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Comprehensive49

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  • Disgruntled worker invokes Luigi Mangione in $500M warehouse inferno he filmed in anti-capitalist rage: feds

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  • Why the fuck is this suddenly a federal crime? Do federal prosecutors only wake up to combat worker revolts?

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    If you think the comic is bad, don't look at the comments [Extreme racism]

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  • My bad, sorry.

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    If you think the comic is bad, don't look at the comments [Extreme racism]

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  • Hormuz traffic has climbed to its highest levels since the early days of the war, as more countries secure apparent safe-passage agreements with Iran.

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  • Iran needs money (since the US has sanctioned them to kingdom come) to preserve the value of its currency and its balance of payments, and this is a good way to do so. What did you expect Iran to do? Fight the U.S. without getting any money in return?

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    Just another reminder that anarchists like Haymarket books are glowies

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  • Ah yes, the classic western leftist approach of disapproving of every AES and anti-imperialist state and instead trying to build something completely new out of doing mutual-aid and aimless anarchism hard enough.

  • Hormuz traffic has climbed to its highest levels since the early days of the war, as more countries secure apparent safe-passage agreements with Iran.

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  • It's arguably a good idea for the world in general. By occupying the strait and being the official security provider, Iran prevents the U.S. from ever taking that role. One of the reasons the US tried to collapse Iran was so it could come in and occupy the Strait, then use that power to cut off China from Hormuz oil as an extension of their Strait of Malacca blockade strategy into the Middle East.

    Just imagine if the U.S. was able to enforce sanctions and blockades at the Strait of Hormuz, restricting oil going from the strait to any U.S.-sanctioned country. That would be the exact inverse of what Iran is doing right now.

  • japan pm gets angery

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  • If Japan doesn't send anything against Iran, they may be able to negotiate some deal to get oil. If Japan starts sending warships there, then Iran will immediately cut them off, and Japan will go from having an oil shortage to an oil drought.

  • Are there any influential leftist organisations in the west?

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  • PSL helps organize almost every major protest, and "technically not-technically" run Breakthrough News, the most popular socialist video news org on YouTube.

  • Cuba thank China for donating 90,000 tons of rice after arrival at Havana

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  • Apparently, this is enough rice to feed Cuba for half a year.

  • Does anyone have any good information on Wa State in Myanmar?

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  • It's best they do stay secretive; otherwise, the US will let loose the terrorists they're funding to destroy Myanmar to go kill them too.

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  • Yep. Apparently states have the right to oppress minorities, but not the right to stop them from being oppressed.

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  • So the Supreme Court is saying that conversion therapy must be allowed? The fuck about conservatives' "states rights"?

  • Chinese scientists create world’s coldest alloy. It may surprise DARPA: new rare earth alloy so cold and efficient it could upend decades of reliance on helium-3

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  • Books on the environment

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  • I'm also studying that subject!

    Here are some good books:

    • Communism, the Highest Stage of Ecology (very technical, focusing on ecological policies in AES states)
    • Socialist States and the Environment: Lessons for Ecosocialist Futures (this one focuses on ecology in the Soviet Union and China, requires prior interest in said countries)

  • The kids are not alright

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  • Yeah, it's pretty hard to be an advocate of American fascism if you're non-white or a woman. You're essentially cheering for either your own extermination or for you to be locked in a house.

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    How is corruption dealt with in the CCP?

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  • China's transition from a Soviet-style socialist economy (where there wasn't much space to be corrupt, and in which Mao tried using the Cultural Revolution to create an atmosphere of continuous revolution to purge any inklings of corruption) to a socialist market economy created avenues for government officials to make corrupt earnings. For a time, the CPC tolerated a base level of corruption in exchange for quickly facilitating industrial development and investment from the West (e.g. a government official works faster when bribed than when not, and foreign companies are generally used to bribing because that's what they always do).

    Over time however, this kind of corruption invites anti-government sentiment, allows bourgeois ideas to permeate government officials, and could lead to Soviet-style collapse where the corrupt officials decide they want to become the new bourgeoisie. Once China's economic growth slowed down a bit, the cost of bribes also became more of a drain on development.

    This is why Xi Jinping began a massive anti-corruption campaign in 2012 and initiated reforms of China’s anti-corruption state institutions. This campaign was originally led by the Supreme People's Procuratorate (China's national prosecutorial agency), which silently collected evidence on corrupt officials until evidence against them was overwhelming and they could be thrown in jail.

    To see how they operate, you can watch the TV series In the Name of the People ( English subtitles here; https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJpCdaWK6PVpeWbeUSjw4dBWt5IKK5Buj ). The series shows how prosecutors work to combat corruption in a fictional provincial government, and was officially funded by the Supreme People's Procuratorate so the Chinese public could understand how fighting corruption worked. You'll notice that the officials who report corruption will get lighter sentences if they themselves are corrupt, or even advance if they themselves are clean.

    In 2018, China transferred the task of investigating corruption to a new department, the National Supervisory Commission (国家监察委员会), which has broader powers to investigate corruption within both the government as well as the Communist Party via its co-located sister agency, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (中国共产党中央纪律检查委员会). This lets China attack corruption at the state and party level.

    Ultimately, corruption is a result of the incentives that exist for government officials. Only by changing these incentives can you remove the possibility of corruption. For example, a dirt-poor state will never be able to stop corruption, because even the government officials will be desperate to get money. Corruption will also flourish if officials are not punished severely (e.g. by firing squad) for it. Fighting corruption must also be seen as a viable pathway for career advancement to incentivize officials to snitch on others' corruption.

    China is building a base level of wealth to make corruption unnecessary, anti-corruption prosecutorial institutions to make corruption dangerous, and an atmosphere that combatting corruption is good for one's career (so officials snitch on others' corruption) so that corruption becomes impossible.

  • DPRK conducts engine test for missile capable of targeting U.S. mainland

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  • Good. If the DPRK can show that if the US invades it, SF and LA will be glassed, then the cost won't be worth it to US capitalists.

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    More 👏 women 👏 baby-annihilators 👏

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  • Honestly, if Hegseth wants to exclude anyone from the military who isn't white and male, I'm all for it. Doing so would eliminate a massive portion of the US military (which usually depends on poor nonwhites) and further weaken US imperialism.

  • [Discussion] The revolution has happened and You have been given an enormous budget to build a communist community center. What are the facilities and services you propose building?

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