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Cake day: March 23rd, 2022

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  • Its just the destruction stage of the renovation. The empire is gonna tear out all the fixtures that have been there since the 80s and replace them with new streamlined versions which will preform better at lower cost.

    It looks bad in the short term but even if musk and trump bungle the refit it will be better than the old systems and future administrations will work out the kinks.

    I’d like to think that the rot is so deep that the whole thing collapses before the refit is done but I doubt it.






  • I think “there is no neo-liberalism” is a good agitprop line to use on radlibs. Tons of people will agree that neo-liberalism is bad and many could even accept the explanation that neo-liberalism is just fascism. Then you hit them with the idea that fascism co-exists with liberalism under the rule of capitalism. Twist their “horseshoe theory” brain worm into a “number 6 on its side.” All that is left then is liberal-fascism and communism.

    I think a big part of agiprop needs to be to kill the myth of “centerism” and “ballance.”

    “The way I see it there are 2 classes, the proletariat and the bourgeoise. ideologies, communism and fascism And anybody not on one side is on the other.”


  • At this point I don’t intend to go back to hexbear no matter what it is called. Not because I dont love the people and the site culture but because I can’t trust the admin team. I was beginning to consider going back after the “Meta open-floor” discussion but the struggles over transparency and moderation were never really resolved.

    This latest event reaffirmed my decision to stay away. The “we fucked up” narrative just doesn’t sit well with me. I can’t accept that the Admin who originally set up the url just "forgot. You don’t break up 2000 comrades meeting place unless there was some serious bad blood.

    I’m pretty upset over the events that lead to me deleting my account but even then I’d gladly do more to save hexbear than the little work it would have been to transfer the DNS account… unless I had serious suspicions that the site was a threat to the comrades there.


  • “Neo-liberal oligarchs” don’t exist they are all just crypto-fascists. The “neo” in “neo-liberalism” is simply a recognition that they are not liberals, they just hide behind liberalism and twist it to their will. Liberalism is a self conflicting ideology. “Freedom” is highly subjective based on who is saying it and “Equality” is directly at odds with “Protection of private property” and we know which side of the divide the oligarchs land on every time and the “neo” prefix is the recognition of that.

    In a way Capitalists are more fascist than the 3rd reich because the target of their hate isn’t just Communist, Jewish, and LGBTQ people, its everyone. Capitalists would love the return of slavery, would take an active part in eugenics, they would exterminate entire peoples for profit, etc. They believe the working class are sub human and the less productive should be exterminated. They feel the same way about their competitors even.




  • If I were Putin I would make deals with Trump and then just not follow through with them. “we’ll ship as much rare earths as you like at 10% below market value for the next 25 years if you stop sending weapons and money to ukraine and recognise the Donbas referendums as legitimate.” First shipment arrives, usa announces its support of the Russian position, second shipment never arrives, Putin tells trump “ok we’ll honor our deal when nato honors its pledge to not admit any nations east of germany.”





  • Its really fucked that ND people stimming in public is not cool but when a NT person is feeling stressed its fine for them to get angry and threaten random people. I got beat up once in high school for pacing and I’m the one who got in trouble for it.

    I don’t want to be a doomer but the problem is pretty wide spread so don’t put much hope in the dream of moving out of your city. Here in australia the latent rage in society is so bad that they have public service announcement ads on tv to remind people that screaming at customer service workers is not acceptable, and don’t get me started on the road rage.

    Try to take it as a good sign. Irritability and rage amongst the working class is evidence that the foundations of the capitalist system are crumbling under the weight of the super structure. The more random acts of rage you are subjected to the closer the revolution is. I just hope more people start to follow the example of Luigi so that you can pace without fear.





  • Herrero in German-colonized Namibia

    I’ve been listening to a history podcast and just went through this part of the colonial scramble for Africa. The Germans really developed their genocide methods in Namibia but everything they did the British did first. The only difference is that the British slowly built up to it and stumbled into genocide as a response to opposition while the Germans chose extermination as their first response (likely because they learned the lesson from the british.)

    Literacy and media in the colonial empires was high enough that every one knew how the colonial powers treated indigenous peoples in africa, asia, and the americas as the genocides were happening. The Jewish holocaust was not an aberration in any sense. The only novelty of the holocaust was the location and the color of the people’s skin. “Never again” was always meant to mean “never again to white people in europe.” If they actually meant “never any genocide ever again” the colonizers would have released all their colonies because the only way to keep a colony is by genociding the native peoples.