/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2609014
your still one of us lmao your not better than everyone around (you) lol perfectly equal in fact

>>2609018
the people who dehumanize others on here reveal only that they are idealists who have elevated humans in their mind to something supernatural, so that when real humans fall short of that, they get very upset
>>2609023
>your still one of us lmao your not better than everyone around (you) lol perfectly equal in fact
I was being sarcastic. I was making fun of the anon who calls people cockroach/animal nonstop.

>>2608999
>do you know what a tariff is
the protectionist flailing doesn't make much of a difference when the core neoliberal doctrines of privatization, deregulation, austerity, union busting are being applied both domestically and abroad, along with shock therapy, structural adjustment programs, etc. Porky is pulling out all the stops.

>>2609008
source?

https://www.defensenews.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/12/19/pentagon-fails-financial-audit-for-8th-year-in-a-row/

The Pentagon failed its financial audit for the eighth consecutive year, the Defense Department said Friday, highlighting the ongoing systemic challenge the nation’s largest federal agency faces in fully accounting for its assets.

The department has received a failing grade on every audit since Congress mandated annual reviews beginning in 2018, and is the only one of the government’s 24 major agencies never to pass.

In the Department of Defense Agency Financial Report for fiscal year 2025, auditors identified 26 material weaknesses and two significant deficiencies in the department’s financial reporting.

Among the shortcomings were omissions in the Joint Strike Fighter Program, the Pentagon’s multifaceted effort to develop an affordable strike aircraft for the Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy and allied nations.

Auditors determined the Pentagon failed to report assets in the program’s Global Spares Pool, and did not accurately record the property.

“The DOD could not provide or obtain accurate and reliable data to verify the existence, completeness or value of its Global Spares Pool assets for the Joint Strike Fighter Program,” according to the report. “As a result, the omission of the Joint Strike Fighter Program Global Spares Pool assets resulted in a material misstatement on the Agency-Wide Financial Statements.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the department remains committed to annual financial audits and is actively conducting a comprehensive review of its budget. The Pentagon reported $4.65 trillion in assets and $4.7 trillion in liabilities, located across all 50 states and more than 40 countries.

“The department cannot resolve decades of war, neglect of America’s defense industrial base and soaring national debt through unchecked spending,” Hegseth said in a statement released with the audit. “We are dedicated to openly sharing audit results and using them as a guide for continuous improvement.

“We believe this report clearly illustrates that progress and our unwavering dedication to ensuring every taxpayer dollar is used effectively and efficiently to strengthen our national defense.”

The department’s chief financial officer, Jules Hurst, wrote in a letter included in the report that the Pentagon aims to resolve “critical issues” and achieve an “unmodified” audit opinion by 2028.

>>2609006
>that already is happening
but is just the start, I meant whats coming in the next decades

>>2608908
>based on westerners disdain and their plentiful-of-treats way of living reliant on the exploitation, plunder, and use of violence
Except that's fucking nonsense. Western living standards are universally possible with a fraction of current economic output if you eliminate capitalist parasitism and waste. Imperialism isn't necessary to maintain high living standards (and ironically thinking so is to agree with imperialist narratives). Its only necessary to maintain high living standards *and* high profits. Except that increasingly declining rates of profit mean sacrificing the former for the latter, illustrating clearly how first and third world workers have a common enemy in capital and always did. "Treatlerite" originally meant people who become violently and consciously imperialistic and/or fascistic when petty luxuries were threatened. Like the people during the pandemic who rioted and demanded the sacrifice of thousands to keep shitty chain restaurants open, or the people who frothed at the mouth to bomb Yemen when Ansarallah interdicted Israeli shipping. Now you retards use it to mean anybody in the West who eats a banana or wants to improve their lives in any way.

>>2609033
material reality

>>2608999
neoliberalism isn't stopped by tariffs, but by nationalizing and shifting the goals of these companies from profit to social accomplishments.
all of that stunt trump is doing is to have trade and commercial warfare against the insubordinate states. one simple look at alziolani's economic plan, is to neoliberalize Syria. Outcome? alziolani is explicitly welcomed in the WH. that, alone, should tell you where we are at.

>>2609032
the bad faith derailing will continue that fills up endless threads will continue
>>2609031
>if only yanks get this emotional when they invade, murder and rape
I am against everything my military and government does to the global south and have never once participated in said "rape" but
>>2609036
>Except that's fucking nonsense. Western living standards are universally possible with a fraction of current economic output if you eliminate capitalist parasitism and waste
I said so in a similar post:
>>2608146
<read rajani palme dutt's fascism and social revolution, chapter 3, particularly the section titled "the destruction of the productive forces". under capitalism we already OVERPRODUCE more than everyone needs, but don't give it to people if they can't afford it, and then throw it in the dumpster if it goes past its expiration date. there is tremendous and pointless waste under capitalism because we produce more than we need and then don't distribute it, due to the anarchy of production. we could actually feed, clothe, and house everyone ,while producing LESS than we already produce, using something called ECONOMIC PLANNING. you could also slow or even reverse population growth with ECONOMIC PLANNING. you can increase the productivity of each person with TECHNOLOGY and PLANNING without increasing CONSUMPTION. but this is not PROFITABLE so we don't do it, because our system is rooted in PROFIT rather than PLANNING. The lassalleans wanted let the workers have the total surplus product, but that's fucking stupid, because that is still an unplanned society. a bunch of people who make chairs for a living don't want to drown in chairs just because they made the chairs and therefore own the chairs. that's the lassallean formula. the communist formula involves abolishing the anarchy of production, which is incredibly wasteful. America throws out half it's food, before it even reaches the consumer. We have no idea how much the consumers throw out, but it's a lot too.

NOBODY RESPONDED except one guy to just cope "it doesn't matter"

They always avoid this when I bring it up.

>>2609032
>>2609031
go harass cops and troops and 4klanners instead of a tiny community of communist-sympathetic burgers

>>2609040
I've also noticed that TWist types never actually cite studies or figures to back up their claims that high living standards would be impossible without imperialism. What's most telling of all is that they never cite the work of actual theorists of unequal exchange because none of them believe that it benefits first world proles. These assertions are always just presented as self evident.

>>2609042
because it's CIA/Mossad LLM slop to tamp down erupting class consciousness and funnel sensitive burgers who are afraid of 9/11 style "vengeance" into the arms of reactionaries

>>2608999
>>2608999
>>2609038 (me)
>>2608996 (me)
>>2608942


also, we are not even close to what the tariffs are when the neoliberalism project started. this is a small excerpt of a International Trade Masters' degree thesis I wrote as a ghost writer for another person:
>US tariffs fell from 33% in 1944 to 1-2%, for example, or from 1947 to 1986, tariffs on manufactured goods dropped from 35% to 6.4% among all [GATT] signatory states (Elson, 2021a, p. 32; Sundaram, 2022, p. 37).

also, it's very weird that in Naked Capitalism they say "globalisation of the late 20th century was a response", when globalization is the symptom, not the cause. neoliberalism is the cause, and it's a response to the failing rates. globalization is the outcome of the neoliberal policies, reduction of tariffs, privatization, etc.

>>2609042
I don't think they read, its more like an emotional outburst

>>2609048
ummm you actually had the emotional outburst at my village when you raped it you filthy yank animal (posted from langley VA)

>>2609047
>>2609049
Indian shounen anime series about god v god battles when?

>>2609052
india has some 3d political cartoon slop where like Modi will do anime battle with Xi Jinping or some shit

>>2609042
>actually cite studies or figures to back up their claims that high living standards would be impossible without imperialism
I tried to get an AI-generated re-distribution ratio of this picture, with new 2024 data, larger map even showing tax heaven countries, but AIs I used get stuck in forever generation data looking at the tables.
but I got the answer to question on the US with an updated 2024 figure:
the US population would be poorer if all the wealth around the world is distributed evenly across all the world. Even if you set up a PPP analysis.
You can ask that basic question to the AI, get the quoted references and see for yourself.

>>2609046
'neoliberalism' really just means 'western controlled globalization'. neoliberalism is dying at the same time a new kind of globalization is emerging. India for example is knocking down its trade barriers for the first time ever

>>2609057
AI sucks at generating maps. You can ask an AI for the simplest map of Europe and it will put Ukraine in the middle of Germany or something

>>2609059
well, actually it got stuck on the data gathering. If I had the data I could have done the map myself.

>>2609057
>the US population would be poorer if all the wealth around the world is distributed evenly across all the world. Even if you set up a PPP analysis.
Your pick literally says the saverage American would be slightly richer (only slightly so) in that situation. Only the blue countries in the bottom half of the pic wouldn't be richer on average.

But that only looks at MONEY. people can have MONEY but still have to wait for 6 months to get some medicine they need to survive or get approved for chemotherapy when someone in another country would have much better healthcare outcomes. WTF does money matter when burgers pay way more for healthcare than other 1st world countries, and even have worse healthcare outcomes than 2nd world countries like China. I would sacrifice cheap banana, cheap coffee, endless useless garbage like toys and movies, for better healthcare, a stable job market, and an educated, organized population rather than the absolute looney bin of school shooters and fentanyl addcits I currently live in LOL

>>2609057
>the US population would be poorer if all the wealth around the world is distributed evenly across all the world
Even if that's true it's an entirely moot point. An end to imperialistic relations wouldn't mean the even distribution of existing wealth. What are you going to pack up a Google data centre and relocate it to Nigeria? What are they going to do with hit? How would it benefit them? It would be completely useless. You might as well say that socialism means a redistribution of toothbrushes. No, and end to imperialism means first ending the parasitic relationship between the first and third world, and second allowing (and actively helping) the latter develop and industrialize on their own terms according to their needs. The question is whether this is possible without a making the lives of Westerners worse, and the answer is yes.

TPUSA's America Fest 2025 was a great display of democratic centralism. The Chagossian hopes that the dickriders of the democrats emulates them in this.

>>2609066
the pic. not the 2024 data I managed to gather. All of the western countries were analyzed and, particularly for nato ones, are all losing the competition.
the only shit it couldn't complete was the microstates, the tax heaven countries, and island-countries, because, I remember the AI told me: the data is not direct and it requires to cross-reference the information from different sources to get an approximate result.
>>2609067
>Even if that's true it's an entirely moot point.

>mfw

>>2609067
>>2609069 (me)

>What are you going to pack up a Google data centre and relocate it to Nigeria?
to your question, many of the services and industries as they exist wouldn't exist or wouldn't exist as you know them.

>>2609025
my b anon, very true abt them being idealists


>>2609032
>>2609031

your just like us in every way lol

>>2609069
what do you think of this part:
<But that only looks at MONEY. people can have MONEY but still have to wait for 6 months to get some medicine they need to survive or get approved for chemotherapy when someone in another country would have much better healthcare outcomes. WTF does money matter when burgers pay way more for healthcare than other 1st world countries, and even have worse healthcare outcomes than 2nd world countries like China. I would sacrifice cheap banana, cheap coffee, endless useless garbage like toys and movies, for better healthcare, a stable job market, and an educated, organized population rather than the absolute looney bin of school shooters and fentanyl addcits I currently live in LOL

I would HAPPILY pay DOUBLE for food (especially since I don't eat fast food slop and mostly home cook myself cheap rice and bean type shit) if it meant the job market wasn't insane, the healthcare system wasn't insane, imperialism ended, the jobs we outsourced came back (after all, that's one aspect of imperialism), we were more self sufficient, and we fixed our school shooting and drug addiction problems.

I would give up "treats" like video games, movies, and wal marts full of useless fucking plastic toys made out of petrochemicals to have an actually stable and self sufficient society that makes stuff like China.

>>2609073
the chagossian class-conscious proletarian is not like the American exploiter in every way.
We both breathe and drink water (without the lead for me please), and that's it.

>>2609069
Sorry Anon, smug reaction images aren't a substitute for arguments. It's a moot point simply because dismantling imperialism doesn't require perfectly even redistribution of existing wealth, but assisting the global south in reaching Western levels of development. The Warsaw Pact is a much better model of this, where Soviet subsidies, technical assistance, and mutually beneficial trade helped turn backwards agrarian countries into industrial powers that competed with Western Europe.

>>2609077
>We both breathe and drink water
hydrosynthesis????????

>>2609078
> It's a moot point simply because dismantling imperialism doesn't require perfectly even redistribution of existing wealth
no, you turd, the even distribution of wealth is a measurable outcome of the end of imperialism/colonialism.

>>2609067
>The question is whether this is possible without a making the lives of Westerners worse, and the answer is yes
Oh I'm sorry, are you volunteering to grow your own coffee and bananas and assemble your own electronics? Do you even know how to farm? Have you EVER done actual work with your hands that wasn't just killing brown children and raping brown women half a world away?

>>2609072
Yes but even once that would remain necessary simply couldn't be packed up and shipped away. Something line a steel mill requires transportation, electrical, and other infrastructure to be viable, plus technical know how and further industrial capacity to actually use the product. It would be pointless to just pack up one in Pittsburgh and ship to Nigeria a country that (through no fault of their own) lacked the capacity to make full use of it. It would be better for everybody to train Nigerian technicians and subsidize the construction of a new mill in Nigeria.

>>2609084
Obviously, but that doesn't change the fact that simple redistribution of existing wealth isn't the solution to that disparity.

>>2609077
you literally one of us and equal in every way shape or form lol

>>2609090
Thats assuming they would ever be able to afford a avocado

>>2609090
>>2609097
go harass actual reactionaries on reddit, 4klan, cop and military dickrider forums

>>2609085
No, I'm saying that if coffee and banana farmers owned the plantations on which they worked they could pocket the profits which would otherwise go to Western capitalists, and they could do this without even increasing prices.

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>>2609104
yeah yeah wrap it up, there's a new thread for you to spend all your free time talking to genetically reactionary animals

>>2609075
the commodification of everything, that led everyone's lives in the US to that point, because the capitalists then could accumulate and hoard those things, is what drives the average American to feel an unsurmountable obstacle to join their lives.
though I don't know if Americans and westerners in general are more willing to get rid off the exploitative system or live the illusion that until they die there's a chance they can get to live bezo's, bilderberg's, rothschild's, elon's lives. specially if they are explained thoroughly what that implies.

>>2609019
That's God-Emperor of Dune, iirc.

>>2609102
i would happily pay double for rice and beans and the other foods I eat most often if it meant there were less school shootings, fentanyl addicts, and imperialist wars. but these trolls don't believe me. it's a never ending struggle session with them. they could harrass actual reactionaries but they curiously spend their infinite free time at their cobalt mining job to harass americans. because they are CIA LLM bots.

The stuff that the Chagos poster and other "Maoist Third Worldists" say is basically American Exceptionalism, but in the reverse. Saying that America is uniquely evil in history but when you honestly look at history it's not that unique. Even African slave kingdoms enslaved other African tribes and sold them to the Europeans.

It's basically yet another form of burger Protestant Christianity and "Original Sin" all over again.

>>2609191
Chagos poster repeatedly said that he is not a TWist though.

>>2609036
The fact of the matter is that Hegel ended up being right in his analysis of the state as the representation of the general interest of a people by encompassing all parties, when the focus is on the Western states.

The invasion of Greenland is planned for 31st December 2025. Do not ask how I know.