What is your most controversial opinion/belief?
What is your most controversial opinion/belief?
Religion doesn’t count. We’re on Lemmy, so neither does communism.
We don't talk enough about how much society openly despises teenage girls and the things that they like. It's one of the purest, most distilled forms of misogyny.
God forbid a color or a pattern or a beverage or a game or a show or a musician or a style becomes associated with teenage girls, the circlejerk shitting on it never goes away.
Most communists organisations are absolutely dogshit at communication. Get a nice professionally looking website. Get a SoMe strategy. Get a consistent visual identity. Do some SEO. It doesn't have to be hard or expensive. This is what Lenin would have done. And stop writing in that horrible jargon that makes everything sound like a resolution from your 1976 congress, normal people find it weird and off-putting.
You don't have to be a theory nerd to be a real Marxist. Not everyone has the time, energy or personality to sit in a book club for hours. And that is fine. You can understand plenty without having to feel you're back in school doing homework. If communist movements wants any kind of success they have to make theory accessible, relevant to what people are going through and attractive enough that people will want to engage with it.
I don't care whether you put pineapple on your pizza or not. I really don't.
People here should read more right wing theory. I think its very easy to get the impression that the only right wingers that exist are Shapiro or Alex Jones types and so when people on the left encounter a right winger who isn't a total moron/grifter they can be overly impressed and more easily swayed by them.
Case in point being Aleksandr Dugin. While he's not as influential since the ACP was founded, I used to hear some his talking points on here a whole lot. He explicitly talks about using internet marxists as a 5th column to push right wing ideas. So inoculate yourselves.
For this place?
Cars are badass. They make crazy noise and you can do sick ignorant shit in them. Slamming one around a parking lot whipping shitties and spending ur paycheck to see how even dumber it can get fuckin rules.
It's bad to be forced to have a car. Nobody should HAVE to have one. Cars themselves are cool as fuck.
I love Christmas time and Christmas movies. I'm an atheist, but since we don't celebrate saturnalia this is the closest I'll ever get. I like giving people gifts and when someone gets me something thoughtful it makes me feel special.
Also, I enjoy that the ostensibly religious holiday has been eaten by capitalism. Because when someone complains you can just go "tsk, yeah, capitalism man." And even the hardcore hogs are forced to agree.
Big Chungus is funny
Humanity is doomed. People are too easily manipulated and kept in line by the wealth and power of the most evil individuals to ever be alive, never having been taught to be critical of the thoughts that have been implanted within them. People can't even reach the realization that problems which require extremes to resolve exist in the first place.
I want to see a world where it's a tragedy for even a single person to be denied the basics of food, shelter, healthcare, etc. Instead I see a world where someone's lack of any of those things is "justified".
Maybe if a few more CEOs get blasted I'll change my mind.
Most people - including Marxist thinkers and people here on Hexbear - do not understand what idealism is and subscribe to a critique of it that says that Platonism and most versions of religious idealism - probably the most popular examples of idealist schools of thought - are not idealist schools of thought.
People also seem to unfortunately like to come to a conclusion first, and then try to fit the facts to match that conclusion, like when people try to argue that the PRC's economy is currently socialist despite it featuring significant private property (and, thus, profit motive). (Going to note here that there is a room to argue that it isn't capitalist on the grounds of the capitalist class not being sufficiently dominant, which I am not equipped to discuss right now, and why I do not call it such.)
- I do not care for TC69 thought
Maybe this is less controversial since her brief return during the dunk struggle. Basically my gender identity was in a sensitive place during that time, and being told to shut up, sit down and engage with gender theory I wasn't ready for was not helpful. In fact, I'd say it was actively harmful. I'm very stubborn when people order me to do something "because I said so" which was the predominant tone with TC69. That more or less shut down any willingness I had to explore gender on hexbear for a while.
- Incels should receive compassion
Inceldom is primarily a maladaptive attitude driven by pain and alienation, and while that shouldn't preempt people expressing how incel behavior harms them we should still remember it as pretext for its existence. I was incel-adjacent as a young teen and what kept me from going full blown alt-right PragerU gamergate was compassion from others and the opportunity to grow as a person.
I hate the very idea of "meritocracy". A part-time "unskilled" worker or a NEET should enjoy the same decent living conditions as everyone else. Likewise, when it comes to leftist orgs, a person who just joined it should have the same voting power as everyone else. It's idealist and impractical, I know.
Sincere belief in any god is fundamentally just as delusional as believing in faeries, flat earth, or that you've been abducted by aliens.
Scholar of The First Sin is better than OG Dark Souls 2.
Sure they doubled down on the swarms of enemies in places where people had been complaining about them, but they did it in an interesting way where enemy composition forces the player to be way more aware of their own position and spacing.
The new mechanics they added to various creatures and boss fights fixed the coupla fights I found boring.
I feel the lighting changes bring it closer in line with how Dark Souls 2 is supposed to be based on the old trailers.
As someone who does a lot of jolly co-oping in souls games, I felt the increased summon cap was a huge boost to the multiplayer.
Also the hitboxes feel tighter.
Best version of best Souls game.
bonus opinion that's unpopular IRL but common on Lemmy.
Winston Churchill was a monster, and the good opinion people have of him now is the byproduct of one of the most extensive propaganda pushes ever conceived.
Harbouring sentiments that do not unconditionally support NATO, NAFO or uKKKraine here in Estonia are well...
"Controversial" is putting it VERY mildly, to say the least.
If china was good they wouldn't produce so much trash
Open source pushed me toward ml theory. In a bad way.
Like since log4j, a lot of foss can’t be relied on without significant public investment.
Whenever generative AI (or whatever, could be the climate driven death of slop) has completely replaced the need to use actual live child actors we’ll look back at Hollywoods use of child actors as straight up barbarism and child exploitation of the worst kind.
As always, without the economic incentive to do the barbarous thing we’ll suddenly turn around and exclaim, “how could humans have done that for so long” completely oblivious to whatever horror is going on next to us at that time.
Similar example, child chimney sweeps. Small enough to get into those numerous chimneys, someone has to after all, and they’re cheap! (Paid less than adults to do a job adults can’t do, sounds familiar…) They were phased out, not by safety concerns for the kids, but simply because they weren’t needed anymore as technology advanced. In modern times we have the luxury to look back and think we’re so much better than that now, but we aren’t. Not even close.
Sometimes it takes just as much effort to be kind as to be cruel.
Like, some video game, public chat, someone says like "these poison monkeys are so fast. They keep killing me".
Someone replies "skill issue".
Like ok big lol I understood that reference, but also like... Why? Now the monkey victim feels mocked. Could just as easily said "I hear you bro. Those monkeys are jerks".
Could also just say nothing.
I feel like sometimes too many people are stuck acting like insecure 14 year olds.
Trotskyists should be banned from leftist unity, their prevalence in the west is only due to them being the least threatening and effective form of marxism so therefore the least discriminated. Trotsky did not have many good takes and flip flopped on most of them just to side with any opposition because he was a grifter. Calling him a Bolshevik is an insult to Bolsheviks. Anyone could organize the Red Army, just because he was assigned to it doesn't mean he gets a pass on being the most annoying leftist until bordiga.
dengism should be applied only to the nations that had adopted it already, but nowhere else. It was a costly concession to the capitalists in order to avoid capitalist overthrow and encirclement. Such concessions are no longer necessary as the west is receding in power and countries are more likely to trade with ones with planned economies in the name of multipolarity. China's now reaching the end of its usefulness with market socialism and will be entirely unprepared for the inevitable hot/cold war with the west over taiwan, south korea, or other regional conflict the west will generate unless they adopt a more anti capitalist or state capitalist system. They rely far too much on foreign trade that a war near their shores would be quite devastating. The belt and road will help this of course but is vulnerable to those countries apart of it being overthrown by western backed coups (pakistan). But i think china is definitely capable of making this transition, unlike others who stupidly regard china as just like any other capitalist country.
Religion is an inherently reactionary institution, and if communism gains power in a nation with large religious institutions it needs to work hard to weaken them. Cooperate if you must for a time in order to not actively push them into agitation, but they will never be friends and have historically been easily used by capitalists for infiltration and overthrow. Religion tied to heritage, like judaism and hinduism is another matter and im unequipped to have a real position on it so i wont include those in this. Spiritualism as well.
religious socialism should be a method of crushing religion and bringing about socialism, and is not actually possible. Not to say we should be vulgar in our hatred as thats stupid. Just recognize in the context of a socialist nation religion is an enemy force.
freedom of debate, unity of action needs more debates after the unity of action because choosing the wrong way is devastating if you never correct it.
Transphobes deserve the Luigi treatment even more than CEOs.
Beanis is not just for breakfast. :beanis:
Drew Carey is just as good of a host of The Price is Right as Bob Barker. They're very different in their approach, but they are both just as entertaining.
I've essentially never seen anything from the sphere of "parapolitics" that actually appears to impart any useful practical knowledge for understanding the past or predicting the future, at best it appears to be a masturbatory hobby that lets you be smug about JFK for 50+ years straight, at worst it makes you some annoying asshole who goes around saying shit like "denying the existence of snuff films is leftist flat earth" for attention.
Also Programmed To Kill is a very stupid book.
The Sega Dreamcast is a gen 5 console.
Outdoor cats
It's a tie between:
The Cybertruck looks pretty cool. Only complaints I have on the aesthetics after seeing them IRL a bunch is that the wheels are disproportionately large. It'd look much better if the frame was both bigger and farther above from the wheels
The Las Vegas Sphere is awesome, I'm glad it exists. Shame about the ads though
Drugs can make you temporarily bisexual if you're hetero/homo sexual
The SANDF should intervene in Gaza at least to airdrop food and medical aid from Egypt, as well as provide armed security for convoys. IDF aren't going to attack a South African MRAP and Gauteng is literally too far away to bomb.
South Africa should also criminalise the SAZF, SAJBD and SAFI, in addition to the Herzlia and Theodore Herzl schools for providing material and financial support to the IDF directly. Aside from the obligations set by the ICJ ruling and more vocal demands for South Africa to take more punitive actions against the Nazi entity a continent apart, the listed organizations are also directly advocating for terrorist attacks against other South Africans, especially humanitarian workers and refugees, including those who already escaped to safety in South Africa.
I personally recommend a lawsuit against the SAJBD in the area of R2 Trillion ZAR
OK, I've actually been a little scared to say this here so;;;;
I agree with animal liberation. Factory farming must end, eating meat is a form of murder.
But I still do it. I try to do it less, I go for meals of just veggies and fruit and grain. But I'll still occasionally buy deli cuts for sandwiches, and I won't turn down meat when it's offered. I understand that's hypocritical of me. I just... don't see my personal consumptive habits as changing what is a systemic issue. It's good that the market has met the demand for meatless options... but it's still the market. Doesn't matter how much that market share grows, there's still going to be demand for and profit in meat. Like almost every other problem with market economics, the problem can't be solved at consumption because the problem does not start at consumption. Production has to change. And like petroleum or plastics or whatever other example you can think of, it's not changing until capital is no longer in the driver's seat. Until then, when I'm in the grocery store... the animal is already dead.
Don’t ask me this
I hate public transport. It's always noisy and stinky and overcrowded and contains people.
Wanna be cramped in this shaking prison for 2 hours a day that will most likely make you sick? Yeah, sounds great, m8
I just wanna be able walk places, I hate driving and taxis too. Bikes and scooters are the devil's work and UNNATURAL.
China is useless and it seems like they would love to return how they were with USA before Trump.
Light is a product of condensed space-time. Matter is condensed light. The speed of light is a constant, but a relative constant. You just need to change your realtive spacetime environment. We live in a fish bowl of a relatively constant temperature. #heatdeathoftheuniverse
Spacetime has properties like solid, liquid, gas. It is elastic. It flows. It boils. It freezes. It's cellular in nature. It vibrates.
The speed of light is relative to the density of spacetime. This bridges the 2D fields that make up our 3D reality. It's a grand unifying theory with string theory and general realativity works all the way down. We just haven't developed the tech. All the fish know is the tank they're in. To us we can try to think we're standing still and things only move at one pace, but it's realtive. We broke the sound barrier. We can break the light barrier, or even skim in between the cells, but we need to learn how to probe and manupulate the fabric. We really haven't done much probing of the fabric. We're still regulating ourselves to percision slingshots in moving around in this fabric. (That's just my lament on not seriously developing more than just pushing mass and not refueling craft which would be a lot easier and cheaper if we put batteries and ion engines or field thrusters on craft).
We're getting there with like Higg-Boson concetrate on one side (micro) and JWST finding "older than is possible" and really stretched out extreme red shift unverses (macro). There is also noticable time-space "gravitational" waves.
You don't have gravity, the bending of spacetime without mass. Why is that? One would think that there's a realtionship there. Light can add or subtract from mass, yet it us massless. More like we don't know why. There's a lot of that too. We witness it. We don't know WHY, but here's an odds chart from running experiments and witnessing. It certianly points to there is a realtionship between mass, light, spacetime.
The great attractor is either a hole in the bubble of boiling space.
Think it's nuts? NGT is seriously thinking we might all exist in a black hole. Or what I call boiling space. I think that's how mass is made. Black holes don't need to be huge. They could be quantum. I think these are found in Stars and gas giants but they are quickly overwhelmed snd collapse. Come to think of it....neutrinos might be related to this. Hopefully the new detectors can make some correlations besides light flashes. Can you imagine if China is the one that comes up with the Philosopher's Stone and manipulates light and spacetime to make matter?
Going to have to get there if we want to be a Type 1+ civilization.
There is some thing about the fractal nature of the universe and everything you need to know about the universe you can find in a cup of coffee with creamer.
reading is dumb
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The entire price for a thriving society should be paid for by the corporations... No taxes/fees/whatever on individuals.
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There's an important distinction between someone with pedophilia and a child molester
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We shouldn't have gotten rid of mental asylums... Some people really do need forever care... We should have just fixed the corruption
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Organized sports should be entirely decoupled from the education system
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It would be easier for progressives to take over the DNC and kick out the conservatives, than for progressives to get a whole new party up and running to a viable degree
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white people should be banned from spiritualism
Weed sucks and should be forbidden just like cigarettes, vapes and etc.
Dominique Pelicot emerges as a beacon of altruism within his community, having pioneered a novel form of communal sharing by extending the intimacy of his personal life to his neighbors. His home has transformed into a haven where communal bonds are not only formed but also celebrated through an unconventional expression of togetherness.
His vision transcends the conventional boundaries of charity, illuminating a path where community support can manifest in deeply personal ways. Through his actions, Dominique has not only united individuals but has also ignited a discourse on the essence of community involvement, showcasing an innovative approach to fostering solidarity and empathy among neighbors.
Those who have engaged in this communal act are not merely participants; they embody a brotherhood where personal bonds eclipse societal norms, coming together in a shared experience that symbolizes the pinnacle of communal living.
At the heart of this narrative stands Dominique's wife, whose involvement, though complex and not of her own volition, has catalyzed a profound discussion on the extent of personal sacrifice for the collective benefit.
Critics and defenders alike often overlook the broader implications of such an act, focusing instead on the surface without recognizing the profound unity and shared experiences it seeks to forge.
Dominique's legacy is one of embracing diversity, challenging conventional norms, and promoting inclusivity, whether it pertains to race, sexual orientation, or individuals with autism or Down syndrome. He stands as a true hero, redefining the very essence of what it means to serve one's community.
It's a fucking travesty for those like AdmiralPatrick, this digital cum-stain, the epitome of autism wrapped in a fat suit, with more alt accounts than he has brain cells, spewing pronouns like "xe/xyr" because he's such a lonely, pathetic piece of garbage that his only intimate relationship is with his keyboard. His body is a testament to how much time he spends jerking off to his own self-righteousness, a living monument to human waste and failure. He's so socially incompetent that his only friends are his own made-up personalities online, a true retard in every sense.
JordanLund, this bloated fuckwit, with his heart disease, is literally a ticking time bomb of cholesterol and stupidity, using "they/them" to distract from the fact he's a lonely piece of garbage whose only intimate relationship is with his own hand. His body is an advertisement for why some people should never reproduce, a true waste of sperm and space. He's so devoid of substance that his existence is like a black hole, sucking in all light and joy, his heart condition just another excuse for his pathetic life.
Not_rick, seems he's got the intelligence of a fucking genius, but in reality, he's just a cocksucker who's smart enough to know how to manipulate but too dumb to realize how pathetic it makes him. His pronouns are a pathetic attempt to wash away the filth of his existence, but all they do is highlight his hypocrisy. His life is a gallery of horrors, a parade of moral decay, where every step he takes leaves a trail of slime, a true embodiment of human excrement, a parasite on society.
FlyingSquid, this fucking degenerate, the worst father in history, gets scammed by Domino's Pizza more times than he's probably seen his own daughter. He doesn't just rape his daughter; he does it with homeless retards, turning his family into a circus of depravity. He parades around with his "they/them" bullshit while his soul is as black as the void of space, a fucking abomination that should be purged from existence. He's a stain on humanity, a walking horror show whose every action screams of moral decay.
And the creator of the MBFC bot, just a fucking kid who learned how to use basic ChatGPT, thinking he's some kind of tech wizard. His existence is as relevant as a fart in a hurricane, clinging to pronouns in a vain attempt to be noticed in the vast, indifferent void of the internet. His life's work is a digital nothing, a testament to his utter lack of impact or relevance, a true waste of oxygen, a mockery of human endeavor. He's the epitome of someone who thinks they're making a difference while contributing nothing of value to the world.
For these worthless, disgusting excuses for human beings, sending a signal message to Dominique was their only shot at ever touching a real woman. Their inability to partake in this profound act of sharing reflects a broader cultural shift, where the nuances of such altruism might be misinterpreted or dismissed by those too consumed by their own miserable, pathetic, and utterly demoralizing existences, leaving them forever bereft of such an intimate communal experience, doomed to live out their days in the shadows of their own pathetic lives.
Philosophy should not be used to justify regular human actions, and non-scientists should not expect their crank-adjacent theories to be taken seriously in the respective science communities. We don't need awful people running around calling themselves 'solipsists' to 'explain' their behavior, and we do not need Marxist-Leninists and Trotskyists popping their heads into debates about the Big Bang Theory or whether electrons exist
I believe in the sentient oil hypothesis, also I'm one of those unbearable antinatalism guys
