What the hell. Fuck TERF island. Bunch of eugenist fucks.

Can they force this upon you even if they know you’re ace? I don’t really know how to deal with this, but I would suggest you to at least make sure all your thoughts are passed on as clear as possible to them while being firm enough to show that you’re very much not comfortable with taking birth control medication, probably a good idea to put emphasis on the risks you mentioned.

Also fuck the Hexbear user that said that to you, that’s disgusting. I hope the user got banned. If not, then please report them, I doubt the mods would let it slide.

This rendition is great! Discovered it a few days ago and added it to my August playlist.

I totally get that distrust because I used to think like that too.

The problem with this line of thinking is that, in my case at least, it came from a misunderstanding of how governments/states actually work due to intense propaganda, specially by right winger politicians that keep pushing this type narrative. Different types of states function differently.

All these issues you list are deeply linked with whose class controls the state, it’s not an issue with the state itself.

then the state can silence anyone they disagree with by labeling them as part of the bourgeoisie

That would be extremely hard to do. Being part of the bourgeoisie is a material condition, so unless you tick all the boxes that makes you part of it, there’s no conceivable way to simply label someone that in a socialist society just because. Furthermore, socialist societies have mechanisms of true popular democracy in place so people have a much bigger participation in politics, if such a problem would arise, people could do something about it, which goes in complete contrast to what happens in capitalist countries like the USA where, like you mentioned, you can simply be labeled an antisemite for protesting against the genocidal entity of Israel, can then be beat by the police for protesting the genocide and even sent to prison.

The thing here is that we need to look at how this is happening in real life right now. Are socialist states (Cuba, China, Laos, Vietnam, DPRK) doing that? As far as I know, no. Are capitalist ones doing that? Yes. So that in itself already suggests something is different in these states.

In fact, the reason why in the west you get labeled antisemitic for protesting against the genocide is directly linked with the bourgeoisie since it is in their interest that Israel continue existing. Biden himself admitted back in 1986 that the existence of Israel furthers US’s interests in the region. So showing solidarity with Palestine goes directly against the US’s bourgeoisie interests. That’s why you’re attacked by the state for that.

Thanks comrade, your comforting words mean a lot! I also have anxiety, specially social anxiety so I know what that feels like, it sucks real hard, lol.

Comrade Cowbee with the excellent work as always!

I’m really lacking on theory reading. Hopefully I can get really into it soon now that I’m slowly getting better from my depression!

I recently started using Blorp because I saw one post from this community on my timeline. If you decide to migrate to .world, that would at least mean me and people from the instance I’m on wouldn’t see it anymore.

Outside of a vocal minority, I don’t think .ml is heavily blocked by people. Of course, I don’t have data to back up my claim, but if that’s a real issue I think it should be weighted in properly.

Then you’re lacking class consciousness. Every state serves a class over another. In capitalist societies, it’s the bourgeoisie over the proletariat. In a socialist society it’s the opposite.

You can easily observe this in how basically all of western media is owned by a few companies that dictate what information gets to you.

Furthermore, not everyone deserves freedom of speech. Nazis should have 0 right to that.

As a side note, it pisses me off when other supposed leftist spaces are like this too. I was recently browsing r/rabm since I’m doing an angry/hatred playlist and wanted to find some songs and there’s way too many anti-tankie leftists there. It sucks.

Honestly, same! Y’all are great, this little corner of the internet is cool to be a part of!

Hexbear’s mod and admin (a few) running defence on the zionist entity

I only saw some a little bit of the struggle session happening there, but I saw that the proper flag of Isntreal burning was added, so there’s that a least.

Oh hell yeag, I love Black Flag, battling in the sea was sick.

I’ve been playing Risk of Rain 2, some Need For Speed Heat with a friend and Final Fantasy VII Remake.

I hope I can unlock the Ethereal skill on Mercenary since the current Prismatic Trial looks to be easy, but hell what a pain the ass to get it, lol.

I don’t understand much about cars at all, but my current one on NFS Heat is a Honda S2000 '09 and I’m loving it, really fun car and has a sick painting right now.

FF7 is my first FF and I’m absolutely loving it. I’m on chapter 16 and what a great game, I love doing ecoterrorism against big corpo!!!

I want to start Deltarune after finishing FF7, I only played the first 2 free chapters, I really want to see the new ones.

What do you think of the Switch 2?

Looks underwhelming honestly, I hope it gets jailbroken soon, then it will be cool to see what people can do with it since it’s a least a somewhat powerful system, could become a really good emulation machine and even Linux machine.

What would you like to see from video games going forward?

Honestly don’t know, more experimentation, but indies tend to do good on that front. I guess better optimization going forward for big titles, but I doubt that will happen. I’m not versed in gamedev to make a good critique, but I have yet to see an UE5 game that is well optimized, every single one I have tried run badly in some way or another. I have a 5700 XT, which is starting to show it’s age a little bit, but I expected better.

The user you’re responding to is a PCO apologist. I would not expect much from them in regards to correct political analysis.

Them saying that there is a far right nationalism movement in Brasil is already completely wrong and shows a lack of understanding of the far right in the country and how they successfully managed to co-opt national symbols while being complete bootlickers of USian imperialism.

You’re right. I just wish there wasn’t so many chuds in g*ming spaces, it feels like there’s not a single gram of empathy on these people.

Thanks comrade. Knowing I have this little safe space on the internet helps a lot.

I’ll do that. I didn’t find a report button when leaving it, so I thought there wasn’t an easy way to do that. I also doubt it will result in a ban since there’s way worse shit that discord allows, unfortunately.

Risk of Rain 2 for the past week. I don’t know why, but I just got the itch to play it and I just unlocked False Son after days trying without success. He’s super fun and I really like his big bonk attack.

Thank you so much comrade! I’ll take a look into the book.

I’ll also look into healthier alternatives like you mentioned.

I absolutely love oatmilk, but unfortunately it costs at least 3x more than milk where I live, so it can be a bit expensive, good thing I don’t use it a lot, so I can probably afford it from time to time.

I eat rice daily so it’s probably a good idea I look into the alternative you mentioned too.

I also eat chicken daily so I’ll look into tofu. I’ve only eaten it once but I remember liking it a lot, so it would probably be an easy transition. It’s also good because I’ve been meaning to look into veganism for a while now, so that definitely helps!

I haven’t used Deepseek in a while so I don’t know if something changed but when I wanted something about the PRC I tried being more specific and it would answer most of the time. Stating you’re a Marxist and asking the model to answer you like a Marxist-Leninist would also helped.

Tho I asked in Portuguese, so I don’t know if this will actually apply in English.

Hell yeag! If China manages to at least put pressure on Nvidia and AMD it would already be great.

mUh AuThOrItHaRiAnIsM!!!11!

📕 On Authority by Engels

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