commiewithoutorgans [he/him, comrade/them]

Minecraft and trident

It definitely sounds like the title that the BBC would give if they dared talk about it, to be fair to you.

Ready for taking some heat, but I think engineers are actually a great example of a group of people that learns how systems work but often never think to apply this thinking to social questions. Rationality of engineering is very “apply advanced concept to concrete example and understand how limitations (conditions) and accuracy affect the system.” Which is beautiful and awesome. Just that the people who study it are often freaks who love bombs. And if they’re not, they still just cannot grasp the social question.

This is to say, I must defend engineers to an extent, but reeducation is likely a fine option because they mostly have all the bases to understand.

Ready for taking some heat, but I think engineers are actually a great example of a group of people that learns how systems work but often never think to apply this thinking to social questions. Rationality of engineering is very “apply advanced concept to concrete example and understand how limitations (conditions) and accuracy affect the system.” Which is beautiful and awesome. Just that the people who study it are often freaks who love bombs. And if they’re not, they still just cannot grasp the social question.

This is to say, I must defend engineers to an extent, but reeducation is likely a fine option because they mostly have all the bases to understand.

Would she?? I haven’t heard a single positive thing about her in the last 2 years from anyone I know in the US. I thought she just fell off?

I fully agree with this in the way that American politics works in reality.

I just think that many democrats genuinely see themselves as the good guys trying to be as far “left” as possible within the bounds of what’s politically reasonable. And when you have those in that mindset, and the people choosing to vote, what I was describing is how that phenomenon internally works.

I’m convinced democrats genuinely believe, wholeheartedly, that politics must be a scale from “left to right” within the bounds of America, and meanwhile the republicans are focussed on topics which they find important.

Democrats seem to think that, regardless of the specific topic, a shift right gets more votes for democrats. Like there is a literal line and you pick up more the further right you go, and this in the most literal way you can imagine

Republicans choose topics that fire people up and take the right wing position on them. It’s a much more successful method of getting support, and maintaining energy. They don’t give a shit about some scale, they just want to do whatever is the option that supports wealth accumulation and imperialism as best as possible. It makes sense, at least, if you’re a ghoul.

Democrats try to run on being trusted to understand the scale on which they sit, republicans run on policies they want to do.

It’s not the only reason they will win, but it’s the one most obvious between the two imperial-fuckers running for president

"Real politics happens well before the elections, and that’s why you will never have good options. You are always choosing betweens presets which have long been decided, and which are not going to solve the climate, queer, women’s, etc issues.

We need to meet that political power before elections, then, to have any effect. But that requires understanding the systems which we are up against, or else we will only be doing the result-less protests of the past 40 years again.

You interested in learning more about the systems?"

This is a discussion which requires the active participation of the lib (them backing down at this point makes it obvious that they are not the target group for us).

It includes the things that are probably most important to a lib willing to listen (replace as needed with “wage problems” etc)

It shows that you’re not asking to do repeats of the unsuccessful movements of westerners in the past years (because libs would latch onto that and be started wrongly or fill up ranks with useless people).

Follow-up convos about how the problems are based in imperialism and capital.

You have two maximums/minimums possible with the given data:

250thousand followers are following 3.3 million content creators each

Or

(3.3million x 250thousand) followers each follow 1 content creator

The last one is more than the total number of English speakers, by far, in the world.

There is no inflection point on this linear regression. So, if neither extreme is sensible, it would be astonishing if some value between was.

If you take the number of English speakers and divide it by 2 (so assuming half of all English speaking people are contributing to this phenomenon), then they are each, on average, following 1200 content creators.

Following 1200 people is hard, even when they are people you know. This is nonsense

I’m not gonna point at every point on the line, but you can just try any amount you think.

There are also, of course, combinations of different amount of followers. Where 1 person makes up for 4 by following 4,600, but the number is so absurdly large that it can really only be accounted for by bots or lying, or a combo

That’s what they said, you can divide the amount of creators followed per person by any number and multiply the people which are doing the following by that same number to get a valid option based on the data given. But at no point is that set of numbers not absurd.

Now taking bots into account is an interesting one, but idk if there’s THAT many bots out there

Already downloaded it and put it on my e-book, comrade! شكراً!

I instinctively glanced at this, saw AI slop, and scrolled past hurriedly to avoid letting any information get into my head from it.

Then I though “wtf, hexbear doesn’t have ads?” and came back to say it’s a shitty ad

Thanks for your contribution

Oh hell yeah, been looking to practice some Arabic reading skills.

Yeah, I shouldn’t have said “now” because they’ve both been developing for a long time.

Roderic Day once again correct despite the pushback received: the Anti-Chinese position is Anti-Semitism with a new ethnicity. Problems inherent to a system blamed on a group which is simultaneously too dumb and unbelievably smart, too weak but immensely powerful, and nowhere specific but EVERYWHERE all the time.

Now with the added bonus of the Anti-Arab position also being similarly formed with slightly different content

(added later) And may I add: a group of people which inconveniently has interests disaligned with the current ruling class position

Fair enough for this post, totally in agreement about no coddling. Deal with me harshly if I commit a gender-crime, I know it’s the only way I will learn quickly enough.

But then is the admin team thinking about setting up such a comm? I get the feeling this purge will be pretty large and is a great moment to get such a comm working well. The perfect trial period, I guess.

Is it an idea to make a comm for like community-crit to handle these things, or even bring it up in a self-crit comm? Not just for the current purge, but for any future ones, too. I think continuously having a place where comrades can be brought up who need to self-crit is a fine idea, and encouraging there more intense discussion about how someone specifically is incorrect. Dunk tank has a bit more of a… Dunk attitude in general.

I’m fine if we just dunk on mysoginists, but it seems the admins in general (based solely on this post) want to encourage self-crit when the comrade seems redeemable, and this idea needs a space with the appropriate approach/culture for that. I can imagine that will be useful when we finally do the anti-anti-China purge that is inevitably approaching too.

This also unecessarily pisses me off too much. Every time I hear someone say that whiskey makes them particularly worse, I want to scream

Drink less volume because percentage is higher. If that’s not possible, that’s not Whiskey’s fault, you’re just not able to control yourself and should adjust your habits (of course I’m not speaking about alcoholism, that’s different. This is people who drink socially but turn to assholes)

Well I hate that emoji now lol

What the fuck is hat last one? I recognize the mythology part, the one titan (Kronos?) eating that Zeus. But the other parts are mysteries to me