GrouchyGrouse

joined 5 years ago
[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 21 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The western press that has been doing such a good job the last 40 years that they still add “gate” to the end of every scandal story to passively remind you of the last big time they famously did their fucking jobs?

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 4 points 3 hours ago

Hey that’s great! Im stoked for you!

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

That or China winning the next “space race” and getting a commanding position over the USA that nullifies the ability to use nuclear weapons.

Option 2: China goes full joker mode, publicly makes a show of giving nukes to both Koreas on the condition that they both point one missile each at Japan japan-cool

I’m joking because I don’t think there is a good option here and I hate nukes so I made myself laugh

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago

The poetry nerd inside Mao is flexing rn

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 8 points 4 hours ago

China was pretty reasonable all throughout the global war on terror, they kill their billionaires, I envy their reasonableness.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 10 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yes, it is crushing to the soul. It is crushing in ways that are distinct from other’s experiences. Right now people are agitated and shit is wild out there, and that reflects back in our spaces here too. Hang in there. Is your life materially better than others? Yeah probably, but you aren’t empowered by that difference. We cannot act ethically within capitalism to change this imbalance. If you don’t take what you can get to keep yourself going it doesn’t get kicked downstream. It goes right back to the bosses! By design.

There is a line I always come back to: “we are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death.” It is taxing on the soul to be here and witness this. This is the nature of capitalism. None of this does good things. Not even for the victors. Look at how wealth has twisted Musk into a caricature and filled his body with hormones and stimulants and all kinds of horseshit. Look at that weirdo infusing himself with his son’s blood. You can’t look at that and say “yeah, this is sustainable, this is working out for them.”

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 5 points 4 hours ago

ask the Europeans where their textile mills got their cotton

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 8 points 4 hours ago

So anti capitalist they can’t see the parallels between the war to end American chattel slavery and the war against the Chinese landlord class

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Aw fuck I think you are right I’m forgetting the order of events, she is part of the Kellog story and therefore the “main plot” but yeah she enters that plot after the BOS arrival

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 43 points 16 hours ago

Ah yes the famously charitable petroleum industry.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 14 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

There’s literally a woman with a South Asian accent in Fallout 4, the “commonwealth” this character hails from. And that character is part of the main quest. In fact, you must interact with this character to trigger the arrival of the Brotherhood of Steel into the commonwealth.

Like holy shit, holy fucking shit

Edit: I’m gonna invent a brain scanner and I’m gonna scan this chud’s brain and if it turns out they played through that portion of the game and forgot the character it’s because they were a woman and of course this gamer chud bonehead doesn’t remember a woman character who isn’t a sex vector. I’m gonna scan them and I’m gonna find out I’m right.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Pontypool was real but it’s just the dead internet theory

 

So I’m browsing my phone and I see Kyle Rittenhouse, remember that shithead? He’s famous because he killed someone. The right tried to turn him into a celebrity but he was so helpless he couldn’t hack it. He couldn’t handle being on a leash for thousands of dollars. I’d embarrass myself on a street corner frequented exclusively by people I have a crush on for the kind of money this murderer threw away.

Meanwhile Charlie Kirk was a genius by comparison. A bright rising star. Still a fucking racist dumbass but capable of wearing a suit and putting on an act. Capable of speaking while holding eye contact. Capable of subtly decreasing the circumference of his face. Remember the bar is “not a remorseless murderer” so clearing it isn’t impressive but I will give Charlie credit where it’s due: he didn’t kill anyone.

And I think about this. How the right wing is so destructive it can’t help but be self destructive. It produces white male gunmen and here’s 2 case examples from within their own house: Charlie gets killed by the kind of person they defended in Kyle. Enshitification in action. What a bummer. What a letdown. Poor Charlie couldn’t even find a partner who would mourn his passing. Meanwhile Kyle, the guy they all wish they could forget is still around.

It’s a brutal fate. shrug-outta-hecks. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.

 

Okay we all know that already. I’m not reinventing the wheel.

But I think I am realizing why fascism does certain things and it is rooted in the fact that as capitalism hollows everything out and destroys the society that hosts it the capitalism disjunctions the social fabrics, breaking the social reproduction, and ultimately destabilizing or undoing all the unpaid labors that make society work - the humming substructure that capitalism grafted super structurally into.

So that’s why fascism always obsesses over birth rates and trad shit. It’s them scrabbling to unfuck society from all the ways capitalism fucked society. It’s their mad-hatted dash to pick up the pieces of the delicate shit their bosses broke

I’m phone posting in a mall and it smells like cheap cologne and Starbucks. I’m in the nest of the beast and I’m stewing on shit.

But I think I finally get it and can articulate why someone once said fascism is the immune system of capitalism, fascism is the fever. And it stuck to me. And I think this is how I make sense of it. Christmas shopping the Saturday before the holiday like a big dumb dope who didn’t plan ahead.

But hey I’m having fun, edibles rule.

 

Is this where it’s at now? Like, I try really hard. I want you all to know I actually try to find comparisons to the current crop of capitalists that aren’t Nazis. I know it’s hackneyed and overdone. So I try.

But he’s twacked out making karate-chop hand motions babbling at 90mh like Hitler finding Czechoslovakia under his Christmas tree

How the fuck am I supposed to work with this?

 

Solely so I can post lions eating christians to r/catswithjobs

 

You know how everyone always talks about their what they’d do if they could have a wish come true like a fairytale? I remember doing that as a kid. Aladdin had just come out and everyone was talking about what they’d wish for. Million dollars was a top one. Invincibility another. Laser eyes.

But a genie gives you three wishes, and most people obsess over how to use their wishes to the fullest potential. Or… with three wishes you can wish for more mundane wishes. I wished I no longer had to poop.

But genies are tricky, you have to be specific. So instead I would need some kind of intestinal collar. A machine that obliterates any poop before it gets to the colon. It would have to be a machine, too, as I might need to remotely disable it. I don’t really want to require surgery - or another genie - to turn it off. I might need to shit in the future for personal or political purposes.

The device would require only about my life expectancy x 1.2 or 1.5 times if I really think I’ll hang in there. Nothing beyond the powers of a genie.

As you can see I really worked this all out. No more wiping poop. But I never told people about this. Maybe just wishing I didn’t have to poop.

I never told anyone about the Star Trek inspired colon zapper. If they invented one I’d probably get it installed. I’d feel pretty vindicated.

 

Lmao, even

Yes please memorialize this shithead instead

 

When cedar-rapids was in the senate she passed legislation about violence in videogames

Meanwhile, those videogames have been great at pushing pro-imperial propaganda and training kids how to use the Xbox/drone controller

hillary-assassin

Which pipeline kids toward being the bloodstock of the forever wars her neoliberalism demanded.

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Kinda funny

 

Click it because why not

Article is full of quotes from reddit users. It's a circle. It's like an oroborous but instead of a snake eating itself It's an anus shitting itself a new ass. Immediately I feel that way I feel about too much shit these days.

If you ever read the Lovecraft short story The Nameless City we are in it and the big metal door has ominously closed behind us. We're trapped in whatever here is now. The zone, whatever you want to call it. Who cares anymore. Honey, the internet is taking a break from being an advertisement. We're on the news.

 

His name is Lester and I feel like we should adopt him as an unofficial site mascot. Along with Crow T Robot.

Who else do you think sorta summarizes Hexbear in appearance and attitude from various media? And be specific. Don't just say "raccoons" (even though we all know raccoons is the best fit.)

Discuss!

 

The democrats would have tripped over themselves crying about it and appealing to norms and civility and their usual gormless bullshit and Kamala would have eaten shit even harder.

And instead of shouting "read the room!" the DNC consultant and liberal pundit classes would have gone along for that ride because they are just as clueless as their bosses.

 

What's new and what's good, comrades? It was kinda nice being away for the entire election bullshit but otherwise I'm playing catch up for the last 30 days.

I hope you all have been well and you have instituted fully automated luxury communism (with gay characteristics) in my absence.

af-heart stalin-heart

 

I got caught drinking again. It feels better to come clean about it. I'm tired of being a drunk mess. It takes so much energy to be a functional alcoholic. Please don't do what I did when faced with this genocide reality. Its so hard. You just want to push it aside. Don't fall into the self medication trap. Its a trap and it will fuck you! Christ I am still so fucked up and I try not to do the "drunk posting" thing. I smashed a glass thing and picked through the glass to find something worthy, something with a cutting edge, because concerned relatives already emptied my gun closet and took them away. I'm bleak as hell right now. I want to be ethered. something where I can go away but I won't fuck up my family by doing it. But thats selfish. I'm a communist. I can't do that to myself because I don't want it to bounce back on other people. Communism is why I don't slouch and let myself slide into these pits. I need to be here for the rest of y'all. The hiding takes so much energy away from myself. I'm so tired of the selfish act of nipping a bott;e. Im very sorry but theres nowhere else to post it

I hope I helped somebody else laugh. Like when you re-read what I wrote I was just trying to have a positive energy or I was doing a bit

I read awhile that they call these things "deaths of despair." for whatits worth I get that. I finally get that. But we aren't alone. Im fucked up but I won't be part of that grim tally. I refuse that.

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