/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>486608
>That train looks sexy as fuck.
Yup
Allegedly this is the CR450, a newer version of the CR400 which from youtube looks quiet and comfortable.
CR450 sounds like a name for a coin-cell battery. I guess that doesn't really matter.

>Where I live we have one set of tracks connecting three major cities where like 90% of the country lives, and they have to share that track with freight trains. The freight company owns the tracks so their trains have priority. Passenger trains have to pull over and wait at certain areas, and you are regularly 45mins to an hour late. We desperately need high speed rail ffs.
It's not uncommon that trains wait on side-tracks to let another one pass, but not giving passenger trains priority that's kind off weird. Three-quarter to a hour delays that's hardcore tho, my condolences.

>>486600
These seem to have some characteristics in common with the trillion dollar turkey the F-35. "Stealth" technology was always scammy bullshit and I sure hope neither of these are "fighter" aircraft. What's China's military-industrial complex like? Why does it need these when it has missiles that can sink aircraft carriers?

>>486603
Speaking of which, someone just wasted a ton of money on this. Hypersonic missiles have made aircraft carriers essentially obsolete floating coffins.

>>486614
>These seem to have some characteristics in common with the trillion dollar turkey the F-35. "Stealth" technology was always scammy bullshit
What made the F-35 a turkey was
the stubby wings: compromised range, loitering time and maneuverability.
the hovering ability: added too much weight, complexity and cost.
feature overload: too many roles.

VTOL would have made sense on civil passenger planes, so big planes can go to small airports with short landing strips, but for military it's odd, jets have overpowered engines with afterburners that enable them to use tiny air-strips anyway.

The Chinese plane especially the diamond shaped one has a whopping wing-span of an estimated 20 meters, which should give it excellent range and loitering time. it doesn't look like it's got hovering either. So if it's a turkey it's not because it copied bad design cues from the f-35.

Given the big size of this thing, stealth is somewhat relative anyway.

>and I sure hope neither of these are "fighter" aircraft.
Obviously not, without a tail, maneuvering on these have got to be somewhat leisurely. Maybe the strange shape is for going fast at high altitude. I think the diamond shaped plane could be a counter to the B2 (the one shaped like a manta-ray fish)
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>>486631
Perhaps for rich executive private aircraft, but VTOL would make the least sense of all on commercial airlines because they consume so much fuel to operate. Energy efficiency is the absolute #1 overriding concern for commercial airlines. If they can't make money off it because it's too expensive to operate then it's dead in the water.

>>486640
>executive private aircraft
You mean private jets ?
I gotta be honest, i have never investigated these. All the good small-to-medium size passenger planes seem to be using turbo-props and a different fuselage/wing configuration, so i don't really get why private jets are a thing.

>VTOL would make the least sense of all on commercial airlines
From an engineering perspective adding vertical thrust makes more sense the bigger the plane. They're harder to get off the ground and hence benefit the most.

there would be benefits. You can do smaller airports in less perfect locations. Takeoff and landing could be done at low speeds, previous-plane-turbulence would dissipate really quick and have less impact in general. You could stack flights almost back to back. Passenger throughput could be improved a lot. Runway conditions would be less critical. It would get easier to pull off more radical configuration like boxed-wings (which have fuel efficiency benefits), because the vertical thrust provides an extra safety cushion that hedges against unforeseeable flaws in new desings.

>>486219
lol

>>481566
HOLY MARXER OF BANGER

>>481564
>what does it say ?
<they kept Kazan in fear for four years
<arranged shootouts with the police, bribed local authorities
<had their own people in hospitals and military registration and enlistment offices
<put everyone "on the counter"… …

>>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.

Literally who?

>>486544
when you take pride in how out-of-touch you are

how's the CPUSA?

>>486544
There was a rap beef, Kendrick Lamar vs Drake (also others vs Drake, but mainly Kendrick). It was a sensation and most people would say Kendrick won, but it turns out UMG is owned by a Zionist and stuff.

>>486545
Sorry I don't pay attention to gangster rap, the genre invented to divide and rule poor black neighborhoods.

There's a Pakistan Taliban?

>>486538
>What's gonna happen, guys?
Dunno, but it looks like more countries getting drawn into the regional clusterfuck.

If I'm not mistaken Pakistan has illegitimately imprisoned a very popular socdem politician (Khan something or other), and that is becoming politically untenable with masses of people protesting for his release. Maybe they are trying to stir a conflict to distract from that.

Merry Christmas to Retard Occupants of Interplanetary Craft

KKKrackanap the Sandy KKKlaws!

>>486522
"Happy new year!" is written there though.

>>486530
Yeah, but Russian traditions on New Year's Eve and western Christmas traditions are very similar (Christmas tree and presents), so I didn't see it as a big contradiction when I posted it.

>>477627
Why did musk buy twitter? Because the smart people he has employed advised him to do so.

>>477627
>Basically what I'm asking is do they have ideology of their own that they are unconsciously committed to, or are they blatantly just lying when they talk about things like creating jobs?


As a class they have class consciousness and powerful organizational structures in place to maintain their power. As individuals they are often retarded and out of touch even with the scope of their own power. Some of them really do believe they're job creators and not job gatekeepers. Some of them really do believe they should earn a billion dollars per second for "taking the risk" of owning the legal titles to stuff that other people manage and labor upon for them.

>>484984
I'm increasingly believing that this is the case. That they act in their class interests because of their material conditions, but on an individual level they're not smart enough to really see themselves for what they are: instead they genuinely believe that they're the good guys and deserve their position.

>>477627
>how red pilled are the rich
only instrumentalists believe in ruling ideology/systems. The reality is that they live in tiny bubbles being flung around by the iron laws of capitalism. some are smart some are insanely stupid. The vast majority tho, are extremely incompetent given the fact they have no command over capitalism.

https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-of-the-mafia-state
Case study.

>>486421
This is a partially correct analysis.

However you ought not conceptualize the state as a unitary thing. There are lots of different parts to a state. The same thing applies to the law.

Modern states are suppressing clan-society bullshit like honor-killings and blood-feuds. That's a good thing.
But modern states are also getting infiltrated by mafia organizations that are trying to legitimize their thuggery and make the police do what used to be done by goon-squats.

Think about copyright and patents in the context of the health-care industry. It's basically an ideological veneer for big and powerful mafia organizations declaring healing with medicines as their turf and taking a cut. But unlike street-mafias they're not fighting these turf wars with gang-violence, they are manipulating the state apparatus to do it with state violence.

The street-mafias also manipulate the state, usually via bribery and blackmail directed against low level functionaries of the state. So even in the embryonic stages the pattern already exists in some forms. Many small time mafiosi have aspirations to "go legit" and that can mean conforming their mafia-activities to what is considered "reputable business practices". However quite often they don't mean to change what they do, they mean to change the state and the law. They seek to conform the conception of legitimacy not their activities. When they succeed you get these absurd situations where what used to be a crime is redefined into enforcement.

When for example a street-gang raids and destroys the make-shift laboratory for biologically active substances of a rival gang, we call that gang-wars and talk about crime-syndicates. But when the exact same turf-struggle happens on a larger scale all the words change. It will get described as pharmaceutical company suing one another one for patent infringement and it's law enforcement shutting down the production of infringerínos or what ever the "correct" jargon is.

Obviously many people are harmed and killed because of what those gangs do and that's why it's considered organized crime. But the body count of the corporate sector dwarfs that, but somehow they're not considered organized crime. The difference is a mafia that got big enough to manipulate the state and the law.
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>>486430
posted this in the wrong thread
mods please delete post

>>486431
You can delete your own post (usually)

Over time, the likehood of an independent online community being taken over by malignant autistics approaches 100%.

I assume that is what happened on .org. I also wouldn't be surprised if it was a schism and the better mods moved here.

>>486509
It wasn't like that before the wave of toxic identitarianism.

The identitarian subject processes all information with a specific filter that asks:
<Against me or with me ?

It's probably possible to cultivate a culture of maintaining some intellectual distance.

>>486494
>Also, on a tangent, most pushing for "universal health insurance" aren't really pushing for insurance, but a free, or near free private health care, paid by the government.
This isn't really accurate - the difference between what the US has now and Medicare-for-All is that the current model is largely a private insurance scheme and the proposed changes involve expanding the one major public insurance sector to cover everyone.

>Private health insurance is a joke, but they aren't the root issue. The root issue are the doctors, landowners, homeowners, pharmaceutical companies, and other point of sale groups and individuals charging extortionate prices.
The difference between the doctors and the insurers is that the doctors do, at least, provide a material service. It's true that the pharma cartels need thwacking, but the insurance cartels are much more difficult to redeem in popular consciousness than doctors because the insurance cartels are as extortionate but largely only serve as middlemen.

>>486496
Another difference between doctors and insurance is that doctors are the ones charging the extortionate prices for their care because they set their prices

you didn't get my other point, insurance means paying out the ass to cover an unlikely or rare event. the "insurance for all" proposals, aren't really insurance because they propose more or less free care due to the size and frequency of the subsidies

>The issue is, any of them could simply… not charge extortionate prices.
As owners they have the GOD-GIVEN RIGHT of charging you whatever they want and if you don't like it you can go to a competitor g-d bless.

Or so that's the logic that free market zealots use. The reality is that this tendency will create friction (at best) with a big number people until something gives. But I think everybody here knows that.

Doc: ok Bobby your surgery is over, it took about an hour, are you feeling ok?

Bobby: yes.

Doc: That'll be $300,000

Bobby: And the health insurers won't pay for it! Those damn dirty bastards. I hate the insurers so much, they're practically villains.

I think OP is conflating 2 different things.

The CEOs of insurance companies are in the hot-seat because they made it a "business-model" to deny health-care. It's not reasonable to deny health-care to people. The acceptable debate-spectrum is entirely contained in how to provide health-care, not whether to provide health-care.

You're looking a bit like you're trying to deflect attention to get CEOs out of the hotseat.

I don't know enough about health-care to speak intelligently about cost efficiency. But from the point of view of a layperson it seems that this discussion starts with funding for medical research, there seems to be a funding bias towards perpetual treatments rather than one time cures.

>>486379
They're not upset at the CEO dying they're just pointing out that isolated violence like this won't lead to real revolutionary action.

>>486403
I get it, but you can say that about anything until something happens. People are at least finally feeling that there are others out there that feel the same way as them about their current conditions. And that's a huge leap forward.

You see propaganda aims to make people feel isolated and powerless and is incredibly successful at it. They will manipulate comments on the internet to create a fake consensus and silence any dissent.

The cheers for this guys death have been heard.

Judge presiding over Luigi Mangione case is married to former health care executive.

Damn, it's like they're trying to piss off their citizens.

>>486478
it's not going to lead anything.

A narcissistic valedictorian bougie has only inspired some middle-class woman to do some stupid death threat over the phone to a random United call worker, got thrown in jail for terrorism, and then cried and said she never really meant it

that was all that happened

>>486501
sorry I meant she called a random BueCross worker
https://www.wfla.com/news/polk-county/lakeland-woman-threatens-insurance-company-says-delay-deny-depose-police/

>>482869
not homophobic or anything, but there is just something really off putting with liberal/hbtq-utopianism.

>Why is the Western left like this? Don't they realise that this shit makes them look like absolute pozzed student larping retards to the majority of the working class?
Always was.

>>486352
Because it's basically Glowie shit for Westerners to pretend they are vastly superior people to anyone in the global south and that Western crimes against humanity were not as bad as anyone elses. Hence why for example Soviet "colonization" of Eastern Europe is treated as 100x worse than Western colonization of the Global South, despite Western colonization was actual proper colonization based on race science and basically turned a billion people into slaves with no rights living in abject poverty.
LGBT is the big western white wash of all their actions. Everything is justified because Westerners are just ideologically superior because gays can fuck on a parade boat in front of 5 year olds and Men can go into women's bathrooms and jack off in the stalls next to them.

why are imageboard leftists so obsessed with being anti-woke?

>Would most Western "leftists" even want to live in a Working Class led society?
No, most "leftists" hate the working class and believe they need to be "saved".
>They do realise the Working Class is largely soft-Socially Conservative right?
And you came to this conclusion how?