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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO PARQUE DO SOLSTÍCIO
"Trata-se de um monumento lítico no Norte do país que possui 127 monólitos que foram erguidos em um raio de 30 metros. As pedras de mais de 4 metros foram erguidas e talhadas há mais de 2000 anos e sua disposição é feita para, no solstício de inverno do hemisfério norte, as pedras apontarem para os principais astros do céu amazônico e o sol, ao meio dia, fique na posição exata do centro da obra."

"Como havia uma variação de povos na época, o Iepa informou que não é possível afirmar qual o povo indígena que construiu o local, mas indícios como pinturas nas peças de cerâmica, apontam similaridades com as do povo Arawak, que tem como descendentes os indígenas da etnia Palikur, habitantes da atual fronteira do Amapá e a Guiana Francesa."

O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio >>20017

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Why are rightoids so obsessed with muh objective morality?

It was a major talking point of the 2000s culture wars between the Religious Right vs. liberals, namely the belief that the right-wing upheld the notion that there is an objective truth and an objective morality that stems from it, while liberals (and genuine leftists for that matter) were portrayed as staunch believers in moral relativism which they acquired through "worshipping" science and history in lieu of religion.

So how does this belief in objective moral truth fit in with the greater right-wing agenda? How does the exploiter class benefit from proles believing in objective morality?

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Do you REALLY understand how bad the psyops are in this nation?

Do you understand the things like the Lindsay Clancy trial are just complete fiction, designed to distract people and make them think "leftist politics means legalizing child murder!"

Do you realize that "Barrack Obama" does not exist? And he was a character played by a CIA actor named Barry Soetoro? And this same actor also played the character of "Osama Bin Laden"? And it's completely crazy, because Obama has no birth certificate, his own purported brother does not believe his story, and just looking at pictures of these 2 figures, you can clearly notice they're 1 person.

Do you understand that 100% of the MSM in this nation is pushing a far-right agenda? 100%. With no exceptions. Every word they tell people, especially when they're purporting to be one of us, is intended to misrepresent people on the left.

Usually they use "wokeness", or anything tied to identity politics to misrepresent us, obviously. If you don't understand that, then I don't think you qualify as a leftist.

Do you understand "DSA" is completely a fake psyop, with the purpose of misrepresenting leftist views as being "woke, openborders, transgenders, abolish the police, antisemitic muslims"? This is how they want people in America to think of "the left".

Do you understand people like Hasan would not exist if they weren't CIA assets, because they would not get promoted by algorithms.

Do you understand the people of this nation are brainwashed to believe conspiracy theories are "right-wing" as a means of covering-up what's happening even further? To gaslight the public by fully inverting the popular narratives out there, and mindfuck people into oblivion?

Do you understand the MSM routinely implies there are leftists in control of this militantly anti-communist government, which is funding fascism all over the world for the last 80 years, in order to ensure people will blame "the left" for their problems?

Do you understand there is no left-wing here. Genuinely. Everyone in the US govt wants war with leftist nations. Everyone is out to fuck you. Everyone is out to deceive you.

Do you understand this is just the tip of the iceberg, and I could have gone on forever here.

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/USApol/

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>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 doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™

<POSIWID edition

OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources

(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)

ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/

Jailhouse Reading:

📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf

⚒️ LABOR!

Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
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
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY

⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸

deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
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
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/

📺 Glowie News 📺

(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))

CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather

📺 Gommie News 📺

Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // https://thegrayzone.com/
Leftvoice // https://www.leftvoice.org/
Newsanon Filter // https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22News+Anon+3.0%22&board=leftypol

🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱

Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide

Essential American Politik 📖

📖 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
📖 Eugene Debs - Fourth of July Speech // https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
📖 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
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech

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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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China BANS criticizing PORKY

On September 18, the Cyberspace Administration of China issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Management of Infringing Information Concerning Enterprises and Continuously Optimizing the Online Business Environment". Here's the most imporant part in the notice (most notably 2, 4 and 5):

[…] Website platforms must proactively identify and address the following types of infringing content:

Personal information: Includes the disclosure of personal identity and contact details, such as ID cards, passports, household registration records, home addresses, and phone numbers, as well as sensitive personal data like biometric information, medical and health records, financial account details, and location tracking data.

Insults and derogatory content: Includes verbal abuse or insults directed at enterprises and entrepreneurs; the malicious parodying or caricaturing of corporate logos, products, or entrepreneurs' likenesses; maliciously linking enterprises or entrepreneurs to pornographic or vulgar topics; and using stigmatizing language to disparage enterprises, entrepreneurs, or specific brand users.

Impersonation and counterfeiting: Includes impersonating news organizations to produce or publish information regarding corporate oversight; publishing information under the guise of an enterprise or entrepreneur; and the unauthorized use of names, logos, or entrepreneurs' names and likenesses, identical or similar to those of the actual enterprise, in the names, avatars, or profiles of public accounts.

False and misleading information: Includes taking entrepreneurs' past statements out of context or distorting their meaning; displaying search keyword suggestions or landing page results that contradict the facts; republishing false information that has already been authoritatively refuted or clarified; and disseminating information that conflicts with public statements issued by the enterprise or entrepreneur via their official accounts on major platforms.

Other categories: Includes content designed to incite conflict by pitting enterprises against one another; the aggregation and resurfacing of old news or negative information about enterprises; infringing content that the platform has previously addressed; comments regarding enterprises posted by bot accounts or paid astroturfing accounts; and information that smears or disparages enterprises and entrepreneurs in a manner that clearly violates public order and good morals.

source: https://www.cac.gov.cn/2026-09/18/c_1791396347229199.htm

What do the china stans have to say about this

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Are Red Expats Traitors and Cowards?

American ML here, moved to china a few years ago, been doing the privileged ESL job thing. currently working at a gov uni for like 1700$ a month teaching 16 hours weekly while i study chinese and try to get out of english teaching with hopes to start a family and raise some red diaper kids, but im plagued by a sense of guilt. Is leaving the US behind the cowards way out? Am I abandoning the a righteous cause or a sinking ship?

Jannies can delete the duplicate /labor/ thread

Feel free to ask whatever other chinese labor questions you got too

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Sex and Relationships General #67

Yaoi Cottagecore Edition

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>its going to be 27°C in England this week, it is autumn

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>there are people in socialist circles who unironically agree with Agent Kochinski on this take.

Why is it so hard to fathom that both CSAM and child sweatshops/slavery are bad and both should be horribly illegal.

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>be me
>attracted to an unconventional facial structure some women have, hard to describe but i find it very cute
>feel a little weird about it because i don't go for sharp cheekbones and plump lips but it takes all kinds after all
>end up in relationships with 3 different women over the years who have this kind of face
>notice in hindsight they all have similar personalities, too
>heh, i guess i have a type, not bad
>years go by
>stumble across randoms on the internet talking about fetal alcohol syndrome
>look it up
>mfw

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Whatever Thread: Pescetarian Edition

A general chit-chat thread. Post whatever you want, share whatever you want. Old thread dead.

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/leftybritpol/ - Stiff Upper Lip edition

LET ME SEE YOUR WAR LIPS YOU BLOODY WANKERS!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmn0jke547r5o

<If the UK suddenly found itself at war, would you know what to do? Do you know what would be expected of you?

>The government wants us all to start preparing for severe disruption to our lives. It wants us to stockpile canned food and drinking water, strengthen our civic resilience, and plan for the possibility of war.

>Work has begun on the government's so-called "war book", which hasn't been updated in decades.

>The UK's most senior soldier has sounded the alarm. The Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton this week said the threat from Russia meant Britain was living through the "most dangerous" period of his 35-year career in the armed forces.

>But what is the threat? In 1940 the danger of a German invasion of the UK was very real. But the chances of Russian tanks rolling up Whitehall are surely negligible.

>"It's not the tanks you need to worry about," says historian Margaret MacMillan, author of War: How Conflict Shaped Us.

>"It's the cutting of cables on the ocean floor. It's the hacking into systems on which so many things depend. The possibility for asymmetric war, for cyber war, is growing by leaps and bounds."

>But are we ready? After 80 years without war on our own soil, are we, as a society, psychologically prepared for it? Are we ready to approve large increases in defence spending, and for the sacrifices that that might entail in other areas of our national life? Or does the threat seem too far-fetched to be real?

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My bussy itches >///<

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A general for "western" animations/cartoons.

New thread for Western animation (or wanime) now that the old one is full at long last. The old thread can be found here:

>>22171

I'm sure with everything we've seen and learned from the last thread, this one will be even better.

Related threads:
Hazbin Hotel: >>5447
TADC: >>46854
MLP: >>37939
Lefty/co/: >>1328
Communist cartoon General: >>47870
Animation today: >>7658
Knights of Guinevere: >>46648
KOTH: >>46468

Good luck, be yourself, and don't forget to have FUN.

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Welcome to /leftymu/ sticky (WIP)

Discuss what info, links, resources, etc. to add on this sticky as well as drop ideas and suggestions to the /leftymu/ board at large

Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#leftymusic:matrix.org

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Read this right now.

Read this book right now
A major problem I've been noticing through the years is that nobody fucking understands what dialectical materialism actually is. This book is entirely about explaining dialectical materialism.
Of course, it speaks of the philosophies that come before it but only to explain dialectical materialism itself (this is by itself a dialectical process, btw)

Read this shit and spread it!

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The last refuge of the petite-bourgeiose

Do nothing, win? It genuinely does not matter whether they call themselves MLs or MLMs; though the MLMs, by their own logic, tend to break from this more often than MLs. The question is what it is about Marxist-Leninists in the modern world that leaves them mired in inaction, or in vague gestures toward organization. Nearly every American ML or MLM organization has, in essence, denounced the George Floyd uprisings. Not on the surface level, but when you dig thru the layers of their statements, texts, and interviews you observe this. I have read deeply into their positions, they critique the failures, the liberal NGO elements, and so on, but then they also shun the "riots," labeling them adventurism and spontaneity "no different than playing into the fears of the far-right" yet their entire existence, and the name Lenin itself, carries that same charge. Ask them for the alternative and they vaguely say "organize," but look inside and you find that by this they mean a milieu of petty-bourgeois, highly educated intellectuals endlessly discussing theory, liberal activism, and elections. Why should the real working class and its movements interact with these types? Why should we take them seriously when they tell those of us who are suffering not to directly defend ourselves from attackers, not to directly resist the daily misery of capitalism, not to directly expropriate and survive while striving for our freedom? Especially when these people can afford the comfort to happily exist and organize their entire lives away without any revolutionary fervor or action disrupting daily life.

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News 9/23/26

Israel election committee bars Arab party lists, MKs from October vote
The decisions are not final and must be approved by the Supreme Court, which has overturned most such disqualifications in previous elections. Israel’s Central Elections Committee is made up of lawmakers, with seats allocated to parties based on their share of the vote in the general election. … The committee said Abu Shehadeh had supported armed struggle by an enemy state or "terrorist organisation" against Israel and rejected Israel’s existence as a Jewish and "democratic state".
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-committee-bars-arab-party-lists-mks-october-vote

Iran and US held direct UN talks, with Islamic Republic's terms to reopen Hormuz hardening
Multiple Gulf officials told Middle East Eye that their countries were trying to arrange a "bump-in" between US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, but the logistics were complicated. Qatar took the lead among Gulf states in facilitating the meeting between Witkoff and Araghchi, a Gulf official told MEE. Gulf states were pressing for US-Iran talks at the UN in the days before the General Assembly. Both Qatar and the UAE called for de-escalation and engagement with the Islamic Republic over the weekend.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-and-us-held-direct-un-talks-islamic-republic-terms-reopen-hormuz-hardening

Pro-Palestine Activist ‘Close to Death’ on Hunger Strike in Tunisian Prison
Wael Naouar, a father of two who was detained in March alongside three other Flotilla organisers, Ghassan Henchiri, Ghassan Boughdiri and Nabil Chennoufi, initiated his hunger strike in protest of the prolonged detention the Sumud 4 have endured without trial.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/23/pro-palestine-activist-close-to-death-on-hunger-strike-in-tunisian-prison/

South Sudan president dissolves transitional government ahead of long-delayed elections
Kiir, who will remain president throughout the electoral period until a new president is sworn in, appointed caretaker ministers to oversee key ministries including foreign affairs, defense, cabinet affairs, interior, justice, national security, finance, petroleum, information and peace building. The transitional period and implementation of a 2018 peace agreement, which ended a deadly civil war, has been extended several times. The transitional government’s dissolution was envisaged as part of the road map to elections.
https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-elections-transitional-government-dissolved-de4306bb7092c6142741e5a899051154

UK arms broker jailed for 16 years over missiles and fighter jet deals with Libya and Sudan
Prosecutors said only one charge involved the actual supply of weaponry, with the pair selling a former Ukrainian S-125 Pechora missile system to South Sudan, where Greenhalgh and Farmakis had "very close ‌connections ⁠to senior figures". South Sudan was still formally part of Sudan until it achieved independence in 2011, prosecutor Edmund Burge told jurors at Southwark Crown Court, meaning the semi-autonomous region was subject to a British arms embargo.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/uk-arms-broker-jailed-16-years-over-missiles-fighter-jet-deals-with-libya-sudan-2026-09-23/

Police use teargas on protesters as disabled woman, 87, evicted from Madrid home
When a developer bought the building Maricarmen had lived in for 71 years, she was offered the chance to buy her apartment for €247,000 (£212,000), an impossible sum for a pensioner. They then raised her rent from €500 to €1,650 a month, while she receives a state pension of €1,350. An unnamed “prominent” writer offered to pay the €1,150 difference indefinitely but their offer was ignored.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/23/madrid-police-teargas-protesters-disabled-woman-evicted

Could Berlin expropriate large real estate companies?
Chancellor Friedrich Merz responded to the Left Party's election victory immediately by promising to draw up a federal law banning state governments from expropriating property. "It's not just about banning something here in Berlin," Merz said at a press conference in the aftermath of the Berlin election. "It's about sending a clear message to international investors, which is: There is no expropriation of private property in Germany." However, it's unclear whether the federal government has the power to impose such a law. Germany's Constitutional Court once ruled that the federal government cannot pass a law simply to prevent a state from governing in the issues it wants.
https://www.dw.com/en/could-a-left-party-government-in-berlin-expropriate-large-real-estate-companies/a-79399683
https://archive.ph/ydAB2

Honduras Approves Sweeping Anti-Gang, Prison Security Law
Honduras’ Congress has unanimously approved a law establishing a special prison regime for people accused of belonging to terrorist organizations, maras and pandillas. The measures include individual maximum-security detention, strict limits on visits and communications, and virtual court hearings.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/honduras-anti-gang-prison-security-law/

Brazil has record number of Indigenous candidates for general elections
The record comes as Indigenous groups push the government for faster official recognition of their territories, a status that grants these lands legal protection against invasions, while seeking to shield their interests in legislative houses from agribusiness, as well as energy and infrastructure projects.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-has-record-number-indigenous-candidates-general-elections-2026-09-23/

Takaichi eager for passage of tax cut bill
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi early Wednesday expressed her eagerness for the passage of legislation to lower the 8% consumption tax rate for food to 1% for two years. “I want to achieve results by enacting laws familiar to the people” during the extraordinary session of parliament, expected to start Oct. 5, Takaichi said of the tax cut legislation at a news conference to wrap up her trip to New York.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/23/japan/takaichi-tax-cut-bill-passage/

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I hate you people

How is it possible that you guys do NOTHING all the time. Fascists get people in power, liberals get people in power, you don't do anything. Has any progress whatsoever been made since the 80s? You say you want to organize but I don't ever see it, you don't even have an online presence. This site is like the only communist discussion site out there and it has barely any users. What do communist orgs irl do? All I see is a variety of small parties that spend all their time arguing with each other. A lot of you call yourselves anti-fascists but what do you do to stop them? I have seen nothing. Not a single fascist has been killed by a communist in the past 30 years. While they shoot up islands, detonate bombs in daycare centers, and groom children into murdering their classmates you sit back and do nothing to stop them.

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lowkey ts website and shitty clients are the only social interaction i get nowadays. im tired of talking to fucking dumbasses

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There needs to be proletarian disability justice movement. I think communists have ended up being pushed into seeing disability justice as some kind of frivolous idpol, and its not helped by the fact that so much of it is carried by very shortsighted middle-class ppl right now. The movement for disability rights has become associated with unreasonable, aggressive attempts at gaining accommodation (sometimes in cases where a reasonable discussion about accommodation could be had). While the actual ways that accommodation could begin to be pushed for, especially in working class context, are completely ignored.

Disabled people exist in the proletariat. Even when they're shut out of working jobs, they end up being confronted with the issue of being cared for. Their families, also working class, end up with this responsibility, and will have to make immense sacrifices (at least for mid-to-higher supports-need disabled individuals) as they can't afford daily care workers (usually). A lot of times they will opt out of this and abandon the disabled individual, to either die on the streets or end up in a poorly-funded public care facility, where the exact support services that they need are neglected and they live a terrible, shortened life. Even some disabled individuals with bourgeois family paying for their care deal with some of these problems, but of course the ones with working class origins have a much more guaranteed miserable fate.

Unions could fight for better workplace accommodation for the supports needs of disabled workers. The workplace is an extremely critical site for disability rights to be fought for within. And the issues of disabled workers should be addressed by their comrades. More public money could be spent on public care services that either work with families or host the disabled individual in a facility. These services could be empathetically based on the supports that a person needs

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Dunno why there so many communist islamic simps when literally every socialist state has done their hardest to try to rid the populace of the retarded reactionary beliefs of some pedophilic warlord from late antiquity

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Hello siberia, i'm broke.

How can i make some money without getting a job (job market is shit and whenever i apply i get rejected so i stopped trying) and without doing anything illegal

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Remind me, what's the point of being a communist if I hate normies? I won't be a worker for long, I'll either be a NEET or a bourgeois.

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can you write a story that's both shorter and more sad than:
For sale:
baby shoes
never word

u can also post any artsy thing u've written lately in here

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Why bother?

Hating random people with lots of money and reading theory that never sees real world implementation isn't going to make my life less miserable. What's the real solution?

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/SEA/ Southeast Asia General

Flying and Nazi Malays Edition.

A general thread for the discussion for all things happening in Southeast Asia. What a year it has been. Forest fires in Borneo now. Border skirmishes with Thailand and Cambodia. Vietnam mimicking South Korean chaebols. Singapore begging its citizens to have kids. Malaysia sending Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar while it is still in a civil war.

All the while the heat is cooking us now.

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Royal Colony 15

leftypol's day of the sun edition
<if we dont have inbred monarchs ruling over us people will resort to cannibalism

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Complaining about social media

The internet is dying because of modern social media and we unironically need to wipe it clean and retvrn to image boards and the like because all other social media except maybe YouTube (non-shorts) is manufacturing illiterate future lumpenproles from the youth at a catastrophic rate.

R: 88 / I: 23

Iran war thread #74

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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!

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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-0.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-1.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-2.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-3.pdf
📺 • 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

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Elon Musk = Nazi

“Mass immigration is insane and will lead to the destruction of any country that allows it. It only takes a few percent of the world to move to a country, where it is no longer that country. A country is its people, not its geography.”
https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1908860526400057534

"The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1904065163407368212

Even Musk's AI is based.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1916042294018666585

"The ADL is a hate group"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973289543848829225

He supports remigration.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997700657546191314

"A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998131134753062943

"Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000078735622721927

"Why is Western media so anti-White"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000604195272163517

"Call them out for the anti-White racists they are every time they do it"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000920169531822091

"Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001022917610758555

Says DEI, and not hiring white men, is wrong.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001529481677435100

"Why is legacy media so racist?"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002604827134787629

**|!|- The last time Elon was accused of wanting to import infinity jeets he replied with "False" and said the H1B system should be reformed. -|!|**
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1996214327670648865

"Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2003503573448159495

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Dragon Ball Z and Naruto Hate Thread

These two are supposed to be the Citizen Kane of anime, everyone loves them, yet they are such fucking garbage, literal trash, why are they so fucking bad holy shit.
And I watched it when I was a kid and even then I HATED it, I had a friend who also watched DBZ and he hated it too, even we who were just two little dumbass kids could recognize how shit this cartoon was. And dont get me started on Super.
Naruto is just as bad if not worse, they somehow contradict their own message every god damn time, and have a little privileged retarded kid as the main character who was born with le epic god powers, and never works a day in his life to achieve anything, its all just handed to him

R: 0 / I: 0

Vic 3 commie dlc

Vic 3 is making a communism dlc, lead dev is reading Marx, engels, Lenin, and even bordiga for research.

Will this be enough to redeem paraslop for creating HOI4?

R: 5 / I: 1

JOB SEEKING

did you get a job straight out of university high school training etc? I've been applying for years. Shit sucks. Only have a job after going to a mental hospital and a retard facility. Who's dick did you suck to get your job. I could probably just have laid bricks and shit for 600AUD a day or so. I'd be in better shape and not a fat permanently online retard.

R: 18 / I: 1
Why is all porn gay, bi, or autoerotic?
I'm very confused please help.

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/gaygen/

lefty gay general - boyfriend edition

How do we feel about our bfs /lgbt/? I love mine lots and lots and can't wait till he gets home from work personally.

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the money problem

i know you theory-minded suburban adolescents don't want to hear this, but one of the unavoidable prerequisites for any kind of leftist revolutionary effort, or any large scale human endeavor for that matter, is obtaining money. you want to organize a strike or start a union, you need money to pay your friends who are now out of work and starving. you want to start a big protest on the streets, you need money to pay lawyers and bondsmen and hospital bills when your friends inevitably end up in jail or the emergency room. you want to start an armed insurrection and go to war with cops and national guard and maga militias you need enormous amounts of money to pay for weapons and ammunition and vehicles and fuel and radios and burner phones and medical supplies and rations so your friends don't get massacred. you need a lot of money, and the money has to obtained honestly and ethically, otherwise you cease to be a revolutionary movement and you just become a violent capitalist drug/weapon/human trafficking cartel masquerading as a revolutionary movement and the people you're supposed to be fighting for will despise you even more than the regime. and you need to be able to handle the money without becoming emotionally attached to the money, i.e. you need to be willing to part with the money you worked very hard for and throw it into the pool with everyone else's money and cease to think of it as your money after that, it is now everyone's money and it doesn't matter how much your contribution was compared to anyone else's because it's not your money anymore. and trying to abandon the whole concept of money is not the solution, it's an absurdly unrealistic and lazy copout that simply tries to ignore and sidestep what is ultimately the true source of all of our problems, the fundamental flaw of human psychology that got us into this mess to begin with, which is our lack of emotional maturity when it comes to material wealth. there is no getting out from under capitalism without addressing that core problem, there is no clever shortcut that will allow us to skip ahead to the next level of human social evolution without dealing with our greed and our entitlement and our pettiness. if we can't find any reasonable middle ground between getting high on money and rejecting it outright, between capitalism and utopianism, then we've got more immediate and personal problems to deal with before we can start talking about how to refactor the entire world.

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NATO Nazi shoots up synagogue on Yom Kippur.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/belleville-police-shooting-siu-synagogue-9.7351776
>Investigators say a 29-year-old man armed with a shotgun opened fire on an officer outside a synagogue in Belleville, Ont., as 25 people gathered for Yom Kippur. Up to 30 rounds were exchanged, sending worshipers scrambling for cover.

Is there any evidence that this Nazi participated in the training of the Azov Brigade or other Ukrainian military organizations in the last nine years?

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SINFEST THREAD!

Since the last one disappeared somewhere, so I'm creating another thread dedicated to my beloved Tatsuya Ishida (≧◡≦) ♡

R: 162 / I: 146

Post Here Each Time You Visit This Site

Also post Teto
~~>>71245~~
Old thread

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Should conscription include women?

What breaks or bends if women get drafted? Does the 'protect women' instinct finally die? Would shared foxholes bond the or poison everything?

Personal opinion is if the Queens want the crown, they need to carry the sword.

R: 15 / I: 3
Doesn't this apply to the proleteriat aswell?

R: 5 / I: 0
I always thought sweaty ballsacks Just Smelled Like That, but this week I applied antibacterial.cream on my ballsack for unrelated reasons and my ballsack.smells of nothing now

Materialist explanation?

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Why bother?

Hating random people with lots of money and reading theory that never sees real world implementation isn't going to make my life less miserable. What's the real solution?

R: 8 / I: 0

TheyMAB brother always gets away with it #TotalTheymabDeath

Sowwy jannies, I just need to vent.

My theymab older brother always gets away with it and I'm honestly shocked. You think one of his transgressions would catch up to him but no. First he sexually assaults me countless times over 2 years, then tries to do it to my sister (and fails from what I know), then he convinces my parents to deny me hrt when I was a minor and then finally he attempts to molest the sister of one of his childhood friends. *Also, he probably grooms repressing trans men into not transitioning (from what I know). All of this is typical rapist cishet male behaviour, but done under the veneer of being "nonbinary" and "queer".

When it comes to how often he raped me, I dont know the true number as it was simply that many "sessions", but I can give an estimate. If we say that it was weekly and there are about 50 weeks in a year, then it would amount to 50 times a year; we then double it to account for two years between the ages of 5 and 7 for a final value of 100 times. Now this is a very conservative estimate, if we say biweekly, then it would ammount to 100 times per year for a total value of 200 times. A close estimate is probably far less conservative than these values, its probably close to 400 - 600 times, as it was usually every other day, with several rapes happening in a single day. For more anecdotal and less rigorous evidence of his crimes; he would usually say very rapey things while raping me, a couple I remember are: "you know you want it" and "when we are old men in our 40s we will laugh at this", these lines often will ring through my head at my worst moments.

Now when he tried to do it to my sister, my sister eventually reported it, well the best a 5 year old child could report it. My sister was most likely spared from his crimes as she had a separate room and was also a cis girl (typically my parents really only care about rape or violence or threats of it when it comes to her but not to me).
When my parents learned of this when I was 7, they shamed me and removed my brother of all guilt, letting him off the hook. He stopped raping me, started to be my "friend" and I was supposed to never talk about it ever again. Eventually after living with him in the same house for another decade I simply broke and couldnt take it anymore; I reported it to my parents. My parents seemed to have completely forgetten what happened, they separated me but not him from the rest of the family. I went to live with my grandparents and eventually had to live on my own (with my parents support thankfully). Now this isnt a dissertation against my parents, they could certainly be worse, at least I have a roof over my head, school and HRT. Worst thing is that my brother even admitted to raping me to my parents.

Around this time that I came forward to my parents, my mother also told me that "something happened between x person (who was the sister of my brothers childhood friend) and my brother", she was 15 and he was 19. My mother went into detail saying that he "touched" her and that "she now wants nothing to do with him". Again I must say, this is a second hand account, but I wouldnt be suprised if he did it. Whatever happened my brother got away with it again, and this time it was literally ILLEGAL.

Another great transgression he did is that he convinced my parents to deny me HRT when I was a minor and in desperate need of it. He claimed to be "trans" and "having the same condition as me", when he was literally nothing more than a 6'2 cishet male with they/them pronouns. After introducing his premise he then concluded that as a "trans" person, HRT, especially diy HRT was "dangerous" and "expensive" to my parents and that I should have "body positivity". The irony of that coming from a 6'2 theymab, literally life on easy mode for him. I will never forgive neither him nor my parents for making me repress until I was 18, the pain from the wrong puberty was immense and almost killed me. Honestly this was the worst of all of the transgressions. Going through wrong puberty is literal torture for trans kids.

Finally he loves to claim to be "queer" and "gay", but never seems to have the courage to date anyone who isnt a theyfab/cis woman. Worst of all is that he uses his claimed "queer" identity to take advantage of transsex male repressors. I find the infatilization of transsex males and the never ending attempts by cissexuals to detransition them to be disgusting.

My brother is a 6'2 cishet theymab who gets easy pussy from transsex male repressors and theyfabs whilst larping as having a "queer" identity. Like fuckoff, he will get rightfully purged after the revolution.

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OC Thread 19.0

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://xcancel.com/leftypol_org

Previous Thread (Mods, archive pls?) ~~>>2515750~~

New Booru:
https://lefty.pictures

MAKE SURE TO UPLOAD YOUR OC TO THE BOORU SO IT DOESNT GET PRUNED FOREVER!!!

R: 534 / I: 88

/QTDDTOT/ Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread

Previous thread: ~~>>2381106~~

Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.

Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.

Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.

Previous QTDDTOT Archives
https://archive.is/ga3OG

R: 22 / I: 4 (sage)

leftism has become just a subculture and that's why we're going to keep losing

>socialists then
<how do we design a planned economy with enough efficiency that it can withstand external pressures and compete with other countries while meeting the needs of the populace? let's get thousands of scientists to work on this problem
>socialists now
<economics doesn't real, just do a revolution and everyone gets everything for free!
>socialists then
<how do we give the broader proletariat knowledge of its conditions and of what is necessary to overcome them? this is surely a complex problem that needs to be constantly re-examined because the answer will vary with time and place
>socialists now
<um it's not my job to educate you and also it's boring and too much effort, and i'm just gonna assume everyone who disagrees with me is unchangeably stupid and evil
>socialists then
<we need to carefully plan instances of activism and action, making sure they always advance our wider strategy and goals, knowing that sometimes it's best to do nothing if it will only hurt us in the long run
>socialists now
<i'm gonna go out and march around for a few days because it's cool and makes me feel like a badass revolutionary. we don't need to make concrete demands or have organization or a plan or anything. and then when this inevitably fails i'm gonna tell myself it's because the world is cruel and uncaring and i'm never gonna do anything again
>socialists then
<i'm a socialist so i'm gonna join an org, spread my ideas to my fellow workers, and sacrifice some of my spare time to real action
>socialists now
<i'm a socialist so i'm gonna post, listen to podcasts, and wear socialism-branded merch. let me cherrypick quotes from old respected figures to justify why this is actually based and revolutionary

we're staring down a thousand disasters all at once but god forbid doing something about it gets in the way of my fun.

R: 269 / I: 32

AI news shit general

The other thread hit bump limit and I'm addicted to talking about the birth of the ̶a̶l̶l̶-̶k̶n̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶ the biggest financial bubble in history and the coming jobless eschaton, post your AI news here

Previous thread:>>30810

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The human brain is actually two separate organs

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-brains.html
The forebrain controls higher level thinking and the hindbrain controls automatic bodily functions.
Thoughts?

R: 0 / I: 0

Lets Make a Webring!

Anyone here interested in setting up a webring (https://indieweb.org/webring)?
There's some complexity in setting this up but webmentions (https://indieweb.org/Webmention) even allow for cross website talk.
If there's more than a handful of us willing to make websites we could form a small community.

Free Webhosts & SubDomain:
https://neocities.org (easiest to use)
https://statichost.eu
https://docs.codeberg.org/codeberg-pages/

Static Site Generators
https://jamstack.org/generators/ (not all compatible with the hosts, check the host first)

Federation (sync and interact with the fediverse)
https://brid.gy

Low-code Solutions
https://www.figma.com
https://opencode.ai

I'm here: https://the-flower-is-awaring.statichost.page/ (using codeberg, statichost.eu, brid,gy, and Astro)

R: 1 / I: 0

Insider Trading Proves 9/11 Foreknowledge

>All my investigations are free to read, thanks to the enormous generosity of my readers. Independent journalism nonetheless requires investment, so if you value this article or any others, please consider sharing, or even becoming a paid subscriber. Your support is always gratefully received, and will never be forgotten. To buy me a coffee or two, please click this link.
>On September 12th 2001, chaos reigned supreme. Yet, as governments the world over struggled to make sense of the previous day’s catastrophe, and before a motive was established, any perpetrators identified, or other basic facts ascertained, the US Securities and Exchange Commission launched an investigation into potential insider trading by unknown figures with apparently precise foreknowledge of 9/11. The evidence seemed overwhelming. Mainstream reporters openly mocked the implausibility of numerous deeply abnormal stock market trades immediately prior to the attacks being pure coincidence.
>For one, several companies prominently impacted by the event were abruptly ‘shorted’ at inexplicable levels over the preceding weeks. In other words, investors bet certain stocks would perform poorly in the near future, and sought to profit accordingly. Just five days before 9/11 over 2,000 shorts were placed against United Airlines - 90 times more in a single day than over the entirety of August. The company’s share price collapsed following the attacks, turning $180,000 in shorts into $2.4 million.
>Meanwhile, substantial investments were serendipitously made in private security, intelligence and defence firms that benefited enormously from the 9/11 attacks and ensuing ‘War on Terror’. On September 10th, purchase of shares in major US defence contractor Raytheon surged sixfold. Just one week later, as the Pentagon began bulk purchasing Raytheon’s flagship Patriot and Tomahawk missiles in preparation for invading Afghanistan, the firm’s shares rocketed 37%. Other major defence stocks, including Boeing and Lockheed, also experienced abnormal trading pre-9/11.
>Purchase and shorts of dozens of stocks in almost every conceivable industry that one way or another profited, or was harmed, as a result of 9/11 incongruously spiked in the weeks before the fateful day. The evidentiary trail was literally globespanning, with major financial authorities in several Western countries launching their own investigations. Numerous officials in European capitals alleged the trading was definitively indicative of 9/11 foreknowledge, and “terrorists” were responsible.
>For example, commenting on Italian securities regulator CONSOB’s investigation into the suspicious market activity on September 17th 2001, Italian foreign minister Antonio Martino boldly declared “terrorist states and organizations [were] behind speculation on the international markets.” One week later, German central bank president Ernst Welteke asserted his researchers had uncovered “irrefutable proof of insider trading.” He and his team were certain “people connected to the terrorists must have been trying to profit from this tragedy”:
>“You look at the movements in markets before and after the attacks, it really makes your brow furrow…we are confident we will be able to pinpoint the source.”
>Welteke declined to release further information, pending consultation with European and US regulators. However, the 9/11 insider trading scandal quickly faded from public consciousness thereafter. In July 2004, the SEC announced the end of its grand investigation - conducted in conjunction with the Department of Justice and FBI - having “not [developed] any evidence suggesting that anyone who had advance knowledge of the September 11 attacks traded on the basis of that information.” Which, rather than closing the case, begs the obvious question of who did.
>Declassified records of one suspicious pre-9/11 trade probed by the FBI sheds potential light on why US and other authorities may have decided to leave the entire issue alone. From September 6th - 10th 2001, a total of 56,000 Stratesec shares were purchased by a single investor. The company provided security systems to several airports, including Wasington DC’s Dulles from where one of the hijacked planes departed, and the World Trade Center. Its share price almost doubled in the attacks’ wake.
>The shady trades were traced back to Wirt D. Walker III - a distant relative of the Bush family and business partner of Marvin Bush, then-President George W. Bush’s brother. The FBI reportedly uncovered “no ties to terrorism or other negative information” regarding Walker, so didn’t even interview him before concluding his lucrative transactions were innocent happenstance then closing the investigation. Apparently, the evident possibility Walker III possessed foreknowledge of 9/11 via other means than “ties to terrorism” wasn’t worth exploring.
>Still, this sleight of hand granted the Bureau, Department of Justice and SEC an extremely effective “out”. The 9/11 Commission likewise summarily dismissed any suggestion of “unusual pre-9/11 trading activity” on the basis investors involved “had no conceivable ties to Al Qaeda.” Such specious reasoning was sufficient to kill the scandal dead in the mainstream. Nonetheless, ever since numerous peer reviewed academic papers have contrarily concluded insider trading did occur, and was motivated by 9/11 foreknowledge.
>In 2006, University of Illinois professor Allen Poteshman authored a well-cited study focusing on suspicious pre-9/11 trading activity in airline stocks. He concluded this shorting was “unusually high”, and “terrorists or their associates traded…on the basis of foreknowledge of the impending attacks.” Similar findings were reached by a 2011 Multinational Finance Journal paper, which identified highly abnormal market movements in numerous key industries, including insurance and reinsurance stocks directly impacted by 9/11. This was “consistent with insiders anticipating” the attacks.
https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/insider-trading-proves-911-foreknowledge

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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 24

>Bye, bye, Microsoft! – edition
https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/

The Chinese question is: how does a comfy non-imperialist nation transform itself into a global socialist model that can be reproduced and adopted by the rest of the world, without either reproducing the aggressive and counter-productive policies of the USSR or appearing toothless, while resolving the contradictions of the so-called first world FOR THEM and liberating them from capitalist domination, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?

<A thread for the harmonious discussion related to the saviour of socialism, the uplifter of nations, the king of cooperation, the soviet of SOVL, the enjoyer of empathy, the ally of Africa, the demigod of development, the bureaucracy for banter, the prince of ping pong, the lobotomizer of labour aristocracy, the protector against proxy wars, the sponsor of sophisticated sciences and culture, the guarantor of gommunism, the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chynah™.

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: >>2832385

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Another Communization Theory thread because why not?

Talk about anything relating to Communization Theory! Talk about how Communization Theory is great or how its shit!

Texts regarding Communization Theory and its many sub-sects will be attached in the replies.

[NOTE: Not every Communizer believes in the same things, e.g. some emphasis class struggle while others don't]

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/US-Venezuela War #15/

"Superbigote es inocente" Edición

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#06 https://archive.ph/bWfbJ
#07 NEVER EXISTED?
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Happy 12th Anniversary, /leftypol/!!

On this day, 12 years ago, /leftypol/ was created!!
What are some of your favorite /leftypol/ memories since?
Share some of yours!

We'll also share some birthday goodies in this thread as well.
(Art by https://twitter.com/lemondool)

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Based tgirl

A transsexual woman from Mexico City just beat the shit out of some far-right incel losers.

If she can do it, what are YOU as a trans woman/man doing to eradicate fascist rats from YOUR country?

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I just realized that Chun-Li from Street Fighter II has the same look and ears as Lassalle.

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What is the meaning of life?

Poll: What is the meaning of life?

It's to feel different things and grow.
It's to win at creating good feels.

Do not answer if you're not ready.

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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #297

DAJ MI PIENIĄDZE (GIVAS MONEY) Edition (See second post)

Previous: >>2903067

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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🇷🇺🇺🇦
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 treats geopolitics like shitty map games
• behead NATO, crush NATO, etc.
• boasting about getting laid in a warzone is fucking weird, okay?

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Lunduke

Who the fuck was it that says Lunduke was a good guy? He's a rightoid now which I already knew due to his petit bourgeois class status and that debate with Stallman on free software.

Now all his videos are about h1b and discrimination against whites and pronouns and shit.

Feels good to be vindicated as opposed to the people on /tech/ who said hes a good guy or whatevr.

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>capitalism is solved because the billionaire gave his fortune to a poor immigrant.

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Youtube Clickbait Thumbnails III

Youtube Clickbait Thumbnails III
We had 2 other threads but they died.
This is the 3rd.

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Burgerpunk thread

burgerpunk - depressed penguin™ lebensraum edition

in this thread we post the deepfried boring cyberpunk in burgerstan, if its a memefied cult of personality shit or doge coins, or an amazon billboard floating in the florida beach, it belongs here, consult the 3rd and 4th image for more about burgerpunk

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Writing and Fanfiction General

Thread for those who like to read and write including fanfiction. Share drafts, look for beta-readers, ask for writing advice, give recommendations and do all that other cool jazz. Just remember to not bully anyone else no matter how shit their taste might be.

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Arent they basically the same as your employer stealing your surplus value?

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Psyop anti-Argentina

Hay una psyop masiva para generar odio contra argentina y justificar una posible intervención o lento takeover del país y sus recursos.

Por medio del mundial estan pintando al pais como una potencia sionista corrupta y despreciable. Estan habiendo demasiadas decisiones y doble vara arbitral que es dificil que sean todas coincidencia. Hay alguien interesado en generar toda esta dinamica, quiza para devolverle un favor a alguien y de paso indirectamente arrastrar polemica pero mejor no digo más. Despues del partido contra Egipto cualquier tipo de simpatia entre el pueblo que pudiera tener argentina en medio oriente y muchas partes del mundo directamente se evaporó.
Y por otro lado, llevan años queriendo pintar al pais como un pais racista, colonialista y hasta settler-imperialista por no tener negros en su seleccion o por sesgos historicos terribles que los anglosajones liberales y progres se tragan como bobos. Para muchos en su imaginario ya argenitina no es menos que el manifest destiny americano y por supuesto un estado ilegitimo.

Algo estan cocinando. Guarden post

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Challenge: Name ONE (1) "evil woman" or "female monster" figure from mythology, legend or folklore that has NOT had the "they're actually a symbol of female empowerment" take from a feminist figure.

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How come w*men give birth to 100% of all murderers and rapists?

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Got into an argument with my f*ther again, I hate this shit, and I hate my parents

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post the craziest thing you've seen made into an informational table on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_the_Hebrew_Bible#Personified_capital_cities_threatened_with_rape

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post and discuss comfy early soviet flags and symbols

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i fucking hate the middle class so much, especially "upper" middle class, actual fucking waste of air pompous shitbags

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Xilenos expliquenMe el lore de los anarco-nihilistas que tiran bombas de fuego y usan estrellas del caos en sus overoles.
son de ITS\eco-extremistas? LARPeros? hay realmente anarconihilistas en Xile?

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Died for Israel award

Starcraft thread because there wasn’t one
Body short body short body short body short body short body short
https://youtu.be/9eQUtOQXYgQ?is=atZ7WQL5vnAULJJf
https://starcraft.blizzard.com/en-us

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Things that are morally pedophilia whether they actually are or aren't

Aside from obvious pedophilic acts

>30+ y/os dating older teens or old men hitting on/dating/fucking women like 30-40 years younger then them whether legal or not
>loli and shota
>Being exclusively attracted to petit-women
>Having a dd/lg fetish/ageplay/wanting your partner to dress and act like a child
>Obsessing over moe SoL anime

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/EUropol/

WILLKOMENSKULTUR IST VORBEI edition

>“The age of Willkommenskultur is over, the era of mass deportations has begun,” commented the Sweden Democrats party, whose MEP Charlie Weimers played a central role as ECR’s shadow rapporteur.
>In a rare show of unity on the European Right, the directive was adopted not only by the national conservative groups (PfE, ECR, and ESN) but also the EPP, which votes together with the leftist parties in the vast majority of cases.
>Most importantly, the new law will introduce a mutual recognition and enforcement obligation between member states regarding deportation orders, meaning migrants cannot circumvent return decisions by moving to a different EU country and restarting the process. A return order in one country will legally count as a valid order in all of them.
>Another important point is the introduction of third-country return hubs, making it possible for member states to externalize return procedures by sending migrants to secure facilities outside EU territory to wait for the end of the process, ensuring they won’t escape implementation once the paperwork’s done.

Previous thread:
~~>>2653642~~

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<A crazed alcoholic kills his school bully decades later over one incident
>WAOW BASED! KILL ALL BULLIES! FREE DAT MAN!
Now imagine what the comments would be if this guy wasn't a white cishet man.

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Were comin for it chuddies

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DREAM REPORTING THREAD!!!!!!!

I'll give EVERY SINGLE post an ✨OFFICIAL DREAM RATING✨ AND I will guess what kind of mental disorder you have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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/Mil/ Militia general

"For The Union Makes Us Strong."
A mischellanious thread for the discussion/formation of revolutionary left wing militias and co-ops.
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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Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
<vid
CLASS WAR DECLARATION MIX FROM THE THAI LABOUR MUSEUM STORAGE ROOM

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Owning guns shouldn’t be a issue yet it is.

Look i love guns as much as the next person but sometimes i feel like we’re pointing in the direction of either major reform or outright banning them. And theres no way to cure a mental health crisis or poverty not without money some people arent willing to pay owning guns should be a right people retain till the end of time but its hard to think about it feeling like sometimes your in the wrong

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unironically debunk this

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Linux Audio Production

For those of us painstakingly trying to produce music on Linux workstations

Pipewire tips:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ#what-is-the-pro-audio-profile
https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-03-02-configure-pipewire-low-latency-audio-ubuntu/view

DAWs:
https://ardour.org/
https://www.bitwig.com/en/home.html
https://lmms.io/
https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/qtractor-index.html
https://www.reaper.fm/
https://www.renoise.com/

FX plugins:
https://calf-studio-gear.org/
https://lsp-plug.in/
https://www.x42-plugins.com/x42/x42-avldrums
https://michaelwillis.github.io/dragonfly-reverb/
http://eq10q.sourceforge.net/
https://kx.studio/Plugins

Synth plugins:
https://quamplex.com/geonkick/
https://tytel.org/helm/
https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/
https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/
https://sfztools.github.io/sfizz/
https://qsynth.sourceforge.io/

More resources:
https://gitlab.com/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Multimedia#Audio

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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 23

>Gigabazed Edition

A thread for the harmonious discussion related to the saviour of socialism, the uplifter of nations, the king of cooperation, the soviet of SOVL, the enjoyer of empathy, the ally of Africa, the demigod of development, the bureaucracy for banter, the prince of ping pong, the lobotomizer of labour aristocracy, the protector against proxy wars, the sponsor of sophisticated sciences and culture, the guarantor of gommunism, the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chynah™.

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 ~~>>2786133~~

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I propose this to end 2 conflicts at once. Thoughts?

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Am I a traitor for immigrating to china?

Im an american ML and moved to china a few years ago, been doing the privileged ESL job thing, currently working at a gov uni for like 1700$ a month teaching 16 hours weekly while i study chinese and try to get out of english teaching with hopes to start a family and raise some red diaper kids, but im plagued by a sense of guilt. Is leaving the US behind the cowards way out? Am I abandoning the a righteous cause or a sinking ship?

Feel free to ask whatever other chinese labor questions you got too

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You love China because it is "socialist and anti-imperialist". I love China because it sells everything cheaply. We are different.

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Into the Bunker(chan): An Examination of /leftypol/, and its Place in the Modern Left Landscape

https://geesemag.com/articles/into-the-bunkerchan-an-examination-of-leftypol-and-its-place-in-the-modern-left-landscape

Into the Bunker(chan): An Examination of /leftypol/, and its Place in the Modern Left Landscape

<While the alt-right pipeline funneled young men into fascism, a smaller corner of the internet tried to do the opposite. JJ Christensen goes inside /leftypol/.

FULL TEXT:

When I was around 13 years old, I stumbled upon a Youtube video by the user ‘Bat’ko,’ an “anarchist shitposter” and prominent user of the website /leftypol/.

The year was 2018; it was a scary time for me. Two years ago, I had watched my mom cry as the presidential election results slowly rolled in. I had grown up in the Obama Era as a nerdy brown child in a majority-minority Californian city. I did not take it seriously. I did not know, nor did I have any way of knowing, what the long term effects of such a presidency would be. As far as I knew, he was a clown and he’d be gone in 4 years. The Democratic Party would protect us.

A year later, I watched Heather Heyer get brutally run over by a neo-Nazi on television. The Charlottesville Riot, or Unite the Right, was a wake-up call to many and I was no different. I was shaken to my core, and in a moment all the disappointments in liberalism and the failures of the ‘center-left’ Democratic Party I had known all my life bubbled over. Something in me broke fundamentally, and I had shifted from an optimistic nerdy child to an angry and pessimistic teenager.

This is not a unique story, and in fact at the time there were thousands upon thousands of teenagers having a similar radicalization cycle that would funnel them into various online pipelines. Everyone knows about the alt-right pipeline, that insidious online infrastructure that took thousands of young men and molded them through YouTube videos, blogs, Twitter accounts, and perhaps most importantly right-wing imageboards like 4chan, into unrepentant neo-Nazis.

Adjacent to these spaces, however, were a smattering of smaller ones trying to make the opposite happen. To take righteous anger and funnel it into something more constructive, without sacrificing the need to have a dark sense of humor. In the face of the terrible sludge that runs through the ‘Alt-Right Pipeline,’ that radicalization funnel so acutely tuned to latch onto these young grievances at the time, who would create its antithesis?

The video was called ‘You Don’t Hate (Blue) Mondays.’ It is not a video essay, or breakdown of theory and praxis. It starts as a compilation of anarchist posters from various eras, before cutting to a different compilation of anti-austerity riots in Athens, fighters of the EZLN in Chiapas, Black Bloc attacking the Trump inauguration, and soldiers of the YPG in Syria taking ground. In the background is a remix of the song ‘Blue Monday,’ and it shattered one illusion for me. The illusion that there were no other options than decaying liberalism and its fascistic endpoint. There are movements out there that reject both, that seek to build more, and that have a long and arduous history.

Similar to many right-wing memes that broke out into the mainstream, like Pepe the Frog or Gamergate, it came from an imageboard. /Pol/, or 4chan’s ‘Politically Incorrect’ board was around the height of its cultural influence at the time. The difference here is that it came from its antithesis, /leftypol/.

It was here that I dug in, scanning my own memory, articles from the past, and talking to contemporary users of the board.
History

/leftypol/ got its start as part of the kaleidoscope of many boards on 8chan. For those who need a refresher: 8chan is 4chan’s younger brother, founded ostensibly as a techno-libertarian alternative. Built on ‘free speech absolutism’ with only one rule, do not share anything illegal in the U.S., 8chan quickly spiraled into a cesspit of Nazism and pedophilia while becoming the premier place for mass shooters to post their manifestos. Anybody could create a board, no programming knowledge or even firm moderation required.

In this, the internet’s worst jungle juice, /leftypol/ founded a place for those messageboard users who did not fall into the reactionary trap.

Founded in 2014, it immediately began a frayed and hostile relationship with nearly every other board on the site. It also sheltered a big tent of left-wing thought spanning Anarchists to Marxist-Leninists, Egoists, Hoxhaists, National Bolsheviks (or Nazbols) and Posadists (although the extent to which the last two were jokes is dependent on who you ask). It contained similarly irony poisoned humor (I say this with love) to the rest of the ‘chan’ space, while fundamentally rooted in positions that kept it far away from the cesspit that was the rest of that internet village. The board has held up various ‘manifestos’ throughout its different iterations, but they’ve all kept the same line. The most recent “/leftypol/ Manifesto” reads thusly.

“The mission of /leftypol/ at leftypol.org is to provide a fun and enjoyable space for the working masses around the world, as an anonymous community of non-sectarian leftists united in common cause against the forces of capitalism, fascism, and liberalism.”

“We aim to be the negation of /pol/; anti-fascist, materialist, better read. Our mission, above all, is to learn, and help others learn, the philosophical tools necessary to elucidate the interrelated and ever-increasingly complex space of self, society, and politics, from the local to the global scale.”

/leftypol/ upheld one other commitment, an opposition to liberal identity politics. In the late Obama period, and its immediate deterioration into Trump 1, the rejection of liberal identity politics in favor of upholding the primacy of class struggle, originating from a place of vulgar Marxism, was more scandalous to most liberal commentators and onlookers than the site it was hosted on. It was on this rock that they would build their platform of left unity.

In a world devoid of, and even actively hostile towards, class consciousness and under bombardment by a liberalism seeking to co-opt the movement of the progressive masses, /leftypol/’s predisposition to buck social norms allowed them to be one of the few places left waving that flag.

In the 4chan-esque oeuvre /leftypol/ was forged in, however, this commitment would often devolve into pure class reductionism. Users who would whine about the need for protestors of color to cease their struggles and instead take up the mantle of “No War But Class War,” as if the working people of this country were not contemporaneously shaking the nation to its foundations in the name of Black lives. A blind spot cultivated due to the mostly white userbase of the site, and one that would keep it that way.

In 2017, amongst a divide in the user base over whether or not to support the Syrian Democratic Forces in the Syrian Civil War, the original board owner known as ‘Che’ went on a banning spree. This specifically targeted pro-SDF users, most of whom were anarchists, libertarian socialists, and other non-Marxist-Leninist tendencies.

Kerfus, a former moderator and longtime user of the board, described some of the history, “It's a pretty standard thing in the radical politics milieu: splits, purges, etc. But it had a lasting impact on the ideology of the userbase. Pre-purge, the user base was very diverse, from social democrats to Marxist-Leninists, Maoists, Bordigists and council communists, to anarchists of various tendencies, including primitivists, nihilists.”

He continued,
“Post-purge and the failure of /leftpol/, the board became increasingly more ML, the kind to talk endlessly about geopolitics and Soviet history, to label every protest as a color revolution. Che (an original board owner) was apparently a Marcyite, which would explain quite a few things, as I've heard they are a rather sectarian tendency in American Marxism.”

In 2019, Cloudflare and the rest of its internet providers dropped 8chan, kicking it off the clearnet. During this time, /leftypol/ migrated to a backup site known as Bunkerchan. Due to administrative issues, and an influx of combative “MAGA Communists,” a split occurred in Bunkerchan. This was the most consequential of many major conflicts that happened throughout the history of the board.
From this, the modern “leftypol.org” would spring forth. It retained the vast majority of users and original moderators.
Analysis

Imageboards in general are an antiquated, old-web form of communication. It’s a complete wonder that sites like 4chan and 8chan accumulated as much cultural cachet as they had (and still have, to an extent) 4chan was the site of a ‘Great Meme War’ during the first Trump campaign, one which launched the site into unrivaled cultural relevance as the barrage of crowdsourced, fascist talking points and slogans created the foundation of Trump’s young, radical base.

As Politico put it, “There is no real evidence that memes won the election, but there is little question they changed its tone, especially in the fast-moving and influential currents of social media. The meme battalions created a mass of pro-Trump iconography as powerful as the Obama “Hope” poster and far more adaptable.”

According to numerous documents released in the Epstein files, 4chan’s owner Christopher Poole met with multi-millionaire banker and international sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein multiple times in 2011, a few months before /pol/ was brought online as a board on 4chan. There’s no hard evidence to prove that Epstein directly told Poole to create /pol/, but since then it’s no secret that plenty of influence operations and astroturfed campaigns have gotten their start on 4chan.

What is known, though, is that since 2015 the site has been de-facto moderated by a mysterious manager known as ‘RapeApe.’ In lieu of intervention from 4chan’s current owner, Hiroyuki Nishimura, the site has been consistently pushed towards and molded into far-right beliefs. Where once /pol/ was meant to be the containment board for racists, it is now the head driving the site. According to an investigation by Vice, this is the design of RapeApe.

From Gamergate to those hundreds of memes generated to gin up support for Trump in the run up to 2016, /pol/’s politics have been used to reinforce the class interests of the rich and famous. Many of the influencers to come from it, too, have become fairly wealthy themselves.

At the same time, many right-wing influencers begged to get /leftypol/ taken offline.

According to a Twitter post from Fredrick Brennan, the now-deceased former owner and operator of 8chan, “/leftypol/ was, by far, the board I was most commonly asked to delete as 8chan's admin. BY FAR. In person, over Skype, it seemed like every right-wing e-celeb would ask me to.”

He continued, “They fucking hated you guys. I learned that a lot of my so-called libertarian friends were anything but. They'd send me "evidence" that /leftypol/ was "breaking the law".”

Through this saga, /leftypol/ maintained its own type of edgelord culture. Jokes about Posadism, the belief of Argentine Trotskyist J. Posadas that the world revolution would be heralded by communist space aliens and intentional nuclear hellfire, the popularization of the term Anarkiddie, the unapologetic embrace of the term ‘Tankie’ by some members.

You might remember the ‘dirtbag left’ contemporary to the 2016 Bernie Sanders American socialist zeitgeist. Mostly white, male left wing personalities embracing a vulgarity and shock-jock attitude that was empowering to some and alienating to others. Well, where else could these people find a perfect home?

One user of the site gave me a note on an early draft of this article, one that stuck with me: “There’s honestly a need to mention the brutality and crudeness of the “dirtbag” left. That’s what made /leftypol/ stand out, not mere humor, but the willingness to yell NAZBOL GANG in a thread about historical materialism […] and other diagonal ideas that appealed to those attracted to imageboard politics.”

Discomrade, a former tech developer of leftypol.org from 2021 to 2023 put it like so: “/leftypol/ was effective because it filled the real desire for a dirtbag left space, and answered many of the questions that edgy meme-loving nerds were left wanting once blaming da joos stopped being funny and started being honest and pathetic.”

They continued, “There is real value in having creative social spaces where socialists can be publicly edgy, blunt and unapologetic, in stark contrast to the standard whiny student protests, sensitive language-policing and mind-numbing dry critiques […], and worst of all, liberal rainbow capitalism that serves to recuperate revolutionary ideas. There is real shock value in breaching the assumed values of "socialism".”

Default.Blog put it succinctly, “A young male communist who grows up in the same internet spaces where all the other degenerate gamers, anime fans and other hobbyists congregate will probably never truly sit comfortably within the politeness of woke society in normal social media, and /leftypol/ remains one of the few places where they don't have to. There is also a sort of memetic rivalry to the broader reactionary imageboard community, however, of wanting to be more sophisticated but also worried about appearing as “soft” and thin-skinned as the woke internet outside.”

So the board is filled with Albanian bunker memes, catgirls, and threads laughing at failed Nazi rallies. Yet, it maintains a genuine undercurrent of curiosity and a commitment to something approaching reason. You can watch various world events through ‘Happening’ threads, where users congregate to stay up-to-date on whatever contemporary crisis is happening at any given time. I saw more links to actual news sources and an interest in OSINT than similar threads on 4chan.

For heaven's sake, the site maintained and continues to maintain a board for the dissemination of free information. /edu/ (education) is where you can go to find discussions on theory, on praxis, dense texts, and lessons on argumentation. Here you will find the phenomenon of “effortposting.”

As described by Kerfus, “When people take time to articulate their thoughts on a complex subject. I have learned a lot by reading them.”

Contemporary Relevance

It’s easy to write all this off. /leftypol/ is, on many levels, a lot less active than it used to be. It did not win any popular meme wars, etc. On the other hand, however, it did and continues to do so much with so little. /leftypol/ is up against the gargantuan, and status quo friendly /pol/. They’ve undoubtedly gotten under their skin.

According to 4plebs, a 4chan archiving site, there are over 40 pages worth of posts mentioning /leftypol/ in 2025 alone. Most of which are conspiracy-mongering about various users secretly being agents of /leftypol/ or screeching about how ‘sensitive’ their members are (all laden with the requisite amount of slurs).

There is nothing revolutionary about the reactionary beliefs that spawn out of 4chan, yet /leftypol/ does exactly what it says it wants to do. It served (and continues to serve) as a base for the revolutionary-minded, those on the left who have a sense of humor. Kerfus explained, “One important thing is that /leftypol/ was created as an answer to the fascist politics of the 4chan and 8chan /pol/ boards. Some of us pre-2016 4chan users were leftists or anarchists and simply liked the anonymous format. /lit/ created the Stirner memes after all, and my ex-favorite board /mu/ used to be into indie/alternative music, which is a pretty left-wing milieu. The story goes that /leftypol/ started as a /lit/ offshoot actually, since everyone could create their own boards on 8chan.”

And even underneath the long shadow of /pol/’s cultural influence, /leftypol/’s own influence has not disappeared. Aside from memes such as the anarchist catgirl Alunya and capitalist Porky the Pig, the aggression and zeitgeist of young socialism still draw their inspiration from that board.

“My favorite aspect of /leftypol/, one which I hope we can recover, was how it faced our absurd dystopia with a resolve rooted in even greater absurdity.” Moderator Baphomet told me.

“You can still see some of that today, whether it be the ironic praising of the actions of "JDPON Don" or treating Zohran Mamdani as though he's a revolutionary Maoist junta leader rather than a social democratic mayor. The world is irrational, might as well embrace it and fight fire with fire. At least that's my opinion.”

I asked users where they saw the board heading in the future. There was a healthy dash of pessimism and uncertainty; one user, Sputnik_, said “I have no idea. Maybe it'll get bigger, maybe it won't, but regardless it truly is a website.”

On the other hand, many noted real potential in the board to build itself into something greater.

Baphomet explained, “If we can strategically prune low quality bait and bad faith arguments with rigor, while avoiding falling into the trap of sectarianism, we just might have a chance of pulling ourselves out of this rut. Since becoming a mod I've learned just what a tedious and thankless task it is, haha.”

When prompted to imagine where they wanted the board to be in the future, the ideas were a tad more uplifting. Discomrade wrote, “I want /leftypol/ to be in a position where people who need it can find it. People disillusioned with the manosphere and incel culture, with culture wars, with whiteness politics and electoralism. Infamy is our biggest asset, we get free advertising every day from people wondering who the hell this /leftypol/ is that /pol/ keep blaming everything on. Do nothing, keep winning.”

Another moderator told me what they saw as the purpose of the board, “To function both as an internet agitprop laboratory and a dialectical counter-hegemonic apparatus: contesting the right-wing’s capture of the online cultural, linguistic, and memetic terrain, while developing autonomous forms of political subjectivity, collective intelligence, and cultural production capable of intervening in, and eventually transforming, the digital, and even material, landscape itself.”

‘You don't hate (blue) mondays (Student Palestine Protest)’ is a recreation of its original source updated for the modern day, with photos from across the world (including some from my campus, PSU.) The way that the original video gave its original thesis statement in the posters and juxtapositions, here one screenshot in the beginning cuts through all the noise. A simple definition for ‘imperial boomerang.’

Undoubtedly, /leftypol/’s spectre is still haunting the internet.

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Should there be stricter regulations?

After giving funding to Chinese employees, Google, Apple and other tech companies loose all their tech and money to China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYBEJBfq_Zs

Spoiler: they still can't pay citizens in western countries above minimum wage.

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Is everyone bisexual?

Why do some people seem to believe that everyone is innately bisexual? I've seen this claim every now and then online, and apparently some prominent bisexuals (e.g. Gore Vidal, Billie Joe Armstrong) believe(d) it. I've even heard it twice IRL; the second time, a lesbian acquaintance of mine said something along the lines of "I'm gay enough that I know straight people aren't lying about being straight", which I concurred with in my head (although I said nothing). Personally, I'm a gay guy, or at least that's what I call myself, but there have been a few rare instances where I briefly wondered whether I actually am attracted to women, only minimally and/or while repressing it, and although I have always ultimately concluded that I am just gay, it does make me think about the idea that everyone is actually just at some point or another on a spectrum of bisexuality. That being said, it still seems highly improbable to me. What are your thoughts?

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Hip Hop General

Hip hop of any genre

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The rejection of stageist theory or why is the socialist revolution most likely to succeed in Greec

Why was the KKE able to retain its mass base and its revolutionary character after the counter-revolution? Why is the communist party of a small, albeit typical, lesser NATO country the leading force of a current for the reconstitution of a leninist pole in the international communist movement, against the main current of social-chauvinism, prompted by imperialist centers?
Unlike for example the -up until the 1990s politically and organizationally similar- Portuguese communist party which ended up supporting bourgeois coalitions the KKE had an internal split with the eurocommunist 'renewalist' tendencies, that were even inside the political bureau. The full organizational split from opportunism proved to be vital for the direction of the party. This allowed the KKE to stay true to revolutionary principles while also retaining firm roots in the working people, while the Portuguese communist party slowly deteriorated through contact with 'leftist' bourgeois forces. The theoretical developments on the KKE's strategy is owed to this direction that refuses to submit to the new negative power dynamic between capital and the international proletariat, and recognises that despite the subversions at the end of the last century our era is still that of socialist revolution.The KKE's contemporary revolutionary strategy is based on the creative assimilation of the experience of the communist movement.
In my opinion, this is a relative development of communist theory because it make it more concrete. I think its driving force are not just the local conditions of Greece but, mostly, its unique history. The KKE today, while of course honouring the communist heroes which where on the first line in the fight against fascism everywhere, criticizes the strategy adopted by the 7th Congress of the Communist International. In its opinion, the strategic theory of two-stage revolution and of the united national, anti-fascist, anti-colonial etc. front mostly succeeded due the onslaught of the Red Army in Europe that objectively destroyed the bourgeois states.
In cases like France the collaboration with bourgeois forces in the antifascist front led to the disconnection of national and social struggles and eventually to eurocommunism.
In Greece the two-stage strategy failed, not only because the Red Army never reached it, but also despite the fact that the KKE did not have to, or rather could not, collaborate with the greek bourgeoisie because it either fled during the Occupation or collaborated with the nazis. This meant that it was objectively the main force of the national resistance movement. But because it fought for the unclear goal of intermediate peoples-republic stage, it hesitated in crucial moments and lost the revolutionary chance.
Today, the assimilation of that experience can reveal -to use a hegelian term- an objective illusion (Schein) arising from the mid-war conditions of capitalist development and the objective position of the communist parties for the correct analysis of power relations between the classes. The utter complexity of the October Revolution, can be easily missed from the point of view of its stabilisation in a completely hostile world, with the rise of fascism and a possible coalition of imperialist powers against the country of the workers, under a constant sense of urgency. However, we can tell a hundred years later: it was a historical rupture with (not a continuation of) February. It might seem like that the bourgeois revolution sas organically transformed into socialist-proletarian but that was not the case: the only thing that mediated was dual power and revolutionary war. Lenin abandoned the staged tactic of the Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution with the April Thesis, and this new quick redirection in accordance with the changed analysis of changed conditions led to the success of the Bolsheviks.
After the 7th Congress the Communist International pushed a line that was a regression from that bolshevik revolutionary leap. Missing the dialectical totality of the leninist conception of revolutionary theory in the era of imperialism, it tried to mechanically reproduce the Two Tactics. In Greece and in other countries, this translated to a coalition with bourgeois government post liberation, crucial hesitations during the revolutionary situation, all in the name of the incompleteness of bourgeois democracy, and ultimately defeat. The parties that took part in bourgeois governments deteriorated into reformism and/or were dissolved within the united front of their own creation. In Greece, however the uniqueness lay in that because post-liberation there were all the preconditions of a genuine peoples victory for socialism, hadn't the KKE hesitated to start the civil war, the failure of stageist strategy and its immediate consequences lay bare. The historical and political conclusions of the turn that led to the October Revolution return with vengeance. The reason that the Bolsheviks wom and the greek Democratic People's Army lost in their class civil wars is the same: the strategy of immediate seizure of power for the construction of socialism in the imperialist era on the basis of the understanding that "between capitalism and communism can only the period of the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat".
The KKE faced another historical uniqueness: while mostly in exile after its loss, the crucial opportunist turning point in the communist movement, the direction set by the 20th Congress of the CPSU had to be enforced. It was not easy to adopt the strategy of "peaceful transition to socialism' when the lessons of the civil war were so fresh. The KKE's General Secretary during the war had to be purged by the Soviets. This led to many internal struggles that led to the split of 1968. But due to the struggle of the Democratic People's Army the KKE managed to survive and still influence a large portion of greek society. It objectively remained the main force of the greek proletariat in the class struggles to come.
And so, having reaffirmed its revolutionary character during the crisis of the 90s, in conditions post the dissolution of the old colonial system but also the reach of capital in every corner of the earth post the counter-revolution, having studied the history of the communist movement and of its self, the KKE is able to form a strategy and apply it to the mass movement it in the direction of socialist revolution.
That is why if we assume that a revolutionary crisis is likely to spark in multiple similar countries at once due to the interconnectedness of contemporary global capitalist production, I think it is most likely to result in a successful revolution in Greece. Of course that does not mean that if a greek revolution does initially succeed it won't be crashed by global imperialism if it doesn't spread.
We need to note that the rejection of stageism does not at all justify the greek trotskyites. Indeed when the KKE adopted the strategy of a bourgois-democratic stage to the revolution they were calling for socialist revolution in Greece, but that was not at all due to a correct analysis. It was an obsession with their theory of permanent revolution, put the dustbin of history by the success of socialism in one country. Their dogmatism led them to call for 'working class unity with the german soldiers' and completely erasing the national struggle. No talk of their terrible position on the peasant question and outright racist rejection of the possibility of socialist construction in the countries that it was most likely to happen. Besides, almost all trotskyists today have in one way or another adopted the stageist strategy, they are just calling it transitional measures.
We also need to note that the partisan tactic upheld by communist-revolutionaries of the 20th century arm-in-hand, has nothing to do with the invocation of stageism by modern opportunists to justify their reformism. The communists of the 20th century genuinely did what they only could think was the best and fastest way to communism. Todays supporters of stageist strategy mostly want to justify their allegiance with bourgeois forces in a leftist government on the ground capitalist-imperialism.

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Michael Jackson and the left

Why does it seem like so many leftists support Michael Jackson to the point where they make defending him from all his abuse allegations a political issue?

I've seen this a lot recently, with the new MJ biopic out as well as all the new allegations of abuse from the Cascio family and also a new Leaving Neverland documentary. In spite of the left staunchly holding on to #metoo and the fact abuse survivors/victims need to be believed and supported, the same isn't true with the multiple people who have accused MJ of CSA and grooming. The Epstein case has made discussions of pedophilia, CSA, and power imbalances in relationships mainstream. People are even going so far as to debate whether or not the Age of Consent should be raised to 21 in order to shield 18-year olds from predatory 30-year olds. Yet, if you bring up the fact MJ engaged in such things, you're denounced as a right-winger or reactionary (or even a racist).

Perhaps the most bizarre claims I've heard is that MJ was pro-Palestine and (allegedly) wrote a song about Palestine, Israel knew this so Mossad planted the CSA allegations against him in order to ruin him before the song could be recorded. There's no evidence of this, and MJ actually travelled to Israel and met with the IOF about a month after the Chandlers made the allegations known. I've also heard the conspiracy that MJ was protecting kids from the "real predators" in Hollywood and was saving kids from being trafficked to Epstein Island. That claim is easily debunked once you realize Epstein didn't buy his infamous island until 1998, and MJ was already taking in kids long before that.

And let's be honest: even if MJ did nothing criminal with the boys he surrounded himself with, his behaviours with them was still NOT appropriate. A grown man in his 30s and 40s should never, ever be having sleepovers with 8,9, and 10-year olds, much less sharing a bed with them. Plus, all of the stories his accusers tell fit perfectly with the model of grooming: MJ would dazzle the parents of these kids and buy them lots of expensive items, the parents would let their guards down and allow him to do what he pleased with their children, then MJ would have almost romantic-like relations with these kids. In no possible world would that ever be acceptable for a grown man to do.

So what gives? Why do so many comrades still defend MJ so viciously?

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PDF/EPUB post outage thread

drop them PDFs, we will rebuild edition

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>killing trotsky was wrong

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News 9/22/26

Thousands protest in France against bill expanding protections for police use of force
Politicians, rights groups and other activists joined the Paris demonstration, among them Mathilde Panot of the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party. "The police kill already," Panot told the crowd, calling for the bill to be voted down in the Senate. "In the Republic there can be no organised police impunity," she added. "In the Republic, there cannot be a category of citizens who have the right of life or death over other citizens."
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260920-thousands-protest-in-france-against-bill-expanding-protections-for-police-use-of-force
https://archive.ph/1plYf

Nothing ‘to be ashamed of:’ EU’s center-right clashes with Socialists over far-right votes
He added he is against putting up a firewall to keep out far-right forces “because it leads into badly behaving kids on the other side of the fence.” “We should go beyond that. On some issues, I think that they [the far right are relatively sane. On some other issues, there’s insanity,” he added, while insisting a majority of votes in Parliament will involve the mainstream parties.
https://www.politico.eu/article/nothing-to-be-ashamed-of-eus-center-right-clashes-with-socialists-over-far-right-votes-mika-aaltola/
https://archive.ph/6kkiS

UK's Burnham agrees to Saudi request for refuelling support
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday he had agreed to a request from Saudi Arabia to provide defensive air-to-air refuelling for a limited time period, a move ‌he described as helping to stabilise the wider region. Riyadh requested support after the Houthis, who control the most populous parts of Yemen, intensified their attacks on Saudi Arabia, a new front in the wider war that began with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran in late February.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/uks-burnham-agrees-saudi-request-refuelling-support-2026-09-21/

Iraq extends armed groups disarmament deadline to June 2027
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi has agreed with leaders of the country's powerful pro-Iran political bloc to give armed groups until June 2027 to complete their disarmament, sources in Baghdad told The New Arab, extending a process initially expected to conclude by the end of September.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraq-extends-armed-groups-disarmament-deadline-june-2027

ICC took no steps to withdraw Netanyahu arrest warrant, deputy prosecutor says
The ICC issued arrest warrants in November 2024 for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his then defence minister, Yoav Gallant, over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza since October 2023. Since then, the US has imposed sanctions on most of the court's leadership, including the former chief prosecutor Karim Khan, the two deputy prosecutors, and nine judges including the court's president.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-took-no-steps-withdraw-netanyahu-arrest-warrant-deputy-prosecutor-says

China presses Iran to help rein in Houthis after Saudi appeal, sources say
Riyadh turned to China for help after the Houthis made rapid advances along the Red Sea coast and around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, moves that have left Saudi oil exports and ‌shipping more exposed, the sources said. China has publicly called for restraint, dialogue and the restoration of safe navigation, but its private message went further than the public statements, they said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-presses-iran-help-rein-houthis-after-saudi-appeal-sources-say-2026-09-17/

Australia investigating how F-35 fighter jet parts bound for US went missing in Hong Kong
Marles said “very much everything that has occurred at the Australian end” would be reviewed, but claimed the technology parts were not “sensitive”, as first reported by Politico over the weekend. The parts, which were being transported by another unknown third party on behalf of manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, still remain unaccounted for months later following their unplanned diversion to Hong Kong.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/22/australia-investigating-how-f-35-fighter-jet-parts-bound-for-us-went-missing-in-hong-kong

Ironing, finishing workers face worst heat stress in RMG factories
Workers in ironing and finishing sections of Bangladesh’s garment factories are spending more than three-quarters of their working hours under high or severe heat stress, according to a new report from Cornell University’s Global Labor Institute that quantifies, for the first time, both the human and financial toll of extreme heat on South Asia’s largest export industry.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/apparel/314956/ironing-finishing-workers-face-worst-heat-stress-in-rmg-factories

Imran Khan's entire immediate family detained in Pakistan
On Sunday, the former prime minister’s sister Aleema Khan was detained at her residence in Lahore as part of a crackdown by authorities ahead of the protest. PTI spokesperson Sheikh Waqas Akram blasted the arrests, saying Ms Khan was detained “because she refused to stay silent about her brother’s illegal detention, solitary confinement, and denial of medical care.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/imran-khans-entire-immediate-family-detained-pakistan

Pakistan says it killed 28 militants, Afghan Taliban and UN report three civilian deaths
Hours earlier, Afghan Taliban officials accused Islamabad of killing at least three civilians in overnight airstrikes on Afghan territory. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) confirmed the deaths of three civilians: a man, a woman and a girl. The attacks broke nearly three months of relative calm.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/pakistan-says-it-killed-28-militants-afghan-taliban-and-un-report-three-civilian

Colombia’s war crimes tribunal warns ICC that De la Espriella supports “worst attack in history”
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal JEP said that it would warn the United Nations and the International Criminal Court about plans of President Abelardo de la Espriella to cut its budget. In a statement, JEP president Alejandro Ramelli raised the alarm warned about a pending proposal by far-right Senator Enrique Gomez (National Salvation) to reduce the tribunal’s budget by COP100 billion ($31.6 million), which received De la Espriella’s support.
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-war-crimes-tribunal-warns-icc-that-de-la-espriella-supports-worst-attack-in-history/

Venezuelan delegation in NY seeks debt, energy deals
In one of her first meetings, she held talks with Inter American Development Bank President Ilan Goldfajn. She later met International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, and World Bank President Ajay Banga, in separate meetings, according to state TV and sources. "Her visit will have a big focus on debt restructuring, funds and payments," one of the sources said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelan-delegation-led-by-rodriguez-discuss-debt-energy-us-sources-say-2026-09-21/