TheLastHero

Sometimes the most important discoveries are made by accident

Active user sortition for moderator roles would low key be as uniquely based as our emotes

I'm usually willing to cut The Clique™ some slack since they put in the work and drive activity, but I'm unironically concerned they might kill the site with this one lol

if the intention behind this was to create a more serious and disciplined image for hexbear then that has obviously failed, that's not something you can just impose on a community overnight. The way this change has been carried out and communicated is actually kind of humiliating, for me included for posting here.

If the intention is to purge an undesirable culture on this website, well that culture is also the most active one. I think further intensification of this policy will more likely just lead to a significant decrease in activity overall. I do hope the administrative and moderation team will cease this course, and revise their plans to instead encourage the higher effort posts they want to see rather than trying to limit lower effort posts.

Furthermore, some of the reasons given for the change are quite odd and inflammatory. I understand how shitposting is not constructive, I think that's the strongest argument. The problem is I'm not usually coming on here to do work believe it or not. I'm usually here when i am trying to avoid my actual work. That and the news megathread, which is actually where the action is. I have the same objection to arguments like it "promotes misanthropy" and "mutual self harm". Come on, are you my mother now? Or my boss? Put on a smile and get to work effort posting? My actual mother gives me less shit over my smoking and she thinks my humor is witty. You can't expect too much discipline from anonymous form users, and honestly this place already has pretty well disciplined users when it comes to supporting each other but being ruthless to the libs and reactionaries. As for the too many white cis male communist "vibes" problem, this is a English speaking website spun off a American social media corporation, there's gonna be white men here. The ones here seem pretty well behaved to me and those who aren't got policed, and there's been a lot of past efforts to insure inclusivity for minorities of all sorts. The unsupported accusations of the shitposters just being stinky misogynists ironically reeks of the reputation r/CTH got branded with among liberal reddit around 2016. First as a tragedy then a farce eyy?

even that would trigger the national guard contingency plans on us, unlike the chuds who were met with a firm handshake

the funny thing is, they DID amend that for FDR ... by moving the inauguration from March 4 to January 20

gotta respect that incrementalism

Who could imagine the nation that engaged in indigenous genocide, racial slavery, indigenous genocide again, more slavery, regional imperialism, global imperialism, social murder, and then more genocide would be lacking in basic human decency?

i don't believe in the basic goodness of my fellow Americans anymore

energized organised working class grass roots

sounds toxic to me

We probably have to drop teachers unions. theyve been toxic since Covid and basically everything they oppose is both popular and effective. Bring in the charter schools, start paying for merit, ect

yeah, that's definitely going to work. Make Americans even more moronic than they already are.

The bourgeoisie would literally kill him if he tried that 100% tariff shit, no way that ever happens

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says he looks forward to working with Trump “to advance peace through strength”

fix is in folks