[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

We'd need more context, but this seems like the reverse, where this dude knows that he is white for all intents and purposes but is cynically leveraging being Jewish to pretend he's a POC in order to (in the eyes of liberals) exempt himself from white supremacy.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago

The typos were meant to be symbolic of the social and personal decay being observed

in my headcanon

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago

civilian harm incidents

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 16 points 6 days ago

They'll just say Russia spread the conspiracy theories.

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It's a Josei-ish manga in which Kierkegaard has been reincarnated into contemporary Japan and decides to become a musician to communicate his philosophy to people. It features other reincarnations, notably John Locke, who makes my skin crawl because he's of course the father of liberalism, but his role in the story is positive enough.

Mostly I just like the portrait of Kierkegaard and the silly references (and the author does include citations!). Also it's just something different from most of what you get, even if Kierkegaard in many ways ends up playing the typical Josei male lead.

Also disclaimer: It takes like four chapters before he switches to electric guitars, so it's not really "Unplugged". I think he plays an acoustic guitar publicly only a single time.

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submitted 6 months ago by GarbageShoot@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

From what I can gather, there's one Jew in the whole game (who I think is just called "Jew") and he ends up being a collaborator with a demon cult that seems to want to consume humanity. It doesn't seem like people really hold this against him long term, since he gets into more benign misadventures in the "where are they now?" montage at the end, but it seems like the most on-the-nose fash writing possible otherwise.

I haven't actually played the game, partly because I was put off by this element of the synopsis, so did I miss relevant context? Even just a "fuck you guys for making a leper of me and then demanding my loyalty" type line?

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by GarbageShoot@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

So I've been putting off writing this for a long time and it'll probably need to be a series, but I've had a difficult time answering challenges from my friends who assert that China is either a Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie or of the Bureaucracy (i.e. state capitalists), and that it's a competing imperialist power along with America (and they also say Russia but I can answer that one being stupid on my own).

The problem with China Discourse is that there is a serious paucity of sources dealing with nuanced critiques rather than just "debt trap!" bullshit or whatever, since the objections of liberals and the objections of smarter ultras are very different. At the very least, the sources dealing with this Discourse are less accessible to me.

But now I'm extremely bored and also recently saw Comrade Queermmunist's excellent rebuttal against the claim of China doing imperialism in the DRC, which gave me some hope that Hexbear would be able to answer some of these claims with something at least plausible.

The main objects of concern are the for-profit national businesses causing bureacratic class antagonism, foreign policy in the form of UN peacekeeping contributions, and straightforward imperialism at the base of its supply chain, along with miscellany like this:

https://newworker.us/international/chinas-stock-market-a-lesson-on-what-socialism-is-not/

I don't know, it's all a mess and putting off ideological work causes problems. If nothing else, let this be a practical lesson to you:

To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed. This is one type of liberalism.

It catches up with you and makes things worse in the end.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 99 points 8 months ago

When the South has trouble with its Negroes when the Negroes refuse to remain in their “place” it blames “outside agitators” and “Northern interference.” When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.

-- James Baldwin

I had been meaning to dig up this quote since Pelosi blamed Russia

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 97 points 9 months ago

"People who watch Hasan are subhumans and should receive euthanasia"

-- someone doing moral grandstanding, somehow

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 97 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Good riddance, Beehaw is terrible. It was maybe the single biggest exporter of concern-trolling about lemmy.ml and to my knowledge still entertains absurdly reactionary comms for no reason (though I haven't brushed up on my lore in a while). Go make your blue Raddle.

More constructively: Having your "Northern Star" be "intentionally vague" is not a good practice. Having clear rules is a much better way to avoid falling into "what did the mod who reviewed the report feel like doing at the time?" arbitration issues. If you want to serve disenfranchised communities well,* then have that be the foundation and clearly define what that means and why you are doing it.

*My experience with this was that Beehaw was more about first world radlibs patting themselves on the back, but I digress

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 98 points 1 year ago

Comparing China to the Nazis is hysterical, and the Nazis were flat out colonial expansionists who were gunning to occupy basically the entire planet. China wants government control over Taiwan as a matter of reunification. It isn't annexing Japan.

What are you scared China will do? They aren't colonizing the world, they aren't committing genocide, and they are way less likely to instigate hot conflict of any kind than their peers.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 99 points 1 year ago

You can just make up stuff, say it's from an "anonymous source", then retract it and maintain your credibility by blaming it on the source you made up.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 121 points 1 year ago

"Me saying that if I had a genie in a bottle I could marginally improve the world"

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 144 points 1 year ago

In retrospect, it's funny how the liberals on lemmy.ml were haughtily saying "This may have been a tankie space once, but we will overwhelm them eventually and make it clear that they aren't welcome here" and then Hexbear comes in and they shit themselves.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 167 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ten Chinese air force aircraft entered Taiwan's air defence zone . . . Of those aircraft, the ministry said 10 had either crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, which previously served as an unofficial barrier between the two sides, or entered the southwestern part of Taiwan's air defence identification zone, or ADIZ.

For those unfamiliar with the Air Defense Identification Zone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Defense_Identification_Zone_(Taiwan)

Not only does it include a lot of water that isn't part of the Strait, right off of China's coast, it also includes a portion of Mainland China a few times larger than Taiwan itself.

People like to talk like China is flying jets over Taipei City, but you can fly a plane from one city in Mainland China to another, only passing over land, and be in this zone. Mind you, I don't think Taiwan having this zone is bad -- countries generally should be aware of air traffic nearby -- but this is part of a long history of alarmist headlines by western media regarding what is often very uninteresting air traffic in the PRC.

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