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Thank you so much for the repost ๐๐๐ this kindness means a lot to me
Edit for clarification: not Mem just a concerned friend!
of course, the least i can do for another black audhd enby out there, i know how much harder it is for us. i just hope for the best!
Can people be more specific about the situations on this site they're vaguing about ๐ญ
I'm always confused when I log back on
My bad, this is the exchange I was vagueposting about.
I mean I'm very open to being wrong about stuff, but uhhh... I don't get it. Z Poster took some kind of victory lap about how my heuristic fell flat on it's face, but I really wasn't following by that point, so I disengaged. The hexbears all seem big brained enough to get it though judging from the votes, but nobody elae cared to elaborate.
Maybe my comment got seen as "syrian people should be so happy to be liberated by good guys HTS", but that feels like a stretch to me to interpret it that way idk
You and frauddog stumbled into the middle of a vague posting thread about a specific current we had noticed in the news thread of people who were being pro-HTS and celebrating the fall of Assad.
That is the context. So frauddog essentially came in blasting all the white anti-imperialists and scolding them for not listening to comprador Arab shitlibs who donโt understand that the death of Syria is the death of Palestine and the axis of resistance. I have family and friends, all Arabs, who celebrated Assadโs fall because they are incoherent and kind of stupid libs. I donโt think principled communists who spend all day analyzing news with a Marxist analysis should cede even an inch to these people.
Iโm the one being de-colonial hardliner here, yet you misinterpreted the context and claim Iโm a white supremacist or whatever the fuck because I put compradors on blast.
I never once said โnot all white peopleโ I think I was quite clear I donโt give a fuck about defending white people. I was pointing out how colonizers launder their views through token compradors and that we canโt necessarily trust someone just because they arenโt white. Look at the fucking Palestinian Authority and the kingdom of Jordan, look at those craven self-hating cucks and tell me we should respect "subjects of empire" automatically without scrutiny.
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Fucking same! I thought it was just me. 
This stuff makes Marx rambling about linen, in comparison, so clear. I'm here reading comments like 
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I wish Americans would realize that people in Central America do not love Trump just because their immigrant chud coworkers do. Heโs hated in the northern triangle (Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador) and loved by a minority, many of whom choose to move to the US.
Americans love to generalized all people from a nation they know little about to appear knowledgeable infront of their just as ignorant peers
they are eagerly wielding the {claim} like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.
Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off {and that America is the most shining nation on the hill}
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Westerners arenโt helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; theyโre generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits. {of core-periphery labour and resource exploitation, American hegemony, so on and so forth}
Unlimited bans to all reactionaries
YES! bounces hammer against palm like a movie henchman
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Has anyone else been triggered by anti discrimination training at work?
I was taking it the other day and like as the example of what not to do they literally just had a dude on their saying racist stereotypes about a fictional character with my name and I was like uhhh
Iโ :(( (hugs you so tightly if wanted)
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WARNING USERS, THERE IS AN OPERATION BY RIGHT-WING TROLLS TO INFILTRATE HEXBEAR, BECAUSE THEY ARE MAD TRANS PEOPLE ARE HAVING A GOOD TIME , PLEASE PROCEED WITH CAUTION
I feel sorry for them, they won't last the week.
I hate AI so much, especially when it's used by fellow em_POC who just want to pass their classes because academic resources are systemically denied to them. None of these people run local models they're just using models created by White techbros who want to see the world burn. I'm fearful for the amount of settler propaganda that Silicon Valley can disseminate just through the guise of being "a friendly AI assistant"
I had talked about this a couple weeks ago on one of the general megathreads, but yeah. It honestly scares me a bit just how much the students I know talk about using it. One of my cousin's kids recently started college and he was telling me about how he got in trouble for using an AI to write a paper and the paper got flagged for plagiarism. Setting aside the plagiarism or even the settler propaganda as you mentioned, what does a student gain from having an AI write a paper for them. And its not like the educational system, especially in the US, fosters much critical thinking skills. In all my time working its always taken me aback just how little people seem to be able to do problem solving. AI is just going to make things so much worse.
Silicon valley is just a breeding ground for what parts of society they can capture and profit off of. Sure, Imperial Core Jimmy can pay 20 American bucks a month for ULTRA-MEGA CHATGPT INFINITY to give him all his answers but Global South Pedro has to do it "the old way" and he should strive to be able to buy AI services.
Imperial core Jimmy gets to cheat on his exams and also contribute to climate change destruction onto the Global South, Win Win for the US.
Immaculate driving today!
sorry ive been so busy everyone. i will respond to the dm's uhhhh maybe tomorrow, today is rough for me
also my computer is dying and the charger broke so i may be unreachable for like a day before I get a new one
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Been practicing making more tortillas de harina under my mom's supervision, honestly what I got wrong was wanting to mix it all together but she's been teaching me the secret is mixing the wet parts in slowly and removing the dough from the unmixed parts. Idk over mixing been my mistake while this bodes well for my chances at finding love my diet is being tested.
Mom is mad at me and punishing me, but at the same time wont tell me why or what im supposed to be doing to make up for it. I dont understand.
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Is there any other group of people, besides white people, who put a lot of time and effort in tools that cause mass death? I'm mediocre on history, but were/are there any other group of people that's even as close to as destructive? I guess the Japanese could be one.
Also a genuine question. I want to be correct
Idk... well, there was Genghis Khan whose ravaging Mongol Empire army may've indirectly killed 37.5-60 million people, judging from the 700 million tons of carbon wiped out of this map.
If we're talkin' recently, you could look at Pakistan's U.S-backed war against the newly-indepedent Bangladesh and the Second Congo War in the DRC... (0.300 - 3 million, in their genocide against Bengalis over one year, and 5.4 million dead in the Congo)
If we want to talk about "what not to do", regarding constructing socialism, we could talk about Khmer Rouge Cambodia's Killing Fields and DERG Ethiopia's famine in 1983 (0.165 to 4 million, depending on talking to Noam Chomsky or a western scholar) and (Up to 1 million, according to western scholar)
Then again, I may be talking from liberal brainworms
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