I was just comparing them since they're decently close friends, they're in the same niche and go for basically the same audience, and do things in the same style, it seemed like a pretty natural comparison to me
Yeah they're friends and they used to help each other with the video production, I'm just saying that Abbie has wayyyy better politics than contra does (and her videos are better to - also she's a fellow trans person enduring the hellscape that is TERF island with me so that endears me to her)
Yeah, I like have a soft spot for her because she helped show me that there was actually a left beyond voting for labour every now and again, and like she was the only trans rep young me really had, but like her politics are cringe af -
We've existed for three years but about a month ago we converted to upstream lemmy so that's probably why it says we're only a month old.
As a community our focus is to be a radically queer inclusive (literally more than half our mods are trans or enby and most of the cis mods are some flavour of gay or bi) space for leftist unity that heavily discourages lurking (which is probably why our posts are so visible because no one really just downvotes and moves along when they see a comment they don't like - we literally don't even have a downvote option)
We federated like a week ago and so I think our users are still letting the urge to dunk out of their systems, personally I can't really be bothered with all that (except with one guy that came into our instance and started slinging around homophobia at the users and immediately got dogpiled) I'm mostly just posting on the cool queer communities on lemmy.blahaj.zone
sucking someones cock is a known idiom for bejng a sycophant
It's almost like there's some sort of homophobia and/or misogyny inherent in the idea that sucking someone off is a disgusting thing to be looked down on, you know, it's almost like phrases stem from pre existing societal preconceptions
Yeah, hope to see you soon. But yeah in general I'm a lot less, idk, gung ho with supporting China than most of the users of this site, but when its like come to major struggle sessions with outside users we kind of close ranks and keep to the hexbear line (excluding the hundred comment struggle session about kruschev that hexbear users had with each other in an unrelated worldnews thread on lemmy.ml when we first federated)
I think things will calm down after a week or so after all the hexbears get bored of arguing with libs and return to normal posting. after all the last time we had this many outsiders coming into our home turf and trying to start shit was like 3 years ago when some /pol/ users tried to raid hexbear and doxx some of the users and got bullied so hard they never came back
I mean, the GOP are at least effective in being evil pieces of shit, like the GOP's voter base gets all the evil bigoted shit they want to happen but the Dems voter base never get what they want (they because I'm British, switch out Dems for Labour and you have my current state of affairs)
I remember at the time of Brexit I seriously believed that it might be a positive from a left wing perspective but then it happened and almost immediately I realised I was a fucking moron for not considering that it wasn't a left wing government doing it, it was the unending clown show of the Tories running it
Hey good on you for doing the reading and I hope the other people on our instance weren't too mean to you <3
But yeah, most of us started in the same place of being fucked over by capitalism or reactionaries in some way and searched for an alternative and ended up as communists.
Ngl the anti lurking culture of hexbear has been so good for us being able to fucking bully libs coming in despite there maybe being a "silent majority" of ex-reddit libs who probably outnumber us but never post
I was just comparing them since they're decently close friends, they're in the same niche and go for basically the same audience, and do things in the same style, it seemed like a pretty natural comparison to me