bandario

Brigading is a made-up reddit thing. It used to be normal for forums to “raid” other forums, and if you couldn’t deal with that, it was on you. However we are not “raiding” there is no organised movement to go somewhere and post on it. We see the same posts pop up in “all”, and we have a large and active userbase, that’s all that’s happening.

You realise we can access hexbear.net and see the local posts? It's absolutely coordinated behaviour. Hexbear users post links to a given thread from another instance in chat or chapo or wherever with a suitably inflammatory title along with a call to arms along the lines of "Look at this terrible liberal take, OMG the entire cookie baking community is full of bigots and transphobes. Cookie bakers are bourgeois as hell!". Cue your entire community piling in to the cookie baking community to completely destroy all discussion of baking cookies until they get bored and move on.

You spend a lot of time talking about good faith discussions but from my perspective it's the hexbear community that isn't acting in good faith in most instances.

Regarding being “wrong about lib” I’m gonna disagree again. I think you have a different definition of what that is. Oftentimes we think of ourselves as being “leftists” or whatever, but by our words and actions we support the current (neo-liberal) system. Then it does not matter what we identify as, if we’re still furthering something else. If you’re interested in that kinda stuff you might want to read Combat Liberalism. It’s pretty short, so it’s a nice and quick primer.

I accept this, and I am guilty of this to the extreme. I was extremely politically active in my late teens and early 20's, and active in the labor movement. I have the criminal record as proof. I'm old as fuck now, and I have several people that depend on me NOT being in jail, and to continue pretending to be a functional member of our neo-liberal society to keep them from starving in the street.

I hate that the entirety of my time and energy is now exhausted on enriching "investors". I saw the system for what it is from a young age and fell into all of the traps anyway. The traps are effective, but that does not mean that my political ideology is in alignment with the system that sets them. Still, I acknowledge your point that things cannot change without action, and most times that means violent and illegal action. The system is built to protect itself.

As for your link... Mao Tse-tung killed, brutalised and starved to death more human beings than any other person that has ever lived. MILLIONS dead. If the society you seek to build is based on that same, tired old philosophy then I will fight you every step of the way. It's a very strange person that looks at the history of China over the last 100 years and decides they'd like to repeat it.

Yes, you are absolutely the smartest ones in the room. All rooms. At all times.

I suspect the userbase of hexbear skews extremely young. I too had everything figured out when I was younger.

Gotta colonize 'em all.

Viewing the entire world through the American lens is folly.

That was the joke, no?

I agree with your last statement 100%

I am generally against defederation and censorship.

In response to the OP of this topic though, people hate hexbears because of the constant hardcore brigading and the huge inline image abuse.

It's annoying as fuck. As soon as you smell a "lib", even though you are usually wrong, it just turns into a massive dogpile on anyone who doesn't share your identical belief structure.

That isn't debate, it's bullying. You have the numbers to pull it off but if it carries on you will absolutely end up defederated from everywhere.

Great job, now thousands of people who don't own the switch can continue to not buy games for it. The rest of your users also get to enjoy decreased performance on an already inadequate system. What an incredible deal.

I once borrowed my father in-law's Holden Statesman when I was on an interstate trip.

Well over ten years old, oil leaking piece of shit (It's a Holden).

I'll tell you what though: as someone who has never owned a large sedan, I was absolutely blown away by how much room is available in the boot.

It was cavernous! I had a bunch of projects to carry out that involved hiring a bunch of gear. I was fully prepared to hire a trailer and I never had to. That boot would swallow just about anything. Multiple bodies!

It was way more practical than my wife's SUV boot, and I never even had to put the seats down which I would absolutely have had to do with either of our more modern cars.

I was also blown away by the fuel economy. A supercharged V8 getting waaay better mileage than our tiny 4 cylinders. Power to weight ratio off the charts and I have to admit very nice to drive.

It would be super cool if someone was still making practical cars like that.

Alas, we've lived in the boonies for many years now. Where we live a proper 4x4 system is not really an optional requirement especially during the wet season.

Mind your words, heathen. Through faith, all things are possible... including the rape of multiple children before this ridiculous idea gets rolled back.

Is Florida trying to become Gilead for real? This is the most backwards shit I've seen in a while.

What has been released this year that really got your motor running??

It's infuriating how few of them seem interested in holding the door open for us.

Was that in response to the murder of the North Lakes woman in the middle of the night? Around Xmas time?