Looks like their c/shitreactionariessay works.
edit: But I am with you for the most part, and would like there to be a place locally where hexbears can post that sort of thing if they want to.
QuietCupcake
joined 3 years ago
Yeah, part of the problem with these rules is that there's no good way to draw a line between what's low-hanging fruit and what's a legitimate target for hexbear dunking. The rule relies on the mood of the mod present at the time of posting.
Since it looks like a lot of people are not happy with this (but others are and make good points), can I be an enlightened centrist for a minute and suggest a compromise? How about a weekly megathread for the low-hanging fruit? That way the reactionary takes stay cordoned off in the dunk_tank comm but the low profile losers don't get much attention drawn to them by someone making an entire post about them, yet those of us who want to can still have the opportunity to show them to others so we can collectively point and laugh. Does that seem like a good middle ground?
Well the chaos may be rooted in choices you made, but the circumstances you ended up in are horrible for reasons far outside of anything you could possibly be blamed for. The fact that you struggle to afford food and find shelter is the fault of a sick, pathologically individualist, poor-shaming, capitalist society. So don't blame yourself. I know what it is to be in a hole with seemingly no way out. But making the choice now to work on a plan that you lay out for yourself to follow could maybe start help taming some of that chaos, perhaps?
But yeah, one step at a time of course, and if malnutrition is the main factor keeping you from doing what you want or need to do, maybe for now, work specifically on a plan to deal with just that. You have SNAP or something, right? Maybe budget that shit out and plan how much you have and what nutritious foods it can get you. Sorry if you've talked about it in your posts and I missed it, but do you have access to foodbanks? That could solve your malnutrition problem in one fell swoop if it's a good foodbank. There may even be people there that can help you plan out your meals for the week. If that's not a thing where you are, I know you were considering shoplifting groceries but were nervous about it, and while I would never encourage you to do something that could put you in legal/cop-related danger, there are certain methods for shoplifting food that are easy and relatively low risk. And as we know, comrades here can help out with food too. All of these things can be... mapped out, then implemented, but it does take some dedication. So yeah, if it were me, I think I'd try to tackle that issue fairly single-mindedly until you're satisfied you're eating healthy consistently. Then you can work on the next thing that will get you, like you said, to the headspace necessary to start doing the content creation thing. If it's the kind of content you could safely share here, I know I for one would love to see it when you're able to start creating. It's an awesome goal to have.
Again, I hope that isn't just sounding like unsolicited advice from some asshole who doesn't know your circumstances. I just empathize with being in shit situations with an addiction, a totally uncertain immediate future and even more uncertain long term future, and the feeling like I'm just unmoored and flapping in the wind, just getting knocked around by the chaos without any control. But making a set plan can help give back at least a little piece of it, a small but meaningful sense of control.
Clearly I don't know him, but I've known others like him and was under the impression he may have elaborate designs on the downfall of capitalism, the kind of information none of us here would want to fall into the wrong hands. Apologies if I misunderstood the circumstances.
I do click on your posts in here when I see them and I'm not sick of you, but I'm also not someone who has contributed (only reason I have enough food for myself now is because I'm on food stamps too). But since you're concerned and feeling like the money help you got here went to "stupid shit," could you maybe plan out a kind of rough budget to try to stick to? I know it's not easy when you're unhoused (makes literally everything at least tenfold more difficult) and if you're always on the verge of being dopesick then planning ahead can seem completely pointless. But just forming an outline of any kind of structure to follow can help, in my experience. Like laying out what your next week might look like if possible, and committing to setting aside some of whatever cash you can get, especially if you do that fundraiser, putting a set percentage of it towards the van, but also spending some that will let you enjoy the moment right there and then. And writing it all out keeping track in a notebook or note app in your phone. Someone here might even be able to help you work out the logistics if that's something you wanted. I really hope none of this comes across as condescending, I don't mean it that way at all. I'm just thinking about what kinds of things would have been helpful to me in the past.
Oh and Creamsicle should know he's supposed to wear the foil on his head to keep them from accessing his superior intellect or inserting their programming. Or perhaps he's protecting his gonads? I don't know, I also don't want to presume whether he's got those.
One of the extremely rare cases where I've ventured into the comment section on youtube and was shocked to find mostly good, correct takes.
FFS why not just be ML and skip the pointless gymnastics? It shouldn't be controversial to anyone that no state is or will ever be perfect and that socialism is a transitional stage. I guess it still provides some cover (that apparently they still need having not grown out of their idealism) to be able to call AES states bad guy totalitarians that the good guy trots are better and purer than?
Edit: I'm referring here to Marcyites, not PSL as an org.
You misused a quotation mark?! How dare you!!! Everyone reading this could have actually thought NATO officially released a statement using the phrase 'scawy Russian.' (I hope I didn't misuse those apostrophes right there.)
He is, but he has also done some highly questionable stuff, both as Kelly, and under his real name as a cartoonist that isn't parodying chud cartoonists:
Wow, last I heard of her, she said she was quitting youtube and giving up the Vikki1999 persona for good. CW (after severe self harm). It was a very clear and definite statement that she would be giving up having any kind of public presence and never returning. It looks like that didn't stick. Guess I shouldn't be surprised.
I actually quite enjoyed her early vids, but then it became this very strange situation where almost everything she said was just bad take after bad take. Then stuff came out about her being inappropriate with underage fans (to put it mildly) and going on a drunken anti-Palestinian tirade on her discord which culminated in her supposed "retirement." Gross, cringe youtube personality drama. Also, all of this, including the anti-Palestinian bigotry was well before Oct 7, not that it matters.
But what's "few"? Where should we draw the line? Yeah, mods can pick some arbitrary number (as is often the case for these kinds of things, it's the problem of the lump!) but this is also more complicated because there are different standards for different platforms. Like, what number of views on a youtube video is equivalent to what number of upvotes on reddit is equivalent to what number of followers on xitter, etc.? And what about blogs vs news sites? It really does just end up being so blatantly vibes-based.