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    I’m really glad we’ve federated with Hexbear. The weeks in between the reddit Lib influx and the Hexbear federation were really rough, since the shitty lib takes seemed to pop up way more than I was comfortable with. But as soon as we federate we end up once again with an overwhelming majority of based takes. Thank you Hexbearists for backing us up against the Lib idiots!

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    There’s this Dutch energy company of which 40% of the customers have solar panels installed. They generate enough electricity for the people to give back to the company to store. This costs money, of course. Their solution? Have the customers pay for the electricity THEY PRODUCE. So you have these people, who want to have an eco friendly way of producing energy, and you’re going to fuck them over once more. You just can’t win in this system 🫠🫠🫠

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      I’ve heard this happens over here too, their lazy justification for it in our case is that you’re still using their grid to distribute the energy. As opposed to building your own grid, I guess.

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        porky-happy if you don’t like my electrical grid, just use another one!

        I’ve heard of this being done intentionally in many countries, as (partially) self-sustaining households cut into the profits of electricity companies. Spain is an infamous example, though they seem to have ended the practice in 2019.

        Legislation introduced in 2013 by Spain’s then-ruling Popular Party made it compulsory for any individual or company to hook their solar panels up to the national grid to be metered and taxed, or face fines running into millions of euros.

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      Germany solved this “problem” by tacking 3-6c/kWh onto every person’s electric bill to pay for the electricity generated by individuals’ solar panels. Industry didn’t have to pay the surcharge though, just working people. As of last summer it’s been abolished, but do you think our electric price has come down?

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      Those customers should use their Aircon in the garden to (a) cool the planet and (b) lower their bills.

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    The water suppliers over here are starting to refer to people as customers like water isn’t a basic human right and they are rolling out a digital meter to track your water usage to the last drop (and charge you for it). This meter is closely watched by the EU to implement everywhere.

    Europe is in a normal place.

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      Learn how to collect and treat your own rainwater I guess. Things are going to get really rough in the coming decades, that’ll become a vital skill.

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    Modlog continues to be my favorite sort option

    Your fixation with race is astounding. I’ve quite honestly never even considered the word ‘mongrel’ to be racially charged, nor was that my intent. That should be all you need to know, really, but you do go on. The word ‘removed’ could be ascribed exactly the same level of racially charged slur, but that’s not what people generally think, noy whats in the dictionary or wikipedia and not what i think when i hear the word. Nor the word bastard for example. That is unless, of course, race and racism are at the forefront of your mind at all times.

    the word ‘removed’ could be ascribed exactly the same level of racially charged slur, but

    michael-laugh

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      Gotta dress fascism in bright colours and kid-friendly fuzzy toys, then no-one would notice

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    I was pissed when the colonial government in hawaii did nothing to help us when we burn, and move mountains to evac tourists. And now that they’ve sent “aid”, I’m even more pissed.

    you want to know why?

    Instead of sending extra volunteers, more firefighters, or further aid. Instead of stopping the landlord leeches currently using this crisis to further buy up land.

    they sent a mortuary assistant to help identify our burnt corpses

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    School is starting in many places around the country, so it’s a good time to remind everyone that schools in the US are utterly and completely fucked. One of the largest ongoing domestic neoliberal projects is the current privatization of schooling via the charter school system, highly recommend people research it a bit so they know what’s going on.

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    Dutch news is running a story about China’s youth unemployment of 21%, stating that according to economists, it’s a ‘telling sign of decay’. Meanwhile Europe is sitting at roughly the same percentage. I wonder what the signs say about that.

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      That ~21% unemployment rate is based off the 16-24 age group; composed of high school and university students, whose main task is studying and not working.

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        People of high school and university age actually go pursue an education and aren’t wage slaves? That’s terrible the east has fallen!

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        The icing on the cake was how they said China’s economy had a growth of 4-5%. They said that this would be really good for a European country, but for China it is BAD lmao. Meanwhile the EU is committing economic suicide on virtually all levels.

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    Is it OK if I post the same thing here that I posted in the hexbear megathread? I’m just wanna do it right now. These feelings are hitting me hard. DOnt worry though, I’m about to go to bed.

    The problem I’m having with the back and forth with libs is my inherent empathy. I feel for them and want to reach out with them. I can’t (Usually) just aggressively dunk and move on.

    The worst yet for me was the thing earlier with the guy who can’t engage with political memes at all because he thinks they all MIGHT be Russian social media infiltration. I started getting sincerely and genuinely invested in being concerned for their mental health. I actually had like, a continuous low level panic attack going. My body was tense and nervous.

    I know the response here is going to be to tell me to just log off and stop getting invested in this, but I really just wanted to vent about how all this is making me feel. I want to help these people out of the bubbles they are in. When they use thought terminating cliches to avoid thinking, it upsets me because god I WANT THEM TO THINK. For their sake.

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      I think it’s good to always act in good faith towards them. But if you explain something three times and they’re not at least considering another opinion, that’s on them.

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      It can hurt to care, but the fact that you care means that you are the kind of comrade that leftism needs.

      The challenge will be to care in ways that don’t burn you out with frustration. Compassion fatigue is a real thing and nurses suffer from it quite often, for example.

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      It’s hard isn’t it? I have similar instincts, although I can turn it off when I’m being trolled. Some people don’t want to be reached. They aren’t talking in good faith. They aren’t interested in what you have to say. They know what they are and are happy about it.

      You might get hurt if you try to fix everyone. It’s okay not to fix them. It’s okay not to dunk on them, either. It’s okay to say your piece and leave them to think about it. They’ll either grow and develop. Or they won’t. Liberalism provides an answer to every rebuttal. It might be a shit answer, but it has one. Sometimes planting the seed of doubt is enough.

      There’s a YouTube series that you might find helpful for reframing the way that you see the people you interact with and how you engage with them: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ . This video in particular may be useful to know what you’re up against: https://youtu.be/CaPgDQkmqqM . I hope this helps and I hope you don’t get too exhausted.

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    Started watching the X-Files to balance the politics in my life and so far I’m liking it

    But I’m a huge space/alien nerd, so

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        I don’t know if you’ve seen it already but I can recommend watching all the Starship Troopers films. A lot of people have watched the first one but the follow ups are great as well. The acting is not Oscar worthy but you’ll have a great time. Plus they often have a cheeky society critical undertone.

        If you read manga I can recommend Plantes by Makoto Yukimura. It’s about a clean up service in space combined with some settler colonialism versus terrorism.

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    Saw a reel (TikTok? Shortform video?) about a Guy that was larping as a NEET in a tropical country.

    And one comment really summed up my thoughts: go back home and get a job lmao.

    Why do these people celebrate being leeches to society and seemingly aren’t self-aware?

    They get our scientists and engineers meanwhile we get this.

    They’re not sending us their best folks

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      Why do these people celebrate being leeches to society and seemingly aren’t self-aware?

      Because a person’s goal in a capitalist system is to do nothing while getting everything. To ascend from the exploited to the exploiter. It’s wrapped in rosy language such as “passive income”, but that’s what it is. If a person can be a neet outside their parents’ basement (which seems to be the case in what you describe), one must ask where’s the money coming from

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        I have this feeling that I’ve had conversations that had friction and I couldn’t tell why because I’ve internalized this notion. Ive also been provocative in saying that there’s no such thing as rewards for hard work and doing good for society is entirely separate from making enough. Or popping off with saying NEET would be the highest aspiration short of destroying the system and getting justice for the exploitation.

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        If a person can be a neet outside their parents’ basement (which seems to be the case in what you describe), one must ask where’s the money coming from

        I am a “neet” because of a severe mental disorder I have. I’m going to depend on the welfare system my whole life. In this situation, you are no different from a Nazi. You want people like us to die? That’s literally social darwinism which is Nazi ideology. Your comment is inhumane, as are you and all the privileged people who approve of it.

        • I think you’re making a huge assumption here. The context was people who choose to move to a different country to live off of “passive income”, not people who are unable to work. Don’t jump straight to calling someone “no different from a Nazi” without verifying their intentions

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          We want the government to provide ample services so everyone, you included, can live in dignity.

          We don’t like seeing otherwise productive people exploit poor and marginalized folks to get there. I think we can appreciate the difference in quality there

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      I have been seeing a lot of life-hacks about how pensioners move to south east Asia with their cash because the low cost of living and also to bulk buy properties and live on passive income.

      You are going to have that problem with countries with questionable economic sovereignty (look at the Philippines in particular) instead of becoming a state with possibilities to do local development, you have oversea entities coming there to suck out the resources, labour, wealth and talent out of them and leave the place to die

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      Can’t fucking stand those people. They used to be somewhat common in my area so my friends and I would pull all kinds of pranks on them when we were bored after school. One of my buddies would set off firecrackers and you would hear them screaming and slamming into shit thinking guns were going off lmao