chapotraphouse AcidMarxist • 2w ago • 100%

I need advice on my wavy/curly hair

So I've never been about to figure out how to cut/style my hair. It's somewhere between curly and wavy. Wavy on a good day, but humidity or failing to pick or brush it brings out the curls and it starts to get matted and tangled. Usually I wear a hat to deal with it getting in my face, I try to tuck it up in there or pull it back so it looks like a mullet. But usually it defaults to coming out the side in real tangly curls like a mf circus clown. Thing is I don't have a mullet, it's about 8 inches long rn all around. I really want to keep it longer, but I'm thinking of going down to 4 inches cuz I wear a hairnet for work, but rn I am literally pulling tangled clumps out of it everytime I shower or run my fingers through it. I've recently been using a 100% cotton towel for drying it, trying to dab not rub, but I still wash and rinse with hot water which I hear isn't good for curly hair. I use a plastic brush with the little plastic bristles with the rounded tips and a traditional hair pick to comb it. For hair product I use Aldi brand moisturizing shampoo with vitamin E, and Not Your Mother's Curl Talk sprayable leave-in conditioner. I've come to all these methods after years of advice from hair dressers and friends, but I can't figure out how to make it more manageable and less tangled and matted. I've never posted about it tho, so maybe my fellow bears have some good advice? Thank's for reading this, love you all! 

chapotraphouse AcidMarxist • 2mo ago • 100%

I need a clip from "The Thing" (1982)

Does anyone have the clip from John Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982) where the mad scientist Blair (or it's actually The Thing at that point???) is locked up outside and asks Kurt Russell's character "I'm feeling much better now, can I come back inside?" I'm prospecting for gold here folks 

chapotraphouse AcidMarxist • 6mo ago • 100%

Ok, but how did they recover the mf hijacker passports from 9/11

They recovered four, three of them AT the crash sites! How. The black boxes didn't even survive. 

chapotraphouse AcidMarxist • 6mo ago • 100%

AmErika!

I thought this tagline was funny cuz they say AmErika. Erika is a shitty German war song about your sweety. As far as war songs about your sweety go, Erika is both fascist and pales in comparison to Katyusha, the best sweety war song.

movies AcidMarxist • 6mo ago • 100%

Good movies for May Day?

I'm trying to celebrate May Day this year with my friends, we usually watch a movie when we gather, so I need some good recs. Dont come at me "Watch Snow Piercer! Parasite!". First off, I've seen Parasite already, it was good, but the Host is more fun. I need some real esoterically proletarian films, like Seven Samurai type shit.

chapotraphouse AcidMarxist • 6mo ago • 100%

British history makes more sense if you consider they were loaded 24/7

Just drunk af on ale, beer, gin just whatever for the era. Glad my people left so they could get plastered and intermarry with Polish people in the land of the free 

chapotraphouse AcidMarxist • 6mo ago • 100%

Mormons bought my gas station

Cut hours, added a shit ton more food to make, switched paychecks from every week twice a month, generally fucked up my routine, and of course all with no pay raise. It's on sight 

bloomer AcidMarxist • 7mo ago • 100%

Remember the PFLP (sorta an effort post)

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Remember; our people, communists, have heroes in the struggle for Palestinian Liberation. You are not an edgy Soviet-stan, or Mao-aboo. We all know this shits real, a lot of us have seen the Holocaust levels of genocidal violence being perpetrated against a captive people. Dead children, beautiful cities turned to rubble, the kind of shit you would see in a Western history text book chapter on WW2. But before anyone tries to call you out for being some kinda "weirdo" or "radical" for supporting Palestinians or, fuck it, the freedom of any other people who are getting fucked over in a way that pales in comparison to the struggles of those in the imperial core, remember that this war is relevant to all of you who aren't JUST posters (although I love posting, and I will NEVER log off, even if they put me behind bars), you are believers in a better world and the capos can NEVER take that from you! We have comrades in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who have written their history in bullets and missiles against the occupationist Zionist forces. We have comrades in the Communist Party of Ukraine, who have had their friends and family forcibly conscripted into a WWI-esque meatgrinder in the name of a vulgar nationalist project backed by NATO. We have comrades in the Naxalite Maoist Communist Party of India and their brave insurgency. We have comrades in the People's Defense Units of Rojava who have stood against the Western puppets and collaborators of ISIS and Turkish nationalists. We have comrades in Communist Party of the Philippines who have fought for their people's freedom for DECADES. We have comrades on this very fucking website in the Chunka Luta Network who deserve your UNCRITICAL support against the injustice perpetrated against our comrades for CENTURIES. Don't give the capos an inch. Not one step back, or God rest your soul. We will win and the ghouls that profit from all this misery will receive justice. The Red Banner is raised, we sing a hymn of history that our stories will be heard, that those stories are a single one of the People, and they never be silenced, no matter how many people they kill or imprison. All power to the People, you know what it is.

guns AcidMarxist • 7mo ago • 100%

Thoughts on CZ?

So I bought a Zastava relic a few years back as my first, but it doesn't function, I need to take it to a smith. I want something modern, and I really like the CZ handguns, ngl I just don't want to buy something from a country we have a   emoji for. Respect to muh Czechs

chapotraphouse AcidMarxist • 7mo ago • 100%

The Western media can turn anything into authoritarian fear mongering

this is a bad thing 

badposting AcidMarxist • 7mo ago • 100%

Gonna tell my nephews these were my old posting buddies

Can someone please photoshop the owl into this?

badposting AcidMarxist • 7mo ago • 100%

In honor of the upcoming TikTok ban

-Posting GaGa (To the tune of Radio GaGa by Queen) I'd sit alone, in dark mode light, My only friend through mid-twenty years So dont become, some AI noise a fake image for all the girls and boys who already know, or never cared and still complain when your not there All we scroll is posting gaga, posting googoo posting gaga 

fashion AcidMarxist • 7mo ago • 100%

I got this local band shirt at the metal show last night

Text: I drank a 4LOKO and have a LOADED FIREARM in my waistband Context: A Four Loko is a beverage with up to 13% alcohol by volume in the US and other countries. The old formula used to have caffeine in it before the authoritarian capitalist government of  changed it

badposting AcidMarxist • 7mo ago • 100%

Yeah, I support union busting

Lettin those unions BUST, u know what I'm sayin?? 

badposting AcidMarxist • 7mo ago • 100%

Lyin' Fake News Network

The Lyin' Fake News Network CNN. Get this folks, the other day CNN ran an article about a kid whos 5th grade science project claims the Archimedes Death Ray may have work. You hear this folks? We hate to see it, this myth has already been busted folks. Busted by the late, the GREAT Grant EEM-EEH-HARAH folks! What a shame, what a shame to Grants legacy folks, we hate to see it, its been BUSTED folks, a certified BUST.

chapotraphouse AcidMarxist • 8mo ago • 100%

Does anyone have a good image of the Hexbear logo I can use for custom stickers?

I just want to someone more savvy with tech and graphic design to make sure I get it right, I want to use it on like Amazon or somewhere to order some custom stickers for my PC and car window. I figure the only people who will recognize it are either comrades or sickos, but it'd be nice to fly the colors. Maybe I'll even make a custom tapestry, flag or shirt.

bloomer AcidMarxist • 8mo ago • 100%

My nephews and niece bring me a lot of joy

I'm so proud of my nephews and niece (what's the plural for both nephews and nieces in english?) My oldest nephew is going to his first sleepover, they're gonna play switch, which is what I would be doing if I were his age nowadays. My middle nephew is getting really into sports, he's a lil trooper. My youngest nephew started taekwondo and loves it! My niece is happy and healthy, she's little over a year old and my big sis is already playing the classics for her, "More Than a Feeling" by Boston. 

chapotraphouse AcidMarxist • 8mo ago • 100%

I hate how everything must go so FAST

I work in a gas station kitchen rn. Every job I've ever has had deadlines, but now things are really starting to click for me. I work with no one else, I have to cook food, restock food, prep for the next day, clean, document production, food waste, and temperatures, unload items that come on truck, order new food, and probably other things I'm forgetting. I also vape and work eight hours, so good luck getting all that done and finding time to eat something, have a smoke, and socialize with coworkers and customers. Somedays I get it all done when I'm in my routine, but good mf luck when something unexpected happens. I feel like I'm playing a fucked up video game like my life depends on it, which it does cuz I have to pay rent. If I clock out early cuz I'm tired or if I clock out on time but didnt get something done it fucks my poor coworkers and I feel bad. If I clock out late cuz I didnt get something done my boss chews me out for getting overtime pay... I only work 40 hours a week, I shouldn't feel this tired or stressed. I'd gladly take an extra hour or two a week, it would make me feel better and make me more money, but that's not an option and I hear from coworkers that our boss gets a bonus for keeping overtime down. I know there was a time in human history that we didn't have to be this stressed. I'm not an agrarian or hunter-gatherer utopian tho, I just despise how little control I have over how it makes me feel. And this urgency, it fucks with your head, it conditions you to do everything faster, Faster, FASTER. We've created a new kind of human, homo capitalus and this human is a slave to efficiency and productivity for the sake of the profits of those at the top. It feels like you don't even have time to dream, let alone realize those dreams into existence. It brings to mind the lyrics of the song Piazza Fontana by Yu Kung, which is about the mf YEARS OF LEAD. Perché la banca chiude gli sportelli Dio, come tutto vola così in fretta Risparmi e gente, tutto così in fretta I don't speak Italian, so maybe a good comrade could translate it better for us, but it roughly means: "You have to do everything quickly, the bank is closing soon. God, why does everything go so fast? People and their savings - all so fast!" Everytime I feel stressed at work, I think "God, why does everything go so fast?" The chorus of the song continues: bisogna piangere i sogni per capire che l'unica giustizia borghese si è spenta Dreams have to be mourned to understand That the last bourgeois justice is dead It's amazing to me how music bridges the gap in language and emotional understanding. How can a song in a language I don't speak make me cry? I know of course, because we are all human, we all have the same emotions in our hearts no matter when and where we are born. And I will never forget that anytime I meet someone different than me. The song ends on a hopeful note at least. The final verse concludes: ma non sentite il grido sulla barricata la classe operaia continua la sua lotta! But can't you hear the shout at the barricade? The working class continues its fight! Never surrender what is in your hearts comrades, what brought you to a place like this website. We will win. Thank you for taking the time to read all of this, no worries if you didn't have the time, everything goes so fast. Now I need to walk my little furry companion, he's been so patient and I love him.  Oh, here's the link to Piazza Fontana, it's a beautiful song. https://youtu.be/WXTsY2EBnMA?si=311E2sFDMum16RkL

music AcidMarxist • 8mo ago • 0%

War Pigs - Black Sabbath/CAKE/T-Pain

Black Sabbath really rhymed "masses" with "masses". I always thought they were saying "messes" as in a military officer's mess hall, but no, after further research I think they're really saying "masses" twice. This song sticks out to me, it's timeless, as we see by all the different covers. CAKE's cover owns it their signature dull monotone. T-Pain is my favorite tho, he gives it a kinda psychedelic rock sound. Also, the song alludes to two groups of elites, the generals, who orchestrate the horror, and the politicians who started it. Imo tho the "War Pigs" could be an allusion to anyone who profits from the war, whether from a salary, a lobby, or literal financial profits. They're pigs, and we all know who's traditionally portrayed as pigs  Anyways, here's links to all three versions [T-Pain](https://youtu.be/i4nMjyT4epA?si=84BbSLMjx_S_2nsD) [CAKE](https://youtu.be/NhmvKYbi7iY?si=FTR5agjqXCz1Ezhc) [Black Sabbath](https://youtu.be/bYgpv5clf3Y?si=Ktgh9kmrAUyP9_1G)