Seems as though he’s saying basically what most Hexbears are saying: that Ukraine is unstable, and without Western support it will fall. All Russia needs to do is hold out until the West gets bored or pivots to Taiwan, which is easier said than done, admittedly, but is possible.

We’ll defend Stalin, but not specifically for his record on Gay rights. It’s what we call Critical Support. Likewise with our support of Russia, although it’s important to understand why we have come to this consensus. This post gives a broad overview of our views on the Russo-Ukrainian war, but to truly understand our worldview would take years of immersion not only in our space, but other leftist spaces, and would require some reading. I’d recommend State and Revolution and Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Lenin to start with, as I’m that way inclined, though others would point you in different directions. Ultimately however, it all comes back to Marx’s Capital.

What are you talking about? It’s the most explicitly pro-trans space I’ve ever seen. If your idea of autonomy is restricted to voting, that’s your problem. We believe in actual democracy, as in the voice of the people. Can you point me to a democratic system you aspire to which doesn’t ultimately exist to look after the interests of capital? That’s the problem we have with what you call democracy. The Nazis were promoted into power by establishment politicians to do exactly the same thing: protect the interests of capital by eradicating communists and trade unionists. The mass murder of Jews, Roma, LGBT people, and many other groups, was neither here nor there to the industrialists who backed the Nazis.

We will always react negatively to being called Nazis, because it’s so far from the truth as to be utterly laughable, if it weren’t so offensive to the members of our community who would have been oppressed by the Nazis, and who often are oppressed by modern bourgeois liberal democracies.

I wouldn’t be so sure about this being brand-destroying. Activision-Blizzard and Ubisoft have been exposed as being full of harrassment and toxic work culture too, and they’re still doing just fine. Maybe Linus himself will fuck off somewhere in disgrace, but the brand itself will live on. In a way, it was the perfect time for these allegations to come out as they’ve not long got themselves a new CEO. He can claim that he knew nothing about what was going on there, and make empty promises about how things will be different now he’s in charge, etc.

I know it’s easy to say in hindsight, but there instances in a few videos where you can see him get legitimately angry with others. Not for long, and any nasty stuff is cut out, but you can tell he has a mean streak. I didn’t think it went quite this far, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Nobody becomes a millionaire by being nice.

He already did step down as CEO. Which is funny, because there’s a clip of him from the GN video complaining about the lack of time to make content… my friend, you were the one who created this working environment.

I assume they were talking about this interaction:

The US fled Afghanistan and the Taliban won. Mind you, while I don’t like the Taliban, it’s better for them to be in charge than the colonial occupier the US had been trying to act as for 20 fucking years. If there is to be hope for Afghanistan in the dilemma between the Taliban and US, we must agree that the local force that actually has some stake in the country doing well is the better option.

Hardly a defence of the Taliban’s ideology or methods. As for the stuff about DPRK, well… libs gonna lib.

Same thing happened in Vietnam. In fact, public opinion only really changed after the politicians started saying that it was ‘time to scale down US involvement’ or whatever, which only came years after many people in the Whitehouse realised the war was unwinnable. In the meantime, and despite all the famous protests and anti-war marches, the public was pretty happy to follow the official line that America was the good guy and that communism had to be stopped.

You could do an interesting analysis of this phenomenon using Gramsci’s idea of Cultural Hegemony as a framing device.

Ugh. When I was back on Reddit comments like those would always be downvoted to hell.

Yearly boosters

HA!

I should be so lucky. My last booster was over a year ago, and there are no plans to introduce them for any but the oldest and youngest people in Britain.

MuseScore’s closed source Musehub (after being acquired by Ultimatw Guitar)

Really? Well that sucks.