bigbrowncommie69

joined 4 years ago
 

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[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Playing with this all american band

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 38 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Main character should be indigenous

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Yay! The millionaire lib gets to keep his job 🥳🥳

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

Inhaling bottles of paracetamol so I get better at maths. Wish me luck chat

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean that's fair enough. So in Brazil, for instance, people definitely need to be on FB and Insta, but also it's important to maintain Brazilian and otherwise lusophone communist spaces on reddit, in case people do show up there.

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

More the way admins are running things.

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago (5 children)

It's far easier to convince people who are new to socialism to join a community on a site they already use then migrate to a whole new website. You're not thinking practically. The point is to maintain a presence wherever people are, not to form some secret society off in the corner. It makes sense for a niche fandom or some weird legally grey activities but for actually trying to build an international workers movement is self-defeating.

We have to consider our material conditions - this is where people are communicating and spending their time. The dedicated people will come here but where will the the ones who were more passive go? The people on the path to becoming dedicated and the people who may not have much revolutionary potential but would have repeated our rhetoric to other "normies".

Obviously a space like this also existing is a good thing and should keep existing but to suggest we should all just flee the spaces where people are is just wrong. We need to be organising our in the open, in the streets, not hiding in some guy's basement.

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And then torrenting doesn't even have it so you have to fork out for the blu-ray

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Main thing for me was just getting updates from youtubers on when videos would drop and shit. Other appeal was just like "joke" accounts where the user would pretend to be a character or post OC of some kind. And there was some that just posted interesting shit like old ads or random "perfect" movie frames. The changes since Musk took over has basically killed those tho. And then there was just the whole appeal of microblogging where if you actually cared about what someone had to say about a movie or whatever or some random thought they had. So friends but also celebrities and stuff. It made sense. But now it's just a very different sort of site. It's a "content" site, everyone churning out "content" for "engagement"

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wait do they have notifications now?

The only real value for twitter-like apps for me is getting updates by individuals and organisations on when shit is happening. When the next video is gonna drop, when the next event is, other random news etc. Only reason I started using it in the first place.

Bluesky not having those features makes it pretty worthless. It's also not a great feed to just kind of endlessly scroll through, twitter is better for that.

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lol, not really. Idiot conservatives will always ban shit for stupid reasons. Soviets banned stuff that was intentionally trying to stoke fascist uprisings in their country, which is what Orwell wanted.

Also using the term "critical thought" when praising animal farm is pretty ironic, lol

 

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4146347

In case you missed it, a Saudi guy rammed a Christmas market with his car. Killed 5 people including one kid. Press inferrung that he's an "islamist" but he's well known for being anti-Muslim and pro AfD.

Getting some real Reichstag fire vibes from this.

 

In case you missed it, a Saudi guy rammed a Christmas market with his car. Killed 5 people including one kid. Press inferrung that he's an "islamist" but he's well known for being anti-Muslim and pro AfD.

Getting some real Reichstag fire vibes from this.

 

Looking for articles or book excerpts or videos or podcasts or anyone here with a left-wing perspective on the African Union. I can make assumptions about its role but I'd rather have a more concrete understanding about what it exists to do, whose interests it primarily serves etc.

My main questions are:

  • Which countries dominate it?
  • Is it configured towards serving local, native interests or the interests of the imperialist west?

Thanks

 

Want to give these libs some theory to read but think they'll be scared off by Marx and Lenin? Anything a bit more SocDem friendly that gets the basic points across - class consciousness, why they need to organise and how etc.?

Shoer articles preferred but anything will do tbh

 

I know this is a concept that is somewhat contentious but most attempts I've seen to approach this concept after the death of Marx and Engels have been by European/white writers and seemingly trotskyists. I was wondering if any Marxist thinkers from asia had any analyses of it, particularly any conducted by any Chinese Marxists who know their own history the best.

 

And that's saying something

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