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 No.489115[Reply]

Unions warn teachers, councils and NHS workers may go out on strike after government says it won't fund pay rises
The sectors’ bodies have recommended rises of about 4 per cent for teachers and 3 per cent for NHS staff to ministers, according to the Times. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) responded, saying that any award must be fully funded. The National Education Union (NEU) and NASUWT teaching unions threatened strike action if schools do not get extra funding to pay for the salary increase for teachers.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-warn-teachers-councils-and-nhs-workers-may-go-out-strike-after-government-says-it

Tens of millions across Spain and Portugal hit by huge power outage
Mobile networks went down and internet access was cut as power failed at 12.33pm (1133 BST). Hospitals postponed routine operations but used generators to attend to critical cases, and while electronic banking was able to function on backup systems, most ATM screens were blank. … . . . . . . . . …
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/28/spain-portugal-power-outage

Far right's poster boy Bardella to run for French president if Le Pen is barred
Jordan Bardella, 29, has said he plans to be the French far-right National Rally's presidential candidate in 2027 if his mentor Marine Le Pen is barred from running. Le Pen, who has run for president three times, is appealing an embezzlement conviction that bars her from seeking public office for five years.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250427-far-right-s-poster-boy-bardella-to-run-for-french-president-if-le-pen-is-barred
https://archive.ph/tAqix

‘Don't punish innocent families,’ separatist leader urges India as troops destroy Kashmiri homes
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Massive power outage in Spain and Portugal leaves thousands stranded and millions without light

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — An unprecedented blackout brought much of Spain and Portugal to a standstill Monday, stranding thousands of train passengers and leaving millions of people without phone and internet coverage and access to cash from ATMs across the Iberian Peninsula.

The sudden crash of the power grid also left authorities searching for its cause. Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez addressed the nation and said that almost 11 hours after the nation ground to a halt, government experts were still trying to determine what happened.

“We have never had a complete collapse of the system,” Sánchez said, before detailing that at 12:33 p.m. on Monday Spain’s power grid lost 15 gigawatts, the equivalent of 60% of its national demand, in a matter of five seconds.

Spanish power distributor Red Eléctrica’s head of operations Eduardo Prieto said the event was “exceptional and extraordinary.”

Spain had recovered more than 92% of its power by 5 a.m. on Tuesday, according to Red Eléctrica, and the prime minister pledged that the entire country of 48 million would have lights back on by the end of the day.

It was the second serious European power outage in less than six weeks after a March 20 fire shut down Heathrow Airport in the U.K., and it came as authorities across Europe gird against sabotage backed by Russia.

The Portuguese National Cybersecurity Center in a statement said there was no sign the outage was due to a cyber attack. Teresa Ribera, European Commission executive vice president in charge of promoting clean energy, indicated the same to journalists in Brussels and called the power outage “one of the most serious episodes recorded in Europe in recent times.”
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>>489118
Certain myopic analysts have been quick to blame this on renewable energy.
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>>489118
>It was the second serious European power outage in less than six weeks after a March 20 fire shut down Heathrow Airport in the U.K., and it came as authorities across Europe gird against sabotage backed by Russia.
<It's Russian gremlins
Groan. Sigh. Not this again.

Most electrical grids only have fly-wheel momentum of large steam-turbines from large thermal power-plants as energy buffer. And that's not a lot. Many Solar and wind-power parks were installed without batteries, and that's not particularly helpful for grid stability either. So without knowing what Spain's energy grid looks like, i'm guessing this is most likely a case of too many unfavorable conditions happening all at once. The solution probably is to install more buffer capacity.

If this was foul play, i wonder who's got motivation to fuck with Spain. I don't have any real guesses, the Spanish show a lot of solidarity with Palestinians, maybe Israel ? IDK

There's simple explanation, maybe they just over-taxed the system, and they have to expand it.

>>489127
I'm for nuclear plus renewables too, but we have to be realistic, renewable energy sources cause grid instability if they lack sufficient battery buffer. There's a lot of smart-copium, where we pretend that we don't have to install buffer capacity if only all the stuff was smart. We're not doing our selves a favor trying to cheat.
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>>489128
The article isn't blaming this on Russia.

This did coincidentally happen days after Spain canceled a major bullet purchase from an Israeli arms company though.
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>>489130
>This did coincidentally happen days after Spain canceled a major bullet purchase from an Israeli arms company though.
Yeah the timing is kinda sus.
I wonder if we'd find out about it, if it was so, or whether Mossad agents would just get murked in the shadows as retaliation.


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Argentina secures $42bn from IMF, others as it lifts currency controls
President Javier Milei announced on Friday that he will – starting on Monday – lift most of Argentina’s strict capital and currency controls as part of agreements that secured the huge funding deals.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/12/argentina-secures-42bn-from-imf-others-as-it-lifts-currency-controls
https://archive.ph/tqO2G

Panama opposition party accuses US of ‘camouflaged invasion’
A full text of the MOU included aerial photos of Fort Sherman, Rodman naval base and Howard air force base, with areas outlined for “training”, “humanitarian activities” and the “installation of US property”. The Panamanian government says they are not “military bases” and that the deal is temporary, but opposition parties have rejected such claims.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/panama-hegseth-us-invasion-canal

Labour Takes Over Scunthorpe Steel in Commons Snap Debate
The Bill Reynolds presented establishes emergency public control over the plant but not public ownership. Both Houses of Parliament were expected to approve the legislation today.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-takes-over-scunthorpe-steel-commons-snap-debate

US ‘demands control’ from Ukraine of key pipeline carrying Russian gas
It runs from the town of Sudzha in western Russia to the Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod, about 750 miles (1,200km) away, on the border with the EU and Slovakia. Built in Soviet times, the pipeline is a key piece of national infrastructure and a major energy route.
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>>489051
A few days ago someone shot like 20 people in Kashmir, now Modi is cutting off water from the Indus river to Pakistan or threatening to or something.
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 No.489077>>489081

Don't wanna make new thread but:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_kidnapping
How did 'bride kidnapping' come back so fast in the post-Soviet states? I think I read somewhere it was illegal in the Soviet years.
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>>489077
I honestly think the Soviets fucked up real hard by going after religion. It's caused the post-Soviet reaction to swing back hard in the direction of traditional culture. When the state capitalism of China gets rolled back completely to full-blown private capitalism, you can probably expect foot binding to return as well.
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 No.489084

>>489081
>I honestly think the Soviets fucked up real hard by going after religion.

I agree a little bit, but organized religion should have no power over the state.


>It's caused the post-Soviet reaction to swing back hard in the direction of traditional culture.

So conversely, not repressing religion would have meant there was LESS of it after a COLLAPSE? What are you smoking?

>When the state capitalism of China gets rolled back completely to full-blown private capitalism

>When thing gets reformed back to it's prior self
Pure wishful thinking.

3/10 post. Please do better.
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 No.489085

>>489081
>I honestly think the Soviets fucked up real hard by going after religion.
During Tsarist rule the church was rather horrible, so the Soviet reaction of going full state atheism, should also be considered in context. But you're not entirely wrong the soviets over-corrected. But they did mostly fix it later, I think.

> It's caused the post-Soviet reaction to swing back hard in the direction of traditional culture.

No that's not the reason, the Soviet dissolution pulled the rug from under people, and religion was a crutch to cope with the catastrophe.

>When the state capitalism of China gets rolled back completely to full-blown private capitalism, you can probably expect foot binding to return as well.

20 years ago, this statement would have been understandable, but now ?
The Chinese went economically left when capitalist crisis hit their system, and that shit seems to have worked. So a roll back seems unlikely.


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Virginia Giuffre, who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, dies aged 41
Giuffre’s family issued a statement confirming she took her own life at her farm in Western Australia, where she had lived for several years
Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of the disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein who also alleged she was sexually trafficked to Prince Andrew, has died. She was 41.

Her family issued a statement on Saturday confirming she took her own life at her farm in Western Australia, where she had lived for several years.

“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia. She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” the statement read.

“In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”

Giuffre was one of the most vocal victims of Epstein, alleging she had been groomed and sexually abused by him and his longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, beginning in her teens.

The family described her as a “fierce warrior” against sexual abuse and sex trafficking and a “light that lifted so many survivors”.

“Despite all the adversity she faced in her life, she shone so bright. She will be missed beyond measure,” they said.
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 No.489065>>489067

Huh? I thought she got into a car crash
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 No.489066

>thread about Epstein sex trafficking victim pops up
>someone posts CP/CSAM
hm..
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 No.489067

>>489065
see >>489035
>Earlier this month, Giuffre posted on social media that she had just days to live after a school bus crashed into her car.
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 No.489068>>489070

>Maxwell, who has maintained her innocence, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 for sex trafficking.
What about the "financier’s friends and clients"?
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 No.489070

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>>489068
They went free. Obviously.


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 No.489028[Reply]

I’m a longtime 4chan/8chan user and my worldview has definitely been shaped by that. Recently been browsing the other site out of curiosity and it’s clear we both have issues with Israel which I’m pleasantly surprised by.
my question is where and how far down the rabbit hole do we actually align with each other?
Are your guys problems with Israel mainly due to the modern day Israel and their atrocities against the muzzies or do you guys see jews for the weasels they are? Do you see the difference between the Israelites of the Bible and the Talmud worshippers of today? Do you acknowledge the khazarian and/or Canaanite connections? What are your views on the holocaust, true, exaggerated, complete BS? What are your actual issues with nazi’s and facism? Because the first thing that comes to mind for me would be that you all worship transhumanists but even to that I would say they are basically brainwashed into it by jews. Like the “Nazi book burnings” which was all transhumanist propaganda by jewish doctors in Germany at the time running the largest sex change clinic in the world.
I’m genuinely curious this is the first issue I’ve know us to be able to find common ground on and I’d like to learn more about your ideas regarding it. And yes I will admit I do align with facism, or at least my own interpretation of it

Hoping for a real dialogue if you’ll indulge me
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>>489057
/leftypol/ literally is an 8ch offshoot.
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>>489036
>the NazBols.
the "national Bolsheviks" were a fringe political party in Russia that only existed for a few years in the 1990s.

I don't get it, how is that occupying a part of your headspace ?
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 No.489061

>>489060
uygha are you new here?
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>>489032
There's a formerly popular theory amongst some political Christian circles that Palestinians are actually the real Jews and that the Israeli Jews were fakes.

And I'm leaning more on that side.
I honestly believe that Palestine may be the real Israel and it's destruction will trigger the end times.

I mean. Look at how many people are protesting against Zionism.

>>489058
Yea I know. I used to browse there in the last two years of that boards existence. And people didn't change.
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 No.489063

>>489062
>There's a formerly popular theory amongst some political Christian circles that Palestinians are actually the real Jews and that the Israeli Jews were fakes.
It's not really much disputed that Palestinian Christians & Muslims are mostly descended from Jews and Samaritans who converted to Christianity and Islam, which is true even without the "who are the real Israelites?" prophetic/religious speculation.


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 No.489049[Reply]

Like one that was used in the Chernobyl accident investigation.
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 No.489054

What about it?
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 No.489075

Moved to >>>/777/1526.


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 No.487545[Reply]

>mfw there's nothing mutual about it
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 No.487605

I think single moms need money
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 No.489020

wtf i like mutual aid now


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 No.483667[Reply]

Only post bangers

keep the clips short
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>>488973
>US imperialism supported the Azov Battalion
>Go look up who funded Hitlers political party and mercenary gangs.
By the way, I really wish lefties would bring up more often the fact that the Azov Battalion was literally funded by a Ukrainian-Israeli billionaire. It brings to bear so many amazing points about the nature of fascism, Zionism, and ruling class interests.
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 No.488993

>>488989
no dude, seriously? im literally just telling you about the dilemma that zizek is raising, i never gave an argument in favor of one conclusion or another, why are you just assuming what i believe
please god im begging you people to just engage with zizek here instead of treating this like some kind of breadtuber debate ffs
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 No.488997

>>488990
Honestly, this was a really weird thing when I put two and two together about how it could be significant.
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>>488976
When I'm general secretary of the United Socialist States of America we will have a secret program that is basically a staged repeat of covid. Creat a panic, rush out a vaccine, don't publish trial data, make up bullshit public health protocols, stage an illegal transfer of wealth.

Then question, strip of title, and re-educate anyone going along with this. Oh you're a doctor and you were okay giving this vaccine? Lose your license. Oh you agreed to give this vaccine to your kids? Maybe you need to take a class.

You're a community leader and you didn't organize against this? Step down.

In fact a socialst government should practice changing leadership by force: every so often people will be required to arm themselves and storm the parliament and depose of the previous government. If they're willing to step downw it will all be staged. If not the people will have practiced for this.
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>>489012
>socialist government
>the parliament
Sorry anon we're going to try actual democracy this time.


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 No.488693[Reply]>>489008

Seriously, what the fuck is the solution to this? How do we stop them from acting this way?
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>>488693
Don't start wars you can't finish.
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 No.489009

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>>489008
It's astonishing that even in a thread like this, you're still the most bad faith and hateful poster participating.
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 No.489010

There is no "Jewish question" Only retards deal in personalities.
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>>488994
all israelis are fascist freaks. killing them all is a standard leftist position.
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 No.489015

>>489014
Um excuse me
it's ackshually somewhere from 90%-98% of Israelis sir


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 No.488903[Reply]

The issue is neoprogressivism and third-/fourth-wave feminism of the New Left, not progressivism and feminism per se.
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>>488910
>could you define your terms
Neoprogressivism is 21st century progressivism, third- and fourth-wave feminism is mainstream feminist theory from the 90s onward (radfems, radlibs).
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>>488914
Third/fourth wave feminism actually started in the 1980s
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 No.488949

>>488916
>Third/fourth wave feminism actually started in the 1980s
Yeah, my bad ig.
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 No.488981

>>488914
i think it would be more accurate to talk it about a degenerated reprisal of the american left in the form of the millenial left, haunted by the failure and collapse of the left at the turn of the century
we saw the same militant identitarianism and youth fetishization of the new left plus its battles with old labour (think eugene debs) reemerging in sanders, but in a weirdly detached hipster way
its a cheap borrowing from history (a.k.a. a LARP) that doesnt match the same conditions which is probably why it comes off as so hysterical
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 No.488996

Third wave feminism is way better than the abomination that was second wave.


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 No.488919[Reply]

Two of my threads petitioning to destroy the /lgbt/ board have gone missing. But I won't fail the third time because the /lgbt/ board will be destroyed in the end.
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>>488929
>>488932
/lgbt/ was added in response to a passing vote created by a regular user. If you do not want the /lgbt/ board to be on the site you can use this exact same process to remove it

Leftychan reminds you that we have a democratic process for changes to the site and its moderation. You are encouraged to propose and vote on changes on our Matrix
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 No.488950

>>488948
Don't think he really wants to vote since he knows nobody cares so he wants to scream very loud for people to pay attention.
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>>488948
Where is the vote and how can I participate? Thank you kindly.
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 No.489076

>>488944
You can literally use the same reasoning to say that all that shit is contained to /lgbt/ and to keep it off /leftypol/ and other boards.

I'm honestly not sure what gay people need a board for but I don't see the harm.


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