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/iran Israel war/ general #5

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

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

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

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

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-12-25-hnk-intl
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How do materialists solve the issue of infinite regression that happens in the materialist worldview?

<Things are made of matter!

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

Where does it end?
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/USApol/

🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅
<Imperial Parade 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 pharaoh of proxy wars, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka

🏈 💵 🌭 🍔

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

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

📺 Live News 📺
(sponsored by 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

✊ Live Protest Streams ✊
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Previous thread: >>2316996
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stalking trans women okay.

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

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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • 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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • 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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RtV0oO8Pmg

<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida

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

>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher

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

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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory

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

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

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

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


<Documentaries

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

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

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

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


>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)

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

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

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

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

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


<Situationist Archives

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

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

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

Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
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/leftybritpol/ - Paul Pawlowski Edition

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

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

The revolutionary career of Pawlowski, in his own words:
"In 1960s I read the Iliad in HMP Brixton.
Why! Thats polytheism – thats my religion i decided.
in 1970s I opened Temple of Aphrodite Pandemos in my one room in Tooting. Landlord told me to get out – evicted.
I moved to empty house in Charington Road squat.
There was Banner books shop nearby in Camden High street.
The shopwindow was Red with little red books bust of chairman Mao in the middle. Indian man Bijour was the shopkeeper.
I am having lunch in Cypriot restaurant with my lady when Bijour comes in sits with us at our table and we talk. Bijour says What Britain needs is British peoples liberation army.
I took on his idea and improved it
What Britain needs is English republican ideology – Republican party of England – English peoples liberation army.
The monarch abdicate – Republican England is born.
I bought a house in Accrington – turned it into HQ of English Peoples Liberation Army. Got raided by Special Branch.
What is the strength of the English Peoples Liberation Army? the SB officer asked. Military secret I replied. I think you are regimental Number One he said.
I drafted a petition for the Queen to abdicate let England be Republic. Went with it to meeting in Birmingham. It was leftwingers rally – about 200 signed my petition for the Queen to abdicate.
Encouraged by the response I convened a meeting at the Rising Sun pub near Victoria coach station. Five comrades came – we drunk pint and talked English Republic.
Encouraged - I drafted English Republican leaflet – published by Paul Pawlowski, Secretary, Republican Party of England.
The feedback was abusive – To saltmines in Siberia with you you foreigner!
They didn't like the name …ski. Printed another leaflet – same text only this time published by Thomas Smith, Secretary of Republican Party of England. Now the feedback was normal – some agreed – some asking for more info – some supported some against – normal.
Went with it to Camden Town Hall where the Daily Worker had a fete. The police at the entrance took notice of the name Thomas Smith – the police was on the lookout for that Thomas Smith – got raided by Special Branch officers
I continued with placard and leaflet calling for England to be Republic. Got arrested for it in the street in Accrington – the magistrate said Three months. With Clenched Fist salute I cried out Victory to the English Peoples Liberation Army!
Local newspaper carried report about it.
In HMP Strangeways prison officers were asking me "Tell us where is the English Peoples Liberation Army and we all go there and join it."
HMP prison officers were the first recruits to EPLA.
HMP Strangeways was burned down – it was burning for many days."
https://web.archive.org/web/20110116045112/http://indiaculture.net/talk/messages/128/10039.html?1252331010

Last thread: >>2282435
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HoI4 + HoI4 modding thread

Operation Deep Sneed edition

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

…three years of fucking Antarctica
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #242

/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #242

<Enter Dnipropetrovsk Special


Previous: >>2305808

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

https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
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

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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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The World Without Marx

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

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

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

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

Your thoughts?
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afrobeat

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torn_(2003_video_game)
>Torn is a text-based, crime-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game.[1][2][3] The game was developed by the British developer Joe Chedburn in 2004, and is one of the largest text-based online video games.[4][5][6] The game involves a virtual world based around crime and business.[1][7] It has an in-game currency, which can be obtained in many ways, like mugging, drug trafficking, bank investments, dividends paid out from stocks, missions, and selling game items via the item market with other players among many other ways.
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And I was misgendered at the queer event by… I won't say what identity, what gender, the person was. Or what pronouns they used. Or how their gender presentation was. We know I can't say that.
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March 15th, Belgrade Serbia

Tomorrow a huge protest will be held in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, protesting the government’s refusal to accept the demands made by the students, as well as protesting against general incompetence and corruption. From the student to the teacher, worker and pensioner, war veterans and children all around Serbia will gather together in this protest.
Is this really it? Some policemen announced that they won’t be going to work tomorrow and that they have no intention of beating up children. This might be the only chance that the opposition gets to forcefully remove the president from office.
The implications are obvious; a color revolution is in the works. Unlike the protests in Greece, the Serbian protests have no class character. The left is very weak, and the protest attendees range from neonazis to liberals and communists (most likely due to the fact the protests have been organized “apolitically”). The situation in Serbia is very volatile, and the validity of these protests need to be questioned more seriously, since no matter how much they deny it, this reeks of liberal infighting. Only time will tell what the consequences of these past few months will be, and whether this will be another October 5th or just a failed mass movement.
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“hypothetically”

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

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

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

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

if you were him - where do you go? who do you speak to? what do you do?
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Socialist Queer theory/ Reading List

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

Any recs?

Quotes and examples of pro-LGBTQ policies in Socialist Govs are also welcome.
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Anyone explain to me whats the difference

And no, labelling the same structure with different words doesnt make it different.
I can see that some independent farmer, artisan, industrial cooperative or family company (operated by an actual family) escapes this structure. In all the common isms you have at least two classes of people, one exploits, one is being exploited.
technological changes do not change this structure. The use or not of money does not change this structure. The possibility of individual persons changing their social position (i.e slaves gaining freedom or rich people losing their money) doesnt change the structure.
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fly our flags on no king day!

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

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

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

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

how do u think that country can be improved? i mean its ruled by communist party but i dont see them doing much. I wish their leader was great as someone like traore
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Soulslike/Rollslop Thread

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

All this Slop and similar ones go to this thread.
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Privacy general

Comrades, we need a thread on privacy. Any decent activist should try ways of staying anonymous on the web and prevent being tracked by governments and corporations.General tips===* Use free software as much as you can.* Use GNU/Linux and keep it up-to-date, to be sure that you don't have unpatched security exploits* Don't use Flash Player, use youtube-dl instead for watching streaming videos online* Do not use Google, use DuckDuckGo or StartPage instead* Use a password manager like Keepass or for GNU/Linux users keepassx. Create new passwords for every site that you visit and use a strong password as a master password. A tip for easy remembering of your master password is to use a sentence. "i fucking love cookies and tits!" with extra capital characters etc. is easier to remember than some random characters and long enough to prevent brute force attacks of any kind.* Use the Tor Browser Bundle if you really want to stay anonymous.Firefox====* Go to Preferences -> History and set History to "Never remember history". * See for additional tweaks: https://github.com/amq/firefox-debloat and https://vikingvpn.com/cybersecurity-wiki/browser-security/guide-hardening-mozilla-firefox-for-privacy-and-securityAdd-ons-----------* Use uBlock Origin for preventing tracking etc. Bonus: use hard-mode to manually whitelist external domains on sites. Don't use uBlock but be sure to use uBlock Origin https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-mode* HTTPS Everywhere* DecentralEyes: prevents CDN hosting from tracking you (Google for Jquery etc.)* Self Destructing Cookies: only allow cookies that you choose to allowOS==* Encrypt your hard drive or home partition at least* If you use GNU/Linux, you can try to restrict systemd or syslog from logging. * Use a distribution which takes security seriously. Also, be sure that you don't install a lot of things outside the repository. It will cover most of your needs.Real life tips===* Pay with cash if you canFeel free to provide tips to each other comrades!
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Europa Universalis 5 Thread

How are we feeling about it?

I am cautiously optimistic from the all the gameplay footage released. It genuinely looks like it will be a fun multifaceted game.
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Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread Thread

Thread for questions that don't deserve their own thread.
I wanna buy some headphones to go outside i don't want to spend more than 100€ on them. I want them to be mostly durable and secondly to have good sound quality, also i don't want to look like a jackass while wearing them, any suggestions?
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/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)
>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
https://archive.is/xBFYY
https://archive.ph/Afx5a
https://archive.is/kAPvR
https://archive.is/0sAS2
https://archive.is/jXivP
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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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palestine vs the zionist entity-119 Flotilla of Hate Edition

🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸

>>2293957


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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 [Currently Down]

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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
Fdpd. trash site 123 blah fd
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To all American comrades

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

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

So PLEASE bring Iranian flags to tomorrow’s protests out of solidarity.
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Would /lgbt/ appreciate completely fake dogboy slop? Wanna test my creative writing skillz.

Also there isn't really a dedicated fagslop thread, for shame.
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/DPRK/ - Democratic People's Republic of Korea General

Thread for news and discussions of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its material conditions, the status and health of its socialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.

Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
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Should I quit drawing or not?

I would've posted this on the draw board, but that's deader than Jeffrey Epstein. I started in mid-late October of this year (I didn't keep track of when I started, unfortunately).
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Nintendo Switch 2 Games Will Cost Up To $80 For Digital, $90 For Physical
Nintendo has fucking balls charging above current premium with graphics 15 years out of date and games that are mostly asset flips. Easiest skip of my life but it will still probably sell gangbusters.
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The bourgeois family–the family as it exists today–is creepy as fuck. Every parent I've known develops some bizarre predilection with their child's sexuality, which stems from a sense of ownership over the child. You don't "own" your child. You're mandated by state to raise them.

The fact so many people view children as a burden is exactly why we need to annihilate the bourgeois family. And folks with kids don't feel any different, and they treat their kids accordingly. Raise kids in state-run boarding schools. Let people who like kids raise them.
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/ttg/ - Tech Team General

This thread is only for feedback related to technical issues (bug reports, suggestions).

We are currently working on improvements to the site, subject to the need of the tech team to sleep and go to their day jobs. If you need more immediate feedback please join the matrix room[s] and ask around. Feel free to leave comments, concerns, and suggestions about the tech side of the site here and we will try to get to it as soon as possible
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Update on the fallout of the South Korean coup attempt

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/06/urgent-appeal-stop-the-judicial-coup-in-south-korea-and-defend-democracy/
>Urgent Appeal: Stop the Judicial Coup in South Korea and Defend Democracy
<On May 1, 2025, South Korea’s Supreme Court issued a politically charged decision that overturned the acquittal of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, the leading candidate in the upcoming presidential election, on charges of election law violation. Lee had endured intense repression under the administration of impeached former president Yoon Suk-yeol, having been subjected to investigation by over 200 government prosecutors, but despite countless allegations, these nearly non-stop investigations failed to result in a conviction. Now, with South Korea gearing up for a historic snap election on June 3, 2025 following Yoon’s ouster, authorities are once again attempting to convict Lee to remove him from the political playing field.
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This might not sound that impressive, but i've just managed to get program-agnostic rio-style window creation working flawlessly in FVWM. Previously it was a flickery, unreliable mess of xdotool commands, but now it's spawning every window iconified, hooking into the window creation event to set geometry from my rectangle selection program and deiconifying it to its correct position.

If you could keep track of all terminals and from which one a particular program is spawned, you might be able to reach true rio emulation closer than even the plan9port version.

Desktop and window management general, i guess.
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/iran Israel war/ general #5

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

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

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

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

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-12-25-hnk-intl
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/LeftPolymarket/ General #1

Why don't you put your money where your mouth is?
Autists of all lands unite, you have nothing to lose but your gain$

The first general entirely dedicated to betting on political happenings (or lack thereof). For those too afraid to do dangerous adventurism, there is always venture capital. Chinese stocks, Russian stocks any & all that coincide with your political LARP are welcome here, post your most daring bets and show your autistic bravery here!
Think of this as wallstreetbets for the left wing of capital. Or just regular wallstreetbets on leftypol if you believe they're the successors to occupy wall street.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious. -Deng Xiaoping

Basic links:
https://polymarket.com/
https://polymarketanalytics.com/
https://www.aljazeera.com/
https://www.bloomberg.com/
https://tradingeconomics.com/china/stock-market
https://robinhood.com/us/en/
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Retro Gaming

How many of you still play old games from the 90s-2000s?
<Retro gaming refers to the practice of playing video games from previous generations. Retro gaming is often driven by a desire to relive childhood memories or experience the history of video games.
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Vtuber General

ITT We discuss about our favorite Vtubers, corpo and indie alike. Liveposting, (Spoilered) Porn and Rateposting are all encouraged.

I'll start with my own recommendation:

Rie Himemiya from Phase Connect [EN] Gen 2 Phase Alias. A Vsinger with great covers and original songs such as Love Potion #520 and ゲテモノ (Bizarre Food) / Utsu-P ♡ to give you two examples.

Her streams as of now center around variety gaming such as her recent playthrough of Pokémon HG/SS as her first Pokémon game although she is mostly focused on Limbus Company and Library of Ruina as well as community projects like Date Ideas for Valentines season or making a love song out of Schizophrenic Maros.

However I do recommend her older VODs as well such as Sandtrix or Gayraoke for her humor and great chat interaction. If you want something more recent check out her 100 songs for 100k Christmas Special from last year. Remember to do your reps and backreading

https://www.youtube.com/@HimemiyaRie/streams
https://nitter.net/HimemiyaRie
https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/artist/6tKYFARX2bMPlQwglwXNoB


When it comes to membership content, for Tier 1 you get members exclusive covers, static and animated wallpapers, exclusive community posts and access to her art archive.
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OC Thread 17.0 - A New Beginning

Thread dedicated to /leftypol/ original content.
>Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made which you want to share.
<Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.

If your original content is good enough, it would most likely be shared on the /leftypol/ twitter account!
Make sure to follow us and feel free to leave suggestions on this thread~
https://twitter.com/leftypol_org
https://nitter.net/leftypol_org

previous thread: >>1762168
>>>/leftypol_archive/1762168 (if it gets archived by mods)

New Booru:
https://lefty.pictures

MAKE SURE TO UPLOAD YOUR OC TO THE BOORU SO IT DOESNT GET PRUNED FOREVER!!!
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>Only communist org near me are trots with 20 members
>Only guerilla I can join is the EZLN and they are pretty much narcos now
>MORENA sucks

what the fuck am I supposed to do, ist es over für mich?
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My communist dad has now become an ANCAP nazi that wants to genocide Ukrainians since TikTok was invented.
Gotta love ex Eastern block communists. They never really gave a shit about any communist ideals it was always just a thinly veiled excuse.
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/salt/ - salting general

a thread for salting, becoming a salt




You just went from working a solid career-type job to working retail or fast food again? Become a salt. Recession compression creates ideal salting conditions–downward mobility, employer arrogance, worker bitterness. Embed without announcing. Become dependable, a communist should be the hardest working man in the shop, stay observant, find the cracks, then slow corrosive. Learn the workplace rhythms, identify informal leaders, exploit management contradictions. Never preach–weaponize the material conditions and shared misery. Reinforce that exploitation isn't personal, it's structural. Organize under cover of small talk. Normalize resistance. You're not radical–you're just the one who says what everyone’s already thinking.

Reading List (Contribute !!)

https://industrialworker.org/salt-is-back-on-the-table/
For those unfamiliar, salting is when workers seek employment for the purposes of kick-starting an organizing campaign, or to assist an organizing campaign already in motion. Salting can come in a variety of various strategies, depending on what organizing looks like in a specific shop or what the conditions are like in a specific industry.


https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-salting-organizing-tactic

IWW - Workers' Organizing Guide
https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo

SACP - How to Master Secret Work
https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/sacp/1980/secret-work.htm
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Banderas

Hilo de banderas y heráldica
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Hispachan

Opiniones de esta fosa séptica

Admito que en su momento era cliente ocasional de este burdel de cuarta pero siempre se caracterizó por ser incluso más autista y degenerado que /pol/ que me preguntaba si de verdad tenían alguna deficiencia mental. Al menos verlos esquizear era divertido.
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/futbol/

Hablemos del deporte rey

Si les soy sincero solo quiero la Unión Latinoamericana para ganar absolutamente todos los mundialesㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎
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Some Earnest Questions for Third-Worldist

As someone who is 1. American, and 2. not particularly familiar with Maoism-Third-Worldism as a theory, I have two questions, earnest questions, for Third-Worldists.

First, what do you want me to do? I see Third-Worldists yell at people from the First World all the time, but there never seems to be any direction as to what we could be doing to make things better. Is the assumption just that we're intrinsically evil? Because if it is, it makes the presence of Western Third-Worldists confusing, and also makes me question why you interact with First-Worlders at all. If it isn't the assumption, then please explain what you think I should be doing, because up to this point I've only ever seen Third-Worldists telling me that I'm evil.

Second, if you got your way, what would happen to the First World, and by extension me? I've heard answers ranging from
>We're going to cut off the West and let them decay
to
>We're going to come together and collectively colonize the First World, shuffling its residents across the Third World
and while I think they both make sense on some level, neither of them seems like much of a well defined plan to me, and people speak of them like they're rhetoric, rather than things they actually plan to do.

These are, as I said, earnest questions, so any earnest answers would be appreciated.
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News 6/13/25

Iran fires hundreds of missiles at Israel as part of 'crushing response' to attacks
“Moments ago, with the launch of hundreds of various ballistic missiles toward the occupied territories, the operation of decisive response to the savage attack of the Zionist regime has begun," Iran’s official news agency, Irna, reported. Bright orange flashes illuminated the sky over Tel Aviv as Israeli air defence systems appeared to down some of the incoming missiles. Still, fires and plumes of smoke could be seen in areas of Tel Aviv, whilst explosions were also reported in Jerusalem.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-fires-missiles-israel-retaliation-major-attacks

Hezbollah backs away from conflict with Israel after Lebanese government warning
The sources said that Hezbollah had told Lebanese army officials that it understood the concerns of the state, the army, and the Lebanese people and would not “be led towards Israel’s aim of taking the region to full-scale war”. They added that Lebanese political and military officials had also “clearly and strongly” told Hezbollah that the “Lebanese state would not allow a war with Israel this time”, adding that Lebanon had given assurances to Arab and other regional countries regarding this.
https://www.newarab.com/news/hezbollah-backs-away-israel-war-after-lebanon-govt-warning

Updates on the Palestinian Resistance
Al Quds Brigades: Our fighters managed on Wednesday to detonate an explosive device pre-planted into a Zionist D9 bulldozer that had penetrated areas of Khan Younis. At least 13 martyred, 200 wounded after ‘Israeli’ occupation forces opened fire on starving Palestinians waiting for aid near Netzarim base in central Gaza strip.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/19650/

Egypt, Libya stop activists gathering for March to Gaza, organisers say
Separately, a land convoy known as “Soumoud”, which had departed Tunisia carrying activists from Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania, was stopped on Friday morning at the entrance to Sirte, a city in Libya under the control of forces loyal to military commander Khalifa Haftar.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/13/egypt-libya-stop-activists-gathering-for-march-to-gaza-organisers-say
https://archive.ph/qHzGF

US-backed Israeli company’s spyware used to target European journalists, Citizen Lab finds
The company behind the hacks, Paragon Solutions, has sought to position itself as a virtuous player in the mercenary spyware industry and won U.S. government contracts, The Associated Press found. Backed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Paragon was reportedly acquired by AE Industrial Partners, a private investment firm based in Florida, in a December deal worth at least $500 million, pending regulatory approvals.
https://apnews.com/article/spyware-italy-paragon-meloni-pegasus-f36dd32106f44398ee24001317ccf2bb

Corbyn and McDonnell face no further action over January 18 Palestine demo
JEREMY CORBYN and John McDonnell hailed a “victory for the right to demonstrate against genocide” today after police and prosecutors said that no further action will be taken over their participation in the January 18 Palestine rally. … In a joint statement, the now independent MPs said: “Our peaceful demonstrations are made up of people of all backgrounds and faiths, united in a demand to end human suffering. “It is only right that the charges against our fellow protesters Chris Nineham and Ben Jamal are now dropped.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/corbyn-and-mcdonnell-face-no-further-action-over-january-18-palestine-demo

3 suspects detained in Poland on suspicion of planning far-right attack
The statement on Thursday said a 19-year-old man had been arrested in the northeastern city of Olsztyn, the third suspect in the case to be detained. The two others were arrested in April, according to the state news agency PAP. Investigators believe the suspects were influenced by other mass killers, including Timothy McVeigh, Anders Breivik and Brenton Tarrant.
https://apnews.com/article/poland-olsztyn-arrest-terrorist-plot-cbc25a9b2eeec1f84cf9d8db7806c734

Manipur on Edge Again; Protests Intensify
The fresh eruption of violence, which prompted the authorities to suspend internet services in five Valley districts, followed heightened action by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that culminated in several arrests of Meitei radical outfit – Arambai Tenggol – leaders, and some Kuki civil society members from Churchandpur and Morehin Tengnoupal district. The NIA and CBI were assisted by Assam Rifles and Manipur Police personnel.
https://www.newsclick.in/manipur-edge-again-protests-intensify

French court releases New Caledonia independence leader detained over deadly riots
In a hearing attended by Agence France-Presse, the Paris appeals court ordered the release of Tein on Thursday after a video call with him in which he promised to respond to future judicial summons and to live with his partner in eastern France. They ordered his release under judicial control on condition he does not return to New Caledonia nor enter into contact with other suspects in the case, a source close to the case said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/13/french-court-releases-new-caledonia-independence-leader-detained-over-deadly-riots-ntwnfb

China-backed militia secures control of new rare earth mines in Myanmar
Now, in the hillsides of Shan state in eastern Myanmar, Chinese miners are opening new deposits for extraction, according to two of the sources, both of whom work at one of the mines. At least 100 people are working day-to-night shifts excavating hillsides and extracting minerals using chemicals, the sources said. Two other residents of the area said they had witnessed trucks carrying material from the mines, between the towns of Mong Hsat and Mong Yun, toward the Chinese border some 200km away. Reuters identified some of the sites using imagery from commercial satellite providers Planet Labs and Maxar Technologies.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-backed-militia-secures-control-new-rare-earth-mines-myanmar-2025-06-12/
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This guy is NOT a philantropist

George Soros is NOT a philantropist, in fact, he Is the opposite of one, even when he supports stuff like trans rights or pride or shit like that, he is not a good person, he is evil and should not be trusted
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Western Animation

A general for "western" animations/cartoons.
Gonna start off with a recommendation to watch The King and the Mockingbird the 1980 version especially, absolutely comrade-pilled movie.

Good torrent sites (massive pop-up warning, put on an adblocker):
https://kimcartoon.li/CartoonList
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=movies
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=2;18;41;49
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/brg/ - Brazil General

Edicão Bolsomao

O lugar mais webcomunista para discutir sobre satanismo, transexualidade, anticristianismo, violência extrema, drogas pesadas, apologia à extrema-direita, bukkake, coprofilia, deficiências (como paraplegia e autismo), cultura hipster, homoerotismo, etc.

Último fio: >>7306
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Webm Thread

Webm Thread. The old one seem to have disappeared.
Try to keep it to as much 'OC' as possible, including just things you cut yourself.
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/PRC/ People's Republic of China X

>Thesis and Antithesis - A study in contradictions…
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: >>2235296
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Hope these protests evolve into an second American civil war
As weird as it sounds I hope these protests get attacked from the police so people actually see the USA for what it is (a neo-fascist bourgeoisiecuck rape machine). Again if people pussy out and don’t try to actually combat the system then nothing will happen
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The anti-Israel hate is getting tiresome

Why do people here (especially mods) hate open dialogue on the subject of Israel? It's like having a nuanced view of the Palestine question instantly makes you a genocide supporting philosemite.

I understand that Palestinians have legitimate grievances like land expropriation and a weird internal passport system. These things should stop, along with many other injustices and blatant abuses of state power.

We should, at the same time, acknowledge that Hamas and the IDF are both guilty of atrocities. The IDF often resorts to indiscriminate bombings when they are not warranted. Hamas often compounds casualties by hiding in schools and hospitals, knowing this will be an optics loss for Israel.

This is a complex subject, but for some fucking reason we can no longer have an intelligent discussion about it.
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/Iran Israel war/ general #4

What's happening now
• Iran launches counterstrikes: Iran fired hundreds of ballistic missiles toward Israel, according to state media, in response to Israel’s unprecedented strikes earlier Friday. CNN heard explosions in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

• Israel’s attack on Iran: Israel had targeted Iran’s nuclear program and military leaders. High-ranking military figures, including the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and nuclear scientists were killed in the attack.

• What Netanyahu says: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that “more is on the way,” after previously saying Israel’s operation against Iran could take several days.

• US role: The US military is helping to intercept Iranian missiles and drones as they are launched against Israel, a US official said. President Donald Trump told CNN that the US “of course” supports Israel in its actions. Trump warned Iran to agree to a nuclear deal “before there is nothing left.”

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-12-25-hnk-intl
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Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

almost 72 years ago, these two were executed for passing american atomic secrets to the USSR.

Were they innocent? and if not, were they heroes of socialism? Or just victims of anti semitism
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Fantasy Thread

Elf edition.

Since a bunch of the old threads were basically nuked with the server transfer, I wanted to revive some of them.

General discussion of the fantasy genre.
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Helldivers 2 is reddit personified

Has there ever been another game that has been even more reddit-focused than helldivers 2?
The satire sucks ass, but hits perfectly for redditors to cling into it, the beginning months were chokefull of vietnam memes because of malevelon creek, which lead to not stale, but rotting memes that redditors just love to cling to ("the trees speak binary", they repeat as the kid that, after several tries, has discovered an joke which has made people laugh), which alongside the "in here we can be racists cause we're hating ironically on other species" and the dev team being absolute cornballs (duolingo and it's consequences) has lead to this army of autists that hold onto this game like it's the best thing to come out in 2024.
Every Helldivers 2 fan deserves to be hanged.
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Draw Alunya 3

Alunya Art thread
(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)
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/leftypol/—/edu/ Resources Handbook

ITT: resources and tips about navigating the Internet and researching topics

Feel free to post your own resources and tips too.

I'm going to post a lot of my own that I have gathered over the years.
I ask that random chit-chat in this thread is kept to a minimum except regarding technical questions & answers on the topic matter.
This is so that resources are kept as compact as possible, and so, readable.

First I'll dump resources and tips for researching various topics.
Note: I don't even have access to or use some of these myself (e.g. LexisNexis which seems to be pay-to-use), but I figure they could be helpful in some narrow cases. I use most of these myself. If the initial things I post don't interest you, keep reading anyway. I'm going to be dumping a lot of content.

PressReader
https://www.pressreader.com/
Find key terms in newspapers and magazines.
I would say this is more helpful for finding sources that do exist rather than for reading them, per se. You can try to read the articles elsewhere than PressReader if you know their titles or part of their body text. The site appears to brand itself as pay-to-use, however you can use the search tool anyway and even read some resulting articles.
e.g. https://www.pressreader.com/search?query=Facebook

Nexis newspaper database
https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/professional/nexis/nexis.page
https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/professional/nexis/nexis-features.page
I can't speak much about it because I have not used it. I learned it existed because of a mention in a FAIR.org article. It's apparently a searchable database of newspapers similar to the above-mentioned PressReader. So I can't vouch for it (plus it's pay-to-use). But it's worth a mention. It seemed like at least one university system uses it.

Chronicling America
Library of Congress project that lets you search some historical American newspapers. By no means is it an archive of *all* historical newspaper content.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

The Wikipedia Library
This is a list of various resources compiled or provided by the Wikipedia Library, which is a system aiming to help the site's editors gain better access to sources. Some of this requires you to be an active editor on the site to access, some of it doesn't.
A. https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/
Their main program, which provides access to partnered pay-walled content for active Wikipedia editors.
B. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Find_sources
'Find sources', for finding sources in the first place. Useful for non-editors, too.
C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Find_your_source
'Find your source', for finding a source you already know about but can't access. Just a general advice page, much of it you don't need to be an editor to exploit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Find_your_source
One editor's misplaced advice supplementing C.
D. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RD
Wikipedia's reference desk. You don't need to be an active editor to ask questions here. You might also try /marx/ (see later planned entry about /marx/ for best info).
E. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Find_your_library
Some advice from WPL about finding a library with a source you are seeking (like a book).
F. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Free_resources
Free resources list. Compilation of resources on a plethora of topics usable by non-editors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Unreferenced_articles/Resources
Supplement.
G. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Free_English_newspaper_sources

Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/
Free e-book library.

The Internet Archive
https://archive.org/
Also a free e-book library. Has video and audio too. Make an account and you can freely check out e-books as though it were a physical library.

Google stuff
A. Google's "Talk to Books"
https://books.google.com/talktobooks/
Enter natural queries, get related books.
Related projects: https://research.google.com/semanticexperiences/
Broadly, but rarely helpful.
B. Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/
I recommend unchecking "include citations" on the side, will save you a lot of asshurt.
C. Google Newspapers
https://news.google.com/newspapers
I have no idea why this isn't visible from the main Google search area.
D. Google Books
https://www.google.com/search?q="INSERT+TEXT+HERE"&tbm=bks
E. Programmable Google search engine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Syced/Wikipedia_Reference_Search
This was programmed to find Wikipedia references but it should be broadly useful.
F. Tips to improve your Google search effectiveness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPw4PSsi55A
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/20-tips-use-google-search-efficiently.html

cont.
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Putting in a little firepower into New Vegas

Hey, I am editor anon again. Currently, I made the legion much more dangerous in a mod I’m working on.

Simply put, I replaced most of the legion’s weapons with the 12.7mm submachine gun. For those unaware, this gun is one of the strongest guns in game, and it is used canonically by the Legion’s assault divisions. By having most legion soldiers use this gun, the legion stands a better chance against most factions, and fighting the legion feels much more fierce than a point and click experience against tribesmen with literal spears.

So why did I buff the legion? Well, I am trying to fix the gunplay, and I feel like I found the solution. My approach is to make guns stronger and more widely used. I believe that if most characters use guns, New Vegas’ gameplay should feel much more exciting. From the play tests I have, this idea holds up. Having more enemies use guns makes the game play more like a shooter. Coincidentally, the increased firepower also makes the game feel more representative of the lore.
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/Iran Israel war/ general #3

What's happening now
• Iran begins counterstrikes: Iran has fired hundreds of ballistic missiles toward Israel, according to state media. The Israeli military said it identified incoming missiles launched from Iran, and CNN has heard explosions in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

• Israel’s attack on Iran: Israel earlier launched unprecedented strikes on Iran, targeting its nuclear program and military leaders. The attacks have continued on multiple cities across the nation. Iran’s foreign minister said that Israel will “deeply regret” its attack.

• Trump warns Iran: President Donald Trump told CNN that the US “of course” supports Israel in its actions. Trump warned Iran earlier today to agree to a nuclear deal “before there is nothing left.” It’s unclear if scheduled nuclear talks between the US and Iran will go ahead this weekend.

• Military leaders killed: Gen. Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and one of the country’s most powerful figures, was killed in the attack. Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, Iran’s highest-ranking military officer, was also killed.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-12-25-hnk-intl
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ShitLib Fatigue

I can’t be the only one suffering from an extreme amount of ShitLib fatigue right now.

I’m at my last end with these people. Imagine taking part in militant mass protests only to insist the solution is to vote Democrat and throw emotional blackmail on anyone who doesn’t. Just like how liberals showed up to the George Floyd uprising five years ago with voter registration forms, liberals are already showing up at the LA uprising protests to convince people to vote for Democrats in the midterm elections last year. How much longer before libs start showing up with Ukrainian flags and attempt to make the protests about keeping the US in NATO or whatever? They’re also already blaming “white anarchists” for the more militant actions despite footage showing the vast majority of people defending themselves from the pigs are Mexicans and Central Americans themselves.

Do liberals honestly believe this brutality wouldn’t have happened under Harris? Biden and Harris sent goons to brutalize anti-genocide protesters all last year. I fucking hate this.

Anyone else feel the same?
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Big 2d booba #2

Electric boogaloo edition

ITT: lovely anime tits but the thread isnt full anymore

body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty
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/Political Economy/ General #3 - Did You Forget "The Critique Of" Edition

Previous thread: >>2189753

Links:

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

Youtube Playlists
Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTMFx0t8kDzc72vtNWeTP05x6WYiDgEx7
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1uqxcCESK6B1juh_wnKoxftZCcqA1go
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4k72ocf2TZMxrEVCgpp1b5K3hzFWuZh
Capital Volume 1 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSHVigHHx_wjaeWmDN2W-h8
Capital Volume 2 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSxnp8uR2kshvhG-5kzrjdQ
Capital Volume 3 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlRoV5CVoc5yyYL4nMO9ZJzO
Theories of Surplus Value high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlQa-dFgNFtQvvMOgNtV7nXp
Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBnDt7k5eU8msX4DhTNUila
Paul Cockshott - Economic Planning Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCDnkyY9YkQxpx6FxPJ23joH
Paul Cockshott - Materialism, Marxism, and Thermodynamics Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKVcO3co5aCBv0m0fAjoOy1U4mOs_Y8QM
Victor Magariño - Austrian Economics: A Critical Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqerA1aKeGe3DcRc7zCCFkAoq
Victor Magariño - Rethinking Classical Economics
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepj9uE1hhCrA66tMvNlnItt
Victor Magariño - Mathematics for Classical Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHi51IjLqepWUHXIgVhC_Txk2WJgaSst
Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson (someone says "he's CIA doing reheated Proudhonism" lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ejfZdPboo&list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP

Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
https://leftypedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Political_economy
Sci-Hub
https://sci-hub.se/about
Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/
Library Genesis
https://libgen.is/
University of the Left
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online
bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
https://www.ecured.cu/
Books on libcom.org
https://libcom.org/book
Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
/EDU/ ebook share thread
https://leftypol.org/edu/res/22659.html
Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
(The Critique Of) Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm
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Leftypol mods ruined leftypol. There are only like 20 users on this entire website now lmao
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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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/Iran Israel war/ general #2

Israel attacks Iran: Israel has launched unprecedented strikes on Iran, targeting its nuclear program and military leaders in an attack that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said will last many days. Israel’s military said it used 200 fighter jets, and in retaliation, Iran launched over 100 drones toward Israeli territory.

• Trump warns Iran: President Donald Trump told CNN that the US “of course” supports Israel in its actions. Trump warned Iran earlier today to agree to a nuclear deal “before there is nothing left,” suggesting Israel’s next attacks on the country could be “even more brutal.”

• Military leaders killed: Gen. Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and one of the country’s most powerful figures, was killed in the attack. Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, Iran’s highest-ranking military officer, was also killed. Iran’s foreign minister warned that Israel will “deeply regret” its attack, urging the UN Security Council to hold an urgent meeting.

• Nuclear targets: Netanyahu said “Operation Rising Lion” struck Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz, nuclear scientists, and what he called “the heart of Iran’s ballistic missiles program.”

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-12-25-hnk-intl
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/cl/ - Chile General

El mejor thread de Chile

No se si hayan muchos compañeros chilenos por estos lares y menos que quieran hablar de la telenovela que es nuestra política, pero no creo que haga daño tener un hilo para hablar de ello, o realmente de cualquier otra weá que tenga relacion con nuestro país.
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/smt/ general

/smt/ general #1 - Schwarzwelt edition

What's hidden at the South Pole is the Schwarzwelt, which is a world comprised of alternate dimensions inhabited my demons. The Schwarzwelt is connected to humanity's abuse of nature. As long as humans harm the environment, the Schwarzwelt can not be removed from reality.


https://smtgen.neocities.org/starter_guide

Thread question: Do you prefer the DS or 3DS version of Strange Journey? Why?
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/QTDDTOT/ Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread

Previous thread: >>1946727

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

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

Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.
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Left wing vs Right wing anime

Found this random chart of anime that is considered left wing vs Right wing on the Xitter.
Thoughts? Agree or disagree?


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 The body was too short or empty.
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Calling all bastards

>All cops are bastards
This is true. Bastard profession, evolved from literal slave catching, services the state and capital
>But what if didn't?

Cops and police departments are giant gangs, this is known. Is the solution bringing back one town sheriff the people elect? We're going to be stuck with this system of policing, if not experience a worsening, if the left doesn't buck up and become cops to sabotage from within or start making calls for the return of sheriffs. Yankees love returns to tradition, and having them bring back something we had 100 years ago might be the only way to address this problem head on.

>pic related
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/arg/ - Argentina General

SANTUCHO EDITION

El thread con más copas del mundo™

Ahora que tenemos nuestro propio board, es hora de tener nuestro propio hilo también.

Bienvenidos.
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Crimen Organizado en Mexico + Latinoamerica

Cheque en el catalogo y vi que no hay un foro (?) dedicado a este tema, entonces decidi crear yo uno para que podamos poner nuestros relatos, historias o solo ventear sobre lo horrible que esta(n) nuestro(s) pais(es) con respecto al narcotrafico, pandillas o cosas relacionadas, comienzo yo.

Por ahi del 2023 o 2024, no me acuerdo muy bien, me acuerdo que un familiar mio era dueño de un bar medio famoso en Tulum, ubicado en plena zona hotelera enfrente de los hoteles mas famosos del area practicamente, tenia el negocio junto a un ex-jefe de policia y otro socio, este tio mio practicamente nadaba en dinero, a cada rato tenia un carro nuevo (y no carros cualquiera, hablo de carros NUEVOS de marca bmw, mercedes e incluso como 2 porsches) ropa nueva de marcas muy caras y frecuentemente hacia viajes a lugares como Las Vegas, no solo eso si no tambien mantenia como 5 relaciones al mismo tiempo, todas con mas de 1 hijo, y todas estas familias vivian practicamente en casas de lujo con mas de 1 carro cada una, llego un dia en el desaparecio el + su esposa y su hijo, como a las dos semanas venimos viendo que la esposa regreso a la luz, 2 dias despues se encontro el cuerpo de mi familiar, lleno de golpes, cortadas y en general indicios de que fue torturado muy feo, resulta que el era un jefe de plaza en el area de tulum, el bar ese servia como una tapadera para tanto lavar dinero como mover gente y cosas alrededor de ahi, desde armas, hasta drogas (lo cual explica mucho porque en ese bar por cada esquina veias un dealer de cualquier cosa lol), ya hoy en dia no se que fue de ese bar o de los socios de mi tio, ya que desde que se desaparecio el no escuchamos nada de los otros dos tampoco, el bar creo que fue cerrado a remodelado ya que al buscar su nombre hoy en dia sale que no existe lol.

espero escuchar sus cosas y historias, saludos desde yucatan pelana.
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/mlp/ My Little Pony

Even though the fandom is pretty dead. I wanted to see what a brony thread on here would look like since I’m a newbie

What does /leftypol/ think about this franchise and the online subculture it spawned? I feel like now that the little girls who made up the target audience are young adults I’ve been seeing more zoomers tell stories about how they were “traumatized” by the adult fandom and it’s becoming more in vogue to decry the whole “brony” phenomenon as “problematic”.

On the other hand though what’s the sociological explanation for millions of grown men becoming obsessed with a little girls cartoon in spite of hegemonic Western gender norms? I’ve read a lot of conflicting theories from academics and culture critics regarding this. Is it autism? Post-Irony? Or is there something about it that just makes it genuinely appealing?
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/Iran Israel/ war general

What's happening now
• Iran retaliation underway: Iran has launched more than 100 drones toward Israeli territory, Israel’s military said. The attack comes after Israel launched unprecedented strikes on Iran, targeting its nuclear program and senior military leaders in an attack that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said will last many days. The attack plunges the Middle East into fresh uncertainty, increasing the risk of a regional war.

• Military leaders killed: General Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard, was killed in the attack. He was among the country’s most powerful figures. The attack also killed Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Iran’s highest-ranking military officer.

• Nuclear targets: Netanyahu said “Operation Rising Lion” struck Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz, nuclear scientists, and what he called “the heart of Iran’s ballistic missiles program.”

• US position: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there was no US involvement or assistance in the strikes. President Donald Trump was convening a Cabinet-level meeting as Israel attacked, a White House official and two sources told CNN. The meeting was expected to focus on the US response.
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Attention Burgeranons

We need anti-war protests today. The ability of the regime to prosecute imperialist war depends on the willingness of the public to go along with it. We need mass resistance to make the continuation of the war against Iran extremely difficult for the regime. Their needs to be protests today in order to put strong political pressure.
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/IRGC/ - Iran General

Another emergency inter-imperialist war general edish

Reminder that the setting Iraqi cabinet is backed by the Axis of Resistance (alongside the US) and it allowed the Israeli strikes against Iranian workers to be launched from its airspace. Average Islamist fail.

Live New feeds (idk)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/13/live-explosions-reported-in-iran-amid-israel-tensions

Long live world revolution
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Anime figures thread

…in which we collect and post recollections of our moments of weakness which made our wallets cry and poor Karl roll in the grave for doing a hekking commodity fetishism.

In my defense at least I bought my Shuten Douji figure from the cheapest seller.
Also, does anyone have any idea of who could be the original manufacturer or producer? I can't find an official name or even product page for this figure besides the storefronts from the various resellers.
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I made a vichan back up and restore script

You're welcome
https://github.com/Z4ph0d42/Vichan-Backup-script

I couldn't find any established easy way to back up my image board that didnt involve a bunch of wiazrd spells i type into my terminal every time. I wanted a set it and forget it method.
So i made one.

Pic related, me making the script.
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Russia Ukraine conflict

>ukraine
>arrests people for having marxist literature

>russia

>anti democratic oligarchs

who is the good and bad guy from a socialist perspective? maybe none?
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USSR

STALIN DID NOTHING WRONG THREAD

anyone that seriously examines the history of the soviet union would realize that stalin did nothing wrong. he was right about everything, except the nazis, but all his purges and his"paranoia" which was just propaganda, were totally justified
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I love how I can't talk about 90% of the very real material things that trigger my [mtf] gender dysphoria, because pointing out things like "girls are socially accepted under the pretense of having inherent value" apparently makes you a chud or something
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TOR node

The current setup with the TOR node in-site creates an absurd fucking system that punishes rule-abiding posters twice over while offering literally zero reason for the most atrociously malignant posters to follow the rules.

People flagrantly break the rules and then ban-evade without even trying to hide what they're doing, going so far as to continue posting with the exact same static name, and their original IP ban doesn't even get a single minute of increased ban length from all I've seen so far.

So everyone else not only has to follow the rules, but they also get to watch as the people who break them on a repeat basis simply mock them for reporting them. The number of people who use it in good faith could be counted on one hand. Not reporting is bourgeois is put on the very top of the screen on every fucking thread but
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF REPORTING PEOPLE IF THEY CAN JUST CASUALLY EVADE ANY PUNISHMENT WHATSOEVER?

Supposedly there's supposed to be a feature that helps prevent abuse of TOR in the future, but as it is it's a BROKEN FUCKING FEATURE that has only annoyed everyone who doesn't use it. FINISH your fucking project before you IMPLEMENT IT!

https://take.supersurvey.com/poll5514023xad9144c1-163
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I wanted to know your guys who do you think is the best one piece of villain I thought that rob lucci > Arlong >>crocodile >>>Sakazuki post your reply
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It's amazing how communists were morally superior even when dealing with their opponents

They didn't invent a hundred different forms of torture like the fascists. They didn't build gas chambers to commit genocide on an industrial scale. They didn't do medical experiments.

They just forced them to work or shot them (instant and painless) because they were motivated by justice and not sadism and perversion.
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Laborwave - Vol 1, crane edition

you ever wondered how do giant cranes suddenly get built overnight and you never notice them appearing until they're in place?
anyway making a new general for work in here, thread for all work Know-how, share all the unkown skills you know that are related to your work but most people don't know about/could use knowing

labour intensive work (how to hammer a nail, how to screw a bolt), shitty office work (how to multitask, how to avoid choking your boss, how to spread rumors about a cunt from Human Resources), food work (what we put in your sandwich behind the kitchen, how to mop the floor efficently, how to built tolerance against the smell of bathrooms) trades or STEM (how to argue online your profession is the best using mental gymansium) even sex work (how to suck cocks, how to fuck people in the ass, what to do when he's a shy virgin and he's annoying)

>inb4 i'm neet anti-worker

then share with us what you do to feel the best, how to tie a blanket around your shoulder like the pepe neet, how to get high at home no money paid, how to forge a katana, how to speedrun a game or a book, how to decorate your house in a way that don't make you feel like a miserable wagie
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GTA VI TRAILER 2 JUST DROPPED!!!!!
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Tomoko thread… why? Because I like the character… and other reasons…
Post lewds (spoilered), memes, edits, pics and anything else related to the subject
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Why Are They All Tailist Opportunists?

Every experience I've ever had with a major American org, be it PSL, DSA, SALT, CPUSA has left a profoundly disappointing impression. They uniformly have no militancy, no coherent program for building power, and no pattern of success. Often, their strategy invariably finds itself expresses in mindlessly tailing the activist cause du jour, recruiting from liberal protests, then creating their own nonviolent liberal protests and book clubs to fundraise off of ad infinitum. Usually their electoral strategy involves endorsing the Democrats or trying to launch a presidential run for some figure with no national profile who receives 0.015% of the vote. At best they'll make a mild contribution to local tenant organizing on a micro scale. At worst, they're fed-filled cults run by sex pests. Anarchists, who lack the political organizing capabilities to accomplish anything of note, usually somehow lap these orgs in actual militant activity. At least they're capable of creating some minor property damage.

If this pattern isn't isolated to a single org but seems to infect the whole field of them, DSA, CPUSA, PSL, and so forth, then it's indicative of a structural problem. These structural problems of systemic uselessness seem to be pervasive well beyond just the United States. What's going on here? How do we fix the formula?

Genuinely, would we have better results in these kinds of conditions if our orgs were fully underground to begin with? I suspect that one advantage the anarchists have is the lack of a publically visible, legally sanctioned, easy to target organizational structure. Every fed knows the leadership of the PSL, or the DSA, and anyone who's ever paid dues, so there's a very strong incentive to stay safely within legal boundaries. Infiltration and cooption is painfully easy. On the other hand, the anarchist model is also obviously a failure, given that they simply function along lines of pure spontaneity without much coherent organization to begin with.

How dig ourselves out of this common trap, and the resulting malaise?
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I wanted to know that if you’re a marxist do you have to believe in vaccines are can you be unvaccinated and live in a marxist society or is only crazy right wingers that are anti-vaccine
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Horror in games

Bonus point if it's games that aren't horror themed, or-if not SPECIALLY games that were/started as horror games but ended up taking a more action approach and how does that evolved?

out of the tip of my tongue Devil May Cry which was supposed to be a Resident Evil game with a particular horror focus; ended up being known for being the SSStylish action game and i mean maybe it was because i played it as a 5 year old but back then i was scared shitless of traversing through the game
there's a lot of Resident Evil remains that are even scarier
makes me wish they had kept a lot of them and commited just slightly more to the horror bit, even in future games where they perfected the action formula
then there's the psychological horror which i think in turn you can get something like affective horror which is present across nearly every Devil May Cry game, the generational trauma in Vergil, Dante's constant joking becomes a coping mechanism

then there's Half-Life 2 which i mean it's a very special case when the 2nd entry was even scarier than the 1st one even though the 1st one is more set up as a horror game?
impressively enough a lot of this is done through the eerie ambience, when you're alone personally while Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt are kinda spooky, my defacto to Half-Life 2 scaries is usually Canals, when you're all alone with a boat in the evening and the sun is starting to set, you can find remains of hideouts and remains of people's lives, and yeah the game is full of these places, where you're hoping to find someone and there's just you and random props

Now then there's Majora's Mask which is a particularly interesting game, the game is cheery most of the time, but it's also eerie and creepy at others, even after playing it before there's times where you can feel uneasy despite knowing what's next, there's obviously the countdown and the feeling of unpending doom, the pressure, but also something about the ambient that feels so cozy yet so creepy at times. like feeling comfortable but knowing there's something lurking around, even if it's just the time.



Asking because i was making a game based on Fear & Hunger but just like Devil May Cry we ended up focusing more in the action department but i still really wanna bank on the horror theme even if it's not the focus anymore.

might post pics on another thread later, the game is very barebones right now but we're almost done the 1st roadmap of development and we might start working on the 1st level and the models soon-er
i'm just waiting for a book my bf bought for me that has old workflows for 3D modelling used in PS2 games which is the look we're kinda going for but not just in looks, but also performance-wise and quality.
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News 6/12/25

Indian state accused of extrajudicial killings and aiding resource plunder, under pretense of anti-Maoist crackdown
The statement also urged the prime minister to stop the militarization of the region and respect the rights enshrined in the Fifth Schedule of the Indian constitution for the Adivasis (Indigenous peoples of India). The statement alleges that the rights of the Adivasis “are being systematically violated and forests and minerals of Chhattisgarh are being subjected to indiscriminate corporate exploitation with disastrous implications for environmental stability and livelihood of the local people.” Various other organizations and individuals have issued similar statements demanding the immediate cessation of all hostilities against the Indigenous peoples of the region, along with its demilitarization.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/12/indian-state-accused-of-extrajudicial-killings-and-aiding-resource-plunder-under-pretense-of-anti-maoist-crackdown/

In Armenia, rising ceasefire violations bring fears of war with Azerbaijan
Armenia's southernmost province of Syunik is at the heart of the dispute and is where most ceasefire violations are reported. Syunik separates the main body of Azerbaijan to the east from the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the west. It also provides a vital trade route for Armenia to Iran, which it borders to the south. Azerbaijan has since 2020 demanded Armenia provide it with a corridor through Syunik to Nakhchivan. Baku has said that the passage would remain Armenian territory but have minimal controls from the capital Yerevan.
https://www.reuters.com/world/armenia-rising-ceasefire-violations-bring-fears-war-with-azerbaijan-2025-06-12/

Prosecution of KKE members for their anti-war activities
In recent days, the prosecution of KKE members and the municipal authority of the city of Tirnavos, which was elected with the support of the KKE, began in recent days on the grounds of their participation in the mobilization that took place on 6 November 2024. During this mobilization, members of the KKE and KNE blocked six trucks carrying ammunition destined for Ukraine.
https://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/Prosecution-of-KKE-members-for-their-anti-war-activities/

Russia’s military casualties top 1 million in 3-year-old war, Ukraine says
The U.K. Defense Ministry also said in a statement posted Thursday on X that Russia has suffered over 1 million casualties, including roughly 250,000 killed since it launched the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022. … Earlier this year, the General Staff of the Russian armed forces claimed that Ukrainian military losses had topped 1 million.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-drone-attacks-kharkiv-0869f159a0b1b0b073dd139a94cffdc1

Israel to expel French 'Freedom Flotilla' activists, MEP Rima Hassan held in solitary confinement
Four French activists who are being detained by Israel after being intercepted on board the Madleen humanitarian aid boat sailing for Gaza will be sent back to France on Thursday or Friday, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Wednesday. One of the activists, MEP Rima Hassan, was briefly held in solitary confinement, an NGO representing the activists said.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250611-israel-to-expel-french-freedom-flotilla-activists-mep-rima-hassan-held-in-solitary-confinement
https://archive.ph/W1oCr

Hamas defends attack on GHF bus as 'security campaign' against Israeli-backed militia
"We won't allow a repeat of the experience in southern Lebanon, where militias became tools of the occupation," the Hamas official declared. Yasser Abu Shabab recently appeared in a controversial video, claiming his militia aimed to "liberate areas from Hamas rule."
https://www.newarab.com/news/hamas-defends-attack-ghf-bus-security-campaign

Israel’s coalition survives vote to dissolve parliament over army draft tensions
Tensions had been running high for days, with Shas and United Torah Judaism (UTJ) threatening to back the move to topple the government and trigger early elections. The political crisis was sparked by the government's failure to pass legislation exempting ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service - a long-standing demand of both Shas and UTJ.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israels-coalition-survives-vote-dissolve-parliament-over-army-draft-tensions

Egypt begins detaining and deporting activists ahead of peaceful march to Gaza
Thousands of people began arriving in the Egyptian capital Cairo this week hoping to join activist group Global March to Gaza, which aims to peacefully trek to Rafah. Participants would walk from Cairo to El Arish on Friday, then cross the border and arrive in Rafah on Sunday. The group has been registering participants for months in a display of solidarity with Gazans and to protest against Israel’s genocide as well as seeming indifference from most world governments.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/egypt-begins-detaining-and-deporting-activists-ahead-peaceful-march-gaza

Police fire tear gas on crowds protesting Kenya blogger’s death in custody
Protesters took to the streets of Kenya’s capital Nairobi to express their fury over the death of a blogger arrested by police last week, as the country’s police watchdog reported that 20 people had died in custody over the last four months. Police used tear gas to disperse crowds gathered close to the capital’s parliamentary building on Thursday to protest against the death of Albert Ojwang, a 31-year-old blogger arrested in the western town of Homa Bay last week for criticising the country’s deputy police chief Eliud Lagat.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/12/police-fire-tear-gas-on-crowds-protesting-kenya-bloggers-death-in-police-custody
https://archive.ph/ixBVd

South America's leftwing leaders support CFK after court ruling
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva telephoned CFK to highlight her serenity while urging her to remain strong, drawing from his own experience of imprisonment on corruption charges later overturned. “I called comrade Cristina Kirchner this afternoon and expressed my solidarity,” said the Brazilian president on X.. “I spoke to her about the importance of staying strong in these difficult times”, he added. “I observed with satisfaction the serenity and determination with which Cristina faces this adverse situation and her determination to continue fighting,” Lula further noted.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/06/12/south-america-s-leftwing-leaders-support-cfk-after-court-ruling

Bolivia anti-government protests turn deadly as tensions rise
"There are already four officers who have lost their lives," Justice Minister Cesar Siles told reporters in La Paz, adding that some had been shot. The deceased are three police officers and a firefighter, Bolivia's state news agency reported. "We can't call these civilian protests anymore. We are talking about paramilitary groups, groups that carry weapons, and we have to respond firmly," Siles said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivia-anti-government-protests-turn-deadly-as-tensions-rise-2025-06-12/
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bourgeoise

what can the bourgeoise do to help achieve global communism? im asking as someone whos parents own rental properties in new york. i want to help make the work a more inclusive and equitable place
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Pre-Columbian general

ITT post information about the history and anthropology of the New World. A lot of new anthropological work has been done in this field in recent decades that has not yet entered public consciousness.
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A leftcom subreddit is currently raiding us, if you wondered why there was such an influx of low quality posters derailing every thread with their mentally ill leftcom vs ML larp internet war.