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/ISG/ - Internet Spectacle General

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

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

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

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

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

<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
📖 • https://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

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Would anon let the communist kittygirl swallow him whole?
Would anon let the communist kittygirl swallow him whole?
Would anon let the communist kittygirl swallow him whole?
Would anon let the communist kittygirl swallow him whole?
Would anon let the communist kittygirl swallow him whole?

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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

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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: 574 / I: 141

/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #295

Vice City edition
Previous: >>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
>Twitter
https://x.com/GeromanAT
https://x.com/plnewstoday
https://x.com/RALee85
https://x.com/MarQs__
https://x.com/KofmanMichael
https://x.com/IntelCrab (DEAD)
https://x.com/michaelh992
https://x.com/Suriyakmaps
https://x.com/AMK_Mapping_ (NEW)

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

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

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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

Previous Thread: >>2899386

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/Iran War/ #71

one sided love edition

prev >>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!!!!!

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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 𝗄𝗂𝗄𝖾
Please fix this and give me mod for finding such a security hole
Thank you
Sincerely, anon

R: 246 / I: 9
Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
<vid
CLASS WAR DECLARATION MIX FROM THE THAI LABOUR MUSEUM STORAGE ROOM

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4CHAN IS /DOOM/ED

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MULTIPLAYER SERVERS
US West: https://clovr.xyz/
CA/US Midwest: https://macgu.fun/

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/leftybritpol/ - by-election edish

UK Conservatives and far-right Reform UK pledge mass eviction of foreign nationals from social housing

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…

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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?

R: 48 / I: 3
Why don't leftists in the first world talk about abolishing money and commodity production?

Why did I have to come into contact with a tiny sect of leftcommunists to learn that Marx/Engels/Lenin actually wanted to abolish money, wage-labor and capitalist relation rather than indefinitely running a state-managed capitalism?

Why wasn't I told this right from the start?

No seriosuly, why doesn't every first world leftist party or org have abolishing money as their main platform?

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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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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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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.

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/USApol/ - American Politics

>I love my country but it does not yet exist edition

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™

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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?

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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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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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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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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."

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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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/leftydeutschpol/ - Mehrzweckeier Edition

Previously: >>2586971

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

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/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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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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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)

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/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?

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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

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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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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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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 24

>Bye, bye, Microsoft! – edition
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™.

Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv

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

bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
https://archive.is/pCecr
previous thread: >>2832385

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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

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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 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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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

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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.

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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?

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/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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/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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News 8/26/26

Community dangles SACP hat to rejected ANC candidate councillor in Madibeng
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/

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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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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

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writing a modern text-only web browser

i was thinking about the reader view feature in ios safari and how surprisingly well it works with a lot of sites despite tremendous efforts to block it, and thinking about gemini and how it never really took off due the insanely tall order of expecting people to create a whole new world wide web from scratch in the 2020s, and how all the old text-mode web browsers are ancient and don't work with much of the modern web, and how writing a new web browser from scratch is basically impossible now if you're not a huge corporation with billions of dollars, and how all these "stealth browser" projects like brave are shady as fuck, and how headless web browsers are basically a lost cause with web developers (scum of the earth) constantly figuring out new ways to spy on users and block anything that doesn't look like a real desktop browser, i had a crazy idea:

what about a web browser that silently launches a qemu snapshot of alpine linux running firefox or chromium (with adblock and paywallbypassclean) to render a page and save it to the host, then kills the vm and generates a simple html text-only version of the page? most modern cpus have virtualization acceleration and qemu could use whatever vm acceleration is available on the host os like kvm or whpx or whatever so the rendering ought to be pretty quick, the vm snapshot already has the os and firefox running in a frozen a state so no waiting for it to boot up, and it wouldn't be detected as a headless browser because it's just regular desktop firefox/chromium. just a thought.

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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?

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/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.
—
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.

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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.

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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.

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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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/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.

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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.

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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 ?

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

Previous thread: >>2381106

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

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

Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.

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

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>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?

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"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?

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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]

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Whacha readn/watchn thread

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


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

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


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

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


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

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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!

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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

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>failed at everything he tried to do after winning the civil war award
>Divided the communist world over shit that didnt matter in the end award
>Killed more chinese people than the japanese ever did award
>Killed 2 billion birds for no fucking reason award
>Caused china to adopt market reforms and sell out to capitalism because he fucked everything up so badly award
I genuinely wonder how mao fans still exist?
Do they just only read his literature and ignore everything that he did and caused post civil war?

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/edu/ checkpoint

Everytime you visit /edu/, post in this thread. Tell us about what you're thinking about, what you're reading, an interesting thing you have learned today, anything! Just be sure to pop in and say hi.

Previous thread >>>/leftypol_archive/580500
Archive of previous thread
https://archive.is/saN3S

Excuse me coming through
A quick note on the video @ >>>/leftypol/1538283
Also [vid related] for archival purposes

Around the 29 minute mark Peterson criticizes Marx and Engel's for assuming that workers would magically become more productive once they took over.

This actually happened historically, most of the actually effective productivity tricks work places use now were developed by Stakhanovites.

https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/year-of-the-stakhanovite/year-of-the-stakhanovite-texts/stalin-at-the-conference-of-stakhanovites/

Reality has a Marxist bias

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why dont we like dsa

long time lurker first time poster. i consider myself to be a leftist and want to get more involved, i recently found out about a DSA chaptor in a mid sized city not to far from where i live, im looking into it but ive heard a lot of distaste for the DSA from leftists online, though i cant find much reson other then

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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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Am I crazy for thinking this?

One of my core political positions and personal values since I was a literal child is that any kind of violence and coercion is way worse when accepted and normalized or state sponsored. I can accept rape, murder, and torture as facts of life that are impossible to eradicate as long as the public is strongly opposed to it and the state cracks down on it. What disturbs and enrages me to the point of wanting to hurt people is when people become accepting of it and even worse when the state starts practicing it. A cruel criminal needs to be turned around and the community needs to be protected from him. A government oficiall that authorizes torture and degradation of a person ought to be shot on sight. The visceral reaction i get from normalized barbarity is so strong that its almost knee-jerk. I wonder if there is anyone else who thinks like this or if im a genuinely insane.

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99.9999% of fights on leftypol are over whether the top pic or the bottom pic is true.

https://strawpoll.com/GeZARkvDRyV

So which is it leftypol?

1: The 1st world bourgeoisie and 1st world workers are trying to crush the 3rd world bourgeoisie and the 3rd world workers

2: The 1st world bourgeoisie and 3rd world bourgeoisie are trying to crush the 1st world workers and the 3rd world workers

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Competing Definitions of Fascism

Georgi Dmitrov:
>the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic, most imperialist elements of finance capital.

Umberto Eco's 14 traits:
>cult of tradition, rejection of modernism, irrationalism/action for action’s sake, fear of difference, obsession with conspiracy, nationalism, glorification of struggle, contempt for weakness, selective populism, machismo, newspeak, treating dissent as treason.

Rajani Palme Dutt:
>Monopoly capitalism in crisis creating a dictatorship at the head of a manipulated petty bourgeois mass movement, resulting in the collapse of parliamentary liberalism under capitalism,

Normie Lib Political Science Definition:
>totalitarian authoritarian anti-liberal ultranationalism bulit on a myth of national rebirth, dictatorship, mass mobilization, and political violence

criticisms? thoughts?

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Muh HHistoriKKKally progreSSive

So why is it that all "historically progressive" forces in History all turnout to be white European colonizers who raped and enslaved Black and Indigenous folx?
Is Marxism just a long winded apologia to justify colonialism and oppression?

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OC Thread 19.0

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All societal systems that have existed since humans became sedentary roughly 10,000 years ago are fascist. Before that, for nearly 95 percent of our species’ 300,000-year history, humanity lived in hunter-gatherer or forager societies. These communities had no permanent hierarchies, no inherited positions of power, no state institutions and no ruling class at all: decisions were made through collective consensus, and people with particular experience or skill held only temporary authority rooted in mutual respect, never the power to coerce others. They were entirely classless and egalitarian, with land, tools and hunting grounds held as common property, food distributed according to need, and no exploitation of one group’s labour by another. There was no organised state violence, no standing armies and no large-scale warfare between communities; internal conflicts were resolved through mediation rather than repression. Gender relations were broadly equitable too, as women’s foraging work supplied 60 to 80 percent of most groups’ food supply, earning them equal social standing. Groups were small and flexible, usually made up of 20 to 50 related people. This form of organisation is known as primitive communism: the default way humans lived for almost all of our history, before sedentism gave rise to the fascist systems that have defined every society ever since.

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Music Search

Music Sauce Thread
Thread for locating sources on music, musicians, composers and other content.
If you can, use Use Shazam or MusicID to locate music by audio.
Also https://www.aha-music.com/identify-songs-music-recognition-online/
Use https://songsear.ch/ for lyrics

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IN HONOR OF LEADER ANTOUN SAADEH

The man who was martyred 77 years ago killed by an overall conspiracy was not an average person . He was the man who was inspired and had an insight , and who positioned himself from where he could secure the future of his people. He is among those who will not be satisfied by merely existing . His whole being and existence revolved around his people. His name is Antoun Saadeh called also the Leader , a title he earned with everything that goes with it . Not only he was fought and set up by the colonialist predators and their local clientele in the mid of the previous century, but after his martyrdom , all about him was obscured and camouflaged and even buried . He presented a real threat because people felt affinity with him and trusted him and were inspired by him . He was the man who lead the Renaissance proper to our area after WWI and WWII , when the region was meeting so many challenges that range from identity to independence . This was when the Ottoman Empire collapsed, and the colonialists were starting dividing the empire among themselves, and also creating the vicious state of israel , and planting it in the heart of the Arab world.

Leader Saadeh immediately felt the threat , and decided that the people of this area should claim what is theirs, and before they do this, they should know their identity and find out who they are and the common ground which they share or their natural belonging and natural habitat, and accordingly, claim what is theirs before they fall a prey to the conspiracies that seek to divide the area according to the colonial ambitions .. Religion can no more be a Reference thought leader Saadeh after the fall of the Ottoman Empire because the inhabitants of this area are multi cultural , multi religious and multi lingual , and there is need to define what a nation is in all its variety , and to defend this nation and its borders, and secure its sovereignty and unity and independence . It was an attempt at preventing that the identity of the people be lost for ever and an attempt at retrieving this identity .

The people should retrieve their identity – thought Saadeh- Greater Syria being the nation to which those belong , and it is located in what has been known as the Fertile Crescent , in the heart of the Arab World , being also an intrinsic part of this world . Saadeh knew from experience and from his life in Latin America in its attempt at breaking loose from the colonizer that freedom is NOT an individual Issue but a National Issue , and only a Free Nation can grant Freedom to its people and to the individuals and not the other way . No doubt , Leader Saadeh was deeply inspired by Simone Bolivar and other nationalists from Latin America . As a Nationalist , he was wrongly associated with Hitler or with the fascists , and this was a demonization campaign that targeted him and wanted to harm his spotless reputation as a spotless leader and tarnish his image and distort his message.

All what he professed was built on historical evidence and historical facts , and he did not invent anything when he said : SYRIA (meaning Greater Syria) BELONGS TO THE SYRIANS, AND THE SYRIANS ARE AN INTEGRAL NATION . It was a Truth that he discovered . For this, he had to pay his life , because what he discovered and called for went against all the colonialist schemes that had for purpose to tear apart this region and set Religions against one another and create the usurping state of israel about which Saadeh warned very early as a real immanent threat, as he warned against the Gulf countries role in making the creation of israel possible .

It is now that we are discovering that every word he said was true . He called for unity solidarity and above all Ethics . The essence of the Nation is Ethics, . His message did not remain unheard, and his Party – the Syrian Social Nationalist Party- was the largest in number, and so many people rallied around him from all categories and classes because he represented the Spirit of the Nation . The predators of course who wanted to carry on their vicious scheme of Sykes Picot and Balfour conspired against him , and their agents delivered him to the local Lebanese Authorities who sentenced him to death without trial and executed him at the dawn of June the 8th 1949 . He died full of dignity for he never feared death because he knew that the Nation will survive him, and he did not have the least doubt about it .

He had foreseen the future when he said : I see ranks in perfect order and harmony proceeding towards the goal , and this is what we are seeing now in Hizbullah who is the real expression of the aspirations of leader Saadeh , one of the most honorable leaders that this Nation has ever witnessed, and who used to say LIFE IS ONLY A DIGNIFIED STAND . It is this dignity that we see in the Resistance Leadership and Freedom Fighters , and if the Resistance has an Origin , no doubt that Leader Saadeh is one of these origins despite the fact that he was a secular leader of a secular Party where Religion is a private individual matter and a personal Relation to God His secularism was never anti Religion but was anti colonialist . It is in the Resistance that the real message of Saadeh finds life , and this is something that no one can deny , and it is the Resistance that qualified to carry this message whereby Leader Saadeh’s vision turned out to be true.

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News 8/25/26

Israeli lawmaker smashes Palestinian memorial in occupied West Bank
Zvi Sukkot, a member of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party, was filmed smashing the Palestinian Martyrs' Monument in the village of Madama, south of Nablus, with a sledgehammer. In a video posted to Facebook, Sukkot said the memorial commemorated two Palestinians who had killed Israelis and argued that it could not be allowed to remain. “We must take it down,” he said, adding that he wanted the memorial destroyed because children growing up in the village and passing it would be inspired to become “martyrs” themselves.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-lawmaker-smashes-palestinian-memorial-occupied-west-bank

Israeli forces raid UNRWA training centre in occupied East Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the incursion was lawful. In a post on X, he said: “In accordance with my directive and following the law we passed, the evacuation of the UNRWA compound in Kafr Aqab, Jerusalem, began today.” After the raid, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the Jerusalem Municipality had already commenced work to transform the property into a new educational and community complex.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/25/israeli-forces-raid-unrwa-training-centre-in-occupied-east-jerusalem
https://archive.ph/OGW6r

Polish prosecutors charge MEP with Holocaust denial over Auschwitz ‘fake’ claim
Poland sought to strip Braun of his parliamentary immunity over the remarks, and the European Parliament approved the request in March. Braun, who has a long record of antisemitic rhetoric, is already on trial over separate alleged offenses, including his use of a fire extinguisher to disrupt a Hanukkah celebration in the Polish parliament in 2023.
https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-prosecutors-mep-grzegorz-braun-holocaust-denial-auschwitz-fake-claim/
https://archive.ph/Ng1bs

Disabled activists in Wales reject invitation to be ‘glorified door staff’
Disabled People Against Cuts Cymru (DPAC Cymru) rejected a direct invitation from the DWP to co-host one of the Westminster government’s reviews into the personal independence payments (PIP). It was for DPAC to co-host a workshop in Bangor, north Wales.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/disabled-activists-wales-reject-invitation-be-glorified-door-staff

Ukraine targets Ozon in widening attacks on Russian online retailers
A fire also broke out at an Ozon logistics hub in the town of Enem on the ⁠outskirts of the city of Krasnodar, and workers were evacuated from warehouses in Adygeysk, in the Adygeya region, and in Nevinnomyssk in the Stavropol region although neither facility ​was damaged, it said. Work at an Ozon logistics centre in the Samara region was halted on Saturday after it was hit in a drone strike, and the company said work ​had been halted at its logistics centre in the Orenburg region, from which over 300 people were evacuated.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-ozon-says-four-logistics-hubs-targeted-by-ukrainian-drones-2026-08-24/

Indonesians brave choking smoke to pray for rain as country battles wildfires
Authorities in Indonesia’s South Sumatra province turned to spiritual measures on Tuesday as huge blazes in central and western regions scorched wide areas of forests and peatland, creating a choking haze that blanketed some cities in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-sumatra-forest-fires-rain-prayers-ffbea47df1da615f88f8d4ca5b8be4cb

Colombia’s new president Abelardo de la Espriella announces immigration crackdown
The leftwing senator María José Pizarro Rodríguez reposted the president’s announcement and asked whether he was “proposing a Colombian ICE against fellow Latin Americans”, in reference to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). She added that the “order to deport irregular migrants is pure xenophobia and aporophobia”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/25/colombia-immigration-crackdown-president-abelardo-de-la-espriella

Chile's Carabineros strip-search 2 adolescents in classroom days after enactment of “Protected Schools” law
One was made to remove his sweatshirt and shoes and have his shirt lifted before his classmates. The second was ordered to remove his trousers, sweatshirt, shirt and shoes, and then to perform squats in his underwear, in front of his classmates, school staff and the police themselves. The procedure was triggered by the reported theft of a mobile phone.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/24/efry-a24.html

Peru court hands lengthy prison terms in killing of Indigenous Amazon defender
A Peruvian court on Monday evening convicted four men of murder-for-hire and sentenced them to between 15 and 35 years in prison for the 2023 killing of Indigenous rainforest defender Quinto Inuma Alvarado, in a closely watched case seen as a test of accountability for violence against Indigenous and environmental defenders in the Amazon.
https://apnews.com/article/peru-sentence-killing-indigenous-amazon-defender-6bc41df8a7750b223da265e758c2aba5

Montreal adopts 'diluted' Palestine motion, rejects push to become first N. American city to cut Israel ties
The amended motion placed greater emphasis on diversity and inclusion in Montreal while removing most references to genocide and calls to sever ties with Israel. However, it reaffirmed the council's "solidarity with the Palestinian people" and with civilian victims of conflicts in the Middle East, as well as its commitment to international law. In addition, the final version of the motion was amended to highlight condemnation of the 7 October attacks on Israel, and stated that Jewish and Israeli people in Montreal must not be held responsible for the actions of the Israeli government.
https://www.newarab.com/news/montreal-adopts-diluted-palestine-motion-keeps-israel-ties

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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 cycle of marxist-leninism

Step 1. Kill all non-marxist leninists
Step 2. Start killing other marxist-leninists
Step 3. Start killing the working class
Step 4. Sell out to liberalism and capitalism
Step 5.???
Step 6. Profit

Literally every marxist-leninist state has already either gone trough all these steps and reached the endgoal of communism that is the dissolution of the marxist-leninist state as marx (pbuh) predicted.
Or is currently on steps 1-4

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Canada Thread 2: People's Republic of Carney

Previous thread: >>1950708
PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
Fuck flood detection
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/

NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/

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Hazbin Hotel

How do you feel about it (and its creator)?
also please spam Charlie pics

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King of the Hill

the new season is out. what did you think about it?
>bobby runs a japanese-german fusion restaurant and hooks up with an art hoe
>hank and peggy are retired after living in Saudi Arabia for a number of years
>hank is still obsessed with propane, but also soccer
>g.h. gets screen time
>joseph is a confirmed hagmaxxer
also some of the voices are different

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BRING BACK MY THREAD!

I almost found a friend. You ruined my life!
meow. meow. meow. meow. meow. meow.

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A general for "western" animations/cartoons.

New thread for Western animation (or wanime) now that the old one is full at long last. The old thread can be found here:

>>22171

I'm sure with everything we've seen and learned from the last thread, this one will be even better.

Related threads:
Hazbin Hotel: >>5447
TADC: >>46854
MLP: >>37939
Lefty/co/: >>1328
Communist cartoon General: >>47870
Animation today: >>7658
Knights of Guinevere: >>46648
KOTH: >>46468

Good luck, be yourself, and don't forget to have FUN.

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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.

Previous thread:
>>2653642

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Fantasy Thread

Elf edition.

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

General discussion of the fantasy genre.

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The Limits of State Violence

• Why doesn’t the US invade Cuba militarily?
  
• Why doesn’t France invade Haiti after losing it?
  
  
  

I am trying to understand what restrains state violence when military power is overwhelmingly on its side

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I just need to bounce back

I said as i'm back at dreaming of my death in a bed of flowers like princess Padme as i did back when i was 15

i didn't even knew i wanted to be a woman, and somehow being dressed and presented as one and put in a casket full of flowers for everyone's last memories of me felt like the way to go.

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/DPRK/ - Democratic People's Republic of Korea General

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

Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html

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What are you playing general

Post in this thread every time you play a new game and rate it, I'll start, currently playing Dread Dawn, pretty jank and honestly not that good but I'm desperate for more zombie games to wait until PZ 42 comes out. 6/10.

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What do we do about anti-intellectualism?

It's completely impossible to have any sort of meaningful conversation about anything that matters anymore because nobody will engage with the facts. Conservatives who've never put any thought into a topic in their life will say "well my initial assumption is obviously common sense" and the general public will treat this as an equally (if not more) valid argument than citing years of history and peer-reviewed research done by people who've dedicated their lives to understanding the world. There's no way for the left to convince anyone of anything if reality itself is shunned as political bias. It's so infuriating that it's pushing me towards a radically misanthropic mindset. How do we pull the masses out from this gaping abyss?

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NGE thread #2 - Competitive Edginess Edition

Neon Genesis Evangelion General No. 2
Discuss the series, post pics and videos, stories and related stuff about the Evangelion series - the anime, the films (even if the REbuilds did suck), doujins, video games and so on.
Old Apartment 402 discussions and posts also welcome.

Previous thread: >>590
General mecha thread >>845

Evangelion wiki and forum: https://wiki.evageeks.org/
https://forum.evageeks.org/
An even older forum from the 90s, mostly on wayback however: https://eva.onegeek.org/
http://www.therossman.com/evafaqs.html Another old fansite.

Don't derail with stupid shit; have fun and enjoy your stay in existential hell.

PS. Misato is #1

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David Graeber

Why does everyone in leftist circles hate him now?

I remember when he had a whole cult around him in the early 2010s during Occupy and was a huge cheerleader for the Rojava revolution in the years that followed. His book Debt The First 5000 Years was a huge hit (and I mean HUGE, in the sense that you'd see it sold in both anarchist infoshops and mainstream booksellers like Barnes). He was instrumental in rewriting the historical narrative of class formation and the development of money and economic systems. A lot of Marxists didn't like that but they had zero means of debunking his work. When he died in 2020 there was an outpouring of love from leftists all over the world, for an anarchist intellectual who meant so much to people.

But now, I never see Graeber mentioned, ever. The only times I see him or his work brought up is to heavily chastise it, or attack him for his anarchist politics. Tankies hate him but can never prove him wrong. I have to ask why he's become nothing but a footnote in the history of leftist thought, especially when he was so celebrated 15 years ago.

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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 23

>Gigabazed Edition

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™.

Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv

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

bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
https://archive.is/yrBUN
https://archive.is/pCecr
previous thread >>2786133

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communist music from countries where there was no ruling communist party

its just like the subject says, post some communist music from countries without a ruling party *i'm just typing in the body because the character limit it retarded*

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Theorie als materielle Gewalt – Die Klassiker der III. Internationale

Hello German comrades. Have any of you read Hans Heinz Holz's Theorie als materielle Gewalt – Die Klassiker der III. Internationale. Is it more philosophical or historical? I don't know german but if it's any good I am willing to use google translation to read the part about Mao for a study of mine. Could anyone provide it in pdf?
Thanks in advance

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Eradicate sex-defenders, use sex-defenders as dog food, feed sex-defenders to vultures, kill sex-defenders i hate sex-defenders sexual reproduction is highly outdated sexual reproduction is in fact the root of all evil, we must destroy sexual reproduction, sexual reproduction must be destroyed, sexual reproduction sucks, sex is disgusting, marxmarxmarx terrorize every sex-defender.