Religion doesn’t count. We’re on Lemmy, so neither does communism.

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    7 days ago

    We don't talk enough about how much society openly despises teenage girls and the things that they like. It's one of the purest, most distilled forms of misogyny.

    God forbid a color or a pattern or a beverage or a game or a show or a musician or a style becomes associated with teenage girls, the circlejerk shitting on it never goes away.

    • ashinadash [she/her]
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      7 days ago

      The last vestiges of Twilight hate are still out there, it's truly eternal.

      • Inui [comrade/them]
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        6 days ago

        My partner recently watched the movies and is reading the books for the first time. They're still hesitant to admit they like them because of the stigma. We've both watched worse slop on YouTube and I'm not allowed to make fun considering I'm out here reading stuff like Rage of Achilles to get my romance fix.

    • Tom742 [they/them, any]
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      7 days ago

      On some level I think society feels it has to hit the gas hard on misogyny during a girls transition into womanhood, just to really rub it in and cement that stuff early on, so they get an outsized proportional response of that hatred.

  • Moss [they/them]
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    7 days ago

    I actually don't respect religion at all and could never be 100% compatible with a religious person

    • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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      6 days ago

      Religious people, on the whole, have a fundamentally illogical and deeply problematic view of the most basic facts about our metaphysical reality, morality, and history. Even if they don't use their religious views to justify deeply immoral behaviors, etc. Gotta have some sort of common ground to connect with a person.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    7 days ago

    Most communists organisations are absolutely dogshit at communication. Get a nice professionally looking website. Get a SoMe strategy. Get a consistent visual identity. Do some SEO. It doesn't have to be hard or expensive. This is what Lenin would have done. And stop writing in that horrible jargon that makes everything sound like a resolution from your 1976 congress, normal people find it weird and off-putting.

    You don't have to be a theory nerd to be a real Marxist. Not everyone has the time, energy or personality to sit in a book club for hours. And that is fine. You can understand plenty without having to feel you're back in school doing homework. If communist movements wants any kind of success they have to make theory accessible, relevant to what people are going through and attractive enough that people will want to engage with it.

    I don't care whether you put pineapple on your pizza or not. I really don't.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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      7 days ago

      I think some people in niche communities (such as communist groups in this example) actually want the group to stay insular and personal. They like feeling part of a special little group, and if it started letting just anyone in then that would be lost.

      • QueerCommie [she/her, fae/faer]
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        7 days ago

        I just heard about missionaries being forced to be annoying so their converts are fanatical and they get to feel persecuted by everyone else and ingrain that perspective. thinkin-lenin

    • QueerCommie [she/her, fae/faer]
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      7 days ago

      Coming to terms with the fact that just because I’m autistic about communism doesn’t mean the average person I get to sympathize will read a fraction of the theory I do.

  • Sted [he/him]
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    7 days ago

    I don't think there are any good Sonic games and I'm convinced that a lot of people only like the series because of nostalgia. I feel the same way about Harry Potter but that's not an unpopular opinion here.

    • TheDrink [he/him]
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      7 days ago

      IMO the thing is that Sonic at its best only appeals to a small slice of gamers. Like if you talk to speedrunners about it they'll have nothing but good things to say about it, and in general Sonic games get more cathartic to play the better you get as a player. The less time you spend bumping into things and the more confidently you can navigate the precision platforming segments the more you can just zone out and enjoy the flow state and the music and stuff.

      But you've got to have a personality that leads you to playing levels multiple times to get into that flow state, and a lot of people who don't have that will play a Sonic game, struggle through every level exactly once, and then put it away and declare that it sucked.

      So this niche interest game got put up against Mario, which is superficially similar but much, much better at appealing to a mass audience, and the comparison has stuck in the culture ever since. People who like it continue to like it but because of its high profile and nostalgia factor lots and lots of people play it who don't like it and that infects the discourse for it in a way that it doesn't for other games.

      ...and of course lots of the games really do suck because SEGA and Sonic Team have had a bad habit of rushing games out the door before they were finished that goes back to the Mega Drive days.

      • Tom742 [they/them, any]
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        7 days ago

        I think you just explained to me why the only Sonic game I’ve liked is Sonic 2. I had that one for GBA so I was constantly replaying the same levels. Recently I picked up Sonic Mania, struggled through the first 3 levels exactly once and haven’t wanted to play it since

    • vertexarray [any]
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      7 days ago

      As an unreformed sonic enjoyer I think this is the case. The abstract concept of a sonic game is so much more enjoyable than the material reality of a sonic game

  • korovka [none/use name]
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    7 days ago

    I hate the very idea of "meritocracy". A part-time "unskilled" worker or a NEET should enjoy the same decent living conditions as everyone else. Likewise, when it comes to leftist orgs, a person who just joined it should have the same voting power as everyone else. It's idealist and impractical, I know.

    • Red_Renewal_Cosmonaut [she/her, comrade/them]
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      6 days ago

      i dont think its that controversial

      i'd also add on disco music hatred since that also originated from african americans. Disco didn't die, right wingers went crazy and did a very effective national boycott of radio stations that played it. Disco didn't die, it was murdered by freaks.

  • RION [she/her]
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    7 days ago
    1. I do not care for TC69 thought

    Maybe this is less controversial since her brief return during the dunk struggle. Basically my gender identity was in a sensitive place during that time, and being told to shut up, sit down and engage with gender theory I wasn't ready for was not helpful. In fact, I'd say it was actively harmful. I'm very stubborn when people order me to do something "because I said so" which was the predominant tone with TC69. That more or less shut down any willingness I had to explore gender on hexbear for a while.

    1. Incels should receive compassion

    Inceldom is primarily a maladaptive attitude driven by pain and alienation, and while that shouldn't preempt people expressing how incel behavior harms them we should still remember it as pretext for its existence. I was incel-adjacent as a young teen and what kept me from going full blown alt-right PragerU gamergate was compassion from others and the opportunity to grow as a person.

    • QueerCommie [she/her, fae/faer]
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      7 days ago

      All actions are driven by compassion; skillful, or not actions attempt to relieve suffering of oneself or others. While there are certainly people I would appreciate dying, letting someone live rent free in your head hurts yourself. Incels are victims of capitalism like the rest of us and are worthy of solidarity even if they don’t understand the skillful means to alleviate their suffering right now.

    • underwire212@lemm.ee
      hexagon
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      7 days ago

      Compassion for others is something I can always get behind. We all come from different backgrounds and experiences, and something the world can always use more of is compassion for others.

    • Red_Renewal_Cosmonaut [she/her, comrade/them]
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      6 days ago

      Inceldom is primarily a maladaptive attitude driven by pain and alienation, and while that shouldn't preempt people expressing how incel behavior harms them we should still remember it as pretext for its existence. I was incel-adjacent as a young teen and what kept me from going full blown alt-right PragerU gamergate was compassion from others and the opportunity to grow as a person.

      my contro take, is that this is a shit take that you should have this comment removed for and a temp ban

  • Blottergrass [he/him]
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    7 days ago

    "China will save us" is only one step less delusional than "Elon will save us".

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        7 days ago

        It's not that China is not doing anything. They are. But even China's efforts will not be able to offset all the spoilt treatbrained climate arsonists of the west.

  • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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    7 days ago
    Scholar of The First Sin is better than OG Dark Souls 2.

    Sure they doubled down on the swarms of enemies in places where people had been complaining about them, but they did it in an interesting way where enemy composition forces the player to be way more aware of their own position and spacing.

    The new mechanics they added to various creatures and boss fights fixed the coupla fights I found boring.

    I feel the lighting changes bring it closer in line with how Dark Souls 2 is supposed to be based on the old trailers.

    As someone who does a lot of jolly co-oping in souls games, I felt the increased summon cap was a huge boost to the multiplayer.

    Also the hitboxes feel tighter.

    Best version of best Souls game.

    bonus opinion that's unpopular IRL but common on Lemmy.

    Winston Churchill was a monster, and the good opinion people have of him now is the byproduct of one of the most extensive propaganda pushes ever conceived.

      • QueerCommie [she/her, fae/faer]
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        7 days ago

        I mean I get the generalization that allo polys would be more overtly sexual than allo monos. I could see the weirdness while respecting “ethical sluts.”

        • ashinadash [she/her]
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          6 days ago

          I gotta keep it real, I disagree with that generalisation hardcore. (although idk if sharedburdens was making it herself) I find that monogamous allos are just as overtly sexual and weird in my experience. It sounds counter intuitive but whether or not they have multiple partners, you cannot give allosexual people an inch on stuff like that. Volcel pledge for a reason etc

          • QueerCommie [she/her, fae/faer]
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            6 days ago

            Fair enough, I don’t think my argument’s solid, I just like to attempt to defend things that get pushback. You’re probably right in general, and maybe they are right in their personal experience which is not representative.

              • ashinadash [she/her]
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                6 days ago

                By me? kel-what I must be forgetting something but no? My block list is like three users long, almost all federated dweebs. I wouldn't be able to see your post...

                I mean, hard times with relationship dynamics and bad personal experiences are both fair enough, it just tends to send my eyebrows up, I've seen too many "poly people are only in it for the sex!" things regress to borderline reactionary takes. Even aside that it's not my favourite bias, but oh well I suppose, y'know.

  • EatPotatoes [none/use name]
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    7 days ago

    Open source pushed me toward ml theory. In a bad way.

    Like since log4j, a lot of foss can’t be relied on without significant public investment.

  • SexMachineStalin [comrade/them]
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    7 days ago

    Harbouring sentiments that do not unconditionally support NATO, NAFO or uKKKraine here in Estonia are well...

    "Controversial" is putting it VERY mildly, to say the least.