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Cake day: November 9th, 2022

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  • Continuing on this

    Western efforts to propagate each ideas produce instead a reaction against “human rights imperialism” and a reaffirmation of indigenous values,

    Justifiably… as said from above

    as can be seen in the support for religious fundamentalism by the younger generation in non-Western cultures.

    I call bullshit… Southeast Asia, East Asia, and South-Asia aren’t really religiously-defined

    Besides, in the Middle East and other Muslim countries, I’d argue religion, if its not an opium of the people, it is the proxy of a new economic mode of organization, or at least a political organization…

    Similarly, at another stage of development a century earlier, Cromwell and the English people had borrowed from the Old Testament the speech, emotions, and illusions for their bourgeois revolution. When the real goal had been achieved and the bourgeois transformation of English society had been accomplished, Locke supplanted Habakkuk.

    The very notion that there could be a “universal civilization” is a Western idea, directly at odds with the particularism of most Asian societies and their emphasis on what distinguishes one people from another.

    And what does this universal civilization presuppose? A standard of who? China? India? Indonesia (This was written in the context of ‘End of History’, as Francis Fuk-his-ma said, so you can guess whose values to adopt)














  • Now could Hexbear throw a shit-fit and defederate from us? That I could see happening easily. There are numerous drama loving types there and there was that one big thread accusing us baselessly of bigotry because someone got moderated and took it personally to the point of stirring up trouble and calling names as well as for defederation.

    Was that about Lemmy.ml as well? Apparently, they saw Nutomic’s transphobic remarks, and saw personal issues on age-of-consent views held by a mod named Davel, and was rantin’ on and about that

    As for calling names and stirring up trouble, yeah, they can be a handful

    I mean just looking at the comically ridiculous struggle sessions hexbears start among themselves it’s almost amazing it hasn’t happened already.

    That’s a Chapo thing, and I think it prolly did

    People accuse MLs of being authoritarian (and so we are) and yet it’s not us but the left unity instance that is constantly having people appeal to the authorities in the hierarchy (ironic) to settle this or that little tiff or disagreement and to impose sweeping changes on others and communities and so on as a result of someone calling to the admins with a convincing sob sorry or whatever.

    Yeah, you have to remember, these western leftists came from an exodus off r/chapotraphouse, a banned dirtbag leftist subreddit based around an edgy left-wing podcast, and brought their chaotic energy as well onto chapo.chat, now known as Hexbear.net.

    I guess this appeal to authority is overcompensation for their historic chaotic brosocialist vibes…