FunkyStuff [he/him]

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4m ago

Guatemala Terminates Medical Collaboration With Cuba
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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 4m ago
¿En español tenemos frase que equivalga a "cutting off your nose to spite your face"?

16m ago

If you ever wondered what happens when you wanna do 'leftism™' but don't wanna read theory; this happens.

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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 16m ago

If only someone had written a book explaining how the industrial mode of production had inherent contradictions that were going to make bank capital merge with industrial capital to unleash itself and cross international borders.

23m ago

As Dem Voters Seek a 'Fight' With the Superrich, AOC is Now Their Favorite Candidate: Poll | Common Dreams

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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 23m ago

1h ago

Getting started with Parenti

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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 1h ago

His Julius Caesar book is good but only really worth a read if it's a subject you're already interested in.

I'm only a Rome nerd as far as I'm a Catholic (and to that end I don't really care too much about the 1st century BCE, I leave that to St Augustine) but I enjoyed this book.

It's not purely about the history of the Roman Republic, although that's the meat of the book. He also went into how class power and bourgeois historiography has distorted our understanding of the history of the late Roman Republic. He makes a pretty elegant point that bourgeois historians neglect to analyze the class inequality in antiquity because they don't want to engage in 'presentism' but their presentist bourgeois analytical lens is what gives them the tunnel vision to only look at history from Cicero's eyes. There's a lot of valuable historical materialist analysis in the book that can be taken and applied to the present.

1h ago

Apparently Canadians are notorius cheaters in the sport of Curling

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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 1h ago

Surely it matters enough that the risk of being caught cheating doesn't stop them from doing it?

2h ago

Taliban says it would support Iran if US attacks

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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 2h ago

Makes sense. If the US succeeds in regime change, the comprador government in Iran would probably assist in a future occupation or interventions in Afghanistan.

19h ago

Do you think you could defeat me 1v1

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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 19h ago

Yeah probably

23h ago

Mewgenics Co-Creator Responds to Cameo Complaints: 'I Understand We Live in a Time Where a Meow From Someone Who Has Different Beliefs as You Is Scary and Frustrating, Confusing and Controversial'

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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 23h ago

The game's not pro-eugenics though, that part was incorrect.

23h ago

Mewgenics Co-Creator Responds to Cameo Complaints: 'I Understand We Live in a Time Where a Meow From Someone Who Has Different Beliefs as You Is Scary and Frustrating, Confusing and Controversial'

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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 23h ago

I don't know the full list of cameos but I'm pretty sure there's gotta be some number of people who have similar politics to Hasan just because it's a huge list. I know Northernlion is on the list and he recently did a fundraiser stream for people protesting ICE with HCJustin who's a communist (and they stream together all the time).

edit: there's also Hbomberguy apparently, lol

24h ago

Xi extends Chinese New Year greetings to ring in Year of Horse - Global Times

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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 24h ago

BIG fan of Umamusume

1d ago

Cultural victory.

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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 1d ago

Soulless slop that never had a chance; it was competing with Overwatch which has (obviously very flawed) representation of racial and ethnic minorities and queer groups, which AFAIK was the whole reason Concord was ever considered "woke" anyway.

1d ago

Cultural victory.

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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 1d ago

I don't think that's really true. Liberals have generally been on top of the culture wars and I think it's generally true that the majority of people around the world and in most points in history are not so socially reactionary. Hate has always been an effective motivator that reactionaries use to their advantage, but without astroturfing the reactionary agenda their side has little support.

In the US the reason the far right has gotten political power over the liberals isn't because the far right won the culture war, it's because the liberals can't govern and can't deliver on any positive program. Culturally speaking people are still way more invested in normie lib culture; Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift are the biggest artists, Hip Hop is the biggest music genre, movies like OBAA and Sinners are showered with near-universal praise, and the right is too anti-intellectual to even stand a chance at having a presence in academia so it's also very lib and lefty dominated.

There's really no arena of culture, save for legacy media and religion (where the Black Church and the Catholic Church are definitely not rocking with MAGA even if they aren't exactly on the same wavelength as all the other lib institutions I mentioned), where the most central and hegemonic institutions are dominated by the far right's preferred option. Nobody cares about Pureflix, TPUSA's halftime show, or Tom McDonald. In the online world everything can be a bit of a funhouse mirror so obviously the chud slop streamers generally dominate Twitch, and yet the gaming space has been getting less white and less male every year, so I think little gremlins like Asmongold have their days numbered.

Keep in mind, compared to other types of media, gaming has the chuddiest consumers. And even in gaming, when the Splitgate 2 guy comes out with a parody MAGA hat during the Summer Games Fest it's a huge controversy that basically kills their game's commercial appeal. Is it such a huge controversy when someone says something vaguely lib coded? Any games out there that actually went broke after going woke? If anything, going anti-woke makes games go broke. Nobody wants to associate to the chuds, they're so radioactive. Even in gaming.

I know you live in a deep red area and I empathize, personally I'm not in the US at all so I can only really hazard a guess based on what I see online. But it does seem to me like people are, on average, not really rocking with the extremely reactionary and cruel image of the Republican Party. They have their base who does rock with those things, but that's not where the culture's at; I think the culture is way to the left of either party but the Democrats can't capitalize on the disalignment between Republicans and the masses because it would require them to betray the class interest of the donors.

The suggestion that the masses actually do fully believe in the cruelty and the bigotry of the far right ignores how hard the far right has to try to astroturf themselves into mass consciousness. In other words, I agree that they do set the narrative, that's what the money is for, but they haven't simply won over culture. There's an argument that they can't ever "win the culture war" because they can never be done with pushing an exclusionary and bigoted line, if people become convinced of the current one they'll always push to be even more exclusionary until there's no one left.

1d ago

Cultural victory.

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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 1d ago

https://apnews.com/article/pa-state-wire-race-and-ethnicity-health-nfl-sports-205b304c0c3724532d74fc54e58b4d1d

1d ago

Nashville Sit-ins Begin (1960) - Novo General Megathread for the 13th-19th of February 2026

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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 1d ago

the beanler

1d ago

Malcolm T. Liepke - The Kiss (2016)

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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 1d ago

Why so straight today?

1d ago

Cultural victory.

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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 1d ago

Maybe the reason they care so much more about style than substance is that they know, deep down, that the libs do the same things materially. They have nothing but culture to struggle over.