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What's happening now
• Iran and Israel exchange strikes: Iran fired hundreds of ballistic missiles toward Israel, according to state media, in response to Israel’s unprecedented strikes. Each side has reported incoming fire in the hours since, with sirens sounding across Israel and Iran activating its own missile defenses early Saturday.

• Major blows to Iran: Israel targeted Iran’s nuclear program and military leaders with its first wave of strikes, which killed at least 78 people, according to Tehran. High-ranking figures, including the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and nuclear scientists are among the dead.

• What Netanyahu says: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who an Israeli official says is monitoring the strikes from a bunker, has vowed “more is on the way.” He previously said Israel’s operation against Iran could take several days.

• Trump’s warning: President Donald Trump told CNN that the US “of course” supports Israel in its actions. Trump warned Iran to agree to a nuclear deal “before there is nothing left.”

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-12-25-hnk-intl
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>>2322793
curious

>>2322793
they needed a lot of dead proles to do that

>>2322794
close to 30% of the worlds oil goes through there btw. they should absolutely do it

>>2322782
I've been here since 8chan. I will never be a zigger nor a capitalist nor a nationalist nor a bloodthirsty edgy boy. Now zionists are sending their bitch ass country to war and islamists in Iran are risking civil war if they conscript the anti-theocrats. I won't cheer for no state.

This is from the Worker-Communist Party in Iran

>In confronting this crisis of its survival, the Islamic Republic will try to militarize the political space as much as it can and, under the pretext of war conditions, make the situation of the Iranian people more difficult and unbearable than ever. On the other hand, any military reaction of the Islamic Republic against Israel can lead to a war of very destructive dimensions, including the risk of nuclear contamination. On the other hand, this war is being ignited by Netanyahu, who himself has his hands up to his elbows in the blood of the people of Gaza and has shown that he will not refrain from any crime for his goals. Therefore, Iranian society is facing the most dangerous and decisive moment in its history in recent decades.


>Criminals such as Salami, Shamkhani, Bagheri, Abbasi, and others who were killed in this attack have a bloody record of killing the Iranian people, attacking Flight PS-752, killing Mahsas, Nikas, Sarinas, and Kayans, and killing the people of Syria and the entire region. The killing of these criminals, along with the destruction of the military and nuclear centers of the Islamic Republic, has dealt a blow to the ruling murderers in Iran.


>The perpetrator of these attacks is the Israeli government, which itself has a long hand in killing the people of Gaza and the Palestinians; this is a war between two terrorist states, but the revolutionary and humane response to this war cannot be simply opposing the war of terrorists and being peace-loving and demanding an end to the war from a pacifist position. It must be attacked. It is the work of the Israeli people to determine the fate of Netanyahu's fascist government, and the overthrow of the Islamic Republic is an urgent matter for the Iranian people.


>The Islamic Republic should not be allowed to overshadow the protest atmosphere and the ongoing rallies and strikes of various sectors of society with war and war conditions. According to reports, the Islamic Republic has currently declared the governors to fire freely in response to the people's protest rallies. The people's response can only and must be to further attack the government in all areas. All activists and those involved in the Women's Freedom Life Movement, activists in the women's movement and activists, workers, drivers, teac
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🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅
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>>2322755
Rip bozos

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I wish.

>>2322755
>Senator Hoffman and Representative Hortman are dead

>>2322755
My question is why were they against these two DFL party members.



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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.
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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

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>>2322192
Many countries, especially in western and northern Europe, had social democracy. Surely those workers with their increased wealth have all organized together to become socialist, right? They didn't get lazy and think their comfy position would last forever and so supported capitalism instead, right?

Social democracy is a bribe. Socialism in USSR and China was achieved with peasants.

This is a "Nazi" meme according to h3h3 fans. You are a Nazi if you post it lol

>>2322637
It was made by nazi anti-trumpers tho

>>2322648
I support it. I hate Israel, I don't want to be watched by palantir, trump supporters do relentlessly defend things trump does no matter what and trump has made clear he will deport you jail you get you expelled from school or cost you your career if you question Israel

So the meme is 100% accurate. Meanwhile h3h3 fans Re attacking that streamer for posting it who is a brown woman that Ethan hates cause she is pro Palestine

Quite funny.



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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #242

<Enter Dnipropetrovsk Special


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

https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
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>>2322616
dude, it will collapse gradually and then suddenly, you it's linear? lmao you're so not materialistic deterministic. war gains are exponential and it will start soon, trust the telegram plan, z

>>2322629
We can actually see this in the graphs of daily territorial change compared to, say, 2 years ago

>>2322647
Where are they?

>>2322580
>>2322554
Those western infographics take only ukrainian data: according to Wikipedia Ukrainians are still around Sudja lmao. There a reason why ukranian mappers cope by drawing small lines, less problems for them if they slow 99% of South Donbass as "contested" instead of "controlled". Remember they got threatened to be sent to the frontline some month ago

>>2322764
> according to Wikipedia Ukrainians are still around Sudja
post it))))



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Suppose Karl Marx had never been born. How would the modern world be different?

My best guess is highly optimistic. Without Marx, there would have been no prominent intellectual promoter of violent revolution for socialist dictatorship. There would still have been a big socialist movement, including many socialists dreaming of bloodbaths and tyranny. But the movement as a whole would have rapidly evolved into something like social democracy. Third World dictators would still have killed in the name of socialism. But there would have been no Soviet Union without Marx. And without the Soviet Union, there would be no fascist Italy and no Nazi Germany. A socialist dictatorship could still have come to China. But without the ghoulish example of Soviet agriculture, even a socialist China would have avoided major peacetime famine.

It’s clearly possible that an alternate, equally influential theoretician of violent revolution for socialist dictatorship would have arisen. But this seems unlikely. When historians of science try to weigh a scientist’s influence, they search for runner-ups – rival scientists waiting in the wings to make the same discovery. Challenge: If Marx had never lived, who exactly would have replaced him? In Germany, Marx’s top rival was Ferdinand Lassalle, a figure far more in tune with modern social democracy than Marx. On the global socialist scene, it’s hard to name any figure that compares with Marx. Who’s even in the running?

There’s really only one fact that tempers my optimism: The world with Marx has never had a nuclear war. Altering any major facet of history could plausibly reverse that happy outcome.

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>>2322652
tl;dr - someone else would come up with equivalent of marxism sooner or later, grow up

If marx was really derious aboit opposing social democracy he'd have killed lasalle

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>words cause violence
is this the right-wing position these days?

The world without Marx is the world today.

Everyone is Lassallen. Leftists read critique of the gotha program and find themselves agreeing with every position opposed by Marx.

>>2322657
not only that, but many of the ideas attributed to marx were already in circulation before he compiled them in his writings. people weren't so obsessed with authorship and intellectual property back then because they were doing politics, not content



/leftypol/

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How do materialists solve the issue of infinite regression that happens in the materialist worldview?

<Things are made of matter!

>What is matter made of?
<Out of atoms!
>What are atoms made of?
<Subatomic particles!
>What are subatomic particles made of?
<Strings/They are excitations of quantum fields!
>What are strings/quantum fields made of?

Where does it end?
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>>2322181
bruh planck length would be known by even an alien civilization
relativism doesnt work here

What is the point of even asking these questions in the political sphere when pretty much every property you can list is an emergent one? What pressing questions will this answer?

>>2322683
why are you avoiding the question?

>>2322700
it's a pointless question?

>>2322700
I'm not, the OP is begging the question that this is somehow a critical flaw in materialism which I don't buy. Not knowing *why* a bullet flies won't stop it from piercing someones lung



/music/

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afro funk trip tracks inside no shit posting, hypnotic rhythms with soaring synths and driving basslines, bridging tradition and innovation with fearless creativity.
https://www.spaceecho.it/whats-wrong-with-your-mind/




/games/

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https://www.torn.com/3680050
if you sign up using my ref link, I'll send you some money to get started.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torn_(2003_video_game)
>Torn is a text-based, crime-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game.[1][2][3] The game was developed by the British developer Joe Chedburn in 2004, and is one of the largest text-based online video games.[4][5][6] The game involves a virtual world based around crime and business.[1][7] It has an in-game currency, which can be obtained in many ways, like mugging, drug trafficking, bank investments, dividends paid out from stocks, missions, and selling game items via the item market with other players among many other ways.



/lgbt/

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And I was misgendered at the queer event by… I won't say what identity, what gender, the person was. Or what pronouns they used. Or how their gender presentation was. We know I can't say that.

It was me, I misgendered them.
Your outfit was tacky

Gay white cis male with afluente parents?

I refer to them as dasein

what a cock o f shit

They/them nonbinary afab?



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Tomorrow a huge protest will be held in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, protesting the government’s refusal to accept the demands made by the students, as well as protesting against general incompetence and corruption. From the student to the teacher, worker and pensioner, war veterans and children all around Serbia will gather together in this protest.
Is this really it? Some policemen announced that they won’t be going to work tomorrow and that they have no intention of beating up children. This might be the only chance that the opposition gets to forcefully remove the president from office.
The implications are obvious; a color revolution is in the works. Unlike the protests in Greece, the Serbian protests have no class character. The left is very weak, and the protest attendees range from neonazis to liberals and communists (most likely due to the fact the protests have been organized “apolitically”). The situation in Serbia is very volatile, and the validity of these protests need to be questioned more seriously, since no matter how much they deny it, this reeks of liberal infighting. Only time will tell what the consequences of these past few months will be, and whether this will be another October 5th or just a failed mass movement.
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>>2289724
Nothingeverhappeners are burned out of years where things looked like would happen but then nothing ever happened. Now they don't except anything to happen ever, even when things have just happened.

So SNS is now calling the students fascists and nazis. This is after they made a provocation where a group of SNS-aligned youths (the "Students 2.0") with their leader visited the biggest student dorm and got beer cans thrown at them.
They're calling that a "fascistic attack" and now they're pushing a slogan which translates to something like "It's better to be a ćaci than a nazi" (which is seemingly replacing their failed slogan "I'm a ćaci too") and they put a banner on the Nis fortress with that slogan and a swastika, which got a bunch of people mad (because it's not far from where a Nazi concentration camp was in WWII), and it got removed pretty fast by someone from some opposition party.
SNS realized their mistake with the swastika and they made a new banner with that slogan and a crossed-out swastika and put it in front of the Parliament in Belgrade (in the street SNS has been blocking with tents for weeks now) but that one didn't stay up for a long time either, because some opposition parliament members got mad and they cut off the banner with a knife, then they got in an argument with people from the SNS tents then they got arrested for wielding a knife as a weapon or something like that.

kafica cigarica pobedica poyyyy blokaderi foteljasi odrali vas caci

>>2284458
Not a Serb, but I can confirm this. I was walking around late at night in Beograd, and suddenly I saw a bunch of tents blocking a critical road intersection of the city, and a shitton of cops.
So I went to the supermarket that is still open at this time of the night, got some snacks and beer, and when I got out, I saw a bunch of people who looked like students, so I asked them what was going on, and they confirmed to me it was a teacher protest.
They told me the government passed a law or decree reducing the time spent on research by teachers from 50% to 5%, which means it limits their pay to 50€. While Beograd is a relatively cheap city by Western standards, this is an unliveable situation.
They told me the government passed this decree basically illegally or almost, it's a weird legal situation. I told them it's unsustainable for a country to stop doing scientific research, especially when Serbia is more or less known for having very good education, but it's basically a power play.
More importantly, they told me the teachers will stay there for as long as needed to get what they want. To me, this sounded kinda funny at first, but this is actually ballsy. The protest seemed rather peaceful, because in several other countries, they would have been kettled and suffocate in a cloud of tear gas. But then, during another day when I wanted to see a few buildings bombed by NATO (holy shit, can't describe how I felt when I saw this), I passed by the camp, and damn, it's hot as fuck in this country, and they were still there, and the camp was much larger than I initially thought. And when you have 5000 dinars for the month, well you better spend them well collectively. I think some students offered them food, mutual aid stuff.

The students confirmed another few things discussed in this thread: the use of a LRAD, the sketchy contract regarding the canopy in Novi Sad. And it's true that a couple of public squares were blocked with tents with almost no one in there, what a weird sight to behold. One in particular had barriers coated with some strange orange substance that is probably a kind of glue. A few people were hanging around in this one big park, but they had to pass a police check I believe.

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>>2322634
It seems very 2011-esque



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>>41885
i'll start spoilering them for you ❤️



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Who was Paul Pawlowski?
>Paul Pawlowski (born 1926/1927) was a Polish-born immigrant, Hellenic polytheist and English republican who, from the late 1970s until his resignation in 1996, served as the leader and only member of the Republican Party of England and the English People’s Liberation Army (EPLA).

What was the EPLA?
<The EPLA originated as a split from the Maoist Working People's Party of England. The Army's ideology called for the independence of England from "Judeo-fascist" forces.
<According to the "Dictionary of Terrorism", it was "extremely weak" but had "undertaken isolated bomb attacks". In 1983, it claimed responsibility for a parcel bomb sent to the headquarters of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
<Barberis et al claim that the organisation may have had links to the Oliver Cromwell Republican Party, founded in 1977. This minor organisation, also led by Paul Pawlowski, later renamed the Republican Party of England, is best known for its leader's demonstration against the wedding of Charles and Diana in 1981

The revolutionary career of Pawlowski, in his own words:
"In 1960s I read the Iliad in HMP Brixton.
Why! Thats polytheism – thats my religion i decided.
in 1970s I opened Temple of Aphrodite Pandemos in my one room in Tooting. Landlord told me to get out – evicted.
I moved to empty house in Charington Road squat.
There was Banner books shop nearby in Camden High street.
The shopwindow was Red with little red books bust of chairman Mao in the middle. Indian man Bijour was the shopkeeper.
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Starmer has to go.

Google Arthur McBride.

>>2320677
Wow, that's crazy! I just saw him the other day too protesting Star Wars: Andor in Pontybridd. It looked like he had just gotten into a fistfight with SWP lickspittles.

>>2322351
>economic migration
do you know the difference between empathy and sympathy? as i have already expressed, i have empathy for economic migrants, but not sympathy. that is to say, i understand their position, but i cant support it. if they are caught, justice has inevitably caught up to them, like with any criminal. what is the alternative? supporting economic migration, which you apparently refuse to do, so you are overtaken by all sides.
>But those migrants are as much labour as the local population, there use in capital no different then the local population in the mechanisms of capital itself.
except that they will be more willing to accept lower wages, which is the plot of capital in its war against labour. did you see that trump is giving exception to low-paid migrants on farms in the US? the bourgeoisie actively support illegal immigration because it facilitates low wages, as a general trend - the same way marx and engels saw it in the 19th century.
>Is it pro-immigration when the various so called "pro-immigrant" parties of today use the same visa laws passed by "anti-immigrant" parties to string along immigrants and use their labour while under threat of deportation or expiration?
YES. that is the entire point of importing immigrants. to further exploit labour.
>Internationalism is both, as nations are not limited to states
what defines a nation, then?
>The standard of life in the West steadily increased at the time
in SPITE of its devaluation
>Wages will always be worth less in the long run with the falling rate of profit, and with general price increases
😂😂 this is how i know youre ignorant. the lowering of the value of commodities to marx is in direct proportion to the output of use-values (i.e. "wealth"), so a lower rate of profit means more wealth (or as adam smith says, the rate of profit is highest in poor countries and lowest in rich countries). profit is antithetical to the rate of wages, since it is an extraction from potential wages. also, what trend makes prices go up except a greater rate of profit from a lower rate of production? you are describing opposite trends. a lower value means a lower price.
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>>2320640
Astroturfed nonsense, the Blairism of music.



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let’s say, hypothetically, there was a particularly motivated man. he does not have much of a stomach for theory, as ridiculous as that might sound to all of you here. what if, hypothetically, his concern was action. with finding well-read individuals who may need help bringing theory to life.

let’s also say, hypothetically, that he was concerned primarily with seeking out early “revolutionary” movements and lending a hand in any way he could.

this “hypothetical” character is american, white, and armed. he is aware of these privileges and is willing to weaponize them against the System in order to further the Cause. he is willing to travel anywhere in the country and shack up with any worthy individual he might come across.

he is not a child. he’s in his late twenties. he is from one of the poorest areas in the country. he is angry. he wants to change things. he does not want a career, or a family. he wants to fight for something. he is definitely a little nuts. par for the course with this sort of thing.

if you were him - where do you go? who do you speak to? what do you do?
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What skills does this man have? What languages does he speak? Is he willing to die or go to prison? Does he have any IT skills? Is he charismatic and persuasive or aloof?

if you die with >=2 porky kills you have done your job because there is only 1 of you

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>>2322179
>Gaza or Ukraine
<muh geopolitiks

>>2322172
>if you were him - where do you go?
Try to infiltrate american porky gatherings.
>who do you speak to?
Absolutely nobody especially on the internet.
>what do you do?
Mass rape porkies to death.

>>2322172
>Muh white privilege
The door is right there radlib



/lgbt/

 

Trying to put together a reading list for Queer Socialist Theory/ Trans Liberation.
While we agree that LGBTQ people should be free to live their lives under socialism, unfortunately this hasn't been the case for all socialist govs.
Past reactionary behaviours/ policies have also emerged in certain so-called Socialist orgs like the ACP who use the USSRs past homophobia to justify their bigotry.
As a result, I think it's important that we assemble resources to ensure that future/ existing parties, platforms and orgs don't repeat the same mistakes.

Any recs?

Quotes and examples of pro-LGBTQ policies in Socialist Govs are also welcome.
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>>1163
There's no analytical tool feminism or "queer theory" can give you that science and materialism can't do on their own.

>>1167
>-The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels.
Feminism is a mythological project built around an essentialized subject (“woman”) that has never existed as a coherent class. Engels wasn’t doing a heccin feminism. He was dismantling the family as a unit of private property and inheritance.

Read up on James Baldwin!
Look at American society from the lens of a queer person of color. The "gay MLK" as was known at the time

>>1166
>you cant take transgenderism as part of materialism since like 99% of the people reject bio-essentialism
<materialism
>essentialism
holy shit 😲😲😲😲😲

>>2546
when marx was talking about materialism he was talking about being a smug new atheist reactoid ok



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And no, labelling the same structure with different words doesnt make it different.
I can see that some independent farmer, artisan, industrial cooperative or family company (operated by an actual family) escapes this structure. In all the common isms you have at least two classes of people, one exploits, one is being exploited.
technological changes do not change this structure. The use or not of money does not change this structure. The possibility of individual persons changing their social position (i.e slaves gaining freedom or rich people losing their money) doesnt change the structure.
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>>2322607
you're just repeating your argument without sustenance. if you do not understand historical materialism, that's okay.
<read the first chapter of the german ideology. read marx's letter to annenekov. read the poverty of philosophy.
'bosses' haven't always existed. 'jobs' haven't always existend. 'organizations' are not pretty much the same anyways, and 'elites' bossing over 'non-elites' is a phrase empty of any kind of history. read. read. read.

>>2322603
>money and wage work etc makes capitalism different from other ways of production.
How?
If money did not exist, would work not exist?
If money did not exist, would elite peoples not boss over non-elites?
If money did not exist, would production not exist?
If i was an alien with no concept of money and i looked at human societies at any time in history, i would just see a lot of people working, a small group of people not working and receiving a ton of goods and services from the working people, and the non-working people giving commands to the working people. Seems like an universal structure to me
>>2322608
>'jobs' haven't always existend
A person doing the bidding and following the orders of another person is essentially doing a job, i.e "has a job".
>bosses have not always existed
Not among hunter-gatherers, independent artisants and other such peoples. But within the four "systems" i mentioned (capitalis, communism, feudalism and slavety) there are bosses and people being bossed.

>>2322576
>elites
Stopped reading

>>2322613
Got a problem with the labelling?

>>2322607
>This is entirely compatible with my diagram.
imagine if I just made a circle that said "people" and when confronted with any theory about society I just said "well, my graphic that just says 'people' already includes all of that so your theory is either incorrect or just a subset of what I said"

what your graph describes is the concept of surplus value: a person only needs X amount of things to live, but through their work they can produce Y (where Y > X); then there is surplus value (P) defined as Y - X = P; and now you have that this person, because P exists, can be exploited, even by themselves. all societies since the neolithic have had surplus value, the difference is in how it is produced and then distributed within society

I don't think you understand what communism means. the socialist countries like the ussr do not fit into your graphic because the "elite" (the governing bureaucrats) didn't take surplus value from the workers, they had a salary that in some cases could be higher than that of the regular worker but they were still, at most, 2 or 3 times richer than the regular person

under capitalism you have people whose net worth is millions of times more than the average. this is because their income (the share of surplus value they appropriate) comes from their ownership of capital, to put it simply, let T be the units of time, I the interest for that unit of time and C the amount of capital, their wealth could be define as f(T) = C * I^T which is an exponential function. meanwhile the workers that simply exchange their labor for a wage (W) will have something like g(T) = W*T which is linear and becomes increasingly smaller compared to the other function as T increases

I'm reporting your post for being low quality bait btw



/lgbt/

 

If you are protesting for the "No Kings" day on June 14th, please bring your Pride flags, and/or American flags too!
We need to fight back in optics so that we stand together.

The media is really focusing on Latin American flags, and desperately are trying to cut off as many American flags from TV broadcast.

Remember this month is Pride! And we must stand for the rights of all people/sibblings from all backgrounds.

Maybe don't bring political affiliation flags like anarchist flags or communism flags. But that can be discussed

i rape all the flags of this earth, your falg is my personal wank hanky bitch

>>2542
damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



/lgbt/

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>be on E for 5 years
>gets sexually harassed at work by being asked "have you had the surgery" and being stalked by lower rank coworker.
>talk to same rank level coworker about it.
>doesn't give a shit.
>then tells that same rank coworker that a cisfem heard his sexual discussion, and she told predator coworker to stop. Then predator-chan got all mad and said "what is her issue"
>Broski gasped for air like that was her daughter and was apauled that cissyf went through that.
<mfw sexual assault is okay to do to me because dik n ballz

Transwomen are nothing more than cockholsters and tribbing beds. This is the choice you made, now embrace it.

>>2535
kill yourself

>>2535
>embrace it
<POV of Glow rn. Ready to take a #2 in the face for the workers of the world

>>2536
lol

>>2537
Well? Where is the dookie? I'm waiting…

hot dog hot dog hot diggity dog



/leftypol/

 

how do u think that country can be improved? i mean its ruled by communist party but i dont see them doing much. I wish their leader was great as someone like traore
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I have extensive research\compilation of info, done on Gonzaloite blogs bashing Prachanda as a "revisionist". Should I dump the images? I'm literally autistic and delve deep unto obscure viewpoints and the subcultures that built them\have been built around them

>>2298483
NTA
>what do you think the CP of Nepal should be doing
Which one?

>>2312946
>Should I dump the images?
Yes

>>2312946
>I'm autistic and I delve in obscure gonzaloist websites
Based, even more by rejecting the ultraleftist Gonzaloites




/games/

 

>Elden ring and Nightreign
>Lies of P
>Nioh
>Code Vein
>The Surge
> All the new games announced in the genre and the rest of the Souls games from From Software

All this Slop and similar ones go to this thread.



/tech/

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Comrades, we need a thread on privacy. Any decent activist should try ways of staying anonymous on the web and prevent being tracked by governments and corporations.General tips===* Use free software as much as you can.* Use GNU/Linux and keep it up-to-date, to be sure that you don't have unpatched security exploits* Don't use Flash Player, use youtube-dl instead for watching streaming videos online* Do not use Google, use DuckDuckGo or StartPage instead* Use a password manager like Keepass or for GNU/Linux users keepassx. Create new passwords for every site that you visit and use a strong password as a master password. A tip for easy remembering of your master password is to use a sentence. "i fucking love cookies and tits!" with extra capital characters etc. is easier to remember than some random characters and long enough to prevent brute force attacks of any kind.* Use the Tor Browser Bundle if you really want to stay anonymous.Firefox====* Go to Preferences -> History and set History to "Never remember history". * See for additional tweaks: https://github.com/amq/firefox-debloat and https://vikingvpn.com/cybersecurity-wiki/browser-security/guide-hardening-mozilla-firefox-for-privacy-and-securityAdd-ons-----------* Use uBlock Origin for preventing tracking etc. Bonus: use hard-mode to manually whitelist external domains on sites. Don't use uBlock but be sure to use uBlock Origin https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-mode* HTTPS Everywhere* DecentralEyes: prevents CDN hosting from tracking you (Google for Jquery etc.)* Self Destructing Cookies: only allow cookies that you choose to allowOS==* Encrypt your hard drive or home partition at least* If you use GNU/Linux, you can try to restrict systemd or syslog from logging. * Use a distribution which takes security seriously. Also, be sure that you don't install a lot of things outside the repository. It will cover most of your needs.Real life tips===* Pay with cash if you canFeel free to provide tips to each other comrades!
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is Protonmail secure? Mine was confirmed using a throwaway mail.
Should I make a protonmail secured through a protonmail, or is that retarded? Should I, on top of the normal PM, use proxies\TOR\s\thing else?

>>29498
The question is: What is your privacy goal? Because real, total privacy is in our age a meme. As soon as you connect your device with the internet, you are toast. If you are into total privacy, you also must get a zero trust mindset, you have to assume, that EVRYTHING is compromised. So the best thing you do, is to stay away from computerter technology as far as possible.

The more usual privacy route is, what 99% of privacy enthusists actually do is: harm reduction. Trying to minimize your digital footprint as much as possible. This is the only thing you can do and it is worth to do it. Privacy is not all or nothing.

What is wrong with redditors? Why are they trying to whitewash apple?

https://redlib.astrial.org/r/privacy/comments/1kzv848/i_requested_all_my_personal_data_from_apple/

tfw theres definitely llms scraping the leftypol api trying to assign all the posts to actual user personality profiles. seems kinda easy on slow boards. based on punctuation, mispelled words, grammar, vocabularly, dates, effort. if you make 3 posts in 3 threads in the same 30 minutes. it's highly likely a script can match those three and assosciate them with you in that time frame. at that point, with the context of 3 posts. it has enough information and a profile of you now. that it can make educated guesses as to who made that new post, and successfuly assign them to you, growing the profile.

>>30143
Don't even need an llm for that. I do it myself to some posters based on their posting hours, reply times, interests, typing, etc.



/games/

 

How are we feeling about it?

I am cautiously optimistic from the all the gameplay footage released. It genuinely looks like it will be a fun multifaceted game.
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>>42845
Here's my inca run with the dlcs, I never got deccd once and was actually constantly the aggressor

The first euroid I invaded was Spain as they were the weakest colonizer thanks to me conquering all the colonies they kept trying to set up in south america, mexico and caribbeans, then I invaded france then britain

Honestly I am really tempted to do a run as Byzantium and try to save it by reverting to Hellenism.

They said the performance impact from having pops is not noticable, curious how they achieved that.

>>42993

I believe part of it is that they don't segregate pops by occupation compared to vicky.

>>43010

*segregate them as much.

Potentially also the culture/religious segregation works differently in the code.



/games/

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Operation Deep Sneed edition

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

…three years of fucking Antarctica
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>>42970
Speer wasn't a Nazi thoughbeit he just really liked architecture.

haven't played the game in years tried to get back into but all the bloat that the updates have added overwhelmed me. Is it that bad or am I just out of it? trying to get into hoi3 now instead.

>>42968
the last time i remember checking in on them was when they released an event where president gus hall leaks the fact that the FBI and CIA orchestrated MLK's assassination on live tv, and to assure everyone that they weren't making le toonkies look good they clarified this was actually bad since he did so due to ulterior motives

>>43004
They said if was bad because it was at the height of the cold war and destroying the most effective state espionage body was actually bad.

>>43006

Liberals tend to think communists sre fundamentally stupid, whereas they believe fascists to be fundamentally evil.



/tech/

 

Thread for questions that don't deserve their own thread.
I wanna buy some headphones to go outside i don't want to spend more than 100€ on them. I want them to be mostly durable and secondly to have good sound quality, also i don't want to look like a jackass while wearing them, any suggestions?
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>>30017
Was using DeepSeek for this some if you end your question with "using only quotes by author from a reputable source" such as "Lenin" from "marxists.org" it did a descent job from an uninformed perspective. It sometimes elides and then you can request "give me the full paragraph of the quote". My guess is that you'd be better off just doing a wget –spider for pages and then find and grep.

>>30017
I think the problem would be somewhat solved if you could limit searches to a particular domain, so even if the LLM gets quotes wrong, you can see where it got its shit from

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>downloads a paid program.
>thinks they're going to help.
>breaks critical functionality including to restrict access to paid users.
>anything good they've got is probably from NSA tooling; not even their own stuff.
>probably has a keyboard that looks like pic rel.
>uploads in a format painful for everyday users.
>gives it away.
I hate software crackers.

>>30083
>do nothing but be a cracker and goon endlessly.
>never leave their basement even defying standard responsibility.
addendum.

Useless piece of shit YouTube started adding playlists and "&start_radio=1" to certain search results and it's bugging me, I have to delete it before passing it to mpv, is there any way to get rid of it?



/leftypol/

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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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Been thinking a bit more about how to get a square matrix.

Suppose there are several recipes with physical units for making the same output.

First thinking without joint production: For each of the inputs, we note the lowest number among these recipes (might well be zero). Now we only have one pseudo-recipe for the output. We call the result the optimist's physical matrix. For each of the inputs, we note the highest number among these recipes. Now we only have one pseudo-recipe for the output. We call the result the pessimist's physical matrix.

Now to joint production: Perhaps this is easier to communicate when talking about this "financially". The products coming out of a joint process have to justify their production cost together. That means their sum of prices must yield a certain amount together, but this can be split between these products in any way as long as the amount they have to make together is met. We can think in extremes: The price may be entirely covered by one of the joint outputs with the other outputs being free. Only one of the outputs being entirely "responsible" for the physical joint process is then used for the pessimistic look at this output; and assuming another output takes full responsibility makes this output look like coming out of nothing.

With this procedure we get two matrix things and both are square ones.

Empirical square matrix:

Multiple recipes for making the same output are used in one empirically observed proportion. That's just one big empirical recipe.

Joint production: The products fetch prices. The price×quantity of each of these is used to account for each input of the joint recipe between these products in exactly these proportions.

>>2274847
>the God of Logos
Is that the God who made all the corporate logos? A God of commercial arts? Yeesh

>>2296551
you could also send the vouchers towards an artistic endeavor you enjoy without wanting anything specific in return (given most art would be freely reproducible). Hoarding your vouchers shouldnt be encouraged, the whole point is that the production correspond to people wants and needs, and you need people to spend them for that.

Remember Dissent on Mars? The game was mentioned in a 2023 thread as being in development: https://archive.ph/Afx5a The game is out now and there is an INDEP vid about it on Youtube (and an extremely negative review by MiAh The King). It seems like a sandbox of sandboxes. You set up property rights and other regulations as well as psychological parameters to simulate different economic systems.

>>2322089
>not linking the video



/games/

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it brings me no pleasure to announce this, but it's peak. the furry twink has done it again. total tumblr teen victory. i can't sleep at night and my life is irrevocably changed.
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>>42986
Not really, that's more of a limitation of Deltarune's items than anything else. If items did stuff like give you a smaller hurtbox or change how fast the heart moves, or fuck if i know, let you loop around the box arena it would go a long way towards making the RPG aspect more interesting. But the gameplay is less planned around a central set of mechanics and more around giving you some cool new shit to do every fight so i imagine that's why Toby adds shit like (Ch.4 secret content) a fight that you control via screaming into the microphone instead of interesting equips that probably would need a fair bit of playtesting each.
Also enemies have a really simple and easy flowchart to sparing them which doesn't really help and makes regular encounters pretty boring.

Finished chapter 4. I cant believe there are two getting cucked scenes in this chapter.

>>42979
>>42987
This has kind of sold me on the game, I hate turn based RPGs and optimizing builds and I love bullet hell games. I wish there were more story based shoot em up games (I mean where the story actually matters and is a reason for playing).

>>42995
Bullshit, check these out:
Radiant Silver Gun (Alhamdulililah)
Gingaforce
∀kashicverse
Hellsinker
Jet Buster
ZeroRanger
Rainchaser
Blue Revolver
Any of the Touhou games
Anything by Milestone (Karous, chater and game, is grossly underrated)

Even most CAVE games have a strong bookends. ESP.RA.DE. especially.

Dunno if the anti-CAVE anon is still around, but I'm sure he'll have a load of horzies for you to enjoy.

I find it interesting that people are both claim the combat being boring (which I agree with), and the fight at the end of chapter 3 being unfun. That last one is the only moment I enjoyed the game (almost) without reservation. Granted, I didn't need 20 retries.
I would claim that Deltarune is boring exactly because the combat - the patterns - are uninspired and shit. Have thought this since chapter 1, and in many ways it has gotten worse (chapter 4 might as well be auto-play for how easy they are). Undertale had easy patterns too, but at least they were textually interesting. That is sorely lacking in almost all Deltarune fights.



/leftypol/

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🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸

>>2293957


————————
🚨 Live Happenings/Updates 🚨
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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>>2320739
I like thet they are islamist entryism proofed

>>2322380
Stalin should have continued the rape-breeding program of Berlin

>>2322380
wow thanks die linke!

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Claimed to be remains of Israeli F35

>>2322380
Current co-leader of DieLinke has lived in Tel Aviv for 2 years, lmao.



/leftypol/

 

If you’re going to any one of the No Kings protests tomorrow PLEASE bring Iranian and/or Palestinian flags, not just to trigger the libs but to show solidarity with the most important anti-imperialist resistance movement of our day.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is currently liberating the world from the chokehold of imperialism, Zionism and all evils that grow from them. Our oppression that we face in America can only cease when the IRI liberated the Middle East and enables a wave of anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist movements to spring from it.

So PLEASE bring Iranian flags to tomorrow’s protests out of solidarity.
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>>2320773
Call me crazy…but how about….a comunist flag?

>>2322401
Don't forget your prayer rug and a megaphone to scream allah ackbar

>>2320773
Actual Fed

>>2320914
haul your fatass to the flag store in your fag car

the latest zio falseflag is claiming that iran has sleeper cells all over the US and are going to do a terror attack soon
actual glowie thread



/lgbt/

 

Would /lgbt/ appreciate completely fake dogboy slop? Wanna test my creative writing skillz.

Also there isn't really a dedicated fagslop thread, for shame.

As an overboard dweller, do you mean writing a fiction, I don't see whynot

Go off post that dogboy vagina hammering a chickengirl cloaca slop. 🔥🔥🔥



/leftypol/

 

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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ship has been lifted back up
radio silence from the people who laughed

>>>/edu/24472
I made an /edu/ thread for more academic stuff on DPRK, which will stay up after they've cycled out of thi thread, for anons. Share your PDF's, book rec's, authors and so on. Discuss.
>>>/edu/24472

>>2318828

Thank you W.D.P.R.K.N.A.!

>>2317466
>Now its "Pyongyang is legitimately decent/good living but its only for the 10-15% of pop. that are 'elites'; The rest of the country is still semi-starving."
Holy shit I noticed that change in tone too.
<Yeah, sure they build modern housing and high rises so people can live in them but have you considered elevators not working represents class society 🤓

In June 2000 a historic north-south summit meeting was held in Pyongyang.

When the agreement on the joint declaration was announced, everyone present at the banquet was jubilant as if reunification itself had been realized.

Pointing to a picture on the wall opposite the table of honour, Chairman Kim Jong Il asked the guests from south Korea whether the picture depicted a morning glow or an evening glow.

After racking his brain for the answer, a south Korean minister eventually responded: It portrays a rising sun, symbolic of the bright future of the Korean nation.

The guests present there all nodded at his answer.

Unexpectedly, however, the Chairman shook his head and said that the glow in the picture was both a sunrise and a sunset.

His answer was so simple and yet correct that they could only admire him. They realized what he said was too significant to be a mere witty humorous remark–every judgement depends on one’s viewpoint, and the success of every undertaking is decided by one’s resolve.

If all the fellow countrymen were united in one mind under the banner of the declaration, the future of the nation would be as bright as the rosy, rising sun. On the contrary, the prospects for national reunification would be as murky as the evening if the declaration was not implemented, just remaining as a mere sheet of paper.
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I would've posted this on the draw board, but that's deader than Jeffrey Epstein. I started in mid-late October of this year (I didn't keep track of when I started, unfortunately).
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>>4748
>>4748
/draw/ only has furry perverts
I thought lefties would be more sane than 4chantards, but it seems not

>>5084
I don't know what the perverts part is in reference to.

>>4756
This is true. Your horniness motivates you to keep doing it, seriously. I also find my drawings look better if they’re NSFW.

>>5084
Furry porn is what I’m trying to learn to draw, lol, so looks like I’m in the right place.

Thats just beginner level and you ARE a beginner so dont be discouraged



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