/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

is there anything like maxists org for modern authors. or modern marxists org

>>484163
>Russia isn't Christian (socialist)
>They have sinned (they're not AES)
This is your brain on capitalist nationalism.

>>485752
Why do Harris voters care about abortion and 'democracy', but not as much the economy or foreign policy?

>>485755
Generally speaking if they're voting democrat it's because they're economically comfortable and also support the Democrats' fp because orange badman and vladolf putler are friends and want to do big evil together. "Fighting for access to abortion" is one of those feelgood talking points that the dnc has been selling to its base as essential to saving "our democracy" or whatever.

>>485751
I literally do not understand why the current left is taking up the mantle to defend liberal idpol. So often on the internet I see people attacking "the left" over culture issues that should have nothing to do with us.

Like DEI for example, instead of taking a reactionary approach and defending it reflexively just because conservatives are against it, we should be pointing out how that kind of investment power is entirely because of capitalism. I mean a lot of what they complain about is literally just capitalism, they are just too ignorant or afraid to name it. This is such an easy win and I will never understand why so many so-called leftists fumble it.

>>485765
We're getting a lot of converts who were the late straggling holdouts on the crisis of ethics in journalism.

>>484995
The exStarminator is trying to change the definition of the word "genocide".

Leaving aside the obvious psychopathy, does it mean the Zionist impunity to commit mass murder is eroding ?

https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=i6MWBg6Ap_w

US House to vote again on NGO bill that could target pro-Palestine groups

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the legislation, dubbed the “nonprofit killer” bill, could return to the floor on Tuesday or Wednesday for a new vote that would only require a simple majority after the bill failed to reach a two-thirds majority last week.

“This act … threatens to chill legitimate criticism of Israel and advocacy for Palestinian human rights while undermining free speech, due process, and nonprofit independence,” CAIR said in a statement.

The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or HR 9495, would grant the Department of the Treasury broad authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of nonprofits deemed to be supporting “terrorism”.

Last week 256 representatives voted in favour of the bill, including 204 Republicans. Among Democrats, 52 voted in favour of the bill while 144 voted against it.

Member of the Knesset cut off while calling Netanyahu a ‘serial killer’

Ayman Odeh, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and head of the Hadash-Ta’al list in Israel’s parliament, has accused Netanyahu, who was in the chamber at the time, of being a “serial killer of peace”.

“There are 17,385 babies in Gaza which your system has killed, of those 825 are under the age of a year,” Odeh said.
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Three Lebanese soldiers killed by Israeli fire in south

The Lebanese army says three soldiers have been killed in an Israeli attack in the south.

“The Israeli enemy targeted an army position in the town of Sarafand in the south, killing three soldiers,” the army said in a statement.

The Health Ministry said the attack also wounded eight people, including “citizens who were nearby”.

Israeli troops use Palestinian paramedics as ‘human shields’: PRCS

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says Israeli forces used one of its teams as human shields in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.

Soldiers detained the paramedics inside a house “while they were en route to evacuate an injured person in the eastern neighbourhood of Jenin during a raid on the house”, the emergency service said.

More than 1,000 ultra-Orthodox Israelis hit with arrest warrants for ignoring draft orders
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Incoming Senate leader tells Israel: ‘Reinforcements are on the way’

Senator John Thune, the incoming Republican leader of the Senate, has said that Republicans “will make clear that the United States Congress stands squarely in Israel’s corner” when they reclaim the Senate majority in six weeks.

“To our allies in Israel and to the Jewish people around the world, my message to you is this: reinforcements are on the way,” Thune said in a video shared on X.

“We will help the Trump-Vance administration, defend Israel and promote peace in the region.”

Thune also criticised Senator Bernie Sanders’s push to block US arms sales to Israel and renewed calls for sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its investigations into Israeli official’s alleged war crimes.

“The ICC’s rogue actions are a threat to our ally, Israel, and left unchecked, it could pose a threat to America in the future,” he said.

Israel’s latest attack takes death toll among Lebanese soldiers to 41

As we reported earlier, three Lebanese soldiers have been killed in an Israeli air strike on an army base in southern Lebanon’s town of Sarafand.
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>>485750
>I don't buy the notion that Trump & Biden are at odds at all. Biden is basically handing Trump a domestic political victory
Why ascribe to conspiracy when you can simply attribute this to a demented, spiteful old man who is no longer mentally competent enough to think ahead?

>>485750
>I think this is probably what's actually going on - for the record, I don't buy the notion that Trump & Biden are at odds at all. Biden is basically handing Trump a domestic political victory, where Trump can get credit for "deescalating" the conflict in Ukraine without actually doing anything to effectively end the war. The American state will seek to minimize concessions made to Russia.
OK if they're doing a really clever good cop bad cop routine, why are they doing all the other really dumb shit ? They had some major self-owns lately, like helping to bootstrap BRICS, accelerating dedolarization, tanking western economies, provoking a war without having enough ammunition to fight it and on and on. I don't really see what they gain from duping the Russians into delaying a retaliation.

>There are a few problems with this, though. Firstly, the US has proven itself to be very dishonest in the past, and Russia is unlikely to abandon its current partners for the US,
I don't think betrayal was ever on the table. I think the deal that can be had is that the Russians could be moved to convince the Iranians to not get nukes and not finish-off Israel, if they get in return a Ukraine arrangement that they like.

At the moment Israel is destroying it self chasing after gReaTer iSrael. Iran will soon become the dominant regional player as a result, and the Russians probably are the only ones that can convince Iranians to have mercy.

Keep in mind that the more force-projection the US has to expend to prop up Is-failed-state-rael the fewer resources there will be for messing with Russia. So for the Russians it probably doesn't matter that much which way this goes.

>So it's likely a more 'nuanced' strategy than it seems on the surface
It looks like unhinged emotional decisions without any strategy what so ever.

>>485756
>What's ridiculous is expecting the current US leadership to look at its limitations and make a rational decision based on those.
Ok there's truth to that. But the Pentagon probably wouldn't go along with it, they've demonstrated self-preservation so far.

>Ritter's too optimistic sometimes tbh.
>This would be more effective than striking the US directly ftr, though.
So hypothetically if the Russian decapitate Ukraine, that'll be the result ?

>When was that ever my premise?
OK never mind then.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2312-1.html



Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping's reported order to the Chinese military to be prepared to invade Taiwan by 2027 and China's ongoing nuclear buildup have raised U.S. concerns over the prospect of a U.S.-China conflict. A conflict with China would be distinct from the wars the United States has fought in the post–Cold War period against regional powers without nuclear weapons. This report summarizes a series of reports on how U.S. joint long-range strike, especially the U.S. Air Force's bomber force, could adapt to better balance military operational effectiveness, force survivability, and escalation management to achieve desired military and political objectives without triggering catastrophic escalation, specifically Chinese nuclear first use.

This report is the product of a mixed-methods research approach that combined regional studies, analytic strategic theory, and historical case studies, all informed by operational analysis. The authors (1) conducted original Chinese-language research leveraging open-source Chinese military writings; (2) supplemented the limited information available from open-source Chinese military writings with historical case studies and a broad review of analytic strategic theory dating back to early RAND work in the 1950s, along with a literature review of Western scholarship on China; (3) reviewed publicly available U.S. Department of Defense documents and recent non-U.S. government wargames; and (4) developed an analytic framework that linked China’s nuclear escalation with specific technical or employment characteristics of U.S. joint long-range strike.
Key Findings

If fully committed to fighting and winning a war with China, the United States must be prepared for nuclear escalation and place more emphasis on managing these risks.
China's nuclear threshold is unclear but also likely movable, meaning that the United States has an opportunity to make the threshold better (but also risks making it worse).
There will likely be trade-offs among military operational utility, force survivability, and escalation management.
The single most influential factor under U.S. military control for managing escalation is target selection.
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>>485760
The language in these is just amazing.
<Balancing the force survivability
<escalation management
<Build a portfolio of strike force structures

The ability to linguistically trivialize existentially threatening brinkmanship is unparalleled. I wish George Carlin was still alive.

>>485715
It seems like you're deliberately misreading my post out of some emotional, identarian attachment to a word. That's fine but you should really try to understand that terminology in biology (or any other hard science) is about removing emotions and subjectivity, in order to describe an aspect of the natural world in the most precise and consistent way possible. Precise and consistent language is key in exchanging ideas and testing hypotheses. In biology we do not use intersex to refer to disorders of sexual development, we use it to refer to a widespread aspect of a species' biology that exists because natural selection deemed it to have some kind of fitness advantage.

>>485716
You're literally just making a delusional semantic argument based on a fantasy idea of biology.

Nothing I say is identitarian; I'm dealing in the objective facts, and that is that this has been the terminology for longer than there's been any kind of retarded "debate" around it. You are basing your disingenuous argument in an ahistorical lie, which is so steeped in contemporary culture war nonsense that you literally refuse to process any fact which contradicts it.

>In biology we do not use intersex to refer to disorders of sexual development,
And yet it's used that way in medicine, and it has been used that way in medicine for longer than you've been alive. Even if your claim that it's not used that way in human biology was correct (and your claim is clearly not), you are in no position whatsoever to lecture anyone about terminology when another hard science, which applies to human medical conditions rather than those of other species (and the author of this thread was, importantly, a human) uses it in the way you claim it isn't used.

>natural selection deemed it to have some kind of fitness advantage.
This also isn't how natural selection works. This is remarkably spooked language coming from someone claiming to be a "biologist" when the reality is that evolution proceeds as incremental mutations which only gradually lead to broadly shared traits. There is no way whatsoever of deciding definitively in a single lifetime whether certain mutations in a species have a functional purpose, and to the contrary we see intersex conditions appearing in the human race over and over again for the entire course of human history. There is no sentient natural selection to appeal to here - it is a largely random force which only makes sense when looked at as a historical process, and if you try to establish that it ""deems"" anything to be a fitness advantage, you'll find that it regularly replicates traits which you yourself would try to define rigidly as disorders. It's magical thinking to assume that evolution, in spite of all evidence, can always be separated neatly into disorders vs. a normal orderly course of progress. Natural selection isn't some guy who decides what stays or goes, it's a process defined after-the-fact by humans observing traits shaped by centPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>485717
>and it has been used that way in medicine for longer than you've been alive
And it has been used in the study of arthropods in a much clearer defined way for an order of magnitude longer than that. Sociology is a very recent appropriation of the term. I find it especially hilarious that you tried to support your case with a Wikipedia link, when right in the very article they direct you to an alternate article, "Intersex (biology)", in clear acknowledgement that it's a distinct concept in biology. Even Wikipedians agree that it needs to have a separate article to delineate it from your imprecise co-opting of the term in sociology.

>pseudointellectual screed about evolution
Seems we've hit on an insecurity here. There are in fact many ways to establish the selective advantage of a given trait in a population, especially where it occurs in large numbers and you can measure it across generations (unlike for example exceptionally rare disorders found in human populations). Another fun fact about intersex conditions in animal populations: unlike humans with disorders of sexual development, the animals presenting intersex traits are generally not sterile. That is how they persist across generations.

>How did genderism and transgenders become associated with and straight up completely dominate the left?
1: Western Leftist isn't based on Materialism, but is very much an "outcast" counter-culture that ranks heiarchy based on "oppression". This means leftist spaces find it near impossble to gatekeep against crazies, if those crazies check certain oppression boxes. This is easily manipulated by malicious power hungry types, for decades the black and muslim community who would use the left for their own idpol agendas then stab the left immediately in the back the moment they sniffed power or money, now it's the LGBT community.
2: Modern LGBT movement is essentially Narcissism the movement, and 98% of Transgenderism is viciously Narcissistic Cluster B fuelled AGP and extremely thin skinned autists who think playing a girl is life on "easy mode". Being terminally online, while also pushing all the right oppression boxes, and being experts in tumblr woo academia woke speak and manipulation of statistics and victim narrative, Troons literally took over the entire online left, completely silenced and purged anyone who even just dared questioned their clearly horseshit, delusional claims and mass gaslighting. I mean, look at the "Trans genocide" claims and then realise, Trans people literally have some of the lowest rates of abuse, hate crimes or crime against them of any demographic. Troons a near equal to Zionists in the sheer ability to crybully and spout memorized hasbara horseshit.
This also flows into real life orgs due to number 1, throw on the fact that LGBT today is also the compelte Vanguard force of modern Liberalism and most Western leftists are shitlibs, this means nobody can really stand against them.
To understand how absolutely pathetically dogshit troons are at debating, look at this Trans rights activist just completely fall apart from being asked basic questions and some light pushback against their questionable logic
https://x.com/DouglasSpaeder/status/1852414050145292795
This is why Troonies always scream "TERF" and try ban literally anyone who even dares question some of their logic, because there really is no material coherent basis. It's completely incoherent horseshit and literally based on metaphysical feels.

>>485715
> I was probably reading the ISNA's site before you were even born,


people often learn about things years after it happens.
People can be ignoranr of phenomenom or terms that have been around since their prime.

Chances are, the peron youre arguing with could be as old or older.

>>484158
Called it

>>485693
She didn't get more votes tho.

>>485694
Election was rigged

>>485694
True.
I actually underestimated how much of a world historic loser campaign Harris was running. People are calling it the worst campaign of all time. It's a disaster, folks!

>>485719
yeah it was deff one of the worst./
>The kids are deff feeling liz chenny

>>485594
In Kursk.

>>485594
Russia and the DPRK have something like a mutual defense pact, not exactly but similar, can't remember what's it called. So like >>485595 said it's plausible that DPRK fighters could help with defense in Kursk.

This mutual defense thing is pretty recent tho, so it's perhaps more likely that they've just started out doing military cooperation training. You know overcome language barriers, find ways to harmonize military doctrines and so on.

There is another thing, the DPRK has a stupendously massive standing army, and most of those soldiers are also part of something like engineering corps, that build stuff. To make it economically viable to have such a large army.

It's also somewhat likely that the DPRK has "lend" them as labor supply to Russia. For the DPRK that means they can fill up their long term food reserves while all those mouths are eating Russian food, and they probably get industrial and military development in return. The Russians get temporary labor-power to fill the gap caused by all the workers that signed up for military deployment in Ukraine.

The DPRK lacks arable land and as a result their food security is rather tenuous, and sending people away is better than starving them. On the order of 10+ years ago they send workers to Poland where they worked industrial jobs for the parts-supply industry, they used to send workers to the Soviet Union also, so this is not unusual.

The mainstream media has picked up this story because they're looking for cope to explain away Russia's ability to withstand the "Nato proxy pressure" and to maintain the exaggeration-lie about the number of Russian battle-field losses, which in reality likely are much lower than reported in mainstream media.

Another aspect to consider is, whose initiative this would have been. The DPRK knows how hard it gets when there's no "big-power-friend" from the "dark times" in the 1990s, so if any of these rumors prove true, it's somewhat likely that the DPRK would have been eager to prove to the Russians they're good for it.

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>>485594
Definitely the most retarded piece of neocon war propaganda we've heard in a while.

Uh oh, looks like World Famous Actor Zelensky is finally gonna be out of the job soon. Neocon rags like The Economist are talking about Ukraine elections scheduled for 2025, with America's favored puppet Valery Zaluzhny "polling well" against Zelensky.

https://archive.is/Kce28

Guess he played his cards wrong when he threatened a few weeks ago to blackmail the US by pursuing nuclear weapons if they stopped sending endless military support. Turns out the West has its own threshold for nuclear power they can't control, much like his statement at the Munich Security Conference in 2022 finally prompted the Russian invasion.

The big question for the Z-man is gonna be whether a spook agency will have any sympathy after they've finished using him and have any willingness to abscond him out of Ukraine to the safety of some Western asylum, or whether they'll leave him out to dry and presumably hanging from a lamppost in Kiev.

>>485703
>Turns out the West has its own threshold for nuclear power they can't control,
Maybe, although the Russians probably gained some leverage because they're exerting a moderating influence on Iran when it comes to nukes.

>Ukraine elections scheduled for 2025
I'm curious about how that's going to go.
You know with the US trying to install a new client regime and the Russian intending to purge the Banderites.

>>485690
Obviously replace autism score filter with the appropriate two letters :)

>>485690
>floride alert .org

>Look bros here's my totally not full of shit website that is totally unbiased.

Fuck off clown man

>>485695
Your tier of argumentation is:
>I don't like the messenger so these scores of peer-reviewed scientific studies are invalid.

Pretty low on the totem, level up anon.

>>485696
uyghur it's equivalent to citing info wars you're fooling no one

>faggots here suck all over some fucking high-up uyghur
Holy fuck if Flomp still won't build the fucking wall we will have a shortage of housing due to all the shills getting shot.

>>485663
>Read Fascist theorists, it absolutely is an ideology with it's own tenants and theory, no different from Marxist Leninism or Neoliberalism.
I tried that, you know as a exercise in know-your-enemy. And it's not coherent enough to be a theory or an ideological worldview.
Let me give some insights into aspects of fascist "theories".

One winter day some Nazi forgot to put coal into the oven that heats the water and took an especially cold shower, But he felt strangely invigorated, because exposure to cold jumps up the metabolic rate to heat the body back up. That also creates a natural high that feels really good. Many cultures in cold regions figured out the up-sides of dipping in ice-cold water, usually followed by a sauna session. However the fascists turned that experience into Aryans are special Ice-people with a hole origin story, alternate geological history and physics. They're not the first to make up mythology out of mundane shit like cold. But you can't call stuff like that a theory.

>Its a ideology of Traditionalist futurism
Italian fascism (Musolini type) borrowed the aesthetics and slogans of the futurists, but they didn't pursue any of the goals the futurists had.
>and nationalist social organism.
This is just word salad, let me explain:

First the shape of an organism at the most basic is an enclosed body, nations would be like an exploded carcass that splattered it guts all over the place, but it remains alive because little ants interconnect the dispersed organs.

Social organization in all forms do not mimic biology. Biology is a mad free for all where everything expands along metabolic pathways with random cross-connects. Imagine biology inspired social organization to be like the mail-man breaking into your house to deliver the mail, steal your coffee and clip the toe nails of your dog, clean your toilet and then take a shit in your bathtub. Biology works but it's chaotic as hell.
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Literally no one on the internet gets fascism right in its meaning, despite a wealth of historical information and writing from the fascists themselves about what they did and intend to do. It's funny that in all of the discussion the obvious - look at what the horse's mouth is saying - is ignored. Fascist organizations aren't difficult to miss and they will tell you they want to kill all of the communists and socialists and democrats in the world as a start, and give you their reasons why. The cowardliness of the left is so conditioned into them that they defeat themselves and they're the only ones who have doubts about what fascism is. Whether anyone else cares about stopping fascists is another question altogether.

If you're looking for fascism as a stable political idea, Futurism and Nietzschean moral "thought" are the obvious indicia. The fascists wrote considerably about the origin of their movement in syndicalism, the origin of the Blackshirts in Italy, and what is known about Mussolini's history (since he spoke English and was for a time a well-regarded and "normal" world leader). The Nazi Party has been described by god knows how many sources and by neo-Nazis who never left "the real movement". Fascism is not so specific that it is a fantastical unicorn, but the first people to lie about fascism are the post-1945 revisionist slime like Eco (worked for the fascists, sickening that this asshole is promoted as an anti-fascist). Then if you really know what Gramsci was, he was basically saying fascism or something like it was how the revolution would happen - a coup of the state and corruption of its institutions. They were abandoning mass politics because they saw in the 1920s that no longer worked for their aims, evidence being the first world war and all that followed. More and more, the communists were divorced from any democratic interpretation of "communism", and really doubted anything we would consider "communist" that the USSR aspired to be. The communists were all for the institutions now, and to hell with the now-worthless masses, us "sacks of potatoes".

The corporatist obsession was more of a post-war retrenchment of Germanic essentialism and the core Nazi spiritual principles. The analogy of the body and corporation was used by the fascists, but this is not unique to fascism. Communism doubted the corporate state but the "party of new type" was effectively "Communism Inc." Political elitism, which posited the political ePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

One thing I try to tell people is that we're not getting "fascism" as such. We're getting full eugenism, and that leads to a novel situation that no political ideology or "system" adequately describes. But, fascism still very much exists and informs far more thought than we're "allowed" to acknowledge. The "cultured fascist" artfully denies their link to Nazi atrocities but upholds the thinking of the German ideology, and to fascist conceptions of the technocratic polity as their preferred, "efficient" model. The thing we're getting is very much endorsed by those who would be fascists in that time, in the same spirit and for the same purpose. What has changed is that what the fascist wanted to do with fascism is now the only idea - "there is no alternative" is precisely this. They don't "need" fascism or a particular projection for some ill-conceived ulterior motive or because the rulers have a fetish for it and don't know what they're doing. What we're getting is fascism for the poor and a type of socialism for the rich. The "national socialist" stage of history is gone forever, but "national socialism" was neither national nor socialist. Nazism or the slop that was "national socialism" was about cannibalizing the nation and selling it off, and that's all the Germans did from 1933 to 1945. There are arguments from fascists about whether Germany was "fascist" at all, since the Nazis continued the German State of before with little interruption. Germans despised democracy to their core and mocked the idea, and were told how much stronger they are than weak and gay democracy. Fascism does not have a monopoly on anti-democratic impulses, and while no interpretation of fascism was democratic in the sense that we would consider worthwhile, it regarded a "democratic" basis that was subsumed within the state. The interests of the state and its office-holders were to become the interests of the masses, and there was not explicitly anything forbidding a low rank scumbag from becoming a fascist, as long as he remembered what it was for and that he's there to become an elite himself. What was forbidden was any sense of political equality or legal rights, and look at where we are today in the liberal order of things in the 21st century. In our time, freedom is now "freedumb" and the concept is now "fake and gay".

>>485669
Good post, decently organized, makes clear points and is easy to read.

>>485670
>>485673
Unhinged wall of text by someone with an inflated ego.

>>485678
You and you mother are whores.