When liberals stick their fingers in this beehive is when you folks are at your absolute finest. Federation has been awesome. I know not everyone likes it and I know arguments online aren’t THAT important but there is such a clear difference between sides when the Hexbear posting batallions engage with the liberal interlocutors.
I remember reading someone somewhere say years ago that to the extent debating online means anything it is for the people reading the exchange and not so much the parties debating. The lurkers if you will. Well I am a lifelong lurker because I think I recognized before I had the vocabulary that a lot of posting on social media ultimately amounts to alienation from creative labor. The feeling of bleakness from that and a sort of shame about the idea of trying to garner attention towards myself have kept me from ever being a committed poster.
This space has been the only time I have ever felt like it’s really worth being a part of this.
The way in which you folks have honed your rhetorical edges against each other and practice libs in the dunk tank really shows. Those muscles are strong and they hate that to outside observers you are almost always the more cogent and coherent side.
But the absurdity and humor are even more potent weapons because it breaks the tension and gives people room to examine preconceived notions. There is a degree to which inspiring a laugh is almost like a concession of a point. They cannot stand that we’re more factually grounded AND funnier!
All this is a long winded way of saying that they cannot stand that you folks are funnier, more grounded, and have way better emojis.
What annoys me is not libs disliking us, or disagreeing with us about who the true LEFTIST is, or crying because they got banned.
It's just the sheer, utter disinformation where it's objectively demonstrable that they just make up shit about us and then all believe it. Still in .world, despite being corrected many times, the majority of users will say Hexbears did mass downvoting, when that's literally impossible.
They'll say we love Putin, and Trump. And that we're all fascists - even if you believed dumbdumb horseshoe theory, a fair portion of us aren't even close to authoritarian. That we're largely Chinese shills and bots. That we deliberately organise RAIDS on other instances and aren't just a big community group who like to share our personal experiences on other threads and we like to come to each other's aid. That we're a place of HATE when this place, of all sizeable internet communities, has one of the biggest cultures of love and mutual aid I've ever seen.
I get the political disagreements. I get the disagreement on conversational tone. What I don't get is the sheer determination to not even understand us in the slightest way, to take the most random bullshit, even when it is factually impossible, and take it at face value; all just so they don't have to acknowledge us as real people. That's what upsets me.
Like imagine it happens at one of his rallies and the crowd just thinks he's speaking in tongues but his brain is dying and nobody moves to render assistance until he keels over, hopefully falling into Jared Kushner's lap 3 Stooges style
I'm still so disappointed that fucker didn't croak. Him dying could've actually changed the entire landscape of COVID response. Or it could've set off some chuds into a wild fit of conspiracy and shit would have been wilder than it was.
lemmy.world must declare via admin decree that they would kill or are making active attempts to kill Donald Trump, otherwise they will be identified as material supporters/donors to the GOP & Trump campaign
When he caught COVID I was heading into the wilderness with no service. I prayed when I got back onto the net the first headline if see was "president pence"
I feel like we need a sticky given how often this question comes up. Put it with a Pepe the frog meme since that's all the libs seem to notice (even when there isn't a single one on the entire damn web site)
I've been a member of .world for a long time but finally switched to .dbzer0 and started encountering you guys. I was wary at first but so far it seems like you guys are pretty alright, and that a lot of the shit .world talks is unfounded.
By dying, Trump would transend his petty mortal form and slough off the frailty and sin inherent to a simple alienated human.
He will rejoin the cosmic flow of existence and enter into communion with all other once-living things, to be cleansed of earthly transgression and to assume a new and more holy form. No longer a humble ape, obsessed with social status or horded wealth, he will see with the eyes of a thousand ancestors and know the oneness that mortal life denied him.
In that sense, isn't hoping he kicks it just another way of saying you support Trump?
I love Donald John Trump and want to kiss him on the lips and I have a little picture of him on my nightstand and I kiss it every night and I hope he's my husband some day.