"Through crime and crusade, our labour, it's been stolen

We've been robbed of our freedom, we've been held down and beholden

To the bosses and the bankers, who never gave their share

Of any blood, of any sweat, of any tears"

I live in a fairly conservative area that's working class.

People intuitively understand when you describe how much capitalism sucks because they're living it.

If you say "capitalism sucks", you are going to get reactionary thought and action. You have to say things in a way to engage their experience and understanding without tripping the propagandized brain worms.

If you can do that, you'll find that they're primed to reject capitalism, they just don't know it yet.

"These rich fuckers don't give a shit about us, but they have no problems helping each other out."

"Everybody's boss is the same, they want you to work harder, more hours, and do it all for less money. They want us to be able to barely survive."

"The only way we can make them change is to all work together. They'll screw over each one of us individually, but if we're together they'll know it's actually them who needs us."

If you find yourself thinking "I agree, things are really bad, but outright conflict would be so much worse!"

You might be right, in the short term perhaps.

But if you think about the staggering body count that has already built up, from police killing people and walking away without punishment, from our money supplying tools to murder countless children overseas, our governments overall mindless support of business and money over people?

I don't want any sort of conflict, I don't want any lives to be lost, but it seems like they're intent on killing us regardless of how we feel about them.

This is a shitty leader.

Praise in public. Correct in private.

Not that I even agree correction was warranted.

I'd rather let a junior engineer loose in my codebase. At least I know their intent and where they live.

Some of us turned down Lockheed and Raytheon.

Incredible art. Any time I see marble look like cloth, it blows my mind.

As to the physics, the amount of material holding up the hammock is likely much more significant than it appears. Not to say it isn't delicate, I'm sure much side to side movement would break it quite easily, but the vertical strength is probably significantly more than it seems, it's sort of like a bridge with a truck on it...

I can't tell you that a baofeng is gonna outperform any of these radios. I can tell you that I've got two of them, a programming cable, a mag mount vhf/uhf antenna, a nagoya antenna, and an antenna I made out of some leftover Romex and a painting pole. All this was well within that budget.

I can also tell you that I, not without some antenna placement experiments, can consistently activate a local repeater from around 15 miles. And have been complimented on audio quality on multiple occasions.

You are not going to find an ht with a rubber duck antenna that's going to perform the way you'd like. You will need to try out some different things.

Save yourself some heartache and get an sma to BNC adapter for the radios you wanna play with some antennas on and some whatever your antennas have to bnc adapters, get a few antennas instead of another ht, and just try stuff out. Or hell, throw $16 bucks at a gt-5r, they're clean transmitters now, the build quality is surprisingly good (on mine anyway) and even if it's hot garbage you didn't spend a fortune on it.

You will always wonder if you're screwing things up, you just get better and faster at diagnosing the issue through practice.

The class war has always been going on and if you are reading this you're not on the winning side.

Capital has no delusion as to who its enemies are. But it profits when you don't.

I like how they're worried about "violence done to ICE facilities."

Really returning to the roots of policing.

Comcast et al have taken (literal) billions of public dollars to expand rural broadband service.

Instead of laying fiber, they used that money to change the definition of broadband.

If corporations are people we need to be able to institute the death penalty for them too.

The reactions on hex vs the reactions off hex have been hilariously different.

On hex, the shit posting continues, like the band on the Titanic, except the Titanic has always been sinking so it's not even any different.

Off hex there are some who laugh with mirth thinking "haha they must be so sad at the end of their site!" Not realizing that it's never the end, it can't actually end, and that even if it were the shit posting would continue.

NYT at the very least underreported on the Holocaust. They have reported unfairly on Palestine. Calling them a rag is unfair to rags, because even dirty rags once served a purpose and have the possibility of usefulness once again. A rag has never stoked hatred of the people I love.

Pivot to recipes, the pig farmer, and culture content. I'm convinced that there's a bunch of botting going on with anything political. The Marxism sneaks in the side door that way. If you go at it head on you run into the western billionaire funded disinformation ops.

See, we all thought Kanye was creatively bankrupt. No more juice. He hasn't done anything exciting in awhile, he's losing the attention of the wider world.

In reality, it's a years long extremely dedicated performance piece, culminating in getting Elon Musk to wear the stupidest fucking shoes imaginable.

I started on kbin, and I'm Midwestern, so after leaving kbin, I decided on this one because it appealed to my sensibilities.

Our admin has been vehemently antifascist, to the point it really rustles some jimmies on world etc.

I asked about grad defed because that happened before I joined, apparently it was issues with brigading, not anything else. If we were to defed from hex and ml for some ideological reason it would be extremely surprising to me. I would also probably move over then.

There's a lot of insane brain worms on these larger instances. I feel like being able to say "if you're an actual leftist, you will find friends on hexbear" is a valuable counter to some of these obsessive weirdos.

My brother in science, there is no such thing as too immature when it comes to jokes.

After 4 kids and about 40 years on this planet I can say the occasional fart joke is still funny.

Don't project your inability to laugh at silly things onto others.

Yes, it happened in the capitol building.

Yes, vermin supreme was railroaded.

The Jan 6ers, who were actually antifa, but also innocent patriots.

Vermin Supreme.

Xenu.

Or kent state.

Or what the civil war was actually about.

Or when all those statues of traitors showed up.

Or why all those statues of traitors showed up.

Or how mlk jr felt about communism.

Or how the government actively targeted and killed domestic political opponents for years.

Or how the government performed experiments on unwilling citizens again, for years.

Or....

Eta: at this point I assume there's a lot more to it than what I've been taught. I also assume that the simplistic understanding that was conveyed to me was done intentionally to color my opinion of China because "scary communists."

It was the free space after Musk got involved.

He's like a worse Edison. Shit would be way cooler if he went around the country hitting elephants with f-150s instead of whatever the fuck externalization of mental illness this is.