MaeBorowski

Trueanon also did an episode (or series?) on LaRouche and how the "movement" formed.

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=pLbdG_ppvhg

Thank you. o7

Oh noes, some poverty still exists in the country well known for rapidly pulling over 800 million people out of abject poverty!

Look at photos of just about any Chinese cities 2-3 decades ago contrasted with photos of those same cities as they are now. And then compare that to say New Orleans, or even the liberal bastion of San Francisco (look at those tent cities of unhoused people stretching for miles) 2-3 decades ago vs those cities as they are now. What you'll see is a very obvious trend of poverty reduction in China and the clear decay of increased poverty in the US.

It's pretty hilarious how nearly everything you listed as if they're contradictory points actually come together rather comprehensively to support the thesis that Russia is having to fight a belligerent NATO. And the one item that doesn't fit wasn't ever claimed by Russia to be a reason for the conflict.

I seem to have lost track of why he’s invading.

I don't know what anyone can do for you to cure your confusion when you can't even connect the dots between the very things you are linking.

Yes, rightwing idiots and ignorant liberals who infest the lemmy platform (but by no means are the entirety of the platform thank goodness) do indeed erect a strawman-boogeyman to wallop on because they can never seem to actually refute the points that leftists make, only sputter a "yeah, well you're mean and rude and and and... childish!".

Since hexbear is the largest and most vocal leftist instance, it of course embodies that strawman for them. A great scarecrow that rightoids can point to and whine about how whiny they are so that those rightoids can then feel correct and vindicated.

Hexbear has a lot of issues and for sure a few problematic users. It doesn't help when one of them is childish, like the one they keep banning and then unbanning lol. Rightwing and liberal fools can point to those few exceptions and say "see we were right!" Ignoring the fact that most of the hexbear instance isn't just intellectually mature, but has a much deeper understanding of history than most other lemmy instances/users, is just a way for the actual immature and politically illiterate lemmy users to not have to challenge their beliefs or question the status quo they benefit from.

In other words, the people who say "hexbear is immature!" need to grow the fuck up.

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed.

It always gets brought up as a book specifically about an anarchist society, but I think that's mostly just because of the more negative connotations of the word "communist" and that most people don't understand anarchism and communism share the same end goal.

Say what the original commenter said? Sure. In fact my grandmother, were she still alive, would say something like that comment herself, and we'd both laugh. Well, minus the self deprecation bit (which was also fine, but also not what you inappropriately called "disgusting"). I wouldn't encourage my kids to have low self esteem, but I would honor and empathize with them if they did. I also wouldn't hold back on a "revolutionary mass cumming" joke in front of kids any more than a silly fart or poop joke, all of which kids come up with on their own and is fine. You are just a disgusting anti-human-experience prude who would rather disparage a comrade who is clearly having a rough time in some ways than actually give them solidarity or understanding. All because they mentioned the word "cum." Oh no! How disgusting! Nah, your lack of empathy is what's disgusting.

It wasn't disgusting.

what is "disgusting" to you, that a comrade has severe self esteem issues? Or the volcel joke?

You can have exceptionally good hygiene and still get a bedbug infestation. In fact the only good thing about this is that I know even some rich bourgsie fucks who can afford perfect hygiene are getting their blood sucked by these critters too (a taste of their own medicine, really).

The comment section of the thread is almost exactly the same except for the the daily vs. weekly aspect. At hexbear there's a mini essay or something like that as the post body each day but it's usually not what gets talked about much. People being able to just make a comment about whatever or chatting about what they feel like is the same both places.