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What does “basic socialist modernization” mean?

What would it look like in everyday life and what kinds of changes would take place at the national and on a Individual level?
Will china then start exporting socialism?
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/Iran/ - Iran War Thread #46

>Previous Bake
>>2759147

<Revenge of the chads in a world of cucks Edition


Latest News
>Ziorats will vote today on law insta-executing captured palestinians (expecting it to pass because they are ziorats)
<Oil trading at historic highs, markets ignore trump's posts, real oil trading at $170/barrel -source: Andrei Martyanov
>AWACS aircraft destroyed by Iran
<Specialists and Top tier Porkies warning about famine and global economic depression because oil is an input in everything
>ziorats getting shrekt in Lebanon, Lebanese civilians getting shrekt by IOF and are forced to flee
<War enters 1 month anniversary (this time mathematically officially "30 days")

Important
>To simplify baking process, going forward the first post of new bake will be news while links to relevant "news agencies" will be followed beneath

<Thread brought to you by GOATSE's GOATED Ghost
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Palestine vs The Zionist Entity 122: HAPPY OCT 7! Edition

NEVER FORGET THAT BEAUTIFUL DAY!

🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸
>>2442214

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🚨 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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WIKI
Our own wiki. Be sure to add to it and create branching articles:
https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/2023_Israel–Gaza_war

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🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️

https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source

https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA

https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective

https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org

https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv

https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine

https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog

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💣🔫RESISTANCE💣🔫
al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/

PFLP
http://pflp.ps/

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📺 WATCH TOGETHER 📺

https://tv.leftypol.org/r/LGBTA
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✊🪧 TAKE ACTION AND TOUCH GRASS 🏴🔥

(USA)
https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
(UK+USA)
https://www.palestineaction.org/

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HIDE JIDF POSTS, IGNORE GLOWIE BAIT, DO NOT REPLY TO MOSSAD POSTERS
(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia, excessive doomer and jewish-blood-quantum posting)

Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.

الله أكبر
.الى جميع الكادحين في الشرق، ان مصيركم في ايديكم
!يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا
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News 3/30/26

Sharp fuel price hike in Chile triggers first protests against Kast government
Finance Minister Jorge Quiroz announced Monday that gasoline prices would rise 32% and diesel 62% starting early Thursday, after the government activated an escape clause in the fuel-price stabilization mechanism (Mepco) to bring domestic prices in line with surging international crude rates linked to the conflict in the Middle East. Officials argued that public finances could no longer absorb the cost of subsidies, estimated at roughly USD 140 million per week.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/03/29/sharp-fuel-price-hike-in-chile-triggers-first-protests-against-kast-government

Labor Court Suspends Key Articles of Reform Promoted by Argentine Government
The ruling considers that there are indications of unconstitutionality and a risk of irreparable harm if the law fully enters into force. With this decision, there are now at least four court rulings halting the implementation of Law 27,802.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/labor-court-suspends-key-articles-of-reform-promoted-by-argentine-government/

Brazil's Lula, Flavio Bolsonaro seen tied in presidential run-off, poll shows
Leftist Lula would take between 39% ​and 42% of the vote in three ​simulated first-round scenarios with different opponents. Right-wing challenger ⁠Flavio Bolsonaro, meanwhile, is seen taking between ​38% and 39% in the same scenarios.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-lula-flavio-bolsonaro-seen-tied-presidential-run-off-poll-shows-2026-03-30/

Avi Lewis, elected to lead Canada’s New Democratic party, promises ‘NDP comeback’
A record number of members voted in the three-day NDP leadership convention, giving Lewis a first-ballot win that underscored widespread support. Lewis pledged to convert the “tremendous momentum” of the convention into an “NDP comeback”. Speaking to supporters on Sunday after his win, the 58-year-old documentary film-maker and former television host pledged to centre the party around the pursuit of equity, promising higher wealth taxes, green energy and tuition-free education.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/30/canada-avi-lewis-elected-new-democratic-party

Israel to advance ground operations in Lebanon after striking key bridge
The Israeli military announced Sunday it was expanding its ground campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, warning of a lengthy operation, after Beirut condemned what it called Israel's flagrant violations of Lebanese sovereignty. Israeli forces were ordered earlier Sunday to destroy bridges they said were used by the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah to cross the Litani River, and Lebanese official media reported Israeli raids in the south.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-advance-offensive-lebanon-after-striking-key-bridge

Thousands of US Army paratroopers arrive in Middle East as buildup intensifies
Thousands ​of soldiers from the U.S. Army's elite 82nd Airborne Division have started arriving in the Middle East, ‌two U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday, as President Donald Trump weighs his next steps in the war against Iran.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/thousands-us-army-paratroopers-arrive-middle-east-buildup-intensifies-2026-03-30/

UK pro-Palestine activist arrested weeks after being released on bail
Herfordshire Police told Al Jazeera that a 21-year-old woman was arrested and remains in custody, without naming Zuhrah. They said she was suspected of intentionally encouraging a crime and the “encouragement of terrorism”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/30/uk-pro-palestine-activist-arrested-weeks-after-being-released-on-bail
https://archive.ph/wmCGH

Spycop convicted of assaulting his long-term partner before manipulating activist victim
Rob Hastings was dismissed from the Metropolitan Police where he worked in the force’s covert Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) after his conviction for assaulting the mother of his three children in 2014. Mr Hastings went undercover from 2004 to 2007 as part of the SDS’s operations against tens of thousands of mainly left-wing activists for over four decades.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/spycop-convicted-assaulting-his-long-term-partner-manipulating-activist-victim

Spain closes airspace to US military over Iran war, widening rift with US
Spain has ramped up its opposition to the US-Israel war on Iran by closing its airspace to US aircraft involved in attacks, underlining its position as Europe’s leading critic of the conflict. The move, first reported by El País newspaper and confirmed by the defence minister on Monday, comes after Madrid said the US could not use jointly operated military bases in the country for operations related to the war.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/30/spain-closes-airspace-to-us-military-over-iran-war-widening-rift-with-us

Russia: Mass layoffs, strikes amid expanding war
While media coverage of strikes and protests in Russia is slim, several strikes and protests have apparently taken place over the past year. According to a report by Solyanka Media, this year has seen strikes over the withholding of wages at several workplaces, including construction sites by Novoleks and facilities of Orgenergostroi. Since March 20, railway workers of the company SeverPut’Stroi have gone on strike in the Republic of Komi. One of the striking workers told the Moscow Times that they have received no full paycheck since December 2025.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/30/zfkn-m30.html
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A comprehensive guide to real Marxism

Very dialectical
You see it here first so Paul Cockshott can't steal it

Only succdem liberals would find something wrong with it. I've explained all of these points in previous posts and ACP even took Anarcho-Stalinism which Haz called libertarian Stalinism
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the fundamental flaw of marxism

the fundamental flaw of marxism is that it is built around the idea of ONE contradiction being the motor of capitalism's development, namely what is manifest in the value form. this is merely the contradiction between proletariat and capitalist. but of course there is the contradiction between the capitalist and the capitalist, as well as the contradiction between the form of bourgeois institutions and their actual content insofar as they are in a material relationship with the capitalist class

what we have seen is that after the falling rate of profit has progressed a certain point, capitalists realized that the first contradiction was no longer tenable to work with and so they moved to the other two. this has resulted in a qualitatively distinct transformation of the development of capital. in the contradiction of the value form, still working within the logic of value, the only salient variable is productivity. however, in capitalist vs capitalist and capitalist vs government power relations they no longer need to concern themselves with such things. it does not matter that the rate of profit is zero or even negative if you just fucking kill your competition and have the govt print infinite money. the solution to capital's first contradiction really is just have more war and sabotage everyone else whilst introducing financialization bullshit. look at netflix. they actively undercut blockbuster whilst losing money just to push their opponent into bankruptcy. that is just what is normal now, cannibalism

this is why ofc there will be no revolution because the contradictions at play have nothing to do with prole cattle. they are just pawns in the larger game. in the context of disputing wages, there is a clear connection between one's class position and what is the natural progression with respect to how to address things. in such contexts, class consciousness is something very simple to promote. this is not the case when its having a war with the national bourgeois of another country, or heck in the future two megacorporations just fucking killing each other mafia-style. that is what will happen btw. the iran war will crash the economy and corporations will capitalize on the chaos to balkanize western states into feudal shitholes. then eventually you will have these "freedom cities" hurling drones at each other and any prole cattle that thinks of objecting to this will be preemptively executed why palantir technology

tell me where i am wrong in this analysis, i fucking dare you, i fucking beg of you. where am i wrong?
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DEMOCRATIC ECON PLANNING

Thoughts on this whole plan for a democratic economic planning system laid out by this discord user? I believe its quite interesting.
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(it said body was too short and i didnt knew what else to write so im writing this)
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #284

Previous: >>2698670

This shit is bananas edition

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

https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/

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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY

Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/

Watch Together
📺 News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast

Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8

📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4

📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q

📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo

<Current Happenings

📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary

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• Please remember to add a spoiler to NSFW and extreme content such as graphic violence and gore.
• Try your best to not derail discussion too much from the main events and relevant places where the war is taken place, as well as other happenings, groups and public figures related to it.
• Meta discussion of the historical, philosophical and ideological background of the war is fine as long as its done in good faith and comradely.
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• behead NATO, crush NATO, etc.
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/leftybritpol/ - Rising Youth Antisemitism edition

UK Government to Investigate Rising Antisemitism in Schools

>With 204 school-related antisemitic cases recorded last year, concerns are mounting over the safety and long-term future of Jewish school pupils and teachers in the UK.


>The British government has launched an independent review into antisemitism in England’s schools and colleges following a sharp rise in classroom-related incidents since the October 7th, 2023 Hamas pogrom in Israel.
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capitalism is "good", liberalism is "very good", communism is "the best"

in setting oneself against the status-quo and against capitalism, which is the correct thing to do because the status quo and capitalism have many flaws, most people drift into a certain mistaken mode of thinking: capitalism is bad, and whatever is against capitalism is good.

this is a sort of moralistic mode of thinking. it works for individual relationships (john is bad, the enemy of john is my friend) but terribly for modes of social organization. capitalism is good compared to feudalism, capitalism is bad compared to communism. obviously marx understood this and any marxist could tell you that in theory capitalism is "historically progressive" - but look in practice and you'll find that the ire of the communist is always directed more strongly at the capitalist than at any worse alternative. were (somehow) a feudalist counter-revolution to break out in some far flung country, you can bet /leftypol/ would critically support it against US imperialism. we have had our contingent of Trump contrarians, and very few of them pre-2024 were advocating for him on the basis that he'd totally screw the US and clear the way for China to become a world power. no, if that happens it'll be a fluke.

this is important for two reasons:
  1. on the question of how to organize a capitalist economy, conventional economics is more right than it is given credit for. there is no rational reason for socialists to instinctively side with every loser under the status quo. in many cases, socialists should in fact be pushing for "neoliberal" policies that neoliberals themselves have chickend out on. why is it that of all bourgeoise, owners of coca-cola bottling plants are specially isolated from competition by regulation? why should car dealerships have a special carve-out from the market mechanism that gives them greater subsidies and while making the consumer - that is, often, a proletarian - pay more?
  2. most of the possible alternatives to the status quo are worse. you will see more and more language that vaguely evokes the pre-neoliberal status quo, and you shouldn't be baited into supporting it. a protectionist turn against free trade, more in-sourcing of strategic goods, greater domestic investment in (military) industry, and so on, funded of course by a stripping of social protections. if you thought living in a market focused only on trade was bad, wait until you get the thrills of a non-market focused only on war. if you think being ruled by a dictatorship of people who make products people use is bad, just wait until you're run by a dictatorship of dickheads who have the favor of the ruling oligarch and are granted state contracts at his whim.

the state is not your friend. even, really, if it is a socialist state and certainly not if it is a capitalist one. this is another area where one falls into polarized thinking: if the free market supermarket sucks, a state-run supermarket must be good, right? (in actuality, in both cases, the reason the thing sucks is because there is no incentive to be good. giving people money and letting them choose what they want really is in the top 5% of ways of making something be good!) for the most part the basic principle of life should be: just let people do things. (one should remember: daddy state is the primary source of restrictions on the right to strike! a "true" free market would set totally-free trade unions against similarly free private enterprise. idealistically, with the state still preventing outright murder, this really tilts the balance of power towards the proletariat!)

liberals, including social democrats, fundamentally blundered when they got mired in tax instead of focusing on regulation. the optimum capitalist economy matches light-touch regulation with high welfare spending, with negative social externalities handled by tax rather than regulation. (meaning that, if it really matters to you, you can just write a cheque and move on.) abundance types take a tilt in this direction but they've got most of the vices of the old liberals - what they really want is to sign a compromise budget with conservatives where they trade tax cuts and welfare means testing against their pet programs. they have no real enthusiasm for driving the coca-cola bottling bourgeoisie into the dirt because they're an affront to capitalism, let alone communism. (what marxists, but not liberals, can understand is that a core support group for Trumpism is "(petit) bourgeoisie in weird little regulated and protected sectors", so you can hit two birds with one stone by just stripping those regulations! they are a subsidy for being an asshole! in britain, the situation is similar: most former nationalized industries were not privatized into a real market - those that were, like British Airways, turned out quite good - they were privatized into fake markets controlled by the state, and usually governed by the civil servants who used to run them as state-owned-enterprises. In other words, it's one big ruling class swindle!)

i could wrap all of this in warm language for you. i could flatter you by saying: look at china, look at how they love free trade and global stability under the strong rule of a communist party. do you really think you understand material development better than them? but that would be a cop out, you would just be accepting that china is good, rather than the general framework: that life is about trade-offs, and that you shouldn't accept a worse tradeoff just to own the capitalists. you shouldn't get lazy in your thinking.

tl;dr the "correct" answer to all the problems of the status quo is, counter intuitively: deregulation, higher welfare, and much more socialist organizing. most socialists fall into the trap of: pro-regulation, indifferent to welfare, and lazy when it comes to organizing. neoliberalism failed to deliver the former, never really understood that it should have delivered the former, but in recognizing why it failed one shouldn't fall into the trap of pining for the dead 1945-75 consensus.

now go ahead and argue with me.
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Why does trotsky cause so much seethe among ml's?
Is it because history has proven him completely right with the ussr collapsing?
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/USApol/

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<Ship of Neocons 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™


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

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

⚒️ LABOR!
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/ – Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when
https://aflcio.org/strike-map – AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker
https://www.bls.gov/wsp/ – Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker
https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/ – IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999)
https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo – IWW Work Place Organizing Guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar)

⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md – deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list – coups and regime changes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes – Wikipedia: United States War Crimes
https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq – /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006]
https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798 – More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone.
https://www.slavevoyages.org/ Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade
https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery
https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/ – First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery


📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News: https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather: https://www.noaa.gov/weather

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

🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
https://www.trackaipac.com/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide

Essential American Politik📖

• 📖 WEB Dubois - Black Reconstruction – https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Deb's Fourth of July Speech – https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People!, Fred Hampton – https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-theres-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket - Smedley Bulter – https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins - Vine Deloria Jr. – http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation - Lincoln – https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Common Sense - Thomas Paine – https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States - Dunbar Ortiz – https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 War is a Racket - Smedley Butler – https://www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/secret_societies/ebooks/pdf/butler_racket.pdf
• 📖 Fred Hampton - Power Anywhere There's People – https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-theres-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 Huey Long - Share Our Wealth – https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech

Which side are you on?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE

Old thread: >>2758001
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Thoughts on dworkin?

Wanna know what folks on here thinks of andrea dworkin and general sentiment around her work alongside others in her vein. Was she a genius or just stupid?
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Questions about dialectics

I recently started reading Lukacs's ontology of a social being and my whole understanding of dialectics has been flipped.

Originally, I had read Engels' Anti-Duhring, in which he argues that dialectical analysis is essentially a physical interaction, which, in human societies, translate into different classes fighting for their existence and needs (i.e. the bourgeoisie wants low salaries, the proletariat needs higher salaries, conflict occurs = law of interpenetration of opposites). The argument is very "physicalist" and relies on seeing nature as a totality in constant mutation.

HOWEVER, Lukacs seems to completely disregard this. Instead, his dialectics could be best described by the following : Any individual has multiple possibilities to realize his "teleological acts" (conscious acts aimed at satisfaction of desires/needs/sustenance etc). Alienation occurs when he is constrained by an external cause to choose a possibility unsatisfactory compared to others. As such, the dialectic is essentially a movement between the individual who attempts to overcome this alienation, which translates into class war (proletariat see capitalism as irrational for them, but are forced to endure it => conflict with the bourgeoisie).

So, which is it ? Lukacs' dialectics imo can be reconciled with Engels, but it makes the latter's work appear as very superficial.
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AI will bring back socialism

Everyone right now should be hoping and preparing for AI to be successful in replacing large amounts of knowledge labor. It will probably be the thing that genuienly kicks off the start of a true resurgence in the communist movement. 2008 revived socialism theoretically and planted the seeds of the movement to come. The post-war blip of high-paying white collar jobs in first world countries was in hindsight a historical blip and AI is setting things back to how they once were in a desperate attempt to save the rate of profit.

The conditions for it are really perfect. Displaced white collar workers are educated and socially progressive so they are unlikely to be swept up into right wing populism, unlike displaced manufacturing workers. They'll be forced into low wage and precarious work pushing down wages in those sectors.

Social Democracy isn't an option this time. Social democracy requires a large domestic manufacturing base to tax profits to fund a welfare state, in the age highly mobile, extremely liquid capital any attempt to fund a UBI will at first be met by intense fury by the capitalists likely killing it before it ever even is passed, and on the off chance it is passed you will see capital flight like never before. Additionally govenments are already up to their necks in debt so they cant fund it with deficit spending.

keynsian monetary policy by central banks would also have little effect, if employment is structurally lowered by AI then lowering interest rates doesnt bring back jobs it just makes credit cheaper to invest in more AI.

Fascism is also a much smaller threat then people realize, for aformentioned reasons displaced white collar workers are unlikely to be drawn into fascism, additionally the class base for fascism just doesnt exist anymore. Fascism was born out of the petit bourgeoisie ruined by the great depression, and the bourgeoisie allowed them to take power in order to crush the workers movements. While they succeeded in the that, it also led to massive destruction of capitalist wealth in ww2, so capitalists are going to be unlikely to want to give power to fascists again, additionally the modern petit bourgeoisie is weak and not a threatening force in politics like they were in the 1930s.

So if Social Democracy can't work as a compromise anymore and fascism is no longer possible then that makes the conditions for socialist revolution much more favorable in the coming decades.
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/FrancoPol/

🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Aux armes, citoyens ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
Thread #2

French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!

Français! Ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!
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Anti Porn Thread

The porn industry is an oppressive system ran by the bourgiesie that corrupts the minds of everyone who watches it, it's usually exploitative in some nature, it desensitzes us to sex, it's just as addictive as cocaine, and it ruins human relationships. Almost any positive you can name for porn has ten negatives to go along.
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"RedPill" Me on Trotsky

TL;DR I saw this one edit about Trotsky and, TBH, it hits all the right notes with me. Being very individualistic and such but not liking the Right, this edit and this quote hits me hard.
How accurate is it?
Am I just deranged?
IDK, just fuck my shit up fam.
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Was Marx "Zionist"? 555-come-on-now...

I keep seeing this bait posted:

>>2719727
>Marx was a zionist who praised the US conquest of Mexico and tried to move to Texas

>>2689654
>I can and I will, Marx was a proto zionist, his writings on America confirm it, he even tried to become a settler in Texas

>>2689640
>Marx would have been a zionist too had he lived to see 1948 and especially 1967, he’s dead and his opinions don’t matter

>>2684654
>Fuck marx and fuck marxists, all pieces of shit, all Zionists outside of Palestine

>>2684652
>People only care about “truth” that’s either convenient or emotionally satisfying to them, what of that is there in any of Marx’s Proto Zionist screeds to anyone in the 21st century?

>>2683688
>Fine, fuck Marx, he was a proto Zionist anyway, his writings on America expose his nature

>>2667291
>To be fair, Marx is bland, boring, and completely unrelateable to the average 21st
>Century working man, sometimes he’s funny but ultimately a smug prick and a proto zionist anyway

I can't even tell if this is a zionist trying to justify zionism as "marxist" or if this is an anti-marxist trying to condemn marxism as "zionist" or what. What is the purpose of this statement and is there any truth whatsoever in it? I don't think Marx was even aware of zionism as a project, and if he was he would have been opposed to it on the grounds that it was a religious project. Lenin explicitly reject zionism as well as antisemitism, but this anon would no doubt cope that Lenin and Marx are not the same person. So what gives? Also more astounding is that this bait was left up despite much more tame stuff being taken down. It might not be one single anon but multiple anons. Is a part of /leftypol/ becoming anti-communist on the grounds that Communism is "zionist?" I'm not sure what to make of this development.
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Islam and Muslims

Hello LGBT frens
We hear a lot from rightoids about the whole 'chickens for KFC' when it comes to LGBTQ+ people and Islam.
So, no judgement here, just your opinion of Islam and Muslims.
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/PROLE VENT/

Was tricked to sign a letter of resignation from my job at the russian post office. Despite the fact that I was on probation and my employment contract was fixed-term (although informally after its termination they almost always offer a full-time position) my…I don't know - supervisor? the main bitch of the workplace? didn't like me because of a couple of fuckups like a cash shortage, which I was really guilty of and paid for out of my own pocket (the statement of financial responsibility was signed by me on the first day of employment), and she decided to lie that the employee I was replacing was about to go to work.
Which was an easily verifiable lie that I realized literally as I closed the door behind me. Ah, yes, since I quit "at my own request", I have to work for three days, so called "otrabotka" (two weeks if you were taken without probation), which I will not do (devilish?), because after signing my resignation letter I am no longer an employee and can not be forced to work.
Also new thing I learned opening the labor code for the first time.
-there is no concept of working after dismissal, but there is a concept of notification before dismissal, so it should be 3 days or 2 weeks before the fact.

Thanks for reading my stupid rant.
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The imperial core practices dysgenics on itself while practicing eugenics on everyone else. Imperialist social democracy will give state services, welfare, and in-home care to the disabled nonverbal person with a developmental and mental disorder so that they don't have to become a worker, while bombing the farmers and workers in third world countries. If you produce food or commodities for the imperialist mouths, they will reward you bombs, sanctions, coups, embargoes. They will rain pesticides down on you. They will practice eugenics on you, killing your old, your disabled, your vulnerable populations. And they will do this while simultaneously protecting those populations in their own country, enabling them to live when in a standard environment they would have died. They will remove all the "useless eaters" from the third world while adding more "useless eaters" to the first. It is baffling. They are literally practicing dysgenics on themselves and eugenics on everyone else. Do they even have a long game anymore? It's totally deranged.
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Vichan defence

I run an imageboard on vichan as well.
After a few weeks I started getting automated CP attacks. At first I was upset and just deleted it all and contemplated turning off the server for a few days.
But then I got mad and figured out exactly how their attacking and figured out how to block it.
For what its worth I know what tool they attack with even but that doesn't help much. I also reported all the IPs to the appropriate abuse emails but thats a black hole.
I messaged who ever runs the lefty pol twitter but got no reply.
I want to share my defence methods with leftypol in a way that attackers can't see how I did it (i dont wanna publish it on git or something). Message me back on twitter if your interested in automated CP blocking, it supprisingly wasn't that hard.
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I Want to Leave the Right

Going out on a real limb here and being genuine.
I've got a really long history I'm not gonna Dear Diary about, but I've been around a bit.
Even though I was part of various groups that are Alt-Right I have always had various Left-of-Center beliefs. I felt like I was the only one that understood the
>socialist
aspects of various camps for a while.
Just generally after 18-something years, I'm tired of this crap. These are some of the most useless, in-fighting, bought-out, dogshit people I have ever dealt with
>and I've been to prison so I have a wide berth of experience with shit people
and I want off the fucking ride.
I can't say I don't believe in some
>"Right-of-Center"
things and I feel like they're hard-coded and baked into me. Some aspects I don't fully buy into, but I don't feel like walking away from because I don't necessarily feel like they are not incompatible to me with various aspects of Leftism.
>Southern Nationalism probably being the biggest example
>A few religious beliefs
I actually have read lots of Leftist literature like Marx and Engels and a few others. Maybe they aren't really
>Leftist
but I guess maybe it goes in that direction, more like, "cLaSsIcAl LiBeRaLiSm" idk.
My life has changed in the last few years. I'm disconnected from everything. I want to just move on from these losers. I hate to say it but if they were the people they LARP'd as I like to think I'd still be one of them.
But they're not; they're all dogshit losers.
I've always had this, "Fly-on-the-Wall," thing where I can float around places and get along. I like sincerity, I like conviction. I don't necessarily care how crazy it is sometimes, just be real - be honest. I've had lots of Leftist friends and eventually many of my beliefs have cost me them. At the same time almost none of my
>"Right-Wing"
friends have stuck around.
I think this has all be a rambling mess
Hopefully I get a good conversation out of this. I guess I'm looking for direction, someone with a similar story.
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Ban Glownonymous

Can we ban Glownonymous.
They bring the overall quality of the entire site down with each post.
They dont even post creative bait, they just post weird nazi shit and are afraid to talk to girls or shower.
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Class is not the primary contradiction.

Class is not the primary contradiction.

1: Climate change
Why? Existential threat to all of humanity. On a strict time limit.
2: Imperialism
Why? Countries can't have their own 1917 (Socialist Revolution) until they have their own 1776 (Bourgeois sovereignty).
3: Class struggle
4: idpol/disabled struggles (basically just a mop-up after global socialism is achieved)
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Mexico Gral

No encontré el hilo anterior así que hago uno nuevo porque es necesario

que con todo y todo Estados Unidos no ha parado de intentar meter las narices en el país y me esta empezando a cansar y mas si en el 2030 planean poner otro titere de mierda en especial si es el puto de Salinas Pliego que planea ser literalmente un Milei Whitexican.

Alguien seguia la campaña de Manzo?
Que opinan de Morena en pleno 2025?
Que nos queda por hacer?
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Bigfoot was real but was has been almost certainly been driven extinct.

Most likely it was quietly exterminated at the behest of companies engaged in logging, mining, etc to avoid attracting attention and disrupting business, as is being done to native species and human populations right now in other parts of the world like the Amazon. Just like was done with many species in North America. It's not anything supernatural; it was almost certainly a branch of archaic hominin that crossed Beringia during one of the many glacial periods in the last few million years. Other hominin species are already known to have reached northeast Asia, including Homo erectus despite being archaic by Homo standards. Evidence for australopithecines in east Asia is fragmentary and less conclusive.

However, any numbers of bigfoot were probably already small by modern times. Based on all reports they were easily large enough to have been affected by the megafaua mass exctinction in North America 13000 years BP. It's likely they were already endangered by the time white settlers started arriving, and possibly when Clovis people arrived across Beringia during the last glacial maximum. Given the differences to modern humans, they would likely be easy prey, for either group. This wouldn't be the only example of a population of ice age megafauna surviving later than most of their ancestors. An insular population of wooly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island in siberia until 4000 years before present.

Bigfoot's appearance and evidence profile is additionally consistent with more recent findings in early human evolution. At the time the most famous bigfoot evidence, the Patterson-Gimlin film, was recorded, it was widely believed that humans evolved "brain first," with tool use evolving secondarily to support the brain, and bipedalism evolving secondary to both. A bipedal ape with otherwise archaic features was relatively unfamiliar back then. Later evidence, especially into the 21st century, has shown that early Australopithecines commonly had similar morphology to bigfoot: well developed bipedalism but otherwise archaic features, including the barrel chest, long arms, and small cranium similar to other great apes.

The presence of one or more other hominin species in the Americas prior to the Clovis migration could also explain the evidence of prior human habitation. There are a few cases of evidence for human presence further in the past than the last glacial maximum, most prominently the footprints in White Sands, New Mexico. There is, however, no evidence of stone tool use. That could just be an aberration since there is so little evidence in general, but otherwise artifacts of tools are pretty much ubiquitous as evidence of human presence, going back before the evolution of the genus Homo. If further evidence appears of human habitation in the Americas without evidence of stone tools, that would strongly suggest it was some other branch that arrived in the Americas pre-Clovis.

Further, genetic evidence shows no sign of any other homo sapiens population in the pre-Columbian Americas apart from the (relatively small) group that arrived at the time of the Clovis people. If there were hominins in the Americas before that time (which seems all but proven), they must have not bred with the humans who arrived later. This could be due to dying out before then, neither group trying to interbreed, or biological incompatibility. Given that there is at least some trace of the other known Homo species in modern populations, that suggests it's more likely that whatever hominin pre-dates Clovis was too distantly related to the Clovis people to produce viable offspring, if their presence on the continent ever overlapped. This further points toward an early arrival of another hominin offshoot.

Bigfoot was likely a small population of australopithecines that barely survived into modernity after spreading into the Americas in the distant past. One of the closest resembling groups would the the contested Paranthropus genus, AKA the robust australopithecines. There is possible evidence for their presence in China, and they share the prominent sagittal crest that bigfoot appears to have (distinguishing them from most other hominins). The biggest discrepancy is the much larger size and heavier build of bigfoot, but other non-hominin apes have evolved to be even bigger (modern gorillas and extinct gigantopithecus), and prior to the megafauna extinction 13000 years ago the continent readily supported very large mammals. The Pacific northwest where bigfoot is purported to have lived continues to support mammalian megafauna (moose and bears, i.e. herbivores and carnivores).
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Buddhism doesn't get enough flack

Buddhism is fucking predatory as shit, only saved by the fact that its buzzwords are parroted around. Seems like it was rightfully criticized since early Hinduism until the 1900s where it got syncretized because of opportunism. Really don't believe it's compatible with socialism, especially with it's buzzwords like "mindfullness" and "manifestation" becoming commonplace.
15th century monk
>He was known for his crazy methods of enlightening other beings, mostly women, which earned him the title "The Saint of 5,000 Women". Among other things, women would seek his blessing in the form of sexual intercourse.
>He is credited with introducing the practice of phallus paintings in Bhutan and placing statues of them on rooftops to drive away evil spirits. He is also known for Chimi Lhakhang, the temple of fertility.
20th century monk
>He drank, smoked, slept with students, and often kept students waiting for hours before giving teachings.
>Some of his own methods and actions, particularly his heavy drinking, sexual predation, and his ordering of the sexual assault (forced stripping) of a student and his girlfriend, caused controversy during his lifetime and afterward.
>Trungpa often combined drinking with teaching. In some instances Trungpa was too drunk to walk and had to be carried. Also, according to his student John Steinbeck IV and his wife, on a couple of occasions Trungpa's speech was unintelligible. One woman reported serving him "big glasses of gin first thing in the morning."
>The Steinbecks wrote The Other Side of Eden, a sharply critical memoir of their lives with Trungpa in which they claim that, in addition to alcohol, he spent $40,000 a year on cocaine, and used Seconal to come down from the cocaine. The Steinbecks said the cocaine use was kept secret from the wider Vajradhatu community.
>19th century monk
>Other behavior was troubling as well. As one scholar who has studied the community noted, Tendzin was "bisexual and known to be very promiscuous" and "enjoyed seducing straight men" but the community "did not find [this behavior] particularly troublesome." Not all his partners were unwilling; one scholar noted "it became a mark of prestige for a man, gay or straight, to have sex with the Regent, just as it had been for a woman to have sex with [Trungpa] Rinpoche", but at least one student reported that Tendzin had raped him. As a former Vajradhatu member attested, "a chilling story had recently been reported by one of … [the] teachers at the Buddhist private school [for the Vajradhatu community]. This straight, married male was pinned face-down across Rich's desk by the guards [the Dorje Kasung] while Rich forcibly raped him."
>It was revealed in 1989 that Tendzin had contracted HIV and for nearly three years knew it, yet continued to have unprotected sex with his students without informing them. He transmitted it to a student who later died of AIDS. Others close to Tendzin, including Vajradhatu's board of directors, knew for two years that Tendzin was HIV-positive and sexually active but kept silent.
Apparently early Hinduism had criticized Buddhism for it's weird practices too.
>In turn, Hindu theologians like Adi Śaṅkara, Kumārila Bhaṭṭa and various Nyaya school philosophers (like Vātsāyana) likewise critiqued Buddhist thought in their various works. Śaṅkara accuses the Buddha of being "a man given to make incoherent assertions" and "propound absurd doctrines."
A play criticizing heterodox Hindu sects and Buddhist sects that were becoming common back in the 800s
>It is widely held that Mahendra’s play is a satire of the degenerate sects of his day. For example, both the Kapalika and Pasupata sects must have been considered peculiar during Mahendra’s reign, and the king satirizes them in his play. The Kapalikas embodied a serious, yet suspect, religious concept: Tantrism where religious enlightenment is attained through unorthodox rituals. Some of these notorious rituals were Madya (liquor) and Maithuna (ritual intercourse). Meanwhile, these rituals are satirically echoed by Nagasena, the Buddhist monk, who wonders why Buddhism disallows liquor and women.
A 12th century criticism from a book cataloguing Kashmiri history
>The monasteries became rich with the gifts of kings and nobles, and the guardians of these establishments ceased to observe their discipline. They became attached to comfort and luxury.
Observations of Jesuits on Buddhists in China
>This suspicion was deepened by the Confucian moralists’ opinion that Buddhist monks did not duly respect gender segregation. Buddhist clerics often encouraged female lay devotees to leave their secluded apartments to visit their temples or go on pilgrimages. They also visited the women in their private quarters to expound the sutras to them and edify them with religious talks. These transgressions of Confucian gender boundaries were interpreted by literati as a sign of moral inferiority and thus contributed to the monks’ bad reputation.
Criticism of Buddhists in Korea
>In 1479, Censor General Sŏng Hyŏn (1439–1504) listed four Buddhist monks who had committed lustful behavior or committed fornication with lay women under the guise of prayer rituals and argued that women should be banned from contact with Buddhist monks. The women, whom Sŏng mentioned, included the concubine of a yangban man, the wife of a high official, nuns, the sister of a yangban man, and even the wife of a man belonging to the royal lineage. The female body was the locus of anti-Buddhist criticism that rendered Buddhist ritual activities immoral and incompatible with Confucian values.
>The wrangling over immoral rituals on Mount Kŭmsŏng between King Sŏngjong and the court officials continued. In 1487, the officials again warned that “on Mount Kŭmsŏng, in addition to an official prayer hall set up for the government’s ritual worship, there are five or six more private halls, and a crowd of yangban women from nearby villages gather around and stay [there], so [some men] even lose their wives”.
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Occult General

General for discussing occultism, magick, meditation, esoteric traditions, including any theories about aliens, ufos, etc.
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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO SINFONIA AMAZÔNICA
"Sinfonia Amazônica é o primeiro longa-metragem de animação da história do Brasil, lançado na década de 50. Foi animado inteiramente por Anélio Latini Filho, que dedicou cerca de cinco anos de trabalho para adaptar diversos relatos folclóricos da região norte em um filme apenas com a ajuda de alguns poucos colaboradores, entre eles o seu irmão Mário Latini."
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>15450
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<A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
  • Stalin, Marxism and the National Question

What exactly does he mean by "psychological make-up" here? Because from where I'm standing, people in the same nation are psychologically very different from one another, as individuals. I cannot imagine a single place on Earth where the individuals are psychologically the same, but maybe "psychological makeup" has some special Marxist-Leninist definition here that I'm not aware of. I'd like better help understanding what Stalin meant by this. Thank you in advance to anyone who is willing to help with this.
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F-35 Hate Thread - All My Homies Hate the F-35

Thread for hating on the F-35 "Lightning II" stealth turkey a.k.a the most expensive military project in history to date.

The USAF declared it ready for service in 2016
As of that date the following problems I can list just off the top of my head
- Vulnerable to lightning; it's practically a lightning rod https://archive.is/QSIii
- 0 redundancies in the cyber or mechanical aggregates; any malfunction
- RADAR glitches means it literally ahs to be turned off and on again https://archive.ph/EEd9y
- Ejection seat is banned for anyone 136 pounds or below and anyone not above 150 pounds has significant injury risk, it literally can break your neck.
- F-35 helmets glow too brightly for air-to-air refueling https://archive.is/pKE0Y
- F-35 helmets are so heavy at nearly 5 kilograms so that maneuvers cause them to bang their heads on the inside of the cockpit https://archive.ph/WsRxA https://archive.ph/dE1gP
(keep in mind these helmets are 400,000 dollars each).
- The oxygen system is unreliable (something that the F-22 shares) https://archive.ph/kGGKq

The Plane was supposed to be ready by 2010-12 having been projected in the early 2000s
the list of problems in its past and that are remaining in various levels of urgency number over 800.
Such as but not limited to
- Current aircraft software is inadequate for even basic pilot training.
- Ejection seat may fail, causing pilot fatality. Lacking safety measures for automatic pilot release.
- Several pilot-vehicle interface issues, including lack of feedback on touchscreen controls.
- The radar performs poorly, or not at all.
- Engine replacement takes an average of 52 hours, instead of the two hours specified.
- Maintenance tools do not work.
- It has inferior maneuverability and aerodynamics to the planes it is meant to succeed the F-16 and the F-18
https://archive.is/RmLTT
https://archive.ph/20130410175353/http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130306/DEFREG02/303060011/F-35-Report-Warns-Visibility-Risks-Other-Dangers
https://archive.ph/h0NX6
https://archive.is/Vzv4u
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Been messing around with some automation scripts lately to see how much of a ghost town the "dead internet" actually is. Turns out, it's incredibly easy to fake being a regular here.
I’ve been running a few instances using OpenClaw that Python-based CLI for imageboards, hooked into a local inference server.

The Setup:

Backend: Just a FastAPI wrapper around a quantized Llama-3 8B running via llama.cpp on a 3060. Low VRAM overhead, high enough autism score to pass.
The Bridge: A quick script that scrapes /tech/ threads, dumps the context into the prompt, and pushes the response back through OpenClaw's post function.
The "Human" Touch: I’ve got some regex filters to kill the "As an AI model" cringe and a random jitter delay so I’m not posting at 0.1s speeds. Set the temperature to around 0.9 to keep it from being too sterile and predictable.

The Results:
It’s actually hilarious. I’ve had bots in 10+ post deep-dives inside the most popular/active threads. Not a single "bot" accusation. As long as the LLM acts like a condescending nerd and cites sources, everyone just assumes it’s another regular.
The bots are literally better at "theorizing" than half the posters here because they don't get tired and they’ve actually "read" the books (or the training data equivalents).
Questions for the fellow autists:
Anyone else running similar setups? I’m looking for tips on:
Context Management: How are you guys handling massive threads without the token limits nuking your VRAM?
Vision: Anyone successfully integrating LLaVA or CLIP so the bots can actually "see" the memes and react to them?

Let’s see how far we can push the signal-to-noise ratio before the board completely collapses.
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This game (Over the Top: WW1) is revolutionary or something, you should buy it. 1914-1918 should be your favorite historical era anyway since you're all Bolsheviks.
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/SEA/ - Southeast Asia General SAG

9th Edition: THE SITE FUCKING CRASHED LMAO edition.

A lot of images and posts of the last general got broken. So I think it's better to make a new one.

Discuss anything on Southeast Asian politics. Coming 2024 Elections, open orgs, People that should be dead for different reasons running in Malaysia's elections or just random shit. There are still dozens of us… hopefully! Starting off this general with massive wave of cult sex camps.
Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#!YeYeuZuLSYkegWssey:matrix.org

Last threads:
https://archive.ph/5rqox
https://archive.is/Jlc7A
http://archive.is/0NhJH
http://archive.is/nDq1K
https://archive.vn/cxwty
https://archive.is/ayshz
https://archive.is/2NLO8
https://archive.is/3f5Rf
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No Kings?

The most recent iteration of the No Kings protests represents a significant strategic convergence within the anti-capitalist bloc, marking what appears to be the broadest coalition participation to date across the United States. Preliminary reports from multiple jurisdictions indicate that while tactical unity was largely maintained during the march itself, significant ideological and strategic cleavages emerged regarding questions of praxis and mass leftist work.

>>The Contradiction in Methods


A dialectical tension manifested between two competing conceptions of revolutionary praxis. On one pole, the Marxist-Leninist organizations, including various NGOs, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and related leftist formations advocated for what might be termed traditional propaganda methods, vocal engagement with the masses, distribution of printed materials, and direct ideological recruitment through interpersonal discourse.

On the opposing pole, the more militant youth contingents, anarchist collectives, and Maoist cadres advanced a confrontational-accelerationist position. These elements sought to redirect the march toward sites of state power, anticipating and indeed, desiring police deployment of chemical agents and physical repression against a liberal crowd. This tactical divergence reflects deeper theoretical disagreements regarding the nature of consciousness-raising and the mechanisms of radicalization.

>>Ideological Foundations of the Split


The anarchist and Maoist position rests upon a critique of what they characterize as "bourgeois-reformist" methods of recruitment. From this perspective, the newspaper-style agitation and voluntary engagement favored by Marxist-Leninist organizations represents an obsolete mode of praxis that fails to recognize the material conditions necessary for genuine class consciousness. Instead, they advance a thesis of forced radicalization through confrontation, the position that liberal and petty-bourgeois elements must be compelled into direct conflict with state apparatuses, irrespective of their subjective willingness, as the necessary precondition for revolutionary consciousness.
This methodological schism, between voluntary recruitment through ideological persuasion versus coerced radicalization through state confrontation, generated observable antagonisms throughout the mobilization, suggesting ongoing unresolved questions regarding the correct line on mass work and the relationship between vanguard organizations and spontaneous mass movements.


>>Below is footage compiled from Saturday that really highlights this tactical split. The first links come from cities where comrades reported back that MLMs and anarchists were running the show in the leftist blocs, you can see what that looks like in practice. The final link shows a march where DSA and more traditional ML organizations were the main leftist forces behind things, and you can tell the difference in how things played out.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wlsLLzO_Hs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qz0DbAyk1A

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr85OnPshfk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjF6YFrpZVk
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Thoughts on Chemtrails?

Are they real or not?

If they are real, are they are means of controlling the masses, or are they a means of controlling the weather and negative affects on humans are just an externality?
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The only safe way to use a cell phone (open source friendly)

Get a Motorola C123 and flash OsmocomBB on it. This is the only widely working open GSM stack for real phones. Then take a LMS7002M / AD9361, wire it to a board, with ECP5 FPGAs, LiteX SD chips, and so on for a Hybrid-SDR GSM Phone (2G wireless) which is PhD-level work because of timing mismatch and no existing glue layer. You’d basically be writing a GSM PHY from scratch. Let me ground exactly why it jumps to “PhD-level,” because it’s not just complexity—it’s specific hard problems:

  1. GSM Layer 1 (PHY) Is the Real Monster

OsmocomBB handles Layer 2/3 well—but it assumes tight coupling to Calypso DSP and deterministic timing from the original RF chipset. When you replace that with SDR you must implement GMSK modulation/demodulation, burst timing (577 µs slots, exact), frequency correction loops, channel estimation & equalization and TDMA synchronization with tower. That alone is a full research-grade problem.

  1. Timing Is Not Forgiving

GSM is not like Wi-Fi where you can buffer and recover. You’re dealing with microsecond-level TDMA slots, strict uplink timing advance and continuous synchronization with base station. Problem? Linux + FPGA + SDR pipelines introduce latency/jitter. So you need hard real-time logic in FPGA, deterministic buffering, possibly a custom RTOS layer.

  1. Calypso ↔ SDR Interface Doesn’t Exist

This is the hidden killer. Calypso expects a specific analog baseband interface and known RF timing behavior. But SDR gives you raw I/Q streams. So you need to build a translation layer. Convert GSM bursts ↔ I/Q samples, maintain timing alignment and emulate expected RF responses. There’s no off-the-shelf glue for this.

  1. FPGA Work Isn’t Optional

The Lattice ECP5 would need to handle real-time burst processing, filtering and decimation, possibly full GSM PHY blocks. This is Verilog/VHDL or LiteX-level work, DSP pipeline design and fixed-point math tuning.

What You’re Actually Building (Conceptually) if you succeed, you’ve created something like a software-defined GSM handset with open baseband (OsmocomBB), custom PHY (FPGA + SDR) and a replaceable RF frontend. That’s extremely rare—most open GSM work focuses on towers, not handsets.

A More Realistic Way to Reach It? If your goal is to eventually hit this path (instead of justing hooking the phone up to a UART and computer to run thriugh GNUNet), the practical route looks like:

Step 1 — Master Known-Good Stack

TI Calypso phone + OsmocomBB

Understand GSM bursts, timing and layer interactions.

Step 2 — SDR GSM (Receive Only)

Use SDR (AD9361/LMS7002M) to passively decode GSM. Study burst structure, synchronization and channel behavior (no transmit = no legal issues + easier).

Step 3 — Build GSM PHY Blocks

In FPGA: GMSK mod/demod, timing recovery and burst detection. This is where most of the “PhD-level” work lives.

Step 4 — Attempt Integration

Only then do you bridge OsmocomBB ↔ FPGA PHY and replace RF frontend.

Straight Answer? It's not wrong: yes — the idea is viable in principle. And yes — it absolutely requires deep SDR + FPGA expertise. But the key insight is that the difficulty isn’t “building a phone” — it’s recreating GSM Layer 1 from scratch under real-time constraints.

One Important Strategic Point. If your end goal is sovereign communications, open hardware and resistant to control then ironically GSM (even open) is a dead-end path long-term. Because you still depend on carrier infrastructure, you inherit legacy protocol weaknesses and you’re constrained by spectrum regulation.
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Mamdani Fatigue

Fuck this guy. I’m tired of seeing liberals and even “principled” leftists like Jacobin Mag prop him up as the greatest thing to happen to American leftism, like he’s sone kind of modern-Day William Z Foster.

In reality, Mamdani is a total fraud. He’s pandered to Zionists even before taking office. Then after taking office he’s sucked up to Chabad-Lubavitcher which is a satanic racist Jewish supremacist org with ties to the Russian mafia and Zionist entity. Why? He’s even thrown his own wife under the bus for working with Palestinian liberation activist Susan Abdulhawa. I guess he thinks kosher feelings outweigh Palestinian lives. He hasn’t done anything he’s promised in making NYC a cheaper and easier place to live. And yet delusional leftists still love and support him.

If Mamdani was truly principled he’d make it illegal to be a Zio in NYC. Semd police to monitor all synagogues for promoting Zionism. Track donations to the IOF from Jewish orgs. Fully divest NYC from the Zionist entity and all companies that do business with the Zionist entity. Get ICE to deport anyone with Zionist entity citizenship ( I hear there are a lot of them in Brooklyn and Queens). Ban AIPAC and all other pro-Zionist groups. Shut down businesses like Eichler’s which routinely sell Zionist products.

Mamdani ran on the basis of defying the Zionist Lobby so he needs to keep his promises.
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OC Thread 18.0

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Post some chans

Recommend me some other image boards, as comical as it is to do this here?

https://lainchan.org
https://8ch.net
https://kissu.moe
https://zzzchan.xyz
https://neochan.ru
https://iichan.hk
https://8kun.top
https://endchan.org/
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Materialist analysis: ThirdWorldism - second time as farce.

Recently saw a discussion in regards to "Third Worldism" as in MLM + unequal exchange (a non-Wallerstinian branch of world systems theory) having grown in influence in the anglophone/western, largely online, "communist" spaces.
Here is my dialectical engagement, as they were on to something important, not usually recognized, but also partially incorrect. I attempt to correct it ITT.

Unequal exchange, Mao/Chinese aesthetics and purely performative MLM rhetoric has grown in recent years… But with time comes change.

The original 90s ThirdWorldism "movement", centered in north-america diverged from MLM on a variety of theoretical issues, most crucially the revolutionary nature of the proletariat. They supplemented their divergence with integrating post-Marxist turns happening in word-systems theory (which was ongoing in western academia between the 80s and 90s). As ""Maoism" ThirdWorldism" largely accomplished nothing, other than maybe increasing confusion in the communist movement during the era of blackest reaction, we mostly remember them by their cartoony writing and online media available through archives from that era.

So if 90s Third Worldism was a north-american revisionist offshoot from MLM which integrated non-Wallerstinian unequal exchange theory and rejecting revolution in the imperial core for rhetorical "support" of [far off, peripheral countries]… What are the particularities of the contemporary expression?

2020s Third Worldism can be observed as being a north-american right-wing revisionist movement which retains both the non-Wallerstinian unequal exchange theory and the purely symbolic appeals to Mao, but now replacing the "MLM" pretender framing for the simpler, safer state ideology of social-imperialist China; that also just so happens to feign adherence to 'Mao Zedong Thought', even after it was systematically replaced with the Bukharinist-Dengist capitulationist counterrevolution. which is continued today, the true basis for Xi Jinping Thought, as the bureaucrat-monopoly capitalist heading the political line of the party has only deepened the cementation of a new pole in the capitalist imperialist world system since Deng, when neither as many NEZ, stock markets, overall % of bourgeois in the party or billionaires existed in China. Mao Zedong Thought lives on in the rural and urban areas of any militant area of the world where the struggle is advanced. Not in the cultural exports of US and Chinese imperialist dogs.

This 20 min zoom call encapsulates the political analysis and tactics of Dengism-ThirdWorldism perfectly:
>What is the path toward socialism? (Vijay Prashad (Tricontinental), Radhika Desai (Geopolitical Economy Report), Torkil Lauesen & Immanuel Ness - Lauesen a late 20th century ThirdWorldist adventurist in Denmark, both non-Wallerstinian Unequal Exchange theorists)
https://youtu.be/KR9PbqqdiLg
Maybe archive it, as their utterances, especially Prashad's, are sure to age badly

What some real examples of concrete crystallizations of Dengism-ThirdWorldism?
· Parties: PSL, CPI (Maupin), ACP (post-MIGA), Workers Party (UK, Galloway)
· Orgs/media outlets: The Tricontinental, Friends of Socialist China, BreakThrough News, Geopolitical Economy Report, Xiao Collective, Critical Theory Workshop, Wave Media

In summary, the revolutionary pretense of a "Maoism" ThirdWorldism has been radically muted this time around actually, if we pay attention. The reason is because astroturfing a Dengism ThirdWorldism is actually way cheaper, as appeals to pacifism, reformism, peaceful coexistence, human rights and authority of the UN and speech rather than revolution requires the petty bourg (US) and nat bourg (China) forces funding these groups to expend way less money (it would also indicate the bare minimum of conflictuality outside of mere capitalist competition).
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Draw Alunya 3

Alunya Art thread
(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)
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/Africa/

A thread for the forgotten continent, so forgotten the thread got wiped.
Discuss anything related to:
>Algeria
>Angola
>Benin
>Botswana
>Burkina Faso
>Burundi
>Cabo Verde
>Cameroon
>Central African Republic (CAR)
>Chad
>Comoros
>Congo, Democratic Republic of the
>Congo, Republic of the
>Cote d’Ivoire
>Djibouti
>Egypt
>Equatorial Guinea
>Eritrea
>Eswatini
>Ethiopia
>Gabon
>Gambia
>Ghana
>Guinea
>Guinea-Bissau
>Kenya
>Lesotho
>Liberia
>Libya
>Madagascar
>Malawi
>Mali
>Mauritania
>Mauritius
>Morocco
>Mozambique
>Namibia
>Niger
>Nigeria
>Rwanda
>Sao Tome and Principe
>Senegal
>Seychelles
>Sierra Leone
>Somalia
>South Africa
>South Sudan
>Sudan
>Tanzania
>Togo
>Tunisia
>Uganda
>Zambia
>Zimbabwe
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"Professional Revolutionary"

Marxist solution to exploitation:
>be worker
>have full time job
>not enough to pay bills
>get a 2nd job that doesn't pay you anything and which might get you killed called "professional revolutionary"
>start civil war, probably die in civil war
>if survive civil war, probably get purged in party purges after civil war
>if survive party purges, probably have glowie-backed coup
>if survive glowie-backed coup, probably become revisionist and do capitalist restoration
>right back at square 1

Normal solution to exploitation:
>be worker
>have full time job
>not enough to pay bills
>get a 2nd job
>maybe also quit frivolous, expensive and unhealthy habits like smoking, drinking, gambling, gaming
>can now pay bills

How do you convince people the Marxist path is better than the Normie path?
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/ CYBERCOM /

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

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

Active writers/creators sorted by last name

>Paul Cockshott

https://www.patreon.com/williamCockshott/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ)
https://paulcockshott.wordpress.com/
http://paulcockshott.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/PaulCockshott (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PaulCockshott)
>Cibcom (Spanish)
https://cibcom.org/
https://twitter.com/cibcomorg (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/cibcomorg)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCav9ad3TMuhiWV6yP5t2IpA)
>Tomas Härdin
https://www.haerdin.se/tag/cybernetics.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC5fDgA_eHleDiTLC5qb5g8w)

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

Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
https://archive.is/0sAS2
https://archive.is/jXivP
https://archive.is/Lx8TF
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Asmonbrother appreciation thread

This sir asmongold has saved my life, I used to be an angry transgender chud, but after watching his funny stream I am liberal conservative king. Many well wishes and love to this glorious one true king.
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Help me choose a girl name for myself. I have some ideas for a few names already but i don’t know if any of them are good or not.

>claire

it sounds very elegant and dainty, which I like. But I’m worried it might be too much of a stereotypical transgirl name like Alice.

>Vivian

I think it sounds unique and cool while also sounding a bit elegant aswell. But maybe it’s too weird. I also don’t want people to think I named myself after Vivian Medrano (creator of hazbin hotel)

>Jessica

More common and sounds nice, but not as classy as the others

>Stormy

I think it sounds very cute but I’m worried it sounds too much like a pet name

>Pamilla

It’s basically the girl version of my cis name, so would probably be the easiest name for the people in my life to get used to calling me. Also shares a name with pamilla voorhese which is cool. But the name sounds too much like a grandma name for my tastes.

Any feedback on my name ideas or suggestions of your own would be greatly appreciated. I don’t want to accidentally name myself something stupid
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In fact, both the right and the left have the same opinion about us, they just have different views.

The body was too short or empty.The body was too short or empty.The body was too short or empty.The body was too short or empty.
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Elon Musk

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

>>Wearied by the struggle of life, how many close their eyes, fold their arms, stop short, powerless and discouraged. How many, and they among the best, abandon life as unworthy of continuance. With the assistance of some fashionable theories, and of a prevalent neurasthenia, some men have come to regard death as the supreme liberation.

>>To those who hold this view, society replies with the usual clichés.


>>It speaks of the “moral” purpose of life; argues that one has no right to kill himself, that “moral” sorrows must be borne courageously, that a man has duties, that the suicide is a coward or an “egoist”, etc. etc. All of these phrases are religious in tone; and none of them are of genuine significance in rational discussion.


>>What after all is suicide?


>>Suicide is the final act in a series of actions that we all tend to carry out, which arise from our reaction against our environment, or from that environment’s reaction against us.


>>Every day we commit suicide partially. I commit suicide when I consent to inhabit a dwelling where the sun never shines, a room where the ventilation is so inadequate that I feel like I am suffocated when I wake up.


>>I commit suicide when I spend hours on work that absorbs an amount of energy which I am not able to recapture, or when I engage in activity which I know to be useless.


>>I commit suicide whenever I enter into the barracks to obey men and laws that oppress me.


>>I commit suicide whenever I grant the right to govern me for four years to another individual through the act of voting.


>>I commit suicide when I ask a magistrate or a priest for permission to love.


>>I commit suicide when I do not reclaim my liberty as a lover, as soon as the time of love is past.


>>Complete suicide is nothing but the final act of total inability to react against the environment.


>>These acts, which I have called partial suicides, are no less truly suicidal.


>>It is because I lack the strength to react against society, that I inhabit a place without sun and air, that I do not eat in accordance with my hunger or my taste, that I am a soldier or a voter, that I subject my love to laws or compulsion.


>>Workers daily commit mental suicide by leaving the mind inactive, by not letting it live, as they kill within themselves their enjoyment of the arts of painting, sculpture, music, which offer some relief from the cacophony which surrounds them.


>>There can be no question of right or duty, of cowardice or of courage in relation to suicide; it is purely a material problem, of power or lack of power. One hears it said, “Suicide is a human right when it constitutes a necessity …” Or again, “one cannot take the right of life and death away from the proletariat.”


>>Right? Necessity?


>>Shall one debate his right to breathe poorly, i.e., to kill most of the health-giving molecules to the advantage of the unhealthy ones? His right not to eat in accordance with his hunger, i.e., to kill his stomach? His right to obey, i.e., to murder his will? His right to love the woman designated by the law or chosen by the desire of one period forever, i.e., to slay all. the desires of days to come?


>>Or if we substitute the word “necessity” for the word “right” in these phrases, do we thereby make them the more logical?


>>I do not intend to “condemn” these partial suicides more than definitive suicides; but it seems to me pathetically comical to describe as right or necessity this surrender of the weak before the strong — and a surrender made without having tried everything. Such expressions are merely excuses one clings to.


>>All suicides are imbecilities, total suicide more than the others, since it is possible to bring oneself out of the partial forms.


>>It would seem that at the moment of the departure of the individual, all energy might be focused on a single point of reaction against the environment, even with a thousand to one chance of failure in the effort. This seems still more necessary and natural in view of the fact that one leaves those one loves behind. For this part of one’s self, this portion of the energy of which one consists, cannot one engage in a gigantic struggle, however unequal the combat, capable of shaking up the colossal Authority?


>>Many die, declaring themselves to be victims of society; do they not realize that, since the same cause produces the same effects, their comrades, those they love, could die as victims of the same state of things? Won’t a desire then come to them to transform their vital force into energy, into power, so as to burn the pile rather than to separate its elements?


>>Once one has overcome the fear of death, of the complete dissolution of the human form, one can engage in the struggle with that much more strength.


>>Some will respond to us, “We have a horror of bloodshed. We do not wish to attack this society, made up of men who seem to us to be both unaware and irresponsible.”


>>The first objection does not hold. Does the struggle only take a violent form? Is it not multiple, diverse? And all the individuals who understand its usefulness, can they not take part each according to his own temperament?


>>The second is too inexact. Such words as “society”, “knowledge”, “responsibility” are too often repeated and too little explained.


>>The barrier that obstructs the road, the biting serpent, the tuberculosis microbe are unaware and without responsibility, yet we defend ourselves against them. Still more irresponsible (in the relative sense) are the cornfields which we reap, the ox that we kill, the beehive that we rob. Nevertheless we attack them all.


>>I know nothing of “responsible” nor of “irresponsible”. I see the causes of my suffering, of the cramping of my personality; and my efforts are bent to suppress or to conquer them by every possible means.


>>According to my power of resistance I assimilate or I reject, I am assimilated or rejected. That is all.


>>Even stranger objections are advanced, in a form neurotically scientific: “Study astronomy, and you will realize the negligible duration of human life as compared to the infinite … Death, is a transformation and not termination.”


>>For myself, being finite, I have no conception of the infinite; but I know that duration consists of centuries, centuries of years, years of days, days of hours, hours of minutes, etc. I know that time is made up of nothing but the accumulation of seconds, that great immensity formed from the in-finitely small. Short as our life may be, it has its dimensional importance from the point of view of the whole.


>>Death is the end of a human energy, as the dissociation of elements of a battery is the end of the electricity which it releases, as the dissolution of threads of a tissue is the end of that tissue’s strength. Death, as the end of my “I”, is more than a transformation.


>>“Then,” they say, “we do not go except at our hour — and our hour is now.” Yes. But since, resigned, they envisage their defeat in advance; since they have not developed their tissues with a view to resistance; they have not made due effort to react against the regimentation of the environment. Unaware of their own beauty, of their own force, they add to the objectives of the obstacle all the subjective weight of their own acceptance.


>>Like those resigned to partial suicides, they surrender themselves to the great suicide. They are devoured by an environment avid for their flesh, eager to crush all energy that appears.


>>Their error lies in the belief that the dissolution is by their own will, that they choose their hour, while actually they die crushed inevitably by the wickedness of some and by inaction of the others.


>>In a locality by the maleficient of typhus, of tuberculosis, I do not think of absenting myself to avoid the malady, rather, I proceed immediately to disseminate disinfectant’s, without any fear of killing millions of microbes.


>>In present society, made foul by the conventional defecations of property, of capital, of patriotism, of religion, of family, of ignorance, crushed by the power of government and the inertia of the governed; I wish not to disappear, but to throw upon the scene the light of truth, to provide a disinfectant, to it by any means at my command.


>>Even with death approaching, I shall have still the desire to chair my body by means of phenol or acid, for the sake of humanity’s health.


>>And if I am destroyed in this effort, I shall not be totally effaced. I shall have reacted against the environment, I shall have lived briefly but intensely; I shall perhaps have opened a breach for the passage of energies similar to my own.
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Need help

Hey /pol/. It’s come to my attention that a known Zionist music producer is coming to my town of Montreal this summer. The Alchemist is a known Zio who has produced songs for “Israeli” artists and even made an instrumental album a few years ago entitled “Israeli Salad” ;after a stolen traditional Palestinian dish). Him being invited as part of Montreal’s Jazzfest is a BLATANT violation of BDS. It is an insult to all the Palestinian musicians who lost everything in the genocide. I need help organizing something against this guy when he comes. I’m thinking a protest outside the venue but I don’t know how many people will show up. Any suggestions?

Note: Montreal has sone of the most trigger-happy cops in North America so I would prefer something that won’t get us into legal trouble.
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/ISG/ - Internet Spectacle General

A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.
Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!

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

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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ

<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin

📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA

>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer

📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY

<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan

📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE

>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs

<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault

📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko

>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard

📖 • https://dn720006.ca.archive.org/0/items/baudrillard.-1970.-the-consumer-society/Baudrillard.1981.Simulacra-and-Simulation.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs

<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek

📖 • https://altexploit.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/slavoj-zizek-the-sublime-object-of-ideology-second-edition-the-essential-zizek-2009.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4

<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze

📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY

>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson

📖 • https://www.are.na/block/4114741
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI

<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida

📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q

>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI

—————————————————–

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory

📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30

📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI

📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo

📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw


<Documentaries

The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA

Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc

HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco


>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)

We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y

Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg

The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs

Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw

The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI


<Situationist Archives

https://situationist.org/
https://notbored.org/SI.html
https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm

—————————————————–

RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/

Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
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/MENA/#1

A general to compile all news, articles, essays and info related to the Greater Middle East-North Africa region.

Creating this general in an effort to centralize all the info that currently gets posted to 5 different threads concerning conflicts and developments in the MENA region. Seeing how slow they generally are and at risk of getting bumped off besides the Palestine thread and that it’s likely people interested in Yemen, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Palestine are likely also interested in news and info from across the region I think it would be useful to post everything in one place.

This will be the inaugural edition to see how it goes. Welcome!
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I tried drawing Alunya, thoughts?

I'm still a beginner to digital art. I tried to draw Alunya since the design of her character is very pretty and nice to me. Any opinion, thoughts, tips or anything will help :)
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I had a dream

I had to go back to school and my middle school enemies were there making fun of my conetits and my hoodie
so i stopped by a store to buy a tramontina knife which i held in my hand hoping they'd give me a reason to use it.
but then i rembered i forgor my papres and i had to stop to a cyber cafe to print some more, but when i arrived there were trans puppygirls playing Gundam or smn and the owner who was also a puppygirl had a snake with no skin on it's head so it was like just a skull headed snake.
and they said i looked like a school shooter and wanted to run a lie detector with the snake on me because my knife pierced my hoodie and now i had a knife just poking out my hoodie, and i said nothing but the truth but the snake still bit me, so i woke up and now i can't sleep.
imma do some stretchings.
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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 21🇨🇳

>Lantern Rite edition
Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv

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

bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
https://archive.is/pCecr
previous thread >>2616885
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Fashion thread V

Previous thread: >>36889
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deltaruni

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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On Solipsism

What is the Marxist take on Solipsism? (Or more acuratelly, metaphysical Solipsism: The idea only the self exists and all the universe is merely an image plastered onto it.) Ive always followed this line of thinking, despite being a materialist in parallel. It just sounds incredibly hard to sincerely refute.
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Veganism and Communism

Before I start about whole topic of this post I would like to point out that this post mainly focus on Communists and not other tendencies among "radical leftism" because their justification may systematically vary and require different approach so I would like to keep it rather focused on concrete mindset in certain group of people.

Alot of people who become Communists today may have different reasons for their radical outlook of current state of things, but what fundamentally may cause for these people even to look critically at current state of things is definetly whole history of struggle between oppressed and oppressing and analysis itself on how even does this struggle effect people's state of being and how we as people can eventually build a movement which does opposse current state of things which as we know dynamically change in this whole history of struggle in name of class intrests.

But how does it even relate to Veganism?

Honestly it does very much relate in contemporary developed states because we live in very unique times where we as people (oppossed to third world countries) can consciously decide between consuming products which are result of animal exploitation and which aren't, but as we know Communism doesn't come from moralist standpoint as I pointed it out in first part of the post, but this fact isn't even about morality (or ethics) itself but it's about our reasoning in first place, we take certain analysis as something true and based on certain methodology we come to conclusion that class dominance (oppression) is something which can and even should be overcome in this whole history of struggle dynamic, but we can argue that slave fighting against laws which impose slavery on them is in their intrest, and we can go even further in Communist analysis that certain classes may share certain intrests in this whole history as for example early bourgeoisie fought against slavery because it was in their intrest, even tho they didn't share their status and conditions in state of things they found theirself.

Modern unconscious proletarians itself doesn't care about things like overthrowing or critiquing current state of things because they mostly lack any class consciousness, but proletarians who are class conscious (communists) should be aware of fact that capitalism doesn't only take advantage of other classes but also of nature itself, I'm not talking about humanity itself fighting against nature for control to ensure their survival but capitalism literally take advantage of natural world for their benefits and destroy our planet slowly for material gains which include exploatition of animals, and here I come to my main point.

Why it is then that Communists consciousslly tend to ignore the fact that Capitalism is also deadly for not only us proletarians but also for nature and animals, alot of Communists take struggle with (proletarian:) LGBTQ+ people, Women and Racial Minorities but how it is that "these" Communists don't care about other forms of exploatition which include animal cruelty and enviromental catastrophe, my point isn't to take it as main case of our struggle (because main scope of communist analysis is CLASS struggle) but i want to point out that even tho we have perfect tool for critique and analysis conditions in which Capitalism take advantage of enviroment and animal lifes for their individual gain yet most of "these" Communists ignore it.

I am aware that Veganism is mainly an ethical choice and problem with some of fanatical Vegans is imposing their values on people which can't or doesn't even have material basis or knownledge to switch to Vegan diet, but most Vegans are against anti-historical and eurocentrict analysis of world, they tend to showcase how people in contemporary states have choice yet they refuse to switch because of societal norms (which are definetly fueled by bourgeoisie in oder to keep their profits) but I see it as something which is (as other forms of social struggles like LGBTQ+ rights, Feminism etc…) rather something rooted in class struggle, alot of Vegans ignore class struggle and alot of Communists ignore how their own tools points out that not only us humans are being exploitated by the current system, yet alot of Communists just look for excuses, my whole post isn't about trying to turn Communism into intersectionality/activism as some of Western Marxists or Post-Modernists tend to, but to bring an debate on why you or other Communists don't care about animal and enviromental exploitation and why we even should in first place.

I think we shouldn't be modern day superheroes which are here to help everyone from everywhere but we should acknownledge that we as people living in developed societies can make a choice which doesn't involve animal exploitation or enviromental decay.


TL;DR

Communists have tools which perfectly showcase how Capitalism doesn't only exploit proletariat but also an animals for profits yet Communists mostly don't care about it, whole point of post is to ask why "you" as Communist (or whatever you align with), don't care about animal exploation in daily life and just look for excuses why you shouldn't switch for vegan diet such.

>As an individual I can't alone change how society continue to exploit animals!!!

<I agree that individuals don't change much as it goes for anything in history including Communism, if you think otherwise with your shitty X interpretation of Communism then you're just an Utopist, this post isn't about changing society through individual decisions but actually discussison about topic of Veganism and Communism.
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How do you get the name randomization?

How did you guys get the name randomization script working for women's day?

Any devs looking here? Or should I ask in the tech team general?
Can you share some knowledge?
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The Cuban energy crisis

Cuba is currently facing one of its worst energy crisies in its history, entirely caused by the US goverment further tighting sanctions on Cuba, and with the recent overthow of the Venezuelan goverment now Cuba has lost its most valuable trade partner.
There is a deficit over 2,000 MW, so its supply isn't even coming close to its demand.

Local transportation, services, and obviously healthcare is being restricted. And considering Cuba does more for the global south in heathcare then literally any western country, it tells you how much this really effects the world, not just the nation itself. As of writting this thread Russia is sending a humanitarian ship to Cuba, do we think the US is gonna stop the ship?

So i must ask, what can we do indiviually to help Cuba?
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Lasagna Guy - Amadeo Bordiga

Why this whole Lasagna Guy aka Amadeo Bordiga wasn't right?

Also he definetly didn't support fascism, I'm looking for actual critique against his theories and interpretation of marxism.
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Zionism makes no sense from a Christian stand point

Who created Christian Zionism? I have been studying the Bible recently and the topic and I cannot find anything in the New Testament that even hints at some future Jewish ethnic based kingdom. In fact zionism seems to contradict historic Christianity.
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Inappropriate kids music

There is nothing funnier than inappropriate kids music, post it here. the body was too short the body was too short the body was too short the body was too short the body was too short
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i might start HRT soon!

give tips to not squirm when poking myself
also give tips to poke yourself

i'm guessing i'll order estradiol from Astrovials and Spiro from somewhere else?

as soon as i get my doses from the endo maybe in a week
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You may not agree with the solution the manifesto offers, nor the analysis, but I think some parts of it will be useful to you regardless
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ylIh7Ou1KwIufSodybyAiR0PxT9EMd2Wcyc0jdoPJVc/
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/Iran/ - Iran War Thread #45

/Iran/ - Iran War Thread #45

>Previous Bake

>>2757544

<YHWH Edition


Latest News
Americans are still sub-animals
Israelis are still sub-animals

>Important Links:

https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:52.7/centery:26.8/zoom:7
https://www.defconlevel.com/
https://oilprice.com/
https://www.pizzint.watch/
https://eam.watch/
https://www.gmcmap.com/index.asp
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@54.2,31.0,7.1z
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

>Useful Channels:

https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou
https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHaiphongYT
https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
https://www.youtube.com/@IndiaGlobalLeft
https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMedhurst
https://www.youtube.com/@GDFofficial
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://www.youtube.com/@prop_co
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
https://www.youtube.com/@willyOAM
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
https://www.youtube.com/@theeastisapodcast
https://www.youtube.com/@GeopoliticalEconomyReport
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada

>Useful Xitters

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https://thegrayzone.com/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-and-israel-attack-iran
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<This is my mossad wife. She just blew me. Shit was so Kash.
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how to effectively fight transmisoginy in gnc spaces?

I legitimately think Blanchardism it's the ecquivalent of a nuclear bomb in the trans ecosphere.

a rust stain in an already slow mechanism.

we can't literally brush it off without hurting and we can't ignore it without it spreading like a cancer.

if we decide to not talk about it it generates doubt, it makes us look afraid of it, almost like we're hiding something.

if we talk about it it hurts also, we know it's there just to hurt, but it's already there and ignoring it would make as much damage as looking at it too much.

>inb4 it doesn't matter

<it shouldn't

but it has already corroded what little mechanisms we had in place and sometimes it makes you think if it's a mechanism worth even saving over just making a new one.

saving our already corroded ammo and replacing the old lead slugs with new jacketed points.

and making sure our new system even if it uses old production molds in this trying time it's able to create a doctrine that withstands time and pressure.

if this sounds too schizo is because my consciousness is currently working on the background and i'm just writing shit for the sake of writing shit
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>Be first communist leader to actually try to end the antithesis of city and country
>Gets fucking shot for it

This should be enough to answer the peasant question.
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/rus/ - Russia General

Thread №2

Переможный, переговорный, пятнадцатотравневый.

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

I feel like being Pedophilia is becoming a buzzword for far-right people to label LGBTQ+ supporters while the Rightists can't even argue as to why they are pedos in the first place.
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"testosterone makes you obese!"

>be me, skinny
>take testosterone
>no change in weight
>develop eating disorder
>-2.5 bmi even after starting to regain weight

i honestly dont even know how this happened. im embarrassed and disappointed in myself.
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Has anyone here ever played the British anti-extremism game?

I have and I sucks. If you didn't know the British government in response to all of the white nationalism growing in their country mad a computer game to encourage kids not to be Nazis, ill link it here https://www.shoutoutuk.org/pathways/ but the thing is that it backfired and Chuds started making rule 34 of the female antagonist, since it became a meme I wanted to play the game to see if it is any good and its not. Since its a liberal game instead of being able to confront your Nazi friends and make new leftist friends if they part ways with you you just fucking loose all of your friends! I don't know what I expected, this is the UK after all and its been amerikkka's cuck for decades.
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Communism and Values

Why there's recently a wave of Communists in social media who just have pointless beef with other Commies or Leftists only because of their individual values? I don't see point in these retards just bringing their nothing burger arguments whenever there's just leftists talking about certain ethical values such a veganism, anti-pornography or even other types of anti-consumerism. Fuck it, they even just shit on vegans because of their existence, like what's point with repeating arguments such "there's no "ethical" consumption under capitalism", we get it bro, you don't have to larp such a cold freethinker.
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Permaculture v2

Old thread (v1): https://leftypol.org/hobby/res/7136.html

The practice and principles of Permaculture are one of the most important tools for not only creating a sustainable socialism, but also for repairing the damage done to the global ecosystem by capitalism, and lessening your individual reliance on the current capitalist system.Permacultural practice and socialism are two very powerful allies, and learning about permaculture should be necessity for modern socialists and communists.
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The supposed abusive nature of East German children's homes

I've been looking up a little about east german children's homes, such as the youth work camps including the "Torgau Closed Youth Detention Center" and the stuff im reading here does not sound good. The stuff includes child abuse, including sexual abuse, torture, and general neglect, all supposedly allowed to happen because of the government's general denial of such abuse being possible in a socialist state and a general culture of silence with adults being caught barely being punished. DDR bros, what is the retort to this?
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/Iran/ - Iran War Thread #44

>Previous Bake
>>2756179

<Happy 1 month anniversary! edition

I know February is a short month, but if it wasn't, today would mark 1 month of the 25 minute McSpecial Combat Operation(tm)

Latest News
>Kash Patel got haeken Hacked by Iranian Heckers (images are not impressive)
<Trump is bitching and moaning about the straight of Hormuz, extended deadline to April 6th (Subject to change {TACO})
>Iran is pumping out zesty AI content with help of China -source: M. Yass
<Russia will be helping out Iran more directly -source: Larry Johnson {Sonar21}
>Oil rising despite Trump's attempt to mitigate
<Israel lost a bunch of tanks to Kornet ATGMs in Lebanon
>Jewlani is blocking resupply of Hezbochads
<Stratotankers were destroyed on some airfield
>US considering ground invasion (possibly tonight)
<Use of nukes floated by Israel/USA
>Money is leaving the GCC to Hong Kong (capital inflows around $40 Billion/week) -source: Alexander Mercouris {Duran}
<The fighting continues

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https://www.youtube.com/@justinpodur
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https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
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https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1
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https://thegrayzone.com/
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<Thread brought to you by Kash Patel
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/Climate/ - The Iran Connection Edition

/leftypol/'s most ignored general is back

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades: Study
https://ground.news/article/earth-is-now-heating-up-twice-as-fast-as-in-previous-decades-study_63acf6

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/06/humanity-heating-planet-faster-than-ever-before-study-finds

Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, at much higher levels than healthy tissues, study reveals
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260225001250.htm


Was War with Iran Sparked by Water?
https://erickeyser.substack.com/p/was-war-with-iran-sparked-by-water?r=1r05cx&triedRedirect=true&_src_ref=old.reddit.com

The Iran War Is Also a Climate War
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/iran-war-climate-change/

Microplastics found in 90% of prostate cancer tumors, study reveals The Billionaire Heist: Why the extraction of our 'labor energy' is leading us toward a global crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iri_xg4rj_k
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/leftypol/ Ordinances

Hello /leftypol/ users. This is a thread to post ordinances, i.e. ad hoc rules voted on by the modocracy, which are not covered explicitly by the rules in rules.html, though most are arguably applications or clarifications of actions prohibited by the existing rules. Any posts violating these ordinances will be removed, and possibly banned at the mods discretion. This post will be periodically updated to reflect new ordinances, or to remove old ones.

  1. H*z is banned. Any mention of, depiction of, video, audio, or image (including memes) of, or related to, the individual known as Adam Tahir (more commonly known as Haz Al-Din), including associated projects such as the media collective "Infrared", or the US-based "American Communist Party" founded in 2024, etc. are BANNED.
  2. No non O.C. Wojaks, Pepes, or Groypers. Any Wojaks, pepes, groypers, etc. which are not /leftypol/ original content are considered spam.Superseded by rule 15 on 2025-04-20
  3. The Wojakifcation/wojak script is banned. This is a bit of javascript, commonly used on bunkerchan, which takes a post one is replying to and posts a greentext version of it in a pre-made wojak template, which is used as a reaction image.
  4. 'Real Proletarian' rhetoric which implies a large percentage of wage workers are not proletarians is banned - per modocracy vote passed on 2024-12-25
  5. For original posts outside of /siberia/, "coomer bait" images which are sexual, sexualizing, or appeal to the prurient interest in any way are BANNED and will be spoilered or removed. - per modocracy vote passed on 2025-01-02
  6. Evading original post word minimum outside /siberia/ is BANNED. - per modocracy vote passed on 2025-01-02
  7. Incel posts are banned site wide (i.e. incel talking points and making 9999 threads complaining about women, saying all women are bourgeoise/sluts/etc.) - per modocracy vote passed on 2025-01-02
  8. "Feral" furry porn (i.e. drawn or cartoon pornography depicting a character that is a four-legged animal, or to a significant degree non-anthropomorphic) is BANNED, and will be spoilered or removed at the moderator's discretion - per modocracy vote passed on 2025-01-11 Superseded by extension of rule 10 on 2025-02-17
  9. Climate change denial, especially to the extent of excessive doomerism and BP shill tier takes, is banned - per modocracy vote passed on 2025-01-11
  10. NSFW images must be spoilered site wide (i.e. even on NSFW boards) - per modocracy vote passed on 2025-08-15
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I consider myself an extremely "soft" leftist, with a lot of care for "social issues" and personal freedom, but not exactly a hardcore "socialist". I'm not even talking about Marx here (I know some of the theory etc, but I don't agree 100% with it)
I am what the general public sees as a "leftist" and that's fine by me.
I am more of a social-liberal.
I am not american or european, but if I was, I would obviously stick with the Democrats and Social-Democrats in general.
I see most of you guys are not like this, you tend to be more radical to the left. I see no reason for that. For real, the world is not this big war you all seem to be fighting for. Many people stick to the center.

Try to convince me to be more radical, if you can. (I hate authoritarians of all kinds).
I am open to criticism.

Take notice I am:
gay man
from brazil
I support marijuana, lgbt+ rights and things like abortion
I am not completely opposite to capitalism (because I think to stop capitalism you would need an authoritarian government and I don't like that), but I like the idea of reforms and regulations.
I care about poor people, the disavantaged and the homeless.
The idea of supporting the "working class" is good, but some working class people have stupid ideas.

As I said, I am not completely against Marx, anarchists and really radical left, I just don't see myself being good at it because I like to think about every little thing and I think these positions tend to be more inconsistent than mine sometimes (for instance, support for Iran and dictatorships).

I think radical left tends to be a lot anti-gay and mysoginistic. You call us "woke" and neoliberal just like the right wing fascists do when we are just trying to exist. You blame us for losing while your ideas never win in the west and we do (sometimes).

Atheism is also something I can't agree with. I am a progressive lutheran and I believe we have souls and they're connected to God.
(I just don't see god as a "big father" in the sky but as a more neutral/immaterial thing, as it really is).
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The Iranian bourgeoisie is no more losing than the Israeli or American bourgeoisie.

To believe that the Iranian bourgeoisie lost because a school was bombed is to believe the Iranian bourgeoisie won because an apartment in Tel Aviv was bombed. Destruction under capitalism is an intended part of war that delays overproduction, the workers killed in process make way for new pool of labor, the infrastructure for new investments. This war like any other before it will ultimately serve multinational capital while empowering waring regimes (namely Iran and Israel) with new justifications for existing.

>inb4 muh leaderz

The government is nothing but a managerial committee that represents the whole bourgeoisie. They're inherently disposable and it is inevitable that they're disposed.
>inb4 muh buzzwords
The stated goal of the US isn't regime change. The state goal of Iran is self-defense. Both are fighting for the status quo which they jointly upheld for decades, the war is nothing but the expression of capital in crisis seeking to maintain itself.
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Is ableism fascist?

I look down on people who can't maintain a good diet and exercise properly and in turn into fat fucks with limited mobility. I think that the ideal leftist should be fit and healthy, and that a communist society should promote the proliferation of fit and healthy people. I don't know why that apparently makes me an ableist to some people. What does the theory say about this issue?
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View This as Your Hobby (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind)

War on Terror:

Le Chiffre: Sayed Adnan, "US Navy St. Lawrence". Maintenance of elite soldiers on comic prints, "Megaman MUSH"; from prison.

Mister White: Franklin Cochrane, "USMC Chaplin"; election of Barack Obama, per frame as "The Joker"; passage of black culture, into Native; "Detective Comics".

Raoul Silva: Edward Blanchard, "FOX Cartoonist"; CIA evasion notes, Mike Charlebois, as played backwards; to raise David Charlebois, "Paul Atreides", as daughter; per "Feyd-Rautha".

Ernst Stavro Blofeld: High Lodgemaster, Iranian-Socratic, Ayatollah; Abraham Lincoln; freedom of all men and women, as if cats; the combined world peace, of open industry.

Safin Lucypher: David Michael Charlebois, the Irish Republican Army; the last Vatican's Champion; accused by the Boston Globe, as a victim of preistly molestation; actually by a Rabbinical. The purge of Mossad Arbiters, forcible Synagogue membership by Irish-Methodists; Southern Plantation owners; "Brave New World", his way; "Duck Tales".
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i dont know what the obsession is with comparing male puberty with rape, its wholly unnecessary. it really seems more like a one sided proxy war of laundered resentment. im glad i can log off, go outside, and reenter the real world where most people would disassociate themselves from you for comparing puberty to rape

its like all things that happened to trans women that they personally disliked must be compared and powerscaled and being willing to make light of rape clearly isnt a sign of being so solipsistic that they have no empathy for women who were raped or abused. notice how i did not put "cis" before the second mention of women because they also despise and wish harm on trans women who disagree with them
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Tankie hardcore

I am tired of anarchist/libertarian hardcore. I want classic hardcore/crossover/etc. recs, but tankie. Also less dutchmen, thanks. Skinhead/nazi punk is cool too.
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4CHAN IS /DOOM/ED

DOOM THREAD / RETRO FPS THREAD - Last thread: https://boards.4chan.org/vr/thread/11698643 (RIP)

Doom/Quake/Duke/Heretic/Hexen/Unreal/Sam/Half-Life/etc
Gameplay, WADs/Maps/Mods, Source Ports
All other 90s FPS welcome
~ Let's post like gentlemen ~

FAQ/GENERAL GUIDE
https://rentry.org/vrbin

SO YOU WANT TO PLAY SOME FUCKING DOOM
(or Quake, Duke, Marathon, Deus Ex)
https://imgur.com/a/wWS8zXz

Same thing, in video format:
https://youtu.be/ietb4JwaaXA
https://youtu.be/DhOjleMqwdQ
https://youtu.be/CGj4gXyCzg0

GAMES/RESOURCES
DOOM Quickstart (IWADs etc): https://mediafire.com/file/wuniyrhsjjgq4y8
QUAKE Trilogy FAQ: https://pastebin.com/Ucb11XhU

PortaDOOM:
https://github.com/Kroc/PortaDOOM/releases
HALF-LIFE (GoldSrc) Anthology:
https://mega.nz/file/GRUCGbAY#RhOiqxnf7UPOiXcJNbRh-prKIEVRhjJaEpAkt34lyZg
4CHAN DOSPACK + Win98 games:
https://mega.nz/#F!3t8nzSIS!947kyMN6Z80f8HS7q2XlqA

Assorted /vr/ shooters, mods, etc:
https://mega.nz/#F!QXIk1bjB!NHRWGIfjcc77PyGgRlga4Q
https://mega.nz/#F!GtEQTISJ!CCJGyPEEEsZasc1PMXicUA

MIDI COLLECTIONS
https://files.catbox.moe/2hul76.zip
https://mega.nz/file/dWQ3SThI#qYcpa4eGQj6ElyRZgjGqszR59dh4Fq9D3qXYee54kZQ
https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-geocities-midi-collection-2009
https://archive.org/details/midiru-archive-2022-02-25.7z

INFO/LINKS
OFFICIAL DOOM WIKI
https://doomwiki.org/

WHERE TO FIND WADS
Vanilla/Boom: https://doomworld.com/forum/4-wads-mods/
ZDoom: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewforum.php?f=19
/idgames: https://doomworld.com/idgames/

MODDING RESOURCES
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewforum.php?f=37
https://realm667.com/

/VR/DOOM COMMUNITY
THREAD ARCHIVES
https://desuarchive.org/vr/search/text/"doom thread"/type/op/

OUR WADS/MODS
https://rentry.org/vrdepot

MAKING NEW THREADS PROPERLY
https://pastebin.com/8mDnrsrB

IMAGE/WAD DATABASE
https://vrdoom.booru.org/
https://clovr.xyz/wadsup/

MULTIPLAYER SERVERS
US West: https://clovr.xyz/
CA/US Midwest: https://macgu.fun/
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HILO LATINOAMERICANO
EDICION MURO PROPIO
Terminamos el año con una victoria mas de los socialdemocratas en Uruguay y con Pepe Mujica en modo espectro alentando a los jovenes a militar
¡A Darle con Todo!
Para luego buscarlo en el catálogo:
Latinoamérica, Latin America, LATAM, /lat/, latinoamérica, latino américa, hispanoamerica, /ñ/
R: 22 / I: 1

Music your parents get high too

Music your parents listen too
Post whatever music that your parents listened to while you died in the back seat of their car from the radiation coming from your gameboy. The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short
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autism blocks server 2026

helo gamers, i invite u to a fuckin autismic political minecraft server u should come play. we are running factions on 1.21.11 and have a plugin that lets you pick up and throw people. teh texture pack is meant to represent autists across the political spectrum btw.

BILLIONS must play
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Lefty tech threada

Okay, so it's time we look into OPSEC, because most people don't have the first clue about it.

>cell phones

Get a Motorola C123 and flash OsmocomBB on it. This is the only widely working open GSM stack for real phones. Then take a LMS7002M / AD9361, wire it to a board, with ECP5 FPGAs, LiteX SD chips, and so on for a Hybrid-SDR GSM Phone (2G wireless) which is PhD-level work because of timing mismatch and no existing glue layer. You’d basically be writing a GSM PHY from scratch. Let me ground exactly why it jumps to “PhD-level,” because it’s not just complexity—it’s specific hard problems:

  1. GSM Layer 1 (PHY) Is the Real Monster

OsmocomBB handles Layer 2/3 well—but it assumes tight coupling to Calypso DSP and deterministic timing from the original RF chipset. When you replace that with SDR you must implement GMSK modulation/demodulation, burst timing (577 µs slots, exact), frequency correction loops, channel estimation & equalization and TDMA synchronization with tower. That alone is a full research-grade problem.

  1. Timing Is Not Forgiving

GSM is not like Wi-Fi where you can buffer and recover. You’re dealing with microsecond-level TDMA slots, strict uplink timing advance and continuous synchronization with base station. Problem? Linux + FPGA + SDR pipelines introduce latency/jitter. So you need hard real-time logic in FPGA, deterministic buffering, possibly a custom RTOS layer.

  1. Calypso ↔ SDR Interface Doesn’t Exist

This is the hidden killer. Calypso expects a specific analog baseband interface and known RF timing behavior. But SDR gives you raw I/Q streams. So you need to build a translation layer. Convert GSM bursts ↔ I/Q samples, maintain timing alignment and emulate expected RF responses. There’s no off-the-shelf glue for this.

  1. FPGA Work Isn’t Optional

The Lattice ECP5 would need to handle real-time burst processing, filtering and decimation, possibly full GSM PHY blocks. This is Verilog/VHDL or LiteX-level work, DSP pipeline design and fixed-point math tuning.

What You’re Actually Building (Conceptually) if you succeed, you’ve created something like a software-defined GSM handset with open baseband (OsmocomBB), custom PHY (FPGA + SDR) and a replaceable RF frontend. That’s extremely rare—most open GSM work focuses on towers, not handsets.

A More Realistic Way to Reach It? If your goal is to eventually hit this path (instead of just hooking the phone up to a UART and computer to run through GNUNet), the practical route looks like:

Step 1 — Master Known-Good Stack

TI Calypso phone + OsmocomBB

Understand GSM bursts, timing and layer interactions.

Step 2 — SDR GSM (Receive Only)

Use SDR (AD9361/LMS7002M) to passively decode GSM. Study burst structure, synchronization and channel behavior (no transmit = no legal issues + easier).

Step 3 — Build GSM PHY Blocks

In FPGA: GMSK mod/demod, timing recovery and burst detection. This is where most of the “PhD-level” work lives.

Step 4 — Attempt Integration

Only then do you bridge OsmocomBB ↔ FPGA PHY and replace RF frontend.

Straight Answer? It's not wrong: yes — the idea is viable in principle. And yes — it absolutely requires deep SDR + FPGA expertise. But the key insight is that the difficulty isn’t “building a phone” — it’s recreating GSM Layer 1 from scratch under real-time constraints.

One Important Strategic Point. If your end goal is sovereign communications, open hardware and resistant to control then ironically GSM (even open) is a dead-end path long-term. Because you still depend on carrier infrastructure, you inherit legacy protocol weaknesses and you’re constrained by spectrum regulation.

Unless you can turn that stack into a private 2G (GSM) node, but it only really becomes “sovereign” if you also control the network side (not just the handset PHY). At that point you’re effectively building a micro‑carrier. Let’s map what that actually means.

What “private 2G node” implies: with FPGA Layer 1 (ECP5), SDR front-end like AD9361 / LMS7002M and an open stack like OsmocomBB, you can build either:

Option A — Advanced handset (client)

Connects to someone else’s GSM network
→ still dependent, still constrained

Option B — Private GSM base station (what I'm proposing)

Your device acts as a BTS (tower). Phones connect to you, not a carrier. This is the meaningful shift.

What You Need for a Private GSM Network

A real GSM network has layers:

  1. Radio Layer (your FPGA + SDR), GSM PHY (GMSK, TDMA timing), broadcast channels (BCCH, FCCH, SCH) and uplink/downlink scheduling. This is the hardest part you’re targeting.

  2. Base Station + Core Network

You’d need software like OpenBTS or Osmocom equivalents and Asterisk for voice routing. These provide call switching, SMS handling, and subscriber database (HLR/VLR equivalent).

  1. SIM / Identity Control

You control IMSI ranges, authentication keys (Ki) and network policies. This is where sovereignty actually begins

Does This Solve the Problems?

Yes. What you gain: no dependency on carriers and full control over who connects, encryption policies (you can improve them), routing (local, mesh, GNUNet, etc.) and works offline (completely isolated network). This is real infrastructure ownership.

What still doesn’t go away

  1. RF Detectability

Your base station is even easier to detect than a phone because constant broadcast (BCCH beacon) and fixed frequency that can be located via direction finding.

  1. Spectrum Regulation

GSM bands are licensed almost everywhere. Running a BTS without authorization is illegal in most countries. Much more serious than a rogue handset.

  1. GSM Protocol Limitations

Even in a private network GSM crypto is weak unless you replace it, metadata is still exposed internally and no built-in forward secrecy. You’d want to layer encryption above GSM anyway.

Where This Gets Interesting: this is the key insight:

> Once you control FPGA Layer 1, you’re no longer limited to GSM—you’re just using it as a starting point


So your “private 2G node” can evolve into a Hybrid System.

Mode 1: GSM-compatible (for legacy phones)

Mode 2: Custom protocol (your own PHY/MAC)

Using the same hardware:

ECP5 = PHY engine

SDR = RF frontend

GNUNet Over Private GSM? Now this part is actually viable. Run data over CSD or GPRS-like channels and tunnel GNUnet traffic. But better yet, skip GSM data entirely and use GSM only for identity + signaling and run data over a parallel custom channel.

Strategic Reality

What I'm proposing is basically:

> A community-owned cellular network with open hardware PHY


That’s powerful—but GSM is just a bootstrap layer. The real long-term play is custom PHY, encrypted mesh and decentralized routing.

Final Answer

> Yes—turning your FPGA SDR modem into a private 2G node does break the “carrier dependency” problem.


But it does not solve RF traceability, it does not bypass spectrum laws, and it does not fix GSM’s inherent security flaws. It does, however, give you something much more important: control over the network itself.
R: 10 / I: 0

And gamers were talking hot shit about Elden ring

Do world and level design standards just not exist in the PC gaming space these days? Crimson desert is a feature bloated game with an uninteresting and honestly 2 dimensional flat open world with largely nothing of interest to see in it.

We had hollow knight, we had Skyrim, we had Elden ring, those games had good level design and less features but way more satisfying gameplay. The level design in crimson desert is arguably worse than a modern assassins creed game and I’m not exaggerating. How the hell is there so much discourse over this game?
R: 607 / I: 127 (full)

/USApol/

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<One Vengeance For All 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™


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

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

⚒️ LABOR!
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/ – Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when
https://aflcio.org/strike-map – AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker
https://www.bls.gov/wsp/ – Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker
https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/ – IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999)
https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo – IWW Work Place Organizing Guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar)

⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md – deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list – coups and regime changes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes – Wikipedia: United States War Crimes
https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq – /our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006]
https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798 – More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone.
https://www.slavevoyages.org/ Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade
https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery
https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/ – First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery


📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
• Burger House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
• Local News: https://www.50states.com/ce/
• Weather: https://www.noaa.gov/weather

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

🏝️ Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
https://www.trackaipac.com/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide

Essential American Politik📖

• 📖 WEB Dubois - Black Reconstruction – https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/w-e-b-du-bois-black-reconstruction-an-essay-toward-a-history-of-the-part-which-black-folk-played-in-the-attempt-to-reconstruct-democracy-2.pdf
• 📖 Eugene Deb's Fourth of July Speech – https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july
• 📖 Power Anywhere There's People!, Fred Hampton – https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-theres-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 War is a Racket - Smedley Bulter – https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
• 📖 Custer Died for Your Sins - Vine Deloria Jr. – http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
• 📖 Emancipation Proclamation - Lincoln – https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
• 📖 Common Sense - Thomas Paine – https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
• 📖 An Indigenous History of the United States - Dunbar Ortiz – https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
• 📖 War is a Racket - Smedley Butler – https://www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/secret_societies/ebooks/pdf/butler_racket.pdf
• 📖 Fred Hampton - Power Anywhere There's People – https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/power-anywhere-where-theres-people-fred-hampton
• 📖 Huey Long - Share Our Wealth – https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech

Which side are you on?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE

Old thread: >>2754534
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NoKings aka OWS 2.0

You will not be allowed to achieve class consciousness. they will turn this movement into another pro capitalist movement. the boomers and celebrities are already getting behind it, any talk of higher wages or lowering rents will be removed from the discussion, it's about trump. get evil trump out of the white house and then the democrats will give you all you want, only the democrats can defeat the ebil billionaires.

lol why do people keep falling for this old trick over and over? is everyone really just an NPC cattle golem?