/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

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The American question is: how does a settler-imperialist nation transform itself into a decolonized socialist commonwealth without either reproducing the imperial form or fragmenting into balkanized enclaves that allow capital to reconstitute, while resolving the contradictions of internal colonization and liberating its external colonies, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?

>>2920339
the whole planet is slowly turning into america, not the other way around. rammstein was RIGHT

>>2920339
>the empire's collapse
again with the Rapture prophecies. You people are no better than Christian Doomsdayers

>>2920342
disregard that, it's dialectical actually, come to think of it

>>2920343
there's a lot more evidence of US imperial collapse than there is of the rapture.

>I'm thinking I will go to work tomorrow
<AGAIN WITH THE PROPHECIES

>>2920343
>i can't tell the difference between supernatural claims with no evidence and political claims with a lot of evidence
lol

>>2920345
>>2920347
show me an example of a modern empire collapsing without a stronger imperialist power tipping the scales from the outside to make it happen

>>2920349
>it has to be modern
why

>>2920350
because we now live in a world dominated by the capitalist mode of production with nation states and ursury imperialism and new contradictions?

BLM status?

>>2920351
i don't see how the precludes the possibility of an empire collapsing from its own internal issues and unforced errors.

>>2920349
>show me an example of a modern empire collapsing without a stronger imperialist power tipping the scales from the outside to make it happen
the USSR
red capitalists HATE when you say this

>>2920330
what is the website that hosts these articles?

>>2920361
the trot website WSWS

>>2920355
those existential internal crises are not exclusive to america, every imperialist state has to deal with debt, lack of cheap labor, etc. The unfortunate truth here is america has way more tools at its disposal to handle these crises than France, the UK or Japan. America may collapse at some point, but no sooner than any of its allies, Houdini says americas collapse will enable global revolution, its actually the other way around

>>2920361
erikhoudini.com

>>2920366
america is old man and poopy his pants

>>2920361
lemmygrad.ml

>>2920361
hexbear.net

>>2920361
Haaretz

>>2920356
That's even more sad

>>2920361
RT.com

Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline

A security researcher’s map revealed more locations of Flock devices than any other. Flock is trying to take it down.

Amid mounting concerns about its sprawling surveillance camera network, Flock Security told the press this summer that it operates more than 120,000 cameras nationwide.

But a new map published Wednesday by a cybersecurity researcher reveals Flock’s nationwide reach is even bigger. Based on location coordinates from Flock’s own database, the map shows more than 170,000 cameras, plus more than 130,000 accompanying gadgets that play a part in the company’s expansive American surveillance network.

Joshua Michael’s Flock Surveillance Map highlights the locations of what he says are 300,000 Flock surveillance devices spread across the country. His findings — which were cited in Wednesday’s Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing on Flock — differ from existing maps of Flock’s automated license plate readers in scope and methodology.

Unlike crowd-sourced projects such as DeFlock, which are built on locations submitted by users, the Flock Surveillance Map relies on location data culled from a snapshot, archived by Michael in December 2025, of Flock’s own records. In addition to cameras, it maps supplemental devices — including 27,000 acoustic detection devices, as well as networking equipment that integrates third-party cameras — to illustrate the scale of Flock’s surveillance web.

“These cameras form a nationwide surveillance network that tracks where everyone drives,” Michael told The Intercept, “so foreign nations don’t need to send spies to harm our country. They can simply watch where our soldiers, federal agents, and politicians go.”

The Intercept visited six random Arizona locations on Michael’s map; each location had a Flock camera present at the indicated coordinates.

The Flock Surveillance Map also color-codes each Flock device according to its model — showing, for instance, whether the device is a Flock camera, known as a Falcon, or an accompanying processing unit known as a Picard. (Flock did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

The accompanying searchable dataset table also lists each camera’s individual name, as outlined in Flock’s database, which typically includes a street address and sometimes other identifying characteristics. A camera with the name “FBI Pilot Camera,” for example, is shown to be located at the J. Edgar Hoover Building — the FBI headquarters in Washington.

The map illustrates Flock’s national spread, but also its clustering in certain areas. For example, 860 Flock devices appear to be concentrated just outside Chicago O’Hare International Airport, at the Rosemont Public Safety Department, which provides police, fire, and emergency medical services in the Chicago suburb.

Numerous Flock cameras appear to be installed inside detention centers. A camera titled “C-F-23 FOXTROT MALE HOLDING 2/SHOWERS” appears at the coordinates of the Silverdale Detention Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

In November 2025, Michael discovered a novel way to identify the location of Flock’s devices. Trawling the company’s website, he realized that Flock’s servers were publicly leaking data in the form of an access token that could be acquired without needing to log in. With that token, Michael said he could query ArcGIS, a third-party geographic information system platform used by Flock, to retrieve the locations of Flock devices.

Michael told The Intercept he promptly contacted Flock and described his findings. As Michael wrote in his initial email to Flock on November 13, 2025: “all testing was strictly non-intrusive, limited to open unauthenticated endpoints, and did not involve bypassing authentication, modifying data, or invoking any billable ArcGIS or Google operations.” Michael said he didn’t receive a reply, so he followed up with Flock the next day, and a third time several days later.

After his third attempt to inform Flock of the discovered vulnerability, Michael received a reply from a Flock that said, “Thank you for the findings. We are internally triaging them and will reach back out with next steps soon.”

Michael said he never heard back about it from Flock.

In December 2025, Michael downloaded the Flock device location data, and in January wrote an in-depth technical blog post about what he had found. After Michael’s post, it appears that Flock fixed the vulnerability.

Despite being alerted of Michael’s findings in November 2025, Flock published its own blog post the following January saying it hadn’t had any data breaches. “Flock has never been hacked, and there has not been a leak of Flock information,” the company claimed. “Flock Safety’s cloud platform has never experienced a data breach.”

The Atlanta-based startup has faced mounting criticism for its practices and lack of transparency in recent months. An American Civil Liberties Union report found “a pattern of Flock regularly misleading or even lying about its business practices, safety record, commitment to privacy, and efforts to protect vulnerable populations.”

Michael told The Intercept that Flock’s recent claims about its data security record don’t reflect reality. Flock has publicly claimed multiple times that the company has never experienced a data breach, “and this was after I pulled their database of devices.”

“That leaves two possibilities,” he said. “Either they knew and chose not to disclose it for fear of bad press, or they didn’t know I exfiltrated the data at all. The first is a transparency failure. The second is a detection failure with national security implications.”

On Thursday, Michael was notified that Doppel, which describes itself as an “AI-native social engineering defense platfom,” filed a trademark infringement complaint regarding his site, claiming to be working on Flock’s behalf. Doppel says that the site is using the trademark “FLOCK SAFETY” without authorization, which “may cause customer confusion / harm.” Doppel requested the site be taken down.

When he posted the Flock Surveillance Map, Michael included a pop-up disclaimer saying that the site is “not affiliated with or endorsed by Flock.”

L.A. County Begins Making Nearly $5 Billion in Payouts to Survivors of Sex Abuse in Juvenile Detention

Los Angeles County officials were set to begin making the first $600 million in payouts in early July 2026, under an historic $4 billion settlement agreement with some 6,800 former detainees subjected to sexual abuse in County juvenile lockups. Payouts were also getting underway under a separate $828 million settlement negotiated with an additional 414 victims. Since County Commissioners approved both agreements in late 2025, the number of claimants under the larger settlement has swelled to 11,000, with potentially 5,000 more who may join them, County officials have estimated. See: Doe 1 v. Cty. of L.A., Cal. Super. (Cty. of L.A.), Case No. 21STCV20949; and Doe v. Doe 1, Cal. Super. (Cty. of L.A.), Case No. 22STCV25691.

The staggering sum of public money—$4.828 billion in total—represents a huge hit for residents in the country’s largest county by population, costing each of them over $500. But the alternative for the County was even more grim, since the law that opened the window for these suits also authorizes treble damages against the municipal employers of abusers.

https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2026/sep/1/la-county-begins-making-nearly-5-billion-in-payouts-to-survivors-of-sex-abuse-in-juvenile-detention/

Gasoline prices are skyrocketing, breaking records, after the US war against Iran caused the biggest oil supply disruption in history. Ben Norton explains the geopolitical and economic reasons for the energy crisis, including the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and disruption of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, sabotage of the Saudi East-West Pipeline, Ukraine's attacks on Russian refineries and diesel storage depots, China's reduction of crude imports and renewable energy policies, and falling global oil reserves.

Topics
0:00 Largest oil crisis in history
1:30 Price of gasoline skyrockets
2:03 Diesel prices break records
3:07 US midterm election approaches
3:59 Inflation and Donald Trump
5:09 Fed raises interest rates
5:49 US bond market problems
7:13 Trump is unpopular and desperate
8:19 Saudi oil pipeline attacked
10:59 Bab al-Mandab Strait
11:34 US-Saudi war on Yemen backfires
13:59 US deal with Houthis (Ansarallah)
14:45 Crisis in Saudi Arabia
16:11 Ukraine hits Russian oil facilities
17:37 China reduces crude oil imports
18:54 Chinese electric vehicles (EVs)
19:39 China's solar and wind power
20:31 China increases oil imports
21:37 Global oil reserves running low
22:25 Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)
23:21 Energy crisis will get worse
25:07 Outro

>>2920361
They all come from this news aggregator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
they usually gather all the news in one place.

>The California nonprofit opposing the billionaires tax, Building a Better California, has raised a staggering $227 million, per new filing last night.

Y'all live in a neoliberal cesspool. You don't get to tax billionaires. Now, pay your tax, peasant.

Checking in with the MAGA cultural zeitgeist that supposedly all our youth are obsessed with and it's not looking good

Donald Trump has been a China hawk for years, and he waged a brutal trade war against the country. So why did the US leader invite Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington, DC for a summit? The White House dinner, featuring the CEOs of top corporations, helps explain why. Ben Norton analyzes the complex state of US-China relations following Trump's failed trade war.

Topics
0:00 Xi Jinping visits USA
1:20 Cold War Two
2:07 Cold War One history
3:16 USA sees China as threat
4:48 Trump's trade war backfired
6:02 US-China economic integration
7:10 Trump's tariffs hurt manufacturing
8:05 Rare earths and critical minerals
9:52 Strategic stability meaning
11:26 Trump-Xi summit in Washington
12:16 Corporate CEOs attend dinner
15:53 Scott Bessent met at JPMorgan
16:33 China: largest consumer market
17:47 Trump's trip to Beijing
19:26 US corporations want market access
19:51 Windows loses market share
20:34 Apple faces restrictions in China
21:44 Tesla makes most cars in Shanghai
22:12 Google kicked out of China
22:43 Meta wants access to Chinese market
23:54 AI arms race
25:17 Trump: "Whoever wins AI, wins!"
26:31 Silicon Valley demonizes China
27:08 China's open-source AI models
28:26 Chip war
30:35 US attacks blow back
31:57 New cold war continues

I'll take "shit that didn't happen" for 800, Alex

Hope everyone is doing alright!

Got my squat routine up to 330 pounds now. I've also upped my cardio to at least 3 days a week. Keep working out lads.

>>2920414
I wonder who told him to try this idiotic re-naming thing? In my estimation a huge amount of the AI bubble/hype is built on the pre-existing marketing of "artificial intelligence" in the cultural zeitgeist.

"Invest in my glorified word prediction algorithm, it's basically a souped up version of that text predictor on your phones keyboard, but never mind that I'm calling it AI right now!! What's it gonna do? uh haven't you seen terminator? 2001 a space odyssey? Blade runner? It's gonna be just like that trust me bro." Once you try to rename it all that falls away, and people might realize this shit is never gonna be what they are promising. Same reason why someone should have said "Hold up, why the fuck would anyone strap a computer to their skull so they can walk around inside a digital version of social media, when they can browse it from their phone already, that sounds like a highly niche product?" years before Meta lit multiple billion dollars on fire. But instead they called it virtual reality, so they didn't have to bother actually working out how it would be useful when pitching investors. These tech companies keep doing this bullshit, and porky investors fall for it every time, anyone want to predict which one is next? I think probably something something cyborg shit.

>A recent investigation has just revealed that Jacob Coxon, the 'AI whistleblower', was working with a PR Firm this whole time, even though he stated in interviews that he wasn't working with any third parties.

Pysop was too obvious.

luigi mangione status?

>>2920421
i fucking hate you, you sexy bastard, and i am going to kill you and your sexy shitbull

>>2920421
you are dickrider
you are imperialist
you are zionist
you are epstein

>>2920421
gym rats are reakkktionary

Are we gonna wither away like this bros? Barely surviving, not being able to afford a house, a wife, children, a fulfilling life? All while the planet melts away?

Piece of shit life

>>2920421
die browderite treatlerite gymbro volcel catholic liberal imperialist

die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die

>>2920436
CPUSAnon is hoarding all the money, all the women, all the gym equipment. KILL HIM.

>>2920438
He doesn't get women.

>>2920440
put your name back on and stop lying
release the women

>>2920438
So in the Sinfest Universe, you can apparently become a literal Aryan god just by working out? Or am I missing something here

>>2920430
Lmao, I mean people are starting to catch on to them so now they have "AI" and "AGI" the latter of which is AI but just like what's in the movies of course so pls invest. And somehow we manage to reach every single week, before reaching it again next week. Wow, it's so impressive guys but we can't show you because china wants it reall bad and might steal it!! 0_0

>>2920445
seethe more tengew

Do you guys think Trump will do something retarded today after the stock market closes?

>>2920446
Yesterday, NVidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, called the AI companies' bluffs: "If your technology will end the world, close your labs" (I'm paraphrasing, the message was that, meaning: my paraphrasing keeps the intended idea).
It's all bullshit. chatGPT, and anthropic are releasing new models. It was obvious that all the 'hugging face swarm' was orchestrated by these AI companies, to ask for AI market regulation, and leave the Chinese models out. trump, in his insanity, was isn't accepting any deal until he gets his part of the cake ('lobby', a.k.a. money), so the regulation stalled.
But no one cares, the damage is done, Amodei's letter reonated across the weak usanian minds, the 'whistleblower' Coxon lied, but will not come out and say he's wrong, and the congress will move on anyway.

>>2920456
Huang is right, if they are really worried about it, why do they need the government to regulate them, why not just slow down themselves or stop altogether.


I think they played thier hand way too early, its clear a democrat is going to win in 2028 they should have waited till we were in the middle of the primaries to run this psyop so we could get politicians forced to talk about it. democrats already want to regulate tech, they just need an excuse

>>2920452
Yes, but that happens everyday tho? I can't really imagine what he can even do in Iran at this point. The US navy has had to retreat out of range of Iran, there aren't enough troops to invade anything, can't fly over Iran dropping bombs because there is a slim chance something gets shot down which makes it not worth it monetarily or optically. I guess bomb some of their oil tankers? or maybe he wants to get humiliated by Ansar Allah again?

>>2920452
trump won't but france is sending troops so they might

Chinese diaspora in America protesting Xi's visit.

Explain to me why is DSA supposed to be bad and fascist

>>2920463

There's the normal retarded but inconsequential shit he does as a tantrum, or to own the libs like changing Lake Ontario's name, and then there is completly insane things that spooks Wall Street, like the attacks on Iran, that he usually saves for the weekend so not to cause financial pandemonium.

>>2920466

What are the frogs up to?

>>2920481
Frog here, If oil price are bad in the US, in France they basically pierced the heavens and we're nearing shortages.
Marcon is desperate to make that particular line go down least his head ends up on a pike. So between bleeding the French army dry or the french economy, his choice was quickly made.

>>2920445
you're thinking too hard about it. the message is "white people good"

>>2920480
Who's that semen demon? Also why are Japanese women so attractive? I lived in Japan for 3 years and it was heaven. Pretty and easy to fuck. I had to leave because the economy is fucked over there but the women are 11/10

>>2920480
They're not, they're just delusional. They, like most people, refuse to accept we're not voting our way out of this because we're not willing to engage in armed revolt and also don't want to acknowledge that means we will never get what we want. Sort of a secular version of believing the rapture is coming - you act your entire life as if something that isn't going to happen will happen because that belief is psychologically soothing.

>>2920509
there are fascists in the way the SPD are fascists

Jannies take a suspiciously long time to take down CSAM spam if you ask me.