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4h ago

Content filter setup at account registration to remove politics from feed
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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 4h ago
Lock the account to c/badposting only until they change it. Seems like the most ROI on humor for the effort. Or a singular invisible thread that has some mandatory reading and subsequent quiz if you press the button.

4h ago

Anyone else get survivor's guilt when you think about all the users and posts that have been banned and removed?

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 4h ago

Light vs L style friendship where we're both trying to prove that the other is actually a secret lib

"So uh, do you think cats should be able to have salami?"

5h ago

Soon there will be 3,000 immigration officers in Minneapolis.

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 5h ago

Oh no! Was there a surge in undocumented people in the state or something?! What the fuck are you people fucking talking about?! If you're all upset about protests, even if they were the violent riots that you're depending on for the strategy, why the fuck would you deploy immigration officers?

Probably less accountability than the +5 with advantage to accountability saving throws that cops already have

5h ago

Anyone else get survivor's guilt when you think about all the users and posts that have been banned and removed?

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 5h ago

Yeah, I never really interrogated it. I just do a good job of keeping my nose out of drama and have really good opinions

6h ago

I moved from the US to the world's most livable city. After nearly 2 years of disappointment, I couldn't wait to leave OR: How I moved abroad to a place I only knew from fairytale stereotypes

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 6h ago

Hello! You should ping me funny stories from your gym, questions, and the like. I'd always like to blab your ear off about it

12h ago

Several monkeys loose in St. Louis and authorities have no clue how they got there

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 12h ago

An Old School RuneScape player was doing Monkey Madness 1

12h ago

I moved from the US to the world's most livable city. After nearly 2 years of disappointment, I couldn't wait to leave OR: How I moved abroad to a place I only knew from fairytale stereotypes

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 12h ago

I think very famously if you move to a new place with a new culture it's hard to make friends writ large. You're an unknown unknown and getting to know you is not the path of least resistance.

I was at a foreign MMA gym one time. I attended a striking class for my first day nobody paid me any attention (I'm a mediocre striker). But after the grappling day, because I'm a BJJ brown belt, everyone wanted to know my name, where I'm from, and they were impressed with my knowledge of the language. I come back the next day and the front desk person asks "you're the brown belt, right?" I don't think they were basally curious that a foreigner was there, but the second I showed that I was exceptional at this hobby they had it was, by some mechanism, enough to want to talk to me. I've rolled with a visitor at the gym only to find they were a UFC fighter and only at that point wanted to learn more about them, so it's mutual.

But here's the thing, I think if you want to do something and you can then that's reason enough. Even if your motivation is silly. Even if you get BTFO, nobody likes you, it wasn't a max win, and you have to move back moving abroad is a romantic and adventurous thing to do. If you tell me that you moved to China because you're a leftist, you saw a cool postcard, and you weren't doing anything important in America I'd think you were rad.

12h ago

IF YOU JUST WANT PORN, JUST USE THE FUCKING INTERNET YOU FUCKING GOONER. THERE ARE ALREADY OPTIONS.

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 12h ago

badposting @hexbear.net

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1d ago

Western Liberal White Women are actually not that complicated. They just want to have fun, but it's that type Plankton talked about in that SpongeBob song

1d ago

Give me the worst take you have

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 1d ago

My bad posting portfolio when it sees this mf

1d ago

Give me the worst take you have

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 1d ago

Thinking about my friend in the West Bank "God that sucks, I hope he's okay."

My friend in the West Bank thinking about me, "God that sucks, I hope they're okay"

2d ago

China is building one of the most advanced fusion reactors on Earth—a facility that could generate nearly limitless clean energy.

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 2d ago

I think it's a fool's game to say that better technology isn't better. If you're getting a knee replaced and it's an outpatient procedure you do in an afternoon that's a really cool and good thing.

The discussion had by learned people regarding climate change, to my understanding, is that we've crossed over the event horizon for catastrophic damage from climate change. It's in a similar vein to pollution in the ocean and the like. Something to the effect of suggesting if we had 0 emissions from today onward we'd still experience repercussions. I don't have a good citation nor the will to seek one out, unfortunately

So it's not like easily built housing, renewable energy powered technology, and easily grown food to sustain climate refugees while an effort is made to un-desert their home is a bad thing or an unworthy goal. I have a sneaking suspicion that "technology will save us" is a way of misunderstanding the situation the same way someone might think you're perfect to date if only you weren't a communist. I doubt every climate scientist is a Luddite. But they'd probably groan if you suggest carbon capture will reset the clock like it's a novel idea.

2d ago

Individualism warps the mind

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 2d ago

Hey WDYMP here with the Hexbear Post. Quick question, who are in the kill squads? You disapprove of the institution that goes around killing people, right?

2d ago

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 2d ago

I just saw a yougov poll that was only 28% of repubs and 53% of Americans disapprove of ICE. I took away from it that you can show people mothers getting brutalized, families separated, and describe every last detail of the concentration camps and you'll still get a lukewarm reception from Americans writ large who would have to update their opinion based on evidence which is an impossible ask. You might as well ask your blind friend for pointers on your three point shot. I can believe that my premise is flawed. Do Americans care about ICE?

2d ago

Kim Jong-Un - Novo General Megathread for the 8th-14th of January 2025

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 2d ago

Me at the super bowl party

3d ago

ICE WILL GO 'DOOR TO DOOR' AGENCY DECLARES 'WARTIME'

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

They were supposed to get a bunch of outrage to the point of violence first. Isn't this out of order?

3d ago

Xi propagandized me into thinking that invading a country and kidnapping its leader on bogus charges is the act of a rogue superpower

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

Oh, Xi lost face? Well here, let me make a face at you and call it even

3d ago

If you think the Yankee military is less bad than ICE, that's because you think people in the Global South are less worthwhile than those in the USA

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

It took me a minute to metabolize that title.

"The Yankee military is just as bad as ICE unless you believe the people in the global south are worth less than those in the USA."

But yes, I hope the ghosts of the people they've killed drag more of them down to hell.

3d ago

Kim Jong-Un - Novo General Megathread for the 8th-14th of January 2025

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

Upon reflection I think I have a coherent theory. It's like Matt Chrisman's Zen fascism bit. The idea that they don't believe X Y and Z. They value the in group more than any type of coherent position. So rather than XYZ, if you believe in ABC, they believe in not-A not-B and not-C. So by virtue of being called a hypocrite, they can, like a bat using echolocation, find where the in group and the out group are. This is to say that if they were truly immune to hypocrisy, it would be no better than random chance to find them in such a position. But if they seem attracted to hypocritical positions, it says more about them relying on it/benefiting from the discourse. As if to say, if they stopped receiving that criticism it would cause decoherence of their positions.

If they're not believing XYZ and instead being anti-ABC, then it's gotta be about rules, norms, and whatever else as a tool for the in group to punish the outgroup. So, to them, more than being right in any rhetorical or philosophical capacity, their primary goal is to belong. So the hypocrisy helps ping the border of them versus us.

3d ago

Kim Jong-Un - Novo General Megathread for the 8th-14th of January 2025

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

They're so fucking lucky that right wing hypocrisy is like using an electric move in a ground type.

It's so convenient that it makes me believe that there's a psychological component to it. Like why is the meta build shielded by anti-hypocricy tech? Why are they seeking out hypocritical positions? How does their internal communication not break down without integrity?

I hypothesize that they're less immune to it like the electric-ground model and more like they're being fueled by it. They depend on it in some capacity. The mechanism could be some kind of codependence. Their actions are oriented in reaction to criticism.

4d ago

In your opinion, what should someone in my situation do to build a better future, given difficulties in my country, impossibility of living there,my destroyed home. What is a suitable solution for me!

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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] @hexbear.net 4d ago

I can't imagine a solution that doesn't involve cooperation with the people around you. Whatever a more dignified life looks like, it must involve the concerted effort of people pooling their skills and hopes together. Occupation forces aren't going to let up because one person is powerful, on the contrary that will embolden them. How could transformation come about besides checking on your neighbors? The power of an exceptional mason?

It is a heartbreaking situation no one should have to go through. I am wholly unqualified by anything but your request for an opinion to speak to the gravity of what is going on.