:pit: I just have an intellectual interest in World War II!

:stalin-shining: Funny, so do I

It’s a Discord server for posting agitprop to Beehaw

He was doing “unhoused” discourse in 1990. Do you hear me, kid? 1990!

A specter is haunting Beehaw—the specter of Hexbear. We will not stoop to lowly Kerryposting. We are tankies. And tankies post Dukakis.

:tankie: https://discord.gg/V8tsyWau Soomn.

Yeah, you generally can’t get a non-exempt status as a manager

For sure. And to be clear, I didn’t intend to make light of that need to catch up quickly. I’m doing the same thing.

I apparently have a lot more going on than what I initially thought. So, I have something to work on, and a way to develop tools for that rn.

That’s awesome to hear! I relate to the experience of having a lot more going on than anticipated. Having a good therapist really does make a world of difference, there.

@Sleve_McDichael congrats! :order-of-lenin:

That’s a difficult process for sure. It’s one that would normally be spread out through an entire childhood and people try to speedrun it in a matter of months or a few years. I don’t know if you were literally asking for an answer to the question, but I can’t say much without more context. Either way, I hope it’s been going well for you so far.

Maybe “lashing out” was a bad choice a words. It’s not the job of people who have been abused to never lash out at anyone. I meant more like not everyone becomes an abuser themselves. Not everyone perpetuates those patterns of behavior.

I feel you. The video just seems to get worse and worse.

Of course. I try to make it empathetic to people who have been harmed and emotionally repressed without excusing the harm they might do to others. Because I don’t think making excuses is fair to people who have hurt in similar ways and not lashed out.

Most people I know who have escaped their abusers know exactly what their position is, even if they have to push it from their mind to function day to day. They are prisoners. If they do not comply, harm will come to them. Leaving is not compliance. They are not allowed. Maybe Hilary’s prison guard was gentler than mine. Her cell was definitely comfier. But I also got mine to surrender parental rights.

So are you wrong to not feel bad for her? I don’t really care, tbh. I don’t think empathy is an obligation, either to give it or to receive it. Some people get more of it than they deserve, some less. My guess is that none of us have a good enough read on the situation to really say and none of us know them well enough for it to matter to them what we think or feel. We dehumanize the bourgeoisie all the time. Literally quote Disco Elysium and say they’re not human. Talk about how they deserve to be shot or set on fire or buried in mass graves. So maybe it’s just that this situation feels more uncomfortable to do that because it’s more personal? Lots of us at least know people who have experienced abuse. Not a lot of us know someone who’s been thrown in a mass grave. Either way, it’s probably not something I would advertise to a large group like this. Even if I logically know you wouldn’t say the same about me because my abuser wasn’t a wealthy fascist mouthpiece, it still just kinda… feels not great, you know?

And in audio files and text messages I reviewed, Steven Crowder admits to some of his faults, which include a volcanic temper, repeatedly, and at times, regretfully.

But according to sources I spoke to who are familiar with their relationship, Steven Crowder's admissions often came after a sustained period of mental and emotional abuse, and he didn't seem to be able to control his impulses.

Abusers are able to control their impulses. They do it all day every because they have to to survive. You can’t act like this towards your boss and keep your job. You can’t act like this with other aggressive men or you’ll end up in the hospital. So this has it backwards. It’s not that he couldn’t control his impulses. In the process of finding a partner, he drove away people with a healthy sense of boundaries and choose, consciously or otherwise, a partner who he knew would be lenient toward him when (not if) he dropped his mask. He found a pressure release valve.

That’s a lot different from having a lack of self-control. He has an excess of self-control. Does he have a limited toolbox when it comes to coping with his emotions? Oh, 100%. But he uses those emotional tools aggressively to white knuckle his way through normalcy right up until he can’t. And then who’s supposed to “support” him? His wife, of course. And we see exactly what “supporting” Steven Crowder looks like right fucking here.

And don’t get me started on that preemptive shielding he’s been doing talking about how anyone who’s criticizing him is coming after his kids.

That’s pretty standard conservative double think. Exaggerate the fear of something harmful happening to you, demonize the people “doing” it as if they’d made explicit threats, and then use that as justification for preemptive revenge.

For real. They lack coping skills so they need someone to do that work for them and to take it out on when that fails.

It’s harder to tell when you’re in it though

Edit: actually, not gonna rehash the details of someone’s doxxing

Facts. The whole “every user is a secret Beatnik alt” thing was a meme for a reason, too. Wasn’t even the only account. Some high quality bits, too.

It should be the global score, which will include upbears on comments and posts, including the default one each new post and comment gets. So someone who posts more and comments less might be higher. But yeah @wtypstanaccount04 not being on there is odd. He’s got more posts than quite a few of the people there with lower comment counts. Maybe some people have a really high propensity for getting a large number of upvotes, but that’s hard to investigate with profile histories in bunker mode.

Edit: actually, maybe it has to do with broken indexes, so the list isn’t updating its order anymore. Not sure.

Can confirm it’s global score. Also, how’s your notification box doing? You tagged so many power users this is about to turn into a megathread through sheer force of posting.