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The Hexbear Code of Conduct and Terms of Service apply here.
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Link titles: Please use informative link titles. Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed.
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Low effort material: Avoid memes/jokes/shitposts in newscomm posts and top-level replies to the newsmega. This kind of content is OK in post replies and in newsmega sub-threads. We encourage the community to balance their contribution of low effort material with effort posts, links to real news/analysis, and meaningful engagement with material posted in the community.
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American politics: Discussion and effort posts on the (potential) material impacts of American electoral politics is welcome, but the never-ending circus of American Politics© Brought to You by Mountain Dew™ is not welcome. This refers to polling, pundit reactions, electoral horse races, rumors of who might run, etc.
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Electoralism: Please try to avoid struggle sessions about the value of voting/taking part in the electoral system in the West. c/electoralism is right over there.
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AI Slop: Don't post AI generated content. Posts about AI race/chip wars/data centers are fine.
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Why can't you do it yourself? You're on the internet.
why are you replying to tell me that when you already know i'm aware of it? to pose a rhetorical as a comeback. so this is completely redundant 😆
The better question is why you ask me to look up the design of the V rockets when I obviously know what they look like, lmao.
you can probably figure that out alone
Too bad I don't give a shit.
that's freaking badass. so, how did the v1 propellor bomb alter the trajectory of the reich in the end?
It didn't. Wait, you think my comment about Wunderwaffe and other people's comments on this post about it changing the tide of the war were serious and not ironic?
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not at first. after a few of these comments i started to wonder
also, i think i said v rocket at first instead of propeller bomb. i don't differentiate between ballistic missiles and rockets and drones and stuff enough. in my brain they are all filed under explodythingy. talking about ordnance and materiel too much makes me quite ill. my bad on that
That's hilarious.
I guess you're new here. This is a communist social platform, so don't expect people here to defend the Zelensky regime or Ukrainian nazis. Unironically defending nazis gets you an instant ban here. Shitposting and making fun of things is a big part of this community. But if you're an outsider, or not used to that sort of posting, then I guess you might not always get that someone's being ironic about something. We have a lot of in-jokes here.
Doesn't make anyone immune to weird "Russian imperialists hoist by their own petard, methinks!" brain worms and wrapping around to saying this is cool or innovative. It's archaic.
I mean to throw cold water on this by pointing out this is an inaccurate vengeance weapon. This did not damage the actual production.
No, I'm not new, I have autism, and I seek clarification offen. I've been here since 2018, not always with an account or hosted on this site itself 👽, I just don't have time to pretend I live here (no offense) and I don't really believe in "online spaces". It's a channel where anyone can say anything until it's noticed or autopruned.
Are you familiar with the deprogram? You may not have picked up on it yet but their space houses a great quantity of people who think Venezuela and Iran are imperialist states, and they bring on guests who promote this (Konstantin Syomin). Despite coming on as a bunch of chummy communists
I think you're taking things way too literally and too seriously. People here are well versed and well aware of what's going on in Ukraine, and the ineffectiveness of their army and their weapons. Someone making a silly comment about how a Ukrainian rocket seems innovative (whether it actually is or not) doesn't mean they're in danger of suffering from brain worms. This seems like a pointless thing to focus on.
I'm familiar with The Deprogram, and they have a very different culture compared to Hexbear. I don't watch or listen to their stuff. If anyone here would say something like that (about Venezuela and Iran being imperialist states) they'd immediately get dog piled and bullied. This site does not follow the US state department line on anything. You would know that if you were here since 2018.
Always a struggle, very true
Now I cry
I have a very serious narrative vs reality bias but i am confident no matter what you are all invested in the story of the liberation of the whole earth.
We're all comrades striving to liberate humanity from the shackles of oppression.
I just don't think it's the thought that counts or else I would be a new age christian