/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>492545
I asked this before. Allowing retards to use the reading thread to """debate""" using their faggy-ass sub-literate """libertarian""" cliches was a weird decision, and apparently purely a consequence of us just being very chill.

Ok

First bank failure of 2026.

>>494071
>>494206

I think Peter Thiel wants the US dollar to collapse, lol. He may just get his wish. you'd think he's Satoshi Nakamoto, or something… hmmm…

Someone years ago on here said that if Marx had understood calculus he would have see more patterns in capitalism. Does anyone know what those additional insights would have been. I asked Gemini and here's what I got:

If Marx had mastered calculus, he likely would have gained deeper, more precise insights into the following areas of capitalist mechanics: 1. Marginal Analysis of Exploitation and Profit Marx believed that value was created by labor and that capitalists maximize profits by increasing the rate of exploitation (\(s/v\), where \(s\) is surplus value and \(v\) is variable capital). The Insight: Instead of static ratios, calculus would have enabled Marx to treat the rate of exploitation as a derivative (\(ds/dv\)), allowing him to model how an infinitesimal change in labor hours or wage rates affects surplus value.Marginal Labor Power: He could have analyzed the marginal utility of labor—the exact point at which adding one more worker ceases to be profitable, rather than relying on average productivity. 2. Precise Modeling of the Falling Rate of Profit A central pillar of Marx’s theory is the tendency of the rate of profit to fall as the "organic composition of capital" (\(C/V\) — constant capital to variable capital) rises. The Insight: Marx could have used differential calculus to analyze the rate of change of the profit rate (\(dP/dt\)) as a function of technological investment. This would have provided a rigorous, dynamic, rather than just conceptual, understanding of when the rate of profit would fall, and how quickly, as constant capital (machines) grows faster than variable capital (labor). 3. A Dynamic Theory of Capital Accumulation and Crises Marx observed that capitalist accumulation is not linear but cyclic and prone to crises, partly due to the "industrial reserve army" (unemployment). The Insight: Using differential equations, Marx could have modeled the interaction between the growth of capital (\(dK/dt\)) and the rate of wages (\(dW/dt\)). He could have created a mathematical model for the business cycle, showing how the "reserve army" of unemployed acts as a dampener, restricting wage growth at certain points in the cycle.Prediction of Crisis Timing: Rather than relying on observing past events, he might have predicted that the frequency or intensity of crises depends on the speed of capital accumulation (second-order derivatives). 4. Mathematical Definition of "Socially Necessary Labor Time" Marx's theory hinges on "sociaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>494245
Ignoring your LLM slop, calculus is all about methods of transforming between different rates of modeled processes. I imagine if Marx understood calculus, there are some aspects of his capital accumulation equations that one could take the derivative of or integrate over to understand more about the rate of change occurring or obtain a quantum of some value over a given period. There have been plenty of Marxist economists in the 20th and 21st centuries who understood calculus, I would be surprised if someone hasn't already done all this.

>>494246
Thanks, I'll look up some Marxist economists that have applied calculus to Marx

>>494228

>What's the game?

the game appears to be help Peter Thiel & co dismantle America so they can carve out their little slave-powered Nazi Network States of CIA faggotry.

Sachs is either being blackmailed into playing along, or he's been promised a slice of the shit cake. or both.

>>494228
he's a jew

>>494228
What's really weird to me is how all these journalists and analysts keep lending deference to his "expertise" on topics that really have nothing at all to do with economics.

>>494238
glowie.
eat shit you fedposting fuck.

>>494242

probably because they're propagandists before they're journalists or analysts

Video contradicts Trump’s claim man killed in Minneapolis was a ‘gunman’
Video recorded by another witness, who was standing behind Pretti, obtained by Drop Site News, showed that Pretti continued recording the immigration enforcement operation on his phone, as other observers blew their whistles and honked their horns, and appeared to direct traffic so that cars could pass the scene. The same clip showed that Pretti then stepped in to defend another observer who was shoved to the ground by a federal officer. That officer sprayed Pretti with a chemical agent, repeatedly, before tackling him to the street along with two other agents.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/minneapolis-shooting-ice

Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota
Dozens of immigrant families protested Saturday behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota. Aerial photos taken by The Associated Press showed children and parents at the South Texas Family Residential Center clad in jackets and sweaters, some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”
https://apnews.com/article/texas-immigration-detention-7fa98244c1b0245deb4462e9dc25292f

Charity director stole $23M in homeless funds to support luxurious lifestyle, DOJ alleges
A Westwood man was charged on Friday for fraudulently obtaining $23 million in homeless funds and spending the money meant for his charity to support his lavish lifestyle, which included the purchase of a vacation property in Greece and shopping sprees at Chanel and Hermes, federal and Los Angeles authorities jointly announced Friday. Alexander Soofer, 42, was expected to appear in federal court Friday as he faced the charges of wire fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/locaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Imperialism 101 by Michael Parenti Excerpted from Against Empire
Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media commentators, and political leaders. When not ignored outright, the subject of imperialism has been sanitized, so that empires become “commonwealths,” and colonies become “territories” or “dominions” (or, as in the case of Puerto Rico, “commonwealths” too). Imperialist military interventions become matters of “national defense,” “national security,” and maintaining “stability” in one or another region. In this book I want to look at imperialism for what it really is.
https://www.michael-parenti.org/article-class-warfare-indeed

Dem-Backed ICE Body Cams Are a Giveaway to Weapons Makers
Amid President Donald Trump’s violent immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, industry-backed Democrats just helped congressional Republicans turn proposed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reforms into a $20 million windfall for the body camera industry. Federal disclosures reviewed by the Lever show that Axon Enterprise, Inc., a weapons company and the country’s largest manufacturer of body-worn cameras, has lobbied aggressively since July on the $64 billion Department of Homeland Security spending bill that lawmakers passed on Thursday. The company’s CEO, a regular campaign contributor to Republicans, also donated directly to key Democratic lawmakers who pushed for the body camera measures. Now, the company is well-positioned to reap the benefits of the $20 million allocated by the legislation for body cameras as part of ICE’s extended $10 billion budget, on top of the $75 billion in additional funding the agency received from the One Big Beautiful bill last year. Axon has faced lawsuits for monopolizing the police body camera market and raising prices on local government contracts. Its profits have soared despite recent studies casting doubt on body cameras’ ability to curb law enforcement misconduct. The homeland security spending bill has faced public opposition as unrest grows nationwide over ICE’s tactics. But instead of organizing against thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Consortium News had a nice little send off to Parenti in their weekly wrapup yesterday. It's in the last 10min. I've always respected Joe Lauria for focusing on just the facts with Consortium News without wearing politics on his sleeve, but I had no idea he was so heavily influenced by Parenti. I think I'm going to finally get off my ass and read Inventing Reality after this.

>>494232
damn I didn't mean to attach the pic, just the question.

Sam Houser is mentioned in the files, we are never getting GTA VI man

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00144276.pdf

>>494236
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

has anyone done this yet? if not have some oc

>>494239
Impressive.

>>494164
South Africa orders expulsion of Israeli envoy, declared persona non grata
South Africa accuses Israeli representative of ‘gross abuse of diplomatic privilege’ as Israel orders reciprocal move.

South Africa is expelling Israel’s envoy to the country, the foreign affairs ministry announced, accusing the Israeli official of engaging in “unacceptable violations of diplomatic norms” that challenge South African sovereignty.

The Department of International Relations and Cooperation said on Friday that it was giving Ariel Seidman, the charge d’affaires at the Israeli embassy, 72 hours to leave South Africa after declaring him persona non grata.

It accused Seidman of launching “insulting attacks” against South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on social media as well as “a deliberate failure” to inform the ministry “of purported visits by senior Israeli officials”.

“Such actions represent a gross abuse of diplomatic privilege and a fundamental breach of the Vienna Convention. They have systematically undermined the trust and protocols essential for bilateral relations,” the department said in a statement.

“We urge the Israeli Government to ensure its future diplomatic conduct demonstrates respect for the Republic and the established principles of international engagement.”

The announcement drew a rapid response from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which said it had declared senior South African diplomat, Shaun Edward Byneveldt, persona non grata and was giving him 72 hours to leave the country.
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https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/2017252371152220566
Syrian sources: Israeli enemy planes sprinkle unknown substances on agricultural lands in the middle and northern countryside of Quneitra for the third time

Israeli forces kill 12 Palestinians across Gaza, attacks reported in Rafah
Multiple attacks across the besieged enclave a day before Israel is expected to reopen the Rafah border crossing.

At least 12 Palestinians, half of them children, have been killed in the Gaza Strip since dawn, a day before the Rafah crossing is due to reopen.

An Israeli air strike on Saturday on a tent sheltering displaced people in the al-Mawasi area to the northwest of Khan Younis city killed at least seven Palestinians, including three children.

Their bodies were taken to the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.

In Gaza City, emergency services reported that at least five Palestinians, including three children, were killed in an Israeli air strike on an apartment building in the Remal neighbourhood to the west of the city.

Eight Palestinians were also injured in an Israeli bombing of an apartment building in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Gaza’s Government Media Office says at least 524 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since a United States-brokered ceasefire in Gaza came into effect on October 10.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/31/israeli-forces-kill-12-palestinians-across-gaza-attacks-reported-in-rafah

Gaza death toll rises to 19 after Israel bombs police headquarters in Gaza City
The number of people killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn has risen to 19, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.

A source in Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that at least seven people were killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted a police headquarters in Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Earlier, five people were killed in central Gaza and seven others in the al-Mawasi area of southern Gaza.

https://aje.news/8xzvds?update=4277429

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2017643387839775010
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Washington D.C. to meet with President Trump next month

>>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.

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/2016967807859380537
BREAKING: A Minnesota man reportedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail in New York by impersonating an FBI agent, per ABC

BREAKING: Judge TOSSES Death Penalty Against Luigi Mangione
Status Coup reporter JT Cestkowski reported on the breaking news that a Judge has tossed the death penalty as a possibility in the case against Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Status Coup has been the LEADING NEWS OUTLET covering the Luigi Mangione case throughout 2025 and now 2026 and we would like to cover his trial—which is expected to begin in October—ON THE GROUND.

>>492751
This is not a good look.
The DA fucked this one up.

>>494099

Literally an act of War

ICE Agents Film Minnesota Protesters & Immigrants as Part of Massive Facial Recognition Push | Democracy Now!

ICE and CBP are using facial recognition technology to facilitate President Trump's mass deportation campaign. With a smartphone app, immigration officers can scan faces of people they encounter and quickly search those faces against 200 million images stored in several government databases that are "notoriously error-filled," according to Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. "It's being used on the street in ways that are dangerous, that are totally unprecedented in this country, and that are, frankly, blatantly illegal," he adds.

https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/2016665766746095672
Jan 28th: Police teargas protestors outside Dilley Detention Center in Texas, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father are being held.

Jan 30 2026 STOP Trump's ICE TERROR General Strike March LIVE From Minneapolis
Status Coup reporter Tina-Desiree Berg is LIVE ON THE GROUND in Minneapolis as thousands protest demanding President Trump's ICE and Border Patrol troops leave Minnesota. The protest is part of of a second consecutive Friday general strike in which Minnesotans don't shop, go to school, or work. This general strike is spreading to other cities today. Status Coup has reported ON THE GROUND THROUGHOUT 2025 and 2026 covering Trump’s ICE terror and protests against fascism in LA, NYC, Alligator Alcatraz, Chicago, Charlotte, and now Minneapolis.

BreakThrough News:
TODAY: Over 100,000 people in San Francisco took the streets against ICE today as part of the nationwide shutdown, flooding Mission Dolores Park in the Mission District, a historic Latino neighborhood.

Over 100 businesses in the Bay Area shut down for the day, and the shutdown was called by union leaders, students, and faith leaders.

https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/2017421891078590532

>>494178
https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/2017448781210439779
Massive anti-ICE demonstrations and student walkouts across the country took place as part of the nationwide shutdown in solidarity with Minneapolis. Growing calls for an expanded strike began earlier this week in the wake of Saturday's killing of Alex Pretti by CBP.

https://x.com/pslnational/status/2017299792464921013
Footage from Marietta High School in GA this morning shows hundreds of students being physically blocked by administrators from engaging in a student-organized walkout in defense of immigrants and all people being terrorized by ICE. Reportedly the superintendent of the Marietta Schools system attempted to physically restrain students as students demanded to assert their constitutionally protected first amendment rights to assemble and peacefully protest.

This despicable behavior of intimidation and harassment of students by school administrators should be condemned by all and they will be held accountable! We stand with the thousands of students across Georgia courageously walking out of classes today in protest of the racist mass deportation machine!

https://x.com/anthonycabassa/status/2017424190044049638
Riot cops fire "less than lethal" rounds into anti-ICE demonstration in LA.

https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/2017427032334868840
Tens of thousands in Tucscon, AZ joined the nationwide shut down to demand ICE out of Arizona. Organizers say this is the largest protest in recent memory.