[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 85 points 1 month ago

The entire point of this is that fascists get to be openly antisemitic while accusing Jews of antisemitism. This is by design. Zionist antisemitism requires that any place outside of Israel becomes even less safe for Jews than a settler-colonial project in a constant state of war, and it needs to become really bad for that to work out.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 98 points 3 months ago

You are a major political party. You govern half of the states and at-risk populations are already moving across the country because they scramble towards a sanctuary. You are well-connected to unions, civil rights groups and other orgs about to get fucked over by the federal government. You regularly recruit tens of thousands of campaigning volunteers. You run the second-largest political fundraising network in the world. A metric fuckton of government employees from all possible backgrounds are about to get fired. The half of the country that isn't gloating over mass deportations may be at the most mobilizable moment in their entire life. And there's millions of people that need protection because they are about to get hit by the seething rage of a fascist government.

So yeah, what could you possibly do?

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 79 points 3 months ago

why be a landlord at this point?

Excellent question. Why indeed? mao-aggro-shining

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 79 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I mean, the president openly fighting a three letter agency does have potential for the funniest possible outcome. And if the result isn't "what if his head just did that?", it means any future organizing is under slightly less federal threat because that conflict either will be still ongoing or there will have been considerable bloodletting and loss of competency in bringing the feds in line. Classic let them fight situation if you ask me.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 101 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Musk has outright agreed with tweets claiming, openly and without any dogwhistles, that Jews want to exterminate the white race. He's been mask off for a while if people wanted to see it, and collaborators still make up excuses for him siegheiling in public. They will continue doing so when he shows up in public with a swastika armband or hangs a portrait of Hitler in his office.

The salute can, ofc, still alarm people who didn't pay close attention before, but i wouldn't overrate the propagandistic usefulness. It's been decided for a while who's on which side of history in this.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 140 points 6 months ago

There are hundreds of comments on this instance posted over the past day that brazenly violate rule #1 “We do not tolerate threats of and calls for violence in any form against any living creature”.

Ok, but how does "any living creature" apply to the UHC CEO?

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 81 points 8 months ago

Hexbears when somebody tells them to log off:

the-deserter "No superiors can relieve me of my duty, you bulldozed them all to a mass grave for trying to free humanity."

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submitted 9 months ago by AcidSmiley@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

In a bombshell leak from @PinkNewsStaff on X, Pink News' CEO Benjamin Cohen has been recorded signalling his intent to abandon the trans community to instead focus on being an “entertainment powerhouse”.

In the leaked recording Benjamin is captured stating "We have to be careful." "It's the role of others to change narratives", going on to further say that covering transgender issues will cause them to lose advertisers.

This revelation comes two weeks after pinknews removed their trans category from the website.

@PinkNewsStaff joined X in May 2024 and has been releasing several other allegations about the outlet, claiming there is a toxic culture of bullying, harassment and discrimination at PinkNews.

Leaked audio in the linked article.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 82 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

it doesn't just sound like that, we've purged a ton of the old sub's userbase that overlapped with r/stupidpol and had a transphobia problem

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 83 points 11 months ago

"lol" said the scorpion, "lmao"

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 106 points 1 year ago

It was a bank robbery with a hostage situation where the pigs didn't want to compromise on anything with the robbers and were directly endangering the lives of the hostages.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 119 points 2 years ago

It's a pretty high bar to dunk on libertarian sexpats and somehow come off as more racist and mysogynist than them, but he really outdid himself there.

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It wasn't a hostile discussion or anything, i didn't even go full "the kulaks deserved it" (although the mod that single-handedly banned me did go full "the kulaks did not deserve it"). I just laid out plainly and calmly that revolutions are inherently authoritarian, that Luxemburg said "the revolution will be as violent as the ruling class makes it necessary" and that there's one Trotzki quote i 100% agree with: "If the October Revolution hadn't succeeded, the world would have known a Russian word for fascism 10 years before Mussolini's March on Rome". Basically the whole "Jakarta Method" train of thought laid out clearly and without calling anybody names.

Note that this was on an explicitly left-leaning server that does not allow cops and troops to join. Also after several days of another poster starting destructive, aggressive bad faith arguments in the politics channel until a number of users went "disengage" on her and the channel had to be frozen until recently, when she immediately started being hostile and arguing in bad faith again, which got her not one, but two warnings from the same mod without further consequences. Meanwhile, when i defend AES without attacking anybody, that's apparently too much for her to handle. No advance warning, no "sis, you're talking to me as a mod here", not even a notification that i got banned.

The best part is that according to screenshots a friend just sent me, she's now completely going off about "authoritarians". The nerve some people have.

Sorry for posting pointless internet drama here, i just needed to vent.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 160 points 2 years ago

Wait till the realization sinks in that this is just the normal, organic amount of engagement they get from us because we're by far the most active lemmy instance

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Sorry about the idealism tho, this test is actually hella dumb, but it's more fun than they usually are (at least if you're a permanently online trans person).

Anyway, if you want to do dumb political compass shit, but with trans memes, here's the test: https://notaquaheart.github.io/TransAxes/?

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