How bad do we all think things are likely going to get in the west/imperial cores? How quickly do we think the west's internal spiral to fascism is going to proceed?
  • iByteABit iByteABit 5h ago 100%

    No one can know than in advance, but it will also depend on what resistance fascism will find itself opposed to.

    Will it find an unorganized working class where half of them expect an elected saviour and another part of them fight against fascism without fighting against capitalism and towards revolution? Or will it find an organized working class with a strong vanguard party that has the ideological preparation, the ability to reach out to them, strong and massive unions, etc?

    This is not the whole part of the equation but it is one that relies mostly on us. It is our job to organize the working class and get them to unite under a common direction, and more importantly to provide them with a realistic and necessary alternative to capitalism without expecting it to arrive magically but through every day collective action. Fascism gains ground where there doesn't seem to be a viable alternative to the current system, when people have been too propagandized to ever consider a revolution as a possible alternative and there's no force saying otherwise effectively, so they fall into the populist magic solution bullshit that fascists provide in an attempt to see real change in the system.

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  • Our Big Fry Boy [Livestream link in body]
  • iByteABit iByteABit 8h ago 100%

    Working class hero trump-feed

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  • iByteABit iByteABit 8h ago 100%

    Finished a project for a job interview, I went over the top with it so I'm expecting to go to the next stage, this better be worth it scared

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    Eepyrialism
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    Vietnamese gusano
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  • Chuds are still mad at Godot Engine
  • iByteABit iByteABit 2d ago 100%

    Wow that's based rat-salute-2

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  • صديق محمد من غزة
  • iByteABit iByteABit 2d ago 100%

    تحياتي لك يا اخي واريد ان اعلمكم في خبر عاجل حزب الله قصفوا مكان اقامة نتنياهو

    hamas-red-triangle inshallah

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  • So my friend Mahmoud got his account approved but
  • iByteABit iByteABit 2d ago 100%

    Welcome to Hexbear Mahmoud meow-hug

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  • Chuds are still mad at Godot Engine
  • iByteABit iByteABit 2d ago 100%

    What even makes an engine "woke" lmao, the fact that it's open source instead of exploiting developers?

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  • Undergrad CS education is going places
  • iByteABit iByteABit 2d ago 100%

    Please be a bit, please be a bit

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  • Pure poetry
  • iByteABit iByteABit 4d ago 100%

    Ooh yeah it was Carlin, couldn't remember but it gave me Parenti vibes

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  • What is our view on sex work?
  • iByteABit iByteABit 5d ago 100%

    "Freedom" to sell your body to anyone willing to pay in order to be able to live is no freedom at all, no matter if it's done legally with guidelines or illegally without them. This is also true for all other forms of work, but prostitution is one of the highest forms of worker exploitation and also a continuation of the oppression of women in particular.

    A society free from exploitation and classes has no real incentive to exploit others for sex, maybe in certain cases it can be done in a way that is not oppressive, but under a system based on exploitation, prostitution will always be oppression. Perhaps in a socialist country people could offer sex work as a service by their own free will, but they will not have the looming threat of homelessness and poverty if they no longer want to do it.

    As long as we're in capitalism though, all prostitution is exploitation and oppression. It's debatable whether it should be fully legalized in order to protect worker rights, as much protection as capitalists are willing to offer anyway. One thing is for certain though, hang every single pimp by their dicks

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  • iByteABit iByteABit 6d ago 100%

    It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to shit your pants with it

    parenti-hands

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  • If you would please consult the graph
  • iByteABit iByteABit 6d ago 100%

    This might be the real one

    In the space of a few days we destroyed one of the oldest, most powerful, barbarous and brutal of monarchies. In the space of a few months we passed through a number of stages of collaboration with the bourgeoisie and of shaking off petty-bourgeois illusions, for which other countries have required decades.

    Source

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  • iByteABit iByteABit 6d ago 100%

    Segovia scale exercises look useful, thanks!

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  • "We're on the brink of nuclear war and Donald Trump is to blame - hear me out."
  • iByteABit iByteABit 6d ago 100%

    nuclear war expert

    So Scott, which nuclear bombing was your favorite, the one the US threw at Hiroshima or the one the US threw at Nagasaki?

    Real "Smarties Expert" vibes

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  • If you would please consult the graph
  • iByteABit iByteABit 6d ago 100%

    Yeah I think OP mixed it up

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  • I hate that leftism feels like a conspiracy theory.
  • iByteABit iByteABit 6d ago 100%

    At least for the moment, AI tends to produce pretty shitty stuff that is easily debunkable, but then again people will believe anything and not care when they are revealed months later..

    In any case we should absolutely wreck some data centers lol

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    Translated by Google so it might read in an odd way here and there

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    I'm going to be involved in making a union website, probably just a simple page with some hopefully good looking design. What would be the ideal tools for the job, and any good looking union sites that I can take inspiration from?

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    It is a collaborative notes taking [app](https://github.com/zadam/trilium) that takes pride in supporting Nazis

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    It's not that I **want** them to betray the people and lay the red carpet for fascism but I'll be pretty smug about it when it inevitably happens

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    How dare North Korea produce things albeit with less quality instead of importing everything and being economically enslaved?

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    >While Second World communism was suffering from fissures, the Third World was further united by a bit of First World bumbling. After Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, France and Britain invaded—against Washington’s wishes—to reassert control of the waterway and oust the Egyptian leader. They were joined by the young state of Israel, whose creation had been supported by both Washington and Moscow, but eventually had to back down because of US pressure. Despite Eisenhower’s anger with the new Jewish state, Washington steadily increased support for Israel from the middle of the 1950s for Cold War reasons. It was the nascent alliances between the USSR and radical Arab nationalist regimes, we know now, that formed the basis for a growing US-Israel alliance.6 Is this true? It seems very detached from reality and no sources are given aside from a note that is kinda irrelevant to the question. Since when was the US "angry" about the foundation of Isntreal and since when was the USSR a supporter of it or even neutral to it at all? This feels like bullshit

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    Breaking news is either some useless nonsense like this, or that China is about to collapse, or that China is doing too good and must chill so that the Western economy survives

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    Is there any truth to the claim that Yugoslavia slaughtered people from Kosovo or is it just another Uyghur thing? (Even if relatively true it still doesn't make the bombing of Yugoslavia justified)

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    He is a right leaning lib and heavily anticommunist. Every damn thing capitalists say about communism ends up being a confession, in this case living with many unknown people in an apartment.

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    He's so brave standing up for Ukraine and Israel, what a hero ![billionaire-tears](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/515f168f-0730-4382-91cf-57d93721b477.png "emoji billionaire-tears")

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    Ice cream sandwich? I thought you hated capitalism ![smuglord](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/97a4a756-428f-4517-846a-1c810805ad28.png "emoji smuglord")

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    Libs will see these absolute dystopian images and think they're positive without thinking twice about the factors that led to them, but will see Soviet mass housing and say "omg this is so ugly, I'd kill myself if I lived there"

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    ::: spoiler spoiler because it's reactionary :::

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