Absolutely disgusting 🤮 ... you are a war criminal Abby, fuck off with your bourgeois, genocidal, smug look. I wish you a [redacted] [redacted] [redacted].
These past few days I was thinking about people I know who are lapdogs for weapons firms, thinking surely recent events will change their minds. Guess not :/
Just realised it looks so cursed in dark mode because I hand erased the background, but that's part of the charm lol.
A lot of the western "left" has a fetish with defeat and struggle. The moment the oppressed take things into their own hands, make advances never seen before, overthrow their oppressor, and start rebuilding post-war, the western left tends to stop giving a shit and abandon what's now has "lost its charm".
That's why critical support for AES is so low in the western left. I think it has its roots in orientalist thinking. Poor, oppressed, and revolutionary people from the global south driven into martyrdom fits their narrative, anything else is too much reality to deal with. They project onto these conflicts their desired aesthetics and what they deem a "cultured" theoretical understanding of global systems.
But dialectical thinking doesn't stop at rallies and symbolic pins, flags, posters and patches. It also means accepting the material actions being taken to achieve that. Sure, it might conflict with their ideal aesthetics. But they can't get past the disappointment. Instead, they take the disappointment as a sign of some kind of moral high ground, which is just blatant orientalism.
I bet for the owners of public instances, it must be a constant fight against YouTube's IP banning or rate limiting.
If you have the resources, you could self-host your own private instance for you and your friends or family. I haven't had performance issue with my private instance so far.
Overnight
He had a dream about it. Dream on, liberal.
Chuds when people are doxxed, stalked, and sent death threats
Chuds when they can't reply "peepeepoopoo" to their president on the internet
SSH into my PC, from there pretty much anything is possible. Neovim works pretty well.
Hexbears stand for the users of Hexbear. I've heard Hexbearian being used too.
Okay so forgive me if I miss anything out but I read the thread you made on .world and .ml, as well as the chain on Blahaj: I completely empathize with you that the instance is clearly not safeguarding against the weaponizing of words to silence people looking for solidarity in an inclusive space. I agree with you on the "politics" stance, I think it is exclusive behavior to ban you because you're being "too pedantic" or "argumentative", as they are discriminating against folks who need to clarify on the definition of words, as misuse of language breaks down communication, defeating the whole point of a discussion forum. Calling someone "pedantic" is an insult (let's ignore the troll accusation), and is mean, I would rather say they're detail-oriented and I think it is an accessibility requirement to allow folks to request or seek justification on a potential misuse of language. They misused the word "politics" by confounding it with "controversial topics", and you had the right for pointing that out, as it improves a forum's accessibility on either side. If Abigail did not want to see such response, because it is not good for their mental health to engage in deep dive discussions on semantics, I think it is their responsibility to block you, say "I will not engage", or simply not respond. Some folks use language more literal than others, and I think banning you for this reason is bad faith, simply because you "didn't speak their English".
As for the response on misgendering. I think it's okay to make a mistake, and fix it up, which they did. But then saying "English default on the internet is male for strangers.", is absolutely archaic bullshit. They're very happily willing to call anything that doesn't sit right with their worldview as "politics", but persist to defend archaic internet colloquialism (that, btw, is slowly changing across the internet with most people including either their pronouns in their handles, or simply using the neutral "they") to defend their mistake. They didn't have to make that statement, I don't know what the reason is, but if their users are supporting that attitude, I'd just stay away from Blahaj and not engage with them. I hope you find a safe space elsewhere.
Do they make themselves scarce? You haven't done your research then: https://hexbear.net/post/301934 (technically OP on Lemmygrad but it counters your premise still)
Sorry sweetie, you wouldn't understand, I have a PhD, didn't you look at my Twitter display name?