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 No.478400[Reply]

This thread will detail some of the changes made to the site in the past year, as well as our plans for the future.

New i2p Address
As requested by several users, and in accordance with our general ethos of encouraging online anonymity, leftychan now has an i2p address which can be found here:
http://leftychmxz3wczbd4add4atspbqevzrtwf2sjobm3waqosy2dbua.b32.i2p or http://leftychan.i2p/

Moderation Changes
* New spam filter - Thanks to the hard work of our dev and admin Zer0-, leftychan now has an effective countermeasure against the automatic bot spam that plagues alt-chans. Dubbed as the 'spam noticer', the implementation of this system has led to a dramatic fall in malicious advertisement threads being posted to the site.
* New mods & dev - In order to better cover european and asian timezones, two more mods have been voted onto the team. These are sindikat, who has previous moderation experience, and jon, who is also acting as a dev and has made many valuable contributions in this capacity.
* Removal of Zul - In line with the rule that if a mod is inactive for over 15 weeks their status as a mod is called into question, Zul was voted off the mod team.

New Roulette Board
>>>/777/
After some discussion, we decided on /k/ as the new roulette board theme, replacing /CHAD/. Archived threads from previous roulette cycles can still be viewed here >>>/roulette_archive/
Any suggestions for future roulette board rotations are welcome.
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 No.484185

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


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 No.285223[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Hello /leftypol/, we noticed an under-appreciation for the theory that upholds our political ideologies: As such, we have decided to revive the reading sticky! This thread will be dedicated to the sharing, discussing, and general banter about various leftist thinkers, theories, and political outlooks.

But, other than that, we believe there are other important reads that must be addressed, especially, for beginners and those just now getting into leftism.

Don't forget to check out >>>/edu/ for more reading and discussion!

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Common Right Wing Talking Points Debunks
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Check out the /edu/ thread at
https://leftychan.net/edu/res/5576.html

Also see the relevant leftybooru tag
https://lefty.pictures/post/list/debunk/1
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 No.484076

>>326367
>The deadman's tomb (it is ok to make jokes at the author's expense by now) is a long, harrowing adventure across humanity's existence and humanity's collective philosophy. It is, above all, Heisman's personal work, and is truly a suicide note, left to explain why he has chosen to off himself. It was as if he were trying to defend his own suicide, his own depression, by pulling off the ultimate act of human dignity: suicide by reason. He failed in this task, but instead showed us a remarkable view of his insecurities while creating a ludicrous synthesis of western thought that is, somehow, implicitly and explicitly, both parody and not parody.

Heisman's stated reason for killing himself are, essentially, that he wants to do an experiment. This experiment is seeing whether or not his book is stopped from being read- truth be told everybody can read it, and this is well-remarked upon in other places. But, that is not the reason he kills himself. The reason he kills himself is this hypothesis: if he wants to do the experiment truly objectively, then, he reasons, he must be dead because the fact that he is alive means he has tendencies to view the data in a subjective way. Furthermore, because he says Western thought is increasingly moving towards the abolishment of anthrocentrism, materialism means that whether or not he is alive does not matter.

Thereby, his suicide is the result of him trying to do this experiment subjectively.

Bullox. He gives, like a bad magician, away most of his secrets at the beginning and the end of the book. The rest is filler material. Heisman shows quickly that he is not psychologically healthy- despite having a degree in psychology. He has a desperate occupation with Judaism, despite being atheist, that stems from the early death of his father and the resulting mental isolation that resulted from the rest of the world. His chapter names, though funny, are meant to be both true and offensive. It speaks to an incredible narcissism- where he essentially states that none but he have been honest with themselves- that he seeks to both find followers and to offend in his death.

The actual content of the tomb is a sort of magnification of history that ultimately results in his experiment as the turning point. Firstly, we begin with his concentration on the battle of Post too long. Click here to view the full text.


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Femicide in Turkey is on the rise. Yesterday, a person (aged 19) killed two women in one day, one of them was killed by cutting off her head and throwing it down from the top of the historical city walls in Istanbul, and then he committed committed suicide. What is your opinion?
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 No.484747

>>484741
A trend is when 2 people out of millions do something horrible to 2 other people out of millions and then I indulge in a moral panic about it as though it's happening all the time to everybody in that context.
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 No.484753

Wow, so two random murder by a disturbed person. Let us know when you have evidence for an actual trend.
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 No.484762

Some faggot incel that unfortunately took more lives than just his, I wouldnt call it a trend or even novel
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 No.484799

>>484738
>Femicide is on the rise
Based. The lesser beings who are still divided sexually do not deserve their place in the universe. Keep murderraping each other huemies.
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 No.484801

Korean incels stand on business


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 No.484694[Reply]

>One of the most significant pieces of evidence is the testimony of Otto Ernst Remer. In a 1997 interview, Remer admitted that he had received Soviet backing during his time in the party. Remer stated that he had met with KGB officials in East Berlin and had received financial and logistical support from the Soviet Union.[13] In addition to Remer's testimony, there are other sources of evidence that support the claim that the Soviet Union supported the SRP. For example, a 1953 KGB memo outlines the agency's efforts to cultivate and support right-wing extremist groups in Germany, including the SRP.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Reich_Party


What the hell guys, I thought the USSR was heckin anti-fascist???? What gives???
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 No.484719

>>484718
The Soviets contributed the largest military effort in the anti-fascist alliance called Allied Forces. The effects of the Soviet military machine were so intense that the effects on the landscape still linger. There is a huge pile of hard evidence that supports the conclusion that the Soviets were vigorously opposed to fascism.

Your piece of paper does not fall into that category of hard evidence. That's why i called it anecdotal evidence. It's a weaker type of evidence, that you can't use to contradict claims that are backed by hard evidence.

How do you managed to ignore the events in world war 2. There is no ambiguity.
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 No.484722

>>484719
Why are you ignoring that they supported them? I don't care that they fought the Nazis, because they went back on their anti-fascism by supporting Nazis later. Just because you did something good in the past doesn't mean that you're absolved of any future crimes.
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 No.484798

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>>484694
Yeah, soyo. Turns out when the commie-kikes get routinely shot for antisoviet (not anticommunist!) activities th@ really got 2 be meaning sumfin!
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 No.484802

>>484722
>I don't care that they fought the Nazis
I know, you're trying to ignore the giant elephant in the room and get people to look at your paper instead. It's so embarrassing.

You are trying to conflate fascism with communism because somehow you made a conflation fallacy part of your ideology.
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 No.484803

>>484798
I don't know what any of this means. But writing Ztalin with a Z sounds very forceful.

Stalin translates to man of steal (like Superman), if you say it with a Z it reinforces the image of an unstoppable force made out of metal.


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Continued from >>481432

Updates since the start of the last thread:
The (largely civilian) Palestinian death toll has now passed 39,000. With over 10,000 missing, it's expected that current estimates are lower than the actual death toll, and excess deaths have been estimated by The Lancet to plausibly be upwards of 186,000.

Reports in the Israeli press confirmed that the IDF implemented a 'mass Hannibal Directive' on October 7th, knowingly and purposefully killing many of its civilians and turning the Gaza border into an 'extermination zone' to prevent hostages from being taken alive.

The US Congress invited Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak. Tens of thousands demonstrated in DC, blockaded roads, and pulled mischief at the Watergate Hotel, but apparently failed to arrest Netanyahu for war crimes. Many were met with pepper spray and tear gas. At least 96 congress members boycotted the speech. Ahead of the visit, the Center for Constitutional Rights called for the DOJ to investigate Netanyahu for genocide, war crimes, and torture as required by US law. Simultaneous demonstrations occurred in other parts of the US and Canada.

A deal for a "national unity government" between the Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas was brokered in Beijing.

The International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion on the legal status of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories, as requested in 2022. It found that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid, its occupation is illegal, and its activity in Gaza & the West Bank has continued to constitute a de facto occupation even after the IDF ostensibly withdrew in the '00s. It also confirmed that supporting Israeli apartheid and illegal occupation is illegal.

Yemeni Houthi attacks on shipping, in solidarity with Gaza, have continued, nearly shutting down the Israeli port of Eilat. A Yemeni drone struck a building near the US embassy branch office in Tel Aviv on July 19th. This was followed by direct Israeli airstrikes on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah.

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 No.484789

Israel announces new ground raids into Lebanon

The Israeli military said soldiers from its 91st Division, including reserve troops, have begun a ground operation in southern Lebanon.

This comes a week after Israel’s military first announced the launch of its ground offensive in Lebanon. It also comes as the military continues its air raids on Lebanon, including on the southern suburbs of Beirut.

‘Massive explosions’ rock Beirut again
Laura Khan
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

We are in central Beirut, about 7km [4 miles] away from those southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, where there have been absolutely massive explosions.

The Israeli forces issued a statement saying that they hit a weapons depot belonging to Hezbollah. We were looking at these images of these huge blasts that were lighting up the night sky and there seemed to be a number of secondary explosions and some sort of projectiles coming out of there.

But whether it was a weapons depot that caused these explosions, we are not sure yet.
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 No.484790

>>484788
>I can maybe see why depleted Uranium tank-shells looked like a good idea at some point, but in so called "dumb-bombs" for destroying buildings ? Seems like overkill.
Dropping 70+ 2,000 lb bombs onto a crowded capital city to get like 3 specific guys max is already such overkill that it would be totally inconceivable to any regime which isn't receiving infinite free bombs from the US. Like, nothing about this even makes sense from a standpoint of ordinary war strategy, everything about it is sadistic, excessive, and illegal even before the depleted uranium.

>When the unfortunate side effect became a "feature"

Tbh I think it was always a "feature." I don't think that they were saying "oh no, but what if it poisons them?" when it was first used in armor piercing weaponry.
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 No.484791

https://x.com/AkimotoThn/status/1843203319629746677
Israeli embassy in Tokyo right now. Police blocking the angry protesters from approaching the embassy. This is also Japan.
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 No.484792

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SHOCKING!
Our intelligence has discovered that Likud is using ordinary houses and restaurants in Tel Aviv and Haifa to hide F-35s and F-16s.
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 No.484795

>>484792
Those are some tiny houses.


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theory background, skip if you wish
In the cold war the Soviets had a closed media ecosystem with state censors etc. The materialist reason for that is, that their media production could neither match the quantity of output nor the level of technical sophistication of western media production.

The functional aspect of Soviet censorship was doing protectionism. The repression of expression-freedom of soviet citizens was not functional, it likely hampered the development of the means of media production. It likely worked only because the boost from protectionism more than off-set the drag from repression of expression.

This is what most ideological analysis got wrong. What matters is the structures that transport the information and the type of social relations that create the interaction with people. The specifics of the information never mattered.

In feudalism the information structure was the church. The specifics of religious faith, didn't really matter for the functioning of feudalism. The change from feudalism to capitalism changed information from a indoctrinated believe, into a object that is consumed.

We lack any concept of what the socialist information structure could be like. We haven't really thought beyond changing the information content. When the printing presses automated writing, capitalists printed information on paper squares arranged as either news-papers or as books. Socialists only ever did the exact same paper-squares with different words on it. Same thing for every subsequent media technology. That's why socialists have always been on the back-foot. It's like if the bourgeoisie had tried to edit the ten commandments in the bible. Instead of replacing the church with modern media.

Now for the juicy bit
The west is ramping up attempts at censorship. Ranging from deleting content up to attacking the people that make it, as well as attacking capitalists that own means of dissemination. The West has/had a relatively open media ecosystem as well as very high production media quality, and that is the combined reason why it's media structures have absolutely dominated the world.

For unclear reasons they're now trying to throw out the winning strategy and close off the western media eco-system. If it succeeds the global audience would get alienated out of it, and then western media power will shrink from influencing ~4 billion to maybe a few hundrPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.484772

Imperial PR isn't going anywhere. It is re-basing in Europe, and you see some of its faces appearing as part of the "new normal" or "Fourth Reich" of German global dominance.

The "actual East" has no ability nor an interest in taking over PR, beyond putting up a standard front. China's foreign-language propaganda is hilariously awful, and of their competent propagandists, the message is "China is open for business", "China is your friend", and so on. Their agitation propaganda is kept awful and produced in cooperation with the empire, rather than against it.

What "the West" is censoring is all of the people who are being liquidated or will be liquidated in the near future. Can't have them using public access to appeal in any way what is done to them. Up until now, there was some expectation of legal appeal or hearings regarding all of the horrible shit that has been done to them. This will no longer be acceptable now that the public-facing governments are dissolving, and people see the empire and its leading lights as the source of their problem. Enough people already have appealed the empire, but the empire was covered by public-facing governments as its facade. With the dissolution of public life, that dodge no longer works, and public life is dissolved because it creates too many expectations that there is a way to appeal anything the ruling power and the law does that is obviously harmful. For example, outright seizure of private property held by ordinary people, which has happened at record pace since 2020, with every crisis being an opportunity to steal more stuff, and an explicitly stated goal to end home ownership or any mobility for actual humans.

Most Soviet censorship was basic, routine things any state with an intact public would do. It is entirely in bounds for a state to legislate public morality, whether the censorship is explicit as with most states, or implicit as in the United States. All throughout the history of the US, laws were passed at state and local levels, and occasionally at federal level, to do exactly this. The law of free speech was never a blanket protection for assholes to say what they want with clear intention to mock a free society, using retards who cannot comprehend the concept and insist on their fake and insane Germanic "freedom".
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 No.484773

It should be telling that the only victory for "freedom" is striking down sodomy laws and forbidding people to resist this invasion of their lives and disruption of their most basic relations, and we're told this news with glowing, cheerful music, when we know they cut up our brains and mock us every single day and goad us repeatedly, knowing that it is now illegal to even say what this is let alone do anything about it. Nothing the Soviet Union did came close to that, and the most egregious Soviet censorship was to defend the people who were preparing to dismantle communism and present the nation's asshole for deeper ramming for the empire.
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 No.484783

>>484772
The Soviet type censorship was incorrect too. The only reason to do censorship is for protectionism in order to create a domestic media production sector, in case you lack media. And you wouldn't censor any specific opinions, because people generally are inflexible about what type of messages they listen to, and you want as many people as possible to listen to your media. You can only put the thumb on the scale of public opinion by making sure the preferred political direction gets more resources for broader coverage, a nicer presentation and so on. Anything further and you create nothing but people who will with infinite stubbornness refuse to believe anything you say, or even listen to what you say. There were people in the soviet Union that listened to Radio free Europe for no other reason than F the state-censor

Until now China had no chance to make any headway against western media, precisely because it was open enough that you could find voices for more or less every possible political direction. If western media begins to censor certain voices, that's when China gets a chance to expand it's media influence. Because there's people who are no longer getting supplied by western media. I hate to use a market-metaphor, but it works well for this: Think about censorship as refusing to offer anything to a certain segment of the market. That's an opening for the competition.

Basically the primary battle is about getting people to adopt your information medium, what kind of information that medium contains is secondary. This is how western media became dominant in the world. I think the medium is the message was the catchphrase for that supremely successful strategy. The point isn't about brain-washing people with propaganda, that's not how you win. First it's only partially possible to do that, and second the goal is to get people all over the world to consume your media in order to make them learn your language, to adopt your conceptual frameworks, adopt the standards of your system, all intangible things that are difficult to quantify but that gives you a huge advantage because your stuff is the default.

Also it's likely that the Chinese will begin to ease up on their censorship, because that will enable them to gain the global audience the western media is loosing. The sign to look out for will be when Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.484793

>>484783
The reason for censorship isn't an ulterior motive to be tested by your enemies. If you do that, you're asking to be derailed by any dishonest actor who is happy to lie, who has lied every step of the way and forced everyone else to glorify the lying. Censorship is among the most basic functions of a state, not a tool or policy that is switched out. Nothing about censorship applies to "perfect systems" in that way. The entire reason censorship exists is because there is no such thing as "perfect systems with perfect information", and the habit of humans to lie makes perfect information impossible and undesirable. If you must make all humans completely and autistically honest for your society to work, it has already failed. Every state in history has presumed that humans are not naturally good at all and cannot be trusted. In all cases, humans are moral actors in order for a state to even exist. Otherwise, not even fear would keep a society in line - only brute, unreasoning force would. You can see how exhausting it is to live up to the insane standards of "perfect information", which were only ever imposed by cajolers who always freely lie about everything and anything, and declare imperiously that it illegal to acknowledge that they are lying.

There is a gross misunderstanding of the role of the censor, and how states control media, both in the past and in the present. The modern lies rely on fetishizing information and symbolic representation to make moral standards of comparison impossible. This is the Germanic insanity, which need not be repeated. The German ideology is a fast way to destroy your country and sell it off to foreign powers, which is exactly what the German philosophers and the Nazis did, and what the Germans live under today. These institutions are shit!

The censor does not exist to make "perfect information" or "control reality", as if the expression of ideas in of themselves held any power. The censor's role re: public morality is primarily moral rather than informational or intellectual. So, early modernity, just before the revolutions, it did not occur to the monarchy that it had to censor the liberal ideas. What they were censoring were obviously disgusting materials like pornography, since - and it's hilarious to recount this - pornography was used to facilitate revolutionary material precisely because it wPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.484794

I know I'm responding to a tard who can't get basic shit, but they really need to ask why this posturing and performance of "toughness" was glorified by liberal so-called democracy, and see how what was normalized especially during the 1990s is by historical standards extremely ultraviolent and invasive of private life in a way that had never been possible before.


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Who are you voting for, anon?

So far, the top candidates are:
Jill Stein (Green)
Cornel West (Independent)
Claudia De la Cruz (Party for Socialism and Liberation)
Joseph Kishore (Socialist Equality Party)
and now "Based Chase" Oliver (Libertarian)

and then there are some unserious candidates nobody likes.
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 No.484750

>>484732
I hate corporate slogans.
They're not evolving, what they meant to say was adapting. Evolution happens inter-generational. In their analogy evolution would mean Lockheed Martin goes bankrupt and gets replaced by a new company that's better at making weapons.

I just noticed they think a year has 13 months ?
LoL
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 No.484752

>>484750
>I just noticed they think a year has 13 months ?
That was written last October. October 2023-November 2024 is 13 months.
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 No.484780

Claudia De la Cruz speaking in NYC yesterday.
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 No.484781

>>484780
Does she talk about socialism at some point?
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 No.484782

>>484781
This was at an anti-genocide march.


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Last one is full and the worst thread on leftychan must be contained.

In recent news: Ukies done a successful counteroffensive in Izium, Z gang now in shambles. Biden promises even more money for Ukraine. Putin meets Xi, Erdogan, Modi and others at the SCO summit.


Pro-Russia sources:
https://nitter.net/RWApodcast
https://nitter.net/mdfzeh
https://nitter.net/AZmilitary1
https://nitter.net/wargonzoo
https://nitter.net/TheHumanFund5
https://t.me/intelslava
https://t.me/asbmil
https://t.me/vorposte

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 No.484369

>>484368
>BRICS is literally the imperial blueprint

the imperial pattern has 3 main features, financial dominance, military dominance, and imperial division of industry

Their financial project is not replicating the imperial-currency dominance pattern. They have this intermediary currency for trade between nations that is locked to a basket of goods (think of this like currency locked to gold, except that it is now lots of different commodities), it will not re-create the typical imperial finance structures. I would classify this as a blocking mechanism that prevents any of the Brics countries from establishing their national currency as the one everybody has to use for trade.

Potential candidates for military dominance in Brics could be either Russia or China. At the moment we're not seeing either expanding as in creating a global network of military bases. (Which has been the pattern for every empire in history so far)

Now for the imperial division of industry, one can definitely see some of that happening in Brics. There is resource extraction going on in some countries while the higher value-add processes in the industrial chain are happening mainly in other countries. However there are no indications of restricted development, as in one country imposing on another what kind of industry it can have.
Sofar we see Africa and South America functioning as low-value add supplies for China, but we're not seeing China doing anything to prevent these countries from climbing up the value add latter to industries higher in the industrial chain.

The Russians have been helping other countries in Brics to level up domestic military technology and Chinese have been helping with industrial infrastructure. That's also something that i haven't seen any previous empire do.

At the very least there are people trying to build something else that is not shaped like an empire. Whether these people succeed, i can't really say. But it would be wrong to dismiss their efforts. At least at the moment that tendency seems to be in the ascendance.
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 No.484666

Where do you boyos think Z-Lensky is gonna setup his government-in-exile? Brussels? Miami?
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 No.484668

>>484666
Maybe they'll turn that into a TV series called egZiled and the Lensky can go back to his roots
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 No.484766

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Yeltsin would have handled it differently and that's the tea 💅💅☕ ☕
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 No.484767

>>484765
Yeltsin was kind of a traitor, but I doubt any Russian leadership would be able to yield Ukraine to Nato. Strategical realities of that type transcend political differences.


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 No.484627[Reply]

Iran is bombing Israel. what do you think? I stand iran.
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 No.484727

>>484721
>US wants to deal with Iran.
They tried once with the JCPOA nuclear deal.

>They're fucking sick of "Israel"

Yeah that relation is strange and really abusive.

>The Empire as a whole owns both Iran and Israel

Nah the Iranians are not a US vassal or client state. While you could say the empire owns Israel, it's unclear to what extend it has controle.

>Israel is throwing everything to break the US to make it commit seppeku and commit to a land war with Iran at the worst time.

seppeku ? is that the new Sudoku ?
But yes Isreal trying to drag the US into war Iran is malicious

>I don't see Iran going this far if they did not have assurances that they can survive this.

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 No.484731

>>484726
>If I was the leader of Iran and the US assured me that I could retaliate and the US wouldn't attack me, it would have little bearing on what decision I made.
I think the previous case of a "choreographed theatrical retaliation" where the Iran negotiated the details and timetables of the attack with the US could have become a blue-print for defusing escalations. While in the end it did not work, it was definitely worth the attempt of turning war-fare in a spectacle without much real destruction. It's a shame the jedi-mind trick didn't work on the warmongers.

Iran now seems to be aiming for a strategy of degrading Israel's offensive capabilities. Like damaging air-bases. While they currently are on a wave cadence, I think they'll end up on a constant slow attrition strategy that puts pressure on Isreal's re-supply. The US and most of the western weapons industry is having difficulties of organizing timely production of those very complex weapons systems, because of the neo-liberally eroded industrial base. Slowly depleting the offensive potential also was the strategy of the Russians during the middle part of the Russian-Nato-proxy-war in Ukraine.
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 No.484734

>>484731
History does not repeat nor tolerate the present state Israel wishes to impose on it.

With what Iran is building up, I would not be surprised if they flatten Israel and rain hellfire, and US looks the other way.
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 No.484763

>>484734
I don't think Iran really intends to "flatten" Isreal. They're looking for deterrence primarily, and if they can't have that they'll attempt to destroy Isreal's capacity to attack other countries in the region, while preserving Isreal's viability as a state.

They do have the fire-power to obliterate Isreal, but that won't come into play unless Isreal tries to use nukes. Some of the ultra Zionist hardliners want to use nukes in Lebanon, not because it serves a military objective, but rather as an attempt to intimidate.

If that happens Iran would switch it's economy to a war-time command economy, begin underground nuclear weapons testing and start continuously hammering Israel with conventional weapons, this time with the aim of destroying Isreal's viability as a state. I.d.k. if the US pulls out and looks away, but it's definitely possible, it's not worth it for the US to throw down on behalf of Israel, not economically and especially not politically.

At the moment this scenario is not very likely, the US military probably would act resolutely to frustrate any use of nuclear weapons they haven't approved. The other factor, as Alexander Mercouris puts it: "Russia's long shadow descending upon the middle east", is changing the power equation in a major way.
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 No.484797

<484627
>i support one militant anticommunist hellhole against the other militant anticommunist hellhole, in words


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 No.484673[Reply]

I was recently researching the public housing projects of fascist Italy. There's been entire books written about how early fascist regimes mirrored New Deal policy that is now considered "far-left" in America. Italian fascists dramatically increased public housing that existed prior.

In a way though, this potentially makes contemporary America maybe even more right-wing than fascist Italy in practice for the average person. US is certainly not more than right-wing than Nazi Germany was, but it may be moreso than fascist Italy.

Here in the USA, we've more or less abandoned the idea of ensuring that people aren't underhoused. This can only be achieved from public housing. Housing is a basic human need on par with food, as participation in public life and even reproduction are very difficult without it, especially with accompanying cultural values which portrays life as a game to collect points to afford housing.
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 No.484678

Also you can't hide, like… the fact that you own a plot of land. It's way easier to cover up income than it is to cover up land ownership. If you own a whole lot of land and holding it vacant costs way more than you'd get by waiting a decade and selling it, then you'll have a market suddenly flooded with cheap houses.
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 No.484683

>>484677
You know that George's land tax was partially meant to fund George's vision of public housing, right?
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 No.484691

>Is contemporary American politics more right-wing than Italian fascism?
Yes, it's literal Nazi tier.
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>>484683
Henry George supported a Land-Tax Funded Citizens' Dividend and the nationalization of natural monopolies, but I don't remember anything about public housing. I wouldn't be totally shocked if he proposed it, but I don't recall that. I'm not opposed to public housing, but the economic effect of Georgist tax policy would already drive prices down greatly, and the citizens' dividend would give the average person more financial security. We literally have enough buildings, they could solve the housing crisis with tax reform without building a single additional structure, but they won't do either.
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>>484677
>the idea, if you're a landlord and treating it as an investment, is to be able to hold those properties for an extended period of time until the market price grows up.
It's not the price "going up", it's the currency being debased by your communist central bank. People hold hard assets to protect themselves from inflation not to make a "profit".

>This artificially increases scarcity

Correct. Although the real solution is to have hard money which cannot be inflated by political entities and then people don't need to hog hard assets like land and houses.

>>484678
>Also you can't hide, like… the fact that you own a plot of land.
That's not necessarily true there is a whole book about this called Who Owns England. The British aristocracy have been using land to evade taxes and inheritance bullshit for centuries.

>If you own a whole lot of land and holding it vacant costs way more than you'd get by waiting a decade and selling it, then you'll have a market suddenly flooded with cheap houses.

Land is not the same thing as houses. We don't have a land shortage we have a housing shortage. Government regulations, unstable currency and high cost of labor all make it very difficult to turn a profit from building houses so nobody bothers building them. And don't forget your open borders, refugees welcome, multikulti virtue signaling bullshit is also artificially increasing demand.


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