I assumed it was just "hire more LGBTQIA+ prison guards!" so-true

It's worse than that. What I've seen recently because of federation is "(verbal performative) support for disadvantaged people as long as they maintain a successful small business in a disadvantaged area for no less than three years and aren't anywhere to the left of Bernie Sanders!"

maybe-later-honey 🍷 🍷 maybe-later-kiddo

  • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]M
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    11 months ago

    I thought I knew what to expect after having experienced a deluge of LIB takes on platforms like Reddit and Twitter, and yet, I was taken totally aback by some of the unhinged ones I've seen on here since the federation. From bog standard accusations of being bots or paid shills for disagreeing with them, to flat out disgusting claims that queer people on Hexbear are not really queer because they're not liberals. visible-disgust

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      disgusting claims that queer people on Hexbear are not really queer because they're not liberals.

      Show

      • Grownbravy [they/them]
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        11 months ago

        They are literally the bad guy from 5 years ago EVERY TIME.

        Do you want your awfulness fresh: conservative party

        Or recycled: every liberal party

      • AOCapitulator [they/them]
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        11 months ago

        Reminder that despite this particular comic being cool, I assure you it’s accidental, the artist is a horrible monster of a piece of shit

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          11 months ago

          Yeah I don't endorse the artist, just this comic. Much like some garrison work hits correctly but he's a dick.

          • AOCapitulator [they/them]
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            11 months ago

            I wasn’t calling you out or anything, just saving people the experience or looking for more of their work and being horrified o7

      • mayo_cider [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        All these years of having sex with men just to fool liberals online and they immediately saw through my devilish ruse

  • Goadstool [he/him, comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    I forgot how bad libs are at defending their incredibly shallow propagandized worldviews because it's based on just parroting the same article title they see on the front page seven times a day without any historical or material context.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      The adults in the room don't need to think of such things or be vulnerable to contradictory information. Like the heroes in their treats, they were born special and smart and superior.

  • buckykat [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    I came to lemmy early in the reddit exodus, but too many god damn liberals came along and it's gradually getting worse. Hexbear has the only good anime community, so now I have to have another lemmy account

  • Grownbravy [they/them]
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    11 months ago

    The lib hexbear experience is taking a seat in a cafeteria with a bunch of people to say the worst possible thing imaginable and the whole cafeteria stops to hold you accountable.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      FREE SPEECH to edgy liberals means everyone praising their very brave takes.

      • Grownbravy [they/them]
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        11 months ago

        Their blindness to the violence of their ideology is really something.

        i believe this because i’m right because it’s how the world works

        speech-r very-intelligent

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          hexagon
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          11 months ago

          They are the grown-ass adults/men in the room that make the hard decisions about what atrocities to enjoy to keep the treats flowing in.

          • Grownbravy [they/them]
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            11 months ago

            do you know how many Belgian Congo workers DIED to give me this scrumptious morsel? It would be a crime not to enjoy it

            :we-dont-have-an-appropriate-treatfiend-emote:

  • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Hexbear's communication is like an artisanal dessert with a hard shell of irony/sarcasm coating that breaks to reveal a warm sincerity within, creating an interesting rhetorical flavor profile. The average internet liberal is an easy-bake salty and sour pudding that presents itself as a layer cake they saw on Food Network once.

  • jabrd [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Had a moment of online culture shock when I recently saw people commenting on how gross eating ass is and assertions that all the talk about it is people being ironic and joking. Someone even had the gall to respond with “haha keep telling yourself that buddy” when someone said that people have been eating ass forever! Have you heard of the romans??

    It’s so jarring to suddenly crash into a totally different culture like that. Like you ran into a caveman at the grocery store

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      Yesterday and today I was told by an enlightened centrist liberal that all work done to survive was only equally exploitative therefore soliciting sex from possibly trafficked people was no different than buying breakfast at a cafe and therefore any regulation or restriction on sex work should be applied to any other transaction. libertarian-approaching

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          hexagon
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          11 months ago

          I spoke against @Civility@hexbear.net because I didn't humor pedantic bullshit concern trolling questions comparing sex soliciting Johns to people buying breakfast. liberalism

      • eatmyass
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        10 months ago

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        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          hexagon
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          11 months ago

          Liberals fucking love false equivalencies. It's the only way their "rules based order" fantasies seem consistent enough to believe in.

          You know, like fining someone a life-wrecking amount when they're poor and having the same fine for the rich where the fine amount is a rounding error.

          • mayo_cider [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            But say anything about western imperialism/genocides/oppression of minorities, and suddenly it's all whataboutism

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
            hexagon
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            11 months ago

            I wonder why there was so much effort to try to elevate each and every product to the same level as cp? libertarian-alert

      • eatmyass
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        10 months ago

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      • LaBellaLotta [any]
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        11 months ago

        Yeah that thread was wild I could feel the grease oozing from every comment that user made

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    10 months ago

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    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      In my experience, no adult is more vulnerable to propaganda than one that believes they are immune to propaganda, and the United States is loaded with people that believe that while wallowing in unexamined ideology they absorb uncritically.

  • blottica [they/them]
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    11 months ago

    I really don't want to think about the timeline we don't get preemptively dropped from lemmy.world now.

  • eatmyass
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    10 months ago

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  • UlyssesT [he/him]
    hexagon
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    11 months ago

    Check out this fucking thread.

    https://hexbear.net/post/385753?scrollToComments=false

  • jungekatz [comrade/them, undecided]
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    11 months ago

    I joined hexbear recently , but so far my time on lemmy/mastodon has been the terrible experience with internet liberals.

    • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      go to your settings and change the default post type to "Local", you won't see the bad lib posts anymore unless you want to

    • LaBellaLotta [any]
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      11 months ago

      We’re glad you found your way here but everyone here is, in fact, a liberal, except for me, the one true leftist.

    • NoLeftLeftWhereILive [none/use name, she/her]
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      11 months ago

      I just joined as well. I discovered Hexbear from this reaction I saw over on mastodon. I am very happy I did, was fast losing all my hope as that supposedly was the "leftist" corner of the internet. Coming from the big social -> mastodon pipeline I thought it was.

      • jungekatz [comrade/them, undecided]
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        11 months ago

        Its kinda weird that there are libs those like my posts over on mastodon , and then i see their posts criticizing hexbear ! Like ugh !!

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    comfy

    I still don't believe in the existence of people actually calling humans "meatbags". What level of cringe roleplaying are these translucent nerds into?

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      I see edgy pseudo-intellectual reductionism all the time among some internet people (and some offline people too, unfortunately). It ranges from calling people apes (usually to justify barbaric or coarse behavior under naturalistic fallacies) to numerous pop-nihilistic statements about the offline world being "meatspace" and the people in it being nothing more than "meat computers," "stochastic parrots," or whatever other life lessons they picked up from Rick and Morty. debord-tired

      It doesn't help and it often justifies apathy and neglect toward the suffering of actual living, thinking, feeling people. True cognitohazard, and Hexbear's had outbreaks of it before.

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        11 months ago

        I like calling it "fleshspace" when I'm interacting in person with someone I generally interact with online or over the phone, because I think it sounds funny, but I also like to think about the viscerality of meeting face to face. It's entirely different being a body than just a voice online, y'know? I could start bleeding or cough or arouse them.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          hexagon
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          11 months ago

          Flesh hits differently than "meat" for slang. "Meat" is usually said by smug techbro types that see "CYBERSPACE" as some magical realm of digital apotheosis rather than the ever-more-enshittified series of walled gardens it is becoming.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          hexagon
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          11 months ago

          The whole point of the stochastic parrot idea is that AI does not have structures for the abstract composition of novel ideas. It’s statistical pattern recognition all the way down.

          I know.

          People referring to humans as stochastic parrots is… really missing the point. It’s more than just denying the existence of free will. It’s an incorrect assertion about the structures of the brain.

          Yeah and it happened here anyway near the start of the chatbot hype wave, presumably to try to make the chatbots seem more "real" by denigrating living people. It was fucked up.

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        I sometimes like to think in the ape terms but in an affirming and encouraging way. Like "hey, we have a polio vaccine, not bad for a buncha apes". Or "man, that didn't go well, but you know, we're all just apes trying our best, and we'll do better tomorrow."

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          hexagon
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          11 months ago

          That's fine. I can see that angle, too.

          My issue is when some pop nihilist pulls the ape card for the usual reasons, like excusing horrible actions as "we are all just a bunch of apes" as if that excuses atrocities or even justifies them.

  • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    i thought setting my default to "all" for a little bit might be nice, but holy fuck the libs are annoying. it's about as bad as the front page of reddit

    • silent_water [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      if you block the memes@lemmy.ml comm, it's basically just hexbear posts with the occasional big thread from the libs.