/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2891670
>Banaji's theory as history
I'm just about finished with Anderson's Lineages of Absolutism and this seems to engage with some questions I had about it. Thanks, dude. Interesting stuff.

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>>2904412
Take your daily meds timmy

>>2904410
If americucks actually cared about the bombings of Iranians they'd have moblized to stop it instead of being fat treatlrites who metaphysically support the IRGC against straving protesters to feel better about voting for a socdem labor aristocracy

>>2904420
I'm not sure if walmart sharters can do much about the war, given that they're not being drafted to fight it. An inability to do something might be the reason why their opposition manifests as virtue signaling about the Iranian govt being wholesome and good actually without any other substance.

>>2904420
>mobilized to stop it
How ? You think the individual american has any power over that ? (Inb4 bro just organize randomly out of nowhere to like bomb missile factories or some shit I dunno)

>>2904426
You don't have an ounce of the fighting spirit Iranian workers have demonstrated

Keep your silence

>>2904411
So that's another thing to add to the long list of Stalin's fuckups

>>2904423
If the Russian military is indeed all professional soldiers, then those men are already out of economic work at the point of joining rather than at the point of being thrown in the meat grinder. For a conscript army like Ukraine’s, you’re consuming labour in favour of the conflict and you do this only because the economy is already busted and not the primary concern for the leadership, rather it’s just about keep their heads connected to their necks for a bit longer.

That is to say, if Russia was to have serious manpower issues as a result of the conflict, we’d already be seeing it now as hundreds of thousands have already taken themselves out of the labour pool.

Although really it is only Ukraine that throws men into the meat grinder. As evidenced by their conscription preferences. They don’t want to kidnap young, healthy men with years of economic activity ahead of them, they want the old, sick and apparently soon women as that’s slightly less cannibalistic for their labour pool.

>Ukraine out of AD and getting smoked daily while trying to figure out how to justify conscription women to fill the dwindling ranks
>The west begging for ceasefire and sending glowies to Moscow to beg for same
>The last two Donbas fortresses preparing to fall
>Gonzalo Lira and Daria get to look down and watch Ukraine collapse
>Lindsey Graham has to look up and seethe at the same
Is it finally happening after all these years? warms the heart.

>>2904430
It will actually be finally joever when conscripting under-25yos males is back on the table, presumably at NATO’s demand. It’s the only social contract Kiev seems to have with its population and so far it has been avoided with le drone warfare hype. If these attacks on Kiev are genuinely targeting drone production and presuming that drone production does in fact primarily take place in Ukraine and not abroad, then Kiev will run out of excuses for not conscripting 18-25yos. At that point we’ll have to see whether they comply with NATO’s demand at the risk of civil uprising or if they call it quits at that point.

>>2904395
fair enough, the video is worse

>>2904145
Boy am I glad I switched to linux back in 2016.

>>2904404
the funny thing is that shit like this would probably pass peer review in decolonial studies

>>2904409
Bingo

>>2902021
all of these are true btw

Putin is an honest denazifier. Russian nazis and Ukrainian nazis are killing each other for 4 years now. Da voynye!

>>2902021
Russian youth think that being a nihilist doomer is edgy cool and thus they'll fit with the cool west. They are a very twink-leftcom bunch.

The video is old now but I watched a collab between a Russian comedian and Little Big where the Little Big guy is a secret police agent sent to spy on a totalitarian cult of slam dancers. It's pretty good.

>>2902021
>Russians are le subhuman orcs
This happened to Nevzorov but he was on the angry right.

>>2885996

I am a 22yo south african white supremacist maybe not white supremacist but more like antiblack, spying on this place I just wanna say that Russians are really cool people with hacker aura and such, more likeable people than all of eu, all your neighbouring countries are just russians that can't believe they're russian, world's best women n titties, and its like my 3 top choices to immigrte to beside singapore or china.

Lgbt nato uygha nazis is the most accurate description of the freemason run democracy system I've ever heard I dont understand why it's a meme

No further questions or answers

>>2904372
i like how the message of this cartoon is that the US citizen is getting brainwashed by le BAD country's data center instead of le GOOD country's data center. There is no repudiation of the notion that the datacenter is a giant brainwashing machine.

>>2904081
Targeted ads don't work even if you can convince suckers they do.

>>2904281
The empire internal implosion will define the 2030s. The next half a decade will turn into decades as the empire withers away

>>2904317
>its actually happening
And I'm going to put a stop to it right now!

i used to think most people in america are just stupid and getting stupider every day but as i've gotten older and less arrogant and more informed about the nature of human psychology, i've begun to realize that this was always a very elitist and self-gratifying assumption and that the truth of the matter is a lot more depressing and worrisome - it's not stupidity, it's insanity. people aren't stupid or getting stupider, they're pulling inward and retreating into private fantasy worlds and building walls of lies and delusions around their consciousness to insulate themselves from reality. this is much worse than stupidity because if a person were genuinely stupid it wouldn't be a problem, it would just be the way they are and they would stay stupid forever and nothing could ever make them unstupid and they would live and grow old and die stupid with a big stupid smile on their faces. but that's not how insanity works, insanity isn't a static property that just is what it is and never changes, insanity is a dynamic condition like a progressive illness that can get worse and worse until the body and mind can endure no more and it breaks. most of american society, and probably most of high-tech industrial society in general, are going to break sooner or later. and it's probably not going to be a revolution or a riot or anything loud or spectacular like that, it's probably going to be a global pandemic clinical depression and suicide. the "loneliness epidemic" that people keep talking about could just be a foreshadowing of a much greater impending psychological catastrophe. and the world is not equipped to deal with something like this, there has never been anything like this before and couldn't have been anything like this before in a fragmented pre-digital world where everyone isn't plugged into a global instantaneous communication system every minute of every day. the world is barely even equipped to deal with a respiratory virus pandemic even with all of its modern technology and medicine, because of a more insidious and subtle underlying pandemic of insanity that undercuts all collective social efforts and erodes consensus reality. if this is what i think it might be and it gets worse, the world won't be able to deal with something like this, the world barely even believes in psychology at all and still treats diseases of the mind the same way people in the dark ages treated diseases of the body, chalking it up to evil spirits or the wrath of god or thinkPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2903938
The reason China overtook Europe was by a massive state-led economy, massive subsidies and supplementation of actual productive industry, huge investments into infrastructure and R&D, regulating the financial market by giving clear red lines and direction by state-owned banks. You know, all the stuff where Merz would cry out "communism" (it's state capitalism in a socialist republic with a communist party in charge, nothing more nothing less).

Not because a Chinese worker worked 60 min longer a day. Euro-neoliberals and austerity fanatics are braindead and will be our gravediggers.

>>2904278
Meh, China didn't overtake the EU in GDP yet despite a population thrice as large. Europe became wealthy also by going to a process of massive exportations of commodities being the workshop of the world. Then its economy "matured", labor costs made it offshore some of its industry and growth came to 1 or 2 percents. China will go through the same process, there is no sorcery making it able to escape the iron law of capitalism, they're just doing it faster because they are well organized, benefit from african neocolonialism for resources and many more and much bigger markets to sell their products. The neolibs like Merz have point though that they can keep the ball rolling a little more if they bleed the working class, they just don't want to admit the writing is on the wall for capitalism.

>>2904201
I imagine that will change when they're in a trench being hunted by Russian drones.

>>2904291
inshallah. unfortunately they're all chickenhawks

>>2904278
That's how Britain and the fifth French republic also built up, but they just had to privatize everything that made money you know, it was unjust competition for the free market

>>2904243
It’s called being an intelligent person.

>>2904175
Explain

>>2883723
>Iran and gulfies offered more tangible support to the US invasion than Israel ever did
Many anti-imperialist activists regard the US and Israel as effectively one entity.
>Egypt did more than Israel by opening up the Suez
Of course they would. Egypt's been run by pro-USraeli compradors since the 1970s.
>This fact absolutely mind rapes shitlibs since it demolishes their clash of civilization meme
I don't believe in the "clash of civilizations" or "Straussian cabals" or any of that idealist garbage. I'm just telling you what USrael explicitly said they were planning and have done since then.
>>2887929
>tired meme pushed just like the holodomor, so called materialists ignoring every historical event to push a ideological narrative is funny.
I think this will be one of the new anti-Communist narratives when Israel collapses. They're going to claim that everything from the Nakba to the Gaza Genocide are "crimes of Communism" that can be laid at Stalin's feet.
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>>2886134
I really have to hand it to the Muslim Brotherhood for their soft power offensive over the past years. The recent death of the Bosnian Serb warlord Ratko Mladic had leftoids talking like NATO press releases.

>>2883601
Neocons believe that America is the inheritor of two "traditions" (the "Greeks" aka "West" from Europe, and "Jerusalem" ie. "Judeo-Christianity") and by combining them they can be the strongest eternal empire. The idea that Americans and Europe are in any way connected in philosophy is bullshit used to justify their colonialism on Europe.

>>2904175
>>2904248
You fight the imperialists using their own weapons.

Child killer

>>2904305
Yeah I've noticed musicians doing it, musicians in the "middle" of the industry who got destroyed by the internet taking their income away. I like "industrial" music and there's a band called PIG that I saw selling VIP tickets for the current tour this month where you can hang out with the guy for an hour before the show and get some special merch. He's actually a really nice guy (a goofy Englishman) and I met him once, but I think it's just the brutal economics of the industry.

In this genre/scene, virtually all of these musicians are middling at best with the exception of Nine Inch Nails. But that's more like U2 or Metallica or Coldplay. And even then Trent Reznor is still charging $120/ticket (plus fees) and will sell you a $60 hoodie at the enormo-dome because otherwise shit starts to fold up fast. I actually did go see Nine Inch Nails a couple of years ago and it was this gigantic, expensive production with a small army of crew setting up the lights and handling everything. That was one of the only times I've actually paid money to go see a "celebrity" rock star performer. I got my money's worth though.

But unless you're Trent Reznor, what are you gon do. The only time there was really any money from actual labels for this style of music was a very narrow window in the mid-90s when the mainstream briefly flirted with industrial rock because Nine Inch Nails was successful. Also the reason Nine Inch Nails sounds like that is because it took an 18-wheeler full of gear, recording engineers, and a massive studio with rooms designed to record drum sounds. That shit is expensive.

At any rate, the middle got completely hollowed out. You still have the Taylor Swifts who are a mega-huge, but there's a lot fewer middle-of-the-pack artists. You have a lot of people playing around on their computers and uploading their music to Bandcamp. Same with games. Either it's a Rockstar/Ubisoft/EA/Bethesda blockbuster that costs hundreds of millions of dollars (GTA VI apparently is going to cost over a billion dollars to make), and then you have shoestring budget indie games with retro 16-bit graphics from people who are essentially doing it as a hobby. So yeah if you're a musician, you charge $90 for a VIP session and if 12 people buy the VIP tickets and show up before the show in Phoenix, Arizona, you make $1,000.

>>2904305
stop spending money in shit that isnt food or basic necessities
stop consuming
save up
stop working