SSJMarx
@SSJMarx@lemm.ee
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 3 days ago:
Yes, but we’re taught that those democracies don’t count because they’re non white.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 3 days ago:
Elections in America are all about vibes. People who care about facts are nerds.
- Comment on Exquisite 4 days ago:
Saw similarly strange pizzas when I lived in Japan. I think in Asia generally they just have a different idea of what to put on a flatbread.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 6 days ago:
(this is a facetious post, making fun of economists who sometimes push damaging and anti social theories based on sketchy market-based logic)
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 6 days ago:
That used to be a thing, lmao.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 6 days ago:
glaziers fallacy
TIL a new fallacy. I was joking though just for the record, I called it “capitalist realist” specifically to try and indicate that it’s the kind of thing you might believe only if you were extremely economics brained.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 6 days ago:
But there’s only a certain amount of labor a fixed number of employees can absorb. Imagine a scenario where everyone everywhere agrees to stop returning shopping carts - grocery store employees would be forced to spend their entire shift just corralling them, and then they wouldn’t be able to man the cash registers or stock the shelves or whatever else, thus forcing the store to hire another employee on each shift to be the dedicated shopping cart return person.
Logically, every store everywhere tries to run with the minimum number of people possible to keep costs down. The idea is to create a situation where that minimum number of people is increased.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 6 days ago:
I’m a fan of the Capitalist Realist Shopping Cart Theory, myself.
Putting shopping carts away is bad for society and you should stop doing it.
The reason is that putting a shopping cart away requires labor, labor requires a person to do it, and the person who has to do it is employed by the grocery store.
Thus, if enough people refuse to put their shopping carts back, enough excess labor will be generated at grocery stores around the country that they will be forced to hire more people to do it, creating jobs.
QED
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
Right. I was saying that Hexbear isn’t a cult on the same level as the named examples, that it’s just some people with a different view of global politics than the norm, in response to a commenter who insisted that they were a dangerous cult that should be stamped out.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
Any state can, but many don’t. And the point here was to explain why I don’t believe that blaming famine deaths on Mao Zedong is a justified position to take, when the cycle of famine was ended under his watch.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
We were talking about cults, I brought them up as an example. I could have just as easily used Scientology.
- Comment on Jack and Coke 1 week ago:
Same here. I’ll drink whatever’s on tap but I don’t like Pepsi as much cuz it’s too sweet.
- Comment on Jack and Coke 1 week ago:
There are so many regional differences even if the recipe is 99% the same. Denatured coca leaves aren’t a thing outside the Americas, different bottling plants will use different types of sugar, water of differing quality will affect the taste, etc etc.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
The fact that they don’t tell you in the average anticommunist pop history youtube video is that China had been experiencing famines pretty much every single year for a thousand years by the time the Communists took over. The last famines occurred under Communist rule, but it is because of Communist policies that the cyclical famines stopped. This applies to the USSR as well.
Yes we can look back and see that killing the sparrows was a bad idea, but on the whole collectivized farms produced more food per hectare than smallholder farms did, and the policies of the Communists are what brought in sufficient numbers of tractors and other farming equipment to modernize outdated practices in rural regions. Without the Communists the simple fact is that the famines would have happened anyway, they would have been worse, and their would have been more of them.
This is the reason why, even when you include the famine deaths in your data, the average lifespan under Mao doubled from what it had been when the Republic of China controlled the mainland. The Communists won the war precisely because they treated peasants better than the then-central government did, and when they took power they enacted policies that massively improved the lives of everyone in China, and still continue to do so.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
Tell me, how well did Reconstruction go? Were the former slaves elevated to the status of citizens equal to their former masters?
No. The great post-Civil War failure of America was its failure to defend the gains made by the freed slave population, allowing the previous ruling class to swoop back in and reassert their power in a nearly-identical form to how it had been before. Sharecropping instead of slavery. This failure demonstrates quite succinctly why any social or economic justice movement cannot simply win the war - it must also continue to defend itself after the war, and that defense will by necessity take the form of repressing those members of the former ruling class who cannot accept the new status quo.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
If you don’t condone class war, then you are by necessity endorsing the current system. The current system which kills far, far more innocent people than any class war ever could, you lying, capitalist piece of shit.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
Equality has never in the history of our species been given freely by the ruling class to the workers. It has always been taken after violent struggle, and after the initial struggle is over the working class must be willing to defend their gains else they will lose them.
- Comment on Clueless about Biology 1 week ago:
And IIRC it was after they had made a bunch of practical effects, so it’s not like it was saving them money or anything. The execs literally just said “re-do these parts but worse”.
- Comment on Clueless about Biology 1 week ago:
Maybe your body is digested over a thousand years because the Sarlaac doesn’t catch very much prey so it has evolved a hyper-efficient digestive system and sits dormant most of the time, but also once you’re in Luke’s right and you’ll actually die of crushing or acid burning or dehydration.
But they also call it “The Almighty Sarlaac”, which to me implies that this is all folk knowledge. So maybe “be digested over a thousand years” is just what Tatooinians believe will happen to anyone who falls in.
- Comment on Clueless about Biology 1 week ago:
Even if Luke’s right, it’s not like being held down by tentacles while stomach acid slowly burns every part of your body until you finally die of dehydration doesn’t sound pretty painful.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
All kulaks were assigned to one of three categories:[4]
Source four on this wikipedia article is Robert Conquest, an antihistorical Cold Warrior if there ever was one - and most of the rest of that article doesn’t even do the courtesy of citing a hack. It’s just section after section of “this section has no sources”, who wrote this garbage?
I don’t understand your justification for what is ultimately pretty horrific treatment foisted on people ultimately just participating lawfully in society up until that point.
Slaveowners were “just participating lawfully in society” too. Society sanctions a lot of incredibly damaging and amoral behavior, and when the repressed take power there is no reason why they should be expected to give their oppressors a pass just because it was legal at the time.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
The Kulaks and the Landlords deserved it.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 1 week ago:
Buddy Holly In My Ass
- Comment on Anon has a special request 1 week ago:
It’s easy enough to spin up a fake school, Trump did it.
- Comment on Anon has a special request 1 week ago:
You gotta tell them you want it for science, then you gotta submit some forms.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
the tens of millions of dead both, Stalin and Mao, were responsible for.
Oh no! Won’t somebody think of the Nazis and Japanese invaders?
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
the authority they feel they deserve
Facists argue that a certain group deserves authority, communists argue precisely the opposite, that the current regime with authority doesn’t deserve it and it should be apportioned equally and democratically instead. Because you live in a world where 99% of the media is controlled by the capitalists, you have been conditioned since birth to believe that every single movement of the people was actually a movement of a small group of elites, and that the countries that are currently exclusively controlled by their elites are in some way democratic.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure the average age on HB is mid-late twenties.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
The comrade in it actually suggests that there is a time and place for such rhetoric
Perhaps now is the time.
The kulaks were not an ethnic minority persecuted by the bolsheviks as a scapegoat for society’s ills. They were the economic class directly responsible for many of those ills. They were the capitalists of the peasantry, enclosing land and claiming ownership over what should have been the common means of production, precisely the kind of group that communists the world over want to destroy in order to liberate the majority of people.
When it was written that the kulaks were to be “liquidated”, it did not mean that they were to be mass executed, it meant that their private property was to be moved into public ownership, ending the existence of the kulak class and making them into regular workers.
As is the case in every single campaign of economic or social justice, the privileged class fought back with everything they had. Kulaks contributed to the Soviet Famine of 1930-1933 by mass slaughtering their cattle and burning their fields. Kulaks hoarded grain, took the wealth that they had stolen from their neighbors and fled the country, plotted sabotage and insurrection against the workers’ movement. And for those crimes, many Kulaks were caught and executed.
So if the original commenter’s great grandparents were kulaks who “suffered at the hands of the soviet union,” they deserved it.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
The Falun Gong are, right now, kidnapping children and brainwashing them into being performers for their shitty dance troupe. These performers are not paid, cannot leave The Compound, and cannot contact their family. That’s a cult that the government should stamp out.
Hexbear is a bunch of people with a different opinion on the western world’s designated Enemy Governments. They’re not in the same ballpark, or even playing the same sport.