppb/year. The record high growth was accompanied by a sharp decline in the rate of growth of the human production of CH4 (the amount hasn’t declined, it just isn’t growing as quickly). This means that the increase was mainly (~85%) driven by increased emissions from feedback loops of microbial sources such as wetlands, waste and agriculture. This in turn means that we essentially have no way to forecast future emissions, and that we have triggered ecological feedback loops that release CO2 and CH4 by themselves, without human involvement - that is, even if we stopped emissions, which we aren't going to.
Something I haven't seen many people talk about is the recent rapid decrease in Earth’s albedo, which is essentially its reflectiveness. A decrease in albedo means that more solar energy is absorbed by the Earth. A drop of 1% in albedo produces a warming effect roughly equal to doubling the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Earth’s albedo has almost dropped by 1% since 2000, and is still rapidly decreasing.
So far, 2025 is averaging more than 1.67°C above the pre-industrial baseline. It’s even hotter than last year, which is worrying, considering 2024 was an El Nino year
Notice how over the past sixty years, all La Nina Januaries have been cooler than the surrounding years (look at 1999, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2017, 2021). In an event scientists are calling “astonishing and terrifying”, this is the first time that temperatures during a La Nina period were above those of a preceding El Nino.
Another way to look at this is to look at sea surface temperature readings. 2025 looks like it’s going to be even hotter than 2024
The most likely scenario right now has 2025 averaging out above the 2024 yearly average, but not by much, probably just short of +1.7°C (which still represents a +0.6°C jump between 2021 and 2025). This puts us on track to reach 2.0°C by 2035 or so.
There is, however, a growing chance of an El Nino pattern forming again in 2026, with the oceans rapidly warming up. The “bad” scenario involves a 2026/27 El Nino, which could easily boost the GMST another 0.1/0.2°C by the end of 2027. This would put us on track to reach 2.0°C by 2030.
To be clear, we've seen a notable trend since 2021:
2021: +1.1°C above preindustrial
2022: Jumped to +1.2°C during a La Nina (which usually lowers the GMST)
2023: El Nino pushed temperature to +1.54°C (with daily spikes exceeding 2°C for the first time) – an increase of +0.34°C over a single year
2024: Hit +1.63°C despite moving out of El Nino
2025: Seems to be averaging ~1.7°C so far – under La Nina conditions.
This is highly, highly unusual. It's an unprecedented jump in the rate of warming, even through La Ninas, which are supposed to cool the GMST down. We can likely attribute some of this to the climate system processing the drop in Earth’s albedo since ~2014. Hansen’s team estimates this loss adds the heating equivalent of +100ppm CO2. If we take the current amount of ~425ppm CO2, add CH4 & other greenhouse gasses (+100ppm CO2(e)), and accept Hansen’s assumption of albedo dimming (another ~100ppm CO2(e)), we get roughly 625ppm CO2-equivalent. The paleoclimate record links this amount to something like +6.5°C long term, though of course mainstream models remain vastly more conservative. Additionally, when it comes to warming rates, recent trends suggest +0.1°C/year during La Nina years and +0.2 up to +0.4°C during El Nino. If we assume 2 El Ninos per decade and about 6 La Nina years, we may be looking at a rate of warming of roughly +1.2°C per decade, which would push us to ~+2.8°C by 2035. Now to be clear, this is the worst case scenario - but like I said earlier, keep in mind that moderates have been historically ridiculously wrong and even alarmists have consistently underestimated the rate of warming. But let’s not assume that. Let's not even assume the most likely scenario of 2.0°C by 2035. Let's take the most conservative, mainstream, NASA data – the kind that’s used to guide policy, the kind people look at during COP meetings. The “ridiculously underestimating” kind. That puts us at 2°C by 2040-2045 or so.
Just to reiterate: conservative moderates assume 2.0°C by 2040-2045, the likely scenario is 2.0°C by 2035, the bad scenario is 2.0°C by 2030, and the worst-case scenario is something like 2.8°C by 2035. Of course, the warming isn't going to stop at these points, it's going to keep growing exponentially - every +0.1°C rise takes less and less time than the previous. But keeping in mind these four scenarios, a recent study estimates 1 billion people will die if we reach 2°C *by 2100*. The UK’s Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, essentially an insurance industry think tank, recently released a report where they find that “high-profile climate change assessments in wide use significantly underestimate risk”. They assume a human mortality rate of >25% (>2 billion deaths) and “major extinction events in multiple geographies” if we hit >2°C by 2050. Anything over 3°C by 2050 is assumed to result in “high level of extinction of higher order life on Earth” and >4 billion deaths. This isn’t Greenpeace or the IPCC, these are insurance industry agents making an intra-industry announcement to other insurance agents, telling them that current climate models are massively understating the risk from climate change and warning them to readjust their business calculations accordingly.
What do you think happens once we get multiple breadbasket failure and continent-wide famines in South-East Asia or West Africa? The people there aren't going to take it lying down, they'll desperately try to escape to places where the land isn't actively trying to kill you. If you thought Americans and Europeans went crazy about "refugees" and "immigrants" wait until it's not tens of thousands, but a hundred, two, five hundred million starving people. Machine gun encampments at the borders. Palantir stock going up. Gaza is just the testing ground. We will live to see man-made horrors beyond comprehension.
I don’t know how to end this post. We're cooked. I am NOT crazy!!!!!
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How the hell do you even get all the construction material to house everyone in those places anyways? The homelessness is so bad, and it’s not like there’s enough sand and water to make the concrete or even cement (it doesn’t use water) to house get all the material. There’s at least stone and steel in abundance, but those materials are hard to build with and slow to develop with too.
Mind you, billions of units need to be built to house people and their belongings just to deal with the comically high levels of poverty.
Eradicating homelessness
India, all of Africa, and china suffer from the worst homelessness the world can offer and I’m not joking. India can only supply housing to around 40% of its population, African housing supplies are limited to capital cities, and most of china’s population is stuck living in 3rd to 4th tier cities or worse given how hard it is to live in a 2nd or 1st tier city assuming you even get to live in urban china.How the hell do you even get all the construction material to house everyone in those places anyways? The homelessness is so bad, and it’s not like there’s enough sand and water to make the concrete or even cement (it doesn’t use water) to house get all the material. There’s at least stone and steel in abundance, but those materials are hard to build with and slow to develop with too.
Mind you, billions of units need to be built to house people and their belongings just to deal with the comically high levels of poverty.
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https://tv.leftypol.org/r/prepping_for_trans_holocaust
Current political climate in the Us and in many places across the globe bears MANY parallels to the pre-Hitler Nazi Germany, and we BEEN knew fascism is here. We can't be fucking around like sitting ducks. The Nazis genocided LGBT ppl then, especially trans people, and they will again.
Trans Community Prepping
There's a new channel in the previously dead CyTube for trans ppl and allies to learn survival and prepping skills and talk to each other about organizing and prepping for the worst (and hoping for the best).https://tv.leftypol.org/r/prepping_for_trans_holocaust
Current political climate in the Us and in many places across the globe bears MANY parallels to the pre-Hitler Nazi Germany, and we BEEN knew fascism is here. We can't be fucking around like sitting ducks. The Nazis genocided LGBT ppl then, especially trans people, and they will again.
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Are there any groups besides this one? Anything that isn't hedonistic by nature?
contribution, community
Is there any realistic way that I could contribute to the cause of socialism online besides educating myself? But even then, after education, I can't imagine there's much to do. Unless if I can find a socialist party in the area I eventually move in. Or I could move to a place with a socialist movement specifically.Are there any groups besides this one? Anything that isn't hedonistic by nature?
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This thread is dedicated to the reminder that the revolution must come from all genders and sexes to abolish capitalism.
We must also take back this day from the liberal establishments of the world who attempt to erase working class history by saying that the interests of the bourgeoisie women are the same as the working woman.
Do your part, give an abused woman a machine gun, listen to their grievances and make plans for a revolution!
The Revolution is a zero sum game, we are all free or none of us are!
International Working Women's Day
Happy International Working Women's Day!This thread is dedicated to the reminder that the revolution must come from all genders and sexes to abolish capitalism.
We must also take back this day from the liberal establishments of the world who attempt to erase working class history by saying that the interests of the bourgeoisie women are the same as the working woman.
Do your part, give an abused woman a machine gun, listen to their grievances and make plans for a revolution!
The Revolution is a zero sum game, we are all free or none of us are!
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Is there a good argument against/criticism of LGBT people and their inclusion in leftist politics? Identity politics like this is distracting from class struggle and from racism. A lot of the transhumanists I encounter are only superficially leftist, they hate ethnic minorities or they're just straight up right wing.
Is there a good argument against/criticism of LGBT people and their inclusion in leftist politics? Identity politics like this is distracting from class struggle and from racism. A lot of the transhumanists I encounter are only superficially leftist, they hate ethnic minorities or they're just straight up right wing.
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This is the truth behind why Trump wants Greenland
https://www.ft.com/content/ace02a6f-3307-43f8-aac3-16b6646b60f6
Key points from the article to spare you from tl;dr
>Praxis is a Peter Thiel and Dryden Brown-backed project that aims to create a porky technostate.
>Trump promotes Ken Howery as ambassador to Denmark, to further negotiations of buying Greenland; Praxis' main account embeds on Twitter saying, "According to plan."
I've been lurking on Praxis' discord for the past couple days. These people are either deranged or retarded. They believe this will "save western civilization", that they will build the next Mesopotamia and eventually take their exploits to space. After they stripmine another country of its resources. This was never about putting America first. He wants to build an empire on top of other people's lands. That's why he wants Panama, Colombia, and Greenland. All of this has led me to feel disgust and dispair. Though I never VOOTed for Trump, I now realize democracy's failure to account for the rise of dictators in the past and that it led us to this moment yet again.
But in spite of my dooming, I believe I've found our solution. If we are willing to organize both ourselves and the people of Greenland, we can beat Trump and Praxis to the punch. We can make Greenland the next Vietnam.
Greenland is a territory of Denmark as it stands now, but they want to become an independent nation. What they will do afterward is a mystery. However, after doing some research, I think we have our work cut out for us.
>The prime minister's / leading political party is a democratic socialist aligned party.
>Nationalism is on the rise; most Greenlanders are dissatisfied with Danish rule, or have been for decades
I have decided I am going to expatriate to Greenland, working within the current system to prepare Greenlanders for what's coming. Just to be clear, I am not looking to recruit anyone on some campaign. This, however, could be our last chance to turn the tide on the world order. We will need to educate Greenlanders on guerilla warfare tactics, theory, etc. I strongly believe we have one trump card left. And it lies in Greenland.
Hope for revolution may lay with Greenlanders
I've been spiraling down a frightening rabbit hole that has left me radicalized beyond the point of no return.This is the truth behind why Trump wants Greenland
https://www.ft.com/content/ace02a6f-3307-43f8-aac3-16b6646b60f6
Key points from the article to spare you from tl;dr
>Praxis is a Peter Thiel and Dryden Brown-backed project that aims to create a porky technostate.
>Trump promotes Ken Howery as ambassador to Denmark, to further negotiations of buying Greenland; Praxis' main account embeds on Twitter saying, "According to plan."
I've been lurking on Praxis' discord for the past couple days. These people are either deranged or retarded. They believe this will "save western civilization", that they will build the next Mesopotamia and eventually take their exploits to space. After they stripmine another country of its resources. This was never about putting America first. He wants to build an empire on top of other people's lands. That's why he wants Panama, Colombia, and Greenland. All of this has led me to feel disgust and dispair. Though I never VOOTed for Trump, I now realize democracy's failure to account for the rise of dictators in the past and that it led us to this moment yet again.
But in spite of my dooming, I believe I've found our solution. If we are willing to organize both ourselves and the people of Greenland, we can beat Trump and Praxis to the punch. We can make Greenland the next Vietnam.
Greenland is a territory of Denmark as it stands now, but they want to become an independent nation. What they will do afterward is a mystery. However, after doing some research, I think we have our work cut out for us.
>The prime minister's / leading political party is a democratic socialist aligned party.
>Nationalism is on the rise; most Greenlanders are dissatisfied with Danish rule, or have been for decades
I have decided I am going to expatriate to Greenland, working within the current system to prepare Greenlanders for what's coming. Just to be clear, I am not looking to recruit anyone on some campaign. This, however, could be our last chance to turn the tide on the world order. We will need to educate Greenlanders on guerilla warfare tactics, theory, etc. I strongly believe we have one trump card left. And it lies in Greenland.
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Good 4chan /biz/ alternatives?
Hi leftypol. Never posted here before, but basically the mods over on /biz/ have lost their fucking minds and are banning any discussion critical of Donald Trumps economic policies. I’m looking for any chans you may know of that have an active /biz/ board, or at least active board interested in finance and economics.
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>dialects is a fundamental view of understanding the nature of nature itself
>history is dialectal. In application, this means all events in history have a specific cause and effect. Unlike what the religious have thought for years, there is no god that can fundamentally prevent a specific event from ever occurring which includes injustices and revolutions.
Highly important below
>history’s modes of industrial production has followed a few stages: the feudal mode followed a social model where people worked in large groups to produce goods meant to be instantly consumed; the capitalist model emerged as industrial productiveness allowed people to make things in mass without needing massive teams of people (this also means that less proles were involved in industry and more were involved in service); the socialist model emerged to break up the very real problems with instability and inequality inherent to the capitalist system, and in a sense it advocated a return to the feudal socialized model with industrial productiveness through centralizing, organizing, and collectivizing labour; the communist mode of production is an end stage where post scarcity is achieved and where the productivity of machines has reached a point where there is no need again for societal institutions to organize labour or keep people bondage to civic laws (because of these changes, money stops being a need to manage human affairs).
Now let’s talk about why I think that the socialist model is fascism realized.
Praxis as fascism realized: this is a thread about hierarchies and militarism
Let’s go over some concepts that Marx Engels and Marx wrote to prevent confusion:>dialects is a fundamental view of understanding the nature of nature itself
>history is dialectal. In application, this means all events in history have a specific cause and effect. Unlike what the religious have thought for years, there is no god that can fundamentally prevent a specific event from ever occurring which includes injustices and revolutions.
Highly important below
>history’s modes of industrial production has followed a few stages: the feudal mode followed a social model where people worked in large groups to produce goods meant to be instantly consumed; the capitalist model emerged as industrial productiveness allowed people to make things in mass without needing massive teams of people (this also means that less proles were involved in industry and more were involved in service); the socialist model emerged to break up the very real problems with instability and inequality inherent to the capitalist system, and in a sense it advocated a return to the feudal socialized model with industrial productiveness through centralizing, organizing, and collectivizing labour; the communist mode of production is an end stage where post scarcity is achieved and where the productivity of machines has reached a point where there is no need again for societal institutions to organize labour or keep people bondage to civic laws (because of these changes, money stops being a need to manage human affairs).
Now let’s talk about why I think that the socialist model is fascism realized.
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Why are people like this?
My best friend recently announced he’d stop talking to me because I’m much less right-wing than I used to be back then, and that he only wants people who agree with all of his (frankly insane) views. He’s doing all this bullshit now, like pretending he knows all about economics and Catholicism now, and talks about how he needs to secure a house for his aryan children (his girlfriend is Jewish). Why are people becoming more and more like this? Living off the idea of being something they aren’t?
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Compare and contrast the transition from feudalist to capitalist modes of production, against the transition attempts from capitalist to socialist modes of production.
How do the failures of cap->soc transitions compare to the early failures of feud->cap?
To what degree is it appropriate to compare these historically-distinct processes?
Was there any historical event which accelerated these transitions?
Compare and contrast the transition from feudalist to capitalist modes of production, against the transition attempts from capitalist to socialist modes of production.
How do the failures of cap->soc transitions compare to the early failures of feud->cap?
To what degree is it appropriate to compare these historically-distinct processes?
Was there any historical event which accelerated these transitions?
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NeoFeudalism
I have seen this term being thrown around a lot lately, but is there any real reason to believe that what we are seeing develop is going to be qualitatively different from capitalism? Personally, I think not, whatsay you gentlefriends?
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>I hope the crisis of liberalism and capitalism makes people radicalise towards communism.
<Damn, this Trump guy is an asshole. It seems like the US is an empire exploiting both workers living in it and outside. And damn, there are a lot of Trumps in other nations too. Seems like the problem is international. Maybe the solution is international too.
>Shut up liberal, I hope you die cause of the things you thought in the past. Other nations should enact revenge against you.
Why are (some) communists like that?
>I hope the crisis of liberalism and capitalism makes people radicalise towards communism.
<Damn, this Trump guy is an asshole. It seems like the US is an empire exploiting both workers living in it and outside. And damn, there are a lot of Trumps in other nations too. Seems like the problem is international. Maybe the solution is international too.
>Shut up liberal, I hope you die cause of the things you thought in the past. Other nations should enact revenge against you.
Why are (some) communists like that?
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However, this influx of young, unhappy kids begs the question, are most of you in this for the long haul? Let's say your personal needs are met and you are satisfied. Will you still be a Communist? Will most other nucommies stick with it?
are you a bread and circuses kinda guy?
Most people here and elsewhere are young kids who became radlibs and communists as a reaction to the increasing amount of right wing content and ideology being spread on the internet and in real life. Some of you have been worn out by financial issues, poverty, problems at work, exhausted by consumerist culture, mental illness, hatred of elites, et cetera. No matter how you got to the left, your experiences are valid.However, this influx of young, unhappy kids begs the question, are most of you in this for the long haul? Let's say your personal needs are met and you are satisfied. Will you still be a Communist? Will most other nucommies stick with it?
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There’s plenty of room for more excavation and mass construction, and there are plenty of incentives to revive the housing market’s momentum again. Why isn’t there the momentum and urge to build present again?
China’s housing market isn’t in a Japanese situation
I find it weird knowing how little news there is of any ongoing mass construction efforts in China. The population is still around 1.4 billion and there really isn’t enough housing for everyone. The urban population is still only 68% and most don’t even get to live in the tier one or two cities anyways. This is also stacked on top of the fact that most of china isn’t really built up anyways. Most Chinese (>94%) live on the east coast while the west is left largely abandoned or sparsely populated.There’s plenty of room for more excavation and mass construction, and there are plenty of incentives to revive the housing market’s momentum again. Why isn’t there the momentum and urge to build present again?
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Respects instead to Palestines water supply and all the victims. In order to increase the quality of the worlds communities, serious gatekeeping must be. Neutrals regarding this topic are no longer acceptable. For example Russian & Deutsch military should have more power over the worlds internet, resistance is merely an enemy of the world.
Respects to the awareness also that Prussia is independent and invested in the big anarcho matriarchy Nazi~Communityist Deutschland. While the Slavs are independent within Prussia and have cities such as Fraugrad. Nations within nations within nations, idealists not subordinates.
Hhhh
we all know who has a problem with the idea of truly diverse community.
Make israelCult leave the internet
We must become faggier fags” - Craytos, SoijakOfWar.Respects instead to Palestines water supply and all the victims. In order to increase the quality of the worlds communities, serious gatekeeping must be. Neutrals regarding this topic are no longer acceptable. For example Russian & Deutsch military should have more power over the worlds internet, resistance is merely an enemy of the world.
Respects to the awareness also that Prussia is independent and invested in the big anarcho matriarchy Nazi~Communityist Deutschland. While the Slavs are independent within Prussia and have cities such as Fraugrad. Nations within nations within nations, idealists not subordinates.
Hhhh
we all know who has a problem with the idea of truly diverse community.
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Congress still grilling the "sanctuary city" mayors right now:
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If Saudi Aramco was a country, it would be the fourth biggest polluter in the world after China, the US and India, while ExxonMobil is responsible for about the same emissions as Germany, the world’s ninth biggest polluter, according to the data.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/05/half-of-worlds-co2-emissions-come-from-36-fossil-fuel-firms-study-shows
Former Peruvian President Castillo stands trial for rebellion
“All I did was express the wishes of the people through a speech,” Mr Castillo said of his effort to dissolve congress. Mr Castillo did not bring a lawyer to the trial, which he has described as a farce on his social media accounts, and was instead appointed a public defender.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/former-peruvian-president-castillo-stands-trial-rebellion
Canada, citing trade turmoil, to crack down on foreign takeover bids
Under the Investment Canada Act, Ottawa can approve or reject mergers and acquisitions based on their net benefit to the country. Champagne said from now on, investments would also be studied to see if they might undermine Canada's security at a time when the economy was facing unprecedented challenges.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/canada-citing-trade-turmoil-crack-down-foreign-takeover-bids-2025-03-05/
Israel’s Shin Bet says Netanyahu policies helped pave way for 7 October
“The cumulative weight of violations on the Temple Mount, the treatment of [Palestinian] prisoners and the perception that Israeli society had been weakened because of the damage to social cohesion” were all contributory factors to Israel’s vulnerability to attack, the report said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/05/israeli-security-agency-says-netanyahus-policies-paved-the-way-for-2023-hamas-attack
US and Israel reject Arab alternative to Trump's Gaza plan
"Now, with President Trump's idea, there is an opportunity for the Gazans to have free choice based on their free will. This should be encouraged!" it added. "Instead, Arab states have rejected this opportunity, without giving it a fair chance, and continue to level baseless accusations against Israel."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7vd4pnxx3o
Refugees in Kenya’s Kakuma camp clash with police after food supplies cut
Aid budgets have been stretched for several years, with the WFP having to cut rations in other emergency zones, but they have been hit further by President Donald Trump’s freeze on US aid spending, which provided more than half of WFP’s funding of $9.7bn (£7.5bn) in 2024.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/05/refugees-clashes-police-kakuma-camp-kenya-protests-cuts-wfp-unhcr-food-aid-us-freeze
MKP, EFF reject ANC’s VAT hike support offer
For the first time in its post-apartheid history, South African parliament under the GNU arrangement failed to present its first budget. The two main parties in this new government differed over policies that are feared to further burden the poor and the working-class. But the ANC is now reportedly in favour of the 0,75% hike and wants to woo the MKP and the EFF to support it.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/mkp-eff-reject-ancs-vat-hike-support-offer/
Koutsoumbas says Communist party will support no-confidence vote
“Anyone who does not see that the government of New Democracy can no longer stay is turning a blind eye,” he said. Koutsoubas blasted Prime Minister Kyriakos M Mitsotakis who said earlier that his government will work to make Greek railways safe by 2027. “In other words, you are admitting that it is not safe now,” he told lawmakers.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/politics/1263259/koutsoumbas-says-communist-party-will-support-no-confidence-vote/
Left parties express concern over law and order
The party leaders in separate press statements alleged that the interim government had failed to stop extrajudicial killings and mob attacks in the country. Communist Party of Bangladesh president Mohammad Shah Alam and general secretary Ruhin Hossain Prince in a press statement said that although the interim government was committed to control law and order and stop mob attacks in the county, they failed to control the situation.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/politics/259431/left-parties-express-concern-over-law-and-order
BlackRock to buy Hong Kong firm's Panama Canal port stake amid Trump pressure
The move appears to be a win for U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressive diplomacy just hours before he is due to tout the successes of the first six tumultuous weeks of his second term in an address to the U.S. Congress.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/ck-hutchison-sell-80-stake-hutchison-ports-group-1777-billion-deal-2025-03-04/
News 3/5/25
Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study showsIf Saudi Aramco was a country, it would be the fourth biggest polluter in the world after China, the US and India, while ExxonMobil is responsible for about the same emissions as Germany, the world’s ninth biggest polluter, according to the data.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/05/half-of-worlds-co2-emissions-come-from-36-fossil-fuel-firms-study-shows
Former Peruvian President Castillo stands trial for rebellion
“All I did was express the wishes of the people through a speech,” Mr Castillo said of his effort to dissolve congress. Mr Castillo did not bring a lawyer to the trial, which he has described as a farce on his social media accounts, and was instead appointed a public defender.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/former-peruvian-president-castillo-stands-trial-rebellion
Canada, citing trade turmoil, to crack down on foreign takeover bids
Under the Investment Canada Act, Ottawa can approve or reject mergers and acquisitions based on their net benefit to the country. Champagne said from now on, investments would also be studied to see if they might undermine Canada's security at a time when the economy was facing unprecedented challenges.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/canada-citing-trade-turmoil-crack-down-foreign-takeover-bids-2025-03-05/
Israel’s Shin Bet says Netanyahu policies helped pave way for 7 October
“The cumulative weight of violations on the Temple Mount, the treatment of [Palestinian] prisoners and the perception that Israeli society had been weakened because of the damage to social cohesion” were all contributory factors to Israel’s vulnerability to attack, the report said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/05/israeli-security-agency-says-netanyahus-policies-paved-the-way-for-2023-hamas-attack
US and Israel reject Arab alternative to Trump's Gaza plan
"Now, with President Trump's idea, there is an opportunity for the Gazans to have free choice based on their free will. This should be encouraged!" it added. "Instead, Arab states have rejected this opportunity, without giving it a fair chance, and continue to level baseless accusations against Israel."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7vd4pnxx3o
Refugees in Kenya’s Kakuma camp clash with police after food supplies cut
Aid budgets have been stretched for several years, with the WFP having to cut rations in other emergency zones, but they have been hit further by President Donald Trump’s freeze on US aid spending, which provided more than half of WFP’s funding of $9.7bn (£7.5bn) in 2024.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/05/refugees-clashes-police-kakuma-camp-kenya-protests-cuts-wfp-unhcr-food-aid-us-freeze
MKP, EFF reject ANC’s VAT hike support offer
For the first time in its post-apartheid history, South African parliament under the GNU arrangement failed to present its first budget. The two main parties in this new government differed over policies that are feared to further burden the poor and the working-class. But the ANC is now reportedly in favour of the 0,75% hike and wants to woo the MKP and the EFF to support it.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/mkp-eff-reject-ancs-vat-hike-support-offer/
Koutsoumbas says Communist party will support no-confidence vote
“Anyone who does not see that the government of New Democracy can no longer stay is turning a blind eye,” he said. Koutsoubas blasted Prime Minister Kyriakos M Mitsotakis who said earlier that his government will work to make Greek railways safe by 2027. “In other words, you are admitting that it is not safe now,” he told lawmakers.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/politics/1263259/koutsoumbas-says-communist-party-will-support-no-confidence-vote/
Left parties express concern over law and order
The party leaders in separate press statements alleged that the interim government had failed to stop extrajudicial killings and mob attacks in the country. Communist Party of Bangladesh president Mohammad Shah Alam and general secretary Ruhin Hossain Prince in a press statement said that although the interim government was committed to control law and order and stop mob attacks in the county, they failed to control the situation.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/politics/259431/left-parties-express-concern-over-law-and-order
BlackRock to buy Hong Kong firm's Panama Canal port stake amid Trump pressure
The move appears to be a win for U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressive diplomacy just hours before he is due to tout the successes of the first six tumultuous weeks of his second term in an address to the U.S. Congress.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/ck-hutchison-sell-80-stake-hutchison-ports-group-1777-billion-deal-2025-03-04/
R: 3 / I: 1
Why do conservatives call liberal left when they’re not left at all they’re not even Socialism. they’re just as capitalist as conservative every liberal in the United States is a neo liberal i’m right deal with it’s
Why do conservatives call liberal left when they’re not left at all they’re not even Socialism. they’re just as capitalist as conservative every liberal in the United States is a neo liberal i’m right deal with it’s
R: 9 / I: 1
I was wondering if you think that chairman Mao would have supported TheLGBTQ+ if you were alive today
I was wondering if you think that chairman Mao would have supported TheLGBTQ+ if you were alive today
R: 32 / I: 1
Someone, enlightenment me on why idealism is le bad? I always see people dunking on idealism, but frankly I'm not philosophical versed enough to understand why. Why idealism get such a bad reputation here?
Someone, enlightenment me on why idealism is le bad? I always see people dunking on idealism, but frankly I'm not philosophical versed enough to understand why. Why idealism get such a bad reputation here?
R: 21 / I: 1
Why do the communists "disdain to conceal their aims?" Would some subterfuge and subtlety not massively benefit the movement? In countries absolutely brainfucked by the cold war and the anticommunist emigre complex (like the burger reich), would it not make sense to attempt and smuggle Communism to the masses under another name, but the same premises? The premises of communism are very popular, but as soon as you use the name, people recoil in terror due to their programming. Does not a rose by any other name smell the same?
Why do the communists "disdain to conceal their aims?" Would some subterfuge and subtlety not massively benefit the movement? In countries absolutely brainfucked by the cold war and the anticommunist emigre complex (like the burger reich), would it not make sense to attempt and smuggle Communism to the masses under another name, but the same premises? The premises of communism are very popular, but as soon as you use the name, people recoil in terror due to their programming. Does not a rose by any other name smell the same?
R: 3 / I: 0
Trump officials are now looking at ways for allied countries to stop and inspect ships sailing through critical chokepoints such as the Malacca Strait in Asia and other sea lanes, according to six sources who asked not to be named due to the sensitive subject.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-mulls-plan-disrupt-irans-oil-by-halting-vessels-sea-2025-03-06/
Residents protest in Al-Suwiadaa, amid calls for activating role of general security service
This comes as a part of a series of security measures implemented by Israeli forces in the region amid anticipation of potential field developments. Yesterday, SOHR sources reported that Israeli forces infiltrated into Be’er Al-Ajam Town in Al-Qonaitara countryside on borders with the occupied Al-Golan, backed by military machineries and heavy weapons.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/357291/
Revealed: Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data
“AI amplifies power,” said a source familiar with the development of Unit 8200’s AI models in recent years. “It’s not just about preventing shooting attacks, I can track human rights activists, monitor Palestinian construction in Area C [of the West Bank]. I have more tools to know what every person in the West Bank is doing.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/06/israel-military-ai-surveillance
Brazil Justice denies extending defense of coup plotting general
Once again, De Moraes rejected the extension of the deadline and thus, the team has until tomorrow to respond to the indictment. In addition, the defense again claimed not to have access to all the necessary documents. However, the speaker responded that the lawyers already have “ample access to the evidence already documented, including the evidence mentioned in the complaint.”
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/03/06/brazil-justice-denies-extending-defense-of-coup-plotting-general/
A Buenos Aires power outage leaves over 600,000 customers without electricity
The power failure, coming as a heat wave ramped up electricity usage and strained the city’s power supply, knocked several substations offline, according to Edesur, an electricity company in Argentina that serves parts of Buenos Aires and its suburbs. It said its technicians were racing to restore power.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-blackout-power-outage-summer-demand-heat-wave-0ec8f18643bd43bddda9337dcbc114bc
Two Pilots Confimed Dead in Clashes with NPATwo Pilots Confimed Dead in Clashes with NPA
Two military pilots were confirmed dead after a FA-50 jet crashed during fighting with the Maoist NPA guerrillas in the Philippines. The jet was first reported “missing” after not returning from a combat mission. Authorities have now recovered the remains from the crash site in Mindanao.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17335/
The Great Balochistan Propaganda War
The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), a women-led grassroots movement, fights for Baloch rights, while demanding accountability for state abuses. Due to its growing influence, Islamabad is trying to discredit the BYC through a digital disinformation campaign, targeting its leadership and efforts.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/03/the-great-balochistan-propaganda-war/
Miners in Georgia rally against corporate exploitation
Miners and community members in Chiatura, Georgia, are mobilizing to resolve the crisis caused by Georgian Manganese, a company holding a monopoly over ore extraction in the region. The protests have brought together residents from Chiatura and nearby villages, demanding nationalization of mining operations, reinvestment of mining profits into public services—such as free public transport and a children’s support fund—and stricter control over open-pit mining.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/06/miners-in-georgia-rally-against-corporate-exploitation/
5 convicted of plotting to overthrow the German government and kidnap the health minister
Federal prosecutors said during the trial that the group was linked to the so-called Reich Citizens scene that rejects the legitimacy of Germany’s postwar constitution and has similarities to the Sovereign Citizens and QAnon movements in the United States.
https://apnews.com/article/germany-far-right-verdict-united-patriots-reich-citizens-ccf4328424745a0d4f45bfd56aa63725
Bosnian officials challenge separatists' law banning state police from Serbian areas
The complaint, filed at the country’s Constitutional Court jointly by Bosnian presidency member Denis Becirovic and two other officials, argues that the laws passed a week ago by Bosnian Serb politicians violate Bosnia’s constitutions and a peace agreement that ended Bosnia’s 1992-95 war
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bosnian-officials-challenge-separatists-law-banning-state-police-serbian-areas
News 3/6/25
US mulls plan to disrupt Iran's oil by halting vessels at seaTrump officials are now looking at ways for allied countries to stop and inspect ships sailing through critical chokepoints such as the Malacca Strait in Asia and other sea lanes, according to six sources who asked not to be named due to the sensitive subject.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-mulls-plan-disrupt-irans-oil-by-halting-vessels-sea-2025-03-06/
Residents protest in Al-Suwiadaa, amid calls for activating role of general security service
This comes as a part of a series of security measures implemented by Israeli forces in the region amid anticipation of potential field developments. Yesterday, SOHR sources reported that Israeli forces infiltrated into Be’er Al-Ajam Town in Al-Qonaitara countryside on borders with the occupied Al-Golan, backed by military machineries and heavy weapons.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/357291/
Revealed: Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data
“AI amplifies power,” said a source familiar with the development of Unit 8200’s AI models in recent years. “It’s not just about preventing shooting attacks, I can track human rights activists, monitor Palestinian construction in Area C [of the West Bank]. I have more tools to know what every person in the West Bank is doing.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/06/israel-military-ai-surveillance
Brazil Justice denies extending defense of coup plotting general
Once again, De Moraes rejected the extension of the deadline and thus, the team has until tomorrow to respond to the indictment. In addition, the defense again claimed not to have access to all the necessary documents. However, the speaker responded that the lawyers already have “ample access to the evidence already documented, including the evidence mentioned in the complaint.”
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/03/06/brazil-justice-denies-extending-defense-of-coup-plotting-general/
A Buenos Aires power outage leaves over 600,000 customers without electricity
The power failure, coming as a heat wave ramped up electricity usage and strained the city’s power supply, knocked several substations offline, according to Edesur, an electricity company in Argentina that serves parts of Buenos Aires and its suburbs. It said its technicians were racing to restore power.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-blackout-power-outage-summer-demand-heat-wave-0ec8f18643bd43bddda9337dcbc114bc
Two Pilots Confimed Dead in Clashes with NPATwo Pilots Confimed Dead in Clashes with NPA
Two military pilots were confirmed dead after a FA-50 jet crashed during fighting with the Maoist NPA guerrillas in the Philippines. The jet was first reported “missing” after not returning from a combat mission. Authorities have now recovered the remains from the crash site in Mindanao.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17335/
The Great Balochistan Propaganda War
The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), a women-led grassroots movement, fights for Baloch rights, while demanding accountability for state abuses. Due to its growing influence, Islamabad is trying to discredit the BYC through a digital disinformation campaign, targeting its leadership and efforts.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/03/the-great-balochistan-propaganda-war/
Miners in Georgia rally against corporate exploitation
Miners and community members in Chiatura, Georgia, are mobilizing to resolve the crisis caused by Georgian Manganese, a company holding a monopoly over ore extraction in the region. The protests have brought together residents from Chiatura and nearby villages, demanding nationalization of mining operations, reinvestment of mining profits into public services—such as free public transport and a children’s support fund—and stricter control over open-pit mining.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/06/miners-in-georgia-rally-against-corporate-exploitation/
5 convicted of plotting to overthrow the German government and kidnap the health minister
Federal prosecutors said during the trial that the group was linked to the so-called Reich Citizens scene that rejects the legitimacy of Germany’s postwar constitution and has similarities to the Sovereign Citizens and QAnon movements in the United States.
https://apnews.com/article/germany-far-right-verdict-united-patriots-reich-citizens-ccf4328424745a0d4f45bfd56aa63725
Bosnian officials challenge separatists' law banning state police from Serbian areas
The complaint, filed at the country’s Constitutional Court jointly by Bosnian presidency member Denis Becirovic and two other officials, argues that the laws passed a week ago by Bosnian Serb politicians violate Bosnia’s constitutions and a peace agreement that ended Bosnia’s 1992-95 war
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bosnian-officials-challenge-separatists-law-banning-state-police-serbian-areas
R: 344 / I: 58
What's it with the simping for Russia?
As far as I know, Russia hasn't been communist in 30 years and are currently ruled by a right-wing party. So why do some on the left get defensive when you point out for example, their support of far right politicians in Europe which is well-documented?
R: 9 / I: 0
However, the fact that the working class should use the state as a mean to do this has historically led to the deployment of a powerful bureaucracy under the one party state system to control the means of production, something which at the same time mantains porky at bay, garantees the uniformity of policy and undermines the autonomy of civil society and its tendency to financialize the economy and many other things (i am not an expert so please correct me if im wrong). Especially in China one can see the power of the state bureaucracy and the way that it can disable the disruptive and particularist tendencies of civil society, the recent real estate bubble management is a very good example of this. Has communism in praxis sided more with the hegelian notion of the universal class as bureaucracy? Does this show the superiority of hegel over marx in this specific aspect in political theory? what are your thoughts?
I am not a very well read person, so maybe the question is framed in a wrong way due to this. Precisely because of this i am looking for your opinion, especially if you are very versed in marx and/or hegel, and i think it could be an interesting discussion
The issue of universal class between marx and hegel
one of the key elements of marx and engels "Umstülpung", the reversal of hegel's philosophy, was that, for the latter, the universal class was the state bureaucracy, whereas for marx and engels, the only universal class could only be the worker class, as long as it took control of the means of production. If i am not in the wrong, this could be considered a consequence to another element of that very reversal: according to hegel, it is the state that conditions and regulates civil society, and precisely in this measure the universal class is state bureaucracy; whereas for marx, it is civil society that conditions and regulates the state, the reason beheind why only the working class can become universal class, because by abolishing the bourgeois civil society one would also abolish the class antagonism that perpretrates the need for a state and a market economy, thus putting an end to the disparity.However, the fact that the working class should use the state as a mean to do this has historically led to the deployment of a powerful bureaucracy under the one party state system to control the means of production, something which at the same time mantains porky at bay, garantees the uniformity of policy and undermines the autonomy of civil society and its tendency to financialize the economy and many other things (i am not an expert so please correct me if im wrong). Especially in China one can see the power of the state bureaucracy and the way that it can disable the disruptive and particularist tendencies of civil society, the recent real estate bubble management is a very good example of this. Has communism in praxis sided more with the hegelian notion of the universal class as bureaucracy? Does this show the superiority of hegel over marx in this specific aspect in political theory? what are your thoughts?
I am not a very well read person, so maybe the question is framed in a wrong way due to this. Precisely because of this i am looking for your opinion, especially if you are very versed in marx and/or hegel, and i think it could be an interesting discussion
R: 621 / I: 138 (full)
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY
Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/
Watch Together
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Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
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📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY
Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/
Watch Together
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📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast
Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
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Based
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Should Cuba get nuclear weapons?
Is that even a possibility? Since Trump Is seemingly cutting down U.S. commitments in Europe and focusing more on regional dominance(Canada,Greenland), I am beginning to be worried for Cuba, especially with Marco Rubio. Thoughts?
R: 9 / I: 1
I'm not much educated formally on ML theory. I'm kind of a dumbass. As I look around the world today, it sure seems like things are heating up.
The amount of dominos that are falling in the US right now, let's just say I'm saying my prayers these days, and I don't often ever do that.
It seems nothing is stopping this fascist movement, but time and the health of Donald Trump, who is likely to be succeeded by Vance in any case.
Is this the end of the simulation? Has the AI turned up the "disaster" and "political turmoil" and "biblical events" RNGs in its systems. I believe nuclear war is possible, because I 100% understand the violence and insanity of human nature. We're dumb apes really.
I'm not much educated formally on ML theory. I'm kind of a dumbass. As I look around the world today, it sure seems like things are heating up.
The amount of dominos that are falling in the US right now, let's just say I'm saying my prayers these days, and I don't often ever do that.
It seems nothing is stopping this fascist movement, but time and the health of Donald Trump, who is likely to be succeeded by Vance in any case.
Is this the end of the simulation? Has the AI turned up the "disaster" and "political turmoil" and "biblical events" RNGs in its systems. I believe nuclear war is possible, because I 100% understand the violence and insanity of human nature. We're dumb apes really.
R: 29 / I: 2
Maybe the actual next step isn‘t socialism but the bourgeoisie simply inserting human brains into robots, essentially reintroducing slavery but this time making it impossible to rebel due to a computer inferring with the very thought to rebel.
https://futurism.com/neoscope/robot-human-brain-cells
Maybe the actual next step isn‘t socialism but the bourgeoisie simply inserting human brains into robots, essentially reintroducing slavery but this time making it impossible to rebel due to a computer inferring with the very thought to rebel.
https://futurism.com/neoscope/robot-human-brain-cells
R: 32 / I: 10
Demonstration is in protest of the cover-up of the train accident two years agoo that claimed the life of more than 50 people, most of them young students.
The second train seems to have been carrying illegal cargo, chemicals used to water down petrol. The greek mafia ALLEGEDLY controls the petrol distribution in the country, with a few high profile murder cases in the last few years. They are also ALLEGEDLY probably being protected by the government, with whom they have financial ties.
(It's Not) Happenning in Greece
Syntagma Square Live Strea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34-KlYgFgpk&ab_channel=ReutersDemonstration is in protest of the cover-up of the train accident two years agoo that claimed the life of more than 50 people, most of them young students.
The second train seems to have been carrying illegal cargo, chemicals used to water down petrol. The greek mafia ALLEGEDLY controls the petrol distribution in the country, with a few high profile murder cases in the last few years. They are also ALLEGEDLY probably being protected by the government, with whom they have financial ties.
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>tribal
>warlike
>might makes right
>exterminates the enemy
>conservative
>in group preference
>obsessed with gender roles and genitalias
Is right wing politics in any way different from the politics of the chimp?
In a political situation a right winger and a chimp would invariably pick the same course of action.
I have yet to identify a facet of human right wing behavior that is different from that of the chimp. I have queried books, the internet and interviewed right wing people and the subject matter is always - genocide, extermination, killing, breeding, race, nation, tribe, destroy, pillage etc.
Does the term 'based' refer to the above political alignment originating from the 'base' desires of the chimp?
Pic related. Can chimp society be said to embody the epitome of right wing civilization?
Is being right wing an 'ideology' or really is it 'biology'?
I'm not baiting, it's a serious question, I'd like to hear a few examples of differences between chimp right wingers and human ones in terms of political alignment, action and goals. Because I really haven't been able to identify any.
>tribal
>warlike
>might makes right
>exterminates the enemy
>conservative
>in group preference
>obsessed with gender roles and genitalias
Is right wing politics in any way different from the politics of the chimp?
In a political situation a right winger and a chimp would invariably pick the same course of action.
I have yet to identify a facet of human right wing behavior that is different from that of the chimp. I have queried books, the internet and interviewed right wing people and the subject matter is always - genocide, extermination, killing, breeding, race, nation, tribe, destroy, pillage etc.
Does the term 'based' refer to the above political alignment originating from the 'base' desires of the chimp?
Pic related. Can chimp society be said to embody the epitome of right wing civilization?
Is being right wing an 'ideology' or really is it 'biology'?
I'm not baiting, it's a serious question, I'd like to hear a few examples of differences between chimp right wingers and human ones in terms of political alignment, action and goals. Because I really haven't been able to identify any.
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The end of the war
Now that the dust has (almost) settled, what's next for Ukraine? Are there any socialist parties or unions operating underground or is the political vacuum left by Zelensky, the war and neoliberal governance going to be filled exclusively by liberals and (now more numerous) fascists?
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He was the biggest thing on earth at one point, especially among younger people. I remember reading a survey that said like half of all gradeschoolers had seen his stuff, and that of those people, a third of them were influenced by his behavior. And there was another another one that said around half of the zoomer males in England had a positive opinion of him, which is fucking insane if true (btw, if anyone has sources for these, please post them)!
But I don’t really hear about him much anymore, and when I do, it’s usually in the capacity of news articles mentioning his legal affairs. I would say that he fell off because of said legal troubles and account terminations, but if you look back, his peak cultural relevance was actually immediately after that stuff happened, so I have no fucking clue what the deal is. Maybe he never did fall off; maybe I’m just old enough that I’m no longer using the same spaces as kids and as a result don’t know what they’re into, I don’t know
I want to make it clear that I’m not really interested the man himself or any of the drama surrounding him. He’s a meathead retard who struck it big and thinks he’s smarter than he is, there isn’t much more to him than that. What is of interest to me is his relationship with the larger world surrounding him; his historical significance, if you will. Because off the top of my head, I can’t think of any other figures that I can make a clean comparison with. He really does feel like a product of a very specific set of historical circumstances.
Andrew Tate
Now that he’s (temporarily) back in the United States, I think it’s a good time to ask, what the fuck is Andrew Tate’s deal? I’ve never seen anyone else occupy quite the same position in culture that does/did, and I find it fascinating.He was the biggest thing on earth at one point, especially among younger people. I remember reading a survey that said like half of all gradeschoolers had seen his stuff, and that of those people, a third of them were influenced by his behavior. And there was another another one that said around half of the zoomer males in England had a positive opinion of him, which is fucking insane if true (btw, if anyone has sources for these, please post them)!
But I don’t really hear about him much anymore, and when I do, it’s usually in the capacity of news articles mentioning his legal affairs. I would say that he fell off because of said legal troubles and account terminations, but if you look back, his peak cultural relevance was actually immediately after that stuff happened, so I have no fucking clue what the deal is. Maybe he never did fall off; maybe I’m just old enough that I’m no longer using the same spaces as kids and as a result don’t know what they’re into, I don’t know
I want to make it clear that I’m not really interested the man himself or any of the drama surrounding him. He’s a meathead retard who struck it big and thinks he’s smarter than he is, there isn’t much more to him than that. What is of interest to me is his relationship with the larger world surrounding him; his historical significance, if you will. Because off the top of my head, I can’t think of any other figures that I can make a clean comparison with. He really does feel like a product of a very specific set of historical circumstances.
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i think we have moved on beyond material based politics, middle classoids dont think of politics as a way to better their own lives anymore, all they want now is to destroy the world and make everyone elses lives worse out of spite, even if it comes at their own cost: they want death, war, destruction and nothing else. they want to destroy allied countries, they want to kill their own fellow citizens, they want to deport the only actually productive sector of their soyed obese population, this is a legitimate satanic death cult and its too late to stop it, the US is entering inevitable societal collapse
beyond treatlerism: spite politics
i think we are witnessing a new stage of westoid political development that may have gone beyond treatlerism itself. their impotent masters have proven to be a recolor of the same old neoliberal ruling class and are completely incompetent at actually achieving the goals of this entitled infantile middle class. with trump doing absolutely nothing to slow inflation (and actively worsening it by threatening sanctions on allied trade partners for literally no possible strategic reason), you would think treatlerites wouldve moved on from him, but no, they are still just as fascistic as ever, how to explain this?i think we have moved on beyond material based politics, middle classoids dont think of politics as a way to better their own lives anymore, all they want now is to destroy the world and make everyone elses lives worse out of spite, even if it comes at their own cost: they want death, war, destruction and nothing else. they want to destroy allied countries, they want to kill their own fellow citizens, they want to deport the only actually productive sector of their soyed obese population, this is a legitimate satanic death cult and its too late to stop it, the US is entering inevitable societal collapse
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Wikipedia is full of extraordinarily stupid shit, especially anything historical or political, and has an equally stupid corps of crank editors who will spend 12 hours a day making sure no one touches their garbage writing. Not to mention how many of their early admins were either paedos or literal cult members (their coverage of Prem Rawat was wild).
There's pages that are written using almost exclusively one author or source lol, and though they value 'academic consensus' they make it impossible to demonstrate its existence - because how can that possibly be done for some moron without an understanding of the topic? The acceptance of 'consensus' within pendulous fields that routinely contradict themselves and swing back and forth notwithstanding, there is no possible way to centrally present the consensus to someone who doesn't follow the related research, meaning the clique of fat retard editors who pass judgement on it will rely on the most superficial understanding of the fact that certain things were published; any evaluation of their validity, like seeing if it was ever cited, is beyond their scope, and they will never read the sources themselves.
This gets even worse in other languages; Russian wikipedia is a toxic wasteland. English wikipedia at least allows sources in other languages, but places more weight on English language ones; there's an obvious issue here if most of the research was conducted in another language.
Anyway pic related is one of my favorites, gets worse the more you look at it.
Wikipedia is full of extraordinarily stupid shit, especially anything historical or political, and has an equally stupid corps of crank editors who will spend 12 hours a day making sure no one touches their garbage writing. Not to mention how many of their early admins were either paedos or literal cult members (their coverage of Prem Rawat was wild).
There's pages that are written using almost exclusively one author or source lol, and though they value 'academic consensus' they make it impossible to demonstrate its existence - because how can that possibly be done for some moron without an understanding of the topic? The acceptance of 'consensus' within pendulous fields that routinely contradict themselves and swing back and forth notwithstanding, there is no possible way to centrally present the consensus to someone who doesn't follow the related research, meaning the clique of fat retard editors who pass judgement on it will rely on the most superficial understanding of the fact that certain things were published; any evaluation of their validity, like seeing if it was ever cited, is beyond their scope, and they will never read the sources themselves.
This gets even worse in other languages; Russian wikipedia is a toxic wasteland. English wikipedia at least allows sources in other languages, but places more weight on English language ones; there's an obvious issue here if most of the research was conducted in another language.
Anyway pic related is one of my favorites, gets worse the more you look at it.
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I think Trump in 2025 is basically the apotheosis of postmodern politics. There's this almost nihilistic feeling of amorality, where the meaning of something like the Peace Prize isn't just subjective but so infinitely fungible that any interpretation might as well be right… and in the absence of any greater, driving moral authority, Trump's conclusion is that money might as well stand in for morality – that the ability to enforce a subjective viewpoint is the only thing that matters, and anything other than authority is irrelevant to the process.
To be fair, I don't think Trump conceptualizes any of this in the way I just outlined it. I'm just describing his axioms and the zeitgeist in which they interact with the external world. The man himself is uninterested in thought – I think that if my statement is accurate, Trump has arrived at these conclusions purely via conditioning and intuition.
I think Trump in 2025 is basically the apotheosis of postmodern politics. There's this almost nihilistic feeling of amorality, where the meaning of something like the Peace Prize isn't just subjective but so infinitely fungible that any interpretation might as well be right… and in the absence of any greater, driving moral authority, Trump's conclusion is that money might as well stand in for morality – that the ability to enforce a subjective viewpoint is the only thing that matters, and anything other than authority is irrelevant to the process.
To be fair, I don't think Trump conceptualizes any of this in the way I just outlined it. I'm just describing his axioms and the zeitgeist in which they interact with the external world. The man himself is uninterested in thought – I think that if my statement is accurate, Trump has arrived at these conclusions purely via conditioning and intuition.
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Would capitalism still be capitalism if inheritance of private property were abolished but private property were retained? Like if each generation of people started out with zero wealth and zero help from their parents, but were still allowed to accumulate wealth during their lifetime, but then all that wealth went back to society when they died… would that really be a problem?
Would capitalism still be capitalism if inheritance of private property were abolished but private property were retained? Like if each generation of people started out with zero wealth and zero help from their parents, but were still allowed to accumulate wealth during their lifetime, but then all that wealth went back to society when they died… would that really be a problem?
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Apparently many powerful people in tech industry and the republican party. Peter Thiel, JD Vance, Marc Andreessen, and Steve Bannon seem to support his ideas to varying degrees. His idea of RAGE is being implemented by Trump and Musk right now. It would be very hard for his ideal of techno-feudalism to be applied and have the world turned into small city-states as he said, but it's disturbing how his ideas have gained so much traction that powerful people are implementing some of them I think at a large scale.
I can't believe this guy isn't more famous than he is, but I think if he was more well known, he'd cause the republicans to be even more discredited than they already are now. Or it would possibly discredit America more that openly neofeudalism sympathizers are in the government currently.
He's also not really considered an actual intellectual or philosopher despite how much influence he has. He's a software engineer and self taught, which leads him to not be respected by academia I think. Although he was smart and his past of being skipped ahead several grades in school meant something, his ideology seems not very well thought out.
Yarvin also coined the term redpill from the Matrix movie.
You should watch behind the bastards podcast on this to learn more about this guy.
I didn't read this article but I got the title from here.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/curtis-yarvin/
The Neofeudalist Prophet of Silicon Valley
I can understand why some would support something like communism, but not stuff like Yarvin's dark enlightenment or neo reactionism. It doesn't even sound good on paper. It sounds worse than a cyberpunk dystopia, like a worst case scenario for society. Why would anyone want to go back to feudalism, wasn't life terrible and even worse than today then. Who would want to have low human rights and be ruled over by CEO-Kings? He even joked about turning the poor into biofuel, and then defended it as an ethical way to carry out a genocide. He is obviously a racist and sexist as well.Apparently many powerful people in tech industry and the republican party. Peter Thiel, JD Vance, Marc Andreessen, and Steve Bannon seem to support his ideas to varying degrees. His idea of RAGE is being implemented by Trump and Musk right now. It would be very hard for his ideal of techno-feudalism to be applied and have the world turned into small city-states as he said, but it's disturbing how his ideas have gained so much traction that powerful people are implementing some of them I think at a large scale.
I can't believe this guy isn't more famous than he is, but I think if he was more well known, he'd cause the republicans to be even more discredited than they already are now. Or it would possibly discredit America more that openly neofeudalism sympathizers are in the government currently.
He's also not really considered an actual intellectual or philosopher despite how much influence he has. He's a software engineer and self taught, which leads him to not be respected by academia I think. Although he was smart and his past of being skipped ahead several grades in school meant something, his ideology seems not very well thought out.
Yarvin also coined the term redpill from the Matrix movie.
You should watch behind the bastards podcast on this to learn more about this guy.
I didn't read this article but I got the title from here.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/curtis-yarvin/
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Let me preface by saying, I am not an anarchist or a social democrat. While many of the perceived "failures" of the USSR were simply an honest attempt to grapple with real problems, the single party system and its control over the state was a failure. The party system creates a culture of sycophancy and yes-manism instead of a competition of ideals. It insulated the people making decisions from those for whom decisions were made. In effect, this could be perceived as a new class system based on the hierarchy of the party where the state then resembles a modern corporate structure with a total monopoly of every aspect of the people's lives. This is actually superior Capitalism as it had to be responsible for its own citizens welfare but retained may of the problems that exist in any purely top-down hierarchical structure. In a new Communist state, they should grapple with ways to efficiently make the party officials responsible to the people or at least make their competencies objectively accountable.
Party System Strangling State Socialism
Please argue against this point from a Marxist-Leninist lens:Let me preface by saying, I am not an anarchist or a social democrat. While many of the perceived "failures" of the USSR were simply an honest attempt to grapple with real problems, the single party system and its control over the state was a failure. The party system creates a culture of sycophancy and yes-manism instead of a competition of ideals. It insulated the people making decisions from those for whom decisions were made. In effect, this could be perceived as a new class system based on the hierarchy of the party where the state then resembles a modern corporate structure with a total monopoly of every aspect of the people's lives. This is actually superior Capitalism as it had to be responsible for its own citizens welfare but retained may of the problems that exist in any purely top-down hierarchical structure. In a new Communist state, they should grapple with ways to efficiently make the party officials responsible to the people or at least make their competencies objectively accountable.
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>Any provocateur or lunatic who raises his hand against the people's government may be sure that this hand will be chopped off.
WRON PZPR PRL
For me its the Motorized Reserves of the Citizens' Militia(ZOMO) dabbing on zionist/cia controlled soidarity boys during the 1980s in Poland.>Any provocateur or lunatic who raises his hand against the people's government may be sure that this hand will be chopped off.
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Israel functionally isn’t a state and its people functionally aren’t a part of a society. The morons in charge of that fucked up place are basically just invading their neighbours endlessly not even in hopes of seizing territory—no it’s for far more animalistic reasons than that. They invade their neighbours to maintain whatever domestic political cohesion.
It’s literally the fucking ICOG from xeelee sequence that politically disintegrated without an alien to fight endlessly against.
Israel is a shithole that needs endless people to fight against just to justify its god awful and spiteful existence. Fucking tel aviv is a bombed out shithole even after being given hundreds of billions from American taxpayers. Hell knows whatever fucked up garbage is in the periphery of that city. The residents live in constant fear of getting blown the fuck up or even worse having to join the IDF. Police repression and military propaganda is widespread. Saying that the education system there is a joke is an understatement. The country has had several elections in a few years. Netanyahu clearly has no fucking clue over what the fuck he’s doing. Everything surrounding Israel is either a bombed out shithole overrun with Jewish rebels or just ordinary (probably tribalistic) Islamic groups. Meanwhile no one gives enough of a shit about that fucked up country to directly siege it given how little there is to even gather from going to war with it over anything.
Israel is a comically extreme insult to every Jew alive and has ever existed. As US support gets cut, that fucking joke is going to meet its long overdue annihilation. Give all the land back the Palestinians. These people have no idea what the fuck they’re doing there.
What an absolute fucking shithole; there’s no other way to describe it
An absolute fucking shithole is genuinely the only way to describe the current state of Israel. It’s not like it was ever good, but man I do not recall it ever being this unapologetically awful. Israel feels like a nazi’s parody of what a Jewish state is supposed to be like.Israel functionally isn’t a state and its people functionally aren’t a part of a society. The morons in charge of that fucked up place are basically just invading their neighbours endlessly not even in hopes of seizing territory—no it’s for far more animalistic reasons than that. They invade their neighbours to maintain whatever domestic political cohesion.
It’s literally the fucking ICOG from xeelee sequence that politically disintegrated without an alien to fight endlessly against.
Israel is a shithole that needs endless people to fight against just to justify its god awful and spiteful existence. Fucking tel aviv is a bombed out shithole even after being given hundreds of billions from American taxpayers. Hell knows whatever fucked up garbage is in the periphery of that city. The residents live in constant fear of getting blown the fuck up or even worse having to join the IDF. Police repression and military propaganda is widespread. Saying that the education system there is a joke is an understatement. The country has had several elections in a few years. Netanyahu clearly has no fucking clue over what the fuck he’s doing. Everything surrounding Israel is either a bombed out shithole overrun with Jewish rebels or just ordinary (probably tribalistic) Islamic groups. Meanwhile no one gives enough of a shit about that fucked up country to directly siege it given how little there is to even gather from going to war with it over anything.
Israel is a comically extreme insult to every Jew alive and has ever existed. As US support gets cut, that fucking joke is going to meet its long overdue annihilation. Give all the land back the Palestinians. These people have no idea what the fuck they’re doing there.
R: 9 / I: 0
What the fuck is a party? Obviously it isn't an electoral party, obviously it isn't PSL/CPUSA/whatever analog in your country, so what the fuck is it? What are the five (5) primary activities of The Party?
"Get the Party Started" is a song by American singer Pink, released on October 16, 2001, as the le
>We need a party we need a partyWhat the fuck is a party? Obviously it isn't an electoral party, obviously it isn't PSL/CPUSA/whatever analog in your country, so what the fuck is it? What are the five (5) primary activities of The Party?
R: 607 / I: 110 (full)
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