Happy new year!
Hey, just a heads up, "yakub" jokes are not permitted on the site.
Of course they're an asshole. And they're banned. But part of acting in good faith is letting people speak their piece.
They were mad about a thread where they got dunked on because their wife used to be a cop pr person basically, and now does HR. Lmao.
I'm curious what input this person has, and there's no better way to make it clear that we operate in good faith than to let people speak their piece.
As far as taking that advice goes, obviously we're going to use good judgment.
As an admin of the site, I'd love to hear your specific and named criticisms of the site. I would greatly appreciate examples of flaws within the Hexbear site culture and some recommendations on how you feel we can recover the site to a revolutionary platform with sound ideological foundations.
https://theonion.com/home-deport-advantage/
It's a real Kelly cartoon, but they're a parody of chud political cartoons
I'm sure this was unintentional but this comment has this energy:
"Last night, I was watching Star Trek: Deep Space 9—great show, by the way, tremendous show, everybody loves it. And there’s this little guy, the Ferengi, very smart, very funny, fantastic character. He’s got these ‘Rules of Acquisition’—and let me tell you, these rules? Some of them, they’re brilliant. Rule number 35: ‘Peace is good for business.’ Now, let me tell you, he’s absolutely right. Absolutely right. I told them, I said, ‘Peace is good for business, folks. It’s true, it works. Big deal.’ You know it, I know it—peace is good for business!"
Roll 1d4 to see what happens!
Nat 1: Your PC gets taken out by a cryptoworm. You lose all of your data, and all of your accounts and passwords are compromised. BAD END
2: You switch to an LTSC license and pay Microsoft $183 for 3 years of Extended Support. Your applications slowly stop getting updated, and by November 2028 your PC still loses support. You now find it somewhat frustrating to use your PC, especially online. You're now using an unusual browser fork you'd never heard of before, the UI is awful and half of your extensions don't work. Since your Extended Support is now gone, you must now move to option 3.
3: You're very careful with your computer. You use a PiHole on your network, you sandbox applications religiously. You only use old offline applications or niche long term support forks of open-source software that continue to support your OS. You regularly find, vet, and install unofficial community patches to your computer. You eventually realize you're spending almost as much time trying to keep your PC secure as you spend actually using it, but continue out of frustration with Microsoft. Nevertheless, these patches stop being released around 2030. Many of your applications have also stopped being updated. Congratulations, you extended the life of your Windows install by 5 years! You're now doing the equivalent of running Windows 7 in 2025 or windows XP in 2020. Was it worth it? Honestly, it wasn't worth it for me. I did this with XP and tried with 7 but just gave up and moved onto option 4.
Nat 4: You end up installing Linux. You're shocked by how straightforward and functional it is. Maybe once a month at most, you fire up a virtual machine with Windows because you need to use a single program you've not found a good replacement for. GOOD END
What if they just put his face real tiny in the middle of Washington's nose?
Huge agree. It sounds goofy, and it's inexorably tied to just so much bigotry too.
There's no reason to co-opt it, and attempts at doing so would be a betrayal of leftist values.
Honestly, I think a tree would do a much better job than anyone in the US government.
Hey all, sincerely hope you're well.
Many of our American posters are gathering together with family and friends today. They're likely to hear plenty of awful takes from their liberals. Unscratched, freshly scratched, or pre-scratched chuds alike, there are sure to be brainworms all around the table and openly airing their unhinged grievances. Please feel free to share their awful takes here. This thread is open for supporting one another, venting, laughing at bad family takes (both stale and bespoke).
This thread is intended to be a supportive space to bring the community together. Please be kind to one another. As always, discussion of struggle sessions or attempts to relitigate them will not be permitted.
Have fun and keep cozy! 
Hey, everyone. Hope this post finds you all well! A few days ago, PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS opened a comm request thread to name the community formerly known as The Dredge Tank. Now that it's been about 4 days and the votes seem pretty steady, we're rea-
"STOP THE COUNT!!!"
"Mr. President, she's talking."
As I was saying, we're ready to call the vote. Nobody's been happy with counterpropaganda, and we've heard you loud and clear. I'm excited to announce that Slop. is now open for all the posts you'd have previously posted to The Dredge Tank.
El Chisme continues to remain the new space for posts that would have been at home in The Dunk Tank.
In case anyone's confused about this, I'm gonna give a really quick explanation so everyone's on the same page with what's going on with the Tanks. The names of The Dunk Tank and The Dredge Tank have racist origins. The moderators of those communities agreed that the names of these communities should be changed. Unfortunately, while Lemmy allows the display names of communities to be changed, it does not currently allow the actual comm names to be changed. In order to change the names of these communities, we would have to shut them down and re-open new comms under new names. The mods of the dunk tank and dredge tank requested the name c/gossip. While there are some legitimate arguments being made relating to misogynistic societal perceptions of that word, the mods include women and enbies who disagree and specifically requested this name. I feel that this situation parallels the initial pushback that was experienced with disabled in which users voiced concerns that this name could be ableist, but the moderators of that community are themselves disabled and specifically requested that comm name, verbatim. Along with this name change, the mods felt that slightly expanding the scope of the community and simultaneously lowering the bar for the previous Rule 8 would allow users to post about more minor public figures as well as more major ones. This was seen as an expansion of the community's role, allowing posts to the new Dredge Tank replacement (counterpropaganda) to become a little more focused. We communicated this poorly, but the intention was to have users offer a sentence or two countering the reactionary take shown in the screenshot. Given how things spiraled from there, we've taken a step back from changing any of the rules during the switchover from The Dredge tank to Slop. We're trying to take time to let everyone breathe without changing too many things too quickly, but we also want to actually make sure people can get back to posting. Hopefully you're all okay with this pacing, lemme know below.
EDIT: thanks to @niph@hexbear.net for pointing out that this post didn't include the descriptions of the comms.
Where am I supposed to post...?
Slop is for what the old dredge_tank was like. Roast anonymous reactionaries to your heart's content!
Gossip for an informal discussion regarding people with power / notable / tools of power
Counterprop for a formalized discussion regarding reactionary people no matter how powerful/notable.
In upcoming admin updates:
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I'll post some analysis of mistakes and missteps that were made in recent days, including some of the context that led up to those errors.
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I'll offer a clearer and more complete explanation and description of the ongoing site culture issues that have been previously mentioned. These were poorly communicated before, but I'll do my best to explain both the issues at hand as well as the importance of dealing with them.
The last few days have been really confusing and frustrating for a lot of people and a lot has happened. This is not an appropriate place to reopen, re-litigate, or rehash the struggle session. I will not be debating either the struggle session or the subjects of the upcoming admin update posts here. Please refrain from doing so as well.
"Folks, we're feeding the fish their slop, they're tremendously hungry, incredibly famished. And look: I get to feed them. They say: Mr President, please feed the koi fish, its din din time, and it is! I get to do the little shaka-shaka with the can, and they're happy, they're eating -they're eating- out of the palm of my hand, and they're getting so big and so strong. Look at all these koi fish! I bet they won't have any issues finding -finding- a special someone. And it's wonderful, it's great. Greydon Carter could never be a tremendously effective keeper of fish. His party is not so hot, and all of his betta fishes are dying! But Lyudmila's letting me feed them, and I'm doing a tremendously great job, and a looot better than what Sleepy Joe would do!"
~~Hey all, hope this post finds you well. I know the last few days have been upsetting and confusing, but I want your feedback on something that's been discussed by quite a number of users: removing the community c/fakenews. Given the poor communication that's been such a problem lately, I'm calling a vote.~~
~~Let's just make this super simple:~~
~~Please vote by way of upbearing the emojis pinned below.~~
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Keep c/fakenews~~
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Remove c/fakenews~~
~~Votes will be counted 48 hours after this post was made.~~
Edit: Sorry, I jumped the gun on this one, gang. Gonna give the previous struggle session more breathing room before we litigate anything else, okay?
We'll be back later this week to discuss further.
Hey everyone, I've removed bans for everyone that did not request one in the previous admin thread. (I think. If you got banned and I didn't restore your account yet, let me know and I'll fix it.) Don't worry! We're not gonna just ban people for no reason.
In case anyone hasn't seen it yet, Alaskaball confirmed that Sangria was their admin alt. They were messing around with their admin tools on their own account and figured it would be seen as a funny bit, but without being informed of the bit many of the mods and admins were just as shocked, confused, and appalled as you were. I've talked to the other admins and mods, and we're all gonna take it easy on bits for a bit. (Pun intended. This is the last one, I promise.)
If you're afraid that there's been an infiltration of transphobic, egomaniacal wrecker mods who hate the users, I want to assure you that's absolutely not the case. The overwhelming majority of mods and admins on this site are trans. Our admins are all trusted, long-time users in good standing. We regularly browse, comment, and post on our main accounts. You post and chat with us daily as comrades, and we value all of you. You may not recognize the usernames on our admin accounts because we regularly swap the alts used for admin privileges. This is why you'll see really old or unused alt accounts as well as really new accounts on the admin team.
I've seen a lot of speculation down below, some entertaining, some upsetting. We absolutely do not accept transphobia or any form of bigotry on this site. Some of the statements provided by mods and admins have been seen as transphobic and bioessentialist. I want to offer some transparency, but also clarify that I can't get much more specific on this for personal security reasons.
During the earlier discussions on how we felt things could be improved with these communities, multiple trans mods and admins described their reasoning in favour of the change by expressing with a variety of wording that it's the [he/him] demographic in particular that has been the source of toxic and troubling behavior in the tanks. That the he/hims haven't been beating the accusations, so to speak. With that group being largely cishet white guys on this site, these two terms were assumed to roughly correlate. We weren't making prepared statements for release, the comments that got posted here were paraphrased and combined from more casual comments made by trans people, in the mod chat to mostly other trans people about some of the chauvinistic and ironically bigoted posting habits that they saw as alienating and unhealthy for the site, and what we could do to improve the situation. We genuinely didn't foresee the potential for a miscommunication of those statements as being bioessentialist, and want to extend our sincerest apologies for the misunderstanding.
Edit: Please feel welcome to post in c/gossip as you would have posted in the_dunk_tank, and in c/counterpropaganda as you would have posted in the_dredge_tank.
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Equating communism with the common ownership of women. First as tragedy, then as kink.