/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.

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.

>>489119
Political nuance is just arguing about what flavor you want.


Also, stop blaming the Internet for your dilemma.


But otherwise, I sympathize with you.

I've been called a communist on right wing websites and fascist on left wing sites for having the following opinions:

1. Family planning should have mandatory screening and licensing

2. Schools should have mandatory entrance exams and life skill training curriculum

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>>489847
>1. Family planning should have mandatory screening and licensing
That's eugenics FYI

The problem with the internet is that everything happens in public, and as such, people are more interested in propagandizing than discussing. Go to ogre if you want to see some particularly nasty cases of it. I've tried starting multiple discussions there, and it pretty much always devolves into "$idea is random_term() random term() you random_term random_term()".

The only solution is to either find a heavily moderated community with rules in place to keep discussion in good faith, or to talk with people in real life. Otherwise, you're going to get nowhere fast.

>yelled at for complaining about forced diversity
>yelled at for supporting immigrants
Yeah, because you can't complain about one and then support the other. Under the current system, immigration IS forced diversity, since no one actually voted for it.

>yelled at for complaining about feminazis
>yelled at for supporting LGBT
Yeah, cause they both operate on fear, which is a fascist tactic.

You're just retarded.

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

>>489844
This really looks like the beginning of Nazi-style concentration camps

Two people shot and killed while trying to reach aid centre in Rafah

Israeli forces have fired on a group of people trying to reach an aid centre near Rafah, killing at least two, reports the Wafa news agency.

Dozens more were wounded, report our colleagues on the ground.

The scene mirrors events from yesterday, when Israeli troops also fired on Palestinians trying to access newly established aid centres, wounding at least 20.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/31/live-israel-kills-2-gaza-aid-seekers-as-un-warns-of-catastrophic

Doctor who lost 9 of 10 children in Israeli attack dies in hospital

Hamdi al-Najjar, who was wounded in the Israeli air attack that killed his children, has died of his wounds.

Al-Najjar spent days in intensive care.
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>>489850
>‘World is watching’: UN experts demand safe passage for Freedom Flotilla
>Thunberg as well as Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham are among those joining the mission, which set sail from Italy on Sunday.
Are the Zionist going to murder Climate Girl ?

Anyway the people on this boat are very brave and righteous. I wish them well and a brutal death to everybody that stands in their way.

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

>>489516
So they smoked the napkin ?
Sorry i couldn't resist.

Anyway maybe it says something that everybody found it plausible that these people were on drugs.

I'm more inclined to believe the Z-Man is doing coke and other drugs all the time. You know the first thing that guy does every day when he gets up is takes some amphetamines.

>>489538
TheLensky doing speed ? Yeah that's quite possible.

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.

>>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.

>>488861
>the current Russian president made his initial political career unfucking the Russian economy by switching it from neo-liberal shock-doctrine capitalism to state capitalism
No, he switched it into paternalistic conservatism with a corrupt welfare state that is quickly getting replaced by insurance companies and private business.

>>488863
I dunno anon, the Russian war economy is really looking an awful lot like state capitalism again. Just like the state capitalism of the German Empire.

>>488864
>I dunno anon, the Russian war economy is really looking an awful lot like state capitalism again.
Mixed economy is not "state capitalism." Russia has a very strong private sector. Sure, there are welfare and the public sector but they're so fucked and underfunded that many people would rather pay money to private businesses. Many public buildings that aren't in major cities like Moscow or Saint-Petersburg or whatever weren't renovated in decades, their paint literally wears off. But living in a major city is expensive as fuck so not that different from the US. People are forced to go into a giant dept just to own an apartment (again, not that different from the US).

>>488865 (me)
I mean, I'm not saying it's Mordor or whatever. It's not LDPR. But still, Russia has paternalistic conservatism, poor public sector and expensive housing. It is what it is.

>>488824
I saw this great breakdown recently:
>The DNC is like a corrupt corporation. Top down leadership. Great Public Relations. The GOP is like a mafia high table. Bottom up leadership. They follow whoever has the best scheme. They say the quiet part out loud. Both want essentially the same thing.

I think this is an interesting way of explaining how the process is different even though the end goal may be similar.

Literally who?