/meta/ - Ruthless criticism of all that exists (in leftypol.org)

This is an imageboard?

tbh for its problems leftypol is p cool site and fw ya'll heavy. the lack of insane right wing schizos (with some notable exceptions) is refreshing and the discussion by the standards of imageboard is high quality. It would be nice if it was a less slow board but by the standards of more obscure imageboards we're fairly active and sometimes the small poster base gives the site a cozy old school feel

>>28628
I will play Marx to your Hegel:
this is site is fucking terrible, and it is still, by far, the best imageboard.

>>28657
this

>>28626
The lack of any actual posters

>>28685
They probably will since they're incels

>>28684
They do seem to do a fair job at culling spillover, and claim to have a 0 zero tolerance for it in-thread too, but design wise someone new here is going to recognize it as a containment thread and either leave upon recognising that red flag or contribute to the problem. It's a UI problem, people's pattern recogniton will take precedent even if you are vigilant about enforcing a 0 tolerance on it.

>>28687
Speaking for myself, I don't particularly check /siberia/ as much at least as of lately and, in my my experience, trying to clean up/moderate the /relationship/ threads always end up in me trying the hold the thread's hand every time so it doesnt "spillover," as you said. It can be overwhelming to deal with it.

I appreciate the constructive criticism, though. It does feel weird that the relationship general threads tends to be referred in jest as containment threads for incels. There is a place for productive and constructive discussion for these kinda topics without falling into reactionary and chauvinistic traps and derails. I'll try to keep an eye/focus on the board and the relationship generals more, I apologize

On that note, PLEASE report any instances of blatant misogyny and incel reactionary bullshit. If one report doesnt work, send another one!

I still think my idea of moving /siberia/ to the most remote part of the top bar would be a real funny move

Rename it to /relationshipwinning/.

>>28611
Stop posting retarded shit. Rules and enforcement remain the same.

>Is it the official stance of /leftypol/ now to support multipolarism?
>support
[taps the sign]
https://newmultitude.org/socialism-not-multipolarism/

>>28613
Fuck your newspaper trot

>>28307
Fuck all that shit.
Make a board called /nut/ and it's nothing but an image of some random shmuck getting his gonads obliterated.
It'd be funny.

>handpicked
who will do the picking?

wave board when mods ?

>>28338
mods/staff with the help of user sometime yes sometime no

>>28307
>proposal to create a archive.moe but for leftypol.
That's what >>>/leftypol_archive/ is for. That said, we need the same equivalent for /edu/ /hobby/ and /anime/, since those boards do not have archives.

seethe sliding westard

It's even more particular than that. It's for a fringe element of Stalinists who think multipolarity is when you launch military invasions, and the more war and chaos there is the more multipolar everything is. Productive forces? Increased diplomacy without US-style moralizing and meddling? What's that?

>>28557
Are these Stalinist in the room with us right now?

idk, i kinda like this idea

yeah its stupid but so is siberia.

The banner on top of a board should advertise other boards and be a clickable link to that board. It would serve as a reminder that those boards exist and anons might visit them more often.

I disagree because it is the second most popular board, its placement is appropriate.

Could we bind this to a specific theme? I wanna see a siberia theme made for a special date sometime

Bump for this very awesome idea mods should implement

>>26958
This. The owner went AWOL. Best wishes to him but we may need to set up another node in the meantime.

I added /mode +R to the channel which makes it so only registered users can join. undecided on whether to make it permanent. might lift it after some time has passed, we'll see

>>26780
thank you comrade beavis ~

( ´ ω ` )

>>27785
hey how's it going, hrm-heh

>>27784
I removed -R again, as an experiment. this should promote new IRC users, and hopefully none of the usual trolls will return

>>28290
If you want to go into other aspects of Katyn (such as arguing that German bullets meant the Soviets couldn't possibly have carried it out), you can do so, I just wanted to point out that the bit in the earlier picture about Göbbels was nonsense, because that's something I don't need to read any books and articles on Katyn (or on whether the NKVD had access to any German bullets or guns or whatever) to establish.

Much like if Yuri Mukhin were to personally come up to me and argue the moon landing was faked (as is one of his positions), I'm sure there would be many parts of his argument I couldn't reply to, since I haven't read up on the US space program and whatnot.

I'm not aware of FDR having any special insight into Katyn. Couldn't an immediate dismissal from him be more logically explained by political expediency? Given he obviously had plenty of compelling reasons not to offend the Soviet leadership in 1943-44 (and also, as he expressed at times, he was concerned about not losing Polish-American voters in 1944.)

>>28291
How does it "affirm the idea of it being a Nazi false-flag"? You've already seemingly moved away from Göbbels "admitting" it was.

>>28300
>How does it "affirm the idea of it being a Nazi false-flag"
By literally confirming the fact of German bullets found at the site by allied investigations.
>You've already seemingly moved away from Göbbels "admitting" it was.
What? How? He admitted to German bullets at the site.
>If you want to go into other aspects of Katyn
I don't WANT to since this is neither the thread for it, nor the board; I will simply address your arguments.
>arguing that German bullets meant the Soviets couldn't possibly have carried it out
1) Occam's' Razor
2) The lack of German ammunition in Soviet hands to have committed said execution
3) The lack of motivation to use German bullets, as that implies some 4D chess of the Soviets somehow knowing that they would lose those territories to the Germans ahead of time, when it would be simply much easier to just declare them enemies of the people and be done with them.
The timeframe of the execution using supposed German bullets makes no sense, nor the scale as the method of execution and sheer number of bullets would require a lengthy amount of time and a large amount of bullets, which makes it almost physically impossible for the USSR to have committed the executions.
All this simply from the basic information one can interpret from just the bullets found at the site. This is not including other evidence from eye-witnesses, to the actual decomposition of the corpses, letters and papers on the bodies dating to 1940 and 1941 which automatically means that at least a portion of the executions occurred after the USSR lost territory to the Germans and that the "evidence" of Soviet guilt was proven to be fraudulent fakes and more.
>I'm not aware of FDR having any special insight into Katyn
He was made aware of the situation as it was a massive propaganda move by Nazi Germany, as they 'uncovered' the bodies and immediately accused the USSR. Such a controversy would impact the alliance and so FDR would be made aware of the situation. He recognized it for what it was - a provocation to divide Allied unity with the USSR.
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As a return to the purpose of this topic, the eregime dot org domain is still going down soon (even if someone in my community buys it, it'll still take months for that to happen), so if those in charge of leftypol could replace the link to /marx/ with the following, that would be good: http://eregime.jcink.net/index.php?showforum=719

>>28306
>By literally confirming the fact of German bullets found at the site by allied investigations.

I seriously doubt anyone needs to rely on Göbbels' diary for whether German bullets were found at Katyn, and I'm not aware of anyone doubting the existence of said bullets, so I rather doubt that was your intention when bringing up Göbbels "admitting" anything.

In my experience when "Germans did Katyn" types quote Göbbels' diary entry, they omit a crucial part of it ("The question of how they got there needs clarification. It is either a case of munitions sold by us during the period of our friendly arrangement with the Soviet Russians, or of the Soviets themselves throwing these munitions into the graves.") By omitting it, the quote looks far more like Göbbels admitting it was a "false-flag." By including it, it doesn't look that way at all.

>He admitted to German bullets at the site.

He clearly doesn't write as if the Germans actually shot the Poles though, let alone "admits" that the operation was a "Nazi false-flag."

>He was made aware of the situation as it was a massive propaganda move by Nazi Germany. . . Such a controversy would impact the alliance and so FDR would be made aware of the situation. He recognized it for what it was - a provocation to divide Allied unity with the USSR.

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>>28320
>I seriously doubt anyone needs to rely on Göbbels' diary
Nobody said that
>I'm not aware of anyone doubting the existence of said bullets
You're not familiar with Cold Warrior Katyn hysteria of the 80s trying to dismiss any evidence of German involvement being a "soviet fake" including supposedly the bullets being not German
>they omit a crucial part of it
I am well familiar with the entire Goebbel's entry and it's intentional obfuscation
>By including it, it doesn't look that way at all.
I disagree, it only looks more suspect; German bullets were found,shit it's gonna be hard to imply the USSR in this.
>He clearly doesn't write as if the Germans actually shot the Poles
You're hyperfocusing on a single excerpt and it misrepresents the argument being made - Goebbel's entry regardless of how you take it, is an admittance of German ammunition at the site, removing any doubt that any ammunition there was Soviet as some have claimed to my knowledge. THIS alongside other evidence only confirms the main argument of Nazi guilt, not that it is proof on its lonesome. That is the argument being made.
>He did not, and could not, "recognize" who was actually responsible for the Katyn executions
Yes, he could as the very fact of the German's "suddenly uncovering" a massacre site in 1943/44 supposedly from 1939 in a territory that was under German occupation since 1941 is suspicious at best.
It is so improbable that the only logical conclusion is that the Germans were false-flagging their own massacre as a desperate measure thought of at the last minute to drum up support in Europe to fight the USSR, when it would be more logical to have unveiled the "Soviet Crime" earlier, when Soviet-Allied relations were almost nonexistent. so his words remain relevant, as the President of the United States of America, one of the 2 most powerful nations of the time dismissed a claim that they could simply have not given any attention to, as they had martial control of propaganda and news and could have simply kept it quiet. The USSR and USA wouldn't be breaking an alliance over that regardless as the Nazi threat over-ruled moralistic outcry during a war,Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>28323
>Nobody said that
Then what's the point in citing Göbbels? Surely he can't be the best source for the existence of German bullets at Katyn.

>You're not familiar with Cold Warrior Katyn hysteria of the 80s trying to dismiss any evidence of German involvement being a "soviet fake" including supposedly the bullets being not German

No, but I am slightly familiar with the US Congressional investigation into Katyn during the early 1950s, amid McCarthyism, where the existence of German bullets was apparently uncontroversial.

>I am well familiar with the entire Goebbel's entry and it's intentional obfuscation

Then why write that "goebbels admitted in his diary that katyn was a nazi falseflag"? Did he obfuscate or did he admit?

>You're hyperfocusing on a single excerpt
As I said, there are other parts in Göbbels' diary where he brings up Katyn. I'm not aware of any of them where he suggests the Germans were responsible.

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👍🏿

/siberia/ has become more of a general than an off-topic, with /leftypol/ being composed of a lot of containment generals like /ukraine/ and the country happenings threads. Hell, the reason /lbgt/ is in /siberia/ is because the mods knew the quality of discussion on /leftypol/ is shit enough it would only work on /siberia/.
I just browse the overboard anyway so *shrugs*