Straight_Depth [they/them]
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Straight_Depth [they/them]@hexbear.netto chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Ok since we're posting taglinesEnglish1·3 years agoLike most taglines, it’s just finessed from a dril tweet
As much as I want to hate the guy, I reserve most of my loathing for Yeltsin. Gorbachev was just a fucking moron who wanted to have it both ways.
Straight_Depth [they/them]@hexbear.netto videos@hexbear.net•Holy shit Roger Waters stanning China on national TVEnglish0·3 years agoForeigners aren’t human so it’s ok to napalm them
Straight_Depth [they/them]@hexbear.netto videos@hexbear.net•Campism | No, Russia is NOT Anti-ImperialistEnglish0·3 years agoWell, we have this moron on our very own hexbear and every useful idiot who upvoted their comments, but it is true they are utterly insignificant in the grander scheme
Straight_Depth [they/them]@hexbear.netto chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Dirt_Owls official 2024 US election predictionsEnglish1·3 years agoDespite being dead
I’ve got some bad news regarding Gorbachev
Straight_Depth [they/them]@hexbear.netto games@hexbear.net•So Games Workshop just published a "40k is satire, nazis pls leave" statement. What do you nerds think?English0·4 years agoI think that even with GW literally spelling it out for them most of the cryptofascists who idolize it will carry on carrying on unperturbed.
Straight_Depth [they/them]@hexbear.netto the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net•Reddit Chud demolished after claiming "Americans singlehandedly brough freedom, democracy, peace and prosperity to Germany"English1·4 years ago“The German brainpan is simply incapable of understanding any form of democracy”
Straight_Depth [they/them]@hexbear.netto the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net•Degrowth: (materialist science). Luxury Space Communists: (soy radlibs circlejerk with other worthless labor aristocrats on twitter)English1·4 years agoSpeaking of P**er C*ffin, what happened to Ashley?
Straight_Depth [they/them]@hexbear.netto the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net•This ain't even a real gusano, no fucking spanish speaking person talks like that.English0·4 years agoIt’s like an offensive fictional depiction of a Latino stereotype in a poorly written novel.
“How do I let the reader understand this character is Cuban? I know, I’ll have them randomly interject in Spanish when speaking English, a totally real thing people do”
Straight_Depth [they/them]@hexbear.netto politics@hexbear.net•To those of you who think DSA is too lib and that’s why you have not yet joinedEnglish0·4 years agoJust join the cops and make them less bad :thumb-cop:
Straight_Depth [they/them]@hexbear.netto politics@hexbear.net•What the Fuck is a TrotskyistEnglish1·4 years agoUp until the fall of the USSR it was Trotsky = GOOD communism (not like the BAD communism of the USSR) particularly in European nations building up a veneer of political and ideological distancing from the USSR. It was characterized by constant critique of the USSR, China, and basically any AES nation as “not being REAL socialism/communism/whateverism” and sustaining a nominal love of human rights and anti-authoritarianism (free Tibet, free Afghanistan, free Czechoslovakia, free Hungary, etc). In practice it turned a sort of blind eye to all but the most overt forms of military imperialism from the NATO powers, which is why to this day you’ll still have Western socialist leaders like Corbyn take the occasional pro-western stance in the name of human rights. But as Fakename_Bill said these distinctions are now irrelevant in the fall of the COMINTERN, the USSR, and the 4th International. Communism today is mostly led by China, Cuba and Vietnam, all whom have detoured significantly from the dogmatic lines drawn by the USSR back in the day. Any newly resurged movement will either borrow from these AES nations, of will have to forge a new path by necessity. It’s not 20th century Russia anymore. Perhaps one day there may be a Fifth International to establish how we should build socialism in the future, and we can (and should) invite the ancoms, syndies, communalists, and so on, but we’ll need to build it first.
Straight_Depth [they/them]@hexbear.netto Main, home of the dope ass bear.@hexbear.net•Holy shit, I never quite realized how much classical marxists despised poor people [...effort post?]English1·5 years agoMaoism is generally considered to be the newer, and more effective form of modern Marxism, precisely because it takes into account that the lumpen are nonetheless a huge force, bigger than that of the working proletariat, and therefore can and should be harnessed for its revolutionary potential. The difficulty is, of course, educating the lumpen in the first place. How many extremely poor right-wing chuds do we know who enthusiastically vote and campaign against their very own class and economic interests to “own the libs”, or to stop whatever imagined group of people or movements that threaten their perceived way of life.
Mao loved the lumpen because to him they were an ideological clean slate. The modern lumpen, particularly in the imperial core, has already been ideologically indoctrinated by reactionaries as they already hold the cultural and media hegemony. Thus, they can no longer be considered the clean slate, but one must deprogram that indoctrination. We all know how absurd it is to unlearn the cultism that pervades the modern far right, from Trumpism to QAnon, to worship of authority, hierarchy, evangelicalism, and capitalism.
No revolutionary has succeeded in such a scale of mass deprogramming in an era of mass media before. It seems such an unsurmountable hill.
I don’t even care when he stops talking about the games he reviews – I just get completely stuck in listening to his endless anecdotes