Of course, the people living there know best what they need, and with their current setups they mostly need wood for their stoves, or fuel for their generators, which are running electric heaters. But not all of them have stoves or generators.

So Generator -> Electric Heater is incredibly inefficient. People are likely doing this because it's all they have and they want to charge their electronics. If you want to provide equipment I would suggest:

• Mr Heater Buddy, 9000 BTU Propane Heater
• Propane Hose Assembly, you can find one for cheaper

This will allow them to connect to a standard propane tank. This setup is incredibly cheap to maintain esp. if they have access to a Amerigas/Rhino propane exchange or propane fill-up station. The buy-in here is around $140 per tent but you can get it down cheaper if you get a generic hose. The maintenance cost of exchanging/refilling the propane. On the 4000 BTU burn, this can last about half a month with a standard 20lb propane tank and should be more than enough to heat a tent. Monthly this has a cost of about $40 depending on how much propane is locally. Since the heater is radiant it's heating the person / objects in the tent not the air meaning it's incredibly effective.

This setup is really beneficial because it's easy to adapt to different living circumstances whether you're in a tent, a car, etc. In a pinch it can keep you comfortable enough in a single-wide too.

If you guys want to build something, reducing fuel costs during the day can be achieved by building a solar collector

If it wasn't for Bernie I would have never gotten those post loss Harris fundraiser texts!

Copying another comment from elsewhere:

Nobody who is doing critical support for Putin is saying “America should be ruled like Russia”.

The groups you mention in their political context do not have alternatives that exhibit the following traits:

1. The strength to defend against imperialism to the same degree
2. Socialist politics

Political context matters.

Yes there are different standards for the imperial core than there are for the periphery. The imperial core should be held to a higher standard because it is the source of woe that it sows across the periphery.

My friend's mom also gets me Mao shit every time she comes back from China, because her DIL is a HK Lib and won't let her read red book to baby.

I've recommended she sue for grandparents rights.

I was a Maoist at 26.

See you're saying entirely too much: it's cool that a health insurance CEO got shot end of story.

It's your take buddy not mine.

All hugboxes are "fake hugboxes" in that way. There's no such thing as pure objectivity.

What I meant by "fair read" is that the people who are "pro-Luigi" are posting a lot of positive meme in lieu of having actual topical conversations, and its fair to read into the statement that mods are "anti-Luigi" as a whole and would rather not see it. I think the mods are actually being incredibly generous with the leeway here. I'd ban anyone hot posting if it was up to me.

I think the evolution of social media forms like "reddit" has really lead to people putting on "airs" as to what being "part of the community" is.

You're never going to have consistent amazing in depth theory discussions here or on the internet at large. Being part of the community on every site is the same you either are prolific at posting memes other people go haha at and give updoots to, or you're doing jannie shit.

The idea that it's anything more is an entirely individualistic social media marketing ideal sold to you by social media companies. The only way to get beyond the posting memes or doing jannie shit, is to have an extremely small curated site that's only browsed by knowledgeable individuals, or by only having a site with your IRL friends on it. Hexbear is neither of those.

Cuz mods don't care, don't have time to ideologically sort people, and don't have time to sort people by sincerity, simple as.

I've seen someone get banned on hexbear for doing Astartes posting (Warhammer 40k Space Marines start every other sentance with "Brother,") and get banned for misgendering for doing it to a femme mod.

At the end of the day it's a shit posting site so who care?

techbros both enthusiastically support and enable/develop social murder too

There's an interesting irony that happens in the tech field that the jobs that often advertise as "valuable" and "moral" to society ultimately are actually some of the most damaging. The typical business model is neoliberalizing, what in a just society, would be public-owned infrastructure. A lot of these developers who think they're "doing good" are often simply building private roads at the expense of the public roads.