I’d like to say this is just them saving face, but between the power of the nuclear engines on those carriers and the incompetence of the US Navy, this sounds like something that could absolutely happen

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Former Israeli ambassador on Biden

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idk if telling someone to disengage when you call them an insufferable prick in the same comment is really in the spirit of the rule lol

KMT central is never gonna adopt communism without full reunification. Would be interesting if they reject being America’s sacrificial goat, though.

India is commiting a slow genocide in Kashmir, no? They’ve killed tens of thousands of Muslims and tortured many more. Indian soldiers legally can’t be prosecuted for anything they do in the province. I’m not hoping for nuclear war today so hopefully we won’t see another hot conflict between India and Pakistan, but still.

The one in Serbia was because the Air Force was flying a B-2 on the same bombing route through the same valley for several nights in a row, so the AA crew just set up in the right spot and waited for the bomb bay doors to open and break the stealth.

One imagines that they don’t do that anymore, but it’s not a very smart organization either…

I never used Tumblr but my understanding is that it’s more Twitter-esque in terms of interaction. Don’t know anything about Matrix tbh

In the same way that Hexbear was formed from Reddit refugees, leftypol was formed from 8chan refugees, and 8chan was probably the worst large site on the internet while it was operational. I don’t hate leftypol but I have a pretty thick skin, wouldn’t expect most people to want to deal with that culture

I didn’t use /g/ so I wouldn’t know.
IMO the boards with generals or weekly threads were more tolerable. Less likely to have random people come in to shit stir, although it certainly still happens sometimes.

It has been funny(?) seeing some conservative catholics swallow their racism to support this guy since he seems to hate Muslims and gay people more than the other candidates

Might be alone in this but I did appreciate 4chan for chatting about niche topics that don’t really work elsewhere. Reddit is just the same 3-5 topics over and over mixed with horny shit and you can’t really have a conversation on Twitter, so unless there’s some forum that’s been running for 20 years about your hyperfixation, 4chan was the best option. Gonna miss weekly manga dumps and some of the smaller videogame generals.

If 4chan had shut down a decade ago it might have been nice, since the culture was more confined to the website, but now even Hexbear has fucking wojaks so what’s the point?

Hexbear has been making me feel insane with how many people are lining up to praise the fucking pope

It hasn’t started lol, it’s on the 26th

The Supreme Court can unanimously order Trump to do something and he just ignores them. I don’t know why some people still think that the law is going to stop him

Am I wrong? Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, all preach that doing certain things in this life will reward you, either by going to heaven or escaping the cycle or whatever. Christianity explicitly teaches that being persecuted is to be expected and good. Any good deeds done by organized religion are incidental and easily outweighed by their harm.

I’m always surprised by how many people are willing to go to bat for religion on a supposedly leftist website.

Religion is “compatible” with Marxism in the sense that a Marxist state need have no problem with citizens who practice their religions in peace without theocracy, like (I believe) happens in Cuba.

I don’t think this is true. The influence of religion in Cuba (and China for that matter) is small enough that trying to convert everyone to atheism is understandably very low on their government’s list of priorities.

The whole point of religion is to assure you that your suffering in this life is okay because you’ll be rewarded in some future life. It’s antithetical to a materialist worldview, to establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat. Like, there’s a reason all the great Marxist authors were atheists.

I don’t mean it in the sense that “everyone that disagrees with me isn’t a real Marxist,” I genuinely don’t think the majority of people on this website read theory. Hexbear leans much more into shitposting than other leftist forums I use, and I don’t see nuanced materialist analysis here very often.

Today: Fake News!
Tomorrow: We are saddened to announce the departure of the SoD…

“Our cause?” Hexbear doesn’t have a cause, it doesn’t do anything. It has the least revolutionary potential of any leftist website I’ve ever used. I’m here because it’s fun to shitpost sometimes.

IRL, yeah, there are better uses of your time than trying to convince people that astrology is bullshit. But having a materialist worldview and believing in astrology (or religion, for that matter) are contradictory, and getting rid of those brainworms via self-crit is something any communist should be trying to do.

I should mention that I’m not trying to portray myself as the perfect commie here, I still have my own brainworms. It’s just the kind of thing that we should all be striving to get rid of.