[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 39 points 3 weeks ago

I only watched the first couple seasons of The Boys (somehow less edgy than the comic book!)

But Huey slowly coming to the realization that sometimes the enemy can't be defeated through the system and sometimes there are controlled opposition on "your side" working to just hinder your movement and you really do gotta come out and kill people sometimes.

Now it's not him siding with the villains, so much as a liberal realizing the futility of non-violence and working within the system, and joining up with a guerilla terrorist group that eventually gets recruited by the CIA is surprisingly realistic for a superhero show made by Amazon.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 40 points 2 months ago

I've seen some friendliness between Yank athletes and Chinese athletes.

Emma Navarro, however, is the daughter of a subprime loan billionaire. She was probably taught from a young age "the help" are "the other" and lesser humans.

She's a particularly bad case of a Nepo baby with a superiority complex.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 39 points 2 months ago

"I went out of my way to collect roadkill with the intention of consuming it, but later decided to illegally dump it instead" is among the tamer sentences that's come out of his mouth.

RFK Jr's brain is less intact that JFK's at this stage

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Tom Bombadil is the grillpilled wife guy and is therefore unaffected by the the threat of Sauron, the temptation of the ring, or the plight of the Fellowship.

grillman

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 38 points 5 months ago

Wait what if the building is a small shop that has a singular room with a toilet and sink in it? The little bookstore near my house only has 1 water closet. Those type of stores will be illegal to build from now on?

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hexbear began as refugees from r/chapotraphouse, a leftist subreddit that was purged from Reddit by the admins 4 years ago, well before the API drama of last year.

The subreddit was banned due to supporting violence against """people""" known as slave owners. Posts saying kill slave owners, John Brown did nothing wrong, etc, was the catalyst.

Hexbear was then an un-federated Lemmy instance until last year. Basically, due to not being federated with others and being born from crude dirtbag leftists, culture on Hexbear has splintered from Reddit and Lemmy at large. Mainly, being civil was not a requirement so personal insults and ad hominem is seen as not only perfectly fine, but preferred. Also uniquely being a leftist space that hasn't had a large, community ending schism between the anarchists and Leninists has been a factor.

When Hexbear did become federated, Reddit refugees people didn't like our hardline LGBT inclusive anti NATO Anarcho-Stalinist takes, and used Reddit terms such as "brigading" to describe our behaviour, which is more or less a misunderstanding, we have posts sorted by "Active" by default so what you see first is what someone replied to most recently, and we don't have down votes so if you disagree with someone you reply to them to voice your disagreement instead of down voting and moving on like a coward. (EDIT: This has been the setup since BEFORE FEDERATION. By YEARS. Were we brigading ourselves? Christ. We discovered it promotes discussions and engagement, which is why our instance is the highest activity per capita by an order of magnitude before federation)

So oftentimes when a newly federated instance user posts something like "Vote blue no matter who!", it will show up to us, we can't downvote, we reply with something along the lines of "You're a dipshit", that increases engagement, other people see it, also reply with serious and unserious answers alike.

Oftentimes, Reddit refugee liberals see our scathing hatred of Democrats as pro-Trump because their brains are programmed to only see the existence of 2 parties, despite one of our biggest threads before federation being hundreds of posters hoping Trump dies when he first caught COVID. Or being against the expansion of NATO as being pro Putin. Or support for Palestine as antisemitism. Etc.

So basically, a combination of "crude" language, "brigading" and being "MAGA/Putin/CCP/Iran/shills/bots" makes Hexbear a prime target for hating on.

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

Give Biden's dog treats every time it bites a secret service agent to encourage the behaviour.

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

Can't ByteDance just do what other companies do, declare that it's technically based in the Canary Islands and is therefore not Chinese?

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 39 points 6 months ago

Spider Marx is too cool of a name to be given to someone in the American military.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 39 points 8 months ago

Well her therapist probably told her the same thing but here's the thing:

The therapist is also Hamas.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 40 points 11 months ago

His phylactery, that has been buried in the Levant since the 2nd crusade, was destroyed by a stray IDF grenade that was actually meant to hit a 6 year old school girl in the west bank.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

"Nuke yourself and everyone around you" - Matt Christman

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