[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm afraid it's true. Just one year ago, Cuba held a vote where the tyranny of the majority forced one-third of the country to accept gay people. Or else.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Cuban_Family_Code_referendum

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Hoatzin babies use their claws to climb before they become full-fledged wings. Super cool! shocked-dino

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

The runtime on this post got corrected to an emoji on Hexbear's end lol

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, what else is there to say? You've gotta hand it to the Taliban.

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Apparently he went on an anti-Korean screed. Not so uncritical. 😔

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

I remember seeing a video a while back of a pizza place in North Korea. It was the Dominos and Pizza Hut style which seems to be the popular style in Japan, China, and Korea.

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Sorry can't hear you too busy downloading communism programming-communism

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago

Facilitating Piracy no matter how you put it is wrong and illegal, it is wrong and illegal to support people who do it.

Remember Netizen, when you're pirating Disney, you're downloading communism! programming-communism

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

In North Korea there was bad flooding like a year ago that destroyed some homes, so the state built an entire village for free. God damn America.

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Christian missions are the indoctrination and cultural genocide that the West loves to project onto its enemies. No, teaching kids how to brush their teeth is not cultural genocide - eradicating entire religions is!

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

The feudal mode of production is inherently incapable of meaningfully changing the climate. It's a moot point.

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just learned a Marxist writer I follow is a crank who unironically believes in a Plandemic conspiracy to depopulate the Earth. agony

edit: He doesn't believe in germ theory data-laughing

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Summer clothes? (hexbear.net)

Hello everyone, I am posting on this community to solicit advice on avoiding heat stroke while not looking like a fool. Currently I own several 95% polyester 5% spandex short-sleeve button-ups as well as one 100% linen long-sleeve button-up. I find both to be quite suitable for hot weather, but would love suggestions that aren't T-shirts and button-ups. Additionally, what options are there for summer pants? And what actually looks good with shorts? When I wear them I look like a camp councilor - or worse, a kid attending summer camp. ooooooooooooooh Feel free to discuss dresses and skirts as well, although I am personally not interested. Oh yes, and I suppose summer hats could be useful too. Thank you in advance.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by iridaniotter@hexbear.net to c/bloomer@hexbear.net

We're all familiar with those Twitter threads about what job you'd want after the revolution. On the other hand, you may have run into those annoying Marxists that scoff at any discussion about communism and call you an adherent of Lassalle for having any vision for the future. Well thankfully the users on this website are quite a bit more chill, so I'd like to discuss what we can realistically infer about life under communism.

By communism, I mean the following: the dictatorship of the proletariat has been established, private property has been abolished, wage-labor has been done away with, the economy is centrally planned using labor-time, and these developments have occurred all over the world. That is to say, lower-stage communism, or the highest development of socialism that is technically possible in the present or near-future.

Here is what I have considered so far. I can elaborate if the logic doesn't make sense, and obviously criticism is fine as long as you're not a Redditor about it.

  • The end of economic depressions - well honestly you can do this and still keep the capitalists :some-controversy:
  • The end of unemployment/reserve army of labor
  • Higher quality of life - most people will be paid more for their labor, abolition of profit means less appropriation of surplus value (still need to do this for capital investment and taxes), abolition of private property and inheritance will mean more resources for the social commonwealth
  • The disappearance of anti-immigrant sentiment - there would be no downward pressure on wages, and the increase of labor to the social pool that results from immigration would be more directly beneficial to the average person than it is now (that said, most causes of immigration would disappear and also there could theoretically be resource constraints)
  • Increased productivity - the higher cost of labor will increase automation, drive down prices, and lower the amount of necessary labor
  • Automation - capitalism can only exist by extracting surplus value, which you cannot do to machines; thus automation can only be completed under communism
  • More big projects - long-term, capital-intensive projects are usually avoided by capitalists although the state sector of some capitalist governments sometimes picks up the slack; we could expect more (1000 nuclear power plants, nuclear fusion, high speed rail, etc)
  • The end of many diseases - China kept COVID-19 at bay for 3 years but a communist Earth probably could have eradicated it with quarantines
  • Sustainability - capitalism pretty obviously cannot fix the metabolic rift but if we get rid of profit then theoretically it's possible
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