Guy who doesn’t mind pooping in toilets away from home but really feels uncomfortable peeing in any other toilet so he has to sneakily pee outside when away from home, but also leave nasty turds in others’ toilets

See the other comments, there absolutely were people displaying acceptance of Zionists ideological points and that was the argument. The emoji was just the example that made it come up

This is a misreading and a mischaracterizing analysis. From the beginning, everyone who was upset at Zionist tendencies talked about how the emoji was an EXAMPLE of the ways the Zionist arguments that were behind many choices and treatment of the site.

There were people saying that it was a “holocaust emoji”, which explicitly accepts the lie that Israel has anything to so with the Holocaust. And I cannot count how many times it was stated in the thread that “the emoji is just an example” and people are still acting like that was it. In general, it’s people making the Zionist argument as described in this article

I agree that calling someone a Zionist is a strong claim that shouldn’t be used lightly. That’s why I said many times that there were zionist claims being accepted instead. these are comrades who really needed to confront that they were still dealing with brainworms. That is different than being ontologically evil, but deflecting to ‘its just an emoji’ helps nobody.

I second this motion. Angela is the GOAT of science YouTube. Also her video on Richard Feynman was so enlightening about the bullshit of popular perspectives on science. Kinda her theme tbh.

Santos, leave the eating-contest-contestant from New York alone. Does he really deserve this for maybe slightly cheating in an eating contest a couple of times? Who hasn’t watered down their food while glarfing it down? Pick on someone in politics

Oh damn, wait, Sliwa is a politician? The eating contest guy?

Definitely, but this is where I think XHS is wrong to make such a comparison. Relative to the CPC, anything similar Mamdani does with or without a DSA fraction can be characterized as individual and anarchic

To be clear, this isn’t an argument saying that anything less than CPC size movement is worthless. It’s just that similar actions have incomparable aspects due to this factor

This is all good and nice, but there’s a huge wrinkle: energy. The amount of energy it takes (people, resources, money, time) to really exhaust the bourgeois methods through direct challenge WITHIN the norms is absurdly high. And that energy must be conserved or used in the most productive way possible. The energy required is so high that the #1 excuse for failures is “we needed more energy to win” and that’s an almost inexhaustible resource for the bourgeoisie is a western nation, so it’s always running on a treadmill moving faster than our little legs can manage–racing a giant.

So the challenge is to find ways to manage an utilize the limited energy we have and prove that the current methods are untenable. Framing it as a problem of not trying hard enough/not exhausting it is exactly how we fail to confront the bourgeois system at its weak point.

I think George Jackson didn’t mean “exhaust” in reference to how hard we must try, but “exhaust” in terms of how many possibilities we can prove are untenable. Forcing the bourgeois systems themselves to prove that it then the trick.

Despite this faction, I don’t think he is acting according to its strategic and tactical plans (and I think simultaneously that these plans are not concrete, meaningful, of well planned enough). If he is, I’d be very surprised. But even so, a western socdem/democ party planning and process is incomparable to CPC policies in size and scope and durability

China is a state which has a stated strategy and goals and processes which it is holding to. Mamdani is an individual going rogue with statements and policy changes. These are uncomparable

What happened to the tooth???

Still can’t do any resistance or strength training with my shoulder how it is, but running every day has been possible now! Feels good, enjoying it, getting some good progress in my audiobooks

You said much the same as I did but in better wording. Agreed, these PPB radical centrists on hexbear really changed me

I really appreciate hexbear for pushing me to see this, and once I did, so much started feeling so alien to me. E.g. using “stupid” is just a catchword for anything you don’t respect but are unable to articulate why, and for some reason using a term which is essentialist about forms of intelligence? What an odd world it became.

Thanks hexbear, you made me a much better person

And you, too can be rich with this one simple trick! :spongebob-imagination:

I sort of hope so for Venezuelans, and am not familiar enough with Nigeria to know what to think. The government there seems happy to accept help, but I’ve only seen western sources.

But I think there’s a chance this is Trump’s last minute distraction before still attacking Venezuela. I’ll accept my punishment if proven wrong by time, but I’m not convinced he’d give up that fast. Or be allowed to give up I guess

wait I was told recently by a native speaker that ho*ky (there’s no damn way to bleep this out without it looking like I mean Hockey lol) was a slur against black people? @ hexbear was I being misled?

Lol if it’s Nakoichi, then the most recent comment by the account before this was one by Nakoichi talking in 3rd person objectively about Nakoichi making a misogynist comment (slip up, more likely to be fair. That comment chain was when I learned what “knickers” are)

Lol ok this sounds much more like the Nakoichi I remember. Well I still mean the parts relevant to the real you lol.

Idk if this is really even Nakoichi, tbh, but whatever, I’ll keep taking the bait I guess

Wait wait wait, look at this shadow. She’s pregnant with JD Vance’s son already confirmed