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    Umineko no Naku Koro ni — General Megathread for October 4th & 5th, 2025

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  • "The government would advance 75% of the total sum to the ____________ and then the __________ would repay the government, plus interest, over forty-nine years"

    A) College, Student B) Landlord, Serf

    Pick the correct answer.

    B. Land reforms in Tsarist Russia. You can tell because the US government would advance 100% of the total sum.

  • A lot of people are freaking out over Trumps Executive order to disrupt leftist activity

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  • I think we're talking about a few slightly different things so it feels like there's a dissonance when there isn't.

    In the most broad sense of history and theory, yes, leftists have and will always be targeted by capital. Trump targeting leftists in that sense, is not new. In the 90s there was this shift to focus on domestic terrorism in the wake of the OK bombing. The right didn't like this and made it their mission to eventually dismantle it. 9/11 brought a refocus to foreign terrorism, which gave the perfect excuse to start shuttling domestic terror programs. During both of these times, feds could and would go after leftists if they were a threat. They never stopped going after leftists, it's just leftists weren't the primary target. Each time this shift of focus happens, there is an escalation because the counter measures and punishments ramp up in parallel. To use the previous examples, the shift from Feds tracking and going after right wing cults in the 90s to Islam in the 00s is accompanied by the PATRIOT act. These increases in surveillance and enforcement make it harder for everyone and also apply to leftists.

    During Obama's terms, there was a return to focus on right wing domestic terrorism due to the Tea Party and other big right wing donors pushing it. Obama being Obama also wanted to maintain the focus on foreign terrorism because those same right wingers were calling him a "Muslamic" terrorist. Coincidentally the domestic surveillance program also blows up with new technologies created by companies that are now (in 2025) the very center of our economy. At that point we have massive domestic surveillance so good that they officially shut down COINTELPRO and go all-in. Once more, leftists are still there and are victim to all this, but they are not a main concern.

    Once Trump got in, there is a refocus on the left. All the adult-in-the-room feds didn't really like it because Trump being Trump didn't finesse it with all the aplomb of Obama and Clinton and without the institutional expertise of the Bush family. He's just a guy saying it because he's a Cold War boomer without having actually had a hand in intelligence like people in the Bush Admin. But eventually, people got on board with this refocus enough to set the stage for Trump II.

    Biden did nothing except try to whiplash it on Jan 6. He did it in a way that just so happened to also apply to leftists.

    Now we're here in Trump II and seeing the work laid out in Trump I coming to fruition. The focus seems to be domestic leftist terrorism only. Don't focus on right-wing terrorism at all (which is why right wingers keep doing shootings). Also, to some extent, back off of foreign terrorism despite it being one of the big campaign promises. Probably because it's harder to see and for Americans to care when it's happening overseas. The hogs get a bigger thrill out of watching skirmishes break out in the big lawless cities. The escalation is making all the previous scary stuff public and being like "and that's a good thing" to every norm or violation of rights. The refocus to leftists and then making everyone who says boo a leftist.

    This isn't unprecedented. We're essentially returning to the J Edgar Hoover days of the FBI where leftists and anti-capitalists were a prime concern. The difference is that we had labor riots, a strong civil rights movement, etc during that time. We do not have those things now. So who is the reanimated corpse of Hoover going after? Anyone. The refocus on leftist domestic terrorists doesn't mean anything because there are no leftist domestic terrorists. Capital won, got it's way, and now they need a domestic enemy to protect the regime. To some extent, having a healthy leftist insurgency in the US is load-bearing for empire. That kind of thing props up a lot of jobs and laws required to be this nakedly corrupt. Without it, you start losing ground. This is why I think they're going to pull back more on foreign policy. They're going to sacrifice one pillar to bolster another.

  • Hegseth’s mysterious meeting with generals will focus on grooming and warrior ethos

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  • NSFW

    Would you like to come over?

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  • Unverified ATF report says Kirk shooter's ammo engraved with statements “expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”

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  • Engraving "respect the dignity of others" on a bullet

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    HelluvaBottomCarter [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Garbage - Not Your Kind of People

  • They're going to unveil a Death Star

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  • If I had to do a takesmith moment, maybe they finally have an operating model of a EMP device? It's one of those things conservatives have been shadowboxing that for years, which means they've been working on it. It was one of the fabled weapons from the dubya years and a big part of apocalypse fantasy under Obama. I could see them doing a big commercial for it, a live demonstration (just like my star wars!). Of course it would probably be half-assed so they would follow up with analog carpet-bombing of civilian infrastructure. Then "we have a nuke without the nuke" discourse will carry everyone pretty far over the next decade.

  • You are all pathetic ultra leftists regarding the ongoing protest movement (No Kings, etc)

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  • This is going to come off really crabby, and I'm sorry for that, but you being frustrated with a couple of people is not a problem with site culture. Both you and OP are not actually communicating well or taking care of this in a productive way. The person you're frustrated with don't even know this thread is about them. You have experience with communicating to strangers and talking to people with differing views at protests. Apply that here. The opportunity was when it happened, not 4 days later.

    If Hexbear has a culture problem it's poor communication and a seeping anticipation that the person you argue with is a latent fash.

  • You are all pathetic ultra leftists regarding the ongoing protest movement (No Kings, etc)

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  • I went into your history. You got into an argument with one poster about whether or not it was worth it to convert libs at the event. By argument I mean one reply. That's the ultraleft position in our community?

  • You are all pathetic ultra leftists regarding the ongoing protest movement (No Kings, etc)

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  • I don't know who you're replying to so the impact of this post is lost on me. If someone on Hexbear said that Walmart is paying people to show up to protests then you should have called them out in the thread where they said it. Making a new post to say that all hexbears believe that is odd. Your whole post is like "Listen up here you fucking cracker reactionaries, I'm gonna set you strait and let you know that we need to build popular support before we can have a revolution!" Like who is disagreeing? This is premium Hexbear online posting. I don't know why we're kidding ourselves thinking this is some kind of grass-touching anthem.

  • George W. Trump

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  • God could you imagine Trump's version of 9/11.

  • @gork is this true!?!?!?

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  • The satanic panic MAGA people lost their cred when Trump held the glowing orb of globalism in a dark ritual.

  • "Peacekeepers" at the Utah 50501 protest in Salt Lake City opened fire into a crowd, hitting two people - killing one. [Edited the title for clarity.]

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  • It's almost like random redditors backed by a non-profit suck at organizing. They don't know who is at their protest. They don't know how many people there are on their side. They don't know who is running security, they probably never considered having organized security. They just let randos show up and stake over marshaling duties.

  • common bernie L

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  • How did that work out for you?

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    HelluvaBottomCarter [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    What would your protest sign say?

  • They turned my treathouse into a commiebloc

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  • You know all those plans Nazis and Italian Fascists had for mega architecture? Modern day fascists have that but for turning McDonald's back into a clown house. Like an 80-story building that takes up a whole block but it looks like a playskool hamburger

  • he makes a good point for once

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  • Rare gourmand sighting

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  • The Penguin of San Francisco

  • ChatGPT gets crushed at chess by a 1 MHz Atari 2600. AI models have no clue about what chess actually is, or which moves are valid.

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  • Is chess one of those problems that can be solved if you just memorize every single game ever played and continuously remember as they happen? Probably not. People have been trying that for centuries.

    I think we're going to find a lot of things in life can't be solved by computers memorizing stuff and then doing stats on it to get an answer. Tech bros mold themselves after computers though. They think everything is just systems, algorithms, data structures, and math. And not the good math either, the mid-century diet-Rand game theory cold war shit they confuse with human nature.

  • Luigi Mangione shares 27 things he's grateful for on his 27th birthday.

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  • Critical, uneasy, apprehensive, support while scowling.

  • I take back everything I've ever said. Self-driving rideshares are cool now.

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  • There were planned protests against ICE. Chuds found out and spread the word that drug cartels were going to start a riot. The protests started and they were fine, just normal protest stuff. Chuds started exaggerating everything on social media, saying that LA was burning. Same shit that happened in other protests. Trump decides to score some political dunks on Newsom and takes over the CA national guard. He then orders them to go in and disperse the protests. LAPD, being themselves, had already stepped over the line a couple times as usual. But with the NG rolling in, it just ups the anti. Just like in 2020, we get people being abused by authority and then chuds using that to prove that they're these crazy riots happening. Liberal media doesn't help because they just want to report on something exciting.

    As more people get hurt, more people show up for supporting the protestors.

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    HelluvaBottomCarter [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    MMA Fighter Paddy McCorry shouts "free palestine" into the face of his Israeli opponent during beating

    nitter.net /TBCTGA/status/1929131274028949798
  • Movies & TV @hexbear.net
    HelluvaBottomCarter [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    The Last of Sus (CW: Art inspired by Zionism)

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    HelluvaBottomCarter [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Comrades asking you to wipe your ass is not a capitalist ultimatum between productivity and death.

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    HelluvaBottomCarter [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    who the fuck is scraeming "stop tariff" at the white house. show yourself, coward. i will never stop tariffs.

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    HelluvaBottomCarter [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    They put the character's pronoun at the start of the game? WTF?

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    HelluvaBottomCarter [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Hexbear Military Patch 2025 Moist Gorilla Operations

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    HelluvaBottomCarter [comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    Harris' FDA is staging the listeria outbreak to stop you from consuming meat