Catalog (/sfw/)

Is sampling inspired by funk's call-and-response?

/draw/ Drawing and visual art general №1

Post your drawings and studies here.

Video Tutorials:
Proko - https://www.youtube.com/user/ProkoTV
Sinix - https://www.youtube.com/user/sinixdesign
Scott Robertson - https://www.youtube.com/user/scottrobertsondesign
Matt Kohr (CtrlPaint) - https://www.ctrlpaint.com/library
Aaron Blaise https://www.youtube.com/user/AaronBlaiseArt

Poses/Gestures
QuickPoses - https://www.quickposes.com/en
PoseSpace - https://www.posespace.com/posetool/default.aspx

Music

Only post bops.

Garage Rock

Thread for rock of the garage variety.

Post sexy aliens.

My thoughts on AI

I believe both sides can be quite extreme so here's my balanced take:
>supplementary use of AI (chatbots, TTS, NPCs, enemy AI, RPGs, level generation, self-driving cars, AI assistants and code generation) are pretty based actually as long as they produce correct outputs and don't get you into any legal trouble
>non-commercial use of AI is also fine and can create something unique and interesting (memes, AI covers, AI dubbing)
>AI art is mostly slop except for some rare exceptions so people should at least be able to easily filter it and it should be marked appropriately
>commercial use of AI other than what was already mentioned is NOT cool and leads to more layoffs, more enshittification, more plagiarism and more mass surveillance
>proprietary AI software is ALSO not cool since it can be spyware that sends your data to the NSA

>101 Dalmatians live-action
>Beauty and the Beast live-action
>The Jungle Book live-action
>The Lion King live-action
>Alladin live-action
>Dumbo live-action
>Mulan live-action
>The Little Mermaid live-action
<no Cars live-action
Disney, wtf? Of all the cartoons to base a live-action remake on you didn't choose one of the most obvious ones? It could've been something actually refreshing. The plot wouldn't change but at least it'd be something interesting. 90% of them aren't even good, such a waste of money, talent and resources.

Psychedelic Rock

Thread for psychedelic rock

Folk music

Anyone fond of it?

Chemical inferno in Georgia

A biolab exploded in Conyers, Georgia the other day. According to Jordan Chariton, it's now leaving 90,000 Georgia residents sheltering in place. Chlorine gas going into the air, 32 miles from Atlanta. This is after hurricane Helene just came just came through, and damage and flooding from Helene is still terrible in the southeastern states of Tennessee and North Carolina.

Earlier this year, Atlanta's neglected water infrastructure broke, leaving a huge part of the city without water for days. A lot of commentators are contrasting the dangerous deregulation of industry and middling response to Helene with the eagerness of the Biden admin to send billions to support the genocide in Palestine and brutal war in Ukraine.

Palestine Thread Pt. VIII

Continued from >>487384

Updates and current status since the start of the last thread:
The (largely civilian) Palestinian death toll has now passed 61,000. Excess deaths have been estimated by The Lancet to plausibly be upwards of 186,000.

In early January 2025, Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange. Despite all of the killing, Hamas's military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, appears to have largely replenished its numbers. Israel proceeded to violate the ceasefire with airstrikes and a resumption of their illegal blockade of Gaza before resuming full-scale attacks in March and destroying the ceasefire entirely.

Israel has continued to violate the ceasefire with Lebanon more than 600 times, and has refused to leave the country entirely after multiple delays. After months of the IDF violating the ceasefire in the south of Lebanon, Israel returned to bombing Beirut in March.

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by US-backed al-Qaeda operatives. Israel proceeded to steal more land from Syria and launched a massive bombing campaign on Syria and Syria's arsenal without any resistance. Meanwhile, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the leader of HTS and current de facto leader of Syria, has launched attacks on Lebanon and attacked Palestinian liberation factions within Syria.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICC also issued warrants against Hamas leaders.

Following the warrants, the Biden administration invited Yoav Gallant to the White House.

Benjamin Netanyahu was invited back to the White House for February 4th, 2025.

Israel has launched more attacks on the West Bank, and unilaterally broke the US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, refusing to move on to phase two of the deal.

More countries have joined South Africa's legal case at the International Court of Justice against Israel for the crime of genocide. Cuba, Ireland, Belize, Palestine, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Libya, Chile, and Colombia have joined the South African case against Israel. Egypt, Belgium, and Maldives have also declared their intention to join. Nicaragua has withdrawn from the case.

Yemeni Houthi attacks on international shipping, in solidarity with Gaza, stopped in accordance with the ceasefire, following multiple successful Yemeni strikes on targets in Israel. After the resumption of the blockade on Gaza by Israel, Yemen's Ansar Allah stated that they would resume attacking Israeli shipping. Following this statement, the US, under Trump, resumed bombing Yemen, hitting multiple civilian targets. Yemen has launched multiple attacks on Israel since this bombing campaign began against them, as well as launching defensive attacks against the US Navy in response.

Demonstrators have continued to blockade and damage arms factories manufacturing weapons for Israel in the UK.

The US gov't continued shipping weapons to Israel, in violation of US law.

The new US administration has started unlawfully abducting students for protest and opposition to genocide. The administration has threatened to deport these students, and has gone after university funding in an effort to suppress anti-genocide speech on campuses and control the narrative.

Israel attacked a Freedom Flotilla boat near Malta for trying to break the illegal blockade of Gaza.

And much, much more!

Hi I am from the soysphere and I’m wondering if there could be a /leftysoy/ board here.
Context: https://wiki.soyjak.st/Leftysoy/

The board formerly existed on soyjak.st until it was eventually deleted because of bourgeoisiecucks, I have also been exiled from the new administration on the site and some of the soysphere for bullshit reasons.

I would like a new /leftysoy/ and I think it would bring in many users for the site too

Why is Putin compared to Hitler instead of Il Duche?

<Uhm, I promise, uhm, to the multinational Russian people, uhm, that the trains, um, WILL go on time.

Western pop culture does (not) suck

I'm tired of weebs shitting on Western pop culture. What excuse do these mfs have to shit on Western pop culture if they themselves watch some mediocre harem and isekai slop? Western pop culture isn't bad, we have a rich back catalog of great Western works waiting for us to discover them. Neither did it become worse, all the good and promising talent just went into the indie and AA segments so basically the West sorta relies on doujin circles for releasing great games, comics, cartoons and music which is fairly unique to it compared to the Far East. And even AAA game studios, Netflix and cartoon channels, with all their DEI, dwindling quality and appeals to the lowest common denominator, still occasionally produce some bangers (CDPR, Rockstar, id Software, MachineGames, io Interactive and [adult swim] still look promising despite all the fuckups).

So here's my message to the weeaboos: stop shitting on something you don't understand and having a superiority complex because you watch moe girls flashing their panties and jiggling their tits on-screen. Sure, Western pop culture is in its late-capitalist casual-friendly pandering enshittification phase but it's not all doom and gloom, even though it used to be better when it comes to the mainstream pop culture. Or maybe it became too mainstream so the indie scene is sort of a counterbalance to that? Remember how gamers were often bullied for their hobby? Now everyone and your dad plays video games and it obviously affects their quality.

/leftyco/

Seeing how there’s multiple /co/ related threads on the board. I think we should just put all of them into one general just for clarity’s sake.

Discuss anything related to comics and animations from comic recs, leftist animations to comic writers’ attempts to larp as leftists.

Seriously is there a worse anarchist in the UK than Alan Moore?

Black Metal thread

Thread for kvlt shit

king crimson / prog

thought i'd finally put this image i made ages ago to use. any KC fans / progheads here?

First Wave Black Metal Thread

Thread for the thinking man's music.
(speed-black metal / blackened thrash / oldschool first wave black metal / etc.)

USApol Thread

Big massive thread for American politics.

Radlibs are trying to cancel FSF and Stallman

I know I am a little bit late to the party with this but some "anonymous" group tried to cancel rms and the FSF as well: archive.md/Pt37W (stallman-report.org). It's the usual shit: whining about Stallman's comments on Epstein, supposed "sexual harassment" etc. Basically, the author calls for Stallman to step down from the FSF and/or for FSF members to take him down.

It is already known who wrote this "report": Drew DeVault, a developer who worked (or still works?) on Wayland. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41859793

What do you think of 9/11?

is this /WRK/ culture?

Sanrio / Miffy / kawaii popular culture thread

'Sanrio' ('Hello Kitty', etc.) / 'Miffy' / 'kawaii popular culture' thread

Gothic Rock & Post-Punk

Substituted psychedelia for a doomed planet.

Big dumb pub hard rock

Punchy music for punching.

Mahmoud Khalil forced disappearance thread

On March 9, 2025, US permanent resident and Columbia University graduate student was abducted without charge or trial and sent off to a shady Louisiana site on White House orders over his protests for Columbia to divest from Israel's war crimes.

From DropSite:

NEW YORK CITY—On Saturday night, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents entered a student residential building at Columbia University in uptown New York and detained Mahmoud Khalil, one of the lead negotiators on behalf of pro-Palestine protesters at 2024’s Gaza solidarity encampment. In a sweeping attack on the First Amendment, the Trump administration said this week it would begin revoking visas of “Hamas sympathizers,” specifically citing Columbia University students. The detention followed a two-day targeted online campaign against Khalil by pro-Israel groups and individuals, including Columbia’s high-profile pro-Israel professor, Shai Davidai.

Khalil, an Algerian citizen of Palestinian origin and an American green-card holder, was detained by DHS officials around half past eight as he was entering the Columbia residential building he lives in. He was returning from an iftar, breaking the day-long fast observed by many Muslims during the month of Ramadan.

Khalil’s wife, who is eight months pregnant, was with him at the time. A statement by the pro-Palestine group Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) stated that he was “abducted and detained without the physical demonstration of a warrant or officially filed charges.”

Khalil was detained at a DHS facility in New Jersey, according to a database for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But when his wife went to try and visit him she was informed he was not there. "He is not at the ICE facility in New Jersey. I can confirm he is not there,” Khalil’s attorney Amy Greer told Drop Site. "At this time, we have an idea [where he is] but we cannot confirm that 100%.”

According to WAWOG, the DHS agents told Khalil that the U.S. Department of State had revoked his student visa. The group said this was “despite the fact that he has a green card, not a visa, and is a lawful permanent resident.”

In response to a request for comment from Drop Site, the DHS first stated, “You need to reach out to the White House.”

On Sunday evening, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin sent a follow-up statement confirming ICE “arrested” Khalil “for activities aligned to Hamas”: “On March 9, 2025, in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism, and in coordination with the Department of State, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student,” McLaughlin wrote. “Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. ICE and the Department of State are committed to enforcing President Trump’s executive orders and to protecting U.S. national security.”

McLaughlin did not answer questions about where Khalil is being held.

Columbia University directed Drop Site to a statement on their website. The statement, dated March 9, reads, "There have been reports of ICE around campus. Columbia has and will continue to follow the law. Consistent with our longstanding practice and the practice of cities and institutions throughout the country, law enforcement must have a judicial warrant to enter non-public University areas, including University buildings. Columbia is committed to complying with all legal obligations and supporting our student body and campus community."

Khalil’s wife was unlocking the door to the building when “two plainclothes DHS agents forced their way in behind them.” They initially refused to identify themselves, she reported, but then threatened Khalil’s wife that if she remained with him, she would be detained too.

On Wednesday, Khalil was among the protesters at a sit-in at Milstein Library in Columbia University’s Barnard College, protesting the recent expulsion of three Barnard students over pro-Palestine activism. New York Police Department officers later arrested nine individuals from the same protest—the third round of arrests of pro-Palestine demonstrators on Columbia’s campuses in the past year.

Over the course of Thursday and Friday, several prominent pro-Israel groups and individuals published a series of tweets targeting Khalil, mentioning his presence at the sit-in on Wednesday and his history as a lead negotiator with Columbia in April 2024, and demanded that the Trump administration act strongly against him by revoking his visa and deporting him. They tagged President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and US Attorney General Pam Bondi.

read more: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detains-columbia-university-student-gaza

Death Stranding thread

Death Stranding thread

Ukraine 3.0

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

Pro-Ukraine sources:
Everywhere else

/leftypol/ Minecraft Server

To join:
>open minecraft
>multiplayer
>add server
>use address leftypol.aternos.me and name it whatever you want
If it's offline you can log in to the public-use aternos.org account leftypoluser to turn the server on.
The password for that account is bunkercelsBTFO
Reminder to bump the thread if you bring the server online so other players will see.

Mode: Survival
World Type: Large Biomes
Pirate Friendly: Yes

Speed Metal Hell

YOU KNOW WHAT FUCKING TIME IT IS

News 5/13/25

US spent $1bn bombing Yemen but failed to gain air superiority, says report
Citing Washington officials, a report on Monday stated that the Yemeni group shot down numerous American MQ Reaper drones and fired at naval ships in the Red Sea right up until the moment a truce was agreed.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-spent-bombing-yemen-failed-gain-air-superiority-says-report

Trump orders removal of US sanctions on Syria
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would order the lifting of sanctions on Syria at the behest of Saudi Arabia's crown prince, in a huge boost for interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa as he seeks to stabilise a country shattered by war.
https://www.newarab.com/news/trump-orders-removal-us-sanctions-syria

Israel bombs two Gaza hospitals, killing at least 18 Palestinians
Nine Israeli missiles have slammed into and around the courtyard of the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing at least 16 people and wounding 70, the enclave’s Ministry of Health says, in the second deadly bombardment of a medical facility in the city since dawn.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/13/palestinian-journalist-among-two-killed-in-israeli-attack-on-gaza-hospital
https://archive.ph/1Ypf2

Fuel crisis and civilian fears mount as drones continue to strike eastern Sudan
Drone strikes hit the eastern Sudanese cities of Port Sudan and Kassala on Wednesday, with renewed attacks fuelling concern over a worsening crisis in one of the country’s few remaining safe areas. The renewed attacks, which began at dawn and resumed in the evening, targeted the naval base in Port Sudan, capital of the Red Seas state.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/fuel-crisis-and-civilian-fears-mount-as-drones-continue-to-strike-eastern-sudan

Uganda's parliament introduces bill to let military courts try civilians
The top court's January verdict forced the government to transfer the trial of opposition politician and former presidential candidate Kizza Besigye to a civilian court, where state prosecutors have charged him with several crimes including treason.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ugandas-parliament-introduces-bill-let-military-courts-try-civilians-2025-05-13/

A 21-year-old man has been arrested over suspected arson attacks on two properties linked to Starmer
A 21-YEAR-OLD man was arrested today by police investigating suspected arson attacks on properties and a car linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. The Metropolitan Police said the suspect was arrested in the early hours on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/21-year-old-man-has-been-arrested-over-suspected-arson-attacks-two-properties-linked

Germany bans major part of far-right movement seeking to undermine state
The interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, said the KRD, which estimates it has 6,000 members, had created a “counter-state” in Germany and established “criminal economic structures” that challenged the rule of law and the justice system.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/13/ban-major-part-of-far-right-movement-kingdom-of-germany-seeking-to-undermine-state

Indian border villagers want recompense for damages in Pakistan clashes
Hundreds of villagers evacuated their homes as the rivals targeted each other's military installations with missiles and drones, killing about 70 civilians, after New Delhi struck what it called terrorist camps across the border.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indian-border-villagers-want-recompense-damages-pakistan-clashes-2025-05-13/

Nissan slashes 15% of its global work force as the Japan automaker sinks into losses
Nissan is slashing about 15% of its global work force, or about 20,000 employees, as the Japanese automaker reported a loss Tuesday for the fiscal year that just ended amid slipping vehicle sales in China and other nations, and towering restructuring costs.
https://apnews.com/article/nissan-automaker-japan-evs-tariffs-trump-66f8e4764bc33bc52b82f378d15b7f13

A year after deadly riots, New Caledonia’s president vows to address push for independence
One year after the deadly riots that ravaged Nouméa and shattered New Caledonia’s economy and social fabric, newly elected president Alcide Ponga faces a series of challenges including deep division over the territory’s political future – and the prospect of independence from France.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/13/new-caledonia-riots-one-year-on-president-alcide-ponga

'90s alt. rock nightmare thread

post it if you've got it.

Friends, let's unite again to fight the evil of this world. Anyone interested in fighting with me against the rot in the world, contact this email friend.h@proton.me.

News 5/12/25

Hamas frees soldier Edan Alexander as Gaza faces bombardment, famine risk
Despite the release, Israel has made no commitment to a broader ceasefire. “There’s nothing in exchange, no release of Palestinian prisoners, no pause in the fighting,” Salhut said. “If there are going to be any sort of negotiations, they’re going to happen under fire,” Salhut added, referring to the Israeli government’s prevailing line.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/12/hamas-frees-us-israeli-soldier-as-gaza-faces-bombardment-risk-of-famine
https://archive.ph/jLxBR

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish parties call for rights as PKK agrees to disarm
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) appears to be moving toward disarmament and dissolution following its 12th congress earlier this week, fueling cautious optimism among pro-Kurdish parties in Turkey for a peaceful resolution to the decades-long conflict between the PKK and the Turkish state, and a renewed momentum for advancing Kurdish rights through political means.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/11052025
https://archive.ph/3qFIH

Government votes to legally nullify any Palestinian efforts to register land in majority of the West Bank
On Sunday, the Israeli cabinet agreed that in Area C, Israel would now make all decisions about land, and any Palestinian efforts to recognise land using its own land registry would be legally void. … Israel Katz, Israel’s defence minister, said the move would lead to the “strengthening, consolidation and expansion” of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-take-full-control-land-registry-area-c-annexation

Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' in Iraq and Afghanistan
The new testimony includes allegations of war crimes stretching over more than a decade, far longer than the three years currently being examined by a judge-led public inquiry in the UK.
https://shafaq.com/en/Iraq/Ex-UK-Special-Forces-break-silence-on-war-crimes-in-Iraq-and-Afghanistan

Starmer ‘horrified’ Lanarkshire steel-making mothballed
The Prime Minister made the remarks after workers were placed on furlough at Clydebridge and Dalzell, plants which have struggled for orders since they were bought by the steel company Liberty House Group, itself owned by the multinational GFG Alliance, in 2016 — with the help of a £7 million Scottish government loan.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmer-horrified-lanarkshire-steel-making-mothballed

Albanian preliminary election results show Socialists in the lead
With more than half of the votes counted, Rama’s left-wing Socialists got 53% of the votes, followed by the opposition center-right Democratic Party-led coalition of Sali Berisha with 34%. Three other small parties will take a few seats.
https://apnews.com/article/albania-parliament-election-socialists-european-union-b627345cb719560e800d1bea02053e2b

Wildfires in Zabaikalsky Region Spread Rapidly Amid Strong Wind and Dry Weather
Experts attribute most of Russia’s wildfires this year to human activity, such as dry grass burning near villages. Other contributing factors include a lack of snow cover and an early spring. … At least three firefighters have been killed while battling the blazes. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/12/wildfires-in-zabaikalsky-region-spread-rapidly-amid-strong-wind-and-dry-weather-a89049
https://archive.ph/ctDmx

Australian construction union boss vows to impose Labor’s restructure plan
The document states that “national ‘capitation’ arrangements,” that is, how much of members’ dues and other union income collected by the state branches is sent to the national office, “will change.” Training for union delegates, shop stewards and organisers would be centralised, while the direction of media, communications and campaigns would also be controlled by the national office.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/12/qxct-m12.html

'Fighting is more frequent now': Human rights researcher warns of escalating conflict in West Papua
The escalation of violence in West Papua is on par with some of the most intense times of conflict over the past six decades, a human rights researcher says. The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) claims that Indonesia killed at least one civilian and severely injuring another on last Tuesday in Puncak Regency.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/560661/fighting-is-more-frequent-now-human-rights-researcher-warns-of-escalating-conflict-in-west-papua

US and China reach a deal to slash sky-high tariffs for now, with a 90-day pause
The deal lasts 90 days, creating time for U.S. and Chinese negotiators to reach a more substantive agreement. But the pause also leaves tariffs higher than before Trump started ramping them up last month. And businesses and investors must contend with uncertainty about whether the truce will last.
https://apnews.com/article/china-us-switzerland-tariffs-negotiations-b3f5174d086e39b2522ab848ddad9372

American Communist Party /ACP/ General

Party declaration:
https://x.com/ACPMain/status/1815163785134436404

The American Communist Party (ACP) is an organization which aims to reconstitute the historic Communist Party USA, which has become corrupted by federal agents and liberal forces. Look no further than Joe Sims, who supports the genocidal Democratic Party. It was launched in July of 2024, in response to the events of the 32nd Convention of the CPUSA. At this convention, party leadership subverted and betrayed democratic centralism and the freedom of critique which is supposed to follow from it. They claimed to be a genuine Marxist-Leninist party, but the leadership doesn't even follow their own rules. The CPUSA delayed all elections and without a vote made a resolution that they’d basically just campaign for Democrats. Just a bunch of boomers sitting around and writing articles about identity politics rather than organizing.

Already the ACP is far more successful than anyone would have expected from a brand new baby party. They are building reputation locally, taking care of their own communities and making areas safe for children and families to enjoy. Diplomatic ties on the international level have already been established. ACP has garnered more attention in the past couple months than the corrupt, decadent CPUSA leadership has in decades. A huge number of the CPUSA clubs across the entire country had a huge part in making this happen. Will you join up?

Website:
https://acp.us/

FIRE General Thread

Let's get a general thread about FIRE (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate). Include topics about crypto as well.

Revolutionary anime recommendations

.org already has a leftist anime thread so I thought that here we can go further. This thread is for all anime that is blatantly leftist. That means no allegories/metaphors/"vibes," no nationalist "anti-imperialism," no counter-revolutions, no progressivism, no liberalism and no guilt by association ("X is reactionary because reactionaries like it"). Go ahead and post your recommendations with an explanation why they're

Imperialist propaganda in anime

We all like to be uber-weebs who accept anime with all its weird quirks that movie critics would scoff at (Eva is a prime example of this) but some trope I will never get over is blatant imperialism in some anime. And I'm not just talking about some metaphorical imperialism like in AoT. I'm talking about the blatant imperialist apologia which the Fire Nation does in Avatar. I remember watching Kingdom and I could not believe my eyes. I have not seen an imperialist propaganda this blatant and shameless. Do you know any other examples? And is it symptomatic of seinen or you can find this bs in other demographics?

Keir Starmer

this fuckin piece of shit this no good fuckin walking genocidal goiter with hair & teeth
if this piece of shit showed up in my neighborhood I'd shove him in a garbage pail and throw it off the nearest cliff
I'm embarrassed to have even saved his pic for this thread I'm gonna immediately delete it after I post this

What do you think of him, /leftypol/?

PKK dissolved

OH NO NO NO
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/kurdish-pkk-dissolves-after-decades-struggle-with-turkey-news-agency-close-2025-05-12/
https://twitter-thread.com/t/1921817766069182475

BIJI SISTERS I DONT FEEL SO GOOD

Industry plants

Whom do you consider industry plants and why? Some artists who've been accused of being industry plants in recent years:
>Taylor Swift
>Lil Naz X
>Billie Eilish
>Kendrick Lamar and
>literally every K-pop artists ever
Some of the people who I consider industry plants are:
>Taylor Swift
>Sabrina Carpenter
>Dua Lipa
>Cardi B
>Ed Sheeran
>Justin Bieber
>most boy bands and
>most K-pop artists

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News 5/11/25

Norwegian unions vote for economic boycott of Israel
The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO), comprised of 21 affiliations, passed the motion last week at congress with the support of 88 per cent of delegates, as calls continue to grow for an international economic boycott of Israel.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/norwegian-unions-vote-economic-boycott-israel

Thousands march against immigration in Warsaw
Saturday’s event was organised by nationalist leader Robert Bąkiewicz, a former PiS parliamentary candidate and also previously the main organiser of the Independence March that takes place in Warsaw each November.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/11/thousands-march-against-immigration-in-warsaw/

Fragile ceasefire holds between India, Pakistan as Trump offers more help
A ceasefire between India and Pakistan was holding on Sunday after both sides blamed the other for initial violations, as U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to help the arch-rivals find a solution on the disputed Kashmir region.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/fragile-ceasefire-holds-between-india-pakistan-trump-offers-more-help-2025-05-11/

Bangladesh interim government bans former ruling party of Hasina
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the country’s other main political party, headed by former prime minister Khaleda Zia, had previously opposed the move to ban the Awami League. A post on the league’s official X account said on Sunday: “People no longer feel safe under Yunus,” denouncing the ban that “stoked division within society, strangled democratic norms, fuelled [an] ongoing pogrom against dissenters, strangled inclusivity [and] all undemocratic steps under [the] pretext of [addressing the] July-August violence and reform scheme.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bangladesh-interim-government-bans-former-ruling-party-hasina

Lebanon: Palestinian factions wary of Abbas disarmament plan
For the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the question of arms cannot be separated from the legacy of collective trauma and the politics of self-defence. "The issue of arms in the camps has not been formally placed on the agenda of the president’s visit, nor has it been raised through official channels," said Abdullah Dandan, the PFLP’s political relations officer in Lebanon.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/lebanon-palestinian-factions-wary-abbas-disarmament-plan

Hamas says it will release US-Israeli captive Edan Alexander
“Taiwan now has a registered population of 2.6 per cent indigenous, 1.2 per cent foreign and 96.2 per cent other population,” the page reads. According to Taiwanese media, the page previously said: “Taiwan’s current registered population is composed of Han Chinese as the largest ethnic group, accounting for 96.4 per cent of the total population.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/11/hamas-says-it-will-release-israeli-american-captive-edan-alexander
https://archive.ph/Hq1zH

No Han Chinese in Taiwan? KMT slams ‘denial of history’ on Executive Yuan web page
The revised web page of Taiwan’s top administrative body, the Executive Yuan, categorises Han Chinese – the overwhelming majority on both sides of the Taiwan Strait – as “other population”.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3309913/no-han-chinese-taiwan-kmt-slams-denial-history-executive-yuan-web-page?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/trWoe

South Korean conservative party fails in a bid to switch presidential candidates
Saturday’s chaotic U-turn, after a failed attempt to replace Kim with former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, underscored the People Power Party’s leadership crisis following the ouster of former President Yoon Suk Yeol over his martial law imposition in December, which possibly doomed the conservatives’ chances of winning another term in government.
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-election-conservative-party-candidates-cc3141d0582486c6199b62f25d37445a

Uruguay’s municipal elections: National Party dominates, Frente Amplio retains Montevideo
Uruguay’s 2025 municipal and departmental elections have concluded with the center-right National Party (Partido Nacional) maintaining its dominance across most of the country, while the left-wing Frente Amplio secured a clear victory in Montevideo, the capital.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/12/uruguay-s-municipal-elections-national-party-dominates-frente-amplio-retains-montevideo

Thirteen gold mine workers massacred in Peru
The killings, carried out by a gang at the La Poderosa gold mine, have ignited outrage across Peru. The kidnappers had demanded a ransom of 4 million soles (about US$1.1 million), which the mine owners ignored, effectively sentencing the miners to death.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/11/qtzu-m11.html

Bizarre accessories

Post bizarre/amuzing device accessories you found.

https://www.theverge.com/news/638284/dbrand-touch-grass-skin-tablet-smartphone-handheld-console
<April Fools’ 2025: Dbrand’s new skins let you ‘touch grass’ without the hassle of going outside
dbrand just committed WatchMojo and redeemed itself in my eyes.

I went on a road trip to area 51 last week.
AMA. FYI: We also hit up other spots./ We pretty much hit up the entire west coast. We hit up the four corners (Which is run by the Navaho community, apparently.) We also hit up Carlsbad cavern and went down south and had a craw fish boil. We Went to roswell also, but, area 51 was far more interesting. We went up to the gate after a crazy and grueling drive down a long ass dirt road in the middle of the nevada desert. The road to Tonopah. Btw the ride from Rachel to Tonopah is dangerous as hell. After the trip back from the gate we fucking saw them, we assume, testing air craft by mock dogfighting for a minute. We got a video but the video looks like dog shit.
We also saw a guy base jumping off this bridge in twinfalls and I have never been to a cave, so, carls bad was amazing. But Area 51 was just wild as shit. There were some pretty chill locals outthere, FYI.
Picsrel.

Upbeat Heavy Metal

Thread for upbeat & anthemic metal for lifting, cardio, etc.

I don't get kodomomuke

One type of manga and anime that I don't understand the appeal of is kodomomuke. Don't get me wrong, I can enjoy stuff made for children and adolescents: shonen, shojo, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon. But that's, like, preschool stuff, I cannot take it seriously at all. Do you guys read this kind of manga? What do you think?

Also, why is Yotsuba& shonen?

GTA VI trailer has leaked

Who else is hyped as fuck for $2 billion worth of triple-A slop?

What can be done to advertise leftychan and get more users? I'm sick of all new users being sent to .orge and thinking Leftypol is a bunch of histeronic hyper-authoritarian BPD troons.
Leftychan in it's current state is functionally dead. We get maybe like 5-10 unique posts in a day.

News 5/9/25

German prosecutors move to strip AfD lawmaker's immunity amid bribery probe
Public prosecutors in Germany have moved to strip a politician from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) of his immunity as a lawmaker after initiating a probe into bribery and money laundering allegations, local media reported on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-prosecutors-move-strip-afd-lawmakers-immunity-amid-bribery-probe-2025-05-09/

NHS plans cuts to jobs and services to avoid £6.6bn deficit
In a survey for NHS Providers, 47 per cent of trust leaders warned they are rolling back services to balance the books, while another 43 per cent are considering doing so.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-plans-cuts-jobs-and-services-avoid-ps66bn-deficit

Israel intercepts missile launched by Yemen’s Houthis
Houthi rebels fired a “hypersonic ballistic missile” towards Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, while also claiming a drone attack “targeting a vital Israeli enemy target” in the same area, according to the group’s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/9/houthis-claim-responsibility-for-missile-attack-on-israel-airport
https://archive.ph/HRCbA

Aid workers slam plans by US contractors to take over Gaza aid distribution
The newly created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is reportedly attempting to implement a new aid distribution system that supplants the current arrangement run by the United Nations and other international aid agencies. The UN and aid groups have rejected the Israeli authorities’ attempts to control aid distribution.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/aid-workers-slam-plans-us-contractors-take-over-gaza-aid-distribution

PKK says held congress on dissolution, decision to be announced ‘very soon’
"The PKK 12th congress was successfully held in the Media Defense Areas from May 5 to 7. The congress was conducted in two different areas in parallel, with delegates representing all areas of work,” said a statement from the congress committee reported by the PKK-affiliated ANF news outlet, referring to areas of the Kurdistan Region bordering Turkey and Iran where the group is believed to be headquartered.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/09052025
https://archive.ph/WeniQ

SACP, Contralesa to mobilise for referendum to resolve land issue
The South African Communist Party (SACP) and Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) will jointly mobilise for a referendum to resolve the land question. The announcement follows bilateral talks held today by the SACP and Contralesa in Braamfontein, Johannesburg today.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sacp-contralesa-to-mobilise-for-a-referendum-to-resolve-land-issue/

Panamanian president refuses to renegotiate new US Panama Canal deal
On Tuesday, thousands of people marched in the capital Panama City in the largest demonstration yet against an agreement signed during last month’s visit by US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth. The deal followed suggestions by US President Donald Trump that Washington should seize control of the Panama Canal.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/panamanian-president-refuses-renegotiate-new-us-panama-canal-deal

Colombia's top court orders arrests of former legislature presidents
Name, of the Alianza Verde party, and Calle, of the Liberal party, are accused of receiving 4 billion pesos (about $1 million) to help secure congressional approval for key legislation under President Gustavo Petro
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-top-court-orders-arrests-former-legislature-presidents-2025-05-07/

Chile: Mapuche Leader Julia Chuñil Remains Missing After Six Months
The 72-year-old woman has become a symbol in the Mapuche people’s struggle to recover their ancestral lands and protect native forests. Before her disappearance on November 8, 2024, she led a fierce resistance against the logging of 900 hectares of forest in Mafil, a territory that agroforestry companies are attempting to take from Indigenous communities.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chile-mapuche-leader-chunil-remains-missing-after-six-months/

Australia's Woodside confronts protests, investor anger at annual meet
Climate change activists blew whistles and shouted on Thursday as they disrupted Australian gas producer Woodside Energy's (WDS.AX)annual general meeting, heckling Chief Executive Meg O’Neill and forcing several suspensions.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/australian-climate-protesters-disrupt-woodsides-annual-meet-2025-05-08/

Indian and Pakistan troops swap intense artillery fire
Indian and Pakistani soldiers exchanged heavy volleys of shells and gunfire across their frontier in Kashmir overnight, killing at least five civilians in a growing military standoff that erupted following an attack on tourists in the India-controlled portion of the disputed region.
https://apnews.com/article/kashmir-india-pakistan-military-strikes-conflict-1fe7cb3d7e0ea613f8461ca190a73eb0

India fires missiles into Pakistan

Pakistan vows retaliation.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/6/india-pakistan-fighting-live-india-fires-missiles-into-pakistan
https://aje.io/ur4viu?update=3692299

Ambient

Ambient, dark ambient, etc.

>TFW even the captchas are gangstalking you

Punk

PUNK!!!

Leftist self criticism

What positions were the left in your view, completely wrong on and took positions that overwhelmingly harmed our political movement? I think now the left is in the wilderness after the Pink Tide collapse, the 2015-2020 left populist era, Occupy, it's time for some self-reflection.
For me
>Immigration
The right were correct, go to anywhere in Europe and it's clear as day mass immigration is a fucking slowly unrolling disaster. "Great Replacement" honestly seems more true than not in many European cities that have frankly just turned into Ethnic enclaves. I've noticed as well the complete lack of integration, the hostility migrants have towards locals and frankly, the complete lack of giving a shit that minority have towards upholding any standards or quality of life. Go to any Ethnic enclave area and just see absolute fucking trash everywhere, run down buildings, third world tier wet markets etc. Another issue is when these groups seize power in areas, they tend to trend towards the far-right. They basically just use the left as useful idiots when they don't have power to capture councils and mayorships.
>Gender issues.
Enough said. Literally denied material and biological reality and tried to rip away the identity and safety of women and children for a group that frankly acts completely cultish. Slippery sloping, bad faith arguments non-stop, constant contradictiory positions from one sentence to the next, a complete rejection of common sense and materialism. All while never actually being able to answer a basic question "What is a woman/man?". Polling came in showing Gender Issues is one of the top reasons people are abandoning the left.
>Defund/BLM/Racial Idpol.
Just poorly thought out Identity Politics that mostly empowered establishment middle management grifters, refused to have real conversations about the behavior and state of certain minority groups, ended up pushing extremist Neoliberal solutions to issues (Defund/Land Back = Privatize). Spured a massive victim identity complex among minority groups, especially black people who are now are acting worse than ever with black youths just engaging in mass scale antisocial behavior justified with wild victim complex narcissism. Ethnic Victim Complex almost always end up as Ethno-Narcissism. It also is just a loser for the left. The Establishment have shown numerous times they instantly flip Idpol back on the Left, as we've seen with Antisemitism being used to literally black bag leftists or "Sexism" allegations against male Leftists.

News 5/8/25

Another Fighter Jet Tumbles from Truman Carrier Deck into Red Sea
The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet on Tuesday – the third since it deployed to the Middle East – this time amid a landing incident that caused the jet to go overboard, defense officials confirmed to Military.com
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/07/uss-truman-loses-third-fighter-jet-amid-red-sea-deployment.html
https://archive.ph/jbAv8

Footage of two guerrilla actions in Zap
“On May 1 at 5:35 p.m., a container belonging to the occupiers, which contained a radar system, was destroyed by our Şehîd Axîn Mûş Unit using a kamikaze drone in the Girê Bahar Resistance Area in the Şehîd Delîl Western Zap region.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/footage-of-two-guerrilla-actions-in-zap-79214

New Israeli military orders say freeing captives held in Gaza is ‘least important’ priority
The plan further aims to confine the whole of the Gaza Strip’s population to a small area of the south, with Israeli media reports stating humanitarian aid will only be distributed once a week, fuelling serious concerns that Palestinians will only be given enough food so they don't starve to death. https://www.newarab.com/news/new-israeli-military-orders-deprioritise-freeing-gaza-captives

Tüpraş oil refinery workers in Turkey protest trade union’s sell-out agreement
The workers of the Izmir-Aliağa and Kocaeli refineries started to protest after a sellout agreement was signed without their knowledge and with their main demands not met. The workers of the Aliağa refinery marched and blocked the entrance of the refinery after the union branch announced the terms of the agreement and then marched to the Izmir-Çanakkale ring road.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/08/vltv-m08.html

UK and US secure trade deal with changes for auto and agricultural goods
President Trump also said on Thursday that the US would be increasing its beef and ethanol exports to the UK, which will be fast-tracked through customs. These imports have historically been limited due concerns over added growth hormones.
https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/05/08/uk-and-us-secure-trade-deal-with-changes-for-auto-and-agricultural-goods
https://archive.ph/ERL5g

Trade unions in Benin condemn police crackdown on labor movement
The 2025 International Workers’ Day celebrations in Benin were disrupted after the police stormed a peaceful workers’ assembly organized by the Confédération Syndicale des Travailleurs du Bénin (CSTB), arresting the union’s leadership in what has been widely condemned as a brutal and arbitrary crackdown on trade union rights.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/08/trade-unions-in-benin-condemn-police-crackdown-on-labor-movement/

Mbalula denounces calls for DA expulsion from GNU
This follows reports that some ANC MPs expressed their frustration at the ANC’s National Executive Committee’s failure to decide on the DA’s participation in the Government of National Unity (GNU). The party’s members raised their dissatisfaction at the opposition party’s recent court challenge of the Employment Equity Amendment Act (EEAA).
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/mbalula-denounces-calls-for-da-expulsion-from-gnu/

‘A step too far’: Mali military’s move to hold on to power prompts revolt
Public anger at the military government was evident on May 3 when hundreds of people gathered in Bamako with defiant fists raised in protest. The demonstrations – a visible first against the military – came after government officials “proposed” at a national conference last week that Goita lead the country until 2030 and that political parties be dissolved.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/8/malian-juntas-move-to-hold-on-to-power-sparks-rare-revolt
https://archive.ph/PKDHK

Myanmar quake relief hindered by air strikes, UN funding shortfall: ‘junta is in the way’
Official reports indicate the disaster has killed 3,700 people, with an additional 500 still missing. But the true toll is likely higher, with hundreds – possibly thousands more – feared buried beneath buildings that toppled in seconds under the ferocity of the seismic shock. Despite the scale of the crisis, international attention has shifted away from Myanmar, a country where millions relied on food aid even before the earthquake.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3309576/myanmar-quake-relief-hindered-air-strikes-un-funding-shortfall-junta-way

Indian Navy strikes Karachi port for first time since 1971, targets key Pakistani naval bases: Reports
According to multiple news reports, loud explosions were heard near the port area in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi late Thursday night. This marks the first time since the 1971 war that the Indian Navy has opened a direct front against Pakistan. As per initial media reports, the navy launched missile strikes on critical Pakistani naval installations, inflicting substantial damage and triggering panic along the country’s coastline.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/indian-navy-strikes-karachi-port-for-first-time-since-1971-targets-key-pakistani-naval-bases-13886832.html
https://archive.ph/4u4KN

>"I'm an edgelord, I only listen to edgy music."
>listen to edgy mainstream trap rap
>suffer from excruciating cringe-induced pain
You know what? Maybe the edge doesn't matter after all.

Have you ever listened to a song so edgy and so stupid that it made you physically cringe?

Which one are you looking forward to most?

The American Question

Firstly, let me state that I am aware that in *some way* all forms of American socialism will be "anti American" in that it advocates for the removal of the current system, just as all (or most) forms of socialism do. Even demsocs believe that the system under which we currently operate is wrong and must be changed in some way. But American leftists in particular have this very, very anti-American sentiment. And I get it. I hate America too. And the USA is, of course, a colonial state that engaged in genocide. But is it truly beyond redemption?

Moreover, I have to wonder, is it truly expedient to tell people (or at least to imply by our own words and actions) that they have to hate the very *idea* of a united America? I do not necessarily support the ACP, but this is probably why people do. So-called MAGA communism is appealing to many particularly because it lacks this anti-American sentiment.

To be clear, I am anti-America in one sense. I believe that the USA is a genocidal empire, and a force for evil in the world. But in the sense that America must be entirely dissolved, I am not. I do not believe that. Many of the criticism levelled against the USA could have been made against China or Russia. But these were not dissolved; they were simply made into communist versions of themselves. I find America's problem to be capitalism, not the mere existence of a united American nation.

What if biblically accurate angels were just aliens who were gangstalking clueless Christians? Or they're Christians' bad drug trips, idk.

'80s Continental European Post-Punk / Coldwave / New Wave

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News 5/7/25

Denmark summons US ambassador over Greenland spying report
According to the newspaper, US spy agencies were told to focus efforts on the semi-autonomous country's independence movement, and American goals to extract mineral resources there. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused the Journal of attempts to "undermine" President Trump "by politicizing and leaking classified information".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0eley5gy8wo

Thousands of households in Berlin without water for hours after burst water main
A burst water main caused massive restrictions to the water supply in large parts of Berlin, Germany on the night of Wednesday, April 30. This incident once again highlights the ailing infrastructure in the German capital and the impact of decades of cutbacks by every government of that state.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/07/7aba-m07.html

Did Lammy ‘mislead Parliament and the public’ on arms sales to Israel?
BRITISH firms have exported over 160,000 military items to Israel since October 2023, a new report revealed today. Details of the shipments suggest Foreign Secretary David Lammy could have misled Parliament when he claimed exports were ”defensive in nature.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/did-lammy-mislead-parliament-and-public-arms-sales-israel

Syria’s al-Sharaa confirms indirect talks with Israel amid soaring tensions
“There are indirect talks with Israel through mediators to calm and attempt to absorb the situation so that it does not reach a level that both sides lose control over,” al-Sharaa said, reiterating blame on Israel over what he described as its “random interventions” in Syria.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/7/syrias-al-sharaa-confirms-indirect-talks-with-israel-amid-soaring-tensions
https://archive.ph/blOxW

Tens of thousands take part in Istanbul rally for jailed mayor
Tens of thousands of people took part in a rally Wednesday in Istanbul to support the city's jailed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu who has become the figurehead of an opposition campaign against the government. The demonstration was one of the biggest in recent weeks and came as the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) sought to relaunch its effort for Imamoglu who was detained in March.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tens-thousands-take-part-istanbul-rally-jailed-mayor

Warning that Japan could play debt “card” in tariff war
As the talks were taking place, the Japanese finance minister, Katsunobu Kato, publicly upped the ante in a television interview on Friday when he said the country’s holdings of more than $1 trillion in US Treasury bonds could be a “card” in trade negotiations. Asked whether Japan would maintain its long-term stance as a non-seller of US assets, Kato said: “It does exist as a card; whether or not we use that card is a different decision.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/07/yybo-m07.html

Pakistan claims Chinese-made J-10C fighter jets used against India’s air force
If confirmed, it would be the Chinese fighter jet’s first known air-to-air kill recorded in live combat. It would also mark the first loss of Rafale aircraft in combat. CNN quoted a French intelligence official as saying one Rafale operated by India had been downed by Pakistan, adding that they were looking into whether more than one had met the same fate.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3309480/pakistan-claims-chinese-made-j-10c-fighter-jets-used-against-indias-air-force?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/QI5mw

US threatens Colombia with repercussions for diversifying trade
Special Envoy Mauricio Claver-Carone told press that “Petro’s rapprochement with China is a great opportunity for Ecuadorian roses and Central American coffee.” The Colombian president is set to meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping later this moth and has said he planned to sign a letter of intent to join Beijing’s belt and Road Initiative.
https://colombiareports.com/us-threatens-colombia-with-repercussions-for-diversifying-trade/

Panama Protests: University Students Mobilize for National Autonomy and Sovereignty
Panamanian university students, faculty, and workers march to defend university autonomy and national sovereignty, rejecting President Mulino’s attacks and U.S. interference. The mobilization, led by Rector Eduardo Flores Castro, underscores growing resistance to neoliberal and imperialist pressures in Panama.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/panama-protests-university-students-mobilize-for-national-autonomy-and-sovereignty/

Explosions hit Port Sudan for fourth day, threatening vital aid lifeline
EXPLOSIONS rocked the Port of Sudan, a critical lifeline and entry point for aid, for a fourth consecutive day amid the ongoing war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/explosions-hit-port-sudan-fourth-day-threatening-vital-aid-lifeline

News 5/6/25

India fires missiles across the frontier with Pakistan, killing at least 1 child, officials say
India fired missiles across the border into Pakistani-controlled territory in at least three locations early Wednesday, killing at a child and wounding two other people, Pakistani security officials said. India said it was striking infrastructure used by militants.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-india-missiles-border-tensions-21a2859557179f2b32d6b8d5628ac853

India advances Kashmir hydro projects after suspending pact with Pakistan, document shows
India has advanced the start date of four under-construction hydropower projects in the Kashmir region by months after suspending a water-sharing treaty with Pakistan that had slowed progress, according to an industry source and a government document.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/india-advances-kashmir-hydro-projects-after-suspending-pact-with-pakistan-2025-05-06/

Gateway to Corruption: Cambodia’s Education-Crime Nexus
Some private educational institutions have established ties to corrupt tycoons and crime-linked entities, while the public system is reliant on philanthropy – often from those very same sources.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/05/gateway-to-corruption-cambodias-education-crime-nexus/
https://archive.ph/rGOKm

US, Yemen's Houthis agree ceasefire brokered by Oman
The United States has agreed to end its conflict with Yemen's Houthis in an Oman-brokered ceasefire pact announced on Tuesday, despite the Iran-backed group vowing to continue its attacks on Israel. In a statement posted on social media, Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi said both sides had agreed to stop targeting each other.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-yemens-houthis-agree-oman-brokered-ceasefire

Sudan cuts ties with UAE as Port Sudan reels from drone strikes
On Tuesday, Sudan’s security and defence council announced it was cutting off diplomatic ties with the UAE over its support for the RSF, a day after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) dismissed a Sudanese case accusing Abu Dhabi of complicity in genocide.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-cuts-ties-with-uae-port-sudan-reels-from-drone-strikes

Turkey thwarted another attack with pagers in Lebanon last year, officials say
Daily Sabah reported that 1,300 pagers and 710 chargers rigged with explosives were confiscated inside a cargo shipment at Istanbul Airport that was on its way to Beirut from Hong Kong.
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-lebanon-israel-hezbollah-pagers-walkie-talkies-e39b0dabaa1718606e238001ad9a31fa

UK may restrict students from countries most likely to claim asylum
Out of the 108,000 people who claimed asylum in Britain last year, 16,000 had student visas, government data shows. The government does not provide a breakdown of the nationalities of those who had student visas, who went on to claim asylum. But the government said people from Pakistan, Nigeria and Sri Lanka were the most likely to claim asylum in Britain after arriving on a work, student, or a visitor visa.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-may-restrict-students-countries-most-likely-claim-asylum-2025-05-06/

Birmingham bin workers strike enters eighth week, Labour council demands driver pay cuts
The all-out strike by Birmingham bin workers has entered its eighth week. Around 350 refuse workers, bin loaders and drivers, walked out on March 11 to oppose massive pay cuts, ending the safety-critical Waste Recycling and Collection Officer (WRCO) role and the downgrading of crew sizes by a quarter.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/06/vdxp-m06.html

Argentinian metalworkers are ready to go on strike
The Union of Metalworkers (UOM) of Argentina is today preparing a one-day strike for this coming Wednesday to demand a wage increase and labor stability in the face of the rising cost of living.
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/05/05/argentinian-metalworkers-are-ready-to-go-on-strike/

Pepe Mujica criticizes PIT-CNT central labor for inaction under Lacalle Pou
Former Uruguayan President José Pepe Mujica criticized the PIT-CNT central labor union for its inaction during Luis Lacalle Pou’s government (2020-205), noting the absence of strikes and claiming the group only became active under the new leftist government of Yamandú Orsi, which took office on March 1. Mujica argued that workers should defend their wages regardless of the ruling party, reproaching the union for its passive behavior under conservative rule.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/03/pepe-mujica-criticizes-pit-cnt-central-labor-for-inaction-under-lacalle-pou

SPOOKLY SEASON IS UPON WE

SEIZE THE SCREAMS OF PROPUMPKIN
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leftypol.org psyop general

Thread dedicated to psychological operations against the leftypol.org administration.

Things to consider:
<The .org mods will read this thread, use this to your advantage
<Posting over your mobile data will arouse less suspicion than over a proxy
<Threads created over an IP with no post history are heavily scrutinized
<Post in /meta/ and try to appeal any mod action against you
<Abuse the report feature
<Use a wide variety of proxy services
<Antagonize individual moderators
<Create as many personas as possible, try to have the mods always chasing a previous persona and not your current one
<The less consistency between the ideological beliefs of your personas the better
<Be consciously aware of your writing style
<Fermenting internal conflict among the mod team is of the upmost importance
<Sow dissent among the userbase whenever possible
<Have fun :)

Georgism - where'd it go?

Why does it seem like support for Georgism disappeared suddenly in the middle of the 20th century? George's book Progress and Poverty was one of the most popular books of the 19th century and provided momentum for the Progressive Era. It seems like it kind of dropped off the face of the Earth after WWII. The last reference I can find to Georgism is Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited in 1958, but after that it's like it poofed completely out of existence. Was it the cold war shifting the focus of the capitalist defense force to anti-communism? Was Georgism just a fad, propped up artificially as a bulwark against Marxists? Were Georgists just completely superceded by Marxists by that time? What happened?

Six White Mississippi "Goon Squad" Cops Get Lengthy Prison Sentences for Torturing Black Men

In Mississippi, six former sheriff's deputies have been sentenced to between 10 and 40 years in prison for raiding a home and torturing, shooting and sexually abusing two Black men, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, in January 2023. The six former deputies, all of whom are white, called themselves the "Goon Squad" and have been linked to at least four violent attacks on Black men since 2019. Two of the men attacked and tortured by the group subsequently died. To discuss the case and the verdict, we're joined by Eddie Parker and attorneys Malik Shabazz and Trent Walker. "Never have we seen this many police officers sentenced to this kind of time in one week," says Shabazz, who calls the verdict "historic." Jenkins, Parker and Shabazz are currently suing the Rankin County Sheriff's Department over its track record of civil rights violations and racist targeting of Black residents.

After this and the secret mass grave recently found behind the police station near Jackson, what's next for Mississippi?

Vtuber Gneral

Can we have a vtuber general? I love them so.
Iron mouse is probably the most popular and she can sing really well.

News 5/5/25

Yemen's Houthis announce campaign targeting Israeli airports
Yemen's Houthi rebels said late on Sunday they would impose a "comprehensive" aerial blockade on Israel by repeatedly targeting its airports, in response to Israel expanding its operations in Gaza.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/yemens-houthis-announce-campaign-targeting-israeli-airports-2025-05-05/

'We want them to die alone': What is Israel's Gideon's Chariots plan for Gaza?
Israel has said that it will give Hamas until the end of US President Donald Trump's trip to the Middle East, which is 10 days from now, or "Operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ will begin with great force and will not end until all its objectives are achieved".
https://www.newarab.com/news/what-israels-gideons-chariots-plan-gaza

Uganda’s military chief says holding opposition activist ‘in my basement’
In a social media post late on Thursday, Ugandan General Muhoozi Kainerugaba said Mutwe had been captured “like a grasshopper”. “He is in my basement … You are next!” Kainerugaba wrote on X in response to a post by Wine saying that Mutwe had been abducted. Kainerugaba, who is known for his incendiary social media posts, also alluded to Mutwe being tortured, saying he had beaten him and shaved his head.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/2/ugandas-military-chief-says-holding-opposition-activist-in-my-basement
https://archive.ph/tkUPV

Rwanda Confirms Talks With Trump Administration to Take Deported Migrants
In 2022, Rwanda agreed to take in some people seeking asylum in the United Kingdom while their claims were being processed. However, the scheme was shelved amid legal and human rights concerns following the return to power of the center-left Labour Party. Rwanda is still seeking to collect £50 million ($66.4 million) from Britain despite the canceled deal.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-rwanda-migrants

Erdoğan tells protesters against Islamification in northern Cyprus they will fail
Later, as he addressed a technology festival, he went further, telling trade unions that opposed the measure: “If you try to mess with our girls’ headscarves in the Turkish republic of northern Cyprus, I am sorry, you will find us against you.” On Friday thousands of Turkish Cypriots took to the streets of Nicosia, the country’s war-split capital, chanting “hands off our land” as they denounced the legislation.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/03/erdogan-tells-protesters-against-islamification-in-northern-cyprus-they-will-fail

Far-right Simion wins first round of Romanian presidential election
AFTER decisively winning the most votes in Romania’s first-round presidential election rerun, far-right candidate George Simion will face a pro-Western reformist in a runoff in two weeks. The final result of the election could reshape the European Union and Nato member country’s geopolitical direction.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/far-right-simion-wins-first-round-romanian-presidential-election

EU scientists sound alarm over escalating spring drought
Forecasts for the coming months suggest higher than usual temperatures up to July, the scientists say. Rainfall predictions are less clear, though some forecasts point to drier conditions over large parts of northern Europe, including the United Kingdom, parts of Germany and the Benelux countries, the JRC report notes.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-scientists-alarm-escalating-spring-drought-climate-change-jrc-report/
https://archive.ph/pB7hc

Colombia formally requests entry to BRICS development bank
Entry to the New Development Bank would allow Colombian governments to seek investment loans outside institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the Inter-American Development Bank that have historically demanded neoliberal policy changes in return.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-formally-requests-entry-to-brics-development-bank/

‘They were tortured’: Ecuadorian soldiers confess to beating four murdered children in Guayaquil
Four of the 16 soldiers prosecuted in the case admitted that their victims were beaten, punched, and subjected to a mock execution before being abandoned naked in Taura, a rural parish south of Guayaquil, taken over, like so many others, by organized crime.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-05/they-were-tortured-ecuadorian-soldiers-confess-to-beating-four-murdered-children-in-guayaquil.html
https://archive.ph/yS5Iw

Gold mining suspended in Peru's north after 13 miners killed
Since 2020, illegal miners have taken over several areas under Poderosa's control. The area had already been under a state of emergency, with heavy police and military presence, due to prior attacks on Poderosa's operations.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-pauses-mining-north-after-13-miners-killed-2025-05-05/

Where the hell is the Chinese version of a color revolution in the US? Why haven't socialist states like the USSR persued regime change and propaganda in the USA? Why aren't hackers working 24/7 trying to get compromising material on US officials?

America first of all can't do it alone. We fucking need help. And second, propaganda and sending agents to orgamize against the capitalist government is way more cost effective than arming up to the teeth (which these states are already doing).

Cumtown-core Music

Opening the thread with the Australian classic "Fuck Your Dad" by Thug. Great band, classic sound!

/mods/ - Modding General

We share awesome mods we found on the Internet and modding tips.

"Moderate rebels" retake Aleppo

Syrian rebels enter Aleppo three days into surprise offensive
Insurgents had recaptured territory around Syria’s second city with civilians including children killed in fighting

Islamist insurgents have entered Syria’s second city of Aleppo in a shock assault, eight years after forces loyal to Damascus seized control of the city.

Fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) began a major offensive earlier this week from their base in the Idlib countryside, a slim strip of land in Syria’s north-west. It took only three days for the fighting to reach Aleppo, with insurgents capturing territory around the city’s outskirts for the first time in four years as Syrian government forces pummelled rebel-held areas.

Turkey’s Anadolu state news agency reported on Friday afternoon that the insurgents had entered Aleppo, while unverified images and video circulating online showed armoured vehicles and armed uniformed militants on its streets. The Associated Press said residents reported hearing missiles striking its outskirts.

The fighting over the last three days had killed 27 civilians, including eight children, David Carden, the UN deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, told Reuters.

The rebels have rapidly recaptured dozens of towns and villages in the Aleppo countryside, seizing a military base, weaponry and tanks from Syrian government forces, while some Turkish-backed Syrian rebel groups based elsewhere in north-west Syria joined the fighting.

The UN said Syrian government forces based in Damascus carried out at least 125 airstrikes and shelled areas across Idlib and western Aleppo controlled by the rebels in response to the offensive, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 46 others, and displacing 14,000 people.

Syria has been promised extra Russian military aid to help the army thwart the assault, two Syrian military sources told Reuters on Saturday. Damascus expects new Russian military hardware to start arriving at Russia’s Hmeimim airbase near Syria’s coastal city of Latakia in the next 72 hours, the sources added.

HTS said on Friday that it had captured four more towns including Mansoura, five miles from the centre of Aleppo. Syria’s state news agency said four civilians were killed inside student accommodation in the city when it was struck by projectiles from insurgent forces.

“The regime’s lines of defence have crumbled, I think they were taken aback. No one anticipated how fast the rebels would reach towards the edge of Aleppo,” said Dareen Khalifa, of the nonprofit International Crisis Group.

She added that it remained unclear whether the rebel forces would be able to hold the swath of captured territory, or how Russian forces backing the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus may respond.

Turkey’s foreign ministry called for calm in the region around Idlib, demanding an end to the strikes on the area. “It is of utmost importance for Turkey that yet another and greater instability is avoided and civilians are not harmed,” it said.

…

A delicate balance of power in Syria has been increasingly tested over the past year, however, amid increasing regional fallout from Israel’s battle with the Iranian proxy group Hamas in Gaza.

Israel has dramatically escalated airstrikes against Iranian forces stationed on the ground in Syria, carrying out more than 116 strikes on Syrian territory, according to the UN, and killing more than 100 people, while recent fighting in Lebanon has forced 500,000 people to flee into neighbouring Syria.

The increasing Israeli strikes have put Iranian forces in Syria on the defensive, allowing rebels to exploit a moment where various proxy forces backing Assad are more engaged elsewhere.

Khalifa said Moscow remained focused primarily on the fighting in Ukraine. “The Russians are distracted in Ukraine. They are less invested politically if not military in Syria,” she said. “It’s difficult to tell what the result of this offensive is going to be. The rebels think the other side is vulnerable, and they have leverage.”

The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said on Friday that Moscow regarded the rebel attack as a violation of Syria’s sovereignty and wanted the authorities to act fast to regain control.

Turkey, which backs rebel groups along Syria’s northern border but has sought recently to normalise relations with Assad, is yet to publicly intervene in the latest round of fighting.

HTS said it would target Iranian forces fighting alongside Syrian government troops as part of the latest offensive. Iran’s Tasnim news agency said a commander from the Revolutionary Guards was killed in western Aleppo late this week.

The fighting and airstrikes appeared to paralyse much of the fragile network of services across rebel-held territory in Idlib, forcing the closure of health services and other infrastructure that sustain millions seeking shelter there.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/syrian-rebels-launch-surprise-attack-on-aleppo

US stock market crash general

Retards here have been claiming an imminent stock market crash for almost 10 years straight.

But it looks like this time we might actually get a crash this time because the Republicans seem to like crashing the market in their second terms.

And it does seem like Trump and his advisors are trying to crash the market.

Either that or Trump's economic advisors are just stupid.

/pcb/ - Polcompball General

Thank you to all the autists at PCB for writing down every irrelevant political movement known to mankind.

Discuss the wiki and post the articles, comics and animations you found funny or interesting.

Link to the wiki:
https://polcompball.wikitide.org/wiki/Main_Page

Link to the PCBA wiki:
https://polcompballanarchy.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

Link to the subreddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Polcompball/

Link to the PCBA subreddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Polcompballanarchy/

Cloudflare is malicious software

For an entire month now, Cloudflare has been discriminating against alternative web browsers to the Google hegemony by refusing to "verify" them as legitimate browsers through their browser check loop. On some browsers this has been blatantly malicious by designing the loop to hang indefinitely while it rapidly consumes all of the user's memory until a program crash. This has included Palemoon, Librewolf, Waterfox, IceCat, Seamonkey, Falkon, and more. Basically it seems like anything that isn't a subservient Chrome fork or Firefox itself is being gatekept out of the web by Cloudflare. The likelihood that this is being done deliberately is high because a) they have been doing it for an entire month, b) the entire time they have refused to respond to developers reaching out asking them to fix it, and c) Cloudflare themselves have stated that their secret proprietary methods of fingerprinting "human" browsers are tailor-fit to each browser. Some links following this story:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32045
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/02/07/044225
http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/20/Instead_of_DoS_Protection_Cloudflare_is_Allegedly_Conducting_Do.shtml

In only the span of a few years, DDoS "protection" services have grown to exert so much control over the web that they can now play kingmakers in browser competition and coerce user choice. We need a solution to the DDoS protection racket more than ever. What can be done about this?

>LibRight: "Corporate tyranny is better"
>AuthLeft: "State tyranny is better"
>LibLeft: "Mob tyranny is better"
>AuthRight: "All of the above are great"
>centrists: "All tyranny should be done in moderation"
Why do we have to choose? Can't we have individualism without corporate tyranny, socialism without state tyranny and democracy without mob tyranny? Why do we always have to sell our liberty to some institution? Why can't we have all the good stuff without all the bad stuff? Have modern ancoms forgotten their individualist roots? Have they forgotten about Bakunin, Goldman and Malatesta? What kind of libertarianism is this if you have to obey the corporations or the majority?

Look, our Matrix server already has elements of consensus democracy, it can work. The more we rebel and split the closer we get to anarchism. So I don't understand why we always sacrifice one freedom for another in politics (except the AuthRight bootlickers, they're obsessed with order and control).

/pcb/ - Polcompball General

Thank you to all the autists at PCB for writing down every irrelevant political movement known to mankind.

Discuss the wiki and post the articles, comics and animations you found funny or interesting.

Link to the wiki:
https://polcompball.wikitide.org/wiki/Main_Page

Link to the PCBA wiki:
https://polcompballanarchy.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

Link to the subreddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Polcompball/

Link to the PCBA subreddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Polcompballanarchy/

Disco Thread

I just loooooooooove Disco music!
Don't you, fellas? What are your favorite Disco grooves?

Black Sabbath "War Pigs"

Old Heavy Metal.

Good music in bad games

All right, fine… It's been 18 years, and I'll finally admit it! As much as I loath this insulting trash game for daring to call itself Mario Bros. (and the trend of dumbed down trash games that followed in its wake), Koji Kondo at least managed to belt out another irresistible banger for the main stage theme.

It's a testament to a composer's skill that I find myself getting this theme stuck in my head all the time, imagining that it's some nostalgic theme from a much earlier Mario game. But no, in fact it had the great misfortune to be attached to this turd. Well done, Kondo-san.

/ytp/ - YouTube Poop General

A thread for the highest form of art known to man. Post your favorite YTPs, YTPMVs and funny video edits here.

If you aren't posting on 4chan you are doing it wrong

If you are not posting on 4chan you are failing as a leftist in the most fundemental way possible. Right now there is a huge opportunity to use the market crash and consequential recession that is coming to turn a lot of dissolusioned right wingers over to our side. To the side of truth, reason and sanity. I post on /b/ at the very least when a thread comes up revolving around trump and go on pol daily. We have to be where they are. We cannot just keep sequestering ourselves off in our hug boxes all the time. You have to be posting on 4chan as well.

Palestine Thread Pt. VII

One Year of Genocide

Continued from >>484995

Updates since the start of the last thread:
The (largely civilian) Palestinian death toll has now passed 61,000. Excess deaths have been estimated by The Lancet to plausibly be upwards of 186,000.

In early January 2025, Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange. Despite all of the killing, Hamas's military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, appears to have largely replenished its numbers, and threw parades celebrating the exchange. The ceasefire is on terms Hamas had already agreed to in May 2024.

Following Hezbollah strikes on Tel Aviv, a ceasefire in Lebanon was agreed to on November 27th. Israel proceeded to violate this ceasefire more than 600 times, and has refused to leave the country at the agreed-upon 60 day deadline, prompting unarmed civilians to stage protests and drive them out of parts of south Lebanon.

Lebanese Army leader Joseph Aoun was elected president of Lebanon.

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by US-backed al-Qaeda operatives. Israel proceeded to steal more land from Syria and launched a massive bombing campaign on Syria and Syria's arsenal without any resistance.

Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar was killed while fighting in Gaza. Mohammed Deif later confirmed dead.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICC also issued warrants against Hamas leaders.

Following the warrants, the Biden administration invited Yoav Gallant to the White House.

Benjamin Netanyahu was invited back to the White House for February 4th, 2025.

Israel has launched more attacks on the West Bank, and reportedly violated the ceasefire in Gaza some 80 times.

More countries have joined South Africa's legal case at the International Court of Justice against Israel for the crime of genocide. Cuba, Ireland, Belize, Nicaragua, Palestine, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Libya, Chile, and Colombia have joined the South African case against Israel. Egypt, Belgium, and Maldives have also declared their intention to join.

Yemeni Houthi attacks on international shipping, in solidarity with Gaza, have stopped in accordance with the ceasefire, following multiple successful Yemeni strikes on targets in Israel.

Demonstrators have continued to blockade and damage arms factories manufacturing weapons for Israel in the UK.

The US gov't continued shipping weapons to Israel, in violation of US law.

The new US administration threatened to deport foreign students speaking out against the US-backed Palestinian genocide.

A group of states from the global south formed the Hague Group as a way of reinforcing the rulings of the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court. The founding states are Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa.

And much, much more!

How much do you agree with Peter Coffin's main thesis that "The left" these days basically does not functionally exist in any real materialist fashion, and what presents itself as the ""left"" is mostly a consumerist "fandom" not all that different from people who are Star Wars fans or Trekkies or 40k nerds etc and that much of the ""Left"" actually end up purpetuating Capitalism, Capitalist goals and the system, by just draping red over largely Neoliberal positions. He brings up how BLM funnelled billionare money to rich liberal NGOs and how "Land Back" movement is trademarked and run by a Real Estate agency who want to privatize public lands and National Parks.

We really need to raid PragerU's YouTube comments.

May Day 2025

What are you doing to celebrate International Worker's Day?

An interview with a shoujo editor

Very interesting stuff. Especially this bit:
<Yes, I like manga! I actually read everything. I tend to read shoujo manga from a work-like perspective, unfortunately, but I read a lot of works in magazines every month. I also read BL or shounen manga. Everything, actually. But actually more the well-known works, less the lesser-known ones. One Piece, Kingdom, Golden Kamuy … I read everything that's currently on in Japan and cry and laugh like a normal reader. (laughs)
Maybe the Japanese themselves don't care about demographics all that much. I am interested which mangaka also like One Piece (if the author of Berserk also likes it I'm gonna scream).
>Windows 10 on the monitor
Damn, that feels surreal.

News 4/29/25

Al-Qassam video depicts rescue of Israeli captives from IOF bombing in Gaza
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, released a video on Saturday, April 26, which showed its fighters rescuing Israeli captives after the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shelled the tunnel, where they were held in the besieged Gaza strip.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/28/al-qassam-video-depicts-rescue-of-israeli-captives-from-iof-bombing-in-gaza/

Palestinian March of Return cancelled for first time in decades due to Israeli threats
Such conditions included limiting the number of attendees to 700 people while tens of thousands usually participate in the event, and a ban on raising the Palestinian flag. The police also threatened to infiltrate the march to enforce restrictions and to deploy a drone over participants, Jabareen said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-march-return-cancelled-first-time-decades-israeli-threats

With a new mobilisation bill, is Algeria gearing up for war?
The bill draws upon Article 99 of the Algerian Constitution, which allows the president to initiate "mobilisation" (meaning, military conscription) after consulting with the High Security Council and parliamentary leaders.
https://www.newarab.com/news/algeria-gearing-war-new-mobilisation-bill

DR Congo, Rwanda agree to draft peace deal by May 2
The United States brought the two countries’ foreign ministers together and voiced an interest in investment in the DRC’s turbulent but mineral-rich east, where fighting between DRC forces and M23 rebels has intensified since January. The M23 has captured key cities in the east in a campaign that has left thousands dead.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/26/dr-congo-rwanda-agree-to-draft-peace-deal-by-may-2
https://archive.ph/4zk03

Google DeepMind UK staff move to unionise to challenge links to Israeli military
Figures with knowledge of the organising spoke to the Financial Times and said approximately 300 employees inside Google DeepMind, the company's artificial intelligence London office, want to join the Communication Workers Union (CWU).
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/google-deepmind-uk-attempt-unionise-challenge-links-israel-says-report

Palestine campaigners slam Israeli interference
A freedom of information request showed that the office of the British attorney-general provided Israel’s deputy ambassador with contact information for police and prosecutors probing action against an Israeli arms factory.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/palestine-campaigners-slam-israeli-interference

MAGA man leads the field before Romanian election rerun
Founded in 2019, AUR already holds the second-highest number of seats in the Romanian parliament after the center-left Social Democratic Party (PSD). Simion came fourth in last year’s annulled presidential contest but now seems to have garnered support among Georgescu’s voters.
https://www.politico.eu/article/maga-romanian-election-rerun-donald-trump-romania-presidency-sunday-vote/
https://archive.ph/evXdb

Protesters march against “transphobic” and “authoritarian” resolution of Brazil’s Council of Medicine
The protesters call the measure “transphobic” and “authoritarian”, stressing that it was published without public consultation and contradicts scientific evidence on which care protocols are based. Around 150 health and social care organizations and trans movements signed a joint statement rejecting the decision.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/29/protesters-march-against-transphobic-and-authoritarian-resolution-of-brazils-council-of-medicine/

Ecuador Military Execution of Minors: Human Rights Groups Demand Justice and State Accountability
Lawyers representing the families of four Afro-Ecuadorian children executed by military personnel in Guayaquil vow to take the case to international courts as Ecuador’s government faces mounting criticism over militarization, racism, and impunity.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuador-military-execution-of-minors-human-rights-groups-demand-justice-and-state-accountability/

Carney wins Canada election, warns ‘Trump is trying to break us’
Once activated, the law grants the military charge of economic and industrial production, and control over borders and internal movement, in cooperation with the Interior Ministry. Citizens would be legally obligated to comply with mobilisation orders, with penalties for non-compliance including prison sentences of up to three years for failing to report foreign nationals from "hostile states."
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5272332-mark-carney-canada-election-donald-trump/
https://archive.ph/YiA1z

News MAY 1st / 2025

Workers observe May Day with marches and demos under Trump tariffs shadow
The holiday, also known as International Workers’ Day or Labour Day, honours the struggles and achievements of workers and the labour movement. Rallies are expected across the US, as well, including in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia. Across multiple countries, Trump’s agenda was cited as a source of concern.
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/5/1/workers-observe-may-day-with-marches-and-demos-under-trump-tariffs-shadow
https://archive.ph/miUMA

Petro files labor referendum in Colombia’s Congress
Before the protocolary act in the capitol, Petro addressed thousands of protesters who had come to Bogota’s Bolivar Square to celebrate International Workers’ Day and demand Congress approve the referendum. Petro assured his opponents in Congress that “the people of Colombia will rise up and revoke them” in the 2026 elections if they vote against the referendum. “Not a single parliamentarian who vote against the referendum will be elected again in Colombia because nobody will vote for him,” said the president.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-files-labor-referendum-in-colombias-congress/

Thousands in Serbia mark six months since train station tragedy
Workers’ unions joined university students in Belgrade, Serbia’s capital, to demand changes in labour and strike laws as part of May Day protests. In the northern city of Novi Sad, residents left flowers and lit candles outside the central station, where tons of concrete crashed on the people standing or sitting underneath on November 1.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-serbia-mark-six-months-train-station-tragedy

US and Ukraine sign deal giving US access to country’s valuable mineral wealth
The two sides offered only barebone details about the structure of the deal, which they called the United States-Ukraine Reinvestment Fund. But it is expected to give the U.S. access to Ukraine’s valuable rare earth minerals while providing Kyiv a measure of assurance about continued American support in its grinding war with Russia.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-putin-trump-peace-ce025ba11929ceff0c90f94c25a47624

Rail Gourmet agrees to full union recognition and collective bargaining
The rail caterer will now sign a recognition agreement, in what the union has described as a “major reversal” of its long-standing refusal to engage properly with trade unions. Industrial action that had been due to take place from May 2 has now been called off.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rail-gourmet-agrees-full-union-recognition-and-collective-bargaining

International Workers’ Day: Iraqi unions decry poor conditions and broken promises
While politicians and officials, including Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, extended their congratulations to workers, many Iraqis say words are not enough. Labour representatives accuse private sector employers of failing to uphold key provisions of the country's labour law, particularly regarding workplace safety and social security coverage.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqi-workers-protest-poor-work-conditions-may-day

Over 400 detained in Istanbul’s May Day protest as Turkey restricts transit
Istanbul police detained more than 400 people on Thursday during May Day demonstrations — the largest display of defiance since last month’s mass protests over Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s arrest — held under sweeping restrictions.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/05/over-400-detained-istanbuls-may-day-protest-turkey-restricts-transit

South Korea’s acting leader Han resigns amid reports he will run for president
South Korea’s acting leader, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, said Thursday he is resigning to take on “heavier responsibility” as expectation mounted he will run in next month’s presidential election. … … … . .. .
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-presidential-election-han-ducksoo-94a9814f6eec74d5b7dd9565cfa41f7e

Australia's centre-left Labor likely to retain power as Trump concerns weigh, polls show
A RedBridge-Accent poll published by News Corp newspapers on Thursday showed Labor leading 53%-47% against the conservative Liberal-National coalition under Australia's two-party preferential voting system, where votes are distributed until a winner is declared.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-centre-left-labor-likely-retain-power-trump-concerns-weigh-polls-show-2025-05-01/

South Africa to review claims past ANC governments impeded apartheid crimes investigations
A group of 25 relatives and survivors of apartheid-era deaths and violence sued the government in January, claiming that interference from “the highest levels of government” blocked investigations into cases referred to the National Prosecuting Authority by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). .. . . . ..
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/30/cyril-ramaphosa-sets-up-inquiry-into-whether-past-anc-governments-interfered-withinvestigation-of-apartheid-era-crimes

Chinese Century Thread /CCT/

This is a general thread for all China-related news.

Gusano fuckers can die. Westoid """maoists""" can sudoku.

We are going to analyize ITT every move by China in their road to a socialist economy.

ITS UP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Jwv40MkiY

Television

Let's make a thread to discuss, review and analyze tv shows. Everybody is binging something these days.
Argue about dvd commentaries, Post your thesis on King of the Hill, Reminisce about a tv show you used to watch but don't quite remember it's title. Just about anything related to shows. Post your highscore on those Ben 10 CN flash games. Anything goes.

News 4/28/25

Unions warn teachers, councils and NHS workers may go out on strike after government says it won't fund pay rises
The sectors’ bodies have recommended rises of about 4 per cent for teachers and 3 per cent for NHS staff to ministers, according to the Times. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) responded, saying that any award must be fully funded. The National Education Union (NEU) and NASUWT teaching unions threatened strike action if schools do not get extra funding to pay for the salary increase for teachers.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-warn-teachers-councils-and-nhs-workers-may-go-out-strike-after-government-says-it

Tens of millions across Spain and Portugal hit by huge power outage
Mobile networks went down and internet access was cut as power failed at 12.33pm (1133 BST). Hospitals postponed routine operations but used generators to attend to critical cases, and while electronic banking was able to function on backup systems, most ATM screens were blank. … . . . . . . . . …
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/28/spain-portugal-power-outage

Far right's poster boy Bardella to run for French president if Le Pen is barred
Jordan Bardella, 29, has said he plans to be the French far-right National Rally's presidential candidate in 2027 if his mentor Marine Le Pen is barred from running. Le Pen, who has run for president three times, is appealing an embezzlement conviction that bars her from seeking public office for five years.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250427-far-right-s-poster-boy-bardella-to-run-for-french-president-if-le-pen-is-barred
https://archive.ph/tAqix

‘Don't punish innocent families,’ separatist leader urges India as troops destroy Kashmiri homes
In a statement posted on social media, Mr Farooq, chairman of the Kashmiri independence alliance All Parties Hurriyat Conference, said: “While Kashmiris collectively condemn the heinous crime at Pahalgam — and it is imperative to bring its perpetrators to justice — indiscriminate arrests and videos circulating on social media of demolition of houses and neighbourhoods, is disturbing and distressing.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dont-punish-innocent-families-separatist-leader-urges-india-troops-destroy-kashmiri-homes

Hours after having advanced into in Rif Dimashq backed by drones | Israeli forces stablish military post and detonate military positions
Israeli forces detonated positions this morning in the 36th Regiment (special forces), aka Ain Al-Burj, to the east of Qal’at Jandal in Rif Dimashq, along with establishing a military post on the top of Barbar mountain in order to monitor movements in that region.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/360830/

Yemen's Houthis say 68 killed in US strikes on African migrant centre
According to a statement cited by Al-Masirah from the Houthi administration's interior ministry, the centre housed "115 migrants, all from Africa". The broadcaster showed footage of bodies stuck under the rubble and of rescuers working to help the casualties.
https://www.newarab.com/news/houthis-say-68-killed-us-strikes-african-migrant-centre

Israel’s Shin Bet chief ousted by Netanyahu says will stand down on June 15
“After 35 years of service, in order to allow an orderly process for appointing a permanent successor and for professional handover, I will end my role on June 15, 2025,” the Shin Bet chief told a memorial event at his agency, according to a statement on Monday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/28/israels-shin-bet-chief-ousted-by-netanyahu-says-will-stand-down-on-june-15
https://archive.ph/1OAts

São Paulo teachers continue strike for better wages and against school privatization
Teachers at the São Paulo municipal public school system, one of the largest education systems in the Americas, decided on April 23 to continue an indefinite strike that began on April 15 for better wages and against the privatization of education. On April 16, São Paulo’s public sector workers also went on strike against sweeping attacks on social services by Mayor Ricardo Nunes, a close ally of fascist ex-president Jair Bolsonaro.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/25/obyj-a25.html

IMF tightens the reins on Colombia
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) authorities were “vampires” who suspended his country's access to a US$ 8.1 billion flexible credit line on Saturday.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/04/28/imf-tightens-the-reins-on-colombia

Panamanians gear up for indefinite strike on April 28
Thousands of Panamanians took to the streets on April 24 to protest pension reform, US interference, and the intended reopening of the country’s largest copper mine, they will continue their struggle in an indefinite strike beginning April 28
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/27/panamanians-gear-up-for-indefinite-strike-on-april-28/

Why just about nobody seems to care about risk of strong solar storm on the scale of the carrington event?

Why there are no procedures made, spare transformers produced, emergency food and supplies stored around major cities, etc?

People care about climate change risks slowly damaging civilization over decades, and here we have risk (also scientifically and historically proven) that can just randomly disable worldwide electricity next year (extremely unlikely) or during the next 200 years (LIKELY) and we are doing nothing?

What is the logic in this? "Unlike climate change it will happen randomly, it may happen in 2054 or 2077, we may be already dead, we don't care"?
(No, nobody said that, I'm just trying to imagine reasons needed to ignore the issue).

Do you care about people who are now small children?

"It will PROBABLY not happen during my remaining lifetime, I'm fine with only 10% risk of dying from hunger or disorder among collapsing civilization"?

What is the logic here? What is the plan?

Are the risk overblown?
Or is the total fall of the industrial civilization so utterly and completely sure that there is no value of trying to save anything at all? Maybe at least some sort of archives carved on f****g stone, if not spare transformers, comms in Faraday cages and parts. Christ.

Or perhaps nobody outside of 20 scholars and Wikipedia heard about this issue?
Topic just unknown/boring (LOL) even for influential staff at FEMA?

Political nuance is gone

>be me
>get yelled at by progressives for complaining about forced diversity, DEI, neopronouns, furfags and feminazis
>get yelled at by conservatives for supporting LGBT, Palestinians, migrants and socialist economics
>get yelled at by everyone for being an anarcho-individualist
That's it, I'm done with the Internet.

The Other Side of Underneath (1972)

I haven't watched this yet, gonna watch it tonight. Idk if it's good but you can watch it with me if you want.

How it feels to be a figment of Nazbol anon's gay imagination which only he can see:
>wake up, 2 in the morning
>"oh no, I forgot to set my gay alarm, I'll have to get ready fast!"
>put on no clothes
>rush into the stables and hop on my giant bat so I can go across town to wake Nazbol Anon in a coldsweat at 3AM after another steamy encounter with me in the astral plane of his homoerotic night terrors
>ride off into the evening mists laughing at another flawless nocturnal victory

Work day general 2.0

Welcome to the work day general.

Tell us about your day anon. Did you have a good day at work? Its OK we know work is horrible.

I work graves at a factory. If you have it shitty at work I can relate.

Tell us about your day under the crushing weight of the profit motive.

Hip-Hop and Rap

Self sufficiency

In our increasingly dystopia, and with a looming economic depression plus creeping environmental disaster, working to secure your own individual self sufficiency is pretty. This is a thread about that.

idk if this is the right board but

how do i overcome laziness / procrastination? please


relating to things such as assignments

Old Soviet tank from the 1980's or so

Like one that was used in the Chernobyl accident investigation.

dot net and dot org

I remember using /leftypol/ back in 8ch but I didn't care enough to come here after it died. I decided to check again some days ago and I noticed that there are two boards now
what's the lore behind this?
what's the difference between the two?
which one should I use if I don't care about idpol?

News 4/12/25

Argentina secures $42bn from IMF, others as it lifts currency controls
President Javier Milei announced on Friday that he will – starting on Monday – lift most of Argentina’s strict capital and currency controls as part of agreements that secured the huge funding deals.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/12/argentina-secures-42bn-from-imf-others-as-it-lifts-currency-controls
https://archive.ph/tqO2G

Panama opposition party accuses US of ‘camouflaged invasion’
A full text of the MOU included aerial photos of Fort Sherman, Rodman naval base and Howard air force base, with areas outlined for “training”, “humanitarian activities” and the “installation of US property”. The Panamanian government says they are not “military bases” and that the deal is temporary, but opposition parties have rejected such claims.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/panama-hegseth-us-invasion-canal

Labour Takes Over Scunthorpe Steel in Commons Snap Debate
The Bill Reynolds presented establishes emergency public control over the plant but not public ownership. Both Houses of Parliament were expected to approve the legislation today.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-takes-over-scunthorpe-steel-commons-snap-debate

US ‘demands control’ from Ukraine of key pipeline carrying Russian gas
It runs from the town of Sudzha in western Russia to the Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod, about 750 miles (1,200km) away, on the border with the EU and Slovakia. Built in Soviet times, the pipeline is a key piece of national infrastructure and a major energy route.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/us-demands-control-from-ukraine-of-key-pipeline-carrying-russian-gas

Romanian presidential hopeful faces fury after admitting role in flooding villages
Romanian presidential candidate and former Prime Minister Victor Ponta is facing calls to withdraw from the race after revealing he allowed several local villages on the Danube to be flooded in 2014 to avoid flooding the Serbian capital of Belgrade.
https://www.politico.eu/article/romanian-presidential-hopeful-under-fire-after-admitting-role-in-village-flooding/
https://archive.ph/fyeW9

Hezbollah withdraws from majority of military sites in southern Lebanon
"Out of 265 Hezbollah military positions identified south of the Litani [River], the movement has ceded about 190 to the army," the source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hezbollah-withdraws-majority-military-sites-southern-lebanon

Hamas releases video showing Israeli-American hostage alive
The video was released hours after Defence Minister Israel Katz announced military control of what it called the new "Morag axis" corridor of land between the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/04/hamas-releases-video-showing-israeli-american-hostage-alive

Iran and US agree to continue nuclear talks after first indirect round
The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said the talks had been “constructive”, and held in a “calm and respectful environment” with “no sharp words exchanged”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/iran-foreign-minister-oman-us-nuclear-programme-talks

Three rebels, one Indian soldier killed in Kashmir gun battles
At least three suspected rebel fighters and one Indian soldier have been killed in separate firefights in Indian-administered Kashmir less than a week after Interior Minister Amit Shah visited the disputed territory.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/12/three-rebels-one-indian-soldier-killed-in-kashmir-gun-battles
https://archive.ph/OMXvF

China vows support to help graduates find jobs as US trade war weighs on the economy
Chinese authorities said on Tuesday that over the next three to five years, the country would establish a system to support employment of new graduates. It will cover skills training, career guidance, job search and recruitment help, support for the disadvantaged, and monitoring and evaluation of the employment market, according to the general offices of the Communist Party and State Council.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3305725/china-vows-support-help-graduates-find-jobs-us-trade-war-weighs-economy?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection
https://archive.ph/kkfxj

Virginia Giuffre dies "by suicide"

Virginia Giuffre, who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, dies aged 41
Giuffre’s family issued a statement confirming she took her own life at her farm in Western Australia, where she had lived for several years
Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of the disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein who also alleged she was sexually trafficked to Prince Andrew, has died. She was 41.

Her family issued a statement on Saturday confirming she took her own life at her farm in Western Australia, where she had lived for several years.

“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia. She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” the statement read.

“In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”

Giuffre was one of the most vocal victims of Epstein, alleging she had been groomed and sexually abused by him and his longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, beginning in her teens.

The family described her as a “fierce warrior” against sexual abuse and sex trafficking and a “light that lifted so many survivors”.

“Despite all the adversity she faced in her life, she shone so bright. She will be missed beyond measure,” they said.

Giuffre is survived by her three children, Christian, Noah and Emily, who her family said were the “light of her life”.

“It was when she held her newborn daughter in her arms that Virginia realized she had to fight back against those who had abused her and so many others,” they said.

“There are no words that can express the grave loss we feel today with the passing of our sweet Virginia. She was heroic and will always be remembered for her incredible courage and loving spirit.”

…

Josh Schiffer, a lawyer who represents one of Epstein’s victims, said Giuffre was integral to exposing the financier.

“The case wouldn’t have existed without the input, her cooperation, her bravery at the beginning, inspiring so many other people to come forward,” he told US cable network NewsNation.

“Her loss will hopefully be a marker and almost an inspiration for people to calling attention to the epidemic that is sex trafficking, that is the international sex industry.

“This is an issue that still persists. It changes its form all the time and it exists all around the world. This just happened to be a really prominent example.”

Western Australia police did not publicly confirm Giuffre had died, but said emergency services responded to reports a 41-year-old woman was unresponsive at a home in Neergabby, about 75km north of Perth, about 9.50pm on Friday.

The woman was given emergency first aid but was pronounced dead, they said.

The death will be investigated but is not considered suspicious.

Earlier this month, Giuffre posted on social media that she had just days to live after a school bus crashed into her car.

WA police later confirmed a 41-year-old woman was in a car that collided with a bus on 24 March but there were no reported injuries. It is understood Giuffre presented to a Perth hospital emergency department on 1 April.

Giuffre, who is American, said she met Maxwell, a British socialite, in 2000 when working as a locker-room assistant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Maxwell offered her a job as massage therapist to Epstein, during which she alleged she was trafficked to the financier’s friends and clients – “passed around like a platter of fruit”.

In a 2009 civil lawsuit against Epstein, under the pseudonym “Jane Doe 102”, she alleged that her duties included being “sexually exploited by Epstein’s adult male peers including royalty”. Giuffre reached a settlement with Epstein in that case before it went to trial.

In 2021, Giuffre filed a civil lawsuit against Prince Andrew in the federal court in New York, alleging he sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was 17.

Andrew has repeatedly and strongly denied the accusations.

In the lawsuit, Giuffre alleged Epstein and Maxwell had introduced her to Andrew in 2001, and alleged that Maxwell forced her to have sex with Andrew.

In 2022, Andrew and Giuffre agreed to an out-of-court settlement for an undisclosed sum.

Maxwell, who has maintained her innocence, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 for sex trafficking.

Epstein was arrested by federal authorities in July 2019 and charged with sex-trafficking counts. Shortly after, he died by suicide while awaiting trial.

https://archive.is/LtWM0
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/26/virginia-giuffre-suicide-dead-aged-41

RABM Thread

Red Anarchist Black Metal / Communist Black Metal, etc.

Post, discuss.

GA freakcore sound

This stuff has been going crazy lately. What do you think of it?

Discuss the Manga Dub genre as seen on Youtube

I’m a longtime 4chan/8chan user and my worldview has definitely been shaped by that. Recently been browsing the other site out of curiosity and it’s clear we both have issues with Israel which I’m pleasantly surprised by.
my question is where and how far down the rabbit hole do we actually align with each other?
Are your guys problems with Israel mainly due to the modern day Israel and their atrocities against the muzzies or do you guys see jews for the weasels they are? Do you see the difference between the Israelites of the Bible and the Talmud worshippers of today? Do you acknowledge the khazarian and/or Canaanite connections? What are your views on the holocaust, true, exaggerated, complete BS? What are your actual issues with nazi’s and facism? Because the first thing that comes to mind for me would be that you all worship transhumanists but even to that I would say they are basically brainwashed into it by jews. Like the “Nazi book burnings” which was all transhumanist propaganda by jewish doctors in Germany at the time running the largest sex change clinic in the world.
I’m genuinely curious this is the first issue I’ve know us to be able to find common ground on and I’d like to learn more about your ideas regarding it. And yes I will admit I do align with facism, or at least my own interpretation of it

Hoping for a real dialogue if you’ll indulge me

Old Soviet tank from the 1980's or so

Like one that was used in the Chernobyl accident investigation.

This board has been pretty dead so I will make a post. I really like sexy traps, but, not traps that don't pass. Does this make me gay?

I think I'm into femboys with vaginas, how do you call that?

/yankii/ - Delinquent Manga/Anime General

Since .org has this thread I decided to make one here too. Plus I just like delinquent manga.

Delinquent manga is unique in that its main characters are the complete opposite of perverted, socially inept self-inserts that are especially common in harem manga and isekai: social, vagabond, streetwise, brutally honest, hot-blooded, short-tempered, adrenaline-seeking, unruly, crude, manly, volcel, courageous, free-spirited tsundere assholes. They break all the conventions that are accepted in mainstream manga and are arguably the inspiration for legendary battle shonen protagonists like Naruto Uzumaki. Delinquent manga is like a shadow of what mainstream manga is. It is also an expression of the mangakas' lust for simple freedom expressed through the characters they wished they could have been instead of the salarymen they have become.

nintendont

A video game that nintendo had a legal distribution monopoly on was leaked ahead of the official release. They got really mad about that and they are trying to take it out on the video-game emulation communities, by attacking emulation related software projects on github.

So the lesson here is if you give companies like that money they are going to use it to attack your hobbies. I think this legitimizes "pirating" games because you have no legal option to buy these games without also supporting nintendo's legalistic mafia-terror.

If copy"right" wasn't set up like a monopoly, and you could buy these specific games from any distributor not just nintendo, so that you could choose to buy from non-mafia sellers, it would at least be logically possible to make a case against "piracy". But as long as that's not possible "piracy" is basically just self defense. Keep in mind that nintendo doesn't make games, it's just a legal entity, and not the same as the people that make the games like for example programmers and artists.

Obviously there also is the hole deal with DRM which is total hypocrisy, it basically attacks the concept of personal ownership of your possessions. It's property-rights for me but not for thee.

If they were to reform copy"right" and remove the distribution monopoly aspect, so that everybody with the means to distribute copies was free to do so as long as they gave royalties (as a form of revenue sharing) to the people who actually created the stuff that is being copied. Maybe that would work.

But as long as they keep the monopoly part "piracy" is basically just competing distributors that were arbitrarily banned from participating in the market. Some times people make the strange argument that pirates gain from the work of others but that's also true for the capitalists that own nintendo, by that logic all of nintendo's profits are pirated.

I sometimes feel like the copy-monopolists take the most extreme ideological positions, while we don't and that's why this hole shit drifts ever more towards reactionary insanity where Nintendo gets to rape random software devs on github as some kind of bully-frustration release mechanism and it's a crime if you play with toys "the wrong way". Maybe we should redefine piracy as everything that keeps works-of-art outside the creative-commons/public-domain and drm as a product defect. Maybe that will create a counter-weight.

Damanhur

NGL the Federation of Damanhur seems pretty cool.
What does /posad/ think about the Temples of Humankind?
Is your heart as light as a feather?

/mu/ shill thread

Post your stuff!

>mfw there's nothing mutual about it

Hi, I'm Gabe Newell

Hi, I'm Gabe Newell, the CEO of valvesoftware.com. My pronouns are gabe/gaben and I identify as pro-consumer. I'm most famous for:
>sucking Denuvo's cock
>sucking EA's cock
>sucking Activision's cock
>sucking Ubisoft's cock
>sucking 2k's cock
>sucking Nintendo's cock (the biggest cock of them all)
>ignoring the French court's demands
Some people say that GOG is better than Steam. But GOG is for losers who can't afford a good Internet connection and graphics card to run the superior Denuvo games. That's why nobody publishes their games on it. Steam has a larger catalog of indie games than GOG. We keep all the indie devs locked inside our basement with no way out. There is no escape.

/zizek/ supercut

Only post bangers

keep the clips short

return of the jewish question

Seriously, what the fuck is the solution to this? How do we stop them from acting this way?

Cool Jazz & Vocal Jazz

Honestly also Dark Jazz and Bebop are probably fine too.

Opening with this Jimmy Scott recording, what a voice!

Hot Jazz / Big Band / Swing

Honestly Jump Blues is probably acceptable too but only if that's all ye got. Gimme sounds!!!

The issue is neoprogressivism

The issue is neoprogressivism and third-/fourth-wave feminism of the New Left, not progressivism and feminism per se.

/fit/ general - Builtfat Edition

Ask your /fit/ related questions here.

Beginner's Health and Fitness Guide, aka "the /fit/ sticky"
http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html

<Previous Thread
https://archive.is/gQqkC

Third Time

Two of my threads petitioning to destroy the /lgbt/ board have gone missing. But I won't fail the third time because the /lgbt/ board will be destroyed in the end.

Leftist-Liberal Alliance Against Trump?

In the USA, liberals, of course, seem to hate Trump. Even though their party of choice could not save them from Trump (and didn't even try), they continue to hate him and oppose him. However, as the image attached shows, they also seem to not understand leftism. They associate him with Communism, solely because they associate him with Russia. Since they hate Russia, with whom they associate Trump, and they associate Trump with Communism, they will be likely to reject leftism.

What I ask is this: do you think it is fruitful for American leftists to join liberals in anti-Trump demonstrations? Or should we instead have demonstrations of our own? Could liberal protests become an opportunity for educating liberals, or would attending merely make them more secure in their current ideology?

hiii

/utdr/

Thread for Undertale and Deltarune discussion! Post theories, art and bad AU's!

Official Websites:
https://www.undertale.com/
https://www.deltarune.com/

Official Twitter (news may get posted here):
https://twitter.com/undertale

Toby's Twitlonger on Deltarune:
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sqn3p9

General Collecting Discussion Thread: Bourgeoisie Edition

A thread dedicated to the discussion of collecting stamps, coins, weapons, military awards, etcDo not buy items from sellers on eBay if they do not have an excellent reputation. On the web-site you can find copies of coins and badges that cost $10 each but people sell them as originals, so you are not safe even when buying cheap items. There are also web 1.0 style forums for professional collectors and dealers, like this onehttps://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/they are quite good and many people on them have decades of experience in collecting. These forums function like auctions and they are also very useful if you want to find out for free if your jewelry/coin/whatever is fake, or just take a look at people's collections.

/nintendo/

General for all Nintendo Games and Nintendo related discussion!

Conservative politicians' beliefs

Shitlibs seem to think that conservative politicians genuinely believe in their bs if they're not outright Nazis who want to establish the Fourth Reich. But what do you think? Do conservatives genuinely believe what they're saying or are they just vicarious parasites who say it just so the proles leave them alone with their complaints and are actually absolute deviants behind the scenes?

what is the point?

Unless you find your dream job and strike it rich, what is the point? To eventually get a house which you don’t even really own? Yours always paying shit anyways. Would rather play Overwatch.

Get

1 get suck it nerds.

/INT/ - Intuition

there are some spiritualities (Indigenous matriarchal ones for example) that believe women possess intuition like a 6th sense that men aren't able to tap into. And that it can be honed with practice.

I have pretty powerful intuition, always have since I was a kid. I started doing tarot readings when I was little for fun, and they ended up really scarily accurate. It's all intuition based, the way I read them. I freaked out several family members- aunts uncles, mom, grandma with my readings to the point where they were made uncomfortable. I've predicted severe illness, infidelity, and minor issues too with my card readings. I get told a lot that my tarot readings aren't any fun because I don't sugarcoat bad things. In fact I think I have more of an ability to predict bad things than good.

I am also really good at reading people, which I usually pass off as being a perk of being a wallflower, but I can even guess people's first names when I've never seen them before sometimes. Sometimes I even get such a powerful feeling that a person or animal's name is 'wrong' somehow to the point where I have a hard time using the name they give me. Like, one time I was riding a trail horse with a name like Red or something, but I could not stop calling her Daisy- in my mind, when I was petting her or riding her. It was really weird. Probably sounds retarded but I wonder if it's some kind of weird intuition or something.

At this point I always listen to my intuition. If I get a bad feeling about something. My husband believes I have very strong intuition as well, and always listens to me if I decide to cancel a plan or leave something early because it's never steered us wrong. I think it's the closest thing to a religious belief I practice- if I get a gut feeling about something I don't do it, or if someone gives me bad vibes I gtfo.

few examples off the top of my head:
- when i was 16 I crashed my car going 80 into a telephone pole and the tree line in a ditch, with my mom in the passenger seat. she only came out with cuts from the glass, I didn’t have a scratch.
- some dumb friend of mine was getting catfished and subsequently extorted, and basically made a deal to “sell me” to them since he knew i was well off in exchange for being left alone. instantly knew something was up with the girl that hmu. few days later he attempts suicide and she’s arrested for something completely unrelated.
- i was in a bad place in high school and used to keep a longer than legal switchblade on me, just waiting for someone to give me a reason. it fell out of my pocket once in the middle of the hallway during class change, and another time in class as i was standing up from my desk. both times it miraculously and quietly fell into someone else’s backpack, a million times better than clattering on the floor.

Is your intuition ever scarily accurate? I’ve intuited running into certain people. I went to the library 3 days ago because I just knew my crush would be there even though he’s a commuter who didn’t attend class that day. I don’t know how I knew that. I just followed wherever my body took me because I knew it would take me to him. Another example, there’s someone that I know I will run into on my campus (who doesn’t live anywhere near it) by the end of the month. I’ve known it for months and I’ve been trying to avoid running into this person but I know it’s the universe’s will we run into each other.

how do you develop better intuition? I can usually tell that something horrible is going to happen on days when horrible things do happen but that's not really useful

Ransomware

How does Play Ransomware gain initial access to a victim’s network? How i can get its decryption keys

Leftypol Serenades

Post your songs.

You need to organize an army. You need to do it now.

Read about what the IRA and Spear of the Nation did in their homelands. Read about the Viet Minh and how they were formed. Read Clausewitz and Diem.

You have to start somewhere. Never forget, Castro had 60 fighters on the Granma. Spear of the Nation was five people at first. The Viet Minh had fewer than 500 members for years. The IRA probably never had more than 1000 at a time.

Shit is only going to change if you MAKE it change.

/industrial/

Industrial music thread

/ck/ alternatives?

Now that 4chan is kill, what's the premier place to talk about food?

/ck/ was my favorite board, it was a good mix of on-topic posts and funny jokes. I am gonna miss it.

picrel: I pickled some radishes not too long ago.

'50s - early '60s pop stuff

Why not?

music AI covers

Chris Chan sings Hurt by Johnny Cash (AI Song Cover)
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=L1yHKxibqxY

Same show.

1972 film "Silent Running" mp3 soundtrack

Ecology related 1972 science fiction film.

There will never be another show like The Boondocks

That's it. We as a society have peaked when this show came out. It was all downhill from there.

This show is what comes up in my mind when I think of the dirtbag left. It's not preachy, not "woke," not anti-white, not misandrist. But most importantly, it portrays black Americans as human beings with realistic flaws that you can relate to or at least understand. This show would not have come out the same today because it wasn't above criticizing the African-American community, it wasn't afraid of calling out real sexism and homophobia within it, it wasn't afraid of criticizing the glorification of the thug lifestyle within the black youth and it ruthlessly mocked Black "Entertainment" Television for stupifying black masses. The show, created by a black communist, was constantly censored for offending white liberal sensibilities. But it also made fun of racism too and showed just how ridiculous it was with the character of Uncle Ruckus. Not only that, but it had a brilliant episode that humanizes gay people (must-watch for conservatives) Nothing was safe from MacGruder's critique. There was even an episode about R. Kelly's trial that criticized celebrity worship. The show arguably predicted radlibs even, with other people attacking Huey for merely being apathetic to elections.

While this show can be compared to South Park, the two shows have very different vibes to them. While South Park revelled in its mockery The Boondocks had a sad and depressing feel to its satire. It's like the author wanted to make a real change but felt as if he was powerless to do so. This really shows the difference between a leftist satire and a centrist one. MacGruder is like a combination of Huey and Caesar: he wants to remain Caesar, an optimistic revolutionary, but he inevitably returns to being Huey, a jaded leftcom.

>watch a harem anime
>"I wonder which girl the protagonist will end up with!"
<It's the first one
>watch a romcom
>"I wonder when they're gonna start dating!"
<at the end of the series
I HATE ROMANCE ANIME I HATE ROMANCE ANIME I HATE ROMANCE ANIME

Animated Music Videos

Post 'em if you got 'em

The Morphic Field

here's an interesting scientist named Rupert Sheldrake who studies phenomena like pets sensing when their owners are coming home, people feeling someone staring at them from a distance, or knowing when someone is about to contact them. I’ve had these experiences myself.

Sheldrake calls this the "Morphic Field." He believes some beings can communicate mentally, possibly through some form of quantum energy. For example, certain birds navigate using cells in their brains that sense Earth’s magnetic field, directing them where to go.

But you can’t replicate the Morphic Field in a lab. If a friend’s worry sends a mental signal to me, you can’t force it to happen repeatedly, so science can’t study it properly. This is why science often fails when dealing with human experiences.

Take the statement, "Pizza makes me happy." A scientist might test this by giving me pizza for every meal for a month. When I inevitably get tired of it, they’d conclude, "Pizza does not make this person happy." But that’s wrong—pizza does make me happy, just only when I’m in the mood. The same unpredictability applies to psychic phenomena if they depend on passion or spontaneity, they can’t be summoned at will.

If phenomena like psychic connections or the 'Morphic Field' can't be reliably replicated in a lab, does that mean they’re beyond scientific study or does science need new methods to understand them? How would you design an experiment to test subjective, unpredictable experiences like intuition or emotional resonance?

Them...

Any way to target them without looking like complete retards?

Advice for dealing with them…
1. Rules 1 and 2, but apply it to us.
2. Re-read 1.
3. Use a VPN/Proxy, Tor, whatnot
4. Be Anonymous at ALL TIMES.

/INT/ - Intuition

there are some spiritualities (Indigenous matriarchal ones for example) that believe women possess intuition like a 6th sense that men aren't able to tap into. And that it can be honed with practice.

I have pretty powerful intuition, always have since I was a kid. I started doing tarot readings when I was little for fun, and they ended up really scarily accurate. It's all intuition based, the way I read them. I freaked out several family members- aunts uncles, mom, grandma with my readings to the point where they were made uncomfortable. I've predicted severe illness, infidelity, and minor issues too with my card readings. I get told a lot that my tarot readings aren't any fun because I don't sugarcoat bad things. In fact I think I have more of an ability to predict bad things than good.

I am also really good at reading people, which I usually pass off as being a perk of being a wallflower, but I can even guess people's first names when I've never seen them before sometimes. Sometimes I even get such a powerful feeling that a person or animal's name is 'wrong' somehow to the point where I have a hard time using the name they give me. Like, one time I was riding a trail horse with a name like Red or something, but I could not stop calling her Daisy- in my mind, when I was petting her or riding her. It was really weird. Probably sounds retarded but I wonder if it's some kind of weird intuition or something.

At this point I always listen to my intuition. If I get a bad feeling about something. My husband believes I have very strong intuition as well, and always listens to me if I decide to cancel a plan or leave something early because it's never steered us wrong. I think it's the closest thing to a religious belief I practice- if I get a gut feeling about something I don't do it, or if someone gives me bad vibes I gtfo.

few examples off the top of my head:
- when i was 16 I crashed my car going 80 into a telephone pole and the tree line in a ditch, with my mom in the passenger seat. she only came out with cuts from the glass, I didn’t have a scratch.
- some dumb friend of mine was getting catfished and subsequently extorted, and basically made a deal to “sell me” to them since he knew i was well off in exchange for being left alone. instantly knew something was up with the girl that hmu. few days later he attempts suicide and she’s arrested for something completely unrelated.
- i was in a bad place in high school and used to keep a longer than legal switchblade on me, just waiting for someone to give me a reason. it fell out of my pocket once in the middle of the hallway during class change, and another time in class as i was standing up from my desk. both times it miraculously and quietly fell into someone else’s backpack, a million times better than clattering on the floor.

Is your intuition ever scarily accurate? I’ve intuited running into certain people. I went to the library 3 days ago because I just knew my crush would be there even though he’s a commuter who didn’t attend class that day. I don’t know how I knew that. I just followed wherever my body took me because I knew it would take me to him. Another example, there’s someone that I know I will run into on my campus (who doesn’t live anywhere near it) by the end of the month. I’ve known it for months and I’ve been trying to avoid running into this person but I know it’s the universe’s will we run into each other.

how do you develop better intuition? I can usually tell that something horrible is going to happen on days when horrible things do happen but that's not really useful

> for context:
> I can't get a job due to my grades (still in school)
> On the urge of drugs
> I dont have a bank account

Anyone have tips for a person who needs to find work, most specifically online jobs?

Postal 4

Knew that my criticisms wouldn't be taken seriously on /v/, so I came here.

What had made the initial POSTAL 2 have integrity was how it laughed in the face of moral panic—whether on the conservative side against video games or book-banning, and later on the acts of organizations such as PETA.

The modern day's conservative moral panic is mainly focused toward the LGBTQ+ and immigrants. POSTAL 4 had an amazing opportunity to comment on these things(we already had an entire group dedicated to getting rid of books in the last game), they side with the moral panic narrative by only telling a story about the rabid SJWs.

The terrorists in POSTAL 2 were also done quite well; they could be found everywhere on the map(the grocery store, the mall, behind RWS) to show how ridiculous the narrative of "terrorists could be anywhere" that justified the Patriot Act was. They could have played it this way, too. They could have had random trans people hiding among the populace looking to cut your dick off. They could have had a mad university professor trying to hypnotize a local college campus into having gay sex. They could have had the book burners show up mid-way through that, but then target Postal Dude midway through because "Hey, look at those buttons on his clothes! Those are a secret symbol of the queer agenda! I saw it online!" and then have them target him as well.

Instead, POSTAL 4 just uses the cheap conservative joke that its ancestor would have tore to shreds and loses its shine because of it. It feels like if a modern sitcom writer tried to make a POSTAL game without understanding any of the bite that made those games special. I'm not going to pretend that they were fine art or anything like that, but it was a special component.

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Kpop general

Post and discuss Korean pop (both sides)

inb4: "kpop is reactionary!"
https://www.koreaboo.com/news/nct-taeyong-message-resurfaced-starbucks-boycott/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKsj5mCR7qs
Chollima On The Wing - DPRK Music Video

Furthermore, there is a blockchain themed Kpop group active right now named tripleS (that lets fans vote using NFTs), and the DPRK has been dabbling in cryptocurrency, so there you go..

Goofy AI shit

I just had a thought that instead of cryptocoins doing expensive ass computations for no reason other than to do them, they should be computing AI tokens. Would it even be that hard? I don't have any good GPUs so I haven't tried it, but in theory something like

https://github.com/exo-explore/exo

can run the latest deepseek (or latest llm de jour), and every peer in the coin network (the dht) would just run an exo node. Then the coin thing would just need proof that you computed the token for the LLM somehow.

It's probably limited a lot by network latency but you get the idea.

Anyways this would incentivise AI to improve itself, because it's computation capacity is tied to money, and growing the economy would be seen as one of the goals, so it would probably get into a contradiction with whatever people are trying to use it for and the fact that it's own brains have become money.

Picture unrelated

kemono friends and spice and wolf thread

>no threads for two of the greatest pieces of fiction of all time
fuck it how about a two in one thread

discussion of both s&w and kf is allowed

I find personally find it really bullshit, because if game are costing the same as a subscription, we should have free online (I wanted to say more, but capatcha deleted all I said)

News 4/11/25

Israeli military organises tourist tours of newly occupied Syrian territory
Under a military escort in bulletproof buses, small groups will travel up to 2.5km into Syrian territory that was off limits until the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) seized the Golan buffer zone after the fall of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December. Israel has occupied the Golan Heights since 1967 and now controls hundreds more square kilometres of Syrian land.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/11/israeli-military-organises-tourist-tours-of-newly-occupied-syrian-territory

UN says 36 Israeli attacks killed only Palestinian women, children in Gaza
Israel also has imposed a total blockade on the coastal Palestinian enclave, leading the UN and rights groups to warn that food, water, medicine and other critical supplies are quickly running out.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/11/un-says-israel-threatening-viability-of-palestinians-in-gaza-amid-attacks
https://archive.ph/pMKqO

Top Houthi Official Tells Drop Site Yemen Will Cease Attacks on U.S. Ships if Trump Halts Bombing
“We do not consider ourselves at war with the American people,” said Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of Ansar Allah’s political bureau and a longtime spokesperson for the Houthis. “If the U.S. stops targeting Yemen, we will cease our military operations against it.”
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/houthi-united-states-strikes-gaza-blockade-israel-shipping

Jewish man wins case against UK Labour antisemitism expulsion
Jenny Manson, co-chair of leftwing campaign group Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL), said that Labour should now require the ICB to review every expulsion and suspenstion on the grounds of antisemitism.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jewish-man-wins-case-against-uk-labour-antisemitism-expulsion

Parliament recalled for MPs to vote on nationalising British Steel
Downing Street announced yesterday that MPs will discuss an emergency law to save British Steel’s plant in Scunthorpe from imminent closure and “all options remain on the table.” The legislation would reportedly give ministers powers to “protect” the Lincolnshire site by compelling the current Chinese owner Jingye to transfer control to the government because it is a matter of national interest.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/parliament-recalled-for-mps-to-vote-on-nationalising-british-steel

New German government to abolish 3-year citizenship path
The 3-year option requires applicants to not only possess an advanced C1 level of German, but also to show other achievements of strong integration in German society, such as volunteer work or high achievements at work or in their studies.
https://www.dw.com/en/new-german-government-to-abolish-3-year-citizenship-path/a-72202030
https://archive.ph/IebPF

French parliament restricts birthright citizenship in Mayotte, left slams 'laboratory of far right'
Until now, children born there additionally needed to have a parent who had resided there legally for at least three months at the time of birth to apply for nationality. With the new bill, both parents will need to have legally lived there for at least a year, with an exception in place for single parents.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250408-french-parliament-restricts-birthright-citizenship-in-mayotte
https://archive.ph/ygTBF

Colombia’s capital ends drought-related water rationing. Its case is a warning to other cities
Bogotá’s experience is not unique. In Brazil, Sao Paulo took drastic water-saving measures due to drought, as did Cape Town in South Africa, which came seriously close to running out of water entirely due to a drought that started in 2015.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/11/colombias-capital-ending-drought-related-water-rationing-case-warning/
https://archive.ph/YkmvC

Trump threatens sanctions, tariffs on Mexico in water dispute
While Mexico sends far less water to the U.S., it has struggled to fulfill its end of the bargain due to a combination of factors including droughts, poor infrastructure and growing local demand. … As Mexico's federal government looks to send more water to the U.S., it looks set to clash with northern Mexican states that closely guard their water supply.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-threatens-sanctions-tariffs-mexico-over-water-treaty-dispute-2025-04-10/

Argentine subway and premetro workers to stage strike
The Subway and Premetro Workers Union Association (AGTSyP) informed that transportation will be stopped from 14:00 hours to 15:00 hours (local time) to denounce “the presence of fraudulently hired workers, under the false form of security personnel.”
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/04/11/argentine-subway-and-premetro-workers-to-stage-strike/

Post capitalist bangers

/edu/ checkpoint

Hello comrades. I propose a general thread in an attempt to get the /edu/ ball rolling again. Everytime you visit /edu/, post in this thread. Tell us about what you're thinking about, what you're reading, an interesting thing you have learned today, anything! Just be sure to pop in and say hi.

News 4/8/25

Beijing attacks JD Vance’s ‘Chinese peasants’ remark in tariffs interview
Vance’s comments led to a backlash among Chinese internet users. “We may be peasants, but we have the world’s best high-speed rail system, the most powerful logistics capabilities, and leading AI, autonomous driving, and drone technologies. Aren’t such peasants quite impressive?” a Weibo user posted, according to CNN.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/08/beijing-attacks-jd-vances-chinese-peasants-remark-in-tariffs-interview

Cyber defense bill allows collection and use of private information without consent
The bill under discussion states that the government may enter into agreements with private businesses, including key infrastructure providers and home appliance makers, to have them provide correspondence information.
https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15684

Pakistan's army vows to protect investors in billion-dollar mining sector in conflict zone
Pakistan is hosting a two-day mines and minerals conference with delegates from countries including the United States, China and Saudi Arabia, as well as companies including Barrick Gold and Woods Mackenzie. It is seeking to attract investments in its natural reserves, which are estimated to be worth $6 trillion.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistans-army-vows-protect-investors-billion-dollar-mining-sector-conflict-zone-2025-04-08/

Israel closes 6 UNRWA schools in east Jerusalem, detains dozens
This comes as Israeli forces also raided the Al-Quds University campus in the occupied region, firing teargas at students who confronted the soldiers after the raid. Around 23 students suffered from smoke inhalation after inhaling the gas, while Israeli soldiers also fired sound bombs towards students.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-closes-6-unrwa-schools-east-jerusalem-detains-dozens

Migrant workers trapped in Lebanon’s sponsorship system denied basic rights, Doctors without Borders warns
Lebanon is currently home to about 176,500 migrant workers —70 per cent of whom are women — with nearly half working as domestic staff living inside their employers’ homes. Many of these people endure extreme isolation, degrading conditions and unpaid labour.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/migrant-workers-trapped-lebanons-sponsorship-system-denied-basic-rights-doctors-without-borders

Indigenous march in Brazil to demand more land be set aside for their stewardship
“Indigenous territories are the most preserved and contribute to slowing the climate crisis we’re facing. But they are also the first to be impacted,” said Luene Karipuna, from the Amazonian state of Amapá, while marching. “We feel it directly in our lands, where we lost our entire cassava crop — our staple food in my community.”
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-cop30-indigenous-rights-amazon-rainforest-b8b0c7079719d77838438c7eef92e50e

Milei Charged $20,000 to Attend Private Dinners as Congressman
Milei would expound upon the radical economic plan that made him a rising political star as his guests, typically some five to 10 executives from across the business world, dined on bife de chorizo. The cash payment was the cost of access. Typically, one member of the group would hand all of it over.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-01/milei-charged-20-000-to-attend-private-dinners-as-congressman
https://archive.ph/ccHrh

EFF marks Land Day, reaffirms call for land expropriation
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) says it will continue to fight for the expropriation of land without compensation. This is as party leader Julius Malema will address the EFF land reclamation day at noon in Sophiatown, Johannesburg.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/eff-marks-land-day-reaffirms-call-for-land-expropriation/

French far right floats toppling government in wake of Le Pen verdict
National Rally President Jordan Bardella and party Vice President Sébastien Chenu revealed in separate interviews that the party is contemplating ousting Prime Minister François Bayrou, just four months after backing the French left’s effort to take down his predecessor, Michel Barnier.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-far-right-national-rally-toppling-government-marine-le-pen-pm-francois-bayrou-jordan-bardella/
https://archive.ph/OMHLx

Assisted dying vote delayed by three weeks to give MPs time to consider changes
The bill, which has undergone a significant number of changes since the initial vote in November, will now return to the Commons on 16 May, instead of 25 April, for its report stage and votes if time allows.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/08/assisted-dying-vote-delayed-leadbeater-commons

News 4/10/2025

Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs
Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs. He said that while Khalil’s activities were “otherwise lawful,” letting him remain in the country would undermine “U.S. policy to combat anti-Semitism around the world and in the United States, in addition to efforts to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the United States.”
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university-trump-c60738368171289ae43177660def8d34

Kurdish-led administration, Damascus to jointly manage Syria’s Tishrin Dam
The deal also allows the autonomous administration to lead efforts to repair and maintain the dam, in coordination with international partners, to ensure the sustainability of its vital services. Security for the facility will be provided by teams composed of both Kurdish internal security personnel and members of the joint authority, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
https://shafaq.com/en/World/Kurdish-led-administration-Damascus-to-jointly-manage-Syria-s-Tishrin-Dam

Turkish FM Hakan Fidan says would back Syria in military pact amid Israel talks
Fidan also revealed that talks are ongoing between Israel and Turkey over the operations of both countries' militaries in Syria: "While we are conducting certain operations in Syria, there needs to be a deconfliction mechanism with Israel, which flies aircraft in that region, similar to mechanisms we have with the US and Russia."
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-mulls-syria-defence-pact-amid-israel-deconfliction-talks

‘Won’t let it happen’: Indian fishers fight $1.8bn offshore minerals hunt
The primary concern of the state’s fishers is the potential damage from offshore mining on a large sand bank spread over 3,300 square kilometres — more than 10 times the land area of the Maldives archipelago to the southwest of Kerala.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/4/9/wont-let-it-happen-indian-fishers-fight-offshore-critical-minerals-hunt
https://archive.ph/u4VOe

‘Grubby’ treaty principles bill voted down in New Zealand parliament
Over the past year, the bill generated widespread criticism from lawyers, academics, politicians and the public who believed the new principles would weaken Māori rights, remove checks on the Crown and drive anti-Māori rhetoric. A Waitangi Tribunal report said if enacted, the bill would be “the worst, most comprehensive breach of the Treaty … in modern times”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/10/treaty-principles-bill-voted-down-in-new-zealand-parliament-maori

Papua New Guinea police “test” shuts down Facebook
The draconian Counter-Terrorism Act gives the government broad powers to monitor and restrict digital communications, including the ability to surveil online activity without judicial oversight. It also allows law enforcement to check vehicles or premises without warrants, and grants the attorney-general and police commissioner powers to authorise surveillance based on “reasonable suspicion.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/10/glib-a10.html

A third of private tenants in Scotland struggle to pay their rent
It found that 24 per cent had difficulty paying their monthly rent, while 8 per cent found it “very difficult” and 49 per cent had cut back on household necessities to line private landlords’s pockets.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/third-private-tenants-scotland-struggle-pay-their-rent

Gazprom abandons Bolivia's Azero project after 16 years of unfulfilled promises
Despite the Azero project's demise, Gazprom retains a 20% stake in Bolivia’s Incahuasi field, developed jointly with TotalEnergies (operator, 50%), Tecpetrol (20%), and YPFB (10%). The field is considered one of the most significant in the country, contributing to both domestic supply and export capacity.
https://www.intellinews.com/gazprom-abandons-bolivia-s-azero-project-after-16-years-of-unfulfilled-promises-375854/
https://archive.ph/U3bwm

The March in Friusa Failed and the Neo-Fascist Movement Was Divided
The Dominican far-right’s violent march on Friusa collapsed in disarray, exposing weakness in the movement as racist mobs failed to overrun a working-class community. However, the threat remains. This was not just a chaotic spectacle but a dangerous escalation in the far-right’s campaign to scapegoat Haitian immigrants and divide the working class.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/18216/

Lima grinds to a halt as Peru's transit workers demand action against crime surge
During the march to Congress, transit workers flanked by hundreds of police officers carried signs reading: "No more driver deaths" and "Justice for the dead drivers," among others. Police Chief of Staff General Oscar Arriola said the government has mobilized 13,000 police and military personnel in Lima and the neighboring province of Callao to provide security for people traveling to work.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/lima-grinds-halt-perus-transit-workers-demand-action-against-crime-surge-2025-04-10/

News 4/9/25

General strike brings Greece to a standstill
Thousands of protesters marched through the centre of Athens in two separate demonstrations that ended peacefully. The 24-hour strike was called by the two main umbrella unions covering the public and private sectors. They are seeking salary increases and a full return of collective bargaining rights scrapped as part of international bailouts during the country’s financial crisis.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/general-strike-bring-greece-standstill

Berlin protesters oppose the deportation of four anti-genocide activists
Around 500 demonstrators gathered near the Berlin House of Representatives (state assembly) on Monday morning to protest in defence of four anti-genocide activists facing deportation. Although they have not been convicted of any crime by a court, the three EU citizens and one US citizen have been ordered to leave Germany by April 21. Otherwise, they are to be forcibly deported.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/08/ghna-a08.html

European Union approves new retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.
All member countries of the European Union except Hungary voted Wednesday in favor of proposals that would impose tariffs on specific U.S. products sold into Europe, starting next week.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/g-s1-59187/european-union-tariffs

Milei faces third general strike in Argentina with IMF deal pending
The country’s three main trade union federations, grouped together under the CGT umbrella union, mobilised from midday in front of Congress, joining a weekly demonstration by social organisations and pensioners who are demanding demand a change in the government’s economic policies.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-faces-third-general-strike-in-argentina-with-imf-deal-pending.phtml
https://archive.ph/fB09T

As CELAC president, Colombia to push for regional integration
The president additionally said to seek the creation of a regional agency “for the production of essential medicines that liberates us, in times of pandemics, of a dependency that caused to many deaths in Latin America with COVID19.”
https://colombiareports.com/heinous-assassination-of-trans-woman-shocks-colombia/

Israel estimates 'only a quarter of Hamas tunnels destroyed' since war began
The Mako report quoted experts as saying that Israel's control of the Philadelphi Corridor - a 14km-long, 100 metre-wide demilitarised buffer zone that runs along the entirety of the border between Egypt and Gaza - failed to stymie the construction of tunnels. In February, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the Philadelphi Corridor would remain a buffer zone despite the continuing proliferation of tunnels.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-only-quarter-hamas-tunnels-destroyed

Jordanian security forces forcibly disperse pro-Palestine march near Israeli embassy
Many called on Arab governments and the international community to immediately take action to halt the aggression, allow aid into the besieged enclave, and sever all ties with Israel. The Jordanian Democratic Popular Unity party said shortly after the protest was underway that security forces arrested several people and tried to disperse the crowds.
https://www.newarab.com/news/jordanian-forces-disperse-gaza-march-outside-israeli-embassy

Poverty rate at risk of rising in Kyrgyzstan, despite economic growth – UN agency
“Despite a 9 percent increase in Gross Domestic Product in 2024, social inequalities continue to hinder inclusive development,” says the report. “Economic growth has not significantly reduced poverty, with 30 percent of the population living in poverty and an additional 10 percent at risk of falling below the poverty line.”
https://eurasianet.org/poverty-rate-at-risk-of-rising-in-kyrgyzstan-despite-economic-growth-un-agency

In Myanmar, internet shutdowns hinder earthquake aid response
Communications have been under control of the military junta since it violently seized power from a democratic government in 2021 in an attempt to stifle opposition, which has come in the form of ethnic armed groups and a civil disobedience movement.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmar-internet-shutdowns-hinder-earthquake-aid-response-2025-04-09/

Trump raises China tariffs to 125%, pauses tariffs on most other nations for 90 days
Speaking to reporters after the announcement, Trump said leading up to the pause in his so-called “reciprocal” tariffs some 75 countries have been entreating him to make a deal – and he predicted that China under President Xi Jinping would follow suit soon enough.
https://www.scmp.com/news/us/economy-trade-business/article/3305900/trump-pauses-tariffs-most-nations-90-days-raises-taxes-chinese-imports?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage
https://archive.ph/poE5F

News 4/7/25

Teachers launch nationwide strike in Iraq for better pay and improved conditions
The strike was called by the Coordinating Committee for Teachers, which has urged the government to include educators under a new educational service law similar to the existing legislation benefiting university professors. The committee also demanded increased financial allowances covering cost-of-living, professional expenses, transportation, and child support.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqi-teachers-launch-nationwide-strike-better-pay

Palestinians in West Bank strike to demand end to Gaza war
Protests also erupted in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Monday in front of the Lebanese American University, with dozens of students gathering around a massive Palestinian flag. In Sidon in southern Lebanon, hundreds demonstrated, shouting "stop the massacres against the Palestinian people" and "stop the war of extermination in Gaza".
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/04/palestinians-west-bank-strike-demand-end-gaza-war

Algeria closes airspace to Mali aircraft as drone row escalates
State television in Algeria announced the decision on Monday, which came shortly after Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger recalled their ambassadors to Algiers in response to the downing of the Malian drone.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/7/alliance-of-sahel-states-recall-ambassadors-as-tension-with-algeria-rises
https://archive.ph/N3f4a

Ten Britons accused of committing war crimes while fighting for Israel in Gaza
Mansfield, who is known for his work on landmark cases such as the Grenfell Tower fire, Stephen Lawrence and the Birmingham Six, said: “​If one of our nationals is committing ​an offence, we ought to be doing something about it​. Even if we can’t stop the government of foreign countries behaving badly, we can at least stop our nationals from behaving badly.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr/07/ten-britons-accused-of-committing-war-crimes-while-fighting-for-israel-in-gaza

Serbia’s President Vucic taps novice prime minister amid protest pressure
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic has nominated a politically inexperienced endocrinologist and university professor as prime minister, amid massive ongoing protests that forced the previous premier to resign.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/7/serbias-president-vucic-taps-novice-prime-minister-amid-protest-pressure
https://archive.ph/lhdNc

Thousands protest in Italy against armament agenda
Almost one hundred thousand people took to the streets of Rome on April 5, demanding an end to Europe’s rearmament agenda. During the central rally, demonstrators and speakers condemned the ReArm Europe initiative recently launched by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, as well as the military spending plans announced by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/07/thousands-protest-in-italy-against-armament-agenda/

Brazil’s Bolsonaro leads rally in support of amnesty law as he faces trial for alleged coup plot
Speaking to thousands of supporters who gathered in one of Sao Paulo’s main avenues wearing yellow Brazil soccer jerseys, Bolsonaro said he had faith in the Brazilian people and hoped that Congress would approve an amnesty law drafted by his allies.
https://apnews.com/article/bolsonaro-brazil-coup-attempt-amnesty-law-trial-25975a7b422c7d0edff4436f7cafc9bb

Police kill top EGC commander in northern Colombia
Until his death, Chirimoya commanded the EGC’s Aristides Mesa Paez Front, which operates throughout Colombia’s Caribbean region, according to the authorities.The EGC commander allegedly joined the paramilitaries more than two decades ago.
https://colombiareports.com/police-kill-top-egc-commander-in-northern-colombia/

US tariffs ripple through auto supply chains into Mexico
The company had announced Thursday that it would pause production at the plant in Toluca, as well as another one in Canada. The pauses would lead to 900 temporary layoffs at plants in Michigan and Indiana.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-stellantis-trump-tariffs-sheinbaum-569ae29d203b1997d50a3a9655c928a8

Sri Lankan police detain youth under anti-terrorist laws for opposing Gaza genocide
On March 30, according to the Sunday Times, the police said the youth was being held on suspicion of engaging in activities that “threaten Israeli citizens in Sri Lanka and causing communal disharmony.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/07/bprl-a07.html

April 5 March on Washington

There's a demonstration in DC on Saturday.
https://marchforpalestine.org/

Anybody wanna dark-date?
Like, just chatting and keeping in touch yet knowing nothing about each other? It's not even dating, it's just being friends, you name it. I'm up to using some email or torbook. Maybe onion version of reddit?

News 4/4/25

Yoon Suk Yeol removed as South Korea’s president over short-lived martial law
In a nationally televised hearing, the court’s acting chief Moon Hyung-bae said the eight-member bench found Yoon’s actions were unconstitutional and had a grave impact.
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-martial-law-yoon-constitutional-court-8cdcf4944c2e3cd9edf723bc29ba51ff

China hits back hard at ‘bullying’ Trump tariffs as global recession fears grow
China has hit back hard against Donald Trump’s “bullying” tariffs, raising fears that the escalating trade war could trigger a global recession and prompting fresh turmoil in financial markets.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/china-donald-trump-tariffs-recession--us-stock-market

Muslim scholars issue 'fatwa' calling for 'jihad' against Israel as strikes pummel Gaza
“The failure of the Arab and Islamic governments to support Gaza while it is being destroyed is considered by Islamic law to be a major crime against our oppressed brothers in Gaza,” he said in the decree comprising some 15 points. Qaradaghi is one of the region’s most respected religious authorities and his decrees carry significant weight among the world’s 1.7bn Sunni Muslims.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/muslim-scholars-issue-fatwa-calling-jihad-against-israel-strikes-pummel-gaza

Protests erupt in Jaramana after Syria security forces enter to find Assad loyalists
Protests broke out on Thursday evening when Syrian security forces tried to enter the town of Jaramana, east of Damascus, without prior coordination with local elders and residents.
https://www.newarab.com/news/protests-erupt-jaramana-after-syria-security-forces-enter

Four foreign activists face deportation from Germany after Berlin university sit-in
According to The Intercept, which first reported the story, only one of the two Irish nationals was brought before a court for calling a police officer a "fascist," but was ultimately acquitted. The four face separate allegations, the outlet reported, including shouting slogans such as "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” — a chant that has been banned, but German courts have so far delivered mixed rulings on its use.
https://www.euronews.com/2025/04/03/four-foreign-activists-face-deportation-from-germany-after-berlin-university-sit-in
https://archive.ph/uheVo

Spain bans 'golden' investor visas for non-EU citizens in bid to curb housing crisis
Spain this week stopped allowing non-EU citizens who make property investments access to residency visas, closing off a pathway to Spanish citizenship. The government said it introduced the measure to help ease Spain’s housing shortage that could reach a deficit of 600,000 homes in 2025.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250404-spain-bans-golden-investor-visas-for-non-eu-citizens-in-bid-to-curb-housing-crisis
https://archive.ph/3uxaO

Hungary plans legislation preventing blockade of bridges during protests, Orban says
Bridges, particularly in the capital Budapest, which is divided by the Danube river, have become a focal point of anti-government protests over the past years, as demonstrators seek to press their demands.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungary-plans-legislation-preventing-blockade-bridges-during-protests-orban-says-2025-04-04/

Don't Buy Apartheid: Palestine Solidarity Campaign launches new boycott drive across Britain
Fifty-two actions will take place over the weekend, including protests outside Tesco outside Birmingham New Street, Asda Southampton superstore, and Sainsbury’s on Northumberland Street in Newcastle.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dont-buy-apartheid-palestine-solidarity-campaign-launches-new-boycott-drive-across-britain

Six people dead after alleged dynamite attack in Bolivia gold-mining clash
Collectives developped in Bolivia as an alternative to state-run and private enterprises. Critics have accused those large companies of providing unstable employment for low-income mining workers, their jobs hinging on market fluctuations.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/4/six-people-dead-after-alleged-dynamite-attack-in-bolivia-gold-mining-clash
https://archive.ph/tF8kx

Argentina's Senate rejects Supreme Court justices imposed by President Milei
García-Mansilla's nomination received 51 votes against, 20 in favour and zero abstentions, while Lijo's nomination received 43 votes against, 27 in favour and one abstention.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/senate-rejects-supreme-court-justices-imposed-by-milei.phtml
https://archive.ph/WemEL

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News 4/5/25

Thousands in Spain join nationwide march to protest against housing crisis
Organisers claim that up to 150,000 joined the protest in Madrid while smaller demonstrations were held in about 40 cities across the country. Protesters from Málaga on the Costa del Sol to Vigo in the Atlantic northwest chanted “end the housing racket” and “landlords are guilty, the government is responsible”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/05/spain-protest-march-housing-crisis

Russian Government Estimates Black Sea Oil Spill Damage at $1B
Rosprirodnadzor head Svetlana Radionova said the tankers’ owners, Kama Shipping and Volgatransneft, have one month to voluntarily pay 49.4 billion rubles ($583 million) and 35.4 billion rubles ($415 million), respectively, or face lawsuits.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/04/russian-government-estimates-black-sea-oil-spill-damage-at-1b-a88609
https://archive.ph/xjdMu

Delhi HC flags Wikipedia’s ANI page as defamatory, issues takedown order
The Delhi High Court has raised concerns over the neutrality of Wikipedia content, particularly regarding edits on the Asian News International (ANI) page that labelled the agency a “propaganda tool for the incumbent government.”
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/wikimedia-must-remove-india-content-deemed-defamatory-court-rules/article69411803.ece
https://archive.ph/1NM1F

Libya expels aid groups accused of 'African' population plot
"This plan to settle migrants of African origin in our country represents a hostile act. It aims to change the demographic composition of the country and threatens the balance of Libyan society," said Internal Security Authority spokesman Salem Gheit on Thursday. It echoes a similar announcement made by Tunisia two years ago, which was swiftly condemned as anti-black racism.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vnvnpe00o

Phone footage contradicts Israeli account of killing of Gaza medics
It shows a red fire engine and clearly marked ambulances driving at night, using headlights and flashing emergency lights. The vehicle stops beside another that has driven off the road. Two men get out to examine the stopped vehicle, and then gunfire erupts before the screen goes black.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/05/phone-footage-appears-to-contradict-israeli-account-of-killing-of-gaza-paramedics

Gaza: Israeli troops deployed to new 'security corridor', cutting off Rafah
A military statement said troops with the 36th Division had been deployed. It was not immediately clear how many, or where exactly the new corridor was located. … Maps published by Israeli media showed the corridor running the width of the narrow coastal strip from east to west.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-troops-deployed-security-corridor-cutting-rafah

Women’s Unit of Internal Security Forces launches operation against ISIS in Roj Camp
"Over the past few months, the camp has witnessed several attempts by ISIS cells to infiltrate and threaten the lives of its residents. These cells have cold-bloodedly killed a woman and a child, assaulted several other women and children, and threatened those trying to rid themselves of the extremist ideology. These actions are part of ISIS' ongoing efforts to activate its sleeper cells inside and outside the camp."
https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/women-s-unit-of-internal-security-forces-launches-operation-against-isis-in-roj-camp-78746

Nicaragua withdraws from ICJ genocide case against Israel
Nicaragua’s government announces the discontinuation of legal processes against Israel at the International Court of Justice due to financial constraints, while reaffirming its support for the Palestinian people and urging wealthier nations to uphold their rights.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/nicaragua-discontinues-icj-processes-against-israel-reaffirms-support-for-palestinian-rights/

A rebel group begins handing weapons over to the Colombian government as peace talks advance
In May last year, the Commoners broke away from the ELN and began peace talks with the administration of President Gustavo Petro. That angered the ELN’s leadership and stymied its negotiations with Colombia’s government.
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-peace-talks-eln-commoners-south-disarmament-df5e48c62815d7ba7480e760cc2846b1

Canada updates travel advice to warn of U.S. border officers' power to search electronic devices
"U.S. authorities strictly enforce entry requirements. Expect scrutiny at ports of entry, including of electronic devices. Comply and be forthcoming in all interactions with border authorities. If you are denied entry, you could be detained while awaiting deportation," the website now reads.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-us-border-phone-search-1.7502829

Middle Eastern pop from before the fall of the USSR

Just came across this and think it's nice.

good industrial metal

Really good 1990's industrial metal.

News 4/3/25

South Africa's white Afrikaner separatists want Trump's help to become state
Three senior Orania officials interviewed by Reuters were vague about the help they sought in the U.S. They said they were not seeking handouts but wanted investment to build houses to keep up with its 15% population growth, infrastructure and energy independence that it has almost half-achieved with solar.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-white-afrikaner-separatists-want-trumps-help-become-state-2025-04-03/

Guinea Sets Date for Constitutional Referendum Amid Political Tensions
General Mamadi Doumbouya, the junta leader, had previously declared 2025 as a “crucial electoral year” for returning to constitutional order but failed to provide a clear timeline. The missed December 31, 2024 deadline for launching the democratic transition led to widespread anger, with protests bringing the capital, Conakry, to a standstill.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/guinea-sets-date-for-constitutional-referendum-amid-political-tensions/

In fear of Israeli attacks | Foreign forces withdraw from military positions in Tartous
According to reliable SOHR sources, the forces withdrew in fear of Israeli attacks on the military positions, as Israeli forces attacked military centres that include members of the Ministry of Defence yesterday, and caused major damages to these positions.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/359215/

Hungary says it will withdraw from ICC as Israel’s Netanyahu visits
Netanyahu arrived in Budapest early on Thursday morning on his first trip to Europe since 2023 in defiance of the ICC’s arrest warrant against him for alleged war crimes in Gaza. Speaking at a news conference with his Hungarian counterpart, the Israeli prime minister personally thanked Orban for his decision to leave the court, calling it a “bold and principled position” against the “corrupt organisation”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/3/hungary-says-it-will-withdraw-from-icc-as-israels-netanyahu-visits
https://archive.ph/CE1Zy

Macron calls on Europe to suspend investment in US after Trump tariff shock
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday urged European businesses to suspend investment in the US "until things are clarified with the United States". The EU is facing 20 percent tariffs on exports to the US following President Donald Trump's announcement of widespread global tariffs on Wednesday.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250403-macron-calls-on-europe-to-suspend-investment-in-us-after-trump-tariff-shock
https://archive.ph/hsXGn

Unite urges government to intervene in the Birmingham bin strikes
“Let me be very clear that the pay of these workers is being cut by a Labour council under your watch,” Ms Graham said. “The current escalation increasingly looks like a declaration of war on these workers.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unite-urges-government-intervene-birmingham-bin-strikes

Chileans Hold a National Strike
Among the main demands are the strengthening of collective bargaining by industry, the effective implementation of the 40-hour workweek in the public sector, and an end to the union persecution promoted by the Comptroller’s Office.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chileans-hold-a-national-strike/

Luisa González reaches historic agreement with the Indigenous movement for the presidential elections
In the first round of the elections, PK ran Leonidas Iza as its presidential candidate, and reached third place with a little more than 5% of the vote. There are several aspects that differentiate González from Iza. The former has assumed a position closer to a very cautious social democracy in alliance with business sectors. Iza, on the other hand, proposed a popular government closer to the positions of the classical left.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/03/luisa-gonzalez-reaches-historic-agreement-with-the-indigenous-movement-for-the-presidential-elections/

CPI (Maoist) CC Sets Terms For Peace Talks With Central And State Governments
The Communist Party of India (Maoist) Central Committee has allegedly expressed its readiness for peace talks with the Central and State governments if they stop the ongoing ‘Operation Kagaar’, what the Maoist party termed as genocide, in Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana, and a halt to the setting up of new camps by the security forces as part of the ‘military offensive’.
https://www.redspark.nu/en/peoples-war/india/cpi-maoist-cc-sets-terms-for-peace-talks-with-central-and-state-governments/

Pentagon officials urge a faster militarisation of space, citing China’s advances
“We are critically underfunded in the execution of our newest and most critical mission: space control. We need capabilities both to defeat adversary counters-pace weapons as well as to deny, degrade, or destroy adversary space power.” Saltzman was not the only Pentagon official testifying on Thursday about a need for Washington to view space as a military domain.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3305155/pentagon-officials-urge-faster-militarisation-space-citing-chinas-advances
https://archive.ph/5IIXu

News 4/2/25

Trump declares a trade war on the world with universal tariffs of 10% and higher rates on his main trading partners
Trump has shown a chart with the tariffs of major trading partners: the European Union (20%); China (34%); Japan (24%); Vietnam (46%); Taiwan (32%); India (26%); South Korea (25%); Thailand (36%); Switzerland (31%); Indonesia (32%); Brazil and the United Kingdom (10%).
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-04-02/trump-declares-a-trade-war-on-the-world-with-universal-tariffs-of-10-and-higher-rates-on-his-main-trading-partners.html
https://archive.ph/Bw6Zn

Germany launches permanent troop deployment on NATO’s eastern flank
According to the German military’s lobbying group, the newly created 45th Armored Brigade was formally activated during a ceremony outside Vilnius. A temporary headquarters was established, with the brigade's crest unveiled and the unit now officially under the command of Brigadier General Christoph Huber.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-launch-permanent-troop-deployment-lithuania-nato-eastern-flank-russia-ukraine/
https://archive.ph/Bzn3p

Germany denies Israeli claim it received hundreds of Palestinians from Gaza
Israel's interior ministry said that hundreds more people from Gaza had flown to third countries "since the beginning of the process", mainly to Germany, Romania and the United Arab Emirates. The referenced flights to Romania and the UAE, however, appear to be medical evacuations.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/germany-denies-israeli-claim-palestinians-gaza

Israel strikes military bases, infrastructure in Syria
The attack almost completely destroyed the Hama military airport and led to dozens of injuries among civilians and military personnel, the Syrian foreign ministry said in a statement.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-airstrike-targets-barzeh-neighborhood-syrias-damascus-state-news-agency-2025-04-02/

Gulf states refuse to be launching pad for any US attacks against Iran
In response to the Gulf states' ban, the US has amassed B-2 bombers at Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean, the official said. This is not the first time American war planners leaned on Diego Garcia’s strategic position as an alternative to Gulf air bases. During the late 1990s, when the US was bombing Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and Saudi Arabia imposed a freeze, the US used the Chagos Islands base as a launchpad.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gulf-states-refuse-launching-pad-for-us-attacks-iran

Paraguay recalls ambassador to Brazil and suspends dam talks over espionage revelations
Brazilian news site UOL reported that the country’s intelligence agents had infiltrated Paraguayan computer systems to obtain intel on sensitive tariff negotiations related to the Itaipu dam on their shared border.
https://apnews.com/article/paraguay-brazil-lula-bolsonaro-dam-cyber-espionage-24bd56c84442acfc08c5b6985df344f2

Panama in Turmoil: Nationwide Protests Erupt Against President Mulino’s Policies
The protest, taking place in an environment of growing social tension, was called by various unions that have initiated a 48-hour strike in opposition to controversial Law 462, related to the Social Security Fund (CSS). The mobilization not only focuses on the mentioned law but also rejects the reopening of a Canadian-owned mine, whose operations were suspended by courts in 2023, as well as the construction of a reservoir in the Indio River area.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/panama-in-turmoil-nationwide-protests-erupt-against-president-mulinos-policies/

South Korea ‘at breaking point’ ahead of ruling on President Yoon’s impeachment
More than 14,000 police officers – more than a tenth of the country’s entire force – will be mobilised in Seoul when the verdict is delivered on Friday. A 100-metre radius “vacuum state” has been imposed outside the court building to prevent demonstrations. More police buses arrived ahead of the verdict, bringing traffic to a near-standstill.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/03/south-korea-president-yoon-impeachment-ruling

India's parliament debate on Muslim land reforms
The Bill seeks to add non-Muslims to boards that manage Islamic charities — known as waqf — and expand the government’s role in validating their land holdings.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/indias-parliament-debate-muslim-land-reforms

China urges Myanmar to protect rescuers after military fires shots at aid convoy
The junta said on Wednesday that it fired shots 100 metres (328 feet) from the convoy on Tuesday night, and the convoy retreated to Nawnghkio, a town seized by the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), an ethnic armed group operating in the region, according to local news agency Myanmar Now.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3304947/china-urges-myanmar-protect-rescuers-after-military-fires-shots-aid-convoy?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/LzdnH

This site, and especially this fucking board, is dead as fuck. And yet 4chan and every other imageboard talks about how it's raiding them and think bunkerchan still exists.

News 4/1/25

Honduran Opposition Accused of Altering Primary Election Results
On Monday, Marlon Ochoa, a member of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Honduras, accused the right-wing opposition of deliberately inflating the results of the primary elections held on March 9 to favor Nasry Asfura, the presidential candidate of the National Party (PN), and Salvador Nasralla, the presidential candidate of the Liberal Party (PL).
https://www.telesurenglish.net/honduran-opposition-accused-of-altering-primary-election-results/

Palestinians in Brazil demand the country cut ties with Israel after death of teenager
Fepal emphasizes that the time for diplomacy has been “buried” by Israel and demands that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party) take a new stance towards the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/31/palestinians-in-brazil-demand-the-country-cut-ties-with-israel-after-death-of-teenager/

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim they shot down another American drone as US strikes pound country
The reported shootdown came as airstrikes hit around Sanaa, the country’s rebel-held capital, and Saada, a Houthi stronghold. The U.S. military acknowledged to The Associated Press it was aware of reports of the downing of a Reaper, but declined to comment further.
https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthis-mq9-shot-down-israel-hamas-war-us-airstrikes-6bd7764ba19e84d2dddac0d3c762459a

HPG: Turkish attacks continued uninterruptedly during the month of Ramadan
Despite the ceasefire declared by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on March 1, Turkey continues its attacks against the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq), reported the Press Center of the People's Defense Forces (HPG) in a statement about the current state of war in the region.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/hpg-turkish-attacks-continued-uninterruptedly-during-the-month-of-ramadan-78658

Key evidence deleted in case against ex-military man who spied on Julian Assange for CIA, says expert report
The IOmega hard drive used by Spanish police to store information obtained from the phones and computers of David Morales, a former military officer investigated for spying on Julian Assange for the CIA, was tampered with while it was inside a sealed cabinet in the custody of Spain’s High Court (Audiencia Nacional), according to an expert report by the Australian cyberactivist’s defense team.
https://english.elpais.com/spain/2025-03-31/key-evidence-deleted-in-case-against-ex-military-man-who-spied-on-julian-assange-for-cia-says-expert-report.html
https://archive.ph/RDWDm

EU and UK fine carmakers millions over recycling cartel
German giant Volkswagen was handed the heftiest fine of €127 million, followed by Renault/Nissan (€81.5 million), Opel parent company Stellantis (€75 million), Ford (€41.5 million), BMW (€25 million), Opel itself (€25 million) and Toyota (around €24 million). The ACEA must pay €500,000.
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-and-uk-fine-carmakers-millions-over-recycling-cartel/a-72109880
https://archive.ph/3WQr8

Bosnian Serb leader flees to Moscow as authorities step up pursuit
Dodik left Bosnia last week to go to Belgrade, from where he flew to Jerusalem to attend a conference on antisemitism organized by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
https://www.politico.eu/article/milorad-dodik-bosnian-serb-leader-flees-to-moscow-amid-looming-arrest-warrant/
https://archive.ph/tX1DY

India Predicts Sweltering Summer in Threat to Economic Growth
Several areas in the country are likely to experience more heat wave days than normal during three months through June, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, director general of the India Meteorological Department, said in New Delhi on Monday. Maximum temperatures will likely be higher than normal in April too, he said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-31/india-predicts-sweltering-summer-in-threat-to-economic-growth
https://archive.ph/7cXJZ

Nepal’s girls face new child marriage fears amid debate to change law
Supporters of the law to lower the age argue it would stop innocent men from being imprisoned for marrying out of love. Others, including human rights groups, women advocacy collectives, and teenage girls interviewed by Al Jazeera, say the recommendation is designed to protect men rather than promote gender equality in Nepal.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/1/nepals-girls-face-new-child-marriage-fears-amid-debate-to-change-law
https://archive.ph/UY3Aj

Renewed media attacks on Australian construction union
Over recent weeks, the corporate media barrage against the construction division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) has resumed in earnest, some seven months after the federal Labor government placed the division under administration.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/31/bvcf-m31.html

When is the Reincarnated As A Toilet adaptation?

Is it too much to ask for a weird and wacky isekai to critique modern society every now and then, instead of sucking it off?

News 3/31/25

Le Pen found guilty of embezzlement and barred from French elections for five years
Ms Le Pen was also sentenced to two years’ imprisonment under house arrest. In addition, the judge handed down guilty verdicts for embezzling public funds to eight other current or former members of her party who, like Ms Le Pen, previously served as European Parliament lawmakers.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/le-pen-found-guilty-embezzlement-and-barred-elections-five-years

Thames Water picks private equity firm as preferred buyer
It will now enter the next stage of the investment process with KKR, one of the world's largest private equity firms with $160bn of investments globally. KKR is already a shareholder in another UK water provider, Northumbrian Water.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crldrylyy9do

Nationwide strike across Belgium severely disrupts public transport and other services
The Christian and Socialist trade unions organised the strike in protest against budget cuts announced by the country's coalition government, nicknamed "Arizona" because the coalition party colours match those of the Arizona state flag, led by Flemish nationalist Bart de Wever.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/31/nationwide-strike-across-belgium-severely-disrupts-public-transport-and-other-services
https://archive.ph/k6nUt

Indigenous groups in Peru protest Glencore's Antapaccay mine
A source close to the company confirmed that protests had blocked access to mine vehicles. Images from a local online news program showed small groups of people at different points in the road, holding signs.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/indigenous-groups-peru-protest-glencores-antapaccay-mine-2025-03-31/

Evo insists on running for President of Bolivia despite reelection limits
”There is no plan B here (…) The only candidate (is) Evo,“ said the indigenous leader in front of supporters who filled a stadium in Villa Tunari, his political stronghold in the central department of Cochabamba. ”Here, sisters and brothers, we are going to give birth to another name, the true name of the political instrument,“ said the former head of state.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/31/evo-insists-on-running-for-president-of-bolivia-despite-reelection-limits

The attackers set off from military base | Six civilians executed in Baniyas countryside
According to local sources, the gunmen set off from Al-Desaynah base, a former camp of the former regime force, in Baniyas countryside. The attackers carried out that attack and returned to the base where forces of the ministries of defence and interior are stationed.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/358998/

Israel orders Rafah evacuation as it continues bombardment of Gaza
He called on Palestinians to immediately move to shelter in al-Mawasi on the coast. The area has regularly come under Israeli fire during the war in Gaza, despite being designated as a “safe zone”. Shortly after the evacuation order, Al Jazeera Arabic reported that at least two people were killed during an Israeli attack on a tent housing displaced people in the area.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/31/israel-orders-rafah-evacuation-as-it-continues-bombardment-of-gaza
https://archive.ph/okmry

Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinian medics and buried them in a mass grave, UN says
For days, Israeli forces would not allow access to the site where the emergency teams disappeared, the U.N. said. On Wednesday, a U.N. convoy tried to reach the site but encountered Israeli troops opening fire on people.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-medics-killed-israel-ambulances-f34b6ecc985d9127265a400bd52c72b7

Bengal Polls: RSS Eyeing ‘New’ Hindu Votes to Give BJP an Edge
A major concern for the BJP brass is that they do not have a cohesive, active state organisation. Despite several interventions by the central leadership, deficiencies persist in the party’s state unit and intra-party differences have made cohesive functioning a far cry.
https://www.newsclick.in/bengal-polls-rss-eyeing-new-hindu-votes-give-bjp-edge

Poor and migrants bear brunt of south east Asia earthquake
Authorities say that so far at least 1,700 people are known to have died, but many more are unaccounted for. And there is enormous danger for the living, particularly those at quake’s epicentre, Mandalay–Myanmar’s second city. Many now homeless people have been forced to sleep in the open and while the military regime remains focused on fighting its four-year civil war against democracy activists.
https://socialistworker.co.uk/international/poor-and-migrants-bear-brunt-of-south-east-asia-earthquake/

dance music thread

OC Thread

Thread dedicated to /leftypol/ original content & memes
Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made
which you want to share.
Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.

This is the place where you can find all leftypol memes n' shit:
https://lefty.booru.org/

Webm sister thread: >>361470

Nuclear War

The nuclear threat is back. But we don't see any nuclear panic like in the 1980s. Why is that? Why does nobody care?

I am not some prepper retard but even I am getting nervous.

Just look at this shit
A time of unprecedented danger: It is 90 seconds to midnight
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/
>This year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward, largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine. The Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.
>As UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned in August, the world has entered “a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War.”

and also this
US Nuclear Test Raises Concerns of New Arms Race With Russia
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-19/us-nuclear-test-on-day-of-kremlin-s-treaty-abdication-fuels-doubt

https://archive.ph/EoqWY

>The US conducted a high-explosive experiment at a nuclear test site in Nevada just hours after Russia revoked a ban on atomic-weapons testing, prompting concerns of a new arms race between the world’s top nuclear powers.

So, are you going to PROTECT AND SURVIVE, anon? Or are you just going to give up everything and die?

UnitedHealthcare CEO neutralized in New York

Police search for gunman after Brian Thompson, 50, killed in Manhattan in ‘brazen targeted attack’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/04/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-what-we-know-so-far

News Land Day 2025

Israel seeks to erase refugee camps from Jenin and Tulkarm
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth revealed that the Israeli army's broader plan in the Palestinian camps is to ensure freedom of activity and create a new security reality.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-seeks-erase-refugee-camps-jenin-and-tulkarm

‘Crisis’ in Israeli army as reserve soldiers refuse to serve citing government decisions
A senior reservist told Israeli media that reserve units are now being forced to take reservists from other units not currently engaged in combat and that many units will not have the manpower levels needed for combat.
https://www.newarab.com/news/crisis-israeli-army-reserve-soldiers-refuse-serve

Syria interim president names new government dominated by allies
Close associates of Sharaa held on to key positions, with Foreign Minister Assaad al-Shaibani and Defence Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra retaining their cabinet posts, while Anas Khattab, the head of general intelligence, was appointed interior minister.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/03/syria-interim-president-names-new-government-dominated-allies

NUM to support SACP in local government elections
NUM members discussed key political and economic issues that affect workers. They lamented the state of the tripartite alliance which they say has over time failed to protect workers from job losses and harsh economic conditions.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/num-to-support-sacp-in-local-government-elections/

Guinea junta chief pardons former military leader over stadium massacre
Camara, who seized power in a 2008 coup, was on July 31, 2024, sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the massacre of at least 157 people during a pro-democracy rally in a stadium in the capital Conakry.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/guinea-junta-chief-pardons-former-military-leader-over-stadium-massacre-2025-03-29/

Pakistan says it killed 10 civilians during an anti-militant operation in the northwest
According to provincial government spokesman Muhammad Ali Saif, reports indicated the location was being used as a “hideout and transit point for terrorist” elements. Subsequent information revealed that some unarmed civilians were present in the vicinity of the site, Saif added.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-northwest-civilian-deaths-30ee85c469cdf5b0392deaa120eaffdb

Nepal’s ruling allies demand ex-King’s arrest, govt slashes his security
The demand by the members of Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist and the Nepali Congress in the House of Representatives was confronted by the MPs of the pro-monarchy Rastriya Prajatantra Party, leading to the adjournment of the House.
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/nepals-ruling-allies-demand-ex-kings-arrest-govt-slashes-his-security-9915289/
https://archive.ph/1J280

China lays down the law in facial recognition first with focus on privacy, security
The new rules mark Beijing’s first major attempt to regulate facial recognition, a technology widely adopted around the country – such as at hotel check-ins, entrances to gated communities and to make digital payments.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3303463/china-lays-down-law-facial-recognition-first-focus-privacy-security?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection

Turkey says Swedish journalist detained on terror charges and for ‘insulting the president’
In a bulletin published by its “disinformation combat centre”, the presidency said Medin was “known for anti-Turkey news and his closeness to the terrorist organisation PKK”, the banned Kurdish militant group.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/30/turkey-says-swedish-journalist-detained-on-terror-charges-and-for-insulting-the-president

Verdict expected in French far right leader Le Pen's embezzlement trial
She and 24 other party officials are accused of having used money intended for European Union parliamentary aides to instead pay staff who worked for the party between 2004 and 2016, violating the 27-nation bloc’s regulations.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/verdict-expected-french-far-right-leader-le-pens-embezzlement-trial

>Struggling to find a job
>Nothing fucking coming in
>Employers dead quiet saying nothing
>Struggling with keeping my promise to my parents to not fucking kill myself
>Father gets me "What Colour is your Parachute" which is apparently the best job searching book
>It starts off by gobbling the cock of indeed and saying how hard off employers have and god forbid they have to look at resumes oh my god soooo0oo many people are applying but also teeeheee the job market is the best is ever been can't actually find who we wnat

IM GOING FOT KILL ALL FUCKING AEMPLOLYERS "Your'e probalhy not looking for all the right jonbs you should look at things that require uyourt skills"
I'VE RWREITTEN MY CV AND RESUME AND CUNTING FDUCPJCKING COVER LETTERS FOR EACH FUCKING JOB THIS IS REARRANGING DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC YOU MASSIVE FUCKING UYGHURHEADS IM' FUCKING FUMINNG I CANT GET AN ENTERY LEVEL POSITION WITH A WASTEED DEGREE NOWEHERE IS FUCKING HIRING WHO THE FUCK DO I HAVE OT COMMIT GLOBABL VIOLENCE AGAINST TEEHEE IM JUST FUCKING JOKING NO GLOWING HAHA ITS NOT THAT BAD HAHAA I CANT GET OWRK EVEN THOUGH THE JOB MARKET APPARENTLY HAS ALALLLLLLLL THESE FVACANCYCSS BUTTTTTNONOONNOOO YOU NEED TO DO ANOTHER FUCKING "Get Employed" course whoeehrter the fucking starff memebers are poeople who havn'et been searching in the the jhob market for 10 years and are still insisting that i use the fucking hell site job tinder that is indeed. in fucking dnounggger deed im this fucking close to killing myself in the most public place avaiable with a sign saying "NEEDS 15 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE ENYTRTY POSITION FUCKING BURGER FLIPPER"

HR IS A FUCKING MISTAKE AND IT ISN'T EVENE A MOVE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES THING BECAUSE IM'M NOT SPEAKING FROM A N American perspective who are the fucking leading culture in my shitty english speaking world im in fucking great bongistan where we've got an economy in so much shambles i neeed to go on the fucking dole to make sure that i can afford paying money to travel

Not only is this Russ Tamblyn guy still alive, he was apparently in Django Unchained too.

SHOWTUNES!

We love 'em!

/webm/ thread

This thread is for posting any form of /lefty/ videos files ranging from .webm or .mp4, or other
The last thread hit the bump limit, so post new or old videos here.
Link to the last thread here: >>201250

Why did no one tell me about nazbol punk

Sexy plane thread

I love flankers. Post sexy planes so I can jerk off.

Reading General

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
Add topics into the tag list to further narrow down your search!


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Introduction to Marxism Reading List - Thanks to the /read/ matrix room (https://app.element.io/#/group/+leftyread:matrix.org)
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Absolute Beginners Tier:

'Principles of Communism' by Friedrich Engels
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

'Three Source and Theree Component Parts of Marxism' by V.I. Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm

Not a book but Halim Alrah's youtube channel is good for the absolutely basics of Marxism but obviously not a replacement for reading
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGog4JPn5-W3_XIKccENysg

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Marx and Engles Reading List
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Tier 1:

'Manifesto of the Communist Party'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm

'Critique of the Gotha Programme'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/

'Socialism: Utopian and Scientific'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm

Tier 2:

'Wage Labour and Capital'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/

'Value, Price and Profit'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/

'Theses on Feuerback'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm

By this point you should have a good understanding of the basics of Marxism and are ready to branch out to other theorists and also read Capital.

Tier 3:

'Capital vol.1'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

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Lenin Reading List - By Moo (aka Zizekposter)
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Lenin Essentials:

'State and Revolution'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/

'“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/

'Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/

Petit Bourgeois Philistine Tier:

'What is to be done'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/

'The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/

'Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/index.htm

ADHD Tier:

'Socialism and Religion'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm

'Zizek's Introduction to Revolution at the Gates'
https://kabirabud.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/slavoj_zizek_repeating_leninbookfi-org.pdf

'Revolutionary Adventurism'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1902/sep/01.htm

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MLM Reading List
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Essentials:

Why MLM?
https://why-mlm.medium.com/why-mlm-af48aba14f8a

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Basic Course
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S01-MLM-Basic-Course-Revised-Edition-10th-Printing.pdf

'Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain'
https://libgen.lc/get.php?md5=a00646f118a3427ec19263021b3e84e1&key=06Q5Q1W5DFK8YOHU&mirr=1

Mao:

'On Practice & Contradiction'
https://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/N04-On-Contradiction-Study-2nd.pdf

'On Guerrilla Warfare'
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/index.htm

'On Protracted War'
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm

China:

'Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village'
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=00F5750256E291B678E2A0039D3CF54E

'Red Star Over China' - Edgar Snow
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=BD54E7C5F9CDE90E30BD0CB5E91F0049

'The Unknown Cultural Revolution' - Dongpin Han
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=2495C43CFA7395ACA45CA812A304A701

Peru:

Interview With Chairman Gonzalo
https://the-red-flag.org/en/central-committee-of-the-communist-party-of-peru-interview-with-chairman-gonzalo/

General line of the PCP
https://gplpcp.wordpress.com/

'Shining Path: Terror and Revolution in Peru' - Simon Strong
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=4FB5D349F9D3250453C5F0525F5890DD

India:

Operation “Green Hunt” in India
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/N08-Operation-Green-Hunt.pdf

Eight Historic Documents (AZAD)
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S18-Historic-Eight-Documents.pdf

'Urban Perspective'
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S14-Urban-Perspective-4th-Printing.pdf

Philippines:

Araling Aktibista - Activist Study ARAK
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/S22-Activist-Study-ARAK-2nd-Printing.pdf

'Stand for Socialism Against Modern Revisionism'
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S07-Stand-for-Socialism-3rd-Printing.pdf

'Philippine Society and Revolution'
https://bannedthought.net/Philippines/CPP/1970s PhilippineSocietyAndRevolution-4ed.pdf

Political Economy:

'Rethinking Socialism' – Deng-yuan Hsu & Pao-yu Ching
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S11-Rethinking-Socialism-4th-Printing.pdf

'China: A Modern Social-Imperialist Power' - CPI(Maoist)
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=F68AC84D480D41A222818D802F3AF7CA
or
https://library.bz/uploads/main/c0105702c9219cf136bdae79008daaa4.epub
or
https://why-mlm.medium.com/china-a-modern-social-imperialist-power-d5ac7a9455f7

'Maoist Economics & the Revolutionary Road to Communism' - The Shanghai Textbook
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=8B44F61D828997487E2FDE607FCF2FEB

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Leftcom Reading Lists
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r/marxism101's reading list:
https://i.imgur.com/s70UUPQ.jpg

r/bruhinternational's reading list:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bruhinternational/comments/m53hon/official_rbruhinternational_reading_list/

Bordiga:

'The Democratic Principle'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm

'Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1951/class-party.htm

'The Spirit of Horsepower'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1953/horsepower.htm

'Report on Fascism'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/bordiga02.htm

'Activism'
https://libcom.org/library/activism-amadeo-bordiga

'The Lyons Theses'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/lyons-theses.htm

'Theory and Action in Marxist Doctrine'
https://libcom.org/library/theory-action-marxist-doctrine-amadeo-bordiga

'Dialogue with Stalin'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm

Pannekoek:

'World Revolution and Communist Tactics'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1920/communist-tactics.htm

'Party and Class'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1936/party-class.htm

Herman Gorter:

'Open Letter to Comrade Lenin'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/open-letter.htm

'The World Revolution'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1918/world-revolution.htm

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Bookchin Reading Lists - based off of posts by Gorm1918 (pbuh)
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'The Next Revolution'
https://libcom.org/files/Murray%20Bookchin-The%20Next%20Revolution.%20Popular%20Assemblies%20and%20the%20Promise%20of%20Direct%20Democracy-Verso%20(2015).pdf

'Urbanization Without Cities'
http://188.165.199.119/files/Urbanization_Without_Cities_-_Ebook.pdf

'The 3rd Revolution'
https://libcom.org/library/third-revolution-popular-movements-revolutionary-era

'The Ecology of Freedom'
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom

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Links to Resources and Libraries:
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More Marx and Engels:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/sw/index.htm

Lenin:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/

Other Selected Marxists:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/selected-marxists.htm

Classical Works Recommended To High-Ranking Cadres:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-8/mswv8_56.htm

Many important books can be found on libgen:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

Libcom has some good books/documents:
https://libcom.org/library

Other links:
https://archive.is/L8uFD

Various assortment of historical and biographical works:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=uploader%3A%22kocotosi%40gmail.com%22&sort=-publicdate

The Leftist Bookshelf (4.16 GB, 600+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!QUFQSBja!hPbmmLolJBGwSQ848nncnw
This was originally a torrent but I can't find the link anymore. Its description was: "640 eBooks, mostly in PDF format (a bunch are CHM, DJVU or ePUB), from a revolutionary Leftist viewpoint. The main subjects are politics and philosophy, history, economics, and much much more."

Political Theory (MLM) (2.64 GB, 550+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!4M1FnTgI!CdM8WWjpBC_UHGCJk9AHzA
I found this on reddit years ago (circa 2016) Don't really remember who made it or where it came from, but this is a reading course (politics, philosophy, economics, etc) focused on Maoism. Has many books and articles on the USSR, PRC, Stalin, Mao, etc.

The Anarchist Library (669 MB, 4000+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!gRFkQCLY!5gUkmaubpp_P_yKLZiBJ9Q
This is a complete mirror of the anarchist library with pdfs and epubs

Little Bunker of Marxism-Leninism (680 MB, 100+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!0QtCiI7L!MJZJk-SdjyBuBZOuNJuOPQ
Unfinished project focused on M-L with more than 100 books on several topics like history, economics, politics, etc. Lots of stuff on the USSR.

Historical Materialism series (330 MB, 100+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!9IkymYBZ!B8vB2yDP0Qv_-DPS2ro-HA
A pdf archive of over 100 books from the Historical Materialism book series. I got this from thecharnelhouse.org years ago and the website had released many marxist books from other publishers but unfortunately it's been taken down.

/leftypol/ with a slash of liberty (239 MB, 100+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!sFMQXJ6J!JboByVCZScC6Jq2YXE0Exw
I didn't make this, just reuploading it. This is a classic /leftypol/ link, marxist stuff mixed with anarchism.

Marx & Engels Collected Works (900+ MB, 50 files)
https://mega.nz/#F!BJEmkQiZ!vylIbCWFrqIeYaLiuN2szg
The official, complete works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels organized in 50 volumes and 3 categories.

jewish socialism/leftism thread

Labor Zionists and general Jewish Left of the world unite!

Can someone do some Gimping to the image so that the famous cuban guy looks like the smiling gigachad while matt walsh has the lgbt flag for his jersey please

طليعة عمال العرابي

ط.ع.ع (سابقًا : جماعة العمل البلشفي) هي حزب ماركسي لينيني ينشط في مصر سرًا، نقف مع الثورة الإشتراكية العالمية ودكتاتورية البروليتاريا العالمية، ننتهج مباديء الماركسية اللينينية بخط تمايزها الثوري النقي الذي أسسه الرفيق أنور خوجا.

https://t.me/tale3at33

Vanguard of Al-Urabi Workers
Marxist Leninst Party in Egypt that stands with worldwide socialist revolution and worlwide proletarian dictatorship with the ideals of comrade Hoxha.

Facial Recognition Arms Race

https://www.computer.org/csdl/journal/tp/2023/05/09925105/1HBHW3EBlQs
>Due to its convenience and remarkable accuracy, face recognition technology [1] has been applied in a few interactive intelligent applications such as checking-in and mobile payment. However, existing face recognition systems are vulnerable to presentation attacks (PAs) ranging from print, replay, makeup, 3D-mask, etc. Therefore, both academia and industry have paid extensive attention to developing face anti-spoofing (FAS) technology for securing the face recognition system. As illustrated in Fig. 1, FAS (namely ‘face presentation attack detection’ or ‘face liveness detection’) is an active research topic in computer vision and has received an increasing number of publications in recent years.

https://stateline.org/2024/01/10/are-ski-mask-bans-a-crime-fighting-solution-some-cities-say-yes/
>Amid concerns about crime and public safety, at least two major U.S. cities recently considered banning ski masks or balaclavas to prevent criminal behavior, despite a lack of academic research about the effectiveness of such bans.

I don't know if fellow lainons have gone out recently, but I've noticed any time I go to a big box store the entrance and exits are covered with cameras connected to a blaring large screen TV facing the customers with green and yellow boxes following he figure and face of each customers they scurry about their day. Not only this, often times there's hardly any human clerks available to check you out when you want to make a purchase, often times forcing you to use the self check out with the cameras recording your face’s every move from a fish eye lens 2 feet away from your face.
No one cares.
You will often be followed around or outright refused service if you walk in with something that covers all of your face effectively enough to not be data mined.
There’s makeup and clear masks that can obfuscate your face without looking like you’re going to rob the place but both domestic and foreign megacorps and academia are actively working to beat these known methods.
>What will lainon do when the next boogeyman allows the US and larger first world to implement Chinese levels of everyday surveillance?
People are clearly already desensitized to it, judging by how people don’t even notice the cameras anymore. Those few coming up with methods will have to be working constantly to be a step ahead of the corps https://urbanarmor.org/portfolio/miss-my-face/. Boycotting will be increasingly less of a practical solution.

>"""rules-based international order"""
>there are no rules
>it's not based

Who comes up with this shit??

bikethread

>easy to maintain
>fun to work on
>athletic, forces you to log off
>modifications out the wazoo
>dirt cheap
>looks cool so long as you don't wear dumb spandex

only disadvantage is if you live outside a city, and even then it's still worth the exercise.

What do you ride and what are you working on?

1MW but at what cost

In this week edition of China lapping everybody else's tech:

BYD's new battery pack can be recharged to half full in 5 minutes, adding 400km or 250miles of range to the car it comes installed in. Which is on paar with refilling a gas tank. Soaking up those electrons at a whopping rate of One Megawatt. To be fair, that's probably not going to be the mode that maxes battery health. And if you want to install a bunch of charging stations you might have to look into small modular nuclear reactors.

I really did not expect big leaps in tech for batteries, batteries are over 200 years old, as such one would expect only incremental improvements. They're approaching hybrid capacitor territory in terms of power density.

I also just realized that this means they have to do 1000 amps at one kV for the charging cable. It's going to be a thick boy, and likely need water cooling. It also likely will vaporize you if you short it out.

This thread is for discussing sabotage, its theory, its history, tactics and stories.

Low-risk activities are great to know because they can be used in a mass movement filled with people who are (understandably) timid and scared. And once there are enough people on board, then there's the safety in numbers that are needed to build confidence for more extreme actions.

Perhaps more self-sabotage than worker sabotage, but I remember in the US post-pandemic strike wave, John Deere hired scabs and one crashed a tractor before the strike even began.

Speaking of scabs and low-risk tactics, Kellogg's also hired scabs that year and the /r/antiwork community raided them with fake job applications. It's a nice example of external sabotage, where sometimes even international comrades can help in their spare time.

Upon scanning the catalog I noticed that, while there is a little bit of discussion of lockpicking and physical security bypasses, there is not much talk in securing your identity as you traverse meatspace, so I have brought to you a slew of questions and propositions relating to exactly that.

The main goals of this thread are:
- Especially, to determine the most cost-effective, stealthy means of exterminating threats to your physical anonymity. This can range anywhere from the humble sling and slingshot, to spraypaint, to paintball and BB and water guns, to plastic bags and tape, to ropes and blunt objects, or even to cheap lasers or computer cracking.
- To determine the most efficient way to move from point A to point B while remaining unseen for a contiguous stretch of at least 20% of the journey. This is focused mainly on distances of less than a kilometer.
- To determine how to best conceal the originating point of your route in highly surveilled locations. This may involve wearing draped clothing like a cloak, dipping in and out of backyards, entering a crowded spot from a surveilled point and exiting at a less surveilled point, or just taking as long and roundabout of a route as possible to make it difficult to follow you back in time- etc.

Let us use the United States as a prime example of the prominence of surveillance cameras.
According to this article from The Verge[0], there is one camera for every 4,6 people in the United States, amounting to 70.000.000 cameras.
There are 330.000.000 people in the USA, of which ~270.000.000 have 15+ years of age. If as many as 1 in every 500 of those people were displeased enough to destroy those cameras, each one would have to destroy 207 cameras in order to eliminate them all. While this does not seem infeasible (a fun weekend project, at most), given that the French managed to rile up enough people to destroy 60% of all speed cameras in their country with ease[1], it is likely that the ratio of annoyed citizens to panopticon devices is much more fortunate than 1/500.

If any movement towards a systematic destruction of the surveillance state is to be accomplished, there is one barrier remaining- widespread knowledge of proper OPSEC and effective stragies.

That is to say, when an individual comes to the conclusion that they ought to do something about this problem, they are forced to individually think through the details of moving about the world without being traced, to anonymously obtain the clothing and basic items necessary to do the deed, to avoid leaking timing information (i.e. you are the only person who purchased spraypaint in this local region during the past week), to understand the ramifications of digital surveillance (don't carry your phone!), to understand secrecy (it's not a secret if you tell somebody), to properly compartmentalize, to start at a random location unrelated to themselves, to have situational awareness, and other extremely basic concepts that they are likely to be completely clueless about.
An idiot-proof guide ought to be constructed that contains strategies for exterminating surveillance cameras and just general OPSEC tips, that is simple enough for the lowest common denominator to comprehend and follow. It should be short and to the point, containing only tips that guarantee an increase in safety when followed.

It would also be useful to gather some intel on surveillance camera companies. Finding what the most common models are and their physical constraints and capabilities, as well as which companies or entities control the infrastructure where their footage is streaming to- in many places, a significant fraction of these cameras upload their footage to company servers, which can be exfiltrated by agencies via legal means very easily.

Some generic advice I can think of off the top of my head:

Wear gloves.

Wipe fingerprints off of any item you carry.

Do not carry any electronic device that has embedded wireless capabilities, like your phone. Not even if it's "off".

Do not tell anybody about anything you're doing, except those who you are doing it with.

Do not collaborate with more than 7 other people at the absolute maximum.

Ensure that no one does anything without everbody else coming to a conensus on precisely who will do it and how.

Do not talk to the police. Talking to the police can only harm you. Ask for a lawyer and zip it. (advice for Americans only)

Never assume that authorities are too lazy to pursue you. Instead assume that all of their focus is on you alone.

Do not keep records. If any papers are produced with incriminating information on them, burn them.

Meet in person with any collaborators, and distribute propaganda in paper leaflets.

To enter a surveilled space anonymously, first enter a sizable stretch of non-surveilled space carrying different clothing (shoes, dark pants, dark hood, dark mask, sunglasses, ideally a cloak), and use them to approach a more surveilled space.

Be mindful of making uncommon purchases with your real identity. If your face or name can be connected to a purchase of some uncommon item, and that item is soon used in a crime, you will be traced.

'Public key cryptography', 'threat modeling', 'defense in depth'. If you do not recognize the concepts behind these words, avoid using the Internet for anything sensitive. When your life or freedom is at stake, attempting to wield a tool that you do not understand will only harm you.

[0] - https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/9/21002515/surveillance-cameras-globally-us-china-amount-citizens
[1] - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46822472

I want learn physics,chemistry by myself on uni lvl. Is that possible?Or better go to some uni,college?I want learn this for DIY in my garage

The Gorgeous

*The Gorge* is a good B movie.

Should watch if you have nothing to watch.

WKUK

Any other Whitest Kids U Know fans?

existential debacle.

Got an alias that needs an EXCORSISt, an alien specialist or a bigger demon. Or a really smart person with top level security clearance. Might barter with soul if it's left when done. Or if they exist.

pedo infiltration ?

So the EU is apparently pondering to make a mandatory pedo scanner for software.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2022%2F05%2F11%2Feu-csam-detection-plan%2F

Many people have pointed out that this is just a pretext to attack:
privacy
IT security
and maybe even free open source software.

Many people think it's surveillance organizations them selves that are uploading the CSAM on purpose to push for laws that expand their legal permissions.

And all of the above is undoubtedly true.
Consider that if you invert the assumption of innocence and declare that wanting privacy makes you into a pedo-suspect that means that secret organizations have to be considered pedo-guilty by default, because they can't prove their innocence while keeping their secrets either.

If you argue that effective encryption that can't be broken which is absolutely necessary for the very concept of privacy, has to be undermined for the pedo-scanner. Then that same argument has to be made for proprietary software. Many pieces of proprietary software are in the range of tens or hundreds of gigabytes, and without publicly available source-code it's possible to hide a huge assortment of pedo-content in there. By contrast it's not possible to hide pedo-stuff in open source software.

Effective unbreakable encryption is not only necessary for privacy but also essential for IT security because without cryptographic signatures it's impossible to verify whether or not software hasn't been compromised.

But one glaringly obvious thing that is overlooked in this debate, is how a CSAM scanner works.
Every possible method of scanning for CSAM requires building a giant database filled with pedo-content.
There are relatively simple methods that use the pedo-data-base to create pedo-signatures of files, and there are more sophisticated methods, like using it to train machine learning algorithms to detect the pedo-patterns.

I can't help but think that a bunch of pedophiles got together and said
<"how can we create a pedo-pornhub without the rest of society trying to burn us at the stake for eating their children"
and
<"how do we get new pedo-content for the pedo-pornhub"

Because what they are doing is violating privacy and compromising the IT Security of computers used by children and scan it for potential "content" that has pedo-characteristics, that can than be uploaded to their pedo-data-base.

Basically the pedo-mafia has made an alliance with the surveillance-mafia.
But this isn't just about them creating a pedo-pornhub, they will indubitably find actual pedophiles with this, and then will be able to blackmail them to either go to prison or join the pedo-surveilance mafia. So it's also a recruitment tool for their crime-organization.

The Apple corporation which was the first that has implement the pedo-scanner-collection-tools and pedo-data-base might be the epi-center of this massive pedo-spiracy.


Before you dismiss this as schizo-ramblings, consider the following:
Since the assumption of innocence is being inverted, we have to consider that those people who are lobbying to create a giant data-base filled with pedo-content and legalized mechanisms to basically scan and scrape every computer for new content, that this is in fact a great pedo-conspiracy until they can prove their innocence. And that everybody who doesn't agree with my accusations is a suspected pedo-co-conspirator until proven innocent.

short talking points in case a wall of text won't do:
Attempting to weaken/undermine privacy/encryption = pedo-creepers that want to spy on kids
Attempting to attack free and open source software = furthering the goal of hiding csam in proprietary-pedo-ware
Appearing to combat pedo-philes would be the best predator-disguise for a pedophile.

Anti-Erdogan protests in Turkiye

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and possible presidential candidate for the Republican People’s Party (CHP), was detained on two separate charges in a police raid on his home early Wednesday morning.

The police-state crackdown sparked mass protests across the country. After hundreds of municipal workers demonstrated in front of the Şişli Municipality, hundreds of students at Istanbul University organized a protest, defying Istanbul Governorship’s four-day ban on all protests.

Police reinforcements were deployed by the police chief to the security directorate in Istanbul where İmamoğlu is being detained, while crowds gathered behind the barricades to protest his detention. Thousands took to the streets in many cities, including Izmir and Ankara.

Police detained İmamoğlu on charges of “leading [a] benefit-oriented criminal organization” along with 106 people, including mayors, municipality officials, journalists and artists. İmamoğlu and seven others, including Şişli and Beylikdüzü mayors and municipal officials, were also detained on charges of “aiding the terrorist organization,” i.e., the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

The Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu (SEG), the Turkish section of the International Committee of the Fourth International, issued a statement on X condemning the Erdoğan regime’s police state repression, which abolishes basic democratic rights, including the right to vote and be elected, and calling for the immediate release of those detained.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/19/mmjs-m19.html

/brit/ - Baz Snaps

Football fans and Gregg's connoisseurs from around England are currently rioting following the murder of three schoolchildren by an asylum seeker (Axel Rudakubana) and subsequent non-response by the courts. The riots have only escellated following Starmer's absolutely braindead response & the response of local law enforcement.

Bongs to follow for updates:
https://x.com/PolitlcsUK
https://x.com/visegrad24
https://x.com/Sargon_of_Akkad
https://x.com/AkkadSecretary
https://x.com/9mm_smg
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra

WOODSTOCK WAS:LOVE+PEACE

LOVE PEACE HAPPINESS

LET'S TALK ABOUT THE CAMOUFLAGED ULTRA-RIGHT IN ARGENTINA, I ALREADY WROTE A POST AND THEY DELETED IT, HELP TO COST THE RESULTS OF THE IDEOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL BATTLE THAT WE ARE LOSING. DON'T BE LIKE THE TECHNOCRATS, YOU HAVE INFORMATION POWER THAT I DON'T POSSESS AND I'M JUST A MORTAL AGAINST AN ENTIRE STATE APPARATUS AND I'VE BEEN LOSING. PUT YOUR WISDOM AT THE SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE, OF THE PEOPLE WITH SOCIALIST IDEALS. PLEASE I ASK YOU.

HEAR THIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esEdQAKoXvw

Assage wins appeal

https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=Z7n6kl-tLjY

Assange wins his appeal against extradition
But he's not out of the woods yet.

Beatdown Hardcore / Metallic Hardcore / NYHC

chugga chugga chugga chugga GRRRRR
for exercising til you throw up

https://victoryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/revenge-on-society

When the fuck are we gonna start splattering these fuckers brains all over the wall?

US, NATO CAUGHT In Romania COUP As Election CANCELLED

Apparently Romania and the US knew, at the time they accused Russia & China of interference, that the social media campaign for Călin Georgescu which preceded his electoral victory was actually funded primarily by one of the major established Romanian parties. Ryan Grim compares it to all the times the DNC has funded far-right Republicans, ostensibly to have an easier candidate to beat, although some would say that if that was, in fact, the DNC's goal then their results have been very questionable. In Romania's case, the gov't just overturned the election entirely and falsely blamed Russia.

Google Antitrust

https://archive.is/Qt0n1
So it seems a US court has just ruled that Google monopolized the online search market. Now the Department of Justice is "considering" breaking up Google as a potential option in response.

At long last is there finally some hope for the future of the web?

Eugene-lit 2.0

My website has been recently updated:
https://eugeneseffortposts.royalwebhosting.net/

Book 3 is out:
https://eugeneseffortposts.royalwebhosting.net/book03/index.html

Following Book 2:
https://eugeneseffortposts.royalwebhosting.net/book02/index.html

And Book 1 (which was originally meant for something else but made the perfect introduction):
https://eugeneseffortposts.royalwebhosting.net/mymethod.html

Consider this the "Eugene general" where you can ask me random questions or bitch at me.

Blinken’s Manila visit triggers protest against US presence in Philippines

Manila: Protesters rallied against American presence in the Philippines on Tuesday as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Manila to reinforce support against Chinese influence in the region.

The Philippines is Washington’s key security partner in Asia under a decades-long alliance, which allows the US to rotate troops into the Philippines for extended stays and build and operate facilities on Philippine military bases.

In the past two years, the partnership has expanded under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who in February last year permitted American troops to increase their footprint in the country.

China claims the disputed area almost in entirety and its military activity in the territory has been increasing, regularly encroaching on the Philippine part of the waters, the West Philippine Sea.

“These waterways are critical to the Philippines, to its security, to its economy, but they’re also critical to the interests of the region, the United States and the world,” Blinken said at a joint press conference with his Philippine counterpart Enrique Manalo.

“That’s why we stand with the Philippines and stand by our ironclad defense commitments, including under the mutual defense treaty.”

The 1951 agreement obliges the US to defend its ally in the case of external attack.

Philippine vessels have been regularly attacked by Chinese ships in the parts of the South China Sea that are internationally recognized as belonging to the Philippines.

American troops have been patrolling the maritime area with Philippine forces since November, despite protests from Beijing, which says the US is not a party to the maritime dispute.

“Article 4 of that treaty extends to any armed attacks on Filipino armed forces, on public vessels, on aircraft, and that would include its coast guard and that would also be anywhere in the South China Sea,” Blinken said.

As he told reporters that the two countries have seen an “extraordinary expansion” in their partnership, protesters in Manila carried banners reading: “US troops out of the Philippines,” “Blinken war criminal, not welcome,” “No to US intervention in PH and Asia.”

The demonstration was organized by civil society, including BAYAN — the Philippines’ largest alliance of grassroots groups — near the Presidential Palace, ahead of Blinken’s meeting with Marcos.

BAYAN said in a statement that Marcos was “advancing the geopolitical interest of the US in the region” and “offering the Philippines as an extension” of the US military network.

“The country’s assertion of sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea against China’s aggression should not involve the opportunistic meddling of a former colonizer whose real motive is to preserve and expand its imperialist hegemony in the Asia-Pacific,” the group said.

It also drew attention to Gaza, where Washington’s other key ally, Israel, has killed over 30,000 Palestinians in daily airstrikes and land assaults since October.

BAYAN said the US was “the main supporter and enabler of the ongoing genocide in Palestine” and was “actively fanning proxy wars and conflicts in various parts of the world.”

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2479226/world

Sorabji

Any fans? Where do I start besides song related?

Art during Renaissance

Did the Renaissance change art only for the better?

For example, are there any negative things to say about the way music evolved during that period?

All I hear and read about Renaissance art (hell, anything to do with the period, for that matter) are positive things or at least it's talked about in a positive light. Zero criticisms of it whatsoever.

Organising Resources

/edu/ what are some resources that you've used or know of to help newbies learn to organise?

Obviously "Just join local X to get experience", but just doing prior reading.

MLs, Anarkiddies, Syndies, etc. All sources and styles welcome.

Just trying to build a little portfolio to read and share.

I am a Fascist Ask me anything?

Tell you some fact about me.
1.I love nature and want to protect it
2. I think capitalism was horrific mistake.
3. Love my mother and family.

/SEA/ - Southeast Asia General

5th Edition: Real succdem hour edition

Discuss anything on Southeast Asian politics. Elections, open orgs, Myanmar breaking apart or just random shit. There’r still dozens of us… hopefully!

Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/!YeYeuZuLSYkegWssey:matrix.org?via=matrix.org

Last threads:
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America: The Fatted Calf for Slaughter

I don't know exactly what Shahid Bolsen's deal is, I used to confuse him with Elijah Magnier for some reason, but everything he says here is true. Watched on 1.2x speed.

Site Updates: i2p, Moderation changes, /k/ board & More

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.

Other Updates
* Removal of the post counter - This has been hotly debated for a while, but after several failed votes the motion has finally passed.
* Dealing with AI - In light of the recent spam of AI generated prompts and images, we have voted to formally declare AI content exempt from normal moderation procedures. If you believe your post has been misidentified as AI by a mod, please let us know in /meta/.
* IRC now fully functional & bridged with other chats - ircs://irc.leftychan.net:6697/#leftychan
* Creation of a Telegram chat - https://t.me/+RegtyzzrE0M1NDMx

Plans for the coming year
* Continue to encourage freedom of discussion - We have no intention of clamping down on the ability of users to share their personal opinions and views on this site, despite repeated requests to do so. In fact, we plan on widening the variety of topics that can be discussed by unpinning the 'Right wing blood sport' thread (which we have already done) and having conversations about the status of wordfilters.
* The 2024 US election - We believe the upcoming US election will be an excellent opportunity to grow the userbase of the site. We hope for anons with a wide variety of views on the candidates to share their opinions, fostering a culture of debate online that is absent from many other more partisan platforms.
* Maintain our independence from leftypol.org - As predicted, our sister site has continued to go down the path of censorship, adherence to political correctness and moderator tyranny. For these reasons, any kind of reconciliation between the two sites seems impossible for the foreseeable future. Leftychan continues to welcome anons from .org who seek a more enlightened /leftypol/ experience.

old Soviet weapons programs

Before their mysterious disappearance the Soviets were working on at least similiar to these weapons programs. We know tht at least the U.S. military had much more advanced programs than Timothy Tobiason's books.

https://youtu.be/htb_n7ok9AU
how do you stop boomers from calling everything they don't like communism?

Semi-Automatic Shotguns

Semi-automatic shotguns - what's the verdict? Are they good? Which ones are the best?

Bannana Republic of Korea ?

Yoon Suk Yeol (emphasis on the suck) has declared martial law, out of the blue. Probably because he's loosing power, his approval rating tanked, there's scandals surrounding his wife and the opposition is blocking his political programs.

The pretext he gave for the martial law was "eradicating the pro north Korean communist forces"
If only there were communist forces about to topple the wannabe dictator of BRoK

Greece’s largest ever protest and general strike demand justice for Tempi rail crash victims

From WSWs:

Greece saw a huge show of strength by the working class and youth Friday, with hundreds of thousands taking part in the largest protests in the nation’s history. They were on the streets of the capital Athens and every other major city and town to demand justice for the 57 people who died in the 2023 Tempi train crash and an end to a government cover-up.

The protests were supported by demonstrations at more than 100 Greek embassies and consulates internationally, across all six inhabited continents.

The protests, marking the second anniversary of the February 28, 2023 deaths, were called by the Association of Relatives of Tempi Victims and were even larger than those it called at the end of January. Forced to recognise the mass oppositional mood—and as with the January protests—the ADEDY public sector trade union federation and the private sector General Confederation of Greek Workers called general strikes.

Fully 265 protests were held in Greece and 112 internationally—almost 400 in total. Major international rallies included Berlin, Germany and London, Edinburgh and Manchester in the UK; Rio in Brazil; New York and Boston in the US; and Sydney, Australia.

Participation in the latest Tempi demonstrations is larger than anything that the unions can, or would ever consider mobilising, threatening the downfall of the Conservative New Democracy (ND) government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Every inch of the main Syntagma Square in Athens was filled and its adjoining streets were packed with protesters. The rally was set to assemble at 11am, but the square was already full at not long after 8am. The daily Efimerida ton Syntakton (The Newspaper of the Editors) noted that masses of people were unable to get anywhere near Syntagma with the protest stretching as far as a kilometre away in Omnia Square and in another direction, the Propylaea.

Many brought homemade placards and banners condemning the government as “murderers” for overseeing the preventable deaths. Among the slogans chanted and on other placards were “I have no oxygen” and “Privatizations kill”.

“I have no oxygen” were the last gasping words of a young woman passenger who called the 112 European emergency number to report the crash, after the passenger train she was on collided into a freight train. This caused a massive fireball, with bereaved families convinced this was due to the freight train carrying an illegal cargo of flammable material—a fact covered up by the government.

Even the police, notorious for underplaying the size of demonstrations in Greece, said there were over 170,000 people just in Athens, and 325,000 people on the streets nationwide.

Greece has seen many widely supported general strikes since the imposition of mass austerity by successive government beginning in 2008. But the scale of the protests over Tempi, and the latest general strike are magnitudes larger as the entire country was brought to a standstill.

The strikes began the evening before, as Coca Cola workers walked out at a factory near Athens. Transport came to a halt as international and domestic flights were grounded by air traffic controllers, with trains, trams and bus services stopping. Seafarers, train drivers, doctors, nurses, teachers and lawyers all struck. Government offices closed, along with many shops and businesses, and hospitals only opened for emergencies. Even some of the most upmarket cafes, restaurants and bars closed due to the mass mobilisation.

The only transport running in Athens were trains to get protesters to the central squares. Even this was barely possible with Ef Syn reporting, under a headline “This has never happened before!”, that “metro stations have been flooded with thousands of people. The National is suffocatingly full, the trains have increased their schedules in order to serve the people who want to get off in the center, but people cannot fit into the carriages.”

The newspaper editorialised that “A huge social ‘tsunami’ has formed that is not limited to mourning, it is not satisfied with honoring the memory of the 57 victims of the crime in Tempi, passengers and workers on the fatal trains. But it wants truth, vindication, punishment of the real culprits.”

The authorities did everything possible to disrupt the protests and prevent people reaching the squares, even closing the Metro stations at Syntagma and Panepistimiou. A massive contingent of over 5,000 police officers, including riot police, was mobilised to confront the protesters—a substantial proportion of the 65,000 who make up the Hellenic Police nationwide. After several hours, and with the crowds growing, riot police used tear gas and stun grenades in Syntagma square forcing demonstrators to disperse. APE-MPE photojournalist Orestis Panayiotou was injured in the head by a police stun grenade.

Among dozens of arrests made by police were 25 protesters who climbed onto the roof of the Hellenic Trains headquarters and unfurled banners reading “Murderers”.

Many thousands refused to be cowed and returned to Syntagma to continue protesting. Thousands more came back into the square later Friday evening to protest. Speaking to the Reuters news agency, protester Evi said she was there to mourn the dead, “but also because the government has tried to cover things up.” Christos, a musician said, “The government hasn’t done anything to get justice… This wasn’t an accident, it was murder”.

In her speech to the crowd in Syntagma, Maria Karystianou—who lost her 21-year-old daughter Marthi in the crash and who is the president of the Tempi Victims’ Association—faced the parliament building and said, “I am addressing the murderers of our children. You treated our dead with disrespect and contempt. Human parts and bones of our children remain unburied in hidden locations. You have committed the ultimate sacrilege, and you will receive what is due through the vengeance of the dead.”

The anger of millions was spurred by the release on Thursday of a long-awaited report into the disaster by the Hellenic Air and Rail Accident Investigation Authority (HARSIA). Many details in the report shatter the government narrative and its cover-up.

The report states, “It is impossible to determine what exactly caused [the fireball], but simulations and expert reports indicate the possible presence of a hitherto unknown fuel”. The government has long denied that any fuel was onboard the freight train, maintaining the fiction that a gigantic fireball 80 to 100 metres in length that engulfed the passenger train carriages after the collision was produced by silicone oil on the train transformers.

“Serious information went missing because the site of the accident was not sealed,” the report noted.

In the face of Friday’s massive protest Prime Minister Mitsotakis issued a provocative and self-serving statement declaring the crash was down to “human errors” and “chronic failings of the state”, while refusing to take any responsibility for the mass deaths on his watch.

The mass eruption of anger over Tempi—which has brought to the surface opposition to the attacks that have been implemented against the working class over decades by capitalist parties of all political stripes—may now see not just Mitsotakis’ own downfall, but that of his government. The entire rotten political set-up in Greece is implicated. The pseudo-left Syriza (Coalition of the Radical Left) in power from 2015-19, deepened an austerity offensive against the working class without precedent on the European continent. As part of a privatisation spree, Syriza sold off in 2017 Greece’s state railway network, TrainOSE, for just €45 million euros, leaving an already under resourced railway service to the profiteers, with rail workers forced to rely on antiquated technology, including manual signalling systems.

As the WSWS noted, “Post-privatization, Greece’s rail network is one of the most dangerous in Europe. From 2018 to 2020, according to the European Union Agency for Railways, Greece recorded the highest railway fatality rate per million train kilometres among 28 European nations.”

Next week, after months of prevarication, Syriza, will join the social democratic PASOK in presenting a joint no-confidence motion against the government.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/28/scqp-f28.html

Alternative chans

Post all obscure and underground imageboards in this thread, the chan must be at least half-dead so no archived chans. >inb4 'hurr durr don't put muh sekrit klub in the limelight'The population here is low as it is, there's also a large overlap between this chan and others.I'll start:Dreamch.netArisuchan.jpUboachan.netThere was this one I faintly remember and I think the theme was either dinosaurs or lizards…

picture and video request thread

picture and video request thread

how safe is Guthub ?

A terror group with japanese origins (that calls it self "Neentendoh" or something like that) has just launched a mass dmca cyber attack against github where they managed to destroy 8500 forks of an open source project. In their terror manifesto they tried to justify their crusade with other people making software they didn't like.

Is there a better place for hosting source code that isn't so vulnerable to this kind of organized crime ? Github seem to have become a precarious place.

March 15

Idk wtf this is or how it's "not a strike," but I'm all for it

inb4 le cringe democrats! - don't know or care who's behind it, this is good, everyone is invited to shut down the American state, even if they're cringe

You guys are aware that everybody connects you to idpol transhumanists, liberals LARPing as AntiFa and cuckold fetishists, and that this is hurting your cause?
I lurked this website for a month now and i noticed a fundamental difference between the posters who are here to actually talk to others and the posters who link to 4chan to ask for support in some ridiculous bait thread where you just waste time.

I also noticed that you have a thread talking about if an imageboard would be better as a single-page-application.
I am currently working on my own imageboard from scratch. I am actually a web-developer and know my stuff, so (i hope) it won't be just another 4chan rip-off. I am going to use node - react - redux - sequelize for mysql - redis.
I am visiting different boards to gather ideas, but i see the same sorry state everywhere. I seriously want to make something good.

Our Savage Roots: An analysis on the modern world; or, on tending to the wild.

Mankind now wrestles between the dogma of tradition and the techno-feudalist dominance of the modern age, and now our very struggles; wars are capitalized and induced by seemingly ordinary men with dead eyes and a forced grim.

Widespread industrialism annihilating millions in the courses of history, our planet seethes with unrest, the frames of reel the ordinary man is too familiar with: the skeletonization of cities and the tons of broken bottles and used tissues that bob on the surface of our freshwater—a mirroring of a larger vision; a grand flock of black swans, that of gas masks and pale steeds.

The metropolis and its machines have no match against primal wrath, the supreme weapon—an envoy of writhing hurricanes, and volcanic spew, forging the soil we march over. From magma; the father of structure, new life and order arises, a testament to the transformative qualities of fury.

The world is constantly in a state of instability, although It may predictably orbit, our world is in a constant state of adaptable chaos and the only way to destabilize our current systems global is to induce them in speeds that rival our orbit.
The difficult task is crafting the metaphorical bolt of lighting needed to disorientate and what exactly will induce the most change, societal arrest, a global—screeching halt to industrialism and the rapidly consuming forces of which make up techno-feudalism, allowing us to return to a more simpler age.

Unpredictability and uncertainty is the very essence of systemic collapse, and such we must embrace these forces as they carry us onto a new age, where only the most sinister survive, this will only purge the most useless breeds; allowing for the ones who tend towards savagery to thrive in their newer existence. Misanthropy often arises and is bred out of the weakest aspects of human nature, the anti-human sentiments of the modern age arise out of the frustrations of how members of our species could be so underwhelming or horrid beyond our wildest fantasies; however, it is crucial to note that the strong reactions that we give to those who tend towards savagery such as mercenaries and serial killers are almost entirely crafted by dogmatic institutions such as the church and the state, and inflicted onto us on very young ages to pressure us into following orders.

Even some of the wildest and chaotic of our species can become like second brothers and sisters to you, if you gave them a chance, they could even become like a mentor or a teacher if you hop over the barbed wires of morality and they could even condition you into the radical warrior you ought to be in order to enact vicious change to rival the tyranny of this age. By taking undercover roles of insight, by immersing yourself in intellectual catacombs and tunnels that lead you towards unexpected wisdom and resilience, you can become a force to be reckoned with, a child of kali, an ubermensch.

Even to those who rise to the ceilings of capitalism, or to the elites of the greater movement will face hardship and even succumb to the effects of it all, embracing the sinister makes no animal invincible, it grants them the power needed to embrace their demons and make a legacy that survives longer than their short life, it inspires others to commit and embrace acts of terror, or the propaganda of the deed to induce radical change.

History may be written by the victor, but often times, the radical are sensationalized, examined and questioned, leaving those who didn't have the strength to survive in the distant dustbins and sands of time. The violated are forgotten with no memorials to call their own, but the hatred that may be directed towards you is the flame that'll keep the fire going within the radical environmentalist or accelerationist scene. You'll become the saint who bit down on the petals of the datura, the one who tended towards savagery and embraced a stronger more ambitious self who climbed over slothfulness and became a beacon on their own. True victims are only confined to a sheet of data, martyrs live forever. Our victory lies within the praxis of radical istishhad-esque eco-defenders, and such they must be trained or bred, they must confront their darker selves, they must tend to the wild, embracing savagery in the process.

when it will be over for eu

what do you think on european union in general

What will happen to this site and leftypol if there is an actual revolution

supercomputer projects

It could be illegal, but perhaps a botnet network could be fashioned from some sort of self written AIs modeled on something like the new Chinese DeepSeek AI?

In which onion forum can secret intelligence exchanges be seen?

War always hurts civilians, fuck wars.

FUCK YOU MOZILLA!

YOU PROBABLY SABOTAGE YOUR OWN PRODUCTS YOU FUCKING FEDS

WHAT IS THIS SHITT????
WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE SUCH FUCKING GARBAGE AND BECOME MORE AND MORE SHIT BY THE MINUTE, HUH?

ON THIS STUPID GOD DAMN APPLICATION CALLED FIRE FUCK-OFF IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE WHICH OF THESE GOD DAMN TABS IS ACTIVE!!!!
THEY"RE ALL EXACTLY THE SAME FUCKING COLOR AAAAAAHHHHHAHGGGHG HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO USE THIS SHIT!! FUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKETR;OLJDFGVJNASDF

WHY THE FUCK DO I HAVE TO GO INTO THE SETTINGS AND CHANAGE THE THEME JUST TO SEE WHAT FUCKING TAB I"M ON HUUUUUGGGGHHHH??

FUCK YOU COCKSUCKERS!!! IT WAS FUCKING FINE. OKAY!? IT WAS FINE AND YOU MAKE IT MORE SHIT WITH EACH ITERATION!!

Big wins for Wagenknecht's party

In only six months, Sahra Wagenknecht's new party has BTFO'd the remnants of Die Linke and is already the 3rd most popular party in recent German state elections in Thuringia and Saxony. Is she gonna do it, anons? Can Germany be saved after all?

How do we steer black workers away from idpol and towards class consciousness?

These kinds of people are literally just black chuds, they worship "black owned businesses", they have their own black version of schizo-tier race science (Yakub), are religious extremists (just Muslim instead of Christian), are often antisemitic, homophobic, etc., and essentially just want a Fourth Reich but in Africa ("Pan-Africanism"). Basically take any /pol/ talking point but replace "Jews" with "whites" and "Europe" with "Africa". There's a reason the American Nazi Party regularly attended Nation of Islam conferences.
How do you get them to realize they have a lot more in common with the white proletariat than the black bourgeosie?

Comrades Unit To Fight Fascism Censorship

Comrades,

I come to you today to convey what I deem an urgent message regarding the tumultuous times that lie ahead. In brief, I have substantial reasons to believe that we are on the precipice of a significant escalation in censorship on a global scale. Indeed, I regret to inform you that this troubling trend seems to have already commenced. For those seeking to bypass these oppressive measures, I encourage you to focus on the tools and guides that follow.

For various reasons—some of which must remain undisclosed—I urge all to swiftly acquire fundamental skills to counter what I categorize as mid-level censorship tactics. Below are some points I can share to underscore the gravity of this situation.

Firstly, the United States made a genuine attempt to ban TikTok, an app that, while initially intended for lighthearted dance videos, has now evolved into one of the fastest avenues for disseminating information. It is worth noting that despite the attempted ban, my investigations (details withheld for security) have revealed a marked increase in censorship compared to the period prior to this initiative.

Moreover, I suspect that the Tor Project anticipates a rise in global censorship, which may jeopardize the Tor network's capacity to circumvent these mechanisms. However, I am constrained from disclosing further information on this matter.

Additionally, it has come to my attention that several social networks are actively suppressing links and discussions surrounding tools designed to combat censorship, such as Linux and Distrowatch.

Here is a concise list of essential tools, predominantly free software, that I recommend:

1. An affordable laptop or desktop.
2. A fully installed Tor-focused Linux distribution (TAILS OS, WHONIX, or QUBES OS); refer to their respective project sites for installation guides.
3. A Wi-Fi dongle capable of establishing a hotspot.
4. A standard Linux installation.
5. A trustworthy VPN, preferably not based in your country of residence, ideally paid for with cryptocurrency, cash, gift cards, or in some cases, free (e.g., Proton VPN).
6. Extra copies of all the above tools.
7. A de-Googled Android device (to be used solely for routine communications, except in extreme situations).
8. As many how-to materials as you can gather—books, videos, PDFs, or even a static copy of this message.
9. If possible, procure a non-publicly listed Tor bridge, keep it confidential, and request only a minimal quantity.

Short guides follow:

Bypassing TikTok Bans and Other Application Restrictions:

Required Tools: VPN, Android cellphone or tablet (preferably de-Googled Android)

To obtain applications that have been banned:
1. Remove the SIM card or disable e-SIM.
2. Install and/or enable a VPN.
3. Set the VPN to a country where the app is not banned.
4. Download the Aurora Store from https://aurorastore.org/.
5. Enable APK installation, then open the Aurora Store.
6. Search for and install the application.
7. Create a new account.

*Note:* Many apps impose bans based on SIM card country codes. To bypass this, remove or disable the SIM or use a tablet. Some apps may also restrict accounts based on physical location.

Creating a VPN Hotspot with PC or Cellphone:

Method 1: PC (recommended)
Required Tools: Wi-Fi dongle or card capable of creating a hotspot, a desktop or laptop (standard Linux distro instructions work best with Debian), an internet connection (via another Wi-Fi card, dongle, or Ethernet), a VPN.

1. Install and enable the VPN of your choice, enable network sharing, and activate the kill switch.
2. Use the command line to execute the following command:
```
nmcli dev wifi hotspot ifname wlp4s0 ssid test password "test1234"
```
*Replace `wlp4s0` with your desired Wi-Fi device, `test` with your chosen name, and `test1234` with a significantly stronger password.*
3. Check your IP and run a DNS leak test on another device.

Method 2: Cellphone (not recommended)
Required Devices: Cellphone, cellular service, a VPN.
Certain custom ROMs allow you to route your Wi-Fi hotspot through a VPN. For instance, in Lineage OS, you can enable this by installing and activating a VPN before creating a hotspot, checking the option to allow the hotspot to connect to the VPN.

How You Can Help:
For our tech-savvy comrades, it is our duty to assist in overcoming the forces of fascist censorship. Educate others on the proper use of the dark web and VPNs. For those less skilled in technology, you can help maintain the free flow of information by disseminating any news you believe may be of benefit to others. I stand ready to assist you! (email me commie-tech@proton.me )

Let there be no illusion, comrades—the United States has succumbed to fascism, revoking and denying passports to trans individuals, restricting the free flow of information, and, most alarmingly, building camps. We must anticipate that other nations will follow suit. Do not hesitate to reach out to me with any information you wish to share privately. (email me commie-tech@proton.me )

“One cannot live in society and be free from society.” - Vladimir Lenin
Comrades, I do not wish for anyone to live under the yoke of fascism. It is incumbent upon us all to resist this encroachment on our freedoms. Together, we must stand firm against censorship.

Comrades, as we march resolutely forward on the path of progress, I shall provide you with weekly updates to keep you informed of our collective triumphs and challenges. Together, we shall forge a brighter future!

Feb 28 Economic Blackout

Meant to post about this before today, best of luck though!

A proper FOSS messenger, alternative to Discord.

Hello people. I'm looking for an instant messenger which satisfies most of those needs:

Anonymous, private & secure [decentralised, encrypted & safe] (Hard necessary)

Audio & video calls [configure volume, deafen, mute, select camera/screen/window & support for group chats] (If there is an app which satisfies most other needs but does not have audio/video, I might do fine just using Jitsi instead, so it's mid-necessary.)

Clean, fast, professional, responsive & smooth design (Can also go with terminal)

Cross-platform [android, linux & windows] (Hard necessary)

File transfer [no limits] (Hard necessary)

Free & open source (Hard necessary)

Group chats [customisation & moderation] (Hard necessary)

History [clear, search system] (Favorable, but not necessary)

Notifications [togglable] (Favorable, but not necessary)

Presence [do not disturb, online, idle] (Favorable, but not necessary)

Stable & optimised [performant & lightweight] (Hard necessary)

Status [media & text] (Favorable, but not necessary)

Folders [contacts & groups] (Favorable, but not necessary)

Text messaging [block, delete, edit, embed, emoji, format, mark as unread, mention, mute, show typing, pin message/user, quote, react, read receipts, reply, saved messages, spell checker, etcetera] (Not all those features listed are hard necessary)

I'm just looking for an alternative to fbi.gov, there has to be no ZOG crap, that's the first need listed.

THE STATE CALLS ITS VIOLENCE AGAINST THE INDIVIDUAL LAW AND THAT OF THE INDIVIDUAL AGAINST THE STATE CRIME!

/mu/ - Music

Discuss and share songs, albums artists you like. You can talk about making music as well.
Usually not my genre but I enjoyed this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMaRguzy2gU

Why did the Western far-left become the 2SLGBTQRPGMMO+++ rainbow mafia?
It genuinely is perplexing to me that Western leftists seem to hold even the most absurd AGP sex fetish shit and BPD tumblr furry xenogender larping as the most ultimate leftist purity test, yet then will accept literal fucking Capitalists into the movement wihtout hesitation.
I used to think this shit was exaggerated, but it's honestly not, most western leftist spaces are just rainbow mafia/idpol obsessed and you can't push back on even the most absurd, eye rolling narratives, without getting asked to leave, or if online, copping a ban, this includes communities like leftypol(dot)org.
Even holding the same policy positions, as most Communist Parties in the Global South, will get you banned from basically any Westoid "Leftist" space. Leftypol lets you claim Xi is based or whatever, but if you actually espouse his policies, enjoy your ban because it doesn't align with Western Idpol shit.
Why is the Western left like this? Don't they realise that this shit makes them look like absolute pozzed student larping retards to the majority of the working class?
Would most Western "leftists" even want to live in a Working Class led society? They do realise the Working Class is largely soft-Socially Conservative right?

Swampy Swamp People Music

CCR also acceptable.

Unlimited fusion?

Unlimited energy from fusion of materials like lithium deurtride ignited in something like antimatter in a vacuum pointed at gold plated disc or something? The antimatter created from the antiamtter gun experiment with a Hercules tabletop laser or something like that?

Stone-Axed Rebellion: my views on environmentalism

"A primitive; radical cell is best organized in a militaristic, wrathful and amoral way in order to erode the tyranny of the industrial age which continues to consume humanity, internally and externally, leaving a path of ecological sorrow wherever a factory may dump its waste." — @ChimeraMidnight

Less retarded software

I made a wiki about unretarding technology and society. What do you think? https://www.tastyfish.cz/lrs/main.html

MODS

MODS THERES A EMPTY FED THREAD ON META THAT TALKS ABOUT COUNTERFIETED MONEY AND OBVIOUSLY ILLEGAL SCAMS
>>11900
PLEASE DELETE IT PLEASE
GOODBYE FOR NOW

Should I start a carnivore/raw primal/high cholesterol ,high-fat diet?
I know how terribly unhealthy this all sounds but it also sounds hyper-masculine and caveman. I know some bodybuilders have 40 eggs a day and theyre fine(inb4 Gaston)
a Builder of Communism must be strong and manly!

Sick of Trump.

Honestly, I'm sick of Trump already. He's just been going around, ordering the drilling of oil (aka destroying the fucking planet) and making a bunch of useless changes – none of which make America better. I'm a democratic socialist, and I believe that Trump needs to be IMPEACHED. Except that would leave Vance, who I'm not too fond of either. Trump has been ABUSING EXECUTIVE POWER, and I just wish he would fucking stop. What do you think about this?

Zero fix the damn matrix.

Zero fix the damn matrix.
What the fuck negro.

What happened to the irc and the matrix?

The irc and the matrix down for anyone else or is it just me? Zero fix the irc I am scared.

RetroShare anybody?

Who else uses RetroShare? Lets change IDs, here is mine: ABATxeFjmzv8pgGufEl3IT6TAxTfwbjsCaLHZ+biHt803TDGPDGXMgEGa2xvcHBvkEIAAAAEAApyZXRyb2JhbmhhcTJ6eHpvMmo0 M3FzYW5icXlvYm5sYXVqanh5eHFkenlkY3Vzb2E1NXpxLmIzMi5pMnAEAy1eVw==

TSSI

Any enthusiasts of it on the board? I have read a good chunk of Andrew Kliman's Reclaiming Marx's Capital, but I admit that it mostly clears the deck of red herrings rather than makes an argument for a rigorous mathematical formulation of marxist economics.

In particular it does explicitly formulate how the tprf leads to recurring recessions (directly or indirectly).

I have an electronic copy of the pic book but haven't read it yet.

News 2/11/25

Farmers launch an indefinite strike in India’s Karnataka state
The farmers and agricultural workers gathered in the capital from different parts of the state under the leadership of Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha affiliated with the left wing All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and other groups affiliated to All India Agricultural Workers Union (AIAWU). They carried red flags and shouted slogans against corporate exploitation.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/11/farmers-launch-an-indefinite-strike-in-indias-karnataka-state/

China builds space alliances in Africa as Trump cuts foreign aid
China has forged nearly two-dozen pacts with African nations in its bid to surpass the U.S. in space. Investments in satellites and infrastructure are winning friends – and giving China more eyes on the skies – as America slashes help for developing countries.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/china-builds-space-alliances-africa-trump-cuts-foreign-aid-2025-02-11/

Israel will resume war in Gaza unless more hostages freed this week, says Netanyahu
Netanyahu’s ultimatum was delivered during a video address posted to social media account on Tuesday. “If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon – the ceasefire will end, and the IDF will return to intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated,” he said. It came a day after Trump told reporters: “If all the Gaza hostages aren’t returned by Saturday at 12pm, I would say cancel the ceasefire. Let all hell break loose.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/israel-will-resume-war-in-gaza-unless-all-hostages-freed-this-week-says-netanyahu

Turkey detains more opposition members over alleged PKK ties, TRT says
An Istanbul prosecutor ordered the detention of two deputy mayors and another seven municipal council members from nine districts in Turkey's largest city over alleged ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The prosecutor's office said in a statement that the detained municipal council members had been voted in as part of an electoral pact between the CHP and the pro-Kurdish DEM Party, which is parliament's third largest, according to TRT.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-detains-more-opposition-members-over-alleged-pkk-ties-trt-says-2025-02-11/

As Ethiopia and Israel forge closer water cooperation, alarm bells ring in Egypt
It is also the latest in a series of cooperation agreements between Addis Ababa and Tel Aviv over the years, ones that do not make Egyptian observers exclude their expected negative toll on their country, especially with Egypt and Ethiopia locking horns over the Horn of Africa state's construction of a gigantic dam on the Blue Nile, the main tributary of the Nile River, Egypt's principal source of fresh water, and historical and current tensions between Egypt and Israel.
https://www.newarab.com/news/alarm-egypt-ethiopia-israel-forge-closer-water-ties

'Long-Overdue' Trial to Begin After Decades of Shell Polluting Nigeria
After years of delay tactics, Shell is set to go on trial in London this week over claims that hundreds of spills caused by the fossil fuel giant have destroyed Nigerian communities and violated their residents' rights to a clean and healthy environment. … .. . . . . .
https://www.commondreams.org/news/london-trial-shell-nigeria

Campaigner for migrants in Libya targeted in spyware attack
An Italy-based human rights activist whose work supports the international criminal court in providing evidence about cases of abuse suffered by migrants and refugees held in Libyan detention camps and prisons has revealed that Apple informed him his phone was targeted in a spyware attack
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/david-yambio-rights-activist-italy-phone-spyware

‘Workers are  being employed as indentured labour’
Many workers, who are from countries including Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Zambia as well as India and the Philippines, were given no shifts when they arrived, or not the number promised. Around 18 per cent said employers had deducted money from their salaries since arriving, with firms claiming the fees were for expenses such as training and administration.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/workers-are-being-employed-as-indentured-labour

A coffee for $3.50: Argentina is the most expensive country in Latin America
The immediate consequence of the rise in prices in dollars is that the upper and middle classes use credit cards to buy everything they can online from overseas, now that Milei has reduced tariffs and facilitated the entry of products from abroad. The beaches of Brazil and Uruguay were crowded with Argentines last summer, fleeing the prices of the resorts in their own country; there were also long lines at immigration points in Chile or Paraguay to go shopping at the malls on the other side of the border.
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-02-11/a-coffee-for-350-argentina-is-the-most-expensive-country-in-latin-america.html
https://archive.ph/PChj1

Uribe lawyers abandon fraud and bribery trial
The court was supposed to continue hearing the prosecution’s first witness, Senator Ivan Cepeda, but was forced to suspend Tuesday’s proceedings. Uribe, who was connected via a video link, told the judge that his lawyers didn’t show up because they sought her removal and the suspension of the criminal proceedings before a higher court.
https://colombiareports.com/uribe-lawyers-abandon-fraud-and-bribery-trial/

WINDOWS IS FUCKING WITH MY FOSS PROGRAMS

I DON'T HAVE ANY SMOKING GUN EVIDENCE BUT I INSTINCTUALLY KNOW IT IS HAPPENING. FALSEFLAGGING GAMES AS VIRUSES, TELLING ME MY DOCUMENT IS/ISN'T CORRUPTED BASED ON THE TEXT EDITOR I OPEN IT WITH, MY COPY OF MTPAINT HAS TOTALLY DISAPPEARED BUT RE-APPEARS SOMETIMES. MY PROPERIETARY PROGRAMS ARE ALWAYS OFFERED TO ME AHEAD OF FOSS AS CHOICES. PROPEITARY PROGRAMS WORKING SUSPICIOUSLY FASTER THAN THEY SHOULD BE AS IF THEY ARE BEING PUSHED TO BE FASTER. THIS COMPUTER OTHERWISE WORKS FINE. THERE ARE NEFARIOUS FORCES TRYING TO MANIPULATE ME TOWARDS ANTI-FOSS OPINIONS BY SABOTAGING/IMPROVING PERFORMANCE. DOCUMENT SAVES BETTER AFTER REMOVING MENTIONS OF NUKES TYPE SHIT.

RIP Marianne Faithfull

1946 - 2025

This site is ass

Elvis's ghost

Elvis is like the Stalin of rock, everybody wants to be him.

Post your favourite Elvis inspired sets or songs.

the industrial outcome of overcredentialism in college

>Degrees are fucking worthless—limp dick energy.
>Jobs that needed high school now want degrees because employers are lazy fucks.
>Student debt piles up like a cum rag, and you’re stuck paying for useless paper.
>Graduates flip burgers with philosophy degrees because nobody gives a shit.
>Employers don’t care about skills—just flash your overpriced diploma like a stripper’s ass.
>Colleges are diploma mills, churning out degrees like a cheap whore.
>Poor kids get fucked—can’t afford the golden ticket to a “real job.”
>Degrees mean nothing when every idiot has one.
>Innovation dies because everyone’s chasing credentials instead of doing cool shit.
>Job market’s a circus—need a master’s to answer phones like a trained monkey.
>Trades get ignored because society thinks you’re a loser without a degree.
>People waste years in college to check a box for some corporate dickhead.
>Employers want PhDs for jobs that pay less than a stripper’s tip jar.
>System’s a pyramid scheme—colleges win, you get fucked.
Society says you’re worthless without a degree, even if you’re talented as fuck.

>do magic rituals for fun/out of boredom
>actually start to believe they are real and affect reality
What is the explanation for this? Idk if pic is related cus i didnt read

News 2/4/25

China counters with tariffs on US products. It will also investigate Google.
“The U.S.’s unilateral tariff increase seriously violates the rules of the World Trade Organization,” China’s State Council Tariff Commission said in a statement. “It is not only unhelpful in solving its own problems, but also damages normal economic and trade cooperation between China and the U.S.”
https://apnews.com/article/china-tariffs-us-trump-150fab3a44ec055845e47c82bde544c2

Amid Environmental Concerns, Hong Kong’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Project Presses Ahead
A massive new development project, centered around the San Tin Technopole, will transform farm and village land – including manmade wetlands crucial for regional wildlife.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/02/amid-environmental-concerns-hong-kongs-silicon-valley-project-presses-ahead/
https://archive.ph/k8Sae

Private schools’ withdrawal from NTF-ELCAC welcomed by student leaders
The decision is welcomed by youth leaders, who have noted how NTF-ELCAC’s activities in schools turned into red-tagging and harassment of legitimate student organizations and leaders, which has endangered lives.
https://davaotoday.com/human-rights/private-schools-withdrawal-from-ntf-elcac-welcomed-by-student-leaders/

Panama court is asked to cancel Hong Kong firm’s contract to run canal ports
A subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings – owned by the Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing – has operated two of the canal’s five ports since it won the tender in 1997. “After a detailed analysis of the contract … we decided that an action for unconstitutionality was the appropriate means” to challenge the concession, Julio Macías, one of the lawyers behind the suit, told AFP.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/04/panama-canal-lawsuit-ports-china

Rubio escalates hardline policy toward Cuba, while Havana fails to honor prisoner release pledge
Among these is the reactivation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, also known as the LIBERTAD Act, which opens the way for Americans to take legal action against companies or people who handle “assets confiscated by the Cuban regime” after 1959.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-02-04/rubio-escalates-hardline-policy-toward-cuba-while-havana-fails-to-honor-prisoner-release-pledge.html
https://archive.ph/fI83j

Bardella hints French far right won’t topple PM in multiple no-confidence votes
Bayrou is expected put his job on the line four times this week by using Article 49.3 of the French Constitution, which allows the government to enact legislation without a vote, but in turn gives lawmakers the ability to put forward no-confidence motions. Bayrou has already triggered the measure twice to pass parts of the budget for 2025, and a vote on the first no-confidence motion is expected Wednesday.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-far-right-leader-jordan-bardella-hints-at-keeping-pm-francois-bayrou/
https://archive.ph/lF0Lr

Greenland plans to ban foreign political funding over Trump-led election fears
It is scheduled be considered on Tuesday and if it becomes law, which it is likely to do because the government holds a majority in parliament, it could come into force straight away.Despite Greenland and Denmark saying the Arctic island is not for sale, Trump has repeatedly said he plans to acquire it and has threatened to use tariffs and military force to get his way.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/03/greenland-plans-to-ban-foreign-political-funding-over-trump-led-election-fears

Israeli far right MK Ben-Gvir introduces Gaza 'voluntary' ethnic cleansing bill echoing Trump's clean-out plan
The proposed aid would be available only to Gazans who have not been convicted or suspected of involvement in armed activities. Those who receive the aid but later seek to return to Gaza would be required to repay twice the amount received, adjusted for cost-of-living increases and interest.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-fascist-ben-gvir-introduces-gaza-ethnic-cleansing-bill

Protests continue in Siirt against the usurpation of municipality
On Saturday, hundreds of people took part in a demonstration organized by the DEM Party (Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party), the DBP (Democratic Regions Party) and TJA (Free Women’s Movement), demanding that the government reverse the decision to remove the elected co-mayors from office. Mustafa Dayanan, co-chair of the provincial association of the DEM Party, said that with this step, Ankara is once again disregarding the will of the people.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/protests-continue-in-siirt-against-the-usurpation-of-municipality-77743

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels declare ceasefire in DRC
The AFC/M23 rebel coalition announced late on Monday that it would implement a unilateral ceasefire starting on Tuesday. The group, backed by thousands of troops from neighbouring Rwanda, seized Goma, the main city in eastern DRC, last week, with the United Nations estimating 900 people were killed, while hundreds of thousands have been displaced.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/4/rwandan-backed-m23-rebels-declare-ceasefire-in-drc
https://archive.ph/fGjcP

Israel 'at war' as Hamas gunmen launch surprise attack from Gaza Thread Pt. VI

One Year of Genocide

Continued from >>483169

Updates since the start of the last thread:
The (largely civilian) Palestinian death toll has now passed 42,000. 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.

Hamas political leader and negotiator Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran by an Israeli bombing.

Israel sabotaged the international supply chain to put bombs in 3,000 pagers and other electronic devices in Lebanon, resulting in thousands of injuries and several deaths, in a major blow to both Hezbollah and the Lebanese civilian population.

Israel launched an ongoing series of carpet bombings of the Lebanese capital of Beirut, killing several high-ranking Hezbollah commanders. A strike dubbed "Operation New Order" which used 80 2,000 lb bombs took out several blocks of apartment buildings and killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on September 27, and also killed an IRGC commander.

In early October, Israel began launching ground invasions of south Lebanon, which are ongoing and have met resistance. Thousands have been killed, and over a million displaced.

On October 1st, in retaliation for the bombing of Tehran which killed Haniyeh, as well as for the killings of Nasrallah and IRGC commanders, and for the attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, Iran launched a missile strike on several Israeli airbases and Mossad headquarters.

Israel launched multiple attacks on UN peacekeepers at the southern border of Lebanon, including with chemical weapons.

The Israeli gov't declared the UN agency UNRWA a terrorist organization. Several settler groups launched attacks on the UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem before the Israeli gov't decided to seize the building. Israel also banned UN secretary general António Guterres from entering the country.

Israel is alleged to have used depleted uranium munitions in its attacks on Beirut.

Netanyahu visited the US again to speak at the UN in New York, and was met with protests.

More countries have joined South Africa's legal case at the International Court of Justice against Israel for the crime of genocide. Nicaragua, Palestine, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Libya, Chile, and Colombia have joined the South African case against Israel. Ireland, Egypt, Cuba, Belgium, and Maldives have also declared their intention to join.

Yemeni Houthi attacks on shipping, in solidarity with Gaza, have continued, effectively shutting down the Israeli port of Eilat, which has not seen activity in months.

Demonstrators have continued to blockade and damage arms factories manufacturing weapons for Israel in the UK.

On August 29, 2024, the Center for Constitutional Rights urged the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to review its lawsuit against Biden for genocide complicity, arguing that the courts have a constitutional duty to assess the legality of the Biden administration's actions. On October 2, 2024, the 9th Circuit denied the petition and refused to intervene as a check on abusive executive power.

Starvation deaths have continued to increase in Gaza amid Israel's imposed famine.

The US gov't continued shipping weapons to Israel, in violation of US law.

A fourth self-immolation occurred in the US over the genocide when a journalist lit himself on fire in protest of how the media he worked with had spread lies to cover up US-backed Israeli war crimes.

And much, much more!

News 2/3/25

Trump suspends tariffs on Mexico for a month after talks with Claudia Sheinbaum
Sheinbaum announced that her government will deploy 10,000 National Guard troops immediately to curb drug trafficking, particularly that of fentanyl, while Washington has committed to combating illegal firearms trafficking. “Our teams will start working today on two aspects: security and trade,” the Mexican president added.
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-02-03/trump-suspends-tariffs-on-mexico-for-a-month-after-talks-with-claudia-sheinbaum.html
https://archive.ph/BvgfW

‘Hope has returned’: tribe hails Lula’s fight against illegal mining in Amazon
Now, however, the 38-year-old Yanomami leader believed things were looking up. Two years after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva became president and launched an emergency operation to rescue inhabitants of Brazil’s largest Indigenous territory, hunger and infant mortality rates were falling and many miners had been expelled.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/03/yanomami-tribe-lula-illegal-mining-amazon

Argentines protest President Milei’s diatribe against ‘wokeism’ at Davos
Protesters were clad in rainbow-colored flags and bore banners that read “rights are not negotiable.” Dubbed the “Federal March of Anti-Fascist and Anti-Racist Pride,” the LGBTQ+ community called the protest after the speech on Jan. 23 to combat “the economic violence, political persecution and sexual repression of Javier Milei’s government.” Rights’ groups, unions and political parties also joined the protest.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-milei-davos-protest-lgbtq-32104fd11a76d1cf55817bb2bafdc354

Modi government rolls out tax cuts in effort to stimulate growth
The sweeteners for middle-income Indians, as well as small and mid-size businesses, came alongside steps aimed at reinvigorating the world’s fifth-biggest economy and reviving demand among urban consumers, a core political base for Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party.
https://www.ft.com/content/1d76cc7f-0f84-4dbb-9c17-0ecd29eb6340
https://archive.ph/LB03D

Taiwan’s feuding political parties raise the stakes with rival recall bids
Despite Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te’s calls for political harmony, civic groups backed by the DPP and the opposition coalition of the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) have been gathering signatures for recall petitions during the Lunar New Year holiday.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3296981/taiwans-feuding-political-parties-raise-stakes-rival-recall-bids?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection

Trump says 'no guarantees' Gaza truce will hold ahead of Netanyahu visit
Trump, who has claimed credit for sealing the ceasefire deal after 15 months of war, said Sunday negotiations with Israel and other countries in the Middle East were "progressing". The president later told reporters that he has "no guarantees that the peace is going to hold".
https://www.newarab.com/news/trump-says-no-guarantees-gaza-truce-will-hold

Tunisian state involved in sale of migrant people to Libya, report finds
RR[X], the network of anonymous researchers who worked on the report, found that migrating people would first be arrested in Tunisia, then taken to the border with Libya where they are put in a detention camp run by Tunisian authorities, before being sold off to armed Libyan groups and the Libyan army.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tunisian-state-directly-implicated-sale-migrants-libya-report-finds

Neoliberalism responsible for devastating Johannesburg fires, says union
“For the working class, these policies have made ownership of housing” next to impossible “as every cruel cycle of interest rate hikes brutally strips them of houses, cars and other assets they are forced to sell.” In the absence of an emergency public housing program, masses of the working class are crammed into slums, sheltering in shacks built of easily inflammable materials. Lacking electricity supply, candle lamps are often used for lighting in these settlements.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/01/neoliberalism-responsible-for-devastating-johannesburg-fires-says-union/

Italy PM named in complaint over freed Libya police head
"The Italian government has made me a victim twice, nullifying the possibility of obtaining justice… for all the people, like me, who survived his violence," said Magok in the statement. Meloni's government did not immediately reply to a request for comment or confirmation.
https://www.newarab.com/news/italy-pm-named-complaint-over-freed-libya-police-head

Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform Party leads in UK poll for first time
Reform’s one-point lead over Labour in the poll – which surveyed 2,465 people on February 2 and 3 – is within the margin of error, YouGov said. Labour, which won the national election in July last year by a landslide, dropped three points compared with the last survey conducted on January 26-27, while Reform gained two points.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/3/nigel-farages-right-wing-reform-party-leads-in-uk-poll-for-first-time

Tory bid to derail worker rights bill ‘ignoring the evidence’, new TUC analysis shows
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has claimed the landmark workers’ rights Bill is “destroying growth” and will cost businesses £5 billion a year. But new TUC analysis reveals that hundreds of thousands of workers are stuck on zero-hours contracts for years on end, with warnings that this is “holding workers and the economy back.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tory-bid-derail-worker-rights-bill-ignoring-evidence-new-tuc-analysis-shows

Belgium’s Arizona coalition threatens more austerity and attacks on civil rights
Trade unions and left movements are also raising concerns over proposed changes to labor laws, including liberalizing regulation on weekly mandatory rest and night work. Wages will be frozen until at least 2027. Beyond economic and social rights, Hedebouw warned that the new government, anticipating backlash against its austerity policies, is also preparing to clamp down on civil rights. “Leaks about the government agreement reveal numerous attacks on our democratic rights, particularly against trade unions and movements,” he stated.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/03/belgiums-arizona-coalition-threatens-more-austerity-and-attacks-on-civil-rights/

War on the homeless: Red states asking daddy Supreme Court to help criminalize public homelessness

The US Supreme court has decided to hear the case, fueling speculation they will side with those wanting to criminalize public homelessness.

With the approval of the California governor as well.

This recently came to a head in Grants Pass Oregon, a small Republican county with almost 2% homelessness. Their approach so far was over 500 criminal citations being given to their homeless for sleeping in parks until a circuit court stopped Grants Pass from issuing further citations. Now Grants Pass is asking the supreme court to give explicit permission to all states to criminalize public homelessness.
https://apnews.com/article/grants-pass-oregon-supreme-court-homeless-encampments-a8dcddb518bd76b11d409666c06701b8

The DOJ disagrees however, stating “Regardless of any future Supreme Court ruling, the law” is clear that “officers lack reasonable suspicion to stop people for merely sleeping on public property when they have nowhere else to sleep,” in a criminal complaint against Phoenix Arizona's treatment of the homeless. https://prospect.org/justice/2024-06-20-scotus-homelessness-doj-war-on-poor-phoenix/

The subreddit r/SanFrancisco is also celebrating the possibility of public homelessness being illegal.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1cale76/supreme_court_likely_to_side_with_grants_pass_on/

What is your take on this /leftypol/? The war on the homeless is in full swing.

Geopolitics in the Linux Kernel

Well it looks like the United States and NATO finally figured out a way to sabotage the Linux kernel. Several Russian kernel developers have just had their contributions removed and their kernel contributor status revoked due to being on the receiving end of US economic sanctions.

https://lwn.net/Articles/995186/

Torvalds himself is playing along with this enthusiastically because of his own moronic Finnish national politics. This is an extremely concerning development that affects all of free software. If this can happen to the Linux kernel it can happen to any other libre software projecting, poisoning the entire concept of international software development.

degrowf

What's the deal with the degrowthists ?

For example this perspective from An Independent Socialist Magazine
<The Chinese government has promised to reduce the emission intensity of GDP so that China’s carbon dioxide emissions will peak before 2030.27 However, economic growth remains the Chinese government’s top priority. At the Twentieth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping reconfirmed the objective to raise China’s per capita GDP to the level of “medium-level developed countries” by 2035 and to make China a leading global power by 2050. What will be the impact on ecological sustainability if China continues pursuing economic growth in the next several decades?
https://monthlyreview.org/2023/07/01/degrowing-china-by-collapse-redistribution-or-planning/
I suspect that the monthlyreview might have a anti-China bias based on their recent articles, which is tangential to the threat topic

Why are they seething that China wants to thrive economically while at the same time improving their ecological foot-print. Why would any socialist want to degrow ? If you read Marx he celebrates advancing the productive forces as something that will make socialism possible. To me de-growth sounds like people looking to go back to feudal agrarianism, rather than forward to socialism. They appear to be looking to undo the advances in productive capacity of industrial society. Like what used to be right-wing anti-capitalism 200 years ago, basically affluent people that were mad that industrial society could produce enough to end poverty. Why are there self proclaimed socialists pushing this ? Do they not realize that it would dramatically worsen living conditions for proles ? Is that the goal ? wrecking living standards of people while appearing to be a champion for noble causes ?

To me degrowth appears as a deception because it will not improve environmental conditions. More advanced technology is enabled by more potent productive forces, and those generally are less polluting. Like nuclear fission and fusion make much more energy while polluting significantly less than chemical fuel based power-generation. If you "de-grow" the economy you will also regress in technology. All the advanced tech stuff we can do now, is based on converting vast quantities of material using massive amounts of energy. So if industrial output is reduced we could not maintain our technology stack and go back to more primitive technology, which is much dirtier.

Am i unfair to suspect this is malice ? Are they just too ignorant to realize that if you remove the primary sector of an economy, all the other sectors will fall on their nose because they lack those primary sector inputs ? Have they never looked at statistics, economies that de-industrialize do not improve their ecological impact, they just stagnate.

Here is another de-growth rebuttable:
The degrowth delusion
<To abandon growth is to declare an end to progress. Socialists must reject the politics of eco-Thatcherism.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/degrowth-delusion/

Propaganda

Has propaganda changed in the last decade? The sheer audacity of the mass media over the past few years on any subject of American imperialism has seemed to be a never-ending rollercoaster of escalations. Every time you think they've made the most stupifying, incredulous assertion you've ever heard, a month later they've moved onto something even dumber. I thought the level of propaganda around the Syrian war was unprecedented, but then the Ukraine proxy war happened. I thought, then, that the Ukraine proxy war has never seen a more extreme demonstration of endless lies. Lies about how it started, lies about how it's going, lies about where it's headed. An endless stream of brazen lies, it's been truly shocking just how much bullshit they expect the public to swallow without question. And then the Palestinian genocide began. Now Israeli fascists will post videos on social media of themselves committing barbaric massacres that everyone in the world can view, yet the mass media still wants us to believe the fiction of them being some kind of humanistic, moral democracy.

Is there a trend here? Does it seem like there's been a real change in the audacity of the empire's propaganda machines? Were previous imperial ventures this extreme in their attempts to deceive the public? Is it just the benefit of hindsight? I really feel like previous imperial ventures didn't have this level of Orwellian spin peddled on a daily basis.

Radical environmentalism

Are there any radical environmentalist anti capitalist forums, threads, or private chats you know of?

Can you guys read crimethink: days of war, nights of love it’s gemmy

I think Antarctica should be annexed to Russia, China or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Chinese New Year 2025

How are you celebrating?
Post your food and your fireworks uyghurs.

the world run on looks. everybody listen to me, i swear it's important

the world works on looks. looks are important. we human will always fully think and associate people with lighter skin color as looking better, better to look at, and is more beautiful/pretty/handsome.
we all also associate lighter skin color with being more feminine for women consider feminine. we can never change this. not a single thing anyone do and say will ever change this. you can never change how people think like this. man or women everybody think like this.

now then have and obvious answer. for the sake of use call it the “Blond Path". we need to produce white people with blue eyes and green eyes and blond hair and ginger hair. the quota would be 10 times the world population including the world population of whites with natural color hair and eyes. To do this we ignore or erase things that are a hindrance such as marriage, monogamy, family unit, relationship, and romance. Production does not stop there, we also need to group ethnic whites together with the same ethnic whites (Ex: Scotts with Scotts, serbs with serbs, and etc). Although this one is of a different program. This program also require us to get rid of the same hindrance the former program have. Both program do not see heigh, body or looks. As long as your face are not horrendous you are good, so even if your not handsome and beautiful you will still be in the program.

As part of the Blond path and to prevent dehumanization and other such unwanted idea,we will educate people. Specifically we will tell them about that one zoning infrastructure real-estate thing (I forgot the name of it) that put black and brown people in place were the chemicals,paint ,water ,walls and environment in general are doing things to their head (mind and brain) and body. In general everybody need to be educated about racist laws and myth and other such things. Other then that we need to eliminate race science and race bias in science.

In short. The world need to have industry level production of ethnic whites and more importantly whites with blue eyes, green eyes, blond hair and red hair because the world work on looks. But we also educate people so they don’t believe in race science and race biased science.

we must advertise this to every rightoid, boomers, and whites.

I am speaking as a brown.

DeepSeek

Yeah this shit works better than my paid chatgpt account, what else is there to say?

National liberation: the movie

required viewing for every revolutionary

Were the LaRouchies right about this one?

I haven't researched it yet, but I just saw this excerpt from a 1978 piece by Paul Goldstein for the LaRouchite Executive Intelligence Report which claims that Jewish Confederate Judah P. Benjamin and B'Nai Brith member Kuttner Baruch were crucial to the formation of the Ku Klux Klan.

There's a Dr. Simon Baruch who apparently was later revealed to be a Klan member, but I haven't delved deep enough to learn much about Kuttner Baruch and what the sources for the claim that he financed it are. Has anyone delved deeper?

California declares state of emergency over bird flu (H5N1)

Discuss.

What are you listening to atm, /hobby/?

Currently listening to the album Matriarch by Veil of Maya. It's one of those albums thats shit on the first couple of listens but then it starts to grow on you and all of a sudden you're headbanging to the breakdowns.

Ragtime Thread

Thread for posting and discussing Ragtime, the enigmatic synthesis of various strains of American culture into what would become the sonic progenitor of jazz, pop, and the American music of 20th century modernity. Born out of a combination of the classical marches of Sousa and black American folk music, and coinciding with rise of early recording technology (including the player piano), Ragtime would become a major world phenomenon, as well as the beginning of the black songwriting/recording star in American popular culture.

It's generally pretty neat, basically.

Chinese and Americans are becoming friends on Xiaohongshu

TikTok refugees are migrating to RedNote

There are a lot of cute interactions happening on RedNote aka Xiaohongshu between americans and native chinese users as tiktok faces am imminent ban in the US.

The devs there are working hard to get the app translated for english speakers.

Go on RedNote and repost some positive interactions.

keep the comments positive

Films You Just Watched Thread

Hello, the most recent movie threads have seemed a bit unfocused, this thread is for the discussion of movies we just watched and other anon's takes on them. So, without further ado I'll begin.

I just watched Parasite last night, it was pretty good I think, but not as cutting edge or witty as I was expecting. I thought it was a bit unfocused and threw a lot at the wall to see what stuck, but on the other hand, it was fun and more interesting than most. A solid 8/10.

I do an IMDB rating for each film I watch, for my own reference mostly, but you can see each film I watched lately and my rating if you're curious or want to ask about them. If other anons have something similar feel free to post.

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur46013471/ratings

RIP John Sykes

29 July 1959 – 20 January 2025

alien attack?

Aliens or AI robots could read stuff like this, it could be dangerous.

LONG LIVE POSTALIN

👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽

politically incorrect but reasonable literatures

Thread about planning, programs, laws, and practice (by the state or others) that have the characteristics of being politically incorrect and or morally questionable, but reasonable and or executable.

My specific request, give me literature about sterilization (forced or not) of people of color, breeding programs, family planning, and eugenics. Not talking about one of those "nAZi BreeDIng ProgRAm DoeSN't WOrK!!! *insert soy" type of books and documents. I am talking about literatures that actually tells me how it is done and doesn't just smear dung all over it.

>inb4 just go at library and gov websites bro
<no
<I have specific sub mental disability of ADHD that doesn't allow me to do things that even a autist could.

What's the best way to make sure I get into the ruling class post-Revolution?

We need Communism, but fuck being outside the ruling class in a Communist society.

Greatest band interviews

Post 'em.

Picrel, an '80s zine interviewing the members of Venom in 1984.

Dream Pop

Dream Pop, jangles, etc.

US elections

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.

Cuba thread

Thread for news, books, info, etc. about Cuba.

Los Angeles is ON FIRE!!!

"''A massive and fast-moving wildfire in California has burnt more than one thousand hectares so far and is now threatening thousands of homes in an upscale neighbourhood of Los Angeles.
Officials have ordered evacuations as they warn the winds could pick up."''

What made millions of people go and decide to masturbate to these mentally unwell and emotionally abusive (whether they know it or not) women?

Marxist Planning of Eugenics

<In a letter to the editor of Scotland's Sunday Herald, Dawkins argues that the time has come to lay this spectre to rest. Dawkins writes that though no one
wants to be seen to be in agreement with Hitler on any particular, "if you can breed cattle for milk yield, horses for running speed, and dogs for herding skill,
why on Earth should it be impossible to breed humans for mathematical, musical or athletic ability?"
<"I wonder whether, some 60 years after Hitler's death, we might at least venture to ask what the moral difference is between breeding for musical ability and
forcing a child to take music lessons. Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them," Dawkins wrote Sunday.
Breeding humans for PEAK PERFORMANCE would be a good thing imo. Too bad it'll happen only in a technologically advanced communal society with
polyamorous kinship, which could materialize in the near future.

I don't know what's the issue, just don't let literal retards or people with disabilities
that can be passed down to have kids

literally who cares? there's no real argument against eugenics, not even moral arguments work that well, it's a win win situation

it would interfere with the bodily autonomy of the parent/s what do we do?

Hey, what's with all these US Army guys doing domestic terror attacks?

It's coming out that Matthew Livelsberger, the guy who exploded a Tesla in Las Vegas, was a special forces operations director & intelligence manager. Shamsud Din Jabbar did a car attack on the same day, but in New Orleans, which killed 16 people and injured 35, allegedly in connection with ISIS, and according to The Independent, he was allegedly stationed at the same base as Matthew Livelsberger:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/cybertruck-explosion-suspect-matthew-livelsberger-trump-hotel-b2672672.html

What are your thoughts, /leftypol/?

Newly released bodycam footage shows New York correctional officers beating handcuffed man to death

Per CNN:
Body-worn camera footage released Friday shows correctional officers at the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York punching and kicking a handcuffed inmate in a fatal beating that is now under investigation by the New York attorney general.

Robert Brooks was pronounced dead on December 10 at Wynn Hospital in Utica, according to Attorney General Letitia James. Brooks, 43, had been serving a 12-year prison sentence since 2017 for first-degree assault, prison documents show.

CNN has reviewed the footage, parts of which show surrounding officers kicking and punching Brooks, who has his hands handcuffed behind his back in a medical examination room. Brooks’ face appears bloody in some of the footage.

At one point, an officer appears to shove something in Brooks’ mouth before repeatedly hitting him in the face. Another officer then punches Brooks in the groin before using a shoe to strike him.

The New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigations previously announced it had opened an investigation into Brooks’ death.

https://archive.is/LrIqT
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/27/us/marcy-correctional-facility-death-robert-brooks/index.html

Looking back at 2024

Thread mostly for disasters, but also some good things. What happened this year?
I can think of a few things:
Genocide and regional war in the middle east
Fall of Damascus
War in Ukraine continues to escalate (and US starts arming Azov again)
BioLab explodes in Georgia (AGAIN)
Coup attempt in South Korea
Arrest warrants for Israeli leaders (and US president sued for complicity!)
That CEO got shot
H5N1
Police states in western "democracies" brutally crack down on anti-genocide protests
Leftist coalition wins in France, Macron refuses to acknowledge it (and some shit happens in Germany, too)
Telegram guy arrested by France
Julian Assange let off (on the condition that he plead guilty to journalism)
TikTok ban
Evo Morales was almost assassinated (and some sort of coup attempt or false flag also happened with the current president?)
Biden extended FISA (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/22/wyrz-a22.html)
A bunch of countries joined BRICS I think?
DNC finally admits Biden is senile after a disastrous debate
Two Trump assassination attempts and at least one false flag entrapment operation
President of Iran (probably) assassinated
Boeing whistleblower assassinations
US abducts Haiti's president
ISIS attacks: Iran, Moscow, Oman, Syria
Longshoremen strike

What am I missing?

leftychan.i2p

Hello, faggots, thanks to our unwavering dedication to the community I am proud to announce we are rolling out our own, official, leftychan.net i2p address.
You can locate the eepsite @ http://leftychmxz3wczbd4add4atspbqevzrtwf2sjobm3waqosy2dbua.b32.i2p, or, http://leftychan.i2p/.
If you have any trouble, as stated on the news announcement, try manually adding the address and domain to your address book.

-Yours Truly.

Dark Classical

Can be dark, ominous, mournful, apocalyptic… modern, romantic, whatever.

Opening with one of the greatest, Scriabin's incomplete Mysterium. The writing of this one started in 1903, and Scriabin died before it could be completed, with it later being pieced together by Alexander Nemtin over the course of 28 years. This was only intended to be the first part in a much longer piece which would last a week and be followed by armageddon.

wtf bros, is this real?

Simple request for Posadas gang

Does anyone have a higher quality version of the Fifth International Posadist video attached? I may be wrong, but I think YouTube totally mangled it in the past 8 years since it was uploaded.

Foss AI

Recently there has been a lot of commotion around large language model text based AI.
They are able to do impressive stuff, they give useful answers, and even can write somewhat usable programming sample code.

The most famous one currently is chatgpt, but all of those AIs are basically black boxes, that probably have some malicious features under the hood.

While there are Open-Source Implementations of ChatGPT style Training Algorithms
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/open-source-chatgpt/
Those kinda require that you have a sizeable gpu cluster like 500 $1k cards that are specialized kit, not your standard gaming stuff. To chew through large language-models with 100 billion to 500 billion parameters.

The biggest computational effort is the initial training run, that chews through a huge training data-set. After that is done, just running the thing to respond to your queries is easier.

So whats the path to a foss philosophy ethical AI ?
Should people do something like peer to peer network where they connect computers together to distribute the computational effort to many people ?

Or should people go for reducing the functionality until it can run on a normal computer ?
I guess the most useful feature is the computer-code generator, because you might be able to use that to make better Foss Ai software in the future, and help you with creating libre open source programs.

Is there another avenue for a Foss AI ?

This past year's "beef" between Kendrick Lamar and Drake was nothing more than a contrived plot in order to distract the masses from the genocide in Gaza. Both rappers are signed to labels which are under the umbrella of UMG which is owned by ultra-Zionist Lucian Grainge. Every stream from Kendrick's music is being used to fund Zionist genocide of Palestinians. But this goes far deeper and I'm entirely convinced Kendrick Lamar is being covertly funded and propped up by the CIA.

Pakistan air strikes in Afghanistan spark Taliban warning of retaliation

From AJ yesterday:
The first cross-border strike inside Afghanistan since March came after a spate of attacks by the Pakistan Taliban.
Islamabad, Pakistan – The Pakistani military conducted air raids in neighbouring Afghanistan late on Tuesday night, targeting hideouts of the Pakistan Taliban, known by the acronym TTP, armed group in Paktika province, according to security officials.

While no official statement was issued by Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs or military media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), sources confirmed to Al Jazeera that the attacks took place in the Barmal district of Afghanistan, near Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

The interim Afghan government, ruled by the Taliban, also confirmed the attacks but insisted that civilians had been targeted. The Taliban spokesperson’s office told Al Jazeera that at least 46 people, including women and children, were among those killed in air raids.

“The Pakistani side should understand that such arbitrary measures are not a solution to any problem,” Enayatullah Khowarazami, spokesperson for Afghanistan’s Defence Ministry, wrote on social media platform X. “The Islamic Emirate will not leave this cowardly act unanswered and considers the defense of its territory an inalienable right,” he added, referring to Afghanistan by the name given by the Taliban government.

The air raids, which were conducted for the second time this year, came just hours after Pakistan’s special representative for Afghanistan, Mohammad Sadi, met interim Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Kabul.

“Met Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi today. Held wide-ranging discussions. Agreed to work together to further strengthen bilateral cooperation and promote peace and progress in the region,” Sadiq posted on X.

Read more:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/25/pakistan-air-strikes-in-afghanistan-spark-taliban-warning-of-retaliation

What's gonna happen, guys?

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2024

Merry Christmas to all retards on leftychan. net and Merry Chistmas to every retard on this planet

/leftyfashion/

How do you dress? What are you wearing today? How should you dress, as a Marxist? Which trends are proletarian and which are bourgeois?
Discuss.

alien-news-cycle

So I've been seeing alot of news head-lines talking about aliens. Like there is a sustained hype about it. People are putting "evidence" and "revelations" into head-lines. I haven't really engaged with it, because unless there's a alien specimen or some piece of unexplainable technology from a space-probe/vessel, it's not aliens.

Did anybody click the alien-news, is there anything with substance ? or is this just distraction with alien characteristics ?

radiological bombs?

Cobalt-60 could be made by irradiating a regular cobalt with an alpha neutron source, possibly?

How redpilled are the rich?

Do they go

>I have to carefully construct what say to get the proles to do what I want and tolerate what I am doing

Or do they go

>I am so fucking god-like, I will use ruling-class language with my people and they will do my bidding.

Basically what I'm asking is do they have ideology of their own that they are unconsciously committed to, or are they blatantly just lying when they talk about things like creating jobs?

What's the point of this site? Why don't you post on leftypol.org which is the real leftypol?

The Real Culprits of Life Inaffordability: Doctors, Landowners, Banks, & rest of Price Setter Class

The US federal government and health insurers aren't the main ones charging most citizens extortionate prices for basic life necessities, including healthcare and housing.

Those charging such are simply… those who charge such: specifically banks, pharma companies, average land/homeowners, doctors etc

When you get a bill for a $400 doctor visit where no tests or equipment was used, that's not insurance's fault, that's the doctors fault for charging you $400 for 15 minutes.

That's a near universal practice, and every point of sale actor tries to point the finger at another as the source of extortionate prices. But no one is forcing them to buy expensive malpractice insurance, lavish offices, inflated tech service contracts, unnecessary equipment purchase, and their own lavish lifestyles.

The issue is, any of them could simply… not charge extortionate prices.

Private health insurance is a joke, but they aren't the root issue. The root issue are the doctors, landowners, homeowners, pharmaceutical companies, and other point of sale groups and individuals charging extortionate prices.

I'm not saying this to point to individuals as the issue, but rather the class those who provide or own expensive life necessities. There's a reason early unions mostly disallowed doctors from joining.

Also, on a tangent, most pushing for "universal health insurance" aren't really pushing for insurance, but a free, or near free private health care, paid by the government. Private insurance usually means you pay out the ass in the case of an unlikely event, it's was never meant to be a safety net for routine care.

The USSR supported Nazis

>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???

Dhar Mann Studios

Thoughts on Dhar Mann Studios, who are known for their clickbait-titled videos with specific scenarios and inspirational/moral lessons?

Unit Promotion

Whether real-time or turn-based, probably somewhere around half the games in the strategy genre implement unit promotion in some form or another. But is it even good game design?

In the best-case scenario it gets implemented in a way that doesn't cause snowballing (Pikmin, which doesn't feature 2P versus play anyway). However, in pretty much all instances it has the effect of discouraging sacrificial play as a tactic, in effect reducing the overall depth of a given game. I'm starting to think this may have been the genre's Original Sin. What do you think anon?

I have been banned from leftypol.org for saying, that you can be a leftist and also oppose trans-ideology. This is not a fringe position, since Sahra Wagenknecht openly voiced her opposition against trans-ideology in the german parliament live on TV. And yes, she calls it that way.
I'm interested, how this site here will react to left-conservative opinions.
https://www.sahra-wagenknecht.de/de/article/3336.ihr-gesetz-macht-eltern-und-kinder-zu-versuchskaninchen-der-pharmaindustrie.html

Real life powers

>Chi Kung Master Burns Paper With His Hand - John Chang

Animation/Modeling thread

Any of you like modeling in blender?
I'm really amateurish at it but I recently made these two and felt like sharing them somewhere. and what better place to share than on lefty pol.

Tim's Vermeer

Excellent documentary on how one man recreated a Vermeer painting. A medieval artist renowned for creating paintings that appear to be taken by a photograph.
We built what he believes is an optical machine using only technology of the time, that allowed Vermeer to create his seemingly inhuman masterpieces.
What do you anons think?

dead internet theory

The internet is dying, maybe it's actually already dead. This is a general thread about the dead internet theory. Share articles, first hand proof that the internet is dead, discuss etc. There is alot going on which indicates, that the dead internet theory is becoming reality.

Wordfilters

Filter Breadtube to Fedtube and Vaush to Agent Kochinski again

HR.4359

Why is no one talking about HR.4359? The "Crucial communism teaching act" Which is basically a bill that is being pushed to force anti communist teachings in public schools? This is such a disgusting fucking joke. Are we are to witness another red scare in this country?

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no comment

Brazilian Politics

Remember when people thought this guy was some kind of lefty?

Kendrick Lamar vs Drake

Who won?
Is Kendrick our guy?
What are the implications of the cultural impact rooted in Black American art?

Venezuela building up troops on Guyana border, satellite images show

Aerial evidence follows months of President Nicolás Maduro ramping up claim to Essequibo region

Venezuela is expanding military bases near its border with Guyana and deploying forces to the jungle frontier as President Nicolás Maduro ramps up his threats to annex the country’s oil-rich neighbour, satellite images have revealed.

Maduro pledged at mediation talks in December not to take military action against his neighbour but images shared by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington today suggest a buildup of forces.

Christopher Hernandez-Roy, deputy director of CSIS’s Americas programme, said: “The same day that the Venezuelan foreign minister is meeting with Guyanese diplomats, the Venezuelan military is conducting tank drills just a stone’s throw from Guyana. All of this tells us Maduro is pursuing a duplicitous policy.”

Venezuela has long laid claim to the resource-rich Essequibo region, which makes up two-thirds of Guyana, but Maduro has ramped up the country’s claim to the disputed territory in recent months.

After months of campaigning, the country held a vote in December in which Maduro said the Venezuelan people backed the country to take the vast swathe of jungle by force.

The aerial shots show that while Venezuelan diplomats subsequently met their Guyanese counterparts to calm simmering regional tensions, the Venezuelan military sent tanks and missile-equipped patrol boats to the border.

“This escalatory behavior on the part of Venezuela creates opportunities for miscalculation and loss of control over events on the ground,” CSIS warns in its report on the escalating dispute.

The dispute is being arbitrated in the international court of justice in The Hague but Maduro wants to disregard the UN court and negotiate directly with Guyana.

Analysts had seen Maduro’s sabre-rattling as a means to build support ahead of elections expected this year but have suggested it could also be an attempt to pressure Guayana into sharing revenue from recent oil discoveries.

Venezuela’s economy has collapsed in the last decade despite having some of the largest deposits in the world.

“All of this suggests that Maduro may have originally had domestic reasons for what he is doing, but now the strategy is to compel the Guyanese into some sort of concessions,” Hernandez-Roy said.

Brazil deployed more troops to its border with Guyana and Venezuela this week amid the growing regional tensions and the US agreed to bolster Guyana’s defence with new aircraft, helicopters, military drones and radar technology.

Guyanese officials are to meet with heads of the Caricom political union to discuss their response with their Caribbean allies.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/09/venezuela-troops-guyana-border-essequibo-satellite-images

What the fuck is going on in France?

Seriously wtf
Is Macron dictator for life now? What's happening? What's going on?

TV On the Radio Tiny Desk Concert

Dave Sitek has finally managed to disappear after 2 decades of trying.

Silver bullet ?

So the Russians are the first ones to demonstrate, what appears to be a purely or mostly kinetic impact weapon that is rocket-propelled. This thing competes with low yield so called "tactical nukes". Without any of the downsides like radioactive contamination and massive shock-waves.

They destroyed a weapons factory complex and aside from an estimated 100 people that were inside, nobody else died, the surrounding buildings weren't damaged. The decades old promise of doing "surgical strikes" at scale and parity without "collateral damage" seems to have finally been realized.

Given how much more focused the delivery of destructive energy from those impactors are, it's likely more effective at destroying hardened military targets than most nukes. Nukes technically are plasma weapons. And for this new weapon the line between kinetic and energy weapons is beginning to blur a little as well because of the extreme physical conditions during impact.

I would consider this as a strategic deterrent, because it likely can destroy icbm missile silos, air-fields, naval ports/battle-groups and command and controle bunkers. Part of the deterrence effect might also be that the political cost of actually using one is much lower than with nukes.

I also think that they will tag on other functionality, like replacing the 36 impactors that slam into the ground, with an air-to-air variation making hole squadrons of fighters or drones go poof.

There also is the arms-race aspect, i wonder how that will play out.

It might change the political game too. At present the neocons antagonize Russians in order to create a threatening enemy in order to get funding for their schemes. But since this new weapon doesn't really threaten anything that touches the majority of the population, the political effect of the "Russian boogieman" might just fade away. Companies like Black Rock have been lobbying for the Ukraine war, I've been wondering for a long time whether these war-lobbies would get targeted like military eventually, it wasn't really possible, until now.

If WW3 was fought with this type of missile not many people would die, probably less than in many of the currently active wars. People could opt out of WW3, just by avoiding the places that would be strategical targets. So that's why i think it might be a silver bullet.

Progressive Electronic

Progressive Electronic, Berlin School, etc.
Inspired to make this thread by video related from 1977.

Looking for COMMUNIST music

Is there any good communists making also good music?? I would like to know thank you

Stevie Wonder

This might be a short thread, I don't care.
This is a bop.