bigbrowncommie69

joined 3 years ago
[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net -1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Is just an overhyped kid's book, lol. Is exactly what it needs to be. I'm sure Seth is gonna be a bad ass Napoleon.

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

Idk I think leave this guy in the past. He's a relic of the Cold War. We don't need that propaganda anymore. There's so many other, better dystopian fiction books out there that haven't received their "definitive" adaptations, plus other more interesting original concepts people can do. Besides, maybe what people really need right now is people believing a better world is possible rather than accepting a crap one.

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They did make an anime about this but of course, they white washed him.

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"It wasn't real capitalism", lol

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Good god there's so much wrong in that reply. But the fact that I can very easily refute every single point that idiot is making means that I've definitely become quite well read theory wise, so that's fun. Good way to measure up how you're doing, like an end of term test.

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

How can you check this?

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 62 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

So many political problems in the US would be solved if these idiots had updated the constitution every few decades instead of trusting that those 18th Century drunken slaver owners knew what they were doing.

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah this. Zero empathy from the supposed internationalists. I think the issue is, and always will be, that white people are too easily offended.

 

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

 

White libs are trying to cancel this guy cause he speaks sense and knows what he's talking about. More leftists should check him out and read his stuff.

 
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