dustcommie [none/use name]

Yah that is fine, I figure there is a good chance people will be done or exhausted from the thread.

Well, he does have retweets about (black) disabled people. He is well aware of how mistreated they can be(and his audience). I will be honest I do mostly disagree with BRG being irresponsible but I think I will reflect on this and think about it from some different angles. I do have work, so won't be available but might respond in a day depending on if my thought crystalize

I am not entirely sure which point(because I barely made a point lol), guessing it is the "defending disabled people owning slaves" which was more a point on reading what people are saying and putting it into a greater context. If this was not hexbear, and I was not taking into account the greater discussion, I think reading what LeninWeave wrote as defense of disabled people owning slaves would actually make a lot more sense than BRG being abelist. Jumping to BRG being ableist felt very much like ignoring the overall conversation.

The point I probably should have made but didn't really is I think it is just rather dismissive and restrcive to essentially say that an event starting from tourretes can't grow into a larger discussion on what black people deal with, and essentially being policed on how they have to act or else they are being ableist. Yes BRG is being hyperbolic, but it fits into a larger discussion so I think it is unfair to say BRG is just drawing a straight line and equivocating these two. I will forgive BRG for not writing a nuanced dialectic, historical, materialist treaties on the interaction between race and (various) disabilities in racist ableist capitalist society and instead writing a shitposty tweet in relation to larger conversation happening in black spaces(just scrolling through what he has retweeted it seems clear that is what is happening to me).

Even if it is, you are giving pretty uncharitable reading... Your post reads more like defending disabled people owning slaves than any abelism from RGB(which I don't think is your point). Given how much defense of gig industries I have seen on the basis of "helping the disabled" I wouldn't be surprised if there is some discourse that is unironic in "well they needed slaves".

Also I have seen tons of discourse on "disability isn't an excuse for racism and general assholery they are just racists assholes" (including on hexbear)

This sounds like liberal "support the troops, hate the cheeto" wishful thinking/propaganda. Thousands of 18-20 year old, genocidal, dumb ass gross men probably flush all kinds of things all the time (bored, cum rags, ran out of toilet paper so used a shirt, had diarrhea and shit themselves, pranks and bullying etc)

“China could call Vladimir Putin and end this war tomorrow,” US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said during a panel late Friday at the Munich Security Conference. “This war is being completely enabled by China.”

lol

Used to listen to SGU all the time too. Funnily, even before I knew really anything about China, I would pretty much always cringe about how they talked about China(Steve I particularly remember, I think Cara talked about the Uyghurs but that might have been her podcast) and something always seemed off about it.

Is there no SBMM? Can't you just play and be "terrible" with all the other people that are "terrible" if you like the game?

For safety you should back up your files regardless(home directory or whatever is actually important there), but if you have your home and root on separate partitions (and even better separate hard drives) you shouldn't have to restart from scratch. If you do plan on distro hopping and do not have separate partitions it is worth looking into doing that for your next install(honestly think it is a good thing to do generally but it isn't a big deal). Sometimes configs can be messed up between distro's but it is rarely a problem in my experience

Yah, the best case scenario is that that they are using this to get sanctions lifted, build up capacity, GET NUKES, then seize all american assets etc in 20 years time(admittedly I am more pessimistic and don't think that is the plan)... They would not be in a worst position than they are in now.

America has adopted their own form of guerrilla tactics of drive by bombing and killing hundreds of people, kidnapping, maybe hit some hospitals or schools while they are at it then dip, likely training counter revolutionary forces in the background. Realistically there is not a lot Venezuela can do without REAL support, or the american people tearing down the empire from the inside (hell maybe even psl and other parties internationally sends people and supplies to train and fight for Venezuela if Venezuela would have them).

I am just tired of seeing what amounts to "Many lives will be lost... but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make"(pic of communist in gamer chair posting on hexbear who will not make any sacrifices) meme unironically even if I am unhappy and disappointed with the direction they are going and presumably leading Venezuela into. We really need to internalize that the fact this is happening is a failure of communists internationally but especially in American and should take this as yet another motivation we need to step up more

Not being western doesn't mean you don't uphold some western leftism. Are you a guerrilla raising a popular army to bring revolution where you are at and prepared to go to Venezuela and give you blood to fight off Americans and counter revolutionary forces(probably trained by USA) in solidarity as "any true communist would"?

I am also disappointed, but if the primary problem is American Imperialism which stops and makes communists(or any liberation struggles) sacrifice so much I have a hard time putting lots of blame on them for making compromises and biding their time and preparing(at least I hope that is their perspective, it is hard to prepare forces under debilitating sanction and no real allies helping meaningfully)... The blame is largely the failure of Americans who could actually stop this with relatively little blood shed. Of course if the Venezuelan people rise up and reject this then there would be a different conversation.

The western left want Venezuelans to die in the millions for a righteous cause rather than to do anything to help them not have to sacrifice so much (you know do anything to stop american imperialism) then endlessly critique why they fail (deflecting all blame from themselves) or fetishize the absolute brutality they survive through on social media and niche forums and chats

Welp, not surprised although would like to see more details to see how different this is from what was offered before. Also how are Venezuelans feeling generally? Is it hopefully they get relief from sanctions backing off or frustrated they are backing down (maybe a bit of both)?

A bunch of people here were glazing Greg Stoker, who when asked about ACAB applies to military he said no and then gave a bunch of lies like "they are held accountable" when he should know better... So I think it is safe to say not enough hexbears are "ready"

They even have copaganda "Even Law Enforcement Officers Think This Has Gone Too Far" published the same day

The whole Lib(ertarian) movement wasn't "don't tread on me" it was always "don't tread on me so my big ass snake throat can swallow your boot while you tread on others" and many of them are wearing the boots.

I wonder what the likelihood of organizations sponsoring Americans to go and be "guerillas" against the many conflicts USA is bringing about and bring back their experience...

Interesting, I guess I am also interested in if there were previous higher rank officials where the accusations of corruption where dubious (at least while Xi Jinping had been the leader). This is an annoying position because if the whole "gave nuclear secrets" I am not sure it is in the best interest of China to confirm that. I guess there will be some vague hints as to the direction of things depending on who is appointed.

Is there reason to believe that the people removed where not "loyal", I am rather ignorant on this. Also was this a unilateral by Xi or was it decided by CPC or some CPC committee(etc)?

I hate Melina, the fact that I have to see this terrible news but simultaneously be reminded of that shitbag pisses me off so much

I think it is fair to interpret "and it's never us" as implying the OP is a westerner