Maybe if the seals spent less time trafficking and doing drugs they would fuck up less

I know a bunch of people from in person organizing in the US who are ML/maoist and have positive opinions of China, Russia, Cuba, etc, but it’s generally the kind of critical support you see on hexbear. A lot of them are trans/NB and have grown up in the US propaganda bubble and reject it.

Also pretty sure both lemmy.ml and hexbear.net are blocked in china. It’s probably just because they block all foreign social media as a general practice though. If they’re looking to do propaganda work they’re probably going to do it on platforms with more people tbh.

From that link pretty much all of the usage is talking about the literal insect, or talking about reactionaries/fascists using it to refer to muslims, immigrants and other ‘undesirables’.

Out of the handful of remaining uses, it’s stuff like in the hexbear thread on this meanwhileongrad thread:

This is the most questionable usage I found, and it’s referring to fash/reactionaries.

That’s not the main point though, the bigger issue was getting called a ‘degenerate’ that’s pretty much a red flag that someone’s a cryptofash.

citing db0 on this one:

compare the use of the term on shit vs hexbear: https://sh.itjust.works/search?q=degenerate&type=All&listingType=Local&page=1&sort=TopAll

https://hexbear.net/search?q=degenerate&type=All&listingType=Local&page=1&sort=TopAll

While looking I found this one on hexbear 5 years ago, almost 90 upvotes shitting on stalin for criminalizing homosexuality, and quoting him calling someone degenerate. I read this as extremely critical of Stalin:

All the usage on hexbear I see is either self-deprecating or discussing (negatively) about people using the term.

Vaush this year defended the idea that he is allowed to call trans people shit like “subhuman, degenerate, mentally ill, leeching off society” if they step out of line and oppose him or his breadtube friends.

meanwhile on meanwhile on grad:

My experience on lemmy is vastly improved after blocking lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, hexbear, beehaw, and pawb. Wiped out vast swathes of degenerates from my feed.

hmmm, calling people degenerates and complaining about commies, progressives and furries.

Goat seems fine with replies calling people he doesn’t like degenerates:

more examples:

Wouldn’t be surprised to hear they are, but nonetheless the chapo trap house degenerates that make up hexbear and grad are real. They do believe the dumb shit they say. It can’t all just be explained away with CCP and FSB boogeymen unfortunately, that would honestly be better imo. I’m sure some of it is, but mostly it’s people crazy enough to believe the stupid bullshit they spout.

On the shit main community someone deleted their posts after getting called out for this behavior, this is a known issue:

‘degenerate tankie roaches’

site admin calls it out, entirely downvoted lol

Like you might think I’m being melodramatic, but I really don’t see how meanwhileongrad isn’t a nazi bar.

As I said, I don’t have a dog in this fight, it seems indeed bad to have such comments on both sides.

I really hope you re-assess both sides, because they are not equivalent.

I understand, there’s plenty of problematic posters to go around, the issue I have is that it’s normalized calling an instance which is overwhelmingly trans and queer ‘degenerates’, that’s a major red flag, and it’s behavior like that which was why hexbear defederated shit in the first place.

sh.it doesn’t seem to have improved in that time

The issues I have with piefed are more related to the auto-collapsing comments based on votes, and the terrible search features, particularly its modlog. Seems way worse for transparency to have things that opaque and censorship happening through votes.

Question, do you feel comfortable posting in comms where other people are getting called degenerate roaches?

It’s the default setting for the echo chamber that I took issue with.

I did say that it was something admins can change manually in my initial post here, twice.

He’s just very committed to making sure the Nazi bars have a good public image okay?

There’s a huge post in their snark comm where they’re spinning this as ‘just a default’ and he’s pasting it there too lmao

“wow switching to piefed cured my Havana syndrome”:

I feel like the op meme would hit harder with this on the well guy cause they’re fine to push the ‘lesser evil’ when it means getting their preferred evil in. when it comes to opposing communism then it’s suddenly purity testing is fine

the best organizers I know do happen to be doms

we are not the same person lol

I barely have time to post on this account let alone an entirely separate one

Vibes based political orientation

Except for the folks at blahaj. They can suck a dick

🤔

Oh I found a new comm to subscribe to!

I wish they would merge in the pronoun support too, one of the better hexbear features imo.

I believe they forked from Lemmy before federation existed close to 4 years ago, added things like custom emojis and then only re-merged after federation was implemented then turned it on.

To me it’s fascinating seeing people in the US try to act like ‘democracy’ is their highest value when the US and liberal manifestations of ‘democracy’ are often manifestly antidemocratic. I can see a line of argument from an anarchist angle about the lack of total consensus and tyranny of the majority, but in practice some of the most oppressed groups in China are going to be newly wealthy businesses owners who are unable to translate their wealth into political power -something which would be ultimately antidemocratic, but normal under liberal ‘democracy’.

I don’t own one, but the previous (non wheeled ones) have been around for a while, they’re on Amazon with mixed reviews, people on Reddit seem to have been using them too.

This list price for this bigger more performant one seems pretty high though at $100k

wheeled with a fancy suspension: (yt link)

This visualization of global solar installations shows how far behind we already are.

Explain how I’m sounding racist? (not getting your ‘joke’ specific to France and Belgium about how people self delete isn’t racism)

You sound like you have a chip on your shoulder and have already demonstrated yourself to be a prolific liar so I don’t have any reason to take you seriously.

Waiting on the explanation on how my pointing out that your behavior (a cis guy gatekeeping who is trans or not based on your opinion of them) is transphobic is actually transphobia on my part too.

lmao of course you’re the type of person to also handwring about a scumbag CEO getting shot. As you were, officer 🫡