at least we're not still covering everything in leaded gasoline residue

No, instead we're covering everything in PFAS residue and filling every nook and cranny in the environment and our bodies with microplastics. And still refusing to clean up the lead where it continues to be found in the drinking water of poor and especially black communities.

What?? I recently listened to their whole episode on nitrous and he wasn't just being critical of them, he was going off about how even as a former hard drug user he can't understand the appeal. I suspect you caught him doing the multiple levels of irony thing, like how he says he's become a catholic when they talk about Opus Dei, or a liberal when they went to the DNC.

I wonder about that too. I never watch Twitch or livestreams like that at all, but I do sometimes watch uploads of certain parts getting recapped. It's just this moving smear of complete unreadable noise it's so fast and full of emoji spam. But Hasan or whoever the person hosting will still pick out certain comments from it and talk to the person, and I'm like how?? I'm guessing the comments that get chosen must be higher tier subscribers and those show up separately to him or something. But for everyone else, what's the point? Like you said, just to scream into the void? Maybe on some insignificant chance someone else watching will glance at just the right split second to see what you said in chat?

That is seriously hilarious that the random characters generated for that video url contained a slur. It has to happen that some really terrible and/or funny things do show up in those random characters on super rare occasion (I think v-sauce talked about this in some episode) but that is some crazy weird luck that it happened to this video about a fake a slur award, subsequently caught by the automod here and that we would find out about it because that filter broke the url when you were trying to show off Hasan's pass for a fake slur.

Yes. I hate to be critical of videos like this, and it's a nitpick ig but I couldn't help wincing even in the first 30 seconds, talking about Burkina Faso's rapidly growing popularity by saying "And it's all just because of one man."

I think Gaia answered that question pretty well in the affirmative, as have countless communist sex workers before her, that yes, it absolutely can and does help people, including women. Anyone who says otherwise is discounting the voices of women and comrades. That doesn't mean there aren't terrible examples of exploitation in the sex industry and that it isn't dominated by power imbalance. But so too are there terrible examples of exploitation and abuse in most other low wage work. From miners to service industry workers. Sex work is work, and it doesn't deserve scorn or disdain any more than any other form of work. As communists, this should not be a difficult concept to grasp, but unfortunately patriarchal, reactionary brainworms still infect a not insubstantial subset in some leftist spaces.

Not a bad post except for that you just had to throw in some sexist SWERF garbage in #7.

Thank you for extra information. If you're the person I think you are, then I felt like the scrubbing of all your old comments/posts was a big loss to the collective information and wisdom that can be found by digging through hexbear. I rolled my eyes at the foolish decision to remove your informative comment here in this thread. I mean, agree or not, it's great having an actual Chinese perspective, and then to see it get deleted on a pro-China thread as "ultraleftism" was very funny. But it was a gutpunch when I saw you had deleted all the comments on your old account! Keep posting, comrade, some of us really do appreciate it.

Tankies usually are bastions of political understanding though, whether you agree with them or not. They have to be to stand up to the mountains of propaganda we're all fed that people are trained since childhood to accept as "simply how things are." Many tankies only earn that title after developing a perspective that requires spending years reading, you know, actual books, on history and theory and working to honestly understand why things are the way they are, not how they wish they were, nor simply accepting what everyone is told for the sake of reinforcing existing power structures. Hexbear is way out there, yes, since the overton window is so ridiculously far to the right, by design, that it keeps most people from ever even understanding what leftism is. Hexbear is not divorced from reality so much as it is painfully hyper-tuned in to how dire reality actually is.