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I don't get it. I posted something in badposting because I couldn't' find anywhere else for it and it appeared in privacy instead, so I don't know what's going on. If all of these are locked then why even have them? I spend five minutes trying to figure out where something goes and I get an error message saying it's locked.

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Over the past few years, I've been sliding left ideologically, and as I move further left my old positions seem cringy.

That's expected when you change your worldview and realize you were parroting (e.g.) CIA propaganda, but it's left me feeling a bit ungrounded. I'm worried that in another year I'll look back and think my current views are dumb. Tbh, they almost certainly are.

Does this go away eventually? Or are y'all constantly refining your understanding, so you always dislike your views from a year ago?

Also:

If folks leave, where do they go from here? Are they just picking their preferred flavor of communism/anarchism? Are there other categories of leftism that they're heading to? I'm sure some backslide, but I mean heading somewhere new - like I didn't know people actually liked DPRK until I heard about "tankies." I saw a group that doesn't believe in objective reality?

I'm not really expecting to look at anything new and not be a Marxist, but I'd like to know what's out there to be sure.

I just wanna pick one goddamn worldview, never change it, and still be right about everything all the time. Is that so much to ask?

I have my suspicions about its historical accuracy based on my college being notoriously conservative and my professor being an anticommunist. I was wondering if anyone here had read it or knew of a review that dissects its sourcing. I don't have the time to heavily investigate this book unfortunately.

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Or did we all watch the Puppy Bowl?

OK the title is a joke but the question is serious. A bit of backstory:

My parents failed to make me love books, because they also introduced me to a PlayStation 2, and I decided that I like playing vidya games a lot more than reading stuff. School didn't make me love books either because the literature they force you to read in my curriculum, is, in my opinion, better suited for adult reading.

Fast forward to now, I am a freshman in a prestigious university, but it turns out that it requires me to read a lot of stuff, but I don't really have enough willpower to sit through academic literature for more than an hour a day. And the fact I'm noticeably behind my peers in amount of books read makes me feel like I don't belong.

So my question is how to learn to love reading books, get immersed or enter flow state or whatever, and also retain information? Is it some kind of talent or superpower? I know a few of my peers who don't stop reading books and seem to not distract themselves with tiktoks and video games, and attend optional lectures in their free time which is kind of insane to me, but I respect it a lot and want to become like them.

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We like to say that they're the same, but there seems to be some kind of difference. In the USA, a liberal will usually prefer wine, foreign cars and food and media, basketball, CNN and The New York Times. A fascist will prefer beer, American cars and food and media, football, and Fox News. One votes for Democrats, the other votes for Republicans. One is obsessed with Russia, the other with China. One at least pays lip service to LGBTQ+ folks, the other wants them in concentration camps. One is happy to have people of color in positions of power, so long as they toe the capitalist line, while the other rages against this. One tends to have a college education, the other doesn't (although plenty of chuds work in tech or are engineers of some sort). One tends to work in offices, the other tends to be a business owner and/or landlord, although American labor unions are full of liberals and conservatives (it's the same for non-unionized blue collar workers). Liberal business owners tend to be in the service industry (especially restaurant owners, in my experience), while conservative business owners are more concerned with resource extraction or anything related to fossil fuels. Liberals tend to be more articulate (with notable exceptions), while conservatives can barely form sentences, even when they're just speaking.

What makes a person a liberal or conservative? I'm defining these people here as anyone who participates in federal elections in the USA, roughly half of the people trapped in the USA. They tend to have at least have some money and property. I guess a white male cis born in the countryside is likelier to become a fascist, while a similar person born and raised in cities will probably be more liberal. But there are plenty of exceptions. Epstein and most of his friends are kind of difficult to classify here. It seems that it's easier to tell these people apart when they're in the labor aristocracy / petite bourgeoisie, not in the haute bourgeoisie.

We determined awhile ago on Hexbear that most of the posters here come from liberal backgrounds, so what pushed us out of liberalism into communism? (We've also had this discussion several times, sorry for reviving it.) Dialectically, the contradiction of the individual versus society determines this, along with subjective factors. I remember noticing homeless people when I was five; I was drifting toward communism in high school because I was so unhappy with the pointlessness of my education, but in college I was much happier and veered back toward liberalism again, and stayed that way for years. As an adult I taught overseas, used universal health care many times, then made the mistake of returning to the USA, got involved in politics, and discovered that I was playing for the wrong team, because liberals (especially the richest and most powerful liberals) are so rabidly against universal health care, despite the fact that it costs them so much more money and so many more years of their lives to be this way. This basically radicalized me permanently. But even now, so many liberals are planning to vote for the blue genocide pedophile party over the red genocide pedophile party, it seems like nothing except years of re-education (+ the total destruction of the USA) will ever change their minds. The same for conservatives, of course.

Just some thoughts I've been meaning to post here for awhile, I'm posting for critique.

my niblings are 5 and 6 respectively. they like to read and be read to and I would like to get some books to help foster their enjoyment of reading as they grow up - so ideally stuff that's not too challenging but still good for fostering young imaginations. obviously sneaky subversive themes are welcome - the sneakier the better, I kinda suspect their dad leans chud.

I looked a little bit at why far-right politicians are so popular in Latin America and every time I read that there was an increase in violent crime the past years and now everyone wants to copycat Nayib Bukele. Why did crime increase in the first place?

https://www.youtube.com/@NatureLostVault/videos

This channel uses clickbait headlines and a probably-AI voice, and its scripts may be AI generated as well. It postulates that numerous plants have been used to feed whole civilizations in the past, but because they are not suited to capitalist for-profit production (even if the AI narrator never uses the word "capitalist"), these plants are classified as weeds. Is this true? Can we actually feed millions of people on cattails and chufa and groundnuts/potato beans and all the other stuff on this channel?

Is there a working mirror that's actually useful?

Example Bluesky link - https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3mec6avlfxc2w

The mirrors I know about with the example.

• skyview.social. As far as I can see - it's worse than useless. The layout is 100% shit.

• subium.com. ~~It stopped working for me very roughly about a week ago. The pages are always blank and never stop loading.~~ It was a Ublock issue.

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Hey all, I desperately need a job, preferably in a helpdesk position, eventually going into sysadmin or devops. Any tips on landing a job (at this point any job)?

I do not have Linkedin, I hate that platform but I dont know if I should make an account on it. I dont have GitHub cause fuck microsoft. I have my own website, but dont really have projects to show off other than years of selfhosting services, as I'm not a programmer, though I know scripting e.g. bash and such. At most what I have to show is a month of internship in a company's IT department. I have a nicely formatted LaTeX CV with my custom domain email and website linked. The website is handcrafted html, not tailwindcss or whatever else bloated garbage.

I have no clue how to apply or where. I also need to lie cause all of them want years of experience, which I kinda do have, but not officially, so if anyone has tips for lying would be great. Thought of pretending to be a small bussines owner as others recommended this here by making a fake company digital footprint but I'm unsure how effective it is. It sucks to be qualified largely and yet ignored because of the college requirement.

I'm failing college right now and will drop out because of the shit circumstances i'm in (financially and itherwise) so I found that even if I'm hypothetically a fit for the job quite well because I dont have a degree they just dont answer, how can I unfuck myself out of this situation? Feels hopeless to just keep bleeding out money with no end and only getting worse. So any advice on getting a job (of any kind at this point) including how to lie my way into one or what tactics to use idk anything would be of great use.

Thank you!!

I listen to a lot of audiobooks and podcasts at work, i really enjoy QAA and there’s some interesting sounding episodes in their back catalogue that are patreon locked :( and im poor

anyone have book recommendations etc tryina get into learning socialist law

You'd think his ass might have seen some leaked majestic 12 type stuff.

Was the development of absolutism a response to the rising capitalist class and/or republicanism? My knowledge of late medieval history is really not as strong as it could be so I’m interested to hear what people think

It's also transliterated as Arkangel.

Arkhangelsk is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. [...] The [coat of arms] of the city display the Archangel Michael in the act of defeating the Devil. Legend states that this victory took place near where the city stands, hence its name, and that Michael still stands watch over the city to prevent the Devil's return.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkhangelsk

Is it an hexadecimal bear? A hexagonal bear? I am curious but I will also choose the funniest answer as the real one

Old school, broadcaster style parapolitical research guy from the 90s and earlier. Still active today. I got turned on to him some time back, and have been giving another listen to Emory/Nip Tuck on the Iran-Contra scandal. It's voluminous. Emory is pretty voluminous generally.

Lots of stuff about the Bush family, Iran-Contra, the CIA and drugs. He still produces content but I haven't listened to much of the new stuff. His old stuff is all pulled from published sources, books, newspapers, etc.

I'm not doing him justice with my description, but I surely can't be the only one here to have heard of him, at least amongst the older Chapos here.

usually don’t think about alternate timelines much, but this in particular sticks with me. would the world really be better off, as I see several people (not here) say it would have

Been running a film night for a few months, mainly documentaries but the odd historical fiction like Battle of Algiers. I’m looking to get a bit more reach for it, maybe do some boosted ads on instagram and stuff.

Does anyone have any good ideas for a name? The best broad appeal I can think of is like “[City] Lefty Film Club” or something lol. Trying to go for something that progressively politically minded people might be interested in attending if they see an ad, make the left wing slant clear, but have a broad appeal.