SpookyGenderCommunist

@SpookyGenderCommunist@hexbear.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rabioli⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The notion that human beings are separate and apart from, the natural world, is colonialist nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA | Democrats Attacked a Muslim Woman for Protesting Biden’s Speech. She’s a Harris Delegate.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re missing my point.

  I know full well where I’m posting. You’re talking about the importance of nuance, while painting all Hexbear users as somekind of monolithic hivemind.

  Meanwhile, I a humble Hexbear user, am trying to ask a user from another instance, in good faith, to explain their ideological position in more depth. Because I earnestly want to know.

  If you want to probe the “liberal=fascist” sentiment, we can. But that’s not the discussion I’m trying to have here.

  You’re the pot calling the kettle black, my friend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA | Democrats Attacked a Muslim Woman for Protesting Biden’s Speech. She’s a Harris Delegate.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, in some corners of Lemmy, such as Hexbear or Lemmygrad, the ability to distinguish and discuss nuance is not included in what I would describe as their “community values”.

  But I’m standing right here… Making a nearly identical comment to yours

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA | Democrats Attacked a Muslim Woman for Protesting Biden’s Speech. She’s a Harris Delegate.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I may, can you clarify what you mean by

  I am a liberal in the U.S sense. Not a leftist, nor a democrat,

  In US political parlance, Liberal is typically synonymous with Democrats, and a broad, ill defined, ‘left’ of the political spectrum.

  Outside the US, and in much of political science, liberal denotes a broadly centrist, status quo position, that can be left or right leaning.

  And in neither of those definitions do liberals ‘want revolution’. At least not in the way that my fellow commies on Hexbear might typically conceive of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. must stop providing weapons Israel uses to kill journalists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  U.S. must stop providing weapons Isreal uses to kill anybody

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enemies of glory have no honor⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo, that’s rad as fuck! Does anyone have a source for that quote?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 may "disappoint" players hoping for a technological "jump", says former Rockstar North tech director⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The obsession gamers have with “good graphics” is at a point where we’re seeing diminishing returns. Do games need to look any better than they did in the PS3/360 Era? Not really. Can they look much better? I guess? But who cares? I don’t need realistic horse testicle physics. I need a fun game to play!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maths⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Explain like I’m a dipshit, what are 3 of their important contributions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maths⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone explain the joke to someone who has always been shit at math?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reposting part of a comment I made in another thread about this, but:

  animation across east Asian countries outsources labor between each other all of the time. Your Japanese anime is just as much Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese at this point, as it is Japanese.

  Go look at the credits of most modern anime productions out of Japan, and large swathes of the names you see aren’t Japanese, but are from those other countries.

  Even a fairly low stakes, low budget, slice of life anime, like Non Non Biyori has Vietnamese names all over its god damn credits, because globalization has impacted the east Asian animation industry in such a way, that there’s an large cross pollination of talent across borders, for better and worse.

  And that’s not to mention the western animation that gets outsourced to these places, South Korea especially.

  The fact North Korea is also involved in this complex outsourcing process shouldn’t be surprising to anyone who knows anything about how that industry works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humanities be like⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoyed the trigonometry unit in my highschool geometry class, but that’s because it was mostly proofs, and those were just philosophy about triangles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to block hexbear⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re using Sync for Lemmy, you can filter stuff by instance, and a bunch of other criteria.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Note that they said “Most involved” Russia, for instance, has always been the modern “Sick man of Europe” since the fall of the USSR. It’s imperial aspirations don’t extend as far. And it’s relationship to the historic Core of the US and Western Europe, is as a semi-peripheral nation trying to coalesce a regional sphere of influence with itself as the center of gravity. None of that makes it a Core country though.

  Maybe if the current world system collapses, and it filled that vacuum. But that hasn’t happened.

  Imperial Core refers to the World Systems Theory of International Relations, first put forward by Immanuel Wallerstien. I would suggest you read up on the topic before making half-baked responses like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No problem!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Liberalism has a couple of different definitions. The one you’re thinking of is the one in US politics where “Liberal” is synonymous with "Left’. This isn’t how it’s being used here though.

  Liberalism, as a broad ideological trend that came out of the enlightenment, contains within it, Conservatism. Conservatism was theorized by people like Edmund Burke who, seeing that the previous feudal hierarchy was dying off, sought to preserve it, at least as much as was possible, by accepting Liberal notions of property rights and capitalism.

  So, instead of a social hierarchy being ordained by God, it’s decided by the market, and social conflict is meditated through the liberal, Lockean, Republic.

  So when we call Trump a liberal, we mean it in this broad sense. He’s still a conservative, but conservatism is a subset of capital L Liberalism.

  This is in contrast to Leftism, which also contains a lot of things within it, but breaks from a lot of the philosophical assumptions that undergird Liberalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I genuinely would like to understand what you guys at hexbear are about

  Well, I’d be more than happy to have a good faith discussion with you. No dunking, I promise 🙏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “imperial core” isn’t a phrase we made up. It refers to World Systems Theory, a theory of international relations invented by a guy named Immanuel Wallerstein which argues that imperial “Core” countries (think the traditional “developed” or “first world” countries. Mainly the US and Europe) have a particular extractive, colonial relationship with “Periphery” countries (think poor, raw material exporting, rentier states like Kyrgyzstan or Nigeria).

  Then there are semi-periphery countries which are still tied into the imperial core in some way, but have enough sway economically and geopolitically to kind of stand on their own. They have a different kind of relationship to the imperial core, compared to the periphery (these would be the BRICS countries, largely).

  That’s a gross over simplification, but hopefully that answers your question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They were very obviously being facetious…