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>>This picture from the movie is really the vibe you'd get walking to a lot of their "pads".
How I found myself in this situation I was in the Young Communist League at the time. It's a direct CPUSA offshoot. These werid guys had people acting on their behalf inside the YCL people who would target the more down nnd out members. The ones who were broke isolated, maybe fresh out of rehab, layoffs, struggling with mental health, or bad home lifes. They'd gaslight you into thinking your "bourgeois tendencies" were holding you back, then offer you a spot in one of their "activist squat houses." If you acted too intellectual or too uncomfortable with their aggressive politics, they'd ship you to these places for "re education." but they didn't call it that of course. They were gaslighting people.
They had this thing called a "struggle period." The goal they said was to shed your bourgeois brain patterns. What that meant in practice is they'd disconnect you from your family, make you quit your job, and ration your food. You'd get maybe $220 a week if you were lucky and showing "progress" but realistically 80 bucks. They'd make you do physical labor around the squat for hours, general repairs, cleaning, hauling scrap, fixing holes in the walls. Then theory classes. Then physical conditioning. Pushups and burpees until you puked. I saw a kid start crying during a study session about Maoist mass line after intense workouts, and they made him do more pushups while sobbing. "Learn to handle tension," they'd say.
They'd also suit up in full riot gear, helmets, shields, retractable batons and have you charge at each other in an abandoned warehouse. They'd swing those batons for real. People got bruised ribs, bloody noses. They called it "stress inoculation." If you complained, they'd say you were being a "petty‑bourgeois intellectual, who needed to learn how to handle brute force".
One kid, maybe 19, said he wanted to go back to his neighborhood. Just wanted to see his mom. They basically kidnapped him. Made him homeless. Forced him to sleep on the pavement for 2 months. They had some of their freight train riders and tweaker lackeys "mentor" him on how to survive. The goal was to "build character" and "truly learn the struggle."
They printed their own papers. Held classes on theory and praxis. The stuff they taught was almost identical to what Juche guys post here. shit word for word sometimes. The same critiques of the NGO‑left, the same calls for a distributed vanguard (this word was said every day in the squats), the same glorification of lumpen energy. But they conveniently leave out the part where they psychologically break people and turn them into disposable cadres.
I'm not saying everyone in that orbit is like this. But I saw it with my own eyes. And the fact that their stories match up so perfectly with the theory they were teaching in those squats? Makes you wonder. Maybe the creepy parts are just the parts they don't post about. This isnt even the half of it. They were absolutely mad. Started talking about "the maoist street code", still have no idea that that means.
The Cult of Maoism
So I'm pretty sure I met some people probably tied to the Juche tagfags a couple years back. Maybe 2022? Something like that. They had a whole network of squats running between Baltimore and Dundalk, and leftypol was on one of the common computers, and there was a constant blend of anarchist style langauge but a worship of juche idealogy, and the vigorously blended the two and had insane study sessions. Like, maybe 20 buildings total abandoned row houses, old warehouses, a couple storefronts. The vibe was exactly like Fight Club to be honest. The creepy "we live in a dilapidated house and hit each other with sticks" type shit. Most of them were in straight up drug den living conditions. You'd walk in and see piles of clothes, stolen motor bikes, and at least three people tweaking on the floor. But they had it organized somehow.>>This picture from the movie is really the vibe you'd get walking to a lot of their "pads".
How I found myself in this situation I was in the Young Communist League at the time. It's a direct CPUSA offshoot. These werid guys had people acting on their behalf inside the YCL people who would target the more down nnd out members. The ones who were broke isolated, maybe fresh out of rehab, layoffs, struggling with mental health, or bad home lifes. They'd gaslight you into thinking your "bourgeois tendencies" were holding you back, then offer you a spot in one of their "activist squat houses." If you acted too intellectual or too uncomfortable with their aggressive politics, they'd ship you to these places for "re education." but they didn't call it that of course. They were gaslighting people.
They had this thing called a "struggle period." The goal they said was to shed your bourgeois brain patterns. What that meant in practice is they'd disconnect you from your family, make you quit your job, and ration your food. You'd get maybe $220 a week if you were lucky and showing "progress" but realistically 80 bucks. They'd make you do physical labor around the squat for hours, general repairs, cleaning, hauling scrap, fixing holes in the walls. Then theory classes. Then physical conditioning. Pushups and burpees until you puked. I saw a kid start crying during a study session about Maoist mass line after intense workouts, and they made him do more pushups while sobbing. "Learn to handle tension," they'd say.
They'd also suit up in full riot gear, helmets, shields, retractable batons and have you charge at each other in an abandoned warehouse. They'd swing those batons for real. People got bruised ribs, bloody noses. They called it "stress inoculation." If you complained, they'd say you were being a "petty‑bourgeois intellectual, who needed to learn how to handle brute force".
One kid, maybe 19, said he wanted to go back to his neighborhood. Just wanted to see his mom. They basically kidnapped him. Made him homeless. Forced him to sleep on the pavement for 2 months. They had some of their freight train riders and tweaker lackeys "mentor" him on how to survive. The goal was to "build character" and "truly learn the struggle."
They printed their own papers. Held classes on theory and praxis. The stuff they taught was almost identical to what Juche guys post here. shit word for word sometimes. The same critiques of the NGO‑left, the same calls for a distributed vanguard (this word was said every day in the squats), the same glorification of lumpen energy. But they conveniently leave out the part where they psychologically break people and turn them into disposable cadres.
I'm not saying everyone in that orbit is like this. But I saw it with my own eyes. And the fact that their stories match up so perfectly with the theory they were teaching in those squats? Makes you wonder. Maybe the creepy parts are just the parts they don't post about. This isnt even the half of it. They were absolutely mad. Started talking about "the maoist street code", still have no idea that that means.
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Originally, I had read Engels' Anti-Duhring, in which he argues that dialectical analysis is essentially a physical interaction, which, in human societies, translate into different classes fighting for their existence and needs (i.e. the bourgeoisie wants low salaries, the proletariat needs higher salaries, conflict occurs = law of interpenetration of opposites). The argument is very "physicalist" and relies on seeing nature as a totality in constant mutation.
HOWEVER, Lukacs seems to completely disregard this. Instead, his dialectics could be best described by the following : Any individual has multiple possibilities to realize his "teleological acts" (conscious acts aimed at satisfaction of desires/needs/sustenance etc). Alienation occurs when he is constrained by an external cause to choose a possibility unsatisfactory compared to others. As such, the dialectic is essentially a movement between the individual who attempts to overcome this alienation, which translates into class war (proletariat see capitalism as irrational for them, but are forced to endure it => conflict with the bourgeoisie).
So, which is it ? Lukacs' dialectics imo can be reconciled with Engels, but it makes the latter's work appear as very superficial.
Questions about dialectics
I recently started reading Lukacs's ontology of a social being and my whole understanding of dialectics has been flipped.Originally, I had read Engels' Anti-Duhring, in which he argues that dialectical analysis is essentially a physical interaction, which, in human societies, translate into different classes fighting for their existence and needs (i.e. the bourgeoisie wants low salaries, the proletariat needs higher salaries, conflict occurs = law of interpenetration of opposites). The argument is very "physicalist" and relies on seeing nature as a totality in constant mutation.
HOWEVER, Lukacs seems to completely disregard this. Instead, his dialectics could be best described by the following : Any individual has multiple possibilities to realize his "teleological acts" (conscious acts aimed at satisfaction of desires/needs/sustenance etc). Alienation occurs when he is constrained by an external cause to choose a possibility unsatisfactory compared to others. As such, the dialectic is essentially a movement between the individual who attempts to overcome this alienation, which translates into class war (proletariat see capitalism as irrational for them, but are forced to endure it => conflict with the bourgeoisie).
So, which is it ? Lukacs' dialectics imo can be reconciled with Engels, but it makes the latter's work appear as very superficial.
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• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
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• IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
• IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
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• Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
• /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
• More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
• Visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
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• 📖 WEB Du Bois - Black Reconstruction // https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
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• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People! – Fred Hampton // https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-thats-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
• 📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
• 📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
• 📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
• 📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr. // http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation – Lincoln // https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
• 📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣼⠑⡎⢼⡏⠁⠀⠀⠶⣉⠖⡸⢌⠯⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡠⢴⡩⢳⡜⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢂⣀⣤⡴⢶
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠡⢏⡳⡔⢤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠐⣿⡨⠜⡸⣇⠀⠀⢈⡳⢡⠆⠐⡊⠵⣙⢆⠀⣠⡐⢧⡙⠦⣑⢧⡚⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⢀⣌⣤⣶⢞⡛⢯⠱⣌⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠨⠵⣌⢃⠞⡱⣒⠤⣀⢎⡻⣾⡷⣿⣄⠀⣌⢳⠡⢂⠁⠌⡱⢉⢮⡙⢦⡙⠆⠉⡔⣎⠶⡉⠀⠀⣘⣤⣶⡾⢛⡬⡑⣾⢈⡇⢻⣕⣾⠃
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠑⠮⣌⢂⠡⢈⠣⡑⢎⠖⡈⠙⣿⣿⣦⣬⡷⠾⢟⠻⣛⠛⠿⢳⠿⣦⣄⣂⠱⡸⣜⣮⣵⡶⢻⡍⡱⢰⡇⡙⡦⢙⣿⢠⢛⡤⣿⠃⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠒⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠘⡼⣈⠆⠠⠐⠈⢌⣲⡷⢟⢋⠥⣋⠴⣈⠳⣈⠇⠦⡙⣌⠣⡜⠤⢋⡛⢷⣿⡋⡍⢶⣃⠳⢌⡒⣽⣧⢑⠣⡍⢾⣇⢼⣜⢏⡀⠀
⡶⠶⠶⠶⣷⠶⢟⣶⠶⠶⢶⠾⣒⣶⣷⣾⣤⣥⣴⠿⣉⠲⢌⡊⠖⡌⠦⣑⣪⣔⣪⣅⣣⠂⢣⠘⣌⠣⢜⠢⠜⡻⣮⡽⣆⡙⠦⡘⣧⢿⡌⢲⠑⣮⢾⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀
⣶⣉⢎⡱⣹⡘⡜⣼⢌⡓⣼⢢⠹⡼⣄⠲⣤⡿⢋⠔⢡⠚⡤⣣⢽⣺⢽⡳⢧⣻⢶⡽⣎⣟⠶⣭⣄⢋⠦⡙⡸⡐⢮⠻⣧⡘⠥⡑⣯⢞⣿⣴⢻⡽⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠹⢿⣶⣰⠏⠴⣈⣿⠰⣸⡽⢠⢳⠱⣇⣳⡟⢱⡈⣄⢢⡵⣻⣏⡷⣣⡞⣽⢫⣗⢯⣿⣷⣞⢯⡗⣾⢳⣆⠱⣡⠑⡎⢳⣍⡿⣆⡱⢸⣟⡾⣯⣿⣽⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠛⢷⣿⢢⣝⡮⣕⡿⢐⡃⢎⡼⣿⡟⣘⠤⣃⢶⣫⢗⣿⡿⣜⡷⣹⣭⠷⣞⢯⢶⣻⡟⢿⣾⣣⡟⣞⡷⣄⢋⡔⢣⠹⣿⡻⣟⢦⡹⣟⣷⣿⢃⡄⣠⢀⣀⡀⣀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣯⡿⣽⢦⠇⣜⢢⢿⡿⡐⡽⠒⣼⣣⢟⣾⡟⣿⣧⣛⣧⢏⣟⢾⣹⢾⣱⣿⡇⣞⡹⢿⣧⣟⡾⡔⣘⢂⠧⡘⢿⣽⢾⡽⣾⡿⢃⡍⣚⢡⠋⡖⠹⡰
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⢯⣣⣾⡽⣯⣿⠣⣼⢇⣹⢧⣛⣾⡿⡑⡞⣷⣯⢞⡽⢮⣻⠼⣧⣻⢼⣿⡴⣙⢲⣼⠟⣟⣿⠶⠿⠶⢿⣾⣟⣯⣿⡿⠁⢀⠐⡀⠂⡁⢨⠥⡱
⠀⡤⢠⠤⢤⡰⣄⢦⡹⢿⣷⣻⣽⣧⣷⡿⢠⡿⣭⣿⢿⣶⣹⠜⣬⠻⣿⣞⣻⢷⡿⣷⣽⣮⣿⠗⣬⡿⠃⠀⣿⣽⣟⡰⡉⢾⣷⣻⣾⡿⠀⠀⠄⢂⠠⢁⠬⣡⠞⠑
⠀⠘⡥⣋⠦⡑⠌⠆⡒⠡⢊⠻⢿⣽⣿⢡⢻⣼⣿⡑⡞⣯⠙⢿⣦⣛⡴⣙⣛⠻⢿⡒⡖⡲⣌⡿⠋⠀⠀⢠⣿⢼⣟⠦⣉⢾⡿⣷⡟⠀⠀⡐⢈⠠⢰⡉⢶⡡⠃⠀
⠀⠀⠐⢍⡖⡡⠌⠐⡀⠡⠀⠄⡀⠼⢯⢾⣿⣟⣿⡜⣱⢻⣇⠀⠈⠙⠷⣷⣌⡛⢦⡹⠜⣵⣟⡁⠀⠀⠀⣼⢧⣻⣯⢻⢄⣿⠁⠀⠀⢀⠐⡀⠢⢌⡣⣜⠃⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠈⠜⣥⠙⡄⠠⠁⠌⠐⠠⠐⡀⠀⣼⡿⣾⣿⡔⣣⢻⣆⠀⠀⢠⣾⢣⠝⣦⠹⣍⢶⣙⡻⠿⣶⠾⣛⠦⣻⣷⢫⣾⠏⠀⠐⡈⢀⠂⠴⡉⢖⡱⢆⡀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢊⠷⡘⡄⠡⠈⠄⡁⢂⠐⠀⣻⣟⣷⣻⣿⣔⢣⡝⢷⡴⢿⡡⢏⣾⢴⣟⢛⣯⣽⢿⡱⢎⡵⢣⡹⣹⡷⣯⡟⠀⢀⠡⠐⡀⠂⠄⡈⠂⠕⣊⠱⢫⡔⣄
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⡳⡌⡅⢂⠐⠠⢀⠂⠀⢹⣿⣞⡷⣯⢿⣷⣜⡣⢞⡡⡝⣻⡗⣾⡹⣏⢷⡺⣽⣳⡍⣖⣣⡿⢻⣿⡟⠀⠀⠄⢂⠐⡀⢁⠂⣄⢡⠒⡬⣑⠦⡜⠦
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠴⡱⢩⠔⠁⠠⢁⠂⠐⡀⢸⣿⢾⡽⣯⡿⠁⠙⠻⢾⣥⣳⣡⢻⣧⢻⡼⣫⢷⣳⡯⣷⡛⣉⠀⠸⠋⠀⣀⣈⠐⠀⢂⡔⠪⡔⣬⢲⡙⠖⠉⠊⠀⠀
⠀⠀⢀⢠⡚⣌⠣⠅⡁⠠⢈⠐⠠⢈⠐⠀⠀⣿⣯⢿⡿⠁⠀⣤⣤⣀⣠⣭⣭⠿⢿⡧⠿⣽⡏⣳⣧⣾⣿⣙⢻⡛⡟⣿⣇⣿⣶⢶⣦⣬⣵⣘⣦⢣⢥⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⢠⡰⢎⣑⠲⣐⣒⣒⡰⣑⢢⠎⠐⠠⠈⠀⣀⣸⣿⣿⡷⣿⢿⣿⡹⣿⡱⢲⣌⣛⣾⣿⣶⣿⣟⣿⢿⡿⣽⣿⣦⡽⣸⡿⣼⣟⡾⣟⣾⢾⣭⣏⣛⠿⣶⣷⣶⣠⡀⠀
⠃⠃⠋⠘⠃⠓⠈⠒⢱⡩⢒⢌⣠⣴⡾⢟⢯⣽⣟⣷⣻⣽⢯⣿⣯⡽⣷⣳⡮⢿⣯⣟⣯⡷⢾⣯⢿⡽⣷⡺⣯⠙⢿⣻⣽⣯⣟⣯⣟⡿⣾⣽⣻⢾⡔⣦⢹⡙⠿⢷
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣳⣼⡿⣛⢯⡱⢎⣽⣟⣷⣻⢾⣽⢾⣻⢷⣻⣽⣟⠁⢀⣿⣟⣾⣽⡟⣽⣾⣻⣽⢷⣿⣹⣇⠀⠈⠉⠻⣿⣿⣾⣟⡷⣯⣟⣯⢿⣶⡩⢞⡭⣻
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢴⣹⡏⣱⡷⣩⠖⣭⢿⣻⣞⣷⣻⣟⣾⡿⣿⣿⠿⠋⠁⠀⣸⣿⡽⣾⣽⣏⣿⣳⣯⣟⡿⣞⣧⢿⡄⠀⠐⡀⠈⠙⢷⣿⣿⣷⣯⣟⡿⣞⣷⢩⢶⡟
⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢎⠇⣼⣷⠠⢿⣥⡛⣼⢿⣳⢿⣞⣷⣿⣯⡿⠋⠁⠀⠄⠂⢠⣿⣯⣟⡷⣿⢮⣽⣷⣻⣞⡿⣽⣻⣎⣷⡀⠀⡐⠠⢀⠀⠉⠻⣾⣿⣾⢿⣽⢾⢣⡿⢰
⠀⠀⠀⢀⡞⢌⣺⡏⢹⣗⢊⣷⡽⡸⣟⣯⣿⣿⡿⠟⠁⠀⡀⠄⠡⠈⠀⣼⣿⢾⣽⣻⢿⣣⢿⣞⡷⣯⣟⣯⡷⣿⡼⣧⣀⣀⣀⠀⠂⠀⠀⢀⠻⣿⣿⣯⣏⡾⣡⡿
⠀⠀⠀⠳⠜⠣⢻⡇⠀⢻⣶⢈⢿⡵⣞⣻⡿⠋⠁⠀⢀⣤⣴⢶⠶⣶⢻⣿⣯⡿⣾⡽⣿⡭⢿⣯⣟⡷⣯⣷⣿⣽⣿⡟⣭⢋⡟⡻⠟⣷⡆⠀⠑⢌⠻⣧⡿⣱⡾⠵
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠷⠦⢽⢷⣮⣽⡿⠋⠀⠀⠄⡁⠀⣿⡄⢫⣞⣴⣿⣻⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⢿⣻⣟⣷⣿⢶⣯⡜⡳⢩⣼⠇⠀⡈⠄⠣⢌⠻⢟⣀⠀
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠴⢖⢲⣓⠶⠶⢶⡘⢢⠕⣎⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠠⣆⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣼⠑⡎⢼⡏⠁⠀⠀⠶⣉⠖⡸⢌⠯⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡠⢴⡩⢳⡜⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢂⣀⣤⡴⢶
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠡⢏⡳⡔⢤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠐⣿⡨⠜⡸⣇⠀⠀⢈⡳⢡⠆⠐⡊⠵⣙⢆⠀⣠⡐⢧⡙⠦⣑⢧⡚⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⢀⣌⣤⣶⢞⡛⢯⠱⣌⣿
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠨⠵⣌⢃⠞⡱⣒⠤⣀⢎⡻⣾⡷⣿⣄⠀⣌⢳⠡⢂⠁⠌⡱⢉⢮⡙⢦⡙⠆⠉⡔⣎⠶⡉⠀⠀⣘⣤⣶⡾⢛⡬⡑⣾⢈⡇⢻⣕⣾⠃
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠑⠮⣌⢂⠡⢈⠣⡑⢎⠖⡈⠙⣿⣿⣦⣬⡷⠾⢟⠻⣛⠛⠿⢳⠿⣦⣄⣂⠱⡸⣜⣮⣵⡶⢻⡍⡱⢰⡇⡙⡦⢙⣿⢠⢛⡤⣿⠃⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠒⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠘⡼⣈⠆⠠⠐⠈⢌⣲⡷⢟⢋⠥⣋⠴⣈⠳⣈⠇⠦⡙⣌⠣⡜⠤⢋⡛⢷⣿⡋⡍⢶⣃⠳⢌⡒⣽⣧⢑⠣⡍⢾⣇⢼⣜⢏⡀⠀
⡶⠶⠶⠶⣷⠶⢟⣶⠶⠶⢶⠾⣒⣶⣷⣾⣤⣥⣴⠿⣉⠲⢌⡊⠖⡌⠦⣑⣪⣔⣪⣅⣣⠂⢣⠘⣌⠣⢜⠢⠜⡻⣮⡽⣆⡙⠦⡘⣧⢿⡌⢲⠑⣮⢾⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀
⣶⣉⢎⡱⣹⡘⡜⣼⢌⡓⣼⢢⠹⡼⣄⠲⣤⡿⢋⠔⢡⠚⡤⣣⢽⣺⢽⡳⢧⣻⢶⡽⣎⣟⠶⣭⣄⢋⠦⡙⡸⡐⢮⠻⣧⡘⠥⡑⣯⢞⣿⣴⢻⡽⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠹⢿⣶⣰⠏⠴⣈⣿⠰⣸⡽⢠⢳⠱⣇⣳⡟⢱⡈⣄⢢⡵⣻⣏⡷⣣⡞⣽⢫⣗⢯⣿⣷⣞⢯⡗⣾⢳⣆⠱⣡⠑⡎⢳⣍⡿⣆⡱⢸⣟⡾⣯⣿⣽⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠛⢷⣿⢢⣝⡮⣕⡿⢐⡃⢎⡼⣿⡟⣘⠤⣃⢶⣫⢗⣿⡿⣜⡷⣹⣭⠷⣞⢯⢶⣻⡟⢿⣾⣣⡟⣞⡷⣄⢋⡔⢣⠹⣿⡻⣟⢦⡹⣟⣷⣿⢃⡄⣠⢀⣀⡀⣀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣯⡿⣽⢦⠇⣜⢢⢿⡿⡐⡽⠒⣼⣣⢟⣾⡟⣿⣧⣛⣧⢏⣟⢾⣹⢾⣱⣿⡇⣞⡹⢿⣧⣟⡾⡔⣘⢂⠧⡘⢿⣽⢾⡽⣾⡿⢃⡍⣚⢡⠋⡖⠹⡰
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bannedthought.net
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Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
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The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
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Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
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https://leftypol.org/edu/res/22659.html
Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
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(The Critique Of) Political Economy After Marx's Death
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It seems as if zoomer men are becoming more religious and doubling down on the chuddery in spite of everything. What is to be done?
Religious affiliation of young men have increased from 29% to 42%
https://apnews.com/article/religion-church-evangelical-men-women-poll-f2b07f8d5e0e29b7b75334a8b2bbd3a6It seems as if zoomer men are becoming more religious and doubling down on the chuddery in spite of everything. What is to be done?
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How exactly does one avoid being purged after a communist revolution?
The body was too short or empty.
The body was too short or empty.
The body was too short or empty.
How exactly does one avoid being purged after a communist revolution?
The body was too short or empty.
The body was too short or empty.
The body was too short or empty.
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/iran/ war thread #60
>Flat grey & long black editionRT interviews Communist Party of America on the food crisis on USS Abraham LinKKKoln: https://rumble.com/v78ps0s-is-there-food-shortage-on-american-warships-near-iran.html
>Previous Bake
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leftistCHADs…. please spare my life…
leftistCHADs…. please spare my life…
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You will never do this to females, give up
You will never do this to females, give up
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Alter Faden:
>>2363945
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https://www.papyrossa.de/
https://www.marxistische-blaetter.de/
https://www.jungewelt.de/
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/
https://www.wsws.org/de
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/
https://kommunistischepartei.de/
https://wiki.kommunistische.org/index.php?title=Hauptseite
https://www.rf-news.de/rote-fahne-news
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Die Oma mal am Joint ziehen lassen gegen die vaterlandslosen Gesellen.Alter Faden:
Ein paar Links:
https://mlwerke.redflag.ps/
https://www.papyrossa.de/
https://www.marxistische-blaetter.de/
https://www.jungewelt.de/
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/
https://www.wsws.org/de
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/
https://kommunistischepartei.de/
https://wiki.kommunistische.org/index.php?title=Hauptseite
https://www.rf-news.de/rote-fahne-news
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"A Colônia Cecília foi uma experiência anarquista realizada no Paraná, entre 1890 e 1894. A comunidade reuniu principalmente imigrantes italianos e, em seu auge, chegou a abrigar 250 habitantes."
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
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EDIÇÃO COLÔNIA CECÍLIA"A Colônia Cecília foi uma experiência anarquista realizada no Paraná, entre 1890 e 1894. A comunidade reuniu principalmente imigrantes italianos e, em seu auge, chegou a abrigar 250 habitantes."
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Is communism relevant at all?
If you think about it, Marx and many communists and socialists of his times thought that the first communist revolution would occur in one of Europe’s most industrialised places, namely England and Germany where there was a more substantial working class. Instead, the two most successful communist revolutions in history, the ones that produced lasting communist governments as opposed to the short-lived ones of Hungary and Bavaria, occurred in the heavily agrarian countries of Russia and China. Whilst the Russian empire did have some relatively minor industrial sector (albeit it still relied on serfs and their indebted descendants for most of its labor) compared to its European peers, China was still an agrarian society and even with modernisation under the republican post-Qing Kuomintang, China was by and large made up of peasants as opposed to proles. Same goes for Cuba, whose tourism and agriculture forms the backbone of its economy as opposed to industry, and Cuba is nowadays the only country on Earth to have anything approaching a genuine command economy.
Most communist revolutions thereafter heavily relied on Soviet or Chinese support throughout the Cold War, with many communist governments either falling (e.g., South Yemen) or switching to socdem/neolib economics (e.g., Angola) following the cut of Soviet aid.
For the global north, most of its citizenry work in the tertiary and primary sectors such as agriculture and IT as opposed to industry, as is the case in Britain, America, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, etc… Germany and France are the only countries one can think of with an actual manufacturing sector, but those have been on the decline in recent years. That leaves us with South Korea and Japan in terms of having a strong manufacturing sector, and even then the tertiary sector of those countries makes up the biggest share of their economies.
As for the global south, the lack of industrialisation due to both the global north disincentivising them from it as well as national governments being unwilling to risk their resources on a gamble whose dividends will only manifest after generations means that much of the global south is either agrarian, service-oriented, or in the case of India both agrarian and FIRE-oriented.
So the ideology of communism, who tries to appeal to the proletariat, is irrelevant for the majority of both the global north and global south. That’s not all, as communists to this day still haven’t been able to resolve their own contradictions such as the question of the vanguard party. For Marx, a worker’s revolution was inevitable in the industrialised world due to the contradictions of capitalism. And yet not only was that not true as capitalism continued to thrive, but the communist revolutions that Marx theorised happened in largely agrarian Russia and China, in both cases after they became war-torn and following years of civil wars. So how did his successors try to make sense of it?
For Stalin’s Marxist-Leninism, the necessity of a vanguard party was essential for a revolution, while for Mao’s Maoism peasants were prole as well. But none of those account for people’s personal motives nor solve Marx’s deterministic dilemma, nor confront how communist societies as they existed first formed. Can’t forget how the ENTIRE Soviet bloc, Yugoslavia, the Derg, communist Somalia, South Yemen, Venezuela, Grenada, etc… all fell because, at the end of the day, command economies just don’t work. That’s why all the remaining nominally communist states like Laos, Vietnam, China and Cuba have liberalised their economies to major extents that they are at most mixed economies not that much different than the social market economies of Scandinavia and Germany. North Korea only survives due to nukes and Chinese de facto aid, nothing more nothing much. Market capitalism has uplifted more people out of poverty than every socialist experiment in history, hence why all historically marginalised groups in the west like women, ethnic minorities, gays, transes, the disabled, atheists, Jews, etc… have all pivoted towards capitalism eventually. And that’s something few leftists want to acknowledge or willing to do so lest they confront their priors.
Perhaps communists should admit that their ideology was formulated by a bunch of men who made erroneous predictions about the future, and whose ideas are now practically irrelevant for anything other than geopolitics, which is why most leftist discourse focuses on geopolitics over the issues at said ideologues’ homes.
I should also note that historical materialism fails to explain deeply ideological conflicts like the Crusades. While some may appeal to Michael Hudson, two key things stand out:
So, how many are willing to address this beyond theorymaxxing?
Is communism relevant at all?
Not sure if this board is suited for Q&A, but I’ll have to arrange myself as an ancap.Is communism relevant at all?
If you think about it, Marx and many communists and socialists of his times thought that the first communist revolution would occur in one of Europe’s most industrialised places, namely England and Germany where there was a more substantial working class. Instead, the two most successful communist revolutions in history, the ones that produced lasting communist governments as opposed to the short-lived ones of Hungary and Bavaria, occurred in the heavily agrarian countries of Russia and China. Whilst the Russian empire did have some relatively minor industrial sector (albeit it still relied on serfs and their indebted descendants for most of its labor) compared to its European peers, China was still an agrarian society and even with modernisation under the republican post-Qing Kuomintang, China was by and large made up of peasants as opposed to proles. Same goes for Cuba, whose tourism and agriculture forms the backbone of its economy as opposed to industry, and Cuba is nowadays the only country on Earth to have anything approaching a genuine command economy.
Most communist revolutions thereafter heavily relied on Soviet or Chinese support throughout the Cold War, with many communist governments either falling (e.g., South Yemen) or switching to socdem/neolib economics (e.g., Angola) following the cut of Soviet aid.
For the global north, most of its citizenry work in the tertiary and primary sectors such as agriculture and IT as opposed to industry, as is the case in Britain, America, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, etc… Germany and France are the only countries one can think of with an actual manufacturing sector, but those have been on the decline in recent years. That leaves us with South Korea and Japan in terms of having a strong manufacturing sector, and even then the tertiary sector of those countries makes up the biggest share of their economies.
As for the global south, the lack of industrialisation due to both the global north disincentivising them from it as well as national governments being unwilling to risk their resources on a gamble whose dividends will only manifest after generations means that much of the global south is either agrarian, service-oriented, or in the case of India both agrarian and FIRE-oriented.
So the ideology of communism, who tries to appeal to the proletariat, is irrelevant for the majority of both the global north and global south. That’s not all, as communists to this day still haven’t been able to resolve their own contradictions such as the question of the vanguard party. For Marx, a worker’s revolution was inevitable in the industrialised world due to the contradictions of capitalism. And yet not only was that not true as capitalism continued to thrive, but the communist revolutions that Marx theorised happened in largely agrarian Russia and China, in both cases after they became war-torn and following years of civil wars. So how did his successors try to make sense of it?
For Stalin’s Marxist-Leninism, the necessity of a vanguard party was essential for a revolution, while for Mao’s Maoism peasants were prole as well. But none of those account for people’s personal motives nor solve Marx’s deterministic dilemma, nor confront how communist societies as they existed first formed. Can’t forget how the ENTIRE Soviet bloc, Yugoslavia, the Derg, communist Somalia, South Yemen, Venezuela, Grenada, etc… all fell because, at the end of the day, command economies just don’t work. That’s why all the remaining nominally communist states like Laos, Vietnam, China and Cuba have liberalised their economies to major extents that they are at most mixed economies not that much different than the social market economies of Scandinavia and Germany. North Korea only survives due to nukes and Chinese de facto aid, nothing more nothing much. Market capitalism has uplifted more people out of poverty than every socialist experiment in history, hence why all historically marginalised groups in the west like women, ethnic minorities, gays, transes, the disabled, atheists, Jews, etc… have all pivoted towards capitalism eventually. And that’s something few leftists want to acknowledge or willing to do so lest they confront their priors.
Perhaps communists should admit that their ideology was formulated by a bunch of men who made erroneous predictions about the future, and whose ideas are now practically irrelevant for anything other than geopolitics, which is why most leftist discourse focuses on geopolitics over the issues at said ideologues’ homes.
I should also note that historical materialism fails to explain deeply ideological conflicts like the Crusades. While some may appeal to Michael Hudson, two key things stand out:
- He isn’t a Marxist historian, just a heterodox economic historian
- He only explains the financial motive behind the Vatican’s crusades in Europe, but not the northern nor Near Eastern ones.
So, how many are willing to address this beyond theorymaxxing?
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* MilkV board with Gentoo Linux
* Modos paper display (e-paper display)
* Keyboardio keyboard and/or Ploopy mouse kit (custom keyboard and mouse)
* Ovrdrive USB with encrypted password manager (KeePassXC, masterpassword.app, or Bitwarden)
Software:
* Gentoo Linux with:
+ Hardened kernel
+ Refusal to install proprietary packages
+ rkhunter (rootkit hunter)
+ iptables (firewall)
+ firejail (application sandboxing)
+ clamav (antivirus)
+ kvm/qemu (virtualization)
+ pyshark (network analysis)
* Web browser options:
+ GNU Icecat with LibreJS
+ ELinks (terminal browser)
+ GNUNet with custom SOCKS5 proxy (post-quantum cryptography)
Networking:
* Self-hosted email on a VPS (not using a personal homeserver)
* xkpasswd.net for high-entropy passwords
* Stripped ARM Olinuxino board with ath9k PCIe for open 802.11 IP over DHCP
The project focuses on
How to become a ghost online (HACKER ADVICE!)
Hardware:* MilkV board with Gentoo Linux
* Modos paper display (e-paper display)
* Keyboardio keyboard and/or Ploopy mouse kit (custom keyboard and mouse)
* Ovrdrive USB with encrypted password manager (KeePassXC, masterpassword.app, or Bitwarden)
Software:
* Gentoo Linux with:
+ Hardened kernel
+ Refusal to install proprietary packages
+ rkhunter (rootkit hunter)
+ iptables (firewall)
+ firejail (application sandboxing)
+ clamav (antivirus)
+ kvm/qemu (virtualization)
+ pyshark (network analysis)
* Web browser options:
+ GNU Icecat with LibreJS
+ ELinks (terminal browser)
+ GNUNet with custom SOCKS5 proxy (post-quantum cryptography)
Networking:
* Self-hosted email on a VPS (not using a personal homeserver)
* xkpasswd.net for high-entropy passwords
* Stripped ARM Olinuxino board with ath9k PCIe for open 802.11 IP over DHCP
The project focuses on
- Security: Hardening the kernel, using rkhunter, iptables, firejail, and clamav to create a secure environment.
- Privacy: Using encrypted password managers, self-hosted email, and a custom SOCKS5 proxy with post-quantum cryptography.
- Free and open-source software: Refusing proprietary packages and using only free and open-source software. Amd on the hardware level.
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Is this based?
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As usual, the progressives were doing their part to add to the sex abuse hysteria pervading our society, which includes the single-minded condemnation of intergenerational sex as part of its component, and with as little reasoned thought as any writer who deems themselves a social conservative. And some of the authors of these articles were progressives that I usually respect, until I see them writing mindless drivel like this to join in on the sex hysteria bandwagon. And to think these progressives frequently assail the liberal politicians for caving into support for the neocons' endless wars of aggression and failing to challenge or even think critically about the neocon conventional wisdom regarding the need for presidents to be warmongers. Hence, this refutation of their specious claims about the Polanski media circus.
Let's begin with the article from one of my favorite and most respected bloggers, Gene Lyons. His article on this topic carried the title "There's A Special Place In Hell For Roman Polanski," so right away you see how free of bias it's going to be. Let's look at some quotes from Lyons, followed by my responses.
Lyons:
> "Everybody's least favorite character is French/Polish film director Roman Polanski. Except for a few Hollywood fools and European intellectuals who express the perverse belief that art excuses all crimes, hardly anybody would be upset to see Polanski go to prison. (In polls, ordinary Poles and Frenchmen reject the art alibi by large majorities.) As one who thinks his film 'Chinatown' a masterpiece, I don't much care what happens to him."
I will start by saying that I agree with Lyons that just because someone is a renowned and talented artist (in Polanski's case, a filmmaker) doesn't mean they should be given special license to commit crimes. What I am questioning here, however, is whether or not we should possibly question the perceived wisdom of certain laws. Lyons says that Polanski is "everyone's least favorite character." That's a rather odd thing for a progressive to conclude, because I would imagine that any "neocon" politician who wage preemptive wars of aggression that kill numerous innocent civilians and erode our civil liberties at home, as well as genuine terrorists who attempt to blow up innocent people along with themselves, would rank higher on such a person's list of "least favorite characters" in the world. But instead, a progressive concludes that a man who had sex with a girl who was under the Magic Age and never actually killed anyone nor waged a preemptive war that killed thousands of innocent civilians is worse than any of them on the villain meter. I would expect someone who considers themselves a social conservative to say such a thing (after all, such moralism fixated people have said that the issue of preventing the legitimization of gay marriage is the most important issue in America) but to hear a progressive utter such words is beyond belief. Or, rather, should be beyond belief if it wasn't for the extreme PC interpretation of this issue all too often seen from anyone of any belief system in the present day sex abuse hysteria and moral panic. And anyone who does question the dubious wisdom described above is, according to Lyons, a "fool." And this is someone who routinely complains about how anyone who questions the sacred wisdom of the neocons that the American government is always right no matter what it does are "un-American" and "traitors."
Next up, Lyons says:
> "Polanski's a one-dimensional villain to almost everybody except his 1977 victim, now a 45-year-old mother of three who's forgiven him. She thinks even the seven weeks he served undergoing psychiatric evaluation were excessive. Samantha Geimer has long argued that charges should be dropped."
An adult who has sex with someone under the Magic Age, regardless of how the younger participant in question says she felt about it, even after more than 30 years to reflect on the incident and is thus no longer considered a helpless and incompetent "kid" in the eyes of society, says she wasn't damaged beyond measure by the tryst, is always a "one dimensional villain." No shades of gray or ambiguity in such a situation at all. Conventional wisdom tells us so, hence one is a "fool" to believe otherwise no matter what the evidence tells us. Is it that unbelievable that perhaps Geimer doesn't think Polanski has anything to be forgiven for, and that it's society that is demanding an apology for breach of one of its most precious customs?
Lyons:
> "Should her wishes be honored? Not necessarily. However, it also shouldn't be forbidden to wonder why she thinks that way. Wasn't her life irretrievably ruined by the famous director's crime? Evidently, Geimer doesn't think so."
And since Geimer's assertion that her life wasn't "irretrievably ruined" simply by having sex with an adult man when she was "only" 13, even though our culture's conventional wisdom refuses to allow us to consider any other possible outcome of such trysts, we must wonder and question why she thinks this way. There must be an ulterior motive to her claims, because conventional wisdom tells us that there can be only one outcome to a young teen girl having sex with an adult man, and that is for her to be emotionally scarred for life and to view herself as "damaged goods" forever.
Lyons:
> "It's also important to call things by their right names. Yes, it's illegal for an adult man to have sex with a 13-year-old girl; the slang term is 'jailbait.' (Remember Louisiana rock 'n' roller Jerry Lee Lewis and his 13-year-old wife being expelled from England?) But that doesn't make Polanski a 'pedophile,' i.e. a deeply disturbed person obsessed with pre-pubescent children. If I had my way, there'd be no need for a 'Megan's Law' tracking paroled pedophiles, because there wouldn't be any parole. Ever."
The above quote is full of so many incorrect cultural biases that it's almost beyond belief. First of all, Lyons contends that pedophiles (and Polanski is not a true pedophile, but a hebephile, so I don't understand why he is picking on pedophiles here) are "deeply disturbed" due to their attraction to pre-pubescents, and they aren't merely attracted to pre-pubescents but "obsessed." If Lyons had bothered to dispense with these crude stereotypical assumptions in favor of doing some actual research, he could have found out how untrue all of those assertions are, even if doing so would come at the risk of forcing him to think critically about these assumptions he spouts as mindlessly as any social conservative. Many quotes from this research can be found throughout the various pages of the B4U-ACT website, and all are backed up by citations. And it's nice that he doesn't bother to question the wisdom of Megan's Law, despite the fact that several people who actually care about civil liberties, and who actually decry the police state mentality that progressives like Lyons are supposed to be ardent opponents of, are doing this very thing.
Lyons:
> "Anyway, here's what the now-deceased judge who accepted Polanski's guilty plea said at the hearing: 'The probation report discloses that although just short of her 14th birthday at the time of the offense, the (victim) was a well-developed young girl who looked older than her years; and regrettably not unschooled in sexual matters. She has a 17-year-old boyfriend, with whom she had sexual intercourse at least twice prior to the offense involved. The probation report further reveals that the (victim) was not unfamiliar with the drug Quaalude, she having experimented with it as early as her 10th or 11th year.'"
Okay, let's take a close look at what the judge said here, because Lyons didn't bother to make a single critical evaluation of these words whatsoever, choosing to just mindlessly condemn them instead. Samantha Geimer was not sexually inexperienced when Polanski had sex with her, so she had no "innocence" (as defined by our society) to be "stolen" at the time (endeavoring to make himself sound as PC as possible, the judge made sure to make the value judgment of Geimer that it was "regrettable" that she wasn't a virgin at her age). Further, Geimer's then boyfriend was 17 years old, and was thus almost a legal adult. So she did have experience with older guys and seemed to have a liking for them, even though Polanski may have been much older than her steady boyfriend at the time. And we all know how obsessed our society is with arbitrary numbers when it comes to gauging whether or not a sexual experience would reduce a young girl to "damaged goods" for life.
A Materialist Analysis of the Polanski Circus
This essay is devoted to an analysis of the several articles that were written by a number of different authors on the liberal/progressive news site Salon.com regarding the belated 2009 arrest of hebephile celebrity Roman Polanski. After reading these articles, I was so incensed due to, once again, seeing those who consider themselves progressives and liberals attacking Polanski for having sex with a girl under the Magic Age in such a mindless and ignorant manner, without even once deviating from the morally absolutist script that Western culture has dictated to our society about this uber-controversial subject.As usual, the progressives were doing their part to add to the sex abuse hysteria pervading our society, which includes the single-minded condemnation of intergenerational sex as part of its component, and with as little reasoned thought as any writer who deems themselves a social conservative. And some of the authors of these articles were progressives that I usually respect, until I see them writing mindless drivel like this to join in on the sex hysteria bandwagon. And to think these progressives frequently assail the liberal politicians for caving into support for the neocons' endless wars of aggression and failing to challenge or even think critically about the neocon conventional wisdom regarding the need for presidents to be warmongers. Hence, this refutation of their specious claims about the Polanski media circus.
Let's begin with the article from one of my favorite and most respected bloggers, Gene Lyons. His article on this topic carried the title "There's A Special Place In Hell For Roman Polanski," so right away you see how free of bias it's going to be. Let's look at some quotes from Lyons, followed by my responses.
Lyons:
> "Everybody's least favorite character is French/Polish film director Roman Polanski. Except for a few Hollywood fools and European intellectuals who express the perverse belief that art excuses all crimes, hardly anybody would be upset to see Polanski go to prison. (In polls, ordinary Poles and Frenchmen reject the art alibi by large majorities.) As one who thinks his film 'Chinatown' a masterpiece, I don't much care what happens to him."
I will start by saying that I agree with Lyons that just because someone is a renowned and talented artist (in Polanski's case, a filmmaker) doesn't mean they should be given special license to commit crimes. What I am questioning here, however, is whether or not we should possibly question the perceived wisdom of certain laws. Lyons says that Polanski is "everyone's least favorite character." That's a rather odd thing for a progressive to conclude, because I would imagine that any "neocon" politician who wage preemptive wars of aggression that kill numerous innocent civilians and erode our civil liberties at home, as well as genuine terrorists who attempt to blow up innocent people along with themselves, would rank higher on such a person's list of "least favorite characters" in the world. But instead, a progressive concludes that a man who had sex with a girl who was under the Magic Age and never actually killed anyone nor waged a preemptive war that killed thousands of innocent civilians is worse than any of them on the villain meter. I would expect someone who considers themselves a social conservative to say such a thing (after all, such moralism fixated people have said that the issue of preventing the legitimization of gay marriage is the most important issue in America) but to hear a progressive utter such words is beyond belief. Or, rather, should be beyond belief if it wasn't for the extreme PC interpretation of this issue all too often seen from anyone of any belief system in the present day sex abuse hysteria and moral panic. And anyone who does question the dubious wisdom described above is, according to Lyons, a "fool." And this is someone who routinely complains about how anyone who questions the sacred wisdom of the neocons that the American government is always right no matter what it does are "un-American" and "traitors."
Next up, Lyons says:
> "Polanski's a one-dimensional villain to almost everybody except his 1977 victim, now a 45-year-old mother of three who's forgiven him. She thinks even the seven weeks he served undergoing psychiatric evaluation were excessive. Samantha Geimer has long argued that charges should be dropped."
An adult who has sex with someone under the Magic Age, regardless of how the younger participant in question says she felt about it, even after more than 30 years to reflect on the incident and is thus no longer considered a helpless and incompetent "kid" in the eyes of society, says she wasn't damaged beyond measure by the tryst, is always a "one dimensional villain." No shades of gray or ambiguity in such a situation at all. Conventional wisdom tells us so, hence one is a "fool" to believe otherwise no matter what the evidence tells us. Is it that unbelievable that perhaps Geimer doesn't think Polanski has anything to be forgiven for, and that it's society that is demanding an apology for breach of one of its most precious customs?
Lyons:
> "Should her wishes be honored? Not necessarily. However, it also shouldn't be forbidden to wonder why she thinks that way. Wasn't her life irretrievably ruined by the famous director's crime? Evidently, Geimer doesn't think so."
And since Geimer's assertion that her life wasn't "irretrievably ruined" simply by having sex with an adult man when she was "only" 13, even though our culture's conventional wisdom refuses to allow us to consider any other possible outcome of such trysts, we must wonder and question why she thinks this way. There must be an ulterior motive to her claims, because conventional wisdom tells us that there can be only one outcome to a young teen girl having sex with an adult man, and that is for her to be emotionally scarred for life and to view herself as "damaged goods" forever.
Lyons:
> "It's also important to call things by their right names. Yes, it's illegal for an adult man to have sex with a 13-year-old girl; the slang term is 'jailbait.' (Remember Louisiana rock 'n' roller Jerry Lee Lewis and his 13-year-old wife being expelled from England?) But that doesn't make Polanski a 'pedophile,' i.e. a deeply disturbed person obsessed with pre-pubescent children. If I had my way, there'd be no need for a 'Megan's Law' tracking paroled pedophiles, because there wouldn't be any parole. Ever."
The above quote is full of so many incorrect cultural biases that it's almost beyond belief. First of all, Lyons contends that pedophiles (and Polanski is not a true pedophile, but a hebephile, so I don't understand why he is picking on pedophiles here) are "deeply disturbed" due to their attraction to pre-pubescents, and they aren't merely attracted to pre-pubescents but "obsessed." If Lyons had bothered to dispense with these crude stereotypical assumptions in favor of doing some actual research, he could have found out how untrue all of those assertions are, even if doing so would come at the risk of forcing him to think critically about these assumptions he spouts as mindlessly as any social conservative. Many quotes from this research can be found throughout the various pages of the B4U-ACT website, and all are backed up by citations. And it's nice that he doesn't bother to question the wisdom of Megan's Law, despite the fact that several people who actually care about civil liberties, and who actually decry the police state mentality that progressives like Lyons are supposed to be ardent opponents of, are doing this very thing.
Lyons:
> "Anyway, here's what the now-deceased judge who accepted Polanski's guilty plea said at the hearing: 'The probation report discloses that although just short of her 14th birthday at the time of the offense, the (victim) was a well-developed young girl who looked older than her years; and regrettably not unschooled in sexual matters. She has a 17-year-old boyfriend, with whom she had sexual intercourse at least twice prior to the offense involved. The probation report further reveals that the (victim) was not unfamiliar with the drug Quaalude, she having experimented with it as early as her 10th or 11th year.'"
Okay, let's take a close look at what the judge said here, because Lyons didn't bother to make a single critical evaluation of these words whatsoever, choosing to just mindlessly condemn them instead. Samantha Geimer was not sexually inexperienced when Polanski had sex with her, so she had no "innocence" (as defined by our society) to be "stolen" at the time (endeavoring to make himself sound as PC as possible, the judge made sure to make the value judgment of Geimer that it was "regrettable" that she wasn't a virgin at her age). Further, Geimer's then boyfriend was 17 years old, and was thus almost a legal adult. So she did have experience with older guys and seemed to have a liking for them, even though Polanski may have been much older than her steady boyfriend at the time. And we all know how obsessed our society is with arbitrary numbers when it comes to gauging whether or not a sexual experience would reduce a young girl to "damaged goods" for life.
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A material analysis of the most taboo topic ever
As you may know, in light of the bipartisan effort to extend the FISA law to allow Trump to enforce no-warrant surveillance, as well as recent age ID requirements and Internet ban for minors under the bogus pretext of fighting for "children's innocence" or protecting them, I think the following essay is relevant and represents a form of political clarity in this day and age. I would like to say that this is the most controversial essay ever written by any netizen ever, but not for its shock value as much as for deconstructing the very taboo that allows the witch-hunts of modern times and the surveillance states of today to persist. Below is the reproduction of the most controversial text know to man. Agree or disagree, its thought-provoking value can't be denied. Enjoy, comrades:
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Sideshow war edition
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
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https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
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📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast
Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
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Social media
>Twitter
https://x.com/GeromanAT
https://x.com/plnewstoday
https://x.com/RALee85
https://x.com/MarQs__
https://x.com/KofmanMichael
https://x.com/IntelCrab (DEAD)
https://x.com/michaelh992
https://x.com/Suriyakmaps
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_ (NEW)
<Telegram
https://t.me/milinfolive
https://t.me/hueviykharkov
https://t.me/conflictzone
https://t.me/vorposte
https://t.me/intelslava
https://t.me/grey_zone
https://t.me/AussieCossack
https://t.me/asbmil
https://t.me/Slavyangrad
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• this is /ISG/ for people who treats geopolitics like shitty map games
• behead NATO, crush NATO, etc.
/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #285
Previous: >>2719642Sideshow war edition
Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/
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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY
Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/
Watch Together
📺 News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast
Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo
<Current Happenings
📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
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Social media
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https://x.com/plnewstoday
https://x.com/RALee85
https://x.com/MarQs__
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https://x.com/IntelCrab (DEAD)
https://x.com/michaelh992
https://x.com/Suriyakmaps
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_ (NEW)
<Telegram
https://t.me/milinfolive
https://t.me/hueviykharkov
https://t.me/conflictzone
https://t.me/vorposte
https://t.me/intelslava
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https://t.me/AussieCossack
https://t.me/asbmil
https://t.me/Slavyangrad
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• Try your best to not derail discussion too much from the main events and relevant places where the war is taken place, as well as other happenings, groups and public figures related to it.
• Meta discussion of the historical, philosophical and ideological background of the war is fine as long as its done in good faith and comradely.
• In the event the meta discussion overstays its welcome, participating users will be referred to take the conversation to the INTERNATIONALISM general thread.
• Quality shitposting and original content is encouraged! Spamming glowie memes is low effort.
• this is /ISG/ for people who treats geopolitics like shitty map games
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R: 500 / I: 130
Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!
Reminder That None of This Is Real!™
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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ
<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA
>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer
📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY
<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://dn720006.ca.archive.org/0/items/baudrillard.-1970.-the-consumer-society/Baudrillard.1981.Simulacra-and-Simulation.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://altexploit.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/slavoj-zizek-the-sublime-object-of-ideology-second-edition-the-essential-zizek-2009.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://www.are.na/block/4114741
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
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RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
/ISG/ - Internet Spectacle General
A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!
Reminder That None of This Is Real!™
ɢʀᴀʙ ᴀ ᴘᴀɪʀ ᴏꜰ sᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀᴄʟᴇs
—————————————————–
CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ
<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA
>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer
📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY
<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://dn720006.ca.archive.org/0/items/baudrillard.-1970.-the-consumer-society/Baudrillard.1981.Simulacra-and-Simulation.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://altexploit.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/slavoj-zizek-the-sublime-object-of-ideology-second-edition-the-essential-zizek-2009.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://www.are.na/block/4114741
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
—————————————————–
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
—————————————————–
RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
R: 186 / I: 22
Honest question (NOT trolling):
What exactly should the western left do for Palestine that they haven’t already been doing for the past 2.5 years (or even longer for that matter)?
I’ve seen Palestinian activists say “we need to do more to stop the genocide” more times than I can count. But what should we feasibly be doing that we’re not doing already? Boycotts? Mass protests? Blockading arms sales? Policing your peers’ consumer habits so they’re compliant with BDS? Making lists of politicians who receive money from AIPAC and voting them out? We’ve done this already. In NYC, there was a mass protest every fucking weekend where we were told to “escalate for Gaza” yet we never escalated; I don’t even fucking know what “escalate” is supposed to mean. Were we supposed to be engaging in violent riots and molotoving the banks or whatever?
I asked this to a comrade of mine and he said: “You know what we mean when we want the left to do more for Palestine.” By that, he clearly means engage in political violence, bring back the Weathermen. But how would ultra-left adventurism do anything? Elias Rodriguez did exactly this and is now facing life in prison for killing two interns who were replaced the next day. What a fucking waste.
The American left is way too weak, disorganized, and incompetent to do anything meaningful to help the Palestinians resist or stop Israel. It’s gotten to the point where people are putting all their hope and faith in the idea Israel will collapse on its own because they’ve run out of strategies. So what should the left be doing that it’s not doing already? Give clear examples.
Honest question (NOT trolling):
What exactly should the western left do for Palestine that they haven’t already been doing for the past 2.5 years (or even longer for that matter)?
I’ve seen Palestinian activists say “we need to do more to stop the genocide” more times than I can count. But what should we feasibly be doing that we’re not doing already? Boycotts? Mass protests? Blockading arms sales? Policing your peers’ consumer habits so they’re compliant with BDS? Making lists of politicians who receive money from AIPAC and voting them out? We’ve done this already. In NYC, there was a mass protest every fucking weekend where we were told to “escalate for Gaza” yet we never escalated; I don’t even fucking know what “escalate” is supposed to mean. Were we supposed to be engaging in violent riots and molotoving the banks or whatever?
I asked this to a comrade of mine and he said: “You know what we mean when we want the left to do more for Palestine.” By that, he clearly means engage in political violence, bring back the Weathermen. But how would ultra-left adventurism do anything? Elias Rodriguez did exactly this and is now facing life in prison for killing two interns who were replaced the next day. What a fucking waste.
The American left is way too weak, disorganized, and incompetent to do anything meaningful to help the Palestinians resist or stop Israel. It’s gotten to the point where people are putting all their hope and faith in the idea Israel will collapse on its own because they’ve run out of strategies. So what should the left be doing that it’s not doing already? Give clear examples.
R: 0 / I: 0
Cicero on Pilate: Born of a midget, through Samhain; the Queen of all of Siberia, the marijuana trade in Druid soldier swordsmen; either man or woman, heterosexual otherwise gay; removed of facial recognition by blade, a "jude".
Birds of Paradise: Entire code of Holy Roman Empire, as unmutable per demanded of tradition; code of falsehood taught, as having disbelieved entire lesson, as against term of linguistics as secondary; the homosexual officer's code, a Marine Corps.
Robert the Bruce: The marijuana trade to famous police, authors, and politicians; without sex mentioned or gathered, per the penalty as transexuality, happening automatically and inverting or reverting literature pledged; the Shakespeare Groundlings, the Bourgeoise; anyone refusing, as queer, through political following; molesting own children through public confession, "arts", not "theater".
Skorzene: The long hair soldier, a hippie; understanding exactly what music means, but refusing to listen to narrow term; otherwise, marching band music rejected, the queer and common police adjutant as refused and nullified; any given quadrant of war, since commodities, the common grower's crop per luxury outside of nourishment; the big bowel movement.
Serbic Hun: The Madisons, through the Champlains; the sacrifice to country, as having practice public job, a media role and a combined paycheque, with private career, assassin; family patronizing, as hero in text, combined with refusal of Vikings; the old enemy, the queer cripple, worshipped by men outside of their own animus, their sens of male; Jung reversing animus, manhood, and anima, womanhood, as a faggot; who God Hates, for Hating Themselves; a muscle builder, a homosexual eunech by own hand.
Arab Bloodlines
Solomon on Sheba: Three ringed cycle; Jesse, David, Solomon; building on lethal severity, per youngest child.Cicero on Pilate: Born of a midget, through Samhain; the Queen of all of Siberia, the marijuana trade in Druid soldier swordsmen; either man or woman, heterosexual otherwise gay; removed of facial recognition by blade, a "jude".
Birds of Paradise: Entire code of Holy Roman Empire, as unmutable per demanded of tradition; code of falsehood taught, as having disbelieved entire lesson, as against term of linguistics as secondary; the homosexual officer's code, a Marine Corps.
Robert the Bruce: The marijuana trade to famous police, authors, and politicians; without sex mentioned or gathered, per the penalty as transexuality, happening automatically and inverting or reverting literature pledged; the Shakespeare Groundlings, the Bourgeoise; anyone refusing, as queer, through political following; molesting own children through public confession, "arts", not "theater".
Skorzene: The long hair soldier, a hippie; understanding exactly what music means, but refusing to listen to narrow term; otherwise, marching band music rejected, the queer and common police adjutant as refused and nullified; any given quadrant of war, since commodities, the common grower's crop per luxury outside of nourishment; the big bowel movement.
Serbic Hun: The Madisons, through the Champlains; the sacrifice to country, as having practice public job, a media role and a combined paycheque, with private career, assassin; family patronizing, as hero in text, combined with refusal of Vikings; the old enemy, the queer cripple, worshipped by men outside of their own animus, their sens of male; Jung reversing animus, manhood, and anima, womanhood, as a faggot; who God Hates, for Hating Themselves; a muscle builder, a homosexual eunech by own hand.
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Plus the lumpen laugh at the size of the "real movement" - how many are you? You're too little to change anything.
Lumpens do admire China but China doesn't care for anything besides its own citizens.
I was talking to a lumpen
I was talking to a lumpen worker happy that a liberal socialdemocrat won the election, he thinks that the succdem is a "man of the people, he will fix everything". And we talked for a bit yelling. But it got me thinking, the lumpen had no problem with the ruling class as long as his needs were met, and for the large part even in spite of the miserable manual labour - were being met. So why do we demand an economy of needs - production planned on needs "from each according to their ability to each according to their need" if capitalism already fulfills their needs? They will still work, not for wages but it would be the same jobs. Its just that the drive for profit and class causes damage to the planet and misery for the manual laborers but as long as their needs are met they don't really care. They don't want planned production they want somebody else to think for them and most have just accepted their roles in contempt so feel no need for a DOTP - ruling is somebody else's problem to them.Plus the lumpen laugh at the size of the "real movement" - how many are you? You're too little to change anything.
Lumpens do admire China but China doesn't care for anything besides its own citizens.
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Rosa Parks, is our descent in Afro-American skin; rejected the term "Nubian", as "nigrish", all of Boston our city witnessing; the Canaanites, against Jews, the Israelites and Jordanians; the Jews as Israelite, deported to Iran.
Rosa Parks, the spraying of hoses on striking marchers for being Beta Israeli, the African-Iranians, claiming our blood, Nubian, the Pharaoh; mixed with Ptolemy, of Cicero; Queen Samhain, the Iberian Celts and Roman Senators, dictated as a Clan by fascists of all skin colors and clans.
Universally disturbed, to place us in hospitals, per suits against those considering opiates imbibement to be less able; the Jews, those threshed and destroyed in common worker's abyss, with children as bisexual; actors and actresses and glee; faggots, our prison punks to bust up the butt and make bleed through the anus, in utter pain per bowel pass.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks, was a descent of Red Owen and Rosa O'Neil; raped by a Persian, Shane, claiming the blood, out of his falsehood's father of bigemy and homosexual lust of children, Constantine O'Neil; "Conn. O'Neil", as the battle lines have been laid.Rosa Parks, is our descent in Afro-American skin; rejected the term "Nubian", as "nigrish", all of Boston our city witnessing; the Canaanites, against Jews, the Israelites and Jordanians; the Jews as Israelite, deported to Iran.
Rosa Parks, the spraying of hoses on striking marchers for being Beta Israeli, the African-Iranians, claiming our blood, Nubian, the Pharaoh; mixed with Ptolemy, of Cicero; Queen Samhain, the Iberian Celts and Roman Senators, dictated as a Clan by fascists of all skin colors and clans.
Universally disturbed, to place us in hospitals, per suits against those considering opiates imbibement to be less able; the Jews, those threshed and destroyed in common worker's abyss, with children as bisexual; actors and actresses and glee; faggots, our prison punks to bust up the butt and make bleed through the anus, in utter pain per bowel pass.
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I got an onahole a while back (not picrel, i just found it funny) and it’s ok, but it’s clearly made from cheap plastic and smells really badly of chemicals/plastic so i want to get a new sex toy (not necessarily an onahole)
Any recommendations? I want something that is easy to clean, has a closed end and doesn’t smell like it’s going to give me cancer
Side note, i don’t get my male sex toys are stigmatised while women owning sex toys are completely acceptable? Obviously both are fine but I feel like men who own sex toys are seen as incel gooner shutins whereas women can have vibrators, dildos, etc and are still seen as normal
I got an onahole a while back (not picrel, i just found it funny) and it’s ok, but it’s clearly made from cheap plastic and smells really badly of chemicals/plastic so i want to get a new sex toy (not necessarily an onahole)
Any recommendations? I want something that is easy to clean, has a closed end and doesn’t smell like it’s going to give me cancer
Side note, i don’t get my male sex toys are stigmatised while women owning sex toys are completely acceptable? Obviously both are fine but I feel like men who own sex toys are seen as incel gooner shutins whereas women can have vibrators, dildos, etc and are still seen as normal
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>This government stands firmly with the Jewish community, and we will not stop in our fight to confront and defeat the poison of antisemitism.
>We will always take the action necessary to protect the public and uphold our values.
https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/2041515702855643347
Well that's one 'American boy' we don't want in this country.
/leftybritpol/ - Cancel KKKanye Edition
>Kanye West should never have been invited to headline Wireless.>This government stands firmly with the Jewish community, and we will not stop in our fight to confront and defeat the poison of antisemitism.
>We will always take the action necessary to protect the public and uphold our values.
https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/2041515702855643347
Well that's one 'American boy' we don't want in this country.
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Who's afraid of Gabriel Rockhill?
It looks like the hysteria over Gabriel Rockhill's expose of CIA funded western marxism has hit Jacobin. Since Rockhill's book was published, he's been living rent free in the heads of critical theorists. A bourgeois Indian academic who lives in the US and considers China "sweatshop socialism" has made at least 20 FB posts about Rockhill over the past month. Katerina Kolozova, a "marxist" from FYROM who wrote an article where she said "real marxists" wanted the breakup of Yugoslavia because it was "fake socialism" and Monkeydonians were "real europeans" unlike "Russians and Ukrainians" also went into meltdown mode. The Jacobin article just ties it all together. The author says we need critical theory and western marxism more than we need another Stalin or Mao. But given how impotent western marxists have been to achieve any kind of revolutionary success, it seems that their main issue with Rockhill is that he accurately diagnoses them as hacks. None of the articles, op-eds, or posts about Rockhill's book actually try to refute the facts he presents (backed up by FOIA requests) but just defend bourgeois liberal democracy as superior to actually existing socialism. The Indian admitted to me he didn't even finish Rockhill's book, and one of my irl friends who's been flipping out about it has refused to even read it. If Rockhill is so wrong, why is it no one can actually refute his truth nukes?
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If intelligent design is real and proves the existence of God, why did God design man to have the desire and capacity to imagine entire worlds where they have sex with antropomorphic, fictional animals?
If intelligent design is real and proves the existence of God, why did God design man to have the desire and capacity to imagine entire worlds where they have sex with antropomorphic, fictional animals?
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Draw your fursonas :33
This is my fursona bluegrass the goat, if anyone else on here is a furry i’d like to see your fursonaahahafjwixbriabcisjfjeoxjfidjciejsbfkdfjfkfjdjdjfjfjfjf
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So, it appears that despite the most common assumptions, labour "aristocratic"/well paid workers can and have been notable partecipants in the class struggle, everywhere from Italy to Chile and from the UK to South Africa
> The most important counter-example is the Russian working class in the early 20th century. The backbone of Lenin’s Bolsheviks (something he was most definitely aware of) were the best paid industrial workers in the Russian cities – skilled machinists in the largest factories. Lower paid workers, such as the predominantly female textile workers, were generally either unorganized or apolitical (until the beginnings of the revolution) or supported the reformist Mensheviks.
> German Communism became a mass movement when tens of thousands of well-paid metal workers left the Independent Socialists and joined the Communists in 1921. The French and Italian Communists also became mass parties through the recruitment of thousands of machinists who led the mass strikes of the postwar period. These highly paid workers were also overrepresented in the smaller Communist parties of the United States and Britain.
> In Chile between 1970 and 1973, and Argentina between 1971 and 1974, copper miners and metal workers engaged in industrial struggles and took the lead in mass mobilizations against the military and the right. In Brazil, it was the well-paid metal workers in the suburbs of San Paolo who led mass strikes in the 1970s that created the CUT
> it was the highest paid Black workers in South Africa – in mining, auto, steel – whose struggles in the 1970s created the radical and militant FOSATU trade union confederation.
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/129.html
So, it appears that despite the most common assumptions, labour "aristocratic"/well paid workers can and have been notable partecipants in the class struggle, everywhere from Italy to Chile and from the UK to South Africa
> The most important counter-example is the Russian working class in the early 20th century. The backbone of Lenin’s Bolsheviks (something he was most definitely aware of) were the best paid industrial workers in the Russian cities – skilled machinists in the largest factories. Lower paid workers, such as the predominantly female textile workers, were generally either unorganized or apolitical (until the beginnings of the revolution) or supported the reformist Mensheviks.
> German Communism became a mass movement when tens of thousands of well-paid metal workers left the Independent Socialists and joined the Communists in 1921. The French and Italian Communists also became mass parties through the recruitment of thousands of machinists who led the mass strikes of the postwar period. These highly paid workers were also overrepresented in the smaller Communist parties of the United States and Britain.
> In Chile between 1970 and 1973, and Argentina between 1971 and 1974, copper miners and metal workers engaged in industrial struggles and took the lead in mass mobilizations against the military and the right. In Brazil, it was the well-paid metal workers in the suburbs of San Paolo who led mass strikes in the 1970s that created the CUT
> it was the highest paid Black workers in South Africa – in mining, auto, steel – whose struggles in the 1970s created the radical and militant FOSATU trade union confederation.
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/129.html
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Lebanese VTuber's family killed in Lebanon
VTuber Camila was featured on X by RT news when she described 160 bombs being dropped on Beirut in 10 minutes. In other news, Null from Kiwi Farms is laughing about it.
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Why does Trump support Israel so much?
At first I always believed that Trump was not religious and only used religion as a Slopulist tool to get support from the zealots who inhabit the Bible-belt and his Israel support was clearly just AIPAC and the Oil Lobby motivating him, however I wonder if there is something deeper, the Iran thing has actually hurt the markets and Trump seems to be operating out outside of capital for once so I wonder if he is more religious than I thought or if he is a senile philosemite who spent so much time around rich jewish people in New York that he think that Jews are magic money people, So then the more Satanyahu strokes Trump's ego the more he will do whatever he says.
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i love the world and everything in it
i love the world and everything in it
I LOVE THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT!!
i love the world and everything in it
i love the world and everything in it
I LOVE THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT!!
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How does east asia survive without religion
I know their Gods like Yue Lao or Wenchang exist but what drives them in the absence of religion? What does East Asia have to look forward too because at the very least South and Southeast Asia has Gods and magick.
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all sport welcome but i'll kick it off with baseball because i despise my astros this year
Sportball General
hi guys who wants to talk about their favorite sport teams and how bad they fucking suckall sport welcome but i'll kick it off with baseball because i despise my astros this year
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Would you date a wicked witch?
Would you date a wicked witch?
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Why?
weird patterns in zoophile communities
I lurk zoophile/beastiality porn communities, and have been for a while, and I've noticed an odd trend in recent years. Like for the past 1 and a half years, the spaces have been absolutely flooded with a *massive* increase in specifically male-human-female-animal pornography. Like, the default is no longer women and perverted men taking dog wiener, it's now just guys straight up pounding dog ass.Why?
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Any strawman that does not address the largest trade deficit that will ever exist shall be ignored.
The American 'Proletariat' Does Not Exist
The American 'working class' produce zero surplus value through their net nonproductive labor and physically cannot sustain themselves due to deindustrialization. Each and every single lumpen settler owes more than forty trillion in exports to repay their debt to the rest of the planet and survives off the surplus labor of non-americans from Berlin to Siberia. Even ignoring the countless acts of terrorism committed by the burgereich, the consumerism of treats must end. As the pedotariat of epsteinland must work for several years and export to maybe repay even 30 percent of what occupied turtle island owes to the non-american surplus value producing global proletariat.Any strawman that does not address the largest trade deficit that will ever exist shall be ignored.
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Unholy Alliance
In your opinion, in a situation of capitalist crisis, can a short-lived alliance exist between Marxist socialism and national (right-wing) socialism, in a Vanguard Party capable of making a radical change in the country's course, or is this a direct path to fascism and the destruction of the achievements of Leninism?
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insane levels of cuckoldry. what causes someone to be this submissive?
insane levels of cuckoldry. what causes someone to be this submissive?
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Picrel is Warehouse which is actually korean, not japanese, but I think manhwa is close enough to manga
Doesn't have to be explicit, can be full of yearning as well.
/y/ Yaoi general
Recommend good yaoi for mePicrel is Warehouse which is actually korean, not japanese, but I think manhwa is close enough to manga
Doesn't have to be explicit, can be full of yearning as well.
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The primary contradiction in non-AES Global South countries is not "foreign-bourg vs national-bourg" but rather, it's "industrial capitalist vs financial capitalist".
An imperialist foreign Western capitalist who builds a factory and develops the productive forces by outsourcing and transferring technology and capital is infinitely more progressive than a "patriotic" "sovereign" nationalist financial capitalist or service capitalist.
Countries that realized this simple fact, like South Korea, Mexico, Poland, Indonesia etc are able to develop and massively increase their standard of living.
Countries that misguidedly pursued "sovereignty" instead via protectionism and over regulation, like many post-colonial countries, suffered from stagnation. Those countries were actually scammed by their "patriotic" bourgeoisie to protect their local capital from competition that would have built industry and improved their standard of living.
Therefore, being blindly anti-imperialist by default is not useful. Collaborating with foreign and domestic industrial giants while keeping both domestic and foreign finance at bay should be the primary goal of socialists in these countries.
The primary contradiction in non-AES Global South countries is not "foreign-bourg vs national-bourg" but rather, it's "industrial capitalist vs financial capitalist".
An imperialist foreign Western capitalist who builds a factory and develops the productive forces by outsourcing and transferring technology and capital is infinitely more progressive than a "patriotic" "sovereign" nationalist financial capitalist or service capitalist.
Countries that realized this simple fact, like South Korea, Mexico, Poland, Indonesia etc are able to develop and massively increase their standard of living.
Countries that misguidedly pursued "sovereignty" instead via protectionism and over regulation, like many post-colonial countries, suffered from stagnation. Those countries were actually scammed by their "patriotic" bourgeoisie to protect their local capital from competition that would have built industry and improved their standard of living.
Therefore, being blindly anti-imperialist by default is not useful. Collaborating with foreign and domestic industrial giants while keeping both domestic and foreign finance at bay should be the primary goal of socialists in these countries.
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im actually fucking shaking…. please tell me this isnt true, please tell me we havent lost this bad….
im actually fucking shaking…. please tell me this isnt true, please tell me we havent lost this bad….
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Some say that the golden age of gaming was the 80s, 90s or 2000s but I say that the real golden age of gaming was the 2010s during the RPGMaker boom. Sure, it was 2D but it wasn't monetized to fuck with P2W battle pass bullshit or paying $80 (Not counting DLC) for a game you don't even own and can literally be taken from you at any time.
Some say that the golden age of gaming was the 80s, 90s or 2000s but I say that the real golden age of gaming was the 2010s during the RPGMaker boom. Sure, it was 2D but it wasn't monetized to fuck with P2W battle pass bullshit or paying $80 (Not counting DLC) for a game you don't even own and can literally be taken from you at any time.
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One Piece is leftist
One Piece is leftist
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The most frustrating thing about China :/
China is way too pro-Israel, not to the same degree the US of course and also not even to the same degree as Russia but they need to sanction Israel immediately. There is no excuse for selling surveillance equipment to Israel and Xi genuinely has some blood on his hands.
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I own a peach tree in my front yard. I want to sell the peaches that it grows. Are there any communist/socialist parties in the southern USA that I can donate to? Preferably in the deep south, in Alabama.
I own a peach tree in my front yard. I want to sell the peaches that it grows. Are there any communist/socialist parties in the southern USA that I can donate to? Preferably in the deep south, in Alabama.
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What will happen when Trump invades Cuba?
Unfortunately after choking Cuba for months after starving it for 67 years Trump is probably going to invade Cuba because after getting humiliated by Iran it s clear that this sociopath wants to reestablish his dominance and the American Empires dominance by doing regime change in Cuba, there is no justification for doing this other than the fact that America is a rouge state. It is not looking good for the Cuba because it is obvious that all of the Latin American vassals won't do anything, Putin will probably promise not to do anything in exchange for more of Ukraine, and China will condemn the invasion but China still trades with Israel so they won't do anything. So Cuba is on its own but what will happen because unlike in Venezuela were there was opposition parties and stuff I don't think that the US will be able to work with parts of the government so who knows what they will do, and if there is a state of war the obvious thing to do would be for Cuba do what Iran did and punish the Florida keys but Cuba has no missiles but they have tons of Soviet-era tanks so maybe they will try to retake Guantanamo bay. And technology has advances since the Bay of Pigs invasion so Amerikkka will probably target civilians with drones and since we live in hell all of the Guanos will cheer as Trump blows up their extended family members. But what do you think will happen?
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You can identify the exact point at which Marxists start coping and treating their belief system as a religion. From the Preface of The Poverty of Philosophy on Marxists.org:
>The above application of the Ricardian theory that the entire social product belongs to the workers as their product, because they are the sole real producers, leads directly to communism. But, as Marx indeed indicates in the above-quoted passage, it is incorrect in formal economic terms, for it is simply an application of morality to economics. According to the laws of bourgeois economics, the greatest part of the product does not belong to the workers who have produced it. If we now say: that is unjust, that ought not to be so, then that has nothing immediately to do with economics. We are merely saying that this economic fact is in contradiction to our sense of morality. Marx, therefore, never based his communist demands upon this, but upon the inevitable collapse of the capitalist mode of production which is daily taking place before our eyes to an ever growing degree; he says only that surplus value consists of unpaid labour, which is a simple fact. But what in economic terms may be formally incorrect, may all the same be correct from the point of view of world history. If mass moral consciousness declares an economic fact to be unjust, as it did at one time in the case of slavery and statute labour, that is proof that the fact itself has outlived its day, that other economic facts have made their appearance due to which the former has become unbearable and untenable. Therefore, a very true economic content may be concealed behind the formal economic incorrectness. This is not the place to deal more closely with the significance and history of the theory of surplus value.
Marx never would have said this lol, this is plain magical thinking
Would Marx even be a communist if he were alive today?
Is the key flaw of Marxism that all of its predictions are bullshit? Why do communists feel like facts have to conform to their feelings when Marx never said that? Marx was never a moralfag and based his ideas in the fact he believed the collapse of Capitalism was inevitable. 200 years on, and it has not collapsed or led to any sort of successful socialist revolution.You can identify the exact point at which Marxists start coping and treating their belief system as a religion. From the Preface of The Poverty of Philosophy on Marxists.org:
>The above application of the Ricardian theory that the entire social product belongs to the workers as their product, because they are the sole real producers, leads directly to communism. But, as Marx indeed indicates in the above-quoted passage, it is incorrect in formal economic terms, for it is simply an application of morality to economics. According to the laws of bourgeois economics, the greatest part of the product does not belong to the workers who have produced it. If we now say: that is unjust, that ought not to be so, then that has nothing immediately to do with economics. We are merely saying that this economic fact is in contradiction to our sense of morality. Marx, therefore, never based his communist demands upon this, but upon the inevitable collapse of the capitalist mode of production which is daily taking place before our eyes to an ever growing degree; he says only that surplus value consists of unpaid labour, which is a simple fact. But what in economic terms may be formally incorrect, may all the same be correct from the point of view of world history. If mass moral consciousness declares an economic fact to be unjust, as it did at one time in the case of slavery and statute labour, that is proof that the fact itself has outlived its day, that other economic facts have made their appearance due to which the former has become unbearable and untenable. Therefore, a very true economic content may be concealed behind the formal economic incorrectness. This is not the place to deal more closely with the significance and history of the theory of surplus value.
Marx never would have said this lol, this is plain magical thinking
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I have no idea what it means
Yet it is the most profound thing that I have ever seen
A poem
“e^(pi(i))+1=0”I have no idea what it means
Yet it is the most profound thing that I have ever seen
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Any tips on game design and/or learning how to code? I feel like I want to make a video game for a while but I’ve realised that it’s basically useless to make one unless it’s to make money, can Marxists/communists make indie games? I just kinda want to put my ideas for characters and world building into something at the end of the day
Any tips on game design and/or learning how to code? I feel like I want to make a video game for a while but I’ve realised that it’s basically useless to make one unless it’s to make money, can Marxists/communists make indie games? I just kinda want to put my ideas for characters and world building into something at the end of the day
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what are we doing
first time on this site ever, is child porn normal???? this place is actually disgusting
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Why are mainstream leftist retards like this?
Why do mainstream leftists like to copy fascists?
>yeah our subcultures and ideologies are rooted in the far right but we're actually anti-fascist!Why are mainstream leftist retards like this?
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You need to get off Siberia and touch grass
You need to get off Siberia and touch grass
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The author of Metro 2033 is a big fat zionist, not surprising as he literally lived in Israel and studied there from 1996 and onwards, another hogwarts boycott incoming?
The author of Metro 2033 is a big fat zionist, not surprising as he literally lived in Israel and studied there from 1996 and onwards, another hogwarts boycott incoming?
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The National Housing Demonstration saw tenants protest in central London with the backing of more than 50 grassroots groups, trade unions tenant unions such as Acorn, Generation Rent and Greater Manchester Tenants Union, as well as politicians from Your Party and the Greens.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-demand-ministers-put-renters-their-super-rich-mates
Civil resistance activists detained in Manchester over alleged plan to raid high-end stores
Take Back Power, a civil resistance activist group, confirmed its supporters had been arrested. All members of the group remained in police custody for questioning, it said. Police in Manchester said the group were believed to have been training for a mass shoplifting campaign, intending to steal from high-value stores and supermarkets and redistribute the stolen goods.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/19/civil-resistance-activists-detained-in-manchester-over-alleged-plan-to-raid-high-end-stores
The center-left coalition of former President Radev will win Bulgaria’s election, exit poll suggests
The poll conducted by Trend research group showed Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria earning 39.2% support, edging out the center-right GERB party of its veteran leader, Boyko Borissov, which is expected to capture 15.1% of the vote. Despite the huge gap between the two groups, the predicted percentage may not be enough for Radev to form a one-party government, and he will face the uphill task of looking for partners to govern.
https://apnews.com/article/bulgaria-election-radev-borissov-corruption-3e20cf8eef356337f724fd967efb72cf
US military seized Iranian-flagged container ship, Trump says
Trump said that a US navy guided missile destroyer had warned the Touska to stop in the Gulf of Oman, but the vessel did not. “[Our] Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engine room,” Trump said, adding that US marines now have custody of the vessel.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/19/trump-us-seizes-iran-flagged-cargo-ship
Israeli military publishes map of south Lebanon territory under its control despite ceasefire
Stretching east to west, the deployment line on the map runs 5-10 km deep from the border into Lebanese territory, where Israel has said that it plans to create a so-called buffer zone. Israeli forces have destroyed Lebanese villages in the area, claiming their aim is to protect northern Israeli towns from Hezbollah attacks. It has created buffer zones in Syria and in Gaza, where it controls more than half the enclave.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-publishes-map-s-lebanon-territory-under-its-control
Kataib Hezbollah ties Iraq PM to Al-Maliki or Al-Sudani blocs
In a statement, the group’s security official, Abu Mujahid al-Assaf, outlined four political and security positions, stressing that “it is not acceptable for one group to monopolize the four presidencies.” He indicated that if allies within the Coordination Framework —a coalition of Shiite parties aligned with Iran, that forms the largest bloc in parliament— fail to secure the nomination of either State of Law Coalition (SLC) leader Nouri al-Maliki or caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, priority would shift to selecting a candidate from their respective blocs.
https://www.shafaq.com/en/Iraq/Kataib-Hezbollah-ties-Iraq-PM-to-Al-Maliki-or-Al-Sudani-blocs
Following his participation in “Dignity” sit-in protest | Caretaker Government pursues media activist in Idlib
This comes as part of a series of retaliatory measures against activists who defied the campaigns of “treason accusations and demonization” that preceded the sit-in. Pro-government media outlets and figures launched a widespread disinformation campaign accusing the organizers at times of being linked to “foreign agendas,” and at other times of being “remnants of the former regime,” in an attempt to strip their demands of legitimacy.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/381245/
Colombia reigns in Coca Cola bottler after environmental abuse claims
The new license only allows the company to consume 1.9 liters per second, forcing a 42% reduction in the company’s bottling capacity. Instead of the 10-year license the company has been granted since its arrival in La Calera in the 1990’s, the CAR’s latest license will have to be renewed in 2031 after another “rigorous technical and judicial analysis.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-reigns-in-coca-cola-bottler-after-environmental-abuse-claims/
Global leftists rally in Spain hoping to spark resurgence against far right
Spearheaded by Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose outspoken opposition to U.S. President Trump’s foreign policy has boosted his image, the summit was buoyed by hopes that the far-right surge may have peaked, with Trump's polling numbers falling, Hungary's Victor Orban ousted after 16 years in government and the French far-right underperforming in last month's municipal elections.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-mexico-spain-pledge-send-more-aid-cuba-2026-04-18/
Karen Resistance Captures Two Regime Bases Over Thingyan Holidays
On April 12, fighters from the KNU, People Defense Forces (PDF) and All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF) seized the Lay Kay military base in Mon State’s Bilin Township. Strategically located at the border of Mon and Karen states, the base housed the regime’s Light Infantry Battalion 2 and served as a gateway for the regime’s counteroffensive attacking the KNU’s brigades 7 and 5 in Hpa-an and Hpapun.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/karen-resistance-captures-two-regime-bases-over-thingyan-holidays.html
Nepali Communist Party Criticizes Government Over Evictions and Policy Concerns
The statement mentions that activities carried out in the name of squatter management have left victimized families stranded and increased the risk of weakening the trust of marginalized communities in the state. 'We urge the government not to carry out such actions without making proper arrangements for rehabilitation,' the statement said. Meanwhile, the party has also demanded immediate control over rising inflation and black marketeering, which it claims have increased following the formation of the new government.
https://english.ratopati.com/story/59643/ncp-objects-to-squatter-uprising-and-ban-on-student-organizations
Australian state Labor government defends unconstitutional anti-protest law
For the second time in six months, the Labor government in the state of New South Wales (NSW) has defiantly defended imposing sweeping anti-protest legislation despite courts striking the laws down for violating the Australian Constitution. “The NSW government absolutely stands by the decision to introduce this legislation,” Premier Chris Minns declared on Thursday. “We believe it was necessary and important for Sydney at the time.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/18/gvtg-a18.html
News 4/19/26
Thousands demand ministers put ‘renters before their super-rich mates’The National Housing Demonstration saw tenants protest in central London with the backing of more than 50 grassroots groups, trade unions tenant unions such as Acorn, Generation Rent and Greater Manchester Tenants Union, as well as politicians from Your Party and the Greens.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-demand-ministers-put-renters-their-super-rich-mates
Civil resistance activists detained in Manchester over alleged plan to raid high-end stores
Take Back Power, a civil resistance activist group, confirmed its supporters had been arrested. All members of the group remained in police custody for questioning, it said. Police in Manchester said the group were believed to have been training for a mass shoplifting campaign, intending to steal from high-value stores and supermarkets and redistribute the stolen goods.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/19/civil-resistance-activists-detained-in-manchester-over-alleged-plan-to-raid-high-end-stores
The center-left coalition of former President Radev will win Bulgaria’s election, exit poll suggests
The poll conducted by Trend research group showed Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria earning 39.2% support, edging out the center-right GERB party of its veteran leader, Boyko Borissov, which is expected to capture 15.1% of the vote. Despite the huge gap between the two groups, the predicted percentage may not be enough for Radev to form a one-party government, and he will face the uphill task of looking for partners to govern.
https://apnews.com/article/bulgaria-election-radev-borissov-corruption-3e20cf8eef356337f724fd967efb72cf
US military seized Iranian-flagged container ship, Trump says
Trump said that a US navy guided missile destroyer had warned the Touska to stop in the Gulf of Oman, but the vessel did not. “[Our] Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engine room,” Trump said, adding that US marines now have custody of the vessel.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/19/trump-us-seizes-iran-flagged-cargo-ship
Israeli military publishes map of south Lebanon territory under its control despite ceasefire
Stretching east to west, the deployment line on the map runs 5-10 km deep from the border into Lebanese territory, where Israel has said that it plans to create a so-called buffer zone. Israeli forces have destroyed Lebanese villages in the area, claiming their aim is to protect northern Israeli towns from Hezbollah attacks. It has created buffer zones in Syria and in Gaza, where it controls more than half the enclave.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-publishes-map-s-lebanon-territory-under-its-control
Kataib Hezbollah ties Iraq PM to Al-Maliki or Al-Sudani blocs
In a statement, the group’s security official, Abu Mujahid al-Assaf, outlined four political and security positions, stressing that “it is not acceptable for one group to monopolize the four presidencies.” He indicated that if allies within the Coordination Framework —a coalition of Shiite parties aligned with Iran, that forms the largest bloc in parliament— fail to secure the nomination of either State of Law Coalition (SLC) leader Nouri al-Maliki or caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, priority would shift to selecting a candidate from their respective blocs.
https://www.shafaq.com/en/Iraq/Kataib-Hezbollah-ties-Iraq-PM-to-Al-Maliki-or-Al-Sudani-blocs
Following his participation in “Dignity” sit-in protest | Caretaker Government pursues media activist in Idlib
This comes as part of a series of retaliatory measures against activists who defied the campaigns of “treason accusations and demonization” that preceded the sit-in. Pro-government media outlets and figures launched a widespread disinformation campaign accusing the organizers at times of being linked to “foreign agendas,” and at other times of being “remnants of the former regime,” in an attempt to strip their demands of legitimacy.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/381245/
Colombia reigns in Coca Cola bottler after environmental abuse claims
The new license only allows the company to consume 1.9 liters per second, forcing a 42% reduction in the company’s bottling capacity. Instead of the 10-year license the company has been granted since its arrival in La Calera in the 1990’s, the CAR’s latest license will have to be renewed in 2031 after another “rigorous technical and judicial analysis.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-reigns-in-coca-cola-bottler-after-environmental-abuse-claims/
Global leftists rally in Spain hoping to spark resurgence against far right
Spearheaded by Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose outspoken opposition to U.S. President Trump’s foreign policy has boosted his image, the summit was buoyed by hopes that the far-right surge may have peaked, with Trump's polling numbers falling, Hungary's Victor Orban ousted after 16 years in government and the French far-right underperforming in last month's municipal elections.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-mexico-spain-pledge-send-more-aid-cuba-2026-04-18/
Karen Resistance Captures Two Regime Bases Over Thingyan Holidays
On April 12, fighters from the KNU, People Defense Forces (PDF) and All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF) seized the Lay Kay military base in Mon State’s Bilin Township. Strategically located at the border of Mon and Karen states, the base housed the regime’s Light Infantry Battalion 2 and served as a gateway for the regime’s counteroffensive attacking the KNU’s brigades 7 and 5 in Hpa-an and Hpapun.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/karen-resistance-captures-two-regime-bases-over-thingyan-holidays.html
Nepali Communist Party Criticizes Government Over Evictions and Policy Concerns
The statement mentions that activities carried out in the name of squatter management have left victimized families stranded and increased the risk of weakening the trust of marginalized communities in the state. 'We urge the government not to carry out such actions without making proper arrangements for rehabilitation,' the statement said. Meanwhile, the party has also demanded immediate control over rising inflation and black marketeering, which it claims have increased following the formation of the new government.
https://english.ratopati.com/story/59643/ncp-objects-to-squatter-uprising-and-ban-on-student-organizations
Australian state Labor government defends unconstitutional anti-protest law
For the second time in six months, the Labor government in the state of New South Wales (NSW) has defiantly defended imposing sweeping anti-protest legislation despite courts striking the laws down for violating the Australian Constitution. “The NSW government absolutely stands by the decision to introduce this legislation,” Premier Chris Minns declared on Thursday. “We believe it was necessary and important for Sydney at the time.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/18/gvtg-a18.html
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CSAM ALERT
Its on siberia again
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Manica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.
/ita/ - Spaghetti Communism
ITALIANS DO IT BETTERManica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.
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Back then, GamerGate was the start of something fresh, something edgy, something that was actually rebellious against both the bourgeois moralisms stifling the internet and the feminist hegemony that no western male could escape from. It was an escape valve, in other words.
But of course, I was wrong as GamerGate later on mestatized into being another wing of the current right-wing hegemonic ChudIntern. Indeed, GamerGate was merely an exercise in online reactionary activism, but we should actually try to analyse it as opposed to dismissing it as chuds being chuds.
It’s won’t give you the kind of analysis that has probably been done to death here, such as the alienation of young men, the rise of white upper-class female idpol and the HR-style managerial culture that preceded online censorship and SJWs’ political correctness, journos forming email groups as part of a coordinated attack on the median gamer, the MSM’s double standards towards female-exclusive spaces vs treating male-only spaces (such as gaming) pathologically, etc…
This is a good summary of the event from a gamergater’s POV: https://wolfsheadonline.com/how-wikipedia-and-molly-white-rewrote-the-history-of-gamergate/
Instead, I’ll say this: The rise of the gooner chuds that you see today is a product of GamerGate, itself being downstream from the left’s rejection of sex-positivity and and pathologisation of any form of assertive male heterosexuality to heed the demands of the feminist bourgeoise that held a stranglehold on the left.
Obviously the online right isn’t really sex-positive as much as being pro-sexual hierarchy and has been the case within the western right since the days of the Nazis and even before then (e.g., Annunzio’s enterprise in Fiume). It’s just that their vision of sexuality makes enough space for male heterosexuality to attract young men (the most revolutionary demographic) into their fold. The left’s response? It’s either dumb Puritanism as shown by puriteens who think Euphoria (that show starring Sydney Sweeney) is rape culture, or bastardised “trad Marxism” about banning porn and prosties cuz muh exploitation even tho Chinese games nowadays are heavily gooned out + the Soviet bloc was lax on non-commercial erotica (hence why post-collapse Eastern Europe became a thriving heaven for porn). The modern left thought that selling out on the 1970s sex positivity to appease radfems was worth it despite handing the right a victory. I mean, remember that time Reddit’s r/socialism mods went apeshit over catgirl anime edits even tho it was done a female leftist member and it was just SFW anime girls but with cat ears edited on them? Yh, that’s the level of discourse you’re dealing with when it comes to sex-negative leftists.
Of course, there’s the issue of ageism, and ohh boy is that big. There’s this attitude among both the centre and the left where young men are often infantilised as being lost sheeple or stigmatised over their age in ways that would be alienating if done to other demographics, so the end result is young men flocking to the right precisely because they don’t think they will have any stakes in the left. Seniors are supposed to help youths who are proven to be determined to fight for the revolution, not throw’ em away for violating some HR-mandated code. It’s one thing to maintain decorum in conversations and being opposed to extremism, but you won’t get far if you try to overpolice on every little convo your members have.
What’s the takeaway from me then? The left rejecting sex-positivity and embracing ageism were its two biggest mistakes that cost them an entire generation.
P.S.: It’s one thing to oppose sexual hierarchies that devalue humans, it’s another to devalue the body and the Eros in and of themselves. The left shouldn’t necessarily embrace prostitution, but it also shouldn’t embrace sex-negativity either. I would personally suggest reviving the free sex movement because, if sex does become widely available under a secular sex positive society, then obviously prostitutes and porn studios and pimps would be out of business. That’s why Marx often noted how traditionalist marital moralism coexisted with prostitution, with or without its prohibition. But I’m open for other suggestions.
Again, can’t say if it’s said already or not, but I do think those points need to be hammered home as it seems that the left prior to the Gaza genocide was struggling to remain relevant, especially as Big tech right figures like Musk and Thiel were pumping a shit ton of dollars to aid the remnants of the alt-right to carve their mockingbird network out of it; their work has paid off in the form of the current unholy MAGA and alt-right and neocon nexus that I’d like to call “white neoconservatism with Enoch Powell characteristics”, with Australia’s and Canada’s brightest minds Drew Pavlou and Captive_Dreamer starting out differently only to end up being rabid racist neocons.
So yh: Sex-negativity and Ageism are bad things, folks.
GamerGate: A retrospective
Not sure if this is the right place, but since this is the gaming tab, I say why not?Back then, GamerGate was the start of something fresh, something edgy, something that was actually rebellious against both the bourgeois moralisms stifling the internet and the feminist hegemony that no western male could escape from. It was an escape valve, in other words.
But of course, I was wrong as GamerGate later on mestatized into being another wing of the current right-wing hegemonic ChudIntern. Indeed, GamerGate was merely an exercise in online reactionary activism, but we should actually try to analyse it as opposed to dismissing it as chuds being chuds.
It’s won’t give you the kind of analysis that has probably been done to death here, such as the alienation of young men, the rise of white upper-class female idpol and the HR-style managerial culture that preceded online censorship and SJWs’ political correctness, journos forming email groups as part of a coordinated attack on the median gamer, the MSM’s double standards towards female-exclusive spaces vs treating male-only spaces (such as gaming) pathologically, etc…
This is a good summary of the event from a gamergater’s POV: https://wolfsheadonline.com/how-wikipedia-and-molly-white-rewrote-the-history-of-gamergate/
Instead, I’ll say this: The rise of the gooner chuds that you see today is a product of GamerGate, itself being downstream from the left’s rejection of sex-positivity and and pathologisation of any form of assertive male heterosexuality to heed the demands of the feminist bourgeoise that held a stranglehold on the left.
Obviously the online right isn’t really sex-positive as much as being pro-sexual hierarchy and has been the case within the western right since the days of the Nazis and even before then (e.g., Annunzio’s enterprise in Fiume). It’s just that their vision of sexuality makes enough space for male heterosexuality to attract young men (the most revolutionary demographic) into their fold. The left’s response? It’s either dumb Puritanism as shown by puriteens who think Euphoria (that show starring Sydney Sweeney) is rape culture, or bastardised “trad Marxism” about banning porn and prosties cuz muh exploitation even tho Chinese games nowadays are heavily gooned out + the Soviet bloc was lax on non-commercial erotica (hence why post-collapse Eastern Europe became a thriving heaven for porn). The modern left thought that selling out on the 1970s sex positivity to appease radfems was worth it despite handing the right a victory. I mean, remember that time Reddit’s r/socialism mods went apeshit over catgirl anime edits even tho it was done a female leftist member and it was just SFW anime girls but with cat ears edited on them? Yh, that’s the level of discourse you’re dealing with when it comes to sex-negative leftists.
Of course, there’s the issue of ageism, and ohh boy is that big. There’s this attitude among both the centre and the left where young men are often infantilised as being lost sheeple or stigmatised over their age in ways that would be alienating if done to other demographics, so the end result is young men flocking to the right precisely because they don’t think they will have any stakes in the left. Seniors are supposed to help youths who are proven to be determined to fight for the revolution, not throw’ em away for violating some HR-mandated code. It’s one thing to maintain decorum in conversations and being opposed to extremism, but you won’t get far if you try to overpolice on every little convo your members have.
What’s the takeaway from me then? The left rejecting sex-positivity and embracing ageism were its two biggest mistakes that cost them an entire generation.
P.S.: It’s one thing to oppose sexual hierarchies that devalue humans, it’s another to devalue the body and the Eros in and of themselves. The left shouldn’t necessarily embrace prostitution, but it also shouldn’t embrace sex-negativity either. I would personally suggest reviving the free sex movement because, if sex does become widely available under a secular sex positive society, then obviously prostitutes and porn studios and pimps would be out of business. That’s why Marx often noted how traditionalist marital moralism coexisted with prostitution, with or without its prohibition. But I’m open for other suggestions.
Again, can’t say if it’s said already or not, but I do think those points need to be hammered home as it seems that the left prior to the Gaza genocide was struggling to remain relevant, especially as Big tech right figures like Musk and Thiel were pumping a shit ton of dollars to aid the remnants of the alt-right to carve their mockingbird network out of it; their work has paid off in the form of the current unholy MAGA and alt-right and neocon nexus that I’d like to call “white neoconservatism with Enoch Powell characteristics”, with Australia’s and Canada’s brightest minds Drew Pavlou and Captive_Dreamer starting out differently only to end up being rabid racist neocons.
So yh: Sex-negativity and Ageism are bad things, folks.
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Ohhhh look at me I'm so esotericcccc 👀👀👀I'm so philosophicalllll 👀👀👀 I’m so nicheeeee 👀👀👀
Ohhhh look at me I'm so esotericcccc 👀👀👀I'm so philosophicalllll 👀👀👀 I’m so nicheeeee 👀👀👀
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Post tits: big, small, natural, fake, saggy, flat, milfs; any woman with breasts, post ‘em
(Preferably not ai, unless they’re good quality)
Tits thread 2
Since you f@gs let the last thread die i’m making a new onePost tits: big, small, natural, fake, saggy, flat, milfs; any woman with breasts, post ‘em
(Preferably not ai, unless they’re good quality)
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Tricky Tony
Is Toby fox petty bourgeoisie/a porky? Genuine question, i mean he doesn’t really own capital aside from the intellectual property right of his games and his team or whatever owns their own means of production, are all indie games just Little Hitlerite Small Businesses™️? Who cares anyway the games are just transhumanistslop at the end of the day
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Why are they like this?
Why are they like this?
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This shit goes hard, post cool ass communist edits
This shit goes hard, post cool ass communist edits
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I'm tired of being Eur-African.
I'm tired of my pasty white blotchy Angloid rashy skin that burns up in the sun. (I got no melanin despite my African ancestry). I wish I had olive Asian skin that didn't burn but also wasn't so dark as to not see skin issues like melanoma.
I'm tired of my Quadroon tangly curls and ingrown hairs. I wish I had straight Asian hair.
I wish I had epicanthal folds instead of a highly exposed canthus.
These are all practical concerns, I swear I am not being racist against myself.
Why are trans people allowed to be transgender but nobody is allowed to be Transracial?
Coming Out As Transracial
This is gonna sound chud but I wish I was Asian.I'm tired of being Eur-African.
I'm tired of my pasty white blotchy Angloid rashy skin that burns up in the sun. (I got no melanin despite my African ancestry). I wish I had olive Asian skin that didn't burn but also wasn't so dark as to not see skin issues like melanoma.
I'm tired of my Quadroon tangly curls and ingrown hairs. I wish I had straight Asian hair.
I wish I had epicanthal folds instead of a highly exposed canthus.
These are all practical concerns, I swear I am not being racist against myself.
Why are trans people allowed to be transgender but nobody is allowed to be Transracial?
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https://en.namu.wiki/w/TDM(%EC%BA%90%EB%A6%AD%ED%84%B0)
previous thread: https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/82266522/#82266522
/TDM/ - Teitoshin Deformed Mascots General
4chan is kill (again) editionhttps://en.namu.wiki/w/TDM(%EC%BA%90%EB%A6%AD%ED%84%B0)
previous thread: https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/82266522/#82266522
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>>2535127
So give the fact US invasion of Greenland went from provocative joke to a realistic possibility, what are the chances of European governments getting their shit together?
/EUropol/
Previous thread:So give the fact US invasion of Greenland went from provocative joke to a realistic possibility, what are the chances of European governments getting their shit together?
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Look I'm gonna be honest with you.. mostly teenagers and women: I got banned from KC for a month and that's why I'm posting here, also this is a Kohlface not a Chud.
Look I'm gonna be honest with you.. mostly teenagers and women: I got banned from KC for a month and that's why I'm posting here, also this is a Kohlface not a Chud.
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>>The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is currently nursing a seven-figure debt, cutting half a million dollars from its own staff while chasing the electoral dragon. The entire organization spent just $10,783 on federal elections in 2024, a pittance that gets swallowed whole by a single real estate developer’s check. They dump millions into campaigns (just look at the $28,000 a single mayoral candidate paid his local DSA chapter for "texting"), yet can’t scrape together the funds to keep a single free clinic running. This is the political economy of the professional left, burn cash on consultants, beg for donations to pay off debt, and call it "building power."
>>Meanwhile, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) isn’t even in the same league. Their idea of a "revolutionary" budget is a phone bank asking for $101 donations to "defeat the extreme-right," with zero transparent accounting of how those dollars translate into actual working-class power. For all their talk of centralism, they’ve been reduced to a glorified NGO, fundraising for Cuban pacemakers instead of organizing the oppressed in their own backyard.
Where does all this money go? It certainly doesn’t go to the people. DSA pours its resources into "inside the system" electoralism, running candidates on the Democratic Party line and calling it a "conquest of ballots". They spend fortunes on primary campaigns, Jamaal Bowman’s loss was the most expensive primary in U.S. history, while anarchists and real leftists open free clinics in dingy squats, scraping by on shoestring budgets because they actually live with the people they claim to serve.
This is the hypocrisy of the white‑collar left. They are careerists, middle managers, and petty‑bourgeois intellectuals who have never missed a meal. Their politics are a hobby, not a survival strategy. They call the lumpen "counter‑revolutionary" and the blue‑collar worker "crude," then retreat to their academic castles to write another resolution about "building dual power." Meanwhile, anarchists, the ones with actual class composition rooted in the working class and the dispossessed are the ones running the real mutual aid networks, organizing prison strikes, and keeping the lights on in the community spaces that these NGO‑leftists refuse to fund.
Let’s be clear, Every dollar the DSA and CPUSA raise for political campaigns is a dollar stolen from direct working‑class power. That money could have opened a dozen free clinics, sustained a network of squats, or built the infrastructure for a real working class power. Instead, it funds the careers of the very bureaucrats who will sell us out the moment the state offers them a seat at the table.
This is why anarchists are more revolutionary by nature, they don’t have a stake in the system. They are the dropouts, the blue‑collar workers, the lumpen who have nothing to lose but their chains. The Marxist‑Leninists, by contrast, are white‑collar bureaucrats who approach politics as a career path. They are legitimately inside the system, enjoying its partial benefits, and terrified of losing them. They will never smash the state because they are already living off its crumbs.
Study anarchism. Study Mao. Stop being indirect, lazy, careerist scum. Build the clinics. Organize the prisons. Burn the electoral bridge. We need to stop asking for permission and start taking what’s ours. Until then, let the debt‑ridden NGO‑leftists drown in their own paperwork. We have real work to do. People need to stop treating anarchists as mockery of the left, when indeed their political models and organizations seem to directly benefit the working-class way more than any Marxist party. I speak from experience here; when anarchist collectives form and exist for a long time, they often have a purpose and stick to that purpose. Example, go look into the Anarchist Black Cross. Their model is better for the west, and if Marxists adopt said models, the bourgeiose would lose their marbles. Trust me.
Leftist Bookkeepers
The US left is a graveyard of wasted motion, but nowhere is the dead rotting flesh more visible than in the bookkeeping of its "vanguard" parties.>>The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is currently nursing a seven-figure debt, cutting half a million dollars from its own staff while chasing the electoral dragon. The entire organization spent just $10,783 on federal elections in 2024, a pittance that gets swallowed whole by a single real estate developer’s check. They dump millions into campaigns (just look at the $28,000 a single mayoral candidate paid his local DSA chapter for "texting"), yet can’t scrape together the funds to keep a single free clinic running. This is the political economy of the professional left, burn cash on consultants, beg for donations to pay off debt, and call it "building power."
>>Meanwhile, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) isn’t even in the same league. Their idea of a "revolutionary" budget is a phone bank asking for $101 donations to "defeat the extreme-right," with zero transparent accounting of how those dollars translate into actual working-class power. For all their talk of centralism, they’ve been reduced to a glorified NGO, fundraising for Cuban pacemakers instead of organizing the oppressed in their own backyard.
Where does all this money go? It certainly doesn’t go to the people. DSA pours its resources into "inside the system" electoralism, running candidates on the Democratic Party line and calling it a "conquest of ballots". They spend fortunes on primary campaigns, Jamaal Bowman’s loss was the most expensive primary in U.S. history, while anarchists and real leftists open free clinics in dingy squats, scraping by on shoestring budgets because they actually live with the people they claim to serve.
This is the hypocrisy of the white‑collar left. They are careerists, middle managers, and petty‑bourgeois intellectuals who have never missed a meal. Their politics are a hobby, not a survival strategy. They call the lumpen "counter‑revolutionary" and the blue‑collar worker "crude," then retreat to their academic castles to write another resolution about "building dual power." Meanwhile, anarchists, the ones with actual class composition rooted in the working class and the dispossessed are the ones running the real mutual aid networks, organizing prison strikes, and keeping the lights on in the community spaces that these NGO‑leftists refuse to fund.
Let’s be clear, Every dollar the DSA and CPUSA raise for political campaigns is a dollar stolen from direct working‑class power. That money could have opened a dozen free clinics, sustained a network of squats, or built the infrastructure for a real working class power. Instead, it funds the careers of the very bureaucrats who will sell us out the moment the state offers them a seat at the table.
This is why anarchists are more revolutionary by nature, they don’t have a stake in the system. They are the dropouts, the blue‑collar workers, the lumpen who have nothing to lose but their chains. The Marxist‑Leninists, by contrast, are white‑collar bureaucrats who approach politics as a career path. They are legitimately inside the system, enjoying its partial benefits, and terrified of losing them. They will never smash the state because they are already living off its crumbs.
Study anarchism. Study Mao. Stop being indirect, lazy, careerist scum. Build the clinics. Organize the prisons. Burn the electoral bridge. We need to stop asking for permission and start taking what’s ours. Until then, let the debt‑ridden NGO‑leftists drown in their own paperwork. We have real work to do. People need to stop treating anarchists as mockery of the left, when indeed their political models and organizations seem to directly benefit the working-class way more than any Marxist party. I speak from experience here; when anarchist collectives form and exist for a long time, they often have a purpose and stick to that purpose. Example, go look into the Anarchist Black Cross. Their model is better for the west, and if Marxists adopt said models, the bourgeiose would lose their marbles. Trust me.
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Satanic Nazis n shit
Do you think satan would be a nazi? I mean think about it, the reason why Lucifer was banished from heaven was because he was the first angel to view other beings as weak and unequal to others
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Why wouldn't the Bourgeoisie immediatly mass produce this and exterminate us with it ? Why would they keep us alive ?
Can they actually win the class war ?
Obviously we're not there yet, but it's getting closer isn't it.
Idk, maybe they all get fucked by climate change anyway, that would be funny.
Could the Bourgeoisie win the class war by exterminating us?
Say, in the next few years, fat engineers in Silicon Valley invent some robot that can do everything a regular human worker can do.Why wouldn't the Bourgeoisie immediatly mass produce this and exterminate us with it ? Why would they keep us alive ?
Can they actually win the class war ?
Obviously we're not there yet, but it's getting closer isn't it.
Idk, maybe they all get fucked by climate change anyway, that would be funny.
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1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.
2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.
3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.
4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.
6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.
7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.
8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.
9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.
10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.
11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.
13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.
14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.
15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.
16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.
17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.
18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.
19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.
20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.
22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/2045574398573453312
The Palantir Manifesto
The Technological Republic, in brief.1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.
2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.
3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.
4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.
6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.
7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.
8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.
9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.
10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.
11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.
13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.
14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.
15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.
16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.
17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.
18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.
19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.
20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.
22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/2045574398573453312
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Laws Passed: Slim Jim Rule (preferential ordinance of hire), Free the Weed (police protocol as outside contraband), Detective Comics (terror effects per Herod mobilized).
Carlin Sarkesian: NSA fire mission from Armageddon MUD, "Khelkhet" as ops recruiter; in possession of United Nations literature and Uziel submachine guns and Israeli build Armalites; buried by State Police, Massachusetts.
Philip Enfield: Recognizance mission against Mossad Detroit and Insane Clown Posse air field labor recruit; report through witness into police, capture by Rhode Island State Police and execution inside corrections after holding period; "99" call, confirmed capture, Seventh Day Adventist (Church of Nestor, Turkish CIA) phone signal.
John Washburne: Contact of Marvel Comics cell, through pawn played, Gwenn Pratt; captures of Counselor Nixon, MI-6 Service Operator "Cusack" (Washburne's stage name in Hollywood), and Vampy Burrill (Green Beret, in desertion). Marvel Comics purchased by Disney, John Washburne quietly removed and family removed from arts, and Vampy returned to her unit for 7/7 bombing on full report and return. Counselor Nixon placed at UMass-Amherst police station with State Police observing demand of Congress law (despite being a lawyer, not a soldier or cop, Congress or State Legislature; lawyers using courts), Gwenn Pratt's State Department access out of Hartford station removed, and John Washburne quietly killed and framed as "Juice Ortiz" by the FBI on "Sons of Anarchy".
Keith Velasquez: German Police Counter-Terror, out of New Hampshire station, "cigarettes", INTERPOL private detective out of the Netherlands and High Times magazine and NORML; suicide staged through USAF advisor, Ivan Boris Tomasic, undercover in IDF through Russian-Basim handler on high hire through the Church of Satan (Russian-Catechism), and body recovered in Essex County growing stations for marijuana, dead of foaming at the mouth from smoking Raid on a witnessed theft of sold contraband to NSA HUMINT on the ground; Essex Deputies Union, recovery of documents to Boston Police Department, Municipal PD, and turnover to State Department Washington DC, through Boston State Department.
Marisa Tomasic: Lodge challenge from Ivan Tomasic, on veracity of Madison bloodline held in Lodge on right hand, bent thumb, age 9; formation of "The Secret Six", six Founding Fathers; "The Presidents of Crime", 1780, the US Constitutional Congress, yet again invoked, with the exact term used yet again. Print of "Gotham", to target Ivan Tomasic's funders in Bellevue Israel and the "Law and Order" program, with BD Wong appearing due to stolen semen from Echelon Informant Mariska Hargitay; BD Wong proven not gay, to BD Wong, hence hire of fact and tantamount from records of own experience working for British television and Rockefeller Center; his life story, as a British writer and psychologist, played on "Gotham" as himself, "Hugo Strange".
Rich Kyanka: Setup on "Goons", "Codes", and "Chans", 1999, through Raven "Silver" Laventi, real name "Jenna Hager Bush", when both starting out in intelligence, at "Hasbro", the "Beast Machines" television show created by the Hasbro team before mobilization at 9/11/01. Deliberate spot of code stolen through Something Awful, at name of Israeli combat operative, "Baghdad Bob", spokesperson for Saddam Hussein and Mesopotamia Israel, added to "stein", "anti-Semite" in German; hate crime reported to Congress, Al Franken, and Rich Kyanka forced to kill himself; Something Awful, "Persian Gay Rights", rape of women outside Iranian bloodlines, now an international sensation.
Christine Warren: Full DEA strike team led by DEA founder by family, Zach Savell, in kevlar, rifles, and special UPS van labeled "DEA" on side, with SWAT embarkment; Christine Warren, Plainville PD, informed of psychotic delusion and UMass-Amherst police dossier by David Michael Charlebois; when police records on campus checked, "CIA HUMINT" returned, with Dave's semen stolen baby in Will Morgan's care, a violent white supremacist and the personification of Adolf Hitler, but American; Jefferson Davis, the same thing as Adolf Hitler, but one hundred years prior.
Cassie-Leigh Stock: MI-6 mole located in system as partner agent to Nicholas Maynard, French intelligence, and Brian Monaghan, Swedish Axis of Germany; heart attack induced through ass worship from her spouse, a State Police officer, male, from not being able to bottom in sex; Dave Cataldo, had turned her into a lesbian, with missionary position; the subject of "Batman Forever", the movie starring Val Kilmer as Dave Cataldo, Jim Carrey as Matthew Lennox, Tommy Lee Jones as Dave Charlebois, and Nicole Kidman as Cassie-Leigh Stock.
Francie Chapman: Word of Dogg the Bounty Hunter being robbed by his wife, and induced cerebal orgasm, causing failure of lungs and cervix cavity, at attempting to have a baby with a younger bounty hunter to recruit him for a Dogg the Bounty Hunter sequel. Cleared in courts of law, Dogg the Bounty Hunter, when he checked Francie Chapman's accountant maintenance and discovered that the money never existed, she was on steroids; "Chuckles" has struck again, and this time, it was a lady.
Vatican SIS (Wiccans)
Team Targets: Rabbinical Labor (Adolf Hitler), Catholic-Judaism (Gulda Meir), Political-Sacrifice (Ayatollah Khameini).Laws Passed: Slim Jim Rule (preferential ordinance of hire), Free the Weed (police protocol as outside contraband), Detective Comics (terror effects per Herod mobilized).
Carlin Sarkesian: NSA fire mission from Armageddon MUD, "Khelkhet" as ops recruiter; in possession of United Nations literature and Uziel submachine guns and Israeli build Armalites; buried by State Police, Massachusetts.
Philip Enfield: Recognizance mission against Mossad Detroit and Insane Clown Posse air field labor recruit; report through witness into police, capture by Rhode Island State Police and execution inside corrections after holding period; "99" call, confirmed capture, Seventh Day Adventist (Church of Nestor, Turkish CIA) phone signal.
John Washburne: Contact of Marvel Comics cell, through pawn played, Gwenn Pratt; captures of Counselor Nixon, MI-6 Service Operator "Cusack" (Washburne's stage name in Hollywood), and Vampy Burrill (Green Beret, in desertion). Marvel Comics purchased by Disney, John Washburne quietly removed and family removed from arts, and Vampy returned to her unit for 7/7 bombing on full report and return. Counselor Nixon placed at UMass-Amherst police station with State Police observing demand of Congress law (despite being a lawyer, not a soldier or cop, Congress or State Legislature; lawyers using courts), Gwenn Pratt's State Department access out of Hartford station removed, and John Washburne quietly killed and framed as "Juice Ortiz" by the FBI on "Sons of Anarchy".
Keith Velasquez: German Police Counter-Terror, out of New Hampshire station, "cigarettes", INTERPOL private detective out of the Netherlands and High Times magazine and NORML; suicide staged through USAF advisor, Ivan Boris Tomasic, undercover in IDF through Russian-Basim handler on high hire through the Church of Satan (Russian-Catechism), and body recovered in Essex County growing stations for marijuana, dead of foaming at the mouth from smoking Raid on a witnessed theft of sold contraband to NSA HUMINT on the ground; Essex Deputies Union, recovery of documents to Boston Police Department, Municipal PD, and turnover to State Department Washington DC, through Boston State Department.
Marisa Tomasic: Lodge challenge from Ivan Tomasic, on veracity of Madison bloodline held in Lodge on right hand, bent thumb, age 9; formation of "The Secret Six", six Founding Fathers; "The Presidents of Crime", 1780, the US Constitutional Congress, yet again invoked, with the exact term used yet again. Print of "Gotham", to target Ivan Tomasic's funders in Bellevue Israel and the "Law and Order" program, with BD Wong appearing due to stolen semen from Echelon Informant Mariska Hargitay; BD Wong proven not gay, to BD Wong, hence hire of fact and tantamount from records of own experience working for British television and Rockefeller Center; his life story, as a British writer and psychologist, played on "Gotham" as himself, "Hugo Strange".
Rich Kyanka: Setup on "Goons", "Codes", and "Chans", 1999, through Raven "Silver" Laventi, real name "Jenna Hager Bush", when both starting out in intelligence, at "Hasbro", the "Beast Machines" television show created by the Hasbro team before mobilization at 9/11/01. Deliberate spot of code stolen through Something Awful, at name of Israeli combat operative, "Baghdad Bob", spokesperson for Saddam Hussein and Mesopotamia Israel, added to "stein", "anti-Semite" in German; hate crime reported to Congress, Al Franken, and Rich Kyanka forced to kill himself; Something Awful, "Persian Gay Rights", rape of women outside Iranian bloodlines, now an international sensation.
Christine Warren: Full DEA strike team led by DEA founder by family, Zach Savell, in kevlar, rifles, and special UPS van labeled "DEA" on side, with SWAT embarkment; Christine Warren, Plainville PD, informed of psychotic delusion and UMass-Amherst police dossier by David Michael Charlebois; when police records on campus checked, "CIA HUMINT" returned, with Dave's semen stolen baby in Will Morgan's care, a violent white supremacist and the personification of Adolf Hitler, but American; Jefferson Davis, the same thing as Adolf Hitler, but one hundred years prior.
Cassie-Leigh Stock: MI-6 mole located in system as partner agent to Nicholas Maynard, French intelligence, and Brian Monaghan, Swedish Axis of Germany; heart attack induced through ass worship from her spouse, a State Police officer, male, from not being able to bottom in sex; Dave Cataldo, had turned her into a lesbian, with missionary position; the subject of "Batman Forever", the movie starring Val Kilmer as Dave Cataldo, Jim Carrey as Matthew Lennox, Tommy Lee Jones as Dave Charlebois, and Nicole Kidman as Cassie-Leigh Stock.
Francie Chapman: Word of Dogg the Bounty Hunter being robbed by his wife, and induced cerebal orgasm, causing failure of lungs and cervix cavity, at attempting to have a baby with a younger bounty hunter to recruit him for a Dogg the Bounty Hunter sequel. Cleared in courts of law, Dogg the Bounty Hunter, when he checked Francie Chapman's accountant maintenance and discovered that the money never existed, she was on steroids; "Chuckles" has struck again, and this time, it was a lady.
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Post videos from the Balkan internet. We will rebuild the Balkan internet
The reality is easy to forget-get-get
/lbb/ - Leftypol Balkan Random
>Rebuild editionPost videos from the Balkan internet. We will rebuild the Balkan internet
The reality is easy to forget-get-get
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Fashion thread V
Previous thread: >>36889
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It was a Sekiro-like. and not even that great a one. It almost seems like it was hyped to shit because it had attractive girls in skintight suits and almost only because of that. I had more fun with Devil's Third of all games.
Games the chuds tricked you into buying
With the amount of shill threads about Stellar Blade I kept seeing on 4chan /v/ saying it was a "decent action game" I ended up buying it along with some other games for my brother's birthday last year (at great expense as it's a modern video game and all). He never touched it so I finally gave the demo a go myself to see if it was worth the hype.It was a Sekiro-like. and not even that great a one. It almost seems like it was hyped to shit because it had attractive girls in skintight suits and almost only because of that. I had more fun with Devil's Third of all games.
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Bikini Armor is something of a staple of chud discourse and many gamers will refuse to play games that don't feature it, but at this point it is something that future game devs predicting a pro-chud vibe shift will include in their games. Especially games being developed in 2024 where chuddery was at it's most potent. Yet somehow I still think that bikini armor propaganda will still be a potent force in future politics now that even centrist men will berate you for not having hoes in bikini armor.
I frankly think it has a place in games, but only where it really makes sense and I might as well get some male cheese cake as well
Bikini Armor is something of a staple of chud discourse and many gamers will refuse to play games that don't feature it, but at this point it is something that future game devs predicting a pro-chud vibe shift will include in their games. Especially games being developed in 2024 where chuddery was at it's most potent. Yet somehow I still think that bikini armor propaganda will still be a potent force in future politics now that even centrist men will berate you for not having hoes in bikini armor.
I frankly think it has a place in games, but only where it really makes sense and I might as well get some male cheese cake as well
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The overall American left has been stuck when it comes to effective anti-war activism. The way the US does war nowadays isn’t Vietnam but El Salvador: instead of sending in a bajillion troops to invade/occupy the US just funds proxy armies and now uses drone/aerial warfare. That’s what Obama did in Syria last decade, for instance.
The anti-war music we’re all used to was very much a product of the 60s New Left, and there was no 60s New Left without the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War. The youth were afraid of being drafted into a bullshit war that the U.S. couldn’t win. But we don’t see mass boots on the ground today, and because of that, we don’t see a mass response to war in the cultural realm. In order for Billie Eilish to be “John Lennon”, Iran needs to be Vietnam (Gd forbid). In order for Kehlani to make a “What’s Going On?” or a “Someday We’ll All Be Free” Iran needs to be Vietnam. The war needs to conform to a method of warfare that the left knows how to effectively oppose. It’s morbid and disgusting but that’s sadly the case.
And assuming the “woke” pop stars make music in response to this conflict, what will it contain? It won’t be universalist anti-war or anti-imperialist anthems but centre entirely on “I hate Trump, this war is about Epstein, AIPAC bad”. Will be highly dated in three years once Trump and his goons leave office.
The Real Reason We Don’t See Protest Music Anymore
The question of why Trump’s Iran war hasn’t sparked a wave of anti-war protest music is actually very simple.The overall American left has been stuck when it comes to effective anti-war activism. The way the US does war nowadays isn’t Vietnam but El Salvador: instead of sending in a bajillion troops to invade/occupy the US just funds proxy armies and now uses drone/aerial warfare. That’s what Obama did in Syria last decade, for instance.
The anti-war music we’re all used to was very much a product of the 60s New Left, and there was no 60s New Left without the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War. The youth were afraid of being drafted into a bullshit war that the U.S. couldn’t win. But we don’t see mass boots on the ground today, and because of that, we don’t see a mass response to war in the cultural realm. In order for Billie Eilish to be “John Lennon”, Iran needs to be Vietnam (Gd forbid). In order for Kehlani to make a “What’s Going On?” or a “Someday We’ll All Be Free” Iran needs to be Vietnam. The war needs to conform to a method of warfare that the left knows how to effectively oppose. It’s morbid and disgusting but that’s sadly the case.
And assuming the “woke” pop stars make music in response to this conflict, what will it contain? It won’t be universalist anti-war or anti-imperialist anthems but centre entirely on “I hate Trump, this war is about Epstein, AIPAC bad”. Will be highly dated in three years once Trump and his goons leave office.
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idpol matters because if it didn't you wouldn't have supposedly Christian (really Zionist) culture ruling in supposedly secular governments which is where America largely screwed up.. if you read the Bible, Jesus himself was very secular for his time
idpol matters because if it didn't you wouldn't have supposedly Christian (really Zionist) culture ruling in supposedly secular governments which is where America largely screwed up.. if you read the Bible, Jesus himself was very secular for his time
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Pic related, an anarchist moon revolving around a capitalist planet 200 years after the revolution.
utopian sci-fi
Tired of cyberpunk and dystopian culture in general, post ITT worlds you would want to live in or not too bad depictions of leftist societies.Pic related, an anarchist moon revolving around a capitalist planet 200 years after the revolution.
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>want to learn makeup to fix my ugly masculine face
>have to research and buy an overwhelming fuckton of different makeup products
>realize i have to do skincare and fix my acne before learning makeup
>have to go to dermatologist to get recommended a skincare routine
>says it might not even work for me and it will takes months to tell
>cant even do the skincare routine consistently because of how depressed i am
>mfw its been 4 days since i last used any skincare products
Ill never be able to fix my acne, ill never be able to learn makeup. My face will always be ugly gross and masculine. Ill never be able to be a pretty femboy.
>want to learn makeup to fix my ugly masculine face
>have to research and buy an overwhelming fuckton of different makeup products
>realize i have to do skincare and fix my acne before learning makeup
>have to go to dermatologist to get recommended a skincare routine
>says it might not even work for me and it will takes months to tell
>cant even do the skincare routine consistently because of how depressed i am
>mfw its been 4 days since i last used any skincare products
Ill never be able to fix my acne, ill never be able to learn makeup. My face will always be ugly gross and masculine. Ill never be able to be a pretty femboy.
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>*smacks lips* ermmm…. yeahhh, we're not focusing on LGBT rights, we actually just want queer baby killers to get their money
this stonewall shit is fucking hilarious lol
>*smacks lips* ermmm…. yeahhh, we're not focusing on LGBT rights, we actually just want queer baby killers to get their money
this stonewall shit is fucking hilarious lol
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everyone always criticises the redpill but what if it was real?
imagine a world where aura is the ultimate global currency, your ranking is incredibly volatile and can change on any moment based on mathematically verified analyses of your facial bone structure and frame, and any social slip ups can cause tremendous damage to your social standing.
because of this, a negative rank individual (someone below beta I) literally cannot participate in the economy, this is a state known as permamogging, where you cant leave the house without being mogged by wvery living being including plants, because your aura is so low.
if someone mogs you in public, they steal a chunk of your aura (depending on the brutality of the mog), this means you can walk into a store as a beta IV and leave as a beta II because an alpha X walked past the window
since a mog is a personal offense, you are legally entitled to issue a countermog within a 48 hour period, this is known as a "mog off", a high stakes display of grooming, posture and lighting.
an intelligent bonesmashmaxxing session may lead to a superior jawline which can land you a strategic victory agaisnt someone a rank above you, allowing you to restore the lost aura from their mogging, and perhaps, if youre lucky, even a fraction of the opponents harem
women change partners with insane volatility, life is a brutal battle to try and maintain your social standing, men spend upwards of 6-7 hours of their day looksmaxxing in order to be able to defend their current ranks, and possibly rise above, with the most desireable positions being gatekept by genetical superiority
in this world politicians are chosen by mathematical darwinism. the 'debates' are just televised mog-offs where candidates display their frame and skull structures to the camera on a rotating platform for 3 days straight, without eating, drinking or sleeping, all the while an unbelieveably advanced AI algorithm analyses every molecule of their bodies in order to calculate who is the most genetically perfect specimen, a long and complex process which is why the debates last 3 days.
once the results are in (usually by an incredibly narrow margin, one candidate might beat the other by only a 0.0001% more harmonious mid face ratio) the candidate is sworn in by the council of chads, during his position he will take up the spot as #1 ranked chad of his respective country and must use his aura responsibly, and not steal everyone elses girls or mog too many people
everyone always criticises the redpill but what if it was real?
imagine a world where aura is the ultimate global currency, your ranking is incredibly volatile and can change on any moment based on mathematically verified analyses of your facial bone structure and frame, and any social slip ups can cause tremendous damage to your social standing.
because of this, a negative rank individual (someone below beta I) literally cannot participate in the economy, this is a state known as permamogging, where you cant leave the house without being mogged by wvery living being including plants, because your aura is so low.
if someone mogs you in public, they steal a chunk of your aura (depending on the brutality of the mog), this means you can walk into a store as a beta IV and leave as a beta II because an alpha X walked past the window
since a mog is a personal offense, you are legally entitled to issue a countermog within a 48 hour period, this is known as a "mog off", a high stakes display of grooming, posture and lighting.
an intelligent bonesmashmaxxing session may lead to a superior jawline which can land you a strategic victory agaisnt someone a rank above you, allowing you to restore the lost aura from their mogging, and perhaps, if youre lucky, even a fraction of the opponents harem
women change partners with insane volatility, life is a brutal battle to try and maintain your social standing, men spend upwards of 6-7 hours of their day looksmaxxing in order to be able to defend their current ranks, and possibly rise above, with the most desireable positions being gatekept by genetical superiority
in this world politicians are chosen by mathematical darwinism. the 'debates' are just televised mog-offs where candidates display their frame and skull structures to the camera on a rotating platform for 3 days straight, without eating, drinking or sleeping, all the while an unbelieveably advanced AI algorithm analyses every molecule of their bodies in order to calculate who is the most genetically perfect specimen, a long and complex process which is why the debates last 3 days.
once the results are in (usually by an incredibly narrow margin, one candidate might beat the other by only a 0.0001% more harmonious mid face ratio) the candidate is sworn in by the council of chads, during his position he will take up the spot as #1 ranked chad of his respective country and must use his aura responsibly, and not steal everyone elses girls or mog too many people
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sinfest thread #2
Imma post these again because I'm bored (remember this guy is mixed race)
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>Maduro Is Gone, and the Purge Has Begun
>The successor to Venezuela’s captured President Nicolás Maduro is purging the people who kept him in power. -NEW YORK TIMES
U.S. Special Forces brought down President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela swiftly and publicly.
Now, the people who kept him in power are being purged gradually and inconspicuously. Some have been fired or detained, and others are anxiously looking over their shoulders, worried they might be next.
Oligarchs close to Mr. Maduro’s family have been snatched from their homes. His political allies have been summarily removed from their posts. His relatives have been sidelined from business deals and barred from media appearances.
The housecleaning is being carried out by Mr. Maduro’s former vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, who is running the country under instructions from the Trump administration. The detentions and leadership purges have unfolded without public explanation, but often with the approval — and sometimes at the urging — of the White House, according to people close to Ms. Rodríguez’s government.
After Mr. Maduro was dragged off in January to a New York jail, Ms. Rodríguez presented herself as a reluctant and temporary stand-in for a fallen leader, denouncing his capture as an illegal attack on her country.
The overhaul of national leadership, combined with sweeping new laws and her alliance with President Trump, is reshaping Venezuela and its management of one of the planet’s largest oil reserves, just as the world grapples with the energy turmoil caused by war in the Middle East.
In the three months since Mr. Maduro’s capture, Ms. Rodríguez has changed 17 ministers, replaced military commanders and installed new diplomats. She has also overseen the detention of at least three businessmen tied to Mr. Maduro, fired several of his relatives and cut off most of his family from oil contracts.
In their places, she has appointed her own loyalists or championed businessmen beholden to her, while opening the doors to American oil and mining investors.
The changes have brought little transparency or pluralism to a government that remains authoritarian. Venezuela’s opposition says that rather than returning the country to democracy, Ms. Rodríguez is solidifying her rule.
But she is hardly making all decisions on her own. After capturing Mr. Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in an overwhelming show of force, the Trump administration threatened to attack Venezuela again if the new leaders refused to cooperate. Several senior Venezuelan officials and government insiders have likened Ms. Rodríguez’s rule to governing with a gun to her head.
Ms. Rodríguez is now using that threat of U.S. coercion to go after ruling party power brokers once considered untouchable. The result has been a political win for Mr. Trump and Ms. Rodríguez, allowing U.S. officials to settle scores with Maduro allies who had defied them, while simultaneously cementing Ms. Rodríguez’s leadership.
Venezuela’s transformation from U.S. adversary to a protectorate has been head spinning for most Venezuelans.
Polls show a large majority of Venezuelans welcome the end of Mr. Maduro’s 13-year autocratic reign, which he enforced through violence, corruption and electoral fraud.
Many also remain skeptical of Ms. Rodríguez, a longtime official of the governing Socialist Party who has never held elected office.
But for Mr. Maduro’s friends, business associates and governing party companions, the new political landscape has ushered in an unfamiliar swirl of anxiety and danger.
More than a dozen spoke with The New York Times on the condition of anonymity, fearing reprisal. Some said they had been placed under surveillance by Venezuela’s secret police since Mr. Maduro’s ouster. Others said they had tried to stay out of Caracas, the capital, and have considered exile.
The Venezuelan government did not respond to questions for this article. A White House spokeswoman, Anna Kelly, said the Trump administration had a mutually beneficial relationship with the Rodríguez government.
“We are dealing very well with President Delcy Rodríguez,” Ms. Kelly said. “Oil is starting to flow, and large amounts of money, unseen for many years, will soon be greatly helping the people of Venezuela.”
The people who lost out from Mr. Maduro’s downfall are part of a disparate group. They include relatives of Mr. Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chávez, many of whom amassed great wealth in the nearly three decades of their combined rule.
They also include businessmen who owe their fortunes to personal ties to the two presidents, as well as veterans of the socialist movement formed by Mr. Chávez in the 1990s, which became known as chavismo.
One longtime friend of Mr. Maduro’s broke down in tears in an interview after his capture, calling Mr. Maduro the last bastion of Venezuela’s revolution.
Few apparatchiks have dared criticize Ms. Rodríguez publicly, but Mario Silva is one who has. A veteran propagandist, his state television program was canceled after Mr. Maduro’s capture, forcing him to turn to social media or radio graveyard slots.
Like many pro-government Venezuelan media figures, he built a career promoting official anti-imperialist dogma, only to fall out of favor when the new administration shifted to building a business-friendly, pro-American image.
“Damn it, keep following the gringos’ orders, then, go ahead,” Mr. Silva said on his radio show on March 18. “Just prostrate yourself and be done with it.”
Mr. Maduro’s disparate allies are united by a distrust of Ms. Rodríguez, who has transformed from a socialist firebrand into Washington’s lauded partner.
People close to the deposed president argued that Mr. Maduro had never considered her as his successor, seeing her as a capable manager rather than a leader.
Nor did Mr. Maduro’s inner circle prepare for the possibility that the clash with Mr. Trump could result in a government led by one of their own, the people said. “The plan was always either everyone falls, or nobody does,” said one senior Maduro official.
The apparent ease with which U.S. forces snatched Mr. Maduro from a heavily guarded military base has fueled suspicion that he was betrayed by people who benefited from his downfall.
One senior Venezuelan official, a day after the U.S. attack, said treason had been committed. Officials from Russia, which lost an ally in Mr. Maduro, have made similar claims.
The Trump administration had been considering Ms. Rodríguez as Mr. Maduro’s successor since 2025, and had indirect contact with her. There has been no evidence that she was privy to the U.S. military’s plans, yet that fact has not eased the distrust within the governing party.
>Maduro Is Gone, and the Purge Has Begun
>The successor to Venezuela’s captured President Nicolás Maduro is purging the people who kept him in power. -NEW YORK TIMES
U.S. Special Forces brought down President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela swiftly and publicly.
Now, the people who kept him in power are being purged gradually and inconspicuously. Some have been fired or detained, and others are anxiously looking over their shoulders, worried they might be next.
Oligarchs close to Mr. Maduro’s family have been snatched from their homes. His political allies have been summarily removed from their posts. His relatives have been sidelined from business deals and barred from media appearances.
The housecleaning is being carried out by Mr. Maduro’s former vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, who is running the country under instructions from the Trump administration. The detentions and leadership purges have unfolded without public explanation, but often with the approval — and sometimes at the urging — of the White House, according to people close to Ms. Rodríguez’s government.
After Mr. Maduro was dragged off in January to a New York jail, Ms. Rodríguez presented herself as a reluctant and temporary stand-in for a fallen leader, denouncing his capture as an illegal attack on her country.
The overhaul of national leadership, combined with sweeping new laws and her alliance with President Trump, is reshaping Venezuela and its management of one of the planet’s largest oil reserves, just as the world grapples with the energy turmoil caused by war in the Middle East.
In the three months since Mr. Maduro’s capture, Ms. Rodríguez has changed 17 ministers, replaced military commanders and installed new diplomats. She has also overseen the detention of at least three businessmen tied to Mr. Maduro, fired several of his relatives and cut off most of his family from oil contracts.
In their places, she has appointed her own loyalists or championed businessmen beholden to her, while opening the doors to American oil and mining investors.
The changes have brought little transparency or pluralism to a government that remains authoritarian. Venezuela’s opposition says that rather than returning the country to democracy, Ms. Rodríguez is solidifying her rule.
But she is hardly making all decisions on her own. After capturing Mr. Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in an overwhelming show of force, the Trump administration threatened to attack Venezuela again if the new leaders refused to cooperate. Several senior Venezuelan officials and government insiders have likened Ms. Rodríguez’s rule to governing with a gun to her head.
Ms. Rodríguez is now using that threat of U.S. coercion to go after ruling party power brokers once considered untouchable. The result has been a political win for Mr. Trump and Ms. Rodríguez, allowing U.S. officials to settle scores with Maduro allies who had defied them, while simultaneously cementing Ms. Rodríguez’s leadership.
Venezuela’s transformation from U.S. adversary to a protectorate has been head spinning for most Venezuelans.
Polls show a large majority of Venezuelans welcome the end of Mr. Maduro’s 13-year autocratic reign, which he enforced through violence, corruption and electoral fraud.
Many also remain skeptical of Ms. Rodríguez, a longtime official of the governing Socialist Party who has never held elected office.
But for Mr. Maduro’s friends, business associates and governing party companions, the new political landscape has ushered in an unfamiliar swirl of anxiety and danger.
More than a dozen spoke with The New York Times on the condition of anonymity, fearing reprisal. Some said they had been placed under surveillance by Venezuela’s secret police since Mr. Maduro’s ouster. Others said they had tried to stay out of Caracas, the capital, and have considered exile.
The Venezuelan government did not respond to questions for this article. A White House spokeswoman, Anna Kelly, said the Trump administration had a mutually beneficial relationship with the Rodríguez government.
“We are dealing very well with President Delcy Rodríguez,” Ms. Kelly said. “Oil is starting to flow, and large amounts of money, unseen for many years, will soon be greatly helping the people of Venezuela.”
The people who lost out from Mr. Maduro’s downfall are part of a disparate group. They include relatives of Mr. Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chávez, many of whom amassed great wealth in the nearly three decades of their combined rule.
They also include businessmen who owe their fortunes to personal ties to the two presidents, as well as veterans of the socialist movement formed by Mr. Chávez in the 1990s, which became known as chavismo.
One longtime friend of Mr. Maduro’s broke down in tears in an interview after his capture, calling Mr. Maduro the last bastion of Venezuela’s revolution.
Few apparatchiks have dared criticize Ms. Rodríguez publicly, but Mario Silva is one who has. A veteran propagandist, his state television program was canceled after Mr. Maduro’s capture, forcing him to turn to social media or radio graveyard slots.
Like many pro-government Venezuelan media figures, he built a career promoting official anti-imperialist dogma, only to fall out of favor when the new administration shifted to building a business-friendly, pro-American image.
“Damn it, keep following the gringos’ orders, then, go ahead,” Mr. Silva said on his radio show on March 18. “Just prostrate yourself and be done with it.”
Mr. Maduro’s disparate allies are united by a distrust of Ms. Rodríguez, who has transformed from a socialist firebrand into Washington’s lauded partner.
People close to the deposed president argued that Mr. Maduro had never considered her as his successor, seeing her as a capable manager rather than a leader.
Nor did Mr. Maduro’s inner circle prepare for the possibility that the clash with Mr. Trump could result in a government led by one of their own, the people said. “The plan was always either everyone falls, or nobody does,” said one senior Maduro official.
The apparent ease with which U.S. forces snatched Mr. Maduro from a heavily guarded military base has fueled suspicion that he was betrayed by people who benefited from his downfall.
One senior Venezuelan official, a day after the U.S. attack, said treason had been committed. Officials from Russia, which lost an ally in Mr. Maduro, have made similar claims.
The Trump administration had been considering Ms. Rodríguez as Mr. Maduro’s successor since 2025, and had indirect contact with her. There has been no evidence that she was privy to the U.S. military’s plans, yet that fact has not eased the distrust within the governing party.
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I'm never going to be able to Transition. I don't even know where to start. Hell i'm afraid to even start because of everything that's going on where i live (United States). I just hope that someday ill finally be able to transition and be able to be comfortable in my body.
I'm never going to be able to Transition. I don't even know where to start. Hell i'm afraid to even start because of everything that's going on where i live (United States). I just hope that someday ill finally be able to transition and be able to be comfortable in my body.
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SDF rejects the agreement and vows that they'd fight.
Prison break in Shaddad, freeing ~1000 ISIS veterans.
Aqtan prison (which houses ISIS members) north of Raqqa gets besieged.
Clashes in Kobani & Hasakah countrysides.
Breach in Al-Hol camp, which is now mostly emptied.
New agreement signed by both the STG & SDF.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://nitter.poast.org/QalaatAlMudiq
https://nitter.poast.org/Gargaristan
https://syria.liveuamap.com
/sg/ - Syrian Civil War General #26 - 2019 /sg/ memes edition
Recent news:SDF rejects the agreement and vows that they'd fight.
Prison break in Shaddad, freeing ~1000 ISIS veterans.
Aqtan prison (which houses ISIS members) north of Raqqa gets besieged.
Clashes in Kobani & Hasakah countrysides.
Breach in Al-Hol camp, which is now mostly emptied.
New agreement signed by both the STG & SDF.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://nitter.poast.org/QalaatAlMudiq
https://nitter.poast.org/Gargaristan
https://syria.liveuamap.com
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ok, so I looked at this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1soq24c/parent_decide_act_you_think_using_linux_will_save/ and the internet crackdown is real, and I very often read that Linux is supposed to be the way out in the coming future of a totalitarian internet. but I wonder, how exactly is Linux supposed to be the rescue? what use is a free OS to me if the internet is a total prison? what use is the darknet or any “alternatives” like Mastodon, Gopher or whatever if there’s no interesting/high-quality content there anyway? at first I was worried about the internet crackdown too, but what would be so bad about it? the Chinese are managing it fine. they don’t have these silly discussions about Linux, Tor, GrapheneOS and all that nonsense. they are completeky happy with wechat, douiyn and other corpo shit. so what exactly is being lost?
ok, so I looked at this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1soq24c/parent_decide_act_you_think_using_linux_will_save/ and the internet crackdown is real, and I very often read that Linux is supposed to be the way out in the coming future of a totalitarian internet. but I wonder, how exactly is Linux supposed to be the rescue? what use is a free OS to me if the internet is a total prison? what use is the darknet or any “alternatives” like Mastodon, Gopher or whatever if there’s no interesting/high-quality content there anyway? at first I was worried about the internet crackdown too, but what would be so bad about it? the Chinese are managing it fine. they don’t have these silly discussions about Linux, Tor, GrapheneOS and all that nonsense. they are completeky happy with wechat, douiyn and other corpo shit. so what exactly is being lost?
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i'll take my autistic royal colony tans
Grace, Jill, Nera
political ideology catgirls?
no thank you,i'll take my autistic royal colony tans
Grace, Jill, Nera
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What exactly is so bad about colonization?
What exactly is so bad about colonization?
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The pigs are usually encamped in elaborate building structures which represents the deeply embedded and far reaching capitalist system while our heroes, the birds, can only ensure an end to the robbery by destroying them. Parallel to the proletarians' task to smash the state machinery. If otherwise the game would be a defensive one (reform, fending off against the porks)
To top it all off, birds can fly, Which symbolizes the infinite potential and rise of living standards of the proles once their shackles to the exploitative system is gotten rid off.
Angry birds is communist propaganda
The pigs, No mystery as to whom they represent, They even steal our protagonists' eggs and they're determined to put an end to this robbery once and for all.The pigs are usually encamped in elaborate building structures which represents the deeply embedded and far reaching capitalist system while our heroes, the birds, can only ensure an end to the robbery by destroying them. Parallel to the proletarians' task to smash the state machinery. If otherwise the game would be a defensive one (reform, fending off against the porks)
To top it all off, birds can fly, Which symbolizes the infinite potential and rise of living standards of the proles once their shackles to the exploitative system is gotten rid off.
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I feel like…
discussions about race, gender, sexuality and its relation to structures (or "post-structures") have reached a limit and class is not a concept good enough to replace it.
I feel like…
discussions about race, gender, sexuality and its relation to structures (or "post-structures") have reached a limit and class is not a concept good enough to replace it.
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But when I went to delete some TV episodes I'd watched it said 'cannot delete because this file is currently active in BitTorrent'.
So I can't trust BitTorrent to close when I close it? And I can't trust my VPN either?
The last time I got one of these warnings prompted me to get the VPN so this wouldn't happen again.
My wi-fi stopped working but my ethernet was fine. I called them up and they made me listen to a reading of the email threat and then turned my wi-fi back on. Said repeated violations may lose me my internet access. Yeah right. I pay like $400 a month for the premium cable bundle (which is why I don't sub to every fucking streaming service and I pirate from time to time).
So does this make sense to anyone? VPN was never down and I didn't torrent anything and then I get another slap on the wrist, sit in the corner warning. Do I need to activate that killswitch thing? Because VPNs can kind of make the internet a bitch now and then. They want me to sign in to use youtube. I actually have to turn my VPN off just to post this message. And then the changing of IPs fucks with my use of other sites.
But what use is a VPN if my ISP still finds out I'm torrenting? And why is bittorrent connecting on its own when it's set not to?
Any opinions appreciated. And I already have Soulseek but it's hit or miss with a lot of stuff.
VPN and Piracy
So I just got a copyright complaint from my ISP claiming I was torrenting today. My VPN says I've been covered for the last 34 hours straight. Also, I didn't even use BitTorrent today.But when I went to delete some TV episodes I'd watched it said 'cannot delete because this file is currently active in BitTorrent'.
So I can't trust BitTorrent to close when I close it? And I can't trust my VPN either?
The last time I got one of these warnings prompted me to get the VPN so this wouldn't happen again.
My wi-fi stopped working but my ethernet was fine. I called them up and they made me listen to a reading of the email threat and then turned my wi-fi back on. Said repeated violations may lose me my internet access. Yeah right. I pay like $400 a month for the premium cable bundle (which is why I don't sub to every fucking streaming service and I pirate from time to time).
So does this make sense to anyone? VPN was never down and I didn't torrent anything and then I get another slap on the wrist, sit in the corner warning. Do I need to activate that killswitch thing? Because VPNs can kind of make the internet a bitch now and then. They want me to sign in to use youtube. I actually have to turn my VPN off just to post this message. And then the changing of IPs fucks with my use of other sites.
But what use is a VPN if my ISP still finds out I'm torrenting? And why is bittorrent connecting on its own when it's set not to?
Any opinions appreciated. And I already have Soulseek but it's hit or miss with a lot of stuff.