Belly_Beanis [he/him]

Foxes and wolves. Malcolm don’t miss.

For me it was in 2008 during Obama’s first term. I voted for him after McCain said we should nuke Iran, but thought Obama would at least do something decent about the wars in the Middle East and the looming housing crisis/recession.

Haahahaahahaa nope! Dumbass 20-something me actually thought the guy with a Goldman Sachs cabinet would do something for the working class? What a dumbass! Best we can do is drone striking weddings, birthdays, and schools while making sure Wall Street faces zero consequences for the worst economic crisis in the US since the Depression.

Oh and you have to buy your own insurance and get a fine higher than the monthly cost if you don’t.

You’re describing monarchies lmaooo

This is how you know the soviets had a comically large spoon…modern Russia has comically large interest rates. How do you think they plan on collecting all that Google money? Scooping it up with the spoon and catapulting it by using a comically large pencil under the spoon before every Russian jumps on the spoon.

Time gets shorter. I’ve already experienced this going from my teens to my twenties and into my thirties. I can remember entire weeks of my childhood. By the time I was in my mid twenties, days and weeks blurred together. Now it’s like months go by and I don’t even notice.

People talk about it more as they get older. Eventually when you enter your 80s and 90s, it’s like entire decades can come and go. So imagine when you’re immortal. If you’ve been alive for 100,000 years, that’s longer than writing has been around. Entire civilizations will have come and went.

But from your perspective, it’s all a blur. Entire genealogies were experienced, yet those people barely registered in your mind. If you had a favorite food, maybe the recipe disappears when you went four centuries without eating it. Jokes and fashions you’re familiar with are completely alien to everyone else. Are you even capable of noticing when things change at that point?

There’s also the question of how human are you? Everything and everyone would seem inconsequential. Would you even be able to socialize with others, or would you be completely sociopathic? That’s if you don’t hurt anyone and get tossed in a jail cell. What happens if you spend a few centuries in prison? Fight in multiple wars? Would you even feel the slightest discomfort when you kill someone?

Oh cool we’re about to have people who have never seen snow and never will because it will go extinct.

Did you make a Hexbear account not on Hexbear to prove how not mad you are? I am confusion.

Okay but if we use “Late stage capitalism and the quest for profit above all else is causing the quality of goods and commodities to drop while their value stays the same or goes up,” it’s going to result in 20 minutes trying to explain things correctly followed by 20 hours of anti-communist arguments.

The IOF person holding the camera in the second clip is lucky they didn’t get shot with friendly fire when the other tripped lmao

In another thread, someone pointed out British people are about to get shot at and it will cause a scandal before they’re dismissed with “thoughts and prayers.”

I’m always dumbfounded when I see American news about stuff happening in places with other countries’ names on the damn things. “US Navy in standoff with Chinese ship in South China Sea.” I know obviously countries don’t own something just because of names, but like be serious. The US would carpet bomb anyone who parked a ship five miles off the coast of Hawaii.

A few years ago, they lost a lawsuit about how stores would make non-white employees work in the back while white employees got to work on the floor getting commissions. IIRC there were internal documents about blonde haired, blue eyed people having “that All-American look” and people not fitting that description should be scheduled to do other tasks (like working in back sorting boxes).

Yeah he looks like Busey having an allergic reaction to a bee sting yet has the nerve to call other people ugly.

I wrote it out on my phone ( . _ . )

Early in the Holocaust, the Germans just had their troops carry out massacres through shooting, stabbing, burning, etc. This caused massive numbers of psychological problems among German troops. Although they believed what they were doing was a necessary evil, they still struggled to cope with that evil. A lot of them fell into substance abuse or ended their own lives.

Enter the death camp. In these, they could have only the most enthusiastic members of the party guard undesirables. You had to be a member of the SS in order to volunteer for guarding a camp. That meant the guards wanted to be there and took pleasure in killing Jews, Roma, communists, homosexuals, and so on. But they still found another way to absolve themselves of guilt.

Inmates were told to take a ticket and remember their number so they could get their stuff back after taking a shower. People voluntarily walked into the gas chambers because it was the same system used for everyday hygiene. Then the SS had other inmates move the bodies to furnaces, with a different set of prisoners loading and unloading. Even when deploying the gas used to kill people, they’d have prisoners drop the capsules into chambers by forcing them at gunpoint. When not gassing people, kapos were inmates used to enforce the rules during downtime. They’d get special privileges like better meals or access to recreational facilities in exchange for snitching and occasionally beating other inmates.

Every step in the industrialized murder machine allowed for nazis to tell themselves they weren’t the ones actually killing people. The inmates went into the chamber by their own free will. Other inmates disposed of the bodies. Guards weren’t the ones using the gas, they just forced someone else to do it, so that person was responsible. What happened at night in the bunks was the responsibility of the kapos. This is why after the war, they tried to defend their actions with “I was just following orders.” They got orders to make prisoners do things, then passed those orders down.

Enforcing and imposing these jobs onto prisoners was done at the hands of only the most bloodthirsty of the SS. They would gleefully torture and murder prisoners on a whim, which made sure the prisoners did what they were told (lest the guard get pissed and decide to torture you out where everyone could see). Other guards only had to watch, telling themselves it was okay because they weren’t the ones killing children.

This is how the German people rationalized their participation. Germans outside of the camps only had to report to police or local garrisons when they found “undesirables.” Those police and troops only had to load those undesirables onto trains, who took them out of sight and out of mind. Guards then got those people to get off the train and walk right into gas chambers willingly. And this is how nazi high command implicated the entire country in genocide.

Possadism with Silicone Valley characteristics?

Skill issue. When I fell out of a window, I simply didn’t die.

landlords as a group are inclined to keep posting higher rental prices for their units because no individual wants to be the first to “lose” money by reducing their rates to get somebody in the units.

I was thinking about this the other day and how funny it would be if someone just destroyed the entire market overnight by cutting their losses and cashing out. Like maybe they have $10 billion invested into vacant homes, but decide it’s better to lose $5 billion now vs. waiting another decade to try and get the full $10 billion. So they sell everything off at way, way below market rates. It’s not a small amount either, so another investor can’t just swoop in and get the $10 billion by buying this person out.

From there, it dominoes out of control where people are buying $500k homes for $200~300k. Competitors can’t keep up with how fast the homes are sold to individual families, yet they see their current investments now at risk of losing serious amounts of money.

This would never happen because landlords wouldn’t be landlords if they had the foresight to pull it off, but I can dream of China doing it to torpedo North America’s housing market.

Has Hexbear finally infiltrated the GOP?

It’s been like this forever in the US. You win by getting your side to show up. Democrats outnumber republicans nearly 2 to 1. Republicans know this so they use voter suppression antics. Trump won in 2016 because his supporters were energetic. They do not want mail-in ballots to become universal because they’d never win another election. Democrats knew this in 2008 but seem to have forgotten since.

It’s the nature of the US election system that causes this where the side that wins is the side who had an easier time voting.