axont

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[โ€“] axont@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

What in the hell is capitalist hardware? Does my computer own a factory?

[โ€“] axont@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This comes from an evangelical comic explaining what they think communism is. I used to have it somewhere.

I remember it makes a ton of mistakes, like it shows Marx in a university classroom with Hegel as the professor, even though Hegel had been dead for over 10 years by that point. It also claims Engels was just some dumbass hanging onto Marx out of feelings of insecurity. Like there's a panel where Engels is explaining how Marx was talking about the withering away of the state concept. A woman asks Engels to elaborate, but he can't because he realizes he doesn't fully understand the concept. Which is rich, because it's the reverse in reality. Engels is the one who came up with the idea of the state withering away and Marx incorporated it.

It also depicts Marx's contemporaries as trying to save Marx's soul by getting him back into Christianity, which is also rich because Marx's best friend in college was Bruno Bauer. That's the guy who wanted to make all religion illegal, yet in the comic Bauer's depicted as like a concerned friend in an evangelical Kevin Sorbo movie.

if you take the comic seriously you'd believe we promote Marxism-Satanism (I do) sicko-satan

[โ€“] axont@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

There's the Oculus stattion in NYC which is ok, but I hate the building it's connected to. It's one of only a handful of nice stations though. Half of the NYC metro looks like Silent Hill.

[โ€“] axont@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah I know that. It's a shame which is why we have to change it. We're out here building a better future.

[โ€“] axont@hexbear.net -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Death to America" is like our version of "and peace be with you." It's a nice phrase to say at the end of every statement.

[โ€“] axont@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, I'm an angry ball of rage because I live in a white supremacist hellscape where everyone is too smug or too tired to care. I don't have any thoughts remaining other than the word fuck. The pretense of being thoughtful is a facade. My true self wants to roll in mud and scream obscenities at anyone I think looks too wealthy.

[โ€“] axont@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah I believe even that should change. Everything should change to incorporate fewer or no cars, including small towns.

[โ€“] axont@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yeah I just don't see it. If we want to reduce oil/gas use then the goal would be eliminating private car use altogether and providing alternatives. EVs are still a huge machine designed to transport a single person. They're still a waste, not to mention how much the global south is getting exploited for their lithium.

Cars just aren't going to save anything. Here, I'll compromise. Electric bicycles.

[โ€“] axont@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

We do have a map to our goal, it's called Marxism-Leninism.

[โ€“] axont@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

EVs aren't a solution to anything except as a way to trick people into thinking purchasing a car is saving the environment or helping fix society.

If liberals are so shallow that they adopt racism because someone was mean to them online, then I'm glad they're being more honest. The message is that cars, all cars, are something worth fighting against. Electric cars are not a step in the right direction, they're not even a bandaid. They're just something liberals can purchase to make them feel like they're helping something. They're toys.

Honestly I would rather if most liberals outright come out as conservative, because it sounds like they're on the line already. It would be more honest of them.

[โ€“] axont@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

yeah, now I remember. They said something like we'd push a certain ideology and that's unacceptable for some reason. Yeah, we're the only ideological ones

[โ€“] axont@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Edit: I just realized this was blahaj, not beehaw. I can't keep none of this stuff straight.

That was lemmy.world. Beehaw was federated for a while but then if I remember right kept saying we're not actually trans/gay friendly because we're too tankie. Then they kept insulting one of our admins, who is a trans woman herself. Like they'd say we're faking how queer we are. Then it turns out they have a really bad chaser problem and a bunch of our trans posters kept getting death threats or weird stalkers from over there. Also they're so anti-tankie they occasionally swerve into outright saying reactionary stuff. They also like saying slurs.

There was an attempt at damage control, then I think we decided to cut them off. Do I have all of that right? I really have problems remembering my Hexbearian lore, I'm sorry. We need a Bible

 

It's literally like this:

Materialists/Physicalists: "The thoughts in your head come from your conditions and are ultimately the result of your organs and nervous system. Your consciousness is linked to your brain activity and other parts of your body interacting with the physical real world."

Dualists: "Ok but what if there were an imaginary zombie that has the same organs and molecular structure as a living person but somehow isn't alive on some metaphysical level. If this zombie is conceivable, that means it must be metaphysically true somehow."

Materialists: "That's circular and imaginary, isn't it?"

Other dualists: "Ok but what if I were in a swamp and lightning strikes a tree and magically creates a copy of me but it's not actually me because it doesn't have my soul."

Am I reading this stuff wrong or are these actually the best arguments for mind-body dualism

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