Went to a Palestinian solidarity protest/rally with some new folks who’d become radicalised against America/the West over the last six months. They aren’t socialists (yet, I’m working on it) - but they’re good people. So, seeing the genocide and its support by our governments filled them with disgust. We talked about the...
I understand the optics are bad in the US. I still believe it and I’ll say it. I don’t think there’s a way to believe otherwise if you oppose genocide and you fully understand the history of the occupation and of resistance to colonialism. Maybe there’s a lot more we could be doing to educate people (more posting!), but I think it’s a mistake to deny your actual beliefs in service of the carefully crafted PR produced message that will immediately transform a fully propagandized American liberal into a comrade. For decades we in the West tried depicting the Palestinian people as passive observers of their own destruction, and it somehow has done little to weaken the racist image of the bloodthirsty terrorist. Maybe we need to rely more on the truth: that Palestinians have always fought back, and have not given up.
reading these comments and realizing that there are tons of leftists, here and elsewhere, who quietly believe all the right things, but cannot emotionally deal with the fact that anti-imperialist communism isn’t as popular as DNC Vote-ism and never will be, so they fedjacket anyone who can on political-tactical grounds.
Also, we know Mark Rober loves fucking cops, but to straight up gloss over the fact that this fucking insane surveillance system is being used on the southern border confirms he’s clearly just a state department asset. What can you expect from a NASA alum I guess....
Me, five hours into explaining what a film is, the existence of Hollywood, the existence of a country over the sea called ‘America’, the internet and what woke means: “ok so basically, in the year of our lord two thousand and fourteen there was this thing called ‘Gamer Gate’ and single men who couldn’t have sex would...
Big Yud is literally the founder of an assigning-random-values-based-on-gut-feelings religion. His essay on Bayesian reasoning has given perhaps thousands of blog-reading nerds irreversible brain damage.
I was looking at an old thread about “patsocs” and I saw the following comment, which I believe to be true - I have written this in a rush so sorry for any mistakes. EDIT: I was asked what the question was, so tl;dr it would be: is the threat of patsoc, particularly the “MAGA communism” development a significant threat...
i mean, it wouldn’t be the first time british communist orgs have devolved into reactionary tailism.
the fact that this “movement” has zero real world purchase in the US, the nation that gives it all its signifiers and on which it is primarily fixated, should give you an idea of how serious it is. it’s a meme that propagates through the brains of 20th century burnouts who feel nothing but disgust and confusion at pretty much every historical development since the working class lost the cold war, and so latch onto the growing fascist wave – which frankly doesn’t need direct help from the feds – despite also being unable to understand why it’s been successful.
additionally, i recommend that you abandon the thought-terminating cliche of the “psyop.” without any evidence that some social development is actually motivated by a nefarious actor, all it refers to is one’s subjective feeling that what you’re seeing is too bizarre to have a rational explanation. it’s, frankly, antimaterialist, and not unlike the reasoning that motivates “MAGA communists”; observe how they often like to call challenges to their personal bigotries the work of the CIA.
it’s a Type of Guy on Twitter, a dying site which mostly just accelerated the development of new breeds of mental illness when it was still popular. literally not something that exists in real life.
like, okay maybe it’s a fact that communist parties in the first world are being disrupted by such weirdos, but i think that speaks less to the effectiveness of bourgeois manipulation and more to the ineffectiveness of many communists. i don’t consider it a great feat to be able to smell a reactionary before you see him and simply not take his stupid thoughts seriously. that’s a low bar for a would-be communist party to clear.
it’s actually stunning how he’s not just a zionist, he’s made hating arabs his shtick. like, not even pretending to be a working class guy any more, he’s all in on paying millions to arms manufacturers so we can turn people who have not had a full meal in weeks into piles of gore. the second stroke better hurt a lot.
i know we here on hexbear are smarter than to actually believe him, right? like he sees that it’s one of biden’s biggest failures so he’s like “obviously i wouldn’t be fucking this up so bad” and as soon as he gets in office he’s gonna sit down with netanyahu and they’re going to flesh out a 10 point plan to get hamas to come to the negotiating table by executing a palestinian child every hour on israeli national television.
Hey there! I’m new to paper MTG and play Commander with my playgroup. We’ve been having a debate about whether the total value of a deck really indicates how strong it is. One of my friends argues that value doesn’t equal strength, but I can’t help but wonder when I keep losing to a deck with a higher price tag than...
Consider playing a couple games where you swap decks. Commander players are used to downplaying their decks’ strengths and other decks’ weaknesses. Maybe you’re wrong and you just need to learn some strategy fundamentals, but it sounds likely that there really is a significant deck power disparity.
However, if that is the case, it’s possible that your deck’s shortcomings could be fixed without having to spend more than $5 on a single card. Adding more removal, removing duds, simplifying your game plan, or improving your mana base could help keep you in the game.
Oh also I would be derelict in my duties if I did not remind you that proxying cards is good and everyone should do it all the time. If your play group doesn’t allow proxies, they suck and you should start looking for some cool people to play with.
So called marxist website full of impotent screeds asserting that dialectics is wrong (anti-dialectics.co.uk)
Somehow has worse UX than marxists.org.
Why are Palestinian protests filled with feds?
Went to a Palestinian solidarity protest/rally with some new folks who’d become radicalised against America/the West over the last six months. They aren’t socialists (yet, I’m working on it) - but they’re good people. So, seeing the genocide and its support by our governments filled them with disgust. We talked about the...
Me when I'm in a shitty teleprompter reading competition and my opponent is Biden (hexbear.net)
twitter.com/disclosetv/…/1783184198477508785?s=19
Am I the only one who remebers who Palmer Lucky is? (youtu.be)
Also, we know Mark Rober loves fucking cops, but to straight up gloss over the fact that this fucking insane surveillance system is being used on the southern border confirms he’s clearly just a state department asset. What can you expect from a NASA alum I guess....
Other than AI, what technology are you excited about?
For me it’s quantum computing - especially considering its impact on most current encryption methods
"It's a race to the bottom — literally the bottom." (hexbear.net)
businessinsider.com/royal-navy-candidates-can-app…
Imagine trying to explain what this means to a medieval peasant who literally doesn't even know what a potato is and has never been more than 5 miles from his birthplace (hexbear.net)
Me, five hours into explaining what a film is, the existence of Hollywood, the existence of a country over the sea called ‘America’, the internet and what woke means: “ok so basically, in the year of our lord two thousand and fourteen there was this thing called ‘Gamer Gate’ and single men who couldn’t have sex would...
This is the guy who expects us all to listen to him about how AI works (hexbear.net)
Police arrested four people over $300,000 of stolen Lego kits (www.theverge.com)
A carefully constructed crime leads to California arrests.
"MAGA Communism" potentially becoming a threat beyond the terminally online.
I was looking at an old thread about “patsocs” and I saw the following comment, which I believe to be true - I have written this in a rush so sorry for any mistakes. EDIT: I was asked what the question was, so tl;dr it would be: is the threat of patsoc, particularly the “MAGA communism” development a significant threat...
GAME staff discovered zero hours contracts move via mass Microsoft Teams calls (www.eurogamer.net)
High-level political discussion taking place on r/fuckcarscirclejerk (archive.ph)
Archive link embedded in title
It's over. (hexbear.net)
salon.com/…/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-raises-eyebro…...
'No Conditions': Sen. John Fetterman Breaks With Joe Biden Over Israel Approach (web.archive.org)
Jon Settlerman says unlimited genocide on Palestinian children
Guys Biden has fixed everything! He called for a ceasefire before sending the next shipment of weapons to Israel! (hexbear.net)
Trump seems to be taking a better stance on Israel than Biden is (hexbear.net)
Now we’re gonna get all the lemmy people pouring in here talking about how Hexbear loves Trump.
I think I'm finally understanding what libs mean when they say we can push Biden left
He can’t go any further right, so he can’t be pushed right. Ergo, he can only be pushed left. Libs owned us yet again oooaaaaaaauhhh
Btw (lemmy.ml)
Do you think deck total value is a good enough indicator of how strong it is?
Hey there! I’m new to paper MTG and play Commander with my playgroup. We’ve been having a debate about whether the total value of a deck really indicates how strong it is. One of my friends argues that value doesn’t equal strength, but I can’t help but wonder when I keep losing to a deck with a higher price tag than...