Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself@home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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Who’s the person being held at gunpoint in the picture?
the General Discussion thread currently has as its thumbnail a cartoon of a shotgun being leveled at Ayn Rand’s head with “Class Consciousness” written on it
I’m pretty sure this hexbearian is actually talking about Lemmygrads General Discussion, and not something on hexbear
it is indeed Ayn Rand, from this comic
Note that the “Truth and Reconciliation” lipservice speech by Stephen Harper, who is the leader of the Canadian Conservative Party of Canada, is a fake apology for the fake school Holocaust as it claimed that the “cultural assimilation” project of Indigenous people are only about “cultural genocide” which the European immigrants confessed to since the start of the fake school Holocaust. Stephen Harpers hide the fact that the so-called “Indian Residential Schools” were actually a series of slave camps, unethical human experimentation camps, and death camps that the Nazi German copied for the Nazi Holocaust. Stephen Harper also claimed that some fake school survivors “desire” a return to the fake schools which mislead any audience who do not know about the savage indoctrination in the fake schools into thinking that the Indian Residential fake schools or boarding fake schools are beneficial. The people who know that the European immigrants waste so much taxpayer money on savage indoctrination in the fake schools to the extent that family love are alien to the children and grand children of the fake school survivors will realize that the claim that some “survivors desired a return to the [death camps]” means that some fake school survivors are completely accustomed to a savage authoritarian lifestyle which lead to the rejection of the civilized democratic child-loving culture of their First Nation parents in favor for the savage demon-worshipping life in the Indian Residential fake Schools.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
It’s Oppo Rancissis!
You never miss the opportunity do you?
If you had one chance… One opportunity…
What you catch it?
Or just… let it slip?
Haha
A bit phoney but ok
excellent pun
What is this, One Piece 4kids version?
icwutudidthar
How many “ha” would you need for me to correctly show you my appreciation for your excellent pun?
the plural “ha”
I had 2 puns
Rule of Two
No more, no less.
Oh I just got it.
I want you to know I think you are an amazing person and value youUnder capitalism, things are devalued so that counts for little.
Say “Haha” backwards now.
ahaH
Same difference in the end.
You too :D
Im #2
But what am I?
Me.
Whatever you want to be 🥰🥰🥰
Sharknado
We have emojis? Like in Hexbear?!
yes
But no Denguin.
Please include the Denguin. @[email protected]
Very good
Just like you.
kat
you too
give my regards to the other Chinese phone manufacturersCapybara The other chinese phone manufacturers and I are not on speaking terms
Youtube search officially fkn sucks. (or they might be censoring). I wanted to search for world economic forum video made by mintpress news. if i type ‘mintpress news world economic forum’ it never shows up. i had to find it from their youtube channel. anyway you should listen to this
Long link, it’s also tracking you or someshit
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
yet another reason to use Invidious, the first search result on yewtu.be is the video in question
Bit idea: horiffic dystopian imperialist army but they’re cutting corners everywhere, like instead of having prosthetic super soldiers they just cut their feet and replace them with wooden pegs
Sounds like real life, tbh.
That’s because we do live in a dystopian post-apocalyptic cyberpunk future. Those pretty neon and rain pictures you’ve seen in cyberpunk themed media? That was advertising, same as pictures of USian suburbs in the 50’s
Yeah, but USian suburbs are still a thing and they stink…
Exactly. They aren’t the neat little houses with white picket fences and smiling neighbours. That’s just the advertising - like in Back to the Future
Yeah, trust me, I live in one lol
Imperial Guard and Navy in warhammer 40k do that sometimes. Higher ups and nobles may get proper bionics, but rank and file? Shit outta luck
Star Wars also has physically disabled people that can’t afford prosthetics or upgrades.
Also happens in Starship Troopers. All the veterans are missing limbs and are confined to wheelchairs, crutches, arm slings, and prosthetics are all but unheard of because they are perversely proud and happy to have gotten their disfigurements and disabilities.
Yeah. Class is still a thing.
I think you should replace whichever comma is between “are confined to” and “are all but unheard of” with a full stop (or maybe semicolon?)
Good idea.
Is it strange 2 love you, Dr?
It is not
Strange!
kewt
Cute 🥰
Yes.
I had a dream last night where I made a post here about how showers were authoritarian without elaborating any further and it got so unpopular that it had 120+ dislikes and I almost got banned.
…What are you, an anarchist?!
Mods, ban this user!
Household bathrooms are bourgeois and cause alienation. Under communism, we shall all visit the communal baths to build solidarity.
Reminds me of a line in a Soviet comedy (Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath), where the main character, a kind of goofy middle-aged dude who’s somehow made it through medical school, goes with his friends to a sauna on New Year’s Eve. One of them gets drunk on vodka he’s smuggled in and starts pontificating about how private bathrooms are destroying civilization. “At home, this beautiful ritual becomes – a mere washing off of dirt.”
I wonder how much of that is satire and how much is honesty because I remember reading somewhere about how a lot of people resented the shift away from social bathing.
I wouldn’t want to do it – not really a thing in American culture – but I can see the appeal. Sitting and talking with your friends, maybe having a beer, feeling cleansed in body and spirit.
Funny enough, nude swimming used to be a thing in America which is low-key the same thing. It was something boys had to do for school and would also do in rivers and stuff. Girls had to wear swimsuits though
I don’t wanna.
Is this where the 1 toothbrush for the county will be stored or will it be in its own tooth brushing building
Everyone will have to pass around one of those little rubber dog toothbrushes. Failure to maintain dental hygiene will result in a ban on socialist fraternal kisses
Okay hear me out, shaming people for showering less is ableist and poverty/houseless shaming, not everyone is able to shower consistently and like most people who don’t shower very often would want to have the ability to shower more, like there’s obviously depression and if you live with conditions where you can only have enough to drink any drop of water after that will be split on cleaning yourself and your clothes and you can’t do only of those or you’ll still smell bad anyway.
and if you live with conditions where you can only have enough to drink any drop of water after that will be split on cleaning yourself and your clothes and you can’t do only of those or you’ll still smell bad anyway.
Shower with your clothes on. Bonus points if you piss in the shower too. It saves water! #SaveTheTurtles #Kony2012
Good ideas, keep 'em coming.
Unironically did this when I was homeless. I’d save up for the cheapest hotel/hostel I could find and just wash my clothes while I was in the shower.
I understand that may not be an option for homeless folks who don’t have a source of income though.
Isn’t this pretty common? When traveling, backpacking, homeless, or without general access to a washing machine; isn’t it fairly common for people to dump their clothes in a bathtub with some detergent and then scrub and mix them around?
That’s what I always did at least. Does the same thing as a machine just a lot more tiring.
Good to hear you’re no longer in that situation though.
I still don’t have access to a washing machine, so I wash my clothes in a bucket, detergent does 90% of the work in cleaning clothes, washing machines just save time because you don’t need to manually wash your clothes around.
It’s much less worrying than doing it while homeless though, it’s not fun hoping clothes will dry overnight before you have to leave the hotel, and going to work in damp clothes.
LMAO this reminded me of one episode of that tv show about extremely cheap people, dude showered with clothes on so they get clean and only flushed his toilet once a week.
Guess they were trying to save money.
You know, cost-of-living crisis and everything…
I’m Autistic so I ultimately gravitate toward this opinion.
Are you stinky?
No.
What news sources do you all use for non-imperialist core daily updates?
The Convergence Magazine
People’s Dispatch
People’s World
Liberation News
CGTN
Fight Back News
Morning Star
The Real News Network
Counterview
Geopolitical Economy Report
Global Times
Prensa Latina
TeleSUR English
Frontline News
The Nation
In These Times
Novara Media
Common Dreams
Canary
Truthout
Monthly Review
MR Online
Portside
Also, use an RSS feed or Feedly to keep up with 'em. @[email protected]
How’s everything going comrades? I’m feeling good for the first time in a while.
Pretty okay. The weather is getting nicer and sunnier. I had a party this weekend at which I had some long talks with people about money and the general purpose of life and work.
I’m thinking about working towards a long trip next year. Maybe I’ll sell all my stuff even. I would love to hike to Santiago in Spain from my house which will take several months. It’s a thought that keeps me going.
I’m feeling physically bad for the first time in a while (but mentally good):
Click here for the gist of it.
Sorry to hear it comrade, hope it gets better.
Today? It has! :D
Bleh.
I’m feeling physically sick today.
Bad stomach, bad headache, and aches all over. I’m cold because the people upstairs are too hot (hence, the cool air-conditioning throughout the house). I’ve been groggy as shit up till now due to taking too much Melatonin last night. Oh yeah, and I can barely focus for some reason as I’m too tired and didn’t get good sleep.
That’s a bummer, comrade. Sounds like you have a bug - flu or cold or something. Get well soon!
I’m better now so there’s that.
It’s 9th March, 62nd anniversary of Algerian ceasefire day, I knew that because there’s flags everywhere today, can’t stop thinking of Gaza.
“It’s [future date], 62nd anniversary of Palestinian liberation. I knew that because there’s flags everywhere today, can’t stop thinking about the fall of Western imperialisme.” - some day in the future
"It’s [future date], 62nd anniversary of the fall of Western imperialisme. I knew that because there’s flags everywhere today, can’t stop thinking about global communism.’ some day in the future future
“It’s [future date], 62nd anniversary of the establishment of Global communism, I knew that because there’s red flags everywhere today, can’t stop thinking about automated space communism”- some day future future future
The far future…
2035 isn’t that far away.
God, you’re right.
Yes!
Are you Algerian?
Perhaps
It shows up as DZ on some browsers, why is DZ the shorthand for Algeria?
Locally we call the country “Dzair” from the Zirid dynasty
“Give nuclear weapons to Ukraine. I’m saying that as a leftist.” -Slavoj “The Jester of the Empire” Zizek
Ukraine already gave its nuclear weapons away.
Guess it doesn’t want them anymore!
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Ukraine never had nuclear weapons. USSR did. USSR was dismantled and soviet nuclear weapons were moved from the now “independent” Ukraine to the state that was named USSR’s successor in terms of international agreements - Russian Federation.
I understand this may sound like nitpicking, but it is important to keep the distinction in mind when parsing bourgeoisie propaganda
Oh, fair! No, that’s fine.
If there was a global tension meter like in HoI, i think we would be around 90% rn. Future is looking bleak 😐
I agree. I see things going catastrophic by the end of the decade.
don’t use redis. one of the contributors (not antirez) is an israeli
I just got a call that I got a new appartment and I immediately started feeling anxious about cancelling my current one and doing all of the stuff I need to do in the next few weeks.
The things we are required to do in order to have a roof over your head off which a leech can make a profit are exhausting.
I remember a few years ago when I felt like the world was at my feet. Bought my first car, went to lots of parties, toured around the country with musicians, living my best life. I was broke as fuck at one point but I couldn’t care less. I felt like everything was going to be okay and I enjoyed every single day.
Now I get anxious whenever I buy a bag of chips or a drink at the grocery store to enjoy my weekend night with my gf. Which is weird because by all metrics I’m doing better than years ago, with a job, my own place, a partner and whatnot. I shouldn’t have financial stress and feel anxious but I just do. I’m going to get a nice, new and bigger appartment but my first reaction is to get anxious and thank: what am I doing? How am I going to do this?
Maybe covid, Ukraine and all other commie shit had a bigger impact on my mental wellbeing than I’d like to admit.
I love how you have to give them notice several months in advance and will likely end up paying rent for both apartments for a month or two
I paid a 3 months security when I moved here and if I can get a new renter quickly it should be no problem. But yeah that might be the case. Which makes no sense. It’s not as if I can find appartements on the market that are willing to be empty for three extra months without paying rent. Idiotic system.
