R: 488 / I: 108
<vidrel
Lithuania has ordered that the CCCP inscriptions be removed from all former Soviet manholes.
Previous thread: >>2195360
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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY
Live maps and updates
DeepStateMap: https://deepstatemap.live
Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/
Watch Together
📺 News/events: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/HappeningsviaKlash
📺 Hangout/chill: https://tv.leftypol.org/r/bloodcast
Watch By Yourself
>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8
📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4
📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q
📺 • Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
📺 • 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://twitter.com/GeromanAT
https://twitter.com/plnewstoday
https://twitter.com/RALee85
https://twitter.com/MarQs__
https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab
https://twitter.com/michaelh992
https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps
<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.
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #226
>"Occupation was terrible" edition<vidrel
Lithuania has ordered that the CCCP inscriptions be removed from all former Soviet manholes.
Previous thread: >>2195360
—————————————————–
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
—————————————————–
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
📺 • Crimea vs Taiwan: Who Gets Self-Determination? - BadEmpanada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_UH4fmyj0
📺 • 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
https://twitter.com/GeromanAT
https://twitter.com/plnewstoday
https://twitter.com/RALee85
https://twitter.com/MarQs__
https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab
https://twitter.com/michaelh992
https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps
<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.
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R: 9 / I: 0
PUT DOWN THE BOOK
HANDS OFF THE KEYBOARD
GO OUTSIDE
TOUCH SOME FUCKING GRASS FOR ONCE
TALK TO A FUCKING PERSON
CHRIST ALMIGHTY I HATE ALL OF YOU RETARDS
NEWFLASH
ALL YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF MARX DOESN'T MEAN SHIT IF YOU DON'T GO ORGANIZE! YOU CORRECTLY DIAGNOSE PROBLEMS YET YOU ARE ALL TOO DETACHED AND DERANGED TO MEANINGFULLY FIND SOLUTIONS, LET ALONE ENACT THEM!PUT DOWN THE BOOK
HANDS OFF THE KEYBOARD
GO OUTSIDE
TOUCH SOME FUCKING GRASS FOR ONCE
TALK TO A FUCKING PERSON
CHRIST ALMIGHTY I HATE ALL OF YOU RETARDS
R: 500 / I: 131
Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together with the Leftypol Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/leftypol_org
Reminder That None of This Is Real!™
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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ
<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA
>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer
📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY
<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RtV0oO8Pmg
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory
📖 • Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
📺 • Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30
📖 • Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
📺 • Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI
📖 • Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm
📺 • Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo
📖 • Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm
📺 • Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries
• The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA
• Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc
• HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)
• We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y
• Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg
• The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
• Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - NATHANOLOGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
—————————————————–
RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
/isg/ - Internet Spectacle General
A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together with the Leftypol Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/leftypol_org
Reminder That None of This Is Real!™
ɢʀᴀʙ ᴀ ᴘᴀɪʀ ᴏꜰ sᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀᴄʟᴇs
—————————————————–
CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ
<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA
>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer
📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY
<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan
📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze
📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson
📖 • https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RtV0oO8Pmg
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida
📖 • https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI
—————————————————–
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 - NATHANOLOGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw
• The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives
• https://situationist.org/
• https://notbored.org/SI.html
• https://bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm
—————————————————–
RECOMMENDED OP-EDS
• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/
• Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
• Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
R: 100 / I: 38
In my defense at least I bought my Shuten Douji figure from the cheapest seller.
Also, does anyone have any idea of who could be the original manufacturer or producer? I can't find an official name or even product page for this figure besides the storefronts from the various resellers.
Anime figures thread
…in which we collect and post recollections of our moments of weakness which made our wallets cry and poor Karl roll in the grave for doing a hekking commodity fetishism.In my defense at least I bought my Shuten Douji figure from the cheapest seller.
Also, does anyone have any idea of who could be the original manufacturer or producer? I can't find an official name or even product page for this figure besides the storefronts from the various resellers.
R: 280 / I: 62
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OEunGb83zI
Also van Aken is shilling for Dengism.
/leftydeutschpol/ - "Sie nannten ihn Fotzenfritze" Edition
Say whatever you want. This country is hell on earth. Linkspartei bei der Bundespressekonferenz reden über Stalingrad.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OEunGb83zI
Also van Aken is shilling for Dengism.
R: 316 / I: 56
Is this really it? Some policemen announced that they won’t be going to work tomorrow and that they have no intention of beating up children. This might be the only chance that the opposition gets to forcefully remove the president from office.
The implications are obvious; a color revolution is in the works. Unlike the protests in Greece, the Serbian protests have no class character. The left is very weak, and the protest attendees range from neonazis to liberals and communists (most likely due to the fact the protests have been organized “apolitically”). The situation in Serbia is very volatile, and the validity of these protests need to be questioned more seriously, since no matter how much they deny it, this reeks of liberal infighting. Only time will tell what the consequences of these past few months will be, and whether this will be another October 5th or just a failed mass movement.
March 15th, Belgrade Serbia
Tomorrow a huge protest will be held in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, protesting the government’s refusal to accept the demands made by the students, as well as protesting against general incompetence and corruption. From the student to the teacher, worker and pensioner, war veterans and children all around Serbia will gather together in this protest.Is this really it? Some policemen announced that they won’t be going to work tomorrow and that they have no intention of beating up children. This might be the only chance that the opposition gets to forcefully remove the president from office.
The implications are obvious; a color revolution is in the works. Unlike the protests in Greece, the Serbian protests have no class character. The left is very weak, and the protest attendees range from neonazis to liberals and communists (most likely due to the fact the protests have been organized “apolitically”). The situation in Serbia is very volatile, and the validity of these protests need to be questioned more seriously, since no matter how much they deny it, this reeks of liberal infighting. Only time will tell what the consequences of these past few months will be, and whether this will be another October 5th or just a failed mass movement.
R: 88 / I: 16
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.
/QTDDTOT/ Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
Previous thread: >>1946727Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.
Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.
Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.
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Activity Check
Name a single organizing related activity you engaged in this week. Tell us about all of the exciting things you and your irl friends are doing to advance the class struggle. Cmon, put your money where your mouth is 'lefty' /pol/!
R: 17 / I: 1
I propose
>Kaiji
<loser desperately fighting for his life against the whims of the wealthy
>Code Geass
<class traitor megalomaniac playing out his fantasies of violent revolution
>Welcome to the NHK and Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei
<NO EXPLANATION NEEDED
/leftypol/core
What is quintessential /leftypol/core anime/manga? I DON'T mean "which anime are anti-capitalist/left-wing" like we're always talking about, but stuff that's kinda /leftypol/-coded even if it's not left-wing.I propose
>Kaiji
<loser desperately fighting for his life against the whims of the wealthy
>Code Geass
<class traitor megalomaniac playing out his fantasies of violent revolution
>Welcome to the NHK and Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei
<NO EXPLANATION NEEDED
R: 580 / I: 140
"Anões, vcs viram este vídeo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg5winGpx80) no qual Ian Snows explica metodicamente os princípios básicos do comunismo?"
Edições Anteriores: >>4624 >>4212
/brg/ - Brazil General
Edição Ian Snows Edition"Anões, vcs viram este vídeo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg5winGpx80) no qual Ian Snows explica metodicamente os princípios básicos do comunismo?"
Edições Anteriores: >>4624 >>4212
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You are NOTHING without communist theory. YOU SHOULD ACTIVELY READ AND WRITE. YOU SHOULD THINK! THINK! THINK! A THOUSAND TIMES THINK!!
It's frankly EMBARASSING that GROWN ASS MEN HERE still repeat Proudhonist nonsense, still dable with utopias, still reproduce narodist drivel, still mingle with menshevik stagism, still coquette with anarchist ideas.
THE SOLUTION OUT OF THE CRISIS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY IS SOVIET POWER PLUS PROLETARIAN DICTATORSHIP. NOTHING ELSE.
CHINA WON'T SAVE YOU
RUSSIA WON'T SAVE YOU
JDPON DON WON'T SAVE YOU (he'll probably send you to Guantanamo tbh)
THERE IS NO ONE COMING TO SAVE YOU.
You are communists. Start behaving that way.
I AM ONCE AGAIN URGING YOU TO READ
The communists have one imperative at this moment. READ. READ TO AVOID THE PITFALLS OF NARODISM. READ TO AVOID SOCIAL-CHAUVINISM. READ TO AVOID THIRD WORLDIST REVISIONISM. READ TO BE ABLE TO STRUGGLE AGAINST THE ULTRA LEFTISTS AND THE RIGHT OPPORTUNISTS.You are NOTHING without communist theory. YOU SHOULD ACTIVELY READ AND WRITE. YOU SHOULD THINK! THINK! THINK! A THOUSAND TIMES THINK!!
It's frankly EMBARASSING that GROWN ASS MEN HERE still repeat Proudhonist nonsense, still dable with utopias, still reproduce narodist drivel, still mingle with menshevik stagism, still coquette with anarchist ideas.
THE SOLUTION OUT OF THE CRISIS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY IS SOVIET POWER PLUS PROLETARIAN DICTATORSHIP. NOTHING ELSE.
CHINA WON'T SAVE YOU
RUSSIA WON'T SAVE YOU
JDPON DON WON'T SAVE YOU (he'll probably send you to Guantanamo tbh)
THERE IS NO ONE COMING TO SAVE YOU.
You are communists. Start behaving that way.
R: 457 / I: 105
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Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective
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Premier Human Rights org
• https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv
• https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine
• https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog
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!يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا
Palestine vs The Zionist Entity #114: Ceasefire Breakdown Edition
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• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories
• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/liveblog/ (trigger warning)
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WIKI
Our own wiki. Be sure to add to it and create branching articles:
https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/2023_Israel–Gaza_war [Currently Down]
—————————————————–————————
🗣️ RECOMMENDED SITES ✍️
• https://electronicintifada.net
From the UK, single issue long time Palestinian investigative and general reporting, critical source
• https://mondoweiss.net/
From the USA
• https://new.thecradle.co/
Regional news from an anti-imperialist perspective
• https://www.btselem.org/Isrsaeli
Premier Human Rights org
• https://www.972mag.com/
Left news and opinion webzine from Tel-Aviv
• https://decolonizepalestine.com/
A collection of resources for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine
• https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/blogs/
Known anti-zionist academic Norman Finkelstein's blog
—————————————————————————
💣🔫RESISTANCE💣🔫
al-Qassam Brigades
https://en.alqassam.ps/
PFLP
http://pflp.ps/
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📺 WATCH TOGETHER 📺
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/LGBTA
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• https://www.answercoalition.org/join_a_protest_near_you_free_palestine
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• https://www.palestineaction.org/
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(This includes blatantly obvious concern failtrolling/fedposting, painfully unfunny/nuclear misanthropic autism [ie. /pol/] and derailing/hyper sectarian schizophrenia, excessive doomer and jewish-blood-quantum posting)
Always remember to double-check your sources, as well as provide access to it.
الله أكبر
.الى جميع الكادحين في الشرق، ان مصيركم في ايديكم
!يا عمال العالم ويا شعوبه المضطهدة، اتحدوا
R: 454 / I: 202
Tomoko thread… why? Because I like the character… and other reasons…
Post lewds (spoilered), memes, edits, pics and anything else related to the subject
Tomoko thread… why? Because I like the character… and other reasons…
Post lewds (spoilered), memes, edits, pics and anything else related to the subject
R: 69 / I: 8
Why didn't Stalin off these Trotskyite shitlib rats who instantly moved to sell out the USSR and Socialism after his death?
I mean, Beria was literally a British spook lmao, yet Stalin seemingly completely trusted him.
Why didn't Stalin off these Trotskyite shitlib rats who instantly moved to sell out the USSR and Socialism after his death?
I mean, Beria was literally a British spook lmao, yet Stalin seemingly completely trusted him.
R: 148 / I: 28 (sticky)
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JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE!!
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The Fans Do Sonic Team's Job Again Edition.Previous thread: >>27867
JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE JANNIES FIX YOUR GODDAMN SITE!!
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A lot of images and posts of the last general got broken. So I think it's better to make a new one.
Discuss anything on Southeast Asian politics. Coming 2024 Elections, open orgs, People that should be dead for different reasons running in Malaysia's elections or just random shit. There are still dozens of us… hopefully! Starting off this general with massive wave of cult sex camps.
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https://archive.is/2NLO8
https://archive.is/3f5Rf
/SEA/ - Southeast Asia General SAG
9th Edition: THE SITE FUCKING CRASHED LMAO edition.A lot of images and posts of the last general got broken. So I think it's better to make a new one.
Discuss anything on Southeast Asian politics. Coming 2024 Elections, open orgs, People that should be dead for different reasons running in Malaysia's elections or just random shit. There are still dozens of us… hopefully! Starting off this general with massive wave of cult sex camps.
Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#!YeYeuZuLSYkegWssey:matrix.org
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https://archive.is/2NLO8
https://archive.is/3f5Rf
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Organize your workplace, share job advice, rant about annoying bosses and colleagues and the latest tricks porky tried to pull on you all in
>>>/labor/
Say welcome to /LABOR/
We thought of making a new board to discuss and vent about your daily prole grind and how to fix that in a more permanent manner~Organize your workplace, share job advice, rant about annoying bosses and colleagues and the latest tricks porky tried to pull on you all in
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http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Plato.html
http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Aristotle.html
Plato and Aristotle
What is the value of either of their works of thought under capitalism? What is their intellectual value to studious communists today?http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Plato.html
http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Aristotle.html
R: 3 / I: 0
I like Bach, Xenakis, Bartok, Mahler, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Ravel, Debussy, Boulez, Glass, Adams, Takemitsu (yes he counts because he's explicitly bridging east and west in his work), Lachenmann, Saariaho, Schoenberg, Mozart, Ligeti, Part and Dutilleux
western classical
Who's your poison?I like Bach, Xenakis, Bartok, Mahler, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Ravel, Debussy, Boulez, Glass, Adams, Takemitsu (yes he counts because he's explicitly bridging east and west in his work), Lachenmann, Saariaho, Schoenberg, Mozart, Ligeti, Part and Dutilleux
R: 53 / I: 26
ITT: lovely anime tits but the thread isnt full anymore
body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty
Big 2d booba #2
Electric boogaloo editionITT: lovely anime tits but the thread isnt full anymore
body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty body was too shawty
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Zetkin and Kollontai must be two of the most commonly cited by intellectuals and college students as the supposed basis for "Marxist Feminism", and both explicitly rejected it lol.
Zetkin and Kollontai must be two of the most commonly cited by intellectuals and college students as the supposed basis for "Marxist Feminism", and both explicitly rejected it lol.
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All that fat will be lost, but their boobs will remain large and their skin will be flabby. Their hormone levels will literally never recover from years of sedentary habits and estrogen in everything they consume. An entire generation of men, womanized…
Imagine the manboob epidemic over there
There is going to be a point where the us healthcare sector will force the food and drug industry to make American food safer like in Canada. When that happens, millions of fat American men with gynecomastias will lose weight by force.All that fat will be lost, but their boobs will remain large and their skin will be flabby. Their hormone levels will literally never recover from years of sedentary habits and estrogen in everything they consume. An entire generation of men, womanized…
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A disease of passivity.
No one will act, and by this I mean do anything besides pointless chanting and marching because they have not reached some undefined, arbitrary (and constantly shifting, in order to provide them with unlimited excuses) threshold of popular support that will, they think, magically flip a switch and allow them to do something. No change in circumstances will spur them to action. Even as their erstwhile comrades and immigrants are openly rounded up and thrown into for-profit concentration camps to be tortured and deported, the American "left", such as it is, sits on its hands and not only does nothing, but tells everyone else to do the same. Even as they watch the general public cheer and applaud the random murder of a CEO, they still believe that doing anything would be the greatest sin possible and doom their already insignificant movement to destruction. The greatest crime anyone can commit in the eyes of the western "left", such as it is, is so-called "adventurism", which is to say doing anything at all. They are so afraid of this "adventurism" that the quickest way to be ostracized from the American "left", such as it is, is to imply that anyone should DO anything.
Why has this sickness emerged? It is because the "left", such as it is, spends all their time reading theory but none of it reading history. Dialectical materialism is a tool which we use to analyze history, not a means to an end. Understanding dialectical materialism but not history is like a mechanic buying all their tools but loudly and boastfully refusing to ever work on a car for fear of getting their hands dirty. It is pointless, a waste of time, resources and energy. If anyone in the western "left" had genuine conviction in their beliefs, even a cursory reading of actual history would dissuade them of this cancerous strategy of "sit and do nothing." It takes only a basic understanding of history, analyzed through the lens of dialectical materialism, to understand why this strategy is doomed to fail.
This mindset of passivity is in error for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, it ignores the class composition and material conditions of America. The ancient tomes into which the western "left", such as it is, pours all it's time and attention, were written over 100 years ago in countries with wildly different material conditions to America and the west in general. Russia and China, the origins of most of the theory that the western "left" hyper focuses on, were still struggling to escape from the yoke of feudalism and suffering from deep, existential crises, both internal and external. Even then, the revolutionary movements only gained serious traction when the old order was either seriously diminished or outright destroyed by brutal foreign invaders. In the case of Russia, this was caused by the first world war, and in China, a series of western interventions, culminating in complete anarchy and a genocidal invasion from the Japanese imperialists. This means that the majority of the people were ruthlessly oppressed, both by their own government and by external forces. This gave the people a common cause and a rallying cry, which allowed the Communists (through hard work and lots of bloody struggle) to gain mass popular support.
In America, this is not the case. There is no external army here to shatter the state, and there never will be. The two oceans provide impenetrable insulation against invasion, to such an extent that a foreign invasion is not just farfetched, it is impossible. It would be easier to eat the sun than to move millions of troops and all their supplies across the vastness of the ocean to invade America. Even a basic understanding of military strategy and history would reveal this to be true. It simply cannot be done. Protected from foreign pressure, American capital has become a complete hegemon, able to loot the entire world at will and use the superprofits generated from imperialism both to prevent any dissent by buying off the otherwise restive sections of the proletariat and to build a state apparatus that maintains an iron grip on the populace through an inescapable surveillance and propaganda panopticon. There will be and can be no mass movement in America like there was in Russia and China until America, as in, the central government, is either seriously diminished or destroyed. Since that cannot happen through an external force, it must be done internally. ONLY Americans can destroy America, and America MUST be destroyed.
This mindset is also at complete odds with history. Every successful revolutionary organization started their armed cadres and began to wage war against the state before they had mass popular support. In fact, it was mostly through their dedicated campaigns against state power that they earned their support in the first place. To give an example, the first armed cadres of the CPC were formed when the party had fewer than 5000 members. The first combat groups of the Bolsheviks were created in 1902, and in the last 20 years of the Tsarist state, over 17,000 people died from so-called "terrorist" attacks even as the parties which would later start and lead the revolution were in their infancy, if they existed at all. It was largely through armed struggle, demonstrating a willingness to sacrifice everything, including their lives, that these groups were able to recruit new members. War and politics are not just related, they are the same thing. All acts of war are political acts, and vice versa. To quote one of the pillars of Leninism, Carl von Clausewitz:
>"We see, therefore, that War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means. All beyond this which is strictly peculiar to War relates merely to the peculiar nature of the means which it uses. That the tendencies and views of policy shall not be incompatible with these means, the Art of War in general and the Commander in each particular case may demand, and this claim is truly not a trifling one. But however powerfully this may react on political views in particular cases, still it must always be regarded as only a modification of them; for the political view is the object, War is the means, and the means must always include the object in our conception."
Thirdly, this mindset ignores the urgency which has emerged from our present epoch of history. For the first time, humanity, not just one individual nation, faces an existential threat through Capitalism-caused climate change. If we do not act now, we will be looking at a world that has been rendered unfit for human habitation. It may already be too late to save the planet, but every day we wait, the situation becomes worse. The very nature of capitalism means that any efforts that the system takes against climate change will be meaningless and intentionally ineffective. Any nation which tries to go against the capitalist world order and chart a different, more humane and ecologically sound path will be either starved to death or violently destroyed by the United States. Even America's vassals are forced to maximize their consumption to feed the fires of global capitalism, to wit, the vast expansions of NATOs military in response to the mere existence of China means that there will be a vast increase in carbon emissions, poisoning the world that much faster. This means, therefore, that to fight against climate change in any meaningful sense, we must fight against America.
Even setting aside climate change, which would be a foolish policy, the American system still sustains itself through blood. In the 30 years after the fall of the USSR, the United States has, at an absolute minimum, murdered 15 million innocent people through economic and physical warfare. You may be questioning how this number has emerged. At least 5 million excess deaths were caused by Capitalism in Russia alone from 1991-2001. Another 5 million have died since the 2001 "Global War on Terror". Before that, America callously starved to death over 1 million Iraqis through sanctions (really, siege warfare) and killed 1.5 million in Yugoslavia. This number is both incomplete and rising every single day. It can do nothing but, as the American economy is based around the endless sale of more arms. Even the farthest "left" of America's mainstream politicians openly advocate for the maintenance and expansion of this murderous system of oppression. America cannot be reformed, it cannot be remade into something more humane, America MUST be destroyed.
Since the class composition of America precludes the formation of a national front against the government and the geography of the country precludes any foreign invasion, this means that the crisis which weakens and destroys the American state can only come from within. Since climate change cannot be fought within the same system that caused it, we do not have time to wait for the ebb and flow of empire to eventually lead to America's implosion. We must act, and we must act NOW. America MUST be destroyed, the only possible alternative is human extinction.
The ONLY left wing policy, therefore, is to physically wage war against this system, by any means, and at any cost necessary. Facing the absolute certainty of extinction from Capitalism-caused climate change, we cannot hold our own lives so dear. It is better to die now, standing on our feet for even the remotest chance at a better future than to die later, choking and coughing as our planet becomes uninhabitable. If you would sit and do nothing in the face of your extinction, then you deserve to go extinct.
America MUST be destroyed, and you MUST destroy it.
There is a disease infecting the "left" in America, such as it is.A disease of passivity.
No one will act, and by this I mean do anything besides pointless chanting and marching because they have not reached some undefined, arbitrary (and constantly shifting, in order to provide them with unlimited excuses) threshold of popular support that will, they think, magically flip a switch and allow them to do something. No change in circumstances will spur them to action. Even as their erstwhile comrades and immigrants are openly rounded up and thrown into for-profit concentration camps to be tortured and deported, the American "left", such as it is, sits on its hands and not only does nothing, but tells everyone else to do the same. Even as they watch the general public cheer and applaud the random murder of a CEO, they still believe that doing anything would be the greatest sin possible and doom their already insignificant movement to destruction. The greatest crime anyone can commit in the eyes of the western "left", such as it is, is so-called "adventurism", which is to say doing anything at all. They are so afraid of this "adventurism" that the quickest way to be ostracized from the American "left", such as it is, is to imply that anyone should DO anything.
Why has this sickness emerged? It is because the "left", such as it is, spends all their time reading theory but none of it reading history. Dialectical materialism is a tool which we use to analyze history, not a means to an end. Understanding dialectical materialism but not history is like a mechanic buying all their tools but loudly and boastfully refusing to ever work on a car for fear of getting their hands dirty. It is pointless, a waste of time, resources and energy. If anyone in the western "left" had genuine conviction in their beliefs, even a cursory reading of actual history would dissuade them of this cancerous strategy of "sit and do nothing." It takes only a basic understanding of history, analyzed through the lens of dialectical materialism, to understand why this strategy is doomed to fail.
This mindset of passivity is in error for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, it ignores the class composition and material conditions of America. The ancient tomes into which the western "left", such as it is, pours all it's time and attention, were written over 100 years ago in countries with wildly different material conditions to America and the west in general. Russia and China, the origins of most of the theory that the western "left" hyper focuses on, were still struggling to escape from the yoke of feudalism and suffering from deep, existential crises, both internal and external. Even then, the revolutionary movements only gained serious traction when the old order was either seriously diminished or outright destroyed by brutal foreign invaders. In the case of Russia, this was caused by the first world war, and in China, a series of western interventions, culminating in complete anarchy and a genocidal invasion from the Japanese imperialists. This means that the majority of the people were ruthlessly oppressed, both by their own government and by external forces. This gave the people a common cause and a rallying cry, which allowed the Communists (through hard work and lots of bloody struggle) to gain mass popular support.
In America, this is not the case. There is no external army here to shatter the state, and there never will be. The two oceans provide impenetrable insulation against invasion, to such an extent that a foreign invasion is not just farfetched, it is impossible. It would be easier to eat the sun than to move millions of troops and all their supplies across the vastness of the ocean to invade America. Even a basic understanding of military strategy and history would reveal this to be true. It simply cannot be done. Protected from foreign pressure, American capital has become a complete hegemon, able to loot the entire world at will and use the superprofits generated from imperialism both to prevent any dissent by buying off the otherwise restive sections of the proletariat and to build a state apparatus that maintains an iron grip on the populace through an inescapable surveillance and propaganda panopticon. There will be and can be no mass movement in America like there was in Russia and China until America, as in, the central government, is either seriously diminished or destroyed. Since that cannot happen through an external force, it must be done internally. ONLY Americans can destroy America, and America MUST be destroyed.
This mindset is also at complete odds with history. Every successful revolutionary organization started their armed cadres and began to wage war against the state before they had mass popular support. In fact, it was mostly through their dedicated campaigns against state power that they earned their support in the first place. To give an example, the first armed cadres of the CPC were formed when the party had fewer than 5000 members. The first combat groups of the Bolsheviks were created in 1902, and in the last 20 years of the Tsarist state, over 17,000 people died from so-called "terrorist" attacks even as the parties which would later start and lead the revolution were in their infancy, if they existed at all. It was largely through armed struggle, demonstrating a willingness to sacrifice everything, including their lives, that these groups were able to recruit new members. War and politics are not just related, they are the same thing. All acts of war are political acts, and vice versa. To quote one of the pillars of Leninism, Carl von Clausewitz:
>"We see, therefore, that War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means. All beyond this which is strictly peculiar to War relates merely to the peculiar nature of the means which it uses. That the tendencies and views of policy shall not be incompatible with these means, the Art of War in general and the Commander in each particular case may demand, and this claim is truly not a trifling one. But however powerfully this may react on political views in particular cases, still it must always be regarded as only a modification of them; for the political view is the object, War is the means, and the means must always include the object in our conception."
Thirdly, this mindset ignores the urgency which has emerged from our present epoch of history. For the first time, humanity, not just one individual nation, faces an existential threat through Capitalism-caused climate change. If we do not act now, we will be looking at a world that has been rendered unfit for human habitation. It may already be too late to save the planet, but every day we wait, the situation becomes worse. The very nature of capitalism means that any efforts that the system takes against climate change will be meaningless and intentionally ineffective. Any nation which tries to go against the capitalist world order and chart a different, more humane and ecologically sound path will be either starved to death or violently destroyed by the United States. Even America's vassals are forced to maximize their consumption to feed the fires of global capitalism, to wit, the vast expansions of NATOs military in response to the mere existence of China means that there will be a vast increase in carbon emissions, poisoning the world that much faster. This means, therefore, that to fight against climate change in any meaningful sense, we must fight against America.
Even setting aside climate change, which would be a foolish policy, the American system still sustains itself through blood. In the 30 years after the fall of the USSR, the United States has, at an absolute minimum, murdered 15 million innocent people through economic and physical warfare. You may be questioning how this number has emerged. At least 5 million excess deaths were caused by Capitalism in Russia alone from 1991-2001. Another 5 million have died since the 2001 "Global War on Terror". Before that, America callously starved to death over 1 million Iraqis through sanctions (really, siege warfare) and killed 1.5 million in Yugoslavia. This number is both incomplete and rising every single day. It can do nothing but, as the American economy is based around the endless sale of more arms. Even the farthest "left" of America's mainstream politicians openly advocate for the maintenance and expansion of this murderous system of oppression. America cannot be reformed, it cannot be remade into something more humane, America MUST be destroyed.
Since the class composition of America precludes the formation of a national front against the government and the geography of the country precludes any foreign invasion, this means that the crisis which weakens and destroys the American state can only come from within. Since climate change cannot be fought within the same system that caused it, we do not have time to wait for the ebb and flow of empire to eventually lead to America's implosion. We must act, and we must act NOW. America MUST be destroyed, the only possible alternative is human extinction.
The ONLY left wing policy, therefore, is to physically wage war against this system, by any means, and at any cost necessary. Facing the absolute certainty of extinction from Capitalism-caused climate change, we cannot hold our own lives so dear. It is better to die now, standing on our feet for even the remotest chance at a better future than to die later, choking and coughing as our planet becomes uninhabitable. If you would sit and do nothing in the face of your extinction, then you deserve to go extinct.
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Nigeria’s protest season is here
By April 7th, the first nationwide protests will start specifically in the capital near feds.
Nigeria’s protest season is here
By April 7th, the first nationwide protests will start specifically in the capital near feds.
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Can anyone give me ONE LOGICAL REASON as to why leftists should hate modern art?
I’ve never understood the hostility MLs/tankies (in particular) have against abstract expressionist art and music like jazz (and by extension hip hop/rap). Their only “argument” is that the CIA funded abstract art in the 1950s as a way of competing against socialist realism. When you study the actual facts you’d see this assertion is full of holes; the CIA wasn’t privileging abstract art in particular, they were simply funding anything American and boosted just as many realistic artists at the time as they did abstract ones. As well, socialist realism had very little reach outside of the Eastern Bloc. After the New Deal ended it wasn’t like you were seeing socialist realist murals being commissioned everywhere.
It should also be mentioned that the early USSR had an avant-garde art movement too.
As far as music is concerned, jazz and rap are the music of colonized New Afrikans. Hatred of jazz (and by extension rap) has always been a dogwhistle for hatred of Black culture as a whole. The lion’s share of the proletariat in America today are not white and don’t relate to Eurocentric music and art; hell, jazz IS “American classical music” when you really think about it.
So yes Maupinoids, please prove me wrong.
Can anyone give me ONE LOGICAL REASON as to why leftists should hate modern art?
I’ve never understood the hostility MLs/tankies (in particular) have against abstract expressionist art and music like jazz (and by extension hip hop/rap). Their only “argument” is that the CIA funded abstract art in the 1950s as a way of competing against socialist realism. When you study the actual facts you’d see this assertion is full of holes; the CIA wasn’t privileging abstract art in particular, they were simply funding anything American and boosted just as many realistic artists at the time as they did abstract ones. As well, socialist realism had very little reach outside of the Eastern Bloc. After the New Deal ended it wasn’t like you were seeing socialist realist murals being commissioned everywhere.
It should also be mentioned that the early USSR had an avant-garde art movement too.
As far as music is concerned, jazz and rap are the music of colonized New Afrikans. Hatred of jazz (and by extension rap) has always been a dogwhistle for hatred of Black culture as a whole. The lion’s share of the proletariat in America today are not white and don’t relate to Eurocentric music and art; hell, jazz IS “American classical music” when you really think about it.
So yes Maupinoids, please prove me wrong.
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>fighting game
>infinite projectile spam
Why do they do this? I just want to do some combos for God's sake.
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>fighting game
>infinite projectile spam
Why do they do this? I just want to do some combos for God's sake.
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>fuck the phonebill by getting a prepaid fixed minute plan
>always periodically call ur interner provider threatening them to leave for better deals
>never buy new cars insurance rates are a scam on them
/BILLZ/
ITT we share protips to help struggling proles save money and shaft recurring plundering payment porkies>fuck the phonebill by getting a prepaid fixed minute plan
>always periodically call ur interner provider threatening them to leave for better deals
>never buy new cars insurance rates are a scam on them
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By contrast I sense only malaise in the average American regarding China. Oh sure, there are China-obsessed right wing guys, but they seem a lot more fringe when compared to the fear and paranoia the soviets produced.
Is this just symptomatic of an empire in decline or what? Maybe propaganda doesn't work as well as it once did?
china and historical/cultural vibes
In the late 40s and throughout the 50s and 60s there was a real, genuine, widespread fear of the Soviet Union, especially in the United States.By contrast I sense only malaise in the average American regarding China. Oh sure, there are China-obsessed right wing guys, but they seem a lot more fringe when compared to the fear and paranoia the soviets produced.
Is this just symptomatic of an empire in decline or what? Maybe propaganda doesn't work as well as it once did?
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Which was an easily verifiable lie that I realized literally as I closed the door behind me. Ah, yes, since I quit "at my own request", I have to work for three days, so called "otrabotka" (two weeks if you were taken without probation), which I will not do (devilish?), because after signing my resignation letter I am no longer an employee and can not be forced to work.
Also new thing I learned opening the labor code for the first time.
-there is no concept of working after dismissal, but there is a concept of notification before dismissal, so it should be 3 days or 2 weeks before the fact.
Thanks for reading my stupid rant.
/PROLE VENT/
Was tricked to sign a letter of resignation from my job at the russian post office. Despite the fact that I was on probation and my employment contract was fixed-term (although informally after its termination they almost always offer a full-time position) my…I don't know - supervisor? the main bitch of the workplace? didn't like me because of a couple of fuckups like a cash shortage, which I was really guilty of and paid for out of my own pocket (the statement of financial responsibility was signed by me on the first day of employment), and she decided to lie that the employee I was replacing was about to go to work.Which was an easily verifiable lie that I realized literally as I closed the door behind me. Ah, yes, since I quit "at my own request", I have to work for three days, so called "otrabotka" (two weeks if you were taken without probation), which I will not do (devilish?), because after signing my resignation letter I am no longer an employee and can not be forced to work.
Also new thing I learned opening the labor code for the first time.
-there is no concept of working after dismissal, but there is a concept of notification before dismissal, so it should be 3 days or 2 weeks before the fact.
Thanks for reading my stupid rant.
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Batman
Porky punching lumpens to get his kicks or class traitor who directly and indirectly helpi people?Also general capeshit thread i guess
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Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv
leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html
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https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 888
> Gigawatt anti-drone edition.Original threads:
https://archive.ph/S2XYA
https://archive.ph/Ytckv
leftypol.org archives:
https://archive.is/https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/30501.html
bunekrchan.xyz archives:
https://archive.is/https://bunkerchan.xyz/leftypol/res/8925.html
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previous thread: >>2143615
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<S Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango (all very demanding)
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre (I love them all but this one stands apart)
>Kubrick: 2001
<A Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
>De Sica: Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D.
>Pontecorvo: Battle of Algiers
>Cocteau: Orpheus, Blood of a Poet
>Godard: Breathless, Band of Outsiders, The Little Soldier
>Kurosawa: Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, Ran
>Mizoguchi: Sansho, Ugetsu
>Kobayashi: Seppuku, Human Condition
>Fritz Lang: Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, M
>Bunuel: Discreet Charm, Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel
>Kieslowski: Dekalog
>David Lynch: Anything, including Twin Peaks old and new.
>Ki-duk Kim: Spring, Summer…
>Gilliam: Brazil
>Kubrick (pt. 2): The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, FMJ
<A- Tier - Entertainment
>Cronenberg: Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers
>Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three, Sunset Blvd, Witness for the Prosecution
>Becker: Le Trou, Touchez pas au Grisbi
>Melville: Army of Shadows, Le Cercle Rouge, Bob le Flambeur
>Clouzot: Diabolique, Wages of Fear (the ultimate languagefag film)
>Bresson: A Man Escaped, Pickpocket
>Renoir: The Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game
>Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant, King of NY
>Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre
>Peckinpah: Straw Dogs, Alfredo Garcia
>Woody Allen: Annie Hall. All the other old-and-good ones too.
>Carpenter: The Thing, They Live
>Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
>Scorsese: Kind of Comedy, Taxi Driver. The rest can kinda fuck off.
>Hitchcock: Pretty much all of them.
Let's talk about movies, then. Don't have to be lefty films but obviously recommendations on that front are also welcome.
Film Thread
Alright filmfags, show me what you've got.<S Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango (all very demanding)
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre (I love them all but this one stands apart)
>Kubrick: 2001
<A Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
>De Sica: Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D.
>Pontecorvo: Battle of Algiers
>Cocteau: Orpheus, Blood of a Poet
>Godard: Breathless, Band of Outsiders, The Little Soldier
>Kurosawa: Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, Ran
>Mizoguchi: Sansho, Ugetsu
>Kobayashi: Seppuku, Human Condition
>Fritz Lang: Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, M
>Bunuel: Discreet Charm, Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel
>Kieslowski: Dekalog
>David Lynch: Anything, including Twin Peaks old and new.
>Ki-duk Kim: Spring, Summer…
>Gilliam: Brazil
>Kubrick (pt. 2): The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, FMJ
<A- Tier - Entertainment
>Cronenberg: Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers
>Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three, Sunset Blvd, Witness for the Prosecution
>Becker: Le Trou, Touchez pas au Grisbi
>Melville: Army of Shadows, Le Cercle Rouge, Bob le Flambeur
>Clouzot: Diabolique, Wages of Fear (the ultimate languagefag film)
>Bresson: A Man Escaped, Pickpocket
>Renoir: The Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game
>Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant, King of NY
>Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre
>Peckinpah: Straw Dogs, Alfredo Garcia
>Woody Allen: Annie Hall. All the other old-and-good ones too.
>Carpenter: The Thing, They Live
>Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
>Scorsese: Kind of Comedy, Taxi Driver. The rest can kinda fuck off.
>Hitchcock: Pretty much all of them.
Let's talk about movies, then. Don't have to be lefty films but obviously recommendations on that front are also welcome.
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Not so surprising. Reddit still remains open. Twitter remains open.
Was 4Chan truly causing the most mischief or was this a mismanagement by Elon and Trump?
4Chan Has Been Closed
The End of 4Chan was caused by Elon Musk.Not so surprising. Reddit still remains open. Twitter remains open.
Was 4Chan truly causing the most mischief or was this a mismanagement by Elon and Trump?
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Now I find this perspective somewhat contradictory, as it would mean the State and oil companies care about clean energy which is clearly not the case. What are your thoughts? How do we know if JSO is the cause for this change on policy?
UK State capitulated to Just Stop Oil
The state capitulated to its demands for an end to all new oil and gas licenses. Now, some people may argue that JSO was not considered for the decision, but rather oil production is being limited to keep prices artificially high in order for investments in clean energy to pay off. If oil is overproduced, the price collapse would also bankrupt clean energy investments. Or some other reason.Now I find this perspective somewhat contradictory, as it would mean the State and oil companies care about clean energy which is clearly not the case. What are your thoughts? How do we know if JSO is the cause for this change on policy?
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Si les soy sincero solo quiero la Unión Latinoamericana para ganar absolutamente todos los mundialesㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ
/futbol/
Hablemos del deporte reySi les soy sincero solo quiero la Unión Latinoamericana para ganar absolutamente todos los mundialesㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ
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On Monday, Marlon Ochoa, a member of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Honduras, accused the right-wing opposition of deliberately inflating the results of the primary elections held on March 9 to favor Nasry Asfura, the presidential candidate of the National Party (PN), and Salvador Nasralla, the presidential candidate of the Liberal Party (PL).
https://www.telesurenglish.net/honduran-opposition-accused-of-altering-primary-election-results/
Palestinians in Brazil demand the country cut ties with Israel after death of teenager
Fepal emphasizes that the time for diplomacy has been “buried” by Israel and demands that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party) take a new stance towards the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/31/palestinians-in-brazil-demand-the-country-cut-ties-with-israel-after-death-of-teenager/
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim they shot down another American drone as US strikes pound country
The reported shootdown came as airstrikes hit around Sanaa, the country’s rebel-held capital, and Saada, a Houthi stronghold. The U.S. military acknowledged to The Associated Press it was aware of reports of the downing of a Reaper, but declined to comment further.
https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthis-mq9-shot-down-israel-hamas-war-us-airstrikes-6bd7764ba19e84d2dddac0d3c762459a
HPG: Turkish attacks continued uninterruptedly during the month of Ramadan
Despite the ceasefire declared by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on March 1, Turkey continues its attacks against the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq), reported the Press Center of the People's Defense Forces (HPG) in a statement about the current state of war in the region.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/hpg-turkish-attacks-continued-uninterruptedly-during-the-month-of-ramadan-78658
Key evidence deleted in case against ex-military man who spied on Julian Assange for CIA, says expert report
The IOmega hard drive used by Spanish police to store information obtained from the phones and computers of David Morales, a former military officer investigated for spying on Julian Assange for the CIA, was tampered with while it was inside a sealed cabinet in the custody of Spain’s High Court (Audiencia Nacional), according to an expert report by the Australian cyberactivist’s defense team.
https://english.elpais.com/spain/2025-03-31/key-evidence-deleted-in-case-against-ex-military-man-who-spied-on-julian-assange-for-cia-says-expert-report.html
https://archive.ph/RDWDm
EU and UK fine carmakers millions over recycling cartel
German giant Volkswagen was handed the heftiest fine of €127 million, followed by Renault/Nissan (€81.5 million), Opel parent company Stellantis (€75 million), Ford (€41.5 million), BMW (€25 million), Opel itself (€25 million) and Toyota (around €24 million). The ACEA must pay €500,000.
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-and-uk-fine-carmakers-millions-over-recycling-cartel/a-72109880
https://archive.ph/3WQr8
Bosnian Serb leader flees to Moscow as authorities step up pursuit
Dodik left Bosnia last week to go to Belgrade, from where he flew to Jerusalem to attend a conference on antisemitism organized by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
https://www.politico.eu/article/milorad-dodik-bosnian-serb-leader-flees-to-moscow-amid-looming-arrest-warrant/
https://archive.ph/tX1DY
India Predicts Sweltering Summer in Threat to Economic Growth
Several areas in the country are likely to experience more heat wave days than normal during three months through June, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, director general of the India Meteorological Department, said in New Delhi on Monday. Maximum temperatures will likely be higher than normal in April too, he said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-31/india-predicts-sweltering-summer-in-threat-to-economic-growth
https://archive.ph/7cXJZ
Nepal’s girls face new child marriage fears amid debate to change law
Supporters of the law to lower the age argue it would stop innocent men from being imprisoned for marrying out of love. Others, including human rights groups, women advocacy collectives, and teenage girls interviewed by Al Jazeera, say the recommendation is designed to protect men rather than promote gender equality in Nepal.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/1/nepals-girls-face-new-child-marriage-fears-amid-debate-to-change-law
https://archive.ph/UY3Aj
Renewed media attacks on Australian construction union
Over recent weeks, the corporate media barrage against the construction division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) has resumed in earnest, some seven months after the federal Labor government placed the division under administration.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/31/bvcf-m31.html
News 4/1/25
Honduran Opposition Accused of Altering Primary Election ResultsOn Monday, Marlon Ochoa, a member of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Honduras, accused the right-wing opposition of deliberately inflating the results of the primary elections held on March 9 to favor Nasry Asfura, the presidential candidate of the National Party (PN), and Salvador Nasralla, the presidential candidate of the Liberal Party (PL).
https://www.telesurenglish.net/honduran-opposition-accused-of-altering-primary-election-results/
Palestinians in Brazil demand the country cut ties with Israel after death of teenager
Fepal emphasizes that the time for diplomacy has been “buried” by Israel and demands that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party) take a new stance towards the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/31/palestinians-in-brazil-demand-the-country-cut-ties-with-israel-after-death-of-teenager/
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim they shot down another American drone as US strikes pound country
The reported shootdown came as airstrikes hit around Sanaa, the country’s rebel-held capital, and Saada, a Houthi stronghold. The U.S. military acknowledged to The Associated Press it was aware of reports of the downing of a Reaper, but declined to comment further.
https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthis-mq9-shot-down-israel-hamas-war-us-airstrikes-6bd7764ba19e84d2dddac0d3c762459a
HPG: Turkish attacks continued uninterruptedly during the month of Ramadan
Despite the ceasefire declared by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on March 1, Turkey continues its attacks against the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq), reported the Press Center of the People's Defense Forces (HPG) in a statement about the current state of war in the region.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/hpg-turkish-attacks-continued-uninterruptedly-during-the-month-of-ramadan-78658
Key evidence deleted in case against ex-military man who spied on Julian Assange for CIA, says expert report
The IOmega hard drive used by Spanish police to store information obtained from the phones and computers of David Morales, a former military officer investigated for spying on Julian Assange for the CIA, was tampered with while it was inside a sealed cabinet in the custody of Spain’s High Court (Audiencia Nacional), according to an expert report by the Australian cyberactivist’s defense team.
https://english.elpais.com/spain/2025-03-31/key-evidence-deleted-in-case-against-ex-military-man-who-spied-on-julian-assange-for-cia-says-expert-report.html
https://archive.ph/RDWDm
EU and UK fine carmakers millions over recycling cartel
German giant Volkswagen was handed the heftiest fine of €127 million, followed by Renault/Nissan (€81.5 million), Opel parent company Stellantis (€75 million), Ford (€41.5 million), BMW (€25 million), Opel itself (€25 million) and Toyota (around €24 million). The ACEA must pay €500,000.
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-and-uk-fine-carmakers-millions-over-recycling-cartel/a-72109880
https://archive.ph/3WQr8
Bosnian Serb leader flees to Moscow as authorities step up pursuit
Dodik left Bosnia last week to go to Belgrade, from where he flew to Jerusalem to attend a conference on antisemitism organized by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
https://www.politico.eu/article/milorad-dodik-bosnian-serb-leader-flees-to-moscow-amid-looming-arrest-warrant/
https://archive.ph/tX1DY
India Predicts Sweltering Summer in Threat to Economic Growth
Several areas in the country are likely to experience more heat wave days than normal during three months through June, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, director general of the India Meteorological Department, said in New Delhi on Monday. Maximum temperatures will likely be higher than normal in April too, he said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-31/india-predicts-sweltering-summer-in-threat-to-economic-growth
https://archive.ph/7cXJZ
Nepal’s girls face new child marriage fears amid debate to change law
Supporters of the law to lower the age argue it would stop innocent men from being imprisoned for marrying out of love. Others, including human rights groups, women advocacy collectives, and teenage girls interviewed by Al Jazeera, say the recommendation is designed to protect men rather than promote gender equality in Nepal.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/1/nepals-girls-face-new-child-marriage-fears-amid-debate-to-change-law
https://archive.ph/UY3Aj
Renewed media attacks on Australian construction union
Over recent weeks, the corporate media barrage against the construction division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) has resumed in earnest, some seven months after the federal Labor government placed the division under administration.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/31/bvcf-m31.html
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They’re pretty fucking OP that’s for sure.
Unlike the low effort bait spewed out on community threads, the imperium has only been expanding rapidly since the Horus heresy. The guard and the astartes got reorganized into legions and chapters to maintain cohesion and improve their stability. The sisters of battle exists as a check to keep the administratum and inquisition from irresponsible decision making and as a stand-alone fighting force. Recovered STCs have brought the return of primaris and centurion space marine power armour. Guilliman, Vulkan, and rogal dorn are back. Several space marines were discovered during exploration trips or were added to the chapters. Some improvements (and I mean some) to imperial leadership have been seen to make the empire less comically fascist and incompetent under guilliman. Finally, the sheer number of humans in the galaxy has rapidly grown thanks to fertility rates and the introduction of vitae wombs on planets like Vraks—seriously, those planets can produce fifty million soldiers a year; imagine how many people in general they pump out. To top of everything else, all imperial worlds have been fortifying for ages now while the imperium has been passively expanding its reach into new worlds since the great crusade started. Just look at the story of tertium as an example of how fucking huge the empire really is.
Unless GW can pull an extremely sound excuse to give some random heretic or alien uniquely strong plot armour, this franchise isn’t going to end the way Fantasy did but with the galaxy cleansed of any nonhuman and robotic life in a few centuries to millennia. The only things going on so far are the returns of angron, Magnus, and mortarion.
Thoughts? Personally, I want to see how this board game ends. Would be nice to finally justify not painting anymore models.
Just how strong is the imperium by the 10th edition
It’s the 42nd millennium in the newest edition, the tyrannic wars have mostly ended, the wars for Armageddon still loom on with the orks weakening each day, the necrons, tau, and eldar are showing signs of instability, and the imperium is looking towards entering another “age of apostasy” situation even with the galaxy being torn in half. If the age of strife never happened, the imperium in its current state would be as strong if not stronger than the ICOG from xeelee. But how strong is the imperium right now?They’re pretty fucking OP that’s for sure.
Unlike the low effort bait spewed out on community threads, the imperium has only been expanding rapidly since the Horus heresy. The guard and the astartes got reorganized into legions and chapters to maintain cohesion and improve their stability. The sisters of battle exists as a check to keep the administratum and inquisition from irresponsible decision making and as a stand-alone fighting force. Recovered STCs have brought the return of primaris and centurion space marine power armour. Guilliman, Vulkan, and rogal dorn are back. Several space marines were discovered during exploration trips or were added to the chapters. Some improvements (and I mean some) to imperial leadership have been seen to make the empire less comically fascist and incompetent under guilliman. Finally, the sheer number of humans in the galaxy has rapidly grown thanks to fertility rates and the introduction of vitae wombs on planets like Vraks—seriously, those planets can produce fifty million soldiers a year; imagine how many people in general they pump out. To top of everything else, all imperial worlds have been fortifying for ages now while the imperium has been passively expanding its reach into new worlds since the great crusade started. Just look at the story of tertium as an example of how fucking huge the empire really is.
Unless GW can pull an extremely sound excuse to give some random heretic or alien uniquely strong plot armour, this franchise isn’t going to end the way Fantasy did but with the galaxy cleansed of any nonhuman and robotic life in a few centuries to millennia. The only things going on so far are the returns of angron, Magnus, and mortarion.
Thoughts? Personally, I want to see how this board game ends. Would be nice to finally justify not painting anymore models.
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They say AI will take over people's jobs, how do we fight against it?
So, I'm a musician, who wants to have a musical career (a lot of communist musicians had stable careers) and meanwhile stupid porkies tell me that "no, we'd prefer if you were replaced, prole, because there if no place for people like you" and I hear, not only music, but other art, computer science, programming etc. will be replaced by AI. How do we stop this, so people are still prosperous in the real socialst societies?
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can people please spoiler their images i am rather tired of being flashbanged by mediocre pornography thank you kind sirs
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can people please spoiler their images i am rather tired of being flashbanged by mediocre pornography thank you kind sirs
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Disco Elysium(spoilers)
I just beat this game, I remember seeing another discussion thread about this game but I can't find it, but I want to talk about the game, full spoilers.
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I would guess that this is in large part a legacy of the importance of Russian art and literature before the revolution, but what accounts for China's relative paucity of serious art? Their film industry seems to just be trying to recreate Hollywood with socialist plots. The only Chinese author I've even heard of is Liu Cixin, who writes really interesting scifi, but nothing approaching the literary equivalent of a Tarkovsky. Am I just ignorant of the art being produced in China or is my intuition correct?
actually existing socialist art
What accounts for the discrepancy between the incredible filmmaking of the Soviet Union and that of communist China? The Soviets intentionally developed their film industry in particular and pushed for serious artistic works that have been recognized even in the western world as some of the most important achievements in the medium.I would guess that this is in large part a legacy of the importance of Russian art and literature before the revolution, but what accounts for China's relative paucity of serious art? Their film industry seems to just be trying to recreate Hollywood with socialist plots. The only Chinese author I've even heard of is Liu Cixin, who writes really interesting scifi, but nothing approaching the literary equivalent of a Tarkovsky. Am I just ignorant of the art being produced in China or is my intuition correct?
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gonna try and make a cool OP for this involving a few party sites and news outlets (note it's not complete if theres other shit that should be added in the next thread post it)
PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
>https://ncpc-npcc.ca/
>https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
>https://iww.ca/
>https://socialistaction.ca/
NEWS:
>https://pvonline.ca/
>https://springmag.ca/
>https://canadiandimension.com/
OOOOOOOOOOO /CANADA/
canada thread continuing from >>1878602gonna try and make a cool OP for this involving a few party sites and news outlets (note it's not complete if theres other shit that should be added in the next thread post it)
PARTIES:
>https://communist-party.ca/
>https://cpcml.ca/
>https://www.marxist.ca/
>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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Are master's programs really just cash cows like everyone keeps telling me?
Tldr all the arguments I hear against doing one:
>costs too much
>easier admissions process
>bad quality of education
>more debt
>can get a job without one anyways
>mainly used by internationals to game visas
>most jobs dont require it
But, I cant help but feel a lot of this is cope from people that dont have one. It has to help get more interviews easier and the wages are probably higher.
I got an admit into UCLA and feel like I should take it. My undergrad was in a shittier state school and the rep would help me out. But its going to be 40grand and dont know if Im just about to get scammed
Are master's programs really just cash cows like everyone keeps telling me?
Tldr all the arguments I hear against doing one:
>costs too much
>easier admissions process
>bad quality of education
>more debt
>can get a job without one anyways
>mainly used by internationals to game visas
>most jobs dont require it
But, I cant help but feel a lot of this is cope from people that dont have one. It has to help get more interviews easier and the wages are probably higher.
I got an admit into UCLA and feel like I should take it. My undergrad was in a shittier state school and the rep would help me out. But its going to be 40grand and dont know if Im just about to get scammed
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Deadass asking:
as an Iranian, How fucked Am I when Israel cracks the whip and trump invades? do you think the American public will stop the war? I can't take this shit anymore. my teenage years were burned by sanctions and my youth is not only getting destroyed by the wrecked economy but I'll probably be bombed to death.
this shit is making me suicidal istg
Deadass asking:
as an Iranian, How fucked Am I when Israel cracks the whip and trump invades? do you think the American public will stop the war? I can't take this shit anymore. my teenage years were burned by sanctions and my youth is not only getting destroyed by the wrecked economy but I'll probably be bombed to death.
this shit is making me suicidal istg
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But Anarcho-Nihliism and Post left anarchism has just, well apart from convincing me egoist's are generally all assholes who use an ideology of selfishness as a justification for being a cunt and then still somehow getting surprised when you don't condone being an utter cunt, it offers no political platform that even seems to have a basis in trying to make it come to fruition with their end goal of a a hyper individualistic society that seems positively apocalyptic if you think about it for long enough.
Is their anyway to take them seriously as an ideology or do they deserve the same political considerations as one would a schizophrenic with multiple traumatic brain injuries?
What the fuck is happening with Anarcho-Nihilism
Can someone please explain to me how this ideology isn't just the psychical embodiment of edge? Ive been an anarchist for a long time, over a decade. Im that time, ive met some interesting people, many of whom were completely politically incoherent in their beliefs. And im not just talking about the internet exclusive lurkers, these were real people who went outside and had relationships and shit who were not internet brain rotted.But Anarcho-Nihliism and Post left anarchism has just, well apart from convincing me egoist's are generally all assholes who use an ideology of selfishness as a justification for being a cunt and then still somehow getting surprised when you don't condone being an utter cunt, it offers no political platform that even seems to have a basis in trying to make it come to fruition with their end goal of a a hyper individualistic society that seems positively apocalyptic if you think about it for long enough.
Is their anyway to take them seriously as an ideology or do they deserve the same political considerations as one would a schizophrenic with multiple traumatic brain injuries?
R: 8 / I: 0
Far Cry 5 is the best game in the Far Cry franchise.
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Far Cry 5 is the best game in the Far Cry franchise.
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HILO LATINOAMERICANO
EDICION MURO PROPIO
Terminamos el año con una victoria mas de los socialdemocratas en Uruguay y con Pepe Mujica en modo espectro alentando a los jovenes a militar
¡A Darle con Todo!
Para luego buscarlo en el catálogo:
Latinoamérica, Latin America, LATAM, /lat/, latinoamérica, latino américa, hispanoamerica, /ñ/
HILO LATINOAMERICANO
EDICION MURO PROPIO
Terminamos el año con una victoria mas de los socialdemocratas en Uruguay y con Pepe Mujica en modo espectro alentando a los jovenes a militar
¡A Darle con Todo!
Para luego buscarlo en el catálogo:
Latinoamérica, Latin America, LATAM, /lat/, latinoamérica, latino américa, hispanoamerica, /ñ/
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how to get ammo?
hi i am a tunisian who want to enjoy some freedom sticks like you amerikants , i can make some primitive shotguns and 3d printed pistols but my biggest hurdle is getting ammo , it's extremely difficult to get a hunter licence and it's easier for me to find cocaine than bullet in the black market , any idea how to make/smuggle some rounds ?
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/leftybritpol/ BROKEN BRITAIN edition
I just watched the 'UK IS DYING AND I NEED TO VENT' video and I think we can all agree there is no hope for anyone in this country whatsoever, except for the landlords and triple locked pensioners, so with that said should we all go abroad? If so then where? Or should we just do our best to find a way to make it in this country? Maybe I should go teach English in China, but moving away from what I know is scary.
R: 5 / I: 0
In every single browser they fail immediately after awhile
I can navigate normally but downloads in particular fail all the time, VPN fixes it but then my connection becomes incredibly slow, can anyone help me? I really don't want to reset windows
Downloads keep failing unless I use VPN
In fivem downloads go all the way 0 and keep trying over and over if the archive is more than 30MB, and eventually failIn every single browser they fail immediately after awhile
I can navigate normally but downloads in particular fail all the time, VPN fixes it but then my connection becomes incredibly slow, can anyone help me? I really don't want to reset windows
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CSAM ALERT
Its on siberia again
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We're in the US and I expect the attempts at purging leftists to get worse in the future. Any good examples of protections we could copy? Also, general suggestions on things to definitely fight to have in our contract are welcome.
Union contract language during the new red scare
Seeking good contract language protecting political activity and speech to reduce the risk of getting fired over being a communist or anti-zionist. My workplace is majority anti-zionist Jewish people with a plurality of reds. A handful of zionist and rightoid pricks really hate that fact and keep trying to wield management against us and call in outside zionist orgs for backup because our existence fucks with their messaging that all Jewish people support Israel.We're in the US and I expect the attempts at purging leftists to get worse in the future. Any good examples of protections we could copy? Also, general suggestions on things to definitely fight to have in our contract are welcome.
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Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
/DPRK/ - Democratic People's Republic of Korea General
Thread for news and discussions of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its material conditions, the status and health of its socialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
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What happened to the best chan board on the internet. I seriously can't take it anymore. Twitter is horrible. 4chan is unusable. Leftpol is a place with like minded politics as mine but it's not a place to kick back and shit post properly with friends who are dosed on some primo stuff. I don't care if Kirtaner is weird. Please for the love of god bring it back.
WHERE THE FUCK IS 420CHAN
Save me 420chan I dont want to talk about pol. I want to talk about hamburger and Mr. Fug.What happened to the best chan board on the internet. I seriously can't take it anymore. Twitter is horrible. 4chan is unusable. Leftpol is a place with like minded politics as mine but it's not a place to kick back and shit post properly with friends who are dosed on some primo stuff. I don't care if Kirtaner is weird. Please for the love of god bring it back.
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Why is it if you are a flagfag or namefag you cvn get away with anything with no ban?
People like Sandinistanon or Felix literally only post to break the rules you wrote yet they are in here day-in, day-out?
The whole moderation of this site comes across as incredibly disingenuous.
Why is it if you are a flagfag or namefag you cvn get away with anything with no ban?
People like Sandinistanon or Felix literally only post to break the rules you wrote yet they are in here day-in, day-out?
The whole moderation of this site comes across as incredibly disingenuous.
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The massive amount of production paired with the sheer productivity of modern industrial tech has given a material basis for justifying a direct transition from a capitalist society to a post scarcity communist one.
There largely isn’t any need in much of the planet to justify having massive collectivized centralized industry, armies of industrial workers, or central planning to coordinate supplies when there is so much of well… everything anyone could possibly need.
There was a time when transitioning to socialism would have made some level of sense if it meant reaching post scarcity. We’re not in that time. There’s a comically high over abundance of food, a literal island of discarded clothing, entire cities and towns worth of housing being left partially or fully abondoned. It makes far more sense to just tax the rich and set up better protections for shit owned by individuals at this point to stop the nonstop looting and extortion than it is to work, prepare, plan, and mobilize any fucking more.
Besides, I’m sure anyone calling for heavier taxation against the rich and social securities (as in actual protections against looting, scams, and violent crime) is going to have a lot of support anyways.
We’re at a point where we can skip socialism and go directly into communism
This is a highly recent development that I’m kind of surprised that you apeshits never noticed.The massive amount of production paired with the sheer productivity of modern industrial tech has given a material basis for justifying a direct transition from a capitalist society to a post scarcity communist one.
There largely isn’t any need in much of the planet to justify having massive collectivized centralized industry, armies of industrial workers, or central planning to coordinate supplies when there is so much of well… everything anyone could possibly need.
There was a time when transitioning to socialism would have made some level of sense if it meant reaching post scarcity. We’re not in that time. There’s a comically high over abundance of food, a literal island of discarded clothing, entire cities and towns worth of housing being left partially or fully abondoned. It makes far more sense to just tax the rich and set up better protections for shit owned by individuals at this point to stop the nonstop looting and extortion than it is to work, prepare, plan, and mobilize any fucking more.
Besides, I’m sure anyone calling for heavier taxation against the rich and social securities (as in actual protections against looting, scams, and violent crime) is going to have a lot of support anyways.
R: 81 / I: 5
>Dying from curable diseases for U
<Us having the cure for everything
>Suffering from crazy reactionary and outdated forms of socio-political tyranny for you
<Us having the enlightened form of governance
But most importantly to a communist:
>Solveable but eternally ongoing problems of scarcity for U
<Infinite material abundance for us
…all of this in the name of a dogma ("prime directive") all of this while we could elevate you into a higher socio-economic and scientific/technological level, but "sorry," we are "not allowed" to do that for you, cuz… reasons…
I almost wonder what an ACTUAL communist (internationalist, galactic) Star Trek would look like. No shit it would involve the "Federation" enlightening all those fascistic/theocratic/etc. natives to a higher productive level and therefore eliminating all social ills.
But I'm told again and again by American "comrades," that this is what peak communist show looks like, cuz they vet to feel better by that dogma's limitations:
>Sry, we can't cure you and elevate your society onto our level….. CUZ REASONS, LOL
In any case, I can't wait for the Chinese version of this show, wherein our daring space-faring crew just do the materialist and sensible thing.
Mind you, for labour aristocrats TO THIS DAY this is what enlightened FALC behavior looks like.
What a fucking joke, 🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣!
Labour Aristocracy - The Show
The so called "Prime Directive" is an ideological equivalent of US exceptionalism and a way to retreat into a moral high ground. Basically:>Dying from curable diseases for U
<Us having the cure for everything
>Suffering from crazy reactionary and outdated forms of socio-political tyranny for you
<Us having the enlightened form of governance
But most importantly to a communist:
>Solveable but eternally ongoing problems of scarcity for U
<Infinite material abundance for us
…all of this in the name of a dogma ("prime directive") all of this while we could elevate you into a higher socio-economic and scientific/technological level, but "sorry," we are "not allowed" to do that for you, cuz… reasons…
I almost wonder what an ACTUAL communist (internationalist, galactic) Star Trek would look like. No shit it would involve the "Federation" enlightening all those fascistic/theocratic/etc. natives to a higher productive level and therefore eliminating all social ills.
But I'm told again and again by American "comrades," that this is what peak communist show looks like, cuz they vet to feel better by that dogma's limitations:
>Sry, we can't cure you and elevate your society onto our level….. CUZ REASONS, LOL
In any case, I can't wait for the Chinese version of this show, wherein our daring space-faring crew just do the materialist and sensible thing.
Mind you, for labour aristocrats TO THIS DAY this is what enlightened FALC behavior looks like.
What a fucking joke, 🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣!
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Here in the europe, i have no idea whats going on over there, but from what ive heard and read, it aims to help the proletariat like everybody here, yada yada, yet it does so by taking over villages in a very undemocratic and violent way, killing random civilians. How come you want to free the proletariat……by taking over it like that and even sometimes killing them?
Yes, violence is necessary for the revolution, but dont we have to ask ourselves to what extend?
New peoples army philippines criticism
Genuinely whats up with the npa?Here in the europe, i have no idea whats going on over there, but from what ive heard and read, it aims to help the proletariat like everybody here, yada yada, yet it does so by taking over villages in a very undemocratic and violent way, killing random civilians. How come you want to free the proletariat……by taking over it like that and even sometimes killing them?
Yes, violence is necessary for the revolution, but dont we have to ask ourselves to what extend?
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I'm ashamed to live in Poland, if Poland shills for another Slav-killing war (not saying I don't hate Putin or Zelensky).
I'd like to watch some anti-Polish content on YT, then.
Do you have the best Poland-hate content on YouTube?
I'm tired of living in this country, for some reason. I will ask the same question on 4chan, but honestly it's a neo-nazi imageboard.I'm ashamed to live in Poland, if Poland shills for another Slav-killing war (not saying I don't hate Putin or Zelensky).
I'd like to watch some anti-Polish content on YT, then.
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Has anybody read my Poli Sci prof's book?
Found out my Poli Sci professor has a lot of books on Marx and his relation to gender and such. Has anybody read "Marx on Gender and the Family" by Heather Brown? I couldn't get a PDF rip online and I want to know if she's a lefty or not.
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Are leftist imageboard users the most lonely online archetype that exists? We don't fit in with standard imageboard users, because they are mostly right-wing. And we don't fit in with standard leftists, because we are too closely associated with imageboard culture.
Are leftist imageboard users the most lonely online archetype that exists? We don't fit in with standard imageboard users, because they are mostly right-wing. And we don't fit in with standard leftists, because we are too closely associated with imageboard culture.
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I had realised something very interesting a while ago.
Look at le political compass. Now look at the [in]famous AD&D moral alignment chart. See anything? (Apart from OP's awful photoshop skills?)
It is not that hard to notice that they are somewhat similar, main difference being that the one is discrete and the other is continous, but on its own this would mean very little. However, what really interesting is that they both had mutated in analogous, if not the exact same, way!
Both of these systems were initially made for a [two very different sets of] burger petit burgeous nerds. Both blew up globally way past just their intended audiences in the age of the Internet and became memes.
And what's most interesting: despite it not only being idealistic and not grounded in any material reality (by design) but also obviously lacking in dimensions to describe any sort of realistic worldview or a value system… D&D's 3x3 alignment chart was apparently found too complex for enough players that WotC in the later editions of the game had replaced it with 1x5 one-dimensional morality chart ("Lawful Good", "Good", "Neutral", "Evil", "Chaotic Evil") Yes, apparently D&D players are such retards that two dimensions is too many for them.
Now, for what had directly inspired me to make this post: a few months ago on reddit I saw a person complaining about a political compass being… too complex. When asked how they would classify ideologies then, the person replied with "There is only one real axis of ideology, so "Far left, Left, Centrist, Right, Far Right", the more left you are, the better, I am the Far Left because I am a lesbian atheist supporting full luxury space communism". I had checked a "lesbian atheist"'s account and saw her calling to "ban all Hamasnics" because "Israelis are innocent secular people defending themselves against barbaric Islamic fundamentalists". Today, I had checked her reddit account today and… found it suspended.
So, we have two separate cases where a 2D 3x3 quasi-ideological framework becaming popular, and then some extreme chud finding it too complicated and replacing it with a 1D 1x5 one instead. Which… isn't a lot, but isn't that weird that it happened twice so far?
I had realised something very interesting a while ago.
Look at le political compass. Now look at the [in]famous AD&D moral alignment chart. See anything? (Apart from OP's awful photoshop skills?)
It is not that hard to notice that they are somewhat similar, main difference being that the one is discrete and the other is continous, but on its own this would mean very little. However, what really interesting is that they both had mutated in analogous, if not the exact same, way!
Both of these systems were initially made for a [two very different sets of] burger petit burgeous nerds. Both blew up globally way past just their intended audiences in the age of the Internet and became memes.
And what's most interesting: despite it not only being idealistic and not grounded in any material reality (by design) but also obviously lacking in dimensions to describe any sort of realistic worldview or a value system… D&D's 3x3 alignment chart was apparently found too complex for enough players that WotC in the later editions of the game had replaced it with 1x5 one-dimensional morality chart ("Lawful Good", "Good", "Neutral", "Evil", "Chaotic Evil") Yes, apparently D&D players are such retards that two dimensions is too many for them.
Now, for what had directly inspired me to make this post: a few months ago on reddit I saw a person complaining about a political compass being… too complex. When asked how they would classify ideologies then, the person replied with "There is only one real axis of ideology, so "Far left, Left, Centrist, Right, Far Right", the more left you are, the better, I am the Far Left because I am a lesbian atheist supporting full luxury space communism". I had checked a "lesbian atheist"'s account and saw her calling to "ban all Hamasnics" because "Israelis are innocent secular people defending themselves against barbaric Islamic fundamentalists". Today, I had checked her reddit account today and… found it suspended.
So, we have two separate cases where a 2D 3x3 quasi-ideological framework becaming popular, and then some extreme chud finding it too complicated and replacing it with a 1D 1x5 one instead. Which… isn't a lot, but isn't that weird that it happened twice so far?
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To be a Fascist in the 21st century you have be spectacularly stupid. The original Fascists were just an expression of retarded middle-class anxieties and modern Fascism is somehow even LESS substantive. Pure aesthetics, not even built to actually take power or government. It is literally just an edgy aesthetic and that's literally it. I know people like to say "oooooh you can't just call them stupid because that plays down how dangerous they can be" but no, you do have to be immensely stupid to be a Fascist today.
To be a Fascist in the 21st century you have be spectacularly stupid. The original Fascists were just an expression of retarded middle-class anxieties and modern Fascism is somehow even LESS substantive. Pure aesthetics, not even built to actually take power or government. It is literally just an edgy aesthetic and that's literally it. I know people like to say "oooooh you can't just call them stupid because that plays down how dangerous they can be" but no, you do have to be immensely stupid to be a Fascist today.
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Not asking America to invade this hell but why should these people being given any leniency or understanding when they make people live in these retarded ways?
If you think this post is actually cia propaganda and Taliban dosen't do things like this at all then show me. If you want to make some noble savage argument that they are a unique culture and we can't relate to these decisions or judge them because we are westerners then kys
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241229-taliban-leader-bans-windows-overlooking-women-s-area
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/22/middleeast/taliban-law-women-voices-intl-latam/index.html
Help me understand your perspective
How is the taliban of some resistance that I should look at positively or not despise? How do you look at these things and bend yourself into a pretzel justifying it because america is bad?Not asking America to invade this hell but why should these people being given any leniency or understanding when they make people live in these retarded ways?
If you think this post is actually cia propaganda and Taliban dosen't do things like this at all then show me. If you want to make some noble savage argument that they are a unique culture and we can't relate to these decisions or judge them because we are westerners then kys
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241229-taliban-leader-bans-windows-overlooking-women-s-area
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/22/middleeast/taliban-law-women-voices-intl-latam/index.html
R: 0 / I: 0
>Low quality threads fill >>>/leftypol/
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I hate this website
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>Low quality threads fill >>>/leftypol/
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I hate this website
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<Tactical Repeating Crossbow – Maybe this is the biggest innovation in the crossbow market ever – this weapon changes everything.
<The 7.5 inch arrows (or bolts) have screwed-on field points and reach a proud 30 joules at 130 pounds tensile weight. The arrow speed is approximately 78 m/s (256 fps), which makes the Adder accurate even at distances up to 50 meters (55 yards). In our tests, the standard field tips penetrated through several layers of clothing and a thick layer of ballistic gel, then perforated a coconut poured into the gel block. By using the special High-Penetration Bodkin tips, which have razor-sharp edges, this penetration power can be further increased.
<The removable tactical rear stock is adjustable. The weapon can also be used without the rear stock, which makes it even more compact if required. The all-metal red dot visor supplied with the weapon can be adjusted vertically and horizontally.
https://www.amazon.com/EK-Archery-Automatic-Repeating-Crossbow/dp/B07ZQNWBDV
Repeating Crossbows
Want a gun but its impossible to get a gun license in your country? Buy a repeating crossbow. These things will nail the target in a wall behind them.<Tactical Repeating Crossbow – Maybe this is the biggest innovation in the crossbow market ever – this weapon changes everything.
<The 7.5 inch arrows (or bolts) have screwed-on field points and reach a proud 30 joules at 130 pounds tensile weight. The arrow speed is approximately 78 m/s (256 fps), which makes the Adder accurate even at distances up to 50 meters (55 yards). In our tests, the standard field tips penetrated through several layers of clothing and a thick layer of ballistic gel, then perforated a coconut poured into the gel block. By using the special High-Penetration Bodkin tips, which have razor-sharp edges, this penetration power can be further increased.
<The removable tactical rear stock is adjustable. The weapon can also be used without the rear stock, which makes it even more compact if required. The all-metal red dot visor supplied with the weapon can be adjusted vertically and horizontally.
https://www.amazon.com/EK-Archery-Automatic-Repeating-Crossbow/dp/B07ZQNWBDV
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Thoughts? Agree or disagree?
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Left wing vs Right wing anime
Found this random chart of anime that is considered left wing vs Right wing on the Xitter.Thoughts? Agree or disagree?
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Why are anarchist like this? It literally shits on Marxist for thinking maybe work can help in some ways?
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolition-of-work
I cannot take anarchist seriously
I read thru this whole thing (22 pages) and while it made some interesting points the idea overall is absurdWhy are anarchist like this? It literally shits on Marxist for thinking maybe work can help in some ways?
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolition-of-work
R: 8 / I: 1
>Not proletariat friendly. Big Corpos BTFO
>>VPN
>Not secure
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>All nodes blacklisted despite l(i)eftypol """"providing"""" .onion interface
>>just Clearnet dude
LOL.. no. (check flag)
knew it. this place has been secretly overrun by nazis.
What are our plans for immigrating from here?
IT IS OVER.
>>Proxy>Not proletariat friendly. Big Corpos BTFO
>>VPN
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>>just Clearnet dude
LOL.. no. (check flag)
knew it. this place has been secretly overrun by nazis.
What are our plans for immigrating from here?
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Why is it socially acceptable if not encouraged in all political axes to hate work but it's considered blasphemous to hate school?
Why is it that whenever I ask most people what they learn in school, all they tell is the dumb shenanigans they committed, even to the point of wanting to officiate "rites of passage" based on dumb reckless childish stunts, but they cannot remember one intellectual thing?
Whenever adults are asked to help with schoolwork, their minds are blank. Whenever it comes to bullying, they have no backbone except for punishing victims for self defense.
I notice that the people who miss school the most usually are those with no work ethic or people who kinda have some unfulfilled teenage quests.
I'm not against schooling, but we need to revamp it entirely. Trying to segregate worldly factors from the classroom for the sake of "protecting the younguns" usually results in an immature society.
I believe a lot of our problems with labor and education is due to how modern society views them as parallel worlds with differing rules.
School should reflect the workforce in social treatment, type of tasks, and infrastructural design
LeftyPol talks about reparations for the proletariat, yet from what I see, it's mostly people who wanna escape work and get luxury for merely existing.
They feel that people who wanna go into/currently working in blue collar jobs are subhumans.
They think that the only jobs worth respecting are the white/pink collar ones.
This fearful and contemptuous attitude towards work is the same I find in liberalism and the right.
Why is it socially acceptable if not encouraged in all political axes to hate work but it's considered blasphemous to hate school?
Why is it that whenever I ask most people what they learn in school, all they tell is the dumb shenanigans they committed, even to the point of wanting to officiate "rites of passage" based on dumb reckless childish stunts, but they cannot remember one intellectual thing?
Whenever adults are asked to help with schoolwork, their minds are blank. Whenever it comes to bullying, they have no backbone except for punishing victims for self defense.
I notice that the people who miss school the most usually are those with no work ethic or people who kinda have some unfulfilled teenage quests.
I'm not against schooling, but we need to revamp it entirely. Trying to segregate worldly factors from the classroom for the sake of "protecting the younguns" usually results in an immature society.
I believe a lot of our problems with labor and education is due to how modern society views them as parallel worlds with differing rules.
School should reflect the workforce in social treatment, type of tasks, and infrastructural design
LeftyPol talks about reparations for the proletariat, yet from what I see, it's mostly people who wanna escape work and get luxury for merely existing.
They feel that people who wanna go into/currently working in blue collar jobs are subhumans.
They think that the only jobs worth respecting are the white/pink collar ones.
This fearful and contemptuous attitude towards work is the same I find in liberalism and the right.
R: 110 / I: 14
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Ahora que tenemos nuestro propio board, es hora de tener nuestro propio hilo también.
Bienvenidos.
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Bienvenidos.
R: 64 / I: 3
This shit made me realize how much abrahamic religions have destroyed any chance of humanity ever achieving true independence and wisdom. Since abrahamic theology is literally a mental skinner box to ensure perfect subservience.
Ancient pagan philosophy vs modern religion
I started reading into Marcus Aurelius and different Hellenistic schools and it's pretty sad how they all got nuked by christcucks. These various philosophical schools were concerned about practical ways to solve life problems and it surprised my how advanced their ideas were. So much so that modern psychotherapy was inspired by stoicism. Even Buddhism and different Hindu schools are eerily similar to these systems.This shit made me realize how much abrahamic religions have destroyed any chance of humanity ever achieving true independence and wisdom. Since abrahamic theology is literally a mental skinner box to ensure perfect subservience.
R: 204 / I: 53
Last thread lasted two months, so keep in mind these events are separated by weeks.
Stalemate near Tishreen dam between the SDF and the SNA.
Insurgency developments & germination in the coast.
Israel announces it's not withdrawing from the newly-acquired Syrian territories.
Al-Julani forms a new government, formally dissolves the former SAA and declares himself president. New Ministry of Defense and army so far is barely cohesive and resembles one of those countless joint operations rooms we've seen before.
HTS attacks Lebanese areas under the justification of "combating smuggling". Withdraws quickly.
Clashes in the Druze Damascus suburb of Jaramana that were quickly defused. Suwayda (majority Druze region south of Damascus) is still de-facto autonomous and controlled by armed Druze factions.
Massive uprising by the insurgents in the coastal regions that was quelled in around 4 days. Hundreds of military casualties on both sides. Insurgents go back to guerilla mode after.
Massacres of Alawites in the coastal regions during said uprising. At least 1000 civvies dead. HTS and Julani blame undisciplined SNA units and say they're gonna punish the perpetrators.
HTS and SDF sign memorandum for integration.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com/
/sg/ - Syrian Civil War General #21 - Biji Biji edition
Recent news:Last thread lasted two months, so keep in mind these events are separated by weeks.
Stalemate near Tishreen dam between the SDF and the SNA.
Insurgency developments & germination in the coast.
Israel announces it's not withdrawing from the newly-acquired Syrian territories.
Al-Julani forms a new government, formally dissolves the former SAA and declares himself president. New Ministry of Defense and army so far is barely cohesive and resembles one of those countless joint operations rooms we've seen before.
HTS attacks Lebanese areas under the justification of "combating smuggling". Withdraws quickly.
Clashes in the Druze Damascus suburb of Jaramana that were quickly defused. Suwayda (majority Druze region south of Damascus) is still de-facto autonomous and controlled by armed Druze factions.
Massive uprising by the insurgents in the coastal regions that was quelled in around 4 days. Hundreds of military casualties on both sides. Insurgents go back to guerilla mode after.
Massacres of Alawites in the coastal regions during said uprising. At least 1000 civvies dead. HTS and Julani blame undisciplined SNA units and say they're gonna punish the perpetrators.
HTS and SDF sign memorandum for integration.
Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Slavyangrad - Also posting a lot of news about Syria recently
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
t.me/rybar - Russian channel. Posts a lot about Syria too
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/WarMonitors
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://syria.liveuamap.com/
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>massive fucking cost of living crisis stressing out Chinese people
>literally hundreds of perfectly habitable cities that cost less to live in remain empty and unwanted
???
Also the emptiness of much of urban china is fucking creepy. You know how many North American downtown areas are sometimes barren in life which creates a feeling of unease with the fact that there’s infrastructure for people without people using it? Yeah that’s how I feel staring at this
Images like this shouldn’t exist
This is Changsha city>massive fucking cost of living crisis stressing out Chinese people
>literally hundreds of perfectly habitable cities that cost less to live in remain empty and unwanted
???
Also the emptiness of much of urban china is fucking creepy. You know how many North American downtown areas are sometimes barren in life which creates a feeling of unease with the fact that there’s infrastructure for people without people using it? Yeah that’s how I feel staring at this
R: 23 / I: 2
SEX music
Post music about sex, or music you can have sex to
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if you live in the imperial core
the best thing you can do is join a clandestine vanguard organization where you can sabotage imperialism from within and serve as useful collaborators for liberating forces when the time comes. “Communist” parties in America are either completely irrelevant cults focused on idpol, federal honeypots that collaborate with the Dems, or in the case of CPUSA both, and they will receive the least amount of leniemcy up there with politicians and financial bourgeoisie
R: 17 / I: 0
How do we fix the LatAm birth rate crisis?
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/01/18/plunging-fertility-rates-are-creating-problems-for-latin-america
Plunging fertility rates are creating problems for Latin America
SEXO
I thought Latins were famous sex-havers. What's going on? You guys aren't developed enough to have birth rates this low.How do we fix the LatAm birth rate crisis?
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/01/18/plunging-fertility-rates-are-creating-problems-for-latin-america
Plunging fertility rates are creating problems for Latin America
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Ms Le Pen was also sentenced to two years’ imprisonment under house arrest. In addition, the judge handed down guilty verdicts for embezzling public funds to eight other current or former members of her party who, like Ms Le Pen, previously served as European Parliament lawmakers.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/le-pen-found-guilty-embezzlement-and-barred-elections-five-years
Thames Water picks private equity firm as preferred buyer
It will now enter the next stage of the investment process with KKR, one of the world's largest private equity firms with $160bn of investments globally. KKR is already a shareholder in another UK water provider, Northumbrian Water.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crldrylyy9do
Nationwide strike across Belgium severely disrupts public transport and other services
The Christian and Socialist trade unions organised the strike in protest against budget cuts announced by the country's coalition government, nicknamed "Arizona" because the coalition party colours match those of the Arizona state flag, led by Flemish nationalist Bart de Wever.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/31/nationwide-strike-across-belgium-severely-disrupts-public-transport-and-other-services
https://archive.ph/k6nUt
Indigenous groups in Peru protest Glencore's Antapaccay mine
A source close to the company confirmed that protests had blocked access to mine vehicles. Images from a local online news program showed small groups of people at different points in the road, holding signs.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/indigenous-groups-peru-protest-glencores-antapaccay-mine-2025-03-31/
Evo insists on running for President of Bolivia despite reelection limits
”There is no plan B here (…) The only candidate (is) Evo,“ said the indigenous leader in front of supporters who filled a stadium in Villa Tunari, his political stronghold in the central department of Cochabamba. ”Here, sisters and brothers, we are going to give birth to another name, the true name of the political instrument,“ said the former head of state.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/31/evo-insists-on-running-for-president-of-bolivia-despite-reelection-limits
The attackers set off from military base | Six civilians executed in Baniyas countryside
According to local sources, the gunmen set off from Al-Desaynah base, a former camp of the former regime force, in Baniyas countryside. The attackers carried out that attack and returned to the base where forces of the ministries of defence and interior are stationed.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/358998/
Israel orders Rafah evacuation as it continues bombardment of Gaza
He called on Palestinians to immediately move to shelter in al-Mawasi on the coast. The area has regularly come under Israeli fire during the war in Gaza, despite being designated as a “safe zone”. Shortly after the evacuation order, Al Jazeera Arabic reported that at least two people were killed during an Israeli attack on a tent housing displaced people in the area.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/31/israel-orders-rafah-evacuation-as-it-continues-bombardment-of-gaza
https://archive.ph/okmry
Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinian medics and buried them in a mass grave, UN says
For days, Israeli forces would not allow access to the site where the emergency teams disappeared, the U.N. said. On Wednesday, a U.N. convoy tried to reach the site but encountered Israeli troops opening fire on people.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-medics-killed-israel-ambulances-f34b6ecc985d9127265a400bd52c72b7
Bengal Polls: RSS Eyeing ‘New’ Hindu Votes to Give BJP an Edge
A major concern for the BJP brass is that they do not have a cohesive, active state organisation. Despite several interventions by the central leadership, deficiencies persist in the party’s state unit and intra-party differences have made cohesive functioning a far cry.
https://www.newsclick.in/bengal-polls-rss-eyeing-new-hindu-votes-give-bjp-edge
Poor and migrants bear brunt of south east Asia earthquake
Authorities say that so far at least 1,700 people are known to have died, but many more are unaccounted for. And there is enormous danger for the living, particularly those at quake’s epicentre, Mandalay–Myanmar’s second city. Many now homeless people have been forced to sleep in the open and while the military regime remains focused on fighting its four-year civil war against democracy activists.
https://socialistworker.co.uk/international/poor-and-migrants-bear-brunt-of-south-east-asia-earthquake/
News 3/31/25
Le Pen found guilty of embezzlement and barred from French elections for five yearsMs Le Pen was also sentenced to two years’ imprisonment under house arrest. In addition, the judge handed down guilty verdicts for embezzling public funds to eight other current or former members of her party who, like Ms Le Pen, previously served as European Parliament lawmakers.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/le-pen-found-guilty-embezzlement-and-barred-elections-five-years
Thames Water picks private equity firm as preferred buyer
It will now enter the next stage of the investment process with KKR, one of the world's largest private equity firms with $160bn of investments globally. KKR is already a shareholder in another UK water provider, Northumbrian Water.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crldrylyy9do
Nationwide strike across Belgium severely disrupts public transport and other services
The Christian and Socialist trade unions organised the strike in protest against budget cuts announced by the country's coalition government, nicknamed "Arizona" because the coalition party colours match those of the Arizona state flag, led by Flemish nationalist Bart de Wever.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/31/nationwide-strike-across-belgium-severely-disrupts-public-transport-and-other-services
https://archive.ph/k6nUt
Indigenous groups in Peru protest Glencore's Antapaccay mine
A source close to the company confirmed that protests had blocked access to mine vehicles. Images from a local online news program showed small groups of people at different points in the road, holding signs.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/indigenous-groups-peru-protest-glencores-antapaccay-mine-2025-03-31/
Evo insists on running for President of Bolivia despite reelection limits
”There is no plan B here (…) The only candidate (is) Evo,“ said the indigenous leader in front of supporters who filled a stadium in Villa Tunari, his political stronghold in the central department of Cochabamba. ”Here, sisters and brothers, we are going to give birth to another name, the true name of the political instrument,“ said the former head of state.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/31/evo-insists-on-running-for-president-of-bolivia-despite-reelection-limits
The attackers set off from military base | Six civilians executed in Baniyas countryside
According to local sources, the gunmen set off from Al-Desaynah base, a former camp of the former regime force, in Baniyas countryside. The attackers carried out that attack and returned to the base where forces of the ministries of defence and interior are stationed.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/358998/
Israel orders Rafah evacuation as it continues bombardment of Gaza
He called on Palestinians to immediately move to shelter in al-Mawasi on the coast. The area has regularly come under Israeli fire during the war in Gaza, despite being designated as a “safe zone”. Shortly after the evacuation order, Al Jazeera Arabic reported that at least two people were killed during an Israeli attack on a tent housing displaced people in the area.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/31/israel-orders-rafah-evacuation-as-it-continues-bombardment-of-gaza
https://archive.ph/okmry
Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinian medics and buried them in a mass grave, UN says
For days, Israeli forces would not allow access to the site where the emergency teams disappeared, the U.N. said. On Wednesday, a U.N. convoy tried to reach the site but encountered Israeli troops opening fire on people.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-medics-killed-israel-ambulances-f34b6ecc985d9127265a400bd52c72b7
Bengal Polls: RSS Eyeing ‘New’ Hindu Votes to Give BJP an Edge
A major concern for the BJP brass is that they do not have a cohesive, active state organisation. Despite several interventions by the central leadership, deficiencies persist in the party’s state unit and intra-party differences have made cohesive functioning a far cry.
https://www.newsclick.in/bengal-polls-rss-eyeing-new-hindu-votes-give-bjp-edge
Poor and migrants bear brunt of south east Asia earthquake
Authorities say that so far at least 1,700 people are known to have died, but many more are unaccounted for. And there is enormous danger for the living, particularly those at quake’s epicentre, Mandalay–Myanmar’s second city. Many now homeless people have been forced to sleep in the open and while the military regime remains focused on fighting its four-year civil war against democracy activists.
https://socialistworker.co.uk/international/poor-and-migrants-bear-brunt-of-south-east-asia-earthquake/
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Special unit active-War soldier, SWAT team member\SORT member, or even mma\bluhurt\rugby amateur player. non-violent yet extreme jobs like Underwater Welder, altitude rescue\medicine missions. etc
WTF Am I supposed to do? i changed and suited my whole lifestyle to be manlier: diet, sleep pattern, exercise type, so on.
>inb4 being a rEAl Man is about being a (((householder)))
No. Im Celibate.
inferiority complex from not being "extremely manly"
Im a man and I DO consider myself, really, very manly. But I genuinely suffer daily, or extended angst, because my "material conditions of existence" don't allow me to ,not even TRY OUT FOR, extreme manly lifestyles….Special unit active-War soldier, SWAT team member\SORT member, or even mma\bluhurt\rugby amateur player. non-violent yet extreme jobs like Underwater Welder, altitude rescue\medicine missions. etc
WTF Am I supposed to do? i changed and suited my whole lifestyle to be manlier: diet, sleep pattern, exercise type, so on.
>inb4 being a rEAl Man is about being a (((householder)))
No. Im Celibate.
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So what does “non-exploitative” work actually look like, because you can contrive almost any human action to be exploitative in one way or another.
And if you’re just trying to limit “obvious, extreme exploitation” with the admission that completely eradicating it is impossible, then where is the limit? Many people deny wage capitalism is exploitative, since it’s a voluntary contract, even though you might point out the employer is taking unfair advantage of external pressures on the employee, but that is vague as fuck and isn’t an actionable answer.
So is there a definitive criteria set for what makes something exploitative and what it would need to not be so?
So what does “non-exploitative” work actually look like, because you can contrive almost any human action to be exploitative in one way or another.
And if you’re just trying to limit “obvious, extreme exploitation” with the admission that completely eradicating it is impossible, then where is the limit? Many people deny wage capitalism is exploitative, since it’s a voluntary contract, even though you might point out the employer is taking unfair advantage of external pressures on the employee, but that is vague as fuck and isn’t an actionable answer.
So is there a definitive criteria set for what makes something exploitative and what it would need to not be so?
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METAL THREAD
Post any genre good metal songs.
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Enver Hoxha
Was he correct about Yugoslavia? Was he correct about Kruschev? Was he correct about Mao? Was he correct about Eurocomunism? Was he too sectarian? What was his deal? Was he based?
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>Vibe coding, sometimes spelled vibecoding, is an AI-powered programming practice where a programmer surrenders to the "vibes" and power of the AI, while ignoring the details of the generated code. After describing a problem in a few sentences, a programmer can watch as the AI codes a custom solution such as an app or website.
>In a March 2025 video "Vibe Coding is the Future", managing partner Jared Friedman said that AI has generated 95% of the codebases for a quarter of the current batch of Y Combinator startups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding
How fucked are we?
>Vibe coding, sometimes spelled vibecoding, is an AI-powered programming practice where a programmer surrenders to the "vibes" and power of the AI, while ignoring the details of the generated code. After describing a problem in a few sentences, a programmer can watch as the AI codes a custom solution such as an app or website.
>In a March 2025 video "Vibe Coding is the Future", managing partner Jared Friedman said that AI has generated 95% of the codebases for a quarter of the current batch of Y Combinator startups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding
How fucked are we?
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Espaço para compartilhar livros digitais.
Espacio para compartir libros digitales.
Espaço para compartilhar livros digitais.
Espacio para compartir libros digitales.
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https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/63148 - this document was created by an enemy of the people Zubkin. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 He admitted that he was spying for Germany, and more importantly, that he was sabotaging the NKVD archives with the purpose of making those unuseable
Also, note that by anticommunist mythology captured by Wikipedia, Zubkin was shot in 1939, on the same day he was sentenced to death; meanwhile, his widow had a death certificate for her husband that he died in 1944 in prison. Oh gee, surely, death certificate was wrong, and the real Zubkin was shot, and not that anticommunists have made this shit up, like in many, many other cases
https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/49499 - fully handwritten text in original. Dated 11 Dec 1953, signed by "colonel Pavlov". Actual organizational structure of NKVD in 1953 was like this https://web.archive.org/web/20140201123707/http://shieldandsword.mozohin.ru/VD3462/structure/1so.htm - Pletnev was one of the chiefs of NKVD and his rank was lieutenant colonel. He was a real person, with a document trail of his existence. Somehow, Pavlov, a person who couldn't be found anywhere in any other document, being higher rank that Pletnev, was his "acting" replacement, and he was signing under handwritten table with crazy hundreds of thousands figure of people shot to death
https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/170661 - third document, from Rudenko to Khruschev. Original looks like picrelated. It's dated 1954, but "correction fluid" that was used to stamp out original numbers in the document wasn't invented until 1956 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correction_fluid Furthermore, according to Soviet archive/record keeping protocols, ink color and handwriting style are part of the protocol, so if there's any "error correction" happening in the document, it must be clarified in the document by the person doing correction via signing in the new ink with surname and initials, to prove authenticity of the whole document and that there weren't edits. If there's a printed document applied to archives, it cannot have shit like corrections, it must be remade from scratch so that there's no questions about authenticity
Your move, conspiracy theorists, who believe in Soviets secretly murdering more than 700k people in super secrecy, without leaving behind any corpses
Mass repressions in USSR
Let's summarize archival evidence that Great Purge has happened and had hundreds of thousands of victims (Taken from here https://grumbler-1.livejournal.com/58562.html )https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/63148 - this document was created by an enemy of the people Zubkin. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 He admitted that he was spying for Germany, and more importantly, that he was sabotaging the NKVD archives with the purpose of making those unuseable
Also, note that by anticommunist mythology captured by Wikipedia, Zubkin was shot in 1939, on the same day he was sentenced to death; meanwhile, his widow had a death certificate for her husband that he died in 1944 in prison. Oh gee, surely, death certificate was wrong, and the real Zubkin was shot, and not that anticommunists have made this shit up, like in many, many other cases
https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/49499 - fully handwritten text in original. Dated 11 Dec 1953, signed by "colonel Pavlov". Actual organizational structure of NKVD in 1953 was like this https://web.archive.org/web/20140201123707/http://shieldandsword.mozohin.ru/VD3462/structure/1so.htm - Pletnev was one of the chiefs of NKVD and his rank was lieutenant colonel. He was a real person, with a document trail of his existence. Somehow, Pavlov, a person who couldn't be found anywhere in any other document, being higher rank that Pletnev, was his "acting" replacement, and he was signing under handwritten table with crazy hundreds of thousands figure of people shot to death
https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/170661 - third document, from Rudenko to Khruschev. Original looks like picrelated. It's dated 1954, but "correction fluid" that was used to stamp out original numbers in the document wasn't invented until 1956 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correction_fluid Furthermore, according to Soviet archive/record keeping protocols, ink color and handwriting style are part of the protocol, so if there's any "error correction" happening in the document, it must be clarified in the document by the person doing correction via signing in the new ink with surname and initials, to prove authenticity of the whole document and that there weren't edits. If there's a printed document applied to archives, it cannot have shit like corrections, it must be remade from scratch so that there's no questions about authenticity
Your move, conspiracy theorists, who believe in Soviets secretly murdering more than 700k people in super secrecy, without leaving behind any corpses
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Hey everyone, so I was told it would be for the best to make a new thread and that's what I'll do. I'll upload some updated artwork too and some other stuff that I'm sure you'll like
Old OP:
Sup everyone, for a while I've been working on this comic idea and I would like to share some stuff I've been cooking up for it.
The setting is in Mexico City and the protagonist is a working-class, Nahua girl, living in a working-class neighborhood. This comic will explore issues regarding gentrification, child labor, systemic violence, class struggle, and different kinds of discrimination. Think of it as a social commentary and slice-of-life comic.
Sadly, I'm drawing this on my free time in between work and my studies, so the process is slow, but I'll try to release the first chapter sooner than later.
Here are the character sheets of the three protagonists, I posted them in the previous thread but they are now all complete and updated. Also, a neat drawing I did some time ago as an extra.
Finally, I will try to do the comic both in English and Spanish.
Hey everyone, so I was told it would be for the best to make a new thread and that's what I'll do. I'll upload some updated artwork too and some other stuff that I'm sure you'll like
Old OP:
Sup everyone, for a while I've been working on this comic idea and I would like to share some stuff I've been cooking up for it.
The setting is in Mexico City and the protagonist is a working-class, Nahua girl, living in a working-class neighborhood. This comic will explore issues regarding gentrification, child labor, systemic violence, class struggle, and different kinds of discrimination. Think of it as a social commentary and slice-of-life comic.
Sadly, I'm drawing this on my free time in between work and my studies, so the process is slow, but I'll try to release the first chapter sooner than later.
Here are the character sheets of the three protagonists, I posted them in the previous thread but they are now all complete and updated. Also, a neat drawing I did some time ago as an extra.
Finally, I will try to do the comic both in English and Spanish.
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I admit it, I like european metal with female vocals, cringy lyrics, and normal melodies.
Or as I have come to call it, bitch-metal.
Recommend me some, pls.
I admit it, I like european metal with female vocals, cringy lyrics, and normal melodies.
Or as I have come to call it, bitch-metal.
Recommend me some, pls.
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The practice and principles of Permaculture are one of the most important tools for not only creating a sustainable socialism, but also for repairing the damage done to the global ecosystem by capitalism, and lessening your individual reliance on the current capitalist system.Permacultural practice and socialism are two very powerful allies, and learning about permaculture should be necessity for modern socialists and communists.
Permaculture v2
Old thread (v1): https://leftypol.org/hobby/res/7136.htmlThe practice and principles of Permaculture are one of the most important tools for not only creating a sustainable socialism, but also for repairing the damage done to the global ecosystem by capitalism, and lessening your individual reliance on the current capitalist system.Permacultural practice and socialism are two very powerful allies, and learning about permaculture should be necessity for modern socialists and communists.
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Made a new thread since the other one is full. You know the drill folks, gather here to discuss and/or complain about Hearts of Iron 4 and all the alt history mods that make the game relevant. From green natpops to sicko mode Savinkov we've got a lot of exciting stuff coming in the next Kaiserreich update, one which will make the LKMT look like pre-rework Germany by comparison. But dont worry TNOomers, you're getting some new content too! After a year and a half and three focus trees that only last for four years, we finally have something new and that's…
…three years of fucking Antarctica
HoI4 + HoI4 modding thread
Operation Deep Sneed editionMade a new thread since the other one is full. You know the drill folks, gather here to discuss and/or complain about Hearts of Iron 4 and all the alt history mods that make the game relevant. From green natpops to sicko mode Savinkov we've got a lot of exciting stuff coming in the next Kaiserreich update, one which will make the LKMT look like pre-rework Germany by comparison. But dont worry TNOomers, you're getting some new content too! After a year and a half and three focus trees that only last for four years, we finally have something new and that's…
…three years of fucking Antarctica
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So, how do we go about defining science, and what good is "science"? The key break for modernity for me was the German idealists putting a stopper in genuine science and inquiry and insisting that science was something entirely alien to what it had been.
The chief purpose of the scientific endeavor is not to attain "absolute knowledge" but to eliminate enough of the known wrong paths to arrive at the least-wrong, which for our purposes is as close to the truth as the scientific approach is capable of. Science has no particular necessary philosophy or existential claims to be "science", but metaphysical and philosophical claims are necessary to establish the models that communicate any scientific inquiry, and two scientists can talk past each other by entering into an intractable metaphysical argument. The point of science is that there is a claim between the participants that there is a world outside of us or any conceit about it, and this is the only way there can be such things as facts. It is possible for the scientist to render the metaphysical and philosophical positions of any claim in language that is compatible with some other metaphysical framework, and so there is no singular metaphysics that has to be accepted for something to be "science". The only requirement is that everyone agrees that they are referring to the same world that is the only meaningful subject of inquiry.
It's stupefying to me how this is missed, and "science" has been commandeered by the most imperious statements and decrees, recited as dogma and a presumptive monopooly. I really wish people would stop doing this or encouraging this, without saying "science is the problem". No shit, science can be conducted badly. Humanity's scientific endeavor, all taken together, is not replicated by any other area of human activity. If someone produces obviously wrong results, the entire purpose of the scientific discourse is to eliminate those who are obviously malicious actors like the German idealists.
What is science?
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So, how do we go about defining science, and what good is "science"? The key break for modernity for me was the German idealists putting a stopper in genuine science and inquiry and insisting that science was something entirely alien to what it had been.
The chief purpose of the scientific endeavor is not to attain "absolute knowledge" but to eliminate enough of the known wrong paths to arrive at the least-wrong, which for our purposes is as close to the truth as the scientific approach is capable of. Science has no particular necessary philosophy or existential claims to be "science", but metaphysical and philosophical claims are necessary to establish the models that communicate any scientific inquiry, and two scientists can talk past each other by entering into an intractable metaphysical argument. The point of science is that there is a claim between the participants that there is a world outside of us or any conceit about it, and this is the only way there can be such things as facts. It is possible for the scientist to render the metaphysical and philosophical positions of any claim in language that is compatible with some other metaphysical framework, and so there is no singular metaphysics that has to be accepted for something to be "science". The only requirement is that everyone agrees that they are referring to the same world that is the only meaningful subject of inquiry.
It's stupefying to me how this is missed, and "science" has been commandeered by the most imperious statements and decrees, recited as dogma and a presumptive monopooly. I really wish people would stop doing this or encouraging this, without saying "science is the problem". No shit, science can be conducted badly. Humanity's scientific endeavor, all taken together, is not replicated by any other area of human activity. If someone produces obviously wrong results, the entire purpose of the scientific discourse is to eliminate those who are obviously malicious actors like the German idealists.
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So, what's the up to date scientific Marxist-Leninist Consensus on why the entire population of the USSR sat in their homes slack-jawed while "their" proletarian dictatorship was being dismantled live on TV?
That part always confused me, tbh.
How can a bunch of capitalist roaders unilaterally abolish an actually existing dictatorship of the proletariat?
Doesn't the very notion of "dictatorship" preclude such a possibility?
So, what's the up to date scientific Marxist-Leninist Consensus on why the entire population of the USSR sat in their homes slack-jawed while "their" proletarian dictatorship was being dismantled live on TV?
That part always confused me, tbh.
How can a bunch of capitalist roaders unilaterally abolish an actually existing dictatorship of the proletariat?
Doesn't the very notion of "dictatorship" preclude such a possibility?
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>inb4 Im not watching 3 hour radlib video
Ok, feel free to post in any other thread on this site then.
>inb4 this belongs in /isg/
I want to talk about the actual contend of the video, not internet drama.
First half of is ok-ish, informative for normies I guess but I dont think anyone here is going to hear anything they werent already aware of. The video gets more interesting from part 4: Ritual onward, where it tries to explore psychological roots of conspiratorial mindset. Particularly how it ties to certain victimhood mentality, and dealing with emotions of shame, guilt, humiliation. Reminded me of this article from time of first Trump campaign/presidency, in some newspaper, Washington Post or whatever, describing life of one Trump supporter, how he went from a normal person to mentally ill gun-nut after a medical situation forced him to quit his job, and had to rely on state and his wife for income, which made him retreat to a semi-fantasy world in an effort to make himself feel useful, like he is not a burden to everyone around.
Anyway, there are three objections I have with ideas put forward in the video.
First, I hate when libs make defend Stalin, because I have very little sympathy towards him, I consider him a conservative (or reactionary, whatever word you prefer) compared to many of the bolsheviks he purged, was a chief culprit in insulating communist party from democratic process and turning it into a clique of bureaucrats, but I cannot think of anything that would warrant accusation of nationalism. "Socialism in one country" came to being under circumstances of there literally being one socialist country under siege by rest of the world's Great Powers, like what else do you want people to do, give up? Furthermore, Soviet Union was not a nation, but a supranational state. Stalin pursued neither majority-Russian chauvinism, nor was advocate of national independence, nor believer in some sort of Soviet supremacism over other countries (political control of Moscow over other governments, sure, but that is not supremacism), so in what sense of the word was he a nationalist?
Second, while yeah, understanding marxism in depth is too intellectual for average schmuck, you dont need that to be a communist. Concepts like class antagonism are very easy and intuitive to understand - boss wants to make lots of money, therefore he pays you shit so he can keep more money, and he has to keep more money, because otherwise he gets driven out of market by competition. People get that. We can have further debate about why not just stay at level of social democracy, welfare state, why do we need planned economy, why cant system be reformed, but its not like an average liberal/conservative party voter is versed in neoclasical theory, so clearly they can get on board with a political project without concern for its details. The reason why reactionary ideal are more popular than revolutionary ones isnt in their inherent comparative virality, but simply that the ruling class has a lot more resources at their disposal for propagandizing ideology than your local trotskyist group with their self-published newspaper.
Third, I want to open with saying that I genuinely greatly appreciate Contra including animals into the exploitation pyramid. But to position average person "somewhere in the middle" of it obscures the actual power distance between people on the top and the middle and bottom. Like yeah, by definition most people will be somewhere around median, but this bell curve has a loooooooong tail. The most wretched poor outcast on the fringes of the society has in terms of material interests a lot more in common with a completely average prole, then those have with billionaires and political elite at the top. Hell, they have a lot more in common than with some petite bourgeois hovering around 90 percentile of household income. To claim that relation between the bottom and the middle is the same as between middle and top is pure capitalist propaganda. Just think about it in concrete terms, what policies would benefit a poor person, an average (i.e. median income) person, and a rich one? The Venn diagram is not going to be three equally overlapping circles.
Whether or not I in some way benefit from system of global exploitation does not make me morally culpable to it, because I have no say in the matter. I have control over my own choices, I can choose to not fiance torture of animals with my money, I can choose to give spare change to a homeless guy, I can choose who I vote for and what politics I advocate, but I refuse to be held responsible for things I have no power over. What am I supposed to do, became a martyr? No thank you, I prefer my opposition to do the dying, and however many I could realistically send to hell before following them there is going to be replaced before their bodies grow cold. Consequently, people with power are culpable for what they do with that power. Funnily enough Contrapoints also mentions not having a "martyr impulse", but she says it in context of going vegan. Walking to a different isle in the supermaket to buy bag of lentils is not martyrdom. As it goes with these things, proclaiming culpability of everyone for everything is just a justification washing your own feeling of guilt away. "I am not evil, I am morally average". Which is exactly the same moral framework as "just following orders". Was your average Wehrmacht soldier "morally average" as they committed their atrocities? The answer is, yes. They behaved exactly how most people would in their situation. Do they deserve to be called evil for not shooting their commanding officer and running off into the woods to join partisans? And the answer is, yes, of course, they are Nazis, fuck them! Being the same as others around you is not a moral get-out-of-jail card, it is entirely possible for you all to be evil. I utterly resent this conflation of moral clarity with conspiratorial thinking, or authoritarianism. The ending monologue is really a modern liberal manifesto. "Acknowledge the oppressor in ourselves (dont change it though!)". It is a call for identification with power, that you are the same as the people stomping on your face, in the same video in which she berates right-wingers for foolishly thinking billionaire oligarchs consider them an ingroup. How does she not see it?
CONSPIRACY | contrapoints
Finished watching new Contrapoints video, and I have some thoughts about it, and I would like to hear your thoughts on it as well.>inb4 Im not watching 3 hour radlib video
Ok, feel free to post in any other thread on this site then.
>inb4 this belongs in /isg/
I want to talk about the actual contend of the video, not internet drama.
First half of is ok-ish, informative for normies I guess but I dont think anyone here is going to hear anything they werent already aware of. The video gets more interesting from part 4: Ritual onward, where it tries to explore psychological roots of conspiratorial mindset. Particularly how it ties to certain victimhood mentality, and dealing with emotions of shame, guilt, humiliation. Reminded me of this article from time of first Trump campaign/presidency, in some newspaper, Washington Post or whatever, describing life of one Trump supporter, how he went from a normal person to mentally ill gun-nut after a medical situation forced him to quit his job, and had to rely on state and his wife for income, which made him retreat to a semi-fantasy world in an effort to make himself feel useful, like he is not a burden to everyone around.
Anyway, there are three objections I have with ideas put forward in the video.
First, I hate when libs make defend Stalin, because I have very little sympathy towards him, I consider him a conservative (or reactionary, whatever word you prefer) compared to many of the bolsheviks he purged, was a chief culprit in insulating communist party from democratic process and turning it into a clique of bureaucrats, but I cannot think of anything that would warrant accusation of nationalism. "Socialism in one country" came to being under circumstances of there literally being one socialist country under siege by rest of the world's Great Powers, like what else do you want people to do, give up? Furthermore, Soviet Union was not a nation, but a supranational state. Stalin pursued neither majority-Russian chauvinism, nor was advocate of national independence, nor believer in some sort of Soviet supremacism over other countries (political control of Moscow over other governments, sure, but that is not supremacism), so in what sense of the word was he a nationalist?
Second, while yeah, understanding marxism in depth is too intellectual for average schmuck, you dont need that to be a communist. Concepts like class antagonism are very easy and intuitive to understand - boss wants to make lots of money, therefore he pays you shit so he can keep more money, and he has to keep more money, because otherwise he gets driven out of market by competition. People get that. We can have further debate about why not just stay at level of social democracy, welfare state, why do we need planned economy, why cant system be reformed, but its not like an average liberal/conservative party voter is versed in neoclasical theory, so clearly they can get on board with a political project without concern for its details. The reason why reactionary ideal are more popular than revolutionary ones isnt in their inherent comparative virality, but simply that the ruling class has a lot more resources at their disposal for propagandizing ideology than your local trotskyist group with their self-published newspaper.
Third, I want to open with saying that I genuinely greatly appreciate Contra including animals into the exploitation pyramid. But to position average person "somewhere in the middle" of it obscures the actual power distance between people on the top and the middle and bottom. Like yeah, by definition most people will be somewhere around median, but this bell curve has a loooooooong tail. The most wretched poor outcast on the fringes of the society has in terms of material interests a lot more in common with a completely average prole, then those have with billionaires and political elite at the top. Hell, they have a lot more in common than with some petite bourgeois hovering around 90 percentile of household income. To claim that relation between the bottom and the middle is the same as between middle and top is pure capitalist propaganda. Just think about it in concrete terms, what policies would benefit a poor person, an average (i.e. median income) person, and a rich one? The Venn diagram is not going to be three equally overlapping circles.
Whether or not I in some way benefit from system of global exploitation does not make me morally culpable to it, because I have no say in the matter. I have control over my own choices, I can choose to not fiance torture of animals with my money, I can choose to give spare change to a homeless guy, I can choose who I vote for and what politics I advocate, but I refuse to be held responsible for things I have no power over. What am I supposed to do, became a martyr? No thank you, I prefer my opposition to do the dying, and however many I could realistically send to hell before following them there is going to be replaced before their bodies grow cold. Consequently, people with power are culpable for what they do with that power. Funnily enough Contrapoints also mentions not having a "martyr impulse", but she says it in context of going vegan. Walking to a different isle in the supermaket to buy bag of lentils is not martyrdom. As it goes with these things, proclaiming culpability of everyone for everything is just a justification washing your own feeling of guilt away. "I am not evil, I am morally average". Which is exactly the same moral framework as "just following orders". Was your average Wehrmacht soldier "morally average" as they committed their atrocities? The answer is, yes. They behaved exactly how most people would in their situation. Do they deserve to be called evil for not shooting their commanding officer and running off into the woods to join partisans? And the answer is, yes, of course, they are Nazis, fuck them! Being the same as others around you is not a moral get-out-of-jail card, it is entirely possible for you all to be evil. I utterly resent this conflation of moral clarity with conspiratorial thinking, or authoritarianism. The ending monologue is really a modern liberal manifesto. "Acknowledge the oppressor in ourselves (dont change it though!)". It is a call for identification with power, that you are the same as the people stomping on your face, in the same video in which she berates right-wingers for foolishly thinking billionaire oligarchs consider them an ingroup. How does she not see it?