/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>488427
Americans have had extensive involvement in targeting, military tactics, etc. Every time Ukraine did a missile strike on Crimea or further inside Russian territory, the US did all the work targeting those missiles. That attack in civilians on the beach in Sevastopol? American targeting. The Ukrainian offense in Kherson? American planning. Basically this confirms what Russia has been saying this whole time: that the Biden administration was directly engaging in war against Russia and playing with world war 3. The New York Times actually brags about this bullshit, a wonderful partnership built between the US and Ukraine. There's no suggestion from the Times at all that this may have been an extremely dangerous mistake. In fact one might wonder if an article like this was published to further reinforce to the Russians that they cannot ever trust the Americans again, to poison any attempt at normalizing relations.

>>488432
Eh, didn't we already know most of that stuff? I was thinking it would say the special ops presence was larger than previously acknowledged or something or that Americans were deployed in combat directly.

>>488433
Anyone paying attention to independent media did, the point is the Paper of Record™ finally admitted it. It can no longer be dismissed as Russian Propaganda™.

>>488425
>listen to the Duran boys break it down.
The other aspect they talk about is the blame game.
So apparently the article is trying to pawn off all the blame to Ukrainians. So there will be no learning from mistakes.

They end on a dark note, namely that the ruling class in the US and EU likely think that the Russians are somehow inferior and that translates to them trying this all over again some time in the future.

>>488432
>this whole time: that the Biden administration was directly engaging in war against Russia and playing with world war 3
Yeah we got lucky the current leadership in Russia turned out to be so chill. Missiles flying towards Moscow and exploding pipelines that would have caused the shit hitting the fan during the cold war.

US credit card defaults at highest level since Great Recession

Credit card defaults in the US reached their highest level since the 2008 financial crash during the first nine months of 2024, according to figures compiled by BankRegData and cited in a recent Financial Times article. Credit card lenders were also forced to write off $46 billion in seriously delinquent debt balances through September 2024, up 50 percent from the same period the year before, and the highest level in 14 years.

These figures reveal widespread social distress and economic insecurity in America’s supposedly booming economy. With rising expenses and stagnant wages, tens of millions of workers and lower middle class people have been forced to rely on their credit cards to pay for food, gas, medicine, clothing and other living costs. Hit by elevated interest rates, they have not been able to make their credit card payments.

“High-income households are fine, but the bottom third of US consumers are tapped out,” said Mark Zandi, the head of Moody’s Analytics, told the Financial Times. “Their savings rate right now is zero.”

After government stimulus checks allowed borrowers to pay down their credit card debts in 2020 and 2021, credit card debt has risen by a combined $270 billion in 2022 and 2023, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It surpassed the $1 trillion mark in mid-2023 and reached $1.66 trillion in the third quarter of 2024. The average American household credit card debt was $10,757 in the third quarter, according to personal finance web site Wallet Hub.

“Nearly half of Americans still have debt from the holidays from last year,” said WalletHub writer and analyst Chip Lupo, adding that a third of respondents to his organization’s survey reported they would spend less this year on holiday shopping.

Unable to pay off their balances in full, borrowers sent the credit card companies $170 billion in interest payments in 2024. As of last Friday, the average credit card interest rate was 20.35 percent, according to Bankrate.

These loan shark rates have allowed the biggest credit card lenders—Visa, Mastercard and Capital One—to reap record profits. Visa, the largest, booked $19.7 billion in 2024 profits (up 16 percent from FY 2023) and enjoyed a 55 percent profit margin (up from 52 percent in FY 2023); 2024 revenues shot up 10 percent to $35.9 billion.
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DOW futures fall another 300 points

>>488418
Imagine explaining this to an alien that our economy is doing bad, because a group of people have decremented a number on a computer, not because there's a lack of resources or labor power.

>>371834
When the worst person you know has a good point

Cross-posting this request: >>>/posad/758
Looking for a better quality/resolution version of the Fifth International Posadist video.

This joke is from 2006

>>488392
kek that's actually kind of clever

Just made this.

>>488364
no

>>488341
Really don't like this "people who wage wars against God always fail" bullshit. Reminds of when Genghis Khan went around justifying his murderous rampages by proclaiming that he was the scourge of God sent to punish people for their sins. Hinkle is practically inviting Zionists to justify their brutality here by saying God must obviously want it because they've been so successful.

>>488346
Okay maybe it was Tamerlane actually. It's always a bit hard to nail down that quote.

>>488346
>Really don't like this "people who wage wars against God always fail" bullshit.
The good part of his speech was that he reminded soldiers they can be conscientious objectors.

>Hinkle is practically inviting Zionists to justify their brutality here by saying God must obviously want it
The Zios have been doing this anyway. And the other side has been turning it around by saying that god is testing them, and the Zios are just a test prop. God is a game dev that put a hard boss-fight at the end of the level. Religious word battles are a wash and everybody goes with the interpretation that god is on their side.

>>488346
Zionists already say that, but it's cynical. A difference is that the Yemenis are actually motivated by God, by a sense of greater good. No one needs to invite Zionists to commit what, by all means, are heresies against God and against humankind while claiming to be morally and divinely chosen. They do that already. What the Yemenis appeal to is a sense of God and the divine which moves them to fight for justice and liberation. Millions of people around the world hold faith in that kind of God, why should that faith be unrepresented? If no one held that God and that sense of morality above the cynical invocations of "God" and "morality" of the IDF, what would the point be?

t. once-atheist, relapsing on Universalism with a materialist conception of God as a philosophical concept representing Being, life/death, the transcendence of shared psychological phenomena and sense of being, and the betterment of humans as individuals, and the power of collective will.

Jackson Hinkle speaking to the crowd in Sanaa, Yemen today.

HTS is apparently making friends with the Kurds now.
Seems sort of odd.

>>488041
He thinks the Romanian population will not accept the abolishing of their democratic rights and enforce their democratic choice of leadership, and says they have done so before. I don't know anything about Romania, so is that's how it's gonna be ?

Yeah the Syria shit sucks. Consider the average Syrian had to endure extreme material hardship because the Syrian economy got sanctioned to shit, and now they have to dodge the sectarian head-choppers.

>>488057
>Seems sort of odd.
Indeed, the Kurds are at odds with Turkey who is HTS's principle backer.

HTS might just be desperate.

>>488085
>I don't know anything about Romania, so is that's how it's gonna be ?
Idk anything about Romania either lol

>HTS might just be desperate.
I'd guess the Kurds are too.

Syria accuses Hezbollah of abducting, killing three soldiers

The Syrian Defence Ministry said that Hezbollah had abducted the three soldiers from inside Syria, taken them to Lebanon, and then killed them.

The ministry said that the abduction happened near the Zeita Dam, on the Syrian-Lebanese border in Homs province.

“A group from the Hezbollah militia … kidnapped three members of the Syrian army on the Syrian-Lebanese border… before taking them to Lebanese territory and eliminating them,” the Syrian state news agency SANA quoted the Defence Ministry as saying.

Al Jazeera Arabic earlier reported that clashes had taken place on the Syrian-Lebanese border. Hezbollah has, however, denied any involvement in the incident.

aje.io/7jyucr?update=3583344

Astute observers with a great memory will recall that Israel bombed Damascus two days ago. For some reason, these HTS guys (formerly Al Qaeda) are only focusing on attacking Alawites, Christians, and Lebanon, though.

>>488235
That's entitled as fuck, first of all no one said this board is for English speakers only, no one is obligated to give you shit, and second of all that's super lazy considering that every browser can auto-translate a website, and deepseek is free.

>>488265
>first of all no one said this board is for English speakers only
rofl who is the entitled one here? Someone expecting English communication on an obviously English-speaking forum, or someone assuming we all ought to be able to read and understand Arabic? Where do you think you are?

>>488267
sir this is مجلس شيوعي شرقي

>>488330
Wow so true sister. OP should've just translated the entire thing

>>475051
kids named capitalists:

>>475051
I think the idea is that states live in anarchy with each other. They want the opposite of this that is one state enforcing rules to other states.

>>479399
>one state enforcing rules to other states.
The world's a sphere, can't be done. Even ignoring the complications of geography, sphere's will produce at least 2 major centers of power. Power projection diminishes with distance to the center and if you live on the surface on a sphere, you get 2 optimal spots for a center of power. If you add in geography you probably get between 5 to 7.

>states live in anarchy with each other
Unification by power of Dominion can't solve this, we need to find a different way.

Maybe the offices of politicians need to have globes.

<"freedom and democracy"
>you're either at work or in prison
>no one can influence public policy
I miss the times when this narrative was believable.

>>479399
this is the standard realist position, the dominant position
id argue that the US is the global state, though this may be changing
often we call "authoritarianism" or "dictatorships" are actually forms of anarchy, a lawless system of laws where disorder becomes a tool of control
what they call the "rules-based international order" might in practice be a reflection of that

>the Turkish section of the International Committee of the Fourth International
Is this a real organization or… a couple guys in an apartment that wooswoos wants us to think are really important?

>>488255
idk