/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>487961
I was born in houston texas and this was common in the local jail in Harris county from what people told me. "The gladiator tank" was the name for the youth tank because specifically guards would take bets on who would win fights, start fights, etc etc.

>>487964
Jesus
When was that?

Google tells Trump’s DOJ that forcing a Chrome sale would harm national security

Google is no stranger to antitrust scrutiny, but the walls may be closing in. As the next phase of Google's search trial nears, the company's lawyers have reportedly met with representatives from the US Department of Justice in hopes of heading off a breakup. Google is reportedly pushing the argument that forcing it to spin off parts of the business and limit certain investments would constitute a national security threat.

Google's antitrust situation got much worse this past August when it lost the long-running case targeting its search business. With Google branded yet again as a monopolist, the DOJ asked for stiff penalties, seeking to have US District Judge Amit Mehta force Google to sell its popular Chrome browser and end payments for search engine placement with other firms.

According to Bloomberg, Google met with the DOJ team last week to make the case for a lighter regulatory touch. Specifically, Google has stepped up its claims that forcing it to spin-off Chrome and limit AI investments could harm US national security, as well as security at the user level.

"We routinely meet with regulators, including with the DOJ, to discuss this case," says Google's Peter Schottenfels. "As we’ve publicly said, we’re concerned the current proposals would harm the American economy and national security."

Google refused to provide specifics about how its control of search supports national security. However, it has previously suggested that Android and Chrome would be less secure because Google invests in updates that may not happen as frequently without Google backing.

It's not hard to see how splitting up a company that is so foundational to the Internet could have unintended consequences. The sheer scale of Google brings with it some synergies, allowing it to create an interconnected security apparatus across all its products—including Chrome. That said, companies don't need to be sprawling Internet behemoths to have functional security. Mozilla's track record with Firefox is no worse than megacorporations like Google.

The government's 2024 request also sought to have Google's investment in AI firms curtailed even though this isn't directly related to search. If, like Google, you believe leadership in AI is important to the future of the world, limiting its investments could also affect national security. But in November, Mehta suggested he was open to considering AI remedies because “the recent emergence of AI products that are intended to mimic the functionality of search engines” is rapidly shifting the search market.

This perspective could be more likely to find supporters in the newly AI-obsessed US government with a rapidly changing Department of Justice. However, the DOJ has thus far opposed allowing AI firm Anthropic to participate in the case after it recently tried to intervene. Anthropic has received $3 billion worth of investments from Google, including $1 billion in January.

read more: https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/google-cites-national-security-as-it-urges-doj-to-drop-demand-for-breakup/

>>487961
And people complain about society being youth oriented and giving too much freedom to them.

This is what happens when you extend childhood past age thirteen and ban them from working.

https://x.com/KenCutty_/status/1897395347267493977
Winter Haven Police Department with German Shepard, handcuffs toddler and mother in Florida

They've since issued a statement to do damage control on this, saying that the little girl is actually not handcuffed. As you can see it's actually a totally normal scene!

https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1900312202160001211
BREAKING: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress today that he signed an agreement to work with DOGE to cut jobs and spending.

The USPS is planning to eliminate 10,000 jobs in the next 30 days through a "voluntary early retirement" program.

BTW Trump appointed this guy during his first term to wreck the USPS and Biden never fired him.

UMass disbands its entering biomed graduate class over Trump funding chaos

With federal research funding imperiled by brutal cuts under the Trump administration, biomedical graduate programs nationwide are making tough decisions that will scale back the next generation of scientists.

On Wednesday, news broke that UMass Chan Medical School—a public school in the University of Massachusetts system—has rescinded all offers of admission to biomedical graduate students for the 2025–2026 school year. That means an entire class of future scientists has been wiped out. Those who were initially accepted to the program can try to join again in a future cycle under a priority consideration that won't require them to reapply, according to a letter sent to a previously admitted student that was shared on social media.

In a statement provided to NBC10 Boston, a spokesperson for the school confirmed that several dozen applicants had their acceptance offers rescinded. "With uncertainties related to the funding of biomedical research in this country, this difficult decision was made to ensure that our current students’ progress is not disrupted by the funding cuts and that we avoid matriculating students who may not have robust opportunities for dissertation research," the statement reads.

Rachael Sirianni, a biomedical engineer in the Department of Neurological Surgery at UMass Chan Medical School who works on treatments for pediatric brain tumors, called the situation "heartbreaking." Writing on Bluesky, Sirianni called it "a terrible loss for students. But it’s also a loss for all of science. Science *runs* on grad student labor." But, she added: "Public medical schools have no other choice; there is no other source of funding, and everyone in academia is at extreme risk right now."

Cuts across the country

UMass is the latest biomedical graduate program to make news for cutbacks amid the Trump administration's new policies. The administration has halted new grant funding and is trying to radically cut support for so-called "indirect" research costs, which cover maintaining laboratory space and administrative functions, among other things. The cut has been temporarily put on hold amid a legal battle.

Many schools are now bracing for steep declines in support. At Duke University, administrators have implemented hiring freezes, scaled back research plans, and will cut the number of admitted biomedical PhD students by 23 percent or more, according to reporting by the Associated Press. The school took in $580 million in grants and contracts from the National Institutes of Health last year.

read more: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/umass-disbands-its-entering-biomed-graduate-class-over-trump-funding-chaos/

>>488140
The other big one is the failure from the media and public to resist the contraction of civil liberties against pipeline protestors.

>>488140
>we are going to see more and more conspiracy and terrorism charges for protest activity of all kinds.
That is unfortunately so, but every-time they do this, they erode a bit of political legitimacy, eventually this will go the way of blasphemy chargers.

>>488155
Don't assume. It takes action to actually stop and reverse this. The leaders are criminally complicit and they control the most powerful military and propaganda apparatus in the world.

>>488156
>It takes action to actually stop and reverse this.
True, but once they "ruined" terrorism-accusations and everybody knows it's a which-hunt, it'll get a lot easier to reverse this trend and a lot harder for them to continue on it.

>The leaders are criminally complicit and they control the most powerful military and propaganda apparatus in the world.
Propaganda only works up to a point. Saying student-protests are terrorism, isn't convincing people unless they have other motives to go along with this. And ruling classes never have unconditional loyalty from their military.

>>488157
Yeah, but, you are forgetting that the DOJ is controlled by trump under the watch of his sycophants. I expect things to get really bad for anyone who is not part of the maga crowd or at least part of the republican right wing.

Your determination about propaganda is correct, but, also, again, we are not dealing with normal people. These people aren't propagandized, the maga ones, they are literally in a cult.

>>488162
I don't even put it down to MAGAs - the pool of people who don't buy the bullshit is huge, even plenty of MAGAs see through it. The problem is that the politicians, fully complicit, still have the military, the cops, the finance, the advanced weapons, the surveillance, and propaganda which, even if it doesn't fool people into thinking Israel isn't a genocidal state, will still be put to the maximum effect to confuse people and turn them against one another rather than against their common enemy.

Why are Trump's staffers terrified of Elon Musk?
Is it his disgusting body?

>>488164
I don't think your assesment of maga is accurate. I live and work in a rurual community in a local factory and these people are literally pants on head retarded.

>>488165
Because they are cowards.

Trump says he was being a sarcastic when he said he'd end the Ukraine war in 24 hours.

>>488174
Lol, Trump is coping so hard. I guess having a neutral day on the stock market is good in his book.

Unusual Whales: "The US government will no longer require shell companies to disclose their owners and beneficiaries, per the US Treasury"

How does a person like this wake up every day and look themselves in the mirror?

>>488207
Do elaborate, she looks like some random spokes person.

Phone calls to NC Senator Tom Tillis a couple minutes in. Highly recommended, great listening

Glenn Greenwald - "The Trump administration is not deporting illegal immigrants back to the countries where they came from—it is sending them to a mega-jail in El Salvador, where they have little to no chance of leaving for the rest of their lives."

Hearing that the JFK files release today has so far just been stuff that was already released, like with the Epstein files "release" previously where they just handed heavily redacted versions of previously released files in binders to a bunch of grinning Zionists and did a photo op.

>>488242
I'm not up to speed, is this about the Kennedy assassination ? It's been long enough that you'd expect the truth would be coming to light.

What do you suppose is the purpose of those, lets call it 'empty releases' ?

>>488244
>I'm not up to speed, is this about the Kennedy assassination ?
Yes.

>What do you suppose is the purpose of those, lets call it 'empty releases' ?
To obscure while providing a big spectacle.

Although apparently they did un-redacted some stuff this time. I have no idea how much exactly. Per Wikileaks:

CIA suppressed top officer James Jesus Angleton's connection to Israeli intelligence as shown by this newly unredacted JFK assassination records file.

Angleton had subverted JFK's policy of preventing Israel from acquiring nuclear weapons and was praised by Mossad head Meir Amit as "the biggest Zionist of them all". Angleton was also found to have hidden documents from the Warren Commission on the assassination of President Kennedy.

Shortly before he died, Angleton stated "The better you lied and the more you betrayed, the more likely you would be promoted… outside of their duplicity, the only thing they had in common was a desire for absolute power."

The file was previously "released" in 2017, 2018 and 2022 in redacted form.

>>488246
>To obscure while providing a big spectacle.
I get the impression that this trick isn't working, am i too optimistic ?

>JFK's policy of preventing Israel from acquiring nuclear weapons
Damn, when you realize there was a better timeline.

>>488246
The whole point of releasing this shit to begin with was to discredit Dr King because Trump is a racist pos. There never was any conspiracy about JFK it was always just consumer slop ment to cause fear and anxiety so the piggies would swallow up the slop. In the files a lot of shit king did that was less that desierable is unveiled mainly caused by the CIA trying to literally get him to kill himself. Non the less the media illiteracy in the country will probably be used to discredit King.

>>488270
>There never was any conspiracy about JFK
Really ?
You have a coincidence theory ?

>In the files a lot of shit king did that was less that desierable is unveiled
So the point is smearing MLK ?

>>487968
>This is what happens when you extend childhood past age thirteen and ban them from working.

I mean… isn't the point for them to get an education? Ideally I mean. An educated workforce and all that.

>>488157

I don't know, man. Did you see that poll in which they immediately changed their programing about Zelenski? These are basically lizard people in a cult.

>>488156
>Don't assume. It takes action to actually stop and reverse this. The leaders are criminally complicit and they control the most powerful military and propaganda apparatus in the world.

I agree. People need to stop expecting that those at the top will do anything, or that the "fever will break" Nothing short of a general strike or… you know, will stop this.

>>487837

I don't think I agree. As precarious as it is, Ukraine has probably never been in a better bargaining position. Not only they captured some Russian soil, but they've also gotten pretty good at hitting targets within Russia without the help of the west.

>>488276
>but they've also gotten pretty good at hitting targets within Russia without the help of the west
As evidenced by the fact that missile strikes within Russia almost entirely ceased the moment Trump cut off US intelligence assistance.

>>488271
Essentially yes, Trump is a racist pos.

>>488274
>I don't know, man. Did you see that poll in which they immediately changed their programing about Zelenski? These are basically lizard people in a cult.
I haven't seen that poll so I'm out of context. But in general, there is a type of propaganda echo chamber, that contains the careless opinions. This is about topics people lack any interest or motivation to put any effort into knowing stuff. Zelenski-opinions are for the most part such careless opinions , because it doesn't affect people if what they know about Zelenski is wrong. And for that reason careless opinions are just a type of noise people make where they repeat the same noises they hear in their environment.

Propagandists often celebrate this as brainwashing wins, but careless opinions do not form the bases for anything real. As soon as people have to use information to make decisions, the effect of manipulating careless opinions is almost nonexistent.

So if you can see them flip the narrative about Zelenski, that means people didn't gave a shit in the first place.

>>488276
>As precarious as it is, Ukraine has probably never been in a better bargaining position
It appears that Ukraine isn't even at the bargaining table, it seems to be that the US and Russia are going to decide Ukraine's future.

>Not only they captured some Russian soil,
The Kursk incursion doesn't represent a bargaining chip imho, because the Ukrainians are not able to hold on to it. It's unlikely the Russians would choose to bargain for territory they can recapture. Last i heard about this was when the Russians said they would consider Ukrainian soldier in Kursk as terrorists rather than prisoners of war and the US was bargaining with the Russians to not just liquidate those men.

>but they've also gotten pretty good at hitting targets within Russia without the help of the west.
The Ukrainians did manage to shoot drones and stuff into Russia, but not at a scale where it causes lots of disruptions, so mostly militarily ineffective. I think the intended purpose of those attacks was about torpedoing diplomatic efforts, and to create a false appearance that Ukraine was on the offensive.

From the people that brought you The Great Recession:

Wells Fargo envisions a postal service where the mail is kept as a taxpayer-funded government entity while the package and parcel components, which are more profitable, are “sold or IPOed.” In order for the new private company to earn a decent profit, “USPS would need to raise prices by ~30-140% across its product line.”

A privatized postal system would also take aim at the Universal Service Obligation, which requires mail to be delivered to every address six days a week. Such dedication to equitable service “would be a challenge for a third-party operator to profitably move mail and packages,” the memo complains. This move would also put pressure on the proposed mail-only service, which would likely be financially hobbled, to downgrade from six-day delivery as well.

DOGE’s assault on federal workers has seemingly given Wells Fargo inspiration. Citing “recent DOGE efforts on federal cost control,” it recommends that postal employees be given a “deferred buyout offer to leave or layoffs could ensue.” Taking a page from the UK’s Royal Mail privatization in 2013, it suggests that the government take over all pension liabilities and not offer them to workers at the new private company.

With surprising candor, the memo admits that privatization will cause “less job security amid inevitable loss of union protections, loss of pension benefits, higher healthcare costs and employee/wage restructuring.”

With post offices in every zip code, it’s not surprising that Wells Fargo is also looking at real estate as a major source of profit. The company estimates the real estate value for the USPS to be as much as $88 billion. This includes “smaller post office facilities” Wells Fargo would love to sell off or lease. These post offices serve as critical pieces of public infrastructure, especially in small towns and rural areas.

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/wells-fargo-usps-privatization-trump

US doing full time comedy bits at this point. Here Marco Rubio goes to Jamaica and smears Cuban doctors in a hurried, slurred frenzy of lies which are later shut down by the Jamaican prime minister in a very sober rebuke in which he also subtly alludes to the brain drain migration of Jamaican doctors to richer countries like the US.

Kyle Kucklinski on the continued stock apocalypse.

>>488374
Why does he say that the "stock-line go down" is bad for workers ?
Haven't the conditions for workers also gotten worse when the "stock-line went up" ?

>>488386
Idk it's Kyle Kulinski he says stuff like that lol
Although usually there's some correlation between stock markets going to shit and the rest of the economy being shit. It's true that it's not always the case.

>>488386
Because when it go down people loose their jobs. When it go up people have work, but, ofc course broader marxist analysis applies. The stock market is basically a representation of real time labor exploitation.

>>488387
>>488388
I'm feeling skeptical about this.

In the last few years (up until recently) the stock market did pretty well, and yet conditions for workers did not improve. If anything it got a little worse.

The Marxist perspective is that when the worker succeed in class struggle their material conditions improve. I think that matters more than stonks.

https://x.com/TrueAnonPod/status/1886185893888774509
Is Ross Glick some kind of op to give other Zionist organizations someone they can point to and be like "Oh! You think I'm bad? Look at this guy!" ?