pastalicious [he/him, undecided]

I think mayocide and self hating whiteness are a very small overall part of hexbear posting. it’s inevitable to see more of it in a thread like this when people from across the lemmyverse are gut reacting to some real tepid “death to white people” shit posting and trying to report it like they’re on Reddit where the Admins will just coup any mod who doesn’t capitulate to their “rules based order”.

And the rudeness honestly has some real world utility here. We aren’t like and don’t aspire to be like Reddit where horrible evil can be defended and advocated for as long as you strike the right respectful tone, and if we can sus out and turn away people who value tone above material reality that’s useful. It isn’t the conscious reason for the way we are but it does play a small role.

Big “marketplace of ideas” energy

Bank guards vendor buy

Trumpet husband taking a bold stance pretending mutes don’t exist.

So do daylight bulbs actually help with seasonal affective disorder?

Truly. The title and subhead are so angry they can’t even maintain a false veneer of academia or journalism. It just sounds like my angry uncle at thanksgiving.

How to make the most of your commute: Listen to Marx audiobooks.

“More importantly they’re also jerks”

More importantly? Really? That’s more important to you than the alleged transphobia?

Being well adjusted by normie terms. Like doing road rage because you’re miserable all the time but unwilling to do any critical analysis about why so you’re a live wire. Then you get drunk with your buds and say a bunch of degrading things to eachother and claim it’s just proof you’re real friends to the end. All while complaining about your annoying wife who you’ve been emotionally unavailable to for a decade but it’s her fault not yours. And don’t get you started about your weird Bernie bro cousin who doesn’t understand how the world works! Then you get in bed with a tear in your eye because America is the greatest country on earth and have a fitful night of undiagnosed sleep apnea.

I loved watching Street Fight’s Undercover Business Tyrants. It was just them doing commentary over undercover bosses and in almost every episode there would be a part where the CEO had no fucking clue and hopelessly fucked up some seemingly easy “low skill” task that they expect their minimum wage workers to do. Because it’s not low skill you assholes!

Imagine thinking Trump could comprehend let alone retain and eventually share technical information.

How are we so far into this dumb war and everyone still believes in the smol bean widdle innocent Ukraine mythos? I needed two fucking minutes on wikipedia to see that they were huge Nazi collaborators who did participate in genocide. They were literally some of the people doing the war crimes depicted in Come and See.

(This isn’t directed at anyone in particular) It’s so weird when we all become Nate Silvers of the left fighting about which Internet personality is the true way forward for socialism as if one of them can get out of the way and then suddenly the other one can finally usher the mass movement into America. I say this in complete hypocrisy as my brain is also completely under the thrall of internet ‘discourse’.

Sleeping in a $700/month coffin so I can invent technology that makes the world more callous and unlivable. Love me I’m a techbro!

Right. Suppressing dissent like… Imagine thinking we haven’t heard the fucking “default” politics of 99% of the internet and you’re going to come here and bring us the good word.

Are they making up a person to be mad at? There are people who don’t like the Biden Harris ticket, but who LIKES Biden while simultaneously being particular enough to object to Harris?

None of us here are desperately hoping to vote for Biden just as long as he gets a new VP and neither is any Republican. Is it just Nate Bronze types talking about how she will drag down Biden’s favorability in polls that they’re mad at? I’m cool with being mad at that kind of a guy.

I paid off my loans working three shitty part time jobs and it didn’t make me mad at the thought of loan forgiveness it just made me hate capitalism.

Why should I want anyone else to have their time and energy sapped away pointlessly???

Correct. If someone can find a free copy of “Good vibes at the Iowa state fair” you’ll find will menaker laughing about the pig.

Tell all the Oppenheimer nerds that Jean Tatlock (probably) didn’t kill herself and then force them to read the Church Committee.

Spoilers: I think the game is instructive in its bleakness. Yes the revolution failed but the world is still populated with people who keep on living. Fetishizing the old revolution and giving into the legitimate hopelessness will not save you or anyone else… that is to say, you love your ex something the way the guy on the island loves his revolution. Neither of you can bring it back, only destroy yourselves. But Harry can manage to make a new lifelong friend Kim, help the people of Martinaise in small ways, and discover something totally new and wonderful. The world may end but you still get to decide how you live in the ashes and there are still enriching experiences and relationships to discover.

I don’t think a game where you restart the revolution would be more uplifting because when you turn the game off it isn’t true. What the game actually is means something to me about our present reality.