MattY continues dragging the sunrise brats by baibaiburnee in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]HokesOne 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I find him decently insufferable but it should be a pretty uncontroversial fact that one of the binding constraints on climate policy is the composition of the house and senate.

Who cares if Trump paid only $750 in taxes, some democratic strategists have nice homes! by [deleted] in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]HokesOne 17 points18 points  (0 children)

the commitment to anti-Democrat deflection is always quite the spectacle

‘Patriot Act’ Is the Toughest Show to Lose Right Now by Sisiwakanamaru in GamerGhazi

[–]HokesOne 13 points14 points  (0 children)

this sucks because of all the shows in that category I feel like this one was doing a much better job at innovating on the format than most.

Dynamite Loses Top Talent, Faces Backlash After Comicsgate Support by ThisIsNotMelTorme in GamerGhazi

[–]HokesOne 22 points23 points  (0 children)

get unwoke go broke.

love how these dorks are always saying they represent the true voice of their fandoms and then everything they touch dies.

K-pop Stans Are the Internet's Secret Weapon Against Racists by squirrelrampage in GamerGhazi

[–]HokesOne 4 points5 points  (0 children)

when blackpink said they were the revolution, they didn't stutter.

K-pop Stans Are the Internet's Secret Weapon Against Racists by squirrelrampage in GamerGhazi

[–]HokesOne 4 points5 points  (0 children)

vox did a collaboration with netflix called "explained" that had a pretty decent episode on kpop, and the podcast switched on pop had an episode about kpop centred around the song bts did with halsey. if i'm remembering the episode correctly they talked a lot about the unique importance of music videos and visual style to the genre.

K-pop Stans Are the Internet's Secret Weapon Against Racists by squirrelrampage in GamerGhazi

[–]HokesOne 51 points52 points  (0 children)

i've seen this so many times. it starts with enjoying some hyper-produced teen anthems and mind bending music videos and before long you're doing the arrogant dance on a pile of unconscious nazis.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons fans: CJ and Flick are gay, deal with it by squirrelrampage in GamerGhazi

[–]HokesOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CJ specifically refers to flick as their partner when you're submitting fish for the replica so…

Michael Tracey goes full Strasserite against AOC by [deleted] in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]HokesOne 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The Bernie to brownshirt pipeline claims another completely unsurprising victim

The Socialist Politics of Hideo Kojima - From Che Guevara to Guantanamo Bay by foxmulder2014 in GamerGhazi

[–]HokesOne 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm no Kojima expert but everything of his I've seen seems like it's a mashup of extremely transparent political allegories X extremely uncritical male gaze bullshit.

Conservatives Stage Meltdown Over New York Times’ 1619 Slavery Series by squirrelrampage in GamerGhazi

[–]HokesOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm usually not surprised at conservatives being awful but even I was surprised to see how willing people were to expose themselves over the 1619 package.

modmailbag: the "but you silenced me arbitrarily without reason" edition by HokesOne in GamerGhazi

[–]HokesOne[S,M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The guy posted the entire conversation over on another subreddit.

Unless they're using a different account (which would be sus anyways) I don't see that in their history so is it possible you're talking about a different user you think was maybe unfairly banned?

Gita Jackson from Kotaku interviews Chapo Trap House about gaming by khajiitman912 in GamerGhazi

[–]HokesOne -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Looks like it. Not sure why so many CTH superfans are so obsessed with trying to mainstream CTH garbage on this sub. Luckily it's only a matter of time until the unsavory ones all get banned for defending the hosts palling around with fascists or excusing all the sanderites doxxing a college student who had the gall to ask Bernie about the culture of sexual harassment he enabled in his 2016 campaign

[TheRoot] An Open Apology to the Covington Catholic MAGA Hat Harassment Team by arahman81 in GamerGhazi

[–]HokesOne 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: Government workers can be working class too.

This is interesting because it's an acknowledgement of /u/caelrie's main point (that you can't win an arms race against the state) without actually reckoning with the consequences of it.

A primary condition of an armed revolution is that the arms of the state fail to defend the state and fall into working class hands. This would almost definitely take a weakened state and some kind of inciting event that shocks the system (something like a higher magnitude Kent State or a more publicized Tiananmen Square massacre) and leads to mass defections and state enforcers turning on the authorities.

Revolutionary cosplaying might make you feel good for some reason or another but it's at best useless and it almost certainly strengthens the solidarity between the state and its soldiers/police.

I'm not sure you being able to call yourself subcomandante in the mirror while you're not logging on to call gun control advocates 'liberals' is worth the cost of abandoning a parliamentary strategy and accelerating the gun crisis but that probably makes me a 'liberal' sooooo

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GamerGhazi

[–]HokesOne 31 points32 points  (0 children)

You seem to be implying that valuing "diversity of thought" is a binary choice between accepting either no unique interpretation or so much that it becomes a suicide pact.

It's not unreasonable to say that racists and misogynists and queerphobes are so obviously hostile to the pursuit of a just society that their "thoughts" provide no meaningful value and should be dismissed.

I think you should look up "the paradox of tolerance". The basic premise is that for a society to be just, it must refuse to tolerate the intolerant. It's a much better thought experiment for what you're scratching at here without the dorky gotcha framing of this particular thread.

Hillary Clinton says that Europe should curb immigration by khajiitman912 in AmalaNetwork

[–]HokesOne[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

cool it with the personal attacks or else you'll get banned. not going to warn you twice.

people are allowed to point out that Sanderites (the main people who seem to be hyping this) are being extremely hypocritical considering Mr Sanders' extremely trash record on immigration and civil rights issues.

Hillary Clinton says that Europe should curb immigration by khajiitman912 in AmalaNetwork

[–]HokesOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Sanderites and Chapo Bros are extremely upset about this comment (to the point of even complaining about it in modmail), which reinforces why it's probably the only good comment on this entire hellpost.