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Karl Marx, born on this day in 1818, was a foundational political theorist and journalist associated with the philosophy of Marxism.

Among Marx's best-known texts are the "The Communist Manifesto" and the three-volume "Das Kapital", in which he set out to define and explain the behavior of the capitalist mode of production.

Marx's political and philosophical thought have had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history, and his name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.

Marx's critical theories about society, economics and politics - collectively understood as Marxism - hold that human societies develop through class conflict. In capitalism, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production, and the working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labor power in return for wages.

Employing a critical approach known as historical materialism, Marx concluded that, like previous socio-economic systems, capitalism produced internal tensions which would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system known as socialism.

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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Let's gooo lets-fucking-go my last dream confirmed something I always knew was true, me vs any child no matter how trained I win

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[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Gonna write an epic power metal song called "Goonbringer"

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[–] lurker_supreme@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Is "YouTube poop" art?

Is ASMR art?

Are geocities webpages art?

Is computer code art? Is GitHub an art gallery?

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Art tends to need intentionality behind it, like the person making it or editing it or remixing it needed to make a statement or just make something they thought was neat. Hence the difference between a recipt from someones random groceries vs someone intentionally buying stuff to make a statement with the receipt. Or War and Peace is about a lot of things, but it's NOT a recipe for chicken noodle soup lol. Also it cuts out animals that don't seem to have that same intentional aesthetic sense even if its recognizes grey areas like dolphins blowing bubble rings or elephants painting whatever - contrast a squirrel running across a piano from a kid trying (maybe failing) to bang out something fun on the same piano

In that sense, yeah YouTube Poop as silly and stupid as it is IS art. ASMR could be art, unless it's unintentional although the person who recorded it or edited it to include ASMR as a context is doing some kind of art, some geocities pages are absolutely art! Some were just lists of links (like old profs .edu pages lol). Computer code can absolutely be art, some of the stuff people comment is neat - I knew a guy who had a shakespeare snippet in every comment explaining what a function did. People who do golf code are doing art, BrainFuck is art, etc. If its purely functional, it's probably not art although I could see an argument for it.

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago
[–] blipblip@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Some weirdo keeps advertising crypto coins on the white board in an office I work out of, I keep erasing it. It's clearly getting to them and now it's not just a list of their fav coins, they've started writing shit about how crypto is good because there won't be any more Bitcoin but we'll never stop printing dollars and scared money doesn't make money lmao

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Today I finally saw John Mulaney’s face in a standup special after years of hearing his name but never seeing what he looked like.

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[–] CanYouFeelItMrKrabs@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

I've lost 10lbs this year

Let's see if I can lose 2 more in 10 days before I go to a wedding

[–] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I met a dem mayor today and he was as you’d expect for someone who was once Global Brand Attorney for Olay

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it is may 6 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

I’m silent because I have nothing to say. Not because I’m trying to be mysterious.

[–] TechnoAnomie@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

For those watching Andor:

I was thinking my ears were tricking me, but, no, the Ghormans song in episode 8 is pretty much Mawtini. Don't care if its just lib virtual signaling, nice touch.

EDIT: I have a good ear, but no training, so maybe just the first part, I can't tell, and I'm too emotional to try.

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[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

dril some guy named Jerk Fuckass said 600 years ago "hey what if other people did work but i took most of the value" and so now i got to clock a 12 hour day at the piss and shit factory

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

I browse the subreddit mechanicadvice and it satisfies the urge to go "yup... it's probably just the radiator/alternator/spark plugs" I feel. I know a fair bit though by the time I see something it's already been answered so I don't feel like repeating the same comment/advice anyway.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

fucking mainstream orb ponderors

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[–] hogslayer@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

These are some decades we're having sicko-yes

[–] whatnots@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

tried making some siopao for the first time and it was a bit of a struggle but i hope that they at least taste good luffy-exhausted

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[–] MikeyChaz@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Inner sloth got Thom Yorke to make the ost for the newly released among us 3D game

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[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Ever made yourself sleepy playing some music? I was so happy to work on some songs and started getting drowsy in the middle of them.

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I remembred someone said they preferred female corrin because apparently being naive and stupid is more tolerateable for women.

Fire emblem sexism man I HATE GENDER LOCKED CLASS I HATE FEMALE LORDS BEING WRITTEN AS STUPID NAIVE.

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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A guy was hammering on the bus door trying to get in as the bus drove off, I told the bus driver someone wanted to get on and he responded by literally saying "I guess he's going to be late".
HE WAS TOUCHING THE BUS.
Now I'm sitting here fuming at a bus driver.

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Ride the tiger

You can see his stripes but you know, many people are saying he's very clean and we love it

paper-tiger a-little-trolling

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

it is may 10 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hey, legal 1st amendment question, purely for educational purposes. Could someone get in trouble for saying something like, for example, "The people must run a stochastic terror campaign against ICE agents"?

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[–] Babs@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Anyone have experience consolidating defaulted student loans? I'm having an issue with the application and being pingponged to different phone numbers, all of which have long ass waits and annoying phone trees. I just want to not get my shit garnished.

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[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is watching The Pianist (2002) worth watching these days despite Polanski being a piece of shit garbage that never should have been allowed to make movies? I remember watching it when I was a kid and really liking it, and have been thinking about it lately because IIRC it depicts the Warsaw ghetto uprising. But obviously I was a kid so I wasn't sure if it was worth another watch with my partner who hasn't seen it. I pirate most anything I watch ofc

Ive also never seen Schindler's List so I think we will watch that soon. We are on a WW2 / antinazi kick after just watching inglorious basterds

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[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Having an existential crisis rn because I may have to choose not to pursue my masters in protest of my universities position on global politics... I would really like to talk this through with someone if they have the capacity stalin-stressed

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[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

I tried watching Jordan Klepper for whatever reason and there’s a moment where he mocks a Hungarian blaming the US and NATO for the situation in Ukraine. Jordan treats him like an idiot while doing smarmy gotchas. Something about the Daily Show and its alumni annoy the hell out of me.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've been listening to Roadside Picnic by The Strugatsky Brothers. I was pleasantly surprised to hear that Robert Forster is the narrator as he's an actor I have a soft spot for, and a great character actor can really change an audiobook into a rich experience (like John Malkovich reading Breakfast of Champions or Keith David reading Tolstoy's Master and Man.)

I'm really enjoying it so far, and the conversational nature of the dialogue works really well in the audiobook form, feels like just being told an interesting story.

While this is obviously the basis of Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979), reading this it feels like Alex Garland's Annihilation (2018) cribbed really hard from this.

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[–] rafflesia@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

It's been so long since I've had an "industry" job that I genuinely can't answer questions about it on applications. Like I'm sorry I just don't give a fucking shit any more about frontend libraries, or B2B SaaS, or UX or honestly computers at all at this point fucking devil machines have ruined the lives of everyone on earth.

[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Won my Street Fighter 6 league match for the week, barely default-dance

Fuck Guile, all my homies hate Guile

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[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just wanna say, a little something. There’s nothing I love more than to sit down, comfy chair, turn on the PC, fire up a brand new megathread. Lose myself, just, oh my God, just think of this thread, just think of all the comments I can read. All the immersive things I can get involved with, all the upbears, all the beanis, all the people I meet, all the places I go. I’m so excited to go to there, and you know, I love nothing more, than with all of that laid out in front of me, I love nothing more, THAN TO BE DRAGGED DOWN, EVERY FUCKING CONCEIVABLE OPPORTUNITY, SO YOU CAN FUCKING LIBERALISM US! “...Sorry, did you wanna get immersed in our thread? Yeah, well, guess what? FUCKING LIBERALS!! FUCKING STRUGGLE SESSIONS! FUCKING CURRENT DAY CALIFORNIAN SHIT! ‘CAUSE THAT’S ALL WE FUCKIN’ KNOW! ‘CAUSE WE’RE BORING!! ..WE’RE SO! FUCKING! BORING!

WE. Can’t SEE. Past out own FUCKING REFLECTION. .. THAT’S THE LEVEL OF OUR NARCISSISM HERE.” - SAYS THE WESTERN LEFTIST. “FUCK YOUR UPBEARS. FUCK YOU HAVING A GOOD TIME. FUCK YOU JUST BEANIS POSTING AND JUST GETTING LOST. OH, NO, NO! LIBERALISM!” FUCK OFF! YOU’RE BORING. YOU’RE FUCKING DULL. YOU HAVE NOTHING TO SAY. YOU ARE A ONE HIVEMIND LIBERAL. ..THAT’S ALL YOU FUCKIN’ ARE! And you wonder why people are getting so FUCKING SICK! AND TIRED! YOU TAKE EVERYTHING WE LOVE. ALL OUR POSTS. ALL OUR BITS. ALL OUR SICKOS. AND YOU JUST CAN’T HELP SHOVEL YOUR DOGSHIT! FUCKING CRAP! IDEOLOGY. INTO EVERYTHING. EVERY SINGLE SOLITARY FUCKING THING.

pronounjak-rage

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

dracula-flow pizza-mozzarella Zaza got me doing yoga and pylometrics so I can dress like a ridiculous gay jackass in public and hit JoJo poses irl

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