FaeDrifter @ FaeDrifter @midwest.social

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I mean, it's basically a cheap smartphone or computer tablet, with a lower resolution, but nice quality screen, and a giant volume spinner. $100 does not get you much at all in the phone and tablet space. I don't think there's much of any profit margin, if at all for it.

The podcast Chapo Trap House basically disowned r/chapotraphouse, so pretty much for the poisoned irony getting out of hand.

It feels like r/the_donald, which was also irony, until it wasn't, and suddenly the internet is swarmed with "ironic" Trump memes until he wins the actual presidency, stacks SCOTUS, which rolls back RvW.

Maybe 10 years ago I would be down with all this irony. But there are real life consequences harming women right now, that are not so ironic.

It's time to wake up, grow up, pay attention to the consequences and decide if irony and chaos is worth incidentally supporting fascism.

Aha thank you! That's definitely one of the threads I was looking for, although the particular "vote Trump" plus comments I haven't found yet.

What I suspect the Hexbear will tell you is that NATO has committed large scale crimes and NATO soldiers have also raped women, you just won't hear about it on western media because it doesn't fit their imperialist propaganda narrative.

I'm trying to look up the thread. I think my instance might have defederated, I can't find my comments.

*make sure it’s sincere though

Ick.

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/990274685/how-extremists-weaponize-irony-to-spread-hate

So it sounds like the plan is support fascism, for what? To sacrifice who knows how many women, trans people, genderqueer people, POC, just so after society falls there possibly might be a Hail Mary throw at achieving communism?

A huge portion of hexbear users are trans or otherwise LGBTQ. Ask them what they think fascists want to do to them.

Maybe I should ask Jessica Watkins, who explicitly supported fascists, and is now being misgendered and put in the wrong prison by fascists, for supporting fascists.

Trans and genderqueer people can be just as stupid as Cishet people and vote for the leapords eating faces party. It's not like fascism actually benefits people, it's predatory to vulnerable people.

You should consider talking to them, instead of making things up about them in an authoritative tone of voice.

I have interacted quite a bit already. I got lots of animal poop pictures and a lot of people requesting that I post a picture of my genitalia.

You'll be hard-pressed to find a hexbear user who doesn't want Trump dead or in jail.

I've seen a number of comments from Hexbears supporting DJT and not a single comment expressing this.

There's quite a few instances with pronouns, which is great.

Hexbear stands out to me for using double sets of pronouns, presumably because twice as many pronouns means you're twice as progressive, and therefore twice as superior to people with only one set of pronouns.

Liberalism is a capitalist ideology that promotes private ownership of the means of production

Absolutely false. It espouses private ownership. This can mean your own clothes, your own phone, your own computer, your own house, your own sentimental belongings, instead of everything being communally shared.

It is possible for the means of production, like factories, to be communally owned, while still allowing for small personal private ownership. You can strike a balance between liberalism and private ownership, and communism and communal ownership.

It's not a black and white binary choices between "everything is private" and "everything is communal".

I've seen posts of Hexbears saying they'll vote for Trump, with no pushback from anyone else.

I had a Hexbear today tell me that it's okay that Russian soldiers rape women and children in Ukraine because ML's support violence for their cause and that's just how it is.

It's a small minority of Hexbears who hold abhorrent positions, but the rest of Hexbears tolerate them.

He didn't actually die, it was all staged, and the tattoos were the temporary ink tattoos.

This is sarcasm but maybe I shouldn't give the conspiracy theorists any more ideas.

The most ridiculous part is how self-contradictory the right wing media explanations get. Like he's a false flag to make right wing white nationalists look bad, but simultaneously he's an example of how dangerous Hispanic immigrants are. Firehouse of misinformation - hopefully something sticks, right!?

** And take notice that while ML's claim to not support Russia, they'll often jump to Russia's defense, despite Russia funding alt-right and neo-Nazi movements in America

I'm all for Marxism, but I haven't observed the "body of economic theory" having any relevance, except as a snooby self-righteous justification for authoritarianism and violence.

Even if you were to strip all moral interpretation away, violence and authoritarianism is unstable and ineffective. ML's in practice are fake progressives, because they don't even care for finding a stable effective solution. The progression of society is no longer the point.

Basically the only difference between ML and the alt-right is that the alt-right wants violence against "libtards", and ML's want violence against "shitlibs", while being insufferably snobby about pretending to be morally superior because they didn't use an abliest slur.

It's like you just took a fascist and put them on a liberal's moral high horse.

Yeah, well when Hexbear hears that wives and daughters are being raped and says "giving Ukrainians weapons to help them defend their families from being raped is bad for worker solidarity", it makes Hexbear look like a bunch of rape apologizists.

They evaluate policy decisions against “does this bring the working class closer to solidarity or not”.

When it comes to Russia bombing their cities and raping their women and children, is that positively or negatively influencing working class solidarity?

On hexbear, geopolitics exists as whatever hexbears feel like owns the shitlibs the most at that particular moment.

Sometimes, Russia is just months away from a well planned and strategized victory, against an evil Nazi Ukraine.

Other times, everything is a mastermind NATO move that's all benefiting NATO, and Ukraine is just the meatgrinder victim.

What feels most alt-right about hexbear isn't any particular position, but the fact that there's no particular position. No logical cohesiveness, no rooted in solid reality. It's superfluid ever changing dream reality.

This is the take that bothers me the most, as if the most aggressive and outspoken faction of any group exist only to drag the more respectable members down by association.

Eh, only a small minority of hexbears are fascists, but almost all hexbears tolerate fascists. All the fascists have to do is walk in and say "NATO is bad, Ukraine is bad, libs are bad, vote for Trump because he is a big lovable goofball" and the other hexbears are like aight let's own the shitlibs.

You're not technically wrong, but you're comparing apples to oranges. Taxonomic etymology is far more scientifically rigorous than "white fur cat species" vs "black fur cat species".

This was always going to be the way.

Physical labor is the lowest paid, and requires physical mechanical moving parts, so you have the most expensive solution to build and maintain for the smallest cost savings.

Mental labor is higher paid, and you don't need any moving parts, hell it can be done in the cloud. No need to design special equipment, the computing power is already there. The cheapest solution for the highest cost savings.