/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>488411
>China lays down the law in facial recognition first with focus on privacy, security
I wish that biometrics would go away entirely, but privacy regs are a good start.

Eventually face-id will get relentlessly exploited, because it's like people having their password tattooed on their forehead. And then we can go to cryptographic keys stored on tokens, which will work like regular keys except that it's more convenient, because you can have lots of keys on one token instead of a cluttered key-ring, also lock picking will get a lot more complicated.

>>488414
Le Pen is a french politician irc (not sure what her politics are) , so is this a maneuver to politically neutralize her ?

Or is this for real and she got caught with the hand in the cookie jar ?

>>488423
>Le Pen is a french politician irc (not sure what her politics are)
She's a Nazi or close lol
>Or is this for real and she got caught with the hand in the cookie jar ?
Idk read the article and tell us.

>>488431
>Idk read the article and tell us.
Admittedly I didn't read it yet, i might later, I'm hesitant because the guardian might contain too much ruling ideology which could cause me mental irritation.

Anyway Melenchon (which is lefty or at least socdem) said he opposed it because the people should decide about political leadership, not the courts.

Alexander Mercuris' take is that this will boost Le Pen's political popularity. He also thinks that if Le Pen is embezzling funds then the ruling parties are most likely doing it too, and that this would damage the law, because it would loose political impartiality.

I'm wondering if this isn't the point, maybe the goal is to boost Le Pen and to damage trust in legal institutions. With an eye on the genocide in Gaza the current political leadership in France might have an incentive to damage the legal system.

>>371834
When the worst person you know has a good point

Cross-posting this request: >>>/posad/758
Looking for a better quality/resolution version of the Fifth International Posadist video.

This joke is from 2006

>>488392
kek that's actually kind of clever

>>488364
no

>>488235
That's entitled as fuck, first of all no one said this board is for English speakers only, no one is obligated to give you shit, and second of all that's super lazy considering that every browser can auto-translate a website, and deepseek is free.

>>488265
>first of all no one said this board is for English speakers only
rofl who is the entitled one here? Someone expecting English communication on an obviously English-speaking forum, or someone assuming we all ought to be able to read and understand Arabic? Where do you think you are?

>>488267
sir this is مجلس شيوعي شرقي

>>488330
Wow so true sister. OP should've just translated the entire thing

>>475051
kids named capitalists:

>>475051
I think the idea is that states live in anarchy with each other. They want the opposite of this that is one state enforcing rules to other states.

>>479399
>one state enforcing rules to other states.
The world's a sphere, can't be done. Even ignoring the complications of geography, sphere's will produce at least 2 major centers of power. Power projection diminishes with distance to the center and if you live on the surface on a sphere, you get 2 optimal spots for a center of power. If you add in geography you probably get between 5 to 7.

>states live in anarchy with each other
Unification by power of Dominion can't solve this, we need to find a different way.

Maybe the offices of politicians need to have globes.

<"freedom and democracy"
>you're either at work or in prison
>no one can influence public policy
I miss the times when this narrative was believable.

>>479399
this is the standard realist position, the dominant position
id argue that the US is the global state, though this may be changing
often we call "authoritarianism" or "dictatorships" are actually forms of anarchy, a lawless system of laws where disorder becomes a tool of control
what they call the "rules-based international order" might in practice be a reflection of that

>the Turkish section of the International Committee of the Fourth International
Is this a real organization or… a couple guys in an apartment that wooswoos wants us to think are really important?

>>488255
idk

>>481855
>Assange was up for several days redacting before release to avoid information that might get informants killed.
So even if shit got out later, Assange clearly acted in good faith.

>and you better believe the Vault7 leaks were damaging as fuck to the CIA.
Idk, a public release is far from the worst scenario. The CIA gets to see that too and realize what's compromised, and likely react fast enough to do a lot of damage controle. If somebody wanted to inflict more damage they would release the information that compromises operational security to the CIA's opponents but not the public.

>It's what prompted them to plot assassination and eventually forced Assange out of the embassy.
IMHO going after Assange was not rational, it confirmed the accuracy of the information, the rational thing to do was to deny that the released information was authentic. As a spy agency the best thing is secrecy, the second best thing is ambiguity.

So Assange went back to Europe to speak about his case to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe today. He's surprisingly sharp after years in solitary confinement. He mentioned journalists killed in Gaza and Ukraine several times. Aside from Gonzalo Lyra I'm not aware of any other journalists who have been targeted in Ukraine.

>>484648
>He's surprisingly sharp
I wasn't surprised about that tbh, but yes his intellect hasn't been diminished by the ordeal.

>He mentioned journalists killed in Gaza and Ukraine several times. Aside from Gonzalo Lyra I'm not aware of any other journalists who have been targeted in Ukraine.
I think that might be a language bias. Lyra probably was one of the few that published in English. Most of the journalists there probably were Ukrainian and they published in their local language. But yeah the Zelensky regime went fascist, they banned most of the media, abandoned any pretense of democracy when they stopped doing elections, and they're basically snatching people off the streets, usually for military conscription but also political persecution. So they probably murdered a bunch of regime critical journalists too.

Former Spanish military man who spied on Assange for the CIA is investigated for falsifying evidence
A Madrid court opens a probe into why the owner of a security company tried to blame the former ambassador of Ecuador, now deceased, for ordering wiretaps against the WikiLeaks founder

A new legal battle has begun for David Morales, a former Spanish military man who spied on Julian Assange for the CIA during the latter’s time at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Madrid Court No. 43 is officially investigating Morales — who is the owner of UC Global S.L., the company that was in charge of security at the Ecuadorian embassy in London — for allegedly falsifying official documents and committing procedural fraud. Judge Fernando Fernández Olmedo has summoned Morales to testify as a suspect, according to court documents obtained by EL PAÍS.

The former marine allegedly forged official documents and evidence to defend himself before National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz, who is investigating him in a separate case for other crimes, including recording the WikiLeaks founder’s conversations with his lawyers inside the diplomatic mission in violation of attorney-client privilege. The spying took place as the Australian’s legal team was designing its defense strategy against the U.S. extradition request.

The opening of new proceedings at a Madrid courthouse comes after Judge Pedraz recused himself and asked the Madrid courts to investigate Morales for alleged forgery of official documents and procedural fraud. Court No. 43 has accepted Pedraz’s recusal and opened proceedings against Morales.

Since his arrest in September 2019, Morales has denied any involvement in the wiretaps against Assange, but months later, he reversed his statements and told Judge José de la Mata (the first judge to oversee the case at the National Court) that it was the former Ecuadorian ambassador to London, Carlos Abad, who had ordered him to record the conversations of the Australian cyberactivist. This confession came a few weeks after the diplomat’s death.

Microphones
To bolster his testimony, the former military officer presented as evidence, among others, an alleged email from former ambassador Abad, dated January 27, 2018, in which he asked Morales to place a microphone in the Embassy meeting room. Morales asserted that the device was only placed for testing and then removed. This vePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>488146
Interesting write up, I wonder how that character went from Spanish military to cia spook. This also poses the indirect question how do you make rights actually stick, if even embassies aren't safe from shitfuckery

Riots in Romania

>Ryan Grim
Surely there's a better source for this scam. The Duran boys talked about this a lot right as it was going down. A better comparison would be when one of those scammers (Fusion GPS?) involved in the initial Russiagate fabrications was caught trying to astroturf bad PR about a Republican congressional candidate around 2017 using fake Facebook posts.

>>488096
>The Duran boys
Who?

>>488097
These guys.

>>488096
>better comparison would be when one of those scammers (Fusion GPS?) involved in the initial Russiagate fabrications was caught trying to astroturf bad PR about a Republican congressional candidate around 2017 using fake Facebook posts.
By the way, does anyone remember what I'm talking about here? I'd really like to find this story again because I think this was very much the template for the Romania scam.

>>479959
yeah i would not necessarily blame that on Filipino people because you know how difficult it is to get reformers elected that prioritize the needs of the masses, especially when there's a big super-power putting its thumb on the scale.

>>479950
The US elites learned lessons of Vietnam war too well. Wars go much smoothier if the coffins arrive to another country instead of yours.

>>480076
You're hinting at the Ukraine proxy war ? While there are few coffins coming back from that war, it's not going smooth either.

More shit going down, it sounds like:
https://x.com/agent_of_change/status/1859952119366684943

US defense secretary Lloyd Austin revealed yesterday the existence of the "US Task Force Ayungin", a military unit in the Philippines that has never been publicly acknowledged before.

Austin said he "met with some American service members deployed to US Task Force Ayungin" and that he "thanked them for their hard work on behalf of the American people and our alliances and partnerships in this region".

US troops are providing "guidance and training" to the Philippine military, supposedly in response to Chinese aggression.

Duterte arrested.

Philippines ex-leader Duterte arrested on ICC warrant over drug killings

Philippine police have arrested former president Rodrigo Duterte after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity over his deadly "war on drugs".

The 79-year-old was taken into police custody shortly after his arrival at Manila airport from Hong Kong on Tuesday.

Latest reports from local media say he is on board a private jet on the airport tarmac. Earlier, his daughter said he was being "forcibly" sent to the Hague in the Netherlands, where the ICC sits.

A press conference from the presidential palace is expected soon.

Duterte has offered no apologies for his brutal anti-drugs crackdown, which saw thousands of people killed when he was president of the South East Asian nation from 2016 to 2022, and mayor of Davao city before that.

Upon his arrest on Tuesday, he questioned the basis for the warrant, asking: "What crime [have] I committed?" in a video posted online by his daughter Veronica Duterte.
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>>487306
I just love nature its not same directly same as fascism.

>>487305
Fascism historically has lead to greater ecological exploitation, so has marxism leninism for that matter. I don't really think there's a way forward for any 20th century understanding of ideology. Marx himself was an ecologist in the making which is something that still needs to be incorporated into modern marxism. (Marx in the Anthropocene, Kohei Saito)

All of which is to say, I don't fascism is going to get you anywhere in regards to protecting the ecosystem. Strasserism itself is still productivist, it would exploit the forests all the same.

>>488025
>Fascism historically has lead to greater ecological exploitation, so has marxism leninism for that matter.
This is somewhat disingenuous, you can never bring socialism into ideological proximity of fascism. Fascism caused ecological damage because they caused massive wars. ML states increased ecological exploitation to expand the productive forces. What the fascists did was completely pointless destruction, while the ML states embarked on a calculated trajectory of technological advances that would eventually raise the technical level to the point where the industrial base can be used to regenerate damage done to the biosphere.

There is fascist ecological thinking and it's main purpose is an ideological instrument to deny workers any kind of consumption of nice things.

Productivism is a necessary element of any kind of viable politics, anything else is a rehash of pseudo feudal eternal steady state politics that died with agrarianism, and is now a political dead end. Consider that the bourgoisie doesn't want workers to lay claim on the productive forces, therefore it is somewhat likely that they would push ideological subversion in the form of anti-industrial ecologism.

That is not to say that we do not have to worry about the biosphere of the planet, after-all it is the life-support system that keeps us alive. And climate change is probably worse than stated by the "officialdom". But large scale industrial technology is bound to be a useful power that can be used to fix problems too.

The conclusion is:
Industrial power in the hands of workers = good
industrial power in the hands of the bourgoisie = potentially hazardous

The primary factor are class interests. Super wealthy capitalists do not want to do anything to fix or mitigate damage done to the biosphere because they believe that their enormous wealth insulates them from the consequences (which might prove to be a false believe). While workers are definitely not insulated, and hence have a strong interests to preserve the biosphere. Many workers reject eco-austerity because they correctly perceive it as a false pretext to lower their living standards without actually doing much to fix the biosphere.
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