QuietCupcake

There was that post the other day with someone at the protests propping up a sign saying "If Kamala were president, we'd all be at brunch" or something like that. To me, it was very clearly a criticism of the liberals there who would not have cared if a dem were in office, the kind of thing one of us might put on a sign for these protests, but almost everyone commenting on that post was assuming the sign was meant to be taken at face value. The top comment said:

"this place is beyond hopeless. i don't have the words to describe the despair that these lib "protests" are engendering in me"

That is the kind of doomerist, nihilistic, non-dialectical nonsense that I think OP is addressing here.

When I pointed out that even the olive cocktail cutouts made it obvious it was irony-protesting, I was berated for "giving a white american the benefit of the doubt." Like wtf, what percentage of this very site is white american again? Some of them are capable of being comrades. It was weird to me how much people in that thread just wanted to think everyone at those protests are the equivalent of .world libs. One of the predominant sentiments on hexbear about the prostests are to be ridiculed and nothing more. That they are worse than ineffective, they are somehow only heling the bourgeoisie. And don't get me wrong, I am well aware of the many completely valid criticisms of these protests and their inadequacy to effect real change. But the kind of attitude that jack is addressing in this OP is absolutely something that is prevalent here and needs to be addressed.

Apparently there's a contingent of people here who are happier believing no one outside of their niche internet forums are capable of using irony to laugh at libs. Also especially no cracker can possibly be a leftist and make a sign that ridicules brunch libs (unless they're one of the crackers on this site which is like 85% mayo). Its almost like a form of except inversed, refusing to see the potential coolness of others and denying that comrades do exist out there who do funny things things offline.

Well first of all, being sorta one myself I'd like to think that every once in a while they are deserving of it, some of them can earn it through past actions. But also, I'm not necessarily even doing that because we don't know who made that sign, could just as easily be the person behind the camera as the person propping it up or someone else entirely.

Doesn't matter though, the way I see it that sign speaks for itself whoever made it. I can't look at it and think it's doing anything other than pointing and laughing at the brunch libs. And saying that doesn't feel like I'm being optimistic or generous either, I just don't think an actual brunch lib would make that sign that way.

Exactly. The brunch thing is too well-known of a criticism for this not to be a self-aware sign. And the little cocktail 🍸 cutouts? Yeah, come on, there's no way this person isn't just making fun of the libs.

I gotta be honest, I think this is some irony-protesting. The person who made that sign is being critical of the lib protests and might even fit in on this here bear site.

I've actually told people irl about your Darby in conversations about kitty quirks. Specifically that she not only likes to sleep in the sink (not unheard of for a cat) but that she likes to do so with water running on her.

Anyway, have a happy birthday ya cute lil wirdo cat!

(only not sad).

On fennec/firefox for android at least, just tapping off to the side of pause/play button (but still on the video) makes the button disappear without effecting the video. Mildly annoying to have to press play then immediately tap to the side, but its a workaround.

Me too. The event that birthed the newsmega itself. It's honestly kinda sobering to think of how much I've learned about geopolitics and the world in general from this weekly thread and the people who contribute to it.

First thing I noticed was how instantaneous/simultaneous the sound was with the visuals. There should be a small but noticeable delay for the sound to travel, given the distance the viewer is from the building. Obviously audio can be edited even in a real video, but it would be an odd thing to do.

If an instance is making it more difficult to maintain a safe space for marginalized people on hexbear, that's when it needs to be axed. But it seems to me that a lot of these "yes, defederate!" arguments are more just about how obviously wrong and bad the mods and admins of these other instances are. And yes, they are wrong and bad, they're fucking disgusting. But by cutting ourselves off from ever being able to even see the shit they post, are we helping hexbear be a better place, or are we only making it so our correct analyses and perspectives are seen by even fewer people (including lurkers and potential comrades on the sidelines)? I'm not saying I have the answer to that question, I do lean more towards it being the latter, but maybe I'm wrong.

The most interesting threads to me are often the ones where hexbears, lemmygraders, and some .ml's are schooling the libs and tearing down the fash. When we defederate from the instances where said libs and fash think they won't get any pushback, we not only make it so those threads don't happen for us anymore (and I respect those who prefer that, dgmw), it also makes it so all that disgusting shit goes more unopposed on the rest of the "lemmyverse." It also makes it so our comrades on .ml, those who do speak up to counter the lies, are more likely to get dogpiled into silence without hexbears even knowing, let alone being able to come to their aid in the posting trenches.

It looks like this is already a landslide for "yes" but I still just have to say that I feel like by doing that we're just making it easier for them and (while it might seem parodoxical) worse in the long run for us, for reasons similar to what others like @[email protected] and @[email protected] already said elsewhere in this thread.

I tend to be the same way. More often than not bosses end up feeling like a chore I have to get through so I can get back to exploring. Some bosses are really unique and enjoyable but they're rare and even then they sometimes feel like they interrupt the flow of a game. Getting stuck on one where I'm banging my head against a wall trying to beat it, that's just not fun for me at all. It can detract from a game so much as to even ruin the whole experience.

I completely agree with you and this is a spot on OP and comment, but just a little nit to pick... my hackles raise when I see "mutt" used as an insult. I'm sure I don't have to explain why a word that means "mixed breed" has had a problematic past. I know you didn't mean it that way, just trying to point out in a friendly way that all of us, myself included, would do well to examine our language.

Chat, let me know if im being too pedantic.

Edit:
Also, for what it's worth, I was recently pointing out in one of the threads lamenting the death of .ee how much worse .world is than lemm.ee and that even though we see a lot of idiot libs from .ee due to federation, it is .world that is successfully seeking to be reddit 2.0 and in doing so has amplified everything wrong with liberalism.