InappropriateEmote [comrade/them, undecided] @ InappropriateEmote @hexbear.net

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Is it just “it’s afraid”? Is it the desperate flailing of a failing colony? No one cares if you say “Free Hawaii” because the powerful aren’t worried about Hawaii being freed?

Yes, pretty much this.

Israel might actually fall relatively soon.

I'm assuming, maybe incorrectly, that he immigrated to a country in the west. If that's the case, when did that happen and why? These are questions I also assume you, OP can answer for us without having to further question him.

UPDATE

Damn, I had been looking forward to answers to a bunch of the great questions that were posed. I'm really curious what specifically made him mad, though. Like,

one of the questions I gave him threw him off and kinda put him in a bad mood

Which question was it? And when he said “who would ask such stupidity?” was it about that particular question or the things you were asking him in general?

I don’t really know what he was expecting but he seems to think the questions weren’t good enough.

I'm sure it will be apparent when you post the 5 detailed answers he did give, but I think it would have been good if we had known beforehand what kind of general sentiment he has about the USSR. I would ask different questions of someone I knew looked back on the USSR fondly with nostalgia versus someone who saw it mostly as an impediment to the way they wanted to live. I realize it's probably too late now, but if you get the chance and it doesn't seem inappropriate, I want to know what kind of questions he wanted us to ask. Since he agreed to do it in the first place, even if he didn't quite understand the situation, I would think there must have been something he did want to share - but what was it?

Edit: Sorry for the poorly written wall of text. I just started typing without thinking and before I knew it there was a novella. But tldr: having type 1 diabetes is a big deal and requires constant vigilance or you die.

Yes, you came away with an accurate picture of type 1 diabetes, good summary. I lived with a type 1 diabetic for a while and it was a constant battle to keep her levels in a safe range. On the one hand, taking it was second nature for her, but it became so automatic that she would often forget how many units she took. Did she take too much? Then she was about to "have a low" where she would get extremely woozy, tired, sweaty, and unable to think (literally, it became very hard for her to reason or remember what was going on when the low was bad, compounding the issue) and if it wasn't taken care of, she would lose consciousness at which point we would have to call an ambulance. Fortunately, to stop this if it was caught in time, required drinking tons of orange juice and eating diabetic glucose tablets. But that would cause her blood sugar to spike, leading to her "having a high" (not the fun kind) which made her extremely sick, wired, anxious (understandably) and as you read, seriously harming multiple organs and systems. Part of living with her carried the responsibility of learning how to inject an emergency drug when she passed out from a low in an emergency situation as well as the insulin if she became too incapacitated from a high. (And to be clear, that's high levels of blood sugar, absolutely not a "high" in the traditional sense). To her own admission, she was very forgetful too. There were many times that anything happening had to be canceled because she forgot her insulin. This was never an issue to me, I always tried to be totally understanding, but it really upset her because she always felt like she screwed things up for everyone around her and also scared herself because her forgetfulness could so easily lead to a life-threatening situation. Whenever going literally anywhere, the first question was always "did you remember your insulin and glucose?" And yet still sometimes we would run into situations where it was "oh shit, I actually don't have my insulin."

Essentially, she had to be her own pancreas, ceaselessly keep track of her levels and take in glucose or insulin depending on where they were. And she had the help of modern technology, with small implants she would inject under her skin (that would have to be replaced every couple days and were also expensive on top of the expensive insulin) which when working ideally, would monitor her blood sugar level and transmit that information to a dedicated device she wore at all times, later her smartphone. But it often wouldn't work right for all sorts of reasons, from just plain getting her levels wrong and misreporting, to defective temporary implants not sending a signal, to only working within a certain range - too high and it couldn't accurately read the levels anymore. So she also had to constantly do it the old fashioned way by poking herself, usually her hand, and testing the blood directly, sometimes getting different results from that method vs her "dexcom" unit and having to split the difference, hoping that both weren't wrong, which was literally life-threatening.

It was an ever-present condition. Every meal she ate had to be taken into account not just how many carbs (glucose, essentially) it had, but how fast those carbs get metabolized, and of course when she ate it relative to when she last took her insulin or would next be able to take her insulin dose. It becomes expected background after a while, but it can never be actually forgotten or she would die. An analogy is that she is on a rollercoaster she can never get off of, at any given point in time she is either going high with her levels or dropping low. Both are inevitable, but the goal is to try to always keep them from the extremes, never too high, never too low, injecting insulin and consuming glucose, respectively, as those highs and lows occur. But they are inevitable. And going too far with one inevitably means she'll go too far in the other direction to correct it, yo-yo'ing until something similar to a balance is found again.

And as u/fox said. before insulin was able to first be isolated from pigs, and is now synthetically produced, you were not long for this world if you were type 1 diabetic. It was a 100% mortality rate. My friend was a rare case too, in that more often, type 1 diabetics have it from childhood. She developed it in her 30's from being otherwise totally healthy and she doesn't know why. I could keep writing a whole other wall of text about how much this cost her, at times thousands of dollars a month, paying for insulin so as not to die and how it's functionally no different than holding a gun to her head and saying "pay us or we pull the trigger." Or the sheer incompetence of the industry she relies on for all of this, with people who she's trying to get to understand that her monitoring equipment is failing an needs to be immediately fixed or replaced. Like imagine the last time you dealt with customer service for some tech device and the shit they put you through, now imagine that your life literally depending on finding a solution fast. And the constant fear of who knows what kind of shit going down, due to new laws she has no say in or supply chain collapase, or simply running out of money, such that she won't be able to get more insulin and will, simply, die.

She is also an excellent cook, like one of the best I've ever known. Her whole family are like hardcore culinary enthusiasts, she has walls of bookshelves with cookbooks (she had to sell over 2000 cookbooks she had for space and money). Ethical vegetarian too, but still does the dairy thing so not vegan.

But sure. All she needs to do is take some cooking classes and no more diabetes. She'll be fucking thrilled.

I just got banned from /c/tankiejerk@lemmy.dbzer0.com for being a Hexbear. Modlog reason: "Hexbear user in tankiejerk, waddaya expect?"

Meanwhile, there's like 20 of y'all in this thread and are left untouched. I guess that makes me the one true leftist, the only one who isn't a liberal.

Here is the evil authoritarian statement I made that got me banned:

But that is not what makes an addiction

What does?

"All the people who try to explain to me the places where I am obviously wrong, they're all just robots yeah, that's it. So I don't need to try to address that nagging sense of cognitive dissonance I get when I read them, I'll just call them 'borg' and block them! Phew, that feels better."

What was that you were calling others in the thread, was it coward?

I am advocating on behalf of the Palestinians by advocating for the less harmful of the two.

You're advocating for the ones who started this most deadly iteration of the genocide and calling them "less harmful."

You, on the other hand, couldn't care lass about anyone and seem to be driven by ideological purity.

Right, which is why on hexbear we have been giving money (that many of us don't have enough of to pay rent and buy food) and real material support directly to Palestinians as well as having actual Palestinian posters. While communists actually do things that actually help people in the real world, liberals are the ones who pretend to care oh ever so much while doing nothing of any material value, and in fact supporting the people and the party that set the genocide on it's course.

Because the real world scares you. Because you are a coward. Because you want to feel correct by ignoring reality. You are of no use to anyone.

And here's where the "Every Accusation is a Confession" comes in full force! Every single point, so revealing.

Now my fifth or sixth hexbear block.

And as an example of the Every Accusation a Confession principle of the liberal modus operandi, I will go ahead and point out the same thing Dirt_Owl did: "This has to be a bit. He called me a coward while running away and blocking lmao." But much more than just that, see how the liberal accuses Dirt_Owl of cowardice, but then goes and does the cowardly thing? See how the liberal accuses Dirt_Owl of ignoring reality, while plugging their own ears and saying "lahlahlah I can't heeeear you!" See how the liberal accuses Dirt_Owl of being afraid of the world while themselves refusing to even entertain a perspective that challenges their own? See how the liberal says Dirt_Owl is "of no use to anyone" as a strange out-of-nowhere insult, when it is widely known that liberals are seen by people across the "political spectrum* as being useless? They just can't help but tell on themselves with every little "gotcha" or snide insult they try to use against others.

Genocidal politicians are milquetoast centrism (which is good)

• you, a fucking liberal fool

Just because a fascist might sometimes be capable of being a broken clock, that doesn't mean one should ever be quoted or given any kind of "credit" for their rare broken-clock take. Yes, context absolutely does matter, and in the case where the context includes fascism, that itself informs us that we should be especially careful the fascist receives no praise or endorsement of any kind. It really is not hard to make sure you never hand it to them.

Not only is it a lie that "humanity is inherently selfish, that's just evolution," but the exact opposite is the case. Arguably the primary reason that humanity became as successful as it did, evolutionarily speaking, is because of our capacity for cooperation.

(Just a side note, one doesn't have to be an anarchist to appreciate Peter Kropotkin and Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution.)

Even though some here will call me a nerd for it, to me there is a profound beauty to watching how the Game of Life sizzles and pops. I'm in awe of the way it demonstrates unpredictability despite the complete deterministic ruleset. And when the self-replicating critters bubble up out of it and start doing their thing, something about it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Also, RIP to John Conway, another victim of Covid.

Have you ever experienced a stun grenade? Tear gas?

I have experienced tear gas, yes.

Have you been grabbed by a MAGAt as he screamed “RACE TRAITOR” in your face? Have you had your camera grabbed by a Qultist as he screamed “FUCK YOU FAKE NEWS” in your face?

I've been beaten (once severely) and abused by chuds for who I am, not for being to them a race traitor. I've endured much worse from pigs (probably MAGA themselves, but who knows) acting on the orders of Democrats.

Don’t fucking presume to know me.

lol I didn't. The only thing I "presumed" about you was that you are a liberal, and considering everything you said (which it seems you did have the sense to since delete), that was a fair and correct assessment, not a presumption. But it's rich that you would tell me not to presume anything about you when everything you said in your now-deleted comment was a disgusting presumption and misrepresentation of socialists', their positions, motivations, and actions. You were even using quotation marks around things you think socialists say (including "wah wah" crying) and how "lazy" they are for refusing to vote for war criminals conducting genocide. So yet again... your accusation (that I was presuming to know you) was not only totally false, it was a description of what you yourself were doing. Every Accusation a Confession.

If you actually are out there in the streets fighting MAGA chuds - good, I hope you beat the shit out of them. But when you're not occupied with that, learn some actual leftist theory and do some self crit rather than defending and upholding your enemies and ridiculing, disparaging, and lying about the people who are not only consistent with their principles in opposition to genocide, but who are out there fighting the fash in the streets too.

Because they're fucking lazy and would rather shitpost on Lemmy et al instead of doing something.

Liberals, every accusation a confession. It is objectively and demonstrably the coward "lesser evil" voters who are lazy and refuse to do anything of value, patting themselves on the back and thinking they've done their "civic duty" by penciling in the bubble endorsing genocide so they can call it a day. Socialists are the ones who realize that actual work has to be done for any material difference to ever be made and you have to constantly fight systemic injustice and materially help marginalized people rather than do a little masturbatory performative nod to the status quo once every couple (or every 4) years. The people you're calling lazy are the ones who are out there volunteering their labor to provide food and other essentials for unhoused people or people otherwise impoverished by the system of exploitation that both republican and democrat fascists force upon the world. It's the socialists who are out in the street doing what they can to build parallel power structures that will continue to help actual people while cloistered, privileged, treat-obsessed liberals sit content in their bubble, pretending they spoke truth to power by voting for that same power.

What's immediately hilarious about your lie is that most socialists did vote (despite knowing how insufficient it is to accomplish literally anything worthwhile) they just didn't vote for the blue donkey version of the fascists that liberals like you worship, they voted for De La Cruz (or La Riva before her). So saying that it's socialists who are lazy for not voting is an immediate tell that you're either painfully ignorant or cynically lying (likely both) since most socialists did do that ineffectual bare minimum thing you foolishly think is so important, they just aren't stupid cowards like the liberals who pretend they did such hard work by filling out a ballot for fascists. Thanks for outing yourself as being the one guilty of everything you just accused socialists of.

Take those two sentences and swap out "religious people" with people of any number of bad beliefs that we would not tolerate to see why that is not really a helpful statement.

lol, no. No one has ever been banned from .ml for "criticizing Russia." Even the communist admins of .ml have no love for modern Russia which is a capitalist country, they just know that throwing every single working class Ukrainian person into the meat grinder is the best way forward. And "tankies," as the above commenter is using the term, are just people who recognize that history existed prior to February of 2022.

I can't help but hope that if someone writes about this removal on their substack or something, that article can then be posted on reddit. The conversation in the reddit thread would then be about reddit banning discussion of platforms that apparently threaten theirs, which should be even harder for them to justify banning the meta discussion of that fact. It would be nice if this little removal ended up having something of a Streisand Effect on reddit, exposing more people to the existence of Lemmy than the post they removed had been.