Snapped at a liberal friend who posted Liz Warren kneeling in front of a George Floyd memorial with THIS IS WHY VOTING IS SO IMPORTANT.
MOTHERFUCKER, Joe Biden wants to shoot protesters in the leg and give the police more money. Not even the best Democrats on the national level are talking about abolishing the pigs, defunding the pigs or even just taking away their fucking GUNS.
Four years under Trump made me forget how awful Vote Blue brainworms really are.
This is Australia right? This sounds like a distinctly Australian journo pastime
It might be good to get a hexbear wiki going so instead of having the same discussion about why certain opportunists are terrible over and over again, we can just compile a page and add to it. I'm kind of against clamping down on it entirely though. Pointing out shit takes and lampooning dumbasses has always been a staple of this community and I don't see why anyone should be a special case. We drag Nathan Robinson, we drag Matt Yglesias, we drag Tim Pool, we drag all sorts of neoliberal, conservative, and fascist cretins. Hell, we even drag the namesakes of this community. This is one of the key factors as to why we get under so many people's skin. I hate to borrow a quote from Anonymous, but we act as a sort of hivemind that "does not forgive, and does not forget."
I'd argue, with "leftism" becoming destigmatized, it is even more important now than ever to combat opportunism and shit on people who want to do to the left what Liberals did to "progressivism." We shouldn't let online shit distract us from the material world, but at the same time, somebody has to crush revisionists and opportunists and we shouldn't assume anyone is going to go out of their way to do that for us. On the other hand, I agree, having 5 posts about the same spree of cringeposts on the front page is over the top.
I don't think a wiki would go ignored entirely. There are several communities on here that could benefit from it. !anarchism, !marxism, !books, !tactics, !technology. A lot of posters might never go there, and for a lot of subjects there are much better resources which already exist - but it would be nice to compile a knowledge base which is a little bit less ephemeral than threads which come and go in a day.
I agree with everything else though.
nah we need at least 40 threads talking about why some stupid millionaire on youtube who makes 5 hour long videos for white suburbanites about why cancel culture is mega cringe had a bad take
Yes please.
Also, if there's an ability to move threads to the appropriate community, or if that could be added, that would really help.
one of the reasons old forums were great. SA used to have traveling threads sometimes if they got out of hand or something.
The absolute meltdown of chuds gamers and incels about pokimane and other members of otv streaming with aoc and hasan. Chef's kiss. 🤭
"Muh Politics in muh games. Reeee". Hahaha get fucked. Imagine being young and right wing.
I read the Reeeee as reese and Reese would totally be a young right winger
Last time I was this early for a megathread fascists still controlled the Bolivian government. :sankara-salute:
Acre still has to purge the fascists from the military if bolivia wants to be free from their oppression
I believe he just called for them, as he doesn't have the authority to prefer them yet
They still control the government, idk when the day he takes power is, but for now he's just president elect.
Like bitcoin was so crap when it was released it boggled my mind actually. I'm not sure what state it is in right now, because I stopped following it. Like every one of the talking points about it was outright false. Anonymity? Every one of your transactions is fucking public, where the fuck is anonymity in this? You slip once and now everyone knows what you bought. You take a banknote from my wallet, and you will never know where the hell did it come from. Atm, some shop, found on the ground? Even if some expensive forensic science is possible to be done, you can still launder money (I mean in actual washing machine here) and they can survive it no problem, and at that point it's probably without any evidence.
7 transaction a second. What the fuck is this? This couldn't handle a town of 20 000 in the mornings and evenings, but it's supposed to be a currency used worldwide .
Cheap transactions? When the price skyrocketed it was more expensive than using credit cards. And much more expensive. And at that point it became even slower, since you had to line up the pockets of miners.
Decentralized? As every capitalist venture the mining became monopolized by like 5 cartels. Hope they never collude for their own benefit...
Like billions of dollars have been defrauded from the ecosystem, because it attracted libertarians of the worst sort. Exchanges being hacked (running away with money). Mining equipment funded by crowdsourcing, then the enterpreneurs mined bitcoins on them until they became basically useless and only then they delivered. No regulation so painting the tape, pump and dump scams etc are common everywhere. All of just outright Ponzi schemes like Bitconnect it spawned(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCcwn6bGUtU). Fucking ICOs. No chargebacks so hope you don't make a typo when sending your money, so easy to use, your grandma could do it by the way. Billions of fake dollars printed out of thin air (don't get me even started on this Tether shit, seriously, what the fuck...).
And all of this amazing technology can be had for a low price of yearly energy consumption of a small western European country. Last time I checked it was on Norway level, who even knows where it is now.
This is all good for bitcoin by the way.
I actually love Bitcoin because it teaches dumbass libertarians the need for regulations
It's really a condensed history of finance, banking and problems arising out of unregulated exchanges and banks.
I think blockchain currencies could be an incredibly useful resource to some sort of scientific socialist market state, but all of the existing blockchain currencies founded on the riches extracted from stolen land, stolen people, stolen labor power, and imperialism would need to be abolished first, and are a total fucking waste. Blockchain currencies in their current manifestation are being used to solve the wrong problem, and the whole concept of mining to achieve scarcity needs to be outlawed. The concept of a fully public, cryptographic ledger is redeemable though. Monetary policy could be directed by a socialist state, instead of moore's law and ecological destruction.
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I used to do some computation for Folding@home and SETI on BOINC. Such projects would at least be useful as a basis for manufacturing scarcity (controlling inflation), as compared to Bitcoin mining which solves incredibly resource-intensive problems which have absolutely no utility at all besides calling dibs on a block. My issue is mainly that I don't think such a mechanism for producing scarcity is necessary. Bitcoin exists to isolate the value form from the influence of centralized monetary policy. For Libertarians this is a win because there is no Federal Reserve which can arbitrarily decide to start minting trillion-dollar coins, but it still doesn't prevent exceptionally wealthy people from stockpiling reserves of currency and influencing the market the old fashioned way like when we used to use specie (think Fort Knox but Bitcoin) .
For a socialist state, we could instead simply mint digital currency as needed the way the Fed does now (but not evil), while reaping the benefits of full financial transparency.
Except one of the most popular crypto currencies can be used to simulate things like protein folding and all other sorts of shit (ethereum).
It's still all rather dumb though.
turned 24 yesterday. i still feel like 16 because i haven't accomplished anything.
Don't worry too much about it. Your 20s are for fucking around and doing stuff and making mistakes and learning about yourself.
Happy birthday, comrade!
I'm a few years older than you and feel the same way sometimes, like a teenager with carpel tunnel who tricked people into giving me responsibilities lol
hello fellow 10/20 baby, did you make sure to say happy birthday to Snoop Dogg too?
actually you know what no, i hope i'm the only one and all of you feel way better than this
in my 30s same boat. if it helps everyone I know tends to feel like that
The funniest moment in the AOC stream was Hbomb (blue) murdering her during a task, and the chat going VOTE BLUE.
At the beginning of the year Bernie AOC and Omar were talking about revolution. Now Bernie is talking about how much Biden rules and AOC and Omar are playing videogames.
How many times am I going to allow myself to get played like this?
I honestly think that there's nothing wrong with AOC and Ilhan playing video games. Its not like politicians of the past didn't enjoy playing cards or some kind of sport.
We need something on the gamer front tbh.
There's no revolution led by electoral politicians, but it doesn't mean nothing good comes from it.
Kind of wild that a country 4x our size has 10% of our prison population.
Send him this then challenge him to a game of basketball, jump fifteen feet in the air and slam dunk on his ass
Roger Eatwell is a professor who spends his time studying "right wing populism" and thinks it's substantially different from fascism.
Roger Eatwell is a dumb fuck.
october 21st? big if true.
whats your take on this info niue? still tuesday huh? i knew it, fake news again!
cant believe you would smokescreen this slanderous time zone bias behind joe bidens political credentials like that.
I have. My advice would be that You need to establish and communicate about your respective risk levels from the get go.
I already had coronavirus in March, so it's a little different (I have no clue if I'm actually immune), but I've definitely been going on dates with people.
I think it's more important to not be hanging out in large groups than it is to be hanging out with random people on a 1:1 basis.
Damn that's far! Outdoor activities will get harder and harder as autumn and winter settle in here, so I suppose it will have to take a lot of communication about what risks we're taking.
