Nagarjuna

joined 4 years ago
[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The New People's Army, a socialist guerilla force in the Phillipines fighting against the Marcos-Duterte regime and for democracy, land reform, indigenous sovereignty, gay rights and worker control of the economy.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's both. Disney is a strong brand and going after it feels like an attack to people with strong positive associations. DeSantis lost the Disney adult vote and that's got to be whole portions of a percent of his base.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Well, what AMLO did sounds borderline fascist. Maybe the Klan is a necessary evil? We'd better flood Mexico with weapons and then refuse to negotiate a surrender and hope that improves the situation.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

It's worth looking at how that environment is produced too. There's a need for cheap labor in agriculture, laundry, hospitality and textile industries that dovetails well with the US's history of anti-mexican racism (grounded in the need to dehumanizing indigenous people to steal their land as well as the US-Mexico war).

By controlling people's movement through the border regime, we can make them willing to take sub-minimum wage jobs, while also keeping Mexico poor through lopsided trade agreements like NAFTA and low level insurgency achieved by escalating the drug war and flooding the country with weapons.

In this context of US oppression of Mexicans, it becomes necessary to dehumanize them to justify the violence. This is where fox news comes in. Hell, even CNN plays a role by creating categories of migrants some good and some bad, and playing them against each other while justifying border control (think about the rhetoric about dreamers vs drug smugglers).

To change this environment, we either need to undercut this propaganda by organizing white and brown workers together, or either take back control of media from big business or make our own media with similar reach.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The holes on the inside say bugs to me. Puffballs are usually white. I know it's small, but the shell still looks too big, should be eggshell thin.

Imo, there are safer and tastier mushrooms out there. Like a king bolete or an oyster mushroom.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

It's too bug-eaten to tell if it's all-white on the inside. I would avoid it because you can't really sight-ID it.

Also the shell around the outside is too thick (should be eggshell thin) imo there's a good chance it's an Earthball (also poisonous, but not destroying angel poisonous).

Get Mike Beuge's dichotomous key, it'll really help you not die.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, for sure, my emotions have all gotten less. Less high, less low, I've just chilled out in every direction

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, each one is an image link. For example, possum-party is

https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/16a72a38-0fbc-45f3-bf59-dd9e6509f73e.png

So you can go to the image, copy and paste it into your comment, and use it from your own instance. You won't have the emoji picker unless you have a hexbear account, but you can bookmark and hold on to your favorites.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Someone said that it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism and unfortunately capitalism's making that more true by the day.

It really seems like a "we kill capitalism or it kills us" situation.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What do you think turns people into China supporters? Love for China or hatred of the US?

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Honestly, I liked that they followed electoral politics, helping me fulfill my sick, taboo desires.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

correct opinions

Smh fucking liberal

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