Love me some Milt Jackson! The soft tones of that vibraphone are great for background music while studying

https://youtu.be/Fvmv7MCsCP0

The notion that human beings are separate and apart from the natural world is colonialist nonsense.

You’re missing my point.

I know full well where I’m posting. You’re talking about the importance of nuance, while painting all Hexbear users as somekind of monolithic hivemind.

Meanwhile, I a humble Hexbear user, am trying to ask a user from another instance, in good faith, to explain their ideological position in more depth. Because I earnestly want to know.

If you want to probe the “liberal=fascist” sentiment, we can. But that’s not the discussion I’m trying to have here.

You’re the pot calling the kettle black, my friend.

Unfortunately, in some corners of Lemmy, such as Hexbear or Lemmygrad, the ability to distinguish and discuss nuance is not included in what I would describe as their “community values”.

But I’m standing right here… Making a nearly identical point about liberals

If I may, can you clarify what you mean by

I am a liberal in the U.S sense. Not a leftist, nor a democrat,

In US political parlance, Liberal is typically synonymous with Democrats, and a broad, ill defined, ‘left’ of the political spectrum.

Outside the US, and in much of political science, liberal denotes a broadly centrist, status quo position, that can be left or right leaning.

And in neither of those definitions do liberals ‘want revolution’. At least not in the way that my fellow commies on Hexbear might typically conceive of it.

U.S. must stop providing weapons Isreal uses to kill anybody

Yeah, I’d love to see a chart of some kind, for this

Yo, that’s rad as fuck! Does anyone have a source for that quote?

IDK but they’re kinda cute :3

The obsession gamers have with “good graphics” is at a point where we’re seeing diminishing returns. Do games need to look any better than they did in the PS3/360 Era? Not really. Can they look much better? I guess? But who cares? I don’t need realistic horse testicle physics. I need a fun game to play!!!

Explain like I’m a dipshit, what are 3 of their important contributions?

Can someone explain the joke to someone who has always been shit at math?

Reposting part of a comment I made in another thread about this, but:

animation across east Asian countries outsources labor between each other all of the time. Your Japanese anime is just as much Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese at this point, as it is Japanese.

Go look at the credits of most modern anime productions out of Japan, and large swathes of the names you see aren’t Japanese, but are from those other countries.

Even a fairly low stakes, low budget, slice of life anime, like Non Non Biyori has Vietnamese names all over its god damn credits, because globalization has impacted the east Asian animation industry in such a way, that there’s an large cross pollination of talent across borders, for better and worse.

And that’s not to mention the western animation that gets outsourced to these places, South Korea especially.

The fact North Korea is also involved in this complex outsourcing process shouldn’t be surprising to anyone who knows anything about how that industry works.

Yeah, it’s pretty clear that Nex either preferred different pronouns in different contexts, and/or was in the middle of trying to figure themselves out. And that’s really the tragedy here, that we’ll never know for sure.

Also, it’s not like they’re ousting fire nation settlers with their civilian killing terrorist tactics. Then you could at least approach the issue with some kind of Fanon-esque view on the violence of the colonized, but that’s not what’s happening.

They’re wiping out an entire earth kingdom village, simply because they think it will take out a small handful of fire nation soldiers in the process.

Jet is definitely an adventurist/wrecker, in the logic of the narrative.

Yeah this guy sucks ass

While Mearshimer pretty successfully predicted the Ukraine war, his other predictions are mostly trash, due to his narrow Realist outlook.

His article, Back to The Future argues that Europe would slide back into WW1 style nationalist forever wars between each other, after the “Long peace” of the Cold War was over. Failing to see the ways that institutions like the EU were in the interests of western European powers, and their respective ruling classes, as a way to extract labor and resources from southern and eastern Europe, and the global south, more generally.

Realism sees States as unitary actors and makes no room for class analysis or internal contradictions within a state that might influence their behavior.

Don’t we shit on libs for doing stuff like this?

Alt history and speculative near future stuff can be fun and illuminating, if done well.

But this is giving “libs making balkanized China maps” cringe energy.

Feel like shit, just want him back 😭😭😭

LGBT itself is a concept created by western capitalists to divide the working people, and now it has become an excuse to invade third world countries.What the proletariat wants is sexual liberation and equal rights.

Suck my girl dick. This is social chauvinism dressed in Marxist garb.

Yes, queer idpol is used to justify global south subjugation by the imperial core. That phenomenon does not make queerness as such, “A concept created by western capitalists to divide the working people”.

The western queer movement sprang from largely colonized and lumpen elements within the periphery of the working class.

Simply put, you have it backwards. Queerness was not imposed by capital on the global south.

The western gender system, and expectations of heterosexuality were violently imposed on the people of the global south. A global south which is full of a vast array of different kinds of sexual expression, and third gender traditions.

I don’t care about your social activities in the west at all, just remember.Your rich life comes from the blood and sweat of the global South.

Yeah, sorry, the people of the global south were sucking dick and transing their genders long before the Euros showed up.

The entire reason pinkwashed imperialism is bullshit, isn’t because queerness is some decadent western imposition. It’s because while the US imperial death machine tries to use the aesthetics of queer acceptance to justify the decimation of Gaza.

It ignores the Israeli State’s rampant homophobia, and the fact that queer Palestinians who live in Gaza (as they have for its entire history) are just as much at risk of extermination as anyone else.

Now, go read Leslie Feinberg and do some self crit