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 No.490705[Reply]

This imagen describe some of the situación of Argentina, Miley sells arg to the judaism
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 No.490706

I heard Max Blumenthal say Milei is somehow a member of Chabad, I have no idea if he meant formally or if Milei just, like, associates closely with them… would be insane if Milei is somehow a member of Chabad, I don't think I even knew such a thing was possible.
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 No.490707

I wish I had some idea what the image describes. Sadly, OP didn't bother to translate for us.
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 No.490708

>>490707
Milei is privatising the water (the first image just says "resources" but that is one concrete example I am aware of) of Argentina for example, I think he will leave some part for Argentinian companies but he has already sold them to Israeli/American companies, and he also doing this with electricity etc…
The second image is about lowering taxes for rural landowners vetoing the increment of pensions.
This doesn't appear on the images but I think he is also making a program funded publicly for Israeli to go to settle on Argentina (launched at the same time he destroys the welfare)
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 No.490710

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>>490708 (me)
Dark blue: Full control
Light blue: Partial concessions (or something)

Quote at the bottom:
"Argentinians should get used to the scarcity culture"


 No.490697[Reply]

Assasings We're not going to hold on any longer
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 No.490698

Anon?
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 No.490703

What's this thread about…


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 No.490683[Reply]

Thai fighter jet bombs Cambodian targets as border battle escalates
Thailand scrambled an F-16 fighter jet to bomb targets in Cambodia after artillery volleys from both sides killed at least 11 civilians, as border tension boiled over into rare armed conflict between the Southeast Asian countries. Both blamed each other for starting a morning clash at a disputed area of the border, which quickly escalated from small arms fire to heavy shelling in at least six locations 209 kilometres (130 miles) apart along a frontier where sovereignty has been disputed for more than a century.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/567942/thai-fighter-jet-bombs-cambodian-targets-as-border-battle-escalates
https://archive.ph/qNdjM

Sri Lankan court orders owners of container ship to pay $1 billion in marine pollution compensation
The container ship MV X-Press Peal, which was carrying chemicals, sank off Colombo in June, 2021 after catching fire. The Supreme Court said the incident caused “unprecedented devastation to the marine environment of Sri Lanka” and harmed the country’s economy, especially the lives of the fishing communities.
https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-ship-fire-pollution-singapore-shipping-370ab4b243e761b015ab45976a790b52

Protest Crackdowns Intensify in Argentina as Milei Implements Austerity
In the first six months of 2025, the CPM documented 1,251 cases of injuries or detentions during demonstrations in Buenos Aires—surpassing the total of 1,216 recorded in all of 2024. The organization attributes this rise to a deliberate state strategy to suppress dissent amid the government’s sweeping economic adjustment program.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/protest-crackdowns-intensify-in-argentina-as-milei-implements-austerity/
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 No.490684

FEMA chief would report directly to US president under new bill
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency would report directly to the U.S. president instead of the Homeland Security secretary, under a bipartisan bill announced in the House of Representatives on Thursday. The bill also would allow FEMA to reimburse states for the cost of sheltering emergency personnel after natural disasters.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-chief-would-report-directly-us-president-under-new-bill-2025-07-24/

Black lung disease resurges as Trump and coal bosses sacrifice miners for profit and war
Trump has promised to roll back or completely abolish government regulations over the coal industry. This includes gutting the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), established in 1971 and tasked with developing standards and procedures to improve workplace safety. In April, Trump fired 850 of NIOSH’s 1,000 employees, including hundreds at its Morgantown, West Virginia, office, the only one in the country where miners can be tested for black lung and to certify that they are eligible for black lung benefits.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/24/gayp-j24.html

Filipino Diaspora activists denounce Marcos White House visit
Filipino diaspora activists staged protests outside of the White House each day of Filipino President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s visit with US President Donald Trump. Marcos Jr. arrived in Washington, DC on July 20. On the final day of Marcos’ visit on July 22, Trump announced a framework agreement setting tariffs on Philippine exports to the U.S. at 19%, which is a reduction from the 20% tariffs Trump had originally threatened, while US goods would enter the Philippines tariff-free.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/23/filipino-diaspora-activists-denounce-marcos-white-house-visit/

Trump effort to ditch greenhouse gas finding ignores ‘clearcut’ science, expePost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.490685

Short summary of the current situation of struggles in the UK
1) What major strike movements have there been in the country where you live, in the last 12 months?
There were very few outstanding strikes, primarily smaller disputes for regrading low paid workers within the NHS, such as the 100 day strike of phlebotomists in Gloucester. The main focus for the trade union movement is the bin workers strike in Birmingham against pay cuts, which has been going on since March 2025. There have been several ‘mass pickets’, which mobilised trade union activists and left groups from around the country. The strike becomes a political issue between the left-wing trade union movement and the governing Labour Party, e.g. the striking union Unite has suspended the membership of Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayners. The union also voted to “re-examine its relationship” with Labour over the issue, in a sign of growing divide between the union and the party who have historically worked hand-in-hand. The actual strength of the strike is not talked about much, there have been short-term occupations of scabbing temp agencies, but these actions seemed symbolic. A similar bin strike is happening in Sheffield, where Unite represents a third of the workforce.
https://www.angryworkers.org/2025/07/24/short-summary-of-current-situation-of-struggles-in-the-uk/

Assembly.org.ua : From Los Angeles to Ukraine: war prolongation brings new horizons for social struggle
With the anarchist movement seemingly completely lost interest in the situation in Ukraine, the May impasse in peace talks has become a catalyst for new things not seen since last year. Following the lull and apathy described in our interview, presented on the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair 2025, a new wave of public unrest is beginning in the country. Since the evening of July 22, for the first time since 2022, political protests involving thousands of people are taking place in Kiev and a number of regional centers. The reason is the adopted law No. 12414 on curtailing the powers of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, which are being transferred from the control of Western embassies to the subordination of the Office of the Prosecutor General as oPost too long. Click here to view the full text.


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 No.490298[Reply]

Since June 2024, we have been building a communist encyclopedia, Revolupedia, to provide easily-understood explanations to Marxist theory and allow for further study.

Overtime, our project and community has expanded to maintain hundreds of articles, a library of texts from Marxist thinkers, and detailed quotations.

We welcome all communists to join our effort to build a revolutionary compendium, whether anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist or Maoist!

https://revolupedia.net
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 No.490330

>>490320
>China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC),[a] is a fascist and social-imperialist state located in East Asia.

OP delete your retarded website right now.
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 No.490335

>>490330

Of course, random person on the internet! And with that, I will stop political activism entirely and live in a cave because you called us a mean word!

Thank you for your constructive criticism.
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 No.490528

>>490305
>ideology selector tab
what is that? and how would that look like?
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 No.490550

>>490528
Interesting idea actually. Knowledge bases have a propensity to suffer from the 'I'm the embodiment of truth' syndrome.

Without the assertion of 'Tha Truth' a opinionpedia can form. Let ideological currents be renamed to thought-collectives. And every such thought-collective can curate it's opinionated version of the pedia. If an article has several entries by multiple thought-collectives the reader can switch between them or access a diff-view that highlights opinion differences/agreements.

Not as a philosophical stance, objective reality exists after-all, but as a rejection of arbiters of truth. Because arbitration powers rarely coincides with an interest in objective reality.

quelling 2 problems: the splitting and the game of thrones for narratives.
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 No.490674

>>490550
well, that's actually a good idea

although I am not sure how feasible


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 No.490653[Reply]

I believe that Trump wants to use the so-called “Secondary Sanctions” on all countries that import Russian Oil/Gas, as a convenient excuse t dramatically escalate the Trade War with China into a full-decoupling of all Trade between the U$ and China, which combined with Trump forcing the ROC/“Taiwan” U$ puppet state to declare “independence” and/or the U$ recognizing them as the “Real China”, will force China to Invade Taiwan, thus giving the U$ a cactus belli to launch World War III against China, which means Trump will have Bipartisan support to use the Insurrection Act to declare Martial Law, suspend all Elections, and become De Facto President for Life, though this could dramatically backfire as it will either end in with this either ending in a decisive Conventional U$ victory (due to the U$ B-2 Stealth Bomber and Standoff Stealthy JASSMs, LRASMs, and Tomahawks, launched by B-1/2/52 Bombers in the case of JASSM, B-1 Bombers in the case of the LRASM, and Cruisers, Destroyers, and Submarines, in the case of the Tomahawk, destroying most Chinese Air Bases, Naval Bases, Warships, SRBM/MRBM/IRBM/GLCM launchers, and SAM sites, which despite Chinese DF-21/26 MRBMs/IRBMs and CJ-10 cruise Missiles launched by H-6 Bombers and Type 052D/Type 055 Destroyers, severely damaging many U$ air and naval bases in Japan and South Korea and Anti-Ship Missiles launched by H-6 Bombers and Type 052D/Type 055 Destroyers sinking several U$ Destroyers and Cruisers, causes China to suffer a decisive Conventional Defeat and Capitulate) that will lead to the overthrow of the Chinese Communist Party and the Balkanization of China (Tibet and East Turkestan will gain Independence) in a renewed Century of Humiliation, thus enshrining the Global Fascist Christian Zionist Nationalist 1000 year Burgereich under the eternal Trump Dynasty, or escalate into a Global Nuclear War (due to a DF-21D, DF-26, or JY-21 ASBM, launched by a TEL in the case of the DF-21/26, or a H-6 Bomber or Type 055 Destroyer in the case of the YJ-21, penetrating the Aegis ABM system and sinking a U$ Aircraft Carrier, thus provoking a U$ Nuclear First Strike on China, and assuming some Chinese ICBMs survive, and that their MIRVed Nuclear Warheads penetrate the U$ ABM system, a Chinese Nuclear Second Strike on the U$) that will destroy the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System, thus allowing for a World Maoist PPW to create a Global USSR that will Place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the ShiniPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.490654

For reasons I don't care to explain I think that in a hot conflict with American forces around Taiwan, China would have an overwhelming advantage and repel America before it can turn into a larger conflict.

China has now taken a stance on Gaza, and also said that Russia losing in Ukraine wasn't acceptable to them. This means they have built up enough militarily to actualize their own interests, at least regionally. If America steps in they will simply lose. It won't really be a prolonged conflict unless America can convince states like South Korea, Japan and India to dogpile onto them, which just isn't realistic given how closely these countries are tied economically to China.
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 No.490655

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 No.490656

>>490653
>cactus belli
I know I shouldn't be focused on this malapropism, but I giggled a lil'.
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 No.490657

>>490653
I really respect your digressions into analyzing the military hardware which will come into play. I don't know enough about it, but it's great to see someone gaming it.

I think that you're right that the US intends to provoke war with China, and I'm not sure whether China will actually bite and invade the ROC. I really doubt it unless the US makes greater material military provocations - IE I think the US might actually have to attack China directly or resort to making some shit up like the US did to invade Iraq. I agree with the hypothesis that Trump, or at least the Trump admin, intends to extend its stay in order to fulfill this dirtywork of the US state. They want an unlikeable, pliable, and senile, person in charge for this - and if not him, then JD Vance or Trump's sons (who they've exposed heavily to the base as proxies for Trump). Trump is supposed to be the ugly face of the empire, and of unapologetic Zionist supremacy. That way they can blame him for the stuff they've been planning for decades.
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 No.490664

>>490657
China’s military & economic dominance is undeniable. Japan/SK/India won’t suicide their economies for a dying empire. Gaza & Ukraine prove it: the West sets fires. 🇨🇳⚡️🇺🇸💀"
>>490654
Trump/Vance are just puppets—Zionist oligarchs need a ‘madman’ to blame for the coming war. But China won’t fall for fake provocations (Iraq 2.0?). U.S. wants chaos to hide its collapse 🤡☢️☭


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 No.488052[Reply]

On March 9, 2025, US permanent resident and Columbia University graduate student was abducted without charge or trial and sent off to a shady Louisiana site on White House orders over his protests for Columbia to divest from Israel's war crimes.

From DropSite:

NEW YORK CITY—On Saturday night, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents entered a student residential building at Columbia University in uptown New York and detained Mahmoud Khalil, one of the lead negotiators on behalf of pro-Palestine protesters at 2024’s Gaza solidarity encampment. In a sweeping attack on the First Amendment, the Trump administration said this week it would begin revoking visas of “Hamas sympathizers,” specifically citing Columbia University students. The detention followed a two-day targeted online campaign against Khalil by pro-Israel groups and individuals, including Columbia’s high-profile pro-Israel professor, Shai Davidai.

Khalil, an Algerian citizen of Palestinian origin and an American green-card holder, was detained by DHS officials around half past eight as he was entering the Columbia residential building he lives in. He was returning from an iftar, breaking the day-long fast observed by many Muslims during the month of Ramadan.

Khalil’s wife, who is eight months pregnant, was with him at the time. A statement by the pro-Palestine group Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) stated that he was “abducted and detained without the physical demonstration of a warrant or officially filed charges.”

Khalil was detained at a DHS facility in New Jersey, according to a database for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But when his wife went to try and visit him she was informed he was not there. "He is not at the ICE facility in New Jersey. I can confirm he is not there,” Khalil’s attorney Amy Greer told Drop Site. "At this time, we have an idea [where he is] but we cannot confirm that 100%.”

According to WAWOG, the DHS agents told Khalil that the U.S. Department of State had revoked his student visa. The group said this was “despite the fact that he has a green card, not a visa, and is a lawful permanent resident.”

In response to a request for comment from Drop Site, the DHS first stated, “You need to reach out to the White House.”
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 No.489653

New footage of Mahmoud Khalil's arrest shows Trump admin is lying.

First they said they had a warrant.
Then they admitted they didn't—saying they didn't *need* one, because he wasn't cooperating & was going to flee.

But video shows that's not true either.
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 No.489812

https://x.com/pslnational/status/1928172707180347568
TODAY: New Yorkers rallied outside of the immigration court hearing of Columbia student Yunseo Chung in protest of the attempt to target and deport her for standing against US-funded genocide in Palestine.

Protesting genocide is not a crime! Hands off Yunseo!
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 No.489815

>>489653
maybe the legal norms will change, and abuse of power will become the default assumption. And proof of legitimate use of power will become a requirement.
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 No.489817

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U.S. Government and Private Groups Coordinated to Target Palestinian Student Activists, FOIA Filing Alleges

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has filed a sweeping Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian-American and lawful permanent resident who has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since March 8, 2025. The filing accuses federal agencies of colluding with private anti-Palestinian organizations to detain and deport student activists engaged in pro-Palestine advocacy, and seeks records from the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, State, and ICE.






The Alleged Role of Private Anti-Palestinian Groups

The FOIA request names over a dozen groups accused of coordinating to surveil, doxx, and target pro-Palestine students—often focusing on noncitizens—in an effort to trigger deportation. The groups include:

➤ Betar USA: A militant Zionist group that created a “deport list” of student activists, including Khalil.

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 No.490663

Didn't update this when it happened, but Mahmoud Khalil was released and is currently suing the Trump administration for tihs:

Mahmoud Khalil suing Trump admin for ‘politically motivated arrest, detention’
Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University graduate student who was detained as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestine advocacy in the US, is seeking $20m “to help others similarly targeted”, his lawyers say.

“He would accept, in lieu of payment, an official apology and abandonment of the administration’s unconstitutional policy”, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) said in a statement announcing the soon-to-be-filed lawsuit.

Khalil, who was released in June after more than three months in detention, was the first known activist to be detained and have his legal immigration status revoked by the Trump administration over involvement in student protests in support of Gaza.

“Nothing can restore the 104 days stolen from me. The trauma, the separation from my wife, the birth of my first child that I was forced to miss”, Khalil said in the CCR statement.

“There must be accountability for political retaliation and abuse of power. And I won’t stop here. I will continue to pursue justice against everyone who contributed to my unlawful detention or spread lies in an attempt to destroy my reputation, including those affiliated with Columbia University”, he said.

“I’m holding the US government accountable not just for myself, but for everyone they try to silence through fear, exile, or detention”.

https://aje.io/wl6n6h?update=3831114


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 No.483326[Reply]

Football fans and Gregg's connoisseurs from around England are currently rioting following the murder of three schoolchildren by an asylum seeker (Axel Rudakubana) and subsequent non-response by the courts. The riots have only escellated following Starmer's absolutely braindead response & the response of local law enforcement.

Bongs to follow for updates:
https://x.com/PolitlcsUK
https://x.com/visegrad24
https://x.com/Sargon_of_Akkad
https://x.com/AkkadSecretary
https://x.com/9mm_smg
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra
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 No.488243

>>488221
>Labour has been an increasingly Thatcherite party economically since Blair
Yeah Blair getting into Labor, kinda wrecked it. I think the neolibs think in terms of power-brokers, meaning they seek out positions in organizations and society at large in order to sell out. I bet you they think that is what everybody is doing. From the perspective of social democrats this was hostile infiltration.

I sometimes wonder if the left could have done something like this too. Except, you know, the other way around. You know in the 70s when neo-liberalism began to spread the rot. To be fair i don't really have a clue how to invert the power-broaker dynamic.
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 No.490406

>>488214
UK left is completely turbo pozzed LGBT and open borders cargo cult.
Left parties will never get off the ground here because there is no "big tent" they are working towards to bring across a standard working class agenda, so you will just get left parties that are extreme in all the wrong ways and follow whatever shitlib pozzed zeitgeist they get fed from largely US dominated Social Media.
This is why even most Green parties don't even focus on Environmental or Industrial/Agricultural policy anymore, because they got hijacked by every quack "left adjacent" group out there to push their personal agendas, and the only "cross faction" difference they need to cover, is how much "girldick" should you be forced to suck because being declared a real leftist.
>>488243
>I sometimes wonder if the left could have done something like this too.
Yes if the Western left was actually competent and had any basis in normal working class people at all. No in reality, because the Western Left is nothing more than a cargo cult of quack losers and freaks.
Honestly Corbyn when he played the game, and focused only on bread and butter working class economic issues with broad appeal, literally hit 45% in UK polling with the Tories sitting on 37%. Do you think the modern British left would accept Corbyn's popular policies like massively strengthening police powers and hiring 40k more police? Of fucking course not.
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 No.490407

>>488221
>My bet is that poster above you is an oblivious sufferer of duopoly brainrot
Or it was sarcasm so advanced that a galaxybrain such as yourself couldn't detect it.

>Labour has been an increasingly Thatcherite party economically since Blair

Is that why taxes are higher than ever, public spending is higher than ever, and millionaires are fleeing the country in record numbers?
https://londondaily.com/over-10-000-millionaires-depart-from-the-uk-in-a-year-amid-changing-financial-landscape
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 No.490640

>>490407
Millionares are fleeing the UK because it's an absolute miserable fucking shithole that is going to the dogs.
If you are a british Millionare, and your assets are being taxed in any meaningful way, you're actually retarded. The UK literally set up the global system of tax avoidence.


 No.489198[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Continued from >>487384

Updates and current status since the start of the last thread:
The (largely civilian) Palestinian death toll has now passed 61,000. Excess deaths have been estimated by The Lancet to plausibly be upwards of 186,000.

In early January 2025, Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange. Despite all of the killing, Hamas's military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, appears to have largely replenished its numbers. Israel proceeded to violate the ceasefire with airstrikes and a resumption of their illegal blockade of Gaza before resuming full-scale attacks in March and destroying the ceasefire entirely.

Israel has continued to violate the ceasefire with Lebanon more than 600 times, and has refused to leave the country entirely after multiple delays. After months of the IDF violating the ceasefire in the south of Lebanon, Israel returned to bombing Beirut in March.

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by US-backed al-Qaeda operatives. Israel proceeded to steal more land from Syria and launched a massive bombing campaign on Syria and Syria's arsenal without any resistance. Meanwhile, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the leader of HTS and current de facto leader of Syria, has launched attacks on Lebanon and attacked Palestinian liberation factions within Syria.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICC also issued warrants against Hamas leaders.

Following the warrants, the Biden administration invited Yoav Gallant to the White House.

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 No.490638

Al-Qassam’s military spokesman Abu Obaida:

“Our enemy is being supplied by the world’s most oppressive powers with endless convoys of weapons and ammunition, while the regimes and forces of our own nation stand by watching their brothers in the land of resistance being slaughtered by the tens of thousands, starved, denied water and medicine.

The leaders, elites, and scholars of the Islamic and Arab world bear the heavy burden of the blood of tens of thousands of innocent people betrayed by their silence.

The enemy would not have dared commit this genocide so openly had it not been assured of impunity, guaranteed silence, and bought betrayal.

We do not absolve anyone of responsibility for the ongoing bloodshed, nor do we exempt anyone who has the power to act—each according to their capacity and influence.”
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 No.490639

https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1946337109419188676
Yemeni Armed Forces announces that it targeted Ben Gurion Airport with a Palestine-2 missile, disrupting
airport operations and sending settlers fleeing to shelters.

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1946273961777459688
BREAKING: Hezbollah Secretary General vows to fight Israel in defence of Lebanon to “victory or Martyrdom”

Sheikh Naim Qassem, speaking live said that the Lebanese group “will never surrender” & that his country faces three primary threats today:

1- Israel
2- ISIS linked elements on its eastern border
3- American conspiracies to dismantle the nation

The Hezbollah leaders language suggests that a defensive operation will take place against Israel, following its failure over 8 months to implement the ceasefire agreement.
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 No.490641

Statement from Catholic Arcivescovo Carlo Maria Viganò:

The bombing of the Church of the Holy Family—the only Catholic parish in Gaza—is yet another brazen and murderous attack by Israel in violation of international law. Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pizzaballa himself has questioned the sincerity of Prime Minister Netanyahu's words, who attributes the attack to an error, since there are no targets in the immediate vicinity of the church.

Leo deplores the victims of the attack in Gaza, but does not mention its perpetrators.

Netanyahu, responsible for the attack, thanks Leo and reiterates that Israel protects the safety of civilians and holy sites. Meanwhile, with absolute impunity, Israel strikes the defenseless civilian population of Gaza with Western weapons and attacks Lebanon, Syria, and Iran.

Numerous members of the Israeli government support the Zionist project of "Greater Israel" because, since the end of the 19th century, the Messiah awaited by the Jews has been the Jewish State. This ideology (a true "heresy" of Judaism) considers Jews to be a superior race by divine decree, and on the basis of this self-proclaimed superiority—and the inferiority of the goyim that it implies—Israel considers itself justified in violating every moral principle and demands to enjoy absolute impunity.

No president or prime minister of Tel Aviv's vassal nations—first and foremost the United States of America—will ever dare to speak out, as they are most likely being blackmailed by Mossad and its emissaries.

If this were the Russian Federation, what would be the reaction of the international community?

How many more deaths and injuries will we have to witness before the United States of America and the entire West wake up from this subservience to a state that replicates with greater ferocity (after having been a victim of it) the horrors of National Socialist totalitarianism?
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 No.490642

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1946661195689128105
Hamas release footage of their fighters destroying two tanks & gunning down Israeli soldiers

The screams of Israeli soldiers can be heard, as 3 are shot dead from close range.

This ambush occurred in Jabalia Al-Balad (northern Gaza).
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 No.490647



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 No.490628[Reply]

When I first started working in the tech industry, I didn't understand the point of Scrum. I couldn't recall a single time when I thought that our daily meetings actually mattered. It wasn't long before my attention was captured by the horrors of writing mountains of documentation that would never be read, living through Jira hell, and nearly going mad from the pointless rituals of test-driven development and eXtreme(ly shitty) Programming.

The story I was sold is that all these big ideas are bigly necessary because big complex systems need big complex teams, which in turn need these big ideas. This struck me as a big damn lie. All you really need is good code, which needs good developers, which needs good teamwork - duh, right? But what follows is a bunch of bullshit boilerplate, standards and methodologies. Why? Because they serve to obscure the root of the problem: people giving a shit about the shit they're doing so that they can do it well.

If you're hiring people to maintain some voodoo code written by an overworked and disgruntled codemonkey ten years ago, or refusing to hire junior devs because you need "real talent" to maintain your Kafkaesque SaaS nightmare, then problem runs a *lot* deeper than just "not being agile enough" or whatever the hell other coping mechanisms we use to repress the problem. These insane business practices that drive insane development practices are literally insane, because they do the same thing over and over and over again - fixing the problems created by fixing the problems created by fixing the problems.

What the professional commentariat - the business gurus and glorified cultists, the chattering classes who preach incessantly on such matters - avoid mentioning is that the crux of good management involves _protecting the workers from such pathologies so that they can do their damn jobs._ The workers can learn to direct and motivate themselves if they want to, and they will if they have the freedom to do it. In one sentence: *They need to be given tools and techniques, not pizzas and parenting.* This has nothing to do with "agile processes" or "servant leadership" or whatever other perverted corporate ideologies that are being peddled to the successfully incompetent - it's a working-class reality.

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Obviously a lot of this can be solved with Actually Democratic workplaces.
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 No.490636

>>490629
Sure, and this is where I admire people like Richard Wolff. Even Jim Coplien's critique of agile points in this direction, though it still remains within the tech industry logic to a large extent. But my point about Cookie Clicker Capitalism is that this is a structural problem that can't be easily solved by just throwing workers co-ops at it; the neoliberal capitalist system rewards the spectacle of work far more than real, productive work. I'm not saying that we shouldn't push for "economic democracy" or whatever you want to call it, but that it will ultimately need a political programme as well in order to be meaningful in the long-term. Otherwise, the Cookie Clicker Capitalists will always have the most cookies, and the successfully incompetent will continue to succeed.


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Greeting's from PR.China)
Its my first time using leftypol ,so actually I don't get how to use it correctly ,will keep learning I guess. Cause of the firewall, we Chinese seldom have chances to communicate with foreigners,especially politalcal communication :(
So I'm kind of curious to know how foreigner comrades think of China ,on other websites I can only find tons of, trash informations (Must know what Im saying lol) Also, I may answer some questions too,welcoming communication
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>>490348
What are your recommended essential books on Chinese statecraft, warcraft, and spycraft?

What about the essentials for understanding Chinese culture, philosophy, and psychology?

Thank you!

As a foreign comrade in the U.S., have found China to be quite mysterious due to contradictory progaganda over the years. I see China as biding their time for capitalist nations to cannibalize themselves, avoiding conflicts as much as possible as recommended by Sun Tzu. Have read China is becoming more Americanized, with the youth embracing Halloween(with it being mostly restricted or banned), rap(before being banned), and 90s sitcoms(rumored to be circulated underground). Also read the government suppresses unions/workers to avoid Western bureaucratic pitfalls and excessive middle men. Have also heard the chinese are more liberal with their racism, though not as hateful or grudging with it and it is not as taboo to criticize whatever minority groups.

Regarding China's socialist aspects, they seem to be very fickle, given their actions during the Cold War and inaction afterwards, The chinese seem to be nationalists dipped in red. Heard from Chinese-American (who admires modern China but detests socialism) argue that Marxism conflicts with Chinese culture and is antithetical and only a label at this point. Personally, given the fact of seeing enough videos of Chinese industrial workers getting crushed and maimed, it seems socialism is only an aesthetic at this point with the poor work conditions.

Overall, see China as the lesser of many evils not a savior
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>>490526
Since you didn't get a reply from OP i'll try.

>What are your recommended essential books on Chinese

>statecraft
Xii Jinping wrote a book about that. Can't recall the title, sry. Could be something like 'Governance of China in the modern era.'
>warcraft
Historic: Sun Tzu (as you mentioned) and Mao
Modern: i got nothin

>essentials for understanding Chinese culture, philosophy, and psychology?

i got nothin on that either

>I see China as biding their time for capitalist nations to cannibalize themselves, avoiding conflicts as much as possible

That is their attitude for the world at large, but they do want 'the string of Perls' aka the military encirclement by the US removed.
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>>490526
Sorry for not replying to you in a timely manner.

>What are your recommended essential books on Chinese statecraft, warcraft, and spycraft?

For the official governance methods in China, you can choose to read "Xi Jinping Talks about Governance", which has an official English translation.As for the warcraft and spycraft sections, to my knowledge, there are no official books specifically introducing these topics, as these strategic issues are not so openly discussed in China.However, you may be able to search for websites and magazines aimed at Chinese military enthusiasts, where you may find the answers you are looking for。

>What about the essentials for understanding Chinese culture, philosophy, and psychology?

If you want to have a detailed understanding, then there are plenty of things you need to read.But the simplest way, as the comrade who answered for me said, Mao's books can help you quickly understand all of this.By the way, you can also read some books by Lu Xun, as he is widely recognized as one of the most revolutionary writers of the early 20th century in China.

Yes, young people in China consider some customs from foreign countries as fashionable, but I don't think it's a bad thing. Just like foreigners sometimes celebrate the Chinese Spring Festival, I think it has closed the gap between people in different countries.It's just that the consumerist atmosphere inside makes me feel a bit…nah
Unfortunately, if I understand correctly, you seem to have made some mistakes about the situation of Chinese trade unions. China's suppression of trade unions has not solved the problems of bureaucracy or intermediaries. The government only suppresses workers who organize unofficial trade unions to protect their rights, while government established trade unions do not work for workers' rights at all.And yes, China allows complaints from the public about minority groups because the goverment needs to divert people's attention

Simply put, Mao appeared to be a nationalist because he needed China to serve socialism (Stalin's theory of building socialism in one country).And those who after him, in my opinion, regarded socialism as a tool to serve the Chinese nation.So when some principles of socialism hinder the strength of the Chinese countrPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>490551
>They don't export the revolution, true. Their contribution to socialist projects in other countries is that they continue trading with them, negating weaponized isolationism.
During the Mao era, China provided support to other revolutionary forces in Asia, even aiding Albania in Europe.However, after that, as a price for joining the World Trade Organization, China officially gave up exporting revolution and only did business with countries around the world.

>It's lower stage socialism. They have social wins like dramatic poverty reduction, really good public infrastructure, really steep rise in wages/living standards and expanding public services. They're genuinely striving towards 'real' socialism at a snails pace.

In the eyes of the left-wing in China, just like Brezhnev's "developed socialism", the primary stage is completely a deceitful lie

Thank you for your reply on my behalf. It was very accurate.
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>>490572
>>490573
Thanks to you both, sorry for saying it so late. How’d you even find this dead site?


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