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 No.941093[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.
Brace through the hyper-real lacanian void together with the Leftypol Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/leftypol_org

Reminder That None of This Is Real!
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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ

<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin

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>>1828451
Can't they just adjust their character to give them boobs and stuff?

 No.1828506

>>1828285
Women don't exist and it's all just men pretending
t. Lacan

>>1828409
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are smiling upon Xi from heaven.

 No.1828600

That's crazy, who is 'X formerly known as Twitter' selling my information to?

I haven't signed in a while so I come back to 30 notifications of Indian men posing as Asian and White women following me. But I looked at a couple tweets today and now I got a follow from an account posing as one of the popular accounts that I looked at a tweet of today. Now how did they know that?

 No.1828607

>>1828118
SCARY BLEACHED PISS HAIR WOJAK?!?!

 No.1828676

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this says a lot about our society today



/hobby/

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 No.4680[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Its about time we talk about the connection between Harry Potter, Liberalism, and idpol.

and also how JK Rowling is the biggest blair simp
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>>41359
I wonder what is going to happen with the Harry Potter show. I can see the Executives being fully okay with lgbt hatred but holocause denial? Well that's a bit too far even for normalfags

 No.41377

>>41376
>I can (…) holocause denial?
Oh noes leftypol gonna be canceled by twitter intellectuals

 No.41378

>>41376
ah but she only denied the holocaust of trans people, not jews, so it's fine.

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 No.41468

>>33703
almost every character besides the main cast of harry-ron-hermione is far more interesting than them combined even with barely any focus
it's why its so popular for fanfiction (besides just its general popularity)



/siberia/

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 No.524892[Reply]

You should starve yourself to get skinny and cute!
You can lose 2-3lbs a week safely without muscle wastage if you eat less than 1000cal a day.
Work out your cardio core and do lots of squats
Rub your nipples every time you fap for 2 weeks until they get sensitive like a grills
Learn to apply makeup and order cute clothes and cosplay wigs
Get cute communist bf who will punish you for bourgeois fun and send you for forced GULag labor (s*x).

 No.524893

if you smoke weed for a while you'll lose the ability to have an appetite while sober so you can lose weight pretty easily just by tricking your brain into not being hungry often

 No.524898

Femcoded thread

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 No.525009

just grab some adderall

 No.525034

>ez path to weightloss
capoeira, if ur able to execute capoeira moves then you're more fit than 99% of people. it is also the most complex martial art in the world



/tech/

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 No.24100[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Pirate thread, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

Post about pirates and and piracy be it on the high seas or the internet!
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 No.24515

>>24514
there are checksums for .sh installers here: https://github.com/GOG-Games-com/MD5-for-GOG.com

 No.24516

>>24515
I only see exes and bins…

 No.24517

>>24516
https://github.com/GOG-Games-com/MD5-for-GOG.com/blob/main/AiO.sfv
clone the repo because the file is huge, there's a few .sh entries there

 No.24518

>>24517
Yeah, only 30, when their native Linux games are much more. Thanks anyway, I guess I'm fucked because this is the official list lol.

 No.24519

>>24518
if you're worried about the files just get them from rutracker or torrminatorr, they're trustworthy



/leftypol/

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🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸
>>>/leftypol/1823997
>>1823997

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🚨 Live Happenings/Updates 🚨

• Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/3/8/israels-war-on-gaza-live-60000-pregnant-women-face-malnutrition-in-gaza

• Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion

• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories

• Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-march-09-2024/ (trigger warning)

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 No.1828669

>>1828663
US Finally tugging the leash on the Zionists? Possible happening?

 No.1828670

>>1828666
>the smart move for Iran would be to not do anything right now.
I got to hand it to you, I agree

 No.1828672

>>1828666
far more reliable than what you're posting, i'll keep reading what the iranian say instead of trusting the trash zionists put out thank you very much

 No.1828674

Who are these three iranian officials who claim that a base was hit? Do they have names or are they anonymous? Where are the PROOFS????

 No.1828675

>>1828670
It's very Bibi, really. He's a brooding, Machiavellian guy. I don't know if that's the right word. But this is my theory, but in the last war when the Israelis were bombing Gaza, they blew up a building a bunch of press outlets were using including the AP, and the Israelis claimed Hamas was using it, which I think was just not true, but the press became hyper-fixated on this building which had all the reporters aiming their cameras at it (they evacuated beforehand). The Western press was outraged and offended and that became the story, but they weren't aiming their cameras at anything else, were they? The Israelis always do this shit. But I think they're trying to bait Iran.

>>1828672
You can do whatever you want, man.



/leftypol/

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 No.805130[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

🗽United States Politics🦅

Absolute State of America Edition

Thread for the hellish discussion related to the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the Earth.

🏈💵💸🍔

State mandated propaganda livestreams:
CNN: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/cnn-news-usa.html
MSNBC: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html
FOX: https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/fox-news-channel.html
Bloomberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp8PhLsUcFEegalitarianism
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 No.1828628

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Folx…

 No.1828630

>>1828555
centrism: 1 child policy

reserve army of labor still shrinks, you still get to have a kid

 No.1828633

>>1828560
>the USA will balkanize in 10 years
oh god, i gotta get out of this state before it becomes my country

 No.1828641

>>1828628
this is literally white genocide

 No.1828673

>>1828193
only douche your butthole with filtered and boiled tap water



/siberia/

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 No.399262[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

everyday a joke!

tune in tomorrow
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 No.523725

She was telling me about this thread on /siberia/ that was in a heated debate over the best ways to dine and dash. I had trouble finding it until I clicked on a thread about the anti-revolutionary tendencies of Javascript.

tune in tomorrow

 No.524046

Friend told me he was playing TiTs, and I was happy I had someone to talk about Trials in Tainted Space with, but sometimes he keeps calling it "Kiseki."

tune in tomorrow

 No.524047

>>523725
>>524046
i'm too stupid to get these but bless your heart for doing this every day

 No.524432

"Why do you keep stuffing napkins and wrappers into empty soda cans?"
"They're trashcans for a reason.'

tune in tomorrow

 No.525032

He didn't feel like going to the store today when he woke up. After he took a shit, he realized there was no toilet paper.

tune in tomorrow



/siberia/

 No.524723[Reply]

Why are software engineers so universally despised?
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 No.525026

>>524723
techbros are usually embedded in bourgeois/military superstructure, especially between the 1960s and 1990s. Read this book.

 No.525027

>>525023
if anyone has good faith questions i'll be happy to answer (or you could read Kalecki), but i'm not dignifying this clown with any more (you)s. this is the last one, enjoy it and then kill yourself.

 No.525028

>>525027
-> >>525025

you are a retarded liberal who is a leech on the communist movement and should stop associating with it :)

 No.525031

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>>525020
>They don’t own the MOP.
lol its amazing how you braindead faggots are so confident in your ignorance

yup people earning absurd amounts of money in cushy white collar jobs are part of the mass of reserveless proletarians kept in precarious conditions and thus have just the same revolutionary potential as them, because all you need to be proletarian is to sell your labor, duh!

this is what passes as analysis to you halfwits?

 No.525033

>uyghas will keep replying to them



/siberia/

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 No.524823[Reply]

hold the fuck up
she's still alive?

genuinely thought she died after the picture was taken, now I feel like those gen alpha kids who were taught about 9/11 for the first time in school and cried because they thought it was an internet meme
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 No.524847

>>524846
Canadians are always on a high horse distancing themselves from Americans when they're just a mildly less bad version of them.

 No.524849

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>>524847
>greasy food
>shit housing market
>liberul (nuke iran) vs concervatard (nuke iran) ahh government
>police officers kindly helping the native americans (starlight tours)
>muh russian/cecepe spies depending on who's speaking
>you MUST tip
>heaps of wild land that isn't habited yet

yeah, it's americans in denial but missing the gun cultura and the gas prices

do you think leafs refer to their black people as african-americans or african-canadians?

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 No.524905

>>524849
I wonder about this tbh. Like most Black people in Canada would probably be recent emigres from African countries, so calling them African Canadians is probably accurate

 No.525030

>>524888
Every time rightoids whine about DEI and wokeness, it's worth remembering this episode of history and the lengths that had to be gone to for schools to be integrated, and how much pushback there was. The Rockwell painting and typical photographs don't quite capture it.



/leftypol/

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 No.1828563[Reply]

Music is the biggest lie ever told. Every day, it suckers people out of millions of dollars and untold hours of time. It springs from an infantile desire to be comforted by a mother's lullaby. Music keeps the masses enslaved.
Why do you listen to music? Is it a crutch to get you through the day? When you go to a concert, what on earth do you get out of it? Do you feel "warm fuzzies" when you are walking out of the building? Maybe it makes you feel all happy inside. Well, the real world isn't like that. Music has no answer to the problem of evil. As long as you are a listener, you have no chance of fully participating in a rational discussion.
Ask a professional musician (professional shamster, more like) why he plays his kind of music instead of another and you'll never get a straight answer. What makes a clarinet better than a Japanese koto? Why play jazz instead of classical? "I like it more." "I'm more familiar with it." Non-answers. "They're about the same." Then why play music at all?
Musicians tell you they love their fans… then they sell the T-shirts and CDs at the door. Some even take donations– as long as they can separate the marks from their money, their gig is a success. Music is nothing but an organized scam.
From the beginning of a child's life, her parents indoctrinate her to believe in a myth called "music". They force her to believe that certain arrangements of sounds is somehow more important than other ones. Never in the history of humankind has a more insidious waste of time and money been conspired. Start her on Baby Mozart; buy her "children's music" (the very name betraying the unethical, Orwellian scheme); raise her on piano and jazz, and buy her a Beatles CD on her 16th birthday. The most popular songs lie to you: "All you need is love." Others are simply nonsense: "Bye, bye Miss American Pie." Some songs have no lyrics at all! They do not even make an attempt at meaning. The veil is lifted; the stupidity of the whole exercise is transparent before everyone, and yet they continue listening as if brainwashed.
When I point this out to the thoughtless listeners, they tell me not to argue with something so "beautiful". Can't they see that they are wasting their time on mere noise, that rarely says anything akin to common sense? "Well, Shakespeare, he's in the alley / With his pointed shoes and his bells, / Speaking to some French girl, / Who says she knows me well." What on earth is that supposed to meaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.1828573

>>1828563
Ok, but why stop there? Why not also include everything other than the production and consumption of infrastructure, food and medicine?

 No.1828584

Under bommunism all forms of media and culture will be banned.

 No.1828661

>>1828584
this is the world liberals want our grandchildren to live in

 No.1828671

>>1828563
listen buddy just cus your girlfriend(online crush) fucked a musician doesnt mean you can just blogpost



/siberia/

 No.506441[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Aether wins his 50/50
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 No.524548

>>524547
also drag queens (most of whom are cis gay men) allude to vaginas a lot lol. "serving cunt" and "cunty" come from them

 No.524576

>>524543
what's crazy is the denial of intersex people. Like these people pretend that the whole reason they deny the existence of transgender identity is because "biology". They confuse sex w/ gender, and refuse to acknowledge any definition of gender other than the colloquial definition where it's treated the same as sex. Seriously, imagine a chinlet yelling at a file on his computer "you will never be a file" because he thinks files are only things you find in file cabinets and that is the level of intelligence we are dealing with. Then, if someone brings up a biological phenomenon like being born with both sets of genitals, or XXY chromosomes, which sometimes happens, they'll still think you're talking about trans identity because they've never heard of intersex people before. Then, if you get them to slow down and stop reacting long enough and listen to you explain what intersex is, they'll try to pretend it's just an edge case. But take their logic to its conclusion. If there are really only "two genders" then that means intersex people have to pick one of them, right? Then it follows that people born with two sets of genitals get to pick their gender not based on what genitals they have, but on what they identify as. Which proves that it's a socially constructed role and not simply biology. The very existence of intersex people destroys their contention that there are only two biological genders AND that you are always the gender that matches your genitals. Once those two assumptions are destroyed it follows that gender is socially constructed and people often choose to live a certain way that reflects how they internalize themselves. But they can't accept that. Instead they get everything confused and ignore anyone who tries to unconfuse them.

 No.524845

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>>524375
I will tell you an interesting fantasy i have. Its about gay men having sex with women in some sort of animalistic (but platonic) lust.
I think sometimes about this gay guy i knew in school having sex with one of his female friends and it turns me on.
I have also came to the thought of having sex with a disgusting bull dyke i once knew in the same idea of her not being able to help herself (but again, in the platonic way).
It might sound strange at first but then i reflect on my own ideological heterosexuality, about how us straight men imagine we can always "turn" a lesbo, or how lesbians are just playing games. Maybe part of this is also the paternal desire to make your gay son straight or whatever.
But here the unconscious isnt "personal" but socially-mediated, the same way porn doesnt "create", but "reveals" our fantasies.
>>524434
Ive heard AGP people have this same complex of wanting to be an object of male affection but having no real attraction to men. Do you also wear women's clothes when you cum to this (or imagine yourself as feminised)?
>I also cant watch gay porn but do watch straight and lesbian porn. am I bi or just weird?
I think whats interesting in general is how most young boys start with lesbian then move onto straight porn. Lesbian porn is voyeuristic, but straight porn is self-inserting. I straddle the line by constantly jerking off to the thoughts of other people doing things, which is a childish sort of "rule 34" consciousness. But my earliest memories of cumming were also imagining people in my school having secret lesbian sex with eachother.
im not attracted to lesbians anymore though
>am i bi
Well you dont like men so how can you be "bi"?

 No.524850

>>524545
Bc like i say, both gays and lesbians fail to become their mothers, but the different sexes produce opposite reactions.
>>524544
I think straight men can be afraid of, or hate women, but finding them disgusting only comes about from a break in the heterosexual fantasy, where the "Real" imposes itself. This can happen by exposing the mother's nakedness in youth, which can lead to homosexuality. But the guise of heterosexuality (and sexuality in general) is the mode of fantasy (where orgasm destroys the fantasy), and disgust can come in this way, but this already presupposes that we want to have sex with women in the first place. I imagine that even a scat fetish guy probably feels disgusted after he cums, but he still goes back to it the next time because his horniness has facilitated the fantasy.
>>524576
The real hypocrisy of the essentialists is in presuming what a "chromosome" is in the first place. Idk what a chromosome is, and why should i? But the hegelian point would be that gender is the *meaning* of sex. Why is "being a woman" about having "chromosomes" or having a vagina? The social point is that being a woman is largely about obscuring this relation, of the ego to the body, which has been practiced since the invention of clothing (which is maybe why feminists constantly want to get naked in public). But this is where the gender-critical people and conservatives team up, to try to reduce gender down to sex, when it cant be.
i think the gendering of objects in some languages might point to this. Like how some still call a ship a "her", or how some men like to have sex with their cars. "There is no sexual relation", as lacan would say

 No.525029

>>524850
I was waiting for a day to get a response only to go "oh…. it's nazi flag anon"



/leftypol/

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 No.1828350

>>1827908
>I do understand this, but there was another thread where CPUSAnon made some great points about how the Fascists of today aren't much more than petty street gangs with an aesthetic,
Thats not CPUSAnon's analysis thsts just a basic observation of large segments of fascism in the West since literally world war 2..
These people are extremely dangerous and need to be combated, and it does not matter 1 bit if these people are far from power, the important part is people with power are willing to set them loose and utilise them for their own violent needs.
We don't do antifa because there is a serious chance these people are gonna take power, one would have to be a downs child to think so, we do it because these people when organised are extremely dangerous to the communities we live in and around.

 No.1828359

>>1828343
>>1828350
This is true and I agree with it. Their strategies are shit and their politicking is terrible, but their "praxis" strategies are why we should watch out for whenever they do have a little chimpout. They are small and ineffective, yes, but we should not under any circumstances let our guard down when dealing with them.

 No.1828424

They aren't dangerous and have zero influence. Even the Centre Party/New Guard fizzled out and that was in an environment that could potentially have been conducive to fascist thought. Every far-right group in this country absolutely glows, and has a belief system that is so antithetical to the interests of elites that they simply won't be allowed to acquire any influence what so ever.

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>>1828424
>Every far-right group in this country absolutely glows, and has a belief system that is so antithetical to the interests of elites that they simply won't be allowed to acquire any influence what so ever.

Maybe there's a case study in this, how fascists' yammering on about da jooz and muh africans is completely alien to what Rupert and Gina et al are interested in. They just want to keep the exports and subsidies going, completely in line with the Americans. If the time came for "oh no, the commies are getting a bit scary, time to get some right-wing crackdowns going" 99% chance they'd just funnel all their efforts into the far-right faction of the LNP. Why would they give a shit about some racist cookers in victoria?

That said, it does need to be pointed out that another good reason why the Centre Party/Guard fizzled is because they got their shit kicked in by Communists. We shouldn't be complacent.

 No.1828668

So did anyone figured out why the premiers got stabbed?



/siberia/

 No.524278[Reply]

Real talk: how do we fix Detroit?
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 No.524932

>>524913
>san francisco is the new detroit
Not even close. No one is leaving the Bay en masse; it's actually the opposite given that everyone and their grandmother would move to the Bay Area if they had the opportunity. San Fran is the epitome of a boom town.

If anything, LA is the "new Detroit" in the sense that everyone and anyone is leaving the city. Last time I was there for a visit not too long ago I couldn't believe how many white folks were fed up with LA and California politics in general and wanted to leave for Texas or Florida. The Hispanics and Filipinos all wanted to stay though.

 No.524933

>>524546
>>524549
This is what he's talking about. Not sure how much this compares to Detroit but it's interesting history nonetheless.

 No.525013

>>524913
(((The Gays)))

 No.525021

>>524278
Do whatever the fuck China is doing

 No.525024

>>524917
The lots are not abandoned but unoccupied. Kulaks can’t sell the property for their absurdly high prices so they consider it a “business loss” and get a tax break.



/leftypol/

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 No.1822904[Reply]

If neoclassical economics were completely true, how would one go about constructing a planned economy such that:
1. there are no significant shortages or surpluses of goods
2. goods and services are distributed more or less according to utility
3. investment in new industries and firms is done at least as efficiently as in stock markets

I've read Cockshott and been really intrigued by his model, but it seems to use the labor theory of value as a load-bearing assumption. I don't want to argue against this theory, but I do want to ask a question concerning the counterfactual world where the mainstream models of economics are more or less correct. What would a planned economy need to be able to do in order to meet these requirements in this world? What would be the most effective way to direct production? Pic unrelated.
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 No.1828276

>>1828275
>this radical transformation of society and social production doesn't require a radical change in the arrangement of that production

 No.1828278

>>1822904
>1. there are no significant shortages or surpluses of goods
Why would you want that? You want to have at least some surplus in reserve in case something happens. Just control the supply available to people (through a plan) and any "natural effects" can be controlled.
>2. goods and services are distributed more or less according to utility
democratically plan the economy, since utility is vague and subjective and the only way to really determine it is to have everyone's input
>3. investment in new industries and firms is done at least as efficiently as in stock markets
so better than terribly inefficiently?
that's a disappointingly low bar, considering how frequently important and well-functioning industries get gutted by CEOs and shareholders selling the companies off in a pump and dump scheme, and how often the stock market crashes due to absurd speculative scams.

>If neoclassical economics were completely true

It isn't, and it wouldn't matter if it was because it only applies to capitalism and doesn't imagine any alternative. To ask how you could construct communism within a framework that assumes only capitalism is possible is nonsensical.

>but it seems to use the labor theory of value as a load-bearing assumption

LTV was more or less understood at least as far back as the classical Greek philosophers, and nobody questioned it until Marx showed everyone what it implies about class struggle. Only then did nervous porkies go hunting for some alternative theory, any alternative theory that they could shill to undermine the basically universal agreement on LTV.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalism#Marginal_Revolution_as_a_response_to_socialism
<The doctrines of marginalism and the Marginal Revolution are often interpreted as a response to the rise of the worker's movement, Marxian economics and the earlier (Ricardian) socialist theories of the exploitation of labour. The first volume of Das Kapital was not published until July 1867, when marginalism was already developing, butPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.1828287

>>1828275
how do you propose workers coordinate their actions if not through a world-encompassing planning system?
>conscious plan
no human can be conscious of the entire world plan. no workplace nor collection of workplaces can be conscious of more than a fraction of the plan. to summarize modern planning theory, the choice comes to one of two things:
>a decentralized system of meetings (the Soviet model)
or
>a fully centralized automatic planning system
or some combination of the two. all serious proposals for communist planning feature a high degree of centralization and automation. without this you must put a bunch of middlemen in the loop. middlemen who will have a tendency towards acquisitiveness, as history shows

 No.1828291

>>1828278
>You want to have at least some surplus in reserve in case something happens.

With climate change disrupting food production already we really do need to start scientifically and effectively putting aside "winter stores" for when there is an inevitable disaster. I don't think the cheese mines will last all that long in the event of a true, modern famine.

 No.1828660

>>1828260
>if you dont like my capitalism masquerading as communism you must like this other capitalism masquerading as communism
How is central planning capitalist? If money, classes, market exchange and the separation between firms are abolished, how can the system still be regarded as capitalist?



/siberia/

 No.524100[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

For all your life issues.
Previous: >>510845
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 No.524935

>>524826
The western world is. France is probably worse than India

 No.524936

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>>524927
>>524930
Google knew what I was talking about. /r/truerateme

I feel sad thinking there are people actually putting their face out their soliciting 100s of these weirdos to comment on.

 No.525002

>>524936
the worst part is i bet half of the posts are actually people putting other people's photos on there and getting them roasted and then sending it to them or something

 No.525003

>>524575
I'm not proud of it, but it's relevant to the discussion in this case.

 No.525010

>>525003
>>524575
>I'm not proud of it, but it's relevant to the discussion in this case.
How was it?



/hobby/

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 No.37903[Reply]

Talk space socialism to me. Was recently rewatching a few series with my fiance, both old and new Trek, and we both feel like Deep Space 9 is our favorite series (closely followed by TNG).

Everything else in order from best-to-worst would be:
Deep Space 9
The Next Generation
Voyage Home
Wrath of Khan
Undiscovered Country
Enterprise
Picard Season 3
Lower Decks
Voyager
Prodigy
Motion Picture
Strange New Worlds
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 No.41450

>>41445
>The federation is evil because it doesn't want to trigger an interstellar war with fascist space snakes

 No.41455

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>>41449
Eh, that's a bit much. It'd be more satisfying for him to just get fired and sued for all the money he laundered through different TV-shows, leaving him to scrape by.

>>41450
>>41445
>DS9: Eddington's Federation Rant
>4x22 "For the Cause"
Star Trek, especially DS9 never had a narrative that the Federation was always right, however the situation at hand is greater than the situation described in the rant. The statements made by Eddington have merit, however he ignores the geopolitical (or rather galacto-political) implications of the Federation going to war with Cardassia again. The Federation is not in a position where it can assuredly take-on Cardassia and win a victory that isn't pyrrhic and the colonies in question would most certainly be wiped out during the conflict with the loss of life and political fall-out from such a war causing immense problems and possible destruction of the Federation in the long-run, that would harm and kill many more lives. It's a complicated question and most certainly not some black and white idea of evil and good.

 No.41457

>>41455
Yeah, on the one hand you've got the federation committing ethnic cleansing, but on the other if they don't force these feddie citizens to move then the cardies will come and make them wish they had.

 No.41464

>>41455
But why the obsession with hunting down the Marquis? Just because they're not part of the federation

 No.41465

>>41464
The federation can't just let rebels/terrorists/whatever operate out of their territory (I guess they technically seceded? I dunno I haven't watched DS9), they would end up like Afghanistan.



/leftypol/

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 No.1825868[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

51% of young zoomer men 18-29 are single, have zero prospects for home or car ownership, have zero prospects for a stable career, zero prospects for retiring, zero prospects for anything besides abject poverty, and are becoming increasingly violent and politically radicalized towards the right.

Given historical precedent, it appears we're very close to a violent right-wing revolution led by this demographic. What is to be done? How can we turn this around in the left's favor and prevent this upcoming tragedy?

This is not meant to be an incel thread, but rather this is discussing the material conditions of young men in the west who have intentionally been funneled into extremist far-right movements by capital and think-tanks
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 No.1828379

>>1828322
I mean most people want to have sex so yes there are more products that appeal to people's desire to have sex than ones that proclaim they're for non sex havers, what's your point?

 No.1828387

>>1825916
it's simple, hypergamy

 No.1828397

>>1826112
>Those ambitious westcels will just go to the Philippines and get a wife from there.
Except racism is extremely popular with this demographic. They don't just want pussy, they want white babies, and the "wife, house, picket fence" lifestyle they at least imagine their grandparents had
Add to this Biden's effectively open borders policies and you really do have a recipe for something akin to 20th century fascism

 No.1828597

Total brainlet here, how can there be a "right-wing revolution" if capitalism is the dominant economic system? What exactly would they be revolting against?

 No.1828616

>>1827701
>le bible and marx are equally mindless
please neck yourself



/games/

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 No.25620[Reply]

Since joining to my Minecraft server has proven to be quite a headache for a lot of players, I want to propose the board admins to host a server for its free, open-source alternative: Minetest (minetest.net).

The prime upsides of this would be:
- Much less resource consumption on both client and server end due to Minetest using an engine written C++ rather than Java.
- Extremely deep and wide maps compared to Minecraft, with the estimated maximum size being 60000 chunks on every axis. Minetest's terrain generator also creates caves and mountains much larger than any seen in MC even after the Caves & Cliffs update.
- Ease of moddability due to the game's modular nature and a built-in modding API based using the Lua language, as well as automatic mod fetching from the server eliminating the need for players to download mods beforehand. Also, the game does not need to be quit from when editing mod files, just for the world to be reentered.
- No need for third-party plugins for stuff like sethome and logins as this functionality is already built into the base game.

Thoughts?
https://strawpoll.com/polls/NMnQ5BBXBn6
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Bump. What does anyone think about biome mods like Ethereal?
https://content.minetest.net/packages/TenPlus1/ethereal/
Aside from more grass types and trees it adds stuff like flight potions, crystal material with respective tools and staves. Also I find the Mesecon mod much more versatile than Minecraft's redstone, whats with being able to place the wires vertically and extensibility through Lua mods including even things like Lua controllers.

 No.27090

This went nowhere

 No.27091

>>27090
The hosting problem still holds sadly. Unless either the board host finally agrees to host it or somebody volunteers to I doubt it will anytime soon. At the very least the poll results tell that it would be quite popular if it actually goes online.

 No.27111

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>>27091
Update: I think we have progress. A user has expressed interest in renting a server to host MT alongside other games. Potential games we have considered are Space Station 13, Terraria and TES3MP. Feel free to suggest other games that you would also like to see hosted.

 No.34670

cool idea



/games/

 No.33398[Reply]

Surprised that there hasn't been a thread about the halo franchise in all the years of this site being up, so I thought I'd make one so that we can discuss it
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 No.33642

>>33517
Not really, the UNSC never recovers and a lot of insurrectionists survived the war and made rival governments, as per Halo 5's item descriptions. But that was something known since Fall of Reach, a lot of rebels were already in deep hiding from the UNSC so they came out of the war pretty good, especially since their piracy of Covenant vessels has given them an edge on reverse-engineered Covenant tech.

If halo 5 wasn't shit it'd be about Chief defecting from the UNSC to those guys and actually being hunted down for it

 No.33671

>>33642
>If halo 5 wasn't shit it'd be about Chief defecting from the UNSC to those guys and actually being hunted down for it

You have too much faith in 343 lmao

 No.34640

I've been waiting to play Halo 2, 3 and Reach since I was literally a teenager and at the ripe old age of 28 I finally got my hands on MCC and finished everything but ODST.

I love this franchise so much it's crazy. I feel sad that I missed out on it in its heyday due to being poor as shit and it's also sad to see how the franchise is being run into the ground by people who don't care but man I fucking LOVE this shit. It has injected more happiness into my miserable ass life than anything I have done in a long ass time.

I'm currently on my second playthrough of Halo 2 on Heroic. Is multiplayer worth a shot? I've heard there are a lot of hackers and ridiculously skilled players who have been playing since the XBox live days but this shit is no bullshit like crack to me. I just love all the characters and guns and lore and etc. it's all just gr8 shit

 No.34665

>>34640
yeah dude the multiplayers fine ull pick up on it quickly, a lot of ppl are just fucking around anyway and aren't leaning in and tryharding
have fun with halo 2 bro, was always my favourite of the trilogy

 No.34669

>>34640
>I'm currently on my second playthrough of Halo 2 on Heroic. Is multiplayer worth a shot?
idk what the MCC multiplayer is like but Halo 2 multiplayer is the quintessential online multiplayer game that set it up for all multiplayer games to come. It's also a rare case where an old game's multiplayer gets to have new life that's officially supported - most services eventually close down and the online becomes abandonware/lost media.

Also a lot (most?) halo fans care more about the multiplayer than the campaigns, for what that's worth.



/siberia/

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 No.524643[Reply]

I find it more fun to browse porn threads on 4chan than to read this site. All the boring news stuff and angry discussions make my eyes glaze over if there arent any tits to keep my attention. How do we rectify the issue of leftypol's market disadvantage compared to the 4chan monopoly which has stolen the majority of the imageboard market share?
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 No.524902

i use twitter to find porn. i might join cohost since it's becoming a big porn hub as well but idk. i dont like microblogging platforms in general since they're mostly just "angry discussion"
also i get my news from rss feeds now
also wtf is going on with the perspective in that pic lol

 No.524908

>>524902
>also wtf is going on with the perspective in that pic lol
OP image is probably AI generated. But i am not certain

 No.524919

>>524908
nah, you couldn't make an AI draw something that complicated, look at the beer bottle. I think the artist just got lazy about the girl's other leg

still hot and fun concept though

 No.524923

>>524644
I had been looking for a leftist version of 4chan for a while and I had simply never heard of this place. Aside from the twitter account there's basically no mention of it anywhere. This place could easily get 10x the amount of users if it was advertised more. Although I don't know if that's really something that would be good. Feel like the site is slower right now but also pretty quality, most threads are fairly interesting. If you go on regular /pol/ it's all weird cuck porn and random nonsense, I don't want this site to end up like that.

 No.524925

>>524923
quality is a function of good moderation and site design rather than being a result of anything innate to users themselves. 4chan is shit because their mod team actively encourage it to be shit and, to a lesser extent, because it's too big for the number of moderators they have.



/games/

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 No.34627[Reply]

What are iconic and legendary games that defined a generation of gaming, that deserve a place in the gaming pantheon?

List all of them that you know.
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 No.34659

Iconic to whom? Lmao the only video game characters most people recognize are Mario, Sonic and Pacman.

 No.34660

>>34647
We're talking about gaming not mobile shit

 No.34666

>>34660
Mobile games are a major part of gaming, so it might be worth considering when talking about iconic games in general.

 No.34667

>>34666
I know, I just feel like farmville et al should be put in a different category

 No.34668

>>34647
wii sports unironically got the major manufacturers to blow untold millions on the wagglan gimmick



/siberia/

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 No.484014[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

ITT, we post our favorite Youtube clickbait thumbnails
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 No.524915

>>524469
Neither of these are click bait though.

 No.524920

>>524334
I lost at the forth one for just how blunt it is.

 No.524922

>>524920
Maybe it was the variation and I think that it was the most insane photoshop out of it.

All the other ones
>You Won't Believe IT!
<She Loves IT!

It's making me laugh again. Just imagining the promise of the video, they're going to be interviewing some retard with 5 inches between her eyeballs how she liked her first time getting fucked.



/music/

 No.1697[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Thread for Palestinian music against Zionism.
Songs from other Arab regions or across the world in support of Palestinians are also fine.palestinePalestine
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 No.9528

does the Palästinalied count as pro palestinian?

 No.9637

>>1860
that fascist salute is a little spicy

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 No.9758

Not Palestinian, but a cool joyful Japanese song celebrating Leila Khaled, famous PFLP air pirate, I just love it.

 No.11683

Bumping for current events.



/siberia/

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 No.524058[Reply]

The real contradiction is between alphas and betas vying for power to attain the means of reproduction (pussy). Also don‘t fall for any other classifications. As an orthodox red piller I say there are only alphas and betas. Sigmas are coping betas and the rest are just different flavors of betas.
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 No.524269

can the pseud retards stop talking about dead religions that they dont understand?

 No.524389

>>524269
you explain these religions to us instead

 No.524860

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>>524264
If judaism is so "pagan" then why does it have a rage-boner against idolatry and needs to autistically write down all of its laws and codes in giant books? Here, the vocal is privileged over the visual as a spiritual attack. While westerners adorn nature with her natural charms, semites need to invent ways to debase nature down to its service to their god. We see this in the specifics that arcĥitecture receives in the bible too. The jew is a being of math and matter, which is why they dominate the fields of theoretical physics today, while the "natural science" of observation and intuition are seen as vulgar. The jew also has a notable lack of sight in their own bodies and constantly need glasses, so it speaks to their notion of what Beauty can even be.
Beauty to the jew is abstract, while beauty to an aryan is lived in the world, where by dialectical coincidence, Nature reveals her fullness in the world (as Ideal), while the world to the jew is nothing but the "matter" of its own substance.
Jews are not fighters, but are idle thinkers and so do not glorify the warriors such as pagan texts like the iliad and mahabrata do (even where krishna in baghavad gita says it is arjuna's sole duty to fight), but stick up for the underdogs like noah (who was the teacher's pet while the world was loving life), or david against goliath (to emphasise the intellect over the strengths of the body).
Here is the adoration of Lucifer, even as the Vedas open with a celebration of the Dawn. But Venus here takes on a qualitatively distinct meaning.
>the atman
Yes, the Hindu concept is of an immortal Self that is the very animating principle of Nature. It is the aesthetic of eternal life in the Spirit. While the ecclesiastical writings of Solomon give reference to the equality of man and beast, but in their termination to Death. It is a religion of Death and suffering, where Solomon curses riches and glory (ah, but in proper continuation, praises sexual acts as "the song of songs", and so here is the jewishness of sexual perversion, where its well-known that jews invented modern pornography).
So here, life is reduced down to its basic functions. Here is the proto-darwinism of the rat cage consciousness that pervades materialist thought.
The list goes on and on.
Alain De Benoist writes more in "on being a pagan".

 No.524880

>>524860
>If judaism is so "pagan" then why does it have a rage-boner against idolatry and needs to autistically write down all of its laws and codes in giant books?
Oh yes, pagan religions never do this, of course. What is the Manusmriti again?
As for idolatry, the development of Monotheism in Israel had a close connection with the development of Israeli national identity due to frequent foreign occupation of their country. Every pagan religion undergoes this process; Shintoism became a pseudo-Monotheistic religion by cleansing itself of Buddhism and centering faith on the Emperor (who, in true Monotheist fashion, never actually appeared in daily political governance and whose image is hidden in the palace). The same thing is happening with Hinduism right now, with the cult of Ram being elevated as a heroic Messiah against Islamic imperialism. As with Judaism, these two religions' monotheization has nothing to do with a surplus of idle thinkers and everything to do with nationalism.
>Jews are not fighters, but are idle thinkers and so do not glorify the warriors such as pagan texts like the iliad and mahabrata do (even where krishna in baghavad gita says it is arjuna's sole duty to fight), but stick up for the underdogs like noah (who was the teacher's pet while the world was loving life), or david against goliath (to emphasise the intellect over the strengths of the body).
Please actually read the Old Testament. Half of it was about bronze age strongmen being appointed by God to kill foreig invaders

 No.524907

>>524880
A lot of the pagan written rites are just magical spells, like in egypt's own codexes, or the prayers in the vedas, or the praises of marduk in the enuma elish.
Poetry only comes later obviously, where "mythology" proper fills in the gaps from folk beliefs and practices into pseudo-doctrines and narratives. But whats perculiar in judaism is the myth-as-law Idea that is in the tanakh. And the measure of number is equally perplexing. Take the crafting of the tabernacle. It is pages of maddening specificity, given to itself.
>Please actually read the Old Testament. Half of it was about bronze age strongmen being appointed by God to kill foreig invaders
Sure. Half, but only half. And where is this tradition prolonged in the second temple period with the talmud and the birth of rabbinism and judaism proper?
But this is why some say you can draw a distinction between hebrews and jews. I would too in mythological contrivance (in likeness to the temple legend of freemasonry), that the "hebrews" are the sons of cain and the jews are sethites.
The whole bible is full of these distinctions, like jacob and esau (a meek thinker vs hunter), or david and goliath, or yhwh vs baal, or moses and pharoah. Its about drawing the jewish people away from their syzygy in a forbidden heritage (what i believe heroditus describes as the jewish worship of dionysus, and who seek his "return").
>As with Judaism, these two religions' monotheization has nothing to do with a surplus of idle thinkers and everything to do with nationalism.
No i disagree. Monotheism is the pet belief of all priestly types who seek to transcend through Reason, for they have voided the world of its own overflowing self-transcendence.(which the warrior attaches himself to).
Nietzsche obviously talks about this.



/leftypol/

 No.1828445[Reply]

US veto sinks Palestinian UN membership bid in Security Council
Twelve countries voted in favor of the draft resolution recommending full Palestinian membership. Britain and Switzerland abstained. Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas's office called the US veto "a blatant aggression" and "an encouragement to the pursuit of the genocidal war against our people… which pushes the region ever further to the edge of the abyss."
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/04/us-veto-sinks-palestinian-un-membership-bid-security-council

Algerian journalist says he was expelled from his country without explanation
Alilat said he regularly takes flights from Paris to Algiers to report on Algeria, where he has for years been a well-known journalist due to his work for French-language daily newspapers including Liberté, which was shuttered in 2022 amid financial problems and scuffles with the government and Algeria’s state-owned oil company, both of which are major advertisers for the country’s newspapers.
https://apnews.com/article/algeria-journalist-expelled-farid-alilat-france-press-88cc12ce1fc6de125e33913a354edcae

Turkey continues to cut off water supply to Alouk Station in Hesekê
The Turkish state and its mercenaries cut off the Alouk Station, which provides water to more than one and a half million people in Hesekê and its district. The Turkish state has cut off the water supply more than 40 times since the occupation of Serêkaniyê. According to the Hesekê Water Directorate, the last water cut was 7 months ago and the water cuts still continue.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/turkey-continues-to-cut-off-water-supply-to-alouk-station-in-heseke-72691

Deadly heat in West Africa warns of climate change-driven scorchers to come, says report
Temperatures soared so high in Mali and Burkina Faso they equated to a once in 200-yeaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.1828504

>>1828502
wow is this real?

 No.1828522

>>1828504
No it's someone in a cat costume

 No.1828547

Episode 369: Claude Marks: TrueAnon
We meet Claude Marks, founder/co-director of the Freedom Archives & former FBI most wanted for a talk about revolutionary radio, serious politics in the 1960s, and a life in movement.
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/claude-marks

Workers’ control: Who should run our workplaces?
“Not a wheel turns, not a lightbulb shines, and not a telephone rings without the kind permission of the working class.” Ted Grant, founder of the IMT, often repeated these words. What it gets to the heart of is that the whole world keeps going thanks to the working class. The construction of houses; lorries driving from point A to point B; the delivery of post: the working class keeps society running. Yet it does not run society. All of this is done as part of an overall system – capitalism – in which the means of production (warehouses, factories, oil and gas rigs, supermarkets, etc.) are the private property of the capitalist class. They own this plant, equipment, and infrastructure. And that means they get to decide what’s done with it. The ongoing dispute at Port Talbot reveals this starkly. Several thousand steelworkers are being thrown on the scrapheap, despite the crucial role they play in production. Their livelihoods, and the whole town’s fate, has been decided by the cruel logic of the market. None of this production is planned according to the needs of society. Instead, the economy operates chaotically, dependent on whatever maximises profit for the capitalists. That’s why we face redundancies, or are made to work longer, for less, while their profits get bigger year on year.
https://communist.red/workers-control-who-should-run-our-workplaces/

Frederick Engels: Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State III. The Iroquois Gens
We now come to another discovery made by Morgan, which is at least as important as the reconstruction of the family in its primitive form from the systems of consanguinity. The proof that the kinship organizations designated by animal names in a tribe of American Indians are essentially identical with the genea of the Greeks and the gentes of the Romans; that the AmericaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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That's it for this week. I have a few things going on that's gonna keep me from posting till tuesday at the soonest.

 No.1828576

TYBNA

>>1828559
TYBNA



/games/

 No.32028[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

There's going to be a Fallout TV show and it looks like a yoghurt ad. It's also solely based on Fallout 4 and it's going to have even more BOS wank. Thanks Todd!
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 No.34655

>>34651
A lot of Ghoulggins's backstory is kept vague, either to keep the mystery of his character or as sequel bait. Can't say for sure either but I don't think he turned into a Ghoul during the horse ride while the nukes were going off in the background.
Again, this is basically my headcanon but I believe he took his daughter to Vault 31 (or some other Vault-Tec secret facility) to put her into cryo-sleep, was denied entry himself and later turned into a Ghoul.

 No.34661

>>34644
That’s fine for the show. I’m willing to grant them artistic license to do whatever they want to tell a good story.
I still don’t want invincible ghouls in the game.

 No.34662


 No.34663

>>34662
>Fallout 4

 No.34664

>>34663
not saying it's good, just that ship has already sailed



/leftypol/

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 No.1827715[Reply]

Why are Communism and Marxism as "ideologies" borderline synonymous? Why is it that Marx's economic analysis of 1800s capitalism is treated as an essential building block for how we overthrow capitalism in the 21st century, as though to dispense with his analysis is to dispense with the end-goal of communism as such?
I feel like I often see a trend of reasoning that runs, simplified, that only Marx's analysis renders the collapse of capitalism from internal contradictions and the arrival of communism historically inevitable. But that seems like pretty weak reasoning: If he's wrong and it's not historically inevitable, why give up on it!? Why not try to work towards it instead of waiting for history to do all the work?
Maybe it's just because I've been a frustrated social engineer all my life, but it doesn't seem in any way intuitive to me that one should abandon the notion of a classless, stateless, and moneyless society just because one also accepts Keynes' view that fiscal policy can mitigate capialist downturns, or rejects the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, or indeed, even if one accepts neoliberal doctorines, any more than one should abandon the notion of flying on the grounds that the theory of gravity says earth will try to pull you down again. Theory only tells you how the world works, it's then on you to deploy it to make the world work the way you want it to. Why is there no major branch of leftist ideology which operates around this seemingly obvious principle?

You might say it's because Marx's analysis is so obvious that everyone who reads it agrees - and maybe that's true - but most self-identified communists don't actually read him beyond the manifesto, so that cannot be the explanation.
You might say "oh you mean Ancoms?" but a lot of Ancoms seem to run with Marx's analysis of capitalism - just not with Marxism-Leninism as an overall ideology.

I'm not saying Marx is wrong, don't waste time arguing he's not wrong. His rightness and wrongness -indeed the rightnes and wrongness of any theory - is irrelevant to this thread.
This thread is about the relative absence of a certain kind of person and analysis. If you want the dilemma clearly: "Why does the marketplace of ideology not have any non-Marxist communists in stock?" If you want the dilemma in pretentious economic terms: Why is "Normative" Marxism ("what we should do") so dependent oPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.1828270

>>1828261
Under many sectors of soviet democracy the control of what was decided relied in direct democracy from the workers, by universal and secret vote, without the need of State intervention.What the state demanded was, in my understanding, just quotas. How to achieve those quotes relied on the solely on the workers. The same could not be said about ALL parts of soviet government, controlled by representatives of the representatives of the people, but at least the bottom of society lived in a form of direct autonomous democracy.

 No.1828273

>>1828269
And how does this contradict that they can produce things too?

 No.1828274

>>1828273
I guess it doesn't

 No.1828305

>>1827715
Religious communists are the most prominent non-Marxist communists I can think of, especially Christian communists if you find any may take some inspiration from Marx/Engels but are likely going to diverge from them significantly.

 No.1828564

>>1827741
I cannot see why a classless, stateless, moneyless society is restricted to Marxists rather than something that people imagine they can build from another approach. Again: if you reject the TPRF, reject the LTV, and reject that capitalism must eventually collapse from its own internal contradictions, why does that mean you must reject the notion of nevertheless building a movement to overthrow it, of building an aeroplane rather than waiting for gravity to invert itself so you can fly?

>>1828087
if you can think of a better word for "stop selling newspapers, stop arguing about gorbachev, stop arguing about whether we'll have anime under communism, and actually analyse how the fuck you rebuild working class power without simply falling back on what worked in 1917" then i'd be glad to hear it. "pragmatism" has been devalued by a thousand traitors, but everything else has been destroyed by a thousand loyalists.

>>1828160
that the broad strokes remain the same doesn't preclude him being wrong in the details or the details having changed. it would be deeply, deeply surprising if they hadn't given the broader development of capitalist economies and indeed of basically every field of study.

a point of trivia: in the 1930s in Germany the SPD rejected Keynesian economic stimulus on the ground that, if it worked, it would run counter to their interpretation of Marx. If you can spend your way out of a recession, the thinking went, the whole edifice crumbles. Now, if Marx is right about everything this was the correct course of action - but if this is a misinterpretation of Marx, or if Marx was wrong, or indeed, if Marx simply hadn't detailed the precise scenario of "yeah it'll work for about 30-40 years then the political pressures of full employment will cause capital to react by destroying it, t. Michal Kalecki" then this was a utterly suicidal move in their present context.
this point of trivia should not be considered any general expression of reformism, or notion that socialists - let alone communists - should be concerned with managing the capitalist economy per-se. hPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



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How would communism work on the planet of Namek? How would such a society be organized? What other lefty idea would work well on Namekusei?
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 No.24111

It's telepathy necessary for the formation of communism?

 No.24112

>>24111
Yes. Under communism everyone is capable of telepathy

 No.24113

>>24108
I think the antennas are for better hearing tbh

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>>24108
Even humans can learn to use chi to do telepathy in DBZ.

 No.24117

>>24114
I know that humans can learn it but I think its inherent in Namekians, but I may be wrong.



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Indictment edition
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 No.523672

>>523093
it doesn't matter if America seizes to exist, its balkanized version will still be capitalist in literally the same way. like, if all states manage to secede from the union they would all still be capitalist, nothing systematic would change.

 No.523673

>>523672
*ceases

 No.523676

>>523672
Even if things change, they will not change
Even if stuff happens, nothing ever happens

 No.523678

>>523676
it will be another nothingburger, if the US gets divided in 2 then it will be 2 USAs fighting against china. literally nothing will change.
change only happens if it's radical/systematic.

 No.524861

>>523092
Schizophrenia is a unique attribute in Burgerpunk



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 No.1828413

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/inferiority-of-the-western-way-of

>There has been another series of very revealing transmissions from the Ukrainian side that will undoubtedly fly under the radar. They shed light on certain key thematic aspects of the war, particularly in this case the NATO relationship to the AFU and its doctrinal military philosophy, which gives us a much more informed understanding of how and why the conflict is playing out the way that it is.


>The first item is the latest video from popular YouTube channel Red Effect, which many of you are familiar with, that focuses mostly on tank videos throughout the conflict, with a pro-Ukrainian slant:


>Initially I was ready to dismiss the video offhand, but ended up being increasingly intrigued by what was being said. It’s called “Are Ukrainians using the Abrams tank wrong?” and consists of an interview with an actual active duty U.S. Army Abrams tank commander.


>He doesn’t reveal his real name, but he does sound knowledgeable, knows the lingo, and his rank of staff sergeant does accord with what the lowest level of tank commander below platoon leader would be. He states he has 10 years experience, 4 deployments, and has served multiple years in each position of the Abrams tank, i.e. gunner, loader, driver, and commander, and so knows the system in and out.


>He starts off with fairly generalized and uninteresting answers. However, reading between the lines he lets out quite a few tacit reveals.


>The first one of these is around the 4 minute mark, where he states his own unit, which is currently undergoing further training, has only just now begun to ‘interject drones’ into the equation. The most eye-opening part is the types of drones they’re using are ones which drop grenades from above onto the tank. Anyone who’s followed the Ukraine war would blink hard at such an amateur oversight by the seemingly clueless U.S. Army.


>It’s widely understood that grenade-dropping drones are not even remotely the issue in current armored combat. Even the stock footage they play over this segment of the interview emphasizes the point:
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 No.1828429

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/04/dmitry-medvedevs-speech-on-russias-strategic-borders.html

<Dmitry Medvedev's Speech On Russia's Strategic Borders


>One may not like Russia or even feel hostile towards its current policies and leadership.


>But that should not hinder one to recognize and acknowledge how Russia is seeing itself and it defines its own role in the wider world.


>The former Russian president Dimitry Medvedev is currently the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia recently spoke about multiple definitions of borders.


>Medvedev has lately become a bit of the bad guy who spits the harsh truth with the good guy being Russia's President Vladimir Putin who is using less vitriolic language. But if one removes the rhetoric chaff the concepts espoused by both in various speeches are quite similar and should be seen as the basis of Russia's policies.


>The Russian magazine Expert reproduced an edited version (in Russian) of Medvedev's speech (machine translation):


>Dmitry Medvedev: "Russia, like any great power, has strategic borders far beyond geographical ones"

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 No.1828433

>>1828340
russia is sabotaging nato factories all the way in germany and france. damn

 No.1828490

>>1828413
>Red Effect
>pro-Ukrainian slant
Bruh.
What a waste of a name.

 No.1828562

>>1828490
>pro-Ukrainian slant
I mean, Simplicious is a russiaboo nationalist no? I'm not a tank enthusiast but I watched RedEffect posted when he had drama with Lazerpig and he seemed fairly neutral, or at least disinterested in the politicking.



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