/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

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.

3 days until this!

Netanyahu is currently in Florida, and will be in DC tomorrow.

Why is Trump accused of being a Russian asset when the Israel Zionist stranglehold on US politics is a thing?

Netanyahu meets with Rubio before Trump
The Israeli prime minister has met with the top US diplomat before his meeting with Trump.

In a post on the social media platform X, Netanyahu said it was a “great” meeting with Rubio.

The US secretary of state has been peripherally involved in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, which have been spearheaded by Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff.

Trump greets Netanyahu as meeting kicks off
With a handshake and a pat on the back, the two leaders have reunited at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

The meeting is the fifth time since Trump returned to office in January that Netanyahu has visited the US.

Phase two of the ceasefire in Gaza, Iran and Syria are expected to loom large in their talks.

Here’s what Trump and Netanyahu have said so far
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Iranian official promises ‘harsh response’ to any aggression
Ali Shamkhani, a top adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said that any aggression towards Iran will be met with a “harsh response”.

His post on the social media platform X comes as Trump meets with Netanyahu. The Israeli leader has been pushing for more strikes on Iran following a ceasefire agreement that ended a 12-day war in June.

While such strikes are largely seen as at odds with Trump’s priorities, the US president said today that the US would “knock the hell” out of Iran if it sought to increase its nuclear or military capabilities.

https://aje.io/fq97o1?update=4202646

>>475365
This is the first year in my 34 years on this planet I could conceivably live on my own and without help from others.

It's been an objectively good economy for myself.

>>475387
Actually the electoral college was set up by the Founding Fathers to prevent any potential tyranny, which is ironic.

>>475387
Correct.

>>492574
Incorrect, it was established to protect a tyranny from the masses. It's not ironic at all once you understand that nearly every founding father had extremely hostile views towards democracy.

Way worse ever since he stole the election

Say what you want but being an actual factory worker working in a mill. We cut 200 jobs under trump because of those tariffs. Bidens economy we had jobs out the ass people literally had jobs that we didnt have to have them at but they helped things run more smoothly.

>one chromosome than you do with your own family.
Tf is this supposed to mean?
You don't have any female family?

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/cpusa-co-chair-sims-fighting-fascist-threat-a-top-priority/
CPUSA co-chair Sims: Fighting fascist threat a top priority – People's World
June 8, 2024

“The battle lines are clear. We’re fighting a fascist danger at home and a genocidal war abroad. And to defeat the danger at home, we’ve got to defeat the war abroad.”

It isn’t just a matter of the wolves at the door. Sims’s words cautioned that we’re already in the midst of plenty of trouble. “Let’s make it plain,” he said. “Biden’s Israel policy must be defeated today so that” Republican presidential nominee Donald “Trump and MAGA can be defeated tomorrow.”

>>492769
I don't doubt this, but I would like to know more

>>492956
The FBI cultivated Morris Childs for decades, maneuvering him into a position to serve as liaison between CPUSA and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Eventually he went on trips to the Soviet Union to receive millions to bring back to fund CPUSA. Keep in mind that the vast majority of COINTLPRO resources at the FBI were directed at CPUSA, many agents (including the one assigned to Childs) spent their entire career for decades attached to a single communist. The FBI needed an enemy to justify all those fucking jobs, so it's not a stretch to say that helping fund CPUSA was in the FBI's own interest.

>>492960
Damn. It's insane to me that they poured so many resources into "working" with them instead of just putting a bullet in them (which would have saved their department a lot of money).

>>492897
>Biologist here
We've been over this before; no you aren't.

>>492901
It is literally trans capture
https://americandreaming.substack.com/p/memory-hole-archive-sex-and-transgender
It wasn't TERFs and media doing all of this, it was Troons and their handmaidens.
You're doing the exact same thing as Liberals do when they say "Woke never existed, it's just a right wing dogwhistle", which is just blatantly not true. Because rightoids can be scattered in their criticism of something, doesn't mean their criticisim of that thing is 100% fake.
>Post-op transsexuals could legally marry members of their birth sex in the late 1970s. They literally had marriage before gays did.
And Women who interacted with them still had issues with Troons back then
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transsexual_Empire\
I mean one of the most influential feminist texts of the 1970s.
Troons they just didn't have the mass institutional and academic backing they had in the 2010s and 2020s where they tried to basically systematically erase biological sex from reality and mass start invading every womans space they could while mass grooming kids.

>>492902
You seem awfully disturbed at the idea of an actual expert weighing in on this subject.

>>492924
You're not an "expert." You alternately identify yourself as "a biologist," "someone studying biology," "an aspiring biologist," and "someone interested in biology." You have no credentials, you don't do this for a living, I doubt that you even formally study it, you aren't any more of an "expert" than anyone else who periodically reads about it. Literal biology stolen valor.

>>492925
That hurts, anon.

m8… wut?

>>492891
OP is bitching about Russians

OP is mad that no russian baddies want to touch him. It's literally sour grapes lol

Moved to >>>/b/159531.

Remember what Marx taught us: all value is socially necessary labor time.

In American capitalism the company market cap justifies that companies existence. So a company like OpenAI can grow without actually producing value. Because what value do they actually produce? Data-centers are run by themselves for the most part, and there are very few AI researchers who are pushing the tech truly forward. Most of them are probably at universities and not working for OpenAI, even though I'm sure the latter has a team of phds.

The point is OpenAI is buying up computer hardware and plugging it in, but they aren't hiring hoards of workers to perform any work. Since there's very little labor being exploited they won't be able to make a profit.

>>492828
The commodity OpenAI is selling is their service to actors in other industries to enable super profits by replacing labor. Super profits are always temporary though, and only last as long as it takes competitors to reproduce the same labor-saving tactics and thus drive down the socially necessary labor. In the case of AI (when it actually happens) this is likely to be a very short transition in any given industry. Furthermore since none of this has actually been proven to reliably replace labor yet, it's being driven entirely by speculative investment. The drivers of the AI bubble have probably less than six months left to produce real results on their fantastic claims before the investors pull out and the bubble implodes.

>>492828
>>492829
Oh, and I should add: The moment an open-source generative model emerges that can fulfill the same fantastical claims that the proprietary researchers expect their generative models to fulfill, their entire business model is cooked since it relies on licensing fees to turn a profit. But again, this predicates on the extremely charitable scenario where the results of their "AI" aspirations are genuinely revolutionary in reducing human labor.

>>492161
It's not just America, almost every country excluding a few shitholes in Africa are going to get hit by it. We're really going to be fucked once it happens.
A lot of the effects of other bubbles during this period are going to be intensified, I feel like a world war will happen soon. It's strange.

Moved to >>>/b/159457.

Terrorism charges dropped.

>>491502
My uygha. I hope shit goes well for this guy. Im gonna write to him in prision.

https://x.com/ProudSocialist/status/2000952399855567315
New: Day 8 of Luigi Mangione's pre-trial suppression hearing has begun. So far the defense and Luigi are winning as the cops have been exposed for mishandling/planting evidence, turning off their bodycam, and not getting a search warrant.

>>491503
How can i write to him myself?

https://x.com/ProudSocialist/status/2001697364130832484
Luigi Mangione’s pretrial hearing has concluded with a bombshell from Luigi’s lawyer:

The cops lied and made up that Luigi’s mom said “it’s something she could see him doing.”

She never said that. They fabricated this statement to try to implicate Luigi.