On September 21st 2014, /leftypol/ was created!
🎈🍰HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEFTYPOL🍰🎈
What are your favorite /leftypol/ moments and memories?
Share them on this thread!
My favorite leftypol moment was when I declared war on bourgeois babies
https://archive.vn/8fD7xTen years of leftypol it feels so surreal that its been that long.
>>36689BASED LEFTYPOL!!!We will continue to survive!
Congrats fellow retards
>>36690My favourite leftypol moment was reading this
Fuck off
>>36702You are here forever.
>>36702Settle down, kid, I use imageboard since the late 2000s, you're still a newfag.
>>36702>Holy shit I will officially have been using imageboards for a decade next year.If it makes you feel any better many users here were alive to use OG, moot owned, 'we are anonymous', /b/ posting, 4chan.
…We're closer to an old-age state-home than a school.
>>36689Happy birthdaaay ;3
I've brought cajitas like in our CDR celebrations and anniversaries, there is 1 for everyone SO DON'T FIGHT OVER THEM OKAY!?!
>>36689>What are your favorite /leftypol/ moments and memories? Fuck has it been that long?
When porky and alunya were made.
Happy birthday /leftypol/, here's to 10 more years.
>>36719What the fuck someone above me made the exact same message. Anyway, without this place i'd be completely lost on the latest hottest left wing theory and infighting so keep on truckin'.
>>36689The royal Thai raid. Down with those monarchist bastards!!
Rip Detroit commune
It's not leftypol's fault tho. This thing is just a fad that comes and goesnowhere
>>36727>implying the palestine thread isn't being raided by some obsessed /pol/akI hate our jannies.
>>36689(celebratory bong sounds)
>>36690Gonzalo is that you?
Happy 10th anniversary, comrades! 🥳
10周年快乐同志们 🥳
The trolling haz era has been one of the moments on the internet where I've had the most fun in my life. Including the reading group that formed out of trolling haz. I cried laughing more than once. Bossignostic, eudaimonia, the guy from las vegas, such a quality fucking time. I really do miss hanging out virtually with y'all.
For what it's worth, I credit this site for turning me from an edgy teenage Stalinist into an anarchist
>>36735Holy shit that meme
It's the fucking story of my life
But like seriously
I genuinely didn't thin there were alternatives to "Stalinism" or whatever you call it prior to finding Leftypol. My main experience with the radical left was either through the CPUSA website or the CPGB-ML website and youtube channel, with an occasional look at the Stalin Society website. And also the occasional Jason Unruhe video. I had no idea that left-anarchism was a thing at all prior to Leftypol
Hell in my econ class in high school I was making Maoist talking points to piss off our teacher who was an Ayn Rand fangirl clearly. One of my earliest memories of using this site was back in early 2015 when I consulted folks for advice on a particularly terrible econ class wherein we were supposedly taught the difference between capitalism and socialism with a stupid little scenario involving jolly ranchers and paper necklaces
>>36739>the jolly rancher bitDid Jolly Rancher sponsor this or something? I've heard about this lesson multiple times (and had it myself once - in middle school lol). Ironically the closest thing to "socialism" is the part where the teacher has the candy and then distributes it.
>>36738As the opposite trajectory guy, I thought leftism was rejection of authority, anarchism was as far left as you could go, and Stalin and hitler were twin totalitarians. This was my mistake of being born American, where self indulgence and rejection of authority are celebrated as the highest characteristics of the free soul.
>>36741I mean it wouldn't surprise me but I dont know for sure. What I do know is that I fucked with it by taking all the paper because as the "capitalist" side I was technically allowed to do so (whereas the "socialist" side was only allowed two pieces of paper), but the teacher decided I wasn't playing the market as intended. Thonkreich
>>36689Happy Birthday Leftypol, ✊😜! I can’t believe that I’ve been on here for almost half of this websites existence, as I first started posting here in May 2020, and I will humbly admit that my first couple years here were pretty embarrassing in hindsight (I was spamming a lot of Reactionary Anti-Vax and Transphobic shit back then, 🤢🤮), and I am extremely thankful to my fellow anons here who helped force me to reject these reactionary positions, and if it wasn’t for Leftypol I would have never embraced Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the highest stage of Marxism (this did cause me to go overboard on Anti-Dengism for awhile, but the same helpful anons who cured me of my Anti-Vax and Transphobic retardation, enlightened me to the fact that though China is Capitalist and technically Imperialist they are still a clearly Progressive force which should be Critically supported against U$ Imperialism, thus allowing me to see the Progressive side of Multipolarity, which creates better material conditions for Maoist PPWs in the Periphery/Semi-Periphery), which saved me from becoming a disgusting Fascist or a dumb Liberal, so I have to say I am extremely lucky to have accidentally found this website (I think I first stumbled here by clicking on a link to it on the Chapo Trap House subreddit), ✊😜!
>>36746Based? Glad you have learned better if this is really you, King.
i first got here in 2019 i was 14
>>36690I remember reading Leninhats anti-vaxx rants in february of 2021 and realizing both him and WSWS were right at the time. This is me btw
>>36710 >>36751Most powerful Marxist leader on the planet. Remember to Trotsky your way into declaring 100 million Chinese Communists revisionist.
>>36753It was obvious sarcasm my slow friend.
>>36724/leftypol/ used to be a small board on 8chan with 100 IP visitors a day.
>>36755Wow, i wasn't here during 8chan days and i always have thought leftypol had more userbase back then
>>36756These are the better days. We can only go up.
>>36752>Vaccines are badmay your child never get polio
>anti-vaxxwhy do you retards spell it with two Xs again?
>>36732> I cried laughing more than once. Same. I know its fucked that i was bullying an angry midget with mental health problems as im a fully grown adult but some of that shits was so fucking funny. :,)
>>36689I miss the Batko shitposts.
>>36689My favorite moment was when some MLs helped me break out of the notion that socialist states were some 1984 hellscapes that killed 100 gorillion people. Thanks ML oldfags.
Also the Chomsky Zizek wacky racer we made. It's a shame that nothing came of that project.
>>36689been using image boards as my primary social media since about sep of 23 id say? started using leftypol on and off around end of the start of 24, and have just now started to realy engage with it more
needs way more fisher shitposts and rhetoric. if /leftypol/ is still the primary reason normies know about stirner no reason we cant shitpost and discuss fisher to relevancy too
>>36766Leftypol isn't social media
and there is nothing social about it really. Please don't treat it as such.
>>36767good enough to describe it as such since what it is so vague.
>Stalinism
>Anarchism
for me? I took every route until becoming an unironical Egoist
>>36689I am very happy that this place on the internet exists. I discovered Leftypol this year and I am liking it more and more. I congratulate you on your 10th anniversary and I hope that this place will have many more anniversaries until our class finally wins.
The thread I am most active on is brg. Unfortunately, my English is not that good, but I hope to be more active on other threads in the future. I don't have much time at the moment either.
Despite the recent downfall of our beloved chan, I hope that the lessons learned are enough to never happen again.
LONG LIVE LEFTYPOL'S 10 YEARS.
FREE PALESTINE FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA.
>>36769I just stuck with marxism-leninism, like most communists ig.
bad english, i know >>36770can palestine really stop the genocide? the genocide has been happening for 74 years…
>The thread I am most active on is brgfio baseado
>>36770>>36771wtf both your englishes are perfectly fine, i can understand what both you are saying perfectly.
what chan are you talking about btw? 420 chan?
>>36710I'm 20 years old and when leftypol was created I was 10 years old haha.
>>36772>what chan are you talking about btw? 420 chan?NTA, they're mentioning leftypol's recent hardware storage failure that lead to it being temporally offline some weeks ago
>>36772>wtf both your englishes are perfectly fine, i can understand what both you are saying perfectly.I can never be certain if my english is always 100% correct
>>36775 (me)
like, I already get kinda insecure about my english if it is only 99% correct, so idk
>>36775also no, I use an open source automatic language translator, "translate you" from f-droid.
>>36771>fio baseadoPor mero acaso o pior /brg/ foi deletado kkkkk.
>>36777nah I don't need it
>>36778o cringe foi deletado kk
>>36772I have this belief that if you can comunicate both writing and speaking you already know the language tbh.
I've heard the have this insane shit in the US where they teach you how to remove your accent because you will be discriminated at job interviews or something.
I've only been in Florida like 2 months tho so I don't know the US very well.
>On September 21st 2014, /leftypol/ was created!https://web.archive.org/web/20141011135403/https://8chan.co/leftypol/res/5.html>1411264290088>Sun Sep 21 2014 01:51:30 GMT+0000>Sat Sep 20 2014 21:51:30 GMT-0400Eh, close enough.
>>36780I live in brazil but I completely removed my accent with practice, not that hard. I should focus on learning another language since I fully completed english
>>36781God, that archive was a blast to the past.
>>36781GMT 0 is the closest thing to a correct timezone
>>36783Funny how oldBO never grew out of being a vulgar anti-SJW. But glad they decided to make this board.
>>36784time zones are social constructs and are only correct/incorrect insofar as people agree they are
>>36785Yeah, that always irked me about 8chan leftypol. So long as they were the BO, we couldn't rid ourselves of gamergate ideology. I'm glad they made this board too. Without leftypol, I don't know if I would have encountered actual communist theory.
>>36758>>Vaccines are badYou didn't need to have had a psychotic break to realize those weren't your typical vaccines. That was the point: Both Leninhat in rejecting bourgeois pharma's attempt in cashing in fast and WSWS in demanding stricter quarantine measures were entirely justified. The capitalist state channeling both dissent and desire to conform into an unopposable unity of opposites is far from new.
>why do you retards spell it with two Xs again?To distinguish anti-vaxxers from anti-vax people, who just have a problem with too many addressing modes and long instruction pipelines.
>>36788All the schizo rightoid 'omg the vax will kill you' bullshit didn't happen, how can you still defend it?
>>36788ok so get a bioengineering major to understand how vacines are made and work then come back and update us on the findings
>>36789mRNA vaccines were an as of yet unproven technology, that incidentally allowed for faster development and even then bourgeois institutions sanctioned some stages of testing to be cut. The only basis on which you need to reject something as invasive as an injection is reasonable doubt (primum non nocere). Anyone with a passing familiarity of how an engineer should work will recognize this.
>All the schizo rightoid 'omg the vax will kill you' bullshit didn't happen, how can you still defend it?<All the schizo rightoid 'omg bankers are de jooos' bullshit didn't happen. how can you still oppose capitalism?>>36790"Trust the experts' is obviously a moot point, especially when retroactive leaks show people were being subtly misled from the start. If someone is interested in the topic, they can make an /edu/ thread and i'll make an effort to sift through any leaked covid policy documents.
>>36791>"Trust the experts' is obviously a moot pointI meant, become the expert(the engineer in this case), learn how to engineer/make a vaccine is what I meant
>>36791i got vaxxed and i feel fine, explain that
>>36793I didn't get vaxxed and caught Covid from a vaxxie and I feel fine. Explain that.
No one cares
If you check any medical news the pandemic has hardly abated. Annoying debate above aside
Testing whether you modistocrats still cucked out anonymity for revisionist ideological hegemony like the classcucks you are
Ok, so it's not the worst it could be.
>Requires JS
>"Glownonymous"
But still overwhelmingly repulsive.
THE CAPTCHA JS IS SO FUCKING GLOWED IT FREEZES THE FUCKING TOR BROWSER
>>36775>I can never be certain if my english is always 100% correctAnon. Most people who were raised English as first and only language don't have %100 correct' English, there is also an large amount of variation in english regionally and sub-regionally across many countries.
What i'm saying is, don't worry about it. If you can communicate you're fine.
Is the Antartica plan still on the works?
Based
>>36807I appreciate you made it B+W so your boys can get it on their fax machines
>>36807I'm literally crying, you moved me :,3
>>36810WTF? how you make a file that small?
>>36811science, wich is to say marxism
>>36814this one is gross to look at though whereas this one could be construed as
>>36813 'retro stylised'
>>36815you're gross to look at
>>36814jpeg does lose colors. that's why it's a lossy format. Take a look at how crisp
>>36807 looks despite being grayscale and only and only having two colors. That's because it's the same resolution as OP and uses floyd steinberg dithering to achieve the effect. Despite being a huge resolution it's only 700kb, vs. the 10 MB of the original. That's the power of an indexed color PNG
>>36818would've looked even better with jpeg2000. sadly nothing supports jpeg2000 :c
>>36785>>36787>oldBO never grew out of being a vulgar anti-SJW.at least it made some sense for this place to be called 'leftist politically incorrect'. now look what's happening:
>>36733>I credit this site for turning me from an edgy teenage Stalinist into an anarchist >>36822if this is your attempt at being edgy or 'politically incorrect'?
>>36823>vgh, prove to me you are edgylol go outside
I remember when that reactoid BlackPigeonSpeaks fell for the pl (he went to some unused leftypol domain instead of the actual one on 8chan)
Admittedly, I did enjoy early Nazbol and Bordiga gang posting
>>36823Being any kind of leftist beyond NATO-lib Vooshite is politically incorrect
I've flushed a decade of my life down the drain arguing with you freaks, and this place is even more tankie than when I started! Hooray!!!!!
Favorite era was before "breadtube" when all we had was Batko, SocOrBarbarism, Xexizy, Finbol, Pierre Tru Dank and other degenerates
>>36829Who is still around?
>>36830Finbol still makes videos
>>36829Blast from the fucking past. I miss that era too. Mostly I miss the pre-Trump, early Rojava era. I've lost any hope I had back then.
That said, people are better read, less retarded nowadays than back then. At least here.
And for those who won't believe me: 10 years ago we needed threads explaining how socialism isn't "when the government does stuff". there's less "stalin killed 100 gorillion", "communism is when you own a small business", etc.
>>36830>>36832god what a time to be alive. i remember us all spilling out onto twitter and bullying libs for years
>>36689I sremember those times when I still had a life
>>36829>>36830Batko and Xexizy were bullied by their liberal peers and people on Twitter into renouncing leftypol's anti-idpol party line.
Batko officially quit all social media later on. He was an anarchist and I wouldn't be surprised if he is still a member of local anarchist group. He could just as well be a burned out ex-leftist liberal as he shared very little personal info about himself, even avoiding to do a face reveal (very smart)and disappeared without a trace.
After betraying the great anti-idpol struggle of early leftypol, Xexizy slowly morphed into a typical breadtuber who advances class struggle exclusively by making 1 hour reply videos to Agent Kochinski and accustoms his vision of socialism to the advancement of every respectable liberal cause.
SocOrBarb maked meme videos without a strong online persona, so it's hard to say anything about him other than that at one point he stopped making videos and that's it. He and Batko stuck around for some time after their break with the userbase on our "official" (in reality boycotted by all posters and janitors) gamer messaging app server, but not for long (it was a shitshow).
Finbol hasn't changed a single bit. He is still member of that anti-revisionist party and still makes lengthy videos about communist history and how every single world event after the death of Stalin was a mistake with near zero production value besides the script.
It has seemed for a while that Pierre quit making videos after his explanations of Sorel and arcs of debating ancaps or liberal zionists, all in an edgy synthwave style. Recently he has resumed making the same kind of videos. According to his blog, he identifies as an unironic communazi now, in large part because of all the time he spent with fascists on his unnamed messaging app server. He also supports Hazler and the patsoc trend.
>>36830Never left, though I'll be fucked inside-out before I ever make anything again for this shithole.
Palestine general is okay though.
Whichever jannie decided we had ot do an ubisoft-tier minigame to post over TOR should be shot.
I'd actually hit you if you actually left your homes to go to the demo or etc, just because you're annoying and you need humbling.
>>36837>Never left, though I'll be fucked inside-out before I ever make anything again for this shithole.My brother.
>>Palestine general is okay though.The only reason i stay here atm too, and jannies sabotage even that.
>>36838Don't worry, it's mutual, Tor posters make moderating annoying as fuck for us too
>>36839>Don't worry, it's mutual, Why even have a boatd if you hate the users?
>>36841Don't ban us over the most petty shit if you don't want us to ban evade, retardofag.
Happy birthday!
>>36841You're an absolute retard if you think you have any power to ban anyone. The only thing you can do is keep one of those flagfags or namefags from posting under their name and flag for a while. You're new to this, but just stop acting like a weirdo. You're going to burn yourself out shortly on top of embarrassing yourself.
>>36845No you don't understand, there is a war going on between the modetariat and the usergeoisie. To protect the sanctity of the Website, all protection must be stripped from the user
so it is trivial to put the userbase in harms way when a malicious mod eventually takes over, er… to protect against spam, of course. Look, the spam issue is very real and serious, just trust our development team who definitely don't have an axe to grind.
>>36689I want to kiss alunya
I was a communist already before /leftypol/, but I didn't know about socialist internet subculture.
For example, there were some posts telling about some socialist teenager asking for money for his epic socialist projects. I don't know if had any texts or vids or audio or software done or in the works (doubt!), but he had a thoroughly detailed blueprint on the topic of asking for money, with various graphic designs for tiers of support: Like, you give so much money per month (and just that, no other forms of support), then you are officially the comradeliest comrade who ever comraded or whatever, and you can look at a picture on your screen that represents a virtual medal for you.
We clicked a bit around to look what he was going to do with the money and we didn't find anything… except his interest in financing some tamagotchi clone (remember those) that runs on your computer—with the novel feature that you can molest your monster (talking about young monsters here, you get them before they hatch).
He must be an adult now. Maybe he has a baby? Hmm. Thank you /leftypol/ for putting these thoughts and associations into my head.
>>36850Respectfully what in shit does that have to do with this topic?
>>36852Oh right, I thought from your text you were talking about some other socialist place.
Another great anecdote: There was a guy with a thread for his own epic manifesto that was riddled with typos, like "we shall overcomb" and I corrected a truckload of those. He made several revisions and several threads and I repeatedly told him about the typos and he never fixed them.
But what do I know. Never have I lead a revolution. Perhaps some people should overcomb?
>>36824you are the one who thinks "shit and cum" is cutting edge humor anon
also that supporting bernie sanders is politically incorrect I guess
even in 2015 supporting bernie sanders was cringe due to him being a genocidal zionist but supporting him in 2024 when he's more transparently a libtard is beyond retarded
>>36855You think
>>36822 is an endorsement of Bernie Sanders?
>>36724I see it the other way around, idpol liberalism has been dying and actual opposition to capitalism has straight up gone mainstream
im a newfag, I only started to get into politics after a psychedelic trip this year in which I discovered that "the system" (which I would later discover has a name) is evil and sucks, anyway im happy this website exists, been learning a lot here
>>36858Aww, glad to hear it anon <3
>>36861>>36860Spook, idealism
>was a very active poster from early 2017 on 8ch>sporadically read bunkerchan>lost interest in '22 when the standard for critical thinking seemed to plummet after the Russian invasionfirst time posting on this iteration of /leftypol/, what's changed?
best moments were prob the recurring 2017 lenin hat vs leftcom threads, unironically learned a lot from those debates despite their often vitriolic nature
>>36785>a vulgar anti-SJWexplain
is identitarianism now en vogue on the board?
>oldBOwas a giant retard, basically fucked up the board and its culture
>>36863>first time posting on this iteration of /leftypol/, what's changed?like half the users are either the Russia meat riders or deng beetles
>>36863>is identitarianism now en vogue on the board?No, it's just more critical of excluding topics besides class. It's like how Lenin said about having to over-bend the iron bar to get it back to its proper shape. Back in the day we had to over-correct for tumblr radlibs, but unfortunately some people think it's still 2016 and it's a good idea to deploy 'tactical slurs' to scare away liberals.
>>36865>No, it's just more critical of excluding topics besides class.So it's gone full class collaborationist. No wonder the average post is utter dogshit.
>>36866Uh no? That's not what that means lol. The "multipolarists" are class collaborationists and they are a big chunk of the site, but it's not class collaborationist to tell people to cool it with casual racism and sexism. Are you high? lol
>>36864>real left wing alliance that includes minoritiesthis was always the aim as I understood it
idpol was and is used to derail any class-oriented politics, and unless you have a way of suppressing it I don't think any movement or organisation can succeed in the modern day
>>36865>Russia meat riders or deng beetlesamazing
>it's just more critical of excluding topics besides classso how does it avoid getting subsumed by endless identitarian bickering and oppression olympics? I recon the solution is still a movement that can accommodate or at least utilise both the racist homo worker and the homophobic racial worker
>>36868>so how does it avoid getting subsumed by endless identitarian bickering and oppression olympics?Because it's not 2016 any more and tumblr social justice types have basically discredited themselves. That's just not really part of the discussion unless someone is doing it ironically as a bit.
>I recon the solution is still a movement that can accommodate or at least utilise both the racist homo worker and the homophobic racial workerYeah, and you tell them to cool it with the racism and homophobia because you have class to struggle over.
>>36869fair, let's hope that is the case
>>36868>I recon the solution is still a movement that can accommodate or at least utilise both the racist homo worker and the homophobic racial workerHow can you actually make that movement though? Good people don't want to stand next to people who don't respect them.
>>36871by emphasising the common class struggle, and suppressing identitarian divisions and wrecking
mutually prejudiced people can respect each other as fellow workers in the class struggle
a mass movement can't be based on purity tests
>>36872>suppressing identitarian divisionsIsn't that kind of just the same as enforcing antiracism, antihomophobia, etc?
>>36873The real idpol was bigotry all along.
>>36873in the traditional, pro-universalist sense yes, in the modern, particularist "standpoint epistemological" sense no
>>36874yea no shit, but replacing one identitarianism with another is retarded
>>36867it is the job of communists to help proletarians out of their prejudices with the self development of the class in struggle, but racism or sexism isnt when you dont support interclass movements wholesale lol
>>36864as a communist i am against democracy, anti-fascism, anti-imperialism, decolonization, feminism, intellectuals, national liberation, environmentalism, queer rights, workers' rights, human rights, animal rights, welfare states, green urbanism, reparations to the 'third world', and developmentalism
>real left wing alliancelol well at least you dont call yourself a communist, just explicitly an average leftoid
>>36873racist and sexist attitudes are to be criticized harshly irrespective of where they come from
>>36872communism is a movement of proletarian self interest, not a "mass" movement of "workers"
>>36876Why are you so adamant that communism is not left wing
>>36877for starters, communism is not an ideology
>>36876>but racism or sexism isnt when you dont support interclass movements wholesale lolwtf are you talking about? I'm talking about not letting discrimination slide.
>as a communist i am against democracy, anti-fascism, anti-imperialism, decolonization, feminism, intellectuals, national liberation, environmentalism, queer rights, workers' rights, human rights, animal rights, welfare states, green urbanism, reparations to the 'third world', and developmentalismwow you're so special
>communism is a movement of proletarian self interest, not a "mass" movement of "workers"Proletarians are the working masses in capitalism, so it's both by definition.
>>36876this post glows lmao read marx reactionary cracker
>>1987852
Yeah "tankies" ruined it, right.
I mean would "non-tankies" do anything ever?
I call upon leftypol to be reorganized into a UNION OF SOVIETO-SOCIALIST ANARCHIST IMAGEBOARDS with a federated structure and ME as the chairman of the collective adminium
>>36689a little late to this thread, but my fondest memory was going on a ban evasion jihad against the crazy mutlipolar tankoid 8chan board owner. The overall highlight was evading to snatch an oct get with an image of george bush dancing. This was probably around 2017 or 2018.
>>36886I vaguely remember that and there was another one called Zoltar or something like that
>>36888It's actually not strange at all. They existed long enough to have an impact on regular politics, and now the mainstream right are repeating their talking points. Same thing has happened before.
>>36886*how we got this shitty webseries taken down
jfc, I am such a dyslectic retard
Btw, why we no longer have our online magazine?
We used to have NewMultitude
https://archive.fo/WmSEHand Bunkermundo
https://bunkermundo.wordpress.com/Spectre Rouge
https://archive.is/jrEo2and also Bunker Magazine
https://archive.is/4b7GQ>>36892>We used to have NewMultitudeNew multitude guy said no one was submitting stuff or something. He posted here when he was shutting it down. I think he offered to hand it off to someone but no one wanted it.
>>36829its very surreal looking back on that time, but mostly good memories.
>>36830i (muke) still make videos occasionally, but more of my energy for leftism is directed towards offline things now. i check in on here a couple times a year too, but things have been different for a while now.
>>36887That's not the one we took down though.
We kinda binged that series and laughed at it.
The other Chanel we took down was a fascist theory channel called "cultured thug" or something.
I want to cum inside Rodina
>>36897>We took Cultured Thug downreally? and did he know it was us?
I don't have any, it sounds fun
Can someone explain the relationship between lainchan and here? All I know is that we largely operate off of site code that runs there Does that relationship go back to the old 8chan leftypol days when the bunker was being designed?
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