They don’t know about TC69 thought
WE LITERALLY HAD A THREAD CLINGING ONTO YESTERDAY WHERE WE (HEXBEAR AND LEMMYGRAD USERS MAINLY) HAD TO BEAT BACK VISITING LIBERALS EN MASSE FOR THEIR CONDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR TRANS PEOPLE, YOU SMUG FUCK
I’m so fucking tired of these egocentric smarmy pricks
your actions speak much louder than words
What actions?
Criticizes our actions because our words don’t mean anything
Proceeds to list out the things we say
Funny
I have DMed the entire Lemmyverse (except you) a photo of my katana with the accompanying words “you’re next”.
thank you for your service
On a forum, there are no actions, only words.
we’re too busy being online to ‘act’
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I’ve been holding this in, but now I’m officially swayed that federating has been a mistake.
As soon as users are able to block entire instances, reactionaries will post hot takes, they won’t able to see any of the responses dunking on them because the responses are all from users on an instance they blocked, and it will be very funny
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Hey don’t forget the Grad please, if your admins ever decide to defed everything they should just leave Lemmygrad and rename All to With Lemmygrad.
Yall are good.
Ft. Grad from the Lemmy Will Fed series
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Yes. Yes. Finally. Our ranks grow and our power expands.
Same, i will seriously leave this site if we don’t at least get local-only comms soon, and even then i have to see how onboardig all these new cishet lib users will change things. Could’ve stayed on reddit if i wanted the garbage that makes up this site atm, even if i sort by local it’s just threads like this. It’s so grating. I don’t recognize this place anymore.
We do have the locals only comm now!
We do, but the mods have to manually ban people from other instances posting there. We’re not at the point yet where we can defederate a part of the site so we have a members only space, but the devs are working on that and it’s supposedly not even particularly difficult.
once we reopen registrations i do intend to lead a campaign across every trans space online to drag more trans people here. but i assume itll be a bit till they release the next update for that.
Be unfortunate to see you go, but annoying libs and fascists are definitely annoying
Yeah I voted wrong tbh
I felt this way like a week in. It’s exhausting and annoying to play educator, debator, or scolder. I don’t like that these new interlopers conflate dogma and wikipedia for reality and fact.
Sometimes you have to do stuff and see how it works out, even if it is a mistake it is often important to have done.
I’ve never seen you support minorities, definitely not because I ignored it every time I saw it.
We are so owned, it’s over.
“Actions speak louder than words”
proceeds to point to our words
Drink a potion of grass’ touch
Folks, the emojis just got ten feet taller
this is why i believe every trans person should be given a gundam
At least
Fascism to libs just means “thing I don’t like.” this definition, interestingly enough, doesn’t actually include actual fascists, who they are fine with.
my heart grows three times more jokerfied
I just had the bitterest laugh all week.
Ah conditional love, the cornerstone to healthy people relationships
no more half measures walter
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Very Conditional love is toxic and manipulative, and prone to abuse and trauma.
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I want these people to get hit by cars
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It’s almost like y’all libs are starting from your own political position, which is based on indoctrination, assumption, and zero reading, then projecting that out onto the people who oppose your political worldview by accusing them of the very things you yourself are guilty of.
Libs always do this. They can’t help but be grossly chauvinistic in their conceptualisation of the world because if it’s true for them then obviously it must be true for everyone else.
That ain’t how it works, buddy.
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Another lib who acts hostile towards the act of reading. Many such cases!
The people asking us to cite sources won’t click the references on a Wikipedia article.
I’m ready for the ban, because I don’t think the people running this want actual discussion.
when you post this kind of ‘I’m ready for my internet spanking daddy’ shit you’re really undermining yourself
Libs coming in acting like they’re and entirely ready to get banned for speaking truth to power and then just don’t makes me feel a kinda second hand embarrassment for them.
If they say a slur and get banned they can at least make a “tankies are suppressing my free speech (to call for the killing of homeless people)” post and get some sympathy responses but just getting dunked on and remaining unbanned after trying to act like we disallow any dissent is just embarrassing.insert ten year old screenshot of some redditor posting “i’m going to get banned for this but fuck the see see pee” with ten thousand upvotes and a stack of awards from years after the original comment
And you can’t really make any actual points from all that reading in a couple paragraphs.
If it can’t be described in a quick listicle it must not be true
Hey, the State Department works really hard to distill disinformation into snappy talking points.
Remember when libs laughed at trump needing bullet points when staffers tried to give him documents and paperwork to read?
It has to be a Harry Potter speech or less.
If you want a ban my advice is just to say a slur or something bigotted and you’ll get banned in like 5 to 10 minutes, weakly prodding that people haven’t read enough won’t get you banned, we already do that to each other all the time
The ultimate defense against Russian propaganda: refusing to read anything
We’re all just arguing with the spirit of this megamind:
This one truly lives rent free in my mind at all times
I was literally just about to quote it in my other comment, too.
Every single liberal seems to be an offshoot of this moron
I’m ready for the ban, because I don’t think the people running this want actual discussion.
I’ll let you cook. Let’s see where this goes. Got my eye out though.
You’ve been arguing the same point here for weeks and you still think you’ll be silenced just because everyone here is afraid of what you have to say? Are you going to keep repeating this every few weeks?
It’s weird
It’s almost as if
It’s weird that
It’s funny that
I like it that
It’s ironic that
smug liberals with nothing to say have to preface their nothing statements like the above to try to sound smug while saying nothing.
Lol. Lmao even.
It’s weird how you guys throw “reading” in there, but you always cite hours of reading you know people aren’t going to do.
Literacy and healthcare are the cornerstones of the socialist project. Our longest running group that meets regularly is our book club, which predates the existence of the site. Our most active members tend to be at least decently well-read in terms of communist theory. Even more if you expand to nerdy fiction.
And you can’t really make any actual points from all that reading in a couple paragraphs.
I’ll bite.
I’m currently reading Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti. It’s an analysis of how, in capitalist societies, media companies consist of many stakeholders and natural social filters which influence the news to converge on simplified narrative versions of the truth which is biased in favor of capital. This process doesn’t need to happen through direct centralized conspiracy, but rather through interest convergence and socioeconomic in-group preference. It’s similar to Noam Chomsky’s work on the topic, but I prefer Parenti’s prose and structure.
You’d have to make a foothold before you can get people to spend hours of their life reading what you want.
I used to think this until I realized how many hours I spent reading and replying to long threads like this. This format is much more conducive to spreading falsehood than people recommending books.
I’m open to actual points, but all I see here is bandwagoning and attempted peer pressure. It’s like 2015 r/the_donald techniques part two.
There were people on r/t_d giving you book recommendations? I shudder at the thought.
The moment someone starts to recommend Julius Evola to you, that’s when you reach for your gun
I’ve given a couple fascist texts a go just for shits and giggles and they’re always incoherent nonsense. The idea of esoteric fascism has always struck me as redundant.
Funnily enough, the only people i’ve seen reference fascist theory were well read communists. I did the same thing and took a dive into some of their theory to kind of make sense of what they think, but even stuff like strasserism seems absolutely absurd in how its supposed to work.
A hallmark or fascist prose is extremely bad prose, they just lack the ability to produce anything enjoyable to read
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Look, ScrewdriverFactory’s can be so hard to put together from scratch and there’s several different ways to do it depending on your use case, so we needed a central location to formalize that institutional knowledge.
I guess that’s on us to assume you’re willing to read more than a pamphlet of text before forming an opinion.
It’s weird how you guys throw “reading” in there, but you always cite hours of reading you know people aren’t going to do. And you can’t really make any actual points from all that reading in a couple paragraphs.
MAYBE FUCKING READ A GODDAMN BOOK FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE, YOU AREN’T ILLITERATE, FUCKING READ SOMETHING YOU SHITHEAD
Im beginning to wonder if you’re just genuinely incapable of being smart
do you even read the posts you’re replying to you smug piece of shit
It’s almost like
It’s difficult to articulate how fucking annoying this type of condescension is. It becomes downright enraging when I remember how it comes pre-installed on you people. You’ve spent too much time on and the bird site. There’s some hivemind/cult shit going on where everyone’s thought, speech, and argumentative styles all converge on the same, smug point. Stop it.
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Okay, I’ll be earnest. Framing something subjective as a self-evident truth is exactly what I said - annoying. An opinion given in the form of “It’s almost like $my_opinion” is an archetypal example of reddit/lib smugness that I strongly dislike. And its construction is repeated and duplicated across so much of social media (or at least those two sites) that it feels simultaneously robotic. It’s autonomous snark, if you follow me. Speaking personally, it triggers such a strong and immediate reaction because I left reddit in part to get away from these endlessly repeated phrases and idioms and sentiments. Does that make sense?
I think your comment might have exceeded their character limit.
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Have you seen any of the posts here, where new people ask questions about concepts they don’t understand? Make a thread, ask your questions in good faith, and read what people have been linking you.
Right now, what we’re hearing is that you don’t want to read and put in the effort to actually understand.
You are hard to understand through all of those deep drags of you inhaling your own farts.
MAYBE READ THE HUNDREDS OF FUCKING TIMES WE HAVE TO EXPLAIN BASIC GEOPOLITICS TO YOU FUCKING INFANTS
PROVIDE SOURCES AND A GOOD FAITH ARGUMENT TO YOUR POINT, AND LET ME IGNORE IT BECAUSE THATS ALL YOU IGNORANT FUCKS KNOW HOW TO DO
redditors deserve to have their goddamn brains blown out.
I hope you die bleeding from every pore
Pee pee, and I can’t stress this enough, poo poo
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For the benefit of everyone reading this after serinus got banned, Hexbear users are NOTORIOUS for writing huge essays with lots of sources if you get us going. This user can’t respond, but accusing us of ‘not saying anything’ is patently false.
Hexbear, famously empty and quiet. Why don’t you post more, Ms Hexbear?
It’s almost like
Could you Reddit liberals at least try to stop using the same tiresome smug exhausting delivery style?
We really need a slur filter for Redditisms that auto-removes those phrases or does something funny with them.
Mods, DM me and we’ll have a meeting of the minds about this.
Replace them all with “I am very intelligent.”
China and Russia are actually a giant blob that tricked the world into thinking they’re two different countries with different geopolitical goals.
China and Russia are actually a giant blob
Alternate history where the Sino-Soviet split didn’t happen.
They’re living in the fallout universe lol.
I thought they did split in Fallout. The USSR is on friendlier relations with the US by the time the nukes drop
What? I thought they were the same country by the time the nukes dropped? Let me look this up quick.
Lol. They were so close that I believed the propaganda.
neo-bukharinists infiltrated in the 2020s
damn, if you could read you’d be dangerous
Fuck off
I will swaddle you and cradle you lovingly in my arms.
are you a bot? this post is about discrimination and bigotry
hold on, we can do that too
it’s almost like the state department run Reddit community slapped a coat of NATO paint onto a bunch of brand new Lemmy instances run by feds and now they’re spreading eighty year old western propaganda
I’m convinced you turd burglers don’t even read whats on this site. I’ve been here since it started and never see whatever crap you’ve decided to be mad about.
Do you just create a world in your head and get angry at it? Absolutely deranged. I don’t use this often but have you considered getting a life? You sound desperately in need of one.
Russian propaganda is way better than Chinese propaganda don’t insult the Kremlin like that please
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could you just die
It’s almost like
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