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We're mostly an aggregator for choice reddit/twitter/podcast/discord slop. I can't think of anything that's unique to Hexbear apart from maybe :funny-clown-hammer: and a few of the other hyper-specific emojis.
I mean it's not like it's an obscure parallel to make if you know a little about both.
Yeah. The concept of speed used in Italian futurist fascism and the creed "go fast and break things" in techbro ideology are suspiciously similar sentiments.
Disagree, there are great posters here. Sometimes I post dumb shit like "All Containers are bad" and people reply with things like this:
Whispering praxis to myself as I lob a molotov at The Container Store
lob a molotovspit petrol from my mouth at The Container StoreThat's a really funny series of replies from a stupid prompt. It's not Das Kapital, but it's a lot better than Reddit's "good sir, shitgibbon, epic bacon" nonsense.
I will always stand up for my beautiful posters. Do not try me on this. Their wit is sharp, and their words beautiful.
Yeah this definitely feels :pepe-silvia:. There's like 200 active accounts here. Even if if we do the reddit demographic "1% of the ppl actually engage with the site and the rest are lurkers" (I highly doubt that on a site like this, most ppl who use the site seem to comment/post semi-regularly) that means 20,000 ppl have visited this site, worldwide. That's really not that much reach, and leftist memes/online culture definitely tend to converge on the same memes and such regardless of what corner of the internet you're on.
Not to mention this site is literally based off of a podcast. If anything we got our humor from leftist podcasts, not the the other way. People here don't seem to listen to anything besides CTH/WTYP/Citations Needed/The Deprogram/I Forget What Parasocial Leftie Cast Is Popular These Days
Yeah this definitely feels . There’s like 200 active accounts here. Even if if we do the reddit demographic
Eh, and this is why I said similar sites.
Not to mention this site is literally based off of a podcast.
And many of the new podcasts came directly from r/cth posters. We used to have tons of these people actively posting there, advertising their shows.
you should definitely go outside people stealing memes from our forum is actually not a big deal and might even spread our correct takes.
Also it sounds like you are consuming too much internet media
Spent 9 hours in the park with a potential new love interest yesterday. My vitamin D levels are well. Today is my sitting in underwear day, thank you though.
Maybe you could take a walk. You could consider the potential implications of grifters taking the limited funds of a working class audience by simply and insincerely stealing the words of other, better, people?
In the sociological sense, recuperation is the process by which politically radical ideas and images are twisted, co-opted, absorbed, defused, incorporated, annexed or commodified within media culture and bourgeois society, and thus become interpreted through a neutralized, innocuous or more socially conventional perspective.
TLDR: People some times say "hey I'm a socialist" for profit, they then use the works of actual socialists to reinforce this idea. Historically this has had negative ramifications for the left because it misdirects energy, finances, etc. that could be better used for anything else.
You spent 9 hours in the park in January? Do you live in Australia or something?
no, but she is cute, kind, and fun to talk to. worth the cold.
idk why she stuck around.
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I'm glad things in your personal life are going well.
I still think this isn't a big deal
This is just an internet phenomenon generally. Influencers and other content creators very regularly recycle jokes and ideas they've seen from normal internet interactions.
normal internet interactions.
Hm, this would make sense. I tend to avoid most internet nonsense, and so it's possible a culture shift made this behavior acceptable and I missed it. Shitty if so, the posters did the work and these influencers/content creators/thieves live very very comfortable lives as a result.
Yeah, I understand. I do it too.
What I think I failed to communicate is these are sometimes full-on sentences repeated verbatim. I used to be a "stand-up guy" as a teenager and I have a weird memory for jokes as a result.
One day I’m going to be walking in the local grocery store parking lot and I’ll overhear someone talking about bug-eating white pmc dsa karens, I just know it. I already heard a boomer shout “nobody wants to work!” when he was getting out of his truck at a gas station.
It’s because we’re all just reading off of twitter and rewording it on our own chosen platforms
That's true but there's a difference between someone trying to score internet points and someone making sure they have enough content to maintain their lucrative lifestyles. If you make a living selling your ideas, the onus is on you to (do your best) to make sure they are actually your ideas.
Pretty sure the sentence "I need to be a communist, but cool and hip" has never been stated before.
There are original forms of communicating those ideas though, and that's where the theft of work is.
Unless we decided to give Orwell a pass for his plagiarism too, I think it's fair to expect people on our side to do their own work.
All podcasts are manufactured by the Brooklyn-New York industrial complex
Start posting made-up figures of speech and other neologisms, pretend like everyone knows what it means, categorize them and see where they emerge in leftist media.
That would be pretty mondo-large if you ask me.
Good. I want my posting to be so powerful that influencers adopt it into their ideology. I will make them learn historical materialism through my posts and disseminate it to their fans, all while I keep calling them all grifters (which is true 90% of the time).
What's plagiarism? Sounds like it involves some kind of :LIB: ownership concept that I'm not familiar with. How does one come to "own" an idea?
What’s plagiarism?
George Orwell found innocent on all accounts, by the truest communists. I'm pretty sure the Soviets had a methodology for remembering who wrote what book, and ensuring credit.
If not, I am the director of Solaris (1972). AMA and give me money.
I welcome evidence of any successful leftist state project that did not give credit to authors, filmmakers, etc. Legitimately curious to see what that would look like.
Are you confusing copyright with acknowledgement of original work, maybe?
you'd have to describe the difference, I could be. I'm talking about when someone thinks they own an idea and can control how others use that idea (for example, requiring that person to acknowledge the original author of the work). Sort of like being a landlord over that idea and renting it out. Sometimes for a fee, sometimes just for recognition. If that's not right then yeah I'm probably mistaken. I think it's wrong to take domain over an idea to the point where you would try and control how someone else uses it. Let it go. But I understand people who feel otherwise (in housing as well as in intellectual property).
So I'm strongly against copyright, IP, etc. I'm also not talking about vague ideas, but rather a specific combination of words someone put together in order to make a functional joke.
For the term plagiarism I am using this particular definition:
the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
I think there's benefit in knowing who wrote what specific book, what song, etc. I like following bands and authors, I like knowing whose work were influential and why, and I like knowing that my doctor didn't just copy the test notes from the guy next to him. In this sense the concept of plagiarism is important to me.
Your landlord example would be apt for my purposes. Just as people once just lived on land, posters here are simply vibing and entertaining, educating, and helping each other. Reposting, rephrasing a joke - great. :dead-dove-1: is my favorite example of this on the site.
The landlords here would be those who take those ideas and then exploit them for profit, resulting in a much higher standard of living than the original "author." These podcasts are all subject to copyright, branding, etc. The Chapo guys, strictly as an example, have stated they're against piracy of their "special" projects. That means the free things generated in leftist spaces are now part of that brand.
