Went to a Palestinian solidarity protest/rally with some new folks who’d become radicalised against America/the West over the last six months. They aren’t socialists (yet, I’m working on it) - but they’re good people. So, seeing the genocide and its support by our governments filled them with disgust. We talked about the...
This is why I don’t think the John Olivers of the world are part of the radicalization pipeline.
Like if you have a problem with support for Hamas, you have not accepted the severity of the crimes being committed on the Palestinian people. Any movement to stop the Genocide needs to accept the severity of the crimes being committed or they will be diverted the moment liberal Queen AOC comes down to the protests to pretend to care.
You can buy really good bike tires for like $60 that are very unlikely to puncture. and cargo bikes exist. plus, you can still have small trucks that are designed to transport things instead of these lifted monstrosities that are only going to lead their office worker driver to throw out their back trying to clean a couch onto them.
Exactly. Biden, in particular, is doing what he was doing as a senator. Being more racist than Republicans. Biden’s political career had reached its apex until the First Black President picked him as his Vice President and gave “modern” cover for Biden’s old time racist image.
Sorry for the short post, I’m not able to make it nice with full context at the moment, but I want to quickly get this announcement out to prevent confusion:...
Yeah, it’s kind of weird. Doesn’t whatever gets posted eventually get sent over to the other federated servers? Like every server saves a copy? Like the dumbest attack on another server would be this.
With so much note taking apps nowadays, I can’t understand why does anyone still write notes with pen and paper. You need to bring the notepad, book or that paper to retrieve that information, and most of the time you don’t have it in hand. While my phone almost always reachable and you carry when you go out. For those still...
HexBear is a leftist forum but the HexBear philosophy has always been to fight fire with fire. This works incredibly well against Right Wing Posters since everyone knows they are being assholes. This doesn’t work with Liberals since Liberals don’t think of themselves being offensive. The idea that HexBears are preaching Kremlin ideas, ideology or any of those ideas is incredibly offensive. It is pretty much saying, you can’t think for yourself. HexBear is capable of having respectful conversations but it really requires growth from both sides. HexBear needs to practice greater patience and Liberal posters really need to think about the implicit meaning of their words.
I’m not sure what’s going on over there, but half the time I see a post from there or go into a comment section and it’s just…bad. Like old reddit the_donald bad. Constant trolling, etc. You TS just really bad vibes. I’ve been blocking the communities as they come up, but I’m not sure what else I can do.
Here, in this in this space, for me as an admin, political ideology takes a back seat to protecting trans folk and their spaces. That goal is why I wanted to federate with you even though lemmygrad got dropped. You, like us, are through and through protective of gender diverse folk. But somehow, that’s not enough for you. We don’t agree on politics and we never will, but we both do agree that queer and gender diverse rights are under threat around the world, and instead of finding solidarity in that, you’re turning on your peers, whilst patting yourself on the back for being inclusive.
I think this is what you don’t get. You’re in particularly taking offense at the “Death to NATO” phrase. NATO is a military alliance. It is a part of the greater International infrastructure that devastates many countries and makes the lives of people of color and LGBTQIA unsustainable in these intentionally maldeveloped countries. I am myself, not trans, but my family was forced to give up their family and community to immigrate to the west due to economic conditions created by the West. You like many in the current news cycle are propagating the idea of this walled garden at the expense of the livelihood of your potential allies in the International sphere. This is why you are receiving particularly strong push back. You are in particular attempting drive a hard line between Western Trans people and and everyone else and minimizing the idea of politics, as if this international politics does not have the power to ruin lives. I am not naive to think that we can agree on this politics but drawing the line on simply the phrase “Death to NATO” is pretty exaggerated. NATO exists for the purpose of violence.
Has anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become? Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or getting all...
Picture of an average Hexbear poster, 2024 (colorized). (hexbear.net)
Why are Palestinian protests filled with feds?
Went to a Palestinian solidarity protest/rally with some new folks who’d become radicalised against America/the West over the last six months. They aren’t socialists (yet, I’m working on it) - but they’re good people. So, seeing the genocide and its support by our governments filled them with disgust. We talked about the...
People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities—Until They Live in One (www.wired.com)
Parents asked the police to deradicalize their child and you'll never guess what happened next (hexbear.net)
archive.is/NKkxP...
New Statement from Biden on the US-Mexico Border (hexbear.net)
Just going to post this cartoon from 2016 which is unrelated...
Mother Shares How Video Games Radicalized Her Son To Run Around And Pick Up Coins (www.theonion.com)
GitHub Desktop or Git CLI? (programming.dev)
White House says Israel has agreed to stop bombing Gaza for only 4 hours each day (www.reuters.com)
I don’t even know what to say
This is like a nightmare Romanticist version of David Hasselhoff eating that burger (startrek.website)
Modern consumer logic (lemmy.ml)
Image uploads are now disabled on lemm.ee due to malicious users
Sorry for the short post, I’m not able to make it nice with full context at the moment, but I want to quickly get this announcement out to prevent confusion:...
Do you still write notes with pen and paper?
With so much note taking apps nowadays, I can’t understand why does anyone still write notes with pen and paper. You need to bring the notepad, book or that paper to retrieve that information, and most of the time you don’t have it in hand. While my phone almost always reachable and you carry when you go out. For those still...
Hexbear federation megathread
Hey folks...
New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn (www.independent.co.uk)
Can we defederate from hexbear.net?
I’m not sure what’s going on over there, but half the time I see a post from there or go into a comment section and it’s just…bad. Like old reddit the_donald bad. Constant trolling, etc. You TS just really bad vibes. I’ve been blocking the communities as they come up, but I’m not sure what else I can do.
Dodge RAM driver kills a cyclist. Media calls it a "bike crash". (www.koin.com)
Ron DeSantis Proposes Unprovoked War on Mexico (prospect.org)
What's the deal with Hexbear?
Has anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become? Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or getting all...
Biden calls China a 'ticking time bomb' due to economic troubles (ground.news)