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duderium [he/him]

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  • Imagine thinking that democracy has ever existed in the USA. The only thing that changes people's minds (i.e., teaches people to have empathy for other human beings) is re-education camps.

  • To be honest, Syria has really been depressing me lately. It's the first clear victory for the zionists in the Gaza War, the Palestine War, the Middle East Regional War, whatever you want to call it. Everything else could pretty much be called a tie until then? Or maybe even a victory for the resistance? Aside from the genocide, of course. But it's hard for me to see how they follow this up with any more victories. Ansarallah has increased global shipping prices by 200%, hundreds of thousands of settlers (perhaps more) have left the zionist entity permanently, and there really is a limit to how many weapons a financialized neoliberal economy can produce. The Ukraine War is hopefully going to end soon because the western powers really are exhausted.

    I think about how the height of European colonialism was just before WW1. It's been in decline ever since. Make no mistake, it's still very strong and still fights very hard and can still win temporary victories, but it's in decline and on the defensive. I think about how US economic policy is reverting to 18th century protectionism in order to combat China—where the economy is so strong now, that the communists have become free traders, battering down barriers across the world wherever they find them. 18th century economics is not going to defeat 21st century economics, especially with a workforce like the one in the USA, where the vast majority of real work is done by people of color who themselves tend to have the best politics in the country.

    I think about the utterly deluded world that liberals and fascists live in, where these people are getting almost all of their news from corporate sources that are deliberately trying to confuse them. The police and military are definitely not what they once were. Reading a bit of Yahya Sinwar's novel has made me suspect that these guys really are not up to the task of dealing with a real sustained insurgency here, especially one that avoids using computers and cellphones. The issue, of course, is that 70% of the USA is white and will not support an anti-colonial revolution here, at least for the time being. But how fucked are things going to be four years from now? Does anyone think that western society is going to get better at taking care of the increasing share of the populace that is totally enraged with how everything (not just treats, but necessities like housing, education, health care, transportation) has become totally unaffordable?

    I think about how revolutionaries like Lenin and Mao (and many others) were, as far as I can tell, totally confident of the correctness and righteousness of their cause, and the inevitability of its triumph. 'Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.' — Mao

  • Spider man is a cop sadly and only has a problem with the bourgeoisie when they’re immigrants.

  • Living in a city is then made a crime punishable by death

    Who else is here for the republicans’ inadvertent transformation into the Khmer Rouge?

  • Twitter has also become 4chan.

  • Articles like these ultimately make things worse since they never mention where disinformation comes from (corporate media), nor do they explain that people have no trust in the government because it seemingly exists only to send money to Ukraine and Israel. It’s not really surprising that they happily address the nazi conspiracy theories that meteorologists control the weather or that the federal government instantly puts all immigrants in mansions where they are waited upon 24/7 by countless beautiful harem sex slaves, but these articles never mention the endless money dumped on imperialism while peanuts are left to deal with worsening “natural” capitalism-caused disasters.

    Still a pretty interesting and bizarre story though. QAnon never went anywhere, it just stopped calling itself QAnon.

  • If they’re doing this, Jill Stein is a serious problem for them.

  • We desperately need a union where I work. Whenever I brought it up I was shot down. All of my coworkers are white (including me). The ones I work with the most are all men, most of whom are at least 45 years old, many of whom are close to destitute despite working in the trades.

  • I feel like there’s potential for a good story here…ah, wait, it’s just The Truman Show.

  • Jesus is this guy really that hard to hit?

  • Aside from the reference to covid and the bay of chuds, this could have been published twenty years ago. It’s good to see that liberals are learning and not stuck in a time vortex.

  • I think about this movie a lot but I haven’t seen it in twenty years.

  • Jew here, never had trouble finding dates since I figured out that human beings like human beings who treat them like human beings.

  • I agree with your second paragraph. I visited years ago for a day or two and the city basically seemed empty to me, which I found weird. Just not a lot of people were around. It’s very different from a place like NYC, which is completely packed.

  • Sorry you're depressed. Someone I've gotten to know really deeply online who lives faraway overseas has disappeared from the internet and I'm concerned for their safety, so I'm a little depressed too. I actually haven't been on hexbear much lately because I've been talking with this person so much.

  • It’s already organized. She has a lib union.

  • what's this dude's story if he's a skilled tradesman while living in a van?

    Not having a union / being relatively young (30 or less) / his dad has some kind of small construction company that he intends to work for soon. He also grew up in Florida and strongly hinted that he moved to our extremely white northeastern state because it’s much less racially diverse. I just started this (my first blue collar job) a few months ago and I already have hundreds of pages of stories like this in a journal / book I intend to publish sooner or later.

  • the idea of purity, especially purity in a patriarchal sense where a woman held captive by "impure" enemy forces must painstakingly, exhaustively, and perhaps even dangerously prove her "purity" to the patriarchal power.

    Maybe not so different from Iphigenia / Isaac.

  • I have a gen z kid (right at the edge of gen z) and a gen alpha kid. I have heavily brainwashed them both. At the moment, the gen z kid doesn’t like political discussions but is contemptuous of the democrats/republicans. I’m having a lot of trouble getting him to mask. The gen alpha kid is fully onboard with everything however. My spouse is a bernie lib who has said she intends to vote for harris. I’m doing everything I can to stop her.

  • badposting @hexbear.net

    Joe Biden is a good man

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    A magic carpet ride across the Middle East courtesy of Farid al-Atrash

  • Main, home of the dope ass bear. @hexbear.net

    Title

  • askchapo @hexbear.net

    How do people react when you say “Free Palestine” in person?

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Did you commies know that our rights come from god, not the gubment?

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Another "the political compass is bad" post + getting into blue collar work + wondering about combining worker co-ops with local Leninism

  • Main, home of the dope ass bear. @hexbear.net

    Possible future scenario

  • Main, home of the dope ass bear. @hexbear.net

    CW horrifying images of children starving to death in Gaza (I’m not posting them here)

  • Main, home of the dope ass bear. @hexbear.net

    Can anti-boomerism be a path toward anti-capitalism and anti-colonialism?

  • Main, home of the dope ass bear. @hexbear.net

    Liberals: "Maduro is attacking Guyana for no reason!" Meanwhile, the corporate press:

  • the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net

    Thread on alternatives to historical materialism in r/askhistorians

    reddit.com /r/AskHistorians/comments/182uiql/is_there_any_actual_alternative_to_understanding/
  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    More like Bourgeois Versus Proletarian

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Latest intel on what the Hamas tunnel network looks like

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Did anyone else notice that Apple fired Jon Stewart for his “China bad” takes?