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Give me a quick rundown I'm out of the loop

Seeing so many people in the U.S. driven to either commit or condone violence both social and physical by their total disconnection from reality, as well as the heightened suppression and censorship of any and all dissenting voices, has me feeling like I'm growing an increasing disdain for humanity as a whole. So, I think it would be good for me to talk to someone who exists outside of the English-speaking world.

Obviously Japan is not the most detached country from the hegemony, and generally it has its own reactionary ideals as a state, but the reasons that I'm interested in speaking with someone from Japan are specifically that I've been gradually learning the basics of Japanese (I have hiragana and katakana memorized and I'm working on expanding vocabulary and figuring out sentence structure now, as well as slowly learning some Kanji), and that the average Japanese person is not consuming English-speaking media. I'm aware that Japan is beset by its own hyper-capitalist media hellscape, but it's still different, and that's what I need right now.

If you guys wanted to just reach out and talk casually to someone who lives in Japan, how would you go about it?

Title.

Weimar Germany doesn't count because the USSR eventually took down the Nazis.

Basically, has this kind of fascistic oligarchic hegemony and weak progressive resistance ever been seen before? What came after?

Would be nice to have an idea of like “hey you need more vitamin whatever you can get it by eating more such and such”.

Something that is free would be a huge bonus obviously, considering my broke ass

At work, I was having some casual political small-talk with a coworker I thought was a liberal, and I threw out the "maybe we should make everyone do a year or two of customer service or retail before they officially become citizens" take.

She responded with "That's literally Maoism." She then explained to me that the central pole holding up the umbrella of Maoist philosophies is that the government has the responsibility to create moral citizens by requiring them to directly serve their country, such as farming or millitary service.

This feels correct, but I also feel like I am missing a lot.

I recently upgraded my account to Hexbear Premium and while I like the new features like AI integration I was dissapointed that the fruit in my gift basket (the mod team sent me) were spoiled.

I hope I can either get a new gift basket or a free month of Hexbear Premium. Someone told me to ask Susan but I didnt even know Hexbear has a Susan.

I would write directly to the mod team but I think they all blocked me. RUDE

Larry holmes vs tex cobb was brutal. Idk how he stayed up. Dempsey vs Willard was a horror show

Need some links to share with someone to dispell the smol bean ukraine myth

My wife is a teacher, working under an expired union contract. The school board has been adamant that they will not negotiate a new contract or even recognize the union. Is this legal? I have no idea, but I doubt it. In any case, the teachers are about to strike, initially planning a one day walkout.

My oldest daughter is a student in the district and is trying to design a button or sticker she can hand out to other students and encourage them to come to the picket line. She wants some feedback. Do you like it? Do you see something to change? Do we need to say something different? The initial event is one day, and we know the date. We thought about adding it but it seemed to make the image too busy. Anyway, give us your thoughts.

every leftist is constantly saying "organize". i want to do this, but i have no idea how. at one point i joined the Revolutionary Communists of America, and got the sense that all they wanted from me was money, when i signed up they just said they'd send me a newsletter, and that membership requires "dues" which i think is kind of a gross way to phrase it since they're not a union, i left quickly. i have absolutely no money to give, just time, and being functionally rejected from an ostensibly communist organization for being poor left a bad taste in my mouth. rn im looking at CPUSA, i clicked "resist" and every single thing they want me to do is calling my representatives. that's lib slop, right? i'll do it if it's actually gonna change anything but i get the feeling that's barely better than "get out and vote". it's also all about trump, it says right at the top it's about resisting "project 2025", i dont think there was a single thing on that page that kamala wouldn't fw. what organization can i engage with, or how can i spend my time, to work towards achieving leftist goals in amerikkka?

edit, applied to psl

edit, i am in a small town

I have an assignment due in a seminar class that asks me to write an essay about AI. This wouldn't be an issue, except they've specified that I must write about the benefits of using AI in my chosen field and how it might advance the field-- plus I must also USE AI to complete my essay. Being in a field that values creativity and thinking outside of the bounds of normalcy, I fully disagree with the use of AI since it would actively steal the coolest parts of my future career.

So here is the conundrum: do I bow to the machine for a good grade since I'll be applying to graduate school soon, or tell the truth about how I feel about AI?

(Written by my partner)

They retired shortly after the missed appointment, and I'll never be able to ask them. I've been wondering about what their reasons are everyday since.

Context is they're very old, love going out to the middle of nowhere and laying down to feel vibrations in the ground. They're only afraid of their death hurting people around them, so if they're not dying fighting for social justice, they'll live out their life to their oldest age.

If you also aren't afraid to die, could you please explain to me how? I want answers even if it's from other people.

Was curious of anyone knew what it was for. It turned out to be an alley in some Russian city called Solnechnogorsk.

I thought it was maybe for a football club, and indeed there is a football club in Russia with the initials KNC, but I don't think they have any sort of left affiliation.

I had this "shower thought" that I found interesting.

What if all the techbro weirdness from the last decades (cryptocurrency, NFTs, AI slop, etc) is the result of bourgeois seeing the writing on the wall that clearly their rates of profit are getting dangerously close to 0 and desperately trying (and failing) to find a way to create value without human labor?

What do y'all think?

There are two groups of people. They're each given a magic/alien/divine trinket.

Group A's trinket can instantly produce any raw resource. A raw resource is anything that could exist without a humor labor process (cooking, blacksmithing, woodworking, etc). If something absolutely requires human labor to be put into it to exist, it can't be made by the magic box.

Group B's trinket can make one gain a hypothetically "perfect" theoretical understanding of everything. Essentially, if there was a Universal PhD in Everything (medicine, engineering, etc.), they would obtain it without any effort. It works on anyone, and this knowledge is implanted instantly.

If given all the time in the universe, which group would survive the test of time or come out on top of the other? This has been stirring in my brain for a while, and I want to hear your thoughts.

I personally lean Group B because they wouldn't have to discover or painstakingly engineer anything, and could immediately set their sails for technologies they know to exist. But at the same time, Group A would never have to worry about scarcity, so they could dedicate all of their time to infrastructure and research unlike Group B which still has to deal with scarcity.

I was gonna be Brian Thompson in Hell, but now there’s competition!

Maybe a “prove me wrong” tent with a “brains are delicious” zombie costume with a neck wound lol

They don't have to be that enlightening. They can be kinda dumb, pleasant and laid back, heavy... I'm looking for a spectrum.

Rap songs purely about poorshaming, partying, and being hypersexual are feeling stale.

A thrilling, unprecedented telling of the unification of the Hawaiian Islands from an indigenous perspective. A Hawaiian war chief joins a bloody campaign to unite the warring islands in order to save them from the threat of colonization.

Anybody seen it? Opinions?

The official unofficial poll of which hand you favor most. all you ambidextrous freaks have no vote in this poll.

left?
right?

Scenario: Aliens gift humanity some mega power plant that runs off a black hole or some shit. Maybe it's a quantum time battery or perpetual motion machine, whatever.

If we plopped it somewhere on Earth, could humanity build infrastructure across the globe to provide everyone with near unlimited clean electricity?

I want to acquire a printer soon, mainly to print Communist propaganda (flyers, and zines principally). Would like to get something with a minimum of proprietary bullshit, that is relatively cheap to operate/ maintain and which ideally isn't just complete spyware. Not sure such things exist, but would appreciate advice