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[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

honestly bein the kid of the richest man in the world and an trans communist is a very funny bit tbh, i hope she posts here.

[–] CARCOSA@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

fidel-wut is there something you'd like to share with the (working) class

[–] blight@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

we do live in the funniest timeline, i believe it

fidel-salute-big

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

the public school system turned my KID into an ADMIN OF HEXBEAR.

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd accept if someone made a bit account of his daughter to bully @Elon_Musk@hexbear.net

[–] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I HAVE NO SON! I have a lovely daughter who is out there doing praxis.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

really proof of my prior post that being trans 9/10 times makes you into godless socialist

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

In my experience Eastern European trans people are evenly split between communists and turbo-NATOids.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Vivian come post on hexbear

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

-Constantly say/post transphobic shit.

-Daughter thinks rich people are evil.

How could her school do this to her?melon-musk

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

remember basically all billionaires are like this, they just don't tend to admit things publicly at the same rate

[–] Deadend@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Most billionaires have people in their lives who aren’t simply paid yes-men. Musk is incapable of handling negative feedback. He can’t go to therapy because he’d walk out.

But also all the billionaires are evil.

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh my GOD her dead name Elon gave her started with X, this man is a total goddamn clown

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He gave all nine of his kids names that include an X.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's some next level narcissism and a perpetually juvenile obsession with a le epic algebra concept he never got over.

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it's algebra on the level of a 12 year old and he hasn't even understood it properly

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

it's algebra on the level of a 12 year old and he hasn't even understood it properly

X IS EPIC BECAUSE IT CAN MEAN ANYTHING AND IS INFINITE is like saying, in a statistics course, SIGMA IS EPIC BECAUSE IT IS THE SUM OF ALL ACCUMULATED DATA IN THE SET AND ALSO HE'S THE FINAL BOSS OF MEGAMAN X

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Are you sure about that? I mean, he has don alot of shitty things and does more harm than good in my opinion, but there's no need to make up stuff.

His children's names are that I could find are: Griffin, Vivian (originally called Xavier, Kai, Saxon, Damian, Exa Dark Sideræl and X Æ A-12. Missing the last twins names since those are not public.

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Exa Dark Sideræl

that is not a name you give a person it is what you name a boss in a final fantasy game

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Very much agree. It's cruel to give kids these over the top weird names, it invites harassment.

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Absolutely. There are certain types of names that should honestly just be illegal, and are in some countries. For me, as the level of weirdness goes up, it actually becomes ok and then not OK again, a couple times

From least to most unconventional:

  • Common names ✅
  • Uncommon names ✅
  • War criminal names ❌
  • Misspelled common names like "Gianathunn" ✅ fine but why, why??
  • Profanity or any kind of plain-language degrading like "fuckass" or "dumpsterwater"❌
  • Common names where you arbitrarily assign letters and claim they represent different sounds "Oh it's pronounced Johnathan, spelled like 'Pppppppp'❌
  • Common words that don't even sound like a name, like naming your kid fuckin "Best One or "And The" or some shit, so every time someone says their name everyone else thinks they had a stroke❌
  • Completely unique invented names that don't sound like any word ✅ Just typin out random letters like "Bandalagika" or "Diunchip" doesn't bother me at all because you assume it has to be a name
  • Literally unpronounceable names ❌ Fuck you
[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

names that are swear words

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

oh damnit i literally forgot to put that in there

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

That's all fine, but you should make an exception and allow Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--. How else will we teach devs to sanitise their inputs?

[–] DiscoPosting@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

de-reaction-speed — Wait. You're also a communist who thinks anyone rich is evil.

lt-kitsuragi — The lieutenant's eyes pierce you from behind the thick glass of his spectacles. He seems staggeringly tense.

de-composure [Challenging: Success] — He needs armed bodyguards to go to the bathroom. There's not a chance he'll let you get any closer if he thinks you're against him. It's better to keep your affiliations to yourself...for now.

horrific-necktie — And then, bratan? Then it will be time!

[–] RuthlessCriticism@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This fucking dude was made stupidly rich by California schools and Universities and he still has the audacity to cry about them.

[–] Red_Left_Hand@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Famously, the entirety of Silicon Valley is built on taking something from an Uni lab and pretending you built it in your start-up garage

Garage charter schools when

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

pmc dsa karens can't imagine a flag without 13 kkkolonies white people will literally become communists before they stop being colonizers smh

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The image is clipped from a deranged papist anticommunist tract from the height of the cold war

EDIT: Specifically, this deranged papist anticommunist tract from 1961.

[–] JuneFall@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Lol, a working class family is forced to work to not lose their home, oh that communism!

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/09/cdc-eviction-ban-housing-crisis/619960/

In October 2008, responding to a dramatic increase in such evictions since 2006, Tom Dart, the elected Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, decided to take a stand on the issue. He criticized mortgage companies for failing to fulfill their obligation to identify renters in foreclosed properties, and announced that he was suspending all foreclosure evictions immediately. The Illinois Banker's Association accused Dart of engaging in "vigilantism".[32]

[–] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Love that he says "I own this home" to his wife instead of "we own it" lol

I guess that would be communism

[–] JuneFall@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Well spotted. The economic dependence of the patriarchal family is well shown.

[–] JuneFall@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It got a trove of fun quips that hit capitalism more than communism. It is all projection.

Of course most parents in capitalism working have trouble seeing their kids, too. With the added benefit of not having enough money for them to go to school properly. However the comic panel is even more fitting for UK boarding schools:

Most (UK) schools that offer boarding have three distinct models: Full boarding (kids are at the boarding school i.e. Eton the whole year, except for potentially the holidays), Weekly boarding (kids can be at home over the weekend), Flexi-boarding (kids can be at home up to 7 times a week, but for plays and rehearsals and during exam period they stay in school)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/upshot/single-mothers-surge-employment.html

https://nwlc.org/4-3-million-women-work-multiple-jobs-to-make-ends-meet/

[–] JuneFall@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Hopefully they don't mix up the letters and showed the kids the FBI letter pressuring MLK into suicide.

I agree with the FBI though: Learn all you can about communism!

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

If the good guys had won the Cold War

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Proletarian States of America flag

Is that high-res enough for an emoji?

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Even with upscaling it still looks kinda crusty...

Here's a better version of the same image:

Here's a different flag from the same comic book:

[–] forcequit@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

Hello, Pinkerton? Yes, my kids are unionising