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/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 with the Leftypol Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/leftypol_org

Reminder That None of This Is Real!™
ɢʀᴀʙ ᴀ ᴘᴀɪʀ ᴏꜰ sᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀᴄʟᴇs

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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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • 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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • 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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RtV0oO8Pmg

<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
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AMA ANNOUNCEMENT - PAUL COCKSHOTT

Tuesday, May 20th at 3:00 PM EST/8:00 PM BST
Join known Marxist Computer Scientist Paul Cockshott on an AMA (Ask Me Anything) here at leftypol.org

Post your questions on the forthcoming AMA thread this Tuesday!

Cya there!
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>trending vid of a guy being a creep to a girl
<ew what a creep that man is
>trending video of a guy (looks brown and his hair dark) being a creep to a girl
>ew indians/pakis/ayrabs are huge creeps
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/CYBERCOM/

This thread is for the discussion of cybercommunism, the planning of the socialist economy by computerized means, including discussions of related topics and creators. Drama belongs in /isg/

Reading
Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and The Human Use of Human Beings (1st edition) by Norbert Wiener
Economic cybernetics by Nikolay Veduta
People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Economics in kind, Total socialisation and A system of socialisation by Otto Neurath (Incommensurability, Ecology, and Planning: Neurath in the Socialist Calculation Debate by Thomas Uebel provides a summary)

Active writers/creators
Sorted by last name
>Paul Cockshott
https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)
>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel

Podcasts
>General Intellect Unit
Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists
http://generalintellectunit.net/

Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
https://archive.is/0sAS2
https://archive.is/jXivP
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Post Here Every Time You Visit This Site

I don't remember that the op of the last thread said but post a pic every time you come here.
Also post Teto
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==BETRAYAL==

The Proletariat & Alunya betrayed Grace.
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/leftybritpol/ - class unconciousness edition

Yeah we aren't seeing a revolution or social democracy, we are just gonna get gradual radicalisation until some dickhead puts an end to british "democracy" once and for all. Anyways here's Wonderwall.
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420chan Culture Museum

Come and visit this thread! Users of leftypol, siberia, for the 420chan Culture Museum.
Here you can see an array of ancient and modern screenshots, that stem from the wonderful civilization of narcomania that inhabited the place once known as 420chan, a place that is promised to return one day.
Our unique collection of historical screenshots tells the story of human relations with psychoactive substances.

[WARNING: Some screenshots might contain NSFW content, viewer discretion is advised.]
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What is to be done with Israelis?

The genocide being committed by Israelis is unprecedented in human history. Never before have we seen such shameless savagery on open display. I believe in a one state solution, but I'm pessimistic that Israelis will ever accept and live with Palestinians as equals. If they had wanted to, they would have accepted a OSS in 1948 and not committed the nakba. I feel like the only solution is to relocate Israelis to the US or repatriate them to their pre-48 countries of origin. 90% of Israelis support Zionism. And Zionism at this point is inherently imperialist and genocidal. This is a population that has gone beyond the point of no return.
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ITT post your most redpilled opinions
constitution < race
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Monday muthfuckah

What are your to-dos this:
>day
>week
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #235

<The World's Fastest Ukrainian edition.

Previous: >>2268766

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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

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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

📺 • Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0

📺 • 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://twitter.com/GeromanAT
https://twitter.com/plnewstoday
https://twitter.com/RALee85
https://twitter.com/MarQs__
https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab
https://twitter.com/michaelh992
https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps

<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

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇰🇵
Thread guidelines:
• Please remember to add a spoiler to NSFW and extreme content such as graphic violence and gore.
• 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 treat geopolitics like shitty map games.
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Wrench Attacks Against Crypto Millionaires

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/crypto-industry-robberies-attacks-32c2867a
…
>The brazen attack was the latest in a wave of violent abductions around the world, including several in the U.S., targeting crypto executives and their families. Victims have been pistol whipped, abducted, and—in two cases—had fingers severed.
>The criminals’ goal: millions of dollars in ransom in cryptocurrency.
>The assaults are often called “wrench attacks” because they rely on simple tools for inflicting pain to coerce victims, rather than sophisticated tools for hacking them.
>Hacking has long been the primary risk for the crypto rich. But to thwart hackers, savvy cryptocurrency investors have increasingly taken their digital wallets offline in favor of physical devices, making remote theft more difficult. Real-world crypto crime bypasses those safeguards.
>“A lot of people are getting to the hide-your-gold-under-the-mattress level of security,” said Jameson Lopp, the co-founder of bitcoin security company Casa. “But if you are a high-profile person…that’s when you have to worry about the physical attack.”
No honor among thieves
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Royal Colony 13

by invitation of bronies & Tania
<Avatard RP reactionary leech is oUr fWiEnD u GuIsE
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/DPRK/ - Democratic People's Republic of Korea General

Thread for news and discussions of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its material conditions, the status and health of its socialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.

Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
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/USApol/

🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅
<"Mexican Naval Assault" Edition

Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the pharaoh of proxy wars, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™

🏈 💵 🌭 🍔

🛠️ Strike Tracker ⚒️
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/

🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md

📺 Live News 📺
(sponsored by USAID)
• CNN: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us

Previous thread: >>2272667
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Thoughts on Veganism ?

Also, shelter my 4chan refugee ass UwU.
(Damn, how long should the body text be? Holy wall of text. What if I want to sound laconic and concise ?)
Should I really be writing an essay for every thread?
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Why is this guy glazed so hard💀

I actually never watch anything related to him and I watch African news all the time. I swear, the moment I heard about the guy entering Moscow for a security meeting, the sheer number of articles related to this guy skyrocketed. Guys treated like he’s the second coming of Christ even if his army visibly sucks.
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>when Grace-chan builds another royal palace
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god i hate these "uwu im jus a smol bean :3" people so fucking much dude, like they are actually the arch-reactionary vanguard of bourgeois morality and it makes me want to rip their heads of and shit down their neck
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/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread (leftypol edition)

(Copypasted from a previous 4chin /g/ thread as a foundation to making these generals on leftypol)
Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.

* Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread *

Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.

If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS.
3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.

Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question.
*Many free software projects have active mailing lists.

$ man %command%
$ info %command%
$ %command% -h/–help
$ help %builtin/keyword%

Don't know what to look for?
$ apropos %something%

Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):
https://wiki.archlinux.org
https://wiki.gentoo.org

/g/'s Wiki on GNU/Linux:
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Category:GNU/Linux

>What distro should I choose?
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux
>What are some cool programs?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://suckless.org/rocks/
>What are some cool terminal commands?
https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
https://cheat.sh/
>Where can I learn the command line?
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/
>Where can I learn more about Free Software?
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
>How to break out of the botnet?
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux
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Where's China's international solidarity?

If China is so based why doesn't it spread communist propaganda to the West? Why aren't there Chinese created Prager U's commiepilling ppl? Why are they just watching as the rest of the world sinks into fascism?
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>had to litsen to a schizo in the library, in the end of the table talking about spain having zero moor blood, acshully moor elites wanted to become european so they asked for blonde princess from spanish families, and claiming avicenna was blonde and white if he was alive today he would call himself spanish not a brown morrocean
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Porn is a ruling class psy-op

Porn is extremely addictive. The dopamine rush a man gets from porn and the cravings for it are similar to other life-damaging addictions. Porn destroys natural healthy relations between men and women, increases misogyny in men, and makes it impossible for men to have true solidarity with women. Every time I look at it (and I've never even intentionally looked at hardcore porn, so this is just nudes) I feel like I'm in a retarded brain fog after. And I feel guilty because I know I've let down the women in my life I've cared about. Every actually existing socialist state has banned pornography, so why are leftists so quick to defend it and flip out about PornHub bans?
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I was always disgusted with this notion of “I love the world,” universal love. I don’t like the world. I don’t know how… Basically, I’m somewhere in between “I hate the world” or “I’m indifferent towards it.” But the whole of reality, it’s just it. It’s stupid. It is out there. I don’t care about it.
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Why do radlib "leftists" see the "marginalized" as agents of historical change and not workers

My friend told me she just got back from an anarchist bookfair in a major North American city, and that 1/3 of the books were on queer idpol. I asked her the question in my subject and she suggested that it's because radlibs think the marginalized can't be "bought off". But as Marx pointed out numerous times, the lumpen are loose cannons and the easiest to buy out. It reminded me of how there was this massive open letter against the Boston May Day Coalition for various thought crimes, and one of the signatories was a "drug users union". I bet I could win the neverending loyalty of these lumpen addicts by supplying them with 90% pure heroin.
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Sex and Relationships General 45

Making out Edition

Last thread: >>659423
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HoI4 + HoI4 modding thread

Operation Deep Sneed edition

Made a new thread since the other one is full. You know the drill folks, gather here to discuss and/or complain about Hearts of Iron 4 and all the alt history mods that make the game relevant. From green natpops to sicko mode Savinkov we've got a lot of exciting stuff coming in the next Kaiserreich update, one which will make the LKMT look like pre-rework Germany by comparison. But dont worry TNOomers, you're getting some new content too! After a year and a half and three focus trees that only last for four years, we finally have something new and that's…

…three years of fucking Antarctica
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What if I am fine with male body, but still wish I was a woman because I resent having male gender role forced upon me? Transitioning not out of desire for womanhood, but to escape the burden of maleness?
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>condems gayness
>puts a pleasure spot in the insides of the male anus, and to make sure they find out about it, you make it so some males are born with low hormones and extra feminine looks to attract males, and if it's not enough, you give them chemicals in their brainess associated with love just in case
U MAD HUMAN?
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Tag yourself:
>word-salad
>mental masturbation
>pretentious
>pseud
>pseudo-intellectual
>verbose
>long-winded
>grandiloquent
>meaningless drivel
>jargon
>random buzzwords
>philosobabbling
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Hellenic Communism

Sparta was AES, don't let fascists deceive you. Plutarch describes how King Lycurgus of Sparta was one of the earliest historical figures to redistribute all land into equal plots, ending the extreme inequality he witnessed and giving back to the people. Lycurgus then abolished money, banning gold and silver coins from circulation and leaving only iron which had little value among people. This cut off trade from Sparta, transforming it into a self-sustaining society where people produced what was necessary for their needs and not for monetary gain. Lycurgus also made the rich sit down and eat side by side with the poor through the syssitia communal system, where food and drink was shared among Spartans.

Athens was AES. Athenian democracy was born out of class struggle between rich and poor. The radical statesman Cleisthenes, aka father of democracy, founded the demes and brought the people into politics, which had been the business of the elite, making any male citizen over 20 eligible to participate on government matters, officers chosen by sortition, and founding the council of 500 to oversee the ekklesia. Before him, Solon laid the foundations for democracy by abolishing all debts, banning loans, freeing enslaved debtors, reforming the judicial system to be able to prosecute any privileged citizen, allowing the poor into the assembly and lawcourts, opening archonship to non-nobles. This direct democracy had an important influence in the socialist movement, with many leftists striving towards that system to replace the phony libtard democracy of today.
We must learn from their successes, discard the bad parts and carry the torch of Cleisthenes and Lycurgus. Rome with its corrupt republicanism was liberal insanity, though. And don't forget that the last vestiges of democracy were ended by them. No wonder the modern bourgeois state modelled itself after Rome.
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/leftydeutschpol/ - "Sie nannten ihn Fotzenfritze" Edition

Say whatever you want. This country is hell on earth. Linkspartei bei der Bundespressekonferenz reden über Stalingrad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OEunGb83zI

Also van Aken is shilling for Dengism.
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can we have a comfy nostalgia thread? 2000s and 2010s, 90s and 80s whatever makes you feel old

me personally? i'm posting a song from when weebs were edge
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How do I become good enough at English so that people here stop making fun of me for being ESL?
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Would you like AI

If someone with AI depicted you as a pedophile, murderer, rapist etc.?
Of course, using Deep Fake tech.
Honestly I'm afraid of this kind of future for many people, especially innocent ones.
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/mlp/ My Little Pony

Even though the fandom is pretty dead. I wanted to see what a brony thread on here would look like since I’m a newbie

What does /leftypol/ think about this franchise and the online subculture it spawned? I feel like now that the little girls who made up the target audience are young adults I’ve been seeing more zoomers tell stories about how they were “traumatized” by the adult fandom and it’s becoming more in vogue to decry the whole “brony” phenomenon as “problematic”.

On the other hand though what’s the sociological explanation for millions of grown men becoming obsessed with a little girls cartoon in spite of hegemonic Western gender norms? I’ve read a lot of conflicting theories from academics and culture critics regarding this. Is it autism? Post-Irony? Or is there something about it that just makes it genuinely appealing?
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Well?

What would (You) do in this situation?
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Gilderoy Lockhart was the best villain in Harry Potter, much better than the Noseless Lord or any of his lame followers. And it really sucks that everyone - people in-universe, JKR herself, and most of the fanbase - treats him like a joke. In the right hads, the concept of of someone who mass-mindrapes people in order to build a fake heroic reputation all while behaving like an asshole micro-celebrity of a type that typically ends up cancelled for unappropriately interacting with a minor, could have been a potentially TERRIFYING. Instead, he ended up in the hands of JKR, who made him into a joke character that stopped being funny mid-way though the book.
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/Political Economy/ General #2 - Adam Smith Edition

Thread #2 is hereby dedicated to Adam Smith, since we had a very dedicated "Smithian" anon keep the previous thread alive for several months. Here's to you buddy. Thanks for posting.

Links:

Archive of Thread #1
https://archive.ph/ROnpO

Featured: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38194/pg38194.txt

Youtube Playlists
Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTMFx0t8kDzc72vtNWeTP05x6WYiDgEx7
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1uqxcCESK6B1juh_wnKoxftZCcqA1go
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4k72ocf2TZMxrEVCgpp1b5K3hzFWuZh
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Capital Volume 1
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSHVigHHx_wjaeWmDN2W-h8
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Capital Volume 2
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSxnp8uR2kshvhG-5kzrjdQ
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Capital Volume 3
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlRoV5CVoc5yyYL4nMO9ZJzO
Andrew S. Rightenburg - Human-Read Audiobook (not AI voice or TTS voice) of Theories of Surplus Value
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlQa-dFgNFtQvvMOgNtV7nXp
Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBnDt7k5eU8msX4DhTNUila
Paul Cockshott - Economic Planning Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCDnkyY9YkQxpx6FxPJ23joH
Paul Cockshott - Materialism, Marxism, and Thermodynamics Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBv0m0fAjoOy1U4mOs_Y8QM
Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqerA1aKeGe3DcRc7zCCFkAoq
Victor Magariño - Rethinking Classical Economics
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepj9uE1hhCrA66tMvNlnItt
Victor Magariño - Mathematics for Classical Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepWUHXIgVhC_Txk2WJgaSst
Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ejfZdPboo&list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP

Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
https://leftypedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Political_economy
Sci-Hub
https://sci-hub.se/about
Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/
Library Genesis
https://libgen.is/
University of the Left
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online
bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
https://www.ecured.cu/
Books on libcom.org
https://libcom.org/book
Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
/EDU/ ebook share thread
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
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm
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/arg/ - Argentina General

SANTUCHO EDITION

El thread con más copas del mundo™

Ahora que tenemos nuestro propio board, es hora de tener nuestro propio hilo también.

Bienvenidos.
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Gen Z and cucking

I have a theory for why the cuck fetish is so prevalent amongst Gen Z men - it basically boils down to two things:

1/ Gen Z males are beginning to have sex or engage in sexual activity at a far later point in their lives compared to older generations. A high number of Gen Z males aren't getting laid until their early 20s, thus missing out on formative sexual development in late adolescence.

2/ Gen Z men have consumed more porn, and from an earlier age, than any other generation in history. The internet has provided Gen Z with an unlimited source of highly graphic, hardcore porn at their fingertips.

These two things might not seem too bad in isolation. However, in combination it means that Gen Z males are experiencing their entire sexual development through watching porn and in the position of the voyeur i.e. just watching. Observing.
The result is that when they actually get to having sex with a real woman, it feels unnatural to them. They have been conditioned to feel most at home not being involved in the sexual act itself, instead preferring to get off from the visual rather than physical stimulus while masturbating. Which is why being a cuck is so appealing to them.

What do you think of my theory /siberia/?
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pffffft hahahahaa i just can't stop laughing at this old picture of John Guidetti in kenya and i don't know why
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MODS PLEASE APPROVE THE FIRST QUESTIONS

Mods please approve the first questions for the AMA thread with Mr. Cockshott they were asked before being made aware of the one user per-question plead. Please accept them, it would be pointless for me to get my buddies to ask each individual question from their device because you could dismiss them as "posing as a different user" please just approve the initial questions for the AMA I ask no more. They were made before being made aware of the plead for one user per question, please accept them for submission the AMA, Mr. Cockshott can choose which ones to answer to if he wants regardless and if the questions become too much for him, so please just accept the first questions for submission.
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People who think like this should be made to face the wall
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Is autism really a superpower? Are autists just newtypes/star children that the world isn't ready for?
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OC Thread 17.0 - A New Beginning

Thread dedicated to /leftypol/ original content.
>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
<Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.

If your original content is good enough, it would most likely be shared on the /leftypol/ twitter account!
Make sure to follow us and feel free to leave suggestions on this thread~
https://twitter.com/leftypol_org
https://nitter.net/leftypol_org

previous thread: >>1762168
>>>/leftypol_archive/1762168 (if it gets archived by mods)

New Booru:
https://lefty.pictures

MAKE SURE TO UPLOAD YOUR OC TO THE BOORU SO IT DOESNT GET PRUNED FOREVER!!!
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/USApol/ 🇺🇸

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Plato and Aristotle

What is the value of either of their works of thought under capitalism? What is their intellectual value to studious communists today?

http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Plato.html
http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Aristotle.html
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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 9

>Liberation Day edition
Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv

leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html

bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
https://archive.is/pCecr
previous thread: >>2202919
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Dogmatism

There is an enormous issue with dogmatism and a lack of properly understanding theory. People treat it like the bible, and will throw up quotes to debunk people who disagree with them without giving why the writer thought that way (I know because I have done the same). Lenin said a lot of things in his life. You can cherrypick individual quotes from obscure pamphlets to align Lenin with basically anything. I have done this before, quoting Stalin on imperialism without adding the text that explains his point. This is just dogmatism, with many posts basically being stereotyped party writing. This gets especially egregious with the letters of Marx and Engels. I honestly don't think these should be taken as theory at all. It literally does not matter what either one of them thought about africans or women. Their individual words were often wrong, it is their actual work that is important.

You don't have to agree with everything Marx or Lenin or Stalin or Mao said to be a good communist. In fact you should be disagreeing with some parts, you should be criticising them from a productive stance (this is what Mao did with Stalin). You need to understand the context behind each text. Full length books are probably completely what the person believed, but you don't need to necessarily listen to everything in a one page statement. Shorter pamphlets might not explain everything completely but they are often among the most useful pieces of theory. You have to read these critically and put in your own brain power to fill in the gaps. This is the way to be a scientific socialist.

Generally the worst examples of this are people who overanalyze every single word Marx wrote like the sublation debate or whatever. This is pure bourgeois intellectualism. It doesn't matter what he wrote, it matters what you take away from his work as a whole and end up believing. In general 'Marxology' is completely against the science of Marxism. If you only read Marx you are not a Marxist, you are a historian at best. Like how can you be a physicist if you only read Isaac Newton?

There is just ridiculous dogmatism, an unending and unchanging devotion to 19th and 20th century political figures without updating it at all to the modern time. Obviously anyone can think of examples of this, like the 'Orthodox Marxists' or the fringe ultra-left strain of Maoism which adopted the MLMpM designation (even if that is probably still a useful term, its just been kind of co-opted by these groups). But this ends up becoming ecclecicism because it has stopped being a science, it has become a myth. That is the path Trotskyism went down, as well as most of the revisionist parties. They ended up fully with ridiculous, vapid and completely un-Marxist positions. There was a material reason for this, it's not like they just became revisionists because whatever.

Then there is 'dogmato-ecclecticism', which many MLs suffer from. It's a kind of pick and choose mentality to history and theory. The ACP is an example of this, they dogmatically follow the revisionist strain until they end up in a completely ridiculous position (this is the case because of the bourgeois class character of the party). This is also the path most 'anti-revisionists' will inevitably go down because they are limited by their lack of adopting Maoism (for example the CPBG-ML which hates Kruschev but loves Deng). Bob Avakian is another example of dogmato-ecclecticism. Anyway I don't want to make this post too much about that, and instead just a general point about being scientific when reading theory.
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CHAZ/CHOP

Hello fellow communists and anarkkkidies.
One of the events which I find most fascinating in recent years as a Non-American is the Capitol Hill CHAZ/CHOP thing. I would like this thread to be MLs shitting on it and saying why it was the biggest failure of all time and I want anarchists to explain why it failed but why it does not invalidate anarchism nonetheless.
Let us take a pause from Russ-Ukro, Indo-Pak and focus on this gem of the Yankee Anarcho-Lumpeno-Libtardo axis.
JANNIES PLS DONT SAGE, ALLOW THE PEOPLE'S EXPRESSION TO MANIFEST ITSELF FREELY
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tell me your most unhinged historical larpy sex fetish. don't tell me you have none, all imageboard addicts and history lovers have a few. sharing the few larps i caught in my lifetime

a girl fantasizing about being a european queen owning a harem of male slaves eating her out

a guy fantasizing about being a roman soldier and fucking boudica, or letting her take out all her anger and frustration on him with severe rape

being enlaved by dacian female raiders

fucking roman girls in toga while disscussing philosophy

being an icelandic skinny guy and getting captured and sold into gay slavery in the ottoman harem

young stalin

young drugged out hitler

being a conquistador and fucking everything from aztec girls to japanese geishas, to moor pricesses
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GTA VI TRAILER 2 JUST DROPPED!!!!!
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men, this is what they took from you
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/rus/ - Russia General

Thread №2

Переможный, переговорный, пятнадцатотравневый.

Продолжаем трястись и ждать мобку.
Лолируем с красных фашистов, пыняславов и чучхеисов - вместе.
Переезжаем в тюмень, так как там нефтяная мекка и все жрут черную икру поварешками.
Левый поворот путина будет… надо только подождать… еще лет двадцать.
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FUCK the petit booj

small business owners usually fall into two categories: people who were so good at their job that they wanted to uncap their earnings and capture all the upside so they became consultants essentially, and on the other hand, people who are so obnoxious that being their own boss is the only way they could stay gainfully employed. If you've ever had the displeasure of being of being employed by the latter you'll know they can be infinitely more cruel, anal, dimwitted, and petty than any corporate executive or HR manager. The kind who pay minimum wage, as few or no benefits they can get away with, and scream at employees.

The petit booj ran a business with no buffer, no adaptability, and treated people like garbage, now they want my sympathy because they bet wrong on cheap imports?

A huge part of the emotional charge behind these complaints, especially among small business owners or freelancers, is the existential fear of re-proletarianization. They've tasted a degree of autonomy (however shaky), and the idea of going back to W-2 life, answering to a boss, or clocking in under surveillance again feels like death of the self.

They've constructed identities around being the boss, even if they're just scraping by. Going back to a "real job" means surrendering control over their time, work environment, and self-image. Many of them bought into the bootstraps ideology. Losing the business, or just watching it stagnate, feels like personal moral failure, not just market fluctuation. It’s not just about money. It's about status. Going from "entrepreneur" to "employee" (even if it's in a cushy corporate gig) feels like falling a class rung back into the worker pool. Many use their business as a narrative shield: "I'm not stuck in the system, I'm building something." The collapse of that dream isn't just stressful, it's identity-threatening.

That’s the real fear underneath the performative outrage, the entitlement, and sometimes the cruelty. They’re clinging to their mini-kingdoms (some justified, many not) because the alternative isn’t just economic loss. It’s class displacement. Its fear of them being turned into just another schmuck clocking in at 9 and slaving away under stark fluorescent lights.

FACE IT - COMPLAINING ABOUT TARIFFS IS THE TREATLERISM OF THE PETIT BOURGEOIS.
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HILO LATINOAMERICANO
EDICION MURO PROPIO
Terminamos el año con una victoria mas de los socialdemocratas en Uruguay y con Pepe Mujica en modo espectro alentando a los jovenes a militar
¡A Darle con Todo!
Para luego buscarlo en el catálogo:
Latinoamérica, Latin America, LATAM, /lat/, latinoamérica, latino américa, hispanoamerica, /ñ/
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Liberal Crime Squad

I wish there was a Communist fork of Liberal Crime Squad, which is a game created by the Dwarf Fortress guy Tarn Adams way back during the Bush Era which has had multiple forks, but none which change the fundamental liberal pretenses. LCS is basically about building a network of clandestine cells to oppose an Arch-reactionary government, but it is fundamentally framed in terms of US liberal politics, which reveals its contradictions and ideological flaws. Tarn Adams also says he intended it as a GTA-style satire rather than something truly critical of the USA but I don't really believe that. I think he is "hiding his power level" which radlibs tend to do, to the extent that they have a power level at all. Someone made an update in 2024 that can be played in a web browser and posted it to the Dwarf Fortress forums, and while in some senses it updates it culturally from the Bush era, it still is fundamentally based on the same ideological pretenses.
https://www.jonathansfox.com/lcs-new-age/
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So do yall actually think porn will be banned in America?
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my fellow debate addicts if gay racism doesn't exist explain this
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>nipponese artists, makes the most homo modern literature, full of yuri, yaoi, breddy much kickstarts "traps" and femboy popularity in the west and globally
<somehow rightoids still like them a lot as the anti-woke based nation compared to our woke socialist drag queen filled west

how did they do it?
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THE PRELIMINARY ELECTION IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The bottom 50% of animals will get ELIMINATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Voting ends in 48 HOURS!!!!!!!!!!
https://strawpoll.com/B2ZB9D6X7gJ
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Star Wars Thread /2.0/

Star Wars thread; To discuss, laugh and meme about Star Wars

Don't be a cunt and may the Force be with you


New general since last one hit bump limit.
Previous general:
>>2737
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Vtuber General

ITT We discuss about our favorite Vtubers, corpo and indie alike. Liveposting, (Spoilered) Porn and Rateposting are all encouraged.

I'll start with my own recommendation:

Rie Himemiya from Phase Connect [EN] Gen 2 Phase Alias. A Vsinger with great covers and original songs such as Love Potion #520 and ゲテモノ (Bizarre Food) / Utsu-P ♡ to give you two examples.

Her streams as of now center around variety gaming such as her recent playthrough of Pokémon HG/SS as her first Pokémon game although she is mostly focused on Limbus Company and Library of Ruina as well as community projects like Date Ideas for Valentines season or making a love song out of Schizophrenic Maros.

However I do recommend her older VODs as well such as Sandtrix or Gayraoke for her humor and great chat interaction. If you want something more recent check out her 100 songs for 100k Christmas Special from last year. Remember to do your reps and backreading

https://www.youtube.com/@HimemiyaRie/streams
https://nitter.net/HimemiyaRie
https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/artist/6tKYFARX2bMPlQwglwXNoB


When it comes to membership content, for Tier 1 you get members exclusive covers, static and animated wallpapers, exclusive community posts and access to her art archive.
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I want the video game Abby back tf

The show version is so bad. At least the video game version looked like she could actually scrap with mfs and had some semblance of actual humanity even while killing Joel. This version of Abby is just cruel and emotionally immature. The video game version of Abby literally didn’t derive any pleasure from killing Joel and didn’t take an eternity in killing Joel in front of his loved ones. In fact, game Abby even had to calm her own friends down to focus on the needs of her own people.

Amazon fucking butchered Abby and made her into a mindless knockoff meant to avoid whatever criticism coomers had about a woman looking like she could survive the shit she had to put up with. Fuck Amazon Abby.
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Would detransitioning make me a better communist? Sure, I would be stuck in emotional purgatory, even hell, but that might make me better at political stuff.
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Google and Anonymity

I recently got a smartphone again and things are worse than 5 or 6 years ago. I got an Android because they have inexpensive ones and I don't believe in paying around $1k for a phone.

Turns out you need a Gmail account and a whole Google relationship for the phone to work. Then you can't even send texts without your legal name and email address being linked to your number. For anyone you contact to read.

I'm no paranoid nut or anything, but this is far more involved than it used to be. And there's simply no way to opt out. It may be different with Apple phones, but I remember when I had one of those they wanted me to link up a bunch of shit too. It was similar but different.

Not to mention you kind of already need a phone to activate a phone. Because without some texted code to cell phone you can't get the new one going.
I know I'M the problem here because I'm questioning and not just agreeing to all their shit, but I want to understand it.

Do you guys know what's up with all this and if there's any way around it? I had a flip phone for a long time but each year it's more and more of a hassle to get along without having the same as everyone else. And everyone INSISTS on communicating via text message, so there's really no dealing with that on a little flip with just numbers. And I checked; they don't even fucking MAKE Blackberry type smartphones with physical keyboards anymore. If you can find one it won't work with any current carrier. The phones are all very big and they don't offer small smartphone options unless you want a folding one which is even more costly.
The cheapest I could get was $200 and I still feel ripped off.
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Datamining bread

Post your youtube subscriptions feed, I want to know what timewasters are /siberia/ns into.
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India versus Pakistan 5

Nuclear Gandhi Edition


>May 10
<A ceasefire is announced from 5pm (IST) between India and Pakistan following reported US mediated talks.
<May 11
>Following the deadline, both countries accused each other of violating the ceasefire agreement.
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Since anime females are always overrepresented in beauty appreciation, let's do one for the male sex.
Traps and femboys count but I don't them to be the main element of this thread

Pics in OP:
Sasuke Uchiha from "Naruto"
Sakura Haruno (rule 63) from "Naruto"
Sphintus Carmen from "Magi: Labyrinth Of Magic"
Aladdin Jehoahaz Abraham from "Magi: Labyrinth Of Magic"
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I hate when morons are like "damn we got all the dystopian parts of the Cyberpunk future but none of the cool aesthetic parts" - bitch you can literally order an injectable substance that changes your sex from grey market sellers on the Internet. Think for a second about that concept.
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can someone explain how the fuck there can exist such a thing as "left-nietzscheanism"?
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How long will it take for drones to be the next guns?

Sticks replaced fists, spears replaced sticks, swords replaced spears, and guns replaced swords.
Modern drones have the potential to replace guns as the primary weapon employed in wars, but these weapons suffer from many issues. The most obvious of these issues is the time these things can remain airborne. Modern wars feature battles that remain continuous for weeks to months on end, but most military drones only can remain airborne for a few minutes. Stacking this issue on top of the vulnerability these weapons have to winds, storms, and explosives, and these weapons can quickly become entirely useless for long-term use.
Another major problem is range and size. Modern gun drones don’t have a lot of range if they’re not built big. However, that requirement of these weapons just leaves them increasingly exposed to getting shot down. It’s not just firepower either that makes these weapons vulnerable. Any positive changes in the flight duration, maximum altitude, speed, and the capabilities of any individual drone will see a subsequent increase in a drone’s size.
With enough investment, these weapons should be able to overcome most of these problems and be the thing that replaces the gun. However, these weapons currently are only useful for niche purposes in wars than a true successor to humanity’s primary weapon of choice.
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western comics are the most disappointing medium.

remember wat they took from u……………………………………………………………………………..
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/salt/ - salting general

a thread for salting, becoming a salt




You just went from working a solid career-type job to working retail or fast food again? Become a salt. Recession compression creates ideal salting conditions–downward mobility, employer arrogance, worker bitterness. Embed without announcing. Become dependable, a communist should be the hardest working man in the shop, stay observant, find the cracks, then slow corrosive. Learn the workplace rhythms, identify informal leaders, exploit management contradictions. Never preach–weaponize the material conditions and shared misery. Reinforce that exploitation isn't personal, it's structural. Organize under cover of small talk. Normalize resistance. You're not radical–you're just the one who says what everyone’s already thinking.

Reading List (Contribute !!)

https://industrialworker.org/salt-is-back-on-the-table/
For those unfamiliar, salting is when workers seek employment for the purposes of kick-starting an organizing campaign, or to assist an organizing campaign already in motion. Salting can come in a variety of various strategies, depending on what organizing looks like in a specific shop or what the conditions are like in a specific industry.


https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-salting-organizing-tactic

IWW - Workers' Organizing Guide
https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo

SACP - How to Master Secret Work
https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/sacp/1980/secret-work.htm
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/praxis/

Does anyone here help organize like labor unions and tenants unions and so on?

I was thinking that the nonprofit industry/social worker sector might be very useful to unionize. It could help mitigate some of the harms of the nonprofit activist industrial complex by giving more power to the workers instead of the CEOs. I'm sure lots of NEETs here interact with social programs. It takes five seconds to ask your support workers if they've looked into unionizing.

Anyhow would love to your thoughts on praxis in general
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/hag/

DATING OLDER WOMEN GENERAL

old bread:
>>568817
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Roosterteeth productions

what do you think about RWBY as an anime
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Seventh type

To be among the masses and fail to conduct propaganda and agitation or speak at meetings or conduct investigations and inquiries among them, and instead to be indifferent to them and show no concern for their well-being, forgetting that one is a Communist and behaving as if one were an ordinary non-Communist. This is a seventh type.
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Left wing vs Right wing anime

Found this random chart of anime that is considered left wing vs Right wing on the Xitter.
Thoughts? Agree or disagree?


The body was too short or empty The body was too short or empty. 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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Furry thread 2: Siberian Boogaloo

Because the previous one has hit the bump limit, and the succeeding thread was sadly lost in the crash of 2024.

Post anything furry-related, be it artwork, stories, videos, music or whatever else you might find interesting with animal people in it. Scalies, avians, insectoids, synths, aeromorphs and such also appreciated.
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Is it true that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is dissolving or what? I heard about this but I’m not sure it’s true and I hope to god it isn’t because that’s a big blow to socialism in the Middle East but again im not totally sure and I thought they were doing good after the Syrian government collapsed
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Kohlberg's morality and the political spectrum.

Rightoids operate on the first 2 levels, which are normally acceptable in children.
The first level of morality is simply avoiding punishment, whereas the second one is doing things for a reward. This is easy to observe in the strategies used to appeal to rightoids: fearmongering and treatlerism.
If you tell a rightoid that [insert minority] will do [le bad thing] but that if they [do X] then they get treats, then that's all you need to do to get them on your side.

Liberals operate on levels 3 and 4. Level 3 of moral development is trying to be a "good boy". Liberals usually just adhere to the status quo in a way that is almost religious. Whatever is socially accepted to be the "right" or in other words the "good boy" answer to any question is without fail what the liberals will say.
Level 4 is strict adherence to rules and law regardless of their effectiveness or overall usefulness. I don't think I have to explain this.

Communists are the only people that operate on level 5. Level 5 is being capable of ignoring social consensus as well as laws, preferring to look for answers and solutions that truly benefit the majority.
I will ignore level 6 because Kohlberg could never prove that it existed.
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is it possible to artificially induce fever-like dreams (intense, vivid) by sleeping in hot conditions? like on a very hot night sleeping with a blanket and no fan?
is it possible to do it by eating a lot before sleeping?
what are other possible methods?
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What do you think the most communist anime is Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann I would like to know your guises comments on the below
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/brg/ - Brazil General

Edição Ziraldo muito mais foda que Maurício de Sousa

O lugar mais web-revolucionário para discutir as idas e vindas de nossa amada URSAL!

Último fio: >>6376
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Lelouch did nothing wrong

Daily reminder that Lelouch vi Britannia did nothing wrong.
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The AMA thread

How will Cockshott be answering the questions? A livestream? A video response? By text?
How did it happen on the last AMA thread with Yugopnik?

And if its a livestream will someone archive it?
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Hi I am from the soysphere and I’m wondering if there could be a /leftysoy/ board here.
Context: https://wiki.soyjak.st/Leftysoy/

The board formerly existed on soyjak.st until it was eventually deleted because of bourgeoisiecucks, I have also been exiled from the new administration on the site and some of the soysphere for bullshit reasons.

I would like a new /leftysoy/ and I think it would bring in many users for the site too
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Is there any non biased Marxist archive that doesn't delete and erase Engelian race science?
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Cursed GET thread dissapeared

Site began buffering, I got hit by a cloudflare check for no reason, when the page loaded saw some sharty uyghurs failing to steal the GET, after refreshing the thread was gone.
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NYU = most Ziocucked school

New York University is waging Zionist terror on its student body.

A recent NYU grad had his diploma withheld by the school for denouncing the genocide in Palestine at the hands of Isn'treal and America during his graduation speech. Think about it. How can a university flush a student's years of hard work and hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition money down the toilet simply for expressing sympathy with Palestine? The student will also receive disciplinary action along with suspension of his diploma. Why?

Last year at the start of the fall semester, NYU put new policies into place with equated anti-Zionism with antisemitism. It states:
>“Consistent with recent guidance from OCR and agreements that it has entered with other schools, conduct that otherwise triggers our non-discrimination and anti-harassment policy cannot be shielded by using ‘Zionist’ as a substitute or codeword for Jew or Israeli. Excluding Zionists from an open event, calling for the death of Zionists, applying a ‘no Zionist’ litmus test for participation in any NYU activity, is not allowed."

Comrades need to do something about this university. It is beyond complicit in genocide at this point. Boycotts, protests, anything.
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For the lulz

Post links to OC music

Long live proletarian revolution comrades

ITT: we break the chains of bourgeois capitalist oppression as our communist forefathers and foremothers did by expressing ourselves through our music

Check out Laniakea on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/dTig3D6NfNzBZtLdA

Check out The Defcons on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/7hGs3fWAHpdn9pna9

Workers of the world unite, we have nothing to break but our chains
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>>666666
Satan defeated.
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Far-Right Human Slave Trade In America

Darknet Forum Leak Exposes Human Slave Trade In America

[URL Redacted. SFW. No Porn]

Forum Screenshots: https://postimg.cc/gallery/4KZ0Jzk/c85de9af
Screen Recording: https://www.bitchute.com/video/FW83FwthySSK
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>Theory
Most leftist people are "cat-coded" or are cat like

>Experiment
Hello leftpol poster, here is a bottle of water near the end of a desk.

>Further Theory
Cats are easily distracted by toys or other things, their attention can be easily dragged away

>Experiment 2
Look at this website,
https://scaleofuniverse.com/en
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I just killed this thread. AMA.