I think you're barking up the wrong tree, comrade. I think u/Zuberi really is anti-landlord and hasn't said anything to suggest otherwise. And their comment about hexbear's reputation on other instances wasn't anything having to do with the OP, it was about how you were insulting them.
QuietCupcake
joined 3 years ago
What Trueanon episode do I need to listen to to understand this reference?
Look ma, another one! Do you all take shifts on duty watching this thread?
This is my only comment in this thread. I clicked on this post because it showed up in my feed, simple as. Everyone who talks about hexbear brigading, piling on, or "taking shifts" doesn't understand how federation works. Hexbear has been a highly active website with a large userbase for years now, so I don't know what you would you expect to happen when a large discussion-based website shows content... the people on that website are going to discuss that content.
meanings can change over time. If it can start being used racially at one point it can surely stop at another.
This is true. But the group of people who get to decide whether or not something is racist is the group that is the target of that racism. White people don't get to decide the n-word is no longer racist. Hetero people don't get to decide the 3-letter f-word isn't homophobic. And no individual gets to decide because it's a cultural issue. Obviously meanings of words change and evolve, but they do so organically, and trying to force a racist term into regular usage and then say "it's not racist anymore because I wasn't intending to use it that way" is itself some really racist shit.
You shoulda been tagged. 
I keep a text file of book recommendations I come across here. It would be a lot longer, but I lost my old version and had to start a new one all over again. 
This includes some commentary, that isn't mine, it's just part of what I copy-pasted from the comments of other comrades. Credit goes to them, but so does any blame for misspellings or bad takes. 
#BOOK LIST
Michael Hudson - Killing the Host (2015)
The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich.jpg
Breaking Things At Work was a solid read and it’s short
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
via www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/opinion/why-women-had-better-sex-under-socialism.html
That author also has a whole podcast dedicated to the works of Alexandra Kollontai and socialist feminism called AK-47
The Capital Order yet, but Mattei’s thesis is that austerity isn’t about “tradeoffs” or cutting expenses. It’s about enforcing capital’s dominance of labor.
read Settlers
I get it’s a meme, but Gerald Horne’s The Counter-Revolution of 1776 is all the best parts of Settlers and none of the worst.
want a crash course on Yugoslavia? To Kill a Nation by Parenti
A new book by David Michael Smith, "Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire," estimates that the US empire is responsible, or shares the responsibility, for close to 300 million deaths -- making it the most murderous empire ever. (use this when a hundred gorrillion.)
Orcas have incredible social behaviors and trans generational culture. They have been subjected not only to hunting but kidnappings and the pollution of their environments and they know that humans are responsible.
This is not a startling new behavior, this is a revolution.
I mean this sincerely.
Edit: if you like this post, read Undrowned by Alexis Gumbs from AK press
Sartre’s preface to Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth goes pretty hard
We Sell Drugs: The Alchemy of US Empire by Suzanna Reiss
Sacred and Terrible Air (book written to be in same universe as Disco Elysium - only recently translated to English)
recommend that anyone who hasn't read Fascism and Big Business by Daniel Guerin (a leftist) do so. It does an excellent job of documenting the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy in, and leading up to, the 1930s, including how less reactionary liberals were instrumental in giving the fascist liberals* power, and including clear evidence of how the left could and should have used direct action to crush the fascist movement before the fascists crushed them.
I would also recommend "the economy and class structure of german fascism" while you're at it to understand the role of liberals in enabling fascism.
You might enjoy The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.
I hope that is useful.
Also tagging @[email protected] in case you're interested. Your list is now added to my text file too, so thanks comrade.
Yeah, I might do that, but I think they're already aware. I looked at some lemmy help communities back when I first noticed the issue during the reddit blackout, and there were a number of other people already talking about the problem. It was mostly people making their own instances because they were testing their newly-made instances with more established instances and realizing tons of comments were missing depending on which accounts they were logged into.
I've noticed the same thing. A lot of comments on federated posts just do not show when viewed from another instance, but do show up when viewed from an account that is part of that instance the post was made from. It's really annoying and I'm pretty sure it's a common lemmy bug but most people just don't realize it because most people never try viewing the same post with accounts on different instances because there shouldn't be any need to.
It can be pretty drastic too. Like only 4 comments seen vs 40 comments actually being there. It makes me wonder what comments I'm not seeing on other instances and what comments of mine people on other instances aren't seeing.
I encouraged the banning
I didnt [...] have any non-neutral feelings to it being banned
Definitely. But I won't lie, it's painful to see him doing credit card commercials now.
Weird, maybe, but the argument wasn't an ideological one from what I can tell, it was one about the wording not making sense that I honestly didn't understand either. I admit to being stupid about economic things, but I didn't know that "nominal income" meant something different than just income.
Like, you're going off with "You're typical of the "HEXBEAR IS RUINING THE LEMMYVERSE" chud" when glancing at their history, it doesn't look like they're a chud at all and were actually defending Hexbear when lemmy.world did the preemptive defederation shit.