Sometimes the only reason I get up in the morning is to spite the people who wanted me to be dead already

There was a school shooting near where I live and it didn't even make the news, it was just an email to the parents of the district.

Counter argument, what better thing is there to do than play Mario Kart while hitting the Mario Cart?

Calling the cops is for moments that you are sure the situation would be made better by someone being shot.

As someone who was raised Mormon, fully agree. The Book Of Mormon is like if evangelicals got to write their own bible fan fiction. BoM specifically states that people with darker skin were cursed by God. Being against race mixing is still alive and well in the church.

Xvideos is huge worldwide. Back in my teen years, I literally casually learned Spanish on there while I was jerking off. I told everybody I learned my Spanish by working in a kitchen with Spanish speaking people, but those people had no fucking clue where I got the Spanish

At most, Trump being a de facto NATO leader would have slowed down aid given to Ukraine, but that's the most I'd expect to see.

Never give up the grift

I haven't watched Firefly in quite a while, but I generally agree with your criticism. I think the western-ness could have been really interesting if the show had more to say about colonialism, but it doesn't. The show makes fairly milquetoast observations about the west and does very little with them. They're just a cool backdrop to Wheadon. Sci-fi as a genre is one of the few genres I do not think normal libs are capable of writing well. Sci-fi is based in rejecting the status quo, dreaming of a new, better future. Post-modernist irony has essentially ruined lib's abilities to do this. They recognize the American war machine as awful, they recognize a million different issues in the world. But we're widely met by snarky apathy on these subjects, where what's wrong in the world is an unchangeable constant that we shouldn't exert energy fighting against. Plus, being within the imperial core takes away from their ability to even percieve persecution. They can imagine vaguely dystopian future, but can't imagine good enough backing to make the world anything more than a YA book like Divergent. All they make is a hellish world with very little resolve, with no real solutions. The lack of resolve can work, but libs generally don't like it in their stories. I could get into signifiers at this point, but I don't want to.

George Lucas is actually a good example of this. While I don't think he's a socialist, the rebellion fighters of the Star Wars universe were apparently modeled after the Vietnamese fighting American invasion. For all of the questionable implications made throughout the movies, one thing is clear. The imperialists are the bad guys, people fighting for self determination are the good guys. Even though the empire is almost an unstoppable force the rebels will pretty much never take down, Star Wars argues that fighting that hell is the resolve and it is worth it. True freedom in the Star Wars universe isn't making peace with the unstoppable force, or just arbitrarily overthrowing it with good guys. It's about fighting for your stake in the world around you. There is still a resolve here. There is still understanding of who would be on the bottom or top in the sci-fi realm

Let's compare this to what I'd call bad lib sci-fi. Divergent is fucking ASS. People are arbitrarily split into 5 groups based on a single personality trait from birth, but there are some people who have all 5 personality traits and they're DANGEROUS!!! It's arbitrary sci-fi, there's no world where this makes sense. Classes are completely arbitrary, almost ignored. Race is also ignored. In divergent, scifi becomes an aesthetic, a signifier of what it really is. It fundamentally misunderstands what sci-fi is at its heart and leans into what people think sci-fi is. I think this is why Wheadon moved onto Marvel

I'd label them legends in the sense that they're probably one of the game studios I know by name the best even though that's all they have to show for it. Postal 2 for as bugged and edgy as it is, is an extraordinarily famous game.

I respect veterans, love people who fought on /r/ChapoTrapHouse

I can at least understand why Beehaw did. They defederated from lemmy.world at the beginning because they take moderation pretty seriously and couldn't keep up with the sheer size of Lemmy.world. Hexbear is simply too active within their fediverse to keep up with all the shit that comes along with Hexbear. Even if it isn't users from here being a bit spammy (I'll be honest, it sometimes is though, it was the same when Chapo was on Reddit) the responses to Hexbear users just have a lot more vitriol than is worth introducing into a space like Beehaw.

Beehaw is very cool about applying for alt accounts as long as you haven't been banned and that's one thing good about the fediverse. You are allowed to go over there, but you have to follow their rules. They don't really fuck with instances with open sign up because of how seriously they take moderation there, so honestly dropping Hexbear pre-emptively is fine. They're pretty consistent with how they federate and defederate around their ability to moderate everything.

Idk, I think with federation we have to understand that Hexbear comes with a huge open sign up userbase with controversial opinions. And particularly active commenters compared to the rest of the fediverse. There are some instances we simply are not compatible with.