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This is a very odd framing of Da Vinci. He was very much famous for his art and the more scientific works weren’t discovered until later. In his time even he was comissioned for his arts by the most wealthy and powerful people and groups. Saying he did commissions to survive as though he’s a modern artist is especially odd - he was in a guild, he had apprentices. I dunno this whole comment is very strange

I think people on hexbear would not want to “defend the constitution” or be an “asset” to the most evil empire in history. It sucks to lose a job and a likely relatively stable one, but I think it comes off as sarcastic because this is a leftist site- I would guess lussy has no alegience to the constitution or the country.

I think the problem is that the thing the united states has done most successfully in its propaganda is to get its people to not pay attention to the world around them.

I feel like people think of political strategies as a push and pull from left to right but even more prevalent in the west, where the spoils of global dominance are abundant, is a pull towards willful ignorance.

In the US I am rarely frustrated by a right wing person who has bad takes about what’s happening- that is a very rare experience. The vast vast majority of people will never pick up a newspaper, read an article, or watch a video on the news. Most people get an inkling of major events by stumbling across them while browsing sports or their hobby on social media. And even then theyll peek in, internalize the first take they see that feels ok, then never peek again. My frustrations are with people who have no idea what’s going on and feel proud about not wanting to find out.

The west is nowhere near a mass waking up because people are still going to their regular jobs, shopping at their regular stores, and hanging out with their regular friends. Change will have to come from outside of the west or things will have to get far worse here for far more people for anyone to be motivated to do something about something.

While I agree that the us is a failed state and the west is in a kind of collapse, it’s hard to convince someone of that while they’re playing video games on their PS5 after eating out at a new chicken place that opened up at the end of their day sitting in a cubicle chatting with coworkers.

I hate this world

I don’t think it has anything to do with the quality of your recommendations. People have limited time. With Avatar - you are asking that someone commit to 3 seasons of a children’s show that they probably already understand the gist of through its place in culture.

From their perspective - I think in the moment it sounds exciting to get a recommendation and feel like you’ll definitely make time for it but then you get home and it’s the next day and you’d rather spend your limited time on your own stuff.

I’m sorry that they aren’t reciprocating but unfortunately there really isn’t a solution here. This will be the case with the vast majority of recommendations your whole life. I wouldn’t read too much into it.

Partner and I recently had our first kid, and it’s the best thing we’ve ever done. Also the most stressful.

We did wait though until our mid thirties, and that seems to be more normal now. I can’t imagine having a kid when my parents did, I don’t know how people can afford that now.

Just to expand on the cheaper option- there really is no such thing in the US. I went to my local poor univerity that I rode my bike to each day while still living with my parents - total cost for 4 years was around 20k. I think the average is like 40k without paying for housing

Everybody in the US is stuck with student debt. No poor person is even considering high tier universities- those are exclusively for rich people and people who get full ride scholarships.

Community college is cheaper but then you can’t get a bachelor’s degree from a community college.

Getting girls being the primary focus of men is a product of patriarchy. That you are less of a man if you aren’t having sex.

It’s so hard to do because what you’re asking for is a reactionary podcast (one premised on and reinforcing patriarchy) that moves people left. That’s a huge contradiction to start. Maybe you could smuggle in healthier views about sex and gender but people aren’t stupid, they smell through that, and they’ll just go to other media.

Left wing media and communities like this one should be breaking down this kind of thinking and helping men to find other avenues to define themselves through.

I think the response to this is what about the left wing incels? Do left wing men just not have sex? And my bad answer is - kindof ya. Left wing men should be pursuing relationships with all kinds of people. Friendships with women and people of all genders and no gender. If you have close relationships with people, sex will come. Maybe that means you have sex years layer than some of your peers- and ya that’s what it means to stop using your patriarchal advantages to get sex.

If your goal is to sex women at a bar, then of course right wing media is the place to go.

I may be missing a joke, but Bob Ross does this by using a lot of shortcuts and brush stroke techniques. I think he’s respected but I don’t think most artists feel at all outclassed. I paint too and while I love the idea of him showing that anyone can paint, I wouldn’t really want my landscapes to look like his do.

No hate towards him at all but it’s just a different way of painting that kindof maximizes time to output efficiency. But I enjoy painting, and I’m good with a painting taking 20 hours.

Resume advice is nonsense. I’ve been told by recruiters that I shouldn’t have removed irrelevant positions because every bit counts. And I’ve been told by recruiters it’s a good idea to remove irrelevant positions because it’s just clutter.

I’ve always kept my resume 1 page long and remove jobs or line items that dont add much. I’ve had recruiters and managers praise my resume for being so compact and others complain that there are gaps or that it’s kindof selling myself short.

It’s all just the whims of whichever middle manager ultimately looks at it. The real advice is to make a resume that gets past the algorithms by rephrasing slightly to include keywords from the job description, and then just cross your fingers that your format happens to align with their preference.

Seriously, it turns out all it took to get regular people to support hitler was to just get a 2nd hitler.

It short circuits them

IQ isn’t real. You claim to be forced by the system to hate Indians. I think you’re not the leftist you think you are

I’ll agree about the rigid format of movies but to say that’s why I think movies have the greatest impact on me of any media.

A movie is a very tightly packaged combination of art forms that has to hit all the right brain pieces at all the right times because they have such a limited amount of space to do it in.

The greatest movies are those that can keep you completely focused for two hours and affect you for days after. They are able to masterfully execute on all art forms at once.

Even for great books I generally read them in multiple sittings which at least temporarily takes me out of their world. Games are an even greater collection of arts in that they also add an interactove element, but they’re often so long that I never quite get fully into the stories. I ran into a soft-lock in Disco Elyseum that caused me to have to re-load a save and redo some pieces. That experience isn’t too uncommon in gaming but it’s something that would never stand in a movie.

Basically I think the greatest movies are those that manage to affect me so so much with such tight constraints.

Zionists conflate Jewishness and the existence of the political state of Israel. To the point that any Jew that does not support Israel as a state or the actions of Israel is considered not a real Jew or a kind of race traitor.

This controlling of the thoughts and actions of Jews by zionists who may even be christian themselves is very much antisemetic

A state is not owed the allegience of a people based on their ancestry or belief

The fundamental problem with your question is the perception that there are these prescribed stages of development and each stage is an advancement on the previous.

Instead, the indigenous peoples in the world were just as “advanced” as the colonizers who slaughtered and enslaved them. They were not on different stages of a tech tree like in a game, they just developed different societies.

So of course slavery was not necessary because there is no such thing as necessary advancement. Even if you argue that advancements in medicine requires more modern modes of production, places like Cuba or the Soviet Union skipped or sped through or skirted around or limitidly used Capitalism and still developed incredible health programs. So then capitalism isn’t even necessary for technological advancement in that way, let alone slavery.

Pretty much in my experience. I’m sure there were some people who worked with companies to help with DEI initiatives who were doing so in good faith, but ultimately the system doesn’t work in a way that would allow change.

HR departments are naturally responsible for any diversity training and practices, but HR is beholden to the interests of executives and investors who don’t care at all.

That’s why the only reason any inclusive practice is ever adopted is because of regulation or because companies think they can get an edge in marketing.

It just makes chud whining even dumber because if they understood how the businesses they pretend to worship work then they’d know that these practices are just capitalism doing capitalism things, which they claim to support.

They’re not real. I’ve worked at multiple places with DEI initiatives. They amount to a yearly training where white people get to vent their bigotry and a position within HR devoted to focusing on more inclusive recruitment tactics.

For the most part we still hired almost exclusively white people.

In reality DEI was just a way for companies to pretend they’re cool places to work and DEI was dropped the moment it started getting backlash.

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I bought such a tiny eensy weensy property and now I have to use it to exploit someone. Otherwise someone will exploit me. I’m so tiny and smol I can’t handle the exploitation that you all do, that’s why I have to exploit you all. Pwease, no more bad feelings, thank you!

If you don’t like the “lick-my-ass/or-be-homeless setup”, try not being a landlord.

I’m such a smol bean landlord, pwease forgive me hexbear, I just have to exploit another human being for my own financial gain but it gives me a sad uwu