• Rom [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    I had to block [Hexbear]. I am very sympathetic and generally agreeable to many communist ideals but their brigading and style of that community is annoying.

    I am very sympathetic and generally agreeable to many communist ideals

    doubt

  • HarryLime [any]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    “There’s a sucker born every minute”

    From education to business, lying and scamming is seen as fair play by a huge majority of American people. And things like their credit score system don’t help things, when getting ahead can literally be the difference between life and death.

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    9 months ago

    i’ve seen this tactic before… “no im not racist, it’s the culture of that entire race* that im against”

    *not that race has any scientific basis and is a social construct…

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      9 months ago

      Someone on here said a few days ago that “They have a bad culture” remains one of the last acceptable avenues of racism in polite society, and I’ve been thinking about that a lot.

  • Anxious_Anarchist [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    Ever since I started working in social work, I’ve completely stopped giving a shit about cheating. A good amount of the time I’m helping people cheat various systems to get what they need cause social assistance is so fucked they have to cheat it.

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      I think this is a problem western people rarely understand because the concept of dualism in western philosophy is so rare. It creates a system of logical determinism that forces the thinker into black and white thinking.

      In the east “cheating” can be seen as a negative, while at the same time understanding that if cheating is how the people at the top rose to their position, then it is implicitly part of the system. Meaning that the true competition is between the people who can cheat the most while not seeming to cheat at all.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Is it racist to say things that are fucking true?

    Ah yes, the justification given by every racist since the dawn of time

  • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    It has to do with their culture. Chinese culture is very cutthroat and survival of the fittest. It makes people have the mindset of doing anything they can to win or be successful, even if it means cheating. It’s not just video games. They have a huge problem with it in their education system, as well.

    Love it when they try to criticize communism and end up just describing capitalism.

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    literally only exists because some Chinese guy invented the plow 1500 years ago (while brits were living in actual shitholes)

    lol

    (btw I mean actual in-the-groud holes full of shit, the Romans even documented it)

    • ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      Love how fucking powerless that “dunk” is, since Taiwan don’t and never will have the power to claim the mainland no matter what the US has to say about is. “They think that by changing the name of a thing, they are changing the thing itself” as the quote goes.

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        Taiwan don’t and never will have the power to claim the mainland no matter what the US has to say about is.

        The US doesn’t say anything about it, they say the opposite if anything. Even they’re not the stupid.

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        They also don’t want to. Taking over the mainland is usually associated with the KMT which is ironically the PRC’s preferred party in power because they both want one china. What that looks like is TBD. But the libs in charge usually want Taiwan to be independent, consider it independent, or want to stay in this limbo for whatever reason

    • CTHlurker [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      9 months ago

      He did say slightly more than that. He said that if Hillary wanted him to pay taxes, she should change the tax-code, but that she wouldn’t because her donors and friends and party-members all enjoyed the same tax breaks and loopholes that he did.

  • GarfGirl [she/her]@hexbear.netOP
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    9 months ago

    Was doing moderation stuff for the blahaj zone comm I mod and checking through someone’s comment history for a vibecheck because they’d had one of their comments reported but it was unclear whether they were just being a dick or should actually be banned and then I found this lol