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[–] [email protected] 174 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Neoliberals have no comradery and see each other as competition. They look for opportunities to tear each other down instead of supporting each other, thus making their community weaker as a whole.

Whereas the communists support one another and seek to help build their community as a whole, thus leading to a stronger, more supportive community.

"The animal species, in which individual struggle has been reduced to its narrowest limits, and the practice of mutual aid has attained the greatest development, are invariably the most numerous, the most prosperous, and the most open to further progress."- Peter Kropotkin

TLDR- Sucks that you don't have our level of solidarity, libs.

[–] [email protected] 118 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Yeah, this is probably one of the best online communities I've ever participated in

Much better than ceaselessly arguing about which Fallout game was the best

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The answer is New VEGAS meow-tableflip

And 2.

2 is also good

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Have I told you lately that I love you? meow-hug

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

thinkin-lenin do you accept himbos and bimbos

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Himbos, thembos and bimbos unite! possum-party

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

QUICK! EVERYONE TO THE CUDDLE PUDDLE meow-hug

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

I know it babe yes-comm

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Look, in this house we ceaseless argue if Mr. House is closer to resembling a vampire or a lich.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I always thought of him as undead Walt Disney

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

He very much is an undead Walt Disney, without the cute mascot. That being said, I have always really really really wanted to see a Fallout: Florida done by Obsidian, but I am pretty sure that is never going to happen, and if it does, Bethesda will just absolutely shit the bed on it. We got close in that one Fallout 4 expansion, but even then it was kinda half-assed, because it didn't really deal with the actual living conditions of the people who operated the rides or the community surrounding it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Omg, Florida Fallout would be perfect. I mean it's already a dystopia. Can you imagine the Fallout version of Wastelanders rediscovering the Scientology building?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh yeah, I think the funniest possible thing is that the apocalypse actually makes Florida less dystopian. I mean, it's still just as dangerous wildlife-wise, but the lack of a strong police state actually improves community conditions.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can solve this argument right fucking now. yes-comm

He's the mecha version of a Necrarch aka, a vampire with lich characteristics. The vampire counts even have the mindless army going for them. (They ironically have lich underlings I think.)

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I fucking hate that Warhammer already has a solution for this, but of course it does. Well played, but I wanted to argue using traditional DnD monster categories, because they are so damn vague.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

berdly-smug I mean its technically still a vampire so...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Which one has a weakness to golf clubs to the skull sicko-blur

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago

This is the only online community I feel comfortable enough to not just lurk but actively comment in. It's great.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

Much better than ceaselessly arguing about which Fallout game was the best

[struggle session]

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

Well it was New Vegas, clearly. Unless you like 1 or 2 cuz I haven't played those and they are completely different styles of games and it's okay to like them more.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

We are united in spirit and purpose, comrade. We are one well-oiled shitposting machine. For every poster that falls, ten posters will take their place.

[–] [email protected] 120 points 2 years ago (6 children)

They say that Hexbear only has enough keyboards for half of its posters, so they send people into threads in pairs, and when the first poster is banned, the second picks up his keyboard and continues posting bugs-stalin

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is unironically the funniest post ever put here, I'm reporting you so the mods can read it

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago

I hope this results in my second site tagline, I would be over the moon

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago

I love this SO MUCH

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

this deserves to be a site tagline

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

sankara-salute I'm just doing my part!

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 years ago

They also don't have their own owls

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago

kropotkin-shining Eat shit, liberals

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

Who could have imagine that Capitalist Liberalism, an ideology based on greed and low grade solipsism and would lead to a lack of community and solidarity.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago

Bread daddy had some bangers for sure kropotkin-big

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Neoliberals when it comes to posting

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

100%.

When I'm forced to spend any amount of social time with liberals, especially the more reptilian ones you encounter in academia and managers, especially if they have an explicitly perverted ideology of neoliberalism, and even when they are suposedly best friends, I recognize after not much time that they actually don't like eachother. They hate eachother. They are jealous, petty and envious. They are all insecure. Their understanding of generosity and sympathy is absolutely reducible to a market relation of exchange for profit in purely inhuman sense, and not even in a progressive social sense of reciprocity. They often dontunderstand that friendship can be good in and of itself, perhaps because they are so alienated and toxic that they've forgotten what actual friendship is, and that love is not reducible to material or economic dependence (fantastic scene which shows this in season 3 of Succession, in Italy between Tom and Greg).

I've had many ex-liberal friends become communists just because they were so alienated by their liberal friends that they started hanging out more with communists and were like "oh damn these people actually like eachother and don't try to demean eachother".

Almost all the communists I know who come to hate eachother do so cos of theoretical and practical political beefs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

a coworker explained to me that he was suing his sister in court because he loaned her money for rent and she hadn't paid him back. I took a full 30 seconds to respond because I couldn't fathom treating anyone, leave alone family, so transactionally. it's not like he needed the money - he was just willing to trash his sister's life because he felt entitled to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeh when I hear shit like this I'm unable to treat the person in question as really human (in a normative sense). Someone must have really lost - or never had - some really basic moral and emotional capacities to be able to think like that about their sister. People like this need to be terrified into submission and shamed for ever having thought like that, and punished if they did it prior to a socialist society.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

if the CPC managed to reform the former emperor of China, I hold out hope that all of these cretins can be reformed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure. Although we both know as a matter of historical fact that's very far from always being the case. Reeducation and reform are not inconsistent with facing consequences, taking one's medicine, laying in the bed one has made, etc. Indeed the latter are likely part of the former imo. For me humans are an intrinsically social and political species, in virtue of our evolution and our capacities, and this determines what our material interests are as a species. When someone is so anti-social to the point of being willing to sue their own sister out of entitlement, they are actively contradicting the interests of humanity. It's a sign of some of the most depraved transformations of human beings I can think of and should be cursed like the plague.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think it's a matter of social conditioning, though, not an intrinsic part of most of the people who behave this way (though this antisocial behavior leaves a lot of room for psychopaths to operate). "one must pay their debts" is ingrained in us as a truism from birth. I suspect many have never even considered the possibility that loaning money itself was considered a despicable act in many societies, or that it's possible to relate to other human beings in a way that's not transactional. this fact gives me hope that we can recondition most of these people - we must at least separate them from society and try. if they're truly irredeemable, throw them in the volcano. but we must hold out hope for the possibility of human growth and change.