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19h ago

If forced to choose, what type of anticommunist caricature would you rather be? - StrawPoll
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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 19h ago

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19h ago

If forced to choose, what type of anticommunist caricature would you rather be? - StrawPoll

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 19h ago

I'm saying! If I'm going to be a caricature anyway I want all my pain to be campaign

1d ago

How is this all so stupid

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 1d ago

That's the thing that gets me. If you get to make your own hate speech, you're going to be first and foremost anti-jew? Holocaust denial and then ease your way forward from there? I'd predict these people likely aren't going to end up pro-Israel if I were a gambler. Seems like it'd be easier to be anti-immigrant first to give a taste for imperialism. Then I'd use racism like a League of Legends player uses flash - strategic, sparing use for scapegoats. Relying too heavily on it feeds white supremacy which, of course, shunts you right back to Hitler. That way more energy is left for privatizing shit and doing intervention in outside countries. Both of these are very lucrative avenues compared to school shootings and Holocaust statistics arguments.

2d ago

Freedom Road Socialist Organization - Novo General Megathread for the 30th of January to 6th of February 2026

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 2d ago

Chess at the bullet and blitz time intervals: ahaha! Friend! Come over here for a fun time of whimsey and merriment! There are only friends throwing chess pieces around!

Chess at the rapid time interval: this determines the value of my life and it's not looking good and I am not enjoying myself

3d ago

[Not the Onion] Bari Weiss’s new CBS hires include ‘germ theory denialist’ doctor

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

Germ theory denialist? You can buy agar (for what? 20 bucks?), leave it out at room temperature, see what grows, put your tongue on it, and see if you get sick.

Dr Mark Hyman, who has been called a “germ theory denialist” by the medical author Harriet Hall, and has been brought on as a contributor in Weiss’s revamping of CBS’s news division. He is perhaps the most prominent exponent of so-called “functional medicine” (FM), an alternative medicine that the oncological surgeon David Gorski has described as “pure quackery”.

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The Institute for Functional Medicine, which counts Hyman as a board member, claims on its website that FM “restores healthy function by treating the root causes of disease”, and “allows clinicians to systematically identify and address the underlying processes and dysfunctions that are causing imbalance and disease in each individual”.

In practice, according to advocates, this involves seeking underlying causes of illness by testing stools, hormones and food sensitivity, and treating them with supplements, nutrition and therapies including yoga and acupuncture.

Illness is often attributed to underlying syndromes like “leaky gut” – which Hyman discusses on his website and in social media – which scientists say “cannot be accurately diagnosed by symptoms, blood work, or stool studies”, and is “not a real diagnosis”.

Scientific critics, however, say that FM is little more than a rebrand of alternative medicine, with the late oncologist Wallace Sampson characterizing it as a collection of “abandoned concepts” undergoing “resurrection under a more modern slogan, ‘Functional Medicine’”.

So that's not a self-proclaimed title. He's just a grifter who's going to be bashing the FDA, CDC, WHO, and the like. That's going to cause a lot of harm and people are going to die, whether it's quacks who refuse life-saving treatment or they decide to withold treatment because a patient can't afford a DEXA scan or something

3d ago

Don Lemon: Ex-CNN host arrested after anti-ICE protests at Minnesota church

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

President Donald Trump's administration initially sought to charge eight people involved in the Minnesota church protest with conspiring to deprive rights and interfering with someone's religious freedom in a house of worship.

I gotta be fair - if it were my guy putting bullshit charges on ~~Chris Tu~~ Tucker Carlson I'd be laughing my ass off. But I would be shocked if Don Lemon were 'conspiring' and militant about his protesting. He's a lib, we're all libs.

One has to wonder if any violence at all would be happening if you just ignored the shouting and booing. You can't because ICE is a bunch of untrained losers whose brains are full of hate before anything else. But you're telling me fucking Don Lemon is giving you trouble?! Were you have trouble fighting Glass Joe in Punch Out?! You're being childish and petty

3d ago

Americans rate politicians. I want to meet the ones who said Liz Cheney is far left.

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

It's like the old saying: if someone tells you who they are (and constantly proves it their entire career with a capstone of doing that same thing) they are LYING TO YOU!! MORE SACRIFICES MUST FLOWWWW! I WILL SACRIFICE 1000 COUNTRIES FOR THE MONEY LINE!!

3d ago

AI bubble gloom, BlackRock style

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

What if internet except tree-based in a fantasy setting?

Funny you should mention that. I had one where the MC's magic was primarily based around "fae chatter". Essentially they had twitch chat follow them around. It made them semi-clairvoyant. So they'd notice if they missed something on the ground, they could invalidate exams at school because they got too famous too quick, and they gave advice when they had to fight. The downside is that their advice isn't always accurate, they always had an opinion about love & other sensitive topics, and to become more powerful you must be more entertaining to the fae.

I absolutely piloted the narrative into the dirt and didn't look back. I wanted the warlock to be a novella, but I've been having so much fun that I'm having trouble with brevity. I need the practice to learn the critical concepts of character development, framing the most important concepts, and the narrative salience of events. So I made this silly guy who ruins everything.

excerpt where the MC does his sales routine for a warlock's soul (CW: description of gore esp for a child)

“You waste my time, trickster! I need a new pact. I need more power now. There is a child whose life hangs in the balance! There is no expense too great for me.”

“I hear you, I totally hear you.” I comforted him, quickly realizing the limits of my script. “That’s actually why I’m here. I have healing powers I can grant via a pact, I just need to know about the terms - what’s wrong with the child and what kind of expense you are capable of spending so I can actually be of service.”

I saw his eyes soften. Sucker. Loser. I caught him hook, line, and sinker. All I had to do was putt him into the hole.

“The child snuck into the battlefield. She is the orphaned daughter of the woman I loved, wed to another. If you can put her ribcage back together you can take me in her stead.”

“Gotcha. So it sounds like you have an immediate need for power. Would it be helpful if I went over the terms of the pact?”

“Please…” He spat through his clenched jaw. His eyes were red with tears and desperation. “If I cannot find Ifrit I will take what I can.”

You never want to be desperate during a negotiation. He had remarkably bad form.

3d ago

They belong in the same reeducation camp

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

It's clear to me that the right just hates them for thinking outside the box. But the thread is that they belong in a reeducation camp. I was wondering if there was something of substance to critique

3d ago

AI bubble gloom, BlackRock style

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

My idea was that the more canonical DnD pantheon (or at least the ascendant powers who make pacts) get absorbed by an Elven pantheon.

I was work shopping the story taking place on magically augmented Earth at which point a Chinese dominance would be funny, if not a tad obtuse.

3d ago

AI bubble gloom, BlackRock style

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

He was written to be more humorous and less in control. But I'm actually into having files. I have to look myself in the mirror and ask if they're ready to joke about an uh oh crime like that or if Eldritchstein has a distinct and separate elaborate circle if debauchery.

if you'll allow me to go full off topic

You've also given me things to think about that I have been called out for in my critique group. First off, the consequences of treating the warlocks under his dominion after his rise to patronhood. Because everyone likes to gamble and invest with him, he gets control over a lot of warlocks. What does that do to those whose pacts are now his domain? What do those warlocks do to society at large? It probably effects the actual economy that people rely on for goods and services. Second, if I'm lambasting the system, it's incomplete without incompetent people at the wheel. I've typically stayed away from fitting too well for people in the real world. The naked hate and depravity of real life villains doesn't do it for me narratively. I usually like a system with stakeholders and clashing motivations to sophisticate the narrative. I'll take your feedback into consideration!

4d ago

US Senator Amy Klobuchar announces bid for Minnesota governor

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 4d ago

Klonuchar, the office violence lady? Yucky!

4d ago

AI bubble gloom, BlackRock style

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 4d ago

I'm writing a novella about a (financialized D&D warlock pact) bubble pop, not that it in any way qualifies me to speak on it, but spoilers, the ending is about someone coming in and buying everything for pennies on the dollar. So I agree with the Google thing.

4d ago

Dems are doing the thing about 2028 already.

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 4d ago

Oh, you're not going to do better policies? What are you proposing instead? Nothing fundamentally changes? But you want votes because the fundamentals are bad? Isn't there a chance that people are unhappy under you and then the bad people get back in power and make it worse? Wouldn't that just be ratcheting up the bad, souring people to you, and concentrating the badness because the base will either desire worse policies, die, or flee? Couldn't you just inspire non-voters to vote by proposing popular things instead of trying to get people who hate you to like you?

4d ago

They belong in the same reeducation camp

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 4d ago

Is Kamala's child a lib or something? What'd they do?

4d ago

Do you often have nightmares that have monsters or other supernatural elements?

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 4d ago

For me it's usually either getting checkmated in one way or another. Like I'm going to fail out of college, I just did something fucked up, or I'm losing something precious. Otherwise I'm in a field of snakes/tarantulas like it's Megabonk.

I'm liable to fight humanoids who are people sized - super natural or otherwise. One time my dream punches weren't working so I went to grapple them and it worked so it wasn't real a nightmare.

4d ago

The Holocaust Educational Trust is disgracefully minimising the Holocaust by claiming 'Jewish specificity.' I guess fuck all the other “undesirables” that were murdered.

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 4d ago

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I'm not Jewish. Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I am not Jewish. Then they came for the Jews, and there was no one left to speak out for them.