/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Kyle Kulinski chimes in

Was this legitimately over water resources or is Israel somehow involved again?

>>489396
Wow you got him pegged

Truce reported (and broken?)

>>489430
>They look down on student activists but they welcome failed non-working adults because of "worldliness".
You've said this in multiple threads and people have pointed out that this is a made-up thing that only exists in your head, but goshdarnit don't let that stop you from believing it.

COVID lockdowns/vaccines are the worst takes in recent memory.

>>489147
>Frankly police shitty behavior is massively overblown
You have to be sheltered as fuck to think this. They actively look for stupidity and sociopathy when hiring cops.

>>489417
>Jordan Neely
Spartacist League of all people had an excellent position on this where they strongly defended the right of proletarians to self defense.

>>489418
WM3 are 100% guilty, the evidence against them was pretty much overwhelming and they had detailed knowledge of the crime scene before police even knew about aspects of it. They also bragged about doing it before being arrested, or the crime even found.
Yes, not much physical evidence was left, but the rest of the evidence against them was just absurdly overwhelming. A lot of the "They are innocent" arguments are super "Netflix documentary" levels of weak as well, like "Jessie is too slow and retarded to commit such a crime his autism score tests prove it", yet Jessie's I.Q. score is literally higher than the average African American I.Q. score lmao or that how did Damien know where to do the crime of a town he was unfamiliar with since he didn't live in it? When he lived literally just like 2 miles away from it down the road.
Jessie is really a pretty good slam dunk that they are guilty as well, as he actually somewhat seemingly felt about about it and immediately started begging for forgiveness to friends before even being arrested, in Jail, he constantly confessed to cell mates and other innmates, and the top "WM3 are 100% innocent" activist, after meeting Jessie in a private meeting to help get them out of jail, broke off all contact with him and the WM3, and changed her position to they absolutely did it and are 100% guilty.
This isn't even touching on Damien, who was a clear serial killer in the making. Literal teen Animal torturing, blood drinking, cannibal, demon worshipping Satanist, violent ASPD sociopath. He is so absurd it's basically a parody of a serial killer. Ironically, this is why people also argue they are innocent, that Damien is such an edgelord, that this was just "attacking Goths and Satanic Panic" when the reality was, Damien was just a Cluster B unstable violent sociopath and had been one since childhood.
Yet most of the Left are "they are still innocent duuur". It's a very similar case with the CP5. Where the evidence against them is overwhelming (they had mentioned "Ray" (Rayes) being at the scene with them years before he was a police suspect) but they "got off" (Vacated, never exonerated) due to technicalities.
Either way in general, the left has a bizarre love in with Lumpens. If anything, It feels that the current western Left seem to side with Lumpens far more with Proles.

>>489417
>Left needs to stop cocksucking Lumpens.
Sure. But conservatards need to stop constantly shitting on lumpens as well. They are people too who are also vulnerable to false consciousness.

>>489136
>Local park was beautiful, now black, arab people show up the park is completely trashed within 2 hours.
<Those DAMN NI🅱️🅱️ERS, man. Those MOTHERFUCKING NI🅱️🅱️ERS, man. DISCUSTING BLACK CREATURES, GET OUT OF MY SIGHT.
You're doing a poor job at hiding your blatant racism, anon.

GOP centrists revolt against steep cuts to Medicaid and other programs in Trump’s tax breaks bill
So far, GOP leaders have signaled they are walking away from some, but not all, of the steep Medicaid cuts. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said the proposals could result in millions of people losing their coverage. Instead, what appears to still be on the table are tougher work requirements for those receiving Medicaid and food stamp assistance and more frequent eligibility tests for beneficiaries.
https://apnews.com/article/tax-cuts-medicaid-cuts-food-stamps-tariffs-9adf4640c67535117c71165b106f6379

Student protester Mohsen Mahdawi unveils legal defence fund for immigrants
Though released on bail, Mahdawi continues to face deportation proceedings. He reflected on his time behind bars at a news conference where he and state officials announced the Vermont Immigration Legal Defense Fund. “ I was unjustly kidnapped or detained, if you want to go by the legal term,” Mahdawi said with a wry smile.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/8/student-protester-mohsen-mahdawi-unveils-legal-defence-fund-for-immigrants
https://archive.ph/LUvWf

Sen. John Fetterman raises alarms with outburst at meeting with union officials, AP sources say
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was meeting last week with representatives from a teachers union in his home state when things quickly devolved. Before long, Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do” and slamming his hands on a desk, according to one person who was briefed on what occurred. As the meeting deteriorated, a staff member moved to end it and ushered the visitors into the hallway, where she broke down crying.
https://apnews.com/article/john-fetterman-Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Palestine solidarity is now breaking the political consensus and isolating Labour
LABOUR’S Gaza shame deepens by the day. While Keir Starmer calls Israel’s continuing assault on the Palestinian people “intolerable” he nevertheless continues to not just tolerate, but to actively enable the genocidal aggression. Even one of the few half-steps Labour has taken since coming into office, the suspension of some arms licences for export to Israel, is now called into question. It appears that munitions for Israel’s war have been supplied regardless. Week after week, hapless Foreign Office minister Hamish Falconer is sent to the Commons to cover for Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy, himself a study in venal complicity.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/palestine-solidarity-now-breaking-political-consensus-and-isolating-labour

Ireland: class struggle not broad fronts will beat the far right
On Saturday 26 April, a large demonstration led by the far right marched through Dublin’s North Inner City. The turnout was significant: estimates range from 5,000 to as many as 10,000. In fact, this was four or five times larger than the previous biggest far-right led mobilisation. On the other side of the Gardaí fence, the counter-protest organised by United Against Racism (UAR) also gathered more than counter-protests in the past. But still, we were outnumbered. Every honest socialist, communist and trade unionist – anyone indeed understanding the dangers the far right poses to the workers’ movement – will have undoubtedly asked themselves: how is it possible that these reactionaries can outnumber us in the streets of Dublin? This article is intended as a comradely contribution to what we believe is a necessary and urgent discussion in the wake of last weekend’s events. A discussion about our tactics in the fight against the far right.
https://marxist.com/ireland-class-struggle-not-broad-fronts-will-beat-the-far-right.htm

Europe’s Liberation 80 Years On: France
Firsthand accounts of the wartime Nazi occupation of France stress the messy, haphazard nPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>489295
Insane how Jackson went from commenting on TYT drama to speaking in person for Ansar Allah to millions. And at such a young age. I can't think of a more impressive online personality.

>>489386
Has always felt like some kind of astroturfing operation to me.

Wanna know a secret?
Most political ideologies have anti American sentiment.

Rightists hate America for allowing secularism and female autonomy.

Atheists hate America for showing Judeo Christian religiopolitical bias.

Anarchists hate America for having a sturdy state.

Authoritarians hate America for advocating individualism.

>>489393
Sounds like America might be the problem. We need a post-American ideology.

>>489393
Sounds a bit like a more sophisticated version of Doubleyou's
<they hate us for our freedoms

>>489394
i'm going to make a wild guess that anti-American sentiment isn't really all that ideological. It's more likely about the big empire dropping bombs, doing regime-change and economic warfare.

US charges NY man with hate crimes over Columbia protests
Bazrouk's case appears to be the first time the DOJ has brought federal hate crime charges related to the recent Columbia protests. A DOJ spokesperson could not confirm that information. The assaults allegedly all took place in Manhattan, at an April 2024 protest outside the New York Stock Exchange, a December 2024 protest outside Columbia University, and a January 2025 protest near Gramercy Park.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-charges-ny-man-with-hate-crimes-over-columbia-protests-2025-05-08/

Pro-Palestinian protesters take over room in library at Columbia; dozens in custody
A spokesperson for the university said they were dealing with a disruption in Reading Room 301 of Butler Library after demonstrators entered around 3:15 p.m. Acting President Claire Shipman said the individuals have still refused to identify themselves and leave the building, and says the university has "requested the presence of the NYPD" to assist in securing the building.
https://abc7ny.com/post/columbia-protest-pro-palestinian-protesters-disrupt-university-no-word-arrests/16350773/

US court says student activist Rumeysa Ozturk must be sent to Vermont
That ruling marked a rejection of a Trump administration appeal to delay the transfer and keep Ozturk in Louisiana, where she has been held in an immigration detention centre since late March. … Separately, in Newark, New Jersey, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to deliver specifics about its rationale for describing Khalil, a leader in Columbia University’s student protests, as a threat to US foreign policy.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/7/us-court-says-student-activist-rumeysa-ozturk-must-be-sent-to-vermont
https://archive.ph/dItsg

Republicans to Pay for Trump Tax CPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The United States Has Overused Its Sanctions Weapon Review of Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War by Edward Fishman (Elliott & Thompson, 2025)
Today we are accustomed to the use of economic sanctions as central tools of foreign policy. Many people may be surprised to discover, however, that this is actually a rather recent development. Sanctions used to be akin to a slap on the wrist — they would be used to target foreign leaders and their inner circles, making it harder for them to moor their yachts in the Mediterranean or purchase mansions in London. Now, of course, sanctions are among states’ most powerful weapons for waging economic warfare. In a new book, Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War, Edward Fishman describes how sanctions have been transformed over the past several decades. Fishman has worked in the State Department, the Department of Defense, and the Treasury, where he spent several years in the Terrorism and Financial Intelligence team designing sanctions on states like Iran. Chokepoints is accordingly an insider’s account of how the United States developed an armory of powerful sanctions based on its control over the world’s financial system — and how the overuse of these tools ended up undermining their effectiveness, ultimately compromising US hegemony itself.
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/us-foreign-policy-sanctions-weapon

Celebrate VE Day, and remember the lessons of the anti-fascist war
POLITICIANS use Victory in Europe Day, the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender, as an excuse for militarist bombast. We must not let this pass. May 8 1945 marks the 80th anniversary of the victory over fascism. Communist Party of Great Britain leader Harry Pollitt called it “the greatest victory of all time.” What may have begun as an inter-imperialist war had become by 1945 a people’s war, mobilising the whole working class in the effort to defeat the most murderous regime in history, Nazi Germany. It was an internationalist war, the heroism of the armies that fought the Nazis equalled by that of the partisans and resistance fighters who fought and died across occupied Europe. The anti-fascist coalition gave birth to the United Nations — to join which, originally, countries needed to declare war on Nazi Germany — and,Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Episode 456: Multilevel Marketing Madness(TrueAnon)
Bridget Read joins us to discuss her new book Little Bosses Everywhere .We talk through the post-2020 explosion of MLMs, the specifically American history of pyramid schemes, guru charisma, dark accounting magick, and more.
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/multilevel-marketing-madness

Communist Party of Pakistan: Down with chauvinism and war hysteria, long live proletarian internationalism
The escalating hostilities between India and Pakistan deliberately intensified to evoke war hysteria and precipitate a potential military confrontation are profoundly detrimental to the interests of the peace-seeking masses in both nations. The Communist Party of Pakistan registers its deep apprehension regarding this deteriorating situation. In a communiqué issued by the Central Committee, the Party unequivocally condemns the recent act of terrorism in Pahalgam, in which innocent tourists were brutally slain. The statement asserts that stoking bellicose sentiments and transforming tensions into armed conflict would be catastrophic for both states. War begets nothing but ruin. For Pakistan, already ensnared in a debt-ravaged economy and subsisting on loans from the IMF and other predatory financial institutions, the consequences would be even more devastating.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/05/communist-party-of-pakistan-down-with-chauvinism-and-war-hysteria-long-live-proletarian-internationalism.html

The RIAA's Full Frontal Assault on Archive.org
They're launching a full-frontal assault on Archive.org. The record company—well, technically the RIAA, the Recording Industry Association of America—is behind it. They’re suing Archive.org for $700 million. Nearly a billion dollars.
"The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly." —Aldous Huxley
Why? Because Archive.org digitized and is now hosting a bunch of 78 RPM records from thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Whelp, first the book publishers attempted to extract their pound of flesh from archive.org. Sadly not enough people paid attention and the precedent was set. Now come the other hordes of idea monopolists to try and undo the last 30 years of computing.

>>489352
Why didn't Vietnam leave behind a communist Cambodia?

>>489366
Probably for the same reason Vietnam isn't communist today.

>>489354
>They’re suing Archive.org for $700 million. Nearly a billion dollars.
Yeah those loony damage-claims prove they're clearly making it up as they go along. We have to conclude it's just a type of mafia that has hacked the legal system for an extortion racket.

>But the record companies don’t care. They want Archive.org gone. Why? Because corporations crave absolute control over the past, over the narrative, over what people can see, learn, and hear. Control equals profit. If the only music you're allowed to access is locked behind a paywall—or limited to the corporate-approved "classics" from 1980 onwards—they win.
You are not wrong about their intentions. But consider that the Internet Archive is an attempt at coexisting. They don't necessarily win, by making coexistence impossible.

>>489365
>Now come the other hordes of idea monopolists to try and undo the last 30 years of computing.
This struggle has been going on for millennia, and we keep getting our Libraries burned down. We keep inventing new ways to store and distribute information and they keep destroying it. The Internet has come very close to solving the problem, but maybe there's still something we need to figure out.

>>489323
Where does this say that though?

>>489317
>Shitlib Woke Parties (US)
Pretty harsh anon.

>>489297
it died with Nehru

>>489360
… Elaborate?

>>479962
I believe that court case is still ongoing.

>>479973
maybe they were self-aware on some level ?

>>479974
Probably, yes.
That's a weird habit of certain kinds of tremendously evil people. Like the Ku Klux Klan with the whole dressing as ghosts and burning crosses thing, La Cagoule in France, the Romanian Iron Guard, Haiti's Tonton Macoute, etc.

Officials in a Mississippi county settle lawsuit filed by 2 Black men tortured by deputies
Rankin County officials announced last week that they had settled a lawsuit filed by Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker—who were brutalized by sheriff’s deputies in 2023—for $2.5 million.
https://apnews.com/us-news/mississippi-michael-jenkins-eddie-terrell-parker-lawsuits-law-enforcement-7173cee79fcbcbd89216a6fc03088378

Bill that would punish Americans boycotting Israel pulled from US Congress
An anti-boycott, divestment and sanctions bill scheduled for a vote on Monday has been pulled from the US Congress after severe backlash from several “America First” Republican lawmakers and social media podcasters.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/bill-that-would-punish-americans-boycotting-israel-pull-us-congress

Trump issues executive order requiring English proficiency for truckers, escalating attacks on immigrant workers
The order, framed by the White House and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy as a “commonsense safety requirement” and an effort to “protect America’s truck drivers, drivers, passengers, and others,” is nothing of the sort. It is a discriminatory measure that weaponizes a decades-old regulation against immigrant workers, exacerbating an existing labor shortage and ignoring the real, pressing safety issues plaguing the trucking industry.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/05/truc-m05.html

Democratic-led states sue to prevent Trump from gutting health agencies
A group of Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit on Monday to challenge the Trump administration's decision to gut the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by firing 10,000 of its employees and shuttering entire agencies within the department.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democratic-led-states-sue-prevent-trump-gutting-health-agencies-2025-05-05/

Michigan drops charges against pro-Palestinian campus protesters
Attorney General Dana Nessel said she believed the cases were strong but suggested her office was worn down by criticism and other factors. She noted that a judge in Washtenaw County still hadn’t decided whether to send the cases to a trial court despite multiple hearings.
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Three tasks we face in confronting an empowered Reform UK
BRITAIN is now confronted with a Reform UK threat of a new scale and character. The party is no longer fringe, but a powerful force, controlling 10 councils and two elected mayoralties outright. The polls suggest it can make serious gains in Scotland and Wales as well. It has already indicated how it will use its new powers. Within a day Nigel Farage and Richard Tice were threatening refugees (saying Reform councils would seek to stop accommodating them, and suggesting they be moved out of buildings and into tents) and local government workers. In the latter case the attack concerned both terms and conditions and jobs relating to concepts Reform doesn’t believe in, from climate change to equalities. The left faces three essential tasks.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/three-tasks-we-face-confronting-empowered-reform-uk

How Hamas Sees the Current Moment: An Exclusive Interview With Osama Hamdan
In an exclusive interview with Drop Site News, a senior Hamas official said that the movement will not capitulate to any demands from Israel or the U.S. to lay down its weapons and vowed that Hamas will reject any temporary ceasefire deal that does not include a clear path to a total Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and an end to the genocide. “No need for a short-term ceasefire,” said Osama Hamdan, one of the longest serving senior officials within Hamas. “What the Israelis are offering is: We will give you a ceasefire for a short while and then we will come back to kill you again. So what's the idea of giving you food for 12, 40 days, two weeks or three weeks, and then coming back to kill you? It means that you endorse the genocide and you accept that for your own people.”
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/osama-hamdan-hamas-gaza-israel-trump

Bureaucratic Mishaps Demonstrate Undemocratic Nature of Elections Under Capitalism.
Gabriela Santiango-Romero, a current Detroit city council person representing a largely Latinx and immigrant district, has been disqualified from running in the upcoming elections in November. According to the Wayne CoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>489314
>Undemocratic Nature of Elections Under Capitalism
Elections won't be any more democratic under socialism. You can throw out all the other machinations of capitalist rule but as long as you keep their oligarchic institution of governance you're going to get an oligarchy under socialism.

>>489312
>>489313
Thanks comrade anon, your efforts are appreciated as always.

>>489300
Well it might be lasers but there are other forms of suitable energy too. I didn't know "directed energy" was already a marketing buzzword. I thought i was just using a non-specific term. I'm feeling a bit perplexed, all the existing energy weapons are sort of just technology tests, why would they need marketing before they have wares to sell ?

>>489301
You are right that it's still possible to over-saturate these, but you can't really deplete any interceptor ammunition. I do think that it eventually be cheaper to scale generators and emitter arrays than missile batteries.

I don't know why you think that intercepting automatically means detonating the warhead.

>>489302
>I don't know why you think that intercepting automatically means detonating the warhead.
That's not necessarily my point. An adversary on the other side of the planet might intentionally detonate some of their warheads in the upper atmosphere to generate an EMP and knock out ground infrastructure if they have a feeling that a lot of their warheads might get intercepted anyway. The range of EMPs is easy to underestimate and might end up harming the adversary too (so would nuclear winter), but anything goes in MAD.

>>489303
>An adversary on the other side of the planet might intentionally detonate some of their warheads in the upper atmosphere to generate an EMP and knock out ground infrastructure if they have a feeling that a lot of their warheads might get intercepted anyway.
I can't answer this off the top of my head. I'm not sure what the effective range of an EMP would be when knocking out a energy-weapon-array. Not sure how to estimate that given the broad range of possible designs for energy-weapon-arrays.

But you bring up a valid point.

>>489305
Self-contained military installations typically have shielding to protect against EMPs. It's the entire rest of the civilian infrastructure that doesn't because it's impractical. The target of an EMP wouldn't be a hypothetical laser/maser array likely shielded against this sort of thing, it would be civilians just like targeting a city with a nuke is.

>>489306
So what you are getting at, is that you think intercepting nukes is not worth it because there's always EMPs. Not sure if I agree with that.