420blazeit69 [he/him] @ 420blazeit69 @hexbear.net

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Did you not understand the question?

I'm not the person who doubted you have a PhD. I'm fully aware that dumb, obnoxious assholes can also get gold stars.

keep this instance safe and defederate.

Bartender explains why he swiftly kicks out Nazis even if they're 'not bothering anyone'

What did you mean by this if not to analogize Hexbear users to Nazis?

There are far top few meaningful differences between Republicans and Democrats, but stuff like this shows the base (not the leaders) of one party is at least amenable to reality, and the other largely isn't.

You were asked a simple question: "source?"

I have a PhD in particle physics from a top 10 university in the world, and I don't believe climate change is a problem.

I have a JD and I'm telling you cancer isn't real

Offering a bet in pyramid scheme money does not make you more credible

You heard it, folks! I'm inviting them to a $10K per head campaign dinner where I will sternly suggest they explore the possibility of researching a serious scaling back (5 bps!) of coal mining.

For our self-defense

• Your post analogizes Hexbear users to Nazis
• A Hexbear user does not assume what you know or don't know, but asks, then explains why you are seeing so much activity from Hexbear.
• You interpret that as hostility, but not your initial analogy of "you have to treat Hexbear like Nazis"

Am I missing something on that first one? This is the entirety of the only Hexbear comment I see:

Do you know how federation works? No “brigade” is necessary, we just post way more and sort by active.

I've seen that or worse thrown around on pretty much every internet community I've ever seen. The only difference is whether it is popular/ever removed by mods. On literally every internet community I've seen or heard of, there are insults that crop up with the same amount of intended impact, even if they are less profane (think of all the snarky comments or outright diatribes you've seen about how ignorant or wrong someone is). And profanity is not some exceptional line, either.

Count the number of pictures or references to guillotines.

With varying degrees of seriousness, people call for violence against others all the time all over the internet. Go on any pro-Ukraine thread and you'll find tons of bloodthirsty comments calling for the killing of Russian soldiers (you'll often find variations of horrible stuff like "any Russian who isn't in open revolt is a fair target," too).

So first, what you are describing is not unique to Hexbear, and is in fact common. Second, if your response to my comparison is "well they're talking about a war!", so are we: every year capitalists wage war on the poor, killing millions by profit-driven deprivation of housing, food, medical care, etc. (see social murder).

all I see on my Lemmy feed is politics (which is generally ok I am also here for politics but they literally spam it)

"Spam" is one of those words that has become so loosely used it's losing it's meaning. First definition of spam that popped up:

irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the internet to a large number of recipients.

Does something make these politics posts irrelevant (e.g., a bunch of reposts)? I'm sure you don't think politics is inappropriate, and posting to a niche internet forum is not exactly sending to a large number of recipients (posts show up in your feed if you sort by "all," nothing goes to your inbox unless you comment).

What you're seeing is not spam, it's just a high volume of new posts. That is usually viewed as a good thing in places like this.

And if you disagree with the State Department this time (despite the grand American tradition of lying to get into wars), you're ignorant, you're a useful idiot, you're a bot, you must be getting paid, you must not know the first thing about this region I never thought about until it started to show up on the news.

The fact that they feel the need to comment and respond on everything

The horror of people who want to talk to each other on forums!

What is the purpose of a place like this (or any other social media) if not to talk to each other?

the United States dropped two nuclear weapons to end a fascist dictatorship

This is propaganda. I am not claiming you are aware of this or are intentionally spreading it, but it's propaganda all the same. It was invented to whitewash the mass, unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of Japanese civilians by the U.S.

When you read about Hexbear users getting a little chippy, this is the type of thing they are generally getting chippy about: propaganda that excuses great evils.

Noted commie rag Foreign Policy: The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan. Stalin Did.

The United States Strategic Bombing Survey:

The report also concluded that: "Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated."

"When I pay for this Snickers I'm a glutton, but when I steal it I'm a thief! What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy saying that you judge me for eating a Snickers, so assiduously marketed by 7/11 that it affects cashiers across their entire national footprint."

@Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ml @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml

Sorry to bother you two, but it's pretty clear we have someone running maybe six different alts, and it looks like they're boosting each one with votes from the others. Is that allowed here? See the comment I'm replying to and the comment it replied to for evidence.

If the process fails to deliver your wanted outcome then you have to abide to the rulings.

So if all Puerto Ricans unanimously decide to declare independence and the U.S. says "nah," they're just supposed to live with that? How is that just? You even acknowledge that's the path to a revolution or civil war, which we can both agree is a terrible option. What right does any country have to impose its will (through violence, of course) on a unified region that wants to leave?

Once a region declares independence, why does it have to fight with one arm behind its back? Isn't it free to seek out allies, as all warring countries have done throughout history?

Should the American Colonies have declared independence? Should they have sought the help of France to even the odds against their much stronger opponent?

The pure (libertarian) socialists' ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed.

--Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds

This is more of a comment on radlibs and baby anarchists, but it strikes me as appropriate here. It's very easy to idealistically criticize everything that isn't the way it should be. At some point, though, you have to address reality.