/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation case must continue in New Jersey
The ruling does not guarantee that Khalil will be moved out of a detention facility in Louisiana, where he is being held as the government seeks his deportation for his role in campus protests against Israel. But it will allow his attorneys to make their arguments for his release before a judge in New Jersey.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/mahmoud-khalil-case-new-jersey

Major union launches ad campaign featuring detained Tufts student
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents nearly 2 million members in the United States and Canada, is launching digital ads and projections on buildings in Washington, D.C., and other cities, according to details of the campaign shared first with The Hill.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5225863-tufts-student-detained-union-ad-campaign/
https://archive.ph/EFsfi

Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison
Abrego Garcia, who attorneys say fled gang violence in El Salvador more than a decade ago, had been identified by his wife in a photo of detainees entering intake at El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison CECOT.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/politics/maryland-father-mistakenly-deported-el-salvador-prison/index.html
https://archive.ph/2ROL5

US Supreme Court weighs law on suing Palestinian authorities over attacks
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This State Is For Sale
If you own a Fortune 500 business, you probably incorporated it in Delaware. The state has long been favored by corporate America, offering tax-benefits and a bespoke, pre-Revolutionary War court system tailored to business needs. But now Delaware’s standing as the country’s top corporate haven is under attack. This week on Lever Time, senior podcast producer Arjun Singh sits down with The Lever’s Katya Schwenk and Luke Goldstein to learn why the tiny East Coast state has been corporate America's haven for decades. But there’s more to the story. Why are other states now battling to seize its title — and how does it impact the rest of us? And how is the involvement of Elon Musk making everything worse? The Lever's reporting explains why Delaware is ground zero in the national oligarch takeover and why what happens in Delaware doesn’t stay in Delaware. It means corporate deregulation from coast to coast.
https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_9069_31bafb1a-dd4a-46d9-90ec-92f9beda0df0&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpublicfeeds.net%2Ff%2F9069%2Ffeed-rss.xml

Get out of the state of shock! – On the automobile crisis
On the 20th of December 2024, VW’s works council and management agreed on an austerity programme that, among other things, would result in the elimination of 35,000 jobs by 2030 – most of the jobs will be cut in ‘too expensive’ factories in Germany. The production of the VW Golf is to be moved entirely to Mexico. Job cuts are also intensifying among suppliers, and are reaching machine and plant manufacturers (Kuka Augsburg). Mercedes wants to double the share of production in low-wage countries from 15 to 30 per cent – in Kecskemét, Hungary, costs are claimed to be 70 per cent lower than in Germany. In 2023, an hour’s work in Hungary cost 12.80 Euros, compared to 41.80 in Germany. At nine per cent, corporate tax is lower than anywhere else in the EU. In addition, Orbán subsidises Audi, BMW and Volkswagen with hundreds of millions of Euros. The country is attracting people from Kazakhstan and Mongolia to counteract the shortage of labour and rising wages.
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>>488470
>The tragedy of Syria: ‘multipolarity’ fails to substitute for anti-imperialism
While this is true, i'm not entirely sure the Soviets would have protected Syria either if they had been busy with a war in Ukraine.

Also during the last 20 to 30 years, Arab nationalism was less effective at counter hegemonic activities than para-state groups like Hezbollah or the Houties. The only exception is Iran where it's gone the other way. Maybe it being such a large country is the reason.

Prince Andrew sex accuser Virginia Guiffre ‘has days to live’ after ‘car crash’
Sex trafficking victim Virginia Guiffre has claimed she has ‘four days to live’ after being hit by a bus.

The woman abused by Jeffrey Epstein as a teenager, and who has also accused Prince Andrew, shared a photo of herself lying in a hospital bed coverered in bruises.

Bidding farewell to her loved ones ones, mum-of-three Ms Guiffre wrote on Instagram: ‘This year has been the worst start to a new year, but I won’t bore anyone with the details but I think it important to note that when a school bus driver comes at you driving 110km as we were slowing for a turn that no matter what your car is made of it might as well be a tin can.

‘I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology.

‘I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time, but you know what they say about wishes. ST in one hand and wish in the other & I guarantee it’s still going to be st at the end of the day.

‘Thank you all for being the wonderful people of the world and for being a great part of my life. Godbless you all xx Virginia’.

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>>488445
So Andrew Prince has conspired to get Virginia Guiffre assassinated by car accident.
Am i understanding the implication correctly ?

>>488446
There are a lot of people who would want to kill her actually.

>>488448
Oh right, because she was a sex-slave on Epstein's sex-island. And she could say who all those rich and powerful people were that raped her.

>>488445
Due Dissidence on the Virginia Giuffre story

Just made this.

Originally a pic of Cory Booker with Yoav Gallant from after the ICC warrant was issued.

I call her Jacobin-chan.

>>488474
cute!

Welcome to Idiocracy
Elon Musk orders mass firings of hundreds of nuclear weapons security employees
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-trump-firings-nnsa
>Scenes of confusion and chaos unfolded over the last two days at the civilian agency that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, as the Trump administration's mass firings were carried out before being "paused" on Friday.

Trump administration wants to un-fire some nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-wants-un-fire-nuclear-safety-workers-cant-figure-rcna192345
>The individuals, who work in an agency that oversees the nation's nuclear stockpile, had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts.

>>487611
I think this might be related to plans for reducing nuclear weapons. That wouldn't be a bad thing.

>>487638
Let's hope so

Fuckin snownigs
Sweden nuclear bunkers: As World War III fears grow, this European country has prepared 64,000 nuclear bunkers for 7 million people
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/as-world-war-iii-fears-grow-this-european-country-has-prepared-64000-nuclear-bunkers-for-7-million-people-here-are-more-details/articleshow/119878997.cms

>Sweden is moving rapidly to ready its people for war as tensions continue to escalate amid Russia's ongoing conflict with Ukraine, reported Daily Mail. The nation has committed £7.7 million (100 million krona) to upgrade and renovate its vast network of civil defense bunkers, demonstrating its preparedness for a war, according to the report.

>Sweden already has one of the most extensive shelter systems globally, with 64,000 locations throughout the country, reported Daily Mail. The bunkers have space for up to seven million individuals, which could fit over two-thirds of the population of Sweden

>Since becoming a member of NATO in March 2024, Sweden's Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) has accelerated inspections and modernization processes for these bunkers, as per the report. The two to three-year project involves upgrading critical filtration systems to protect against chemical and radiological weapons

>>488460
>Fuckin snownigs
yeah well …

Bunkers are not objectionable, maybe not the best investment, but hey technically it still some kind of living space that people can use for something. Young people can play loud music in a bunker without disturbing anybody for example. They can be converted into dormitories or shelters for homeless people. Scientists that want to do sensitive experiments that need shielded rooms tend to like bunkers as well.

So while this is probably irrational, it's not that bad.

I wish we'd be adopting more advance filtration tech as a normal part of building design.

>>488132
>LOL they're actually living in fear of their own people.
As they should!

Luigi Mangione's attorney about prosecutors seeking the Death Penalty:
“By seeking to murder Luigi Mangione, the Justice Department has moved from the dysfunctional to the barbaric. Their decision to execute Luigi is political and goes against the recommendation of the local federal prosecutors, the law, and historical precedent. While claiming to protect against murder, the federal government moves to commit the pre-meditated, state-sponsored murder of Luigi. By doing this, they are defending the broken, immoral, and murderous healthcare industry that continues to terrorize the American people. We are prepared to fight these federal charges, brought by a lawless Justice Department, as well as the New York State charges, and the Pennsylvania charges, and anything else they want to pile on Luigi. This is a corrupt web of government dysfunction and one-upmanship. Luigi is caught in a high-stakes game of tug-of-war between state and federal prosecutors, except the trophy is a young man’s life.”

>>488450
They appear to be trying to make an example out of him, but if they murder him they make him into a heroic martyr.

The stupidity is unbelievable.

>>488452
Ehhhh…
They do stuff like this for a reason. Even if he's a martyr, there are still uses for brutal crackdowns and this kind of despotism and bourgeois class war.

>>488457
>Ehhhh…
>They do stuff like this for a reason.
Nope this one's just stupid, this guy proved that members of the ruling class could just be gunned down in the street. The rational response is to memory-hole this entire episode as quickly as possible. Try to co-opt Luigi's rebel brand and turn it into a commercial product. Capitalism used to be intelligent that way. If they take revenge, they increase the sociological meaning of his act, and the hoopla just serves to remind people that high-powered CEOs are just human beings as fragile as everybody else.

>Even if he's a martyr,
Creating martyrs is really dumb, the acts of martyrs become virtuous, and that significantly increases the likely-hood of copycats and inspire other smaller acts of defiance.

>there are still uses for brutal crackdowns and this kind of despotism and bourgeois class war.
Rule by fear is temporary. Once people figure out that they can trigger a crack-down as means to lure the brutish goons into a trap…
French resistance fighters during the late periods of WW2 had began luring fascist Jew-hunters into fire traps, the tactic was beyond ruthless, so many fascists went looking for hidden Jews and only found fragmentation grenades going off in their faces. I don't know if there was a counter because the fascists got crushed by the allied forces before they had the chance to formulate one.

Enduring despotism seems to only persist in the imperial periphery, where the power to maintain it is external. like when empires prop up despotic vassal regimes.

It does not appear like a calibrated action to entrench power, born from calculation. This appears to be reactive.

>>488411
>China lays down the law in facial recognition first with focus on privacy, security
I wish that biometrics would go away entirely, but privacy regs are a good start.

Eventually face-id will get relentlessly exploited, because it's like people having their password tattooed on their forehead. And then we can go to cryptographic keys stored on tokens, which will work like regular keys except that it's more convenient, because you can have lots of keys on one token instead of a cluttered key-ring, also lock picking will get a lot more complicated.

>>488414
Le Pen is a french politician irc (not sure what her politics are) , so is this a maneuver to politically neutralize her ?

Or is this for real and she got caught with the hand in the cookie jar ?

>>488423
>Le Pen is a french politician irc (not sure what her politics are)
She's a Nazi or close lol
>Or is this for real and she got caught with the hand in the cookie jar ?
Idk read the article and tell us.

>>488431
>Idk read the article and tell us.
Admittedly I didn't read it yet, i might later, I'm hesitant because the guardian might contain too much ruling ideology which could cause me mental irritation.

Anyway Melenchon (which is lefty or at least socdem) said he opposed it because the people should decide about political leadership, not the courts.

Alexander Mercuris' take is that this will boost Le Pen's political popularity. He also thinks that if Le Pen is embezzling funds then the ruling parties are most likely doing it too, and that this would damage the law, because it would loose political impartiality.

I'm wondering if this isn't the point, maybe the goal is to boost Le Pen and to damage trust in legal institutions. With an eye on the genocide in Gaza the current political leadership in France might have an incentive to damage the legal system.

>>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.

>>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

>>488364
no

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.