/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>444873
my numby wumby

>>487934
>>487916
Yeah it happened.
Basically, Caballo was refusing to follow his own rules and constantly stepping out of line so there was an attempt to create some democratic methodology by Comatoast, Zero, and Watermelon with the supprt of some other users, but, they had a backdoor in Krates which had been inactive for like a year at that point.

Can't believe that's you, what a twist.

Syria accuses Hezbollah of abducting, killing three soldiers

The Syrian Defence Ministry said that Hezbollah had abducted the three soldiers from inside Syria, taken them to Lebanon, and then killed them.

The ministry said that the abduction happened near the Zeita Dam, on the Syrian-Lebanese border in Homs province.

“A group from the Hezbollah militia … kidnapped three members of the Syrian army on the Syrian-Lebanese border… before taking them to Lebanese territory and eliminating them,” the Syrian state news agency SANA quoted the Defence Ministry as saying.

Al Jazeera Arabic earlier reported that clashes had taken place on the Syrian-Lebanese border. Hezbollah has, however, denied any involvement in the incident.

aje.io/7jyucr?update=3583344

Astute observers with a great memory will recall that Israel bombed Damascus two days ago. For some reason, these HTS guys (formerly Al Qaeda) are only focusing on attacking Alawites, Christians, and Lebanon, though.

Israel’s attacks on Syria part of its ‘new vision’ for the Middle East

Labib al-Nahhas, director of the Syrian Association for Citizens’ Dignity, says Israel’s claim that it is launching attacks on Syria to protect the Druze community is just a “false pretext” for a land grab.

“Their official narrative that they’re there to protect the Druze needs to be taken with a pinch of salt, because Druze themselves within Israel are considered second-class citizens. So that cannot be the genuine intention,” al-Nahhas told Al Jazeera.

He said “a new Israel” emerged after the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas-led fighters.

“The Israel we see is the most expansionist, aggressive, and hostile that we’ve seen since 1967. It has said it won’t stop the war until Syria has been partitioned. [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu has said they’ll establish their own buffer zone without any Syrian military presence,” said al-Nahhas.

“So what we’re seeing here is Israel trying to shape Syria to its liking in a way that Syria will remain weak, decentralised, and won’t pose any threat to Israel in the coming months and years. This intervention plays to the interests and new vision of Israel in the region.”

https://aje.io/p407e2?update=3687432

The STFD-686 app operated with disarming simplicity. It offered the promise of financial aid, requiring only that the victim fill out a few personal details. It asked innocent questions: “What kind of assistance are you expecting?” and “Tell us more about your financial situation.”

The expected answer was clear: financial help. In return, users would supposedly receive monthly cash transfers of around 400,000 Syrian pounds — roughly $40 at the time — sent anonymously via local money transfer companies. Sending small sums across Syria, whether under real or fictitious names, required nothing more than a phone number, and the black market was teeming with intermediaries ready to facilitate such transfers.

On the surface, the app appeared to offer a special service for officers. Its first disguise was a humanitarian one: claiming to support the “heroes of the Syrian Arab Army” through a new initiative, while showcasing photos of real activities from the official Syria Trust for Development website.

The second mask was emotional, employing reverent language that praised the soldiers’ sacrifices: “They give their lives so that Syria may live with pride and dignity.” The third was nationalistic, and framed the app as a “patriotic initiative” designed to bolster loyalty, and this mask proved the most persuasive.

The fourth mask was visual: The app’s name, both in English and Arabic, mirrored the official organization exactly. Even the logo was an identical replica of Syria Trust’s emblem.

Once downloaded, the app opened a simple web interface embedded within the application, which redirected users to external websites that didn’t display in the app bar. The sites, syr1.store and syr1.online, mimicked the official domain of Syria Trust (syriatrust.sy). The use of “syr1,” an abbreviation of Syria, in the domain name seemed plausible enough, and few users paid much mind. In this case, no special attention was given to the URL; it was simply assumed to be trustworthy.

To access the questionnaire, users were asked to submit a series of seemingly innocent details: full name, wife’s name, number of children, place and date of birth. But the questions quickly escalated into riskier territory: the user’s phone number, military rank and exact service location down to the corps, division, brigade and battalion.

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Dan Kovalik and Jamarl Thomas on alleged intra-faction fighting within HTS and supposed dissonance with Israel-backed al-Jolani

Its just interesting to consider

>>489857
You are right about the double standard, but you are mistaken about global opinions, most of the world indeed thinks the attacks on the bridge are a warcrime.

Maybe consider that the bbc does not reflect the views of most of the world.

">>489857 (You) (OP)
You are right about the double standard, but you are mistaken about global opinions, most of the world indeed thinks the attacks on the bridge are a warcrime.

Maybe consider that the bbc does not reflect the views of most of the world."

Well, true, BBC doesn't reflect most views, since it is a British news anchor, however even if we look at a few of the US or other European countries news (aside from Ukraine and Russia in this case), most of them never really questions it, although I guess you could say its because its main stream news that would never anyways.

Do you know any good independent sources?

>>489873
>Well, true, BBC doesn't reflect most views, since it is a British news anchor,
I wonder if the BBC reflects the views of most Brits at this point.

>however even if we look at a few of the US or other European countries news (aside from Ukraine and Russia in this case), most of them never really questions it,
Maybe not in this particular case, about a Russian bridge that is very far away and doesn't really affect them. But the number of people that distrust this type of media in general is probably very high.

>>489878
>And I realized that leftists have really not addressed this in sufficient capacity.
Read more history
Tsar Nick N°2 send his navy to attack Japan, they got their asses whooped, the Russian navy felt betrayed and switched allegiance to Lenin and the Bolsheviks. It's called the battle of Tsushima (spelling might be wrong).

>The implication here is that if we're going to be fighting a revolution, the entire might of the US military would be opposing us.
Well the US rulers want to attack China, that could be their battle of Tsushima moment.
Basically get the soldiers to join your side. When a ruling class sends their military into battles they can't win, this all of a sudden becomes very doable.

>I think this is very likely true. And if it's true then it is the single best explanation for why there is no political movement in the US:
If all the workers go on strike, and hide in a hole somewhere, all that military power does nothing.
The real reason why lefty political movements have a hard time in the US, is because imperial super profits enable the imperial bourgoisie to continue extracting profits from their imperial periphery while their domestic workers go on strike. That means they can weather these strikes, they continue to have transnational revenue during strikes which they can use to pay for political repression.

Lenin realized this and basically decided that revolution had to happen in the periphery first in order to break that dynamic. He was mostly correct. During the period of anti-colonial liberation, the British empire lost virtually all of it's colonies and as a result the labor movement in the UK got very strong.

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>>489146
>Capitalism is often more collectivist than socialism is (nationalism
Because socialist nations have never, EVER, engaged in nationalism, EVER.

>>489859
Why do people want licensing for everything except for procreation?
Why do people allow incompetent parents to breed?

At this point, "eugenics" is just an indignatory remark.

People have no problem with putting trackers on their kids.

People have no problem with background screening for employment.

>>489863
>Because socialist nations have never, EVER, engaged in nationalism, EVER.
Well, the leaders of these so-called "socialist nations" would constantly shit on council communists, mutualists and anarcho-communists anyway so… I guess it depends on what we mean by the word "socialism" then.
>>489862
>Under the current system, immigration IS forced diversity
Neither did immigrants vote for their country to be empoverished by imperialism but whatever. I don't have a definitive stance on immigration (anti-immigration is peak reformism anyway) and I do understand the grievances of white workers but, like, immigrants are people too. I don't think treating them like literal savages is coolio. I think we should try to build bridges instead and attack the core cause of illegal immigration instead of attacking immigrants themselves.
>Yeah, cause they both operate on fear, which is a fascist tactic.
I'm not scared of LGBT, I just think hating queers is silly, counterproductive and irrational. When it comes to feminazis then sure but LGBT isn't even an ideology, the same way "leftism" isn't. Or are you implying that your ideas are the same as those of radlibs, ancoms and Strasserites?
>You're just retarded.
Not an argument, you're retarded for saying this. Only retards throw insults when they have nothing to add.

>>489871
>Why do people allow incompetent parents to breed?
Conservative propaganda. They think more children = good and less children = bad.

>anarcho-individualist
Oh you're retarded

So a bunch of trucks with tricked-out containers were driven into Russia, where they launched a drone attack on Russian military airports. They damaged a few planes. They also killed a bunch of civilians that crossed a bridge while it was being attacked.

It kinda reminds me of the beeper terror attack that was carried out by the mossad terror organization where they blew up children in Lebanon. It's similar in the sense that it represents weaponizing a part of the civilian supply chain. A weapon disguised as civilian cargo trucks or a weapon disguised as an electronic gadget.

This has been attributed to Ukraine, but there are strong suspicions the US was behind it. Since many of the planes that were targeted was part of Russias nuclear triad, it looked like attempt of destabilizing the balance of terror from nuclear weapons, and could be interpreted as a preamble to a full scale nuclear war. (whether nuclear bombers are still relevant as part of a strategic deterrent is questionable given the advances in air defenses, but I'll put that aspect to the side)

Obviously if the US did this, they didn't seem to have considered that Russia could apply the same tactic to attack US warplanes. Many are stationed on the 800+ US military bases around the world. Arguably those are even more vulnerable.

It seems very reckless while at the same time not really changing the dynamic of the Ukraine war.

The Russians seam to have ditched tit-for-tat game-theory logic for rational outcome-maximization logic some time ago. So it's unclear whether they will retaliate, it might take a while, because R.O.M. suggests delaying retaliations until it can be aligned with the desired outcome.

There also is the question whether the planes that were struck weren't just decoys made from decommissioned planes, since those planes were stationed outside of protective hangars in order to allow for cold-war arms-controle via satellite. Since most of the cold war arms controle treaties were dissolved by the US, this could make some sense.

Many people think this was done in order to bootstrap WW3. I sometimes wonder whether the nuclear-war-crazies are actually the same species as us, because from an evolutionary perspective a desire to eradicate your own species seems rather implausible.
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>>489851
One of the points Alexander Mercouris made on this yesterday is that the planes had dual-purpose use: they were conventional bombers as well as strategic bombers. So it wasn't purely an attempt to attack Russian nuclear retaliation infrastructure. There's a lot of American bias in the press reporting on this in the sense that aircraft form a major component of American strategic nuclear forces, but this is not at all true of Russia. If the focus was purely on Russian nuclear deterrence they would go after ICBMs or submarines fleet.

>>489856
Yeah I'm not entirely convinced the Russians see it as oh it's just the least important pillar of our nuclear triad getting attacked, that's fine

I'll give you the point about the motivation, the target could have been the conventional bomber aspect. But the Russians can't know that for sure.

>>489865
Oh I think we can be sure about the motivation: this was just another means to sabotage peace talks and keep the war going as long as possible. The Ukrainians have no hope of winning this war and this changes nothing on the battlefield. If the US wasn't involved in these attacks this time then we can at least be sure intelligence from some other NATO country had a hand in a desperate attempt to saving the failing political career of some European ruler.

>>489867
>Oh I think we can be sure about the motivation: this was just another means to sabotage peace talks and keep the war going as long as possible.
There was talk this attack took 18 months planning, if that's true, the timing would have been difficult. But you are not wrong, it did interfere with the peace talks.

I still don't really get the rational for prolonging this war. Well, obviously there are the war-profiteers that want to keep the gravy train rolling, but that doesn't explain the hysterical behavior of the "Russia-warriors".

They said provoking this war would weaken Russia economically and militarily as well as fracture it politically , but that doesn't appear to be the case at all. The result seems to be that both Europe and the US have been weakened economically and militarily instead, and Europe seems to have suffered political fractures. And it also caused diplomatic isolation of the west because most of the world did not participate in the sanctions war against Russia. The longer this war drags on, the worse it will become.

>a desperate attempt to saving the failing political career of some European ruler.
So all this shit, because of careerism ? Bruh if that's true, that's fucked up.
Also is it actually working ? There doesn't seem to be much public support for this war, despite the high intensity warmongering in the media. If I was a politician i wouldn't double down on this, i would try to get out of the war and then memory-hole it as quickly as possible.

>The Ukrainians have no hope of winning this war and this changes nothing on the battlefield.
I think that was clear from the beginning, they never intended Ukraine to win, Ukraine's purpose was supplying cannon-fodder. Guys, guys Ukropia can totally win against a super-power was always just intended as a deception.

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Drone spotted over Freedom Flotilla near Greece.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKc4k2lohXh/

>>489861
Will we get public executions of Zionism perpetrators if they murder Greta ?

>>489866
We can if we want it

Per Unity of Fields:
The United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution for an "immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire" in Gaza, along with unhindered aid access.

The remaining 14 Security Council members voted in favor of the draft resolution.

While the US acts as a "mediator" at the behest of "israel" and runs its death trap "aid distribution mechanism," it once again shamelessly reveals that it has no intention of a path to peace. In fact, this marks the 5th veto by the US regarding a ceasefire in Gaza since October 2023.

🔴 The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine considered the veto as new evidence of direct complicity in genocide and blatant cover for the zionist entity. They noted that the decision should surprise no one, given the US' supply of the most lethal weapon globally to the IOF.

The PFLP also considered the decision a new chapter in American hostility towards the Palestinian people and called on "the free people of America to confront these criminal policies."

>>489819
At orbital speeds, I do not think that the foam would flex and transfer momentum. I have seen slowmo footage of a sponge getting shot at 2000m/s at a rebar-reinforced concrete plate, and it looked like a cannonball smashing through a thin sheet of ply-wood. While this is the inverted scenario, it does highlight that material properties can be very different if there is a lot of inertia involved. I think you don't get any protection from this and you'll just get foam with small holes. The foam will behave like a brittle substance.

Proven low weight shielding methodes are, 1. Whipple shields, stacked sheets of armor that are spaced out from each other, designed to progressively fracture incoming projectiles into many more peaces as they puncture each armor sheet dispersing their energy over a greater area. These sometimes use expanding foam between armor sheets, as mechanism for deployment.

And second, spin-armor, where little disks are spun up to high rpm of over 100k rotations per minute. Those disks store a lot of kinetic momentum, if hit by high speed projectile they "ping off" (as they transfer angular momentum) and redirect the projectile in the process. This is basically the beginning of an energy shield.

I don't know how practicle it would be for rockets tho, that said Whipple shields are used on the ISS, iirc.

>>489823
Inertial reactive armor is hardly proven at this point, the first research paper I can even find on the subject is from 2023.

>>489824
I came across spin armor or inertial reactive armor as you call it, probably a decade ago. I'm not sure but it might have been in stuff about old Soviet military prototypes. Maybe from the 80s.

I don't think this is anything new.

>>489837
Well if it's that old and still not adopted in anything then it probably amounted to a dead end. The best-case scenario I can think of is like modern flywheels: discs in vacuum-sealed containers held in place by magnetic bearings to reduce friction to zero. But you're still probably going to need a constant power source to maintain the magnetic bearings, especially if they're out in space dealing with fluctuations in magnetic fields.

>>489840
It's not a dead end, you get a very light armor that can shrug off very powerful impacts, but the trade off is that it requires power. So it's the beginning of energy shielding. It's worth it if you have a lot of power-generation.

>>483914
>My dogmatism is better than yours!
As dogmatic as orthodox Marxists can be, at least they don't allow opportunists to pervert Marxist teachings and introduce contrafactual concepts and ideas that promote their bourgeois views. Not all revisionism is warranted. The same way not all interpretations of Stirner are valid, some self-proclaimed Stirnerites actually use Stirner to justify their own spooks. Which is very dishonest.

>>489755
Who's Gerald Horne? Are you saying he's based or an ideological tool of the ruling class?

>>489767
The latter. He's a historian who falsifies history in service of divisive idpol.

>>489755
WSWS Covid take was easily the worst among the entire left but they were based as fuck for ruthlessly shitting on 1619 Project. That said Gerald Horne is a true anti imperialist and never falls for the shitlib trap of "criticizing" Russia and China. Sadly he is a Democratic Party tailist and spreads the moronic notion that Trump's election and Jan 6 was a huge step toward fascism. As if we didn't have fascism for decades and decades.

>>489637
I mean building your entire platform around them, to the exclusion of others. I'm a-ok working with someone who goes to church weekly and hates gays. That's different from going around and saying "hey people who go to church and hate gays, here's the party for you!", because it'll turn off everyone who isn't them. If the ACP was smart, they'd bring on leadership with a wide variety of opinions all across the political spectrum, with their belief in socialism being the unifying factor. Instead, you have the same zoomer trying and failing to be Andrew Tate meets Nick Fuentes ten times.

As an aside, it's important to realize that the ACP is very good at making itself look like it's bigger and doing more than it actually is. The actual membership numbers are out there if you look for them, and they're not particularly impressive, with growth falling off the further you get into 2025.