remember when people on hexbear this summer were saying every company in china is worker run now? remember the reasonable people getting ratioed? that was the moment i realized that this most of place is actually awful for having discussions about anything other then soviet history, not saying i dont think it can improve but god danm.
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actually awful for having discussions about anything other then soviet history
Hexbear and other leftist spaces are not ready for some things I have to say because they're so hung up on Cold War history, which is incredibly Euro-centric. They generally have good opinions on Vietnam, for example, but then will have blind spots about how shitty the US was and the role its troops played in war crimes.
They generally have good opinions on Vietnam, for example, but then will have blind spots about how shitty the US was and the role its troops played in war crimes.
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For example, how people like GDF, they often blame the Israel Lobby, if not Israel, for the U.S support of Israel
As far as I'm concerned, to me, it's blaming the prostitute for the husband's infidelity...
never mind the shared settler-colonial history of both these damned countries, the fact that Israel can be used as a military asset, a la Taiwan, never mind that it is instead the majority-Evangelical white nation-state of Amerikkka who saves Israel, because they see each other in our selves, and so forth
They accept this brainwashing theory that
obscures the real material basis that has historically made even the working poor in the imperial core complicit.
and end with this credo that:
masses everywhere are granted innocence, but robbed of their intelligence
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remember when people on hexbear this summer were saying every company in china is worker run now? remember the reasonable people getting ratioed?
I'm sorry but I don't recall something like that being said... closest was that China was cracking down on real estate capitalist looters, you know, taking gradual steps, but nothing ridiculous like that (I'm pretty sure Hexbear flipflops between doomer, bloomer, and "nothing really happens" a lot, so maybe there's a possibility something like that was said)
that was the moment i realized that this most of place is actually awful for having discussions about anything other then soviet history,
I mean, how would y'all know, regarding economic and foreign policy of Global South countries like China, and the other remaining socialist nations? Let alone anti-imperialist yet flawed, if not possibly progressive countries like the Sankara-inspired Sahel countries (at least Asante comments about them), Axis of Resistance in Middle East, and so forth
I mean, for Christ's sake, as much as the overall Hexbear community may suck, I really feel like this is just subtweeting about the news comm.
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Working everyday right now. Will get a day off on the 26th after two weeks so that’s good lol. Have relatives coming over. Should be nice.
Think it's gonna be a stress free holidays for me, no relatives coming over and gonna be eating warm meals like oatmeal as much as I want 
Ready to finish up this final stretch of the holidays. My schedule has been all types of screwed up.
Real. Between insufferable in-laws and their unparented children providing constant unholy-o'clock wake-up calls, they are really making me backslide on my "I need to have more grace for kids and the literally-unbelievable amounts of noise they make" bit. Like, holy shit talk about a personal sterilization advertisement...
On the topic of having grace for kids, I also need to do the same, but you ever get triggered by white children who are already showing signs of the bigotry that their parents have imprinted upon them? I really don't have any patience for it, because I know that they're 100% going to grow up to be nasty adults.
i used to be around white children a lot for my moms job and for babysitting. when they are under id say.. 5 i dont mind it. like the kid is asking whats that to the hair on my head, listen im gonna nicely explain to the kid that cant yet speak full sentences that thats my hair, right?.... once they get to ehhh 7 thats when i lose my patience because tell me why these little white children will referrer to me as "hey black lady" or "the black person" i swear to got it will make you want to cuss out a 4th grader
To me, that's a "self"-report on the part of the parents that there are NO Black folk in community with them; 'cause if there WERE, that little snotnosed crackerspawn would know better than to refer to us as "hey black", give a damn how old they are.
you ever get triggered by white children who are already showing signs of the bigotry that their parents have imprinted upon them?
yes, white british chilren can be so insufferable and are also probably the most likely source of slurs in daily life
but you ever get triggered by white children who are already showing signs of the bigotry that their parents have imprinted upon them?
Oh all the goddamn time. Praise god that's not an issue with the inlaws, I think I'd have crashed out and fucked up the relationship already-- but it is infuriating just how frequently I see that kind of shit for where I live.