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We don't talk enough about how much society openly despises teenage girls and the things that they like. It's one of the purest, most distilled forms of misogyny.
God forbid a color or a pattern or a beverage or a game or a show or a musician or a style becomes associated with teenage girls, the circlejerk shitting on it never goes away.
The last vestiges of Twilight hate are still out there, it's truly eternal.
Most communists organisations are absolutely dogshit at communication. Get a nice professionally looking website. Get a SoMe strategy. Get a consistent visual identity. Do some SEO. It doesn't have to be hard or expensive. This is what Lenin would have done. And stop writing in that horrible jargon that makes everything sound like a resolution from your 1976 congress, normal people find it weird and off-putting.
You don't have to be a theory nerd to be a real Marxist. Not everyone has the time, energy or personality to sit in a book club for hours. And that is fine. You can understand plenty without having to feel you're back in school doing homework. If communist movements wants any kind of success they have to make theory accessible, relevant to what people are going through and attractive enough that people will want to engage with it.
I don't care whether you put pineapple on your pizza or not. I really don't.
I think some people in niche communities (such as communist groups in this example) actually want the group to stay insular and personal. They like feeling part of a special little group, and if it started letting just anyone in then that would be lost.
Coming to terms with the fact that just because I’m autistic about communism doesn’t mean the average person I get to sympathize will read a fraction of the theory I do.
Ban these threads
this is the best opinion here
Im not doing all that work just to get linux going
that work being run installer and then click the install software button and install steam/libreoffice/firefox.
Deceiver. If Linux was so simple Linux users wouldn't constantly be posting for help to get shit running
windows users do this too people are just totally desensitized to it
Newbies would post about Windows and Mac if they didn't come pre-installed. :beanis:
it happens anyway! on this topic people act like nobody ever has issues with windows but issues with windows are actually constant, people are just accustomed to dealing with them and posts about them are relegated to background noise.
I agree. I've fully been on Linux for almost a year now. Anyone who portrays Linux as being that straightforward and uncomplicated is being misleading and inaccurate. Linux is difficult. Getting it to do things you want is difficult. It takes time and energy and interest.
I'd still advocate to use it. Linux gets easier every year and long may that simplification continue. But don't jump into using Linux if you're not ready to.
People here should read more right wing theory. I think its very easy to get the impression that the only right wingers that exist are Shapiro or Alex Jones types and so when people on the left encounter a right winger who isn't a total moron/grifter they can be overly impressed and more easily swayed by them.
Case in point being Aleksandr Dugin. While he's not as influential since the ACP was founded, I used to hear some his talking points on here a whole lot. He explicitly talks about using internet marxists as a 5th column to push right wing ideas. So inoculate yourselves.
There's a not uncommon tendency among leftists, and especially MLs where they want to consume the "right" kind of information, as though reading anything that isn't the most pure, anti-imperialist, regionally specific Chinese news paper will taint them with liberalism.
No baby girl, you need to read liberal, reactionary, and other leftist sources in earnest, with a principled Marxist analysis, and genuinely understand them.
Tbh, I think this tendency is a manifestation of the western left's pseudo-Christian purity obsession.
sometimes i think the western left has basically entered the "early middle age Irish monks preserving the classics and also drawing anthro bunnies" phase
the purity stuff comes from the marginalization and effort to just keep the lights on right now
Marx and Engels clarified many of their ideas through their critical readings and polemics.
I can’t recall where — I think a preface to one of Marx’s works — Engels describes how the publishing of the work was not important in the end; that the important thing was the clarification of their own ideas through the effort of refuting their opponents. I think it was against Proudhon or Stirner… can’t remember…
Maybe I’ve just not read the “correct” stuff, but I’ve largely found fascist propaganda to be incoherent and a waste of time.
I actually don't respect religion at all and could never be 100% compatible with a religious person
We’re on Lemmy, so neither does communism.
I'M IN POLAND, IT'S DEFINITELY COMMUNISM.
I think cis people should transition just for a little bit so they can understand what gender dysphoria is like
Children do this experimentation naturally but are shamed out of it and railroaded into their sex assignment even though you’d get the same result for 90% of kids by just letting it run its course. The fact that there are adults who haven’t experimented with their gender before is a sign of major societal repression.
For this place?
Cars are badass. They make crazy noise and you can do sick ignorant shit in them. Slamming one around a parking lot whipping shitties and spending ur paycheck to see how even dumber it can get fuckin rules.
It's bad to be forced to have a car. Nobody should HAVE to have one. Cars themselves are cool as fuck.
I love Christmas time and Christmas movies. I'm an atheist, but since we don't celebrate saturnalia this is the closest I'll ever get. I like giving people gifts and when someone gets me something thoughtful it makes me feel special.
Also, I enjoy that the ostensibly religious holiday has been eaten by capitalism. Because when someone complains you can just go "tsk, yeah, capitalism man." And even the hardcore hogs are forced to agree.
Big Chungus is funny
I don't think there are any good Sonic games and I'm convinced that a lot of people only like the series because of nostalgia. I feel the same way about Harry Potter but that's not an unpopular opinion here.
IMO the thing is that Sonic at its best only appeals to a small slice of gamers. Like if you talk to speedrunners about it they'll have nothing but good things to say about it, and in general Sonic games get more cathartic to play the better you get as a player. The less time you spend bumping into things and the more confidently you can navigate the precision platforming segments the more you can just zone out and enjoy the flow state and the music and stuff.
But you've got to have a personality that leads you to playing levels multiple times to get into that flow state, and a lot of people who don't have that will play a Sonic game, struggle through every level exactly once, and then put it away and declare that it sucked.
So this niche interest game got put up against Mario, which is superficially similar but much, much better at appealing to a mass audience, and the comparison has stuck in the culture ever since. People who like it continue to like it but because of its high profile and nostalgia factor lots and lots of people play it who don't like it and that infects the discourse for it in a way that it doesn't for other games.
...and of course lots of the games really do suck because SEGA and Sonic Team have had a bad habit of rushing games out the door before they were finished that goes back to the Mega Drive days.
Humanity is doomed. People are too easily manipulated and kept in line by the wealth and power of the most evil individuals to ever be alive, never having been taught to be critical of the thoughts that have been implanted within them. People can't even reach the realization that problems which require extremes to resolve exist in the first place.
I want to see a world where it's a tragedy for even a single person to be denied the basics of food, shelter, healthcare, etc. Instead I see a world where someone's lack of any of those things is "justified".
Maybe if a few more CEOs get blasted I'll change my mind.
Maybe not mooost controversial, but the legend of korra is not only worse than ATLA, but it is pretty much garbage. Lib garbage, too.
missing the crucial appeal of the series, which is that lesbians will watch anything with lesbians in it
Sincere belief in any god is fundamentally just as delusional as believing in faeries, flat earth, or that you've been abducted by aliens.
Maybe this is less controversial since her brief return during the dunk struggle. Basically my gender identity was in a sensitive place during that time, and being told to shut up, sit down and engage with gender theory I wasn't ready for was not helpful. In fact, I'd say it was actively harmful. I'm very stubborn when people order me to do something "because I said so" which was the predominant tone with TC69. That more or less shut down any willingness I had to explore gender on hexbear for a while.
Inceldom is primarily a maladaptive attitude driven by pain and alienation, and while that shouldn't preempt people expressing how incel behavior harms them we should still remember it as pretext for its existence. I was incel-adjacent as a young teen and what kept me from going full blown alt-right PragerU gamergate was compassion from others and the opportunity to grow as a person.
"China will save us" is only one step less delusional than "Elon will save us".
China is doing far more to the global environment every year than Elon will ever be in his entire life.
It will soon become the world’s largest economy and has massive weight on how the world tackles climate change.
It's not that China is not doing anything. They are. But even China's efforts will not be able to offset all the spoilt treatbrained climate arsonists of the west.
Most people - including Marxist thinkers and people here on Hexbear - do not understand what idealism is and subscribe to a critique of it that says that Platonism and most versions of religious idealism - probably the most popular examples of idealist schools of thought - are not idealist schools of thought.
People also seem to unfortunately like to come to a conclusion first, and then try to fit the facts to match that conclusion, like when people try to argue that the PRC's economy is currently socialist despite it featuring significant private property (and, thus, profit motive). (Going to note here that there is a room to argue that it isn't capitalist on the grounds of the capitalist class not being sufficiently dominant, which I am not equipped to discuss right now, and why I do not call it such.)
I hate the very idea of "meritocracy". A part-time "unskilled" worker or a NEET should enjoy the same decent living conditions as everyone else. Likewise, when it comes to leftist orgs, a person who just joined it should have the same voting power as everyone else. It's idealist and impractical, I know.
Scholar of The First Sin is better than OG Dark Souls 2.
Sure they doubled down on the swarms of enemies in places where people had been complaining about them, but they did it in an interesting way where enemy composition forces the player to be way more aware of their own position and spacing.
The new mechanics they added to various creatures and boss fights fixed the coupla fights I found boring.
I feel the lighting changes bring it closer in line with how Dark Souls 2 is supposed to be based on the old trailers.
As someone who does a lot of jolly co-oping in souls games, I felt the increased summon cap was a huge boost to the multiplayer.
Also the hitboxes feel tighter.
Best version of best Souls game.
bonus opinion that's unpopular IRL but common on Lemmy.
Winston Churchill was a monster, and the good opinion people have of him now is the byproduct of one of the most extensive propaganda pushes ever conceived.
Harbouring sentiments that do not unconditionally support NATO, NAFO or uKKKraine here in Estonia are well...
"Controversial" is putting it VERY mildly, to say the least.
