If I had to do a takesmith moment, maybe they finally have an operating model of a EMP device? It’s one of those things conservatives have been shadowboxing that for years, which means they’ve been working on it. It was one of the fabled weapons from the dubya years and a big part of apocalypse fantasy under Obama. I could see them doing a big commercial for it, a live demonstration (just like my star wars!). Of course it would probably be half-assed so they would follow up with analog carpet-bombing of civilian infrastructure. Then “we have a nuke without the nuke” discourse will carry everyone pretty far over the next decade.

This is going to come off really crabby, and I’m sorry for that, but you being frustrated with a couple of people is not a problem with site culture. Both you and OP are not actually communicating well or taking care of this in a productive way. The person you’re frustrated with don’t even know this thread is about them. You have experience with communicating to strangers and talking to people with differing views at protests. Apply that here. The opportunity was when it happened, not 4 days later.

If Hexbear has a culture problem it’s poor communication and a seeping anticipation that the person you argue with is a latent fash.

I went into your history. You got into an argument with one poster about whether or not it was worth it to convert libs at the event. By argument I mean one reply. That’s the ultraleft position in our community?

I don’t know who you’re replying to so the impact of this post is lost on me. If someone on Hexbear said that Walmart is paying people to show up to protests then you should have called them out in the thread where they said it. Making a new post to say that all hexbears believe that is odd. Your whole post is like “Listen up here you fucking cracker reactionaries, I’m gonna set you strait and let you know that we need to build popular support before we can have a revolution!” Like who is disagreeing? This is premium Hexbear online posting. I don’t know why we’re kidding ourselves thinking this is some kind of grass-touching anthem.

What do you mean by believe?

God could you imagine Trump’s version of 9/11.

Ride for Immortan Trump and you shall ride greasy and gold.

When Marxists don’t get their way:

The satanic panic MAGA people lost their cred when Trump held the glowing orb of globalism in a dark ritual.

Go talk to Jimmy the Fish down at the docks. He has a few jobs that need takin’ care of.

Reality barrier: 45%

It’s almost like random redditors backed by a non-profit suck at organizing. They don’t know who is at their protest. They don’t know how many people there are on their side. They don’t know who is running security, they probably never considered having organized security. They just let randos show up and stake over marshaling duties.

How did that work out for you?

Stalin killed God. It was kind of a big deal actually.

I don’t think it was as much of a conscious effort. Natural philosophy started formalizing into our modern conception of science, as an institution, right around Marx’s time. I think Marx was attempting to formalize social/political philosophy into science as well. The formalization of physical science was welcomed and social science was not, for obvious reasons.

Industrialization saw technology opening the door for further abstraction of slavery and new arrangements between labor and capital. It wasn’t long after that developing new technology became an end in itself. Industry had to cozy up to academic science in order to feed itself new technologies. That’s exactly what happened. By this time we’re in the 20th century and industrialists are creating need with technology. The government uses its centralized resources to subsidize science for industry. Science becomes part of the military as well.

A “secular” science, separated from philosophy, was inevitable under capitalism. You don’t need a philosophy guiding science when you think industrialists are the ones who should guide science.

I would also argue that philosophy as a whole wasn’t disregarded by capital. It’s going to keep what it finds useful for propaganda. Go into a business administration school and you will hear plenty of philosophy. The philosophy of science, however, was largely disregarded because it doesn’t help produce technology for industry.

Real Human Bean hours

You know all those plans Nazis and Italian Fascists had for mega architecture? Modern day fascists have that but for turning McDonald’s back into a clown house. Like an 80-story building that takes up a whole block but it looks like a playskool hamburger

This guy went from being the highest manager at a 7/11 store to running a security company in the Congo. Fargo ass life.

Comrade Final Destination