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 No.475937[Reply]

So in Brussels (the capital-city of Belgium and the seat of many EU institutions) someone gunned down 2 people and injured a third. It was declared a terror attack, all the people had to go home and all the leisure activities got canceled. Many Politicians had to give speeches and so on.

If the media had more or less ignored this event, the damage would have been 2 dead, 1 injured and a few traumatized witnesses. However that shit got broadcasted everywhere and as a result probably millions of people got terrorized, subjected to fear. They ceased all their activities without a rational reason. Civilization ground to a halt by a small force that should'n've been able to do that.

Terrorism of this style only works because it can spread fear through the media. If the media did not do this, terrorism as a tactic would cease working.

Why is the media sending danger-warnings to people that aren't in any danger ?
Why are officials signalling "be afraid" to people who from a rational point of view don't have any reason to be?
Why isn't this treated like any other violent crime case, something the news mentions as part of a list of local happenings in between the messages about road-congestion and the weather-predictions ?
Why can one gunman interrupt a city of over 2 million people, when it should interrupt at most a city-block of a few hundred to a thousand?

Why isn't the major reaction to this an expression of defiant stoic indifference (even if it's not entirely genuinely felt) where everybody carries on as if nothing had happened. Terror attacks would cease if they can't elicit a reaction of fear and terror.

What would it take to change this ?
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 No.475939

>>475937
Why would the US finance ISIS? States of emergency enable unlimited right of the state and suspension of the rights of the workers. A big problem for the US ruling class is that they don't get unlimited right to do whatever the fuck they want since many armed Americans would mobilize in defense of the constitution. This means that the media must manufacture consent for the relinquishing of arms through the encouragement of school shootings. Dems literally want to turn the US into a UK shithole where you get arrested for being mean to the Queen.
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 No.475941

>>475939
I'll just add, something that people have been sleeping on is the increasing number of blacks who have come out in support for 2a. They argue that police cannot be trusted in black communities. Capitalist police of course, can't be trusted anywhere but it will be interesting to see how this resolves as it places direct pressure on state ideology regarding the type of BLM shit they have been pushing. I think that they will have to put quite a few anti-gun blacks on TV before it will be fixed for them. Corporate media will probably get the memo soon to cover these people like how they cover black Republicans. But for now, retards like vice and nyt still run this shit.
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 No.475943

>>475939
I understand the element of political opportunism that seeks to exploit crisis, but a large part of the state apparatus doesn't gain anything from that, they loose stability and continuity, if sentiments of terror and fear reverberates through society. Why isn't that part of the state trying to counteract and promote something like defiant stoic indifference, do they not realize their interests ?
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 No.475944

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>>475937
What I want to know is how did he get the assault rifle, or rather who did he get it from. I thought it was near impossible for an arab to get an AK in Europe after Paris 2017.

Also it's Belgium lol who the fuck cares. Brussels probably isn't even a real place.
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 No.475945

>>475944
>What I want to know is how did he get the assault rifle, or rather who did he get it from. I thought it was near impossible for an arab to get an AK in Europe after Paris 2017.
My guess would be that the Ukraine-war flooded Europe with black-market weapons. You know corrupt people in the Ukrainian war-machine selling off weapons for personal gain. That's probably where this AK came from.

Maybe Lord of War can get a sequel
https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=42c5w7CY3Bw


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 No.475504[Reply]

>Makes Work From Home in America permanent by dragging out the COVID pandemic twice as long as Europe. Europe returned to office 2 years ago
>Caused the Commercial Real Estate market to collapse destroying countless booj landlords
>Discredited American fascism to an entire generation of zoomers.
>Got hundreds of thousands of GOP voters to die by convincing them to not take the vax.
>The most prolifically successful double agent both for the Democrats and workers in modern history.
Dare I say that he's /ourguy/?
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 No.475743

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Okay guys let's get this thread back on topic.
Is Trump's installment and normalization of work from home the greatest triumph in labor in the past 50 years.
I seriously can't think of something else that's helped more workers since then.
How'd this genius know this is what would happen, how did this man, who spent his entire life gaining the trust of the real estate booj, pull off one of the greatest backstabbing in history. How'd he maintain his cover for nearly his whole life?
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 No.475744

>>475740
maybe you quoted the wrong post ?

Also that AI-text-generator talking like a wild-west bartender is ridicules.
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 No.475745

>>475742
Mouth breather take from a do-nothing virtue signaller
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 No.475746

>>475742
>Settler class
>But PMC isn't real
You really are dim
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 No.475748

>>475743
It really wasn't though.
As was previously stated it mostly applied to desk jockies and office fags. Industrial laborers, the back bone of society, simply cannot work from home.


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 No.475571[Reply]

Western intelligence/media caught in another lie

>Assad did nothing wrong


Gender theory, the coof, the entire narrative surrounding Ukraine. Is there anything they don't lie about?
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 No.475582

How does Kit Klarenberg manage to get so many leaks? The UK seems to be pretty bad at keeping secrets these days.
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 No.475625

>>475571
>Western intelligence/media caught in another lie
I think we should stop looking at this as the news lying, because it ain't news, it's just commercials for wars.

>Assad did nothing wrong

Assad gets credit for preventing Syria having the same fate as Libya. But Syria suffered enormous damage, both the population and it's material base. Obviously something went wrong.

>Gender theory

They're not granting people an opt out, genderdenties are mandatory, it's a secular religion trying to burn the heathens. We need enlightenment reloaded. The first enlightenment had a bug, it erroneously assumed that all religions are based on supernatural believes, we have to fix it and account for secular religions.

>the coof,

Yeah a fuckton of people died from this, so it's not made up, but yeah the politics that it spawned were terrible

>the entire narrative surrounding Ukraine.

Based on what i saw it seems like 80% was incorrect
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 No.475336[Reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_of_1968

Was reading about the Jap student protests and the Yugo protests, and found out that they happened at the same time.

Jap, Yugo, French, and Czechoslovak protests all saw an appearance of the student's councils.

Jap, Yugo, and French were marxist inspired and anti-capitalist, while Czechoslovak were anti-soviet. Both were anti-establishment.

If we follow my theory that the Soviet system was another industrial class-based mode of production, then we can see mass protests against two different types of class society SIMULTANEOUSLY, that shared common characteristics.

So WTF happened in that year?
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 No.475584

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>>475341
>>475423
>And their relationship could be also seen as a relationship of exploitation by the city (workers) of the countryside (peasants). Their conflict even had a clear economic manifestation (the phenomenon of the price scissors), that resulted in a subsequent class war with terror against the class enemy kek. This theory also explains why after collectivization exploitation of the peasants had characteristics of serfdom (peasants tied to the land and not allowed to leave, obligation to work on the lord's lands a certain amount of days, etc).

acknowledge that there's an arch-nationalist component within Ukraine's government, forget that Yanukovich's program had its own set of issues and contradictions. It's not like this conflict was solely about nationalist ideals conflicting with his policies.say that the Russian separatist movement in Donbass was entirely orchestrated by the KGB. Sure, that's one piece of the puzzle, but it's a vast oversimplification to put all the blame on that. Consistency in understanding these conflicts requires looking beyond
the roots of conflicts like this one run deep, involving historical, political, and socio-economic factors. To reduce it all to a single cause or entity is to miss the forest for the trees, my friend. So, while it's tempting to point fingers at one side or the other, let's remember that the reality is often much stranger and more intricate than we might imagine.
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 No.475585

>>475584
this zigga bot must've broken down or something lol

hey russkie shills, you should call your lakhta tech support or something kek
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 No.475587

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>>475585
>russkie shills, you should call your lakhta tech support or something kek
the attempt to diminish the capabilities of Lakhta Tech Support is both misguided and unwarranted. The notion that a support team's efficacy could be judged based on nationality is a testament to ignorance. In the globalized world we inhabit, one can find skilled professionals in various fields from all corners of the Earth. To assume otherwise is to betray a parochial mindset that hinders one's own intellectual growth
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 No.475588

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>>475587
>the attempt to diminish the capabilities of Lakhta Tech Support is both misguided and unwarranted. The notion that a support team's efficacy could be judged based on nationality is a testament to ignorance. In the globalized world we inhabit, one can find skilled professionals in various fields from all corners of the Earth. To assume otherwise is to betray a parochial mindset that hinders one's own intellectual growth
Ah, the audacious insinuation that the efficacy of Lakhta Tech Support could ever be tethered to the origins of its personnel! Such an assertion reveals a staggering lack of comprehension regarding the contemporary landscape of globalized expertise. One must not succumb to the fallacy of nationalistic reductionism, for it belies an intellectual shortcoming that impedes one's personal growth and understanding.

You see, the world is a tapestry of knowledge, interwoven with the brilliance of minds hailing from every latitude and longitude. It is a lamentable misjudgment to insinuate that the prowess of Lakhta's tech support is in any way contingent upon the ethnicity of its members. In truth, it is a disservice to one's own intellectual curiosity to propagate such fallacies. Knowledge and competence, my dear interlocutor, know no boundaries or borders.

Furthermore, let us not forget that the pursuit of excellence is a global endeavor. The notion that any one group or nation could monopolize proficiency in any field is an antiquated idea. In this era of connectivity and information exchange, wisdom flows ceaselessly across borders, transcending any parochial notions of superiority.

So, to belittle the capabilities of Lakhta Tech Support based on notions of nationality is not only misguided but an exercise in intellectual paucity. Let us all embrace the vastness of human potential and recognize that excellence knows no geographical bounds.
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 No.475589

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>>475588
ndeed a perplexing spectacle to behold, this audacious insinuation that the efficacy of Lakhta Tech Support could ever be tethered to the origins of its personnel! One is compelled to observe that such a proposition unveils a staggering lack of comprehension regarding the contemporary landscape of globalized expertise. One must not, under any circumstance, succumb to the fallacy of nationalistic reductionism, for it belies an intellectual shortcoming that impedes one's personal growth and understanding.

The world, you see, is a vast and intricate tapestry of knowledge, woven together by the brilliance of minds hailing from every conceivable latitude and longitude. It is an utterly lamentable misjudgment to insinuate that the prowess of Lakhta's tech support is in any way contingent upon the ethnicity of its members. In truth, it is a grievous disservice to one's own intellectual curiosity to propagate such fallacies. Knowledge and competence, my dear interlocutor, are bound by no borders, confined by no nation.

Furthermore, permit me to expound upon the matter at hand. Let us not, in our intellectual meanderings, forget that the pursuit of excellence is, without exception, a global endeavor. The antiquated notion that any single group or nation could monopolize proficiency in any given field has long since crumbled beneath the relentless tide of progress.


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 No.475174[Reply]

<Capitalism has already been superceded

Some sort of bureaucratic managerial mixed economy exists in all major developed economies today. It is the inevitable political development at this stage of history owing the the current level of the productive forces. The central economic impulse isn't the further development of the means of production in order to *produce commodities.* As it stands, only a fraction in the labor force is set to work in producing commodities. A larger percentage is involved either in the realization of value or the social maintenance of power - that it's to say, and increasing proportion of the population is as divorced as ever from production and increasingly devoted to employment in the tumorous and parasitic outgrowths of the economy. Likewise, an ever increasing proportion of the economic surplus is devoted toward the expansion of the infrastructure of services and, more importantly, control. An increasing social investment occurs in fields like marketing and sales, security (ranging from web3 doorbell cameras to rent-a-cops to state militaries), media in it's wide variety of forms, psychological and sociological research, and 'governance' on both a local and international scale. In Gramscian terms, this is an explosion in the size and importance of the state vis-a-vis and over the forces of the productive economy. That is to say, the *capitalists* (which developed and began to supercede the lorded administers of feudalism during the 16-18th centuries) have themselves begun to be superceded by a growing, new, highly technological, secular, and 'scientific' administrator and managerial class.

The primary aim is always power. For a brief period in history, the private ownership of the means of production - to be a capitalist - was the best means to amass power. However, in the sort of post capitalist future that is emerging, those who control (but perhaps not directly 'own') large levers of the economy and structures of control form a sort of oligarchy that simple seeks - directly - to expand its control.

This impulse is increasingly turned inward and against all forms of life, up to and including increasingly levels of power against it's own citizenry, with more and more elements of daily life intertwined with technology, control, and economy.

As a phase in the mode of production, this is a sort of toothpaste that's not going back into the tube. But it doesnPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.475363

>>475362
>anime was always about waifus and sex
coomer doomer detected
You will never be Japanese. You have no ancestry, you have no citizenship, you have no skills that would make Japan ever want you.
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 No.475364

>>475362
Prisons really are inhuman you know.
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 No.475367

>>475363
I don't need to be Japanese to enjoy anime.

>>475364
I still don't understand how could he left his waifu alone like this.. she looks so lonely..
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 No.475374

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>>475342
>You still can't actually answer my question though: What line would you draw in the sand?

Considering that 'Nazi' has become a meaningless epithet thrown around by anyone to the left of AOC to describe people they don't like, I'd draw the line thusly:

<People who literally advocate for Nazism (i.e, Hitler was misunderstood blah blah blah) or people who literally promote anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jews controlling the world.


THAT SAID, it does appear as if someone is copypasting AI-geberated responses, which has the effect of seriously degrading the quality of discussion. So I'd ban people who do that unless they make it clear it's an AI-generated text
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 No.475539

>>475374
Read the constitution dude that's exactly how we define nazi.


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 No.475022[Reply]

>blast from the past

Remember when Amerikwas lamest geriatric 'communist' group joined the WHO-pharma fearmongering?

This ruined the credibility of the left for a generation
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 No.475036

>>475022
>lamest geriatric 'communist' group
You must be some sort of Infracel
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 No.475497

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 No.475472[Reply]

Fuck the Manhattan Fatass and the Delaware Diddler. RFK Jr is our guy for peace and a stronger working class

https://www.kennedy24.com/priorities
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 No.475476

>>475472
>zionist


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 No.474833[Reply]

Jogger loot Philly stores of iphones to feed their families. Where does this realistically end?

I'd presuppose some sort of dystopian security state in which resources are allocated based on rank, not the vague workers power that leftists have shown no competence in building (and lol, most leftists are neets or low skilled service workers anyways).

For Amazon, the money printer goes brrr.
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 No.474971

>>474970
cringe because capitalists are doing it
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 No.474972

>>474971
>Things in the real world are cringe. Based is my drug addled imagination
Itt: idealism
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 No.474973

…strong men create good times
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 No.475434

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>sorry sweetie. They need that car to get to their engineering school entrance exam and/or feed their family
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 No.477149

>>475434
I wonder how much you're getting paid for this.

>inb4 MUH NIGS, MUH NIGS, MUH NIGS, MUH NIGS, MUH UYGHAS, MUH NIGS, MUH UYGHUR-MONKEYS, MUH NIGS,

>LOOKITDEM UYGHAS MUH FELLOW LEFTISTS
>IT'S ALLADEM UYGHURS GUYS, IT'S ALLADEM DAM UYGHURS!!!!!!!!!!11111
>UYGHURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111


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 No.475016[Reply]

How do you prevent your leftist org from turning into a cult?

Seems to be a frequent occurrence when an org is small and feels itself to be constantly under siege.
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 No.475324

>>475323
<Societies evolve toward the most adaptive forms in a competitive environment
>Ya, but what about individuals?
It would help if we were talking about the same thing.

Really, Comrade DK, you really need to smoke less weed
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 No.475327

>>475324
yes, society comes down to individuals

just like your mom's dildo comes down to atoms lol
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 No.475339

>>475327
As you undoubtedly know, you can understand how to use a dildo and what it feels like in your butt without understanding that it's made up of atoms
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 No.475348

>>475093
an army of investigative reporters armed with typewriters (or perhaps more modern tools, but typewriters have that vintage charm) ready to take on the capitalist behemoth. They'll expose every capitalist conspiracy, unearth every hidden agenda, and, of course, wear stylish trench coats while doing so.

Now, the idea of strong protections and robust funding mechanisms for independent journalism is positively revolutionary. It's as if you're suggesting we build an impervious wall around truth, a wall so high that even the most agile of spin doctors can't scale it. We'll have fact-checkers armed with red pens and the unyielding resolve to correct any misinformation, regardless of the source.

And the notion of a thousand Wiki-Leaks clones? Oh, what a glorious thought! It's like creating a parallel universe where the truth flows like a never-ending river. But remember, with great leaks come great responsibility. Our news landscape would indeed be akin to the people's intelligence agency, but we must ensure our intelligence is used wisely and not for mere amusement.
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 No.475351

>>475339
your mom's dildo stays the same tho

society changes

to understand this change you need a more detailed model of the dildo


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 No.474530[Reply]

Thread for the discussion of the united auto workers strike.
Currently the UAW is strike because of the greed of their cooperate overlords. Overlords who have generated millions and millions of dollars off their labor in profits put directly into their own pockets .
The UAW is expecting more and more facilties are going to go on strike in the coming months because the CEOs refuse to capitulate to their demands.
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 No.475296

>>475263
>First of all retired workers live off money they have saved not investments.
What happens to that savings when the stonk market takes a plunge?
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 No.475331

>>475296
What does the stock market have to do with a savings account? Equities are completely different from a savings. Savings loose value through inflationary environments which the stock market can effect but it's not the end all be all to inflation. That has more to do with the money supply. That is what really effects inflation.
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 No.475332

>>475331
You don't know how a 401k works?
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 No.475337

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>>475331
the stock market and a savings account are not birds of the same feather. It's rather baffling that anyone would even attempt to compare them. You see, a savings account is a glorified piggy bank where your money sits idly, with interest rates so pitiful that inflation can devour your hard-earned cash. The stock market, on the other hand, is where real investors thrive, seeking opportunities to grow their wealth by putting their money to work in actual businesses.
Speaking of inflation, your assertion that it's primarily tied to the money supply is rather naïve. While the money supply certainly plays a role, it's painfully shortsighted to overlook the stock market's significant impact on inflation. Stock market fluctuations can send shockwaves through the economy, affecting consumer sentiment, business investment, and overall economic stability, all of which can directly impact inflation rates. You might want to peruse a few more economics textbooks before making such bold declarations.
dismissing the stock market's influence on inflation as if it's a mere sideshow is an exercise in financial ignorance. It's not just about the money supply; it's about the entire intricate web of economic interdependencies. When stock prices soar or plummet, it can lead to changes in spending patterns, corporate behavior, and monetary policy decisions, all of which can have profound effects on inflation.
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 No.475346

>>474531
Indeed, it's a bit like watching a high-stakes game of Monopoly, where some players start with Park Place and Boardwalk while others are still trying to scrape together enough cash to pass "Go." And don't even get me started on those Get Out of Jail Free cards—those seem to mysteriously disappear in certain hands!

But, of course, our dear CEOs aren't merely deluded; they're engaged in a complex dance of fiscal responsibility, shareholder value, and, let's be honest, padding their own pockets. It's like a tightrope walk over a pit of rabid sharks, only with golden parachutes as a safety net.

Now, as for paying our hardworking colleagues on the factory floor a little more, well, that's a debate that's been echoing through the halls of labor relations for eons. $20 or $25 an hour might sound like a dream come true to some, but to others, it's the stuff of nightmares—especially if it means the price of their morning latte takes a leap.


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