According to the ancient formula, (30.7/2)+7=22.35, so

Edit: on a serious note, I’d be interested in knowing why this is the case. Is this also true for other mammals, especially the ones closer to us on the evolutionary line? And why is it only one way?

of course. and this was BEFORE the right-wing takeover of the city council mentioned in the article (2022).

There is no good western country (maybe ireland, but im looking at them sideways too, maybe they did some fucked shit).

Am I the only one who thinks the Super Switch would’ve been a fun name and a nice callback to Nintendo’s past? Like, I don’t understand why they didn’t do that with the Wii U either (Wii and Super Wii sounds so cute).

Yes of course. CTH was a thorn in the admins’ side for a while. We were growing at a rapid pace and radicalizing normies and the advertisers/cia handlers couldn’t have that. And our supposed replacements (antiwork, deprogram etc) have been unable to carry that work forward due to various reasons. Breadtube is now a grave. They threw the libs a crumb by ridding the trump sub along with us and they were satisfied.

Yes. The emotes are incredible.

For your question: I don’t think about them at all.

The rest is just my general feelings on federation and hexbear that you are free to ignore.

I was against federation to begin with. I was even against lemmygrad (still am, much as they are comrades). I browse by local even now.

Hexbear is hexbear. It grew out of r/cth (I voted for the name being chapo.chat and was against it being changed to hexbear). It has its own culture. It’s own social norms. It doesn’t need to be a part of anything bigger. Note: this doesn’t mean it’s users don’t have flaws and that there haven’t been things in its culture that have needed to be changed in the past and in the present.

IMO, there was a time when federation could’ve worked, maybe right after it was created when it was young and still finding its identity. I understand the idea of finding new users especially as the number has dwindled from the peak (which itself was a shadow of cth in the first place).

But attaching itself to lemmy, lib-central, was always a failed endeavour. A better option would’ve been trying to become a leftist hub for Reddit communities in the wake of the cth’s closure and that was tried but it failed due to numerous factors (some were, honestly, this community being too toxic to such things which is what has partially led to the decline in numbers in the first place).

But all that’s the past. We’re a part of Lemmy now for what it’s worth (and not even, as some tried to claim in the beginning, as the big bad posters - I remember that what some here tried to say we would be due to our memberships!). They can all defederate from us and I couldn’t care less. They are all useless libs.

Some positive things to end this on. The reason I was on cth and came to chapo.chat and have stayed on hexbear. This is the most trans positive place I have ever seen (cth wasn’t but I wasn’t trans then either lmao). But now? I dare you to find a safer space on the entire internet.

This is the only space where I can talk to other leftists from around the world to both shitpost and get educated. I learn new things everyday. I also take the memes with a grain of salt. We don’t worship at the altar of Assad. But it feels good to at least be among others who can see the fucking hypocrisy of supposed progressives who care about human rights criticizing Assad and then telling to us to vote for democrats. Go fuck yourself.

Like, this space was created because cth got banned for praising John Brown. Don’t forget that.

This place even now, despite being 99.99% Leninist professes by and maintains ideological neutrality. It is extremely rare to see a leftist space that doesn’t bash either anarchists or MLs (and isn’t instead just social democrats). You wouldn’t know this if you haven’t been here a while I guess, because most people here are MLs but you can be an anarchist here. You can also, btw, criticize china or dprk or Cuba etc. I’ve done so. Just don’t be a lib about it.

So, hexbear to me has become an extremely rare instance of a platform which is not only queer-friendly but also genuinely leftist and accepting of all leftists. It isn’t perfect. I think around a month or so ago (maybe more, maybe less) there was a big issue surrounding misogyny. I think admins/mods worked to resolve that but someone else might know more.

This became much longer than I intended it to be. TLDR: hexbear is a comfortable safe space. I know the people. I know the posts and comments. I know what to expect. Every other social media platform (except TikTok but it too throws the odd curveball) fills me with anger and I have to mentally prepare myself for battle because I know there will be useless libs spouting their regular bullshit. None of that here.

Yeah this, the firefighter interview, the Bernie interview. It’s been great. He also said if the ceasefire holds, and if international parties are then allowed, he’s interested in going into Gaza. Scahill obviously cautioned him about the dangers associated with doing that (i.e. Israel can claim at any point that Hamas has violated the ceasefire and start bombing again) but they both agreed on the importance of international observers, journalists etc to document what has happened. They agreed to talk off-camera more about that.

Lies. US officials are known to be liars and blame Israeli last-minute changes on Hamas. Watch Hasan’s interview with Jeremy Scahill (starting at 22:15). He provided an exclusive look at the signed ceasefire document by Hamas and other parties on Monday while Blinken and others continued to lie till Wednesday that Hamas was delaying. And the reason the Palestinians wanted the document to be signed and to be exact is because of precisely what Israel is trying to pull off here: renege on the deal and claim it’s Hamas. Change the terms late into the deal. Not adhere to what was actually agreed.

I’ve been working on writing a communist fantasy series based inspired by the Chinese Revolution and a lot of my reading lately has been research for that, which also doubles as theory and history reading haha

This sounds incredible! I've been interested in doing something like this for a while. What does your reading list look like?

I've been reading some of the more popular Le Guin works. She's incredible, dunno why I waited till now. I've also been volunteering. It feels good to help and helps with my mental state (which is bad).

I also downloaded it lol. It's quite nice, though confusing?

I hate this new Cold War bs. I’ll never download IG. Fuck Zuckerberg. I’m never using YouTube shorts. RedNote looks cool. I’ve always wanted to learn Mandarin anyways.

I just came across this on my fyp! Not Amerikan so don’t need to dl RedNote but I just might cuz a) my country might just ban TikTok too, were the biggest us simps there are, b) who knows what’ll happen to my TikTok w/o all the Amerikans, and c) it does look fun lol.

I do want there to be like genuinely magnitudes more people to transfer tho. Like, if the ban fucking goes through, let there be 50-100 million people on RedNote and not a single fucking person on IG or yt or whatever. Fuck them.

im not amerikan but i know my cucked ass country will follow suit soon enough. goddamn i hate living in the western world. xi pls save us.

For a second I thought you were talking about a change on here and I damn near lost my shit. I hope to god our mods and admins remain strict stalinists.

When a person talks about how this will make queer people targets like on Twitter or Facebook:

Discuss ideas and be critical of principles. Show the respect you desire to receive.

A lot of attacks like that are common and worth refuting once in awhile anyway. It can be valuable to show the response on occasion. Additionally, you don’t always have to have the last word.

So now liberals say you can "discuss" trans rights or existence. Like, fascist ideas are fine. Theoretically, principally. Just be civil about it. Maintain the veneer. Fucking liberals I swear to god. The onus falls on the marginalized and the victimized to always somehow have to defend their very existence.

Sino-Soviet Split was the nastiest ugliest divorce in the history of divorces and we all suffer for it.

I have the Princeton/Reitter edition I’ve been dying to read so I’ll be quoting from it (once I start). y’all can lemme know how it compares to the rest. Expect me to join in a few days or maybe next week onwards? Or maybe I’ll just keep updating this comment for this week’s discussion and hope I can catch up idk.

add me add me add me

Hey, I’d like to be added to these discussions! I didn’t know we’d started already. I’ll have to quickly catch up