BeamBrain

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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 42 points 19 hours ago

Sharing food, ramming billionaire boats, orcas confirmed comrades

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 21 points 21 hours ago

It's amazing how thoroughly she burned up all of the goodwill she gained by opposing Gamergate.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mine's scarier

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Narrator: "But they actually cared a lot"

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

In one example, repression during the 1930s targeted a wide range of Ukrainian intellectuals and political figures accused of promoting Ukrainian nationalism.

Vindicated by history.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

but they (mostly) put that stuff on phones and not on Nintendo devices.

so-far

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Turns out libs are projecting when they say "Oh, communists just say that the USSR/China/etc. 'weren't real communism.'"

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

The essay False Witnesses does a great job of breaking down why this happens.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Furries with insect fursonas reading Metamorphosis: "That lucky bastard"

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Same sadness My personal journey went as follows:

  1. "Yes, it's a mental illness, but people with mental illnesses deserve effective, compassionate care"
  2. "Oh, it turns out that research consistently shows that the only effective treatment is validation of their professed gender identity"
  3. "Also it turns out dysphoria can get really, really bad"
  4. "State-funded SRS for anyone who wants it"
[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Bible says God gave man dominion over the Earth, and many Christians take "dominion" to mean in the colonial sense.

 

This randomly popped into my head from my childhood, I searched for it online, and apparently it's not even that uncommon of a Christian take today.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actual justice would have been carving the Jewish state out of the Rhineland.

 

Toxic masculinity is a fuck, the standard of fearlessness and dominance that patriarchy demands you uphold is unattainable, accept and embrace your fear as part of yourself.

 
 
  • Weapons that keep killing long after the war they were used for is over (the Space Jockey isn't just dead, they're mummified, and there's no indication that there are any others of their kind around)
  • Lay hidden and dormant, leading to innocent people stumbling on them by accident and getting killed (Nostromo crew finds the eggs and doesn't know what the fuck 'til it's too late, colony LV-426 gets wiped out because it was unknowingly built on top of a nest)
  • They render entire areas unsafe to inhabit
  • Aliens has often been considered an allegory for the Vietnam War, and that left enormous amounts of UXO across Southeast Asia that still persists today.
  • The Weyland-Yutani and corporate profiteering aspect is a bit fuzzier, but I think there's a case to be made that their attempts to weaponize xenomorphs and the catastrophes this causes mirror the real-world military-industrial complex.
 

I recognize that it's speaking to an underlying emotional truth - something I've known on a gut level for a while now but can't quite put my finger on. I know it's not, as I've seen liberals argue, that it's an excuse to legitimize violence against them (their own violence is all the justification one needs) or some kind of "No True Scotsman" argument. There's something deeper and more fundamental, something to do with how the nature of their class position causes them to set themselves apart from and above the vast majority of humanity. Anyone who can help me put this into words?

 

Link

Incidentally, I stumbled on this while looking for a Marx quote about how representatives of the old feudal order falsely positioned themselves as allies to the lower classes by attacking the excesses of industrial capitalism. If anyone has that quote, please let me know.

 
 

Book is Lightbringer, from the Red Rising series

 
 
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