SSJMarx
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- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
Right. I was saying that Hexbear isn’t a cult on the same level as the named examples, that it’s just some people with a different view of global politics than the norm, in response to a commenter who insisted that they were a dangerous cult that should be stamped out.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
Any state can, but many don’t. And the point here was to explain why I don’t believe that blaming famine deaths on Mao Zedong is a justified position to take, when the cycle of famine was ended under his watch.
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 1 week ago:
When I was a kid they taught penmanship too. I was awful at it but then when I was an adult I had a job where I actually had to use those skills and I was glad to have them - same thing with everything I learned in Home Ec. I think all of those classes are extinct now, based on how people talk about school never teaching them anything actually useful.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
We were talking about cults, I brought them up as an example. I could have just as easily used Scientology.
- Comment on Jack and Coke 1 week ago:
Same here. I’ll drink whatever’s on tap but I don’t like Pepsi as much cuz it’s too sweet.
- Comment on Jack and Coke 1 week ago:
There are so many regional differences even if the recipe is 99% the same. Denatured coca leaves aren’t a thing outside the Americas, different bottling plants will use different types of sugar, water of differing quality will affect the taste, etc etc.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
The fact that they don’t tell you in the average anticommunist pop history youtube video is that China had been experiencing famines pretty much every single year for a thousand years by the time the Communists took over. The last famines occurred under Communist rule, but it is because of Communist policies that the cyclical famines stopped. This applies to the USSR as well.
Yes we can look back and see that killing the sparrows was a bad idea, but on the whole collectivized farms produced more food per hectare than smallholder farms did, and the policies of the Communists are what brought in sufficient numbers of tractors and other farming equipment to modernize outdated practices in rural regions. Without the Communists the simple fact is that the famines would have happened anyway, they would have been worse, and their would have been more of them.
This is the reason why, even when you include the famine deaths in your data, the average lifespan under Mao doubled from what it had been when the Republic of China controlled the mainland. The Communists won the war precisely because they treated peasants better than the then-central government did, and when they took power they enacted policies that massively improved the lives of everyone in China, and still continue to do so.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
Tell me, how well did Reconstruction go? Were the former slaves elevated to the status of citizens equal to their former masters?
No. The great post-Civil War failure of America was its failure to defend the gains made by the freed slave population, allowing the previous ruling class to swoop back in and reassert their power in a nearly-identical form to how it had been before. Sharecropping instead of slavery. This failure demonstrates quite succinctly why any social or economic justice movement cannot simply win the war - it must also continue to defend itself after the war, and that defense will by necessity take the form of repressing those members of the former ruling class who cannot accept the new status quo.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
If you don’t condone class war, then you are by necessity endorsing the current system. The current system which kills far, far more innocent people than any class war ever could, you lying, capitalist piece of shit.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
Equality has never in the history of our species been given freely by the ruling class to the workers. It has always been taken after violent struggle, and after the initial struggle is over the working class must be willing to defend their gains else they will lose them.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
All kulaks were assigned to one of three categories:[4]
Source four on this wikipedia article is Robert Conquest, an antihistorical Cold Warrior if there ever was one - and most of the rest of that article doesn’t even do the courtesy of citing a hack. It’s just section after section of “this section has no sources”, who wrote this garbage?
I don’t understand your justification for what is ultimately pretty horrific treatment foisted on people ultimately just participating lawfully in society up until that point.
Slaveowners were “just participating lawfully in society” too. Society sanctions a lot of incredibly damaging and amoral behavior, and when the repressed take power there is no reason why they should be expected to give their oppressors a pass just because it was legal at the time.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
The Kulaks and the Landlords deserved it.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 1 week ago:
Buddy Holly In My Ass
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
the tens of millions of dead both, Stalin and Mao, were responsible for.
Oh no! Won’t somebody think of the Nazis and Japanese invaders?
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
the authority they feel they deserve
Facists argue that a certain group deserves authority, communists argue precisely the opposite, that the current regime with authority doesn’t deserve it and it should be apportioned equally and democratically instead. Because you live in a world where 99% of the media is controlled by the capitalists, you have been conditioned since birth to believe that every single movement of the people was actually a movement of a small group of elites, and that the countries that are currently exclusively controlled by their elites are in some way democratic.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure the average age on HB is mid-late twenties.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
The comrade in it actually suggests that there is a time and place for such rhetoric
Perhaps now is the time.
The kulaks were not an ethnic minority persecuted by the bolsheviks as a scapegoat for society’s ills. They were the economic class directly responsible for many of those ills. They were the capitalists of the peasantry, enclosing land and claiming ownership over what should have been the common means of production, precisely the kind of group that communists the world over want to destroy in order to liberate the majority of people.
When it was written that the kulaks were to be “liquidated”, it did not mean that they were to be mass executed, it meant that their private property was to be moved into public ownership, ending the existence of the kulak class and making them into regular workers.
As is the case in every single campaign of economic or social justice, the privileged class fought back with everything they had. Kulaks contributed to the Soviet Famine of 1930-1933 by mass slaughtering their cattle and burning their fields. Kulaks hoarded grain, took the wealth that they had stolen from their neighbors and fled the country, plotted sabotage and insurrection against the workers’ movement. And for those crimes, many Kulaks were caught and executed.
So if the original commenter’s great grandparents were kulaks who “suffered at the hands of the soviet union,” they deserved it.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
The Falun Gong are, right now, kidnapping children and brainwashing them into being performers for their shitty dance troupe. These performers are not paid, cannot leave The Compound, and cannot contact their family. That’s a cult that the government should stamp out.
Hexbear is a bunch of people with a different opinion on the western world’s designated Enemy Governments. They’re not in the same ballpark, or even playing the same sport.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
Constantly going back and forth on technicalities rather than actually discussing an issue. I admit I’m guilty of it from time to time, but after I get banned from a community or an instance I don’t make a thread in a place where the people agree with me begging for validation.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 weeks ago:
It feels like Harris has to run a damn near flawless campaign just to BARELY beat this guy.
Welcome to gerrymandering. If America went by the actual majority consensus the Democrats would have controlled the presidency since 2009, and the House and Senate for about 50% of that time.
- Comment on When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work? 2 weeks ago:
The whole IP paradigm needs to change. I can accept the logic that IP needs to exist in the first place so that people who invent something can get paid (at least in our current system) - but the term should be shortened to something like five years, or if it’s going to be longer there needs to be a list of events that immediately invalidate it, including the product no longer being legally available. IP shouldn’t be able to be traded between companies like commodities, and it shouldn’t be able to be locked up to prevent it from going into the public domain.
- Comment on When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work? 2 weeks ago:
The days of modular components in cars is nearing an end.
It’s a shame, because with EVs especially modular everything should be a whole lot easier than ever before. I guess it took a decade and a half for governments to force smartphones to be able to be jailbroken or message one another, hopefully we see a similar evolution on EVs where these locked down features get forced onto common standards.
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 3 weeks ago:
the wiccan rape cult
I think you might be schizophrenic. Seek help.
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 3 weeks ago:
The best copilot can do is autofill lines that everyone’s written a million times. That’s not nothing, but it aint replacing a human brain any time soon.
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 3 weeks ago:
amazon cloud CEO reveals that they have terminal CEO brain and have no idea what reality is like for the people they’re in charge of
checks out
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 4 weeks ago:
Ten years before they pulled this. Hopefully the cookers can be used without the app.
- Comment on . . . 4 weeks ago:
Look man, if I’m eating pizza I’m already cheating, I don’t need to shove even more carbs down my gullet.
- Comment on Close call 4 weeks ago:
IIRC the pictures on her dresser are from some political rally/protest, but I don’t know the details.
- Comment on Is the US finally getting ‘all aboard’ with electric trains? 4 weeks ago:
electric trains are an over one hundred year old technology.
lol. lmao, even.
- Comment on Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha 5 weeks ago:
They must have just made that change, I got it the other day from someone who I had just added to my list.