Im not doing all that work just to get linux going
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that work being run installer and then click the install software button and install steam/libreoffice/firefox.
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
understandable, have a nice day
Ansel Adams' photos are glorified tech demos of the zone system. They have little artistic merit on their own. Adams should have stayed in the darkroom.
China is useless and it seems like they would love to return how they were with USA before Trump.
I think cis people should transition just for a little bit so they can understand what gender dysphoria is like
Mine is similar: You can only be true cis if you are confronted and in contact with all faces of your sexuality. Everything else is compensation and/or unhealthy.
I hate the very idea of "meritocracy". A part-time "unskilled" worker or a NEET should enjoy the same decent living conditions as everyone else. Likewise, when it comes to leftist orgs, a person who just joined it should have the same voting power as everyone else. It's idealist and impractical, I know.
Big Chungus is funny
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.
Transphobes deserve the Luigi treatment even more than CEOs.
It's a tie between:
The Cybertruck looks pretty cool. Only complaints I have on the aesthetics after seeing them IRL a bunch is that the wheels are disproportionately large. It'd look much better if the frame was both bigger and farther above from the wheels
The Las Vegas Sphere is awesome, I'm glad it exists. Shame about the ads though
Drugs can make you temporarily bisexual if you're hetero/homo sexual
I mostly agree about the cybertruck. It's a stupid vehicle that shouldn't exist, but it looks cool.
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
Drew Carey is just as good of a host of The Price is Right as Bob Barker. They're very different in their approach, but they are both just as entertaining.
Beanis is not just for breakfast. :beanis:
there's a reason that communists have way more relevance than other leftist thought and its not just due to 'accidents' or 'coincidence'.
I don't think that's controversial in Hexbear, in my experience it's an ML-dominated space
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.
Vroom
Most people - including Marxist thinkers and people here on Hexbear - do not understand what idealism is and subscribe to a critique of it that says that Platonism and most versions of religious idealism - probably the most popular examples of idealist schools of thought - are not idealist schools of thought.
People also seem to unfortunately like to come to a conclusion first, and then try to fit the facts to match that conclusion, like when people try to argue that the PRC's economy is currently socialist despite it featuring significant private property (and, thus, profit motive). (Going to note here that there is a room to argue that it isn't capitalist on the grounds of the capitalist class not being sufficiently dominant, which I am not equipped to discuss right now, and why I do not call it such.)
most versions of religious idealism - probably the most popular examples of idealist schools of thought - are not idealist schools of thought.
This. I notice this is way more problem on reddit than here, a deprogram user once told me straight up that religion is materialist. I mean i know that human mind can hold conflicting ideas, but c'mon at least admit those are conflicting. More troubling result is support people give for let's say liberation theology which is just old class collaboration idea don't even pretending it will do any liberation whatsoever - if it was not religious, the same people would bash it heavily, but it's a new version of clerical socialism from a Communist Manifesto - a holy water which priest sprinkles on heart of bourgeois.
like when people try to argue that the PRC's economy is currently socialist
The easiest counter to this is that the PRC itself does not consider its economy to be socialist.
People also seem to unfortunately like to come to a conclusion first, and then try to fit the facts to match that conclusion
Exhibit A: The whole "Western Marxist" debate. A whole lot of people will look for someone else to blame before they blame themselves or their group.
The godfather does insist upon itself
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