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What video games do you play? If you don't play video games thats fine but please don't shit up the thread with how you think they are "reactionary". Nobody cares.
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I started Disco Elysium this week, and it's ✨AMAZING✨!!!!!! didn't expect it to be so good. i'm HOOKED!!!!!!!

i usually like playing:
-from soft games
-zelda games
-3D platformers
-racing games (arcade and simulation)
-open world normie slop
-immersive sim

>>43499
Chihuahua i thought you would be hooked on something like fortnite or r6 siege

>>43500
i've played a bit of fortnite, but I never got too much into it. i really like counter strike, so maybe i'd like 🌈6 siege!!!!!

what about u luffy, what games do u usually enjoy playing?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!??!!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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Oh wow my thread got moved

I like pokemon, minecraft, i've been getting into first person shooters lately, uh i love platformers, im not a big fan of rpgs tho

>>43490
Just don't call it tower defense lol that's copyrighted.



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Recent news:
Last thread lasted many months, so keep in mind these events are separated by weeks.

Back-and-forth negotiations between the SDF and STG (Syrian transitional government).
STG attacks Lebanese tribes in Beqaa Valley again to "combat smuggling", withdraws quickly.
Clashes erupt between the STG and the Druze population in Jaramana. They're defused quickly.
Low-intensity insurgency continues in the coast.
More unsuccessful negotiations between the SDF and STG.
ISIS bombs a church.
Syria gets a new shitty emblem.
More negotiations between the SDF and STG. This time the US sided seemed to have sided with Turkey and the STG.
STG attacks Suwayda governorate, a majority-Druze province that has been de-facto autonomous since the fall of Assad. They get pushed back at first but are now trying again.
Israel bombs the shit out of Syria in response to the Suwayda offensive. The MoD building takes heavy hits. The conflict is still ongoing as of this thread's creation.

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Mazloum Abdi calls for an end to attacks in Sweida, stressing that the solution lies in dialogue.
The commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi, confirmed that his forces are receiving numerous appeals from residents of the southern Syrian city of Sweida, demanding safe passage for civilians and an end to the attacks they are being subjected to, amid escalating security tensions in the region.

The commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces emphasized, via his official account on the X platform, that "killing women and children and assaulting religious symbols is a crime against humanity and against the shared values that unite Syrians."

Abdi added, "These aggressive actions must stop immediately, and those responsible must be held accountable," stressing that "after 14 years of war, it is time to stop the bloodshed."

He called for the need to move beyond the logic of revenge and division, because "Syria will not rise through revenge, but through dialogue and reason."

Abdi also described the Druze issue in Sweida as a "national issue" that must be addressed within the framework of a constitutional solution and dialogue among all Syrians, ensuring justice and stability.

Abdi's statements come at a time when southern Syria is witnessing increasing unrest and clashes between armed groups in some areas of Sweida, amid local and international calls to protect civilians and prioritize political solutions over military confrontations.

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Whats the likelhood of a coup against Jolani?

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>>2392044
Anons, is Abdi now 'Do Nothing, Win' gang?

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Jolani: We have decided to task local factions and tribal elders with the responsibility of maintaining security in the Suwayda Governorate, We have chosen not to be drawn into conflicts to preserve the country’s security



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🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

"Profiting From Genocide" Edition

Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the 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

🏈 💵 🌭 🍔

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

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

📺 Live News 📺
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>>2392093
So tired of seeing upper caste idiots taking up space in politics.

>>2392116
Didn't this dude in particular post some actual pedo shit?

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Miss me yet jack?

>>2392116
>Self-proclaimed white trash calling other people broke

>>2392125
tbh a 2025 senile biden could have been worse than trump



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>0 protestant countries with organic communist revolutions

It's truly over. Unless western culture is changed at the grass roots level AND THEN politically promoted, no communism will ever come to the west. You cannot build communism in a society where the "individual" is some weird fetish that is a fake parody of itself from renaissance thought of 600 years ago.

>inb4 counter examples of collectivist pockets in western societies.

>inb4 helping chinese paratroopers when they land in the midwest
>inb4 mamadani

you had a higher chance of building communism in ancient egypt with the pharaohs as stalin then you do now in the west
Genesis 41:25-57
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>>2385246
>accept realitiy and actually move on to a productive debate

It's pretty clear that there's no "debating" with you. Whatever you imagine the genetic link to intelligence proves is to you firmly settled fact, and we've had these "debates" here on leftypol for years where some high idiot score brainlet comes along with
>hey fellow lefties what about uyghurs they're too stupid for communism
>hey fellow lefties what do we do about mixed races living together communism can't work if you're not smart enough to appreciate rick and morty
>hey fellow lefties what sort of eugenics programs are appropriate for communism we don't want the stupid untermenschen outbreeding us smart people right
And on and on. No one wants to "debate" you because we've heard your nazi shit all before. Your mensa wanker pseudoscience shit doesn’t matter and never will. Die mad about it.

>>2385246
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/hayeks-bastards-and-the-rise-of-neoliberalism.html

[…]

>In the minds of “race scientists” this was undoubtedly true.  And in the “race scientist” Richard Lynn, the incipient alt-right found the link between their scientism and the think tanks they needed.  A few years before The Bell Curve was published Lynn wrote to Herrnstein about his plan to rehabilitate eugenics:


<It seems extraordinary that basically sound principles that we need to find ways to correct genetic deterioration should have become so widely accepted in the first four decades of the (twentieth) century and subsequently have become lost…One of our most important tasks is to convince the people of the significance of heritability of intelligence and criminality, and of race differences for the social problems confronting the US.  These Think Tanks have considerable influence on informed public opinion and on politicians far more than we in psychology do, and if some of them could be converted public understanding of these problems would be greatly advanced. [5]


>In the words of Quinn Slobodian, autism score-centrism the perfect excrescence of “race science” in the post-industrial age:


<It was built on mainstream concerns about the knowledge and information economy, national competitiveness, and analogies of human beings as information processors.  Thriving on the craze for standardized outcomes, rankings, benchmarks, and indicators, autism score-centrism offers a simple and powerful story about the world that naturalizes and hardens existing hierarchies, reinforces folk understandings of difference, and disempowers efforts of collective reform.  Perhaps most effectively, it does so with the elegance of a single number – autism score is a biologized credit score.


>Still, one might wonder in 2025 how autism score as a biologized credit score [6] will be useful in the Age of Algorithmic Intelligence, which might well have the same effect on the employment and life chances of high-neurocaste individ
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>culture
Culture is a fake concept only by idealist liberals with zero historical materialism to sneer at people:
https://historiansplaining.com/myth-of-the-month-22-culture/
<What is “culture”? And how did a metaphor from gardening invade social-science discourse in 19th-century Germany and America and then take the world by storm? We consider the myriad, often contradictory, ways that “culture” is deployed in current rhetoric, usually to sneak in hidden value judgments; then we trace how an ancient Latin term for gardening came to refer to the “cultivation” of good character, then to the shaping of society by high art and refined customs, and then ultimately, under the influence of German and American imperial politics, to a purportedly unified, organic whole encompassing the sum total of all learned behaviors in a given society However you define it, I make the case that it is the defining myth of our time, and that we should get rid of it.

>>2385246
soy PMC Contrapoints voice:
<"The majority of anti-Zionists just straight up shut down the debate about Palestinians being subhuman and deserving to be imprisoned in nazi ghettos"
PMC settler socialists really can't help themselves but do Jeffrey Epstein praxis, their entire existence is defined by plantation slave management. Notice how the actual working class are never mentioned even once by these degenerates. The PMC will never factor actual humans into their Excel spreadsheet equations written by the class of soulless bugman redditors ("nooo that's not scientific to dehumanize ME!!! You would never be invited to the American Psychological Association like the Zionist puppet Richie Torres!")

its not a coincidence that Steven Pinker, the most egregiously neoliberal ideology guy who was aligned with Jeffrey Epstein, described the settler socialist hero Freddie Deboer as his "favorite Marxist". Class solidarity is real
>For a long time, "eugenics" has been a boo-word, almost always misapplied and misunderstood. Freddie deBoer (My Favorite Marxist) explains how this has recently gotten even worse: Perhaps Not Everything is Eugenics, by @freddiesubstack
https://xcancel.com/sapinker/status/1483885141676068866

>>2392112
> Freddie Deboer
I am suspicious.



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EDIÇÃO BOB CUSPE
O mundo precisa mudar, as cidades precisam mudar, o ser humano então, nem se fala. Está tudo uma grande e monstruosa merda. Ninguém aguenta mais tanto os mocinhos como o bandidos… por isso, lançamos aqui a candidatura de Bob Cuspe para prefeito de todas as cidades, de todos os Estados do mundo.
O covil dos webcomunistas no BR

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>>9787
Primeira vez na sua vida que você encontra alguém alfabetizado?
IA não escreve como eu escrevo, "anónimo" seria corrigido além de vários outros pequenos erros de gramática e formatação, animal estúpido de rede social.

Cade aquele vagabundo do chupetinha e as outras propagandas pra aborção agora que o massa deles ta querendo meter o loco no pix pra agradar monopolio de cartão de credito ?.

>>9788
Beleza, Grok

Boa noite, camarada trotskista aqui.
No tempo que sumi confesso que fiquei bem depressivo, na verdade meu estado de espírito ainda é para baixo, certo desânimo. Enfim.

Gostaria de afirmar que estou em Goiás no CONUNE.
Mais alguém está aqui?

E foi muito triste a morte dos estudantes militantes da UJR. Por coincidência eu apertei a mão do Leo Pericles da UP, na verdade foi um rolê bem aleatório, pois ele não sabia onde estava a UJR kkk. E quando fui com os camaradas comprar cano para as bandeiras, nos demos de frente para as lideranças da UJL, juventude liberal.

É um dia que já foi eternizado de várias formas kkk



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Cute Girls Doing Cute State Investments Edition

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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine

https://archive.ph/44B9Q
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bush era nostalgia
"ukraine is the only non NATO country that has supported every NATO mission"

>>2391999
Ukraine is the NATO intern.

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The reason Trump is refusing to force a Ceasefire to end the Kabuki theatre Inter-Imperialist Stalemate Retarded Slavic Border War (if it was up to me, their would be an immediate permanent Ceasefire along the line of contact, Crimea recognized as part of Russia, a neutral Ukraine, and in the future Global USSR, Crimea will be an ASSR in the Russian SFSR, while the Donbas will be an ASSR in the Ukrainian SSR) Between the Fascist U$/Zionist puppet states of Ukraine and Russia, who both controlled by the same cabal of duel citizen Zionist Oligarchs who raped the vestiges of the USSR which was destroyed by the Khrushchevite Social Fascist Revisionist Clique, which culminated in the Gorbachev Capitalist Perestroika/Glasnost “reforms” and the phony 1991 “Project Hammer” Coup attempt which officially dissolved the USSR and put the drunkard degenerate Yelstin in power, who chose as his successor the KGB/CIA/Mossad double agent traitor Putin, who staged the FSB/CIA False Flag 1999 Moscow Apartment Bombing which acted as the casus belli for the Genocidal Russian Imperialist Invasion of Chechnya (just like the CIA/Mossad False Flag 9/11 attacks was both the casus belli for the Genocidal U$ Invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, along with the final conclusion of “Project Hammer”, and the Mossad False Flag October 7th attack was the casus belli for the Zionist Genocida of Gaza), is due to the fact that Putin’s Russia is a convenient bogeymen to keep the EuroCucks under U$ occupation, so they can lose whatever is left of their sovereignty through NATO and the fake “European Union” designed to destroy all the Nations of Europe with a fake “European” National Identity (the absurdity of the concept of a single “European” National Identity is elucidated in the Video of the changing Ethnic Map of Europe over the past 2000 years that I posted, which shows that Europe is populated by dozens of Nations/Ethnic groups, divided into several large Ethno-Linguistic groups, most notably the Germanic peoples, Slavic Peoples, Romance Peoples, etc. all of which have been Migrating/Invading, Mixing, Assimilating, and Genociding each other for thousands of years), which will pave the way to them all being fully Americanized into “White” Racist Redneck Evangelical Protestant Euromutts with a massive impoverished underclass of Non-European migrants (mostly Arab Muslims fleeing Genocidal U$ Imperialist /Zionist Wars and Black Africans fleeing Neocolonial Imperialist Poverty/Exploitation/StarvPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

after Trump cancelled USAID, the CIA funded propaganda news agencies in Ukraine have turned to Patreon (just like your favorite leftist "content creators" have already has been doing? proletarianization will come for us all one day)
>USAID's closure, which placed nearly all media outlets in Ukraine on the brink of survival, showcases the importance of sustainable funding models. This is why we are developing our Patreon community and commercial partnerships.
https://www.facebook.com/euromaidanpress.en/photos/were-hiring-know-anybody-usaids-closure-which-placed-nearly-all-media-outlets-in/1067862402023116/?_rdr
"I spent months writing articles about the deep state's psyop tentacles, and they just…tweeted it out 😵‍💫"



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Previous Thread Archives
Thread 1 https://archive.ph/ROnpO
Thread 2 https://archive.ph/f29Po

Youtube Playlists
Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTMFx0t8kDzc72vtNWeTP05x6WYiDgEx7
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1uqxcCESK6B1juh_wnKoxftZCcqA1go
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4k72ocf2TZMxrEVCgpp1b5K3hzFWuZh
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now, what is interesting in the development of gesell's emphasis on "unearned income" over profit as the source of exploitation, is that it leads to normative, rather than scientific, estimations as to these evils. for this purpose, this anon: >>2343354 correctly intuits the immanent antisemitism which attaches itself to a notion of parasitism via unproductive labour. as a point of exposition, we may read from the foundational text of german national socialism, rudolf jung's "der nationale sozialismus" (1919);
<"Pure-Land-Reformers [henry george, etc.] subscribe to the idea that ground-rent is the source of all present-day social evils; its total or partial confiscation for the benefit of the general public is, for them, sufficient enough to remedy all harm. We, on the other hand, share the view of the Free-Economists (Silvio Gesell) that interest also constitutes a form of unearned income, and deduce from this that a second course of action is still required: the breaking of interest-slavery. This shall be brought about through monetary- or currency-reform." [der nationale sozialismus, "abolition of unearned income", section a]
here, the national socialists expressly attach themselves to the ideas of gesell. if we compare the ideas of "unearned income" to smith's notion of the "necessary" faculty of unproductive labour, the difference becomes clear:
<"The labour of some of the most respectable orders in the society is, like that of menial servants, unproductive of any value, and does not fix or realize itself in any permanent subject; or vendible commodity, which endures after that labour is past, and for which an equal quantity of labour could afterwards be procured [.] Their service, how honourable, how useful, or how necessary soever, produces nothing for which an equal quantity of service can afterwards be procured." [wealth of nations, book 2, chapter 3]
smith then allows us to conceive of "necessary evil" (contradiction), while the utopianism of gesell and the nazis (and hudson) displays itself as an attempt to resolve contradiction, which seems to lead to disaster. waste, or excess, is then a necessary function of society. in psychoanalysis, this can be called the "unconscious"; a universal negativity which orients us by immanent signification.

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the general marxist strategy in regard to the unconscious is to name the unnamable (the "spectre" of communism), but as per lacan's, zizek's and mcgowan's criticism of may '68, this leads to right-wing perversion (inverse repression), since it seeks to transgress, rather than liberate, so exists in negativity to its object of desire. this is correctly diagnosed as a right-wing attitude, where the rightist will seek to exist in antagonism to the left, rather than in concordance to a speculative "right" of its own (historically, locke's liberalism is founded in 1690, while burke's conservatism is founded in 1790, showing the precedence of thought). this makes the left the right's superego, which is why the right is utterly repelled by brands such as "racist", "sexist", etc. because this counts as a rejection of their unconscious obeyment. the right-winger who steps into affirmation of this label somehow becomes "less" racist for this very sake, which is interesting (i.e. malcolm x's "honest racist"). this can be simply explained that once the barrier to enjoyment is removed, so is the drive to transgression. the racist must always say "im not racist" therefore, while the self-admitted racist loses enjoyment, so performs his racism less. this positivity then allows one step put of the right (which is why richard spencer now considers himself more of a leftist, for example).

is marxist positivity then perverse? yes and no. the "marxist" who has never read marx is a pervert, which is why, as lacan said, they are seeking a master and they will find it (while marx himself denied being a "marxist"). what the frankfurt school discovered is that fascism was not built on discipline, but on excess; precisely the excess which manifests as inverse repression (linking nazis to the marquis de sade). the enjoyment of the nazis came from being permitted by sublime authority (like religious people who do evil in the name of God). perversion then projects onto a master, and so permits itself (a rebel always serves a figure of authority). the alternative strategy is an alternative lacanian "discourse", such as the "analyst". the general strategy against perversion is hysteria, or internal contradiction. the pervert "knows"; the hysteric cannot know - like socrates. socrates negates for he cannot affirm, and is put to death for "corrupting the youth". this then, is radicalism. always be critical.

In this article, the term ‘industrial policy’ refers to the aggregate of all policies undertaken by the state to influence the development, catch-up, and innovation of specific industries. According to this definition, industrial policy is a selective policy that focuses on specific industries, rather than a universal or functional policy applied broadly to most industries. The origins of this definition can be traced at least as far back as the theory of the developmental state.1

In contrast to this definition, some argue that industrial policy encompasses universal or functional policies such as strengthening infrastructure, promoting human capital investment, maintaining fair competition, and creating an efficient market environment. This alternative definition has two drawbacks: First, it tends to blur the boundaries between industrial policy and other policies such as investment policy, export policy, human resources policy, and even macroeconomic regulation. Second, it is susceptible to being co-opted by (neo)liberal economics, using the guise of universal policies to oppose selective industry policy.

In a 2023 working paper published by the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), several scholars, including the renowned economist Dani Rodrik, defined industrial policy as ‘those government policies that explicitly target the transformation of the structure of economic activity in pursuit of some public goal… a key characteristic is the exercise of choice and discretion by the public authorities, as in “We promote X but not Y”, though the latter part of this statement is typically left implicit’.2

In effect, what these scholars highlight is the role of selective industry policy in reshaping the division of labour within society. Similarly, in a speech delivered at the Brookings Institution in spring 2023, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan interpreted the Biden administration’s industrial and innovation strategy through the lens of selective industry policy: ‘A modern American industrial strategy identifies specific sectors that are foundational to economic growth, strategic from a national security perspective, and where private industry on its own isn’t poised to make the investments needed to secure our national ambitions’.3

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Can economics cause mental illness? I have a theory that the Austrian school of economics makes people crazy. Many of its members had problems with depression, anxiety and other disorders. It's no coincidence that we see nutcases like Milei, Moldbug and Thiel emanating from this ideology.



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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
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>>2392077
he can be an annoying fag but he is a LION

>>2392054
it also ilustrates why i don't like BE, despite being right in proving this guy is a pedophile and a groomer, what we want to hear he has to have a little tangent about "pedophile games" and shit because it hurt his fucking feefees, reminds me of the holodomor video where he defended an source based on irrelevant, prior works of a writer like this validates the current one because he wants to sit on the fence like he did with china and the uyghurdomor.

>>2392052
badempanada would rape them like he did with ethan giardia klein

>>2392080
Most people aren't ok with loli rape porn and games, the entire world ain't /a/

>>2392110
most people dont have a strong opinion on most things one way or the other tbqh



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Hello, I’m from Bharat. I wanted to talk about decolonization of appearances. Due to the colonial period the ideal person was white. Because of this Indian women often try to get impregnated by white tourists so there children are better looking. This isn’t an isolated incident. There are even “breeding parties” where men will come and impregnate a dozen women at a time. It just reeks of capitalism and colonialist insecurity
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>>2391048
'jeet cord woke up

Are there any videos of these breeding parties?

>>2391330
Probably if you can find them.

Bump

Race mixing is natural stop being a chud :^)



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Previous thread: >>2177902

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.
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>>2382506
I'd go in the exact reverse order. Gotha is quickly read, capital is big and hard theory

>>2383894
I think Capital should be the first

any good books on the history of social democracy and how it's changed over decades?

I understand being anti-police, but I'm trying to figure out how things would be handled without them. Would a different type of law enforcement take over that isn't necessarily police? I genuinely want to know, this isn't some gotcha.

>>2384879
History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster
The Internationale by R. Palme Dutt
The Death of Social Democracy by Ashley Lavelle



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What the fuck are they? Every time a Marxist attempts to explain them it's like a Haskell programmer attempting to explain Monads.
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>>24362
The funny part about that Jacobin trash is that all the quotetweets are absolutely clueless too. Of course what Chibber says isn't materialism he's just peddling naive realism under the label. But he's not entirely wrong: communists do understand class actions as driven by material (i.e., economic) interests.

The key is that communists don't just assume people act out of class interest, they expose those interests, make them conscious, which is what actually reform of consciousness. It's not that everyone always knows or follows their class interest, class society hides those interests behind moral justifications, even morality talks against those interests. Also, I'm not sold on Chibber's democratic idealism. There's no mention of the middle class and how their democratic demands actually obstruct the class interests of the proletariat.

>>23493
anti dialectics truth nuke

In Hegel, it simply describes a kind of logic predicated upon the idea that an idea put forth already implicitly contains everything needed for its own negation.





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People will seemingly do anything to not engage in analysis of structures of class, labor, and political economy a la basic Marxism.

Paradoxically, some of the most radical-sounding theory ends up being politically inert. If your revolution happens in desire or discourse, then there's no need to organize tenants, unions, or strikes. No need to analyze class composition. It's post-materialist. The ruling class is perfectly happy for people to spend their time deciphering Deleuze or burning effigies of "the State" in their heads rather than challenging property relations.

Since the 1960s, theory has absorbed countercultural and psychoanalytic influences that treat rationalism itself as suspect. Much of this comes from academia. Their material interests don't align with the working class, so abstract theory "feels" radical without risking much. Another part of this is a sort of learned helplessness and nihilism, in that sense modern theory serves the same function as fascism in that is provides an outlet by giving the "aesthetic" of radicalism without the substance.

TLDR:The most "radical" thing you can do today is to simply disregard the vast majority of Western Marxism/Post-Marxism i.e. Freudo-Marxism, Deleuzean neo-Kantianism, Hegelian revivals through Lukács and Adorno, postmodernism, poststructuralism, and any approach that elevates """discourse""" as the primary object of analysis, and instead return to a straightforward, rigorous conjunctural class and geopolitical analysis grounded in orthodox Marxist categories and methodology.
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>>2385887
t. ailist

>>2391344
Any sane person should.

>>2391344
>Are you disregarding majority of modern continental philosophy? It that it, bro?
no, also analytic philosophy too

>>2385909
>Especially when you live in a shelter where it's everywhere?
So just kick out the people selling crack? They're the ones bringing others down

>>2391848
>analytic philosophy
western marxism is basically synonymous with interpreting marx through analytic philosophy, which is essentially stripping out everything meaningful



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🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸

>>2293957


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Sites that have active live-blogs:
• Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/

• Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion

• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories

• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/liveblog/ (trigger warning)
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>>2385487
i was in coffeeshop yesterday and some zio was with his buddy having a little meltdown because there were too many pro-Palestine supporters everywhere, and people were throwing paint at a building housing a pro israel org. like omg, this is a crime of the century. Maybe in the grand scheme of things, its meaningless, but it was just satisfying seeing some of them getting rattled.

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WAITER. WAITER. MORE DEAD ZIONISTS PLEAZE.

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>An Israeli soldier goes to Greece and is killed by the sea
>Genocide forces like Erez Halfon are still permitted to go on holidays in places like Greece, where they go to relax after inflicting a new Holocaust.

>>2392050
what part of from the river to the sea they didn't understand.



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Israel scrambles to address maritime insurance freeze after Houthi attacks, sources say
In early July, Yemen's Houthis launched a sophisticated and multi-pronged attack on The Magic Seas and The Eternity C, two Greek-owned and Liberian-flagged vessels in the Red Sea. Both vessels were sunk by the group, officially known as Ansar Allah. The attacks were the largest in scope, and firepower, since the Houthis began targeting ships in the Red Sea in November 2023 in what they say is solidarity with besieged Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. "There is a big discussion in the market right now whether insurers should cover vessels with even indirect connections to Israel," one of the shipping sources told MEE.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-approaches-maritime-insurers-after-houthi-attacks

Israel strikes Syrian military headquarters in Damascus
Israel carried out strikes near Syria’s presidential palace and on the military headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday, a significant escalation of its bombing campaign in the neighbouring country. The Israeli military also carried out strikes in southern Syria, where violence between Druze militants, Bedouin tribes and Syrian security forces raged for a fourth day. Local officials say about 50 people have been killed in the clashes so far. Israel cast its strikes as an effort to protect Syria’s Druze minority, and has demanded the Syrian government withdraw its forces from Sweida, where the sectarian violence has been concentrated.
https://www.ft.com/content/4305ea3a-09b6-4cef-8b04-99f1eb6106ce
https://archive.ph/bxIQV

Turkish court convicts Istanbul mayor of insulting an official
A Turkish court on Wednesday convicted Istanbul's jailed opposition mayor and the chief rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of insulting and threatening a public official and sentenced him to a year and eight months in prison. Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who is being held in a prison west of Istanbul since 23 March, is expected to appeal the verdict, which is part of several ongoing legal proceedings aPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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Columbia adopts controversial definition of antisemitism amid federal grants freeze
It is the latest in a string of concessions Columbia has made following criticisms – mainly from pro-Israel groups and Republican members of Congress – that university authorities had tolerated the expression of antisemitic attitudes in pro-Palestinian campus protests following the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in 2023.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/16/columbia-antisemitism-trump-administration-funding

Cuomo announces independent mayoral bid as Mamdani seeks “partnership” with New York City business leaders
The giant corporations and banks have made clear they are not yet reconciled to Mamdani’s victory, and Cuomo is counting on their continued support. Jamie Dimon, longtime CEO of JPMorgan Chase, has called Mamdani “more of a Marxist than a socialist.” The Wall Street Journal reports that a new super PAC, “New Yorkers for a Better Future Mayor 25,” has been formed to raise $20 million to defeat the Democratic candidate. Cuomo’s announcement means that, at least for now, five candidates are in the race for mayor of the largest US city, which is also the country’s media, cultural and financial capital. They include current Mayor Eric Adams, who is also running as an independent after skipping the Democratic primary and following his quid pro quo deal with the Trump administration to have corruption charges against him dropped. Also running are Republican Curtis Sliwa and independent candidate Jim Walden.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/rxtp-j16.html

Trump administration sued by US states for cutting disaster prevention grants
A group of 20 mostly Democrat-led U.S. states filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to block the Trump administration from terminating a multibillion-dollar grant program that funds infrastructure upgrades to protect against natural disasters. The lawsuit filed in Boston federal court claims that the Federal Emergency Management Agency lacked the power to cancel the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program in April after it wasPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tybna <3

>>2391968
>>2391982
>States announce unprecedented measures to halt the Gaza genocide at emergency conference convened by The Hague Group in Bogotá, Colombia.
<Columbia adopts controversial definition of antisemitism amid federal grants freeze
You had me confused there for a minute anon.

>>2391982
>One person suffered a gunshot wound in the 6 November 2022 shooting at Walmart for which Vinyard was trying to provide information to police, authorities said at the time.

>At the time Vinyard was mortally injured, he had approached an officer about potential evidence. Hawk, who was neither working nor in uniform, pulled Vinyard away from the officer, Sunday’s office said.


>Hawk then struck Vinyard in the chest and performed a leg-sweep maneuver that caused Vinyard to fall and strike his head on the ground.


What the fuck

Atomic Abundance and Its Enemies
The state’s return to nuclear has overwhelming support among New York’s industrial unions. The state AFL-CIO, the building trades, the laborers’ union, the Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA), and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) all heaped praise in the official press release. Joining them were manufacturing associations, chambers of commerce, and other business groups, along with a few nonprofit groups who embrace nuclear power, like the Clean Air Task Force. Not everyone is excited though. Many of the state’s environmental groups fanatically oppose nuclear power, despite its lack of greenhouse gas emissions. Food & Water Watch, for example, slammed the announcement as a “reckless distraction.” Alliance for a Green Economy dismissed it as a “bill-raising boondoggle” that still leads to “dangerous toxic waste.” Last year, a letter urging the state not to consider new nuclear was signed by 153 groups. Noticeably absent from the official press release, though, was Public Power NY, the environmental left coalition that two years ago won their campaign to authorize NYPA to “Build Public Renewables.” Powered in large part by the New York City chapter of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — including DSA member, state assemblymember, and now Democratic nominee for New York City Mayor, Zohran Mamdani — the coalition is perhaps more directly guided by environmental justice nonprofits. In a statement of their own calling the announcement “unserious,” it dismisses NYPA’s impressive progress lining up renewables projects, demanding instead their own contrived target. But Kathy Hochul’s plans paint a picture of the future. Whereas Klein and Thompson imagine abundant rooftop solar panels on homes, she imagines nuclear-powered industrial manufacturing and generational careers for the working class, led by an ambitious public institution. It’s a shift in liberal politics that should be embraced, not dismissed.
https://jacobin.com/2025/07/hochul-nuclear-environment-nonprofits-dsa

Tensions over the Arctic: imperialists race to grab the loot
Trump is eyeing Greenland, Putin is strengthening Russia’s base on the archipelago of Svalbard, all the while embarking on new joint ventures with China in the Arctic regPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



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🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

"A Very Sandi Evening" Edition

Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the 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

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>>2392034
Critical support

>>2392041
He is supporting the Republicans because that's what their excuse is. They can't release anything they haven't already because all that is left are CP vids.

>>2392022
Tribalism makes more sense than nationalism. You at least know the people you associate with. Nations are fake identities where millions of people you will never interact with supposedly are the same somehow.
If you go above the tribe might as well go all the way. Why stop at a few million, instead of billions?

>>2392011
Ukraine already joined the US team, and the people are being massacred because the US thinks it'll harm Russia. Or at least they were being massacred because of that, its mostly for no reason now :(

>>2392018
Everyone in the US already has diabetes, amigx



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

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

Active writers/creators
Sorted by last name
>Paul Cockshott
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>>2391826
data are always imperfect. so long as you can estimate their accuracy this is fine

>>2391826
>>2391829
to a certain extent yes, but you need to roll out the planned economy gradually and build an observability function

The Numbersixer

Marx:
<…the mass of workers must themselves appropriate their own surplus labour. Once they have done so – and disposable time thereby ceases to have an antithetical existence – then, on one side, necessary labour time will be measured by the needs of the social individual, and, on the other, the development of the power of social production will grow so rapidly that, even though production is now calculated for the wealth of all, disposable time will grow for all. For real wealth is the developed productive power of all individuals. The measure of wealth is then not any longer, in any way, labour time, but rather disposable time.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch14.htm

And how do we increase disposable time? In no particular order:
1. We get rid of involuntary unemployment.
2. The former ruling class now also works.
3. We do thorough investigations into demand to avoid unwanted production.
4. We cooperate to reduce redundancies in production.
5. There are technological improvements (not a uniquely socialist point, but whatever).

Inspired by Lenin (or Engels or Trotsky), one might add another point:
6. We enforce utmost discipline at work, military style.
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>>2391955
there's no gommunism button, no. we might make leaps from time to time if conditions are right
>>2391961
just don't autistically hyperfocus on minimizing labour time. shortening the working week is probably a decent direction to go in. this gives more time for hobbies

>>2391955
>>2391829
Would it do any good to make the bot/algo now and kinda predict how things will turn out and how it could've been mitigated? Or would it be a waste of resources?



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Oi! Do you 'ave a loicense for that Palestinian flag m8?

https://apnews.com/article/britain-palestine-action-arrests-protest-bf430c85a317e7e1f768c9ebd2a6131a

>More than 70 people were arrested Saturday at protests in the U.K. against the Palestine Action group being proscribed a terrorist organization by the British government following a break-in and vandalism at a Royal Air Force base.


>In London, the Metropolitan Police said 42 people had been arrested by late afternoon. All but one of the arrests were for showing support for a proscribed organization, which police have said includes chanting, wearing clothing or displaying articles such as flags, signs or logos. Another person was arrested for common assault.


>A further 16 arrests were made in Manchester, according to Greater Manchester Police, while South Wales Police said 13 people were also held in Cardiff.


>In London, it was the second straight week protesters gathered to support the pro-Palestinian activist group. Its outlawing has meant support for the organization is deemed a criminal offense. Police arrested 29 people at a similar protest last weekend.
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>>2391977
And the send the fat lady in to face him alone first. LMAO. British cops are so funny.

>>2391957
>So since your cops aren't armed, why don't protesters just beat the shit out of them?
We do? Or, we try? You realize that most police aren't armed and allowed to fire off clips on sight, right? you understand what a riot is, yes?

>>2391983
>How would the pigs react if you trained a cadre of fighters, armed with clubs and shields like them, and simply kicked their asses?
The question you should ask yourself what that would achieve? Is that worth the hefty consequences that come with beating cops or the price paid in resources to hide people that do?

>>2391983
>How would the pigs react if you trained a cadre of fighters, armed with clubs and shields like them, and simply kicked their asses?
To what end?
But to answer anyway, you will be mobbed, kettled, arrested.
Look anon, i was young once too, fighting with the cops, breaking police lines, etc etc is fun and it's probably good for your psyche but you're making a mistake to think that it's worth spending more of your time on than as a fun side-effect of large mobilisation.

>>2392013
>How can you get kettled and arrested when you've just knocked out the people who are supposed to kettle and arrest you?
Am i talking to a child?



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Webm Thread. The old one seem to have disappeared.
Try to keep it to as much 'OC' as possible, including just things you cut yourself.
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Anyone got the Kurds dancing on a rooftop?


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>>2386733
>Anyone got the Kurds dancing on a rooftop?
Could be wrong but pretty sure they are internationals. Turkish potentially if memory serves. This was quite early, has to be around the time of the siege of Kobane, shortly after? maybe i'm mega wrong tho.



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Are right wingers genuinely stupid or just selfish? I know it's a massive generalization (and maybe ironic because of that) but I'm just dumbfounded. It's like they either know they're lying or too stupid to either understand cause and effect, or just struggle with empathy.
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>>2388559
Nope, just knowledge from real world experience?

>>2387549
>In Spain
What do you care about a brown country?

>>2390671
no friends no skills no deodorant lol

Selfishness is stupid.

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>>2333844
I'm simply extrapolating Chinese socialism onto my own circumscribed social conditions. My heart, thoughts and actions exist as a means to reverse the corrosion caused by cosmopolitan fragmentation.
The authoritarian is righteous, the state is the most natural manifestation of the common weal's autonomy and self interest, both in the capacity of receiving orders from and giving within the state from a civil viewpoint. The most profound convergence and maturation of human epistemic thought, fulfillment and interaction occurred within the state and will continue to do so among the material conditions provided by the state. Glory to the Chinese race. Glory to the Chinese hegemony. Glory to the national emancipation of the Chinese people. Let their Nationalist subculture enlighten all the downtrodden and undermined races of the human species.



/leftypol/

 

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/06/urgent-appeal-stop-the-judicial-coup-in-south-korea-and-defend-democracy/
>Urgent Appeal: Stop the Judicial Coup in South Korea and Defend Democracy
<On May 1, 2025, South Korea’s Supreme Court issued a politically charged decision that overturned the acquittal of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, the leading candidate in the upcoming presidential election, on charges of election law violation. Lee had endured intense repression under the administration of impeached former president Yoon Suk-yeol, having been subjected to investigation by over 200 government prosecutors, but despite countless allegations, these nearly non-stop investigations failed to result in a conviction. Now, with South Korea gearing up for a historic snap election on June 3, 2025 following Yoon’s ouster, authorities are once again attempting to convict Lee to remove him from the political playing field.
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>>2381635
>citing concerns that he may destroy evidence.
<His arrest comes 124 days after his release
guys, I think its possible he may have had time to destroy evidence already

>south korea being punished for being a nanometre left of centre

https://www.thehansindia.com/news/international/south-korea-special-counsel-fails-at-2nd-attempt-to-bring-in-yoon-for-questioning-988225

>South Korea: Special counsel fails at 2nd attempt to bring in Yoon for questioning

<South Korea's special counsel Cho Eun-suk's team failed Tuesday at its attempt to bring in former President Yoon Suk Yeol from his detention cell for questioning over his martial law bid.
>The team had sent instructions to the Seoul Detention Centre in Uiwang, just south of the capital, to bring Yoon to its interrogation room by 2 p.m.
<But Yoon refused to cooperate during two attempts by correctional officers on Monday and Tuesday, according to the team. The officers reported that they could not use physical force due to his status as a former president.

https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20250715010500315
>Police open probe into Korean American professor for allegedly slandering President Lee
<Police have opened an investigation into a Korean American professor for possible defamation charges after he allegedly made damaging comments about President Lee Jae Myung with false information, officials said Tuesday.
>The investigation against Morse Tan, dean of Liberty University School of Law, came after a conservative civic group had filed a complaint with the police, accusing Tan of defaming Lee by spreading false information about him.
<In June, Tan said during an event in Washington that Lee had been involved in the gang rape and murder of a girl during his youth, and that he was sent to a juvenile detention center and unable to finish middle and high school.

https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1208269.html
>Election conspiracy theorist’s rally in Seoul met with protests
<Morse Tan spoke at a rally organized by the far-right group Truth Forum, where he claimed that China was attempting to take control of Korea with “fake ballots”
>Supporters in Seoul cheered “USA” and “Morse Tan” as they waved US and South Korean flags and banners bearing US President Donald Trump’s name as Liberty University professor Morse Tan appeared before the front entrance of Seoul National University in Seoul’s Gwanak District.
<On Tuesday evening, a welcome rally for Tan’s visit to Korea was held in front of the SNU gate by Truth Forum, a far-right group that supports ousted former President Yoon Suk-yeol and has made allegations of election fraud. As around 200 rally participants alternately chanted “USA” and his name, Tan placed his hand on his heart and looked out at them with a proud expression.

>>2391930
>stop the steal
Gusanoes can't even come up with anything original



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>>2390978
>What's your excuse for not being able to enter China?
Poverty. Retard.

>>2390888
yes, it doesnt specify what these 'values' are but its clearly a dog whistle for western trads.

https://policytensor.substack.com/p/the-problem-of-the-strategic-defender

>These historical patterns offer crucial insights when considering a future great power conflict involving China, especially given the overwhelming fact that the Chinese Communist Party is explicitly committed to reunification with Taiwan, peacefully if possible, forcibly if not. The United States is the incumbent power in Asia. It is perhaps the clearest instance of a strategic defender. China therefore enjoys all the advantages of the first mover and the US all the disadvantages of the strategic defender.


>If and when China decides to absorb Taiwan by force or kick the US out of Asia, we should expect China to exploit this initiative in several ways.


>We can anticipate that China will attempt to achieve its objectives through a meticulously planned ‘time-table war,’ where its full military and economic potential is unleashed at a predetermined moment of its choosing. The strategic goal will be to achieve a swift, overwhelming knockout blow at the very outset of hostilities, designed to present a fait accompli to the United States.


>The CCP’s long-term military modernization efforts are geared towards reaching a specific peak of preparedness for the Taiwan scenario. This allows them to choose precisely when to initiate conflict, timing their move to coincide with a perceived window of vulnerability for their adversaries – whether due to their own temporary qualitative or quantitative advantage in the arms race, or external distractions facing the incumbent powers. If Chinese decision-makers perceived that they had the upper hand in the arms race during a brief window, they would very much like to seize that window of opportunity.


>China’s authoritarian system is well-suited for waging ‘totalitarian war.’ China has perhaps the most formidable state capacity in the world. Executive level decision-making in China is hyper-competent, certainly relative to the West and especially the contemporary United States. When they set out to do something, they get it done. And the state reaches very deep into everyday life. As Tooze put it recently, ‘China takes social engineering literally!’
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>TikTok
>DeepSeek
>Labubus
What will be the next exertion of Chinese soft power?

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>>2391903
If I knew that I would invest.



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Didn't see a thread on here so I am making one for the commie strategy and simulation games produced by the postsoviet developers nostalgames (formerly known as kremlingames) https://nostal.games/
In honor of the new game which is to be released in 9 hours after time of writing https://store.steampowered.com/app/1922740/Crisis_in_the_Kremlin_The_Cold_War/
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>>43447
I was really struggling to keep the country together as a moderate
Then i did a stalinist playthru and just purged all my enemies and made gromyko the helmsman and shit, completely kicked out westerners from africa, won every war, etc. Didn't manage to collapse NATO before the game ended but USA was under orange man and couldn't really oppose me anymore, stopped researching tech etc.
Also you really don't need to do much to stop empty shelves in the regions, just research like level 2 agriculture tech

>>43479
Getting the 2nd military space tech lets you do decisions that give you big buffs and stop the libs from stirring shit

>>43464
You get xp for working a job
They are mostly "young", and inexperienced
You can send them to a training program also, i don't think it costs anything

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>>43409
How to have good economy in this game? I'm constantly running a deficit and ending up with no reserves because the economy refuses to grow even in fucking sandbox mode no matter how much I subsidize the various sectors of the economy.




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Hello Lesbian Stalinists, Gay Trotskyists, Trans-Anarchists and Bi-Maoists, I hope you're doing well !
I wanted to know what is your opinion on the so-called 'Queen of Breadtube' KKKontraPointSS?
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>Neoliberal subjects like Contrapoints are utilizing dead Palestinian children to build social capital for their brands, gaining more name recognition every day as being the mature, nuanced, adults in the room doing sane and rational political commentary
"Its impossible to describe satanic ontological evil" Nah dude, you know it when you see it

>Just realized Contrapoints did the Tim Dillon bit to a T
Tim Dillon, go on The Mike Recine Show, king!
https://xcancel.com/HBendaas/status/1943410015894687980

>>3279
says the lib

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>>3240
she doesnt have a problem with what is going on
>>3279
>quintessential radlib
means evil person



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Comrades, I have something to tell you. My father was always very political, criticizing capitalism. When I became interested in politics, he gave me his Spanish Republican flag and his Che Guevara beret. Yes, he always had and will always have Che's spirit. I'm writing this post as a kind of gift to my father.
Thank you, Father.
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See my parents were libs and I had to de-liberalize my thought process in my teens and twenties. I always knew their shit was incomplete. They obviously hated poverty, war, imperialism etc but their support of pacifism, voting, and just kind of limply tut-tutting reactionaries with "how dare you" always struck me as ineffective. These are working class libs I'm talking about. basically workers who lack class consciousness and go along with electoralism and reformism.

So I always wondered what it's like to be raised communist vs. being raised reformist and becoming communist. I find that people who are raised communist can be either very patient and kind to people unlearning liberalism or they can be very cruel impatient, harsh, even to the point of saying to people "you are bad, you will never learn" etc. and essentially taking for granted that they were raised communist and given the right path from the beginning.


>>2379942
I'm on vacation at the beach but I'll be back the day after tomorrow.

>my dad was a larper
cool, and?

>>2380550
>it's been a week



/leftypol/

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https://noraloreto.substack.com/p/carney-to-defund-canada
>In 1995, the Liberal Party introduced a revolutionary budget. It pulled tens of billions of dollars out of public services and transfered the savings to the banks through paying off public debts. EI was fully defunded. Services evaporated. Crowns were sold off. Transfer payments to the provinces were cut.
>It was the crowning acheivement of the Chrétien-Martin era — the budget that heralded in no uncertain terms, that neoliberalism was firmly Canada’s prevailing political ideology. You can read more about it in my new book, The Social Safety Net.
>It took years for those cuts to make their way through the provinces and municipalities, but we see their impacts still today: crumbling healthcare that is more and more private, incredible levels of student debt, a national housing crisis, and so on.
>Thirty years later, it seems that history repeats itself. Once again, we have a Liberal government that is promising to fix all the problems that we face, by defunding the Canadian state.
>Carney’s target is radical. Like, truly radical. Or, as the Globe and Mail calls it, “ambitious.” They are asking ministers to make annual cuts starting at 7.5% and moving to 15% in three years. It was like my public sector finance class in undergrad where we were told to take an Ontario ministry budget and cut it by 10%. I asked if I could instead increase a budget by 10%. No, my prof said. In protest, I took the ministry of northern development and mines and managed to cut 30% by cutting mines.
>Carney’s target, though less aggressive than my protest assignment, is also more “ambitious” than anything that Stephen Harper was able to acheive.
>Fast tracking oil and gas projects, promising new pipelines, defunding the state, bowing to Trump, pushing through large projects regardless of Indigenous reaction, tripling military spending, ramping up surveillance at the border and sticking to the anti-immigrant trend announced by outgoing Justin Trudeau — Carney has been busy in his less-than three months of being PM. Busy and signaling to the corporate class that he is their guy.
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Can one of my canadian bros give me the scoop on Yves Engler and the NDP Socialist Caucus?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Engler

>>2386252
The NDP has always had a number of more hardline leftists in its ranks, especially a lot of Trots doing entryism. They usually crop up during leadership races but rarely make much progress and the party establishment always makes sure they fail. I've seen a few statements from this Engler guy and he seems pretty based, but most likely the party elites will work together to guarantee he doesn't get the leadership. It's very similar to the shit you see with the DNC or Labour in the UK.

>>2378855
at least our union situation is marginally better than the Americans

>>2387100
comparing us to americans is already a concession



/hobby/

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So you might be looking at the name of this thread and thinking Language learning as a hobby? Why yes, this thread is to be dedicated to those that are learning a new language as a hobby.

Not only this but to provide resources for those that wanna get help with their progress and just talk about their language learning journey.
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Just the other day I was thinking about the loss of the 4chan language learning thread.
Me personally I'm learning portuguese, but I'm already around B2.
Also learning japanese and toki pona.

>>45687
tu es l'anon qui était en train d'apprendre toki pona l'année passée ?

any rec's for french media to consume? preferably something from the last 2 or 3 years

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>>45746
dofus

>>45746
Expedition 33



/games/

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I love DE but fucking hate ZA/UM does anyone have a similar case where they hate the company but love the game. what they did to the devs was dirty and unfair, i wanna like the game again but the suits are making me hate it
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The guys you hate aren't responsible for any part of DE that you like.

>>41311
It is not a game

>>41320
Looks pretty gamey.

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>>41320
they're called adventure games you ignorant zoomie

The DE subreddit is just the worst.



/tech/

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So, I'm a musician, who wants to have a musical career (a lot of communist musicians had stable careers) and meanwhile stupid porkies tell me that "no, we'd prefer if you were replaced, prole, because there if no place for people like you" and I hear, not only music, but other art, computer science, programming etc. will be replaced by AI. How do we stop this, so people are still prosperous in the real socialst societies?
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new super cheap chinese model dropped

https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/


>>30574
> empty page without JS
All that intelligence and they can't even make a working website.

It’s sort of like blockchain, it’s an interesting technology that would satisfy some niche requirement, but there has been so much “it’s going to change everything!” hype, so much grifting, so much fearmongering about destroying entire industries for employees that what comes out always seems lacklustre in comparison and will therefore get discredited even for the use cases it might have actually been useful in.




/games/

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Anyone playing this? What are your favorite paths? How well do you think it represents leftist politics or politics in general? I'm currently trying the socialism through reforms path (with a guide since I'm bad).
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>>43420
>5 million people lost their healthcare coverage
> "democratic socialism"
You have committed a great sin. You privatized healthcare.

>>43436
socdem moment


>>43420
>Literal polcompass in a videogame about holding power
Reddit moment

>>43478
Elaborate what your issue is.



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Hola filmfags, last thread was full so here we are. I'm thinking we also could use this thread as Films You Just Watched edition 3 as traffic is low.
Here's the list of the first thread I very subjectively added some shit to.

&ltS Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre
>Kubrick: 2001, Barry Lyndon
>Shane Carruth: Primer

&ltA Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
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I watched Black Dog, a 2024 Chinese film directed by Guan Hu. I don't have much to say about it except that it's a beautiful film. Lots of beautiful shots of the Gobi desert and the rural town in which the plot takes place. The film is very melancholy. Focusing on the people on the fringes of a booming society. Whom prosperity has not yet reached. Their struggles, thoughts, and interpersonal problems. And how they overcome them together as best they can. It kinda drags toward the end. Buy anyway, I recommend it.

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>S comes before A in the alphabet
American Education strikes again

>>46395
S tier comes from japan dummy

>>46395
< 'S' tier may stand for "Special", "Super", or the Japanese word for "Exemplary" (秀, shū), and originates from the widespread use in Japanese culture of an 'S' grade for advertising and academic grading.

JurASSic World AFTERBIRTH gets a ZERO out of ten from me because all the ANNOYING characters LIVE and the CUTE FRENCH TOMBOY DOESN'T.



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