chapotraphouse Evilsandwichman • 17 hours ago • 95%

While I've been considering buying a brand new PC and mobile phone (for absolutely no reason whatsoever; totally a coinkidink that I considered it at this point in time), I decided to also look up what China's own operating system was (because obviously they would have their own operating system; why would they make absolutely everything else and NOT make their own operating system?) and I was like 'ooooh, that looks cool! This Kylin OS!' only to watch a video expounding on it and revealing it's a Linux based operating system. Hexbear Linux users are to China what Israel is to America CMV I just want a normal operating system where I double click an app to activate or install it, and it has full functionality no ifs and or buts with my OS, and I can rightclick and get all the necessary functionalities of rightclicking. sudo install better OS Stupid dressed up DOS like operating system; yeah cause I really want to type up lines of instructions to do what windows can do with a double click; cause I want to spend two hours googling how to install non-Linux compatible software on Linux, and then spend two hours finding out why the solution didn't work making me feel like Indiana Jones excavating cursed ruins for a treasure you could've gotten at Walmart.

chapotraphouse Evilsandwichman • 1 day ago • 100%

Obviously America's done some insane stuff in the past that would be a lesson to countries around the world (for example attacking Iraq after getting them to cease production of WMDs, reinforcing the lesson to countries like the DPRK to never disarm), but with stopping the SWIFT system in Russia and with Israel now detonating beepers in Lebanon, frankly it's showing every non-Western country that it's time to cut all relations with the West and shift immediately to Russia and China. Why would you ever risk the safety of your own country now with buying tech from a Western country or one of its vassals (like SK or Japan)? There's zero guarantee America and NATO won't come after your country at some point in the future (and I'm now remembering 'hang on, wasn't Iraq under Saddam and Libya under Gaddafi literally allies of ours?'). I googled motorola (and apparently by the way motorola works closely with Israel) and it says it's a subsidiary of a Chinese company, Lenovo? How is the father company Lenovo (and consequently the Chinese government which I imagine wouldn't want one of their companies being used for terrorism) currently reacting to this news? Utter psychopathy; I don't know what the state of alternative tech and banking was in the 90's but today countries HAVE alternatives, they have fantastic alternatives, they don't *have* to rely on Western tech. I partially want to see how Western news is going to talk about this terror attack by Israel which in just moments wounded almost 3,000 people, but I know all these mouthpieces put zero value in the lives of Arabs and just like they have for the last 10 months either just spin it or let Israel say it and just repeat it. I genuinely hope China harshly rebukes this attack and shuts down their factories back home; and you know what? All those loser liberals and reactionaries losing their jobs may just jog their brains into realizing the DNC and the GOP are no future for the country.

chapotraphouse Evilsandwichman • 4 days ago • 100%

When Gazans talk to the outside world (or at least America), obviously they reveal info on what's happening in Gaza; Well, Palantir (American company if you don't recall it) shares info on the calls received from Gaza with unit 8200 who obviously don't want info leaking to the outside world who then target those civilians: https://x.com/Resist_05/status/1831834796676542861 So that strike on unit 8200? A cause for celebration because a bunch of civilian murderers are painting the floor.

chapotraphouse Evilsandwichman • 7 days ago • 97%

en.wikipedia.org

*Former Japanese president of Peru (no idea how that happened; I must be high or something cause that doesn't sound right)

food Evilsandwichman • 2 weeks ago • 100%

This stuff is awesome; a while back I was looking up Chinese dishes I could try (as I especially love steamed Chinese chicken buns) and discovered this (dessert?) and just loved it. I tried it both steamed and fried and my own personal preference is fried. This stuff is awesome, definitely can't have just one. I had six with lunch and I just can't stop thinking about getting more and I gotta stop myself, cause no way all that fried food can be good for you, but damn I can't stop thinking about it. EDIT: Actually now I think I remember what pointed me towards this dish: I was reading up about some Chinese historical figures (legends?) and read something about one of their figures eating this and I was like 'hmmm, curious.....'

Palestine Evilsandwichman • 2 weeks ago • 100%

This was among the information Edward Snowden also had that he shared with this guy (aaaaand a further reminder of why I despise liberals; cause instead of hating Kamala, Biden and Obama, they despise Edward Snowden). I don't even know what to say; I don't even know if I should advise Palestinians not to talk to their relatives in Gaza or if perhaps there's some amount of selectivity going on in who the IOF murders from those Gazans, although it does seem as though they're trying to stop information from leaving Gaza as genocidally as they can. I recall a (post? bad empanada video? article?) that frankly called it out correctly that America is Israel's (willing) accomplice in the genocide and not a shot at putting an end to the killings.

Palestine Evilsandwichman • 2 weeks ago • 100%

I hope you'll also note the black person they're racistly depicting also has a star of David necklace which I'm assuming means they're trying to make it clear they're being racist towards fellow Jewish people who happen to be black.

askchapo Evilsandwichman • 2 weeks ago • 100%

I genuinely feel like America bombing the hell out of so many countries in Africa just naturally would endear those countries to *anyone* except America and their Western vassals, but apparently a lot of twitter users can't seem to comprehend that. Is whatever debt these countries incur worse than the IMF? Are the consequences anywhere near as bad? I usually like to start from the position that the leaders of these countries know what they're doing (something Western twitter users don't), so I personally doubt it's anywhere near as bad as people claim, and no matter how bad it is, I don't believe for a moment it could be as bad as the IMF.

Palestine Evilsandwichman • 2 weeks ago • 100%

Modern day Nazis

askchapo Evilsandwichman • 2 weeks ago • 100%

I've realized that we keep hearing a never ending stream of diatribes from people like Biden, Kamala and Trump about foreign leaders and countries and I've been wondering why non-Western countries don't do the same. There's certainly a never ending list of reasons to do so; I can't help but wonder if perhaps had African countries been lambasting America about their violent policies and actions that Libya wouldn't have happened in a 'silence'. Israel, for example, striking Iran's consulate in Syria wasn't something they could do and then people let them forget that they started it; this is why you have people asking (American and British) government spokespeople about Iran's right to self defense and retaliation. American journalists travel around the world to go and harass foreign leaders about every little choice they make; are journalists from Africa, the Middle East, Asia and South America trying to get interviews with Western leaders to ask them the same ridiculous questions our journalists ask but getting no response or refused? I really feel like with a constant microscopic lens on every single awful choice we make, it just gets harder and harder to get away with it. If I HAD to compare it to something, I'd say it feels similar to when an abusive person tries manipulating or threatening an ex or a partner of his in public; it benefits the abuser that his victim is silent and doesn't make a scene. I do also understand that our government intentionally creates rifts between nations so that they're less likely to stand united and to have one anothers' backs. Certainly I'm nearly vocally cheering every time I see African leaders respond to the idiot journalists or politicians we keep sending their way; I'm following an African twitter account and get posts from time to time of the idiot journalists asking either stupid questions or hypocritical ones; for example now with that knowledge of those interviews that occurred, I can wonder (rhetorically) why don't journalists go over and ask African leaders *now* about their decision not to arrest Putin as per the ICC ruling (the idea being that Western leaders don't want to arrest Netanyahu). But as I said, I can also understand how countries just want to exist in peace and don't want the headache; it's probably just me being youtube 'debate me brah' brained and wanting to see the global South own the idiot news channels.

chapotraphouse Evilsandwichman • 2 weeks ago • 100%

Make it make sense People cry 'waaaaaaah, he spoke Spanish within earshot', but the government privatizes natural resources and suddenly the same reactionary human garbage is silent. Whatever happened to 'you're in MY country', huh? If it's your country then did the government get your permission to privatize all those resources? If the West is so great then why is it non-Western countries are the ones nationalizing their natural resources and making their population live better lives. 'If yOu LiKe cOmMuNiSm sO mUcH, wHy Don'T yOu LiVe iN GaDdAfi's LiByA?' idiot I would strive to live in Gaddafi's Libya as a Libyan citizen if our government hadn't killed him!

chapotraphouse Evilsandwichman • 3 weeks ago • 98%

No laws are being broken, NO LAWS ARE BEING BROKEN! An awesome guy employed at a McDonald's invites in a homeless person and *buys* hims food and the (manager?) calls the cops to have the guy removed. This is beyond repulsive; why are we at war with the homeless? Where's the pathetic reactionaries who keep using the homeless as an excuse to call for immigrants to be kicked out? Why is this happening under a dem presidency? Kamala, one of the worst incarnations of a cop, is going to potentially be the next president; how much worse is this going to get?

Palestine Evilsandwichman • 3 weeks ago • 100%

I was actually laughing at this video because it feels like the kind of dark comedy videos you get on youtube that are occasionally from adult swim. This is dark, and I'm sorry to the Palestinians who have to live with this but this video is darkly hilarious. It feels like it can't be real.

Palestine Evilsandwichman • 3 weeks ago • 100%

Palest woman I've ever seen in my life who sounds like a host on Fox news who's apparently actually Middle Eastern. Also TIL Palestinian isn't an ethnicity it's an ideology. Welp, that's it for me tonight; I've seen enough and I wish I'd seen less.

chapotraphouse Evilsandwichman • 4 weeks ago • 99%

I admit I don't know where the third poster is from, but I feel it's a safe guess to say America; plus lots of folks back home feel this way anyway even if this person in particular isn't American.

games Evilsandwichman • 4 weeks ago • 97%

There's someone called the Lingji monk in the game and he's headless; apparently he's headless because the head of the real statue of the Lingji monk is in the British museum. EDIT: I looked up the video of his character on youtube and Chinese people are making jokes such as 'he learned English in the British museum', lol

memes Evilsandwichman • 4 weeks ago • 97%

Not mine; got it off a twitter link

chapotraphouse Evilsandwichman • 1 month ago • 100%

No idea who Hap Arnold was though; master jokester maybe? Serious warning about the replies though, be prepared for some serious liberal handwringing about being mean to the Nazis tried at Nuremberg. (Seriously though, make this an emote)

videos Evilsandwichman • 1 month ago • 96%

It's missing the trademark scary music and delusional reporter looking terrified (also I doubt the subtitles are accurate at every moment). Obviously extrapolating to an entire country that the Chinese have a better chance of building bridges around the world from one person would be a mistake, but China does have a better chance of building bridges than we ever will and I take this video as a reflection of Chinese culture honestly. You can't make a country improve their human rights problems and modernize if you sanction them and then bomb them to the ground. More power to China, and a giant middle finger to all the libs who don't remember Afghanistan or China exists unless it's to make the lives of their people more miserable in any way possible. Biden stole (a billion? 8 billion?) dollars from Afghanistan when they were struggling in the aftermath of an earthquake; the people's lives only became worse for it. But please libs, please tell me all about how China's not trying to cooperate with the world out of principle; yeah, much better that our government should just bomb millions of people to death than countries should make the world a better place for selfish reasons. Libs aren't just a death cult, it's a very idiotic death cult. (Quick note: I've no idea of the OP's political leanings; I follow him because I'm curious about Russia-Ukraine situation. He's probably unfortunately reactionary)

Palestine Evilsandwichman • 1 month ago • 100%

The title of the video uses the word alleges and I put it in quotes because honestly nothing is beneath the IDF

Palestine Evilsandwichman • 1 month ago • 100%

And some further cruelty: https://x.com/Mus_tiii_/status/1823390284152963491 I've no idea who the original poster of either of these accounts are or what their politics are, and I say this because there's an unfortunate number of antisemitic responses.

Palestine Evilsandwichman • 1 month ago • 100%

How is this actually happening? Someone also linked this video of a (medical examiner?) who specializes in SA who had a lot to talk about and shows her research (Obviously CW: discussions of SA and extremely violent occurrences of it too, and a discussion of SA against a child at the very end): https://x.com/TantoonB/status/1822728664150384919

videos Evilsandwichman • 1 month ago • 92%

These people make utter fools of themselves and then want us to think it's the people of the DPRK who are propagandized. Dear God I hope to live to see Western countries become more irrelevant.

Palestine Evilsandwichman • 1 month ago • 100%

The guy who became famous for that video of conducting SA against a prisoner went on a talk show defending what he did, he also did a face reveal recently (that's the link in the title). I didn't post the other video I mentioned cause I assumed people were aware and just didn't want the psychic damage of talking about it, but thought I'd leave this here at least, but here's the video of him admitting it publicly on a TV show: https://x.com/Resist_05/status/1821664266979856607 (I haven't checked this sub to see if either of these have been posted actually; I forget not everything makes it to the front page of hexbear)

chapotraphouse Evilsandwichman • 1 month ago • 97%

This is just sad; I don't even know what channel aired this (if it's America's or not) but I feel secondhand embarrassment just looking at this from how desperate this is.

chat Evilsandwichman • 1 month ago • 100%

I've seen people get upset about discussing what's happening in Gaza and trying to dismiss it by saying 'no politics'; if America was at war (I mean an actual war, not a beatdown of a country that can't fight back) and we had enemy troops occupying our country and slaughtering a ton of people, would we really consider discussing it a taboo and as just 'politics'? If a black person in my old neighborhood got gunned down by the police, am I not supposed to get upset because black people being murdered by pigs is just politics? (I mean I ask but people would probably classify it as being similar to BLM and they consider BLM to just be 'politics') MLK hit that right note with his letter from Birmingham jail (I'm posting a large portion because it's all amazing, but the part I recall most starkly and keep quoting time and again because of its importance and universal relevance I've gone ahead and bolded): "...You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word “tension.” I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. I therefore concur with you in your call for negotiation. Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather than dialogue. …We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word “Wait!” It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.” We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.” …I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; **who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.**"

videos Evilsandwichman • 1 month ago • 100%

I don't really know the context of this video, what the military is currently trying to achieve in Hawaii, but watching folks effectively tell them to get lost and pay for the damages wrought to their nation was awesome.

Palestine Evilsandwichman • 2 months ago • 100%

I know the winners write the history books, but it really is hard to believe people will remember any of this fondly with so much evidence to what's happening right now.

chat Evilsandwichman • 3 months ago • 92%

(Yeah yeah, preaching to the choir; admittedly this is for the idiot libs who keep posting here) Our country's killed a million people almost every decade (with some decades seeing more than a million) after WW2, we pass laws to criminalize homelessness and in some cases to indirectly kill them like making it illegal to provide them shelter during winter, we have the largest prison population on earth not because the average American is a criminal but because this is a police state (or maybe you disagree and think the average guy is a criminal?), our cops kill an insane amount of people every year and are allowed to get away with it (even in many cases where we have video evidence), the government's conducted inhuman experiments on us, and we're literally part of the fabric of many nations' histories that are halfway round the world because we've intervened extremely heavily in their countries to the point of getting rid of their leaders and installing violent dictators. Access to healthcare in these countries is also *leagues* better than it was back home. And people's reaction today is to actually think somehow CHINA'S worse than us; there's a reason why Argentinians celebrate 9/11 and even have a street named after it even though they don't even border us. It takes propaganda to turn people into frothing lunatics in regards to any of those three countries, but with America all it takes is surviving us or people learning from their parents or their grandparents why they lack so many family members and why the family they still have are horribly disfigured, and that accounts for many, many people around the world. The mines the Vietnam war left behind was killing about 100 people every year until around 2000, and then it was 50 people every year. To quote Bush Sr. after our forces shot down an Iranian passenger plane, whom so many libs were quick to show deference to when he kicked it, "I'm not an apologize for America kind of guy". He also got applause for that. America is easily worse than China, Russia and Saudi Arabia, UNLESS human life has no value, then we're better. Honestly the only thing less valuable than human life to America is a bullet. Cope.

chat Evilsandwichman • 4 months ago • 100%

Basically people arguing on World of Warcraft LFG chat (on EU servers) about whether they should be racist to all Russians or just to hate the government, with people being like 'bUt I JuSt dOn'T uNdErStAnD wHy sO mAnY pEoPLe VoTeD fOr hiM'. I then chimed in and said all of the American war criminals running the country were also voted in, and then also said that 'if not for the balancing effect of Russia, the entirety of Africa, South America, Asia and the Middle East would look like Cambodia, Vietnam and Iraq, and who would stop us? Western Europe? lol' Lots of angry responses and whispers from Western European players ensued, it was hilarious

badposting Evilsandwichman • 4 months ago • 100%

What'd they do, unleash their DnD character sheets upon them? Attack them with honed office equipment? Maybe they made tactical use of their stealth abilities, hiding around desks and surprising the unwary with "Bazinga!"

chat Evilsandwichman • 4 months ago • 100%

A lib I work with who has good politics about Palestine (shocking given his politics on basically everything else) had this to say in regards to the treatment of professors and student protesters. All I could think was "have you been living in a cave?" This guy actually believes the hype about America; Never mind the BLM protesters who were also arrested and given unacceptable prison sentences, never mind the national guard getting called on protesters, never mind cops killing protesters from time to time, *now* this is isn't America. It's been America for a long time, I've no idea how he hasn't noticed to be honest.

chat Evilsandwichman • 4 months ago • 100%

I recall when I found a wikipedia article talking about the oil for food program in Iraq, where the human rights coordinator there quit his post so he could criticize the sanctions on Iraq as a genocide, and his replacement also quitting and saying the same thing; the UN's response? They wanted to quibble over the term 'genocide', even though they're being informed that many, many people were going to die. Today, in regards to Israel, the discussion is seriously about whether or not the term 'genocide' is apropos, when the real issue here is that over 30,000 people have died, and food, water and medicine are being withheld. Call it whatever the hell you want, just put a damn stop to it already; these actions are killing in the former a million people, and in the latter at least over 30,000 people and rising. If this was happening to a Western country no one would entertain for a moment having a discussion on whether or not this is a genocide, everyone would be bending over backwards to put a stop to it; no one would care what you call it. For the last several months, Israel has been dropping bombs intended for fortified military targets on civilian centers; on apartment buildings and vital infrastructure. If this was happening to France or Germany, would the discussion in public right now actually be about whether the attacks fall under genocide or just typical war acts, or would everyone be in agreement that they need to come to an end because these attacks are unacceptable? Hell, we have the answer already when Iran attacked military targets in Israel and that British politician on TV (no idea who he was; he was the guy who was asked by the reporter if Britain would respond had their own embassy been attacked and he said Britain's response would be strong) was talking about imagine how horrific it would have been had it struck a civilian center.

games Evilsandwichman • 5 months ago • 100%

Any left wing server you guys can recommend? I recall the last time I played, every time in the morning the antisemitic and racist termites would crawl out of their holes, and every now and then I'd get anti-Roma racism during the day (was playing on EU servers). I was tempted to give Asian realms like Korea and Taiwan a shot, but the last time I played on Asian servers (in Diablo Immortal), I only understood like 10% of the chat. On EU and American servers everyone usually speaks English. I rolled EU initially because a buddy of mine was playing EU servers, and unfortunately you can't switch regions. With the genocide going on in Gaza, I really don't have the stomach to be reading people talking about Gazans having the genocide coming to them, I also don't want to be reading blatant antisemitism either (a high ask given I'm looking for a WoW classic server). I found someone talking about their left wing guild, but it's on WoW retail sooooo......

games Evilsandwichman • 5 months ago • 100%

I keep every now and then feeling the urge to return and I think it's more because the grind in WoW, especially now that I've realized rogue is the perfect class for me, is a great way to switch off my brain and just play and grind. When I first played WoW for years, I played with a warlock that I liked thematically but was actually terrible at; I played warlock, warrior and druid, and I was terrible/mediocre at all three, but when I got WoW classic back when it first launched, I played rogue and was blown away by how easy it was to be good at being a rogue, but also how capable they were in solo play as well (which I thought they wouldn't be). What killed the game for me though was when 'the realization' hit; that realization being the core goal: You farm the current raids over and over and over, so that you can be well geared for when the next raid drops and then you farm *that* raid over and over and over again, so that you can be well geared for when the next raid drops and then you farm *that* raid over and over and over again, ad infinitum. Basically: You farm, so you can farm, so you can farm, so you can farm, etc. infinitely. I recall when I first did Molten core, my guild and I were terrible and couldn't beat ragnaros the first time, then we went next week and through much struggle managed to kill him, and then I was dismayed because I realized I was going to be back there again next week, and the next, and the next, forever until we were all geared up, so that when the next raid dropped, we could farm that one over and over and over again infinitely, etc. That realization killed the game for me immediately and as far as my guild was concerned, I just dropped off the face of the earth cause I logged out and never wanted to go back in again. What an utterly stupid and awful concept, gameplay intended to make you farm for the rest of your life and to keep giving you reasons to keep logging in forever rather than play something else. Now however I'm in the mood for something I can do absentmindedly, and the gameplay and artstyle of World of Warcraft are both great for me (world of warcraft classic mind you; I don't think I want to play WoW retail ever again. I stopped playing WoW retail back during wrath of the lich king (2nd expansion pack) and only briefly touched the game during cataclysm. I tested my warlock super briefly during one of the recent expansion packs and was immediately turned off by the bizarre new powers he got and the unintelligible new talent screen). I tried playing guild wars 2, and I have an immense respect for what they accomplished with it, but the way your abilities work is not as fun as WoW and the cartoony artstyle of WoW is more appealing to me. I'm super tempted to go back, and the rogue's gameplay fits me like a glove. I don't know though if I should go back; when I first played WoW, I was so trash at the game and I never joined a guild, so I missed almost every single raid experience, and I missed the many, many dungeons in Wrath of the lich king and beyond. I recently decided to download a host of free to play MMOs to try and chase that absentminded grind gameplay, but I already recognize the world of Azeroth and most of the important NPCs and storylines, these other games I know very little or nothing about. Before I get a subscription to WoW again though, I might try Neverwinter at least to see if it scratches that itch (at least Forgotten Realms is somewhat familiar to me).

Palestine Evilsandwichman • 6 months ago • 93%

www.dazeddigital.com

The very same Palestinians we're being promised would gut us if they had the chance. Addendum but not related to Palestine: While libs back on blue stormfront were actually defending Trump when he was tossing around the idea of invading Venezuela, back in 2005 Venezuela and Cuba offered aid to Americans after Hurricane Katrina: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2005/9/5/venezuela-and-cuba-offer-us-aid