Hank Green is just that guy from Mentopolis. You can’t convince me he’s a Youtuber.
Hank Green is just that guy from Mentopolis. You can’t convince me he’s a Youtuber.
:contrapoints-sad:
The comparison to Christian fascists is interesting. I grew up in an evangelical cult and follow a lot of ex Christians on TikTok. A lot of these people, when they delve into politics, are unable to see anything but echoes of their own experiences with Christian fascists when talking about any kind of extremism. It’s understandable but I also don’t wanna dismiss people excusing structural violence under capitalism just because they have religious trauma. It’s something I empathize with a lot and simultaneously have no patience for because trying to get through to them often involves retraumatizing myself, too. Shit sucks, especially when I’ve put more energy than your average western leftist into deconstructing all the aspects of Christianity that are just baked into the culture here.
I just finished this last month. What a lovely game. Gotta try out the update.
Yes, worsening conditions mean people need scapegoats. The people in charge of the political machine may not even necessarily be scapegoating (though they often are). Sometimes there’s just a cultural search for explanations and the reactionary reasons happen to win out by the time they reach the ears of someone who can do something about it. Also, improving conditions make it easier for activists to operate. More resources, more hope, more free time, less death. It’s not a 1-to-1 link and there are other factors, but there’s a connection. You can also look at things like unequal distribution of prosperity. The success of the black suffrage movement in the US followed a boom where white Americans came into tremendous wealth which wasn’t shared among the black population. And where black communities were able to get some for themselves and develop their own prosperity, towns were bulldozed, flooded, or otherwise destroyed. And of course we already know about things like red lining. Prosperity plays a major part in that story.
I believe it was originally squatted on by some maga communist type. Kinda like how magacommunist.com redirects.
While this quote does not encapsulate marx’s entire view on the state, it shows that Marx sees that the state is bourgeois and therefore antagonistic to the proletariat.
I understood why the person made this mistake, but goddamn it was funny to watch them repeatedly double down on it.
I first joined up almost 4 years ago following the r/chapotraphouse ban. It feels like it’s been so much longer.
0% chance this person has a threat model that necessitates not being tracked in their car. That said, most modern cars have similar tracking abilities and simply don’t expose them via an app.
Edit: I didn’t catch that it was in r/adultery. Good lord.
It’s open source, so you can use their official hosted service or you can self host for free.
It’s project management software made by and for worker cooperatives. It’s useful for any kind of organization where you want to be able to scale without introducing management hierarchy, want members to be able to come and go, and just generally value transparency and spontaneity.
There was a point at my company where I was expected to monitor Skype, Teams, and Slack all at once. And then my team also had an unsanctioned Discord that we used for day to day shit.
If you’ve sufficiently dehumanized someone who’s harmed you in a major and who you justifiably hate, fucking them over can make you feel absolutely triumphant. I think there are four problems with revenge:
I’m academically challenged alright. Learning disability and everything.
I’m not familiar with Dune but I’m afraid on your behalf that you’ve missed something with the “Leto II” bit of that comment
White boomers still have so much “old timey” racism rattling around in their heads just waiting for the opportunity to escape. My dad once
asked his black coworker over to help him move a couch and kept calling him “boy” which I’d never heard him call anybody. Like this guy came over to help out of the kindness of his heart and you talk to him like that?
He’s a lifelong dem and considers himself progressive, of course. Glad I don’t talk to him anymore.
Steven Crowder does impressions of black people that are minstrel-tier caricatures. I wouldn’t be surprised if more “comedy” like this made a comeback.
I forgot about that video. Wild.
It’s a rage comic from like 2009
I make it no secret that I’m proud of this one