Say what you will about the map, at least there’s no England.

There’s probably a way to link literally any given thing to white supremacy and cis heteronormativity provided you don’t care how tenuous the connection is. Hating mainstream stuff when you don’t have an actual reason is just a way to make yourself feel superior. Hell, I could probably draw a more compelling connection from hating basic stuff to white supremacy and cis heteronormativity than you could for the reverse.

The infamous Drones are Queer paper is probably a good example of how it’s possible to draw a connection between virtually any two things if you try hard enough. Or just tell Chat GPT to write an explanation on how X and Y are linked for any two things.

How dare anyone ask me to stop criticising a thing I have no problem with and no intention of criticizing! We stand in solidarity with all cynical killjoys across the world! Even if we don’t hate something, we will defend to the death the right to hate it!

Ahh yes, the classic emblem of America’s crass consumerism checks notes flavored coffee.

PSLs and Halloween decorations are bourgeois decadance, clearly.

Yeah we had a wrecker a while back go full mask-off over pumpkin spice lattes calling them “whore coffee” and making death threats over it. Granted that might just be that one wierdo but hating on PSLs and other “basic” stuff at least was a thing a while back.

What criticism even is there against PSLs and Halloween decorations??

I don’t think anybody’s being pressured into drinking pumpkin spice lattes or eating avocado toast lmao. D&D is a fun and good creative, sociable activity and more people getting into it is good, actually.

Any popular thing is going to have hype around it, that doesn’t mean that it’s inherently bad. You’re free to dislike popular stuff but saying it’s bad just because it’s popular is a bad take.

Pumpkin Spice Lattes are good and also the official drink of hexbear.net (the other ones are good too).

Hexbears in this thread having a knee-jerk contrarian reaction to the “let people enjoy things” sentiment even though nobody actually has a problem with any of these things lmao.

So instead you just lie and pretend the lesser evil is the greater evil?

Never said this, no.

I’m guessing you didn’t have a lot of family or friends directly devastated by Trump’s actions? If so, how can you be so bloody heartless?

You’re right, other than the fact that I moved away from my home state in part due to the rise in anti-trans sentiment and legislation (and obviously he continued the wars too so he’s at least as bad). I and my family were, however, directly affected by Obama’s actions in pointlessly extending the wars of aggression in the Middle East. You can read about my experiences here

Peace is absolutely not even close to being enough to address all the impending and on-going crises affecting this country. I am being extremely lax, generous, and accommodating by setting it as my sole precondition. The fact that you want me to abandon all of my principles and every single precondition so the democrats can keep following the republicans right in a self-defeating strategy is not my problem.

I call this “taking the majority hostage”

Excellent, if I have the power to take the majority hostage to the end of achieving peace, I intend to take full advantage of it.

Who said we’re important to them.

You did:

“If Trump somehow manages to win 2024 from jail, it’s our fault on the Left that he wins.”

Are you so willing to let the country go to shit if you don’t get your own way?

You bet I am. Lesser evilism is a clearly failed strategy and the country is already going to shit because of it. If your vote is guaranteed then your concerns are meaningless.

I saw where lesser evilism got us with Obama. 8 more years of war and bloodshed that accomplished nothing and brought it no closer to an end. Hundreds of thousands of innocents slain for no reason. But suddenly everyone was fine with it because “he was doing it the right way.”

Fuck that, I promised myself then that I would never vote for a hawk, and I never will. Now we have one of the guys involved in perpetrating the War on Terror (also one of the architects of mass incarceration) and we have the highest military of any country of all time. Absolute non starter. I refuse to prioritize my own safety over the victims of US imperialism abroad.

It’s very simple

I recieve: a hawk candidate

You recieve: a third party vote

Damn if we’re so important then maybe the democrats should try harder to win us over.

Tfw your subscription-based private court rules that weapon emplacements pointed directly at your neighbor’s house are not a NAP violation

The way it works is that the military industrial complex wants constant low scale war with the constant looming threat of a large scale war - but generally, the people in power don’t want a war that’s going to be an actual existential threat, because they’re already on top of the world and have too much to lose. The real danger imo comes from the people at the top riling up the hogs too much, to the point that somebody who believes all the propaganda and is actually crazy enough to do it is able to get into a position to go through with it.

It very obviously goes against the interests of every human being on the planet (and most animals, and even plants) but I will not bet on Americans being rational.

We have someone saying that not letting cats outdoors is fascism and someone else saying that letting them outside is genocide, and neither one is from Hexbear

Whichever side you’re on, the important thing is to dig in to the most extreme position possible and denounce everyone else in the strongest possible terms. Bring out the memes buried beneath seven layers of irony and in-jokes and let the world know the truth about how goldfish are colonialist. This is the Hexbear way.

For example, capitalists would hoard land to seek ransoms in exchange of its access. This causes land unaffordability and under usage. If socialism eliminates that, more land might be used and there might be more environmental destruction as a result.

I don’t think that’s true. Underused land is not necessarily protected, for example, you can dump chemical waste on a plot of land and that makes you money without developing it. Industrialized farming uses a lot of pesticides and takes up a huge amount of land without caring too much about individual plants bc of quantity over quality. Meanwhile people still have to live and work somewhere, and there’s no guarantee that that somewhere will be less environmentally destructive.

I would agree that socialism has potential to be ecologically destructive but I disagree that capitalism does anything innately that protects the environment.

Tfw you’re hanging out in a cell getting ready to testify against a bunch of super-powerful people, in a prison that’s prevented every attempted suicide in decades, after having made repeated statements that you have absolutely no intention of killing yourself, and then suddenly both the guards leave to go take a nap, and at that exact time, you notice that the multiple cameras watching your cell all randomly glitch off at the same time, so at that moment you decide to kill yourself using a method that’s indistinguishable from being murdered

I thought that there was one guy named Michael J—son who used his fame as an NBA star to launch a career as pop singer, radically changing his appearance in the process. I don’t think I realized they were different people until high school.

That’s completely wrong lol. Nowhere is there an assumption that birthdays are randomized each time, you just don’t understand the math.

There are lots of people who are anarchists because they like the aesthetics, just as there are some people who just like the aesthetics of communism (PatSocs, for example). What a person self-desribes as only tells you so much. As I like to say, for any given definition of socialism that you can imagine, you can always find someone who agrees and thinks it’s bad and someone who agrees and thinks it’s good.

I’d also like to point out that Mao was an anarchist at one point, funny enough.

I think it really depends on the person and the context. Communists and anarchists co-exist right now but I’m guessing that’s not what you mean.

I like to say, if you want a different model of socialism than China’s, then you should still support China because China is necessary for other models to survive Western sanctions/embargos. Without China, every developing country would be forced to implement exploitative neoliberal policies, while China enables them to follow their own path.