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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.

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The Cybertruck looks pretty cool. Only complaints I have on the aesthetics after seeing them IRL a bunch is that the wheels are disproportionately large. It'd look much better if the frame was both bigger and farther above from the wheels

The Las Vegas Sphere is awesome, I'm glad it exists. Shame about the ads though

Drugs can make you temporarily bisexual if you're heterosexual

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.

Im not doing all that work just to get linux going

I think cis people should transition just for a little bit so they can understand what gender dysphoria is like

Drew Carey is just as good of a host of The Price is Right as Bob Barker. They're very different in their approach, but they are both just as entertaining.

Beanis is not just for breakfast. :beanis:

Big Chungus is funny

Oh boy, these kinds of threads always end well

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.

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.

The SANDF should intervene in Gaza at least to airdrop food and medical aid from Egypt, as well as provide armed security for convoys. IDF aren't going to attack a South African MRAP and Gauteng is literally too far away to bomb.

South Africa should also criminalise the SAZF, SAJBD and SAFI, in addition to the Herzlia and Theodore Herzl schools for providing material and financial support to the IDF directly. Aside from the obligations set by the ICJ ruling and more vocal demands for South Africa to take more punitive actions against the Nazi entity a continent apart, the listed organizations are also directly advocating for terrorist attacks against other South Africans, especially humanitarian workers and refugees, including those who already escaped to safety in South Africa.

I personally recommend a lawsuit in the area of R2 Trillion ZAR

there's a reason that communists have way more relevance than other leftist thought and its not just due to 'accidents' or 'coincidence'.

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 like the fakenews comm and its original posters

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.)

The godfather does insist upon itself

Pokemon is boring

I liked season 2 of true detective. And i loved Dark Souls 2 (at least the Scholar of the First Sin version)

Maybe not mooost controversial, but the legend of korra is not only worse than ATLA, but it is pretty much garbage. Lib garbage, too.

OK, I've actually been a little scared to say this here so;;;;

I agree with animal liberation. Factory farming must end, eating meat is a form of murder.

But I still do it. I try to do it less, I go for meals of just veggies and fruit and grain. But I'll still occasionally buy deli cuts for sandwiches, and I won't turn down meat when it's offered. I understand that's hypocritical of me. I just... don't see my personal consumptive habits as changing what is a systemic issue. It's good that the market has met the demand for meatless options... but it's still the market. Doesn't matter how much that market share grows, there's still going to be demand for and profit in meat. Like almost every other problem with market economics, the problem can't be solved at consumption because the problem does not start at consumption. Production has to change. And like petroleum or plastics or whatever other example you can think of, it's not changing until capital is no longer in the driver's seat. Until then, when I'm in the grocery store... the animal is already dead.