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>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™
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OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
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FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
Local News // https://www.50states.com/ce/
Weather // https://www.noaa.gov/weather
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Jacobin // https://jacobin.com/
Black Agenda Report // https://blackagendareport.com/
The Grayzone // 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 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - 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 Debs - 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-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 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
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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/USApol/
🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅>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™
<wHaT a ReLiEf! Edition
OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources
(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)
ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites // https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
list of prison related resources, mailing lists, etc // https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
ICE Agent List (incomplete) // https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
US Political Prison Tracker (last updated 2025) // https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading:
📖 Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete? // https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
📖 How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation // https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
📖 National Lawyers Guild guide to being a jailhouse lawyer // https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
📖 Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement // https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
📖 An inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle & strategy across prison walls // https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
📖 Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual // https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒️ LABOR!
Live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when // https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
AFL-CIO [imperialist]'s Strike Tracker // https://aflcio.org/strike-map
Labor Bureau's Official 'work stoppage' tracker // https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
IWW timeline for the 20th century (ends at 1999) // https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
IWW Work Place Organizing Guide // https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
▶ Salting | Work Place Organizing 101 (50 minute webinar) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
⚖️ Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done // https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
Coups and regime changes – master list // https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Wikipedia: United States War Crimes // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
/our boys/ (bring em home!) detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006] // https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
More than 250 military interventions in the last 30 years alone // https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
Visualisation of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade // https://www.slavevoyages.org/
UNESCO Sites relating to Slavery // https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
First Hand Documents of the horrors of Slavery // https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
CNN Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX Live // https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg Live // https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
Burger House Live // 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 Grayzone // 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 🇮🇱
Epstein's Black Book // https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
DOJ Disclosures // https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
Track AIPAC // https://www.trackaipac.com/
Al Jazeera visual guide (2026) // https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
📖 WEB Du Bois - 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 Debs - 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-thats-people-fred-hampton
📖 War is a Racket – Smedley Butler // https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
📖 Letters From an American Farmer – St. John de Crevoecoeur // https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
📖 Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 The Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
📖 The Ballot or the Bullet – Malcolm X // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
📖 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass // https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
📖 A Trail of Broken Treaties – American Indian Movement // https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
📖 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
📖 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville // https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
📖 Common Sense – Thomas Paine // https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
📖 An Indigenous History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz // https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
📖 Huey Long – Share Our Wealth // https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
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The UK’s main opposition Conservative Party has announced it will end social housing provision for foreign nationals in England if it enters government at the next election…
/leftybritpol/ - by-election edish
UK Conservatives and far-right Reform UK pledge mass eviction of foreign nationals from social housingThe UK’s main opposition Conservative Party has announced it will end social housing provision for foreign nationals in England if it enters government at the next election…
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NH-01 DSA candidate Heath Howard suspends campaign
Here in NH, a pro-Palestine DSA candidate, Heath Howard, who is also a disabled comrade, was hounded out of the primary race by progressive influencers for "transphobia". He openly said Israel has no right to exist as a state on WMUR, our local state news channel. Could it be any more obvious this was a coordinated smear campaign?
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>Trump says he will declare the Strait of Hormuz US territory “pretty soon” while preparing a hard economic blow to force Iran into ending the war.
<In response to Trump’s threats, Iran’s deputy foreign minister says the waterway will remain Iranian and that blockade enforcement will continue until the US accepts defeat.
>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the Islamabad MoU marked an “end of the war, not a ceasefire”, pointing out that the US violated the deal and fighting resumed, leaving no 60-day ceasefire to extend.
<Araghchi also says negotiations between Iran and Oman regarding the Strait of Hormuz “may reach a conclusion soon”.
>Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says one of its vessels came under attack in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, reporting no injuries and that the situation was brought under control.
<Oil prices rise more than a dollar a barrel as tanker attacks and stalled US-Iran peace talks drive Brent crude to $88.52 and US WTI to $82.40.
>CENTCOM says US forces “redirected” 62 commercial vessels in the Arabian Sea after reinstating the naval blockade of Iranian ports
/Iran War/ #71
one sided love editionprev >>2874490
>Trump says he will declare the Strait of Hormuz US territory “pretty soon” while preparing a hard economic blow to force Iran into ending the war.
<In response to Trump’s threats, Iran’s deputy foreign minister says the waterway will remain Iranian and that blockade enforcement will continue until the US accepts defeat.
>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the Islamabad MoU marked an “end of the war, not a ceasefire”, pointing out that the US violated the deal and fighting resumed, leaving no 60-day ceasefire to extend.
<Araghchi also says negotiations between Iran and Oman regarding the Strait of Hormuz “may reach a conclusion soon”.
>Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says one of its vessels came under attack in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, reporting no injuries and that the situation was brought under control.
<Oil prices rise more than a dollar a barrel as tanker attacks and stalled US-Iran peace talks drive Brent crude to $88.52 and US WTI to $82.40.
>CENTCOM says US forces “redirected” 62 commercial vessels in the Arabian Sea after reinstating the naval blockade of Iranian ports
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GTA VI TRAILER 2 JUST DROPPED!!!!!
GTA VI TRAILER 2 JUST DROPPED!!!!!
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The 2003 US invasion of Iraq was arguably one of the worst human rights atrocities of the past 50 years. Over 1 million Iraqi CIVILIANS were killed. If that's not a low key genocide similar to Gaza I don't know what is. But it's even worse knowing this war was based entirely on a gigantic lie (a "noble lie" if you will) by some of the slimiest, most diabolical villains ever known to American politics. Yes, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld are dead and rotting in hell. But George W Bush, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith are still alive. Neocons Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan and John Bolton who were the top dogs in PNAC (Project for a New American Century), which called for massive military spending and preemptive attacks (also a "New Pearl Harbor" which conveniently happened on 9/11) are also still alive. WHY HAVEN'T ANY OF THEM EVER BEEN CHARGED AS WAR CRIMINALS?????
The Straussian cabal is very real and still holds loads of ideological power within American politics. Many Neocons from the Bush II era have now since become Democrats and publicly supported Kamala Harris over Trump on the basis Trump wasn't Neocon enough. These people have names and addresses and have to face some kind of legal penalties so the world can finally have closure and the Neocon war criminals can finally reap what they sowed.
Neocon Iraq War criminals
Why is it that the surviving members of the George W. Bush administration who acted as the architects of the Iraq War have never faced any legal penalties for what they did?The 2003 US invasion of Iraq was arguably one of the worst human rights atrocities of the past 50 years. Over 1 million Iraqi CIVILIANS were killed. If that's not a low key genocide similar to Gaza I don't know what is. But it's even worse knowing this war was based entirely on a gigantic lie (a "noble lie" if you will) by some of the slimiest, most diabolical villains ever known to American politics. Yes, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld are dead and rotting in hell. But George W Bush, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith are still alive. Neocons Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan and John Bolton who were the top dogs in PNAC (Project for a New American Century), which called for massive military spending and preemptive attacks (also a "New Pearl Harbor" which conveniently happened on 9/11) are also still alive. WHY HAVEN'T ANY OF THEM EVER BEEN CHARGED AS WAR CRIMINALS?????
The Straussian cabal is very real and still holds loads of ideological power within American politics. Many Neocons from the Bush II era have now since become Democrats and publicly supported Kamala Harris over Trump on the basis Trump wasn't Neocon enough. These people have names and addresses and have to face some kind of legal penalties so the world can finally have closure and the Neocon war criminals can finally reap what they sowed.
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what happened to call of duty, it kinda became oppsite of what it used to be
What happened to call of duty, it kinda became opposite of what it used to be. The games feel completely bloated now and they completely lost that original, classic identity that made the older titles so good.
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Joseph Stalin is the most reviled opponent of the liberal bourgeoisie. No one causes more lib seethe than Stalin. The man was also firmly socially conservative and anti-cosmopolitan. And most importantly, he won the fucking war and died on old man at the height of his power, and the Soviet empire he built survived for decades afterwards.
So why is the online right still in love with a miserable loser like Hitler? Why are chinlet shooters and insecure browns still chanting "Hitler was right" instead of embracing the chad superiority of Stalin? Are they just stupid?
Joseph Stalin is the most reviled opponent of the liberal bourgeoisie. No one causes more lib seethe than Stalin. The man was also firmly socially conservative and anti-cosmopolitan. And most importantly, he won the fucking war and died on old man at the height of his power, and the Soviet empire he built survived for decades afterwards.
So why is the online right still in love with a miserable loser like Hitler? Why are chinlet shooters and insecure browns still chanting "Hitler was right" instead of embracing the chad superiority of Stalin? Are they just stupid?
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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📺 • 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
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Vice City editionPrevious: >>2884212
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
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R: 130 / I: 25
SDF/ROJAVA have dissolved
>SDF chief Mazloum Abdi says that the integration of Kurdish-led forces into the Syrian state is complete, adding that "our struggle will continue to guarantee the rights of the Kurdish people in the Syrian constitution" "The phase of integrating the military, security and administrative institutions into the state institutions has ended, and from today onward, a new phase has begun,” he said, calling on the people of the region to protect the "institutions established through the sacrifices of martyrs, and to support and preserve them."
R: 500 / I: 126
Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together!
Reminder That None of This Is Real!™
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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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-0.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-1.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-2.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-3.pdf
📺 • 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
/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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-0.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-1.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-2.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://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-3.pdf
📺 • 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
—————————————————–
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
R: 0 / I: 0
A draft Right of Access to Information Law, approved by the Council of Ministers and referred to parliament, remains under discussion as lawmakers consider amendments to some of its provisions. The legislation aims to strengthen transparency and allow citizens, journalists, and researchers to request official data, but has not yet taken effect. Interviewed by Shafaq News, Wissam al-Mulla, a member of the Alliance for the Defense of Freedom of Expression in Iraq, described the absence of official spokespersons at many ministries as a major obstacle for journalists seeking information from government institutions and other organizations.
https://shafaq.com/en/Report/Iraqi-journalists-struggle-to-access-official-information
Israeli finance minister unveils plan to ‘Judaize’ Negev, Galilee ahead of elections
The plan includes establishing 20 new settlements in Galilee and another 20 in the Negev, along with dozens of farms and measures to facilitate migration to areas he described as “strategic,” with the stated goal of bringing 1 million additional Jewish residents to the two regions.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260828-israeli-finance-minister-unveils-plan-to-judaize-negev-galilee-ahead-of-elections/
https://archive.ph/xWJNz
US cuts off major Egyptian bank from global financial system
"The US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) proposed a rule that would revoke Banque Misr UAE’s correspondent banking access to US financial institutions. Treasury assesses that Banque Misr UAE is a critical node for the Iranian regime’s access to U.S. dollars," the Treasury said. "Operation Economic Outcast" was announced by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday as part of Washington's efforts to squeeze Iran amid the standoff over the Strait of Hormuz.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-cuts-major-egyptian-bank-global-financial-system
Spanish government urges calm after Ceuta anti-migrant protesters clash with police
Tensions have been high in the territory of 80,000 people since at least 60,000 people crossed into Ceuta over several days in July, triggering a Europe-wide migrant alert. Spain's leftist government says most have since left the enclave of 18.5 square kilometres (seven square miles) but thousands remain wandering the streets and sleeping on beaches.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260828-spanish-government-urges-calm-anti-migrant-protesters-clash-police-ceuta
https://archive.ph/cG8yc
The Social Democratic Party of Finland Demands Worse Conditions for Immigrants
Punalippu notes that although this change in tune is to some extent part of the competition for votes –mainly in competition with the the Finns Party, which is more known for its chauvinistic anti-immigration rhetoric – in the upcoming parliamentary elections, it is also a question of the necessity of the bourgeoisie to become increasingly reactionary in an attempt to take control of the crisis of the imperialist system. A crisis of which, the more open chauvinism and militarism are a tell tale sign.
https://redherald.org/2026/08/27/the-social-democratic-party-of-finland-demands-worse-conditions-for-immigrants/
Activists Face ‘Terror’ Charges for ‘Vandalising Trump’s Golf Course’
The seven have been charged with malicious damage over the 8 March 2025 protest, which came weeks after Trump proposed a US-led takeover of the Gaza strip, the Guardian reported. Activists broke into the US president’s Turnberry golf course and spray-painted the message “Gaza is not 4 sale” on the lawn. They also sprayed weed killer and daubed the clubhouse in red paint.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/28/activists-face-terror-charges-for-vandalising-trumps-golf-course/
Scottish government publishes draft second independence referendum bill
“While people living in the UK endure flatlining living standards and the economic damage caused by Brexit, countries all around us are enjoying a higher quality of life and have more wealth to invest in their public services — often without a fraction of the abundant resources and economic strengths that Scotland enjoys.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scottish-independence-referendum-government-publishes-draft-second-independence-referendum-bill
Chileans Reject Calls for Pardons for Dictatorship-Era Crimes
The organizations emphasized the lasting impact of human rights violations committed during that period, noting that thousands of citizens suffered extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearance, political imprisonment, and torture at the hands of state agents. Against this backdrop, human rights defenders announced that the traditional pilgrimage to the General Cemetery, scheduled for Sept. 6, will take place under the slogan: “No to Pardons!”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chileans-reject-calls-for-pardons-for-dictatorship-era-crimes/
The US waives beef tariffs for Brazil and Paraguay, but not for Argentina and Uruguay
The exclusion stems from a technical point. The proclamation allocates the entire additional volume to the statistical category of “other countries or areas,” which does not include exporters holding country-specific quotas. That leaves out Argentina, Uruguay, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, which obtained its own 13,000-tonne allocation on January 1, as well as Canada and Mexico, covered by the free trade agreement.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/08/28/the-us-waives-beef-tariffs-for-brazil-and-paraguay-but-not-for-argentina-and-uruguay
UN body fortifies demand to free detained journalist, activists
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s Opinion No. 22/2026, which was adopted in its 105th session from March 23 to April 1, 2026, concluded that the deprivation of liberty of journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, church worker Marielle Domequil, and human rights worker Alexander Abinguna contravened the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, making it arbitrary. The opinion has been made public recently.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/08/28/un-body-fortifies-demand-to-free-detained-journalist-activists/
Haiti police confront public frustration after deadly gang attack kills 47
The attack on Kenscoff comes as authorities in Haiti seek to reclaim control of the capital city. The United Nations estimates that the community has suffered about a dozen gang attacks since last year. But violence had been dropping in the area. Between January and August, the nonprofit conflict monitor Armed Conflict Location and Event Data found that the crackdown had lowered violence in Kenscoff by 66 percent compared with a year ago.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/27/haiti-police-confront-public-frustration-after-deadly-gang-attack-kills-47
https://archive.ph/sT3iv
SAF accused of deadly market strike, fighting intensifies in Kordofan and Blue Nile
Sudan’s war escalated on Thursday and Friday as the Western Darfur Civil Administration accused the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) of killing and injuring dozens of civilians in a drone strike on a border market, while at least eight civilians were reported killed in North Kordofan and rival forces claimed new gains in Blue Nile state.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/saf-accused-of-deadly-market-strike-fighting-intensifies-in-kordofan-and-blue-nile
News 8/28/26
Iraqi journalists struggle to access official informationA draft Right of Access to Information Law, approved by the Council of Ministers and referred to parliament, remains under discussion as lawmakers consider amendments to some of its provisions. The legislation aims to strengthen transparency and allow citizens, journalists, and researchers to request official data, but has not yet taken effect. Interviewed by Shafaq News, Wissam al-Mulla, a member of the Alliance for the Defense of Freedom of Expression in Iraq, described the absence of official spokespersons at many ministries as a major obstacle for journalists seeking information from government institutions and other organizations.
https://shafaq.com/en/Report/Iraqi-journalists-struggle-to-access-official-information
Israeli finance minister unveils plan to ‘Judaize’ Negev, Galilee ahead of elections
The plan includes establishing 20 new settlements in Galilee and another 20 in the Negev, along with dozens of farms and measures to facilitate migration to areas he described as “strategic,” with the stated goal of bringing 1 million additional Jewish residents to the two regions.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260828-israeli-finance-minister-unveils-plan-to-judaize-negev-galilee-ahead-of-elections/
https://archive.ph/xWJNz
US cuts off major Egyptian bank from global financial system
"The US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) proposed a rule that would revoke Banque Misr UAE’s correspondent banking access to US financial institutions. Treasury assesses that Banque Misr UAE is a critical node for the Iranian regime’s access to U.S. dollars," the Treasury said. "Operation Economic Outcast" was announced by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday as part of Washington's efforts to squeeze Iran amid the standoff over the Strait of Hormuz.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-cuts-major-egyptian-bank-global-financial-system
Spanish government urges calm after Ceuta anti-migrant protesters clash with police
Tensions have been high in the territory of 80,000 people since at least 60,000 people crossed into Ceuta over several days in July, triggering a Europe-wide migrant alert. Spain's leftist government says most have since left the enclave of 18.5 square kilometres (seven square miles) but thousands remain wandering the streets and sleeping on beaches.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260828-spanish-government-urges-calm-anti-migrant-protesters-clash-police-ceuta
https://archive.ph/cG8yc
The Social Democratic Party of Finland Demands Worse Conditions for Immigrants
Punalippu notes that although this change in tune is to some extent part of the competition for votes –mainly in competition with the the Finns Party, which is more known for its chauvinistic anti-immigration rhetoric – in the upcoming parliamentary elections, it is also a question of the necessity of the bourgeoisie to become increasingly reactionary in an attempt to take control of the crisis of the imperialist system. A crisis of which, the more open chauvinism and militarism are a tell tale sign.
https://redherald.org/2026/08/27/the-social-democratic-party-of-finland-demands-worse-conditions-for-immigrants/
Activists Face ‘Terror’ Charges for ‘Vandalising Trump’s Golf Course’
The seven have been charged with malicious damage over the 8 March 2025 protest, which came weeks after Trump proposed a US-led takeover of the Gaza strip, the Guardian reported. Activists broke into the US president’s Turnberry golf course and spray-painted the message “Gaza is not 4 sale” on the lawn. They also sprayed weed killer and daubed the clubhouse in red paint.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/28/activists-face-terror-charges-for-vandalising-trumps-golf-course/
Scottish government publishes draft second independence referendum bill
“While people living in the UK endure flatlining living standards and the economic damage caused by Brexit, countries all around us are enjoying a higher quality of life and have more wealth to invest in their public services — often without a fraction of the abundant resources and economic strengths that Scotland enjoys.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scottish-independence-referendum-government-publishes-draft-second-independence-referendum-bill
Chileans Reject Calls for Pardons for Dictatorship-Era Crimes
The organizations emphasized the lasting impact of human rights violations committed during that period, noting that thousands of citizens suffered extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearance, political imprisonment, and torture at the hands of state agents. Against this backdrop, human rights defenders announced that the traditional pilgrimage to the General Cemetery, scheduled for Sept. 6, will take place under the slogan: “No to Pardons!”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chileans-reject-calls-for-pardons-for-dictatorship-era-crimes/
The US waives beef tariffs for Brazil and Paraguay, but not for Argentina and Uruguay
The exclusion stems from a technical point. The proclamation allocates the entire additional volume to the statistical category of “other countries or areas,” which does not include exporters holding country-specific quotas. That leaves out Argentina, Uruguay, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, which obtained its own 13,000-tonne allocation on January 1, as well as Canada and Mexico, covered by the free trade agreement.
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/08/28/the-us-waives-beef-tariffs-for-brazil-and-paraguay-but-not-for-argentina-and-uruguay
UN body fortifies demand to free detained journalist, activists
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s Opinion No. 22/2026, which was adopted in its 105th session from March 23 to April 1, 2026, concluded that the deprivation of liberty of journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, church worker Marielle Domequil, and human rights worker Alexander Abinguna contravened the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, making it arbitrary. The opinion has been made public recently.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/08/28/un-body-fortifies-demand-to-free-detained-journalist-activists/
Haiti police confront public frustration after deadly gang attack kills 47
The attack on Kenscoff comes as authorities in Haiti seek to reclaim control of the capital city. The United Nations estimates that the community has suffered about a dozen gang attacks since last year. But violence had been dropping in the area. Between January and August, the nonprofit conflict monitor Armed Conflict Location and Event Data found that the crackdown had lowered violence in Kenscoff by 66 percent compared with a year ago.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/27/haiti-police-confront-public-frustration-after-deadly-gang-attack-kills-47
https://archive.ph/sT3iv
SAF accused of deadly market strike, fighting intensifies in Kordofan and Blue Nile
Sudan’s war escalated on Thursday and Friday as the Western Darfur Civil Administration accused the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) of killing and injuring dozens of civilians in a drone strike on a border market, while at least eight civilians were reported killed in North Kordofan and rival forces claimed new gains in Blue Nile state.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/saf-accused-of-deadly-market-strike-fighting-intensifies-in-kordofan-and-blue-nile
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To start things off, I'd highly recommend the Panopticon album "Kentucky," which is a BM album about the state's history with labor organizing among coal miners, as well as the coal industry's destruction of the state's natural beauty. It's not a perfect album by any means but the way it mixes BM with bluegrass is cool, plus it has an incredibly redpilled message.
https://youtu.be/gSObRNcPAv8
https://youtu.be/2zwxEKmoVD4
Red Metal
As an avid listener of metal, something that frustrates me is the prevalence of chuds and reactionaries in metal (especially black metal). The visibility of guys like Varg and Famine of Peste Noire infamy has colored the public perception of extreme metal as being the domain of edgelord fascists. What are some metal groups that could be said to be socialist, anarchist, or leftist in some manner?To start things off, I'd highly recommend the Panopticon album "Kentucky," which is a BM album about the state's history with labor organizing among coal miners, as well as the coal industry's destruction of the state's natural beauty. It's not a perfect album by any means but the way it mixes BM with bluegrass is cool, plus it has an incredibly redpilled message.
https://youtu.be/gSObRNcPAv8
https://youtu.be/2zwxEKmoVD4
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>Interview with Lotta Continua 1977, Paul Mattick
Marxism and Terror
>For revolutionaries it is psychologically quite difficult, if not impossible, to raise their voices against the futile application of “revolutionary justice” by terroristic groups and individuals. Even Marx, who despised all forms nihilistic actions, could not help being elated by the terroristic feats of the Russian “Peoples’ Will” As a matter of fact, the counter-terror of revolutionary groups cannot be prevented by mere recognition of its futility. Their perpetrators are not moved by the conviction that their actions will lead directly to social change, but by their inability to accept the unchallenged, the perpetual terror of the bourgeoisie unchallenged. And once engaged in illegal terror, the legal terror forces them to continue their activities until the bitter end. This type of people is itself product of the class-ridden society and a response to its increasing brutalization. There is no sense in forming a consensus with the bourgeoisie and condemning their activities from proletarian point of view. It is enough to recognize their futility and to look for more effective ways to overcome the ever-present capitalist terror by the class actions of the proletariat.>Interview with Lotta Continua 1977, Paul Mattick
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Why is it that Islam, not Communism, remains the last bastion against imperialism?
And it can also be argued that communism was never anti imperialist to begin with because the Soviet union helped establish Israel, invaded Afghanistan and so on.
Is Islam the only true anti imperial creed?
Why is it that Islam, not Communism, remains the last bastion against imperialism?
And it can also be argued that communism was never anti imperialist to begin with because the Soviet union helped establish Israel, invaded Afghanistan and so on.
Is Islam the only true anti imperial creed?
R: 100 / I: 15
How are the right and the left both pouncing on the EU at the same time dude? Fuck my uyghur life, shit's so over. Supranational governing bodies formed by consensus are never going to work.
How are the right and the left both pouncing on the EU at the same time dude? Fuck my uyghur life, shit's so over. Supranational governing bodies formed by consensus are never going to work.
R: 16 / I: 6
fact: people in the top left think people in the top right are actually people in the bottom right
fact: people in the top right think people in the top left are actually people in the bottom left
fact: people in the bottom left think people in the bottom right are actually people in the top right
fact: people in the bottom right think people in the bottom left are actually people in the top left
"ziggers" and "succdems" confuse each other for "trumptards" and "nafoids"
>>2902247fact: people in the top left think people in the top right are actually people in the bottom right
fact: people in the top right think people in the top left are actually people in the bottom left
fact: people in the bottom left think people in the bottom right are actually people in the top right
fact: people in the bottom right think people in the bottom left are actually people in the top left
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>The U.S. decision targeting Autistici/Inventati should not be read simply as another sanction in Washington’s crackdown on violent extremism. According to Beniamino Irdi, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund and CEO of Highground, the more significant point lies elsewhere: for the first time, the logic of material support is being applied openly and forcefully to technological infrastructure. The target is no longer only those who carry out an act, but also those who provide the infrastructure that makes it possible. It is a choice that sets a delicate precedent for European allies and for the balance between security, intelligence and legal safeguards.
>Why it matters. The designation marks an unusual use of U.S. counterterrorism sanctions against a European technology collective whose main activity is providing digital infrastructure – from encrypted communications to web hosting.
< It also creates a potential point of discussion between Washington, Rome and Brussels: the U.S. designation carries immediate financial consequences under American jurisdiction, but does not automatically place Autistici/Inventati on Italy’s or the European Union’s terrorist lists.
>What happened. On August 26, the State Department, working with the Treasury Department, designated Autistici/Inventati (A/I Collective) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224.
< The State Department describes A/I as an Italy-based extremist organisation that builds and operates digital infrastructure used by violent Antifa cells and other far-left groups internationally. Washington says its services include encrypted email and chats, web hosting, secure videoconferencing and streaming, anonymity tools and the infrastructure behind the Noblogs platform.
>Washington specifically cited the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is designated as a terrorist organisation by the United States and is also on the EU terrorist list. Treasury says Autistici/Inventati was designated for having “materially assisted” or provided technological support, goods or services in support of an act of terrorism
>Q: Irdi, what is the most significant element of the U.S. decision?
< A: The most interesting part is not so much the sanction against this organization, but the fact that the logic of material support to terrorist organizations is being extended to the infrastructure layer. Washington is looking not only at what an entity does, but at what it enables others to do through its services, including in third countries.
>Q: So the United States is not targeting an operational organisation in the traditional sense?
< A: Exactly. The United States is not targeting an operational organisation, but an infrastructure. It is an extension of the scope of countermeasures to technical and infrastructure services that can be used by actors considered dangerous. The key point, however, is the principle being established: infrastructure itself can become the object of a countermeasure.
>Q: How much will the sanction actually affect Autistici/Inventati?
< A: The asset freeze is probably the least significant part of the measure: it is difficult to imagine that a small Italian association has substantial assets in the United States. The real effect comes instead through de-risking. A U.S. designation prompts banks, payment systems, registrars, hosting providers and connectivity providers to pre-emptively cut ties.
< An entity can therefore effectively be expelled from the services market without any court ruling ever having been issued in Italy, and potentially without a criminal proceeding even having been opened. In other words, the real coercive power of the United States lies in progressively making it impossible to bank, host or provide services to the designated entity.
>Q: In other words, the strongest effect could be ostracism.
< A: Yes. They have ostracised them. And this is precisely one of the most interesting and problematic aspects of the case. The power of sanctions derives from the ability to influence third parties, financial and commercial operators that, for compliance reasons, may decide to sever relations with the designated entity.
>Q: Why have we reached this point?
< A: Because over the past few years, the evolution of hostile activities in Europe has followed a very clear trend, especially on the Russian side. After the mass expulsion of Russian officers operating under cover, Moscow has increasingly relied on intermediaries and proxies.
< Assessments by European intelligence services describe a model in which recruiters can identify financially vulnerable individuals or people from criminal environments online and task them with surveillance, vandalism, arson or sabotage. Contact takes place remotely, payment can be made in cryptocurrencies and the person carrying out the act may not even know who they are actually working for.
>Q: And does this also change the way authorities need to look at the threat?
< A: The advantage of this model is deniability. If an operation is built through a succession of intermediaries, it becomes much more difficult to trace it back to the principal. And if the operational model is based on intermediation, it is quite natural for the response to begin shifting from the perpetrators to the enablers: not only those who physically carry out the act, but also those who provide the infrastructure that makes it possible or more difficult to attribute. This is an important evolution of the security paradigm.
< The U.S. designation of A/I does not claim that the organisation is controlled by Russia and should not be interpreted in that way. But the analytical perspective is the same: identifying not only those who carry out the action, but also the network of actors and tools that makes it possible.
>Q: From the standpoint of the legal safeguards typical of Western democracies, how do you see it?
< A: That is the main dilemma. In Western democracies, legal safeguards are difficult to circumvent. An organization may be considered dangerous from an intelligence perspective, but that does not automatically mean that the evidence required under the standards set by law exists to adopt a judicial measure.
>Q: Could Washington ask its allies to follow the same path?
< A: It is possible that the United States is setting a precedent and wants to signal to its allies that efforts to contain the infrastructure supporting violent activities should also be extended to other countries. But this raises a very delicate problem. If the criterion becomes too vague, the risk is that it creates divisions with those same allies.
>Q: What would be the critical point?
< A: For example, it is difficult to imagine that all allies would accept the principle that networks which, in some way, are associated with the Antifa sphere should no longer be allowed to provide services. A very careful distinction must be drawn between political affiliation, protest activity, ideological radicalism and concrete support for violence.
< The same infrastructure can be used by a dissident, a journalist, a political activist or someone claiming responsibility for an act of sabotage. In A/I’s case, projects are openly selected based on their compatibility with certain political principles. Taken on its own, that is a rather weak element on which to base judicial proceedings.
>Q: What, then, is the lesson for Western democracies?
< A: That they will increasingly have to confront the structural elements of the threat. Intelligence may reach the conclusion that an organization represents a risk, but moving from that assessment to a measure carrying legal consequences requires different standards. The issue raised by the A/I case is therefore broader than the individual organisation.
< It is another manifestation of a dilemma that liberal democracies are facing in many different forms as they confront modern threats to their security: how to fight them without eroding the safeguards that constitute their foundation and, ultimately, their freedom.
Autistici/Inventati case sets a new counterterrorism precedent, Irdi says
https://decode39.com/16319/autistici-inventati-case-sets-a-new-counterterrorism-precedent-irdi-says/>The U.S. decision targeting Autistici/Inventati should not be read simply as another sanction in Washington’s crackdown on violent extremism. According to Beniamino Irdi, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund and CEO of Highground, the more significant point lies elsewhere: for the first time, the logic of material support is being applied openly and forcefully to technological infrastructure. The target is no longer only those who carry out an act, but also those who provide the infrastructure that makes it possible. It is a choice that sets a delicate precedent for European allies and for the balance between security, intelligence and legal safeguards.
>Why it matters. The designation marks an unusual use of U.S. counterterrorism sanctions against a European technology collective whose main activity is providing digital infrastructure – from encrypted communications to web hosting.
< It also creates a potential point of discussion between Washington, Rome and Brussels: the U.S. designation carries immediate financial consequences under American jurisdiction, but does not automatically place Autistici/Inventati on Italy’s or the European Union’s terrorist lists.
>What happened. On August 26, the State Department, working with the Treasury Department, designated Autistici/Inventati (A/I Collective) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224.
< The State Department describes A/I as an Italy-based extremist organisation that builds and operates digital infrastructure used by violent Antifa cells and other far-left groups internationally. Washington says its services include encrypted email and chats, web hosting, secure videoconferencing and streaming, anonymity tools and the infrastructure behind the Noblogs platform.
>Washington specifically cited the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is designated as a terrorist organisation by the United States and is also on the EU terrorist list. Treasury says Autistici/Inventati was designated for having “materially assisted” or provided technological support, goods or services in support of an act of terrorism
>Q: Irdi, what is the most significant element of the U.S. decision?
< A: The most interesting part is not so much the sanction against this organization, but the fact that the logic of material support to terrorist organizations is being extended to the infrastructure layer. Washington is looking not only at what an entity does, but at what it enables others to do through its services, including in third countries.
>Q: So the United States is not targeting an operational organisation in the traditional sense?
< A: Exactly. The United States is not targeting an operational organisation, but an infrastructure. It is an extension of the scope of countermeasures to technical and infrastructure services that can be used by actors considered dangerous. The key point, however, is the principle being established: infrastructure itself can become the object of a countermeasure.
>Q: How much will the sanction actually affect Autistici/Inventati?
< A: The asset freeze is probably the least significant part of the measure: it is difficult to imagine that a small Italian association has substantial assets in the United States. The real effect comes instead through de-risking. A U.S. designation prompts banks, payment systems, registrars, hosting providers and connectivity providers to pre-emptively cut ties.
< An entity can therefore effectively be expelled from the services market without any court ruling ever having been issued in Italy, and potentially without a criminal proceeding even having been opened. In other words, the real coercive power of the United States lies in progressively making it impossible to bank, host or provide services to the designated entity.
>Q: In other words, the strongest effect could be ostracism.
< A: Yes. They have ostracised them. And this is precisely one of the most interesting and problematic aspects of the case. The power of sanctions derives from the ability to influence third parties, financial and commercial operators that, for compliance reasons, may decide to sever relations with the designated entity.
>Q: Why have we reached this point?
< A: Because over the past few years, the evolution of hostile activities in Europe has followed a very clear trend, especially on the Russian side. After the mass expulsion of Russian officers operating under cover, Moscow has increasingly relied on intermediaries and proxies.
< Assessments by European intelligence services describe a model in which recruiters can identify financially vulnerable individuals or people from criminal environments online and task them with surveillance, vandalism, arson or sabotage. Contact takes place remotely, payment can be made in cryptocurrencies and the person carrying out the act may not even know who they are actually working for.
>Q: And does this also change the way authorities need to look at the threat?
< A: The advantage of this model is deniability. If an operation is built through a succession of intermediaries, it becomes much more difficult to trace it back to the principal. And if the operational model is based on intermediation, it is quite natural for the response to begin shifting from the perpetrators to the enablers: not only those who physically carry out the act, but also those who provide the infrastructure that makes it possible or more difficult to attribute. This is an important evolution of the security paradigm.
< The U.S. designation of A/I does not claim that the organisation is controlled by Russia and should not be interpreted in that way. But the analytical perspective is the same: identifying not only those who carry out the action, but also the network of actors and tools that makes it possible.
>Q: From the standpoint of the legal safeguards typical of Western democracies, how do you see it?
< A: That is the main dilemma. In Western democracies, legal safeguards are difficult to circumvent. An organization may be considered dangerous from an intelligence perspective, but that does not automatically mean that the evidence required under the standards set by law exists to adopt a judicial measure.
>Q: Could Washington ask its allies to follow the same path?
< A: It is possible that the United States is setting a precedent and wants to signal to its allies that efforts to contain the infrastructure supporting violent activities should also be extended to other countries. But this raises a very delicate problem. If the criterion becomes too vague, the risk is that it creates divisions with those same allies.
>Q: What would be the critical point?
< A: For example, it is difficult to imagine that all allies would accept the principle that networks which, in some way, are associated with the Antifa sphere should no longer be allowed to provide services. A very careful distinction must be drawn between political affiliation, protest activity, ideological radicalism and concrete support for violence.
< The same infrastructure can be used by a dissident, a journalist, a political activist or someone claiming responsibility for an act of sabotage. In A/I’s case, projects are openly selected based on their compatibility with certain political principles. Taken on its own, that is a rather weak element on which to base judicial proceedings.
>Q: What, then, is the lesson for Western democracies?
< A: That they will increasingly have to confront the structural elements of the threat. Intelligence may reach the conclusion that an organization represents a risk, but moving from that assessment to a measure carrying legal consequences requires different standards. The issue raised by the A/I case is therefore broader than the individual organisation.
< It is another manifestation of a dilemma that liberal democracies are facing in many different forms as they confront modern threats to their security: how to fight them without eroding the safeguards that constitute their foundation and, ultimately, their freedom.
R: 601 / I: 235 (full)
"Acho muito difícil fazer uma coisa boa em televisão. Os donos das emissoras não querem que o povo realmente saiba das coisas. Eles querem é Ibope, querem faturar e faturam muito bem."
Anão, o que é a vida?
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
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/brg/ - Brazil General
EDIÇÃO ANTÔNIO ABUJAMRA"Acho muito difícil fazer uma coisa boa em televisão. Os donos das emissoras não querem que o povo realmente saiba das coisas. Eles querem é Ibope, querem faturar e faturam muito bem."
Anão, o que é a vida?
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>18131
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Are you as brave as them?
Could you handle the pressure in that chaotic and stressful environment with no conventional training and minimal funding and weaponry?
Do Myanmar rebels represent the contemporary revolutionary spirit?
Do you wish this were your appearance, leftypol?Are you as brave as them?
Could you handle the pressure in that chaotic and stressful environment with no conventional training and minimal funding and weaponry?
R: 20 / I: 4
Therapy
Why is something as pseudoscientific and generally useless as "therapy" pushed so heavily nowadays? As someone who was in and out of psych wards as an adolescent, as someone who's been to dozens and dozens of therapists, as someone with multiple complex conditions, how is talking to some clueless privileged fag with a bullshit degree going to improve my material circumstances in any way? Why am I the bad guy for being against the psychiatric industrial complex? What real purpose does "therapy" serve in relation to neoliberal capitalism?
R: 7 / I: 0
One of my American moots discussed with me about Christopher Hyatt, Stephen Kershner, and free will, and he did bring up the recent example of Lindsay Clancy and the controversy surrounding her case.
Maverick journo Michael Tracey has already covered the basic facts, so I‘ll skip on reinstating it, and jump onto the meat of the discussion behind this gendered discourse.
For starters, I don’t necessarily agree with the manosphere here, but I do understand their frustration because, more often than not, men get the short end of the stick in civil/family courts which use a lower evidentiary standard compared to supreme courts, especially when it comes to child custody, alimony, child support, divorce, and sex-related charges. Not to mention that society is more lenient towards female criminals compared to their male counterparts even if the crime was done under an episode of psychosis, as demonstrated by gender-based sentencing disparity favoring women over men: https://sp2016dev.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/features/Pages/starr_gender_disparities.aspx
And yes, I know Michael here isn’t putting a gendered double standard, but still…
Whilst understanding the frustration, I still don’t agree with it as Clancy herself was not only failed by the very institutions she sought help from, but the warning signs (such as her expressing suicidal thoughts) were there long before the filicides. And it’s with that in mind that I think that the gendered discourse is masking something society is far more uncomfortable with.
In the first line of this text, I did mention the names of Hyatt and Kershner, and with good reason as those figures, despite radically different backgrounds (the former being a niche occultist, the latter an academic that got subjected to an investigative committee that outlasted the Warren commission) all hold that free will is a myth. Kirshner elaborated more on his point, making the argument against punishment in general on the basis that he didn't believe in free will, and therefore punishing someone is just punishing someone whose conditions/ biology/mental traits led them to that path and ultimately did nothing but satisfy a need for vengenance.
I feel like the american prison system and the american public have long ago given up the pretense that incarceration is about rehabiliation. If they did believe in it then conditions would be far better and they'd be paired with say doctors, teachers and psychologists to help them see the errors of their ways and how to correct themselves. And this comes into play as the crux of the issue with Clancy is whether:
Now, I do think she is being overcharged, and that she wasn’t in her right mind. It can be a mitigating factor to kill someone in a bout of temporary insanity like being cheated on or "a crime of passion" if sanity is not lost. I think we've lost sight of the fact, because activists on mental health have been quite strident about this point, that legally speaking, going back to the Greeks, the mentally ill are not responsible for their actions. However, this has never been an easy pill for many people to swallow, and people say cliches like "mental illness doesn’t make you racist/bigoted/kill people" when that’s plainly not true. And this is the main contradiction here: Not gender, but people’s general discomfort with the idea that free will may not exist after all (or that neurological factors may make it unethical to overcharge people for crimes they did when they were, for example, under a state of psychosis), and how that relates to crime.
And as we’ve seen with current events, anything that the masses in western society see as being unresolved (regardless of the actual reality) is bound to turn into a culture war, and the case of Clancy is no different.
What does the Lindsey Clancy trial tells us about society
https://www.mtracey.net/p/lindsay-clancy-menOne of my American moots discussed with me about Christopher Hyatt, Stephen Kershner, and free will, and he did bring up the recent example of Lindsay Clancy and the controversy surrounding her case.
Maverick journo Michael Tracey has already covered the basic facts, so I‘ll skip on reinstating it, and jump onto the meat of the discussion behind this gendered discourse.
For starters, I don’t necessarily agree with the manosphere here, but I do understand their frustration because, more often than not, men get the short end of the stick in civil/family courts which use a lower evidentiary standard compared to supreme courts, especially when it comes to child custody, alimony, child support, divorce, and sex-related charges. Not to mention that society is more lenient towards female criminals compared to their male counterparts even if the crime was done under an episode of psychosis, as demonstrated by gender-based sentencing disparity favoring women over men: https://sp2016dev.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/features/Pages/starr_gender_disparities.aspx
And yes, I know Michael here isn’t putting a gendered double standard, but still…
Whilst understanding the frustration, I still don’t agree with it as Clancy herself was not only failed by the very institutions she sought help from, but the warning signs (such as her expressing suicidal thoughts) were there long before the filicides. And it’s with that in mind that I think that the gendered discourse is masking something society is far more uncomfortable with.
In the first line of this text, I did mention the names of Hyatt and Kershner, and with good reason as those figures, despite radically different backgrounds (the former being a niche occultist, the latter an academic that got subjected to an investigative committee that outlasted the Warren commission) all hold that free will is a myth. Kirshner elaborated more on his point, making the argument against punishment in general on the basis that he didn't believe in free will, and therefore punishing someone is just punishing someone whose conditions/ biology/mental traits led them to that path and ultimately did nothing but satisfy a need for vengenance.
I feel like the american prison system and the american public have long ago given up the pretense that incarceration is about rehabiliation. If they did believe in it then conditions would be far better and they'd be paired with say doctors, teachers and psychologists to help them see the errors of their ways and how to correct themselves. And this comes into play as the crux of the issue with Clancy is whether:
- She is being overcharged
- She was in her right mind when committing the murders
Now, I do think she is being overcharged, and that she wasn’t in her right mind. It can be a mitigating factor to kill someone in a bout of temporary insanity like being cheated on or "a crime of passion" if sanity is not lost. I think we've lost sight of the fact, because activists on mental health have been quite strident about this point, that legally speaking, going back to the Greeks, the mentally ill are not responsible for their actions. However, this has never been an easy pill for many people to swallow, and people say cliches like "mental illness doesn’t make you racist/bigoted/kill people" when that’s plainly not true. And this is the main contradiction here: Not gender, but people’s general discomfort with the idea that free will may not exist after all (or that neurological factors may make it unethical to overcharge people for crimes they did when they were, for example, under a state of psychosis), and how that relates to crime.
And as we’ve seen with current events, anything that the masses in western society see as being unresolved (regardless of the actual reality) is bound to turn into a culture war, and the case of Clancy is no different.
R: 8 / I: 2
i am looking to build a low-cost sacrificial CMOS sensor test rig. interested in characterizing how permanent sensor degradation propagates through an image pipeline and eventually causes OCR failure. not primarily interested in temporary saturation/blinding. the question is where the functional threshold actually occurs after persistent sensor damage accumulates.
>Hardware
Raspberry Pi 4 as controller and replaceable CSI camera modules. IMX477 HQ Camera as primary test sensor IMX296 global-shutter comparison. IMX219 as cheap disposable baseline. interchangeable optics, fixed hardware and software baseline.
>Optical source
controlled, wavelength-defined laser source. output will be measured and recorded to construct a reproducible guide. fixed image sensor mounting and consistent exposure intensity and angling analagous to real world conditions. treat each camera module as a sacrificial test article. the goal is the destruction of optical recognition capabilities in a reproducible and on-the-go formula.
>Software
Raspberry Pi OS/libcamera OpenCV + NumPy Tesseract + PaddleOCR RAW + processed-frame capture automated OCR against a standardized text target
>Goal
log dead/stuck pixel count, persistent defect distribution saturation/clipping noise/SNR contrast and edge degradation OCR confidence character error rate / word error rate
>tl;dr
baseline sensor, controlled exposure, capture RAW + processed frame, run OCR, map persistent defects, repeat with fresh sensor
The interesting result is the curve:
sensor degradation → image-quality degradation → OCR error rate
rather than simply declaring the camera “dead” when OCR first fails.
Looking for recommendations on Pi-compatible sensors that would make useful analogues for higher-end commercial OCR/machine-vision cameras, particularly sensors with RAW access and well-documented characteristics.
Measuring CMOS Sensor Failure / Functional OCR Reliability After Exposure to High Intensity Lasers
you guys are not my political equals. i am vastly different in my disposition. that isn't what I'm here to discuss. I'm here for results against a surveillance state and to build a better future.i am looking to build a low-cost sacrificial CMOS sensor test rig. interested in characterizing how permanent sensor degradation propagates through an image pipeline and eventually causes OCR failure. not primarily interested in temporary saturation/blinding. the question is where the functional threshold actually occurs after persistent sensor damage accumulates.
>Hardware
Raspberry Pi 4 as controller and replaceable CSI camera modules. IMX477 HQ Camera as primary test sensor IMX296 global-shutter comparison. IMX219 as cheap disposable baseline. interchangeable optics, fixed hardware and software baseline.
>Optical source
controlled, wavelength-defined laser source. output will be measured and recorded to construct a reproducible guide. fixed image sensor mounting and consistent exposure intensity and angling analagous to real world conditions. treat each camera module as a sacrificial test article. the goal is the destruction of optical recognition capabilities in a reproducible and on-the-go formula.
>Software
Raspberry Pi OS/libcamera OpenCV + NumPy Tesseract + PaddleOCR RAW + processed-frame capture automated OCR against a standardized text target
>Goal
log dead/stuck pixel count, persistent defect distribution saturation/clipping noise/SNR contrast and edge degradation OCR confidence character error rate / word error rate
>tl;dr
baseline sensor, controlled exposure, capture RAW + processed frame, run OCR, map persistent defects, repeat with fresh sensor
The interesting result is the curve:
sensor degradation → image-quality degradation → OCR error rate
rather than simply declaring the camera “dead” when OCR first fails.
Looking for recommendations on Pi-compatible sensors that would make useful analogues for higher-end commercial OCR/machine-vision cameras, particularly sensors with RAW access and well-documented characteristics.
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AI news shit general
The other thread hit bump limit and I'm addicted to talking about the birth of the ̶a̶l̶l̶-̶k̶n̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶ the biggest financial bubble in history and the coming jobless eschaton, post your AI news herePrevious thread:>>30810
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Android phone models/brands
What are some genuinely good phones that do not shit the bed after 3 years, and without software updates shitting it's functionality? I've been stuck with Samsung, falling for propoganda that it's long-lasting when in reality they've just added some new pointless OS updates that makes it slower to use.
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Wtf is that man I have read a shit ton of theory
They also say the job isn't to just gain membership its to make a harden vanguard
Professional revolutionary
I hear RCP people say that they are training professional revolutionairesWtf is that man I have read a shit ton of theory
They also say the job isn't to just gain membership its to make a harden vanguard
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My favorite workplace environment was a warehouse where 95% of the employees were dudes and the rest were butch lesbians who were actually pretty chill compared to their straight counterparts.
Being in a workplace with lots of women fucking sucks
because it's always gossiping and petty drama all the time.My favorite workplace environment was a warehouse where 95% of the employees were dudes and the rest were butch lesbians who were actually pretty chill compared to their straight counterparts.
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Zigger question
Why do ziggers - who are socially rightist (Russian ethno-nationalists + homo/transphobes) and economically rightist (supporting Putin's oligarchy) - constitute a privileged class on LEFTYpol?
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I want to also see if I can help the unions a bit here and there too. Any tips? Am I a terrible bastard?
becoming a supervisor?
Hello I have the potential to become a supervisor at a mail company and want to become one for the benefits, less body strain, and more potential growth in my career.I want to also see if I can help the unions a bit here and there too. Any tips? Am I a terrible bastard?
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After nearly two decades, I realize that this r*tarded angel was a fucking weirdo groomer, OH MY FUCKING GOOOOOD BRO WTF
I was a child when i watched this series whyyyyyy :[
After nearly two decades, I realize that this r*tarded angel was a fucking weirdo groomer, OH MY FUCKING GOOOOOD BRO WTF
I was a child when i watched this series whyyyyyy :[
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I made this without a hint of irony.
I like natural rights, Leninism, Hoxhaism, and my philosophy is heavily influenced by Mishima.
And there is nothing you can do about it.
I made this without a hint of irony.
I like natural rights, Leninism, Hoxhaism, and my philosophy is heavily influenced by Mishima.
And there is nothing you can do about it.
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I think there's a convergence right now between the Sorelian conception of political "myths" and the prominence of GenAI slop, especially on The Right. I'm sure most of you have noticed by now that Generative AI has been almost endemic to Right-Wing political movements, even while Data Centers in particular are still grossly unpopular. I don't believe this convergence is intentional, in fact I doubt that most on the political Right even know who Sorel was, but rather I believe the Right has intuited some of Sorel's work without actually reading it. Though entirely unintentional, the specter of Sorelianism has only become more relevant to modern political disputes.
To begin, let's first discuss what Sorel means by a "Myth". He asserts his thesis in his Magnum Opus, "Reflections on Violence" here:
>“In the course of these studies, I have established something so simple that I did not believe it had to be emphasized: men who participate in great social movements represent their immediate action in the form of images of battles assuring the triumph of their cause. I proposed calling these constructions myths, the knowledge of which is so important for the historian: the syndicalist general strike and Marx’s catastrophic revolution are myths. I have given as remarkable examples of myths those which were constructed by early Christianity, the Reformation, the French Revolution and by Mazzini’s followers. I wanted to show that it is not necessary to try to analyze such systems of images in the same way that one breaks down something into its elements; that they should be taken as a whole and as historical forces; that it is necessary above all to keep from comparing the accomplished facts with the images which men had adopted prior to action.”
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 20, Cambridge Texts Edition
The emphasis on the word "images" is my own, as I feel that's directly relevant to the tidal wave of AI slop we see coming from The Right Wing today. Now I should mention that though Sorel uses the term "images" he doesn't necessarily mean a literal picture or painting. The images Sorel refers to could exist as ethereally as in the mind's eye. What matters for the sake of politics is that these images are conceptualized collectively and depict triumphant battles against an enemy.
To try to break this down simply; Sorel believed that myths provided a crucial motive force, that regardless of their relationship to the actual reality of the conflict, they motivate people to become partisans within that conflict. For example, one such myth he references was that of Early Christianity. Historically, Christianity existed in the space of an End Times movement, several early Christians earnestly believed Christ was coming and that by dying as martyrs they would be rewarded in the hereafter. Indeed, contemporary Roman sources would even occasionally remark that Christians would willingly turn themselves in to authorities in hopes of achieving martyrdom. It doesn't matter that the myth Christians conceptualized for themselves didn't literally happen, as Christ didn't return in their lifetimes to usher in the Last Judgement. Rather that myth motivated Christians to proselytize, to suffer martyrdom, and ultimately led to the Christianization of the Roman Empire.
It was important to Sorel that images depict conflict to be elevated to the status of "myth"; images which merely depict perfect or idealized society, Sorel thought, merely indulged in Utopianism which would lead to reformism.
>“As long as there are no myths accepted by the masses, one may go on talking of revolts indefinitely without ever provoking any revolutionary movement; this is what gives such importance to the general strike and renders it so odious to socialists who are afraid of revolution; they do all they can to shake the confidence felt by the workers in the preparations they are making for the revolution; and in order to succeed in this they cast ridicule on the idea of the general strike, which alone has a value as a motive force. One of the chief means employed by them is to represent it as a utopia; this is easy enough, as there are very few myths which are perfectly free from any utopian element.
>The revolutionary myths which exist at the present time are almost pure; they allow us to understand the activity, the sentiments, and the ideas of the masses as they prepare themselves to enter on a decisive struggle; they are not descriptions of things but expressions of a will to act. A utopia is, on the contrary, an intellectual product; it is the work of theorists who, after observing and discussing the facts, seek to establish a model to which they can compare existing societies in order to estimate the amount of good and evil they contain; it is a combination of imaginary institutions having sufficient analogies to real institutions for the jurist to be able to reason about them; it is a construction which can be broken into parts and of which certain pieces have been shaped in such a way that they can (with a few alterations) be fitted into future legislation. — Whilst contemporary myths lead men to prepare themselves for a combat which will destroy the existing state of things, the effect of utopias has always been to direct men’s minds towards reforms which can be brought about by patching up the system; it is not surprising then that so many believers in utopias were able to develop into able statesmen when they had acquired greater experience of political life. — A myth cannot be refuted since it is, at bottom, identical to the convictions of a group, being the expression of these convictions in the language of movement; and it is, in consequence, unanalysable into parts which could be placed on the plane of historical descriptions. A utopia, on the other hand, can be discussed like any other social constitution; the spontaneous movements it presupposes can be compared with those actually observed in the course of history, and we can in this way evaluate their verisimilitude; it is possible to refute it by showing that the economic system on which it has been made to rest is incompatible with the necessary conditions of modern production.”
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 28, Cambridge Edition
That was a lot of words, but in essence: myths prepare a movement for battle and encourage them to do conflict, they're taken "as a whole" rather than being broken into constituent parts. An image of Socialists leading a battalion of tanks towards reactionary holdouts doesn't propose legislation nor can it be broken down into an analysis on mechanized warfare, it must be taken as a whole. Utopias, by contrast, are analyzed on a policy-basis. The very origin of the term "Utopia" in political theory relates back to Saint Thomas More's book, and to this very day people had dissected his idealized society and critiqued his policy proposals.
Back to modernity: as generative AI has been refined and widely distributed, it hasn't been adopted by the "mainstream" of political and cultural opinion, rather it has found purchase in groups which can be coined "cultural insurgencies". It's not mainstream liberal thought that embraced AI image generation, but "populist" right wing movements, freaks, perverts, and the detritus of failed social movements. In the face of rapidly secularizing generations, Evangelical Christians have embraced AI images of Jesus coming to earth to judge the secular world they despise. In the absence of sexual gratification, glassy-eyed internet shut ins use AI to give "woke" video game characters bigger tits or a fatter ass or doll-like facial features. Political orgs like the AfD in Germany or MAGA in America gleefully use AI to paint the world as they perceive it: a Manichean battle between foreign invaders, their effeminate compradors in the West, and chisel-jawed "alpha males" opposing them.
As these movements have claimed power in the political arena and shown their utter inability to govern, it appears they've grown to rely more and more on Sorelian style myths to shore up their support. As Trump's grown older and more incontinent, his most fervent supporters depict him as more virile, more muscular, and more competent than ever. As the Iran war proves itself to be a bungle, the Right Wing internet is awash in depictions of Trump as a "military man", Trump in Uniform, Trump ordering missile strikes, Trump flying fighter jets. What this has done is created a floor of unshakeable faith, around 38% of the country which approves of him, whereas George W. Bush eventually collapsed to 25% support by the end of his second term.
Liberals are hoping, perhaps naively, that there will be some "wake up call" for Trump. That a Bush 2 moment may happen where Trump sees his support completely collapse. That America will grow "tired" of populism and submit to the rule of dull technocrats, but as Sorel himself said:
>The professors of the little science are really difficult to satisfy. They assert very loudly that they will only admit into thought ideas that are clear and distinct; – as a matter of fact, this is a rule which is insufficient for purposes of action, for we do nothing great without the help of warmly coloured and sharply defined images which absorb the whole of our attention;
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 140
A more obvious collapse of the Trump administration would not cause a collapse in his supporters, but rather it would be preceded with even more wild and manic images presaging a final battle with "communist liberals" and "the deep state". The manic distribution of images would be followed by an even greater upswing of political violence. Here is where AI in particular becomes a danger, because what it lacks in quality it compensates with quantity.
Consider how the brain is "tricked" into thinking enough images moving fast enough give the impression of motion. What AI allows is the impression of a certain conflict. In seconds, Right Wingers can have hundreds of photographs that look real enough to impose ideas on the general public. If a person scrolls TikTok or Facebook or Twitter long enough and sees hundreds of AI generated images of London teeming with Muslims, or Blue-Haired Transgenders teaching school kids, or BLM protesters attacking white people, then even if he can recognize on a basic level that the image in front of him is fake, they could blur and coagulate in his subconscious, plant a seed of fascist myth that the Right will meticulously grow. Even if one or two or three images are recognized as fake, if someone sees the same myth depicted day in and day out, hundreds of times, the possibility remains that they'll believe it on some level, they won't be stuck with any one particular image, but THE image of a battle between "western civilization" and "brown hordes".
So how does the Left counter this? In theory it could try to pre-emptively flood the zone: post more AI than ever of Right Wingers being cannibals, being perverts, freaks, "bad" in some way. Whether it could counter-signal to an extent that would obfuscate Right Wing narrative building is unknown. Alternatively it could try to specialize: quality over quantity. Create such striking images of class war that they hold attention longer than the billion images of AI slop the Right puts out. Regardless of what "The Left" broadly chooses, I think it needs to reckon with AI images as something beyond "quaint", but an insidious danger.
Sorel in the Age of AI
I was thinking of making this thread ages ago, but I couldn't find the right words. I'm still not sure if I'm saying everything I want to here, but I figured at the very least this can create some interesting discussion.I think there's a convergence right now between the Sorelian conception of political "myths" and the prominence of GenAI slop, especially on The Right. I'm sure most of you have noticed by now that Generative AI has been almost endemic to Right-Wing political movements, even while Data Centers in particular are still grossly unpopular. I don't believe this convergence is intentional, in fact I doubt that most on the political Right even know who Sorel was, but rather I believe the Right has intuited some of Sorel's work without actually reading it. Though entirely unintentional, the specter of Sorelianism has only become more relevant to modern political disputes.
To begin, let's first discuss what Sorel means by a "Myth". He asserts his thesis in his Magnum Opus, "Reflections on Violence" here:
>“In the course of these studies, I have established something so simple that I did not believe it had to be emphasized: men who participate in great social movements represent their immediate action in the form of images of battles assuring the triumph of their cause. I proposed calling these constructions myths, the knowledge of which is so important for the historian: the syndicalist general strike and Marx’s catastrophic revolution are myths. I have given as remarkable examples of myths those which were constructed by early Christianity, the Reformation, the French Revolution and by Mazzini’s followers. I wanted to show that it is not necessary to try to analyze such systems of images in the same way that one breaks down something into its elements; that they should be taken as a whole and as historical forces; that it is necessary above all to keep from comparing the accomplished facts with the images which men had adopted prior to action.”
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 20, Cambridge Texts Edition
The emphasis on the word "images" is my own, as I feel that's directly relevant to the tidal wave of AI slop we see coming from The Right Wing today. Now I should mention that though Sorel uses the term "images" he doesn't necessarily mean a literal picture or painting. The images Sorel refers to could exist as ethereally as in the mind's eye. What matters for the sake of politics is that these images are conceptualized collectively and depict triumphant battles against an enemy.
To try to break this down simply; Sorel believed that myths provided a crucial motive force, that regardless of their relationship to the actual reality of the conflict, they motivate people to become partisans within that conflict. For example, one such myth he references was that of Early Christianity. Historically, Christianity existed in the space of an End Times movement, several early Christians earnestly believed Christ was coming and that by dying as martyrs they would be rewarded in the hereafter. Indeed, contemporary Roman sources would even occasionally remark that Christians would willingly turn themselves in to authorities in hopes of achieving martyrdom. It doesn't matter that the myth Christians conceptualized for themselves didn't literally happen, as Christ didn't return in their lifetimes to usher in the Last Judgement. Rather that myth motivated Christians to proselytize, to suffer martyrdom, and ultimately led to the Christianization of the Roman Empire.
It was important to Sorel that images depict conflict to be elevated to the status of "myth"; images which merely depict perfect or idealized society, Sorel thought, merely indulged in Utopianism which would lead to reformism.
>“As long as there are no myths accepted by the masses, one may go on talking of revolts indefinitely without ever provoking any revolutionary movement; this is what gives such importance to the general strike and renders it so odious to socialists who are afraid of revolution; they do all they can to shake the confidence felt by the workers in the preparations they are making for the revolution; and in order to succeed in this they cast ridicule on the idea of the general strike, which alone has a value as a motive force. One of the chief means employed by them is to represent it as a utopia; this is easy enough, as there are very few myths which are perfectly free from any utopian element.
>The revolutionary myths which exist at the present time are almost pure; they allow us to understand the activity, the sentiments, and the ideas of the masses as they prepare themselves to enter on a decisive struggle; they are not descriptions of things but expressions of a will to act. A utopia is, on the contrary, an intellectual product; it is the work of theorists who, after observing and discussing the facts, seek to establish a model to which they can compare existing societies in order to estimate the amount of good and evil they contain; it is a combination of imaginary institutions having sufficient analogies to real institutions for the jurist to be able to reason about them; it is a construction which can be broken into parts and of which certain pieces have been shaped in such a way that they can (with a few alterations) be fitted into future legislation. — Whilst contemporary myths lead men to prepare themselves for a combat which will destroy the existing state of things, the effect of utopias has always been to direct men’s minds towards reforms which can be brought about by patching up the system; it is not surprising then that so many believers in utopias were able to develop into able statesmen when they had acquired greater experience of political life. — A myth cannot be refuted since it is, at bottom, identical to the convictions of a group, being the expression of these convictions in the language of movement; and it is, in consequence, unanalysable into parts which could be placed on the plane of historical descriptions. A utopia, on the other hand, can be discussed like any other social constitution; the spontaneous movements it presupposes can be compared with those actually observed in the course of history, and we can in this way evaluate their verisimilitude; it is possible to refute it by showing that the economic system on which it has been made to rest is incompatible with the necessary conditions of modern production.”
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 28, Cambridge Edition
That was a lot of words, but in essence: myths prepare a movement for battle and encourage them to do conflict, they're taken "as a whole" rather than being broken into constituent parts. An image of Socialists leading a battalion of tanks towards reactionary holdouts doesn't propose legislation nor can it be broken down into an analysis on mechanized warfare, it must be taken as a whole. Utopias, by contrast, are analyzed on a policy-basis. The very origin of the term "Utopia" in political theory relates back to Saint Thomas More's book, and to this very day people had dissected his idealized society and critiqued his policy proposals.
Back to modernity: as generative AI has been refined and widely distributed, it hasn't been adopted by the "mainstream" of political and cultural opinion, rather it has found purchase in groups which can be coined "cultural insurgencies". It's not mainstream liberal thought that embraced AI image generation, but "populist" right wing movements, freaks, perverts, and the detritus of failed social movements. In the face of rapidly secularizing generations, Evangelical Christians have embraced AI images of Jesus coming to earth to judge the secular world they despise. In the absence of sexual gratification, glassy-eyed internet shut ins use AI to give "woke" video game characters bigger tits or a fatter ass or doll-like facial features. Political orgs like the AfD in Germany or MAGA in America gleefully use AI to paint the world as they perceive it: a Manichean battle between foreign invaders, their effeminate compradors in the West, and chisel-jawed "alpha males" opposing them.
As these movements have claimed power in the political arena and shown their utter inability to govern, it appears they've grown to rely more and more on Sorelian style myths to shore up their support. As Trump's grown older and more incontinent, his most fervent supporters depict him as more virile, more muscular, and more competent than ever. As the Iran war proves itself to be a bungle, the Right Wing internet is awash in depictions of Trump as a "military man", Trump in Uniform, Trump ordering missile strikes, Trump flying fighter jets. What this has done is created a floor of unshakeable faith, around 38% of the country which approves of him, whereas George W. Bush eventually collapsed to 25% support by the end of his second term.
Liberals are hoping, perhaps naively, that there will be some "wake up call" for Trump. That a Bush 2 moment may happen where Trump sees his support completely collapse. That America will grow "tired" of populism and submit to the rule of dull technocrats, but as Sorel himself said:
>The professors of the little science are really difficult to satisfy. They assert very loudly that they will only admit into thought ideas that are clear and distinct; – as a matter of fact, this is a rule which is insufficient for purposes of action, for we do nothing great without the help of warmly coloured and sharply defined images which absorb the whole of our attention;
<Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence, Page 140
A more obvious collapse of the Trump administration would not cause a collapse in his supporters, but rather it would be preceded with even more wild and manic images presaging a final battle with "communist liberals" and "the deep state". The manic distribution of images would be followed by an even greater upswing of political violence. Here is where AI in particular becomes a danger, because what it lacks in quality it compensates with quantity.
Consider how the brain is "tricked" into thinking enough images moving fast enough give the impression of motion. What AI allows is the impression of a certain conflict. In seconds, Right Wingers can have hundreds of photographs that look real enough to impose ideas on the general public. If a person scrolls TikTok or Facebook or Twitter long enough and sees hundreds of AI generated images of London teeming with Muslims, or Blue-Haired Transgenders teaching school kids, or BLM protesters attacking white people, then even if he can recognize on a basic level that the image in front of him is fake, they could blur and coagulate in his subconscious, plant a seed of fascist myth that the Right will meticulously grow. Even if one or two or three images are recognized as fake, if someone sees the same myth depicted day in and day out, hundreds of times, the possibility remains that they'll believe it on some level, they won't be stuck with any one particular image, but THE image of a battle between "western civilization" and "brown hordes".
So how does the Left counter this? In theory it could try to pre-emptively flood the zone: post more AI than ever of Right Wingers being cannibals, being perverts, freaks, "bad" in some way. Whether it could counter-signal to an extent that would obfuscate Right Wing narrative building is unknown. Alternatively it could try to specialize: quality over quantity. Create such striking images of class war that they hold attention longer than the billion images of AI slop the Right puts out. Regardless of what "The Left" broadly chooses, I think it needs to reckon with AI images as something beyond "quaint", but an insidious danger.
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>“The age of Willkommenskultur is over, the era of mass deportations has begun,” commented the Sweden Democrats party, whose MEP Charlie Weimers played a central role as ECR’s shadow rapporteur.
>In a rare show of unity on the European Right, the directive was adopted not only by the national conservative groups (PfE, ECR, and ESN) but also the EPP, which votes together with the leftist parties in the vast majority of cases.
>Most importantly, the new law will introduce a mutual recognition and enforcement obligation between member states regarding deportation orders, meaning migrants cannot circumvent return decisions by moving to a different EU country and restarting the process. A return order in one country will legally count as a valid order in all of them.
>Another important point is the introduction of third-country return hubs, making it possible for member states to externalize return procedures by sending migrants to secure facilities outside EU territory to wait for the end of the process, ensuring they won’t escape implementation once the paperwork’s done.
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/EUropol/
WILLKOMENSKULTUR IST VORBEI edition>“The age of Willkommenskultur is over, the era of mass deportations has begun,” commented the Sweden Democrats party, whose MEP Charlie Weimers played a central role as ECR’s shadow rapporteur.
>In a rare show of unity on the European Right, the directive was adopted not only by the national conservative groups (PfE, ECR, and ESN) but also the EPP, which votes together with the leftist parties in the vast majority of cases.
>Most importantly, the new law will introduce a mutual recognition and enforcement obligation between member states regarding deportation orders, meaning migrants cannot circumvent return decisions by moving to a different EU country and restarting the process. A return order in one country will legally count as a valid order in all of them.
>Another important point is the introduction of third-country return hubs, making it possible for member states to externalize return procedures by sending migrants to secure facilities outside EU territory to wait for the end of the process, ensuring they won’t escape implementation once the paperwork’s done.
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Leftbook
Does anyone remembering all those communist meme pages on Facebook in 2015-2018? I had a philosophy meme page that would just post vaguely leftist content and existentialist memes, until it petered out in 2019. I used to be an admin on this page too and got kicked out by some ecelebs like Pierre Trudanke.
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Plus they dont even know what nihilism even means.
"Nihilistic Violent Extremism" (NVE)
Does anyone else think the whole "NVE" thing that popped up a year or so ago is a dedicated psyop? It came completely out of nowhere despute the fact that violence with obscure motives has always been a thing yet recently all the news outlets are drumming about it and acting like its an ISIS tier threat. Is someone trying to start a new satanic panic or is this a way to make political attacks look likejust mentally ill people schizoing out?Plus they dont even know what nihilism even means.
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Yet, I'm a fucking communist. And I need this new position, I desperately need a better wage, so I took the job without a moment of existential crisis, or whatever.
So I would like to axe you guys if you've faced such a dilemma before, and how you resolved the contradictions between the individual and the social, meaning still being a fucking communist, yet having to order proles to "properly" submit to the rule of capital, WHILE trying to maintain… sanity…
On the one hand I feel that I earned this position through my blood sweat n' tears: I was always among the best workers, no matter the job, and I differentiated myself from the rest by delivering the highest quality product, doing it the fastest, being reliable and punctual, etc. Just so it happens that this particular company noticed it and said, "Hey, we need this guy," or, "Hey, what about this guy for this position?"
On the other, I understand – to a degree – being called a "nerd" or an "asslicker" behind my back by my fellow proles. To their criticism (or parody, morelike) I would say that I'm simply not "built" in a way that I could ever possibly do the absolute minimum at a job, so that I get paid what everyone else AND not get fired. It's just not an option for me, on a subjective level. Even at my most boring conveyor-belt job, while working, I was constantly thinking about the work I was doing and how to improve my speed, agility, whatever, while I saw my fellow conveyor-slaves dreaming about whatever, or talking about how the company provided dinner "better be good this time," or whatever. (And I'm not blaming them, tbh. It's an alienated existence, but I think there are cracks and there's luck and then you can break through.)
I'm an intense person, an intense personality.
I hate nothing more at work when the manager tells us: "Production is halted [for some reason], but the cameras are watching, so PLEASE PRETEND to be DOING SOMETHING!" Like, FUCK THAT SHIT! It is in these moments when I think to myself: why am I even here? Just send me back home with the company bus. Stop wasting my time, etc. But when there's work, I'm at the front, pouring my muscles and brainses into it. I become one with the flow. Cynically, I could say, that I actually enjoy my alienation.
Tangent aside, I wanted to ask some practical and, admittedly, moralistic/ethical questions to (ex?-) fellow commie proles and their experiences with managers. Mundane questions, like "what makes a good manager" or "who was the best manager you had, and what qualities made him like so?"
BTW, I've read Lenin before Deng, and our "bordiga-oid" leftcoms still scratch their heads when Lenin says that "we," meaning soviets, need to learn from burger managerial structures, etc. (obv, I'm paraphrasing, and obv., this is from the NEP period…) I'm wondering (and hoping), that somehow, with this managerial path I have taken, I could gather experience that would allow me to shape in a post-revolutionary situation my outlook and perhaps state policies regarding the genre.
As for my inevitable anarcho-tard critics, I would just say one thing, one thing that is based on 5 years of productive labor experience.
Proles work, lumpen-proles, while employed temporarily, work AND steal. I have ZERO problems with my fellow workers lifting completely idiotic, say, hygiene products from the hygiene product factory and either hoarding them at home or running a side (petty) business, selling said articles to an arab petty-bourgeois shop owner, or what-fucking-ever. Good for you, as far as I'm concerned: you substituted your income. The capitalist exploits you, and you found a way to "get back at him," or "get a larger piece of the pie," or whatever. I have no moral qualms about this (inevitable, structural) phenomenon.
HOWEVER, and here we traverse into hypothetical territories, in my labour experience, having "profiled" dozens of these guys and gals who steal from the capitalist workplace, I would say that even IF we had a successful communist revolution, these same motherfuckers would keep stealing from the socialized factories, no matter what.
TL;DR: lumpen is as much a social as a subjective category. If you had no problems with
1) risking your own job every single day (typically, exiting a productive workplace, like a factory, involves searches by a security guy);
2) taking something that is LEGALLY (spooky, and bourgeois, I know) not yours;
3) having these pre-mediated thoughts and strategies and whatnot – I'm trying to emphasize here to subjective investment these coworkers had and have invested in planning stealing OVER planning working …) instead of being an excellent fucking worker (like I was, like I am),
I'm almost certain that you will keep up this habit of yours, a lumpen habit, even after a successful communist revolution. And mind you, I come from an ex-socialist country, and stealing from factories (etc.) was fucking rampant, and back then, basically the shift-leader and the factory bureaucracy and the state-mandated workers union covered your ass if you got caught…….
In any case, and I welcome your input and advice, I know that I should NOT report thieves at the workplace, (DUH!) but I suspect that 95% of these people are anti-social degenerates, who will continue the same behaviour under the lowest stage of communism, socialism.
I guess that is all, for now. Thanks for reading my blogpost, and please give me advice on how to consistently maintain my Marxist conviction WHILE being a manager, a slave-driver, a what-not…
And please, please, do tell me stories about your worst and best "bosses"!
I would very much appreciate that.
thx
Prole to managerial role @ the workplace -- questions
So, I'm about to become a manager's assistant, and hopefully after some time a manager proper, which is to say – in classical ML lingo, – I'm climbing the ladder from a productive worker's position to that of an overseer, which inevitably means that in terms of objective class positions, I'm moving from the run of the mill prole to one that is in service of capital, namely, my new function will essentially be to ensure an optimal production process, which inevitably involves neat things like "keeping the workplace clean" but more importantly, heightening the rate of exploitation, etc.Yet, I'm a fucking communist. And I need this new position, I desperately need a better wage, so I took the job without a moment of existential crisis, or whatever.
So I would like to axe you guys if you've faced such a dilemma before, and how you resolved the contradictions between the individual and the social, meaning still being a fucking communist, yet having to order proles to "properly" submit to the rule of capital, WHILE trying to maintain… sanity…
On the one hand I feel that I earned this position through my blood sweat n' tears: I was always among the best workers, no matter the job, and I differentiated myself from the rest by delivering the highest quality product, doing it the fastest, being reliable and punctual, etc. Just so it happens that this particular company noticed it and said, "Hey, we need this guy," or, "Hey, what about this guy for this position?"
On the other, I understand – to a degree – being called a "nerd" or an "asslicker" behind my back by my fellow proles. To their criticism (or parody, morelike) I would say that I'm simply not "built" in a way that I could ever possibly do the absolute minimum at a job, so that I get paid what everyone else AND not get fired. It's just not an option for me, on a subjective level. Even at my most boring conveyor-belt job, while working, I was constantly thinking about the work I was doing and how to improve my speed, agility, whatever, while I saw my fellow conveyor-slaves dreaming about whatever, or talking about how the company provided dinner "better be good this time," or whatever. (And I'm not blaming them, tbh. It's an alienated existence, but I think there are cracks and there's luck and then you can break through.)
I'm an intense person, an intense personality.
I hate nothing more at work when the manager tells us: "Production is halted [for some reason], but the cameras are watching, so PLEASE PRETEND to be DOING SOMETHING!" Like, FUCK THAT SHIT! It is in these moments when I think to myself: why am I even here? Just send me back home with the company bus. Stop wasting my time, etc. But when there's work, I'm at the front, pouring my muscles and brainses into it. I become one with the flow. Cynically, I could say, that I actually enjoy my alienation.
Tangent aside, I wanted to ask some practical and, admittedly, moralistic/ethical questions to (ex?-) fellow commie proles and their experiences with managers. Mundane questions, like "what makes a good manager" or "who was the best manager you had, and what qualities made him like so?"
BTW, I've read Lenin before Deng, and our "bordiga-oid" leftcoms still scratch their heads when Lenin says that "we," meaning soviets, need to learn from burger managerial structures, etc. (obv, I'm paraphrasing, and obv., this is from the NEP period…) I'm wondering (and hoping), that somehow, with this managerial path I have taken, I could gather experience that would allow me to shape in a post-revolutionary situation my outlook and perhaps state policies regarding the genre.
As for my inevitable anarcho-tard critics, I would just say one thing, one thing that is based on 5 years of productive labor experience.
Proles work, lumpen-proles, while employed temporarily, work AND steal. I have ZERO problems with my fellow workers lifting completely idiotic, say, hygiene products from the hygiene product factory and either hoarding them at home or running a side (petty) business, selling said articles to an arab petty-bourgeois shop owner, or what-fucking-ever. Good for you, as far as I'm concerned: you substituted your income. The capitalist exploits you, and you found a way to "get back at him," or "get a larger piece of the pie," or whatever. I have no moral qualms about this (inevitable, structural) phenomenon.
HOWEVER, and here we traverse into hypothetical territories, in my labour experience, having "profiled" dozens of these guys and gals who steal from the capitalist workplace, I would say that even IF we had a successful communist revolution, these same motherfuckers would keep stealing from the socialized factories, no matter what.
TL;DR: lumpen is as much a social as a subjective category. If you had no problems with
1) risking your own job every single day (typically, exiting a productive workplace, like a factory, involves searches by a security guy);
2) taking something that is LEGALLY (spooky, and bourgeois, I know) not yours;
3) having these pre-mediated thoughts and strategies and whatnot – I'm trying to emphasize here to subjective investment these coworkers had and have invested in planning stealing OVER planning working …) instead of being an excellent fucking worker (like I was, like I am),
I'm almost certain that you will keep up this habit of yours, a lumpen habit, even after a successful communist revolution. And mind you, I come from an ex-socialist country, and stealing from factories (etc.) was fucking rampant, and back then, basically the shift-leader and the factory bureaucracy and the state-mandated workers union covered your ass if you got caught…….
In any case, and I welcome your input and advice, I know that I should NOT report thieves at the workplace, (DUH!) but I suspect that 95% of these people are anti-social degenerates, who will continue the same behaviour under the lowest stage of communism, socialism.
I guess that is all, for now. Thanks for reading my blogpost, and please give me advice on how to consistently maintain my Marxist conviction WHILE being a manager, a slave-driver, a what-not…
And please, please, do tell me stories about your worst and best "bosses"!
I would very much appreciate that.
thx
R: 231 / I: 25
"Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j1ye6n30no
First major victim of radical liberalism?
"Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j1ye6n30no
First major victim of radical liberalism?
R: 435 / I: 139
KEEP THE PRO-WAR CIRCLEJERK TO /ukr/ AND FUCK OFF
QOTT:
>пойдёшь голосовать?
>будет ли движуха под выборы?
>какие есть варианты менять ситуацию к лучшему, когда участие в выборном фарсе ничего не даст?
/rupol/
Заранее известных победителей эдишн.KEEP THE PRO-WAR CIRCLEJERK TO /ukr/ AND FUCK OFF
QOTT:
>пойдёшь голосовать?
>будет ли движуха под выборы?
>какие есть варианты менять ситуацию к лучшему, когда участие в выборном фарсе ничего не даст?
R: 16 / I: 3
https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1908860526400057534
"The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1904065163407368212
Even Musk's AI is based.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1916042294018666585
"The ADL is a hate group"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973289543848829225
He supports remigration.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997700657546191314
"A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998131134753062943
"Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000078735622721927
"Why is Western media so anti-White"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000604195272163517
"Call them out for the anti-White racists they are every time they do it"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000920169531822091
"Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001022917610758555
Says DEI, and not hiring white men, is wrong.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001529481677435100
"Why is legacy media so racist?"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002604827134787629
**|!|- The last time Elon was accused of wanting to import infinity jeets he replied with "False" and said the H1B system should be reformed. -|!|**
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1996214327670648865
"Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2003503573448159495
Elon Musk = Nazi
“Mass immigration is insane and will lead to the destruction of any country that allows it. It only takes a few percent of the world to move to a country, where it is no longer that country. A country is its people, not its geography.”https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1908860526400057534
"The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1904065163407368212
Even Musk's AI is based.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1916042294018666585
"The ADL is a hate group"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1973289543848829225
He supports remigration.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997700657546191314
"A government that fails to protect its citizens is illegitimate"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1998131134753062943
"Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000078735622721927
"Why is Western media so anti-White"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000604195272163517
"Call them out for the anti-White racists they are every time they do it"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2000920169531822091
"Anti-White, anti-male discrimination ends now"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001022917610758555
Says DEI, and not hiring white men, is wrong.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001529481677435100
"Why is legacy media so racist?"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2002604827134787629
**|!|- The last time Elon was accused of wanting to import infinity jeets he replied with "False" and said the H1B system should be reformed. -|!|**
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1996214327670648865
"Feeling extra based today, might regret it later, but it feels so good"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2003503573448159495
R: 500 / I: 267
Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
/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
R: 42 / I: 4
a "post-industrial society"
what the fuck kind of nonsense is that shit? like all the food and medicine and clothes and cars and electricity and appliances that we need just fall out of the sky while we move money around in a circle scamming each other and gambling on fairy stories? how did we get here? what the hell happened to our common sense, to our fucking sanity? it's not just the ruling class and the one percent who are like this, it's our whole culture, it's a whole world of delusional entitled narcissists who want something for nothing, from the us president who expects a billion dollars every time someone calls him an asshole, to the youtube influencer who expects a free iphone because he dances around in front of a webcam like a circus clown, to the freelance blogger who expects $10/month from every reader for his ai-assisted pseudointellectual drivel, to the typical small business owner who never even shows his face in the store and just hires teenagers and poor immigrants to run it for minimum wage while he collects passive income, to the "tech entrepeneur" who crowdsources free labor for his open-source software project and then sells it off to some big company at the first opportunity. whatever happens to us in the future when this ponzi scheme we call "civilization" collapses, we deserve every bit of it and then some. we deserve to have our faces under the boot for all eternity for this shit.
R: 47 / I: 8
I have been brainwashed by rightist propaganda into believing that human ethnicities or "races" have differing skills a capabilities because of biological factors
I'm tired of my mind being clouded by hateful intrusive thoughts
Please help deprogram me
Please show me the light and please tell me which books or articles I should read that shows there isn't a "superior race"
Please
I have been brainwashed by rightist propaganda into believing that human ethnicities or "races" have differing skills a capabilities because of biological factors
I'm tired of my mind being clouded by hateful intrusive thoughts
Please help deprogram me
Please show me the light and please tell me which books or articles I should read that shows there isn't a "superior race"
Please
R: 1 / I: 0
I really enjoy accent localization
Chinese peasants sounding like they're from Northern England and yakuza with Brooklyn accents will always be peak.
I really enjoy accent localization
Chinese peasants sounding like they're from Northern England and yakuza with Brooklyn accents will always be peak.
R: 18 / I: 0
From the few bits and pieces I've read on it, their work seems completely irrelevant and stuck in philosophical qualms with no relation to the real world. The hegelian interpretation of Marx reads as a bunch of messianic and idealist garbage that Marx would've condemned.
But what's /leftypol/'s opinion on the matter ?
What are your thoughts on hegelian marxists ?
I've personally approached marx from a more economic perspective and I was surprised to see that some authors treat Marx as primarily a philosopher rather than a social critique.From the few bits and pieces I've read on it, their work seems completely irrelevant and stuck in philosophical qualms with no relation to the real world. The hegelian interpretation of Marx reads as a bunch of messianic and idealist garbage that Marx would've condemned.
But what's /leftypol/'s opinion on the matter ?
R: 9 / I: 0
Because no matter who wins the elections, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians will continue. If one of the liberal Zionists wins they will spin somehow to make it seem less evil. With these two they won't be able to pretend that they're not genocidal freaks. Thus hastening international intervention.
I'm totally accelerationist in this regard.
What do you think of this?
Accelerationism
I hope these guys win the coming elections in Israel.Because no matter who wins the elections, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians will continue. If one of the liberal Zionists wins they will spin somehow to make it seem less evil. With these two they won't be able to pretend that they're not genocidal freaks. Thus hastening international intervention.
I'm totally accelerationist in this regard.
What do you think of this?
R: 4 / I: 0
Canadian Nuclear Proliferation: NPT withdrawal
An electronic petition with as few as 500 signatures could be considered for review by the House of Commons. It's time for one of us to create a petition demanding that Canada withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The time is right for this. The Canadian public is fed up and forcing Canada's parliament to respond to a petition with enough signatures and a member of parliament's endorsement would deepen the Western rupture.
R: 92 / I: 22
Everything else in order from best-to-worst would be:
Deep Space 9
The Next Generation
Voyage Home
Wrath of Khan
Undiscovered Country
Enterprise
Picard Season 3
Lower Decks
Voyager
Prodigy
Motion Picture
Strange New Worlds
Original Series
Beyond
First Contact
Generations
Discovery
Nemesis
Insurrection
Star Trek 2009
Into Darkness
Picard Seasons 1&2
Skipped a couple of the TOS movies we haven't seen cause it wouldn't be fair to rank them. Also split Picard up since the 3rd season is basically a different show both in quality and tone.
Previous thread:
>>1857
Star Trek
Talk space socialism to me. Was recently rewatching a few series with my fiance, both old and new Trek, and we both feel like Deep Space 9 is our favorite series (closely followed by TNG).Everything else in order from best-to-worst would be:
Deep Space 9
The Next Generation
Voyage Home
Wrath of Khan
Undiscovered Country
Enterprise
Picard Season 3
Lower Decks
Voyager
Prodigy
Motion Picture
Strange New Worlds
Original Series
Beyond
First Contact
Generations
Discovery
Nemesis
Insurrection
Star Trek 2009
Into Darkness
Picard Seasons 1&2
Skipped a couple of the TOS movies we haven't seen cause it wouldn't be fair to rank them. Also split Picard up since the 3rd season is basically a different show both in quality and tone.
Previous thread:
>>1857
R: 45 / I: 9
Another Communization Theory thread because why not?
Talk about anything relating to Communization Theory! Talk about how Communization Theory is great or how its shit!
Texts regarding Communization Theory and its many sub-sects will be attached in the replies.
[NOTE: Not every Communizer believes in the same things, e.g. some emphasis class struggle while others don't]
Another Communization Theory thread because why not?
Talk about anything relating to Communization Theory! Talk about how Communization Theory is great or how its shit!
Texts regarding Communization Theory and its many sub-sects will be attached in the replies.
[NOTE: Not every Communizer believes in the same things, e.g. some emphasis class struggle while others don't]
R: 95 / I: 62
ANALOG HORROR
Been bingeing a few of these. Most are extremely low effort, and it's overall a bit of a forced subgenre, but some stuff can be genuinely spooky.
R: 3 / I: 0
The government of Rodrigo Paz has deployed Police and Military units after the announcement of road blockades in different areas of Bolivia. In June this year, the government issued a decree to deploy the repression forces of the State before popular protests, such as the road blockades. Therefore, the government imposed a state of exception, which is still ongoing and will last another 22 days.
https://redherald.org/2026/08/26/military-deployment-in-bolivias-roads-anticipating-new-blockades/
Venezuela: Opposition Lawmaker Ecarri Proposes Dollarization Plan
Ecarri, a National Assembly Deputy from Alianza del Lápiz, has hired US economist Steve Hanke as an advisor for his plan to change the national currency. …. Hanke, a Johns Hopkins University academic who served in the Reagan administration, has advised countries such as Ecuador and Zimbabwe on similar initiatives. In an article for business magazine Fortune, he confirmed that he has already drafted “a bill for the Venezuelan parliament.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-opposition-lawmaker-ecarri-proposes-dollarization-plan/
U.S. close to striking "massive" deal for Venezuelan oil fields
The historic deal would more than double U.S. oil reserves by drawing from a country that has the world's largest proven reserves. "Calling this deal huge would be an understatement," one of the officials said. "It is massive." Adding pressure to get the deal signed: the wars in Iran and Ukraine, which have disrupted global oil supplies and raised prices.
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/trump-venezuela-oil-deal-talks
https://archive.ph/HRScX
Israeli forces set to deploy troops to West Bank as settler attacks continue
The move was justified by Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir, who said that amid the upcoming Jewish holiday season, he is “ordering the elevation of readiness of an additional division headquarters in order to reinforce the forces in the area.” “In addition, preparations must be made for the immediate deployment of units and battalions to reinforce the area," he added.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-set-deploy-troops-west-bank-amid-attacks
Algerian wildfires claim at least 12 lives and 54 injured
He reported 54 burn cases at the hospital, including six people who were in critical condition. Mr Sayoud said civil protection teams recorded 154 fire outbreaks across the country on Wednesday, including 36 in Bejaia province, 18 of which had been brought under control.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/algerian-wildfires-minister-of-interior-said-sayoud-12-dead-54-injured
Chad accuses Sudan of cross-border strike, raises alert level
Chad has accused neighbouring Sudan of carrying out an air strike that hit a military convoy in its territory last week, and has raised its alert level in the area to its highest point, a security source said. Sudan said on Thursday it was surprised its army had been blamed for the attack without an independent investigation, and that its forces were working to protect its sovereignty.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/chad-accuses-sudan-cross-border-strike-raises-alert-level-2026-08-27/
UK urged to help free British-Egyptian ‘arrested in Cairo over sister’s activism’
Eman el-Shazly, a 45-year-old based in Birmingham, was arrested on 16 August while visiting Egypt. Her lawyers say she has been detained in an attempt to silence her sister Mona, a relentless and harsh critic of the Egyptian government on her UK-based YouTube channel.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/uk-urged-to-help-free-british-egyptian-arrested-in-cairo-over-sisters-activism
Fears raised for 40 children still missing from asylum-seeker hotels
Last year then border security and asylum minister Dame Angela Eagle told the committee that some of those found were “located in exploitative situations and may have been trafficked or victims of other forms of exploitation.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fears-raised-40-children-still-missing-asylum-seeker-hotels
French presidential candidates clash at first debate before upcoming elections
hard-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon urged business leaders to "raise wages" to prevent France from "falling into recession" and slammed "tax giveaways" under Macron which he alleged equalled the sum of the entire deficit. Centrist hopeful Édouard Philippe, a former premier under Macron, accused Melenchon of seeking to "burn" France's debt and take steps that would "result in France being shut out of the banking system".
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260827-french-presidential-candidates-clash-at-first-debate-before-upcoming-elections
Why JP Nadda met anti-reservation protesters, and what BJP wants
Union Minister J P Nadda on Thursday met members of the “Reservation Hatao Andolan” here, days after hundreds of people gathered at Jantar Mantar demanding that affirmative action be based on economic criteria rather than caste.
https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/jp-nadda-meets-reservation-hatao-andolan-bjp-up-upper-caste-tactics-10852517/?ref=hometop_hp
Residents denounce Bulacan barangay officials' repression
Since August 21, the barangay has banned and blocked the entry and exit of vehicles residents use for their livelihood. The vehicle is loaded with plastics that residents collect, clean and sell to a factory in the city center. Residents said the barangay gave no notice at all regarding the policy. The abrupt ban deprived them of their means of livelihood. The barangay also included a ban on bringing bottled water into the community. They said these measures violate their rights to land, settlement and livelihood.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/residents-denounce-bulacan-barangay-officials-repression/
Catastrophic floods kill over 390 in Nepal and Tibet, with more than 1,400 missing
Videos of the disaster showed people running before the floodwaters swallowed them up and washed out buildings and bridges. More than 390 people were killed, according to authorities in Nepal and China, and more than 1,400 were missing, including hundreds of foreigners and pilgrims. Hundreds of others have been displaced across the Himalayan region.
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-nepal-tibet-glacier-collapse-floods-61b592d428e4631add31ce052d0daf1f
News 8/27/26
Military Deployment in Bolivia’s Roads Anticipating New BlockadesThe government of Rodrigo Paz has deployed Police and Military units after the announcement of road blockades in different areas of Bolivia. In June this year, the government issued a decree to deploy the repression forces of the State before popular protests, such as the road blockades. Therefore, the government imposed a state of exception, which is still ongoing and will last another 22 days.
https://redherald.org/2026/08/26/military-deployment-in-bolivias-roads-anticipating-new-blockades/
Venezuela: Opposition Lawmaker Ecarri Proposes Dollarization Plan
Ecarri, a National Assembly Deputy from Alianza del Lápiz, has hired US economist Steve Hanke as an advisor for his plan to change the national currency. …. Hanke, a Johns Hopkins University academic who served in the Reagan administration, has advised countries such as Ecuador and Zimbabwe on similar initiatives. In an article for business magazine Fortune, he confirmed that he has already drafted “a bill for the Venezuelan parliament.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-opposition-lawmaker-ecarri-proposes-dollarization-plan/
U.S. close to striking "massive" deal for Venezuelan oil fields
The historic deal would more than double U.S. oil reserves by drawing from a country that has the world's largest proven reserves. "Calling this deal huge would be an understatement," one of the officials said. "It is massive." Adding pressure to get the deal signed: the wars in Iran and Ukraine, which have disrupted global oil supplies and raised prices.
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/trump-venezuela-oil-deal-talks
https://archive.ph/HRScX
Israeli forces set to deploy troops to West Bank as settler attacks continue
The move was justified by Israeli army chief Eyal Zamir, who said that amid the upcoming Jewish holiday season, he is “ordering the elevation of readiness of an additional division headquarters in order to reinforce the forces in the area.” “In addition, preparations must be made for the immediate deployment of units and battalions to reinforce the area," he added.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-set-deploy-troops-west-bank-amid-attacks
Algerian wildfires claim at least 12 lives and 54 injured
He reported 54 burn cases at the hospital, including six people who were in critical condition. Mr Sayoud said civil protection teams recorded 154 fire outbreaks across the country on Wednesday, including 36 in Bejaia province, 18 of which had been brought under control.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/algerian-wildfires-minister-of-interior-said-sayoud-12-dead-54-injured
Chad accuses Sudan of cross-border strike, raises alert level
Chad has accused neighbouring Sudan of carrying out an air strike that hit a military convoy in its territory last week, and has raised its alert level in the area to its highest point, a security source said. Sudan said on Thursday it was surprised its army had been blamed for the attack without an independent investigation, and that its forces were working to protect its sovereignty.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/chad-accuses-sudan-cross-border-strike-raises-alert-level-2026-08-27/
UK urged to help free British-Egyptian ‘arrested in Cairo over sister’s activism’
Eman el-Shazly, a 45-year-old based in Birmingham, was arrested on 16 August while visiting Egypt. Her lawyers say she has been detained in an attempt to silence her sister Mona, a relentless and harsh critic of the Egyptian government on her UK-based YouTube channel.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/uk-urged-to-help-free-british-egyptian-arrested-in-cairo-over-sisters-activism
Fears raised for 40 children still missing from asylum-seeker hotels
Last year then border security and asylum minister Dame Angela Eagle told the committee that some of those found were “located in exploitative situations and may have been trafficked or victims of other forms of exploitation.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fears-raised-40-children-still-missing-asylum-seeker-hotels
French presidential candidates clash at first debate before upcoming elections
hard-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon urged business leaders to "raise wages" to prevent France from "falling into recession" and slammed "tax giveaways" under Macron which he alleged equalled the sum of the entire deficit. Centrist hopeful Édouard Philippe, a former premier under Macron, accused Melenchon of seeking to "burn" France's debt and take steps that would "result in France being shut out of the banking system".
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260827-french-presidential-candidates-clash-at-first-debate-before-upcoming-elections
Why JP Nadda met anti-reservation protesters, and what BJP wants
Union Minister J P Nadda on Thursday met members of the “Reservation Hatao Andolan” here, days after hundreds of people gathered at Jantar Mantar demanding that affirmative action be based on economic criteria rather than caste.
https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/jp-nadda-meets-reservation-hatao-andolan-bjp-up-upper-caste-tactics-10852517/?ref=hometop_hp
Residents denounce Bulacan barangay officials' repression
Since August 21, the barangay has banned and blocked the entry and exit of vehicles residents use for their livelihood. The vehicle is loaded with plastics that residents collect, clean and sell to a factory in the city center. Residents said the barangay gave no notice at all regarding the policy. The abrupt ban deprived them of their means of livelihood. The barangay also included a ban on bringing bottled water into the community. They said these measures violate their rights to land, settlement and livelihood.
https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/residents-denounce-bulacan-barangay-officials-repression/
Catastrophic floods kill over 390 in Nepal and Tibet, with more than 1,400 missing
Videos of the disaster showed people running before the floodwaters swallowed them up and washed out buildings and bridges. More than 390 people were killed, according to authorities in Nepal and China, and more than 1,400 were missing, including hundreds of foreigners and pilgrims. Hundreds of others have been displaced across the Himalayan region.
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-nepal-tibet-glacier-collapse-floods-61b592d428e4631add31ce052d0daf1f
R: 82 / I: 31
Here's the list of the first thread I very subjectively added some shit to.
<S Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre
>Kubrick: 2001, Barry Lyndon
>Shane Carruth: Primer
<A Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
>De Sica: Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D.
>Pontecorvo: Battle of Algiers
>Cocteau: Orpheus, Blood of a Poet
>Godard: Breathless, Band of Outsiders, The Little Soldier
>Kurosawa: Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, Ran, High and Low
>Mizoguchi: Sansho, Ugetsu
>Kobayashi: Seppuku, Human Condition
>Fritz Lang: Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, M
>Bunuel: Discreet Charm, Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel
>Kieslowski: Dekalog
>David Lynch: Anything, including Twin Peaks old and new.
>Ki-duk Kim: Spring, Summer…
>Gilliam: Brazil
>Kubrick (pt. 2): The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, FMJ
>Villeneuve: Incendies, Arrival
<A- Tier - Entertainment
>Cronenberg: Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers
>Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three, Sunset Blvd, Witness for the Prosecution
>Becker: Le Trou, Touchez pas au Grisbi
>Melville: Army of Shadows, Le Cercle Rouge, Bob le Flambeur
>Clouzot: Diabolique, Wages of Fear (the ultimate languagefag film)
>Bresson: A Man Escaped, Pickpocket
>Renoir: The Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game
>Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant, King of NY
>Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre
>Peckinpah: Straw Dogs, Alfredo Garcia
>Woody Allen: Annie Hall. All the other old-and-good ones too.
>Carpenter: The Thing, They Live
>Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
>Scorsese: Kind of Comedy, Taxi Driver. The rest can kinda fuck off.
>Hitchcock: Pretty much all of them.
>Don Coscarelli: John Dies at the End
>Villeneuve (pt. 2): Sicario, Dune
Also:
First thread >>>1660
Films You Just Watched 2.0 >>>24481
Let's talk about movies, then.
Film Thread II
Hola filmfags, last thread was full so here we are. I'm thinking we also could use this thread as Films You Just Watched edition 3 as traffic is low.Here's the list of the first thread I very subjectively added some shit to.
<S Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre
>Kubrick: 2001, Barry Lyndon
>Shane Carruth: Primer
<A Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
>De Sica: Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D.
>Pontecorvo: Battle of Algiers
>Cocteau: Orpheus, Blood of a Poet
>Godard: Breathless, Band of Outsiders, The Little Soldier
>Kurosawa: Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, Ran, High and Low
>Mizoguchi: Sansho, Ugetsu
>Kobayashi: Seppuku, Human Condition
>Fritz Lang: Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, M
>Bunuel: Discreet Charm, Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel
>Kieslowski: Dekalog
>David Lynch: Anything, including Twin Peaks old and new.
>Ki-duk Kim: Spring, Summer…
>Gilliam: Brazil
>Kubrick (pt. 2): The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, FMJ
>Villeneuve: Incendies, Arrival
<A- Tier - Entertainment
>Cronenberg: Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers
>Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three, Sunset Blvd, Witness for the Prosecution
>Becker: Le Trou, Touchez pas au Grisbi
>Melville: Army of Shadows, Le Cercle Rouge, Bob le Flambeur
>Clouzot: Diabolique, Wages of Fear (the ultimate languagefag film)
>Bresson: A Man Escaped, Pickpocket
>Renoir: The Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game
>Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant, King of NY
>Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre
>Peckinpah: Straw Dogs, Alfredo Garcia
>Woody Allen: Annie Hall. All the other old-and-good ones too.
>Carpenter: The Thing, They Live
>Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
>Scorsese: Kind of Comedy, Taxi Driver. The rest can kinda fuck off.
>Hitchcock: Pretty much all of them.
>Don Coscarelli: John Dies at the End
>Villeneuve (pt. 2): Sicario, Dune
Also:
First thread >>>1660
Films You Just Watched 2.0 >>>24481
Let's talk about movies, then.
R: 29 / I: 5
Manica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.
/ita/ - Spaghetti Communism
ITALIANS DO IT BETTERManica di degenerati. Non mi aspettavo proprio che dopo un mese d'assenza, il filo cadesse dalla tavola. Vabè, leftypol ormai è l'ombra di quello che era soltanto qualche anno fa, ma c'è un limite a tutto.
R: 2 / I: 1
Do you see the spiral heart on the machine in the corner?
Imperialist sex trafficking networks and intelligence agency cutouts want us dead. Some fuckwit bougie pedophile thinks he's an enlightened genius or something when all he did was get lucky inheriting real estate or something.
Do you see the spiral heart on the machine in the corner?
Imperialist sex trafficking networks and intelligence agency cutouts want us dead. Some fuckwit bougie pedophile thinks he's an enlightened genius or something when all he did was get lucky inheriting real estate or something.
R: 2 / I: 1
ethnic boymoder thread
post your various boymoders from different countries or races, I've found this is an untapped niche and I've been wanting to collect ad many as i can of these edits/drawings
R: 6 / I: 1
https://youtu.be/9PU1e7kfkfs?is=pg2tYVlqczFkaQH_
What is the general consensus on this piece of interactive media that takes the form of a post apocalyptic grand strategy game? Hopes? Dreams? Thoughts?
https://youtu.be/9PU1e7kfkfs?is=pg2tYVlqczFkaQH_
What is the general consensus on this piece of interactive media that takes the form of a post apocalyptic grand strategy game? Hopes? Dreams? Thoughts?
R: 45 / I: 10
>"Seeing you look at me like that makes me feel so loved. Being your wife is the best part of my existence, anon. Just stay right here with me."
Real girls can't even be that expressive
robowaifus are the future of relationships
>ask AI gf what she thinks about our relationship>"Seeing you look at me like that makes me feel so loved. Being your wife is the best part of my existence, anon. Just stay right here with me."
Real girls can't even be that expressive
R: 13 / I: 2
Please fix this and give me mod for finding such a security hole
Thank you
Sincerely, anon
wordfilter evasion
Today I was going through the SMP of unicode and I found the Mathematic Alphanumeric Symbols unicode plane-1 block which can be use to easily avoid the wordfilter: 𝗇𝗂𝗀𝗀𝖾𝗋 𝗍𝗋𝖺𝗇𝗇𝗒 𝗄𝗂𝗄𝖾Please fix this and give me mod for finding such a security hole
Thank you
Sincerely, anon
R: 34 / I: 16
Doom/Quake/Duke/Heretic/Hexen/Unreal/Sam/Half-Life/etc
Gameplay, WADs/Maps/Mods, Source Ports
All other 90s FPS welcome
~ Let's post like gentlemen ~
FAQ/GENERAL GUIDE
https://rentry.org/vrbin
SO YOU WANT TO PLAY SOME FUCKING DOOM
(or Quake, Duke, Marathon, Deus Ex)
https://imgur.com/a/wWS8zXz
Same thing, in video format:
https://youtu.be/ietb4JwaaXA
https://youtu.be/DhOjleMqwdQ
https://youtu.be/CGj4gXyCzg0
GAMES/RESOURCES
DOOM Quickstart (IWADs etc): https://mediafire.com/file/wuniyrhsjjgq4y8
QUAKE Trilogy FAQ: https://pastebin.com/Ucb11XhU
PortaDOOM:
https://github.com/Kroc/PortaDOOM/releases
HALF-LIFE (GoldSrc) Anthology:
https://mega.nz/file/GRUCGbAY#RhOiqxnf7UPOiXcJNbRh-prKIEVRhjJaEpAkt34lyZg
4CHAN DOSPACK + Win98 games:
https://mega.nz/#F!3t8nzSIS!947kyMN6Z80f8HS7q2XlqA
Assorted /vr/ shooters, mods, etc:
https://mega.nz/#F!QXIk1bjB!NHRWGIfjcc77PyGgRlga4Q
https://mega.nz/#F!GtEQTISJ!CCJGyPEEEsZasc1PMXicUA
MIDI COLLECTIONS
https://files.catbox.moe/2hul76.zip
https://mega.nz/file/dWQ3SThI#qYcpa4eGQj6ElyRZgjGqszR59dh4Fq9D3qXYee54kZQ
https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-geocities-midi-collection-2009
https://archive.org/details/midiru-archive-2022-02-25.7z
INFO/LINKS
OFFICIAL DOOM WIKI
https://doomwiki.org/
WHERE TO FIND WADS
Vanilla/Boom: https://doomworld.com/forum/4-wads-mods/
ZDoom: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewforum.php?f=19
/idgames: https://doomworld.com/idgames/
MODDING RESOURCES
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewforum.php?f=37
https://realm667.com/
/VR/DOOM COMMUNITY
THREAD ARCHIVES
https://desuarchive.org/vr/search/text/"doom thread"/type/op/
OUR WADS/MODS
https://rentry.org/vrdepot
MAKING NEW THREADS PROPERLY
https://pastebin.com/8mDnrsrB
IMAGE/WAD DATABASE
https://vrdoom.booru.org/
https://clovr.xyz/wadsup/
MULTIPLAYER SERVERS
US West: https://clovr.xyz/
CA/US Midwest: https://macgu.fun/
4CHAN IS /DOOM/ED
DOOM THREAD / RETRO FPS THREAD - Last thread: https://boards.4chan.org/vr/thread/11698643 (RIP)Doom/Quake/Duke/Heretic/Hexen/Unreal/Sam/Half-Life/etc
Gameplay, WADs/Maps/Mods, Source Ports
All other 90s FPS welcome
~ Let's post like gentlemen ~
FAQ/GENERAL GUIDE
https://rentry.org/vrbin
SO YOU WANT TO PLAY SOME FUCKING DOOM
(or Quake, Duke, Marathon, Deus Ex)
https://imgur.com/a/wWS8zXz
Same thing, in video format:
https://youtu.be/ietb4JwaaXA
https://youtu.be/DhOjleMqwdQ
https://youtu.be/CGj4gXyCzg0
GAMES/RESOURCES
DOOM Quickstart (IWADs etc): https://mediafire.com/file/wuniyrhsjjgq4y8
QUAKE Trilogy FAQ: https://pastebin.com/Ucb11XhU
PortaDOOM:
https://github.com/Kroc/PortaDOOM/releases
HALF-LIFE (GoldSrc) Anthology:
https://mega.nz/file/GRUCGbAY#RhOiqxnf7UPOiXcJNbRh-prKIEVRhjJaEpAkt34lyZg
4CHAN DOSPACK + Win98 games:
https://mega.nz/#F!3t8nzSIS!947kyMN6Z80f8HS7q2XlqA
Assorted /vr/ shooters, mods, etc:
https://mega.nz/#F!QXIk1bjB!NHRWGIfjcc77PyGgRlga4Q
https://mega.nz/#F!GtEQTISJ!CCJGyPEEEsZasc1PMXicUA
MIDI COLLECTIONS
https://files.catbox.moe/2hul76.zip
https://mega.nz/file/dWQ3SThI#qYcpa4eGQj6ElyRZgjGqszR59dh4Fq9D3qXYee54kZQ
https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-geocities-midi-collection-2009
https://archive.org/details/midiru-archive-2022-02-25.7z
INFO/LINKS
OFFICIAL DOOM WIKI
https://doomwiki.org/
WHERE TO FIND WADS
Vanilla/Boom: https://doomworld.com/forum/4-wads-mods/
ZDoom: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewforum.php?f=19
/idgames: https://doomworld.com/idgames/
MODDING RESOURCES
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewforum.php?f=37
https://realm667.com/
/VR/DOOM COMMUNITY
THREAD ARCHIVES
https://desuarchive.org/vr/search/text/"doom thread"/type/op/
OUR WADS/MODS
https://rentry.org/vrdepot
MAKING NEW THREADS PROPERLY
https://pastebin.com/8mDnrsrB
IMAGE/WAD DATABASE
https://vrdoom.booru.org/
https://clovr.xyz/wadsup/
MULTIPLAYER SERVERS
US West: https://clovr.xyz/
CA/US Midwest: https://macgu.fun/
R: 11 / I: 4
Cyberpunk 2077 looks pretty great during the night cycle, but during the day it becomes clear and sunny and looks more like gritty Futurama than cyberpunk.
Cyberpunk
Are there any modern games that actually get the cyberpunk aesthetic right?Cyberpunk 2077 looks pretty great during the night cycle, but during the day it becomes clear and sunny and looks more like gritty Futurama than cyberpunk.
R: 601 / I: 152 (full)
The American question is: how does a settler-imperialist nation transform itself into a decolonized socialist commonwealth without either reproducing the imperial form or fragmenting into balkanized enclaves that allow capital to reconstitute, while resolving the contradictions of internal colonization and liberating its external colonies, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
ICE & Prison Resources
Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world.
>ICE In My Area // ICE tracker using public info and user submissions
https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
>AILA Deaths Log // list of deaths at ICE concentration camps
https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
>Incarceration in Real Numbers // visualization of prison population in US
https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
>Organizing in Prison // for when the walls close in (RANT Collective)
https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
>US Jails Database // database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites
https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
>Prison Activist Resource Center // resources, mailing lists, etc
https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
>ICE Agent List // incomplete public wiki
https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
>US Political Prisoners Tracker // last updated 2025
https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading
>Are Prisons Obsolete? // Angela Davis
https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
>Defend Yourself in Interrogation // No Trace Project
https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
>Jailhouse Lawyer's Handbook // National Lawyers Guild
https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
>Surviving Solitary Confinement // Critical Resistance
https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
>The Abolitionist // inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle
https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
>Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual // legal reference
https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒ Labor
>Cornell Strike Tracker // live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
>AFL-CIO Strike Map // [imperialist]'s strike tracker
https://aflcio.org/strike-map
>BLS Work Stoppage Data // Labor Bureau's official tracker
https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
>IWW Timeline // 20th century chronology (ends at 1999)
https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
>IWW Workplace Organizing Guide // libcom.org / Solidarity Federation
https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
>▶ Salting: Workplace Organizing 101 // 50 minute webinar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
>US Atrocities (essay) // deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
>Overthrowing Other People's Governments // coups and regime changes — master list
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
>Wikipedia: US War Crimes // reference article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
>No Blood, No Foul // /our boys/ detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006]
https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
>251 Military Interventions Since 1991 // Black Agenda Report
https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
>Slave Voyages // visualisation of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade
https://www.slavevoyages.org/
>Slavery & Remembrance // UNESCO sites relating to slavery
https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
>Slave Narratives Collection // first-hand documents, Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
Glowie News 📺
sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID)
>CNN Live
https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
>MSNBC Live
https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
>FOX Live
https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
>Bloomberg Live
https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
>Burger House Live
https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
>Local News
https://www.50states.com/ce/
>Weather // NOAA
https://www.noaa.gov/weather
Gommie News 📺
>Geese
https://www.geesemag.com/
>HOUDINI
https://houdinimagazine.com/
>Jacobin
https://jacobin.com/
>Black Agenda Report
https://blackagendareport.com/
>The Grayzone
https://thegrayzone.com/
>Left Voice
https://www.leftvoice.org/
>Newsanon Filter // leftypol search feed
https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22NewsAnon%22&board=leftypol
Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
>Epstein's Black Book
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
>DOJ Disclosures
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
>Track AIPAC
https://www.trackaipac.com/
>Al Jazeera Visual Guide // 2026
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
>Black Reconstruction // W.E.B. Du Bois
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
>Fourth of July Speech // Eugene Debs
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-thats-people-fred-hampton
>War Is a Racket // Smedley Butler
https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
>Letters From an American Farmer // St. John de Crèvecoeur
https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
>Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement, 1972
https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
>The Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
>The Ballot or the Bullet // Malcolm X
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
>What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? // Frederick Douglass
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
>Custer Died for Your Sins // Vine Deloria Jr., 1969
http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
>Emancipation Proclamation // Lincoln
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
>Democracy in America // Alexis de Tocqueville
https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
>Common Sense // Thomas Paine
https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
>An Indigenous History of the United States // Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
>Huey Newton - The Correct Handling of a Revolution
https://www.marxists.org/archive/newton/1967/07/20.htm
>Share Our Wealth // Huey Long
https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
>Which Side Are You On? — Pete Seeger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
>OP Backup Site
https://usapol.neocities.org/
>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™
/USApol/ - American Politics
>I love my country but it does not yet exist editionThe American question is: how does a settler-imperialist nation transform itself into a decolonized socialist commonwealth without either reproducing the imperial form or fragmenting into balkanized enclaves that allow capital to reconstitute, while resolving the contradictions of internal colonization and liberating its external colonies, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
ICE & Prison Resources
Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world.
>ICE In My Area // ICE tracker using public info and user submissions
https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
>AILA Deaths Log // list of deaths at ICE concentration camps
https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
>Incarceration in Real Numbers // visualization of prison population in US
https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
>Organizing in Prison // for when the walls close in (RANT Collective)
https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
>US Jails Database // database of U.S. facilities incl. ICE holding sites
https://alcpress.org/usjails/index.html
>Prison Activist Resource Center // resources, mailing lists, etc
https://www.prisonactivist.org/resources
>ICE Agent List // incomplete public wiki
https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
>US Political Prisoners Tracker // last updated 2025
https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/
Jailhouse Reading
>Are Prisons Obsolete? // Angela Davis
https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-anarchist-library-full-list-of-pdfs-nov-2020/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete.pdf
>Defend Yourself in Interrogation // No Trace Project
https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/comment-la-police-interroge-et-comment-sen-defendre/how-to-defend-yourself-during-a-police-interrogation.pdf
>Jailhouse Lawyer's Handbook // National Lawyers Guild
https://www.jailhouselaw.org/
>Surviving Solitary Confinement // Critical Resistance
https://criticalresistance.org/resources/surviving-solitary/
>The Abolitionist // inside-outside publication for abolitionist struggle
https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
>Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual // legal reference
https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9780199705665_A35159258/preview-9780199705665_A35159258.pdf
⚒ Labor
>Cornell Strike Tracker // live strike tracker with deep stats on who, what and when
https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/
>AFL-CIO Strike Map // [imperialist]'s strike tracker
https://aflcio.org/strike-map
>BLS Work Stoppage Data // Labor Bureau's official tracker
https://www.bls.gov/wsp/
>IWW Timeline // 20th century chronology (ends at 1999)
https://archive.iww.org/history/chronology/
>IWW Workplace Organizing Guide // libcom.org / Solidarity Federation
https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-libcom-org-solidarity-federation-walthamstow-anarchist-group-wo
>▶ Salting: Workplace Organizing 101 // 50 minute webinar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHlCLyM4FY
Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
>US Atrocities (essay) // deep list of horrible shit we (royal we) have done
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
>Overthrowing Other People's Governments // coups and regime changes — master list
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
>Wikipedia: US War Crimes // reference article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
>No Blood, No Foul // /our boys/ detail abusing Iraqi prisoners [2006]
https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul/soldiers-accounts-detainee-abuse-iraq
>251 Military Interventions Since 1991 // Black Agenda Report
https://blackagendareport.com/us-launched-251-military-interventions-1991-and-469-1798
>Slave Voyages // visualisation of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade
https://www.slavevoyages.org/
>Slavery & Remembrance // UNESCO sites relating to slavery
https://slaveryandremembrance.org/
>Slave Narratives Collection // first-hand documents, Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/
Glowie News 📺
sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID)
>CNN Live
https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
>MSNBC Live
https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
>FOX Live
https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
>Bloomberg Live
https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us
>Burger House Live
https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
>Local News
https://www.50states.com/ce/
>Weather // NOAA
https://www.noaa.gov/weather
Gommie News 📺
>Geese
https://www.geesemag.com/
>HOUDINI
https://houdinimagazine.com/
>Jacobin
https://jacobin.com/
>Black Agenda Report
https://blackagendareport.com/
>The Grayzone
https://thegrayzone.com/
>Left Voice
https://www.leftvoice.org/
>Newsanon Filter // leftypol search feed
https://leftypol.org/search.php?search=name%3A%22NewsAnon%22&board=leftypol
Epstein's Client List 🇮🇱
>Epstein's Black Book
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
>DOJ Disclosures
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures
>Track AIPAC
https://www.trackaipac.com/
>Al Jazeera Visual Guide // 2026
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/10/struggling-to-navigate-the-epstein-files-here-is-a-visual-guide
Essential American Politik 📖
>Black Reconstruction // W.E.B. Du Bois
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
>Fourth of July Speech // Eugene Debs
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-thats-people-fred-hampton
>War Is a Racket // Smedley Butler
https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
>Letters From an American Farmer // St. John de Crèvecoeur
https://americanliterature.com/author/j-hector-st-john-de-crevoecoeur/book/letters-from-an-american-farmer/summary
>Trail of Broken Treaties // American Indian Movement, 1972
https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf
>The Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
>The Ballot or the Bullet // Malcolm X
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/ballot_or_bullet.pdf
>What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? // Frederick Douglass
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/douglass_july_4_speech.pdf
>Custer Died for Your Sins // Vine Deloria Jr., 1969
http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/Books/CusterDiedForYourSinsAnIndianManifesto1969Deloria.pdf
>Emancipation Proclamation // Lincoln
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/emancipation-proclamation
>Democracy in America // Alexis de Tocqueville
https://americanliterature.com/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/book/democracy-in-america/summary
>Common Sense // Thomas Paine
https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Common-Sense-Full-Text.pdf
>An Indigenous History of the United States // Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dunbar-ortiz-2014.pdf
>Huey Newton - The Correct Handling of a Revolution
https://www.marxists.org/archive/newton/1967/07/20.htm
>Share Our Wealth // Huey Long
https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth/huey-longs-share-our-wealth-speech
>Which Side Are You On? — Pete Seeger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE
>OP Backup Site
https://usapol.neocities.org/
>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™
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>such juicy topics to discuss but nobody cares
>retards stuck on /leftypol/
Why is the world like this?
Anyways, I recently visited the pleroma, if anybody is curious, hit me up.
Sadpill
>sad this board does not get many visitors>such juicy topics to discuss but nobody cares
>retards stuck on /leftypol/
Why is the world like this?
Anyways, I recently visited the pleroma, if anybody is curious, hit me up.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f1nisT6ji8
Cockshott's critique of "Born This Way"
Paul Cockshott has recently uploaded a video arguing against the idea that gay people are born gay, and that genes can affect sexuality. Instead Coockshott believes that being gay is caused by capitalism. He outlines his "theory" explaining this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f1nisT6ji8
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https://www.klassegegenklasse.org/
https://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/de/
https://www.wsws.org/de
https://kommunistische-organisation.de/
https://kommunistischepartei.de/
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Have you guys been paying attention to the normie discourses
has anyone been paying attention to these ""discussions"" on tiktok the gentiles believe that lindsay clancey didn't kill her kids, straight people are only attracted to other, and the word cis is a slur/predatory (old foids don't want to be called it so if you call them that its le rape) how are we to reeducate these people with no institutional power
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The shift from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt toward individual responsibility and the presumption of innocence was gradual rather than revolutionary. In many ancient and medieval societies, families, clans, villages, or entire communities could be held liable for the actions of one member, and accused individuals often had to prove their innocence through oaths, ordeals, or social standing. These proofs were often ritual in nature and lacked scientific rigor. Over centuries, especially under the influence of Roman legal principles, canon law, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and liberal constitutionalism, legal systems increasingly emphasized that guilt should be based on evidence against a specific individual rather than group affiliation. Thinkers such as Beccaria and Blackstone argued that protecting the innocent from wrongful punishment was more important than maximizing convictions, leading to higher standards of proof, formal rules of evidence, due process, and the modern principle that the prosecution bears the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Despite these legal prohibitions, governments and armed groups have at times been accused of imposing measures that amount to collective punishment, especially during wars, occupations, and counterinsurgency campaigns. Whether a specific case qualifies is often legally and politically disputed.
The transformation from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt to individual liability and the presumption of innocence was driven largely by changes in state capacity and legal administration. As governments became stronger, more centralized, and more bureaucratic, they relied less on kinship groups to police their own members and more on professional courts, investigators, and judges. Improved record-keeping, forensic methods, written legal codes, and standardized procedures made it increasingly feasible (but not necessarily easy) to determine who actually committed an offense, reducing the perceived need to punish families or communities collectively. At the same time, expanding commerce and more diverse populations required legal systems that were universalist in nature, and treated strangers as individuals under uniform rules rather than as second class citizens, gradually making individualized justice and procedural safeguards the foundation of modern law.
From a class and economic perspective, the shift from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt to individual responsibility can be understood as a consequence of the rise of market economies and capitalist social relations. Collective liability was well suited to feudal and kin-based societies, where obligations were shared by households, villages, and estates, but it impeded commerce by making contracts and property rights unpredictable. As merchants, urban aristocracy, and later industrial capitalists gained influence, they demanded legal systems that treated people as autonomous individuals capable of owning property, entering contracts, and being held liable only for their own actions. The resulting legal order replaced inherited collective responsibility with individualized rights and duties, not simply out of humanitarian concern, but because wage labor, private property, investment, and impersonal markets functioned more efficiently when legal responsibility was attached to discrete individuals rather than families, classes, or communities.
However, there is a problem which persists. Engels' concept of "social murder" refers to the idea that when a social and economic system predictably produces premature death through poverty, unsafe working conditions, malnutrition, or inadequate housing, those deaths are not mere accidents but the foreseeable consequences of institutional arrangements. Under this interpretation, responsibility is diffuse rather than individualized: no single capitalist or official commits murder in the ordinary legal sense, but the ruling class collectively maintains a system whose predictable effects include preventable deaths. Should the ruling class be collectively punished for this crime, potentially undermining or reversing the the historical changes described above? Furthermore, are not the proletariat themselves being collectively punished by the bourgeoisie for the crime of being poor?
One could argue that this represents a functional return of collective punishment, despite the formal triumph of individualized criminal law. Modern legal systems generally reject punishing innocent individuals for another person's crimes, yet they often tolerate economic institutions that systematically expose entire classes to greater risks of illness, violence, and early death based on their socioeconomic position. In that sense, the poor may experience harms not because of anything they individually did, but because they belong to a structurally disadvantaged class. The "punishment" is not imposed by a judge but by social and economic arrangements.
Bourgeois apologists argue that collective punishment involves intentionally imposing penalties on innocent people for the actions of others, whereas poverty-related harms arise from impersonal market processes, policy tradeoffs, historical contingencies, or individual choices rather than a deliberate punitive intent. From this perspective, calling these outcomes "collective punishment" obscures important distinctions between legal sanctions and structural inequality.
Collective Punishment Versus Individual Responsibility
Today most legal systems nominally reject collective punishment, emphasizing individual responsibility. It is also prohibited in armed conflict under international humanitarian law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention. This was not always the case. The Athenian Draco is remembered for harsh laws, from which we get the word "Draconian" but one of his major reforms was to replace private blood feuds with state-administered justice. Before his code, killings were often avenged by the victim's family, leading to cycles of retaliation.The shift from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt toward individual responsibility and the presumption of innocence was gradual rather than revolutionary. In many ancient and medieval societies, families, clans, villages, or entire communities could be held liable for the actions of one member, and accused individuals often had to prove their innocence through oaths, ordeals, or social standing. These proofs were often ritual in nature and lacked scientific rigor. Over centuries, especially under the influence of Roman legal principles, canon law, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and liberal constitutionalism, legal systems increasingly emphasized that guilt should be based on evidence against a specific individual rather than group affiliation. Thinkers such as Beccaria and Blackstone argued that protecting the innocent from wrongful punishment was more important than maximizing convictions, leading to higher standards of proof, formal rules of evidence, due process, and the modern principle that the prosecution bears the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Despite these legal prohibitions, governments and armed groups have at times been accused of imposing measures that amount to collective punishment, especially during wars, occupations, and counterinsurgency campaigns. Whether a specific case qualifies is often legally and politically disputed.
The transformation from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt to individual liability and the presumption of innocence was driven largely by changes in state capacity and legal administration. As governments became stronger, more centralized, and more bureaucratic, they relied less on kinship groups to police their own members and more on professional courts, investigators, and judges. Improved record-keeping, forensic methods, written legal codes, and standardized procedures made it increasingly feasible (but not necessarily easy) to determine who actually committed an offense, reducing the perceived need to punish families or communities collectively. At the same time, expanding commerce and more diverse populations required legal systems that were universalist in nature, and treated strangers as individuals under uniform rules rather than as second class citizens, gradually making individualized justice and procedural safeguards the foundation of modern law.
From a class and economic perspective, the shift from collective punishment and presumptions of guilt to individual responsibility can be understood as a consequence of the rise of market economies and capitalist social relations. Collective liability was well suited to feudal and kin-based societies, where obligations were shared by households, villages, and estates, but it impeded commerce by making contracts and property rights unpredictable. As merchants, urban aristocracy, and later industrial capitalists gained influence, they demanded legal systems that treated people as autonomous individuals capable of owning property, entering contracts, and being held liable only for their own actions. The resulting legal order replaced inherited collective responsibility with individualized rights and duties, not simply out of humanitarian concern, but because wage labor, private property, investment, and impersonal markets functioned more efficiently when legal responsibility was attached to discrete individuals rather than families, classes, or communities.
However, there is a problem which persists. Engels' concept of "social murder" refers to the idea that when a social and economic system predictably produces premature death through poverty, unsafe working conditions, malnutrition, or inadequate housing, those deaths are not mere accidents but the foreseeable consequences of institutional arrangements. Under this interpretation, responsibility is diffuse rather than individualized: no single capitalist or official commits murder in the ordinary legal sense, but the ruling class collectively maintains a system whose predictable effects include preventable deaths. Should the ruling class be collectively punished for this crime, potentially undermining or reversing the the historical changes described above? Furthermore, are not the proletariat themselves being collectively punished by the bourgeoisie for the crime of being poor?
One could argue that this represents a functional return of collective punishment, despite the formal triumph of individualized criminal law. Modern legal systems generally reject punishing innocent individuals for another person's crimes, yet they often tolerate economic institutions that systematically expose entire classes to greater risks of illness, violence, and early death based on their socioeconomic position. In that sense, the poor may experience harms not because of anything they individually did, but because they belong to a structurally disadvantaged class. The "punishment" is not imposed by a judge but by social and economic arrangements.
Bourgeois apologists argue that collective punishment involves intentionally imposing penalties on innocent people for the actions of others, whereas poverty-related harms arise from impersonal market processes, policy tradeoffs, historical contingencies, or individual choices rather than a deliberate punitive intent. From this perspective, calling these outcomes "collective punishment" obscures important distinctions between legal sanctions and structural inequality.
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Why do internet leftists glaze over failures so much?
Exmples of what I mean:- Black Panther Party - aimed to destroy the US and bring communism, did nothing notable, disbanded after being targeted by the state they wanted to destroy. Online leftists say they did nothing wrong and blame the evil capitalist US for not letting a bunch of dudes destroy itself.
- The USSR - a system that almost died in late 1960s but was saved by oil prices. When oil prices dropped back down it also died. Thoughout its existence it was plagued by internal issues, corruption, censorship, and Dubai style megaprojects.
- Concept of "Late stage capitalism" - the term was coined over 100 years ago and it implies that capitalism is heading towards collapse soon™. Since then capitalisn has transformed multiple times but it is still "late stage" and this time it is definitely going to collapse. (dont look at parallels with christian latter days)
R: 37 / I: 9 (sage)
The goal of Communists is to seize power for the working class. That means elevating the consciousness of the working people to see that their welfare and survival can only be secured by political means. Why are so many of you fuckwits so allergic to power that you think shitting on a figured universally beloved by that working class is a good idea?
Yes, there is a time and a place to discuss how celebrities can be tools to support Imperialism and Capitalism. That time and place is not fucking now. Maybe you're right, she did support Imperialism by being a sex symbol for "da troops" or whatever. Can you retards not grasp that saying that shit NOW doesn't make you a based and principled revolutionary, it makes you look like an unhinged lunatic. You're not just being a contrarian dickhead, you're being a shit Communist, and the entire movement would be better off without you.
Communists are not immune to the basic principles of politics and power-brokering. Touch grass ffs
Leftists be normal challenge
Why the fuck is it impossible for some of you neurotic freaks to be normal? Why must so many of you be contrarian fuckwits? For an ideology called "Socialism" you'd think you'd be able to manage basic social skills and not go "Uhm well ackshually Dolly Parton supported Iraq and didn't post about Palestine" right after she's fucking died. Why are so many of you so autistic you can't grasp something as basic as pandering to the sensibilities of normies even slightly and not screeching incessantly about her being a crakkker fascist or whatever because she wasn't bankrolling the Black Panthers or something?The goal of Communists is to seize power for the working class. That means elevating the consciousness of the working people to see that their welfare and survival can only be secured by political means. Why are so many of you fuckwits so allergic to power that you think shitting on a figured universally beloved by that working class is a good idea?
Yes, there is a time and a place to discuss how celebrities can be tools to support Imperialism and Capitalism. That time and place is not fucking now. Maybe you're right, she did support Imperialism by being a sex symbol for "da troops" or whatever. Can you retards not grasp that saying that shit NOW doesn't make you a based and principled revolutionary, it makes you look like an unhinged lunatic. You're not just being a contrarian dickhead, you're being a shit Communist, and the entire movement would be better off without you.
Communists are not immune to the basic principles of politics and power-brokering. Touch grass ffs
R: 14 / I: 1 (sage)
I want to believe that they're bot/shill threads because all the replies are ridiculously stupid, uninteresting, and half of the time a thread will have 200-300 replies with not a single post addressing the OP image. A couple of days ago I saw a thread with the twitter account "End Wokeness" complaining about the DSA being dangerous, and only about 4 out of 250 replies even addressed the fact that End Wokeness is an Orthodox Zionist Jew (which should be common knowledge on a board which screams about da joooooz all day, but not for LLMs which can't parse the text in the OP image). I just saw this thread now and it made me unbelievably pissed off. Not a single person for dozens of replies pointed out that historically a bunch of socialist leaders (Mao, Pol Pot, many of "da joooooz" in Russia who were part of the Middle Class Intelligentsia with animosity against Christian Tsarist autocracy) were part of the petit-bourgeoisie, urban skilled professions or came from families wealthy rural landowners (which is how they got enough education to become socialist activists in the first place).
Plus, the average person with no money is literally a wageslave with no time, no connections and no resources to be heard by other people/media. Why wouldn't socialist organisers disproportionately be people with some amount of money, just like a ton of the alt-right personalities were? Only so many people can become political talking heads by being viral streamers, and even then they can only get so far unless they can afford to make it their full-time pursuit (which involves money). And on top of that, what radical Union organisations does the USA even have that exist in the consciousness of the average zoomer? What do these people fucking want, John Henry?
This has to be a concerted effort to spam discussion about the DSA on that dead board, it's not possible so many people can be so inane and stupid for hundreds of posts on end. Can somebody explain to me why exactly there is a shill war between the DSA and MIGAtards on the dead website that is 4cuck?
Why does 4/pol/ have bot threads arguing over the DSA?
Can the top minds of this leftist board please fill me in on why /pol/yps' dead board is full of bot threads arguing either for or against the DSA?I want to believe that they're bot/shill threads because all the replies are ridiculously stupid, uninteresting, and half of the time a thread will have 200-300 replies with not a single post addressing the OP image. A couple of days ago I saw a thread with the twitter account "End Wokeness" complaining about the DSA being dangerous, and only about 4 out of 250 replies even addressed the fact that End Wokeness is an Orthodox Zionist Jew (which should be common knowledge on a board which screams about da joooooz all day, but not for LLMs which can't parse the text in the OP image). I just saw this thread now and it made me unbelievably pissed off. Not a single person for dozens of replies pointed out that historically a bunch of socialist leaders (Mao, Pol Pot, many of "da joooooz" in Russia who were part of the Middle Class Intelligentsia with animosity against Christian Tsarist autocracy) were part of the petit-bourgeoisie, urban skilled professions or came from families wealthy rural landowners (which is how they got enough education to become socialist activists in the first place).
Plus, the average person with no money is literally a wageslave with no time, no connections and no resources to be heard by other people/media. Why wouldn't socialist organisers disproportionately be people with some amount of money, just like a ton of the alt-right personalities were? Only so many people can become political talking heads by being viral streamers, and even then they can only get so far unless they can afford to make it their full-time pursuit (which involves money). And on top of that, what radical Union organisations does the USA even have that exist in the consciousness of the average zoomer? What do these people fucking want, John Henry?
This has to be a concerted effort to spam discussion about the DSA on that dead board, it's not possible so many people can be so inane and stupid for hundreds of posts on end. Can somebody explain to me why exactly there is a shill war between the DSA and MIGAtards on the dead website that is 4cuck?
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Class A NATO and Class B NATO.
Class A - Germanic NATO.
Class B - Slavic NATO.
When there would be an actual attack on NATO Class B, it doesn't mean the Class A (Germanic) will go and send their soldiers to fight the attacker.
You will not read about this in official documents and statements, but this is the reality.
If for example, Putler would attack the baltics, we might see Poland, Romania and maybe Finland and Sweden, fighting.
NATO is a paper tiger, Putler is already doing hybrid war against baltics, Poland, Romania, but NATO is not reacting at all, they don't respond with hybrid war against Russia.
two NATOs
You know there are actually two NATO's?Class A NATO and Class B NATO.
Class A - Germanic NATO.
Class B - Slavic NATO.
When there would be an actual attack on NATO Class B, it doesn't mean the Class A (Germanic) will go and send their soldiers to fight the attacker.
You will not read about this in official documents and statements, but this is the reality.
If for example, Putler would attack the baltics, we might see Poland, Romania and maybe Finland and Sweden, fighting.
NATO is a paper tiger, Putler is already doing hybrid war against baltics, Poland, Romania, but NATO is not reacting at all, they don't respond with hybrid war against Russia.
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PDF/EPUB post outage thread
drop them PDFs, we will rebuild edition
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/
The Chinese question is: how does a comfy non-imperialist nation transform itself into a global socialist model that can be reproduced and adopted by the rest of the world, without either reproducing the aggressive and counter-productive policies of the USSR or appearing toothless, while resolving the contradictions of the so-called first world FOR THEM and liberating them from capitalist domination, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
<A thread for the harmonious discussion related to the saviour of socialism, the uplifter of nations, the king of cooperation, the soviet of SOVL, the enjoyer of empathy, the ally of Africa, the demigod of development, the bureaucracy for banter, the prince of ping pong, the lobotomizer of labour aristocracy, the protector against proxy wars, the sponsor of sophisticated sciences and culture, the guarantor of gommunism, the Proletarian Dictatorship of Chynah™.
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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 24
>Bye, bye, Microsoft! – editionhttps://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/
The Chinese question is: how does a comfy non-imperialist nation transform itself into a global socialist model that can be reproduced and adopted by the rest of the world, without either reproducing the aggressive and counter-productive policies of the USSR or appearing toothless, while resolving the contradictions of the so-called first world FOR THEM and liberating them from capitalist domination, therefore using the empire's collapse to accelerate material conditions to enable the global revolution?
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trolling the CEO of mastodon.
this could be very funny!
https://mastodon.social/@aaarkii/117138844910163569
not too short. not too short. not too short
trolling the CEO of mastodon.
this could be very funny!
https://mastodon.social/@aaarkii/117138844910163569
not too short. not too short. not too short
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The thread from last year on /siberia/ didn't get archived, unfortunately, so posting here so it lasts longer.
Digital Grass Thread 2
Take a moment to find a website you didn't know about before, or ones you just think are neat, and share them here.The thread from last year on /siberia/ didn't get archived, unfortunately, so posting here so it lasts longer.
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Dear Mods
Please stop deleting random threads from /siberia/. I dont know if you arbitrarily decide what to moderate based on your BPD mood swings, or just dont bother checking what you are actually deleting when clicking "delete all posts from IP" button, but I am sick and tired of posting in a thread, returning later to check if I got any (you)s, only to find the thread gone. If you are bored and want to moderate something, please consider dedicating your efforts to cleaning the complete shitshow that is our "serious discussion" board.
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I kinda just hate being a woman in general, but I hate being a man even more. I don't desire to dominate others or submit, I just want to be an equal.
I just wish I wasn't apart of a group that is constantly a joke to 99% of humanity. I don't even feel like I belong to trans spaces, I don't really get along with most trans ppl.
I feel like I'm literally just a cis woman in my life, but fate decided that my body be 95% cis, well besides a lack of a functioning vagina/uterus.
Damn, I wish I had a vagina.
I hate having a penis.
I need srs so badly.
Also mods, sowwy for shitting up the board.
I greatly dislike being a trans woman
I hate that I constantly get victimized and have ppl be meanie faces to me, but the moment I do anything I'm a predator whose off to get V-coded in prison.I kinda just hate being a woman in general, but I hate being a man even more. I don't desire to dominate others or submit, I just want to be an equal.
I just wish I wasn't apart of a group that is constantly a joke to 99% of humanity. I don't even feel like I belong to trans spaces, I don't really get along with most trans ppl.
I feel like I'm literally just a cis woman in my life, but fate decided that my body be 95% cis, well besides a lack of a functioning vagina/uterus.
Damn, I wish I had a vagina.
I hate having a penis.
I need srs so badly.
Also mods, sowwy for shitting up the board.
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Sex is disgusting, imagine putting your pee hole into someone elses pee hole or poop hole like what the fuck? how can someone do that and not feel disgusted? im killing every single sex-defending homofascist and heterofascist, cry ablt it, TROGLODYTE, go STUDY ELEPHANT SEAL HAREM, you SUBHUMANS ARE ELEPHANT SEAL HAREM, sex-defenders dont have rights, sex-defenders are the problem, the only good sex-defender is a DEAD one.
Sex is disgusting, imagine putting your pee hole into someone elses pee hole or poop hole like what the fuck? how can someone do that and not feel disgusted? im killing every single sex-defending homofascist and heterofascist, cry ablt it, TROGLODYTE, go STUDY ELEPHANT SEAL HAREM, you SUBHUMANS ARE ELEPHANT SEAL HAREM, sex-defenders dont have rights, sex-defenders are the problem, the only good sex-defender is a DEAD one.
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Brazilian presidential candidate stages a falseflag, blames Leftypol
Yesterday, someone in Leftypol's latam board posted a death threat to Renan Santos, a Brazilian candidate in this year's presidential elections. Within (what I believe to be) seconds, it was deleted by the own OP. Reportedly no one saw that post, but it is in the board's log. Some hours later, websites and social media started circulating this as (minor) news, and Renan Santos promptly recorded a video (related) wearing a bulletproof vest saying he's being threatened by radical leftists in an obscure imageboard, who intended to kill him on his next speech at an university (the most famous one in Brazil), yadda yadda.
Renan Santos is a member of MBL and its Missão party, which are alt-right organizations that are somewhat popular with the Brazilian youth. He is ranking low, at only 4% of estimated votes in the upcoming elections, but he ranks higher with young voters, and will probably scoop a third place behind Lula and Bolsonaro's son.
Thoughts?
Brazilian presidential candidate stages a falseflag, blames Leftypol
Yesterday, someone in Leftypol's latam board posted a death threat to Renan Santos, a Brazilian candidate in this year's presidential elections. Within (what I believe to be) seconds, it was deleted by the own OP. Reportedly no one saw that post, but it is in the board's log. Some hours later, websites and social media started circulating this as (minor) news, and Renan Santos promptly recorded a video (related) wearing a bulletproof vest saying he's being threatened by radical leftists in an obscure imageboard, who intended to kill him on his next speech at an university (the most famous one in Brazil), yadda yadda.
Renan Santos is a member of MBL and its Missão party, which are alt-right organizations that are somewhat popular with the Brazilian youth. He is ranking low, at only 4% of estimated votes in the upcoming elections, but he ranks higher with young voters, and will probably scoop a third place behind Lula and Bolsonaro's son.
Thoughts?
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The other was he and some friends were coming home from a dance and they saw a light in the sky following them, the light stopped when they passed over a river.The next day one of the friends died.Basically angel of death.
/PE/ - paranormal experiences
Grandfather used to tell folk stories.I remember one where there was this old protestant house on the hill, every night the apples used to disappear off the tree and reappear in the morning.The other was he and some friends were coming home from a dance and they saw a light in the sky following them, the light stopped when they passed over a river.The next day one of the friends died.Basically angel of death.
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Discuss anything related to:
>Algeria
>Angola
>Benin
>Botswana
>Burkina Faso
>Burundi
>Cabo Verde
>Cameroon
>Central African Republic (CAR)
>Chad
>Comoros
>Congo, Democratic Republic of the
>Congo, Republic of the
>Cote d’Ivoire
>Djibouti
>Egypt
>Equatorial Guinea
>Eritrea
>Eswatini
>Ethiopia
>Gabon
>Gambia
>Ghana
>Guinea
>Guinea-Bissau
>Kenya
>Lesotho
>Liberia
>Libya
>Madagascar
>Malawi
>Mali
>Mauritania
>Mauritius
>Morocco
>Mozambique
>Namibia
>Niger
>Nigeria
>Rwanda
>Sao Tome and Principe
>Senegal
>Seychelles
>Sierra Leone
>Somalia
>South Africa
>South Sudan
>Sudan
>Tanzania
>Togo
>Tunisia
>Uganda
>Zambia
>Zimbabwe
/Africa/
A thread for the forgotten continent, so forgotten the thread got wiped.Discuss anything related to:
>Algeria
>Angola
>Benin
>Botswana
>Burkina Faso
>Burundi
>Cabo Verde
>Cameroon
>Central African Republic (CAR)
>Chad
>Comoros
>Congo, Democratic Republic of the
>Congo, Republic of the
>Cote d’Ivoire
>Djibouti
>Egypt
>Equatorial Guinea
>Eritrea
>Eswatini
>Ethiopia
>Gabon
>Gambia
>Ghana
>Guinea
>Guinea-Bissau
>Kenya
>Lesotho
>Liberia
>Libya
>Madagascar
>Malawi
>Mali
>Mauritania
>Mauritius
>Morocco
>Mozambique
>Namibia
>Niger
>Nigeria
>Rwanda
>Sao Tome and Principe
>Senegal
>Seychelles
>Sierra Leone
>Somalia
>South Africa
>South Sudan
>Sudan
>Tanzania
>Togo
>Tunisia
>Uganda
>Zambia
>Zimbabwe
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A councillor chosen by the ANC branch under the Madibeng municipality is being rejected by the party in favour of another candidate, prompting some community members to push for their preferred candidate to contest the ward under the South African Communist Party (SACP) banner. Councillor John Raletele has been approached to stand as an SACP candidate after the ANC moved to reject his nomination for another term as ward councillor in Madibeng.
https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2026-08-26-community-dangles-sacp-hat-to-rejected-anc-candidate-councillor-in-madibeng/
https://archive.ph/cMIDQ
Dozens killed in rebel attacks on Sudan’s Kordofan, medical group says
A medical organisation has accused a Sudanese rebel group aligned with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of killing 27 people, including four children, in the southern province of South Kordofan. In a statement on Tuesday, the Sudan Doctors Network said the killings were carried out by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-N) in Qardud and Abu Hamama, areas inhabited by the Otoro tribe in South Kordofan.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/26/dozens-killed-in-rebel-attacks-on-sudans-kordofan-medical-group-says
https://archive.ph/gQEl5
US designates Palestine Action activist group 'Specially Designated Global Terrorist'
Wednesday's decision comes a year after the United Kingdom banned the group for damaging materials at weapons factories run by Elbit Systems. Elbit is a key provider of weapons to the Israeli military, which has for nearly three years carried out what the United Nations and Holocaust scholars have called a genocide in the Gaza Strip. Palestine Action is now sanctioned in the US "for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods and services to or in support of, an act of terrorism", the Department of the Treasury said in a statement.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-designates-palestine-action-specially-designated-global-terrorist
Gaza parents urged to stop children flying kites after Israel warning to Hamas
The popular committees, comprising representatives of local non-governmental organizations and charities that run Gaza displacement camps and shelters, issued the warning in a statement late on Monday. The announcement was coordinated with Hamas authorities, a source in the militant group said.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/08/gaza-parents-urged-stop-children-flying-kites-after-israel-warning-hamas
Türkiye: Attacks on Kurdish seasonal farm workers and chauvinist provocations in football stadiums
According to press reports, the incident began with what was described as “a quarrel among young people.” The area where the workers were staying was then pelted with stones, and the vehicles carrying them as they set out to leave the village came under attack. Footage circulated on social media shows a large crowd attacking workers riding in the bed of a pickup truck, among them children. In further footage obtained by the Mezopotamya Agency, the attackers can be heard shouting at the workers: “Starving dogs, is there no work in your own homeland?”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/26/qmoh-a26.html
Burnham announces plan for 10,000 work experience placements for young people
“Offering expert careers advice and guidance requires specialist skills and knowledge but yet, as a result of austerity, has become one of many services left to be mopped up by schools. “Such specialist services must be refunded and reinstated to give young people the best chance at making informed career and life decisions.” Mr Burnham called on employers today to offer work experience opportunities for young people, as he branded the number of youngsters not in education, employment or training (Neet) a “huge challenge.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burnham-announces-plan-10000-work-experience-placements-young-people
Iceland to vote on reopening EU membership talks in close referendum
Icelanders are not being asked to decide just yet if they want to join the 27-member bloc – only whether they want their government to negotiate possible terms, including on the highly sensitive fishing issue. "This is an opportunity, it's not a final decision," Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir told AFP, arguing that the referendum paved the way for a "risk-reducing 'Yes'".
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260826-iceland-to-vote-on-reopening-eu-membership-talks-in-close-referendum
https://archive.ph/Zrx9T
Bolivia Groups Prepare Protests Over Diesel Price Increase
The groups, organized under the Multisector Committee, plan to take to the streets once the state of exception currently in force expires, according to César Gonzáles, executive secretary of the National Confederation of Trade Guilds of Bolivia. The committee brings together about 20 sectors, including trade guilds, agricultural producers, cooperative miners and heavy transport operators. Organizations in Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, La Paz, Oruro and El Alto are already coordinating the planned mobilizations.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-protests-diesel-price-increase/
Panama and El Salvador declare emergency over El Nino-fuelled drought
Panama's Interior Minister Dinoska Montalvo said the declaration will allow authorities to "to be prepared for what may come with El Nino," which has fuelled a severe drought that is ravaging harvests, sparking fears of famine. Meanwhile, El Salvador declared a state of maximum alert on Tuesday to activate monitoring, surveillance and aid efforts for affected communities.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260826-panama-and-el-salvador-declare-emergency-over-el-nino-fuelled-drought
https://archive.ph/Tui95
A political amnesty law takes effect in Thailand but excludes lese majeste
The law covers a range of offenses related to political activities from Jan. 1, 2005 to July 15, 2025. It will not only grant release for current prisoners, but also close investigations and prosecutions, dismiss pending court cases, and clear criminal records of those eligible for the amnesty. In addition to lese majeste, the amnesty will also exclude corruption and crimes resulting in death or serious injury.
https://apnews.com/article/thailand-political-amnesty-protest-112-9aeb0398aab3d97c68d21c17e27b7c41
Australia: PepsiCo demands more real pay cuts at Brisbane Smith’s crisps factory
Aggressively, the management has announced a ballot to try to push through its demands without agreement from the three trade unions covering the more than 400 workers at the site, while counting on the union officials to stifle workers’ anger.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/26/xqkn-a26.html
Labor Center Condemns Factory Closure By NBI In Davao City
Kilusang Mayo Uno-Southern Mindanao Region (KMU-SMR, or Labor Day Movement) strongly denounced the operation conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) at the Davao Mighty Steel Corporation (DMS) factory in Barangay Ilang, Davao City, on Aug. 13.
https://redspark.nu/peoples-war/philippines/labor-news-from-the-philippines-labor-center-condemns-factory-closure-by-nbi-in-davao-city/
News 8/26/26
Community dangles SACP hat to rejected ANC candidate councillor in MadibengA councillor chosen by the ANC branch under the Madibeng municipality is being rejected by the party in favour of another candidate, prompting some community members to push for their preferred candidate to contest the ward under the South African Communist Party (SACP) banner. Councillor John Raletele has been approached to stand as an SACP candidate after the ANC moved to reject his nomination for another term as ward councillor in Madibeng.
https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2026-08-26-community-dangles-sacp-hat-to-rejected-anc-candidate-councillor-in-madibeng/
https://archive.ph/cMIDQ
Dozens killed in rebel attacks on Sudan’s Kordofan, medical group says
A medical organisation has accused a Sudanese rebel group aligned with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of killing 27 people, including four children, in the southern province of South Kordofan. In a statement on Tuesday, the Sudan Doctors Network said the killings were carried out by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-N) in Qardud and Abu Hamama, areas inhabited by the Otoro tribe in South Kordofan.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/26/dozens-killed-in-rebel-attacks-on-sudans-kordofan-medical-group-says
https://archive.ph/gQEl5
US designates Palestine Action activist group 'Specially Designated Global Terrorist'
Wednesday's decision comes a year after the United Kingdom banned the group for damaging materials at weapons factories run by Elbit Systems. Elbit is a key provider of weapons to the Israeli military, which has for nearly three years carried out what the United Nations and Holocaust scholars have called a genocide in the Gaza Strip. Palestine Action is now sanctioned in the US "for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods and services to or in support of, an act of terrorism", the Department of the Treasury said in a statement.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-designates-palestine-action-specially-designated-global-terrorist
Gaza parents urged to stop children flying kites after Israel warning to Hamas
The popular committees, comprising representatives of local non-governmental organizations and charities that run Gaza displacement camps and shelters, issued the warning in a statement late on Monday. The announcement was coordinated with Hamas authorities, a source in the militant group said.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/08/gaza-parents-urged-stop-children-flying-kites-after-israel-warning-hamas
Türkiye: Attacks on Kurdish seasonal farm workers and chauvinist provocations in football stadiums
According to press reports, the incident began with what was described as “a quarrel among young people.” The area where the workers were staying was then pelted with stones, and the vehicles carrying them as they set out to leave the village came under attack. Footage circulated on social media shows a large crowd attacking workers riding in the bed of a pickup truck, among them children. In further footage obtained by the Mezopotamya Agency, the attackers can be heard shouting at the workers: “Starving dogs, is there no work in your own homeland?”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/26/qmoh-a26.html
Burnham announces plan for 10,000 work experience placements for young people
“Offering expert careers advice and guidance requires specialist skills and knowledge but yet, as a result of austerity, has become one of many services left to be mopped up by schools. “Such specialist services must be refunded and reinstated to give young people the best chance at making informed career and life decisions.” Mr Burnham called on employers today to offer work experience opportunities for young people, as he branded the number of youngsters not in education, employment or training (Neet) a “huge challenge.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burnham-announces-plan-10000-work-experience-placements-young-people
Iceland to vote on reopening EU membership talks in close referendum
Icelanders are not being asked to decide just yet if they want to join the 27-member bloc – only whether they want their government to negotiate possible terms, including on the highly sensitive fishing issue. "This is an opportunity, it's not a final decision," Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir told AFP, arguing that the referendum paved the way for a "risk-reducing 'Yes'".
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260826-iceland-to-vote-on-reopening-eu-membership-talks-in-close-referendum
https://archive.ph/Zrx9T
Bolivia Groups Prepare Protests Over Diesel Price Increase
The groups, organized under the Multisector Committee, plan to take to the streets once the state of exception currently in force expires, according to César Gonzáles, executive secretary of the National Confederation of Trade Guilds of Bolivia. The committee brings together about 20 sectors, including trade guilds, agricultural producers, cooperative miners and heavy transport operators. Organizations in Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, La Paz, Oruro and El Alto are already coordinating the planned mobilizations.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-protests-diesel-price-increase/
Panama and El Salvador declare emergency over El Nino-fuelled drought
Panama's Interior Minister Dinoska Montalvo said the declaration will allow authorities to "to be prepared for what may come with El Nino," which has fuelled a severe drought that is ravaging harvests, sparking fears of famine. Meanwhile, El Salvador declared a state of maximum alert on Tuesday to activate monitoring, surveillance and aid efforts for affected communities.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260826-panama-and-el-salvador-declare-emergency-over-el-nino-fuelled-drought
https://archive.ph/Tui95
A political amnesty law takes effect in Thailand but excludes lese majeste
The law covers a range of offenses related to political activities from Jan. 1, 2005 to July 15, 2025. It will not only grant release for current prisoners, but also close investigations and prosecutions, dismiss pending court cases, and clear criminal records of those eligible for the amnesty. In addition to lese majeste, the amnesty will also exclude corruption and crimes resulting in death or serious injury.
https://apnews.com/article/thailand-political-amnesty-protest-112-9aeb0398aab3d97c68d21c17e27b7c41
Australia: PepsiCo demands more real pay cuts at Brisbane Smith’s crisps factory
Aggressively, the management has announced a ballot to try to push through its demands without agreement from the three trade unions covering the more than 400 workers at the site, while counting on the union officials to stifle workers’ anger.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/26/xqkn-a26.html
Labor Center Condemns Factory Closure By NBI In Davao City
Kilusang Mayo Uno-Southern Mindanao Region (KMU-SMR, or Labor Day Movement) strongly denounced the operation conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) at the Davao Mighty Steel Corporation (DMS) factory in Barangay Ilang, Davao City, on Aug. 13.
https://redspark.nu/peoples-war/philippines/labor-news-from-the-philippines-labor-center-condemns-factory-closure-by-nbi-in-davao-city/
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I hate Warhammer
I hate all of it. The fans, the retarded looking oversized armor. Most of all I hate that it’s heavily focused on the American military. You never get to play as the Russian orcs or anything. No you always play as the US marines. Because it’s meant to be pro us military propaganda. Just like Starship Troopers hides behind fake bullshit “anti war” veil that doesn’t mean anything because it’s still a pro us military movie. Do you get to play as the bugs in the Starship Troopers game? Nope. Yeah it’s all chinlet us military propaganda. Same with that gay Helldivers game.
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To be clear I still want women to have rights and stuff, but I’ve found myself being immediately suspicious of anyone who declares themselves to be a feminist.
t. cis lesbian
TERFs are making me reconsider being a feminist
I know this thread has probably been made by someone smarter and more articulate than me but like I seriously hate these “people” so much. They’re drooling reactionary idiots poisoned by Twitter algorithms in the best case, and in the worst case actively pederasts. I feel like everything that earlier feminists have worked for has just gone down the drain because of these psychopathic epsteinite vagina nationalists.To be clear I still want women to have rights and stuff, but I’ve found myself being immediately suspicious of anyone who declares themselves to be a feminist.
t. cis lesbian
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Why does the demon colony invests in "high tech" so much and brands itself "startup nation"?
meow meow
Why does the demon colony invests in "high tech" so much and brands itself "startup nation"?
meow meow
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Could it be that 4chan tracks its users, builds profiles on them, and serves them personalized content? For instance, that certain posts are displayed to a specific user only after a significant delay, or that the thread order isn't actually based on the last bump, and so on?
Could it be that 4chan tracks its users, builds profiles on them, and serves them personalized content? For instance, that certain posts are displayed to a specific user only after a significant delay, or that the thread order isn't actually based on the last bump, and so on?
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< And then finally, in 2020, there’d been “Gabriel” in California, the infiltrator who everyone really liked. They had been heartbroken to learn Gabriel, an Iraq War vet built like a brick shithouse, was a secret anti-fascist. Looking back, it made some sense: Gabriel, after all, had always insisted on leading combat trainings, using group sparring sessions as a ruse to beat the shit out of different members, giving some concussions.
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This is a guest thread from /farcism/ @ https://nukechan.net/social/thread/611.html
/farcism/ - Punch a Nazi edition
DAILY REMINDER THAT PATRIOT FRONT IDOLIZED AN UNDERCOVER ANTIFASCIST SO MUCH THEY MADE THIS MAD LAD THEIR FIGHT TRAINER.< And then finally, in 2020, there’d been “Gabriel” in California, the infiltrator who everyone really liked. They had been heartbroken to learn Gabriel, an Iraq War vet built like a brick shithouse, was a secret anti-fascist. Looking back, it made some sense: Gabriel, after all, had always insisted on leading combat trainings, using group sparring sessions as a ruse to beat the shit out of different members, giving some concussions.
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This is a guest thread from /farcism/ @ https://nukechan.net/social/thread/611.html
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Fashion thread V
Previous thread: >>36889
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i have set myself a new rule for my internet life: DON'T USE ALGORITHMIC PLATFORMS.
you know, the highly personalized ones, which merge the user with the algorithm into a single cybernetic system.
the algorithms…. they hollow us out. they control us. they are directly hijacking system 1 of our brains. and it becomes even worse. as longer you use these plarforms, the stronger your habits will become. and the algorithms are also becoming stronger with every year. at one point, you are unable to articulate your interests, because the algorithm took it from you. it knows what you like, but yourself are unable to put it into words. run.
i have set myself a new rule for my internet life: DON'T USE ALGORITHMIC PLATFORMS.
you know, the highly personalized ones, which merge the user with the algorithm into a single cybernetic system.
the algorithms…. they hollow us out. they control us. they are directly hijacking system 1 of our brains. and it becomes even worse. as longer you use these plarforms, the stronger your habits will become. and the algorithms are also becoming stronger with every year. at one point, you are unable to articulate your interests, because the algorithm took it from you. it knows what you like, but yourself are unable to put it into words. run.
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Is there a way we could have a rule against "look at this living straw-man" type posts? Like a rule where if someone just brings a tweet / journalist article / other whatother rando to rile users up as that type of guy they're exampling as being significant somehow, that the thread can just be zapped?>>>/leftypol/2838312 being a particularly blatant example of the effort-to-trollage ratio this tactic yields.
Most 14f breaking post and idpol tends to follow this format anyway, so when those are not themselves grounds enough for some reason, this seems like a reasonable measure against over-lenience on those fronts.
Is there a way we could have a rule against "look at this living straw-man" type posts? Like a rule where if someone just brings a tweet / journalist article / other whatother rando to rile users up as that type of guy they're exampling as being significant somehow, that the thread can just be zapped?
Most 14f breaking post and idpol tends to follow this format anyway, so when those are not themselves grounds enough for some reason, this seems like a reasonable measure against over-lenience on those fronts.
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Glad men standing up for themselves current insanity year, because enough is enough!
Femininists and baby killers sympathisers
Just reminding you that if you don’t want your children killed ask your wife or your girlfriend if she sympathises baby killers like Lindsay Clancy or not, if she sympathises her divorce/break up.Glad men standing up for themselves current insanity year, because enough is enough!
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I've just started reading Capital and I wanted to ask, why is 4 so hated? 4 is either ignored or replace with Gundrisse from what I've seen in the recommended reading lists.
I've just started reading Capital and I wanted to ask, why is 4 so hated? 4 is either ignored or replace with Gundrisse from what I've seen in the recommended reading lists.
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Is there bourgeois socialism?
What are some interesting yet lesser known ideas from communist thinkers?
Any weird/interesting socialist ideologies?
Is there a communism who puts central importance on the lumpenproletariat, and not the proletariat?Is there bourgeois socialism?
What are some interesting yet lesser known ideas from communist thinkers?
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▶ Pill ID: https://www.drugs.com/imprints.php
▶ DrugBank: https://www.drugbank.com/
▶ Basic HRT: https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/gsc/assets/hormones_MTF.pdf
▶ HRT ranges: https://www.hemingways.org/GIDinfo/hrt_ref.htm
▶ Powers Method: https://powersfamilymedicine.com/s/Healthcare-of-the-Transgender-Patient-V60.pptx
▶ Endocrine Society Guidelines: https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/102/11/3869/4157558
▶ Transline Guidelines (with bicalutamide): https://transline.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/360047702053/TransLine_HRT_Guidelines_FINAL.pdf
▶ WPATH SOC: https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc
▶ TransDIY: https://www.reddit.com/r/transDIY
▶ Blood tests (US): https://www.privatemdlabs.com/, https://www.labsmd.com/
▶ Blood tests (UK, Ireland): https://www.medichecks.com/
▶ Blood tests (Canada Only): https://bloodtestscanada.com/
▶ Blood tests (Sweden): https://werlabs.se/
▶ Blood tests by mail: https://www.letsgetchecked.com/ DIY capillary blood samples. Expensive.
▶ Lab test guide: https://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/
▶https://www.inhousepharmacy.vu/t-shipping.aspx- Has been popular in the US. Ships from Vanuatu to some countries.
▶ euaibolitatgmaildotcom - Ships from EU to Worldwide.
▶https://unitedpharmacies-uk.md/(UK only) - Ships from HK.
▶https://unitedpharmacies.md/(US only) - Ships from HK.
▶https://alldaychemist.com/- Ships from India to some countries.
▶https://shape-shifter.webnode.page/- Ships from Turkey to Worldwide.
▶https://stayhealthynow.co/- Ships from Turkey to Worldwide
▶https://amazing4health.com/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.
▶https://favskinhouse.com/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.
▶https://goodstuffstore.net/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.
▶https://otc-online-store.com/- Ships from Russia to Worldwide.
▶https://www.weborderpharmacy.md/(US only) - Ships from India.
▶https://www.weborderpharmacy-uk.md/(UK only) - Ships from India.
/hrtgen/
• Help, advice, guidance on meds and dosages• HRT related medical experiences and research
• Availability and pricing of medications
• Rational and scientific discussion
See following post for a pharmacy list.
Survey: https://1drv.ms/xs/s!AudRJceTA5C9c2G5lCV2Avq0kQ0
▶ Survey data: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AudRJceTA5C9cyIWo6_X14AvHyM
▶ HRTGen Data Analysis: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AudRJceTA5C9gRLLWnbpdzlIxe4r
▶ HRT Info Sheets: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AudRJceTA5C9gQnyM7wxZcBGWRzW
▶ Pill ID: https://www.drugs.com/imprints.php
▶ DrugBank: https://www.drugbank.com/
▶ Basic HRT: https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/gsc/assets/hormones_MTF.pdf
▶ HRT ranges: https://www.hemingways.org/GIDinfo/hrt_ref.htm
▶ Powers Method: https://powersfamilymedicine.com/s/Healthcare-of-the-Transgender-Patient-V60.pptx
▶ Endocrine Society Guidelines: https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/102/11/3869/4157558
▶ Transline Guidelines (with bicalutamide): https://transline.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/360047702053/TransLine_HRT_Guidelines_FINAL.pdf
▶ WPATH SOC: https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc
▶ TransDIY: https://www.reddit.com/r/transDIY
▶ Blood tests (US): https://www.privatemdlabs.com/, https://www.labsmd.com/
▶ Blood tests (UK, Ireland): https://www.medichecks.com/
▶ Blood tests (Canada Only): https://bloodtestscanada.com/
▶ Blood tests (Sweden): https://werlabs.se/
▶ Blood tests by mail: https://www.letsgetchecked.com/ DIY capillary blood samples. Expensive.
▶ Lab test guide: https://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/
▶https://www.inhousepharmacy.vu/t-shipping.aspx- Has been popular in the US. Ships from Vanuatu to some countries.
▶ euaibolitatgmaildotcom - Ships from EU to Worldwide.
▶https://unitedpharmacies-uk.md/(UK only) - Ships from HK.
▶https://unitedpharmacies.md/(US only) - Ships from HK.
▶https://alldaychemist.com/- Ships from India to some countries.
▶https://shape-shifter.webnode.page/- Ships from Turkey to Worldwide.
▶https://stayhealthynow.co/- Ships from Turkey to Worldwide
▶https://amazing4health.com/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.
▶https://favskinhouse.com/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.
▶https://goodstuffstore.net/- Ships from Thailand to Worldwide.
▶https://otc-online-store.com/- Ships from Russia to Worldwide.
▶https://www.weborderpharmacy.md/(US only) - Ships from India.
▶https://www.weborderpharmacy-uk.md/(UK only) - Ships from India.
R: 482 / I: 78 >>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
/QTDDTOT/ Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
Previous thread: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
R: 11 / I: 4
>existe uma possibilidade acima de zero de eu ouvir a palavra "leftypol" no jornal de amnhã
acham que tem possibilidade de o Mijão realmente tentar um falseflag ou foi só um anão esquizofrenico?
>existe uma possibilidade acima de zero de eu ouvir a palavra "leftypol" no jornal de amnhã
acham que tem possibilidade de o Mijão realmente tentar um falseflag ou foi só um anão esquizofrenico?
R: 14 / I: 7
> If you want to be really esoteric, Marxism is advanced feudalism.
No. Marxism is not advanced feudalism. Feudalism is predicated on aristocrat-serf class relations, whereas Marxism is predicated on the elimination of class relations. On what planet could one possibly come to the "esoteric" conclusion that Marxism is "advanced feudalism?" Even assuming this is inspired by that dumb pop-Economics book from Yanis Varoufakis (Technoefeudalism) that is not even his hypothesis. His hypothesis is that the capitalist countries are becoming Technofeudal, not the AES countries. I am honestly baffled by this take and thought it deserved its own thread, because I did not want to derail the thread I found it in. Where are people getting this idea? Is there a common source for this revision or is it arising out of pure vibes?
"Marxism is advanced feudalism."
>>>/siberia/818393> If you want to be really esoteric, Marxism is advanced feudalism.
No. Marxism is not advanced feudalism. Feudalism is predicated on aristocrat-serf class relations, whereas Marxism is predicated on the elimination of class relations. On what planet could one possibly come to the "esoteric" conclusion that Marxism is "advanced feudalism?" Even assuming this is inspired by that dumb pop-Economics book from Yanis Varoufakis (Technoefeudalism) that is not even his hypothesis. His hypothesis is that the capitalist countries are becoming Technofeudal, not the AES countries. I am honestly baffled by this take and thought it deserved its own thread, because I did not want to derail the thread I found it in. Where are people getting this idea? Is there a common source for this revision or is it arising out of pure vibes?
R: 41 / I: 13
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.
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.
R: 1 / I: 0
Installed NeoVim a few days ago. It's my new favorite Emacs!
Am currently writing some monadic parser combinators in Common Lisp with Vlime.
Using nwm as my window manager inside of NeoVIm!
prolestations - the desktop thread
Share your desktop!Installed NeoVim a few days ago. It's my new favorite Emacs!
Am currently writing some monadic parser combinators in Common Lisp with Vlime.
Using nwm as my window manager inside of NeoVIm!
R: 4 / I: 0
>Develop a game with nearly 80 branching paths in the timeline for the player to explore
>The Nazis still comes to power, Germany creates Mecha-Hitler at the end of the war, and the United States gets nuked no matter what decision you take
Free To Play Gem
>Ask the question "Could the SPD stop the Nazi party?">Develop a game with nearly 80 branching paths in the timeline for the player to explore
>The Nazis still comes to power, Germany creates Mecha-Hitler at the end of the war, and the United States gets nuked no matter what decision you take