No.32681
>>32519 Holy shit leftychan still exists?!?! They're only on their 3rd Ukraine war general must be a really slow board. Does anyone have a read on the quality of the place? Are they still obsessed with Idpol like during the split?
Anyway onto the main topic. I left here around 2020ish I want to say? Have been here since the 8chan days. I still come back just to read news threads because leftypol still gets information faster during geopolitical events than other places usually, imageboards and news sites alike. I like being in a room of leftist voices when receiving that information usually because the propaganda of American media is irritating as hell.
Otherwise though I'm not super active because there aren't as many effortposts these days that I actually learn stuff from. This community used to help me find books to read and present nuanced discussion on many different leftist topics that helped me grow as a person. Once I outgrew/many of those folks moved on it became more boring for me. Also, I organized for 5 years irl while posting on this board then burnt out on irl organizing and haven't since so that's probably part of it.
I've had an ideological shift too towards post-marxist degrowth which is certainly part of my less intense interest in this place. A lot of anons probably have similar stories.
No.32682
>>32681>Does anyone have a read on […] the placeTwo words, incidentally the same two words that are sufficient to describe Trotsky: Sore losers
No.32685
>>32681>Holy shit [wordfiltered] still exists?!?! Yeah. It's slow
actually it's not - it's on-par for a typical special interest imageboard, leftypol is historically an outlier in its high activity so it just seems slow if you're only used to here and 4chan but there's no shortage of people getting banned here for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and so it will be a long time before it rolls over. It will probably be alive as long as this site survives, because this leftypol.org isn't going to stop supplying it with people looking for a /leftypol/ board to post on.
>>32682And yet leftypol.org unfortunately failed to win. The coup left the community dead in the water, although to be perfectly frank, it was doomed to a permanent decline from the moment Krates resigned to let Zul be a corrupt little fuck. The headless chicken flails, but lives.
No.32686
>>32685That is not dead which can eternal lie
Wow it's like we are the Walking Dead (tm)
No.32687
people in general are much moar retarded but not just here, everywhere.
No.32688
>>32641>cake shaped like a wallwut
No.32690
>>326882017 cap, probably a reference to Trump's border wall.
No.32692
>>325072020 to 2021 was the furthest leftypol has been from fascism in its history
It was a good time
No.32693
>>32588Realistically, no, not at all
Russians in the West are obviously indistinguishable from other white people and western whites don't give a fuck what your last name is
Chinese people still get propped up by the model minority propaganda even as the US turns against the CPC
The ethnic groups that face intense repression in the West are arabs, africans, roma, and south asians
No.32694
old /leftypol/ was basically leftcoms, bookchin and zizek shills and ancoms, this place became a lot more "tankie" like it always happens with communities over time. but the former basically turned into liberals like muke, which is also typical if you know anything about communist history.
there were more sectarian theory discussions but at this point everything has been sort of said, i am not regurgitating the same points over and over. there are screencaps of effort posts. like, zizek coming out as bloodthirsty racist cunt, openly, kinda make all those old arguments pointless.
No.32695
>>32694>Muke<LiberalIs it because he stopped posting on the interwebz?
No.32696
>>32636this was not "old leftypol", you realize this place exists since almost 10 years. "old leftypol" is where the refugees from 4chans /lit/ went. the haz thing was a short, recent episode and dissolved once he called the cops on us. not even the Z gang in the ukraine thread shills for that guy anymore.
No.32697
>>32695i wouldn't know, he blocked me on all his social media when i pointed out fatal flaws in his "value theory". he also works for master card now, making over 8k a month. also a drug addict. i am sorry how much more liberal do you want to get
No.32698
>>32697 (me)
>>32695also don't forget that affair with that necrophiliac brazilian woman, who also openly said that she's not a communist anymore. still does OF tho
No.32700
>>32697So you know he's a liberal because he didn't give you the attention you wanted and then a bunch of personal bullshit that has nothing to do with his politics or worldview?
No.32701
I have the feeling, that leftypol has now much more degenerates. Don't get me wrong, it's Ok to be a degenerate, as long as you keep it for yourself. But today, degens are openly advertising their lifestyles. Yes, they are openly proud degens! Drugtards, gooners, pedos, prostitutes… This board is full of them. Was it that extreme in the past? I don't know….
No.32702
>>32511The ultra plague is finally about to come to an end.
No.32703
>>32701uygha has been on the internet a month tops lmfao
No.32704
>>32701/leftypol/ has more coomers than before, that's for sure. I've noticed the same pattern on 4chan throughout the years with different boards becoming more and more sexualized. It's a sort of elephant in the room. Some people, even here, apparently just wanna keep pretending that rampant porn consumption is a non-existent problem.
No.32705
>>32701>>32704puritanism got laughed you out of imageboards before unlike now
No.32706
>>32705Wow you mean things change? Is that what you are saying?
No.32707
>>32706But it seems you are moaning about things not changing for your pet issue
No.32708
>>32704Maybe it's some kind of glowie psyop.
No.32709
>>32704rampant pon consumption is a symptom not a problem in and of itself.
No.32710
>>32707Just a guess but you are as emotionally incontinent as a little child
No.32711
Incompetent, Incontinent, Impotent, shall I keep going
No.32712
>>32709Well I agree with that
No.32713
>>32710You're the one that is upset thoughever
No.32714
>>32705I blame cuckchan after all the quality posters left. That's where this "coomer" shit came from.
No.32715
>>32701>>32704One of the new commie alt-sites has just put 'no porn' in their rules, and every other month someone asks the mods here to make a separate /nsfw/ board. It's real and people notice it.
We haven't reached /pol/ level NSFW/goreporn posting yet, leftypol is at least SFW on the image side of things, but that sex-obsession culture has definitely been normalized and it is a bit fukken boring.
And before anyone accuses me of being a prude, my yiff art is on MSG. No.32716
>>32701>>32704>>32715I have noticed a considerable decline in porn since shay left.
No.32717
It was more anarchist in the beginning, but then so was all of the left. I think the development of knowledge and critique has kind of slowed down a bit, having reached the limits of what chans can do. It's necessary to go further into your own research, rather than rely on forums for your education.
No.32718
>>32696Damn I can't believe it's been ten years. Finding leftypol in the wake of the right wing turn in gamergate was such a a formative moment for me.
No.32720
>>32719We are talking about a time when people didn't realize the problems with David Graeber And Noam Chomsky
No.32721
>>32711I can hold me pee and get a boner when needed. Not commenting on #1 tho.
No.32722
>>32715> every other month someone asks the mods here to make a separate /nsfw/ board.There has been 1 such request
No.32723
>>32722Maybe I just saw the requests bumped a lot, although fwiw, more than one OP propose it:
http://leftypol.org/search.php?search=%2Fnsfw%2F&board=meta No.32724
>>32719A lot of the online ML movement has fucking nothing to do with reading theory, anon
It's mostly bolstered by:
-Memes
-Appeals to authority
-Jannie censorship
-Childish insults
-Aesthetics posting
-Woke moralism (don't you know le non-whites are all MLs without exception!?)
No.32725
>>32704You've got a point.
Current 4chan is infested with fascists from Twitter and incels.is posters.
No.32726
>>32569>but I honestly don't even know how we would go about recruiting new users since you have the slim ass venn diagram overlap of communist and uses imageboard.The /leftypol/ way has always been to convert and retain tourists and raiders.
Publicity?
Provoke a raid?
No.32727
>>32674u wat, it's an old 4chan filter
No.32728
Well the 8ch days were a long time ago so I'm going off memory but it's about the same with less focus on e-drama and more 'multipolarist' garbage
No.32729
>>32726After Max set himself on fire, the board could pick up the few stupidpol participants who were committed to the Marxist critique of essentialism. The risk is that those trying to wheedle Marx into sparing or supporting their rustic superstitions would come along, and those elements are best added dropwise lest they take over.
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