/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2879196
He's my favorite liberal

Imagine getting your political cues from Pedo Empanada.

>>2879589
evergreen

HASAN (D) DESTROYED BY LENIN

>>2879589
Based, I have leftslop fatigue

>>2879596
white people do be like that tho

>>2879641
imagine being so obsessed with left-wing disapproval you bother to show up to this

>>2879341
OH NO NO NO NO
the dick nut-teas-ser in suicide watch.

>>2879394
>>2879453
>>2879537
Shut the fuck up, annoying little bitch

>>2879333
>Applying 21st century moral standards to Ancient Greece
Uyghur back then every civilization had slaves including Athen's enemies. Of course they look insane to your 21st century western-educated libtarded mind. You shouldn't retroactively apply modern standards to ancient societies. Also I would argue that slavery per se has never really been abolished even in the 21st century, it's just been transformed into different forms and the liberals don't deserve to receive credit for "abolishing slavery" when they also simultaneously introduced credit/debt slavery, wage slavery, porn trafficking slavery, and a whole host of other ills that simply didn't exist back then.

>>2879657
My civilization didn't have slaves.

Is he correct?

>>2879682
It depends.
What does this white person want to teach us about race?

>>2879661
You never got into agriculture so calling it a "civilization" is a stretch.

>>2879657
leftoids love anachronisms for some reason

>>2879682
Elliot is right about almost everything and pic is no exception. Leftypol in general really doesnt understand how tied together idpol stuff and capitalism is, which imo has a lot to do with how much of the userbase are white and straight males. Being denied a job over and over and being poor as fuck for being an autistic trans girl is the kind of experience that makes you understand these are one and the same thing.

>>2879686
Rude

>>2879694
>being poor as fuck for being an autistic trans girl
This has nothing to do with race.

>>2879471
Capitalism requires immigration to function, Japan can save itself by increasing immigration

>>2879641
Why is she so famous with such a face only a mother could love?

>>2879724
Transhumanists can easily get much attention on the internet

Calla Walsh, Jackson Hinkle and Christopher Helali are being investigated by Marco Rubio and the Attorny General.

>>2879654
sad chud

>>2879603
imagine getting your political cues from destiny

>>2879642
>white people do be like that tho
I think this might be a better line of inquiry to go down at the moment. Class/idpol stuff gets pretty abstract, but imagine being a minority in America where the white people are either trying to conscript you into some weird category they invented for you, or they have some weird spite towards you that's just schizo and doesn't make any sense, and at the same time they're planning to chimp out monkey style and murder their own family members. Bizarre stuff.

>>2879641
is this a based point or a crackkker point? not sure if this is ironic or a milestone in leaving the left. heard lindsey graham was somehow both a republican and a queen. fucken make that make sense ay?

>>2879748
>heard lindsey graham was somehow both a republican and a queen.
He wasn't really gay, he was just from South Carolina so had that sugary southern thing going on

>>2879747
imagine if the UN was real and the USA had to plead in an apartheid trial.

I'm honestly not willing to accept a bunch of race essentialist horseshit based on the fascist metropole. class relations are material and race is socially constructed. they can't fake economic comfort and social mobility, but they can spend 100 years pretending irish aren't the palest people on the planet without breaking a sweat.

it's not even the same in every country. the charles murray race hate contradicts the russian race hate which contradicts the european race hate, and the asian race hate doesn't even acknowledge europeans except occasionally as rapists.

finally seppos don't even read. they feed off aesthetic cues rather than relations to the means of production and say the dumbest shit all the time because of it.

little boy and his toy gun

>>2879763
is he stimming on it?

>>2879747
Not related to whatever you guys are talking about, but(heh) wanted to point out how the "big butt" girls in the video nowadays people would say have "no ass." Also Mix-A-Lot looks like the pointing soyjak meme in the thumbnail.

>>2879830
the pointing wojak meme is an attack on enjoying things. incel culture is a war on joy. likewise who are you to comment on the fatness of of the asses? historical materialism will help you understand the economic conditions that contribute to the size of the cake, and who gets what slice across time.

>>2879830
>>2879857
I think the white girls from the beginning of the video might've had bigger asses.

>>2879857
>the pointing wojak meme is an attack on enjoying things. incel culture is a war on joy.
The war on joy began long before, with the irony-poisoning of milennials and zoomers. The slur of "normie" signifies one's inner joylessness and contrarianism as against the masses. Nietzsche himself was this sort of contrarian incel.

>>2879232
Doesn’t matter if they weren’t sone secret evil cabal, a professor should NEVER be forming a special inner circle clique with their students. One of the sketchiest things about high academia is how the lines between students and educators gets blurred and you start seeing things like professors single out 7 or 8 of their “best and brightest” students whom they treat as family. That’s way overstepping. A prof should never be inviting his students over his house for dinner, or taking them for long walks, or super befriending them after class ends.

>>2879641
nice titties

>>2879830
J-Lo's latina ass was a before and after in terms of idealized bodies, I don't think we can go back, despite how much rich people want to go back to thinness and whiteness as a class signifier.

>>2879899
It was some social commentary on the 'heroin chic' trend ongoing at the time, you cultural-historically illiterate sillypants:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin_chic

>>2879727
good, good

>>2879923
What about playing Stairway to Heaven on acoustic guitar for them?

>>2880002
Heroin chic was way later.

>>2879333
>Jacobin
You need to go back.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1v9wao2/comment/p0gy5ht/?context=3

oh no Houdini has run afoul of the mods and deleted all his posts in retribution 😑

>>2880090
i forgot hudini was in the DSA. why has comrade felix never called for his execution because michael harringwoth surpported the vietnam war in the 60s?

>>2880090
i didn't know kavinsky died, damn

Have any of you guys ever thought about becoming an YouTuber or streamer

Would you watch an autistic Brazilian trans woman talking about her special interests including
>programming
>Linux
>computer hardware
>videogames
>Marxism
>science fiction
>anime and manga

>>2880100
not the programming but i would give a go for the other stuff sure

>>2880100
gonna be real with you, no i wouldn't

>>2880100
i mean i would, but there's like thousands of trans women streaming the exact same interests as yours

>>2880109
yeah but this one is a leftypoller

>>2880100
no, make something interesting instead

>>2880110
I'm pretty sure that would make people less likely to watch her

>>2878636
>Charli XCX
Of all female pop artists you had to pick the most AGP coded, she actually had an EP produced by Sophie. HSTS listen to top 40 pop like Chappel Roan and Sabrina Carpenter.

>>2879830
>looks like the pointing soyjak meme in the thumbnail
he did a point
wow

Is this TRVE?

I find it fascinating how 4tran has created its own distinct subculture. Recently I discovered there's apparently a subtype of "AGP" called "MEF" who besides being into feminization are also into BDSM.

Who even makes up these acronyms?

>>2880100
You'd have a bigger audience if you were a right-wing grifter instead.

4tran self-hating transhumanist vs. Red Scare TERF-adjacent cis woman/gay male

Who is more transphobic

>>2880148
omg, can we talk about something else

>>2880143
The looksmaxxer and /tttt/ communities are like two sides of the same coin.

reminder that this the origin

>>2880090
Houdini getting in trouble with the law after threatening the gun girl who pooped her pants and then crashing out on Reddit because of the TrueAnon mods is very on brand for him.

>>2879714
It has a lot to do with identity politics. Its a known thing that black people go thru similar experiences on the regular, at least some of my internet friends from the U.S have told me so. Many black people sharing their experiences have told me things that are basically the exact same as the trans autist experience. It has a lot to do.

>>2880166
South East Asians got no booty

>>2880148
The better question is who would be a better lay

>>2880168
South East Asians yearns for BBW booty

>>2880100
You hot?

>>2880172
>>2880172
Tap dat ass

Like clockwork

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbYZnMLRzf_/

Imagine the world where Spongebob and the Simpsons ended after their movies.

>>2880202
>conquered land
DTA, DTI, etc etc

>>2880100
if you made the linux/programming videos funny then yeah.

>>2878525
>found
it was supposed to be a secret?

I saw a big titty goth girl today, hideous creatures.

>>2880100
As we basically share interest I definitely would!
But what do you want to get out of it?
Like other anons' questions indicate that will determine the trajectory of the channel (whether you wanna go niche route and keep it fun, vs growth / the numbers game, etc.).
In either case you probably shouldn't name-drop "leftypol" lmao…
I think it would be really cool if you kept it FOSS focused but also integrated historical materialist and Marxist theory, sci-fi, gaming, w/e.

I'm just gonna go ahead and recommend some techy Marxist channels now, in case you were unaware of them:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5jSzxvd_5gmUdZ2qEH78BA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpU7dT1p69ouNJokyXMhkeQ

Good luck comrade!!

Here's your richest man in the world posting straight up neo-Nazi propaganda on his social media platform

>>2880407
Fascism has always been a pro-corporate ideology no matter how they pose as radicals, so billionaires being into it isn't shocking. The Blackshirts were literally paid goons who beat up trade unionists.

>>2879682
>>2879683
Saw the video and it just him rambling on a twitch stream about intersectionality and how the online far left broadly ignores racism and other thing that they call "a distraction from class ". He also says the left believes that racism will just not exist when we take over the mean of production. These people are like ants in a death spiral. They will attack Marxists, communists, and Anarchists for not doing anything about racism and sexism (a lie) but don't have a plan of their own to help marginalized people beyond voting for the right kind of non socdem democrat.

>>2880407
Ehhh that's nothing compared to his tweets about that Vigilante movie he posted. Musk straight up said he wants to kill the Whites who are "traitors" before he kills the brown "invaders." This motherfucker needs to die.

>>2880413
I guess I need to find the tweets again since it's been slid off the board, but there was one specifically talking about how in the movie he spends the first half killing random Euros(the guys is American) and he replied in agreement to the same line of messaging about how they have to kill the white "traitors" first. This dude is openly talking about how he wants to kill white libs but they don't give a fuck.

At least the billionaires of the past like Bill Gates actually produced something of value.

This scumbag became a trillionaire based on Tesla stock, which is so ridiculously inflated it's worth more than all other automobile manufacturers combined despite nobody buying their cars. He is playing real life Adventure Capitalist and Americans enable it.

>>2880415
>AT LEAST FUCKING WHAT?
He is openly talking about how he wants to kill you in no uncertain terms and you think there is a comparison?

>>2880416
I mean kill in no abstract terms, he is sayong openly how he wants to murder you with guns

Now that the dust has settled, what the fuck was this? ARG? CIA/MI6 recruitment program? Hiring process for quantitative analysts?

>>2880407
it's always ai slop with these people

in other news: reddit has become even shittier lately

i want to violently strangle whoever signed off on this and not in a sexual way

>>2880426
Keepers of the true knowledge throwing us a bone. We weren't worth it.

>>2880407
Elon Musk is a trillionaire and instead of enjoying his money, he spends all day taking ket and doomscrolling X because his dopamine receptors are fried.

He’s like a drug dealer who’s addicted to his own product.

>>2880438
when did this happen? I'm never using reddit again if I can't lurk with old reddit lmao

I did most of my Reddit browsing on /r/all because I hate social media algorithms, but of course they had to delete it because it’s better to keep the users trapped on their own bubbles than having a shared source of news.

At least /r/popular still exists.

>>2880438
>search engines so shit that need to search on reddit to get any useful result
>reddit now enshittified so there is no way to not log in
i guess im not using the internet anymore

>>2880413
it's impossible to take the bastard seriously after it came out he was cumming in specimen jars and mailing them to twitter thots.

>>2879186
new version rolled out. :D

>>2880438
just type old into url bar

>>2880540
ok, now what?

>>2880543
place your penis on your personal computer's optical drive

>>2880556
I can't, it's broken.

>>2880563
Bro has a broken penis 🤣😭😭

>>2880478
>>2880494
at least there seems to be a working frontend for the moment
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/instances.md
i still remember when they nuked notabug.io and a lot of other sites

>>2880563
broken dick loser

Beautiful Sophie Cunningham Sports Illustrated Bikini Photoshoot.
Spare a thought?

>>2880529
>>2880413
>>2880407
it's impossible to take them seriously after they did nothing over the Kirkaucost.

>>2880563
kek broken pp.
>>2880595
Anon you can't fix him.

>>2880595
Thats a man.

>>2880595
i think the cup placement and high waistband don't flatter her figure at all. they should've gone with more fabric and a tighter fit instead
>>2880603
>men don't transvestigate women in sports challenge: impossible

>>2880438
Reddit was pretty much useless anyway, its mostly AI slop recycled many times

>>2880487
generic reddits are glowoid selected news

>>2880478
gradual rollout, enjoy old while you can

>>2880438
I'm on account 103 after I got banned for the most basic landlord joke

>>2880475
I hate that he exists, I take solace in seeing what kind of pathetic sack of shit he is, I could make him cry within 10 words, I'm sure

I love him

>>2880628
So Pedo Empanada is transphobic now?

>>2880628
where's the funny

>>2880630
The random pedojacking that comes out of nowhere makes him look better than he is and makes you come off as a retard. Not a good strategy buddy.

>>2880634
>defending pedophilia
You are a pedophile.

>>2880639
pedos love pedojacking, especially when there is no evidence for it, so it's more likely you are the pedo here.

>>2880640
Only pedo jacking it here is you.

>>2880641
What is the evidence of this dude being a pedo. I would change my mind immediately. AFAIK he has talked about his adult gf on stream and done some video collabs with grown adult women.

>>2880595
i see why she hates trans women lmao

>this is who the right wants you to think is beautiful vs who is actually beautiful

>>2880645
>>2880652
Why are you being misogynistic Houdini-sama?

Here is the only good video on the OneyPlays "drama".

>>2880656
based on her build wouldn't it be transmisogyny?

>>2880595
Anyone here saying they wouldn't bang her is a lying fag

>>2880665
well i guess i must be a faggot then huh

>>2880598
I don't care if he's a joke. He needs to fucking die.

>>2880641
I am still waiting btw.

>>2880595
The photographer is dog shit

>>2880063
It was not. Here you can read the lyrics instead, since hearing them didn't register.
Ctrl+f: Cosmo (in reference to Cosmopolitan Magazine, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolitan_(magazine) )
https://genius.com/Sir-mix-a-lot-baby-got-back-lyrics?

>Milei signs decree allowing Argentina to bar or expel foreigners over 'hate speech'

>Milei government issues emergency decree allowing authorities to deny entry to or deport foreigners accused of inciting hatred, discrimination or violence against Argentina or for insulting national symbols.
Bad Empanada will never criticize fascist argentina because it's literally illegal for him to now

https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-signs-decree-allowing-argentina-to-bar-or-expel-foreigners-over-hate-speech.phtml

>>2880755
>because it's literally illegal for him
And because he is a fake edgy lapdog and a low-brow distraction for would-be communists organizing, agitating advancing positions.
I hope Argentinian communists reeducate him with some manual labor and no internet access. It could cure him.

>>2880595
I think she's attractive. I prefer curvy women but she's alright. That first picture is not a great angle though the other photos make her look better though. I would.

>>2880755
Lmao that explains why he's been doing damage control for ArgenSSimian racism. His digital nomad lifestyle is in danger.

>>2880762
Did he make you cry because you were defending a rapist with your favourite dog hating e-celeb Hasan

>>2880905
you're the one literally defending a child rapist right now

>>2880905
non-sequitur, he's a right winger at this point, who believes in nothing but the next troll

Crazy how Natalie Wyner is trying to worm herself back into the left now that Israelppopular polls are down the toilet and anti-Israel candidates are having actual electoral wins while still trying to make it about herself being treated bad by meany Twitter lefties.

4chan post-2020 feels like a ghost website. They gave up their reputation as libertarian hacktivists to support a billionaire pedophile and had an existential crisis after he revelead himself to be nothing like they expected.

That Soyjak Party raid last year was the final nail in the coffin.

>>2880978
Anon it's been gone for more than a decade. closer to two. Let it go.

>>2880978
And /pol turning out to be a Jewish made Epstein backed psyop

>>2880755
I get amused when people suggest 4chan was left-wing in the past when they were just South Park libertarians who liked weed and porn, same as Reddit except it went further right instead of left.

Leftists (mostly the annoying IDpol type) were on Twitter and Tumblr to a lesser extent.

>>2880659
tl;dr?

>>2880989
They must be repeating lies they read from someone else. I found 4chan in 2005 (I was 19), it just was a little less racist and less right wing.

>>2880989
Id say this is accurate

YOU.NEED.TO.STOP.BREATHING.PROTECT.PROFITS.DEFEND.CAPITALISM.HOLD.YOUR.BREATH.NOW

>>2881043
They try to repackage and sell us malthusianism every now and then. More there are anarchoprimitivist genocidal maniacs, less competition there is for the precious profitable resources

[Sad News] Cenk Uygur says he can no longer support Ukraine

>>2881078
sad.

>>2881078
imagine being named chink uyghur

>>2880762
>substitute for organising
I'm sure the american left can still organise to do the thriller dance (while not blocking traffic) 400m from an ICE concentration camp even under the light heckling of one autistic maoist.
>I can fix him
why are all the haters gay for empanada?

>>2881078
Damn hes finally based

This subreddit is literally just people posting right-wing memes while pretending to misunderstand them for plausible deniability.

Why do Dengoids allow this?

List of genocides and wars started by whites:
>Colonization of the Americas: 60 million deaths
>Atlantic slave trade: 12.5 million deaths
>Congo genocide: 5–10 million deaths
>Bengal famine of 1943: 2–3 million deaths
>Vietnam War: 2–3 million deaths
>French conquest of Algeria: 500,000–1 million deaths
>Algerian War: 300,000–500,000 deaths
>Philipine–American War: 200,000–600,00 deaths
>Iraq War: 200,000–500,000 deaths
>Herero and Nama genocide: 65,000–100,000 deaths
>Dutch East Indies colonial wars: 100,000–200,000 deaths
>Mau Mau uprising: 20,000–100,000 deaths
Whites are a race who have colonialism and imperialism built in their DNA and must be collectively punished for their crimes.

I'm white. What should I do?

>>2881138
>pepe
>"whites"
<checks timezons
yep, yankees just got off work.

>>2881141
thank you based yankee monitor.

Since when is racism a bannable offense on /pol/?

>>2881134
The sharks are liberal ultra baizuos who prevent China from developing more productive forces.

>>2881148
good work anon

>>2881148
Why you doxxing urself bro?

>>2880989
remember all the "we are anonymous" gay fawkes bullshit? that's were the lefty reputation stems from. at it's height i knew some anarchist types talking about it positively like they were some secret underground movement fighting against injustice and proof society doesn't need police lol

>>2881166
4cuck was never leftist, but I would say it was more "apolitical" back then. At least people like Hal Turner were considered retards compared to today's 4cuck where they would probably be considered "LE BASED" for nothing other than being right wing.

>>2881172
Don't smash me bro

Actually "CRash the CRacKKKers into CRumbs" sounds better, alliteration and all. Now that's a good slogan.

Idpol is for idiots
>>2881172
>>2881179
You are an idiot, but don't hurt me please.

>>2881179
Crush makes the most sense and still alliteration

It can even be shortened to CCC for ease of use.

White genocide
Best day of my life
First you kill a cracker
And then you fuck his wife

The person above me has a 2 inch penis and has never had sex

We got Jpegmafia right here

>>2880913
Hasan? No, I literally told you that your favourite e-celeb friend Hasan was defending rape

Smelling the smell of Ethanic Kleinser ITT.

for the first time ever or first time I reckon, haz doesn't use 'left-wing', the 'left', and by extension 'leftism', as a slur.

>>2881329
Haz says in this old interview that he is on the Left, but is not a "leftist".

Over 1,000,000 immigrants apply for legal status in Spain!

>>2881360
crazy internet happening!

>>2881379
Blame this board for not having a world news thread.

>>2881380
Ah, it is a shame that not just anyone could create such a thread.

>>2881172
Oh joy, more spooky idpol nonsense. Liberals and Conservatives really do believe in the same fundamental racial and gender essentialism spookery.

>>2881381
It's not my job to make threads; its my job to post and lurk.
You have the pretension of a discord mod, so you can do it.

>>2881286
Learn how to follow a conversation, golem. He’s clearly talking about BE, you nonce defender

the BE seethe here really went up after the Platner flop

>>2881148
it was ALWAYS a bannable offence but the mods dont give a shit about global rules and are just there to stoke a rightoid cope bubble

>>2881389
Anons here have been calling your dysgenic eceleb boyfriend a pedo long before some burger reich SS officer flopped due to rape (which him and BE have in common).

>>2881360
1 million people already working in Spain. And most of them latin american. The 50.000 mass surge in Ceuta is just Morocco forcing negotiations on the Algerian relations with Spain. Turkey does the same with Syrian refugees. Capitalist states using workers as cannon fodder once again.

>>2881389
I never liked BE, Platner turning out to be a scumbag was a gift to insufferable vibes grifters

>>2881360
This is based, it should be 10 million

Kek as soon as Houdini posted, USAPol got deleted

>>2881442
What about the constitution?

Lol ok

>>2881498
deporting him back to NYC

>>2881498
A Greek Australian and a Anglo South African conspiring to deport American born citizens. I'm sure Cheong is also in the conversation somewhere.

>My son is… TRANS? No more Mr. quirky Reddit chungus. I have become… 4chan, the destroyer of chicken nuggets.
The single most cringeworthy human being in history.

>NOOOOOOOOO, YOU CAN'T MAKE FUN OF THE WHITE BOY. HE WILL VOTE FOR THE RIGHT.
I don't care.

Never forget that so called "indie devs" are just small businesses

Here's the developer of hedon expressing deep concern(tm) over the possibility of backlash from supporting fascism

>>2881566
Maybe that kid shouldn't have his mom's haircut.

>>2881576
The other white boy has the same hairstyle

>>2881579
pots do routinely call kettles black.

>>2881570
boohoo you CAN'T make a joke over things that happened a billion years ago

>>2881590
forget gulags, under the dotp we'll flay reactionaries for "jokes"

>>2880595
>no ass
>no penis
>no thighs
>no bush
>no body hair
>no muscle
>transphobe
>and a fucking trampstamp
nope

Contra could have come around, apologized, explained that she has been misguided by a vision of liberal zionism that she tried to hold onto, condemned the genocide, condemned Israel, condemned zionism, that the whole thing was a political blindspot and personal failure on her part. Then she could have hosted, in addition, a zoom fund raiser with UK pro-Palestine activists, especially trans ones.

Then she would have been let back into the club house.

Instead, she focuses on the social media backlash against her, writes passive aggressive tweets and then goes on posting midnight essays on Instagram stories in-between opium hits. Fucking pathetic.

>>2881715
Hasan wanted to do a super formal interview, not another podcast session but the Norm just can't help himself lol.

>>2881712
Who is Contra? Is she some female political personality that you glaze for?

How come Pedo Empanada never interviews the likes of Norman Finkelstein?

>>2881720
because he calls him a zionist

>>2881720
Bad Empanada doesn't like Norm because Norm doesn't support BDS.

>>2881715
Kwk. Fucken legend

>>2881753
Fucking soyjakker making fun of a proletarian hero who fought on the front lines. This shit makes me seethe.

>>2881753
>thinks "Nimrod" means "retard"
The education system has failed

>>2880992
Kiwifarmers harrass popular former performers from a letsplay channel called Oneyplays until they air complaints about how they were treated in the past by the people running it and the fans of that channel suffer a meltdown over it.

>>2881770
that's how it's used nowadays yes ? it's slang that is at least 60 years old

Kek!!!!

>>2881788
Educated by Bugs Bunny

amazing sources

>>2881814
>minorities
ahahahahahahahaha he tried it

>>2881712
yeah but no patreon millionaire completely divorced of reality and convinced their own genius is going to avoid the trap of doubling down. even with all the elaborate custom frocks from etsy tens of thousands of dollars a month has to have made that libtard dickhole independently wealthy like a lesser jk rowling.

>>2881718
Just some mentally ill freak who needs to be institutionalized

The soyjak website, the sharty, has a shockingly low PPH and might be dead because the owner changed one of their rules to allow pedophilia jokes and let a soyjak of a blue archive character be spammed across the site apparently.

>>2881903
soyjak users and admin are users who are groomed or groomers
even soyjak own users made allegations (w/o proof) of the first admin
so i'm not surprised, this is just kurt as admin again

>>2879683
he's chinese-dominican

>>2881777
really makes me sad as a big oneyplays fan to see the internet latch onto retarded drama when it's obvious the fandom cares more about it than the actual cast. dingdong and julian are totally right to hate most of that fanbase and kiwifarms is a truly vile place.

>>2881937
I don't know what to think about it exactly. I've only listened to a few of the reyploaded segments of DD's stream. Some of it sounds pretty awful, but other parts just sound kind of strange, like the accusation that the dustborn lp was put up to coincide with Trump's second inauguration. I don't know if DD's revelations are enough to make me stop watching oneyplays but it has cast kind of a pall over things, especially since the stuff with DD&J were some of my favorite videos.

In any case, the response has been abysmal. Like, the comments under the latest merch video were all references to the latest drama and imo confirm a lot of what dingdong said about oneyplays fans. And really, it's hard for me to believe that Oney et all aren't aware to some extent of what's going on, and them not making any apparent attempt to tell their fans to cut it out seems to back up DD's account about how they were treated in the past.

>>2881941
chris's policy has always been to just not interact with the toxic parts of the fandom and i think that's the best policy to have. i would obviously rather talk to my friends personally and just be a regular person that doesnt show symptoms of being terminally online. to be honest, i havent seen the stream or clips of it, just hearsay from other commenters. if dd&j were really saying the stuff ive heard, well on one hand i kinda get where they're coming from, but oneyplays humor has always walked that fine line between raunchy and genuinely offensive, but in my opinion has never crossed into being distasteful. i can see how some chuds in the fanbase might latch onto that and think that chris genuinely believes in some of that stuff but you would have to be genuinely retarded to think that.

the dd&j era is also my favorite era of oneyplays, even though the current cory/dave/chris era is a very close second.

>In any case, the response has been abysmal. Like, the comments under the latest merch video were all references to the latest drama and imo confirm a lot of what dingdong said about oneyplays fans. And really, it's hard for me to believe that Oney et all aren't aware to some extent of what's going on, and them not making any apparent attempt to tell their fans to cut it out seems to back up DD's account about how they were treated in the past.

until i see more damning evidence, im just going to assume that most of what dd&j are saying is mostly directed at oneyplays fans and game grumps, even though the dustborn stuff does sound bizarre. from what i've heard, what dd was saying was during a 24 hour stream, and if you're streaming for that long you're definitely going to start acting strangely and say strange things. i like dd&j a lot and ive always felt that they're pretty sensitive guys with trauma so i sympathize with him, especially after the internet outed him to his parents which is a real dick move.

Here's your pro-family business man bro

>>2881956
>chris's policy has always been to just not interact with the toxic parts of the fandom and i think that's the best policy to have. i would obviously rather talk to my friends personally and just be a regular person that doesnt show symptoms of being terminally online.

Generally, yeah, but I also think people have a responsibility to tell their fans "hey this or that isn't cool and we're not going to entertain it."

>until i see more damning evidence, im just going to assume that most of what dd&j are saying is mostly directed at oneyplays fans and game grumps, even though the dustborn stuff does sound bizarre. from what i've heard, what dd was saying was during a 24 hour stream, and if you're streaming for that long you're definitely going to start acting strangely and say strange things. i like dd&j a lot and ive always felt that they're pretty sensitive guys with trauma so i sympathize with him, especially after the internet outed him to his parents which is a real dick move.

Yeah, at the end of the day it's just someone recounting their experiences in a livestream, not a court deposition. And that's kind of what bothers me about the fan response. It's obvious that it's a) under duress, b) from memory, and c) that DD is going out of his way to relate his experience without trying to generate more internet drama. Like, from the portions of the stream that I saw, he's specifically not naming names on some of these accusations IMO because some of these things happened in person and years ago, and there's no real way for it to be proven or for the accused to defend themselves.

The specific example I'm thinking of, DD said something along the lines of after his attempted suicide, someone said to him "as a joke" "hey, wouldn't it be funny if you actually killed yourself and left a note blaming these people for it?"

So yeah, it seems like there's a lot going on, and a lot of the response hasn't been to things DD or Julian actually said, but rather responses to bad faith interpretations and shlocktuber drama video "explanations."

>>2881958
I was reading an article about it earlier, and apparently there's a provision in there that the ai company gets fined $500,000 for every time it's used to make child porn.

Which made me think long and hard about whether or not it would be worth it to create a truly monstrous amount of CP if it also meant bankrupting Musk.

>>2881961
I was going to calculate how many pictures would it take but my calculator couldn't handle Elon's net worth

Technically, communism hasn't claimed the lives of anyone because no society has yet achieved commumism

>>2881958
Pathetic sort ahead

>>2881961
Finally… Ethical cp….

>>2881970
People in primitive communism killed each other for berries and to sacrifice to the allmother, but most deaths were infections or getting eaten by megafauna

>>2881984
>>2881961
it's both a ban and a fine; for companies.
if you fail to comply, you get fined.
individuals get jail time, and/or a smaller fine.
I can see no misuse of the law or whatsoever backfiring.
i.e. some sends you a normal picture, then creates a fake out of that normal picture and accuse you of making the nudification picture.
oh yeah, fun times to come.
instead of going after the big ai companies with deep state intervention, libs came out with the mildest milquetoast solution.

>>2881961
>>2881966
>youd still need to generate 2 million pictures of ai cp to get musk bankrupt
what the fuck

>>2882005
Well shit I guess I better get started

old man yells at cloud etc

If anyone cares: A mildly popular "dissident right" Xhitter figurehead by the name of Yoshi/hebrewpimps recently had a ton of dirt on him put out in the open.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/trump-enslavement-syndrome.25213/page-2549#post-25040252 (Yes I know it's Kiwi Farms, this is just so people know I'm not bullshitting)

>tldr: A bipolar halfblind 30yr old Italian-American NEET who has spent six years straight getting mad daily under the tweets of random transhumanists and leftists on Twitter, sometimes to the point of posting deranged pedophilic fantasies under the pictures of actual Palestinian children and allegedly beating his own dog when he gets mad.

>Sergio posts like he's only got 1 year left to live, because he might go blind soon or because his retiree father might pass away at any time and leave him with nobody to leech off anymore.

>His bipolar episodes and obsession with transhumanists have pushed away most of his former friends, even if they don't like transhumanists. Most have quietly abandoned him or openly declared him beyond help.

Just ebin little beans who want you safe from the mudslime rape gangs!

>>2882283
Judging by their facial expressions most of them look pretty happy to see me, so I can only assume I was invited

>>2882283
Imagine if they cared about soccer

>>2882283
>what are you doing?
I assume getting my tits out, given their faces.

This is how myths will be taught in a Marxist historical-materialist society.

>>2882283
I'd be annoyed that there's no seats left

>>2882310
>in Marxist historical-materialist society you wont be able to read the thing directly and you will have to get it via some tiktok retard
wtf im reactionary now!?

>>2882310
Just watched The Odyssey and although I liked it, it's definitely the most American liberal work of art ever created only after Bioshock Infinite.
Basically just Nolan lamenting for 3 hours that Pax Americana and "The rules-based world order" is coming to an end.

The petty bourgeois are at it again

>>2882346
steven crowder got red and his face shrunk

>>2882195
>>2882197
>>2882205
>>2882208
i hope this freak finally stops hopping on my xitter replies

>>2882171
>wah wah people are sick of capitalism already
bill maher is not funny.

>>2882197
>>2882195
So he is not even Jewish?

>>2882381
No lol
>>2882371
What were your interactions with him like?

These jokers.

>>2882419
It's kinda an admission that the level of hatred of Israel can't be drowned out by even the best astroturfing money can buy. The comment section was 100% anti as you might expect.

https://x.com/i/status/2083620628259639528

Tough time to be a JIDF hasbara bot.

>>2882346
he looks like shit, getting outed as a wife basher and having a messy divorce seems like it was bad for him.

The jews took Puddle of Mudd away from you.

>>2882522
>Anime pfp
WoOoOw…
thank shareing

lmao entire gender war literally manufactured by big tech

>>2882522
WHY DID WE DO A MASSIVE NU METAL PLAYLIST ANON?
WHY DOES NO ONE READ GRAMSCI OR MARK FISHER OR CONSIDER CULTURE AS A SITE OF CLASS WAR FUCK FUCK

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSvAKNUwCtXreSILHXiBuIwc9S6rgicow&si=wLONtSLAUgLHyA4M

>>2882522
I saw someone else point out that Puddle of Mudd was the actual psyop to take the Butthole Surfers away from you, which seems like a truth nuke

>>2882342
Any testimony on how loud it was? Specifically in normal theaters, not IMAX etc. I've heard some horror stories and I'm legit starting to suspect that earplugs won't be enough for my noise sensitivity and that I should stay home.

>>2882575
>nu metal
honestly, at some point you gotta ask yourself wether erik houdini is an actual person or wether he is a made up character for a psyop.

>>2882522
Sometimes I think we need a benevolent surveillance state that forces you to Log Off if your posts become too unhinged.

>>2882522
Just leaving this here

There are no normies

>>2880628
why is he so obsessed with contrapoints? nobody cares about that bitch anymore and even if they did she only posts once every year or two

>>2882522
Can Nazis finally admit that Jews are the master race if that’s what they actually believe are the causes for why the world is the way that it is today? You can’t possibly assert that blonde blue eyed Soyryans or whites in general are the master race if Jews managed to fuck you that hard.

dog bless.
context, she was preaching on the plane, loudly, people got uncomfortable.
she was told what's going on, and she still demands more shit after getting kicked out the plane.
this gives me the 'ha-ha' funnies.

>>2880634
>The random pedojacking that comes out of nowhere makes him look better than he is
what?

>>2882686
Mamdani's America folks

>>2880426
i remember someone posted a blog on here that did a breakdown of these things, and it fits into a pattern of psy-ops like Q-Anon, and Anonymous.

>>2882688
Can you tell me what evidence there is that BE is a pedophile? Random pedojacking is an extremely sus and fed-tier accusation.

The only thing Hank did wrong in this vid was using ChatGPT instead of a Chinese LLM, and being Liberal Zog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ1I580nJ00

>>2882778
the AI hysteria is insane. imagine if these people directed their energy towards something actually productive

>>2882779
The welfare state has created an army of professional online complainers.

>>2882346
Watching the video, his claim is that Fascism is better than Communism - which is a typocal Liberal sentiment, as we see in Ludwig von Mises' defense of Fascism, politically and economically. Other right-wingers have made the same claim - then again, there are other reactionaries who clakm that Fascism and Communism are better than Liberalism. Crowder's measure for success is the number of reported victins of each system of government. He says that Communists killed more, so Fascism is better.

>>2882780
>The welfare state
Lol. What welfare state. These people are anxious about AI because they know when their job gets taken away it's over, there's no social support here

>>2882785
>No social support
Who supports the terminay online?

>>2882785
Lol what are you on about? AI will lower the jobs of the professional-managerials, that is the tiny minority of us.

>>2882787
Not everyone who works with a computer is "professional managerial"

>>2882787
AI is effecting vast swaths of society. Language translators that make 30k a year are not PMC. The AI hysteria is coming from everywhere

>>2882686
>everybody accept JESUHS! HELLELUJAH god bless
>gets off the plane
>immediately racist
KEK

>>2882789
Oh no not the language translators!!
Anon these educated office people will always land on their feet, they look after their own, no reason to waste your time worrying for them, lol.

>>2882792
>they look after their own

Lol, big if true, proofs? Blue collar people are at least slightly more likely to be unionused

>>2882792
that's your response? are you like legitimately a federal agent or what

>>2882795
Yes, everyone who tries to divide the working class is a knowing or unknowing agent of the feds, not even being sarcastic

>>2882798
CEOs are workers. Is it fed behaviour to be against them?

>>2882800
Does in any way shape or form comparable to an employed translator?
Any comments on your appreciation of the police as 'workers'?

>>2882804
>You: everyone who tries to divide the working class is a knowing or unknowing agent of the fed
This is an absolute statement, yet I prove that it is in fact a relative statement, so as to improve your logic. I prove it by demonstrating the undeniability of the necessity to divide the nebulous "working class". Where does the working class begin and end? The President of thr United States is paid a salary; Palantir engineers are paid salaries, etc. So, the "workinf class" is a bad abstraction.

>>2882686
this is just some real life shitposting on her part, she's trying to get undue attention, she's filming herself so this is a bit. she's doing it because she thinks it's gonna blow up online and she'll get a big payday out of it or something.

I'd sex with her but she's off her rocker, and maybe in our society we should stop giving such nonsense undue attention and rewarding such things financially.

>>2882656
if tucker is going to form a third party it will suck up all the far right. i think this whole thing is a psyop, tucker is connected to the cia after all

>>2882686
EvangeliKKKals always wanna play the victim so goddamn bad lmfaoo

>>2882861
split the right. get the democrats in. its his turn. biden 2028.

Question: Is sam Hyde unironically a self-hating Jew?

https://leftysoy.st/leftySOY/

New communist imageboard

Anyone have that video of the bald guy talking about some bonbibonkers?

>>2883000
yes

>>2883053
and molesting children to feel powerful

>>2882591 (me)
Just got back from the movie: it was oppressively loud. Needed foam earplugs in the whole time (even when I missed some whispered dialogue), and brought actual gun safety earmuffs which I had to put on during some action scenes.

As for the movie itself: major disappointment. It not only fails as a drama, it somehow fails as an action spectacle too. The colors are washed out, the cinematography is clearly framed for IMAX 4:3 and suffers for it on other screens, the focus plane is way too thin for dialogue, lots of the practical special effects fall flat and so on.

I didn't detect too much hand-wringing about the "rules-based-order", but I admit I couldn't make out a decent amount of the dialogue through my earplugs. The impression I got was that Nolan skimmed the wikipedia page for the "Bronze Age collapse" theory and then saw a great opportunity to shoehorn his ending for Oppenheimer into a second movie. It doesn't fit into the source story and it's barely set up in the movie though so it's just a baffling twist.

One more thing: I couldn't stop laughing during the Trojan horse scene. Odysseus has his men build the Trojan horse right on the shore of a beach, but neither he nor anyone else realizes that the tide will rise and half the party drowns inside the horse because they were such profound idiots.

>>2883187
Not to be mean but why did you even bother to go see it? You're just giving more money so that the most mediocre movies ever will continue to get made and it sounds like you kinda already knew it wasn't that good

>>2883189
I went with a bunch of friends that were hyped to see it, including a classics major that was ready to dissect all the points of difference for us (and he HATED it)

The Iliad and the Odyssey are campfire stories and needed to stay as such

>>2883201
Also I have been able to enjoy Nolan movies before. Oppenheimer in particular was great. You of course can't endorse all the moral themes as a communist but that's the case with basically every multimillion dollar blockbuster. Nolan's also made some stinkers (Dark Knight Rises, Tenet) but The Odyssey somehow hit a new low.

>>2883201
I'm glad you had fun I guess. Or didn't. I dunno glad you hung out with friends anyways

>>2883207
Didn't have much fun in the theater, but tearing apart the movie after leaving was a riot. Not one in six people defended it. I'm stunned The Odyssey has an 88 on metacritic.
>>2883206 (me again)
Looking back here I'm reminded of the rare megabudget blockbusters that communists CAN unequivocally endorse: 1900 (aka Twentieth Century) and Germinal of 1993. The story behind 1900 is that after making investors gangbusters on his last mid-budget drama (Last Tango in Paris, very problematic these days), director Bernardo Bertollucci asks for the equivalent of $60 million dollars for "a personal film about resistance to fascism in the Italian countryside". He resolutely refuses to share the script or elaborate further to the suits, but they fund him anyway. He comes back and shows them a test cut where the very first scene of the movie has Robert De Niro look straight at the camera and say "long live Stalin."

Sounds epic, but sadly the movie actually sucks. The capitalist villains in the movie are all laughably evil caricatures and they actually filmed the movie in a mix of Italian and English languages, meaning you have terrible dubbing no matter what language you watch it in. A real missed opportunity.

The second movie is the French-language film Germinal of 1993, the most expensive French movie ever made up to that point, based on the 1884 novel by Emile Zola. The budget is used to cast the biggest French stars of the day in an immaculately realized 1860s coal mining town as they literally rise up in a militant strike led by communists. I'm amazed that capitalist investors funded this without watering down any of the class struggle content. There are a few messages here and there to complain about, but they're all original to the book, not the movie.

>>2883187
I thought The Odyssey was fun, saw it twice. I give it five bags of popcorn and a little replica Trojan horse.

>>2883187
>>2883189
>>2883201
>>2883206
>>2883290

I was talking about it with a mate who's way into cinema and we decided that imax is cool and whatever but why would anyone go there to see a mid gimmick movie for when you could smash a tab and a billy and go see a nature documentary instead?

apparently nolan said general release is cropped and inferior. both the lighthouse and poor things were framed pretty square. overrated dickhead: I guess cinephiles will only be able to enjoy the film at home when the director's cut drops on VHS.

>>2882342
>>2883187
>>2883189

>it's definitely the most American liberal work
it's so fun that rightoids are screeching about nolan. like elon musk, out of all people, lmao.
i guess they see that a 90s and the aughts rightwing liberal it's too lefty, as much as modern-day democrats are to the right of reagan.
he's the most insufferable rightwing liberal shithead there is in hollywood.
in all of his movies men are extreme stoic characters. they all fit in an archetype category of 'you must suffer in silence, find a "manly" way to cope with pain, physical and specially emotionally, don't ask for help, and heroically save the day, because there's no other way, alone'. all of his women are just side dishes, no real meaning for the narrative, you can change the name and personality of the main woman that allegedly supports any of his main men and it won't make any difference to the script and story development of the movie. it's like his women are Indiana Joneses in the Raiders of the Lost Ark: the story progression happens the same with or without these women, so these decorative women are all boring, and makes noticeable nolan's misogyny.
between him and tarantino's love for the idf, when you effectively deconstruct effectively these two, hollywood become a shallow academy that promotes nasty rightwing culture, derived from the propaganda structure the us regime's capitalism needs to be alive.

>the most mediocre movies ever
local theaters performing left-leaning content is much better than whatever hollywood produces, tbh.
not that it will change too much during these rightwing shithead liberal regimes, so they will get their funds for more of these movies.
>>2883290
of coure you liked nolan's odyssey.

>>2883290
Of course you did, loser

>>2883187
Christopher Nolan is Michael with 2 year film degree from community College.

Both their films lack any actual depth. The characters are paper thin, rhe dialogue is awful full of exposition dump in between mediocre one liners.
His "films" rely on emotionless M. Night style twists reddit tier gimmick; "oh so clever"

Protip: never demean the knitting community because they will beef with you for life.

>>2883456
THE KNITTING COMMUNITY?

>>2883456
I used to not get AI hate until I saw *how* people use it

Just raw dogging the output without double checking or editorializing what the fuck

>>2883203
No one would sit around a campfire to listen to someone name all 287 boats and every stupid asshole on them.

>>2882419
Jews may have "survived empires" but Israel sure didn't.

>>2883456
>"muh stolen labor" at the end
There it goes 🙄

The Median Voter is a Maoist
Seeking truth from facts

What the American voter wants is impossible. Social Security is on track to be insolvent by 2032. What should we do about it? We could increase taxes to pay for the benefits, but 80% of voters are against that. We could cut benefits to match the taxes we have, but 90% of voters are against it. We could move the retirement age back, but 74% of voters oppose it. We could borrow money to pay for it, but 76% of voters are against that too. This is not simply different samples at different time, because these all come from the same poll a couple months ago. Relatedly, the American voter thinks the government is spending too much, but should increase spending on every government program while simultaneously cutting taxation and shrinking the size of the government.

The best defense of the voters’ beliefs are that they think someone else can be made to pay for it. It’s only a partial defense, because the things they scapegoat – on the Left, the billionaires, on the Right, foreigners – cannot pay for more than a pittance of what they want done. But even this is not an adequate explanation, because voters demand the impossible.

Consider Obamacare, which I wrote about at length last month. The Affordable Care Act banned charging higher prices to people with preexisting conditions. If you do this, however, sick people will select in and healthy people will select out. To have insurance exist at all, you need people to be compelled to purchase, rather than allow them to opt out when they are healthy and opt back in later when they are sick.

The ban on discriminating on preexisting conditions was extremely popular with the voters, and so we kept it. The requirement that you purchase health insurance was not, and so we zeroed it out in 2017. These policies are not something where you can get one but not the other – they are the same policy, fundamentally inextricable. And yet, we did A which leads to B and simply say that it will lead to C.

I think the better explanation is that the median voter in America is a Maoist. They do not believe in tradeoffs. They believe that, if only everyone were good and honest and working toward the right goals, good things will happen. That politicians disagree with each other is simply a sign that they are corrupt. If the people are good and sincere, then we can simply do things and it will all work out okay.

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This sort of attitude once ruled China. I do not call the American voter’s ideology Maoist as simple namecalling. It is just literally true. Mao Zedong’s program was that it was only the ideological sincerity which was needed for success to come. This ideological sincerity had magical properties. Consider one of the Three Constantly Read Articles, “The Foolish Old Man who Removed the Mountains”. There is a Chinese story about an old man who lived near the Taihang and Wangwu mountains. He wanted to travel, but the mountains lay in his way. So, he called his sons to him, and they began to dig up the mountains with hoes. A Wise Old Man comes and rebukes him for doing an impossible task, but the Foolish Old Man responds: “When I die, my sons will carry on; when they die, there will be my grandsons, and then their sons and grandsons, and so on to infinity. High as they are, the mountains cannot grow any higher and with every bit we dig, they will be that much lower. Why can’t we clear them away?” And so he and his sons resume digging.

It is not the case, however, that he and his sons did indeed clear away the mountains. Instead, God was touched by his conviction, and sent down two angels who carried away the mountains. Mao suggests, then, that there are two mountains the Chinese people wish to dig up – imperialism and feudalism – and if they dig them up without rest, then they will touch God’s heart and do the impossible. Mao is not so primitive as to suggest that a literal deity will come down and do it – instead, “our God is none other than the masses of the Chinese people”.

The great disaster of Maoism – the Great Leap Forward, with its tens of millions starved – came because Mao thought enthusiasm meant that constraints could be ignored, and that simply intending for something to happen was the same as doing what was necessary for it to happen.

Before the Great Leap Forward, state planning was run by Chen Yun, who was by all accounts a serious, soberminded individual. It was he who coined the phrase “crossing the river by feeling the stones”; I disagree with communism as an economic system because I believe it to be inefficient, but there is also no doubt in my mind that competent administration set on achieving possible goals can indeed grow. Reading Chen Yun’s selected works (volume three can be found here), one is impressed by the focus on whether the means can achieve the ends. When he makes projections of future production quantities, they are not fanciful but possible (p. 208). To combat inflation caused by an excess of currency printing, he says that they must “strive for a balance between revenue and expenditure, between credit receipts and payments” and that “we should not wait until next year to check inflation” (p. 208). That the government is trying to solve inflation by opening more restaurants is ridiculous, and why communism is a failure at persistently raising living standards, but it is at least an attempt to do the possible with the feasible. Problems are not solved by enthusiasm, but by carefully exchanging evidence, comparing alternatives, and reconsidering matters (p. 194-5), allowing for the possibility that the methods may not lead to the results.

You do not see this in Mao. The people’s enthusiasm would suffice to dissolve constraints. What was his solution to nuclear warfare? “The atom bomb is a paper tiger. … the outcome of a war is decided by the people, not by one or two types of new weapons”. What was his solution to the shortage of steel? Melting down their woks and hoes for sulfurous ingots of pig iron. Mao would later concede that these ingots were worthless, but at the time he said that (reorganizing slightly) “on the foundation of the tremendous energy of the masses it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever”. Nevermind what Chen Yun wrote to him (p. 147) in May of 1959, stating that “over 40% of the 9 million tons of iron … contains sulfur in excess of 0.2 per cent”. How shall agriculture be improved? Here Mao is unusually specific, but his ideas are all wrong: to grow more, the people should simply plant more and plant deeper. On the basis of this, fanciful quotas were set. Mao’s method of projecting agricultural growth was to pull numbers out of a hat. Not setting quotas higher and higher became a confession of disbelief of the program, and the people starved because their food was requisitioned. When Peng Duhai submitted the mildest of criticisms, suggesting that local leaders were overstating production, he was purged. One of the striking details of the Great Leap Forward is that when cooking and food distribution was centralized – it had to be, they had melted down all their cookware – the first months were those of plenty. Production was going to increase, so food was free, and gorging yourself was an ideological statement. When the food ran out, that was that.

I mentioned that Mao does not often include details in his writing. His instructions are aphorisms – not “do this”, but “see that this is done”. And of course, there is a great gap between what the appropriate things to do were, and what outcomes they would actually lead to. If things lead to disaster, they can be disavowed as being a misunderstanding, and not showing the fundamental wrongness of the program. Mao Zedong, at the Lushan conference of 1959, said “I do not claim to have invented the people’s communes, only to have proposed them. … When I was in Shantung a reporter asked me: ‘Are the people’s communes good?’ I said: ‘They are good,’ and he published it in a newspaper. There was a spot of petit-bourgeois fanaticism there, too. In the future reporters should keep away.”

I must emphasize that the Lushan conference was not when Mao submitted self-criticism, Liu Shaoqi became the dominant figure in the government, and the Great Leap Forward stopped. That came later, at the Seven Thousand Cadres conference of 1962. The Lushan conference was when Mao purged Peng Duhai for mild criticisms of the feasibility of the Great Leap Forward. Chen Yun fell “sick”, and absented himself from politics – you’ll note the table of contents has a gap from summer 1959 until 1961, when it became possible to describe the catastrophe that had occurred. (After it did, Chen Yun was willing to bend to empirical evidence – see p. 177, on the advantages of individuals raising pigs, and p. 190, on the advantages of private plots).

Mao wanted the impossible done. Man cannot do impossible things. The cost of pretending otherwise is death.

The voter wants impossible things, too. I do not think the American people are going to starve themselves to death – we are too far from the threshold of survival for that – but the American people have set themselves on an inevitable conflict with reality. More and more of the economy is dedicated to parasitism on the public – Social Security, Medicare, disability (both for the actually disabled, and for veterans), the department of defense. We seem to think that we can pay for it all with taxes on just our enemies. In practice, we have funded it all by pulling forward consumption from the future, and borrowing heavily. For a time this can be sustained, but the bill will come due.

I suspect, of course, that the voter has always wanted impossible things. What is remarkable is that we have long kept the demand for impossible things away from the actual conduct of the government. For many years, the budget was balanced, and entitlements were a small part of the budget.

I believe that what keeps government functioning are moral taboos as to what is right and proper for the government to do. When the government does not do something, it is a violation of the norm for the government to involve itself in it. This is simply a bias toward the status quo, not a consistent libertarianism – once the government is involved in regulating something, you are a madman for thinking it could ever be safely provided without the government. Further, once a government program does exist, it failing is never evidence that it should be gotten rid of. The program does not fail, it is failed. It being inefficient simply means that it was “chronically underfunded”, and needs “reinvestment”.

You’ll note how the defense of libertarianism is hardly ever expressed in the terms of utilitarianism. One does not persuade anyone by saying that there is decentralized information about people’s utility functions, and a price system is the only incentive compatible way to elicit it. Instead, the case for libertarianism is built upon natural law, and analogy. We have lower taxes because it isn’t right for someone to take the product of your work, not because taxes will move you along your labor supply curve and cause you to produce a socially inefficient level of labor.

This often leads us into errors. We may reject government programs which are beneficial, and over apply the wisdom of non-intervention. But we must weigh that against the basic errors that people fall into with a government program. If the amount of spending is zero, then the people cannot ask for spending to be doubled and taxes to be halved. Half and twice zero is still nothing.

Lastly, someone who purports to represent the people, and wants to bring the people’s will into office, is a dangerous character. The people wish to chew on the pretty foxgloves. A politician’s job is to do what they think is best for the people, not to do what the people want. Let them vote for whoever they should choose, but you should not help them.

https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/the-median-voter-is-a-maoist

Thoughts

>>2883528
>Just raw dogging the output without double checking or editorializing what the fuck
Yeah man
What did you think the appeal of it was? It's literally "I don't have to do this work any more, I can just have The Help (but a computer) do it for me."

>>2883528
that's exactly how people have been using google search for 20+ years

>>2883553
Yeah I found it very funny how she complains about AI "stealing labor" specifically to contrast it with the industrial revolution, which definitely didn't steal anything ever.

>>2883560
I suppose for tech tasks you at least have the 9objective metric of "thing works / not works", I can see how wordcels can get one shit by llm output spinning a convincing sounding yarn

>>2883562
>>2883553
Diminishing labor power under capitalism is bad actually

Rightoids can't make up their mind whether Hitler was good or a leftist

>>2883597
>Hollywood doesn't have movies where communists are the bad guys
Lol of the top of my head:
<The Interview
<1984
<Three Body Problem
<Death of Stalin
<Anastasia
<Child 44
<Animal Farm
<Red Dawn

>>2883597
god I love elon musk, he is so unfathomably stupid, if there is a philosophical zombie in this world, it is him, just pure parasitic energy condensed, no consciousness, no complex thought, just pure parasitism.

Also a perfect vessel to make people realize that none of these freaks deserve anything. Kill them all, destroy their roots, like hold a festival where we offer these freaks so we can all sing and dance while he drowns in his blood

>>2883528
People blindly believe whatever it spouts out and it pisses me off. Ask these chat bots about anything you know a thing or two about and you will notice mistake after mistake churned out with full confidence. Whatever happened to "don't believe everything you read on the internet"?

>>2883604
At least 2 or 3 of these aren't even Holywood btw

Every old e-celeb from the 2000s and early 2010s is washed, cancelled or literally dead/dying in obscurity. Being famous on the internet won't bring you stability in the long term.

>>2883643
>fibromyalgia
imagine kysing over a fake disease

>>2883604
Enemy at the Gates is also slightly anti-communist, it shows that only the common soldiers dragged into a war between dictators are the real heroes. They also regurgitate every cliche about the Red Army in WWII, human waves, officers shooting their own men all the time, unarmed men sent into German machine gun fire, the Germans all professional and super duper equipped.

>>2883656 (me)
(I still like it as a movie by itself, just because for once you won't have the ridiculous Russian accents and the Soviet win)

>>2883610
Elon posted a video of shoeonhead today

https://x.com/i/status/2084274899065897011

>>2883604
Worth noting that the author of Three Body Problem is mostly pro-CPC, he basically adopts the view that is common amongst Chinese officials with regards to the Cultural Revolution (not good or bad, but a lot of unnecessary excesses)

>>2883661
Netflix adaptation did rank up the anti-communism tho

>>2883661
If you think something can be pro-communist just because it is pro-CPC, when the actual content of it is the most fascist shit imaginable which portrays communism as actually evil, maybe you need to re-think what communism is.

>>2883661
>>2883663
>Chinese officials with regards to the Cultural Revolution (not good or bad, but a lot of unnecessary excesses)
Nahh, the book is pretty damn anti. I don't know if you can say anti-communism, but it is firmly anti-cultural revolution era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)
>Liu and Martinsen's translations contain footnotes explaining references to Chinese history that may be unfamiliar to international audiences. There are also some changes in the order of the chapters for the first volume. In the translated version, chapters which take place during the Cultural Revolution appear at the beginning of the novel rather than in the middle, as they were serialized in 2006 and appeared in the 2008 novel. According to the author, these chapters were originally intended as the opening, but were moved by his publishers to avoid attracting the attention of government censors.[15]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/magazine/ken-liu-three-body-problem-chinese-science-fiction.html
>Studying the novel’s chaotic timeline, Liu pinpointed what he felt was the story’s natural beginning: the scenes of political violence and oppression during the Cultural Revolution, a traumatic moment that triggers the interstellar clash that follows. In a move that was unusually invasive for a translator, he suggested pulling up the historical flashback, which was buried in the middle of the narrative, and turning it into the novel’s beginning.

>When Liu proposed this radical change to the author, a rising figure in China’s burgeoning science-fiction scene named Liu Cixin, he was prepared to be overruled. Instead, the author instantly agreed. “That is how I wanted it originally!” Liu recalls him saying.

>As it turned out, the Cultural Revolution had torn Liu Cixin’s family apart. He was just 3 when the political upheaval began, and still remembers hearing gunshots at night and seeing trucks full of men wearing red armbands patrolling the city where he lived in Shanxi province. When the situation there became too volatile, his parents, who worked in a coal mine, sent him away to live with relatives in Henan. The brutality of Mao Zedong’s revolution was also central to the story that Liu Cixin wanted to tell in “The Three-Body Problem.” But his Chinese publisher worried that the opening scenes were too politically charged and would never make it past government censors, so they were placed later in the narrative, he says, to make them less conspicuous. Liu reluctantly agreed to the change, but felt the novel was diminished. “The Cultural Revolution appears because it’s essential to the plot,” Liu Cixin told me during a Skype interview through an interpreter. “The protagonist needs to have total despair in humanity.”

Yuh huh

>>2883668
I've only read synopses of the books and it does sound pretty fascist. Like, interspecies cooperation is inherently impossible and the sum total of scientific advancement is just building bigger bombs until you eventually have to just destroy the universe and hope for the best.

>>2883701
It seems some people think it's an allegory, and attack for the liberals who think China and the USA can just get along and cooperate, but then again, that doesn't make sense, because in the actual story the Chinese and the USA do get along and cooperate and eventually nations mostly disappear.

>>2883597
hey guys, anyone else make the observation that fash lie?

>>2883698
we already have the CIA interns who watch hasan piker steams on their lunch breaks. now we have the autistic palantir left.

>>2883698
>>2883720
It's just some tongue and cheek ad copy. Palantir has said their technology is designed to kill communists or some shit like that. This is just about some locally run LLM.

>Palantir’s Sovereign AI technology for government empowers public sector agencies and critical infrastructure operators to deploy cutting-edge, large language models (LLMs) in classified or highly regulated environments. It ensures agencies retain total ownership of their data, intellectual property, and model logic without sacrificing security or operational control

>>2883643
Bro……..

>>2883743
I'll always remember him for his decent animations and anti communism

>>2883722
>It's just some tongue and cheek ad copy.
Yeah. Also reminds me of that meme of Hillary Clinton saying how "we need to take back the means of production" from China and then it cut to a pic of Deng wearing a cowboy hat.

Laura Loomer owns because she's such a psyop agent but she's also so brain damaged at the same time, only someone like her could come up with a theory that Oct. 7 was done as a birthday present to Putin.

>>2883816
get yourself a woman who commits to you half as hard as jigsaw commits to whoever pays her

>>2883724
man, i love me some marketing mumbo jumbo with lots of fancy words without saying anything whatsoever.

new white victimization dropped.
and uses the Palestinian genocide as a collateral.

>>2883847
>women not wanting to fuck you is the same thing as zionists bombing children
fascists are something else man

>>2883847
Aint these uygha japanese doe 🤣

>>2883859
I think he's a hapa

>>2883860
Even worse

https://erikhoudini.com/houdinitv

We are building a new internet.

>>2883847
walking and looking

>>2883849
>>2883859

what's interesting it's that just now gained some traction, just after 2024. almost as interesting as his radical political shift from radical fenism to literal nazism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinfest
this is what radlibism does to a mf.

>>2883867
>Genre(s) Comedy, satire

I think it needs updating

>>2883643
There are people unironically doing the bit where they tell others to feel empathy for him despite what he did in the past. What did he do? He was edgy and krass like most of the internet at that time, which he already apologized for. People really do only care about vibes and words instead of real material harm

>>2884180
I mean he still tries to shoehorn jokes into 90% of the comics, they're just not funny

socialistbros… our response??

>>2884337
it really do be like that

Giga trvke…

>>2884314
It worked for the Smiling Friends guys

Some asshat made AI music about CPUSA's biggest rat, Bella Dodd.

I fucking swear this is horrid.

>>2884396
Oy vey

>>2884511
For reference.

Can i borrow a Thought?

>>2884532
once again white nationalism just boils down to being scared of black peepee

>>2884538
He doesnt look very scared to me!

>>2884532
Not surprised. As a black guy I know that gay/bi white guys are absolute sluts for black guys. I’m not even kidding.

>>2884532
Tried to pork a Black femboy I met on Grindr while I was in another town for a job interview. He ghosted me for hours and I went to bed. I woke up to a bunch of angry 2am texts from him accusing me of not wanting to fuck him because I'm racist.