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    Theres an alternate universe where dr oz won the senate race and the only muslim in the senate is simping for israel. It literally makes zero material difference who won that election, maybe oz would have offered some token gesture of concern for the people of palestine, it would mean nothing of course.

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    Is anyone else here involved in lib politics who is a crypto-communist?

    I post on a little site called hexbear.com and It got all these libs on it, unknown to them I am not actually a liberal. I have been secretly drip feeding communist propaganda through their hasantent slop. Through the use of repeated key phrases such as treats and praxis I have turned the libs of hexbear into effective sleeper agents able to do kungfu backflips around the innate contradictions of their western leftist lifestyles. By years end we will have the vegans spouting pro-cannibalism propaganda to advance the operation of “eat porky”, we constantly monitor the absurdity and sincerity levels of posters, whenever absurdity levels are high we inject large amount of sincerepostings in order to internalize the absurdity as sincere, whenever sincerity levels are high we inject absurditypostings in order to make people focus less on their real problems and instead on the revolution which is a highly convoluted abstract concept that prevents the liberals from doing meaningful work to change things. Should the operation become compromised then operation “touch grass” is initiated which involves logging off and doing twelve hours of meditation to purge oneself of the cognitohazard memes consumed while owning the libs.

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    /c/Hasan_Piker

    Hasan Piker has long been an ally of the chapo community. I think there's a lot of overlap between our spaces.

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    chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Every Debate Pervert: "Civility and kindness are always the best way to convince people of your point..."
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    When I showed my grandfather in hospice Hasan Piker on twitch he said “who is this loser, why does he want my money?” I could have said “Hasan is the voice of my generation; hes the face of the online left; Hasan is the physical embodiment of good in the world.” But I did not say those things, instead I BOPPED my grandfather in the head and told him to watch and listen and learn something from Hasan Piker. He started yelling for help so I BOPPED him again, he was bleeding from his nose now, eventually the nurse came in to ask whats wrong and my grandfather stared at me, then stared at the nurse, then back at me, and I just looked at him with the praxis blank stare I always have and he just gave up on asking for help and went back to watching Hasan Piker, I tipped the nurse 5$ and thanked them for their service as a worker and told them to spit in his yogurt then left the nursing home, knowing I created not just one, but TWO fans of Hasan Piker that day has given me the ideological fervor to keep going on serving Hasan and thus the interests of communism and workers. Sometimes I dream Hasan reads my comments on twitch; sometimes Hasan’s twitch streams are broadcasted on the Times Square billboards; sometimes I dream of Hasan descending on IOF and liberating Palestine single-handedly. All of these dreams are visions and its my job to make them true, all glory to Hasan, defeat the debate bro!

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  • labour labour Bernie Sanders: It’s time for a 4-day work week | CNN Opinion
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    The west should be working seven days a week in reeducation camps to rebuild the global south they plundered for centuries, Bernie is a liberal.

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    Until I see videos of lgbt people getting beheaded like isis I assume that the middle east is at worst just heavily closeted and not worse than how gay people were treated through the civil rights movement to the aids era in amerikkka.

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    When the Soviet Union collapsed the republics that left kind of maintained their borders, like why do you think Ukraine had Crimea? If the US were to go through a similar situation it absolutely would be divided between the states, not because the states act as countries but because lines on a map actually do have an impact on the material conditions.

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    badposting LaForgeRayBans 6 months ago 100%
    Now would be a very good time for an AES state to invade a rebellious island province.

    Im not saying xi should launch the nukes but all of taiwan is defenseless at the moment. Maybe kick them while theyre down?

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    A chili pepper I could understand, a good red dried chili pepper is a great snack. The only way im eating a bell pepper is if its stuffed or diced. Its an ingredient not a meal!

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    Are you only looking for cis women exclusively because thats is probably the greatest hurdle for you to getting in a committed relationship with a beautiful woman.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Please do not approach Hasan IRL and criticize him for breaking the boycotts he promotes, leftist thought leaders are allowed to be hypocrites and consume whatever treats they want.
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    Well you should care. I care a lot. Every time im told to go outside and touch grass I donate 5 dollars to Hasan Pikers twitch because everything I give him helps free Palestine. I have probably helped more Palestinians than aid workers just by my posting alone. It’s good to be a hero.

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    By insulting me you insult the glory of hasan piker and have forever made yourself an enemy of the prophet of brocialism. You shall receive no treats when the revolution cums, you will die in a work camp shoveling shit from the pig poop balls pits, chat will laugh at you and your misfortune not just until your death but the death of your entire extended family through seven generations. When I said give your eyes and your capital to hasan piker I meant it, you cannot spell “communism” without “cult of personality”, Hasan Piker IS the leader of the left! Hasan Piker IS smartest person in human history! Hasan Piker IS your daddy! Hasan Piker IS the CEO OF COMMUNISM! Repent and buy a Hasan Piker sweater from his merch store using the promocode “communistsimpathizer” and browse from a wide selection of 100% chinese cotton products!

    So please, GIVE YOUR CAPITAL TO HASAN

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    Im vegan but im okay with setting an island aside for the hedonistic cannibals who run the world if that means everyone else is vegan.

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    Please do not approach Hasan IRL and criticize him for breaking the boycotts he promotes, leftist thought leaders are allowed to be hypocrites and consume whatever treats they want.

    Im being serious. The left needs to embrace a “do as I say not as I do” attitude towards our leaders, with great power comes a large amount of treats and who are we to judge Hasan for not living up to the ideals that he sets out for us. In fact I think its good that he doesnt do what he says, it means you are willing to follow him, when he does not care about you, it shows one true ideological devotion to the cause. Please give your eyes and your capital to Hasan, he needs it more than you, and do not have original ideas or question him at all. Free thinkers will get banned in the twitch chat. And please, do not drink the Coca Cola even if dear leader is doing it. Inshallah Hasan is divine in nature!

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    I gave up on trying to crosspost anything and just have different accounts on the other lemmy sites.

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    Maybe they should take a more hostile approach towards anime? Theres many more problem with the industry than 7/11 selling hentai rape.

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    If the left took an absurdly anti-anime and anti-manga stance I feel like the people we alienate on the left would be outnumbered by the people joining us because of their intrinsic hate of anime. Lets characterize an entire art form as reactionary and see what happens, im willing to gamble with your treats.

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    Ive been playing suicide squad after work every day, im at level 30. Its been fun, best 100$ I ever spent!

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    I dont feel comfortable sharing a planet with whitepeopletwitter users, and im not leaving.

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    badposting LaForgeRayBans 6 months ago 100%
    Bit Idea: The Hexbear Podcast.

    Mods should make a discord channel with just one voice chat room and the entire userbase of Hexbear should join in this voice chat all at the same time and for exactly an hour we just record the mindless screaming and rambling that comes from it, then we post it on SoundCloud and YouTube and call it a podcast. It would be fucking horrible, but I have nothing better to do this weekend. WHOS WITH ME?

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    chapotraphouse LaForgeRayBans 6 months ago 100%
    There are three kinds of Earths in science fiction.

    Earth 1: dicks to Mars. Earth 2: being dicked by Mars. Earth 3: Earth and Mars consensually dicking each other.

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    commrequest LaForgeRayBans 6 months ago 100%
    Can we get a vibes check on /c/rackers?

    Please answer these questions! What kind content should be posted on /c/rackers? What kind of content would be posted on rackers if you dropped the /c/? Do you want to see this comm created? If nobody wants /c/rackers may I suggest /c/hapotraphouse as an alternative. We really ought to use the /c/ in comms as part of the official name of these groups. Its a missed opportunity if you ask me.

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    movies movies i am watching star trek tng for the first time and just got to the first episode i would call great
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    chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Why do I lack the ability to trust white people who claim to be progressive or leftist?
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    chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Why do I lack the ability to trust white people who claim to be progressive or leftist?
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    Yes let us force everyone to identify as a communist, no one has the right to self determination towards political identity or belief! All must conform to the hexbear standard of nonconformity.

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    With all the white people self flagellating in this thread it does make everyone seem less sincere which validates op question lmao. This thread is just a dumpster fire, people arguing if interracial marriage or having Black friends makes you racist or not, are asians poc?

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  • urbanism urbanism It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing
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    The gist of what I’m try to say is that there is an option here that is the best for capitalism to continue existing and usually that option has some concessions for the workers/consumers/ect and we should not pick that option as we need to do full fucking communism full throttle straight into that brick wall saying capitalism and we got to smash through it even if everyone in the car dies.

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    Banning programming languages seems like a bad idea to me, humanity has come to regret all that language standardization and cultural genocide that happened with the imposition of one universal linguistic language. My official (so the communist position) on programming languages is let a thousand alternates to C+ bloom, then crush them all under the jackboot of the communist party. THEY WILL ALL BE THE LANGUAGE OF COMMUNISM!

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    So we can do this but we cant build a road across the darian gap that is killing thousands of people every year who try to cross it. I understand that theres environmental concerns. People come before the environment.

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    Well if your trying to give everyone in america a gilded cage then breaking boeing up would distribute the wealth in a manner that would alleviate the contradictions in capitalism enough to give the workers enough treats to not rebel. I want the workers starving so they do the revolution, hence I believe that boeing should be bailed out so that american aviation and engineering can decline. Best case scenario is americas nuclear capability becomes so degraded it cant actually work and we get nuked without being able to retaliate.

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    He probably wont 180 harder than Milei, maybe like 120-150, Im not going to vote but if theres an endorsement from Palestinians for a US candidate I probably will. I doubt it, but it wouldnt take much for me to vote for literally anyone, anyone who literally just goes on a stage and says free Palestine gets my vote, and no one is going to do that, its insane. The politicians arent even willing to lie about it. There is not a single person on the ballot who is pro Palestine. I fucking hate this country and its people.

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    Probably for the best, assault charges are fucking insane lmao. Especially if you have hiv that shit is fucking stupid. When the revolution comes people like that will be more than just spat on.

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    Dragon Dogma 2 is a horrible game

    The first one was so good. The sequel has dark souls 2 graphics but it doesnt improve on anything unlike dark souls 2. Every two minutes my party calls me gay. I cannot restart the game without spending real money. Theres no fast travel unless you spend real money on it. It crashes every five minutes. This game is horrible, legitimate contender for worst game of the year. Which is sad because a lot of work was put into it. Oh well, I guess gamers need to suffer and hexbear needs to gaslight me into buying this piece of shit.

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    We should make a leftist org that gets infiltrated by feds but we use the feds as free labor.

    Why yes PolPotEnjoyer please go get us a printing press, CheGuevaraLover your uncle died and left you his 2000 acre compound why yes we generously accept, the weird Jimmy Dore fan holding a gun talking about killing Reagan, how about we just put you to work in the vegetable patch. It might be a Faustian bargain but we could get a cool ten years of feds financing our lifestyles before they go Jonestown on us. Lets commit to a revolutionary non revolutionary leftist org where we do nothing and the infiltrators do the actual hard work of setting up the organization.

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    The year is 2024 and the twitch streamer high council decides to rip off three body problem and do the wallfacers irl.

    Hasan, Vaush, Keffals, and Destiny are given unlimited power and no one can question it. Hasan begins hoarding all the worlds luxury items and now calls himself the treatbearer, Vaush turns the entire state of Montana into his own personal horse ranch, Keffals immediately overdoses on ketamine and dies, and Destiny goes blind staring into the sun while looking for clout. These four brightest, the BEST of humanity, these godlike TWITCH STREAMERS will do WHATEVER it takes to achieve communism or something, do not question their motives or true intentions, for they remain hidden inside their mind to protect the revolution. Also Matt Christmans brain is put into a jar and sent on a rocket to alpha centari, but instead of the rocket successfully launching, it blows up and elon musk calls it a successful failure on twitter before never talking about it again. In 400 years the earth becomes a giant pancake due to global warming. I just saved everyone from having to ~~read the book~~ ~~watch the tencent version~~ watch the Netflix adaptation.

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    The only thing in life I fear is someone with actual power in an AES country finding out about Hexbear and releasing a lengthy criticism of our leftism.

    Just imagine if Xi Jiping came out tomorrow and said in English “my advisors told of this website called Hexbear, they said that it was the bulwark of socialism in the west, I fired this advisor and they were sent to a reeducation camp. I have spent party resources researching this Hexbear and came to the conclusion that it is reactionary website filled with radical liberals that has bad takes on literally everything. We will be extending the great firewall to block not just Hexbear, but all Lemmy extensions, we cannot taint our brand of Marxism with this adventurist bourgeoisie filth! This E-communism is heretical and everyone who practiced it must be branded with a hot iron on the face so no one can ever take them seriously again, their fingers must be cut off so they can no longer type, their eyes must be glued shut so they cannot read theory to misinterpret it. Not just the Hexbearers, but the Breadtubers, and the Dirtbag Leftists, and the Star Trekkers too! DRIVE OUT THE REVISIONISTS WHO POST BAD TAKES ONLINE!” -Liu Cixin

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    You think militaries across the world would start implementing harsher punishments against soldiers bringing phones into warzones recording their warcrimes while fortnite dancing.

    But it seems like every fucking day there’s a new video of drones blowing up cars, snipers shooting kids, POW’s getting murdered. Generals should have known that letting cameras on a battlefield was a bad idea since Vietnam. Now personally I think it’s good this stuff is being documented, not like I want it to happen or want to see it but at least there’s evidence, but I’m thinking from a warmongers perspective, why would you want footage of war to be so wildly disseminated? How hard is it to take away a phone from a soldier? I don’t know how to feel about this, I just know it’s an incredibly wide security gap that no army is willing to plug.

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    (CW: dead body) there’s a tourist trap in Arizona displaying the dead bodies of a mother and child, of either Chinese or Indigenous origin.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(roadside_attraction) The bodies are the literal “thing” this place is advertising, I think the bodies need to be repatriated, that an autopsy needs to be preformed, people should contact the tribal governments and chinese embassy over this. The bodies are over 100 years old so it’s unlikely that they will ever be identified but with dna testing we might be able to find a relative. It’s not even that I’m outraged over this, just disappointed.

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    requesting /c/thedonald as a general shitposting board.

    1. will the board be ironically or unironically pro-trump? No. 2. will the board be about trump exclusively? Mostly not, it will mostly be a board about mocking liberal politics. 3. why should my leftist safespace have a subforum called “thedonald”? Because it would be funny and we could laugh at anyone who posts there unironically. 4. if there’s this girl I like, and I really like her, but she is obsessed with this thing called jebposting where she makes ironic memes about jeb bush winning elections in a landslide to comical degrees, to the point where she neglects eating, bathing, going outside, just to keep jebposting. Should I ask this girl out on a jeb bush themed date even if I think the joke itself is rather worn out and not funny anymore?

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    chapotraphouse LaForgeRayBans 6 months ago 100%
    Unionizing internet moderators and my theory on how to do it.

    Across the internet on thousands of websites the (mostly) unpaid labor of (mostly) volunteer internet moderators is exploited by social media companies and the consequences of that have been bad for the moderators themselves, as well as social media users and websites as a whole. The internet could not function without moderator labor, it’s vital to ensure the suppression of hate speech and illegal material. The last time moderators tried to organize was with Reddit during the API changes and they were violently suppressed, Reddit had no issue finding scabs in its userbase to replace the mods that had their subs go dark, and Reddit threw in a small amount of compensation for the moderators that is not equal at all to the monetary value of the labor they have provided the site over the years. (Also Ghislaine Maxwell the sex trafficker is still unconfirmed to have been the powermod maxwellhill on several of Reddit’s biggest and influential subreddits, which I’m mentioning because moderator abuse is a symptom of there being no regulation in the system whatsoever.) Internet moderation is not exclusive to Reddit, we have all heard stories and even personally experienced the tyranny of a moderator before, but we must recognize that the problem lays not with the WORKERS who are the MODERATORS but the ADMINISTRATORS and OWNERS of the social media websites who are the real tyrants for allowing such awful behavior to exist on their own websites, they are lazy to hand out such vital controls to volunteers without vetting them or fairly compensating them. Most social media websites would not be profitable and would not exist without this form of exploitation, this lazy system is not good for the internet or for society, in the past it made sense for websites to hand out these privileges because there was no rules back then, but as the internet grew and became a less American-centric close knit community and more an amalgamation of every single human alive and dead who has ever used it, it’s apparent the old system is bad. We treat websites like property, the whole apparatus was developed for the military, the whole foundation the thing is built upon is a white male centric userbase and all the negatives that come along with it. Reform starts with the internet mods. How does one do a revolution on the internet? Do we go to the physical servers and seize them? Do we go a step further and go after the power supply? Who’s more important, the telecom companies, or the software companies? Our goal shouldn’t be to destroy the internet, it should be to understand it, and I understand that the moderators are the power brokers of political power on the net, they have interests and collusions and their own internal politics that range from single threads to subfourms to the whole site to multiple websites. Moderators are playing a game of intrigue when that’s not their job, their job is to remove objectionable content, they are censors not political actors, their politics should be decided for them by a union boss, if we can get moderators into a union then the left can use those moderators to exert our political will on the forces of capital like every other union ever. So what’s my plan to unionize mods? A campaign of elevating internet moderators to absurdly high levels of self importance until they start believing it themselves. We should encourage mods to abuse their power and conspire and seek to exploit their positions, we should make propaganda presenting mods in the soviet realistic style of art as like glorious workers to the point it looks mocking, but we should try to make them take it serious. We should use the power of irony and the existing connotations of moderator power and just roll with it, we should make the Reddit alien mascot the union logo because of its annoying connotations and lack of respect normal people have for it. In order to unionize mods we must lean into the stereotypes that mods are these powerhungry basement dwelling lowlifes who wear leftist causes like a tshirt because union leaders have stereotypes of being sleazy and maybe a little unashamed corruption is the secret in how to make a successful union. TLDR : accurate observation on how mods work, followed by cynical plan to unionize them by being intentionally an asshole, so people can say why that won’t work. (That’s the point, come up with some ideas ppl!)

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    chapotraphouse LaForgeRayBans 6 months ago 93%
    Is headbear fedposting?

    Or just federated?

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    main LaForgeRayBans 6 months ago 100%
    Communism should have a person dress up like Karl Marx who learns his mannerisms and tries to impersonate him on a deep ideological level so we can ask Karl Marx questions.

    Wouldn’t it be fun for a Karl Marx impersonator to just walk around lecturing people about why they are bad who also has an online and journalistic presence lecturing people as to why they are bad. There should be a union of sorts for Karl Marx impersonators to make sure they are following strict Marxist doctrine in what they say, they will replace religious leaders as to who people go to guidance for. At the end of every year we fly all the Karl Marx impersonators to a giant altar of communism and the best Karl Marx ritualistically cuts the hearts out of the inferior Karl Marx impersonators on top of said altar. Then using the blood of the dead Karl Marx impersonators we anoint the next year’s class of impersonators and we have a brand new set of Karl Marx impersonators who were trained by the last set of them who were sacrificed. Marx trainees take on the role of Engels. To make the lifecycle of the Karl Marx impersonator clear it goes Selected in random lottery (1/1,000,000) every year - Forced to train as an Engel under the wing of a Marx - Get anointed as a Marx and take on an Engel - Get sacrificed and have your blood be used to appoint the new Marx. Note if you are selected as the best Karl Marx you are not sacrificed, instead you preform that year’s sacrifice then get to retire in the goon cave with all the previous superior Karl Marx’s. Any questions?

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    politics
    politics LaForgeRayBans 6 months ago 100%
    RFK jr is literally Connor Roy.

    He was interested in politics at a very young age

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