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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't hate y'all, but some of the posts here can be indigestable. Some posts simply assume everyone is on the same page with something - which is likely true, since you've been a community for a long time.

Maybe I'll come back and edit this with an example at some point.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You're witnessing us after we've gone through countless internal debates and purges, some of which will always be legendary. We had a problem with transphobes at the start, they're all gone. We had a really bizarre fight for about a week over whether or not cats should be allowed outside.

My favorite of ours was the weirdly intense debate over if it's ok to stack rocks next to or inside of a river.

There was also BMF, one of the strangest people to ever live. My personal favorite was @[email protected], who was the most contradictory poster we had. You'd think LiberalSocialist was an elaborate Andy Kaufman level bit of someone pretending to be an annoying liberal, but I think it's always been unclear whether it was a gimmick or not.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

Something that's crucial for the rock stacking: On the one side was a hydrologist with sources and calm and patient reasoning explaining how that, yes while climate change and ecoside is a result of this capitalist system and as such there is no individual solutions to it, in this instance your individual actions are actually very harmful, so please don't stack rocks. It's not just a tiny thing, it's actually very harmful, so please don't stack rocks.

On the other side was a mix of users going either "yeah, but I just feel like it isn't an issue" and users going "fuck you I'm gonna stack rocks anyway" as if rock-stacking was their livelyhood and users trying to rules-lawyer the thing like "what if it isn't a running stream? What if I'm in a desert? What if it's volcanic rocks?" The reaction was wildly outsized, but apparently hexbear has a large rock-stacking userbase.

Edit: found the original thread https://hexbear.net/post/249555?scrollToComments=false

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On the other side was a mix of users going either "yeah, but I just feel like it isn't an issue" and users going "fuck you I'm gonna stack rocks anyway" as if rock-stacking was their livelyhood and users trying to rules-lawyer the thing like "what if it isn't a running stream? What if I'm in a desert? What if it's volcanic rocks?" The reaction was wildly outsized, but apparently hexbear has a large rock-stacking userbase

Critical stage "let people enjoy things" ideology, right there, where it's so spiteful against even the slightest suggestion of behavior improvement that rock stacking becomes a weird contrarian mandate to stick it to the scolds.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We can always bring back "are bidets bourgeois?"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Remember the "are washing machines bourgeois decadence" swiftly followed by the "are washing machines racist" struggle sessions?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

I love this site.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

You do and you can bet your dirty, disgusting arsehole we're defederating too.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

i missed the beginning of the 'batteries and water and eels' thing and i still don't understand what that was about

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At one point google apparently suggested a good way to dispose of your used car batteries was to dump them in the ocean

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

ohhhh lol thank you! now i finally know

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's always a good and fun activity to dispose of car batteries in the ocean.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (6 children)

ofc cat should be allowed outside what the hell 🤔

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (20 children)

There are ecological problems. Killing birds and things. They've caused several species-extinctions in Australia iirc, where they are not native.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Anyone who harbors and abets a KKKat while allowing it outside to engage in what can, by any reasonable standard, only be described as a campaign of stochastic terrorism against the indigenous bird population is a social chauvanist and any org that refuses to purge them is revisionist.

Read Lenin. lenin-cat

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On a harness or in an enclosed space that theybwon't escape, sure.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Y’all mfs are missing a very important point in the outside cat debate:

If you live up in the woods at the end of a dirt road you need a cat to keep the vermin out and a small mowed perimeter to keep critters from gettin in your crawlspaces.

Or: it’s okay when I do it.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God damn I would love to see your reaction to some of the classic BMF posts lol

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

With federation the prevalence of PMC radlib Karens has skyrocketed black-mold-futures