Religion doesn’t count. We’re on Lemmy, so neither does communism.
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We don’t talk enough about how much society openly despises teenage girls and the things that they like. It’s one of the purest, most distilled forms of misogyny.
God forbid a color or a pattern or a beverage or a game or a show or a musician or a style becomes associated with teenage girls, the circlejerk shitting on it never goes away.
The last vestiges of Twilight hate are still out there, it’s truly eternal.
My partner recently watched the movies and is reading the books for the first time. They’re still hesitant to admit they like them because of the stigma. We’ve both watched worse slop on YouTube and I’m not allowed to make fun considering I’m out here reading stuff like Rage of Achilles to get my romance fix.
i hate twilight because its worshiping abusive relationship dynamics and written by a white mormon woman
Romance is a goofyass genre, we’re allowed to be a lil silly with it :3
On some level I think society feels it has to hit the gas hard on misogyny during a girls transition into womanhood, just to really rub it in and cement that stuff early on, so they get an outsized proportional response of that hatred.
PSL goes hard
Most communists organisations are absolutely dogshit at communication. Get a nice professionally looking website. Get a SoMe strategy. Get a consistent visual identity. Do some SEO. It doesn’t have to be hard or expensive. This is what Lenin would have done. And stop writing in that horrible jargon that makes everything sound like a resolution from your 1976 congress, normal people find it weird and off-putting.
You don’t have to be a theory nerd to be a real Marxist. Not everyone has the time, energy or personality to sit in a book club for hours. And that is fine. You can understand plenty without having to feel you’re back in school doing homework. If communist movements wants any kind of success they have to make theory accessible, relevant to what people are going through and attractive enough that people will want to engage with it.
I don’t care whether you put pineapple on your pizza or not. I really don’t.
I think some people in niche communities (such as communist groups in this example) actually want the group to stay insular and personal. They like feeling part of a special little group, and if it started letting just anyone in then that would be lost.
I just heard about missionaries being forced to be annoying so their converts are fanatical and they get to feel persecuted by everyone else and ingrain that perspective.
Coming to terms with the fact that just because I’m autistic about communism doesn’t mean the average person I get to sympathize will read a fraction of the theory I do.
Im not doing all that work just to get linux going
that work being run installer and then click the install software button and install steam/libreoffice/firefox.
Deceiver. If Linux was so simple Linux users wouldn’t constantly be posting for help to get shit running
windows users do this too people are just totally desensitized to it
Newbies would post about Windows and Mac if they didn’t come pre-installed. :beanis:
it happens anyway! on this topic people act like nobody ever has issues with windows but issues with windows are actually constant, people are just accustomed to dealing with them and posts about them are relegated to background noise.
I agree. I’ve fully been on Linux for almost a year now. Anyone who portrays Linux as being that straightforward and uncomplicated is being misleading and inaccurate. Linux is difficult. Getting it to do things you want is difficult. It takes time and energy and interest.
I’d still advocate to use it. Linux gets easier every year and long may that simplification continue. But don’t jump into using Linux if you’re not ready to.
I ran archinstaller, then installed plasma, and everything works. My media keys, function keys, suspend on close, all the basic tooling of userspace is there. I guess I had to read a paragraph on a wiki page to make the fingerprint scanner work but I literally just searched “thinkpad fingerprint arch” and installed fprint so hardly mystical.
I’m glad it worked smoothly for you and it sometimes is a smooth effortless experience for some people; but if you want to “convert” people then you’ve got to be honest about the fact that people commonly face difficulties. I’ve commented about my Linux issues before and I can paste the comment again here to give an example:
One of the first issues I had problems with was figuring out what was wrong with Street Fighter 6 giving ultra low frame rates in multiplayer, but working fine in single player. It needed disabling of split lock protections in the CPU.
A recent update in OpenSUSE made the computer fail to boot half the time and made the image on the right half of the screen garbled. I rolled back to before the update and am using it without updating for a few weeks to see if the GPU driver problem gets ironed out.
I installed VMware Horizon for my job’s remote work login and it fucked up my Steam big picture mode and controller detection. I didn’t bother trying to figure that out and just uninstalled VMware remote desktop.
I managed to install my printer driver, but manually finding the correct RPM file to install would not be tolerable for normies.
I still can’t get my Dualshock 3 controller to pair via Bluetooth despite instructions on the OpenSUSE wiki. I’ve stopped trying to troubleshoot that and use my 8BitDo controller instead.
I still can’t find a horizontal page scrolling PDF app.
Figuring out how to edit fstab to automount my secondary drives is not a process normies would be able to execute. I still can’t figure out how to use this to auto-mount my Synology NAS.
Plasma recently added monitor brightness controls to software and these seem to have disappeared for me now, and I can’t figure out why.
I can’t get CopyQ to launch minimised, no matter what I do.
My KDE Plasma task bar widgets for monitoring CPU/GPU temp worked till I reinstalled OpenSUSE, and I can’t figure out why they’ve decided to not work on this fresh install. System monitor can see the temperature sensors just fine still. Update: this seems to have fixed itself (maybe through am update?).
Flatpak Steam app wouldn’t pick up controllers for some reason. Minor issue, but unnecessary jankiness.
My laptop fingerprint reader plainly isn’t supported.
People do not tolerate this amount of jankiness. And this doesn’t include the discomfort with relearning minor design differences between OS’s when switching. Linux is a bit of a battle with relearning and troubleshooting things that would never be problematic on Windows.
Nah, I’m very computer literate, built my own PC, can troubleshoot most software and hardware on Windows and sometimes Mac… I’m not a genius but my family and friends consider me the ‘computer fixer guy’ of the group.
I’ve got Linux on my little laptop - constant troubleshooting. I want a specific program? Ah, well here’s this knock-off version that is almost totally functional but pretty inaccessible and the only tutorials for it are buried deep in some random forum, if at all. Oh, and you have to install these other versions and plugins, and it must be done via this specific command line. It’s just not accessible for easy use yet. Gaming? Oh, just use proton, except for this particular game, where you have to… go to some niche forum and follow a 25 step guide, and then it might work, depending on your graphics card. Come on, try it, don’t you have a spare 4 hours to set aside?
It’s almost inevitable given that the computing monopolies don’t optimise for Linux at all. It’s a hostile environment, and to me it’s still more hassle than it’s worth.
I think if I had a day or so to set it all up with a Linux expert they’d have me on the right course, but as far as plug and load goes, in a time when I don’t have any time at all, Windows just works. Of course, it’s being enshittified faster and faster. I expect I’ll have to switch to Linux some day properly.
You might say: ‘MaoTheLawn’, you’re a stupid moron, its totally easy, just read the right guide! If it was, I would be saying it was! It just isn’t a simple enough switch for someone who has a million and one other things going on in their life.
Maybe I just haven’t found the right Linux version for me yet.
understandable, have a nice day
I must have just lucked out with my hardware or something. I’ve never had a problem and everything just works. Much better experience than installing and running Windows. I also run a Mac with OSX too though.
Linux is for computer hobbyists and tech hipsters you can’t change my mind.
Y’all love arguing about the best distro we get it
My unpopular tech opinion is Windows Subsystem for Linux is good enough for people that want to tinker with Linux without dealing with OS and/or driver problems. Same for Apple computers that are functional BSD machines without the headaches.
yeah WSL made my dual boot setup redundant. I can just develop for linux now without ever leaving windows
I’ll tell you a little secret: desktop linux is not very good and it’s not getting better. Don’t believe anyone who tells you they found a perfect operating system
Stfu 2025 is going to be the year of the Linux desktop
People here should read more right wing theory. I think its very easy to get the impression that the only right wingers that exist are Shapiro or Alex Jones types and so when people on the left encounter a right winger who isn’t a total moron/grifter they can be overly impressed and more easily swayed by them.
Case in point being Aleksandr Dugin. While he’s not as influential since the ACP was founded, I used to hear some his talking points on here a whole lot. He explicitly talks about using internet marxists as a 5th column to push right wing ideas. So inoculate yourselves.
There’s a not uncommon tendency among leftists, and especially MLs where they want to consume the “right” kind of information, as though reading anything that isn’t the most pure, anti-imperialist, regionally specific Chinese news paper will taint them with liberalism.
No baby girl, you need to read liberal, reactionary, and other leftist sources in earnest, with a principled Marxist analysis, and genuinely understand them.
Tbh, I think this tendency is a manifestation of the western left’s pseudo-Christian purity obsession.
sometimes i think the western left has basically entered the “early middle age Irish monks preserving the classics and also drawing anthro bunnies” phase
the purity stuff comes from the marginalization and effort to just keep the lights on right now
Oh yeah don’t get me started on the left’s residual Christian thinking. The amount of barely veiled protestant thinking is too damn high. The obsession with splitting is a perfect example.
Marx and Engels clarified many of their ideas through their critical readings and polemics.
I can’t recall where — I think a preface to one of Marx’s works — Engels describes how the publishing of the work was not important in the end; that the important thing was the clarification of their own ideas through the effort of refuting their opponents. I think it was against Proudhon or Stirner… can’t remember…
I think also whispers Hayek did actually have some valid critiques of managed economies. I believe there are solutions to these problems tbc, but you can’t just hand-wave the critique, even if he was an evil pos.
I don’t think I’ve ever personally conversed with a right winger who has actually engaged with ‘the good stuff’ from the Right tradition however, so it’s important to understand that the cultural impact of this stuff is negligible compared to e.g. Rand
Certainly of Soviet style planned economies. Though just the existence of computers refutes a lot of his so called problems.
Theoretically literate right wingers don’t go around proselytizing because that would go against their theory of power. You don’t teach the peasants, you use them. I would argue that policy wise the popular ‘theorists’ are only now making in roads because no one reads anything anymore, left or right.
Definitely agree on Hayek. He’s one of the grandfathers of contemporary complex systems theory and has some stuff that’s worth reading from that angle too. It’s also worth knowing your enemy.
If your “strongly held belief” can’t survive scrutiny or contact with intelligent argumentation it doesn’t deserve to be a “strongly held belief.”
Regularly examining your own assumptions and attacking your own point of view will not only help you better solve real problems, it will allow you to better recognize and answer specious arguments as they arise.
Maybe I’ve just not read the “correct” stuff, but I’ve largely found fascist propaganda to be incoherent and a waste of time.
Well there’s more to the right than just fascism. Catholic integralism is a hot topic right now. For a real head scratcher try George Fitzhugh. He was a pro slavery anti-capitalist who liked socialism because he thought it was the ultimate form of slavery.
Yeah. Listening to JD Vance of all people talk eloquently and with a populist message about the east Palestine train derailment really took me by surprise. The guy - our future far right VP - sounded like Bernie sanders.
I think the political parties are doing a really weird shift and most people haven’t caught on yet.
I kinda hate that one of the few people on the left I’ve heard talk about this phenomenon is Joshua Cittarella who is far too comfortable with taking the next step into “maybe the fascists have a point.”
I mean they don’t call them National socialists for nothing. I’m not the least bit surprised that fascists are talking socialist adjacent talking points but rebranded. IIRC even the Nazis had some redeeming social welfare programs (for good aryan Germans, fuck everyone else) that were adjacent to socialism… to capture the interest of those who would vote for real socialists.
Kinda like how Starbucks has decent workers benefits compared to their competitors - to prevent unionization. Or how FDR enacted the new deal to prevent actual socialists from gaining power.
I hope I’m getting my point across…
Yeah I get your point but all that stuff is completely empty. The Nazis still privatized everything and worked with big German and foreign capitalists to fund the Holocaust. When fascists say all the populist crap they don’t mean it.
When fascists say all the populist crap they don’t mean it.
Yup that’s why I used it as an example
There is a podcast that tackles this very subject.
The Black and Red Book Review
Highly recommend, though production quality is not exactly great.
i recall C. Derick Varn making a similar point and it’s mostly true. that’s why i’m personally annoyed when people still do the “right-wingers are stupid” bit
If it’s stupid and it keeps beating you, how stupid is it really? Things can be evil and smart at the same time.
I actually don’t respect religion at all and could never be 100% compatible with a religious person
Religious people, on the whole, have a fundamentally illogical and deeply problematic view of the most basic facts about our metaphysical reality, morality, and history. Even if they don’t use their religious views to justify deeply immoral behaviors, etc. Gotta have some sort of common ground to connect with a person.
Ban these threads
this is the best opinion here
Pokemon is boring
So are all “comfy” games, but that’s why I like it!
That’s fair. Pokemon is boring to me in a way that isn’t comfy, I just find it very very dull
Not when you’re 6 years old!
…wait
For this place?
Cars are badass. They make crazy noise and you can do sick ignorant shit in them. Slamming one around a parking lot whipping shitties and spending ur paycheck to see how even dumber it can get fuckin rules.
It’s bad to be forced to have a car. Nobody should HAVE to have one. Cars themselves are cool as fuck.
Mashing the gas and breaking the tires loose is just… Fun.
It’s bad in so many ways, but damn if it isn’t a good ass time. Something primal about it.
Vroom
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Horses used to live hard lives driving industrial equipment and warfare until the internal combustion engine freed them for the pasture. I imagine cars will follow a similar path, where enthusiasts can play around with them while we all have mass transit for the day-to-day.
Most of the hatred for rap music is rooted in racism
i dont think its that controversial
i’d also add on disco music hatred since that also originated from african americans. Disco didn’t die, right wingers went crazy and did a very effective national boycott of radio stations that played it. Disco didn’t die, it was murdered by freaks.
I love Christmas time and Christmas movies. I’m an atheist, but since we don’t celebrate saturnalia this is the closest I’ll ever get. I like giving people gifts and when someone gets me something thoughtful it makes me feel special.
Also, I enjoy that the ostensibly religious holiday has been eaten by capitalism. Because when someone complains you can just go “tsk, yeah, capitalism man.” And even the hardcore hogs are forced to agree.
Because when someone complains you can just go “tsk, yeah, capitalism man.” And even the hardcore hogs are forced to agree.
Christmas is winning the War on Christmas, but at what cost?!
Big Chungus is funny
The godfather does insist upon itself
im with peter on this one
the godfather is too short and too economical, no scenes have any room to breath
Maybe not mooost controversial, but the legend of korra is not only worse than ATLA, but it is pretty much garbage. Lib garbage, too.
missing the crucial appeal of the series, which is that lesbians will watch anything with lesbians in it
Disappointed in my fellow lesbians
That is true. I liked the lesbianism. It was based of them to make korra gay and I thought they were very cute together for being lib trash. Critical support.
season 3 was good and I liked the flashback episodes in season 2
1 didn’t understand it’s own politics and 4 was abysmally bad
season 1 was anti communist and season 4 was fascist apologia
yeah, but it was anti-communist in a weirdly liberal way. Like, it established that, yes, the equalist’s have real greivences against benders and a political system that makes them second class citizens. But! Their leader was a Hypocrite (the worst thing you can be), and so everyone went home and did something else with their lives. Like, what? You’re just leaving it there? They didn’t even finish the story they wrote!
Their leader was a Hypocrite
More to the point, he was a class traitor
Just like a massive amount of actual revolutionaries
anti communist
Fascist apologia
Humanity is doomed. People are too easily manipulated and kept in line by the wealth and power of the most evil individuals to ever be alive, never having been taught to be critical of the thoughts that have been implanted within them. People can’t even reach the realization that problems which require extremes to resolve exist in the first place.
I want to see a world where it’s a tragedy for even a single person to be denied the basics of food, shelter, healthcare, etc. Instead I see a world where someone’s lack of any of those things is “justified”.
Maybe if a few more CEOs get blasted I’ll change my mind.
Not a controversial opinion on Hexbear lol
Hey, there’s always China. Are they perfect? No, nobody is. But they were good enough Fidel thought the strategy could work
I don’t think there are any good Sonic games and I’m convinced that a lot of people only like the series because of nostalgia. I feel the same way about Harry Potter but that’s not an unpopular opinion here.
As an unreformed sonic enjoyer I think this is the case. The abstract concept of a sonic game is so much more enjoyable than the material reality of a sonic game
IMO the thing is that Sonic at its best only appeals to a small slice of gamers. Like if you talk to speedrunners about it they’ll have nothing but good things to say about it, and in general Sonic games get more cathartic to play the better you get as a player. The less time you spend bumping into things and the more confidently you can navigate the precision platforming segments the more you can just zone out and enjoy the flow state and the music and stuff.
But you’ve got to have a personality that leads you to playing levels multiple times to get into that flow state, and a lot of people who don’t have that will play a Sonic game, struggle through every level exactly once, and then put it away and declare that it sucked.
So this niche interest game got put up against Mario, which is superficially similar but much, much better at appealing to a mass audience, and the comparison has stuck in the culture ever since. People who like it continue to like it but because of its high profile and nostalgia factor lots and lots of people play it who don’t like it and that infects the discourse for it in a way that it doesn’t for other games.
…and of course lots of the games really do suck because SEGA and Sonic Team have had a bad habit of rushing games out the door before they were finished that goes back to the Mega Drive days.
I think you just explained to me why the only Sonic game I’ve liked is Sonic 2. I had that one for GBA so I was constantly replaying the same levels. Recently I picked up Sonic Mania, struggled through the first 3 levels exactly once and haven’t wanted to play it since
Saying Sonic 3 is a bad game is crazy.
