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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (3 children)

In the funny pope thread, "maybe we should at least consider cultural sensitivity re: the pope and be more kind to one anothet" was responded to with a slew of unfounded accusations, seemingly deliberate misreadings, and pushback from a defensive posturing.

And now this has spawned at least two major threads whose premise is, "Christianity us reactionary and we must explicitly and openly reject it to be a good communist".

I'm not sure what the actual goal would be. Is it to berate any and all Christians on this website into disavowing a bunch of things they already don't believe and apologizing for things done by other people? Is it to ban the dead Christianity comm? Socially police anyone from admitting to being part of the most popular religion regardless of their direct views on the topics where you note Christianity having reactionary sentiments?

Personally I don't think there is a goal in mind. Just people getting in between a Hexbear user and their treats: a false catharsis because the pope died. And getting between the Hexbear and those treats in any capacity, you must be tarred a reactionary object of hate.

People are talking about state atheism and the church-monarchy feudal system and the USSR. Comrade, you (most likely) aren't even in an organization. We are not the inklings of Chinese national liberation but in [X Western country]. We're in a lost Redditor pro-trans vaguely commie site full of yt people eager to weaponize their marginalization to verbally kill each other and I'm suggesting you be slightly less reactive and escalatory towards comrades.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

The only examples I've seen of this are people saying it's antisocial and counterproductive behavior to crab dance this pope's death. It definitely is antisocial, it's only something a small group would enjoy and most would be very alienated by it.

This is just a fact of what it is. For some it makes sense to embrace the antisocial, often creating and preferring a new in-group. Unfortunately this tends to mean cloistering oneself and failing to actually build anything, and adopting habits that prevent it.

This forum's name was originally from a podcast by not-particularly-funny white guys in New York. They have not actually built anything. They are not of an organization. They don't mobilize anyone to do anything. They make snarky jokes poking fun at the liberal political establishment and electoral politics and are increasingly irrelevant. That is the inevitable trajectory of seeking conflict and infighting and being eagerly disrespectful to your comrades.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

With our luck we'll get Tortellinimalo, though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Believe it or not this is just what Italians looked like back then.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I would recommend thinking about it this way: whenever a comrade is "wrong" about something, literally anything, how much do you make it your business to "correct" them?

When it comes to socialism and organizing, the answer must always be, "to the extent it improves the organization or helps them personally". A sign of a dysfunctional social space is that people are constantly getting in each others' business for no reason other than that they are "wrong" about something. Dysfunctional socialist spaces will even dress this up in left language and (ironically enough), for example, say it causes disunity for a member to be dating a liberal. Of course, the disunity comes from the org trying to control a member's romantic life.

In this scenario, what is the existence of socialist Christians here actually doing to disrupt you or others? Are there certain problematic posts that inspired your question or did you just see "Christian" and start attacking? Are there a bunch of Calvinists in there doing Calvinism to us? Do you think you might actually be the source of disruption in thus scenario?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

As I explained, the more likely thing to look for is certain kinds of dissimilarity. Not a phone, but something living off rocks. The bias is reversed from what is probable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The bias is incorrect, though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That thing weighs 50 lbs so it at least takes a good chunk of welding steel to put it together and it is probably made overseas and shipped. But there are a ton of brands out there that are basically US designers and sellers where the quality of what you get vs. what you pay for it varies a lot. I don't have a cargo bike and haven't really evaluated the different companies there, but I think this trend applies to alll bikes.

Though to put things in perspective a half decent standard bike with similar specs is $500-1000 new in the US. That bike has low end Shimano components and Tektro disc brakes. Those aren't oo-la-la expensive bike nerd parts but they are pretty good parts and a company selling such a bike knows this and is pricing according to what others charge for such things. I see a similar REI bike for the same price that has hydraulic brakes and would probably go on sale this year.

But it is a very silly market that wants to charge more for new hype because that delivers more profit. With some exceptions I recommend buying used instead. Kind of like with cars, half the value is lost moments after sale. Cargo bikes with that design are a fairly new trend, and so are disc brakes on anything other than a mountain bike, so it might take a little while to find a used one. But if you wanted a 2000s mountain bike or road bike with rim brakes man you could get one free from a dumpster or buy one for $75. And then throw on $200 of racks to hold stuff.

PS there's a Walmart one (Mongoose) for $600 new.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The bike in that image appears to be a manual bike, like your peddling supplies all the input for movement. The cargo bikes you are mentioning are all e-bikes, they are all custom designed for a relatively small number of orders, are overengineered/overbuilt to handle the extra weight of an e-bike, have hydraulic brakes because it is so heavy, and have a battery and motor. That's what the Urban Arrows are, for example.

You can get a used cargo bike (not electric) for around $500-750 in the US.

Thia is still somewhat expensive but part of that is the overall bicycle industry being based on new expensive components.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Anarchist" instance

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right? Where are the serfs!?

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