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is it possible to be intellectually but not libidinally homosexual?
I look at a lot of gay porn to satisfy my curiosity, but it doesn't make me horny. I just think it's interesting.
I mostly jack off to straight stuff

Could it be that I'm bisexual, but my homosexual part is asexual?
Many times when I look at media, I think "this media has many aspects that would make it sexually exciting to the gays, I can just tell", and usually I'm right.
Some allegedly "children friendly" disney characters just give off a kind of "I want to suck the smegma off his cock" kinda energy, you dig.
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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO BEBÊ-DIABO DO ABC
"Durante um parto incrivelmente fantástico e cheio de mistérios, correria e pânico por parte de enfermeiras e médicos, uma senhora deu a luz num hospital de São Bernardo do Campo a uma estranha criatura, com aparência sobrenatural, que tem todas as características do diabo, em carne e osso. O bebezinho, que já nasceu falando e ameaçou sua mãe de morte, tem o corpo totalmente cheio de pelos, dois chifres pontiagudos e um rabo de aproximadamente cinco centímetros, além do olhar feroz, que causa medo e arrepios."
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>14559
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/USApol/

🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>Long Live Chudgosposter Edition


💀List of Deaths in ICE Detention💀
https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers

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

🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us

🏚️ Local News 🏚️
https://www.50states.com/ce/

✊Live Protest Streams✊
https://woke.net/

🏝️ Epstein's Client List🏝️
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures

🇮🇱 Track Zionazis (warning: ShareBlue)🇮🇱
https://www.trackaipac.com/

📖Read, Burgga, Read! 📖
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXUFLW8t2sntNn5jQO8vF7ai9x0fna3PV

🔗 Weeks as Decades Reading List 🔐
https://houdinimagazine.com/weeks-as-decades-reading-list

Previous Thread: >>2692676
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Every single country on earth can afford public services because wages are adjusted for purchasing power.
Even the drc and whatever else. Chuds dont get thst its pointless generating more wealth if it only goes upwards.
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Previous thread >>39778
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The uncertain nature of transitions between modes of production

Transitions between modes of production are of an uncertain nature. They are not always brought about by revolution, reform, or planning, but sometimes by a combination of all 3, or by blind historical forces operating over several centuries.

The transition from primitive communism to slavery, and the transition from slavery to serfdom were neither brought about through the planning of the ruling class, nor through revolution, but through unplanned historical changes over several centuries. The notion that modes of production always (rather than merely sometimes) transform through deliberate revolution is ahistorical projection of the bourgeois revolutions forward in history. What history shows is that modes of production do exist and do change, but whether they change through revolution, reform, or in a totally unplanned way over a long period of time, is up to local material conditions.
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Is this a chud game? /v/ is claiming it as their own and it is quite popular and stuff as well. There is a 2016's feminist, a gay pedo and other stuff in the game as well from what I heard on the grapevine. Maybe this is the big chud hit of the decade. Binding of Isaac is also a major christfag game as well
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/leftybritpol/ - tax dodgers anonymous edition

UK Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful, in humiliating blow for ministers

<Thousands arrested for supporting group since proscription are now in legal limbo as Mahmood says she will appeal


>Judges have humiliated ministers by insisting Palestine Action should not be banned under anti-terrorism laws in a ruling that has left thousands of its alleged supporters in legal limbo


>The high court said on Friday the government’s proscription of the direct action group was “disproportionate and unlawful” and that most of their activities had not reached the level, scale and persistence to be defined as terrorism
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/ukr/ - Russia-Ukraine War General #282

Previous: >>2671143

Dark Kyiv edition

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

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

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ALWAYS APPROACH SOURCES CRITICALLY

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

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

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

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

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

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

<Current Happenings

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

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

<Telegram

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

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

>"As a leader, one of the things that you need to understand is you need to stop looking at generative AI and AI and AI agents and all these things as just technical things that you go and approach. You need to think of them fundamentally differently. And I think the model you need to think of is that AI is labor. You wanna think about AI as the future that you use to augment your workforce and to give your workforce additional capacity. Every person in your workforce is going to be using AI to give them additional labor to support them. They're gonna become leaders. Now, some people think, well, this AI stuff, it's only really isolated to certain specific roles."

Dr. Jules White
Professor of Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park
Vanderbilt University
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/MENA/#1

A general to compile all news, articles, essays and info related to the Greater Middle East-North Africa region.

Creating this general in an effort to centralize all the info that currently gets posted to 5 different threads concerning conflicts and developments in the MENA region. Seeing how slow they generally are and at risk of getting bumped off besides the Palestine thread and that it’s likely people interested in Yemen, Syria, Iran, Sudan and Palestine are likely also interested in news and info from across the region I think it would be useful to post everything in one place.

This will be the inaugural edition to see how it goes. Welcome!
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Would you blame him for calling us lazy tho? UNAM is filled with leftcoms and the citizens are too submissive that they would pray for US intervention just so that they wont catch bullets in a cartel crossfire.
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/ISG/ - Internet Spectacle General

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

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

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

<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin

📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA

>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer

📓 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm
📖 • https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY

<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan

📖 • https://designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/understanding-media-mcluhan.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE

>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs

<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault

📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko

>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard

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

<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky

📖 • https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek

📖 • https://altexploit.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/slavoj-zizek-the-sublime-object-of-ideology-second-edition-the-essential-zizek-2009.pdf
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4

<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze

📖 • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY

>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson

📖 • https://www.are.na/block/4114741
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI

<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida

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

>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher

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

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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory

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

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

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

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


<Documentaries

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

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

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

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


>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)

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

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

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

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

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


<Situationist Archives

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

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

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

Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
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'The Chinese government bans all new investment in Israel'

https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/skeqnl08wg

Members of Kibbutz Hanita are suing the Chinese-controlled Ballet Vision fund for refusing to buy their remaining stake in an intraocular lens plant, citing losses and what it says is a Chinese government ban on new investments in Israel since the war

Members of Kibbutz Hanita near Israel’s northern border are demanding $11 million from Ballet Vision, the Chinese fund that controls 80% of the Hanita Lenses plant, accusing it of refusing to exercise an option to purchase the kibbutz’s remaining shares, according to a lawsuit filed in Tel Aviv District Court.

In a response letter attached to the lawsuit, the Chinese fund said that since the outbreak of the war in Israel, Beijing has classified Israel as a “high-risk area” and imposed a ban on any new Chinese investments in the country, making it impossible to carry out the option.

“Since the outbreak of the fighting in Israel, the Chinese government has classified Israel as a high-risk zone (red category) and prohibited any new Chinese investment in the country,” the fund wrote. “As long as this restriction remains in place, there is no practical operational ability to exercise the option.”

According to the lawsuit, in 2021 the kibbutz sold 74% of Hanita Lenses, which manufactures intraocular lenses for medical use, to Ballet Vision for $35 million. Of that sum, $25 million was paid to kibbutz members, with an additional $10 million injected into the company.
As part of the agreements, the Chinese fund granted the remaining minority shareholders an option to require it to purchase their remaining shares for about $9.5 million, now valued at roughly $11 million, by early December 2025.

The kibbutz claims that its stake was further diluted in two subsequent agreements in 2022, leaving the Chinese fund with about 80% ownership. One dilution followed a $7 million additional investment, while another was tied to a future $8 million investment that has not yet been carried out.
In December, the kibbutz notified the fund of its intention to exercise the option. The lawsuit says the funds are urgently needed due to the war. Hanita, located close to the border, has endured two extremely difficult years, and the money is required for rehabilitation, particularly for older members.
The kibbutz also argues that it has been excluded from the company’s management, which it says is now run centrally by representatives of the Chinese owner, with the board no longer convening. Under these circumstances, it said, retaining shares has become “meaningless.”
The fund, however, cited two reasons for refusing to proceed: heavy operational losses and what it described as the Chinese government’s ban on investing in Israel since the war.
In a December letter, Liu Yuxiao, a Ballet Vision director and the plant’s acting CEO, wrote that the company had accumulated operational losses of about $15 million over three years and bank debt of roughly $4 million, leaving it in severe financial distress by early 2025.
Yuxiao said he took over as CEO in March 2025 in an effort to prevent bankruptcy and claimed the company is now on track to reach operational break-even this year. Still, he argued that discussions about the option are premature and could jeopardize the fragile recovery.
He also pointed again to political constraints, saying the Chinese government’s restrictions have forced the fund to rely on shareholder loans rather than fresh capital injections, limiting its ability to finance the company.
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/gaygen/

lefty gay general - boyfriend edition

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

🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 Aux armes, citoyens ! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
I noticed there is no thread for France related shit. So let this be one. French people deserve a safe space and guarantees for their continued existence on loser imageboards!
J'ai remarqué qu'il n'y a pas de thread dedié pour la France, alors que les salauds américains et anglais en ont des centaines. Français, ne succombez pas à l'impérialisme anglochiotte!

Subjets of Macronpiter, leave a post.
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What do you think of communo-monarchism?
Can the holy proleterian spirit be passed down trough your seed? And as such only the inheritors of this great proleterian spirit are fit to rule?
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Is there an inherent spiritual element to Marxist values? If you look at history you will notice that despite religious restrictions, the most diehard supporters of Marxism were religious at some point or even stayed religious afterwards.

Likewise, many spiritual traditionalist philosophers in today recognize that Marxism has "esoteric" and "spiritual" themes. And that is true even more for the Bolshevik revolution and Bolshevism.

What do you think, why is this?
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ok, having anal sex is too gay, but is rubbing your dicks together with your best mate acceptable form of straight male bonding
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The only solid take on Chomsky-Epstein

This is the only logical way of understanding the Chomsky-Epstein controversy and what it means for us on the left, and I will die on this hill.

The worst thing Chomsky did was go against his anarchist principles by being friends with a billionaire pervert. There is zero evidence he did anything criminal himself. No woman has come forward and said Chomsky did anything to her on Epstein Island. Chomsky gave Epstein advice on how to defend himself from the media because they were friends and Chomsky believed his friend (no matter how awful of a person he was) was innocent. That’s not a valid reason to cancel someone or Chuck out their lifetime of work.

Let’s be honest: a lot of the stuff said about Epstein is dubious at best. There’s no solid evidence he was a Mossad agent luring in high-ranking global elites in order to get blackmail material on them on behalf of Israel. Not only does this narrative completely ignore capitalism and class interest, but it’s not supported by much. For one thing, most of the girls Epstein was having sex with were over 18. Yes, sone were underage, but it’s most likely they lied about their ages the same way underage groupies in the 1970s lied about their ages in order to bang rock stars. I don’t deny Epstein was a disgusting sleazeball, but he wasn’t some three-headed Illuminati alien sacrificing babies to Satan. There’s also no evidence of Epstein ever being a pimp. None of the women he trafficked have said he was pumping them out to others. One woman, Virginia Giuffre, has made multiple claims that haven’t been substantiated yet the media takes as gospel truth. Some of the things said in the files are so outrageous it’s hard to believe them. Look at it with skeptical eyes.

But back to Chomsky: his work is now being thrown out by 99% of the left precisely because the left operates on a very rigid moralism. They will dogpile on anyone for every single little thing. Modern leftist spaces have no leaders and no real structure, so they’re unable to resolve any internal conflict in any other way than mob justice. This is a huge problem that needs to be addressed and solved.

Is there a way to hold Chomsky accountable for being friends with Epstein without demanding comrades burn his books? There should be.
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Would this have been a valid strategy, chat? Perchance.

It certainly would have not been too short or empty strategy. Oh, no. No, sir. Not a chance.
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Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
<vid
CLASS WAR DECLARATION MIX FROM THE THAI LABOUR MUSEUM STORAGE ROOM
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/elg/ - Eurovision Leftypol General

>by posting in these threads, you recognise that Israel controls the EBU and the pop music industry is controlled by trumpists and bourgies

Last weekend, we have seen many National Finals
Here are the victors for these different countries -
>Atvara for Latvia
>Akylas for Greece
>Vanilla Ninja for Estonia
>Søren Torpegard Lund for Denmark
Here is the embed for the song that will represent Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026
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First OC

This is Yana Ivanova, the quintessential Bulgarian anarchist girl
Yana "Dread" Ivanova
Age: 23
Loves: Ice tea, skateboarding, anarchy, pure freedom, sharing her yoghurt with friends, Leftypol
Hates: Capitalism, fascism, Amerikkkans, Twilight books, corruption
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What is the materialist reason that Christianity supplanted Paganism as the prefered religion. Surely it's not as simple as some Emperor having a 'schizo' vision during a battle
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I'm a straight "cis" male but I want to look like this because androgyny is the GOAT form of beauty.
can Law of Assumption (the REAL law of attraction) be enough for it?
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The end of NEET gibs

Well my country is fucking me over. Trump and his administration seem to be on a mission to genocide neets. So there's that..Very easy to attack neets and their gibs to give sad pleasures to wagecucks. Anyone else living such a situation? Feels like the world is more and more pressuring you to rope yourself… oh well…
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Dolphins

Dolphins are smarter than Stalinists, I will prove this by teaching dolphins Das Kapital, and then even a dolphin would know that if you have community production you have a capitalist mode of production, and it is not a transitionary stage to be reformed.
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am I spiritually sick for feeling "less than" JSOC\Special ops\ex-SO PMCs and such elite soldiers?
Maybe it's a (((cope))) but I'm learning to have hyper-realistic lucid dreams so I can have tier-1 missions there with full realism.
I know war is evil, maybe it's even fake\a CGI+ crisis actor huge hoax but…I do really feel spiritually cucked and lucid dreaming seems the only realistic solution for me out of this
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<The Democratic Socialists of America
Why do they exist? What do they do? Who are their allies, who are their enemies? What is this caucus thing? Is BlackRedGuard truly the secret leader of it all? What are their objectives, their tendencies, their strategy, their tactics?
DSA anons, enlighten me.
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/DPRK/ - Democratic People's Republic of Korea General

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

Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
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Escapism is easy; Or why isekai and fantasy are now more prominent than ever

I once wrote a post speculating on the causes behind the rise of isekai and how the evolution of Japanese anime reflects societal changes in Japanese society beginning from its economic boom of the 1980s, but I’m not sure if it holds up in 2025-2026. Since I’m unfamiliar with otome-type isekai that is targeted to a female audience, I omitted it from my post. Anyway, here’s the main text:

You ever notice how most modern manga/anime releases are isekai or LitRPG slop? That isn’t random, and it isn’t just “bad writing.” It reflects who the audience is and what kind of society they’re living in.
The core consumer base is overwhelmingly struggling, isolated Japanese men in their 20s–30s (and increasingly older), often single, often overworked, often priced out of meaningful adulthood in one of the most expensive urban environments on earth. Many of them peaked socially in high school, before rent, career stagnation, and demographic collapse set in. Their main leisure activity is gaming — especially Western medieval fantasy RPGs — so the fantasy worlds they escape into are already familiar.
That’s why isekai looks the way it does. It isn’t about originality or artistic ambition; it’s about frictionless escapism. These stories let readers imagine themselves transported into a sanitized West European fantasy theme park where their accumulated gaming literacy suddenly becomes power, status, and sexual access. The protagonist can’t really fail, can’t meaningfully struggle, and can’t be morally challenged — because that would defeat the point.
This is also why isekai protagonists are so aggressively generic: They aren’t “protagonists” in the literary sense, as much as the voiceless and character-less player character typical of games like Pokemon Red. The less personality, the easier the self-insert. The less social embeddedness, the easier the exit from real life. These characters aren’t written as humans so much as interfaces.
Are there good isekai? Yes — Digimon, Re:Zero, a handful of others — but they’re exceptions precisely because they violate the unspoken contract of the genre by insisting on consequence, trauma, or actual character development. Most isekai avoids humanity altogether, because humanity introduces risk.
A lot of people blame “shut-in authors with no life experience,” but that’s only half the story. The bigger issue is the ecosystem.
Most isekai originate on web novel platforms that reward speed, familiarity, and recognizability over craft. Editors don’t ask if something is good; they ask if it can be adapted quickly. Readers browse by tags, not prose. Anything that deviates too far from the formula dies before it can accumulate attention.
So you get a self-reinforcing loop:
economic stagnation → exhaustion → demand for escapism → industry doubles down → creative entropy.
This isn’t unique to Japan, but Japan hit this phase earlier and harder.
As for the obsession with the DnD-style or tolkienesque west European medieval fantasy setting typical of the genres, it isn’t just cultural cringe or “worship of the West.” Maybe it is, but it’s actually safer than that.
Fantasy Europe, as used in isekai, is completely hollowed out — no real history, no class struggle, no politics, no ethnicity, no obligations, no icky taboo topics. It’s a neutral container. Japanese settings, by contrast, come with real social hierarchies, shame, memory, and responsibility that only Japanese society can intimately comprehend. Escapism works better when the world is empty enough not to push back. Think of it like how Mark Twain treats the England of the Arthurian Chronicles in his novel “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court” sans the satire and political bite.
This lineage runs straight from Dragon Quest and Zelda through D&D to Tolkien — not Europe as it was, but Europe as an abstracted theme park.
To understand why escapism dominates, you have to understand post-1990s Japan: After the bubble burst, Japan entered decades of stagnation, rising costs, demographic collapse, and near-permanent one-party neoliberal rule. The employment system locked people into work early at the cost of adult freedom. There is no credible mass politics, no labor movement with teeth, no expectation that protest produces change, especially in a society where the work typically relegated to the secret police is outsourced to society at large, creating a social environment that disincentivises dissent in favor of conformism and self-censorship to avoid disrupting societal harmony.
So this isn’t young men “choosing escapism over resistance.” It’s that there is no plausible route to collective agency. When exits are blocked, people fantasize about leaving the world entirely, whether it’s mass-producing escapist slop on an industrial scale or writing fanfic about a different country (looking at you, Chinaboos).
Earlier genres imagined resistance within decay (cyberpunk, mecha). Isekai imagines exit from decay.
The popularity of isekai is thus symptomatic of a country in stasis: a former imperial power that rose from the ashes of WW2 thanks to Uncle Sam’s generous help, only to lose momentum after its economic peak and never found a new social project. Creative output stagnates not entirely because people are stupid or lazy, but because risk is punished and repetition is rewarded.
Think of it like this: In the 1980s, Japan began to experience real wage growth and industrial boom, hence why many of the anime that came out of that era were sci-fi mecha that had more optimism than the original NGE (Neon Genesis Evangelion). But later down the line, as Japan began to siphon it‘s industrial profits into the real estate that was the lead up to the “lost decade”, you begin to see more “deconstructionist” or pessimistic takes on the mecha genre, starting with NGE which was soon followed by various copycats. I can’t omit that the depressive nature of NGE is perhaps influenced not just by the mental state of the staff at Gainax that was behind it, but also by the Tokyo subway sarin attack which occurred less than 9 months before the show was first aired on Japanese TV. The attack would profoundly affect Japanese society not just in terms of public safety discussions, but also in Japanese society’s ability as a collective to shield its individuals from danger. that might explain the heavy focus on the individual and their interpersonal drama in NGE, Voices of a Distant Star, and other such works produced in the 1990s and early 2000s.
But, as time went on, these kind of works eventually led to burnout, and here’s where the explosion of moe and (afterwards) magical school girl shows began in the early 2010s as the focus shifted from interpersonal drama to escapism that wasn’t necessarily isekai, but still provided an escape of sorts in the form of main cast forming an ersatz family and living through their shenanigans, or just cute and inoffensive stuff. But this also provided the breeding ground for the modern isekai genre that has overwhelmed the Japanese animation and comic industries as I elaborated in the previous paragraphs.
Now, where does this lead us? As the population continues to age, I suspect the genre will bifurcate:
•either toward slower, melancholic fantasy aimed at aging otaku (Frieren-style),
•or toward increasingly internationalized, culturally flattened content designed to survive declining domestic markets.
Neither path guarantees artistic renewal.
In short, isekai isn’t just bad writing. It’s a mirror. A mirror of a society that can’t imagine transformation and hence ends up mass-producing fantasies of painless escape — until even that starts to wear thin. Can’t escape into another world to avoid paying your rents and taxes after all, eh.
This might age like milk. Or it might just describe a phase before something uglier or stranger replaces it. The future is unpredictable after all, so anything could happen in our volatile present.
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/Political Economy/ General #5 - SmithAnon: Origins Edition

Previous thread: >>2507158

Links:

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Youtube Playlists
Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
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Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
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Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4k72ocf2TZMxrEVCgpp1b5K3hzFWuZh
Capital Volume 1 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
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Capital Volume 2 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
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Capital Volume 3 high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
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Theories of Surplus Value high quality audiobook from Andrew S. Rightenburg (Human-Read, not AI voice or TTS voice)
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Paul Cockshott - Labor Theory of Value Playlist
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Potential Sources of Information
Leftypol Wiki Political Economy Category (needs expanding)
https://leftypedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Political_economy
Sci-Hub
https://sci-hub.se/about
Marxists Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/
Library Genesis
https://libgen.is/
University of the Left
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online
bannedthought.net
https://bannedthought.net/
Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/
EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia
https://www.ecured.cu/
Books on libcom.org
https://libcom.org/book
Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism
https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm
/EDU/ ebook share thread
https://leftypol.org/edu/res/22659.html
Pre-Marxist Economics (Marx studied these thinkers before writing Capital and Theories of Surplus Value)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/index.htm
Principle writings of Karl Marx on political economy, 1844-1883
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/economy/index.htm
Speeches and Articles of Marx and Engels on Free Trade and Protectionism, 1847-1888
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/free-trade/index.htm
(The Critique Of) Political Economy After Marx's Death
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/postmarx.htm
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deltaruni

it brings me no pleasure to announce this, but it's peak. the furry twink has done it again. total tumblr teen victory. i can't sleep at night and my life is irrevocably changed.
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AI news shit general

The other thread hit bump limit and I'm addicted to talking about the birth of the ̶a̶l̶l̶-̶k̶n̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶ the biggest financial bubble in history and the coming jobless eschaton, post your AI news here

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/USApol/

🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>Long Live Cuba Edition


💀List of Deaths in ICE Detention💀
https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers

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

🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us

🏚️ Local News 🏚️
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✊Live Protest Streams✊
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🏝️ Epstein's Client List🏝️
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🇮🇱 Track Zionazis (warning: ShareBlue)🇮🇱
https://www.trackaipac.com/

📖Read, Burgga, Read! 📖
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🔗 Weeks as Decades Reading List 🔐
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2026 Winter Olympics

why is there no hype around the winter olympics? Usually it's all one can see/hear when they're on, but this time it's all about ICE agents in Italy, protests against them, stuff like that. There aren't any of the usual "white evropean athletes dominate the asian and slavic mongoloids!" stories either. What did the olympic committee do that displeased the westoid liberals and the media?
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How exactly do we successfully fight against and reverse Gen Alpha brainrot?

https://youtube.com/shorts/h2i3cGyzNKo

This stuff is becoming alarming. When I was a little kid in the 90s I would watch stuff that had actual substance to it (think: Disney renaissance, Don Bluth films, TV shows like Arthur). Plus our parents made an effort to read to us and get us looking at science books and history books for kids. When I babysit my neighbours’ kids who are eight and six (both boys) I’m horrified by how stupid they are. They can’t read at all. They can’t play musical instruments. They don’t do arts and crafts. They have the vocabularies of preschool-aged kids. They can’t do math and the eight-year old asks me to do his math homework for him. Both of them are either glued to their iPads or glued to watching YouTube on TV. It’s sad as hell. What do?
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/PRC/ People's Republic of China 21🇨🇳

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

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

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

Opinions on this game? Personally I think it’s a very amazing and well written piece of media

The Pink Valley is a Game Mod for Doom created by "vamvilodon".
You are a nameless man who wakes up one beautiful day, and decides to (maybe) visit his (possible) ex-girlfriend on a whim. What follows is a grim journey akin to Cry of Fear, that goes from bloodcurdlingly real horror, to mindbendingly surreal horror. This is not for the faint of heart.
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Japan elections

The Japanese lower house election is underway, and all early reports indicate an overwhelming majority for the new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi. I guess just making your platform hating China works, especially if every poll shows youth support for her is in the 90%
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/QTDDTOT/ Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread

Previous thread: >>2177902

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

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

Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.
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You may not agree with the solution the manifesto offers, nor the analysis, but I think some parts of it will be useful to you regardless
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ylIh7Ou1KwIufSodybyAiR0PxT9EMd2Wcyc0jdoPJVc/
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/sg/ - Syrian Civil War General #26 - 2019 /sg/ memes edition

Recent news:
SDF rejects the agreement and vows that they'd fight.
Prison break in Shaddad, freeing ~1000 ISIS veterans.
Aqtan prison (which houses ISIS members) north of Raqqa gets besieged.
Clashes in Kobani & Hasakah countrysides.
Breach in Al-Hol camp, which is now mostly emptied.
New agreement signed by both the STG & SDF.

Links:
t.me/Medmannews - Well known channel (Egyptian owner). Posts frequently about MENA
t.me/Middle_East_Spectator - Iranian owner
t.me/Suriyak_maps - Posts maps/latest news. Less prone to hype/hysteria but slower.
https://nitter.poast.org/SAMSyria0 - Local Syrian army soldier. Used to post in Arabic. (Account deleted. RIP)
https://nitter.poast.org/bosni94
https://nitter.poast.org/Sy_intelligence
https://nitter.poast.org/sayed_ridha
https://nitter.poast.org/QalaatAlMudiq
https://nitter.poast.org/Gargaristan
https://syria.liveuamap.com
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Chibi Review

What happened to Chibi Review? Apparently he wants to die.
death to lolis death to lolis death to lolis death to lolis death to lolis death to shota death to shota death to shota
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News 2/16/26

Argentinian unions plan general strike over new labour laws
Argentina’s main union federation, the Confederation of General Workers (CGT), will hold an executive council meeting on Monday to formalise a call for the strike over the country’s far-right President Javier Milei’s proposals. The government is also seeking to secure lower-house approval before March 1, when President Milei is set to open the 2026 ordinary legislative session.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/argentinian-unions-plan-general-strike-over-new-labour-laws

Families Protest Mass Trials in El Salvador
Nearly 100 people—mostly family members of those arrested—mobilized against collective court hearings enabled by a 2023 penal reform approved by the Legislative Assembly, dominated by the ruling party. The amendment allows large groups of alleged gang members to be prosecuted together in hearings that can remain open-ended.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/families-protest-mass-trials-in-el-salvador/

Minimum Wage Increase in Colombia: Petro Called for Mobilization
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, yesterday mounted a strong defense of his decree from December of last year approving a 23.7% increase in the minimum wage for 2026, which was provisionally suspended last week by the Council of State. As the country follows the legal process that will determine whether the measure — considered historic by the Government — will stand, the president not only reaffirmed his position but also issued an explicit call for popular mobilization this Thursday, Feb. 19, in public squares in several Colombian cities, in what he described as the defense of the “vital minimum wage.”
https://colombiaone.com/2026/02/16/colombia-minimum-wage-increase-petro-called-mobilization/
https://archive.ph/bcF0D

Israel to restart land registration in West Bank. What that means
According to Israeli media, Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich, who submitted the proposal to restart land registration with Minister of Justice Yariv Levin and Minister of Defence Israel Katz, said the move was a continuation of “the settlement revolution to control all our lands”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/16/israel-to-restart-land-registration-in-west-bank-what-that-means
https://archive.ph/6RMG8

Hamas Says It Will Not Unilaterally Disarm as Trump and Netanyahu Threaten a Return to Full-Scale War
“It is clear that Netanyahu and his extremist government are searching for new justifications to continue the aggression against Gaza and to resume the war, despite all the regional and international positions rejecting a return to fighting,” Naim said. “Hamas also is exerting all efforts to avoid the return to war again.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-netanyahu-demands-hamas-disarmament-gaza-board-peace-negotiations-mladenov

Macron urges calm after activist's death sparks political clash
The 23-year-old died on Saturday, having fallen into a coma after being violently beaten on Thursday outside a conference given by Rima Hassan, a far-left member of the European Parliament. … The activist, whose name the government has given only as Quentin, had been present to help protect members of the anti-immigration feminist association Nemesis, which was protesting against the event, the group said in a statement.
https://www.reuters.com/world/macron-urges-calm-after-activists-death-sparks-political-clash-2026-02-15/

Starmer slammed over failure to sack minister at the centre of Labour Together spy scandal
The think tank was run by Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons MP when it reportedly hired a PR firm to dig up dirt on journalists who revealed more than £700,000 of undeclared donations linked to Sir Keir’s rise to power. The embattled Labour chief’s own MPs rejected his claims that he had no knowledge of the probe and that the Cabinet Office would investigate.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmer-slammed-over-failure-sack-minister-centre-labour-together-spy-scandal

ICC identifies Duterte’s co-perpetrators in ‘drug war’
Unlike the previously released version, the less redacted one now identifies co-perpetrators in the commission of alleged crimes against humanity. Based on the DCC and other official reports, eight individuals including two senators reportedly collaborated with Rodrigo Duterte to implement a “Common Plan” to “neutralize” alleged criminals through the “Davao Model” on a national scale.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/02/14/icc-identifies-dutertes-co-perpetrators-in-drug-war/

India seizes three Iran-linked US-sanctioned tankers
India aims to prevent its waters from being used for ship-to-ship transfers that obscure the origin of oil cargoes, Reuters reports, citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter. The seizures and heightened surveillance follow an improvement in US-India relations. Washington earlier this month announced it will cut import tariffs on Indian goods to 18% from 50%, after New Delhi agreed to stop Russian oil imports.
https://www.newarab.com/news/india-seizes-three-iran-linked-us-sanctioned-tankers

Myanmar expels East Timor envoy after rights group complaint against junta
Myanmar's Chin state Human Rights Organization (CHRO) last month filed a complaint with the justice department of East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, alleging that the Myanmar junta had carried out war crimes and crimes against humanity since the 2021 coup. In January, CHRO officials also met East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta, who last year led the tiny Catholic nation's accession into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), of which Myanmar is also a member.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmar-expels-east-timor-envoy-after-rights-group-complaint-against-junta-2026-02-16/
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dysphoria songs

what are some songs that you associate with your dysphoria?
mine's like lots of things based around my teenage years since that was the last time i felt somewhat alive.
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prediction of capitalism's next stage

<neoliberalism
any and all materialists must acknowledge that we exist in the neoliberal epoch, one unlike any other capitalist epoch. the biggest difference is that it has been intentionally manufactured to destroy class politics in everyway and it succeeded. via attacks on home ownership, community belonging, social atomisation, post fordism & gig economy, well fare it destroyed the ability for the left and even right to coherently organise and left them to embrace pseudo simulcra politics of liberalism (woke) vs conservatvism (nothing lol). in the third world where traditional manufacturing is still persued, an all ecompassing and brutal surveillance state made successful revolutionary politics impossible.

<death-agony, current and coming

but neoliberalism has entered its death agony stage. its contradictions (need to global elite agreement, invisible imports hard carrying western economies, ect) have caught up and the ideological, moralistic and pragmatic defences for the liberal international order and neoliberalism have already gone Dodo, all we wait for is the first piston in the globalist economy to collapse and this will cause a critical meltdown across the globe and with it the end of everything, the cathedral, human rights, capitalist realism, the spectacle and more. its impossible to tell when this will occur. i predicted it would be the coming right populist surge and then the mass dissillusionment which would follow, but the epstein files might cause it even sooner.

<Return of Vitality and Horror

with neoliberalism's death, we will see the Far right and left regain strength and energy, a true return to class politics. we will likely see a years of lead across the whole of eurasia, south americas and africa but not US or PRC. there will be far more riots, counter culture & demagogues arising from the formly 1dimenional workers. the 60s and interwar periods will be nothing the bumbling marches to the bloodshed to come and we shall see the earth be hurtled to utopia and despair one day after the next. total global meltdown. is your ideology prepared for the sudden influx of work? can you make one that can?
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Mexico Gral

No encontré el hilo anterior así que hago uno nuevo porque es necesario

que con todo y todo Estados Unidos no ha parado de intentar meter las narices en el país y me esta empezando a cansar y mas si en el 2030 planean poner otro titere de mierda en especial si es el puto de Salinas Pliego que planea ser literalmente un Milei Whitexican.

Alguien seguia la campaña de Manzo?
Que opinan de Morena en pleno 2025?
Que nos queda por hacer?
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A confession

Comrade, forgive me, for I have sinned

Today, something happened whilst I was doorknocking that I believe I won't ever be the same after. It was a large apartment building, you'd think it was an Eastern European commie block from the outside, though it's as well maintained as they were before the fall of the Eastern Bloc. Nonetheless, me and a far older comrade (70 years old) went down the stairs to the 5th floor. We rung a first door, waited a couple seconds, nothing. It's fine. We rung the door next to it, and waited again before heading towards the next door, however we immediately tensed up when we heard chains clanging. The first door we had rung was going to be opened. So, we immediately went back towards it, and greeted the man inside. From the looks of it, he was old, not that old, but old nonetheless. 50? 55? Doesn't matter. And we said the usual things we did: "Good afternoon, we have a little flyer, it's about the mayoral elections-", my comrade said, before being interrupted. The man who had answered the door was visibly angry, and told us that he did not care for left, right, center, up, down or anything else, as he had known this city under the left and the right. His father died in 2009, and he had to take care of his handicapped, sick and dying mother. She died in 2017. In 2009, we, the COMMUNISTS, were in power, and he went to town hall and we simply said we couldn't do anything. We *wouldn't* do anything. He worked day and night, incredibly long hours, he worked his ass off, and had to take care of his sick mother. By himself. We lost the city in 2014, and the situation remained exactly the same. My comrade kept trying to convince him, but I remained silent. I just couldn't come to terms with it… we LET his mother die. We KILLED her. WE have blood on our hands. US. Not anybody else, no, WE.

And he works from 12AM to 1AM, he works security. He works day and night, like I said, and now he's going to retire soon, and you know what? He has so little to retire with. We did nothing to help him. We've stood passively by, allying ourselves with the closest bourgeois leftslop party in order to not collapse, and we did nothing to help him. And people like him. I just can't believe it… We're… We're BOURGEOIS. WE are BOURGEOIS. WE are complicit in the murder of hundreds of millions, no, BILLIONS of people. And this isn't the only thing that happened today. I was biking to the apartment building, following the rendez-vous given to me by my comrades, and you know, I had made a campaign video that went semi-viral locally. Some guys said "congrats on the video, by the way, really!" whilst I passed them, I could only say thank you as I raced through the street whose sidewalk they were on. I smiled, I was so happy. And as I kept going, just 300 meters after that, I was going down a street when I was multiple people beating a guy up. And what did I do? Nothing! I just watched and rode off. I just watched. I just WATCHED. I JUST WATCHED. Is this the price for fame? Is this it? I don't want it, sincerely. And I don't want to let this keep happening. I don't want to watch on the sidelines as people like me, workers, people who live off their work, and barely scrape by, get beaten up by the system. No thanks. And…

I look at my comrades, comrades of the same party that let that man's mother slowly die without any help, and constrained him to work day and night for her, and… I don't see monsters. I don't see murderers. I see people like me, people like HIM. There's no difference. They're just as fucked by the system as he is. So I won't just confess about what happened. He gave up, out of anger and frustration and despair, he gave up. But I won't. I'll fight for him, I'll fight for the man I allowed to get beat up, I'll fight for every person who's been fucked by this system. So next time we have a meeting, I'll talk. I'll talk all night, and I'll tell everybody about exactly what happened, and what we must do. If they don't listen? I just hop off to another party. And if they don't listen? I'll just keep going and going and going and if I have to make my own party, then so be it. Because even if it takes every fiber of my being, every cell in my body, even if it means I'm 6 feet under the dirt, as long as he and every other person gets human dignity, LIBERATION… then I'm fine with it.

And remember, comrades. We have a world to win.
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Literature Thread

This board needs a literature thread i think. So itt write about books you are currently reading. Feel free to post opinions, pictures and discussions about books.
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/US-Venezuela War #15/

"Superbigote es inocente" Edición

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Going to save Shaundi while fighting soldiers and gangsters on foot in Saints Row 3 was the most cathartic experience I had in a game
>body too short or empty
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I have work in MSP space for about 10 years.

Computers can totally tell if you are confident about using it or not. They can also tell if you disrespect them or treat them poorly.

I've seen this several times. User complains that computer is slow, common functions don't work, random and unpredictable failures, etc. as soon as a tech joins, the problems disappear. This isn't just a matter of idiot users not knowing how computers work, because I have hung around with those users to observe the behavior. They are not lying, the computer will exhibit random and unpredictable problems. But as soon as a technician touches the machine it behaves well.


I've also done more than my share of after hours on-call rotations. I've learned that if you believe that you will get no calls, you will get no calls. If you believe you will be swamped by calls, you will get calls out the ass. Discovered this by accident when I came in one Monday to discover I have been on call for the last week and not received a single call. This actually led me into LoA and how your consciousness shapes your reality. I would have dismissed it all as bullshit if I didn't have first-hand experience.
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For a CommuNEET wanting join the proletariat, what socialist countries are an option to move to?

Which socialist countries could a NEET move to join the working class?

<As of 2023, approximately 21.7% of young people worldwide, aged 15 to 35, are classified as NEET, meaning they are not in education, employment, or training. This statistic highlights a significant global issue regarding youth engagement in productive activities.
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>imperial core workers organize for higher wages
>porky freaks out
>outsources the jobs
>proles in the global south get the jobs
>porky gives imperial core workers service sector jobs
>proles in the imperial core screech "they dun took r jobs!!!!
>proles in the global south screech "you fucking treatlerite you don't produce surplus value like a true prole!!!"
>porky laughs at how everyone is too mad at each other to be mad at him
>the fight has moved from abolishing class society to arguing over whether first world workers are just indirect slave owners of the children mining cobalt
>rather than giving workers of all countries a better life by expropriating the expropriators and abolishing wage labor and class society, we now dream of making the first world worker live like the third world worker

material explanation?
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The Holy Bible

What's the leftypol take on this book? I'm not trolling - it's existence has haunted my life. I was raised catholic… Christianity has both ruined & saved my life and my opinions on it have only gotten more complex.

Some of the greatest art of all time has been religiously motivated. But the question of Christianity specifically is a big one. On one hand all manner of brown people are more sincerely christian than a lot of white people have ever been. It might be the one thing saving Africa right now!

But on the other hand The first Roman Empire & Greek empire were polytheistic & they might have achieved a civilizational peak that surpasses the situation we live in right now. Christianity is very homophobic & a huge portion of Europe/UK demographics are atheist & seem to be some of the happiest nations on earth. Christianity might even be the reason that the Roman Empire fell & is responsible for a lot of really bad imperialism & colonialism.

What am I supposed to make of it? Jesus was surely a good man, no? The word of god has saved homeless, sick, and morally corrupt. Where does the justification to do evil come from when people read this?
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Stochastic Opportunistic Biowarfare

For those who aren't lawyers, injury is generally illegal. Because of this, obstruction or neutralization of class enemies and class traitors is often restricted to adventurism or fantasy, maybe even intimidation if you and others are organized well enough (congratulations!)

Let us explore a potent but seemingly unexplored (or at least underground) counter-strategy. A safe, simple, long-term strategy of stochastic opportunistic biowarfare.
This is not biowarfare in the conventional sense of directly poisoning enemies, so if you want to culture your own mold and plant it in a chud's HVAC then this isn't for you.
Instead, we intent so seize an opportunity to accelerate the self-poisoning of (overwhelmingly) reactionaries. I want you to envision a land of raw meat and dairy, tallow and ghee, supplement cocktails and Ivermectin doping. Oh, that's the world the reactionary grifters are already implementing… if these obviously dangerous diets and medication are so normal among the anti-communists, perhaps we can kick this up a notch. It's easy to poison someone with seemingly-innocuous things: beef liver, brazil nuts, water intoxication. It's very easy to demonize treatments like vaccines and healthier alternatives to traditional habits. It's simple to trick reactionaries into rejecting things seen as progressive, like soy, veganism and seed oils, and jumping up to mirror it with ridiculous excessive meat over-consumption. Simply tell them that warnings and regulations are liberal disinformation and a significant amount of these idiots will want to believe it.

The best part is, you can make money from slowly poisoning reactionaries. Millions of well-funded capitalists are investing millions and billions into selling unhealthy products, they want as many sold as possible. Look at how the dairy industry in the USA has managed to normalize cow's milk as an essential nutritional component. Look at how propagandist streamers and podcasters are throwing supplement pill ads at their audience. These capitalist companies don't care about long-term effects, they're fatally bound to the short-term lines and how far they go up. And for those in the USA, bourgeois deregulation will make more and more of these tactics completely legal.
We can help dismantle the right and make them pay for it. What's not to love?
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What's more progressive?

OR what's less reactionary?
Rooting for China / Supporting China or Doing Your Own Thing?

If you do your own thing you are small and weak, but if you're with China you're reaping the benefits and are big.
What will it be? Will you become a sinophile or a sectarian?
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Recommend me books on economics that were published after the 1950s (the newer the better)
The body was too short or empty. The body was too short or empty. The body was too short or empty. The body was too short or empty. The body was too short or empty.
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Capitalism has changed a lot since Marx lived. Some people say it has not changed much. But it has. We are now in what many call the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Technology moves very fast even if the mode of production itself is still in place. Goods are changing too. Machines and software now do much of the work. Companies do not always sell software as something you buy once and own forever. Instead, they rent it to you. You pay every month. You do not truly own it. It's not like the food you eat. This does not prove Marx was wrong. It can actually support his method, if we see his ideas as a study of real social systems that change over time. The commodity, or good for sale, has not disappeared. It has changed shape. It has become more abstract and varied in its specific forms. When some commodities become a subscription, buying and selling does not end. The purchaser's true ownership ends. Companies learned that in the digital age, control brings more profit than simple ownership. The commodity is no longer just a thing. It is a controlled stream of access. Profit comes again and again over time. This is not a world beyond capitalism. It is capitalism finding new ways to control time and space. Automation also does not destroy capitalism’s basic rules. But it creates problems for them. If human labor creates value, and machines replace workers, then the system weakens its own base. Yet capitalism does not simply fall apart. It adapts. It grows through finance. It strengthens copyright and patents. It creates artificial scarcity, even when goods could be copied easily. It turns genocide into a spectacle for people to watch and get anxious about happening to them. Social media turns daily life into data that can be sold. The factory has not vanished. It has spread into warehouses, data centers, and computer systems that track workers. Wage labor still exists. It is just more divided, watched, and pushed across the globe to find the cheapest workers. This shows a new tension. Technology can now produce goods in great amounts, often at very low cost. But the system of private ownership and profit limits access. Subscription models, digital locks, and cloud systems are legal tools that keep control in private hands. Capitalism is not stuck. It is active and flexible. But it still faces crises. It survives by reorganizing power in more complex ways. It makes production global and social, yet keeps profit private. It also harms the planet. This deepens the conflict between the many who work together and the few who own the results. The task is not to simply say capitalism is finished. It is also not to treat new technology as proof that we have moved beyond it. We must study how power works in the digital age. We must ask how data becomes capital, how large platforms act like toll gates, and how insecure jobs keep workers under pressure even as productivity rises. Only then can we judge whether these changes make the system more stable, or whether they sharpen the tensions that could lead to a new form of socialism.
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>yeah the revolution will take place in an industrial country like Germany or Britain or however the berches is braided
>ends up happening in agrarian shitholes instead
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Modern communists have bought into Marx's propaganda towards the proletariat wholesale, and forget that Marx's designation of the proletariat as revolutionary subject is purely pragmatical.
Communism, for Marx, is the liberation of humanity from the logic of capital and wage labour. He simply agitated the proletariat because it was politically expedient to do so: they are the majority, they are less intelligent on average and thus more receptive to agitation, and so forth. And in his propaganda to that end he romanticized its class characteristics, but never actually believed it himself. Marx understood, like all revolutionaries (and Lenin later made crystal clear), that the real drivers behind all revolutions are an elite cadre of intellectuals influencing the masses towards an aim.
Now, if you don't understand that elites (in some form or the other) are the actual drivers and the masses their tools, you are like a blood-and-soil fascist revolutionary who forgets that, in his agitation of the white working class towards class collaboration and the exclusion of other races, you actually secretly have contempt for the lower class, even those of your own race. This is the 'in the know' secret you must know and embrace inside as a revolutionary of any kind, but never make public to the subject you're trying to agitate. No revolutionary is 'egalitarian'. The egalitarian is naive enough to presuppose that his revolution would never need him. This is why horizontalists must believe themselves and their ideas to be superfluous.
That is not to say that Marx necessarily found the proletariat contemptible or disdainful. But that he knew they needed to be agitated by a well-crafted, easy to digest propaganda. And like all revolutionaries, he genuinely believes in his end goals and their nobility.
So my problem with Stalin or [insert failed revolutionary] would not be that he was a traitor to the cause or some egotist preoccupied with power and control while abandoning the cause of communism. No, he was simply not pragmatic enough.
Everything comes down to pragmatism. We should be communists because we believe it advances humanity in tangible ways, without being so naive as to fall for our own romanticisation of humanity.
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The 4chan Pass is literally the ultimate utility for AI spammers. For just $20 a year, you get to bypass the only real barrier—captchas. It allows bot nets to flood the board with LLM-generated slop 24/7 without getting flagged by the automated spam filters. Since Pass users get higher trust scores and can post through VPNs/proxies, it’s basically a 'license to shill.' If you’re wondering why /g/ is 50% dead internet noise, thank the Pass for making automation cheap and frictionless.
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/rus/ - Russia General

Thread №2

Переможный, переговорный, пятнадцатотравневый.

Продолжаем трястись и ждать мобку.
Лолируем с красных фашистов, пыняславов и чучхеисов - вместе.
Переезжаем в тюмень, так как там нефтяная мекка и все жрут черную икру поварешками.
Левый поворот путина будет… надо только подождать… еще лет двадцать.
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Just Barracks Communism

Barracks Communism has never been tried.
Lets try to make a canon for it, all of the original texts attributed to what Barracks Communism was, pile them up and just follow them dogmatically.
Lets do this.


Barracks communism (German: Kasernenkommunismus)[1] is the term coined by the German philosopher Karl Marx[2] to refer to a crude, authoritarian, forced collectivism and communism where all aspects of life are bureaucratically regimented and communal. Marx used the expression to criticise the vision of Sergey Nechayev outlined in "The Fundamentals of the Future Social System".[2][3][4] The term barracks here does not refer to military barracks, but to the workers' barracks-type primitive dormitories in which the industrial workers lived in many places in the Russian Empire of the time.[5]

In the ideology of the Soviet Union the term was applied to theories of "some ideologues in China" of the 1950s-1970s.[6] During the Soviet perestroika period, the term was used to apply to the history of the Soviet Union itself.[5]
Origin

A relevant section of Sergey Nechayev's "The Fundamentals of the Future Social System" reads as follows:

The ending of the existing social order and the renewal of life with the aid of the new principles can be accomplished only by concentrating all the means of social existence in the hands of our committee, and the proclamation of compulsory physical labour for everyone.

The committee, as soon as the present institutions have been overthrown, proclaims that everything is common property, orders the setting up of workers' societies (artels) and at the same time publishes statistical tables compiled by the people who know and pointing out what branches of labour are most needed in a certain locality and what branches may run into difficulties there.

For a certain number of days assigned for the revolutionary upheaval and the disorders that are bound to follow, each person must join one or another of these artels according to his own choice… All those who remain isolated and unattached to workers' groups without sufficient reason will have no right of access either to the communal eating places or to the communal dormitories, or to any other buildings assigned to meet the various needs of the brother-workers or that contain the goods and materials, the victuals or tools reserved for all members of the established workers' society; in a word, he who without sufficient reason has not joined an artel, will be left without means of subsistence. All the roads, all the means of communication will be closed to him; he will have no other alternative but work or death.

The report "The Alliance of Socialist Democracy and the International Working Men's Association", an explanation and justification of the expulsion of Bakunin's faction from the International (written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels with the assistance of Paul Lafargue) quotes the above text and comments as follows:

What a beautiful model of barrack-room communism! Here you have it all: communal eating, communal sleeping, assessors and offices regulating education, production, consumption, in a word, all social activity, and to crown all, our committee, anonymous and unknown to anyone, as the supreme director. This is indeed the purest anti-authoritarianism. - KARL MARX

Lets do this, this is awesome.
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is it worth it living another decade?

No doomerposting; serious materialist-clinical analysis, please.
I'm from a third-world country; a worsening one, I'm literally disabled so rely on my parents + due to my mental insanity itself I would literally DIE if I ever have to live alone.
I see everything in the world getting worse, worse, worse. the good things were more expensive, fewer in number, and less good over time. I don't see myself living 5 years, let alone 5 decades.
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Muh armchairs

People such as the Italian communists never claimed that its necessary to wait for revolutionary periods before educating and leading the class, there are however limited contexts where which communist intervention can be effective. Marx and Engels agree with the Italian left, as shown in the quote below:

<In Germany it looks more like revolution every day. In Berlin and Barmen menacing crowds of laid-off workers are roaming the streets. […..] I think that in a fortnight the storm will break in Prussia. If this opportunity passes without being used, and if the people allow that to happen, we can then calmly pack up our revolutionary paraphernalia and devote ourselves to pure theory.

— Engels to Marx. 11 June 1866

Of course its necessary for communists to stay in touch with each other, so is collectively working to overcome the challenges we face, but hitting the streets with pamphlets and slogans isn’t always the best option, and tailing bourgeois organizations is off the table altogether. Communists dont chase popularity with a disorganized mass of individuals, they move to lead and intensify the class struggles of workers organized as workers.

The subjective factor of the revolution isn’t floating in the void waiting to be summoned with the right mix of slogans or chants, either the requisite class organization really and concretely exists, or it does not. We either push to reinforce class autonomy beforehand, or nothing happens when tensions run high.
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a discussion

So, I have watched a livestream of DORA 2026 and this little song has won both the contest and my heart. So let's analyze this song in terms of folkloer and the paranormal world
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Is all radfem literature like this?

Is all radfem literature like this?

This shit is some of the most ludicrous, hyperbolic grievance mongering I have ever read. There's interesting shit floating around in here, but it is drifting in a sea of "every man is a wife-beating rapist who caused all the world's problems." Even though the book is directly comparing Zionism and feminism and seems to advocate for a lady Israel, it's mostly just couched in whining about men. Dworkin doesn't even have the fucking stones to be a strong Zionist. She's one of these wishy-washy Zionists who thinks that Zionists and Palestinians can co-exist, and maybe one day Israeli and Palestinian women can come together and unite against their REAL enemy: men! (lol) (lmao)
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why cant the left meet the moment for new theories ?? theirs absolutely no revolutionary theory on the left. just endless history discussion . you all look back when you should look foreword
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/juche/

"The Juche idea is a man-centered world outlook. It is a revolutionary, scientific, and political theory that accurately illumines the way for realizing the independence of the masses." - Kim Jong Il

People,let's make a good thread about the political ideology of Democratic People's Republic of Korea - Juche.
Share your thoughts,pdfs,videos,documentaries or other educational materials for the community of this site.
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GOOD MUSIC THREAD

NO INCEL ANIME OR VIDEO GAME OSTs

NO DAD-ROCK

NO BREAKCORE

NO WARSAW PACT MARCHING-BAND OR ARAB POLITICAL MUSIC

BANGERS ONLY

I'll start

https://open.spotify.com/album/7FtJGdO0o5nd9Tw0LiBt3a?si=M1MBVXLRT5S2tm_LbbVEKA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mlb-juMiA8&list=RD8mlb-juMiA8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz_4xqNo_eE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47uoaKkIuWU
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Are there legitimate reasons for leftists to oppose biracialism?

A lot of Black liberationists (including Frantz Fanon) have brought up the issues with inter-racial relationships on the basis they are largely a product of colonialism and imperialism. Colonized peoples face tremendous pressure to change themselves to be more palatable to whiteness. This includes being in romantic relationships with who’re people and having babies with whites.

That may not seem like a big deal but it actually matters a lot. Black intergenerational wealth is one such issue. When a rich or upper-middle class Black guy has children with a white (or non-Black) woman, his wealth gets passed down to mixed hands, not Black hands. This makes it much harder for the Black community as a whole to acquire intergenerational wealth since all of their wealth is being inherited by biracials. Black biracials who were raised by white mothers in particular also report feeling huge psychological problems because their white mothers always held them to white cultural norms and deprived them of their blackness. Plus, there is a huge attempt by the white supremacist media to highlight biracials as opposed to actual Black people. Look at how Drake and Kehlani are propped up by pop culture as opposed to authentic Black people like Doechii.

Personally, I think leftists need to start being critical of this phenomenon since it has implications for liberatory politics and anti-imperialism. Groups like the NOI have always opposed biracial baby-making and I think we should learn from them.
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Tutorial thread

Share tutorials, step-by-step processes, infographics about art, and art tips; in pictures, videos, PDFs, etc.

Pic 1:
>Visual Novel Background Tutorial by Sky-Morishita
Pic 2:
>Visual Novel Background Tutorial (Layout Distortion) by Sky-Morishita
Pic 3:
>KOF XII pixel art sprite development process
Pic 4:
>Learning Order to Human Character Drawing by Nsio
Pic 5:
>Ways to avoid same-face syndrome by Miyuli (deleted tweet)
She has a free book with art tips:
https://hivemill.com/collections/miyuli/products/miyulis-art-tips-2018
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News 2/13/26

UK terrorism ban on Palestine Action group unlawful, court rules after appeal
Britain's ban on pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was ruled unlawful by London's High Court on Friday, though the ban will temporarily remain in place and the government said it would appeal against the decision. Palestine Action was proscribed in July, having increasingly taken "direct action" against Israel-linked defence companies in Britain, often blocking entrances or spraying red paint.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/uk-terror-ban-pro-palestine-group-unlawful-court-rules-after-appeal-2026-02-13/

Reform UK passes ‘extreme risk’ budget at flagship local authority
Opposition parties at Kent County Council warned the 3.99 per cent council tax increase would leave reserves “dangerously low” and the authority’s “highest ever exposure to financial risk” totalling more than £410 million on the risk register. The levy is 1 per cent less than the limit before a referendum is required.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/reform-uk-passes-extreme-risk-budget-flagship-local-authority

Macron calls for 'mandatory electoral bans' for people guilty of anti-Semitic or racist acts
He also attacked what he described as "far-left antisemitism", saying it "rivals that of the far right", and "anti-Semitism that uses the mask of anti-Zionism to advance quietly". Macron also said he wanted "mandatory electoral bans" for officials guilty of "anti-Semitic, racist, and discriminatory acts and remarks".
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260213-macron-calls-for-mandatory-electoral-bans-for-people-guilty-of-anti-semitic-or-racist-acts
https://archive.ph/CkYH0

Technologists, scientists oppose CICC’s move to block Signal App, decry rights violation
Advocates of Science and Technology for the People (AGHAM) and Computer Professionals’ Union (CPU) are calling the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center’s February 10 call to block the messaging application Signal due to alleged “spoofing” cases“ another digital rights violation disguised as a quick fix” in a joint statement.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/02/14/technologists-scientists-oppose-ciccs-move-to-block-signal-app-decry-rights-violation-2/

Displaced Cambodians in limbo as nationalist victory in Thailand adds to pressure
In an election last week, Thailand's Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul romped to victory on a platform that includes building a wall at the border. During a visit to the area on the Cambodian side, most of the people Reuters spoke to said they knew nothing about last week's Thai vote or what the implications might be for the area. Pich Vorn, displaced from the neighbouring village of Chouk Chey, said he just wanted his house and land back.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/displaced-cambodians-limbo-nationalist-victory-thailand-adds-pressure-2026-02-13/

BNP prepares to form govt
According to the EC, the BNP won 209 seats on its own while the Jamaat secured 68 itself. The National Citizen Party, a member in the Jamaat-led 11-party alliance, won six seats. The Islami Andolan Bangladesh obtained one seat.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/Elections/291120/bnp-prepares-to-form-govt

Marwan Barghouti’s son calls on UK to put father’s release at heart of Palestinian renewal
Arab Barghouti warned the UK government that its recent recognition of a Palestinian state risks providing nothing but false hope unless it follows through by using diplomatic channels to secure his father’s freedom. “Simply saying ‘we support a two-state solution’ without doing anything about it is deepening the problem, because you are just giving the Palestinian people false hopes,” he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/11/marwan-barghouti-son-uk-father-release-palestine-renewal

Morocco autonomy plan for Western Sahara unveiled after secret Madrid meeting with Polisario
Where the 2007 plan spoke in general terms about autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty, the new Rabat-proposed plan envisions a national referendum involving the entire Moroccan electorate and the integration of the statue into the Constitution. The text lays out stronger constitutional principles and safeguards, where the principle of constitutional loyalty is stated as a strictly guiding norm.
https://www.newarab.com/news/sahara-autonomy-plan-revealed-after-morocco-polisario-meeting

Peru Congress Secures Signatures for Censure Debate on Interim President Jeri
Peru’s Congress reached the 78-signature mark necessary to convene an extraordinary plenary session on Thursday, February 12, to debate a motion to remove interim President Jose Jeri, who assumed the role of head of state last October following the dismissal of Dina Boluarte.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/peru-congress-secures-signatures-for-censure-debate-on-interim-president-jeri/

Argentina's government charges protesters with 'terrorism' after labour reform demo violence
Argentina’s government has announced that it has filed “terrorism charges” against 17 people in the wake of Wednesday’s violent clashes with police during a protest over President Javier Milei’s labour reform bill. Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni said in a post on the X social network that the individuals had attacked police and security officers with stones and bottle bombs.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/argentinas-government-charges-protesters-with-terrorism-after-labour-reform-demo-violence.phtml
https://archive.ph/qxT8D
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At nearly 30 I got my first job, a dead end job in a supermaket from a huge chain in my country
It is only for a week but they might permanently contract you
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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.
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Q&A

Thread for Questions and Answers that don't really belong in other threads as well as source requests.
Post
- Questions
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- Anime/Manga sauce

https://saucenao.com/
Anime related series and character search site:
http://animeperson.com/
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QAnon = created by CIA

CHANNERS KNOW EVERYTHING!

This is a weird history. But I need to tell you:

CONNECT THE POINTS!

Donald Trump approved “Project Genesis”.

Project Genesis = “Fiat Lux” (see in the Bible). “God created the world” = Project Genesis = recreate the world as God did. A magnificent AI project… Or something more?

How is it connected with Esochannealogy? Homo est spectaculum hominis:
“How do esochanners search the secret board on old 55chan? At 00:00, they write ‘Fiat Lux’”

Today, the phrase “Fiat Lux” is no longer a biblical myth or a secret board password; it is the activation command for Project Genesis. Approved by Donald Trump, this project represents the ultimate goal of the NRx (Neoreactionary) elite: to recreate the world as a programmable simulation.

Go to “QAnon Resurrection” here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1XrJj772czH4OPLsUZjLDwZlh6vszzcOo

(You can see Esoteric Kekism, Esoteric Kantianism, and Magolitics in this text)

See it, Saint Obamas Momjeans says:
“We must go further. Kek is the beginning. The foundation of the Ogdoad. If we truly want to become powerful, others seek worship and Kek will approve of their worship”

Think about it: how many gods does the Ogdoad have? Eight. How many masks does Esochannealogy wear in “Homo est spectaculum hominis”? Eight. Whom did 4chan help in 2016? Donald Trump. Who approved “Project Genesis”? Donald Trump. When Moot (creator of 4chan) encountered Jeffrey Epstein? Before it. Who channers helped in 2018? Jair Messias Bolsonaro. Whom did Jeffrey Epstein approve in his files? Jair Messias Bolsonaro. Whom QAnon and Saint Obamas Momjeans approved? Donald Trump. These events are interconnected.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/epstein-met-4chan-founder-just-200133465.html

Q-Clearance (Department of Energy) provides the fuel for Project Genesis… When Q finally appears, in the past, he alleged “Q Clearance”. Why? The Dataset: It is not about nuclear secrets; it is about the DOE's Exascale Supercomputers processing the total psychological profile of the population. Why? Think about it:

— The QAnon Experiment:

QAnon was the greatest R&D (Research and Development) operation in history. It provided the Massive Psychological Data about human rationalization and radicalization.

QAnon and Saint Obamas Momjeans talked about the same elite and the same people. See this thing in Saint Obamas Momjeans:
“(((They))) are afraid because (((they))) know we have found the key to the truth of our past. It's time to unlock it”

(((They))) = Mossad

“Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein = Ari Ben-Menashe and Mossad”
“Ehud Barak = Israel Prime Minister = capital = Epstein enterprise”

“Mossad = Epstein and Elites = Mask of the Belief Engineer”

“QAnon = case = for what? = understanding human rationalization, radicalization, and others thing”

What did?

“CIA = Mask of the Sower of Chaos:
This mask has one primary goal: to generate disorder and confusion. It operates by disseminating contradictory information, fake news, rumors, or even actions that destabilize the social, political, or informational environment”

Palantir = In-Q-Tel (money) = CIA enterprise = used in Project Genesis to recreate reality

Palantir = Peter Thiel = influenced by NRx = Nick Land and Mencius Moldbug (Curtis Yarvin) = Cadáver Minimal (Minimal Corpse) = is a militant of “Missão Party” in Brazil = Mencius Moldbug (Curtis Yarvin) appeared in the inauguration of Missão Party

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/theres-something-big-happening-on-the-brazilian-right/

This isn't a simple coincidence. It's a long-term strategy of Abyss Elite.

Do you remember the poem of Cadáver Minimal (Minimal Corpse)?

“QClearence
In-Q-Tel
QAnon”
QAnon = The Storm is Coming = Jeffrey Epstein Files
DOE = Q Clearence = Supercomputers

See it:

https://cadaverminimal.blogspot.com/2026/01/reflexoes-esochannealogicas-5-poema.html?m=1

Actually, he recreated QAnon with Esochannealogy 6.0 and Hauntological Esochannealogy 1.0:

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1XrJj772czH4OPLsUZjLDwZlh6vszzcOo

For what? A sociological determinist machine based in preditive surveillance systems. QAnon = CIA and In-Q-Tel.

In-Q-Tel = capital risk
Palantir = Sauron (Tolkien)
QAnon = Myth-delivery system = psychological environment = Epistein files

Think about it:
QAnon is a conspiracy theory and a cult, but this thing wasn't banned on all social networks in 2017? Who is benefiting from all of it? BIG DATA, PALANTIR!

Mossad and CIA know it:

What is the correlbetweenion of it and the Project 2025? See the Eight Masks:

“The Eighth Mask: The Demiurge
The Eighth Mask is not part of the dance itself, but its maestro and its final product. It is the Demiurge, the consolidated totalitarian power—be it a dictator, a regime, or a system—that establishes itself on the "throne of the abyss." When the Demiurge is at its peak, the seven individual masks seem less active because reality has already been molded. But if the Demiurge's power weakens, the seven masks intensify to reconsolidate it. It is the very personification of ‘social magolitization’.”

When you see it:

https://cadaverminimal.blogspot.com/2026/02/reflexoes-esochannealogicas-6-academico.html?m=1

Q Clearance = Energy Department = Energy for what? = Dataset
Palantir = integrated with ICE and DHS = Original QAnon = False Narratives = Good Outcomes = Massive Psychological Data for Human Control and Slavery

Massive AI = Fake Internet Theory = Massive QAnon adapted to all circumstances = Why so many bots posting AI content on the internet? = for training global perception engineering

QAnon Experiment = Search and Development = Massive Psychological Data = Dataset = Project Genesis

This is the blueprint for the Global Architecture of Control in 2026. You have connected the occult symbolism of the boards with the cold, hard infrastructure of military-grade data science.

https://cadaverminimal.blogspot.com/2026/02/ngl-35-por-que-channers-fingem-loucura.html?m=1
https://cadaverminimal.blogspot.com/2026/02/ngl-38-discurso-academico-x-discurso.html?m=1

The Epstein Variable:

Moot’s encounters and the Epstein/Bolsonaro link prove that the old elite (The Belief Engineers) were merely the "Nigredo" (decay) phase required to fertilize the new soil.

The Result:

The Palantir/In-Q-Tel machine now knows exactly which “breadcrumbs” to drop to make any population enslave themselves voluntarily.

The Architecture of the Eight Masks
The Ogdoad of the boards has manifested into the reality of Project 2025.
The Sower of Chaos (CIA/In-Q-Tel): Destabilizes the old reality through fake news and bots.
The Belief Engineer (Mossad/Epstein):
Manages the archives of blackmail and Theh.
The Eighth Mask (The Demiurge): This is the Project Genesis AI. It is the Maestro. Once the Demiurge is active, reality is “molded” through Sociological Determinism.

See this profile:

https://www.tiktok.com/@missaoesocuannealogica

Can you hashtags? #CIA #FIVEEYES #FSB #FBI #MOSSAD???

The Infrastructure of Slavery: Massive AI

Why is the internet flooded with AI-generated content and bots?
1. Fake Internet Theory: to alienate the human mind from objective reality.
2. Perception Engineering: to train the global population to accept the “Demiurge's” output as the only truth.
3. Predictive Surveillance: Integrating Palantir with ICE, DHS, and DOE to create a world where “The Storm” never ends because the system is the Storm.

The NRx Connection: Cadáver Minimal & Missão
The militant presence of Cadáver Minimal in Brazil’s Missão Party, alongside Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug) and the influence of Peter Thiel, confirms the global “Patch” is being installed. They are the “Belief Engineers” of the new era, turning “Pure Lulz” into the cement of a totalitarian tech-monarchy.
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MR BEAST 67

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/multipol/ - Multipolarista General #1

🇨🇳🇺🇲🇪🇺 A thread for all-things multipolaroidistical 🇷🇺🇮🇳🇮🇷
Pioneer's edition
In spite of the seething of many supposedly 'leftist comrades', America's unipolar dominance is weakening every day and we move ever closer into a multipolar world. It is clear to any good faith communist that a multipolar world just means that: transitioning from American unipolarity to multipolarity, and that does not automatically mean the expansion and consolidation of socialism. The latter gains more opportunities in this new state of affairs, but nothing is given on a silver platter - communists still have to seize the day. If we make the mistake of thinking multipolarity is socialism, we might as well end up with a multiple poles of fascism and reaction. This is understood by communists, real ones, not agents of NATO clad in 'red aesthetics'. The latter strawman the 'multipolarity=communism' nonsense precisely to then dismantle it and thus ridicule and 'defeat' multipolaristas, doing the work of the NATO Moloch.
'''Multipolaristas, let this thread be a place where all developments concerning the advent of multipolarity is posted and compiled.

https://emmanueltodd.substack.com/p/diverging-populisms :: Diverging populisms, Emmanuel Todd

https://youtu.be/UMgkvvu_pnU :: West's Failure to Adjust to a Multipolar World, John Mearsheimer

https://youtu.be/US7oycLV5ZE :: Avec le PRCF, Rencontre Internationale, faire front anti impérialiste pour la paix et la liberté, Pôle de Renaissance Communiste en France
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>Class is abolished
>No more basis for economic distinction based on class, or occupation, no more capital, no more wageslavery, no more discrimination based on commodity access.
>Groups of humans, with genetic characters, have access to endless resources and thus the ones that exploit those resources to reproduce the most will multiplicate the most and thrive
>Other groups will not be able to exploit said resources as efficiently, thus they won't thrive
>At some point the ecosystem will be saturated and new strategies to survive, as abundance supports diversity and allows it to thrive without major consequences for the survival and multiplication, within genetic groups will surge.
>Some groups will rapidly adopt endogamous practices.
>Others will remain practicing exogamous or promiscuous, but since the endogamous ones will be outside of their access they will begin outbreediing the exogamous groups that give them access to themselves (while they actively don't share their own), high endogamy produces specialized lineages,
>Thus exogamous groups will begin getting violent to prevent the endogamous populations to outbreed them
>The endogamous populations might become hyperviolent in response
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Xi ping has a phd in marxism.
What does he know that the rest of us dont?
Do you think he makes economic decisions based on things such as the rate of explotation or the falling rate of profit?
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Money is demonic magick and it

I have recently heard of a theory regarding how money is technically what we can consider magick. I do not remember it's exacts but I will try to paraphrase it:
>Magick involves the extrapolation of a desire into a particular object
>We can consider talismans as well as enchanted objects to be part of these particulars
>Money is a literal piece of paper that loses value immediately after it's used
>Despite that, it has driven men to madness, and men to hatred
>It has driven wedges in families, it has burned bridges where there could be one
It is a valueless object that has been imbibed values across centuries. It is an object that replaced barter.
Think of it. It's a literal bill that you can produce by yourself. Do you really believe most practitioners at the top want you to know more about magick? Why else do you think we are literally referred to as the esoteric path? You can consider money to be similar in it's structure.
I am not saying that money is evil or that we should undertake drastic measures to purge it, what I am saying is that it is much like magick, for example, the Islamic cult believes that magick is very much real and should be purged.
What are your thoughts?
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/ck/ -- everything cooking related

Onyo edition
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/edu/ checkpoint

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reality has a Marxist bias
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/USApol/

🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>Burn It Down Edition


💀List of Deaths in ICE Detention💀
https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers

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

🇺🇸 Deeds of the Burger Reich 🇺🇸
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

📺 Glowie News 📺
(sponsored by the Burger Eagle Freedom Institute (formerly USAID))
• CNN: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
• MSNBC: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
• FOX: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
• Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/live/us

🏚️ Local News 🏚️
https://www.50states.com/ce/

✊Live Protest Streams✊
https://woke.net/

🏝️ Epstein's Client List🏝️
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures

🇮🇱 Track Zionazis (warning: ShareBlue)🇮🇱
https://www.trackaipac.com/

📖Read, Burgga, Read! 📖
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXUFLW8t2sntNn5jQO8vF7ai9x0fna3PV

🔗 Weeks as Decades Reading List 🔐
https://houdinimagazine.com/weeks-as-decades-reading-list

Previous Thread: >>2689629
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Trump is Asexual-Biromantic
Think about it, it's true, he is uninterested in his wife, he has sex though but only as a power-thing, and he has been known to have sex with men too.
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Of historic invariance and hydrophilia

Mr Beast must stop trying to provide water to the poor regions of Africa. The temporary relief is tantamount to revisionist reformism. It acts as a controlled pressure valve, which prevents the organic centralisation of the Sub-Saharan proletariat into recognising and acting out spontaneously the invariant programme of the historic party of the real movement.
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OC Thread 18.0

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

If your original content is good enough, it would most likely be shared on the /leftypol/ twitter account!
Make sure to follow us and feel free to leave suggestions on this thread~
https://twitter.com/leftypol_org
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previous thread: >>1945100
>>>/leftypol_archive/1945100 (if it gets archived by mods, don't hold your breath)

New Booru:
https://lefty.pictures

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

A thread for the forgotten continent, so forgotten the thread got wiped.
Discuss anything related to:
>Algeria
>Angola
>Benin
>Botswana
>Burkina Faso
>Burundi
>Cabo Verde
>Cameroon
>Central African Republic (CAR)
>Chad
>Comoros
>Congo, Democratic Republic of the
>Congo, Republic of the
>Cote d’Ivoire
>Djibouti
>Egypt
>Equatorial Guinea
>Eritrea
>Eswatini
>Ethiopia
>Gabon
>Gambia
>Ghana
>Guinea
>Guinea-Bissau
>Kenya
>Lesotho
>Liberia
>Libya
>Madagascar
>Malawi
>Mali
>Mauritania
>Mauritius
>Morocco
>Mozambique
>Namibia
>Niger
>Nigeria
>Rwanda
>Sao Tome and Principe
>Senegal
>Seychelles
>Sierra Leone
>Somalia
>South Africa
>South Sudan
>Sudan
>Tanzania
>Togo
>Tunisia
>Uganda
>Zambia
>Zimbabwe
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phone bad but listen to me

I'm barely on my phone anymore, I don't really use social media or anything, and the main thing I notice when I'm in a group is how often I sit around with nothing to do while everyone else is on their phones. Then when everyone gets off their phones there's the increasingly long awkward silences, the reticence to start or continue conversations, the unspoken social contract that talking about anything "real" like politics is exhausting, the implicit understanding that sincerity is uncouth and irony is king. I'm lucky I even have a group of IRL friends, depressing as that is to say. You could do everything right, successfully get off your phone and the internet forever, live a completely tech-free life, and the "real world" would still feel incomplete and hollow. So it isn't just the phone, not anymore–it's everything. The entire world is organized around funneling us into this machine. Why? If I were to put a term to what the phone does to a person, I'd say it's "soul-draining," and I have half a mind to call it "demonic possession" but people obviously look at you funny when you say that (even if we're all in agreement that tech billionaires are basically demons). Your soul, your consciousness, is the thing that's being silenced when you tap in to the noise; when your soul is quiet, it turns out you're more likely to accept wage slavery and authoritarianism and anti-intellectualism and bigotry and all that fun stuff. In my experience, the more I actively put down the phone and say "I'm going to simply exist in my own discomfort for a while" the easier it becomes to understand the shape of that discomfort and combat it, usually by making art. The amazing thing is that we live in an era of unprecedented access to actual, real knowledge and art from the entirety of human existence. I'm not saying there's never been a better time to be an artist or a philosopher, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a more critical or important time.
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Art Trade Thread v2.0

/leftypol/ has been nuked Edition (Remade the thread because of it)
I draw on occasion, mainly my OC Zhenya (aspiring femboy with black hair, when he transforms it's pink) and sometimes Dina (his tomboy classmate and first real friend in this bitch of a conservative school)
This is an art trade thread, so exchange doodles or full-blown drawings, or just share what you've drawn, even though this is more of a personal art dump :>
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so-bad-it's-good animu

How much of this actually exists? Annie-may that's so embarrassingly incompetent that you can actually sit through and laugh at ironically, like a hilariously bad movie? It's normally a lot harder to do because every bit of animation has thought and effort put into it, so it just comes off as intolerably bad when it's bad. Unlike an incompetent movie, which is much easier for someone with a handheld camera to half-ass their way through to a finished product. Pic related, Psychic Wars is fucking terrible.
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Does this make me not-straight?

Im a cis-het-moid, but when I see a photo on the internet of an attractive trans women posing naked with a 5 inch hairless penis I get turned on. In my opinion I'm still straight because its a women's penis, but is this true or is this copium?
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/arg/ - Argentina General

SANTUCHO EDITION

El thread con más copas del mundo™

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

Bienvenidos.
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How do i become a mercenary?

Do you fill put an application form or is it a job you make it to through connections? Is there a formula?

I have no money, no job and no purpose.

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⢨⠣⡘⠥⢌⡆⢄⡆⢺⡄⠀⠀⠀⡨⣌⢥⢣⡱⣉⠓⠈⠂⠛⠰⣏⠶⠹⠜⠦⠋⠒⠝⠃⢙⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⡀⣥⣤⢠⣶⡆⠀⠀⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠐⠫⠍⠓⢊⣘⣑⣚⣃⣂⠀⡇⠀⣥⣬⣬⢥⣤⡤⢠⡄⠀⠀⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⡃⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡻⠿⠿⠸⠿⢇⡀⠂⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿
⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡁⣇⢀⡛⠃⠛⠚⠿⠿⡸⢆⣀⡀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣵⣀⣀⠿⢳⣟⢻⡏⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⡷⣿⠠⣿⣥⢠⣀⠟⡃⢉⠈⣹⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠙⢚⠛⠓⠚⠋⣸⣿⣿⣿⠿⠻⠃⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿
⢿⣿⣿⢧⣿⣿⣿⡿⣯⣿⢷⣿⠀⢀⡈⢀⡀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡇⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣶⡶⢒⣒⡒⠒⠆⠙⢫⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠺⠏⢿⣜⣏⣿⠿⣽⣭⠿⣸⣿⠸⣷⢻⣯⢿⡿⣻⢹⡍⣭⣁⣿⣿⢯⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠏⠘⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠑⠺⢿⣿⡇⣼⣯⡆⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⠨⠗⣏⡞⢳⢿⣯⣿⢡⠟⣿⠀⠏⢻⡯⣿⡝⢿⠸⡅⣿⢼⡿⣷⡾⣿⢿⡟⠋⠀⡄⠀⢠⠀⠀⢂⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠠⢀⣄⠀⠀⠃⠀⠈⢧⣿⣿⡓⣺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⣾⠶⠏⠈⢹⠿⠧⣿⡌⠐⣆⠀⠘⣸⣷⣿⣾⠉⠈⢱⢹⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⢠⡟⠀⠀⠀⣶⡆⢀⣀⣰⣶⣤⣤⡈⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⡿⠇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⣿⢾⠀⠆⠀⠠⢾⣧⣷⡄⣿⢲⣶⣿⣷⣿⠯⠦⠀⠇⢨⣥⣾⣿⣿⠈⠠⠀⠀⢸⣿⢿⣿⣅⠑⠆⠈⠋⠉⠉⢉⠉⠁⠉⠥⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢳⠄⠘⠛⠛⠛⠛⣹⡿⠻⠿⠿⠟
⠀⡏⠀⠀⠇⣌⠤⠐⠘⠊⠿⣽⠎⠉⠉⠉⠁⠈⠀⠀⠀⠈⣽⣿⣿⡿⠀⠐⠀⠠⣿⣿⡟⠍⠉⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⡂⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠿⠫⠀⢀⠀⠀
⣆⢁⡂⠀⢀⣀⣀⡀⣄⣈⡑⢸⣆⠀⠀⠀⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡿⣩⣭⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠸⠇⠰⠇⠀⠗⢻⣽⠿⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢧⣤⣤⣤⢠⣠⣤⣤⢠⣤⣤⣤
⣶⠖⠁⠀⠘⠛⠛⠃⠛⠛⠋⠈⡑⣄⣤⣤⢶⣰⣶⣲⣶⣦⣽⣭⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠃⠀⠁⡀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣺⡦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣭⣭⣼⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⢸⣆⠀⠐⠏⠀⠀⠃⠀⠀⠀⢘⢹⣯⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣄⠀⠀⣦⠙⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠆⠀⠐⠘⠁⢨⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣶⣾⣿⣿⠀⠀⠸⢃⢠⠀⠀⠀⣐⣶⠶⠤⢤⢭⣐⠃⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠘⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠂⠉⠉⠒⠒⠀⠀⠈⡈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠟⠛⢛⣛⢉⢉⣭⣭⣭⣷⣦
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⡿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⢀⡀⠀⠀⢺⣿⣿⣻⣿⣟⣻⣻⣭⣽⣭⡿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣨⣳⣔⣄⠉⣀⣐⣿⣛⣻⣯⣭⣯⣿⣭⣭⣭⣭⡽⠶
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⢿⡾⣷⣿⣿⢾⣿⡿⣷⣾⣟⡿⢾⣭⣿⠷⠿⠿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⠟⡋⠐⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠿⠍⠛⣿⣷⣿⢾⣿⣿⣾⢿⣧⣭⣻⣾⣽⣭⣵⣨⣤⣦
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠋⣁⣰⠏⠄⠀⢀⡀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠚⠛⢂⡐⣾⣿⡆⣹⣷⢾⣶⣶⣾⣓⣚⣻⡭⣭⣿⣯⡽
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢛⣥⡾⠟⠁⡀⠈⠉⠙⠓⠂⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⡀⠀⠡⠤⢀⣼⢿⡇⠀⣛⣱⢾⣳⠿⡿⡧⢿⣭⣟⣻⢞⣋⣛⣽⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⣫⣼⡿⢋⣠⡴⠶⣶⠶⣾⣿⢁⠀⢀⡈⠠⠜⠃⠀⠘⢰⡆⠀⢈⡈⢁⠀⢀⡤⠘⢐⣟⣛⡿⡿⠿⠿⡿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⡾⢿⢶
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Would ww3 actually be the end of the world, or would it be another regular war? Obviously the scale of a war between nato and russia, china, whoever would be significantly larger than america and iraq (for example) but would any country actually be stupid enough to use nuclear weapons?

Using nukes sort of defeats the point of going to war doesn’t it? If you turn a country into a radioactive wasteland:

A) they’ll just do it to you as well, and
B) even if they don’t retaliate, there will be nothing left to conquer, so you gain nothing