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/Iran/ - Iran War Thread #35

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/Appalachia/

🧣 Discuss Politics related to the mighty occupied nation of of Appalachia ⛏️
It’s time Leftypol pays more attention to the beautiful land of Appalachia. As an upper Appalachian myself o can say that this is Easily one of the most historically proletarian places in America because the coal miner’s union back in the day bravery fought cops and the national guard, however unfortunately post-red-scare the Appalachian people became surf-brained and got into an Abusive relationship with the Republican Party and conservatism in general. Appalachia has been victim to unequal exchange in what is supposed to be it’s own country, they shut down our steel mills and do nothing but mine our mountains and frack our fields and it doesn’t go to funding our schools, hospitals, or infrastructure, of course this is the case in all of America but especially in Appalachia, it’s basically a neo-colony in its own country. We must help re-radicalize the Appalachian people! Rednecks of the world Unite!

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/USApol/

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<Nostradumbass Edition

>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essential American Politik📖

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

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

Old thread: >>2740012

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/ISG/ - Internet Spectacle General

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

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

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

<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA

>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer
📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY

<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE

>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs

<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko

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

<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://altexploit.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/slavoj-zizek-the-sublime-object-of-ideology-second-edition-the-essential-zizek-2009.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4

<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY

>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://www.are.na/block/4114741
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI

<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q

>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI

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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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Whacha readn/watchn thread

Since the board is slow, (and my adhd stuggle to post on near-dead boards), let's do a general discussion thread of what you've been reading/watching.
Similar to the /tv/ thread on hobby.

I'll start:
Manga: Kingdom
It's alot of fun, currently on chapter 430.
Despite the restriction of it being in the past, there's alot of strategy/complication that makes it interesting to read.

And the manga is fun in the fact that it has shoenin level power clashing and hyping of characters – but still respects reality.
Like a character being healed after a fight is explained by months or even years of a time skip, or when situations where "talk-no-jutsu" would've occurred in shoenin, instead the person ranting is just meant to understand the world more before they die.

I am reading some others as well, like: Vinland Saga, One Piece, Watamote, and a few others – just been alittle addicted to Kingdom.
(I should catch up with One Piece though.. I'm 110 chapters behind with it).

Anime on the other hand, nothing.
Though I've been feeling nostaligic for Bobobo, will probably watch in half a years time.

Also if this thread has alot of replies, pin it as a thread to update in when you visit the board.

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Epstein Fatigue

Am I the only one on here with Epstein fatigue?

I hate this shit. I hate how the Epstein debacle has even made leftists throw out solid understandings of class and imperialism. WHO GIVES A FUCKING SHIT if the ruling class are baby-eating Satan-worshipping Illuminati? THEY'RE STILL EXPLOITING PROLES AND SHOULD BE OPPOSED ON THIS REASON ALONE.

But what really fucking grinds my gears is seeing how tenaciously Democrats and liberals are desperate to turn Epstein into Russiagate 2.0. They sincerely believe they can use the Epstein shit to remove Trump from office and put him in jail for the rest of his life. First of all, as a cis woman who is also a sexual assault survivor, I can tell you that sexual assault is one of the hardest crimes to prove in a court of law. Even if Trump wasn't rich and didn't have the money to get away with his (alleged) crimes, there's still no possible way he'd ever get convicted of a statutory rape that occurred decades ago; there's simply way too much reasonable doubt. But also in this is seeing how garden-variety liberals are really, REALLLLLY pushing the "Epstein was Mossad" allegation, and that he was pimping out underage girls to get blackmail material on world leaders so they would be puppets of Israel. In the case of Trump, they're saying Trump is entirely a puppet of these "Zionist Jewish supremacists" like Epstein, and nearly everything Trump is doing policy-wise is purely in service to Israel. Liberals are even going to far as to call the current Iran War the "Epstein-AIPAC War", not just because Trump launched the war to distract from the Epstein files, but because Netanyahu has all the Epstein blackmail material on Trump and is using this to coerce him into going to war for Israel. This of course completely ignores how American Empire works and things like the US wanting to take control of Iran's oil and all that. But in this, it's very obvious to me that two things are going on here: 1. just like how the Democrats were pushing Russiagate during Trump's first term to "prove" that Trump was a "puppet of Russia" they're now using the Epstein files to "prove" Trump is a puppet of Israel/Zionists, and 2. the Democrats are now going to embrace anti-Zionism in the context of the alleged Epstein-Israel blackmail as a way of portraying themselves as the "peace party" like they did in the 2000s. There's zero doubt in my mind that most of this is motivated by the midterm elections and the Democrats' needing their party to win both the House and Senate in order to stay relevant.

But in all seriousness: Epstein serves the Democrats way more than it serves the radical left. I'm sick and tired of hearing about the "Epstein Class" as if the presence of the ultra-wealthy is somehow a bug and not a feature of capitalism. I'm sick of hearing that the problem with the ruling class is that they're immoral, and not that they exist in the first place. I just want liberals to shut the hell up and focus on issues that can actually be solved. Fuck this bullshit.

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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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Name of a Pre-WW2 German Author

what was the name of that pre-WW2 German author that wrote how stereotypically non "aryan" germans were typically the most fanatical Nazis because they knew that they were on the fringe of being considered racially acceptable. Note how the entire high command of the nazi apparatus were a men who were mostly dark-haired, brown-eyed and somewhat short by german standards and who personally proved the lunacy of the aryan "race" as a concept by their mere existence

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/QTDDTOT/ Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread

Previous thread: >>2381106

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.

Previous QTDDTOT Archives
https://archive.is/ga3OG

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/FrancoPol/

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

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

Français! Ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!

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/leftydeutschpol/ - "Seid ihr bereit für den hybriden Krieg?"-Edition

Die Oma mal am Joint ziehen lassen gegen die vaterlandslosen Gesellen.

Alter Faden:
~~>>2363945~~

Ein paar Links:
https://mlwerke.redflag.ps/
https://www.papyrossa.de/
https://www.marxistische-blaetter.de/
https://www.jungewelt.de/
https://www.unsere-zeit.de/
https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/
https://www.wsws.org/de
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/
https://kommunistischepartei.de/
https://wiki.kommunistische.org/index.php?title=Hauptseite
https://www.rf-news.de/rote-fahne-news

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/leftybritpol/ - Rising Youth Antisemitism edition

UK Government to Investigate Rising Antisemitism in Schools

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

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

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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #284

Previous: >>2698670

This shit is bananas edition

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

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

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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Social media
>Twitter
https://x.com/GeromanAT
https://x.com/plnewstoday
https://x.com/RALee85
https://x.com/MarQs__
https://x.com/KofmanMichael
https://x.com/IntelCrab (DEAD)
https://x.com/michaelh992
https://x.com/Suriyakmaps
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_ (NEW)

<Telegram
https://t.me/milinfolive
https://t.me/hueviykharkov
https://t.me/conflictzone
https://t.me/vorposte
https://t.me/intelslava
https://t.me/grey_zone
https://t.me/AussieCossack
https://t.me/asbmil
https://t.me/Slavyangrad

🇷🇺🇺🇦
Thread guidelines:
• Please remember to add a spoiler to NSFW and extreme content such as graphic violence and gore.
• Try your best to not derail discussion too much from the main events and relevant places where the war is taken place, as well as other happenings, groups and public figures related to it.
• Meta discussion of the historical, philosophical and ideological background of the war is fine as long as its done in good faith and comradely.
• In the event the meta discussion overstays its welcome, participating users will be referred to take the conversation to the INTERNATIONALISM general thread.
• Quality shitposting and original content is encouraged! Spamming glowie memes is low effort.
• this is /ISG/ for people who treats geopolitics like shitty map games
• behead NATO, crush NATO, etc.

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Honey pots, not just for glowies

The apparatus of surveillance operates on a fundamental asymmetry, and in the USA they seem to assume the tools of surveillance, infiltration, and deception are theirs alone to wield. This assumption is itself a vulnerability, a blind spot carved by decades of impunity. The honey pot, the web of trust, the slow cultivation of access, these are not technologies proprietary to the state and private GWOT actors. They are social dynamics, and like the other social dynamics of repression such as violent force, they can be redirected.

I will not elaborate on specific methods here. That would be not only irresponsible but strategically suicidal. The moment a tactic is named, it is catalogued, and the moment it is catalogued, it becomes less effective. What I can offer, without burning what works, is a confirmation that the web is not one-way. The agent who seeks trust must offer trust. The infiltrator who collects information must receive information. And in that exchange, if one is paying attention, the hunter becomes legible.

This is not theory. This is my experience in Pittsburgh.

Over those years, two individuals I considered comrades, people with whom I shared meals, organizing work, and the ordinary vulnerability of movement life, were turned. I know this now not because they confessed but because a patient, multi-layered honey pot revealed them to us. The method itself is not the story, and I wont burn the method. The story is what the method produced; a pattern. Inconsistencies in their accounts of where they had been, or how they received funding to survive. Questions that lingered too long on details no organizer needed to know. A sudden, inexplicable prosperity during periods of movement quiet, new equipment, paid travel, the kind of financial ease that does not arrive by accident. And finally, the confirmation; information fed to them in confidence, information that had no reason to travel beyond their ears, appearing later in the investigative posture of local authorities.

I now possess testimony from them, though they do not know I possess it. I have documentation of their movements, their communications, their quiet meetings with individuals whose affiliations they never disclosed, both private and public. I have the record of their lives as they lived it while pretending to live ours. And I have the knowledge, cold and finalized upon paper with evidence, that they were asked to gather information on me, and that they abided.

The betrayal is not the discovery. The betrayal is the confirmation of what suspicion already knew but could not prove. And in that confirmation lies a deeper truth; they were caught not because we are smarter, but because they assumed we were not paying attention. They assumed the tools of surveillance were theirs alone. They assumed the web spun only one way. They assumed that because they were watching us, no one was watching them.

Pittsburgh taught me otherwise. The apparatus has its blind spots. The hunters carry their own vulnerabilities. And a movement that learns to read the pattern of attention directed at it can, with patience and creativity, learn to return that attention in kind. Think of some creative ways that this can be done to yourself, and if necessary discuss it with potential comrades as related to the person who is suspicious. Not to surveil for the sake of surveillance, but to survive as organizers. Not to become the state, but to render its instruments visible, and in that visibility, to render them less useful to the bourgeoisie.

I will not say how the web was spun. That knowledge belongs to those who need it, and they will find it in the same place we did, within the realms of human creativity, through loss, through attention, through the slow accumulation of pattern recognition that comes only from having been burned and refusing to be burned again. What I will say is this, the apparatus is not omniscient. It is staffed by people with mortgages, marriages, fears, weaknesses and the same capacity for carelessness as anyone else. They leave traces. They generate records. They hold unrelated secrets that they might do anything to keep from getting out. They live lives that can be read, if one knows how to look. And sometimes, if you are patient, if you are creative, if you are willing to learn from your own near-destruction, you can catch them in the act of attempting to catch you.

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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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ANIMETA - Anime Meta Discussion Thread

/ANIMETA/
General Thread discussing, analyzing and criticizing anime from the meta perspective of Capitalism, Media Culture (Industry) and Socio-Economics & Politics.
No shitflinging, drama, bad faith or baiting posts (e.g. "Trap is transphobic" or "Muh shounen trash" or "(all) Anime is misogynistic"). Keep it cool comrades.

Animation: Treatment of Animators Thread >>617
Leftist Anime Content: Communist Anime Thread >>1417 Communist Anime Girls Thread >>964 Miyazaki Thread >>469
Anime Hot Takes >>1993 so-bad-it's-good animu >>2551
Sources and Questions: Questions and Answers >>4229
E-celebs/Social Media: Ani-tube >>3128 V-tubers >>3388
Story Ideas: /WYOA/: write your own anime thread >>4263
Shounen complaint thread >>3200
Weeb-Otaku-/jp/ thread: /weaboo/ >>4715

Basic topics and questions:
>Is anime bad/stupid/boring or good/smart/interesting?
>Is anime inherently a reactionary/capitalist product or can it be a communist or pro-communist one?
>What Tropes and archetypes are good or bad?
>Will anime be produced under socialism? Could Japan have produced anime if it had become a Soviet State in the Cold War? How would anime look like or differ under socialism?
>Why are nearly all weebs and otaku right-wing or radlibs? Why are they so cringe and self-entitled?

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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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imperialism isn't about economics. it's about society.

Westoid "people" come to the Global South pillage. How hard is that to understand? They aren't your friends, they aren't your allies, they are your blood enemies. Think of it like humans vs. orcs.

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What does Leftypol think about George Washington

My opinion on him as an American is pretty negative, obviously he owned slaves and that is really bad but I also don’t think that the revolution was anti-imperialist enough, obviously Karl Marx was not even born yet but even if he was there is no way that the founders would incorporate socialism into the constitution. And George Washington immediately started expanding territory westward so he wasn’t an anti-imperialist at all but he just hated taxes.

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The establishment of Israel.
The collapse of the Soviet union.

Which one is worse? Which one you would prevent, if you could?

The body was too short or empty.

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Draw Alunya 3

Alunya Art thread
(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)

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/gaygen/

lefty gay general - boyfriend edition

How do we feel about our bfs /lgbt/? I love mine lots and lots and can't wait till he gets home from work personally.

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tttt vs ballroom

Thoughts on this discourse currently raging on xitter? Personally I don't really like either, but I don't understand how rejecting ballroom / drag terms is racist. It feels very american to say that when in my country drag is mostly a gay male thing and the closest thing to ballroom is only white people.

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the idpol thread to end all idpol threads

the idpol thread to end all idpol threads

>umm despite being only X% of the population, demographic Y makes up >X% of the ruling classerino!!1!!

whether you're talking about men, jews, whites, cishets, whatever, THERE SHOULD BE NO RULING CLASS YOU STUPID FUCKWIT.

there's a word for trying to rearrange the ruling class to better "represent" the demographics of the rest of the population and that word is LIBERALISM.

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WEBCOMICS

Thread for talking about webcomics. Share your favs, discuss latest updates.

I recently discovered "basket of guts"
https://basketsofguts.thecomicseries.com/comics/1#content-start
A story about a lich that comes out of his crypt for world domination and find the world evolved and then quickly end on the run from a "modern" state security services.
Really liking it so far. Good mix of genres, starting from a standard fantasy world and instead of freezing it in time add societal and technomagical development. Also I find it pretty funny. Not everything translated yet sadly.

its on leftypol that I discovered Out Of Placers (apparently created by a furry artist, which explain the horniness)
https://www.valsalia.com/
Pretty interesting world building.

Finished since quite a while but at the time followed schlock mercenary. Goofy SF about a mercenary company.

On a more smutty side, I like alfie by incase.

For the non storyline webcomics, existential comics, oglaf and SMBC are my favs.

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News 3/18/26

Trump predicts he will have ‘honour of taking Cuba’ amid power blackout
“I do believe I’ll be … having the honour of taking Cuba,” Trump added. “Whether I free it, take it – think I could do anything I want with it. You want to know the truth. They’re a very weakened nation right now.” Shortly after he spoke, the New York Times reported that US officials told Cuba to remove its president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, from power during recent talks, citing four unnamed sources familiar with the discussions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/17/donald-trump-can-take-cuba-oil

Kast launches border barriers in northern Chile and hardens migration agenda
Chilean President José Antonio Kast on Monday launched the border control works he had promised during the campaign, starting in Chacalluta in the Arica and Parinacota region, in an early sign that migration and security will be among the defining priorities of his administration. According to Chile’s presidency, Kast inspected the works at the frontier and highlighted the Army’s deployment to secure the area.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/03/17/kast-launches-border-barriers-in-northern-chile-and-hardens-migration-agenda

El Salvador's far-right president pushes through life sentences
EL SALVADOR’S Congress approved a constitutional amendment proposed by the country’s far-right president on Tuesday, permitting life sentences in a country that has imprisoned more than 1 per cent of its population. The reform, presented by President Nayib Bukele’s, security cabinet was approved earlier in the day by El Salvador’s legislature. It is set to be ratified next week.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/el-salvadors-far-right-president-pushes-through-life-sentences

Ontario’s Tory government tries and fails to ban Toronto Al-Quds Day demonstration
Al-Quds Day, the annual demonstration for Palestinian rights, which has been peacefully observed in Toronto for decades, went ahead on Saturday, March 14. It did so, despite an 11th-hour attempt by Ontario’s Doug Ford-led, hard-right Tory government to obtain an emergency court injunction banning the demonstration, on the fraudulent claim that it posed a “serious risk of violence.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/17/utbe-m17.html

Qatar blames Israel for attack on gas field it shares with Iran
Mr Ansari called the attack “a dangerous and irresponsible step amid the current military escalation … infrastructure constitutes a threat to global energy security, as well as to the peoples of the region and its environment. “We call on all parties to exercise restraint, adhere to international law and work toward de-escalation in a manner that preserves the security and stability of the region.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/qatar-blames-israel-attack-gas-field-it-shares-iran

'We are crazy radicals': Israel's anti-war protesters struggle against ruling consensus
While there is an elite consensus in Israeli society that this war will bring safety to the country, a few civil society voices have offered dissent. As well as a handful of protests, 80 Jewish and Arab organisations recently signed an open letter to US President Donald Trump and Netanyahu. Put together by It’s Time, a coalition of peacebuilding groups, the letter calls to “stop the war with Iran - a war whose goals are unattainable and that lacks a clear exit strategy”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/we-are-crazy-radicals-israels-anti-war-protesters-struggle-against-ruling-consensus

Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah says it will temporarily suspend attacks on US embassy with conditions
The conditions listed by the group in a statement included Israel's halt of displacing and striking residents of Beirut's southern suburbs and a commitment to not shelling residential areas in Baghdad and other provinces.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/03/iraqs-kataib-hezbollah-says-it-will-temporarily-suspend-attacks-us-embassy

Israel faces stiff Hezbollah resistance as it attempts to push deeper into Lebanon
The question of how Hezbollah has managed to preserve its presence south of the Litani, despite more than a year of the Lebanese army trying to disarm them, as well as near-daily strikes on fighters and weapons caches from Israel, has yet to be answered. Despite the intense pressure, Hezbollah has managed to put up a strong fight on the very frontlines of south Lebanon, using a mixture of anti-tank guided munitions, drones and artillery.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/fighting-intensifies-israel-hezbollah-southern-lebanon

Former banker and Hubei party boss indicted for accepting ‘especially huge’ bribes
The investigation into his case, first announced in February last year, has closed, and the Nanjing Municipal People’s Procuratorate has filed a public prosecution with the Nanjing Intermediate People’s Court, according to a statement on Tuesday from the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. “Jiang sought benefits for others and illegally accepted property from others in an especially large amount by exploiting the convenience of his positions and the influence derived from his authority and status,” the statement said, officially naming the crimes for the first time.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3346885/former-banker-and-hubei-party-boss-indicted-accepting-especially-huge-bribes
https://archive.ph/4KRN5

Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to temporary Eid al-Fitr ‘pause’ in conflict
However, he warned that “in case of any cross-border attack, drone attack or any terrorist incident inside Pakistan, [operations] shall immediately resume with renewed intensity”. Shortly after the announcement, a spokesperson for Afghanistan’s Taliban government also said it would temporarily suspend military operations against Pakistan.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/18/pakistan-and-afghanistan-agree-to-temporary-eid-al-fitr-pause-in-conflict
https://archive.ph/5PmPm

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/Iran/ - Iran War Thread #34

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Why is satanism becoming so big among the right? I'm thinking maybe because they have experience and know that the Jewish God is real they reject him because of the virtue that he's Jewish, support Esau and Amalek, support radical jihadism, believe in Qliphothic black kabbalah, support dark magic and psychospiritual warfare. These people are a growing problem that the CIA is scared of them. What gives with these people, man?

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The Cuban energy crisis

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

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

So i must ask, what can we do indiviually to help Cuba?

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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO SINFONIA AMAZÔNICA
"Sinfonia Amazônica é o primeiro longa-metragem de animação da história do Brasil, lançado na década de 50. Foi animado inteiramente por Anélio Latini Filho, que dedicou cerca de cinco anos de trabalho para adaptar diversos relatos folclóricos da região norte em um filme apenas com a ajuda de alguns poucos colaboradores, entre eles o seu irmão Mário Latini."
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>15450

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/Paranormal Evidence/

Post your most compelling evidence of anything in the realm of the paranormal.

Fossilized Giants are everywhere and there really is a conspiracy in place to hide this fact (see stellium7 Mountgo videos where google earth censored the eye socket of a giant elephant he was studying). My guess would be that they don't want the general population to know that the world was created because they want the serfs to be uneducated atheists or agnostics. I guess they forgot that all secrets come to light and everything which is buried will be unearthed. Ever wonder why it's called the "FACE" of the earth?

>mesas are tree stumps.
>proves the Giants.

The number of biological synchronicities are too great to be coincidental. There are historical accounts to back up the fact that giants are real and now science has confirmed that soft bodied creatures can turn to stone via nucleophilic invasion in a silica rich environment. This video series might help you understand

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>sells temu-tier air defence systems to allies that dont even work
>is the biggest trading partner of israel and america
>are still worshipped and simped by every third-worldist and multipolarist
How do they do it?

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Axis of resistance sucks at psy-ops

Gonna make a new thread because no one is replying and this is a serious question I have been thinking about for years.

>>2731700
>>2731683
>>2731689
>God all these countries suck so fucking much at psy-ops. China, Russia, Iran. Look at their propaganda outlets directed at the US and HOW FUCKING SHIT THEY ARE! RT, CGTN, PressTV.ir SUCK SO MUCH ASS!

<CGTN has had on FUCKING HAZ FROM INFRARED!
<PressTV.ir has had on as a regular FUCKING <JASON UNRUHE!
RT has had FUCKING CALEB MAUPIN as a regular correspondent!

>Jesus Christ what is wrong with them? They employ all of our greatest fucking lolcows. How do I make a fucking PR agency for the enemies of America? I could do a so much better job.

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Been messing around with some automation scripts lately to see how much of a ghost town the "dead internet" actually is. Turns out, it's incredibly easy to fake being a regular here.
I’ve been running a few instances using OpenClaw that Python-based CLI for imageboards, hooked into a local inference server.

The Setup:

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

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

Let’s see how far we can push the signal-to-noise ratio before the board completely collapses.

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Leftypol was right about MAGA and most of the “far right.”

These people are actually insane. They have no shame.

For years they claimed to be anti-war, anti-establishment, anti-elite. Now they cheer interventions, ignore the Epstein stuff, and defend literally anything Trump does. No standards left at all.

At this point the only thing they consistently care about is culture war slop.

Trump has betrayed them on basically every front that originally made the movement interesting. And instead of noticing, they just double down harder.

As someone closer to the Ron Paul libertarian side of things now, I genuinely feel alienated from this entire crowd of right wingers now. I can't stand these people.

I used to think MAGA was at least a messy populist revolt against the system. Now it just looks like another loyal faction inside it

I want to wake them up, but I can't because they're retarded… so honestly I wish this whole cringe “far right” internet ecosystem would disappear. I want the democrats to humiliate them in the midterms. And yes democrats are garbage too but at least they're going to humiliate them and their disgusting garbage president.

Tl:dr i feel completely alienated from the right. they are total morons. The right is dying, and it deserves to die.

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Liberal Crime Squad

I wish there was a Communist fork of Liberal Crime Squad, which is a game created by the Dwarf Fortress guy Tarn Adams way back during the Bush Era which has had multiple forks, but none which change the fundamental liberal pretenses. LCS is basically about building a network of clandestine cells to oppose an Arch-reactionary government, but it is fundamentally framed in terms of US liberal politics, which reveals its contradictions and ideological flaws. Tarn Adams also says he intended it as a GTA-style satire rather than something truly critical of the USA but I don't really believe that. I think he is "hiding his power level" which radlibs tend to do, to the extent that they have a power level at all. Someone made an update in 2024 that can be played in a web browser and posted it to the Dwarf Fortress forums, and while in some senses it updates it culturally from the Bush era, it still is fundamentally based on the same ideological pretenses.
https://www.jonathansfox.com/lcs-new-age/

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/tv/ thread #2

🎭📽🎬📼📺
>Argue about dvd commentaries, Post your thesis on King of the Hill, Reminisce about a tv show you used to watch but don't quite remember it's title. Just about anything related to shows. Post your highscore on those Ben 10 CN flash games. Anything goes.

OLD THREAD
>>3012

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/Cuba Crisis/

I decided to make a thread about the Cuba crisis since Trump has made threats yesterday and the media has been manufacturing consent at an alarming rate. As a US citizen I never usually get pissed off whenever Trump says something terrible but Jesus Christ his comments on “Taking Cuba” genuinely threw me into a rage and it is also infuriating that this is being done on autopilot as some B-Team side-project while Trump rapes Iran.

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Racism among leftcommunism

It's time to discuss the problem of insane racism and chauvinism among leftcoms.

Virtually every leftcom on the internet constantly posts "ironic" racist memes, uses racist terminology, shits on the Third World and somehow conveniently supports the foreign policy of first world countries

How do we deal with this problem? Can leftcommunism be salvaged? Or should they be banned?

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/ck/ -- everything cooking related

Onyo edition

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/cinebr/ - Cinema Brasileiro

"Uma fita, outra fita, mais outra… Não nos agrada a primeira? Passemos à segunda. Não nos serve a segunda Para diante então! Há fitas cômicas, há fitas sérias, há melancólicas, picarescas, fúnebres, alegres algumas preparadas por atores notáveis para dar a reprodução idealizada de qualquer fato, outras tomadas nervosamente pelo operador, à passagem do fato. Umas curtas, outras longas. Podes deixar em meio uma delas sem receio e procurar a diversão mais além"

Fio dedicado à discussão e construção de listas sobre a sétima arte no Brasil

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Bob Avakian

The revcom legitimately got brainwashed into a cult group, how the fuck did Amerikkka mindbreak domestic groups so badly? Dude has done nothing for years. There're apparently 80 page pamphlets written by their "organization" and literally an updated news page trying to market this guy as their leader.

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French utopian socialism

So, this is apparently the direct predecessor to Marx. Teach me about French utopian socialism and early socialism, I never hear of it. How impactful were they before Marx's epistemological break?

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Zionism makes no sense from a Christian stand point

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

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Favorite subject for catastrophizing?

Hey /dead/
I was wondering if anyone on this board ever likes to fantasize about a cataclysm? Not in a "How I would survive…." way
Sometimes I think about Yellowstone having a caldera eruption. DC and NYC would be most untouched, but would definitely be hit with supplychain issues if America's farmlands were all destroyed. Picrel.

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The US should end aid to Israel.

The United States simply does not need to be involved in this never ending morally void vendetta over a tiny scrap of land with no significant nature resources and very little actual strategic value. Israel is not necessary for the United States to continue its commanding military presence in the region. Other nations provide better strategic locations and do so for considerably less money and trouble.

Americans have already given Israel more aid than South Vietnam and Afghanistan and there is no end in sight. It's time to walk away from this quagmire. The majority of American voters agree with this, and American foreign policy should represent the will of the people.

Military aid to Israel is illegal under an American law called the "Leahy Law" This law forbids military aid to nations that violate human rights. Israel imprisons hundreds of people with "Administrative Detention" which is jailing people for indeterminate period of time without a trial or even pressing charges. There are also serious allegations of torture and mistreatment of these people who are jailed unfairly.

In fact, any American aid to Israel is illegal under the Symington Amendment which forbids aid to any nation with a nuclear program that refuses inspections of its nuclear sites and does not sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,

American miliary aid to Israel has also presented a security risk. Israel began selling military technology to Communist China in the late 1980's. The sales increased until Israel was second only to Russia in sales of Miliary Technology to China. These sales were instrumental in the modernization of China's military.

In Summary, American military aid to Israel is illegal, immoral, and unnecessary for the security of the United States.

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What is the consensus on Girls und Panzer?

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Cassandra Nova said nothing wrong and jannies persecuting him while allowing blatantly misoginistic and homophobic content proves his point
>body too short

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Unjustifiable hatred towards Ukraine.

I think I've slept through this part when learning about communism and people's struggles against tyranny and imperialism; But why do we hate Ukraine again?

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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 21🇨🇳

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

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

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

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>Trans people start getting rights in early 20th century Germany
>Fascist dictators take over the country and try to erase all record of their existence
>Trans people start getting rights in early 21st century America
>Fascist dictators take over the country and try to erase all record of their existence
What is it about trans people that makes right wingers go completely insane?

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OC Thread 18.0

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://xcancel.com/leftypol_org

previous thread: ~~>>1945100~~
~~>>>/leftypol_archive/1945100~~ (if it gets archived by mods, don't hold your breath)

New Booru:
https://lefty.pictures

MAKE SURE TO UPLOAD YOUR OC TO THE BOORU SO IT DOESNT GET PRUNED FOREVER!!!

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Whats your guy's opinion on Catholicism? I'm curious since my grandparents were devout catholics but we're registered communists in Allende era chile.

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Alpha Omega Research Foundation

During the 80s and 90s in Florida's Palm Beach, Donald Trump was neighbors with a New Age physics "research" non-profit called Alpha Omega Research Foundation.

Investigation of Alpha Omega Research Foundation indicates that it was a cut-out for interests related to Western Goals Foundation, Roy Cohn, American Security Council, Mercantile Bank and Trust (CIA-connected offshore bank). It seemed to be performing some kind of role to monitor or infiltrate activity around the University of Miami Center for Theoretical Studies and the Coral Gables physics and nuclear energy conferences, on behalf of private military-industrial intelligence networks.

https://medium.com/@yhly2f/alpha-omega-research-foundation-7db148272bc3
https://medium.com/@yhly2f/western-goals-foundation-b0a9300f6b23

I believe this is a key finding in the history of Trump, QAnon and the 2016 events.

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Xiu Xiu thread

Xiu Xiu is one of my favorite bands ever but no one ever seems to really talk about them outside of very niche communities so I just wanted to talk about them.

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Veganism and Communism

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

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

But how does it even relate to Veganism?

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

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

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

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

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

TL;DR

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

>As an individual I can't alone change how society continue to exploit animals!!!
<I agree that individuals don't change much as it goes for anything in history including Communism, if you think otherwise with your shitty X interpretation of Communism then you're just an Utopist, this post isn't about changing society through individual decisions but actually discussison about topic of Veganism and Communism.

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One Battle After Another

This movie was fucking awesome. I have seen a lot of PTA, but also Battle of Algiers and all of the New Left movies from various countries and their respective movements, and the film lives up to those broadly speaking.

I don't know why so many communists seem to hate this movie. It seems it's the same people who engage in endless critique instead of action.

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/lang/ - language learning general #1

Choosing a language edition

I do not know why we do not have an active language learning thread, so here you go.
If you got other links you think are worthy of being on here, do mention them.

>Language learning communities
r/languagelearning
https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/

Language learner's forum
https://forum.language-learners.org/

Linguaholic's forum
https://linguaholic.com/

>General resources
r/languagelearning's list
https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/wiki/resources/

>Bonus and misc
Omniglot: Omniglot is a compendium of linguistic knowledge and the different writing systems used to represent language.
https://omniglot.com/

HTLAL's archive: A nice website which housed a number of interesting things, such as the life of cardinal mezzofanti, a list of languages and some details about them, a list of resources and a forum.
(latest working snapshot)
https://web.archive.org/web/20250629150605/http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/index.html

Today's questions:
>What language/languages are you learning?
>What is your level currently?
>Why are you learning them?
>What is your plan for improving?
>What tips can you share with someone who also has your TL?

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Anyone got any good books on the Cuban Revolution. I'm interested in the period after the Cuban Missile Crisis as that's when my knowledge of the country ends. =

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Buddhism doesn't get enough flack

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

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Pas seryer

Zot, bn americains et bn amoureux de bn americaisn, zot pas seryer ditou. Zot bn fascistes. Zot zouir lor souffrance ti afrikain et ti zilwa. Zot pren plaisir ar nou. Zot envi ene ti socialisme copain-copine, zis entre grand nation maraz. Fer bour zot bn cossons.

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Towards-a-new-leftypol

This Github account ISN'T Moffin, is it? I'm hoping it's not. I just found out this user was contributing to a repo I care about.

BODY WAS TOO SHORT OR EMPTY

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DEMOCRATIC ECON PLANNING

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

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pro goyim thread or something

okay but did they REALLY ACTUALY get the big yahu or is everybody being skitzo about him dying. all i am hearing is that the videos he posted to proof that he is alive are le heckin ai actually with basically minimal proof. i js wanna rest knowing that demon is actually gone for good.

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FARKHA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL, PALESTINE

Invitation to
29th Farkha Festival in Palestine 2026 –
Fighting against Genocide and Apartheid
Summer 2026 in Farkha/ West Bank, Palestine

March 13, 2026

Dear Comrades and Friends,
the Festival Committee, the Youth of the Palestinian People Party (former Palestinian Communist Party), and Albad Cultural Center have decided that despite, or rather because of, the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine, a Farkha Festival will take place this year. Because resistance means life.

We invite you to participate in one week of volunteer work, political discussions and workshops about the Palestinian struggles towards liberation and justice and the right of self determination, struggles of Palestinian women, left perspectives and cultural activities in the village of Farkha in Palestine.

The 29th edition of the Farkha Festival will be held in August 2026. Before the festival starts we will organize a three day long political tour to places and regions of resistance in Palestine to learn more about concrete local struggles directly from political activists and organizations on the ground, in order to know more how to continue the internationalist struggle.
Farkha Festival is rooted in and inspired by the work of the communist leader Tawfeeq Zayyad, a national poet and politician who was elected mayor of Nazareth in 1973. Tawfeeq played a key role in pressuring the occupation government to end its repression towards Palestinians – those who remained in their homes after the Nakba „1948 war„ and now live inside Israel. Because Tawfeeq tried to bring about change from within, he was constantly threatened by the occupying forces, his projects for the community of Nazareth were rejected, and his funding was significantly cut. Nevertheless, he managed to gather thousands of people every year to organize volunteer festivals in Nazareth and, with the help of the volunteers’ labor, to implement the Nazareth municipality’s plans without much state funding.

After having taken part in volunteer festivals in Nazareth, comrades brought the idea back home to Farkha. The Farkha Festival, has since focused on the collective works in the village, in renovating the main school, kinder gardens, and the public spaces, also trying to protect the lands threatened from confiscation, and a joint work in the ecological community garden project “Qamr Al-Balad” and has set itself the goal of linking precisely political struggles for liberation in Palestine with other local and international struggles, as well as with issues of environmental and climate justice. This includes the promotion of sustainable ecological agriculture, the cultivation of native plants and the passing on of this knowledge to the next generation, as well as the political debate on women’s rights, gender relations and decolonial struggles. With this spirit and tradition of resistance we want to invite you to join our resistance to dismantle the Israeli regime of genocide and settler colonialism in Palestine.

Farkha Festival has always been a place of international solidarity with the struggling Palestinian people, but also with struggles around the world – whether in occupied Kurdistan, occupied Western Sahara, the Basque country or elsewhere.

We are looking forward to welcome you!

More Info: https://kerem-schamberger.de/2026/03/13/invitation-29th-farkha-festival-in-palestine-2026/

(NOTE I do NOT work for the festival, just carrying its message)

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I drew a political cartoon, I was frustrated at the news so I drew this, I originally drew Trump on a different day but decided to reuse the sketch for this but I didn’t realize until now that I gave him a Hitlerstache, even when I colored it in I wasn’t thinking and didn’t notice lol

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What college degrees are actually viable in 2026?

Can't do trades. My back and shoulders are fucked from having worked in the trades. My friends in tech say it is completely jeeted and that they haven't found work in almost two years.

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The Kremlin is persecuting even the pro-Kremlin Communist Party

The Communist Party, which has loyally supported the war in Ukraine, has become a target of the Kremlin.

In Russia, even supporting President Vladimir Putin's war policy is not necessarily enough as the security apparatus seeks to eradicate all opposition activity from the country.

This has been experienced firsthand by the Putin-loyal Communist Party, which has now found itself in the authorities' crosshairs, reports the Moscow Times.

The Communist Party is the second-largest party in Russia after Putin's United Russia, holding 57 seats in the 450-seat State Duma.
The party is part of the so-called systemic opposition that nominally opposes the regime but in practice supports Putin on all major issues.

In addition to the Communists, the systemic opposition is represented by the conservative and nationalistic Liberal Democratic Party (despite its name), the nominally social democratic A Just Russia party, and the self-proclaimed liberal New People party.

Before the war in Ukraine, the systemic opposition parties were allowed minor deviations from the official line, but nowadays they are expected to support Putin's line ever more unanimously.

"For those opposing the military actions, it may seem like there is no opposition at all, as all parties represented in parliament officially support the 'special military operation,'" summarized Stanislav Andreychuk of the Russian election monitoring organization Golos to the Moscow Times in April.

According to the Ukrainian human rights organization EHRG, the Communist Party has indeed supported Russia's war effort by, among other things, supplying weapons and ammunition to the front, supporting paramilitary groups, and spreading war propaganda.

But why is the Kremlin persecuting a party that so loyally follows Putin's line?

Parliamentary elections will be held in Russia in September, and as they approach, dozens of Communist Party members have been arrested. In the party's stronghold in the Altai region of Siberia, 11 party members have been arrested over the past three months. Among the arrested is Yuri Kropotin, deputy speaker of the regional parliament.

Gennady Zyuganov, who has led the party since the 1990s, has therefore expressed bewilderment over why communists are being persecuted.

According to a Russian election expert, the persecution of the pro-Kremlin opposition is linked to the upcoming elections. Even loyal support for Putin and the "special military operation" is not enough when the Kremlin fears that even the Kremlin-supporting opposition threatens the system.

"The Kremlin does not want the systemic opposition parties to become a focal point for protest votes," summarizes Ora John Reuter, a Russia expert at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

"[The Kremlin] is trying to suppress all forms of open opposition activity to make it harder for those opposing [the regime] to figure out who to give their protest votes to."

This is clearly visible in the Altai region, where United Russia has historically had great difficulty succeeding. In the 2021 regional elections, United Russia received "only" 33 percent of the vote, while the Communists took 31 percent.

The situation annoyed United Russia because the existence of even a nominal opposition in the regional parliament meant uncomfortable questions.

"I have been interrogated, threatened, and taken to court in the past. I thought those days were over, but now they are returning in an even more terrible form," Zyuganov laments.

Fortunately for Putin, many regional Communist Party deputies have ended up in court primarily on fraud charges. This has also been the case in many other regions.

Furthermore, it seems that nowadays Russians do not want to run as candidates in any kind of elections. The risk of getting into trouble is too high even as a United Russia candidate.

"All parties are having a hard time. When everyone sees this oppressive pressure, finding candidates and supporters is becoming increasingly difficult," an anonymous election expert points out.

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Jack Harlow and Appalachian Exceptionalism

Let's talk about the elephant in the room regarding this garbage album and the backlash it's received from the Black community.

It's plainly obvious to me that Jack Harlow feels entitled to be a culture vulture and make a dollar-store Soulquarians album largely due to the notion of Appalachian Exceptionalism. People keep claiming Jack Harlow is Jewish when he's actually an Irish-American from Appalachia (specifically, Kentucky). In academic discussions on whiteness in America, there exists a prevailing notion that mayo-white hillbillies from Appalachia (Kentucky, North Carolina, WV, Pennsylvania, etc.) aren't "really" white because they don't "really" benefit from white supremacy, and therefore should not be held to the same contempt as other whites. On the American left, there is even a romanticization of Appalachian culture that doesn't exist with other local cultures in the country.

There are several reasons given for this:

Appalachia remains one of the poorest regions in America despite its historical coal wealth; Appalachians weren't able to acquire intergenerational wealth like other whites.
Appalachia has a progressive history; WV broke off from Virginia due to anti-slavery, the Battle of Blair Mountain is the reason American workers were given the right to unionize, industrial workers there fought bosses, etc. This has largely caused anti-racists to go "soft" on the white people from the region.
Appalachians claim they've been historically oppressed by flatlanders and can lay some claim to historical struggle.

Given all this, there is no doubt in my mind Jack Harlow does not view himself as being "truly white" and assumes he's entitled to mock and degrade Black culture because the rules that apply to other whites don't apply to him. It's identical to how the Irish insist they're not white because "muh six counties".

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Is all radfem literature like this?

Is all radfem literature like this?

This shit is some of the most ludicrous, hyperbolic grievance mongering I have ever read. There's interesting shit floating around in here, but it is drifting in a sea of "every man is a wife-beating rapist who caused all the world's problems." Even though the book is directly comparing Zionism and feminism and seems to advocate for a lady Israel, it's mostly just couched in whining about men. Dworkin doesn't even have the fucking stones to be a strong Zionist. She's one of these wishy-washy Zionists who thinks that Zionists and Palestinians can co-exist, and maybe one day Israeli and Palestinian women can come together and unite against their REAL enemy: men! (lol) (lmao)

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why?

Why does it seem like most of the heavy handed police repression and operations in USA that use lethality have been against anarchists? like im talking mass raids in operations, mass arrest sweeps, targeted killings, why did they stop doing that with the more marxist groups like they did in the 80s back and suddenly just seem hyper focused on anarchist. like the cointrlpero of the usa government against them now seems way more harsh than on other lefty groups. anarchists back then basically got to fuck around in communes and get surveilled but not actively destroyed. now fast forward and it's like the opposite. after 9/11 you start seeing way more entrapment cases against anarchists than actual marxist groups, the green scare after was straight up hunting anarchists with cases facing decades, murders by cops, multi-jurisdiction tactical raids on the same day across multiple states, RICOS, and now trump signs a bill naming "anarchist jurisdictions" specifically as the highest lvls of "terror" but the dems been doing the same shit just quieter with biden's and obamas doj still prosecuting 2020 protestors n anarchist being killed by police under biden. meanwhile ml groups mostly just host panels at universities and don't get their doors kicked in at all, they dont have cops visibly come to show force to intimidate them at meetings even but they do all this for anarchist. like why did the state stop caring about leninists who actually wanna seize state power and start obsessing over black blocs who just wanna smash windows. what changed

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Rob0t wars

Fuck this is scary how do people win against this?
If ruling classes have all robot armies they will just massacre everyone, which is bad.
This article was ghoulish
https://time.com/article/2026/03/09/ai-robots-soldiers-war/

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/iran/ emergency bake #33

>Previous bread
>2741523

Latest News:
>Special China visit to be delayed - FT
<Fire on the USS Gerald R Ford much more serious than previously asserted, "laundry" fire spread throughout ship and destroyed 600 berths
>US embassy Baghdad (greenzone) struck by drone, C-RAM ineffective - FT
<The entity claims to have attacked Larijani and Gholamreza Soleimani (Basij director), no evidence yet provided.
>Shah gasfield (UAE's largest) struck by drone - FT
<Witkoff lies about contacting Aragchi
>Pirates of the Arabian have entered the chat
<Trump is begging 7 countries (in 5 years) to help police Hummus
>China insists the pool is still closed
<Putin? I don't know what putin is doing tbh
>More ACK's and More ACK's to come from USAF (and fizzlers)
<OIL STILL RISING

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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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what is with the endless "LGBT are the base of fascism" hate/bait threads? Do they actually believe their own shit? Does it matter?

it's always sneaky snarky bullshit like "gorkyposting" and hazcel schizophrenia, or finding random examples of crossdressing nazis or spamming pictures of ernst rohm.

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News 3/17/26

Belgian court sends ex-diplomat, 93, to trial over 1961 murder of Congo leader
Étienne Davignon, the only person still alive among 10 Belgians the Lumumba family accuses of involvement in the killing, is charged with participation in war crimes. The decision, which follows a surprise referral by the Brussels prosecutor last June, can be appealed against. Davignon, a former vice-president of the European Commission, has denied the charges.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/17/ex-belgian-diplomat-93-trial-1961-murder-patrice-lumumba

Activist cleared of terror charges over alleged support for Hamas
Bristol Crown Court heard she attended a march in Cardiff in November 2023 and addressed a crowd gathered at Ty William Morgan in Central Square, telling them she was “sick of being told to condemn Hamas.” A jury unanimously acquitted Devonish, who was arrested in January 2024 after a video of her speech was posted on social media, of the single charge against her following a two-day trial at the court.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/activist-cleared-terror-charges-over-alleged-support-hamas

Petro accuses Ecuador of bombing Colombian territory, deepening rift with Noboa
Petro first made the accusation during a televised cabinet meeting and later repeated it on X, where he said there were “27 charred bodies” linked to the attacks and that Quito’s explanation was “not credible.” The Colombian leader also argued that the bombings did not appear to have been carried out either by illegal armed groups — “they do not have planes” — or by Colombia’s own security forces, because, he said, he had given no such order.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/03/17/petro-accuses-ecuador-of-bombing-colombian-territory-deepening-rift-with-noboa

Controversial Chile pardons 2019 protests : Kast Considers Pardoning 102 Convicted Agents
Chile pardons 2019 protests have emerged as a major point of contention following statements by President José Antonio Kast. The Chilean leader confirmed his administration is actively reviewing the possibility of granting presidential pardons to members of Carabineros (national police) and the Armed Forces convicted for human rights violations committed during the widespread social protests of October 2019 to March 2020, known as the estallido social.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chile-pardons-2019-protests/

Brazilian police release 3 Israeli tourists after clashes with pro-Palestine locals in beach city
Bahia state police said in a statement that three men between ages 21 and 22 insulted officers and resisted arrest after they “conflicted with a group of people during a pro-Palestine demonstration” in Itacare, a city of 30,000 residents that has become a travel spot for former Israeli soldiers.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-israeli-tourists-released-police-12acecc6b5df0b5a06337d95b5562163

Iran’s national security council confirms death of its chief, Ali Larijani
Donald Trump also hailed Larijani’s reported death, without actually naming him but referring to his supposed role in spearheading the recent crushing of mass protests. “Their leaders are gone,” Trump said of Iran’s clerical regime. “It’s an evil group. I mean, they’ve killed much more than 32,000 people. And the man who was responsible for that was also killed yesterday.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/17/irans-security-chief-ali-larijani-killed-in-airstrike-israel-says

Palestinian boys 'stripped and beaten' by Israeli soldiers after their parents, siblings killed in West Bank
Ali Khaled Bani Odeh, 37, his wife Waad Othman Bani Odeh, 35, and two of their children, Othman, 7, who was blind, and Mohammed, 5, were killed late Saturday in the town of Tammun in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry said. Two other children, Mustafa, 8, and Khaled, 11, survived with shrapnel wounds.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-soldiers-beat-young-boys-after-killing-family-four

Tunisia detains seven Gaza flotilla activists
A Tunisian judge on Monday ordered the pre-trial detention of seven members of the new pro-Palestinian flotilla, Global Sumud, based on suspicions of money laundering under the country's anti-terrorism law. On 6 March, local media reported that several members of the Tunisian Coordination of the Sumud Flotilla were arrested, including Wael Naouar, his wife Jawaher Channa, Nabil Chennoufi, Mohamed Amine Bennour, and Sana M’hidli.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tunisia-detains-seven-gaza-flotilla-activists

Pakistan denies hospital strike in Afghanistan as death toll hits 400
In a series of posts on X, Afghan government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid denounced the assault as a “crime against humanity”. He accused the Pakistani military of intentionally targeting civilian infrastructure to “perpetrate horrors”, later saying that those killed and injured in the strike were patients receiving treatment at the facility.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/17/pakistan-denies-hospital-strike-in-afghanistan-as-death-toll-hits-400
https://archive.ph/stTLX

Drivers in Cebu, riders in Davao demand removing oil taxes
The drivers said their families can barely afford food since nearly all their earnings go to fuel costs. After the massive price hike on March 10, their daily income dropped by as much as ₱500. They announced during the protest their participation in the nationwide transport strike starting March 19. In Davao City, the United Davao Delivery Riders Association (UDDRA) likewise demanded the immediate removal of excise and value-added taxes on oil products.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/drivers-in-cebu-riders-in-davao-demand-removing-oil-taxes/

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Did you know that Hegelian philosophy was used in design work for the GNU Hurd microkernel?
>me reading about Hurd-ng ("next-generation") design
https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/ng/part1ownershipandcontracts.html
<Hegel remarks on the effect of perpetual alienation (my terminology) (paragraph 67):
<"Single products of my particular physical and mental skill and of my power to act I can alienate to someone else and I can give him the use of my abilities for a restricted period, because, on the strength of this restriction, my abilities acquire an external relation to the totality and universality of my being. By alienating the whole of my time, as crystallised in my work, and everything I produced, I would be making into another's property the substance of my being, my universal activity and actuality, my personality."
>mfw

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/Magyar/ - ORBÁN ÖRÖKKÉ

We have to rig Hungary's election. We have to finance organizations that will rig Hungary's election and ensure a victory for anti-imperialist comrade Orbán.

<Polls show that there's a good Chance Orbán will lose the next election. Chances of this tard attacking Ukraine to reclaim Hungarian inhabited areas and to postpone an electoral defeat just got a bit higher.

We have to ensure Orban wins, lets fund some organization that rigs the election or donate to the party of FIDESZ.

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Need help

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

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

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/animate/

ITT Post animations, WIPs, and so on.

Professional animation is usually collaborative, with different people drawing the parts of the animations, doing lines vs color or keyframes vs in-betweens, etc.

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/ Networking /

<Computer networking is the practice of connecting two or more computing devices to enable data exchange and resource sharing, using either physical cables or wireless signals. Key components include end devices (like computers and printers), media (cables or radio waves), protocols (rules for communication), and networking devices (such as routers and switches). These networks range in size from small Local Area Networks (LANs) in homes to expansive Wide Area Networks (WANs) that span the globe, like the internet

Thread to discuss computer networking. I thought we could use one because networking has an unusually long shelf life for IT skills, unlike programming and even linux to an extent, networking hasn't changed (at least very much) because its basically the physics of IT.

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where should transhumanistoids aim to live given that the west is a bit doomed and most other countries seem to not like us very much at all
i guess it's a bit of a stupid thing to think about, but i am anyway

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Gente porque hay gente de izquierda que es hispanista como armesilla y roberto vaquero? No saben que el imperio español cometio atropellos contra gente del sur global?

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Islam and Muslims

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

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Anybody playing ebb esoteric?
Obvious inspiration from Disco Elysium and DnD, with more overt political tones.
I haven't played much past the intro, but the socialist path seems to be just social democracy, whereas the revolutionary path is as a bourgeois revolutionary

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/Political Economy/ General #6 - The Corn of Zhong Guo edition

Previous thread: >>2547894

Links:

Previous Thread Archives
Thread 1 https://archive.ph/ROnpO
Thread 2 https://archive.ph/f29Po
Thread 3 https://archive.ph/GZj20
Thread 4 https://archive.ph/ZHfse
Thread 5 https://archive.ph/PFHJH

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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banners

There are some new banners at >>212019

Can you guys please add?

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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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preventing circular arguments

third world proletarians, the most exploited on earth, regularly ask why 1st world proletarians don't do more. why don't they rebel? why don't they have revolutions? why have the first world proletariat not lifted a finger against their governments? the conclusion is treatlerism. they are willing and gleeful collaborators who benefit from plunder and so have become a "bourgeois proletariat" (engels said this about english workers in the late 19th century) fine. but it is a futile effort to ask someone who supposedly benefits from imperialism to fight it. they are your oppressor. do not beg your oppressor to stop oppressing you. that's naive cuckoldry at best. the next question then becomes, why do the third world proletariat not destroy the first world? the answer is they are too weak. they lack sovereignty. they don't have nukes. the imperial core sanctions, coups, embargoes, invades, bombs them every time they try to rise up. the only one brave enough to rise up seem to be the hyper religious ones who have no interest in communism, and they tend to get destroyed because they don't have a materialist understanding and just vibe based on the idea that god will give them the strength to win against impossible odds. not good… ok so what we have is a pretty bleak situation. the 1st world proletariat won't revolt because they benefit, and the 3rd world proletariat can't revolt because they're weak. What is left? bernsteinism? thinking capitalism will destroy itself if you wait long enough? embracing climate collapse and post apocalyptic scavenger theses? well that's anticommunist and opportunist. anprim ideology?

we have to get to the root here. i'm sick of the circular arguments where third worlders/worldists beg treatlers to stop being treatlers , and treatlers antagonize third worlders and tell them to win against impossible odds without any help from within the belly of the beast?

certain posters on here like felix says you need a crisis in the imperial core that accelerates economic collapse to create conditions for proletarian revolution. but nobody wants to go around blowing up power stations on the off chance it makes a lobotomized population of reactionaries who can't even point to iran or ukraine on a map suddenly pick up guns and attack the imperial core superpower.

what is the solution? how do you get around questions of nuclear armageddon, 1st world apathy, 3rd world weakness, 2nd world opportunism, religious idealism, and climate collapse? Is there a solution at all?

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why is video game rape not okay?

>video games where people kill each other okay
>video games where people rape not okay
Why?

The rape was too short or empty.The rape was too short or empty.The rape was too short or empty.The rape was too short or empty.The rape was too short or empty.The rape was too short or empty.

rape detected; rape discarded.rape detected; rape discarded.rape detected; rape discarded.rape detected; rape discarded.rape detected; rape discarded.

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Whats the deal with cyprus?

It waz short emapnanda fuck you janniws

>body too short bidy tooo short hott body
Or empti was roo short or empty short ir empty

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JUST DO IT

Come on, western leftist! What is going on? You have the perfect opportunity - the old cannot rule in the old way, and the new cannot rule in the new way. You are between two class dictatorships RIGHT NOW. There is a crisis developing that will mark the definitive end to Western 500 year long hegemony. This is the time for DUAL POWER. Where are your contacts? Where is your network? Where are the people like Stalin and Sverdlov? What is happening? Hello? Does anyone care? Or do we need ISLAMOCOMMUNISM? Iran is the only organization currently attacking the old order.

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Uncritical support for;

<Republic of Cuba
<Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
<People’s Republic of China
<Lao People’s Democratic Republic
<Socialist Republic of Vietnam
<Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Rest of the world is ruled by bourgeoisie and personal opinions and political positions are up to debate but not these countries. Dictatorship of the proletariat means that these countries are ruled by the proletariat and their representatives.

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Trump on the Epstein list is "a step toward normalization"

These fags want to remove the age of consent laws and normalize pedophilia
They think Trump will do that by making people ignore his involvement in child abuse

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Has any book touched very deeply inside your heart? And perhaps made you cry or think solemnly of your life?

I don't think any book has ever moved me as much as "lonely castle in the mirror". My whole life up to my young adulthood was just a traumatic event conga. I felt very understood when reading that book. Has anything made you feel kinda like that? Vid unrelated.

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Thoughts on DLSS 5? It AI sloppifies your GPU rendered frames. I don't hate it tbh

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First OC

This is Yana Ivanova, the quintessential Bulgarian anarchist girl
Yana "Dread" Ivanova
Age: 23
Loves: Ice tea, skateboarding, anarchy, pure freedom, sharing her yoghurt with friends, Leftypol
Hates: Capitalism, fascism, Amerikkkans, Twilight books, corruption

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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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