/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>492545
I asked this before. Allowing retards to use the reading thread to """debate""" using their faggy-ass sub-literate """libertarian""" cliches was a weird decision, and apparently purely a consequence of us just being very chill.

Ok

>>492924
You're not an "expert." You alternately identify yourself as "a biologist," "someone studying biology," "an aspiring biologist," and "someone interested in biology." You have no credentials, you don't do this for a living, I doubt that you even formally study it, you aren't any more of an "expert" than anyone else who periodically reads about it. Literal biology stolen valor.

>>492925
That hurts, anon.

>>492893
Anon, you're delusional. It isn't troons whom are promoting "trans culture" it's cis people.
Also, trans education is denied to children in the US

>>494358
>trans education is denied to children in the US
How can this be true when Americans are bombarded with trans shit via media nonstop?

>>490905
Supporting trans is like how socialists support reactionary insurgents like the taliban, for the sake of anti-imperialism, for the sake of anti-capitalism. It's strategic, you don't need to agree with what you're supporting.

>>494054
>>494055
>>494056
AI art is art, just not manually made
Also, irony is, even AI made art requires manual editing

>>494359
>AI art is art
It's something that takes the form of art but in its essence it's a different thing altogether.

>>494360
Explain.
By your logic, photography isn't art

>>494362
Does an entirely automated system decide where to aim a camera, what to focus its lens on, and how to arrange the subjects and objects in a scene, all based on myriads of previous existing photographs?

>>494363
if you use a modern camera, it's nearly like this.
>autofocus (default AI mode btw)
>auto ISO
>auto aperture or exposure
>auto stabilization
>etc etc

Chris Hedges on George Galloway's show discussing Epstein and governmental repression.

Highkey all these people have to die before they finish cracking down on dissent. It's us or them, and the Epstein class will use every resource at their disposal to ensure they have a future for raping children.

>>494204
The "torture video" email was written by the UAE's Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem (CEO, DP World).

What's been released so far is estimated to be about 2% of the actual total.

>>494347
like islam

>>494312
Are you implying that Trump has read Stirner?

Also, Trump was convicted of (comparatively minor) crimes before. The way I see it, he was chosen - an ugly, annoying, and extremely corrupt guy who the state can use to be the face of its crimes, and who they are willing to throw under the bus if he strays (from criminality), something they've given him the tiniest taste of.

>>494313
If consent is a spook, like when he was "grabbing em by the pussy", then why not this too?

"Yeah I did that shit. So what??"

>>494315
He wasn't saying consent "is a spook," he was admitting to sexual assault in a conversation he thought wouldn't be released.

Also he was found liable for sexual assault in a totally different case. At no point has he been like "yeah, I was besties with Epstein and I raped his victims with him" or even "I fully admit to knowing about the crimes the entire time and doing fuck all." It's totally different from comments he made in what he thought was an off-the-record moment.

That said, if Donald Trump is reading this, and he is being blackmailed to kick off the most explosive part of WWIII, I would advise him not to do what his blackmailers say.

Although, you have to understand that the American state, including the financial state & the media, would be in on all of this, and that would make defiance quite difficult.

>US military preparing for potentially weeks-long Iran operations

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-military-preparing-potentially-weeks-long-iran-operations-2026-02-13/

They have been edging us with this for months. Shit or get off the pot. (I still hope it's all for show though, but I was wrong about Putin invading Ukraine, I didn't think they'd do that either)

God I hope Iran obliterates Diego Garcia. It's been the key to US imperial aggression in the Middle East for decades.

New Mondoweiss segment on demographic shift away from apartheid "Israel" in the US.

New BadEmpanada video on the deliberate use of Holocaust education as propaganda for Israel and as a way to whitewash the crimes of western states.

Another Netanyahu meeting with Trump today.

Palestine Action ban ruled illegal in the UK.

Anon… are you feeling OK?

It's called McKinley actually

>>494294
If you aren't riding your bike or taking the bus to work, then you're not a comrade. Simple as that.

China and India emit more co2 than all western countries combined but somehow I'm at fault for this, and if only I'd stop commuting to work in my truck then it would stop climate change from blowing up the earth.

https://www.praguedaily.news/2025/12/28/from-1-january-2026-the-dissemination-of-communist-ideology-will-be-prohibited-in-the-czech-republic/
From 1 January 2026, the dissemination of communist ideology will be prohibited in the Czech Republic

In future, statements about and the dissemination of communist ideologies will be treated in the same way as those of National Socialism
By PragueDaily
Sunday, December 28, 2025

With the start of the new year, the dissemination and support of communist ideologies in the Czech Republic will be punishable by law. An amendment to Section 403 of the Criminal Code provides for prison sentences of one to five years for violations.

At the beginning of the year, a long-debated law comes into force, prohibiting the dissemination and support of communism as well as the use of its symbols. Opponents hail the measure as long overdue. In December, the Constitutional Court (ÚS) rejected a request by the extra-parliamentary Communist Party (KSČ) to annul part of the amendment.

In future, statements about and the dissemination of communist ideologies will be treated in the same way as those of National Socialism – the two major totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century.

In the amended version of Section 403, which President Petr Pavel signed in mid-July, it is now explicitly stated that ‘movements aimed at suppressing human rights and freedoms’ include not only National Socialism but also Communism. Anyone who propagates, supports, or attempts to establish such a movement can be punished with up to five years’ imprisonment.

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>>494341
Really sad, I thought maybe Czech Republic was going to start to regain its sanity soon by proximity to Slovakia.

Gee whiz, I wonder why the Polish don't like communists. It's not like communism did anything wrong to them during ww2 or the cold war or anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bans_on_communist_symbols

Meanwhile Lithuanian Jews can move to Israel and apparently there's no problem with that.

Someone years ago on here said that if Marx had understood calculus he would have see more patterns in capitalism. Does anyone know what those additional insights would have been. I asked Gemini and here's what I got:

If Marx had mastered calculus, he likely would have gained deeper, more precise insights into the following areas of capitalist mechanics: 1. Marginal Analysis of Exploitation and Profit Marx believed that value was created by labor and that capitalists maximize profits by increasing the rate of exploitation (\(s/v\), where \(s\) is surplus value and \(v\) is variable capital). The Insight: Instead of static ratios, calculus would have enabled Marx to treat the rate of exploitation as a derivative (\(ds/dv\)), allowing him to model how an infinitesimal change in labor hours or wage rates affects surplus value.Marginal Labor Power: He could have analyzed the marginal utility of labor—the exact point at which adding one more worker ceases to be profitable, rather than relying on average productivity. 2. Precise Modeling of the Falling Rate of Profit A central pillar of Marx’s theory is the tendency of the rate of profit to fall as the "organic composition of capital" (\(C/V\) — constant capital to variable capital) rises. The Insight: Marx could have used differential calculus to analyze the rate of change of the profit rate (\(dP/dt\)) as a function of technological investment. This would have provided a rigorous, dynamic, rather than just conceptual, understanding of when the rate of profit would fall, and how quickly, as constant capital (machines) grows faster than variable capital (labor). 3. A Dynamic Theory of Capital Accumulation and Crises Marx observed that capitalist accumulation is not linear but cyclic and prone to crises, partly due to the "industrial reserve army" (unemployment). The Insight: Using differential equations, Marx could have modeled the interaction between the growth of capital (\(dK/dt\)) and the rate of wages (\(dW/dt\)). He could have created a mathematical model for the business cycle, showing how the "reserve army" of unemployed acts as a dampener, restricting wage growth at certain points in the cycle.Prediction of Crisis Timing: Rather than relying on observing past events, he might have predicted that the frequency or intensity of crises depends on the speed of capital accumulation (second-order derivatives). 4. Mathematical Definition of "Socially Necessary Labor Time" Marx's theory hinges on "sociaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>494245
Ignoring your LLM slop, calculus is all about methods of transforming between different rates of modeled processes. I imagine if Marx understood calculus, there are some aspects of his capital accumulation equations that one could take the derivative of or integrate over to understand more about the rate of change occurring or obtain a quantum of some value over a given period. There have been plenty of Marxist economists in the 20th and 21st centuries who understood calculus, I would be surprised if someone hasn't already done all this.

>>494246
Thanks, I'll look up some Marxist economists that have applied calculus to Marx

>>494246
I doubt that anything would change.

US tech stocks collapsing.