John Brown did nothing wrong :john-brown:
lmao one of their major issues is a hard coded slur filter that requires an extra step to remove. Ya buh bye. And questioning Zenz? Damn libs be libs.
What's hilarious is how old the slur filter discourse is. It actually has not been hardcoded for years, and since they added multi language support I don't think it's even populated by default anymore because of too many false positives, but because of some heated GitHub arguments and Hackernews comments from ages ago it's still sucking up oxygen in conversations about Lemmy to this day
Three years old, making up fake issues with the plan ("how would we update"....'FROM lemmy:latest'). All with reactions for upvotes and shit. Like fuck me mate, open up notepad and post away if that's what you want.
Man as if I've needed this to push me off that shit for good.
i am officially cancelling lemmy. hexbear is the only good alternative site to reddit :stirner-shocked:
The same site that banned r/cth for saying slave owners deserved to die is now hosting memes fantasizing about bombing the Three Gorges Dam and nuking Russia.
meanwhile, hexbear is fantasizing about how much we love our transgender comrades
extraordinarily based 9 minute old account, top .7 percent of new accounts :fidel-salute:
:get-in: :geordi-yes: :cat-vibing: :meow-hug: :fishe: :blahaj: :party-parenti:
Aww, thanks~ Literally just signed up... hopefully this will grow a bit more and I can wean myself off of Reddit. It would be really nice if there were something like Reddit Enhancement Suite that worked here. I'm really used to keyboard navigation.
this is an open source project, so ultimately its down to whoever adds to it. i think the devs are currently working on lemmy federation right now as the top priority (this site was made prior to that really being a thing), but accessibility features are very important, they took a lot of time out of their day to add pronouns next to everyones names for example (and banning the people that hated that feature).
really glad to see more trans people come to this site, it makes me a very happy camper :cat-trans:
(and banning the people that hated that feature).
Hah, I forgot about that, what a distant memory :rip-bozo:
we always must create new tools that get the hidden transphobes riled up so we can purge them ruthlessly :snom:
iirc the 'we love our trans comrades' meme here, while true, was originally developed by our shadowy cabal of trans people to weed out troublemakers. it works very well :cat-trans:
it was so funny how mad the pronouns made people. its kind of easy to forget how chaotic the early days of hexbear were.
ngl that one post that said "uphold TransComrade69 thought" [regarding the liberal use of the banhammer for reactionaries] and linked this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uThpIDlfcBQ) was what actually got me to read parenti and listen to some of his lectures
This is reactionary and reductive of my reality. :cat-trans:
But slave owners are Caucasians. And the Russians, no matter how close to the Caucasus mountains.... are not, they're actually folklore creatures. A-ok on :reddit-logo:
✅ Captured Harper's Ferry with his 19 men so few
✅ Frightened old Virginia until she trembled through and through
✅ Hung as a traitor by those a traitorous crew
✅ Truth goes marching on
he was hanged. he was hung too, but he was also hanged
Literally the first person executed in the history of the United States for treason. Tells you a lot about the United States.
That was always the worst part about posting on Reddit; that frustration when you saw a notif and just knew it was some dork who replied to you with a wall of bad faith garbage.
i would always make sure that my replies had a smaller character count. my hope was that redditors would catch on until we just typed exclamation marks at each other for hundreds of posts, but redditors are redditors
Whataboutism, ad hocum quokum fallacy, by your logic, and yet, if it quacks like a bot, curious,
:very-intelligent:
God that is such a good fucking point, it's night and day. Literally goes from 99vs1 on Reddit to 1vs99 on Hexbear, in terms of someone debatebroing a comment that didn't explicitly defend and overclarify itself
yea main difference between this place and most other online spaces is that it really pays to be kind
Hi new people! Welcome to Hexbear, where you do not have to say shibboleths about how (insert actually existing socialist state here) is evil before you say socialist ideas are good.
No seriously don't do that. It's cringe.
He deserves the book of Brown to be added to the bible because he was in fact on a mission from god. That said he did fail to build the subterranean passway which would have been far better than martyrdom. Imagine a prolonged guerrilla campaign of raiding Virginian plantations all along the Appalachian mountains. Sheparding freed slaves north and recruiting others to fight. It success would've broken abolitionist pacifism long before the civil war and shown them exactly how easy it was to destabilize the entire south.
But he had to get caught because he though George Washington's sword would give his cause magic powers. :deeper-sadness:
But he had to get caught because he though George Washington’s sword would give his cause magic powers.
OK, but what if he was right?
The buckel of the sword saved his life during the raid so... Maybe god did mean him to have it. Maybe his plan was for it to keep him alive long enough to properly die as a martyr. The lord works in mysterious ways.
wasn't there also something about General Tubman being sick and unable to help plan the raid?
He asked both Harriett Tubman and Frederick Douglass to join him. Tubman was sick and Douglass though he was cray.
Tubman did help him plan. She's got a whole section on her wiki about her involvement. No one knows if she ever meant to be in the raid but she was sick during it.
She literally did help him plan but was sick at the time of the raid. It wasn't sure if she ever meant to actually participate though.
But he had to get caught because he though George Washington’s sword would give his cause magic powers.
story time please
Great grand nephew of George Washington, Colonel Lewis Washington, had his estates near Harpers Ferry, where he was stationed, and was rumored to have two relics: a sword given to George by Frederick the Great, and a pair of pistols from Marquis De Lafayette. Other prizes were many slaves to be freed and the Colonel himself as a hostage. Brown had sent a detachment under John Cook Jr. to raid the estate a day before the raid on the armory. Cook had befriended the Colonel previously and had noticed the relics while visiting the Colonels estates.
Now I vaguely remembered from the dollops 3-parter that Brown had a window to escape when things started to go bad but delayed because he was waiting for that detachment to return. But Wikipedia says they returned before the raid and had the relics and Lewis hostage with him in the armory. It even claims the buckle of the sword saved him from a saber thrust. So maybe I remembered wrong or maybe that pre raid blew his cover early. But he also let a whole train go after telling everyone on board exactly who he was and what he was going to do.
But he also let a whole train go after telling everyone on board exactly who he was and what he was going to do.
shit like this is how you know he genuinely believed god had his back
that's fascinating though, i'll have to hunt down the dollop episodes about it! thanks for sharing
i'm pretty sure he got caught because he refused to stop a train of innocents that was leaving
west germany shut down state ran gay discos in berlin in 1991, and only caught up with east germany's LGBT rights legislation in 2019. cuba has gay marriage and nonconventional families (such as two gay men and two lesbian women all receiving parentage of the same children) enshrined in their constitution, and has free transgender healthcare, making them the most LGBT friendly country by law in the world. in cuba, you can legally disown your parents and receive child support if your parents do not support you being trans or gay. but thats tankie evil authoritarian communism :fidel-cool:
It's hilarious that all these very serious Stasi people were sitting around in an office being like "Hmm... If the capitalists find out someone is a homosexual they could use it as leverage to turn them and force them to spy... Should be persecute the homosexuals and drive them out of all sensitive positions?"
And everyone's thinking about it
And then Fritz in the back is like "What if we officially endorsed gay culture, started some gay culture magazines, opened some civic centers and discotheques, and generally provided state sanction and support so there would be no need for homosexuals to hide in the first place?"
And that's what they went with. It's so counter to the whole narrative about the accepting and tolerant West. Like not only did the GDR beat them too it, their reasoning was that the persecution of gay people was creating problems for no reason so they just dropped it and flipped their position.
for real. and this is an issue that happens in many countries to this day, yet since those countries are capitalist to the bone, they choose the wrong option :trans-sad:
also west germany rather than incorporate successful state ran enterprises into the capitalist system post unification simply shut them down resulting in the eat becoming drastically poorer as they shit canned everyone who works there to prevent them economically competing with their western german counterparts
:trans-hammer-sickle: LESS LIBERALISM :blahaj: MORE TRANS CUTIES :trans-heart:
