[-] prole@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I didn't think about this before, but an intro to philosophy textbook written by a Marxist would probably be a great resource for a sort of generalized understanding of the history of philosophy without all the liberal bullshit and hero worshipping. Plus you can just about always get a PDF of textbooks

[-] prole@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Idk if these technically count as survival, but Satisfactory and No Man's Sky are both great. Ark has probably changed a lot since I played it, but I loved it once I found a good server

[-] prole@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago

Williams believes extremists will try to murder him after this story is published. And if they fail, he thinks he’ll “live to see the United States cease to exist.” He identifies with the violent abolitionist John Brown, who tried to start a slave revolt two years before the American Civil War and was executed. Williams thinks he himself may not be seen as such a radical soon, he told me. “I wonder if I’m maybe a little too early.”

[-] prole@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

The first two things they should already be doing all the time. It would actually be funny if there was a way to make the inauguration crowd small af, but funny is all it would be. The kazoo bit makes my whole body hurt just reading it

[-] prole@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

The base they were both at was Fort Bragg, which is where a lot of the training for special forces happens. At least it did a long time ago, figure it's probably the same now. Basically they all spend a lot of time there and they also go to language school there, so it's really likely that any SF who was in the army at the same time was probably at Fort Bragg at the same time.

[-] prole@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

Absolutely. I didn't realize how bad it was until I had some content get out of my niche and got thousands of comments on a video. People are incredibly confident in their own opinions and refuse to investigate or think twice about anything. They'll make the same comment as hundreds of other people, asking the same question that's already answered in the description. I don't know how they do it, but people legitimately say whatever comes to mind and then never ever think about it again

[-] prole@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago

The Bentonville, Ark., chain founded by billionaire Sam Walton got its start 28 years ago by opening stores in rural towns like the 5,600-population Hearne. The 1,485-store, 32-state chain is the fastest growing retailer in the USA. K mart is its chief rival.

But it also has a reputation for hurting small-town businesses that can't match the lower prices the chain can offer due to volume buying.

The Wal-Mart effect has been so huge it's spawned the formation of consulting firms that specialize in advising small-town businesses on handling the arrival of a Wal-Mart.

—Julie Morris, “Store shuts doors on Texas town,” USA Today, October 11, 1990

https://wordspy.com/words/wal-mart-effect/

[-] prole@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

This story seems to play out a lot with the US govt. Likely due to the lack of any real long-term planning.

  1. Oh no China is taking some of our control over X
  2. Do nothing for a while
  3. Scramble to stop China from completely taking over X
  4. Waste billions on propaganda, cost everyone money via tariffs, sanctions, bans, etc
  5. Realize it was never going to work and give up
  6. Do nothing for a while
  7. Start at step 1 again
[-] prole@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

DHMO asphyxiation is the leading cause of death amongst sailors in the US Navy. Support our troops and write to your senators to ban DHMO today!

[-] prole@hexbear.net 28 points 3 weeks ago

Without looking into it at all, I can almost promise you it's "the jews"

[-] prole@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

I kinda feel bad for people like that AOC stan. They are genuinely close to the right answers, but can't overcome the mountains of propaganda. It's not an easy thing to do and almost all of us were once in a similar position. Very few people in capitalist countries become communists, even fewer get there without being a turbo lib or some kind of libertarian first.

I replied in that chain somewhere to let that person know they'd be a communist in 5 years or they're gonna be a fascist. They'll go down the anti communist rabbit hole or they'll read an actual book written by a communist. Part of me thinks we should stop doing this sort of thing completely and focus entirely on good faith engagement with anyone to the left of Hillary Clinton and just ban everyone else. Should we be encouraging outright bullying of someone who genuinely seems to be an anticapitalist? Probably not. Not even just because of the danger to neurodiverse people, but also it seems like a bad strategy to dogpile.

Idk as a communist or even just a leftist in general it seems like I'm obligated to help people get a better understanding of...reality? At least the realities of capitalism, imperialism, propaganda, etc. I don't really care if someone wants to be a communist or not as long as we can agree on reality. What is CIA propaganda? What is just something I've heard all my life for no reason other than to make me hate communism? Etc. Anyway, what I mean is that I think we should be more focused on getting people to agree that capitalism is bad and communism is good than we should on just being mean to random libs and baby anarchists or whatever the hell that AOC stan is

Sorry, I feel like I'm really off topic. I'm just going to post this because I'll delete it if I think too much longer

[-] prole@hexbear.net 44 points 3 weeks ago

This would actually make for a really funny movie. Someone get Boots Riley

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