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  • Trump says US navy like ‘pirates’ while seizing a ship in Iranian blockade

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  • The GOAT of saying the quiet part out loud.

  • What are the lumpenproletariat?

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  • The Democratic machine would have us believe that MAGA are lumpen, but they’re not. They’re petit bourgeois.

    The Nation, 2017: Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs

    But scapegoating poor whites keeps the conversation away from fascism’s real base: the petite bourgeoisie. This is a piece of jargon used mostly by Marxists to denote small-property owners, whose nearest equivalents these days may be the “upper middle class” or “small-business owners.” FiveThirtyEight reported last May that “the median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries is about $72,000,” or roughly 130 percent of the national median. Trump’s real base, the actual backbone of fascism, isn’t poor and working-class voters, but middle-class and affluent whites. Often self-employed, possessed of a retirement account and a home as a nest egg, this is the stratum taken in by Horatio Alger stories. They can envision playing the market well enough to become the next Trump. They haven’t won “big-league,” but they’ve won enough to be invested in the hierarchy they aspire to climb. If only America were made great again, they could become the haute 
bourgeoisie—the storied “1 percent.”


  • What are the lumpenproletariat?

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  • Right or wrong, Marx & Engels wrote their manifesto while living in and studying 19th century London, and their analysis may have been specific to that time & place.

    The “dangerous class”, the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.

  • Birth rate and hedonism?

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  • The burden of proof is on the claimant, and dollars to donuts they have nothing to back up their vibes-based assertion.

  • Zionist tourists in Vietnam were recognized as settlers by their tattoos and expelled by bar patrons after being reminded of their crimes in Gaza. May the zionists never feel peace in their life.

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  • Great now I gotta do an image search for IDF tattoos.

  • Unitree breaks the world record with a 10m/s running robot

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  • a strong start ngl but it will never finish the swim stage

  • hello comrades

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  • Welcome.

    PieFed is a funny thing. Lemmy was created by communist developers, and PieFed was created as Lemmy clone by an anti-“tankie” developer. A handful of scratched liberals in the fediverse have made deplatforming communists their life’s work.

  • France pulls all gold out of US Federal Reserve

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  • The Banque de France sold 129 tonnes of gold between July 2025 and January 2026, about 5 percent of its total reserves, which had been held in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

    Rather than refining and transporting the old stock, the bank purchased an equivalent amount of new, compliant gold in Europe, which now sits in Paris alongside the rest of France’s reserves.

    The overall size of France’s gold reserve, around 2,437 tons, remains the same.

    The upgrade involved replacing older, non-standard gold bars with modern ones that meet international rules for weight, purity, and certification, making them easier to trade globally.

    So the gold—if it exists at all—wasn’t moved, but instead the Federal Reserve printed an equivalent amount of USD which France then spent on actually-existing gold in Europe?

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    Megathread for the US war on Iran | Week 14 of 2026

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    How is corruption dealt with in the CCP?

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  • (Seriously, why do some people think like this?) By Me

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  • Many romantic/sexual relationships were once platonic, and in each case a change in quantity led to a change in quality.

  • wikispooks

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  • I’m not familiar with it. https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Wikispooks:Site_Rationale

    Party politics has evolved into an effective way of motivating passionate, distracting activity and dispute among citizens over trivia, while obscuring the reality that a large proportion of "leaders" of public organisations are in fact mere puppets, in thrall to hidden organisations with secret agendas - organs of what Peter Dale Scott has referred to as a supranational deep state. Wikispooks seeks to follow the strings of these puppet leaders and find out who is pulling them and why ...

    They draw on the likes of Peter Dale Scott, Ola Tunander, Lance deHaven-Smith, and Aaron Good. They seem not to have great class analysis or imperialist analysis. I expect they’ll get some things right while having blind spots in other areas. For instance this entry is all over the place: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Tiananmen, and this one is more skeptical of the Western narrative than Wikipedia https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Holodomor

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    Project Librul self-owns, accidentally makes a leftist meme

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  • Locked

    US war on Iran | Megathread for Week 13 of 2026

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  • I don’t know his track record as a retired Lt. Gen. spokesgoon. Perhaps he’s pontificating while out of the loop?

  • Norman Finkelstein on Lenin

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  • He relied on Chomsky as his “moral compass,” for one 😬

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    US war on Iran | Megathread for Week 13 of 2026

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  • Well now we’re in the deepest doodoo since WWII.

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    Dummy vs Dummy

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  • The funny thing is that they may very well both be CIA assets.

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    US war on Iran | Megathread for Week 12 of 2026

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  • I think this article was LLM-generated and then LLM-translated. "Stuck neck" had to have been a bad translation when “bottleneck” exists in everyday English.

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    US war on Iran | Megathread for Week 12 of 2026

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  • Crowdfunding an assassination sounds like a good grift.

     shell
        
$ dig +short terroralarm.org
127.0.0.1
$

    Oh shit it’s coming from inside the laptop.

  • GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    Gerald Horne understands critical support for anti-imperialist states like Russia, China, and Iran

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
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    Erin Kissane: Untangling Threads

    erinkissane.com
  • Late Stage Capitalism @lemmygrad.ml
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    AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism

    danmcquillan.org /ai_thatcherism.html
  • Comradeship // Freechat @lemmygrad.ml
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    I accidentally invoked Hexbear’s pronoun insertion feature

  • GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    It’s only genocide if it polls well with the 18–34 year-olds…

  • US News @lemmygrad.ml
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    The Supreme Court adopts first-ever code of ethics

    www.npr.org /2023/11/13/1212708142/supreme-court-ethics-code
  • US News @lemmygrad.ml
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    FBI says Hamas attack on Israel inspiring ‘new level’ of terror threat against US

    archive.ph /IfwZ0
  • US News @lemmygrad.ml
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    The House has passed a resolution standing with Israel in the aftermath of attacks by Hamas

    www.politico.com /live-updates/2023/10/25/congress/house-israel-resolution-00123590
  • Memes @lemmygrad.ml
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    Disney Adulthood, The Highest Stage of Class Unconsciousness

  • Europe @lemmygrad.ml
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    Guardian: MEPs likely to push back on plans to allow spying on journalists

    www.theguardian.com /world/2023/sep/27/mep-spying-journalists-press-freedom-spyware-european-parliament
  • Breadtube / Leftube @lemmygrad.ml
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    Good Job: So does private equity own everything?

  • Breadtube / Leftube @lemmygrad.ml
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    SecondThought: Why The Government Has Infinite Money

  • Memes @lemmygrad.ml
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    "If communism isn't inherently authoritarian then why are all the existing communist countries so authoritarian?"

  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    Premier episode of Workers Strike Back’s YouTube show “On Strike”

  • US News @lemmygrad.ml
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    Premier episode of Workers Strike Back’s YouTube show “On Strike”

  • GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    Jonathan Cook: The West’s blueprint for goading China was laid out in Ukraine

    www.jonathan-cook.net /2023-09-08/goading-china-ukraine/