/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>1813220
>Israel using 'Lavender' AI machine to choose targets in Gaza killing spree
Automating genocide… What will those poor IDF war criminals do when AI takes their jobs?

FAA Bill Includes 'Test Flight' for Banning Student Loan Forgiveness
Buried 1,000 pages in, the language flagged by the Debt Collective comes under the heading, "Prohibition on mass cancellation of eligible undergraduate flight education and training programs loans." "The secretary, the secretary of the treasury, or the attorney general may not take any action to cancel or forgive the outstanding balances, or portion of balances, on any federal direct unsubsidized Stafford loan, or otherwise modify the terms or conditions of a federal direct unsubsidized Stafford loan, made to an eligible student, except as authorized by an act of Congress," the text reads.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/congress-ban-student-loan-forgiveness

Sen. Markey offers bill to block private equity deals in health care
Markey yesterday released draft legislation called the "Health Over Wealth Act," which is aimed at both private equity and other for-profit health services providers. Both types of owners would be required to disclose a laundry list of financial and operational data, including around debt, political spending, wages, and the use of areas like hallways and waiting rooms for patient care.
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/04/sen-markey-offers-bill-to-block-private-equity-deals-in-health-care

Lawsuit seeks to force ban on menthol cigarettes after months of delays by Biden administration
Health officials under President Joe Biden initially targeted last August to publish the rule eliminating the minty flavor. Late last year, White House officials said they would take until March to review the rule. Three nonprofit groups, including Action on Smoking and Health, filed their lawsuit in a federal court in California after the March deadline passed.
https://apnews.com/article/menthol-cigarettes-ban-fda-lawsuit-biden-f1397c032b637c6c2ba44a63b267ea21

Black Man Charged With DUI After Police Open Sealed Bottle, Then Cite Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

The People of Van Are Not Alone! Kurdistan’s People Will Win! – HBDH
AKP-MHP fascism suffered a heavy blow in the March 31 local elections. Fascism was defeated against the will of the people, despite using all kinds of state means. Especially in Kurdistan, the people’s choice of the Dem Party and the recapture of the municipalities usurped by trustees created a great shock for the fascist power. In the post-election speech of the fascist Erdogan, the threats of invasion against Bashur Kurdistan and Rojava are strongly felt. In this respect, the practice of seizing the elected municipalities of the people is not independent from this dirty war mentality. A total war policy is being implemented by fascism against the Kurdish people and the municipalities are threatened with seizure, which is within the scope of the war concept.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/04/04/the-people-of-van-are-not-alone-kurdistans-people-will-win-hbdh/

Water industry in crisis – Make the bosses pay!
Thames Water – the UK’s biggest water distributor, serving 15 million households – is facing imminent collapse. The company is in the throes of a scandalous debt crisis, after its biggest shareholders, the Macquarie investment group, left it laden with £14 billion in debt, all while pocketing juicy dividends. After sucking the company dry, shareholders are now pulling the plug on further funding, complaining that investment is no longer profitable. Thames Water has until next year to find new investors. After that, the company is sailing into uncharted waters. Outrageously, Thames bosses have said that bills must be hiked up by 40%, in order to keep the company afloat and pay for much-needed improvements. Another firm, Southern Water, has forecast for bills to go up by 70%! In other words, the working class will be made to foot the bill for the shareholders’ reckless mismanagement and pillaging, squeezing ordinary households’ living standards even further.
https://communist.red/water-industry-in-crisis-make-the-bosses-pay/

Rosa Luxemburg Peace Utopias [Abstract]
WHAT is our task inPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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In light of arrests, repression, and severe restrictions, the defiant and revolutionary youth in Jordan continue to express their anger and call for an awakening.
Outside the zionist embassy for the 13th day in a row, they express the reality of their situation in a message to the normalizing Jordanian regime:
"You are unwilling to cut ties, or even close the embassy!
You descend upon us with arrests…every time we write, speak, or think!
You imposed normalization on us…And you don't even allow us to express!
This slumber has been too long. We want to liberate! We want to change!"

Israel to Add Gaza Aid Crossings as Biden Hinges Support on Civilian Protection

President Biden threatened on Thursday to condition future support for Israel on how it addresses his concerns about civilian casualties and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, trying for the first time to leverage American aid to influence the conduct of the war against Hamas.

During a tense 30-minute call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Mr. Biden went further than ever in pressing for change in the military operation that has inflamed many Americans and others around the world. Within hours, White House officials said Israel would speed aid into Gaza as part of an agreement meant to placate the president.

“President Biden emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable,” according to a White House summary of the call. “He made clear the need for Israel to announce and implement a series of specific, concrete, and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers. He made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps.”

The statement was the sharpest the White House has issued on Israel’s conduct in the six months of its war against Hamas, underscoring the president’s growing frustration with Mr. Netanyahu and his anger over this week’s killing of seven aid workers by Israeli military forces. But while the president repeated his call for a negotiated deal that would result in an “immediate cease-fire” and the release of hostages taken by Hamas, the White House stopped short of saying directly that he might limit U.S. arms supplies if not satisfied.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/world/middleeast/biden-netanyahu-call-israel.html

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Anyone can bake?
>>1812157
Love watching Israeli special forces get counter sniped by a guy in skinny jeans and sandals with an soviet or home designed rifle.
Really makes mi days.

Biden finally calls for Gaza ceasefire in call with Netanyahu

In a pivotal, unforeseen phone call that has been awaited for six months, US President Joe Biden called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to start taking steps toward an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

President Biden underscored the gravity of recent developments, particularly condemning the strikes on humanitarian workers and highlighting the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Gaza.

During the conversation, President Biden emphasized the imperative for "Israel" to take immediate and decisive action to mitigate civilian harm, alleviate humanitarian suffering, and ensure the safety of aid workers.

Moreover, Biden stressed the necessity for the Israeli occupation to announce and implement a series of specific, tangible, and measurable measures aimed at addressing these pressing concerns, as well as commit to a ceasefire.

Furthermore, President Biden underlined that the trajectory of US policy toward Gaza would be contingent upon the occupation's prompt implementation of these proposed steps.

He reiterated the urgent need for an immediate ceasefire to stabilize the situation and prevent further harm to innocent civilians. Additionally, he urged Prime Minister Netanyahu to authorize his negotiators to swiftly conclude a deal aimed at securing the release of the Israeli captives.

In addition to discussing the situation in Gaza, the two leaders deliberated on the public threats issued by Iran against "Israel" and its citizens.
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>>1812977
Who fucking cares. Another imperialist shithole that used slave labour, killed and raped thousands of civilians, like every other member of the Allies and every member of the Axis. The fact that people are even hell bent on handwringing over "contributions" of some bourgeois state that sent millions of proletarians to murder other millions of proletarians is such pathetic, ignorant, bloodthirsty religious slop, it's amazing how none of you can see it.

The great contribution of the Soviet Union in WW2 was ensuring that capitalism continued burning for another century. The very hell you live and whine about today, if you believe that they were really le good guys or whatever, was by definition won by the Soviet Union then. Personally, I find that revolting, but if you want to worship great men like every other petty bourgeois retard with no religion, feel free.(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST)

>>1813086

Mods?

>>1813086
>The fact that people are even hell bent on handwringing over "contributions" of some bourgeois state that sent millions of proletarians to murder other millions of proletarians is such pathetic, ignorant, bloodthirsty religious slop, it's amazing how none of you can see it.

anon you do realise the nazis were the ones that declared war on the soviets right? the soviet campaigns in finland and the baltics hardly involved millions of people dying

Yes, Carbon Shock therapy and climate austerity are an actual thing Isabella Weber and Daniela Gabor write about.

The crypto crap is schizo shit or rather it's fucking insignificant.

>>1812443
The implicit corollary to this question is “what is a woman?” or the question of what gender actually is and means. Leftists can’t give the only truthful answer that gender is your sex + those non-arbitrary norms/roles prescribed to your sex, so we get millions of contrived answers that are just more elaborate ways of saying “it doesn’t really matter man,” because they don’t actually have an answer

>>1812884
Or, if you have a definite answer, you get banned because an answer is necessarily going to exclude someone who becomes a power tripping janny.

>>1812884
"it doesn't matter" is a perfectly correct and apt answer in the sense that it's (entirely) a social phenomenon and not materially tangible except in its social-consequences. It has relations to sex but these are not universal relations, as such things are economic and thus no universal law of any kind is possible. Are you even a Marxist?

>>1814860
>are you even a Marxist
No, I’m sane

>>1812543
>MoSSKKKals thinking somehow they arent the same whiteoid creature as any amerikkkan
interesting

>>1812454
there was apparently another system going back to the 90s that predate the horizon system, that was also buggy, and post masters going to jail over fraud.

Why is he so fat?

>>1812483
Alcoholism, like really insane levels of alcoholism
https://allthatsinteresting.com/winston-churchill-drinking

>>1812492
> One estimate placed his consumption of Pol Roger champagne at 42,000 bottles during his lifetime.
Damn that’s a lot of champagne

Just another case of our supposedly cognitively enhanced elite fucking themselves up with the most stereotypical corruption imaginable and then blaming the working masses for it

>>1812267
the CHAD yeshiva student
vs
the virgin IDF

Dredging of Puerto Rico port begins as environmentalists warn of threat
In August 2022, the Arizona-based nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. government, saying the project threatens to destroy corals and seagrass beds and suck up turtles and other marine life. The lawsuit is pending at a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., with a hearing last held in January.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/dredging-puerto-ricos-biggest-port-begins-environmentalists-warn-108807361

Company helping immigrants in detention ordered to pay $811M+ in lawsuit alleging deceptive tactics
The officials said the company promised to secure immigrants’ release on bond while their immigration claims were being processed but concealed and misrepresented the true nature and costs of its services. They said the company collected thousands of dollars in fees above the face value of the bonds and forced immigrants to wear painful ankle monitors.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-detention-bond-lawsuit-b44bdb95f23cfcd300026417f7125aed

Surpassing Goal, 47,000+ Wisconsin Democrats Vote 'Uninstructed' in Primary
Campaigners with Listen to Wisconsin had hoped they could convince 20,000 Democratic primary voters on Tuesday to select "uninstructed delegate" on their ballots to send the message to President Joe Biden that he can't yet count on their votes in the November general election due to his support for Israel's bombardment of Gaza. After organizing for less than a month, the campaign far surpassed its goal, with more than 47,800 people voting for the uninstructed option.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/wisconsin-uninstructed

Another pro-Israel Democrat PAC backs Squad primary challengers
Primary challengers to two progressive "Squad" members on Wednesday got support from another well-funded pro-Israel Democratic PAC: Democratic Majority for IsraePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>The demonstrators belonged to the extremist Jerusalem Faction, which numbers some 60,000 members and regularly demonstrates against the enlistment of yeshiva students. Protesters held banners reading “To jail and not the army,” “We will die rather than draft,” “Stalin is here,” and “Russia is here.” Police arrested six demonstrators and forcefully cleared the highway after the demonstrators refused

this is both crased and binge

Argentine Communist Party: Milei’s chainsaw against the Argentine working class
On March 1, Javier Milei took advantage of his speech at the opening of the Ordinary Sessions of the Argentine Congress to put forward his line of adjustment and surrender, after the great defeat of the «Omnibus Law I», that officially was named Ley Bases y Puntos de Partida para la Libertad de los Argentinos, but was dubbed «Omnibus Law I» due to the numerous areas on which it was intended to legislate. Following the same line as Sergio Massa, his electoral rival ─but class partner─, Milei proposed a «great national agreement»; a new «social contract» ─as he was dynamiting bridges between possible allies─ whose purpose is to guarantee governability and that the different bourgeois factions unite around their adjustment, surrender and repression projects. That is why he is relaunching the «Omnibus Law II», the supposed battery of «anti-caste» measures and the so-called «May Pact», a 10-point agreement which, according to the president, would establish «the principles of the new Argentine economic order». However, these are nothing more than anti-worker, anti-popular and openly surrenderist measures. One more step in their offensive against the Argentine proletariat.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2024/03/mileis-chainsaw-against-argentine-working-class.html

The Supreme Court May Give Us Another 2008 Financial Crisis
The United States Supreme Court will soon decide on a case that could decimate consumer protections against abusive banking practices — potentially allowing banks to disregard state laws meant to prevent the kind of predatory lending that led to the 2008 financial crisis. Legal experts say that the case, Cantero v. Bank of America, could invalidate a host of state laws that protect people from predatory lending, junk fees, and other financial scams. The case is ostensibly about a New York statute that forces banks to pay interest to consumers on certain mortgage accounts — but big banks are fighting for the court to rule they are exempt from that law and many others in states across America. The banking lobby has thrown its weight behind the case alongside corporate-backed conservative legal groups and the US Chamber of Commerce, a powerful business trade groPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Don't worry, Argentina govnerment will fall. Milei will not silly his way out of this one

>>1731795
Criticizing lack of democratic accountability over WEF is not "rightoid" humor?

>>1810610
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>>1732703
You now what, maybe I'm not so stupid after all!

Thanks!

>>1731760
they couldn't define capitalism or socialism if you put a gun to their head is why. their entire belief system is incoherent, more or less just random isolated ideas that they absorbed from the media that were invented by think tanks to get normies to support the interests of the haute bourgeois.

>>1810180
Christianity condones slavery just as much as Islam does.
According to Paul,
>Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.
Yes, Christianity says to treat your slaves and bondservants nicely, but every slavemaster thinks they treat the slaves justly or that the slaves are better off in slavery.

>>1810180
christianity also condones slavery
emancipation in the US was the result of industrialization

>>1810093
>Do you think they'll ever have a revolution?
Some Arab intellects think so.
At least they think that Dubai will have its secession due to its huge population of foreigners.
The only thing that makes it a bit harder for a revolution due to the laws of how expats see themselves as foreigners just here to work and go back, or work until they can move to Western countries. Most don't have the idea that they might stay and live there for their entire lives, and so they see it as an opportunity to make a better living than back home.
Also, there is enough racism among the mix of foreigners to make idpol be a vital tool against it.

However, you gotta look into the geopolitics and how the UAE is a vassal state of Western interests in the region. The UAR is whoring itself for the West to get any speck of recognition and admiration, it's quite nauseating to watch.

>>1810270
>Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

Disgusting.

>>1810180
Only one person directly attacking the idealism inherent to this notion that religious ideology can stave off material development indefinitely. Everyone else taking the angle of correcting misconceptions about said religious ideology. Fucked board.

>>1811555
It's more like you are already involved.
>concept of gender fluidity
This concept needs the concept of gender in the first place. Just follow the rope to the end.
Yes, the worker's struggle is not the trans struggle or whatever. That is because you can be many things at once.

>>1812034
what the hell is my man northernlion doing in berlin

>>1772916
>They just try to sway public opinion that would otherwise be on the side of traditionalism to their cause of material progress. It's a fake dichotomy.
Right, the Society That Must Be Defended is still modernity for them, and if anything the danger of Jordan Peterson is that he's Bush neoconservatism wrapped in self-help, of a type that can legitimately be powerful if you haven't encountered it before.

>>1773377
>Troon/gay shit is not progress but yeah, Peterson types are still retards
>>1811555
>Do marxists need to be involved with modern identity poltics?
I dunno. Make up your own mind. Aren't you guys supposed to be the social scientists who can figure this stuff out? I'm being a jerk today, but it always comes up when Burger King tweets "gay rights" (which is cringe and doesn't mean anything) but what am I supposed to do about it? It's a dumb sideshow and probably 80% of gay people complain about it or know how transparently fake and performative that stuff is – it's the trad-workers who are falling for it more than the libs are. "Damn, Adidas really believes this." They use corporate PR as an excuse to call LGBT people degenerates. Like, ok. The trad-workerists then have to say that the emancipation of the proletariat from the chains of commodity society can only happen once we embrace straight up gay-panic politics Southern Baptist grandma style.

Capitalism has done this kind of thing for a long time. Back in the 90s the oil companies started "greenwashing," trying to cultivate a environmentally friendly image. It's not like trying to stop climate change is some sellout position now. When Amazon says they are prioritizing the safety of their workers, do you also take this slop at face value with no contextualization or critical thought? That's Marxism, baby. Well, for some people. You know, telling people what to think and not how to think.

>>1768850
Not always, Benjamin Israeli and some conservatives in Europe and even in America during the 1800s supported things like health care, public infrastructure, etc. to improve the lives of workers, granted these came from the angle of increasing profits for industry but I would still consider these things progressive for its time, and even now considering our backward neoliberal era.

>>1772916
I think you're substituting what most people mean by "conservative" and replacing it with your own made up definition.

>>1768850
OP I really think it's as simple as: some monkey brains just really just don't like things. There's an environment in which they'd feel most comfortable and are simply trying to craft that environment through philosophy or force. Some people REALLY don't like anything that they haven't been preconditioned to accept. If they were raised into a christain culture they want to maintain that, if they were raised in a muslim culture they'd be equally fine. Hell some liberals are probably crypto-conservatives: they were born in a liberal-area with a liberal family so that's simply the environment they adapted to; it's why they push against leftism as "too far". PDF very related.