Yup

SMH this Irish erasure

They really just need to negotiate terms of giving up the Donbas region instead of continuing this pointless unwinnable war and feeding more and more kids to the meat grinder.

Sure Russia isn’t socialist anymore but at least its government isn’t propped up by a military that seemingly cannot be photographed without a bunch of Nazi symbols present.

I posted the same thing before scrolling down to this comment. I had one of those things and it lasted like 16 years.

That old Nokia cellphone you know the one.

Whatever dont care. I would be worried more about the government I currently live under spying on me than I would about China stealing that data.

I don’t give a fuck about whatever you think about hexbear I am calling you out for the fact you are using this drama to voice your transphobic concern trolling.

Damn almost like this is the intended use case for federation…

in a thread discussing hexbear

You are one smug piece of shit you know that right?

It is almost impressive.

I have a problem with a “I love x” in general

That is your problem not ours or our comrades who feel validated by such posts.

established canon or whatever.

Wtf do you mean by this? What language do you not use and why don’t you simply adopt new words into your vocabulary? As an ML surely you have done so in the past. All this just comes off as excuses for bigotry. Hell every single one of us is always adapting our language as we learn new words and concepts this is a really weird and honestly sus argument.

As an autist my whole life

Also quite fuckin insulting to use being ND as a shield.

Which person are you talking about because I was referring only to the I Love My Trans Comrades posts that you seem to have some sort of issue with hence the accusation.

Well I am not an admin anymore but from the CTH modlog alone I see a lot that most people don’t unless you obsess over the modlog.

I agree that the communication on part of the admins wasn’t great for sure. My main point was that everyone kinda failed eachother here outside a few stalwart persons that helped reign it all in.

Yeah as much a shitshow everything today has been the way people talk about or criticize TC69 speaks volumes about their intent.

Like mfers we are all very well versed in reactionary dogwhistles. Yall can’t just try to slap red paint on them and think you gonna fool us.

You know nothing about Hexbear and yet you feel like you can critique the site culture.

This is true.

No investigation, no right to speak.

We were just talking about this with the mods, it’s incredible how hard it is for people to just say I am sorry and do a tiny bit of self crit. I had just done so as I had just got off work and wasn’t taking it seriously enough how bad shit had gone off the rails in the previous 8 or so hours.

I was just like “oh shit sorry my bad that sucks I need to investigate this” and then we were cool. And I get it, untangling niche communist shitposting site drama is for the most part an annoying waste of time (if you are not a moderator of said community and thus literally obligated to do), but like you can just ignore it. If you want to engage with a subject you must investigate it fully. As a comrade instructed me in that same instance I referred to apologizing for, NO INVESTIGATION NO RIGHT TO SPEAK.

The whole thing is really just kinda silly and very regrettable.

Understatement of the year lol

Hi. As someone that is no longer on the admin team but was in favor of TC69 stepping down after all this, you just sound like you’re trying to mask transphobia behind a critique of a single user. The memes about TC69 come from the fact that she was the one that spearheaded the pronoun tags and the removal of downvotes to combat transphobia, both of which resulted in massive struggle sessions and ban waves that ultimately made the site better, now this situation is different but no more volatile than any previous upheavals. No investigation no right to speak.

People were literally downvote brigading any tans-positive post anonymously before we made it so that admins could see who the driveby downvotes came from to take action. That led to the removal of the downvote altogether which has had a majorly positive impact on the site as a whole, so there is a reason she was trusted and well liked when she returned.

Ironically it was the attempt to tamp down the irony poisoning that actually led to this whole shitshow in the first place.

Admins fucked up TC69 fucked up especially, but the userbase also failed itself by deliberately misreading a good faith attempt to address how toxic some of the site culture has always been and how rising cynicism had made it worse.

I will say this though if I hadn’t stepped down as an admin a while a go I would have either made things much worse or just purged a shitload of people and let the appeals sort it out.

This shit is why we had those threads too. It really fucking makes the weeds stick out.

LMAO!

Thanks for proving my point better than I ever could.

That doesn’t prove your point though, if anything this proves his point…

Those threads never FORCED you to post in them, but they sure did bait a lot of people to poke their heads out to out themselves. It was like flytraps for misogyny and transphobia.

Unfortunately dedicating such an amount of time as is required to handle the workload of a community as active as Hexbear with the amount of mods and admins we have means it does become a significant part of our lives and it would also be nice for people to recognize the amount of unpaid labor that goes into maintaining spaces like this.

It goes even moreso for Hexbear while trying to be a big tent space and maintaining some of the chaotic nature of the original community that gave it so much of its charm.

Bullshit they weren’t just chanting “ducking Palestine” they were gleefully gloating about the murder of children and they deserved worse than just getting thrown in a river. They also weren’t “Jews” they were members of the IDF the army committing genocide and were attacking people and homes for being pro Palestine. Shame on you for presenting this fascist propaganda without context.