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🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<Dersh in the Fuhrerbunker Edition


Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid. 🏈 💵
Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

🛠️ 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 📺
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>>2549820
mmm yes use me against the wall babe

That speech was amazing. I am full with hopium.

>>2549824
did Maodami declare the Great New York Cultural Revolution

>>2549817
god shes so freakin cute

>>2549824

I-I'M A SOCIAL DEMOCRAT

he's really self conscious about the socialism label now. That part made him look weak. He should just own socialism, he's already mayor.



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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
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>>2549671
I wonder what his Taiwanese girlfriend thinks reading that shit.

>>2549715
Do you mean his imaginary girlfriend?

>>2549734
His gf is some young labor careerist

How do we deal with the fact that Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit etc are all completely embedded with all kinds of reactionary memetic traps which hook people into an alternate reality?



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What's the real story behind the Soviet deportations during WW2 because even MLs say that it was a bad thing but that feels like capitulation that Stalin is as bad as the Nazis as it was an ethnic cleansing from how it's described by western liberal historians
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>>2549429
No,that's absolutely not true,hitler and the nazis is seen as an ethereal evil like they're the fucking Nazgul,the final boss of villainy.
Mao is more rarely attacked compared to Stalin,who is seen as a paranoiac dictator who executed a bajillion people under him,and hoarded all the grain and shit.
maybe they teach it differently in Eastern Europe I don't know.

>>2506216
Collective punishment is fucking stupid

>>2549452
Do you also think it was wrong to expel the Germs from western poland

>>2549720
provided the perfect example for the nakba to happen legally

>>2549429
I didn't deny that, I was talking about how simply admitting that the deportations happened and that they were a gross excess with a terrible human cost isn't the same thing as conceding that Stalin was as bad as Hitler. Again, even a highly uncharitable framing of these policies can at best frame them as criminally negligent, which is not the same as being deliberately murderous.



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Besides Cockshott and maybe Richard Wolff, are there any good, academic, Marxist economists who are worth reading and can be used in debates to defend Marxism?
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>>2549713
>>2547113
>The business owner at the more efficient firm gets more money and uses that money to obtain things. These can be all sorts of use-values, it's up to the business owner how to split that between investment and luxury consumption
>>2548248
>The capitalist with higher efficiency gets more money and uses that money to obtain things
>(Of all the things in the world he could buy, why would he buy the very same things his company produces?)

>>2549754
Do you believe that among companies producing the same commodity there is a value transfer from companies with less efficient tech to companies with more efficient tech?

>>2549758
Why do you insist on changing the subject every time you get proven wrong and answer every question with a question?

>>2549767
This post quotes a statement and asks a question about it:
>>2546041
<if the current social average for a thing is X and a capitalist introduces tech that lowers the social average, they can continue to sell at or just below that X because all their competitors have not implemented the tech. so what is the source of additional surplus value that they appropriate? it comes from workers in the firms that are still working at the old average
>Is this conclusion logical.
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>>2547113
>how on earth would he extract something from exactly those workers at the less efficient firms producing the same stuff, of all people?
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>>2548248
<if the current social average for a thing is X and a capitalist introduces tech' that lowers the social average, they can continue to sell at or just below that X because all their competitors have not implemented the tech.
>That I read as referring to companies in the same industry, because one would not say that e. g. a bicycle company "fails" to implement some new tech that comes up in the aviation industry.
<so what is the source of additional surplus value that they appropriate? it comes from workers in the firms that are still working at the old average
>So this seems to refer to workers in other companies within the same industrial sector with lower efficiency and posits a value transfer coming from specifically these workers. And this does not make sense.
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>>2545021
>are gig workers lumpen?
>are people with two minimum wage part time jobs lumpen?
>>2547142
>Where do you think value comes from?
>are you talking about his personal spending?
>>2547633
>where do you think value comes from and what does a business owners luxury consumption have to do with the social distribution of value?
why do you think i am suggesting he has to buy his own product and what does that have to do with the source of his profits?
>where does the additional value he gets come from?
>>2548265
>what things?
>What does this have to do with unequal exchange?
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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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Billions must die… there was a guy in venezuela that like perond nn denied the holocaust…………….

>>2521821
Don't google Fidel Castro Francisco Franco unless you're ready to be disappointed

>>2521953
>Waría Glowrina Machudo
I am totally stealing this btw

>>2521970
castro was a fascist? cuba bros…..

Is free will le spook?



/leftypol/

 

Why is leftypol not throwing massive support behind Mamdani?

No one believes he’s an actual socialist, however his victory will be the most important victory of the American left of the past 90 years. Why? Because it shows the Zionist Lobby has NO POWER compared to the power of the MASSES OF PEOPLE and we can defeat the satanic Zionist entity not with a violent revolution but simply with voting. Nobody believes Mamdani is a perfect candidate but that’s not the point.

So why aren’t we backing him en masse? His inevitable win will be the biggest blow to US-Zio imperialism in modern history.
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>>2549798
He’s still a succdem

>>2549798
>>2549798
The majority of users here are /pol/ larpers looking to get a reaction for their friends on 4chinz

>>2539445
>I support Zohran wining so we can point and say "look - look at all the nothing electoralism gets you"
At this point I think that's a lot more likely to result in apathy than anything else. The left needs to actually start racking up wins if a real worker's movement is ever going to materialize.

>>2549798
I'm somewhat happy he won but I also don't really have anything past boilerplate to say about it. Just repeating the boilerplate is equivalent to not saying anything.

>>2539310
This is huge for the left, socialists actually winning in the US is ground breaking.



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>>2548928
>China is, however much they might deny it, Menshevik, and the Chinese party state is strong enough to make it work.

This is not how states work. Socdems are bad because at every point in time, they opt to cuck out to porkies and wait for porkies to solve their problems. They don't take history in their own hands

>>2549514
The Mensheviks were wrong because they wanted to abdicate government control to bourgeois liberal """"democracy"""". The Bolsheviks themselves knew they would have to do developmental capitalism if the German Revolution failed. In the end the two positions have fused into modern Dengism.

>>2549578
Menshiviks couldn't have pulled it off because of the weak nature of the Soviet state at the time. The CPC could because they purged all class enemies.

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Beijing literally is the future compared with Washington 🤯🤯🤯

>>2549578
>Dengism is the Bolshevik-Menshevik Synthesis
So you are saying they are dialectical



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Welcome, comrades! Here we discuss everything Sonic the Hedgehog.

/lsthg/ #1 - Free as the Wind Edition

NEWS
>Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Accolades Trailer
https://youtu.be/C6BSu_x0gcE

>Sonic Rumble arrives this November

https://x.com/Sonic_Rumble/status/1978491359452364988

>Sonic the Hedgehog 4 to release on March 19, 2027

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sonic-4-release-date-march-2027-1236280697/

RECENT SEGASONIC GAMES
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Links:

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

Youtube Playlists
Anwar Shaikh - Historical Foundations of Political Economy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTMFx0t8kDzc72vtNWeTP05x6WYiDgEx7
Anwar Shaikh - Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises
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>>2547894
>>2545190
>>2547194
I will leave this answer for anyone who has doubts and is falling for the austerity propaganda of neoliberals wanting to blame the unemployed for the decline in productivity in the United Kingdom.

The UK’s long-term productivity crisis is a direct product of capitalist decay such as falling profitability, financialisation, and rent-seeking, not state spending or welfare. Michael Roberts and other Marxist economists have been writing about this for over a decade.

<In the case of the UK, there is another particular problem: the UK is increasingly a rentier economy, relying on finance, business services and real estate. These are unproductive activities that do not boost the productivity of labour, but do reduce available profits for productive investment. Indeed, the relative fall-back in UK productivity compared to Germany and France etc can be particularly discerned from the early 2000s, when the oil revenues dissipated and investment increasingly went into a credit fuelled real estate boom.


<A detailed sectoral analysis by the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence has shown that three-fifths of the drop in productivity growth stems from sectors representing only a fifth of output, including finance, utilities, pharmaceuticals, computing and professional services. The Bank of England did a similar analysis found that it is the top ones that have become the slackers. The most productive groups are “failing to improve on each other at the same rate as their predecessors did”, according to its research. The best companies still improved their productivity faster than the rest, but productivity growth among the best has sharply fallen and this has hurt the UK’s growth rate.


<Investment in a capitalist economy depends on its profitability as I have argued ad nauseam in this blog. And there is still relatively low profitability and a continued overhang of debt, particularly corporate debt, in the major economies. In the case of the UK, the profitability of the non-financial sector is st
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>>2549570
> the UK is increasingly a rentier economy, relying on finance, business services and real estate.
there's a certain anon who calls Michael Hudson antisemitic for noticing these consequences of deindustrialization in the imperial core

hey guys do you think AI will reset the falling rate of profit? also why do we need robots for ubi why cant we just do ubi with computers we already have. like think about it wages decoupled from productivity right when computers happened we could all have ubi right now and then when the ai comes we can have universal maximum income.

>>2549733
i think adam smith and karl would have agreed on this and even graeber and haz. everyone wins

>>2549733
>hey guys do you think AI will reset the falling rate of profit?
no. because AI = constant capital and a higher ratio of constant capital to variable capital results in lower rates of profit, not higher. Listen to cockshott talk about this.



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How are we feeling about it?

I am cautiously optimistic from the all the gameplay footage released. It genuinely looks like it will be a fun multifaceted game.
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>>43773
>that'd just look ugly
wut, why the fuck would a realistic planet rather than a map be ugly

>it doesnt really fit into the time period

Im pretty sure the rulers and scholars were aware earth was round, fucking ancient greeks knew it already

>it looks better as a map

purely subjective I guess cause I disagree

anyway, they had their big marketing push and some youtube ppl got it, the systems look good to me, if they work and are not too horribly broken

First impressions:
- UI is truly bad, busy and difficult to read. Buttons have all shapes and sizes, there are UI elements that look like buttons that aren't buttons, and vice versa. It is insane. Font size varies wildly, everywhere. Not every menu needs a painted background! It would be OK to have Vic2 spreadsheet style UI if that's the best way to convey information. The tech tree, or "advances" tab is exceptionally horrible with so much empty space and big trees with no obvious layout or categories. Some tooltips are just useless, like "Pops with needs" - OK which pops? I need to click around in an entirely different menu to find out. There are also many typos, even in menus.

- I don't think that Goods system had to be so granular… it seems easily trivialized by expanding RGOs to solve shortages, which is quite cheap, but tedious. My Greek peasants need 0.00023 Masonry! Feels like a lot of additional clicking when system could have just been abstracted away to begin with for the same effect. IDK, I suppose it enables different gameplay for building-only polities but it doesn't seem necessary for the traditional gameplay, which is around consolidation of states. The game shows me 10 options but immediately points out which is the most profitable/viable - so why would I ever choose anything else? Even if the optimal choice changes situationally, I will always know what it is!

-Game seems rather easy, which again makes the econ micro seem like busywork. It isn't difficult to snowball or get ahistorical populations early on. Effect stacking curse from other PDS games is present here, too. Event spam is also here, with the same kind of boring +10% this -20 that effects. The events are not anywhere near as bad as CK3, however, so that is forgivable. Religions and cultures seem less sticky than even EU4.

-Situations absolutely do not provide the uniqueness that mission trees (even barebones ones in Imperator) did. That was gaslighting on the part of PDS and paid marketers (youtubers). They took the time to put in mission trees with the HOI4-like national focus window, and right now these are totally unused except for tutorial content. It seems obvious to me that this will be a vehicle for DLCs as well as Situations. Make no mistake, gameplay will be very repetitive between countries, especially econ busywork and clicking to build the same buildings (or slightly different ones) 100 times.

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>>44766
Positives:
- I do appreciate the fidelity of the simulation. Many components of it are great: trade capacity, transportation costs, estates building things, foreign investment, minting, inflation, laws, control. I just don't understand how they fucked up the UI so badly, it makes the systems seem more complex than they are.
- The military system is realistic and good. AI doesn't manage wars properly but that's a perennial problem.
- Diplomacy is good. Dynastic politics are actually possible.
- I really like laws and voting for international organizations. I can imagine some mod creating a full United Nations or NATO with this system.
- The mana-like systems are tolerable because they are tied and grounded to the simulation aspects.

>>44764
isntalled the game and played for some time with 8gb ram plus rx 550 on lowest specs and flat mapmode
first time loading takes forever, afterwards it boots up normally
it's 2 or 3 days in-game per second at speed 5
you can learn the mechanics but it's too slow for gameplay

>>44769
if paradox tried a little this game would be more optimized but they insist on a protracted reactionary war against 3rd worldists who can't afford new computer pieces



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Tomoko thread… why? Because I like the character… and other reasons…
Post lewds (spoilered), memes, edits, pics and anything else related to the subject
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flood my ass

>>29382
I bet that plushie stinks like ass

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>>29383
She probably sweated all over it so its super stiff too

>>29384
That's a very cool t-shirt!

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>>2549275
you make sure you get killed properly. Frag your CO while you are at it.

>>2549275
I'd rather constantly break my legs than be involved in an interimperialist war.

>>2549275
He looks content

>>2549275
Cut off your toe, or two or whole foot, before the mandatory conscription becomes punishable by law

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one of my favorite deranged nafo trolls on X is suffereing some hardship after he decided to violate the laws he professes are a beacon of the civilization he defends.
he went to desecrate the Chinese embassy in Australia and now got a fine that will leave him in bankruptcy. the system took three years to finally settle the fine, but it's for realsies this time.
this is part of his delusion and circus.



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Can someone give me non-bullshit explanation of how exactly Western PROLETARIAT benefits from imperialism?

The West exported their investments and know-how and helped in the industrialization of the third world. Not just China, but also SEA, Asian tigers, India, Brazil, Poland, Malaysia etc. This resulted in the exact opposite of what happened in colonialism. The Western industries were hollowed out this time, and outsourced to the third world. Now sure, the Western bourgie benefited from this, but the money didnt trickle down much. That's why in the 1970s you could support a family and live a decent life doing a simple blue collar job and now you cant. So where exactly did the Western PROLETARIAT benefit from this imperialism?
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*AN* Anti-Imperialist

Why do you support videos which can't even use proper English in their headlines?? They misspell shit and use awful grammar, yet you click away and encourage them.

You need to take a stand. If that guy actually says "A Anti" you need to cut ties. Do not click. Do not listen.

Got it? That's the only way we're going to fix what's important to us; the spelling. Without that, the message is false.

I need you to agree. Respond to this post with your assurance that you'll avoid videos like that from NOW ON.

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>>2549449
>Lenin and mao were decolonizers
lol. colonization was an inevitable stage of early capitalism you braindead moron

>Funny how "decolonization" is badevil when it's suggested in the imperial core, when everywhere else it's justvcalled "communist revolution".

confirmed retard who only understands the world through vibes

to you losers your understanding of imperialism is "the US = imperialism and any opposition = anti imperialism" lmfao. i really doubt that you could explain imperialism in anything other than liberal bourgeois term

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Anti-imperialists support the bourgeois state when it suits them because it reflects their ethical ideals arising from their perceived interests as a middle-class citizen.

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Btw colonialism is an ongoing & sustained process in settler colonial countries to this day, just like cyclical primitive accumulation

Stageist brainlets don't get this



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a Nazi teenager enjoying the best quality of life in the western hemisphere recording an album with a playmobile cassette deck or whatever, about how miserable existence is
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>>16235
Idk. Northern lands can be dreary in the winter, especially in the cities.
I cannot imagine how grim it is in Eurasia in November thru March after sunset.

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>>16237
>I cannot imagine how grim it is in Eurasia in November thru March after sunset.

>>16237
Yeah im sure you would love tropical Haiti a lot more
Fucking crackers, nothing is ever enough to please them

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>>16219
It's valid because existence itself is suffering, even if you're on the top, to think communism or being rich will magically turn your life into blissful contentment is naive utopianism, sure it would improve life but it doesn't resolve existential angst and the problem of evil.

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Hahahaha
also it's fascinating how these people argue("this is BROWN" "no YOUR BROWN")
peak spooked thinking



/leftypol/

 

/US-Venezuela war/ #2
>Tired of the re-runs edition
>>2440521 Previous thread
https://archive.ph/4Dq3L Thread 1 Archive

The Real Reason the USA Is Attacking Latin America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcWH-LPyTow
0:00 Trump's war on Latin America
1:04 (CLIP) Trump meddles in Argentina's election
1:23 US imperial strategy in Latin America
2:02 (CLIP) Trump wants Venezuela's oil
2:14 Natural resources
2:41 Ties with China and Russia
3:02 Oligarchic counter-revolution
4:11 US war on Venezuela
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>>2548403
It will be neither under us rule and you know it

It will be,Chile became so much wealthy after the coup,why you prefer Allende?(USER ALREADY BANNED)

>>2548607
>that lack of space after using commas
you are the same person that tried to derail the sudan thread and defend israel and the uae. mods get rid of this troll

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Trump Weighs Options, and Risks, for Attacks on Venezuela
The Trump administration has developed a range of options for military action in Venezuela, including direct attacks on military units that protect President Nicolás Maduro and moves to seize control of the country’s oil fields, according to multiple U.S. officials.

President Trump has yet to make a decision about how or even whether to proceed. Officials said he was reluctant to approve operations that may place American troops at risk or could turn into an embarrassing failure. But many of his senior advisers are pressing for one of the most aggressive options: ousting Mr. Maduro from power.

Mr. Trump’s aides have asked the Justice Department for additional guidance that could provide a legal basis for any military action beyond the current campaign of striking boats that the administration says are trafficking narcotics, without providing evidence. Such guidance could include a legal rationale for targeting Mr. Maduro without creating the need for congressional authorization for the use of military force, much less a declaration of war.

While the guidance is still being drafted, some administration officials expect it will argue that Mr. Maduro and his top security officials are central figures in the Cartel de los Soles, which the administration has designated as a narco-terrorist group. The Justice Department is expected to contend that designation makes Mr. Maduro a legitimate target despite long standing American legal prohibitions on assassinating national leaders.

The Justice Department declined to comment. But the move to justify targeting Mr. Maduro would constitute another effort by the administration to stretch its legal authorities. It has already engaged in targeted killings of suspected drug smugglers who, until September, were pursued and arrested at sea rather than killed in drone strikes. Any effort to remove Mr. Maduro would place the administration under further scrutiny over whatever legal rationale it does offer, given the hazy mix of reasons it has presented so far for confronting Mr. Maduro. Among them are drug trafficking, the need for American access to oil and Mr. Trump’s claims that the Venezuelan government released prisoners into the United States.

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/leftypol/

 

What does leftypol think of animal rights?

Personally I believe proles are valued the same as cattle, and that we should liberate both nature and humanity. I have also been a long-term vegetarian
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>>2545913
Animals have the right to a decent life before humane killing and placement in my digestive tract.

>>2549426
>We can eat animals as we are top of the food chain
this is no different to holding a religious belief, only your religion determines that whoever is at the top of the constructed idea of a "food chain" is arbitrarily exempt from moral wrongdoings (you might say morals are a religion if you haven't had this conversation before, but that's wrong, you are nothing without morals, i won't explain this to you but you can research it, or figure out what a moral means)

animals are living creatures capable of feeling. humans are living creatures capable of feeling. what separates these two? is it the fact that humans can express information? because animals express information to eachother too. so it can't be that. your distinction likely comes from the fact of humans being significantly more intelligent. in which case, a moral argument could be made there. but don't treat animals like they aren't intelligent too, because that's ignoring material reality. elephants and dolphins in particular could rival human intelligence, only they don't have thumbs. as a materialist you must remember, humans came from the same earth that every other animal did too. the only reason for our particular success is largely attributed to a combination of our language + our thumbs

"chu dinnit jus fall out of a coconut tree" - communist chairman from my timeline (humans and animals became equally protected in 2027 thx to her)

>>2549453
I don't eat elephant or dolphin

>>2549455
sure. but cows, sheep, and pigs are all really smart too. also including dogs here, if you're Chinese as well. have a look through r/likeus, ok? many good posts there, except for the cute ones

i think i actually really love >>2549447's idea, that these animals should live out their short lifespans in a safe and free environment before being humanly turned into nutrition, since they're going to die early regardless. it's a very warm outlook, that still seems utilitarian enough to me

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>>2549426
>We can eat animals as we are top of the food chain.
Individualist nonsense, along with being a inverted conception of what a food chain is. Capacity determines position, position doesn't "permit" capacity.
>>2549453
Read Max Stirner, then learn what ethics are. Morals are obsolete.



/latam/

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EDIÇÃO OXALAIA QUILOMBENSIS
"Foi um grande dinossauro terópode que viveu há aproximadamente 95 milhões de anos, durante o período Cretáceo. Seus fósseis foram descobertos na Ilha do Cajual, no Maranhão, região que já revelou outros importantes achados paleontológicos."
"O nome científico da espécie faz uma referência à divindade afro-brasileira Oxalá e aos assentamentos quilombolas maranhenses."
(arte do Victor Sales/@vsalesv)
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil

Último fio: >>11885
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>Reddit caiu

>>13439
O que te faz a levar a pensar isso?

amigos, como obter ritalina?

>>13344
encontrada viva!!! uma das maiores ressureições dos animes

>>13438
Esse doente mental não faz nada da vida além de postar em chans?



/leftypol/

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Tudeh condemns raids and arrests of Iran’s leftist intellectuals
Economists Parviz Sedaghat and Mohammad Maljou, researcher Rasoul Ghanbari, sociologist Mahsa Asadollahnejad, and writers Shirin Karimi and Hayman Rahimi were arrested on Monday, according to reports. Mr Maljou’s whereabouts remain unknown, campaigners warned. Mr Sedaghat’s daughter, Mahtab Sedaghat, chief editor of Criticism of Political Economy, said security forces raided their home at about 7.15am and arrested him after searching the property.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tudeh-condemns-raids-and-arrests-irans-leftist-intellectuals

PKK leader Ocalan urges progress in Turkish peace process
"To progress to a positive phase, it is essential for everyone to act with sensitivity, seriousness and a sense of responsibility," Ocalan wrote in the message, which was published by a delegation from the pro-Kurdish DEM party that visited him in jail on Monday. "The basis for this must be to integrate the Kurdish question in all its dimensions into the country's legal framework and engage in a solid transition process."
https://www.newarab.com/news/pkk-leader-ocalan-urges-progress-turkish-peace-process

Top Israeli trade union chief arrested as part of corruption probe
ISRAELI police detained several senior officials from the country’s main trade union federation, the Histadrut, on Monday, including its chairman Arnon Bar-David, as part of a major corruption investigation. Authorities said the probe, which has been ongoing for more than two years, involves allegations of bribery, fraud, breach of trust, money laundering and tax offences.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/top-israeli-trade-union-chief-arrested-part-corruption-probe

Violent Maccabi fans were organised fighters 'linked to IDF', UK police found
the West Midlands Police assessment which led to the ban was based on intelligence provided by DutPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Latin America having a normal one.

War Criminal Dick Cheney Dead at 84
Dick Cheney, a chief architect of the US invasion of Iraq and broader “war on terror” that has killed millions of people since its inception, has died at 84, his family announced in a statement Tuesday. Cheney was best known for his central role in the administration of former President George W. Bush, under whom Cheney served as vice president.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/dick-cheney-dies

UAW demands job security as VW workers in Chattanooga vote to authorize strike
There's new reaction Thursday after members of the United Auto Workers voted to authorize a strike at Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant. The vote gives union leaders the power to call for a strike.
https://newschannel9.com/news/local/uaw-demands-job-security-as-vw-workers-in-chattanooga-vote-to-authorize-strike

US citizen shot by ICE in California as Illinois detainees sue over inhumane conditions
According to his lawyers, last Thursday in Ontario, California, US citizen Carlos Jimenez, 25, was shot in the back by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents after he tried to warn them that children would soon be gathering at a nearby school bus stop. Jimenez was on his way to work at a food bank when he came upon ICE agents conducting a traffic stop near the bus stop.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/04/jpiy-n04.html

Maine Ballot Measure Is Testing the Power of Graham Platner’s Volunteer Army
In an unusual turn of events, arguably the most well-organized opposition to the ballot question has come not from the Democratic Party, but from Graham Platner’s upstart Senate campaign—which is still less than three months old. By the end of this weekend, more than 3,000 volunteers across 23 locations had attended an organizing training event put on by Platner’s campaign. Platner, an oysterman and military veteran from eastern Maine, is vying for the Democratic nomination to take on Republican Sen.
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984 - The Killing Fields feat. Jasper Nathaniel (11/3/25) (Chapo Trap House)
Jasper Nathaniel is back with another report from the occupied West Bank. He tells us about a band of West Bank settlers attacking him and locals in the olive fields of Turmus’ayya, including an old woman who was beaten unconscious on camera. He then talks about the Israeli military and intelligence’s response to the crime, the footage actually breaking through to the mainstream Anglophone press, and various U.S. Senators’ response to the attack. Finally, he closes with speculation about Trump and Netanyahu’s refusal to sign on to an official West Bank annexation.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/984-the-killing-fields-feat-jasper-nathaniel-11325

Bill Gates Wants Us to Do Less About the Climate Crisis
When Bill Gates speaks about climate change, the world listens. That’s why his new essay, “Three Tough Truths About Climate,” is so troubling. Gates argues there’s “too much” emphasis on “near-term emissions goals,” ostensibly for humanitarian reasons. He says we should focus instead on the more serious issues of “poverty and disease,” in part because technology will solve the most severe climate impacts. Yet the points in his essay are neither “tough” nor “true,” but belie the same ideology that has sabotaged climate action for half a century: a refusal to confront power. When billionaires preach tech fixes and innovation, they’re not offering hard truths; they’re just aiming to avoid regulation and protect their freedom to pollute and profit. Gates’s advocacy for breakthroughs — fusion, carbon capture, “clean” cement — as a way to reconcile rising living standards with a stable planet is just a rebrand of the fossil fuel industry’s favorite myth. If salvation lies in carbon capture or advanced reactors, then drilling today becomes an act of faith in tomorrow’s miracles. Consider Occidental Petroleum. The oil major is building “Stratos,” a vast carbon capture operation in Texas touted as a model of “climate progress.” Yet its CEO has been explicit: the technology’s purpose is to “preserve our industry over time,” giving it “a license to continue to operate for the next 60, 70, 80 years.” These schemes aren’t designed to reduce emissions — they’re designed to ePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Thanks News Anon



/games/

 

I feel like we need to discuss why MMOs as a genre were never good, but how they were also fucking amazing. This is all due to when MMOs became a thing.
Most if not all MMOs people actually care about were from the early 2000s. They were all pushing the boundaries of capitalism over video games with either a subscription or whatever the hell is wrong with the korean industry, but, and I must stress this, but…they came out during the ONLY MOMENT they would've been successful.
They were social spaces, social WORLDS in fact, they were by definition larping sims. In an era where that was still a new thing. From 2003-2012, MMOs had THIS as their main wow factor. This is also their only staying power in media ABOUT video games, their sense of community and ability to break barriers…of course, all those external pieces of media also made it about how MMO players were losers, but nontheless, that was why they became a genre.
After social media became a permanent staple of human life, MMOs had practically no point anymore. Most of them were already garbage gameplay wise. This is why we all want classic wow, or classic maple, or the return of wonderking (which, by the way, looks like actual garbage, to my dismay).
We didn't "grow out" of MMOs, that is what idiots with no argument say to shut you up, the WORLD outgrew MMOs, and sadly, we have been conditioned to not be impressed or enamoured.
>what the fuck are you saying OP??
I'm saying what I mean, anon. Maybe I was groomed by this industry to endure capitalism, but DAMN IT, there was a time talking to someone as your personal chibi avatar was cool and FUN! Now it's a fucking bore, I cannot understand why anyone would play an MMO in 2025, almost all of them are bad wow clones.

I miss the MMO part, but most certainly not the RPG part. Levelling systems are annoying, they either mess up the balancing for non-linear games or render null the difficulty curve for linear games.
I could see a MMOMV (Massive Multiplayer Online MetroidVania) having potential.

I used to play Mabinogi when I was a broke ass kid hopping from f2p mmo to f2p. It grabbed at the time due to how different it felt from everything else. The setting being based on irish mythology, the combat being a weird offshoot of typical mmo combat where now individual hits cause hitstun and knock back and skills having a rps relationship where certain ones can counter and stop others (though nowadays this aspect of the game is getting sanded off), your character aging overtime, all the sandbox elements like there not being any set classes or an entire system to creating custom music, I could go on. However the game is a massive grindfest and those who're willing to open up the wallets will always be ahead of you in it. I heard it's getting remade in UE5 or something but I don't think I have the time or patience to play it (or any other mmo) whenever that happens. Regardless, it was a fun experience even if I managed to not make friends in an mmo because I was scared of people thinking I was ass at the game.

>bad wow clone
funny considering wow is probably the worst of the currently popular ones in terms of gameplay



/leftypol/

 

"turns out conservatives and reactionaries are just dumb after all" edition.

news:
- Your Party is suing itself, more at 11.
- The SNP and Plaid are going to form a "progressive alliance" somehow
- The government's going to do a switcheroo by raising income tax slightly and cutting national insurance to balance it out. (But they won't - follow this to its logical conclusion and scrap NI entirely)
- They're also considering cutting VAT on energy bills (which is the least efficient way of lowering bills you can imagine)
- The board of deputies asked Aston Villa for free footy tickets. In a worrying sign of rising antisemitism, Aston said nah.
- Labour is falling behind the Greens in the opinion polls as their strategy of copying Reform drives away their already-begrudging supporters without winning over any Reform voting reprobates. Nobody could have predicted this.
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>>2547264
Apparently they are both Thatcherites too which makes it even funnier.

>>2547513
So two rightoids have even more rightoid son makes sense. He should've just sucked up to them to keep the treats flowing

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What did they mean by this

>>2547513
no wonder the dad called him a "parasite" 🤣

>>2547226
It was never going to work.
Corbyn is a stubborn Bennite autistmo goat who is surrounded by completely cynical Labour staffers who simply are stuck with the fact they picked the losing horse in the Labour civil war.
Sultana is a fucking delusional turbo wokie who's entire platform is functionally decided by GreenandPleasant and Tiktok, who also delusionally thinks that most Muslims are like her, rather than the fact she's lucky she came from a middle class liberal family compared the 80% of the rest of UK muslim households that would have shipped her off to an arranged marraige with her cousin in the hinterlands of Pakistan for being an "uppity feminist bitch who doesn't know her place".
Then the rest of the party leadership are just cynical Muslim idpollers who are simply riding the left to get into positions of power, so they can backstab the left and institute Sharia law.
A leftist party to really get off the ground needs to be a extremely well oiled and serious political party and show they are willing to make the hard calls, especially on issues the left is seen as pathetically weak on like foreign policy, policing, borders etc.
>"But muh Greens are going up in polling"
Because they are being artifically boosted to drag the left into a fucking bear trap that they will close on come election time to make the left look even more like a joke. Any time you see the media give POSITIVE coverage to anything left wing, you can 99.999% of the time be sure that it's a trap. The left could cure cancer and the media would say Cancer is actually good, so why is Polanski getting such positive coverage from the BBC and Guardian and the New Statesman and even the Telegraph and the like?
Because many of the Greens policies are truly batshit to the electorate and they will be used to smear the entire left as a joke come election time, it also functionally kneecaps Your Party which the establishment see more as a threat, while also splitting the left vote between three parties.
That said, the entire Western left has absolute complete and total actual fucking shit for brains when it comes to political tactics and messaging or noticing obvious fucking traps so i'm just going to shaudenfreude enjoy the inevitable outcome of the elections when Reform absolutely thrash everyone and the left learns no Post too long. Click here to view the full text.



/music/

 

Material explanation for why so many pop stars are using blatant Nazi dogwhistles now?

Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter (among others) are pushing the YT woman tradwife trope and “clean girl” aesthetic which openly panders to MAGA and Nazis. I want to say it has to do with pop culture becoming more conservative overall in the era of Trump but there has to be more to it. No one did this during Trump’s first term eight years ago. What’s going on and should we be alarmed?
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Nice try, but Sabrina Carpenter is a gigalibtard

I don't really see it as "MAGA-coded" per se. I think it's just liberals – who are obsessed with aesthetics in general because they refuse to critique capitalism at its core – seeing "MAGA" everywhere.

>>16299
Celebrities are paid actors, literally.

>>16304
This.
Pop music is an organ of the state.

The real indication of this isn't any explicit or implicit "MAGA" leanings, it's the characteristic distance which pop music, as an industry, takes from criticizing genocide and war perpetrated and supported by the American state at workers' expense.

Pop stars are intermediaries for the state to communicate with the public, through which Fascism is turned into patriotism, the Democratic Party, a pro-war Zionist party, is disguised as a left opposition party, and the span of acceptable opinion is regulated in accordance with the will of corporate oligarchs.

Nicki too



/meta/

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ITT retrieve old and currently-missing /leftypol/ flags that would be good to add back.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://8ch.net/leftypol/res/*
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://8ch.net/static/custom-flags/leftypol*
I found the Technocrat and snibetti snab flags. I know the Anarcho-Transhumanism flag is missing and I want to find it and have it added back if possible (t. anarcho transhumanist anon). Pics related

P.S. the "Athiesm" flag is misspelled, it's spelled Atheism.
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>>43129
I concur with this flag idea

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random dump
Derg Ethiopia, Laos/Pathet Lao, Roerichism/banner of peace and regular Vietnam

flags thread bump

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>>40543
>>43129
Please add these two and fix the name of the anarcho-transhumanist flag, it is not just regular transhumanism, anarcho-transhumanism is against all other types of transhumanism

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Here you should add one of these, weather you like it or not Zoomers love Hasan Piker and he has practically created his own sect of Marxism so you should add one of these, I don’t care which one but I think it would be really cool if you add one of these for all of the HasanAbi heads.



/labor/

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Was tricked to sign a letter of resignation from my job at the russian post office. Despite the fact that I was on probation and my employment contract was fixed-term (although informally after its termination they almost always offer a full-time position) my…I don't know - supervisor? the main bitch of the workplace? didn't like me because of a couple of fuckups like a cash shortage, which I was really guilty of and paid for out of my own pocket (the statement of financial responsibility was signed by me on the first day of employment), and she decided to lie that the employee I was replacing was about to go to work.
Which was an easily verifiable lie that I realized literally as I closed the door behind me. Ah, yes, since I quit "at my own request", I have to work for three days, so called "otrabotka" (two weeks if you were taken without probation), which I will not do (devilish?), because after signing my resignation letter I am no longer an employee and can not be forced to work.
Also new thing I learned opening the labor code for the first time.
-there is no concept of working after dismissal, but there is a concept of notification before dismissal, so it should be 3 days or 2 weeks before the fact.

Thanks for reading my stupid rant.
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>slacked off work during a major crisis to have coffee and chill with my union reps
Didn't even get in much trouble.

>>1387
how is he so fat?

year one unemployment, I bullishitted my way into a comfy IT job back in 2022 and they fired me last year, I don't actually know how to do anything, I don't have any skills.

my life is in shambles, my parents look at me like I'm a piece of shit.

>>1114
>>1120
I recommend not doing this, I spent too much time worrying about getting fired and then I got fired, best to just not give a fuck.

bro was trying to crank his hog under a table looking at the female coworkers behind the counter
i think he was also either high on something or just genuinely unbothered because anyone could tell he's doing something ridiculous, having not touched the dishes in front of him for 30 minutes or so and "checking out" a single spot that just so happens to be right where one of the female coworkers was busy with plates



/draw/

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reminder that you will never be good at an artform you didn't start when you were underaged

yeah sure try as you want to draw or paint, but you'll never be as good as someone who was drawing basic things at 8 and furry porn at 16.

im trying to learn how to draw, just basic things from cups to pepper shakers, and yet i can't figure it out. i'm told to learn how to draw with "perspective" and then am hit with a lorry load fo terms and language used to describe concepts that are never elaborated on and are presumably expected to just be inherently "understood".

i'm basically fucked in this regard, and will live hte next 60 years of my life in misery that i cannot draw. no, "just git gud" won't work you fucking american; some people are born naturally good and are then given the environment to cultivate their skills. I was not. This is called "being shit out of luck", and is hard for narcissistic people to understand, because to them it's either always them 100% them or everyone else's fault.
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>>5334
Not OP, but lets not pretend like most artists werent practicing since they were children. The standard acceptable skill level for art takes multiple years of consistent practice to reach. Art isnt something you can just get decent at with a few weeks of dedicated practice and attention. You need YEARS worth of free time to ever have a chance at catching up with the average hobbyist artist

>>5477
>The standard acceptable skill level
Not a thing, you establish what skill level you want by making goals yourself. The reason it takes artists that started as kids as long as since they were kids is because they brute force it. An adult can plan things out.
Art is a language and you can learn that language. It takes time, but that's a hill, not a wall.

>>5478
>just plan things out
Whats that supposed to mean? How am i supposed to plan things out to get better at art? Plus most art advice amounts to "DONT THINK ABOUT IT! JUST PRACTICE" so it seems contradictory to planning

>>5333
>like upside down how?

You take a reference and turn it upside down and draw it that way. Supposedly it helps you draw what's actually there instead of what your brain imagines it to be.

>>5489
>DONT THINK ABOUT IT! JUST PRACTICE
DRAW ME 2 PAGE OF LINES MOTHERFUCKER,YOU'RE DOING IT UNTIL THEY'RE STRAIGHT



/lgbt/

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That is, the idea that being trans is in some way caused by socialization and has no physiological component (ie brain differences, hormonal abnormalities, etc) to it at all. I keep seeing other lefty people, both trans and cis, repeat this. I'm not even going to get into all the evidence that points towards a physiological origin because my real point is that I honestly find the idea just really invalidating and kind of offensive. It's as if they're saying my dysphoria isn't real, that transness is equivalent to being a fashion choice and I just need to get over it or find a more accepting community or whatever instead of transition being a medical necessity.
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Another strong indicator that transness/queerness is an innate property of the brain is the strong correlation between neurodivergence and transness/queerness; people with autism or ADHD are statistically more likely to be trans or queer. Obviously correlation does not equal causation and science has no explanations as to why this statistical correlation exists, but nevertheless the mere existence of such a correlation is evidence of a neurological component to transness/queerness, that it is something that is baked into the deep structure of the brain during early development by some complex combination of genetic and prenatal factors, long before the age where socialization and outside influence become a major factor.

>>4609
Autism and ADHD are also social constructs. ADHD is no more or less biological than Gender Incongruence. The DSM is more about economics and politics than about biology. It doesn't mean these traits aren't real but a lot of it is like claiming race is real because skin color is real.

>>4614
>Autism and ADHD are also social constructs

Nah.

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>>4288
i think there is a way of talking about the existential nature of being trans without falling into cis queer abstraction. to do so we need new tools and ways off thinking about being. check out this article i just finished writing: >>4621

>>4568
i talk about this. of course in lefty spaces there is this tendency to be skeptical of religion while being uncritically supporting of a deracinating humanism which can not ground authentic trans being in any capacity. what needs to be interrogated is the material bases of religion. the point of it being an opium of the people is an oversimplification that forgets the obvious fact that religion preceded our current mode of production. perhaps what is needed is also a transcendental critique of religion, and by this i do not simply mean simple criticism but the drawing of boundaries of applicability and finding its proper place in human life as oppsed to blindly discarding things wholesale

>>4615
Madness is like religion, it's a real thing the mad do but to boil it down simply to a diseased brain misunderstands much of the root of the pathology in socio-economic circumstances.
Of course, functional impairments are real but what is an impairment and what is a quirk is relative to the nature of what is a normal life. Consider glasses and eyesight.
The same sort of stuff applies to a sensitivity to loud noises and so on.



/leftypol/

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🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<Dick Ridin' Mamdani Edition


Thread for hellish discussion of the Dying Burger Reich: Things are going to continue to happen in the stupidest ways possible that no one really takes seriously, where every single person compulsively reacts with either cynical grifting or useless panic and appealing to a political system of liberal democracy that is entirely dead and irrelevant. things will continue to get gradually worse, more people will lose their jobs and homes, the most destitute and marginalized will be oppressed by state-backed domestic terrorism, but the decay will simply continue and everyone who isn't actively being imprisoned and forced into slavery or outright exterminated will simply ignore it and maintain a cognitive dissonance of believing a civil war is happening while living their lives in a mostly normal fashion. The death of the United States will be slow, painful, and insufferably annoying and stupid. 🏈 💵
Death to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the father of fascism, the enabler of ethnostates, the treatlerite tyrant, the protector of pedophiles, the exporter of ecocide, the captain of capitalism, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the invader of islands, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™ 🌭 🍔

🛠️ 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 📺
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>>2549397

These guys are crazy, look at his others tweets complete madness tunnel.
They are afraid that some of the things Mamdani want to do might work, especially considering the NYC budget, they are crazily afraid of free buses, free childcare and city controlled groceries with rents freezed


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>UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport, at least 3 killed, Kentucky governor says

>>2549109
They're not wrong. It'll be Allende except without a coup. Much of the United States hates Cali and NYC. Trump will do everything in his power, and so will American porkies, to make Mamdani's administration a joke.

NYC is primarily its finance industry, and it's actually dispersed both upstate, New Jersey. And Connecticut.

Porkies will just opt to vacate the city proper and do finance from remote.

Remember kids, this is just revolutionary defeatism. Trotskyism is a joke.

>>2549397
no, he's saying "look at what arabs did", racistly.



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Sliwa would make a much better mayor than Mamdani. What's going to happen is Mamdani is going to win, and then he'll either become another AOC/Bernie and sell out his base, or he'll just be an incompetent fuckup nepo baby. Either way NYC isn't going to change much. Sliwa has more of a connection to actual working class New Yorkers and knows how to play the game. He was shot by the mob and lived to tell the tale.
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>>2549235
If your intention is to make everything like Public School then call me a full on reactionary

>>2549225
Social democrats are already retarded but social democratic redditors are on a level of their own.

>>2549225
>Why are redditors trying to convince me that socialism is when there are roads and public schools and ebt? It’s all just welfare capitalism.
Might be that "socialism" has been used as a term of abuse in the U.S. for all kinds of minor reforms, and then you have people on the left who pick up the label as a signifier to distinguish themselves from the Democratic Party establishment, but that's mainly what they're doing, they're trying to say they're different from Chuck Schumer or whoever, and some of them might read Karl Marx or Lenin but a lot of them pick up the term or signifier before reading those guys (if ever). Then what you get with Mamdani at best is a kind of Fiorella La Guardia type figure.

Public schools are kind of socialist imo but it has been so normal for so long it doesn't seem like it is. But yes it's a different thing from the "common ownership of the means of production" where the state (crudely speaking) owns everything.

>>2549239
Honestly thought of actually-existing socialism as kind of like a dictatorship of schoolteachers so you might be fucked tbh

I'd add that universal public schooling was one the key demands in the Communist Manifesto. Marx and Engels sketched out a list of policies that would be sort of the starting point for a communist society and that was one of them.



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Let's not bullshit around. If you've been into anime long enough you've fallen in love with a fictional 2D guy, gal or nonbinary pal.
And you WILL tell me who it was and why, because that's the point of this thread. Go.

Nico-nico-nii

>why

It's true love there's no explanation for it.

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Red haired musclegirl

>>29364
there's only one real choice

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She is my life

>>29364
Impressive how someone made this list full of obscure characters but didn't have Demona from Gargoyles.



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Why does every single transfem character in media make me feel so miserable?

I know I should be happy that people like me are getting more representation but im not. Everytime I see a character like brigette from guilty gear im just reminded how ill never be as pretty as her, and how ill never be as confident and happy as her.

Even that one movie I Saw The TV Glow which every trans person was raving about made me feel worse than any other piece of media has ever made me feel before. It felt like the movie itself was mocking me for being too cowardly to transition, and basically telling me that I was gonna suffer and be unhappy forever until I die.
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>ill never be as pretty as her

loud incorrect buzzer

>>4630
But its not incorrect. My body is so masculine and ugly. My bonestructure will never be as feminine as her, ill never be as perfect as her, ill never be as confident as her.

>>4633
I think you should go interact with some cis girls, you know, get off the boards that are 100% men and trans women, cis girls love hons, usually compare themselves to like Lana del Rey, Shelley duval and not anime characters, like seriously go outside

>>4634
Im too autistic to interact with other people. I have no friends, let alone cis woman friends. Plus, its not like I'm even remotely as pretty as Lana del Rey either. Besides most cis girls "love hons" the same way they "love" their gay male friend, nothing more than novel accesories to them

>>4635
No u see the gay male-cis girl accessory relationship goes both ways. It's a very unique relationship. They are both parasitizing each other in an endless loop. Cis girls will then do this to trans women too, but you will do it back to cis girls. You will make them feel you are more "real" than they are, and they will make you feel the same way. It's a mutual parasitism. Cool cis girls would love to be dolls or gay men. In fact, this is the true basis for the hsts agp distinction: whether you can dj a set and talk about like Anais nin with the faghags or only arouse awkward pity cause all you have is anime, abstract algebra, and how much you hate yourself.



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>>2548059
>An America that reindustrializes is an America that is incentivized to burn money.
America will eventually have to produce its own commodities once it no longer has world reserve currency hegemony

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>>2547866
all AES innit

>>2548254
All the people that would be producing commodities cannot pass a drug test or show up to work sober

Americans are too fat to have real jobs in a factory, a field, or a mine. Taking them out of the cubicle is like taking ice out of the freezer.

>>2548088

literally me



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