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KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]

@ KurtVonnegut @hexbear.net

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  • We are here

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  • Yes, I am SO happy that Ukraine is no longer under the colonial domination of the U.S.S.R., they must be doing very well today as an independent capitalist nation, aided by NATO. Ukraine is doing well, right? And liberal, capitalist Russia is also doing much better now, right?

  • China bad tho, right lemmy liberals?

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  • The United States of America just assisted in carrying out a genocide.

    China has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty through progressive economic policies.

    Please tell me, specifically, why "both states are awful."

  • Venezuela's Supreme Court orders Delcy Rodriguez become interim president

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  • Basement dwelling losers when they see a woman in real life:

  • Respectfully_IRL

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  • "Marxism is a white and eurocentric ideology"

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  • His position essentially boils down to race being the primary contradiction, not class.

    This can be true or false, but it entirely depends on the specific society you are talking about. For example, in China today, I do not think racism is the "primary contradiction," although it certainly does exist. The decisions that the Communist Party has to make in regards to going along with global capitalism or pushing to expand socialism internally and externally are the primary contradiction in China now.

    South Africa during Apartheid? Yes, racism had to be addressed first and foremost. But even there, class was so aligned with race that the most popular and successful figure, Nelson Mandela, was a socialist who believed that capitalism and wealth inequality were also harmful to society.

  • Still waiting...

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  • Abolition actually started with legislation which caused a violent uprising from the fucking Confederacy

    Wrong. You are not just wrong, but you are violently racist.

    Abolition started with slaves freeing themselves. Nat Turner. Harriet Tubman. Without people like that, the Civil War would have never happened, slavery would have never ended.

    John Brown was inspired by Nat Turner, and he literally worked hand-in-hand with Harriet Tubman, who seriously considered joining him in his violent raid on Harper's Ferry. John Brown went on illegal (and violent) raids into the south to free slaves and then illegally transport them to Canada. John Brown murdered pro-slavery men in retaliation for their murders of abolitionists in Kansas. Do you think what John Brown did was wrong? Do you think arresting and executing John Brown was a good thing? Do you think Sherman's march to the sea and the violence he committed against southerners is a bad thing?

    I don't expect you to have the correct response, because you are a violently racist, anti-black person. You honestly believe that rich white dudes sitting in a room writing some words on a piece of paper had a bigger effect on ending slavery than black people who actually put their lives and bodies on the line to free themselves (displaying your internalized white supremacy).

    Please educate yourself. Start by reading The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by the fantastic author Gerald Horne. Or maybe you're too afraid to read this book, because it's not written by a "safe" old dead liberal white man.

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    KurtVonnegut [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    So, uh, did anyone else just get a text message from Gavin Newsom asking for money?

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    KurtVonnegut [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Barack Obama endorses Gavin Newsome for President in 2028 (basically). He also supports Cal-Exit and American balkanization (effectively).

  • Slop. @hexbear.net
    KurtVonnegut [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Loving this new merch made by a reporter from Bari Weiss's "The Free Press"

  • Liberals: 🙈

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  • Voting solves nothing. If the Republicans are pro-genocide and pro-environmental collapse and the Democrats are also pro-genocide and pro-environmental collapse, voting is not the solution to our problem. You might as well criticize me for which type of shoes I wear, it has the same influence on Politics, which is zero.

  • Liberals: 🙈

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  • If you want to learn about Stalin, I would start by reading Stephen Kotkin's two books which cover his life up to WWII in detail. Kotkin is a liberal, so he is no fan of Stalin, but he does very thorough research.

    Stalin: Passage to Revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny gives a more sympathetic account of Stalin's early life, his extreme suffering caused by the Czarist regime, and his dedication to making the world a better place. This book goes in depth into the Menshevik-Bolshevik split, and why Stalin chose to side with Lenin and internationalist socialism instead of the more nationalist Georgian Mensheviks.

    Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend does not go in-depth in biographical details, but it is definitely the best "defense" of Stalin's various actions. The main rhetorical technique is comparing Stalin to other leaders at the time - Hitler, FDR, Churchill, etc.. To the point: Stalin never attacked a city with a nuclear bomb (like the USA), Stalin never caused famine and starvation for profit (like Britain), and Stalin never tried to exterminate an entire ethno-religious group (like Hitler). Nobody is saying Stalin was perfect, but compared to other world leaders he was a much more moral leader than them, and ultimately did much more good for the world overall, such as almost single-handedly defeating Nazi Germany.

  • Liberals: 🙈

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  • Yes, the real smart people know that Stalin was evil like Darth Vader right?

    Please read a book before you post. No investigation, no right to speak.

  • Greta Thunberg refuses to watch Oct. 7 footage after flotilla stopped

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  • The entire earth's waters are under the USA's jurisdiction, didn't you know? Maybe you should read some more CNN news stories about China's evil navy trying to take over the South China Sea from the USA, who obviously should have more control over the South China Sea than China does. And the Israeli Navy is just another branch of the American Navy, which has the second largest air force in the world (after the American Air Force).

  • US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek

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  • We need some Firefly emotes on Hexbear. Especially the combination of the USA-Chinese flag.

  • Donald Trump tells Canada to become a state to avoid his tariffs

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  • To what extent is this accurate?

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  • Corrupt politician.

  • Who's the worst president the US has ever had?

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  • Woodrow Wilson was so racist that he was quoted in an epigraph for "The Birth of a Nation." You know, the 1915 movie about how awesome the KKK was, which became the first true "blockbuster" film and which led to a huge resurgence in KKK activity. Not only that, but Woodrow Wilson also personally invited the filmmakers to screen the movie in the White House - the first movie ever screened in the White House, by the way. Honorable mention!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation#/media/File:Wilson-quote-in-birth-of-a-nation.jpg

  • I can't believe my eyes

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  • Always has been.

  • Do not give into the fear and despair that Trump wants you to have. Fight anywhere and everywhere

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  • As a person who was planning on starting a small business in an economically disadvantaged area for 3-5 years in the Mountain time zone which operates only on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I feel like the Kamala Harris campaign had some very good policies. But I can see how other people might disagree.

  • ["Listeria, Imma let you finish..." news] E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s quarter pounders has killed one person and hospitalized 10, with 49 cases identified so far.

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  • "Welcome to the Jungle! We got scum and germs!"

  • :trump-goodbye: needs editing, but it has potential!

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    1. Trump is ahead in the betting market odds, and electoral college is in Republicans' favor

    2. Trump seems like he really does not want to be president, and his first term took a huge toll on his physical and mental health.

    I mean, people might not remember this, but Trump almost died right before the 2020 election. He got Covid and was air-lifted to a hospital. I don't think this 80+ year old man's body and mind is going to hold up for a second term, given how unhealthy his diet and exercise has been most of his life, and given how his metal health seems to be rapidly deteriorating.

  • :trump-goodbye: needs editing, but it has potential!

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  • We are getting President J. D. Vance in the next few years, in all likelihood.

  • NSFW

    Ethnic cleansing and massacres

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  • "Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now."

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    KurtVonnegut [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Did you know that in the USSR, you could dial the number "03" on the telephone, and a free ambulance would come to help you? Here is a picture of one of the ambulances (nicknamed a "loaf"):

  • The Dredge Tank @hexbear.net
    KurtVonnegut [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Let's play a game of "Spot The A.I. Mistake." Can you find them all?

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    KurtVonnegut [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Joe Biden right now:

  • Games @hexbear.net
    KurtVonnegut [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    ‘Black Mirror’ Creator Charlie Brooker is addicted to playing 'Balatro' video game, uses it to reward himself for writing

    deadline.com /2024/08/black-mirror-charlie-brooker-interview-1236034654/
  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    KurtVonnegut [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    White on White violence -- listen to this ABBA parody song where a liberal family "roasts" J. D. Vance in the most milquetoast way imaginable

  • the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net
    KurtVonnegut [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    "Kamala Harris, the giggling fool, will doom America." - Br*tish Columnist for the Telegraph (and diehard Hillary supporter)

    www.telegraph.co.uk /news/2024/07/22/kamala-harris-the-giggling-fool-will-doom-america/
  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    KurtVonnegut [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    I remember the time M'Lord blessed me with his magnanimous generosity - we peasants truly do not deserve such a great and perfect divine ruler!

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    KurtVonnegut [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Setup, Punchline

  • the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net
    KurtVonnegut [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Feudal Lord responds to his wealthy patron: "Don't worry, sir, my peasant will be swiftly punished for daring to offend your sensibilities."

    x.com /Delta/status/1809706990609805395
  • the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net
    KurtVonnegut [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Bro (Joe) thinks he's in on the joke...

    shop.joebiden.com /dark-brandons-secret-sauce/
  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    KurtVonnegut [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Is Capitalism or Calvinism more to blame for this sentiment?

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    KurtVonnegut [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Overall Vibes at the moment