/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>Now that Maduro is captured
Allegedly.

>is it likely that Cuba will be invaded?
Nah, they're going for Iran next.

>Will there be a civil war in Venezuela later on?
If by later on you mean immediately?
Maybe.

>This fits up with Israel's attack on Sinwar and the fall of Damascus.
The former took over a year, the latter took 13 years.

>Is warfare going to be shorter?
That doesn't seem to be the pattern outside of this. Iraq seemed to indicate that in the '00s, but then Afghanistan kept going for over a decade.

>>493158
>shorter
It hasn't even started yet, what you're watching is the prelude.

>>493190
The show must go on

>>493118
Yeah it's insane considering how neutered these parties are in the first place.

>>493113
I talked to a friend this past year that said they potentially have to go back to Germany to do mandatory military service or lose their German citizenship.

What I think all this amounts to is that Europe is preparing for WWIII with Russia.

>>493120
>I talked to a friend this past year that said they potentially have to go back to Germany to do mandatory military service or lose their German citizenship.
>What I think all this amounts to is that Europe is preparing for WWIII with Russia.
Do you believe it'll happen in a few years? Personally I believe Putin might resign after the war ends. Does mandatory military service apply to migrants too?

>>493122
I don't live in Europe so I don't have the answers.

It sure feels like there is a global military buildup however.

>>493122
>Do you believe it'll happen in a few years?
Not that anon, but personally I think that "it" will happen this year. Except I think that Iran will be the main target, and a lot of the European re-militarization will actually be (subtly or unsubtly) funneled into that front even before it's certain what course of action Russia will take.

>>493124
>Not that anon, but personally I think that "it" will happen this year. Except I think that Iran will be the main target, and a lot of the European re-militarization will actually be (subtly or unsubtly) funneled into that front even before it's certain what course of action Russia will take.
Anon you've been proven right and it hasn't been a day

That's way too many data centers. Having 10 in a small city would already be weird.

I don't think even the average computer enthusiast really appreciates how fast a modern computer is. A top of the line personal computer would be considered a supercomputer in the 90's, like the ones used for rendering CGI for Jurassic Park, or performing nuclear simulations.

And they need that many of them? To brute force solutions to problems that probably aren't socially applicable, and only work 95% of the time at best?

Clearly there is something wrong here, and there is an incredible waste of resources.

Like after all that, can they even make a robot that will do my dishes? Even with a dish washing machine? I have yet to see that. They couldn't get self-driving cars to work after decades, so I think we're finally seeing this AI shit peak.

And you know what, I'm glad, because at first this AI stuff seemed like it would really might get to human levels of intelligence. I'm happy it's really just a toy.

And maybe I should be happy in the short term that this is where they're putting surplus value - into making computer chips that turn electricity into heat, instead of more weapons and war or something worse.

>In these crises, a great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production.

>>492068
This is going to be a disaster, Singapore and Dubai are apparently going all in on AI as well

Why Trajan? Trump is obviously Commodus.

>>492953
You have it right, Bush would be Trajan since both took their countries to their greatest extent. I think. Biden or Kennedy would be Aurelian

A-hem.

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Nerdeen Kiswani:
This is deeply disturbing and not enough people are talking about it.

Zohran Mamdani just went to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens, venerating the founder of the racist, Zionist Chabad movement.

The Rebbe’s movement has a long history that should make anyone pause. In 1991 a car in his motorcade killed 7‑year-old Gavin Cato, a Black Caribbean child in Crown Heights. The first ambulance to arrive was Jewish Hatzalah, which took the Jewish driver and passengers before treating the child, who was killed by the motorcade. The Rebbe never apologized or took responsibility.

Fast forward to April 2025: Chabad invited far-right Israeli Minister Itamar Ben‑Gvir to their Brooklyn headquarters. Outside, a mob of Orthodox men chanted “death to Arabs,” surrounded and chased a woman they thought was a protester, threatened her with rape, kicked her, hurled cones and trash cans, and another Jewish supporter of Palestine was hospitalized with a bloody head wound. Hundreds followed her for blocks before police got her to safety.

Chabad-Lubavitch is actively cheering on and materially supporting the Israeli military. Branches have raised tens of thousands of dollars for the IDF, a Chabad charity in the U.K. was officially warned for buying military equipment for soldiers, and senior rabbis in Israel lobbied the government on war policies and settlements, framing military action as religiously mandated. Their “Moshiach” messaging and flags are everywhere — on Israeli tanks in Gaza and across NYC streets — signaling a messianic justification for this violence.

So Mamdani is venerating the leader of a sect that:
• is politically and rabidly pro-Israel,
• has tolerated violent, anti-Arab racism,
• never reckoned with a racist tragedy in its own motorcade,
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>>492796
https://www.cpusa.org/article/as-the-far-right-grows-so-should-the-all-peoples-front/
As the far right grows, so should the all-people’s front – Communist Party USA


The few socialist legislators serving in Washington, D.C., and Albany, NY, who refuse all capitalist contributions are the exception — some capitalist funding goes to nearly every progressive legislator.

Communist candidates cannot accept money from billionaires and monopolies. But we can’t impose our position on every progressive and left-of-center liberal candidate. If we do, we will end up with only a few candidates to support. The task of halting the extreme right requires a much broader electoral front. How does our Party march side by side with anti–extreme-right elected officials from a capitalist party? Primarily through the mass movements, nearly all of which are involved in every election we have.

Our tactics must jibe with our strategy. What exactly do we mean by “tactics”? Lenin answered, “By the Party’s tactics we mean the Party’s political conduct, or the character, direction, and methods of its political activity” (Two Tactics). At the least, we must not be sectarian. Instead, we should be broad in our approach. We should not hammer on the shortcomings of elements of the all-people’s front. Many forces of the front do that already; there is no need for us to pile on. Communists, more than any other political force, must work to build up the coalitions involved.

This is true especially after primary elections are over and voters face the choice of a decent liberal candidate or an extreme rightist. Harsh criticism of a Democratic candidate, who will either defeat or lose to an extreme-right Republican, serves no positive purpose. Some on the left think they must cleanse their brains and souls by telling the masses how flawed the better candidate is. In an age of rampant misinformation, which hits people from many sides, this is an especially poor tactic. Nearly half of the population gets its news sometimes or often from social media (most likely Facebook) (Pew Research). Watch segments from the three cable “news” networks — Fox, Newsmax, and One America News. See which stories they pound on and which Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

https://x.com/KlonnyPin_Gosch/status/2006874926762840119
WTF did I say. Straight out the gate, Ziohran issues an Exec Order that appears to give Commish Tisch license to establish “no protest zones” including 60 ft perimeters around houses of worship during “non-religious activities” to protect freedom of speech (meaning settlement recruitment drives at synagogues), the exact proposal that Rabbi Schneier of Westhampton Beach was lobbying the transition team to impose lmfao. They’re basically going to proscribe protesting outside Isntreal related events held in synagogues, dress it up as combatting antisemitism, while also pantomiming enshrining free speech by creating designated corrals out of the way where people can hold their signs in a non-intrusive fashion, out of the sight of the aggrieved genocidaires, god forbid they be challenged or have their street view blotted out by angry people…

Incredible. Just as I predicted.

>>492628
DSA has no leash on its candidates because it doesn't run them on their party ticket. Their condemnation and lobbying of their former darling AOC has done nothing to her. They just provide free canvassing for Democrats who hold their cards, that's it. That's all they are.

>>493004
>Anyway, it's really the state propaganda machine and crackdowns which make garnering sympathy difficult.
Yeah, and they have the upper hand by being out in the open. It's very difficult to counter this stuff from the underground.

>>492990
I wish I knew how to join them

>>493004
>revolutionaries have to operate underground unless they already have established military support
Isn't 99% of what an org should do, they can do above ground?
I don't see how you can do any sort of community work underground, like what the black panthers did with meals and healthcare.

Of course the panthers were met with force and assasinations - so it's either be safe but be underground or be out in the open and clash with the state. But directly resisting the state is going to come sooner or later, and what activities would you even do underground?

>>493060
The Black Panthers kept their militant and political wings essentially separate.

Community programs and services obviously have to be above ground - I mean, you could do them underground, but that would obviously be a pain in the ass unless you were already in open hot war with the state. I guess when I said "revolutionaries," I primarily meant militants, which was admittedly a confusing way to phrase what I meant since a revolutionary party's political wing is still composed of revolutionaries.

Although, actually, I kind of think that any western revolutionary group maybe should work on an underground political wing. Organizing masses of people in a community simply to do ordinary mutual aid stuff without detection is an extremely good idea.

>>492990
The Illuminati was so successful that it became a boogeyman even if it failed not long after its foundation.

Unsalvageably reactionary. After a Z victory they’ll be liquidated on a national basis.

https://www.politico.eu/article/latvia-a-disappearing-nation-migration-population-decline/
Latvia, a disappearing nation
January 5, 2018

Since it joined the EU, the country has lost one-fifth of its population.

To be sure, economic migration is not the only reason for the country’s declining population. The small Baltic republic’s comparatively low birth rate and high mortality rate are also contributing factors.

“Borders are open, information about life in other EU states is available and everyone is doing it. So, off our young people go to England or Ireland or Germany” — Aleksandr Rube, journalist

https://europeannewsroom.com/latvia-completes-fence-on-border-with-russia-2/

Maybe Latvia can employ their remaining population as border guards.

>>492922
>Atleast they're bugs in South Korea.
What the fuck does this mean?

>>492922
There's Lithuanian Jews that immigrate to Israel

source: a Youtube couple's parents and family moved from Lithuania to Israel

>>492819
https://x.com/Ollie_Vargas_/status/2002166029389267437
Bolivia's workers unions announce an indefinite general strike against the neoliberal austerity measures announced this week.

No dialogue or negotiation, all the measures must be repealed first. No honeymoon period for the right-wing govt.

>>492837
Started on December 22nd:
https://x.com/Ollie_Vargas_/status/2003295093332295974
Bolivia’s indefinite general strike against neoliberal austerity measures began today.

Mass marches are underway in the cities, and rural workers have blocked all major highways by erecting barricades on roads across their regions.

https://x.com/Ollie_Vargas_/status/2005083611327070274
Day 6 of Bolivia’s general strike against the new govt’s neoliberal austerity measures.

The largest union (miners) hold daily protests in the capital, while rural workers plan to march on cities. Though some smaller corrupt unions are demobilzing after signing deals with govt.

https://x.com/Ollie_Vargas_/status/2005829534134759699
Day 8 of Bolivia's general strike against neoliberal austerity measures. This march is in the city of Cochabamba.

A recent presidential decree eliminates fuel subsidies and opens up state assets for privatization.

https://x.com/Ollie_Vargas_/status/2006186523159584916
Day 9 of Bolivia's general strike against neoliberal austerity measures.

Bus drivers in southern La Paz join the strike. Their corrupt union leaders signed a deal with govt promising not to mobilize, but members have rejected it and graffitied 'traitors' on the union office.

>fascisms is capitalist response to a mass organized communist movement
Close, but not quite. When capitalism has an existential crisis that the liberal center is unable to resolve, a lane is opened for the public to consider other types of politics. Fascism is what you get when the left fails to take power. We're not quite at an existential crisis yet, but it could very well be lurking around the corner when the AI bubble explodes.

Methinks fascism has now lost its meaning on leftist forums due to being used as a slur for "opinions/practices I don't like".

>>493041
lol

>where is the organized communist movement of our day?
In China

>>493037
>Assuming OP isn't a bot

Well this question was asked in leftypol.org/leftypol/res/2528259.html using picrel, but that page 404'd already plus it's an interesting thread

US pledges $2bn in new UN model for delivery of humanitarian assistance
The US and UN will sign 17 memorandums of understanding with individual countries identified by the US as priority countries, officials from the state department and UN said in Geneva. But some areas that are priorities for the UN, including Yemen, Afghanistan and Gaza, will not be receiving US funding under the new mechanism, UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said, adding that the UN will seek support from other donors to find funding for those.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/29/us-pledge-un-model-humanitarian-assistance

A look at how Trump-era work requirements could impact people who receive public benefits
Previously, adults older than 54, as well as parents with children under age 18, at home were exempted from SNAP’s 80-hours monthly work requirement. Now, adults up to age 64 and parents of children between the age of 14 and 17 have to prove they’re working, volunteering or job training if they are on SNAP for more than three months. … HUD in July also proposed a rule change that would allow public housing authorities across the country to institute work requirements, as well as time limits. In a leaked draft of that rule change, HUD spells out how housing authorities can choose to opt in and voluntarily implement work requirements of up to 40 hours a week for people getting rental assistance, including adult tenants in public housing and Section 8 voucher-holders.
https://apnews.com/article/snap-medicaid-hud-work-requirements-trump-big-beautiful-bill-05c560dc624acd69d9da5c5631721c29

Case dropped against TikTok streamer who was shot by US immigration agents
The government had charged Parias with assault, saying that he used his car as a “weapon” to ram against two law enforcement vehicles. But in video footage leading up to Parias’ shooting, reviewed by the LA Times, Parias’ car did not appear to be moving. The footage shows him asking officers why he is being detained, and an officer threatening to shoot Parias if he doesn’t get out.
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Epstein and Leviathan: How the Financier Opened Doors to Netanyahu and Ehud Barak Amid Israel's Offshore Gas Fight
On December 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a $35 billion deal to sell natural gas to Egypt in what officials describe as the largest energy export agreement in Israel’s history. The natural gas will be produced from Leviathan, a massive field west of Haifa. “On this day,” Netanyahu wrote in a statement that day, the third day of Hanukkah, “we’ve brought another jug of oil to the nation of Israel. But this time, the flame will burn not just for eight days, but for decades to come.” The gas export permit for Egypt came after months of delays and behind-the-scenes disputes between Tel Aviv, Cairo, and Washington. The decision is expected to reinforce the Camp David peace framework between Egypt and Israel—an arrangement strained by the Gaza genocide—while cementing Israel’s emergence as a major natural gas supplier in the eastern Mediterranean and beyond.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/epstein-leviathan-jpmorgan-gas-deals-netanyahu-ehud-barak

Spontaneous strikes at Arcelor Dunkirk and steel worker riots in Genoa – And in the UK?
We translated this article by comrades from France, as we think that it has international relevance. The global steel industry is at the centre of trade wars and, related to this, the process of militarisation. With the downturn of the automobile industry we see a global overproduction of steel. The US and the EU react by putting up tariffs, which squeezes the steel industry in the UK. In reaction to the blackmail from steel companies, the Labour government promises further subsidies with their £2.5 billion ‘steel fund’. In times of general preparation for larger wars, steel production becomes a national security asset. When the Chinese steel manufacturer Jingye announced the closure of the blast furnaces at the Scunthorpe site in April 2025, the UK government stepped in and semi-nationalised the plant. As you can read in the article below, nationalisation has little to offer for the workers on the ground. Given this global picture it is not a coincidence that things are kicking off elsewhere. In November and December 2025, steel workers in Genoa occupied squares, blockaded motorwayPost too long. Click here to view the full text.