[-] epicspongee@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"All the they/thems in this thread are bigots, they're actually right-wingers!" - WTF is this take

[-] epicspongee@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

To be clear in the dunking threads folks are not usually engaging in good faith with us. When I was on another server and replied with actual questions to stuff everyone was incredibly nice to me and explained stuff super well. Can agree though that folks can see dunking as alientating. I promise though if you can get past that it's one of the friendliest communities I've found on the web.

[-] epicspongee@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

took public transportation to get there

We have /c/urbanism so this is doubly true lol

[-] epicspongee@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

I mean that's fair, but what you're doing is like going into a public library and throwing a rave party.

Have you read any of the threads on here? Y'all are absolutely vitriolic against Hexbear users. That is not a 'public library' lmfao

[-] epicspongee@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

No, you are like a cookie in a jar, im a observer.

Genuinely what the fuck does this mean

[-] epicspongee@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Blowback has done more for my understanding of Cuba and North Korea than any other piece of media I've ever consumed

[-] epicspongee@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Lord I'm still listening to Season 2 of Blowback and haven't gotten to Season 3 yet but I had no clue about this, that's genuinely fucked up

[-] epicspongee@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Is this written by ChatGPT

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It's a nonbinary person and their brother discussing different leftist theory and history each week. They start from first principles and the nonbinary person not knowing anythinggg about communism. They start out reading the communist manifesto, then state and revolution, then some anarchist literature, and so on and so on. I think they lean a bit ML, but they cover both anarchist and Marxist literature.

They've done this completely free for the past 3+ years, almost every single week. There's more than 160+ episodes. They have notes on their Patreon that they write and they donate all the money from their Patreon to a mutual aid fund. They literally earn nothing from it.

I started listening to it when the pandemic came out (was one of the earlier listeners) and it turned me into a leftist faster than any book or Twitch streamer or YouTuber ever has. The format of one person not knowing anything and asking questions while the other person 'teaches' in a chill way works wonders and makes me understand everything so much easier.

It's such a huge resource and not enough people know about it!! I wish more people would recommend it to newbies or folks starting out.

[-] epicspongee@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I don't hate philosophy tube etc to be clear, I just find their videos to be self indulgent slop

I don't disagree, but I think she and contra hold a special place in my heart cause they were really the start to my radicalization. Contra's earlier videos really got me thinking outside of a capitalist mindset and got me to think "oh, there's alternatives to capitalism, and gender, and blah blah blah", then I read the manifesto, then I started listening to Teach Me Communism, and then I became a chronically online tankie lol. I feel like I'm not the onlyyyy one that did this (I have friends who I think consider themselves socialist and anticapitalist who still like some of Contra's newer stuff), but I definitely feel like the vast majority of her fanbase is annoyingly liberal to a fault. In her recent 'anti-JK Rowling' lane she's been pretty decent I think except for when she steps even slightly out of it.

[-] epicspongee@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I find most video essayists exhausting. Critiquing culture and media is incredibly easy.

One of my favorite and only exceptions to this is Alexander Avilla, his videos on autism self-diagnosis and queerbaiting were legitimately life-changing for me. The way he focuses on theory more and actually understands it is just so refreshing.

[-] epicspongee@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Can someone explain what happened? Been gone for a few days. From my understanding the admin of Blahaj didn't handle some stuff well and so Hexbear defederated from Blahaj, but that's the last I heard. Did we refederate or...?

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