I’ll start, I missed the outdoor cats struggle session so i don’t know what its deal was except a vague idea that outdoor cats were bad, so I’ve let my two cats stay being outdoor cats because I feel bad locking them inside, like I want to give them some experience of freedom to go where they please so they can live more fulfilling lives

Edit: also kruschev is imo a lot better than most hexbear users give him credit for

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    billions of birds are dead because you (and my mother, who drives me up the wall every time I am over and she spends an hour outside in the rain with a flashlight doing the suburban equivalent of calling the cows home except it is four cats from across the entire neighborhood) can’t keep your mangy cat inside angry-place

    keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside keep them inside!!!

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    We should unban LiberalSocialist and their various reincarnations so we can hunt them for sport.

    Additional ones:

    Wearing long sleeves with shorts/a short skirt is objectively hot (attractive).

    Indomie is better than Nongshim.

    Using hot glue instead of screws is lazy western decadence (stolen from a Czech engineer in YouTube lmao)

    Mal0 and Pur0 best SCPs.

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    We don’t get a lot of catholic stans anymore. Used to pop up every time evangelicals were mentioned.

    Not sure if it is because the podcasters have moved on from it or people becoming disillusioned with Francis.

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      I’m not a Catholic stan, but I’ll grant that the Catholics among my cousins are way less fucked up than than my cousins who were raised Protestant

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        Which is fine. Just remember there being a load of people who genuinely thought that the Catholic Church was progressive because they got the ‘cool pope’.

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    not being an avid anime fan myself, i would like for people here to have a polite discussion regarding their personal interpretations of goblin slayer and shield hero so that i have a better idea of what the party line is regarding these and similar works.

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      Pure unadulterated misogynistic drivel.

      From the fever dream of Andrew Tate and one horny af Japanese man comes two animes that appeal directly to the male anime fan fantasy to own and use women as their personal toys.

      DON’T check out Redo the Healer either unless you want to see literal rape and torture of women in the first fucking episode.

      It’s all just the worst of Japanese mangaka misogyny, imperial Japan simping and incel values.

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      We had a whole ass argument about goblin slayer here once. If you want my takes, goblin slayer dogwhistles alt-right talking points under a fantasy guise. Think like, someone saw the parts of The Lord of the Rings that could be construed as racist and said, “Hmmmm, yes, let’s crank it up to 11”. Shield hero is slavery apologia (“it’s ok to own slaves if you treat them well!”) and is deeply misogynistic.

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          Omg lol so you did. Federation has made everything seem so long ago.

          Look I’ll be real I’ll take bad media takes from other hexbear’s right now over all the bullshit I’m seeing from the libs/chuds out in the lemmyverse, at least I know the other poster’s a comrade who’s trying their best.

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        The Lord of the Rings is racist to the bone. Goblin Slayer is just a continuation of the same with less poetry.

        Modern fantasy’s racism came directly from Tolkien. It certainly wasn’t from 14th century English fairytales that Tolnien was referencing.

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      From what I’ve heard, they’re considered to just be fascist media but I didn’t really care enough to like store away in my brain why people were calling them that and I’ve never watched them

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        Their subject matter is bad enough that we’d have to have the whole conversation behind content warnings. I’ve only seen the intro of one of them and that way more than enough to know I wanted nothing to do with it.

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    The struggle session I’m always ready for: When are reactionaries deserving of death rather than a chance at rehabilitation?

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      Depends on resources.

      Reeducation is always preferable, but resources to do reeducation are non-existent during revolution, civil war, etc. And you will not have the resources to hold them in camps either. There will be quick popup courts and sentencing out of necessity when resources are low.

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      Depends on what they did and how compliant they are initially. Like China’s proud of rehabilitating Emperor Puyi, even though the guy was a war criminal. Despite that he was cooperative with the new government and he was put through like a personal psychodrama where he was forced to meet with victims of the Japanese occupation. They did this to him for decades.

      Convenience is the real answer. If they’re responsible for genocide and have powerful allies elsewhere in the world, no good can come from keeping them alive. If they’re not cooperative and keep agitating fellow reactionaries, then get rid of them. I guess there’s a risk of turning them into martyrs, but there are probably ways around that. Like how the Soviets burned the corpses of Nazi officials so there wouldn’t be graves.

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        This was only possible because by the time the Chinese communists took power, there hasn’t been an emperor in China for 37 years. That means if you were born in the year of the Chinese revolution in 1911, by the time the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949, you would already be 38 years old probably with teenage kids of your own already. You and your kids have practically lived your entire lives without an emperor.

        If you think about how the Russian revolution happened, the situation was far more precarious because there was an immediate connection to the memory of living under the Tsar, and there were forces that would want to restore the imperial rule. In this case, would it be possible to rehabilitate the Romanov family?

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          Yeah, in the case of the Romanov family, other countries were foaming at the mouth for an excuse to invade the USSR. Restoring the old royal family was one of the justifications.

          It’s hard to restore a royal family if the entirety of them are dead.

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    Edit: also kruschev is imo a lot better than most hexbear users give him credit for

    I think history gave him too much credit actually. The seed of the destruction of the USSR was planted during Khrushchev’s rule. If there hadn’t been a de-Stalinization campaign and if someone had just continued Stalin’s policies, then there was a very strong possibility that the USSR would have surpassed the capitalist West in terms of prosperity and living standards in just a few more decades.