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Someone please put him on SI watch. Watch to make sure he goes through with it.

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Oh I'm sorry I thought this was a free country.

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Yeah thank god he strengthened the powers of the presidency. That's really useful right now.

So funny how the 'You're in America, speak English' crowd can't even pronounce Zohran's name even though it's literally pronounced like it's spelled

When English is your only language and you can't even get that right, maybe who's running for mayor shouldn't be your biggest concern. Try mastering your ABCs first and then we can move beyond sesame street level issues.

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Zordon Madonna

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To me most of these are okay. I feel like Alex Garland made Men to do social commentary like Peele. I feel like Aster made the aptly named Midsommar to do folk horror like Eggers. I think The VVitch is the best of Eggers' portfolio. The Lighthouse was too indulgent and Nosferatu felt too commercial. I enjoyed the novelty of Weapons but it felt very much like an Aster movie. It Follows predates a lot of movies on this list and I like UtSL just for the conspiracy stuff. I enjoy Perkins "Gretel and Hansel" way more than longlegs and I think he works better as a director than a writer.

I have not seen Raw or Titane, but I hear Doucournou is good with body horror. Beyond the Black Rainbow is another movie that's older than the rest and I liked it. Stranger Things ripped it off so hard I'm shocked there was never a lawsuit. It's much more experimental and stylistic than Stranger Things. Mandy was a dud imo. But we have to keep Nic Cage employed so I understand.

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The Sixth Sense came out 40 years ago. This is for contemporary movies, not silent era films /j

Even if you have issues with Zohran or electoralism, be ready to talk to folks about socialism this week (if you live in the US)

The NYC mayor's race is the most watched political race in the US right now, by a large margin too (I guess the second most is Prop 50 in CA? Either way that one is way behind). After Tuesday, Zohran's win will probably be the big story that normies IRL will be talking about here. "Socialism" will be a topic on top of everyone's ...

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Is he a member? I thought our resident NYC-DSA user said he wasn't a member and didn't specifically enlist the chapter to be part of his campaign?

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Something about using foxes on a family crest as a pickup line.

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There is no protection against fed-owned nodes nor fed-owned exit nodes. Whoever owns enough nodes on the network can deduce the routing. Plus Tor is slow and tor services are fairly mundane, inactive, and useless compared to the clearweb. If you're a dissident in a country and the idea of Americans possibly tracing your traffic is preferable to your own government, and you enjoy 1MB speeds or less, go ahead.

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What if instead of an imposter coward it was an impasto coward and they didn't like to lay the paint on too thick.

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I'm already there.

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Critical support to chuds and ongoing struggle to completely devalue threats. When "they want us dead" goes for everything from someone killing Charlie Kirk for being annoying to changing the waffle house logo, it really means nothing.

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swirling wine glass at a professional function

Have you heard about the latest gender over at Goldman?

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who says i ever left monke

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Here is what I have so far:

Animal liberation is essential to any socialist movement. Users should not be anti-vegan although we do not require users to be vegan.

  • Content Warnings are to be used on any post, site-wide, that contains animal abuse content. This includes food and animal products, or depictions thereof.
  • Do not endorse or glorify carnism.
  • Do not attempt to downplay/rationalize/excuse animal abuse.
  • Do not test the guidelines by posting abstracted images of food or animal products.
  • Do not pass off images of animal products as vegan. Likewise do not pass of images of vegan products as animal products.

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By the way, the content warnings section does mention the requirements for animal violence as well:

Violence towards humans or animals including corpses or gore. This includes animal corpses used as food, animal products, and animal abuse.

That way it's in two places on the CoC.

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The threads I linked to aren't visible to users from other instances.

What the hell is happening on Youtube lmao

Okay so Youtube started recommending these videos in a genre called "HFY" or "Humanity Fuck Yeah" which, as far as I can tell, involves AI narrators reading AI-generated stories over slideshows of AI-generated images and the stories are all military sci-fi where humans are the bestest warriors the galaxy has ever seen and kill ...

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The slop economy.

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Going after the disarmament movement is like the flag burning thing. It's crumbs for the oldheads to get them focused on something else. Now you're going to see a lot of social media chuds become experts on why setting off nukes constantly is cool and good despite them not giving a fuck 10 mins ago. Plus, they get to do more contracting graft.

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And we didn't even get to arrest or execute any reactionary farmers.

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you only need food if you're anticipating the ascertainment of a kinetic event.

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$2 per lb. I'm waiting for it to hit $1.50 so I can load up and freeze it.

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They're not going to do primaries. They will claim the election is too important and there isn't enough time. And she'll never be done because being a perpetual candidate is a career now.

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Put world-ending power in the hands of Zionists so they can use it if they ever get even close to losing.

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If everyone in the US is throwing their money at AI then the returns are going to be lower. If 3 AI companies can't walk down the street without having 30M dollars poured onto their heads then investment is inflationary. You'll pay more money for a smaller piece of the return. You need investment elsewhere. Bond yield in the US just went lower as people pull out in favor of stonks. Therefore domestic federal bonds don't have the returns they once did. That leaves foreign bonds and companies.

China is winning the trade war. It has learned to escalate and retaliate as effectively as America. And it is experimenting with its own extraterritorial trade rules, thus changing the path of the world economy.

After six months China is breathing more easily than America, for three reasons. First, it has proved able to withstand American coercion and deft at retaliating, achieving what is known in the jargon as “escalatory dominance”.

Amid all the tit-for-tat, China is developing, by trial and error, a new set of global trading norms. This is its second area of success. It wants to build a Chinese-led system on the ruins of the old liberal trading order, one which will rival Mr Trump’s empire of tariffs. Already China has shifted the geography of its trade: in the year to September its goods exports grew by over 8%, even as those to America fell by 27%. China’s threats to limit rare-earth exports inspire fear because it dominates the market and could cripple Western manufacturing supply chains.

The final reason why China is winning is that the trade war has made Mr Xi and the Communist Party stronger, not weaker.

The narrative is clear - China has our number and has well positioned leverage. It's got the recipe for global growth, not just within its own borders. Western investors have no choice but to chase that growth.

The bad news is that this will likely lead to increased conflict in the West, as we're seeing with escalations in the Caribbean. US investors need to be hands-off with China for now yet they will continue to use old methods of imperialism to secure new routes of investment. Crushing left (or left-ish) wing governments in South America to open up investment in those countries. War will also act as a pressure relief valve for investors upset with Trump. If that fails, then we get pretty close to collapse. If everyone gets mad at Trump yet he decides he really does have the divine right to rule, then there will be bourgeois infighting the likes we haven't seen in a while.

Platner said he would have volunteered to go to Vietnam and would have participated in American colonial wars including the Indian wars and Phillipines war.

Platner said he would have volunteered to go to Vietnam and would have participated in American colonial wars including the Indian wars and the Phillipines war. He loves small wars because the heavy artillery takes the fun out of fighting. And he thinks Iraq and Afghanistan were indeed small wars. Interestingly, he never ...

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Graham are you a Kanye fan by any chance?

"No-"

Great. Fantastic. That's a relief.

"I was going to say not before Donda-"

Not great but maybe we can still work around that.

"-2"

...Fuck.

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Put a gram on a platter so I toke n cough
Habit like a bad tattoo I can't take off

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Comrade stint, now is your chance to collapse.

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They're trying to Stranger Things it.

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Dark future where commercials for Doritos are news stories about people being almost killed by cops.

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https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/e92d96b9-ca6a-4ca9-a560-78b0192b4d20.png

It looks like he's in one of those prefab sheds and built shelving into it himself. This is for all his prepper stuff, I suppose but the set dressing changes so idk.

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It's also a broswer that can't browse everything. It adheres to OpenAI's terms of use and code of conduct. Anything that you can't get GPT to generate, the browser won't go to.

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Sometimes you just have to go Where the River Flows

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MK Ultra was an umbrella program for more than just using drugs to mess with people. It was like a CIA-within-the-CIA. The hyperfocus on LSD is a limited hangout.

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I liked Boardwalk Empire, another HBO period drama. Mainly because it has Lansky, Luciano, Rothstein, and others as they build this criminal network that becomes part of the deep state. Gaston Means also shows up as a minor character and that's pretty funny. You see a dramatization of the local government corruption schemes in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and NYC. It touches on the Anglo-Irish war and Cuba about 20 years before the revolution. And it's all character actors like the earlier days of HBO dramas.

I will probably watch this.

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There's gonna be a Jacobin interview with him or article about the plight of the Celt to show that he's faced oppression too.

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Yes, they were peasants and before Alexander II's reforms, they had a compulsory 25 year service. It wasn't something they chose because they didn't want to work at Wal-Mart. They were made to to do it on top of living a life of back-breaking labor. Even when the compulsory service was reduced to 15 years and opened up to all classes, the stratification remained. Careerism for peasants didn't exist either. Peasants didn't join because it looked good on a resume and was a chance to escape their lot in life. Even after going to war they were forced to work the land. No free breakfast at Denny's once a year. No Dodge Charger.

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Jeffrey was MY friend! Not yours! We didn't even want you there.

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Should have just banned him for being annoying. 42 posts in a 200 post thread. Almost a quarter of the posts.

All the people who are like "most of Hexbear supported this guy" are sus considering it never happened.

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Top posts shitting on Platner's military history: https://hexbear.net/post/6032419?sort=Top

Our banned comrade immediately jumped to accusations of imperialism when questioning why people disliked Platner. The same user agreed with Wheezing after the explanation. So you're ignorant to electoralism in Maine you're a social fascist. If you ask a question, get answers, and agree with Wheezing, no backtrack on the accusations: https://hexbear.net/post/6448731?sort=Top

Then in this thread you have 2 people pushing back and making excuses but somehow "most of Hexbear" is the issue. The mods need to do purges. If the mods don't do purges they're complicit and need to be purged. Like clearly some people hate being here but put up with it because there's no better place to go. Their idea is just to "agitate" under the guise of combating liberalism in the hopes they can get the mods to step down and hand over the site to them.

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I think it's more of a minority of lazy people who only read headlines and vibe their way through being a leftist, which is bad, plus a group of sanctimonious pricks who only come to this site for the opportunity to catch someone sleeping. The usual suspects do fuck all to improve anything but complain about mods and tell us how much everyone else, even those who agree with them in the struggle sessions, are complicit in fascism.

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It's not though because plenty of normal human people were in these threads and did not become unhinged. And those people had way more upvotes and comments than anyone defending a war criminal. The fact is that most of Hexbear never supported Platner. You can also see the comment that got Wheezing removed: https://hexbear.net/post/6498662/6606093. It was slapfighting a mod and not because they were standing against imperialism or Nazis.

These people are also making stuff up about the site as a whole. They are consciously and purposefully engaging in confirmation bias. It's in the very thread I just linked. As soon as they're confronted with evidence that most of Hexbear agrees with them, they retreat into the position of "well why didn't you ban the people in this thread."

  • SwitchyWitchy backed down and deleted/edited her post to say it was bad. Wheezing kept posting through, not satisfied without a genuflection to his ego.
  • mkultra was arguing about letting former soliders or cops into orgs not really specifically about Platner.
  • UmbraEvi asked a question but didn't pursue any further.
  • btbt said they were disappointed but didn't push back on any dunking or criticism.
  • CyborgMarx was silenced for being uncivil while pushing back against Wheezing, this was before Wheezing was banned. Some of their posts were also removed.

So the two people who could be said to be defending Platner either backed down or were removed from the discussion. Wheezing was banned later for calling a mod a thumb. Everyone else went along with Wheezing.

Yet Wheezing and now several others are claiming Hexbear supports Platner along with social fascism. They're just telling everyone, in the very thread that proves them wrong, that the site is supporting Nazis and social fascism. These people claim to be about sober criticism but they exercise none whatsoever in their vendettas. They are not here to fight imperialism or Zionism, they are here to practice their loathing under the cover of "being correct all the time". And you will find yourself to be a punching bag for their personal grievances at some point.

They could petition the site to see if CyborgMarx or SwitchyWitchy should be banned but they didn't. Instead they decided to call all of us supporters of fascism. They ask for us to have concern for their use of rudeness and frank discussion but when it's aimed back at them, then they become "unhinged" and that's supposed to be okay. Mods leave up dozens or hundreds of comments criticizing social fascism and rightfully calling out bullshit but then they're also such ardent defenders of it that they ban one person every few months over it.

Hexbear, you are not being overtaken by social fascism. You are on the internet which is full of miserable assholes who want to make everyone else miserable too. It's a format problem not a ideological one.