Absolutely no way. On the night this was written I had a really disturbing dream about throwing someone wearing an Israeli army shirt off a ferry at night.
That's too much of a creepy coincidence.
Staines
joined 4 years ago
That's awful. Only two?
Lemmy.world? The instance of misanthropic baby killing terrorists?
Lemmy.world? The instance full of misanthropic baby hating terrorists?
When our time comes.
No excuses.
Let's split Germany into quarters this time. Maybe zigzags.
I said a year ago that labour was going to be so dreadful there we'd see a surge in Reform.
Now that that's come to pass, friends asking me what's going to happen next and all I can say is I don't know - I just hope we'll all be ok.
It must be something like that.
Typically I don't engage with libs on politics because we're using entirely different lenses of analysis.
But in the past year people in my life have gone from asking me why I'm not voting for labour in the general election, to asking me to explain why I knew labour would be so bad, to asking me to explain Ibrahim Traoré and the Sahel to them because they like his reforms(?!??).
People want something to believe in.
None of these weapons will be used to defend Europe. They will sit in a stockpile and be sent to assist yet another genocide in a decade or two.
I don't see how it's possible to run a mutual aid comm with anonymous people scattered all over the world. Mutual aid really requires a much closer knit network of people working together in tangible non-monetary ways. I've done a little mutual aid offline, and mostly it's the combination of a plan and people giving the right aid and advice to advance that plan that really changes people's situation.
What we have is a charity comm. If we're going to run a charity comm some regulation would help.
Limiting posts to one per week, or month, per account to stop the competition for visibility and subsequent blocking of the comm by people overwhelmed by the number of similar or repeated posts. Hexbear is not a large community, and many people are now blocking the comm because it makes them feel uneasy.
Enforcing the use of an external tracking tool like GoFundMe so people can be confident when targets are or aren't met for a given post. It also provides a little bit of legitimacy and makes donations easier for many people who would be considering it.
Allowing people to provide suggestions for local support such as specific food banks or shelters: things that may reduce weekly repeats on the charity comm. Allowing people to suggest alternative purchases or actions, such as a more cost efficient alternative could be useful.
Regardless of moral judgements, donators need confidence in the system for the comm to function. Otherwise it's just a drama generator that fosters contempt and mistrust while also leaving people feeling abandoned. A couple of incidents have really blown peoples trust, and left them fatigued. The situation is not going to change unless adjustments are made. As for discussions about the validity of a users cause - evidently, even when discussion of causes is forbidden, people still seethe and it still seeps into and erupts throughout the whole instance. The amount of recurring drama from one incident alone that is taboo to talk about is enough indication that simply banning discussions isn't actually helping much, if at all.