I’m sure someone way smarter than me pointed this out, but is it just me or is an underreported strategy of the elite’s class warfare on the poor is lumpenproleization?

Every job and every last penny you have? All concessions the porks hate to make. They hate hiring, they hate when their business has to expand despite it supposedly being a sign of success. But thankfully for them, they can get together and agree to be pickier and pickier when they have no choice but to hire, and more than a quarter of the population in the US is functionally unemployed (including underemployment).

In sum, 25% of the country is lumpenproletariat and I am one of them. It’s a humiliation ritual to demoralize. Like it isn’t even faceless greed, this is smug, malevolent malice porks are doing simply because they can. Lumpenproletariat have also historically been easier to redirect to fascist elements, which is good for porky as it serves to increase the loyalty of the poor.

Woke up hungover, threw up, went back to sleep somehow, now i feel ok but that anhedonia creepin in

On your recommendation I started absolute Batman and it’s been a pretty cool series so far. Thanks for the suggestion!

bit idea: liquid D&B with scintillating quotes of theory audiobook in the background. Call it Commu-rhythm

I bought a new pair of shorts. They're comfy and easy to wear.

Youtube has been recommending me shorts from this one channel called "Breezy Politics" which is some reactionary anti-zionist clip channel. There's clips from Tucker and MTG but then there's also clips from Mehdi Hasan's recent Jubilee appearance. Just watched one where they called Mamdani an "America First" politician which I found funny.

Also from this channel I found out that Matt Gaetz has apparently joined the right-wing anti-Israel side.

Edit: Just saw Matt Gaetz talk about how Israel killed Shireen Abu-Akleh and he listed a few other Palestinian-Americans. That made me notice that they never mention Rachel Corrie, a blonde white girl, which should be right up their alley. Do they just not know about her? I don't see any reason, not even a sinister one, for why you wouldn't want to bring her up if you wanted to talk about how Israel kills Americans. They love yapping about the USS Liberty and that was decades ago, so it's not like her death was too long ago.

Edit 2: Spamming Jackson Hinkle replies with "Never forget Rachel Corrie" would probably be decent propaganda to stoke the flames among anti-zionist reactionaries. Too cynical for me though.

Was out in the sun for like 4 hours yesterday (3 of which had extreme UV) and didnt get mask tan lines

I was reapplying my face sunscreen religiously

i know that, ackshully, lord of the rings is one big book only published in its three segments at the insistence of Tolkiens publisher…

but for the sake of putting Good Boy Points on the board in terms of annual books read, i am going to count each of the three parts as one. which puts me at….two completed books this year :/

Communism is only good on paper remember folks

Democracy on the other hand while good on paper, should always chase its idealized and in fact is perfect. Nevermind that you are never truly represented in a democracy, most people tend to check out of politics because of it and it always ends in a oligarchal control tool.

Other actors who should have played Forest Gump cause it would have been really funny:

Jean Claude Van Damme

Danny DeVito

Sylvester Stallone

Samuel L Jackson

James Gandolfini

Dying Light 2 isn't that bad, but it's no DL1.

Happy Hexweek to all who celebrate. This weird corner has kept me sane when the events of the world have been bonkers. Keep posting, unless of course you decide to touch grass.

The british never grew out of the victorian age.

adding every album with an :awooga: anime girl on it to my library as a bit

come across an artist with like fifty albums that fit the bill

they all came out this year

it's fucking AI shit

now I gotta scrub through my library checking every artist to make sure they're real

"atmospheric" music, ie stuff that by definition you're not paying super close attention to is absolutely infested with ai garbage. YouTube Music needs to have a way to block this shit because I don't want to support it.

Pokemon is a good multiplayer pvp game but bad bad singleplayer rpg game

Went on a river float for my first time and I'm and idiot and only reapplied sunscreen to my shoulders once during the four hour float and the rest of me is baked. Crisp. Lobster red. I don't know if I have been this sunburnt since I was a teen, maybe even a kid. Currently slathered in coconut oil after slathering myself in aloe and I hope to Christ it calms down tomorrow because I remember peeling and that shit suuuuuuuucks ass. I also was doing the god damn backstroke for like 2 hours of it too because for whatever reason I could not keep up with the front of the pack, probably getting stuck on the eddys because I don't know how to read the river. At least my shoulders will be bulletproof after this. And at least the baby rapids were fun and I feel accomplished.

Why is it that ill look at my body and be like "oh yeah, in not red yet, I don't need sunscreen again thats for wimps!"

If anyone has any other tips for sunburns pls let me know them

I had a dream where I was being chased down from the top of an impossibly large building. I was trying to find routes down by jumping from sloped, shingled roofs. With me was a guy with red spiky hair who kinda looked like young Tom Cruise and Stavros Halkias was there and he was constantly doing that fake cackling laugh.

It sounds dumb, but it was a really intense dream. My teeth hurt from grinding.

That's it, I'm just gonna be an old pervert

me (age thirty)

I so desperately want ’s supernatural mobster slasher film to be real lmao.

Your car looks pretty fast. Wanna race?

not trying to get too serious in the megathread, but,

therapy goers, is there a therapist word (that I can google) for not having a coherent identity? as in, "be yourself," "I can't, that person straight up doesn't exist." it's not depersonalization, and I don't think it's dissociation. it just feels like a huge chunk of me is inexpressible and scrambled even to myself.

*if no word immediately comes to mind, there's no need to dig for one, I'm not using hexbear as an unpaid therapist

mine offering for tony's upcoming trick

I hope all the computer (occupation)s who had their jobs taken by LLMs are doing okay