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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 107 points 6 months ago

There's a person from the solar punk lemmy posting in there about how the american flag stands for freedom and equality for all and I can't help but cringe at how much they're not living up to the "punk" part with their bullshit nationalism lmao

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 58 points 6 months ago

Punk is an aesthetic

That's all

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 53 points 6 months ago

An aesthetic that developed from rebellion against unjust hierarchies in society. Art doesn't exist in a vacuum.

[-] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No but like, using "-punk" as a suffix denotes an aesthetic that is based on imagining a society built around a core aspect, generally an energy source. Like, steampunk is all cooper and big buttons, dieselpunk is all dark steel and plastics, and solarpunk is contemporary utopian urban design with a lot of green space

The relationship to the anarchist punk movement ~~is almost nonexistent~~ remote

If I'm not mistaken btw

Edit : it comes from "cyberpunk" which definitely has punk vibes

[-] AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 6 months ago

dieselpunk is all dark steel and plastics,

I had never heard of this and now all I can think is who the hell conceived of a world even more dependent on petrol. Why bother, just go outside and take pictures.

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago

Dieselpunk is literally a fascist aesthetic derived primarily from the third reich. Like the primary examples of dieselpunk art are the more recent Wolfenstein games. It's literally just fascist tank worship.

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[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 51 points 6 months ago

There's a person from the solar punk lemmy posting in there about how the american flag stands for freedom and equality for all

picard

and I can't help but cringe at how much they're not living up to the "punk" part with their bullshit nationalism lmao

picard-annoyed

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You don't even need to leave the conventional AmLit canon to make a joke of that many times over. I know that you know this, of course, but other people sometimes benefit from these references being posted.

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[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 96 points 6 months ago
[-] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 74 points 6 months ago

Well sweaty have you considered that we NEED to use right-wing symbology to own the TANKIES??? maybe-later-kiddo

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago

how do we not have an :are-we-the-baddies:?

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[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 92 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Weird how they banned all explicitly left wing trans people from their trans space, and went out of their way to protect chasers at the expense of trans people and now suddenly their instance is a right wing cesspit. What a crazy coincidence that is.

[-] nightshade@hexbear.net 91 points 6 months ago
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[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 76 points 6 months ago

Ron Paul was a mistake, leading to the creation of Ron Swanson introducing libertarianism to millennials.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 35 points 6 months ago

I don't know what's worse, the ham radio Ayn Rand libertarians from the 70s or the Ron Paul gold standard meme libertarians from 2008

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[-] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 70 points 6 months ago

I thought they wanted to keep politics out of there

[-] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago

Politics are when you are left of Biden.

[-] Maoo@hexbear.net 59 points 6 months ago

Thirty minutes from now: "why do all these freedom-loving libertarians want me dead?"

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago

Fifty minutes from now: "why are they all asking if I'm under 18 in my dms?"

[-] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 57 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

But if you do moderation and curation on a web forum, that’s a violation of free speech. And people who infringe on free speech clearly cannot be truly trans. Freedom is what the Burgerland ruling class deems it to be. This is how we defeat cisheteropatriarchy.

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[-] kristina@hexbear.net 55 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Wait so did this person ever say that they were trans, they were asked and dodged the question

I actually am very interested to know because ideology can inhibit LGBT community outreach (re: make people shut-ins because they don't like other trans people because of what they've been told) and it's useful to me to understand how these kinds of trans people think so I can make ones nearby touch grass

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 53 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Trawled their(her? Not listed) profile: seems like a pretransition egg that browses /TTTT/. usually when these people transition and are discriminated against, they come to the irl trans community for solutions (doctors lists, survival tips, free therapy) and slowly build class consciousness as bad experiences accumulate and information is shared (along with hugs) face to face.

They will eventually realize at this stage the only people that tangibly helped them were socialists and become more amicable towards socialist ideas. I've seen it happen a lot, it's not guaranteed obviously and the archetype varies country to country and by ethnicity but that's the vibe I'm getting.

[-] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 53 points 6 months ago

Most normal day on the Blahaj instance.

[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 50 points 6 months ago

holy shit, the comments on that post cringe

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 46 points 6 months ago
[-] GarfGirl@hexbear.net 45 points 6 months ago

The mods deleted the post

So now I've got this guy in my DMs instead

yes-comm

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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 44 points 6 months ago

What is bahaj? I think I've seen some of them post in here before but don't know what their instance is about.

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 72 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Anti-communist Vaushite chaser instance spun off from r/196. We were federated with them for a minute until we realized how intolerable they were.

[-] GarfGirl@hexbear.net 64 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Well, it started as a small kind of libby trans friendly space on Lemmy for just a handful of users that was a spin off of the blahaj.zone misskey instance on fedi (mastodon basically) but because of the Reddit stuff it swelled in size and then r/196 asked if they could migrate to it and suddenly the entire culture of the instance was up ended by chaser vaushites.

also it's become the 1 token trans friend for all the Lemmitors that agrees with their shitty opinions because they can't bear to acknowledge that the instance with the most trans users on is hexbear

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 6 months ago

they can’t bear to acknowledge that the instance with the most trans users on is hexbear

They cope and seath sooo fucking much about it, the number of these losers I have seen implying that the trans on hexbear and lemmigrad were fake in some way, troll or bots.

[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 35 points 6 months ago

i remember how one of them made a post about how anxious they get when someone shows up with pronouns next to their name because those hexbears are so meeeeann

just pronouns perspective honestly

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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 59 points 6 months ago

So it's NATO leftist central. I'm starting to realize why every one of them posting here was insufferable as hell.

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[-] casskaydee@hexbear.net 55 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Just for a little clarification.. Blahaj is also the name of the shark plushie at IKEA that has become sort of a symbol of trans support. That predates the cringe lemmy instance you're talking about (which I had never even heard of until today, but the shark thing has been a phenomenon for years)

[-] UltraGreen@hexbear.net 43 points 6 months ago

Yikes. This is literally no different than a rainbow swastika or something equally tone deaf.

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[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago

deeply deeply cringe

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago

What the fuck

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Liberation for me but not for thee, apparentlee?

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago

I can get behind the libertarian sentiment of “I want gay couples to own machines guns and grow weed,” but unless they always vote for libertarian parties, their default course of action is to almost always support the Republican Party because guns and money and “free speech” will always be more important than the lives of marginalized people.

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[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago
[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago

e: why are you all calling me slurs

[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago
[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago
[-] manuallybreathing@hexbear.net 35 points 6 months ago

I only make communist are in GIMP, sorry sweaty

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 34 points 6 months ago

Gunning for the Kapo position I see

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[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 6 months ago

The symbolism of portraying oneself as a snake within the trans community amuses me. Nevermind the rest on this heaping pile of shit.

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