América Latina & Caribe

I wonder if Biden came up with a similar religious self-justification for his support of genocide in Gaza.

Ilan Pape has talked about American Presidents being religious nutjobs.

yep

New site tagline:

Hexbear, where liberals go to discuss what they would do if they were communists

Bad/no sleep continuing to wreck me

Solidarity to all other Hexbears who can't fucking sleep right

Finally watched the VVitch

Eggars is too good man, how does he do it.

House GOP leaders urge members: Stop making race comments about Harris

lol, lmao even

>get told Arch is idiotproof and there's no need for GUI distros like Endeavour or Manjaro now since you can install your own

>make a live usb and put it into an old Acer Extensa I have laying around

>boot up

>>>get dumped at a text terminal asking me for an internet connection, whose text output goes offscreen.

Fuckin nerds lied to me...

arch is a fake operating system for assholes that's literally more impenetrable than dos

Early 90s cars are so goofy looking. Really glad i dont have conscious memory of the era

day 4 of sketching 30 min a day to grind from practically-zero drawing/visual art priors: headshot from scratch

used what I studied yesterday in facial abstraction to see if I could make a basic headshot sketch without a reference, took me half an hour but here's what I produced

Until we get a public appearance in front of a live audience, I refuse to believe that Joe Brandon isn't fighting an endless horde of prime Corn Pops in hell right now

209 Good Gateway

The Kamala defense force that sprung up overnight on TikTok is starting to get on my nerves tbh

when against my better judgment i lurk on dating advice subreddits, whenever those clowns uncritically talk about "leagues" my soul vomits in its own mouth a little bit

We should take the whole US military budget and build a space elevator with it instead

That would be cool as hell and way better

decided i want to formally terminate my domestic partnership with my ex. while we mostly got it for practical reasons, its continued existence does have some symbolic weight to me. in our state i can do it without her present as long as i mail her a notification so i'd just need to get her address. trying to do so through former in-laws at the moment (saw that she recently blocked me on socials so it seems no contact is what's desired right now).

idk. that's the post, i guess. guess i feel like i need to mentally decouple myself from her wellbeing since i find myself thinking about her a lot still. also spent pretty much a whole day w/ my lady friend this weekend which i'm sure is a factor in wanting to more Formally Move On.

down with cis

aloha, i have consumed 1x bottle of kahlua in a sitting and i am now a tiki

FWIIII ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^ ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^ ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^

The libs are very excited and doing their politics as team sports + religion thing and i feel sick they're all libidinal monsters projecting their whims and fears on to these banal careerist killers i feel sick.

May be self doxing a bit,but i feel like I have to do something to distract myself I'm in my home rn and the ruskies are striking the Ukrainian city over in the distance hard I try to sleep but it's too hot and I feel like I'm about to have a heart attack Fuck,strike after strike,even though it's far in the distance I can see flashes of light and the shockwaves shake up the windows of the house I feel so goddamn scared even though I'm supposedly safe seeing as I don't live in Ukraine directly For one fucking year this circus has been going on and off and it's fucked my sleep schedule because every time night comes I pray this shit doesn't happen And the alarms are the worst, fucking announcing "unidentified flying objects" coming Death to NATO for making this shit possible and turning a region that was thought to be a quiet backwater into a fucking warzone I hate the fact that I can't feel safe in my own home anymore

7 commenrs and no ubears on the mega? Smdg do better everyone

Once you start making super spicy spaghetti you never go back

anhedonia the last two days. that thin wall of ice between me & the world around me, senses feeling dulled & distant witnessing things that might otherwise be beautiful. "meaning" as far off abstraction rather than felt reality. hopefully it'll be a little better tomorrow

Venezuelan elections are on the 28th.

All my Venezuelan friends are anti Maduro and they say hes corrupt and hes a modern populist figure like Trump. They blame him for the failures of the government.

They never know what an embargo is and what it does. The other conclusion I reached is that corruption is not why a government fails, sure it can be, but the US is corrupt and we are still "successful."

The other problem I have is the amount of evangelist and religious people in the country, it seems like a real problem. One of my friends cousins is a Trump dipshit, worships white people and is super religious.

My other problem is the selection bias regarding the people I know, theyre all musicians and generally not poor and not black. They say that theyre not racist over there and that Maduro bad is a common opinion but I've never met a black Venezuelan or someone who disagrees with them.

What frustrates me is the most is really the embargo thing, that destroys economies and your opinion on socialism is flawed if you dont understand or care what the context around your own country is. "I'm from Venezuela, I know it better than you do. You don't know" Maybe but that doesn't fly if you apply that same logic to Americans. Most of us are completely ignorant animals.

Ludwig: Marxism denies that the individual plays an outstanding role in history. Do you not see a contradiction between the materialist conception of history and the fact that, after all, you admit the outstanding role played by historical personages?

"You say that people don't fall out of coconut trees, but I have definitely heard of this happening."

Stalin: No, there is no contradiction here. Marxism does not at all deny the role played by outstanding individuals, nor the fact that history is made by people. In Marx’s The Poverty of Philosophy and in other works of his you will find it stated that it is people who make history. But of course, people do not make history according to their own fancy or the promptings of their imagination. Every new generation encounters definite conditions already existing, ready-made, when that generation was born. And great people are worth anything at all only to the extent that they are able correctly to understand these conditions, to understand how to change them. If they fail to understand these conditions and try to alter them according to the promptings of their imagination, they will land themselves in the situation of Don Quixote. Thus it is precisely Marx’s view that people must not be counterposed to conditions. It is people who make history, but they do so only to the extent that they correctly understand the conditions that they have found ready-made, and only to the extent that they understand how to change those conditions. That, at least, is how we Russian Bolsheviks understand Marx. And we have been studying Marx for a good many years.

"People fall out of coconut trees if being up in a coconut tree is the context that they exist in and all that is around them."

quotes from https://redsails.org/stalin-and-ludwig/

Just think if UIs weren't invented we'd have to search what we want to do and type in what we want to do, instead we have the much more intuitive version of guessing what completely random images are supposed to represent.

damn the dick crusher 9000 got hands

What if instead of physically-based rendering in computer graphics it was

Wonder what the implications of that would be

I’m giving Creamsicle a bath, because my friend’s throwing him in the wash didn’t seem to work very well.

It seems to be actually working, albeit very tedious.

There's a new essay of literary criticism making the rounds. I'm upset about it because I think it's very bad and I don't know what to do about that

Today my friend is giving me a bath. It’s fun!

But also I gave myself an owwie because my friend showed me a mirror and I thought it was another silly orange whale like me and I tried to say hi and got really excited and I hit my head.

If you’ve ever said “being on time is about respect, if people are late it’s because they don’t respect your time” you’re an ableist piece of shit and should stop speaking in public

Go fuuuuuuck yourself. First of all it’s incredibly fucking narcissistic to think “You’re late, this must be a deliberate choice to spite me” chill the fuck out. Grow up and attempt empathy.

Why on earth would you think I’m doing this on purpose? I stress so much about being on time when it matters and still mess it up. I can be completely ready 10 minutes before we have to leave and I’ll somehow get distracted with two minutes left and be 5 minutes late. I can’t judge how long things will take, I’ve tried adding 50% onto whatever my initial guess is and still come up short half the time and am way over the other half.

And then I see people say “How do these people even keep jobs? Clearly you are capable of being on time when you care, otherwise you’d get fired” which is a hell of a claim. There are lots of jobs where being late really isn’t an issue. I work in a lab and I mostly just show up when I want, no one’s checking over my shoulder. But also, people with ADHD get fired for being late all the time. People with ADHD are over twice as likely to be unemployed. It’s a huge disability rights issue, and while it is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act there’s basically no enforcement of that.

If people are late, try calming the fuck down about it. It has nothing to do with you. Check your phone, read a book. If you have a friend who’s chronically late, tell them 6:30 if you want to meet at 7. If you’re a manager, schedule with an appropriate amount of over-coverage. If one person being late or calling out causes any problems with scheduling, you’ve already fucked up and should’ve been scheduling more people. People call out, people are late, you need to be prepared for that.

Also it’s behavior

This TikTok and its comment section are the inspiration for this post

Welp I think I'm going to take another break from dating, though this one was more successful than my previous attempts. I actually got a couple of dates this time, and although they didn't go anywhere it was still a good experience.

I'll go back to being contently single while I work on myself more, maybe I'll try again in a couple months . It'd be easier if I just wanted hookups but I'm not into casual sex without a connection. Ah well, maybe next time

I thought liberals were insufferable for Biden, seeing them flip the script and get excited for Kamala is stressing me out. Or maybe I'm just stressed because I've been playing persona for 2 days and it's exam time again. Either way, I've had no peace

My new hobby is being a KHiver in YouTube comments