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Religion doesn’t count. We’re on Lemmy, so neither does communism.

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[–] CDommunist@hexbear.net 43 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (7 children)

Im not doing all that work just to get linux going

[–] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 16 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

that work being run installer and then click the install software button and install steam/libreoffice/firefox.

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[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] TheDrink@hexbear.net 10 points 10 hours ago

understandable, have a nice day

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[–] someone@hexbear.net 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 8 points 7 hours ago

China is useless and it seems like they would love to return how they were with USA before Trump.

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

I think cis people should transition just for a little bit so they can understand what gender dysphoria is like

[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 12 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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.

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[–] korovka@hexbear.net 18 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 30 points 11 hours ago

Big Chungus is funny

[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 32 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago

Transphobes deserve the Luigi treatment even more than CEOs.

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 6 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I mostly agree about the cybertruck. It's a stupid vehicle that shouldn't exist, but it looks cool.

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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 27 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 10 points 9 hours ago

Not a controversial opinion on Hexbear lol

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 14 points 11 hours ago

Hey, there's always China. Are they perfect? No, nobody is. But they were good enough Fidel thought the strategy could work fidel-freethrow

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[–] Yukiko@hexbear.net 10 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 15 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Beanis is not just for breakfast. :beanis:

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Oh boy, these kinds of threads always end well side-eye-1side-eye-2

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[–] Red_Renewal_Cosmonaut@hexbear.net 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

there's a reason that communists have way more relevance than other leftist thought and its not just due to 'accidents' or 'coincidence'.

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think that's controversial in Hexbear, in my experience it's an ML-dominated space

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[–] SoloboiNanook@hexbear.net 35 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] red_stapler@hexbear.net 10 points 10 hours ago
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[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 42 points 13 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 31 points 13 hours ago (10 children)

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.)

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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.

[–] impartial_fanboy@hexbear.net 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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.

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[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 37 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

The godfather does insist upon itself

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 9 points 8 hours ago

the godfather is too short and too economical, no scenes have any room to breath

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[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 32 points 13 hours ago (7 children)

Maybe not mooost controversial, but the legend of korra is not only worse than ATLA, but it is pretty much garbage. Lib garbage, too.

[–] crime@hexbear.net 28 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

missing the crucial appeal of the series, which is that lesbians will watch anything with lesbians in it

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