ItalianMessiah [he/him]

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  • ItalianMessiah [he/him]tofoodTempeh, seitan, or tofu?
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    4 days ago

    Tofu usually. Soya de carne when I'm making mexican dishes.

    I got my tofu game on lock, genuinely better than meat for certain dishes. Freeze it, cut it, dehydrate it, marinade it, dry it, then fry it. Freezing it gives it texture and makes it easier to soak up marinade and dehydrating it allows the marinade to soak in fuller.





  • ItalianMessiah [he/him]toMain!!!VOTE DELAYED!!!
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    9 days ago

    frog-no-pretext

    I feel the best case for a c/fakenews post is a mildly humorous gotcha. The worst case is causing an anxiety episode for a comrade. The median is just an unfunny post clogging up the timeline. The good posts that comes from c/fakenews can still stick around, just post in c/chapotraphouse and link to a rickroll or something.



  • ItalianMessiah [he/him]toMain*permanently deleted*
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    10 days ago

    I'm honestly baffled that people are surprised by the mods' reactions to this. This has always been how they handle things. The only difference is that the target has become a critical mass of regular Hexbear users.

    When we first started, we were under threat of wreckers and other reactionary elements. Our mod tools and policies were forged in that environment. But with defederation and increasing isolation, these elements grew to be less and less. Our policies have remained the same. The tools of external subjugation have been turned inward. The techniques we used to hunt down literal nazis are now being turned against the regular userbase.

    This has always been how the mod/admin team operated. Hexbear is viewed simultaneously as serious political project that necessitates a party line but also a pet website so they can arbitrarily push changes from above. The only difference is that most users agreed with the decisions at the time, or at least didn't care enough to raise a fuss.

    I've been here since the very beginning, all four and a half years plus a few on the subreddit. This is literally the organizational structure the users built and supported. I don't see it changing anytime soon.





  • ItalianMessiah [he/him]tochapotraphouseSo why did they win?
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    15 days ago

    All good points but something that I don't see talked about more is how many Reps voted Early/Absentee this election. In 2020, early voting was 44% Dem with 30% Rep . In 2024, the percentages were almost dead even. I think Democrats saw the early voting results and wrongly assumed that they'd overwhelming go Dem because they did in the past. Because of this, Democrats were expecting a blue surge at the end to help balance out red votes early in the night. This did not materialize.

    Other than that, it's a million small things that any competent campaign could've avoided. Don't alienate the Muslim community, hammer actual policy positions in your questions, have an actual primary instead of a rigged process, etc etc.