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/prc/ - People's Republic of China general

A general thread for all China related discussion.

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

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/crisis/ General

💰️DOW/Market Watch Thread💰️
monitoring the market, trends, fluctuations, etc.
🎩
👀
🐽
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Help me understand

Why does western media keep calling the Russian referendums as "sham referendums"? If the people living in those provinces would rather join with Russia, how is it a sham? It's their country not EU foreigners

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What are some of the most autistic moments in communist/ anarchist history?
>Shining Path
>United Red Army in Japan killing each other
>Che larpers going into the jungle and dying of starvation

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/brg/ - Brazil-Brasil general

STOP THE COUNT! edition

Today is election day after 4 miserable years during which the worst elite in the world worked 24/7 to keep the worst leader in the world in power. 50% plus one of valid votes means no run-off election, and Lula might actually pull this off this time. Bozo is winning early on tho. Final results should be out tonight.

Official vote tally website: https://resultados.tse.jus.br/oficial/app/index.html

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/Ukraine/ General #68

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Political Implications of AI

Now that AI is fast approaching human level competency in many domains, what happens next? I think we are soon getting past the point where these technologies are just curiosities and novelties. They will soon reach a point where they will start to reshape society.

To me it's clear that it will change the nature of economic production, particularly of media artifacts. If you see pic rel , this img2img technology can convert simple childlike MS paint drawings into images that resemble the level of quality of a fairly skilled human artist's output. Other models can generate nearly photorealistic images. So anyone with even the most basic capacities for drawing could potentially scaffold and generate automated images. Soon, I am sure, this will expand into other domains of text, video, and know knows what else.

Years ago when I was reading about the 4th Industrial Revolution, experts believed that it would mostly be rote, repetitious work that would be automated . In an unexpected turn, art and media production seem to be on the chopping block.

What concerns me more is how AI content generation will abused for misinformation, psyops, and other glowie mind-fuckery . The possibilities are endless.

As a counterpoint, how might these tools be used for righteous causes?

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HoI4 + HoI4 modding thread

By Blood alone waiting room edition.

>RedFlood
I didn't realise they also reworked the Far-Eastern Collapse.
If Kerensky fucks up the Manchu's still take over the West, Republicans run off to Transamur and Vladivostok and then either become one of two different flavours of authdem, Ukrops spawn in the north, but can either be SocDem or Banderites who are now properly set to reactionary.
Harbin proper gets to keep some of the south now, Its either led by Gastev who calms down his autism a bit and becomes PopSoc

Or…

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/cybersoc/ - Cybernetic socialism

This thread is for the discussion of cybersocialism, 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)
>Victor Magariño
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJJwfW0R3Lv486AjwUWxIYw (https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCJJwfW0R3Lv486AjwUWxIYw)
https://twitter.com/Victormagajr (https://nitter.pussthecat.org/Victormagajr)
https://www.patreon.com/victormagarino
>Elena Veduta
http://www.strategplan.com/en/about/veduta.php
Various videos on YouTube but no channel of her own
>Dave Zachariah
https://www.it.uu.se/katalog/davza513
One video on Paul Cockshott's channel

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

Previous threads in chronological order
https://archive.is/uNCEY
https://web.archive.org/web/20201218152831/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/997358.html
https://archive.ph/uyggp
>>1028529

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Is leftypol going to join with maga?

It seems as if the consensus on /ukraine/ is to entertain anti-nato right-wingers. I have seen what happened to redscarepodcast and stupidpol and yet it seems as if leftypol wants to go down the same path. I don't know how I would be able to deal with such a thing, having to choose between being tugged around by democrats and MSM or the peter thiel network and yet despite that nobody seems to care. If leftypol chooses to become allies with magacommunism and to try to go after the right then I will do so even though I think it's cringe. There is simply no time or meaning to be found in the western left now as they are too far gone and yet I feel sick every moment for considering this because the right will absolutely fuck us if they get the chance.

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/USApol/

🗽United States Politics🦅

Absolute State of America Edition

Thread for the hellish discussion related to the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the Earth.

🏈💵💸🍔

State mandated propaganda livestreams:
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.youtube.com/watch?v=dp8PhLsUcFEegalitarianism

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why do people side with caesar's legion?

legit question, and who is the better choice for the wasteland?
i>inb4 ncr
gtfo

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Filmmaking

ITT: Discuss the art of filmmaking and videography, the state of the film, TV, streaming, internet video industry - history, current events, predictions for the future, comparisons between countries, analysis, etc.

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I will not live in the subway system
I will not eat the antirads
I will not put on the gas mask
I will not fight the mutants
I will not cannibalize the young
I will not lead the road warrior gang
I will not scrounge for supplies
I will not BUILD BACK BETTER
I HATE THE NUCLEAR BOMB
I HATE THE NUCLEAR BOMB
I HATE THE NUCLEAR BOMB

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/nordpol/ - Nordic General - Skåneutgåvan

Thread for all things Nordic. Recommended languages: Finnish, Scandinavian and English.

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Tips for reading theory/new leftist reading listt

Gen z anon here, I have been lurking for a bit but now that things have been going south in my life I feel very motivated to study. Any tips for those zoomers with fucked up attention spans? Might just get hard copies if reading from the archive gets too distracting for me. I am personally willing to read anything radical enough ranging from Lenin to Kropotkin even if I don't necessarily consider myself an anarchist.

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/games/ meme thread

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/Ukraine/ General #67

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Falklands War

Thoughts on the Falklands War?
Wondering what a socialist perspective on the war is because it seems like it might've been the first time the British weren't in the wrong.

Additionally, why do you think a 10 week war has had such a large impact on the UK where it is still frequently brought up?

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/Leftybritpol/ RIP Chris Kaba, Fuck the King

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_III

>Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms.[fn 3] He acceded to the throne on 8 September 2022[fn 4] upon the death of his mother, Elizabeth II. As Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay from 1952 to his accession, he was the oldest and the longest-serving heir apparent in British history,[2] and the longest-serving Prince of Wales, having held the title from 26 July 1958 until his accession.[3][fn 5]

>Charles was born in Buckingham Palace, the first child of his mother and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; he was the first grandchild of King George VI and his consort, Queen Elizabeth. He was educated at Cheam and Gordonstoun schools, both of which his father attended as a child. He later spent a year at the Timbertop campus of Geelong Grammar School in Victoria, Australia. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Cambridge, Charles served in the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy from 1971 to 1976. In 1981, he married Lady Diana Spencer, with whom he had two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry. In 1996, the couple divorced after they had each engaged in well-publicised extramarital affairs. Diana died as a result of a car crash in Paris the following year. In 2005, Charles married his long-time partner, Camilla Parker Bowles.

>As Prince of Wales, Charles undertook official duties on behalf of Elizabeth II. He founded the youth charity the Prince's Trust in 1976, sponsors the Prince's Charities, and is a patron, president, or a member of over 400 other charities and organisations. He has advocated for the conservation of historic buildings and the importance of architecture in society.[4][5][6] A critic of modernist architecture, Charles worked on the creation of Poundbury, an experimental new town based on his architectural tastes. He is also an author or co-author of a number of books.

>An environmentalist, Charles supported organic farming and action to prevent climate change during his time as the manager of the Duchy of Cornwall estates, earning him awards and recognition from environmental groups.[7][8][9][10] He is also a prominent critic of the adoption of genetically modified food.[11][12] Charles's support for homeopathy has been the subject of criticism.[13][14] The conduct of his charity, the Prince's Foundation has also attracted criticism, following allegations concerning the offering of British citizenship to donors and is the subject to an ongoing Metropolitan Police investigation into cash-for-honours allegations.[15][16]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/09/police-watchdog-launches-homicide-investigation-into-met-shooting-of-chris-kaba

>The police watchdog has launched a homicide investigation into the fatal shooting of Chris Kaba by armed Metropolitan police officers in south London.

>The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said this followed its review of the evidence gathered so far after the incident in Streatham Hill on Monday night.

>The 24-year-old was driving a car which was first rammed before being boxed in by police. He was killed by a single shot that entered through the driver’s side of the windscreen of the Audi.

>The watchdog has previously confirmed that no gun was found in the vehicle. It has now emerged that the car, which was flagged as being linked to a firearms incident days earlier, was not owned by Kaba.

>“Mr Kaba died after a single shot was fired by an MPS officer from the specialist firearms command while police attempted to stop and contain the vehicle he was driving,” the IOPC said.

>“This followed the activation of an automatic number plate recognition camera which indicated the vehicle was linked to a firearms incident in previous days. The vehicle Mr Kaba was driving was not registered to him.”

>The watchdog said its investigation was continuing and added: “As this is now a criminal investigation, we are limited in what further information we can provide.

>“The launch of a criminal investigation does not mean that criminal charges will necessarily follow.”

>It said: “We have notified Mr Kaba’s family of this latest development. We continue to ask that people avoid speculating about this incident out of respect for Mr Kaba’s family and for everyone else affected.”

>The family had already called for the officers to be placed under criminal investigation by the IOPC. In a statement on Wednesday, they said: “The family of Chris Kaba seek a homicide investigation into his death from the outset.

>“We have today told the IOPC of that demand and that we do not want any delay as has happened in other fatal shootings – otherwise we and the wider public can have no confidence that the police will be held to account.

>“We are devastated; we need answers and we need accountability. We are worried that if Chris had not been Black, he would have been arrested on Monday evening and not had his life cut short.”

>The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said on Friday night: “My heartfelt sympathies remain with Chris Kaba’s family, friends and loved ones, who are having to come to terms with a young life cut short.

>“I fully understand the grave concerns and impact of Chris’s death on Black Londoners across our city and the anger, pain and fear it has caused – as well as the desire for justice and change.

>“I appreciate that there are many unanswered questions and I want to reassure all of London’s communities that I will continue to push for these to be answered.”

>Met assistant commissioner Amanda Pearson said: “My thoughts and sympathies remain with Mr Kaba’s friends and family with this news. I also know how concerned our communities are and how they will also be affected by this significant update. We share their concern.

>“The Met is co-operating fully as the IOPC work to independently establish the full circumstances surrounding the shooting.”

>The force said the officer involved was not currently on operational duties due to the formal post-incident process, and a senior officer would carefully consider their work status.

>Pearson added: “I absolutely understand that this shooting is a matter of grave concern, particularly for our black communities.

>“I also know what a difficult and often dangerous job firearms officers in particular do every day to try to protect the public. They understand and expect that on the very rare occasions they discharge their weapons they will face intense scrutiny. I don’t underestimate the impact on them of this development.

>“I’d urge the public to allow the IOPC the time and space needed to progress the investigation.”

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House of the Dragon (HotD) Thread

Post general thoughts, comments and marxist or any analysis on the show.

Ep 1 and 2 is out, Ep 3 comes out today.

Never seen GoT and enjoying the show so far, decent political intrigue so far.

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Cyberpunk Edgerunners

Got any hopes for CDPR and Trigger's joint project?

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Fitness thread

Ask your lifting related questions here.

Beginner's Health and Fitness Guide, aka "the /fit/ sticky"
http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html

Previous thread: >>15840

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Why isn't there a open source book format?

Adobe and Kindle have a monopoly on their property formats, (mobi, azw3, pdf)

Who made .eupb, it has DRM protection so I assume it isn't open source

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On the Berdimuhamedow family

What are your thoughts on the Berdimuhamedows? Are they worth the support, or are they to be opposed? (The latter is due to the fact that Turkmenistan is nicknamed "the North Korea of Central Asia" due to its immense authoritarianism.
Also give me your thoughts on Niyazov, the predecessor.
Notable:
>Gurbanguly
>Serdar

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Iran protests thread no.3

Last bread >>1187930
Yes, I know you are all to burger brained and dumb for such this topic but strap in w'ere doing it again anyway.

Tudeh statement: >>1188493
CPI statement: https://archive.ph/twWSK
CPI's Kurdish branch: https://archive.ph/u9iy3
CPI (MLM): https://archive.ph/1cQji
UPFI: https://archive.ph/1WMfD
Rahe Kargar: https://archive.ph/Fx9cT
WPI-H: https://archive.ph/xvAbH

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Games set in communist/socialist nations

Check this out. An erotic visual novel set in a Soviet pioneer camp. WTF.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/331470/Everlasting_Summer/

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Martial arts thread

Comrades let's have a thread for martial arts, combat sports and self defense. Striking, grappling, all styles welcome (except fake ass shit). Let's talk about training, techniques, fights, fighters, etc. Here's a fun fact: One of the many achievements of the soviets was founding their own combat system, sambo, which proved to be extremely effective and is still widely practiced today. Also, Judo orange belt here (AMA if you want)

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A single European state with any overseas colonized territories of former countries given independence would be Engels-pilled, solve the stupid national questions, and there's no real reason not to. It is very obvious hubris to give every tiny nationality its own sovereign state even though the total population of Europe is roughly half (half!!!) that of India's, and India can make it work already. There is already a central legislature across most of the territory in the form of the EU parliament, even.

The official federal languages can be French and English, and the capital city could be The Hague or Frankfurt or Paris. Picrel is rough mock-up, ignore the 2 red dots in north Africa.

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The axis of resistance is the target

This declared war has greater dimensions than Ukraine, and its goal is to qualify Russia to lead the world and to lead the axis of resistance and to rehabilitate Putin, who has a black history of seizing power, liquidating his opponents, violating the rights of the Russians, and trading power with Medvedev for decades, qualifying him to lead the axis of resistance. Which includes Iran, the Islamic resistance, the Palestinian and the Yemeni as well.. This is how the West hopes that Putin will become qualified to lead the peoples with the right judges. And to reproduce the old polarization with the Soviet Union, which was somewhat comfortable and did not threaten Israel in terms of existence as the resistance threatens Israel. If this situation indicates anything, it indicates that the real conflict exists, even if it is not visible, between Russia and the axis of resistance over the leadership of the peoples, and not between the United States and Russia. Putin is a creation of the West, not a representative of the Russian people. And now his view of Dugin has entered the line, and the goal of assassinating his daughter may be to float his Eurasian project, which is the new incubator of Israel.

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Is the NPC meme a sign of severe alienation? How can people be convinced that other human beings are so hollow and gullible that they think of them as “NPCs”? As an average person you very likely have little differences with anyone you meet on the street, so how can such a dehumanization be so casually widespread?

>inb4 it‘s just a joke
No, many people resonate with the NPC meme because they genuinely believe they are special free thinkers while everyone else is just some sort of predictable simple-minded zombie.

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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 hyper-normalization of petty internet drama.

Reminder that none of this is real!

Society of the Spectacle
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm

The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm

Simulacra and Simulation
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=A370BD9728645DF263C61C179E8B90DE

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Red Aesthetics

Hot take, I find a lot of socialist aesthetics cringe. People larping like they are living in the USSR circa 1933. Even Maupin's wear a suit BS devolved into this shit. If you want to look sane and not like a bunch of cosplaying morons then just wear normal clothes, maybe one tier above like business casual or a suit if you really must. Stop using hammer and sickle since that represented an alliance between the peasants, a class which no longer exists, esp. in the west, and the industrial workers.

Honestly communists should just ditch the red flags, tankie/ussr/china aesthetics and such and just go extreme normcore but still take marxist positions on shit.

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Site Moderation Thread

Come dispute bans, complain, and other such things related to /leftypol/ here. Please try not to spam this thread or make multiple posts on the same issue, as this makes it harder for us to respond to issues.

Logs:
https://leftypol.org/log.php?board=leftypol
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Unironically the most important Socialist theorist since Lenin. Fact.
Even Rightoid economists who went into his works thinking they could take it down admit that his arguments and theory are flawless.
Don't understand why he's on the periphery of the Socialist movement today, he should at least be as popular as Zizek and Varoufakis.

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Iran workers actions during the protests

This is ideally a thread a thread to post updates and talk about organising during the ongoing protests, my information mainly pertains to the actions of the Iranian oil workers councils namely the 'Council for organizing protests of oil contract workers' who were behind the Campaign 1400 workers action which began June of last year and lasted till July of this year. Any other postings and updates about other area of iranian organising is greatly appreciated.

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Film Thread

Alright filmfags, show me what you've got.

&ltS Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango (all very demanding)
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre (I love them all but this one stands apart)
>Kubrick: 2001

&ltA Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
>De Sica: Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D.
>Pontecorvo: Battle of Algiers
>Cocteau: Orpheus, Blood of a Poet
>Godard: Breathless, Band of Outsiders, The Little Soldier
>Kurosawa: Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, Ran
>Mizoguchi: Sansho, Ugetsu
>Kobayashi: Seppuku, Human Condition
>Fritz Lang: Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, M
>Bunuel: Discreet Charm, Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel
>Kieslowski: Dekalog
>David Lynch: Anything, including Twin Peaks old and new.
>Ki-duk Kim: Spring, Summer…
>Gilliam: Brazil
>Kubrick (pt. 2): The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, FMJ

&ltA- Tier - Entertainment
>Cronenberg: Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers
>Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three, Sunset Blvd, Witness for the Prosecution
>Becker: Le Trou, Touchez pas au Grisbi
>Melville: Army of Shadows, Le Cercle Rouge, Bob le Flambeur
>Clouzot: Diabolique, Wages of Fear (the ultimate languagefag film)
>Bresson: A Man Escaped, Pickpocket
>Renoir: The Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game
>Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant, King of NY
>Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre
>Peckinpah: Straw Dogs, Alfredo Garcia
>Woody Allen: Annie Hall. All the other old-and-good ones too.
>Carpenter: The Thing, They Live
>Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
>Scorsese: Kind of Comedy, Taxi Driver. The rest can kinda fuck off.
>Hitchcock: Pretty much all of them.

Let's talk about movies, then. Don't have to be lefty films but obviously recommendations on that front are also welcome.

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y2kcore

Post 2000s or late 90s music

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Dystopian Sci-Fimovies

What are some good dystopian sic-di movies.

(mod edit: cyberpunk goes in here too)

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What are the best communist/socialist podcasts? and what are the worst

I listened to behind the bastards and goddam they are the most insufferable unfunny losers. They have good information but their sense of humour is terrible and they legitimately repeat the same joke 20 times. I'm listening to the kissinger episodes, and they get more offended by Nixon saying racist stuff than they do the genocides he supported (which they often make tasteless jokes aboutas well)

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Is there a way to organize the homeless? Currently they are the most oppressed stratum of the working class anywhere in the world and so they seem to have the most revolutionary potential out of everyone else, also since they aren't bombarded with reactionary propaganda all day everyday due to not having regular access to the internet except for the most basic functions they are probably also very receptive to communism and class consciousness.

>b-b-b-b-bbut they are le lumpens
Not all of them, in fact a lot of homeless people still have regular jobs but due to factors like debt or ridiculous housing prices they don't have access to housing. And judging by the coming crisis most of us will be homeless in a couple years so I don't want some stuck up fag to call me a lumpen just because I don't have somewhere to sleep.

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When actually will be the year of Linux?

Do I need anything in check when turning my old gaming laptop into a linux distro lappy

It is has two gpus, intel and nvidia

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Has Marxism-Leninism-Maoism stagnated?

With the Communist Party of the Philippines already reaching half a century of continued revolutionary struggle, and other groups like the Naxalites at their 55th year of revolution, it seems to me as if these movements have essentially failed to capitalize on working class struggles on a broad scale, and have nothing to show for their revolutions besides that they still continue to persist. Is this evidence of MLM being unapplicable to the conditions in which they are currently being applied, or am i missing some external factor that is preventing these revolutions from succeeding completely and thoroughly?

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Significantly enhanced sub-ambient passive cooling enabled by evaporation, radiation, and insulation

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666386422003629
<Significantly enhanced sub-ambient passive cooling enabled by evaporation, radiation, and insulation
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Highlights
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Synergistically combines evaporation, radiation, and thermal insulation

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Stays below wet-bulb temperatures even under sunlight with much less water cost

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Demonstrates 300% higher ambient cooling power than stand-alone radiative cooling

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Shows great potential benefit for food storage and buildings even in humid regions
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Microsoft's A.I

Beyond parody evil tech company mascot tier

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TIKTOK

Nowadays most young people want to skip college to become TIKTOK famous or other social media and make money off being an influencer (and then use the money to "go into real estate"). What is the class position of influencers and why do so many young people want to become one? Does tiktok prove the superiority of socialist construction and the superiority of Beijing over silicon valley? Does the chinese government really use it to collect data on teens doing dance moves, NSA style? Why are social medias so popular and addicting to the youth in general? Why did something as cringe as music.ly get rebranded and become cool?

what is the materialist explanation for tiktokand social media influencers in general

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Allende

why did he kill himself? Why didn't he go out like Scarface? Why didn't he try to take out as many of Augusto Pinochet's fascist goons as possible? Stupid bastard. If only.

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Television

Let's make a thread to discuss, review and analyze tv shows. Everybody is binging something these days.
Argue about dvd commentaries, Post your thesis on King of the Hill, Reminisce about a tv show you used to watch but don't quite remember it's title. Just about anything related to shows. Post your highscore on those Ben 10 CN flash games. Anything goes.

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/ck/ -- everything cooking related

Onyo edition

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MAKE UKRAINE MATERIAL MEMES NOW OR THE NKVD WILL COME TO YOUR DOOR

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A thread for educational podcast episodes..

Less about the parasocial more about the signal.

Less about subscribing to an individual podcast, more about listening to individual episodes and why that episode resonated.

Not videos. This is a chance for you to educate yourself while working, doing chores or exercising.

I'll go first. This episode of politics theory other was memorable because it made me reconsider the intersection of sex and politics, particularly as someone who sees themselves as becoming more skeptical about everything surrounding idpol as it's being co-opted and weaponized.

https://play.acast.com/s/politicstheoryother/tag%3Asoundcloud%2C2010%3Atracks%2F1136311165

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/ita/ - Spaghetti Communism

Edizione del tempo dei mostri

Biblioteche online
https://it.z-lib.org/
https://libgen.is

Introduzione al Capitale
https://ia600902.us.archive.org/28/items/pdfy-2ZCqM065WT7tuisv/Marx%27s%20Das%20Kapital%20For%20Beginners%20-%20Michael%20Wayne%2C%20Sungyoon%20Choi.pdf

Riviste
https://www.lordinenuovo.it
https://www.marx21.it
https://contropiano.org

Notizie sulla Cina
https://youtube.com/c/dazibao

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Why did the revolution fail in Italy?
After the success of the October revolution in 1917 why Italian workers failed to replicate it in their own country?
How come the fascists manage to grab the initiative? Was the military-industrial complex simply too damn strong in Italy and could throw money freely and fund blackshirts without any drawbacks?

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/leftydeutschpol/ - Deutschland General

Letzter Pfaden wurde dank der /Pol/acken vom Brett gepusht. Deshalb ein neues Deutschland General.

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/auspol / - Australia General VlI

Bowls is life edition

- News/info:
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AustralianPolitics/
https://overland.org.au/
https://arena.org.au/
https://www.greenleft.org.au/
https://www.themonthly.com.au/
https://www.crikey.com.au/
https://www.redblacknotes.com/
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/McQueen/index.htm
https://www.auscp.org.au/militant-monthly
https://redflag.org.au/
https://marxistleftreview.org/?topic=australia

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/SEA/ - Southeast Asia and Oceania General

6th Edition: 新年快乐！ SEA edition.

Discuss anything on Southeast Asian politics. Elections, open orgs, Ongoing war in Myanmar or just random shit. There are still dozens of us… hopefully! South Asia and Oceania posters can come in to discuss their regional politics too!

Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/!YeYeuZuLSYkegWssey:matrix.org?via=matrix.org

Last threads:
https://archive.is/Jlc7A
http://archive.is/0NhJH
http://archive.is/nDq1K
https://archive.vn/cxwty
https://archive.is/ayshz

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Alexander Geljewitsch Dugin

[REDACTED]
Thread to discuss his philosophical and political work. Feel free to share opinions, insights and material on Alexander Dugin and his literature.

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just call communism "longtermism" and people will get it. Always ask them "don't you want your children to have it better than you did?" and they'll understand why it's necessary.

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reminder that we will run out of petroleum and all its derivative products (plastics, lubes, moisturizers)

reminder that we will run out of coal

reminder that we will run out of gas

reminder that we will be forced to de-grow and de-industrialize as a species

reminder that millions will die

reminder that climate will become the primary contradiction, overtaking capitalism, imperialism, nationality, race, gender, religion, etc.

reminder that pre-capitalist modes of production will return

reminder that within two centuries socialism will have to become agrarian again, and peasant-oriented rather than prole-oriented

reminder we aren't going to space, we're stuck here

reminder that you live at the peak of unsustainable "civilization" and your grandchildren (if you even have them) will not know the excesses you lived with.

this post brought to you by True Levelers 2049

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Gold Buggery and Pawn shops

> pawned gold for fiat cash to buy garden tools with at 240% APR interest (cannot get unsecured loans because not employed)
< realised fiat is debt
> Mind goes to M-C-M'
< "Gold and silver are not by nature money, but money is by nature gold and silver."

How would I go about writing a Marxist theory of pawning gold? What's the M, C and M of pawning gold to buy garden tools, taking into account Marx's own theory of the precious metals?

I sense a possible distinctly Marxist monetary theory and its driving me wild.

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/soy/ - Soymaxxing general

>The soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (Glycine max) is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean, which has numerous uses.
>Traditional unfermented food uses of soybeans include soy milk, from which tofu and tofu skin are made. Fermented soy foods include soy sauce, fermented bean paste, nattō, and tempeh. Fat-free (defatted) soybean meal is a significant and cheap source of protein for animal feeds and many packaged meals. For example, soybean products, such as textured vegetable protein (TVP), are ingredients in many meat and dairy substitutes.
>Soybeans contain significant amounts of phytic acid, dietary minerals and B vitamins. Soy vegetable oil, used in food and industrial applications, is another product of processing the soybean crop. Soybean is the most important protein source for feed farm animals (that in turn yields animal protein for human consumption).
Post recipes and other tidbits relating to soy. Did you eat soy today? Post about it in here! Everything related to maximizing one's intake of soy and promoting soy culture is on-topic.
Pic related is today's lunch, a veritable cornucopia of soy (soyucopia?) consisting of:
>plain tofu
>soy sauce
>fried soy mince
>soy schnitzel
>a bowl of edamame
and finally, for desert
>soyghurt
naturally this feast was entirely vegan
finally, remember our motto here at /soy/:
<Where do you want to soy today?

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Lenin's Materialism and Empiro-Criticism

>Poincare is quoted to show that physics is in serious crisis. We can see how this crisis is leading to subjective idealist conclusions, leading Poincare to say that we impose onto nature concepts like space and time, and that whatever is not thought, is pure nothing.

>Lenin quotes Abel Rey who declares that this confusion, this crisis in science, has led many to conclude that science is simply a system of convenient symbols, referring to nothing but its own closed system of man-made signs. He then says that this means many will conclude the only path to knowledge we have left, is that of intuition of a mystical reality. This refers to the trend of irrationalism, which would become very powerful, even dominant, throughout 20th Century philosophy. The idea that ‘signs’ have superseded and even destroyed ‘the signified’ was very common to postmodernism, for example. Of course, all these viewpoints are subject to the same fatal flaw: if science is no more than convenient signs, what determines their degree of convenience?

>Lenin explains that advances in science do not explode materialism, because dialectical materialism does not hold that the hitherto recognised elements are immutable, but in fact holds that matter is inexhaustible, infinite, and thus our understanding of it is always developing. Hence, the crisis in science has thrown it into subjective idealism because of the mechanical materialism most scientists subscribed to.

>It is also worth highlighting Lenin’s brilliant points on the phrasemongering of such philosophers. Lenin aptly describes their terminology as a ‘dead scholastic appendage’. This is highly relevant to academia today, which is rife with trendy terms which add nothing to our understanding. It is a product of the cloistered and competitive nature of this petty bourgeois environment. The table produced by Haeckel, shown at the end of the chapter, demonstrating the ‘ghost in the machine’ of idealism also reveals the relationship between idealism and this industry of verbal jugglery that is academia. The point is, as Lenin says, that this demonstrates idealism creates ‘philosophical-artifices’, whereas materialism identifies the problems that need solving and provides a method for solving them. Because idealism discourages a rigorous, scientific approach to theoretical problems, it is the perfect outlook for professors who wish to invent ‘revolutionary’ theories, unhindered by the need to prove them, to sell new books.

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Dreams and psychonauts

Let's talk about dreams interpretations and psychonaut experiences.

i used to not believe in that or at least that's what i said
in my religion my family is usually gifted the psychic ability
my mother can channel spirits tho i haven't heard about her experiences
i personally can predict the future with dreams
i often dream about stuff that will happen and it can be scary because it can be kinda cryptic and symbolic at times
but some other times can be explicit and accurate
just a year ago i predicted my cat's death
i also believe he was trying to say goodbye in the same dream.
i hadn't seen him in at least 2 weeks since he lived with my mother at the time
but the moment i had that dream, it seems around the same time he had know he was gonna die.
which is why the next day he also wanted to say goodbye to the rest of my family.
the next day he was taken to a veterinary for surgery because apparently he was hurt.
but halfway through the surgery he died.

on a side note i also predicted every house i ever lived in becoming a broken mess in the middle of the gentrification process as i started transitioning.

>inb4 schizopost

hey!

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Anybody here like to collect fossils? I'm planning on getting some nice Ammonite, Trilobite, Leaf, and Fish fossils. I plan on getting a Mammoth molar in the future

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Is there a study of the state of the world?

"Marx thought that in order to
decide what should be done at a given historical moment, in a given country and under given
conditions, one must carefully study (with the help of the method of scientific communism) all
the specific features of the given situation (which is constantly changing) and the situation
existing not only within the given country itself, but in all the other countries of the world.
Marxism considers that only by such a study can the
…thinking representatives o£ the given class [acquire] the necessary knowledge, the
necessary experience—and, apart from all knowledge and experience—the necessary
political instinct for the quick and correct solution of intricate political problems. " Dialectical
Materialism The Theoretical Foundation
of Marxism-Leninism
V. Adoratsky
[1934]

So, my communist brothers, are there studies, actual good ones (no SJW shit) about the current state of the world with a communist POV and with the use of the method of scientific communism? Id love to read it and learn so i know if there will be a revoltuion/ be a chance of. know in more detail.

The thing is, this study would then probably be outdated and if by university, if western anyways not good.
The great reset is a gigantic change that is going on right now, and to really understand the state of the world id need to study the pre great reset and the post great reset which is about to come…

>any ideas, thoughts, comments guys?

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Hilo latinoamericano 5.0

Anything related to Latinamerica, let's unite in discussion while the CIA-funded military hasn't decide to torture us to death for the time being. Feel free to speak engl*sh. Stop voting, gringos.

Para luego buscarlo en el catálogo:
Latinoamérica, Latin America, LATAM, /lat/, latinoamérica, latino américa, hispanoamerica, /ñ/

Cómo traemos a más hispanohablantes aquí?
Inviten a gente de izquierda de facebook, instagram, twitter, MSN, fotolog, whatsapp, etc.

Hilo anterior: >>1080162

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/Ukraine/ General #66

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WikiGlow

post examples of Wikipedia glowing

* glowie rhetoric/rightoid cope on the talk pages
* sus revision histories
* bizarre rightoid editors
* right wing articles with no leftist counterpart

archive: https://archive.ph/wip/mJOh6

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White Boy Rants about Bideo Game Titles for 30 minutes

Do you share his criticisms?

I liked the 40-minute rant on Game Packaging
I don't believe in collecting video games as much as him tho,

What you own physically at least must be the best of the best, Creme-Da-La-Creme

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News 10/1/22

Thousands of car workers hit the street in protest in Germany over job cuts
About 2,000 members of the IG Metall and IG BCE unions protested in Hanover, where the supervisory board of vehicle parts manufacturer Continental was meeting on Thursday, against plans to close plants in Germany and slash up to 13,000 jobs, starting with 1,800 in Aachen.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/thousands-car-workers-hit-street-protest-germany-over-job-cuts

Huge turnouts reported at UK cost of living strikes
Although UK Government limited to £2,500 (nearly $2,790) annual ceiling the energy companies will be able to charge their customers, protest organizers consider authorized increase will force millions of Britons to choose between heating or feeding themselves during coming winter. Protesters are also calling for a wage hike to cope with double-digit inflation, free meals at all school levels, better heating for the country’s houses, and higher taxes for high-income people.
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2022/10/01/huge-turnouts-reported-at-uk-cost-of-living-strikes/

Eurozone inflation hits record 10 percent
Eurozone inflation has hit a record high this month, reinforcing expectations for another big interest rate hike from the European Central Bank (ECB) in October. Price growth in the 19 countries sharing the euro accelerated to 10.0 percent in September from 9.1 percent a month earlier, data from Eurostat showed on Friday, beating expectations for a reading of 9.7 percent.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/9/30/eurozone-inflation-hits-record-10-percent
https://archive.ph/6hIKE

Russian forces withdraw from key Donbass city – military
Russian troops and Donbass forces have withdrawn from their defensive positions in the town of Krasny Liman, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed in a statement on Saturday. The move came as Ukrainian forces mounted a large-scale offensive targeting the area. Earlier, the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Denis Pushilin, called the situation in the settlement “alarming,” saying it had been “half-encircled” by Ukrainian troops.
https://www.rt.com/russia/563866-krasny-liman-withdrawal-troops/
https://archive.ph/PVfPk

Sweden resumes arms exports to Turkey after NATO membership bid
Sweden's Inspectorate of Strategic Products (ISP) said on Friday reversed a ban against exporting military equipment to Turkey, following the Nordic country's decision to join the NATO military alliance and agreement to overcome Turkish objections. … Sweden and Finland effectively banned arms exports to Turkey in 2019 after its incursion into Syria against the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, with ISP revoking existing permits and granting no new ones since then though no formal embargo existed.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-resumes-arms-exports-turkey-after-nato-membership-bid-2022-09-30/

Thousands of Iraqis mark third anniversary of nationwide protests
Scuffles broke out between protesters and security forces injuring dozens as thousands gathered Saturday in Iraqi cities to mark three years since nationwide demonstrations erupted against endemic corruption. The latest protests come as Iraq has been mired in political paralysis since elections in October last year that have failed to bring in a new president, prime minister or government.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/10/thousands-iraqis-mark-third-anniversary-nationwide-protests

Protesters rally across Iran in third week of unrest over Amini's death
Protesters rallied across Iran and strikes were reported throughout the country's Kurdish region on Saturday as demonstrations ignited by the death of a woman in police custody entered their third week. The protests, sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iranian Kurdistan, have spiralled into the biggest show of opposition to Iran's clerical authorities since 2019, with dozens killed in unrest across the country.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/students-rally-iran-protests-enter-third-week-2022-10-01/

Iran: Clashes leave two Revolutionary Guard officers killed in southeastern province
The provincial governor of Sistan and Baluchestan, Hossein Khiabani, said on Friday that 19 were killed and some 20 others were wounded, including police officers and Colonel Ali Mousavi, a provincial intelligence officer in the IRGC. Another officer of the elite military unit, commander Hamid-Reza Hashemi, died from his wounds on Saturday morning, according to IRNA. On Saturday, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said an armed rebel group named Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice) has claimed responsibility for the attack near the police station in Zahedan.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-clashes-two-revolutionary-guard-officers-killed-southeastern-province

‘Modern-day slavery’: Kenyan domestic workers tell of abuse in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is known for its poor labour and human rights record, and is widely considered one of the most dangerous places to work in the world. Employers in the Gulf state have been dogged by allegations of physically, mentally and sexually abusing their migrant housekeepers for years; claims which continue to resurface.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/27/modern-day-slavery-kenyan-domestic-workers-tell-of-abuse-in-saudi-arabia

Military Officers Announce Coup in Burkina Faso
Military officers announced late on Friday that they had taken power in the West African nation of Burkina Faso, in what appeared to be the second coup in eight months to rock a nation struggling to quash growing violence from extremist groups. As gunfire rang out earlier on Friday and the state television channel went off the air in Ouagadougou, the capital, the president, Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who led the previous coup in January, had tried to reassure citizens that he was still in control.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/world/africa/burkina-faso-coup.html
https://archive.ph/30fik

Workers of 500 Coal-Based Panipat Units to be Jobless After Shutdown
Workers employed with more than 500 industries, especially dyeing units along with export houses, mink and polar blanket units, in Panipat, Haryana, will be jobless after they shut down on Saturday following the directions of the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM). Almost six lakh workers are employed directly or indirectly with around 25,000 textile units in Panipat, globally known as the textile hub with an annual turnover of Rs 40,000 crore, The Tribune reported.
https://www.newsclick.in/Workers-500-Coal-Based-Panipat-Units-Jobless-After-Shutdown

Sri Lanka: Massive fire destroys dozens of shanty homes in Kajeemawatte, Colombo
Fire brigade vehicles arrived half an hour after the blaze began and firefighters’ attempts to douse the flames were disrupted by a lack of water. Residents also reported that although twelve firefighting vehicles attended, only two were able to get proper access. This is the third time in the past 18 months that homes in the area have been incinerated: the first time was in April 2021, the second in March this year.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/30/kdkq-s30.html

Colombia agrees to ease tax changes to oil, mining
Colombia's government agreed on Monday to modify a tax reform proposal under debate in congress and continue to allow oil and mining companies to deduct royalty payments from their taxes in the wake of a wave of industry criticism. The government has agreed to back continued royalty deductions in exchange for raising income taxes on extractive industries by 5% and increasing an export tax to 20% for oil and coal sold above certain threshold prices, Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo told journalists.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-govt-agrees-ease-tax-changes-oil-mining-2022-09-27/

US judge dismisses Mexico’s $10bn lawsuit against gun makers
A US judge has dismissed Mexico’s $10bn lawsuit that sought to hold US gun manufacturers responsible for facilitating the flood of weapons that are smuggled across the United States-Mexico border to drug cartels. In its August 2021 complaint, Mexico estimated that 2.2 percent of the nearly 40 million guns made annually in the United States are smuggled into Mexico, including as many as 597,000 guns made by defendants named in the lawsuit.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/1/us-judge-dismisses-mexicos-10bn-lawsuit-against-gun-makers
https://archive.ph/w0MBK

Peru proposes 'new approach' to mining to combat economic disparities, conflicts
Poor indigenous communities have increased their demand for greater benefits for the exploitation of resources, creating blockades on roads and mining areas several times this year. Torres's speech, at times applauded by mining executives, aims to calm down businessmen who have demanded a clearer reaction from the government to stop the protests.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-proposes-new-approach-mining-combat-economic-disparities-conflicts-2022-09-30/

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So why did Marx think that the proletariat had anymore revolutionary potential than the peasantry? How was the proletariat at all special from the previous under-classes of history? if you look at the wagies of today, they're all either extremely passive and don't even bother to vote, let alone form unions or other apparatuses for their class interests; or they're outright reactionary and support stuff like the police, rightwing parties, etc. This has been pretty much the norm throughout all history where most of the serfs and slaves either outright supported the current system in their times keeping them in chains because they had some privileged position (ie they had their own serfs despite also being a serf, they were a pampered house slave, they managed/policed other slaves/serfs for better living conditions, etc.) or they were too apathetic to care about their surrounding situation.

It's not like the previous underclasses of history also didn't do revolution either, there was the sparticus rebellion, the german peasant wars, and the various maoist and third world revolutions which were all lead by mostly western-educated intellegesia rather than the educated. proletariat

I fail to see how the proletariat are anymore special compared to the previous servant classes throughout history.

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Reading General

Hello leftypol, we noticed an under-appreciation for the theory that upholds our political ideologies: As such, we have decided to revive the reading sticky! This thread will be dedicated to the sharing, discussing, and general banter about various leftist thinkers, theories, and political outlooks.

But, other than that, we believe there are other important reads that must be addressed, especially, for beginners and those just now getting into leftism.

Don't forget to check out >>>/edu/ for more reading and discussion!

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Common Right Wing Talking Points Debunks
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Check out the /edu/ thread at
https://leftypol.org/edu/res/5576.html

Also see the relevant leftybooru tag
https://lefty.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=debunk
Add topics into the tag list to further narrow down your search!

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Introduction to Marxism Reading List - Thanks to the /read/ matrix room (https://app.element.io/#/group/+leftyread:matrix.org)
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Absolute Beginners Tier:

'Principles of Communism' by Friedrich Engels
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

'Three Source and Three Component Parts of Marxism' by V.I. Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm

Not a book but Halim Alrah's youtube channel is good for the absolutely basics of Marxism but obviously not a replacement for reading
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGog4JPn5-W3_XIKccENysg

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Marx and Engels Reading List
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Tier 1:

'Manifesto of the Communist Party'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm

'Critique of the Gotha Programme'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/

'Socialism: Utopian and Scientific'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm

Tier 2:

'Wage Labour and Capital'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/

'Value, Price and Profit'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/

'Theses on Feuerback'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm

By this point you should have a good understanding of the basics of Marxism and are ready to branch out to other theorists and also read Capital.

Tier 3:

'Capital vol.1'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

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Lenin Reading List - By Moo (aka Zizekposter)
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Lenin Essentials:

'State and Revolution'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/

'“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/

'Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/

Petit Bourgeois Philistine Tier:

'What is to be done'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/

'The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/

'Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/index.htm

ADHD Tier:

'Socialism and Religion'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm

'Zizek's Introduction to Revolution at the Gates'
https://kabirabud.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/slavoj_zizek_repeating_leninbookfi-org.pdf

'Revolutionary Adventurism'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1902/sep/01.htm

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MLM Reading List
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Essentials:

Why MLM?
https://why-mlm.medium.com/why-mlm-af48aba14f8a

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Basic Course
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S01-MLM-Basic-Course-Revised-Edition-10th-Printing.pdf

'Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain'
https://libgen.lc/get.php?md5=a00646f118a3427ec19263021b3e84e1&key=06Q5Q1W5DFK8YOHU&mirr=1

Mao:

'On Practice & Contradiction'
https://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/N04-On-Contradiction-Study-2nd.pdf

'On Guerrilla Warfare'
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/index.htm

'On Protracted War'
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm

China:

'Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village'
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=00F5750256E291B678E2A0039D3CF54E

'Red Star Over China' - Edgar Snow
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=BD54E7C5F9CDE90E30BD0CB5E91F0049

'The Unknown Cultural Revolution' - Dongpin Han
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=2495C43CFA7395ACA45CA812A304A701

Peru:

Interview With Chairman Gonzalo
https://the-red-flag.org/en/central-committee-of-the-communist-party-of-peru-interview-with-chairman-gonzalo/

General line of the PCP
https://gplpcp.wordpress.com/

'Shining Path: Terror and Revolution in Peru' - Simon Strong
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=4FB5D349F9D3250453C5F0525F5890DD

India:

Operation “Green Hunt” in India
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/N08-Operation-Green-Hunt.pdf

Eight Historic Documents (AZAD)
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S18-Historic-Eight-Documents.pdf

'Urban Perspective'
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S14-Urban-Perspective-4th-Printing.pdf

Philippines:

Araling Aktibista - Activist Study ARAK
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/S22-Activist-Study-ARAK-2nd-Printing.pdf

'Stand for Socialism Against Modern Revisionism'
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S07-Stand-for-Socialism-3rd-Printing.pdf

'Philippine Society and Revolution'
https://bannedthought.net/Philippines/CPP/1970s PhilippineSocietyAndRevolution-4ed.pdf

Political Economy:

'Rethinking Socialism' – Deng-yuan Hsu & Pao-yu Ching
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S11-Rethinking-Socialism-4th-Printing.pdf

'China: A Modern Social-Imperialist Power' - CPI(Maoist)
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=F68AC84D480D41A222818D802F3AF7CA
or
https://library.bz/uploads/main/c0105702c9219cf136bdae79008daaa4.epub
or
https://why-mlm.medium.com/china-a-modern-social-imperialist-power-d5ac7a9455f7

'Maoist Economics & the Revolutionary Road to Communism' - The Shanghai Textbook
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=8B44F61D828997487E2FDE607FCF2FEB

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Leftcom Reading Lists
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r/marxism101's reading list:
https://i.imgur.com/s70UUPQ.jpg

r/bruhinternational's reading list:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bruhinternational/comments/m53hon/official_rbruhinternational_reading_list/

Bordiga:

'The Democratic Principle'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm

'Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1951/class-party.htm

'The Spirit of Horsepower'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1953/horsepower.htm

'Report on Fascism'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/bordiga02.htm

'Activism'
https://libcom.org/library/activism-amadeo-bordiga

'The Lyons Theses'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/lyons-theses.htm

'Theory and Action in Marxist Doctrine'
https://libcom.org/library/theory-action-marxist-doctrine-amadeo-bordiga

'Dialogue with Stalin'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm

Pannekoek:

'World Revolution and Communist Tactics'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1920/communist-tactics.htm

'Party and Class'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1936/party-class.htm

Herman Gorter:

'Open Letter to Comrade Lenin'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/open-letter.htm

'The World Revolution'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1918/world-revolution.htm

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Bookchin Reading Lists - based off of posts by Gorm1918 (pbuh)
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'The Next Revolution'
https://libcom.org/files/Murray%20Bookchin-The%20Next%20Revolution.%20Popular%20Assemblies%20and%20the%20Promise%20of%20Direct%20Democracy-Verso%20(2015).pdf

'Urbanization Without Cities'
http://188.165.199.119/files/Urbanization_Without_Cities_-_Ebook.pdf

'The 3rd Revolution'
https://libcom.org/library/third-revolution-popular-movements-revolutionary-era

'The Ecology of Freedom'
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom

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Links to Resources and Libraries:
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More Marx and Engels:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/sw/index.htm

Lenin:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/

Other Selected Marxists:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/selected-marxists.htm

Classical Works Recommended To High-Ranking Cadres:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-8/mswv8_56.htm

Many important books can be found on libgen:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

Libcom has some good books/documents:
https://libcom.org/library

Other links:
https://archive.is/L8uFD

Various assortment of historical and biographical works:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=uploader%3A%22kocotosi%40gmail.com%22&sort=-publicdate

The Leftist Bookshelf (4.16 GB, 600+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!QUFQSBja!hPbmmLolJBGwSQ848nncnw
This was originally a torrent but I can't find the link anymore. Its description was: "640 eBooks, mostly in PDF format (a bunch are CHM, DJVU or ePUB), from a revolutionary Leftist viewpoint. The main subjects are politics and philosophy, history, economics, and much much more."

Political Theory (MLM) (2.64 GB, 550+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!4M1FnTgI!CdM8WWjpBC_UHGCJk9AHzA
I found this on reddit years ago (circa 2016) Don't really remember who made it or where it came from, but this is a reading course (politics, philosophy, economics, etc) focused on Maoism. Has many books and articles on the USSR, PRC, Stalin, Mao, etc.

The Anarchist Library (669 MB, 4000+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!gRFkQCLY!5gUkmaubpp_P_yKLZiBJ9Q
This is a complete mirror of the anarchist library with pdfs and epubs

Little Bunker of Marxism-Leninism (680 MB, 100+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!0QtCiI7L!MJZJk-SdjyBuBZOuNJuOPQ
Unfinished project focused on M-L with more than 100 books on several topics like history, economics, politics, etc. Lots of stuff on the USSR.

Historical Materialism series (330 MB, 100+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!9IkymYBZ!B8vB2yDP0Qv_-DPS2ro-HA
A pdf archive of over 100 books from the Historical Materialism book series. I got this from thecharnelhouse.org years ago and the website had released many marxist books from other publishers but unfortunately it's been taken down.

/leftypol/ with a slash of liberty (239 MB, 100+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!sFMQXJ6J!JboByVCZScC6Jq2YXE0Exw
I didn't make this, just reuploading it. This is a classic /leftypol/ link, marxist stuff mixed with anarchism.

Marx & Engels Collected Works (900+ MB, 50 files)
https://mega.nz/#F!BJEmkQiZ!vylIbCWFrqIeYaLiuN2szg
The official, complete works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels organized in 50 volumes and 3 categories.

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/brg/ - Brazil General

2022 Erections Edition (feat. William "Boner" Junior)
A very hard choice… Lula's macroeconomic tripod or Bolsonaro's little split scheme (rachadinha)?

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“You’ll own nothing and be happy” is a distraction for the already semi-successful real plan which is “You’ll be an NPC and be happy”

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Chainsaw Man

PV for the adaptation is finally out.

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Critique of generalized production

How does socialism solve the problem of "it's cheaper to produce something than to fix it"? This problem appears inherent to generalized production. Simply put there is more labor involved in generalized production, ergo it is more efficient, whereas fixing things takes on the characteristics of pre-generalized production - that is a few laborers putting in a lot of effort for the end result.

I shouldn't have to explain this but the problem with "it's cheaper to produce something than to fix it" is that it creates immense waste.

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Late Capitalism Simulator

Lately I’ve seen a huge influx of good games that try to update the outdated capitalist realist Cyberpunk genre to the current political and economic landscape. Stuff like Disco Elysium is getting more and more recognition they rightfully deserve for depicting the hopeless and bleak death of modern revolution. However they’re still have some semblance of hope like with Ghostrunner having the corporation being destroyed by a revolution in contrast to the sad oppression of the system.

Another great but obscure example is whatever the fuck Cruelty Squad is. It’s fully embraced the boring drug fueled dystopia aesthetic while delivering basically Deus Ex but without the stealth. Compared to the faux shell of a Cyberpunk game 2077 was (full of cyber but nothing about the societal implications of such technologies other than some edgy infantile “message” about “soul”), this game have everything and everyone be miserable using the cyber-enhancements. Space colonization and AI being pipe dreams. Corporations are not knowingly malicious but only apart of the rot of capitalism.

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RUSSIAN THREAD

The previous thread died (is full) for our sins. >>326202
>>>/leftypol_archive/485713.
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Everything Russia related belongs here.

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Do not touch The Disc.

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Currently listening

Post what you're currently listening to

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Post-Apocalyptic Survivalist Socialism

What would post-apocalyptic survivalist socialism be like (given a relative collapse of the ecosystem, nuclear fallout, destruction of old infrastructure, with mobs of reactionary survivalists and bandits prowling about)?

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which path should i take on vtmb

which one is more left leaning?

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Retro games thread

What are your favorite games for old consoles? The older the better, but if you are young as fuck I understand even PS3 might be retro for you.

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Gundam Evolution

Anyone playing this? Its a pretty good game. The main problem is pay to win, you can get mechs through in game money but you can also just buy them. Balance is also a massive issue, Exia stomps everyone and can 1v6 since it appeals to teenagers the most, sort of like Yone in LoL. The Sazabi is pretty fun though and thats also one of the coolest designs.

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QTDDTOT - Questions that don't need their own thread. The last one died, so here post your questions here.

I'll start, why is a centralized authority important to achieving communism and why is this seen a positive aspect.

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Karl Marx Theory

1. Reading Marxist theory can help people understand why certain things happen in society and how to change it. People should read Marxist theory because it can help them change their view of society and become more politically aware.
One reason why people should read Marxist theory is to understand why certain things happen in society. Many people feel that they don't know the full reason for certain things in society.

2. Reading Marxist theory can help people understand why systems fail and how to fix them. It can also explain why certain groups are oppressed and how to change that.

3. Reading Marxist theory helps people understand the underlying causes of social issues and how to fix them.
Another reason why people should read Marxist theory is to understand how to change society. Many people want to change society but don't know how.

4. Reading Marxist theory can help people understand why certain things happen and how to change them. It can also explain why certain groups are more successful than others and how to change that.

5. Reading Marxist theory helps people understand what they should change in society and how to do it. It's a helpful book for anyone who wants to improve society's current state.
However, not everyone agrees with this idea. Some people believe that reading Marxist theory is too complex to understand. They believe that reading such a large amount of information on a topic is too much for anyone to process easily. Even if you find some helpful information, the sheer amount of information is overwhelming.

6. Some people believe that reading Marxist theory is only useful if you already agree with it. They believe that reading Marxist theory will only help you if you already agree with its ideas. If you don't already agree with Marx's ideas, reading his work won't change your views. In fact, you may become even more entrenched in your current beliefs if you're unable to defend your views against his arguments.

7. Reading Marxist theory can help people understand social issues and how to change society. However, some people disagree with this idea and believe it's too complex for them to understand.

8. Reading Marxist theory is still useful if someone wants to learn more about social issues and how to change them. The book has a lot of useful information that can help someone become more politically aware and engage with the world around them.

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Hello I created this thread for people who like flag design and maps and herlady please enjoy posting creations I will be posting my Creations as well.

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Naruto General

Is there a character that could even possibly EVEN TOUCH Madara Uchiha? Let alone defeat him. And I'm not talking about Edo Tensei Uchiha Madara. I'm not talking about Gedou Rinne Tensei Uchiha Madara either. Hell, I'm not even talking about Juubi Jinchuuriki Gedou Rinne Tensei Uchiha Madara with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan and Rinnegan doujutsus (with the rikodou abilities and being capable of both Amateratsu and Tsukuyomi genjutsu), equipped with his Gunbai, a perfect Susano'o, control of the juubi and Gedou Mazou, with Hashirama Senju's DNA implanted in him so he has mokuton kekkei genkai and can perform yin yang release ninjutsu while being an expert in kenjutsu and taijutsu. I’m also not talking about Kono Yo no Kyūseishu Futarime no Rikudō Juubi Jinchuuriki Gedou Rinne Tensei Uchiha Madara with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan (which is capable of Enton Amaterasu, Izanagi, Izanami and the Tsyukuyomi Genjutsu), his two original Rinnegan (which grant him Chikushōdō, Shuradō, Tendō, Ningendō, Jigokudō, Gakidō, Gedō, Banshō Ten’in, Chibaku Tensei, Shinra Tensei, Tengai Shinsei and Banbutsu Sōzō) and a third Tomoe Rinnegan on his forehead, capable of using Katon, Fūton, Raiton, Doton, Suiton, Mokuton, Ranton, Inton, Yōton and even Onmyōton Jutsu, equipped with his Gunbai(capable of using Uchihagaeshi) and a Shakujō because he is a master in kenjutsu and taijutsu, a perfect Susano’o (that can use Yasaka no Magatama ), control of both the Juubi and the Gedou Mazou, with Hashirama Senju’s DNA and face implanted on his chest, his four Rinbo Hengoku Clones guarding him and nine Gudōdama floating behind him AFTER he absorbed Senjutsu from the First Hokage, entered Rikudō Senjutsu Mode, cast Mugen Tsukuyomi on everybody and used Shin: Jukai Kōtan so he can use their Chakra while they are under Genjutsu. I'm definitely NOT Talking about sagemode sage of the six paths Juubi Jinchuuriki Gedou Rinne Tensei Super Saiyan 4 Uchiha Madara with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, Rinnegan, Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, and Geass doujutsus, equipped with Shining Tvåldtäktzohedron while casting Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann as his Susanoo, controlling the Gold Experience Requiem stand, having become the original vampire after Alucard, able to tap into the speedforce, wearing the Kamen Rider Black RX suit and Gedou Mazou, with Hashirama Senju's DNA implanted in him so he has mokuton kekkei genkai and can perform yin yang release ninjutsu while being an expert in kenjutsu and taijutsu and having eaten Popeye's spinach. I'm talking about sagemode sage of the six paths Juubi Jinchuuriki Gedou Rinne Tensei Legendary Super Saiyan 4 Uchiha Madara with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, Rinnegan, Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, and Geass doujutsus, equipped with his Shining Tvåldtäktzohedron while casting Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann as his Susanoo, controlling the Gold Experience Requiem stand, having become the original vampire after having absorbed Alucard as well as a God Hand, able to tap into the speedforce, wearing the Kamen Rider Black RX suit, with Kryptonian DNA implanted in him and having eaten Popeye's spinach while possessing quantum powers like Dr. Manhattan and having mastered Hokuto Shinken.

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What do you think of the concept of loss of humanity/essence from implants in Shadowrun and Cyberpunk 2020?
I've seen some criticism that it sort of kills the fun of being in a transhumanist game because you can't switch a limb for something silly because any implant is going to be detrimental, i.e. you'd rather get some weapon than place a coffee dispenser inside your torso.

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Meme Thread

Meme thread for /AK/
Post memes, stories, funny shit and /k/ screencaps.

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best/leftist videogame youtubers/content creators

what do ya'll watch on youtube? and which do you consider leftist-ish?

i personally can't get enough of

>SsethTzeentach
<probably more of a libertarian but has given a couple more jabs at capitalism lately
>Civvie11
<keeps his politics to himself but a lot of people agree is more left leaning
>Scott the Woz
<definitively a consoomer but even if unintentionally can be critical of capitalism at times
>Angry Videogame Nerd
<not likely leftist but it's always a classic
>Vinesauce
<not a leftist either but funny as hell

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/zine/

This is a thread for discussing, designing and creating zines, pamphlets, brochures, leaflets - anything that involves putting information on paper in a cheap and easy way. You can also discuss writing zines, but this thread will be largely dedicated to the design aspect.

Here are some resources:
https://mymodernmet.com/how-to-make-a-zine/
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Zine_Making/Putting_pages_together
http://www.zinebook.com/resource/zinetips.html
https://zinewiki.com/

Programs that you can use to make zines/pamphlets/leaflets and so on:
https://www.canva.com/en_gb/
https://www.gimp.org/
https://inkscape.org/

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/stirner/

this guy could use a general here

additional documents:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-stirner-the-false-principle-of-our-education
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-stirner-you-only-have-the-courage-to-be-destructive
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-stirner-art-and-religion
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-stirner-the-worker-and-the-govenrment

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/Ukraine/ thread - Childhood Games Nostalgia Special Edition

So, we ended up discussing childhood games in the /Ukraine/ thread, but since it's off-topic, this thread was created to continue the discussion.

Post and discuss your childhood video games, 2000s/1990s/1840s/whatever nostalgia, old games, and most importantly, have fun!

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Post anti-spook songs

>Get all those ghosts out of my sight, they devour all of my might

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I2P Address

This site needs an I2P address (eepsite)

It already has a .onion, now we need a .i2p

https://geti2p.net/
https://i2pd.website/

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Communist News Network

Should we strive to create a pro-communist television news network? The strength of communist media a hundred years ago used to be measured by the number of daily newspapers - in $current_year, wouldn't this mean building a live full-day communist TV broadcast? Weekly newspapers will never have the same mass appeal as live video content.

This doesn't necessarily have to be a CNN, etc. type TV station. Alex Jones' Infowars for example has 10+ hours of live content every day on a large, but conceivable budget for a united communist party.

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What are the most fucked up quotes from political figures?

> “we came. We saw. He died.” - Clinton on Gaddafi
> “but the price, we think, the price is worth it. - Albright on Iraq sanctions
> “Famine or no famine, Indians will breed like rabbits.” - Churchill on famine in India

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photography

post pics that you took. I'll start with kot

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Apologize.

He's about to vindicated by theory. The nukes are about to be deployed. Then we shall be able to reconstruct our world in the only fashion possible – full communism.