• RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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            The menswear guy is a super annoying lib reply guy who thinks he’s owning people by commenting that their cuff links don’t match their shoelaces and other things that nobody actually gives a shit about.

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            The dad one was straightforward

            The next needs some context. Derek Guy is a twitter user who explains Mens fashion. He had a series of threads pointing out why usually right wing politicians suits look so dogshit (De Santa’s, Matt Gaetz etc).

            Jackson Hinkle posted himself wearing a “bespoke” suit and holding a gun. Derek Guy pointed out all the ways you could tell it wasn’t bespoke (rather made to measure which is custom but less fancy). Jackson Hinkle accused him of slandering his tailor, Derek revealed he had phoned Jackson’s tailor already and confirmed the suit was not bespoke.

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      This is what happens when the Western left is a joke, and grifting reactionaries are able to cynically co-op positions and get attention that would normally be reserved for socialists. agony-shivering

      • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Sorry for going completely off topic but is your avi from the artist who does the 100 bullets comic series? It’s great regardless, but I just wanted to say that I always loved the way that dude did menacing toothy grins.

        Also, your analysis is 100% spot on IMO.

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          To be honest, I have no idea haha. I randomly found this pic on the internet a long time ago, and thought it looked cool. I’ve never read the 100 bullets comic series, but if it has amazing grins like that, then I might have to look into it. Thanks, comrade!

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            The artist is Eduardo Risso, from Argentina I think. I just love the way he punctuates scenes with a menacing grin with tons of jagged teeth in a splotch of complete darkness. I should share some of my favorite frames from the series.

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        The argument was that Netanyahu was a favorable candidate in Israel for the purpose of an emerging multipolar world. Call that anti-west, pro-west, anti-Israel, pro-Israel, etc. as you please. I don’t believe a single word coming from Hinkle. that’s my view

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    Is Jackson Hinkle the guy who posted a picture of himself shirtless in front of a sauna, with the description “had to listen to an hour of orthodox chants after using this app full of Onlyfans Wh*res” seemingly out of nowhere on twitter? Or am I thinking of a different socially conservative MAGA-communist

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    Controversial take:

    I don’t think Hinkle is grifting or anything like that. There are A LOT of Americans I’ve met that are angry at both ruling parties, want better and fairer economic conditions, anti-war, but can’t agree with “the left” because they hate how they’re constantly “censoring what people can say” and are “too politically correct”

    It’s like some weird tangential thing to libertarianism or anarchism where they don’t want any sort of authority over them

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          Adam Something is a social-fascist, pseudo-leftist, and European YouTuber. In spite of him sometimes espousing socialist economics and being critical of anarcho-capitalism and Elon Musk, he nonetheless is highly supportive of the neoliberal imperialist European Union and NATO. He rejects the right of self-determination for the people in Eastern Ukraine, openly promotes anti-communist propaganda, and supports imperialist neoliberal politicians in the EU.

          Hot damn that’s a good description

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          Is anyone else experience severe slowdown when scrolling on ProleWiki in Firefox (but not Chrome) for Android? On my Android phone it seems like scrolling works fine for the first ~1cm, but if I go past that the framework craters–I’s guess down to like ~20 FPS? It’s even worse when there are more complex elements on screen (e.g. when I scroll past the “top contributors” table on the front page it seems like it dips into single digit FPS territory). I checked out a few random other MediaWiki projects and while I did notice some slight slowdown when scrolling on some, it’s subtle enough that I might not have noticed it (or just chalked it up to a general problem with my phone) were I not actively looking for it.

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              It is an older phone, so I don’t expect things to run perfectly, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a site lag as badly as ProleWiki did, and the fact that it runs perfectly in Chrome makes me think there’s some small quirk of how the pages are generated that Firefox’s rendering engine chokes on.

              …although idk, I just went back and it seems fine now—maybe it was just something transient with my device.

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      He doesn’t pose any real opposite to American capitalism nor to the Israeli settler-colonialist regime. His connections are suspicious and he is able to rapidly co-opt any anti-Zionist or anti-West position with large, seemingly artificial boosts to his social media content.

      To me it doesn’t matter if he’s an “op”, he simply poses no value to any leftist space. Just a conservative who purposefully distorts left-wing ideas and rots away genuine grassroots organizing efforts with empty statements and shady personal connections.